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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

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.

4000 men and rather more prisoners The slaughter that was on the Parliament side was 5000 which fell most upon the Scots on whom the Prince did fierce execution The Fight being thus over which was the bloodiest of all the Wars Prince Rupert fled into Lanc●ire and so Westward and the Marque● of Newcastle and the other Lord with him took shipping at Newcastle and departed the Kingdome and soon after York ●ndred it self by its Governour Sir Thomas Glenham to the Parliament During the Kings absence in the West and the Princes in the North Sir William Waller had recruited himself and joyned with the forces of Col. Norton and Col. Morley who had drawn down before Basing a house of the Marquess of Winchesters garrison'd by him and kept for the King which being distressed for want both of Ammunition and provision was distressed by the enemy many brave salleys they made and a multitude of men they slew so that it was afterwards called B●sting-House Waller was resolved not to rise cost what it would at length relief was put into it under the conduct of Col. Gage nevertheless he persisted in the enterprise Till after Newbery fight the King marching that way the forces left to block it up rose and departed without it a little before which Banbury siege was also raised by the said Col. Gage afterwards made Governour of Oxford and the Earl of Northampton Hitherto the King seemed to have fortune inclineable to him saving in that unfortunate business of Marston-Moor Now the case began to be disputed Essex had raised another Army aided also by Waller and other forces resolved to fight the King so it came to another battel at the same place of Newbury the Parliamentarians to revenge their disgrace at Lestithiel the Cavaliers to repair their loss at Marston-Moor it was a cruel fight only no more were killed in this then in the former what advantage was lay on Essexes side few men of note were slain on either side save Sir William S. Leger of the Kings and a Colonel of Foot of the Parliaments The Earl of Cleveland making good the Kings retreat was taken prisoner and had it not been for the darkness of the night the King had hardly escaped them Sir George Lisle performed here signal service for the King and the Trained-Bands for the Parliament Essex had clearly the field and from thence marched to the siege of Dennington Castle under whose walls the King had sheltered and drawn his Artillery Somewhat before this Colonel Massey had defeated and slain Col. My and by intelligence with one Kirle had surprized Monmouth Town and had some other successes against Prince Ruperts parties while he staid about Bristol upon design of new Leavies Dennington Castle was as said before but the King sending a considerable force to relieve it the besiegers drew off and marched away to the great scandal of the Earl of Essex and the Officers then in command under him After this sad experience of one anothers strength the Parliament sent Propositions to the King at Oxford which begat the Treaty at ●xbridge before the meeting whereof the Parliament had executed Sir Iohn Hothum and his Son their first Champion for endeavouring or designing to render Hull to the King from which he had formerly shut him out As also 〈◊〉 Alexander Carew for betraying his like trust of Pl● 〈◊〉 Fort. Also during the designment of a Treaty the Com● 〈…〉 ●er-Book was abolished by Ordinance and a Directo● 〈…〉 in the room thereof and for consummation of all the 〈…〉 Bishop of Canterbury was beheaded likewise Though the project of a Treaty was now in hand yet never was the design of the War carried on more fiercely and subtilly The Independents now first appeared the Army must be new modelled another General and other Officers and no persons Members of the House to have any Military Command only Cromwell got himself excepted This design was not nosed by the Presbyterians who were convinced of some deficiency in their old Commanders so that Sir Thomas Fairfax was unanimously agreed upon for General and under him all factious Sec●aries and wild principled men obtained Command whilest the former Officers were reduced to the condition of Reformad's amongst whom not long after they cashiered Colonel Massey having shifted him from his Government of Glocester to a Command in the Army Al●ngdon had been garrison'd by Essex in his expedition into the West Colonel Gage the Governour of Oxford had a design upon it and in the attempt was killed at Cullam bridge The thirtieth of Ianuary that fatal day began the aforesaid Treaty at 〈◊〉 which continued some 23 daies in dispute without any power of the Parliament Commissioners to conclude without them and so ended on the 22 of Feb. The Parliament forces surprize Shrewsbury but Col. Rossiter is defeated in Leicestershire an active man for the Parliament and Sir Marmaduke Langdale relieves Pont●sra●l Castle and defeat the besiegers twice superiour to him in number About this time there was a kind of Faction in the King Court at Oxford and some alterations betwixt the partie concerning the Kings Councel so that some Lords Savil Percy and Andover were confined and the Parliament that is the Members of the same Houses at West●inster who adhered to the King who by the Kings Order were the year before convened o● Oxford were so some reasons adjourned till the tenth of October but that Parliament signified nothing The House o● Commons voted that in their new Generals Commission the words For Preservation of His Majesties Person should be left out and accordingly they were so and so ended the year 1644. the last of the King felicity Anno Domini 1645. WE will begin this year though we post-date the time that we may recite all the exploits in Scotland together with the actions of the Renowned Marquess of Montross appointed Governour of the Kingdome of Scotland The year before he came into Scotland attended only by three men much ado he had to pass the wayes being so strictly guarded during the Scotch Army was in England At his arrival in the Highland being supplyed with a 1100 men from the Marquess of Antrim out of Ireland and another addition under the Lord Kilpont and the Earl of Perths son he matched to find out the Army of the Covenantes then gathered under the command of the Earl of Tullibarne the Lords Elch and Drummond consisting of a great force into Perthshire where at Tepper-Moor he obtained a great victory his Souldier for want of Arms and Ammunition making use of the stones lying advantagiously on the fighting ground Here he killed no less then 2000 men whereupon Perth City opened its Gates to the Conquerour To withstand and repress so dangerous an Enemy within the bowels of the Kingdome another Army wa● raised and put under more expe●ienced Captains in the mean while Montross had fallen into Argyles Country

it from the English but were valiantly repulsed General Blake returning home from hi● Triumphs over the Spaniard died on Shipboard in sight of English Land and General Reynolds returning out of Flanders to England was cast away in the Goodwin Sands and with him Colonel White and others By one of the clauses of the humble Petition and Advice it was declared that the Parliament should consist of two Houses therefore Cromwell during the adjournment fill'd up the number of that Other House that was its name consisting of sixty two persons most of them Officers of the Army and his neer Relations most of them of mean extraction These nevertheless at the expiring of the prorogation appeared and took their places in the House of Lords according as the antient custome was whether the Protector came and sent for the House of Commons where he made a canting speech to them but the Commons returning to their House having admitted all their Members would neither own the new Lords nor him that made them so but fell into high disputes about the Government so that Cromwell seeing how the game was likely to go came and in a great ●ury within ten daies after their resitting dissolved them Anno Domini 1658. After the dissolution of this Parliament as of course and according to custome another plot was discovered and this was clearly of Cromwells own making the City was to be fired and a general insurrection and massacre of the well-affected In this snare were taken Sir Henry Slingsby Doctor Hewet and Master now Sir Thomas Woodcock Iohn now Lord Viscount Mordant and others of meaner rank as Colonel Ashton Thomas Bettley Edmond Stacy and others Sir Henry Slingsby and Doctor Hewet were beheaded at Tower-hill and the three last hang'd and quartered in the streets of London Dunkirk after a gallant defence and a field battel in attempting the relief where the English had the honour and the French and English the victory of the day was on the 25th of Iune delivered to the United Forces and by the French King put into the English hands Lockhart formerly Ambassador in France and then General of the English being made Governour thereof Now it pleased God suddenly after this tyranny and cruelty committed on those innocent persons above-named to call this Protector to an account who lingring some time with an ague and a pain in his intestines on the third day of September his great fortunate day breathed out h●s last his death being ushered by a most terrible wind and the coming of a Whale up the River of Thames of twenty yards long Thus ended that wretched Politique After Oliver Protector war dead his Son Richard according to an Article in the Instrument o● Government by which he was to declare his Successor was by his Fathers Councel proclaimed Lord Protector of these three Nations with the usual solemnities and accordingly owned by several addresses from most parts of the Kingdome but drawn and subscribed by some particular persons of the times who obtruded them upon the rest He was courted also by the French Swedish Dutch Ambassadors who all condoled him for his Fathers death After a little respit of time Richard was advised to call a Parliament the Courtiers thinking that what with the Army and the Lawyers they should make their party good for the Protector in the House of Commons being sure of their other House of Peers and in the mean time took care for his Fathers Funerals which were solemnized in most ample manner above the expences usual to any of our Kings deceased November 23. 1658. The Parliament being convened on the 27th of Ianuary the Protector and his new Lords gave them a meeting in the Lords House where he made a speech to them which was seconded by the Keeper Fiennes and so departed to Whitehall the Lords keeping their seats and the major part of the House of Commons not vouchsafing audience betook themselves to their own house and elected Challoner Chute for their Speaker The Parliament being in some measure fuller then it used by reason of Knights and Burgesses from Scotland and Ireland began with the old Trade of questioning the power In conclusion the debate came to this result that they would recognize the Lord Protector but so that nothing should be binding till all other Acts to be prepared by the Parliament should likewise pass and be confirmed For the other House also that no stop might be put to the great design of setling the Kingdome which was then aimed at and that question of owning them being but a baulk to their proceeding they resolved to transact with them for this Parliament as a House of Peers not excluding the right of other the Peers of England The Protector at the instance of the King of Sweden had rigg'd forth a Fleet for the Sound which being ready to set sail the Parliament ordered that for this time the Protector should have the mannagement of the Militia in this expedition reserving to themselves the Supreme right thereto that Fleet after six moneths time returned back again re infecta Now the debates flew high in the House of Commons tending to the lessening the power of the Sword which was grown so exorbitant therefore the Army being sensible whereto such consultations would finally tend resolved to break up the Parliament and accordingly having secured the Protector made him sign a Commission to Fiennes to dissolve it which accordingly was done though the House of Commons to prevent it adjourned themselves for three daies but then out came a Proclamation forced likewise from the Protector whereby he declared that Parliament to be absolutely dissolved Now the Army and some of the tail of the Parliament which were turned out by Oliver in 1653. joyn their heads together and so make way for their free Commonwealth again Richard Protector is laid aside the Officers of the Army playing some eight daies with the Government and then resigning it to those men who very readily imbraced the motion and met May 7. in the House the Old Speaker and some forty more making up a Quorum and forthwith published a Declaration how that by the wonderful Providence and goodness of God they were restored which to most seemed the saddest judgement could befall the Nation Presently they fall to their old trade of squeezing money and providing sure for themselves against any more attempts of the Army leisurely purging out those that had been active with Oliver against them but by all means refuse to admit those Members that by the like force were formerly secluded in 1648. They depose the Protector and make him sign a Resignation yet promising him the yearly allowance of 10000 l. per annum and the payment of his debts so that they thought themselves now cock-sure levying money by taxes before hand to gratifie the Army for the peoples love they never expected and then settle the Militia in confiding hands Anno Domini 1659. But

Litchfield slain with above six hundred more Soon after followed the rendition of Chester the King flying back to Oxford The Sects had besieged Ca●lis●e almost a year after Marston-Moor fight now it was surrendred by Sir Thomas Glenham but the like success they had not at Hereford from whence they rose with disgrace and came and sate d●wn soon after before Newark General Fairfax marched after Naseby fight into the West leaving the King to pursue his ill fortunes and took in Bridgewater having before defeated General Goring at Lamport newly raised from the siege at Taunton by Colonel Wellen who relieved the Governour Colonel Blake though with some losses a● also Bath and Sherburn and sate down before Bristol which after a short siege was delivered by Prince Rupert upon Articles and the said Prince and his Brother came soon after to Oatlands in order to depart the Kingdome Cromwell also came with a party to the reinforcing of the siege of Basing and by smothering of wet hay made his approaches and stormed it taking the Marquess of Winchest●r prisoner with other Officers and Souldiers to the number of 600 persons Several House Castles and Towns were d●l●vered to the Parliament while the King kept close in Oxford The Prince of Wales being sent West and under the care of my Lord Hopton in company with my Lord Capel and others but General Fairfax following him into Cornwall Hopton accepted of conditions afte● the firing of Torrington and the delivery of Lanceston Saltash Lizard Dartmouth Mount-Edge Foy all being qu●tted by him gra●atim and disbanded the Pr●nce taking sail from Pendennis Castle to the Isle of Scilly and thence into France Hereford was also about this time surprized by Colonel Birch Belvoir Castle taken all places now submitting to the power and fortune of the Parliament and for a conclusion Exeter was now delivered by Sir Iohn Berkley upon very honourable and advantagious articles to the Lord Fairfax and the Lord Astley defeated at Stow in the Would two thousand kill'd and taken prisoners and so ended this year the next beginning with the same face of affairs several surrenders being made to the Parliament Anno Domini 1646. AFter the delivery of Woodstock it was not held safe for the King to continue longer in Oxford but the siege approaching to that City also the King disguised in the company and as a servant to Colonel Iohn Ashburnham with one Mr. Hudson a Minister by virtue of a Pass from Cromwell left Oxford and soon after put himself upon the Scotch Army then lying at the siege of Newark who sent him away with their Guards to Newcastle and soon after the Scotch Army followed him upon surrender of that Garrison of Newark The King being in their hands by their perswasions and desires and his own resolvedness for peace gave Order to all his Governours to make such terms as were most suitable and convenient for them and deliver their respective Governments to the Parliament that so the War might be at an end whereupon all the Garrisons in the Kings hands came to a capitulation Oxford Tarringdon Wallingford Borstall-House Ludlow Litchfield-Close Worcester Ragland Conway Pendennis and Scilly Isle surrendred at which time also died their former General the Earl of Essex and was most magnificently interred in Westminster Abbey General Fairfax came in triumph to London while the Treaty was on foot betwixt the Parliament and the Scots at Newcastle concerning the delivery and disposal of the King In fine upon the price and payment of 200000 pound the Scots perfidiously after many disputes whereby they affirmed it unlawful and dishonourable for them to do it sold their Native Prince to his English Subjects and so departed over Tweed into Scotland according to agreement Anno Domini 1647. THe English Commissioners deputed thereto by the Parliament having received the King from the Scots brought him to Holmby-House one of his Palaces in Northamptonshire according to the stipulation and hypocritical salvo made that the King should be treated honourably but with no attendance of his own either servants or Chaplains and a Guard upon him perpetually till in conclusion Cromwell beginning his projected Soveraignty by an Order from him to which the General tacitly consented The King was taken from the Commissioners and removed by one Corner Ioyce from Holdenby to the Army they pretending an extraordinary kindness to the King and his Patty even to the deceiving of the King himself by their Declarations and Protestations for Publick Liberty In the mean while the King is carried about from Holmby to Childersley Newmarket Royston Hatfield Windsor in progress with the Army to Caversham Maidenhead to Latiner to Stoke to Oatlands being treated with a far greater shew of honour then the Parliament allowed him with much hopes and many promises of his speedy restitution His Chaplains and other persons engaged on his side having free access to him with the free exercise of the Common-Prayer c. At last they bring him to Hampton-Court where Propositions as bad as any they tendred were offered to him again but there for their unreasonableness being rejected by the King he being informed of a plot to murther him by some of the Army fled from Hampton-Court privately to the Isle of W●ght the said Colonel Ashburnham being with him in this disguize also and rendred himself into the hands of Hamond the Governour of the said Isle who forthwith certified the Parliament and they presently vote that no more Addresses should be made to the King nor no Papers received from him While the Army were thus coasting the King about fell out a tumult in the City of London the Apprentices and Citizens flocking down to Westminster about the establishing of the Militia in the same hands it stood before the Army had interposed and by their instance had made the Houses alter the persons named the fourth of May as being suspected favourers of the King Whereupon the Lords readily assented to the impowring those of the fourth of May to act as before in the Militia and so after a little dispute did the Common some of the same multitude not consented with this brought back the Speaker into his Chair the House being risen and compelled him and the Members back to the House to vote that the King should come to London to treat After this tumult which the King observes in his book to be justly retaliated upon them the Speaker of the House of Commons with some forty more privately departed to the Army then at Windsor complaining of the force the other remaining to the number of 140. meeting according to their adjournment finding not the Speaker nor his Mace chose another Speaker as did the Lords also their Speaker having withdrawn himself likewise to the Army The Army seem to be highly incensed at these Riots of the Citizens and take upon them the rectifying of those disorders the fugitive members are

where he made miserable havock intending utterly to break the spirits of that people who were so surely ingaged to Argyles side Here the Earl of Seaforth followed him with an Army and the Marquess of Aogyle had another of the other side Montross therefore resolved to fight with one first and so tell upon that party under Argyle which he totally ●outed killing 1500 on the place the rest escaped and so the Marquess of Montross bent his way after the other Army which he defeated at Br●●hin being newly put under the command of Colonel Hurry afterwards offers battel to Bayly who had another Army ready to fight him but he waited for advantages whereupon he marches after Hurry who had re●●uited and was pressing the Lord Gourdon having taken Dun ice in his way and at Alderne discomfits him killing ●300 and dispersing the rest He seeks out Baily to whom was joyned the Earl of Lindsey and at Ale●fo●d hills forced them to fight utterly routed them and obtained a remarkable victory but that which lessened the triumph was the death of the Lord Gourdon one that was as the right hand of Montross a very Loyal Right Noble Gentleman being eldest son to the Marquess of Huntl●y After this he comes to S. Iohnstons where he alar●m'd the Parliament there sitting and so into the Lowlands where the Kirk had another Army in readiness under the command of the aforesaid Baily At a place called Kilsith both Armies met and a cruel battel it was but in conclusion success and victory crowned Montrosses head and almost 6000 men were slain in this fight the p●rsuit being eagerly followed for a great way and the Covenanters at first fighting very resolutely but the fortune of Montross still prevailed The Nobility now every where readily assisting him and the Towns and Cities declaring for him so that that Kingdome which afforded men and assistance for the invasion of another Kingdome was not now able to defend it self The Governour so was Montross dignified be●ng seized of all places almost of strength even as far as Edinburgh where some Royal prisoners were delivered him The Estates of Scotland therefore send for Dav●d Leshley while Montross expected forces from the King under the Lord Dighy which staid too long and were afterwards defeated at Sherburn in Yorkshire Upon the arrival of Leshley most of the forces under Montross not dreading an Enemy so soon out of England were departed home so that Leshley finding Montross in a very weak condition at Philips-Haugh fell upon him before he could retreat almost before his Scours could give him intelligence and there routs him He at first resolved to lose his life with the field but being perswaded of better hopes he resolutely charged through and brought the flying remains of his Army safe into the Highlands where he began new Levies but the fortune of the King failing every where he was the next year ordered by the King then in the Scots custody to disband and depart the Kingdom And so we leave him till a more unhappy revolution of time The memory of this man had almost caused an Oblivion of some things done he●e during his great successes for Sir Iohn Hotham and his Son for intending the delivery of Hull which they had so unhandsomely before denied to the King were beheaded as also Sir Alexander Car●w and at last the Right Reverend Arch-Bishop of Canterbury for many pretended crimes of innovation and disaffection in matters of Religion was executed the tenth of Ianuary These mens deaths happened in December and Ianuary 1644. and are therefore here inserted To begin therefore the year 1645. Dennington Castle was the very 25th of March delivered to the Parliament which was counterpoised with a defeat given Col. Massey by Prince Rupert at Lidbury being surprized there and his foot routed his house consisting most of Officers with himself hardly escaped to Glocester At the same time the Army being new modelled Lievtenant General Cromwell was sent by Fairfax to hinder a conjunction of forces at Oxford from Worc●ster which he did defeating the Queens Regiment and afterwards took Blechington House by surrender for which Col. Windbank was shot to death at Oxford Notwithstanding which interruption the King matched from Oxford intending Northward to recover what he had lost there with a very compleat Army and coming to Leicester then garrison'd by Sir Robert Pye for the Parliament after s●mmons refused stormed it and took it the Souldiers for a while plundring the Town which had been the residence of a Parliament Committee from the beginning In the mean while General Fairfax was advanced from London with his new modelled Army and by Order of the Committee of both Kingdomes had besieged Oxford where he had received a notable salley but upon news of the Kings success at Leicester presently raised his siege resolving to fight the King as soon as he could overtake him The King was now in a dispute whether he should march upon his first intendments Northward or staying for some forces out of the West under Colonel Goring march for London When he had notice of Fairfaxes advance after him whom he thought to be taken up at Oxford whereupon by the ill late of things the King was advised not to delay time but even at midnight to dislodge from his quarters whether Fairfax was neerly come and the next morning to seek him out and to give him battel This happened to be at Naseby field on Saturday Iune the 14. where at the first encounter the Kings Army had the best on 't his right wing of horse discomfiting and overthrowing the left wing of the Parliaments under Skippon taking Ireton the Commissary General prisoner but the left wing consisting of Northern horse under Sir Marmaduke Langdale who were clearly for the Kings going Northward● to their own Country to relieve Pomfret Castle made no defence at all The King was very couragious and active in this field but the same over-eagerness of Prince Rupert half lost the day the foot being destitute after some slaughter threw down their A●ms and were taken prisoners to the number of four or five thousand the Kings Coach and in it his Cabinet afterwards most disloyally and dishonestly published to the world with other Letters and papers all his Artillery Arms Ammunition bag and baggage taken himself hardly escaping to Leicester that night and from thence to Ashby de la Zouch After this battel the Kings Cause and Arms visibly declined every where Leicester regained by the Parliament upon surrender while the King made hast towards Wales to the relief of Chester and there to form a new Army but Poyntz Middleton and Brereton rising from their siege met him at Rowton Heath where in the beginning as usual the King had the better but the Parliament being supplyed with fresh forces the King was vanquished there also and the right valiant Lord Bernard Stuart Earl of