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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78527	The late warre parallel'd. Or, A brief relation of the five years civil warres of Henry the Third, King of England, with the event and issue of that unnatural warre, and by what course the kingdom was then setled again. / Extracted out of the most authentick historians and records, by Edward Chamberlain Gentleman, in the time of the late civil wars in England.	Chamberlayne, Edward, 1616-1703.	1660 (1660)	Wing C1843; Thomason E1026_3; ESTC R210378	19,221	24

are imprisoned or any way debarred of their Liberty upon reasonable and competent security shall have their inlargement by putting in Sureties or such other way as the King hath allowed Dated and set forth from the Campe before Kenelworth the last day of September in the year of our Lord God 1●66 and of the reign of the most renowned King Henry the third 51. Thus endeth that Famous Ordinance called to this day * Dictum de Kenelworth wherein are comprised the wisest rules that the wisest men of those times could possibly devise to uphold compose and recover a tottering distracted dying Kingdome The Barons of Cinque Ports seeing the King prosper made their peace with the King About two months after the publication of this Ordinance viz. upon Saint Thomas Eve the Castle was delivered up upon conditions too good for those that had so barbarously used the Kings Messenger contemned the King and impoverished the Country to march away with their goods and to undergo no fine for taking up Arms. This Castle had the King bestowed upon the Earle of Leicèster in franke marriage with his sister Elionor but when the Earle by his Rebellion had forfeited and the King had now won it he gave it to his own Sonne Edmund Earle of Lancaster who by this time had reduc'd the Isle of Axholme and all those rude ignorant people that flockt thither pillaging and plundering the Kings friends round about The Prince also met with Adam Gurdon a famous sturdy Rebell that lay lurking in Aulton Wood in Hampshire robbing and spoyling the adjacent parts Precipuè terras eorum qui parti Regiae adhaerebant Rishanger the Prince upon his approach hearing of his valour sent him a Challenge for a single Combate Gurdon accepts it and performed it so gallantly that the Prince assur'd him of his life and estate if he would submit which he did and was received into great favour with the Prince but divers of his men were there executed Now the Isle of Ely was strongly fortified by a great multitude got together that refused to submit to the Ordinance of Kenelworth Upon the naturall strength of this Isle and the plenty of all provision therein seditious Rebels have often presumed and from hence have molested more Kings then one as they did now the neighbouring Counties robbing and pillaging Norfolk Sussolk and Cambridgeshire plundering the City of Norwich and carrying away the richest Citizens made them redeem themselves at length a message was sent unto them requiring them to submit to the Ordinance of Killingworth to leave off robbing their fellow subjects and to return to their allegiance Hereto they return this insolent answer That they had taken up arms to defend the good of Church and State and therefore ought to be restored to the●r lands without paying any fine In briefe they require hostages into the Island and that they might hold it five years peaceably till they saw how the King would performe his promises perfidious subjects ever suspect their Princes fidelity which high insolency of theirs unheard of till our times so exasperates the King that he resolves to try the utmost to reduce them to their obedience for that purpose marches with a mighty Army against them the Prince also joyns with a considerable power after many assaults at length after they had held it above two yeers by the help of new made bridges and boats they stormed it on every side that they were forced to yield And now men thought the fire was quite out But there were yet some live embers which the Earle of Glocester upon some distaste blowing suddenly flamed out again in London where the Commons of the City forgetting their late punishment and as men saith mine Author without dread of God or the King drew up in arms again flock'd to the Earle of Glocester Fabian plundered the well-affected to the King sequestred their estates brake the Prisons chose a new Mayor and Sheriffes made Bulwarks and Barbicans and fortefied the City wonderously and were so confident of their strength and cause that they durst bid the King battell appointing Hounsloe-health for the field The King by a speedy march came to the place at the time appointed but they instead of meeting his Majesty ran about the City in a tumultuos manner Some to Westminster and there plundered the Kings Pallace fenestras ostia fregerunt saith Mat. W stm vix manus a cembustione totius Palatii cohibentes brake the doors and windows hardly forbearing to set it all on fire Then the King removed his camp to the other side of the City and had his head quarters at Stratford three miles off the City the rest of his Army lay at Ham a village hard by The wiser Citizens foreseeing the danger that hung over them desired a treaty with the King whereunto though they were most unworthy of so much clemency his Majesty was graciously pleased to condescend and upon these easie terms they were again received to mercy Imprimis Salvo in omnibus dicto Killingworthi that the Ordinance of Kill●ngworth should be observed in all points then that the fortifications should be razed and the trenches filled up lastly that 1000. Marks dammages should be paid down to the Kings brother for his Mannor of Isleworth fired by them long before Also his Majesty for some years following chose the Mayor and Sheriffs himselfe but toward the latte end of his Reign being fully reconciled he restored them their often forfeited * Then did the ●ing command that Peace should be proclaim'd all the Kingdome over which was received with joyful acclamations Priviledges Thus after the Almighty whose judgements are unsearchable had suffered crafty seditious spirits to seduce a whole Nation to trample upon his Anointed and to tread his Honour in the very dust for a time yet at length all his enemies are clothed with shame and upon himself his Crown flourisheth again And now after this furious dreadfull tempest after so many storms and showers of blood began a joyful long-expected Calm which that they might enjoy without any intervening of more stormes and for the better setling and quieting the Kingdom the King gives expresse command for the razing of divers in-land Castles as Farnham c. That so if another Rebellion should be begotten it might no where find a Nurse and then it could not be long-liv'd Also for the more quiet and secure travelling of his Subjects he appoints a Captain in every County who with a Troop of Horse should alwaies assist the Sheriff for the taking and punishing all stragling reliques of the late Armies and high-way robbers wherewith the Kingdome did abound at that time no place free from them In some places also Ruricolae saith R●shanger the Country people would generally rise against them as against Wolves or Bears and at one time they took and kill'd fifty of them that were got together neer St Albans in Hartfordshire Besides the King Proclamari