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A97273	A brief view of the late troubles and confusions in England, begun and occasioned by a prevailing faction in the Long Parliament: deduced to the auspicious [sic] coming in of General Monck, and the most glorious and happy restitution of King Charles the Second. / By William Younger.	Younger, William, 1605-1662.	1660 (1660)	Wing Y198; Thomason E1873_2; ESTC R204143	45,037	159

In the mean time while the Parliament thus deferre the Treaty Cromwel is first sent into Wales to subdue them where he found work enough for most part of the Summer Fairfax is sent against the Kentishmen where though he were worsted at Rochester Bridge and lost many men yet at Maidston he had the better got the Town and dispersed them Presently after five thousand of the Kentishmen under the command of the Lord Goring Earl of Norwich being denied passage through London transport themselves over the Thames and so into Essex where after some skirmish about Bow-bridge with some of the Parliament Forces they march to Rumford and so to Chelmesford and joyn with the Essexmen at that time there Rendezvouz'd Fairfax pursues them with all expedition they march to Colchester but were scarce set down in the Town before Fairfax with his Army was at their heels A sore fight there was in the Suburbs June 13. the next day after their coming into the Town a thousand men and more slain upon the place most of them of Fairfax his party Had they of Colchester pursued that dayes victory it is probably thought they might easily have destroyed Fairfax his Army The Kings Party fortifie the Town hoping the Gentry of Suffolk and Norfolk will come in to their assistance Fairfax on the contrary by degrees begirts the Town forcing all the Country thereabout both Essex and Suffolk to assist him against it During the siege of Colchester the Duke of Buckingham with Lord Francis his brother the Earl of Holland and the Earl of Peterborough appear in Armes with five or six hundred Horse at Bamsted Downe in Surrey or thereabouts where they would soon have increased had they not been suddenly surprized by a party of the Army out of London the Lord Francis was slain and the rest scattered Buckingham escaped but Holland was soon after taken at St. Neots in Huntingtonshire cowardly yielding himself without resistance The Scots mean time lingered and came on slowly insomuch as Cromwel having subdued them in Wales he marches immediately from thence into Lancashire and at Wiggon and Preston defeats them taking Duke Hamilton prisoner basely yielding himself in his Chamber Aug. 18 19. From thence he pursues his victory into Scotland even to the City of Edenburgh where he is highly applauded and magnified by Argile and the Churchmen who were alwayes against this engagement of Hamilton Colchester after this pressed with a long siege and pinched with hunger at last yields to Fairfax upon very hard termes Aug. 28. where the very same day that they entred the Town they caused Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle too gallant men as ever England bred to be shot to death in the Castle Yard All the rest of the Nobility and Gentlemen of quality were carried away Prisoners The Treaty with the King is at length begun a fixed number of days are at first appointed that expired a fortnight more is added so that upon the finishing of the treaty a little before all was concluded Cromwel returnes with his victorious Army out of Scotland The Army fearing the Parliament would agree with the King and re-establish him in his Throne though the conditions were extream hard on his side they first publish that shameless vile Remonstrance at Saint Albans Novemb. 16. 1648. wherein they declare their resolutions to question the King for his life as the Capital Enemy or grand Delinquent to bring him to trial They prefix a time for the appearing of the Prince now beyond Sea to answer for his crimes and in case he refuse to come in and submit to a tryal to banish his person as a Rebel and Traytor and confiscate his estate This Remonstrance was sent to the House of Commons with a Letter signed by Fairfax the General whom Cromwel abused and made his Stale in all this action to take it speedily into consideration as a matter admitting no delay But the Commons laying it aside and making the more speed to conclude with the King upon the Treaty voting his concessions satisfactory so far as to be ground of peace Suddenly on Tuesday December 5. A Party of the Army seize upon the Members of the House whom they conceive to be opposite to their design They imprison many and seclude and deterre more in all to the number of above two hundred leaving about sixty or seventy if that in the House and those either Army men or devoted vassals to Cromwel and his faction these vote the Kings concessions not satisfactory and thereupon break off the Treaty The Army then presently seize upon the King in the Isle of Weight they remove him in the night from Caresbrow Castle to Hurst Castle in Hampshire an unwholesom place standing two or three mile into the sea upon a very narrow neck of Land there they closely imprison him and soon after obtain a Vote in their new modell'd House of Commons to bring him to trial The Lords refusing to consent they proceed without them and draw up an impeachment against his Majesty by the advice of one Dorisley an outlandish Doctor of Law and that many years before had been History-Reader in Cambridge preferred thither by the Lord Brooks to read that Lecture by him first founded but soon after silenced and put out by the Vice-chancellor and Head of the University for seditious Doctrine by him there delivered against Monarchy For the Kings Trial they appoint seventy or eighty Persons the most of them Army-men all of them his mortal enemies to be his Judges the Judges of the Land and most eminent Lawyers refusing to joyn with them or assist them they appoint one Bradshaw a poor petty-fogging Lawyer but of an audacious impudent forehead to be President of their high Court of Justice so they call it more properly their Court of high injustice The King is brought from Hurst Castle to Windsor about Christmas where they would not allow him a Minister to keep the Festival with him From thence they bring him to White-Hall and Saint James about the tenth of January by water And there afterwards being brought four several times before their pretended Court of Justice where he every time refusing to answer and disclaiming their authority offering to give his reasons but they refusing to hear him at last Saturday January 27. he is condemned to the block and his head cut off on a Scaffold erected before his Palace gate at White-Hall on Tuesday following January 30. to the unexpressable grief and sorrow of all true English People And thus perished the best the wisest and the most Religious King that ever England had The House of Lords that had basely complyed with the Commons and supported them from the beginning hitherto against their King because they would not go along with them in this last most wicked act are kickt off by a Vote The very same day that they voted the abolition of Regal Government February 7. 1648. they voted down the House of

the beginning o● August with an Army of about eleven thousand horse and foot into England by the way of Lancashire and forcing his way at Warrington bridge against a party that opposed he comes by easie marches without resistance to Worcester Massey being with him hoping the Presbyterians in those parts and about Glocester would generally have risen and joyned with the Scots The Parliament upon the first intelligence of his entrance into England arm all that possibly they can against him publishing a Proclamation against him and all his adherents as Rebels and Traitors and forbidding all men upon pain of high Treason to joyn with him or to aid or assist him in the least Cromwel also pursues him out of Scotland with as great a part of his Army as he could well spare at Worcester all forces assembled against him meet there they fought and the Kings party in conclusion is beaten the Scots they say many of them refusing to fight at all The King in a disguize very hardly escapes yet it pleased God that at last he got safely out of England many of the Scottish Nobility and some of the English being taken prisoners and kept long after in the Tower of London This fight at Worcester happened Septemb. 3. 1651. a remarkable day for Cromwels Victories Scotland after this is with little difficulty wholly reduced to the obedience of the Parliament and Garisons maintained in several places even to the utmost Northern Coasts and they who formerly would not be subject to their King are now inforced to submit to Cromwell and his Faction Afterwards in Anno 1652. year 1652 the Parliament falls out with the Hollanders many fierce and bloody battels were fought at Sea with great loss of both sides in one of which Admiral Dean for the English and in another Van-Trump for the Dutch were slaine The Hollanders have the worst in conclusion so that at last they sue for peace and obtain it But some while before this peace was concluded year 1653 Cromwell being now grown great with his Victories in Ireland and Scotland having subdued both these Kingdoms upon the twentieth of April 1653. he suddenly and forcibly turns out the Parliament who had for four years and as much as from January to April since they put the King to death with bloody cruelty and heavy oppression governed the Nation The Parliament being thus turned out Cromwel and his Army Officers take upon them the government of the Nation They presently impose six Months Tax and erect a new Council of State Bradshaw who formerly for his good service was President is now not so much as a Member of the Council Cromwel soon after cals a Convention of about an hundred and twenty persons pickt out by himself out of the several Counties of the Nation most of them inferiour persons and of the Independent and Anabaptistical faction These were summoned by particular Warrants or Tickets in paper under his own hand only to meet at Westminster and consult for t setling the Nation Being met according to their summons Iuly 4. 1653. in the Commons House of Parliament and having chosen them a Chairman or Speaker Cromwel comes in amongst them and puls a writing out of his pocket thereby giving them the supream authority of the Nation upon this they presently vote themselves to be a Parliament and to requite his courtesie they vote him to be a Member of their Parliament Thus being seated in Authority they make an Act for six Months Tax at the old rate of 120000 li. a Month and another Act concerning marriages appointing Justices of Peace to marry and none other marriages to be valid or lawful In the same Act they ordain a Register to be kept in every Parish in which is to be set down all births and burials not so much as mentioning Baptism as a thing in their opinion at least not necessary thus they lessen and diminish the use and authority of Ministers whom they intended by degrees to take wholly away In order whereunto they had a design to take a way Tithes but the Ministers of London being called to alledge what might be said in defence of them by their Counsel learned in the Law and by Arguments out of Scipture they opposed so strongly as that debate was laid aside for the present But that failing they had another device namely by an Act in one day to have unbottomed all Ministers in England and to have lockt up the Church doors as some affirmed and then afterward to have taken in whom they had thought good which may probably be conceived should have been only such as would have renounced their orders if not their baptism Things being carried so high and in such a frantick manner the more moderate among them weary of the work and fearing they should rather bring things into further confusion then settle any thing they repair to Cromwel the General desiring him to take again into his hands his Writing or conveyance of the supream power whereupon he presently dissolves them but some of the Anabaptists refusing to obey and continuing still in the house at their prayers he sent Souldiers who pulled them out and lockt up the doors against them Decemb 12. 1653. This Schismatical Convention called by some the little horn being thus timely and happily outed Cromwel upon the sixteenth day of the same month having by advice of his Army-Officers and Council of State framed an Instrument of Government presently after printed and published consisting of fourty two Articles and therefore by some called his forty two string'd sidle by others the Magna Charta takes upon him the Government of the three Nations as Supream Magistrate under the Title of Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland And sending for the Commissioners of the great Seal the Lord Maior and Aldermen of London with the Judges of Law and the chief Officers of his Army Proclamation thereof being made in London he is solemnly installed in Westminster-hall taking an oath to govern according to that Instrument and the Laws of the Land though nothing could be more repugnant to the Laws then that Instrument was According to that Instrument year 1654 he cals a Parliament to begin Septemb. 3. 1654. though it fell out that year to be Sunday accounting the day auspicious by reason of his two great victories upon that day at Dunbar and Worcester This Parliament was not to be chosen according to the ancient manner two in a County and two in a Corporation but ten eight six more or less in a County according to the proportion of it and the small decayed Corporations as Thelford and Rising in Norfolk and the like elsewhere were wholly left out There were also added to the Parliament Thirty Members for Scotland and as many for Ireland chosen or nominated from thence so as it was a Parliament of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland whereof as before he had made himself

in their place and gave solemn thanks by their Recorder to his Majesties Messengers The Lords received their Letter by the Lord Mordant with the like joy and loyal affection The House of Commons having read their Letter and the Declaration voted it satisfactory and presently voted the Government of the Nation to be in his Majesty as the rightful and undoubted heir of the three Nations of England Scotland and Ireland They ordered also a Committee to meet for drawing up a Letter of thanks to his Majesty for his most gracions Declaration And to Sir John Greenvile who delivered the Letter they gave five hundred pound as a gratuity to buy him a Jewel Both they and the Lords further ordered that six of the upper House and fifteen of the House of Commons should be forthwith sent to his Majesty to invite and attend him into to England Montague the Admiral at Sea is commanded to wait upon him with a Squadron of Ships and fifry thousand pound is ordered for his Majestjes expences as also ten thousand pound to the Duke of York and five thousand pound to the Duke of Glocester The Letter also and Declaration to the Army gave no lesser satisfaction both to the General Officers and Souldiers they all unanimously owning his Majesty in an high degree On Tuesday the eighth of May the King was solemnly proclaimed in London with the greatest expressions and acclamations of Joy that possibly could be and the like was soon after done in all Counties Cities Corporations and inlet Towns all over England No King ever coming to his Throne with so great satisfaction and rejoycing of the People thereby giving an evident Demonstration to the world that it was not the People of England nor the Parliament or Representatives of the People but only a factious and seditious party encouraged and supported by a perfidious and traiterous Army that murdered the late King disinherited his children and overthrew the ancient Fundamental and well constituted government of the Nation turning it from a Monarchy to a Common-wealth and thereby occasioned these horrid confusions and frequent changes and reelings of Government that afterwards ensued to the high reproach and dishonour of the English Nation For no sooner were the People and Parliament of England by the mercy of God delivered from the vassallage of an imperious and domineering Army and put in a condition of freedom but they presently return to their Allegiance and call in the undoubted Heir of the Crown submitting to his Government with the greatest cheerfulness and rejoycing that could be imagined And thus God who only doth wonders hath wrought wonderfully for this sinful Nation turning our Captivity as the Rivers in the South smoothly gently calmly without any tumult or torrent after so many horrid confusions as we have lain under for so many years together even to the wonder and astonishment not only of our selves but of all the Neighbour Nations round about us who must needs acknowledge in our behalf as was sometimes done in the case of Israel that the Lord hath done great things for them and we must needs with the Israelites answer by way of eccho Yea the Lord hath done great thing for us already whereof we rejoyce Psalm 126. The People of England were never conceived or reported to be so much against their King as now they manifestly appear to be for him even all of all sorts but such only whose guilt makes them desperate like Cain thinking their wickedness greater then can be forgiven And here for a conclusion we may fitly and truly in a sence take take up that saying of the Psalmist and apply it to the present occasion The same stone which the builders refused is become the head-stone of the Corner This is the Lords doing and it is marvellous in our eyes To the same God be Glory for his great and Glorious Work May 21. 1660. FINIS Books printed for Robert Gibbs at the Ball in Chancery Lane STemma Sacrum The Royal Progeny by Giles Fleming Minister of Waddingworth in the County of Lincoln Epinicia Carolina or an Essay upon the Return of his sacred Majesty Charls the second by S. Woodford Gent. quarto The blessed Estate of them that die in the Lord by Tho. Manton Minister of Covent-Garden preached at the Funeral of Mrs. Jane Blackwell Wife of Elidad Blackwell An hundred choice Meditations Divine and Moral by Henry Tubb M. A. of Saint Johns Colledge in Cambridge Sensuality dissected or the Epicure's Motto opened censured improved preached at the Kentish Feast The Saints Gods precious Treasure being a Sermon preached at the Funeral of Darcy Wyvil Esq Eldest Son to the truly honourable Sir Christopher VVyvil The Excellent Woman a Sermon at the Funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Scot. The vanity of glorying in the flesh in a Sermon preached at the Funeral of Kingswel Lucy Esq These four Sermons all preached by Tho. Case Minister of Saint Giles in the Fields and may be bound in one volume in 120.