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The Bloody Parliament, in the raigne of an unhappy prince
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1643
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the conspirators which was athing â—â—posâ—able to hinder In the meane time the three noble 〈◊〉 the Duke of Gloucester the Earles of Arundall and â—â—â—â—icke having mustered their troops sent an accusatiâ—â— in wrighting to the King against the said conspirators â—â—â—â—ch B. of Yorke the Duke of Jreland the Earle of â—â—ffolke Robert Trissilian and Nicholas Brambre wherein â—â—y accused them of high Treason for Proclaiming through â—â—â—all the shires where the King Iournied that all Barons Knights and Esquiers with the greatest of the commonalâ—y able to bare armes should spedily repare to the King â—â—or his defence against the power of the Commission As â—â—so that contrary to the said Acts they caused the Duke of â—â—â—land to be created chiefe Justice of Chester hereby selâ—â—ing Iustice as they listed and for giving pardons under the â—â—â—â—d Seal to Fellons murtherers and such like as also they â—â—â—ght Ireland to looke backe on her pristine estate of haâ—â—ing a King for they ploted to have the Duke created K. 〈◊〉 Ireland and for to have the confirmation of this design â—â—â—y allured the King to send his letters to the Pope When these things come to the Kings cares he sent unto 〈◊〉 requiring to know what their demands were Anâ—wer was returned they desired that the Traytors who â—â—â—ily committed insufferable crimes and filled his cares with false reports to avoyd the effusion of more blood 〈◊〉 receive that reward their crimes deserved and that â—â—â—â—y might have free liberty of going and comming to his … his the King gave consent unto and sitting in his â—hrone at the great hall is westminster the Poore appelants with humbler everence bowed three times low before his Majesty on their knes and againe asked the aforesaid conspirators guilty of high-â—reason whereupon nor long after the Duke of Ireland withdrew himselfe and marching unto Chesshire Lancashire and wales raised a power of 6000. men in the Kings name to overthrow and confound the appellants and marching towards London when he found the army of the appellants was marching downe the mountaines neere whitney like a Hive of Bees such aviolent and cold palsey cowed them that they slung downe their armes and yeilded themselves to the mercy of the appellants the Duke of Ireland himselfe putting spures to his horse tooke the River where he hardly escaped drowning the conspirators hearing of this striken with seare under the coveat of the night did fle by water to the Tower and seduced the King to goe alog with them Nor long after there was conference in the cower betwixt the King and the said appellants at the end of which the King did sweare to adhere to their counsailes so fare as the rule of Law and Reason and Equity did require and because the Harvest was now ripe presently divers of the Officers of the Kings houshould were excluded as Iohn Benechamp Peter Bourtâ—ey Knights and many others end of the clergy Iohn Blake Deane of the chappell Iohn Lincolne chancellour of the exchequer John Clifford clerk of the chapell were kept under Arrest and thus this hideous brood of monsters so oftene shaken was quite overthrowne On the second of February the King came to his Parliament and after him appeared the five noblemen appellants who leading one another hand in hand with Submissive gestures they reverenced the King and by the Mouth of Robert Pleasington their Speaker they thus declared That the Duke of Gloucester and themselves came to purge themselves of the Treasons laid to their charge by their conspirators to whom the Lord Chancellor by the Command of the King answered that the King conceived honourably of them all especially of his cosin the Duke of Gloucester who being of affiniy to him in a collaterall line could never he said he induced to attempt any reason against his Majesty On this atfer thankeâ—â—â—ly given to the King the appellants requested the â—â—â—ing that sentence of condemnation might be given aâ—â—â—â— the conspirators but the King being moved in conâ—â—â—â— and in charity perceiving that in every work they 〈◊〉 remember the end destred that the processe might 〈◊〉 but the Peers againe importuned him that no busiâ—â—â— might be debated untill this treason were adjudged 〈◊〉 which the King at longth graciously granted his assent 〈◊〉 when nothing could be produced by the conspirators 〈◊〉 instifie themselves they were adiudged this heavy â—â—â—â—â—e That the Arch Bishope of Yorke the Duke of 〈◊〉 the Earle of Suffolk Tressilum and Brambre should â—â—â—â—wne from the Tower to Tiburne and there to be â—â—â—â—ged upon a Gibber untill they were dead and all their 〈◊〉 and goods to be confiscated that none of their Poâ—â—â—ity might by them be any way enriched After this â—â—â—â—y more of their accomplices were taken and indicted â—â—â—high Treason whose names here follow underwritten The Names of such as were charged and condemned of high â—reason an the afore memed Memorable Parliament â—lexander Nevill Arch Bishop of Yorke Robert de Vere â—â—â—ke of Ireland who being bannished into Franse was kil 〈◊〉 with a wild Bore Michael de la Poole Earle of Suffolk â—â—â—high Chancellor Robert Tressilian L. chiefe Justice of 〈◊〉 Kings bench Sir Nicholas Brambre sometimes Lord â—â—jor of London made a privy Counsellor Iohn Blake Serâ—â—â—â— at Armies Thomas Vske an intelligencer of Tressiliâ—â—â— All these except the Duke of Ireland were hanged 〈◊〉 drawne at the Elmes now called Tyburne â—â—â—re Belknap John Holt Roger Falthorpe William Burâ—â—â—â— Iohn Locton Iohn Cary were Judges and although â—â—â—â—mnded yet their lives were saved at the inâ—ercession 〈◊〉 the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and were afterâ—â—â—ds bannished into Ireland Sir Symon Bâ—â—â—â—eigh who 〈◊〉 condemned and beheaded Sir Iohn Branchamp Stewâ—â—â—â— of the Houshold to the King Sir Iames Beversous There was also condemned and detected of the aforesaid treason The Bishop of Chichester the Kings confessor Sâ—â— Thomas Trinit Knight Sir William Ellingham Knight Sir Nicholas Neyworth Iohn Slake Iohn Lincolne which last were three of the Clergy Behold these men who feared not God not regarded men but having the Lawes in their owne hands wrested them now this way and now that way as pleased best their appetites wresting them at their pleasures for their owne Commodities were at the last brought down to the depth of misery from whence they were never able to free themselves Richard Sonne of the valiant and victorious Edward the blacke Prince was borne at Burdeaux and grand-child to King Edward the third being eleven yeares old began his Raigne the twenty one day of June in the yeare of out Lord 1377. and was Crowned King at Westminster the 16 day of Iuly in bounty beauty and liberallity he fare surpassed all his Progenitors but was over much given to ease and quietnesse little regarding the seates of Armes And being young was ruled most by young Councell regarding little the Councell of the sage men of the Realm which thig turned this Land to great trouble and himselfs to extreame misery For being first disgraced by his Cozen Henry of Bullingbroke Duke of Herford Sonne of Iohn of Gaunt D. of Lancaster he was at length by the generall consent of Parliament deposed from his crowne and Kingdome the 29. of September 1639. and committed to prison and and afterwards wickedly murdered for being sent to pomfret castle to be safely kept and Princely mainetained he was shortly after by King Henries direction and command who feared least his estate might be shoken while King Richard lived wickedly assaulted in his lodging Sir Pereu of Exton and 8. other amed men from one of them which with a Princely courag he wrested abrome bill and therewith slew 4 of them fought with all the râ—st untill coming by his owne chayre in which the basse cowardly Knight stoode for his owne safety he was by him strooke with a Pole-axe in the hinder part of his head that presently he fell downe and died when he had Raigned 〈◊〉 yeâ—râ— 17. weekes and 2. dayes FINIS
THE BLOODY PARLIAMENT IN THE RAIGNE OF AN Unhappy Prince LONDON Printed in the Yeare of much Blood-shed 1643. The unhappie Prince THis present occasion serving so opportunely sir I thought it a labour well worthy the Observation to lay downe a true Narration of that memorable Parliament begun in the tenth year of Richard the Second both for the great wonders that it wrought in the subvetsion of the Malignants who were neer unto the King and had distilled much pernitious Counsell into His sacred cares As also that every good and carefull reader might learn therby to avoyd diversities of miseries and the feare and danger of a cruell death I will therefore give a true and short Narration of that which hath laine hid a long time in the shaddow of forgetfullnesse concerning men of great and eminent Authority in this Kingdom who hath been led away in the deceitfull path of Covetousnesse and have come to an untimely and ignominious end being famous examples to deterr all men in authority or whom favour shall raise neere unto the King from practising those or the like courses When Richard the Second of that name about the prime of his youth sway'd the Imperiall Scepter of our Realme there flourished in his Court certaine Peeres viz. Alexander Nevill Arch-bishop of Yorke A man more favourâ—â— by fortune then by the honour of his Decent Robert Vere Duke of Ireland Michael de la poole Earle of Suffolke and then Lord Chancelour Robert Trissilian Lord chiefe Justice of England and Nicholas Brambre a man though low in parentage yet sometime Lord Major of London These men being raised by the speciall favour of the King and advanced to the degree of privy Councelors where the men who had the only rule of the Common-wealth which they for a little while governed under the King with great care and diligence meriting thereby deserved commendations but this not long did continue for overcome either with ambition or with Covetousnesse 〈◊〉 with the pleasures of the Court they despised the Auâ—â—â—â—ity of their too easie King and neglecting the comâ—â—dity of the Realme in a short time the Revenewes of 〈◊〉 Crowne began to wast the Treasure was exhausted 〈◊〉 Commons murmered at the multiplicity of Levyes â—â—â—â—â—ies and new wayes of taxations the Peers repine 〈◊〉 themselves disgraced and in one word the whole â—â—â—gdom endured an universall misery The Nobility seâ—â—â—â— the miserable estate wherein themselves and the Kingâ—â—â— was involved urged the King to Summon a Parliaâ—â—â—â— which was done shortly after in which amongst â—â—â—â—y other Acts Michael de la poole was dismissed of his â—â—â—â—cellorshipe and being accused of many crimes of Instice as bribery extortion and the like he was comâ—â—â—ed to Windsor-Castle and all his lands confiscated to â—â—â—â—ing Neither did the Parliament here give over but â—â—â—ided for the whole state by a mutuall consent betwixt â—â—â— Majestie and the prelates the Barous and the Comâ—â—â—â— and with an unanimous consent they chose a comâ—â—â—â— of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall to depresse 〈◊〉 will discentions and to appease the grudgings of the â—â—â—ple Of the Spirituaâ—ty was chosen the Arch-bishop of â—â—â—erbury the Arch-bishop of Yorke the Bishop of Ely â—â—â—â—ishop of Wincheâ—â—er c. Of the Layalty were electâ—â—â—â— by the Duke of Yorke the Earle of Arundell the Lord â—â—â—â—ham the Lord Scroope c. these as men eminent in 〈◊〉 were chosen by generall suffrage and the Parliament being then to be dissolved were sworne to carry himselves as dutiful and obedient subjects in all their acâ—â—â—â— Soone after the aforenamed Chancellor Michael 〈◊〉 poole buzzed in the Kings eares being moved with â—â—â—placable fury against the Parliament that the statutes 〈◊〉 enacted were prejudiciall to the Crowne and much â—â—â—â—ogarory to his Princely Prerogative insomuch that he should not have the power in his owne hands to preserve â—â—â—â—vant or to bestowe a largesse c. By these and other the like impious instigatious with which ihe Devill did â—â—â—â—iâ—tually supply them they practised to annihelate these 〈◊〉 of the Parliament or whatsoever might seeme by the liberty of the Subiect to reflect on the royall Prerogative of the Prince And first by their serpentine tongues and a nabitious Proiects they so bewitched the noble instination of the King that they induced him to beleeve that all the ill they did was a generall good and so wrought you him that he begann to distast and abhore the passed Acts of his Parliaments as treacherous plots wicked devices Next they studdied to ingrosse the riches of the Kingdom into their own Coffers and to the same and deale so cunningly yet pleasingly with the King that to some he gave ransomes of royall captives taken in the late warts in France to some townes to some cities to some Lands to others money amounting to the sume of a hundred thousand markes to the great impoverishment both of King and Kingdom Thirdly contrary to their allegiance they vilisied the Dignity of the King they caused him to sware that with all his power during his life he should maintaine and defend them from all their enemiss weither Forraigne or demestick Fourthly where it was enacted that the King should sit with his Parliament at Westminster to consult of the publicke affaires through the preswation of the aforesaid Conspirators he was drawn into the most remote parts of all his Realme to the great disparagement of his great Counsell and the generall dissatisfaction of the Kingdome And when any of his great Counsell came to make relation of the state of the Realme unto his Majesty they could not be granted accesse unlesse they related the businesse in the presence of the conspirators who was alwayes ready to upbraid them if they uttered any thing that displeased them and though they seemed to advance it they did as much as in them lay to hinder the King from excercising his Royall Prorogative But though there were so many Plots Conspiracies and Treasons against our State our ever mercifull God inspired into the hearts of the Duke of Gloucester the Earles of Arundell and Warwicke the spirit of valour and magnanimitie and every man accordin gto his ability Levyed a power for the preservation of the King and kingdome all which forces being united amounted to the number of â—0000 And though the Conspirators by vertue of a certaine Spiratuall Commission Proclaimed throughout the â—â—â—y of London That no man upon the paine of the losse â—â— his goods should sell any victuall or ammunition to the â—â—â—â—y of the Earle of Arundall they could not debarre 〈◊〉 from it wherefore they counselled the King to abâ—â—â— himselfe from Parliament and not consuls of the asâ—â—â— of the Kingdome unlesse an Oath were taken that â—â—â—y the said Conspirators should have no accusation urâ—ed against them and they caused it to be proclaimed â—â—â—oughout London that none under paine of confiscation 〈◊〉 all their goods should speake any upbraiding speeches … ing the King or