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
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 steâ—p 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 Hâ—mpton 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 oâ—ten 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 â—ight having possession of the Field dead and of 300 Arms and nine barrels of Powder leâ—t 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
had faced Petworth and entred Midhurst and at last was clapt down before Aundel-castle the extremest parts of Sussex whose shore before we leave we must conjoyn a short account of the Isle of Iersey which by Sir Peter Osburn was now delivered to Sir Iohn Pennington still Vice-Admiral for the King in the narrow Seas in exchange of which good fortune the Garrison of Pool had received a very great success in an Expedition into the Country and the Earl of Warwick had joyned at Warcham with Col. Earl upon a designe against Câ—rf-castle but that succeeded not Monsieur le Prince de Harcourt came hither a while before as Ambassador Extraordinary to offer the French Kings interposition and arbitrement of the differences between King and Parliament and was convoyed and splendidly received at Oxford but his Coach and Pacquet searched as he passed the London-Fortifications which he highly complained of to the Parliament who to evade his Peace-making errand would not own him as an Ambassador Extraordinary He was followed upon the same account to Oxford whence he went and came twice with a Duch Ambassador but all to no purpose For the Parliament had now two fresh Armies asoot raised by the City and a third the Scots now upon their march though a little before they earnestly beâ—ought an Accommodation It is time here to remember other memorable things which happened a little before the first was that of the two Hothams Sir Iohn and his Son these persons eminent more especially the Father for adherence to the Parliament having first of all men denied the King admittance into his Towns and Magazines by putting themselves into Hull and keeping it by vertue of a power from the Lords and Commons now either touched in conscience for the unlawfulness and the undutifulness of that action or else not so highly regarded and considered as that important and leading piece of service might justly challenge from the Parliament the Queen being also newly arrived in those parts who probably might have dealt with Sir Iohn in the matter he began to falter from that firmness he had professed for the Parliament which being guessed at by some strict observers of him he not being reserved enough in a thing of that consequence a party was made against him in his own Garrison and he too late endeavouring to have secured Hull for the King was in the bustle knockt down in the streets secured with his Son and both sent up prisoners to the Tower whence not long after they were brought to tryal and execution At the same time also returned Sir Hugh Cholmly a Member likewise of the House of Commons and who had secured Scarborough for them which as before was afterwards put into the Kings hands by Brown Bushel The other thing remarkable was the death of Mr. Iohn Pym the great stickler against the King and his Prerogative the Speech-maker of the House of Commons that could wiredraw money with every word he uttered to the City He died when the Kingdom was in a flame which he had chiefly blown up not likely to be extinguished Nothing is reported of his end certainly and though there was a fable of his body being full of Lice sure we may be it was full of worms afterward and let judgment be left to God whether he engaged in the Times and Quarrel out of a misguided or a reclaiming Conscience Insert we here also as matters of State not War that upon the carrying the Great Seal to Oxford by the Lord Keeper Littleton a new great Seal was made by the Parliament which the King declared to be treasonable and soon after sent a Messenger to London one Daniel Kniveton to forbid the holding of the Term by any colour of the said Seal and did therewith adjourn the said Term but the Parliament were so far from giving heed to that Message of the Kings which was according to his duty delivered to the Judges in Westminster hall by the said Kniveton that by a Council of War held at Essex-House they sentenced him to be hanged for a Spy which was accordingly executed upon him at the old Exchange London on 27 November Add we also that in February the King convened the Members of both Houses who had deserted them at Westminster as a Parliament in Oxford They met in the Schools accordingly and proceeded to several Consultations but within a year totally disappeared To conclude this year with Military affairs in Ianuary the Scotch Forces according to compact entred England with a well-accomplisht Army and in February cross'd Tine And to sum up the rendition of places on both sides take this account Scarborough Brimingham Litchfield Howley-house Burton upon Trent Bradford Hallifax Bristol Gainsborough Dorchester Portland Weymouth Melcomb Beverly Bidiford Appleford Barnstable Exeter Dartmouth Howarden-Castle Arundel-Castle taken by the Lord Hopton Beeston-Castle Lapley-House Crew-House Hopton-Castle Warder-Castle regained Sturton-Castle and Newark relieved for the King where Prince Rupert gained a compleat victory against Sir Iohn Meldrum who commanded there with 7000 men against the Town The Parliamentarians were beaten from their entrenchments into a House called the Spittle or Exeter-House where they came to a surrender upon capitulation leaving their Arms and Bag and Bagage behind them and a thousand men slain on their side Reading Wardour-Castle Monmouth Taunton and Bridge-Water Tamworth-Castle Burley-House Glocester relieved Lyn yeilded to the Earl of Manchester Grafton-House and Arundel-House taken by Sir William Waller again being again recruited with a fresh Army and a new Commission given him to be a Major-General of the four Counties of Kent Surry Sussex and Hamp-shire which leads this Chronicle next to some remarkable actions of his which were much in expectation in the ensuing year Anno Dom. 1644. SIr William Waller after his reducement of Arundel-Castle Marched to find out the Lord Hopton to cry quits with him for his defeat at Roundway-Down Both Armies were near one another a good space for his Lordship hovered about Winchester and those parts and at Brandon-Heath near Alsford was drawn up having a little before in his intended March to the relief of Arundel beaten Colonel Norton into Chichester who endeavoured to impede him and stood ready to receive Sir William who had taken the advantage of a Hill from which the Royalists with fury beat him and drove him to another where under the shelter of some Bushes and Trees he so galled the Kings Horse that they were forced in some disorder to retreat to their Foot There was a hollow betwixt both bodies which each endeavouring to gain many men found it for their Graves on both sides The Lord Hopton therefore seeing the slaughter that was made and likely to continue upon his men timely drew off his Artillery and Cannon towards Winchester and then wheeling about Marched for Basing and so presently to Oxford In this fight was killed on the Kings
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
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 Salâ—ant 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 â—etcht 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
to them The King is assisted by the Yorkshire Gentry The Lâ—â—doâ—â—rs affect the Parliament The King writes to the Lord Mayor Court of Aldermen they pâ—rsist 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 â—â—â—â—iament borâ—â—w money oâ—â—he publick Faith The King 〈…〉 for 〈◊〉 peace Several fâ—â—tious rumours raised against the Kings friends The London Miniâ—ters 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 Impeaâ—hed of High Treason by the Parliament Sir John Byron worsted by the Parliament-Forces and declared Rebel He marcheth to Worcester and takâ—s it for the King The Marquess of Hertford L. G. of the West for the King The King attempts Hull with 〈◊〉 and sâ—ts 〈◊〉 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 Hâ—râ—e 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 fâ—ot 3000 hoâ—â— and â—â—ar 2000 Dragooners He marcheth 〈◊〉 oâ— Coventry The Londoners 〈…〉 Câ—l Ven governs Windsor Castle for the Parliament where Barksted commands 〈◊〉 The Parliament 〈…〉 of the Counties Fortsmouth and Southsea Castle taken for the Parliament by Sir John Merrick Goring goes to France A smart skirmiâ—h 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 Wâ—â—g of the Horse The Lord Wilmot Commands the left â—ing 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 Fieldâ—ng Prince Rupert ovâ—rthrows 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 Parliamâ—nt The King mâ—re 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 aâ—d â—ummonâ—d iâ— the Eaâ—l of Northampton March 19. Tâ—e 〈…〉 by Brereton and Gell Hopton-Heath Fight Tâ—e Earl of Northampton state â—itchfield 〈◊〉 to Prince Rupert Grantham taken for the K. by Colonel Cavendish Marlborough for the Parliament Prince â—upert at Brimingham A slight skirmish The Earl of Denbigh slain Scarborough delivered by Capt. Brown Bushel for which he was beheaded Fairfax dâ—feated 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 Covâ—nant 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 â—lies with the Great Seal to Oxford a new one voted Sir R. Hopton marcheth into Devon-shire against the E. oâ— Samford and Ma. Gâ—â— 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 Coloâ—â—l John Fiennes Wardour Castle taken for thâ— Parliament and a whâ—le after retaken by Sir Francis Dorrington Sir William Waller Garrisons Taunton and Bridg-Water for the Parliament Hopton joyns with Prince Maurice aâ—d Marq. of Hartford Landsdown fight Sir Bevil Greenvil and Sir Nicholas Slanning advance towards Sir William Waller Thâ—y are disordered Maâ—or Lowre and Sir Bevil Greenvil slain Lord Hopton hurt Divers others slain Lord Hopton
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 Aâ—â—esments 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
Kings Forces under the Marquess of Newcastle at Wakefield and buoyed up the sinking interest of that Cause Monmouth likewise was taken by the Parliaments Forces under the command of Sir William Waller who also took Hereford and other places This in sum more particularly now Of the West where the Kings interest bore the greatest sway we have hitherto said little It will be now time to turn that way and see from what beginnings the War arose in that quarter where for the most part its principal events and concerns were placed Two Proclamations were about this time published one from the Earl of Cumberland the other from the Earl of Newcastle whereby Ferdinando Lord Fairfax Sir Thomas Fairfax Sir Matthew Bointon Sir Edward Loftus Sir Henry Forbes Sir Thomas Malleverer Sir Richard Darby Sir Christopher Wray Sir Henry Anderson Sir Iohn Savil Sir Edward Rodes Sir Hugh Cholmley Sir Thomas Rennington Sir Thomas Norcliffe and others were declared Traytors which the Parliament retaliate upon the Earls in like manner The menage of the Military matters there were on the Kings part as to the remote Counties of Cornwal and Devon shire after the Retreat of the Marquess of Hertford Lieutenant-General of the Western Association with Sir Lewis Dives out of Sherburn where they were besieged by the Earl of Bedford but in vain in Dorcester-shire was committed to four eminent persons viz. the Lord Mohun Sir Ralph Hopton Colonel Ashburnham and Sir Iohn Barkley by whose joynt Counsels and Forces levyed by their respective Friends and Interests an Army was framed to oppose the Earl of Stamford then coming down from Glocester where he first was made Governour as Lord-Lieutenant joyntly with the Lord Roberts of the same County to settle the Militia for the Parliament having a Commission therefore according to that Ordinance which service was well advanced At the approach of this enemy near Liskard it was taken into consideration to whom the alone charge and ordering of the Battel should be intrusted for four would breed distraction whereupon the business of the day was deservedly devolved upon Sir Ralph Hopton who had been an old Souldier in the Low-Countries and yet before the War had been taken for a Puritan and a Commonwealths-man against the Prerogative he was desired by them all as hitherto they had prevented any such division by an equal moderation to take it upon him After therefore he had commanded publique prayers in the head of every Squadron which was performed he drew up the Foot in the best Order he could placing a Forlorn of Musqueteers in the little enclosures and then winged them with the Horse and Dragoons he had This done two Minion small Drakes being fetched from the Lord Mohuns house were planted within random-shot of the enemy concealed by the Horse from them which were discharged with such success that the enemy quickly quitted their ground and in a rout fled on which the Royalists did sparing execution There were taken 1250 prisoners most of their Colours all their Canon Arms and Ammunition and so the Victor-Army came that night to Liskard Salt-Ash was assaulted and forced by Sir Ralph Hopton where he took ten pieces of Ordnance 700 more Prisoners 400 Arms and a Ship with 16 pieces of Ordnance Litchfield was no sooner delivered to the Parliamentarians but Spencer the valiant Earl of Northampton comes and besieges it again for the King and summons the Governour Lieutenant-Colonel Russel to deliver it to him he refuseth and in the interim Sir Wiliam Brereton and Sir Iohn Gell advance to his relief with 3000 men and upwards against these the Earl draws off a Party from the Leaguer and at Hopton-Heath on a ground full of Cony-boroughs which afforded ill footing for Horse of which the Earls Forces chiefly consisted Charges the Parliamentarians where at last he obtained a Victory with the price of his life a dear bargain for the King and his Cause of which he was a most magnanimous Assertor he was first unhors'd whether by the disadvantage of the Ground or born down by the Enemies is uncertain he refused quarter and was killed by a private unlucky hand His Forces returned afresh to the Siege where soon after they were seconded by Prince Rupert who having coasted the Country from his summons of Glocester into Wales returned back by Litchfield where he so powerfully carried on the Siege that the stout Governour was compelled to hearken to his Terms and surrender that place which continued for the King throughout the War the price it cost being well worth and requiring the safe keeping of the Jewel The rendition was the 16 day of April I would not disjoyn the story for the years sake Colonel Charles Cavendish reduced Grantham to the Kings obedience taking 350 Prisoners with Officers and Colours and then demolished the Fortifications the like fortune had the Parliamentarians in recovering Marlborough from the King which was regained by them but soon after as not tenable was slighted by all parties Anno Dom. 1643. THis year began with the smart actions as before of Prince Rupert who on the third of April entred and Mastered Brimingham Town the residence of a famed Lecturer Some Welchmen were here got together for the Parliament where they made some little defence but were soon beaten up to their Barricadoes which they forsook likewise and fled betwixt 150 killed and taken some good Ammunition but all not worth the life of that stout old Earl of Denbigh who was here killed in the Service of his Soveraign Next ensued a revolt of a notable place in the North to the King as the year before began with a notable revolt of Hull to the Parliament such another parallax was throughout the War in the Western and Northern Battels if one had the better in the West at the same time the other had it in the North. Now Scarborough was delivered to the King by the means of one Captain Brown Bushel who long afterwards paid for it with his head at Tower-hill The Lord Fairfax who commanded in chief for the Parliament in the North after several Velitations and Skirmishes betwixt him and the Earls of Newcastle and Cumberland Generals for the King who had declared this Lord and his Adherents Traytors was overthrown at Bramham-Moor and the Parliaments Cause through this and other losses in those parts greatly endangered whereupon the Scots were hastily sollicited to come into the aid of their English brethren as we shall see at large hereafter Now the Parliament flew high in their consultations at home the Grandees working upon the sober part of the Parliament that the action of the Queen in bringing over Arms Money and other provisions for the assistance of the King was a dangerous destructive business wound up the anger of the two Houses to such a pitch that she was proclaimed Traytor and at the same time down went all the Crosses
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 procâ—eded 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
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 Châ—pstow-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 condâ—mned 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
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 â—o 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 Gothâ—ridge 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 Râ—tlâ—ndshire-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 ignoâ—e 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 ‖ are those that fled the Kingdome upon His Majesties Return ‑ 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 ‑ 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 ‑ 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 ‑ 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 ‑ 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 ‑ 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 ‑ 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 ‑ 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 ‑ 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 ‑ 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 ‑ 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 impâ—rfect Compâ—â—â—es 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 â—ooting 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 thâ—iâ— 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 Wilâ—iam 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 Parliameâ—ts 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 tâ—â—med 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 Exchâ—quer 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 foâ—lowing 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
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 â—or 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 hâ—s 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
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 deviâ—e 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 Axâ—el 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 Proclamatiâ—n came out at this time against Mr. Mordant the Earl of Litchfield â—â—jor-Genâ—ral Brown Sir William Compton Sir Thomas Leventhorpe and Mr. Faâ—shaw 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 falâ—â—â—g 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. Hunâ—ks 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 â—our 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
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 Thâ—scan 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 Fiâ—e the number of persons Eight Between that and Ludgaâ—e 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 Dâ—ke 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 Fredâ—rick 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 Lewkâ—or 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 revâ—â—â—â—â—â— and heard Divine Service and took the usual Oath before the said Lords â—ommissioners which was read to them by Sir Edward Walker Principal King oâ— Arms in these words Right dear Brâ—â—her GReat Woâ—shâ—p be this Order to every of you You shall Honour God above all things â—ut shall be stedfast in the Faith of Christ and the same maintain and defend tâ— yâ—ur Power You shall love your Soveraign above all earthly things and for yâ—uâ— 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 sâ—me 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 Mâ—gnificences 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
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
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 Sâ—as 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-Jusâ—ice 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
with him hasts to the St. George and puts up the Flag which when the Earl of Ossory saw who had in the mean time brought new Foresails to his Yards he sent Norborough to tell him that if he would he would set upon Tromp and board him if he had assistance Sprague praises his resolution bids him go on and he would immediately be with him But his suddain death was the loss of a Noble Designe For he had not been long aboard the St. George when through the loss of her Main-mast he was forc'd to forsake her too and as he was going aboard the Royal Charles the Boat being shatter'd to pieces by an accidental shot he was himself drown'd in the Ocean over which he had so often Triumph'd After Sprague's ship had lost her Masts Tromp confident of carrying her bore up briskly and gave her a Broad-side and brought up two Fire-ships but all in vain for as he pass'd by he was so severely gall'd by the Earl of Ossory that he had hardly time to discharge six of his own Guns Neither did the Earl of Ossory leave the Flag-ship till he saw her tow'd off by the Hampshire Tromp sufficiently wearied having got his Squadron together at first retir'd but when he saw De Ruyter coming toward him he stay'd By and by the Prince was to be discern'd a far off with his Squadron who had born the brunt of the Zealand-Squadron and De Ruyter all the day for the French having gain'd the Wind in the beginning of the Fight never came in but at two of the clock the Prince and De Ruyter as it were by consent seem'd to leave off for both being sollicitous for the rest of their Fleets whom they saw afar off sail'd peaceably and directed their course toward their Friends though all the while within Cannon-shot But now De Ruyter being joyn'd with his own falls upon the Blue endeavouring to separate that Squadron from the Prince but in vain the Prince making all haste to come in and the other seasonably joyning with him Then began a most sharp dispute on both sides at what time the Prince sending two Fire-ships guarded by Captain Leg upon the Enemy put them into such a confusion that had the French then come in being as they were Masters of the Wind the Dispute with the Dutch concerning the Dominion of the Sea had certainly been at an end The Dutch lost two Flag-Officers several Captains and about 1000 Common Seamen Among the English Sprague was much lamented Captain Neve was slain Reeves and Heywood died of their Wounds Of the French but one Commander slain The loss of Common English Seamen was not so great being chiefly in the Earl of Ossory's and Sir Edward Sprague's ships About the middle of Iune the Lord Clifford of Chudleigh resign'd his Staff as Lord-Treasurer into the King's hands and Sir Thomas Osborn created Viscount Osborn of Dumblaine in Scotland and afterwards Earl of Danby in England was made Lord-Treasurer in his room Upon the 10 th of October the Parliament meeting according to their last Adjournment were Prorogu'd by Commission till the 27 th of the same Moneth then meeting again they were prorogu'd till the seventh of Ianuary following After which the King having taken the Great Seal from the Earl of Shaftsbury gave it to his Attorney-General Sir Heneage Finch afterwards created Lord Daventry in the County of Northampton Soon after His Majesty was pleas'd to call before him in Council the two Lord Chief-Justices and the Lord Chief-Baron commanding them to consider of the most effectual means for putting the Laws in Execution for preventing the growth of Popery and at the same time ordered that no Roman-Catholick or so reputed should presume after the 18 th of November to come into his presence to his Palace or where his Court should be and the Lord-Steward and Lord-Chamberlain of the Houshold were ordered to see the same effectually put in execution And by further Order a little after forbid them to come neer St. Iames's House or into the Park Immediately after in pursuance of his Gracious Assurance to both Houses of Parliament His Majesty issued out his Royal Proclamation to the same effect further requiring the Judges and all Justices of the Peace to take effectual care for the prosecution of all Papists and Popish Recusants according to the Laws and Statutes of the Realm About the latter end of November the Dutchess of Modena arriving at Dover in order to her Intermarriage with his Royal Highness the Duke of York was there met by the Duke and some few days after coming from Gravesend to London by Water was by his Majesty and divers of the Nobility met in Barges upon the River and so conducted to White-hall where after her Royal Highness had been received in the most obliging and kinde manner by her Majesty she was conducted to St. Iames's Within few days after their Royal Highnesses gave Audience to the French Portugal Swedish and Danish Embassadors as likewise to the Residents of Venice and Newburgh who all went to Complement them upon their late Marriage About this time his Majesty the great numbers of extraordinary Servants that had been sworn and admitted into his Service who making use of the Protections they receiv'd thereby did obstruct the due course of Law issued forth an Order in Council whereby all persons that did not by vertue of their Places receive Fee Wages Salary Diet or Board-wages should be absolutely disabled from making use of any Protection whatsoever for the future to save them from the prosecution of their Creditors From Tangier came Intelligence that the Earl of Middleton Governour understanding the defeat and death of Gayland and the great success of Muly Ishmael in those parts and having receiv'd a kinde Letter from the said Muly Ishmael purporting his great desire to be in Amity with the Governour and a proposition of sending Commissioners to treat with him accordingly appointed Major White Alderman Read and Mr. Wollaston for that purpose with full power and Instructions to conclude a Peace and Treaty of Commerce and particularly for the Redemption of the Captives in Sally wherein the Earl doubted not the same success as he had had with Gayland above a year before with whom he had made so firm a Peace that the Moors and Inhabitants of Tangier convers'd together as if they had been one Nation Notwithstanding the vigour and fury of the War yet neither in the height of this years Preparation nor Action were the thoughts of Peace laid aside but rather all endeavours tending thereto vigorously pursued To this purpose a Treaty was concluded on between the King of England and the Dutch whereat the Allies of both Parties were to be present The place accepted of by the King of England was Cologne whither by the middle of Summer and some before came all the Plenipotentiaries of the several Confederates For the King of Great Britain Sir Ioseph Williamson and Sir
〈…〉 and Lambert fall out 428. Vote away Lambert's and eight more Field-commission Officers ib. Outed by Lambert 429. Reseated 43 〈…〉 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 â—37 General at Sea 550. Divides 〈…〉 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 Dâ—â—ns and Chapters Lands and Houses 256. Of Kings Houses agreed on but avoyded by Cromwel â—â—â— Salisbury River begun to be made 〈…〉 â—â—â— Sanzeime Battle 600 Salmasius his Royâ—l 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 sâ—veral 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 deâ—th 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
surrounded by Waller Round-way Down fight Lord Hopton reâ—â—â—ed by Pr. Maurice Earl of Carnarvan Lord Wilmot and Lord Biron They roâ—t Waller and Hazlerig who fled to Bristol thence to Farnham and so to London The King and Queen at Oxford The young E. of Lindsey at Oxford Bristol delivered to Prince Rupert Dorchester Portland Weymouth and Melcomb submit Bidiford Appleford and Barnstable surrendred Exeter delivered to Prince Maurice Sir John Berkly Governour thereof Adderton-Heath fight Fairfax routed Bradford taken Hallifax quitted Sir H. Cholmley takes Beverley Lady Aubigney brings a Commission of Array to London The designe discovered Mr. Edward Waller fined 10000 pounds Some Lords others suspected Tompkins Chaloner executed Iudge Berkley fined voted incapable of any publike trust and a Prisoner during pleasure The King resolves to gain Glocester The Kings Gratious Summons to the said City Their equivocal Answer Col. Massey the Governour fired the Suburbs and forceth Prince Rupert to retreat The King undermines Glocester The Parliament raise the Trained Bands Waller constituted Major-Gen of Kent Essex Surrey and Hamp-shire Essex Renâ—â—vouzed on Hounsloe-heath lodged at Colebrook P. Rupert with a party of Horse iâ—deavours to impede his march Tâ—e fight in Stow of the Would Gen. Essex at Presbury-hills the siege of Glocester deserted Gen. Essex at Cheltenham Solemn thanks for the dâ—livery of Glocester bâ—th there and at London The King neer Wilt-shire Essex reâ—â—â—ves Tewskbury Glocester 〈…〉 Sir N. Crisp and Col. Spencer and takes Cyreâ—cester Auborn-chase fâ—â—t The Parliamentarians worsâ—ed Marq. De Vieu ville slain Essex marcheth from Hungerford to Newberry Newberry fight Col. Barcley and Col. Holborn charge P. Rupert E. of Carnarvan slain Prince Rupert worsted The Kings Infantry led by Lord Ruthen Earl of Brentford Major-General Skippon principal Commander of the Foot under Essex Both Armies divided by the night Col. Tucker on the Parl. side slain On the K. side the E. of Sunderland and Lord Viscount Faulkland Essex at â—eading 〈…〉 A dâ—â—l between Sir Nicholas Crispe and Sir James Enyon Sir James Enyon kill'd Sir Nicholas Crispe â—ryeâ— by a Council of War and acquitted He kisseth the Kingshand and is pardoned Doctor Featley committed to prison for opposing the Covenant He is received at London in Triumph The King at Oxford The K. committeth Ma. Hamilton to Pendennis Castle A Cessation for a year in Ireland Col. Monk surprized at Nantwich and imprisoned in the Tower of London Mar. of Newcastle sends Forces to the Queen divers places submit to them Hallifax quitted by Fairfax Manchester sent against the Royalists Lyn yeilds to him He Marcheth to assist the L. Willoughby of Parham L. Willohgby surprizeth the Earl of Kingston Col. Cavendish slain Horn-castle fight The E. of Newcastle â—orsted Sir Ingram Hopton and Sir George Bowls slain Manchester besiegeth Lincoln Lincoln City and Minster stormed and taken Sir Iohn Meldrum possesseth Gainsborough Ld. Willoughby possesseth Bullingbrook Castle The King sends Sir Lewis Dives into the Associated Counties He takes Sir Iohn Norris Affrights Hartford-shire and Bedfordshire and returns Sir Lewis Dives Sir Rob. Heath Iustice Forster Sir John Banks and Serjeant Glanvile voted Traytors The Kentish Insurrection in behalf of the K. Lord Hopton marcheth into Kent Essex and Waller recruited Col. Fiennes condemned for Cowardize Essex possesseth it Newport-pagnal abandoned Walter apprinted to attend Hopton Isle of Jersey delivered to Sir John Pennington The French Ambassador splendidly received at Oxford Sir John Hothams revolt and seizure He and his Son sent Prisoners to the Tower Mr. Pym dyes A new great Seal The King declares it treason sends a Messenger to adjourn the Term He is condemned for a spy and hanged The Parliament at Oxford The Scots enter England Divers places surrendred on both sides Prince Rupert relieves Newark and overcomes Sir John Meldrum Brandon or Cheriton-down fight between Sir Wil. Waller and the Lord Hopton March 29. The Kings party worsted Lord Hopton draws off to Winchester from thence to Oxford John L. Stuart Sir John Smith Col. Sandys Col. Scot and Col. Manning slain The Dutch Ambassador at Oxford Sir Charles Blunt slain Essex and Waller joyn Queen goes to Exeter Abbington plundered and Garrison'd Col. Brown Governor thereof The K. marcheth to Worcester The Parl. divide their Forces Waller sent a King-catching and Essex into the West Prince Rupert sent to York Corpredy fight Waller sets upon the K. is gallantry received by the Earls of Cleaveland Northampton and put to flight The Princess Henrietta born at Exeter the Queen goes to France The E. of Essex defeated at Lestithiel Marq. of Newcastle Besieged in York by the E. of Manchester Lord Fairfax and Lesly Prince Rupert raiseth the Siege of Latham house takes divers places The Siege of York raâ—â—d Marston-Moor fight Prince Rupert commands the Main Battel Marq. of Newcastle one Wing General Goring Sir Charles Lucas and Major-General Porter several parties The Parliaments Horse Scotch Cavalry routed The Victory dubious in other parts where the E. of Manchesters Horse engaged Cromwel his Lieut. Gen. a most indefatigable Souldier Sir Tho. Barker Sir John Pettus Capt. Allen c. imprisoned An account of Oliver Cromwels life Born of an ancient Family at Huntington Married to Elizabeth the Niece of Sir Rob. Steward who settled on him an Estate after he had consumed his Patrimony and intended for New-England Sir Robert Steward declares O. C. his Heir Cromwel gets into favour with the Faction they procure him to wife Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir James Bòwcher and choose him Burgess for Cambridge The Marq. of Newcastle defeated His Lambs excellent Souldiers They are overpowred and destroyed P. Rupert fled to Thursk c. The Parl. Generals march to the Siege at York from whence they rose to fight The loss of men so great on both sides that the Inhabitants were poysoned with the smell of the Dead bodies Marq. Newcastle L. Widrington Gen. King Sir Wil. Vavasor and others pass over to Hamburgh Slain on the K. side the L. Cary and Sir Tho. Metham On the Parl. side the Lord Diddup York yielded by Sir Thomas Glenham The Parliament raise new Lâ—vies A strange Tax laid upon London Easingâ—house besieged by Sir Wil. Waller And relieved by Col. Gage and Col. Sir G. Buncley The besiegers at Last depart The siege of Dennington-Castle The summons by Col. Middleton The Answer from Sir John Boys the Governour The besiegers assault the Castle come off with loss and depart They are met by Sir Francis Dorrington Sir W. Courtney and worsted They afterwards rout a party of the K. Horse neer Sherburn Dennington-castle again Summoned by Col. Horton Manchester comes to his assistance They batter the Castle but in vain they depart The defacing of Churches in City and Country Sir R. Harloe a forward zealot The King sends a Message for peace An Association of Club-men Banbury Siege raised The Earl of Northampton and Col. Gage the Governour of
Oxford relieve Banbury The Siege raised Col. Myn sâ—ain iâ— Glocestershâ—re and the Royalists worsted by Masâ—ey Who bestowed an honoâ—rable burial on the saiâ— Câ—lonâ—l Princâ— Rupert at the Severn where hapnâ—d daily Skirâ—â—â—hes He is worsted by Massey Monmouth bâ—â—â—aâ—â—d to Massey by Lieutenant-Coâ— Kirle Col Holtby Goverâ—our thereof escapes Massey active and vigilant Newberry second fight Octob. 27. Manchester's forces over-powered the Kings but are repâ—lied 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 tâ—â—â— Newcastle Plunder it Soâ—â—m thanks at London for their success Sir Alexander Carew beheaâ—ed fâ—â— endâ—avouring 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 Meâ—itations The Assembly of Divines consult about Church-Government The Covenaâ—t prest to be universally takâ—â— The Commâ—n-Prayer abolished Sir David Hawkins a zealous stickler for the Parliament Archbishop of Canterbury bâ—headâ—d Vide Speechâ—s Buried at Alhallows Barking London Sir Henry Gage Câ—l for the King shot neer Abingdon Uxbridge Trâ—aty 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 maâ—ch 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 Nâ—bility 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 sâ—nt 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
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 notaâ—â—â— 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 worsâ—eth 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 fâ—â— 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 Câ—nvoy 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 Surrendâ—ed 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 dâ—serted 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 baâ—rels 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 Thâ—â— take shipping at Plymouth Lord Hopton and Wentworth sail into Scilly Abingdon attempted by Sir Stephen Hawkins Ashby deâ—la-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 taâ—â—â— 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. Tâ—e King disguised comâ—s 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 〈◊〉 by the Lord Digby and for a while 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Maâ—esties 〈◊〉 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 câ—mâ—s before Oxford he summons a Council of War raiseth a great Fort neer the Town Sir Thomas Glemham Govâ—râ—â—â—r of Oxford Carlile â—ieâ—led to the Scâ—ts 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 〈◊〉 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 tendâ—r 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 〈◊〉 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 Delinqâ—ents 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 Iâ—pâ—aâ—hed 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 impriâ—oâ—â—d 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 Câ—aracters 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 〈…〉 Isaac Ewer of 〈…〉 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 saâ—e 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 â—â—tertains 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 â—â—hale 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 â—urrendered upoâ— Articles The English possess Dunkirk Cromwel dies Sep. 3. Cromwel senseless before his death His Character Richard 's Adviâ—â— and Coâ—â—sellors Richard Proclaimed 〈◊〉 Sworn French Cardinal â—oys 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 Gâ—â— 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 Commiâ—sioners 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 arâ—ives at White-hall The brief relation of the turn and chaâ—ge by Gen. Monck in iâ—s 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
Address 〈◊〉 suppressing 〈◊〉 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 â—â—prisoned 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 Tâ—eat 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 Munmoâ—th 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 Râ—gâ—nt Earl of Carlisle sent into Sweden King of Sweden presented with the Garter Earl of Winchelsey returns Theater at Oxford fâ—nished 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 fâ—â—ish'd Pâ—â—â— 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 â—ent into Holland A Marine Treaty between the King and the Uâ—ited 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 fâ—red River by Salisbury began to be made Navigable Parl. meets Proclamation against St. Germain the Iâ—suite Hurricane at Bardoes Jamaica fâ—ourishes
of General Lesly Earl of Leven an old Souldier in the Swedish Wars better armed intelligenced and provided than the last year on the 27th of August Lesly desired leave of my Lord Conway for his whole Army to pass to the King with their Petition which he as before avowed to be the honesâ—est loyallest and innocent thing in the World but was refused and stopped Thereupon three hundred Scotch Horse attempted to cross the River and were therein repelled by the shot of the English Musquetiers who were placed under the shelter of a Breast-work This was no sooner done but the Scots with nine pieces of Ordinance which they had placed on the side of the River and blinded them with bushes plaid upon those breast-works which so affrighted the English Infantry being raw Souldiers and not used to the noise and execution of Canon that they presently forsook their Posts cast down their Arms and fled Instantly the Scotch Horse with their General himself advanced but were handsomely welcomed by Commissary-General Wilmot who with the Cavalry which consisted mostly of Gentlemen very stoutly stood to it till they were over-born by number and galled with great Bullets and so forced into a disorderly retreat Here were slain two or three Gentlemen of Quality among which was Cornet Porter Son to Endymeon Porter of the Bed-chamber with some fourscore and odd of common Souldiers The Lord Conway after this defeat carried himself the first news of it to the King that it might not be told by others to his prejudice and Sir Iacob Ashley Governour of Newcastle knowing the place not tenable deserted it sinking the Ordnance in the River so that upon Lesleys approach both that Town and Durham rendred themselves into his hands These losses accelerated the Earl of Strafford into those parts who having the supreme Command of the Army therefore conferred upon him and knowing his Honour and Reputation to be embarqued in this business resolved to put it to the decision of the Sword which he was as well able to manage as his Pen Challengeth the Lord Conway for the disaster at Newborn before the King as if his ill conduct had occasioned it who as stoutly denied it laying the fault as indeed it ought upon the rawness of his Souldiers In Scotland the Earl of Haddington who commanded as Major-General the Forces raised and to be raised in Lothian having recovered from the Souldiers of Berwick Garrison the pieces of Ordnance which Lesley had left behind him at Dunslo and brought them to Dunglass was the next day slain with twenty more Knights and Gentlemen in the midst of his Court by the stones that flew from the Vault neer adjoyning which was then blown up with the Magazine that lay in it Though the Earl of Strafford was so eagerly and intensly bent on fighting with the Scots yet with the King who was loth to run that hazard not knowing how to recruit himself if he were worsted unless he should condescend as much or more to his English Subjects in Parliament those Martial resolutions soon abated to the regret of that Noble Earl whose safety as well as glory consisted in driving the Scots out of this Kingdom So that though the King had declared them to be Rebels and Traytors by Proclamation and commanded that publick Prayers should be put up against them in all Churches and had set up his Royal Standard at York yet now he was contented to treat with them and to that end received from them a Petition stuft with their grievances to which he returned answer by his Secretary of Scotland the Earl of Lanerick That he expected their particular demands which were tendered to him within three days after and imported his Majesties calling a Parliament in England without which there could be no satisfying redress for them Thay had likewise published sometime before their marching into England a Declaration intituled The intentions of the Army which signified that they would not lay down their Armes till the reformed Religion were setled in both Nations upon sure grounds and the causers and abetters of their present grievances and troubles were brought to publique Justice and that in Parliament In order to the speedy accommodation therefore of this quarrel Twelve of the Nobility who were there with the King by name Hertford Essex Bedford Warwick Mulgrave Bristol Bullingbrook Say Mandevil Howard Paget and Brook drew up a Petition to the King and had it delivered after which others of the same contents were brought from London and other places of the Kingdom which unanimously agreed in this That nothing could satisfie the people nor relieve their grievances and pressures but a Parliament This the King willingly assented to and in part condescended to other of the Scots demands and for the present summoned the Lords of England to appear at York where accordingly they met and on the first day of their sitting in Council it was agreed that a Parliament should be called to convene the third of November next And in reference to the Scotch business and the poor oppressed Northern Counties where both the Armies that Summer had quartered the Bishoprick of Durham being then taxed by the Scots at three hundred and fifty pound the Country of Northumberland at three hundred pound a day it was also resolved that a Treaty should be had and thereupon sixteen English Lords whereof eight were Earls the other Barons should meet with so many of the Scotch Nobility and the place was assigned at York which was refused as not safe enough for the Scotch Commissioners by reason of the presence of the Lord Deputy Strafford who had proclaimed them Traytors in Ireland and against whom they had matters of high Complaint And so it was resolved it should begin at Rippon The first thing the English insisted on was a present Cessation but the Scots objected against that and said that other things were more expedient to be first considered For as they would obey the Kings command in advancing no further so would they not go back again till they had accomplisht the business they came for and therefore propounded four Praeliminaries to be resolved on which were concluded on and agreed to At the first of these That the Scotch Army should be paid and maintained out of the English purse the Earl of Strafford was highly incensed and enraged being so dishonourable a thing to the Nation and therefore would have perswaded the King to give him leave to fight them no way doubting but that he should be able to drive them presently into Scotland again though accounted then far superiour in Discipline and Souldiery to the English Army But the affair of the Treaty was so far advanced for the reasons aforesaid that there was no fair way of receding if the King had been powerful enough to have combated them as some made no scruple so that on the 16 th of October the English Commanders
command all and every our Earls Barons Knights Mayors Bailiffs Constables Ministers and others our faithful Liege-people of our County aforesaid as well within Liberties as without by vertue of these presents to be counselling aiding and assisting to you and every one of you in all and singular the Premises And we likewise Command you the said Sheriff that at certain times and places which you or any three or more of you as aforesaid shall appoint shall cause to convene before you all such men in the County aforesaid by whom the Array Assesment and Appointment can best be effected and compleated and to detain those in Prison who for their Rebellion shall happen thither to be committed In witness whereof we have caused these our Letters to be made Patents Witness our self the 11th day of June in the 18 Year of our Raign Per Ipsum Regem The Reader must know that this Ordinance of the Militia was framed in February and declared to be a Law whether the King should give his Royal assent or no in March ensuing and several things done at that time in the several Counties in pursuance of it So that it long precedes the Kings Commission of Array though for dignity sake I have here Postposed it The Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament for Ordering the Militia of the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales WHereas there hath been of late a most dangerous and desperate design upon the House of Commons which we have just cause to believe to be an effect of the bloodie Councels of Papists and other ill-affected persons who have already raised a rebellion in the Kingdom of Ireland And by reason of many discoveries we cannot but fear they will proceed not onely to stir up the like rebellions and insurrections in this Kingdom of England but also to back them with forces from abroad It is ordained by the Lords and Commons now in Parliament assembled that shall have power to assemble and call together all and singular his Majesties Subjects within the County of as well within Liberties as without that are meet and fit fothe Wars and them to train exercise and put in readiness and them after their abilities and faculties well and sufficientlie from time to time to cause to be arrayed and weaponed and to take the Muster of them in places most fit for that purpose And shall have power within the said Countie to nominate and appoint such persons of quality as to him shall seem meet to be his Deputie-Lieutenants to be approved of by both Houses of Parliament And that any one or more of the said Deputies so assigned and approved of shall in the absence or by command of the same have power and Authoritie to do and execute within the Countie all such Power and Authoritie before in this prâ—sent Ordinance contained And so shall have power to make Colonels and Captains and other Officers and to remove out of their places and to make others from time to time as he shall think fit for that purpose And his Deputies Colonels Captains and other Officers shall have further Power and Authority to lead conduct and employ the persons aforesaid Arrayed and Weaponed as well within the County of as within any other part of this Realm of England or Dominion of Wales for the suppression of all Rebellions insurrections and invasions that may happen according as they from time to time shall receive directions by His Majesties Authority signified unto them by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament And it is further ordained that such persons as shall not obey in any of the Premises shall answer their neglect and contempt to the Lords and Commons in â— Parliamentary Way and not otherwise nor elsewhere and that every the powers granted as aforesaid shall continue until it shall be otherwise ordered or declared by both Houses of Parliament and no longer John Brown Clerk Parl. How contrary to any Law Practice or Precedent of any Parliament this Ordinance was I refer the Reader to examine in his Majesties Answer to it Many Messages and Answers and Papers past betwixt the King and the Parliament which though out of their order we shall present at one view intire in this Place this History not allowing every one a particular room Those of the Kings were less strained yet more elegant then the Parliament's the great ingredients and most substantial part of their Addresses were Jealousies and Fears with which the King was constantly baited for want of more solid Arguments and which no reason could rectifie or dispel being irrefutable because inexistible it being like fighting with a shadow which canot be driven away They protested all along that if his Majesty should persist in the denyal of the Militia the Dangers were such as would indure no longer delay but that they should be forced to dispose of it by Authority of Parliament and must resolve so to do as it was by them propounded Desiring that for the safety of his person and people in much jealousie and Fear he will be pleased to reside in or neer London and to continue the Prince at St. Iames's or any other Houses neer London to prevent the Jealousies and Fears of the people Affirming That by the Laws of the Realm the power of the Militia of raising ordering and disposing thereof in any place cannot be granted to any Corporation by Charter or otherwise without consent of Parliament and that those parâ—s of the Kingdom that have put themselves in a posture of defence have done it by direction and Declaration of Parliament The King much troubled with those unreasonable Papers replyed that he was so much amazed at this Message that he knew not what to answer You speak of jealousies and fears said he lay your hands to your hearts and ask your selves whether I may not in earnest be disturbed with jealousies and fears and if so I assure you this Message hath nothing lessned them For the Militia I thought as much before My last answer being agreeable to what in Iustice or reason you can ask or I in honour grant I shall not alter in any point I wish my residence near you might be safe and honourable that I had no cause to absent my self from Whitehal Ask your selves whether I have not I shall take that care of my Son which shall justifie me to God as a father and to my Dominions as a King I assure you upon mine honour I have no thoughts but of peace and Iustice to my people which I shall by all means possible seek to preserve relying upon the goodness of God for the preservation of my self and my rights This quickned in the Parliament a resolution that the Kingdom be put presently into a posture of defence and a publique Declaration thereupon to be made They talkt of advertisements and extraordinary preparations of forraign Princes by land and Sea In order to this the Beacons were made up new
framed by themselves having rejected that of the Kings own appointment and drawn by his Council though not a word in answer against it to satisfie him excluding all persons named by the King in his draught and committed the trust and power thereof for two years to such in whom they confided Soon after they seized upon Sir Richard Gurney Lord Mayor of London whom for an example to other Loyal Magistrates they sent to the Tower of London not long after which usage he deceased Sir Iohn Hotham is also impowered by the Parliament to Summon the Trayned Bands of the County to his assistance which through the factiousness of others and his own menaces he compassâ—d and having them within his reach to prevent the King of any supply of Arms thereabout he disarms the Country-men and dismisseth them Herâ—upon the King Summoned the Gentry and Free-holders of the County of York to whom he complains of all those lawless proceedings of the Parliament and Hotham to the danger of his person which he thinks fit to secure by a guard from among them reiterates his Protestation to the Lords then that wâ—re with him some of whom were sent from the Parliament and continued there that he intended not to raise a War or embroyl the Kingdom but since he had so lately received such an indignity so neer his residence it could not be interpreted other than an Act of Prudence to provide this way for his safety that being the onely end in this designe Which publike Declaration was attested by all the Lords to be his Majesties intention Now had the Parliament the occasion they waited for no Salvo's or Protestations on the Kings part would serve turn but it was taken for granted â—hat the King intended War and therefore they proceeded presently to put the peo-into a posture of War by vertue of their late Ordinance of the Militia to rescue the King from his evil Counsel who had engaged him in a War against his Parliament I will not wade further in this Question Who began it because his Majesty on his dying Royal word hath asserted it by this undeniable proof Who gave the first Commissions In order to this open Hostility intended they prohibit all resort to the King save of those in his special service and Command the respective Sheriffs to seize all other than such as the disturbers of the peace and to raise the County-power against them who were so divided in themselves by contrary commands that no difficulty remained to the near ensuing rupture sides being taken and avowed every man on his guard waiting for the first blow and prepared to return it as his judgment or fancy led him To bâ—ow up this animosity into fire and fury next comes out another Remonstrance from the Parliament the Daughter of that which was presented to the King at Hampton-Court that taxed the male-administration of the Government till the calling of the Parliament this recited all their complaints from the very first day of their sitting to the date thereof their dispute of the Militia the business of the five Members c. and so brought the state of their quarrel into one entire body that their Partisans by such a heap of grievances iâ— not by the weight of them might without more scrutiny own them and stand by their Causâ— This miss'd not of a plenary and satisfactory Answer from the King but Hands had no Ears the Faction was busie and employed in arming themselves like Caesars write and fight together solliciting also in the mean time their dear Brethren the Scots to their party whom though the King so lately had obliged and vouchsafed them a particular account of his intentions throughout all these unhappy transactions summed up in a Letter to his Privy Counsel in that Kingdom which after communication begot a Protestation from that Kingdom of all the Loyalty and affection imaginable with many serious expressions of their thanks and gratitude to his Majesty whose Royal word in the concerns both of Church and State they deemed a grievous sin to doubt or question Yet nevertheless presently after they declared themselves in favour of the Parliament in a large manifestation of their most cordial affection to them with as many more good words as they had received Pounds and in conclusion order the said Privy Council not to meddle with any verbal or real engagement for the King against the Parliament of England but to keep close to their Covenant and their English brethren For all which kindness the Parliament claw them again and returned them thanks by their Commissioners resident in London But this Remonstrance did not reach all the matter therefore out comes a third comprehensive enough which the King likewise answered It will be tedious to recite them because little new matter in them only more passionately written as bordering betwixt the Gown and the Sword which was as good as half drawn already As the last essay for an Accommodation that the people might see the Parliament would leave no way untryed Nineteen Propositions are sent to the King at York which in strict terms comprised the licentiousness of all their former Papers To these if the King assented as they withal Petition him to do they promise to make him a glorious Prince For the Answer to these by the King I refer the Reader to the Kings book where the vncivility and unreasonableness thereof is justly censured though the reply he made to them presently after their tender was so argumentative and honest that it stumbled many of their friends and confirmed the Kings good Subjects in their Loyal integrity All hopes being now lost of this Paper-scuffle the King addresses himself to the Gentry and Commonalty of the County of York the populacy being those on whom the Parliamentary pretences so greatly operated and declares to them the same resolutions he had formerly made desiring to undeceive them of those opinions the Parliament had instilled every where and chuseth out of them a guard of Horse and a Regiment of the Trained Bands as a guard to his person which they cheerfully undertook and did Duty in that quality Here he also found an addition of many worthy Gentlemen and Nobles ready for his service The City of London was likewise as affectionate for the Parliament having profered their service which was accepted to secure the two Houses This caused the King to send a Letter to the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen forbidding them either to levy Arms or raise money upon that account But seeing them to persist in the same courses he first sends out his Commissions of Array to the respective Lord-Lieutenants and their assistants according to the Statute of 5 H. 4. and other subsequent Records which by the Parliament on the question were resolved to be against Law and the liberty of the Subject c. And then summons his Lords and Privy
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 carâ—ssing 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 assembâ—ed 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 affectioâ—s 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 Caâ—ts 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 acâ—ording 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 Circumvaâ—lation 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
and gave the Fairfaxians entrance where the Foot first entred and then the Horse who there joyntly charged the enemy drawn up in the Town the Lord Hopton commanding the Rear to make their retreat good in which action he had his Horse shot dead under him Here the Parliament-foot were forced back again to the Barricadoes where Colonel Hammond opposed himself and by the assistance and timely supply of Major Stephens beat Horse and Foot into the Town again from whence the Foot marched away but the Horse made several stands and charged in at several Avenues of the Town and at the Barricadoes which themselves had deserted In fine all their Horse marched over a Bridge and at several other passes of the River and so Westward the Parliamentarians not adventuring to pursue them but contented themselves with those Prisoners whom they took in the Town being disordered and divided from their Body by the darkness of the night who being put into the Church where the Lord Hoptons Magazine of 80 Barrels of Powder was kept and there guarded by some of the Parliaments Forces the said Powder either casually or by design was fired the Church blown into the Air those Prisoners and the Guard killed and the whole Army all over the Town endangered by the stones timber and lead which with the blast were-carried up very high and scattered throughout and beyond the Town so that neer as much mischeif was done by this Powder as by the Powder and Bullet together in the Fight scarce a stone being left standing of the Church which since is raised from its ruines The Royalists fought resolutely here the Cornish not forgetting the reputation they had formerly got during the War For here were not taken in all above 400 Prisoners the chief whereof were Lieutenant-Colonel Wood eight Captains Commissary Boney six Lieutenants one Cornet three Ensignes one Chyrurgion four Serjeants fifty two Troopers one hundred twenty seven Gentlemen and about 150 common Souldiers and six Colours The slain were Major Threave and Captain Fry the Lords Hopton and Capel wounded and the Lord Hopton's Commission to be General under the Prince and 500 pounds in money left in Portmantles came also to the hands of the Victors The Lord Hopton after this Encounter made back into Cornwal where he rendezvouzed his Army again whither the Princes Regiment of eight hundred Horse and some other additional Cavalry of the County not before joyned with them came in and so made up a new entire Body of five thousand Horse able to give Battel again to their enemy on convenient Champion ground or at least in such a condition as to make their own terms And the policy of the Lord Hopton was as eminent as his valour in the late service having thereby given a fair earnest for a Victory and made them consider of his Forces if reduced to a necessity of fighting as of couragious brave spirits to whom Fortune could not but be obliged to a favourable aspect and her least inconstancy would undo the Fairfaxians We will now draw off from those main Bodies this whole Winter in the field and return to the Garrisons who thick and threefold rendred themselves to the Parliament We will begin with Shelford-house where Colonel Stanhop akin to the Earl of Chesterfield was Governour which after Summons refused was stormed by Major-General Poyntz who put all to the Sword they met with some Gentlemen getting within a Seiling till the fury was over found quarter the Governour himself was killed in the defence after the House was entred and the House demolished On the 4 of December the magnanimous Countess of Derby who had endured a Siege off and on for two years last past rendred Latham-house to the Parliament upon very fair terms the Governour Officers and Souldiers to march out either to the Garrison of Tidbury or Ashby de la zouch In this Siege I may not omit one Military neat Stratagem The besiegers at dinner-time were jearing the Garrison with Shoulders of mutton and fresh-meat they shewed them whereupon a Captain sallied out took both the guests and the provision and two Colours and brought them into the House Whereupon the Assaylants took the Alarm both great and small Guns playing on both sides This continuing for a while the Captain caused the Colours he had taken to be set on the Works backward from the Post where he had surprized them which they of that quarter seeing and imagining their men on the other side had entred the House and erected their Ensigns they fell on without fear or wit and were presently cut down in heaps and beaten to their Trenches Bolton-Castle and Beeston-Castle in Lancashire were likewise delivered to the Parliament and Hereford-City surprized by another Stratagem the manner thus The Garrison was strong and well appointed the inlet also for the Kings Welch Forces and therefore much aimed at and to that purpose intelligence had been held by some within from Colonel Birch and Colonel Morgan Governour of Gloucester but their greedy and impatient desire of the present possession abrupted all those practices and put them upon an honester and safer way With 2000 Horse and Foot they came from Gloucester in one day and night where they had provided six men in Country-habits with a seventh like a Constable in pursuance of Warrants directed the day before to the adjacent Villages for some Labourers to be sent in to break the Ice in the Trenches and such other work by morning to present themselves at the Gates and as seconds to them were placed 150 Firelocks which in the covert of the night were lodged as neer as possible out of discovery and next them a Body of men ready at hand to succeed in the attempt and enter with them Accordingly the stratagem took effect the Draw-bridge was let down to the Constable and his crew with their Pickaxes and Spades which they no sooner possessed but the Guard began to suspect and make some resistance but the Reserves powring in upon them after three of them were killed the Town was entred first by Colonel Birch and his Firelocks and then by Morgan The Garrison amazed presently submitted and yeilded themselves Prisoners the chief whereof were the Lord Brudenel fourteen Knights Judge Ienkins of whom more hereafter four Lieutenant-Colonels five Captains Officers and Gentlemen neer a hundred more besides eleven Pieces of Ordnance mounted with Provision sutable to the strength and quality of the place This loss was very much regretted by the Royalists who now perceived that Fortunes right and left hand Valour and Policy were lifted up against them The next place of importance which followed the fate of the Kings declination was the City of Chester which had been long besieged and thrice attempted to be relieved and still rendred worse by the loss and slaughter of their friends that came to its rescue as we have said before
examined in the business brought against him by the Marquess of Antrim for holding correspondence and having made Conditions underhand with the Enemy Upon these Foundations and such as these did many of the Irish represent unto the Lord-Lieutenant the necessity of discharging the Lord Inchiqueen of his Command and securing his person which his Excellency being more tender of the Kings Honour and his own than upon bare surmises and suspitions to deal in that manner with a person that had but lately deserved so well both of the King and him would not be brought unto chusing rather to run any adventure than to be guilty of breach of Conditions with him which he must needs have been if before a Conviction of apparent Treachery he should upon the score of the Lord Inchiqueen's over-sights or the uncertain jealousies of the Irish have condescended unto either of the things proposed This Temper and Justice in the Lord-Lieutenant in not suffering himself to be led by the clamors and importunity of the people and Souldiers involves him also at last under their displeasure and mistrust so that out of want of confidence in their Chief Commanders and out of diffidence in one another the Army was now fallen into a very unfit condition of hazarding a battel with the Enemy if an occasion should offer it self and to make it worse the Scots that were there being tired out with the necessities the whole Army suffered and receiving news of the Enemies prevalence in their Country desired leave to return into the North which after great importunity at last being granted them they immediately withdrew their Forces and hasted homewards where they were no sooner come and Sir George Monro joyned with them but they received so sore a blow from Coote with so much loss and dispersion of their men that they were never able to make Head in Vlster aâ—ter Cromwel now finding the Army so much weakened by the desertion of so many of the Lord Inchiqueens men and the departure of the Scots and likewise knowing that it was in such disorder through the distrust and animosities that were amongst them so that in reason he was like to have much the advantage if they should fight him adventures over his Bridge at Rosse into the County of Kilkenny where by facing the Lord Lieutenants Army and moving after it up and down he amazed the Irish whilst Iones his Lieutenant-General with parties took in the Castles of the Country and had Carrick given into his hands wretchedly by Martyn that Commanded there Upon notice whereof Cromwel hastens thither to pass his Army over into Munster which was now his business for notwithstanding his purse to buy provisions of the Country and his Ships that wherever he went waited continually upon him his Army through the unseasonableness of the weather and want of Quarters was so much harassed and wasted many of his men falling sick and dying daily that it he did not hasten to his Winter-quarters he would in probability have perished without a blow which nevertheless to make sure work the Lord-Lieutenant whose Army also was quiâ—â—tired out with wants sufferings and continual marches nearing that he was gone towards Carrick intended to bestow upon him before necessity forced him to disperse his men and to that end his Excellency marcht speedily after the Enemy with designe to sâ—t on him whist he was either Engaged before Carâ—ick or else incumbâ—â—â—d at some other Pass upon the River but after all this diligence when his Excellency came neer the Town he then learnt that the place was lost before and that Cromwel leaving a competent Garrison therein had onely past his Army over and was gone towards Waterford which Town during Cromwels Residence aâ— Rosse through the perswasion as it is said of Geoffry Baron and Hugh Rochford had underhand begun a treaty with him for the delivery of the Town unto him which Treaty onely stuck upon the free exercise of their Religion and the Churches denied unto them by Cromwel The knowledge of this caused the Lord-Lieutenant now to hasten thither with no small danger to his person to press them to admit of a Garrison which being a long time denied and the Lord Castlehaven with divers others that his Excellency propounded being utterly rejected by them yet at last they were content to admit of Farrell and the Vlster-men who accordingly were sent immediately unto them After Farrells admittance he upon notice of the Enemies motion that way fearing some commotion in the Town and thinking himself not strong enough to resist the Enemy without and master them within writes unto his Excellency for a supply of men and these his Excellency seeing Cromwel so unexpectedly got over into Munster through the Treachery of the Garrison of Carrick intends now to conduct himself out of hand into Waterford before which the Enemy was supposed to be thereupon some Principal Officers of the Army desired leave that they might in the interim attempt the re-gaining of Carrick against whom his Excellency objecting the want of materials necessary for such an enterprize was assured they had enough to serve their turn for that work yea and some of them positively undertook the taking of the place that night Wherefore leaving them to their business his Lordship bends his course for Waterford where he arrived when it was late upon notice whereof Cromwel despairing of doing any good upon that Town and finding many of his men fall sick and dye of the Flux which then raged amongst them draws off in the night and hastens towards his Winter-quarters at Corke and Youghall in which march as he gained Dungarvan so he loâ—â— Iones his Lieutenant-General During the Lord-Lieutenants absence the Army at Carrick assaults the place the Foot falling on with extraordinary gallantry and resolution where after the loss of many of them they failed of carrying the place onely for want of a few Pickaxes and Spades which being call'd for were no where to be found which necessitated the poor Foot after having done so handsomely and stood under the Walls some hours to quit the business and draw off when extreme want of Food they having eaten nothing almost for two days enforced them to march away towards Clonmell all the Country betwixt Carrick and Kilkenny being totally spoiled already This Carrick was gained and now defended by Colonel Reynolds The removal of the Army hence without sending notice of it to the Lord-Lieutenant had like to have put his Excellency into the Enemies hands for he making full account of the regaining of Carrick upon the former assurance that was given him was upon his way directly thither where the Enemy had 300 Horse and he not 40 in his Company when Colonel Milo Power by good fortune found him out and told him of the ill success of the Enterprize and the motion of the Army thence whereupon he altered his course another way And then considering that the
Enemy was now retired into his Garrisons that the weather was bitter and unfit for action the Winter being now come on or if it were not so that he had neither Meat nor Money wherewith to keep his men any longer together having since the Revolt of Munster which deprived him of the greatest share of his Contributions and Provisions been a long time already forced to live upon the spoil of the rest of the Country he concluded upon dispersing his Army into Quarters also which because the Principal Towns refused to admit them in he was fain to scatter over all the Kingdom The greatest part of the Vlster-Forces were sent into their own Province there to chuse a new General according as their conditions allowed them for Owen O Neal was dead and Luke Taafe with his men were sent back into Connaght to the Lord of Clanrickard The Lord Inchiqueen with the remainder of such as belonged unto him went over into the County of Clare the Lord Dillon with his into Meath and towards Athlone all the rest were scattered several ways onely Major-General Hugh O Neal was admitted with about 1600 Vlster-men into Clonmell as Governour and Kilkenny received also a competent Garrison to secure them against so ill Neighbours as both Rosse and Carrick were Here you may behold a summary of what past in the field since the Army first set forth until their going to their Winter-quarters in all which time how ill soever the success hath been nothing can with any colour of reason be laid to the Lord-Lieutenants charge except the not punishing those many Failings Treacheries and Disorders that were committed during this Summers Expedition Yet as to the disobedience and neglects in the Siege of Dublin I gave you Reasons why that was past over before and those that were committed since were for the most part by men of that condition and interest that it was neither safe nor fit all things considered to call them to an account As for Treacheries most of the Authors of them took care to secure themselves and in time get out of reach onely Crosby that betrayed Kingsale after he was designed to dye by the Lord-Lieutenant upon the Lord Inchiqueens coming to Town was I know not for what considerations reprieved and saved The want of money to pay the Souldiers and the exigences they were for the most part in after the mischance at Dublin did so much Authorize their disorders in the Country that if they had not been past by and connived at there had been no means of keeping them together So that I have many reasons to believe that notwithstanding the defeat at Dublin and success upon Drogheda Cromwel with all his great Army his Fleet and store of Money had been lost and sunk to nothing if the Castles of Wexford and Carrick had not been so foully given up nay and after that too if those Towns and Forces in Munster had not so treacherously Revolted Thus did the knavery and malice of a few steal away the Hearts of the generality of that undiscerning simple people from the Lord-Lieutenant few of them being able to judge at all of the Prudence and Integrity of his Conduct or to consider that the Army that was in the Field the foregoing Summer would have required four times the Contribution that was raised without leaving any surplus either to be hoarded up or sent beyond Seas From which his Excellency was so far that on the other side he frequently offered to engage at a very low rate all that remained Unmorgaged of his Princely Estate for the support of the Army The Surrender of Dublin truly had been made unto the people of Ireland by the arts of those that were at that time in Government amongst them a most odious thing though those very persons knew well enough it was themselves and not the Lord-Lieutenant that was in the fault by twice foully violating their Publike Faith with him First in breaking a Peace made and solemnly published both at Dublin and Kilkenny the Respective seats of the Kings Lieutenant and the Council of the Confederates and in seconding that Act after having imprisoned the Lord Muskery Sir Robert Talbott Sir Lucas Dillon Master Brown Master Belings and the rest of their Supreme Council that had made the Peace and still stood honestly to what they had done with bringing their Armies before Dublin where having caused the burning and destruction of those quarters the Town it self must have been lost unto them it upon overture of a Treaty with the Parliament they had not sent Men and Supplies to rescue it And next in the breach of that solemn Engagement made between them and the Marquess of Clanrickard as soon as upon belief of their resolution to return unto their Duty the Treaty was broke off and the Forces of the Parliament sent home again Could it be expected that after two such acts as these any wise man would trust or treat with the Irish any more whilst the Government was still in the same mens hands who after all this wrought the whole Assembly to declare they would never have any Protestant Governour more and namely not the Lord-Lieutenant and who were not ashamed at the same time both to annul the Peace and yet acknowledge that the forementioned Gentlemen that had been makers of it and suffered in justification of it had neither exceeded their instructions nor done any thing misbecoming honest men His Excellency was now at Kilkenny where having in vain endeavoured to qualifie the universal discontents and observing how fast notwithstanding the admonitory Declaration of all the Bishops from Clonmacnosse to the contrary the people being alienated with the ravaging and disorder of their own Armies and allured with the successes and smooth invitations of Cromwel run headlong in to him for Protection and under Contribution as also how great numbers of the Irish Souldiers some frighted with the Plague which now began to spread into the other Provinces of the Kingdom and others for want of livelihood as having neither meat nor pay flockt in unto the Enemy He went into Connaght to confer about carrying on of the publike business and the remedy of those disorders with the Marquess of Clanrickard at his Castle of Portumna about the end of Christmas who being a person of that eminent Merit towards our King and Nation and deserving so much Honour from all honest men I must I believe do a thing very displeasing to you not to give you a due Character of him here Upon his coming to Portumna the Lord-Lieutenant meets with Sir George Monro who was posted thither out of the North to make some Proposals in order to the reduction of Vlster to his Excellency and the Lord Clanrickard who had the Summer before assisted him towards his Vlster Expedition with a Regiment of Foot 100 Horse and 1000 pounds in money out of the Province of Counaght and in case
those overtures of his were not approved of to demand his Pass that he might leave the Kingdom but what he propounded was so plausible that in case Money and Arms could be had in time and in proportion to what he demanded as the infection of Galloway out of which Town chiefly both were to be had made it very difficult they judged it a very likely Expedition Whereupon the Lord Clanrickard desirous to keep so able a Commander as Sir George in the Kingdom furnisheth him with what Money he could at the present and sends him Northwards to lay and prepare the business before promising to do his uttermost endeavours to procure him those supplies of Money Ammunition and Arms by the time appointed as also to bring his Army up as far as Sligo there to countenance Sir George in his undertakings and be ready for any fair occasion that should present it self for the mastering of the Country After four or fivâ— days stay at the most his Excellency took his leave and hastened towards Kilkenny obliging the Lord Clanrickard to come after him to be present at a meeting he had appointed there for the procuring of a good understanding between the Clergy the Commissioners and himself and for taking the best order they could for the raising and maintaining an Army against the next Spring But though they met nothing at that time could be done or agreed upon wherefore the Lord Clanrickard returns into Connaght to take order for his Northern Expâ—dition which out of the great difficulties of getting his men together arising out of the universal distractions that were then in the Kingdom the hard Season of the year the Pestilence the want of Moneys and Provisions he could not possibly go through with against February which was the time designed nor even then when he did without very great necessities and inconveniencies to himself and his Army though that Noble Person declined no difficulty nor spared no Charge in his Majesties Service This failing in point of time and a great part of the Moneys promised him which nevertheless as things stood no mans industry could have remedied Sir George Monro complained very much of affirming that their opportunity was lost thereby especially now they being come the Army was able to move no further through extreme want of Provision kept from them by foul and contrary weather for which and the residue of the Money together with hopes of an accord between the Lord-Lieutenant and the Commissioners some days were spent in expectation but nothing in the end except onely a Letter from the Lord Ormond summoning the Lord Clanrickard suddainly away his Lordship was forced to leave his Army and the Northern business to the hazard and return back to meet the Lord-Lieutenant and the Commissioners at Loghreogh Wâ—ereupon Sir George Monro believing now the Lord-Lieutenant would leave the Kingdom seeing the divisions amongst the Irish grew daily greater and giving all for lost having received a defeat by Sir Charles Coot where the Earl of Claneboys was taken Prisoner and Colonel Henderson killed with some 800 Private Souldiers and lastly finding the impatience of his own party to treat with the Enemy as he had often before publikely declared he would retires himself to Eniskillin and having made Conditions for himself the remainder of his Party and his Officers that were in Prison gave up that place to the Enemy and departed the Kingdom Very soon after whose retirement the Lord Clanrickard's Army through extremity of want was forced to return from Sligo back towards the County of Galloway Where I will leave it and come back to his Excellency who being left by the Lord Clanrickard lately in Kilkenny after having caused Captain Tickle to be Executed for a designe he had of betraying that Town to Cromwel was by the breach growing daily wider between him and the Kingdom and through the increase of the Sickness now come thither at the joynt request of the Commissioners and Officers induced to remove towards Limerick where being negligently received without the accustomed respect used to the Kings Lieutenant he after a short stay departed thence into the County of Clare Immediately thereupon the Enemy having refreshed his men and encreased his Army with a great accession of old Souldiers that had formerly served under the Lord Inchiqueen and the Lord-Lieutenant takes the field and falls a Summoning Castles and bringing the Country under Contribution wherein he had a general success most of the Castles surrendring upon appearance of a party of Horse except Kiltenan which gave him some resistance His Excellencies Army through the forementioned obstinacy and disobedience of the Towns against receiving Garrisons was so far dispersed that there was no means of drawing them together neither if that were done of drawing them in a Body for the Country was destroyed and wast so that it could not supply him besides during these disagreements between the Lord-Lieutenant the Clergy and the Commissioners there were few or none of the Irish Souldiers if there had been Provisions for them that would obey his Excellencies Orders Of all which Cromwel was well aware and therefore went securely and with confidence to work carrying all before him Amongst other of his successes Ballisanon was sold unto him and Cahir Castle then the dwelling-house of Master Matthews a young youth and half Brother to the Lord-Lieutenant given him contrary to those strict orders left by his Excellency with Master Matthews for the keeping of it who was so conscious of his own misdoing in the Act that he refused upon several summons and invitations to appear before his Lordship and stayed sâ—â—ll in the Enemies quarters to secure himself from his Excellencies indignation But nevertheless this act of Master Matthews is made a ground of new susâ—â—â—â—ns and fresh clamours against his Lordship himself by the Irish who all this while run on in their extravagancies intent onely upon their disputes in hand as if there were no such man as Cromwel in the Kingdom insomuch that seeing so many several meetings assigned and so much time spent to so little purpose his Excellency concludes that those people would never be brought into order by him and therefore resolves to withdraw himself from the Government if not to depart the Kingdom and to commit the management of all unto the Marquess of Clanrickard which was the reason of his Lordships being sent for back again from Sligo The Enemy in the mean time having the Castles of Gowran and Laghlin together with the Officers Commanding in them delivered into his hands by the Common-Souldiers sets at last upon Kilkenny whence a while before the Earl of Castlehaven who was now left with chief Command in Lemster was drawn out with his Forces by reason the Sickness raged so leaving Sir Walter Butler and Major Walsh with about 50 Horse and some 400 Foot in the place where a breach being made and the Enemy
Assaulting they were bravely Repulsed leaving 600 Arms behind them after which check they resolved to march off and are sending their Artillery away silently before whilst the Townsmen convey a Drummer privately over the Wall and upon I know not what accord let the Enemy in unknown to the Souldiers who were then forced to retire to the Castle and make their Terms which being granted them they march away Kilkenny being gained by him let us leave Cromwel at Cashel for a while amongst his Committee-men and return into Connaght where the Clergy and Commissioners seeing that the Lord Clanrickard having refused to take the Government upon him was resolved in case they continued disobedient unto the Lord-Lieutenant lest the Kings Authority should be exposed to further disobedience and contempt to leave the Kingdom together with his Excellency and considering what a certain Ruine their departure would be unto them all are now courting the Lord-Lieutenant to stay and offer to come to composition with him who demands assurance from them that the Respective Towns of Limerick and Galloway shall receive sufficient Garrisons and that themselves with all the Souldiers and people shall hereafter readily obey him which they undertake unto him upon condition that all the English whatsoever under his Excellencies Command might be disbanded and sent away that the Bishops of the Kingdom might have a share in Council and the management of things that the Receiver-General which was Sir George Hamilton Brother-in-law to the Lord-Lieutenant a person of great parts Honour and Merit might give in his accounts all which his Excellency out of his great desire to satisfie and unite the people thereby to preserve the Country and the Kings Interest if it were possible at last assents unto This Agreement being made the English were accordingly to free the Irish of their Jealousies who either were or would seem to be equally suspicious of the Royalists as of those that had served the Parliament before disbanded and since there was no further employment for them nor means of getting away by Sea they had leave to make their Conditions with Cromwel to pass through his quarters out of the Kingdom which being granted by him all all the small remainder of the Lord Inchiqueens men except a few that Colonel Buller was to carry for Scilly went under the conduct of Colonel Iohn Daniel into the Enemies quarter so did the Lord Ards and after him Sir Thomas Armstrong with whom went also Master Daniel O Neal upon the score of carrying a Regiment into Spain There remained none behind that was permitted to bear any charge but Lieutenant-Colonel Treswell at the Lord Ormonds particular instance to Command his Guards of Horie onely Iohn Digby Colonel Henry Warren and Colonel Hugh Butler â—aid to wait upon his Excellencies person and bear him company in his aâ—â—entures Colonel Trevor rendred himself likewise upon the same account But before I go on I must not omit to tell you how Dean Boile who was sent to treat with Cromwel for the English that were disbanded being offered it as he says by Cromwel and imagining as himself affirms to do a service to the Lord-Lieutenant and the Lord Inchiqueen in it adventured of his own head to take Passes from him for their departure out of the Kingdom whereof as soon as ever Dean Boile was gone he makes use to debauch the Irish Garrisons to take Conditions from him assuring them the Lord-Lieutenant had received his Pass to depart the Kingdom though the Passes were absolutely without his Lordships privity or license accepted and with indignation resented but in the mean time Emer Mac Mahon Bishop of Cloghor who had been chosen General of the Vlster-Army having a good while since received his Commission from the Lord-Lieutenant was now gathering together his Army which in a short time after he had made up to be about 6000 men wherewith having taken several little Castles in his way he was marched up into the Claneboyes and become Master of the field The next enterprize Cromwel went in hand with was to take Clonmell which was kept by Major-General Hugh O Neal who behaved himself so discreetly and gallantly in defending it that Cromwel lost neer upon 2500 men before it and had notwithstanding gone away without it if they within had had store of Powder but their small proportion being spent the Governour with his Souldiers was fain to go out of the Town on the other side of the River by night towards Waterford and leave the Towns-men to make Conditions for themselves which they did the next morning the Enemy not knowing but the Garrison was still in Town till the Conditions were signed Thus the loss of this place and several other Garrisons for want of Ammunition was another effect of the disobedience of the Towns insomuch that had it not been for a little Magazine that the Lord Clanrickard had providently made beforehand and wherewith since the loss of Drogbeda his Excellencies Army the Scots the Vlsters and most of the Garrisons were furnished all might have gone to an irrecoverable ruine whilst the Walled-Towns like Free-States lookt on as unconcern'd denying to afford it to them About the time of the Siege of Clonmel David Roch having raised above 2000 men in the Counties of Corke and Kerry and beginning to make head with them received a small brush from the Lord Broghall which onely dispersed his men for a few days his loss being not considerable for any thing but the Bishop of Rosse who being taken was hanged with two other Priests by Cromwel for being found in Arms as he said against the States of England Soon after the gaining of Clonmel Cromwel upon Letters out of England inviting him thither went to Sea and leaves Ireton in chief Command behind him to subdue the rest of that miserable wasted Kingdom whilst himself went about the Conquest of new Empires more worthy of his presence Here I cannot but observe that of all those thousands that either came with him thither or were sent after there are now few tens surviving either to reap the benefit or report the stories of their Victories his Army upon his departure being sunk to a very inconsiderable number especially in Foot and neer three parts of those consisting of either Irish Ione's or the Lord Inchiqueen's men who onely are able to undergo the woful incommodities of that Country now groning under a universal Plague Famine and Desolation to that degree that if they had known but half the miseries that expect them there I am confident that no Threats nor Flatteries could have perswaded men out of England thither in hopes of reaping the fruits of their fellows labours in that destroyed Kingdom Which as low as 't is brought may chance to cost Cromwel a second Expedition and another Army and yet go without it For they have Waterford Galloway and Limerick three of the strongest
and most considerable Towns of the Kingdom still untaken any of which if they be well Garrisoned as questionless now they are will be neer a Summers work to reduce The Forts of Duncannon and Sligo the Castles of Caterlo Athlone Charlemont and Neanagh are not easie purchases the Province of Connaght is still preserved entire by the Lord Clanrickard who will be able to bring 4000 men of his own into the field now that Galloway and his Country is somewhat cleared from the infection of the Plague which begins to rage greatly in the Enemies quarters as Corke Youghall Wexford and Dublin it self Kilkenny Clonmel with several places thereabouts being left desolate with it The County of Clare in Munster brought unto the Lord-Lieutenant at a Rendezvouze at the same time above 2000 men wherewith his Excellency being invited by the Magistrates was ready to march into Limerick to Garrison that place and to make it his residence What Forces the Irish had in Vlster and towards Kerry I have already told you as likewise what Connaght and the County of Clare afforded I must adde that Hugh Mac Phelim had in Wiâ—klow and towards Wexford hard upon 2000 men and at Waterford General Preston and Hugh O Neal had little less to conclude besides all this the Lord Castlehaven the Lord Dillon and the Bishop of Drummore made account they should draw together a considerable Body in Meath and the rest of Leimster to joyn with the Marquess of Clanrickard towards the relief of Tecroghan then besieged by Colonel Reynolds Thus you may see that provided they be united amongst themselves and that means can be found of keeping them in bodies together there are men enough in Arms yet to dispute the business with an Enemy that is not half their number and whose quarters are pestered likewise with the Plague and Famine as well as theirs especially these having such strengths and fastnesses still in their hands as are almost inaccessible to Cromwels Souldiers Who after having mastered the greatest part of Munster and Leimster their supplies from England coming in but slowly have made bold at last with the people they flattered with before and altered their manner of proceedings taking from them by force what they pleased and violating their protections given making not nice to tell them they suffered them to possess their Estates but during pleasure and till they could have Planters to put into their rooms by which kind of clear dealing they have so lost and made desperate the Natives that lamenting their former too ready compliance with the Enemy they now called for the Lord-Lieutenant again and taking Arms in their hand began to rise in all quarters of the Kingdom so that it is impossible for a greater power than Ireton hath there to attend to the suppression of them all This is the perfect account of the Irish affairs whereby the first Trophees of the English Commonwealth raised themselves to greater Atchievements by a chain of successes but Winter growing on their Army was put into Winter-quarters Cromwel himself to that purpose taking up Youghall lately with Corke wherein were the Lord Inchiqueens Lady and Family revolted by the treachery of the Colonels Gilford Warren and Townsend Colonel Wogan newly defeated in his attempt in Passage-Fort and then taken prisoner by Colonel Zanchy whereupon Prince Rupert with the Constant Reformation the Convertine wherein was Prince Maurice the Swallow where was Sir Iohn Mien and some other Sips set sail from Kingsale where he had continued Blockt up most part of the last Summer by Admiral Popham and betook themselves to the Narrow Seas now that the Parliament had most of that Coast in their possession and sailed for France In the mean while Captain Young had fired the Antilope one of the Kings ships at Helvoet-sluce in Holland and the Guinny-Frigot was mastered and taken neer Scilly the Rendezvouze and Harbour of his Majesties Fleet that did very much hinder and obstruct the Trade at Sea wherein his Majesties Rebels were now principally concerned of which we shall have yet further occasion to speak in the ensuing year The Parliament had in Iune filled up the Benches at Westminster Aske from Clerk of the Crown one of their Beagles at the High Court of Iustice was made one of the Justices of the Vpper so was the Kings Bench newly called and Broughton a Clerk to the same Court had his former Office Puliston and Warberton in the Common-pleas to whom in the place of Judge Phesant Serjeant Atkins was added Colonel Rigby and Thorpe were made Barons of the Exchequer by the last of whom Colonel Morris the late noble Governour of Pomfret and Cornet Blackborne were Condemned and Executed at York on the 18 day of August at which Sessions Thorpe likewise in his Charge to the Grand-Jury magnified the late Actions of the Parliament and justified their Authority and endeavoured to shew its consonancy to the Laws which fine Oration is yet extant in Print About this time after much debate by these Judges and at the instance of the Army the Parliament passed the Act commonly called the Five Pound Act whereby Debtors in Prison upon their Oath that they were not worth five pound were discharged by Vertue whereof most of the Goals in England were emptied and room made for Cavaliers and Royalists of which party Sir Robert Heath the Noble and most Loyal Lord Chief-Justice of England being an excepted person by the Parliament died at Caen in Normandy about the end of August and Sir Kenelm Digby and Master Walter Mountague were ordered to depart the Kingdom as not being within any of the qualifications for Delinquents Composition Thus stood things at home in a Commanding and Authoritative posture we will see next how they fadge abroad and first the Scot their next Neighbours having an Army moving up and down in the North of that Kingdom to suppress the Montrossian Party which appeared in the Isles of Orkney the Marquess then bestirring himself in the Court of the Duke of Holstein for supplies and ready to Embarque having sent a forerunning Declaration wherein he recited the greatness of those condescentions to and that confidence his late Majesty had of them when he put himself into their Hands at Newark both which some wicked persons of that Nation had Trayterously abused even to the Murther of that blessed Prince and thereafter would impose Conditions and Limitations to their present Soveraign and desired all good and honest Subjects who had been misled to appear with him to the vindication of those injuries as well as reproach of the Scotch Nation c. and other Forces quartering about Edenborough had Decreed that no Provision whatsoever should he carried into England and shewed an absolute averseness to any further Treaty or Correspondence with the English but had dispatcht away the Laird of Windram one Master Libberton to the King who after his arrival at Zeland sailed to the King at
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 Kiâ—gdom 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 Emeriâ—us 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 amâ—in 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 Catastroâ—phâ— one of the ingenious Songs on the occasion ending in this presagioâ—â— 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 callâ—d 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 Speakâ—r 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
the People which was the Co-ordinate Senate of Sir Henry Vane's Fiction of which he was desperate in love with Narcissus unto his death These made the Commonalty worse mad than before and made them more the scorn than the fear of the People which to lessen also Lawson declares for the Parliament and came up with his Fleet into the River and the Portsmouth-blades began to stir so that Wallingford-house began to look thin Sir Henry Vane and Salway howsoever undertook to cajole Lawson but Mr. Scot met them on Board the said Vice-Admiral where the righteousness of these Actions was disputed and spoiled their Game Another Cavalier-Plot was discovered which was the likeliest of all to take being laid in the City and under the Conduct of Major-General Brown some part of the Forces being in Arms the Night appointed but it was discovered and divers Gentlemen and Horse taken at the White-Horse by More-gate I should mention also a Plot upon the Tower by Scot and Okey for the Rump c. but it taking no effect I pass it But the Reader will be weary of these traverses and therefore to the event Things being thus brought about by the activity of some Rumpers and the Army not likely to receive a penny pay more as full information was given the Souldiery the Wallingford people broke up House and the Officers and Army in Town presently submitted to the Speaker Rendezvouzing first in Lincolns-inne-fields where they were headed by Col. Okey and Col. Alured and thence they Marched down Chancery-lane through Holborn where the Speaker was come down to the dore of the Rolls and there the Officers made their obeysance and expressed their joy and cheerfully returned to their duty which done the Speaker with Sir Anthony Ashly Cooper c. took Coach and went to the Tower where they were likewise admitted and had the Keys delivered by Lieutenant-Colonel Miller and the said Sir Anthony Mr. Weaver and Iosiah Berners left by the said Speaker as Lieutenant-Commissioners in that place This happened on the 24 of December Desborough's Regiment of Horse sent out of the North to assist against Portsmouth and to countenance the Wallingfordians stayed at Saint Albans and concluded on submission as did their Clown or Colonel while in the mean time Col. Salmon was sent away by the Officers here to give Lambert an account of this turn upon whose back the County of York was risen the Lord Fairfax with a great party of Horse being then in York whither Col. Lilburn came and joyned with him the Irish Brigades also marched off in discontent so that there needed not any Order of Parliament for Lambert to lay down his Arms and be quiet for as soon as Salmon came the mighty design was crawl'd into an Inne and a Pot-Consulatation held how to come off not with Honour but with Safety and the next News heard of him was that he was seen at Northallerton with about Fifty Horse and no more of all his great Army And thus was Richard Cromwel's deposition revenged by Lambert's just desertion and the Rump victorious returned again to their old House at Westminster with such proud surly looks as made the Red-coats themselves to quake The 26. of Decemb. at Night they got Possession again and Voted several Orders especially about the Souldiery and because Sir Arthur and Morley the former Commissioners were not present they Constituted new ones viz. Mr. Alexander Popham Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper Scot Okey Thompson Markham and Allured giving them power to suppress Insurrections of which they were much in danger However the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen had stilled the clamours and Petitions for a Free-Parliament for they scorned to ask the Rump's consent with a promise it should be effected for nothwithstanding the Rump sate which was thought by the Vulgar the only thing intended after all this stir for they did prank it like the Flie on the Wheel in the Fable who gloried that he raised the dust the Mayor and Court of Aldermen sent away their Sword-bearer to the General with Letters of Cachet which came safe to his Hands and were with all affection and civility received and answered in time to the purpose In Ireland Sir Theophilus Iones and Col. Warren seize Dublin-castle and after Ludlow Corbet Tomlinson and Iohn Iones were summoned into England to answer an Impeachment of Sir Charles Coot against them A new Council of State was appointed and all what General Monck had done in displacing Officers and carrying on the Service was approved of and thanks ordered him and Hazelrig being come to Town and lighting at the Palace-yard in Triumph at the Head of Thirty Troops of Horse was thanked likewise most solemnly as was Rich also in the House and as much had Col. Henry Ingoldsby for his Relation of the taking of Windsor-castle The next work was to make sure of the City of London and so to borrow some money for all the revenues of the Good Old Cause were not worth one farthing besides Excise and Customes and therefore a Conference was held at Whitehall Sir Arthur being the chief of the Committee of the Rump but the one would not endure to hear of lending of money to pay their Enemies nor would the other hear of a Free-Parliament In the mean time the General signified to the House that because he supposed them not yet free enough he would with his Army come to London his Souldiers were then very full of money by the Scotch advance and some Thousands of pounds from London which made them willing to undergo that hard duty the necessity of guarding themselves from surprize and treachery had put them upon Upon Receipt of this Letter they Vote him a Thousand pounds a year and that he be desired to come to London and a hundred thanks again and this News kept them from proceeding severely against Lambert upon whom they had an eye to oppose him against the General if he should Army-master them they discharged Sir Henry Vane of his Membership as likewise they did Saloway and committed him to the Tower for their Committee of Safety project All the Officers in Lamberts Combination were commanded to their respective Houses in the Country and Vane to his a Raby in Durham Bishoprick and Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper constituted a Col. of Horse in very good time Sir Henry Vanes's Phanaticks of the Three Regiments were disarmed and their Arms ordered to be carried into the Tower and new Commissions to the Officers in England when news came of several stirs and commotions in Gloucestershire Devonshire and Cornwal about a Free-Parliament I ommitted that the Officers here in London submitted upon a promise of Indemnity which was Passed by a Vote with this condition That they return to their duty by the ninth of Ianuary and Captain Chillingham was sent with this Order to Lambert But because of the frequency of these Commotions and that matter
of Fact will sufficiently shew this Transaction of the General with the several Counties and the Commissioners of the Rump Scot and Robinson appointed to wait on him meerly to sift out and discover his intentions I will give the Reader a bare Journal of the Affairs as they passed But before I proceed the Reader is to take notice That our Soveraign having been highly treated at his return from St. Iean de Luz at Paris by the Duke of Orleans and regarded now as the Monarch of great Britain such assured confidence there was of his Restitution passed in great State publiquely to Brussels where His return was no less magnificently welcomed and there abode till the dissolution of this Parliament the Rump which now as their last Engine and dying Efforts are most vigorous against Monarchy and its fortress of Loyalty had under their consideration an Act for Renuntiation and Abjuration of the Title and Right of the King and the whole Line of King Iames. Oliver had proceeded to the disanulling it this to the damning of the Nation who had sworn to maintain it But rather than sink as they plainly saw the King would at last be too hard for them by the late Commotions and Insurrections in his behalf therefore they bethought themselves of this Italian revenge to ruine the Bodies and Souls together of their Enemies this was afterwards prosecuted while the General was among them and a Petition delivered by Barebones and other Good-Old-Cause-men and Fanaticks and they most abominably thanked for this their love and care of the Common-wealth At the same time Sir Iohn Roll and other Devonshire Gentlemen listed and engaged all that Country upon the account of a Free-Parliament according to the Cabal betwixt the General and him Mr. Morrice now Secretary and others And this strength the General relyed on upon all events as his own Country-men and doubtless this resolution of that County was of very great influence in the ensuing Affairs Scot and Robinson were sent to cajole the General with another Letter of thanks to him as also another was sent to Major-General Morgan Col. Sydenham a Member of the Committee of Safety and of Oliver Cromwels's Council discharged the House A tumult at Exeter about a Free-Parliament Commissioners and Judges appointed for the several Courts Alderman Fouk Vincent and Colonel Bromfield ordered by the City to meet and congratulate the General The General at Nottingham came our a Declaration of the Parliament against Kingship but not a word of Dâ—ssolving themselves or filling up the House Sir Robert Pye and Major Fincher for tendring a Declaration of the County of Berk-shire for a Free-Parliament were committed to the Tower which fored a Vote for Qualifications c. The Lady Monck arrived at White-hall the Minerva and great Patroness of this grand design General Monck arrived at Leicester and was met there by Scot and Robinson who sent the Parliament a copy of his Letter to the Devonshire Gentlemen great seeming kindness past between them An Act passed the House being a Bill of Assessment of One hundred thousand pounds a Moneth for six Moneths throughout England Scotland and Ireland they had made it at first for Twelve but it passed at last for Six At Harborough the General was met with the London-Commissioners to whom he speaks fair the High Sheriff of Northamptonshire and the Major of the Town congratulate him The Lord Falkland came thither also with the Oxfordshire Address for a Free-Parliament attended by the Gentry of that County and had a fair reception at Stony Stratford the Gentlemen of Bucks the like at Dunstable and at St. Albans he received more of the same nature from the County of Norfolk by the hands of the Lord Richardson and Sir Horatio Townsend and other places to which he answered ambiguously and fairly giving them all civil and most obliging Reception even to the Apprentices of London who came thither with a Petition of the same nature the General parting with the expressions of his care and endeavour for their and the Cities good and was uncovered all the while Thence he desired the Parliament that the Army in Town for fear of Infection be distributed into the Country to make room for his own Forces about which Tumults arose in the Guards at St. Pauls and more pertinaciously at Somerset-house which caused the General being invited also by the Rump to make extraordinary hast thither Several Reports made to the House concerning Qualifications and Elections On the second of February he Rendezvouzed that morning at Finchly-heath where he drew up his Army having marched from Barnet and by St. Iohns-street and Holborn down Chancery-lane came with his Army into the Strand where at Somerset-house he was met by the Speaker They saluted each other with the Title of Lord-General The General afterwards waited on him to his Coach and then to refresh but he refused White-hall for his Quarters Next day after he was conducted to his audience at the House where he had a Speech made to him by the Speaker being a thankful Commemoration of his services to which he modestly replied refusing to sit in the Chair placed for him by their order declining all the praises given him as he never intended any service for them but desiring them to be very tender of the Gentry of this Kingdom which would prove their Interest and of Oaths and Engagements c. so was with great respects reconducted and attended to his Lodging where he continued in good intelligence with them till their politick Revenge put him upon this Adventure to make a Feud between him and the City for the City refusing to pay the money assessed upon them by the late Act of 100000 l. per mensem the Rump order the Gates and Portcullices to be pulled down by the General and several Citizens to be apprehended viz. Sir William Vincent Sir Thomas Bludworth Sir Laurence Bromfield Sir Richard Ford Major Cox Mr. Penning Lieutenant-colonel Iackson Mr. Spencer Major Chamberlain and Mr. Brown a Grocer in Wood-street and sent to the Tower which the General performed They likewise ordered the discontinuance of the Common Council for that year and proceeded to nominate another and to settle a new Militia The Gates were accordingly pulled down the thumps of the Hammers even piercing the hearts of the Citizens Such an affront and revenge never any of our Princes in his greatest rage did to this place where likewise the Army was perforce Quartered But after the pulling down of the Gates the General sent a Letter to the Parliament acquainting them how grievous and distastful the action was to his nature intimating also the great Merit of the City towards them throughout the War and on Friday after several Conferences managed before him by some of the secluded Members and City and others of the Rump He pretending his desire of satisfaction for their Exclusion of the evidence of danger of their readmission
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
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 Wilâ—iam 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 Fieldiâ—g 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 Mordaâ—t 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 Sâ—cundi 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-Bishop of Durham was consecrated December 2 1660. Y. A. Dr. Brian Duppa 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
of the Parliament Forces departs London 38. Attends the King's motion 39. Fights at Edge-hill retreats to Coventry 40 41. Relieves Gloucester 49. At Newberry 50. At Theal Redding London 52. Marches reduce the West 58. Pounded at Lestithiel and escapes with Lord Roberts by Boat to Plymouth 58. Resignes his Commission 72. Dies 124 Earl of Essex Lord-Deputy 587 Essex County joyns with Lord Goring Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle 174 Estate of the Kingdom in a sad condition after the death of the King 124 125 Everts taken 536. dismist ibid. Exchange Royal finished 574 Exchequer shut 582 Execution of the Kings Iudges 466 Exeter yielded and Articles 98 99. Engagement forced by the Independant-party for the Parliament to live and die with the Army City refuse the Parliaments Orders and Acts 231. Tumults about a free Parliament Excise 157 Exclusion of secluded Members 229. F Fairfax General in Commission 74. Marcheth 75. Is cajoled to manage the seizure of the King Made Generallissimo and Constable of the Tower 141. Marcheth against the Levellers 234. Complemented and graduated at Oxford with Cromwel and Lambert ibid. Magnificently treated and presented by the City ibid. Lays down his Commission 268. Arms against Lambert 434 Faulkland Lord-Viscount slain 51 Fanshaw Sir Richard Embassador in Spain 525 Fatality among the Clergy 504 Farrel Lieutenant-General of Ulster-Army 245. Put into Waterford to defend it 247 Farewel to the Scotch-War Fast general 540 Faulkner perjured 291 Faulconbridge Lord Arms against Lambert sent to Venice 575 Fee-farm Rents 455 Feak Parson 540 Fiennes Lord Commissioner Fifth-Monarchists plot against Cromwel 366 FIGHTS at Newborn with the Scots 13 Worcester in the Lanes 40. Brainford 41. Yarum 42. Wakefield 43. At Liscard ibid. Caversham-bridge ibid. Hopton-heath 44. Bramham-moor ibid. Chalgrave-field 45. Stratton ibid. Middleton-Cheney Lansdown 46. Round-way-down ibid. Adderton-heath and Bradford 47. Stow in the Wold 49. Auburn-chace 50. Newark at the relief of it by Prince Rupert 56. Brandia or Cherington 57. Cropredy 58. Lidbury 74. Sherburn 90. Torrington 93. Saint Fagons 171. Maidstone 174. At Dublin 241. Muscleborough 264. Warrington 295. Wigan 296 Fincher Mayor vide Pye resigned Finch Sir Heneage his Reading 501. Made Lord-Keeper 594 Fire in London 554. In the Horse-Guards 556. In Fleet-street 368. Another at Aberfoyle in Scotland ibid. Another in Thred-needle-street 368. At Lambeth 373. At St. Johnstons in Scotland 381 Fleet sent under Hamilton to the Frith in Scotland 9 Fleet Spanish denied protection and ruined by the Dutch in the Downs 11 Fleet returns to the Prince Earl of Warwick imployed against them as Admiral 175 176. Fleets Dutch and English at Shetland 322 Fleet under Pen from Jamaica accidents of the return 376 Fleet declare their Royal acceptance c. 446 Fleet English 532. Beats the Hollander 538. English Hamburgh-fleet taken 538. Rendezvouz ibid. Fleet ready 250. Divided ibid. Fleets Engage ibid. Engage again 552. Out again 553 Fleets Engaged 584. Fleets Engaged 591 Fleetwood made Deputy of Ireland 366. More of him Forrain Princes how affected to our States 254 Forces from Ireland to assist the King 53. Surprized and defeated 54. Sent by Cromwel to assist the French 391. Vnder Earl Inchiqueen to Portugal 511 Fornication Act 225 Fray likely at Westminster At Tower-hill Fundamentals of the Army French prohibit English Cloath and are prohibited their Wines 255. Conclude a peace with Cromwel 377. Their Fleet taken by Blake 325. At Gigery 533. Embassadors in England 535. King supplies the Dutch 544. Declares against England ibid. Embassadors beaten and Imprisoned in Turkey 558. Lays claim to the Low-Countries breaks with Spain 579. Invades Lorrain 579. Breaks with the Dutch 583 Free Parliament noised 434 Frigats of Brest rove at sea 356 Furstenburgh Count seized 598 G Gates and Portcullices of London pulled down 437 Gayland 522 523. Makes peace 532. Transports himself for Tangier 571 Gell Sir John Sentenced 270 A General required by Officers of the Army 439 Gentry secured over England 373 Gerrard Col. John and Sir Gilbert 538. Col. John beheaded 361 Gibbons Sentenced 290 Glencarn Earl submits to the English 362. Prisoner in Edenburgh 380. Chair-man to the Scotch Convention 432 Gloucester Duke born 13. With the King at Colen from the Iesuits at Paris 365. Dies 456 Gloucester Siege and Summons and Relief by Essex 49. Walls demolished 512. Cathedral begged 381 Godolphin Sir Will. Knighted and sent into Spain 568 Goff Col. friend to Richard Cromwel 417 Goring Col. into France 39 Goring Lord Condemned but saved 228 Goodman Bishop refuseth to subscribe Canons against the Church of Rome 12 Good Old Cause 417 Grace Colonel 324 Graigs Town 245 Grantham Col. killed 380 Grantham Town 44 Granger a Forger 256 Greenvile Sir John 445. Rewarded by the Parliament and City 446 Greenvile Sir Bevil 46 Great Cities and Towns in Ireland refuse to admit Garrisons which proved their ruine 244. Accept of them at last upon condition the English be dismist Cavaliers and others 251 Grey Lord Grooby 291 Groves Col. vide Penruddock Guiny Relation 535 Guernsey-castle stormed 284. A designe uppon it discovered 554 Gunning Dr. in Divinity his Congregation seized and plundred for celebrating Christmass 398 Gurney Lord Mayor in the Tower 34 Guthury and Giffan Hanged 497 H Haberdashers-Hall 129 Hackney-coaches regulated 368 Haddington Earl blown up by Gunpowder in Scotland 14 15 Hamilton Marquiss the Kings Commissioner into Scotland at London 7. Prisoner to Pendennis-castle 52. Defeated and taken Prisoner 178 Hamilton Duke tryed and sentenced 228. Beheaded 229 Hamond Col. secures the Kings person 151. His baseness 163. Shot in Ireland ibid. Hannam the Infamous Thief breaks Prison and escapes 376. Hanged 381 Harman Capt. his Exploit 595. Beats the Dutch 564 Harrisons impudence in bringing the King to London 193. A main man for the little Parliament outed and dissatisfied 353. Apprehended 453 Harris a great Cheat 368 Harvey Sir Daniel sent to Constantinople 568 Hazelrig Sir Arthur seizes Portsmouth 433. returns to Westminster and is thanked by the Rump 435. Dies 474 Healing Parliament 470 Henrietta Princess 469 Henchman Dr. Bishop of London 524 Hertford Marquiss 38 Heresies and Schismes 368 Hewit Dr. seized 404. Tried and Beheaded ibid. Hewson Col. made Master of Arts in Oxford 234 Marcheth into London 433 Hide Sir Henry beheaded 285 Highland-War in Scotland its account 361 362. Hinde the High-way man 303 Hispaniola expedition from 369 to 372 Holland Earl Lieutenant-General of Horse against the Scots 9. Rising at Kingston and defeated 177. Tryed and Sentenced 228. Executed in Palace-yard Westminster 229 Hollis Lord Embassador into France 522. Returns for England 550 Holmes Major Committed 532. Discharged ibid. Enters the Vly 553. Attacques the Dutch Fleet 582. Holstein Duke 255 Honours and Dignities denied to some Male-Contents another cause of the Scotch troubles 4. Honours given by the King vacated 292 Hopton Lord 42. Disbanded honourably after many services and Victories at Truro in Cornwal 96 97 Horse-races and
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 withâ—rew John James a Romish Catholique stabs Iustice Howard in Westminster-Hall The Case of Shipmoney stated The Iudges opinions thereupon Shipmoney vâ—tâ—d illegal The Iudgment of the Excheqâ—â—r agâ—inst 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 reâ—uctancy 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 sâ—anderously charge the King and Arch-B Cant. with inclining to Popery Walker an Iron-monger thâ—ows a Libel into the Kings 〈◊〉 he is impriâ—oned Sir Richard Gurney Lord Mayor of London Most of the Irish Nobility revolted Sir Phelim Oneal their chief commandâ—r 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. Iuâ—â—ice 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 sâ—cured 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 Pâ—rsons drowned 150000 Persons destroyed in the Province of Ulster only in five moâ—ths time Sir Phelim Oneal defeatâ—d at Duâ—dalk 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 râ—â—â—â—ciliation 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 Iâ—suites 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 â—eard himself proclaimed a Traytor The Duke of York and Prince â—lector bring in the Town are suffered to depart The King retreatâ—d to Beverly writes to the Mayor and Garrison of Hull And to the Parliament for Iâ—â—tice against Hotham Tâ—e Parliament order the Lord Liâ—â—tenant of Lincoln to â—uppress all Forcâ—s raiâ—ed against Hull Sir Richard Gurney Loâ—d Mayor 〈◊〉 London sent to the Tower The Parliament Authorize Sir John Hotham to raise the Trained Bands The King sâ—mmons the Gâ—ntry of York for the security of his Person The Parliament Conclude the K. intendeth War They take up Arms â—nder preâ—ence of râ—scuing the King from his evil Couâ—sel and prohibit all resort to the King They publish a Râ—monstrance Which is answâ—red by the King Theâ—â—aviâ—e the Scots to their 〈◊〉 Thâ— Scoâ—s pretend a zâ—al for his Majesty bâ—t deâ—â—aâ—â— for the Parliament and have their thanks Tâ—e Parliament set forth another Remonstrance which the King answers They send him 19 Propositions to York The King returns an answer
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 Commissâ—in 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 abâ—ut 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 Episcâ—pacie 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 â—nto 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 bâ—â—n 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 â—â—â—eats 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