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A70196	A brief chronicle of all the chief actions so fatally falling out in these three kingdoms, viz. England, Scotland & Ireland from the year, 1640, to this present twentieth of November, 1661 : containing the unhappy breaches, sad divisions, the great battels fought, number of men, with the eminent persons of honor and note slain, with several debates and treaties : also, the happy escape by a wonderful delivererance of His Majestie at Worcester, more fully expressed then hitherto : with His Majesties happy return, together with what passages of note hapned to this present November, 1661 : the like exact account hath not as yet been printed.	Heath, James, 1629-1664.; Lee, William, fl. 1627-1665.	1662 (1662)	Wing H1318A; ESTC R19419	54,711	72

the Grandees were that abetted those riotous Assemblies and also had had a hand in the Scorch Troubles whose untoward issue and conclusion lay heavy upon his heart he resolved to seise them in the Parliament-house and so bring them to a speedy Trial. This was attempted by the King but the birds were flown notice being given the House of Common by one Langrish a Servant of the Queens of the Kings coming thither to demand the Five Members But the business ended not so the House vote it a breach of priviledge and complain o● evil Counsellors about the Kings person who not able or willing longer to endure those indignities oftered daily at his Court gates leaves Whitehal and departs from Hampton Court and soon after the Five Members return to their places in the House guarded thither in much bravery by the Trained Bands by water This added fuel to the fire that was now ready to flame nor could another combustion in the sister Kingdom of Ireland which broke forth in October some two moneths before give them caution to look to this at home The manner of the breaking forth and the discovery of that Irish Rebellion was as followeth Anno Domini 1641. ON the 23. day of October 1641. that horrid Rebellion broke forth there that day they intended to seize the Castle of Dublin the Irish being every where else risen and in arms but the design was discovered by one Owen Conally an Irish Gentleman by birth and family but a retainer to Sir Iohn Clotworthy who being acquainted with the plot by one of the Rebells leaping over a set of pales whether he pretended to go and ease himself escaped by the favour of a dark night ran away and informed the Lord Justice Parsons with the whole design Upon this discovery the Lord Mack Gutre and one Mr. Mac Mahon were seised in Dublin the Town though in a most terrible fright was presently put into a posture of defence Advice was sent thorowout the Kingdom of Ireland of the Rebellion but all too late for it was universal and no part of the Kingdom where they were not risen so that a Proclamation against them and all raising of Arms was the best present remedy Notwithstanding the Rebels under the command of Sir Phelim Oneal as General seize all Vlster except the Castle of Eneskelin sparing for a while the Scotch Plantations there but growing so numerous that they dreaded not any supplies from the vicinity of Scotland they at last force them plunder them and garrison the cheil places of strength Sir Phelim Oneale taketh Dundalk and publisheth his Declaration called The Declaration of the Catholique Confederate Subjects of his Majesties Kingdome of Ireland s●uft with many shews of their Religion and Loyalty as could be and which is notable asserting that they did it to remove that Tyranny put upon their consciences in imitation of their fellow-subjects of Scotland who got a priviledge by that course Presently after they besieged Tredah but after several encounters betwixt the besieged their relief being defeated at Gillington-bridge by reason of a mutiny amongst them and the Rebels The Town was at last freed by a strong assistance and supply sent them from Dublin under the command of Sir Henry Titchburn who soon after upon the dislodgement of the Enemy from the Town followed him overtook him and routed him recovering Dundalk again by storm putting all to the sword while Oneale hardly escaped over the river and so fled Leave we this Kingdom in a forlorn miserable condition and cast an eye homeward The King was departed from Hampton Court thence in company with his Queen and his Daughter the Princess of Aurange to Dover to see them shipped for Holland he returned streight to Greenwich from thence having the Prince in his company to Theoballs Still the difference widened more and more according as he removed from London to which he was importunately desired to return by both Houses by the members thereof who continued sitting though the Grandees of the Faction were well contented with what distance he kept from them as rendring their pretended jealousies and fears more and more credible to the deluded people From Thoballs the misundestandings still increasing betwixt the King and his Two Houses he removed Northward first to Royston thence to Newmarket and in conclusion to York having received and answered several messages from the Parliament by the way The principal difference between the King and them was the Militia this was disputed betwixt them the King claiming it as an unseparable right of the Crown and the Houses urging the management of it for present satisfaction and safety and had thereupon nominated Officers which designation the King disallowed and now the rupture was visible Anno Domoni 1642. THe Gentry and the Generality of the County of York proffer to raise a Guard from amongst themselves for the Kings person in the mean time the Parliament desire him that the Magazine might be removed from Hull at which the King being displeased goes from York and demands the said Town stores and Magazines therein to be delivered to him which the Governour Sir Iohn Hotham presenting himself on his knees upon the walls refused to do save that if the King with some small retinue would enter he freely might This affront very much ne●led his Majesty so that he did very sharply complain of it to the Parliament but they rather justified Sir Iohn Hotham then gave the King any satisfaction which made him attempt for his Honour sake something against the Town by force in which enterprise some twenty of the Kings Guards were killed and so he retreated to Beverley where he found a very great addition of Gentlemen from all parts of the Kingdom who with their duty presented him their service In the mean while the Parliament was intent on the business of leavying Arms though several Patriots of both Houses did what they could to perswade to an accommodation amongst whom Sir Benjamin Rudyard was one of the chief who all along warned them of the miseries of a Civil War and what a shame it would be to them in after times and so consequently to all Parliaments if when the King had condescended so far they should proceed to the effusion of blood upon so unnecessary a quarrel he dyed soon after the first blood was drawn and that speech of his on his death-bed is very remarkable Mr. Pym and Mr Hamden saith he the Grandees of the then Faction told me That they thought the King so ●ll-beloved by his Subjects that he could never be able to raise an Army to oppose them which mistake of theirs cost many thousand live Nom the Militia was on foot every where the Parliaments Cause had the precedency of affection their Ordinances being obeyed like Acts wherefore the King prohibited by Proclamation any Levies Musters or of his Subjects any where in England without his command and

to Oxford The King marched from Oxford where by the way to London came Commissioners from the Parliament rendring Propositions and desiring that during the Treaty the Kings Army should march no neerer this way to spin time while Essex could recruit his Army therefore the King advanced from C●lebrook and came to Brainford where part of the Parliaments Army being the Regiments of Col. Hollis Hambden● and the L. Brooks for a while maintained themselves stoutly but being over-power'd some were driven into the river and there drowned and 300 slain and as many taken prisoners This brought a general consternation upon the City of London all shops were shut up and all the Regiments both Trained-Bands and Auxiliary were drawn out so that the Earl of Essex had a most compleat and numerous Army o● a sudden Hereupon the King presently marched away fearing to be incompassed by the Parliamentarians over Kingston-bridge which he broke down to stop the pursuit Essex made after him to Reading and so to Oxford where he took up his Winter quarters The Cities of Winchester and Chichester delivered to the Parliament Marlborough to the King and my Lord Hopton prevailed against the Earl or Stamford several Townes taken for the King in the West others for the Parliament in the North. Cyrencester had been Garrisoned by the Parliament Forces of Glocester being the midway betwixt that City and Oxford upon this place Prince Rupert had a design though his march that way was given out for the regaining of Shudly Castle out of which Col. Massey had smothered the Cavaleirs with wet hay for after he had passed some ten miles beyond Cirencester he suddenly returned back and surprising the Guards within two hours time became Master of the place puting the Earl of Stamfords Regiment to the sword who made a stout opposition taking 1100 prisoners and 8000 Arms and other provisions for war it being newly made a Magazeen From thence the Prince came before Glocester summoned the Town and departed The Lord Brooks and Northampton were in Arms against each other in the Counties of Warwick and Stafford where several small skirmishes had been between them at last in March the Lord Brook came and besieiged Litchfield Close garrisoned by the King and as he was viewing the approaches to it out of a window in the Town a single bullet from the Close shot him in the head through the eye of which he fell down dead nevertheless the siege was continued and the Close delivered to the Parliamentarians In the North the Queen landed at Bridlington Bay with some supplies of money and Arms for the King and with her Lieut. Gen. King she was conveyed to York and afterwards met the King at Edge-hill where the fight had been And so ended this year with the surrender at Malmsbury to the Parliament again and the defeat of the Lord Fairfax who was chief of the Parliaments forces in the North of ' Bramham by the Earls of Newcastle and Cumberland Scarborough delivered to the King by Brown Bushel Anno Domini 1643. PRince Rupert having coasted the Country from Glocester into Wales returned back by Litchfield intending to reduce it again he had not long lain before it but he compelled the Garrison to surrender To the releif hereof Sir Iohn Gell and Sir William ' Brereton having gathered a considerable strength marched these were met by part of Prince Ruperts forces and some under the command of the valiant Earl of Northampton where the said releif was defeated Sir Iohn Gell routed though the victory cost dear through the loss of that brave Earl who refusing quarter was killed by a private Souldier After General Essex had recruited his Army with new supplies the first thing he attempted was the siege of Reding which being manfully defended by Sir Arthur Aston till he received a wound on his head by the falling of a brick-bat and the releif brought by the King himself from Oxford being worsted at Caversham-Bridge after ten days siege was yeilded by Col. Fielding then substituted Governor to the Parliament In the North things went something equaller then before on the Parliaments side Sir Thomas Fairfax had defeated the Kings Forces under the Marquess of Newcastle at Wakefield and hoyed up the sinking interest of that Cause Monmouth likewise was taken by the Parliaments Forces as also Worder Castle but in the West the King prevailed my Lord Hopton commanded there being a valiant and expert Royalist for the Parliament the Earl of Stamford and Colonel Chidleigh these opposite Forces met the 16. of May in Stratton-field where the Parliamets foot stood stifly to the business but the Horse either through treachery or cowardize not seconding or releiving their Foot an entire Victory fell to the Cavaleers some 1500 of the Parliamentarians being slain and taken prisoners but do of great account lost on either side Chidleigh afterwards came over to the King and my Lord Hopton was made for this good service Baron of Stratton Now the Parliament flew high in their Consultations at home the Grandees working upon the sober part of the Parliament that this action of the Queens in bringing over Arms Money and other provisions for the assistance of the King was a dangerous destructive business wound up the anger of the Two Houses to such a pitch that the Queen was proclaimed Traytor and at the same time down went all the Crosses throughout England particularly the third of this moneth Cheapside-cro●s was demolished After this beginning of Reformation the Parliament took the Solemn League and Covenant at Westminster this was first framed in Scotland and was generally taken by them in the year 1639. the main drift of it was against the Episcopal Dignity and was now for the mutual endearment of the two Nations assistance being promised the Parliament from Scotland pressed upon all in England where the Parliaments power was paramount being taken throughout London the fifth of this moneth The Earl of Essex advanceth from Reading to Tame where a general sickness seized upon the Army during their quartering thereabout Prince Rupert fell into part of their quarters but the Essexians taking the Alarum and drawing out the business came to a fight in Chalgrave field where Colonel Hambden was mortally wounded It was observeable that in this place the said Colonel Hambden first listed and trained his men in the beginning of the war The Lord Keeper Littleton having fled with the Great Seal to Oxford according to the Kings Command the Parliament voted a new Great Seal to be made The Parliament to redress their affairs in the West had made Sir William Waller Major General of those Counties and had sent him down with a well-furnished Army to meet the Kings Army under my Lord Hopton who having cleared Devonshire after Strafton fight marched Eastward where in Somersetshire Sir William had taken Taunton and Br●dgewater Both these Armies met at

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

the cheif of that Cabal Several Towns and Castles lost and taken by both parties Anno Domini 1644. SIR William Waller after his reducement of Arundel Castle marched to finde out my Lord Hopton to cry quits with him for his defeat at Roundway Down both Armies were near one another a good space for my Lord hovered about Winchester and those parts at Brandon Heath near Alesford Hopton was drawn up having a little before in his intended march to the releif of Arundel beaten Col. Norton into Chichester who endeavoured to impede him and stood ready to receive Sir William who had taken the advantage of a hill from which the Cavaliers with fury beat him and drove him to another where under the shelter of some bu●hes and trees he so galled the Kings Horse that they were forced in disorder to retreat on their foot There was a hollow betwixt both Bodies which each endeavouring to gain many men found it for their graves on both sides My Lord Hopton therefore seeing the slaughter that was made and likely to continue upon his men timely drew off his Artillery and Canon towards Winchester and then wheeling about marched for Basing and so presently to Oxford In this fight was killed on the Kings part that valiant person Iohn Lord Stuart second Brother to the Duke of Richmond who died at Abbington of his wounds received Here Sir Iohn-Smith Col. Sandys Col. Scot and Col. Manwaring with divers other persons of quality wounded among whom was Sir Edward Stawell eldest son to Sir Iohn and Sir Henry now Lord Bard besides private souldiers above 1400. Of the Parliaments side few men of note killed about 900 common souldiers Colonel Dolbier wounded and Colonel Thompsons leg shot off by a Canon buller The Earl of Essex and Waller who had followed my Lord Hopton to Basing and there shewed a mind or besieging the House now joyned their Armies together amounting to a very great strength with intention to set upon the King at Oxford wherefore the Queen was sent away with a sufficient Convoy to Exeter in the mean time Essex plunders Abbington and makes a Garrison of it afterwards The King in the mean while marcheth with his Army from Oxford to Worcester which caused the two Parliament Generals to divide their forces again Waller was to go after the King as they termed it A King-catching while Essex marched with another gallant Army into the West which was totally lost from the Parliament The King had but few forces about him by reason that Prince Rupert was sent with the greatest part of the Army to the relief of York then besieged by the joynt power of three Armies the Scots Manchesters and Fairfaxes Prince Rupert in his way storms Bolton and plunders it The King having traversed his ground came back again from Worcester and Sir William Waller from out of the skirts of Glocestershire was ready at his heels so he overtook him neer Banbury at a place called Cropredy-Bridge Waller drew up in Bartalia on a hill expecting the advantage of the Kings pasting the Bridge which the King adventuring to do Waller descends from his Post and fall upon the Kings Rear beyond the Bridge where he was so gallantly received by the Earls of Cleveland and Northampton that he was quite routed 600 kill'd and 700 taken prisoners his Train of Artillery and many of his Officers so that Sir William was forced to fly to have recourse ●o London for another recruit It was therefore resolved upon this defeat of Waller that the K●ng should immediately follow the Earl of Essex who was advanced so far that the Queen who was delivered of the Princess Henrietta at Exeter the sixteenth of Iune in the moneth of Iuly was fain to be gone from Exeter for fear of a siege and carry the young Lady along with her into France where she landed on the 25th at Brest in Britany At the beginning of August the King had overtaken the Earl of Essex at L●stithel his force in so ill a condition through their long march and their want of necessaries which the Country people kept from them that it was concluded an easie thing to conquer them The King therefore resolved to coop them up and keep all manner of provisions from them After two or three daies league in this manner the Parliament horse broke through the Kings Army by night the General and the Lord Roberts at whose instance this expedition was undertaken got by boat from Foy to Plymouth and the foot being destitute and deserted by the horse under the Command of Major General Skippon came to a Capitulation by which it was agreed they should render their A●ms Ammunition Artillery and Stores into the hands of the King and have liberty as many as would to pass home they engaging never more to bear Arms against the King so that by this defeat the Parliament were quite undone in the West as to present appearance But though success crowned the King here it failed him as much in the North whether Prince Rupert was advanced as was said before for the relief of York For upon notice of the Princes approach having with him the bravest Army that ever was seen in England both for number and persons The Confederate Forces of Scotch and English drew of● from before the City and drew up into a fighting posture On the 〈◊〉 of Iuly the Marquess of Newcastle the Prince joyned their forces together On the third both Armies met one another upon a great plain called Marston-Moo● the Prince being General commanded the right wing General Goring Sir Charles Lucas and Col. Tillier the main body and my Lord of Newcastle the left wing who had a stout Regiment of White-coats called his Lambs At the first onset the Prince totally routed the Scots who were opposed to him and out of desire of revenge for their unnatural siding with the Parliament of England pursued them so lar that he came not back time enough to the assistance of his own But most remarkable was the valour of the English under Manchester led by Lievtenant General Cromwell who being the Reserve of the Army when the Prince was so far ingaged fell in so impetuously with the Curaziers that they bore down all before them the field was now almost cleared the Scots and Fairfaxes men on one side being fled and giving the day for lost and the main body of the Kings being discomfited and Prince Rupert just returned to see the overthrow so that there was none standing in the field save only my Lord of Newcastles men upon whose Lambs a terrible slaughter was committed while they discharged the parts of valiant expert and Loyal Subjects refusing quarter and casting themselves into rings till there were very few of them left and it had been a shame for the enemy to have killed such gallant and brave persons In conclusion the Cromwellians prevailed killing of the King Army

you in a way First you are out of the way for certainly all the wayes you ever had yet as far as I could find by any thing is in the way of Conquests Certainly this is an ill way for Conquest in my Opinion is never just except there he a just and good cause either for matter of wrong or a just title and then if ye go beyond the first quarrel that ye have that makes it unjust at the end that was just at first for if there be only matter of Conquest then it is a great robbery as a Pyrate said to Alexander That he was the great Robber himself himself was but a petty Robber And so Sirs I do think for the way that you are in you are much out of the way Now Sirs to put you in the way believe it you will never go right nor God will never prosper you until you give God his due the King his due that is my Successor and the people their due I am as much for them as any of you You must give God his due by regulating rightly his Church according to the Scripture which is now out of order and to set you in a way particularly now I cannot but only this A National Synod freely called freely debating among themselves must settle this When every Opinion is freely and clearly heard For the King indeed I will not the Laws of the Land will clearly instruct you for that therefore because it concerns mine own particular I only give you a touch of it For the People truly I desire their liberty and freedome as much as any body whomsoever But I must tell you that their liberty and their freedome consist in having Government under those Laws by which their lives and theirs may be most their own it is not in having a share in the Government that is nothing pertaining to them A Subject and a Soveraign are clean different things and therefore until you do that I mean that you put the people into that liberty as I say certainly they will never enjoy themselves Sirs it was for this that now I am hither come for if I would have given way to an arbitrary way for to have all Laws changed according to the power of the Sword I need not have come here and therefore I tell you and I pray God it be not laid to your charge that I am the Martyr of the people Introath Sirs I shall not hold you any longer I will only say this to you that I could have desired some little time longer because I would have put this what I have said in a little better order and have had it a little better digested then I have done and therefore I hope you will excuse me I have delivered my Conscience I pray God you take those courses that are best for the good of the Kingdome and your own Salvation After some Ejaculations he laid down his Head upon the Block and stretched out his hands The S●gn 〈◊〉 had it severed from his body at one blow by the Vizarded Executioner who presently held it up and shewed it to the people His Head and Trunk were afterwards coffined in Lead and exposed to publick view at S. Iames's till lastly the Duke of Len●● the Marquess of Hartford the Earl of Southampton and the Bishop of London begged the Body to bury it which they conducted to Windsor Chappel-Royal and there interred it with only this Insc●●ption upon the Co●●● CHARLES KING OF ENGLAND MDC.XLVIII After this most 〈◊〉 murder they declared themselves to be a Free State setting out a Proclamation wherein they declare th●t no person hath Right to the Crown o● England abolishing thereby the ●ingly ●overnment and debarring of our Rightful Soveraign ●om any claim c. declaring him also a Traytor with the rest of the Royal Issue for refusing the publication of which the Lord Mayor Reynoldson was outed imprisoned and fined 2000 l. In March they proceed with their High Court of Justice newly modelled and a new President to the Tryal of these Noble persons they had in custody about the last years risings whereof Duke Hamilton Earl of Holland Earl of Norwich the Lord Capel and Sir Iohn Owen were condemned to be beheaded the Duke and Holland and Capel were accordingly executed in the Palace-yard the other two with much ado were pardoned P●nt●fract Castle was now rendred to the Parliament by Colonel Morris being the last Garrison for the King in England Now they had leisure to look towards Ireland whether Lievtenant General Cromwell was sent with an Army of 10000 men which landed about this time at Dublin where a little before Colonel Iones the Governour having received a supply of 1000 men had sallied out and beaten my Lord of Ormond from off the siege where he lay with 20000 and upwards through the carelesness and treachery of the Guards Here were slain to the number of three thousand and five thousand taken prisoners this proved the loss of all Ireland which was then entirely for the King save this City and London-Derry Anno Domoni 1649. Cromwell upon his arrival sets presently forward towards Tredah whereinto the Lord Lievtenant Ormond had put a Garrison of choice English and some Irish to this Town he gave three assaults and was valiantly repulsed but in conclusion of the third the Town was entred and man woman and children put to the sword for three daies in cold bloud with the Governour himself Sir Arthur Aston a well experienced and valiant Captain Anno Dom. 1649. and 1650. VPon this success Trim and Dundalk yielded themselves to him the Marquess of Ormond hovering neer him with his Army but yet not daring to attempt any thing Wexford was the next Town he attaqued which by storm he took also putting all in arms to the sword thence to Passage Fort and so to Waterford from whence he considering the Winter approaching drew off to quarters having already possession of most of the Towns of Ireland Limrick Galloway Clonmell and Kilkenny excepted which soon after were reduced by him and his Successor Ireton and that Kingdome was wholly brought in subjection to the Parliament The next thing that busied the new Commonwealth was the affairs of Scotland who had long before proclaimed the King and were now treating with him therefore they recalled home Lievtenant General Cromwell whom upon Fairfaxes refusal of going against the Scots they now advanced to be General He came Iune the last to London having landed at Bristol and was highly treated by the Parliament Dorislaus that drew up the charge against the King was killed at the Hague in May last and Ascham that was sent on the same errand to the King of Spain was killed also by some English men in his Inne at Supper this did mightily inrage the new Commonwealth that their Min●sters could no where be protected According to the conclusion of the Treaty between the King and his Subjects

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

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