their turn without Religion and such specious pretences were pleaded to the subversion of the Government therefore the Service-Book opportunely offering it self though in 1616. at Aberdeen a piece very like it had passed by the General Assembly onely altered in some places lest in totidem verbis some factious spirits might have misconstrued it as a badge of dependance of that Church upon England to the prejudice of the Laws and Liberties and by their own Bishops afterwards and revised by the King who observed many of that Nation reverently here to use it and also that it had been read in the Koyal Chappel in Scotland as aforesaid being enjoyned to be read on Easter-day 1637. in Edinburgh but deferred for some reasons though no opposition appeared then till the twenty third of Iuly on that day such a Tumult and Riot happened the heads of the vulgar being secretly prepossest as deep waters run smoothest till they come to some breach as for everlasting notice and memorial of so paltry an introduction to the grandest and miraculous change and subversions which followed it is here briefly though satisfactorily transcribed ON the Twenty third of July being Sunday according to publique warning given the Sunday before the Service-Book was begun to be read in Edinburgh in St. Giles Church called the Great Church where were present as usual many of the Privy Council both the Archbishops and other Bishops the Iustices and the Magistrates of Edinburgh No sooner was the Book opened by the Dean of Edinburgh but a number of the vulgar most of them women with clapping of their bands cursing and outcries raised such a barbarous hubbub in the place that none could bear or be heard The Bishop of Edinburg who was to Preach stept into the Pulpit which is immediately above the place where the Dean was to read intending to appease the Tumult by putting them in minde of the sacredness of the place and of the horrible prophanation thereof But then the rabble grew so enraged and mad that if a stool aimed to be thrown at him had not been providentially diverted by the hand of one present the life of that Prelate had been endangered if not lost The Archbishop of St. Andrews the Lord Chancellor with divers others offering to appease the multitude were entertained with such bitter curses and imprecations that not being able to prevail with the people the Provost Bailiffs and divers others of the Council of the City were forced to come down from the Gallery on which they usually sit and with much ado in a very great Tumult and confusion thrust out these disorderly people making fast the Church-doors After all which the Dean proceeded to read Service which was devoutly performed being assisted by the Lords and the Bishops then present Yet the clamor rapping at Church-doors and throwing of stones in at the Church-windows by the rabble without was so great that the Magistrates were constrained to go out and use their endeavours for to appease the multitude After a little pause and cessation the Bishop of Edinburgh Preached and after Sermon done in his going from Church was so invironed with a multitude of the meaner sort of people cursing and crowding him that he was near being trod to death if he had not recovered the stayrs of his Lodging where he was again assaulted and was like to have been pulled backwards if the Earl of Weems from his next Lodging seeing the Bishops life in danger had not sent his servants to rescue him who got the Bishop almost breathless into his Chamber In other Churches the Minister was forced to give over reading And so that Morning passed Between the two Sermons consultation was held how to suppress those out-rages and ' was so ordered that the Service was quietly read in St. Giles other Churches in the afternoon But yet the rabble intermitted nothing of their madness for staying in the streets at the comming home of the Earl of Roxborough the Lord Privy Seal with the aforesaid Bishop in his Coach they so fiercely assaulted him with stones that he had like to have suffered the death of the Martyr St. Stephen so that if his footmen had not kept the multitude off with their drawn Swords their lives had been very much indangered Thus the Reformation began there with such terrible profanations of the Lords day and of the Lords House an ill omen what in future would be the conclusion and this done by the same many-headed Monster that in like manner began the troubles in England nor ever was the Union more perfect and streight then in such mischiefs To prevent and redress these ills the Privy Councel set forth a Proclamation thereby discharging all concourses of people and tumultuous meetings in Edinburgh under pain of death at which time the Magistrates of the said City before the Council-Table professed their detestation thereof and profered their utmost power in the discovery of the principals in that uproar though they afterwards shamefully failed in their promise and appeared among the chief of the Covenanters even while they were glozing with the King and the Archbishop of Canterbury in England by letters full of duty and affection to his Majesty and his Churches service All businesses of note for a time seemed to be hushed and calmed by reason of the long Vacation which in that Kingdom beginneth always on Lammas-day and the Harvest which drew all sorts of people from Edinburgh except the Citizens so that all was quiet till the ensuing October and then the conflux of all sorts soon enlivened the tumults again the Ministers who undertook the reading of the second Service-book publiquely relenting their forwardness and recanting and reneging it and to that purpose presented a Petition desiring it might not be imposed on them this being backt with such an Universal rendezvous of all sorts gave the Council the fear of an Insurrection for prevention whereof a Proclamation again was published which under pain or Rebellion commanded all persons except they should show cause of their further stay about their particular affairs to depart the City and return to their Houses Seconded also with another whereby his Majesties Council and Session which is the Term were declared to be removed from Edinburgh to Dundee and a third for seizing and discovering of a certain seditious Book against the English Ceremonies which second book was ordered to be publiquely burnt upon the seizure These Proclamations were next day overtaken with another Insurrection For on the 19 of October 1667. the Bishop of Galloway and Sir William Elphinston Lord chief Justice of that Kingdom being appointed by the Lords of the Council to examine witnesses in a Cause depending before them passing through the streets to the Council-House were suddenly encountred and surrounded with an enraged multitude the Bishop hardly by the means of one of the parties in that Suit getting safe to the Council where through the like irreverence
must be called in England and Ireland and that in the mean time for the speedy raising of money the Nobility Gentry and Clergy should subscribe what sums of money they would advance to this service for the present occasion till the King could be otherwise helped by Subsidies To this purpose the Earl of Strafford first subscribed twenty thousand pounds the like did the Duke of Richmond and the Nobility according to the several values of their Estates The Clergy granted four shillings in the pound in their Convocation which presently followed to be paid for six years together only the City of London were refractory and could not be induced to lend one farthing to the carrying on of that War By these Loans however of the Kings Loyally affected Subjects he was again in a formidable posture and the Earl of Strafford besides his own personal disbursments had procured four Subsidies to maintain ten thousand foot and fifteen hundred Horse from the Parliament of Ireland he had newly called for which he was honourably brought into the House of Peers in the Parliament of England whither by his Majesties call from his Lieutenantship of Ireland he was then arrived to assist the King with his prudent Counsels Sir Thomas Coventry Lord Keeper of the Great Seal dieth the tenth of Ianuary after he had for fifteen years behaved himself in that place like a wise and honest man Sir Iohn Finch Chief Justice of the Common Pleas succeeds him of whom more anon Anno. Dom. 1640. THe 13th of April this year being the 16th of the Kings Reign a Parliament was summoned at Westminster at the opening whereof the King acquainted them with the affronts and indignities he had received from his Scotch Subjects whom he spared not to call Rebels which was somewhat resented by the Members of the House of Commons who out of dislike of Episcopacie here did not much favour that War against them which by a nick-name was then called Bellum Episcopale Therefore upon the Kings desires to them for a supply of money by which he might be enabled to reduce the Scots they presently started their old grievances which caused a debate whether the King or the Subjects should be relieved first for so they made the Scotch War the Kings personal and distinct business This alteration and the apparent unwillingness of the House of Commons to advance any mony except their previous desires viz. of clearing the properties of the Subject and the establishing of the true Religion and Priviledges of Parliament were confirmed and granted by the King reduced his Majesty to a present necessity and dilemma either of complying with the Scots or to take mony as he could raise it by his own credit and Authority to subdue them for there was no hopes in the Parliaments delays And this was the true Reason of the dissolving that Parliament which happened May the 5th to the great grief of all good people who were sensible of the Kings difficulties and the approaching evils The Convocation of the Clergy sate at the same time and were continued beyond the Parliaments dissolution though contrary to practice and custom where as before is said they contributed and confirmed the Grant of the fifth part of their Ecclesiastical Livings for six years towards the carrying on of the War against the Scots I may not omit the concession of the King in this affair to the Parliament wherein he offered upon the granting of him some Subsidies to remit and acquit his claim of Ship-mony and other advantages of his Prerogative At this Convocation some new Canons were made with Salvoes and dispensations for some which had been strictly heretofore enjoyned but especially and mainly for Episcopacie and the Doctrine of the Church of England in opposition to Popery was hereby established by the Oath of c. As likewise in opposition to the Scotch Covenant This Convocation ended May 29. none dissenting but Dr. Goodman Bishop of Glocester who since died a Roman Catholique and owned that faith As a testimony of the sincerity of the Arch-bishop of Canterbury in the Protestant Religion I shall here insert therefore a passage relating to these Canons Upon the Bishop of Glocester's refusal thereof the Arch-Bishop would have proceeded to the Censures of the Church immediately and therefore gave him according to the Canons three admonitions one upon the neck of another that he should forthwith subscribe and if he had not been whispered that so weighty a matter required deliberation and distance of time he would there have suspended him from his Dignities and Office This Noble Prelate for these and the like vigorous actings both in Church and State fell into the obloquy of the male contents the Chief of whom were the Nonconformists then called Puritans who abounded in London the most whereof upon a distaste taken from the censure of Mr. Pryn Dr. Bastwick and Mr. Burton did mightily maligne him so that on the ninth of May a Paper was posted upon the Exchange animating Apprentices to rise and sack his house at Lambeth next Monday which they were the more forward to do because it was rumoured that he was the first instigator of the King to dissolve the last Parliament But he had intelligence of their designes and provided to receive them According to their appointed time in the dead of the night they came to the number of five hundred and beset his house and endeavoured to enter but were quickly beaten off and glad to retreat having in some measure vented their anger against him in railing and scandalous language such as the streets were full of before in scattered Libels and breaking his glass-windows The day following many of them upon enquiry were apprehended and imprisoned but three days after forcibly rescued from thence by their Companions who broke open the Prison-doors for which one Bensted a Sea-man was apprehended and hanged afterwards in St. Georges-fields and his head and quarters set upon the several Gates of the City The Scotch Parliament now sat again and were more violent in their proceedings than before for having notice of the discontents in England they presently advanced with their Army thitherwards about the same time that the Queen was delivered of a Son Henry Duke of Glocester of whose decease we shall speak in its place The King to be in a readiness to receive them had also appointed an Army of which he made the Earl of Northumberland General and the Earl of Strafford Lieutenant-General but the Earl of Northumberland falling sick he himself sent away part of the Army under the Command of the Lord Conway and advanced out of London with the remainder and came in person to Northallerton During his March the Lord Conway had but ill success He had drawn about 1200 Horse and 3000 Foot to secure the Passes upon Tine near Newborn So far was the Scotch Army advanced under the Command
departed a contented King from a contented people The Parliament at Westminster had scarce yet sat in a full House from their Adjournment curiously prying into the Errors and male-Administration of the Government here but the fearful news came of a horrid Rebellion broke forth in Ireland It seems no sooner that careful diligent eye of the Earl of Strafford was first distorted by the Scotch affairs and after put out and extinguished by the English envy but the Irish resumed their wonted desires after liberty which they never yet attempted upon a less foundation than a total Massacre and utter extirpation of the English in that Kingdom so that in effect however the Parliament threw the odium of that Rebellion there upon the King Questionless it can be no where imputable ab extra from without but from their unwarrantable proceeding against the said Earl whose name and presence alone would have been sufficient to have prevented it or his wisdom and power able to have suppressed it This affrighting news when the Kingdom was already in a trepidation labouring with its own fears and pretended dangers soon brought the King from Scotland with all possible haste to London where notwithstanding those troubles he was most welcomly and as magnificently entertained the Citizens on Horseback with Gold-chains and in their several Liveries in Rayles placed along the streets chearfully receiving him the sober part of the Nation not valuing the Irish troubles if the King and his Parliament should but happily agree if the breaches could be but closed here there was no doubt of stanching the wound there But it was otherwise meant by the faction who added that conflagration as fuel to this suggesting to the multitude that what was acted against the Protestants there was likewise intended to be put in Execution here the Authors of one being also so of the other sinisterly traducing the King as inclining to Popery which they point-blank charged upon the Archbishop of Canterbury which imputation diffused it self afterwards upon the whole Order This torrent of the multitude was swelled so high even at this reception of the King that one Walker an Iron-monger as his Majesty passed from Guild-Hall where he was most sumptuously feasted at the City-charge Sir Richard Gurney being then Mayor threw into his Coach a scandalous Libel Intituled To your Tents O Israel which indignity the King complained of and thereupon Walker was put in Prison yet afterwards he Libelled a great deal worse both in Press and Pulpit But since the settlement of the Church he procured a lawful Ordination I mention this man as the shame of that zealotry which so furiously commenced this unnatural War The first business transacted with the King by the two Houses was an account of the Irish Rebellion the King having acquainted them in a short Speech of his composure of the Scotch troubles and soon after conjuring them to joyn with him in the speedy suppressing of the Irish whose dangers grew every day greater Iobs Messengers perpetually bringing over worser and worser news from that Kingdom where most of the Nobility were confederated in that horrid revolt having made Sir Phelim Oneal the chief of the family of Tyrone the late famous Rebel there in the latter part of the Raign of Queen Elizabeth and bred in Lincolns-Inn and then a Protestant but turned a bloody Papist though a most sneaking and silly Coward the supreme Commander of their Forces which then were raised in great numbers throughout all the Provinces Deep waters run stillest and with the least noise so was it with this Plot. It was very strange that a designe of such vastness of so great mischief and horrour should be concealed among a multitude that were concerned in it But this devilish secrecy was imputable onely to the ancient irreconciliable malice of the Irish against the English whose yoke sundry times they had attempted to shake off not for any oppression they were under but out of a natural desire of being Lords and Masters of their own liberty But nevertheless it pleased God that it came in the very nick of the execution of their Plot to be revealed by one of that Nation or otherwise that Kingdom had been in danger to be lost as Sicily was from the French by a sudden massacre The chief Instrument in carrying on this horrible Plot was one Roger Moor descended of an ancient Irish family but allyed to most of the Gentlemen of the English Pale He made several journeys into all the four Provinces of this Kingdom communicating his intelligences from forrain Popish Courts and the transactions of their Priests and Fryars there to the encouragement of this Revolt Another of the greatest confidents and complices in this designe was the Lord Viscount Gormanston of the English Pale which generally sided with the Rebels as being inoculated into Irish stocks and were Papists generally though against all opinion of the Council for that they had been such enemies to the Earl of Tyrone in his grand Rebellion But the menacing speeches and denunciations of the English Parliament against Papists in both Kingdoms especially in this where they threatned a total extirpation cannot be denyed to be one if not the principal cause why they made this defection from their Country and Allegiance The 23 of October was the day pitcht upon for the general rising and the Lord Macguire Col. Mac Mahon Col. Plunket and Capt. Fox Hugh Birn and Roger Moor were appointed for the seizure of Dublin-Castle which would at once have done their work those persons with a competent number of men to their assistance came one day before to Town and had conference together at the Lyon-Tavern near Copper-Ally where one Owen O Conally an Irish Gentleman but a retainer to Sir Iohn Clotworthy was admitted and by Mac Mahon informed of the conspiracy After a large drinking to their next mornings success O Conally privily repaired to the Lord Justice Parsons to whom and Sir Iohn Borlace the other Justice the Government was committed after my Lord Straffords death The Lord Dillon was likewise named and constituted but to avoid the jealousie and grudgings thereat the King had disauthorized him and very disturbedly and confusedly by reason of the drink and his horrour at the story revealed the chiefest part of it It was thereupon advised by the said Lord Justice for a fuller and certainer account to send him back again to the said Mac Mahon commanding him to return that night again to him which he did from the said Tavern and company who would have kept him there all night by pretending to ease himself and thence leaping over a wall and a set of pales into the streets In the mean time the Lord Justice Parsons went to the Lord Borlaces house and there assembled a Council by the coming of Sir Thomas Rotheram and Sir Robert Meredith who resolved first to attend the return of O Conally who in his
having been a traveller and no doubt Jesuitically affected as he made more visibly manifest in the practise of their Doctrine of Regicide ‑ William Cawley a Brewer of Chichester and returned for a recruit of the Long-Parliament could not for Trade-sake but concur with his Brethren Oliver Cromwel and Thomas Scot. ‑ Nicholas Love Doctor Love's Son of Winchester Chamber-fellow with the Speaker Lenthall made one of the six Clerks of Chancery in Master Penrudducks place a violent Enemy against the King and his Friends from the very beginning of our Troubles and an Army-partaker in this horrible Act. ‑ Iohn Dixwell a recruit of the Long-Parliament for Dover Colonel and Governour of Dover-Castle one so far obliged to them for their promotion of him that he could do no less for them than assist them in this grand Conspiracy against the King ‑ Daniel Blagrave a recruit also for Reading in Bark-shire of a small but competent Fortune there to have kept him guiltless of this great offence ‑ Daniel Broughton a Clerk bred up among Committees in the War and preferred therefore at last to be chief Scribe to this Pharisaical murderous crue of the High Court of Justice ‑ Edward Dendy Serjeant at Arms to the said Court who had outed his Father from the employment of the Mace before no wonder such a Rebel to his Father should prove a parricide to his Prince These following being of the Kings Iudges but recanting were pardoned or otherwise mulcted and punished Col. Iohn Hutchison who both Sentenced and Signed to his Majesties Execution by a timely repentance which he publikely testified by tears obtained his pardon being onely discharged the House of Commons and all future Trusts and fined a years profit of his Estate to the King Col. Francis Lassels a York-shire man who sate once but neither Sentenced nor Signed was mulcted accordingly as Colonel Hutchison having alike given proof his sorrow and detestation of that monstrous Fact William Lord Munson Iames Challoner Esq. deceased in the Tower Sir Hen. Mildmay Robert Wallop Esq. Sir Iames Harrington and Iohn Phelps another of the Clerks for sitting in the said pretended High Court of Iustice were by Act of Parliament deprived of their Estates and ordered to be drawn to Tiburn in Sledges with Ropes about their Necks as Traytors are used and so back again to the Tower there to be imprisoned during their natural Lives This is the perfect Catalogue and Character of these unfortunate men who in obedience to the said pretended Act or rather out of dread of Cromwel and his Red-coats though some others named in the said Act wisely withdrew themselves met according to appointment in Westminster-hall having adjourned thither from the Painted-Chamber where they had chosen Serjeant Bradshaw for their Bold President and had made Proclamation at the Palace-gate and in London for the Witnesses whom they had raked out of the refuse and most perdite sort of the People to be ready there with their evidence which Witnesses were numbered to near 40. So much for the preparation come we now to the perpetration The High Court of Iustice. On Saturday being the twentieth day of Ianuary 1648. Bradshaw President of the High Court of Iustice with about seventy of the Members of the said Court having Colonel Fox and sixteen Fellows with Partizans and a Sword born by Colonel Humphrey and a Mace by Serjeant Dendy with their and other Officers of the said Court marching before them came to the place ordered to be prepared for their sitting at the West-end of the great Hall in Westminster where the President in a Crimson-Velvet Chair fixed in the midst of the Court placed himself having a Desk with a Crimson-Velvet Cushion before him The rest of the Members placing themselves on each side of him upon the several seats or benches prepared and hung with Scarlet for that purpose and the Partizans dividing themselves on each side of the Court before them The Court being thus set and Silence made the Great Gate of the said Hall was set open to the end that all persons without exception desirous to see or hear might come into it upon which the Hall was presently filled and Silence again ordered This done Colonel Thomlinson who had the charge of the King as a Prisoner was commanded to bring him to the Court who within a quarter of an hours space brought him attended with about twenty Officers with Partizans marching before him there being Colonel Hacker and other Guard-men to whose care and custody he was then committed marching in his Rear Being thus brought up within the face of the Court the Serjeant at Arms with his Mace received and conducted him streight to the Bar where a Crimson-Velvet Chair was set for the King After a stern looking upon the Court and the people in the Galleries on each side of him he placed himself not at all moving his Hat or otherwise shewing the least respect to the Court but presently rose up again and turned about looking downwards upon the Guards placed on the left side and on the multitude of Spectators on the right side of the said great Hall After Silence made among the people the Act of Parliament for the Trying of Charles Stuart King of England was read over by the Clerk of the Court who sate on one side of the Table covered with a rich Turkey-carpet and placed at the feet of the said President upon which Table was also laid the Sword and Mace After reading the said Act the several names of the Commissioners were called over every one who was present rising up and answering to his call The King having again placed himself in his Chair with his face towards the Court Silence being again ordered the President stood up and said President Charles Stuart King of England The Commons of England Assembled in Parliament being deeply sensible of the Calamities that have been brought upon this Nation which is fixed upon you as the principal Author of it have resolved to make inquisition for Blood and according to that debt and duty they owe to Iustice to God the Kingdom and themselves and according to the Fundamental Power that rests in themselves They have resolved to bring you to Tryal and Iudgement and for that purpose have constituted this High Court of Justice before which you are brought This said Cook Sollicitor-General of the Commonwealth standing within a Bar on the right hand of the King offered to speak but the King having a staff in his hand held it up and laid it upon the said Cooks shoulder two or three times bidding him hold Nevertheless the President ordering him to go on he said Cook My Lord I am commanded to charge Charles Stuart King of England in the name of the Commons of England with Treason and high Misdemeanors I desire the said Charge may be read The said Charge
and most considerable Towns of the Kingdom still untaken any of which if they be well Garrisoned as questionless now they are will be neer a Summers work to reduce The Forts of Duncannon and Sligo the Castles of Caterlo Athlone Charlemont and Neanagh are not easie purchases the Province of Connaght is still preserved entire by the Lord Clanrickard who will be able to bring 4000 men of his own into the field now that Galloway and his Country is somewhat cleared from the infection of the Plague which begins to rage greatly in the Enemies quarters as Corke Youghall Wexford and Dublin it self Kilkenny Clonmel with several places thereabouts being left desolate with it The County of Clare in Munster brought unto the Lord-Lieutenant at a Rendezvouze at the same time above 2000 men wherewith his Excellency being invited by the Magistrates was ready to march into Limerick to Garrison that place and to make it his residence What Forces the Irish had in Vlster and towards Kerry I have already told you as likewise what Connaght and the County of Clare afforded I must adde that Hugh Mac Phelim had in Wiâ—klow and towards Wexford hard upon 2000 men and at Waterford General Preston and Hugh O Neal had little less to conclude besides all this the Lord Castlehaven the Lord Dillon and the Bishop of Drummore made account they should draw together a considerable Body in Meath and the rest of Leimster to joyn with the Marquess of Clanrickard towards the relief of Tecroghan then besieged by Colonel Reynolds Thus you may see that provided they be united amongst themselves and that means can be found of keeping them in bodies together there are men enough in Arms yet to dispute the business with an Enemy that is not half their number and whose quarters are pestered likewise with the Plague and Famine as well as theirs especially these having such strengths and fastnesses still in their hands as are almost inaccessible to Cromwels Souldiers Who after having mastered the greatest part of Munster and Leimster their supplies from England coming in but slowly have made bold at last with the people they flattered with before and altered their manner of proceedings taking from them by force what they pleased and violating their protections given making not nice to tell them they suffered them to possess their Estates but during pleasure and till they could have Planters to put into their rooms by which kind of clear dealing they have so lost and made desperate the Natives that lamenting their former too ready compliance with the Enemy they now called for the Lord-Lieutenant again and taking Arms in their hand began to rise in all quarters of the Kingdom so that it is impossible for a greater power than Ireton hath there to attend to the suppression of them all This is the perfect account of the Irish affairs whereby the first Trophees of the English Commonwealth raised themselves to greater Atchievements by a chain of successes but Winter growing on their Army was put into Winter-quarters Cromwel himself to that purpose taking up Youghall lately with Corke wherein were the Lord Inchiqueens Lady and Family revolted by the treachery of the Colonels Gilford Warren and Townsend Colonel Wogan newly defeated in his attempt in Passage-Fort and then taken prisoner by Colonel Zanchy whereupon Prince Rupert with the Constant Reformation the Convertine wherein was Prince Maurice the Swallow where was Sir Iohn Mien and some other Sips set sail from Kingsale where he had continued Blockt up most part of the last Summer by Admiral Popham and betook themselves to the Narrow Seas now that the Parliament had most of that Coast in their possession and sailed for France In the mean while Captain Young had fired the Antilope one of the Kings ships at Helvoet-sluce in Holland and the Guinny-Frigot was mastered and taken neer Scilly the Rendezvouze and Harbour of his Majesties Fleet that did very much hinder and obstruct the Trade at Sea wherein his Majesties Rebels were now principally concerned of which we shall have yet further occasion to speak in the ensuing year The Parliament had in Iune filled up the Benches at Westminster Aske from Clerk of the Crown one of their Beagles at the High Court of Iustice was made one of the Justices of the Vpper so was the Kings Bench newly called and Broughton a Clerk to the same Court had his former Office Puliston and Warberton in the Common-pleas to whom in the place of Judge Phesant Serjeant Atkins was added Colonel Rigby and Thorpe were made Barons of the Exchequer by the last of whom Colonel Morris the late noble Governour of Pomfret and Cornet Blackborne were Condemned and Executed at York on the 18 day of August at which Sessions Thorpe likewise in his Charge to the Grand-Jury magnified the late Actions of the Parliament and justified their Authority and endeavoured to shew its consonancy to the Laws which fine Oration is yet extant in Print About this time after much debate by these Judges and at the instance of the Army the Parliament passed the Act commonly called the Five Pound Act whereby Debtors in Prison upon their Oath that they were not worth five pound were discharged by Vertue whereof most of the Goals in England were emptied and room made for Cavaliers and Royalists of which party Sir Robert Heath the Noble and most Loyal Lord chief-Chief-Justice of England being an excepted person by the Parliament died at Caen in Normandy about the end of August and Sir Kenelm Digby and Master Walter Mountague were ordered to depart the Kingdom as not being within any of the qualifications for Delinquents Composition Thus stood things at home in a Commanding and Authoritative posture we will see next how they fadge abroad and first the Scot their next Neighbours having an Army moving up and down in the North of that Kingdom to suppress the Montrossian Party which appeared in the Isles of Orkney the Marquess then bestirring himself in the Court of the Duke of Holstein for supplies and ready to Embarque having sent a forerunning Declaration wherein he recited the greatness of those condescentions to and that confidence his late Majesty had of them when he put himself into their Hands at Newark both which some wicked persons of that Nation had Trayterously abused even to the Murther of that blessed Prince and thereafter would impose Conditions and Limitations to their present Soveraign and desired all good and honest Subjects who had been misled to appear with him to the vindication of those injuries as well as reproach of the Scotch Nation c. and other Forces quartering about Edenborough had Decreed that no Provision whatsoever should he carried into England and shewed an absolute averseness to any further Treaty or Correspondence with the English but had dispatcht away the Laird of Windram one Master Libberton to the King who after his arrival at Zeland sailed to the King at
almost run from their Wits in rage and madness Cromwel was Appointed and Declared for Protector of this Infant-Commonwealth and it was a tedious interval to him the Chancery-Court at Westminster-hall being prepared for the Ceremony of the Instalment in this manner after the usual seeking of God by the Officers of the Army The Protector about one of the clock in the afternoon came from White hall to Westminster to the Chancery-Court attended by the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal of England Barons of the Exchâ—quer and Judges in their Robes after them the Council of the Commonwealth and the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Recorder of the City of London in their Scarlet Gowns then came the Protector attended with many of the chief Officers of the Army A Chair of State being set in the said Court of Chancery the Protector stood on the left hand thereof uncovered till a large Writing in Parchment in the manner of an Oath was read there being the power with which the Protector was Invested and how the Protector is to Govern the three Nations which the Protector accepted of and subscribed in the face of the Court and immediately hereupon sate down covered in the Chair The Lords Commissioners then delivered up the Great Seal of England to the Protector and the Lord Mayor his Sword and Cap of Maintenance all which the Protector returned immediately to them again The Court then rose and the Protector was attended back as aforesaid to the Banqueting-house in White-hall the Lord Mayor himself uncovered carrying the Sword before the Protector all the way and coming into the Banqueting-house an Exhortation was made by Mr. Lockyer after which the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Judges departed The Instrument or Module framed to be the Foundation of this present Government was chiefly made up of these following Heads 1. The Protector should call a Parliament every three years 2. That the first should Assemble on the third of September 1654. 3. That he would not Dissolve the Parliament till it had sat five Months 4. That such Bills as they offered to him he not Passing them in twenty days should Pass without him 5. That he should have a select Council not exceeding one and twenty nor under thirteen 6. That immediately after his Death the Council should chuse another Protector before they rose 7. That no Protector after him should be General of the Army 8. That the Protector should have power to make Peace or War 9. That in the Intervals of Parliament he and his Council might make Laws that should be binding to the Subjects c. With some other popular Lurdes and common incidencies of Government not worth the recital which were confirmed and strenuously validated by this his Oath I Promise in the presence of God not to violate or infringe the matters and things contained in the Instrument but to observe and cause the same to be observed and in all things to the best of my understanding govern the Nations according to the Laws Statutes and Customs to seek their Peace and cause Justice and Law to be equally administred The Feat needed no more security as good altogether as its Authority in this foâ—lowing Proclamation which was published throughout England Scotland and Ireland in these words Whereas the late Parliament Dissolved themselves and resigning their Powers Authorities the Government of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland in a Lord Protector and successive Triennial Parliaments is now established And whereas Oliver Cromwel Captain-General of all the Forces of this Common-wealth is declared Lord Protector of the said Nations and hath accepted thereof We have therefore thought it necessary as we hereby do to make publication of the Premises and strictly to charge and command all and every person or persons of what quality and condition soever in any of the said three Nations to take notice hereof and to conform and submit themselves to the Government so established And all Sheriffs Mayors Bayliffs c. are required to publish this Proclamation to the end none may have cause to pretend Ignorance in this behalf Great shooting off Guns at night and Vollies of acclamations were given at the close of this mock-solemnity by Cromwel's Janizaries while the Royalists were more joyfully disposed at the hopes of the King's Affairs but no body of any account giving the Usurper a good word or miskiditchee with his Greatness save what was uttered in Fur by the Lord Mayor and the Complices in this Fact who tickled his Ears with the Eccho of the Proclamation done with the usual Formalities These Triumphs so disgusted Harrison as also Colonel Rich that he withdrew himself from the Gang and turned publick Preacher or Railer against his Comrade Oliver who was glad to be rid of such a busie and impertinent Assistant in the moduling of Government So Cromwel had now two Commonwealth contra-divided Factions against him the old and the new Parliaments and therefore it neerly concerned him to make much of the Anabaptist and Sectary which now succeeded Independency as the Religion maintained and favoured above all other and Kiffin a great Leader and Teacher was now in great request at the Court at White-hall and contrarily Sir Henry Vane jun. was looked on a-skue as also Sir Ar. Hazilrig and Bradshaw and Scot. And so the Babel-builders were confounded one amongst another The Council appointed by Officers or taken rather by himself by whose advice he was to govern were 14 at first Lord Lambert Lord Viscount Lisle General Desbrow Sir Gilbert Pickering Major-General Skippon Sir Anthony Ashly-Cooper Walter Strickland Esquire Sir Charles Wolsley Colonel Philip Iones Francis Rous Esquire Richard Major Esquire Iohn Lawrence Esquire Colonel Edward Montague Colonel William Sydenham By these another Proclamation came out enabling all Officers Sheriffs and Justices of the Peace to continue in their respective places and Audience and Conference was given to the Dutch Embassadors who besides their last loss by Fight had suffered very greatly by the same storm that endangered our Fleet as De Wit was returning from the Sound which made them ply hard for a Cessation in order to a speedy Peace And General Monke was now riding at St. Hellens-point by the Isle of Wight with a considerable Fleet Colonel Lilburn was likewise ordered to Command in chief the Forces of Scotland who had defeated the Earl of Kinoule and his party and Sir Arthur Forbes another Chieftain of the Royal party was routed neer Dumfrieze and himself desperately wounded while the main Army Quartered in Murrey-land and thence to Elgin Colonel Morgan being sent to attend their motion The Noble Wogan who from France had by the way of Durham and Barwick and through a Fayr in open day marched into Scotland and had joyned with those Scotch Royalists and done excellent service in beating up of Quarters and attempting them in all their marches and advances came now at
prove it He defended himself by allegation that that which was said by him was but in jest and discourse and that the Action was altogether impossible he being but a single person Dr. Hewit would not acknowledge the Court but pleaded several Cases against it and was taken or surprized for a Mute Had he pleaded it is thought he might have escaped for Mallory the main Witness against him was fled for the present Next Mr. Iohn Mordant was set to the Bar who argued his Case so warily and pliantly after a Demurrer to the Court taking Notes of the Witnesses Evidence that he alone of the three was quitted but by one Voice Colonel Pride his undoubted Fate troubled with the Stone and being long at Urine withdrawing himself on that occasion while in the mean time the Court by one suffrage agreed upon his acquittal so that he may well be said Evasisse Calculis it being the custom of the Court to give Sentence by plurality of Voices Mr. Mallory being retaken together with Sir Humphry Bennet and Mr. Woodcock were charged next with the said Designes Mallory pleaded Guilty and was respited and saved Sir Humphry Bennet's Cause was not then determined Mr. Woodcock so handsomely and bravely defended himself that they could not fasten the Charge In the mean while on the 8 of Iune Sir Henry Slingsbury and Dr. Hewit were beheaded on Tower-hill Sir Henry suffering very readily and with submission the Doctor most devoutly and courageously with prayers for the King The Tyrant not satisfied with this brought in more viz. Mr. Carent in whose Ware-house Arms were found and Iohn Summers Edward Stacy Iohn Bettely Edward Ashton Oliver Allen and Fryar to the same Bar where they were all but Mr. Carent Condemned who escaped by the noble refusal of one Mr. Pits of the same party whose Examination they relyed upon to give Evidence against his Friends and chose rather to suffer Imprisonment and a Fine of 500 l. to be laid on him than to be branded with the note of Treachery how fairly soever to be excused Three of the other viz. Ashton as before and at the time of his seizure a Prisoner to Newgate and Iohn Bettely were Executed at Tower-street and Cheap-side by Hanging and Quartering both protesting their Innocency Bettely after he had hung almost a quarter of an hour pulled off his Cap with his Hands Stacy two days after was Hanged against the Exchange in Cornhil None of them but were worthy of far better ends which made the Tyrant most Execrably Odious The old Earl of Warwick presently after the Espousals of his Grand-son young Mr. Rich with Frances the youngest Daughter of the Protector died April 18. to whom his late honorary services and dishonourable Relations to this Protector were none of the least unhappinesses At the end of May the Lord Faulconbridge the other son for Fleetwood nor Claypole had either Manners or Worth to be employed in the Complement was sent away with a great Train to Salute and Gratulate the French King now at Calis upon the opening of the Campania and was received very splendidly in the mean while that his Uncle Sir Henry Slingsby was adjudged to Death and though he returned on the fifth of Iune three days before Execution and did what he could to save him yet all proved in vain for since Mr. Mordant and Mr. Woodcock had escaped there was no room for his life Soon after Monsieur Mancini Mazarine's Nephew and the Duke of Crequi came hither with the return of the Complement and were entertained highly at Brook-house and at Hampton-court with Feasting and Hunting and presently returned and that I may have done with this wretched Family of Cromwel the Lady Claypole died at Hampton-court August 6 of a disease in her Inwards and being taken Frantick with the stopping of her Terms raved much against the bloody cruelties of her Father and about the death of Dr. Hewit for whom to give her her due 't is said she interceded She was brought by Water to the Painted-chamber and in State buried in Hen. 7th's Chappel her Aunt Wilkins being Mourner c. The Earl of Mulgrave died coming up to London August 21. and though misplaced I must remember the great Whale 60 foot long that 〈◊〉 up as far as Greenwich Iune the 2 to the wonder of all people and the dangeâ—ous pastime and sport of such who hunted him with Guns and other Weapons thousands of people went down to see it upon the Sand. Sir Thomas Widdrington was made Lord Chief-Baron and the High Court of Iustice Adjourned till November And so we pass to the Flandrian-Coast to take an entire view of the joynt Forces and actions in those parts against the Spaniard and our Soveraign then concerned in that War A formidable Siâ—ge was framed before Dunkirk by the joynt Forces of English and French wâ—â—ch hotly Alarm'd the Spaniards in all their quarters hereupon Don Iohn of Austria takes these two things into serious consideration first the Importance of the place â—or its Situation it was a Key to Flanders a Frontier to France next after Graveling and a certain supply of Moneys by continual Booties brought in thither by his Men of War On the other side should he lâ—se Dunkirk the English in whose possession it would be put had a Door opened and fit opportunity to bid fair for all Flanders Here might an Army be landed from England and from hence incursions made into the heart of the Country In the mean time the Spanish Ports Newport and Ostend could expect no less than to be perpetually infested by Men of War which would utterly spoil their Trade and ruine the Inhabitants These and such-like considerations mounted Don Iohn upon fixt resolutions to undertake the Relief of Dunkirk though it were to the hazard of his whole Army In the mean while the Confederate Forces Beleaguering this strong place did in a small time working like Moles run their Trenches to the Spanish Counterscarp and still encroaching upon the Wall they promised fair to a speedy accomplishment of their Designe These things were well known to the Spanish Army who now saw the Relief of Dunkirk would admit of no delay for were it not speedily accomplished the Town of necessity must lie prostrate to the Enemies mercy The better to effect which therefore Don Iohn the Spanish General having drained his Garrisons to fill up his Army suddenly advanced with 15000 men to the relief of his distressed Friends these by a swift march through Fuernes quickly seated themselves upon some sandy Hills within an English mile and a half of Turenne the French General 's Camp The report of the Enemies neer advance made both the French and English Officers consult upon the best course that could be taken to repel the Force that now sate upon their Skirts and endeavoured to frustrate their labours in the present Siege if no worse success Time for
Loyalty the Bonfires continuing till day-break fed by a constant supply of Wood and maintained with an equal excess of gladness and fewel Thus far this memorable and miraculous Affair hath carried me not willing to break off the gladsome speculation and review of his glory and happy Influences I must now a little retrospect to what passed at home in the Parliament and Kingdome Several Acts were in agitation one for removing and preventing all questions and disputes concerning the Sitting and Assembling of this present Parliament as also that of Oblivion and Indempnity and another for Sales and Purchases and in the mean while it was ordered by the Lords That a stop be put to the demolishing defacing or committing wast in any Houses or Lands belonging to his Majesty and that no Wood nor Timber should be felled and the like done in the Lands belonging to the Duke of Buckingham the Lord Craven and Sir Iohn Stawel The Commons ordered Ten thousand pounds to be sent as a present to the Duke of York also that the Scotch Colours taken at Preston Dunbar and Worcester and hung up in Westminster-hall should be taken down which was accordingly executed and the Kings Arms placed in the Courts of Judicature Col. Harrison one of the Kings most malicious Judges was apprehended in Staffordshire and brought up to London and by his Excellencies Order Committed to the Tower while Whitehall was then a preparing for his Majesty The House of Commons taking into consideration the business of the Piedmont-Collection-money declared their detestation and abhorrence of the diversion of the said Money from the charitable uses to which pretendedly it was designed The King was Proclaimed with great joy throughout the Nation while divers of the Kings Judges out of consciousness of their guilt escaped beyond Sea In Ireland also the King was by the Convention there Assembled Proclaimed with the usual Ceremonies Several of the eminentest of that Nation were also ordered to be sent to his Majesty in the name of that Kingdome with a present of Four thousand pound to the Duke of York so sympathetically did the Irish Harp move with the same touches on the English The most Illustrious Princes the Dukes of York and Gloucester went to the House of Lords and there took their places whither the next day came the King himself by Water in the Brigandine which brought him aboard the Charles from Holland the Yeomen of the Guard making a lane the Heralds at Arms in their rich Coats the Maces and the Lord General Bare-headed before him being seated the Commons were called to whom the King in a Speech pressed very much the Act of Oblivion and Signed some Bills viz. One for Confirmation of the Parliament Another for the Tax of Seventy thousand pounds per Mensem for three Moneths from the 24 of Iune A third for continuance of Process and Judicial Proceedings and then returned to Whitehall where he chose the Lords of his Privy Council among whom were several of the Long Parliament His Majesty also graciously and judiciously provided for the Benches and Courts of Judicature for the Chancery the Lord Chancellour Hide for the Rolls the Lord Culpepper who soon after dyed and the place was by the Kings favour bestowed on Sir Harbottle Grimstone for the Kings Bench Sir Robert Foster Justice Mallet and Sir Thomas Twisden in the Common-Pleas Justice Atkins and in the Exchequer Sir Orlando Bridgeman Sir Ieoffry Palmer Attorney and Sir Heneage Finch Sollicitor-General Mr. Iohn Heath son of Sir Robert Atturney to the Dutchy But of this a fuller account Several Persons guilty of the Murther of King Charles the First making their escapes beyond Sea a Proclamation drawn up by the Parliament was published by his Majesty summoning the persons therein named who sate gave Judgment and Assisted in that horrid and detestable Fact to render themselves within Fourteen days after the Publication of that His Majesties Royal Proclamation to the Speaker or Speakers of the Parliament or to the Lord Mayor of London or to the respective Sheriffs of the Counties of England and Wales and that no person should presume to conceal or harbour them under misprision of Treason whereupon divers came in and submitted and were secured in the Tower Several Addresses were made to the King from the Nobility and Gentry of all the Counties congratulating his Majesties Restitution to his Throne and Kingdoms and testifying their exceeding joy and willingness to maintain his Majesties Royal Person and Authority Divers eminent persons for their service and affection to his Majesty were honoured with Knighthood The House of Commons ordered that others besides the Actual Judges of the King should be excepted out of the Act of Oblivion which was now very far proceeded in as namely Andrew Broughton Phelps Iohn Cook Hugh Peters and Edward Denby This so affrighted others who had a hand in that execrable business that Colonel Iohn Hutchinson a Member in this Parliament and Colonel Francis Lassells Petitioned the House confessing their guilt and withal the Artifices that were used to draw them in and by this submission obtained Pardon upon some forfeitures Hugh Peters was taken about this time in Southwarke at first he denyed his Name but being brought before Sir Iohn Robinson then made Lieutenant of the Tower he was known and acknowledged himself and was there secured The Parliament thought not themselves nor the people of England freed from that guilt and punishment which our unhappy times had contracted unless they laid hold on his Majesties Grace mentioned in his Declaration from Breda and therefore Resolved That the House doth declare that they do in the Name of themselves and all the Commons of England lay hold on his Majesties gracious Pardon mentioned in his Declaration with reference to the excepting of such as shall be excepted in an Act of Pardon and accordingly a Declaration was made and presented to the King by Master Denzill Hellis His Majesty was graciously pleased to signifie his readiness and willingness to comply with that his Royal Word and gave direction for a Proclamation to that purpose In the mean while several of the eminentest in Offices under the Usurpation to make sure of this Grace offered from Breda got their particular Pardons exemplified under the Great Seal of England as they were well advised by the notoriety of their Guilt and their distrustful Consciences to secure and discharge which trouble the King was more than ordinary pressing for a speedy Passing of the Act of Oblivion as on the other side his Sentiments of those services to his Restitution gave him the immediate resolutions of dignifying those Illustrious Personages who most instrumentally and principally did accomplish it And therefore on the 12 of Iuly he honoured the most noble General Monck with the Titles of Duke of Albemarle which Dutchy formerly was appropriate to the Blood Royal and was extinct in the Reign of Henry the
the late Earl of Westmorland Sir William Portman Baronet Sir William Ducy Baronet Sir Thomas Trevor Knight and Baronet Sir Iohn Scudamore Baronet Sir William Gardner Baronet Sir Charles Cornwallis son to Fredâ—rick Lord Cornwallis Sir Iohn Nicholas eldest son to his Majesties principal Secretary Sir Iohn Monson Sir Iohn Bramston Sir Richard Temple Sir Bourchier Wray Sir Iohn Coventry Sir Edward Hungerford Sir Iohn Knevet Sir Philip Botler Sir Adrian Scroop son of Sir Iervas Scroop who received Nineteen Wounds at Edgehill in his Majesties service Sir Richard Knightley Sir Henry Heron Sir Iohn Lewkâ—or Sir George Brown Sir William Tyringham Sir Francis Godolphin Sir Edward Baynton Sir Grevil Verney Sir Edward Harlow Sir Edward Walpool Sir Francis Popham Sir Edward Wise Sir Christopher Calthorp Sir Richard Edgecomb Sir William Bromley Sir Thomas Bridges Sir Thomas Fanshaw Sir Iohn Denham Sir Nicholas Bacon Sir Iames Altham Sir Thomas Wendy Sir Iohn Manson Sir George Freeman Sir Nicholas Slanning Sir Richard Ingoldsby Sir Iohn Rolle Sir Edward Heath son of Sir Robert Heath late Lord chief Justice of England Sir William Morley Sir Iohn Bennet Sir Hugh Smith Sir Simon Leech Sir Henry Chester Sir Robert Atkins Sir Robert Gayer Sir Richard Powle Sir Hugh Ducy Sir Stephen Hales Sir Ralph Bush Sir Thomas Whitmore In Number sixty eight After their calling over they proceeded in their usual Habits each of them between his two Esquires and a Page following the Heraulds going before them with their Coats not put on but only hanging loose on their Arms to King Hen. 7. Chappel where after the wonted reverence performed they took their seats Prayer being done they returned to the Painted Chamber and the other Rooms adjoyning to repose themselves till the Supper of Two hundred dishes at his Majesties Charge was brought to the Court of Requests where they placed themselves according to their Seniority at the Tables by the Wall-side their Esquires and Pages waiting on them on the other Supper ended the Lord Cornwallis and Sir Charles Berckley the Treasurer and Comptroller of his Majesties Houshold gave them his welcome and then conducted them to the Painted Chamber and the Lords House adjoyning and some other near rooms where their Bathing Vessels and Beds which were Pallets with Canopies were prepared being covered with red Say There after they had Bathed more or less as each of them found convenient they remained all Night and early in the Morning were bade good morrow by his Majesties Musick Then arising and Apparelling themselves in a Cordeliers Habit being a long russet Gown with wide sleeves and a Hood tyed close about the middle with a Cordon of Ash-coloured and Russet silk reaching down almost to the knees and a white Napkin or Handkerchief hanging thereat they proceeded to Hen. 7. Chappel in the same order as the Night before doing the same revâ—â—â—â—â—â— and heard Divine Service and took the usual Oath before the said Lords â—ommissioners which was read to them by Sir Edward Walker Principal King oâ— Arms in these words Right dear Brâ—â—her GReat Woâ—shâ—p be this Order to every of you You shall Honour God above all things â—ut shall be stedfast in the Faith of Christ and the same maintain and defend tâ— yâ—ur Power You shall love your Soveraign above all earthly things and for yâ—uâ— Soveraigns Right live and dye You shall defend Maidens Widdows and Orphans in their right You shall suffer no Extortion as far as you may nor sit in any place where wrong Iudgment shall be given to your knowledge And of as great Honour be this Order to you as ever it was to any of your Progenitors or others This done they returned in the same order they came to the Painted Chamber and put on the Habit of the Order which was a Mantle and Surcoat of red Taffata lined and edged with white Sarcenet and thereto fastned two long strings of white silk with buttons and tassels of red silk and gold and a pair of white Cloves tyed to them a white Hat and white Feather in this Garb they Dined in the Painted Chamber and thence girded with a Sword the Pummel and cross-Hilt whereof were guilt the Scabbard of white Leather and Belt of the sâ—me with guilt Spurs carried by their Pages they marched on Horse-back by Seniority to White-Hall with the Heraulds before them from the Old Palace round about the New and so through Kingstreet going round the place where Charing-Cross stood and then to White-hall where they alighted and after they had gone about the first Court they were conducted by the Heraulds to the Banqueting-House where His Majesty sate under a Cloath of State to receive them They were brought up by six and six each between his two Esquires with his Page carrying his Sword before him In their approaches towards his Majesty they made three Obeysances and each Knight being presented by his two Esquires upon their knees to the King the Lord Chamberlain of His Majesties Houshold receiving the Knights Swords from the Pages and delivering it to the King He with the Sword of State ready drawn conferred upon them their respective Knight-hoods by laying the Sword upon their shoulders and so put the presented Sword upon the Knights Neck in such sort that it might hang on his left side and then the said Scabbard with the Order hanging at it Which done the Knight made his obeysance of Gratitude to His Majesty and falling back the rest were brought up and Knighted in like manner After this they went down into his Majesties Chappel and there heard Divine Service with the Organ and Anthems and then went up six at a time to the Altar and offered up their Swords where Gilbert Lord Bishop of London Dean of His Majesties Royal Chappel received them and laid them upon the Altar and afterwards restored them with this Admonition By the Oath which you have taken this day I exhort and admonish you to use these Swords to the Glory of God and defence of the Gospel to the maintenance of your Sovereigns Right and Honour and to the upholding of Equity and Iustice to your power So help you God This done they returned from the Chappel where the Kings Master-Cook stood with his Chopping-Knife in his hand challenging their Spurs which were severally redeemed with a Noble in Money As they passed by he said Gentlemen you know what a great Oath you have taken which if you keep it will be great honour to you but if you break it I must back off your Spurs from your heels When they came unto the great Hall the Officers at Arms acquainted them that on Monday following they were to attend his Majesty from the Tower to White-Hall on Horseback in the same Robes wherein they were Knighted and on Tuesday to meet early in the Painted Chamber in their Purple Sattin Habits thence to go before his Majesty to his Coronation at Westminster This Ceremony being over the King to honour this
Rochesters consecrated 1637. A. Dr. Henry King Lord-Bishop of Chichester was consecrated 1641. Dr. Humphry Heuchman Lord-Bishop of Salisbury was consecrated October 28. 1660. Dr. George Morley Lord-Bishop of Worcester was consecrated October 28. 1660. since possessed by Dr. Gauden after by Dr. Earles late Dean of Westminster Dr. Robert Sauderson Lord-Bishop of Lincoln was consecrated October 28. 1660. since deceased and Dr. Laney Translated thither Dr. George Griffith Lord-Bishop of St. Asaph was consecrated October 28. 1660. Dr. William Lucy Lord-Bishop of St. Davids was consecrated December 2. 1660. Dr. Benjamin Laney Lord-Bishop of Peterborough was consecrated December 2. 1660. Dr. Hugh Lloyd Lord-Bishop of Landaff was consecrated December 2. 1660. Dr. Richard Sterne Lord-Bishop of Carlisle was consecrated December 2. 1660. Y. Dr. Brian Walton Lord-Bishop of Chester was consecrated December 2. 1660. Y. This See was possess'd by Dr. Fern who dying also Dr. George Hall was Lord-Bishop thereof Dr. Iohn Gauden who dying Dr. Seth Ward is since Lord-Bishop thereof Lord-Bishop of Exeter was consecrated December 2. 1660. Dr. Gilbert Ironside Lord-Bishop of Bristol was consecrated Ianuary 13. 1660. Dr. Edward Reynolds Lord-Bishop of Norwich was consecrated Ianuary 14. 1660. Dr. William Nicholson Lord-Bishop of Gloucester was consecrated Ianuary 13. 1660. Dr. Nicholas Monke Lord-Bishop of Hereford was consecrated Ianuary 13. 1660. who dying Dr. Herbert Crofts was consecrated in his place 1661. Dr. Iohn Hacket Lord-Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield A. Notes the ancient Bishops Y. The Diocesses in the Province of York All the rest are in the Province of Canterbury The Names of the Iudges EDward Earl of Clarendon Lord High-Chancellor of England Sir Robert Foster Knight chief-Chief-Justice of the Kings-Bench Sir Harbottle Grimstone Baronet Master of the Rolls Sir Orlando Bridgeman Knight and Baronet Chief-Justice of the Common-Pleas Matthew Hale Chief-Baron of the Exchequer Sir Thomas Mallet Knight Justices of the Kings-Bench Sir Thomas Twisden Knight Justices of the Kings-Bench Sir Wadham Windham Knight Justices of the Kings-Bench Sir Robert Hide Knight Justices of the Common-Pleas Sir Thomas Terril Knight Justices of the Common-Pleas Sir Samuel Brown Knight Justices of the Common-Pleas Sir Edward Atkins Knight Barons of the Exchequer Sir Christopher Turner Knight Barons of the Exchequer Sir Ieoffrey Palmer Knight Attorney-General Sir Iohn Glynne Knight The Kings Serjeants at Law Sir Iohn Maynard Knight The Kings Serjeants at Law Sir William Wilde Knight The Kings Serjeants at Law The two Principal Secretaries of State persons eminent for their faithful and industrious Loyalty Sir Edward Nicholas of the same place to his late Majesty and Sir William Mâ—rice the onely Confident the Renowned General the Duke of Albemarle used in those blessed Counsels toward the Restitution of the King and Kingdom The Names of the BARONETS made by Letters Patents since his Majesties most happy Restauration Anno 1660. With the times of their several Creations Anno Duodecimo Caroli Regis Secundi SIR Orlando Bridgeman Knight was created Baronet Iune the 7th in the Twelfth Year of the Raign of our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles the Second in the year of our Lord 1660. Sir Ieoffery Palmer Kt. created Baronet Iune the 7. Sir Heneage Finch in Com. Bucks Kt. created Baronet Iune 7. Sir Iohn Langham in Com. Northampton Kt. created Baronet Iune 7. Sir Robert Abdy in Com. Essex Kt. created Baronet Iune 9. Thomas Draper in Com. Berks Esq. created Baronet Iune 9. Humphrey Winch in Com. Bedford Esq. created Baronet Iune 9. Ionathan Rease Esq. created Baronet Iune 9. Henry Wright in Com. Essex Esq. created Baronet Iune 12. Hugh Speke in Com. Wilts Esq. created Baronet Iune 12. Nicholas Gould of the City of London created Baronet Iune 13. Sir Thomas Adams of the City of London Kt. created Baronet Iune 13. Richard Atkins in Com. Surrey Esq. created Baronet Iune 13. Thomas Allen of the City of London Esq. created Baronet Iune 14. Henry North in Com. Suffolk Esq. created Baronet Iune 15. Sir William Wiseman in Com. Essex Kt. created Baronet Iune 15. Thomas Cullum in Com. Suffolk Esq. created Baronet Iune 18. Thomas Davy in Com. Essex Esq. created Baronet Iune 20. George Grubbum How in Com. Wilts Esq. created Baronet Iune 20. Iohn Cutts in Com. Cambridge Esq. created Baronet Iune 20. William Humble of the City of London Esq. created Baronet Iune 20. Solomon Swale in Com. York Esq. created Baronet Iune 21. Gervas Ews in Com. Suffolk Esq. created Baronet Iune 22. Robert Cordel in Com. Suffolk Esq. created Baronet Iune 22. Sir Iohn Robinson of the City of London Kt. created Baronet Iune 22. Iohn Abdy in Com. Essex Esq. created Baronet Iune 22. Henry Stapleton in Com. York Esq. created Baronet Iune 23. Iacob Ashly in Com. Warwick Esq. created Baronet Iune 25. Sir Robert Hilliard in Com. York Esq. created Baronet Iune 25. Sir William Bowyer in Com. Bucks Kt. created Baronet Iune 25. Iohn Shuckbrugh in Com. Warwick Esq. created Baronet Iune 26. William Wray in Com. Lincoln Esq. created Baronet Iune 27. Francis Hollis in Com. Dorset Esq. created Baronet Iune 27. Nicholas Steward in Com. Southampton Esq. created Baronet Iune 27. George Warberton in Com. Pal. of Chester Esq. created Baronet Iune 27. Oliver St. Iohn in Com. Northampton Esq. created Baronet Iune 28. Sir Ralph Delaval in Com. Northumberland Kt. created Baronet Iune 29. Andrew Henley in Com. Somerset Esq. created Baronet Iune 30. Thomas Ellis in Com. Lincoln Esq. created Baronet Iune 30. Sir Iohn Covert in Com. Sussex Kt. created Baronet Iuly 2. Maurice Berkley in Com. Somerset Esq. created Baronet Iuly 2. Peter Harr of the City of London created Baronet Iuly 2. Henry Hudson in Com. Leicester Esq. created Baronet Iuly 3. Thomas Herbert in Com. Monmouth Esq. created Baronet Iuly 3. Thomas Middleton in Com. Denbigh created Baronet Iuly 4. Verney Noel in Com. Leicester Esq. created Baronet Iuly 6. George Ruswel in Com. Northampton Esq. created Baronet Iuly 7. Robert Austen in Com. Kent Esq. created Baronet Iuly 10. Robert Hales in Com. Kent Esq. created Baronet Iuly 12. Iohn Clarke in Com. Oxford Esq. created Baronet Iuly 13. William Thomas in Com. Essex Esq. created Baronet Iuly 13. Sir William Boothby in Com. Derby Kt. created Baronet Iuly 13. Wolstan Dixey in Com. Leicester created Baronet Iuly 14. Iohn Bright in Com. York Esq. created Baronet Iuly 16. Iohn Warner in Com. York Esq. created Baronet Iuly 16. Sir Iohn Harbey in Com. Hartford Kt. created Baronet Iuly 17. Sir Samuel Moreland in Com. Berks Kt. created Baronet Iuly 18. Sir Thomas Hewet in Com. Hartford Kt. created Baronet Iuly 19. Edward Honywood in Com. Kent Esq. created Baronet Iuly 19. Basil Dixwel in Com. Kent Esq. created Baronet Iuly 19. Sir Richard Brown of the City of London Kt. created Baronet Iuly 20. Marmaduke Gresham in Com. Surrey Esq. created Baronet Iuly 20. Henry Kernor in Com. Salop Esq. created Baronet Iuly 23. Sir Iohn Aubrey in Com. Glamorgan
usual confidence of his Party made an end His Quarters were disposed of by his Majesties Orders and his Head set upon a Pole in White Chappel near the place of his Meeting for example to his Fellows Some discourses there were of a Design about Dunkirk and the Duke of York passed over there this Month carrying the Garrison money and upon his arrival viewed the Fortifications and Lines and found it stronger by some new Forts the Governour the Lord Rutherford now made Earl of Tiviot and Governour of Tangeir had raised thereabouts and after a short stay returned again for England In Ireland Sir Charles Coot Earl of Mountrath one of the Three Justices of that Kingdome died and was buried in State the power of the other Two remaining being invested in Sir Maurice Eustace and the Earl of Orery till the arrival of the Duke of Ormond He had done excellent Service in that Kingdome against the Rebels and though he afterwards sided with those here yet did he by his last Actions in securing that Kingdome to the Interest of his Majesty and helping on the Restitution redeem his former demerits which could be charged on him no otherwise than as a Souldier of Fortune he was one of General Monck's right hands in carrying on the Change The Duke of Ormond was by the Parliament of Ireland gratulated upon his appointment to that Government by Letters sent from the Speakers of both Houses The Council for the Principality of Wales was also erected by the King and setled at Ludlow the usual Residence the Earl of Carbery Lord Vaughan was made President the old Earl of Norwich Clerk of the Council and others of the Nobility and Gentry Assistants Judges also were established and the said Lord President in great State brought into the Town attended by a great Train of the chief Persons thereabouts and joyfully welcomed and complemented This Christmass the Honourable Society of Lincolns-Inne renewed their Custom of the Inns of Court by chusing a Prince who during the Festival commands like a Soveraign in the places adjoyning to the said Inne the Gentleman chosen this time was one Iohn Lort Esquire a Gentleman of Wales by the Title of Prince Le Grange he gave and the King was pleased to accept a Treatment from him the Ceremonies due to a Prince being exactly observed in every respect a Council Judges and Officers of State Honour and Nobility attending this his Highness whom the King at the expiration of his term of Royalty made a Knight Baronet The Marquess Durazzo Embassador from the Republick of Genoa was about this time honourably received by the King attended through the City to Sir Abraham Williams his house by the Earl of Carlisle Complemented from the King by the Earl of Bullingbrook and brought to Audience by the Lord Buckhurst In Scotland Episcopacy which had been so long banished thence was now reduced with all gladness and testimonies of a welcome reception after the experience of so many miseries and confusions which had befallen that Nation through the Fury and Zealotry of the Kirk The four Bishops that were Consecrated at Lambeth a little before this whereof Dr. Iames Sharpe Arch-Bishop of St. Andrews Metropolitan of Scotland was one Consecrating others in that Kingdom the whole Order being there defunct by the long Usurpation of the Presbyterian Discipline To the confirmation therefore of this Sacred resetled Authority the Lord-Commissioner with most of the Nobility and Gentry accompanied the Arch-Bishop of Glascow where the Kirk-Rebellion was first hatched to that City where the face of things was quite altered no Person or occasion ever welcomer or more acceptable than this as their Bells and Bonefires declared And here the Lord Commissioner put sorth a Proclamation prohibiting the payment of any Ecclesiastical Rents o Tythe or profits of the Ministry whatsoever to any who in a short time limited should not acknowledge and own their Diocesan Bishop and his Authority and receive Induction from him Some few grand Factious Predicants stood out and were cuted of their Livings and others the most unquiet and refractory Commanded to depart that Kingdom now well cleared of that Clergy the Original and Fountain of those bitter waters and Rivers of Blood which overflowed the three Nations A like Church-work was taken in hand in England the King at his Entrance into London upon his Restitution-day May 29 fadly observed and shook his Head at the Ruines of St. Paul's Cathedral and therefore the first vacancy his affairs permitted him was bestowed on the consideration of that Religious Structure and thereupon he issued out a Commission to Sir Orlando Bridgeman Sir Ieoffery Palmer and others of the Long Robe with other Gentlemen to take some speedy Order for the Repair thereof and to that pious work he gave the Arrears of Impropriations and Ecclesiastical Livings excepted out of the Act of Oblivion impowering to call all such as owed any Moneys thereupon to account and to lay it out to that use The former Dean of which Cathedral Dr. Nicholas Brother to Master Secretary of State Sir Edward died now of a malignant Feavor called the Country new Disease and Dr. Barwick a man that had suffered all Extremities even of Dungeon and Famine in the Tower from the Rump soon after the King's death was substituted by the King in his place it being reckoned with the late improvement the best Deanry now in England Soon after Dr. Nicholas died Dr. Nicholas Monke Bishop of Hereford and Brother to the Noble General whose private Contemplative liâ—e was no less observed than Jewels in the dark which then shine brightest his Illustrious Brother governing the conspicuous splendor of the Times while he ruled with the recluse vertues of his minde in the obscurity of the Church which afterwards spread and lustre it borrowed from the Beams of this its Luminary though now suddenly deprived of a great part of it in this his Setting And most fit it is that his Name should be Canonized and for ever had Sacred in our Kalendar and Church-Annals About the same time died also Dr. Brian Walton Lord-Bishop of Chester famous for the Polyglotte-Bible and other Excellencies becoming a Prelate nor did his successor Dr. Ferne many weeks outlive him whose defences of the Church will never be forgotten And lastly died Dr. Thomas Fuller known by his several Books and indefatigable industry better than by any account can here be given of him Such a Train of Scholars and Learned men did barbarous Death lead in Triumph to the Captivating Grave that her envious Pomp might draw our eye and tears to this sad spectacle and that might honourably accompany the Fate of the Bishop of Hereford A Fleet was Rigg'd and set to Sea to fetch home the Queen from Portugal and to carry the Forces to Tangier which was delivered by the Portugueze Garrison to Sir Richard Stayner who with 500 men was left to maintain it till the Earl
in Parliament the merciful disposition of the King declining the instigates of his justice against the demerits of so obnoxious and Capital a Deliquent While the main Fleet with the General the Earl of Sandwich was upon return with the Queen from Lisbon Vice-Admiral Sir Iohn Lawson with the Frigots left with him yet plyed to and fro about the Barbary-shore taking and sacking all Vessels belonging to the Pyratical Trade of those Places to the almost breaking the Nest of those Infidel Thieves and on the Twentieth of April having notice of some of their Ships in a Port called Bugia he fell in with his Frigots in spight of their Castles and Guns and burnt and rendred them unserviceable and came out again with little loss April the Twentieth which with the despair of being rid of him and his Fleet made the Algier Bashaw stoop now to the offer of a Treaty and to former Articles with the required advantage to our Commerce in those Ports and Seas which were sent from Sir Iohn Lawson about Iune and brought to the King at Hampton-Court who very well approved of it the Dutch having concluded a very shameful Peace or Truce with them about the same time Our Prossession of Tangier alarm'd the adjacent African Potentates with the danger of our encroachments and the Fame of our Warlike Martial Atchievements by Land as well as by Sea which consideration drew down into the confines of that Place one Gayland a Warlike Prince but then a Rebel against the King of Morocco and Fez and usurping part of his Dominions who continued there appearing and disappering for a space of time upon pretence of a League and Friendship when meeting of a suddain as he was ranging thereabouts with his Horse the swiftest in the World with some of our Forces Forraging for Provision and Horse-meat he surprized and defeated them Their manner of fight being to leave and take as they see advantage which they do with very active and quick force and resolution Since we requited it upon some of his venturing straglers not long after he came very freely and entred into Treaty which he finished and is in good Amity at present with us Shortly after the Earl of Peterborough returned thence and gave his Majesty an account of the place and the Lord Rutherford late Governour of Dunkirk and newly made Earl of Tiviot is now the Governour thereof and Colonel Alsop an antient Souldier throughout the War Commands under him The King hath made it a Free Port and granted it all the Priviledges of a Merchant-City being seated very conveniently for Commerce especially by reason of the security thereof This Trinity-Term Sir Henry Vane and Colonel Lambert at the request of the Parliament having been brought from their remote Prisons in Scilly to the Tower were Arraigned Iune the Fourth before Sir Robert Foster Lord chief Justice at the Kings Bench Bar and Indicted Sir Henry for imagining and compassing the Death of the King and for taking upon him and usurping the Government and Colonel Lambert for Levying War against the King in Middlesex Cheshire Yorkshire and other places of the North of this Kingdom Sir Henry Pleaded the Authority of Parliament and justified it and put the Court to a deal of needless trouble and impertinent repetition but disowned his medling or making with the Kings Death Colonel Lambert behaved himself very civilly and respectively to the Court and pleaded as his last Plea that it did not appear by any additional word that he was the same Iohn Lambert mentioned in the Indictment but he was told it was Iohn Lambert Esquire and then he confessed civilly his not minding it before and submitted The Counsel then craved Judgment against him the Sollicitor-General saying That good manners cannot commute for Treason Both were Sentenced as Traytors but the Colonel Reprieved at the Bar by the King's favour and regard had to the report the Justices had given him of his submissive and handsome deportment at his Tryal and therefore desired the Judges to return unto his Majesty his most humble thanks for his so unexpected mercy which the Judges said might have been and was once thought to be extended to Sir Henry if his frowardness and contemptuous behaviour had not precluded the way to it He nevertheless had this favour shown him at the intercession of some of his Relations who had deserved well of the King in his service that his Majestie mitigated the Sentence to a Beheading only which was Executed on the Fourteenth of Iune on the Scaffold at Tower-Hill where the Earl of Strafford bled first by his Fathers Treachery and there he ran out into Treasonable Discourses but was stopt and after two or three warnings his Notes endeavoured to be taken from him which to prevent he tore them in pieces and in that Passion submitted to the Block Several Contrivances and Designes being related to the Councel hatched by the Phanatick Party caused the King in their usual method to retort their Twenty Miles Proclamation upon their own heads commanding all Officers c. under any of the late Usurped Powers that had been disbanded to depart Twenty miles from the City and Suburbs of London and not to return within Eight Moneths such only excepted as by the Privy-Councel upon their Application to them should obtain licence The only Discourse and Disputation throughout the Kingdome was what the Presbyterian could expect after the Act of Uniformity was passed and St. Bartholomews day the Twenty fourth of August expired which was the time limited for their Conforming to what the Act had required by renouncing the Covenant and reading Divine Service and Common-Prayer in Church-Vestments as the Surplice the main thing bogled at Many endeavours there had been before in Parliament for some Toleration and their Friends sollicited to the utmost but not able to carry it there they Applied themselves to his Majesty and the Privy-Councel the most of them having deserted and relinquished their Livings which the Bishop of London with much prudence and foresight had provided of able and pious Minister and exceptionless whom he setled in their places but upon full debate of their Petition and as full a hearing the Councel laid it aside there being none present to answer and dispute their pretences to a superseding the express meaning of the Act but the aforesaid Bishop and so all their Chimaera's or expectations they had raised in the Country by their Letters to the obstinating of the more indifferent to the resistance of this Law from which they made sure to get a Dispensation to the ruine of some Families came to nothing and now nothing but Transportation was talked of for using the free Exercise of that Religion The Commissioners for Regulating Corporations had likewise proceeded to the dismission of such from all Offices and Places in Councel and otherwhere who refused to renounce and declare the said Covenant Illegal and Suspected and not cleared for
with the Moors our nearest Neighbours we must not omit the Actions of those people whose Losses and Successes are to be narrowly observ'd by the English either their Allyes or Enemies Taffalette therefore having Intelligence that the people of Suz had united their Forces with those of Sancta Cruz march'd toward the farther part of Suz with an Army of 140000 Men which at first so Terrified those people that they presented him with their Leaders Head and with great submission begg'd his Pardon In confidence of this Taffalette Marches toward Sancta Cruz but the people Repenting of what they had done underhand renew'd a League with the Governor of that Town and unexpectedly setting upon the Army of Taffalette quite routed it and slew Taffalet's Brother who led the Van himself only escaping with four Horse but being soon recruited he return'd to Sancta Cruz and took it and in a short while recover'd what he had so unadvisedly lost But that which made the greatest noise in the World was the suddain Invasion of Loraine by the King of France For the surprise of which Country Marshal Crequi being sent with a great Army he over-ran the Country like a mighty Torrent insomuch that by the beginning of Winter there was scarce a Town in Lorraine that was not at the French Devotion The designe of the King of France was to lay aside the old Duke and confer the Dutchy on Prince Charles on condition that he should raise the Fortifications of Chastel and Espinal and give up to the King the Marquisate of Nomende Certain it was the King of France did send to the said Prince then at Vienna to offer him the Possession of Lorrain on condition he would hold it of him and to maintain no greater Number of Forces than he should think fit telling him withal that he were best have a care that upon his refusal the Duke of Guise did not accept of it upon the same terms The old Duke thus outed of all wandred up and down from place to place begging Ayd of the Neighbouring Princes who promis'd fair but did little more than come to a conditional Agreement for the raysing Forces for the common good and safety of the Empire This Alarm'd not only the Dutch on the one side but the Switzers on the other the Effect of which was that it made them both careful to put themselves into the best posture of Defence they might While this part of Europe is thus preparing for Mischief we find Russia over-whelm'd with an Inundation of Rebellion where one Stephen Radskin a Tumultuous Ring-leader having Poyson'd the Rabble with the fair pretences of Liberty the common motives to Insurrection of a small Snow-bal grew to a mountainous Number and having seiz'd the great Kingdoms of Astracan and Casan and got into his Possession the Treasures of the Great Duke in the chief City of Astracan he grew Potent and Formidable and made up for the City of Mosco it self taking upon him the Title of Duke Radzin But at length after a short Reign and having glutted himself with the Blood of as many Muscovitish Nobility as fell into his Power he was overthrown by Dolkerouski General to the Emperor and his whole Power totally disperst Anno Dom. 1671. IN the beginning of this Year dyed Her Royal Highness Anne Dutchess of York Wife to his Royal Highness the Duke of York and Daughter to the Earl of Clarendon being shortly after privately Interr'd in Henry the Seventh's Chappel at Westminster The Parliament still sitting had by this time prepar'd several other Acts ready for the Kings Royal Assent which the King being present in the House of Lords as readily pass'd The chiefest and most of Publick Concern was The Addition which they made to the King's Revenue by an Imposition upon Proceedings at Law not being unmindful of setling such differences as might arise about Houses burn'd in the Fire of London taking care also to prevent the Disorders of Seamen and the Imbezelment of the King's Stores After which they were again Prorogu'd to the 16th of April next ensuing However before they disperst both Houses met in a Body in the Banqueting-House where they made an 〈…〉 That the King would be pleased by His own Example to 〈…〉 the constant wearing the Manufactures of his own Kingdom and discountenance the use of Manufactures made in Forrein Countries who kindly receiving the Address told them That he had as little us'd in his own Person Forrein Manufacturs as any and would discountenance them for the future in those that should Nor must we pass by the Death of the Earl of Manchester Lord Chamberlain of His Majesties Houshold a Knight of the Garter and a Privy Councellor though his loss was soon recompenc'd by the succession of the Earl of St. Albans Soon after dy'd the Lord Chief Justice Keeling into whose Place the Lord Chief Justice Hale was immediately Sworn in his Place Sir Edward Turnor was made Lord Chief Baron and Sir Francis North Sollicitor-General Nor was it fit the Offices of such Eminent Ministers of Justice should be vacant when such Criminals were to be examin'd as were soon after discovered For upon the ninth of this Moneth four men coming to the Keeper of the Jewel-House in the Morning and desiring to see the Regal Crown were carried into the Room where it was kept but they Stabbing and Gagging the Keeper an ancient man and putting the Crown and Ball into two Bags which they had brought for that purpose fairly walk'd away and had almost past all the Sentinels but the Son-in-law of the Keeper casually passing by and seeing the condition his Father lay in run out hastily crying out to the Guards to stop 'um upon this they mending their pace made their own discovery Being then commanded to stand they fir'd a Pistol at the Sentinel but two of them were presently seized carried to White-hall and after Examination sent back again to the Tower to be kept close Prisoners where they had committed the Fact To make an annual Record of St. George's Feast is not necessary but of this as being more singularly Signal it may not be expedient to omit the rehearsal For now it was that the Earl of Carlisle introduc'd between his Royal Highness and Prince Rupert was Install'd as Proxie for the King of Sweden and the Earl of Winchelsey between the Duke of Ormond and the Duke of Buckingham was Install'd as Proxie for the Duke of Saxony both which Princes were invested the year before After them the Duke of Albemarle between the Earl of Sandwich and the Earl of Oxford was Invested in his own Stall Iune was Crown'd with the success of Sir Edward Sprague who being now the King's Admiral in the Mediterranean-Sea met with nine Men of War belonging to Argier together with three Merchant-men neer Bugia who upon his appearance retir'd under the shelter of the Castle and put themselves into the best posture
with him hasts to the St. George and puts up the Flag which when the Earl of Ossory saw who had in the mean time brought new Foresails to his Yards he sent Norborough to tell him that if he would he would set upon Tromp and board him if he had assistance Sprague praises his resolution bids him go on and he would immediately be with him But his suddain death was the loss of a Noble Designe For he had not been long aboard the St. George when through the loss of her Main-mast he was forc'd to forsake her too and as he was going aboard the Royal Charles the Boat being shatter'd to pieces by an accidental shot he was himself drown'd in the Ocean over which he had so often Triumph'd After Sprague's ship had lost her Masts Tromp confident of carrying her bore up briskly and gave her a Broad-side and brought up two Fire-ships but all in vain for as he pass'd by he was so severely gall'd by the Earl of Ossory that he had hardly time to discharge six of his own Guns Neither did the Earl of Ossory leave the Flag-ship till he saw her tow'd off by the Hampshire Tromp sufficiently wearied having got his Squadron together at first retir'd but when he saw De Ruyter coming toward him he stay'd By and by the Prince was to be discern'd a far off with his Squadron who had born the brunt of the Zealand-Squadron and De Ruyter all the day for the French having gain'd the Wind in the beginning of the Fight never came in but at two of the clock the Prince and De Ruyter as it were by consent seem'd to leave off for both being sollicitous for the rest of their Fleets whom they saw afar off sail'd peaceably and directed their course toward their Friends though all the while within Cannon-shot But now De Ruyter being joyn'd with his own falls upon the Blue endeavouring to separate that Squadron from the Prince but in vain the Prince making all haste to come in and the other seasonably joyning with him Then began a most sharp dispute on both sides at what time the Prince sending two Fire-ships guarded by Captain Leg upon the Enemy put them into such a confusion that had the French then come in being as they were Masters of the Wind the Dispute with the Dutch concerning the Dominion of the Sea had certainly been at an end The Dutch lost two Flag-Officers several Captains and about 1000 Common Seamen Among the English Sprague was much lamented Captain Neve was slain Reeves and Heywood died of their Wounds Of the French but one Commander slain The loss of Common English Seamen was not so great being chiefly in the Earl of Ossory's and Sir Edward Sprague's ships About the middle of Iune the Lord Clifford of Chudleigh resign'd his Staff as Lord-Treasurer into the King's hands and Sir Thomas Osborn created Viscount Osborn of Dumblaine in Scotland and afterwards Earl of Danby in England was made Lord-Treasurer in his room Upon the 10 th of October the Parliament meeting according to their last Adjournment were Prorogu'd by Commission till the 27 th of the same Moneth then meeting again they were prorogu'd till the seventh of Ianuary following After which the King having taken the Great Seal from the Earl of Shaftsbury gave it to his Attorney-General Sir Heneage Finch afterwards created Lord Daventry in the County of Northampton Soon after His Majesty was pleas'd to call before him in Council the two Lord chief-Chief-Justices and the Lord Chief-Baron commanding them to consider of the most effectual means for putting the Laws in Execution for preventing the growth of Popery and at the same time ordered that no Roman-Catholick or so reputed should presume after the 18 th of November to come into his presence to his Palace or where his Court should be and the Lord-Steward and Lord-Chamberlain of the Houshold were ordered to see the same effectually put in execution And by further Order a little after forbid them to come neer St. Iames's House or into the Park Immediately after in pursuance of his Gracious Assurance to both Houses of Parliament His Majesty issued out his Royal Proclamation to the same effect further requiring the Judges and all Justices of the Peace to take effectual care for the prosecution of all Papists and Popish Recusants according to the Laws and Statutes of the Realm About the latter end of November the Dutchess of Modena arriving at Dover in order to her Intermarriage with his Royal Highness the Duke of York was there met by the Duke and some few days after coming from Gravesend to London by Water was by his Majesty and divers of the Nobility met in Barges upon the River and so conducted to White-hall where after her Royal Highness had been received in the most obliging and kinde manner by her Majesty she was conducted to St. Iames's Within few days after their Royal Highnesses gave Audience to the French Portugal Swedish and Danish Embassadors as likewise to the Residents of Venice and Newburgh who all went to Complement them upon their late Marriage About this time his Majesty the great numbers of extraordinary Servants that had been sworn and admitted into his Service who making use of the Protections they receiv'd thereby did obstruct the due course of Law issued forth an Order in Council whereby all persons that did not by vertue of their Places receive Fee Wages Salary Diet or Board-wages should be absolutely disabled from making use of any Protection whatsoever for the future to save them from the prosecution of their Creditors From Tangier came Intelligence that the Earl of Middleton Governour understanding the defeat and death of Gayland and the great success of Muly Ishmael in those parts and having receiv'd a kinde Letter from the said Muly Ishmael purporting his great desire to be in Amity with the Governour and a proposition of sending Commissioners to treat with him accordingly appointed Major White Alderman Read and Mr. Wollaston for that purpose with full power and Instructions to conclude a Peace and Treaty of Commerce and particularly for the Redemption of the Captives in Sally wherein the Earl doubted not the same success as he had had with Gayland above a year before with whom he had made so firm a Peace that the Moors and Inhabitants of Tangier convers'd together as if they had been one Nation Notwithstanding the vigour and fury of the War yet neither in the height of this years Preparation nor Action were the thoughts of Peace laid aside but rather all endeavours tending thereto vigorously pursued To this purpose a Treaty was concluded on between the King of England and the Dutch whereat the Allies of both Parties were to be present The place accepted of by the King of England was Cologne whither by the middle of Summer and some before came all the Plenipotentiaries of the several Confederates For the King of Great Britain Sir Ioseph Williamson and Sir
and that he did not receive the profits of it But the Emperour denied he knew of his being a Plenipotentiary and that it was not for one of his Subjects to take up Interests contrary to the Interest of his Soveraign and would not hear of his Release During these Treaties the King of France had possess'd himself of a great part of the Palatinate and had put a Garrison into Germerstein of 300 Souldiers yet proffered the Elector if he would stand Neuter to satisfie him for all his Damages and to withdraw his Souldiers out of Gemerstein and put it into the Hands of any Neutral Prince of the Empire which he refus'd upon Caprara's coming to his Succour The Switzers to hinder the King of France from coming into Burgundy offered that Burgundy might stand Neutur proffering themselves security that that Province should punctually observe the Neutrality and that they would guard the Avenues into it against any Forces of the Empire And thus stood Affairs at the end of this year Anno Dom. 1674. PEace being now concluded between the English and the Dutch this Year was not memorable for much at home The first motion of the Court this Moneth was to Windsor where the Earl of Mulgrave was Install'd Knight of the Garter This Moneth also the King by his Embassador the Lord Lockhart offer'd his Mediation between the King of France and the Queen of Spain to compose the differences betwixt them And to the end he might be no way concern'd in their differences by publick Proclamation forbid any of his Subjects to enter into the Service of any forrain Prince He also set forth a Proclamation forbidding the broaching and uttering false and scandalous News as also against any that should talk impertinently of the Government or the Governours In May Sir Lionel Ienkins and Sir Ioseph Williamson return'd to London from Cologne Who were followed into England by the Baron de Reed Van Benninghen and Van Haren Extraordinary Embassadors from the States of Holland In Iune came a strict Proclamation against the Jesuites and Friests Commanding their discovery and apprehension and promising five pounds for every one that should be discovered and taken Toward the beginning of September upon Resignation of the Duke of Buckingham the Duke of Mâ—nmouth was made Chancellor of the University of Cambridge The Ceremony was performed with all its circumstances at Worcester-house in London Not long after the Right Honourable the Earl of St. Albans having resign'd into his Majesty's Hands the Staff of Office of Lord-Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold his Majesty was pleas'd to give it to the Right Honourable the Earl of Arlington in recompence of his long and faithful Services and particularly for having performed to his Majesties satisfaction for the space of twelve years the Offiâ—e of Principal Secretary of State which his Majesty was pleas'd to conâ—er at the same time upon the Right Honourable Sir Ioseph Williamson Knight one of the Clerks then of his Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council for his long and faithful service in the said Office under Sir Edward Nicholas and the Earl of Arlington and in his place Philip Lloyd Esq was sworn one of the Clerks of the Privy-Council Upon the 22 of September his Majesty was pleas'd to cause a Proclamation to be published for the further prorogation of the Parliament from the 10 th of November till the 13 th of April ensuing In the beginning of December the Earls of Ossory and Arlington together with the Heer Odike not long before Extraordinary Embassador in England arrived at the Hagne where they went to pay their Respects to the Prince of Orange About the same time was concluded between his Majesties Commissioners and those of the States General of the Vnited Provinces a Treaty Marine for all parts of the World in pursuance of the 8 th and 9 th Articles of the late Treaty of Peace made at Westminster the February before and was after ratifi'd by the States in the beginning of February following Presently after His Majesty having been graciously pleased to Translate the Right Reverend Father in God Dr. Crew Bishop of Oxford and Clerk of the Closet to his Majesty to the Sea of Durham made choice of the Honourable Dr. Compton Brother to the Right Honourable the Earl of Northampton to succeed in his place Toward the middle of December His Majesty having been pleased at his entertainment at Guild-Hall when Sir Robert Viner was newly Lord-Mayor of the City graciously and freely to condescend to the acceptance of the Freedom of London in the Chamberlains Office from the Hands of Sir Thomas Player Chamberlain beyond the Example of any of his Predecessors The said Sir Robert Viner Lord-Mayor thereupon having first obtained his Majesties leave presented his Majesty in the Name of the City with the Copy of the Freedom in a large square Box of Massie Gold the Seal of the Freedom hanging at it enclosed in a Box of Gold set all over with large Diamonds Toward the beginning of Ianuary Her Royal Highness was brought to Bed of a Daughter Christen'd at St. Iames's by the Bishop of Durham by the Name of Catherina Laura the Duke of Monmouth being God-father and the Lady Mary and the Lady Anne God-mothers The Term begining at the latter end of Ianuary Sir Francis North the King's Attorney-General was sworn Lord chief-Chief-Justice of the Common-Pleas in the room of Sir Iohn Vaughan deceased In the beginning of February his Majesty caused several Orders and Resolutions concerning Papists to be publish'd That the Conviction of Popish Recusants should be encouraged quickned and made Effectual That no Person of what Condition or Quality soever should presume to say Mass in any part of this Kingdom That all Persons born within His Majesties Dominions being in Orders by Authority deriv'd from the Church of Rome should depart the Kingdom by a short time prefix'd That none of His Majesties Subjects should presume to send their Children to be Educated in any Popish Colledges or Seminaries upon a strict Penalty That none of his Majesties Subjects being Popists or so reputed should presume to come into His Majesties Presence into White Hall St. James's or any place where His Majesties Court should be And Lastly That care should be taken for the suppression of Conventicles Forrein Affairs 1674. The first thing that presented it self of most Importance beyond Sea this Year was that the King of France gave order to quit all his Conquests in the Netherlands belonging to the States of Holland except Maestricht The States also to be rid of so great a trouble as the Bishop of Munsteri makes Peace with him the Baron D' Issola signing the Articles on the behalf of the Emperor The chief Articles whereof were That the Bishop should restore all places taken during the War That the Treaty of Cleves should be punctually observ'd And that the King of
Trim 164. Preston in Lancashire 178. Dunbar 273 Worcester 397 Beaufort encountered by Argier Pyratâ—s 546 Slain 576 Bâ—nnet Sir Humphrey 404 Benson Captain Executed 270 Beaumont a Minister Murthered at Pontfraict 227 Berkenhead Sir John Knighted 512 Berkley Sir John 98. Berkley Sir John and Col. Walter Slingsby 258 Bernard's Treachery rewarded 395 Betteley John Quartered 404 Bishops 12. Accused of high Treason to the Tower ten of them 26. Their Charge ibid. Restored to their Honours 502 Biddle an Infamous seducer 369 Blake blocks up Prince Rupert at Lisbon 256 At Lisbon again 267. A wary Commander 366. At Porto-Ferina defeats the Pyrates 372. Sails for the Coast of Spain 381. His desperate attempt upon the Spaniard in Sancta Cruz Fight 391. Fires the Spanish Fleet there ibid. Dies returning into England 402. His Character and Funeral ibid. Blackburn vide Moris Blackness yielded 288 Blechingdon-house 74 Blood attempts the Crown 580 Bourdeaux French Embassador owns Cromwel 359 Boys Sir John 62 Boyle Dean his management of affair with Cromwel about Articles for the English 252 Booth Sir George riseth in Cheshire 424 Defeated and taken 425. Sent to the Tower and Examined by Vane and Haslerig 426. Obtains his liberty of the Rump uppon Bail 433 Bramhal Dr. dies 522 Bradshaw the bold President of the high Court of Iustice 106 to 217. Dies 430 Bradshaw Agent at Hamburg and Denmark 334 Brain sent General to Jamaica 381 Brandenburghers 547 Mortogh O Brian lays down last Armes in Ireland 356 Breda the place of Treaty 560. English Embassadors there ibid. Plenipotentiaries meet Peace concluded 563 Bristol intended to be surprized for the King 45 46. Taken by his Forces 47. By Fairfax 87 Bristol Earl honoured with the Garter 344 Bridgewater taken 82 Brickbat flung at the Protector 's Coach 358 Broughton Col. 296 Broughil Lord lands in Munster with Forces from England 246. Defeats David Roch and hangs the Bishop of Ross 252. Brown Major-General 57. Reconciled to the King at Holmby 128. In a new designe discovered 434 Brown Bushel beheaded 285 Brooks Lord killed 42 Brunt-Island taken 294 Brunswick besieged and surrendred 583 Buchanan's Book burnt in Scotland 526 Buckingham Duke 177. sent into Holland 584 Buckhurst Lord c. 505 Burleigh Capt. 163 Butler Col. Richard taken 242 C Cahiâ— Castle weakly yielded 521 Calamy Minister Committed 514 Canons made against the Church of Rome and justifying this 12 Capel Lord Tryed and Sentenced 228. and Beheaded his noble deportment 229 Carlisle Earl sent into Sweden 572 Cavalcaâ—e and Procession from 474 to 486 Campeach taken 520 Canary prohibited 556 Candia besieged 559. Surrendred 577 Carlisle yielded to the Scots 106 Carnarvan slain 50 51 Casimire King of Poland dies in France 590 Carrick taken by Treachery 247. Attempted in vain to be recovered from Colonel Reynolds 248 Carteret Sir George Governour of Jersey 255 Castlehaven Earl for the King in Ireland and against the Nuntio's party 238 Casualties 315 Cavaliers to depart London 258. Conspire against Cromwel 366. Their Plot again discovered 401. They Plot against the Rump 423 Ceremonies in Religion one main cause of the War opposed and murmured at 2 3 Cessation granted by the Scots upon very difficult terms 15 Cessation agreed in Ireland 53 Chains of Gold and Medals given to the chief Sea-Officers 349 Chaloner Chute Speaker dies 416 Chancery regulated 368 Character of the Kings Iudges 196 to 203 Charles Prince in the Downs 175. At Goree in Holland 176 Charles the second Proclaimed King by dispersed papers 225 Chester Charter taken away 427 Chichister City 42 Chepstow-Castle taken by Sir Nicholas Kemish 171 St. Christophers and the Cariby Islands subdued 307 Christmass day Celebrated 398 City Alarm'd with a pretended Plot 403 City invite Parliament and Army to dinner 429. Send Sword-bearer to Gen. Monke 435. Their Gates and Portcullices pulled down 437 City and Companies feasts the General 438 Their joy upon the King's return 453 Lend the King Money 575 528 551 City Building begins 556 Citadels built in Scotland 313 Claypool's Lady dies buried 404 Dr. Clargis also Mr. Caryl Minister c. sent to Gen. Monke in Scotland 432 Clanrickard Marq. his services 249. Substituted Lord-Governour of Ireland 251. Defeated by Col. Axtel 277. Lays down his Arms 324 Clubmen 83 Clement Gregory 255 Clifford Lord made Lord Treasurer 588. Resignes his Staff 591 Clogher Bishop defeated 267 Clonmel yielded after a stout resistance 252 Colchester Siege 175 Cock-matches and Horse-races prohibited 359 Committee appointed for inspection of Charters 381. Committee of Safety 429. Like not themselves declare for another Parliament 433 Common-prayer abolished 69 Commonwealth altered by Cromwel 338 Composition 88 Compton Dr. made Bishop of Oxford 599 Commissioners in Scotland 166 Commission of the Great Seal altered 359 Commissioners for approbation of Ministers 359 Commissioners to treat with the King at the Isle of Wight 183 Commissioners to General Monke from the City 436 Commissioners to the King at Breda arrive at the Hague 447 Commissioners of the Treasury 563. To take account of publick Money ibid. To hear Seamens complaints 564 Cologne Treaty 594 Colmaer Battle 601 Colliers the Dutch designe 337 Confederate party of Irish Rebels 250 Confirmation of Acts 500 Constable Sir William dies and buried in Hen. 7th's Chappel 373 Contents of the Kings Declaration from Breda 445 Convocation in England grant 5th part of their Livings to Scotch War 12 Convention in Ireland 440 Conway Lord defeated 13 Coronation of the King 475 to 496 Cotterel Sir Charles sent to Brussels 532 Court erected for rebuilding the City 556 County-troops established 373 Councellors several Privy-Councillors made 584 Covenant first in Scotland what 7. Taken 45. Burnt by the Hangman 498 to 500 Council of State erected 226. New chosen 258 named by Cromwel 343. Supream power named by the Rump 421. A new one appointed 435 Courts of Iustice in Ireland 332 Courts â—it in the interval of the Rupture by Lambert 343 Coot Sir Charles defeats the Irish 250 267 305. His Stratagem on Galloway in Ireland for a free Parliament 438. Died 503 Cooper a Minister Executed 278 Corke vide Youghal Cowley Abr. dies 564 Craven Lord his Case 291 365 offered again to the Parliament but deferred by the Protector 392 Crew Dr. Bishop of Durham 599 Crosses demolished 45 Cromwel Lieutenant-General at Marston-moor at Islip 59 74 112 His Conspiracy in seizing the King at Holmby 129. Complements and Courts the King 144. And then abuseth him 147. Awes the Votes of Non-addresses 162. His Politicks on People City and King 163. Collogues the City and Parliament for fear of the Scots 165. Marcheth into Scotland 178. Makes the Scots disband 179. Treacherously surprizeth the Levellers his subtile Clemency 234. Graduated at Oxford ibid. And presented and treated by the City of London 234. Made Lord-Governour of Ireland 237. Lands there ibid. Storms Tredagh his cruelty and policy there Winter-quarter at Youghal 254. Sent for by Letters leaves Ireland and Ireton in
〈…〉 and Lambert fall out 428. Vote away Lambert's and eight more Field-commission Officers ib. Outed by Lambert 429. Reseated 43 〈…〉 ter company added to them 438. Arms defaced 446 Rupert Prince 40 44. And throughout the War Leaves Kingsale and puts to Sea with a Fleet 254. Blockt up at Lisbon 256 267. His Fleet dispersed and some taken 275. From Taulon to Sea 289. Seizeth Spanish ships why 293. In France â—37 General at Sea 550. Divides 〈…〉 yns again and fights 551 Russia Emperor 255. Embassadors Rycaut Paul returns from Constantinople 520 S. Sad condition of the Irish 333 Safety a Committee 429 Sales of the King 's Queen's Prince's Dâ—â—ns and Chapters Lands and Houses 256. Of Kings Houses agreed on but avoyded by Cromwel â—â—â— Salisbury River begun to be made 〈…〉 â—â—â— Sanzeime Battle 600 Salmasius his Royâ—l defence 236 Salters-Hall Commissioners for sale of prisoners Estates stopt 359 Sanderson Bishop dies 514 Saul Major Executed 278 Sandwich Earl keeps the Sea 528. Takes the Dutch East-Indie-fleet 541. He is sent Embassador into Spain 545. Arrives at Madrid 550. Sent to Portugal 569 Scalborough to the King by Brown Bushel 44. Yielded to the Parliament 193 Savoy and Genoa at odds 547 566 590. Saxony Duke installed Knight of the Garter by Proxey 580 Scilly Island rendred by Sir John Greenvile 288 289 Scot Robinson sent to meet Gen. Monk 435 Scotch troubles about English Liturgy and Book of Canons 3. Arm 1638. And desire the King of France's assistance 9. Cunningly agree upon a Pacification abuse the King who is betrayed by his Servants 10. War resumed proclaimed Rebels treated with soon after 15. Peace ratified in Parliament ibid. Favour the Parliaments cause 35. Enter England with an Army for the Covenant 56. At Hereford 87. Iuggle with and sell the King 120. Parliament dispute about the disposal of the King 115 Commissioners sence of the Parliaments Bills and Proposals Presbyters murther sâ—veral Scotch Gentlemen 164. Prepare a War under Hamilton 165 166. Enter England under Duke Hamilton 177. Defeated 178. Hamilton prisoner ibid. Scotland detests the Murther of the King and proclaims Charles the second at Edinburgh and expostulates with the Regicides at Westminster 232 Scots defeat a Royal party in the North of Scotland 333. Send Commissioners to the King 233. Defeated in Ulster in Ireland by Sir Charles Coot 247. They send Commissioners to the King 257. Their Names Except against Malignants their other terms 257. They endeavour to unite 274 Cavaliers admitted into Trust 282. Pass an Act of Oblivion 290. Encamped in Torwood 292. Noblemen taken at Elliot in Scotland and sent Prisoners to the Tower others of the Nobility submit 302. The reasons 304. Kirk reject the English Vnion 307. Deputies ordered to be chosen by the Commissioners 310. The affairs of the Kingdom ibid. Several Scots Earls and Noblemen taken after Worcester 298 New Great Seal 56. Great Seal broken 128 Sea-fight the first between us and the Dutch in the Downs an account of it 315 to 320 Second Sea-fight between Sir Geo Ayscue and De Ruyter at Plymouth 325 Third Sea-fight between Blake and De Wit in the North-Foreland 326 327. Fourth Sea-fight at Portland 335 Fifth Sea-fight at Leghorn betwixt Captain Appleton and Van Gallen 337 Sixth Sea-fight betwixt Gen. Monke Dean and Blake and Van Tromp behinde the Goodwyn-Sands 345 Seventh Sea-fight betwixt Gen. Monke and Tromp 346 to 349 Sea-men encouraged 534 Secluded Members restored and reseated Sieges and Skirmishes in Ireland 274 Selden John dies 366 Seneffe Battle 601 Serini beats the Turk 52. Is killed 533 Sexby Col. dies 398 Shaftsbury Earl Lord Chancellor 588 Dr. Sheldon Arch-bishop of Canterbury 523 Sheriffs discharged of expenses at Assizes 401 Ship-money voted illegal 17. The nature of it 16 17 Ships blown up neer London-bridge 361 Shrewsbury 38 39 71 Sickness in London 539. Abates 544 Skippon Major-General Articles for the Infantry at Lestithiel 58 Skirmishes Brill Ast-ferry 64 Slanning Sir Nicholas 46 Slingsby Sir Henry decoyed 304. Tryed and Beheaded 404 Smith Sir Jeremy keeps the Mediterranean Seas 544 Soissons Count Embassador hither 456 Sonds Freeman kills his Brother and is hanged 380 Southampton Earl 163 Spalding-Abby fell and killed 23 persons 380 Spaniard owns the English Commonwealth 278 Sprague Sir Edward sent into Flanders 569. Commands in the Streights 578. Destroys the Algerines 581. Returns 583. Spoyls the Dutch fishing 588 Stacy Edmond Executed 404 States of England pretended declare the maintenance of Laws 227. Are guilty of the Irish Rebellion with which they taxed the King 237. Erect a new Council of State 283. Proclaim the King Traitor and are in great fear and dispair at his entring England 294 Stamford Earl 42 Statues of the late King and King James pulled down and the Inscription writ under that at Old Exchange 269 Steel Recorder of London refuseth to be Knighted by Oliver 357. Made Lord-Chancellor of Ireland 366. Made Lord Chief-Baron of England 373 Stawel Sir John ordered for Tryal 229. At High Court of Iustice 279 Sterling-Castle taken 361 Sterry Oliver's Chaplain his Blasphemy 409 Strafford Earl Commander in chief against the Scots 13. Accused to the Parliament 15. To the Black-rod and Tower 16. Tryal 18. His willing resignation his attainder ibid. And deâ—th 19 St. Germain a Proclamation against him 602 St. John and Strickland Embassadors to the Dutch their business and departure 285 286 287. St. John 357. Stickles in the Council of State for terms with the King 440 Stratton Baron Lord Hopton dies 328 Straughan Col. 280 Stroker 540 Stuart Lord John killed 57. With Sir John Smith Col. Scot and Sandys and Colonel Manning ibid. Stuart Lord Bernard slain 89 Submission of the Irish 324 Sunderland Earl slain 51 Summons for persons of Integrity to take upon them the Government by Council of state 345 Sums of Money raised by the Parliament Supplies to Jamaica 377 Surrenders several 91. As Basing Tiverton Exeter Sheford 91 92 Surrenders in Ireland 270 Surinam 557 Surrey Petitioners assaulted 172 Sweden Queen supplies Montross 255. Complies with our States 358. Receives Whitlock ibid. Gives our Soveraign an interview 376 Sweden King invades Poland 373 Swedes stand firm for England 549. Besiege Bremen 559. Mediations excepted 560. Embassador dies in London 566. Makes peace with the Dutch 567. King presented with the Garter 572. Installed by Proxie 580. Ioyn with the French 597 Sydenham Major slain at Linlithgow 288 Syndercomb's Plot and death 384 385. T Tabaco taken by the English 591 Tables erected in Scotland 7 Tadcaster 42 Taffalette routed and slain 579. Moors beaten 581. Earl of Middleton Governour and makes peace with the Moors 594 Taaff Lord sent against Cromwel 246 Taaff Luke Major-General 248 Tangier 504. Iews expelled 525. Lord Bellasis Governour there 537. Moors beaten there 573 Tartar taken in Germany 526 Taylor the Kings Resident with the Emperour 329 Taxes a mark on them 331 Teviot Earl killed 527 Temple Sir William concludes â— League
Impeachment of high treason against the Earl of Strafford he is committed and Sir George Ratcliff sent for out of Ireland Dr. Williams Bishop of Lincoln released Mr. Pryn Dr. Bastwick and Mr. Burton received by the Londoners in pomp Sir John Finch Lord Keeper and Francis Windebanck Secretary of State charged with high treason they withâ—rew John James a Romish Catholique stabs Iustice Howard in Westminster-Hall The Case of Shipmoney stated The Iudges opinions thereupon Shipmoney vâ—tâ—d illegal The Iudgment of the Excheqâ—â—r agâ—inst Mr. Hambden vacated Mr. Hollis delivers a Charge against the A.B. Cant. the Scots do the like he is voted guilty of high treason and committed The King signs the Bill for Triennial Parliaments The Houses oppose Bishops temporal jurisdiction The Earl of Straffords Tryal Sir David Fowls and Sir William Pennyman witnesses against the Earl the last of whom wept He is condemned as guilty of high treason The faction make a hideous cry of Iustice. The King with much reâ—uctancy signs the Bill of Attainder A notable remarque concerning Sir Alexander Carew Those Bishops that consented to the Earls death escaped not the fury of the times Prince of Orange warries the Princess Mary Sir Dudley Carleton the Earls Secretary brings him word of his Majesties having passed the Bill of Attainder Life in Mr. Lloyds Memoires The English Army disband the Scotch receive a vast sum of money and return home The King visits his Parliament of Edinburgh The Earl of Leicester made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland The Parliament adjourned The faction encreaseth and grows strong The King settles the affairs of Scotland A Rebellion in Ireland The King returns from Scotland and is magnificently received at London The faction sâ—anderously charge the King and Arch-B Cant. with inclining to Popery Walker an Iron-monger thâ—ows a Libel into the Kings 〈◊〉 he is impriâ—oned Sir Richard Gurney Lord Mayor of London Most of the Irish Nobility revolted Sir Phelim Oneal their chief commandâ—r A full account of the Irish Rebellion and proceedings of the War there Roger Moor the chief instrument in the plot The Lord Viscount Gormanston one of their complices Owen O Conally discovers the Plot. Iuâ—â—ice Parsons and Sir Jo. Borlace double their Watches Mac Mahon and Mac-Guire their Lodgings watched Mac Mahon and his men after some resistance are sâ—cured and confess the Plot. The Lord Mac-guire seized The Council warn the people of the Rebellion by Proclamation The Lord Blaweys House Wife and Children surprised The Newry surprized with several other places of strength The Rebels take Dundalk besiege Tredagh They commit horrid Massacres in sundry places 1800 Pâ—rsons drowned 150000 Persons destroyed in the Province of Ulster only in five moâ—ths time Sir Phelim Oneal defeatâ—d at Duâ—dalk Dublin in great streights A Regiment raised for Sir H. Titchburn another for Sir Charles Coot Expresses sent to the King the Lord Lieutenant and the Parliament Owen O Conally rewarded with 200 l. in money and a pension of 200 l. per anum The Earl of Ormond Lieu. Gen. marched to Dublin with divers other Captains Major Roper with 600 Foot to Tredagh With 50 Horse under Sir Pat. Weems surprized by the Rebels and routed Some Rebels executed at Wicklo Luke Tool encounters Sir Charls Coote and is puâ— to flight The Lords and Gentry of the English Pale declare for the Roman Catholick Religion The Rebels in Lemster 20000 strong Sir Simon Harcourt arrives with a Regiment at Tredagh The Rebels are disheartned and defeated by Sir Henry Titchburn who recovered Dundalk Sir Phelim O Neal escapes to Ulster Sir George Monro recovers Newry and do's the Rebels much damage Tumults from London affront the King and Court Sir William Mason heads the Gentlemen of Grays-Inne to White-Hall prostering them and himself to his Majesty as a guard for his person The King receives them with respect The Tumultuous rabble countenanced by some Grandees of the faction Whereat the King is much troubled He demands five Members of the House of Commons and the Lord Kimbolton The House vote it a breach of priviledge They accuse several Bishops as guilty of high Treason They are Committed The Irish are proclaimed Rebels The King declares his charge against the five members The Parliament imprisons Sir Edw. Herbert The Tumults increase and the King retires to Hampton-Court A rumour concerning the Lord Digby Col. Lunsford committed The Scots interpose themselves the Parliament demands the Tower and the Militia Buckinghamshire men petition in behalf of Mr. Hambden The King leaves Hampton-Court the Queen and Princess of Aurange take ship for Holland The Parliament vote the Queen a Traytor The Militia the principal difference between King and Parliament The Commission of Arry An Ordinance of Parliament for ordering the Militia The Parliament send several Papers to the King The King is much troubled thereat and answers The Parliament declare their resolution of putting the Kingdom into a posture of defence The Earl of Warwick made Admiral of England The King answers the Parliaments Declation with another He offers a free Pardon to his people and propounds a râ—â—â—â—ciliation The faction set forth another Declaration concerning the Militia The King sends a Message to the Parliament concerning Ireland They plead the priviledge of Parliament The King proclaims against Papists The Yorkshire Gentry desire a right understanding between King and Parliament The King returns a gratious answer He resolving to go for Ireland sends a Message to the Parliament Sir John Hotham admitted into Hull The Parliament Petition the King for the Militia they insist upon the dangers of Popery Hull is Garrison'd and the King is troubled that they should Petition him and at the instant carve at their one pleasures He excuseth his repriving of some Iâ—suites The Parliament refuse to be governed by Commissioners in his Majesties absence The King resolves to possess himself of Hull But is denyed entrance by Sir John Hotham who stood on the Walls and â—eard himself proclaimed a Traytor The Duke of York and Prince â—lector bring in the Town are suffered to depart The King retreatâ—d to Beverly writes to the Mayor and Garrison of Hull And to the Parliament for Iâ—â—tice against Hotham Tâ—e Parliament order the Lord Liâ—â—tenant of Lincoln to â—uppress all Forcâ—s raiâ—ed against Hull Sir Richard Gurney Loâ—d Mayor 〈◊〉 London sent to the Tower The Parliament Authorize Sir John Hotham to raise the Trained Bands The King sâ—mmons the Gâ—ntry of York for the security of his Person The Parliament Conclude the K. intendeth War They take up Arms â—nder preâ—ence of râ—scuing the King from his evil Couâ—sel and prohibit all resort to the King They publish a Râ—monstrance Which is answâ—red by the King Theâ—â—aviâ—e the Scots to their 〈◊〉 Thâ— Scoâ—s pretend a zâ—al for his Majesty bâ—t deâ—â—aâ—â— for the Parliament and have their thanks Tâ—e Parliament set forth another Remonstrance which the King answers They send him 19 Propositions to York The King returns an answer
Windsor castle Th. Andrews Anth. Stapely Th. Horton Recruit to the Long Parl. John Fry a Yeoman of Dorsetshire an Arrian Thom. Hammond Bâ—other to Dr. Hammond the Kings Iaylor Isaac Pennington Lord Mayor of London Simon Meyne of Buckinghamshire died in the Tower Sir Hardress Waller a Souldier of Fortune Will Hâ—veningham Esq 〈◊〉 antient Family in Suffolk Henry Marten Owen Row a Silk-man of London Augustine Garland a person relating to the Law Henry Smith one of the Six Clerks in Chancery Robert Titchbourn Lord Mayor of London George Fleetwood James Temple Thomas Wait. Peter Temple a London Linneâ—-draper Bâ—â—gesâ— for Leicester Robert Lilburn Brother to John Lilburn Gilbert Millington a Lawyer Vincent Potter an upstart Member John Downs a Citizen of London and a Colonel Thomas Wogan an obscure person John Lisle a Gentleman and Lawyer President of several High Courts of Iustice. Will. Say Esq. a Lawyer and Deputy-speaker of the House of Commons Valentine Walton Brother in law to Cromwel and Governour of Lyn. Edward Whaley a Wollen-draper his Family of Nottinghamshire a good souldier Edm. Ludlow the son of a Traytor a daring souldier Sir Michael Livesey of Kent John Hewson a Shoo-maker dead in Exile a bold Commander Will. Goffe a Salters Apprentice and a bold Commander Cor. Holland a servant to Sir Hen. Vane Thomas Challoner a great speech-maker against the K. Will. Cawley a Brewer of Chichester Nic. Love son to Dr. Love of Winchester John Dixwel Governour of Dover Castle Daniel Blagrave a recruit for Reading Daniel Broughton a Clerk Edward Dendy Serjeant at Arms. John Hutchison fined Francis Lassels fined Lord Munson Ja Challoner Esq. Sir Hen. Mildmay Ro. Wallop Esq. Sir Ja Harrington and John Phelps their Estates Forfeited drawn to Tyburn and Imprisoned during life The High Court of Iustice sits Jan. 20. A crimson Velvet-chair and Cushion for the President Silence made the Hall-gate set open Col. Thomlinson commanded to bring his prisoner He is brought to the Bar a chair of crimson-Velvet set for him Silence made the Act for the Tryal of Charles Stuart King of England read The Names of the Commissioners read The Presidens speech to the King Cook Solicitor-General offers to speak is forbid by the King He proceeds The Charge read President demands the Kings Answer His Majesty refuseth to Answer and disowns the Authority of the Court. Proves his Title to the Crown by succession not Election Is prevented by the Presidents insolent rebukes Who urgeth for an Answer The King still refuseth demanding their Authority The President answers their Authority is Gods and the Kingdoms The Court riseth The head of the Kings staff falls down â—e stoops and takes it up Some cry God save the King others Iustice and Execution by Axtels directions The Court sits the King comes in the people shout Solicitor moves for the Kings Answer President insists upon it His Majesty still denies the Authority of the Court. Refuseth to plead and offers to shâ—w his Reasons Here the King would have delivered his Reasons but was not suffered His Majesty presseth to shew his Reasons but cannot be permitted He desires to Demur He is over-ruled by the Court and Interrupted The Cleâ—k reâ—d The Guards charged to take away their Prisoner The Court order the default and contempt to be Recorded The King guarded to Sir Ro. Cottons The Court adjourns The Court sits again The King comes The Sollicitor moves the Court for Iudgement The Presidents speech in behalf of the Court he demands a positive answer from the King His Majesty desires to speak for the Liberties of the people but is not permitted till he gives his Answer to Guilty or not Guilty 〈…〉 to give any particular answer desires 〈◊〉 to shew his Reasons is interrupted again and again The Clerk reads His Majesty justifies his proceedings and refuseth to Answer to the Charge The Guards ordered to take charge of their Prisoner The King goes forth and the Court adjourns His Majesties Reasons against the Iurisdiction of the Court which be intended to speak in Court but was hindered No proceeding just but what is warranted by the Laws of God or man No Impeachment can lie against the King The House of Commons cannot erect a Court of Iudicature Nor are the Membeâ—â— of this House Coâ—â—issioned by the people of England The Priviledges oâ—â—aâ—liameâ—t Violated The higher House excluded and the major part of the lower deterred from sitting The frame of Government chaâ—ged The Court sits Silence commanded The King comes the souldiers cry for Iustice. His Majesty desires to be heard but not permitted The Court withdraws Serejant at Arms withdraws the King The Court returns resolving to proceed The King brought into the Court he urgeth to be heard and adviseth the Court against a haâ—ty Iudgement The Presidents speech in defence of the Courts proceedings His Majesty is interrupted Silence commanded the Sentence read The Charge read The King required to give his Answer he refuseth The King guarded awaâ— He is abused by the Souldiers disturbed in his Devotions His admirable patience He desires to see his Children and Doctor Juxon The King tempted with new Proposals from some Grandees of the Army B. Juxon preacheth before him at Saint James ' s. His Maj. giveth his Blessing to the Duke of Gloucester and the Lady Elizabeth His pious advice to them The Duke of Gloucester 's reply The Lady Elizabeths Relation of what passed between his Majesty and her He adviseth her to read Bp. Andrew 's Sermons Hookers Policy and Bp. Laud against Fisher. A Committee appointed to consider of the time and place for Execution They agree upon the open street before White-hall the morrow following The Waâ—raâ—â— for the Kings Exâ—â—utâ—â—â— Sigâ—â—d by Joh. Bradshaw Tho Gray Ol. Cromwel 〈◊〉 to Col. Fâ— Hacker 〈◊〉 Hunks anâ— Liâ—â— Coâ—oâ—el â—hray Factious Ministers appointed to attend the King he refuseth to confer with them Bp. of London readeth prayers to him and administers the Sacrament The King brought to White-hall Mr. Seymor presents his Majesty with a Letter from the Prince The Kings friends â—arbarously uâ—â—d Engines to force the King 〈…〉 had â—â—sâ—ted His Majesty had â—ot spoâ—en bâ—t that â—therwise he might be thought to submit to the guilt Hâ— began not 〈◊〉 War spanâ— Hoâ—sâ—s His Majesâ—y lays not the 〈…〉 the two 〈◊〉 iâ—l â—â—struments the cauâ—e of it 〈…〉 Sentence puâ—â—shed with another His Majesty forgives all the world evâ—â— the caâ—sers 〈◊〉 his death 〈…〉 waâ— to Pâ—ace Conquest an ill way seldom 〈◊〉 To give God his due and the Kâ—ng his 〈◊〉 is the right way Give God his due in setâ—ing the Church As to the King it concerning 〈◊〉 hiâ— Majesty â—aves it Peoples Liberty consiâ—â—s in having Government not sâ—aring in it His Majesty the Martyr of the People His Majestie deâ—â—ares hâ—s Râ—ligioâ— * Afterwards Sir William Clerk The King makes ready for Execution Dr. Juxon comforts him It is known for to give it the Prince His Majesty
uncertainty of the Kings intentions in the matters declared The Marquess Hamilton being arrived at London gave the King an account of the whole business and according to his new instructions returned back again by their appointed time the 15 th of August 1638. and entred presently into a Treaty with them about the manner of calling the General Assembly which they would not hear of but that a General Assembly should be immediately called and of the due Elections thereto when they were met themselves should be the judge For otherwise there would of necessity be some prelimitations which the freedom thereof might not suffer Upon this Emergency all things growing worse and worse the Marquess was forced upon another journey to consult the King the Covenanters concluding that if he returned not before the 21 of September they would of themselves Indict this Convention who concluded of giving that Kingdom the utmost satisfaction and with a Commission to summon this Assembly returned But the day after the Covenanters contrary to promise made an Election in one of the Presbyteries Adjacent of themselves whereas throughout the Kingdom according to the directions of the Tables Lay-Elders and Ministers were chosen together a thing never seen before in that Kingdom This Assembly the Source of those calamities which afterwards embroyl'd and enslaved that Nation was held at the City and University of Glasgow in November 1638. in which they so carried and packt the Elections that there was scarce one Dissenter from those Resolutions they had profest in their Covenant The Bishops were Totally excluded from sitting or voting therein but were cited to compeer as offenders and answer their charge Against these proceedings and the illegality of the constitution of this Assembly they first protested and tendered their reasons but they would not be admitted for such so that the Lord Commissioner seeing no hope of Justice Law or Reason or Loyalty taking place there at seven days end dissolved them by a Proclamation which they took no further notice of then only by opposing another Protestation wherein they declared that the Assembly ought not to be nor was as dissolved until such time as those ends so often before expressed were fully attained and so proceeded in their Session Strange and desperate was the Pride of this Assembly far beyond the Popes infallible Councils taking upon them to be the Supreme Judicatory on earth above all Laws and Parliaments and King himself as Christs Council and that if the Judges and other Ministers of State should not obey their Commandment they might proceed to sentence of Excommunication against them Which was effectually put in practice afterwards against the Bishops and their adherents before they armed themselves otherwise against their Soveraign Yet notwithstanding they did pretend that the King should he be satisfied of the equity and lenity of their proceedings would no doubt comply with them in the matters they Petitioned for which more exasperated his Majesty than all the Violations and Usurpations of his Authority The Earl of Arguile who had hitherto kept fair with the King and was one of his Privy Council there now owned the Covenanters and professed his adherence to their cause It is believed he was one of the first that stirred in this unfortunate business and that therefore the better to satisfie him the King after the first Pacification made him a Marquess More certain it is he was the last that suffered in it as in the conclusion of this Chronicle will appear I have insisted the longer on this story because the general Commotions that followed it ran almost the same parallel in their respective commencements in the three Kingdoms and to shew that neither prudence nor arms both which were seasonably applyed could stop or prevent those judgements of Confusion and Ruine which soon after ensued this Tragical Prologue in a miserable catastrophe For the Scots presently began to arm having first sent to the French King craving his aid and assistance which was readily proffered them by Cardinal Richlieu his chief Minister of State who was supposed to have fomented the quarrel from the very beginning to quit scores with the King of England for siding with the Rochellers in the beginning of his Raign But before any blood was drawn came over the Queen-Mother whom the generality of the people took for a Prognostick or ill Omen of a War or some Rupture approaching Many scandals were raised against the King for her admission hither but all things were gone too far beyond the contribution of her advice to make her guilty of our troubles However she seemed the Comet that did portend and foretel them the like Commotions having happened for some years past in the places of her residence The Scots towards the end of the year 1638 had gotten together a competent Army raised by the Authority and Ordinance of the aforesaid Assembly for the pretended defence of the Kingdom its Religion and Laws Nor did the King neglect the affairs of that Kingdom but was arming here in England with all the speed his Purse would afford which was then in a low ebb Yet by the Loans of the Nobility Gentry and Clergy he had raised a gallant Army with which he marched towards the borders Over this Army the Earl of Arundel was made General the Earl of Essex Lieutenant-General of the Foot and the Earl of Holland Lieutenant-General of the horse A Fleet also was rigged and well manned and set to Sea under the command of the aforesaid Marquess Hamilton which soon after came to an Anchor in the Frith neer Edinburgh The King being thus in readiness Emitted another Declaration wherein he taxed the Scots with several rebellious Libels for their Protestations against his commands for usurping his Authority and for refusing the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy upon account of their having taken the Covenant reiterates his resolutions of maintaining Episcopacy in that Kingdom and lays the blood if any were spilt in that quarrel upon themselves as Rebels whom he ought not longer to suffer to proceed in those undutiful and destructive courses but hoped to reduce to their former and due Obedience To which the 22 of March the said Assembly reply by an Ordinance wherein after expostulating the Kings Declaration they curse themselves if they intend any harm to England concluding their War to be meerly defensive and grounded upon the natural and Civil Law Anno Dom. 1639. THe King set forward with his Army and in April came to York and in May to Barwick where both Armies came in view one of another When the King was at York the Earls of Roxborough and Traquair two formerly of his Council and Officers of State came to him as Commissioners from the Covenanters under pretence of Treating with the King who wanting their due Commission and being suspected to have been sent on an errand purposely to tamper with the
in case of refusal or refractoriness And we are also of opinion that in such case your Majesty is sole Iudge both of the danger and when and how the same is to be prevented and avoided This was signed by all the Judges but Justice Hutton and Justice Crook whose Arguments were against it for Mr. Hambden who was sued for not paying the Twenty Shillings Taxed upon him for Shipmoney DEcember 27th 1640. Resolved by the Commons that the Charge impos'd upon the subjects for the providing and furnishing of Ships and the Aâ—â—esments for that purpose commonly called Shipmoney are against the Laws of the Realm the Subjects right of property and contrary to former resolutions in Parliament and to the Petition of Right Resolved That the Extrajudicial opinions of the Iudges published in the Star-chamber and inrolled in the Courts of Westminster are in whole and in every part of them against the Laws of the Realm the Liberty of the Subject c. This was also so resolved by the Lords and by the Parliament ordered That a Vacat be brought into the Parliament-house of all those Records concerning Ship-money Which was accordingly done February 27. the same Year the 16 of the King Die Veneris 26 die Februarii 1640. UPon the report of the right honourable the Lords Committees appointed to consider of the way of vacating of the Iudgment in the Exchequer concerning Shipmoney It was ordered by the Lords spiritual and temporal in the High Court of Parliament assembled that the Lord Keeper or the Master of the Rolls the two Lord chief Iustices and the Lord chief Baron and likewise the chief Clerk of the Star-chamber shall bring into the Vpper House of Parliament the Record in the Exchequer of the Iudgment in Mr. Hambdens case concerning Shipmoney and also the several Rolls in each several Court of the Kings-Bench Common-Pleas Exchequer Star-chamber and Chancery wherein the Iudges extrajudicial Opinions in the Cases made touching Shipmoney be entred and that a Vacat shall be made in the Vpper House of Parliament of the said several Records And likewise the Iudgment of Parliament touching the illegality of the said Iudgments in the Exchequer and the proceedings thereupon and touching the illegality of the extrajudicial Opinions of the Iudges in the said several Courts concerning Shipmoney be annexed and apostiled unto the same And that a Copy of the Iudgment of Parliament concerning the illegality of the said Iudgment in the Exchequer and the said extrajudicial Opinions of the said Iudges concerning Shipmoney be delivered to the several Iudges of the Assize And that they be required to publish the same at the Assizes in each several County within their Circuits and to take care that the same be Entred and Enrolled by the several Clerks of Assizes And if any entry be made by any Custos Rotulorum or Clerk of Assize of the said Iudgment in the Exchequer or of the said Extrajudicial Opinions of the Iudges That several Vacats be made thereof per judicium in Paliamento by judgment in Parliament And that an Act of Parliament be prepared against the said Iudgment and extrajudicial Opinions in the proceedings touching Shipmoney Vacatur istud Recordum Judicium inde habitum per considerationem judicium Dominor spiritual temporal in Parliam irrotulamentum eorum Cancellatur The two Iustices Arguments also against it were likewise Printed and published They likewise ordered a Committee to draw up a Charge against the Archbishop of Canterbury which was done and delivered to the Lords by Mr. Hollis which was seconded with another from the Scots Commissioners upon which he was committed to the black Rod and ten weeks after voted guilty of High treason and sent to the Tower The Parliament having thus removed these men and growing every day more and more upon the affections of the people they began to hammer upon the Bill for Triennial Paliaments which soon after passed both Houses and to the universal content of the Kingdom was signed by his Majesty for which the Parliament by the Lord Littleton Keeper of the great Seal gave him their most humble and hearty thanks Some former Overtures and Propositions had been made by the Dutch Ambassadors of a Marriage between the Princess Mary the Kings eldest Daughter and William Prince of Aurange which upon the arrival of the said Prince was afterwards accomplished being well approved of by both Houses by the lower whereof a Vote passed against Bishops temporal jurisdiction which was afterwards framed into an Act passed the Lords and was confirmed by the King who in all things saving his Honour and Conscience complyed with the desires of this Parliament Now came the Earl of Straffords Tryal which after various debates about the Place was appointed in Westminster-Hall the King Queen and Prince had a place built for them the Nobility had seats at the upper end of the Court the Commons in a Committee sate below several of whom as Mr. Pym Mr. St. Iohn and others managed his Accusation the Earl of Arundel was Lord High Steward and the Earl of Lindsey Lord High Constable The Charge or Impeachment consisted of Twenty eight Articles all which he so learnedly and warily answered defending himself with such sinewy Eloquence and warded the points of his accusation so dexterously that the Lords could not find the guilt which the Commons so highly exclaimed against as the greatest treason imaginable Among other witnesses Sir David Fowles and Sir William Pennyman appeared against the Earl the first of whom the Earl declared was his enemy and the latter a Member of the House of whom it was observed that having testifyed against the Earl he could not abstain from weeping Anno Dom. 1641. THe Commons seeing they could not condemn him by this proceeding they betook themselves to another by Bill of Attainder which conceding the matter of Fact sufficiently proved against him at his Tryal and by the Testimony also of the Parliament of Ireland who had prosecuted him there for the said offences condemned him as guilty of high treason This Bill stuck for a while with the Lords till the Tumults coming down and stopping their Coaches and menacing to post up the names of those who favoured him under the name of Straffordians with an impetuous cry of Iustice frighted many of the Peers to assent to the Bill which yet passed but by the plurality of seven voices against him No sooner was it past there but the Commons presented it to the King for him to sign who very much declined it but being over-perswaded by the dangers that were represented as inevitable consequents of his refusal and being also desired by the said Noble Earl himself to give the Parliament content though through the mediation of his own blood His Majesty after advice with the Bishops did pass that fatal Bill which proved the Ax against his own life I cannot pass the Tragedy of
by night which was the usual course carried Links in their hands like right boutefeus to light their Complices and Partakers in this monstrous Riot So that the danger appearing in a method and form the dire prognostick of Battalia and flighting the opposition of a Corps du Guard erected over against Scotland-yard which was maintained by the Trained Bands of St. Clements and St. Martins the Gentlemen of the honourable Society of Grayes-Inne under the leading of Sir William Mason in good order ranked two and two marched from their randezvouz at Covent-Garden to White-Hall and proffered their Loyal Service to the King as a Guard to his person against those formidable tumults They were received by the King with all respect and acknowledgements of this seasonable tender which manifested that Law Reason and Civility were disengaged from the Rebellion but the Kings sudden remove dispensed with their Duty The King sensible from what quiver this Arrow came and not longer able to endure these indignities which he had so often moved the two Houses though in vain to prevent or punish resolved to seize on those Grandees who principally abetted those tumults and also had had a deep hand in the Scotch troubles having intercepted Letters of correspondence between them and the Covenanters the untoward Issue and Event whereof as whereby his English Subjects had presumed to obtain by tumults the same demands lay yet heavy on his heart and boded the fame conclusions Taking therefore with him a Guard of his own domestick Servants and some Gentlemen casually then in the Court late in one of the Christmas-nights he came to the door of the House of Commons and entred and demanded five members thereof as also one of the House of Peers the Lord Kimbolton viz. Mr. Pyns Mr. Hambden Mr. Holles Mr. Stroâ—d and Sir Arthur Haslerig but they having notice of the Kings coming to this purpose by one Langrish a Servant of the Queens had time and but just enough to withdraw themselves into Westminster-Hall where they lay hid in the Kings-bench-Court until the business of that night was over and then betook themselves into London to the Guild-Hall whereto the House not long after adjourned it self in a grand Committee for their safeguard and security This attempt of the King the House presently voted a breach of priviledge and ran so high as to complain of evil Councellours about the King demanding the persons of those who gave that advice to the King Nay so highly did they insist upon and urge this violation of their freedom that all the King could do gave them no satisfaction though he endeavoured to excuse it so that it continued their plea throughout the War But how it was retaliated upon them both by themselves and Oliver in the several Exclusions and Forces afterwards put upon that House needs no particular indigitation Having therefore got this claw against the King they resolve to revenge themselves on the Bishops some of whom they suspected to be the chief instruments in that business Particularly to gratifie the City whom they had wholly devoted at their service who might see the Parliaments readiness to comply with their clamours against that Venerable Order Twelve of these the Commons accused to the Lords as guilty of High Treason whereof ten were committed to the Tower and two to the Black Rod. At the same time also the Irish were proclaimed Rebels thirty Proclamations hereof being onely Printed for some reasons of State the King reserved to himself then though afterwards when the Parliament among other things taxed him with this he gave them a full and satisfactory answer as not willing to make the Irish desperate and utterly undo his Protestant Subjects who were as then far too weak to withstand so potent a Rebellion which the King was willing so far to comply with the Parliament as to declare it so For the number of them he said it was the request of the said Lords Justices of Ireland there should be but twenty as many of themselves well knew Like wise to satisfie the Parliament about that business of the five members he now declared his charge against them which consisted of several things relating to intelligence held with the Scots while declared Traytors That they trayterously endeavoured by many foul Aspersions upon his Majesty and Government to alienate the affections of the people and to make his Majesty odious to them That they trayterously endeavoured to subvert the fundamental Laws and Government of this Kingdom and to deprive the King of his Regal and to place on Subjects an arbitrary and illegal power That they endeavoured to draw his Majesties late Army in the North to disobedience to his Majesties command That they invited the Scots to invade England That they trayterously endeavoured the subversion of the rights and very being of Parliament That for the compleating of their trayterous designes they have endeavoured as far as in them lay by force and terrour to compel the Parliament to joyn with them in their trayterous designes and to that end countenanced and raised the tumults against the King and Parliament That they had trayterously conspired to levy and had actually levyed war against the King This was as I said before declared by the King but in hopes and order to accommodation this course being thought a good expedient thereto was laid aside and not prosecuted But the Parliament left it not so imprisoning for a while the Kings Atturney Sir Edward Herbert demanding those evil Councellours that gave this advice against the five Members to punishment Herewith the Tumults so increased about White-Hall and Westminster that the King Queen Prince and Duke of York were forced for security of their persons to retire to Hampton-Court being necessitated to take sufficient forces of his Courtiers for his guard About this time there was a false rumour raised by the Lord Digbies passing through Kingston neer London of a plot to raise Horse against the Parliament whereupon Col. Lunsford then with him was committed to Prison and this story improved into a calumny against the King The Scots now interposed themselves betwixt the King and Parliament though siding clearly with the Parliament having by Treaty agreed with them to send over 2500 men into the North of Ireland upon the English pay Through their thus taking of their parts the Parliament flew high now in their demands requiring the disposal of the Command of the Tower and the management of the Militia which being refused they desisted not but on the 26 of Ianuary Petitioned the King for them both to which the King by several reasons answered in the nagative Now again they insisted upon it as also upon the business of the five Members still to exasperate the people who cryed out against Popish Lords and Bishops sitting in Parliament to which the King answered as before and declared his readiness to pass an Act of general
wasted the Publique Treasure exhiâ—â—ted Trade decreased thousands of people murthered and infinite other mischiefs committed for all which high offences the said Charles Stuart might long since have been brought to exemplary and condign punishment Whereas also the Parliament well hoping that the restraint and imprisonment of his person after it had pleased God to deliver him into their hands would have quieted the distempers of the Kingdom did forbear to proceed judicially against him but fâ—und by sad experience that such their remisness served only to encourage him and his Complices in the continuance of their evil practices and in raising new Comâ—â—tions Rebellions and Practises For prevention of the like and greater inconveniences and to the end no Chief Officer or Magistrate may hereafter presume traiterously and maliciously to imagine or contrive the enslaving or destroying of the English Nation and to expect impunity Be it Enacted and Ordained by the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and it is hereby Enacted and Ordained that Thomas Lord Fairfax c. the other persons that actually did Siâ— and Sentence are hereafter subjoyned shall be and are appointed Commissioners and Iudges for the Hearing Trying and Iudging of the said Charles Stuart And the said Commissioners or any twenty of them shall be and are hereby Authorized and Constituted an High Court of Iustice to meet at such convenient time and places as by the said Commissioners or the major part or twenty or more of them under their Hands and Seals shall be appointed and notified by publique Proclamation in the great Hall or Palace-yard of Westminster and to adjourn from time to time and from place to place as the said High Court or the major part thereof meeting shall hold fit and to take order for the Charging of Him the said Charles Stuart with the Crimes above-mentioned and for receiving his personal Answer thereunto and for examination of Witnesses upon Oath if need be concerning the same and thereupon or in default of such answer to proceed to final Sentence according to Iustice and the merit of the Cause to be executed speedily and impartially And the said Court is hereby Authorized and required to chuse and appoint all such Officers and Attendants and other Circumstances as they or the Major part of them shall in any sort judge necessary or useful for the ordering and good managing of the Premises And Thomas Lord Fairfax the General with all Officers of Iustice and other well-affected persons are hereby Authorized and Required to be aiding and assisting to the said Commissioners in the due execution of the Trust hereby committed to them Provided that this Ordinance and the Authority hereby granted do continue for the space of one Month from the Date of the making hereof and no longer This Act was followed by a Proclamation Ianuary 9. made by Serjeant Dendy by sound of Drums and Trumpets and Guards of Horse and Foot in Westminster-Hall whereby notice was given that the Commissioners of the pretended High Court of Justice were to sit down on the morrow and that all those that had any thing to say against Charles Stuart King of England might be heard The like was done in Cheap-side and the old Exchange The Actors or Tragical Persons in this Ordinance were stumbled at several illegalities and irregularities thereof which in a presumptuous confidence as drunken men passing over a dangerous Bridge then yet slighted But when it was perfected and the consummatory part of the Seal to be affixed and the whole result to be warranted thereby they were at a stand as knowing the Kings Seal could not be made use of against him while the Army-Familiars inspired them that the King and his Seal was alike unnecessary and that they must now according to their advice act by themselves and their own Authority which direction they followed and gave order for a new Seal to their ensuing Acts as hereafter We have omitted the Cypher-Names specified in the said pretended Act because cause many of them upon reluctancie of Conscience or more happy perswasions of Friends did not undertake the Impiety as also because we would not defame the Names of those Lords and Peers of the Kingdom and the Judges whose Function instructed them to the contrary that were invited and listed onâ—e by the same Treasonable Combination to be partakers in that Guilt but those that appeared and prosecuted their Power and are worthy of their brand are with their due Character here subjoyned The Kings Iudges marked with †are those that were Executed †Oliver Cromwel an English Monster a shame to the British Chronicle a name of ruine and mischief a Native of Huntingdon-shire who needs no other Character than this Chronicle being the Troubler of our Israel whose ruines were his Grave yet hath found another under Tyburn Ian. 30. †Henry Ireton Commissary-General of Horse Cromwel's Second espoused his Daughter as well as his Designes so like Father-in-law like Son-out-law and renterised in the same manner and at the same time 1660. †Iohn Bradshaw President Cum nemini obtrudi potest itur ad Hunc there was no such Villain to be found among the Long-Robâ— who drowned all his wickedness and false practises not to be compared under this most flagitious and scelerate parricide of the King A Cheshire-man born but hateful to his Country more abominable to his Name most odious to his Nation whose hopeful recovery by the first endeavours of his own County under Sir George Booth in 1659. he so pined at that taking a just desperation he died Two Terms before the Perpetration of the Kings Murther he had took the Oath of Allegeance as a Serjeant at Law being called to that Dignity from the scolding and railing of Guild-hall London to convitiate and reproach his most peaceable Sovereign He grew conscious as to the safety of his Body of his Fact when he shewed his aversness to Oliver the very name of a Single Person frighting him but so cauterized as to the salvation of his Soul that he departed in a most damnable obstinacie and maintenance of his Fact presuming there was no High Court of Iustice in Heaven or else that he was judged already The price of this Villany was the Presidencie of their Council of State the Lord Cottington's Estate and the Dutchy of Lancaster with some Advance-Money like Iudas for his undertaking It is observed he died in his Bed advantageously Commented on by the Imps and Abettors of his villany by others at least taken as a note of admiration leaving his Name and Memory to be tortured for ever The good Providence of God removing this wretch and the most implacable Enemies of our Sovereign by the same easie hand which might otherwise have been died in blood with which it restored Him to his Kingdoms and his people to their Laws Liberty and Religion he was likewise digged out of Westminster-Abby and thrown under
drain the Fountain of his Masters life and Honour * Sir Iohn Bourchier another Yorkshire Knight an Independent Mercenary who from the Crisis of their prevalencie workt for them and that he might not be out of the way when occasion should serve them diligently dined at Hell and to compleat his work consented to this Murther * Col. Purefoy a Warwickshire Gentleman and Governour once of Coventry a great Zealot against Crosses and no less against Crowns He imbrued his hands in the Blood of his Prince but could not tell for the ease of his Conscience upon his death-bed how he should wipe them * Iohn Blakestone formerly a Shop-keeper in Newcastle where pretending himself a Presbyterian while the Scots were there he was chosen Burgess for that Town and jugling a while among the Independent Faction learnt a worse Trade and the wicked Craft of King-killing * Sir William Constable a Yorkshire-man one who sold his Lands to Sir Marmaduke after Lord Langdale in the beginning of our Troubles but when the said Lord was made a Delinquent regained them for nothing was a great Rumper and at their hand for this Parricide he died Governour of Gloucester and a great Commander in the North. * Richard Dean Colonel and General at Sea where he was slain by a Cannon-shot standing by the Renowned General Monk his Colleague This person was formerly a Hoymans servant in Ipswich and when the War began was a Matross in the Train of Artillery and role to a Captains Command therein and was famous first at the Siege of Exeter being a cross Fellow was thought fit to be one of Cromwels Complices to execute his Plots against his Sovereigns life * Francis Allen once a Gold-smith in Fleet-street where he leapt into a pretty Estate by marrying his Mistress was chose a Recruit of the Long Parliament and adhered to the Juncto for their admission of him was made one of the Treasurers at War a Customer and had Crone-house given him and held it in Capite Regis after that Murther was made one of the Committees for sale of his Majesties Lands c. * Peregrine Pelham a Yorkshire Tike not of the Sussex-Family a kind of Governour of Hull after Hotham the dutiful carriage of which place taught him afterwards this Trayterous deportment in the High Court of Justice * Iohn Moor formerly Colonel of the Guards and had the benefit of all Passes from London * Iohn Allured a Souldier of Fortune promoted for his hand in this Villany to be a Colonel died just before his Majesties Restitution * Humphry Edwards a Member of the Long-Parliament discontented against the King for being denied by him a Preferment he deserved not which rankled and feâ—red him into this malicious Parricide * Sir Gregory Norton a poor Knight one of the Pensioners to the King had Richmond-Mannor and House as good as given him for this Service against his good Master and Sovereign * Iohn Ven a broken Silk-man in Cheap-side made Governour of Windsor-Castle in the beginning of the War and had other profits and emoluments It is credibly reported that he hanged himself certain it is he died strangely and suddenly * Thomas Andrews a Linnen-draper in London afterwards a Treasurer for the Guild-hall Plate and Receiver for the Army he afterwards proclaimed the Act against Kingly Government and very narrowly prevented Justice * Anthony Stapely a Sussex Gentleman and Colonel and Governour of Chichester strangely wrought into this wicked Conspiracie * Thomas Horton a Recruit to the Long-Parliament of so mean and unknown a Quality before St. Fagons-Fight that that 's all the Character can be given him here * Iohn Fry another Recruit to the Long-Parliament a Yeoman and Committee-man of Dorsetshire he proved an Arrian in Print which Colonel Downs charged him with and so no wonder he that dar'd deny the Divinity of Christ was so cruelly Traiterous to the Majesty of his Prince * Thomas Hammond Son to Prince Henry's Physitian who most ungratefully and disloyally was the Kings Jaylor and verified that sad Presage and Oracle of the King That there are but few steps between the Prisons and Graves of Princes to the great trouble of his most Loyal and Learned Brother Dr. Henry Hammond the Kings beloved Chaplain * Isaack Pennington Lord Mayor of London two years together against the Kings express Command from Oxford a most implacable Rebel yet for all the spoil he got broke twice and hop'd to make good all by the death of his Sovereign since his Imprisonment he died in the Tower * Simon Meyne a Buckingham-shire-man of a good Estate but an illegal Recruit of the Long-Parliament a great Committee-man and Sequestrator of other mens Estates and being so initiated thought it no great matter to assist in this business of the Kings life since his Imprisonment he died in the Tower These of the Kings Iudges marked with ¶ are such as are in Prison in the Tower of London and elsewhere and are under Sentence of Death to be Executed at the pleasure of the King and Parliament ¶ Sir Hardress Waller a Souldier of Fortune once a Cavalier in Judgment then a Presbyterian upon the new Model an Independent where finding the uncontroulable sweetness of Pay and likeliness of greater Spoils he was hardned into this Conspiracie against the King and mastered his hopes of Wealth in Ireland being Major-General he was a prisoner in the Tower of London and confessed and deprecated his crime ¶ William Heveningham Esquire a Gentleman of the fairest Estate and as Gentile and Ancient a Family as any in Suffolk To keep ill Company is the way to be wicked Other causes and inducements to this horrid action are not publique and I will not dive further ¶ Col. Henry Marten Son of Sir Henry Marten Judge of the Perrogative-Court a most lewd vicious and infamous person who first spoke Treason against the King and his Family in the House of Commons and was in complement committed and suspended There was no question but he would act what he spoke when the power thereof was in his fellow-Traytors hands ¶ Owen Row a Silk-man of London a constant Commander in the Independent Militia thereof and so trained up to the perpetration of this wickedness ¶ Augustine Garland a Recruit of the Long-Parliament for the Borough of Quinborough in Kent in 1647. Chair-man of the Committee that drew up the pretended Act for the Kings Trial as rare a Blade as the worst of them at the spoil of the Kingdom a Lawyer and suspected to have spit in the Kings Face at his Trial. ¶ Henry Smith a Lawyer but a mean one of a fair Estate in Leicestershire 40 which was added as the hire of this villany a Six Clerks place in Cancery supposed to be drawn in and complicated in this Guilt ¶ Robert Titchbourn a Linnen-draper
of the people let all England and the World Iudge King Sir under favour it was the Liberty Freedom and Laws of the Subject that ever I took defended my self with Arms I never took up Arms against the people but for my people and the Laws President The command of the Court must be obeyed no answer will be given to the Charge King Well Sir Then the President ordered the default to be recorded and the contempt of the Court and that no Answer would be given to the Charge And so the King was guarded forth to Sir Robert Cotton's house Then the Court adjourned to the Painted-chamber on Tuesday at twelve a clock and from thence they adjourned again to Westminster-hall at which time all persons concerned were to give their attendance At the High Court of Iustice sitting in Westminster-hall Tuesday January 23. 1648. O yes made Silence commanded The Court called seventy three persons present The King came in with his Guard looking with an austere countenance upon the Court and sate down Cook Sollicitor-General May it please your Lordship my Lord President This is now the third time that by the great grace and favour of this high Court the Prisoner hath been brought to the Bar before any Issue joyned in the Cause My Lord I did at the first Court Exhibit a Charge against him c. My Lord after this great delay of Justice I shall now humbly move your Lordship for speedy Judgment against him My Lord I might press your Lordship upon the whole according to the known Rules of the Law of the Land That if a Prisoner shall stand as contumacious in contempt and shall not put in an Issuable Plea Guilty or not Guilty of the Charge given against him whereby he may come to a fair Tryal that as by an implicite Confession it may be taken pro confesso as it hath been done to those who have deserved more fâ—vour than the Prisoner at the Bar has done but besides my Lord I shall humbly press your Lordship upon the whole Fact The House of Commons the supreme Authority and Jurisdiction of the Kingdom they have Declared that it is notorious that the matter of the Charge is true as it is in truth my Lord as clear as Crystal and as the Sun that shines at Noon-day which if your Lordship and the Court be not satisfied in I have notwithstanding on the People of Englands behalf several Witnesses to produce And thereâ—ore I do humbly pray and yet I must confess it is not so much I as the â—nnocent Blood that hath been shed the cry whereof is very great for Justice and Judgement and therefore I do humbly pray that speedy Judgement be pronounced against the prisoner at the Bar. President Sir you have heard what is moved by the Counsel on the behalf of the Kingdom against you Sir you may well remember and if you do not the Court cannot forget what Dilatory dealings the Court hath found at your hands You were told that it was not for you nor any other man to dispute the Jurisdiction of the Supreme and highest Authority of England from which there is no appeal and touching which there must be no dispute yet you did persist in such carriage as you gave no manner of obedience nor did you acknowledge any Authority in them nor the High Court that constituted this Court of Justice Sir I must let you know from the Court that they are very sensible of these delays of yours and that they ought not being thus Authorized by the Supreme Court of England to be thus trifled withal and that they might in Iustice if they pleased and according to the Rules of Iustice take advantage of the delays and proceed to pronounce Iudgement against you yet nevertheless they are pleased to give direction and on their behalfs I do require you that you make a positive Answer unto this Charge that is against you Sir in plain terms for Iustice knows no respect of persons you are to give your positive and final Answer in plain English whether you be Guilty or not Guilty of these Treasons laid to your charge The King after a little pause said When I was here yesterday I did desire to speak for the Liberties of the people of England I was interrupted I desire to know yet whether I may speak freely or not President Sir you have heard the resolution of the Court upon the like Question the last day and you were told that having such a Charge of so high a Nature against you and your Work was that you ought to acknowledge the Iurisdiction of the Court And to Answer to your Charge Sir if you Answer to your Charge which the Court gives you leave now to do though they might have taken the advantage of your contempt yet if you be able to Answer to your Charge when you have once Answered you shall be heard at large make the best Defence you can But Sir I must let you know from the Court at their commands that you are not to be permitted to issue out into other discourses till such time as you have given a positive Answer concerning the Matter that is Charged upon you King For the Charge I value it not a Rush it is the Liberty of the People of England that I stand for for me to acknowledge a new Court that I never heard of before I that am your King that should be an example to all the people of England to uphold Justice to maintain the old Laws indeed I do not know how to do it you spoke very well the first day that I came here on Saturday of the Obligations that I had laid upon me by God to the maintenance of the Liberties of my people The same Obligation you spake of I do acknowledge to God that I owe to Him and to my people to defend as much as in me lies the antient Laws of the Kingdom therefore until I may â—now that this is not against the Fundamental Laws of the Kingdom by your fâ—voâ—r I can put in no particular Answer If you will give me time I will then shew you my Reasons why I cannot do it and this Here being interrupted he said Bâ— your favour you ought not to interrupt me how I came here I know noâ— thâ—re's no Law for it to make your King your Prisoner I was lately in a Treaty up on the publike Faith of the Kingdom that was the known the two Houses of Parliament that was the Representative of the Kingdom and when that I had almost made an end of the Treaty then I was hurried away and brought hither and therefore Here the President interrupted him and said Sir you must know the pleasure of the Court. King By your favour Sir President Nay Sir by your favour you may not be permitted to fall into these discourses you appear as a Delinquent you have not acknowledged
State-affairs to the settlement of the Nation and their Message to that purpose they had scornfully rejected not looking upon them as a part of the people but at one blow and with the breath of one Vote which imported that the House of Lords were useless and dangerous and so ought to be abolished they laid them aside having given order for an Act to be drawn up accordingly yet so far indulging their Honours the favour of any mean Subjects priviledge to be Elected either Knight or Burgess to serve in their House Against this civil and political Execution came forthwith likewise a Declaration and Protestation dated February the 8. in the name of the Nobility braving them with their illegal Trayterous Barbarous and bold saucy Usurpation with other arguments mingled with threats menaces invectives which will be too tedious to recite And indeed it was to little purpose then for it was too late to argue with or to Vapour against those men who were so Fortified in their new Empire by a so numerous and potent and well-paid Army Something might have been done when this Cockatrice was a hatching but now its angry looks were enough to kill those that enviously beheld it And to let them see how little they valued and how slightly they thought of the injury the Peers so highly urged they with the same easie demolition of Kingly-Government by a Vote that it is unnecessary burdensome and dangerous overwhelm the whole Fabrick together bidding them seek a place to erect their Monumental Lordships and Honour was never yet so neer a shaddow Now that they were thus possest of the whole entire Power and Authority for the better-exercise thereof and the speedier fruition of the sweets thereof they agree to part and divide the Province the Government among them To this end they concluded to erect an Athenian Tyranny of some 40 of them under the Name and Title of a Council of State to whom the Executive part of their Power should be committed while the Parliament as they called their Worships should exercise onely the Judicatory part thereof and so between them make quick work of their business in confounding and ruining the Kingdom And that they might likewise appear to the people as great preservers of the Laws and to study their weal in the due aministration of Justice their next care was for drawing up Commissions for the Judges which ran in the new stile of the Keepers of the Liberties of England by Authority of Parliament and to that purpose a Conference was had by a Committee with the Judges about it six whereof agreed to hold upon a Proviso to be made by an Act of the House of Commons that the Fundamental Laws should not be abolished a very weak security but that it met with strong and prepared confidence these were Lord Chief Justice Rolls and Justice Iermyn of the Kings-Bench Chief Justice Saint-Iohn and Justice Pheasant of the Common-Pleas and Chief Justice Wilde how he was made so Captain Burleigh tells us and Baron Yates the other six refused as knowing the Laws and the present Anarchy were incompatible and incapable of any expedient to sute them together But the one half was very fair and served to keep the Lawyers in practice and from dashing at their illegal Authority In pursuance of that promise made to those Judges that held and to deceive and cologne the people they Passed a Declaration That they were fully resolved to maintain and would uphold and maintain preserve and keep the Fundamental Laws of the Nation as to the preservation of the Lives Liberties and Properties of the People with all things incident thereunto saving those alterations concerning the King and House of Lords already made And yet notwithstanding they at the same time were Erecting High Courts of Justice impressed Sea-men and levied illegal Taxes by Souldiers and many other Enormities But it seems those Judges were content with the preservation of the litigious part of the Law extending this Proviso no further than to the private disputes of Meum Tuum whilst this publike Monster swallowed all Having thus establisht themselves in the Civil Power with some face of a Democratical Authority they proceeded to other Acts of State to give reputation to themselves and strength to their Government the first whereof was their Voting a New stamp for Coyn whereby their Soveraignty might be notified to all the world in the Trade and traffique thereof Next designing several Agents and Envoys to go to the Courts of Forrain Princes and there by their specious challenges and shews of Liberty and publike good the pretence of the Law of Nations peculiarly the Municipal Laws of this to palliate over the Justifie their unparallell'd proceedings against the King of which Messengers we shall presently speak And so we shall for a while leave these Usurpers amidst the several Complements given them by way of Salutation from the Army and Sectarian party under the yet-continued Notion of the Godly who forsooth highly magnified their Justice in this and urged them in their Addresses to extend it further About this time the Parliament Nulled the Monthly Fast on Wednesday which had continued through all the War thinking to impose upon the people as if God had answered all their prayers in that Murther of the King and that the work of Reformation was now accomplished It was high time therefore for such of the Kings party as were in their hands to look about them for besides the rise and most certain rumour of a general Massacre intended against the whole which was debated at a Council of War and carried but by two Votes they had special information of proceedings to be had against them in the same way of Tryal before a High Court of Justice First therefore Colonel Massey escapes away from Saint Iames's just upon the Kings Death next Sir Lewis Dives and Master Holden being brought to White-hall upon examination pretending to ease themselves got down the Common-shore to the Water-side and escaped leaving their Warders in the lurch and to a vain research after them The Lord Capel likewise made a handsome escape out of the Tower but passing by Water to Lambeth in the Boat of one Davis a Water-man and unhappily and fatally casting out some words by way of enquiry of the said Lord the wicked villain suspecting the truth seized him at Lambeth from whence he was re-conveyed to the same Prison in order to his speedy Tryal his Betrayer being preferred by the Parliament became the scorn and contempt of every body and lived afterward in shame and misery And the Lord of Loughborough Brother to Ferdinando then Earl of Huntingdon famous for several Loyal Services but most maligned by the Parliament for the last effort thereof at Colchester gave them also the slip from Windsor-Castle where he and the Colonels Tuke Hamond and Francis Heath newly at liberty upon his parole to
finde good security and other Royalists were imprisoned and got cleaverly away and in March arrived at Rotterdam in Holland where on the New-bridge he accidently met with Colonel Massey who claiming knowledge of him from Lidbury-fighâ— where they more unhappily encountred each other his Lorâ—ship was civilly and Nobly pleased â—upon the Colonels protestation of a â—â—urn and entire obedience to his Majesties Authority to pass with him in company to the Hague whither this occasion happily directs us The King our Soveraign Charles the second then kept his Court there furnished with Blacks and other mournful Emblâ—â—s of his raâ—â—â—rs Death at the charge of the Prince of Aurange whose moâ—â—â—ignal kindnesses to the Royal Faâ—â—â—y may not pass without a due Commemoration The King was here attended by the Lord Marquess of Montress the Lords Hopton Wilmot Culpeper Weâ—worth and other great Personages Sir Edward Hide Sir Edward Nicholas and a Noble though poor retinue of old Royalists who had vowed to his Majesties Fortunes The Relator was present when the Lord of Loughborough added Colonel Massey to that number both of them kissing the Kings Hand the same morning the Lord in his Majesties Privy-Chamber where he was received by the King with all possible gladness and joy of his escape and other endearments the Colonel was very respectfully and civilly treated and confirmed into the Kings Service and Trust by his Majesties gracious acceptation of his sorrow for his former actions and his resolutions of reparatory Duty The new Estates of England liked not well of his so neer neighbourhood and entertainment in a Commonwealth too and thought their greatness so formidable that it could perswade without any more trouble all places and people to his dereliction and to this purpose they insinuated the same intentions to Myn Heer Pauw the then Dutch Resident here who was sent over by the States as also another Embassador from the French besides the earnest intervention of the Scots Commissioners to intercede for the King with whom they had several discourses about the dangerous greatness of the Prince of Aurange and 't is reported the Man was made by them He departed hence about the middle of March very well pleased with the pronts of his Embassie Though they could not reach the King and though some of his best Subjects had outreached them yet many others could not so escape them Master Beaumount a Minister belonging to the Garison of Pomfret then beleagured by Major-General Lambert in place of Rainsborough who was killed and buried at Wapping neer London as aforesaid was taken for holding correspondence in cypher and by a Council of War Condemned and Hanged before the Castle presently after the Kings Death and deserves to be placed as the Protomartyr for King Charles the second But this was but a puny victime to the ensuing Sacrifices for the old pretence of Justice challenged new does by the evidence of its former administration which would have been thought but a step purposely made to their ambitious Usurpation if other blood not so obnoxious to their grand designe should not in pursuance of their declared impartial bringing to condigne punishment all sorts of Delinquents be offered up to their Idol of Liberty There was also another Reason of State in it for that the House of Lords being so easily laid aside it was requisite while the first violence was yet recent utterly to disanimate the Nobility by another as lawless more bloody infringement of their Priviledges In order to this a new High Court of Iustice was Erected by an Act to that purpose wherein other Drudges were named under the conduct of the former President for that the State-Grandees could not themselves intend such minute matters as the lives of the Peerage Before this Tribunal were brought as in the said Act were named Iames Duke Hamilton as Earl of Cambridge and Naturalized thereby in this Kingdom Henry Rich Earl of Holland George Lord Goring then Earl of Norwich Arthur Lord Capel and Sir Iohn Owen of North-Wales Duke Hamilton was the first of those that came to this Bar where he was soothâ—d by Bradshaw according to instruction in hopes he would be won to discover his partakers in the late Parliament and City and Peters to that purpose gave evidence that Lambert gave him quarter when Colonel Wait who took him denied it to the House but when the Court perceived he was not so free therein offering in lieu of such Treachery 100000 l. for his life and promising to joyn interests with Arguile in Scotland Bradshaw took him up short and for all his plea of quarter and to what he further â—rged against his Naturalization that he himself was never Naturalized but that it was his Father whose right devolved no more to him by the Civil Law than the same Franchise doth to Children in other Countries hastily was answered that in the 15 year of King Charles he was called to Parliament by Writ as Earl of Cambridge They objected against him also his breach of Faith passed to the Governour of Windsor for his true Imprisonment from whence he had escaped and was retaken in Southwark which breach he denied and challenged the Governour of untruth in that particular After much delay which he obtained in hopes of a discovery and several arguments of his Counsel assigned for him Bradshaw at last snapt him up telling him of his Treasons and Murthers and gave final Sentence The Lord Capel likewise after several brave legal Defences as his Peerage c. and his plea of quarter given by Fairfax who in open Court construed that quarter to be but a present saving from the promiscuous slaughter with a reference still to a Judicial proceeding was over-ruled they urged also against him his escape out of the Tower which he proved to amount to no more at the most of it in any other case than a bare Felony and within the benefit of the Clergy His resumed argument when all would not do was the Honour of the Sword which seeing how little those that should have justly asserted it did value he resolved to trouble himself no longer at their Bar but being demanded what he could say more for himself replied nothing but with a chearful resignation of himself to providence expected his Doom then impending over him The Earl of Holland came not to their Bar while they had finished with the other Lords by reason of his indisposition which delayed him at Warwick-Castle but such was their impatient pretensions to Justice that they got him conveyed to their High Court and as they had done by the rest over-ruled his plea which he argued in much weakness taking a spoonful of some Cordial every foot between his words of quarter given and concluded him in the same Sentence The Lord Goring so artificially and wisely pleaded to them in Form Not Guilty and withal insisted upon his Commission and Authority and harmlesness therein that he escaped
examined in the business brought against him by the Marquess of Antrim for holding correspondence and having made Conditions underhand with the Enemy Upon these Foundations and such as these did many of the Irish represent unto the Lord-Lieutenant the necessity of discharging the Lord Inchiqueen of his Command and securing his person which his Excellency being more tender of the Kings Honour and his own than upon bare surmises and suspitions to deal in that manner with a person that had but lately deserved so well both of the King and him would not be brought unto chusing rather to run any adventure than to be guilty of breach of Conditions with him which he must needs have been if before a Conviction of apparent Treachery he should upon the score of the Lord Inchiqueen's over-sights or the uncertain jealousies of the Irish have condescended unto either of the things proposed This Temper and Justice in the Lord-Lieutenant in not suffering himself to be led by the clamors and importunity of the people and Souldiers involves him also at last under their displeasure and mistrust so that out of want of confidence in their Chief Commanders and out of diffidence in one another the Army was now fallen into a very unfit condition of hazarding a battel with the Enemy if an occasion should offer it self and to make it worse the Scots that were there being tired out with the necessities the whole Army suffered and receiving news of the Enemies prevalence in their Country desired leave to return into the North which after great importunity at last being granted them they immediately withdrew their Forces and hasted homewards where they were no sooner come and Sir George Monro joyned with them but they received so sore a blow from Coote with so much loss and dispersion of their men that they were never able to make Head in Vlster aâ—ter Cromwel now finding the Army so much weakened by the desertion of so many of the Lord Inchiqueens men and the departure of the Scots and likewise knowing that it was in such disorder through the distrust and animosities that were amongst them so that in reason he was like to have much the advantage if they should fight him adventures over his Bridge at Rosse into the County of Kilkenny where by facing the Lord Lieutenants Army and moving after it up and down he amazed the Irish whilst Iones his Lieutenant-General with parties took in the Castles of the Country and had Carrick given into his hands wretchedly by Martyn that Commanded there Upon notice whereof Cromwel hastens thither to pass his Army over into Munster which was now his business for notwithstanding his purse to buy provisions of the Country and his Ships that wherever he went waited continually upon him his Army through the unseasonableness of the weather and want of Quarters was so much harassed and wasted many of his men falling sick and dying daily that it he did not hasten to his Winter-quarters he would in probability have perished without a blow which nevertheless to make sure work the Lord-Lieutenant whose Army also was quiâ—â—tired out with wants sufferings and continual marches nearing that he was gone towards Carrick intended to bestow upon him before necessity forced him to disperse his men and to that end his Excellency marcht speedily after the Enemy with designe to sâ—t on him whist he was either Engaged before Carâ—ick or else incumbâ—â—â—d at some other Pass upon the River but after all this diligence when his Excellency came neer the Town he then learnt that the place was lost before and that Cromwel leaving a competent Garrison therein had onely past his Army over and was gone towards Waterford which Town during Cromwels Residence aâ— Rosse through the perswasion as it is said of Geoffry Baron and Hugh Rochford had underhand begun a treaty with him for the delivery of the Town unto him which Treaty onely stuck upon the free exercise of their Religion and the Churches denied unto them by Cromwel The knowledge of this caused the Lord-Lieutenant now to hasten thither with no small danger to his person to press them to admit of a Garrison which being a long time denied and the Lord Castlehaven with divers others that his Excellency propounded being utterly rejected by them yet at last they were content to admit of Farrell and the Vlster-men who accordingly were sent immediately unto them After Farrells admittance he upon notice of the Enemies motion that way fearing some commotion in the Town and thinking himself not strong enough to resist the Enemy without and master them within writes unto his Excellency for a supply of men and these his Excellency seeing Cromwel so unexpectedly got over into Munster through the Treachery of the Garrison of Carrick intends now to conduct himself out of hand into Waterford before which the Enemy was supposed to be thereupon some Principal Officers of the Army desired leave that they might in the interim attempt the re-gaining of Carrick against whom his Excellency objecting the want of materials necessary for such an enterprize was assured they had enough to serve their turn for that work yea and some of them positively undertook the taking of the place that night Wherefore leaving them to their business his Lordship bends his course for Waterford where he arrived when it was late upon notice whereof Cromwel despairing of doing any good upon that Town and finding many of his men fall sick and dye of the Flux which then raged amongst them draws off in the night and hastens towards his Winter-quarters at Corke and Youghall in which march as he gained Dungarvan so he loâ—â— Iones his Lieutenant-General During the Lord-Lieutenants absence the Army at Carrick assaults the place the Foot falling on with extraordinary gallantry and resolution where after the loss of many of them they failed of carrying the place onely for want of a few Pickaxes and Spades which being call'd for were no where to be found which necessitated the poor Foot after having done so handsomely and stood under the Walls some hours to quit the business and draw off when extreme want of Food they having eaten nothing almost for two days enforced them to march away towards Clonmell all the Country betwixt Carrick and Kilkenny being totally spoiled already This Carrick was gained and now defended by Colonel Reynolds The removal of the Army hence without sending notice of it to the Lord-Lieutenant had like to have put his Excellency into the Enemies hands for he making full account of the regaining of Carrick upon the former assurance that was given him was upon his way directly thither where the Enemy had 300 Horse and he not 40 in his Company when Colonel Milo Power by good fortune found him out and told him of the ill success of the Enterprize and the motion of the Army thence whereupon he altered his course another way And then considering that the
Limburgh into whose hands upon a remove they lighted This troublesome delay so displeased their Westminster-masters that on the 18 of May the Parliament recalled them which being notified to the States they seemed surprized and by consent of the Embassadors sent away an Express accompanied with Mr. Thurloe Saint Iohn's Secretary to London to desire a longer respit in hope of a satisfactory Conclusion But after a vainâ—r Expectation thereof saving this dubious insignificant Resolution as the States called it In haec verba The States General of the Netherlands having heard the report of their Commissioners having had a Conference the day before with the Lords Embassadors of the Commonwealth of England do declare That for their better satisfaction they do wholly and fully condescend and agree unto the 6 7 8 9 10 and 11 Propositions of the Lords Embassadors which were the most unconcerning and also the said States do agree unto the 1 2 3 and 5 Articles of the year 1495. Therefore the States do expect in the same manner as full and clear an Answer from the Lords Embassadors upon the 36 Articles delivered in by their Commissioners the 24 of June 1647. This indifferency being maintained and strengthned by the presence and Arguments used in a Speech made by Mr. Macdonald the Kings Agent then at that time Resident at the Hague who also printed their Articles or Propositions with his Comments on them another Months time being spent they were finally remanded and departed on the 20 of Iune re infecta to the trouble as was pretended of most of the Lords of Holland When Saint Iohn gave the States Commissioners who came to take leave of him these parting words My Lords You have an Eye upon the Event of the Affairs of the Kingdom of Scotland and therefore do refuse the Friendship we have offered now I can assure you that many in the Parliament were of opinion that we should not have come hither or any Embassadors to be sent to you before they had superated thâ—se matters between them and that King and then expected your Embassadors to us I nâ—w perceive our errour and that those Gentlemen were in the right in a short time you shall see that business ended and then you will come to us and seek what we have freely offered when it shall perplex you that you have refused our proffer And it â—ell ouâ— as he had Divined it Upon his coming home after those welcomes and thanks given him by the Parliament he omitted not to aggravate those rudenesses done him and to exasperate them against the Dutch and the angry effects of his Counsels and report soon after appeared On the 9 of April in order and designe to abolish all Badges of the Norman Tyranny as they were pleased to call it now that the English Nation had obtained their natural Freedom they resolved to Manumit the Laws and restore them to their Original Language which they did by this ensuing additional Act and forthwith all or most of the Law-books were turned into English according to the Act a little before for turning Proceedings of Law into English and the rest written afterwards in the same Tongue but so little to the benefit of the people that as Good store of Game is the Country-mans Sorrow so the multitude of Sollicitors and such like brought a great deal of trouble to the Commonwealth not to speak of more injuries by which that most honourable profession of the Law was profaned and vilified as being a discourse out of my Sphere At the same time they added a second Act explanatory of this same wonderful Liberty both which here follow Be it Enacted by this present Parliament and by the Authority thereof That the Translation into English of all Writs Process and Returns thereof and of all Patents Commissions and all Proceedings whatsoever in any Court of Iustice within this Commonwealth of England and which concerns the Law and Administration of Iustice to be made and framed into the English Tongue according to an Act entituled An Act for the turning the Books of the Law and all Proces and Proceedings in Courts of Iustice into English be and are hereby refered to the Speaker of the Parliament the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal of England the Lord Chief Iustice of the Upper-Bench the Lord Chief Iustice of the Common-pleas and the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer for the time bâ—ing or any two or more of them and what shall be agreed by them or any two or more of them in Translating the same the Lords Commissioners shall and may affix the Great Seal thereunto in Cases where the same is to be fixed And so that no miss-Translation or Variation in Form by reason of Translation or part of Proceedings or Pleadings already begun being in Latine and part in English shall be no Errour nor void any Proceedings by reason thereof Provided That the said recited Act shall not extend to the certifying beyond the Seas any Case or Proceedings in the Court of Admiralty but that in such Cases the Commissioners and Proceedings may be certified in Latin as formerly they have been An Act for continuing the Assessment of 120000 l. per mensem for five Months from the 25 day of April 1651. for maintenance of the Armies in England Ireland and Scotland was likewise passed By our way to Scotland we must digress to a petty commotion in Wales Hawarden and Holt-Castle Seized and a Hubbub upon the Mountains which engaged Colonel Dankins to a craggy expedition Sir Thomas Middleton purged and the Coast cleared of a Presbyterian discontent upon which score the noise was raised but the story not taking Presto on all 's gone and the invisible Royalists cannot be found or sequestred for their combination in Lancashire-plot now started and hotly sented and pursued by the Grandees of the Council of State and the Blood-hounds of their High Court of Iustice again unkennelled of which more presently Blackness-Castle was now delivered to General Cromwel in Scotland on the first of April while he yet continued sick of an Ague General Dean being newly arrived with Money and supplies from England two days before and on the 11 of the same Month the Scotch Parliament sat down where they rescinded that often-mentioned Act of Classes of Delinquents whereby way was made to the restoring of the Loyal Nobility to their seats in Parliament and an Act passed from the perceipt of the dangerous consequences of the Western Remonstrance that it should be Treason to hold correspondence with or abet the Enemy Cromwel having already made another journey into those parts to carry on his business at Glascow which place had been infamed at the beginnig of the Scotch Troubles and was now by the just Judgement of God the Stage designed to act the Catastrophe and last act of three Kingdoms Ruine For I must remember the Reader that here the first Scene of our misery was laid
to the charge of the Lord Gray of Grooby who afterwards sold his own Inheritance to purchase some of this Lord's whom the Parliament had peremptorily summoned to appear by a day at Westminster which he wisely declining as having heard sufficiently of their High Court of Iustice they proceeded to sale and although afterwards he convicted the abovesaid Villain of wilful Perjury and afterwards prosecuted his right before a Committee appointed to adjudge claims where Bradshaw had the Chair who to captate an opinion of Justice seemed to favour the merit of the Cause and gave a resolution accordingly yet could his Lordship by no means recover his possession being baukt and wearied with a fruitless Suit and Attendance during the Usurpation To single also out of the number of the Honourable the Loyal Commoners Sir Iohn Stawel who for all the Honour of the Sword his Articles at Exeter which as they saved his Life should in the same manner have preserved his Estate was now put into this Black Bill of Forfeiture and Attainder the Estates of them all being vested in the hands of William Skinner William Robinson Sampson Sheffield Samuel Gookin Henry Seely William Lisle and Arthur Samuel as Trustees Robert Manwaring Register-Accountant Randal Manwaring Comptroller and Iohn Baker Surveyor-General These were again named to the same trusts in the second Edition of this libellous Act which began with a Preface of Treason and Rebellion against the Commonwealth and great fear there was that such Acts would at last become as constant as those of the Monthly Assessments till they had not left a Royalist but what was enslaved and sold. And that they might appear the more like to what they had reduced them in this emptiness and meanness of Estate they Enacted the stripping them of those Honours which their Loyalty and worth had purchased them that they might be fit Peers to sit with any Lower-House and the Gentry be sutable Mates and Company to their finical Rabble who had now Coached their Fellow-Servant-maids with all the other distinctions of Gentility even to the laughter of the enraged people who perceived they had Fought for those that were so much uninteressed in the Quarrel as to what they had to lose as the meanest of those wretches who sneak in for Drink to Games and Matches have in the Stake and Adventure It was made by these men a penalty of 5 l. for any Knight proportionably 50 l. for a Duke to receive a Title which had been conferred on him since Ianuary 1641. And the several Patentees or Titulado's were Commanded to bring in their Patents by such a time or else to incur worser Forfeitures But this not being such an Affront and Indignity as the abrogating the power of the whole Peerage was taken but for a bravado nor did I ever hear any one that paid for giving or receiving this due civility which even such of them as had Breeding and Manners would be guilty of themselves In Ireland the Lord Broghal had given a notable defeat to the Lord Muskerry who having beaten up his Quarters could not so conveniently and nimbly retire but Brogal was at his Heels It was a dispute with all Cavalry no Foot on either side which before had not happened in Ireland there was loss on both sides but the least thereof with the Victory fell to the English About the same time Sir Charles Coot having attended a Pass over the Shanon which was guarded all along the other side by the help of three Cotts and a Boat landed some few Forces upon one of the Enemies Guards who suspected no Boats possible to be had without danger of sinking as they passed and mastered it whereupon all the Irish Forces disposed thereabouts in several Posts ran away to Limerick leaving the River free which was laid over presently with a Bridge to bear Horse and Artillery Athlone a week before had been delivered by the Lord Dillon to the said Sir Charles by which means the whole Irish Council and the Marquess of Clanriekard and Castlehaven were put into great straights and confusion of Councils The English Army in Scotland was now in motion for grass and marched upon their old designe of Sterling to Newbridge so to Lithgow from whose Castle-Battlements they might espy the Tents of the Scotch Army Encamped in Tor-wood some four miles off this side Sterling whither Warriston was now summoned by the Commissioners of the Assembly peremptorily by the third of Iuly having cast up a regular and well-fortified Line with Bulworks mounted with Guns and having a River behind them which they might pass at pleasure in this posture they awaited the English who coming up and facing them the third of Iuly in the night following the Scots drew up their Cannon and planted them on the brow of the Hill and next morning saluted Cromwel with 50 Great Guns but with little Execution which made him quickly draw out of shot and give over his once-begun resolution of attaquing them at so much disadvantage The English therefore marched back again Major-General Lambert being sent from Glascow a week after to view the Passes which he reported by reason of the boggy approaches there to be very hazardous Upon their departure from Lithgow to Glascow the Scots removed from Tor-wood and Encamped at Kilfith a place environed with insuperable desences having a Bog on one hand and craggy Mountains on the other but the English Army having eaten up all at Glascow and those parts and trod down the Corn standing that the Scots might finde no sustenance that way if they should march appearing and marching with great noise on the one side they imaging the English meant to clap in between them and Sterling hastened back again to their old Line at Tor-wood Iuly 13 whither Cromwel followed and to provoke them to an Engagment Stormed Calendar-house in their view and put all the Defendants except the Governour to the Sword and then seeing there was no possibility of fighting with them but that they were resolved to keep them in play till Winters scarcity of Horse-meat should make them give over and depart the Kingdom he Encamped himself awaiting the success of his designe by Boat into Fife In the mean while Newark-house lying before Dunbarton-Castle was taken and two Houses more Prince Rupert and Captain Pen Commander of a Fleet in the Streights for the Parliament were now both at Sea together but it was not their fortune to meet one another The Prince had lately taken a Spanish Ship worth 100000 Crowns and had put forth a Declaration shewing the reason thereof satisfying partly his own Revenge for the Spanish injuries towards the Palatinate which were First That Kings giving Protection and Free Port to the Kings Rebels and Owning them and denying the like to His Majesties ships contrary to the Treaty between both Crowns his forcing the Marriners that were put on shore by Blake on
entailing his Estate upon his Grand-son as divining what his Son with whom he died in feud would come to General Blake was yet in the Streights demanding satisfaction of the Algier-Pirates for the depredations committed on the English and required the delivery of the Captives of our Nation whose number was very great but neither of these would be hearkned to whereupon Blake sent in a threatning Message to which they returned in scorn and contempt this Answer Here are our Castles of Guletto and Castles of Porta Ferino do what you can do ye think we fear the shew of your Fleet A Council of War being called upon this daring affront it was resolved to Burn those ships in Ferino in defiance of their Stone-line Forts and Castles well furnished with Ordinance and manned with the whole Country adjacent On the 4 of April the attempt was made Blake and the greater ships with their seconds coming within Musquet-shot of the Castle and Line which in two hours time they rendred defenceless dismounting all the Great Guns and clattering the Stones so about their Ears that the Enemy abandoned them having seen their nine Ships and Frigats burning in the mean time which was done by Boats from every ship during this hot service atchieved in this honourable manner Blake set sail again to the same place and renewed his Demand and was Answered in another strain that not Ours but now Those were the Castles and ships of the Grand Seigniour who would be sure to require an account of them In conclusion they came to Treat and did what they were beaten to for else they saw their Thieving Trade would be short Nathaniel Fiennes second Son to the Lord Say and the once-famous Governour of Bristol was made Cromwel's Lord Privy-Seal Recorder Steel a growing Favourite for his Speeches Lord Chief-Baron and Lambert yet above-board Lord-Warden of the Cinque Ports and soon after Serjeant Glyn was made Lord Chief Justice of England Mr. Parker and Vnton Crook the Father made Serjeants For Military Commanders Colonel Reynolds was â—ow Knighted and ordered to carry it with him to grace Henry Cromwel then preparing â—or his journey into Ireland to be inaugurated Lord-Lieutenant in place of Fleetwood where he arrived in the middle of Iuly and Captain Vnton Crook was rewarded for his late service with 200 l. per annum The Scoâ—câ— Council was nominated and dispatched also viz. General Monke Lord Broughill President Colonel Howard now Earl of Carlisle Colonel Adrian Scroop Colonel Cooper Colonel Wetham Mr. Desborough Colonel Lockhart Laird Swinton and Downing Secretary It was omitted that Sir Gilbert Pickering was entituled Lord-Chamberlain to Oliver and that he had a Guard of Halberdiers in Grey-coats Welted with Black-Velvet in the same manner and custom as the Kings of England used them but this Satellitium and Band of Bailiffs was rather out of fear than in regard to the honour of their Attendance Sir William Constable one of the Kings Judges Governour of Gloucester and the last of his Name which rots in his dust died now and was buried in the Military way in Henry the 7th's Chappel lighted into his Tomb with a terrible Fire in the opposite Town of Lambeth A new Plot was now started and most of the Nobility and Gentlemen of England secured Sir Geoffrey Palmer Lord Willoughby of Parham Lord Lovelace Earl of Lindsey Lord Newport and Sir Richard Wingfield Lords Maynard Petre Lucas and Faulkland Sir Frederick Cornwallis c. and this done by Manning whose Villany was not yet discovered though to render an entire account of him his death was before related County-Troops were now also established for security to his Highness such Trooper 8 l. a year pay and more in case of service a Captain 100 l. and Officers proportionably and as these new Forces were raised here so were other old ones disbanded in Scotland and Ireland in which last place the Disbanded were yet to be the same kinde of standing Militia they being setled in the Rebel Forfeited Lands their Tenure being their service and thus that Kingdom was re-peopled An Agent that had come hither from Ragotski Prince of Transilvania now departed the Conspiracy betwixt whom and the King of Sweden and the Swede and Cromwel was just ripe for Execution For the terrible news came that Carolus Gustavus with an Army of 20000 Swedes was landed in Pomerania and fallen into Poland and that the Palatinate of Posen had submitted and the Vice-Chancellor Radzikousky was come in and complied with that King and little doubt was made of his over-running that Kingdom the like Treachery and other divisions among the discontented Nobility opening him a way Cromwel's reach in this War was to divert the Emperour who was arming apace in aid of the King of Spain and defence of the House of Austria against the French as foreseeing also the rupture of the Peace with the Spaniard by Cromwel in the Low-Countries and a Peace once by this ballance effected to espouse the quarrel of our King to the same purpose the Transilvanian was engaged who like a stormy Cloud hung over the Imperial Dominions so that no assistance could be had from this part of the World This highly disappointed the Spaniard and retarded those hopes of our King in order to his Restitution by Arms. He was yet at Colen and caressed by several Princes who Honoured his Privacy among many others the Landtgrave of Hessen gave him an honourable Visit and Prince Rupert returned from the Emperour gave him his due attendance to evidence that the Relation of a King in some such cases may be without a Kingdome or Subjects A Swedish Embassador Named Christian Bond arrived here neer the same time and was in great State received according to the Amplitude of his Highness and Rolt a Bed-chamber-man of this Altess was sent recipocrally to the King of Sweden but was neer quitting the Cost of his Journey by a terrible Storm About the time the news came of his getting ashore in safety Hannum a most notorious Thief suspected of the Robbery of the King at Colen in which parts he was no stranger broke Prison and escaped likewise From the noble Exploit of Porta Ferino Blake sailed to Cadiz and those parts of Spain where he found that the Armada of Spain was at Sea to look after the arrival of their India-Fleet and it fell out that the English and Spaniards met together in those Seas the Spaniards being 32 ships in all but no quarrel happened for neither had Commission to right The same indifferent but more cowardly temper at the same instant in August made the Iamaica-Fleet returning home suffer the longed-for Plate-Fleet to pass untought when discovered in the Gulf of Florida upon their Voyage to Spain so that none of the Fates were wanting to make this the most unglorious undertaking of the English Upon a resolution taken by a Council of War at Iamaica the greatest
take in fresh Water leâ—t Rear-Admiral Stayner with 7 Frigats to ply before that Port who about the middle of September descryed at Sea eight sail as it proved from the West Indies who having met and taken a Portugal Prize and informed by them that the English were gone off the Coast made securely to Cadiz where Captain Stayner and his Squadron but two whereof engaged with him in the Speaker viz. the Bridgewater and Plymouth taken by them at first for Fisher-men by reason of their lying so low in the Water assailed them and after a fierce fight the Spaniard being loth to part with his Treasure overcame them There were two Sunk two escaped two run aground and two taken by the Speaker-Frigat In one of them was the Marquess of Badajox of the Family of Lopez who had been Governour for the King of Spain's Peru who was killed in the Fight with his Wife and a Daughter the Eldest Son and his Brother were saved and brought safe to the Generals with this Prize wherein were two millions of Pieces of eight and as much there was in one of them that was Sunk The Admiral who carried the Flag for concealing of the chiefest ship with the Portugal prize recovered the Shore Soon after General Montague with the young Marquess and part of the Fleet to convoy the Silver returned into England and delivered the Bullion into the Mint and the young Marquess was set at liberty For this a Thanksgiving with a Narrative to be read thereon was appointed by the Parliament who emitted their Declaration of War against Spain About the same time Five Frigats returned also from Iamaica According to the 34th Article of the Instrument which this Juncto roundly danced to Cromwel having Named Fiennes and Lisle to be Lord-Commissioners of the Great Seal and Serjeant Glyn to be Lord chief-Chief-Justice of England he now proposed them to the House for their approbation which they did with Glee and confirmed them in their places and to reciprocate his officious comportment they of their part opened the intercourse betwixt him and the Parliament by presenting him several Bills to Signe and Ratifie as Acts the chief whereof were the Annulling the Title of the King for security of his Person taking away Wards and Liveries and that the Passing those Acts should not determine the Session these were firmed in the Painted-Chamber in ample manner and form by this new-fangled-Legislator Nov. 27. At the latter end of October died Iohn the 4th King of Portugal who had so sucessfully wrested the Kingdom of Portugal from the unjust possession of the Spanish Monarchy after almost 100 years Usurpation of it in the remarkable year of 1640. He died of the Stone in his Kidneys in the fifty and odd year of his Age leaving behinde him by his Queen the Sister of the Duke of Medina Sidonia in Spain his Son Alphonso the sixth King of Portugal and Donna Catharina the Illustrious Infanta of the same since Married to our Gracious Soveraign King Charles the second The Sect of Quakers was grown to such a heigth of Impudence by the presumptions and deceitful Revelations of the Light within that there was scarce any Blasphemy which they would not say and act and yet very many were bewitched with it The Divinity of Christ had been oppugned by Biddle the Socinian and now it was Personated with reverence be it spoken by one Iames Naylor a Quaker who resembling in his Proportions and Complexion the picture of Christ had in all other things as the setting of the Beard and Loâ—ks in the same fashion â—arâ—d to counterfeit our Blessed Lord. To this purpose he had Disciples and Women ministring to him whose Blasphemous Expressions and aâ—â—â—ications of several Scriptures relating properly to the loveliness and Transceâ—â—â—â—nt Excellency of Christ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to this Impostor will if repeated move Horrour and Trembling in every Christian. His first appearance in this manner was at Bristol where a man leading his Horse Bare-headed and one Dorcas Erbury and Martha Symmonds going up to the Knees in Mire by his Horse-side sung aloud Holy Holy Holy Hosanna c. For this they were seized by the Magistrates and being complained of to the Parliament were brought up to Town into which as in all places they entred singing the same Blasphemies At the Bar of the House a Committee having reported their opinion concerning his punishment he was Sentenced in December to be set in the Pillory twice and Whipt twice and his Forehead to be Stigmatized with the letter B. for Blasphemer and Bored through the Tongue with which he used to answer to any Question Thou hast said it and the like He was likewise Whipt at Bristol and thence returned to Bridewel to be kept close and to eat no more than what he earned In Newgate after his punishment the Impostor continued one Mr. Rich a Merchant of credit that held him by the Hand while he was in the Pillories with divers others licked his Wounds the Women were observed some to lay their Head in his Lap lying against his Feet others to lean it upon his Shouldiers and questionless the Quakers would have persisted in this delusion and set up and made something of this Idol if he had not been kept from them for as soon as ever any came into his Company they would first take him by the Hand and in a strange note say Holy c. But being thus removed after three days wilful abstinence having weakned himself even unto Death he begged some Victuals and then was set to work which he performed and came by degrees to himself and to reduction At the return of the Rump he got his liberty but survived it not his additional pretended Divinity having attenuated and wasted his Humanity and that Body sublimed and prepared for Miracles went the way of all Flesh. It is to be noted that Lambert stickled much to have saved him from Sentence and punishment he being his Souldier but the truth was Lambert perceived what Cromwel was driving at to engross the Soveraignty to himself and Family and it was high time therefore to ingratiate with all parties the better to be able to oppose him and henceforth sprung and appeared the feud betwixt these two Army-Potentates The King kept his Court at Bruges some eight Leagues from the Court at Brussels where Don Iohn was now Governour for the King of Spain and had had several consultations together about the carrying on of the War and many fair overtures made The Duke of York was newly arrived as also the Princess of Aurange so that all the Royal Family except the youngest Daughter and Mother were present together He had newly listed some Regiments of his three Nations into his service and pay which were now quartered about Flanders Several Prisoners of both sorts were now released as Sir Henry Vane Mr. Feak Mr. Rogers Judge Ienkins Esquire as
laid upon him was too great for him to bear without His assistance that the English were the best people in the World and required therefore all tenderness and consideration of their Liberties c. The next day a Committee was appointed to attend him and receive his Answer which being insignificant but that the Protector desired satisfaction they upon report thereof resolved to adhere to their Petition and appointed a Committee of above half the House to attend him to receive from him his doubts and scruples touching any of the particulars contained in the c. and to offer Reasons for his satisfaction for the maintenance of the Resolution of the House and wherein they cannot satisfie to report The chief of this Committee were Whitlock Lord chief-Chief-Justice Glyn Lord Broghall Lenthall Lisle Philip Iones Fines Strickland Thurloe Sir Richard Onslâ—w Sir Charles Woolsley c. These wanted not arguments from the Law from the Safety and Honour of the people to have a King under which Government it had flourished so many hundred years and from the safety and honour of his own person to all which they were answered from a mixt result of ambition and anger till the deliberated certainty of the latter had crusht the Airy conceit of the other The danger and his scruples consisted in these Objections First That the Title of King is a name of Office which any name that may imply the Supreme Magistrate hath the same signification and therefore no necessity of change Answer that the Name of a King is onely adequate to and comprehensive of the Office of the Supreme Magistrate It is a Rule that the Kings of England cannot alter the Laws by reason of their Name and that there is no obligation upon any other That the very Title was declared necessary in 9 Edw. 4. in the controversie betwixt him and Hen. 7. every action done by the King in possession was valid for it was his Jurisdiction Royal so in Hen. 7. the same of a King de Facto That there is a prius a former and primum a first the Name King had beginning with our Laws that for Protector there must be a new Law introductive of such a Title The other Objections of danger namely The difficulty in altering the same Government to a Commonwealth and the refusal of some Iudges and actings of others upon that ground that another Parliament might change those Resolutions the dislike of the good people and the bent of the Army that Providence had laid aside this Title of the King after seven years War and many of the chief of those instruments dissatisfied of which presently were answered with his own Logick of Providence which would was bound they would have said to wait upon these beloved and glorious necessities and that as to Dissatisfied Persons there never was any the most just and happy Government free from them But because the most material part and effect of our Civil-War came to Entitle it self to this grand Event it will be very just and equal to shew it in its full proportion and in its genuine sense from the Mouths of the then Lord Whitlock and Cromwel himself I omit to acquaint the Reader at large with the Protector 's Jealousie that they would fortifie his Title and dis-enable his Revenue for he demanded no less security to his Greatness than 190000 l. a year and the charge of the Spanish War besides The Lord Whitlock's Speech the 26 of April SIR I Have very little to trouble your Highness with so much hath been already spoken and so well that it will be hard for me or any other to undertake to adde to it onely the duty of my Employment and something due to your Highness occasions me to speak a few words to acknowledge with very humble thanks the Honour and Right which you have done this Committee by the clear and free Discourses and Conferences which they have had with your Highness and for your frequent Expressions and Testimonies of affection and respect to the Parliament whose sense in this I may presume to speak that never any persons met their Supreme Magistrate with more Love Duty and Honour than the Parliament have met your Highness with in their present Addresses which argument of love deserves the esteem and force which I doubt not but your Highness will put upon it I am fearful to be too tedious at any time especially at so late an hour and therefore shall speak but short to some things which I remember not to have been mentioned Your Highness was pleased at the last meeting to say that the Original Institution of the Title King was by common consent and that the same common consent might institute any other Title and make it as effectual as that of King This must be acknowledged but withal you may be pleased to observe that the Title of King is not onely by an Original common consent but that consent also approved and confirmed and the Law fitted thereunto and that fitted to the Laws by the experience and industry of many ages and many hundreds of years together whereas any other Title will be onely by present common consent without that experience and approbation for that experience which your Highness mentioned to have been of other Titles and the due administration of Iustice under them this experience is far short of the other and for the course of Iustice we have cause to thank that care which plac'd so good Iudges and Officers over us yet give me leave to say that in private Causes between party and party and in publick matters in nominal causes it was not easie to finde justice to be done by some Iurors and many questions have risen upon the occasion of those new Titles concerning that tender point of good mens satisfaction I think it requires a very great regard from us and I doubt not but those good People will be fully satisfied if they consider the Covenants Promises and Precepts which in the Scriptures are annex'd to the Name of King and although some have alledged that they belong to any chief Magistrate as well as to King yet no man did ever read the Original word translated otherwise than King neither do I finde the present Title once mentioned in the Holy Text. If the present Authority be a lawful Authority which I hope none of us will deny surely those good men who are so well-principled in Godliness will not forget that precept of submission to Authority and to be satisfied with that which Lawful Authority shall ordain Their Rights and Liberties are the same with ours and the Parliament cannot advise any thing for the preservation of the Peoples Rights but these good men are included which I hope will be no dissatisfaction to them In all the changes which we have seen there hath been a dissatisfaction to some yet still the Blessing of God hath gone along through all these Changes with those who carried on
the Rolls Officers Attending Henry Middleton Serjeant at Arms. Mr. Brown Mr. Dove Judges of both Benches Iohn Glyn Lord chief-Chief-Justice Pet. Warburton Justices of the Upper-Bench Rich. Nudigate Justices of the Upper-Bench Oliver St. Iohn L. Chief-Justice Edward Atkins Justices of the Com. Bench. Matthew Hale Justices of the Com. Bench. Hugh Windham Justices of the Com. Bench. His Barons of the Exchequer Robert Nicholas Iohn Parker and Roger Hill Serjeant at Law Erasmus Earl Atturney-General Edmund Prideaux Sollicitor William Ellis Serjeants at Law called by Him to the Bar. Richard Pepys 25 Jan. 1653. Thomas Fletcher 25 Jan. 1653. Matthew Hale 25 Jan. 1653. William Steel 9 Febr. 1653. Iohn Maynard 9 Febr. 1653. Rich. Nudigate 9 Febr. 1653. Tho. Twisden 9 Febr. 1653. Hugh Windham 9 Febr. 1653. Vnton Crook 21 June 1654. Iohn Parker 21 June 1654. Roger Hill 28 June 1655. William Shepard 25 Oct. 1656. Iohn Fountain 27 Nov. 1656. Evan Sithe But to proceed after Cromwel had made that fair Speech Fiennes the Lord-Commissioner of the Seal resumed by his order the discourse which was to beg more Money for Cromwel's Heart could not stoop to such Humble Oratory declaring That the Money granted though thought sufficient fell much beneath the expence and necessity of the State especially that Tax of the new Buildings failed altogether of what was expected and intended by it and so recommended the whole affair to their consideration Being sate in the Houses as aforesaid the other House sent to the Commons by two of their number a Message for a day of Humiliation but were returned with this Answer The House would consider of it and then they fell upon a Vote for two Months time to exhibite any Petitions against undue Elections and assented to a Humiliation which was kept within the Walls of both Houses by Dr. Reynolds and Mr. Caryl Mr. Calamy and Mr. Griffith half Presbyterian half Independent as was the temper and constitution of this Assembly This past they fell a questioning the Frame of the Government which their fellow-Members had erected during their Seclusion which yet notwithstanding was carried but by two Voices in the Affirmative and in a resolution of unravelling it all again they proceeded very fiercely which being told at White-hall allarmed on the other ear with danger from abroad and that the designe had already footing in some of the adjacent Counties Cromwel dallied not with this two-handed necessity but to rid himself of the nearest first accompanied with his Guards he by Water came to the other House and sent for the tother and having ranted away a quarter of an hour out of the old Bias for now he plainly perceived the old stales would not serve and that his Life and Greatness lay at the same stake to break them up he broke forth into very rash and cholerick Language to which as a pertinent resolution corollaâ—y and period he added an adjuration to the stain of his larved sanctity in these or such Words By the Living God I must and do dissolve you As to the Royal Enterprize it was begun ever since the Investiture of Oliver who suspecting such practises had with Money debauch'd the Fidelity oâ— Sir Richard Willis and one Corker a Parson as aforesaid that now professed Physick and made always one at any Match or Horse-race whatsoever and being a noted Royalist scrued himself into all Royalists Company and Discourse The Treachery of these men was employed and now manifested in this affair and thereby Cromwel was certified that the Marquess of Ormond personally laboured in tâ—â— Intrigue and for that purpose was arrived in England to lead the Forces of the Loyal Combination which were instantly to be seconded with an Army out of Flanders Just therefore as the designe was ripe he emitted out a Proclamation of twenty miles and seized divers eminent Royalists and among them Sir Richard Willâ—s and Feak the frantick roarer of Sermons was sent to bear them company but soon after when this danger from the Kings party was more compert released The Marquess of Ormond latitating somewhere in Sussex very difficultly by the assistance of one Mr. Graves a Gentleman of that County got away in a small Boat and escaped seizure so neer was he set and the designe so particularly discovered While those were the private close Intrigues at White-hall more publique ones were agitating in the Army in the three Kingdoms from every Regiment whereof Addresses were signed and sent to the Protector wherein they glanced upon the late Parliament and offered themselves and more than they were worth to the defence of his Highness's Person and Government against the Common and Secret Enemy the like came from Mardike who joyned with some French had made an excursion towards Graveling and surprized and taken two out-Forts and so returned the same Complement came also from the County-Troops and their Officers who attended the Sheriffs and succeeded in the room of the Major-Generals now for their Exorbitances and dangerous power even to their Author and because the work for which they were called was over laid aside in place of Liveries to lessen as was pretended the charge of that place but in truth the Protector knowing he could not be served â—aithfully by the Gentry would name such no matter whom as he could confide in and the expence of retinue and treating the Judges being taken off a Yeoman or Tradesman of the well-affected might serve turn and make profit of his place as in all other Offices of the Commonwealth and in this very prick for the year coming of 58 Cromwel observed the Rule he had given which was in its place omitted The Victorious Blake returning into England from the Coast of Spain having awed all the Ports and Harbours thereof fell sick by the way of a Disease his Seafaring had brought upon him the Scurvy and Dropsie and died just as the Fleet was entring into Plymouth-Sound where he passionately enquired for the Land A man of eminent Fortitude both active and passive A master of as many Successes and Atchievements as any person except Cromwel being never Worsted but once in his whole Warfare and that was in the Downs by Van Trump and had merited exceedingly of his Country had he been as tender of its Home-bred as Forrain Honour of which he was jealously observant it serving for his argument to keep the Fleet free from any Divisions of Factions upon the news of the several changes in England He was buried with a handsome Funeral just in the same manner as General Dean was from Greenwich but especial notice was taken of Colonel Lambert's then in disgrace attendance on his Horse between whom there was it seems a more intimate correspondence He was Interred in Hen. 7th's Chappel as other of the Grandees that died in the Usurpation usually were without any other Monument than that of his Indelible Renown for pure Valour Anno Dom. 1658.
lodged ten of them in the Blew-Anchor Alehouse by the Postern which house they maintained Soon after came Lieutenant-Colonel Cox with his Company and surrounded all places about it In the interim part of the Yellow aforesaid had gotten up into the Tylings of the next House which they threw off and fired in the Rebels being in the uppermost Room who even then refused Quarter when at the very same time another File of Muskets got up the Stairs and having shot down the door entred upon them six of them were killed before another wounded and one refusing of Quarter then also was knockt down with the But-end and afterwards shot with a Musket The rest being demanded why they craved not quarter before answered They durst not for fear their own Fellows should shoot them such was their Resolution and Desperation The whole number of this last Insurrection cannot be reckoned to more than Fifty Persons though not above Forty were ever seen together yet so great was their confidence in the Revelations of their Teachers that they presumed to Subdue and Conquer with that small remnant alluding to that History of Gideon recorded in Holy Writ admitting of no other Sect but the Quakers and but those also who agreed with them in the Tenet of their Monarchy being the nearest of Affinity to their Enthusiastick Opinions to have the honour of partaking with them in this their great and glorious Design as they termed it in their aforesaid Declaration wherein they further Blasphemously said That if they were deceived or misled 't was God that deceived them laying their delusions and charging their sinful and desperate folly upon him as the Author In this Tumult and Rebellious Insurrection were slain of the Kings People Twenty two and as many of the Traytors most whereof were killed in Houses and some after being taken Prisoners for refusing to tell their Names were presently shot There were taken Twenty besides a few upon suspicion the Twenty were as followeth viz. Thomas Venner the Wine-cooper their Captain Roger Hodgkins a Button-seller in St. Clements-lane Lumbard-street Leonard Gowler Ionas Allen Iohn Pym William Orsingham William Ashton Giles Pritchard A Cow-keeper Stephen Fall Iohn Smith William Corbet Iohn Dod Iohn Elston Thomas Harris Iohn Gardener Robert Bradley Richard Marten Iohn Patshal Robert Hopkins and Iohn Wells five of these had been in the design against Oliver as before These were brought to the Bar together the Wounded-men had Chairs allowed them and after the Indictment read to them which was laid both to Treason and Murther Thomas Venner was first called who when he had held up his hand at his Arraignment being asked Guilty or Not Guilty began a wild Phanatique discourse about his Conversation in New England and concerning the Fifth Monarchy and the Testimony within him above these Twenty years with such like impertinent discourses and stories He confessed he was in the late Rising but was not guilty of Treason intending not to levy War against the King and so sallied out into the same nonsensical defences as at first but at the Court's instance of his Pleading directly to the Indictment he answered Not Guilty and put himself upon his Country In the like manner Hodgkins after some rambling diversions from his present Business and the Threats of the Court of his being Recorded Mute and the submission of the rest of his Fellows who all pleaded after some previous excursions in their way and manner pleaded likewise to the Indictment whereupon the Witnesses being sworn two against every particular Person they made it appear That Venner Tufney and Cragg the two last whereof were slain in the Business did several times perswade their Congregation to take up Arms for King Jesus against the Powers of the Earth which were his Majesty the Duke of York and the General That they were to kill all that opposed them That they had been Praying and Preaching but not Acting for God That they Armed themselves at their Meeting-house in Coleman-street with Blunderbusses Musquets c. and other particular Evidence against each to matter of Fact The proof against Martin Hopkins and Wells was not so full and against Patshal only one Witness who were acquitted by the Jury The other sixteen being found Guilty and brought to the Bar were demanded to shew Cause why Sentence should not pass against them c. The Lord Chief Justice Foster charging this Venner with the Blood of his Complices by his Seduction and leading of them He answered He did not To which the Witnesses being produced again he Blasphemously quibled and said It was not he but Iesus that led them Three of them confest their Crime and Error and craved Mercy so they were all sixteen Condemned to be Hang'd Drawn and Quartered According to which Sentence on Saturday Ianuary 19 1660 Venner and Hodgkins both uncured of the Wounds they received in their Rebellion being guarded by two Companies of the Trained-Bands were drawn on a Sledge from Newgate through Cheapside over against their Meeting-house in Swar-Alley in Coleman-street and Executed according to their Sentence Venner spoke little but in vindication of himself and his Fact and something of his Opinion being confident the Time was at hand when other Iudgment would be reflecting much upon the Government The other Hodgkins raved and cursed in manner of Praying calling down Vengeance from Heaven upon the King the Iudges and the City of London nor would he give over though the Sheriff forbad him to run on in that strange way until the Hang-man was hastned from his Imployment of Quartering Venner to turn him off so as in that mad Religion they lived in the same they dyed Their Quarters were set upon the Four Gates of the City by the late Executed Regicides whose Quarrel and Revenge they undertook in this their Phanatique Attempt their Heads also set upon Poles by some of them on London-Bridge On Munday the Twenty first of Ianuary Nine more of them were Executed all in one Morning at five several places by one Executioner Two at the West-end of St. Pauls two at the Bâ—ll and Mouth two at Beech-lane Two at the Royal Exchange and a notable Fellow the last by name Leonard Gowler at Bishops-Gate They all obstinately persisted in their Error especially the last who began with Imprecations like Hodgkins and was silenced the same way by the Command of the Sheriff excepting a Young man who was Harged in Redcross-street who did relent and Repent of his Sin and the Blood he had spilt but yet dyed in the Opinion of Chilianism After they were cut down the Sentence was not Executed upon them to the full only their Heads were cut off and set upon London-Bridge Most remarkable was the prudence and valour of the Right Honorable Sir Richard Brown the Lord Major in this tumultuary and dangerous Insurrection He it was whom they designed as a Sacrifice to their first outrages and had they met with a person of
great Solemnity advanced some eminent Persons to higher degrees of Dignity to be as Jewels to that Crown which should be placed on his Head they were Twelve in number six Earls and six Barons The Names of whom are as followeth Edward Lord Hide of Hendon Lord high Chancellour of England was created Earl of Clarendon Arthur Lord Capel was created Earl of Essex Thomas Lord Brudenel was created Earl of Cardigan Arthur Viscount Valentia in Ireland was created Earl of Anglesey Sir Iohn Greenvile Gentleman of His Majesties Bed-Chamber and Groom of the Stool was created Earl of Bath Charles Howard of His Majesties Privy Council was created Earl of Carlisle Denzil Hollis Esq was created Lord Hollis of Ifeld Sir Frederick Cornwallis was created Lord Cornwallis of Eye in Suffolk an antient Barony Sir George Booth Baronet was created Lord de-la-Mere Sir Horatio Townsend was created Baron of Lyn-Regis Sir Anthony Ashly Cooper was created Baron of Winterbourn St. Gyles Iohn Crew was created Lord Crew of Stene The Earls at their Creation had two Earls their supporters their Cap and Coronet carried by one their Sword by another and their Mantle by a third The Lords were likewise supported by two Lords their Cap and Mantle in the same manner but no Sword These Peers being thus led up Garter King of Arms attending them to the King upon their several approaches their Patents were presented by Sir William Walker Principal King at Arms which being by the Lord Chamberlain delivered to the King and from him to Secretary Nicholas were by him read and then given by His Majesty to the Respective Nobles who after they were vested with their Robes had their several Caps and Coronets placed upon their Heads by His Majesties own hands as he sate in a Chair of State These likewise were ordered to attend the King at his Coronation which Commenced its glories Monday the Twenty second of April aforesaid it having rained a Moneth together before it pleased God that not one drop fell on this Triumph which appeared in its full Lustre and Grandeur but as soon as the solemnity was past and the King and his Train at Dinner in Westminster-Hall it fell a Thundering Lightning and Raining with the greatest force vehemence and noise that was ever heard or seen at that time of the year The Streets were gravelled all the way and filled with a multitude of Spectators out of the Countrey and some Forreigners who acknowledged themselves never to have seen among all the great Mâ—gnificences of the World any to come near or equal this even the Vaunting French confessed their Pomps of the late Marriage with the Infanta of Spain at their Majesties entrance into Paris to be inferiour in its State Gallantry and Riches unto this most Illustrious Cavalcade Which proceeded on this manner as the NOBILITY and GENTRY were placed within and without the Tower First went the Horse-Guard of his Highness the Duke of York the Messengers of his Majesties Chamber the Esquires of the Knights of the Bath One hundred thirty six in number the Knight Harbenger the Serjeant-Porter the Sewers of the Chamber the Quarter-waiters of the six Clerks of the Chancery the Clerks of the Signet the Clerks of the Privy Seal the Clerks of the Council the Clerks of both Houses of Parliament the Clerks of the Crown the Chaplains in Ordinary having Dignities ten in number the King's Advocate and Remembrancer the Kings learned Counsel at Law the Master of the Chancery the Kings puisne Serjeants the Kings Attorney and Solicitors the King 's eldest Serjeants Secretaries of the French and Latine Tongues the Gentlemen-Ushers daily waiters the Sewers Carvers and Cup-bearers in ordinary the Esquires of the Body the Masters of standing Offices being no Councellors viz. of the Tents Revels Ceremonies Armory Wardrope Ordnance Master of Requests Chamberlain of the Exchequer Barons of the Exchequer and Judges of the Law according to their Dignity the Lord chief Baron the Lord chief Justice of the Common Pleas the Master of the Rolls the Lord chief Justice of England Trumpets the Gentlemen of the Privy-Chamber the Knights of the Bath sixty eight in Number the Knight Marshal the Treasurer of the Chamber Master of the Jewel-house Knights of the Privy Council Comptroller of his Majesties Houshold Treasurer of his Majesties Houshold Two Trumpets and Serjeants Trumpets Two Pursivants at Arms Barons eldest Sons Earls youngest sons Viscounts eldest sons Barons Marquesses younger sons Earls eldests sons Two Pursivants at Arms. Viscounts Dukes younger sons Marquesses eldest sons Two Heraulds Earls Earl Marshal and Lord Chamberlain of the Houshold Dukes eldest sons Serjeants at Arms on both sides the Nobility Clarencieux and Norroy Lord Treasurer Lord Chancellor Lord High Steward Duke of Ormond two persons representing the Duke of Normandy and Aquitain Gentleman-Vsher Garter Lord Mayor Sir Richard Brown The Duke of York alone The Lord High Constable of England Earl of Northumberland Lord Great Chamberlain of England Earl of Lindsey The Sword by the Duke of Richmond The KING Equerries and Footmen next and about his Majesty Gentlemen and Pensioners without them the Master of the Horse Duke of Albemarl leading a spare Horse the Vice-Chamberlain to the King Captain of the Pensioners Captain of the Guard the Guard the Kings Life guard Commanded by my Lord Gerrard the Generals Life-guard by Sir Philip Howard a Troop of Voluntier Horse and a Company of Foot by Sir Iohn Robinson The way from the Tower to Aldgate was guarded by the Hamlets from thence to Temple-Bar by the Trained-Bands of London on one side and lined with the Liveries on the other side with the Banners of each Company The Windows were all along laid with the best Carpets and Tapestry Bands of Musick in several places and the Conduits running with Wine In St. Pauls Church-yard stood the Blew-coat boys of Christ-Church Hospital One in behalf of the rest declared their joy for his Majesties wonderful preservation in his absence and his Arrival thither humbly beseeching his Majesties Gracious favour and indulgence according to the example of his Royal Ancestors and his Father of blessed memory The King was very well pleased with this Speech and after conferred something on the Boy that spoke it In the Strand and through Westminster also the ways were gravelled and rayled being guarded on both sides with the Trained bands of that Liberty and City and his Majesties two Regiments of Foot under the command of his Grace the Duke of Albemarle and Colonel Russel brother to the Earl of Bedford The houses were also richly adorned with the Carpets and Tapestry and Musick particularly a stage of Morice-dancers at the Maypole in the Strand in the several places all along his Majesties passage When his Majesty came through Temple-bar into his Antient and Native City of Westminster the Head-bayliff in a Scarlet Robe and High Constable in Scarlet received his Majesty with loud Musick where alighting off their horses and kneeling down to
of Peterborough designed for that Command should arrive And for the Queens own Transportation the Royal Charles which brought the King from Holland was sent with this Fleet. In the mean while the Queen of Bohemia the King's Aunt died February 13. aged 66 years having been out of England 49 years and survived all the misfortunes of her Family which almost from the time of her Marriage in 1612. on St. Valentines day on the eve of which she now died had fallen very thick and chiefly and solely upon it She now came to her rest among her Royal Ancestors and Relations whose Glories and Honours she left more flourishing and greater than ever Her Decease was followed with a most violent and Tempestuous Winde February the 18th by which several persons were killed and much damage done in all parts of the three Kingdoms and in Forrain Countries which might give notice that all those Troubles and Calamities this Princess had suffered and by which most parts of Europe were Tempested were quite blown over and she gone to her last Repose A very unfortunate accident happened the same Month The Lord Buckhurst but now mentioned his Brother Mr. Edward Sackvile Sir Henry Bellasis Knight of the Bath Son and Heir to the Lord Bellasis Mr. Bellasis Brother to the Lord Faulconbridge and Mr. Wentworth Son to Sir George accompanying an acquaintance out of Town upon their Return being informed there were High-way men and Thieves in the Road meeting a Tanner and suspecting him for one of them after some resistance made by him killed him for this mischance they were Arraigned at the Kings Bench Bar but by the Iury quitted it not being probable that Persons of their Estates and Quality would set upon a single Person to do him injury but it might happen meerly by a mistake and good intent of freeing the Road. The Parliament had under their consideration the bringing of Lambert and Vane to their Tryal being excepted out of the Act of Oblivion as main Authors and Contrivers of those Troubles in the Rebellion and therefore desired His Majesty that he would be pleased to send for them from their remote Prisons they were in that they might be brought to Tryal that such bold Treasons might not pass with impunity On the other hand that they might testifie their acknowledgments to the Duke of Albemarle of his great merit and services in the Redemption of his Country they by Act now resolved to settle some Mannors and Lands upon him and confirmed the Kings Grants and Patents or what should afterwards by Grants or Patents be conferred on him The Duke of Ormond was likewise presented with the sum of Thirty thousand pounds in Bills of Exchange as a gratuity from the Parliament of Ireland in respect of the Services he had done that Kingdome in the same capacity before where also the Bill of settlement of Lands was the sole Affair in Debate the difficulty about Claims of the English and Irish intricating and perplexing the Bill so that the Dukes presence was very much desired as by whose prudence understanding and competent knowledge together with his equal relation to both Parties that tedious Work could only be accommodated which brings with it the conclusion of the year 1661 the 14 th year of the King Anno Domini 1662. THE beginning of this and the end of the last year was remarkable with a very notable Providence which for the more compact account of it is totally referred hither It hapned that among other the Fugitives for the parricidial Conspiracy in the Death of the King Miles Corbet Colonel Okey and Col. Barkstead which had traversed most parts of Low and some of High Germany where they had for a while resided at the City of Hanow under borrowed names about the beginning of March were returned to Delf in Holland having appointed their Wives to meet them there to understand their Affairs in England but these their Letters being intercepted and opened by the vigilance of Sir George Downing His Majesties Resident at the Hagâ—e they were all three taken together at Barkstead's and Okey's Lodging just as Corbet after Supper was going home by the Thief-takers and the Marshal of that Town Okey offered a resolute Escape Barkstead denyed himself and desired he might fetch his Cloak in the next Room Corbet as he said having taken Physick that day fell a Purging upwards and downwards in a very strange manner Sir George himself was present at the seizure and had them that Night secured in the common and ordinary Prison and thence conveyed them by the States order on Board the Blackmore Frigot then accidentally at Helveâ—t-Sluce having only brought over Mr. Armorer sent from the King to the Lords upon special occasions About the end of March they came to Gravesend where Sir Iohn Robinson Lieutenant of the Tower by Warrant from his Majesty with a Guard carried them to the Tower whence on the 16th of April they were brought to the Kings Bench Bar and there demanded what they could say for themselves why they should not die according to Law the Act of Attainder being read to them To which they alledged they were not the same persons mentioned therein whereupon Witnesses being ready were called and a Jury impannelled who gave verdict that they were the same persons and so the Lord Chief Justice Foster proceeded to Sentence which was the same with the former complices and sufferers for that Fact and was Executed on Saturday April the 19 at Tyburn where they with better ends than any of the rest acknowledged their resolved acquiescence under the Kings Government as of God and exhorted others to do so especially Colonel Okey a person that for his valour and other good qualities was pitied by all men for his being so blinded and ensnared in this Crime to his destruction They all pretended no malice to his late Majesty and their mistake of the Parliaments Authority for good and sufficient They were all three Hanged Bowelled and Quartered but his Majesty was graciously pleased out of regard to Colonel Okey's Christian and dutiful carriage to return his Quarters to his Friends to be interred which was done in the Chappel of the Tower by the Rites appointed in the Common-Prayer to prevent the unruly concourse of the Fanaticks who assembled in multitudes to accompany his Corps insomuch that the Sheriffs were forced to disperse them Barkstead's and Corbet's quarters were set upon the Gates the Head of the former upon a Pole on Traytors Gate in the Tower and Corbet's on London-Bridge For this kindeness and civility of the Dutch States the King ordered his Resident to thank them in his Name from which parts several of the Fanaticks that fled thither upon the Kings Restitution about this time travelled into Germany an invitation being published from one of the Princes there for all Nations to come and inhabit with full priviledges and immunities certain waste places of his
over the Severn Trent and Tine and Baston in Lincolnshire for a Sea-port to receive Succours out of Holland and other Foreign parts All the Gentry were to be secured and persons were dispatch'd abroad for assistance York they aim'd at but of Hull they absolutely despair'd as Walters affirmed who to give him his due dealt most sincerely Their pretences were to have been the opposal of Excise Subsidies c. to re-establish a Gospel-Magistracie and Ministry to restore the Long Parliament and lastly to curb the Gentry Clergy and Lawyers Fifteen of the seventeen first arraigned were found guilty the chiefest of whom was one Captain Oates Afterwards several others were arraigned who farther confessed how the Designe had been carried on by a private Committee at London That Lambert or Ludlow was propos'd for to have headed them That the Rising was to have begun in Ireland to have followed in England and then in Scotland Of these Cotton Denham and Atkins were the chief who all behaved themselves with a notorious insolence Cotton protesting that he valued his life no more than the Judge did his Handkerchief There was also among them one Corney a Preaching Anabaptist Most of them being convicted and condemned were afterwards executed some at York some at Leeds and others in other places Immediately after this Iames Turner a person for nothing more known than for the confidence of his behaviour came upon the Stage to plead for himself who had been a Sollicitor for others before he was Indicted for Felony and Burglary as one that had robb'd his own most intimate friend Mr. Samuel Tryon breaking into his house and binding him in his bed and then rifling away what he pleased in the house the matter of fact was so ill defended by a tedious Speech of his own that he was condemned and shortly after executed in Leaden-hall-street near Lime-street-end But to go on where this necessary digression interrupted me and to shew how the links of their treasonable Combination hung together at London shortly after was tried a Printer for having had a hand in Printing one of the most execrable Libels that was ever brought to light being a designe all at once upon the Life Honor Authority and Royal Family of the King wherein there was a general Call to a Rising in these very words If there be any City Town or County in the three Nations that will begin this Righteous and Glorious Work referring to the word Revolt they may be assured c. It was also ordered to have met the day appointed for the general Rising He was found Guilty of having advisedly and malitiously Printed the said Libel and was thereupon adjudged to be drawn hanged and quartered After him a Printer a Bookseller and a Book-binder were tri'd for a Misdemeanor found Guilty and fin'd the one a hundred Mark the other two forty Mark apiece all of them to stand in the Pillory and be return'd to Prison till the next Sessions and then to confess their faults in such manner as the Court should direct and to put in Security 400 lib. for themselves and 200 lib. for their Surety never to Print sell or publish any Book but such as should be by Law appointed The prementioned condemn'd Printer was executed accordingly The three others stood in the Pillory in Smithfield and before the Royal-Exchange their Offence being expressed in these words For selling and uttering malitious scandalous and seditioâ—s Books against the King the State and Peace of the Kingdom Nor must we omit the particular Acts of Providence as well as those which are universal A Story very observable in the preservation of divers Persons of Quality in a house in Holborne who being there met to a considerable number a Link-boy passing under the wall of the House observ'd the House failing who thereupon immediately ran in and bid the Company be gone for the House was falling upon their heads And so returning at the same instant and the Company following him as fast as they could they were no sooner out and clear of the door but the house fell indeed to the ground without any harm to the Company This Month an Antient Gentleman a Portugueze lodging in Hart-street in Covent-Garden having been abroad at his Devotions sent his Servant out to provide him some Fish for his Dinner which being dress'd and serv'd up a little while after the people of the house heard the report of a Pistol but took no farther notice of it A while after that the Gentlemans Servant a Portugueze likewise called Peter Caesar came down and sate to Dinner with the people of the house where he staid most part of the afternoon and then went abroad and came in again Toward the evening he went forth another time and caused a Porter to bring home a large Chest which being carried up stairs the Boy drew it into his Masters Chamber and a good while after called the Porter to help him down with it which he did accordingly But the Chest proving too heavy for the Porter and the Youth another Porter was call'd and so they carried it away to the water-side where it was put into a Boat and the Boy bidding the Water-man cross the water pretending he was to receive mony for the Goods in the Chest from a person that was to meet him there staid a while but no body coming at length in a rage to see himself disappointed caus'd the fellow to row him back again and by the way slipp'd the Chest into the Thames and left it as in a fury to see himself sent of an Errand to so little purpose After this the Boy returned to his Masters Lodging but some blood being discovered upon the stairs the fellow was apprehended next morning the Chest being taken up and opened there was found the body of his Master shot through the head That which moved him to this horrid Villany was a sum of mony between 3 and 400 hundred pound which his Master wore about him in a List. He was afterwards condemn'd and executed at Tyburn Upon the Nineteenth of March the Lord Holles Embassador from his Majesty to the French King received his Audience at Chasteauneuf with great Justice to the Royal Dignity of his Master and with honourable respect to himself The sum of what his Excellencie delivered which was in English tending principally to signifie his Royal Masters Intentions to preserve an Amity and fair Correspondence with that King upon confidence of the like from his Christian Majesty To which the French King's Reply was briefly That his Excellencie might assure his Master the King of Great Britain of as much from himself concluding with some expressions of particular respects to the Person of the English Embassador And it was observable that none of the Princes of the Blood who had got the precedencie of several Embassadors of late years were there to dispute it with Ours This Month the King
the Holy-days it being then Easter-week tumultuously took upon 'um to pull down Houses of ill fame about the Suburbs according to former practises though their chief designe was to Steal and Plunder Some mischief they did and more intended had they not been dispers'd by the Guards of Horse The Scandal lay upon the Prentices but afterwards it appear'd otherwise Four of the number that were apprehended were upon Tryal found Guilty and Executed two of their Heads being set upon London-Bridge The twelfth of this Moneth the King went to the House of Lords where he was presented by the House with several Bills the chief whereof was one for the raising of 310000 l. by way of Imposition upon Wines and other Liquors which being pass'd with the rest the Parliament was adjourn'd till the 11 th of August next ensuing The place of Lord chief-Chief-Justice of the Common-Pleas being vacant Sir Iohn Vaughan was at the latter end of this Moneth solemnly Sworn Serjeant at Law and being the next day advanc'd to the vacant Dignity aforesaid took his place accordingly in Court. This Moneth arrived News that came then too soon of the burning of the Bridge-Town being the chief place of Trade in the Barbadoes the Fire not only consuming the greatest part of the Houses but also blowing up the Magazine to the great detriment of the publick as well as private persons But as it fares with most convenient Situations all hands going to work it quickly flourished again being above half rebuilt before the latter end of the year His Majesty had his Embassadors of Envoys in most other parts of Christendom only Spain and therefore having first conferr'd the Honour of Knighthood upon Sir William Godolphin hs made choice of him to reside as his Embassador in the Court of the Catholick King sending him away with all convenient speed And to keep a Correspondence with the Grand Signior for the good of the Merchants Sir Daniel Harvey was sent much about the same time Embassador to Constantinople These were no sooner gone but Monsieur Colbert arriv'd at London as Embassador from the King of France At the beginning of this Moneth the Duke of York went for Dover neer which place in a Tent erected for that purpose he took the usual Oath of Warden of the Cinque Ports And to shew that his Majesty was not unmindful of keeping a Watch upon the Proceedings of the Netherlands it was not long after that Sir William Temple now the King's Embassador Extraordinary in Holland made his publick Entry into the Hague and had his Audience of the Deputies of the States It was in August expected the Parliament should have met again but the King by his Proclamation for great and weighty considerations adjourn'd them to the tenth of November ensuing In November upon the Resignation of the Lord Gerrard the Duke of Monmouth receives the Command of the Life-guards of Horse being openly conferrd upon him by the King Some few days after Pietro Mocenigo Embassador from the Republick of Venice made his publick Entry and had Audience of his Majesty And now Mr. Secretary Maurice growing old and tiâ—'d with State-Affairs craves leave of the King to make a resignation of his most important employment which being consented to by his Majesty Sir Iohn Trevor Knight succeeded him who at the same time taking the usual Oaths of a Privy-Councellor soon after was admitted to take his place at the Council-board Nor was the King less careful of the Church than State this Moneth being famous for the Consecration of that Learned Prelate Dr. Iohn Wilkins Bishop of Chester in the Chappel of Ely-House His Majesty's Navy though considerable had done little else but shew'd its Grandeur all this Summer when on a suddain Sir Thomas Allen being dispatch'd for the Mediterranean appears before Argier where though at first they stood upon their terms yet when they saw him preparing to use force their Stomacks began to come down so that they immediately offer'd a release of all the Captive English which had been taken by them belonging to Tangier They also agreed to the former Peace made between the King of England and them with some additions which were signed by them and Sir Thomas Allen to this effect That all their Captains should be commanded to let all English Vessels pass without damage or molestation upon their shewing English Colours If in any Vessel the English were equal to the Strangers then they should be free if the Strangers exceeded the English then Lawful Prize however if they shew'd an English Pass to be let go That none of their little Frigats with Oars shall stop any Vessel laden with Provisions or Ammunition for Tangâ—er That they shall not deliver any of their little Frigats with Oars to any of the Salley-men to make use of That if any of their little Vessels intended for Tangier they should take a Pass from the English Consul at Argier From thence he sail'd for Tripoli at whose appearance the King of the place sent out a Brigantine and a Favourite of his to bid him welcome assuring him of his readiness to keep and maintain the ancient Friendship and continue the Articles already agreed on The Parliament who had adjourn'd themselves to the first of March were about the middle of this Moneth by the King's Proclamation Prorogu'd for many weighty and urgent reasons till the tenth of October following The Births of Princes and Princesses oftentimes the subjects of Great Histories are never to be omitted Therefore was this Moneth not a little signalized seeing the Dutchess of York was about the middle thereof deliver'd of a Daughter which was Baptized by the Name of Henrietta by the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury the Duke of Ormond assisting as Godfather the Marchioness of Dorchester and the Countess of Devonshire being honour'd for Godmothers The King in testimonie of his Amity with Spain had sent Sir Edward Sprague as his Envoy to complement the Constable oâ— Castile upon his Entry upon the Government of the Spanish Netherlands who having perform'd what he had in charge return'd at the latter end of this Moneth That which compleated the double date of this Year was the coming of the Prince of Tuscany to compleat his Travels by a view of England where after he had been magnificently Treated by the King himself both at London and Windsor and in many other Cities and places by several of the Nobility and persons of Quality of this Kingdom he departed for Holland and so to his own Country Forrein Affairs 1668. The Differences at Avignon being compos'd the Citizens sent two Embassadors one on the behalf of the Nobility the other of the Commonalty to Rome who being admitted into the presence of the Pope sware Fâ—alty to him after the usual manner and shew'd their great Satisfaction of the choise which the Pope had made of Cardinal Rospigliosi his Nephew to
room But now to take the charge from-both the Lord Roberts arrives at Dublin Upon the news of this change the Lord Mayor and Aldermen the Provost of the Colledge the Dean of Christ-Church and most of the Clergy attended the Lord Ossory where the one acknowledged the many benefits which the City had received from the Government of his Father and himself the other the many benefits which the Church had enjoy'd as well by their good Examples as by the plentiful provision made them by the Clergy The reception of the new Lord-Deputy was intended to have been made with much State and Solemnity but he waving those publick Honours met the Lord-Deputy and the Council at the Council-Chamber the same Evening after his arrival where after he had taken the usual Oath the Lord-Deputy deliver'd him the Sword He was no fooner enter'd upon his Government but he issu'd out a Proclamation commanding all Governors and Officers to repair to their several Charges and Duties not admitting any dispâ—nsation to the contrary London had long layn in Ashes and the Confluence of all the World had been as long confin'd within the narrow limits of a Colledge-Court but now again the Merchants to their great satisfaction and the lasting Merits of Sir William Turner then Lord Mayor whose indâ—â—aâ—igable paâ—â— and zeal was Eminent in advancing and forwarding so great a Work met in the Royal Exchange a Fabrick equal to the Honour of the Undertakers and holding a true proportion with the rest of the Goodly Buildings of the Reviving City But now men began to listen after things a higher Nature seeing both Houses of Parliament again Assembled upon the 19th of October The King in a Speech acquainted them With his joy to see them at that time and the hopes he had of a happy meeting which he promis'd himself from the great experience he had of their Affection and Loyalty of which he did not doubt the Continuance briefly minding them of his Debts which though pressing he was unwilling to call for their Assistance till this time acquainâ—ing them also that what they last gave was wholly apply'd to the Navy and to the Extraordinary Fleet for which it was intended desiring they would now take his Debts effectually into their Consideration Afterwards hinting to them a Proposal of great Importance concerning the Vniting of England and Scotland which because it requir'd some length he left that and some other things to the Lord Keeper to open more fully which was by him done and then both Houses Adjourn'd At the beginning of November both Houses in pursuance of a Vote which they had made attended the King in the Banqueting House where the Lord Chief Justice Vaughan supplying the Room of the Lord Keeper in the name of both Houses return'd their Humble Thanks to the King for his Care of the Publick in Issuing out his Proclamation for the suppressing of Conventicles Humbly desiring his Majesty to continue the same care for the future In Reply to which his Majesty return'd an Answer to the satisfaction of both Houses But now Christmas drawing near and having sate above a Month without effecting any thing of consequence the Lords sent the Usher of the Black-Rod to the House of Commons to tell them That by Vertue of the King's Commission they desird their Attendance who Attending accordingly with their Speaker the Commission was read and the Parliament Prorogu'd till the 24th of February next ensuing At the same time that the Parliament of England sate at Westminster the Parliament of Scotland sate at Edenburgh where the Earl of Lauderdale having taken the Chair of State as Lord Commissioner of Scotland the Earls Commission was first read and then the doubtful Elections of Members refer'd to Examination That done the Kings Letter to the Parliament was twice read seconded by a shorter from the Lord Chancellor perswading them to a concurrence with the King in his Design of Uniting the Two Kingdoms Then they proceeded to Elect the Lords of the Articles the Bishops choosing Eight Bishops and those Eight Eight of the Nobility and these Sixteen making choice of Eight Knights and as many Burgesses by whom all Affairs were to be prepar'd for the House During this Session they Publish'd an Act for the Naturalization of Strangers within the Kingdom of Scotland Declaring that all Strangers of the Protestant Religion that should think fit to bring their Estates into the said Kingdom or should come to set up new Works and Manufactures therein should be Naturaliz'd as Native-Born Subjects of that Kingdom to all intents and purposes The King farther Declaring That upon application by such Strangers made to him he would grant them the free and publick use of their Religion in their own Language and the Libertie of having Churches of their own However no persons were to have the benefit of the said Act till first by Petition to the Lords of the Privy-Council containing an exact designation of their Names and places of Birth and former residences and that tâ—ey be of the Protâ—stant Religion They also made another Act asserting his Majesty's Supremacy over all persons and in all Causes Ecclesiastical By Sea little was this Year done only Sir Thomas Allen being again sent with a Squadron of Ships about the beginning of August came before Argier and sending in his Boat began to Treat they in Argier seem'd willing to make restitution of such Money as they had taken from an English ship bound for the East-Indies but not agreeing to some other demands the Treaty prov'd ineffectual thereupon he began actual Hostility seizing a Bark laden with Corn which rode in the Bay with eleven Moors and a Brigantine which he took in view of the Town From hence having done little or nothing else considerable he set sail for Tripoly the Bashaw of which place sent him an assurance of his readyness to prâ—serve Peace and a good Correspondence with the King of Great Britain And after a short crusing up and down in those Seas he return'd for Cadiz where this Year leaves him But being now so neer the English Territories at Tangier the King of England's Embassador Mr. Henry Howard must not be forgot who being sent by the King his Embassador Extraordinary to the Emperour of Morocco at that time Taffalette by vertue of his new Conquests was now arriv'd at Tangier but understanding the danger of hazarding his person among those Barbarians stay'd at that place expecting a sufficient strength to convoy and conduct him to his place of Audience In November he receiv'd his Safe-Conduct with an assurance from the Emperour that he should not fail of receiving all satisfaction in order to whatsoever he should desire for his security and that he had already caus'd Justice to be done to such as were found guilty of giving any affronts to his people And true it was that he caus'd all the English which were taken by the
Corn. After this followed the surrender of Treves to the Imperialists upon Articles of which one was That Crequy who had escaped thither from his Rout should be a Prisoner of War In September the Duke of Lorrain departed this life at Hermansteine neer Coblentz Farther off the King of Poland removed a very great Storm that threatned his Dominions by a very great overthrow of the Tartars wherein a great number of them were slain with the loss of their chief Standard which struck such a terrour into the Turks that with their Captain Ishmael Bassa they made a shameful Retreat out of the Polish Territories But the Low Countries had a worse Enemy to deal with for the Sea breaking into North-Holland the Inundation continued with that violence that many of the Cities of North-Holland had a great share of that Calamity The Harlemeer-Dyke was broken and all the Country round about lay under Water so that many of the Boors Houses were drown'd being covered with the Sea The same Fate befel South-Holland and it is said that had the Inundation continu'd 24 hours longer the whole Country would have run a hazard of being lost And thus you have an account in brief of all the most memorable Transactions since the greatest act of Providence that has been observed for many Ages The happy Restauration of his Majesty And we may aver that here is nothing but Truth if all the publick Intelligence of so many years have not fail'd This is then a Story in dead Colours it behoves them that will lay it in the lively Painting to take more pains than may be thought has here been taken and have greater helps than it was possible for us to have to make use of And therefore if there be any that with the Knowledge of a Privy-Councellor and the Eloquence of a Salust will undertake to cull out the most important Actions which are here reduc'd into order ready to his hand for some of these he must take or be silent and compile them into a judicious History we are ready to vail Bonnet in the mean time these few Sheets may pass for Common Satisfaction FINIS AN ALPHABETICAL TABLE A ABingdon-Garrison Page 70 Aberdeen and St. Andrews yielded 302 Abjuration of the King by the Rump 436 Account of the Dutch War from 315 c. to 323. Their Intrigues with forrein Princes and at home 323. of the Revenue and Charge of the Kingdom under the Vsurpation of Oliver 415 Act against proclaiming of the King 225. For Assessment 235. For sale of Cavaliers Estates ibid. Executed 303. For Marriages 351. For Irish Adventurers and Allotments 352. Several confirmed 500. Against Bishops repealed 501. Pretended of annulling the Title of the King 383 Accidents 315 Addresses how begun 67. To Cromwel upon the dissolution of the Parliament 343. To Richard 410. To the Rump from forrain Princes 423. To the Rump by the Army 422. to the King from the Nobility and Gentry of the whole Kingdom 452 Adjutators 127 forbid Adventurers for Ireland 352 Aix la Chappelle Treaty there 570 Alarm in London 403 Albans Earl 455 made Lord-Chamberlain 580 Allen Sir Thomas Lord Mayor of London 428 Allen Captain sent for the Streights 528. Allen Sir Thomas makes peace with Algiers 569. Lies before Algier 575. Algier Men of War destroyed by the English 578. Returns ibid. Albemarle's stay in London 539. General at Sea 550. One of the Commissioners of the Treasury 563. Dies 575. His Dutchess dies ibid Anabaptism the uppermost Religion 431 Andrews proclaims the Abolishing of Kingly Government and made Lord Mayor 231 Andrews Colonel beheaded 270 Anniversary Act of the King's Nativity 456 Anthony Sir Ashley-Cooper 427 Approbation of Ministers 359 Arches Triumphal 475 to 479 Ards Lord 240 Arguments for Cromwel's accepting the Kingship 386 to 390 Argyle a Privy Councellor sides with the Assembly 8. Policy and shifts 304. Marquiss seized 470. Beheaded 497 Arlington Earl sent into Holland 586. made Lord Chamberlain 599. Sent into France ibid. Armagh Arch-bishop dies 380 Armstrong Sir Thomas joyns with the Marquiss of Ormond 240 Army English very gallant and resolute 10. Parliament Army raised 36. New moduled 67. Quarrel with the Parliament about Irish Transportation and publickly declare their power over them 132. Purging the House ib. Pretend civilities to the King 132 to 136. Designe upon the City and claim the Militia 136. Declaration and insolence 140. Triumphantly through London 141. Delude the King Their Proposals 145 to 147. Suppress a Rising in London 170. Quarter in London Whitehal and the Mews 192. And force the Parliament ibid. Shipt for Ireland at Milford-Haven 237. English advance into Scotland 268. Face the Scots 272. Remonstrance to Richard 416. Their address to the Rump 422. Their representation to the Rump 428. New moulded by Lambert 429. Declaration upon outing the Rump ibid. Their Address joyfully receiving the King's Declaration 466. Disbanded 456 Array Commission 27 Articles of Scotch Cessation 15 Arundel Earl made General of the English 9 Arundel Castle taken by Sir William Waller 56 Ascham slain in Spain 236 Ashley Sir Bernard at Naseby 79. Mortally Wounded at Bristol 84 Ashley Sir Jacob defeated at Stow in the Wold 96. Deserts Newcastle 13 Ashby de la Zouch 97 Ashburnham Mr. John 99 Ashbâ—â—nham Mr. William 148 Aske Iudge 254 Assembly General indicted and meet by their own Authority packt and made up oâ— Lay-Elders refuse the Bishops to sit buâ— cite them to answer as Guilty dissolved within 7 days but continue nevertheless 8. Assembly of Divines 69. General in Scotland 325 Ashton Colonel Edward Quartered 404 Aston Sir Arthur Governour slain at Drogheda 244 Aubigny Lord 41. His Lady 47 Aurange Prince the Kings great Friend 235 dies and a new Prince born 276. Christned 282. Old Prince buried 284. His Interest in Holland 323 Avignon Sedition there 533. Peace composed 570 Axtel Guards the High Court of Iustice 205 Ayscue Sir George at Barbadoes 306. Returns to Plymouth 322. At Dover ibid. In danger Engageth De Ruyter at Plymouth and discharged 323. Prisoner 551 B Badajox Marquiss killed 383 Balmerino Lord his Treason 4 Baggot Kath. Ballishanon 241 242 251 Banbury 108 Barnstable 99 106 Barbadoes reduced 306. Wonder 526. Attempted by De Ruyter 537. Lord Willoughby wounded there 537. Sails from thence with a Fleet 557. Lost in a Hurricane ibid. The Bridge-town burnt there 568. Barbadoes Conspiracy 602. A Hurricane there 602 Barâ—bone denominates a Parliament 350. His Petition 437 Barons created 482 Baronets Catalogue 493 to 496 Bastwick Burton Pryn return from Banishment in great state 16 Bastwick Dr. of Physick Burton a Minister against Bishops c. 2 Basing-house Besieged by Waller in vain 62 Taken 91 BATTLES Edge-hill 40. Newberry first 50.51 Newberry second 65.66 Marston-moor 59. Tepper-moor Alderne Kilsith Philipshaugh in Scotland 73. Naseby 78 to 80. Lamport 82. Routon-heath 89. Colonel Jones defeated near Dublin 164. Defeats Lord Preston with a huge slaughter soon after at
Cock-matches prohibited 359 Horton Adjutant to Maj. Gen. Brown at Dennington 63 Hotham refuseth to admit the King into Hull but suffers the Duke of York and Prince Elector Palatine is proclaimed Traitor 33 34. Revolts from the Parliament and his son and he sent Prisoners to the Tower 56. Executed 68 House of Lords voted useless 226. Protest against it ibid. Howard Lord adviseth Richard Cromwel 417 Howard Lady to the Tower 423 Howard Capt. his valour 543 Howard Master sent Embassador to Taffalette 575 Hoyle Alderman Hangs himself 256 Hull Garrison 33. Hotham Governour of it ibid. The dispute of transferring that Magazine 32 33 Humble Petition and Advice 393 Hume-castle yielded 283 Humphries-Col to Jamaica 377 I Jamaica 370 Jamaicans assault the Dutch Plantations 548 James John Executed 502 Jealousies Fears and pretended Plots 26 27 30.31 Jenkins Iudge his writings 155 156. Designed for slaughter 229. Dies 524 Jersey a new Mace 520. Surrendered to Col. Haynes 306 Jesuits in France proceeded against 570. Exiled 373 Jews treat for admission with Cromwel 379 Jewish Prophet 548 559 Imposition on Seal-coal 359 Independants rise 66. Quarrel with the Presbyterians and cajolethem 67. undermine and defeat them 112 113 139. Synod at Savoy 413 Inchiqueen Lord defeats Lord Taaff 164. Declares for the King ibid. Ioyns with the Confederate Catholicks for the King under the Lord of Ormond made Lieutenant General of the Army 238. His overfight like to be surpriâ—ed 245. Falsly suspected and accused by the Marquess of Antrim 263. Leaves Ireland 277 Indians rebel in New-England 601 Ingoldsby Col. offers aid to Richard 417. Suppresseth a Mutiny and Lambert Instrument of Cromwel's Protectorian Government and his Oath 354 Joachims Embassador from the Dutch 267. Sent home 270 St. Johnstons yielded 294 Jones draws out of Dublin to oppose the advance of the Marquiss of Ormond retreats 239. Raiseth the Siege before Dublin 211. Comes before Drogheda and retreats 243. Dies in the quality of Lieutenant-General 247 Ireland and Ulster Forces submit 344 Ireland its state and condition 238 Ireton's appearance and notice at Naseby-fight wounded 78. In the Cabal of the Army 84. Draws their Papers and Proposals 84 85. Parliament Votes 161. Intrigues between them 116 118 119. Dies of the Plague 305 Irish affairs an account of the Cessation and the Marq. of Ormond's Treaty with Rebels and Parliament the Articles thereof with the Rebels the Popes Nuntio there 122 123 124. Strength what after Cromwel's departure 253. Abused by Cromwel's fair carriage at first into horrible slavery at his departure 253. Defeated at Finagh 234. Their affairs 292 309 310. Seem to acquiess in Lambert's actions 431. Affairs 515 Judges Commissioned by the new State 224. New ones again 254. New placed by the Rump 422. Of the King and others exempted out of the Act of Oblivion 454. They that came in upon Proclamation respited from Execution 469. Brought to the House of Lords and remanded to Prison 502. Of the Law their Names 492 Justice High Court 203 to 217. Again erected 258 278. To try Col. Gerrard and Powel 360 K Kentish Insurrection 173. Suppressed ibid. Kent mastered and reduced by Rich and Berkstead 175 Keyling Sir John Lord Chief-Iustice 543 Ker Col. defeated 280 Killing no Murther a Book 395 King dispenceth with the Common prayer and Book of Canons in Scotland by a Declaration slighted and cavilled at as a device and opposed by the Earls of Hume and Lindsey with another Declaration 7 8 Arms against the Scots 9. At York and Barwick agrees upon a Pacification 10. Goeth to his Scotch Parliament 20. Departs thence with mutual satisfaction ibid. Received Magnificently at his return to the City ibid. Demands five Members 25. To Hampton-court to Dover to Greenwich Theobalds 27. To Royston New-market York ibid. Asserts his right in the Militia 30 31. His innocence of any designe of War c. ibid. Resolves for Ireland 32. Expostulates his affront at Hull from Beverley 34. Takes a guard of York-shire-Gentlemen ibid. His intentions of no War attested by the Lords ibid. Answers and refutes their Remonstrance 35. Forbids the Militia 36. Invites his Subjects to his assistance ibid. To Newark back to York to Nottingham sets up his Standard to Stafford-shire Leicester-shire confines of Wales and Shrewsbury and caresses the Gentry and Commonalty 37 38 39. Melts down his Plate at Shrewsbury and Mints it 38. Faceth Coventry to Southam 39. Stays and turns upon Essex his Speech 39 40. Takes Banbury to Oxford towards London at Brainford 41. Into the West after Essex Overtakes him at Lestithiel defeats him 58. in the associated Counties 88. Into Wales ibid. At Newark 90. At Oxford ibid. Escapes thence 99. To the Scots 100. Information of it and his Majesties Messages and the Parliaments Answers from 100 to 104. The King at Newcastle 114. disputes with Henderson 115. And betrayed by the Scots 121. His escape intended from the 122. Delivered to Commissioners 127. At Holmby 128. Carried away by Cornet Joyce 129. At Childersley with freedom of Chaplains 130. The designe of it 131 to 133. Deluded by the Army Proposals 132. At Hampton-court after many traverses 145. Pretendedly at Liberty and Honour 147. His nearness to London suspected by Cromwel 148. Frighted thence by Whaley and departs ibid. His Letters and Declarations there 148 to 151. In the Isle of Wight ibid. High Treason to conceal his Person ibid. His Message from the Isle of Wight 151 to 155. A blasphemous Hue and Cry against him ibid. Answers the Message with the Bills of Parliament His Declaration upon the Votes of Non-addresses 166 to 169. Kings Message and Answer to the Votes of a personal Treaty 181 182. Hath liberty of assistance and his Friends 183. Startled at the Remonstrance of the Army 187. Shews the unreasonableness of it ibid. His farewel to the Commissioners and Declaration concerning the Treaty 188 to 190. And his Letter of the result and advice to the Prince 190. Hurried from the Isle of Wight to Hurst-castle to Winchester to Windsor to St. James's 193. To the High Court of Iustice his defence and Reasons 203 to 215. Traiterously Sentenced ibid. Confers with his Children ibid. The Lady Elizabeth's relation of it 216. His Speech upon the Scaffold 218 to 219. Murthered 220. His Corps exposed to view ibid. Buried by the Duke of Richmond Marquiss of Hertford Durchester and Earl of Lindsey at Windsor 221. The Service-book denied at his Interment ibid. King Charles the second at Hague 235. Highly treated there and honoured 236. Departs for France by Rotterdam Dort Antwerp and Brussels treated by the Arch-Duke Leopold attended thence by Duke Lorrain to Compeign met there by the French King 237. At Jersey 257. At Breda ibid. Takes shipping at Terheyden for Scotland 268. Arrives there ibid. Withdrawing the Covenanting party 281. Crowned at Schoone ibid. Marched into England 294. Comes to Worcester 295. Summons the Country ibid. Flies by advice of the Earl of Derby to Whiteladies the
by which his Subjects are frighted from coming or sending to him That all men of necessary Professions be admitted to come to him Note That His Majesty had suffered his Beard to overgrow in that solitary restraint of near seven Months so that Compassion wooed where Majesty once awed That the Scots may be invited to send their Propositions The King declaring a tendâ—r affection for both his Kingdoms The King appoints Newport for the place of Treaty But urgeth the reconveniencies of Treating so far from London His Majesty 〈◊〉 the Delegates to expedite the Treaty by dispatching their Commissioners The Parliament appoint Commissioners five Lords ten Commoners And desire his Majesties Royal Word for his continuance in the Island till 20 days after the Treaty Their Votes of Non-address repealed His Majesty sends the Parliament a List of such Persons he desired might attend him The Treaty began Sept. 18. The Parliament dissatisfied with the Kings Propositions They send thanks to their Commissioners His Majesties Propositions He is willing to confess himself Author of the War rather than the Peace shall be frustrated That the Assembly of Divines shall sit at Westminster 3 years That the Directory shall be confirmed for 3 years c. That Legal Estates for Lives or Years shall be made of Bishops-lands Provided the Propriety remain in the Church That there be a Reformation and concerning Papists * Thrust in by some rigid Presbyterians and maintained there by the Independants because they knew the King would never Assent to it and so no Conclusion That the two Houses shall dispose of the Militia for 10 years or during his Reign That the affairs of Ireland be determined by the Parliam That Taxes he levied for the payment of the Army and publike Debts That all the Chief Officers of State shall be nominated by the Parl. for 10 years That the Militia of the City of London Liberties for ten years may be in the Lord Mayor Aldermen Common-Council and Sheriffs thereof With the Tower and Chief Officers thereof His Majesty proposeth his liberty to repair to Westminster and to be restored to his Revenues Proffereth an Act of Oblivion to all persons The Parliament imperious Most of their Commissioners dutiful in their behaviour towards the King The Army's Remonstrance at St. Albans The villanous heads thereof That the King be brought to Iustice. That the Prince of Wales and Duke of York render themselves by a certain day or be proclaimed Traytors That the Revenue of the Crown be sequestred That Capital punishments be inflicted on some Chief Instruments in the Wars That all Delinqâ—ents come in by a certain day or their Estates be confiscated and they to die without mercy That Fines Compositions and Confiscations be disposed for the payment of the Souldiery That the Parliament set some period to their own Power That the future Government of of the Kingdom may be setled That no King be hereafter admitted but upon Election And he to accord to these Propositions as they shall be established by the Agreement of the people Something near the same stuff except what toucht the King was Signed by nine Regiments of Horse and seven of Foot and afterward promoted in London by Lieutenant-Colonel Lilburne and Mr. Prince by Petition to the Parliament who condemned both Novemb. 1647. and yet the same Moneth next year it revived The Levellers set on by Cromwel to prosecute this designe The Kings Queries to the Remonstrance A strict Guard put upon the King His Majesties Pathetick Expressions to the Parliaments Commissioners at parting His Majesties Declaration concerning the Treaty and his dislike of the Armies proceedings The Presbyterians satisfied with this Declaration and troubled at the proceedings of the Army His Majesties Letter to the Prince his Son our present Sovereign His excellent Advice to him The Army conspire to force the House The Parliament Vote the Kings Answer satisfactory Dec. 5. The Army require that the Iâ—pâ—aâ—hed Members and Major-General Brown be secured and brought to Iustice The House guarded Col. Pride Col. Hewson and Sir Hardress Waller seize on several Members Dec. 6. Hugh Peters an Agent for the Army in this Designe The Parliament impriâ—oâ—â—d Ireton 's insolent expression Major-General Brown sent prisoner to Windsor Note that Skippon thrust in that clause The Iuncto take upon them to act as a Parliament Rainsborough slain at Doncaster Oct. 29. Scarborough Castle yielded to the Parl. The Army seize the King and carry him from the Isle of Wight to Hurst Castle Dec. 1. From thence to Winchester To Farnham To Windsor The King brought to St. James 's Jan 19. Harrison 's insolent behaviour to the King The Ordinance for Trial of the King brought into the Iuncto by Tho. Scot. They Vote it Treason for the King of England to levy War against his Parliament The Vote and Ordinance carried to the Lords by the Lord Gray of Grooby The Lords cast out the Ordinance and adjourned for 7 days The Commons netled they resolve to rid their hands of King Lords and dissenting Commons An Act of the House of Commons for the Tryal of King Charles the First Jan. 9. Serjeant Dendy makes Proclamation that the Commissioners of the High Court of Iustice were to sit the next day and all persons invited to give in Evidence against Charles Stuart Proclaimed in three places Westminster Cheap-side and the Old Exchange The Names and Câ—aracters of the King's Iudges Cromwel a Native of Huntingdon-shire Ireton his Soâ—-in-law Bradshaw a Cheshire-man died obstinately 1659. He took the Oath of Allegeance but two Terms before the King's death He is rewarded with the Lord Cottington 's Estate and the Dutchy of Lancaster Harrison a Butchers Son at Newcastle in Stafford-shire was executed at Charing-Cross Octob. 1660. John Carew John Cook Sollicitor of the High Court Hugh Peters the shame of the Clergy Thomas Scot a Brewers Clerk his rash wish Gregory Clement a Merchant Adrian Scroop Brother to Sir Adrian John Jones a Serving-man marries Cromwels sister Francis Hacker a Souldier of Fortune Daniel Axtel a Country-Mercer Capt. of the Guard at the Kings Trial. Okey a Chandler near Billingsgate London a daring Commander Miles Corbet of a good Family in Norfolk Burgess for Yarmouth John Berkstead a Goldsmith Lieutenant of the Tower Thom. Pride â— Brewer 〈…〉 Isaac Ewer of 〈…〉 in Yorkshire The Lord Gray of Grooby Son to the Earl of Stamford Sir John Danvers Brother to the Loyal Earl of Danby Sir Tho. Maleverer of a good Family in Yorkshire Sir John Bourchier a diligent Independent Mercenary Col. Purefoy Governour of Coventry John Blakestone a Shop-keeper in Newcastle Sir William Constable of Yorkshire Governour of Gloucester Rich. Dean General at Sea slain by a Cannon shot Fr. Allen a Goldsmith one of the Committees for the saâ—e of Kings Lands Peregrine Pelham Governour of Hull John Moor. John Allured Humph. Edwards a Member of the Long-Parl Sir Gregory Norton John Ven a Silkman Governour of
gives the Signal He is Executed The Corps committed to the care of his servants Carriâ—d to Windsor Some Lords get an order for the burial of the King They desire it might be in St. Gorge 's Chappel by Common-prayer are denyed They expostulate but prevail not Seeking a place for Burial they finde Hen. 8 's Vault The Funeral England had not been without Regal Government from the begininng It had change of Governours not change of Government The Royal race had continued 562 years in ouâ— Regality Now clouds aâ—â— darknâ—â—â— blackâ—ess and 〈…〉 Horrour and Amazemâ—nt 〈…〉 dissolution His Majesty might have lived very long The Prince abâ—â—â—t but in safety In the night of confusion Bats and Scritch-owles rule They make an Act forbidding the Proclamation of a King c. Jan. 30. A Proclamation thrown about streets The Procclamation They Vote the Exclusion of the Members the Army had secluded The House of Lords Voted useless Feb. 5. The protestation of the Nobility against it The Kingly Power Voted Useless Feb. 7. A Council of Sate in Force Iudges Commissioned They declare to preserve and maintain the Laws A new stamp for Coyn Voted Agents and Envoys designed to Forrain Princes The monthly Fast Nulled Several escapes of the Cavalier party viz. Col. Massey Sir Lewis Dives Mr Holden and Lord Capel the last of them betrayed by Davis a Water-man and retaken Lord Loughborough escapes from Windsor-Castle with several others The King at the Hague Feb. c. The Prince of Aâ—range a friend to the Royal Family Mr. Beaumont Executed at Pomfret Feb. 7. A new High Court of Iustice erected Duke Hamilton Earl of Holland Lorâ— Capel Trâ—ed by the High Court of Iustiâ—â— The Lord Capel ' s legal Defences The Lord Goring and Sir John Owen reprieved Dâ—ke Hamilton E. of Holland and Lord Capel beheaded Mar. 9. Other capital Delinquents in nomination As Sir John Stowell Iudge Jenkins and Cap. Brown Bushell Marq. of Winchester Bâ— Wren Ma. Gen Brown and Sir John Cloâ—worthy hardly escaping Several qualifications of Delinquents to life and Eâ—tate Tâ—e chief of whom were the Kings Majesty the D. of York E. of Britol D. of Buckingham Lord Digby Lord Cottington Marq of New-castle Marq of Worcester Sir Ed. Hide Lâ—rd Culpepeâ— and Lord Wâ—ddrington Secluded Members totally Excluded The Parliaments proceâ—dings in reference to the City Alderman Reynoldson the Lord Mayor outed and fined and Alderman Andrews one of the Kings Iudges placed in his stead He proclaims the Act for abolishing Kingly Government Sir Thomas Soams and Alderman Culham degraded Col. Poyer Executed April 25. Col. Laughorn and Col. Powel condemned Pomfret-Castle delivered Mar. 24 to Maj. Gen. Lambert John Lilburn and some of his party secured An account of the state of Scotland Charles the second proclaimed King at Edingburgh The English 〈◊〉 State tampers with the Scotch Parliament Sir Jos. Douglas is sent from the Scots to the King at the Hague Innerness seized for the King Lord 〈…〉 Lockier the Leveller shot to death in Saint Paul 's Church-yard Eleven Regiments designed by Cromwel for the Irish service Thompson a corneâ— with 2 Troâ—ps enters Northampton and declares his and the Armies resolution against that Expedition Several Regiments confederate in the same designe Cromwel by treachery surprizeth them Levellers defeated at Burford in May. Thompson and two more Executed Their Chieftain slain in Wellingborough wood Fairfax complemented at Oxford and treated at Dinner in the City of London They present Fairfax and Cromwel with Gold and Plate England made a Free-State Iune A new Mace made 4000 l. a year out of the D. of Buckinghams Estate given to Fairfax Lord Cottington's Estate to Bradshaw Several Acts to raise money Several Castles demolished A short account of the King at the Hague Salmasius 〈◊〉 in the Kings defenâ—e Is 〈◊〉 by Miltoâ— the likâ—wise answerâ— His Majâ—â—ties Meditations which Answer was since burned by the common Hang-maâ— The condition his Majâ—sty was in at the Hague Dr. Dorislaus their Envâ—r to the Estates General killed at the Hague May. Ascham their Envoy to Spain killed by one Sparks â—ho was therefore Executed King Charles the second departs for France Iune The King magnificently treated by the Arch-Duke The Dutchess of Savoy assignes him 50000 crowns per Ann. Duke of Gloucester and the Princess Eliz. at Penshurst with the Countess of Leicester The affairs of Ireland summed up together Note they taxed the King with what themselves were guilty Lieut. Gen. Cromwel Voted Lord-Governour of Ireland The Parl. Army hiâ—â— from Milford-Haven to Wales Cromwel lands at Dublin The State of the Kingdom â—f Ireâ—and The English Roman Catholikes declare for the King and desire the Marq. of Ormond may be their General An Association with O Neal by Sir Charles Coot and Col. Monke then in Arms for the Parliament The Câ—nfederates aâ—d the Lord Inchiqueens Forces do not brook one another thâ—y with the Marq. of Clanrickard and the E. of Castlehaven designe to reduce Dublin Lord Inchiqueen Lieâ— Gen. for the King O Neal joyns with the Independent party Col. Monke agrees with him O Neal Relieves London-Derry The ill consequence thereof to the Kings affairs The Marquess of Ormond comes before Dublin Aug. Sir Thomas Armstrong Col. Trevors and the Lord Moor declare for the King O Neal defeated Drogheda taken Dundalke surrendred to the King His Majâ—sties Presence most necessary and most desired in Ireland The Siege of Dublin by the Kings Forces Aug. Dublin Relieved by a sally the Forces of the Gairison made Aug. 22. The Marq of Ormond 〈…〉 Dâ—blin Aug. â— Sir William Vaughan 〈…〉 Wogan 〈◊〉 pâ—isoners Marq. oâ— Ormond â—akes Bâ—llâ—sannon for the Kiâ—g A â—ust deploration of this calamity O Neal relieveâ— Coot The Plaguâ— in the Loyal Provinces of Ireland The Marq. of Ormond not able to punish the cowardise and treachery of the Parties The Marq. of Ormond recruits his Forces Drogheda Garrisoned with the flower of the Army Sir Arthur Aston made Governour of Drogheda Col. Daniel O Neal Governour of Trim dispatched to treat with Owen O Neal. Sir Richard Barnwell and 〈◊〉 Nicholas Plunkett sent to assist him and conclude an Agreement Drogheda besieged by Cromwel The Masâ—â—â—â— at Drogheda Sir Arthur Aston c. kiliâ— Sep. 16. 3000 Souldiers put to Sword The Marquess of Ormond endeavours to strengthen other places Sir Edmund Butler Governour of Wexford for the K. It is besieged by Cromwel surprised and stormed 2000 put to the Sword Several Troops of the Lord Inchiqueens Revolt Luke 〈…〉 Rosâ—e 〈…〉 Rosâ—e surrâ—â—dred Litu Geâ— Farrâ—ll 〈…〉 of Oâ—mond Lord Inchiqueen 's Officers are treachâ—rour They are discovered and taken and no conditions Released Cromwel baâ—â—â—ed by Colonel Wogan at Duncannon Corke Youhall and all the English Towns of Munster revolt Lord Inchiqueen suspected accused by the Marq. of Antrim Carrick taken by Lieu. Gen. Jones The Marq. of Ormond deâ—â—â—â— to sight Cromwel Lieu. General Farrel made Governour of Waterford Cromwel
attempting Waterford in vain departs Col. Jones dyes of the Flux The Kings Forces Assault Carrick but depart with loss Both Armies retire to their Winter-quarters Gen. Owen O Neal dyes the Ulster Forces sent into their own Province Luke Taafe sent into Connaght Lord Inchiqueen goes to Clare Lord Dillon into Meath Maj General Hugh O Neal made Governâ—ur of Clonmel for the King Kilkenny garrisoned for the King Crosby betrayeth Kingsale he is Reprieved and pardoned The Marq. of Ormond offers to morgage his Estate for the sâ—pport of the Aâ—my He is at Kilkenny The Irish Souldiers some frighted with the Plague others in necessity revolt to Cromwel The Marq. of Clanrickard Character He supplies Sir George Monro with money Marq. of Ormond at Kilkenny endeavouring with the Lord Clanrickard to proviâ—â— an Army against next spring Sir Charles Coote defeats the Iriâ—â— and takes the Earl of Claneboys Sir Geo Monro delivers Eniskillin to the Enemy Capt. Tickle Executed for designing to betray Kilkenny Marq. of Ormond at Limerick departs in diâ—â—ast to Clare Cromwels Army takes the Field The Kings Army dispersed Ballisanon sold to Cromwel Cahir Castle given him The affairs in Ireland 〈…〉 Marq. of Ormonds 〈◊〉 He withdraws leaving the Marq. Clanrickard to Govern that Kingdom Kilkenny taken Cromwel at Cashel The Lord Clanrickard refuseth to take upon him the Government The Marq. of Ormond courted to continue it to which on certain coâ—ditions he agrees The English under Ormond disbanded and take Conditions Emer Mac Mahon Bp. of Cloghor made General of the Ulster Army Cromwel repulsed and worsted at Clonmel by Maj. General Hugh O Neal Governour thereof Clonmel surrendred to Cromwel David Roch defeated by the L. Broghall The Bp of Rosse and two other Priests hanged Cromwel goes for England Ireton chief Commander in his place An account of the Irish affairs Col. Wogan defeated and taken prisoner Prince Rupert departs Kingsale with his Fleet leaving three empty ships behind him Oct. 24. Col. Morris and Cornet Blackborne Executed at York Aug. Lord Chief-Iustice Heath dyes Sir Kenelm Digby and Mr. Walter Mountague ordered to depart the Kingdom Forrain Princes how affected The Marq. of Montross his Declaration The French 〈◊〉 the importation of cloth The States of Holland dâ—â—y Audiâ—â—â—â— to Strickland the Statâ—â— of Englands 〈◊〉 Thâ— Spaniard prâ—â—ibits his Subâ—â—â—s to seâ—ve our King at â—ea The Gallantry of tâ—â— Emperour Russia He lends the King of England 20000 l. Presbyterian Ministers decline tâ—â— Parliament The Levelâ—rs discontented New commotions by the Levelers John Lilburn chosen a Common-Council-man for London but disabled by the Parliament The Engagement Voted Octob. The terrible Powder-blow in Tower-street Jan. 4. Alderman Hoyle hanged himâ—elf Jan. 30. Gen. Blake commands a Fleet. Prince Rupert blockt up Lisbone Mar. Granger 's notorious Cheats Lord Liberton brings Letters from Scotland to the King at Jersey The Scots appoint Commissioners to treat at Breda The King in danger of drowning The Scots purge their Army 〈◊〉 sendâ— Coâ—â—issioners to the King They except against Malignants Marston the Leveller kills two Messengers and wounding a third escapes is afterwards taken and executed Sir John Berckley and Col. Walter Slingsby secured The Engagement pressed by the Parliament Great Robberies A new Council of State Mr. Ascham and Mr. Vane sent Agents into Spain and Portugal The Names of Ships changed A Fleet sent to Barbadoes against the Lord Willoughby of Parham Cavaliers to depart London Orders concerning Delinquents Estates A new High Court of Iustice constituted Keeble made President thereof An Act against Fornication An Account of the last actions of the Marquess of Montross He was offered to be Capt. of the Scots Guards to the King of France The Emperor at Vienna offers to make him one of his Generals Marquess of Montross Arms for the King in Scotland His ill success The Parliament at Edenburgh Alarmed Col. Straughan sent with a choice party of Horse to oppose him After him follows Lesly and Holborn The Marq Publisheth a Declaration The danger of this attempt Earl of Sunderland opposeth him Dumbath Castle surrendred to the Marquess his Forces Col. Straughan sets upon him The Marq. of Montross defeated Ap. 29. His Standard taken and the bearâ—r thereof slain taken besides on the Marquess his side Col. Hurrey Lord Frendraught Sir Francis Hay c. The Marq. of Montross taken May 3. by the Laird of Aston and conveyed to David Lesley Dumbath Castle yielded to the Covenanters The Covenanters give solemn thanks for their Victory Montross visits his Children at his Father-in-laws the Earl of Southesk His journey to Edenburgh He is mounted on a Cart-horse and delivered to the Executioner bound with Ropes in a Chair and dâ—spitefully used The people pity him but the Ministers revile him He is Imprisoned in the Tol-booth His friends not suffered to visit him The Marquess of Montross sentenced to die by a Committee of Parliament in Scotland Some Members and Ministers sent to examine him He refuseth to answer them The Chancellours Speech in Parliament against the Marquess The Marquess of Montrosses Answer in Parliament The Chancellor comands the Sentence to be read And the Marquess to be conveyed back to prison His noble behaviour there He comes to the Scaffold in rich attire The Marquess of Montross his Speech on the Scaffold Mark the horribâ—â— unchristianity of the Scotch Kirk The Marquess gives moâ—y to the Executioner who according to the Sentence hanged his Declaration and History about his Neck He is hanged on a Gibbet Cromwel for England May. Cromwels cruelty to the English Royallists Col. Wogan escapes An Embassador from Holland Bishop of Cloghor defeated June 18. by Sir Charles Coot Mortally wounded and taken with his Lieut. Gen. Hen. Oneale Marchamount Needham the Parliament-Droll Author of a scurrilous Pamphlet Cromwel returns from his Conquest in Ireland June 6. Prince Rupert blockt up in Lisbon The King ships himself for Scotland from Schevelt June His Majesty complemented by the Nobility of Scotland Fairfax layes down his Commission June 26. The Army marches into Scotland July 22. A light Skirmish and Encounter at Mussleborough July 29. Dr. Levens hanged in â— Cornhill The Kings Statues pulled down Aug. Myn Heer Joachim Resident from the States of Holland sent home Lord-Keeper Lane dieth at Jersey Col. Andrews Executed Aug. 2 on Tower-hill Sir John Gell Sentenced and Cap. Benson Executed October 7. Several surrenders in Ireland Animosities among the Scots Cromwel makes use of them The peremptory resolution of the Kirk of Scotland Cromwel causeth the Kirk-Declaration to be read to his Army Red-house stormed The Armies face one another The English retreat to Dunbar Dunbar fight Sep. 3. The Scots routed Prisoners of Note Sir James Lumsdale Lieu. Gen. of the Army Lord Libberton who died of his wounds Adjutant-General Bickerton Scout-master Campbel Sir Will. Douglas Lâ— Cranston Colonel Gurden c. Their Colours taken ordered to be hung up in Westminster-hall Cromwel 's Letter
after the fight General Monk chiefly concâ—â—â—'d in the honour of this field The Highlanders sold for Slaves A union of parties endeavoured by the Scots The Parliament at Westminster appoint a Thanksgiving day Cromwel marcheth for Sterling Sep. 14. Liberty of Conscience Enacted in England The Sectaries raise an Army Col. Harrison made Maj. Gen. The Duke of Yoak at the Hague Prince Ruperts Fleet dispersed Nov. Princess Elizabeth dieth at Carisbroke Castle is buried in Newport Prince of Aurange died Octb. 27. Divisions among the Loyal parties in Ireland The Marq of Clanâ—ickards Forces â—eâ—eated by Col. Axtel Octob. 25. The Marq. of Ormoâ—â— and Lord Inchiqueen resolved to depart out of Ireland Nov. An Embassador from Portugal to the new States Dec. The Spanish Embassador likewise acknowledg'd them a Free-State Decem. An Insurrection in Norfolk Suppressed A High Court of Justice Erected at Norwich Mr. Cooper a Minister Maj. Saul and others Executed A memorable accident at Oxford Several Acts of Parliament Passed The Progress of Cromwel in Scotland The Trayterous Western Remonstrance of some Scots Ker defeated and taken Prisoner Edenburgh Castle yielded Dec. 24. The Articles for the Rendition of Edenburgh-Castle Col. Fenwick madâ— Goveâ—nour 〈◊〉 and of Leith for the Parliament The Scots boldly sollicitous with the King His Majesty withdraws to Gen. Middleton The manner of His Coronation January 1. The Lord-Chancellors Speech to the King His Majesties Answer He is accompanied by the Nobility to the Kirk of Scoone Mr. Robert Douglass preacheth before the King Prince of Aurange Christned Several of the King Friends preferred and intrusted Fife Castle attempted by the English Hume Castle taken Feb. 4 by Col. Fenwick for the Parliament The Governours Answer to the Summons Timtallon Castle yielded by Sir James Seaton to the Parliament of England General Ruthen Earl of Brentford and Forth deceaseth David Lesley General for the Scots A new Council of State March John Fry one of the Kings Iudges writts a Book against the Trinity he is Voted to leave the House and his Book to be burned A Dutch Envoy complains to the King of Sir Jo. Greenvile Governour of the Isle of Scilly and others The Prince of Aurange buried Feb. 21. Tho. Cook of Grays-Inne Esq. committed to the Tower Maj. General Harrison ordered to march into Lancashire Cornet Castle delivered by Col. Burgess to M. Harrison for the Parliament The Irish defeated at Finagh March 13. Sir Henry Hide Beheaded June 4 in London Câ—pt Brown Bushel Executed Mar. 29. The Lord Saint John and Strickland Embassadors to Holland They desire a firm League The States General shew no forwardness to this new friendship The Embassadors affronted by Prince Edward son to the Queen of Bohemia They complain to the States and have a Guard appointed them They depart for England June 20. Saint John 's Speech at his departure The Law and its Proceedings turned into English Apr. A new Welch Insurrection started Blackness Castle delivered to Cromwel The Loyal Nobility in Scotland restored to their Seats in Parliament The Kirk convâ—â—â—d at Glascow E. of Eglington surprized in his designe of raising Forces for the King Cromwel burneth the Lady Kilsithes house Maj. Sydenham slain and his party defeated Apr. 15 by the Lord Montgomery and Lord Cranston The Reduction of Scilly Island in May. St Maries Island surrendred June 2 by Sir John Greenvile to Gen. Blake and Sir Geo Ayscue Pr. Rupert and Pr. Maurice at Sea from Toulon An Agent from the D. of Florence to the Parliament of England Lord Howard committed to the Tower for Bribery Cromwel sick May. Part of a Letter from one of Cromwels Creatures An Act of Oblivion in Scotland The Royalists aâ—d Kirk-men good friends Earl of Calender Commander in chief of their new Levies The Presbyterian Ministers seized by the Council of State in order to their Tryal May. Mr. Love charged with High Treason Mr. Jackson fined 500 l. and committed to the Fleet for refusing to give Evidence against Mr. Love Mr. Love Sentenced July 5. Mr. Potter and Mr. Gibbons Sentenced July 25. Mr. Love and Mr. Gibbons Executed on Tower-hill An Act for abolishing the Marshals-Court in Southwark Another for the sale of Delinquents Lands Faulkner a perjured witness against the Lord Craven The Estates of the Royalists put to sale The Honours of the Royalists given by the King since Jan. 1641. abolished The Irish affairs June Lord Broghall defeats the Lord Muskerry Sir Charles Coot succesfull The Irish Council and Commanders in great straights Scots Leaguer in Tor-wood Cromwel stormeth Calendar house the defendants put to the Sword Newark house and two others taken Pr. Rupert takes a rich Spanish ship A fight in Fife between Sir John Brown and Maj. Gea Lambert July 20. The Scots worsted Sir John Brown taken and a while after dies Inchigarvey Castle and Brunt-Island delivered to the English St. Johnstons delivered to Cromwel The King marches for England July 21. The Parl. settle the Militia Royalists forbid to depart their Houses Correspondence with the King or his Party forbid The King at Carlisle Proclaimed there King of Great Britain He publisheth his Declaration Offereth an Act of Pardon to all but Cromwel Bradshaw and Cook Warrington fight Lambert and Harrison defeated by Massey The Earl of Derby joyus with the King in Lancashire The King summons Shrewsbury in vain The King comes to Worcester Aug. 22. The Parl. raise the Militia and London Regiments The King Summons the Country Wigon fight August 25. Lilburn defeats the Earl of Derby Slain on the Kings side Lord Widdrington Ma. Gen. Sir Tho. Tildesly Col. Mat. Boynton Sir Francis Gamul c. The Earl lâ—sing his George and Garter escapes Cromwel surrounds Worcester Au. 13. and possesseth Upton Bridge Worcester Fight The King defeated at Worcester Sep. 3. Worcester miserably plundered A Traytor hanged and his Widow bountifully rewarded Slain of the Kings side Duke Hamilton The Kings Standard his Coach and Horses and Collar of SS taken The King deliberates whither to fly The Lords leave him at Whiteladies The King in the wood Thursday morning Sep. 4. The King at Madely To Boscobel Col. Carlos directs the King to the Oak At Mosely with Mr. Whitgrave To Bently with Mrs. Jane Lane for Bristol The King met by the Lord Wilmot The dangerous Expression of a Farrier The King by Evesham At Cirencester to Mr. Nortons at Leigh The King and Lord Wilmot in danger of discovery at Chayermouth Adventures of the King At Heal at Mrs. Hides By Portsmouth to Brighthemstead Tetershal discovers the King Tetershal resolves to proceed in his voyage with the King King Embarques A notable passage Arrives at Rohan to Paris Most of the Scots taken Prisoners Cromwel and his Prisoners to London Sep. 12. The Prisoners sold. The Colours taken hanged up in Westminster hall Sterling castle surrendred Aug. 14 to Gen. Monke for the Parl. Dundee stormed Sep. 1 and taken by Gen. Monke the defendants put to
the Sword The Town miserably plundred Aberdeen yielded St. Andrews Fined 500 l. Scotch Nobles taken at Ellet in the Highlands and Sir John Daniel and Col. Douglas taken at Dumfreiz Aug. A New Representative debated of The High Court of Justice pardons Mr. Jenkins and others Cap. Symkins Sir Timothy Fetherstonhaugh and Col. Benbow Executed Oct. The Earl of Derby Beheaded at Bolton Octob. 15. Several other Royalists taken James Hinde the sam'd High-way-man taken and Hang'd drawn and quartered at Worcester The Estates of the Lord Craven and other Royalists exposed to sale General Popham 's Funeral Octob. 24. The Scotch Union projected Commissioners named to go into Scotland Gen. Monke protects the Marq. of Montross his Children and Family Limerick besieged by Deputy Ireton for the Parl. Hugh O Neal Gâ—vâ—râ—our tâ—ereof Ireton defeâ—ted before Limerick Limerick 〈◊〉 October 29. Sir Charles Coâ—t 〈◊〉 a party of Irish. Clare Castle taken by the English Ireton dies of the Plague at Limerick Nov. 25. Edmund Ludlow constituted in his place Ireton lies in state at Summerset house His Character Jersey surrendâ—â—d Nov. and Dec. to the Parliament Mount Orgueil and Elizabeth Castle â—urrendred Isle of Man reduced Dec. Barbadoes reduced by Sir Geo Ayscue Jan. Lord Willoughby Governour thereof St. Christophers the same The Scotch Kirk reject and declare against the Union Monarchy abolished in Scotland Jan. Dumbarton surrendered Jan. 5 by Sir Charles Erskin to the Parliament The Dutch Commerce and Fishing molested at Sea The 1 of Dec. the time limited by tâ—â— Act â—â—omacked by the Dutch The Dutch Embassadors tâ—eat January The Parliament publish an Act of Oblivion John Lilburn Banished Josiah Primate fined 4000 l. Lord Clanrickard sues to Lieu. Gen. Ludlow for a peace His Answer Arguile treats with Commissioners at Dumbarton Blackness Castle ordered to be blown up Moss-Troopers busie and mischievous Several places in Ireland taken by the English An Act for removing obstructions in the sale of Crown-lands Black-monday March 29 predicted by Will. Lilly The King at Paris April The Duke of York Renowned for this Service The King at St. Germains with the Marq. of Ormond and E. of Castlehaven Several parties of the Irish submit Lord Clanrickard takes Ballishannon and Dungal Castle Lord Muskerry yields Galloway surrendered Irelands Râ—ines Submissions and surrenders Ballishannon retaken and Slego surrendered to the Parliament The affairs of Scotland Dunotter Castle yielded May 28. Citadels built in Scotland The rise of the Dutch War A great Fire at Glascow Congleton Chuâ—â—h in Cheshire fired by Lightning The like Fire in Essex The State-house of Amsterdam burnt Sâ—a-fights seen in the Air. An Encounter between the Forces of England and Holland Capt. Young 's Letter Gen. Blake 's Letter Maj. Bourne 's Relation Admiral Trump 's Letter to the States of Holland The Datch Embassadors Paper to the Council of State The Parliaments Answer thereunto Their Demands Trump in the Downs The English and Dutch Fleets July Encounter They are scattered by a Storm Blake takes several of their Frigats and divers Prisoners De Buyter and Sir Geo Ayscue 's Engagement at Plymouth Au. 16. Sir Geo Ayscue rewarded for hâ—s service The States of Holland excite several Princes to assist them The Lord Embassador Monsieur Paw dieth of a surfeit by broyld Salmon Marq. Clanrickard lays down Arms. Cromwel 's designe upon the Parliament appears Dunkirk taken by the Spaniard and the French Fleet with relief seized by Geâ— Blake A General Assembly in Scotland Dismist by Lieu. Col. Cotterel De Ruyter with a Fleet at the mouth of the Channel De Wit joyns with him De Wit worsted by Blake Marq. of Worcester taken and committed to the Tower Mutiny in Holland Some of their Seamen Executed A Fleet of War sent to the Sound c. Lord Hopton dyes at Bruges in Flanders September The Earl of Rochester to the Diet in Germany Van Trump at Sea with a Fleet. Blake defeated in the Downs by Trump Nov. 29. The Dutch Seamen steal Sheep at Rumney Marsh and come off with loss Trump neer the Isle of Wight The Phoenix regained Nov. 30 by Capt. Cox The Parliaments three Geâ—â—rals Blake Dean and Monke A Maâ—que on the Taxes The Dutch Bravadoes The Duke of Gloucester sent away from Carisbrook to Dunkirk Feb. Conducted into France by the Lords Langdale and Inchiqueen The French Envy M. Bourdeaux owns the State c. December The Portugal Embassador concludes The Dutch forbid any to supply the English with provisions of War Torce of their Hamburgh ships laden with Plate taken A High Court of Iustice in Ireland Iustice Donelan President thereof Several persons Condemned Lord Muskerry taken and committed to Dublin Castle Sir Phelim O Neal the great Rebel hanged c. The Condition of Ireland The Priests Banished Cromwel and his Officers keep a Fast. Seamens Wages raised The Kings Houses of Hampton Court to be sold c. Moneys thereâ—pon at six per cent Agent Bradshaw to Copenhagen He is affronted and in danger English under Blake at Sea Van Trump returns through the Channel Feb. Portland fight Feb. 18 between Dutch and English Stoutly maintained on either side A Fight at Leghorn March 2. The English worsted Prince Maurice drowned in the West-India's Prince Rupert arrives in France Mar. De Wit at sea with another Fleet. The Dutch designe of weakning us by taking our Colliers Sir John Gell and several Scots released from the Tower and others preferred * Twelve Parliament-men for a penny The manner of dissolving the Parliament A Declaration of the General and Council of Officers about the Dissolution c. * An Act for filling up the Parliament Addresses to Cromwel Vice-Admiral Pen in the Downs with a Fleet of 70 sail Cromwel a Dictator A Council of State Marlborough burnt Ap. 28. Lord Digby honoured with the order of the Garter Ulster forces in Ireland submit Trump in the Downs having given the English a go-by Engaged by Gen. Monke and Dean c. June 2 Gen. Dean slain Trump defeated June 2 3. The Dutch hang out a white Flag and send a Messenger to the English in order to a Peace A new Parliament called The Summons New Scotch Troubles The Dutch Trade at a stand The last Dutch Engagement between Gen. Monke and Van Trump on the Coast of Holland July 29. Van Trump slain and the Dutch defeated July 31. Gold Chains and Meddals ordered by the Parl. to be given to the chief Commanders and Officers A Thanksgiving appointed De Wit conveys a great Fleet from the Sound Lord Opdam made Lieutenant-Admiral in place of Van Trump who was Interred at Delf in great State Little Parliament met July 4. Mr. Francis Rouse their Speaker Called Barebone 's Parliament a Leather-sellers Name in Fleetstreet one of the said Convention The Names of the Parliament men Act for Marriages A new Body of the Law to be made An Act for â—â—â—â—h Adventurers and Allotments Whitlock Embassador to Sweden A Summary of what
way to them had been seized by the Watches which by the order of Justice Parsons had been doubled and reinforced and the Castle of Dublin manned and guarded very stoutly But by the diligence of one of the Lord Parsons servants who was set expresly to walk the streets and attend the motion of Conally he was found in the Constables hands and brought before them where being recovered from his distemper he gave a perfect narrative of the Treason intended and that when the Conspitators had gotten the Casâ—le and the Ammunition and Stores c. they would batter the Chimneys and then the Houses of the Town till it yielded and then kill all the Protestant Inhabitants and that the like would be executed the same time in all parts of the Kingdom Upon this discovery the Lords ordered the Lodgings of Mac Mahon and Mac Guire to be set and watched but upon further advice they sent before day and seized Mac Mahon He and his man at first made some resistance with drawn swords but seeing he was overpowred yeilded and being brought before the Council confessed the whole Plot adding that it was impossible for them to prevent it and that it was true they had him in their power and might use him as they pleased but he was sure he should be revenged He was the Grandson of the Rebel Tyrone The Lord Macguire was next seized but the other four got away in the dark by the aid of some of the Townsmen and of all those that came up in numbers to the City and left their horses in the Suburbs of which the Council had notice betimes and seized some of them and got notice thereby of the owners there were not by the slack pursuit of the Inhabitants above thirty and those servants and inconsiderable persons that were taken Mac Guire and Mac Mahon were committed to the custody of the Constable of the Castle The same day October 23. the Councel emitted a Proclamation giving notice of the Rebellion raised by some evil affected Irish Papists which character at the instance of the Lords of the English Pale and to give them content in whose Loyalty at present rested the hope of the Kingdom was changed into this discrimination The evil affected of the old Irish in the Province of Ulster But notwithstanding soon after they absolutely declared themselves for the Rebels having by their temporizing in this manner gained a great quantity of Arms from Dublin and then refused to appear there at the summons of the Council giving themselves the name of the Confederate Catholick Army The same night the 23 of October the Lord Blawey arrived at Dublin with the news of the surprizal of his House Wife and Children by the Rebels of the County of Monaghan and the day after Sir Arthur Tyrringham brought news of the suprizal of the Newry which was seconded with notice of the like seisure of Fort Montjoy Carlemont Toâ—rages Carick Mac-Ross Cloughouter and Castle of Monaghan being all of them places of considerable strength besides a multitude of other Houses of strength Castles and Towns filled with British Inhabitants who by immuring themselves and not joyning in a Body were ruined easily one after another whereas otherwise they might have been able to have defeated this barbarous Enemy These successes were obtained under the ensigns and Conduct oâ— Sir Phelim O Neal Turlough O Neal his brother Rory Mac Guire Brother to the Lord Mac Guire Philip O Rely Mulmore O Rely Sir Conne Gennys Col. Mac Brian and Mac Mahon who with their torces advancing Southwards took in Dundalk and besieged Tredagh the Lords of the Pale publiquely joyning with them Viscount Gormanstone being made Lord General thereof Hugh Birn Lieutenant General and the Earl of Fingale General of the Horse Every day and hour came Tydings of the most horrid massacres committed in the Counties of Down Fermanagh Monaghan Antrim and Armagh those that escaped to the Sea-Towns the Inland being all lost perishing there by their hard and starving march both hungry and naked and pestring the few Garrisons of Colrain Carick-fergus and London Derry and of the multitude of those that got to Dublin not one in five survived the want and tire of their journey insomuch that some being over-driven by the Rebels have been forced to leave their Infants and young Children in the High-ways which were knocked on the head by them Nor was this calamity all such as got shipping for England were most of them drowned and others three moneths at Sea the winter and that season of the year was so rude and tempestuous while the Rebels gloried in their successes and cruelties and this extraordinary displeasure of the Almighty towards these their causless Adversaries That I may not pass this doleful subject without some particular testimony of their barbarousness I will instance that inhumane murder at Portnedown Bridg where in the very beginning of the Rebellion at several times they forced 1800 men women and children with pikes and halberts off that Bridge into the River and drowned them all soon after which there were such ghastly apparitions seen and such screeches of revenge heard that the Irish inhabitants were forced to remove their Creats or Hovels out of the dreadful noise and clamor thereof In sum there was never such a Diabolical Fury Treachery and Perfidiousness in the world which consumed in five moneths time no less then 150000 persons nay some good Authors have reckoned more in that one Province of Vlster Sir Phelim O Neal his party cruelly upon their defeat at Dundalk and other places wreaking their revenge upon such innocent persons as from the beginning of the Rebellion they had kept in miserable durance and captivity Dublin was now in great streights and frights which the miseries of those poor Wretches that made it their refuge rendred more dismal The whole Irish Army consisted but of 2000 Foot and 1000 Horse and so dis-joyned that there was as much danger of embodying them as staying there where they were for seven Companies of Foot had been lost with their Garrisons already to the Rebels most of the Souldiers being Irish. Nor was there any money in the Treasury onely 3000 l. destined to pay a publick debt in England was stopt for present use by which means a Regiment was raised for Sir Henry Titchburn to reinforce the Garrison of Tredagh into which the Lord Moor now Earl thereof had opportunely put himself with his Troop of Horse for the Townsmen were false and wavering Sir Henry arrived safe thither in two days march from Dublin November the 4th Another Regiment was raised for Sir Charles Coot who was to be Governour of the City now in great fear and despair for the Rebels were near it on every side this Regiment was made up mostly of those men who came stript and despoiled out of the North and who lived to see themselves revenged of the Irish. Applications were
going and returning Sir Iohn dismiss'd them with promise of a speedy answer and upon consultation with the Earl of Bath it was agreed that Sir Ionathan Trelawney Major Sparks and Mr. Windham should go aboard At their approach De Ruyter met them at the Boat-side and inviting them aboard saluted them with 13 Guns excusing what had past and promising for the future that no other acts of that nature should be committed while he continu'd on the Coast. De Wit Doleman the Count de Horne with above 20 Captains more attended the English at the Great Cabin where they offer'd a Present to De Ruyter for his own Table but refus'd any greater supply till Peace should be Proclaim'd Accordingly upon their return the Earl of Bath sent the Admiral a Present of fresh Provisions with a fat Buck and some Fruit which De Ruyter receiv'd with seven Guns as an acknowledgement Notwithstanding De Ruyter's Complement after he parted from Plymouth two of the Dutch Fleet came before the Harbour of Hoy and advancing near the Shoar ply'd with their Broad-sides certain Works that were newly rais'd at the entrie of the Harbour but after an hour and an half they were forc'd to retire with several Shots receiv'd in their Hulls and the loss of one of their Top-Masts and several men without any loss to the English After this they were only seen to hover about the Coasts but without any farther Attempts and Peace ensu'd For about the beginning of Iune the Embassadours of England France and Sweden the Plenipotentiaries of the States and Denmark repair'd to the Castle belonging to the Prince of Orange where there was great care taken to avoid all contests about Precedency A while after Mr. Coventry one of the Embassadors being sent over into England and having receiv'd the King's Answer and Resolution touching the Articles discuss'd and agree'd to by the Plenipotentiaries return'd for Breda so that upon the Twenty first of Iune the Articles were sign'd by the Plenipotentiaries And upon the Fourteenth of August the Ratifications of the Peace were enterchang'd The Mediators first bringing in the Ratifications and other Instruments of the Dutch French and Danes into the English Embassadors Apartment receiv'd from them theirs in Exchange Which done the English Embassadors went into the Apartment of the Dutch and their Allies where they made and receiv'd the Compliments usual upon the Conclusion of so great an Affair The Peace was immediately Proclaim'd before the Doors of the several Plenipotentiaries in their respective Languages Afterwards upon the Twenty fourth of August it was publickly Proclaim'd in the City of London And as if this had not been enough it was afterwards confirm'd by an Additional Treaty made and concluded by Sir William Temple in Ianuary following Having thus pursu'd the Series of the Dutch War and Peace other intervening actions must not be omitted It was murmur'd that the Publick Treasure was wasted and miss-spent the King therefore to satisfie the People Issued out a Commission to several Members of both Houses to take an Accompt of such sums of Money as had been rais'd and assign'd to him during the present War being in all 2477500 l. granted at several times by several Acts with full Power to call to Accompt all Treasurers Pay-masters Receivers and all other Agents and Persons whatsoever And what had not been lately practis'd before by the King this Year the Feast of St. George was kept in his Palace of White-Hall The Earl of Southampton Lord High Treasurer of England being now lately Dead the King did not think fit to give the Place to any particular Person for the present but made the Duke of Albemarle the Lord Ashley Sir Thomas Clifford Sir William Coventry and Sir Iohn Duncomb by a Commission under the Great Seal his Commissioners for executing that Office The Parliament had met according to the Kings Proclamation in Iuly but were then Prorogu'd again till the Tenth of October at which time being again Assembled the King gave for one reason of his last Prorogation That it was to give himself time to do some things in the mean time which he hop'd would not be unwelcome to them which he had since done leaving his other Reasons to be deliver'd by the Lord Keeper who not only afterwards enlarg'd upon the King's Reasons for the said Prorogation but also recommended to them the Obstructions of Trade and the settlement of such a Ballance of Trade between England and Scotland that neither we should be prejudic'd by the Import of their Commodities here nor they put to seek new places of Vent abroad As to the Money rais'd for the War he told them what the King had done in reference to calling all Persons to Account and had committed the Examination thereof to themselves to follow their own Method adding withal that if any grievances had happen'd his Majesty would be as willing to have them Redress'd as they to have them Represented not doubting but that they would endeavour to Imprint the known Truth into his Subject hearts that there was no distinct Interest between the King and his People The Commons taking into Consideration the King's Speech resolv'd to return him their humble Thanks to which purpose having obtain'd the Concurrence of the Lords the Two Houses in a Body attended the King in the Banqueting-House where the Lord Keeper in the Name of the Two Houses made known to the King That they His Majesties Loyal and Faithful Subjects having taken into their serious Consideration the Speech wherein he was pleas'd to let them know the reasons of their last Prorogation which was to give himself time to do some things which would not be unwelcome to them but be a Foundation of a greater Confidence for the Future between the King and them They found themselves in duty bound to give him thanks and particularly for that he had Disbanded the New-rais'd Forces that he had dismist the Papists from his Guards and other Military Imployments for his Care in quickning the Execution of the Act restraining the Importation of Canary That He had seen the Canary Patent Vacated And Lastly for his displacing the Lord Chancellor But the Parliament having Sate till the Middle of December pass'd several Acts among the rest An Act for taking an account of the several Sums of Money therein mention'd An Act for Banishing and Disenabling the Earl of Clarenden to which when the King had given his Consent by Commission they Adjourn'd till February And because it was a general Complaint among the Seamen and Souldiers who had been in Service that they were frequently constrain'd to give money or lose some part of their Wages to recover the rest the King therefore for the more effectual Redress of such abuses if any were appointed the Duke of York and several of the Lords of the Council to receive and hear all such Complaints as any Sea-man or Souldier should
make of any Exactions practis'd upon them by any of the Officers Sub-Officers or Clerks in the Navy-Office or Treasury-Office that if the same should appear to be true Justice might be done upon the one and Satisfaction given to the other About this time dy'd Mr. Abraham Cowley one of the chiefest Ornaments of this Age whose Immature Death succeeding Ages will lament when they finde what Treasures they have lost by his untimely Fate His temperate Life did not deserve so short a Period But Heaven perhaps thought he had done enough that could not well do more than make himself Immortal His Body was convey'd from Wallingford-House to Westminster-Abbey attended by many Persons of very great Quality over whose Grave has been since Erected a stately Monument to Eternize his Memory In America the French had a Design upon Mevis having drawn out all their Forces from Martenico Guadaloup and St. Christophers strengthen'd also with an additional force of their own and two Dutch Men of War being in all 32 Sail but being encountred by 10 Sail of the English who were sent by Lieutenant General Willoughby for the relief of the Island the English so smartly Encountr'd them that he Chased them home to St. Christophers Upon the Return of the English to Mevis they found Sir Iohn Harman newly Arriv'd there with seven Men of War and two Fireships who understanding what had happen'd resolv'd to fall upon them in their own Ports which he did so effectually that he burn'd their Admiral and six or seaven of their best Ships more the rest all but two were sunk partly by the industry of the Enemy partly by the Shot of the English Ships in which Service the English lost not above 80 Men with little damage to their Vessels From the other Indies two ships about this time arriv'd under the Convoy of Sir Ieremy Smith who having been cruising in the Streights the most part of the Summer had met with no opportunity of considerable action more than to keep the Dominion of the Seas However at length he made a shift to meet with two Dâ—â—ch East-Indie-Prises outward bound which he brought home returning into St. Helâ—ens-Road toward the end of September Nor did the Dutch at any time Triumph where the number was not too unequal as appeared by the success of six of our smaller Frigats who falling in with three Holland Men of War of 42 36 and 30 Guns and two Merchant-men to the Northward took the three Men of War and one of the Merchant-men being forc'd to quit the other upon view of a whole Squadron of the Enemy At home the King had notice of the great concourse of very many persons of the Romish Religion to the Chappels of St. Iames and Somerset-house and therefore gave order in â—ouncil That if any of his Subjects not being of the Families of the Queen or Queen-Mother or of Forrein Embassadors should repair to hear Mass or perform any Exercises of the Romish Religion that they should be severely prosecuted and such punishments inflicted upon them as by Law were provided And for the better discovery of such as were addicted to Popery the Lord-Keeper was Authoriz'd to issue out Commissions of Dedimus Potestatem for administring the Oaths of Allegeance and Supremacy in all places of England and Wales where they had not been already granted by the Lord-Chancellor The abuses also of the Company of Woodmongers were look'd into and upon frequent consultations thereupon had it was thought fit that for the conveniency of the Publick their Charter should be surrender'd which when they peremptorily refus'd to do the Atturney-General was order'd to proceed against them by Quo Warranto and by Information in the Crown-Office The City began to rise with more splendor now than ever which the King to forward as much as in him lay as soon as the Foundation of the Royal Exchange was appointed to be laid was pleased to be present and assisting at the Solemnity His Majesty there placing the first Stone with the usual Ceremonies Not long after the Duke of York attended with several persons of Honour went into the City and being honourably receiv'd by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen with the usual Ceremonies upon such occasions laid the first Stone for a second Pillar which gave so great an encouragement to the Workmen that never did so large a Structure go on with greater Vigour The remaining part of the Year was more for Counsel than Action And therefore the King for the better regulating affairs for the future among other Important parts thereof taking into his consideration the ways and methods of managing matters at the Council-Board establish'd several standing Committees for several businesses with regular daies for their Assembling And not content to have Peace at home His Majesty to shew himself a Mediator among his Neighbours sent his Embassador the Earl of Sandwich on that Grand Errand of making Peace between Spain and Portugal who soon after he had his dispatches arriv'd at Lisbon He no sooner had had his Audience but upon the resignation of the former King the Infanta his Brother took possession of the Scepter However so well he manag'd his employ that in a short while after the Articles were fully agreed on between the two Crowns of Spain and Portugal and the Ratification mutually exchang'd between the said Embassador of England and the Spanish and Portugueze Commissioners and soon thereupon publish'd both at Madrid and Lisbon The Insolencies of private Men of War were about this time very great and therefore the King taking into consideration as well the safeguard and protection of his own Subjects as of his Allies the disturbances of Commerce and the diminution of his own Revenues in his own Ports and Harbours set forth a Proclamation commanding an inviolable Tâ—uce and Cessation in his own Ports Havens and Roads That his Subjects by Sea and Land should do their utmost to hinder the roving and hovering of any Men of War neer the Entry of any of his Ports or Harbours That if any Men of War of one side came into any Port where were Merchant-men of another party the Merchant-men should be suffer'd to depart two Tides before the Men of War That no Privateer with forrein Commission should stay above 24 hours in any of his Majesties Ports or Harbours That none of his Majesties Subjects should contract or deal with any forrein Man of War That no Mariner or Officer being the King 's Subject should presume to put himself into the service of any forrein Prince or State Toward the beginning of this Moneth the Paâ—â—â—ament according to their Adjournment met At which time the King coming to the House of Lords directed his Speech to both Houses telling them that he had made a League Defensive with the States of the Vnited Provinces with a League also for an Efficacious Mediation of Peace betwixt the two Crowns