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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56267	Epitome monarchiæ Britanicæ, or, A brief cronology of the Brittish kings from the first original of monarchial government, to the happy restauration of King Charles the Second : wherein many remarkable observations on the civil warrs of England and General Monks politique transactions in reducing this nation to a firm union for the resettlement of His Majesty, are clearly discovered / by Hamlet Puleston ...	Puleston, Hamlet, 1632-1662.	1663 (1663)	Wing P4190; ESTC R21043	34,516	68

But not long it was ere Cromwel whose pulse at that time says a then pen-man began to beat a Lordly pace by his instrument Ioyce surprizes him in his bed and when Ioyce told Cromwel that he had the King in his Custody then quoth Cromwel I have the Parliament in my pocket Cromwels end in seizing on the Kings person was not only for countenance of his Independent proceedings against the opposite Presbyterian faction but after their depression the better to be enabled to destroy the King himself for his own advancement For having once entrapped this Royal Lyon he doth dayly more and more entangle him within his toyles and never thinks him fast enough till he had got him in his pit-fall of the Isle of Wight whether he had allured the good King who thought others as free from guile as he knew himself to be by setting before him the danger he was in while he remained at Hampton Court how he lay open and exposed to the wicked machinations of the Agitators of the Army who intended to Act that which he poor Soul did even tremble to utter But what the King hopes to find a temporary Sanctuary proves to him a constant prison from whence he is not to be delivered but in order to his Tryal and Execution the Barbarity of which fact as we cannot so neither need we aggravate the whole world both then and still detesting the Authors and Actors of that abominable Tragedy Charles the first being thus execrably murthered his eldest Son Charles the second ought to have succeeded but the wicked Regicides not only disavowed his Title but proceeded to abolish even Monarchical Government it self introducing in its place a Free-State or Commonwealth empty notions to delude the Vulgar and leaving no course unessayed to debar the Right Heir whom God Nature and the Law of the Land had designed to yea and the Peoples wishes notwithstanding the fore-mentioned popular pretences had already seated in his Fathers Throne And as they are careful to secure themselves at home so are they no less active to defeat His Majesties preparations abroad Cromwel is sent into Ireland who but too soon brings under that almost happily recovered Kingdom From thence he is recalled to invade Scotland where an Agreement such an one as it was had been made with His Majesty Thither Cromwel comes ere it was sufficiently provided to entertain so troublesome and unexpected a Guest This with some intestine feuds among the Scots themselves yielded Cromwel a cheap Victory at Dunbar and was the cause of the over-hasty rendition of the impregnable Castle of Edenburgh not without suspition of Treachery in the Governor thereby facilitating Cromwels passage into Fife which necessitated His Majesty before His Affairs were fully setled there to a disadvantageous March into England where coming as far as Worcester he was so surrounded that a Battel was imposed upon him upon most unequall terms there being no proportion between the multitude of the Rebels and paucity of the Royall Army Notwithstanding the loss of the Day numerousness of the Pursuers eagerness in the pursuit large promised Reward to the Taker or Discoverer great threatned punishment to the Harbourer or Concealer His Majesty most miraculously escapes which opened a Door of Hope to his Friends that he was not in vain thus wonderfully preserved but that there was some greater future Good intended to Him and these Nations than the present face of things did seem to promise or portend For though His Majesty's Person by His safe getting beyond Sea was somewhat more secure yet was there but small visible appearance of strength either forreign or domestick whereby He might be suddenly enabled to re-gain His lost Kingdoms nay those very slender presumptions which remained of better times did dayly more and more lessen and decrease till Divine Providence which is never wanting to afflicted innocency in its greatest extremity but alwaies maketh choice of such seasons to manifest its power and goodness in was pleased to interpose when all other means had failed and were vanished into nothing and bring that to pass by an unthought of Instrument which humane considerations had rendred improbable if not impossible to be effected It would be superfluous to dwell long upon particulars which are so fresh in all mens memories and the only Theme of all Tongues and Pens how cold a Reception after this great Deliverance His Majesty met withal in the Court of France how unworthily he was dismissed thence how not invited into the Spanish Territories till the breach with Cromwel was unavoidable and there rather afforded succour to them than procured any from them how His Well-wishers were totally subdued in Scotland and constantly upon every rising betrayed and suppressed in England All which misfortunes with many others being laid together to believe that His Majesty should so soon and so easily obtain the quiet possession of His Dominions required a greater portion of Faith than the World at that time for the Majority was stocked withall But among all the Wounds given to the Royal Cause none pierced deeper than that it received in Cheshire which though it might seeme but as a slight scar in regard of the small quantity of blood that was then drawn yet by reason of that far greater effusion that was feared would ensue it was concluded little lesse than mortall for it is not to be doubted that yet those mercilesse Empiricks who had once more undertaken the Cure of the Body Politick had continued in any longer practice they would have so exhausted the vitall spirits we meane the Nobility and Gentry of the Land who were for the most part engaged in the designe though not in the particular Action that it should have pined away in a most desperate Consumption and never have been able to have held up either head or hand again Matters being thus in a manner grown helpless and most men heartless it is high time for God himselfe to appear in the Bush which he doth but not in such a fire as he appeared in unto Moses in the Wilderness which consumed not the Bush but in such a fire as in Jothams Parable went out of the Bramble and devoured the Cedars of Lebanon that is God sent a spirit of division between Lambert and the rump-Parliament for by that contembtible appellation was it commonly called so that they are now no less earnest to destroy than they were lately zealous to build up each others fallen and decayed Interest For Cromwel had long ago cashiered that infamous Conventicle and though Lambert for a long while after remained an especiall Creature and favorite yet perceiving that that office of Protectorship which he out of hopes to have been old Nol's second had in its primitive institution been contrived elective was converted to hereditary he became discontented thereat and was discharged of all Civil and Military Imployment But Oliver being laid in the dust his son Richard like a Puppet set

Henries Friends Allies or Favorites in his behalf should attempt the disannulling of this Act that then the Duke should have present possession of the Crown But this was more than what his destiny had allotted for him for he was shortly after slain at the Battail of Wakefield by Queen Margaret who was of a more Masculine Spirit than to acquiesce in the forementioned dishonorable Conditions and because it was a Crown that the Duke of York chiefly affected She caused his Head to be cut off set upon a Pole and Crowned with Paper but the death and disgrace of the Father Edward Earl of March his Eldest Son doth speedily revenge to the utter ruine of the Lancastrain party Nor will this Edward as did his Father await anothers leasure and prove expectant of a Crown in reversion but immediately assumes it by the actual deposing of King Henry whom he takes Prisoner and commits to safe custody in the Tower of London But there was an accident which had well-nigh nipped the white Rose in the bud and restored the red Rose to its pristine vigour Edward the fourth late Earl of March now King of England sends his great General the Earl of Warwick to treat a Match between him and the Lady Bona Sister to the Queen of France But our youthful King in the mean time consulting only his own affections takes to Wife the fair Lady Gray Widdow of Sir John Gray of Groby which so incenses Warwick that he Rebels against his Master beats him not only out of the Field but also out of the Kingdom delivers King Henry from his Prison and reseats him in his Throne but all this is but as Lightning before Death Edward returns from beyond Seas fights with defeats and kills the Earl of Warwick routs also Queen Margaret newly landed and the relicts of her Lancastrian Associates takes her and her Son Edward Prisoners which last is stabbed by Richard Duke of Glocester King Edwards Brother and not long it is but the Father Henry is dispatched by the same hand in the Tower of London whither he was remanded by King Edward after this fortunate and victorious successe The cruelty of Richard Duke of Glocester whose nature was more crooked than his body did not terminate in the blood of his Enemies but begins to practise on his Friends and nearest Relations For perceiving that King Edward by reason of his incontinency whereunto no English Prince was ever more subject was not long liv'd he secretly plots the attaining of the Crown for himself And for the more expedite compassing this ambitious design he first incenses King Edward against their common Brother George Duke of Clarence not only exaggerating the hainousnesse of his former disobedience which had been pardoned but insinuating a blind Prophecy that one whose name began with the letter G. should prove fatal to Edwards posterity Hereupon the Duke of Clarence is committed to the Tower and there by Richard drowned in a Butt of Malmsey however it was given out that he dyed of a discontented passion But the Ominous G. which the King so much dreaded was found in the sequele to appertain to Glocester himself who was the Contriver of this mischief and Butcher of Edwards innocent Sons of whom after the Kings decease he was made Protector The young Prince Edward the fifth was at Ludlow when his Father Edward the fourth dyed from whence his Mother was over desirous to have him forthwith conveyed to London But his Unkle the Duke of Glocester meets him by the way at Stony-Stratford and having secured all his faithful Attendants and Kindred by the Mothers side takes into custody the person of the young King which was the game that this mighty hunter did mainly intend Yet was there one obstacle to his aspiring ends still behind to wit Richard Duke of York the Kings Brother in Sanctuary with his Mother at Westminster whom to allure thence for to do it by Violence was accounted Religion in those days he imploys the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury to perswade the Mother and in case she proves obstinate to interpose his Authority to part with her Son under colour that he might be a companion and great lenitive of the Melancholy disposition of his disconsolate Brother Glocester having thus compassed the Wardship of both his Nephews makes shew as if he would proceed to the Coronation of the Elder but whilst the Lords of the Councel are debating of the time and manner of it he arrests and on a sudden makes shorter by the Head the Lord Chamberlain Hastings whom though he had used as a forward Coadjuter in depressing of the Queens Relations yet knew him to be altogether averse from yielding any Countenance to the disinheriting of his Masters King Edwards Children Hastings thus removed the Duke of Buckingham who had received several disgusts from his Brother-in-law Edward the fourth is pitched upon as the fittest agent to carry on this Devilish attemot who having prepared the Mayor and Citizens of London comes in their name pretending Bastardy and insufficiency of Edwards race to make a tender of the Crown to Protector Richard and in case of refusal with threats to elect some other worthy and deserving Person Richard in seeming amazednesse makes strange at first of this by himself-devised proposal but after some importunity grants his forsooth unwilling consent not without a dissembled regret of his Nephews condition whose murder in the Tower doth immediately ensue Buckingham supposed not privy to the making away of the harmlesse Princes upon this and other distasts retires from Court to his Castle of Brecknock where with his prisoner Morton Bishop of Ely he contrives the Match between Henry Earl of Richmond and Elizabeth Daughter of Edward the fourth which proves Richards downfall and the union of the Yorkish and Lancastrian line Henry Earl of Richmond was the Son of Margaret Daughter of Iohn Duke of Somerset Son of Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster by Katherine Swineford relict of Sir Otes Swineford and though this Iohn and other Children were born before espousals yet was the issue made legitimate by Act of Parliament and confirmed by a Bull from Rome Of this Henry there goes a tradition for current that in the heat of the Civil Wars between the House of York and Lancaster Henry the sixth having espied him in the presence laid his hand upon his head and in a Prophetick manner said Behold this youth who is to enjoy that for which we now contend Which his Mother observing and treasuring up in her heart sent him into Britany in France as into a safe Harbour to be there educated and preserved till the fury of the tempest were over which then did so terribly rage throughout the Land Richard the third earnestly Solicites the Duke of Britany to deliver up Richmonds person to him which was well-nigh effected by the treachery of Peter Landoys the Dukes especial Favourite But Richmond having timely notice of this Clandestine negotiation flyes to