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A64894	Former ages never heard of, and after ages will admire, or, A brief review of the most materiall parliamentary transactions, beginning, Nov. 3, 1640 wherein the remarkable passages both of their civil and martial affaires, are continued unto this present year published as a breviary, leading all along, successively, as they fell out in their severall years, so that if any man will be informed of any remarkable passage, he may turne to the year, and so see in some measure, in what moneth thereof it was accomplished : for information of such as are altogether ignorant of the rise and progresse of these times : a work worthy to be kept in record, and communicated to posterity.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.; Jenner, Thomas, fl. 1631-1656.	1654 (1654)	Wing V305; ESTC R2983	53,959	61

glory of thy great name the truth and sincerity of Religion the establishment of the K. and his posterity after him in their just rights and priviledges the honour and conservation of parl. in their ancient and just power the preservation of this poor Church in her truth peace and patrimony and Sr Alexander Caron Sr. Iohn Hotham Captin Hotham the Arch Bishop of Canterbury beheaded on Tower-hill for Treason against ye Parliament 1645. the settlement of this distracted and distressed people under the ancient Lawes and in their native liberties and when thou hast done all this in mercy for them O Lord fill their hearts with thankfulnes and with religious dutifull obedience to thee and thy Commandements all their dayes So Amen Lord Jesus and I beseech thee to receive my soul to mercy Our Father c. His last Prayer on the Scaffold LOrd I am coming as fast as I can I know I must pass through the shadow of death before I can come to see thee but it is but umbra mortis a meer shadow of death a little darknesse upon nature but thou by thy merits and passion hast broke through the jaws of death so Lord receive my soul and have mercy on me and blesse this Kingdome with peace and plenty and with brotherly love and charity that there may not be this effusion of Christian blood among them for Jesus Christ his sake if it be thy will And when he said Lord receive my soul which was his signe the Executioner did his Office A design to starve the City by breaking into Surrey Sussex Kent but disappointed by Sir Wil Waller and the City Regiments Feb the King granted a cessition of arms with the bloody Rebels of Ireland March a Solemn League and Covenant taken by the Lords Commons city of London and all parts within the Parl. power Nottingham Town and Castle to have been betrayed but prevented by Col. Hutchinson A ship from Denmark of 300 Tuns laden for the most part with Round-heads being half pike-slaves with a knob at the end full of iron spikes sent to the King but that yeare the Swedes fell into Denmarke and took half his Countrey from him A plot against the City of London by Sir Basil Brooke Col. Read Mr. Ripley and Mr. Vil●● two Citizens of London and others but prevented Our Army in Cornwall preserved with the losse of our Artillery A peace pretended at Vxbridge and a petition from Buckinghamshire wherein Sir Iohn Lawrence was a great stickler but frustrated Melcomb Regis to have been betrayed Col. Goring and Sir Lewis Dives were agents therein the Town and Forts recovered and two ships with rich prizes from Rhoan in France were seized on to make amends for their trouble The Service-Book Voted down Earles and Lords from Oxford submitted themselves to the Parl. Iune 1645. The famous Victory of Naisby over the Kings Forces 5000 prisoners taken a Jewel of 500. l. sent to Gen. Leven by the Parl. all the K. Commissioners taken at Shaftsbury Basing house taken and burnt August A plot in the west against the Parl. by the Clubmen A sudden plot upon Scotland by Montrosse but as suddenly recovered again by Gen David Lesley A Treaty with the Parl. for a well grounded peace and yet at that time the Earl of Glamorgan had a Commission to the ruine of all the protestants in Ireland and consequently in England also The Great Seal broken before the Lords and Commons on Tuesday the 11 of August 1646. The King Escapes out of Oxford in a disguised maner Ordered That whosoever conceals the Kings person shal be a Traytor A Letter concerning the Kings coming to the Scots Army May 5. 1646. RIght Honourable the discharging our selves of the duty we owe to the Kingdom of Engl to you as Commissioners from the same moves us to acquaint you with the Kings coming in to our Army this morning which having overtaken us unexpectedly hath filled us with amazement and made us like men that dream we cannot think that he could have been so unadvised in his resolutions as to have cast himself upon us without a real intention to give satisfaction to both Kingdoms in all their just and reasonable demands in all those things that concern Religion and righteosnesse whatsoever be his dispositions or resolutions you may be assured that we shall never entertain any thought or correspondency with any purpose or countenance any indeavours that may in any circumstance incroach upon our League and Covenant or weaken the union or confidence betwixt the Nations that union to our Kingdom was the matter of many prayers and as nothing was more joyfull unto us then to have it set on foot so hitherto have we thought nothing too dear to maintain it and we trust to walk with such faithfulnesse and truth in this particular that as we have the testimony of a good conscience within our selves so you and all the world shall see that we mind your interest with as much integrity and care as our own being confident you will entertain no other thought of us Signed May 5. 1646. LOTHIAN A Remonstrance exhibited in the name of the Lord Major Aldermen and Common-Councel of the City of London to the High Court of Parl. 1 That some strict and speedy course may be taken for the suppressing of all private and separate Congregations 2 That all Anabaptists Brownists Hereticks Schismaticks Blasphemers and all such Sectaries as conform not to the publick discipline established or to be established by the Parl. may fully be declared against and some effectuall course setled for proceeding against such persons 3 That as we are all Subjects of one Kingdome so all may be equally required to yield obedience to the Government either set or to be set forth 4 That no person disaffected to the Presbyterian Government set or to be set forth by the Parl. may be imployed in any place of publick trust The King gave speedy Order to severall Officers for the surrender of the Towns Castles and Forts which then were in the hands of the Kings Commanders viz Oxford Worcester Litchfield and Wallingford A Petition delivered to his Excellency from the Officers and Souldiers in the Army touching their faithfullnesse in the Parl. service doing Summer Service in the Winter season c. Further presented severall desires of theirs 1 That an Ordinance of indempnity with the Royal assent be desired 2 That satisfaction may be given to the petitioners for their arrears both in their former service and in this Army before it is disbanded 3 That those who have voluntarily served the Parl. may not be prest to serve in another Kingdome c. 4 That those who have lost their lives limbs or estates may be provided for and relieved The Apology in answer to his Excellencies Letter relating their sense of a second storm hanging over their heads by the malice of a secret enemy worse then the former now vanquished expressing their sorrow that

to all indifferent men to judge if I have not cause to free my selfe from the hands of those who change their principles with their condition and who are not ashamed openly to intend the destruction of the Nobility by taking away their Negative voyce and with whom the Levellers doctrine is rather countenanced then punished and as for their intentions to my person their changing and putting more strict Guards upon me with the discharging most of all the servants of mine who formerly they admitted to wait upon me do sufficiently declare nor would I have this my retirement mis-interpreted for I shall earnestly and uncessantly endeavour the setling of a safe well grounded peace where-ever I am or shall be and that as much as may be without the effusion of more Christian blood for which how many times have I prest to be heard and yet no ear given to me and can any reasonable man think according to the ordinary cours of affairs there can be a setled peace without it or that God will bles those that refuse to hear their own King surely no I must further add that besides what concerns my self unlesse all other chief interests have not only a hearing but likewise just satisfaction given to them to wit the Presbyterians Independents Army those who have adhered to me and even the Scots I say there cannot I speak not of miracles it being in my opinion a sinful presumption in such cases to expect or trust to them be a safe and lasting peace now as I cannot deny but that my personal security is the urgent cause of this my retirement so I take God to witnesse the publick peace is no lesse before mine eyes and I can find no better way to expresse this my profession I know not what a wiser man may do then by desiring and urging that al chief interests may be heard to the end each may have just satisfaction as for example the Army for the rest though necessary yet I suppose are not difficult to consent ought in my judgement to enjoy the liberty of their conscience and have an Act of Oblivion or Indempnity which should extend to the rest of all my subjects and that all their arrears should be speedily and duly paid which I will undertake to do so I may be heard and that I be not hindred from using such lawfull and honest means as I shall chuse To conclude let me be heard with freedome hono●r and safety and I shall instantly break through this cloud of Retirement and shall shew my self to be Pater Patriae C. R. A great tumult insurrection and mutiny in London breaking open divers Houses and Magazines of Arms and Ammunition seizing on the D●●ms Gates Chains and Watches of the C●●y assaulted shot into the Lord Mayors House and killed one of his Guard c. May 16. 1648. Surrey Petitioners came to Westminster and made a great shout and cryed Hey for King Charls we will pull the Members out by the Ears disarmed two Sentinels knockt them down one Sentinell refusing to be disarmed the Petitioners got within his Arms one of them drew his sword and run him through and the Petitioners drew their swords and said Fall on for King Charls now or never but a party of 500 Foot did take some Of the Petitioners were slain four or five of the Souldiers two The old Lord Goring proclaimed Generall at the head of the Kentish Army upon the Hill neer Aluford consisting of 8000 besides those in Maidstone there were near 300 slain and about 2300 prisoners many of them taken in the Woods Hop-yards and fields also Gentlemen of good quality There were about 500 Horse 3000 Arms 9 Foot colours and 8 pieces of Canon with store of Ammunition taken their Word at the Engagement was King and Kent ours Truth They being routed marched over Rochester Bridge towards Black-Heath with about 3000 Horse and Foot most Cavaleers Prentises and Watermen and fled over the water into Essex by Woollidge and Greenwich The Duke of Buckingham Lord Francis Earl of Holland Lord Andrew Lord Cambden and others rose in Surrey and made Proclamation that they expected the Parl. would settle the Kingdome but because they have not they would fetch the King and live and dye with him to settle it July 11. 1648. Pembroke Castle surrendred 〈◊〉 Scots Army of 21000. Invaded England Duke ●ambletons Standard had Motto Date Cefari Foot Standard 〈◊〉 Covenant Religion King and Kingdomes Riseing in Kent Revolting of the Navie Redusing Colchester And Quelling the insurection in Pembroke Shire all in 1648 The Scots entring the Kingdome July 11. 1648. Maj. Gen. Lambert sent this Letter to Duke Hamilton MY LORD HAving received Information that some Forces of Horse and Foot are marched out of Scotland into this Kingdome under your Excellencies Command I have sent this Bearer unto you desiring to know the truth and intent thereof and whether they are come in opposition to the Forces in these parts raised by the Authority of the Parl. of England and now in prosecution of their Commands I desire your Lordships speedy answer and rest Your Excellencies humble Servant J. LAMBERT Duke Hamilton's Answer Noble Sir I Received yours of the 11 of this instant in answer whereunto I shall only say the information you received is true for according to the Commands of the Committee of Estates of the Parl. of Scotland there are Forces both of Horse and Foot come into this Kingdome under my conduct for prosecution of the ends mentioned in my Letter of the 6th to which I refer you intending to oppose any that are or shall be in Arms for the obstructing of those pious loyall and just ends and so remain HAMBLETON The Towne of Colchester delivered up Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle shot to death Liev Col Lilburn revolted at Newcastle declared for the King Sir Arthur Hasterigge storm'd the Castle Lilburns head was set upon a pole June 5. 1648. The Lord of Warwick went to Portsmouth to bring into obedience the mutinous Sea-men there was with the Lord of Warwick the Phoenix Mary Rese Robert Nonesuch Lilly Lyon Bonadventure Antilope Swift sure Hector and Fellowship A short Abridgment of the Engagement made by the Common Councell Commanders Souldiers and Commission Officers in London WE declare to engage as much as in us lies to defend the King and Parl from all violence and to the end we may be inabled to perform the same We humbly offer that the Forces in the line may be one Militia and no Forces may be raised but by Authority of the said Militia by consent of the Common Councell We desire no Forces in Arms might come within thirty miles of London during the Treaty and for those within what persons soever shall make any tumult shall be put to death Ordered That the Common Councell men and Commanders shall within their severall Precincts goe from house to house to receive concurrence to the said

for the King their Commissioners denied audience to make their just Defence to the King and the whole Kingdome of Scotland and England too hereupon much distracted and distempered with levying of moneys and imprisoning all amongst us that refused the same This Parliament also refusing to comply with the King Canterbury and Strafford in this Episcopal War against the Scots was soon dissolved and broken up by them and thereupon they returned to their former wayes of wast and confusion and the very next day after the Dissolution thereof some eminent Members of both Houses had their Chambers and Studies yea their Cabinets and very pockets of their wearing Cloaths betimes in the morning before they were out of their Beds searched for Letters and Writings and some of them imprisoned and a false and most scandalous Declaration was published against the House of Commons in the Kings Name A Forced Loan of money was attempted in the City of London to be made a president if it prevailed there for the whole Kingdome but some Aldermen refusing were sorely threatned and imprisoned In which interim the Clergies Convocation continuing notwithstanding the Dissolution of the Parliament New Conscience oppressing Canons were forged and a strange Oath with an c. in it was framed for the establishing of the Bishops Hierarchy with severe punishments on the refusers to take it The OATH That I A. B. doe Sweare that I doe approve the Doctrine and Discipline or Government established in the Church of England as containing all things necessary to Salvation And that I will not endeavour by my selfe or any other directly or indirectly to bring in any Popish Doctrine contrary to that which is so established Nor will I ever give my consent to alter the Government of this Church by Arch-Bishops Bishops Deans and Arch Deacons c. as it stands now established and as by right it ought to stand Nor yet ever to subject it to the usurpations and superstitions of the Sea of Rome And all these things I doe plainly and sincerely acknowledge and swear according to the plain and common sense and understanding of the same words without any equivocation or mentall evasion or secret reservation whatsoever And this I doe heartily willingly and truly upon the faith of a Christian So help me God in Jesus Christ In this Convocation sore Taxations were also imposed upon the whole Clergy even no lesse then six Subsidies besides a bountifull Contribution to forward that intended War against Scotland For the advancing of which said sums for this War the Popish were most free and forward yea and a solemn Prayer was composed and imposed by the Bishops on their Ministers every where to be used and read in all Churches against the Scots as Rebels and Traytors The Papists also in a high measure enjoyed even almost a total Toleration and a Popes Nuncio suffered amongst us to act and govern all Romish affairs yea a kind of private Popish Parliament kept in the Kingdome and Popish Jurisdictions erected among them Commissioners were also secretly issued out for some great and eminent Papists for Martial Commands for levying of Souldiers strengthning their party with Arms and Ammunition of all sorts and in great plenty His Majesties Treasure was by these means so extreamly exhausted and his Revenues so anticipated that he was forced to compell as it were his owne Servants Judges and Officers of all sorts to lend him great sums of money and Prisons filled with refusers of these and the other illegall payments yea many High-Sheriffs summoned in the Star-Chamber and to the Councel board and some of them imprisoned for not being quick enough in levying of Ship-money and such like intolerable Taxations In sum the whole Land was now brought into a lamentable and languishing condition of being most miserably bought and sold to any that could give and contribute most of might and malice against us and no hope of humane help but dolour desperation and destruction to be the portion of all In which interim the Scots being entred our Kingdome for their own defence the King had advanced his Royal-Standard at Yorke where the cream of the Kingdom Nobles and Gentry being assembled and a Treaty betwixt the prime of both Armies had at Rippon for a fair and peaceable accommodation the King was at last inforced to take his Nobles Councel and in the first place a cessation of Arms agreed on and then a fifth Parl. was necessitously resolved on to begin Nov 3. 1640. 5th Parliament Letters from the King Queen Popish Earls Lords Knights and Gentry post into all parts of the Kingdome to make a strong party for them Shortly after a very formidable Spanish Fleet or Armado appeared on our English narrow Seas in sight of Dover and was coming in as was on very strong grounds more then probably conjectured as a third party to help to destroy us the Spaniards hoping that by this time we and the Scots were together by the ears but they were by Gods mercy beaten off from us by our Neighbours of Holland and we fighting against them fought against our friends The Souldiers in their passage to York turn Reformers pull down Popish Pictures break down rails turn Altars into Tables those Popish Commanders that ware to command them they forced to eat flesh on Fridays thrusting it down their throats and some they slew In the time of ours and the Scots Armies residing in the North which was in June 1641. Malignant Lords endeavoured to bring it out of the North Southward and so to London to compell the Parl. to such limits and rules as they thought fit whereupon the Parl. entred upon this following Protestation Die Veneris 30 July 1641. WE the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Commons House in Parl. finding to the great grief of our hearts that the designs of the Priests Jesuites and other adherents to the Sea of Rome have of late been more boldly and frequently put in practice then formerly to the undermining and danger of the ruine of the true Reformed Protestant Religion in his Majesties Dominions established And finding also that they have been and having just cause to suspect that there are still even during this sitting in Parliament endeavours to subvert the fundamentall Lawes of England and Ireland and to introduce the exercise of an Arbitrary and Tyrannicall Government by most pernicious and wicked counsels practices plots and conspiracies And that the long intermission and unhappy breach of Parliam hath occasioned many illegall Taxations whereupon the subject hath been prosecuted and grieved And that divers Innovations and superstitions have been brought into the Church multitudes driven out of his Majesties Dominions jealousies raised and vvn betwixt the King and his people a Popish Army levyed in Ireland and two Armies brought into the bowels of his Kingdom to the hazzard of his Majesties Royal person the consumption of the Revenues of the Crown and Treasure of his Kingdome And lastly finding

Former Ages never Heard of AND After Ages will Admire Or a Brief Review of the most Materiall PARLIAMENTARY TRANSACTIONS Beginning Nov 3. 1640. WHEREIN The Remarkeable Passages both of their Civil and Martial Affaires are continued unto this present Year Published as a Breviary leading all along successively as they fell out in their severall years So that if any man will be informed of any remarkeable Passage he may turne to the year and so see in some measure in what Moneth thereof it was accomplished For Information of such as are altogether ignorant of the rise and progresse of these Times A Work worthy to be kept in Record and communicated to Posterity Who is wise and he shall understand these things prudent and he shall know them for the wayes of the Lord are right and the just shall walk in them but the transgressors shall fall therein Hosea 14. 9. LONDON Printed by M. S. for Tho Jenner at the South-Entrance of the Royal EXCHANGE 1654. The Chronology IN the first year of King Charls his Reign a Parliament being called at Oxford two Subsidies were granted no grievances removed but the said Parliament soon dissolved The sad effects which the dissolution of this Parliament produced were the losse of Rochel by the unhappy help of Englands ships The diversion of a most facile and hopeful war from the West Indies to a most expensive and succeslesse attempt on Cales The attempt on the Isle of Ree and thereby a precipitate breach of peace with France to our great losse A peace concluded with Spain without consent of Parliament contrary to a promise formerly made to the Kingdome by King James a little before his death whereby the cause of the Palatinate was altogether most shamefully deserted by us The Kingdome suddenly billetted with Souldiers and a concomitant project set on foot for Germane Horses to force men by fear to fall before arbitrary and tyrannical Taxations continually to be laid upon them 2d Parliament The dissolution of a second Parliament at Westminster in the second year after a declarative grant of no lesse then five Subsidies and the sad issues that flowed to the Kingdom thereupon As first the violent exacting from the people that mighty sum of the five Subsidies or a sum equal to it by a Commission for a Royal Loan Many worthy Gentlemen imprisoned and vexed that refused to pay it Great sums extorted by Privy Seals and Excises and the most hopeful Petition of Right blasted 3d A third Parliament called and quickly broken in the fourteenth year of the King the best Members clapt up close Prisoners denied all ordinary and extraordinary comforts of life and so that Parliament was dissolved Opprobrious Declarations published to asperse the proceedings of the last Parliament yea Proclamations set out to those effects thereby extreamly to dishearten the Subjects yea and plainly forbidding them once to name a Parliament or to desire them any more Whence immediately gushed out the violent inundations of mighty sums of money got by that strange project of Knight hood yet under a colour of Law The most burthensome Book of Rates the unheard of Taxation of Ship-money the enlargement of Forrests contrary to Magna Charta the injurious Taxation of Coat and Conduct money the forcible taking away of the Trained Bands Arms ingrossing Gunpowder into their hands in the Tower of London The destruction of the Forrest of Dean which was sold to Papists whence we had all our timber for Shipping Monopolies of Sope Salt Wine Leather and Sea Coal yea almost of all things in the Kingdome of most necessary and common use Restraint in trades and habitations for re●●sall of which foresaid heavy pressures many were vext with long and languishing sui●s some fined and confined to Prisons to the losse of health in many of life in some some having their Houses broken open their Goods leized on their Studies or Closets searched for Writings Books and papers to undo them some interrupted also in their Sea-Voyages and their Ships taken from them The crushing cruelties of the Star-Chamber Court and Councel Table where the Recorder of Salisbury was greatly fined for demolishing the Picture of the first person in the Trinity in their great Cathedrall Thus far for the miseries of the Common-wealth Popish Ceremonies Romish innovations and such like outrages of the Arch Prelate of Canterbury and his Prelaticall Agents and Instruments over the whole Kingdome in matters of Religion Divine worship and spiritual cases of conscience Additions in the Oath administred to the King at his first inauguration to the Crown by the Arch-Bishop Fines Imprisonments stigmatizings mutilations whippings pillories gagges confinements and banishments yea and that into perpetual close imprisonments in the most desolate remote and as they hoped and intended remotest parts of the Kingdome Mr. Burton Mr. Bastwicke Mr. Prin. The ruinating of the ●●eoffees for buying in of Impropriations and the advancing to Ecclesiasticall livings Arminians silencing with deprivations degradations and excommunications almost all the most pious Pastors over the Land whom they could catch in their snares and all this under a pretence of peace unity and conformity Printing Presses set open for the Printing and publishing of all Popish and Arminian Tenets but shut up and restrained from printing sound Doctrines Nay not only thus lamentably molested in England but attempted the like in Scotland indeavouring to impose upon them a New Liturgy and a Book of Canons They refusing of them were called and counted Rebels and Traytors yea so proclaimed in all Churches in England and an Army was also raised to oppresse and suppresse them A mighty and tumultuous rising of Apprentices and young men in Southwark and Lambeth side with Clubs and other weapons especially at the Arch Bishops house which put him in such a fright as made him flye to Croyden to convey himselfe to some more private and remote place And although Pharoahs Magicians were so honest that at the sight of the dust of the earth turned into lice they cryed out It was the finger of God but he grew more and more outragious and caused one to be hanged and quartered and his head set on London-Bridge who said at his execution he came there by accident and he must dye The Arch-Prelate of St Andrewes in Scotland reading the new Service-booke in his pontificalibus assaulted by men Women with Crickets stooles Stickes and Stones The rising of Prentises and Sea-men on Southwark side to assault the Arch-bishop of Canterbury's House at Lambeth 4 Parliament A fourth Parliament was thereupon shortly after called again by those complotters means but to a very ill intent and another Parliament summoned also at the same time by the Earl of Strafford in Ireland both of them only to levy and procure moneys to raise another Army and wage a new War against the Scots The Ships and Goods of Scotland were in all parts and Ports of this Land and of Ireland also surprized and seized on