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A70196	A brief chronicle of all the chief actions so fatally falling out in these three kingdoms, viz. England, Scotland & Ireland from the year, 1640, to this present twentieth of November, 1661 : containing the unhappy breaches, sad divisions, the great battels fought, number of men, with the eminent persons of honor and note slain, with several debates and treaties : also, the happy escape by a wonderful delivererance of His Majestie at Worcester, more fully expressed then hitherto : with His Majesties happy return, together with what passages of note hapned to this present November, 1661 : the like exact account hath not as yet been printed.	Heath, James, 1629-1664.; Lee, William, fl. 1627-1665.	1662 (1662)	Wing H1318A; ESTC R19419	54,711	72

you in a way First you are out of the way for certainly all the wayes you ever had yet as far as I could find by any thing is in the way of Conquests Certainly this is an ill way for Conquest in my Opinion is never just except there he a just and good cause either for matter of wrong or a just title and then if ye go beyond the first quarrel that ye have that makes it unjust at the end that was just at first for if there be only matter of Conquest then it is a great robbery as a Pyrate said to Alexander That he was the great Robber himself himself was but a petty Robber And so Sirs I do think for the way that you are in you are much out of the way Now Sirs to put you in the way believe it you will never go right nor God will never prosper you until you give God his due the King his due that is my Successor and the people their due I am as much for them as any of you You must give God his due by regulating rightly his Church according to the Scripture which is now out of order and to set you in a way particularly now I cannot but only this A National Synod freely called freely debating among themselves must settle this When every Opinion is freely and clearly heard For the King indeed I will not the Laws of the Land will clearly instruct you for that therefore because it concerns mine own particular I only give you a touch of it For the People truly I desire their liberty and freedome as much as any body whomsoever But I must tell you that their liberty and their freedome consist in having Government under those Laws by which their lives and theirs may be most their own it is not in having a share in the Government that is nothing pertaining to them A Subject and a Soveraign are clean different things and therefore until you do that I mean that you put the people into that liberty as I say certainly they will never enjoy themselves Sirs it was for this that now I am hither come for if I would have given way to an arbitrary way for to have all Laws changed according to the power of the Sword I need not have come here and therefore I tell you and I pray God it be not laid to your charge that I am the Martyr of the people Introath Sirs I shall not hold you any longer I will only say this to you that I could have desired some little time longer because I would have put this what I have said in a little better order and have had it a little better digested then I have done and therefore I hope you will excuse me I have delivered my Conscience I pray God you take those courses that are best for the good of the Kingdome and your own Salvation After some Ejaculations he laid down his Head upon the Block and stretched out his hands The S●gn 〈◊〉 had it severed from his body at one blow by the Vizarded Executioner who presently held it up and shewed it to the people His Head and Trunk were afterwards coffined in Lead and exposed to publick view at S. Iames's till lastly the Duke of Len●● the Marquess of Hartford the Earl of Southampton and the Bishop of London begged the Body to bury it which they conducted to Windsor Chappel-Royal and there interred it with only this Insc●●ption upon the Co●●● CHARLES KING OF ENGLAND MDC.XLVIII After this most 〈◊〉 murder they declared themselves to be a Free State setting out a Proclamation wherein they declare th●t no person hath Right to the Crown o● England abolishing thereby the ●ingly ●overnment and debarring of our Rightful Soveraign ●om any claim c. declaring him also a Traytor with the rest of the Royal Issue for refusing the publication of which the Lord Mayor Reynoldson was outed imprisoned and fined 2000 l. In March they proceed with their High Court of Justice newly modelled and a new President to the Tryal of these Noble persons they had in custody about the last years risings whereof Duke Hamilton Earl of Holland Earl of Norwich the Lord Capel and Sir Iohn Owen were condemned to be beheaded the Duke and Holland and Capel were accordingly executed in the Palace-yard the other two with much ado were pardoned P●nt●fract Castle was now rendred to the Parliament by Colonel Morris being the last Garrison for the King in England Now they had leisure to look towards Ireland whether Lievtenant General Cromwell was sent with an Army of 10000 men which landed about this time at Dublin where a little before Colonel Iones the Governour having received a supply of 1000 men had sallied out and beaten my Lord of Ormond from off the siege where he lay with 20000 and upwards through the carelesness and treachery of the Guards Here were slain to the number of three thousand and five thousand taken prisoners this proved the loss of all Ireland which was then entirely for the King save this City and London-Derry Anno Domoni 1649. Cromwell upon his arrival sets presently forward towards Tredah whereinto the Lord Lievtenant Ormond had put a Garrison of choice English and some Irish to this Town he gave three assaults and was valiantly repulsed but in conclusion of the third the Town was entred and man woman and children put to the sword for three daies in cold bloud with the Governour himself Sir Arthur Aston a well experienced and valiant Captain Anno Dom. 1649. and 1650. VPon this success Trim and Dundalk yielded themselves to him the Marquess of Ormond hovering neer him with his Army but yet not daring to attempt any thing Wexford was the next Town he attaqued which by storm he took also putting all in arms to the sword thence to Passage Fort and so to Waterford from whence he considering the Winter approaching drew off to quarters having already possession of most of the Towns of Ireland Limrick Galloway Clonmell and Kilkenny excepted which soon after were reduced by him and his Successor Ireton and that Kingdome was wholly brought in subjection to the Parliament The next thing that busied the new Commonwealth was the affairs of Scotland who had long before proclaimed the King and were now treating with him therefore they recalled home Lievtenant General Cromwell whom upon Fairfaxes refusal of going against the Scots they now advanced to be General He came Iune the last to London having landed at Bristol and was highly treated by the Parliament Dorislaus that drew up the charge against the King was killed at the Hague in May last and Ascham that was sent on the same errand to the King of Spain was killed also by some English men in his Inne at Supper this did mightily inrage the new Commonwealth that their Min●sters could no where be protected According to the conclusion of the Treaty between the King and his Subjects

4000 men and rather more prisoners The slaughter that was on the Parliament side was 5000 which fell most upon the Scots on whom the Prince did fierce execution The Fight being thus over which was the bloodiest of all the Wars Prince Rupert fled into Lanc●ire and so Westward and the Marque● of Newcastle and the other Lord with him took shipping at Newcastle and departed the Kingdome and soon after York ●ndred it self by its Governour Sir Thomas Glenham to the Parliament During the Kings absence in the West and the Princes in the North Sir William Waller had recruited himself and joyned with the forces of Col. Norton and Col. Morley who had drawn down before Basing a house of the Marquess of Winchesters garrison'd by him and kept for the King which being distressed for want both of Ammunition and provision was distressed by the enemy many brave salleys they made and a multitude of men they slew so that it was afterwards called B●sting-House Waller was resolved not to rise cost what it would at length relief was put into it under the conduct of Col. Gage nevertheless he persisted in the enterprise Till after Newbery fight the King marching that way the forces left to block it up rose and departed without it a little before which Banbury siege was also raised by the said Col. Gage afterwards made Governour of Oxford and the Earl of Northampton Hitherto the King seemed to have fortune inclineable to him saving in that unfortunate business of Marston-Moor Now the case began to be disputed Essex had raised another Army aided also by Waller and other forces resolved to fight the King so it came to another battel at the same place of Newbury the Parliamentarians to revenge their disgrace at Lestithiel the Cavaliers to repair their loss at Marston-Moor it was a cruel fight only no more were killed in this then in the former what advantage was lay on Essexes side few men of note were slain on either side save Sir William S. Leger of the Kings and a Colonel of Foot of the Parliaments The Earl of Cleveland making good the Kings retreat was taken prisoner and had it not been for the darkness of the night the King had hardly escaped them Sir George Lisle performed here signal service for the King and the Trained-Bands for the Parliament Essex had clearly the field and from thence marched to the siege of Dennington Castle under whose walls the King had sheltered and drawn his Artillery Somewhat before this Colonel Massey had defeated and slain Col. My and by intelligence with one Kirle had surprized Monmouth Town and had some other successes against Prince Ruperts parties while he staid about Bristol upon design of new Leavies Dennington Castle was as said before but the King sending a considerable force to relieve it the besiegers drew off and marched away to the great scandal of the Earl of Essex and the Officers then in command under him After this sad experience of one anothers strength the Parliament sent Propositions to the King at Oxford which begat the Treaty at ●xbridge before the meeting whereof the Parliament had executed Sir Iohn Hothum and his Son their first Champion for endeavouring or designing to render Hull to the King from which he had formerly shut him out As also 〈◊〉 Alexander Carew for betraying his like trust of Pl● 〈◊〉 Fort. Also during the designment of a Treaty the Com● 〈…〉 ●er-Book was abolished by Ordinance and a Directo● 〈…〉 in the room thereof and for consummation of all the 〈…〉 Bishop of Canterbury was beheaded likewise Though the project of a Treaty was now in hand yet never was the design of the War carried on more fiercely and subtilly The Independents now first appeared the Army must be new modelled another General and other Officers and no persons Members of the House to have any Military Command only Cromwell got himself excepted This design was not nosed by the Presbyterians who were convinced of some deficiency in their old Commanders so that Sir Thomas Fairfax was unanimously agreed upon for General and under him all factious Sec●aries and wild principled men obtained Command whilest the former Officers were reduced to the condition of Reformad's amongst whom not long after they cashiered Colonel Massey having shifted him from his Government of Glocester to a Command in the Army Al●ngdon had been garrison'd by Essex in his expedition into the West Colonel Gage the Governour of Oxford had a design upon it and in the attempt was killed at Cullam bridge The thirtieth of Ianuary that fatal day began the aforesaid Treaty at 〈◊〉 which continued some 23 daies in dispute without any power of the Parliament Commissioners to conclude without them and so ended on the 22 of Feb. The Parliament forces surprize Shrewsbury but Col. Rossiter is defeated in Leicestershire an active man for the Parliament and Sir Marmaduke Langdale relieves Pont●sra●l Castle and defeat the besiegers twice superiour to him in number About this time there was a kind of Faction in the King Court at Oxford and some alterations betwixt the partie concerning the Kings Councel so that some Lords Savil Percy and Andover were confined and the Parliament that is the Members of the same Houses at West●inster who adhered to the King who by the Kings Order were the year before convened o● Oxford were so some reasons adjourned till the tenth of October but that Parliament signified nothing The House o● Commons voted that in their new Generals Commission the words For Preservation of His Majesties Person should be left out and accordingly they were so and so ended the year 1644. the last of the King felicity Anno Domini 1645. WE will begin this year though we post-date the time that we may recite all the exploits in Scotland together with the actions of the Renowned Marquess of Montross appointed Governour of the Kingdome of Scotland The year before he came into Scotland attended only by three men much ado he had to pass the wayes being so strictly guarded during the Scotch Army was in England At his arrival in the Highland being supplyed with a 1100 men from the Marquess of Antrim out of Ireland and another addition under the Lord Kilpont and the Earl of Perths son he matched to find out the Army of the Covenantes then gathered under the command of the Earl of Tullibarne the Lords Elch and Drummond consisting of a great force into Perthshire where at Tepper-Moor he obtained a great victory his Souldier for want of Arms and Ammunition making use of the stones lying advantagiously on the fighting ground Here he killed no less then 2000 men whereupon Perth City opened its Gates to the Conquerour To withstand and repress so dangerous an Enemy within the bowels of the Kingdome another Army wa● raised and put under more expe●ienced Captains in the mean while Montross had fallen into Argyles Country

Landsdown neer Bath Iuly the fifth The Cavaliers were less in number but supplyed that with valour the fight began about three in the afternoon and was maintained till neer the same time next morning Here my Lord Hoptons powder was blown up by which he was hurt himself and was compelled for want of it to quit the field and shelter his Army in the Devices of his side were lost in this fight about a thousand The persons of quality slain were Sir Bevil Greenvile Mr. Leak my Lord Denicourts son Mr. Barker Mr. Lower and other Gentlemen The loss of private souldiers was as great on Sir Williams side but no persons of extraordinary note Upon my Lord Hoptons taking into the Devices Sir William Waller presently pursued him and cooped him up whereupon a Messenger was dispatcht to the King to inform him of the desperate condition my Lord was in if not timely relieved Prince Maurice the Earl of Carn●van and my Lord Wilmo● were sent presently with a party of fifteen hundred horse who made such expedition that on the thirteenth of Iuly by break of day they presented themselves alike to besiegers and the besieged to whom they gave a signal of their relief upon a rising ground and presently in an entire body charged Sir Williams Army being received by Sir Arthur Hazelrigs Curaziers at first but they being broken the Fortune of the day soon fell to the Royallists The Parliaments Foot after a little execution done upon them the besieged also being ready to fall upon them laid down their Arms and submitted Sir William Waller and Sir Arthur with much difficulty and greater speed escaped and came throughout to London with the bad news Here were slain neer a thousand men four thousand taken four brass Guns twenty eight Colours of Foot and nine Cornets This loss soon reduced Bristol into the Kings hands being delivered by Colonel Fiennes after three dayes siege for which surrender he had like to have lost his head These successes drew the King into the West where Dorchester Portland Weymouth and Melcomb submitted themselves The like in the North Beverley taken by the Earl of Newcastle Bedford Appleford and Barnstable surrendred and after a little dispute before Exeter and some Granadoes thrown in and firing part of the Suburbs the great Sconce being taken in storm that City was delivered to Prince Maurice and Sir Iohn Berkley made Governour It was therefore concluded to set upon Glocester being the only considerable place that held out for the Parliament in the West and lay very inconvenient hindring the intercourse betwixt Wales and the Kings Countryes the King therefore the tenth of August came himself from Oxford in person before it with a Royal Army while it was hardly imaginable where the Parliament could raise another Army and that done to march for London which proved a fatal mistake to the King for if he had gone directly for London there was no opposition in readiness against him not any place to stay him The King therefore summons Glocester to which the Governor and Mayor return a negative answer so the Guns were set on work many attempts on both sides till the besieged had little or no ammunition left them when on the eighth of September Essex having made up an Army with the Trained-Bands of London and new raised men in the respective Militia's and associated Counties then entirely at the Parliaments devotion came to the releif of it having been encountred at Stow in the Would by several parties of Horse under Prince Rupert but he could not be stopt from advancing Being come within five miles of Glocester upon the brim of a steep hill he discharged two pieces of Canon as a signal of their releif which was answered by the Town whereupon the King drew off from before the siege and marched hastily away intending to intercept Essex from returning his men being almost wearied and tired out with their hard march and weather But Essex having releived the Town with all manner of provision directed his march back again and falling into Cirencester from whence the King dislodged the day before and had lest some baggage behinde him took 400 prisoners and the next day matched toward Newbery and by the way was attaqued in Auborn Chase by several Squadrons of the Kings Horse here was killed that French Marquess Mous De la Vejuville having behaved himself valiantly The next day the King possest himself of Newberry the place Essex aimed at so that both Armies met h●re and began the fight early in the morning abundance of resolution and valour was manifested on both sides but especially the Trained Bands of London performed far beyond releif Prince Rupert was repelled and beaten back to the right wing of the Kings Army but returned again to the charge with greater fury This Battel like Edge-hill was dubious as to the success but something more bloody The Kings General here was the Lord Ruthen made lately Earl of Brentford On the Kings side were slain near 2500 men among whom were the Earl of Carnarven who had done the King special service the Earl of Sunderland and the learned Lord Faulkland very near the Kings person with Col. Constable Of the Parliaments side not any of note slain save Col. Tucker and some few Officers the number of their slain being near 3500 men After the fight was over in the field a party of Horse under the command of Col. Hurrie followed the Parliament Army in the Lanes toward Reading and put them into some disorder but the body facing about they were repelled back again with loss And so the Parliamentarians to Reading the Trained Bands to London whether soon followed the General and the King returned to Oxford This moneth the King pressed by his Protestant Subjects of Ireland who were not able to subsist longer under the war conclude a Cessation with the Irish Rebels and in November following received a Supply of 3000 men of his Protestant Army which landed in Wales under the command of Sir Michael Ernely the renowned Col. Monk now Duke of Albemarle and others which being by Prince Ruperts order divided into other Regiments were made unserviceable pat of them with the said Colonel being being surprised at Nantwich by Sir Thomas Fairfax Mr. Pym a great stickler of the Faction and the onely Grandee of the times died Hawarden Arundel and Beeston Castles rendred to the King Graston House taken by the Parliament and Arundel in the next Mon●th taken again by Sir William Waller Now according to stipulation and Compact the Scots enter England with an Army of 2000 in maintenance and purstiance of the end of the Covenant against this invasion the King protested as a Rebellion and sent the Marquess Hamilton prisoner to Pendennis as having deceived the trust the King put in him he all along suggesting that the Scots would never attempt such a thing and yet maintaining correspondencies with

the cheif of that Cabal Several Towns and Castles lost and taken by both parties Anno Domini 1644. SIR William Waller after his reducement of Arundel Castle marched to finde out my Lord Hopton to cry quits with him for his defeat at Roundway Down both Armies were near one another a good space for my Lord hovered about Winchester and those parts at Brandon Heath near Alesford Hopton was drawn up having a little before in his intended march to the releif of Arundel beaten Col. Norton into Chichester who endeavoured to impede him and stood ready to receive Sir William who had taken the advantage of a hill from which the Cavaliers with fury beat him and drove him to another where under the shelter of some bu●hes and trees he so galled the Kings Horse that they were forced in disorder to retreat on their foot There was a hollow betwixt both Bodies which each endeavouring to gain many men found it for their graves on both sides My Lord Hopton therefore seeing the slaughter that was made and likely to continue upon his men timely drew off his Artillery and Canon towards Winchester and then wheeling about marched for Basing and so presently to Oxford In this fight was killed on the Kings part that valiant person Iohn Lord Stuart second Brother to the Duke of Richmond who died at Abbington of his wounds received Here Sir Iohn-Smith Col. Sandys Col. Scot and Col. Manwaring with divers other persons of quality wounded among whom was Sir Edward Stawell eldest son to Sir Iohn and Sir Henry now Lord Bard besides private souldiers above 1400. Of the Parliaments side few men of note killed about 900 common souldiers Colonel Dolbier wounded and Colonel Thompsons leg shot off by a Canon buller The Earl of Essex and Waller who had followed my Lord Hopton to Basing and there shewed a mind or besieging the House now joyned their Armies together amounting to a very great strength with intention to set upon the King at Oxford wherefore the Queen was sent away with a sufficient Convoy to Exeter in the mean time Essex plunders Abbington and makes a Garrison of it afterwards The King in the mean while marcheth with his Army from Oxford to Worcester which caused the two Parliament Generals to divide their forces again Waller was to go after the King as they termed it A King-catching while Essex marched with another gallant Army into the West which was totally lost from the Parliament The King had but few forces about him by reason that Prince Rupert was sent with the greatest part of the Army to the relief of York then besieged by the joynt power of three Armies the Scots Manchesters and Fairfaxes Prince Rupert in his way storms Bolton and plunders it The King having traversed his ground came back again from Worcester and Sir William Waller from out of the skirts of Glocestershire was ready at his heels so he overtook him neer Banbury at a place called Cropredy-Bridge Waller drew up in Bartalia on a hill expecting the advantage of the Kings pasting the Bridge which the King adventuring to do Waller descends from his Post and fall upon the Kings Rear beyond the Bridge where he was so gallantly received by the Earls of Cleveland and Northampton that he was quite routed 600 kill'd and 700 taken prisoners his Train of Artillery and many of his Officers so that Sir William was forced to fly to have recourse ●o London for another recruit It was therefore resolved upon this defeat of Waller that the K●ng should immediately follow the Earl of Essex who was advanced so far that the Queen who was delivered of the Princess Henrietta at Exeter the sixteenth of Iune in the moneth of Iuly was fain to be gone from Exeter for fear of a siege and carry the young Lady along with her into France where she landed on the 25th at Brest in Britany At the beginning of August the King had overtaken the Earl of Essex at L●stithel his force in so ill a condition through their long march and their want of necessaries which the Country people kept from them that it was concluded an easie thing to conquer them The King therefore resolved to coop them up and keep all manner of provisions from them After two or three daies league in this manner the Parliament horse broke through the Kings Army by night the General and the Lord Roberts at whose instance this expedition was undertaken got by boat from Foy to Plymouth and the foot being destitute and deserted by the horse under the Command of Major General Skippon came to a Capitulation by which it was agreed they should render their A●ms Ammunition Artillery and Stores into the hands of the King and have liberty as many as would to pass home they engaging never more to bear Arms against the King so that by this defeat the Parliament were quite undone in the West as to present appearance But though success crowned the King here it failed him as much in the North whether Prince Rupert was advanced as was said before for the relief of York For upon notice of the Princes approach having with him the bravest Army that ever was seen in England both for number and persons The Confederate Forces of Scotch and English drew of● from before the City and drew up into a fighting posture On the 〈◊〉 of Iuly the Marquess of Newcastle the Prince joyned their forces together On the third both Armies met one another upon a great plain called Marston-Moo● the Prince being General commanded the right wing General Goring Sir Charles Lucas and Col. Tillier the main body and my Lord of Newcastle the left wing who had a stout Regiment of White-coats called his Lambs At the first onset the Prince totally routed the Scots who were opposed to him and out of desire of revenge for their unnatural siding with the Parliament of England pursued them so lar that he came not back time enough to the assistance of his own But most remarkable was the valour of the English under Manchester led by Lievtenant General Cromwell who being the Reserve of the Army when the Prince was so far ingaged fell in so impetuously with the Curaziers that they bore down all before them the field was now almost cleared the Scots and Fairfaxes men on one side being fled and giving the day for lost and the main body of the Kings being discomfited and Prince Rupert just returned to see the overthrow so that there was none standing in the field save only my Lord of Newcastles men upon whose Lambs a terrible slaughter was committed while they discharged the parts of valiant expert and Loyal Subjects refusing quarter and casting themselves into rings till there were very few of them left and it had been a shame for the enemy to have killed such gallant and brave persons In conclusion the Cromwellians prevailed killing of the King Army

anchored before Algiers he demanded restitution and had a civil answer from thence to his satisfaction thence he arrived at Tunis demanding as before to which the Dye or Vice-King returned answer that there were the Castles and Ships of the Grand Seignior that he might do his worst they were not to be scared with his Fleet whereupon a Councel of War being called it was resolved to attaque the Castles and Port of Ferino wherein lay nine Frigats of War and to burn them which accordingly and in despight of all their Ordnance and Castles they effected with a very small loss The news hereof was carried to the Grand Seignior to the glory of the English Nation About this time a massacre was committed in Piedmont on the Protestants there many say not for Religion but Rebell on and vast sums of money were raised by a Declaration of the Protectors resenting their miserable estate most part of which came into his own purse at the Conclusion yet while he was taking money in one hand for the Christians accompt he had another open for the Jewish who about this time had offered large sums for their readmistion into this Kingdome this could not be done without an odium and yet the Protector kept what he had in hand as earnest from them The next design was a Turkish one having erected the office and power of Major Generals equal to Bashaws for the several Counties but they being upstarts and something eclipsing his own entire greatness he soon after laid them aside but never totally abrogated them having made use of them to levy his new extortion of Decimation A War now was declared betwixt the Spaniard and the Prorector who sent the two Generals Blake and Montague new made one to block up the Port at Cadiz and to way-lay the Plate-Fleet in its return from the Indies nothing was omitted to get money which the people of England would not part with to him while the French peace was then proclaimed which had been agreed on as before Before Cadiz the English lay hoping to draw the Spaniards out but he would not stir imagining the English must remove for fresh water homeward but that was found neerer there at Wyers Bay in Portugal whether the Generals being gone for the aforesaid purpose leaving Rear-Admiral Stayner to have an eye upon the Coast and port of Cadiz he crusing up and down espied a Fleet making thitherwards whereupon being to Leeward he made all the possible speed he could to get up to them they supposing his Squadron to be but Fishermen and having received false intelligence the day before that the English were departed and presently ingaged The Spaniards were eight tall Galeons he but three that fought viz. the Speaker the Bridgewater and the Plymouth the fight was soon over of the Spanish two were taken two burnt one sunk two ran ashore and one escaped In one of those that was taken great riches were found both in Plate and in Cocheneal but in the other little save hides For this Victory a Thanksgiving day was ordered and much rejoycing at Wh●tehall Anno Domini 1656. Nevertheless this money would not serve turn and therefore the Protector resolved to put it to tryal what he could do by a Parliament hoping this success and his reputation abroad might have begot a dread and reverence upon the people so that he summons a Parliament by his own Writ to be held at Westminster the 17th of September where finding the Election not answering his intendments many of the late Assembly being returned again for this he imposeth a recognition of his Authority to be taken by every Member before he should sit in the House and thereupon excludes far the major part Others also offended at this manner of proceeding voluntarily absented themselves and retired into their respective Counties so that having packt this Convention according to his mind the remnant chose Sir Thomas Widdrington Speaker and fell to work enacting several things for the Protector first for security of his person and dignity which had lately been attempted by one Syndercomb and for which he was convicted and condemned at the Kings Bench Bar then called the Upper bench and was supposed to prevent his execution to have poysoned himself the night before in the Tower from whence he was drawn naked at a horse tail and burned under the Scaffold at Tower-hill and a stake drove through him and the next the life of the Cause for raising of money to maintain the War against Spain and for continuing Tonnage and Poundage another was an Act for preventing buildings in and about London a whole years Revenue to be paid for all such houses as had been built upon new foundations since the year 1620. and an Act confirming and continuing the Excise But the chiefest of all was a device called The humble Petition and Advice wherein Cromwell was entreated to be King but his ambition durst not venture upon it as things yet stood so he was contented to be installed again Lord Protector by the Authority of Parliament which was wanting before and that solemnly and very stately was soon after celebrated and the Parliament adjounred Anno Domini 1657. Leave we the Protector awhile and return to General Blake on the Coast of Spa●n where finding nothing to do being informed that the Plate-Fleet was arrived in the Canary Islands and unladen he resolved to sail thither and fire the Galeons in the Harbour of Sancta Cruz which with much bravery though with as much danger and hazard on the 20th of April was attempted first by Sir Richard Stayner and seconded by the whole Fleet so that in four hours space they fired sixteen ships and slew many hundred Spaniards on board and on shore losing only some 50 slain and 120 wounded For this exploit the General had a Diamond nigh worth five hundred pound sent him and Captain Stayner was Knighted by Oliver but since the King out of respect to his merit hath confirmed him a Knight On the 19th of April a conspiracy was found out of the Fifth Monarchists at a house in Shoreditch several Arms and Colours were taken as l●kewise Major General Harrison Colonel Rich Vice-Admiral Lawson Venner and others of that party were secured it came to nothing then but burst out dangerously since This Summer the Protector according to compact and agreement with the French had sent over some forces to joyn with the French King against the Spaniard in Flanders These under the Command of Commissary General Reynolds landed in Picardy and about the end of October the French and he came and sit down before Mardike a Fort neer Dunkirk and of concernment to the taking of Dunkirk it self This place after a short siege was rendred and by the French put into the English hands and so the French betook themselves to their winter-quarters while the Spaniard under the leading of the Duke of York attempted by storm in the night time to regain

it from the English but were valiantly repulsed General Blake returning home from hi● Triumphs over the Spaniard died on Shipboard in sight of English Land and General Reynolds returning out of Flanders to England was cast away in the Goodwin Sands and with him Colonel White and others By one of the clauses of the humble Petition and Advice it was declared that the Parliament should consist of two Houses therefore Cromwell during the adjournment fill'd up the number of that Other House that was its name consisting of sixty two persons most of them Officers of the Army and his neer Relations most of them of mean extraction These nevertheless at the expiring of the prorogation appeared and took their places in the House of Lords according as the antient custome was whether the Protector came and sent for the House of Commons where he made a canting speech to them but the Commons returning to their House having admitted all their Members would neither own the new Lords nor him that made them so but fell into high disputes about the Government so that Cromwell seeing how the game was likely to go came and in a great ●ury within ten daies after their resitting dissolved them Anno Domini 1658. After the dissolution of this Parliament as of course and according to custome another plot was discovered and this was clearly of Cromwells own making the City was to be fired and a general insurrection and massacre of the well-affected In this snare were taken Sir Henry Slingsby Doctor Hewet and Master now Sir Thomas Woodcock Iohn now Lord Viscount Mordant and others of meaner rank as Colonel Ashton Thomas Bettley Edmond Stacy and others Sir Henry Slingsby and Doctor Hewet were beheaded at Tower-hill and the three last hang'd and quartered in the streets of London Dunkirk after a gallant defence and a field battel in attempting the relief where the English had the honour and the French and English the victory of the day was on the 25th of Iune delivered to the United Forces and by the French King put into the English hands Lockhart formerly Ambassador in France and then General of the English being made Governour thereof Now it pleased God suddenly after this tyranny and cruelty committed on those innocent persons above-named to call this Protector to an account who lingring some time with an ague and a pain in his intestines on the third day of September his great fortunate day breathed out h●s last his death being ushered by a most terrible wind and the coming of a Whale up the River of Thames of twenty yards long Thus ended that wretched Politique After Oliver Protector war dead his Son Richard according to an Article in the Instrument o● Government by which he was to declare his Successor was by his Fathers Councel proclaimed Lord Protector of these three Nations with the usual solemnities and accordingly owned by several addresses from most parts of the Kingdome but drawn and subscribed by some particular persons of the times who obtruded them upon the rest He was courted also by the French Swedish Dutch Ambassadors who all condoled him for his Fathers death After a little respit of time Richard was advised to call a Parliament the Courtiers thinking that what with the Army and the Lawyers they should make their party good for the Protector in the House of Commons being sure of their other House of Peers and in the mean time took care for his Fathers Funerals which were solemnized in most ample manner above the expences usual to any of our Kings deceased November 23. 1658. The Parliament being convened on the 27th of Ianuary the Protector and his new Lords gave them a meeting in the Lords House where he made a speech to them which was seconded by the Keeper Fiennes and so departed to Whitehall the Lords keeping their seats and the major part of the House of Commons not vouchsafing audience betook themselves to their own house and elected Challoner Chute for their Speaker The Parliament being in some measure fuller then it used by reason of Knights and Burgesses from Scotland and Ireland began with the old Trade of questioning the power In conclusion the debate came to this result that they would recognize the Lord Protector but so that nothing should be binding till all other Acts to be prepared by the Parliament should likewise pass and be confirmed For the other House also that no stop might be put to the great design of setling the Kingdome which was then aimed at and that question of owning them being but a baulk to their proceeding they resolved to transact with them for this Parliament as a House of Peers not excluding the right of other the Peers of England The Protector at the instance of the King of Sweden had rigg'd forth a Fleet for the Sound which being ready to set sail the Parliament ordered that for this time the Protector should have the mannagement of the Militia in this expedition reserving to themselves the Supreme right thereto that Fleet after six moneths time returned back again re infecta Now the debates flew high in the House of Commons tending to the lessening the power of the Sword which was grown so exorbitant therefore the Army being sensible whereto such consultations would finally tend resolved to break up the Parliament and accordingly having secured the Protector made him sign a Commission to Fiennes to dissolve it which accordingly was done though the House of Commons to prevent it adjourned themselves for three daies but then out came a Proclamation forced likewise from the Protector whereby he declared that Parliament to be absolutely dissolved Now the Army and some of the tail of the Parliament which were turned out by Oliver in 1653. joyn their heads together and so make way for their free Commonwealth again Richard Protector is laid aside the Officers of the Army playing some eight daies with the Government and then resigning it to those men who very readily imbraced the motion and met May 7. in the House the Old Speaker and some forty more making up a Quorum and forthwith published a Declaration how that by the wonderful Providence and goodness of God they were restored which to most seemed the saddest judgement could befall the Nation Presently they fall to their old trade of squeezing money and providing sure for themselves against any more attempts of the Army leisurely purging out those that had been active with Oliver against them but by all means refuse to admit those Members that by the like force were formerly secluded in 1648. They depose the Protector and make him sign a Resignation yet promising him the yearly allowance of 10000 l. per annum and the payment of his debts so that they thought themselves now cock-sure levying money by taxes before hand to gratifie the Army for the peoples love they never expected and then settle the Militia in confiding hands Anno Domini 1659. But