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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

kind of extasie On the 25th the King landed from Holland being attended by a gallant Fleet commanded by the Earl of Sandwich at 〈◊〉 where the Genral met him the Sea and Heaven and Earth ●ung with the peals of Ordinance and so to Canterbury to Rochester and on the 29 day being Tuesday his most auspicious Birth-day triumphantly and peaceably entred his Royal City of London where the acclamations and shoutings were so loud and hearty that it is impossible to eccho or express them to the great pleasure and yet disturbance of the King who about six in the evening came to his Palace at Whitehal where in the Banquetting House both Houses attended him All the way the way through the City the General rode bareheaded next before his Majestie his two Brothers York and ●●oncester riding of each side covered After a short congratulation the King being weary went to his Bed-chamber where he supped and so to his rest having come 27 miles that day besides his going through London and within two days after his Royal Brethren having taken their places in the House of Lords came to the Parliament where he made a Speech earnestly pressing the Act of Free pardon and indempnity which he had promised in his Declaration from Dreda The next thing he did was the emitting a Proclamation requiring all those who had a hand in the execrable murther of his Father to render themselves within such a time which some obeyed the rest fled those that came in were by the Act of Pardon which came out soon after with some other respited till another Parliament should determine of them either to life or death This was in favour for their ●endring themselves On the day of August dyed the most noble and accomplisht Prince Henry Duke of Gloucester of the Small Fox at Whitehal to the very great sorrow of the whole Kingdom being a Prince of singular vertues and endowments In October 1661. they with the rest that were apprehended for the said 〈◊〉 were severally arraigned at the Sessions House in the Old-Bailey before Sir Orlando 〈◊〉 where after Tryal they were all found guilty and convicted of High-Treason for compassing contriving and bringing about the death of the King for which 26 of them 〈◊〉 sentence to be drawn hanged and quartered sixteen of them who rendred themselves according to the aforesaid Proclamation were respited till the Parliament should by an Act determine of them but the other ten viz. Mojor General Harrison Iohn Carew Iohn Cook the Sollicitor to the pretended Cour● o● Justice Hugh Peter 〈◊〉 Thomas Scot Gregory Clement Iohn Iones Adrian Scroop Francis Ha●ker and Daniel Ax●el were executed according to the sentence eight of them at Charing ●ross and the two last at Tybur● their Heads set upon Westminster-Hall and London-Bridge and their quarter upon the Gate● of London In December the King dissolved the Parliament which he honored with the Epithere of The Healing Parliament and on the 24 of December dyed also that most illustrious Princess of 〈◊〉 His Majesties Sister of the same disease which snatch away her Brother the Duke o● Gloucester to the extreme grief of the King ●he Queen Mother and the whole Court The Queen Mother had come over some while before with her Daughter the Lady 〈◊〉 and now prepared for her depath●ed feating the disease might run in the blood the young Princess being not very well and accordingly the King in company with them to bring them to the water side came to Portsmouth in the Christmast time and thence the Ladies took shipping for 〈◊〉 While the King was but this short while absent hapned that despera●e Rebellion and Insurrection in the City of London by the Fifth Monarchists at two sundry times on the ninth of Ianuary at night being Sunday where they alarmed the City marched through the gates threatning to take down their Masters those Regi●ide quarters killing some four men and so●sc●lked till Wednesday morning next● at which time they 〈◊〉 again and resolutely fought with the Trained Bands and a Squadron of the Life guard of Horse in Woods●●●t 〈…〉 their ground till they were surrounded and 〈◊〉 they began to retreat but still in order There were killed 〈◊〉 some eighteen and they killed as many Venner● a Wine Cooper who was their Leader was taken and twenty more 〈◊〉 of which were executed with him at seueral places in London being convicted of High-Treason for levying war against the King On Ianuary 30. 1660. the bodies of Oliver Cromwel 〈…〉 and Hinry Ireton were removed from their Interments in Westminster Abbey and hanged at Tyburn and there buried their heads set upon Westminster-Hall In Michaelmas Term this year there was a call of fourteen Sergeants at Law and the Courts at Westminster were filed with Judges the names of which most Grave and Honorable Persons are as followeth Sir Robert Foster Lord chief Justice of England Sir Thomas Mullet Sir Thomas Tw●sden Sir Wadham Windham of the Kings Bench Sir Orlando Bridgeman Lord chief Justice Sir Robert Hyde Sir Samuel Brown Sir Thomas Tyr●yl in the Common Pleas Sir Matthew 〈◊〉 Sir Edward Atkins Sir Christopher Turner Barons of the Exchequer Anno Dom. 1661. HIs Majestie at His dissolution of the Parliament having promised to call another with all convenient expedition issued out Writs for the election thereof and appointed the eighth of May for their sitting down at Westminster where they accordingly convened and ratified several Acts made by the preceding Parliament which being not summoned by the Kings Writ was not by Law held sufficient the Act of Oblivion was first confirmed being very much urged and pressed by the King as the foundation of a sure and lasting settlement At the opening of the Parliament the King acquainted them with His resolution of marrying Donna Catharina the Infanta of Portugal which they very joyfully received by a Vote passed to that purpose in both Hou●es There likewise passed an Act in repeal of that 1 Carol. 17. against the Civil Power of Bishops thereby debarring them from their Priviledges as Peers which by this Repeal are to be restored fully unto them with many other Acts of Publique concernment and then adjourned till the November 20. instant The Right Honorable the Earl of Sandwich having sailed with a Fleet of men of War to the Coasts of Barbary to confirm the League between those Pyrates and this Nation came to an Anchor at Algeir where he entred into a Treaty with the Governor of that Port which not succeeding the Fleet weighed and stood into the Harbour where after the had fired some ships and done some execution on shore he came out again having received some little loss both of men and rigging From thence he set sail towards the Coast of Spain leaving Vice Admiral Lawson to guard the said Port. By a Commission from the King the Right Honorable the Earl of Peterburgh was made General for the expedition to Tanger a strong place and Fortress of the Portugals on the streights of Gibrala●r and Forces are now ready to imbark in company with that Fleet which is going to bring home her Majestie the Queen from Lisbon About this time hapned a fray or conflict on Tower-hill at the Reception of the Swedish Ambassador betwixt the French and Spanish Ambassadors Coaches for Praecedency where seven or eight were killed and the French worsted This so highly incensed the French King that he sent to Madrid to demand satisfaction but received none so that upon this and some other janglings there is now a kinde of a petty Hostility between them During this clash the Prince of Spain dyed and to the King of France was born a Daulphin Christned by the name of Lewes To●s Saints because he was born on All-Saints Day October Col. Lambert Sir Henry Vane Sir Hadress Waller Col. Cobbet were sent away from the Tower to several remote places for their own preservation as well as security of the peace and divers others secured upon account of a Plot a Narrative whereof cannot be given yet not in this piece which hath attained its conclusion FINIS October Novem. Decem. 〈◊〉 ●●odah ●●●eged F●● relleved Jan. 10. T●● K●ng removeth from the parliament March The King at York Excluded H● April May June the militia set on foot July August the Kin● sets up his Standard at Nottingham August Sept. th● King 〈◊〉 Shrewsbury Portsmouth taken Aug. 2. A skirmish in Worcestershire Octo 23. Edg-hill Fight Novem. Nov. 1 Bramfor Fight Decem● Cirencester stoemed Febr. 1. March My Lord Brook killed at Litchfield May Litchfie●●etaken ●y the King TheE of Noth●mprton slain April 6 Reading besieged May 16 Stratton fight June The Covenant taken Hambden killed July Landsdown Fight July 5. July July 27. Bristol surrendred Exeter delivered August 10 Glocester besieged Glocester relieved Sept. 8 Auborn Chase sight Sept. 19. Newb. ●irst fight Sept. 20. Novemb Decemb 8. January Mar. 29 Charrington Fight April April ●une Cropr●dy bridg●●ight ●une 29. Leistithiel surrender Aug. 5. The Earl of Essex vanquished in Cornwal 〈…〉 Fight ●000 killed at Marston ●loor ●uly 16. York ●iel●ed ●o the Parlia●ent 〈…〉 ●iege of ●asing ●●ised Nov. 21. Newbery second Fight Colonel Massey defeats Myn and takes Mon-mouth Decemb 〈…〉 T●●● my modelled and Gen Fa●rfax declared Jan. 11. 30 Vxbridg ●●●ty Mar. 2● Alle●ne fight July 22. Kilsith Field Aug 27. Vide● spee●hes pages 5. April May 31 June June 14 Naseby Fight Leices●●ake● Rowlin Hea●h Fight Sept. 24. June 28. July 10. Lamport Fight Br●oll ●e●verd Aug 1● ●●●●ng House to me● Sept. 14. Novem. ●auary April June 3 Septem Novem. June July 26. June Fagans ●ight say 8. Maidstone Fight June 2. June The N●vy revolt● Augu● July Kingston Insurrection ●reston ●ight Aug. 17 ●●omwel ●st into ●tland ●lche 〈◊〉 ●lded ●gust Treaty at the Isle of Wight October January Vide speech page 3● Vide speech page 32. Dublin freed and the Marques of Ormond defeated August ●uly 22. ●uary Sept. 28. Decemb 20. Feb. 18. April July 4. Decemb 12. Decemb March May June Vide Speech June Sir Geo●●ooth ●feated 〈◊〉 20.

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

King kept himself in the secret place where he lay that night having been much discommodated through the shortness of it As soon as the appointed hour was come Humphrey the Miller was ready with his horse that should carry the King for none other with safety and convenience could he had This was a kind of War-horse that had carried many a load of provision meal and such like but now there was put on him a bridle and a saddle that had outworn its tree and irons The horse standing at the door the King came out intending to have none along with him but Iohn but the other five brothers insisting on the danger of his going so ill attended so many stragling souldiers lying up and down the Country he agreed to have them all along with him and so took his farewell of Colonel Carelos who very disconsolately parted from him The King being mounted the six Brethren guarding him behind and before and on each side Humphrey leading the horse they began their journey The way wa● something dirty and every where the horse blundering caused the King to suspect falling and to bid Humphrey have a care to which he returned that his horse had carried many a heavy weight before but never the price of three Kingdomes and therefore he might be excused by reason of his extraordinary burden When they came within a mile of the house they made fast the horse and came the foot-way through the fields thither before the King went into the house he took his leave of all of them but Iohn they upon their knees crying and praying for his safety and preservation As they were departing the King called them back and said I am so full of care that I do forget what I do but here is my hand giving it them to kiss if God bless me I will remember all another day A promise his Majesty hath most graciously perfopmed When he came into the house with none but Iohn he was most submisly and cordially welcomed by Mr. Whitgreave who presently conducted him to my Lord Wilmot in the secret place who with infinite gladness ●ell down and imbraced his knees The first thing they did was to shist his Majesty by taking off that course shirt and putting on a ●●er and changing his stockings and shoes Next they consulted about his Majesties manner of escape out of England whereupon Col. Lane was propounded as a very fit and necessary instrument in that business and agreed on and accordingly transacted as before designed by my Lord Wilmot which was that the never-to-be-forgotten Lady Iane Lane under some pre●ence of visiting her Sister and other affairs in Bristoll should g●t a Pass for her Man and her self and that the King should be the Man and ride before her This was concluded on and done Mrs. Lane sending some Spring-water in which Wallnuts had been boiled to discolour his hands and face and other parts open to view and on Thursday night the eleventh of September Colonel Lane came with her all things fit for his Majesties journey being provided to a field adjoyning to Mr. Whitgreaves house where the King was mounted before her and from thence they immediately set forward having directions given to know the Country and recommendations also to the Allies friends and acquaintance of her Family if any sinister rancounter should put them to tryal At one Town in their journey they met with a Troop of horse but the Captain perceiving they rid double commanded the Troop to open to the right and left and so past them Being come to Bristoll they endeavoured to get a passage thereabouts for France his Majesty being Nobly and secretly entertained at the house of Mr. Norton at Leigh hard by Bristoll since Knighted for his loyalty but it not succeeding there and my Lord Wilmot being come to Bristoll it was agreed to go for Salisbury where the King had entertainment by the Relations of Sir Edward Nicholas his Majestics Secretary Here Colonel Gunter fortunately came to know the King by whose conveyance the King was brought sale into Sussex to the habitation of this Noble Gentleman and a Bark b●b● means procured for fifty pound to transport two Gentlemen upon account of a quarrel and Duel lately fought into France The Master not knowing otherwise while at Sea who safely and dutifully landed them at Deep in Normandy from whence the King went immediately to Paris where he was welcomed by that Court but most joyfully received by our Queen his Mother and the Duke and that most affectionate Uncle of his Majesties the late deceased Duke of Orleans of famous memory De Bello ducit Pax laeta Triumphos Anno Domini 1652. AF●er this defeat Scotland is with little difficulty General Mon● seizing most of the Scotch Presbyterian Nobility at Ellas where they were in Councel reduced to the obedience of the Parliament Garrisons were placed every where and four Citradels most impregnably fortified at Leith S. Iohnstons Ayre and Innerness so that the total Conquest of that Nation was by the English then accomplished and so far forth secured for ever This Triumph swelled the new State to other great enterprizes the Dutch had stood upon some punctilio of honour with them as being the junior state and for their relation to the Prince of Aurange their General were suspected though many variations in that compass of adherance to the King his Brother-in-law the said Prince being lately dead For these reasons the Parliament published an Act by them made for the incouragement of Navigation the most advantagious and pleasing to the English Marriners and as hurtful and displeasant to the Hollander forbidding any goods to be exported from any place but what were of the growth and manufacture thereof in any other vessels but their own and English which totally excluded the Hollander saving some petty Merchandises of Linen Maderas c. The States of Holland hereupon arm and set forth a Fleet of ships under Admiral Van-Trump who meeting with our Fleet at the Downs in the beginning of May under Bourn who was soon relieved by General Blake the Flag being refused by the Dutch the fight began and continued about four houres till night the success lighting on the English This attempt made by the Dutch highly exasperated the then State who were used to the excesses and uncoutroulments of Fortune so that the Ambassadors here could not allay their fury but departed home Sir George A●scue one of the Parliaments Captains over a Squadron of ships being about Plymouth met with a Sail of fifty Dutch Men of War and by night after some conflict parted equally from them General Blake roving about the Downs met with the French Fleet then bound for the relief of Dunkirk besieged by the Spaniard which he took altogether and thereupon that Town was rendred to the Arch-Duke Leopold On the 28 of September the English met the Dutch Fleet at a place called the Kentish-Knock where some of the

greatest English ships struck on the Sands but getting off again they so fiercely plyed the Dutch that they were forced to fly saving themselves from a greater loss then the disabling of some six ship whereof the Rear-Admiral was one This was recompensed by the Dutch who took a Man of War in the Stra●ts by Porto-Longone On the twentieth of December Van-Trump with a new rigged Fleet came again to the Downs with 100 Men of War and Fireships where Blake unhappily with a small number met them and was forced to sail for it being much indangered himself Here were lost the Garland and Bonadventure and two other Merchants Ships besides the Vanguard and Victory very much shattered The Dutch crowed upon this Victory and with a numero●s Fleet of Merchant-men sailed to Rochel giving out that they would sweep the Seas of the English but at their return the English met them at Portland and gave them such a re-encounter that after three daies fight very terrible the Dutch fled nine Men of War being taken and fifty Merchant-men much slaughter on both sides but the most on the conquered Van-Trump to Calice and thence to the Weilings the English to Dover and so to Ports This a second time was repaid us by an overthrow given us in the Straits where five of our Ships being not longer to be protected by the Duke of Florence coming out of Legorn were over-powred by a Dutch Fleet of 24 Soil and the Leopard and another Bonaventure taken with other damages to the Levant Trade But such was their great preparations at home that the Parliament minded nothing else waving all publick businesses from the King of France concerning the Ships taken at Dunkirk and another message from Bourd●aux and for a while deferring the Portugal Embassador who came to offer restitution And yet in the height of this grand design an unexpected or at least an unwardable blow quite undid them and their designs leaving them as became the laughter and scorn of the Nation while their General having turned them out and dissolved them made himself after a short intervall of time the Supreme Magistrate Anno Domini 1653. FOr on the twentieth of April 1653. Cromwell suddenly and forcibly turns out the Parliament who had for four years and as much as from Ianuary to April this year since they murthered the King tyrannized over the three Nations After this violation of that violencing Parliament Cromwell and his Officers call a new Representative and erect a new Councel of State wherein not one man of but only such as were revolters from the Commonwealth were admitted By the FACE of this new erected Councel a Convention is assembled of 120. who did nothing but folly and mischief against Church and people particularly by their lawless act of Marriages and vote against Tythes and then the cunninger part of them reassigned their Trust and Power to the same hand that gave it having made an Act also for a Tax according to the old mode of 120000 pound per mensem By this shift of power Cromwell was as they and he said invested with the Supreme Authority it being devolved unto him by the late resignation and therefore a new device of Government was now projected which was contained in an Instrument consisting of 42 Articles whereby he is made Lord Protector of England Scotland and Ireland and solemnly installed before the Lord Mayor of London on the sixteenth of the same moneth This was pretended to be drawn out of Magna Charta but what need we say of it Some struglings there were about the beginning of the new year in Scotland and Ireland in the first for life the other of death the Scotch hoping to recover themselves and the Irish at the l●st gasp all places and persons being neer reduced to the Usurper During this intermission of Government in England yet there was no vacancy of War betwixt us and the Hollanders who sensible of their own weakness and the new Protectors troubles in his ambitious aspiring designs sent over Embassadors to treat While they were here the Fleets of both States being prepared and out at Sea happened two dismal encounters the first on the 23 of Iuly the Dutch having before conveyed one Fleet out towards the East and West France Spain and the Levant about by Scotland and conveyed two Fleetshome one from the Baltick and Northern Sea from Prussia and another that came about from France Levant c. which continued for three daies fighting and flying in the first whereof General Dean was slain with a Canon bullet hard by General Monck so Providence distinguished betwixt a King-Murderer and a King-Restorer and the two next in seizing and entring several ships in the pursuit until such time as they got into the Weylings having lost seventeen Men of War whereof eleven taken and six sunk and many prisoners taken and which was worst the Coast of Holland was so blockt up that no ships could safely arrive in their harbours nor no joyning of one part of the Fleet then a rigging new to remedy this overthrow with another All preparations were therefore made by the Hollander to recover not only their credit but their livelihood and subsistance which was to drive the English from the coast and General Van-Trump having fitted himself with the choice of his Country both for men and ships resolved for to effect it whereupon on the second of Iuly he sailed from the Weylings and soon after joyned with a Fleet from the Texel at the sight of which Fleets the English weighed and on the 23 in the afternoon part of the English under General Monk then Admiral charged through them the next day the whole Fleet came up but being blustrous weather could not ingage but on Saturday both Fleets fell to it and made an end the Dutch being worsted and miserably shattered thirty six ships taken burnt and sunk the rest escaping into the Texel from whence were lately some of them equipped This was the parting blow of that War the Dutch Ambassadors concluding a peace presently which was transacted by Oliver and concluded by him for the facilitating his vaster designs at home this adding reputation to his future undertakings and so the quarrel for the Dominion of the Seas ended This War so ended with such honourable success and advantage Cromwell having as before is said the power resigned into his hands took upon him to act as chief Magistrate urg'd thereto by the Army and the well-affected people and installed himself as before at Westminster the sixteenth day of December Lord Protector of the three Nations Being also now proclaimed by his Councel with the stile aforesaid endeavours were used every where to countenance it with Addresses but the main one was the invitation of the City for him to dine at Grocers Hall which they sumptuously performed and he ambitiously enough received Knighting the Mayor for the Cities kindness But kindness would yield no money