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A35243	The life of Oliver Cromwel, Lord Protector of the Common-wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland being an account of all the battles, sieges, and other military atchievements, wherein he was engaged, in these three nations : and likewise, of his civil administrations while he had the supream government, till his death.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1680 (1680)	Wing C7343; ESTC T135016	57,584	144

shew'd their Dislike of this Change of Government but also the Colonies in Virginia and the Carybde Islands to the reducing of whom the Parliament sent Sir George Askue with a Fleet of Ships who brought them again into Obedience In the mean Time the Scots were very busie they had commenced a Treaty with Prince Charles at Breda which at last was concluded on he assenting to their Presbyterian Government and they to instal and re-establish him in that Kingdom and in the other accordingly as they questioned not but Fortune would answer their blind zealous Covenant Expectations The Prince puts forth to Sea and in despite of foul Weather and the English King Fishers that lay there to intercept him he landed safely at the Spey in the North of Scotland Now tho' the Scots had a King yet as if they had none every one did that which is right in his own Eyes and as if they intended him only the Title being now in their Power they forced him to follow the Rules of their haughty Clergy in all their sanatick Humours and imperious Decrees First then they bereaved him of all his old Friends Counsellors and Confederates whether of the Clergy or Laity as those who adhered to Episcopal Government and so not pure enough for so reform'd a People Thus they hamstringed him not as what was formerly in the Sign-post only of printed Papers Next they make him take the Solemn League and Covenant that strange Fire which the Scots believe descended from Heaven and by which they at their Pleasures kindle those Wars wherewith they infest England Then these Horse Farriers of the Conscience gave him another Drench he is taught to Renounce the Sins of his Father's House and of his own the Idolatry of his Mother by a constant adhering to the Cause of God according to the Covenant in the firm Establishment of Church Government as it is laid down in the Directory for publick Worship Confession of ●aith and Catechism These with divers others of the like Nature they wrought so on his Necessity they obtruded or rather rammed into his Conscience although with much Reluctancy he signed to making many strange Faces at these bitter Pills he swallowed yet it better'd not his Condition which was like that of a Child under Tutors and Governors there was not an Officer in that Kirk or Commonwealth how vile and abject soever in Place or Person but enjoyed more Freedom both in Body and Mind than he Guarded indeed he was but no otherwise than he was surrounded with the Ignis Fatuus of their zealous Suspicions of him so that move he must not but in the Sphere of the Kirk their Primum mobile whereby 'tis apparent that the Government of that Nation might be almost question'd whether it ever were truly Monarchial tho' they had Kings To proceed the Parliament having notice of all their Proceedings recalled General Cromwel out of Ireland making him Generalissimo of the Commonwealths Armies in the Lord Fairfax's Stead who at the same Time laid down his Commission he with a choice Army marches into Scotland and after many petty Defeats gives them a great Overthrow at Dumbar September 3 1650 and prosecuting his Victory takes Leith a very considerable and advantageous Place as also Edinburgh the Metropolitan City of all Scotland Thus he set firm there his Sword hewing his Way for him to conquer that Country which the King lost by his Pen. Now were the Scots truly miserable for besides a raging Enemy in the very Heart of their Kingdom they were divided among themselves even to the killing and slaying of one another one Party in the North was for the King without the Kirk another Party in the West was for the Kirk without the King a third Party was for the King and Kirk Yet notwithstanding these Losses and Divisions they assumed new Courage levied more Men and crowned their King with the utmost Magnificence as the Indigency and Necessity of their Affairs would admit The English on the other Side being resolved to terminate this War with Scotland passed over into Fife and having defeated four thousand Scots they soon became Masters of Inchigravy Burntisland and St. Johnstoun Mean while the Scots Army consisting of 16000 abandoned their own Territories and by the Way of Carlisle entred England General Cromwel advertised hereof leaves Colonel Monk with 7000 Men in Scotland to perfect the Conquest of that Kingdom and with the rest of the Army pursues the Scots who wheresoever they came proclaimed their King to be King of Great Britain France and Ireland c. But few stirred unto their Aid among others the unfortunate Earl of Darby who having assembled 1200 Men in Lancashire was defeated by Colonel Lilbourn and to save himself was constrained to flee to Worcester where the Scots after a long and tedious March had pitch'd their Camp whither General Cromwel soon pursued and having the Aid of the Train Bands of several Counties gave them Battle which proved fatal unto the Scots their whole Army being overthrown The King in a Disguise escaped into France not without much Difficulty and Danger the Parliament having promised five hundred Pounds to any one that could discover his Person Such a List of Prisoners as were then taken we shall seldom meet with in any Battle but Cromwel's the Earl of Darby the Earl of Lauderdale Duke Hamilton General of the Scots Army who afterwards died of his Wounds the Earl of Rothes the Earl of Cornwarth the Earl of Shrewsbury Peckington Cunninghame and Clare Knights the Lord Spine and Sinclare the Earl of Cleveland of Kelley and Colonel Greaves six Colonels of Horse thirteen of Foot nine Lieutenant Colonels of Horse eight of Foot six Majors of Horse thirteen of Foot seven and thirty Captains of Horse seventy three of Foot fifth five Quarter-masters eighty nine Lieutenants of Foot Major General Biscotty Major General Montgomery the Lieutenant General of the Ordnance the Adjutant General of the Foot the Marshal General the Quartermaster General the Conductor General of the Baggage seventy six Standards ninety nine Ensigns all which were hung up in Westminster Hall for successive Parliaments to understand what Vigour of Spirits they by their Influence can infuse into those they please please to authorize only the Want of the Allay of their Ambitions often works them high where it is impossible to set limits to generous Minds To continue the other Appendixes to this Victory there were also taken nine Ministers nine Chirurgeons One hundred fifty and eight Colours and all the Cannon and Baggage generally the Royal Standard the King's Coach and Horses the Royal Robe the Collar of the Order of the Garter thirty of his domestick Servants and that admirable Poet his Secretary Fanshaw Several other Persons were also afterwards taken in the remotest Countries as Major General Massey who being committed to the Tower afterwards made his Escape Major General Middleton Lieutenant General David Lesly insomuch as that it may be

adverse Party who had always great Want of it The Parliament having on their Side the rich City of London that inexhaustible Bank of Treasure By this Means he strengthened himself with sufficient Aids to oppose the Lord Capel who was to have been seconded by Prince Rupert and should have seized on Cambridge thereby to have impeded the Association of the adjoining Counties for the Parliament He being advanced from a Captain to a Colonel having compleated a Regiment of Horse to the full Number of a thousand Men in the Spring of the Year he marches to Lowerstoft in Suffolk where he suddenly surprized Sir Thomas Barker Sir John Pettas his Brother with above twenty other Persons of Note who were entring into an Association for the King several Peasons of Quality and divers Noblemen hourly flocking to that Rendezvouz this other Service was very seasonably render'd to the Parliament the King's Party both in Suffolk and Norfolk being much discouraged by this Success Having by new raised Aids inforced his Army to a very considerable Strength he marched into Lincolnshire with a Resolution to assist those Forces that lay about Newark a very strong and stout Garrison of the King's where by their daily Excursions they kept all the Country thereabouts in awe which he not only block'd up but also defeated part of the Earl of Newcastle's Army which came to relieve them I shall not need to particularize all his Actions his other interveening Atchievements are innumerable To look forwards only to mention the Battle of Marston Moor where by his Valour he turn'd the Scales of Victory which at the first enclined to the King's Side As also at that fatal Fight at Naseby where the King's Foot were all cut in Pieces or taken Prisoners His memorable Discomfiture of the King's Forces at Preston in Lancashire over Duke Hamilton and Sir Marmaduke Langdale the last of them as valiantly faithful to the King as the other was disloyal Their united Forces amounting to Twenty five thousand his not above Ten thousand at most altho' indeed he found little Opposition save only of those few Forces of Sir Marmaduke Langdale who fought it out courageously to the last Man Should I thus continue to signalize his Trophies I might tire out the Reader with his strange Successes let it suffice then that his Actions with such Fame arrived at the House that in Recompence they first bestowed on him the Generalship of the Horse and afterwards the Lieutenant Generalship of the whole Army Certainly if his Ambition had terminated here and his wonderful Successes had not raised his Thoughts higher if he could not for his Martial Merits have been beloved he had Power enough to have render'd himself save and for his valiant Atchievements fear'd honour'd and admir'd Raised to this Degree of Command he was more careful of hazarding his Person than before well knowing the Loss of a General is the most irreparable of all Losses for him to expose his Person to trivial Hazards in the Breath of whose Nostrils the victorious Atchievements of the Soldiers remains is too impertinently adventurous as if it were more glorious to fight than command Whereas that is more especially the Virtue of a common Soldier This other of a Leader whose principal Talent lies more in Direction than Execution more in the Brain than Hand Thus that ever to be deplored Laureat of our Times the Gentleman of the long Robe the Oracle of the King's Cousels the Lord Faukland was as unfortunately lost as unnecessarily engaged in the Field But to proceed he grew so subtilly careful as to maintain a fair Correspondence there was no Place taken no Battle won but he was the first that brought or sent Word to the House by which he insinuated himself into the Affections both of the Parliament and People expressing his own Actions in such Terms as whilst he seemingly attributed much to others he drew the whole Commendation thereof to himself One Thing that made his Brigade so invincible was his arming them so well as whilst they assured themselves they could not be overcome it assured him to overcome their Enemies He himself as they call'd him Ironside needed not to be ashamed of a Nick-name that so often saved his Life These were his Acts whilst Lieutenant General by which he got so great a Name in War as Essex Waller and those other great Names before him excepting only Sir Thomas Fairfax's Laurels which were interwoven with his the rest were swallowed up in his most inimitable Successes even as great Rivers are swallowed up by the Ocean For the rest of his Actions when he was General his conquering Ireland his subduing Scotland the many other Battles he fought till his s●ishing the War in England To treat also largely of these it's Trophies would weary the Pen of a serious though industrious Writer that sadly concerns the Incivility of those late Civil War howsoever they were strange Successes and so many that as a Modern Poet agrees with what I have expressed It were a Work so great Would make Olympus bearing Atlas sweat I shall therefore summarily relate the most notable Occurrences then happening leaving the less Assairs to be related by more voluminous Authors No sooner were the Civil Wars of England terminated by the Discomfiture of all the King's Armics the taking of his own Person and putting him to Death but the Parliament by a solemn Vote and Ordinance changed the Monarchial Government into a Commonwealth The Kingdom of Ireland discontented at this Change uniting themselves owned the late King's eldest Son and solemnly proclaimed him King no Place considerable standing out for the Parliament saving only Dublin and London-derry the first whereof of was immediately besieged by an Army of Twenty two thousand Men commanded by the Marquess of Ormond and the other by a considerable Party of the Natives of the Country To the reducing of this Kingdom was Oliver Cromwel nominated Governour of Ireland by the Common-wealth who with a well apointed Army set sail for Dublin Where although he found Things in an indifferent good Posture the Marquess of Ormond having been beaten off by the Valour of Michael Jones the Governour yet he met with Work enough for his Army For Droghedah one one of the best and considerablest Places in all Ireland held out stifly against them and having a strong Party bid Defiance to his Army Yet notwithstanding after many Assaults and much Valour shewn on both Sides he at last took it putting therein to death 3000 Irish who tho' Enomies yet for their Valour and undaunted Resolution might have been look'd on with a more merciful Eye as they were Men and more especially Christians Soon after followed the Surrender of Trim Dundalke Nury Wexford Rove Bandonbridge and Kingsale yet notwithstanding the reducing of these Towns many of the Irish retreating to their Bogs and inaccessible Places held out for a long Time in dsepite of the English To proceed not only the Irish