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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

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.

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 deliveverance 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 LONDON Printed for William Lee at the Turks-Head in Fleetstreet 1662. TO THE READER Courteous Reader This useful Manual which hath been so long desired now offers it self to your hands the English Iliads in a nut-shel being comprized in such an Epitomy and Abridgement yet with so much perspicuity faithfulness and truth as would be allowance enough for a reasonable volumn Even same small and minute actions where like little wires that give motion to the grand Engine they had to the main design are here registred with a most exact Chronology of their time but as to passages of greater moment the actions of the Field Leagures Stratagems storming of Towns and Castles they have roomy place here without that bustle they made in the Kingdoms And that the memory of those Noble and Valiant Persons who fell and who survived this fatal War might be orderly transmitted to posterity we have also inserted them in their several stations of Command Life and Death the irreparable loss of whom fell chiefly on the Royal and justest side Abundance of English blood hath been shed profusely in several Quarrels both at home and abroad before but never such a slaughter as this so that it passeth easie Arithmetick which causeth that the gross of the numbers slain is as much of the multitude as could be recovered But behold the greatest misery of this War the issue of it when it was past was ten times worse then the War it self like the Viper that expires in the production of many The Medusa of War brought forth a Hydra of Peace in a Serpentine Commonwealth and Democratical Anarchy we had lost what was pretended to be fought for as soon as we had done fighting such our fury such our strange fate This obliged the Collector of this Chronicle to proceed in the tracing of those till then untrodden steps of Government through all the changes and variations during the Usurpation wherein you shall finde all the most considerable passages and remarks of State of the War and Treaties abroad with Forreign Princes and Commonwealths particularly set down so conform to the Originals that herein you will have the pleasure to see all over again which with sorrow you so lately underwent with the happy restitution of His Majestic and other passages deduced to this present day Olim haec meminisse juvabit Thine W. Lee. Novemb 18. 1661. A Brief CHRONICLE OF THE Civil Wars OF England Scotland and Ireland From 1640. to the end of the Year 1661. NO higher or greater cause can be assigned for this war setting aside the sins of all Times and Nations to which the Justice of Heaven is seldom long a Debtor but the fate and catastrophe of Kingdoms and Monarchies which do at certain periods of time taste of that vicissitude and mutability to which other sublunary things are more frequently subjected The secondary causes of it are so many and so uncertain so variously reported and beleeved that it would spend the paper allotted to this Epitome in ascertaining them therefore to contain and keep within the limits of this designment something onely stall be said of them that was obvious to every eye not favouring of partiality or affection 〈…〉 Many disorders and irregulari●●es there were in the State no doubt contracted through a long and lazy peace bolstred up with an universal trade which procured a general wealth the patent of wantonness the excess of National riches being but as the burden which the A● carries and mistakes for provender people being onely the better enabled to sustain the future misery with their present plenty These conceived abuses in the menage of the State like ill Humors where they finde an equal resistance or over power of Nature sunck and descended upon the Ecclesiastical regiment too impotent to sustain those general assaults which were given it The first complaint of the people was male-administration and delinquency of some about the King this terrified but a few though it reached the life of that incomparable Statesman the Earl of Strafford some others dreading more the popular fury then their objected crimes withdrawing and absenting themselves from the present storm impending After the Earl of Strafford was beheaded at Tower hill the King being forced to assent to the Bill for his execution all things ●un a main with●unany stop to the ensuing breach and confusion The Axe had but tasted of that blood of which it soon after glutted it self all persons of all rank and conditions King Lords Bishops Knights Gentlemen Ministers Mechanicks suffering under its edge A remarkable thing the paralle● of it being no where in our English Chronicles but so that blood of Straffords was at last expiated 〈◊〉 will be seen in the series of our late unhappy troubles When this fatal business was over then began the cry No Bishops no Bishops who were at last by an Act of Parliament extorted from the King devoyded and barred from sitting and voting in the House of Lords or exercising any remporal Jurisdiction to this the Parliament were the better induced and the more strongly inclined from several complaints made to them which were before famous through the Nation of their haid and barbarous usage of several Ministers and others for the business of non-conformancy Amongst the rest the case of Mr. Pryn Mr. Burton Dr. Bastick were very notorious These men at this time in the beginning of our troubles were brought from their prisons in distant remote parts of England in triumph to London and soon after most of the Bishop committed to the Tower under no less then a charge of High Treason which being not to be evidenced most of them were after some time dismissed upon bail onely the Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of Ely were reserved to their Justice Many honest Patriots there were no doubt of that party which inclined to the clipping and abridging the power of the Hierarchy which they so unhappily mistook the importunities of the people made others otherwise principled to swim with the stream but no sooner this Fit was over but we were ●eised all over with the disease of a Civil War The King had been so affronted with the daily tumults which those for Justice against Straford and No Bishops brought with them had so often moved for the prevention and remedy thereof in vain that having certain intelligence who

of Holland prisoner with some forty more the Duke and the Earl of Peterborough hardly escaping and dispersed the whole party The Scotch Army was advanced now as far as Preston in Lancashire where Lievtenant General Cromwell being joyned with Major General Lambert awaited them At this time also Scarborough declares for the King Sir Matthew Boynton being Governour there August 17. both Armies faced one another and within two hours time the Scots begin to flinch so that the brunt of the fight fell upon the English who sided with them The Scots being ready to fly the Parliament Army doubled their courage and put them to the rout two several wayes The next morning being the 18th of August the Scot made a stand and did some notable execution on the p●r●●●ers but the Army coming up they fled again crying Mercy Mercy so that they might be heard five miles together an end multitudes were killed and more taken prisoners being in number equivalent to the Army that vanquished them Duke Hamilton fled first to Namptwich with three thousand horse there the Country took five hundred of them and thence to Vttoxeter in Staffordshire where he was taken by my Lord Grey of Grooby Monro escaped with part of the Scotch Horse to Berwick and so into Scotland but Middleton was taken by the way thither After it was known which way Hamilton took Cromwell followed after Monro into Scotland and there begun intelligence with some of those Scots in tendency to his a●ter-design and after they had cajoled one another he departed into England having received the thanks of the Committee of Estates for the service he had done their Nation Upon the news of this defeat sent in by General Fairfax to the besieged in Colchester a Councel of War was held what to do it was once agreed to make an eruption out and attempt the whole Army beleaguring them but this through some suspition amongst the Souldiers of being deserted by their Officers in the action was frustrated whereupon it came to a resolve of treating with the Enemy and so it was concluded the besieged having eaten all their horses and the dogs in the Town that the Officers should be left to discretion the souldiers to have their lives and the Town to pay 14000 l. to preserve it from plunder Whereupon the Town being surrendred Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle were shot to death presently and not long after the Lord Capel was beheaded by a sentence of the High Court of Justice In the perplexity of these affairs the Treaty was voted in the Isle of Wight and accordingly effectually prosecuted the King being in a kind of Regality in the said Isle and so far had it proceeded that in November the Parliament voted the Kings Concessions to be sufficient ground for them to proceed on to the settlement of the Kingdome when the Army being now Lords and Masters through their late success came and put a force upon the House of Commons excluding above 140. and by the remnant of their faction in the House unvoted these Votes and the Army next remov'd the King from Wight to Hurst Castle then to Winchester then to Windsor and so to Saint Iames and last to the High Court of Justice where after four times being at that detestable Bar and refusing to own their Jurisdiction they pronounced the Sentence and the order place and time of the execution was referred to Colonel Harrison c. who appoint Tuesday Ian. 30. before Whitehall gates in the open place where accordingly that execrable murder was perpetrated by the hands of a Vizarded Executioner to the amazement of the whole world and to the unexpressible sorrows of this Church and Kingdome The Kings last words on the Scaffold being the sum of the Life Tryal and Death of that most incomparable pious Prince are here fully inserted to serve for all I shall be very little heard of any body else I shall therefore speak a word to you here Indeed I could have held my peace very well if I did not think that holding my peace would make som men think that I did submit to the Guilt as well as to the Punishment But I think it is my duty to God first and then to my Country to clear my self both as an honest man a good King and a good Christian I Shall begin first with my Innocency and in tr●ath I think it not very needful for me to insist long upon this For all the world knows that I did never begin a War with the two Houses of Parliament and I call God to witness unto whom I must shortly make an account that I did never intend to incroach upon their Priviledges They began upon me it is the Militia they began upon They confess the Militia was mine but they thought it fit to have it from me And to be short if any body will look to the dates of Commissions of their Commissions and mine and likewise to the Declaration he will see clearly that they began these unhappy Troubles not I. So as far the guilt of these enormous Crimes that are laid against me I hope that God will clear me out I will not for I am in charity and God forbid that I should lay it upon the two Houses of Parliament there is no necessity of either I hope they are free of this guilt but I believe that ill Instruments between them and me have been the chief cause of all this blood-shed So that as I find my self clear of this I hope and pray God that they may too Yet for all this God forbid that I should be so ill a Christian as not to say that Gods Judgements are just upon me Many times he doth pay Justice by an unjust Sentence that is ordinary I will only say this That unjust Sentence that I suffered to take effect is punished by an unjust Sentence upon me So far I have said to shew you that I am an innocent man Now to shew you that I am a good Christian I hope there is a good man that will bear me witness that I have forgiven all the world and even those in particular that have been the chief causers of my death Who they are God knows I do not desire to know I pray God forgive them But this is not all my charity must go further I wish that they may repent for indeed they have committed a great sin in that particular I pray God with S Stephen that this be not laid to their charge And withall that they may take the right way to the peace of the Kingdome for my charity commands me not only to forgive particular men but to endeavour to the last gasp the peace of the Kingdome So Sirs I do wish with all my soul I see there are some here that will carry it further that they endeavour the peace of the Kingdome Sirs I must shew you both how you are out of the way and put