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
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
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
prove it He defended himself by allegation that that which was said by him was but in jest and discourse and that the Action was altogether impossible he being but a single person Dr. Hewit would not acknowledge the Court but pleaded several Cases against it and was taken or surprized for a Mute Had he pleaded it is thought he might have escaped for Mallory the main Witness against him was fled for the present Next Mr. Iohn Mordant was set to the Bar who argued his Case so warily and pliantly after a Demurrer to the Court taking Notes of the Witnesses Evidence that he alone of the three was quitted but by one Voice Colonel Pride his undoubted Fate troubled with the Stone and being long at Urine withdrawing himself on that occasion while in the mean time the Court by one suffrage agreed upon his acquittal so that he may well be said Evasisse Calculis it being the custom of the Court to give Sentence by plurality of Voices Mr. Mallory being retaken together with Sir Humphry Bennet and Mr. Woodcock were charged next with the said Designes Mallory pleaded Guilty and was respited and saved Sir Humphry Bennet's Cause was not then determined Mr. Woodcock so handsomely and bravely defended himself that they could not fasten the Charge In the mean while on the 8 of Iune Sir Henry Slingsbury and Dr. Hewit were beheaded on Tower-hill Sir Henry suffering very readily and with submission the Doctor most devoutly and courageously with prayers for the King The Tyrant not satisfied with this brought in more viz. Mr. Carent in whose Ware-house Arms were found and Iohn Summers Edward Stacy Iohn Bettely Edward Ashton Oliver Allen and Fryar to the same Bar where they were all but Mr. Carent Condemned who escaped by the noble refusal of one Mr. Pits of the same party whose Examination they relyed upon to give Evidence against his Friends and chose rather to suffer Imprisonment and a Fine of 500 l. to be laid on him than to be branded with the note of Treachery how fairly soever to be excused Three of the other viz. Ashton as before and at the time of his seizure a Prisoner to Newgate and Iohn Bettely were Executed at Tower-street and Cheap-side by Hanging and Quartering both protesting their Innocency Bettely after he had hung almost a quarter of an hour pulled off his Cap with his Hands Stacy two days after was Hanged against the Exchange in Cornhil None of them but were worthy of far better ends which made the Tyrant most Execrably Odious The old Earl of Warwick presently after the Espousals of his Grand-son young Mr. Rich with Frances the youngest Daughter of the Protector died April 18. to whom his late honorary services and dishonourable Relations to this Protector were none of the least unhappinesses At the end of May the Lord Faulconbridge the other son for Fleetwood nor Claypole had either Manners or Worth to be employed in the Complement was sent away with a great Train to Salute and Gratulate the French King now at Calis upon the opening of the Campania and was received very splendidly in the mean while that his Uncle Sir Henry Slingsby was adjudged to Death and though he returned on the fifth of Iune three days before Execution and did what he could to save him yet all proved in vain for since Mr. Mordant and Mr. Woodcock had escaped there was no room for his life Soon after Monsieur Mancini Mazarine's Nephew and the Duke of Crequi came hither with the return of the Complement and were entertained highly at Brook-house and at Hampton-court with Feasting and Hunting and presently returned and that I may have done with this wretched Family of Cromwel the Lady Claypole died at Hampton-court August 6 of a disease in her Inwards and being taken Frantick with the stopping of her Terms raved much against the bloody cruelties of her Father and about the death of Dr. Hewit for whom to give her her due 't is said she interceded She was brought by Water to the Painted-chamber and in State buried in Hen. 7th's Chappel her Aunt Wilkins being Mourner c. The Earl of Mulgrave died coming up to London August 21. and though misplaced I must remember the great Whale 60 foot long that 〈◊〉 up as far as Greenwich Iune the 2 to the wonder of all people and the dangeâ—ous pastime and sport of such who hunted him with Guns and other Weapons thousands of people went down to see it upon the Sand. Sir Thomas Widdrington was made Lord Chief-Baron and the High Court of Iustice Adjourned till November And so we pass to the Flandrian-Coast to take an entire view of the joynt Forces and actions in those parts against the Spaniard and our Soveraign then concerned in that War A formidable Siâ—ge was framed before Dunkirk by the joynt Forces of English and French wâ—â—ch hotly Alarm'd the Spaniards in all their quarters hereupon Don Iohn of Austria takes these two things into serious consideration first the Importance of the place â—or its Situation it was a Key to Flanders a Frontier to France next after Graveling and a certain supply of Moneys by continual Booties brought in thither by his Men of War On the other side should he lâ—se Dunkirk the English in whose possession it would be put had a Door opened and fit opportunity to bid fair for all Flanders Here might an Army be landed from England and from hence incursions made into the heart of the Country In the mean time the Spanish Ports Newport and Ostend could expect no less than to be perpetually infested by Men of War which would utterly spoil their Trade and ruine the Inhabitants These and such-like considerations mounted Don Iohn upon fixt resolutions to undertake the Relief of Dunkirk though it were to the hazard of his whole Army In the mean while the Confederate Forces Beleaguering this strong place did in a small time working like Moles run their Trenches to the Spanish Counterscarp and still encroaching upon the Wall they promised fair to a speedy accomplishment of their Designe These things were well known to the Spanish Army who now saw the Relief of Dunkirk would admit of no delay for were it not speedily accomplished the Town of necessity must lie prostrate to the Enemies mercy The better to effect which therefore Don Iohn the Spanish General having drained his Garrisons to fill up his Army suddenly advanced with 15000 men to the relief of his distressed Friends these by a swift march through Fuernes quickly seated themselves upon some sandy Hills within an English mile and a half of Turenne the French General 's Camp The report of the Enemies neer advance made both the French and English Officers consult upon the best course that could be taken to repel the Force that now sate upon their Skirts and endeavoured to frustrate their labours in the present Siege if no worse success Time for
several Prayers which ended the Coif was put on His Majesties Head and the Colobium syndonis or Dalmatica then the Super-tunica of cloth of Gold with the Tissue buskins and Sandals of the same then the Spurs were put on by the Peer that carried them then the Arch-bishop took the Kings Sword and laid it on the Communion-Table and after Prayer restored it to the King which was Girt upon him by the Lord great Chamberlain then the Armil was put on next the Mantle or open Pall after which the Lord Arch-bishop took the Crown into his hands and laid it on the Communion-Table Prayed and then set it on the Kings Head whereupon all the Peers put on their Coronets and Caps the Choire singing an Anthem next the Arch-Bishop took the Kings Ring prayed again and put it on the Fourth Finger of the Kings Hand after which his Majesty took off his Sword and offered it up which the Lord great Chamberlain redeemed drew it out and carried it naked before the King Then the Arch-Bishop took the Scepter with the Cross and delivered it into His Majesties right Hand the Rod with the Dove in the left and the King kneeling blessed him which done the King ascended his Throne Royal the Lords Spiritual and Temporal attending him where after Te Deum the King was again Enthroned and then all the Peers did their Homage The Arch-Bishop first who then kissed the Kings left Cheek and after him the other Bishops After their Homage the Peers all together stood round about the King and every one in their order toucht the Crown upon his Head promising their readiness to support it with their power The Coronation being ended the Communion followed which his Majesty having received and offered returned to his Throne till the Communion ended and then went into St. Edwards Chappel there took off his Crown and delivered it to the Lord Bishop of London who laid it upon the Communion-Table which done the King withdrew into a Traverse where the Lord great Chamberlain of England disrobed the King of St. Edward's Robes and delivered them to the Dean of Westminster then His Majesty was newly arrayed with his Robes prepared for that day and came to the Communion-Table in St. Edward's Chappel where the Lord Bishop of London for the Arch-Bishop set the Crown Imperial provided for the King to wear that day upon his Head Then His Majesty took the Scepter and the Rod and the Train set in order before him went up to the Throne and so through the Choyre and body of the Church out at the West-door to the Palace of Westminster The Oathes of Fealty being casually omitted are here subjoyned as they were sworn in order I William Arch-Bishop of Canterbury shall be True and Faithful and true Faith and Truth bear unto you ouâ— Soveraign Lord and your Heirs Kings of England and shall and do and truly acknowledge the service of the Land which I claim to hold of You in right of the Church So help me God Then the Duke of York did the same in these Words Garter principal King at Arms attending him in his Ascent to the Throne I James Duke of York become Your Leigeman of Life of Limb and of Earthly Worship and Faith and Truth shall I bear unto You to live and dye against all manner of Folk The Dukes of Buckingham and Albemarle did the same for the Dukes The Marquesses of Worcester and Dorchester for the Marquesses The Earl of Oxford for the Earls Viscount Hereford for the Viscounts And the Lord Audley for the Barons Note that there were Collects and Prayers said upon the putting on of the Regalia as the Armil the Pall the delivery of the Scepter the Sword all according to ancient Form and upon the setting on of the Crown a peculiar Benediction The Bishop of Worcester's Sermon was Preached upon the 28 of Prov. verse 2. Before the King the Peers now according to their Ranks and degrees proceeded to the said Palace and not as they entred the Abbey but with their Coronets on at the upper end whereof there was a Table and Chair of State raised upon an ascent on the South-East-side of the Hall were two Tables placed the first for the Barons of the Cinque Ports the Bishops and Judges the other for the Masters and six Clerks of Chancery at which Table by some mistake or disturbance the Barons dined At the North-East-end the Nobility at one Table and behinde them close to the Wall the Lord-Mayor the Recorder the Aldermen and twelve principal Citizens in the Court of Common-pleas dined the Officers at Arms. Which Tables being served each had in all three Courses and a Banquet the King came in from the inner Court of Wards where he had staid half an hour and sat down and the Duke of York sate at the end of the same Table on the left hand the Earl of Dorset was Sewer and the Earl of Chesterfield his Assistant the Earl of Lincoln was Carver the Dishes were most of them served up by the Knights of the Bath at the second course came in Sir Edward Dymock who by the service of this day as the King's Champion holds his Mannor of Serivelsby in the County of Lincoln as several other services were performed upon the same account particularly Mr. Henry Howard in behalf of his Brother the Duke of Norfolk for a Mannor in Norfolk gave the King a rich right-hand-Glove during the Coronation with which he held the Scepter He was mounted upon a goodly White Courser himself Armed at all points and having staid a while advanced a little further with his two Esquires one bearing a Lance the other a Target and threw down his Gantlet the Earl-Marshal riding on his Left and the Lord High-Constable on his Right hand when York the Herauld read aloud his Challenge which was done the third and last time at the foot of the Ascent where the King dined and his Gantlet by the Herauld returned to him at every of the three times after it had layn a little while the Challenge was in these words If any person of what degree soever High or Low shall deny or gainsay our Soveraign Lord King Charles the second King of England Scotland France and Ireland defender of the Faith c. and Son and Heir to our Soveraign Lord Charles the first the late King deceased to be right Heir to the Imperial Crown of the Realm of England or that he ought not to enjoy the same Here is his Champion who saith that he lyeth and is a false Traytor being ready in person to Combate with him and on this quarrel will adventure his life against him what day soever he shall be appointed Which read aloud the Earl of Pembrook presented the King with a Guilt Cup fill'd with Wine who drank to his Champion and sent him the said Cup by the said Earl which after three Reverences and some steps backward he drunk off and kept it as his Fee
Edmund Fowel in Com. Devon Kt. created Baronet May 1. Iohn Cropley in Com. Middlesex Esq. created Baronet May 7. William Smith in Com. Bucks Esq. created Baronet May 10. George Cook in Com. York Esq. created Baronet Mâ—â— 10. Charles Lloyd in Com. Montgomery Esq. created Baronet May 10. Nathaniel Powel in Com. Sussex Esq. created Baronet May 14. Denny Ashburnham in Com. Sussex Esq. created Baronet May 15. Sir Hugh Smith in Com. Somerset Kt. created Baronet May 16. And so we have glided through this Sphere of Glory in which the ancient honour of the Government is refixed and gives us the full and compleat fight of this wonderful Revoluâ—â—on each Luminary shining in its proper Orb and in its Degree the Soveraign Nobility Clergy and Gentry recovered to their former and distinct Lustre and to say no more the whole community of English Freemen whose state and condition no Nation can parallel from being the servants of servants are become their own Masters and are arrived by this Change to be again the envy that were but lately the scorn and derision of the World In this Consistency the King was desirous to meet this Illustrious Body in Parliament to close those distances and separations and redintegrate the mutual affections endearments and natural kindnesses which the unnaturalness and perverse malignity of the times had by our Divisions abrupted and hitherto discontinued the King had promised so much at the Dissolution of the late Free-Parliament or Convention and accordingly issued out His Writ soon after for their sitting down the Eighth of May a little before which several Musters had been made in England of the Militia and a General Train in London in Hide-Park of Horse and Foot Fourteen Regiments whereof the King was pleased to view there In these Elections it appeared how much a Commonwealth or those Actions which were pretended to be done by the People in Parliament by a few modulers thereof were ever approved for not such a man had a Voyce and the Election of the Free Parliament gave little Encouragement to stand for it the main stickling was between the Episcopal and Presbyterian Parties and even that numerous Party as was said by themselves found how much they were mistaken in the Suffrages of the Kingdome when under no awe nor in the phrensy of misguised Zeal several Letters were intercepted from the chief Ministers of that Perswasion exhorting their Correspondents to do their utmost for favourable Elections to their Discipline and that very confidently after the choyce made at London of persons the most of them of their way But nevertheless that there might not the least remain of the Government be left unjustified and unreared it so happened that far the major part of this House of Commons were not better affected to the Peace of the Kingdome than to the Restauration and Settlement of the Church To this Parliament the King with his Nobles according to the splendid custome of opening these grand Assemblies rode in State and Triumph but because so full a Narrative of such Glory hath already preceded I will not further dazile the Reader The House being met the King sent for the Commons into the House of Lords where most obligingly he declared His content in meeting them most of them being known to him that he was as confident as of any thing whatsoever that it would be a happy Parliament and in conclusion acquainted them with his Resolution of marrying the Infanta of Portugal which Match he said he had proposed to his Privy Council and they had every one highly approved it that he thought none of them would willingly have him live and dye a Batchelour and therefore he had newly made and signed a Treaty with the King of Portugal by his Ambassadour Don Francisco De Mello here Resident and now upon departure with the same Treaty in which this Article of Marriage was inserted And then my Lord Chancellour by His Order gave the Parliament a further Account of His Majesties calling them Sir Edward Turner the Dukes Attourney General was chosen Speaker for the House of Commons who in his Speech to the King expressed the hopes of the Commons that as His Majesty had manifested his great Indulgence to that Adopted so that he had a Blessing left for this his Natural Parliament These Ceremonies being over wherein the dutiful respects of the Houses answered the favour and affection of the King the Parliament proceeded to the Affairs of the Kingdome Near that very time a Parliament began in Ireland after a like happy Convention had been by his Majesties Order from their Adjournment upon his Restitution reassembled in that quality Sir Audly Mervin being chosen Speaker The Convocation of the English Clergy all eminent and most learned pious Persons met on the sixteenth of May at Westminster And the Queen of Bohemia his Majesties Aunt from a long absence of forty eight years returned to White-Hall where She was Married in One thousand six hundred and twelve to the Prince Elector Palatine He return was further signalized by the reviviscency of the memory of the most renowned Marquess of Montross whose Limbs having been set upon the Gates of four distant Cities by the Kirk and Argyles party there were taken down and in State and in all fit Solemnity and with the same Honour brought together and by his Majesties Order whose love and memory of his Servants is one of his many other Princely vertues and great evidence of the sweetness of his Nature and the resolution of the Parliament Interred with a Funeral becoming his Family and as far as such too late evidences and expressions of Grief and Honour could reach his merit his own personal Renown and Glory so much the more indeed conspicuous by the Death and deserved Execution of the Marquess of Argyle who was this Hero's mortal and spightful Enemy that now expiated by a juster Sentence those barbarous violencies he had done to Montross he cunningly defended himself and Pleaded the Kings Pardon and the Treaties in One thousand six hundred and fifty and One thousand six hundred fifty one but there were Crimes of a later date besides the never-to-be-forgotten Treachery of Selling King Charles the first to the English which Condemned him He seemed at his Death to be resolved enough and justified the Covenant and had his Head taken off with the Maiden so is the Axe called in Scotland Near the same time Mr. Iames Guthery one of the Remonstrators and a violent Adversary of the Marquess of Montross and all the Loyal party together with Captain Giffan a â—enegâ—do to Cromwel by Sentence and Decree of Parliament were Hanged in Edenburgh so far the Laws and a suffering-sense of the Miseries and Reproaches that Nation lay under by these men and their Partizans guilt did now prevail against the Dominion of the Kirk which had Inslaved and Inchanted the whole mass of that people And for a final blow as these
The Duke all this while kept the Fleet in most excellent Order and which was more under so strict a Discipline that Captain Nixon Commander of the Elizabeth for letting two Capers escape which he had encountred in the Soundings and a Common Souldier for Seditious and Mutinous words were both Executed that as no encouragement should be wanting to them that behav'd themselves honourably so no unhandsome Action should go unpunish'd In the mean time the Parliament that was to have sate the Twenty first of Iune was by his Majesty again Prorogued by Proclamation for sundry weighty Reasons till further time It will not be here amiss for variety sake to mention a Curiosity discovered at a place call'd Bald Bathford three miles from Bath where was found a Monument very admirable both for its Antiquity Form and Structure from the top three or four Foot deep it was â—ourteen foot long and sixteen foot broad made of stones of several Colours as Blew Red Murray and White delicately cut not above an Inch broad curiously set and strongly Cemented the Floor was very delightful to behold Round about it were plac'd divers Figures and in the midst a Bird standing on a Sprig It is thought to have been a convenience for water A Work of great cost and labour and which shew'd the excellency of much lost Art But we must now return to feats of War again where we find our selves at first to have received some loss as well as all honour and Victory And this happen'd by reason of the miscarriage of the Hamborough-Fleet True it is that a Convoy was desired of the Duke then lying before the Texel and as true it was that a Convoy was dispatch'd but with Instructions to hasten the Ships away within ten days and caution not to venture after that yet they after the Ten days were over venturing against Orders to Sea fell into the Enemies hands who upon our removal from the Dutch Coast had upon Notice sent out to Attaque them which was the more easily done by reason that the Roe-Ketch ordered to give them advice of the Dukes removal mist of finding them they being gone out of the Road before the Ketch could arrive there Nor was this the first Disaster for the Diamond had been thus lost before upon the Coast of Italy and carried into Villa Franca and there made Prize But for these Losses that Noble and Signal Victory which ensu'd made a most Ample Satisfaction For upon the third of Iune both Fleets met between which there followed a most sharp and fierce Encounter in which with the loss only of one Ship nam'd the Charity a Vessel formerly taken from the Enemy were taken Eighteen very considerable Ships and good Men of War as the Chancellour gave an account in his Speech at the following Sessions of Parliament funk and fiâ—d Ten more of the biggest the Dutch had carrying between them Five hundred and forty Guns besides four Fireships totally destroy'd Opdam's Ship carrying Eighty four Guns was with himself and all his Men to the number of Five hundred blown up in the heat of the Fight Captain Smith in the Mary Boarded a Zealander of Seventy six Guns and Four hundred Men which 〈◊〉 Opdam's Ship was blown up came to have grappled with the Duke The Zealander was torn in pieces and the Captain taken but soon after dy'd of his Wounds Two Thousand sixty three Prisoners were brought into Colehester of which Thirteen Commanders In sum it was Computed that they losâ— ten for one among the rest were â—aid to be blown up in Opdam's ship certain of the French Nation of no small quality though some of ours were persons of greater Note as the Earl of Falmouth Lord Muskerry and Mr. Boyle who fell all three by one Cannon-shot so near the Person of the Duke that he was besprinkled with their Blood besides them the Earls of Portland and Marleborough Rear-Admiral Sanson and Sir Iohn Lawson as good as kill'd for he dy'd of his Wounds as great a loss as any Nor was it without Reason that Fate fell so severe upon these persons seeing that the whole burthen of the encounter lay upon Thirty only of the Kings Ships After this great Action the chief business of the Fleet was to prepare for more But the ill success of this Fight caus'd many disorders and complaints among the People in Holland for appearing whereof the States took a strange way to Revenge themselves upon their own Officers many of whom they tax'd either of Cowardice or ill Management and question'd for their Lives Three of their Captains were Executed at the Helder Two more were ordered to have their Swords broken over their Heads and the Master to Vice-Admiral Cortinaer to stand upon a Scaffold with a Halter about his Neck But this success in War was somewhat allay'd by the heat of the approaching Sickness which now grew hot in London and the Suburbs The Queen-Mother therefore returns for France being attended to the Kentish-Coast in the Katharine Yacht by the King together with his Royal Highness Prince Rupert the Duke of Monmouth and others between whom after all Solemnities of taking leave had pass'd the King leaves his Mother to pursue her Journey into France Afterwards he went aboard the Royal Charles in the Bâ—oy of the Nore where he bestow'd the Honour of Knighthood upon several Captains that had behav'd themselves valiantly in the late Fight as Rear-Admiral Tiddeman Captain Cuttins Captain Iordan and Captain Sprage after which he visited most of the Flag-ships giving all necessary directions for the dispatch of the Fleet and so return'd by water to Greenwich and from thence by Coach to Hampton-Court from whence in a short while he remov'd afterwards to Salisbury but the Distemper there increasing he retired to Oxford where he remain'd a considerable time The Seat of the Muses now the Palace of the British Monarch proving so happy a Receptacle that all the Concourse of People to a Kings Court to a Parliament and to a Term prov'd no way prejudicial to the health and safety of the Place However for the security of his Chief City the King that he might not absolutely be said to withdraw his Beams from her Disconsolate Walls left them to the Charge and particular care of the Duke of Albemarle who in all the heat of the Distemper continu'd at White-Hall with a Courage equal to his Dignity And for the better preventing of Tumults a Proclamation was Published Requiring all Disbanded Officers and Souldiers who had serv'd in the Armies of any of the late Vsurped Powers to depart the Cities of London and Westminster and not to return within Twenty Miles of the same till November following And now his Majesties Fleet the damages of those Ships which were damnified in the late Fight being repair'd and several of the Dutch Prizes being fitted for Service began to Embody again so that
with the Moors our nearest Neighbours we must not omit the Actions of those people whose Losses and Successes are to be narrowly observ'd by the English either their Allyes or Enemies Taffalette therefore having Intelligence that the people of Suz had united their Forces with those of Sancta Cruz march'd toward the farther part of Suz with an Army of 140000 Men which at first so Terrified those people that they presented him with their Leaders Head and with great submission begg'd his Pardon In confidence of this Taffalette Marches toward Sancta Cruz but the people Repenting of what they had done underhand renew'd a League with the Governor of that Town and unexpectedly setting upon the Army of Taffalette quite routed it and slew Taffalet's Brother who led the Van himself only escaping with four Horse but being soon recruited he return'd to Sancta Cruz and took it and in a short while recover'd what he had so unadvisedly lost But that which made the greatest noise in the World was the suddain Invasion of Loraine by the King of France For the surprise of which Country Marshal Crequi being sent with a great Army he over-ran the Country like a mighty Torrent insomuch that by the beginning of Winter there was scarce a Town in Lorraine that was not at the French Devotion The designe of the King of France was to lay aside the old Duke and confer the Dutchy on Prince Charles on condition that he should raise the Fortifications of Chastel and Espinal and give up to the King the Marquisate of Nomende Certain it was the King of France did send to the said Prince then at Vienna to offer him the Possession of Lorrain on condition he would hold it of him and to maintain no greater Number of Forces than he should think fit telling him withal that he were best have a care that upon his refusal the Duke of Guise did not accept of it upon the same terms The old Duke thus outed of all wandred up and down from place to place begging Ayd of the Neighbouring Princes who promis'd fair but did little more than come to a conditional Agreement for the raysing Forces for the common good and safety of the Empire This Alarm'd not only the Dutch on the one side but the Switzers on the other the Effect of which was that it made them both careful to put themselves into the best posture of Defence they might While this part of Europe is thus preparing for Mischief we find Russia over-whelm'd with an Inundation of Rebellion where one Stephen Radskin a Tumultuous Ring-leader having Poyson'd the Rabble with the fair pretences of Liberty the common motives to Insurrection of a small Snow-bal grew to a mountainous Number and having seiz'd the great Kingdoms of Astracan and Casan and got into his Possession the Treasures of the Great Duke in the chief City of Astracan he grew Potent and Formidable and made up for the City of Mosco it self taking upon him the Title of Duke Radzin But at length after a short Reign and having glutted himself with the Blood of as many Muscovitish Nobility as fell into his Power he was overthrown by Dolkerouski General to the Emperor and his whole Power totally disperst Anno Dom. 1671. IN the beginning of this Year dyed Her Royal Highness Anne Dutchess of York Wife to his Royal Highness the Duke of York and Daughter to the Earl of Clarendon being shortly after privately Interr'd in Henry the Seventh's Chappel at Westminster The Parliament still sitting had by this time prepar'd several other Acts ready for the Kings Royal Assent which the King being present in the House of Lords as readily pass'd The chiefest and most of Publick Concern was The Addition which they made to the King's Revenue by an Imposition upon Proceedings at Law not being unmindful of setling such differences as might arise about Houses burn'd in the Fire of London taking care also to prevent the Disorders of Seamen and the Imbezelment of the King's Stores After which they were again Prorogu'd to the 16th of April next ensuing However before they disperst both Houses met in a Body in the Banqueting-House where they made an 〈…〉 That the King would be pleased by His own Example to 〈…〉 the constant wearing the Manufactures of his own Kingdom and discountenance the use of Manufactures made in Forrein Countries who kindly receiving the Address told them That he had as little us'd in his own Person Forrein Manufacturs as any and would discountenance them for the future in those that should Nor must we pass by the Death of the Earl of Manchester Lord Chamberlain of His Majesties Houshold a Knight of the Garter and a Privy Councellor though his loss was soon recompenc'd by the succession of the Earl of St. Albans Soon after dy'd the Lord Chief Justice Keeling into whose Place the Lord Chief Justice Hale was immediately Sworn in his Place Sir Edward Turnor was made Lord Chief Baron and Sir Francis North Sollicitor-General Nor was it fit the Offices of such Eminent Ministers of Justice should be vacant when such Criminals were to be examin'd as were soon after discovered For upon the ninth of this Moneth four men coming to the Keeper of the Jewel-House in the Morning and desiring to see the Regal Crown were carried into the Room where it was kept but they Stabbing and Gagging the Keeper an ancient man and putting the Crown and Ball into two Bags which they had brought for that purpose fairly walk'd away and had almost past all the Sentinels but the Son-in-law of the Keeper casually passing by and seeing the condition his Father lay in run out hastily crying out to the Guards to stop 'um upon this they mending their pace made their own discovery Being then commanded to stand they fir'd a Pistol at the Sentinel but two of them were presently seized carried to White-hall and after Examination sent back again to the Tower to be kept close Prisoners where they had committed the Fact To make an annual Record of St. George's Feast is not necessary but of this as being more singularly Signal it may not be expedient to omit the rehearsal For now it was that the Earl of Carlisle introduc'd between his Royal Highness and Prince Rupert was Install'd as Proxie for the King of Sweden and the Earl of Winchelsey between the Duke of Ormond and the Duke of Buckingham was Install'd as Proxie for the Duke of Saxony both which Princes were invested the year before After them the Duke of Albemarle between the Earl of Sandwich and the Earl of Oxford was Invested in his own Stall Iune was Crown'd with the success of Sir Edward Sprague who being now the King's Admiral in the Mediterranean-Sea met with nine Men of War belonging to Argier together with three Merchant-men neer Bugia who upon his appearance retir'd under the shelter of the Castle and put themselves into the best posture
manner as any of his Ancestors had enjoy'd they also renounc'd that perpetual Edict by which they had oblig'd themselves never to admit of a Stadtholder and discharg'd the Prince of the Oath he had taken never to accept of that Dignity which thing thus begun by a Tumult was afterwards Confirm'd in a full Assembly of the States General There were at this time taken from them by the French several Towns and Forts some of them of great Importance and by the Bishop of Munster six and besides this by the former Maestricht by the latter Groninghen Besiedg'd their Fleet in Port patching up their bruises Yet now the King of England compassionating their Condition and believing those misfortunes might have rendred 'um more humble sent over the Duke of Buckingham and the Earl of Arlington to try if now at length they would hearken to any Reasonable Terms of Accommodation It was remarkable with what joy and satisfaction they were receiv'd by the People the Men Women and Children joyning in their Acclamations as they pass'd along the Streets God bless the King of England God bless the Prince of Orange and the Devil take the States They passed from Holland through the Prince of Orange's Camp to Vtrecht where they found the King of France who had now reduc'd the whole Province of whom they had their Publick Audience in the Camp thither likewise came the Lord Hallifax sent by the King of England as his Envoy Extraordinary and was after his Audience joyn'd with them in Commission being thus all together they attended the Motion of the Camp in expectation of Plenipotentraries from Holland upon their last Proposition While they are upon Extraordinary Affairs abroad Henry Coventry Esq now return'd from Sweden is made Secretary of State at home in the room of Sir Iohn Trevor deceas'd and the Duke of Richmond Arrives in Sweden Embassador Extraordinary from the Court of England where he afterwards Dy'd Toward the Latter end of this Month the Duke of Buckingham Earl of Arlington and Lord Hallifax Arriv'd at White-Hall having expected fourteen days in the French Camp the return of the Dutch Deputies so that all which they effected at that time was a Promissory Act between the two Kings not to treat or conclude without a Participation and Inclusion of each others Interests which was afterwards form'd into Articles and Ratifi'd and Exchang'd with the French Embassadour at London The King of France had now drawn the Gross of his Army from the Neighbourhood of Amsterdam Marching for Boys-le-dâ—c and Maestricht both which he left block'd up the first by Turenne the second by Chamille and being satisfi'd at present with the Victorious Progress he had made return'd for Paris Yet the taking of Nimmenghen by Storm wherein were made Prisoners of War 4000 of the best Soldiers which the Dutch had and the appearance of the English Fleet upon the Coast of Holland was occasion enough to continue the Tumults and Insurrections which were now so general that there was scarce a Town in Holland where the people were not Masterless 'T is true the heat of Action began to cool for some time nor did the English Fleet do any thing more considerable but onely keep the Seas besides that they mist the taking of the Dutch East-Indie-Fleet of which there was only this account that the Cambridge and Bristol being upon the Scout had met with the East Indie-Fleet with whom there happen'd a smart Encounter insomuch that the Cambridge was forc'd to ly by to splice her Rigging and that though they both followed 'um again and gave 'um many Broad-sides yet because they could no way separate 'um nor the Bristol could carry out her lower tire they were forc'd to quit the Fight Only one ship too severely chac'd was forc'd to destroy her self This Moneth the Earl of Essex arriv'd in Ireland and having taken the usual Oath had the Sword delivered to him as Lord-Deputy of Ireland in the room of the Lord Berkley In Holland the Prince of Orange being now setled in the Supream Authority did not a little win the favour of the people by endeavouring to call to an account the chief of those who had been their former Leaders Among the rest he Imprisons Ruart Van Putten and his Brother De Wit Van Putten was accus'd of an Intention to have destroyed the Prince of Orange by the assistance of a Barber who was to have receiv'd from him a considerable sum of Money for doing it The Court of Holland upon examination of their Crimes having Condemned both the Brothers to lose all their dignities and employments and ordered 'um to quit the Country as Banish'd men Thereupon De Wit goes to the Prison to fetch away his Brother but the people being incensed that they deserved a greater punishment as they were coming out again forc'd 'um back again broke open the Prison-door hal'd 'um out and thus the Rabble having got 'um into their possession never left till they had beat and trampled 'um to death This not sufficing they dragg'd their dead Bodies about the Streets cut off their Fingers and Ears and then hung 'um up naked by the Heels upon the Gallows such was the miserable end of those two Brothers The first good fortune that befel the Dutch next to that of the escape of their East-Indie Fleet was the defence of Groninghen to which the Bishop of Munster had laid a most furious and close Siege but notwithstanding all his fury after several attacques and the loss of many men was at length forced to break up his Siege and depart having battered and burnt down above two hundred Houses with his Guns and Granadoes The Dutch had no question promised themselves great matters from the Emperour but there was nothing appear'd to give them any hopes till at length a general Treaty was concluded for the publick Security and general Defence of the Empire at Ratisbone which though it prov'd slow as passing three Colledges That of the Electors That of the Princes and That of the Free-Towns yet after this Conclusion the Imperial Forces being upon their march from one side and the Brandenburgher on the other to make a conjunction upon the Frontiers of the Enemy made a very seasonable diversion to give the Netherlander some breathing time so that Turenne was forc'd to draw off to attend their motion toward Leipstadt and the Bishop of Munster thought it convenient to look toward his own Territories for fear of the Brandenburgher So that now the Prince of Orange had some time to look after the Civil affairs and to settle disorders at home which he did by a change of the Magistrates in most of the Towns of the Low Countries wherein he was not a little encouraged by the satisfaction which it gave the generality of the people who now began to bâ— by little and little better composed in their mindes In England the Parliament
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
Mentz and Collen at odds 547 Messiah counterfeit 548 Meetings supprest 573 Middleton now a Parliamentarian General 62. Taken 301. Seeking aid from the Dutch 344. Lands in Scotland 358 Militia Ordinance 29 30. Petitioned by the Parliament 30 to 33. Messages about it ibid. On foot in Lincoln-shire 34 Mings Sir Christopher chaced the Dutch 544. Sails for the Coast of Sweden 545. General Wrangle comes aboard him ibid. Miracle ominous 390 Mohun Lord for the King Lord Hopton Sir John Berkley and Col. Ashburnham Commissioners for the King in the West 43 Montross Marq. his Battles and activity 73 74. His Declaration 254. Tragedy and death from 255 to 266. His Interment 497 Monarchy the antient and only British Government 223. Abolished in Scotland by English States 308 Monke a Colonel from Ireland to assist the King taken prisoner at Namptwich and thence to the Tower of London 53. To Ireland again 123. General his acts in Ireland for the pretended States 237. He had the honour of Dunbar 274. In Scotland 358. In Sir George Booths c. 426. Secures the Scotch Nobility 427. Declares against the proceedings of Lambert c. And secures Anabaptist Officers maintains intelligence in England and protracts time by offers of Composure 430 431. Sends Commissioners to London they agree to no purpose obtains his desire of the Scotch Convention 432. Signifies his coming to London 435. His passage and Narrative of his Cabal 436 437. Thanked by the Parliament 442. The great instrument of the Restitution Meets the King at Dover 450. Dignified with the Order of the Garter 451. With the title of Duke of Albemarle 455 Monmoth betrayed and regained 64 Monmouth Duke made Capt. Kings Guard 568. His valour at Maestricht 596. Made Chancellor of Cambridge 599 Monro Sir George defeated 247. His enterprize in Ulster 250 Modiford Sir Thomas in Jamaica 530 Mordant Lord John seized 403. Tryed and quitted 404. Summoned 423 Morris Col. Executed 254 Moor Lord 240 Morpeth Earl affronted in Holland 532 Moreland Sir Samuel 448 Mother of Cromwel dies 366 Montague Gen. 416. Dignified with the Earldome of Sandwich 455. To Algier and Lisbon 500. Brings home the Queen 507 Mulgrave Earl made Knight of the Garter 598 Munster success in Holland 544 Munson Lord Sir Henry Mildmay and Wallop Sentenced 501 Musco alteration in their Religion intended 558 Myn Colonel slain and his party routed by Massey 64 N Naerden taken from the Dutch 597 Nailor James the Quaker personates our Saviour 384. Sentenced ibid. Released by the Rump 426 Newburg Prince arrives in England 602 Newberry disorders 525 Newark yielded 701 Newcastle Earl afterwards Marquiss 42. Besieged in York 58. Disswades fighting after the defeat at Marston-moor sets sail for Hamburgh with most of the Nobility and Officers of his party 61 Newcastle taken 67 New-park given the City by the Rump 235 News of the Change by Cromwel acceptable to the King at Paris 344 New-buildings 392 Nimmegen taken 586 No Address votes 162 Nobility of the Loyal and Presbyterian party 444 Noblemen English for the Scotch peace against Strafford's advice 15. Summoned to a general Council at York ibid. Conclude the Peace ibid. Secured by the Rump in the Tower 753 Nobles their Catalogue 488 Nonconformists increase in the Reigns of Qu. Elizabeth and King James 2 Indulged 582 Norfolk-Insurrection 278 Northampton burnt 602 North Sir Francis Lord Chief-Iustice of the Common-pleas 599 Northumberland Earl General of the Scots second expedition 22. His reasons to reject the Ordinance for the Trial of the King 194 Northampton Earl 42. Killed 44 Northern Counties oppressed by the Scots 120 Norton Colonel 66 Norwich Earl General in Kent at Rochester and Black-heath at Bow and Stratford 174 Nuntio of the Popes in Ireland his business 123. Party in Ireland 238 Nye one of the Commissioners for approbation with Lockier 359 O Oblivion Act by the Parliament 309 Oblivion Act by the King 456. Another 590 Obstructions in sales of Kings and Queens Lands c. removed 310 Okey Col. dismist from Command 366 Okey Berkstead and Corbet seized in Holland tried and Executed 505 506 Omens and Prognostications of the Dutch War 315 O Neal Hugh put into Clonmel 248. Defends it very handsomly 252 O Neal joyns with the Independant-party 237 O Neal Sir Phelim hanged 333 Opdam made Lieutenant-Admiral in place of Van Tromp 349 Orange Prince arrives in England 578. Made Captain-General in Holland 579 584. Declared Stadtholder 586 Order for the Murther and Execution of the King 217 Ordinances of Parliament obeyed as Acts 36. For tryal of the King disputed and thrown aside by the Lords entituled by the Iuncto and passed as an Act 194 to 196. Ordinances published in Parliament 364 Orleans Dutchess comes into England 577. Dies ibid. Ormond Marquiss Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland 53. Capitulates with the Parliament Commissioners 164. Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland 238. He hath no power to punish any faults or Delinquents 243. Recruits his Forces and Garrison-Towns ibid. Makes agreement with O Neal by means of Daniel O Neal his Nephew 244. Resolves to fight Cromwel before Duncannon 246. Before Carrick 247. But disappointed he leaves Ireland 277. Hardly escapes out of Sussex 401. Main Instrument of the Restitutioâ— Made Earl of Brecknock 455. To Ireland Lord-Lieutenant 511. Duke of Ormond Chancellor of Oxford 571. Assaulted in the Night 578 Osborne Sir Thomas Lord-Treasurer 591 Other House meet and fawn upon the Commons 399. The Names of the Members ibid. Overton Maj. Gen. seized in Scotland 366 Overton Colonel 469 Owen Dr. preacheth before the Protector and Parliament 382 Owen Ro the great Rebel dies 248 Oxford the Kings chief Quarters and Court 47. Besieged by Fairfax 75. Yielded 106 P Pack Alderman 374 and 386 Palaffi Imbre revolts from the Emperour 548 Parliament in Ireland 4. Grant Subsidies to carry on the Scotch War 20 Parliament in England called and dissolved and why 12 Parliament in Scotland and Assembly and adjourned 17. Meet again and order their Army to march into England 13 Parliament meets at Oxford 56 Long Parliament 15. Enact a Triennial one 18. Deny his Majesties desire of going for Ireland the reasons 32 33. Forbid any resort to the King but his Servants Arm the several Counties Admit of no ways of accommodation 35. Arm and fight c. and having prevailed agree not about disposing the King 113 114 121. Buy the King from the Scots after much tampering and send Propositions to the King 118 119 121. Are refractory to all his condescentions offers and messages as appears 121. New Speakers 139. Fugitive Members sit with the Army in Council 140. Constrained to humour a Treaty in the Isle of Wight 158. Four Bills passed as Preliminaries with Proposals ibid. Necessitated to vote a personal Treaty the votes of Non-addresses cancell'd 180 181. Agree to his Majesties condescention as a ground for Peace 192. Forced by the Army ibid. Turned into a Iuncto 193. Parliament-men twelve a penny 339. Dissolved the manner of
〈…〉 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
retire with great loss Makes peace Duke of Yorks Son Christened Parliament Proroguâ—d August The manner of the Translation of the Archbishop of Canterbury Kings Progress Scotch Parliament Bishop of London one of the Kings Council Iudge Jenkins dies Dutch surpriz'd by the Turk Pope and K. of France differ They come to an Agreement The Turks Bâ—siege New-hausel New-hausel surrender'd Count Serini beats the Turks at the River Mur. The Portugals take Ginaldo in Galicia and totally rout the Spaniards The Protestants of Piedmont defeat the Forces of the Duke of Savoy Traytors executed Disorders at Newbury Sir Thomas Doleman seiseth upon the chief sticklers Jews expell'd Tangier Sir Richard Fanshaw Embassador in Spain English Complaints against the Dutch Resolves of the Houses therein The King declares himself Sir John Lawson with a Fleet for the Streights Buchanans Bank burned in Scotland A Proclamation agâ—inâ—t Contributions c. 〈…〉 rous Tartar Barbado's â—eâ—â—ir Sir John Lawson proclaims War against Argier A Memorandum deliver'd the States Parâ—iaâ—â—â—t Proâ—ogâ—ed The King sends to the City for Mony Granted Earl of Teviot kill'd Turks defeated Turks a second time defeated Lawson callâ—d home Capt. Allen in his room Embassadors sent abroad Sir G. Downing sent into Holland Naval preparations A second Loan by the City Dutch Bravado Prince Rupert at Sâ—a The D. of York set forth to Sea Opdam dares not adventure out The Dutch lay up their Fleet. Dutch Burdeaux-Fleet taken Duke of York returns to London Earl of Sandwich keeps the Sea Royal Katherine and Royal Oak Launched The States disappointed by the English Dutch Scandalous Libel Dutch Desâ—gnes The Condition 〈◊〉 the Dutch with other Kingdoms De Ruyter Sayls for Guiny Smyrna Fleet Encountr'd by Cap. Allen. Sir Tho. Modeford Arrives at Iamaica Act for the Royal Ayd Parliament Prorogu'd Seamen Encourag'd Reprisals granted against the Dutch Feb. 1664 5 Declaration of War against the Dutch Another Dutch Libel Dutch Embassies prove frâ—â—â—less Earl of Morpeth affronted by the Hollander Major Holms committed Dischargâ—d Forein Ministers complain in Holland Capt. Allen returns Dutch Manufactures prohibited Peace with Gayland Sir C Cotterel sent to Bruxels English Fleet ready to set sail Duke of York goes aboard English Fleet upon the Dutch Coast. English Officers cashier'd in Holland Cessation of Arms between the Turk and Emperor Grand Seignior leaves Constantinople Sireni kill'd The French at Gigery Portugals Victory Sedition in Avignon Lisle killâ—d April 1655. English Fleet at Sea French Embassador expostulates with the Dutch Embargo in France upon the Dutch Embargo in Holland upon the English Dutch endeavour to amuse the Common people French Embassadors to England Dutch Libel against the English Valkenburghs Letter Guinee Relation Dutch ill treated in Russia General Fast. Ships taken by the English Everts taken Dismiss'd Order and Discipline of the English Fleet. Two Dutch East-India Ships taken Duke of York makes for the Coast of Holland Several Holland Merchant-Men taken Smyrna Ships sunk Lord Bellasis Governour of Tangier The Moors shew themselves without Effect English Merchants return safe home De Ruyter attempts the Barbadoes Lord Willoughby wounded by Allen. Duch at Sea Their Numbers Captain Nixon Executed June 1664. Parl. Proroguâ—d A Curiosity A Loss The Duke of York Ingaging the Dutch Fleet gain'd a very â—â—cal Victory July 1665. The Sickness Queen Mother returns for France The King at Oxford Duke of Albemarle stays in London Disaffected Officers order'd to depart the City English Fleet Rendezvouse Bankert returns De Ruyter Sails for New-found-Land The Stroaker Casualty in Norfolk A General Fast King goes to Portsmouth to the Isle of Wight and returns for Sallsbury Parl. Prorogu'd De Ruyter returns into Holland and is made Admiral Dutch loss in China Bishop of Munster threatens Holland August Dutch Assayl'd by Tyddeman in Bergen East-Indie Ships taken Sept. 4. Parliament sits in the Schools at Oxford Octob. 10. His Majesty's Speech The Commons Answer Parliament Prorogu'd Thanks of the House given to the University Duke of Ormond returns into Ireland November 1665. Term at Oxford Captain Howard 's Valour against the Dutch Dutch Embassador recall'd out of England The King's Letter to the Dutch Munster active against the Dutch King of France supplies the Dutch Munster 's Success in Holland Lunenburg excuses himself to the King of England French King declares war against England January 1665. February the King of England declares War with France Sir Christopher Mimms Chases the Dutch Pestilence abates and the King returns to White-Hall Parl. Prorogu'd Earl of Sandwich sent Embassadour into Spain Peace made with the Moors in Africa General Wrangle comes aboard Sir Jeremy Smith Nonconformist Ministers suppress'd in Scotland Parliament in Ireland Irish Traytors there examin'd King of Poland 's ill success Lubomirsky revolts German Princes quarrel Beaufort encounters the Argier Pyrates in Argier Portugals defeat the Spaniards English bravery in Portugal The Emperour's Brother deceased Peace made between the Empâ—â—oâ— and the Turk Turkish Embassadâ—r's present to the Emperor Savoy and Genoua at odds Mentz and Collen Electors reconcil'd Portugueses make an inroad into Spain Brandenburg takes Arms and expostulates with the Dutch Queen-Mother of France dies The Venetian and the Pope differ A counterfeit Messiah appears among the Jews Another Jewish Prophet in Arabia Foelix Turkish Embassadour's Secretary turns Christian. Palaffi Imbre revolts from the Emperour King of Spain dy'd March Governor of Jamaica assaults the Ducth Plantations in America Dutch conclude Peace with the Dane Swede stands firm to England April 6. Parliament Prorogu'd A Proclamation requiring Desborough and others to return into England Plotters Try'd at the Old-Baily Condemned and Executed Earl of Sandwich Arrives at Madrid Lord Hollis returns from France The Fleet ready A French Drag came to nothing Iune The Fleet divided A Fight for two days together maintain'd by the Duke of Albemarie The Fight renew'd Prince Rupert appears Sir George Ayscue Prisoner July The City furnish the King with 100000 l. The Dutch out again The English at their hâ—els Another Engagement English Loss Dutch Loss Sir Robert Holmes enters the Vly Burns 160 sail of ships He lands on the Schelling and burns a Town The Dutch at Sea again The English follow them close but stormy Weather hinders any attempt Monsiâ—ur de la Roche taken in the Ruby Tromp and De Ruyter fall out A designe upon Guernsey discovered Spies hanged The dreadful Fire of London The King and the Duke of York take great pains to prevent it Suspected persons Imprisoned An Observation The King takes care to relieve the distressed A General Fast. His Majesties Declaration concerning the Re-building of the City Val. Knight committed for dangerous advice about it Parliament reassembles They thank the King for his care in the War Vote a Supply of 1800000 l. Another Supply of 1250000 l. A Court of Iudicature Erected for deciding differences in the City His Majesties Horse-Guard burn'd Proclamation prohibiting Importation of Canary The Parliaments
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
Commanders in the like nature besides Plundrings what hath been taken going out of the Land to the King Lastly Monthly Taxes upon all the Lands in the associated Counties and the Cities of London and Westminster besides what they took for Contribution in their Garrisons c. which came to 60000 l. a month and so given in if not more and by the year amounts to 720000 l. and in five years comes to 3600000 l. and is 360 Waggons loading of silver at 10000 l. a Waggons loading And this higher afterwards This in five years time amounted besides the Customs and the Kings Revenues and Ecclesiastical Profits sequestred in their hands to neer 20000000. But he that is able to reckon what the Sales of the same lands of King Queen and Prince Bishops Deans and Chapters the Nobility and Gentry as Delinquents together with the Monthly assessment at the same time of 100000 and 120000 per mensem come to Erit mihi magnus Apollo I mention not Decimation nor the Piedmont-Sacriledge nor other slier Artifices of Cromwel nor the Prize-money c. But if an estimate be taken of their gettings by their spending let that almost insuperable debt left upon the Kingdom and discharged by the King upon his Return be the unenvied testimony thereof Vale. A CHRONICLE OF THE CIVIL WARS OF ENGLAND SCOTLAND and IRELAND THE FIRST PART BEING The Commons War NO higher or greater cause can be assigned for this War setting aside the sins of all Times and Nations to which the Justice of Heaven is seldome long a Debtor but the fate and catastrophe of Kingdoms and Monarchies which do at certain periods of time taste of that vicissitude and mutability to which all other sublunary things are more frequently subjected The secondary causes of it are so many and so uncertain so variously reported and believed that it would spend much of the paper allotted to this History in ascertaining them Therefore to contain and keep within the limits of this designment something onely shall be said of them that was obvious to every eye not savouring of partiality or affection Many disorders and Irregularities no doubt there were in the State contracted through a long and lazy peace bolstred up with an Universal trade which procured a general wealth the Parents of Wantonnesses the excess of National riches being but as the burden which the Ass carries and mistakes for provender people being onely the better able to sustain their future misery with their present plenty These conceived abuses in the manage of the State like ill humours where they finde an equal resistance or over-power of nature sunk and descended upon the Ecclesiastical Regiment too impotent to sustain those general assaults which were given it No storms or tempests can be raised or maintained below without the Celestial influences or disturbances in the upper Region nor often are there any Commotions or Wars among or in Nations where Religion which ought to be the peaceablest and most innocent perswasion is not the Primum Mobile the great mover of the Machine of Destruction Quantum Religio potuit suadere malorum Nothing from abroad could any way break off that continued series of peace we had so long enjoyed we had made the Nations round about us to wonder at and to dread the putting forth of that strength which had been matured and ripened by the sunshine of so great a prosperity so many years together while the world about us was hurled into the confusions of Ruine and War ready to become a prey to the next potent Invasion Strange moreover it is That the miserable Distractions and Confusions which ensued should be derived from no greater beginnings then a few Ceremonies in the Church that War which stands upon none should be founded and fixt upon them and yet nothing more certain can be charged with the guilt of so much misery as these Kingdoms so long suffered under but the Cavils Discontents and disputes about them A grudging there was for many years before in the Raigns of Queen Elizabeth and King Iames in whose days and at his first assumption to this Crown a Conference was before him managed by the Reformists about them where that learned King so justified the use of them that for a while all obâ—oquâ—es against them were silenced and the Church and State enjoyed its greatest blessings of Peace and Uniformity Nor was there much noise about them in the beginning of the Raign of King Charles but towards the middle it began to threaten a storm in the year 1635. towards the conclusion whereof some Uproars and Commotions were raised decrying those Ceremonial Rites used and practised in the Church such being the ushering in by a general murmur what was plainly and distinctly declared in the beginning of the year 1637. from whence this Chronicle takes its rise by Mr. Pryn Dr. Bastwick and Mr Burton seconded and asserted by that famously known person Iohn Lilburn These men though questionless from different grounds and respects as this age hath lived to see by Mr. Pryn who proved a great and happy instrument in the Kings Restitution and consequently the resettlement of the Church printed several Books against the aforesaid Ceremonies for these Books they were apprehended which were charged also to be full of Invectives against the Bishops and Episcopal Government and were severely censured in the Star-Chamber to the exasperation of a great part of the Kingdom They were all three sentenced to be set in the Pillory and to have their ears cut off Mr. Pryn to be stigmatized on both cheeks each of them fined five thousand pounds apiece to the King and to be imprisoned during the Kings pleasure which was accordingly executed in every point of the sentence and as valiantly and stoutly undergone by these sufferers who after they had stood in the Pillory three thereof being set up in the Palace-yard at Westminster were sent to remote Castles in the adjacent Isles of Guernsey and Iersey from whence as we shall see hereafter they were brought back to London I may not dis-joyn the story of Iohn Lilburn from theirs though divided by time he suffering the year after being whipt at a carts tail for imprinting and vending several Books of the same purport and contents against the Bishops This man proved a great trouble-world in all the variety of Governments afterward being chief of a faction called Levellers he was a great proposal-maker and modeller of State which by his means was always restless in the Usurpation He died a Quaker and such as his life was such was his death This year also Dr. Williams then Bishop of Lincoln and Dean of Westminster formerly Lord Keeper relapsed again into the Kings disfavour for some dishonourable words uttered against the King which were taken hold of and prosecuted in the Star-Chamber where he was fined ten thousand pounds though his enemies would rather have had him resigned his
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
their expert General to boyl and beat their Bed-cords to make Match of it But long they were not surrounded in that untenable place before Prince Maurice the Earl of Carnarvan the Lord Wilmot and Lord Biron with 1500 choyce Horse came to their rescue and presented themselves on the 13 of the same Month by break of day to the Enemies Leaguer and having given a signe to their Friends within fell with much valour on their Enemies and routed them on Round-way-down Which Onset being seconded from the Foot within proved a total rout to the Enemy whose Curassiers under Sir Arthur Hazlerig made some resistance but being once broken became the ruine of the Infantry who presently submitted and had quarter given them Here were slayn 800 besides what fell in the pursuit which was continued ten miles an end with great Fury but then their tired Horses began to lag And so Sir William and Sir Arthur came first to Bristol thence to Farnham and from thence with expedition to London There were taken two Thousand Prisoners four Brass Guns with their Ammunition and Baggage eight and twenty Colours and nine Corners Upon this fortunate day the Queen with the King from Edge-Hill made her joyful Entry into Oxford and not long after the Earl of Lindsey who was taken Prisoner when his Father was killed at Edge-Hill was welcomed to the Court there from his restraint This loss soon reduced Bristol into the Kings hands being delivered by Colonel Fiennes after three days siege to Prince Rupert for which surrender he had like to have lost his head These successes drew the King into the West where Dorchester Portland Weymouth and Melcomb submitted themselves Bidiford Appleford and Barnstable surrendred and after a little dispute before Exeter and some Granadoes thrown in and firing part of the Suburbs the great Sconce being taken in storm that City was delivered to Prince Maurice and Sir Iohn Berkly made Governour We must retrospect a little lest the hurrying of the War carry us from other remarkables The Marquess of New-Castle a little before Fryday Iune 30 obtained a victory over the Lord Fairfax at Adderton-Heath where he routed the Parliamentarians gained their five pieces of Cannon and so amazed them that they fled to Leeds which way was precluded and obstructed then to Bradford in their flight whither he took and killed two thousand while Fairfax hardly escaped to Leeds with the Convoy of one Troop of Horse The next day the said Earl came before Bradford which after the Battering of forty great Shot he took with two thousand more of the same party the next morning with all their Arms and Ammunition Hereupon Hallifax was quitted by the Parliamentarians and Sir Hugh Cholmley took Beverley The Lady Aubigney Wife to that Noble Lord who dyed of his wounds at Edge-Hill had brought to London according to the intelligence and desires of some Citizens of London from the King a Commission of Array the designe whereof was that they should seize into their custody the Kings Children some Members of Parliament the Lord Mayor and Committee of the Militia all the City Outworks and Forts the Tower of London and all the Magazines Then to let in the Kings Army to surprize the City to destroy all opposers and this grounded upon refusal of paying of Taxes imposed without Authority The Plot however came to be discovered and great noise was made about it The principal men were Mr. Edward Waller a Parliament-man who with much ado and great friends came off with the fine of ten thousand pounds Some Lords were suspected to favour the business also Mr. Tompkins Clerk of the Queens Council Mr. Chaloner a Linen-Draper Mr. Hasel Mr. Blinkborn Mr. White and others These were all Arraigned before a Council of War at Guild-Hall where four of the last were sentenced to be hanged and two of them suffered accordingly leaving sad and mournful Widows behind them for their Loyalty and affection to their Soveraign The Parliament now set a Fine of twenty thousand pounds upon Judge Berkley who had been a long time Prisoner for encouraging the designe of Ship-money he is likewise voted incapable of any Office or Dignity in the Commonwealth and to remain in Prison during pleasure By the King it was concluded to set upon Glocester being the only considerable place that held out for the Parliament in the West and lay very inconvenient hindering the intercourse betwixt Wales and the West-Countries In order whereunto his Majesty on the tenth of August came from Oxford in Person before it with a Royal Army while it was hardly imaginable where the Parliament could raise another Army and that done to march for London which proved a Fatal mistake to the King for if he had gone directly for London there was no opposition in readiness against him nor any place to stay him The King being resolved to gain Glocester after Prince Rupert had summoned it at a distance having close begirt it and being displeased that such a forlorn City should stand out against him yet desirous to gain it without blood and loss of time which seemed then precious in his Career of victory sent in this honourable Summons by two Heraulds CHARLES REX OVt of Our tender compassion to Our City of Glocester and that it may not receive any prejudice by Our Army which We cannot prevent if We be compelled to assault it We are therefore personally come before it to require the same and are graciously pleased to let all the Inhabitants of and all other persons within that City as well Souldiers as others know that if they shall immediately submit themselves and deliver this City to Vs We are contented freely and absolutely to pardon every one of them without exception and do assure them on the Word of a King that they nor any of them shall receive the least damage or prejudice by Our Army in their persons and estates but that We will appoint such a Governour and a moderate Garrison to reside there as shall be both for the ease and security of that City and the whole Country But if they shall neglect this offer of Grace and Favour and compel Vs by the power of Our Army to reduce that place which by the help of God We shall easily and shortly be able to do they must thank themselves for all the calamities and miseries which shall befall them To this Message We expect a clear and positive answer within two hours after the publishing hereof and by these presents do give leave to any persons safely to repair to and return from Vs whom that City shall desire to employ unto Vs in that business And We do require all the Officers and Souldiers of Our Army quietly to suffer them to pass accordingly To this Summons an Answer was returned in Writing delivered by Major Pudsey and a Citizen in these Words WE the Inhabitants
the Gallows †Col. Thomas Harrison the Son of a Butcher at Newcastle-under-line in Stafford-shire once Servant to Mr. Hulker an Attorney He betook himself to the Army in the beginning of the Wars and by Preaching and such-like sanctity came to be a Major where his pragmatical spirit cherished by Cromwel preferred him to a Colonel and the custody of the Kings person when taken from the Isle of Wight which he mos◠irreverently abused by no less sawcie behaviour than Treasonable speeches He was afterwards the great Captain of all the Schismatiques especially Fifth-Monarchy-men in whose love and no others he died and was expectedly Executed at Charing-Cross in that expiatory Month of October 1660. †Iohn Carew Brother of Sir Alexander Carew beheaded in 1644. This person was no doubt deluded by the mistaken impulses of Satan for those of the Spirit being a Rank Fifth-monarchist and so pre-disposed against all Government and Authority which he helped to strike at in the death of the King †Iohn Cook the Sollicitor of the High Court whose Plea charitably taken is his best Character that his Crime was not out of Malice but Avarice being a poor man and in a wanting Condition before he undertook this most scelerate piece of Service Better be out of practice than in such as this †Hugh Peters the shame of the Clergy a Pulpit-Buffoon a seditious abominable Fellow Trumpet to this Pageantry of a High Court of Justice the most unparallell'd Ecclesiastick in all Story or Times †Thomas Scot a Brewers Clerk then turned Country-Attorney and by countenance of the Grandees was chosen a recruit for the Borough of Wickham in the County of Buckingham so violent an Enemy of the Kings that he wished for no other Epitaph or Inscription on his Grave than Here lies Thomas Scot one of the King's Iudges but he should first have wished for a Grave †Gregory Clement a Merchant who procured and purchased a place in Parliament by the same means as he did his lustful debaucheries for the notoriety of which his Fellow-villains discarded him their Company He contributed to the destruction of his Sovereign that he might Reign in his own wickedness †Adrian Scroop a Colonel of Horse very active against the Kings Party in 1648. and more diligent against his Life and Honour at this High Court of Justice 'T is sad to think he should be allied to so Honourable a Family and so deserving and Noble a Gentleman of his own name Sir Adrian Scroop Knight of the Bath 13 Caroli 2. †Col. Iohn Iones a Serving-man of a mean fortune till the times which afforded him advantages among the ruined Loyal Welch where he was first a great Committee-man and then a recruit to the Parliament and married one of Cromwels Sisters who had as many Females to bestow as a Cardinal and might therefore be presumed on to make one in this Tragedy †Francis Hacker a Souldier of Fortune of notable Resolution and Conduct the success whereof wrought him into Cromwels familiarity from whence he had not the faculty or power to recede but was charmed into this desperate designe his being the last hand through which it passed to the Scaffold †Daniel Axtel a kind of Country-Mercer in Bedfordshire obeyed the Call as he said of the seditious Pulpits and went forth some small Officer to fight against the Mighty after many Traverses was made Lieutenant-Colonel and employed by Cromwel out of favour to him as the ready way to Greatness to be Captain of the Guard at the Kings Trial where he made his Ianizaries by blows and threats to cry out Iustice and Execution He was guilty of a great deal more but not to be mentioned with this blood in Ireland and had gotten a pretty soul Estate †Col. Okey formerly a Stoker in a Brew-house then a Chandler near Billingsgate but leaving his Trade for his hopes in the War passed through the several Commands to that of a Colonel in a very short space of time He was a daring bold Commander which rendred him open and suitable to Cromwels designes who likewise bewitched him into the Partnership of this accursed Murther †Miles Corbet of a very good Family in Norfolk chosen Burgess for Yarmouth in that County when he had no other advantage but troublesome times to recover himself which he helped forward into the ensuing Calamities Hoc faciunt mores Pontilianae Tui He was one of the Male-content Members of the former Parliament with Sir Iohn Elliot and others and now took the opportunity of wreaking all those old grudges upon the Kings life and to share himself an Estate from several great places in England and Ireland where he was in effect Lord Chancellor †Col. Iohn Berkstead once a sorry Goldsmith in the Strand and having learnt a little City-Souldiery for want of better Commanders was made Captain of a Foot-company under Colonel Ven at Windsor was afterwards Governour of Reading and by his pliantness ingratiated with Oliver who made him one of the Kings Judges afterwards preferred him to the Lieutenancie of the Tower where now his head stands These of the Kings Iudges marked with * are those that died before the Kings Return * Col. Thomas Pride a Brewer to which he ascended from a Dray man by the same steps as from thence he became a Lord he was a resolute ignorant fellow but of very good success and therefore fit to partake with Cromwel and to venture on that prime and hardy work of garbling the Parliament for him That done he deserved any employment from his Master and was put upon this which he discharged with as much brutishness * Col. Isaac Ewer descended of an Antient and Right Honourable Family in Yorkshire but the Patrimony thereof so wasted that this Cadet was forced to be take himself to the wealthier side where he profited alike in Principles He was thought fit because of his Birth to be the Kings Guardian from the Isle of Wight which he performed and afterwards to be his Murtherer His Relacion was chosen one of Olivers Lords of the other House * Thomas Lord Gray of Grooby Son to the Earl of Stamford a Colonel in the Army and so infected By the Honour of his Family he escapes a mention or condemnation for this Crime as well as others * Sir Iohn Danvers Knight Brother to the Earl of Danby a Loyal and Noble Peer Sed scio quis Deus est hunc qui tibi dividit astris The covetousness after his Brothers Estate who was made a Delinquent suckt him in and afterwards swallowed his Name and Honour in this Whirl-pool of confusion and Royal Blood * Sir Thomas Maleverer descended also of a very good Family in Yorkshire but obliged to the kindness of the two last Kings for their Honour which being above his Estate wickedly prompted him for the equalling of it to
Kingdom of England c. Here the Clerk read the Charge Which Charge being read unto him as aforesaid He the said Charles Stuart was required to give his Answer but he refused so to do expressing the several passages of his refusing in the former proceedings For all which Treasons and Crimes this Court doth adjudge that He the said Charles Stuart as a Tyrant Traytor Murtherer and a publike Enemy shall be put to Death by severing his Head from his Body Jan. 27. 1648. Which being read Bradshaw added This Sentence now read and published it is the Act Sentence Judgement and Resolution of the whole Court To which they all expressed their assent by standing up as was before agreed and ordered And then the King not being admitted to reply was taken by his Guards and carried to Sir Robert Cottons the Souldiers as he passed down the Staires scoffing at him and casting the smoak of their Tobacco a thing odious to him in his Face and strewing the Pipes in his way And one more insolent than the rest Spitting in his Face which his Majesty according to his wonted Heroick Patience took no more notice of than to wipe it away As he passed along further hearing the same wretches crying out Justice Execution He said Alass poor souls for a piece of money they would do so for their Commanders Being brought thus to Sir Robert Cottons a house neer adjoyning and thence by water to White-â—all the Souldiers at their Commanders instigation who were set on likewise by Cromwel continued their brutish carriage toward him abusing all that seemed to shew any respect or even compassion to him not suffering him to rest in his Chamber but thrusting in and smoaking their Tobacco and disturbing his privacy But through all these Trials unusual to Princes he passed with such a calm and even temper that he let nothing fall unbeseeming his former Majesty and Magnanimity In the Evening a Member of the Army acquainted the Committee with his Majesties desire that seeing they had passed a Sentence of Death upon him and his time might be nigh he might see his Children and Doctor Iuxon Bishop of London might be admitted to assist him in his private Devotions and receiving the Sacrament Both which at length were granted At this time did some of the Grandees of the Army tempt the King with new Proposals but so destructive to the peoples Liberty and Safety so contrary to his Honour and Conscience and so reproachful to any Christian Government that he with the like courage and constancy which he had shewed throughout his Troubles rejected and chose the Cross to prepare him whereto the Lord Bishop of London on Sunday being that day guarded at Saint Iames's preached before him on these words In the day when God shall judge the secrets of all men by Iesus Christ according to my Gospel On Monday following the day before his death the Duke of Gloucester and the Lady Elizabeth were brought to him whom he most joyfully received and giving his Blessing to the Princess He had her remember to tell her Brother James when even she should see him That it was his Fathers last desire that he should look no more upon Charles as his eldest Brother onely but be obedient unto him as his Sovereign And that they should love one another and forgive their Fathers Enemies And then said unto her Sweet-heart you will forget this No said she I shall never forget it while I live And pouring forth abundance of Tears promised him to write down the particulars Then the King taking the Duke of Gloucester upon his Knee said Sweet-heart now they will Cut off thy Fathers Head upon which words the Child looked very wishfully on him Mark Child what I say They will Cut off my Head and perhaps make thee a King But mark what I say you must nâ—t be a King so long as your Brothers Charles and James do live for they will Cut off your Brothers Heads when they can catch them and Cut thy Head off too at last and therefore I charge you do not be made a King by them At which the Child sighing said I will be torn in pieces first Which falling so unexpectedly from one so young it made the King rejoyce exceedingly Another Relation from the Lady Elizabeths own Hand What the King said to me 29 of January last being the last time I had the happiness to see him He told me he was glad I was come and although he had not time to say much yet somewhat he had to say to me which he had not to another or leave in writing because he feared their Crueltie was such as that they would not have permitted him to write to me He wished me not to grieve and torment my self for him for that would be a glorious Death that he should die it being for the Laws and Liberties of the Land He bid me read Bishop Andrews Sermons Hookers Ecclesiastical Policy and Bishop Laud 's Book against Fisher which would ground me against Poperie He told me he had forgiven all his Enemies and hoped God would forgive them also and commanded us c. to forgive them He bid me tell my Mother that his thoughts had never strayed from her and that his Love would be the same to his last Withal he commanded me and my Brother to be obedient to her And bid me send his Blessing to the rest of my Brothers and Sisters with commendation to all his Friends So after he had given me his Blessing I took my leave Further he commanded us all to forgive those People but never to trust them for they had been most false to him and to those that gave them power and be feared also to their own Souls And desired me not to grieve for him for he should die a Martyr and that he doubted not but that the Lord would settle his Throne upon his Son and that we should all be happier than we could have expected to have been if he had lived With many other things which at present I cannot Remember The same day the Regicides met being sixty four in number at the Painted-Chamber in pursuance of their Bloody Sentence and appointed Sir Hardress Waller Harrison Ireton Dean and Okey to be a Committee to consider of the Time and Place for the Execution who having made a report fourty eight of the Commissioners meeting again the same day made this Resolve Vpon Report made for considering of the Time and Place of the Executing of the Iudgement against the King that the said Committee have Resolved that the open street before White-hall is a fit place and that the said Committee conceive it fit that the King be there Executed to Morrow the King having already notice thereof The Court approved thereof and ordered a Warrant to be drawn for that purpose which Warrant was accordingly drawn and agreed unto and
as from former Oaths were likewise degraded from their Dignity in the City Alderman Culham and Gibs excused themselves by business in the Country at the same time Aâ— Exeter likewise the Mayor and Sheriffs refused to act or joyn in Commission with Baron Wilde sent down that Circuit and divers other places were very stiff in complyance with these new Masters but their Iron Bodies quickly brought them to perform those new Instructions the Parliament had given for altering the Patents and the Oaths of Sheriffs as in all Indictments a little before instead of Contra Coronam Dignitatem they had ordered it Contra Rempublicam pacem publicam and so Mutatis Mutandis To compleat the Martyrology of those that fell with and accompanied their Soveraign Colonel Laugâ—orn Colonel Powel and Colonel Poyer were now brought before a Court Martial for the Welch Insurrection at Saint Fagons and Pembroke where they were all three Condemned but at the importunity of their Wives and Friends the General was pleased to exempt two of them such as the Lot should spare which being delivered out of a Hat by a little Child fell upon Poyer his scroll of Paper being a Blank the other haâ—ing written in it Life given by the Lord. Accordingly Poyer was Executed in Coâ—ent-garden against Bedford-House-wall on the 25 of April where he died in some reluctancy but ought nevertheless to be numbred with other Loyal Sacrifices from whom therefore I could not though against order of time disjoyn him Nor indeed is the thred of this Chronicle possible to keep straight in such a diversity and multitude of transcurrencies which weave it up and down in the various confusions of this new-fashioned State but we shall now proceed more regularly Our Lords a Westminster having lickt their Cub into some form and shewed us a glimpse of its Complexion and how like it was to its monstrous Parent a Rebellion in the shapes ensuing Yet first we must Northward in our way to Scotland and behold Pomfret-Castle that had held out 9 Months now delivered after much debate to Major-General Lambert with this condition That Colonel Morris the Governour and five more should be exempted from Mercy but if they could escape any way they might attempt it betwixt the Agreement and the Surrender the Article to stand force otherwise to all purposes These six-divided themselves into two parties wherâ—of Morris Cornet Blackburn and another broke quite through the Leaguer but the other three were taken the rest of the Garrison had liberty to go home leaving two Months Provision and some Ammunition behind them Lambert was the willinger to give these terms for the easing of the Country which by reason of an Armies lying before it so long was wasted and exhausted of all provisions who to avoid the like future inconveniencies sollicited and procured the Demolition of that Castle which from the Grave of Richard the second became now the Sepulcher of departed Layalty whose last efforts Expired here as became the repository of a Princes Ashes and his Royal Manes There is something to be said in this place concerning the seizing of Lieutenant-Colonel Iohn Lilburn Master Walwyn Master Prince and others of the Levelling Faction which began now to shew it self in the same rise and danger to the Independent Faction as that did to the Presbyterian but we will take that story all together upon which account we refer the Reader likewise as to the sale of the Kings Goods Moveables and Houshouldstuff now condemned there to a more exact account in the year following which begins with the Scotch affairs Anno Dom. 1649. THe Estates and Parliament and the whole nation of Scotland having received Advertisement of the horrible Murther of the King to the impeding whereof they had used what endeavour they could by their Commissioners intermediation at London did with all manifestation and expressions of sorrow bewail and deplore his Death and on the 6 of February ensuing to testifie the truth of their constant Allegiance to the Crown did in most solemn manner Proclaim his Son King Charles the second at Edingburgh the Cross there being hung with Tapistry and the Parliament-Lords in their Robes the Chancellour himself reading the said Proclamation reciting the Murther of the King to the King at Arms and the night concluded with all usual Demonstrations of joy and gladness This being over the Estates sent an expostulatory Letter to their former Brethren at Westminster concerning their proceedings with the King and were in the mean time by Letters flattered with the cajole of good amity and friendship and other fineries from those Regicides with many other flams of advantage if they would concur with or acquieâ—ce in what the Mogens of Independency had done in England But the passion of the Scot as seeing how his Countries Honour had been lost by the same Trayterous proffers boiled too high and would give no ear to such overtures nor would they enter into any Treaty with them nor own them directing their Messages to the Honourable William Lenthall Speaker of the House of Commons unless they were a free Parliaments consisting of both Houses without any force upon or seclusion of their Members The Scots were mainly intent upon another guess Treaty with the King and Sir Ioseph Douglas was ordered to be gone forthwith to give his Mejesty an account at the Hague what they had done and were preparing to do when on a sudden some of the Mackenzeys a great Sept in the North of Scotland and the Lord Freezer's Brother seized Innerness for the King and put them into perpleased Counsels about it The news whereof those at Westminster thought a good occaâ—ion for them to lay hold upon in order to a rupture with their King and when that distemper came to the Head some of the Gourdens whose Father the Marquess of Huntly was Beheaded about the beginning of March when he died a resolute Royalist with Lieutenant-General Middleton who had made an escape from Barwick into those parts and the Lord Rea joyning with them they failed not of doing their devoir by offering their assistance and inceâ—sinâ— the Scots against the King for whose sole sake they said all those Troubles wâ—râ— and still were like to be raised and fomented but Colonel Ker and Straâ—ghan defeating that party killing 400 and taking the Lord Rea and 800 Prisoners and Middleton submitting that disturbance ended and the Kingdom was again reduced into peace and quietness The Commissioners in the mean while were dispatched to the King being one Earl one Lord one Burgess and one Minister of which the Earl of Cassils was the chief and their Commissioners at London viz. the Earl of Lâ—thian Sir Iohn Cheisly and Master Glendonning remanded who having sent a peremptory Paper to the Juncto withdrew themselves privately intending to pass by Sea to Scotland but at Gravesend they were intercepted and by a Guard conveyed by
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
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
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
by the illegal convention of the general Assembly of the Kirk By his Forces thereabouts the Earl of Eglington with his second Son and some other persons of Note were surprized in their designe of raising Forces for the King at Dunbarton His Majesty still continuing at Sterling London the Chancellor being now outed of his Presidentship Mr. Gutbery and Bennet and other Kirk-blades Committed for their refractoriness to the Kings Authority which yet they would not own but as subordinate to the General Assembly But for the prevention of such future sidings and divisions those men had caused a Committee by Parliament was now empowred to manage the War and substitute Officers without any more impertinent reverences to the Presbytery the King being also declared Generalissimo Cromwel after some debates and publike disputes with the Ministers viz. Gillespy Rutherford c. of Glascow aforesaid concerning the lawfulness of his Invasion which he performed as he said in much weakness of both Argument and Body seeing there was no drawing the Scot out that way to fight which way they intended for an undisturbed march marched back to Edenburgh by the beginning of May and in his way burned the Lady Kilsithes House for holding intelligence with the King having notice of the arrival of his Boats at Leith for the Transportation of his Army into Fife which was the last remedy the failure of Victuals in the Scotch Camp which therefore they should be forced to abandon and march proving a meer delusion In the mean while on the 15 of April in a mist the Lord Montgomery Son to the Earl of Eglington and Lord Cranston with 500 Horse and Dragoons marched from Sterling and resolutely charged into Lithgow a Garrison the English had fortified upon their first march to Sterling to the Market-place whence having taken what Prisoners they could in hast meet with they retreated and being pursued by Major Sydenham of Sir Arthur Haslerig's Regiment the Governour in place of Colonel Sanderson lately deceased they faced about and routed him killing most of his Followers to the number of some 60 himself being wounded mortally in the Groyn whereof not long after he died that Government being twice vacated already The Lord Register Warriston now had a Pass from Sterling to come to Edenburgh about the Records and the ships loading that was staid after Cromwels Pass and permission by Articles and prosecuted the business so to effect that the said Goods Papers and lading got before him to Sterling May 31. whither he had no more mind after Cromwel and he had conferred to return The Dutch had now sent Van Trump their Admiral with 12 sail of Men of War to Scilly Island to demand satisfaction for 20 ships which Sir Iohn Greenvile the Governour had seized and had further instructions to Treat with the said Governour which besides the aim this State had to integrate all the Antient Dominions of England under a new Commonwealth did very much enjealous them that that important place might be put into Dutch hands thereupon a Fleet was presently manned for the Reduction of that place and Sir George Ayscue who was then preparing for a Voyage to Barbadoes in the Rainbow and two other Men of War upon the same account was ordered to attend General Blake in that Service who Imbarqued in the Phoenix-Frigat and on the 18 of May with great resolution he landed some of his Forces in the Islands of Tresco and Brier which were as stoutly defended by the Noble Colonel Wogan who in his Voyage from Ireland had taken up Arms here for the King again and made a very great slaughter of the first Invaders but footing being gained by fresh Boats succeeding the other he past over to the Isle of St. Maries both more naturally and Artificially Fortified and of very difficult access Some few attempts were nevertheless made but rather to shew there was an Enemy there who would fain be admitted and who otherwise might prove very troublesome to their Trade and to that effect a Summons or invitation was sent unto the Governour who having as it was believed the Kings leave for what he should do therein and knowing with England it would return and without would be of little use to the Crown after some Messages accepted of a Treaty which after caresses and civilities on both sides concluded in a Rendition of the Isle on the second of Iune upon very Honourable Terms The Governour Sir Iohn the son of Noble Sir Bevil Greenvile after Earl of Bath a person always much in the Kings Favour receiving a considerable sum of Money and Indemnity for his Estate and person freed from all manner of Arrests and molestations whatsoever the Officers and Souldiers to go whither they would of whom Sir Fulk Hunks with Doctor Lesley the Bishop of Down sailed for Ireland Colonel Wogan for Scotland to pursue the quarrel there also In all there went out 9 Colonels 4 Lieutenant-Colonels 10 Serjeant-Majors 60 Captains saith the Catalogue 40 Lieutenants and other under-Officers of a proportionable number which over Sir George Ayscue proceeded in his Voyage Prince Rupert was now at Sea from Toulon with five Men of War and two Fire-ships sailing the Mediterranean-sea in Company with his Brother Prince Maurice and much discourse there was of the Duke of Lorrain's shipping and Transporting some Forces for Ireland by an Agreement made with the Irish and promoted at the French Court whither the Duke of York was now expected and Sir Edward Hide arrived out of Spain and several Provinces and Cities were by report assigned him for his security but the whole story proved meer Castles in the Air for it 's supposed the Duke was unwilling to come where his plundering Troops should finde Blows instead of Booty and he had his own Country and Dominions to regain first An Agent likewise came now to the Parliament of England and owned them as such from the great Duke of Florence May the 21. The Lord Howard of Escrick a Peer who had got himself returned a Burgess for Carlisle was about this time convicted of Bribery dismissed the House and committed to the Tower Cromwel being at Edenburgh having notice how the King lay encamped at Sterling Lesley's Foot quartering on the South-side and Middleton's on the North-side of the Park encompassed with a Stone-wall and that abundance of Provision was brought in daily supposing they would march drew all his Forces out of the West with as much care and conduct as could be and Encamped likewise in the Fields by Edenburgh in a readiness for them whether to march or fight But in the mean time he was taken very ill of his Ague so that Doctor Wright and Doctor Bates an eminent Physitian and a concealed Royalist as appears by a polite Piece of his written some time before entituled Elenehus Motuum nuperorum in Anglia were sent down to attend his Cure and many blithe and anxious
and at Newport the Earl of Lauderdale the Earl of Rothes the Earl of Carnwarth the Earl of Kelly the Earl of Derby the Earl of Cleaveland Sir Iohn Packington the Lord Spyne Sir Ralph Clare Sir Charles Cunningham Colonel Graves Mr. Richard Fanshaw Secretary to the King 6 Colonels of Horse 13 of Foot 9 Lieutenant-Colonels of Horse 8 Lieutenant-Colonels of Foot 6 Majors of Horse 13 Majors of Foot 37 Captains of Horse 72 Captains of Foot 55 Quarter-masters 89 Lieutenants there were taken also some General Officers with 76 Cornets of Horse 99 Ensignes of Foot 90 Quarter-masters 80 of the Kings Servants with the Kings Standard which he had set up when he Summoned the Country the Kings Coach and Horses and Collar of SS but that which was ten times more worth than all the Kings Person they had no power to touch He as was said before departed in the dusk leaving Colonel Carcles now by the King in honour of his carefulness of his Majesties person Named Carlos and a Coat of Arms pointing at this service added in his Rear to keep the Enemy in dispute while he was something onward on his way and the dusk and deliberation might favour his escape To which end all persons about him were Commanded to speak French and a present consultation was held which course they should steer and it was resolved by the Earl of Derby that they should make what speed they could and recover a place called Whiteladies before morning which was some 25 miles from Worcester and thereupon one Mr. Giffard then in the Company was called for his guidance thither it belonging to his Family and one Walker that had been formerly a Scout-master in the Kings Army was his assistant yet the way was mistaken as they passed a Heath but by good providence soon recovered Betwixt three and four a Clock the King reached this place and Mr. Giffard after some knocking at the Door called up one George Penderill a servant in the House who heating and knowing his Voice â—an down in his Shirt and opened the Door and the King and his Retinue entred where after a little debate about the security of his person the said Earl having called thither William Penderill the House-keeper of Boscobel and another dispatcht towards Tong to see if the Coast was yet clear His Majesty having had his Hair cut off and his Buff-doublet and Linnen-breeches Buried and disguised in Country-Habit was with adjuration of the Fidelity of the Penderills who were with their Brother-in-law George Yates in number five Committed and intrusted by the Earl of Derby to their Tuition which they most solemnly and dutifully promised Then the Earl and the rest of the Lords viz. the Duke of Buckingham and that train with Tears took their leave Derby would have staid but there was no probability of secrecy for two and the Lord Wilmot with Iohn Penderil withdrew himself from that Company to another retreat The rest except the Duke who lay concealed in other friends houses about that Country were taken as aforesaid at Newport by Lilburns Horse the same who had defeated the Earl of Derby who now rendred himself a Prisoner to one Captain Edge of Lancashire on promise of quarter for Life As soon as the King was thus left by his Company with a Wood-hill in his hand he was conducted into a Wood or Coppice neer adjoyning borrowing the Name of William Iones a Wood-cutter newly come thither for Work and was accordingly instructed in his Tongue and Behaviour That day proved very wet so that Yate's Wife brought him a Blanket to cover him and a dish of Milk and Apples for his refreshment and at night against his coming home where the Mother of the Penderils at her Son Richard's most joyfully welcomed him provided an ordinary Country Supper which ended the King with Richard his Guide resolving for Wales went to one Mr. Wolfe 's of Madely where for fear of search the King was fain to take up his quarters in the Barn Mr. Wolfe and his Wife attending on him there while no accomodations was good enough for his Rebels now lying in multitudes up and down that Country Here his Majesty understood that the Passes over the Water and the River Severn were so guarded that it was unfeasible â—or him to adventure over into Wales so that on Friday-night the King retreated in his Woolen accoutrements about his Legs in which he had lain in that hard lodging in great pain and soreness to Boscobel where he found Colonel Carlos who had also betaken himself thither for shelter by his direction that Saturday the King went into the Wood from the pleasantness whereof the House took its name and by his assistance ascended into the top of that most Celebrated Oak which being thick with Branches stretching and shaddowing foreright was altogether impervious to the sight and here the Colonel bore him Company while He laid his Head and slept upon a Pillow in his Lap At night they both descended and came into the House and refresht themselves The King perceiving the secrecy of the place was not willing to keep longer abroad Sunday the King past away in a kinde of Arbour or Banquetting-house at the end of the Garden At this House Iohn Penderil found him being sent before by the Lord Wilmot to conduct him to Mr. Whitgraves at Mosely whither with much difficulty and danger he himself had arrived but the safety there answered all The King approved of the Lord Wilmot's Residence and on Munday night with the guard of the five Brethren on Humphrey the Millers Horse and like accoutrements came to Mr. Whitgrave's where he was joyfully welcomed by the Lord and that Gentleman and conveyed into a secret place and there consultation was held for a further progression in this happy escape and to this purpose one Colonel Lane of Bentley was made acquainted with it and by them agreed that Mrs. Iane Lane upon pretence of assisting at the Child-bed of her Sister should Ride to Bristol and the King as her Servant before her with Mr. Lassels and his Wife behinde him a Pass accordingly having been procured On their way thither the Lord Wilmot as of chance met with them having a Hauk on his Fist and so they journeyed together to Bromsgrove where the Kings Horse losing a Shoe His Majesty was forced to carry the Horse to a Farrier who enquiring of News of the King and being answered with the success of the Fight at Worcester but that the King was escaped into Scotland replied that no doubt the King was secretly somewhere in England and wisht he knew where for that he could get 1000 l. by taking of him That he providentially mist the King departing from thence to Evesham where advising how to avoid Troopers then Grazing their Horses in the Meadows adjoyning they light upon them in a neer Village but were civilly past from thence
In this condition some 100 of the most faithful and cordial of the party Hungry Sleepy and Weary having staid no where reached Southmolton in Devonshire hoping at worst to get away by Sea but that night on the 15 of March their Quarters were beaten up by Captain Crook about ten a clock and some Houses forced but Colonel Penruddock maintained his quarters till he had Quarter promised and Articled which Crook afterwards unworthily and basely denied There were taken with him Colonel Iones a Kinsman of Cromwel's and Colonel Grove an old Royalist and some 60 other Prisoners and 120 Horse Sir Ioseph Wagstaff Mr. Robert Mason Esquire Clark and Mr. Thomas Mompesson escaped beyond Sea and so this unhappy effort was suppressed There were some shadows of the like at Rufford-Abbey in Nottinghamshire at Hessen-moor in York-shire neer Wrexham in Montgomery in Northumberland for which some were Executed and a like rumour of a designe upon Shrewsbury Sir Henry Slingsby in Custody and Sir Richard Maleverer and Mr. Hutton taken who fled for it and were retaken at Chester from whence they made a final escape and Sir Thomas Harris and the Lord Newport secured therâ—upon but all vanished and came to nothing and those mighty and pregnant hopes of the King's Restitution now in every mans Mouth and Wish proved frustraneous hac vice and Oliver very prajeant that he could thus over-reach the King in his own Designes This Treason came to be discovered to the King in this manner Some Gentlemen that were seized upon their coming home having visited his Majesty at Colen who was pleased upon their parting to go to the Stairs head with them and expressed some good apprecations of a designe which at their Examination were verbatim interrogated if they were not spoken at such a time Advice hereof was given to the King who remembring none but Colonel Tukâ— and this Manning who light the Candle to be present at the parting the same time declared the whole matter to the Colonel who surprized with the news having protested his Innocency by the Kings command went directly to Manning's Chamber and not staying the opening of the Door forced it and found him a chawing of Papers and a Packet by him newly come from Thurloe but so agast that he knew not what to say His Father had been slain a Colonel in the Kings Service as is afore related he himself had been the Earl of Pembroke's Secretary and for these considerations admitted into this Trust which he so basely abused At the instance of the whole Court the King was prevailed upon to let him be shot in one of the Castles of the Duke of Newburgh to terrifie all other faithless and disloyal Servants and to satisfie for some of that Blood Cromwel had spilt upon the score of his Perâ—idy where he wretchedly and most abjectly died Cromwel had drawn 4000 Foot out of Ireland under Colonel Axtel and Sadler and 600 Horse were marching out of Scotland two Troops whereof came from Ireland by that short cut of Sea to Ayre but upon the quelling of this Western-rising they all were remanded In February happened another terrible Fire in Fleet-street neer the Horn-Tavern which begun in a Grocers house and consumed eleven more the like happened at Aberfoyle in Scotland but far greater for quantity Major Wildman a great Leveller was taken neer Marleborough inditing Declarations against the Protector and was committed to Chepstow and the Lord Gray of Grooby was brought Prisoner to Leicester but upon application made to Oliver not long after released Lockhart one of the Scotch Judges Married Oliver's Niece about this time and grew famous thereby in the process of the Rebellion The regulation of Chancery and Hackney-Coaches took force now Another horrible Fire in Thredneedle-street to the loss of 200000 l. and upwards One Harris that was Hanged afterwards in 1661. for Counterfeiting the Lord Chancellor Hide 's Hand and breaking of a house therewith by armed Souldiers and was one of those that carried a Javelin at the Kings Martyrdome about this time Cheated one Manton and other Merchants with a counterfeit License as from Cromwel for Importing some Oyls and Whalebone from Holland which were forbidden by the Act and got neer 1000 l. of them Commissary-General Reynolds was made a kinde of Major-General of North-Wales which Module obtained all over England soon after but this was the proto-type The insensible and uâ—regarded growth of all Heresie and Errour in this licentious Toleration which invaded the Church among many other most pernicious Tenets besides c. made the Socinian to pass unobserved in this Chronicle since it would have been an Augean labour to cleanse the Current of time from that Sink and Colluvious Filth of those Monstrous Opinions Upon this score the Racovian-Catechism its divulgation and the suppression of it by the Ececutioner's Hands in the Fire came to be omitted in the year preceding As likewise Biddle the famous Seducer and Teacher of those Blasphemous Principles who was by this Dumb Parliament as Oliver called it committed to the Gate-house and thence sent to a remote Prison and his Books Burnt in the same manner besides the Englishing of the Alchoran and the three Grand Impostors damned for shame mist his due observation which therefore are here added in the close of this year Anno Dom. 1655. THe Cabal of Cardinal Mazarine and Cromwel's designe was now visible in the West-Indies and that formidable and amusing Expedition displayed to those parts of the World The rich Conceits the Usurper cherished from thence appeared in those frequent divertisements he gave himself beyond his usual reservedness and from that more than ordinary Pomp and State he arrogated to himself like another Grand Seignior nothing but Golden Smiles to be seen in his Court where the solemn Cringe and the parasitical Glaver were as much now studied to humour this Greatness as matriculating and introducing Piety and austere Hypocrisie And never was such a strange mixture in the Arts of any Courtier as these Times beheld much like the mysteries of the as strangely framed and tempered Government With much impatience did all men indeed await the issue of this grand Affair and to be certain the Hours could not be less tedious to them to whom belonged the approaching Golden Age but Parturiunt montes The following abstract will admonish the great ones that Fortune is not to be over-tempted and that without the Concurrence of good Deliberation Conduct and Valour she is not always obliged to her Favourites But to proceed during the abode of the Fleet at Barbadoes the Generals Colonels and inferiour Officers were not negligent in their several stations General Pen caused the Carpenters of each ship to set up those Shallops which were brought over in quarters out of England and ordered the Coopers to trim and fit Water-Casks Besides he sent two Frigats to St. Christophers and Mevis for raising
entailing his Estate upon his Grand-son as divining what his Son with whom he died in feud would come to General Blake was yet in the Streights demanding satisfaction of the Algier-Pirates for the depredations committed on the English and required the delivery of the Captives of our Nation whose number was very great but neither of these would be hearkned to whereupon Blake sent in a threatning Message to which they returned in scorn and contempt this Answer Here are our Castles of Guletto and Castles of Porta Ferino do what you can do ye think we fear the shew of your Fleet A Council of War being called upon this daring affront it was resolved to Burn those ships in Ferino in defiance of their Stone-line Forts and Castles well furnished with Ordinance and manned with the whole Country adjacent On the 4 of April the attempt was made Blake and the greater ships with their seconds coming within Musquet-shot of the Castle and Line which in two hours time they rendred defenceless dismounting all the Great Guns and clattering the Stones so about their Ears that the Enemy abandoned them having seen their nine Ships and Frigats burning in the mean time which was done by Boats from every ship during this hot service atchieved in this honourable manner Blake set sail again to the same place and renewed his Demand and was Answered in another strain that not Ours but now Those were the Castles and ships of the Grand Seigniour who would be sure to require an account of them In conclusion they came to Treat and did what they were beaten to for else they saw their Thieving Trade would be short Nathaniel Fiennes second Son to the Lord Say and the once-famous Governour of Bristol was made Cromwel's Lord Privy-Seal Recorder Steel a growing Favourite for his Speeches Lord Chief-Baron and Lambert yet above-board Lord-Warden of the Cinque Ports and soon after Serjeant Glyn was made Lord Chief Justice of England Mr. Parker and Vnton Crook the Father made Serjeants For Military Commanders Colonel Reynolds was â—ow Knighted and ordered to carry it with him to grace Henry Cromwel then preparing â—or his journey into Ireland to be inaugurated Lord-Lieutenant in place of Fleetwood where he arrived in the middle of Iuly and Captain Vnton Crook was rewarded for his late service with 200 l. per annum The Scoâ—câ— Council was nominated and dispatched also viz. General Monke Lord Broughill President Colonel Howard now Earl of Carlisle Colonel Adrian Scroop Colonel Cooper Colonel Wetham Mr. Desborough Colonel Lockhart Laird Swinton and Downing Secretary It was omitted that Sir Gilbert Pickering was entituled Lord-Chamberlain to Oliver and that he had a Guard of Halberdiers in Grey-coats Welted with Black-Velvet in the same manner and custom as the Kings of England used them but this Satellitium and Band of Bailiffs was rather out of fear than in regard to the honour of their Attendance Sir William Constable one of the Kings Judges Governour of Gloucester and the last of his Name which rots in his dust died now and was buried in the Military way in Henry the 7th's Chappel lighted into his Tomb with a terrible Fire in the opposite Town of Lambeth A new Plot was now started and most of the Nobility and Gentlemen of England secured Sir Geoffrey Palmer Lord Willoughby of Parham Lord Lovelace Earl of Lindsey Lord Newport and Sir Richard Wingfield Lords Maynard Petre Lucas and Faulkland Sir Frederick Cornwallis c. and this done by Manning whose Villany was not yet discovered though to render an entire account of him his death was before related County-Troops were now also established for security to his Highness such Trooper 8 l. a year pay and more in case of service a Captain 100 l. and Officers proportionably and as these new Forces were raised here so were other old ones disbanded in Scotland and Ireland in which last place the Disbanded were yet to be the same kinde of standing Militia they being setled in the Rebel Forfeited Lands their Tenure being their service and thus that Kingdom was re-peopled An Agent that had come hither from Ragotski Prince of Transilvania now departed the Conspiracy betwixt whom and the King of Sweden and the Swede and Cromwel was just ripe for Execution For the terrible news came that Carolus Gustavus with an Army of 20000 Swedes was landed in Pomerania and fallen into Poland and that the Palatinate of Posen had submitted and the Vice-Chancellor Radzikousky was come in and complied with that King and little doubt was made of his over-running that Kingdom the like Treachery and other divisions among the discontented Nobility opening him a way Cromwel's reach in this War was to divert the Emperour who was arming apace in aid of the King of Spain and defence of the House of Austria against the French as foreseeing also the rupture of the Peace with the Spaniard by Cromwel in the Low-Countries and a Peace once by this ballance effected to espouse the quarrel of our King to the same purpose the Transilvanian was engaged who like a stormy Cloud hung over the Imperial Dominions so that no assistance could be had from this part of the World This highly disappointed the Spaniard and retarded those hopes of our King in order to his Restitution by Arms. He was yet at Colen and caressed by several Princes who Honoured his Privacy among many others the Landtgrave of Hessen gave him an honourable Visit and Prince Rupert returned from the Emperour gave him his due attendance to evidence that the Relation of a King in some such cases may be without a Kingdome or Subjects A Swedish Embassador Named Christian Bond arrived here neer the same time and was in great State received according to the Amplitude of his Highness and Rolt a Bed-chamber-man of this Altess was sent recipocrally to the King of Sweden but was neer quitting the Cost of his Journey by a terrible Storm About the time the news came of his getting ashore in safety Hannum a most notorious Thief suspected of the Robbery of the King at Colen in which parts he was no stranger broke Prison and escaped likewise From the noble Exploit of Porta Ferino Blake sailed to Cadiz and those parts of Spain where he found that the Armada of Spain was at Sea to look after the arrival of their India-Fleet and it fell out that the English and Spaniards met together in those Seas the Spaniards being 32 ships in all but no quarrel happened for neither had Commission to right The same indifferent but more cowardly temper at the same instant in August made the Iamaica-Fleet returning home suffer the longed-for Plate-Fleet to pass untought when discovered in the Gulf of Florida upon their Voyage to Spain so that none of the Fates were wanting to make this the most unglorious undertaking of the English Upon a resolution taken by a Council of War at Iamaica the greatest
Affairs at a stand till something were resolved in this point they came in a very full House to this well-qualified Resolution Resolved That this House will transact with the persons now sitting in the Other House as an House of Parliament during this present Parliament And that it is not hereby intended to Exclude such Peers as have been faithful to the Parliament from their priviledge of being duly summoned to be Members of that House The House of Commons between the Protector the Other House and the General Council of Officers now summoned to meet at Wallingford-house may well be conceived at this time to have had a Wolf by the Ears and having shewed themselves English-men and not Slaves had reason to entertain wary Counsels having some of their own Members undermining them without doors and foreseeing a Dissolution though not knowing whether they should die a Violent or Natural death or have a mixt kinde of Disease as it fell out afterwards And therefore they resolved not to own them in the Other House as Lords but called them The persons now sitting in the Other House of Parliament neither would they treat and confer with them in the usual way as with the House of Peers and therefore found out the new word of Transacting and not intending to have to do with them but for a tryal they limited the time to be during this present Parliament which they foresaw would not be long and to Muzzle the new inconsiderable Upstarts sufficiently if they should take too much upon them they asserted the priviledge of the ancient Peers as a good reserve if the Parliament should by the Protector and Army be suffered upon second thoughts to sit longer than was first intended And resolved also That they would receive no Message from those persons sitting in the Other House but by some of their own number The House of Commons by this time had also by a Saving Vote concerning the Fleet asserted their interess in the Militia and had under consideration an Act for taking away all Laws Statutes and Ordinances concerning the Excise and new Impost and concerning Customes Tunnage and Poundage after three years And had vindicated the peoples Liberties by setting Major-General Overton and Mr. Portman and divers others illegally committed by the late Protector at Liberty without paying Fees and declaring their Imprisonment and Detention illegal and unjust and had their Lord-Jaylor Berkstead and others at their Bar under question for the same who was also Arrested upon the Exchange in London at the Suit of the said Overton for false Imprisonment And had also a high resentment of the illegal sending Free-born English-men against their wills to the Barbadoes and other Forrain Plantations and to the Isles of Guernsey and Iersey out of the reach of the Writ of Habeas Corpus and had appointed a strict Bill to be prepared for remedy thereof And had Examined and discovered many other Grievances brought upon the people by the Officers and Farmers of the Excise and others and by Major-Generals amongst which Butler was for his insolent actings and high affronts to the Law and Courts of Justice put out of the Commission of the Peace and a Committee appointed to draw up an Impeachment against him The Committee also for Inspection before-mentioned had brought in and reported to the House the state of the publick Accounts and of the Martial and Civil Lists in the three Nations by which it did appear That the yearly Incomes of England Scotland and Ireland came to Eighteen hundred sixty eight thousand seven hundred and seventeen pounds And the yearly Expences to Two Millions two hundred and one thousand five hundred and forty pounds So that Three hundred thirty two thousand eight hundred twenty three pounds of Debt incurred yearly by the ill management of double the Revenue that ever King of England enjoyed And to maintain the unjust Conquest of Scotland cost us yearly One hundred sixty three thousand six hundred and nineteen pounds more than the Revenue it yielded Many other particulars were under their consideration as to the Religion and Civil Rights of the people too long now to be mentioned but in short to give them their due they did some good whilest they sate both to the publick and particulars and intended much more and did no hurt gave no Offices nor Gratuities to themselves out of the publick Treasure nor granted any money from the people which is more than can be said of any Parliament in our memory Proceeding thus successfully and hopefully to the general satisfaction of the people in the three Nations who chose them the Protector and chief Officers of the Army who were jealous of one another before and Competitors for Government grew now jealous of the House of Commons also who being the Representatives of the people were become also their Minions and Favourites It was therefore now thought seasonable to contend among themselves for the power before the people should recover it from them both In order to which the General Council of Officers kept their constant Meetings at Wallingford-house and the Protector with his party countermined them at White-hall but we must interrupt the thred of this story to iâ—tromit the year 1659. which began with the Voyage into the Sound Anno Dom. 1659. THe former respects and mutual designes betwixt the King of Sweden and Cromwel which had been promoted so far as to a Treaty concerning places of caution for our Engagement and Expence in the Danish War Elsenore-Castle newly taken by the Swede Gottenburgh in his own Province being demanded and Gluckstad and another place offered in lieu thereof though without any conclusion by the Death of Cromwel obliged his son Richard and the Council upon the request of the Swede to send a Fleet into the Baltick-sea and in the mean time Sea-Officers and Seamen were taken into his Service who set to Sea in December before but by stormy and cold weather were forced back again divers of them by the hardship of the Voyage dying at their return under the Command of Sir George Ayscue who was upon his arrival to be Commissioned High-Admiral of Sweden to mate the Dutch who then openly sided with the Dane and had a Fleet of War ranging thereabouts The Parliament likewise to secure the Commerce and Trade of those parts condescended to the Expedition with the Conditions and Limitations aforesaid At the end of March General Montague was Commissioned by Richard with a Fleet of 40 sail of the best ships and manned accordingly who in ten days time from Yarmouth arrived at the Scaw and so to Elsenore where the King of Sweden was before the Dutch Vice-Admiral de Ruyter who was coming with another Fleet out of Holland to re-inforce his Admiral Opdam then at Copenhagen The General here met with Instructions from his Majesty to whose Cause he had upon the disposition of affairs betwixt the Army and Protector devoted himself
Fourth the Demeasnes and Jurisdiction whereof lay in the Dutchy of Normandy in France under the English Soveraginty and Earl of Torrington in his own native County of Devon and Baron of Potheridge his own Patrimony Beauchamp and Teyes by which he hath right of Peerage in the three Kingdoms whose equal Felicity and Honour he advanced and raised before himself and now most deservingly shared with them by his Investiture in these Dignities which were compleated Iuly the 13 by his taking his place in the House of Lords attended by the House of Commons and introduced by the Duke of Buckingham In the same month General Montague was created Earl of Sandwich Viscount Hinchingbrooke his famous Mannor in Huntingtonshire and Baron of St. Neots in the same County and on the 16 of Iuly took likewise his place in the House of Peers where they both shine with that degree of splendor by which the Duke reduced and the Earl dawned at the day of Englands Glory and Liberty The Duke of Ormond was likewise made Earl of Brecknock and took his place among the Peers of England he was also made Lord Steward of his Majesties Houshold as the Earl of Lindsey was made Lord High-Chamberlain the Earl of Manchester Lord Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold and the Earl of Southampton Lord High-Treasurer of England Sir Frederick Cornwallis was made Treasurer of the Kings Houshold by an old Grant and Sir Iohn Berkley Comptroller and other Royalists were made Officers therein Several presents were made to the King from the several Cities and Boroughs of the Kingdom in Gold and Plate and resignation of Fee-farm-rents purchased from the Usurpers among the rest the City of London with a Complement of their good Stewardship by the mouth of their Recorder Sir William Wilde rendred their like Grant of New Parke in Surrey All the Rents accruing at Michaelmas-day were now secured from the late Purchasers of Kings Queens Bishops Dean and Chapters lands for the use of the right and unquestionable Proprietors to the defeating the miserable and unjust covetousness of such undue and unwarrantable penniworths A splendid Embassy came this Month of August from Denmark to congratulate his Majesties most happy Restitution as a little before the Lord Iermyn newly made Earl of Saint Albans the Title last failing in the renowned Marquess of Clanrickard Vlick de Burgh who had so eminently asserted his Majesties Rights in Ireland and after the reduction thereof came into England and died in London in some distress far unfitting his nobleness of minde as well as former most honourable Estate a while before the Kings Return was sent to France in the quality of Lord Embassador Extraordinary to that Crown Soon after the Prince de Ligne with a right Princely Train and retinue becoming the grandeur of the Affair he was sent to Congratulate from his Majesty of Spain betwixt whom and this Kingdom a Peace after a six years War was lately Proclaimed was with great state received and had solemn Audience by the King and departed and was succeeded by the Baron of Battevile to be Resident and Embassador in Ordinary at this Court. From the French King soon after came another Illustrious and grand Personage upon the same account by name the Count of Soissons who had married the Cardinal's Neece and entred and was entertained here with all sumptuous and extraordinary Magnificence In sum there was no Prince nor State in Europe who sent not or were not a sending their Embassador upon this wonderful occasion The Parliament after many debates and disputes alterations and insertions at last finished the Act of Oblivion which was extraordinary comprehensive and indulgent to the regret of many injured Royalists who found no better perswasive to their acquiescence in it but their unalterable duty to the King whose special Act this was Out of this were only excepted the Regicides and Murderers of their late Soveraign as to Life and Estate besides Colonel Lambert and Sir Henry Vane and Twenty others reserved to such Forfeitures as should by Parliament be declared the principal of these were Sir Arthur Haselrig Oliver Saint Iohn William Lenthal the Speaker Mr. Ny the Independent Minister Burton of Yarmouth and some Sequestrators Officers and Major-Generals of the Army amongst whom was Desborough Pine Butler Ireton c. They passed likewise an Act for a perpetual Anniversary Thanksgiving on the 29 of May the day of his Majesties Birth and Restauration a day indeed memorable and the most auspicious in our English Kalendar and worthy of a Parliaments Canonization Both which his Majesty gave his Royal Assent to as at the Adjournment to another for Disbanding of the Army and paying off the Navy which once looked upon us with the same feared perpetual danger as the Mamalukes or Ianizaries but by this happy conjuncture of his Majesties Fortune with his Wisdom and Goodness yielded after many Modules to its last Dissolution Great sums by Pole-money and other Assessments were imposed and speedily and cheerfully levied and paid to finish this desired work which had before wasted so many Millions of Treasure Mr. Scowen Mr. Pryn Col. King and Sir Charles Doyley were appointed Commissioners to disband them to which the Souldiery very willingly and with thanks to the King submitted the King giving them a Weeks pay as a Donative and Largess The Parliament adjourned till the 6 of November These Felicities of the King we have hitherto insisted on as the course of all worldly things is guided were abated and allayed by the immature and most lamented Death of the right Excellent Prince Henry Duke of Gloucester his Majesties youngest Brother a Prince of very extraordinary hopes Silence will best become our lamentation for his vertues and our loss of them transcend expression He died of the Small-pox Aged Twenty years and two months after much Blood-letting and was Interred with a private Funeral in Henry the Seventh's Chappel at Westminster just before the arrival of his Sister the Princess of Orange who came to joy and felicitate her Brothers in their happy Restitution With the King and Monarchy the Ecclesiastical Regiment by Bishops recovered it self by his Majesties Piety and Prudence that Aphorism being most sadly verified No Bishop No King and therefore on the 20 of September Dr. Iuxon Bishop of London that antient and excellent Prelate was by the King translated from that See to the Arch-bishoprick of Canterbury which was performed with great Solemnity and not long after several new Bishops persons the most eminent and valiant assertors of the Church and Laws of England were Consecrated in the Abby at Westminster and all the Diocesses filled of which together presently in an ensuing Catalogue Divine Vengeance had with a slow foot traced the murtherers of our Martyr'd Soveraign and through several Mazes at last overtook them the iron hand of Justice delivering them to the punishment due to that grand impiety nor was it
lodged ten of them in the Blew-Anchor Alehouse by the Postern which house they maintained Soon after came Lieutenant-Colonel Cox with his Company and surrounded all places about it In the interim part of the Yellow aforesaid had gotten up into the Tylings of the next House which they threw off and fired in the Rebels being in the uppermost Room who even then refused Quarter when at the very same time another File of Muskets got up the Stairs and having shot down the door entred upon them six of them were killed before another wounded and one refusing of Quarter then also was knockt down with the But-end and afterwards shot with a Musket The rest being demanded why they craved not quarter before answered They durst not for fear their own Fellows should shoot them such was their Resolution and Desperation The whole number of this last Insurrection cannot be reckoned to more than Fifty Persons though not above Forty were ever seen together yet so great was their confidence in the Revelations of their Teachers that they presumed to Subdue and Conquer with that small remnant alluding to that History of Gideon recorded in Holy Writ admitting of no other Sect but the Quakers and but those also who agreed with them in the Tenet of their Monarchy being the nearest of Affinity to their Enthusiastick Opinions to have the honour of partaking with them in this their great and glorious Design as they termed it in their aforesaid Declaration wherein they further Blasphemously said That if they were deceived or misled 't was God that deceived them laying their delusions and charging their sinful and desperate folly upon him as the Author In this Tumult and Rebellious Insurrection were slain of the Kings People Twenty two and as many of the Traytors most whereof were killed in Houses and some after being taken Prisoners for refusing to tell their Names were presently shot There were taken Twenty besides a few upon suspicion the Twenty were as followeth viz. Thomas Venner the Wine-cooper their Captain Roger Hodgkins a Button-seller in St. Clements-lane Lumbard-street Leonard Gowler Ionas Allen Iohn Pym William Orsingham William Ashton Giles Pritchard A Cow-keeper Stephen Fall Iohn Smith William Corbet Iohn Dod Iohn Elston Thomas Harris Iohn Gardener Robert Bradley Richard Marten Iohn Patshal Robert Hopkins and Iohn Wells five of these had been in the design against Oliver as before These were brought to the Bar together the Wounded-men had Chairs allowed them and after the Indictment read to them which was laid both to Treason and Murther Thomas Venner was first called who when he had held up his hand at his Arraignment being asked Guilty or Not Guilty began a wild Phanatique discourse about his Conversation in New England and concerning the Fifth Monarchy and the Testimony within him above these Twenty years with such like impertinent discourses and stories He confessed he was in the late Rising but was not guilty of Treason intending not to levy War against the King and so sallied out into the same nonsensical defences as at first but at the Court's instance of his Pleading directly to the Indictment he answered Not Guilty and put himself upon his Country In the like manner Hodgkins after some rambling diversions from his present Business and the Threats of the Court of his being Recorded Mute and the submission of the rest of his Fellows who all pleaded after some previous excursions in their way and manner pleaded likewise to the Indictment whereupon the Witnesses being sworn two against every particular Person they made it appear That Venner Tufney and Cragg the two last whereof were slain in the Business did several times perswade their Congregation to take up Arms for King Jesus against the Powers of the Earth which were his Majesty the Duke of York and the General That they were to kill all that opposed them That they had been Praying and Preaching but not Acting for God That they Armed themselves at their Meeting-house in Coleman-street with Blunderbusses Musquets c. and other particular Evidence against each to matter of Fact The proof against Martin Hopkins and Wells was not so full and against Patshal only one Witness who were acquitted by the Jury The other sixteen being found Guilty and brought to the Bar were demanded to shew Cause why Sentence should not pass against them c. The Lord Chief Justice Foster charging this Venner with the Blood of his Complices by his Seduction and leading of them He answered He did not To which the Witnesses being produced again he Blasphemously quibled and said It was not he but Iesus that led them Three of them confest their Crime and Error and craved Mercy so they were all sixteen Condemned to be Hang'd Drawn and Quartered According to which Sentence on Saturday Ianuary 19 1660 Venner and Hodgkins both uncured of the Wounds they received in their Rebellion being guarded by two Companies of the Trained-Bands were drawn on a Sledge from Newgate through Cheapside over against their Meeting-house in Swar-Alley in Coleman-street and Executed according to their Sentence Venner spoke little but in vindication of himself and his Fact and something of his Opinion being confident the Time was at hand when other Iudgment would be reflecting much upon the Government The other Hodgkins raved and cursed in manner of Praying calling down Vengeance from Heaven upon the King the Iudges and the City of London nor would he give over though the Sheriff forbad him to run on in that strange way until the Hang-man was hastned from his Imployment of Quartering Venner to turn him off so as in that mad Religion they lived in the same they dyed Their Quarters were set upon the Four Gates of the City by the late Executed Regicides whose Quarrel and Revenge they undertook in this their Phanatique Attempt their Heads also set upon Poles by some of them on London-Bridge On Munday the Twenty first of Ianuary Nine more of them were Executed all in one Morning at five several places by one Executioner Two at the West-end of St. Pauls two at the Bâ—ll and Mouth two at Beech-lane Two at the Royal Exchange and a notable Fellow the last by name Leonard Gowler at Bishops-Gate They all obstinately persisted in their Error especially the last who began with Imprecations like Hodgkins and was silenced the same way by the Command of the Sheriff excepting a Young man who was Harged in Redcross-street who did relent and Repent of his Sin and the Blood he had spilt but yet dyed in the Opinion of Chilianism After they were cut down the Sentence was not Executed upon them to the full only their Heads were cut off and set upon London-Bridge Most remarkable was the prudence and valour of the Right Honorable Sir Richard Brown the Lord Major in this tumultuary and dangerous Insurrection He it was whom they designed as a Sacrifice to their first outrages and had they met with a person of
of Peterborough designed for that Command should arrive And for the Queens own Transportation the Royal Charles which brought the King from Holland was sent with this Fleet. In the mean while the Queen of Bohemia the King's Aunt died February 13. aged 66 years having been out of England 49 years and survived all the misfortunes of her Family which almost from the time of her Marriage in 1612. on St. Valentines day on the eve of which she now died had fallen very thick and chiefly and solely upon it She now came to her rest among her Royal Ancestors and Relations whose Glories and Honours she left more flourishing and greater than ever Her Decease was followed with a most violent and Tempestuous Winde February the 18th by which several persons were killed and much damage done in all parts of the three Kingdoms and in Forrain Countries which might give notice that all those Troubles and Calamities this Princess had suffered and by which most parts of Europe were Tempested were quite blown over and she gone to her last Repose A very unfortunate accident happened the same Month The Lord Buckhurst but now mentioned his Brother Mr. Edward Sackvile Sir Henry Bellasis Knight of the Bath Son and Heir to the Lord Bellasis Mr. Bellasis Brother to the Lord Faulconbridge and Mr. Wentworth Son to Sir George accompanying an acquaintance out of Town upon their Return being informed there were High-way men and Thieves in the Road meeting a Tanner and suspecting him for one of them after some resistance made by him killed him for this mischance they were Arraigned at the Kings Bench Bar but by the Iury quitted it not being probable that Persons of their Estates and Quality would set upon a single Person to do him injury but it might happen meerly by a mistake and good intent of freeing the Road. The Parliament had under their consideration the bringing of Lambert and Vane to their Tryal being excepted out of the Act of Oblivion as main Authors and Contrivers of those Troubles in the Rebellion and therefore desired His Majesty that he would be pleased to send for them from their remote Prisons they were in that they might be brought to Tryal that such bold Treasons might not pass with impunity On the other hand that they might testifie their acknowledgments to the Duke of Albemarle of his great merit and services in the Redemption of his Country they by Act now resolved to settle some Mannors and Lands upon him and confirmed the Kings Grants and Patents or what should afterwards by Grants or Patents be conferred on him The Duke of Ormond was likewise presented with the sum of Thirty thousand pounds in Bills of Exchange as a gratuity from the Parliament of Ireland in respect of the Services he had done that Kingdome in the same capacity before where also the Bill of settlement of Lands was the sole Affair in Debate the difficulty about Claims of the English and Irish intricating and perplexing the Bill so that the Dukes presence was very much desired as by whose prudence understanding and competent knowledge together with his equal relation to both Parties that tedious Work could only be accommodated which brings with it the conclusion of the year 1661 the 14 th year of the King Anno Domini 1662. THE beginning of this and the end of the last year was remarkable with a very notable Providence which for the more compact account of it is totally referred hither It hapned that among other the Fugitives for the parricidial Conspiracy in the Death of the King Miles Corbet Colonel Okey and Col. Barkstead which had traversed most parts of Low and some of High Germany where they had for a while resided at the City of Hanow under borrowed names about the beginning of March were returned to Delf in Holland having appointed their Wives to meet them there to understand their Affairs in England but these their Letters being intercepted and opened by the vigilance of Sir George Downing His Majesties Resident at the Hagâ—e they were all three taken together at Barkstead's and Okey's Lodging just as Corbet after Supper was going home by the Thief-takers and the Marshal of that Town Okey offered a resolute Escape Barkstead denyed himself and desired he might fetch his Cloak in the next Room Corbet as he said having taken Physick that day fell a Purging upwards and downwards in a very strange manner Sir George himself was present at the seizure and had them that Night secured in the common and ordinary Prison and thence conveyed them by the States order on Board the Blackmore Frigot then accidentally at Helveâ—t-Sluce having only brought over Mr. Armorer sent from the King to the Lords upon special occasions About the end of March they came to Gravesend where Sir Iohn Robinson Lieutenant of the Tower by Warrant from his Majesty with a Guard carried them to the Tower whence on the 16th of April they were brought to the Kings Bench Bar and there demanded what they could say for themselves why they should not die according to Law the Act of Attainder being read to them To which they alledged they were not the same persons mentioned therein whereupon Witnesses being ready were called and a Jury impannelled who gave verdict that they were the same persons and so the Lord Chief Justice Foster proceeded to Sentence which was the same with the former complices and sufferers for that Fact and was Executed on Saturday April the 19 at Tyburn where they with better ends than any of the rest acknowledged their resolved acquiescence under the Kings Government as of God and exhorted others to do so especially Colonel Okey a person that for his valour and other good qualities was pitied by all men for his being so blinded and ensnared in this Crime to his destruction They all pretended no malice to his late Majesty and their mistake of the Parliaments Authority for good and sufficient They were all three Hanged Bowelled and Quartered but his Majesty was graciously pleased out of regard to Colonel Okey's Christian and dutiful carriage to return his Quarters to his Friends to be interred which was done in the Chappel of the Tower by the Rites appointed in the Common-Prayer to prevent the unruly concourse of the Fanaticks who assembled in multitudes to accompany his Corps insomuch that the Sheriffs were forced to disperse them Barkstead's and Corbet's quarters were set upon the Gates the Head of the former upon a Pole on Traytors Gate in the Tower and Corbet's on London-Bridge For this kindeness and civility of the Dutch States the King ordered his Resident to thank them in his Name from which parts several of the Fanaticks that fled thither upon the Kings Restitution about this time travelled into Germany an invitation being published from one of the Princes there for all Nations to come and inhabit with full priviledges and immunities certain waste places of his
disaffection to the Government but not many they were that were upon this account outed and discharged By virtue of the Allyance and Treaty with the Crown of Portugal several Forces were sent hence to Assist that Kingdome against the prevailing Power of the Spaniard who just at the Majority of that King and his taking the Government into his own hands had made a formidable Invasion and Progress into those Dominions These Forces most of them immediately set Sayl from Dunkirke some Troops and Companies Landing there from Leith all Commanded in chief by his Excellency the Earl of Inchiqueen the famous Souldier in Ireland Colonel Morgan late Governour of Scotland being his Major-General they arrived well and in good health there on the Twenty ninth of Iune and after a little refreshment and being prohibited to eat the Fruit of the Countrey for fear of Fevours and other Distempers advanced towards the Campania but the Spaniard having notice thereof thought it not advisable to Fight with them in their strength and vigour but to waste them with the usual incommodities of those Climates to us and retreated back again immediately into Spain In Iuly following the Duke of Ormond Lord Lieutenant of Ireland His Majesty having given him a very Honourable and friendly farewel and having received the like civilities from the whole Court set forwards in his Journey and Voyage to that Kingdome where he Arrived three weeks after and was most Magnificently received into the City of Dublin and congratulated and welcomed by the whole Body of that People in Parliament to whom in their Assembly he delivered himself in a most Excellent Speech There was mention made before of the Commissioners for Regulating Corporations for the securing of the peace of the Kingdome by these Gentlemen named for each County City and Borrough it was ordered besides the displacing of Officers that the Walls of the respective Cities and Towns of Gloucester and Coventry Northampton Taunton and Leicester and other places which had Bulworks and Garrisons and maintained them throughout the War against the King and were the Reception of and maintenance the Rebellion should be demolished as Examples and Security to successive times the County-Troops and respective Trained Band-Regiments guarded these places when they were Demolished Dr. Gauden the Bishop of Exeter died about this time September as also William Lenthal the Speaker of the Long Parliament very penitently The Town of Dunkirk taken from the Spaniard in One thousand six hundred fifty eight and kept ever since at a vast and great charge was by advice of the Lords of his Majesties Privy Councel as being never annexed by Act of Parliament to the Crown of England returned to the French King who upon surrender of it in the year aforesaid delivered it unto us Now for the sum of Five hundred Thousand pounds fully paid that Fortress was delivered into the Possession of the French under the Government of the Count d'Eâ—irades and his Deputy the Marquess of Montpear two English Companies with the Governour only Guarding the Gates at their entrance and delivering the Keys of the same Town The Honourable Sir Edward Nicholas having served his Majesty and his Father as Secretary of State for many years obtained his Quietus est from the King who would have dignified his Merit with a Barrony which Sir Edward modestly declined because His Majesty should not increase the Nobility and Sir Henry Bennet late the Kings Resident in Spain a very excellent Person was named to that Preferment Among these and the like Honours conferred by the King upon his Faithful and Loyal Servants and Subjects which the purport of this Chronicle obliged me to take notice off and be their Herauld this time challenged my observance of a Dignity conferred on that eminent and worthy Personage Dr. Iohn Berkenhead Knighted with a Testimony from his Majesty that he had done his Father and himself very signal and great services during the last twenty years Revolution and there is scarce any Honest man in the Three Kingdoms who will not say Amen to this his Majesties EVGE There had been suspition of a Plot and the City Trained Bands had watched and warded every Night for the most part of the Summer ever since the Kings departure to meet the Queen but now the Design appeared the first named was one Captain Baker a New-England-man an acquaintance of Hugh Peters there and preferred to be one of Olivers Band of Pensioners this Fellow acquaints one Hill the Son of a Phanatick or Independant Preacher in the Street and tells him of a Designe and brings him acquainted at several Meetings of divers of the Conspiracy which he having good information of revealed with the names of the Conspirators to Sir Richard Brown Some of those engaged thus only met and heard and reported their discourses of Arms and other preparations to their own gang but approved the Treason so well that they never discovered it This Plot was against the Sacred Life of the King the Duke of York the noble Duke of Albemarle and Sir Richard Brown and generally the Bishops Nobility Gentry and Commonalty that were not of their Opinions and Assisted them not and they had ready prepared a draught of their Government their Councels were carried on by six who never sate twice in a Place nor could be known to any two their Commander in chief was Ludlow Colonel Danvers Mr. Nye Mr. Lockyer and one Lieutenant Strange the Captains Spencer and Taverner were favourable to the Design and would surprize Deal Castle in Kent as Windsor was certain to be theirs and the Word the Night they were to fall on which after several put offs was appointed the last of October was to be given them by George Phillips a Serjeant in the Colonels Company of the White Regiment For this the Eleventh of December the said George Phillips Thomas Tongue a Distiller of Strong Waters Francis Stubs being a Cheesmonger Iames Hind Gunner Iohn Sellers Compass-maker and Nathanael Gibs Felt-maker were Convicted by Evidence of their fellow-Conspirators Edward Rigge Bradley and others only Hind Pleaded Guilty and craved the King's Mercy they alledged they never Acted such Trayterous intentions but the Design was proved to have been communicated and laid open to them after their full Defence they were all found Guilty and on the Twenty second of December Phillips Tongue Gibs and Stubs were Executed according to Sentence but His Majesty was graciouâ—ly pleased to give their Quarters to be buried but their Heads to be set up upon several Poles two on each Tower-Hill the nearest place to the Tower On the Twenty sixth of December his Majesty to satisfie the Kingdome of his intents in reference to the unsatisfiedness of Dissenters to the Established Settlement of the Church expressed his Indulgence to their Consciences so far as such Liberty would not Disturb the Publick Peace nor entrench upon the Orthodox Religion professed and that he
would use his best endeavours with the Parliament to that end About the same time came hither a very splendid Ambassy from the Emperour of Russia delegated to three of his Knez or Princes the one of them came some time before the other to prepare all things suitable to the State of their Reception and had Audience by the King in privatate at Hamton-Court The Principal was Knez Peter Simonewitz formerly Governour of Archangel our Port of Trade in those Dominions he was received in greater State than any former Ambassadours from any Prince whatsoever both in respect He useth the same Honours to our Soveraigns Publick Ministers and the great Immunities and Priviledges the English enjoy again there as also from that particular Affection which is between these Two Monarchs as hath been hinted before At his Receipt the whole Military Force of the City was in Arms Trained Bands Auxiliaries Hamlets Westminster-Regiments several of the Companies and Liveries of the City on Horseback in their Gold Chains with the Aldermen of the City Riding before him who near York-House where he was to be entertained by the King during his stay made a Lane for Him to pass through them thereunto Two of them Rode in the Kings Coach the Principal was at that time sick and came by Water to his House their Retinue according to their Countrey Fashion were Vested in a long Robe girt about the Middle loop-laced on the Breast and caped behind His two Coachmen and Postilions the like though English men there were some Thirty Servants that Rode a Horseback with Hawks on their Fists as Presents On New years-day they were Conducted to White Hall where they delivered their Presents of Furs as black Fox Skins Ermins many Timber or scores of Martins Beavers and the like Persian-Carpets three Persian Horses Argamarick and other Commodities of that Country as Damask Silks and Embroyderies also a Ship Loading of Hemp there were Presents of the like Nature from the Empress to the Queen and from the Prince of Russia likewise they were all received with that affection and kindness which the King on all occasions hath manifested to have for that great Potentate Two of those Embassadors departed hence for France and so to Italy the Chief stayed to to return in Iune with our ships for his own County On the Twenty sixth of December at night in the House of one Mr. â— la Noy an Hamborough Merchant who had lately married Sir Thomas Allâ—â— Daughter of Middlesex being now with Child as the Family were in Bed a suddain fire without breaking out into the Street which was the new Buildings in Loathbury where others stood or being discerned suddenly consumed all that were within goods and all the Chambers and Goods being all burnt from top to bottom and not a shreik or cry heard it being supposed the greenness of the Timber smoking more vehemently at the eruption of the fire instantly smothered them A very sad and much-lamented providence seven being reckoned that were killed in this manner The fire was perceived at last by the heat it caused in the next House but the Bricks and the shutters in the Windows kept it from breaking out Notwithstanding the inhibition to Non-conforming Ministers to Preach or Exercise their Ministry and the penalties thereof yet Mr. Calamy late Pastor of Aldermanbury by reason the Parish was disappointed on Sunday the Twenty eighth of December by a blind old Minister that should have Preached there as he pretended went into the Pulpit and Preached and by his Text and Sermon and Inferences did reflect hardly and strangely upon the state of the Church and beyond his Last if he had been also capacitated to Preach For this Transgression and Contempt he was by Warrant of the Lord Mayor committed to Newgate where many persons came to visit him to his no little advantage but within two or three days was by his Majesties gracious Clemency and his Order discharged from this Imprisonment though it were an Offence done as it were to affront that tenderness held forth in His Majesties Declaration aforesaid The Bishop of Lincoln the famous Casuist Dr. Sanderson died in the middle of Ianuary as many of that Function had preceded him since the King's Restitution and left his See to the Lord Bishop of Peterborough Dr. Laney The Lord Warreston a Committee of Safety-man and infamous for his Treason in Scotland and a Fugitive there being Proclaimed Rebel and Traytor was taken and secured in France and sent over hither where he was Committed by his Majesties Order to the Tower in order to his sending for Scotland from thence Gibs the Brother of the aforesaid Nathanael who fled and was lately retaken was sent to the Sessions at the Old Baily February the Twentieth and with the before-mentioned Baker Condemned for the same former Treason and both Executed at Tyburn in like manner The Nineteenth of February the Parliament met where the King took notice of his said Declaration of the Twenty sixth of December wherein he cleared himself of any mistakes as favouring Popery though he acknowledged the Services of many of that Profession yet he was so far from Tolerating or qualifying them thereby to hold any Office or places of Trust in the Government that he desired Laws might be made to hinder the growth of their Doctrine That his Zeal to the Protestant Religion and Uniformity shall not yield to the Bishops themselves and yet if the Dissenters will demean themselves peaceably and modestly under the Government he could heartily wish He had such a Power of Indulgence to use upon occasions as might not needlesly force them out of the Kingdome or staying here give them Cause to Conspire against the Peace of it In Answer to this His Majesties Explanation of Himself and his Declaration of the Twenty sixth of December the House of Commons distinctly and separately to every particular thereof gave His Majesty their most humble Thanks withal by their Votes and Addresses to him Vindicating their settlement of Religion in the antient Form Discipline and Government thereof from the Calumny and danger of Schism and promised to Assert it with their Lives and Estates as their particular and Parliamentary Honour which Resolutions and Reasons being of so recent Date and the Answer of the King not yet given thereunto which out-measures the time of this Chronicle I do remit to another unwearied and unperplexed Pen. Scotland in a most Peaceful state and condition and the Kingdome of Ireland in a tendency thereunto but through so many variations and vicissitudes of Domination and propriety the Lands thereof had passed that it was not imaginable the total subversion thereof by the Rebellion of both Parties there the Irish and Long Parliament could devolve things into any presumed security it having been the first and last Stage of the War sed Tucro Duce Auspice Tucro But the Eminence and Prudence of this Lord Lieutenant the most noble
men of Saâ—y since the Truce made with him to be restor'd to their Liberty But the further issue of this Embassie is to be expected in the following Year And for this delay the Emperour excus'd himself for not engaging so great a person in a Country where he had not power to protect him Returning home we meet with no small loss in the Decease of the Duke of Albemarle after a long indisposition of Health in the sixty second year of his Age. His Garter being brought to the King was by his immediate command carried back to the Earl of Turrington then by his Father's death Duke of Albemarle with a further declaration that he should immediately also succeed in the place of Gentleman of his Bed-chamber and Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Devon and farther the King was pleas'd to send him word that as the last mark of Gratitude to the memory of the Deceased he would himself take care for the Funeral which not long after was perform'd with great Solemnity at the King 's particular charge Nor did the Dutchess his Wife stay long behinde him dying toward the latter end of the Moneth but was more privately buried in the Chappel of Henry the seventh The Republick of Venice had â—ent a very honourable Embassie into England in requital of which the Lord Falconbridge by the King's order departed in the same employment to the Venetian State being commanded in his way to visit some other Princes and States of Italy Nor must we omit the kindness of the Grand Duke of Tuscany who besides his civil entertainment of the Earl of Northumbâ—rland in acknowledgement of the courteous entertainment which he had received in England built and gave to the King of England two very stout Gallies for a guard of the Coast about Tangier being of great importance to the service of his Majesty The Parliament according to the term appointed in their last Prorogation was now assembled to whom the King as he was wont to do made a short Speech which was enlarged upon by another from the Lord-â—eeper The King therein recommended three things more especially to them the one was Unity among themselves the Union of England and Scotland and the Supply of his present and urgent Necessities As to the differences among themselves they were as soon as sate buried in oblivion and all matter of prejudice threatned thereby as suddenly vanish'd For they were no sooner sate but according to his Majesty's Recommendation both Houses came to a full agreement in the matter in debate between 'um greatly to the encouragement of all that regarded the good of the Nation as by the effect of their unanimous consultations soon after appeared Forein Affairs 1669. The Treaty at Aix la Chapelle one would have thought should have brought a general repose to Europe but jealousies of State had interrupted the quiet that should have attended upon it The King of France's new demands of appendencies to his Conquests in Flanders startled the Spaniards whereby Contributions were exacted by the French from places under the Spanish Jurisdiction as they took it for granted Nor did the States of Holland care at all for their Neighbourhood This made the Constable of Castile then Governour of the Spanish Netherlands in the place of Castel-Rodrigro send his Complaints to the French King who appointed Commissioners to sit at Lille for the composure of all these differences These Complaints the King of France eludes by renouncing his pretensions in one place and claiming in another quitting Charleroy and claiming Ipre quitting Conde and claiming Oudenard in which contests the Commissioners at Lille having spent many Moneths in vain were at length forc'd to break off without doing any thing On the other side Pompone the French Embassador endeavours all that might be to assure the States of Holland of the great inclinations of the King his Master to entertain all Friendship and good Correspondency with them telling them that he doubted not but the cares which he had for the glory of Christendom would in time sufficiently convince 'um of the vanity of those fears which some did endeavour to sow amongst ' um Nevertheless the States prepar'd for the security of their Frontiers and gave particular order to fortifie several Towns of Overyssel and upon the Borders of Westphalia In this juncture of time came news that the King of France had laid double Impositions upon the Manufactures of Holland in recompence of which kindness the Dutch lay an Imposition upon French Wine and Brandy proceeding at length to do the same upon all French Wares and forbid absolutely the Importation of Brandy and all other Distill'd Waters into Holland and upon this fuel those silent Animosities fed which afterwards brake out into greater Flames But between the States and Portugal there began to be a better understanding a new League being made betwixt them with condition that Cochin and Conomer in the East-Indies should remain to the Dutch and that four Millions of Money due to the States should be paid according to the Agreement made between them The Venetians in Candy had held out a long while against the main force of the Turk being assisted by many Princes of Europe especially the French first under the Command of Beaufort but with ill success he being slain in a Salley after him under the Conduct of the Duke of Navailles who after many Salleys and attempts finding little good to be done with what Souldiers he had left deserts the Garrison and returns for France though not without some disgrace to his person for the King of France hearing of his being landed commanded him to retire to his own possessions forbidding him to see his Face The Venetian seeing no hopes of keeping the Town any longer surrender'd it upon Articles and at length concluded a Peace inviolable for the advantage of Trade and mutual quiet of both Subjects King Casimire of Poland having resign'd and being now retired into France after many debates and much contention one Wisnowiskie a Native and one of the chief Nobility was the Elected King being Crown'd in September and soon after Married to Eleanor Sister to the Emperour of Germany This Year Clement the ninth of the House of Rospigliosi died at Rome having promoted six new Cardinals a little before his death A great Stickler against the Turks his Gallies under the Command of his Kinsman Don Vincenzo Rospigliosi being very serviceable to the Venetian After his Decease Cardinal Rospigliosi by vertue of a Brief acted as Pope till the new Election His death was followed by the death of the King of Denmark to whom succeeded his Son Christian the fifth The King of France at length signifies his willingness to refer the differences between himself and the Crown of Spain to the Arbitration of the Kings of England and Sweden But all this hinder'd not the conclusion of the Triple Alliance which was in the latter end of March in all points
Trim 164. Preston in Lancashire 178. Dunbar 273 Worcester 397 Beaufort encountered by Argier Pyratâ—s 546 Slain 576 Bâ—nnet Sir Humphrey 404 Benson Captain Executed 270 Beaumont a Minister Murthered at Pontfraict 227 Berkenhead Sir John Knighted 512 Berkley Sir John 98. Berkley Sir John and Col. Walter Slingsby 258 Bernard's Treachery rewarded 395 Betteley John Quartered 404 Bishops 12. Accused of high Treason to the Tower ten of them 26. Their Charge ibid. Restored to their Honours 502 Biddle an Infamous seducer 369 Blake blocks up Prince Rupert at Lisbon 256 At Lisbon again 267. A wary Commander 366. At Porto-Ferina defeats the Pyrates 372. Sails for the Coast of Spain 381. His desperate attempt upon the Spaniard in Sancta Cruz Fight 391. Fires the Spanish Fleet there ibid. Dies returning into England 402. His Character and Funeral ibid. Blackburn vide Moris Blackness yielded 288 Blechingdon-house 74 Blood attempts the Crown 580 Bourdeaux French Embassador owns Cromwel 359 Boys Sir John 62 Boyle Dean his management of affair with Cromwel about Articles for the English 252 Booth Sir George riseth in Cheshire 424 Defeated and taken 425. Sent to the Tower and Examined by Vane and Haslerig 426. Obtains his liberty of the Rump uppon Bail 433 Bramhal Dr. dies 522 Bradshaw the bold President of the high Court of Iustice 106 to 217. Dies 430 Bradshaw Agent at Hamburg and Denmark 334 Brain sent General to Jamaica 381 Brandenburghers 547 Mortogh O Brian lays down last Armes in Ireland 356 Breda the place of Treaty 560. English Embassadors there ibid. Plenipotentiaries meet Peace concluded 563 Bristol intended to be surprized for the King 45 46. Taken by his Forces 47. By Fairfax 87 Bristol Earl honoured with the Garter 344 Bridgewater taken 82 Brickbat flung at the Protector 's Coach 358 Broughton Col. 296 Broughil Lord lands in Munster with Forces from England 246. Defeats David Roch and hangs the Bishop of Ross 252. Brown Major-General 57. Reconciled to the King at Holmby 128. In a new designe discovered 434 Brown Bushel beheaded 285 Brooks Lord killed 42 Brunt-Island taken 294 Brunswick besieged and surrendred 583 Buchanan's Book burnt in Scotland 526 Buckingham Duke 177. sent into Holland 584 Buckhurst Lord c. 505 Burleigh Capt. 163 Butler Col. Richard taken 242 C Cahiâ— Castle weakly yielded 521 Calamy Minister Committed 514 Canons made against the Church of Rome and justifying this 12 Capel Lord Tryed and Sentenced 228. and Beheaded his noble deportment 229 Carlisle Earl sent into Sweden 572 Cavalcaâ—e and Procession from 474 to 486 Campeach taken 520 Canary prohibited 556 Candia besieged 559. Surrendred 577 Carlisle yielded to the Scots 106 Carnarvan slain 50 51 Casimire King of Poland dies in France 590 Carrick taken by Treachery 247. Attempted in vain to be recovered from Colonel Reynolds 248 Carteret Sir George Governour of Jersey 255 Castlehaven Earl for the King in Ireland and against the Nuntio's party 238 Casualties 315 Cavaliers to depart London 258. Conspire against Cromwel 366. Their Plot again discovered 401. They Plot against the Rump 423 Ceremonies in Religion one main cause of the War opposed and murmured at 2 3 Cessation granted by the Scots upon very difficult terms 15 Cessation agreed in Ireland 53 Chains of Gold and Medals given to the chief Sea-Officers 349 Chaloner Chute Speaker dies 416 Chancery regulated 368 Character of the Kings Iudges 196 to 203 Charles Prince in the Downs 175. At Goree in Holland 176 Charles the second Proclaimed King by dispersed papers 225 Chester Charter taken away 427 Chichister City 42 Chepstow-Castle taken by Sir Nicholas Kemish 171 St. Christophers and the Cariby Islands subdued 307 Christmass day Celebrated 398 City Alarm'd with a pretended Plot 403 City invite Parliament and Army to dinner 429. Send Sword-bearer to Gen. Monke 435. Their Gates and Portcullices pulled down 437 City and Companies feasts the General 438 Their joy upon the King's return 453 Lend the King Money 575 528 551 City Building begins 556 Citadels built in Scotland 313 Claypool's Lady dies buried 404 Dr. Clargis also Mr. Caryl Minister c. sent to Gen. Monke in Scotland 432 Clanrickard Marq. his services 249. Substituted Lord-Governour of Ireland 251. Defeated by Col. Axtel 277. Lays down his Arms 324 Clubmen 83 Clement Gregory 255 Clifford Lord made Lord Treasurer 588. Resignes his Staff 591 Clogher Bishop defeated 267 Clonmel yielded after a stout resistance 252 Colchester Siege 175 Cock-matches and Horse-races prohibited 359 Committee appointed for inspection of Charters 381. Committee of Safety 429. Like not themselves declare for another Parliament 433 Common-prayer abolished 69 Commonwealth altered by Cromwel 338 Composition 88 Compton Dr. made Bishop of Oxford 599 Commissioners in Scotland 166 Commission of the Great Seal altered 359 Commissioners for approbation of Ministers 359 Commissioners to treat with the King at the Isle of Wight 183 Commissioners to General Monke from the City 436 Commissioners to the King at Breda arrive at the Hague 447 Commissioners of the Treasury 563. To take account of publick Money ibid. To hear Seamens complaints 564 Cologne Treaty 594 Colmaer Battle 601 Colliers the Dutch designe 337 Confederate party of Irish Rebels 250 Confirmation of Acts 500 Constable Sir William dies and buried in Hen. 7th's Chappel 373 Contents of the Kings Declaration from Breda 445 Convocation in England grant 5th part of their Livings to Scotch War 12 Convention in Ireland 440 Conway Lord defeated 13 Coronation of the King 475 to 496 Cotterel Sir Charles sent to Brussels 532 Court erected for rebuilding the City 556 County-troops established 373 Councellors several Privy-Councillors made 584 Covenant first in Scotland what 7. Taken 45. Burnt by the Hangman 498 to 500 Council of State erected 226. New chosen 258 named by Cromwel 343. Supream power named by the Rump 421. A new one appointed 435 Courts of Iustice in Ireland 332 Courts â—it in the interval of the Rupture by Lambert 343 Coot Sir Charles defeats the Irish 250 267 305. His Stratagem on Galloway in Ireland for a free Parliament 438. Died 503 Cooper a Minister Executed 278 Corke vide Youghal Cowley Abr. dies 564 Craven Lord his Case 291 365 offered again to the Parliament but deferred by the Protector 392 Crew Dr. Bishop of Durham 599 Crosses demolished 45 Cromwel Lieutenant-General at Marston-moor at Islip 59 74 112 His Conspiracy in seizing the King at Holmby 129. Complements and Courts the King 144. And then abuseth him 147. Awes the Votes of Non-addresses 162. His Politicks on People City and King 163. Collogues the City and Parliament for fear of the Scots 165. Marcheth into Scotland 178. Makes the Scots disband 179. Treacherously surprizeth the Levellers his subtile Clemency 234. Graduated at Oxford ibid. And presented and treated by the City of London 234. Made Lord-Governour of Ireland 237. Lands there ibid. Storms Tredagh his cruelty and policy there Winter-quarter at Youghal 254. Sent for by Letters leaves Ireland and Ireton in
chief there 253 266. His cruelty to the English Cavaliers ibid. Arrives in England 267. Made Gen. for Scotch Expedition 268. His Sophistry with the Scots 271. Marcheth for Sterling 275. his progress in Scotland 279. Alarms the Scots 283. At Glascow sick 289. His designe upon the Parliament 324. A Dictator 343. Made Protector and Installed at Westminster 354. The module of Government and his Oath ibid. Proclaimed and gratulated 355. Names his Privy-council ibid. Invited to dinner by the City and dines there 357. Supplies the Courts with able Iudges ibid. Concludes a Peace with the Dutch ibid. His designes to secure himself 358. Falls from the Coach-box in Hide-park 363. Calls a Parliament Sept. 3d. his speech to them and designes 363 364. His designes in the West-Indies 365. His Mother dieth buried in state in Hen. 7th's Chappel 366. His Cabal with the French Cardinal 369. His Conspiracy with the King of Sweden and the Prince of Transilvania 373. Affronted by Coney a Merchant 374. Gives preferments and sends his son Henry to command in Ireland 358. His oppression of the Loyal party 378. His designe in setting up Major-Generals 378. To awe the Parliament new called 381. Treats with the Iews about a Toleration 379. Allows 200 l. towards Bishop Usher's Funeral 380. Excludes divers Members ibid. Congratulated by his Convention on Syndercomb's Plot 385. His designe is motioned to take the Title of a King 386. The danger makes him refuse it 390 Assists the French with 6000 men 391. Confirmed in his former Dignity of Protector 392. Signes several Acts 392. His speech to the Parliament containing Thanks for the Money-Acts 392. His Investiture and Inauguration in the Protectorship 394. Frighted at a Book 395. Sends Embassadors to mediate betwixt the Dane and Swede 397. Advanceth and prefers his Children 398. Swears his Privy-council ibid. Chooseth another House 399. The frame of his Government questioned by the Parliament 401. He dissolves them ibid His policy in discharging Sheriffs of their pences at Assizes 401. In fears and troubled condition 402. Falls sick his Family and himself vainly presumptuous of his recovery Dies 408. His Character ibid. Sixty thousand pound allotted for the expence of his Funerals from 411 to 413 Cromwel Bradshaw and Ireton digged up and hanged at Tybourn 432 Cromwel Henry tamely surrenders Ireland 423 Crosby betrays Kingsale Condemned 248 Cumberland Earlâ— 44 Cyrencester 42 D Danemark War declared against it 556 Daniel Col. John Articles 252 Davison c. kills a Souldier at St. James's 379 Daws Capt. his courage 560 Davis a Water-man betrays Lord Capel 220 Declaration of the King conecrning the Act of Vniformity 514 Declaration of Cromwel upon dissolution of Parliament 340 to 343. Of the Rump 420 Decimation of Cavaliers 378 Delinquents Capital and otherwise qualified 229 Democracy established in the City 231 Denbigh Earl killed 44 Dennington Castle Besieged and stoutly defended and yielded 98 Denial Self order 67 126 Denmark King 225. Dies 577 Deploration of the loss before Dublin the causes thereof 242 Derby Earl corresponds with the King 234. Discovered ibid. Ioyns with the King in Lancashire 295. Defeated at Wigan and flies to Worcester 296. Taken at Newport Sentenced by a Court-Marshal Beheaded at Bolton 302 303. Derby-house Committee formerly the Committee of Safety 166 De Ruyter sayls for New-found-land 540. Returned to Holland 541. Made Admiral ibid. De Ruyter and Tromp fall out 554. Presented by the Cornish Gentlemen 562 Desborough Col. and others summoned 549 Dean General slain 344 Devizes 46 Digby Lord honoured with the Order of the Garter at Paris 344 Dignities conferred by the King 455 Dillon Lord at Baggot-rath 242 Directory 125 126 Disorders and divisions the ruine of the Irish Army 251 Dives Sir Lewis escapes 220 Divisions among the Scots fomented by Cromwel 271 Dorrington Sir Francis 63 Dorislaus slain at the Hague 236 Downing Sir George 448. Sent into Holland 528 529. Presses for answer to the King's demands 582. Returns ibid. He is Committed ibid. Drogheda besieged and taken by Cromwel and a bloody Massacre there 244 Dublin besieged by the Marq. of Ormond 241. Siege raised and Besiegers routed 242 Duckenfield Lieutenant-Colonel stops the Speakers Coach 429 Dunbarton yielded 308 Dunslo pacification 10 Dundalk taken 23. Retaken 25 Dundee stormed by Gen. Monke 301 Dunferling Earl to London 10 Dumfreize Riot there 557 Dunkirk taken by the Spaniards 325. Siege 405. The Battle there ibid. A defeat given the Spaniard 406. Yielded and put into the English possession 407. Restored to the French 512 Dunotter-Castle yielded 313 Dury's religious Cabal in Germany 377 Dutch Embassadors to Oxford 57. Commerce and Fishing molested at Sea 308. War towards ibid. Send Embassadors to treat ibid. Embassadors extenuate and mediate the Rupture their Papers and our States answer thereunto 320 321. Fleet gives the English a go-by in the North-Seas and comes into the Downâ— 344. Engage with the English ibid. Defeated 345. Send to England in order to Peace ibid. Trade at a stand 346. Their Embassadors have Audience of the Protector 355. Peace and private Articles of it against the Prince of Orange 357. Magnificently treat the King 448. Surprised by the Turk 524. Complain by the English 525. House resolves therein ibid. King declares himself ibid. Bravado 528. Bourdeaux-fleet taken 529. A Dutch Libel 530. Dutch arrive in Guernsey 530. Their Smyrna-fleet encountered by Captain Allen 536. Reprisals granted against them 531. Dutch War declared ibid. Dutch Libel ibid. Dutch Embassie proves fruitless 531. Dutch Manufactures prohibited 532. Cashire the English Officers 533. Dutch Imbargo in France 534. Dutch ibid. Dutch Libel 535. Ill treated in Russia 536. Dutch lost in China 541. Make peace with the Dane 548. Dutch attempt Brunt-Island 560. Sheerness ibid. Come up the River 561. At Harwich ibid. At Wenbury in Devonshire 562. At Cowland in Cornwal ibid. Dutch lose several Towns 585. Dutch Mutinies 586. Dutch East-Indie-fleet escape the English 587. Dutch Magistrates changed Dutch make peace with the Bishop of Munster 600. Dutch take the Island of Normantier from the French ibid. E Earles of Pembroke and Holland sent with a Declaration of the fears of the Parliament to the King 31. Answered ibid. Earls created 470 Earthquake in Cheshire 395 East-Indie ships Dutch taken 541 Edinburgh entred by Cromwel 275. Castle yielded 280 Elector Prince Palatine comes to London departs taken in France 10 Elections for a free Parliament 440 Elizabeth Princess dies 276 Emperor his Brother dies 146. Makes peace with the Turk 147. Offers to mediate 584. His Forces marched 597 Enfield-chace a Skirmish there 423 Engagement annulled 439 England and the Dominions made a free State by Act 235 English under Lord Marquiss Ormond and Inchiqueen disbanded and dismist by the Irish 252 Eniskillon delivered to Sir Charles Coot 250 Episcopacy re-established here 456. And in Scotland 503 Escapes of divers Cavaliers 227 Escurial burnt 583 Essex Earl Lieutenant-General of Foot against the Scots 9. General
manner of his escape and arrival at Paris 311. Continues there ibid. Interposeth betwixt that King and Princes honoured by the Duke of Lorrain ibid. From Paris to Liege and from the Spaw 363. to Colen 365. At the Duke of Newburg ibid. Privately withdraws upon Penruddock's rising 367. At Frankford 376. An interview with the Queen of Sweden in company with the Princess of Aurange ibid. To Flanders at Bruges 384. False reports spread of him here on designe 377. Honourably treated by the Elector of Mentz ibid. Entertains Forces in Flanders 291. His Title to the Crown annull'd 383. King at Dunkirk 396. In readiness with Forces from Flanders 403. His designe discovered by Manning 367. Privately at Sir George Booth's rising about St. Mâ—â—â—'s in Britany 426. At St. Jean de Luz ibid. And at Paris Complemented upon the Change by that Court 436. At Brussels thence to Breda 445. Sends his Letters and Declarations ibid. At the Hague 447. Proclaimed ibid. Departs for England 449. Complemented with an Elegant Speech ibid. Embarques and Lands at Dover 450. To Canterbury Rochester Dertford 451. Manner of his entrance into and passage through London ibid. Proclaimed in Ireland by the Convention Crowned 454. His answer to the Earl of Manchester's Speech 453. Passeth many Acts 454. His passage through London to his Coronation 475. Married to the Infanta of Portugal at Portsmouth 506. His Declaration concerning the Act of Vniformity 514. Kings Progress 539. At Oxford ibid. Declares War against France 544. Lays the first Stone at the Exchange 565. Makes peace with Spain 578. Takes a Progress 581. Invites the Dutch into England 585. Makes peace with the Dutch 595. Mediates a peace between France and Spain composeth the difference between the King of France and States of Genoua 600 Kingly power voted useless 226 Kirle a Lieutenant-Colonel betrayeth Monmouth to Massey 64 Knights of the Bath 481 Kniveton Daniel the Kings Messenger-Executed 256 L Lambert Major-General passeth into Fife defeats Sir John Brown there 293 Lambert made General against Sir Geo. Booth his success 425. His reward of a Iewel 427. His policy and use of his Victory ibid. His Cabal with the Officers of his Army against the Rump ibid. Offered Terms from the King by the Lord Hopton 431. Marcheth against General Monke ibid. Would Engage 434. Deserted by his men ibid. Turned off and discarded escapes from the Tower defeated taken by Ingoldsby 441. Ordered to Trial 505. Sentenced 510 Lambs a brave white-coated Regiment of the Marquiss of Newcastle overthrown and destroyed 61 Langdale Lord joyns with Hamilton 1â—7 Lane Lord-Keeper dieth at Jersey 270 Laud Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury a zealous Protestant traduced c. 12. And intended to be murthered 12 13. Impeached 17. And voted guilty of High Treason committed to the Tower ibid. Convened before the Lords and after a brave defence Sentenced 69 70. As bravely suffered Beheaded ibid. Col. Laughorn Poyer and Powel rise in Wales 171 Laughorn vide Poyer c. Laws poted to be maintained and preserved by the new States turned into English 287 to be new moulded into another Body 351. Lawson Sir John sent to the Streights 526. Proclaims War with the Algiers ibid. Called home 528 De Lede Spanish Embassador hither 373. Governour of Dunkirk slain there 406 Leeds taken by Fairfax 42 Leicester Earl made Deputy of Ireland 20 Leicester taken â—6 Retaken 80 81. Lenthal Mr. John 469 Lesly Scotch General 13. Defeated at Marston-moor 59. Baulked at Hereford 87. Taken and sent Prisoner to Chester 302 Letters sent from the King to the Rump 441 Levellers first 131 Levens Dr. Executed 269 Liberty of Conscience Enacted in England 275 Libberton Lord to the King at Jersey 233. Slain at Dunbar 273 Ligne Prince 455 Lilburn John whipt at Carts Tail for seditious Books 2 Lilburn and Levelling party secured 232. Their History and Actions at Burford 234 Their new Commotions 255. Defeated and their Ring-leaders shot 234 Lilburn Col. Chief Commander in Scotland he defeats the Royalists 355 Lilly's Prognostications 310 Lines and Bulwarks about London alarm'd by the King's march 39 Lindsey Earl General for the King 38. His Son 47 Limerick Siege 304. Surrendered 305 Lisle killed 534 Litchfield besieged and taken 42. Retaken by Prince Rupert 44 Litchfield Earl 424 Littleton Lord Keeper 45 Little or foolish Parliament sit down 349. Their Character and Names 350. Their strange Consultations and Actions 351. Dissolved 353 Lockyer shot to death 233 Lockhart the Rump Embassador at St. Jean de Luz 426 Loans and subscriptions against Scotch War by the Earl Strafford c. all the Nobility and Gentry 11 London proffers their ready service to secure the two Houses their Levies forbidden by the Kings Letters 27. A Plot to surprize it for the King Mr. Waller hardly escaped 47. Engage against the Army and Petition the Parliament 137. Too rashly 138. Tumult the Parliament ibid. Submit to the Army their Lines and Works dismantled Army through it in Triumph 141 Bishop of London attended the King at his death 220 London-Derry relieved by the joynt forces of O Neal and General Monke the ill consequences thereof 239 Longford house surrendred 92 Loudon Lord abuseth the King 120 Lorn Lord pardoned 509 Lords House comply with votes of Non-addresses awed by the Army 165 Lords of the Privy-Council 488 Loathbury sad fire 513 Loughborough Lord 81 97. Escapes 227. Arrives at the Hague ibid. Love Minister Sentenced and Executed 240 Lucas Sir Charles and Sir George Lisle shot to death 179 Lucas Sir Charles and Sir George Lisle reinterred at Colchester 500 Lunsford Lieutenant of the Tower 25 Luzancy assaulted by St. Germain 602 M Macquire and MacMahon seized in Dublin sent Prisoners to the Tower 22. Executed 71 Mace a new one made 235 Maestricht blockt up 584. Surrendered 596 Major-Generals established 378. Their power and awe of Elections c. 382 Mallet Iudge resignes 522 Man Isle reduced 306 Manchester Earl at Marston 58. At Dennington-castle 63. Disbanded 72. His Speech 452. Made Lord-Chamberlain 455. Dies 580 Mannings Treason 365. Shot 368 Mardike taken 396. Attempted by the Spaniard ibid. Marlborough 42. Burnt 343 Mary Princess Married to the Prince of Aurange 18 Marriage Act 351 Marston the Leveller hanged 257 Marsin General 403 Marshals Court in Southwark abolished 291 Maynard Serjeant to the Tower c. 374 Massey Col. 42. Disbanded 112. Heads the Citizens against the Army 139. Impeached 132. Flies into Holland 143. Escapes from the Tower 303. Escapes from St. James's 227 Arrives at the Hague ibid. Worsted and wounded at Upton-bridge 296. Taken 303. Taken and Escaped 424. Mazarine Cardinal joys the Queen-Mother with Cromwel's death 410 Maurice Prince drowned in the West-Indies 337 Members the five the grand cavil of the Rebellion 25. Five Members charged 26 Eleven Members impeached by the Army 132. Fugitive Members sit in Council with the Army 140. Reseated by them 141. Void and null all that was done in their absence 142
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
Windsor castle Th. Andrews Anth. Stapely Th. Horton Recruit to the Long Parl. John Fry a Yeoman of Dorsetshire an Arrian Thom. Hammond Bâ—other to Dr. Hammond the Kings Iaylor Isaac Pennington Lord Mayor of London Simon Meyne of Buckinghamshire died in the Tower Sir Hardress Waller a Souldier of Fortune Will Hâ—veningham Esq 〈◊〉 antient Family in Suffolk Henry Marten Owen Row a Silk-man of London Augustine Garland a person relating to the Law Henry Smith one of the Six Clerks in Chancery Robert Titchbourn Lord Mayor of London George Fleetwood James Temple Thomas Wait. Peter Temple a London Linneâ—-draper Bâ—â—gesâ— for Leicester Robert Lilburn Brother to John Lilburn Gilbert Millington a Lawyer Vincent Potter an upstart Member John Downs a Citizen of London and a Colonel Thomas Wogan an obscure person John Lisle a Gentleman and Lawyer President of several High Courts of Iustice. Will. Say Esq. a Lawyer and Deputy-speaker of the House of Commons Valentine Walton Brother in law to Cromwel and Governour of Lyn. Edward Whaley a Wollen-draper his Family of Nottinghamshire a good souldier Edm. Ludlow the son of a Traytor a daring souldier Sir Michael Livesey of Kent John Hewson a Shoo-maker dead in Exile a bold Commander Will. Goffe a Salters Apprentice and a bold Commander Cor. Holland a servant to Sir Hen. Vane Thomas Challoner a great speech-maker against the K. Will. Cawley a Brewer of Chichester Nic. Love son to Dr. Love of Winchester John Dixwel Governour of Dover Castle Daniel Blagrave a recruit for Reading Daniel Broughton a Clerk Edward Dendy Serjeant at Arms. John Hutchison fined Francis Lassels fined Lord Munson Ja Challoner Esq. Sir Hen. Mildmay Ro. Wallop Esq. Sir Ja Harrington and John Phelps their Estates Forfeited drawn to Tyburn and Imprisoned during life The High Court of Iustice sits Jan. 20. A crimson Velvet-chair and Cushion for the President Silence made the Hall-gate set open Col. Thomlinson commanded to bring his prisoner He is brought to the Bar a chair of crimson-Velvet set for him Silence made the Act for the Tryal of Charles Stuart King of England read The Names of the Commissioners read The Presidens speech to the King Cook Solicitor-General offers to speak is forbid by the King He proceeds The Charge read President demands the Kings Answer His Majesty refuseth to Answer and disowns the Authority of the Court. Proves his Title to the Crown by succession not Election Is prevented by the Presidents insolent rebukes Who urgeth for an Answer The King still refuseth demanding their Authority The President answers their Authority is Gods and the Kingdoms The Court riseth The head of the Kings staff falls down â—e stoops and takes it up Some cry God save the King others Iustice and Execution by Axtels directions The Court sits the King comes in the people shout Solicitor moves for the Kings Answer President insists upon it His Majesty still denies the Authority of the Court. Refuseth to plead and offers to shâ—w his Reasons Here the King would have delivered his Reasons but was not suffered His Majesty presseth to shew his Reasons but cannot be permitted He desires to Demur He is over-ruled by the Court and Interrupted The Cleâ—k reâ—d The Guards charged to take away their Prisoner The Court order the default and contempt to be Recorded The King guarded to Sir Ro. Cottons The Court adjourns The Court sits again The King comes The Sollicitor moves the Court for Iudgement The Presidents speech in behalf of the Court he demands a positive answer from the King His Majesty desires to speak for the Liberties of the people but is not permitted till he gives his Answer to Guilty or not Guilty 〈…〉 to give any particular answer desires 〈◊〉 to shew his Reasons is interrupted again and again The Clerk reads His Majesty justifies his proceedings and refuseth to Answer to the Charge The Guards ordered to take charge of their Prisoner The King goes forth and the Court adjourns His Majesties Reasons against the Iurisdiction of the Court which be intended to speak in Court but was hindered No proceeding just but what is warranted by the Laws of God or man No Impeachment can lie against the King The House of Commons cannot erect a Court of Iudicature Nor are the Membeâ—â— of this House Coâ—â—issioned by the people of England The Priviledges oâ—â—aâ—liameâ—t Violated The higher House excluded and the major part of the lower deterred from sitting The frame of Government chaâ—ged The Court sits Silence commanded The King comes the souldiers cry for Iustice. His Majesty desires to be heard but not permitted The Court withdraws Serejant at Arms withdraws the King The Court returns resolving to proceed The King brought into the Court he urgeth to be heard and adviseth the Court against a haâ—ty Iudgement The Presidents speech in defence of the Courts proceedings His Majesty is interrupted Silence commanded the Sentence read The Charge read The King required to give his Answer he refuseth The King guarded awaâ— He is abused by the Souldiers disturbed in his Devotions His admirable patience He desires to see his Children and Doctor Juxon The King tempted with new Proposals from some Grandees of the Army B. Juxon preacheth before him at Saint James ' s. His Maj. giveth his Blessing to the Duke of Gloucester and the Lady Elizabeth His pious advice to them The Duke of Gloucester 's reply The Lady Elizabeths Relation of what passed between his Majesty and her He adviseth her to read Bp. Andrew 's Sermons Hookers Policy and Bp. Laud against Fisher. A Committee appointed to consider of the time and place for Execution They agree upon the open street before White-hall the morrow following The Waâ—raâ—â— for the Kings Exâ—â—utâ—â—â— Sigâ—â—d by Joh. Bradshaw Tho Gray Ol. Cromwel 〈◊〉 to Col. Fâ— Hacker 〈◊〉 Hunks anâ— Liâ—â— Coâ—oâ—el â—hray Factious Ministers appointed to attend the King he refuseth to confer with them Bp. of London readeth prayers to him and administers the Sacrament The King brought to White-hall Mr. Seymor presents his Majesty with a Letter from the Prince The Kings friends â—arbarously uâ—â—d Engines to force the King 〈…〉 had â—â—sâ—ted His Majesty had â—ot spoâ—en bâ—t that â—therwise he might be thought to submit to the guilt Hâ— began not 〈◊〉 War spanâ— Hoâ—sâ—s His Majesâ—y lays not the 〈…〉 the two 〈◊〉 iâ—l â—â—struments the cauâ—e of it 〈…〉 Sentence puâ—â—shed with another His Majesty forgives all the world evâ—â— the caâ—sers 〈◊〉 his death 〈…〉 waâ— to Pâ—ace Conquest an ill way seldom 〈◊〉 To give God his due and the Kâ—ng his 〈◊〉 is the right way Give God his due in setâ—ing the Church As to the King it concerning 〈◊〉 hiâ— Majesty â—aves it Peoples Liberty consiâ—â—s in having Government not sâ—aring in it His Majesty the Martyr of the People His Majestie deâ—â—ares hâ—s Râ—ligioâ— * Afterwards Sir William Clerk The King makes ready for Execution Dr. Juxon comforts him It is known for to give it the Prince His Majesty
attempting Waterford in vain departs Col. Jones dyes of the Flux The Kings Forces Assault Carrick but depart with loss Both Armies retire to their Winter-quarters Gen. Owen O Neal dyes the Ulster Forces sent into their own Province Luke Taafe sent into Connaght Lord Inchiqueen goes to Clare Lord Dillon into Meath Maj General Hugh O Neal made Governâ—ur of Clonmel for the King Kilkenny garrisoned for the King Crosby betrayeth Kingsale he is Reprieved and pardoned The Marq. of Ormond offers to morgage his Estate for the sâ—pport of the Aâ—my He is at Kilkenny The Irish Souldiers some frighted with the Plague others in necessity revolt to Cromwel The Marq. of Clanrickard Character He supplies Sir George Monro with money Marq. of Ormond at Kilkenny endeavouring with the Lord Clanrickard to proviâ—â— an Army against next spring Sir Charles Coote defeats the Iriâ—â— and takes the Earl of Claneboys Sir Geo Monro delivers Eniskillin to the Enemy Capt. Tickle Executed for designing to betray Kilkenny Marq. of Ormond at Limerick departs in diâ—â—ast to Clare Cromwels Army takes the Field The Kings Army dispersed Ballisanon sold to Cromwel Cahir Castle given him The affairs in Ireland 〈…〉 Marq. of Ormonds 〈◊〉 He withdraws leaving the Marq. Clanrickard to Govern that Kingdom Kilkenny taken Cromwel at Cashel The Lord Clanrickard refuseth to take upon him the Government The Marq. of Ormond courted to continue it to which on certain coâ—ditions he agrees The English under Ormond disbanded and take Conditions Emer Mac Mahon Bp. of Cloghor made General of the Ulster Army Cromwel repulsed and worsted at Clonmel by Maj. General Hugh O Neal Governour thereof Clonmel surrendred to Cromwel David Roch defeated by the L. Broghall The Bp of Rosse and two other Priests hanged Cromwel goes for England Ireton chief Commander in his place An account of the Irish affairs Col. Wogan defeated and taken prisoner Prince Rupert departs Kingsale with his Fleet leaving three empty ships behind him Oct. 24. Col. Morris and Cornet Blackborne Executed at York Aug. Lord Chief-Iustice Heath dyes Sir Kenelm Digby and Mr. Walter Mountague ordered to depart the Kingdom Forrain Princes how affected The Marq. of Montross his Declaration The French 〈◊〉 the importation of cloth The States of Holland dâ—â—y Audiâ—â—â—â— to Strickland the Statâ—â— of Englands 〈◊〉 Thâ— Spaniard prâ—â—ibits his Subâ—â—â—s to seâ—ve our King at â—ea The Gallantry of tâ—â— Emperour Russia He lends the King of England 20000 l. Presbyterian Ministers decline tâ—â— Parliament The Levelâ—rs discontented New commotions by the Levelers John Lilburn chosen a Common-Council-man for London but disabled by the Parliament The Engagement Voted Octob. The terrible Powder-blow in Tower-street Jan. 4. Alderman Hoyle hanged himâ—elf Jan. 30. Gen. Blake commands a Fleet. Prince Rupert blockt up Lisbone Mar. Granger 's notorious Cheats Lord Liberton brings Letters from Scotland to the King at Jersey The Scots appoint Commissioners to treat at Breda The King in danger of drowning The Scots purge their Army 〈◊〉 sendâ— Coâ—â—issioners to the King They except against Malignants Marston the Leveller kills two Messengers and wounding a third escapes is afterwards taken and executed Sir John Berckley and Col. Walter Slingsby secured The Engagement pressed by the Parliament Great Robberies A new Council of State Mr. Ascham and Mr. Vane sent Agents into Spain and Portugal The Names of Ships changed A Fleet sent to Barbadoes against the Lord Willoughby of Parham Cavaliers to depart London Orders concerning Delinquents Estates A new High Court of Iustice constituted Keeble made President thereof An Act against Fornication An Account of the last actions of the Marquess of Montross He was offered to be Capt. of the Scots Guards to the King of France The Emperor at Vienna offers to make him one of his Generals Marquess of Montross Arms for the King in Scotland His ill success The Parliament at Edenburgh Alarmed Col. Straughan sent with a choice party of Horse to oppose him After him follows Lesly and Holborn The Marq Publisheth a Declaration The danger of this attempt Earl of Sunderland opposeth him Dumbath Castle surrendred to the Marquess his Forces Col. Straughan sets upon him The Marq. of Montross defeated Ap. 29. His Standard taken and the bearâ—r thereof slain taken besides on the Marquess his side Col. Hurrey Lord Frendraught Sir Francis Hay c. The Marq. of Montross taken May 3. by the Laird of Aston and conveyed to David Lesley Dumbath Castle yielded to the Covenanters The Covenanters give solemn thanks for their Victory Montross visits his Children at his Father-in-laws the Earl of Southesk His journey to Edenburgh He is mounted on a Cart-horse and delivered to the Executioner bound with Ropes in a Chair and dâ—spitefully used The people pity him but the Ministers revile him He is Imprisoned in the Tol-booth His friends not suffered to visit him The Marquess of Montross sentenced to die by a Committee of Parliament in Scotland Some Members and Ministers sent to examine him He refuseth to answer them The Chancellours Speech in Parliament against the Marquess The Marquess of Montrosses Answer in Parliament The Chancellor comands the Sentence to be read And the Marquess to be conveyed back to prison His noble behaviour there He comes to the Scaffold in rich attire The Marquess of Montross his Speech on the Scaffold Mark the horribâ—â— unchristianity of the Scotch Kirk The Marquess gives moâ—y to the Executioner who according to the Sentence hanged his Declaration and History about his Neck He is hanged on a Gibbet Cromwel for England May. Cromwels cruelty to the English Royallists Col. Wogan escapes An Embassador from Holland Bishop of Cloghor defeated June 18. by Sir Charles Coot Mortally wounded and taken with his Lieut. Gen. Hen. Oneale Marchamount Needham the Parliament-Droll Author of a scurrilous Pamphlet Cromwel returns from his Conquest in Ireland June 6. Prince Rupert blockt up in Lisbon The King ships himself for Scotland from Schevelt June His Majesty complemented by the Nobility of Scotland Fairfax layes down his Commission June 26. The Army marches into Scotland July 22. A light Skirmish and Encounter at Mussleborough July 29. Dr. Levens hanged in â— Cornhill The Kings Statues pulled down Aug. Myn Heer Joachim Resident from the States of Holland sent home Lord-Keeper Lane dieth at Jersey Col. Andrews Executed Aug. 2 on Tower-hill Sir John Gell Sentenced and Cap. Benson Executed October 7. Several surrenders in Ireland Animosities among the Scots Cromwel makes use of them The peremptory resolution of the Kirk of Scotland Cromwel causeth the Kirk-Declaration to be read to his Army Red-house stormed The Armies face one another The English retreat to Dunbar Dunbar fight Sep. 3. The Scots routed Prisoners of Note Sir James Lumsdale Lieu. Gen. of the Army Lord Libberton who died of his wounds Adjutant-General Bickerton Scout-master Campbel Sir Will. Douglas Lâ— Cranston Colonel Gurden c. Their Colours taken ordered to be hung up in Westminster-hall Cromwel 's Letter
after the fight General Monk chiefly concâ—â—â—'d in the honour of this field The Highlanders sold for Slaves A union of parties endeavoured by the Scots The Parliament at Westminster appoint a Thanksgiving day Cromwel marcheth for Sterling Sep. 14. Liberty of Conscience Enacted in England The Sectaries raise an Army Col. Harrison made Maj. Gen. The Duke of Yoak at the Hague Prince Ruperts Fleet dispersed Nov. Princess Elizabeth dieth at Carisbroke Castle is buried in Newport Prince of Aurange died Octb. 27. Divisions among the Loyal parties in Ireland The Marq of Clanâ—ickards Forces â—eâ—eated by Col. Axtel Octob. 25. The Marq. of Ormoâ—â— and Lord Inchiqueen resolved to depart out of Ireland Nov. An Embassador from Portugal to the new States Dec. The Spanish Embassador likewise acknowledg'd them a Free-State Decem. An Insurrection in Norfolk Suppressed A High Court of Justice Erected at Norwich Mr. Cooper a Minister Maj. Saul and others Executed A memorable accident at Oxford Several Acts of Parliament Passed The Progress of Cromwel in Scotland The Trayterous Western Remonstrance of some Scots Ker defeated and taken Prisoner Edenburgh Castle yielded Dec. 24. The Articles for the Rendition of Edenburgh-Castle Col. Fenwick madâ— Goveâ—nour 〈◊〉 and of Leith for the Parliament The Scots boldly sollicitous with the King His Majesty withdraws to Gen. Middleton The manner of His Coronation January 1. The Lord-Chancellors Speech to the King His Majesties Answer He is accompanied by the Nobility to the Kirk of Scoone Mr. Robert Douglass preacheth before the King Prince of Aurange Christned Several of the King Friends preferred and intrusted Fife Castle attempted by the English Hume Castle taken Feb. 4 by Col. Fenwick for the Parliament The Governours Answer to the Summons Timtallon Castle yielded by Sir James Seaton to the Parliament of England General Ruthen Earl of Brentford and Forth deceaseth David Lesley General for the Scots A new Council of State March John Fry one of the Kings Iudges writts a Book against the Trinity he is Voted to leave the House and his Book to be burned A Dutch Envoy complains to the King of Sir Jo. Greenvile Governour of the Isle of Scilly and others The Prince of Aurange buried Feb. 21. Tho. Cook of Grays-Inne Esq. committed to the Tower Maj. General Harrison ordered to march into Lancashire Cornet Castle delivered by Col. Burgess to M. Harrison for the Parliament The Irish defeated at Finagh March 13. Sir Henry Hide Beheaded June 4 in London Câ—pt Brown Bushel Executed Mar. 29. The Lord Saint John and Strickland Embassadors to Holland They desire a firm League The States General shew no forwardness to this new friendship The Embassadors affronted by Prince Edward son to the Queen of Bohemia They complain to the States and have a Guard appointed them They depart for England June 20. Saint John 's Speech at his departure The Law and its Proceedings turned into English Apr. A new Welch Insurrection started Blackness Castle delivered to Cromwel The Loyal Nobility in Scotland restored to their Seats in Parliament The Kirk convâ—â—â—d at Glascow E. of Eglington surprized in his designe of raising Forces for the King Cromwel burneth the Lady Kilsithes house Maj. Sydenham slain and his party defeated Apr. 15 by the Lord Montgomery and Lord Cranston The Reduction of Scilly Island in May. St Maries Island surrendred June 2 by Sir John Greenvile to Gen. Blake and Sir Geo Ayscue Pr. Rupert and Pr. Maurice at Sea from Toulon An Agent from the D. of Florence to the Parliament of England Lord Howard committed to the Tower for Bribery Cromwel sick May. Part of a Letter from one of Cromwels Creatures An Act of Oblivion in Scotland The Royalists aâ—d Kirk-men good friends Earl of Calender Commander in chief of their new Levies The Presbyterian Ministers seized by the Council of State in order to their Tryal May. Mr. Love charged with High Treason Mr. Jackson fined 500 l. and committed to the Fleet for refusing to give Evidence against Mr. Love Mr. Love Sentenced July 5. Mr. Potter and Mr. Gibbons Sentenced July 25. Mr. Love and Mr. Gibbons Executed on Tower-hill An Act for abolishing the Marshals-Court in Southwark Another for the sale of Delinquents Lands Faulkner a perjured witness against the Lord Craven The Estates of the Royalists put to sale The Honours of the Royalists given by the King since Jan. 1641. abolished The Irish affairs June Lord Broghall defeats the Lord Muskerry Sir Charles Coot succesfull The Irish Council and Commanders in great straights Scots Leaguer in Tor-wood Cromwel stormeth Calendar house the defendants put to the Sword Newark house and two others taken Pr. Rupert takes a rich Spanish ship A fight in Fife between Sir John Brown and Maj. Gea Lambert July 20. The Scots worsted Sir John Brown taken and a while after dies Inchigarvey Castle and Brunt-Island delivered to the English St. Johnstons delivered to Cromwel The King marches for England July 21. The Parl. settle the Militia Royalists forbid to depart their Houses Correspondence with the King or his Party forbid The King at Carlisle Proclaimed there King of Great Britain He publisheth his Declaration Offereth an Act of Pardon to all but Cromwel Bradshaw and Cook Warrington fight Lambert and Harrison defeated by Massey The Earl of Derby joyus with the King in Lancashire The King summons Shrewsbury in vain The King comes to Worcester Aug. 22. The Parl. raise the Militia and London Regiments The King Summons the Country Wigon fight August 25. Lilburn defeats the Earl of Derby Slain on the Kings side Lord Widdrington Ma. Gen. Sir Tho. Tildesly Col. Mat. Boynton Sir Francis Gamul c. The Earl lâ—sing his George and Garter escapes Cromwel surrounds Worcester Au. 13. and possesseth Upton Bridge Worcester Fight The King defeated at Worcester Sep. 3. Worcester miserably plundered A Traytor hanged and his Widow bountifully rewarded Slain of the Kings side Duke Hamilton The Kings Standard his Coach and Horses and Collar of SS taken The King deliberates whither to fly The Lords leave him at Whiteladies The King in the wood Thursday morning Sep. 4. The King at Madely To Boscobel Col. Carlos directs the King to the Oak At Mosely with Mr. Whitgrave To Bently with Mrs. Jane Lane for Bristol The King met by the Lord Wilmot The dangerous Expression of a Farrier The King by Evesham At Cirencester to Mr. Nortons at Leigh The King and Lord Wilmot in danger of discovery at Chayermouth Adventures of the King At Heal at Mrs. Hides By Portsmouth to Brighthemstead Tetershal discovers the King Tetershal resolves to proceed in his voyage with the King King Embarques A notable passage Arrives at Rohan to Paris Most of the Scots taken Prisoners Cromwel and his Prisoners to London Sep. 12. The Prisoners sold. The Colours taken hanged up in Westminster hall Sterling castle surrendred Aug. 14 to Gen. Monke for the Parl. Dundee stormed Sep. 1 and taken by Gen. Monke the defendants put to
Elections for the Free-Parliament St. John stickles in the Council of State for Propositions and Terms with the King A Convention in Ireland A Letter sent to the Rump by the King Lambert escapes from the the Tower April 11. Defeated and taken Apr. 22. Lambert proposeth the restoring of Rich. Protector Lambert dismayed and taken Apr. 22. A Free-Parliament April 22. The Restitution of the King and Kingdom The renowned General the happy instrument of the Restitution The Duke of Ormond the next The King the great Agent All the Loyal Nobility and Gentry And of some formerly engaged against it The King departs to Breda from Brussels Complemented upon his departure Dispatches the L. Mordaunt and Sir John Greenvil from Breda His Majesty's Letter and Declaration was brought Contents of the Declaration Received most hoâ—ourably by the Parliament Parliament resolves thereupon Sir John Greenvil rewarded with a 500 l. Iewel The City of London express the like The Army the same The Fleet also and Dunkirk The Rump's Arms defaced Parliament Resolves towards the King's Restitution Commissioners arrived at the Hague The King prepares to dâ—part King Charles the Second Solemnly Proclaimed The Dutch magnificent Treatment of the King Sir Samuel Moreland and Sir George Downing Duke of York aboard the Fleet. The King departs for England The Speech of the States thereupon The King departs and embarques The King Embarques for England May 23. Lands at Dover May 25. The General meets him at his arrival The King rides to Canterbury The King rides to Canterbury To Rochester at Col. Gibbons To Dartford receives the Declaration of the Army The manner of His Majesties entrance into London The Earl of Manchester's Speech to the King The joy of the City Affairs 〈◊〉 home And in Ireland The King and the Dukes to the House of Lords The King comes to the Parliament and passeth several Acts. A Proclamation for the King's Iudges to render themselves Other persons excepted out of the Act of Oblivion Hutchinson and Lassels crave Pardon Parliament lay hold on his Majesties Declaration from Breda The General dignified with the Title of D. of Albemarle Several Dignities and Offices conferred Fee-farm rents resigned Lord Jermyn Earl of St. Albans Embassador into France Prince de Ligne Count de Soissons Embassador hither Act oâ— Oblivion passed Duke of Gloucester dies Sept. 13. Princess of Orange arrives Sept. Episcopacy re-established The Kings Iudges brought to Tryal Oct. 9. Harrison Waller Heveningham with Adrian Scroop c. Harrison tried Oct. 11. Sir Heneage Finch opens the Indictment The Sentence Col. Adrian Scroop Carew tryed Scot tryed Octob. 12. Gregory Clement Colonel Iones Cook October â—3 Peters Octob. 13. Daniâ—l Axtel Colonel Hacker William Hewlet Daniel Harvey Isaac Pennington Henry Marten Gilbert Millington Alderman Tichburn Owen Roe Robert Lilburn Mr. Smith Downs Potter Garland c. Vincent Potter August Garland Simon Meyn James and Peter Temple Tho. Wayt. Sir Hardress Waller Harrison Executed Carew Executed John Cook Hugh Peters Executed Thomas Scot Gregory Clement Adrian Scroop and John Jones Executed Francis Hacker and Daniel Axtel Executed Toâ— dye impinitent as to the Fact * Cook the Solicitor Hugh Peters 's stupidity Prisoners that came in upon Proclamation respited Queen Mother arrives in England The Parliament re-assemble Argyle committed Princess of Aurange dies Decemb 24. Parliament Dissolved Princess of Aurange her Funeral Decemb. 26. Sejanus ducitur unco spectandus gaudent omnes quae labra quis illis vultus erat Cromwel Ireton and Bradshaw dig'd up and hang'd c. Venner 's Insurrection There were two Executed in Cheap-side the same day Prichard the Cow-keeper and another of them Sir Arthur Hazelrig dies Mr. Crofton committed The Kingâ—s passage through London to his Coronation The Oath of the Knights of the Bath Creation of Earls and Barons at the same time The Kings procession to the Abbey The Dukes of Norfolk and Somerset were restored by Act of Parliament 12 year Caroli Secundi * James Butler Duke of Ormond was Created Earl of Brecnock Baron Butler of Lawthy A new Parliament May 8. Portugal Match mentioned by the King to the Parliament The Queen of Bohemia returns into England The Marquess of Montross enterred in State May 11. Arguile beheaded May aâ— and Guthrey and Giffâ—n Hang'd June 1 Plots and Designes laid by the Fanaticks Sir Charles Lucas re-interred with Solemnity Jun. 7. Several Laws confirmed and made c. Mr. Pryn questioned c. Mr. Pryn questioned by the House Acts against Bishops repealed Lord Munson Sir Henry Mildmay and Wallop sentenced Parliament adjourned July 30 to Nov. 02. The King is entertained at the Inner Temple by Sir Heneage Finch The Lords Spiritual restored Regicides before the House of Lords November John James Hanged and Quartered Novemb. 27. Sir Charles Coot died December A Council of the Principality of Wales re-established at Ludlow Episcopacy established in Scotland The King reflects on the ruine of St. Pauls London Fatality among the Clergy Another Fleet for Portugal and Tangier Queen of Bohemia dies Feb. 13. A Storm Feb. 18. An unfortunate Accident happened to the Lord Buckhurst and others Lambert and Vane ordered to Tryal The General honoured c. Miles Corbet Colonel Okey and Barkstead taken in Holland sent over to the Tower Sentenced and Executed Ap. 2. Col. Okey 's body giâ—en to his Friends Acts of Parliament passed An account of the Marriage of the King c. The Queen reReimbarques April 13. The Duke of York at Sea to attend the Queens Arrival with the Duke oâ— Osmond c. Queen Arrives May 13. The King stays to give his consent to Bills Preparing The Nature of several private Bills King at Portsmouth Queen at Hampton-Court Lord Lorn pardoned by the King Tangiers condition Sir Henry Vane and Colonel Lambert Condemned Sir Henry Vane Executed June 1â— A Proclamation for Twenty miles againt Rump Officers Presbyterians endeavours for Toleration Forces sent under the Earl of Inchequeen to Assist the King of Portugal Duke of Ormond arrived in Ireland Gloucester Walls c. Demolished Dunkirk returned to the French King October Dr. John Berkerhead Knighted A Plot discovered Philips Tongue Gibs and Stubs Executed December 22. Embassadors with Presents from Russia Mr. Calamy Committed Lord Warreston in the Tower Declaration of the King and Resolutions of the Parliament Parliament begins esuits banish Campeach takâ—â— Irish Plot. Earl of â—otâ—es Commissioner in Scotland Bills passed by Commission Mr. Rycaut comes from Constantinople Jersey a new 〈◊〉 Northern Plot discovered Plotters â—ri'd Executed Turner tryed and hanged A Printer tried and executed Others Pillori'd and Fined A remarkable proviâ—ence A barbarous murther committed by a Portugueze Servant upon his Master The Lord Holles Embassador to the French King June Iudge Mallet by reason of his age dispenced with and Sir John Keeling sworn in his place Dr. Bramhal departs this life Gayland assaults Tangier Reâ—reats with 〈◊〉 Makes another Attack but is forc'd to
the Kings sight now refused the delivery of the City without his Majesties Command so that after a Noble Treatment given the Commissioners they for the present ceased any further Transaction and shipped away the said Forces under Colonel Monck for Belfast in the North of Ireland where they did very good service against Oneal and his fellow-Rebels The conclusion of this Peace was as ill resented by the Nuncio and all the said Popish party as it was by the Parliament For the Catholick Armies having lately had several great successes and neither of the two other Kingdoms then in a condition to relieve that of Ireland thought upon nothing less than a shaking off the English yoak which so often in former ages they had attempted but never had the like probabilities as now the Clergy therefore who were generally addicted to the Spaniard under whose protection they would render themselves and the Nation thundered out Excommunication against any that should acquiesce in the said Peace and Agreement and with an Army of 17000 Horse and Foot resolve notwithstanding thereof to march and besiege Dublin This result begot a division among them as by the Marquess was afore consulted but yet so great a strength remained to that party against the Peace that the said Marquess was forced to resume his former Treaty with the Parliament concerning the delivery of those places he held to their Commissioners who being sensible how difficult a work it would prove to begin a new Conquest of that people if either by force or a Treacherous Peace they should possess themselves of that little that was left to the English Protestant interest did labour with the King the Marquess and the Scots that there might be no entertainment of any Accommodation with them being ready they said to Transport over a numerous Army to râ—duce and subdue that Rebellion which they pretended had ere long been done if the King would have permitted them by a complyance with their Propositions The King indeed was loth to abandon himself and his hopes in that Kingdom with his Forces in England and Scotland at the same time sadly foreseeing how the two Houses would use their Victory and plainly seeing how his Scotch Subjects had already abused him therefore he with no little reluctancy was brought to give way to the demand concerning Ireland but there being no remedy all the assurances he had from the Marquess and the Lord Digby as well as from the transaction of the Marquess of Worcester then Earl of Glamorgan being disappointed by the Rebels falseness and Treachery who indeed thought of nothing less than Peace whereby the English Forces there could not be spared to his assistance he consented to supersede and cease all manner of Treaty with the Enemy as aforesaid which it is probable they coming to understand did therefore the rather Violate their Accord which so unwillingly they entred into as doubting of the performance of it it being wholly out of his Majesties Power and Authority Whatsoever the matter was the Lord of Ormond was at last constrained as the lesser Evil to close with the Parliament and surrender of which and the War prosecuted there by them in the next year The 13 of September the Earl of Essex the former General dyed of an Apoplexy suddenly having for a little while before retired himself to his house at Eltham not without great suspicion of poyson or some such practice For he was known to have had his judgment rectified concerning the Quarrel and to have stickled for a composure of the War in the House of Peers and his influence on the Army not yet so weakned but that he could make a party there to any design he should stand for and the Reformadoes his fast friends He was an able Souldier confest whether so much a man disputed the reproaches of his debility that way as loud and unmannerly as the praises of his Valour and conduct were justly due and renowned The Royalists derided him with the stile of his OXCELLENCY jeering him with his two unfortunate Marriages first with the Lady Francis Howard from whom he was divorced for his impotency and frigidity quoad hanc and the Daughter of Sir Amias Pawlet in Wiltshire suspected of incontinency with Mr. Vâ—edal Her he had declined himself who during the War continued at Oxford while her Husband was in the field Nor did he suffer less reproach from the Pâ—anatick Rabble who prostituted his honour at the same rate They that were once most highly in love with his person scorning and contemning him like adulterous fondness which converts into extreme hate and contempt By them whom his popularity had estranged from their first love to their Prince was he alike repudiated with publike dicteries and representations in Pictures So Transitory is Vulgar esteem grounded no other where than upon levity and desire of change the deserved fate of such Grandees who with the specious debauchery of good Commonwealths-men and Patriots corrupt the minds and alienate the affections of the Subject to dote upon the bewitches and flatteries of Liberty of which such persons are held forth by their courtesie and affability to be the main assâ—rtors so that it may be said of this Earl that he was alike served with his wives and the Commonalty saving that by the last he lost his innocency and the real honour of his house and Family But the Parliament to which the Faction very readily concurred to make reparation for those indignities done him of which they could not otherwise acquit themselves ordered his Exequies to be performed in a very solemn and magnificent manner The Independent party to colour and allay with the pomp and honour of his Funerals the envy and suspicion of his death not grudging belike to make a golden bridge for a departing Enemy as they might well reckon him to prove to their succeeding designs when his duty to his injured Prince and love to his abused deluded Country and indignation of those affronts and contumelies put upon him should raise in him a spirit as able to lay that white Devil of Reformation as he was to conjure it up in the dreadful shape of an unnatural and disloyal War Cineri Gloria sera venit Mart. He was drawn in Effigie upon a Chariot from Essex-house in the Strand to the Abby-Church at Westminster where Mr. Vines an eminent Presbyterian Preached his Funeral-Sermon upon this Text Knowest thou not that a Prince is this day fallen in Israel very learnedly and elegantly most of the Parliament-Nobility in close mourning following him on foot The Effigie was afterwards placed in the uppermost Chancel in very great state till a rude vindictive fellow laid his prophane hands upon it and so defaced it privately in the night that it was by order removed Very few condolements were made after he being like to be soon forgotten who had neither interest nor relation to his Honour remaining dying childless
and leaving his Estate to be divided betwixt the Marquess of Hertford who married his Sister and his Cozen Leicester Devereux after his decease Lord Viscount Hereford which onely title of all the rest he now enjoys his Title and Dignity of the Earldom of Essex being transferred long after to the Noble and most Loyal Family of the Capels in the 13th year of King Charles the second The very soul of Presbytery now departed that which actuated its mass and matter the inform Schism in the Church to a most unnatural division in the State and armed its hands with Force and violence to propagate its dominion and Magisterial Usurpation when from pretentions of Ecclesiastical Authority it invaded the Civil Supremacy and Government it was now culminant and with this great Patron and Champion of it was come to its 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or full stop having been declared by Ordinance of Parliament for the onely Religion and manner of Worship in England but to make an experiment of in onely the Ordinance was to continue no longer than three years a limitation which boded its abolition and forespoke the inconveniences and unsuitableness thereof to our Laws Manners and Customs Nothing but the best things are perpetual say the Philosophers all immoderate things are short-lived and 't was a secret but mortal wound this prescription of time gave to the pretended Divine Right of Presbytery which by that Plea must always be invariable unchangeable and indeterminable But when this first great Pillar of it fell as it is observable such Great Ones seldome go unaccompanied it submitted to its period its great blaze and flames it had raised waning into a glimmering and suspicious light lookt upon rather as a Meteor or Exhalation that any fixed Luminary the ill influence thereof confirming our belief And the Directory established the same time was clearly such an ignis fatuus which was to serve as a guide to the wandring extemporary excursions of prayer not allowing any certain or sure Form the onely help and promoter of true Piety and Devotion It languished for a while after in London but with such slighting and disregarding as was due to the worshipful Pageantry of that Motly and time-serving Ordinance wherein Presbytery and Independency were so blended and moulded together that the least touch would separate and divide them as was presently seen in the Contests between these two parties It will be therefore requisite to give an account here of the manner and design of that rupture between them it proving the rise of all those calamities that after befel the King The Presbyterians were more numerous the Independents more active vigilant and restless watching all opportunities and present both in publike and private Counsels oft have they wearied out the House with long unnecessary debates to unseasonable times of night and when the Members of the other faction being tyred and diseased had withdrawn themselves slipt in a Vote of great concernment and carried it by themselves If in a full House any thing contrary or destructive to their designs was ready to pass by putting in Proviso's and perplexing the matter or by instance of further consideration of affairs of such importance they so hinder'd it that it dyed an Embryo abortive Some of the Grandees of the other party they likewise so wrought upon that they became false friends to their own side the weaker sort of them they amused with fair offers They scrued themselves by one means or other by promises preferments largesses into all manner of persons who could either hinder or advance their designs and when they had proceeded so forward by this smooth way they attained the rest by Menace and Threats and the formidable insolence of their Army which they had solely at their Devotion yet notwithstanding they were shreudly put to it and countermined by some eminent Patriots whose indefatigable diligence and sagacity was yet deluded by these following Artifices Their prodigal liberality of bestowing 5000 l. and 10000 l. on some of the chief of the Presbyterian Members for their losses and sufferings far beyond the value of them was the first This clearly begot in them a supine negligence of their main drift Next they surrogated and substituted in the place of those Members whom they had expelled for their Loyalty men of mean fortunes and wholly addicted to and of the Army who awed by drawing their Troops thither the several Boroughs at their Elections by which means they became at last a competent party in the House to carry any thing But the main Engine was the Self-denying Ordinance whereby all Members of either House were discharged from bearing any Office Military or Civil and obliged to quit all their places of profit and preferment that the publike business might be better attended By this shift they heaved out many eminent Presbyterians who were possessed of Places and Offices in the Treasury Garrisons and Commands of like consequence and put in their friends or those whom the profit would soon render such in their stead So that by this device the Presbyterians were absolutely stript of all Power and were wip'd and cheated out of the Militia for which they began the War and which they had violently wrested from their Soveraign Who cannot here but admire the wonderful steps and traces of Divine Justice The Presbyterians were not wholly insensible whitherto this tended but they could not with any pretence of honesty resist the plausibility of this Ordinance lest they should seem all along to have sought themselves and not the Kingdoms good A cry very rife and loud put into the heads of some Democratical and Levelling Scriblers of the Fanatick Rabble by Cromwel and his Privy Council They cast about therefore to check and counterplot this grand Stratagem by another as subtile and altogether more feisible and necessary that was to disband the Army since they perceived they had lost their Command and disposal of it The Independents had used the same trick with good success in their modelling and disbanding Colonel Massey and the Peace of the times and the charge of the Kingdom did seem more instantly to require an end of the War here as Ireland the translation of it thither But the Independent Faction soon smelt out the design and gave notice to Cromwel who was still licensed to continue in all his Commands his Ironsides by which name he was now called being ORDINANCE-PROOF of its undoubted effect if the Army interposed not He upon conference with his Privado Ireton agrees to spread it among the Souldiers and withal to add their own comment That the Parliament by the prevailing Vote of some unsound Members were resolved to disband the Army and cheat them of their Arrears and send them in a wanting condition into Ireland to be Butchered by the Rebels for having thus faithfully served them in England And we may soon imagine what a quarrel and hatred this begot
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