Cleba a Schoolmaster and three Gentlemen in Lincolns-Inne being brethren in Norfolk were hanged and quarter'd at Bury for conspiracy About this time began the hot burning Feavers whereof died many old persons so that in London died seven Aldermen in the space of ten moneths The 21 of November a man was brought from Westminster with a paper on his head riding with his face toward the horse tail to the Standard in Cheap-side and there set on the pillory and after burned in both the cheeks with the letters F and A for falsly accusing a gentleman of treason The sixteenth of December a stranger born was arraigned for making keyes to Newgate to have murdered the Keeper and let forth the prisoners at which time of his arraignment he thrust a knife into the side of his fellow prisoner that had given witness against him so that he was in peril of death thereby for the which fact he was taken from the Bar into the street before the Justice Hall where his hand being first stricken off he was then hanged on a Gibbet the Keeper of Newgate was arraigned and indicted for that the said prisoner had a weapon about him and his hands loose The Lord Sturton murdered two men for the which he was conveyed from the tower of London to Salisbury and there hanged with four of his servants the sixth of March. A Blazing-star was seen at all times of the night from the sixth to the tenth of March. The twenty third of April Thomas Stafford and others to the number of thirty two persons coming out of France took the Castle of Scarborough which they enjoyed two daies and then were taken and brought to London The twenty eighth of May Thomas Stafford was beheâ—ded on the tower-hill and on the morrow after three of his companions were drawn to tyburn and there hanged and quartered The first of Ianuary the Frenchmen came to Calice with a great Army and within four daies were masters thereof and shortly after won all the pieces on that side of the Sea The French King also invaded Flanders spoiled and burnt Dunkirk before King Philip could come to the rescue The seventh of Iuly within a mile of Nottingham a tempest of thunder as it came through two towns beat down all the houses and Churches the bells were cast to the outside of the Church-yard and some webs of lead four hundred foot in the field writhen like a glove the river of Trent running between the two towns the water running was with the mud carried a quarter of a mile and cast against trees trees were pulled up by the roots and cast twelve score off a child was pulled out of a mans hands and carried a hundred foot and then let fall and died five or six men were killed there fell some hail-stones that were fifteen inches about The Quartain Agues continued very sharp insomuch that many old folk died especially Parsons and Priests so that a great number of Parishes were unfurnished King Philip being absent out of the Realm Queen Mary ended her life the seventeenth of November in the year 1558. when she had reigned five years four moneths and odd daies the same day deceased Cardinal Pool and a little before two of her Physitians beside many Bishops and Noble men Queen Mary was buried at Westminster and Cardinal Pool at Canterbury Queen Elizabeth An. Reg. 1 THe seventeenth of November 1558. came certain news unto the Parliament House of the death of Queen Mary whereat many rejoyced and many lamented and forthwith her death being generally known they proclaimed Lady Elizabeth second daughter to Henry the Eight Queen of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith this was done in London and Westminster the Queen was then at Bishops Hatfield but not proclaimed there till two daies after The Queen came shortly after from Hatfield to the Charterhonse until the time of her Coronation she stayed there the Bishops kneeling down acknowledged their alleageance the fourteenth of Iannary she rode in triumph to the Palace of Westminster and the next day was crowned by Doctor Oglethrop Bishop of Carlisle The twentieth of Ianuary began a Parliament wherein the fruits tenths and supremacy were reserved and connexed to the Crown In this Parliaments time the Queen granted license for a free disputation to be held in Westminster Church concerning some different points in Religion but it came to no effect The twenty fourth of Inne the book of Common-prayer was established and the Mass clean suppressed in all Churches In ancient time many images were in Churches which were maintained by Queen Mary but by Queen Elizabeth beaten down and burned in the open streets The fifth of Inly through shooting off a gun in a house in Crooked-lane a barrel of gunpowder took fire which blew up four houses shatter'd many other houses slew twenty persons outright and hurt as many besides great damage to houses and goods The tenth of April William Geffery was whipped from the Marshalsea to Bedlam for publishing that one Iohn Moor was Jesus Christ which said Iohn Moor after he had been well whipped confessed himself a cozening knave An. Reg. 3 An. Dom. 1561 The fourth of Iune between four and five a clock in the afternoon a terrible tempest chanced of thunder and lightning and chiefly about London where amongst many harms it fired the lofty Spire of Pauls-steeple and began about the top thereof which was two hundred foot high from the top of the stone battlements the fire ceased not till it came down to the roof of the Church and consumed all the bells lead and timber-work An. Reg. 4 In March a Mare brought forth a Foal with one body and two heads and a long tail growing out between the two heads A Sow farrowed a pig with four legs like to the arms of a child with hands and fingers In April a Sow farrowed a pig with two bodies eight feet and but one head many calves and lambs were monstrous some with collers of skin about their necks like to the double cuffs of shirts and neckerchiefs then used An. Dom. 1562 The fourteenth of May a man-child was born at Chichester in Sussex the head legs and arms were like an Anatomy rhe brest and belly big from the navel a long string hanging about the neck a coller of flesh like the ruff of a neckerchief coming up about the ears An. Reg. 5 An. Dom. 1563 The sixteenth of Ianurry a great tempest of winde and thunder happened in the town of Leicester which uncover'd many houses and overturned many Pestilence in 108. Parishes in London besides eleven in the Suburbs The eighth of Iuly a great tempest of thunder and lightning by the same was slain a woman and three kine in the Covent-garden near Charing-cross in Essex a man was torn in pieces his Barn beaten down and his hay burnt An earthquake in the moneth of September in Liucolnshire and Northamptonshire From the first of December to the â—â—elfth was
Suffolk The second of May Ione Butcher was burned in Smithfield for heresie she held that Christ took no flesh of the Virgin Mary Richarâ— Lion Godard Gorran and Richard Ireland were executed the fourteenth of May for attempting a new rebellion in Kent In the moneth of May a miller at Battle-bridge was set in the pillory in cheap-side and had both his ears cut off for speaking some words against the Duke of Sommerset On Saint Valentines day at Feversham in Kent one Arden a gentleman was murdered by consent of his wife for the which fact she was on the fourteenth of March burnt at Canterbury Michael Master Ardens man was hanged in chains at Feversham and a maiden burnt Mosby and his Sister were hanged in Smithfield at London Green which had fled came again certain years after and was hanged in chains in the high-way over against Feversham and Black-VVill the Ruffin that was hired to do the act was burnt in Zealand at Flushing The twenty fourth of April a Dutch-man was burnt in Smithfield for an Arrian The twenty fifth of May an earthquake about Croydon and those parts did put the people in great fear An. Dom. 1552 The twenty sixth oâ— February Sir Richard Vine and Sir Martin Patridge were hanged on tower-hill Sir Martin Stanhope with Sir Thomas Arundel were beheaded there the last of April a house near to the tower of London with three barrels of powder was blown up the Gunpowder-makers being fifteen in number were all slain The third of August at Middleton eleven miles from Oxford a woman brought forth a child which had two perfect bodies from the navel upwards and were so joyned together at the navel that when they were laid out at length the one head and body was West and the other East the legs of both the bodies were joyned together in the midst they lived eighteen daies and they were women children The eighth of August were taken at Queenborough three great fishes called Dolphins and the week following at Black-wall was six more taken and brought to London The seventh of October were three great fishes called Whirl-pools taken at Gravesend The eighth of October was three more great fishes called Whirlpools taken at Gravesend and drawn up to the Kings Bridge at VVestminster King Edward being at the age of sixteen years ended his life at Greenwich on the sixth of Iuly when he had reigned six years five moneths and odd daies and was buried at VVestminster The tenth of Iuly was proâ—lamation made of the death of King Edward and how he had ordained that the Lady Iane Daughter to Frances Dutchess of Suffolk which Lady Iane was married to the Lord Gilford Dudley fourth son to the Duke of Northumberland should be Heir to the Crown of England The eleventh of Iuly Gilbert Pott draweâ— to Ninion Sanders Vintner dwâ—lling â—â— the sign of Sâ—int Iohn-Baptâ—st-head within Ludgate was set on the pillory in Cheap wiâ—h boâ—h his ears nailed to the Pillory and cut off for words speaking at the time of Proclamation of the Lady Iane. Lady Mary eldest daughter to King Henry the eight fled to Frammington Castle in Suffolk where the people of the countrey almost wholly resorted unto her In Oxford Sir Iohn Williams in Buckinghamshire Sir Edmond Peckham and in divers other places many men of worship offering themselves as guides to the common people gathered great powers and with all speed made towards Suffolk where the Lady Mary was Also the thirteenth of Iuly by the appointment of the Councel the Duke of Northumberland the Earl of Huntington the Lord Grey of Wilton and divers others with a great number of men of Armes set forward to fetch the Lady Mary by force and were on their way as far as Burie The ninteenth of Iuly the Counsel assembled themselves at Baynards Castle where they communed with the Earl of Pembrook and immediately with the Lord Mayor of London certain Aldermen of London and the Sheriffs Garter King of Arms and a Trumpet went into Cheap where they proclaimed Lady Mary daughter to King Henry the eight Queen of England France and Ireland The twentieth of Iuly Iohn Earl of Northumberland being at Saint Edmonsbury and having sure knowledge that the Lady Mary was at London proclaimed Queen of England returned back again to Cambridge and about five of the clock in the Evening he came to the market-place and caused the Lady Mary to be likewise proclaimed Queen of England but shortly after he was arrested and brought to the Tower of London the twenty fifth of Iuly under the conduct of Henry Earl of Arundel thus was the matter ended without any bloodshed which men feared would have brought the death of thousands Queen Mary An. Reg. 1 MAry the eldest daughter to King Henry the eight began her reign the sixth of Iuly in the year 1553. She came to London and was received with great joy and entred the Tower the third of August where Thomas Duke of Norfolk Doctor Gardner late Bishop of Winchester and Edward Courtney son and heir to Henry Marquess of Exeter prisoners in the Tower discharged the fifth of August Edmond Bonner late Bishop of London prisoner in the Marshal Seas and Cutbert Tunstal Bishop of Durham prisoners in the Kings Bench were restored to their Seas shortly after all the Bishops which had been deprived in the time of King Edward the sixth were restored to their Bishopricks again also all beneficed men that were married or would not forsake their opinions were put out of their livings and others set in the same The eleventh of August certain gentlemen minding to pass through London Bridge in a Wherrie were there overturned and six of them drowned The thirteenth of August master Bourn a Canon of Pauls preached at Pauls Cross so offended some of his audience that they breaking silence cryed out pull him down and one threw a dagger at him whereupon master Bradford and Master Rogers two preachers in King Edwards dayes with much labour conveyed the said master Bourn out of the audience into Pauls School The twenty second of August Iohn Duke of Northumberland Sir Iohu Gaites and Sir Thomas Palmer Knights were beheaded on tower hill The Queen was crowned at VVestminster the first of October by Doctor Gardiner Bishop of Winchester The twenty fâ—fâ—h of October the Baâ—ge of Gravesend was overturned and forty persons drowned In the beginning of the moneth of Ianuary the Emperour sent a nobleman called Egmont and certain other Embassadours into England to conclude a marriage between King Phillip his son and Queen Mary The twenty fifth of Ianuary Sir George Gage Chamberlain certified the Lord Major of London that Sir Thomas VViat with cettain other Rebels were up in Kent whereupon great watch was kept and that night the Lord Major himself rode about the City to look to the same and every night after two Aldermen did the like in the day time the gates of the City were guarded by substantial Citizens The
which star was seen till eight a clock in the morn The seventeenth of Ianuary one Simon Pembrook dwelling in Southwark being suspected to be a conjurer by the Commandement of the ordinary judge for those parts appeared in the parish Church of Saint Saviour at the Court holden there this Simon leaned his head upon the Pew where the Proctor stood which after he had done for a little space the Proctor lifted up his head to see what he ailed and found him to be dead and straightway the said Simon fell down and ratled a little in the throat and never spake after this was done just as the Judge came into the Church who said it was the just judgement of God upon him after his cloathes being opened there were found about him devilish books of conjuration and abominable practices a picture of a man having three Dice in his hand and this writing chance dice fortunately and divers papers of such like matter as behad dealt in for men such as are mentioned in Leviticus chap. 20. ver 6. If any soul turn himself after such as work with spirits and after soothsayers to go a whoring saith the Lord I will put my face from that soul and will cut him off from among my people The third of February Iohn Nelson for denying the Queens supremacy was drawn to Tyburne and there hanged and quartered The fourth of February and the night following fell such abundance of snow that on the fift in the morning the same was found at London to be two foot deep and being driven northeast on bancks it was found to be an ell deep and in some places a yard and an halfe in the which drifts of snow in the countries many cattel and men and women were overwhelmed and lost it snowed till the eighth day and freezed till the tenth then followed a thaw with continual rain a long time after which caused such high floods that the marshes and low grounds were drowned the water rising so high in Westminster Hall that after the fall thereof some fishes were sound there remaining The twenty fourth of April Matthew Hammont of Hithersey three miles from Norwich Plowright for denying Christ to be our Saviour and publishing divers other horrible heresies was convented before the Bishop oâ— Norwich condemned in the consistory and delivered to the Sheriffs of Norwich to be executed but because he had spoken treasonable words against the Queen and some of her Counsel he was by the Major Sir Robert Wood and Serjeant Windham condemned to loose his ears which were cut off the thirteenth of May in the market place of Norwich and on the twentieth of May he was burned in the Castle Ditch This year Mark Scaliot Black-smith of London for trial of his workmanship made one Lock of Iron Steel and Brass of eleven several pieces and a pipe key all clean wrought which weighed but one grain of gold he also at the same time made a chain of gold of 43 links to which chain the lock and key being fastned and put about a fleas neck she drew the same with ease all which lock and key chain and flea weighed but one grain and a half The seventeenth of Iuly the Queens Majesty being on the river of thames being betwixt her Mannor of Greenwich and Deptford in her privy Barge accompanied with the French Embassador the Eaâ—l of Lincoln and others it chanced that one Thomas Appletree Serving-man being in company with some of his friends would needs discharge a Caliver being charged with a bullet and shooting at randome by misfortune shot one of the Water-men in the Queens Barge the second next unto the Bales of the said Barge who sat within six foot of her Highness clean through both arms for the which fact the said Thomas was on the 21 of Iuly brought to the water side where was a Gibbet set up and when the Hang-man had put the rope about his neck he was by the Queens pardon delivered from execution This year Iohn Fox of Woobridge 269 William Wicnor Robert Moor Englishmen having been prisoners about the space of thirteen years In Turkey with more then two hundred of divers Nations freed themselves by killing their Keeper and returned home to their own countries In the moneth of September and October fell great store of rain which caused great raging floods in sundry places of this Realm which caused many men cattel and houses to be drowned In the town of Newport the cottages were boâ—ne down and the corn lost pasture ground overwhelmed cattel dâ—owned In the town of Bedf. the water came up to the market place where cupboards chests and forms swam abour the houses their fuel coâ—n and hay was by the water borne away also the town of Saint Edes in Huntington-shire was overflowed sâ—ddenly when all men were at rest in their beds the waters brake in with such force that the town was all defaced the Swans swam down the market place and all the town about the boats did float Gormanchester was suddenly supprest their houses full of water and their cattel destroyed An. Reg. 22 An. Dom. 1580 The sixth of April being Wednesday in Easter week about six a clock in the evening a terrible earthquake happened at London and generally throughout all England by violence whereof the great clock bell at Westminster struck against the hammer as divers clock bells did both in City and Country In London a piece of the Temple Church fell down in the late dissolved Church of the Grey-Friers now called Christ-Church in the Sermon time one stone falling from the top of the Church killed a young man out-right and one other stone so bruised a maid that she lived but four daies after the man and the maid being fellow-servants in one house divers were bruised and run out of the Church Some stones fell off from the Church of Saint Pauls in London and some from the Church of Saint Peters at Westminster divers chimneys lost theâ—â—â—ops and ships on the Thames and on the Seas were seen to totter this earthquake did not continue above a quarter of an hour in London but in divers parts of Kent it held them so terrible that the people went out of their houses for fear they should fall on their heads The thirteenth of Iune about six a clock in the morning at Shipwash within Bothel-Baron in Northumberland there happened a tempest of lightning and thunder after the which of a sudden came great showres of hail among the which were stones of divers shapes The seventeenth of Iune in the Parish of Blandsdon in York-shire after a great tempest of lightning and thunder a woman of fourscore years of age named Alice Perin was delivered of an hideous monster whose head was like unto a Sallet the forepart of him like a man only he had eight legs and not one like an other and a tail of half a yard long The 23 of September at Fenistanton in Hnntingtonshire one
An. Dom. 1639 On the seventeenth of March 1639. The King set forth against the Scots attended with a Royall Army and on the seventeenth of Iune a generall accord was made at Barwick upon which the King presently disbanded his forces and returned to London whither he was no sooner come but the Scot did openly protest against the Pasification and retained the Officers of the Army in pay hereupon the King was inforced to call for the Lord Leievetenant out of Ireland whom not long afterwards he created Earl of Straford The Bishop of Canterbury reviving the antient Ceremonies was looked upon as addicted too much to to the Religion of Rome An. Dom. 1640 On the thirteenth of August 1640. Another Parliament assembled and the King finding that they had no desire to assist him with money to advance against the Scots but were ready to comply with them he dissolved that Parliament to the great grief both of City and countrey Iuly the eighteenth The Queen was delivered of a Son who was baptized Henry On the twentieth of August the King marched towards the North in his own person having received some large contributions from the Clergie and a very considerable number of the Gentry At Annick he understood of a defeat given by Generall Lesly to a party of his consisting of 3000. foot and 1200. Horse that Sir Iacob Ashley had deserted Newcastle and that the Scots had imposed a task of 350. pound a day on the Bishoprick of Dirham and 300. pound a day on the Countey of Northumberland which sad newes did much afflict him On the twenty fourth of Septem the Lords being assembled with the King at Yorke it was resolved that a Parliament should be called on the third of November following In the mean time the English to gain a cessation of Arms was inforced to yeeld to the Scots unreasonable propositions This Parliament by reason of the long Sessions of it being called the long Parliament being met Master Prin Master Burton and Doctor Bastwick were released of their Imprisonment having great dammages allowed them The Earl of Straford the Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop Wren were impeached of High treason and to the Tower Sir Francis Windebank and the Lord Finch fled beyond the Seas and most of the Judges who had declared themselves for Ship money were voted delinquents Judge Barkely was arrested by the Usher of the Black Rod for high Treason as he sate one the Kings Bench. An. Dom. 1641 On the two and twentieth of March 1641 the tryall was of the Lord Straford which continued many dayes and having said as much for himself as man could speak and the King himself interceding for him it made his cause the worse and on Wednesday the twelft of May he was beheaded on Tower Hill On the second of May the Lady Mary was married to the Prince of Orange with great solemnity Three hundred thousand pounds was ordered for the Scotch Army to send them out of England to which they were a charge unsupportable The Parliament adjourned from the eight of September to the twentieth of October and on the tenth of August the king went to Scotland and came back to London on the beginning of November following About the latter end of October brake out the barbarous inhumane Rebellion in Ireland where above two hundred thousand persons were most barbarously murdered An. Dom. 1642 On the fourth of Ianuary 1642. the King attended with divers Gentlemen came into the house of Commons and seating him in the Speakers Chayre demanded five members of the house to be delivered to him whose names were Sir Ar. Hazelrig Master Denzill Hollis Master Prin Mr. Hamden and Master Sroud but finding they were not there he went into his coach for London being informed they were fled thither and made Proclamation for their apprehension which the Commons voted illegall and scandalous In February the King and Queen went to Canterbury with the Princes wife to the Prince of Orange the Queen understanding that the house intended to charge her with Treason went along with the Princesse her daughter into Holland Much about this time the Bishops were quite voted down The king coming back to Greenwitch went afterwards towards Yorke in the mean time the Parliament doth Seise upon the Magazine at Hull and Regiments of Horse and Foot are Listed and the Earl of Essex appointed to be Generall the noyse of whose preparations doth hasten the King from Yorke to Nottingham where he Sets up his sttandard and much encreaseth his Forces as he marcheth on Sunday October twenty third was the great Battaile fought at Edgehill the fight terrible and five thousand slain upon the place He afterwards marcheth towards London and at Brainford defeateth a Regiment of the Parliaments but finding how numerous the Earle of Essex Army was that lay betwixt Brainford and London he retired to his Winter quarters at Oxford An. Dom. 1643 On the latter end of February 1643. the Queen who had bin accused of pawning the Jewels of the Crown came to him and brought great supplies of powder Arms and Ammunition The ensuing Summer made the King master of the North and West Some few places onely excepted The Earl of Newcastle had cleared all beyond the Trent but Hull and Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice had redewced Bristol Exeter and all the Towns of any importance in the West Pool Lime and Plimotuh excepted but making some stay to reduce Glocester the Siege was raysed by the Earl of Essex and on the twentieth of September the famous Battaile of Newbery was fought where many were flain on both sides and on the next day Prince Rupert follow-the Reare of the Earle of Essex Army almost as far as Reading An. Dom. 1644 The K. being come to Oxford he Summoned a Parliament which appeared on the two and twentieth day of Ianuary and on the Sixteenth of the same moneth the Scots Army entred England consisting of eighteen thousand foot and two thousand horse at this time Newark being besieged by Sir Iohn Meldrum with an Army of seven thousand Prince Rupert with four thousand horse and one thousand foot doth raise the siege not long afterwards Latham house was relieved by him The Queen went from Oxford to the west of England April 16. where at Exceter she was delivered of a daughter Henretta who not long afterwards did follow her into France where she still remains on the yeer before she was brought to bed of a daughter at Oxford whose name was Katharine and died almost as soon as it was born The King having given a defeat to Sir William Waller at Cropredy Bridge advanced after the Earl of Essex and followed him so close that at last he forced him into Cornwal his horse taking the advantage of the night made a shift to escape but the foot came to capitulation and delivered up their Arms and Artillery there being nine thousand arms and forty nine pieces of excellent brass Ordnance the
king made such a stay in Cornwal that before he could return to Oxford the Earle of Essex was again in the head of an army seconded by the Earl of Manchester and Sir William Waller and at Neubery again there was a very hot incounter in which both sides drew off by degrees and the Parliaments side had the better of it Prince Rupert having marched from Latham house to York some certain moneths before there was a terrible fight at Marshon Moore between the army of the prince Rupert and the forces of the parliament where multitudes being slain there was three thousand taken prisoners twenty pieces of Ordnance and a considerable number of Officers not long afterwards York was surrendred and Colonel Brown at Abingdon performed remarkable service An. Dom. 1645 On the first of Ianuary 1645. Sir Iohn Hotham was executed on the Tower-hill for betraying his trust and on the next day his son followed the same fortune On the tenth of Ianuary the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury voted guilty of High Treason was brought unto the Scaffold on Tower-hill where his head at one blow was severed from his shoulders by the hands of the executioner The town of Taunton held out gallantly against the Kings party Pomferat was relieved by Sir Marmaduke Langdale the Treaty at Uxbridge took no effect the Earl of Essex being thought to be too mild the Lord Fairfax is made Captain General of the Parliaments forces in the mean time the kings force who had taken the field not long before do range up and down the countreys and having relieved Chester they faced Leicester and presently after began to storm it the Kings Canons playing upon the town a whole day and a night many breaches were made and the contestation was carryed on with much resolution on both sides in some breaches they came to the push of pike on Saturday they entred the town where much treasure was taken and in hot blood many were put to the sword Sir Thomas Fairfax who as I have said was wholly made General in the place of the Earl of Essex hearing this advanced from Gilling to Naseby where observing great bodies of horse to appear on the hils neer Harborough he ordered the army to randezvouse neer to Naseby to which places the royal army made their approches Saturday the fourteenth of Iune both armies ingaged the King having the better at the first for Prince Rupert had routed one wing of the Parliaments horse and followed the chace at Maston Moor so unadvisedly that he left the whole body of the foot open to the other wing who giving them a gallant charge did put the whole army to an absolute rout and made themselves masters of the kings Camp carriage and canon and of his Cabinet also where many letters were found which the Parliament afterwards published After this Leicester was immediately reduced and General Fairfax marching into the West defeated the Lord Goring and became master of all the Garrisons in the West and for a conclusion of all had the City of Bristol surrendred unto him at the same time there being no hope of relief Pomfret and Scarborough and Carlile and some other Garrisons in the North did yield themselves unto the mercy of the Parliament and Bazing house which a long time had been besieged was stormed and taken by Lieutenant General Cromwel A great defeat was given to the Lord Hopton at Torrington and the same fortune attended Sir Marmaduke Langdale at Sherburn all being lost in the west the prince of Wales found the opportunity to conveigh himself into France The King marching toward Chester which was then besieged by Sir William Berton and Colonel Iones was persued in the way and charged in the front by the besiegers routed at Bouton heath where the Lord Bernard Stuart was killed upon the place the last of the three brethren that had lost their lives in their princes quarrel After this the King returned to Oxford and was so much incensed against his two Nephews prince Rupert and Maurice for delivering up such places of great importance in the west the loss of Bristow did most of all perplex him who thereupon when prince Rupert and his brother Maurice returned to Oxford did command them to be disarmed and would not suffer them to walk the streets with their swords by their sides as they had done formerly though afterwards they were restored again to all apparances of favour An. Dom. 1646 In the twenty first of March Sir Iacob Astley was beaten at Donnington neer unto Stow in the Wold in the which fight himself was taken prisoner and the kings hopes quite lost Wherefore on the twenty seventh of April he left the City of Oxford in a disguse and on the fourth of May did put himself into the hands of the Scots at Newark who carrid him to Newcastle which occasioned the surrender of Oxford to the Lord Fairfax on the twenty fourth of Iune following On the fifteenth of Iuly prince Rupert went for France and prince Maurice to the Hague In the midst of August or thereabouts the Scots sold the King for the sum of two hundred thousand pounds in ready money the Commissioners sent by the House to receive him did bring him to Holmby On the fourteenth of September the Earl of Essex died An. Dom. 1647 In the moneth of February the Scots abandoned Newcastle and the Parliament voted the Army to disband those onely excepted who were reserved for the subduing of Ireland there began now to be some contestations in the House betwixt the Presbyterian and Independant party and the Parliament began to find that they had not the Army so much at their devotion as they conceived On the fourth of Iune Cornet Ioyce carried away the king from Holmby and brought him to Newmarket on the twenty eighth of Iune he was brought to Hatfield and from thence to Causam where after much importunity his children were permitted to come unto him at whose sight he was very joyful On the seventh of August the Lord Fairfax and his victorious Army did ride in triumph through the City of London a little before this there were eleven of the members of parliament impeached and Major General Massey and Colonel Poyntz abandoning the guarding of the City did fly over into Holland From Casam Lodge the King was removed to Hampton Court where being terrified with the apprehension of some dangers he put himself into the power of Col. Hammond in the Isle of Wight who secured him in Carisbrook Castle during his restraint in this place he wrote that excellent Book intituled Icon Basilicon Propositions were here sent unto him by both Houses of Parliament as had been before at Newcastle and Holmby house to which he returned the same answer as he did then An. Dom. 1648 The Parliament voted on the third of Ianuary that no more addresses should be made unto his Majesty February the twenty first Iudge Lenkins was brought unto the Bar of the House