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A39796	The perfect politician, or, A full view of the life and action (military and civil) of O. Cromwel whereunto is added his character, and a compleat catalogue of all the honours conferr'd by him on several persons.	Fletcher, Henry.; Raybould, William.	1660 (1660)	Wing F1334; ESTC R18473	129,473	366

former engagement and espoused their young Lady to the Dolphin of France which so enraged our young King Edward the sixth his father Henry being dead that he resolved Seeing the Foxes skin could not prevail To piece it with the Lions tayl And to that end sends an Army under the Duke of Somerset into Scotland to avenge himself on them for their perfidious dealing This Army exceeded not 18000 in number too small in appearance to deal with a whole Kingdom but greatness of courage supplying the paucity of their number they encountered the Scots neer Muscleborough where notwithstanding they doubled the English in multitude besides 3000 Monks Fryers and Kirk-men armed both with VVord and Sword they got the day and obtained a most compleat Victory But while they beat the bush the bird was flown into France Here many of the Scotish Nobility were taken prisoners one of which being brought to the English General and asked by him how he liked the Match answered wittily Very well but not that manner of wooing This Battel and that of Flodden-field four and thirty years before were both fought upon the Ninth of September as afterwards those of Worcester and Dunbar were both upon the Third of the same month so that that month seems to be more ominous to the Scotish Nation then any in the whole Kalendar This Digression hath been made onely to shew what endeavours there have been all along to unite these Kingdoms under one Head but nothing could effect it until King James came in by succession he being son to that Queen Mary formerly espoused to Edward the sixth This Line was thought perpetual and the Tye indissoluble according to the Motto upon King James his Coyn Que Deus conjunxit nemo separet But he that rules in the Kingdoms of men hath been pleased to over-rule their designs by a sudden cutting off of that Line and dissolving that League which was esteemed so inviolable By this means the Scots begin to play Rex as we have heard in part already but how and by whom they were reduced under the obedience and subjection of the English as at this day is our next work to shew they being as sings ingenious Mr. Waller's Panegyrick A Race unconquer'd by their Clime made bold The Caledonians arm'd with want and cold Have by a Fate indulgent to his fame Been from all Ages kept for him to tame Whom the old Roman wall so ill confin'd With a new Chain of Garisons he binde Here forraign Gold no more shall make them come For Cromwel's Iron holds them fast at home Cromwel was the man by whom this stupendious work was wrought who being now constituted Generalissimo for the Parliament of England as we have seen before made this improvement of his new honour adding this Conquest to his former Heroick atchievements And what order he observed in the carrying on of this business we shall now relate beginning where we left off before The Army being come up all together in a Body and quartered upon the very edge of Scotland as afore is shewed on July 22. 1650 the Lord General drew them forth to a Rendezvous upon a hill within Berwick bounds from whence they had a full view of the adjacent parts of Scotland the Stage whereon they were to act their parts in the ensuing Tragedies Here he made a Speech to his Souldiers exhorting them to be faithful and couragious and then not to doubt of a blessing from God and all encouragement from himself which was answered with loud and unanimous Acclamations from them who going thus chearfully about their work it was the more likely to prosper in their hands as indeed it did Upon this the Lord General marches his Army into Scotland quartering them that night in the field neer Mordington where he caused it to be proclaimed thorowout the Camp for the better conservation of good order and discipline That none on pain of death should offer violence or injury to the persons or goods of any in Scotland not in Arms and withal That no Souldier should presume without special license to straggle half a mile from the Army Hence they dislodge for Copperspeith thence to Dunbar where they are recruited with provisions from the English ships sent thither for that purpose the Country affording them none for the Scotch Estates had taken a course beforehand to sweep all the Country betwixt Berwick and Edinburgh of all things that might yeeld any comfort or succour to the English But this entertainment was not at all strange to the English it being but what they expected neither did it in the least appal or discourage them Their next remove is to Handington twelve miles from Edinburgh and all this without the least opposition not seeing all this while the face of an Enemy in Arms. But although they could not be seen yet they were heard of giving out that they would meet the English at Gladsmore The Lord General prepared to meet them accordingly and knowing his adversary exceeded him in number he laboured to possess the Moor before them to gain the advantage of ground in case they should meet him which it seems they never intended having no great stomack to fight Upon this Major-Gen Lambert and Colonel Whalley men of approved courage and valour with 1400 Horse were sent as a Van-guard to Muscleborough Major Hayns commanding the Forlorn fac'd the Scots within a mile of their Trenches The next day the Lord General with the main Body drew up before Edinburgh where some bickering happened about the possession of King Arthur's Hill a place within a mile of that Citie which the English obtained and soon after possest themselves of a Church and certain houses But notwithstanding all these provocations the Scots would not forsake their Trenches but lay upon the catch and according to the Proverb Harm watch harm catch so it fell out with them For the Lord General seeing no good to be done this way and that his Army was much wearied out with hard duty and continual rain drawing off to Muscleborough there to refresh and recruit his men with provisions the Scots would needs have one snap at parting and to that end came powdering down upon the last Reserve of the English Rere-guard and had like to have over-run them but Major-General Lambert and Colonel Whalley with his giment came in to their rescue routing the Scots and pursuing them to their Trenches In this Encounter Lambert received two wounds and the rest came not off altogether Scot-free for they left behind them one Lieutenant-Colonel one Major and some Captains with a few private souldiers for company By this defeat the English had an opportunity to march off quietly to Muscleborough that night although in a wet and weary condition expecting also every moment to be set upon as indeed at last they were for Col. Straughan and Montgomery very slyly followed them in the rere with the Kirk's Regiment of Horse and some others to the

at Edinburgh by ten of the clock that morning whereon the Battel was fought outstripping his Lieutenant-General who got not thither till the afternoon But if they had made less haste they might have come before they had been welcom unless they had brought better news the Garison and inhabitants being very much dampt at their report as also those of Leith insomuch that Edinburgh was presently quit by its Garison and Leith resolved to receive the Victors not knowing how to keep them out But though the English had thus possessed the Town of Edinburgh the Castle remained untoucht which being esteemed impregnable and commanding the Town the Scots hoped that the English would soon finde their new quarters too hot to hold them and so much the rather for that the said Castle besides its natural strength was well manned had a considerable Artillery on the walls and store of all sorts of provisions Colonel William Dundass being its Governour However the same day the Scots deserted the Town the English under Lambert took possession of the same as also of Leith in both which places they found several Pieces of Ordnance many Arms and considerable provisions which were too heavie for the Scots to take with them because of their haste But how well the new Garison of Edinburgh agreed with their neighbours in the Castle we shall hear afterwards Upon this the Lord General coming up with the remainder of the Army the Scots were in despair of nestling there again and therefore made Sterling their next refuge whither resorted those that had escaped at Dunbar to help to piece up their shattered Army that so in a second Encounter they might endeavour to recover their lost credit To this purpose also recruits were raised by the Committee of Estates in all places under their power their Officers are likewise new molded new ones being taken in and old ones laid aside according as they saw occasion this change being not in inferiour Officers only but among the great Commanders likewise for old Leven was laid aside albeit David Lesley were continued But this their rallying and recruiting chopping and changing signified little for as if they had been postest with a like spirit with those infatuated Jews in Jerusalem when that City was closely begirt by the Romanes notwithstanding that the English had given them that sore blow at Dunbar driven them from their Metropolis and were still improving those advantages the Scots in stead of joyning heart and hand in defending their Country against so prevailing an adversary split themselves into so many fractions and factions that it would require some curiosity to discriminate them The most notable were these Straughan and Car in the West who declared against the Kings party and were called Remonstrators another party were for King and Kirk as David Lesley Major Gen. Holborn and those in Fife and a third sort were purely for the King these with Middleton keep the High-lands This Kingdom being thus divided was not likely long to stand For animosities growing higher and higher among themselves little care was taken to repress the English who ranged at pleasure about the Country And the Lord General having his Head-quarters at Edinburgh and observing what course the Scots steered lay not idle but having refreshed his men Sept. 14. he drew out the greatest part of his Army for Sterling and faced the Castle having at first some thoughts to storm it but finding that the Horse could not well second the Foot he desisted for that time and returned back to the Head-quarters Whither being come order is given for carrying all the Boats in the Frith to Leith for prevention of the Scots Ferrying over into Fyfe to joyn with the Enemy there And since according to the Proverb of Idleness comes no goodness therefore to keep his men in action and that they may the better acquaint themselves with the Country the Lord General his work going on well before Edinburgh-Castle of which a particular account shall be given in its place marcht away six Regiments of Foot and nine of Horse and Dragoons for Glasgow a City of a pleasant site upon a River navigable for small Boats which usually bring up provisions from Patrickstown ten miles thence where ships of good burden may ride In Glasgow the streets and houses are more neat and clean then those of Edinburgh it being also one of the chiefest Universities in Scotland By the way of Linlithgow the Lord General sent a Paper to the Committee of Estates to try once more what might be done by fair means a copie whereof was likewise at the same time dispatched away to Colonel Car and Straughan to the same end Little else was remarkable in this Expedition then the taking of a small Carison neer Kelsith a place famous for being the Stage whereon somtime the valiant Montross had acted such great things as even shook the foundations of the Kirk and had subverted it if the English had not in time stretched out their hand to support the same This heroick Champion notwithstanding he wrought such great things with small Forces ever encountring considerable Armies with a handful so that not one of his men could be exempted from continual duty yet could not avoid the frowns of adverse fortune wherein nevertheless although his body were captivated his spirit remained free bearing up above the highest affronts of his enraged enemies who loaded him with all the ignominy that Malice it self could invent first inflicting on him a most reproachful death and next mangling his dead body the quarters whereof they caused to be hung up in several places for publike view On the Tolbooth at Glasgow hung one of his legs which the English remembring what he was took down and buried privately Now the Lord General retires to Edinburgh the season admitting of no considerable action but onely what necessity required And a necessary work they went about in suppressing a company of sturdy knaves called Moss-Troopers who daily plaid their pranks with great boldness and by the treachery and connivence of the Country-people murdered many of the English Souldiers especially straglers nay their confidence grew so high as to steal some of the Train-horses belonging to the Army To that end a Proclamation was published by the Lord General to this effect THat finding many of the Army were not onely spoiled and robbed but also others barbarously butchered and slain by a sort of Outlaws not under the discipline of any Army and finding that all tenderness to the Country produced no other effect then their compliance with and protection of such persons therefore considering that it is in the Countries power to detect and discover them and perceiving their motion to be ordinary by their invitation and intelligence of Country-people therefore he declared That where-ever these enormities should be committed for the future life should be required for life and a plenary satisfaction for the goods thus stollen of those Parishes and places where the