their turn without Religion and such specious pretences were pleaded to the subversion of the Government therefore the Service-Book opportunely offering it self though in 1616. at Aberdeen a piece very like it had passed by the General Assembly onely altered in some places lest in totidem verbis some factious spirits might have misconstrued it as a badge of dependance of that Church upon England to the prejudice of the Laws and Liberties and by their own Bishops afterwards and revised by the King who observed many of that Nation reverently here to use it and also that it had been read in the Koyal Chappel in Scotland as aforesaid being enjoyned to be read on Easter-day 1637. in Edinburgh but deferred for some reasons though no opposition appeared then till the twenty third of Iuly on that day such a Tumult and Riot happened the heads of the vulgar being secretly prepossest as deep waters run smoothest till they come to some breach as for everlasting notice and memorial of so paltry an introduction to the grandest and miraculous change and subversions which followed it is here briefly though satisfactorily transcribed ON the Twenty third of July being Sunday according to publique warning given the Sunday before the Service-Book was begun to be read in Edinburgh in St. Giles Church called the Great Church where were present as usual many of the Privy Council both the Archbishops and other Bishops the Iustices and the Magistrates of Edinburgh No sooner was the Book opened by the Dean of Edinburgh but a number of the vulgar most of them women with clapping of their bands cursing and outcries raised such a barbarous hubbub in the place that none could bear or be heard The Bishop of Edinburg who was to Preach stept into the Pulpit which is immediately above the place where the Dean was to read intending to appease the Tumult by putting them in minde of the sacredness of the place and of the horrible prophanation thereof But then the rabble grew so enraged and mad that if a stool aimed to be thrown at him had not been providentially diverted by the hand of one present the life of that Prelate had been endangered if not lost The Archbishop of St. Andrews the Lord Chancellor with divers others offering to appease the multitude were entertained with such bitter curses and imprecations that not being able to prevail with the people the Provost Bailiffs and divers others of the Council of the City were forced to come down from the Gallery on which they usually sit and with much ado in a very great Tumult and confusion thrust out these disorderly people making fast the Church-doors After all which the Dean proceeded to read Service which was devoutly performed being assisted by the Lords and the Bishops then present Yet the clamor rapping at Church-doors and throwing of stones in at the Church-windows by the rabble without was so great that the Magistrates were constrained to go out and use their endeavours for to appease the multitude After a little pause and cessation the Bishop of Edinburgh Preached and after Sermon done in his going from Church was so invironed with a multitude of the meaner sort of people cursing and crowding him that he was near being trod to death if he had not recovered the stayrs of his Lodging where he was again assaulted and was like to have been pulled backwards if the Earl of Weems from his next Lodging seeing the Bishops life in danger had not sent his servants to rescue him who got the Bishop almost breathless into his Chamber In other Churches the Minister was forced to give over reading And so that Morning passed Between the two Sermons consultation was held how to suppress those out-rages and ' was so ordered that the Service was quietly read in St. Giles other Churches in the afternoon But yet the rabble intermitted nothing of their madness for staying in the streets at the comming home of the Earl of Roxborough the Lord Privy Seal with the aforesaid Bishop in his Coach they so fiercely assaulted him with stones that he had like to have suffered the death of the Martyr St. Stephen so that if his footmen had not kept the multitude off with their drawn Swords their lives had been very much indangered Thus the Reformation began there with such terrible profanations of the Lords day and of the Lords House an ill omen what in future would be the conclusion and this done by the same many-headed Monster that in like manner began the troubles in England nor ever was the Union more perfect and streight then in such mischiefs To prevent and redress these ills the Privy Councel set forth a Proclamation thereby discharging all concourses of people and tumultuous meetings in Edinburgh under pain of death at which time the Magistrates of the said City before the Council-Table professed their detestation thereof and profered their utmost power in the discovery of the principals in that uproar though they afterwards shamefully failed in their promise and appeared among the chief of the Covenanters even while they were glozing with the King and the Archbishop of Canterbury in England by letters full of duty and affection to his Majesty and his Churches service All businesses of note for a time seemed to be hushed and calmed by reason of the long Vacation which in that Kingdom beginneth always on Lammas-day and the Harvest which drew all sorts of people from Edinburgh except the Citizens so that all was quiet till the ensuing October and then the conflux of all sorts soon enlivened the tumults again the Ministers who undertook the reading of the second Service-book publiquely relenting their forwardness and recanting and reneging it and to that purpose presented a Petition desiring it might not be imposed on them this being backt with such an Universal rendezvous of all sorts gave the Council the fear of an Insurrection for prevention whereof a Proclamation again was published which under pain or Rebellion commanded all persons except they should show cause of their further stay about their particular affairs to depart the City and return to their Houses Seconded also with another whereby his Majesties Council and Session which is the Term were declared to be removed from Edinburgh to Dundee and a third for seizing and discovering of a certain seditious Book against the English Ceremonies which second book was ordered to be publiquely burnt upon the seizure These Proclamations were next day overtaken with another Insurrection For on the 19 of October 1667. the Bishop of Galloway and Sir William Elphinston Lord chief Justice of that Kingdom being appointed by the Lords of the Council to examine witnesses in a Cause depending before them passing through the streets to the Council-House were suddenly encountred and surrounded with an enraged multitude the Bishop hardly by the means of one of the parties in that Suit getting safe to the Council where through the like irreverence
in case of refusal or refractoriness And we are also of opinion that in such case your Majesty is sole Iudge both of the danger and when and how the same is to be prevented and avoided This was signed by all the Judges but Justice Hutton and Justice Crook whose Arguments were against it for Mr. Hambden who was sued for not paying the Twenty Shillings Taxed upon him for Shipmoney DEcember 27th 1640. Resolved by the Commons that the Charge impos'd upon the subjects for the providing and furnishing of Ships and the Aââesments for that purpose commonly called Shipmoney are against the Laws of the Realm the Subjects right of property and contrary to former resolutions in Parliament and to the Petition of Right Resolved That the Extrajudicial opinions of the Iudges published in the Star-chamber and inrolled in the Courts of Westminster are in whole and in every part of them against the Laws of the Realm the Liberty of the Subject c. This was also so resolved by the Lords and by the Parliament ordered That a Vacat be brought into the Parliament-house of all those Records concerning Ship-money Which was accordingly done February 27. the same Year the 16 of the King Die Veneris 26 die Februarii 1640. UPon the report of the right honourable the Lords Committees appointed to consider of the way of vacating of the Iudgment in the Exchequer concerning Shipmoney It was ordered by the Lords spiritual and temporal in the High Court of Parliament assembled that the Lord Keeper or the Master of the Rolls the two Lord chief Iustices and the Lord chief Baron and likewise the chief Clerk of the Star-chamber shall bring into the Vpper House of Parliament the Record in the Exchequer of the Iudgment in Mr. Hambdens case concerning Shipmoney and also the several Rolls in each several Court of the Kings-Bench Common-Pleas Exchequer Star-chamber and Chancery wherein the Iudges extrajudicial Opinions in the Cases made touching Shipmoney be entred and that a Vacat shall be made in the Vpper House of Parliament of the said several Records And likewise the Iudgment of Parliament touching the illegality of the said Iudgments in the Exchequer and the proceedings thereupon and touching the illegality of the extrajudicial Opinions of the Iudges in the said several Courts concerning Shipmoney be annexed and apostiled unto the same And that a Copy of the Iudgment of Parliament concerning the illegality of the said Iudgment in the Exchequer and the said extrajudicial Opinions of the said Iudges concerning Shipmoney be delivered to the several Iudges of the Assize And that they be required to publish the same at the Assizes in each several County within their Circuits and to take care that the same be Entred and Enrolled by the several Clerks of Assizes And if any entry be made by any Custos Rotulorum or Clerk of Assize of the said Iudgment in the Exchequer or of the said Extrajudicial Opinions of the Iudges That several Vacats be made thereof per judicium in Paliamento by judgment in Parliament And that an Act of Parliament be prepared against the said Iudgment and extrajudicial Opinions in the proceedings touching Shipmoney Vacatur istud Recordum Judicium inde habitum per considerationem judicium Dominor spiritual temporal in Parliam irrotulamentum eorum Cancellatur The two Iustices Arguments also against it were likewise Printed and published They likewise ordered a Committee to draw up a Charge against the Archbishop of Canterbury which was done and delivered to the Lords by Mr. Hollis which was seconded with another from the Scots Commissioners upon which he was committed to the black Rod and ten weeks after voted guilty of High treason and sent to the Tower The Parliament having thus removed these men and growing every day more and more upon the affections of the people they began to hammer upon the Bill for Triennial Paliaments which soon after passed both Houses and to the universal content of the Kingdom was signed by his Majesty for which the Parliament by the Lord Littleton Keeper of the great Seal gave him their most humble and hearty thanks Some former Overtures and Propositions had been made by the Dutch Ambassadors of a Marriage between the Princess Mary the Kings eldest Daughter and William Prince of Aurange which upon the arrival of the said Prince was afterwards accomplished being well approved of by both Houses by the lower whereof a Vote passed against Bishops temporal jurisdiction which was afterwards framed into an Act passed the Lords and was confirmed by the King who in all things saving his Honour and Conscience complyed with the desires of this Parliament Now came the Earl of Straffords Tryal which after various debates about the Place was appointed in Westminster-Hall the King Queen and Prince had a place built for them the Nobility had seats at the upper end of the Court the Commons in a Committee sate below several of whom as Mr. Pym Mr. St. Iohn and others managed his Accusation the Earl of Arundel was Lord High Steward and the Earl of Lindsey Lord High Constable The Charge or Impeachment consisted of Twenty eight Articles all which he so learnedly and warily answered defending himself with such sinewy Eloquence and warded the points of his accusation so dexterously that the Lords could not find the guilt which the Commons so highly exclaimed against as the greatest treason imaginable Among other witnesses Sir David Fowles and Sir William Pennyman appeared against the Earl the first of whom the Earl declared was his enemy and the latter a Member of the House of whom it was observed that having testifyed against the Earl he could not abstain from weeping Anno Dom. 1641. THe Commons seeing they could not condemn him by this proceeding they betook themselves to another by Bill of Attainder which conceding the matter of Fact sufficiently proved against him at his Tryal and by the Testimony also of the Parliament of Ireland who had prosecuted him there for the said offences condemned him as guilty of high treason This Bill stuck for a while with the Lords till the Tumults coming down and stopping their Coaches and menacing to post up the names of those who favoured him under the name of Straffordians with an impetuous cry of Iustice frighted many of the Peers to assent to the Bill which yet passed but by the plurality of seven voices against him No sooner was it past there but the Commons presented it to the King for him to sign who very much declined it but being over-perswaded by the dangers that were represented as inevitable consequents of his refusal and being also desired by the said Noble Earl himself to give the Parliament content though through the mediation of his own blood His Majesty after advice with the Bishops did pass that fatal Bill which proved the Ax against his own life I cannot pass the Tragedy of
the Army But the main was that they durst not offer to set upon or impede the King in his March the next morning but go away far enough from him to Coventry and thereby lost Banbury wherein was a well-appointed Garrison to the King which was a remarkable Trophee of his Conquest However both parties gave God solemn thanks on days set apart for their success and victory the Parliament adding other to their General for his valour and good conduct in that business and presented him with 5000 l. for a reward of his service On both sides were slayn here neer 6000 men as by the Country it was judged who had the burial of the dead On the Kings party were slayn of note the right Noble and valiant the Lord Aubigney who died of his wounds at Abingdon and was buried in Christ-Church Oxford Father to the most illustrious Charles Duke of Richmond the Earl of Lindsey Sir Edmond Varney as before and Colonel Monro a Scotch-man On the Parliaments side the Lord St. Iohn of Bletso who dyed also of his wounds Colonel Essex and Lieutenant-Colonel Ramsey all men of singular courage and resolution The Earl of Essex next day marched towards Coventry and the King by Ayno where his Army refreshed themselves to Banbury which was presently delivered to him and so to Oxford The King marching from Oxford was by the way to London met by Commissioners from the Parliament tendring Propositions and desiring that during the Treaty the Kings Army should march no neerer this way to spin time while Essex could recruit his Army Wherefore the King advancing from Colebrook came to Brainford where part of the Parliaments Army being the Regiments of Colonel Hollis Hambden and the Lord Brooks for a while maintained their ground stoutly but being over-powred some were driven into the River and there drowned and three hundred slayn among whom was Lieutenant-Colonel Quarles and as many taken prisoners This brought a general consternation upon the City of London all shops were shut up and all the Regiments both Trained Bands and Auxiliaries were drawn out So that the Earl of Essex had a most compleat and numerous Army of a sudden Hereupon the King presently marched away fearing to be encompassed by the Parliamentarians over Kingston-bridge which he broke down to stop the pursuit Essex made after him to Reading and so to Oxford where he took up his Winter-quarters The Cities of Winchester and Chichester delivered to the Parliament Marlborough to the King and the Lord Hopton armed against the Earl of Stamford several Towns taken for the King in the West others for the Parliament in the North. Cyrencester had been Garrisoned by the Parliament-Forces of Glocester being the mid way betwixt that City and Oxford Upon this place Prince Rupert had a designe though his march that way was given out for the regaining of Shudly Castle out of which Colonel Massey had smothered the Royallists with wet hay for afteâ he had passed some ten miles beyond Cyrencester he suddenly returned back and surprized the Guards within two hours time became Master of the place putting the Earl of Stamfords Regiment to the Sword who made a stout opposition taking 1100 prisoners and 8000 arms and other provisions for War it being newly made a Magazine From thence the Prince came before Glocester summoned the Town and departed The Lord Brook and the Earl of Northampton were in Arms against each other in the Counties of Warwick and Stafford where several small skirmishes had been between them At last in March the Lord Brook came and besieged Litchfield Close Garrisoned by the King and as he was viewing the approaches to it out of a Window in the Tower a single Bullet from the Close shot him in the head through the eye of which he fell down dead nevertheless the siege was continued and the Close delivered to the Parliamentarians His death happened by the shot aforesaid on St. Chads day in whose memory the Minster from whence he was killed is called by the name of St. Chad he being the first Bishop of that See The Kings Forces under the command of Lieutenant-General the Lord Wilmot assisted with his own Regiment of Horse that of the Lords Grandisons and Digbies with Sir William Pennimans and Colonel Blagues Regiment of Foot and Colonel Vshers and Colonel Greys of Dragons took the Town of Marlborough defended by Colonel Ramsey a Scot and about five hundred Foot the said Ramsey and divers of the chief Rebels brought prisoners to Oxford all their Arms taken and four Colours and the Town Garisoned for the King This day paid success to the King also in the North where the Earl of New-Castle besieged Tadcaster a place well fortified and better manned the strength of the Parliament-Forces being summed up in this Town and Hull Several Assaults were made most part of that day and evening wherein several were killed among whom was Captain Lifter This resolution so discouraged the defendants that they Slipt away in the night to Cawood and Selby leaving the Town in a very tenable condition for his Majesties service Leeds stormed by the Lord Fairfax and a defeat given to the Royalists thereabouts and Belvoir-Castle belonging to the Earl of Rutland surprized for the King while neer the same time Colonel Massey played feats in Glocester-shire and Salisbury plundered by another party of the Parliaments Yarum-fight also betwixt Colonel Goring and General King against some Forces of the Parliament as Colonel Goring was conveying the Arms and Ammunition he brought over with him from Holland who had the Victory About this time happened a Skirmish betwixt Colonel Hambden and Sir Gilbert Gerrard at the Brill of which Sir Gilbert was Governour wherein about a hundred were killed and wounded of the Parliaments side the rest fled The Queen having taken Shipping at Scheveling neer the Hague in Holland on the 22 being met by the Earl of Newcastle the Marquess of Montrosâ and the Lord Ogilby she landed at Burlington-Bay where on the 24 came four Ships of the Parliaments who making several shots of cross-Bars against the house she was forced to rise out of her Bed and to get under a Hill to save her life and then was honourably conducted through Maltou and Norburton to York and from thence not long after to his Majesties great content who most entirely loved her as she him met the King at Edge-Hill After General Essex had recruited his Army with new supplies the first thing he attempted was the siege of Reading which being manfully defended by Sir Arthur Aston till he received a wound on his head by the falling of a Brick-bat and the relief brought by the King himself from Oxford being worsted at Caversham-bridge after ten days siege was yielded by Colonel Fielding then substituted Governour to the Parliament In the North things went something equaller then before on the Parliaments side Sir Thomas Fairfax had defeated the
with General Poyntz for Passes and Terms according to their respective qualities This was first agitated at Worton-house some fourteen miles from Newark and was accordingly entertained by the Parliament who gave Colonel Rossiter order to give such Passes and Conditions the severest whereof was That all persons going beyond Seas by Warrant of either Houses and after returning shall have neither pardon nor quarter given them by the Parliament The King staid at Newark about ten days it being reputed the safest Garrison he had for that there was no considerable enemy neer it and the Souldiers within were numerous and resolute and the place known to be tenable and well provided and besides lay most advantagious for the King to draw together any Force having lost and drayned most of his Garrisons in other Counties But upon this Feud and untowardness of his affairs he in the beginning of November departed from hence with a Convoy of 600 Horse to Oxford so free and safe was the passage in that part of England from any Armies while the Westermost Counties were full of them and labouring to be delivered But though the King escaped any Encounter the said Convoy returning home were set upon by General Poyntz and routed the sixth day of November and so shifted away to their Garrison while the Victor sets down before Belvoyr-Castle where Sir Gervas Lucas was Governour for the King summoned it and assaulted it but both to the like purpose till after a siege of four months the House and Castle was delivered up to him on the 2 of February upon honourable Conditions Sir Gervas and his Officers being convoyed to Litchfield Fairley-Castle in Somersetshire the Devises Lacock-House to Colonel Pickering Châpstow-Castle delivered to the Parliament the last to Colonel Morgan Governour of Gloucester and Berkley-Castle where Sir Charles Lucas commanded to Colonel Rainsborough after a Noble defence when the Out-works were taken and two Summons refused Sir Charles saying he would eat Horse-flesh first and mans flesh when that was done before he would yeild But upon the planting of the Guns upon those Works against the Castle was glad to Surrender and spare those dainties for another extremity when he made good his Bill of Fare The Devises and Winchester after a breach made in the Castle thereof by the great Guns surrendred by the Lord Ogle to Lieutenant-General Cromwel there marched out thence to Woodstock 700 men the chief whereof were the Governour Sir William Courtney Sir Iohn Pawlet and Doctor Curl Bishop of that Diocess to whom Hugh Peters offered some civilities A Reverend Prelate who resided amidst his Flock even in these days of danger and trouble and quitted not his Charge while he was suffered no longer to continue in it The period of the glory and honour of Basing-house was now approaching for thither next came Cromwel who after his Batteries were placed setled the several posts for the Storm Colonel Dalbeir on the North-side of the House next the Grange Colonel Pickering on his left and Sir Hardress Waller's and Colonel Mountague's Regiments next him The Storm was October the 14 at six in the morning Pickering stormed the new house passed through and got the gate of the old house whereupon the defendants beat a Parly but it would not be hearkened to In the mean time Mountague and Waller's Regiments assaulted the strongest Works where their Court of guard was kept which they resolutely recovered with a whole Culverin and drawing their Ladders after them got over another Work and the House-Wall before they could enter Sir Hardress Waller was slightly wounded here many of the defendants were put to the Sword being about one hundred and one Virgin Doctor Griffith's Daughter whom the enemy shamefully left naked of note Major Cuffle slain by the hands as supposed of Major since Major-General Harrison There were taken Prisoners 400 with their Officers among whom the Noble Marquess of Winchester himself and Sir Robert Peak the Governour who with the Colours also taken were sent up together to London This Fortress of Loyalty the place being called by that name Love Loyalty being written in every window of that spacious house which Mr. Peters said who gave the relation of its taking to the house of Commons would become an Emperor to dwell in by the spite and fury of a Rebellious crew was turned into Ashes to the incredible loss of the Marquess who notwithstanding in the very ruining of it was heard to say That if the King had no more ground in England but Basing-house he would adventure as he did and so maintain it to the utmost It was commonly called Basting-house and that truely enough but now it must needs crumble under the heavy load of the Kings adverse fortune which brought three Kingdomes with it to no less a ruine Great and rich was the plunder here one Common Souldier getting 300 pounds in silver and was left in an instant by his Camerades worth but one Half-crown of it all And no less was the quantity of provisions which were enough to suffice for some years All which came into the Conquerours hands entire with a Bed worth 1400 pounds who unhandsomly enough seized and disposed of them the account whereof will one day be as justly required These Services being over and the Western-Road cleared Cromwel was commanded to attend on the General now advanced after the Lord Goring in his way thither he came and besieged Langford-house belonging to the Lord of Colerain neer Salisbury and upon Summons had it delivered to him upon fair and equal Conditions October 18. While the General on the 19 intending to storm Tiverton the Chain of the Draw-bridge by one unlucky shot broke in two and let down the bridge whereupon the Souldiers ran in and seized all but the Church and Castle which were presently yeilded and quarter upon their asking for it given but plundered they were even to their skins Here was taken one Major Sadler an active valorous fellow who had revolted from the Parliament-side and had now held intelligence and proffered them the like service he had done the King for his pardon notwithstanding he was condâmned and yet made a shift to escape to Exeter where upon the same score of Treachery to them having understood of his practices by collusion no doubt of both parties and for deserting of his post at Tiverton he was sentenced and executed Here was also taken Sir Gilbert Talbot the Governour and 4 Majors and 200 Common Souldiers who were made Prisoners of War There was nothing now left the King in the West but what lay in the farthermost parts of Devonshire and Cornwal and 6000 Horse of whom the onely fear was left they might break through and get Eastward The Country therefore was commanded to keep diligent Watch and to be assistant in intelligence if the Royalists should attempt it and because it was Winter-time and the Army
Impeachment of high treason against the Earl of Strafford he is committed and Sir George Ratcliff sent for out of Ireland Dr. Williams Bishop of Lincoln released Mr. Pryn Dr. Bastwick and Mr. Burton received by the Londoners in pomp Sir John Finch Lord Keeper and Francis Windebanck Secretary of State charged with high treason they withârew John James a Romish Catholique stabs Iustice Howard in Westminster-Hall The Case of Shipmoney stated The Iudges opinions thereupon Shipmoney vâtâd illegal The Iudgment of the Excheqââr agâinst Mr. Hambden vacated Mr. Hollis delivers a Charge against the A.B. Cant. the Scots do the like he is voted guilty of high treason and committed The King signs the Bill for Triennial Parliaments The Houses oppose Bishops temporal jurisdiction The Earl of Straffords Tryal Sir David Fowls and Sir William Pennyman witnesses against the Earl the last of whom wept He is condemned as guilty of high treason The faction make a hideous cry of Iustice. The King with much reâuctancy signs the Bill of Attainder A notable remarque concerning Sir Alexander Carew Those Bishops that consented to the Earls death escaped not the fury of the times Prince of Orange warries the Princess Mary Sir Dudley Carleton the Earls Secretary brings him word of his Majesties having passed the Bill of Attainder Life in Mr. Lloyds Memoires The English Army disband the Scotch receive a vast sum of money and return home The King visits his Parliament of Edinburgh The Earl of Leicester made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland The Parliament adjourned The faction encreaseth and grows strong The King settles the affairs of Scotland A Rebellion in Ireland The King returns from Scotland and is magnificently received at London The faction sâanderously charge the King and Arch-B Cant. with inclining to Popery Walker an Iron-monger thâows a Libel into the Kings ãâã he is impriâoned Sir Richard Gurney Lord Mayor of London Most of the Irish Nobility revolted Sir Phelim Oneal their chief commandâr A full account of the Irish Rebellion and proceedings of the War there Roger Moor the chief instrument in the plot The Lord Viscount Gormanston one of their complices Owen O Conally discovers the Plot. Iuââice Parsons and Sir Jo. Borlace double their Watches Mac Mahon and Mac-Guire their Lodgings watched Mac Mahon and his men after some resistance are sâcured and confess the Plot. The Lord Mac-guire seized The Council warn the people of the Rebellion by Proclamation The Lord Blaweys House Wife and Children surprised The Newry surprized with several other places of strength The Rebels take Dundalk besiege Tredagh They commit horrid Massacres in sundry places 1800 Pârsons drowned 150000 Persons destroyed in the Province of Ulster only in five moâths time Sir Phelim Oneal defeatâd at Duâdalk Dublin in great streights A Regiment raised for Sir H. Titchburn another for Sir Charles Coot Expresses sent to the King the Lord Lieutenant and the Parliament Owen O Conally rewarded with 200 l. in money and a pension of 200 l. per anum The Earl of Ormond Lieu. Gen. marched to Dublin with divers other Captains Major Roper with 600 Foot to Tredagh With 50 Horse under Sir Pat. Weems surprized by the Rebels and routed Some Rebels executed at Wicklo Luke Tool encounters Sir Charls Coote and is puâ to flight The Lords and Gentry of the English Pale declare for the Roman Catholick Religion The Rebels in Lemster 20000 strong Sir Simon Harcourt arrives with a Regiment at Tredagh The Rebels are disheartned and defeated by Sir Henry Titchburn who recovered Dundalk Sir Phelim O Neal escapes to Ulster Sir George Monro recovers Newry and do's the Rebels much damage Tumults from London affront the King and Court Sir William Mason heads the Gentlemen of Grays-Inne to White-Hall prostering them and himself to his Majesty as a guard for his person The King receives them with respect The Tumultuous rabble countenanced by some Grandees of the faction Whereat the King is much troubled He demands five Members of the House of Commons and the Lord Kimbolton The House vote it a breach of priviledge They accuse several Bishops as guilty of high Treason They are Committed The Irish are proclaimed Rebels The King declares his charge against the five members The Parliament imprisons Sir Edw. Herbert The Tumults increase and the King retires to Hampton-Court A rumour concerning the Lord Digby Col. Lunsford committed The Scots interpose themselves the Parliament demands the Tower and the Militia Buckinghamshire men petition in behalf of Mr. Hambden The King leaves Hampton-Court the Queen and Princess of Aurange take ship for Holland The Parliament vote the Queen a Traytor The Militia the principal difference between King and Parliament The Commission of Arry An Ordinance of Parliament for ordering the Militia The Parliament send several Papers to the King The King is much troubled thereat and answers The Parliament declare their resolution of putting the Kingdom into a posture of defence The Earl of Warwick made Admiral of England The King answers the Parliaments Declation with another He offers a free Pardon to his people and propounds a rââââciliation The faction set forth another Declaration concerning the Militia The King sends a Message to the Parliament concerning Ireland They plead the priviledge of Parliament The King proclaims against Papists The Yorkshire Gentry desire a right understanding between King and Parliament The King returns a gratious answer He resolving to go for Ireland sends a Message to the Parliament Sir John Hotham admitted into Hull The Parliament Petition the King for the Militia they insist upon the dangers of Popery Hull is Garrison'd and the King is troubled that they should Petition him and at the instant carve at their one pleasures He excuseth his repriving of some Iâsuites The Parliament refuse to be governed by Commissioners in his Majesties absence The King resolves to possess himself of Hull But is denyed entrance by Sir John Hotham who stood on the Walls and âeard himself proclaimed a Traytor The Duke of York and Prince âlector bring in the Town are suffered to depart The King retreatâd to Beverly writes to the Mayor and Garrison of Hull And to the Parliament for Iââtice against Hotham Tâe Parliament order the Lord Liââtenant of Lincoln to âuppress all Forcâs raiâed against Hull Sir Richard Gurney Loâd Mayor ãâã London sent to the Tower The Parliament Authorize Sir John Hotham to raise the Trained Bands The King sâmmons the Gântry of York for the security of his Person The Parliament Conclude the K. intendeth War They take up Arms ânder preâence of râscuing the King from his evil Couâsel and prohibit all resort to the King They publish a Râmonstrance Which is answâred by the King Theââaviâe the Scots to their ãâã Thâ Scoâs pretend a zâal for his Majesty bât deââaââ for the Parliament and have their thanks Tâe Parliament set forth another Remonstrance which the King answers They send him 19 Propositions to York The King returns an answer
Oxford relieve Banbury The Siege raised Col. Myn sâain iâ Glocestershâre and the Royalists worsted by Masâey Who bestowed an honoârable burial on the saiâ Câlonâl Princâ Rupert at the Severn where hapnâd daily Skirâââhes He is worsted by Massey Monmouth bâââaââd to Massey by Lieutenant-Coâ Kirle Col Holtby Goverâour thereof escapes Massey active and vigilant Newberry second fight Octob. 27. Manchester's forces over-powered the Kings but are repâlied by Sir Bernard Astley The Duke of Yorks Regiment led by Sir Wil. St Leger and Pr. Maurices Brigade repulsed Essex his Horse too hard for the Kings over-powred Sir Humphry Bennet and Major Leg but are repulsed by the Lord Bernard Stuart Goring and Cleaveland worsted Earle of Cleaveland taken Prisoner and the Kings person in danger Earl of Manchester ingaged with Lord Ashley and Sir George Lisle they are worsted but relieved by Sir John Brown The King marcheth to Wallingford and so to Oxford Slain of note on the Kings side Sir William St. Leger Essex had the Field Col. Boys secured the Kings Artillery The King relieves Dennington-castle The Parliament suspect the Earl of Essex Manchester and Cromwel disser The Parliament resolve to new model their Army They Order that no Member shall bear command in either Military or Civil affairs The Ordinance for the new modeling the Army Decemb. 31. Sir Thomas Fairfax made General The stots advance Southward The first Address contrived by Oliver Cromwel The Scots tâââ Newcastle Plunder it Soââm thanks at London for their success Sir Alexander Carew beheaâed fââ endâavouring to betray Plymouth-Fort to the King Sir John Hotham and his son executed Jan. 1 2. for endeavouring to betray Hull and holding correspondence with the Marquess of Newcastle Hugh Peters accompanieth them at their deaths The Kings observations of them in his Meâitations The Assembly of Divines consult about Church-Government The Covenaât prest to be universally takââ The Commân-Prayer abolished Sir David Hawkins a zealous stickler for the Parliament Archbishop of Canterbury bâheadâd Vide Speechâs Buried at Alhallows Barking London Sir Henry Gage Câl for the King shot neer Abingdon Uxbridge Trâaty Jan. 3. Commissioners for the King at the Treaty at Uxbridge Commissioners for the Parliament Scotch Commissioners The main things to be treated of were Religon Militia and Ireland The King refuseth to alter Religion by Bishops but would admit of some amendments in the Liturgie He is willing some Garrisons should be in the Parliaments hands pro tempore but will not abrogate the Cessation in Ireland Mr. Love a strange Incendiary The Treaty ended in vain The Lord Macguire and Col. Mac Mahon hanged drawn and quartered Shrewsbury taken by Major-General Mitton for the Parliament He hath the thanks of the House The Parliament takes Scarborough and Weymouth they raise Plymouth Siege Ponfract castle relieved by Sir Marmaduke Langdale he routs the Parl. Forces under Col. Rossiter Essex Manchester and Denbigh resigne their Commissions A notable success at the Devises under Sir Jacob Ashley A Faction at Oxford the Lords Savil Percy and Andover confined The Parliament Adjourned The Parliament's new Generals Commission The Actions of the Renowned Marquess of Montross He arrives in the Highlands of Scotland He fights the Covenanters and obtains a great Victory at Tepper-Moor Hâ makes great spoils in Argyles Country Who with the E. of Seaforth maâch against him with two several Armies He routs Argyle defeats Col. Hurry at Brechin afterwards at Alderne and obtains a remarkable Victory at Alesford hills Lord Gourdons death Marquess of Montross affrights the Parliament at St. Johnstons His famous Victory at Kilsith David Lesley routed The Nâbility Gentry assist him The King orders Montross to disband Colonel Massey defeated at Lidbury by Prince Rupert He is forced to flye and narrowly escapes Sir Thomas Fairfax takes command of the Army Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice raise Horse in Worcester-shire Cromwel sent to intercept the Kings Forces routs them The Queens Standard taken He summons Blechington house the Governour Col. Windebank delivers it And was therefore shot to death Cromwel takes Sir William Vaughan at Radcot bridge Goring gives Cromwel his first brush The new modeled Army march to Blandford in Dorset-shire take Lieutenant-Col Hacket The King leaving Oxford takes the field Fairfax recalled from the West but leaves part of his Army there Oxford besieged the second time A cruel custome at Abingdon Borstal house besieged Gaunt house surrendred Chester distressed Relieved by the King Goring Hopton and Greenvile joyn and besiege Taunton Leicester Stormed and taken by Prince Rupert May 21. He takes Sir Robert Pye the Town is plundered The Parliament almost driven to despair The King and Royalists too confident of Success Sir Thomas Fairfax ordered to give the King-Battel York-shire a long time harrased by the Scots The unresolved which way to bend his Forces The Parliament order Fairfax to put their differences to the decision of a Battel They march to Marsh-Gibeon Major-General Brown Garisons Gaunt house The King at Daventry and Northampton Cromwel sent for by the Parliament to command their Horse The Kings Foot and Carriages quartered upon Burrough-hill The Parliaments Army at Gilsborough The Kings Army march to Pomfret Ireton with a strong party of Horse sent to fall upon his Flank The Kings Head-quarters at Naseby Alarm'd by Ireton he goes to Harborough and unhappily resolves to fight Naseby fight The Parliament forces Rendezvouz neer Naseby they discover the Kings Horse neer Harborough The King misinformed Cromwel commands the right Wing of the Parl. horse Ireton the left The Gen. and Skippon the main battel of Foot Whaley routs Langdale who commanded part of the Kings left Wing Prince Rupert routs the Parliaments left Wing Ireton taken Prisoner and the fortune of the day changing is released The Kings Foot over-powered by the Parliaments Horse His Cavalry in great distress Okey's Dragoons do notable Execution on the Kings Horse The Calamities of this day The Parliament take many of the Kings Officers and his Standard â with his Cabinet of Letters which they unworthily publish The advantage equal to both parties The Lord Bard. did excellent service for the King Fiennes sânt to London with the Prisoners The Parliaments Forces pursut the Kings The King at Ashby de la zouch He goes into Wales Sir Marmaduke Langdale flies to Newark Taunton distrest by the Lord Goring Leicester retaken Lord Hastings Governour thereof The Kings Souldiers march out with Staves in their hands The Parliaments Army march towards Marlborough The Club men rise They Petition the King and Parliament Taunton freed Iuly 7. And Goring after his defeating the besieged departed His Army quartered at Long-Sutton they march to Langport Massey resolutely attempis their Rear but with loss Langport fight General Fairfax routs the Lord Goring Langport fired General Fairfax at Bridgewater Sir Richard Greenvile and Sir John Berkley joyn with the Lord Goring Bridgewater taken July 23. by the Parliament The Parliaments forlorn
Address ãâã suppressing ãâã Insolencies Declaration of War against Denmark City Building begins Prodigious Storms in Lincoln-shire Prodigious Storm in Lincoln-shire A day of Thanksgiving for the ceasing of the Plague Ryot at Dumfreeze in Scotland The Lord Willoughby sets forth a Fleet from the Barbadoes A Hurricane His Lordship lost Scotch Convention meets At Surinam better success The French King affronted by the Turk An Embassador sent for reparation He is reviled Beaten and ââprisoned Swedes offer a Mediation Accepted Breda the Place of Treaty A Valiant Act of Capt. Dawes The English Embassadors enter Breda The Dutch Attempts upon the Coast. Burnt-Island attempted And Sheerness They seize the Royal Charles Royal Oak burnt Two Dutch Men of War burnt Commissioner Pett committed The Dutch come up into the River of Thames Dutch land neer Harwich Encounter'd by the Train'd-Bands They come up to Hull Haven are encounter'd by several ships that lay there Dutch attempt to land neer Wenbury in Devonshire Neer Cawland in Cornwal Sir Jonathan Trelawney Major Sparks and Mr. Windham sent aboard the Dutch Admiral Their Entertainment A Present sent De Ruyter Foy Harbour Attempted Plenipotentiaries meet and Tâeat at Breda Peace Concluded Commissioners to take an Account of Publick Money The Office of Lord High Treasurer in the Hand of Commissioners Parliament met Parl. Adjourn'd Commissioners appointed to hear the complaints of Seamen Mr. Cowley 's death Dutch beaten by Sir John Harmon in the West-Indies Three Dutch Men of War and a Prize taken Proclamation against Papists Woodmongers Charter demanded His Majesty lays the first Stone of the Royal Exchange The Duke of York the second Earl of Sandwich sent to Portugal January 22. February Proclamation to hinder the roving of private Men of War February Count de Dona the Swedish Embassador dies in England Maritime League concluded with the Dutch by Sir Wil. Temple Charles the second launched March 3. 1666 7. Proclamation against Papists Prentices make a Tumult May 1668. His Majesty goes to the House signes several Bills and adjourns the Parliament Lord Vaughan Chief-Iustice Iune 1668. Bridge Town burnt August 1668. Sir William Godolphin Knighted and made Resident-Embassador in Spain Sept. 1668. Duke of Munmoâth made Captain of the Horse-Guards Venetian Embassador has Audience Sir John Trevor made Secretary Dr. Wilkins Bishop of Chester Sir Thomas Allen made Peace with Argier Decem. 1668. Parliament Prorogu'd Ian. 166â Dutchess of York brought to bed of a Daughter Sir Edward Sprague sent into Flanders The Duke of Tuscany arrives in England The Prince of Portugal made Râgânt Earl of Carlisle sent into Sweden King of Sweden presented with the Garter Earl of Winchelsey returns Theater at Oxford fânished Meetings suppressed Dr. Fell Vice-Chancellor of Oxford Queen-Mother of England dies The Moors attempt Tangier but beaten off Lord Roberts Lord-Deputy of Ireland Royal Exchange fââish'd Pâââ Assembles Parl. attended the King in the Banqueting-House Parl. Prorogu'd till February Parl. in Scotland Sir Thomas Allen before Argier Mr. Henry Howard sent Embassador to Taffalette Duke of Albemarle dies His Dutchess dies Jan. 1669. Parliament meet The King signes several Acts and adjourns the House Dutchess of Orleans arrives in England Dies July 1670. Parliament in Scotland Act for the Treaty of Union passed there Argier men of War destroy'd Cap. Peirce shot to Death Parl. meet Peace between Spain and England ratifi'd Prince of Orange comes into England Sir Thomas Allen returns from the Streights Sir Edward Sprague Commands in his room D. of Ormond violently assaulted in the Night The King passes some Acts. Popish Priests Banish'd The Dutchess of York dyes Parl. Prorogu'd And an Address about English Manufactures Earl of Manchester dies The Crown attempted King of Sweden and Duke of Saxony by Proxies Install'd Knights of the Garter Sir Edward Sprague meets the Argerines and destroys them The King takes a Progress The Moors attack Tangier and are beaten off Parl. Prorogu'd Embassadors sent abroad Ian. 1671 2. Stop upon the Exchequer Sir George Downing presses for answer to the King's demands Sir George Downing committed Nonconformists indulg'd Sir Robert Holmes attacks the Dutch Fleet neer the Isle of Wight War declar'd against the Dutch Mar. 1661 2. War proclaim'd against Holland Sir Edward Sprague comes home The French King continues and increases Impositions on Dutch Goods notwithstanding their threats French Warlike preparations breeds jealousies Cologne fortifies The Dutch fortifie Maestricht Newburg fortifies Dusseldorp and Montery raises men in Flanders Brunswick Besieged They surrender The Escurial burnt The Dutch endeavour to get Assistants The Prince of Orange made their Captain-General The Emperor offers to Mediate Dutch Embassador slighted at Paris Convoys taken care of for the Merchants Several Lords call'd to the Privy Council King of France begins his March Turrenne blocks up Maestricht Fight between the English and Dutch Several Townes taken from the Hollanders Hollanders confus'd at the success of the French The King of Englands Declaration inviting the Dutch Subjects into England Dutch more and more distressed The People Mutiny Prince of Orange declar'd Stadtholder The Condition of the Dutch The Duke of Buckingham and the Earl of Arlington sent into Holland Duke of Buckingham and Earl of Arlington return English misâ the Dutch East-Indie Fleet. Earl of Essex Lord-Deputy of Ireland The fall of De Wit and Van Putten The Confederates divert the French Magistrates chang'd in Holland Parl. adjourn'd The Duke of York returns from the Fleet and Action ceases Turenne 's Declaration Sir Edward Sprague spoyles the Dutch Fishing Prince of Orange succeeds ill Earl of Shaftsbury Lord-Chancellor Lord Clifford Lord-Treasurer Stop upon the Exchequer continued Duke of Richmond dies Parl. meet Sir Job Charleton made Speaker 18 Moneths Assessment given to the King The Parl. make an Address to to the King Parl. Adjourn'd James Piercy pretends to the Earldom of Northumberland The Island Tabago taken by the English Dutch at Sea May 26. May 28. June 4. July 17. July 20. August 10. Peace with the Dutch Proclamation against Papists April The Lord Lockhart Mediates a Peace between France and Spain Proclamation against scandalous News Sir Lyonel Jenkins and Sir Joseph Williamson return to London Duke of Monmouth chose Chancellor of Cambridge Earl of Arlington Lord-Chamberlain Sir Joseph Williamson Principal Secretary Earls of Ossory and Arlington âent into Holland A Marine Treaty between the King and the Uâited Provinces Dr. Crew made Bishop of Durham Dr. Compton Bishop of Oxford The Dutchess brought to bed of a Daughter Sir Francis North Lord Chief-Iustice of the Common-Pleas Parl. meets Prince of Newburgh arrives in England Barbadoes Conspiracy Indians Rebel in New-England Northampton fâred River by Salisbury began to be made Navigable Parl. meets Proclamation against St. Germain the Iâsuite Hurricane at Bardoes Jamaica fâourishes
throughout England particularly the third of this moneth Cheapside-Cross was demolished And for the better carrying on of the work of Reformation Mr. Henry Martin a Member of Parliament enters violently into the Abby-Church at Westminster defaces the Ornaments of the Church and breaking open two doors makes his way to a private place where the Crowns Scepters and other Utensils of State used by Kings on their day of Coronation were but Mr. Wheeler perswaded him to be more moderate he only secured them by sealing up the Doors After this beginning of Reformation the Parliament took the Solemn League and Covenant at Westminster It was first framed in Scotland and was generally taken by them in the Year 1639. The main drift of it was against the Episcopal Dignity and was now for the mutual indearment of the two Nations assurance being promised the Parliament from Scotland pressed upon all in England where the Parliaments power was Paramount being taken throughout London the fifth of this moneth The Earl of Essex advanceth from Reading to Tame where a general sickness seized upon the Army during their quartering there about Prince Rupert fell into part of their quarters but the Essexians taking the Alarm and drawing out the business came to a Fight in Chalgrave field where Colonel Hambden that great stickler against Shipmoney was mortally wounded It was observable that in this place the said Colonel Hambden first Listed and Trained his men in the beginning of the War The Lord Keeper Littleton having departed with the Great Seal to Oxford according to the Kings Command the Parliament voted a new Great Seal to be made To cast an eye to the affairs of the West Sir Ralph Hopton after his little victory at Liskard having made sure of the County of Cornwal and established all things to the advantage of the Kings affairs there marched into Devonshire to oppose the Earl of Stamford and Major-General Chudleigh for the Parliament with whom on Tuesday May 16 a Battel happened at Stratton in that County The Kings Forces had the disadvantage both in want of Ammunition and being necessitated to March up a steâp Hill open to all oppositions to come to fight being in number not above 3000 the sixth part whereof was Horse and Dragoons The Enemy were above 5000 with the same quantity of Horse but supplied that defect with the strength of the Hill on which they were fortified The Royalists attempted their ascent four several ways and were as resolutely beaten down the fight continuing from five in the morning till three in the after-noon without any certainty of event or success on either party Major General Chudleigh charged stoutly against a stand of Pikes commanded by Sir Bevil Greenvile to the disordering of his Party and the overthrowing of his Person but in time came Sir Iohn Berkley and restored the fortune of the day by taking Major-General Chudleigh Prisoner Towards the end of the day the several parties met at the top of the Hill with great shouts of joy which the routed Enemy confusedly forsook and fled There were taken seventeen hundred Prisoners all their Cannon and Ammunition being thirteen brass Pieces of Ordnance seventy barrels of Powder with a Magazine of Bisket and other provisions proportionable By this opportune Victory all that Nook of the West was reduced to the Kings entire obedience except Plymouth and for which important service the King presently honoured Sir Ralph with the Title of Baron Hopton of Stratton from the place where he atchieved his honour The Parliament had appointed first Colonel Thomas Essex then Colonel Nathaniel Fiennes to be Governour of Bristol of which in the beginning of the troubles they had possest themselves and having discovered a Plot of delivering the City to Prince Rupert who accordingly was drawn down near the place expecting the Signal which was ringing of a Bell and opening a gate surprized and secured the intelligencers viz. Mr. Robert Yeomans and Mr. George Bourcher two of the Citizens and soon after notwithstanding the King and his Generals mandates and threats of retaliation disloyally executed them in that City Iames Earl of Northampton defeats a body of Parliamentarians in Middleton Cheiny Town-field under Colonel Iohn Fiennes killed 200 took 300 more with their Arms while the rest fled to Northampton and brought them into Banbury his Garison At this time also Wardour-Castle in Wilt-shire was taken by the Parliaments Forces and not long after retaken by Sir Francis Dorrington But enough to be said of such petty places Sir William Waller was now advanced into the West with a well-furnished Army to prevent those dangers which the growing Fortunes of the Lord Hopton threatned to the Cause and the well-affected in those Counties By force partly and partly by perswasion he had screwed himself into a great many Towns chiefly Taunton and Bridge-water which he Garisoned whereupon the Lord Hâmpton joyning with Prince Maurice and the Marquess of Hartford advanced East-ward and at a place called Landsdown met with Sir William drawn up in a place of great advantage with Forlorns Sir Bevil Greenvil and Sir Nicolas Slanning advanced first upon them and some Horse but Sir William had so lined the Hedges and the Horse were so galled with Musquet-shot that they were forced to retreat disorderly towards the Rear of their Foot when the Cornish-men came on with resolution and beat them out of their Hedges and pursued them up an ascent where they had almost regularly fortified themselves by Hedges and laid Stone-walls From hence Waller charged with a body of Horse and again disordered them yet they rallied and received another Repulse in one of which Major Lowre that commanded part of the Horse was slain in the Head of them as also that noble person Sir Bevil Greenvil in the Head of his stand of Pikes with which he had done signal Service so oâten divers Gentlemen of less note falling with him until in conclusion night drawing on nay quite spent for it was one of the clock in the morning and past before they gave over the Battel might be said or a continued Skirmish it was to be drawn betwixt them the Royalists continuing in the Field all âight having possession of the Field dead and of 300 Arms and nine barrels of Powder leât by the Enemy which by some accident or treachery was fired and the Lord Hopton thereby hurt and endangered Here were slain besides on the Kings part Mr. Leak son to my Lord Deincourt now Earl of Scars-dale Mr. Barker Lieutenant-Colonel Wall Capt. Iames Capt. Cholwel and Mr. Bostard That which on the other side seems to say that Sir William Waller had the better of it is that within two days after he had cooped up my Lord Hopton in the Devises this again is imputed to the want of Ammunition the Royalists being forced as they were taught by
in that Town which was totally infected with Puritanism and Zelotry and this was his first projection and design of ambition besides that it priviledged him from Arrests his Estate being sunk again and not to be repaired but by the General Ruine I have the rather insisted upon him here because this is the place from whence he began to appear in that eminence which shewed him to the people as a most able Champion of the Parliaments cause and from whence it is thought he first derived those ambitious thoughts which after Ruined three Kingdoms To give him his due the Honour of this Field was mainly if not solely ascribable to his courage for with his Regiment of Curassiers he broke through all that withstood him Defeating all the Northern Horse under the Marquess of Newcastle at which time the main bodies joyned animated and incouraged by his success Being thus over-powred both in Front and Flank the Royallists began to flie and Cromwel being impatient of any longer demur to his victory which he had so fairly bid for omitted not to prosecute the same In this unhappy juncture the Princes right Wing returned to the field but all was grown so desperate and in such confusion and disorder that it was impossible to Ralley them and the fearful execution that was made among them had quite taken away the hearing of any Command or obedience to Discipline There was yet standing two Regiments of the Lord New-castle's one called by the name of his Lambs these being veterane Souldiers and accustomed to fight stood their Ground and the fury of that impression of Cromwel which Routed the whole Army besides nor did the danger nor the slaughter round them make them cast away their Arms or their courage but seeing themselves destitute of their friends and surrounded by their enemies they cast themselves into a Ring where though quarter was offered them they gallantly refused it and so manfully behaved themselves that they flew more of the enemie in this particular fight than they had killed of them before At last they were cut down not by the Sword but showers of bullets after a long and stout resistance leaving their enemies a sorrowful victory both in respect of themselves whom they would have spared as in regard of the loss of the bravest men on their own side who fell in assaulting them A very inconsiderable number of them were preserved to be the living monuments of that Brigades Loyalty and valour The Prince after this defeat fled to Thursk and so through Lancashire and Shropshire the way he came Night ended the pursuit for it was eleven a clock before the fight ceased else more blood had been shed and the Parliaments Generals to the siege at York from whence they rose to give the Prince battel Here were slain to the number of 8000 and upwards in the field and flight which at certain was divided equally between both Armies For what slaughter was made by the Prince upon the Scots and Fairfax was requited by Cromwel on the left Wing as aforesaid and the fight was furious and bloody there It must needs be a great carnivage for a month after the Battel though the slain bodies were put into pits and covered there was such a stench thereabouts that it almost poisoned them that passed over the Moor and at Kendal a place near adjacent the Bell for six weeks together never ceased tolling for the inhabitants who were poysoned and infected with the smell The Marquess of Newcastle and the Lords and Colonels of his party who complyed not with the Prince in the resolution of fighting his men having been so long cooped up in York and in no present condition for battel took shipping at Newcastle and passed over to Hamburgh among whom was the Lord Widdrington General King Sir William Vavasor killed afterwards in the Swedes service at Copenhagen and many others which proved the utter loss of the North to the King Here were slain of persons of quality a good number such as Knights and Squires and the like particularly on the Kings side the Lord Cary Eldest son to the Earl of Monmouth and Sir Thomas Metham on the Parliament-side the Lord Diddup a Scotch Lord remarkable by this that when it was told the King at Oxford that such a Lord was slain on the Parliaments side he answered that he had forgot there was such a Lord in Scotland To which one replyed That his Majesty might well do so for the Lord had forgot he had such a King in England The Victor Army being come again before York summoned the City again they had used before their utmost indeavours by Mines and Assaults in one whereof they lost near one thousand men and were beaten off to have entred to which the Governour returned answer that he was no whit dismayed with their present success yet nevertheless on equal Conditions he would come to a Treaty and Surrender which in nineteen days after the battel was concluded on The main Articles were That the Garrison should march out according to the honourable custome of War That the Garison the Parliament put in should consist two parts of three of the County of York That the Citizens should be indempnified as well those absent as present and have the benefit of those Articles That the Cathedral and Churches should receive no prejudice c. According to which agreement the Governour and Garison departed the 23 day of Iuly but the Articles were most of them basely infringed and violated by plundering the people that departed out of York to Skipton whither by Articles they were to be convoyed New Levies were at this time ordered to be made by the Parliament amounting to twelve thousand Horse and Foot in the Southern parts of England and as many more were by their directions to their Commissioners in Scotland intended to be raised there for a supply and reinforcement of that Army then in England and like sums of money proportioned thereunto the Scots crying Give give while the Citizens of London paid for all upon whom this year an odd kind of Tax was laid for the setting out of Sir William Wallers Army as was unpractised ever in any War that every Citizen should pay as much every Tuesday as his expences for a meal for his family usually amounted to 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 Colonel Norton and Colonel Morley who had drawn down before Basing a house of the Marquess of Winchesters garrisoned by him and kept for the King which being distressed for want of Ammunition and provision was close laid to by the enemy Many brave Salleys were made and a multitude of men they slew so that it was afterwards called Basting-house Waller was resolved not to rise cost what it would at length relief was put into
Assembly was ordered to bring in their Model of Church-Government and those Resolves were urged afterwards by many hundred Petitions and the Covenant prest to be universally taken Towards the end of this month they had licked up the form of their Directory but could not agree about the receiving of the Sacrament which dispute was then committed Hereupon the Parliament procâeded and voted the abolishing of the Common-Prayer-Book which gave some satisfaction to the Scots yet not fully contended them they had in the beginning of our Troubles openly named the Archbishop of Canterbury and prosecuted him as an Enemy to their Country as the great Incendiary of the broyls between both Nations and did not desist while they had him safe in the Tower now they would have his life also as a gratification of their assistance His head must be danced off like St. Iohn Baptist's at the Musick of their Bag-pipes This they publikely demanded so that an Ordinance for the Parliament durst not venture his Tryal at the Common-Law as was thought by some because of the clause of that Bill of Attainder against the Earl of Strafford that his Case should be no precedent and they knew the Judges though they might pack a Jury that should would never venture to condemn him And his tryal by Peers they vouchsafed not as alike dangerous passed the House of Commons whereby he was declared guilty and that sent up to the Lords for their concurrence who bogled at it as a very ill precedent so that it stuck for a while until Sir David Hawkins with his veterane Troops of Justice-cryers came bawled at the Lords House for speedy Execution of Delinquents And then a new Expedient was set on foot for the better dispatch that the Lords should come and sit in the House of Commons as to this business and make one work of it which some of them unworthily did an ill Omen or Presage what that degenerateness would come to when after some of the same persons sate there as Commoners By this trick after several brave Defences made at the Bar of the Lords House where with might and main his Enemies prosecuted his Innocence he was condemned the main Argument against him being used by Serjeant Wild That he was so guilty an offender that he wondred the people did not pull him in pieces as he came to and fro to his tryal and on the tenth of Ianuary brought to Tower-hill from a most sound and sweet repose that night till awakened by Pennington the Lieutenant of the Tower to go to his Execution whereat he was no whit dismayed his colour being as fresh in his Face as ever it was in his life which continued to his last minute At his death he made a Funeral-sermon for himself which was in lieu of a Speech where this is as he hinted it to be observed that though other Arch-bishops had lost their lives in this manner yet not the same way He being the first English-man that ever was condemned by an Ordinance of Parliament His body was decently interred in Alhallows Barkin London according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England of which he had been the chief Defender and Assertor leaving Sir Iohn Robinson his Nephew since Lieutenant of the Tower to inherit the remains of his Estate and the rewards of his great Services and Munificences to this Church and Kingdom Abington had been made a Garrison ever since the Earl of Essex marched into Cornwal and became so troublesome a neighbour to Oxford and the Country adjacent by the continual excursions of the Horse which were never less than a Regiment that Colonel Sir Henry Gage to prevent this perpetual annoyance no man daring to travail upon any of the Roads towards Oxford with provisions or other business more especially hindering the intercourse betwixt Oxford and Wallingford resolved to build a Fort at Culham-bridge within a mile of Abington on the London-road to repress the boldness of those parties who were constantly out thereabouts upon designes In the attempt thereof and to obstruct so dangerous an obstacle to their Eruption the Abingdon-forces under Colonel Brown Sally out Engage and maintain a short fight with the Royalists with little hopes of prevailing till an Unfortunate shot wounded Colonel Gage in the head of which he dyed as soon as he came to Oxford and so that project was laid aside The King had so closely prosecuted his intentions for Peace that it being in the depth of Winter both Armies in their quarters and the two Factions of Presbytery and Independency jealous of one another the modelling of the Army requiring also some gain and advantage of time a Treaty so often proposed by the King was now admitted to be managed at Vxbridge by Commissioners on both sides The Kings Commissioners were as Follow Duke of Richmond and Lenox Marquess of Hertford Earl of Southampton Earl of Kingston Earl of Chichester Lord Capel Lord Seymore Lord Hatton Lord Culpeper Sir Edward Nicholas Sir Edward Hide afterwards Lord Chancellor Sir Richard Lane Sir Thomas Gardiner Sir Orlando Bridgeman Mr. Iohn Ashburnham Mr. Ieffery Palmer Dr. Stuart and Dr. Hammond Divines The Parliaments Commissioners were Earl of Northumberland Earl of Pembroke Earl of Salisbury Earl of Denbigh Lord Wenman Mr. Denzil Hollis Mr. William Pierpoint Sir Henry Vane Jun. Mr. Crew Mr. Whitlock Mr. Prideaux Mr. Vines a Minister The Scotch Commissioners Lord London Sir Charles Erskin Mr. Dundas Mr. Brackley Mr. Alexander Henderson Minister The main things first to be treated of were first Religion second Militia third Ireland For Religion the King would not alter Government by Bishops but would give way to some amendments in the Liturgie upon advice For the Militia he would consent some Forts and Garrisons should remain in the Parliaments hands pro tempore for security of the agreement the King having the nomination of half the Commissioners For Ireland the King would not abrogate the Cessation until he were sure the Rebellion here were at an end having to avoid that popular demand and to prevent any insisting upon that point given Order to the Marquess of Ormond to conclude a Peace but however to continue the Cessation for a year for which he should promise the Irish if he could have it no cheaper to joyn with them against the Scots and Inchiqueen for by that time the King said he hoped his condition would be such as the Irish should be glad to accept of less or he enabled to grant more The Parliament on the contrary side insisted as to Religion upon the taking away of the Kings Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction his Donations and Temporalties of Bishopricks his First-fruits and Tenths of Bishops Deans Deans and Chapters not offering to constitute the least dependance of the Clergy upon the King to the Presbyterian mode compensating him with Bishops Lands in lieu of all those which of
Sir William Brereton now commanded in chief as Major-General of those Counties who civilly courted the Lord Byron the Governour to a Surrender laying before him the impossibility of any Army of Forces that could be advanced that way for that the King was beset in all his Garrisons either by close or open Sieges which at last the Noble Lord hearkned unto and upon very honourable Conditions Surrendred it by Articles the 3 of February And thence Sir William went to besiege Litchfield-close which not long after he gayned by the same way of Treaty as will appear in its due place Several other places of lesser concernment without much parley surrendred likewise suspected of bribery or such-like practises which were finely palliated by the necessity that compelled the greater to their rendition The House now upon discharging the Wardship of the heirs male of Sir Christopher Wray a Member of the said House take an occasion to Vote down the Court of Wards and Liveries All the Kings strength in the field except that Army that was pen'd up in Cornwal was now collected under the Command of the Lord Ashley who was marching to joyn his Infantry with the Kings remains of his Cavalry about Farringdon whereabouts Colonel Rainsborough and Fleetwood kept their Post having an eye upon that design of conjunction and Colonel Morgan and Sir William Brereton pursued him in the Rear from Hereford and Worcestershire At Stow in the Would they overtook and set upon him wearied in his Quarters but his men were yet not willing to resigne their swords till after a fair dispute they were over-powred 1500 taken Prisoners with himself and all his Baggage and Ammunition This was the last battel that was fought hac vice for the King in England and which put a period to any further attempts in the field the Royalists being forced to take up in their strong Holds or submit to the Parliament and endeavour a Composition which was the main work but too hastily entred upon as their own sad experience soon informed them And just before this the 14 of March the Lord Hopton accepted of Terms for the disbanding of his Army which was in this manner After this worsting at Torrington and marching back into Cornwal General Fairfax followed him within two days to Launceston where Colonel Basset with 500 men at first made opposition but was compelled to abandon it as likewise Saltash was quitted and Mount Edgecomb offered a Treaty and not far from thence Sir Iames Smith with a strong party fell upon some of the Van of their Army with good success but having notice of Cromwels approach timely withdrew and gave them liberty to possess Bodmin while the Lord Hopton made his head-Quarters at Truro from whence the Prince embarqued and set Sail for the Island of Scilly with the Lord Culpeper and others which occasioned General Fairfax to complement the Lord Hopton to a disbanding as reckoning them by the Princes forsaking them as good as lost Among other terms offered him this to his particular self as being honour from the mouth of an enemy is requisite to be inserted Lastly for your self besides what is imployed to you in common with others you may be assured of such Meditation to the Parliament on your behalf both from my self and others as for one whom for personal worth and many vertues but especially for your care of and moderation towards the Country we honour and esteem above any other of your party whose error supposing you more swayed with principles of Honour and Conscience we most pity and whose happiness so far as is consistant with the publique welfare we should delight in more than in your least suffering In the mean while the Army advanced and neer St. Columbe beat up the Quarters of the Princes Regiment who made a gallant Charge through the enemy and broke their first divisions but fresh supplies coming they drew off in order leaving behind them Major-General Pert a gallant person mortally wounded a Prisoner but so rebated the edge of the enemies courage that they halted a while and part of the Army drew back to Bodmin more resolved for Treaty than Conquest To which place came the Lord Hopton's answer wherein he pretended his understanding of a likelyhood of agreement between the King his Master and the Parliament which he said without any other Treaty would conclude him and desired to be referred thereto but Fairfax urging this Overture to his advantage would allow of no such delays but his Terms he offered being honourable was all he could grant acquainting his Lordship that there was no such probability of Accommodation and indeed his Lordship was greatly mistaken for there was never any such intention before nor after and delays were dangerous in respect of assistance both from the French and Irish which had been promised to be landed for the Kings service in that County Hereupon the Army also advancing a Treaty was concluded on at Tresilian-bridge and a Cessation agreed to and the General thereupon though with much reluctancy of the Lord Hopton made Truro his Head-quarters so that now the Kings Forces had but six miles in bredth being as it were pounded up as Essex before The conclusion of the Treaty was followed by the rendition of St. Mawes Castle The number of the disbanded was nine Brigades the French consisting of three Regiments the Lord Wentworth's of four Sir Iames Smith's of three the Lord Cleveland's of four Major-General Web's of three the Lord Hopton's commanded by Colonel Bevil the Lord Goring's of five and the Princes Regiment consisting of seven hundred and Sir Richard Greenvil's Reformadoes The Conditions were That they should march away with Horse and Arms in number according to their respective qualities more or less as they should chuse to go abroad to Foreign Service or with Passes to go home each Colonel with eight or six horses six or two pair of Pistols and so other inferior Officers respectively the common Troopers to have twenty shillings a man for their Horses which upon ratifying the Agreement being noised many of the Royalists sold their horses before-hand and got spittle-Jades in their stead which upon their disbanding were turned upon their hand The Lord Hopton was allowed fourty Horse and Arms for himself and twelve men the Lord Wentworth twenty five Horse and Arms for himself and eight men These were the most material and in six days performed All the French were presently shipped for their Country by provision made by the General at Plymouth whither he went accompanied by Lieutenant-General Cromwel being welcomed by the discharge of 300 Pieces of Ordnance while the Army retreated back into Devon-shire to make an end of the Siege of Exceter where Sir Hardress Waller had continued during this Cornish Expedition and the Lords Hopton and Wentworth not deigning the Jurisdiction or indeed any favour from their fellow-subjects at Westminster
Aug. 7. Your Lordships humble servant THO. FAIRFAX To which the Marquess Answered thus SIR ALthough my infirmities might justly claim priviledge in so sudden an Answer yet because you desire it and I not willing to delay your time to your Letter of Summons to deliver up my house and the onely house now in my possession to cover my head in These are to let you know that if you did understand the condition I am in I dare say out of your Judgment you would not think it a reasonable demand I am loth to be the Author of mine own Ruine on both sides and therefore desire to have leave to send to his Majesty to know his pleasure what he will have done with his Garrison As for my house I presume he will command nothing neither know I how either by Law or Conscience I should be forced out of it To this I desire your return and rest Your Excellencies humble Servant H. WORCESTER To which the General replyed that for sending to his Majestie it had been denyed to the most considerable Garrison in England further than an account of the thing done upon the Surrender which he offered that for the destruction of his Lordships house and Garrison he should not have troubled his Lordship were it disgarrisoned And repeats inconveniences upon a refusal To this the Marquess answers that he hath twenty thousand pounds due from the King lent out of his Purse it is believed the Loyal Noble Marquess might have said four times as much being the richest and freest Subject the King had which would be lost if he in this matter should displease him alledges his familiarity with Sir Thomas his Grandfather in Henry Earl of Huntingtons time President of the North for whose sake he supposeth were it known to him the General would do what safe courtesie he could Desires if he might have his Means and be at quiet by the Parliaments approbation and not vexed with the malice of the Committees of that County to be quit of the Garrison and to that purpose expects what Conditions he will give The General returns that he will give such as shall be fit and satisfactory for the Souldiers to his Lordship and Family all security and quiet from any that belongs to him note that the Marquess was then excepted out of Pardon he will interpose betwixt his Lordship and the Committees that they shall do nothing without order from the Parliament to whom he hath liberty to send and from whom upon a present Surrender and submission to their Mercy and Favour he may presume on better Terms than if he stand to extremity Proposeth the sad example of the Marquess of Winchester who lost all by the same resolution For the twenty thousand pounds he may send to the King at the same time with an account of the Surrender The Marquess rejoyns and desires to be satisfied whether if any conclusion shall be made he shall afterwards be left to the mercy of the Parliament for alteration at their Wills and pleasures and cites to that purpose the Earl of Shrewsburies case and divers others whose Conditions were broken He knows that by the Generals Will and Consent it should never be but Souldiers are unruly and the Parliament Vnquestionable and therefore desires Pardon for his just cause of Fear This was Answered by Sir Thomas that what he granted he would undertake to make good And as to the instance of the Lord of Shrewsbury the Actors in that breach who were none of his Army have received their Censure and by this time he believes Execution The first result between them was at the desire of the Marquess a Cessation for six hours but nothing being concluded on the Army proceeded in their Approaches which were cast up within sixty yards of their Works when the Marquess was induced and perswaded by them within to come to a Capitulation which was in effect the same with others And on the 19 of August the Castle was Surrendred according to Agreement into which the General entred and had some speech with the Marquess and so back again to Bath There marched out besides the Marquess who cast himself wholly upon the mercy of the Parliament the Lord Charley his Son the Countess of Glamorgan Sir Philip Iones Doctor Bayly a Commissary 4 Colonels 82 Captains 16 Lieutenants 6 Cornets 4 Ensigns 4 Quarter-masters 52 Esquires and Gentlemen as by the Catalogue of them taken by the Advocate of the Army appeared I do not wonder the gallant Marquess was so loth to part with his house for not long after and 't is presumed from some thought sadness and trouble of minde of being forced from this his Castle and exposed to the fury of his Enemies he departed this life A man of very great Parts and becoming his Honours of great Fortitude of mind either Actively or Passively and to whom the King was much beholden He was nevertheless better at his Pen than the Sword and a great deal happier for he hath used that with rare success as some of his Works in print viz his Apophthegms and Discourses and Disputes with his Majesty concerning Religion do abundantly demonstrate He lived âo see himself undone and a most plentiful estate spoyled and Ruined but anticipated and fore-ran that of the Kingdom which soon after followed Conway-Castle was taken by storm by Forces under Major-General Mitton to whom Sir Thomas Fairfax would have spared some Forces but he would have no partakers of his Trophies but those men he had raised himself and hitherto kept as a distinct Body pretending he had more men than money to pay them He also took in Carnarvan-Castle seconded by Major-General Laugborn his Country-man being delivered upon good Articles by the Lord Byron who had before so stoutly maintained Chester Ludlow was likewise delivered and Litchfield-Close to Sir William Brereton Borstal-house by Sir Charles Campian slain after at Colchester together with Gothâridge So that the Pen is quite worn out with scribling of Articles and desires to be excused from further particulars Onely we may not omit Pendennis-Castle and Mount Michael in Cornwal taken during the siege of Exeter by Colonel Hammond which stood out still by the resolution and Loyalty of a right Noble Gentleman of that County Iohn Arundel of Treacise Esquire the Governour it had been blockt up by Land by Colonel Richard Fortescue and by Vice-Admiral Batten by Sea ever since the General departed no Summons could prevail without his Majesties special Order to Surrender whom the Governour was very instant to have leave to send to All the deficiency was in Provision and no Relief could enter save two Shallops who got in at the break of day at which time the Parliaments Shallops that in the night-time lay close to the Castle to intercept them drew off for fear of being discovered as they were so neer within the reach of the Cannon The
that I may be in the same state of Freedom I was in when I was last at Hampton-Court And indeed less cannot in any reasonable measure make good those offers which you have made me by your Votes For how can I Treat with Honour so long as people are terrified with Votes and Orders against coming to speak or write to me And am I honourably Treated so long as there is none about me except a Barber who came now with the Commissioners that ever I named to wait upon me Or with Freedom until I may call such to me of whose service I shall have use in so great and difficult a work And for Safety I speak not of my Person having no apprehension that way how can I judge to make a safe and well-grounded Peace until I may know without disguise the true present state of all my Dominions and particularly of all those whose Interests are necessarily concerned in the Peace of the Kingdoms Which leads me naturally to the last necessary demand I shall make for the bringing this Treaty to an happy end which is That you alone or you and I joyntly do invite the Scots to send some persons authorized by them to treat upon such Propositions as they shall make For certainly the Publique and Necessary Interest they have in this great Settlement is so clearly plain to all the world that I believe no body will deny the necessity of their concurrence in order to a durable Peace Wherefore I will only say that as I am a King of both Nations so will I yield to none in either Kingdom for being truly and zealously affected for the Good and Honour of both my resolution being never to be partial for either to the prejudice of the other Now as to the place because I conceive it to be rather a circumstantial than a real part of this Treaty I shall not much insist upon it I name Newport in this Isle yet the fervent zeal I have that a speedy end be put to these unhappy distractions doth force me earnestly to desire you to consider what a great loss of time it will be to Treat so far from the Body of my two Houses when every small Debate of which doubtless there will be many must be transmitted to Westminster before they be concluded And really I think though to some it may seem a Paradox that peoples minds will be much more apt to settle seeing me Treat in or near London than in the Isle because so long as I am here it will never be believed by many that I am really so free as before this Treaty begin I expect to be And so I leave and recommend this Point to your serious consideration And thus I have not only fully accepted of the Treaty which you have propounded to me by the Votes of the 3 of this Month but also given it all the furtherance that lies in me by demanding the necessary means for the effectual performance thereof All which are so necessarily implied by though not particularly mentioned in the Votes that I can no way doubt of your ready compliance with me herein I have now no more to say but to conjure you by all that is dear to Christians Honest Men or good Patriots that you will make all the expedition possible to begin this happy Work by hasting down your Commissioners fully authorized and well instructed and by enabling me as I have shewed you to Treat Praying the God of Peace so to bless our endeavours that all my Dominions may speedily enjoy a safe and well-grounded Peace Carisbroke Aug. 10. All which desires of the King were assented to to their full intent and purpose and five Lords and ten Commoners appointed Commissioners for the Treaty whose names were as followeth The Earls of Northumberland Pembroke Salisbury Middlesex and Lord Viscount Say The Lord Wenman Mr. Denzil Hollis Mr. William Pierpoint Sir Henry Vane Junior Sir Harbottle Grimstone Mr. Samuel Brown Sir Iohn Potts Mr. Crew Serjeant Glyn and Mr. Bulkley The Treaty to begin ten days after the Kings Assent to Treat as is agreed and to continue from thence forty days Resolved likewise That His Majesty be desired to Pass his Royal Word to make his constant Residence in the Isle of Wight from the time of his Assenting to Treat until twenty days after the Treaty be ended unless it be otherwise desired by both Houses of Parliament and that after His Royal Word so Passed and his Assent given to Treat as aforesaid from thenceforth the former Instructions of the 16 of Nov. 1647. be vacated and these observed and that Col. Hammond be authorized to receive His Majesties Royal Word Passed to his two Houses of Parliament for his Residence in the Isle of Wight accordingly as is formerly exprest and shall certifie the same to both Houses They likewise Repealed the Votes of Non-address and desired a List from his Majesty of those he would have to attend him Whereupon the King by his Message of the 28 of August not being in the former limitation accepted of the Treaty desiring the expediting of the Commissioners and sent them a List of those persons he desired to be with him First for the Journey into Scotland he desired a Pass for Mr. Parsons one of the Grooms of his Presence-Chamber next the Duke of Richmond Marquess Hartford Earl of Lindsey Earl of Southampton Gentlemen of his Bed-chamber Mr. Kirk Mr. Leviston Mr. Murray Mr. Iohn Ashburnham Mr. Legg Grooms of his said Bed-chamber Mr. Hen Mr. Rogers Mr. Lovet Pages of his Back-stairs Sir Fulk Grevil Captain Titus Captain Burroughs Mr. Cresset Abr. Dowset Firebrace to wait as they did or as he should appoint them The Bishops of London and Salisbury Drs Shelden Hammond Oldsworth Sanderson Turner Heywood Chaplains Davis his Barber Rives Yeoman of the Robes Sir Edward Sidenham Mr. Terwhit Hunsdon Esquires Mrs Wheeler Landress Sir Thomas Gardiner Sir Orlando Bridgeman Sir Robert Holbourn Mr. Ieffrey Palmer Mr. Thomas Cook Mr. Iohn Vaughan Lawyers Sir Edward Walker Mr. Philip Warwick Mr. Nicholas Oudart Mr. Charles Whitaker Clerks and Writers Mr. Clement Kinnersley and Mr. Peter Newton to make ready the House for Treaty To which at the Kings request were after added for the Civil Law the Kings Advocate Dr. Rives Dr. Duck and these Divines the Bishops of Armagh Exeter Rochester and Worcester Dr. Ferne and Dr. Morley The Treaty began the 18th of September which the King so prudentially managed single against all the Commissioners none of his Party being suffered to assist him at the Conferences that there appeared some hopes of a right understanding The Propositions concerning Religion took up the longest time both in discourse and writing whereby he fully evinced the right of Episcopacie which his Answers with his Majesties Propositions on the 2 of Octob. being sent up to the Parliament notwithstanding produced these Votes Resolved by the
of good City-Extraction a Colonel made by Fairfax Lieutenant of the Tower for a while Lord Mayor of London and one of the infamous Triers of his Sovereign the meritorious service oâ all his preferments and greatness ¶ Col. George Fleetwood of Buckingham-shire Kinsman to Sir Miles Master of the Kings Court of Wards and Brother to Sir William a very Loyal and honest Gentleman and to Charles Fleetwood a very Knave and Fool. ¶ Iames Temple of Sussex Colonel came in to this pack for his share of the spoil a man remarkable for nothing but this horrid business ¶ Thomas Wait a Râtlândshire-man a Recruit to the Parliament chosen by the Armes influence and from a mean person made by them Governour of Burleigh by which means he became engaged to their Interests and Designes ¶ Peter Temple formerly a Linnen-drapers apprentice in Friday-street but his elder Brother dying forsook his Trade and was possest of some 400 pounds a year in Leicestershire was as a Recruit chosen Burgess for that County-town as Colleague to Sir Arthur Haslerig made a Captain of Horse and a great Committee-man but of very weak parts and easie to be led where the hopes and promises of profit guided him yet got nothing though a constant Rumper being fooled by Oliver into the snare as he hath often confessed it ¶ Robert Lilburn of the Bishoprick of Durham Brother of Iohn Lilburn the Trouble-world sided formerly with Cromwel and was through-paced to his Interests though another Brother repented and would have kept Tinmouth-castle for the King when Iohn fell off upon a Model of his own A Colonel of Horse he was made a while before this Regicide and so ran fearlesly into the danger of it ¶ Gilbert Millington a Lawyer and constant Chair-man of the Committee for plundered Ministers the sweets of which Imployment set his Teeth on edge and sharpned him to this cruel attempt upon his Sovereigns life ¶ Vincent Potter a Recruit of the said Long-Parliament a Mushroom-Member so suddenly sprung up and from such ignoâe Relations that the only knowledge of him came by this infamous Murder ¶ Iohn Downes formerly a Citizen then a Colonel in the Army and a Recruit to the Parliament and by menaces and threats engaged in this fatal business he would have opposed the violence that carried it but was over-born himself his Allegeance and Conscience being over-awed by Cromwel These of the Kings Iudges marked with â are those that fled the Kingdome upon His Majesties Return â Thomas Wogan a recruit likewise to the Parliament had his lesson set him upon his procured Election that he was to endeavour the Ruine of the Kingdom for his share in it and to destroy the King to become himself one of our Princes in the Anarchy â Iohn Lisle a Gentleman and a Lawyer bred was born of a good Family who had a fair Patrimony in the Isle of Wight whose Father dyed there during the Treaty a severe and supercilious person clouded always with pretences of Religion and Common-wealth Interest The very picture of a male-content and by his countenance the counterfeit of Guy Fauks his Dark-lanthorn directed to this conspiracy For his service done herein he was made one of the Commissioners of the new Great Seal Master of Saint Crosses a place onely fit for a Divine worth 800 per annum in place of a reverend Doctor for which preferments he became obliged to the Blood-sucking State to assume the Scarlet Robes and the as deep dyed guilt of Iohn Bradshaw and be President to all the High Courts of Justice during the Usurpation the last effects of his sanguinous violence being the death of Sir Henry Slingsby Doctor Hewit and others of lesser quality He fled upon the return of the King and not long after fell himself by the hand of Violence â William Say Esquire a Member also of the Long Robe and a well-practised but ill counselled Lawyer who for the Fee of this wicked combination had Liberty to get what he could being foysted in as one of the illegal recruits of the Long-Parliament He sate in the Chair of the Scorner when Lenthall the Speaker was sick of the sullens for ten days upon the approach of General Monke and gave himself the Thanks of the House while three Kingdoms gave him their Curses He is relatively good by a Brother now living Fellow of Oriel-Colledge in Oxford for whose sake I will speak no more of him till Justice finde him for he is fled â Col. Valentine Walton whose first remarque was the marriage of Cromwel's Sister by whose awe and command he was made by the Parliament Governour of Lyn and Bashaw of the Isle of Ely which place he had fortified if before Cromwel could have compleated his designe he had been forced thither He hath escaped hitherto but remains in the list of the Fugitives of that tribe â Col. Edward Whalley once a Wollen-draper descended from a Family in Nottingham-shire but decaying left the Ell and took up the Spear and from our first Troubles continued in them till he rose to be Commissary-General of the Horse These advantages taught him first to betray the King at Hampton-Court under pretence of affection when he made him fly to the Isle of Wight and to murder him afterwards without any scruple He is fled also â Edmund Ludlow whose Father was a Traytor before him and uttered Treasonable words against the King in the House of Commons in 1643. which were afterwards accomplished by his Son in this unparallell'd Fact who by several gradations in the Parliament and Army came to be a Lieutenant-General and one of the chief Commissioners for Ireland â Sir Michael Livesey a person of an undone reputation and Estate in Kent whose Plunder-Master-General he was in the progress of the War a fit person for the employment Dignum patella operculum â Iohn Hewson a broken Shoo-maker or Cobler who by degrees rose to be a Colonel a Fellow fit for any mischief and capable of nothing else as his story will declare and therefore no wonder that he was a partaker in this impiety He is since dead in Exile and was buried by report at Amsterdam â William Goffe a Salters Apprentice run from his Master into the Army and by his boldness was notified to the Grandees thereof who liking of his humour preferred him and served themselves with his company in this flagitious crime â Cornelius Holland a Servant to Sir Henry Vane and preferred by him to the Green-cloth in the Kings Houshould His Father was a poor man and dyed a Prisoner in the Fleet but this Fellow got a vast Estate by his disloyalty against a good Master whom he not onely robbed but murthered â Thomas Challoner a great Republican and Enemy to the King his Family and Government since he knew what it was the great Speech-maker against him
let the English escape and not venture the fortune of War upon an Enemy made desperate of which there were so many sad examples saying that God had delivered Agag meaning Cromwel into their power and if they let him go would require him at their hands On Tuesday-morning at four of the Clock a Brigade of the English Army drew down to possess themselves of a Pass upon the Road between Edenburgh and Berwick which being had they might with the more ease and advantage make their way home and in order thereto pass over to the Enemy to fall upon them This Brigade consisted of three Regiments of Horse of Major-General Lambert's Commissary-General Whaley's and Colonel Lilburn's and two of Foot This gave the Scots a great Alarm and a sore dispute happened about the Pass which lasted above an hour the great Guns playing in the mean time against both the Bodies At length that stout Brigade gained and possessed the Pass much gallantry and bravery being shewed on both sides This Pass lay at Copperspeth in the English way homewards to impede which they had drawn off their best Horse upon the right Wing to receive the English whose Word was The Lord of Hosts theirs The Covenant The Enemy charged hereupon with their Lanciers so that the Horse gave way a little but immediately Rallied and the Foot advancing to second them the Scots were charged so home that they put them presently to the rout it being about six a clock in the morning the left Wing of Horse without striking one stroke following the same way the Foot seeing this rout and flight of the Horse and not able in any order by reason thereof to Engage were all of a sudden so confused and confounded that without any resistance or offer of Engagement they threw down their Arms and fled giving the English the full pursuit of them above eight miles beyond Haddington The number of the slain were 4000 9000 Prisoners many whereof were desperately wounded and 10000 Arms all their Ammunition Bag and Bagage Prisoners of Note were Sir Iames Lumsdale Lieutenant-General of the Army the Lord Libberton imployed by the Estates to the King lately and died of his wounds presently after the Fight at Dunbar Adjutant-General Bickerton Scout-master Campbel Sir William Douglas Lord Cranston and Colonel Gurden 12 Lieutenant-Colonels 6 Majors 42 Captains 75 Lieutenants 17 Cornets 2 Quarter-masters 110 Ensignes Foot and Horse Colours 200 27 Guns some Brass Iron and Leather with the loss of not above 300 English and one Major Rookisly who died after of his Wounds There was likewise taken the Purse to the great Seal of Scotland which was presently sent up to London and the Colours with those taken before at Preston ordered forthwith to be hung up in Westminster-hall The full Contents of all which was signified in a Letter from the General in his usual strain of devout zeal tending very much to strengthen the Independent against the Presbyterian at home and the advancement of a Commonwealth to the imitation of the rest of the World the latter part thereof for the severe aspect it had towards the Ministry in favour of Anabaptists with which the Army swarmed I have here inserted The Ministers of Scotland have hindered the passage of those things meaning his Affection to the good people of Scotland to those to whom we intended them and now we see that not onely the deceived people but some of the Ministers three or four are fallen in the fight This is the great hand of the Lord and worthy of the consideration of those who taking into their hands the Instrument of a foolish Shepherd to wit medling with worldly policies and mixtures of Earthly powers to set up that which they call the Kingdom of Christ which is neither it nor if it were it would such be found effectual to that end and neglect or trust not to the Word of God the Sword of the Spirit which is alone able and powerful to that end and when trusted to will be found effectually able c. This is HUMBLY offered for their sakes who have lately turned too much aside that they might return again to Preach Iesus Christ c. and then no doubt they will discern and finde your protection and encouragement Which Humble offer was to command a strict Inquisition upon them as those most probable to obstruct the new Model and his future greatness The glory of this field though it were by his own party ascribed to his Valour yet it laid a great blemish on his Conduct and indeed the rescue of his honour is principally to be referred to Colonel Monke whose company he had obliged in this Expedition being very understanding in the choice and as subtile in the shaking off his Friends and Familiars He had newly had a Regiment conferred on him made up of recruits and other impârfect Compâââes and did now at the Generals request draw and designe the fight and embattle the Army and seconded that deliberate speculation with forwardest of action for which indeed most of the Officers were very praise-worthy After the fight Cromwel used some catching courtesies to the wounded Souldiers and the feebler sort of Prisoners but the poor Highlanders and such-like paid dear for that partial kindness shewed their Country-men as many as with difficulty lived being sold for slaves Nor were their Lords and Superiours at home in much better condition of minde being confounded and distracted at this strange and most unexpected disaster The Kirk immediately ran to her old trick of humiliation assigning their vain confidence in the arm of flesh to be the sole and most just cause of this their defeat not considering their disloyal arrogance to and most unnatural diffidence in their Leige-Lord and Soveraign was that accursed thing which God made inquisition after in this blood though they had hidden it and most hypocritically vail'd it under the covering of the Covenant These were the rigid Kirk-men whose peevish obstinacy this remarkable success of the English was so far from reclaiming that in the conclusion they totally prevaricated from the interest of their Nation Others the more sober being taught by this Lesson what it was to set up and maintain parties and factions when the Enemy was at the door and so Victoriously potent were for the perfect reconciling and uniting them which necessary most incumbent and pressing affair was yet unhappily hindred by even those men themselves who when they began to consider how they must part with that Supream and extraordinary power they had so long Usurped made so many nice difficulties by their Cavils and Disputes about the admission of the Royal party that Cromwel had fixed such âooting in their Country that made it a difficult task to them to keep any part for themselves The Royalists onely and the King himself by all manner of tenderness and condescentions studying the common preservation and suffering any thing from
after the Battle the names of which were the Lord Widdrington Major-General Sir Thomas Tildesly Colonel Mat. Boyton Sir Francis Gamul Lieutenant-Colonel Gallyard and Major Trollop and Chester the Prisoners were Sir William Throckmorton Colonel Richard Leg Colonel Robinson Bayns Gerard Lieutenant-Colonel Rigby Constable and Major Gower and some 300 Prisoners among whom were some Reformadoes and some 80 slain for the chief slaughter fell on the other side during the fight The Earl of Derby having lost his George and Garter fled with some 30 towards Worcester having by the good providence of God who alone is able to bring Evil out of Good sheltered himself one night in a house called Boscobel which Heaven by this means had prepared for the Kings retreat and preservation By this time Cromwel had surrounded that City with his spreading Host in as neer a compass as the Rivers and Passes would suffer him the Kings Army as yet lying out of the Town a mile in the fields The first Pass endeavoured to be taken was Vpton-Bridge on Fleetwoods side which Major-General Lambert attempted with 500 Horse and Dragoons and after a brisk dispute wrested from Col. Massey who in defence thereof received a wound in his Hand the first mark of his redeemed honour in that member which had been so unhappily active and successful against the King The Scots having thus abandoned the place it was presently possest by a strong party of Horse and Foot in order to the present advance of the rest of the Army The Scots now drawn closer to Worcester made many Salleys breaking down two or three Bridges over the River Team and shewing a well-ordered and governed courage but September the 3 that ominous day being arrived Cromwel resolved to venture the event upon its former auspicia and to that purpose having his Boats in readiness pass'd over his men in the afternoon of that day he drew out from his own Post and having given the signal to the whole Army to fall on began the Fight in this manner Cromwel himself in person about three a clock with his Life-Guard and Colonel Hacker's Regiment of Horse with part of his own Regiment and Colonel Ingoldsby's and Fairfax's entire passed over his Bridge of Boats upon the Severn and marched towards the City after him Lieutenant-General Fleetwood who had been most part of that day marching of five miles from Vpton to Powick-bridge which the Kings Army had broken down passed with Colonel Goff's and Major-General Dean's Regiments and joyntly advanced the Kings Forces encountering them at the Hedges and disputing every field with them in such order and with such gallantry that these already over lest they should not be wholly discouraged with the hotness of the Service were relieved by Reserves and they by others no considerable progress yet made the Highlanders proving excellent fire-men and coming to the But-end at every foot till weary and their Ammunition spent the King being then upon the place Commanded them in some haste into the City and hastened himself to the other side where Colonel Hayn's Regiment with Cobbet's stood about Powick-Bridge and were entertained with no less manhood and slaughter and though Colonel Matthews was the Reserve to the other two Regiments yet did the Scotch Foot fairly drive them from their ground till their little Army being every way engaged and no seconds or supplies to be expected after some wheelings in a careless regard of the Enemy as if they feared not to make which way they pleased they drew likewise into the Town as did that Brigade which opposed the Regiments of the Lord Gray Colonel Blague Gibbons and Marsh. But they stayed not long there but as if their pent spirits had broke out with greater fury they sallied out in great Bodies upon the Generals side who had now brought the Militia-Forces into play the Veterans wisely detrecting to engage first upon the Storm which was then intended but there was yet field-matter enough to do In the head of one of those Squadrons the King himself Charged with that gallantry which would have become our admiration in other men and shewed he had not forgot the Discipline of War in which he had been brought up from his youth In one of those Charges he made Duke Hamilton a better Souldier and noble gallanter person than his Brother received a shot in his Thigh whereof presently after he died The loss that was sustained by the Enemy fell principally upon the Essex-Foot and those of Cheshire and Surrey who returned in thin Troops and Companies to their Counties but fresh and entire Brigades and Regiments in Reserves namely Desborough's Regiment of Horse Cromwel's of Horse Major-General Lambert's of Horse Whaley's Harrison's and Tomlinson's Brigades with other Foot re-inforcing them the Scots by the over-powering multitude were driven into the Town Lesley with 2000 Horse upon what account not known not stirring out of the Town to relieve them when the Enemy entred pell-mell with them and gained the Fort-Royal about seven a clock at night at which time the King left the Town it being dusk and accompanied with some 60 Horse of the chiefest and most confident of his Retinue though many more pressed to bear him Company departed out of St. Martins gate and it was reported that Cobbet very narrowly mist of him as the King left his Lodging whither he first hastned The Enemies Foot was now got into the Town and according to their order fell a Plundering the Town in a most barbarous manner as if Turks were again Sacking of Constantinople and giving no Quarter to any they found in the Streets Through this their greediness of spoil they kept the Horse out lest they should have shared the better part and to that purpose kept the Gates fast as they were and so favoured as God would have it the Kings escape Some Scots who had got into one of the Churches held out till next morning when they obtained Quarter for Life by which time there was not an Inhabitant in Worcester Friend or Foe left Unplundered but the Loyal Inhabitants soon recovered themselves being supplied with fresh Wares to their desires from London without any scruple of credit or payment and their Debts forborn till such time as God should enable them which the Gentry and Inhabitants round about them endeavoured to bring to pass by thâiâ more than ordinary resort to that Market for all necessaries and upon all occasions The Mayor being Knighted by the King and Aldermen were Committed to Prison and the Wife of one Guyes who for betraying the designes of the King in that Garrison was Hanged was rewarded with 200 l. per annum and 200 l. down There were slain in Field and in Town in the last the most and in pursuit some 2000 and some 8000 taken Prisoners in several places most of the English escaping by their Shibboleth the principal were Duke Hamilton who presently died of his wounds
respective Counties made them infamously known The rest were of his Partisans in the Parliament and High Court of Iustice and for credit-sake some two or three Fanatick-Noblemen excepted always the latent honour of the Renowned Monke Howard and Montague and some Knights and amongst them for honesty sake Sir A. Ashley Cooper though for all those Titles and Generosities it was better known like it self by the Name of Barebone's Parliament whose Christian-Name was Praise God a Leather-seller in Fleetstreet a Brownist or such kinde of Separatist from the Church of England long before the War and now a Member in this Convention into which these Evocati had adopted Cromwel Lambert Harrison Thomlinson and Desborough because forsooth none of the Army would intrude and generally none to be admitted but such of whom this House should be satisfied of their real Godliness and this by a preliminary Vote Iuly 5. These strangers to our Israel but Proselytes of the Good Cause and Iewish in every other respect since they obtained the Name of a Parliament are as well worth a shew as the other a Ballad and these are the Names of the Monster Berks. Samuel Dunch Vincent Goddard Thomas Wood. Bedford Nathaniel Taylor Edward Cater Buckingham George Fleetwood George Baldwin Cambridge Iohn Sadler Thomas French Robert Castle Samuel Warner Chester Robert Duckenfield Henry Berkenhead Four Northern Counties Charles Howard Robert Fenwick Henry Dawson Henry Ogle Cornwal Robert Bennet Francis Langdon Anthony Rous. Iohn Bawden Derby Iervas Bennet Nathaniel Barton Devon George Monke one of the Generals at Sea Iohn Carew Thomas Sanders Christopher Martin Iames Erisey Francis Rous. Richard Sweet Dorset William Sydenham Iohn Bingham Essex Ioachim Matthews Henry Barrington Iohn Brewster Christopher Earl Dudly Templer Gloucester Iohn Crofts William Neast Robert Holmes Southampton Richard Norton Richard Major Iohn Hildesly Hertford Henry Lawrence William Reeve Hereford Wroth Rogers Iohn Herring Huntington Edward Montague Stephen Pheasant Kent Lord Viscount Lisle Thomas Blount Wilâiam Kenrick William Cullen Andrew Broughton Lancaster William West Iohn Sawrey Robert Cunliff Leicester Henry Danvers Edward Smith Iohn Prat. Lincoln Sir William Brownlow Richard Cust. Barnaby Bowtel Humphrey Walcot William Thompson Middlesex Sir William Roberts Augustine Wingfield Arthur Squib Monmouth Philip Iones Northampton Sir Gilbert Pickering Thomas Brook Norfolk Robert Iermy Tobias Freere Ralph Wolmer Henry King William Burton Nottingham Iohn Oddingsels Edward Clud Oxon. Sir Charles Wolsley William Draper Dr. Ionathan Goddard Rutland Edward Horseman Salop. William Bottrel Thomas Baker Stafford George Bellot Iohn Chetwood Suffolk Iacob Caley Francis Brewster Robert Dunkon Iohn Clarke Edward Plumstead Somerset Robert Blake one of the Generals at Sea Iohn Pyne Dennis Hollister Henry Henley Surrey Samuel Highland Lawrence March Sussex Anthony Stapley William Spence Nathaniel Studeley Warwick Iohn St. Nicholas Richard Lucy Wilts Sir Anthony Ashly-Cooper Nicholas Green Thomas Eyre Worcester Richard Salwey Iohn Iames. York George Lord Eure. Walter Strickland Francis Lassels Iohn Anlaby Thomas Dickenson Thomas St. Nicholas Roger Coats Edward Gill. London Robert Titchborn Iohn Ireton Samuel Moyer Iohn Langley Iohn Stone Henry Barton Praise God Barebone Wales Bushy Mansel Iames Philips Iohn Williams Hugh Courtney Richard Price Iohn Brown Scotland Sir Iames Hope Alexander Bredy Iohn Swinton William Lockart Alexander Ieffries Ireland Sir Robert King Col. Iohn Hewson Col. Henry Cromwel Col. Iohn Clark Daniel Hutchison Vincent Gookyn Such an Assembly or Trim Tram was very unlikely to settle the Nation who though they expected all mischief imaginable from them yet could not forbear with the Sun in a Cloud to smile at their ridiculous unhappiness Indeed it was but a Cloud for it soon vanished and disappeared at the storm of Oliver's furious Ambition and therefore there needs not much more to be said of it than Astrologers do of Comets and Eclipses who reckon onely their continuance which was from the 4 of Iuly to the 12 of December in which these angry products were visible First an Act for Marriages by a Justice of Peace having been in debate by the Long Parliament the Banes to be published in the Market three several days and the words of that Sacred Ordinance onely inverted and the fashion changed with an Appendix concerning Church-Registers and a Proviso that no other Marriage should be valid and Lawful whereupon all civil people were forced to be twice joyned though but once Married Next after this Matrimonial Coupling in a wilder humour they fell upon a Consultation of Repudiating the Body of the Law by divorcing it from the People and a new Foundation to be laid and Systems of their own projections to be brought in the place of it and these were to be adequated to the measure and square of a Fifth Monarchy and those Monstrous absurdities Then in order thereunto an Act was hammering for abolishing of Tithes ejecting scandalous Ministers and constituting Commissioners to go the Circuit to enquire and visit the Parishes and most of their Debates were spent hereupon And lastly in preparation to Oliver's designe who yet managed and put them upon those enormous Whimseys to the making them most odious and all Parliameâts with them though under pretence of grievance to many Godly people especially and the whole Nation in general the non-procedure at Law without subscribing the Engagement was taken away also all Fines upon Bills Declarations and Original Writs were taken off and the Chancery very neer a total subversion a Bill being ready to that purpose Those were their devices as to the Law and the Regulation of Government see the rest to the maintenance of it and the carrying on of the Affairs of the Commonwealth as their Secretaries tââmed it First an Act was framed out of an Ordinance of the late preceding Council of State for a Lottery of the Rebels Lands in Ireland in which one Methuselah Turner a Linnen-draper in Cheapside and one Brandriffe a Cloth-drawer were Named Commissioners and had already sate in Grocers-Hall with such other most incompetent Judges of the affair In this Act the Rebellion was declared to be at an end and that the several Adventurers and Souldiers for their Arrears should have ten Counties set out and assigned for their satisfaction and if that should not satisfie the County of Louth should be added to make it up with many other clauses of length and restriction and this was passed as an Introduction to the Grand Grievance of Publick Faith-money undertaken by those shrimps which was able to crush their House full of such as Hercules but it was well applied to cajole the People many of whom had been very forward in supplies of Money to the Irish war and the Souldiers there that were to be made firm to Cromwel's Interest by such obligations of Lands and Estates A new Council of State was now of the same teeming but of a mightier strain Oliver and his Grand Officers and Partisans entirely constituting it not a puny of those
almost run from their Wits in rage and madness Cromwel was Appointed and Declared for Protector of this Infant-Commonwealth and it was a tedious interval to him the Chancery-Court at Westminster-hall being prepared for the Ceremony of the Instalment in this manner after the usual seeking of God by the Officers of the Army The Protector about one of the clock in the afternoon came from White hall to Westminster to the Chancery-Court attended by the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal of England Barons of the Exchâquer and Judges in their Robes after them the Council of the Commonwealth and the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Recorder of the City of London in their Scarlet Gowns then came the Protector attended with many of the chief Officers of the Army A Chair of State being set in the said Court of Chancery the Protector stood on the left hand thereof uncovered till a large Writing in Parchment in the manner of an Oath was read there being the power with which the Protector was Invested and how the Protector is to Govern the three Nations which the Protector accepted of and subscribed in the face of the Court and immediately hereupon sate down covered in the Chair The Lords Commissioners then delivered up the Great Seal of England to the Protector and the Lord Mayor his Sword and Cap of Maintenance all which the Protector returned immediately to them again The Court then rose and the Protector was attended back as aforesaid to the Banqueting-house in White-hall the Lord Mayor himself uncovered carrying the Sword before the Protector all the way and coming into the Banqueting-house an Exhortation was made by Mr. Lockyer after which the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Judges departed The Instrument or Module framed to be the Foundation of this present Government was chiefly made up of these following Heads 1. The Protector should call a Parliament every three years 2. That the first should Assemble on the third of September 1654. 3. That he would not Dissolve the Parliament till it had sat five Months 4. That such Bills as they offered to him he not Passing them in twenty days should Pass without him 5. That he should have a select Council not exceeding one and twenty nor under thirteen 6. That immediately after his Death the Council should chuse another Protector before they rose 7. That no Protector after him should be General of the Army 8. That the Protector should have power to make Peace or War 9. That in the Intervals of Parliament he and his Council might make Laws that should be binding to the Subjects c. With some other popular Lurdes and common incidencies of Government not worth the recital which were confirmed and strenuously validated by this his Oath I Promise in the presence of God not to violate or infringe the matters and things contained in the Instrument but to observe and cause the same to be observed and in all things to the best of my understanding govern the Nations according to the Laws Statutes and Customs to seek their Peace and cause Justice and Law to be equally administred The Feat needed no more security as good altogether as its Authority in this foâlowing Proclamation which was published throughout England Scotland and Ireland in these words Whereas the late Parliament Dissolved themselves and resigning their Powers Authorities the Government of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland in a Lord Protector and successive Triennial Parliaments is now established And whereas Oliver Cromwel Captain-General of all the Forces of this Common-wealth is declared Lord Protector of the said Nations and hath accepted thereof We have therefore thought it necessary as we hereby do to make publication of the Premises and strictly to charge and command all and every person or persons of what quality and condition soever in any of the said three Nations to take notice hereof and to conform and submit themselves to the Government so established And all Sheriffs Mayors Bayliffs c. are required to publish this Proclamation to the end none may have cause to pretend Ignorance in this behalf Great shooting off Guns at night and Vollies of acclamations were given at the close of this mock-solemnity by Cromwel's Janizaries while the Royalists were more joyfully disposed at the hopes of the King's Affairs but no body of any account giving the Usurper a good word or miskiditchee with his Greatness save what was uttered in Fur by the Lord Mayor and the Complices in this Fact who tickled his Ears with the Eccho of the Proclamation done with the usual Formalities These Triumphs so disgusted Harrison as also Colonel Rich that he withdrew himself from the Gang and turned publick Preacher or Railer against his Comrade Oliver who was glad to be rid of such a busie and impertinent Assistant in the moduling of Government So Cromwel had now two Commonwealth contra-divided Factions against him the old and the new Parliaments and therefore it neerly concerned him to make much of the Anabaptist and Sectary which now succeeded Independency as the Religion maintained and favoured above all other and Kiffin a great Leader and Teacher was now in great request at the Court at White-hall and contrarily Sir Henry Vane jun. was looked on a-skue as also Sir Ar. Hazilrig and Bradshaw and Scot. And so the Babel-builders were confounded one amongst another The Council appointed by Officers or taken rather by himself by whose advice he was to govern were 14 at first Lord Lambert Lord Viscount Lisle General Desbrow Sir Gilbert Pickering Major-General Skippon Sir Anthony Ashly-Cooper Walter Strickland Esquire Sir Charles Wolsley Colonel Philip Iones Francis Rous Esquire Richard Major Esquire Iohn Lawrence Esquire Colonel Edward Montague Colonel William Sydenham By these another Proclamation came out enabling all Officers Sheriffs and Justices of the Peace to continue in their respective places and Audience and Conference was given to the Dutch Embassadors who besides their last loss by Fight had suffered very greatly by the same storm that endangered our Fleet as De Wit was returning from the Sound which made them ply hard for a Cessation in order to a speedy Peace And General Monke was now riding at St. Hellens-point by the Isle of Wight with a considerable Fleet Colonel Lilburn was likewise ordered to Command in chief the Forces of Scotland who had defeated the Earl of Kinoule and his party and Sir Arthur Forbes another Chieftain of the Royal party was routed neer Dumfrieze and himself desperately wounded while the main Army Quartered in Murrey-land and thence to Elgin Colonel Morgan being sent to attend their motion The Noble Wogan who from France had by the way of Durham and Barwick and through a Fayr in open day marched into Scotland and had joyned with those Scotch Royalists and done excellent service in beating up of Quarters and attempting them in all their marches and advances came now at
were rather Simon Magus his own Disciples and certainly there were never such Simoniacks in the World not a Living of value but what a Friend or the best Purchaser was admitted into to which Humane Learning even where a former Right was was a good and sufficient Bar no less to the Ruine than the Scandal of the Church of England and the Protestant Religion and professors thereof several ignorant bold Laicks being inducted into the best Spiritualities as best consisted with Oliver's Interest which depended upon the Sectaries and their hideous divisions in Religion Anno Dom. 1654. HAving thus described the Foundation of this Stratocracy or Army-power we shall not be obliged to any tedious survey of the superstructure which was onely for shew and of little duration supported with temporary shifting Props in every emergency for this great one rather inhabited a Labyrinth than a Court which shewed much variety of Art but like a House of Cards was ready to be whelmed over his Head with every gust of adverse Fortune a cross Restive Government he had of it and was never able to keep it in the right Road and true way of policy And so we proceed in a brief account of State-Occurrences The 6 of April came forth an Ordinance settling Commissioners for Probation of Wills and Administrations c. by want of which power there having been no settled Judge of the Prerogative-Court whose Name abolished the thing very great and many inconveniencies had happened to the Nation Another Ordinance prohibited Cock-matches and Horse-races and all such confluxes or meetings of people for a Plot was now a hatching at White-hall and this was the first overt-signe of it Next the Commission of the Great Seal was altered and Whitlock Lisle and Sir Thomas Widdrington were made Commissioners A Prohibition by another Ordinance to the Committee at Salters Hall concerning Prisoners which were selling of Estates though never so barred by Law to satisfie the Creditors which would have made a quick confusion of Propriety And the Dutch Peace the charge of the War being now paid by that State according to private agreement of the sum was fully concluded and in April Proclaimed A Quaking Prophetess named Hannah Trapnel a forerunner of Iames Naylor now appeared who reported her Visions and Raptures and was attended by several of the Grandees of the male-contented party as Carew and others the most of her delusions she acted in the Counties of Devonshire and Cornwal till she was with some of her Partizans secured in Prison The Scotch Affairs were reputed finished as to any War though the Bustle yet so held and encreased in the Highlands that the spoils of the Conquest were now set out and made accomptable to the Victor The Lords Estates and Hereditaments of the Scotch Nobility and Gentry who Invaded England under Duke Hamilton and came in with the King to Worcester and were yet in Arms were ordered to be sold and to that purpose were invested in the Trust of Sir William Hope Lockhart Sir Richard Saltonstall Lieutenant-Colonel Wilks and others and were actually seized into their hands and the rest of them were Fined in several sums of Money to be paid within six Months some 2000 l. some 5000 l. some few 10000 l. but none under 1000 l. amounting to a greater mass of silver than Scotland was worth in ready Cash so that those who were compell'd to obey though many complemental and humble applications and addresses as is customary to that Nation were made for mitigation were forced to take up Money at unreasonable Interest which rose at last by the like occasions to 30 in the hundred An Ordinance passed with this for uniting of Scotland into one Commonwealth with England it seems the Act of Parliament to the same purpose was not sufficient and the Arms thereof ordered to be quartered as were the Irish with our Cross and Harp and Oliver's Lion Salâant was placed in the middle which is as good Herauldry as this Escutcheon deserves That Kingdom by vertue thereof to be charged no otherwise in Assessments and Tax than proportionably to England and to pay no greater Excise c. An Ordinance likewise for mending and repairing Highways and Bridges which the War had spoiled and were yet every where unrepaired a very necessary and good work for the benefit of the Nation no Waggon being suffered thereafter to travel with above five Horses nor six Oxen and one Horse and care was taken likewise about the shodding of the Wheels General Monke arrives in Scotland and Proclaims Oliver in great state at Edenburgh and Arguile plainly and openly sides with the English and foments divisions among the Scots his Son the Lord Lorn departing in a discontent and quarrel from the Earl of Glencarn and returning to the old Fox his Father The French King Crowned at Rheims having been declared Major and our Soveraign invited to the Solemnity while the Intrigues of Mazarine were driving a conclusion of peace with Cromwel The Designe now appeared which Oliver had hatched for some while and had laboured by his treacherous Agents to mature to something therefore first of all a general search is made throughout London for Cavaliers and thereupon Colonel Iohn Gerrard as before Mr. Vowel and Somerset Fox were brought before the High Court of Iustice Proclaimed the 13 and sitting the 31 of Iune in which interval they had prepared their business and provided Witnesses and drew up the Charge After twice or thrice Conventing of the aforesaid Gentlemen an Accusation was brought of their intention to assassinate the Protector with one Major Henshaw and others fled to the proof whereof they produced young Mr. Charles Gerrard against his Brother as also one Wiseman and one Mr. Hudson a blinde Minister whose Brother was that eminent person who accompanied and guarded the late King in his flight from Oxford that had been cherished by Mr. Vowel against him who yet retracted from his Examination and could not be brought by the threats of the Court to make it good and yet they made it valid Somerset Fox as he was instructed before by promise of Life confessing the Guilt thereby involving the other two innocent Gentlemen and craving mercy It availed not them to deny this Charge though never so much reason and strength of argument on their side Lisle the President summing up the prejudiced suffrages of the Court gave Sentence of Hanging which was Executed Iuly the 10 on Mr. Vowel at Charing-Cross where with a Roman Spirit tempered with Christian Patience he suffered his Martyrdom off from a Stool âetcht from the Guard the adjacent Neighbours refusing to lend any thing to his Death the Executioner having his Ladder not in readiness Colonel Gerrard was Beheaded on Tower-hill who expresly denied the intention of the Fact and from this reason because he thought it might be far from the honour and great minde of the King whose injunction this was said
for inspecting of Charters and some forward pragmatical Country-Burgesses were very busie to supplicate a renewal of some augmenting of and granting others de novo of this Committee Mr. Gabriel Beck his Highness's Sollicitor was chief who were to report their Consults to the Council Gloucester Cathedral was now very ruinous and the Citizens begg'd it for a School-house and afterwards had it for a Church in some part according to its first pious institution The Spanish War was like to prove too chargeable for Oliver's Purse for all his devices of Decimation Piedmont and Iews and therefore resolved to call another Parliament hoping so to awe the Elections having had time to improve that power he had assumed to himself together with the disappointment the late Parliament had met with and the desire of Settlement which the new acquired Wealth and Estates by the vast purchases of Crown and other Lands vehemently enforced together with the severe penalties on Royalists Electing and Elected and the flagging wearied opposition of striving thus in vain against his uncontroulable will would so propitiate his designes in this Convention that under the pretence of the said Settlement he might establish himself and obtain supplies for carrying on the said War He set up the Major-Generals to force themselves into the peoples trust and abhorence together for as the mad actions of the Little Parliament were on purpose suffered and dictated to them to make the people chuse any Government rather and submit to a Single Person upon his own score So these Major-Generals tyrannical proceedings by vertue of his unknown unlimited Authority would incline men to seek for a Government established by Law to which he and his Officers under him might be thought at least and deemed accountable and he was in a fair way to a Monarchical Form and nothing wanting but a good Title or the peoples Assent These were his aims upon this Convention for suffrages wherein his party and all that he could make to his side were no less sedulous and industrious and if they failed in the major voice he could but use the same trick of Seclusion The Major-Generals had pretty well prepared the way by aspersing many seizing others and threatning the rest of the Gentry by displacing Burgesses and disfranchising one sort and admitting another to Freedoms and at the day of Election which was the 20 of August attending at the places with Foot and Horse and got themselves returned by this means with others of their nomination Thus Berkstead got himself with Kiffin the Anabaptist returned Knights for Middlesex And when such persons were chosen in the very face of the Kingdom little other choice could be expected in obscure and remoter parts A rout was brought down for Kiffin who together with Red-coats that were onely the good people and had most right to chuse bawled scuffled and jugled away the fair Election of young Mr. Chute his Father difficultly carrying it And worse Jugling there was in Scotland and Ireland of which 60 there could not be said to be any choice at all further than the nomination of the respective Councils of both Kingdoms To facilitate the effect of this project Sir Henry Vane and Feak upon the Commonwealth and Little Parliaments account and Colonel Russel and other Royalists upon the Cavalier-account were seized and sent to Prison and a Proclamation of 20 miles again the 12 of September During this Cabal and the serious carrying of it on a Freak or Crotchet took Mr. Robert Villiers next related to the Lord Purbeck in the Head of changing his Name by Patent of Cromwel to Danvers having Married the Daughter of Sir Iohn Danvers Brother to the Earl of Danby the last of that Family being another of the Kings Judges as was observed in Sir William Constable The reason he alledged was the many disservices his Name had done the Commonwealth and he intended to become a probationer for a Parliament-mans place and a Protectorian-Consider but it was said some Natural not Political reasons induced him to this alteration On the 17 of September the Members met at the Abbey-Church in Westminster whither came Cromwel with his Guard and Gentlemen and heard a Sermon Preached by Dr. Owen Dean of Christ-Church upon these words in Isaiah What shall one then answer to the Messengers of the Land That the Lord hath founded Zion and the poor of his people shall rejoyce A Sermon calculated to the device of the Settlement and for which next day by Sir Iohn Berkstead Knighted a little before and Mr. Maidstone the Protector 's Steward of his house he had the Thanks of the Parliament At the entrance whereunto after this Preachment the Members found a Guard and an Officer standing with a List in his Hand and demanding the Names of every of them and such as were marked for non-admittance were turned back for notwithstanding all this diligence and foul play far the major part of the House were against the Single Person especially against Oliver whom the Republicans hated more than ever they did the Kingship in our Soveraign those within nevertheless stood not to ask what was become of their Fellows without but proceeded and appointed a Fast and to prevent application of the Secluded to them as of right they turned them over by an Order to the Protector 's Council for approbation which most of the Country-Gentlemen disdaining quickly departed home which others seeing that were admitted not thinking the most of this remnant fit company for men of honesty or fashion they also absented themselves that their Names might not be abused by continuing with them to countenance their proceedings Cromwel saw the Test of a Recognition would not serve turn for they had learnt his own Art of time-serving Engagements and therefore went this illegal bold way to work contenting himself with this pickt Juncto which made a shew of a Parliament but quota portio faecis Achaeae Sir Thomas Widdrington was chosen Speaker These fell to his business and first of all to make room for the Olivarian Title a Bill was brought in for annulling the pretended Title of the King by the Name of Charles Stuart another âor the Security of the Protector 's his Highnesses Person pursued with a Vote that the Parliament declared the War against the Spaniard to be undertaken upon just grounds and that they will assist hâs Highness therein and Voted the manner of the supply to be taken into consideration with all speed And for their better encouragement the first news they had since their Sitting was of a success of the English Fleet lying upon the Coast of Spain in expectation of the Plate-fleeâ coming in or their Convoy of 40 Men of War going out from Cadiz one of which the Spaniard feared in earnest and the other he threatned in a Bravado It happened thus the Generals Blake and Montague being gone to the Bay of Wyers to
out of policy addressed to the captating their good will and favour towards the easier ascent to his designed Soveraignty Cromwel's other Son Henry was also in Progress in Ireland shewing himself to the Army and People these upon the same account that Kingdom being allotted to him for his Inheritance to hold it or this in Fee Fleetwood was intended for Scotland in the same capacity and Command but Hic labor hoc opus General Monke was not easily removed thence fair means were not effectual nor practicable as things stood and a Rupture or Revolt of that Kingdom was not to be ventured on by any open force or declared War against him His third Daughter Mary was likewise promoted to an honourable Match being Married to the Lord-Viscount Faulconbridge on the 18 of November with a great do of State at Hampton-Court the recess and delight of the Usurper whither he went and came always in an hurry and post nor did he dare to be further off from the City of London This Title was conferred on the Family of Bellasis by the King in the War and was taken for valid upon this Wedding His youngest Daughter Francis was soon after Married to Mr. Rich the Earl of Warwick's Grand-son A new Charter constituting a new East-India-Company which Trade had lain in Common for some years now passed the Seal Cromwel being one of them and putting in a Stock which turned to the account of his Majesty as of due some time afterwards Mr. Downing was sent his Envoy into Holland One Colonel Saxby taken at Gravesend on shipboard of Syndercombe's Counsel being a Leveller died as was supposed of Poyson in the Tower of London which rendered Syndercombe's end more plainly suspected The Festival of Christmass which had been abrogated by several Lawless Ordinances and endeavoured to be suppressed revived its head and began to recover its pristine veneration This greatly offended the Usurper who perceived that notwithstanding all his Edicts and Interminations against the Church and her Protestant-Professors the true Religion prevailed against him and with that infallibly the Kings Interest would joyntly rise the thought of which was most grievous and not endurable Notice being given him now of a private Assembly solemnizing the mercy and memory of that day at Dr. Gunning's at Exeter-house in the Strand he sent a Band of Red-coats to seize them who over-and-above Plundered and Stript many of them and carried some away Prisoners to answer this contempt against his Injunction And so without any Blood which was taken for a wonder in this interval we are arrived to the return of the Parliament after the expiration of the Adjournment when according to the 4th Article of the Petition and Advice which provided for the freedom of Parliaments and another for Another House as 't was called Cromwel giving it that Nick-name or Mid-word as bordering upon an Upper-House of Parliament and of the same new coyning as Protectorship which entrencht upon the Soveraignty ut Canis sit Catuli They met together in two Houses that of the Commons to their full number of Elections that of the What do ye call um's in the House of Lords in and according to the usual customs of the Peers These conscious of their own worthlessness and their inconsistency with the English honour like the basest of Upstarts bewrayed their meanness by all manner of abject compliance and fawning upon the Commons their half-Parent who being rightly constituted disowned the spurious Brat as a by-blow of the former Convention and with such scorn and derision did they receive the notice of their meeting there besides the neglect of it as if they had been the most ridiculous fellows in the World a may-game spleen-moving spectacle with What did they there who sent for them what was their business like intruding Fidlers to serious Company Notwithstanding these Imps of the Usurpers Prerogative as instructed persisted in their Courtships and Blandiments of the Commons as aforesaid It should have been mentioned that Oliver in his Speech to them did highly magnifie the Settlement as beyond all expectation that ever such brave things would have been done for England and hinted much of the establishment of Religion the Neck whereof was just then broken as we may say and that if they persevered in that hopeful beginning the Generations to come should call them Blessed That posterity may be fully informed of the Institution Number and Names of the aforesaid fellows of the other House in brief take this account The Parliament left the choice of them to Cromwel by the Humble Petition and he graced with this Dignity most of his superiour Officers some Grandee-Comnonwealths-men some Presbyterians some of the Nobility as the Earl of Manchester Lord Wharton Lord Mulgrave all of his Privy-Council and Relations and one or two private Gentlemen of which Mr. Hambden was one The Nobility prudentially forbore sitting with that riff-raff the Presbyterians with much scruple but Sir Arthur Haslerig utterly abominated it and kept his station with the Commons as so contra-distinguished The whole number named was 62 of which some ten were the worst of Mechanicks such as Pride Hewson Kelsey Cooper Goffe Berry c. whom we refer to the ensuing Catalogue to which the Names of the Judges and Serjeants are added The Members of the other House alias House of Lords Lord Richard Cromwel Lord Henry Cromwel Deputy of Ireland Nath. Fiennes Commis of the Great Seal Iohn Lisle Commis of the Great Seal Hen. Lawrence President of the Council Charles Fleetwood Lieut. Gen. of the Army Robert Earl of Warwick Edmund Earl of Mulgrave Edward Earl of Manchester Will. Ld. Viscount Say and Seal Philip Lord Viscount Lisle Charles Lord Viscount Howard Philip Lord Wharton Thomas Lord Faulconbridge George Lord Evers Iohn Cleypole Esq. Iohn Desbrow Generals at Sea Edw. Montague Generals at Sea Bulst Whitlock Commis of the Treasury Wil. Sydenham Commis of the Treasury Sir Charles Wolsley Sir Gilbert Pickering Walter Strickland Esq. Philip Skippon Esq. Francis Rous Esq. Iohn Iones Esq. Sir William Strickland Iohn Fiennes Esq. Sir Francis Russel Sir Thomas Honywood Sir Arthur Haslerig Sir Iohn Hobart Sir Richard Onslow Sir Gilbert Gerrard Sir William Roberts Glyn Chief Justices of both Benches Oli. St. Iohn Chief Justices of both Benches William Pierrepoint Esq. Iohn Crew Esq. Alexander Popham Esq. Philip Iones Esq. Sir Christopher Pack Sir Robert Titchborn Edward Whaley Commis Gen. Sir Iohn Berkstead Lieutenant of the Tower Sir Thomas Pride Sir George Fleetwood Sir Iohn Huson Richard Ingoldsby Esq. Iames Berry Esq. William Goff Esq. Thomas Cooper Esq. George Monke Gen. in Scotland David Earl of Cassils Sir William Lockhart Archibald Iohnson of Wareston William Steel Chancellor of Ireland Roger Lord Broghil Sir Matthew Thomlinson William Lenthal Master of the Rolls Richard Hampden Esq. Commissioners of the Great Seal and their Officers Nathaniel Fiennes Iohn Lisle William Lenthal Master of
Mr. Ansley walking afterwards into the Hall the House not being ready to sit to let the Members know that though they were repulsed by force on Saturday the House was open for honest men this day at his return Captain Lewson of Goff's Regiment as he confessed himself and other Officers denied him entrance he asking them whether they were a Committee to judge of Members without doors they said No but they were Commanded by their superiour Officers to let none in that had not sate till April 1653. After some reasoning the case with them the Captain told Mr. Ansley that if he would give his Parol to return without sitting he might go in and speak with whom he pleased so upon his Parol passed to the Captain he was permitted to go in the second time and soon after returned telling the Captain as he came out that he had kept his Parol and wished he and the Souldiers would do the like Mr. Pryn continued still there and resolved so to do since he saw there was Force again upon the House and had some discourse within doors and made them lose that Morning and adjourn by reason of his presence without the Speakers taking the Chair he attempted to sit again in the Afternoon but found there a Troop of Horse and two Companies of Red-coats Keepers of the Liberties of England and so bid them farewel immediately after which to prevent further interruption in their works of Darkness from Honest men they barred the Door against three parts of four of the Members of the House by the following Vote Ordered That such persons heretofore Members of this Parliament as have not sate in this Parliament since the year 1648. and have not subscribed the Engagement in the Roll of Engagement of this House shall not sit in this House till further order of the Parliament Whereupon Sir George Booth Mr. Ansley Mr. Knightly Mr. Pryn and the rest who had agreed on a Letter to be sent to them finding them in their old temper of trampling the priviledges of Parliament under foot and Judging without Hearing resolved to make no application to them Thus we saw to the vexation of the Kingdom the same pretended Parliament as was sitting in 1653. till the Protector Oliver by the best act of his life pull'd them out of the House sitting again upon a Declaration of the Army whose Slaves they were to do what they please as time discovered And that we might see they could trust few but themselves and were not changed for all their fained repentance they were already returned to the Good Old Cause of preferring one another and their Friends into good Offices and Commands and Counsellors places as appeared by their Vote of the 9th of May viz. The Parliament doth declare That all such as shall be employed in any place of Trust or Power in the Commonwealth be able for the discharge of such Trust and that they be persons fearing God and that have given testimony to all the people of God and of their faithfulness to this Commonwealth according to the Declaration of Parliament of the 7 th of May 1659. And such their proceedings thereupon that forthwith they chose of their own Members for a Council of State 21. viz. Sir Arthur Haslerig or the Bishop of Durham Sir Henry Vane Ludlow Io. Iones Sydenham Scot. Saloway Fleetwood Sir Iames Harrington Col. Walton Nevil Chaloner Downes Whitlock Herb. Morley Sidney Col. Thompson Col. Dixwel Mr. Reynolds Oliver St. Iohn Mr. Wallop Of Persons without the House 10. viz. Bradshaw Lambert Desborough Lord Fairfax Berry Sir Tho. Honeywood Sir Archi. Iohnson Iosiah Berners Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper a Gentleman too wise honest to sit in such company Sir Hor. Townsend a Gent. of too good an Estate to be hazarded with such a crew Next they discontinued the Term to the great damage and discontent of the people because many Suits were depending against Vane and Haslerig In fine what they were like to prove or what good rather what evil was dreaded and expected from them to an utter despair and enragement of the whole Nation did sufficiently appear from the esteem the people had of them in the Elections to the last Parliament wherein though none but persons well-affected to Parliaments had Votes and the persons now sitting laboured hard to be chosen very few of them were Elected the people generally looking upon them as apostates from the Good Old Cause and therefore no wonder they would have that Parliament to which onely they were chosen never dissolved Going about by the example of the Army whose Apes they were to cozen the people of their Religion Laws Liberties Parliaments and Money with a Rattle called the Good Old Cause which was a Cheat greater than any of the former Being thus reseated and having entred for qualitie though not for number worse if worse could be than when they were turned out before they fell as readily as if there had been no disaster on their power upon selling the remainder of the King's Lands as Hampton-court Somerset-house Greenwich c. All persons were commanded to quit White-hall whence the miserable Richard for whom the Army had conditioned for ten thousand per annum for his life c. in fear of Arrests had withdrawn himself into the Country Thither these his Masters sent to him a Committee for his submission and resignation to which they sweetned him with a kinde demand of his Debts of which by their Conditions they were tied to discharge him He at first answered not home to the Resignation but being urged for they knew his Title was as good as theirs to do it he in express terms added He had learnt not to be unquiet under Gods hand and should cause all persons relating to him to behave themselves peaceably under the Government from whom he expected Protection May 25. Then he gave them a Transcript of his Debts by the hands of his Steward and they thereupon took him off a debt of 29640 l. and gave him a Protection for six Months and together his dismission having taken and seized all the Plate Hoshould-stuff and other Utensils whatsoever in White-hall together with what Jewels they could finde into their possession and so exit Richard in such a pitiful regardless condition but by his Creditors that we shall hear but little of him further in this Chronicle They were next saluted with an Address from the Army in Scotland wherein they confessed and lamented their former miscarriages towards them but at the end thereof there was a hard word subjoyned That the defection was fomented and caused by some of themselves and this was afterwards construed as a bone of Contention and Jealousie thrown in amongst them At home the Judges Commissions being expired they appointed Serjeant Nudigate for the Kings-Bench Serjeant Atkins and Archer for the Common-Pleas and Serjeant Parker for the Exchequer where Wilde and Hill were afterwards placed and
designed one of his Daughters for him and had been lately released by Richard's Parliament out of Windsor-castle came in now and gave security for his peaceable demeanour Arms were every where privately bought up and on the other side Ireton the then Lord-Mayor a very active person Brother to Ireton deceased raised a Regiment of City-Horse though the City Petitioned against it and the separated Churches raised three Regiments of their Members under Sir Henry Vane Colonel White and Skippon who being through-paced for the Good Old Cause was by them made Major-General of the City and all Horses secured therein Posts came now from several parts of the Kingdom of Stirs and Insurrections the two first whereof were at Tunbridge but a party of Horse the Council of State having right and punctual Information were soon at the appointed place of Rendezvouze so that those that would have met there dispersed themselves some few being taken Prisoners The other at Red-hill in Surrey where appeared some 100 under the Command of the Earl of Litchfield since Duke of Richmond who upon notice of the Armies Horse advancing got timely away young Mr. Sackvile Crow Mr. Penruddock and some others of note among whom was one Captain Elsemere formerly a Captain in Ingoldsby's Regiment being taken and some former Troopers of the same who were afterwards Sentenced Colonel Massey appeared likewise in Gloucester-shire but by the same perfect intelligence at White-hall he was no sooner up but he was seized and taken by some of their Horse and being put behinde one of the Troopers to bring him away as they were marching down a Hill the Horse fell and gave the Colonel an opportunity to shove the Trooper forwards and to make his escape into an adjoyning Wood which was the fourth he made during these troubles Hertford shire and Essex were associated likewise in the same designe now forming and acting but the like discovery prevented it Sir Thomas Leventhorpe and Mr. Thomas Fanshaw hardly escaping a surprize and seizure Major-General Brown was not idle all the while in London several Lists being filled with undertakers of the Kings Quarrel but such was the vigilance of the Council of State who sate day and night and so many defeats and disappointments and so many Prisoners evey day brought in that nothing was done here Lambeth Gate-house was made a Goal and Sir Francis Vincent and Colonel Brown of Surrey concerned in the Earl of Litchfield's attempt were Committed thither But that which look'd indeed formidable was the rising of Sir George Booth in Cheshire who was a secluded Member of the Parliament with him appeared the Lord Kilmorry Mr. Needham Brother to the said Lord Mr. Henry and Mr. Peter Brook a Member likewise Sir William Neil Major-General Randal Egerton an eminent constant Royalist who brought his former Valour upon this Stage and Colonel Robert Werden of the same party which last two were put into that Proclamation wherein Sir George Booth Sir Thomas Middleton with their adherents were Proclaimed Traytors the same Sir Thomas Middleton and his sons who Garrisoned Chirk and Harding Castles the last belonging of Justice Glyn there joyned also with him the Earl of Derby whose Family Interest in that Country with the same magnanimous Loyalty this young Nobleman essayed to resuscitate and gave great demonstration of his personal worth and Gallantry in the ensuing Engagement but I may not be as I ought copious in his praise Nec Deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus Colonel Gilbert Ireland who seized Liverpole Mr. Warburton and Mr. Leigh the Lord Cholmondley Mr. Marbury Mr. since Sir Ieoffery Shackerly and others these Rendezvouzed at Routon heath and appeared to the number of 3000 and upwards where a Declaration was read and published shewing that they took up Arms for a Free-Parliament and to unyoak the Nation from the slavery of those men at Westminster To second this the noble Lord Byron with Colonel Charles White with a party from Nottingham Rendezvouzed at Sherwood-forrest with a designe on Belvoyr-castle but were frustrated and so onward to Derby where they published Sir George's Declaration which the Towns-men very well approved of but Forces under Colonel Sanders being on their way thither they were forced to sit still and cry peccavi Colonel White was taken Prisoner Another appearance there was about Shrewsbury but all came to nothing the Lady Littletons's Sons and the Whittingtons were herein engaged As soon as the news of this Sir George Booth's rising was publique a Petition was presented to the Parliament from some pretended Cheshire-men wherein they set forth that to prevent the like Rebellious Insurrections the Parliament should discharge all Tenants of their Tenures from Delinquent Land-lords and that they should hold their Lands thenceforth of the Commonwealth at the same time and straight a Committee was ordered to withdraw and bring in a draught of this deviâe and Major-General Lambert was Commissioned to march with three Regiments of Horse and three of Foot and some Dragoons Militia-forces being to joyn with him in his march and some Forces out of Ireland under Colonel Zanchy and Axâel â to the reduction of Sir George and his Forces Colonel Desb rough was likewise sent with the same Command and some Forces into the West Proclamatiân came out at this time against Mr. Mordant the Earl of Litchfield ââjor-Genâral Brown Sir William Compton Sir Thomas Leventhorpe and Mr. Faâshaw the three last of whom rendered themselves within the time the two first fled and the Major-General awaiting another opportunity absconded himself at Stationers-Hall by the faithful secrecy of Captain Burroughâ The Earl of Stamford who was likewise engaged in this business was taken at his House in Arms and carried Prisoner to Leicester which was the condition of many other Gentlemen the Earl of Oxford Prisoner to the Serjeant at Arms the Lords Faulkland and Delaware to the Tower whither not long after was brought the Lord Viscount Falconbridge the Lord Bellasis and Earl of Chesterfield Lord Charles Howard and Lord Castleton Lambert with no great hast marched to the Confines of Chester desirous to make a War of it and to settle himself in the Souldiers affections but such course had been taken by his Masters that very few accessions of strength came in to Sir George more than what were first numbered who nevertheless resolved to abide the fortune of Battle and drew up neer Norwich whither Lambert was advancing in the Meadows adjoyning having the Rivers before them and the Bridges guarded but Lambert's Horse and Foot resolutely falâââg on together at the Bridge the Fight was soon over all the defence being made by one Morgan a gallant Gentleman and some Horse of his Troop who presently died of his Wounds There were not above 30 killed in all and some 500 taken Prisoners and most of the Gentlemen and Officers This was August 16. and presently the Army advanced to Chester where Colonel
the Officers and some words but never a blow for the Soldiers were resolved not to Fight one against the other for the best Parliament or the best Cause that ever was in England In this posture they continued till Night when the Council of State who umpired the difference between the Red-Coats commanded and ordered them to their several Quarters as good friends as ever It must be remembred that the Rump suspecting of this Juncto of State had privately named another to Act if a dissolution should happen The Army-Officers the next day after this Conquest met at Whitehal and declared Fleetwood for their General They appointed also a select number of the Council of State to consider of fit ways to carry on the Affairs of the Common-wealth and suspended all those Officers that were active on the other side and referred them to a Court Martial for remedy giving power to Fleetwood Ludlow Desborough Lambert Sir Henry Vane and Berry to nominate all Officers and appointed the reviving of the old Laws of Military Discipline and that Fleetwood as before should be owned for General and Lambert and Desborough as Major and Commissary General the latter in England and Scotland too not a syllable mentioned of General Moncks consent to the bargain save that Colonel Cobbet was dispatched thither to inform him of the Passages as Colonel Barrough was sent upon the same errand to Ireland That Committee just before mentioned of which Vane Whitlock Lambert and Berry were chief Fleetwood and Desborough must needs be in begot or gigged themselves into another Committee called a Committee of Safety some few more being added from the City who were to consider of a form of Government and if they thought fit to advise with the General Council of Officers and to bring in a Draught within six weeks their power the same with the former Council of State to which this was added they were to call Delinquets to Tryal and to give Indemnity to all that had acted for the Parliament since 1641. to suppress Rebellious Insurrections to Treat with Forreign Princes to confer Offices and to state the Sales and Compositions of those late Delinquents their Names were as follow viz. Fleetwood Lambert Desborough Steel Whitlock Vane Ludlow Sydenham Salloway Strickland Seven last Members of the Rump Berry Laurence Olivers's President of his Council Sir Iames Harrington another Rumper Warreston a Scotch-man and Henry Brandrith a Cloath-drawer Citizen Cornelius Holland a Member Hewson Clark Bennet and Lilbourn Colonels of the Army These by Letters of Invitation being brought together to consider of a Government which Vane had already Projected the Cement whereof was an intended Marriage betwixt Lamberts's Son and his Daughter the Council of Officers emitted a Declaration shewing the reasons of the late Change and do thereby disanul the pretended Act of Treason Octob. 10. to Levy Money without consent in Parliament as done precipitantly and unduly and not according to the Custome of Parliament declare for Ministry and the maintenance of it by a less vexatious way than Tithes for Liberty and that the Army will not meddle in Civil Affairs but refer the Civil and Executive Power to the Council of State or Safety to provide for the Government and to set up a free State without King single Person or House of Lords And for Conclusion desire the Prayers of the Godly The Judges were nevertheless in this mad state of Affairs perswaded to sit in the several Courts Whitlock officiating the Chancery Sir Thomas Alleyn the Lord Mayor of London was likewise sworn before the Barons of the Exchequer Sir William Waller and others that had been snapt up by the Rump took advantage of it and brought their Habeas Corpus to the Kings Bench. Sir William got his liberty and shortly after the Earl of Northampton Lord Bellasis Faulconbridge Faulkland Castelton Lord Herbert of Ragland Lord Charles Howard were all released upon bail That wretch Bradshaw died at the Lodgings given him in the Deans-house at Westminster the beginning of this Moneth of Novemb. in the same desperate impenitence in which since the Fact he lived saying to a Gentleman on his Death-bed that charitably advised him to examine himself about the matter of the Kings Death That if it were to do again he would be the first man that should do it He was freed by this his Disease which was occasioned by an Ague as Cromwel's from the terrour and fear of the ensuing Change the apprehensions whereof setled in him ever since his Country the Cheshire Design He was grown publiquely confident and had left off his Guards he first kept about him but his privacy was more than usually and all his actions and gestures more reserved He was carried out with a great Funeral and much attendance of the Men of those Times and Interred in the Abby and his Crime published for his Commendation A little before died Edmund Prideaux the Attorney-General throughout the Usurpation by which he got a very vast Estate leaving Sixty Thousand pounds in Gold as credible report went in his Coffers besides Lands of very great demesnes This Change like a nine days wonder was quite over and the Army and Lambert here very brisk and slighting the Rump and all it could do when a Cooling Card came from the North in a Letter from General Monk declaring his unsatisfiedness with those proceedings of the Army which hugely deceived their Expectations because he had so readily concurred with their former mutation and the Officers there were many of them Phanaticks but the Case was altered he resolved to assert the Parliamentary Interest and when Cobbet sent hence came to Berwick he had him secured there and sent with a Guard Prisoner to Edinborough Castle The manner of his declaring for the Parliament was thus On the Eighteenth of October being at Dalkeith he sent for Col. Wilks Governour of Leith Lieutenant-Col Emerson Captain Ethelbert Morgan now made his Lieutenant-Colonel Lieutenant-Col Hubberthorne Cloberry and Miller to come to him whom he acquainted with his Resolution and they engaged to stand by him against the Factious part of the Army as he characterized them On the Nineteenth he come to Edinburgh where his own and Col. Talbot's Regiment with lighted Matches and Ball received him to whom he declared the same and promised them their Arrears at which they loudly shouted then he went to Leith where he was entertained in the like manner and at his departure had Seventeen Guns given him from the Citadel and Volleys from the Regiment Then he turned all the Anabaptist-Officers out of the Regiments and secured them in Timptallon-Castle At the same time upon pretences of consulting with Lieutenant-Col Young of Cobbets Regiment Lieutenant-Col Keyn and Major Kelke of Pearsons Regiment he sent for them to him and upon their coming clapt them up but released Keyn upon his promise of adherence Together with them he had advertisement that
which this Kingdom hath been involved since the violent attempts to dissolve the Established Government the best way to make up those breaches is by all means to obtain the Restoration of the King to his people and that in order thereunto a Letter from both Houses drawn up by a Committee shall be sent to the King giving him thanks for his gracious Offers and professing their duty and loyalty to him and that Sir Iohn Greenvil have the thanks of the House and 500 l. bestowed on him by the Commons to buy him a Jewel as a Testimony of the respects of the House to him and a badge of Honour which they thought fit to place upon him all which was with great solemnity punctuality performed Moreover to testifie their hearty obedience to his Majesty they ordered the sum of 50000 l. as a Present for him which was instantly borrowed with 50000 l. more of the City of London who having desired leave of the Parliament returned a like dutiful Answer with a Present also to his Majesty and his two Brothers having honourably received the Lord Viscount Mordant and the said Sir Iohn Greenvil who brought them his Majesty's Letters who also acknowledged their Quality and good Offices by 300 l. given them to buy them Rings Nor were the Souldiery wanting to this concourse and stream of general Affection and Loyalty to his Majesty for upon communication of his Majesty's Letters and Declaration they quickly drew up an Address to the General wherein they shewed their willing and ready submission as formerly in all Transactions to him their General so in this their perfect Duty to the King To whom they doubted not to evince that his Excellencie and the Army under his Command and those engaged in the Parliaments Cause had complied with the Obligations for which they were raised The Preservation of the Protestant Religion the Honour and Happiness of the King the Priviledges of Parliament the Liberty and Proprieties of the Subject and the Fundamental Laws of the Land This was seconded by the Navy under the General Montague now Earl of Sandwich to whom and the Fleet under him the King had sent the like Letters and Declaration the Sea ringing with the peals of Ordnance upon the communication of the said Papers and lastly the Governour Colonel Harlow and Garrison of Dunkirk did the same by an Address to his Excellencie A Committee was appointed to consider the manner of his Majesties Return and to prepare all things necessary for his Reception they likewise ordered his Majesty's Arms to be set up in all Churches and the Commonwealths to be taken down and that all Proceedings be in the Kings Majesties name and that the present Great Seal be made use of till further order that there might be no hindrance or stop in the proceeding of Justice Easter-Term was likewise prorogued that no business might interfere with this grand and expected Affair of the Settlement of the Kingdom All Officers as Sheriffs Justices that were in commission the 25 of April to continue and exercise the respective Offices in the King's Name It was Resolved further That the King's Majesty be desired to make a speedy return to his Parliament and to the exercise of his Kingly-Office and that in order thereunto several Commissioners from both Houses be sent to the King at Breda with their Letters to his Majesty Doctor Clargys now Sir Thomas the General 's Brother having been before sent with his to the King and to acquaint him with the said Desires and Votes of the Houses To these Commissioners others were added from the City of London the Names of them all are as followeth For the House of Lords Earl of Oxford Earl of Warwick staid at London sick of the Gout Earl of Middlesex Lord Viscount Hereford Lord Berckley Lord Brook For the House of Commons The Lord Fairfax Lord Bruce Lord Falkland Lord Castleton Lord Herbert Lord Mandevil Sir Horatio now Lord Townsend Sir Anthony now Lord Ashly Cooper Sir George Booth now Lord De la mere Denzill now Lord Hollis Sir Henry Holland Sir Iohn Cholmley For the City of London Sir Iames Bunce Baronet Alderman Langham Alderman Reynardson Alderman Sir Richard Browne Sir Nicholas Crisp Alderman Tompson Alderman Frederick Alderman Adams Sir William Wilde Recorder Sir Iohn Robinson Alderman Sir Anthony Bateman Sir William Wale Sir Theophilus Biddulph Sir Richard Ford Sir William Vincent Sir Thomas Bludworth Sir William Bateman Sir Iohn Lewis Master Chamberlain and Sir Laurence Bromfield all of them not Knighted before Knighted by the King at the Hague upon their arrival the King being removed thither from Breda as nearer and more convenient for his shipping the disposal whereof and of the whole Fleet was remitted to his Majesty's pleasure the General Montague having received Orders to obey his Majesty's Commands and Directions therein The Instructions being delivered to the Commissioners they set Sail in several Frigots appointed to attend them and with some foul Weather Landed in Holland where they were graciously and favourably received by his Majesty at the Hague I may not omit that the reception of Sir Thomas Clergys from the General was as an Embassador from a Prince the Lord Gerard with many Coaches being sent to conduct him to Audience where Mr. Hollis into whose hands the Letters were intrusted for the delivery spoke for the House of Commons the Earl of Oxford for the Lords and Sir William Wilde for the City Those that were there at their Audience agreed in Opinion that never person spoke with more affection or in better terms than Master Hollis He insisted chiefly upon the Miseries the Kingdoms had groaned under by the tyranny of the pretended Parliament and Cromwel which should now be exchanged into their repose quiet and lawful liberty beseeching his Majesty in the name of his people to return and resume the Scepter c. and assured him he should be infinitely welcome without any terms a thing so much stomacked by the Phanaticks but most just and honourable After several Treatments given the King by the Dutch which he shortned as much as he could and other Complements by Forraign Ministers to whom he gave publick Audience the Portugal only excepted and Spaniard having notice of the Fleets arrival which consisted of near Forty Sail of great Men of War he prepared to depart At this time came also to his hands the Proclamation made in London as a little before returned Sir Iohn Greenvil with the happy news of his peoples love and entire affection The Proclamation followeth being very fit to be recorded that which we mentioned in the second Part being but an earnest of this ALthough it can no way be doubted but that his Maiesties Right and Title to these Crowns and Kingdoms is and was every way compleat by the Death of his most Royal Father of Glorious Memory without the Ceremony or Solemnity of a Proclamation Yet since
the least of his present Majesties Felicities in his Restitution that he should parentate in this solemn manner to His most vilely and rebelliously abused Father That his justice might appear equally as resplendent as his clemency to the lesser guilt of his undutiful people in not suffering his innate goodness to be wrought upon so far that this unexampled parricide should pass with an unexampled impunity since the Parliament in detestation and to wipe away the stain of that perpetration had given up these persons following as Sacrifices to the Law and the Honour of their Country On the Ninth of October The Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer met at Hicks's Hall of whom were several of the chief Nobility the Lord Mayor and the Judges Sir Orlando Bridgman Lord chief Baron sitting in chief the Counsel were Sir Ieffery Palmer the King's Attourney Sir Heneage Finch Solicitor-General Sir Edward Turnor the Duke of York's Attorney and Serjeant Keeling Windham c. The Grand Jury being Sworn Sir William Darcy Baronet their Foreman Sir Orlando gave them the Charge declaring the purport of their Commission to Try those excepted persons out of the Act for their Treason in Murthering the late King of blessed memory upon the Statute 25 Edw. 3 d. by which it was made Treason to compass and imagine the death of the King which he largely learnedly and eloquently opened the Statute being but declarative of the Common Law Which ended Thomas Lee of the Middle Temple Gentleman was called to give the names of the Witnesses forty two in number the chief of whom was Sir William Clerk the Duke of Albemarle's Secretary who took the Proceedings of the High Court in short-hand Mr. Masterson Minister at St. Clements Danes then of that Party Col. Hunâks Griffith Bodurdo Esq Stephen Kirk Col. Matthew Tomlinson Iohn Rushworth Esq Sir Purbeck Temple William Iessop Esq Mr. Coitmore and Anthony Mildmay Brother to Sir Henry one of those Criminals Next day the 10 of October the Court by Adjournment sate in Justice-Hall in the Sessions-house in the Old-bayly and the Prisoners having been brought the same day from the Tower to the Gaol of Newgate the Keeper was commanded to bring down Sir Hardress Waller William Heveningham and Colonel Harrison and set them to the Bar where they were commanded to hold up their hands but Harrison desiring to be heard first answered I am here he at last held up his hand then the Indictment was read in these words That he together with others not having the fear of God before their eyes and being instigated of the Devil did maliciously treasonably and feloniously contrary to his due Allegiance and bounden Duty sit upon and condemn our late Soveraign Lord King Charles the First of ever-blessed Memory and also did upon the Thirtieth day of January 1648 signe and seal a Warrant for the Execution of his Sacred Majesty where also c. To which Waller after some debate pleaded guilty Heveningham and Harrison Not guilty Then Isaac Pennington Henry Marten Gilbert Millingham Robert Tichburn Owen Roe and Robert Lilburn after the said Indictment read were bid to plead who did except Henry Marten who said he was not excepted out of the Act of Indemnity the person there being Henry Martin not Marten but the Court answered A misname would not be pleadable Mr. Sollicitor citing a Case in the difference of names betwixt Bagster and Baxter All of them insisted for Counsel Then Adrian Scroop Iohn Carew Iohn Iones Thomas Scot Gregory Clement and Iohn Cook were likewise set to the Bar where seeing the Court insist upon a present Plea as the rule of the Law or else Judgement pleaded to the Indictment Not guilty Carew making this salvo Saving to our Lord Iesus Christ his Right to the Government of these Nations Next Edmund Harvey Henry Smith Iohn Downs Vincent Potter and Augustine Garland and after them George Fleetwood Simon Meyn Iames Temple Peter Temple Thomas Wait Hugh Peters Francis Hacker Daniel Axtel who all but the last presently pleaded and would be tried by God and their Country Peters would be tried at first by the Law of God having pleaded Not guilty no not for a thousand worlds but the people laught him out of it Axtel not till informed of the danger of a mute and that no man can justifie Treason if the matter which he had to say be justifiable it is not Treason if Treason it is not justifiable and therefore he must go to the ordinary way of guilty or not guilty Harrison was the next day set to the Bar with Scroop and âour more but they severally challenging the Judges the Court ordered to try them singly and proceeded with Harrison who excepted his full number thirty five of the Jury and the other twelve being sworn Mr. Sollicitor-General much Rhetorically laid forth the nature and atrocity of the Fact That the very thoughts of such attempts were in all Ages and among all people counted an unpardonable Treason as the story of the two Eunuchs against Ahasuerus Voluerunt insurgere they only had a Will to rise up against him and the testimony of Tacitus qui deliberant desciverant who consult of this Fact are Rebels already That it is not the sole interest of one Royal Person concerned in this parricide but all of the Nation That Sir Edward Cooke hath a Notion that to the perfection of this Law of the 25 Edw. 3. a time to be limited to the accuser was requisite but how great a mistake that was would appear by this That this Treason had so long out-faced the Law and the Justice of the Kingdom that if there had been a time of limitation there would have been no time nor place left to punishment and so the guilt would have stuck upon the Kingdom and this wickedness grown up into an impunity That the scope of the Indictment was for the compassing of the King's death the rest as usurping power over the King's person the Assembling Sitting and Judging are but as so many overt Acts to prove the intentions of the heart all which are not necessary to be proved against every particular person That every other overt Act besides what is laid in the Indictment as incouraging of the Souldiers to cry Justice and Execution or preaching up the Work as godly may be given in evidence against the guilty persons whose Crime was of that unmeasurable impiety that it could neither be heightned by any aggravation or lessened by any excuse Then he traced the steps and gradations to this Villany from the Treaty in 1648 and shewed the wicked Circumstances and Formalities thereof particularly he declared this person of those living twenty six being already deceased and six or seven reserved to other penalties and a sorrowful repentance and twenty nine more before their Lordships to be the onely chief Leader Captain and Conductour in this horrible Treason and hinted at his sawcy demeanour to the King in his bringing
To Thomas Scot the same Witnesses were produced in all things as the former only he added that the Authority of the remaining Members might be as good as the Parliament was when the Bishops were excluded and if two Estates may take away a third if the second do not continue to Execute their Trust he that is in occupancie may have a title to the whole by which Argument he affirmed the Parliaments Authority To this was answered that the Bishops were taken away by an Act with the consent of the King Lords and Commons and that the Justification of this blasphemous principle as the Lord Finch termed it as also Lord Annesly and the whole Court was unsufferable and High Treason Mr. William Lenthall Mr. Theophilus Biddulph and Lord Mayor Elect were sworn to prove that he said he would have it written on his Grave That Here lies Thomas Scot one that adjudged the King to Death And to this purpose afterwards in the House upon the Dissolution of the Parliament he was heard to have added Since it is your pleasure to Dissolve the House I know not how to hinder but when that is done I know not where to hide my hated head Gregory Clement waved his Plea and confessed his Crime and delivered a Petition as Waller had done before And Colonel Iones made little defence but acquiesced upon the proof of his sitting and signing and so they all had Sentence as before The Sollicitour Iohn Cook was next Arraigned for Assuming a Power over the King's Life for drawing and exhibiting the Charge for demanding Judgment for pressing the Charge to be taken pro Confesso in sum for being instrumental in the Kings Death To this he Answered very acutely to the glory of his parts and infamy of his practice and to set up his Law above the Gospel from whence he borrowed St. Pauls elegant Defence Neither against the Law nor against Caesar have I I hope offended He alledged he was but Counsel and acted in his Sphere for his Fee in that his Crime was avaritiae of covetousness not malitiae nor falsly nor Treasonably in advising the Charge that he was no Sword-man that he executed no Power over the King that in drawing the Charge he discharged rather the part of a good Subject for the King being Prisoner to accelerate his Tryal was a Courtesie that he had retrencht the prolixity of it to that purpose he denyed the examining of any Witnesses against the King that in demanding Judgment he did not mean Judgment against the King of Condemnation but of Absolution He observed that the word Instrumental in the exception of the Act was insignificant or otherwise incomprehensive of him that by the Kings gracious Letter a Free Parliament was to declare the excepted persons which this could not be not being called by his Majesties Writ All which were fully Answered by Sir Heneage Finch but for fear I may pervert or miss the sinewy strength of that Reply this shall suffice to be the reduction That his entring the Charge and a protestation in the Conclusion of Liberty to put in a new one and desiring that the King as a Traytor may be brought to Justice was no such demand as could be imagined to end in acquittal that to the Act of Indemnity the Parliament having made a special proviso and inserted him by name therein the Words concluding him it is not material what the subsequent Reasons are so that though he might say the Parliament was mistaken in their Reason yet not in their Conclusion As to the Kings Letter from Breda referring all Crimes and Offences soever to a Free Parliament that the Honour of the King might be for ever Sacred he said that in case the Parliament was not a right Parliament that Letter in it self is no Pardon until it had been under the Broad Seal and in more express terms as in the Case of Sir Walter Raleigh but as to the Parliament it is plain the King meant this Parliament the Letter being directed to the Speaker of our House of Commons to them it was left to provide for security and indemnity and to expiate this crying Sin and to dispence his Mercy and Justice in this particular they then Address themselves to his Majesties Clemency for the whole Nation and the Kings Proclamation grants a Pardon so that this must needs be the Parliament though as the times were it were not so duly Constituted but since Confirmed by his Majesty It was added by Mr. Windham that words and advice when the Act follows will make any Counsellor guilty as if a Counsellor should advise one man to kill another and he does it All was sum'd up in an accurate repetition of it with Evidence and Defence by Sir Orlando Bridgman and he thereupon found guilty The Court used him very civilly and he shewed very much respect and reverence to the Court behaving himself to the removing of that prejudice which the generality had of him as of a Monster But see what a narrow Fortune and the streights of Debt and the Devils wide World and vast Preferments can tempt man to since his first Delusions bewitcht our understanding Hugh Peters came to the Bar. He was charged with contriving the Kings Death at Ware with Oliver Cromwel at Windsor at Coleman-street at the Painted Chamber Bradshaw's House that in a Sermon he had compared the King to Barabbas that in another the Text whereof was to bind Kings in Chains c. he had declared that there was an Act of Gods own making that they that spilt mans blood by man should his blood be spilt and that out of that Law neither the King nor Prince or Prince Rupert nor none of that rabble are excepted that on the Twenty seventh of Ianuary he had Preached before the High Court of Justice at Westminster on the 14 of Isaiah 18 19. verses All the Kings of the Earth c. All he said to this was to cavil at the Witnesses he declared his course of Life and his Orthodox perseverance but as to the purpose he said he was sorry to hear of his carriage towards the King but he had no malice toward him but was meerly engaged in he Army He was also upon suspition of being the Executioner but he proved he was sick a bed that day so Cook and he were Sentenced together Daniel Axtel was next set to the Bar He had escaped as he thought the exception in the Act being lately added to this miserable number for there was other blood barbarously shed by him that lay upon him and charged with imagining and compassing the Kings Death the overt Act whereof was commanding the Guard at his Tryal his beating the Souldiers for not crying out Justice and Execution for bidding them to do it and to shoot at a Lady supposed the Lady Fairfax whom he there termed Whore for saying that Cromwel was a Rogue and that the twentieth part of the
at Corn-hil-Conduit on the top of which stood eight Nymphs clad in White each having an Escutcheon in one Hand and a Pendent and Banner in the other On the Tower of the said Conduit a Noise of Seven Trumpets NEar the Exchange in Corn-hill was erected the second Arch which was Naval On the East-side were two Stages Erected on each side of the Street one In that on the South-side was a Person representing the River Thames In the other Stage on the North-side which was made like the upper Deck of a Ship were three Seamen whereof one habited like a Boat-swain A Shield or Table in the Front of the Arch o're this Inscription NEPTUNO BRITANNICO CAROLO II. CUJUS ARBITRIO MARE VEL LIBERUM VEL CLAUSUM The first Painting on the North-side over the City-Arms represented NEPTVNE with his Trident advanced the Inscription NEPTUNO REDUCI On the South-side opposite MARS with his Spear inverted his Sheild charged with a Gorgon by his Knees the Motto MARTI PACIFERO Over the Arch the Marriage of Thame and Isis. The Painting on the North-side over Neptune did Represent the Exchange the Motto GENERALIS LAPSI SARCIRE RUINAS The uppermost great Table in the fore-ground represented King Charles the First with the Prince now Charles the Second in his Hand viewing the Soveraign of the Sea the Prince leaning on a Cannon the Inscription O nimium dilecte Deo cui militat Aequor Et conjurati veniunt ad Classica Venti For thee O Iove's delight the Seas engage And muster'd Winds drawn up in Battle Rage At the Stocks the Entertainment was a Body of Military Musick placed on a Balcony consisting of six Trumpets and three Drums the Fountain there being after the Thâscan Order venting Wine and Water In like manner on the top of the great Conduit at the Entrance of Cheapside there was another Fountain out of which issued both Wine and Water as in a Representation of Temperance and on the several Towers of that Conduit were eight Figures habited like Nymphs with Escutcheons in one hand and Pendants or Banners in the other and between each of them Wind-Musick the number eight On the Standard also in Cheap-side there was a Band of Waits placed consisting of six Persons THe third Triumphal Arch stood near Wood-street-end not far from the place where the Cross sometimes stood It Represented an Artificial Building of two Stories one after the Corinthian way of Architecture the other after the Composite Representing the Temple of Concord with this Inscription on a Shield AEDEM CONCORDIAE IN HONOREM OPTIMI PRINCIPIS CUJUS ADVENTU BRITANNIA TERRA MARIQUE PACATA ET PRISCIS LEGIBUS REFORMATA EST AMPLIOREM RESPLENDIDIOREM RESTITUIT SPQL. In the Spandrils of the Arch there were two Figures in Female Habits leaning One representing PEACE the other TRVTH That of Peace had her Shield charged with an Helmet and Bees Issuing forth and going into it the Word PAX BELLO POTIOR Truth on the other side in a thin Habit on her Shield Time bringing Truth out of a Cave the Word TANDEM EMERSIT Over the great Painting upon the Arch of the Cupula was represented a large GERYON with three Heads Crowned in his three right-hands a Lance a Sword and a Scepter in his three left-hands the three Escutcheons of England Scotland and Ireland before him the Kings Arms with three Imperial Crowns beneath in great Letters CONCORDIA INSUPERABILIS Here the City Recorder Sir William Wild made a Speech and presented the King with a Purse of Gold On the little Conduit at the lower End of Cheap-side were placed four Figures or Nymphs each of them having an Escutcheon in one hand and a Pendant in the other In a Balcony erected at the Entrance of Pater-noster Row were placed his Majesties Drums and Fiâe the number of persons Eight Between that and Ludgaâe there were two other Balconies erected In one was placed a Band of six Waits in the other six Drums On the top of Ludgate six Trumpets At Fleet-Bridge a Band of six Waits On Fleet-Conduit were six Figures or Nymphs clad in White each with an Escutcheon in one hand and a Pendant in the other as also a Band of six Waits And on the Lanthorn of the Conduit was the Figure of Temperance mixing Water and Wine IN Fleet-street near White-Friers stood the fourth Triumphant Arch representing the Garden of PLENTY it was of two Stories the one of the Dorick Order the other of the Ionick Their Capitals had not their Just Measure but inclined to the Modern Architecture Upon the great Shield over the Arch in large Capitals this Inscription UBERTATI AUG EXTINCTO BELLI CIVILIS INCENDIO CLUSOQ JANI TEMPLO ARAM CELSIS CONSTRUXIT S. P. Q. L. Over the Postern on the South-side of the Entrance was BACCHUS in a Chariot drawn by Leopards his Mantle a Panther's skin his Crown of Grapes a Thyrsis with Ivy in his left hand a Cup in his right underneath LIBER PATER The Painting over this represented Silenus on his Ass Satyrs dancing round about in Drunken and Antick Postures the Prospect a Vineyard On the North-side opposite Ceres drawn in a Chariot by winged Dragons and Crowned with ears of Corn in her left hand Poppy in her right a Blazing Torch The Painting over her was a description of Harvest with CERES AUG His Majesty having passed the Four Triumphant Arches was at Temple-Bar Entertained with the View of a delightful Boscage full of several Beasts both tame and savage as also several living Figures and Musick of eight Waits But this being the Limit of the Cities Liberty must be so likewise of the Description Thus much for the City now for the Court which in order challenged the first place but 't was best to deal with the biggest first and those Colossus in London were indeed Gigantick and stupendious greatness Come we now to the Knights of the Bath made at this Coronation who appearing at the Court of Requests in Westminster were called over by the Lords Commissioners appointed for that purpose viz. The Dâke of Ormond Steward of the Kings Houshold the Earls of Northumberland Suffolk Lindsey Manchester Their Names were as follows Sir Fiennes Lord Clinton Heir apparent to the Earl of Lincoln Sir Egerton Lord Brackley Son and Heir apparent to the Earl of Bridgewater Sir Philip Herbert second son to the Earl of Pembrook and Montgomery Sir William Egerton second son to the Earl of Bridgwater Sir Vere Fane second son to the Earl of Westmorland Sir Charles Berkley eldest son to the Lord Berkley Sir Henry Bellasis eldest son to the Lord Bellasis Sir Henry Hide now Viscount Cornbury eldest son to Edward Earl of Clarendon Sir Rowland Bellasis brother to the Lord Viscount Faulconberg Sir Henry Capel brother to the Earl of Essex Sir Iohn Vaughan second son to Richard Earl of Carbery Sir Charles Stanley Grandchild to Iames late Earl of Derby Sir Francis and Sir Henry Fane Grand-children to
the late Earl of Westmorland Sir William Portman Baronet Sir William Ducy Baronet Sir Thomas Trevor Knight and Baronet Sir Iohn Scudamore Baronet Sir William Gardner Baronet Sir Charles Cornwallis son to Fredârick Lord Cornwallis Sir Iohn Nicholas eldest son to his Majesties principal Secretary Sir Iohn Monson Sir Iohn Bramston Sir Richard Temple Sir Bourchier Wray Sir Iohn Coventry Sir Edward Hungerford Sir Iohn Knevet Sir Philip Botler Sir Adrian Scroop son of Sir Iervas Scroop who received Nineteen Wounds at Edgehill in his Majesties service Sir Richard Knightley Sir Henry Heron Sir Iohn Lewkâor Sir George Brown Sir William Tyringham Sir Francis Godolphin Sir Edward Baynton Sir Grevil Verney Sir Edward Harlow Sir Edward Walpool Sir Francis Popham Sir Edward Wise Sir Christopher Calthorp Sir Richard Edgecomb Sir William Bromley Sir Thomas Bridges Sir Thomas Fanshaw Sir Iohn Denham Sir Nicholas Bacon Sir Iames Altham Sir Thomas Wendy Sir Iohn Manson Sir George Freeman Sir Nicholas Slanning Sir Richard Ingoldsby Sir Iohn Rolle Sir Edward Heath son of Sir Robert Heath late Lord chief Justice of England Sir William Morley Sir Iohn Bennet Sir Hugh Smith Sir Simon Leech Sir Henry Chester Sir Robert Atkins Sir Robert Gayer Sir Richard Powle Sir Hugh Ducy Sir Stephen Hales Sir Ralph Bush Sir Thomas Whitmore In Number sixty eight After their calling over they proceeded in their usual Habits each of them between his two Esquires and a Page following the Heraulds going before them with their Coats not put on but only hanging loose on their Arms to King Hen. 7. Chappel where after the wonted reverence performed they took their seats Prayer being done they returned to the Painted Chamber and the other Rooms adjoyning to repose themselves till the Supper of Two hundred dishes at his Majesties Charge was brought to the Court of Requests where they placed themselves according to their Seniority at the Tables by the Wall-side their Esquires and Pages waiting on them on the other Supper ended the Lord Cornwallis and Sir Charles Berckley the Treasurer and Comptroller of his Majesties Houshold gave them his welcome and then conducted them to the Painted Chamber and the Lords House adjoyning and some other near rooms where their Bathing Vessels and Beds which were Pallets with Canopies were prepared being covered with red Say There after they had Bathed more or less as each of them found convenient they remained all Night and early in the Morning were bade good morrow by his Majesties Musick Then arising and Apparelling themselves in a Cordeliers Habit being a long russet Gown with wide sleeves and a Hood tyed close about the middle with a Cordon of Ash-coloured and Russet silk reaching down almost to the knees and a white Napkin or Handkerchief hanging thereat they proceeded to Hen. 7. Chappel in the same order as the Night before doing the same revââââââ and heard Divine Service and took the usual Oath before the said Lords âommissioners which was read to them by Sir Edward Walker Principal King oâ Arms in these words Right dear Brââher GReat Woâshâp be this Order to every of you You shall Honour God above all things âut shall be stedfast in the Faith of Christ and the same maintain and defend tâ yâur Power You shall love your Soveraign above all earthly things and for yâuâ Soveraigns Right live and dye You shall defend Maidens Widdows and Orphans in their right You shall suffer no Extortion as far as you may nor sit in any place where wrong Iudgment shall be given to your knowledge And of as great Honour be this Order to you as ever it was to any of your Progenitors or others This done they returned in the same order they came to the Painted Chamber and put on the Habit of the Order which was a Mantle and Surcoat of red Taffata lined and edged with white Sarcenet and thereto fastned two long strings of white silk with buttons and tassels of red silk and gold and a pair of white Cloves tyed to them a white Hat and white Feather in this Garb they Dined in the Painted Chamber and thence girded with a Sword the Pummel and cross-Hilt whereof were guilt the Scabbard of white Leather and Belt of the sâme with guilt Spurs carried by their Pages they marched on Horse-back by Seniority to White-Hall with the Heraulds before them from the Old Palace round about the New and so through Kingstreet going round the place where Charing-Cross stood and then to White-hall where they alighted and after they had gone about the first Court they were conducted by the Heraulds to the Banqueting-House where His Majesty sate under a Cloath of State to receive them They were brought up by six and six each between his two Esquires with his Page carrying his Sword before him In their approaches towards his Majesty they made three Obeysances and each Knight being presented by his two Esquires upon their knees to the King the Lord Chamberlain of His Majesties Houshold receiving the Knights Swords from the Pages and delivering it to the King He with the Sword of State ready drawn conferred upon them their respective Knight-hoods by laying the Sword upon their shoulders and so put the presented Sword upon the Knights Neck in such sort that it might hang on his left side and then the said Scabbard with the Order hanging at it Which done the Knight made his obeysance of Gratitude to His Majesty and falling back the rest were brought up and Knighted in like manner After this they went down into his Majesties Chappel and there heard Divine Service with the Organ and Anthems and then went up six at a time to the Altar and offered up their Swords where Gilbert Lord Bishop of London Dean of His Majesties Royal Chappel received them and laid them upon the Altar and afterwards restored them with this Admonition By the Oath which you have taken this day I exhort and admonish you to use these Swords to the Glory of God and defence of the Gospel to the maintenance of your Sovereigns Right and Honour and to the upholding of Equity and Iustice to your power So help you God This done they returned from the Chappel where the Kings Master-Cook stood with his Chopping-Knife in his hand challenging their Spurs which were severally redeemed with a Noble in Money As they passed by he said Gentlemen you know what a great Oath you have taken which if you keep it will be great honour to you but if you break it I must back off your Spurs from your heels When they came unto the great Hall the Officers at Arms acquainted them that on Monday following they were to attend his Majesty from the Tower to White-Hall on Horseback in the same Robes wherein they were Knighted and on Tuesday to meet early in the Painted Chamber in their Purple Sattin Habits thence to go before his Majesty to his Coronation at Westminster This Ceremony being over the King to honour this
great Solemnity advanced some eminent Persons to higher degrees of Dignity to be as Jewels to that Crown which should be placed on his Head they were Twelve in number six Earls and six Barons The Names of whom are as followeth Edward Lord Hide of Hendon Lord high Chancellour of England was created Earl of Clarendon Arthur Lord Capel was created Earl of Essex Thomas Lord Brudenel was created Earl of Cardigan Arthur Viscount Valentia in Ireland was created Earl of Anglesey Sir Iohn Greenvile Gentleman of His Majesties Bed-Chamber and Groom of the Stool was created Earl of Bath Charles Howard of His Majesties Privy Council was created Earl of Carlisle Denzil Hollis Esq was created Lord Hollis of Ifeld Sir Frederick Cornwallis was created Lord Cornwallis of Eye in Suffolk an antient Barony Sir George Booth Baronet was created Lord de-la-Mere Sir Horatio Townsend was created Baron of Lyn-Regis Sir Anthony Ashly Cooper was created Baron of Winterbourn St. Gyles Iohn Crew was created Lord Crew of Stene The Earls at their Creation had two Earls their supporters their Cap and Coronet carried by one their Sword by another and their Mantle by a third The Lords were likewise supported by two Lords their Cap and Mantle in the same manner but no Sword These Peers being thus led up Garter King of Arms attending them to the King upon their several approaches their Patents were presented by Sir William Walker Principal King at Arms which being by the Lord Chamberlain delivered to the King and from him to Secretary Nicholas were by him read and then given by His Majesty to the Respective Nobles who after they were vested with their Robes had their several Caps and Coronets placed upon their Heads by His Majesties own hands as he sate in a Chair of State These likewise were ordered to attend the King at his Coronation which Commenced its glories Monday the Twenty second of April aforesaid it having rained a Moneth together before it pleased God that not one drop fell on this Triumph which appeared in its full Lustre and Grandeur but as soon as the solemnity was past and the King and his Train at Dinner in Westminster-Hall it fell a Thundering Lightning and Raining with the greatest force vehemence and noise that was ever heard or seen at that time of the year The Streets were gravelled all the way and filled with a multitude of Spectators out of the Countrey and some Forreigners who acknowledged themselves never to have seen among all the great Mâgnificences of the World any to come near or equal this even the Vaunting French confessed their Pomps of the late Marriage with the Infanta of Spain at their Majesties entrance into Paris to be inferiour in its State Gallantry and Riches unto this most Illustrious Cavalcade Which proceeded on this manner as the NOBILITY and GENTRY were placed within and without the Tower First went the Horse-Guard of his Highness the Duke of York the Messengers of his Majesties Chamber the Esquires of the Knights of the Bath One hundred thirty six in number the Knight Harbenger the Serjeant-Porter the Sewers of the Chamber the Quarter-waiters of the six Clerks of the Chancery the Clerks of the Signet the Clerks of the Privy Seal the Clerks of the Council the Clerks of both Houses of Parliament the Clerks of the Crown the Chaplains in Ordinary having Dignities ten in number the King's Advocate and Remembrancer the Kings learned Counsel at Law the Master of the Chancery the Kings puisne Serjeants the Kings Attorney and Solicitors the King 's eldest Serjeants Secretaries of the French and Latine Tongues the Gentlemen-Ushers daily waiters the Sewers Carvers and Cup-bearers in ordinary the Esquires of the Body the Masters of standing Offices being no Councellors viz. of the Tents Revels Ceremonies Armory Wardrope Ordnance Master of Requests Chamberlain of the Exchequer Barons of the Exchequer and Judges of the Law according to their Dignity the Lord chief Baron the Lord chief Justice of the Common Pleas the Master of the Rolls the Lord chief Justice of England Trumpets the Gentlemen of the Privy-Chamber the Knights of the Bath sixty eight in Number the Knight Marshal the Treasurer of the Chamber Master of the Jewel-house Knights of the Privy Council Comptroller of his Majesties Houshold Treasurer of his Majesties Houshold Two Trumpets and Serjeants Trumpets Two Pursivants at Arms Barons eldest Sons Earls youngest sons Viscounts eldest sons Barons Marquesses younger sons Earls eldests sons Two Pursivants at Arms. Viscounts Dukes younger sons Marquesses eldest sons Two Heraulds Earls Earl Marshal and Lord Chamberlain of the Houshold Dukes eldest sons Serjeants at Arms on both sides the Nobility Clarencieux and Norroy Lord Treasurer Lord Chancellor Lord High Steward Duke of Ormond two persons representing the Duke of Normandy and Aquitain Gentleman-Vsher Garter Lord Mayor Sir Richard Brown The Duke of York alone The Lord High Constable of England Earl of Northumberland Lord Great Chamberlain of England Earl of Lindsey The Sword by the Duke of Richmond The KING Equerries and Footmen next and about his Majesty Gentlemen and Pensioners without them the Master of the Horse Duke of Albemarl leading a spare Horse the Vice-Chamberlain to the King Captain of the Pensioners Captain of the Guard the Guard the Kings Life guard Commanded by my Lord Gerrard the Generals Life-guard by Sir Philip Howard a Troop of Voluntier Horse and a Company of Foot by Sir Iohn Robinson The way from the Tower to Aldgate was guarded by the Hamlets from thence to Temple-Bar by the Trained-Bands of London on one side and lined with the Liveries on the other side with the Banners of each Company The Windows were all along laid with the best Carpets and Tapestry Bands of Musick in several places and the Conduits running with Wine In St. Pauls Church-yard stood the Blew-coat boys of Christ-Church Hospital One in behalf of the rest declared their joy for his Majesties wonderful preservation in his absence and his Arrival thither humbly beseeching his Majesties Gracious favour and indulgence according to the example of his Royal Ancestors and his Father of blessed memory The King was very well pleased with this Speech and after conferred something on the Boy that spoke it In the Strand and through Westminster also the ways were gravelled and rayled being guarded on both sides with the Trained bands of that Liberty and City and his Majesties two Regiments of Foot under the command of his Grace the Duke of Albemarle and Colonel Russel brother to the Earl of Bedford The houses were also richly adorned with the Carpets and Tapestry and Musick particularly a stage of Morice-dancers at the Maypole in the Strand in the several places all along his Majesties passage When his Majesty came through Temple-bar into his Antient and Native City of Westminster the Head-bayliff in a Scarlet Robe and High Constable in Scarlet received his Majesty with loud Musick where alighting off their horses and kneeling down to
his Majesty the Head-bayliff on behalf of the Dean and Chapter City and Liberty signified their joyful reception of his Royal person into that Liberty declaring how much more happy they were than any part of the Nation in that their Sovereign Lord and King was born within their Liberty and humbly desiring his Majesty to continue his Grace and Favour still to them whereby that City might still be enabled to do his Majesties Service When the Head-Bayliff had ended his Speech he and the High-Constable mounted their Horses and fell in next after his Majesties Servants at Mace in which order they attended his Majesty to White-hall Infinite and innumerable were the Acclamations and Shouts from all the parts as his Majesty passed along to the no less joy than âmazement of the Spectators who beheld those glorious Personages that rid before and behinde his Majesty Indeed it were in vain to attempt to express this Solemnity it was so far from being utterable that it is almost inconceiveable and much wonder it caused in Outlandish persons who were acquainted with our late Troubles and Confusions to the ruine almost of three Kingdoms which way it was possible for the English to appear in so Rich and Stately a manner It is incredible to think what costly Cloathes were worn that day the Cloaks could hardly be seen what Silk or Sattin they were made of for the Gold and Silver-Laces and Embroidery that was laid upon them the like also was seen in their Foot-cloaths Besides the inestimable value and treasures of Diamonds Pearl and other Jewels worn upon their Backs and in their Hats To omit also the sumptuous and rich Liveries of their Pages and Footmen some suits of Liveries amounting to fifteen hundred pounds the numerousness of these Liveries and the orderly march of them as also the stately Equipage of the Esquires attending each Earl by his Horse-side so that all the World that saw it could not but confess that what they had seen before was but solemn Mummery to the most August noble and true Glories of this great day In this order the King arrived at White-hall a good time before the Evening and then retired himself to Supper and so to his Rest to recommence the next day and to put an end to this Triumph On the 23 of April St. George's day to consummate the Coronation the King came from his Privy-stairs to the Old Palace to a Room called the Princes Lodgings behinde the House of Lords and stayed there till the Lords and his Train had Robed and ranked themselves in Westminster-hall who being ready the King placed himself on a Throne at the upper end thereof when the Dean of Westminster with the Prebends in their rich Copes each having a part of the Regalia with St. Edward's Crown came and delivered them to the Lord High-Constable and he to the Lord Great Chamberlain who set them on a Table and the King immediately bestowed them on this manner Sir Gilbert Talbot the Master of the Kings Jewels having laid the Sword of State and Sword called Curtana with two others on the same Table St. Edward's Staff to the Earl of Sandwich the Spurs to the Earl of Pembrook the pointed Sword on the left hand of Curtana to the Earl of Derby the pointed Sword on the right to the Earl of Shrewsbury Curtana to the Earl of Oxford the Sword of State to the Earl of Manchester the Scepter with the Dove to the Duke of Albemarle the Orb with the Cross to the Duke of Buckingham St. Edwards Crown to the Duke of Ormond the Patina to the Bishop of Exeter and the Chalice to the Bishop of London and then his Majesty set forward on foot in the same order as before almost upon blue Cloath laid upon the ground from the Hall to his Chair in the Abbey by the appointment of Sir George Carteret His Almoner appointed for that day The King was supported by the lord-Lord-Bishops of Bath and Durham his Train was carried up by the Lords Mandevil Cavendish Ossery and Percy assisted by the Lord Viscount Maâsfield Master of the Robes then came the Earl of Lauderdale Gent. of his Majesties Bed-chamber next came Mr. Seymore Mr. Ashburnham Grooms of the same the Captain of the Guard Captain of the Pensioners and Yeomen All the Peers with their Coronets in their hands came up along with his Majesty till his Majesty was placed in a Chair of State not in his Throne then the Lord Bishop of London for the Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury went to every of the four-sides of the Throne and at every of them spoke to the People in these words Here I present unto you KING CHARLES the rightful Inheritor of the Crown of this Realm Wherefore all you that are come this day to do your Homage Service and bounden duty be ye willing to do the same Whereupon all the Peers in their Parliament-Robes and People gave a shout testifying their willingness This while the King standing from his Chair turned himself to every of the four sides of the Throne and at every of them spake to the People who again with loud acclamations signified their willingness all in one voice After which the Choire sung an Anthem in the interim whereof his Majesty Supported by the two Bishops of Durham and Bath and Wells and attended by the Dean of Westminster went to the steps before the Communion-Table where upon Carpets and Cushions the King offered a Pall and a piece of Gold After his Majesty had offered he went on the right hand and kneeled down during a short Collect or Prayer and then Sermon began which was Preached by the Lord Bishop of WORCESTER Sermon being ended the lord-Lord-Bishop of LONDON went to the King for the Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and asked if he were pleased to take the Oath usually taken by his Predecessors to which his Majesty shewed himself most willing Then his Majesty rose out of his Chair and by those two that before Assisted Him was led up to the Communion-Table where he made a solemn Oath to observe those things he had before promised After this Oath the King returned to his Chair and kneeled at his foot-stool while the Hymn of the Holy Ghost was singing which ended the Letany was sung by two Bishops After which the Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury began and said Lift up your hearts c. Then his Majesty arose from his Devotion and dis-robed himself of his upper Garment his under Garment being so made as the places to be anointed might be opened by undoing certain loops which the Arch-Bishop undid his Majesty sitting in a Chair The Archbishop first Anointed the Palms of both his hands the Choire singing an Anthem after which and certain Prayers the Lord Arch-bishop proceeded and anointed his breast between the shoulders on both the shoulders the bending of his Arms and the Crown of his Head whereupon the Dean of Westminster closed the Loops and the Lord Arch-bishop said
Gasper Count of Marsin George Monk Duke of Albemarle Edward Montague Earl of Sandwich Aubery de Vere Earl of Oxford Charles Steward Duke of Richmond and Lenox Montague Berty Earl of Lindsey Edward Montague Earl of Manchester William Wentworth Earl of Strafford A Roll of the PEERS of the Kingdom of ENGLAND according to their Birth and Creations Dukes of the Blood Royal. JAmes Duke of York and Albany Lord High Admiral of England Rupert Duke of Cumberland These take Places in respect of their Offices Edward Earl of Clarendon Lord Chancellour of England Thomas Earl of Southampton Lord Treasurer of England DUKES Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk William Seymour Duke of Somerset George Villiers Duke of Buckingham Charles Stuart Duke of Richmond George Monk Duke of Albemarle MARQUISSES Iohn Paulet Marquiss of Winchester Edward Somerset Marquiss of Worcester William Cavendish Marquiss of Newcastle Henry Peirrepont Marquiss of Dorchester EARLS These three take places in respect of their Offices Montague Berty Earl of Lindsey Lord High Chamberlain of England Iames Butler Earl of Brecknock Lord Steward of his Majesties Houshold Edward Montague Earl of Manchester Lord Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold EARLS Aubery de Vere Earl of Oxford Algernoon Piercy Earl of Northumberland Francis Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury Gray Earl of Kent Infra aetat Charles Stanly Earl of Derby Iohn Mannours Earl of Rutland Hastings Earl of Huntingdon Infra aetat Thomas Wriothesly Earl of Southampton Wilâiam Russel Earl of Bedford Philip Herbert Earl of Pembrook and Montgomery Theophilus Clinton Earl of Lincoln Charles Howard Earl of Nottingham Iames Howard Earl of Suffolk Richard Sackvil Earl of Dorset William Cecil Earl of Salisbury Iohn Cecil Earl of Exeter Iohn Egerton Earl of Bridgewater Robert Sidney Earl of Leicester Iames Compton Earl of Northampton Charles Rich Earl of Warwick William Cavendish Earl of Devonshire Basil Fieldiâg Earl of Denbigh George Digby Earl of Bristol Lionel Cranfield Earl of Middlesex Henry Rich Earl of Holland Iohn Hollis Earl of Clare Oliver St. Iohn Earl of Bullingbrook Mildmay Fane Earl of Westmorland Edward Montague Earl of Manchester Thomas Howard Earl of Berk-shire Thomas Wentworth Earl of Cleveland Edward Sheffield Earl of Mulgrave Henry Cary Earl of Monmouth deceased without Issue male Iames Ley Earl of Marlborough Thomas Savage Earl of Rivers Montague Bertue Earl of Lindsey Lord Great Chamberlain of England Nicholas Knollis Earl of Banbury Henry Cary Earl of Dover Henry Mordaât Earl of Peterburgh Henry Gray Earl of Stamford Heneage Finch Earl of Winchelsey Charles Dormer Earl of Carnarvan Montjoy Blunt Earl of Newport Philip Stanhop Earl of Chesterfield Iohn Tufton Earl of Thanet Ierome Weston Earl of Portland William Wentworth Earl of Strafford Robert Spencer Earl of Sunderland Iames Savil Earl of Sussex Charles Goring Earl of Norwich Nicholas Leak Earl of Scarsdale Wilmot Earl of Rochester Infra aetat Henry Iermin Earl of St. Albans Edward Montague Earl of Sandwich Iames Butler Earl of Brecknock Edward Hide Earl of Clarenden Arthur Capel Earl of Essex Thomas Brudenal Earl of Cardigan Arthur Annelsley Earl of Anglesey Iohn Greenvile Earl of Bath Charles Howard Earl of Carlisle The Right Honourable Elizabeth Viscountess of Kynelmeky was by Letters Pattents Iune 14 Created Countess of Guildford for her life in the Twelfth year Caroli Sâcundi VISCOUNTS Leicester Devereux Viscount Hereford Francis Brown Viscount Montague Iames Fiennes Viscount Say and Seal Edward Conway Viscount Conway Baptist Noel Viscount Camden William Howard Viscount Stafford Thomas Bellasis Viscount Faulconberg Iohn Mordant Viscount Mordant BARONS Iohn Nevil Lord Abergavenny lately Deceased Iames Tutchet Lord Audley Charles West Lord De la Ware George Barkley Lord Barkley Thomas Parker Lord Morley and Monteagle Francis Lenard Lord Dacres Conyers Darcy Lord Darcy William Stourton Lord Stourton William Lord Sandys De la Vine Edward Vaux Lord Vaux Thomas Windsor Lord Windsor Thomas Wentworth Lord Wentworth Wingfield Cromwel Lord Cromwell George Eure Lord Eure. Philip Wharton Lord Wharton Francis Willoughby Lord Willoughby of Parham William Paget Lord Paget Dudley North Lord North. William Bruges Lord Chaundos Iohn Cary Lord Hunsdon William Petre Lord Petre. Dutton Gerrard Lord Gerrard Charles Stanhop Lord Stanhop Henry Arundel Lord Arundel of Warder Christopher Roper Lord Tenham Foulk Grevil Lord Brook Edward Montague Lord Montague of Boughton Charles Lord Howard of Charleton William Gray Lord Gray of Wark Iohn Roberts Lord Roberts William Craven Lord Craven Iohn Lovelace Lord Lovelace Iohn Paulet Lord Paulet William Maynard Lord Maynard Thomas Coventry Lord Coventry Edward Lord Howard of Escrick Warwick Mohun Lord Mohun William Botiller Lord Botiller Percy Herbert Lord Powis Edward Herbert Lord Herbert of Cherbury Francis Seamour Lord Seamour Thomas Bruce Lord Bruce Francis Newport Lord Newport of Higharchal Thomas Leigh Lord Leigh of Stone-Leigh Christopher Hatton Lord Hatton Henry Hastings Lord Loughborough Richard Byron Lord Byron Richard Vaughan Lord Vaughan Charles Smith Lord Carrington William Widdrington Lord Widdrington Humble Ward Lord Ward Thomas Lord Culpepper Isaac Astley Lord Astley Richard Boyle Lord Clifford Iohn Lucas Lord Lucas Iohn Bellasis Lord Bellasis Lewis Watson Lord Rockingham Charles Gerrard Lord Gerrard of Brandon Robert Lord Sutton of Lexington Charles Kirkhoven Lord Wotton Marmaduke Langdale Lord Langdale deceased William Crofts Lord Crofts Iohn Berkly Lord Berkly Denzil Hollis Lord Hollis of Ifeild Charles Lord Cornwallis George Booth Lord De la Mere. Horatio Townsend Lord Townsend Anthony Ashley Cooper Lord Ashley Iohn Crew Lord Crew The Lords Spiritual being restored to their Honours and Places in Parliament since the Coronation and to all the precedent Honours we have observed the Order of Time and not of Dignity as they should have been Ranked before the Lords Temporal A. DOctor William Iuxon Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury his Grace Primate and Metropolitan of all England was consecrated Bishop of London 1633. Translated from London to Canterbury 1660. A. Dr. Accepted Frewen Lord Arch-Bishop of York and Metropolitan of England was consecrated Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield 1644. Translated from thence to York 1660. Dr. Gilbert Sheldon Lord-Bishop of London was consecrated October 28 1660. Dr. Iohn Couzens lord-Lord-Bishop of Durham was consecrated December 2 1660. Y. A. Dr. Brian Duppa lord-Lord-Bishop of Winchester this See is now possessed by Dr. Morley Translated thither from the See of Worcester Prelate of the Garter and Lord Almoner he was consecrated Bishop of Chichester 1638. from thence Translated to Sarum 1640. and from thence to Winchester 1660. and since deceased 1662. A. Dr. William Piers Lord-Bishop of Bath and Wells consecrated 1632. A. Dr. Matthew Wren Lord-Bishop of Ely was consecrated Bishop of Hereford 1634. thence Translated to Norwich 1635. from thence to Ely 1638. A. Dr. Robert Skinner Lord-Bishop of Oxon was consecrated Bishop of Bristol 1636. thence Translated to Oxon 1640. A. Dr. William Roberts Lord-Bishop of Bangor and Sub-Almoner was consecrated 1637. A. Dr. Iohn Warner Lord-Bishop of
the King was met by his Highness the Duke of York five Leagues off the Isle of Wight who commanded him back with him to the Fleet. On Sunday morning about ten a Clock they discovered the Royal Iames but there was so great a Calm that they could not reach the Royal Charles till six at Evening No sooner had the General espied his Highness Yacht but he went out in his Barge to meet him the Royal Banner being all the while vayl'd till he was aboard When his Highness came into the Ship the Souldiers gave three several shouts and all the great Guns in the Royal Charles which from that time to the Queens Entrance had been silent proclaimed his Welcome after which several Ships of the Fleet paid him their Salutes Being conducted to her Majesties Cabbin he was placed in a Chair on her right hand where after several expressions of Joy for her Majesties happy Arrival on the Coast of England and having presented his Majesties high respects to and as exceeding Affection for Her his Royal Highness took his leave to retire himself to his Yacht for that Night and the next morning Sir Ioseph Douglas was again dispatched to the King in the illustrious Company of the said Duke of Ormond and Earls but was forced to Tide it thence and sometimes lay at Anchor and could not reach Portsmouth till the Evening Thirteenth of May from whence Sir Ioseph took Post leaving the Duke of Ormond to make preparation for the Reception of her Majesty That Night the Royal Fleet with the Princely Bride came to St. Helens point the Eastermost Promontory of the Isle of Wight almost opposite to Portsmouth from whence had it not been too bold an adventure to hazard her Majesty in that narrow Streight of Sea and in a Night-Tide they might have reached Portsmouth the next morning but making use of the Day-tide which served about Ten of the Clock on Wednesday the Fourteenth of May the Queen landed at Portsmouth about Four of the Clock in the Afternoon where She was received with all possible demonstrations of Honour the Nobility and Gentry and Multitudes of Londoners in most rich Apparel and in great numbers waiting on the Shore for her Landing and the Major and Aldermen and the Principal Persons of that Corporation being in their Gowns and with a Present and Speech ready to entertain Her the Cannon and small shot both from round that Town and the whole Fleet Ecchoing to one another the loud Proclamations of their Joy The King having received the express of his Queens Landing prepared to be gone forthwith to Salute her upon her Arrival but his great Affairs of State and Bills to be ratified by him into Acts of Parliament which were not quite ready for his Royal Assent delayed him at Whitehall till Monday-night the 19 th of May having sent before him the Bishop of London who departed the Seventeenth in order to the Solemnizing of the Marriage aforesaid Which Bills being numerous and very important when passed into Acts set us right where we were the same time Twenty years designing and enacting Remedies against those Mischiefs which prevailed against the happy Estate of the Kingdome before such as their Act passed in the former Session against Armed or Army-like Multitudes and number of Petitioners which are not to exceed seven or eight and have as far as humane Wisdome can provided against the like dangers of our late Confusions There passed likewise many several private Bills for selling of Lands and alienating them for payment of Debts which gave his Majesty occasion to take notice of the depravity and corruption of manners in the late times and to declare that his goodness in passing them now should not be brought into precedent for the future and he himself would become an example of frugality and would provide sumptuary Laws against the Excess and Vanity of the Age whose looseness and superfluity did so sadly affect him But to return His Majesty having Signed all the Acts which are now so many wholesome and good Laws as no Age of our Fore-fathers can boast of to adorn and Honour his Queens Arrival posted away at Nine a Clock that Night with his ordinary Guards in the Earl of Northumberland's Coach Prince Rupert with him only to Kingston where he came soon after Ten and at the end of that Town entered into the Earl of Chesterfield's there set ready for him and the Duke of York's Guards to attend him and came before Twelve at Night to Guilford being Twenty five miles where he Lodged that Night and next morning Posted with the same speed to Portsmouth where he arrived about Noon and because of the Queens indisposedness which yet held her in her Chamber the King satisfied himself by giving her a Visit privately that day and then withdrew to his own appartments Yet it pleased God to restore her Majesty to such a degree of Health that she was able to Consummate the Marriage Sacred Rites which were performed in that Town in private after which the Nuptials were concluded there by his Majesties Bedding his Queen that night During the rest of the stay Visits were given to the Grandees of Portugal who came over with the Queen by all the English Lords and Ladies and by them again returned until the removal of the Court next week to Winchester thence to Farnham to Windsor-Castle and so to Hampton-Court where their Majesties took up the most part of this Summer 1662. as well for the Salubrity as Majesty of it being one of the most Magnificent Structures of all the Royal Palaces Here the Queen received the Addresses of all the Nobility and Submissions of the several Deputies for the Cities of England more particularly from the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London who by Sir William Wylde their Recorder who pronounced a Spanish Oration presented her with a Purse of Gold Iune 2. On the Twenty third of August she was in great Triumph brought by Water from Hampton-Court to finish her Voyage to Whitehall all the Companies in their Barges nobly set out attending the Lord Mayor at this Solemnity and several Pageants were placed upon the River and Speeches designed All which made a very noble sight illustrated by the rich and glorious setting out of the King's Barge About seven at night their Majesties arrived to that Palace as somewhat before the Queen-Mother being fetch'd and attended by the Earl of Saint Albans arrived at Greenwich where for a while after she resided till her setling at Somerset-House as the abode of her remaining Widdowhood The Parliament of Ireland had likewise agreed upon an Act for raising One hundred and twenty thousand pound in two years by Subsidies In Scotland six Bishops were Consecrated in the Abbey-Church of Holy-Rood-House at Edenburgh with great satisfaction and solemnity where also the King had gratiously Pardoned Lorn the Marquess of Arguile's Son his Life which he had forfeited by judgment
was gratiously pleas'd to dispence with the attendance of Sir Thomas Mallet one of the Judges of the Kings Bench who had been Judge in the time of King Charles the First and by consequence being now by reason of his very great age disabled Sir Iohn Keeling was sworn in his place He was a Person of eminent Loyalty and Fidelity to the Crown The same month died the Learned and most Reverend Prelate Dr. Bramhal Archbishop of Armagh to which See he had been by his Majesty translated from that of London-Derry Of whom it is enough to say that he was the beloved Darling of those two Renowned Patriots Archbishop Laud and the Earl of Strafford In Iuly came Intelligence from Tangier that Gayland had made a very vigorous Assault upon Tangier with about six thousand men the May before But the Earl of Teviot who was there newly arrived gave him so warm a welcom that he retired with the loss of above an hundred men and the Commander of his Horse who by his Crimson-velvet Coat was thought to be a Person of Quality besides that after he was slain the rest went off immediately Not long after he made a second Attempt with 10000 men but though he made a very sharp Assault his Entertainment was far more warm than the former for he lost a thousand men After which Defeat the Earl of Teviot sent him a Letter to let him know that though the King of Great Britain wanted neither resolution nor ability to maintain his Right yet he was a friend to Peace which so prevailed upon Gayland that he sent Messengers for a Treaty and soon after came to an Accord On the 22 th of this month was Christened Iames Son of his Royal Highness in the Chappel of St. Iames's by the Bishop of London then Elect Archbishop of Canterbury His Majesty and the Lord Chancellor were God-fathers and the Queen-Mother was God-mother The State was born by the Earl of St. Albans and the Earl of Sandwich and the Dutchess of Buckingam held the Infant On the 27 th of Iuly his Majesty going to the House of Peers where the House of Commons went to attend him after a short Speech declaring among other things how he had proceeded by Commands and Directions to all his Judges in all Affairs which the Season and other Necessities would not permit to pass into Acts gave his Royal Assent to several Bills and then Prorogued them till the 16 th of March following The chief Acts were An Act for four entire Subsidies to his Majesty by the Temporalty An Act to confirm four Subsidies granted by the Clergy A third in behalf of Indigent Officers and for settling the profits of the Post-Office and Wine-Licences upon the Duke of York and his Heirs And for better Collecting the Duty of Excise c. Nor may it be amiss to relate the manner of the Translation of the Right Reverend Gilbert Archbishop of Canterbury as being novel to the Reading of this Age and a Solemnity not every day common Just before the Bishops came into the Chappel the Mace-bearer the Archbishops Steward Treasurer and Controller all in their Habits with white Staves in their hands In the next place followed the Bishops in their Episcopal Robes After these the Dean of the Arches the Judge of the Admiralty and the Judge of the Archbishops Prerogative-Court with divers Advocates in Scarlet Robes Lastly several Proctors in the Archbishops Court in Hoods and Habits The Congregation being placed in the Chappel Divine Service was celebrated by two of the Archbishops Chaplains which being ended the Bishops were brought up from the Seats they had taken to that part of the Chappel where all things were transacted relating to the Ceremony in which having seated themselves the Kings Commission under the Great Seal was presented to the Bishops by the Archbishops Vicar-General and was publickly read by the Dean of the Arches whereupon the Bishops accepting of the Commission the Vicar-General went forth and conducted the Archbishop into the Chappel the Mace-bearer Steward and Controller marching before and presented him to the rest of the Bishops who being then seated in a Chair before them the Bishops Commissioners proceeded in course of Law and at length to a definitive Sentence which was publickly read by the first Bishop in Commission and then subscribed by himself and the rest of the Bishops whereby the Election was confirmed and made good in Law It being now Vacation-time His Majesty went his Progress Westward from London to Bath and from thence through Gloucestershire to Oxford being presented at Reading and Newbury with Purses of Gold receiving where-ever he came very high and splendid Entertainments particularly at Littlecot from Sir Popham at Newbury from Sir Thomas Dolman from the Lord Seymor at Marleborough from Sir Iames Thyn at Ling-leet at Badmanton from the Marquess of Worcester and at Cornbury from the Lord Chancellor Coming to Oxford he was met half a mile from the City by the Doctors and Scholars in all their Formalities and entring the Suburbs by the Militia of the City through which he pass'd from his first Entry to his Lodgings During his abode there he visited the Schools where a Noble Banquet attended him He also toucht above 300 Persons with which impression of duty and reverence left behind him he return'd in October to London The Parliament of Scotland had this year sate ever since the 18 th of Iune in which time the main thing which they did of general Concernment was their Condemnation of Archibald Iohnson alias Laird Wariston a Member of the Committee of Safety who was executed on the 22 th of Iuly at the Market-Cross of Edenburgh having receiv'd his Sentence in the Parliament-House In the next place was their Constitution of a National Synod or Assembly of the Church the first that ever was constituted in that Kingdom under Bishops whereby the ordering and disposal of the external Government of the Church and the Nominations of the Members of the Synod were to be in the King by vertue of his Prerogative Royal in Causes Ecclesiastical As to the Members constituting the same they were to be Archbishops Bishops Deans and Arch-Deacons the Moderators of Meetings for Exercises with one Minister of each Meeting to be chosen by the Moderator and plurality of Ministers for the same The Synod to meet at such time and places as his Majesty should appoint by Proclamation and to debate of such matters relating to the Government and Doctrine of the Church as his Majesty should deliver to the President And lastly no Assembly to be held without the presence of his Majesty or his Commissioner Their second Act was for an Army of 20000 Foot and 2000 Horse with forty days provision to be in readiness as they should be call'd to march to any part of his Majesties Dominions for suppressing any forein Invasion or for any other Service
those parts But though De Ruyter carry'd the Flag he did not Command in Chief but under the Triumvirate of De Witt Huygens and Boreel who according to a new Model had now the Superintendencie over the Naval Affairs And now the Bishop of Munster's Drums sound in their Ears almost as terrible as the English Cannon besides that his Army began to grow very numerous This made the States order a Flying-Army to the Frontiers though with small satisfaction to the Inhabitants who daily fled to the Fortifi'd Towns for their Security In the mean while the English Fleet lay in Three Squadrons from Brookness to Hitland and so to Norway which made the Dutch very earnest to put to Sea but one while the Water another time the Wind would not permit it The Earl of Sandwich being thus abroad upon Notice of 50 Hollanders being sheltred in Berghen sent a Squadron of 22 Men of War under the Command of Sir Thomas Tyddeman with Orders to Sail directly for Berghen and there to Attacque and Fire the Hollanders which Enterprize had prov'd very fatal to the Dutch had not the Wind and the Dane himself very much befriended the Dutch and given them liberty to Plant their Guns ashore against the English However they receiv'd very great Loss in the disabling many of the most considerable Ships then in the Harbour But soon after the Earl of Sandwich himself met with a Convoy of the Dutch with several Merchants and some East-India Men in his Company where though the storminess of the Weather did much favour the Dutch yet he took above 8 good Men of War two of their best East-India Ships and 20 Sail of their Merchant-Men Some few daies after some of his Majesties Fleet encountring with 18 sail of Hollanders took the greatest part of them whereof four Dutch Men of War with above a thousand Prisoners Upon the 10 th of October the Parliament met at Christ-Church in Oxford the Schools being fitted for their reception where his Majesty delivered himself to this effect That they might confidently believe that had it not been absolutely necessary to consult with them he would not have called them together when the Contagion had spread it self over so many parts of the Kingdom That he had entred upon the Dutch War by their advice and encouragement and that therefore he desir'd they might receive information of the Conduct and Effects of it to the end be might have the continuance of their chearful supply That it prov'd more chargeable than he could imagine it would have been That the addition which the Dutch made to their Fleets made it unavoidably necessary for him to make a proportional preparation That as the Dutch endeavour'd by false suggestions to make themselves friends so he had not been wanting to encourage those Princes that had been wrong'd by the Dutch to recover their own by force to which end he had assisted the Bishop of Munster with a considerable sum of Money That these were the Reasons that his Supply was upon the matter neer spent However That he made not War for Wars sake but was ready to receive all fair Propositions but that the Dutch were no less Insolent than ever though they had no advantage that he knew of Upon this the Lord-Chancellor Hide enlarged observing from point to point the whole process of Affairs from the time of his Majesties Restauration to this instant That notwithstanding the affronts upon the Royal Family in Holland during the Usurpation His Majesty was pleased to Embark himself in one of their Ports though prest by the two Neighbour-Kings to have taken his passage through their Territories That being returned the King was forc'd to support himself upon Credit till the Armies were disbanded and the Fleet paid off which Debt was heightned by the supplies of his Majesties Stores so exhausted at that time that there was not Arms for 5000 men not Provisions for the setting out ten new ships That his Majesty replenish'd his Stores reduc'd the expence of his Navy providing only a necessary Guard for the Narrow Sâas and a Fleet against the Pyrates which had brought them to submission Then he repeated the several Insolencies and unkindenesses committed by the Dutch The King's application to the Parliament The Parliaments humble desires of Redress The States preparations for War And the whole Series of the War and its Success until that time Then reflecting upon the greatness and necessity of the King's disbursments he concluded In answer whereof the House of Commons returned their Thanks to his Majesty for his care and Conduct for the preservation of his People and Honour of the Nation declaring withal that they would assist him with their Lives and Fortunes They returned him also Thanks for his care of his Brother the Duke of York Then they gave the King an additional Supply of 1250000 l. by Monethly Assesment They gave him also a Present of a Moneths Tax to come in the Rear after the expiration of the Monethly Aid which they desired his Majesty would bestow upon his Royal Highness They also passed a Bill of Attainder of certain English Fugitives who had joyned with the Dutch Also a Bill for suppression of Nonconformists which with some other Bills being signed by his Majesty they were Prorogu'd till the 20 th of February following at Westminster On the last of their Sessions the House of Commons considering that they sate in the Convocation-House and remembring the Fidelity and Loyalty of the University Voted that the Thanks of the House should be given to the Chancellor Masters and Scholars for their eminent Loyalty to his Majesty and his Father of blessed Memory during the Rebellion particularly for refusing to be visited by the Usurped powers and to subscribe the Solemn League and Covenant and for these Excellent Reasons they publish'd to the World to justifie his Majesties Cause Mr. L. Hide Sir Heneage Finch Sir Iohn Birkenhead and Colonel Strangways were ordered to present these their Thanks to the University which was accordingly done in a full Convocation within the same Walls where the Vote past After this Sir Heneage Finch and Colonel Strangways were made Doctors of Laws by Dr. Ienkins Principal of Iesus Colledge Mr. Hide and Sir Iohn Berkenhead having received their respective Degrees before Soon after the Duke of Ormond Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland was remanded back into that Kingdom where in a short time he arrived at Dublin and was received into the City with great splendor and Magnificence This Moneth the several Courts of Justice sate in the Schools at Oxford being Michaelmas-Term where Sir Iohn Keeling was made Lord Chief-Jusâice of the King's-Bench and Sir William Morton one of the Judges of the same Court in the place of Sir Wadham Windham deceased The next Term being Hillary was from thence adjourn'd to Windsor and from thence to Westminster where they sate February the ninth But
going and returning Sir Iohn dismiss'd them with promise of a speedy answer and upon consultation with the Earl of Bath it was agreed that Sir Ionathan Trelawney Major Sparks and Mr. Windham should go aboard At their approach De Ruyter met them at the Boat-side and inviting them aboard saluted them with 13 Guns excusing what had past and promising for the future that no other acts of that nature should be committed while he continu'd on the Coast. De Wit Doleman the Count de Horne with above 20 Captains more attended the English at the Great Cabin where they offer'd a Present to De Ruyter for his own Table but refus'd any greater supply till Peace should be Proclaim'd Accordingly upon their return the Earl of Bath sent the Admiral a Present of fresh Provisions with a fat Buck and some Fruit which De Ruyter receiv'd with seven Guns as an acknowledgement Notwithstanding De Ruyter's Complement after he parted from Plymouth two of the Dutch Fleet came before the Harbour of Hoy and advancing near the Shoar ply'd with their Broad-sides certain Works that were newly rais'd at the entrie of the Harbour but after an hour and an half they were forc'd to retire with several Shots receiv'd in their Hulls and the loss of one of their Top-Masts and several men without any loss to the English After this they were only seen to hover about the Coasts but without any farther Attempts and Peace ensu'd For about the beginning of Iune the Embassadours of England France and Sweden the Plenipotentiaries of the States and Denmark repair'd to the Castle belonging to the Prince of Orange where there was great care taken to avoid all contests about Precedency A while after Mr. Coventry one of the Embassadors being sent over into England and having receiv'd the King's Answer and Resolution touching the Articles discuss'd and agree'd to by the Plenipotentiaries return'd for Breda so that upon the Twenty first of Iune the Articles were sign'd by the Plenipotentiaries And upon the Fourteenth of August the Ratifications of the Peace were enterchang'd The Mediators first bringing in the Ratifications and other Instruments of the Dutch French and Danes into the English Embassadors Apartment receiv'd from them theirs in Exchange Which done the English Embassadors went into the Apartment of the Dutch and their Allies where they made and receiv'd the Compliments usual upon the Conclusion of so great an Affair The Peace was immediately Proclaim'd before the Doors of the several Plenipotentiaries in their respective Languages Afterwards upon the Twenty fourth of August it was publickly Proclaim'd in the City of London And as if this had not been enough it was afterwards confirm'd by an Additional Treaty made and concluded by Sir William Temple in Ianuary following Having thus pursu'd the Series of the Dutch War and Peace other intervening actions must not be omitted It was murmur'd that the Publick Treasure was wasted and miss-spent the King therefore to satisfie the People Issued out a Commission to several Members of both Houses to take an Accompt of such sums of Money as had been rais'd and assign'd to him during the present War being in all 2477500 l. granted at several times by several Acts with full Power to call to Accompt all Treasurers Pay-masters Receivers and all other Agents and Persons whatsoever And what had not been lately practis'd before by the King this Year the Feast of St. George was kept in his Palace of White-Hall The Earl of Southampton Lord High Treasurer of England being now lately Dead the King did not think fit to give the Place to any particular Person for the present but made the Duke of Albemarle the Lord Ashley Sir Thomas Clifford Sir William Coventry and Sir Iohn Duncomb by a Commission under the Great Seal his Commissioners for executing that Office The Parliament had met according to the Kings Proclamation in Iuly but were then Prorogu'd again till the Tenth of October at which time being again Assembled the King gave for one reason of his last Prorogation That it was to give himself time to do some things in the mean time which he hop'd would not be unwelcome to them which he had since done leaving his other Reasons to be deliver'd by the Lord Keeper who not only afterwards enlarg'd upon the King's Reasons for the said Prorogation but also recommended to them the Obstructions of Trade and the settlement of such a Ballance of Trade between England and Scotland that neither we should be prejudic'd by the Import of their Commodities here nor they put to seek new places of Vent abroad As to the Money rais'd for the War he told them what the King had done in reference to calling all Persons to Account and had committed the Examination thereof to themselves to follow their own Method adding withal that if any grievances had happen'd his Majesty would be as willing to have them Redress'd as they to have them Represented not doubting but that they would endeavour to Imprint the known Truth into his Subject hearts that there was no distinct Interest between the King and his People The Commons taking into Consideration the King's Speech resolv'd to return him their humble Thanks to which purpose having obtain'd the Concurrence of the Lords the Two Houses in a Body attended the King in the Banqueting-House where the Lord Keeper in the Name of the Two Houses made known to the King That they His Majesties Loyal and Faithful Subjects having taken into their serious Consideration the Speech wherein he was pleas'd to let them know the reasons of their last Prorogation which was to give himself time to do some things which would not be unwelcome to them but be a Foundation of a greater Confidence for the Future between the King and them They found themselves in duty bound to give him thanks and particularly for that he had Disbanded the New-rais'd Forces that he had dismist the Papists from his Guards and other Military Imployments for his Care in quickning the Execution of the Act restraining the Importation of Canary That He had seen the Canary Patent Vacated And Lastly for his displacing the Lord Chancellor But the Parliament having Sate till the Middle of December pass'd several Acts among the rest An Act for taking an account of the several Sums of Money therein mention'd An Act for Banishing and Disenabling the Earl of Clarenden to which when the King had given his Consent by Commission they Adjourn'd till February And because it was a general Complaint among the Seamen and Souldiers who had been in Service that they were frequently constrain'd to give money or lose some part of their Wages to recover the rest the King therefore for the more effectual Redress of such abuses if any were appointed the Duke of York and several of the Lords of the Council to receive and hear all such Complaints as any Sea-man or Souldier should
and that he did not receive the profits of it But the Emperour denied he knew of his being a Plenipotentiary and that it was not for one of his Subjects to take up Interests contrary to the Interest of his Soveraign and would not hear of his Release During these Treaties the King of France had possess'd himself of a great part of the Palatinate and had put a Garrison into Germerstein of 300 Souldiers yet proffered the Elector if he would stand Neuter to satisfie him for all his Damages and to withdraw his Souldiers out of Gemerstein and put it into the Hands of any Neutral Prince of the Empire which he refus'd upon Caprara's coming to his Succour The Switzers to hinder the King of France from coming into Burgundy offered that Burgundy might stand Neutur proffering themselves security that that Province should punctually observe the Neutrality and that they would guard the Avenues into it against any Forces of the Empire And thus stood Affairs at the end of this year Anno Dom. 1674. PEace being now concluded between the English and the Dutch this Year was not memorable for much at home The first motion of the Court this Moneth was to Windsor where the Earl of Mulgrave was Install'd Knight of the Garter This Moneth also the King by his Embassador the Lord Lockhart offer'd his Mediation between the King of France and the Queen of Spain to compose the differences betwixt them And to the end he might be no way concern'd in their differences by publick Proclamation forbid any of his Subjects to enter into the Service of any forrain Prince He also set forth a Proclamation forbidding the broaching and uttering false and scandalous News as also against any that should talk impertinently of the Government or the Governours In May Sir Lionel Ienkins and Sir Ioseph Williamson return'd to London from Cologne Who were followed into England by the Baron de Reed Van Benninghen and Van Haren Extraordinary Embassadors from the States of Holland In Iune came a strict Proclamation against the Jesuites and Friests Commanding their discovery and apprehension and promising five pounds for every one that should be discovered and taken Toward the beginning of September upon Resignation of the Duke of Buckingham the Duke of Mânmouth was made Chancellor of the University of Cambridge The Ceremony was performed with all its circumstances at Worcester-house in London Not long after the Right Honourable the Earl of St. Albans having resign'd into his Majesty's Hands the Staff of Office of Lord-Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold his Majesty was pleas'd to give it to the Right Honourable the Earl of Arlington in recompence of his long and faithful Services and particularly for having performed to his Majesties satisfaction for the space of twelve years the Offiâe of Principal Secretary of State which his Majesty was pleas'd to conâer at the same time upon the Right Honourable Sir Ioseph Williamson Knight one of the Clerks then of his Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council for his long and faithful service in the said Office under Sir Edward Nicholas and the Earl of Arlington and in his place Philip Lloyd Esq was sworn one of the Clerks of the Privy-Council Upon the 22 of September his Majesty was pleas'd to cause a Proclamation to be published for the further prorogation of the Parliament from the 10 th of November till the 13 th of April ensuing In the beginning of December the Earls of Ossory and Arlington together with the Heer Odike not long before Extraordinary Embassador in England arrived at the Hagne where they went to pay their Respects to the Prince of Orange About the same time was concluded between his Majesties Commissioners and those of the States General of the Vnited Provinces a Treaty Marine for all parts of the World in pursuance of the 8 th and 9 th Articles of the late Treaty of Peace made at Westminster the February before and was after ratifi'd by the States in the beginning of February following Presently after His Majesty having been graciously pleased to Translate the Right Reverend Father in God Dr. Crew Bishop of Oxford and Clerk of the Closet to his Majesty to the Sea of Durham made choice of the Honourable Dr. Compton Brother to the Right Honourable the Earl of Northampton to succeed in his place Toward the middle of December His Majesty having been pleased at his entertainment at Guild-Hall when Sir Robert Viner was newly Lord-Mayor of the City graciously and freely to condescend to the acceptance of the Freedom of London in the Chamberlains Office from the Hands of Sir Thomas Player Chamberlain beyond the Example of any of his Predecessors The said Sir Robert Viner Lord-Mayor thereupon having first obtained his Majesties leave presented his Majesty in the Name of the City with the Copy of the Freedom in a large square Box of Massie Gold the Seal of the Freedom hanging at it enclosed in a Box of Gold set all over with large Diamonds Toward the beginning of Ianuary Her Royal Highness was brought to Bed of a Daughter Christen'd at St. Iames's by the Bishop of Durham by the Name of Catherina Laura the Duke of Monmouth being God-father and the Lady Mary and the Lady Anne God-mothers The Term begining at the latter end of Ianuary Sir Francis North the King's Attorney-General was sworn Lord Chief-Justice of the Common-Pleas in the room of Sir Iohn Vaughan deceased In the beginning of February his Majesty caused several Orders and Resolutions concerning Papists to be publish'd That the Conviction of Popish Recusants should be encouraged quickned and made Effectual That no Person of what Condition or Quality soever should presume to say Mass in any part of this Kingdom That all Persons born within His Majesties Dominions being in Orders by Authority deriv'd from the Church of Rome should depart the Kingdom by a short time prefix'd That none of His Majesties Subjects should presume to send their Children to be Educated in any Popish Colledges or Seminaries upon a strict Penalty That none of his Majesties Subjects being Popists or so reputed should presume to come into His Majesties Presence into White Hall St. James's or any place where His Majesties Court should be And Lastly That care should be taken for the suppression of Conventicles Forrein Affairs 1674. The first thing that presented it self of most Importance beyond Sea this Year was that the King of France gave order to quit all his Conquests in the Netherlands belonging to the States of Holland except Maestricht The States also to be rid of so great a trouble as the Bishop of Munsteri makes Peace with him the Baron D' Issola signing the Articles on the behalf of the Emperor The chief Articles whereof were That the Bishop should restore all places taken during the War That the Treaty of Cleves should be punctually observ'd And that the King of
Corn. After this followed the surrender of Treves to the Imperialists upon Articles of which one was That Crequy who had escaped thither from his Rout should be a Prisoner of War In September the Duke of Lorrain departed this life at Hermansteine neer Coblentz Farther off the King of Poland removed a very great Storm that threatned his Dominions by a very great overthrow of the Tartars wherein a great number of them were slain with the loss of their chief Standard which struck such a terrour into the Turks that with their Captain Ishmael Bassa they made a shameful Retreat out of the Polish Territories But the Low Countries had a worse Enemy to deal with for the Sea breaking into North-Holland the Inundation continued with that violence that many of the Cities of North-Holland had a great share of that Calamity The Harlemeer-Dyke was broken and all the Country round about lay under Water so that many of the Boors Houses were drown'd being covered with the Sea The same Fate befel South-Holland and it is said that had the Inundation continu'd 24 hours longer the whole Country would have run a hazard of being lost And thus you have an account in brief of all the most memorable Transactions since the greatest act of Providence that has been observed for many Ages The happy Restauration of his Majesty And we may aver that here is nothing but Truth if all the publick Intelligence of so many years have not fail'd This is then a Story in dead Colours it behoves them that will lay it in the lively Painting to take more pains than may be thought has here been taken and have greater helps than it was possible for us to have to make use of And therefore if there be any that with the Knowledge of a Privy-Councellor and the Eloquence of a Salust will undertake to cull out the most important Actions which are here reduc'd into order ready to his hand for some of these he must take or be silent and compile them into a judicious History we are ready to vail Bonnet in the mean time these few Sheets may pass for Common Satisfaction FINIS AN ALPHABETICAL TABLE A ABingdon-Garrison Page 70 Aberdeen and St. Andrews yielded 302 Abjuration of the King by the Rump 436 Account of the Dutch War from 315 c. to 323. Their Intrigues with forrein Princes and at home 323. of the Revenue and Charge of the Kingdom under the Vsurpation of Oliver 415 Act against proclaiming of the King 225. For Assessment 235. For sale of Cavaliers Estates ibid. Executed 303. For Marriages 351. For Irish Adventurers and Allotments 352. Several confirmed 500. Against Bishops repealed 501. Pretended of annulling the Title of the King 383 Accidents 315 Addresses how begun 67. To Cromwel upon the dissolution of the Parliament 343. To Richard 410. To the Rump from forrain Princes 423. To the Rump by the Army 422. to the King from the Nobility and Gentry of the whole Kingdom 452 Adjutators 127 forbid Adventurers for Ireland 352 Aix la Chappelle Treaty there 570 Alarm in London 403 Albans Earl 455 made Lord-Chamberlain 580 Allen Sir Thomas Lord Mayor of London 428 Allen Captain sent for the Streights 528. Allen Sir Thomas makes peace with Algiers 569. Lies before Algier 575. Algier Men of War destroyed by the English 578. Returns ibid. Albemarle's stay in London 539. General at Sea 550. One of the Commissioners of the Treasury 563. Dies 575. His Dutchess dies ibid Anabaptism the uppermost Religion 431 Andrews proclaims the Abolishing of Kingly Government and made Lord Mayor 231 Andrews Colonel beheaded 270 Anniversary Act of the King's Nativity 456 Anthony Sir Ashley-Cooper 427 Approbation of Ministers 359 Arches Triumphal 475 to 479 Ards Lord 240 Arguments for Cromwel's accepting the Kingship 386 to 390 Argyle a Privy Councellor sides with the Assembly 8. Policy and shifts 304. Marquiss seized 470. Beheaded 497 Arlington Earl sent into Holland 586. made Lord Chamberlain 599. Sent into France ibid. Armagh Arch-bishop dies 380 Armstrong Sir Thomas joyns with the Marquiss of Ormond 240 Army English very gallant and resolute 10. Parliament Army raised 36. New moduled 67. Quarrel with the Parliament about Irish Transportation and publickly declare their power over them 132. Purging the House ib. Pretend civilities to the King 132 to 136. Designe upon the City and claim the Militia 136. Declaration and insolence 140. Triumphantly through London 141. Delude the King Their Proposals 145 to 147. Suppress a Rising in London 170. Quarter in London Whitehal and the Mews 192. And force the Parliament ibid. Shipt for Ireland at Milford-Haven 237. English advance into Scotland 268. Face the Scots 272. Remonstrance to Richard 416. Their address to the Rump 422. Their representation to the Rump 428. New moulded by Lambert 429. Declaration upon outing the Rump ibid. Their Address joyfully receiving the King's Declaration 466. Disbanded 456 Array Commission 27 Articles of Scotch Cessation 15 Arundel Earl made General of the English 9 Arundel Castle taken by Sir William Waller 56 Ascham slain in Spain 236 Ashley Sir Bernard at Naseby 79. Mortally Wounded at Bristol 84 Ashley Sir Jacob defeated at Stow in the Wold 96. Deserts Newcastle 13 Ashby de la Zouch 97 Ashburnham Mr. John 99 Ashbâânham Mr. William 148 Aske Iudge 254 Assembly General indicted and meet by their own Authority packt and made up oâ Lay-Elders refuse the Bishops to sit buâ cite them to answer as Guilty dissolved within 7 days but continue nevertheless 8. Assembly of Divines 69. General in Scotland 325 Ashton Colonel Edward Quartered 404 Aston Sir Arthur Governour slain at Drogheda 244 Aubigny Lord 41. His Lady 47 Aurange Prince the Kings great Friend 235 dies and a new Prince born 276. Christned 282. Old Prince buried 284. His Interest in Holland 323 Avignon Sedition there 533. Peace composed 570 Axtel Guards the High Court of Iustice 205 Ayscue Sir George at Barbadoes 306. Returns to Plymouth 322. At Dover ibid. In danger Engageth De Ruyter at Plymouth and discharged 323. Prisoner 551 B Badajox Marquiss killed 383 Balmerino Lord his Treason 4 Baggot Kath. Ballishanon 241 242 251 Banbury 108 Barnstable 99 106 Barbadoes reduced 306. Wonder 526. Attempted by De Ruyter 537. Lord Willoughby wounded there 537. Sails from thence with a Fleet 557. Lost in a Hurricane ibid. The Bridge-town burnt there 568. Barbadoes Conspiracy 602. A Hurricane there 602 Barâbone denominates a Parliament 350. His Petition 437 Barons created 482 Baronets Catalogue 493 to 496 Bastwick Burton Pryn return from Banishment in great state 16 Bastwick Dr. of Physick Burton a Minister against Bishops c. 2 Basing-house Besieged by Waller in vain 62 Taken 91 BATTLES Edge-hill 40. Newberry first 50.51 Newberry second 65.66 Marston-moor 59. Tepper-moor Alderne Kilsith Philipshaugh in Scotland 73. Naseby 78 to 80. Lamport 82. Routon-heath 89. Colonel Jones defeated near Dublin 164. Defeats Lord Preston with a huge slaughter soon after at
ãâ¦ã and Lambert fall out 428. Vote away Lambert's and eight more Field-commission Officers ib. Outed by Lambert 429. Reseated 43 ãâ¦ã ter company added to them 438. Arms defaced 446 Rupert Prince 40 44. And throughout the War Leaves Kingsale and puts to Sea with a Fleet 254. Blockt up at Lisbon 256 267. His Fleet dispersed and some taken 275. From Taulon to Sea 289. Seizeth Spanish ships why 293. In France â37 General at Sea 550. Divides ãâ¦ã yns again and fights 551 Russia Emperor 255. Embassadors Rycaut Paul returns from Constantinople 520 S. Sad condition of the Irish 333 Safety a Committee 429 Sales of the King 's Queen's Prince's Dââns and Chapters Lands and Houses 256. Of Kings Houses agreed on but avoyded by Cromwel âââ Salisbury River begun to be made ãâ¦ã âââ Sanzeime Battle 600 Salmasius his Royâl defence 236 Salters-Hall Commissioners for sale of prisoners Estates stopt 359 Sanderson Bishop dies 514 Saul Major Executed 278 Sandwich Earl keeps the Sea 528. Takes the Dutch East-Indie-fleet 541. He is sent Embassador into Spain 545. Arrives at Madrid 550. Sent to Portugal 569 Scalborough to the King by Brown Bushel 44. Yielded to the Parliament 193 Savoy and Genoa at odds 547 566 590. Saxony Duke installed Knight of the Garter by Proxey 580 Scilly Island rendred by Sir John Greenvile 288 289 Scot Robinson sent to meet Gen. Monk 435 Scotch troubles about English Liturgy and Book of Canons 3. Arm 1638. And desire the King of France's assistance 9. Cunningly agree upon a Pacification abuse the King who is betrayed by his Servants 10. War resumed proclaimed Rebels treated with soon after 15. Peace ratified in Parliament ibid. Favour the Parliaments cause 35. Enter England with an Army for the Covenant 56. At Hereford 87. Iuggle with and sell the King 120. Parliament dispute about the disposal of the King 115 Commissioners sence of the Parliaments Bills and Proposals Presbyters murther sâveral Scotch Gentlemen 164. Prepare a War under Hamilton 165 166. Enter England under Duke Hamilton 177. Defeated 178. Hamilton prisoner ibid. Scotland detests the Murther of the King and proclaims Charles the second at Edinburgh and expostulates with the Regicides at Westminster 232 Scots defeat a Royal party in the North of Scotland 333. Send Commissioners to the King 233. Defeated in Ulster in Ireland by Sir Charles Coot 247. They send Commissioners to the King 257. Their Names Except against Malignants their other terms 257. They endeavour to unite 274 Cavaliers admitted into Trust 282. Pass an Act of Oblivion 290. Encamped in Torwood 292. Noblemen taken at Elliot in Scotland and sent Prisoners to the Tower others of the Nobility submit 302. The reasons 304. Kirk reject the English Vnion 307. Deputies ordered to be chosen by the Commissioners 310. The affairs of the Kingdom ibid. Several Scots Earls and Noblemen taken after Worcester 298 New Great Seal 56. Great Seal broken 128 Sea-fight the first between us and the Dutch in the Downs an account of it 315 to 320 Second Sea-fight between Sir Geo Ayscue and De Ruyter at Plymouth 325 Third Sea-fight between Blake and De Wit in the North-Foreland 326 327. Fourth Sea-fight at Portland 335 Fifth Sea-fight at Leghorn betwixt Captain Appleton and Van Gallen 337 Sixth Sea-fight betwixt Gen. Monke Dean and Blake and Van Tromp behinde the Goodwyn-Sands 345 Seventh Sea-fight betwixt Gen. Monke and Tromp 346 to 349 Sea-men encouraged 534 Secluded Members restored and reseated Sieges and Skirmishes in Ireland 274 Selden John dies 366 Seneffe Battle 601 Serini beats the Turk 52. Is killed 533 Sexby Col. dies 398 Shaftsbury Earl Lord Chancellor 588 Dr. Sheldon Arch-bishop of Canterbury 523 Sheriffs discharged of expenses at Assizes 401 Ship-money voted illegal 17. The nature of it 16 17 Ships blown up neer London-bridge 361 Shrewsbury 38 39 71 Sickness in London 539. Abates 544 Skippon Major-General Articles for the Infantry at Lestithiel 58 Skirmishes Brill Ast-ferry 64 Slanning Sir Nicholas 46 Slingsby Sir Henry decoyed 304. Tryed and Beheaded 404 Smith Sir Jeremy keeps the Mediterranean Seas 544 Soissons Count Embassador hither 456 Sonds Freeman kills his Brother and is hanged 380 Southampton Earl 163 Spalding-Abby fell and killed 23 persons 380 Spaniard owns the English Commonwealth 278 Sprague Sir Edward sent into Flanders 569. Commands in the Streights 578. Destroys the Algerines 581. Returns 583. Spoyls the Dutch fishing 588 Stacy Edmond Executed 404 States of England pretended declare the maintenance of Laws 227. Are guilty of the Irish Rebellion with which they taxed the King 237. Erect a new Council of State 283. Proclaim the King Traitor and are in great fear and dispair at his entring England 294 Stamford Earl 42 Statues of the late King and King James pulled down and the Inscription writ under that at Old Exchange 269 Steel Recorder of London refuseth to be Knighted by Oliver 357. Made Lord-Chancellor of Ireland 366. Made Lord Chief-Baron of England 373 Stawel Sir John ordered for Tryal 229. At High Court of Iustice 279 Sterling-Castle taken 361 Sterry Oliver's Chaplain his Blasphemy 409 Strafford Earl Commander in chief against the Scots 13. Accused to the Parliament 15. To the Black-rod and Tower 16. Tryal 18. His willing resignation his attainder ibid. And deâth 19 St. Germain a Proclamation against him 602 St. John and Strickland Embassadors to the Dutch their business and departure 285 286 287. St. John 357. Stickles in the Council of State for terms with the King 440 Stratton Baron Lord Hopton dies 328 Straughan Col. 280 Stroker 540 Stuart Lord John killed 57. With Sir John Smith Col. Scot and Sandys and Colonel Manning ibid. Stuart Lord Bernard slain 89 Submission of the Irish 324 Sunderland Earl slain 51 Summons for persons of Integrity to take upon them the Government by Council of state 345 Sums of Money raised by the Parliament Supplies to Jamaica 377 Surrenders several 91. As Basing Tiverton Exeter Sheford 91 92 Surrenders in Ireland 270 Surinam 557 Surrey Petitioners assaulted 172 Sweden Queen supplies Montross 255. Complies with our States 358. Receives Whitlock ibid. Gives our Soveraign an interview 376 Sweden King invades Poland 373 Swedes stand firm for England 549. Besiege Bremen 559. Mediations excepted 560. Embassador dies in London 566. Makes peace with the Dutch 567. King presented with the Garter 572. Installed by Proxie 580. Ioyn with the French 597 Sydenham Major slain at Linlithgow 288 Syndercomb's Plot and death 384 385. T Tabaco taken by the English 591 Tables erected in Scotland 7 Tadcaster 42 Taffalette routed and slain 579. Moors beaten 581. Earl of Middleton Governour and makes peace with the Moors 594 Taaff Lord sent against Cromwel 246 Taaff Luke Major-General 248 Tangier 504. Iews expelled 525. Lord Bellasis Governour there 537. Moors beaten there 573 Tartar taken in Germany 526 Taylor the Kings Resident with the Emperour 329 Taxes a mark on them 331 Teviot Earl killed 527 Temple Sir William concludes â League
to them The King is assisted by the Yorkshire Gentry The Lââdoâârs affect the Parliament The King writes to the Lord Mayor Court of Aldermen they pârsist the King sends out his Commissions of Array And publisheth a General Declaration inviting all his loving Subjects to assist him Promiseth 8 l. per cent and his Lands Parks and Houses for security Proclaims the Legality of his Commissions of Array The Parliament justifie their proceedings Sir Ben. Rudyard and other Members of Parliament earnest for an accommodation Mr. Hambden Mr. Pym and Isaac Penington Lord M. of London as violent for a war The Militia set on foot The ââââiament borââw money oââhe publick Faith The King ãâ¦ã for ãâã peace Several fââtious rumours raised against the Kings friends The London Miniâters and Citizens too violent for the Faction The King at Newark he sends to the Lord Willoughby of Parham to defill from aiding the Rebellion and returns to York The King causeth the Earl of Stamford to be proclaimed Traytor Sir John Lucas proclaimed Traytor by the Parliament and committed James Lord Strange Impeaâhed of High Treason by the Parliament Sir John Byron worsted by the Parliament-Forces and declared Rebel He marcheth to Worcester and takâs it for the King The Marquess of Hertford L. G. of the West for the King The King attempts Hull with ãâã and sâts ãâã Standard at Nottingham The Earl of Lindsey General for the King The Earl of Essex Captain-G for the Parliament The Earl of Bedford G. of their Hârâe Essex departs from London in state The King in Stafford-shire and Leicestershire His Oration to the Gentry Freeholders and Inhabitants Wherein he promiseth to have a tender respect to his Subjects Choosing rather to melt downe his own plate Sell or Morgage his Land than to oppress them The King at Shrewsbury with 6000 fâot 3000 hoââ and ââar 2000 Dragooners He marcheth ãâã oâ Coventry The Londoners ãâ¦ã Câl Ven governs Windsor Castle for the Parliament where Barksted commands ãâã The Parliament ãâ¦ã of the Counties Fortsmouth and Southsea Castle taken for the Parliament by Sir John Merrick Goring goes to France A smart skirmiâh near Worcester Major Douglass kill'd Worcester Garrisoâ'd for the Parliament by the Earl of Essex The King coins his plate into money Edge-hill fight Prince Rupert commands the right Wââg of the Horse The Lord Wilmot Commands the left âing The Earl of Lindsey General for the King The Earl of Essex General for the Parliament Their chief Commanders were Colonel Ramsey Sir William Balfour Sir Philip Stapleton and the Lord Fieldâng Prince Rupert ovârthrows Col. Ramsey Col. Essex kill'd Prince Rupert's mistake Col. Hambden comes to assist Essex Lord Wilmot worsted by Sir Wil. Balfour E. of Lindsey mortally wounded his Son the Lord Willoughby taken prisoner Sir Edmond Verney slain The Kings Standard taken and rescued by Sir John Smith whom the King therefore Knighted Both Armies divide The King retreats Earl of Essex marcheth to Warwick The Victory doubtful on either part Banbury Garrisoned by the King Solemn thanks given on both sides The Parliament reward the Earl of Essex with 5000 l. Slain on both sides neer 6000. On the Kings side the Lord Aubigney Col. Munro c. On the Parliaments the Lord St. John Lieu. Col. Ramsey Earl of Essex marcheth towards Coventry the King by Ayno to Banbury to Oxford and towards London Commissioners from the Parliament tender Propositions only to prevent the Kings intentions and to gain time for Essex to recruit a notable Skirmish at Branford where the King met with the Regiments of Col. Hollis Col. Hambden and the Lord Brooks 300 Parliamentarians slayn among whom Lieu. Col. Quarles as many taken prisoners The King at Oxford Sir William Waller takes Winchester Chichester delivered to the Parliament Marlborough to the King Lord Hopton Arms against the Earl of Stamford his Regiment put to the Sword by Prince Rupert at Cyrencester Glocester summoned Litchfield-Close Garrisoned by the K. Besieged by the Lord Brooke He is killed by a Musket-shot The Close delivered to the Parliament The Regiments of the Lord Wilmot Lord Grandison Lord Digby Sir William Penniman Col. Blague Col. Usher and Col. Grey take Marlborough with the Governour Col. Ramsey Tadcaster besieged by the Earl of New-Castle taken and Garrison'd by the King Lord Fairfax stormeth Leeds The Royalists defeated Belvoir-castle surprized for the King Col. Massey active in Glocester-shire Salisbury plundered by the Faction Yarum fight Sir Gilb. Gerrard puts Hambden to flight Queen landing at Burlington-Key is in imminent danger But escaping is conducted to York and from thence to the King at Edge-Hill Reading besieged by the Earl of Essex The Governour Sir Arthur Aston wounded Col. Fielding yields the Town to the Parliament Marq. of Newcastle defeated at Wakefield by Sir Thomas Fairfax Monmouth and Hereford taken by Sir Wil. Waller for the Parliament Ferdinando Lord Fairfax and his son Tho. Fairfax with others proclaimed Traytors by the Earl of Cumberland and the Earl of Newcastle The two aforesaid Earlâ proclaimed Traytors by the Parliamânt The King mâre prosperous in the West Liskard fight January 19. Sir Ralph Hopton chief Commander for the King at Liskard He orders publike Prayers at the head of each Squadron The Royalists get the day and come to Liskard Salt Ash assaulted by Hopton Litchfield besieged aâd âummonâd iâ the Eaâl of Northampton March 19. Tâe ãâ¦ã by Brereton and Gell Hopton-Heath Fight Tâe Earl of Northampton state âitchfield ãâã to Prince Rupert Grantham taken for the K. by Colonel Cavendish Marlborough for the Parliament Prince âupert at Brimingham A slight skirmish The Earl of Denbigh slain Scarborough delivered by Capt. Brown Bushel for which he was beheaded Fairfax dâfeated at Bramham-Moor The Parliaments Cause endangered the Scots invited to their assistance Queen proclaimed Traytoâ Cheapside-Cross and other Crosses demolished The Regalia seized at Westminster by Mr. H. Martin Covânant taken by the Parliament the Londoners and all within the Parliaments command Essex advanceth from Reading to Tame Prince Rupert falls upon their quarters Chalgrave fight Hambden mortally wounded Id. Littleton âlies with the Great Seal to Oxford a new one voted Sir R. Hopton marcheth into Devon-shire against the E. oâ Samford and Ma. Gââ Chudleigh Stratton fight The Kings party worsted Ma. G. Chudleigh taken by Sir John Berkley and the fortune of the day restored Hopton then created Baron Hopton of Stratton Col. Thomas Essex and Col. Nat. Fiennes Governours of Bristol Yeomans and Bourcher executed Earl of Northampton defeats Coloââl John Fiennes Wardour Castle taken for thâ Parliament and a whâle after retaken by Sir Francis Dorrington Sir William Waller Garrisons Taunton and Bridg-Water for the Parliament Hopton joyns with Prince Maurice aâd Marq. of Hartford Landsdown fight Sir Bevil Greenvil and Sir Nicholas Slanning advance towards Sir William Waller Thây are disordered Maâor Lowre and Sir Bevil Greenvil slain Lord Hopton hurt Divers others slain Lord Hopton
led by Hewson a daring Souldier The town fired Colonel Okey takes Burrough Garrison for the Parliament The Clubmen dispersed They were Ten thousand in a Body The Motto of one of their Colours Sherburn Castle besieged and Bath taken Sir Lewes Dives the Governour of Sherburn Castle maks a notaâââ defence The General Summons the Castle and offers the Ladies and women their liberty to depart The Castle again Summoned The Governours resolute answer Sherburn Castle taken August 15. Sir Lewis Dives imprisoned in the Tower he escapes to Ireland Nunny Castle taken by Colonel Rainsborough for the Parliament Ireton sent towards Bristol Several Salleys with different success Sir Bernard Ashley mortally wounded Sir Thomas Fairfax's Summons to Prince Rupert Observe the strange guise of these words The Trumpeter detained a Cessation Prince Rupertâ Answer Sir Thomas Fairfax's reply Bristol Stormed Sept. 10. and afterwards delivered upon Articles Sir Richard Crane slain The Royalists march to Oxford The Gen. waits on Prince Rupert two miles out of Bristol The Plague at Bristol Sir Tho. Fairfax removes to Bath Sir Hugh Cholmley delivers Scarborough to Sir Matthew Boynton for the Parliament July 25. Raby Skipton Sandal and Pomfret-Castles delito the Parl. Hereford besieged by the Scots They take Canon-Froom Sir Barnabas Scudamore Governour of Hereford The Siege raised The King in person encounters the Scots at Bewdley and worsâeth them defeats Sir John Gell and enters the Association and surpriseth Huntingdon and Cambridge St. Ives fined 500 pound by toe King The King at Oxford The Royalists began to come in upon composition The King marcheth towards Wales comes to Ludlow designing to relieve Chester Routon heathfight Sept. 24. The Parliaments Forces under General Poyntz beaten but reserves coming in the King is worsted The King quits Chester and goes into Wales Eikon Basil. The King assists Montross with Horse Sherburn fight Octo. 25. in York shire The Royalists forced to fââ by Colonel Copley and Colonel Lilburn Lord Digby routed at Carlisle Sands he flies into Ireland The King at Newark Octob. Lord Bellasis Governour thereof Lord Digby charged with disloyalty by divers Lords the King his friend The King returns to Oxford Gen. Poyntz routs the Kings Cânvoy Belvoyr taken Sir Gervas Lucas Governour thereof Several Castles and Houses taken Berkley Castle Surrendred by Sir Charles Lucas Devises and Winchester Surrendred by the Lord Ogle Basing-house stormed and taken Doctor Griffiths Daughter slain Marquess of Winchester and the Governour sent Prisoners to London Basing-house demolished The plunder great and rich Langford-house Surrendâed to Cromwel Tiverton taken by Fairfax Major Sadler executed Sir Gilbert Talbot taken Prisoner Transactions in the West betwixt the Armies The siege of Exeter by the Lord Fairfax Prince Rupert endeavours accommodation with Fairfax General Goring goes into France Lord Wentworth commands his Troops A skirmish at Corf Castle between the Kings Horse and the Parliaments the Kings Horse worsted Fairfax at Dartmouth Plymouth siege dâserted Lord Wentworth worsted by Cromwel Darmouth stormed and taken Sir Hugh Pollard Governour Sir Henry Cary hath conditions to march the Governour and the Earl of Newport have quarter given Torrington fight it is taken by the Parliament 80 baârels of Powder fired in a Church the guard killed the Army and Town endangered Lord Hopton and Lord Capel wounded Lord Hoptons Commission taken Lord Hopton a valiant and discreet Souldier Shelford house stormed and taken by Maj. Gen. Poyntz Col. Stanhop the Governour thereof killed and the house demolished The Countess of Derby surrenders Larham house A neat Stratagem Bolton Castle and Beeston Castle delivered Hereford taken by surprisâ December 18. Lord Brudenel fourteen Knights and Iudge Jenkins taken Prisoners Westchester taken Sir William Brereton Commander for the Parliament Lord Byron surrenders Chester The Court of Wards Voted down The Kings Forces under Sir Jacob Ashley defeated at Stow in the Would March 12. Sir Jacob Ashley taken Prisoner Lord Hopton disbands Sir James Smith falls on a party of Parliamentarians with success The Prince and Lord Culpeper set sail for Scilly Lord Hopton complemented by the Parliament General The Parliament Army beat up the Princes quarters neer St. Columbe Major-General Perr a gallant-Commander mortally wounded A Treaty concluded on at Tresilian bridge a Cessation agreed on Nine Brigades disbanded The Conditions of their disbanding Thââ take shipping at Plymouth Lord Hopton and Wentworth sail into Scilly Abingdon attempted by Sir Stephen Hawkins Ashby deâla-zouch surrendred to the Parliament by the Lord Loughborough Dennington Castle surrendred Mar. 25. 1646. to the Parliament and demolished Ruthen Castle delivered to the Parliament by Sir William Vaughan April 8. Corf Castle taâââ Exeter City delivered Apr. 3. to the Lord Fairfax by the Governour Sir John Berkley by a Treaty between Commissioners on both sides The Conditions Sir John Stawel included in the Articles The General marcheth to Tiverton and towards Oxford * Anglia Rediviva Woodstock surrendred April 26 to Colonel Rainsborough for the Parliament The King leaves Oxford April 27. Tâe King disguised comâs to the Scotch Army May 4. The King reiterated Messages for peace the first Dec. 5. The Parliaments answer Message of the 15 of December 1645. Message of the 15 of Decem. for a Personal Treaty Another to the same purpose Decemb 29. Royalists expeled the Lines of Communication The Parliaments Answer January 14. The King replies Jan. 15. The Kings Message and Answer of the 17 of January to that of the 13. His Majesties Messageâ of the 24th of Jan. The King commands a general weekly Fast in Oxford The Earl of Glamorgan ãâã by the Lord Digby and for a while ãâã ãâã Maâesties ãâã Jan. 29. The Parliament publish an Ordinance for the Scizure of the King and his Adherents They pretend to invite the Prince by Commissioners The Prince departing for France Barnstable surrendred April 7 th Ruthen Castle St. Michaels Mount and Dunster Castle Surrendred Arch-Bishop of York declares for the Parliament Dudly Castle surrendred Sir Thomas Fairfax câmâs before Oxford he summons a Council of War raiseth a great Fort neer the Town Sir Thomas Glemham Govârâââr of Oxford Carlile âieâled to the Scâts July 1â 1645 by Sir Thomas Glemham Divisions at Court among the Nobles at Oxford Oxford delivered June 23. The Governour marcheth to Tame Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice depart to Oatlands Duke of York and many persons of great Quality depart from Oxford Duke of York conveyed to St. Iames's sooâ after into Holland the Princess Henrietta to France a while before Faringdon included in the Oxford Articles ãâã Parliament-Forces under Col. Poyntz and Col. Rossiter besiege Newark General Leven with his Scots draws of from Newark the Town Summoned Lord Bellasis the Governour commanded by the King to surrender May 4 a Treaty entred into and Newark yeilded The Parliament-Forces under Col. Whaley besiege Banbury * Anglia Rediviva Sir William Compton the Governour yields on honourable Terms May 8.
by which his Subjects are frighted from coming or sending to him That all men of necessary Professions be admitted to come to him Note That His Majesty had suffered his Beard to overgrow in that solitary restraint of near seven Months so that Compassion wooed where Majesty once awed That the Scots may be invited to send their Propositions The King declaring a tendâr affection for both his Kingdoms The King appoints Newport for the place of Treaty But urgeth the reconveniencies of Treating so far from London His Majesty ãâã the Delegates to expedite the Treaty by dispatching their Commissioners The Parliament appoint Commissioners five Lords ten Commoners And desire his Majesties Royal Word for his continuance in the Island till 20 days after the Treaty Their Votes of Non-address repealed His Majesty sends the Parliament a List of such Persons he desired might attend him The Treaty began Sept. 18. The Parliament dissatisfied with the Kings Propositions They send thanks to their Commissioners His Majesties Propositions He is willing to confess himself Author of the War rather than the Peace shall be frustrated That the Assembly of Divines shall sit at Westminster 3 years That the Directory shall be confirmed for 3 years c. That Legal Estates for Lives or Years shall be made of Bishops-lands Provided the Propriety remain in the Church That there be a Reformation and concerning Papists * Thrust in by some rigid Presbyterians and maintained there by the Independants because they knew the King would never Assent to it and so no Conclusion That the two Houses shall dispose of the Militia for 10 years or during his Reign That the affairs of Ireland be determined by the Parliam That Taxes he levied for the payment of the Army and publike Debts That all the Chief Officers of State shall be nominated by the Parl. for 10 years That the Militia of the City of London Liberties for ten years may be in the Lord Mayor Aldermen Common-Council and Sheriffs thereof With the Tower and Chief Officers thereof His Majesty proposeth his liberty to repair to Westminster and to be restored to his Revenues Proffereth an Act of Oblivion to all persons The Parliament imperious Most of their Commissioners dutiful in their behaviour towards the King The Army's Remonstrance at St. Albans The villanous heads thereof That the King be brought to Iustice. That the Prince of Wales and Duke of York render themselves by a certain day or be proclaimed Traytors That the Revenue of the Crown be sequestred That Capital punishments be inflicted on some Chief Instruments in the Wars That all Delinqâents come in by a certain day or their Estates be confiscated and they to die without mercy That Fines Compositions and Confiscations be disposed for the payment of the Souldiery That the Parliament set some period to their own Power That the future Government of of the Kingdom may be setled That no King be hereafter admitted but upon Election And he to accord to these Propositions as they shall be established by the Agreement of the people Something near the same stuff except what toucht the King was Signed by nine Regiments of Horse and seven of Foot and afterward promoted in London by Lieutenant-Colonel Lilburne and Mr. Prince by Petition to the Parliament who condemned both Novemb. 1647. and yet the same Moneth next year it revived The Levellers set on by Cromwel to prosecute this designe The Kings Queries to the Remonstrance A strict Guard put upon the King His Majesties Pathetick Expressions to the Parliaments Commissioners at parting His Majesties Declaration concerning the Treaty and his dislike of the Armies proceedings The Presbyterians satisfied with this Declaration and troubled at the proceedings of the Army His Majesties Letter to the Prince his Son our present Sovereign His excellent Advice to him The Army conspire to force the House The Parliament Vote the Kings Answer satisfactory Dec. 5. The Army require that the Iâpâaâhed Members and Major-General Brown be secured and brought to Iustice The House guarded Col. Pride Col. Hewson and Sir Hardress Waller seize on several Members Dec. 6. Hugh Peters an Agent for the Army in this Designe The Parliament impriâoââd Ireton 's insolent expression Major-General Brown sent prisoner to Windsor Note that Skippon thrust in that clause The Iuncto take upon them to act as a Parliament Rainsborough slain at Doncaster Oct. 29. Scarborough Castle yielded to the Parl. The Army seize the King and carry him from the Isle of Wight to Hurst Castle Dec. 1. From thence to Winchester To Farnham To Windsor The King brought to St. James 's Jan 19. Harrison 's insolent behaviour to the King The Ordinance for Trial of the King brought into the Iuncto by Tho. Scot. They Vote it Treason for the King of England to levy War against his Parliament The Vote and Ordinance carried to the Lords by the Lord Gray of Grooby The Lords cast out the Ordinance and adjourned for 7 days The Commons netled they resolve to rid their hands of King Lords and dissenting Commons An Act of the House of Commons for the Tryal of King Charles the First Jan. 9. Serjeant Dendy makes Proclamation that the Commissioners of the High Court of Iustice were to sit the next day and all persons invited to give in Evidence against Charles Stuart Proclaimed in three places Westminster Cheap-side and the Old Exchange The Names and Câaracters of the King's Iudges Cromwel a Native of Huntingdon-shire Ireton his Soâ-in-law Bradshaw a Cheshire-man died obstinately 1659. He took the Oath of Allegeance but two Terms before the King's death He is rewarded with the Lord Cottington 's Estate and the Dutchy of Lancaster Harrison a Butchers Son at Newcastle in Stafford-shire was executed at Charing-Cross Octob. 1660. John Carew John Cook Sollicitor of the High Court Hugh Peters the shame of the Clergy Thomas Scot a Brewers Clerk his rash wish Gregory Clement a Merchant Adrian Scroop Brother to Sir Adrian John Jones a Serving-man marries Cromwels sister Francis Hacker a Souldier of Fortune Daniel Axtel a Country-Mercer Capt. of the Guard at the Kings Trial. Okey a Chandler near Billingsgate London a daring Commander Miles Corbet of a good Family in Norfolk Burgess for Yarmouth John Berkstead a Goldsmith Lieutenant of the Tower Thom. Pride â Brewer ãâ¦ã Isaac Ewer of ãâ¦ã in Yorkshire The Lord Gray of Grooby Son to the Earl of Stamford Sir John Danvers Brother to the Loyal Earl of Danby Sir Tho. Maleverer of a good Family in Yorkshire Sir John Bourchier a diligent Independent Mercenary Col. Purefoy Governour of Coventry John Blakestone a Shop-keeper in Newcastle Sir William Constable of Yorkshire Governour of Gloucester Rich. Dean General at Sea slain by a Cannon shot Fr. Allen a Goldsmith one of the Committees for the saâe of Kings Lands Peregrine Pelham Governour of Hull John Moor. John Allured Humph. Edwards a Member of the Long-Parl Sir Gregory Norton John Ven a Silkman Governour of
King ââtertains Forces in Flanders Cromwel assists the French with 6000 Geâ Blake desperate attempt on the Spaniard Sancta Cruz fight Apr. 20. The Spanish Fleet fired The English in danger but delivered by a Miracle The Parâ appoint a Thanksgiving and present their General Blake with 500 l. Capt. Stainer Knighted The Lord Craven 's Case offered to the Parl. but deferred by the Protector Cromwel Signes Acts. His Speech The Humble Petition and Advice Cromwel's Speech at his acceptance thereof His Investiture The Protector installed c. The Speaker's Comment on the Ceremonies thereof A Book called Killing no Murther published now A terrible Blow of Gunpowder neer Wapping An Earthquake in Cheshire Several Murthers and other accidents c. Bernards that betrayed Col. Andrews Hanged for Robbery St. Venant taken by the United Forces Mardike taken Sep. 23. and put into English hands Mardike Stormed by night Octo. 22. Col. Reynolds c. cast away on the Goodwyn-sands Sir Philip Medows the Protector 's Envoy to Denmark Colonel Jephson to Sweden Cromwel Swears his Privy Council The Earl of Mulgrave made onâ Rich. Cromwel another Lord of the Council and Chancellor of Oxford Cromwel 's advancement of his Sons His Daughter Mary Married to the Lord Faulconbridge His Daughter Francis Married to the E. of Warwick 's Grand-son A new East-India Company constituted Mr. Downing Cromwel 's Envoy into Holland The solemnizations of Christmass forbidden c. Dr. Gunning 's Congregation seized and Plundered The Other House as instructed fawn upon the lower The Names of Cromwel 's Other Houses The Names of the Iudges of both Benches with the Barons of the Exchequer and Serjeants at Law A Humiliation day appointed The Parliament dissolved Cavalier-Plot discovered and Marq. of Ormond hardly escapes Sheriffs discharged of expence at Assizes Blake dies returning home His Character Cromwel 's Fears and perplexed condition Royalists ordered to depart from London A Plot discovered and the persons engaged in it secured The King in readiness with Forces under General Marsin Sir Henry Slingsby decoyed The City Alarm'd with a pretended Plot May 16. A High Court of Iustice. The Tryal of Sir Henry Slingsby and Dr. John Hewit Mr. John Mordant tryed and acquitted Sir Henry Slingsby and Dr. Hewit Beheaded on Tower-hill June 8. Ashton Bettely and Stacy hanged c. Earl of Warwick dieth The Lady Claypole dieth Earl of Mulgrave dieth A great ââhale at Greenwich Sir Tho Widdrington made Lord Chief-Baron Dunkirk Besieged by English and French Forces Don John of Austria designes to relieve Dunkirk Dunkirk Battle The Spanish Army routed The Duke of York 's Conduct and Valour in this service The Governour Marquess De Lede killed Thâ Dunkirkers treat June 22. And âurrendered upoâ Articles The English possess Dunkirk Cromwel dies Sep. 3. Cromwel senseless before his death His Character Richard 's Adviââ and Coââsellors Richard Proclaimed ãâã Sworn French Cardinal âoys the Queen-Mother with Cromwel 's death Addresses to Richard full of Blasphemous expressions of Oliver 60000 l. allotted for the Expence Cromwel 's Funeral Independent Synod at the Savoy Richard out-runs his guards and endangered at hawking Richard 's Parliament meet Jan. 27. An Expedient in Recognizing Richard and the other House not Excluding the ancient Peers The notable proceedings of the Parliament The Revenue and charges of the Kingdom The Army and Protector jar Gââ Montague with a Fleet to the Sound Mar. 30. The Armies Remonstrance to Richard The Speaker Mr. Chaloner Chute dieth Richard offered terms by the Danish Embassador The wretched suspence of Richard Resolves of Parliament against Meeting of the Army-Officers Richard thrown aside and in dangerâ of Arrests and dares not appear The Names of the Rump-Parliament-Members Rumps Declaration Secluded Members offer to sit with the Rump The Rump Exclude the former secluded Members Qualifications of the 9 of May A Council of State chosen The Term discontinued Note Richard was to have 20000 l. in all per annum and his Mother 8000 l. more Benches supplied Armies Address The derivation of Rump Addresses from Forrain Princes Henry Cromwel ordered to surrender the Government of Ireland An Act of Indemnity published A Skirmish at Enfield chace Royalists Priests and Iesuits banished A new Cavalier-Plot generally laid and discovered by indiscretion and Treachery c. Tunbridg and Red-hill Risings suppressed Massey likewise in Gloucester-shire Sir George Booth 's rising in Cheshire Aug. Lambert senâ to reduce Sir Geo Booth Several Noblemen Prisonerâ Sir George Booth defeated Aug. 19 Sir George Booth taken at Newport-pagnel The King about St. Malos and Coast of Britany At St. Jean de Luz The Rumps Plenipotentaries into the Sound The Act for Lilburn 's Banishment repealed James Naylor released The General 's policy in securing the Scotch Nobility Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper questioned by the Rump Chester Corporation and Charter taken away Army-Representation debated Published by Lambert before answered Rump Resolute and void the Commissions of Lambert c. The Speaker stopt and a Fray expected Lambert prevailed against the Rump Army new moduled City invite Parl. and Army to a Dinner on thanks-giving day Oct. 6. The Committee of Safety The Army Declaration upon this change Bradshaw the President dieth Novemb. Aturney Gen-Prideaux dieth G. Monke declares his unsatisfiedness with the Army proceedings the the manner how Oct. 18. Secures Anabaptist Officers The Gen. sends Letters And maintains correspondence c Lambert offered Terms from the King by the Lord Hatton Anabaptist like Presbytery hath its turn Sir William Wild chose Recorder of London Doctor Clargis sent to the Gen. in Scotland Novemb. Moncks Commiâsioners agree to no purpose Novemb General Monke calls a Scotch Convention and obtains his demands The Earl of Glencarn Chair-man to that Convention Portsmouth seized by Hazelrig December 4. Tumults in London about a Free-Parliament Decemb. throughout Hewson Marcheth with Terrour into London Lambert would Fight A Free-Parliament noised as the only expedient Major General Brown in a new Design Wallingford-House broke up and Army submit Lord Fairfax Arms against Lambert Lambert deserted The Rump reseated Dec. 26. The City sent their Sword-bearer to the Gen. Hazelrig thanked c. General Monk signifies his intentions of coming to London Robinson and Scot sent to meet him The King returns in State and with great Reception to Brussels Abjuration of the King intended by the Rump Lady Monck arâives at White-hall The brief relation of the turn and chaâge by Gen. Monck in iâs series and compendious view Gen. Monck at London Gates and Portcullices pulled down Feb. 9. The General rendezvoused in Finsbury-fields and declares for a free Parliament and City Feb. 9. Bonfires and Rumps roasted that night Secluded Members restored Feb. 21. Sir Charles Coot wonderfully reduceth Ireland Rich his Regiment mutiny The City Feast the General Made Gen. at Sea with Montague Presbytery tendring an Establishment The Engagement annulled Writs for a Free-Parliament The Long-Parliament Dissolved Marc. 23. Agitating forbid
Elections for the Free-Parliament St. John stickles in the Council of State for Propositions and Terms with the King A Convention in Ireland A Letter sent to the Rump by the King Lambert escapes from the the Tower April 11. Defeated and taken Apr. 22. Lambert proposeth the restoring of Rich. Protector Lambert dismayed and taken Apr. 22. A Free-Parliament April 22. The Restitution of the King and Kingdom The renowned General the happy instrument of the Restitution The Duke of Ormond the next The King the great Agent All the Loyal Nobility and Gentry And of some formerly engaged against it The King departs to Breda from Brussels Complemented upon his departure Dispatches the L. Mordaunt and Sir John Greenvil from Breda His Majesty's Letter and Declaration was brought Contents of the Declaration Received most hoâourably by the Parliament Parliament resolves thereupon Sir John Greenvil rewarded with a 500 l. Iewel The City of London express the like The Army the same The Fleet also and Dunkirk The Rump's Arms defaced Parliament Resolves towards the King's Restitution Commissioners arrived at the Hague The King prepares to dâpart King Charles the Second Solemnly Proclaimed The Dutch magnificent Treatment of the King Sir Samuel Moreland and Sir George Downing Duke of York aboard the Fleet. The King departs for England The Speech of the States thereupon The King departs and embarques The King Embarques for England May 23. Lands at Dover May 25. The General meets him at his arrival The King rides to Canterbury The King rides to Canterbury To Rochester at Col. Gibbons To Dartford receives the Declaration of the Army The manner of His Majesties entrance into London The Earl of Manchester's Speech to the King The joy of the City Affairs ãâã home And in Ireland The King and the Dukes to the House of Lords The King comes to the Parliament and passeth several Acts. A Proclamation for the King's Iudges to render themselves Other persons excepted out of the Act of Oblivion Hutchinson and Lassels crave Pardon Parliament lay hold on his Majesties Declaration from Breda The General dignified with the Title of D. of Albemarle Several Dignities and Offices conferred Fee-farm rents resigned Lord Jermyn Earl of St. Albans Embassador into France Prince de Ligne Count de Soissons Embassador hither Act oâ Oblivion passed Duke of Gloucester dies Sept. 13. Princess of Orange arrives Sept. Episcopacy re-established The Kings Iudges brought to Tryal Oct. 9. Harrison Waller Heveningham with Adrian Scroop c. Harrison tried Oct. 11. Sir Heneage Finch opens the Indictment The Sentence Col. Adrian Scroop Carew tryed Scot tryed Octob. 12. Gregory Clement Colonel Iones Cook October â3 Peters Octob. 13. Daniâl Axtel Colonel Hacker William Hewlet Daniel Harvey Isaac Pennington Henry Marten Gilbert Millington Alderman Tichburn Owen Roe Robert Lilburn Mr. Smith Downs Potter Garland c. Vincent Potter August Garland Simon Meyn James and Peter Temple Tho. Wayt. Sir Hardress Waller Harrison Executed Carew Executed John Cook Hugh Peters Executed Thomas Scot Gregory Clement Adrian Scroop and John Jones Executed Francis Hacker and Daniel Axtel Executed Toâ dye impinitent as to the Fact * Cook the Solicitor Hugh Peters 's stupidity Prisoners that came in upon Proclamation respited Queen Mother arrives in England The Parliament re-assemble Argyle committed Princess of Aurange dies Decemb 24. Parliament Dissolved Princess of Aurange her Funeral Decemb. 26. Sejanus ducitur unco spectandus gaudent omnes quae labra quis illis vultus erat Cromwel Ireton and Bradshaw dig'd up and hang'd c. Venner 's Insurrection There were two Executed in Cheap-side the same day Prichard the Cow-keeper and another of them Sir Arthur Hazelrig dies Mr. Crofton committed The Kingâs passage through London to his Coronation The Oath of the Knights of the Bath Creation of Earls and Barons at the same time The Kings procession to the Abbey The Dukes of Norfolk and Somerset were restored by Act of Parliament 12 year Caroli Secundi * James Butler Duke of Ormond was Created Earl of Brecnock Baron Butler of Lawthy A new Parliament May 8. Portugal Match mentioned by the King to the Parliament The Queen of Bohemia returns into England The Marquess of Montross enterred in State May 11. Arguile beheaded May aâ and Guthrey and Giffân Hang'd June 1 Plots and Designes laid by the Fanaticks Sir Charles Lucas re-interred with Solemnity Jun. 7. Several Laws confirmed and made c. Mr. Pryn questioned c. Mr. Pryn questioned by the House Acts against Bishops repealed Lord Munson Sir Henry Mildmay and Wallop sentenced Parliament adjourned July 30 to Nov. 02. The King is entertained at the Inner Temple by Sir Heneage Finch The Lords Spiritual restored Regicides before the House of Lords November John James Hanged and Quartered Novemb. 27. Sir Charles Coot died December A Council of the Principality of Wales re-established at Ludlow Episcopacy established in Scotland The King reflects on the ruine of St. Pauls London Fatality among the Clergy Another Fleet for Portugal and Tangier Queen of Bohemia dies Feb. 13. A Storm Feb. 18. An unfortunate Accident happened to the Lord Buckhurst and others Lambert and Vane ordered to Tryal The General honoured c. Miles Corbet Colonel Okey and Barkstead taken in Holland sent over to the Tower Sentenced and Executed Ap. 2. Col. Okey 's body giâen to his Friends Acts of Parliament passed An account of the Marriage of the King c. The Queen reReimbarques April 13. The Duke of York at Sea to attend the Queens Arrival with the Duke oâ Osmond c. Queen Arrives May 13. The King stays to give his consent to Bills Preparing The Nature of several private Bills King at Portsmouth Queen at Hampton-Court Lord Lorn pardoned by the King Tangiers condition Sir Henry Vane and Colonel Lambert Condemned Sir Henry Vane Executed June 1â A Proclamation for Twenty miles againt Rump Officers Presbyterians endeavours for Toleration Forces sent under the Earl of Inchequeen to Assist the King of Portugal Duke of Ormond arrived in Ireland Gloucester Walls c. Demolished Dunkirk returned to the French King October Dr. John Berkerhead Knighted A Plot discovered Philips Tongue Gibs and Stubs Executed December 22. Embassadors with Presents from Russia Mr. Calamy Committed Lord Warreston in the Tower Declaration of the King and Resolutions of the Parliament Parliament begins esuits banish Campeach takââ Irish Plot. Earl of âotâes Commissioner in Scotland Bills passed by Commission Mr. Rycaut comes from Constantinople Jersey a new ãâã Northern Plot discovered Plotters âri'd Executed Turner tryed and hanged A Printer tried and executed Others Pillori'd and Fined A remarkable proviâence A barbarous murther committed by a Portugueze Servant upon his Master The Lord Holles Embassador to the French King June Iudge Mallet by reason of his age dispenced with and Sir John Keeling sworn in his place Dr. Bramhal departs this life Gayland assaults Tangier Reâreats with ãâã Makes another Attack but is forc'd to
Commanders in the like nature besides Plundrings what hath been taken going out of the Land to the King Lastly Monthly Taxes upon all the Lands in the associated Counties and the Cities of London and Westminster besides what they took for Contribution in their Garrisons c. which came to 60000 l. a month and so given in if not more and by the year amounts to 720000 l. and in five years comes to 3600000 l. and is 360 Waggons loading of silver at 10000 l. a Waggons loading And this higher afterwards This in five years time amounted besides the Customs and the Kings Revenues and Ecclesiastical Profits sequestred in their hands to neer 20000000. But he that is able to reckon what the Sales of the same lands of King Queen and Prince Bishops Deans and Chapters the Nobility and Gentry as Delinquents together with the Monthly assessment at the same time of 100000 and 120000 per mensem come to Erit mihi magnus Apollo I mention not Decimation nor the Piedmont-Sacriledge nor other slier Artifices of Cromwel nor the Prize-money c. But if an estimate be taken of their gettings by their spending let that almost insuperable debt left upon the Kingdom and discharged by the King upon his Return be the unenvied testimony thereof Vale. A CHRONICLE OF THE CIVIL WARS OF ENGLAND SCOTLAND and IRELAND THE FIRST PART BEING The Commons War NO higher or greater cause can be assigned for this War setting aside the sins of all Times and Nations to which the Justice of Heaven is seldome long a Debtor but the fate and catastrophe of Kingdoms and Monarchies which do at certain periods of time taste of that vicissitude and mutability to which all other sublunary things are more frequently subjected The secondary causes of it are so many and so uncertain so variously reported and believed that it would spend much of the paper allotted to this History in ascertaining them Therefore to contain and keep within the limits of this designment something onely shall be said of them that was obvious to every eye not savouring of partiality or affection Many disorders and Irregularities no doubt there were in the State contracted through a long and lazy peace bolstred up with an Universal trade which procured a general wealth the Parents of Wantonnesses the excess of National riches being but as the burden which the Ass carries and mistakes for provender people being onely the better able to sustain their future misery with their present plenty These conceived abuses in the manage of the State like ill humours where they finde an equal resistance or over-power of nature sunk and descended upon the Ecclesiastical Regiment too impotent to sustain those general assaults which were given it No storms or tempests can be raised or maintained below without the Celestial influences or disturbances in the upper Region nor often are there any Commotions or Wars among or in Nations where Religion which ought to be the peaceablest and most innocent perswasion is not the Primum Mobile the great mover of the Machine of Destruction Quantum Religio potuit suadere malorum Nothing from abroad could any way break off that continued series of peace we had so long enjoyed we had made the Nations round about us to wonder at and to dread the putting forth of that strength which had been matured and ripened by the sunshine of so great a prosperity so many years together while the world about us was hurled into the confusions of Ruine and War ready to become a prey to the next potent Invasion Strange moreover it is That the miserable Distractions and Confusions which ensued should be derived from no greater beginnings then a few Ceremonies in the Church that War which stands upon none should be founded and fixt upon them and yet nothing more certain can be charged with the guilt of so much misery as these Kingdoms so long suffered under but the Cavils Discontents and disputes about them A grudging there was for many years before in the Raigns of Queen Elizabeth and King Iames in whose days and at his first assumption to this Crown a Conference was before him managed by the Reformists about them where that learned King so justified the use of them that for a while all obâoquâes against them were silenced and the Church and State enjoyed its greatest blessings of Peace and Uniformity Nor was there much noise about them in the beginning of the Raign of King Charles but towards the middle it began to threaten a storm in the year 1635. towards the conclusion whereof some Uproars and Commotions were raised decrying those Ceremonial Rites used and practised in the Church such being the ushering in by a general murmur what was plainly and distinctly declared in the beginning of the year 1637. from whence this Chronicle takes its rise by Mr. Pryn Dr. Bastwick and Mr Burton seconded and asserted by that famously known person Iohn Lilburn These men though questionless from different grounds and respects as this age hath lived to see by Mr. Pryn who proved a great and happy instrument in the Kings Restitution and consequently the resettlement of the Church printed several Books against the aforesaid Ceremonies for these Books they were apprehended which were charged also to be full of Invectives against the Bishops and Episcopal Government and were severely censured in the Star-Chamber to the exasperation of a great part of the Kingdom They were all three sentenced to be set in the Pillory and to have their ears cut off Mr. Pryn to be stigmatized on both cheeks each of them fined five thousand pounds apiece to the King and to be imprisoned during the Kings pleasure which was accordingly executed in every point of the sentence and as valiantly and stoutly undergone by these sufferers who after they had stood in the Pillory three thereof being set up in the Palace-yard at Westminster were sent to remote Castles in the adjacent Isles of Guernsey and Iersey from whence as we shall see hereafter they were brought back to London I may not dis-joyn the story of Iohn Lilburn from theirs though divided by time he suffering the year after being whipt at a carts tail for imprinting and vending several Books of the same purport and contents against the Bishops This man proved a great trouble-world in all the variety of Governments afterward being chief of a faction called Levellers he was a great proposal-maker and modeller of State which by his means was always restless in the Usurpation He died a Quaker and such as his life was such was his death This year also Dr. Williams then Bishop of Lincoln and Dean of Westminster formerly Lord Keeper relapsed again into the Kings disfavour for some dishonourable words uttered against the King which were taken hold of and prosecuted in the Star-Chamber where he was fined ten thousand pounds though his enemies would rather have had him resigned his
to that Tribunal he could find no Sanctuary being threatned instantly with death Upon report of this outrage the Earls of Traquair and Wigton came with their followers to his relief where with much ado they got entrance but found themselves in no better case than the Bishop the peoples rage being thereby the more increased The Lords and the Bishop being thus beset sent privately to the Lord Provost and Bailiffs of Edinburgh for relief who sent them word that they themselves were in the same condition if not worse if the Lords attempted not to appease the people who had forced them in their Council-House for fear of their lives to subscribe a Paper then instantly presented them which contained three particulars First that they should joyn with them in opposition to the Service-book and in petitioning to the King Secondly that by their Authority they should restore Mr. Ramsey and Mr. Rolloch two lately silenced Ministers Thirdly that they should restore one Mr. Henderson a silenced Reader which three persons were notable Ringleaders of the faction three most important grounds for so fearful a Commotion Thereupon the Lords resolved to go and confer with the Magistrates and either by their authority or perswasion to reduce the people to obedience and reason but all in vain for at their return re infecta to the Council-Table again they were set upon the Earl of Traquair being troden down losing his white Staff the Ensign of his Office of Treasurer with his Hat and Cloak and so with much ado got back again to the Council who seeing the impendent danger from the fury of the people were forced to apply themselves to some Noblemen who were of the faction by whose influence upon and respects from the people they with the aforesaid Bishops were conveyed to their respective dwellings but the Provost was pursued with threats rayling and danger unto the yard of his own house This Mornings storm being blown over another Proclamation was made against further unlawful Assemblies and meeting in the streets of that City under the most severe pains the Laws in those Cases had provided but so little regard was thereunto given that the next day they demanded of the Lords what they had demanded of their Magistrates and to that purpose two Petitions as well from the Rabble as also now from greater hands the chief Citizens Gentry and Nobility were presently tendred to the Lord Chancellour of that Kingdom which imported the whole substance of the present Commotion the English Service-book still bearing the burthen Withal in this last petition making their greivances swell adding their dislike of the book of Canons to their former distast of the Service-book so one demand ushered in another till they had nothing to ask but what they resolved to take the parallel of our troubles These petitions were afterwards sent up to the King who by a Proclamation resented the injuries and affronts done his Royal Authority by those attemps upon his chief Ministers and also declared his firm intentions to maintain the Protestant Religion commanding also all persons to forbear further meetings and petitions of this nature upon pain of treason But this Proclamation was encountred with a Protestation made by the Earls of Hume and Lindsey two great Covenanters who avowed therein the whole action with a resolution added to adhere to them to the last requiring also some of the Bishops to be removed from his Majesties Councel and such other more unreasonable expostulations which yet came short still of those that they made afterwards their number and power still increasing their peremptory and haughty designes upon the Government Soon after this sedition began to arm it self and assume another name they of the faction took the authority of the Kingdom to themselves erected four Tables as they called them of the four ranks of Noblemen Gentry Burgesses and Ministers out of all which was formed one general Table that was supreme This Table after some consultation and reports from the other resolved upon a Covenant to be taken throughout the Kingdom which for substance was the same with that Solemn League afterwards taken in England onely Bishops in express terms were not therein then abjured but implicitely no doubt included and more plainly their sitting in civil Judicatories The King was most highly incensed against this Usurpation of his Royal Authority especially at the obtruding this Covenant wherewith the greatest part of the Nation were already infected and others through compulsion and force scared into a compliance with it though with a great deal of stir and reluctancy Wherefore to obviate the imminent danger it threatned the King dispatcht away the Marquess of Hamilton as his Commissioner to that Kingdom to apply some present remedy to the distemper he being a person of great honour and influence on that Nation Before his arrival of which the Covenanters had timely notice they made the more hast to engage the people against any accommodation Nor did they with the usual respect entertain the Commissioner but after some few days stay after some overtures by him made on the Kings part towards them and his demands of them particularly their deserting and relinquishing their Covenant he received a slighting answer that they would descend to no particulars of their part till a general Assembly should be called But as for the Covenant they would sooner part with their lives than abate a syllable of it and resolved never to hear more against it And thereupon new guards were by them clapt upon Edinburgh Castle the Watches of the City multiplied and the Ministers began to convert all their Sermons into Libels warning the people to take heed of Crafty Compositions when they were resolved against any These difficulties caused the Commissioner to repair to London having first received order to publish the Kings Declaration against the supposed Popery and removed also the Term for the further satisfying of the City of Edinburgh back thither again which indeed was for a while magnified by the Citizens as an Act of favour but presently was undervalued as a trick to cajole them so instructed by those who grudged the King any esteem or love in the minds of his people The Kings Declaration bearing Date Iune 20. 1638. was soon after published which contained his dispensation of the Service-book and Canons with a promise of calling a general Assembly and Parliament with all convenient Expedition requiring his subjects to contain themselves in their duty and not further to hearken to any Rebellious suggestions As soon as the Herauld had proclaimed it the Covenanters were ready upon a Scaffold there erected with a Protestation against it having before possest the People that if this Declaration were hearkened unto it would bring undoubted ruine to their Religion Laws and Liberties which they publiquely read importing some new additions to their former demands and cavils at the
uncertainty of the Kings intentions in the matters declared The Marquess Hamilton being arrived at London gave the King an account of the whole business and according to his new instructions returned back again by their appointed time the 15 th of August 1638. and entred presently into a Treaty with them about the manner of calling the General Assembly which they would not hear of but that a General Assembly should be immediately called and of the due Elections thereto when they were met themselves should be the judge For otherwise there would of necessity be some prelimitations which the freedom thereof might not suffer Upon this Emergency all things growing worse and worse the Marquess was forced upon another journey to consult the King the Covenanters concluding that if he returned not before the 21 of September they would of themselves Indict this Convention who concluded of giving that Kingdom the utmost satisfaction and with a Commission to summon this Assembly returned But the day after the Covenanters contrary to promise made an Election in one of the Presbyteries Adjacent of themselves whereas throughout the Kingdom according to the directions of the Tables Lay-Elders and Ministers were chosen together a thing never seen before in that Kingdom This Assembly the Source of those calamities which afterwards embroyl'd and enslaved that Nation was held at the City and University of Glasgow in November 1638. in which they so carried and packt the Elections that there was scarce one Dissenter from those Resolutions they had profest in their Covenant The Bishops were Totally excluded from sitting or voting therein but were cited to compeer as offenders and answer their charge Against these proceedings and the illegality of the constitution of this Assembly they first protested and tendered their reasons but they would not be admitted for such so that the Lord Commissioner seeing no hope of Justice Law or Reason or Loyalty taking place there at seven days end dissolved them by a Proclamation which they took no further notice of then only by opposing another Protestation wherein they declared that the Assembly ought not to be nor was as dissolved until such time as those ends so often before expressed were fully attained and so proceeded in their Session Strange and desperate was the Pride of this Assembly far beyond the Popes infallible Councils taking upon them to be the Supreme Judicatory on earth above all Laws and Parliaments and King himself as Christs Council and that if the Judges and other Ministers of State should not obey their Commandment they might proceed to sentence of Excommunication against them Which was effectually put in practice afterwards against the Bishops and their adherents before they armed themselves otherwise against their Soveraign Yet notwithstanding they did pretend that the King should he be satisfied of the equity and lenity of their proceedings would no doubt comply with them in the matters they Petitioned for which more exasperated his Majesty than all the Violations and Usurpations of his Authority The Earl of Arguile who had hitherto kept fair with the King and was one of his Privy Council there now owned the Covenanters and professed his adherence to their cause It is believed he was one of the first that stirred in this unfortunate business and that therefore the better to satisfie him the King after the first Pacification made him a Marquess More certain it is he was the last that suffered in it as in the conclusion of this Chronicle will appear I have insisted the longer on this story because the general Commotions that followed it ran almost the same parallel in their respective commencements in the three Kingdoms and to shew that neither prudence nor arms both which were seasonably applyed could stop or prevent those judgements of Confusion and Ruine which soon after ensued this Tragical Prologue in a miserable catastrophe For the Scots presently began to arm having first sent to the French King craving his aid and assistance which was readily proffered them by Cardinal Richlieu his chief Minister of State who was supposed to have fomented the quarrel from the very beginning to quit scores with the King of England for siding with the Rochellers in the beginning of his Raign But before any blood was drawn came over the Queen-Mother whom the generality of the people took for a Prognostick or ill Omen of a War or some Rupture approaching Many scandals were raised against the King for her admission hither but all things were gone too far beyond the contribution of her advice to make her guilty of our troubles However she seemed the Comet that did portend and foretel them the like Commotions having happened for some years past in the places of her residence The Scots towards the end of the year 1638 had gotten together a competent Army raised by the Authority and Ordinance of the aforesaid Assembly for the pretended defence of the Kingdom its Religion and Laws Nor did the King neglect the affairs of that Kingdom but was arming here in England with all the speed his Purse would afford which was then in a low ebb Yet by the Loans of the Nobility Gentry and Clergy he had raised a gallant Army with which he marched towards the borders Over this Army the Earl of Arundel was made General the Earl of Essex Lieutenant-General of the Foot and the Earl of Holland Lieutenant-General of the horse A Fleet also was rigged and well manned and set to Sea under the command of the aforesaid Marquess Hamilton which soon after came to an Anchor in the Frith neer Edinburgh The King being thus in readiness Emitted another Declaration wherein he taxed the Scots with several rebellious Libels for their Protestations against his commands for usurping his Authority and for refusing the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy upon account of their having taken the Covenant reiterates his resolutions of maintaining Episcopacy in that Kingdom and lays the blood if any were spilt in that quarrel upon themselves as Rebels whom he ought not longer to suffer to proceed in those undutiful and destructive courses but hoped to reduce to their former and due Obedience To which the 22 of March the said Assembly reply by an Ordinance wherein after expostulating the Kings Declaration they curse themselves if they intend any harm to England concluding their War to be meerly defensive and grounded upon the natural and Civil Law Anno Dom. 1639. THe King set forward with his Army and in April came to York and in May to Barwick where both Armies came in view one of another When the King was at York the Earls of Roxborough and Traquair two formerly of his Council and Officers of State came to him as Commissioners from the Covenanters under pretence of Treating with the King who wanting their due Commission and being suspected to have been sent on an errand purposely to tamper with the
this excellent States-man without a very notable remarque which hath received credit from the mouthes of many honorable persons t was this At the time of the passing the Bill of Attainder in the House of Commons Sir Bevil-Greenvile and Sir Alexander Carew sitting together they both serving for the same County of Cornwall Sir âevil bespoke Sir Alexander in such-like words Pray Sir let it not be said than any member of our County should have a hand in this âminous business and therefore pray give your Vote against this Bill To whom the other instantly replyed If I were siere to be the next man that should suffer upon the same Scaffold with the same Ax I would give my consent to the passing of it And we have seen how exactly and in every circumstance this presagious saying of his was afterwards verified and accomplished It is observable moreover that none of all the Bishops that were advised with by the King in reference to his satisfaction concerning the Earls death escaped the fury of that Parliament and the times he only excepted as the King himself notes in his Book who counselled him by no means not for any considerations or reason of State or Time whatsoever to act against his conscience but that obeying the Dictates thereof he should refer the Issue to God which Counsel had it been followed doubtless those miseries which ensued presently after had never befallen him nor his Kingdomes the Earl being indeed one of the chief Pillars and Basis of his Authority and Government without whose ruine the Grandees of the Faction knew they could not effect or accomplish any thing such an absolute rare honest and loyal master-piece of Reason and Prudence so much strength of spirit to quicken his undertakings joyned therewith the age present saw not and well will it be for the next if it may compare and parallel him Thus far to the memory of his most useful life we must also parentate something to his lamented and most causeless death from which as we shall see in the conclusion of this History he had a most honourable Resurrection here On Sunday May 2. was solemnized at Court the marriage between the young Prince of Orange and the Princess Mary Before we attend the Earl to the Stage it will not be unworthy the Readers patience to observe Sir Dudley Carleton the Earls Secretary bringing him the news of the Kings passing the Bill of Attainder the Earl believing the King would not have done it arose from his chair and lifting up his eyes to Heaven clapt his hand upon his heart and said Put not your trust in Princes nor in the sons of men for in them there is no salvation A design was laid for his escape if we may believe Sir William Balfore Lieutenant of the Tower at that time whose report upon examination was that the Earl sent for him four days before his suffering and endeavoured to perswade him to connive at his escape promising to reward him with twenty thousand pounds and his Daughter in marriage to Balfores Son The said Balfore saying further that he was commanded to admit Captain Billingsley to march into the Tower with an hundred men for the better securing of the place but the said Billingsley coming he was denyed entrance by Balfore whereupon the Earl expostulates with the Lieutenant of the danger of opposing the Kings command Balfore answering that a design of his escape was discovered by three good-wives of Tower-street that peeping in at the key-hole of his door they saw him walking with Billingsley and heard them advising thereon and of a Ship to be in readiness for him below the River On the 8th of May 1641. the said Earl was brought to the Scaffold on Tower-Hill where were present some of the Nobility Sir George Wentworth his Brother and the Archbishop of Armagh to whom principally he directed his Speech which being so publique and transmitted by so many pens cannot certainly fail posterity and with much Christian resolution was offered there as a Sacrifice to popular fury heightned and enraged by the artifices and designs of some innovating principal Leaders to the following breaches and Rebellion To sum up all our misery in the total of this noble person the same day the King signed the Bill for his Execution he signed also another for the continuing of this Parliament till they should dissolve themselves the only lasting monument of all our troubles The Scots having thus obtained their aims against this honourable person whom they termed the enemy of their Country and having received a vast sum of money blood and the price of blood together were now pleased upon the disbanding of the English Army to march home and disband also as was before intimated having first obtained of his Majesty a grant to be present at the next sitting of their Parliament at Edinburgh which his Majesty condescended to and in August came thither having before his departure constituted the Earl of Leicester Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in the place of the Earl of Strafford but through the Rebellion and other contingencies and reasons of State falling out he never went over in that quality though preparations were made both here and there in order to his Government On the seventeenth of May divers of the Kings chiefest Officers of State fearing they might likewise be subject to the same destructive change with the Earl of Strafford resigne their places viz. The Lord Cottington Master of the Wards to the Lord Say Doctor Iuxon then Bishop of London resignes his office of Treasurer of England to five Commissioners Marquess Hertford was also sworn governour to the Prince in the stead of the Earl of Newcastle The Earl of Pembroke displaced from being Lord Chamberlain of the Kings Houshold and the Earl of Essex ordered to succeed him Upon the Kings going for Scotland the Parliament was Adjourned till the 20 of October during which recess and his Majesties absence the ill humours of discontents gathered amain The Faction was strengthened at home by open and avowed correspondencies which became publique in menaces and threatnings against the remaining disorders and abuses in the Government The Ax had but tasted of that blood of which it soon after glutted it self all persons of all Ranks and Conditions King Archbishop Duke Marquess Earls Lords Knights Gentlemen Ministers Mechanicks suffering under its edge A remarkable thing the parallel of it being no where in our English Chronicles But so the Noble Earl of Straffords blood was expiated and his innocency attended with the like victimes The Parliament now met together after their adjournment the King being still in Scotland where he so ordered affairs by his indulgence and bounty that it was verily thought upon his departure he had not left a malecontent in that Kingdom to the confirmation of which opinion the Scots were not wanting themselves it being their complement grown to a publique expression that his Majesty
by night which was the usual course carried Links in their hands like right boutefeus to light their Complices and Partakers in this monstrous Riot So that the danger appearing in a method and form the dire prognostick of Battalia and flighting the opposition of a Corps du Guard erected over against Scotland-yard which was maintained by the Trained Bands of St. Clements and St. Martins the Gentlemen of the honourable Society of Grayes-Inne under the leading of Sir William Mason in good order ranked two and two marched from their randezvouz at Covent-Garden to White-Hall and proffered their Loyal Service to the King as a Guard to his person against those formidable tumults They were received by the King with all respect and acknowledgements of this seasonable tender which manifested that Law Reason and Civility were disengaged from the Rebellion but the Kings sudden remove dispensed with their Duty The King sensible from what quiver this Arrow came and not longer able to endure these indignities which he had so often moved the two Houses though in vain to prevent or punish resolved to seize on those Grandees who principally abetted those tumults and also had had a deep hand in the Scotch troubles having intercepted Letters of correspondence between them and the Covenanters the untoward Issue and Event whereof as whereby his English Subjects had presumed to obtain by tumults the same demands lay yet heavy on his heart and boded the fame conclusions Taking therefore with him a Guard of his own domestick Servants and some Gentlemen casually then in the Court late in one of the Christmas-nights he came to the door of the House of Commons and entred and demanded five members thereof as also one of the House of Peers the Lord Kimbolton viz. Mr. Pyns Mr. Hambden Mr. Holles Mr. Stroâd and Sir Arthur Haslerig but they having notice of the Kings coming to this purpose by one Langrish a Servant of the Queens had time and but just enough to withdraw themselves into Westminster-Hall where they lay hid in the Kings-bench-Court until the business of that night was over and then betook themselves into London to the Guild-Hall whereto the House not long after adjourned it self in a grand Committee for their safeguard and security This attempt of the King the House presently voted a breach of priviledge and ran so high as to complain of evil Councellours about the King demanding the persons of those who gave that advice to the King Nay so highly did they insist upon and urge this violation of their freedom that all the King could do gave them no satisfaction though he endeavoured to excuse it so that it continued their plea throughout the War But how it was retaliated upon them both by themselves and Oliver in the several Exclusions and Forces afterwards put upon that House needs no particular indigitation Having therefore got this claw against the King they resolve to revenge themselves on the Bishops some of whom they suspected to be the chief instruments in that business Particularly to gratifie the City whom they had wholly devoted at their service who might see the Parliaments readiness to comply with their clamours against that Venerable Order Twelve of these the Commons accused to the Lords as guilty of High Treason whereof ten were committed to the Tower and two to the Black Rod. At the same time also the Irish were proclaimed Rebels thirty Proclamations hereof being onely Printed for some reasons of State the King reserved to himself then though afterwards when the Parliament among other things taxed him with this he gave them a full and satisfactory answer as not willing to make the Irish desperate and utterly undo his Protestant Subjects who were as then far too weak to withstand so potent a Rebellion which the King was willing so far to comply with the Parliament as to declare it so For the number of them he said it was the request of the said Lords Justices of Ireland there should be but twenty as many of themselves well knew Like wise to satisfie the Parliament about that business of the five members he now declared his charge against them which consisted of several things relating to intelligence held with the Scots while declared Traytors That they trayterously endeavoured by many foul Aspersions upon his Majesty and Government to alienate the affections of the people and to make his Majesty odious to them That they trayterously endeavoured to subvert the fundamental Laws and Government of this Kingdom and to deprive the King of his Regal and to place on Subjects an arbitrary and illegal power That they endeavoured to draw his Majesties late Army in the North to disobedience to his Majesties command That they invited the Scots to invade England That they trayterously endeavoured the subversion of the rights and very being of Parliament That for the compleating of their trayterous designes they have endeavoured as far as in them lay by force and terrour to compel the Parliament to joyn with them in their trayterous designes and to that end countenanced and raised the tumults against the King and Parliament That they had trayterously conspired to levy and had actually levyed war against the King This was as I said before declared by the King but in hopes and order to accommodation this course being thought a good expedient thereto was laid aside and not prosecuted But the Parliament left it not so imprisoning for a while the Kings Atturney Sir Edward Herbert demanding those evil Councellours that gave this advice against the five Members to punishment Herewith the Tumults so increased about White-Hall and Westminster that the King Queen Prince and Duke of York were forced for security of their persons to retire to Hampton-Court being necessitated to take sufficient forces of his Courtiers for his guard About this time there was a false rumour raised by the Lord Digbies passing through Kingston neer London of a plot to raise Horse against the Parliament whereupon Col. Lunsford then with him was committed to Prison and this story improved into a calumny against the King The Scots now interposed themselves betwixt the King and Parliament though siding clearly with the Parliament having by Treaty agreed with them to send over 2500 men into the North of Ireland upon the English pay Through their thus taking of their parts the Parliament flew high now in their demands requiring the disposal of the Command of the Tower and the management of the Militia which being refused they desisted not but on the 26 of Ianuary Petitioned the King for them both to which the King by several reasons answered in the nagative Now again they insisted upon it as also upon the business of the five Members still to exasperate the people who cryed out against Popish Lords and Bishops sitting in Parliament to which the King answered as before and declared his readiness to pass an Act of general
eight Coach-horses to General Essex and in order to Sir Iohns Tryal he is proclaimed Traytor sent to London and committed prisoner to the Gate-house Iames Lord Strange Son and Heir of William Earl of Derby was likewise by the Parliament impeached of High Treason for that he upon the 15th of Iuly last did at Manchester in the County of Lancaster summon and raise Forces for the service of the King They further charging him with being the death of Richard Percival a Linnen-webster and cause their said Charges to be published in the Churches of Lancaster and Chester Sir Iohn Byron raiseth some Troops in the County of Oxford for the King and being suddenly surprized by the Parliamentarians sustaineth some loss and by them he and his Associates are declared Rebels He then marcheth to Worcester which Town he seizeth for the King At York the King made the Marquess of Hertford Leiutenant-General of the Western Counties intending forthwith himself to set upon Hull whose stores he had designed once to have made a Magazine for Ireland to reduce those Rebels which he had often declared to the two Houses but they would by no means consent to it but upon deliberate advice he past by it onely making one attempt neer it to shew his just indignation and to satisfie his Honor where he lost unhappily some twenty men and marched directly into Nottinghamshire About the beginning of August he came to Nottingham-Town and on the tenth of the same month published his Royal Proclamation commanding and enjoyning all his Subjects to the Northward of Trent and twenty miles Southward to Rendezvous at Nottingham the 23 of that instant where he according to the purport of his Proclamation set up his Standard and where appeared five or six thousand men After a view and Muster of these Royal Volunteers the King proceeded to the nomination of a General who was the Right honorable the Earl of Lindsey General formerly for the Rochel-Expedition and the Parliament made Robert Earl of Essex their Captain-General the Earl of Bedford General of the Horse Essex about this time departed from London in great state and magnificence The King leaves Nottinghamshire and marched into Staffordshire thence into Leicestershire carâssing the Gentry all the way he went so into the Confines of Wales and sat down at last in Shrewsbury where after he had a while rested the Gentry Freeholders and Inhabitants of that County with other additions out of Wales being assembâed he made this Oration which for its excellency and because it contains the truth of the quarrel is here inserted GENTLEMEN IT is some benefit to me from the insolency and misfortunes which have driven me about that they have brought me to so good a part of my Kingdom and to so faithful a part of my people I hope neither you nor I shall repent in coming hither I will do my part that you may not and of you I was confident before I came The residence of an Array is not usually pleasant to any place and mine may carry more fear with it since it may be thought being robbed and spoiled of all mine own and such terrour used to fright and keep all men from supplying of me I must onely live upon the aid and relief of my people but be not afraid I would to God my poor Subjects suffered no more by the insolence and violence of that Army raised against me though they have made themselves wanton even with plenty than you shall do by mine and yet I fear I cannot prevent all disorders I will do my best And this I promise you no man shall be a looser by me if I can help it I have sent hither for a Mint I will melt down all my own plate and expose all my Land to sale or morgage that if it be possible I may not bring the least pressure upon you in the mean time I have summoned you hither to do that for me and your selves for the maintenance of your Religion and the Law of the Land by which you enjoy all that you have which other men do against us Do not suffer so good a Cause to be lost for want of supplying me with that which will be taken from you by those who pursue me with this violence And whilst these ill men Sacrifice their Mony Plate and utmost industry to destroy the Common-wealth be you no less liberal to preserve it Assure your selves if it please God to bless me with success I shall remember the assistance that every particular man here gives me to his advantage However it will hereafter how furiously soever the minds of men are now possest be honour and comfort to you that with some charge and trouble to your selves you did your part to support the King and preserve the Kingdom With those expressions to which his actions agreed he so won the affectioâs of that County and the adjacent that before the middle of October which was about three weeks after his first coming to Shrewsbury with a small party rather than any force or Army he was grown to a compleat strength consisting of about 6000 foot 3000 brave horse and almost 2000 Dragooners From thence having issued out Warrants for Horses and Caâts in order to his removal he marched along within view of Coventry but made no essay or attempt upon it not intending to lose any time in sitting down before it unless the Town had been freely surrendred to him From thence he came to Southam not many miles distant from their Lord General This March of his struck some terror into the City of London it self though all their Army was then in a readiness and attending the King therefore the Trained Bands were speedily raised for a guard of the City and fortifications such as the time would allow were ordered to be forthwith made round it acâording to which Order many hundreds of men were set on work who were soon alter seconded by the several Companies and Parishes in London and the Suburbs as also by the Wives and Maids who followed a Drum in rank and file with a Rampier-basket between two of them until a regular Line and Circumvaâlation taking up twelve miles in circuit was quite finished Windsor-Castle was at this time garrisoned by the Parliament Col. Ven being sent down with twelve Companies of foot in one whereof Barkstead the Regicide commanded it being his first military employment as Governour Divers Citizens suspected for their affection and loyalty to the King were also at this time secured And the association of the several Counties first projected and begun and mony and plate raised for the Parliament in so great danger did the Cock-sure Grandees of the Faction then see and find themselves Indeed the Kings design was London which at the approach of such an Army would put his friends in a capacity to appear for him and
Acton with the Speaker and the Members and the Lord Mayor and Recorder Steel who in a set Speech congratulated his great Successes and like a false Prophet by a mistaken Prolepsis applied these words of the Psalmist To binde their Kings in Chains and their Nobles in Fetters of Iron in an arrogant Exaltation of his Atchievements Next day the Common Prisoners being driven like a herd of Swine were brought through Westminster into Tuthill-Fields a sadder spectacle was never seen except the miserable place of their defeat and there sold to several Merchants and sent to the Barbadoes the Colours taken were likewise hanged up in Westminster-hall with those taken before at Preston and Dunbar The heart of the Scotch War was now broken yet some strugling there was in the Limbs and extremities thereof for Life Sterling-Castle seeing it to no purpose to endure a Storm or a Siege rendred upon Articles August the 14 to General Monke a more sumptuous stately building than Edenburgh-Castle where the Kings Royal Robes the Cloth of State and all the Scotch Records were found and seized From hence the General came before Dundee whither the Scots had conveyed the best part of their Moveables as a secure depository and Summoned it which the Governour slighting having 800 men besides the Citizens in Garrison General Monke gave order to Sorm it and accordingly Horse and Foot about noon September the first having a piece of white out behind fell on resolutely and the besieged being then in their cups and worse drunk with a haughty confidence after a short but sharp resistance mastered the place and put all they found in Arms to the Sword and plundered the Town of all its former and newly-put-in wealth which amounted to vast sums Houshould-goods were of so mean an account that nothing but Plate and Money was regarded and for which Feather-beds were ript and the Feathers thrown about for it was absolutely the richest Town in Scotland but now lest not worth a groat there were taken here also 60 sail of all sorts of ships that lay in the Harbour which likewise came into the Conquerours hands Aberdeen 40 miles further Northwards yielded without any further constraint and St. Andrews the other University was fined 500 l. for not surrendring upon the first Summons but upon their humble Petition setting forth that the Town was no more than a Receptacle for poor Scholars it was most part remitted Just a little before the storm of Dundee a party sent under Colonel Matthew Allured surprized a Convention or Pack of Scotch Peers and Presbyters at Ellet in the Highlands not without suspition of their own setting themselves or at least of some treacherous persons among them their names were General Lesley Earl Marshal Earl of Crawford Earl of Keith Lord Ogilby Lord Burgenny Lord Humly Lord Lee Sir Iames Fowles Sir Iames Lockbart and 20 more Knights and Gentlemen Mr. Mungo Law and Mr. Robert Douglas eminent Kirk-men and Mr. Iames Sharp now lord-arch-Lord-Arch-bishop of Saint Andrews and five or six more with 70 Servants the Souldiers that took them had as good if not a better Market than the Dundee-blades getting many of them 500 or 400 pounds apiece and all of them very considerable sums These Lords and Lairds and their fellows the Ministers were âhipt for London that they might give no disturbance to the Parliaments new-intended settlement and union of that Kingdom with this old Lesley obtained the favour from Sir Arthur Hasilrig stopping at Newcastle to stay at his Son-in-laws Mr. De la Val of Northumberland The first thing the Parliament now debated upon after Cromwel's sitting in the House was a new Representative at his instance and motion which same project he had hinted covertly in all his Letters to the Parliament under the true interest of a Commonwealth-Foundation but that which was least talkt of and mainly intended was an Act for the encouragement of the English Navigation the Soveraignty at Sea being the main controversie which both in point of Honour and Interest neither State we nor the Dutch would acknowledge to the other The Judges of the High Court of Iustice now proceeded where they left off with Mr. Love in the Presbyterian-Plot and accordingly on the 10 of October Colonel Vanghan a Leatherseller Captain Hugh Massey Mr. Ienkins Mr. Drake did all of them confess their fault and guilt alledging onely for defence their Oath of Secrecy c. After this confession they were remanded to Prison but at the intercession of the Lord Fairfax as 't is supposed and to honour their late-acquired Victory the Parliament was pleased upon their Petitions that of Mr. Ienkins coming home to their haughty humour and acknowledging their Authority from God and which was Printed here by their Order for a pattern to the rest of the Presbyters and reprinted at Holland to divulge their other Conquest over the stubborn Rabbinical Tribe they were quitted of their Imprisonment and restored But though they escaped it was not other persons good hap A Court Marshal was now established at Chester whither divers English Prisoners taken at Newport and in the pursuit had been brought ten whereof were Comdemned by Vertue of the Act against holding correspondence with the King and five Executed among whom was one Captain Symkins a Gentleman that carried the Kings Letter of Invitation to Sir Thomas Middleton and presently after Sir Timothy Fetherstonhaugh Colonel Benbow and the Earl of Derby were Tryed by the same Court-Marshal wherein Colonel Mackworth above mentioned sate President and Major-General Mitton assisted with other standing Officers The Earl would fain have been heard by the Members at Westminster and writ up to the General and sent a Petition offering the surrender of the Isle of Man but nothing would move the inexorable Rhadamanths of the Parliament though he had subjoyned an account of the designe at their own or their Agents desire whereupon he held to his Plea for Quarter given him by Captain Edge which being over-ruled with the same argument and solution as they made to the Lord Capel they avowing the Court to be a Civil Authority as proceeding upon and by direction of Authority of Parliament he as the other two Gentlemen afterwards was adjudged to dye the Earl at Bolton the 15 of October Sir Timothy at Chester by the Axe and Colonel Benbow to be shot at Shrewsbury After Sentence the Earl made an escape out of the Window being as 't is supposed Tranpann'd out of some money in hope and proffer of an Escape but was presently retaken upon the sands of the River Dee and secured and guarded till the day of his Martyrdom at Bolton aforesaid where to the publike grief and lamentation of the Inhabitants who refused to lend a Nail or Stick to the building of the Scaffold though the very pretence of his Execution there was for the Blood spilt there by him on Prince Rupert's Storming the Town in
for Mac Cloud and Mac Eldow had Articled some time before to render the last Arms that were taken up for his Majesty in that Kiâgdom And so we dismiss that War with this valedictory Elogie to both those honourable Generals the one of them just ceased his indefatigable industry for the Recovery of the Kings Rights and had a Royal Conge and Writ of Emeriâus est and the other like an Altern Luminary began or rather renewed his auspicious aspect upon the Kings Restitution so that the brightness of the Majesty of Scotland was never totally obscured and long may they now shine together without diminution to each others lustre in this glorious Firmament of his Majesties present and perpetual Empire In England the French Embassadors prosecuted the Treaty amâin and with very great secrecy but some mistake happening in point of civility and ceremony by Monsieur de Baas Bourdeaux's Colleague he returned into France to meet a report of his carriage at Paris from whence upon timely overture of the proceedings in that affair our Soveraign withdrew and departed to the Spaw by Leige where he was magnificently treated by that City and so onward in his journey to meet the Princess of Aurange his Sister who had left her Son the Prince in Holland where the divisions about his being Stadtholder were as high as ever and to help them forward Cromwel writ to the States of Zealand to perswade them to the Holland-resolution which the Towns of Campen and Swol had so far withstood as to accept and Swear Prince William of Frizeland to be their Stadtholder during the minority of the Prince of Aurange which was 19 years or till he should be capable of the Government The Duke of York was to have Commanded as Lieutenant-General of the French Army in Italy but this unhandsome Peace disobliged his better-deserving and victorious Arms and turned them afterward against such thankless and regardless Relations he continued yet nevertheless at Paris till after the said Treaty was concluded and then took his Farewel of that unkinde and politick Court Prince Rupert was now at Vienna where he was highly Complemented and presented by the Emperour and from thence came back to Heydelberg Prince Cromwel who was now wholly out of action having laid his Scene in the Counties and Boroughs for Elections to the ensuing Parliament gave himself and the Town a little recreation It happened on a Friday in Iuly that desirous to divert himself with driving of his Coach and six Horses in Hide-park with his Secretary Thurloe in it like Mephistophilus and Doctor Faustus careering it in the Air to try how he could govern Horses since Rational Creatures were so unruly and difficult to be reined like another Phaeton he fell in the Experiment from the Coach-box which was presently posted into the City and many ominous and true Conjectures made of his certain Catastroâphâ one of the ingenious Songs on the occasion ending in this presagioââ Rythme Every Day and Hour hath shew'd us his power But now he hath shew'd us his Art His first Reproach was a fall from a Coach His next will be from a Cart. According to the late Instrument of Government of 42 Strings or Articles one whereof was that a Parliament should be callâd every three years the first the third of September next He accordingly Issued out his Writs the Election to be made one and the same day throughout England most of the Boroughs had but one Burgess and the Shires some of them six or seven Knights all of them under sure qualifications of not having been or being of the Cavalier-party There were 30 also by the Instrument Elected for Scotland and as many for Ireland all or most of whom were English Commanders On the third of September they met and adjourned from the House to the Abbey where Mr. Marshal Preached and so to the Painted Chamber where they had a Message from the Protector to invite them to a Sermon the next day again when Dr. Goodwyn Preached and the Protector came in great State in his Coach Cleypole the Master of his Horse and Strickland the Captain of his Guard bare-headed on both sides At his entrance into the Church Lambert carried the Sword before him and Whitlock the Purse The Sermon done to the Painted Chamber again and there in a Speech he set forth these Heads That some few years ago none would have thought of such a Door of Hope that he knew there were yet many Humours and Interests and that Humours were above Interest that the condition of England was like Israel in the Wilderness of which the Sermon was that this was a Healing day there was neither Nobleman nor Gentleman nor Yeoman before known by any distinction we had not any that bore Rule or Authority but a great Contempt of Magistracy and Christ's Ordinances That the Fifth-Monarchy was highly cried up by persons who would Assume the Government but that desired thing wanted greater manifestation than appeared for such men to change the Authority by And this directed at the late Parliament He desired this Honourable Assembly to remedy all these Disorders shewed that the Wars with Portugal French and Dutch do and did eat up the Assessments that swarms of Iesuits are crept in to make Divisions which were grown so wide that nothing but his Government could remedy them and let men say what they will he could speak it with comfort before a greater than any of them Then he shewed what he had done during his Government First his endeavour of Reforming the Laws having joyned all parties to assist in that great Work Next his filling the Benches with the ablest Lawyers Then his Regulation of the Court of Chancery and his Darling-Ordinance for approbation of Ministers which hindred all that list from invading the Ministry by men of both perswasions Presbyterians and Independents c. And lastly his being Instrumental to call a Free Parliament which he valued and would keep it so above his life Then he shewed the advantages of the Peace with Dutch Dane and Swede and the Protestant Interest which he would have them improve and intend chiefly That they were now upon the edge of Canaan That he spake not as their Lord but their Fellow-servant And then bad them go and chuse their Speakâr which they did without presenting of him his Name William Lenthal the old Chair-man and next day fell upon the Instrument as they had Voted by Parts as it lay and questioned the Power which Oliver understanding to put them out of that Course which touched his Copy-hold after 9 days he came to the Painted Chamber and sending for them declared and asserted four Fundamentals in the Instrument which they were not to meddle with or to alter 1. The Government by a Single person and Parliament 2. The Imperpetuity of Parliaments or continued Succession â The Militia which was his onely And 4. Liberty of Conscience And that a
Fourth the Demeasnes and Jurisdiction whereof lay in the Dutchy of Normandy in France under the English Soveraginty and Earl of Torrington in his own native County of Devon and Baron of Potheridge his own Patrimony Beauchamp and Teyes by which he hath right of Peerage in the three Kingdoms whose equal Felicity and Honour he advanced and raised before himself and now most deservingly shared with them by his Investiture in these Dignities which were compleated Iuly the 13 by his taking his place in the House of Lords attended by the House of Commons and introduced by the Duke of Buckingham In the same month General Montague was created Earl of Sandwich Viscount Hinchingbrooke his famous Mannor in Huntingtonshire and Baron of St. Neots in the same County and on the 16 of Iuly took likewise his place in the House of Peers where they both shine with that degree of splendor by which the Duke reduced and the Earl dawned at the day of Englands Glory and Liberty The Duke of Ormond was likewise made Earl of Brecknock and took his place among the Peers of England he was also made Lord Steward of his Majesties Houshold as the Earl of Lindsey was made Lord High-Chamberlain the Earl of Manchester Lord Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold and the Earl of Southampton Lord High-Treasurer of England Sir Frederick Cornwallis was made Treasurer of the Kings Houshold by an old Grant and Sir Iohn Berkley Comptroller and other Royalists were made Officers therein Several presents were made to the King from the several Cities and Boroughs of the Kingdom in Gold and Plate and resignation of Fee-farm-rents purchased from the Usurpers among the rest the City of London with a Complement of their good Stewardship by the mouth of their Recorder Sir William Wilde rendred their like Grant of New Parke in Surrey All the Rents accruing at Michaelmas-day were now secured from the late Purchasers of Kings Queens Bishops Dean and Chapters lands for the use of the right and unquestionable Proprietors to the defeating the miserable and unjust covetousness of such undue and unwarrantable penniworths A splendid Embassy came this Month of August from Denmark to congratulate his Majesties most happy Restitution as a little before the Lord Iermyn newly made Earl of Saint Albans the Title last failing in the renowned Marquess of Clanrickard Vlick de Burgh who had so eminently asserted his Majesties Rights in Ireland and after the reduction thereof came into England and died in London in some distress far unfitting his nobleness of minde as well as former most honourable Estate a while before the Kings Return was sent to France in the quality of Lord Embassador Extraordinary to that Crown Soon after the Prince de Ligne with a right Princely Train and retinue becoming the grandeur of the Affair he was sent to Congratulate from his Majesty of Spain betwixt whom and this Kingdom a Peace after a six years War was lately Proclaimed was with great state received and had solemn Audience by the King and departed and was succeeded by the Baron of Battevile to be Resident and Embassador in Ordinary at this Court. From the French King soon after came another Illustrious and grand Personage upon the same account by name the Count of Soissons who had married the Cardinal's Neece and entred and was entertained here with all sumptuous and extraordinary Magnificence In sum there was no Prince nor State in Europe who sent not or were not a sending their Embassador upon this wonderful occasion The Parliament after many debates and disputes alterations and insertions at last finished the Act of Oblivion which was extraordinary comprehensive and indulgent to the regret of many injured Royalists who found no better perswasive to their acquiescence in it but their unalterable duty to the King whose special Act this was Out of this were only excepted the Regicides and Murderers of their late Soveraign as to Life and Estate besides Colonel Lambert and Sir Henry Vane and Twenty others reserved to such Forfeitures as should by Parliament be declared the principal of these were Sir Arthur Haselrig Oliver Saint Iohn William Lenthal the Speaker Mr. Ny the Independent Minister Burton of Yarmouth and some Sequestrators Officers and Major-Generals of the Army amongst whom was Desborough Pine Butler Ireton c. They passed likewise an Act for a perpetual Anniversary Thanksgiving on the 29 of May the day of his Majesties Birth and Restauration a day indeed memorable and the most auspicious in our English Kalendar and worthy of a Parliaments Canonization Both which his Majesty gave his Royal Assent to as at the Adjournment to another for Disbanding of the Army and paying off the Navy which once looked upon us with the same feared perpetual danger as the Mamalukes or Ianizaries but by this happy conjuncture of his Majesties Fortune with his Wisdom and Goodness yielded after many Modules to its last Dissolution Great sums by Pole-money and other Assessments were imposed and speedily and cheerfully levied and paid to finish this desired work which had before wasted so many Millions of Treasure Mr. Scowen Mr. Pryn Col. King and Sir Charles Doyley were appointed Commissioners to disband them to which the Souldiery very willingly and with thanks to the King submitted the King giving them a Weeks pay as a Donative and Largess The Parliament adjourned till the 6 of November These Felicities of the King we have hitherto insisted on as the course of all worldly things is guided were abated and allayed by the immature and most lamented Death of the right Excellent Prince Henry Duke of Gloucester his Majesties youngest Brother a Prince of very extraordinary hopes Silence will best become our lamentation for his vertues and our loss of them transcend expression He died of the Small-pox Aged Twenty years and two months after much Blood-letting and was Interred with a private Funeral in Henry the Seventh's Chappel at Westminster just before the arrival of his Sister the Princess of Orange who came to joy and felicitate her Brothers in their happy Restitution With the King and Monarchy the Ecclesiastical Regiment by Bishops recovered it self by his Majesties Piety and Prudence that Aphorism being most sadly verified No Bishop No King and therefore on the 20 of September Dr. Iuxon Bishop of London that antient and excellent Prelate was by the King translated from that See to the Arch-bishoprick of Canterbury which was performed with great Solemnity and not long after several new Bishops persons the most eminent and valiant assertors of the Church and Laws of England were Consecrated in the Abby at Westminster and all the Diocesses filled of which together presently in an ensuing Catalogue Divine Vengeance had with a slow foot traced the murtherers of our Martyr'd Soveraign and through several Mazes at last overtook them the iron hand of Justice delivering them to the punishment due to that grand impiety nor was it
several Prayers which ended the Coif was put on His Majesties Head and the Colobium syndonis or Dalmatica then the Super-tunica of cloth of Gold with the Tissue buskins and Sandals of the same then the Spurs were put on by the Peer that carried them then the Arch-bishop took the Kings Sword and laid it on the Communion-Table and after Prayer restored it to the King which was Girt upon him by the Lord great Chamberlain then the Armil was put on next the Mantle or open Pall after which the Lord Arch-bishop took the Crown into his hands and laid it on the Communion-Table Prayed and then set it on the Kings Head whereupon all the Peers put on their Coronets and Caps the Choire singing an Anthem next the Arch-Bishop took the Kings Ring prayed again and put it on the Fourth Finger of the Kings Hand after which his Majesty took off his Sword and offered it up which the Lord great Chamberlain redeemed drew it out and carried it naked before the King Then the Arch-Bishop took the Scepter with the Cross and delivered it into His Majesties right Hand the Rod with the Dove in the left and the King kneeling blessed him which done the King ascended his Throne Royal the Lords Spiritual and Temporal attending him where after Te Deum the King was again Enthroned and then all the Peers did their Homage The Arch-Bishop first who then kissed the Kings left Cheek and after him the other Bishops After their Homage the Peers all together stood round about the King and every one in their order toucht the Crown upon his Head promising their readiness to support it with their power The Coronation being ended the Communion followed which his Majesty having received and offered returned to his Throne till the Communion ended and then went into St. Edwards Chappel there took off his Crown and delivered it to the Lord Bishop of London who laid it upon the Communion-Table which done the King withdrew into a Traverse where the Lord great Chamberlain of England disrobed the King of St. Edward's Robes and delivered them to the Dean of Westminster then His Majesty was newly arrayed with his Robes prepared for that day and came to the Communion-Table in St. Edward's Chappel where the Lord Bishop of London for the Arch-Bishop set the Crown Imperial provided for the King to wear that day upon his Head Then His Majesty took the Scepter and the Rod and the Train set in order before him went up to the Throne and so through the Choyre and body of the Church out at the West-door to the Palace of Westminster The Oathes of Fealty being casually omitted are here subjoyned as they were sworn in order I William Arch-Bishop of Canterbury shall be True and Faithful and true Faith and Truth bear unto you ouâ Soveraign Lord and your Heirs Kings of England and shall and do and truly acknowledge the service of the Land which I claim to hold of You in right of the Church So help me God Then the Duke of York did the same in these Words Garter principal King at Arms attending him in his Ascent to the Throne I James Duke of York become Your Leigeman of Life of Limb and of Earthly Worship and Faith and Truth shall I bear unto You to live and dye against all manner of Folk The Dukes of Buckingham and Albemarle did the same for the Dukes The Marquesses of Worcester and Dorchester for the Marquesses The Earl of Oxford for the Earls Viscount Hereford for the Viscounts And the Lord Audley for the Barons Note that there were Collects and Prayers said upon the putting on of the Regalia as the Armil the Pall the delivery of the Scepter the Sword all according to ancient Form and upon the setting on of the Crown a peculiar Benediction The Bishop of Worcester's Sermon was Preached upon the 28 of Prov. verse 2. Before the King the Peers now according to their Ranks and degrees proceeded to the said Palace and not as they entred the Abbey but with their Coronets on at the upper end whereof there was a Table and Chair of State raised upon an ascent on the South-East-side of the Hall were two Tables placed the first for the Barons of the Cinque Ports the Bishops and Judges the other for the Masters and six Clerks of Chancery at which Table by some mistake or disturbance the Barons dined At the North-East-end the Nobility at one Table and behinde them close to the Wall the Lord-Mayor the Recorder the Aldermen and twelve principal Citizens in the Court of Common-pleas dined the Officers at Arms. Which Tables being served each had in all three Courses and a Banquet the King came in from the inner Court of Wards where he had staid half an hour and sat down and the Duke of York sate at the end of the same Table on the left hand the Earl of Dorset was Sewer and the Earl of Chesterfield his Assistant the Earl of Lincoln was Carver the Dishes were most of them served up by the Knights of the Bath at the second course came in Sir Edward Dymock who by the service of this day as the King's Champion holds his Mannor of Serivelsby in the County of Lincoln as several other services were performed upon the same account particularly Mr. Henry Howard in behalf of his Brother the Duke of Norfolk for a Mannor in Norfolk gave the King a rich right-hand-Glove during the Coronation with which he held the Scepter He was mounted upon a goodly White Courser himself Armed at all points and having staid a while advanced a little further with his two Esquires one bearing a Lance the other a Target and threw down his Gantlet the Earl-Marshal riding on his Left and the Lord High-Constable on his Right hand when York the Herauld read aloud his Challenge which was done the third and last time at the foot of the Ascent where the King dined and his Gantlet by the Herauld returned to him at every of the three times after it had layn a little while the Challenge was in these words If any person of what degree soever High or Low shall deny or gainsay our Soveraign Lord King Charles the second King of England Scotland France and Ireland defender of the Faith c. and Son and Heir to our Soveraign Lord Charles the first the late King deceased to be right Heir to the Imperial Crown of the Realm of England or that he ought not to enjoy the same Here is his Champion who saith that he lyeth and is a false Traytor being ready in person to Combate with him and on this quarrel will adventure his life against him what day soever he shall be appointed Which read aloud the Earl of Pembrook presented the King with a Guilt Cup fill'd with Wine who drank to his Champion and sent him the said Cup by the said Earl which after three Reverences and some steps backward he drunk off and kept it as his Fee
Rochesters consecrated 1637. A. Dr. Henry King Lord-Bishop of Chichester was consecrated 1641. Dr. Humphry Heuchman Lord-Bishop of Salisbury was consecrated October 28. 1660. Dr. George Morley Lord-Bishop of Worcester was consecrated October 28. 1660. since possessed by Dr. Gauden after by Dr. Earles late Dean of Westminster Dr. Robert Sauderson Lord-Bishop of Lincoln was consecrated October 28. 1660. since deceased and Dr. Laney Translated thither Dr. George Griffith Lord-Bishop of St. Asaph was consecrated October 28. 1660. Dr. William Lucy Lord-Bishop of St. Davids was consecrated December 2. 1660. Dr. Benjamin Laney Lord-Bishop of Peterborough was consecrated December 2. 1660. Dr. Hugh Lloyd Lord-Bishop of Landaff was consecrated December 2. 1660. Dr. Richard Sterne Lord-Bishop of Carlisle was consecrated December 2. 1660. Y. Dr. Brian Walton Lord-Bishop of Chester was consecrated December 2. 1660. Y. This See was possess'd by Dr. Fern who dying also Dr. George Hall was Lord-Bishop thereof Dr. Iohn Gauden who dying Dr. Seth Ward is since Lord-Bishop thereof Lord-Bishop of Exeter was consecrated December 2. 1660. Dr. Gilbert Ironside Lord-Bishop of Bristol was consecrated Ianuary 13. 1660. Dr. Edward Reynolds Lord-Bishop of Norwich was consecrated Ianuary 14. 1660. Dr. William Nicholson Lord-Bishop of Gloucester was consecrated Ianuary 13. 1660. Dr. Nicholas Monke Lord-Bishop of Hereford was consecrated Ianuary 13. 1660. who dying Dr. Herbert Crofts was consecrated in his place 1661. Dr. Iohn Hacket lord-Lord-Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield A. Notes the ancient Bishops Y. The Diocesses in the Province of York All the rest are in the Province of Canterbury The Names of the Iudges EDward Earl of Clarendon Lord High-Chancellor of England Sir Robert Foster Knight Chief-Justice of the Kings-Bench Sir Harbottle Grimstone Baronet Master of the Rolls Sir Orlando Bridgeman Knight and Baronet Chief-Justice of the Common-Pleas Matthew Hale Chief-Baron of the Exchequer Sir Thomas Mallet Knight Justices of the Kings-Bench Sir Thomas Twisden Knight Justices of the Kings-Bench Sir Wadham Windham Knight Justices of the Kings-Bench Sir Robert Hide Knight Justices of the Common-Pleas Sir Thomas Terril Knight Justices of the Common-Pleas Sir Samuel Brown Knight Justices of the Common-Pleas Sir Edward Atkins Knight Barons of the Exchequer Sir Christopher Turner Knight Barons of the Exchequer Sir Ieoffrey Palmer Knight Attorney-General Sir Iohn Glynne Knight The Kings Serjeants at Law Sir Iohn Maynard Knight The Kings Serjeants at Law Sir William Wilde Knight The Kings Serjeants at Law The two Principal Secretaries of State persons eminent for their faithful and industrious Loyalty Sir Edward Nicholas of the same place to his late Majesty and Sir William Mârice the onely Confident the Renowned General the Duke of Albemarle used in those blessed Counsels toward the Restitution of the King and Kingdom The Names of the BARONETS made by Letters Patents since his Majesties most happy Restauration Anno 1660. With the times of their several Creations Anno Duodecimo Caroli Regis Secundi SIR Orlando Bridgeman Knight was created Baronet Iune the 7th in the Twelfth Year of the Raign of our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles the Second in the year of our Lord 1660. Sir Ieoffery Palmer Kt. created Baronet Iune the 7. Sir Heneage Finch in Com. Bucks Kt. created Baronet Iune 7. Sir Iohn Langham in Com. Northampton Kt. created Baronet Iune 7. Sir Robert Abdy in Com. Essex Kt. created Baronet Iune 9. Thomas Draper in Com. Berks Esq. created Baronet Iune 9. Humphrey Winch in Com. Bedford Esq. created Baronet Iune 9. Ionathan Rease Esq. created Baronet Iune 9. Henry Wright in Com. Essex Esq. created Baronet Iune 12. Hugh Speke in Com. Wilts Esq. created Baronet Iune 12. Nicholas Gould of the City of London created Baronet Iune 13. Sir Thomas Adams of the City of London Kt. created Baronet Iune 13. Richard Atkins in Com. Surrey Esq. created Baronet Iune 13. Thomas Allen of the City of London Esq. created Baronet Iune 14. Henry North in Com. Suffolk Esq. created Baronet Iune 15. Sir William Wiseman in Com. Essex Kt. created Baronet Iune 15. Thomas Cullum in Com. Suffolk Esq. created Baronet Iune 18. Thomas Davy in Com. Essex Esq. created Baronet Iune 20. George Grubbum How in Com. Wilts Esq. created Baronet Iune 20. Iohn Cutts in Com. Cambridge Esq. created Baronet Iune 20. William Humble of the City of London Esq. created Baronet Iune 20. Solomon Swale in Com. York Esq. created Baronet Iune 21. Gervas Ews in Com. Suffolk Esq. created Baronet Iune 22. Robert Cordel in Com. Suffolk Esq. created Baronet Iune 22. Sir Iohn Robinson of the City of London Kt. created Baronet Iune 22. Iohn Abdy in Com. Essex Esq. created Baronet Iune 22. Henry Stapleton in Com. York Esq. created Baronet Iune 23. Iacob Ashly in Com. Warwick Esq. created Baronet Iune 25. Sir Robert Hilliard in Com. York Esq. created Baronet Iune 25. Sir William Bowyer in Com. Bucks Kt. created Baronet Iune 25. Iohn Shuckbrugh in Com. Warwick Esq. created Baronet Iune 26. William Wray in Com. Lincoln Esq. created Baronet Iune 27. Francis Hollis in Com. Dorset Esq. created Baronet Iune 27. Nicholas Steward in Com. Southampton Esq. created Baronet Iune 27. George Warberton in Com. Pal. of Chester Esq. created Baronet Iune 27. Oliver St. Iohn in Com. Northampton Esq. created Baronet Iune 28. Sir Ralph Delaval in Com. Northumberland Kt. created Baronet Iune 29. Andrew Henley in Com. Somerset Esq. created Baronet Iune 30. Thomas Ellis in Com. Lincoln Esq. created Baronet Iune 30. Sir Iohn Covert in Com. Sussex Kt. created Baronet Iuly 2. Maurice Berkley in Com. Somerset Esq. created Baronet Iuly 2. Peter Harr of the City of London created Baronet Iuly 2. Henry Hudson in Com. Leicester Esq. created Baronet Iuly 3. Thomas Herbert in Com. Monmouth Esq. created Baronet Iuly 3. Thomas Middleton in Com. Denbigh created Baronet Iuly 4. Verney Noel in Com. Leicester Esq. created Baronet Iuly 6. George Ruswel in Com. Northampton Esq. created Baronet Iuly 7. Robert Austen in Com. Kent Esq. created Baronet Iuly 10. Robert Hales in Com. Kent Esq. created Baronet Iuly 12. Iohn Clarke in Com. Oxford Esq. created Baronet Iuly 13. William Thomas in Com. Essex Esq. created Baronet Iuly 13. Sir William Boothby in Com. Derby Kt. created Baronet Iuly 13. Wolstan Dixey in Com. Leicester created Baronet Iuly 14. Iohn Bright in Com. York Esq. created Baronet Iuly 16. Iohn Warner in Com. York Esq. created Baronet Iuly 16. Sir Iohn Harbey in Com. Hartford Kt. created Baronet Iuly 17. Sir Samuel Moreland in Com. Berks Kt. created Baronet Iuly 18. Sir Thomas Hewet in Com. Hartford Kt. created Baronet Iuly 19. Edward Honywood in Com. Kent Esq. created Baronet Iuly 19. Basil Dixwel in Com. Kent Esq. created Baronet Iuly 19. Sir Richard Brown of the City of London Kt. created Baronet Iuly 20. Marmaduke Gresham in Com. Surrey Esq. created Baronet Iuly 20. Henry Kernor in Com. Salop Esq. created Baronet Iuly 23. Sir Iohn Aubrey in Com. Glamorgan
disaffection to the Government but not many they were that were upon this account outed and discharged By virtue of the Allyance and Treaty with the Crown of Portugal several Forces were sent hence to Assist that Kingdome against the prevailing Power of the Spaniard who just at the Majority of that King and his taking the Government into his own hands had made a formidable Invasion and Progress into those Dominions These Forces most of them immediately set Sayl from Dunkirke some Troops and Companies Landing there from Leith all Commanded in chief by his Excellency the Earl of Inchiqueen the famous Souldier in Ireland Colonel Morgan late Governour of Scotland being his Major-General they arrived well and in good health there on the Twenty ninth of Iune and after a little refreshment and being prohibited to eat the Fruit of the Countrey for fear of Fevours and other Distempers advanced towards the Campania but the Spaniard having notice thereof thought it not advisable to Fight with them in their strength and vigour but to waste them with the usual incommodities of those Climates to us and retreated back again immediately into Spain In Iuly following the Duke of Ormond Lord Lieutenant of Ireland His Majesty having given him a very Honourable and friendly farewel and having received the like civilities from the whole Court set forwards in his Journey and Voyage to that Kingdome where he Arrived three weeks after and was most Magnificently received into the City of Dublin and congratulated and welcomed by the whole Body of that People in Parliament to whom in their Assembly he delivered himself in a most Excellent Speech There was mention made before of the Commissioners for Regulating Corporations for the securing of the peace of the Kingdome by these Gentlemen named for each County City and Borrough it was ordered besides the displacing of Officers that the Walls of the respective Cities and Towns of Gloucester and Coventry Northampton Taunton and Leicester and other places which had Bulworks and Garrisons and maintained them throughout the War against the King and were the Reception of and maintenance the Rebellion should be demolished as Examples and Security to successive times the County-Troops and respective Trained Band-Regiments guarded these places when they were Demolished Dr. Gauden the Bishop of Exeter died about this time September as also William Lenthal the Speaker of the Long Parliament very penitently The Town of Dunkirk taken from the Spaniard in One thousand six hundred fifty eight and kept ever since at a vast and great charge was by advice of the Lords of his Majesties Privy Councel as being never annexed by Act of Parliament to the Crown of England returned to the French King who upon surrender of it in the year aforesaid delivered it unto us Now for the sum of Five hundred Thousand pounds fully paid that Fortress was delivered into the Possession of the French under the Government of the Count d'Eâirades and his Deputy the Marquess of Montpear two English Companies with the Governour only Guarding the Gates at their entrance and delivering the Keys of the same Town The Honourable Sir Edward Nicholas having served his Majesty and his Father as Secretary of State for many years obtained his Quietus est from the King who would have dignified his Merit with a Barrony which Sir Edward modestly declined because His Majesty should not increase the Nobility and Sir Henry Bennet late the Kings Resident in Spain a very excellent Person was named to that Preferment Among these and the like Honours conferred by the King upon his Faithful and Loyal Servants and Subjects which the purport of this Chronicle obliged me to take notice off and be their Herauld this time challenged my observance of a Dignity conferred on that eminent and worthy Personage Dr. Iohn Berkenhead Knighted with a Testimony from his Majesty that he had done his Father and himself very signal and great services during the last twenty years Revolution and there is scarce any Honest man in the Three Kingdoms who will not say Amen to this his Majesties EVGE There had been suspition of a Plot and the City Trained Bands had watched and warded every Night for the most part of the Summer ever since the Kings departure to meet the Queen but now the Design appeared the first named was one Captain Baker a New-England-man an acquaintance of Hugh Peters there and preferred to be one of Olivers Band of Pensioners this Fellow acquaints one Hill the Son of a Phanatick or Independant Preacher in the Street and tells him of a Designe and brings him acquainted at several Meetings of divers of the Conspiracy which he having good information of revealed with the names of the Conspirators to Sir Richard Brown Some of those engaged thus only met and heard and reported their discourses of Arms and other preparations to their own gang but approved the Treason so well that they never discovered it This Plot was against the Sacred Life of the King the Duke of York the noble Duke of Albemarle and Sir Richard Brown and generally the Bishops Nobility Gentry and Commonalty that were not of their Opinions and Assisted them not and they had ready prepared a draught of their Government their Councels were carried on by six who never sate twice in a Place nor could be known to any two their Commander in chief was Ludlow Colonel Danvers Mr. Nye Mr. Lockyer and one Lieutenant Strange the Captains Spencer and Taverner were favourable to the Design and would surprize Deal Castle in Kent as Windsor was certain to be theirs and the Word the Night they were to fall on which after several put offs was appointed the last of October was to be given them by George Phillips a Serjeant in the Colonels Company of the White Regiment For this the Eleventh of December the said George Phillips Thomas Tongue a Distiller of Strong Waters Francis Stubs being a Cheesmonger Iames Hind Gunner Iohn Sellers Compass-maker and Nathanael Gibs Felt-maker were Convicted by Evidence of their fellow-Conspirators Edward Rigge Bradley and others only Hind Pleaded Guilty and craved the King's Mercy they alledged they never Acted such Trayterous intentions but the Design was proved to have been communicated and laid open to them after their full Defence they were all found Guilty and on the Twenty second of December Phillips Tongue Gibs and Stubs were Executed according to Sentence but His Majesty was graciouâly pleased to give their Quarters to be buried but their Heads to be set up upon several Poles two on each Tower-Hill the nearest place to the Tower On the Twenty sixth of December his Majesty to satisfie the Kingdome of his intents in reference to the unsatisfiedness of Dissenters to the Established Settlement of the Church expressed his Indulgence to their Consciences so far as such Liberty would not Disturb the Publick Peace nor entrench upon the Orthodox Religion professed and that he
would use his best endeavours with the Parliament to that end About the same time came hither a very splendid Ambassy from the Emperour of Russia delegated to three of his Knez or Princes the one of them came some time before the other to prepare all things suitable to the State of their Reception and had Audience by the King in privatate at Hamton-Court The Principal was Knez Peter Simonewitz formerly Governour of Archangel our Port of Trade in those Dominions he was received in greater State than any former Ambassadours from any Prince whatsoever both in respect He useth the same Honours to our Soveraigns Publick Ministers and the great Immunities and Priviledges the English enjoy again there as also from that particular Affection which is between these Two Monarchs as hath been hinted before At his Receipt the whole Military Force of the City was in Arms Trained Bands Auxiliaries Hamlets Westminster-Regiments several of the Companies and Liveries of the City on Horseback in their Gold Chains with the Aldermen of the City Riding before him who near York-House where he was to be entertained by the King during his stay made a Lane for Him to pass through them thereunto Two of them Rode in the Kings Coach the Principal was at that time sick and came by Water to his House their Retinue according to their Countrey Fashion were Vested in a long Robe girt about the Middle loop-laced on the Breast and caped behind His two Coachmen and Postilions the like though English men there were some Thirty Servants that Rode a Horseback with Hawks on their Fists as Presents On New years-day they were Conducted to White Hall where they delivered their Presents of Furs as black Fox Skins Ermins many Timber or scores of Martins Beavers and the like Persian-Carpets three Persian Horses Argamarick and other Commodities of that Country as Damask Silks and Embroyderies also a Ship Loading of Hemp there were Presents of the like Nature from the Empress to the Queen and from the Prince of Russia likewise they were all received with that affection and kindness which the King on all occasions hath manifested to have for that great Potentate Two of those Embassadors departed hence for France and so to Italy the Chief stayed to to return in Iune with our ships for his own County On the Twenty sixth of December at night in the House of one Mr. â la Noy an Hamborough Merchant who had lately married Sir Thomas Allââ Daughter of Middlesex being now with Child as the Family were in Bed a suddain fire without breaking out into the Street which was the new Buildings in Loathbury where others stood or being discerned suddenly consumed all that were within goods and all the Chambers and Goods being all burnt from top to bottom and not a shreik or cry heard it being supposed the greenness of the Timber smoking more vehemently at the eruption of the fire instantly smothered them A very sad and much-lamented providence seven being reckoned that were killed in this manner The fire was perceived at last by the heat it caused in the next House but the Bricks and the shutters in the Windows kept it from breaking out Notwithstanding the inhibition to Non-conforming Ministers to Preach or Exercise their Ministry and the penalties thereof yet Mr. Calamy late Pastor of Aldermanbury by reason the Parish was disappointed on Sunday the Twenty eighth of December by a blind old Minister that should have Preached there as he pretended went into the Pulpit and Preached and by his Text and Sermon and Inferences did reflect hardly and strangely upon the state of the Church and beyond his Last if he had been also capacitated to Preach For this Transgression and Contempt he was by Warrant of the Lord Mayor committed to Newgate where many persons came to visit him to his no little advantage but within two or three days was by his Majesties gracious Clemency and his Order discharged from this Imprisonment though it were an Offence done as it were to affront that tenderness held forth in His Majesties Declaration aforesaid The Bishop of Lincoln the famous Casuist Dr. Sanderson died in the middle of Ianuary as many of that Function had preceded him since the King's Restitution and left his See to the Lord Bishop of Peterborough Dr. Laney The Lord Warreston a Committee of Safety-man and infamous for his Treason in Scotland and a Fugitive there being Proclaimed Rebel and Traytor was taken and secured in France and sent over hither where he was Committed by his Majesties Order to the Tower in order to his sending for Scotland from thence Gibs the Brother of the aforesaid Nathanael who fled and was lately retaken was sent to the Sessions at the Old Baily February the Twentieth and with the before-mentioned Baker Condemned for the same former Treason and both Executed at Tyburn in like manner The Nineteenth of February the Parliament met where the King took notice of his said Declaration of the Twenty sixth of December wherein he cleared himself of any mistakes as favouring Popery though he acknowledged the Services of many of that Profession yet he was so far from Tolerating or qualifying them thereby to hold any Office or places of Trust in the Government that he desired Laws might be made to hinder the growth of their Doctrine That his Zeal to the Protestant Religion and Uniformity shall not yield to the Bishops themselves and yet if the Dissenters will demean themselves peaceably and modestly under the Government he could heartily wish He had such a Power of Indulgence to use upon occasions as might not needlesly force them out of the Kingdome or staying here give them Cause to Conspire against the Peace of it In Answer to this His Majesties Explanation of Himself and his Declaration of the Twenty sixth of December the House of Commons distinctly and separately to every particular thereof gave His Majesty their most humble Thanks withal by their Votes and Addresses to him Vindicating their settlement of Religion in the antient Form Discipline and Government thereof from the Calumny and danger of Schism and promised to Assert it with their Lives and Estates as their particular and Parliamentary Honour which Resolutions and Reasons being of so recent Date and the Answer of the King not yet given thereunto which out-measures the time of this Chronicle I do remit to another unwearied and unperplexed Pen. Scotland in a most Peaceful state and condition and the Kingdome of Ireland in a tendency thereunto but through so many variations and vicissitudes of Domination and propriety the Lands thereof had passed that it was not imaginable the total subversion thereof by the Rebellion of both Parties there the Irish and Long Parliament could devolve things into any presumed security it having been the first and last Stage of the War sed Tucro Duce Auspice Tucro But the Eminence and Prudence of this Lord Lieutenant the most noble
While the King of England is preparing his Fleet by Sea the King of France leaving the Management of Affairs at home in the Hands of the Queen begins his March at the Head of his Main Army himself and first he Arrives at Charleroy the chief place of Rendezvous whence he sends to Montery to assure him that though he were constrain'd to March through those Countries yet he would take care that not the least Act of Hostility should be committed Toward the beginning of May Turenne appear'd within a League of Maestricht which was soon after wholly Blockt up in which condition the King leaving it March'd directly with the gross of his Army toward Rhinebergh In the mean while at Sea the English Fleet being in all English and French 160 Sayl had often sight of the Dutch But upon the 28th of this Month about five of the Clock in the Morning a most brisk Fight began near the Bay of Southwold The Blew Squadron first Engag'd and the Royal Iames was the first Ship that fir'd next to which his Royal Highness who was becalm'd but the Blew Squadron and the French having a Gale came up with the Duke and Fought briskly In the Afternoon of the day the Soveraign St. Andrew and about 20 more getting the Weather-gage of the Dutch were hotly Engag'd about which time the Iames being over-presâ with Number of Men of War and Fireships a Flag-ship of the Dutch lay'd himself athwart his Hawser but finding his Entertainment too hot cry'd out for quarter whereupon the English entring and leaving the Iames naked the Fireships took their advantage two of which were sunk the third took place and fir'd a stout ship where the Earl of Sandwich perish'd for want of Relief but his Captain Captain Haddock escap'd with a shot in his Thigh The Henry and Two other ships more were likewise disabled At Night the Dutch stood away which the Duke perceiving stood after them keeping in sight of their Lights all Night In the afternoon of the next day the Duke hors'd up his Bloody Flag and bore lasking upon the Dutch intending a second Engagement but on a suddain there fell such a thick Mist with much Wind that they could not see a ships length about an hour and a half after it cleer'd up again and the Bloody Flag was put out a second time but the Fog coming thick again nothing could be done Whereupon the Duke finding himself near the Oyster-Bank Tack'd about stood away some Leagues and came to an Anchor there he staid all Night and the next Morning till Ten a Clock but could hear nothing of the Enemy who were retir'd to the shallows of their own Coast. In this Engagement were lost out-right the Earl of Sandwich Captain Digby in the Henry Sir Iohn Cox in the Prince Sir Freschevile Hollis Monsieur de la Rabinier the French Rear-Admiral with several others several others Wounded about seven hundred Common Sea-men slain and as many Wounded and the Royal Iames only Burn'd In the Henry not an Officer was left alive and above half the Men slain The Katharine was taken and the Captain put on Board a Dutch ship and the Men clapt under Hatches the Dutch going about to Fire the ship at what time a French Sloop came in and cut away the Fireships Boat and then the English finding a way to break out upon the Dutch redeem'd both themselves and the ship and brought away Sixteen of the Dutch Prisoners that were a little before their Masters On the Dutch side were lost Admiral Van Ghent and Captain Brakhel most of their great ships miserably torn among the rest two sunk one by the Earl of Sandwich another by Sir Edward Sprage one taken and one Burn'd besides a very great loss of Common Sea-men another great Vessel suppos'd to be a Flag-ship was seen to sink neer Alborough and several others that were missing suppos'd to be sunk or burn'd As this was no small loss at Sea considering some advantage they had to be beaten into their own Ports so was their loss as great by Land the French having at the same time taken Rhineberg Wesel Oysup and Burick Groll Borkelo taken by the Bishop of Munster and after them Rees Sckenk-Sconce and several others underwent the same Fate possessed by the French Nor was this all for the French without much resistance had now forc'd their Passage over the Rhine neer Tolbuys This neer Approach of the French bred such a Confusion in the Netherlands that many of the most wealthy Inhabitants forsook the Country not willing to hazard their Persons and Estates in a Country falling into the hands of a Victorious Forreigner The States also themselves remov'd from the Hague to Amsterdam for their better security opening the Sluces and putting the Country round under Water to the dammage of above 18 Millions of Gilders The King of England being throughly informed of these Proceedings puts forth a seasonable Declaration signifying That if any of the Low Country Subjects either out of Affection to His Majesty or his Government or because of the oppression they meet with at home from their Governours should come into his Kingdoms they should be Protected in their Persons and Estates that they should have an Act for their Naturalization and that all such Ships and Vessels as they should bring along with them should be accompted as English built and enjoy the same Priviledges and Immunities as to Trade Navigation and Customs as if they had been built in England or belong'd to his own Subjects And to restrain the Licentious Tongues of those that were apt to talk too busily and sawcily of State-Affairs the King did farther by his Proclamation forbid all his loving Subjects either by Writing or Speaking to divulge or utter false News or Reports or to intermeddle in matters of Government or with any of his Majesties Councellors or Ministers in their common Discourses All this while the Dutch at Land began to be more and more streightned for on the one side the King of France was Advanc'd within Three Leagues of Amsterdam Arnhem Vtrecht and Zutphen and Emmerick surrendred up to him on the other side the Bishop of Munster press'd hard upon Frizeland having taken Deventer Groll Borkelo Doetechem and several other Places of lesser Consequence insomuch that the People began to Tumult in all places but more especially at Dort whither they sent for the Prince of Orange where as he was at Dinner with the Lords at the Paw being the Principal House in the Town the Burgers who were in Arms surrounded the House and sent up their Captains to tell the Lords That except they presently drew up a Paper and put their Hands to it for declaring the Prince Stadt-holder they would Cut all their Throats whereupon the Paper was immediately drawn up and sign'd by which the said Prince was declar'd Stadt-holder with all the Powers and Authorities in as ample
Trim 164. Preston in Lancashire 178. Dunbar 273 Worcester 397 Beaufort encountered by Argier Pyratâs 546 Slain 576 Bânnet Sir Humphrey 404 Benson Captain Executed 270 Beaumont a Minister Murthered at Pontfraict 227 Berkenhead Sir John Knighted 512 Berkley Sir John 98. Berkley Sir John and Col. Walter Slingsby 258 Bernard's Treachery rewarded 395 Betteley John Quartered 404 Bishops 12. Accused of high Treason to the Tower ten of them 26. Their Charge ibid. Restored to their Honours 502 Biddle an Infamous seducer 369 Blake blocks up Prince Rupert at Lisbon 256 At Lisbon again 267. A wary Commander 366. At Porto-Ferina defeats the Pyrates 372. Sails for the Coast of Spain 381. His desperate attempt upon the Spaniard in Sancta Cruz Fight 391. Fires the Spanish Fleet there ibid. Dies returning into England 402. His Character and Funeral ibid. Blackburn vide Moris Blackness yielded 288 Blechingdon-house 74 Blood attempts the Crown 580 Bourdeaux French Embassador owns Cromwel 359 Boys Sir John 62 Boyle Dean his management of affair with Cromwel about Articles for the English 252 Booth Sir George riseth in Cheshire 424 Defeated and taken 425. Sent to the Tower and Examined by Vane and Haslerig 426. Obtains his liberty of the Rump uppon Bail 433 Bramhal Dr. dies 522 Bradshaw the bold President of the high Court of Iustice 106 to 217. Dies 430 Bradshaw Agent at Hamburg and Denmark 334 Brain sent General to Jamaica 381 Brandenburghers 547 Mortogh O Brian lays down last Armes in Ireland 356 Breda the place of Treaty 560. English Embassadors there ibid. Plenipotentiaries meet Peace concluded 563 Bristol intended to be surprized for the King 45 46. Taken by his Forces 47. By Fairfax 87 Bristol Earl honoured with the Garter 344 Bridgewater taken 82 Brickbat flung at the Protector 's Coach 358 Broughton Col. 296 Broughil Lord lands in Munster with Forces from England 246. Defeats David Roch and hangs the Bishop of Ross 252. Brown Major-General 57. Reconciled to the King at Holmby 128. In a new designe discovered 434 Brown Bushel beheaded 285 Brooks Lord killed 42 Brunt-Island taken 294 Brunswick besieged and surrendred 583 Buchanan's Book burnt in Scotland 526 Buckingham Duke 177. sent into Holland 584 Buckhurst Lord c. 505 Burleigh Capt. 163 Butler Col. Richard taken 242 C Cahiâ Castle weakly yielded 521 Calamy Minister Committed 514 Canons made against the Church of Rome and justifying this 12 Capel Lord Tryed and Sentenced 228. and Beheaded his noble deportment 229 Carlisle Earl sent into Sweden 572 Cavalcaâe and Procession from 474 to 486 Campeach taken 520 Canary prohibited 556 Candia besieged 559. Surrendred 577 Carlisle yielded to the Scots 106 Carnarvan slain 50 51 Casimire King of Poland dies in France 590 Carrick taken by Treachery 247. Attempted in vain to be recovered from Colonel Reynolds 248 Carteret Sir George Governour of Jersey 255 Castlehaven Earl for the King in Ireland and against the Nuntio's party 238 Casualties 315 Cavaliers to depart London 258. Conspire against Cromwel 366. Their Plot again discovered 401. They Plot against the Rump 423 Ceremonies in Religion one main cause of the War opposed and murmured at 2 3 Cessation granted by the Scots upon very difficult terms 15 Cessation agreed in Ireland 53 Chains of Gold and Medals given to the chief Sea-Officers 349 Chaloner Chute Speaker dies 416 Chancery regulated 368 Character of the Kings Iudges 196 to 203 Charles Prince in the Downs 175. At Goree in Holland 176 Charles the second Proclaimed King by dispersed papers 225 Chester Charter taken away 427 Chichister City 42 Chepstow-Castle taken by Sir Nicholas Kemish 171 St. Christophers and the Cariby Islands subdued 307 Christmass day Celebrated 398 City Alarm'd with a pretended Plot 403 City invite Parliament and Army to dinner 429. Send Sword-bearer to Gen. Monke 435. Their Gates and Portcullices pulled down 437 City and Companies feasts the General 438 Their joy upon the King's return 453 Lend the King Money 575 528 551 City Building begins 556 Citadels built in Scotland 313 Claypool's Lady dies buried 404 Dr. Clargis also Mr. Caryl Minister c. sent to Gen. Monke in Scotland 432 Clanrickard Marq. his services 249. Substituted Lord-Governour of Ireland 251. Defeated by Col. Axtel 277. Lays down his Arms 324 Clubmen 83 Clement Gregory 255 Clifford Lord made Lord Treasurer 588. Resignes his Staff 591 Clogher Bishop defeated 267 Clonmel yielded after a stout resistance 252 Colchester Siege 175 Cock-matches and Horse-races prohibited 359 Committee appointed for inspection of Charters 381. Committee of Safety 429. Like not themselves declare for another Parliament 433 Common-prayer abolished 69 Commonwealth altered by Cromwel 338 Composition 88 Compton Dr. made Bishop of Oxford 599 Commissioners in Scotland 166 Commission of the Great Seal altered 359 Commissioners for approbation of Ministers 359 Commissioners to treat with the King at the Isle of Wight 183 Commissioners to General Monke from the City 436 Commissioners to the King at Breda arrive at the Hague 447 Commissioners of the Treasury 563. To take account of publick Money ibid. To hear Seamens complaints 564 Cologne Treaty 594 Colmaer Battle 601 Colliers the Dutch designe 337 Confederate party of Irish Rebels 250 Confirmation of Acts 500 Constable Sir William dies and buried in Hen. 7th's Chappel 373 Contents of the Kings Declaration from Breda 445 Convocation in England grant 5th part of their Livings to Scotch War 12 Convention in Ireland 440 Conway Lord defeated 13 Coronation of the King 475 to 496 Cotterel Sir Charles sent to Brussels 532 Court erected for rebuilding the City 556 County-troops established 373 Councellors several Privy-Councillors made 584 Covenant first in Scotland what 7. Taken 45. Burnt by the Hangman 498 to 500 Council of State erected 226. New chosen 258 named by Cromwel 343. Supream power named by the Rump 421. A new one appointed 435 Courts of Iustice in Ireland 332 Courts âit in the interval of the Rupture by Lambert 343 Coot Sir Charles defeats the Irish 250 267 305. His Stratagem on Galloway in Ireland for a free Parliament 438. Died 503 Cooper a Minister Executed 278 Corke vide Youghal Cowley Abr. dies 564 Craven Lord his Case 291 365 offered again to the Parliament but deferred by the Protector 392 Crew Dr. Bishop of Durham 599 Crosses demolished 45 Cromwel Lieutenant-General at Marston-moor at Islip 59 74 112 His Conspiracy in seizing the King at Holmby 129. Complements and Courts the King 144. And then abuseth him 147. Awes the Votes of Non-addresses 162. His Politicks on People City and King 163. Collogues the City and Parliament for fear of the Scots 165. Marcheth into Scotland 178. Makes the Scots disband 179. Treacherously surprizeth the Levellers his subtile Clemency 234. Graduated at Oxford ibid. And presented and treated by the City of London 234. Made Lord-Governour of Ireland 237. Lands there ibid. Storms Tredagh his cruelty and policy there Winter-quarter at Youghal 254. Sent for by Letters leaves Ireland and Ireton in
manner of his escape and arrival at Paris 311. Continues there ibid. Interposeth betwixt that King and Princes honoured by the Duke of Lorrain ibid. From Paris to Liege and from the Spaw 363. to Colen 365. At the Duke of Newburg ibid. Privately withdraws upon Penruddock's rising 367. At Frankford 376. An interview with the Queen of Sweden in company with the Princess of Aurange ibid. To Flanders at Bruges 384. False reports spread of him here on designe 377. Honourably treated by the Elector of Mentz ibid. Entertains Forces in Flanders 291. His Title to the Crown annull'd 383. King at Dunkirk 396. In readiness with Forces from Flanders 403. His designe discovered by Manning 367. Privately at Sir George Booth's rising about St. Mâââ's in Britany 426. At St. Jean de Luz ibid. And at Paris Complemented upon the Change by that Court 436. At Brussels thence to Breda 445. Sends his Letters and Declarations ibid. At the Hague 447. Proclaimed ibid. Departs for England 449. Complemented with an Elegant Speech ibid. Embarques and Lands at Dover 450. To Canterbury Rochester Dertford 451. Manner of his entrance into and passage through London ibid. Proclaimed in Ireland by the Convention Crowned 454. His answer to the Earl of Manchester's Speech 453. Passeth many Acts 454. His passage through London to his Coronation 475. Married to the Infanta of Portugal at Portsmouth 506. His Declaration concerning the Act of Vniformity 514. Kings Progress 539. At Oxford ibid. Declares War against France 544. Lays the first Stone at the Exchange 565. Makes peace with Spain 578. Takes a Progress 581. Invites the Dutch into England 585. Makes peace with the Dutch 595. Mediates a peace between France and Spain composeth the difference between the King of France and States of Genoua 600 Kingly power voted useless 226 Kirle a Lieutenant-Colonel betrayeth Monmouth to Massey 64 Knights of the Bath 481 Kniveton Daniel the Kings Messenger-Executed 256 L Lambert Major-General passeth into Fife defeats Sir John Brown there 293 Lambert made General against Sir Geo. Booth his success 425. His reward of a Iewel 427. His policy and use of his Victory ibid. His Cabal with the Officers of his Army against the Rump ibid. Offered Terms from the King by the Lord Hopton 431. Marcheth against General Monke ibid. Would Engage 434. Deserted by his men ibid. Turned off and discarded escapes from the Tower defeated taken by Ingoldsby 441. Ordered to Trial 505. Sentenced 510 Lambs a brave white-coated Regiment of the Marquiss of Newcastle overthrown and destroyed 61 Langdale Lord joyns with Hamilton 1â7 Lane Lord-Keeper dieth at Jersey 270 Laud Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury a zealous Protestant traduced c. 12. And intended to be murthered 12 13. Impeached 17. And voted guilty of High Treason committed to the Tower ibid. Convened before the Lords and after a brave defence Sentenced 69 70. As bravely suffered Beheaded ibid. Col. Laughorn Poyer and Powel rise in Wales 171 Laughorn vide Poyer c. Laws poted to be maintained and preserved by the new States turned into English 287 to be new moulded into another Body 351. Lawson Sir John sent to the Streights 526. Proclaims War with the Algiers ibid. Called home 528 De Lede Spanish Embassador hither 373. Governour of Dunkirk slain there 406 Leeds taken by Fairfax 42 Leicester Earl made Deputy of Ireland 20 Leicester taken â6 Retaken 80 81. Lenthal Mr. John 469 Lesly Scotch General 13. Defeated at Marston-moor 59. Baulked at Hereford 87. Taken and sent Prisoner to Chester 302 Letters sent from the King to the Rump 441 Levellers first 131 Levens Dr. Executed 269 Liberty of Conscience Enacted in England 275 Libberton Lord to the King at Jersey 233. Slain at Dunbar 273 Ligne Prince 455 Lilburn John whipt at Carts Tail for seditious Books 2 Lilburn and Levelling party secured 232. Their History and Actions at Burford 234 Their new Commotions 255. Defeated and their Ring-leaders shot 234 Lilburn Col. Chief Commander in Scotland he defeats the Royalists 355 Lilly's Prognostications 310 Lines and Bulwarks about London alarm'd by the King's march 39 Lindsey Earl General for the King 38. His Son 47 Limerick Siege 304. Surrendered 305 Lisle killed 534 Litchfield besieged and taken 42. Retaken by Prince Rupert 44 Litchfield Earl 424 Littleton Lord Keeper 45 Little or foolish Parliament sit down 349. Their Character and Names 350. Their strange Consultations and Actions 351. Dissolved 353 Lockyer shot to death 233 Lockhart the Rump Embassador at St. Jean de Luz 426 Loans and subscriptions against Scotch War by the Earl Strafford c. all the Nobility and Gentry 11 London proffers their ready service to secure the two Houses their Levies forbidden by the Kings Letters 27. A Plot to surprize it for the King Mr. Waller hardly escaped 47. Engage against the Army and Petition the Parliament 137. Too rashly 138. Tumult the Parliament ibid. Submit to the Army their Lines and Works dismantled Army through it in Triumph 141 Bishop of London attended the King at his death 220 London-Derry relieved by the joynt forces of O Neal and General Monke the ill consequences thereof 239 Longford house surrendred 92 Loudon Lord abuseth the King 120 Lorn Lord pardoned 509 Lords House comply with votes of Non-addresses awed by the Army 165 Lords of the Privy-Council 488 Loathbury sad fire 513 Loughborough Lord 81 97. Escapes 227. Arrives at the Hague ibid. Love Minister Sentenced and Executed 240 Lucas Sir Charles and Sir George Lisle shot to death 179 Lucas Sir Charles and Sir George Lisle reinterred at Colchester 500 Lunsford Lieutenant of the Tower 25 Luzancy assaulted by St. Germain 602 M Macquire and MacMahon seized in Dublin sent Prisoners to the Tower 22. Executed 71 Mace a new one made 235 Maestricht blockt up 584. Surrendered 596 Major-Generals established 378. Their power and awe of Elections c. 382 Mallet Iudge resignes 522 Man Isle reduced 306 Manchester Earl at Marston 58. At Dennington-castle 63. Disbanded 72. His Speech 452. Made Lord-Chamberlain 455. Dies 580 Mannings Treason 365. Shot 368 Mardike taken 396. Attempted by the Spaniard ibid. Marlborough 42. Burnt 343 Mary Princess Married to the Prince of Aurange 18 Marriage Act 351 Marston the Leveller hanged 257 Marsin General 403 Marshals Court in Southwark abolished 291 Maynard Serjeant to the Tower c. 374 Massey Col. 42. Disbanded 112. Heads the Citizens against the Army 139. Impeached 132. Flies into Holland 143. Escapes from the Tower 303. Escapes from St. James's 227 Arrives at the Hague ibid. Worsted and wounded at Upton-bridge 296. Taken 303. Taken and Escaped 424. Mazarine Cardinal joys the Queen-Mother with Cromwel's death 410 Maurice Prince drowned in the West-Indies 337 Members the five the grand cavil of the Rebellion 25. Five Members charged 26 Eleven Members impeached by the Army 132. Fugitive Members sit in Council with the Army 140. Reseated by them 141. Void and null all that was done in their absence 142
of Maritime affairs with the Dutch 566. Extraordinary Embassador in Holland 568 Thurlo Secretary to Oliver 357 Theatre at Oxford finished 573 Tickle Captain Executed for treasonable designe of yielding Kilkenny 250 Tiddiman assails at Bergen 541 Timptallon-castle yielded 283 Tinmouth-castle by Lilburn for the King 179 Tomkins and Challoner Executed 47 Tower-street Powder-blow 25â Traquair Earl Kings Commissâin Scotland 10 Treaty personal voted 180. Sir John Hippesly and Mr. Bulkly sent to the King a prisoner in Carrisbrook-castle 181. Begun and managed 183. So as ended 187. All that subscribed it voted by the Iuncto remaining to be uncapable of bearing Offices 193 Treavor Sir John made Secretary 569 Treavors Col. sides with the Marq. of Ormond engaged at the Siege of London-Derry intercepts Arms going from Monke to O Neal 240 Trial of the Kings Iudges 469 Trump Van defeats Blake in the Downs 330 in triumph to Guernsey Rochel 331 returns 335. Is killed 347. Buried and his Elegie 349 Tumults in Endinburg about the Common-prayer 5. The Bishop of that City in danger of life ib. Excused but recommended in London and at White-hall-gates 25. Encrease and drive away the Court 26. Against the Parliament 138 to 140 Tumults in London against Army and Rump 433 Tunbridge and Red-hill designe 424 Turner tryed and hanged 521 Turk besieges New-hausel 525. Surrendred 526. Defeated 527. Makes peace with the Emperour 533. His Embassadors Secretary turns Christian 548 Tuscany Duke comes into England 569. Gives the King two Gallies 575 V Vane Sir Henry tried beheaded 510 511 Vavasor Sir William goes beyond Sea after Marston-fight 61 Varny Sir Edward slain at Drogheda 244 Vaughan Sir Will. slain at Baggot Rath 242 Vaughan Sir John Lord Chief-Iustice 568 Ven a Colonel at Windsor 39 Venables General 369 St. Venant taken 396 Venetian Embassador in England 569 Venner's Insurrection and Trial and Execution 505 510 511 Vernon Sir Ralph 367 Vicariat of the Empire 397 Vieuville a French Marquiss slain 50 These are y e cheife of them that came to David to Ziklag and they were among y e mighty men helpers of the Warr. Croâ 1.12.2 * We doubt not to evince to your Majesty that his Excellency and the Army under his Command c. have complied with the Obligations for which they were raised The Preservation of the Protestant Religion the honour and happiness of the King the Priviledges of Parliament the Liberty and Propriety of the Subject and the Fundamental Laws of the Land Vide Declaration of the Army May 1660. Distractions and Confusions about Church-Ceremonies In a Conference about them justified by K. James Fresh Commotions about them raised by Pryn Bastwick Burton and Lilburn All Pillori'd and Crop'd Pryn stigmatized they are fined and imprisoned Lilburn whipt at Carts tail Bishop Williams fined 10000 l. Troubles break out in Scotland England and Scotland United Scotland well setled Endeavours for conformitie in Discipline Articles of Perth Common-Prayer endeavoured to be introduced in Scotland The Kings Revocation cause of Tumults Laid upon the Bishop Commission of Superioritie and Tythes Honours and Titles adde to the Troubles Libels tax the Parliament Libeller fled Balmerino apprehended Strange Tumult abâut reading Common-Prayer The Rabble continued their madness Proclamation against them Magistrates profess a detestation but soon joyned with them Ministers recant reading Service Petition against it and thereby endanger insurrection Proclamation to depart the City removing Term and seizing a Libel Another Insurrection Bishop of Galloway in danger Traquair and Wigton came to his relief with no less danger They send to the Provost and Bailiffs of Edinburgh for relief who were as bad or worse used A Conference but in vain Traquair troden down Another Proclamation against unlawful Assemblies but not regarded The Rabble petition Their petition sent to the King who by Proclamation resents the affronts of his chief Ministers Hume and Lindsey justifie the matter Four Tables A Covenant resolved on The King highly incensed thereat Hamilton sent unto Scotland They slight him and strengthen themselves Term returned to Edinburgh By Declaration Service and Canons dispensed with The Covenanters protest against it Hamilton having given the King an account of affairs is sent againâ and enters a Treaty He returns to England hath power given him to satisfie the Scots if possible The Assembly at Glasgow Bishops excluded They protest against it They continue fitting notwithstanding a Proclamation to dissolve them Arguile owns the Covenanters The Scots arm Queen-Mother arrives The Scots have a competent Army The King raists an Army Arundel General-Hamilton commands the Fleet. A Declaration by the King The Assembly answers The Earls of Roxborough and Traquair Commissioners from the Covenanters Committed and released A Treaty began and soon ended The Parliament of Scotland proregued The Assembly abolish Episcâpacie Their Parlialiament adjourned They send the Earl of Dumfermling and Lord Loudon with a Remonstrance Loudon committed and released The P. Elector Palatine came into England Departed and taken by the French Released and returning ânto England was allowed 8000 l. per annum A Sea-fight between the Flemings and the Spaniards The Hollanders worsted But in conclusion become Victors An ill Omen Lord Estrich Col. Ruthen and others sent to repair Edenburgh Castle they were resisted by the Covenanters The Nobility Gentry and Clergy assist the King with mony for the carrying on of the War Supplies from Ireland Lord Keeper Coventry dieth Succeeded by Sir John Finch A Parliament summoned They favour the Scots Are backward in assisting the King with mony Are dissolved The Convocation of the Clergy sit and assist the King with mony They make new Canons in opposition to Popery and the the Scotch Covenant Bishop Goodman dissents And is admonished by A. B. Laud. Tot said A. B. Libelled and his house assaulted Some of the factioâ imprisoned and rescued Bensted a Seaman hanged The Scotch Army advance towards England Henry Duke of Glocester bâân The Earl of Northumberland General of the Kings Army Earl of Strafford Lieut. General The King comes to Northallerton Newborn sight Aug. 29. Gen. Lesley Earl of Leven engageth with the Lord Conway and âââeats him Sir Jacob Ashley deserts Newcastle that and Durham render themselves to Gen. Lesley The Earl of Stafford complains of the Lord Conway The Earl of Haddington the Scots M. G. with 20 Knights and Gentlemen slain at Dunglass The Scots proclaimed Traytors and the Kings Royal Standard set up at York The Scots petition the King and are answered by the Earl of Lanerick The Lords of England summoned to appear at York They agree to call a Parliament A Treaty of peace at Rippon The English insist on a Cessation The Scots refuse and propound 4 Praeliminaries The Earl of Strafford adviseth the King to fight them But in conclusion These Articles were agreed on The Parliament set they question several Bishops and Iudges and vote down Monopolies Mr. pym sent from the Commons to the Lords with an