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A95888	Gods arke overtopping the worlds waves, or The third part of the Parliamentary chronicle. Containing a successive continuation and exact and faithful narration of all the most materiall parliamentary proceedings & memorable mercies wherewith God hath crowned this famous present Parliament and their armies in all the severall parts of the land; ... Collected and published for Gods high honour and the great encouragement of all that are zealous for God and lovers of their country. / By the most unworthy admirer of them, John Vicars.; God in the mount. Part 3	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.	1645 (1645)	Wing V309; Thomason E312_3; ESTC R200473	307,400	332

left also foure pieces of Ordnance behinde them which Canterburie men seized on and went to Sir Edward Hales house within half a mile of Sittingborn who notwithstanding that he was a Parliament-man and one of the Deputie Lievtenants of this Countie and so neer them yet used no meanes to appease any of these tumults but rather administred secret helps and encouragements to them and his Grand-childe and heire being chosen Captain of these rebells whom therefore with his Grand-father Sir Edward Hales they took into their custodie together with Mr Farnabie a School-Master a great stickler also in this insurrection and a man of a very insolent and malignant spirit and shortly after they were all namely Sir Edward Hales Sir George Sands the Major of Feversham Mr Farnabie and the rest of note were brought to London to the Parliament and after examination there were all committed to prison Sir Edward and Sir George to the Tower of London Mr Farnabie to Newgate and the rest to the Fleet. And thus by Gods great mercy and good providence this so dangerous an insurrection was most happily and timely appeased and this Countie afterward reduced into a most quiet and peaceable condition As by an Ordinance of Parliament which not long after came forth whereby authoritie was given to the Deputie Lievtenants and well-affected prime patriots of that Countie for the better securing of the peace thereof may more fully appeare and which said Declaration for the Readers fuller satisfaction I have thought fit heer to insert and set down verbatim as it was published by authoritie of Parliament An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament touching the Rebellion in Kent Die Mercurii August 16. 1643. WHereas divers ill-affected persons of the Countie of Kent have unlawfully and traiterously assembled themselves together and in a warlike and hostile manner possessed themselves of divers Towns and places in that Countie and have traiterously and rebelliously levied warre against the King and Parliament and robbed killed and spoyled divers of his Majesties Subjects And notwithstanding they were invited by an Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament to lay down their armes and every man to depart in peace to their severall places of habitation with an offer not onely to pass by their offences then already committed by them but to give redress to any just grievances they should in a peaceable and Parliamentarie way present to the Parliament yet they wilfully and contemptuously refused that favour offered unto them and gave battaile to those forces sent by authoritie of both Houses to suppress that insurrection where by Gods great goodness they were wholly routed and a very great number taken prisoners Now to the end the like inconveniences may be prevented heerafter and that the peace of the Countie may be better setled It is ordained by the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled that Sir Henry Vane senior Sir John Sidley Sir Authony Welden Sir Michael Leveley Sir Henry Heyman Mr Nut Mr Augustine Skinner Mr Thomas Blunt Mr Thomas Franklin Sir Edward Boyse Mr Brown Sir William Springate Sir Edward Master Mr John Boyl Mr John Boyse Sir Peter Wroth Mr Richard Lee Sir Thomas Walsingham Mr Thomas Selyard and Sir John Robarts or any three of them shall forthwith seiz upon all the armes and horses of all those that have in person appeared in that insurrection and rebellion and of all such as have willingly assisted or countenanced the same or that have willingly relieved any of the said rebells with armes ammunition money or otherwise or that have refused to give their assistance being thereunto required to suppress the said insurrection or rebellion and that the horses that shall be so seized on shall be sent to the Citie of London to the Commissary for horses there to be entred and listed for the service of the State and that the armes so to be seized shall be laid up in some place of safetie in that Countie to the end the same may be distributed to the well-affected partie of that Countie when occasion requireth And it is further ordained by the authority aforesaid That the said Sir Henry Vane senior Sir John Sidley Sir Anthony Welden Sir Michael Levesey Sir Henry Heyman Mr Nut Mr Augustine Skinner Mr Thomas Blunt Mr Thomas Franklin Sir Edward Boyse Mr Brown Sir William Springate Sir Edward Master Mr John Boyse Mr John Boyl Sir Peter Wroth Mr Richard Lee Sir Thomas Walsingham Mr Thomas Selyard and Sir John Robarts or any three of them shall have power and are heerby authorized to enter upon and seiz all and singular the lands tenements and hereditaments and the goods chattells and cattell of all and singular the persons that were actors countenancers or abettors in the said rebellion who did not submit to the said Ordinance and immediately come in lay down their armes and repair to their places of habitation and to seiz and imprison their persons to the end they be proceeded against according to the Law and the merit of their offence Provided alwayes and it is further ordered by the authority aforesaid That the said Sir Henry Vane senior Sir John Sidley Sir Anthony Welden Sir Michael Levesey Sir Henry Heyman Mr Nut Mr Aug. Skinner Mr Thomas Blunt Mr Thomas Franklin Sir Edw. Boyse Mr Brown Sir William Springate Sir Edward Master Mr John Boyl Mr John Boyse Sir Peter Wroth Mr Richard Lee Sir Thomas Walsingham Mr Thomas Selyard and Sir John Robarts or any three of them shall have power and are heerby authorized to compound with such of the persons aforesaid as they shall think fit objects of such mercifull proceedings and to receive of them such summes of money by way of fine and ransome as they or any three of them shall think fit having respect to the offence and the estate of the person offending and to certifie the names and sums received of every person and return the same to the Guildhall in London to the treasurers appointed to receive money and plate upon the Propositions and every person that shall compound and pay the money according to this Ordinance shall be freed in their persons and estates and discharged from any farther prosecution for the crimes and offences committed by them in that rebellion or insurrection and it is further ordained that the said Sir Henry Vane senior Sir John Sidley Sir Anthony Welden Sir Michael Levesey Sir Henry Heyman Mr Nut Mr Augustine Skinner Mr Tho. Blunt Mr Thomas Franklin Sir Edward Boyse Mr Brown Sir William Springate Sir Edward Master Mr John Boyse Mr John Boyl Sir Peter Wroth Mr Richard Lee Sir Thomas Walsingham Mr Thomas Selyard and Sir John Robarts and every of them shall be protected and saved harmless by the authority of both Houses of Parliament for what they shall doe in pursuance of this Ordinance Ordered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament that this Ordinance be forthwith printed and published About the 22

Westminster and the Liberties thereof be forthwith printed and published John Brown Cler. Parl. About which said time and upon this well-grounded encouragement by the aforesaid Ordinance of Parliament the most renowned Citizens of London began to take a more strict and exact care of the welfare of their Citie and by an Order from the Citie-Militia very many persons of dis-affected malignant Citizens were seized on and for want of safe prisons to retain them in custodie they were committed into the enclosures of the walls of St Faiths Church under the superstitious and superfluous fabrick of Pauls great and mountainous Cathedrall and very many others also for want of strong prisons were imprisoned in Ships upon the river Thames and kept safe under hatches with sufficient and constant guards to keep them safe from plotting and practising mischief at home Much also about the same time the Earl of Holland having most●ignobly disloyally by stealth left the Parliament and fled to Oxford about 14 or 16 of his Trunks which had also been surreptitiously conveyed by water up the river Thames in a Barge and bound for Oxford and all of them full fraught and stuft up both with money and other most rich and costly robes and commodities were stayed and seized on and carried back to Windsor-Castle and from thence were conveyed speedily after to London About the 20th of August also 1643. came credible information by Letters from the coasts of Wales that the Fellowship of Bristoll a ship of about 400 tun carrying 24 pieces of Ordnance and the Hart-frigot in companie with it set sail from Bristoll for Mi●ford-Haven whither being come they summoned the Countie of Pembrook and enformed them for now Bristoll Cavaliers had already learnt from Oxford the exact art of lying as well by Sea as by Land that all the Parliaments forces were quite overthrown and discomf●●ed and that now all the Kingdome repaired apace to his Majestie and that Cha●tam Rochester and all Kent were revolted from the Parliament with a great many more of such like false and fictitious inventions which the flashie and ill-affected Gentry of that Countie seemed too easily to give ear unto yet somewhat disliked these Maritime Cavaliers or Cormorants that they should thus sodainly come on shore among them and cast up workes to secure the landing of the Irish Souldiers and rebells as their purpose was among them But whiles this was in doing and the Inhabitants seeing the drift and intention heerin as aforesaid and somewhat unwilling to have it so yet could hardly tell how to help themselves and hinder it The Swallow a brave Ship in the Parliaments service under the command of the right noble and ever to be honoured Earl of Warwick came sodainly into the said harbour and came to anchor neer unto the Fellowship of Bristoll and presently summons the Captain to come on board his Ship who a while insisted on quarter and would capitulate to be set on shore but Captain Smith for so was his name that was Captain of the Swallow utterly refused any termes of quarter and without delay gave him a broad side wherewith he killed 3 or 4 of the Fellowships men whereupon they presently yeelded their Ship and themselves prisoners among whom as was credibly enformed were foure Sea-Captains viz. Captain William Hale Captain Brooks Captain Burley and Captain Barnaby This excellent piece of service was performed by Captain Smith aforesaid a very gallant and religious Gentleman who too well knows the King is unhappie in nothing more than in being too indulgent to the Popish partie about him who seek his ruine under a false and perfidious pretence of his happiness And about the latter end of August aforesaid that right noble and renowned Commander Sir William Waller notwithstanding the malicicus hearts foul mouths and false tongues of inveterate malignants belching and bruiting abroad many disgracefull reports to the contrary thereby to encrease and encourage as much as in them was discontent and distractions among the people obtained from his Excellency the Lord Generall his long desired and much expected Commission for his advance of the important affaires of the Kingdome which was delivered unto him on Saturday August 26th in the honourable House of Commons by Mr Speaker and that with much and universall joy and content and with the generall prayers of the whole House for his prosperous and happie success the fruits and effects whereof wee shall by Gods mercy taste of and declare in Gods due time And whereas also many persons had either ignorantly or maliciously or both given out to disparage this designe that the power of his Commission extended onely to about six or ten miles distance from London the said Commission is for certain of so ample and so large extent that he may conduct his forces into any Countie of the Kingdome as the exigencie of affaires shall necessitate and require And now good Reader let mee desire thee heer again to recollect thy thoughts a little by a gratefull revise and contemplation on all those last past memorable passages and Parliame●tarie-Mercies and Merchandizes of this moneths voyage also as First the most happie taking of that rich prize the Danish Ship so fraught with armes and ammunition Secondly the dangerous plot for a pretended Peace discovered and prevented and the most happie and contrary issue it produced in occasioning an Oath and Covenant in the Citie of London to unite and knit them the more firmly and faster together and thereby securing the most dangerous Citie-Malignants in safer custodie Thirdly the apprehending of the Earl of Hollands rich Trunks Fourthly the taking of the Fellowship a brave Bristoll-Ship and the confirming of Sir William Wallers Commission by his Excellencie the Lord Generall for the advancement of that brave Commanders intended great designes And now then tell me good Reader on the brief review of all these memorable mercies were not heer many most fair and prosperous blasts of good success to help to carry on Gods-Ark his holy-cause through the midst of the troublesome and tumultuous Ocean of these the Kingdomes intestine and destructive swelling waves and waters of unnaturally homebred and inbred broyles and bloudy d●ssentions like so many devouring whirpools gaping to ingurgitate all into their insatiate ma●●es of all-devouring mischief and destruction And on this so sweet and comfortable consideration still to return with enlarged alacrity of spirit all the honour and praise of all these sweet and singular mercies and free favours to God alone who onely does wondrous things for his mercie endures for ever But to goe on in happie progress of the next moneths voyage and adventures About the beginning of September 1643. came certain information by letters from Plimouth to London that one of the members of the House of Commons in Parliament namely Sir Alexander Carew governour of a considerable Island neer Plimouth which commands the Sound there

Whereupon poore sir Ralph calling a Councill of Warre it was resolved they should presse no more it causing them the sooner to desert him And thus we see how graciously the Lord begins to carry on the work in those parts About the 20th of this instant wee were most credibly informed by letters from Manchester from very credible hands that notwithstanding the present great pressures on that County of Lancashire in this Moneth by reason of that bloody rover Prince Robbers entring the same and spoyling and destroying all the good of the land before him especially at poor blood-dyed Boulton Yet I say this famous Town of Manchester was by the good hand of God preserved from the rage and wra●h of that furious and filching Enemy and did even at that time enjoy great plenty of Food and other necessaries yea notwithstanding that they then had 3 or 4000 Souldiers in the Town victualls of all sorts being very cheap among them Wheat sold for 3. s. 8. d. a measure good butter 2. d. far a pound the best Cheese at 2. d. bating farthing flesh-meat very cheap And that ye may know that money also was not very scanty there On the 16. instant being the Lords-day there was a collection made among them at Manchester for poor distressed and p●undred Boulton at the Church and Chappell at Salford where was gathered 7 score pounds besides much money that came in after that publike Collection And was not this a rare mercy especially at such a time and in such a County to be able to be givers and not receivers and to live in such a height of plenty notwithstanding so great misery round about them O our great and Wonder-working God who thus dost manifest that thou not onely art Good but dost Good Much also about the same time came farther intelligence by a letter from the noble Lord General which was read in the Lords House of Parliament wherein his Excellency informed them of the taking of the Town of Weymouth a very strong and considerable Sea-Town upon surrender The Commanders and Officers going away on horse-backe with their swords and pistols and the Common Souldiers as I toucht before only with staves in their hands Hee tooke in the Town 27 pieces of Ordnance and 50 other pieces in the harbour and all the ships neer it above an 100 barrells of Powder besides much Armes and Ammunition Hee farther writ that the Country did dayly come in unto him in great numbers so that his Army was very much augmented in those parts and by a Scout of the West it was farther informed about the same time that besides this brave prize at Weymouth there were taken about 2000 Armes more at the least and betwixt 30 and 40 ships by the most noble Lord Admirall About the 21. of this instant there came forth a most Excellent Ordinance of Parliament viz. For the constant payment of 200 l. a Weeke out of the Excise-money both for the support and sustenance of sicke and maimed Souldiers and also for the reliefe of the Wives and Children of such as have been slain in the Service of the Parliament This is indeed a good piece of State-Charity to heal the miseries as well as may be which the Kingdome hath been necessitated to make and it is the most possible supply and recompence that when we cannot give them the lives of their friends and husbands again yet to give them their livelyhoods And this makes the States of the Netherlands so to flourish and their famous charity in this kind engages even divine providence to blesse them with a dayly prosperity About the 22. of this instant came information by letters from the Leaguer at York that the noble E. of Manchester had received a losse of about 200 men by the too timely springing of a Myne Whence this was observable among our London Malignants who having quick intelligence of any thing which they thinke may prejudice our comfort and content gave out according to their accustomed use and manner of lying and carryed it current from prison to prison and from place to place that the Earl of Manchester had received a sore blow enlarging it also to the purpose that he himselfe was hurt his Forces routed the siege at York raised and Prince Plunderer come to York and this they averred with Oathes and Execrations And their fool-hardy confidence of this newes was such that when they were answered The Siege at Lyme was raised Weymouth and other Townes and rich prizes by Sea and Land taken and with them was taken the Kings principall Magazine for the West Country They impudently replyed all these were but a Flea-biting to that at York which was on●ly the losse of those 200 men at the Myne all the rest of their reports most grossely f●lse Now I say this their Flea-biting was no more but their losse of 80 pieces of Ordnance mounted in the Town and ships an 180 some writ 200 Barrells of Powder 2000 good muskets 200 pair of pistols 60 sail of ships besides the Town of Weymouth it selfe its Forts also and the Castle at Sandfoot many such Flea-bitings I say may the Enemies have I beseech the Lord. About the 24th of this instant we were certainly enformed by letters from the valiant and victorious Commander Colonel Mitton that the noble and right valiant Earl of Denbigh in pursuance of some Directions from the Parliament advanced into Shropshire with Directions to have intercepted 40 Barrells of Powder going to Prince Robber but the noble Earl failing thereof it being conveyed another way into Wales he thought it not amisse being so neere some of his Enemies quarters to make some attempt upon them yet so as that he was resolved not to loose above 24 houres and accordingly with the advice of Colonell Mitton marched toward Drayton where he left a good reserve and so advanced to Oswel-stree and with the Forlorn-hope consisting of 200 Foot and two Troopes of Horse he faced the Town about Iune the twenty second at two of the clocke in the afternoone and had a hot dispute of the businesse for the space of two houres the Earle by that time had made his approaches so neer and played so fiercely upon the Enemy with both small and great shot that a breach was made in the wall of the Town which he bravely entred and with the losse of onely one man and three wounded he bravely brake his way into the Towne the Enemy flying into the Church and then to the Castle who were so closly pursued and my Lords Pioners so nimble in their Undermining wherein Colonell Mitton shewed himselfe with much valour and dexterity that they within presently condescended to surrender the Castle only to have quarter for their lives which accordingly was granted them and thereupon these Prisoners ●nd Armes following were taken viz. Lieutenant Col. Bladwin Capt. Iohn Farrell and 3. Captaines more 3