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A57257	The civill vvarres of England briefly related from His Majesties first setting up his standard 1641, to this present personall hopefull treaty : with the lively effigies and eulogies of the chief commanders ... : together with the distinct appellations, proper motions, and propitious influences of these memorable starres, chronologically related from anno. 1641 to anno. 1648 / collected by John Leycester.	Ricraft, Josiah, fl. 1645-1679.; Leycester, John, b. 1598.	1818 (1649)	Wing R1428; Wing R1436_PARTIAL; ESTC R15379	77,291	228

signal exploit was the taking of Carlisle in which he found a seasonable supply of arms and ammunition He freely confessed to Charles I. upon what errors and mistakes he had been corrupted and by whom and pretended so deep a sense of what he had done amiss that it was believed he would have taken a command in the king's army which he declined as it might have been penal to him in Scotland by some clause in the Act of the Pacification but especially upon pretence it would disable him from doing him greater service in that kingdom whither shortly after the standard was set up he repaired with all solemn vows of asserting and improving his Majesty's interest in those parts The earl of Calendar died in October 1672. The hand of God carrying on our brethren of Scotland Carlisle taken York taken The due praise of the noble E. of Stamford Henry lord Grey of Groby married Anne daughter and co-heir of William Cecil earl of Exeter in whose right he was possessed of the castle borough and manor of Stamford whence he took his title He was colonel of a regiment in the parliament army under the earl of Essex and was very active in their service particularly in Herefordshire and Cornwall In the Mercurius Rusticus is an account of his sending captain Kirle to plunder the house of Thomas Swift vicar of Goodwich in the county of Hereford who was supposed to have been plundered oftener than any other person during the civil war He was grandfather of the celebrated dean of St. Patrick's The earl of Stamford died the 21st of August 1673. Religion a cloke for covetousnesse The due praise of the noble E. of Denbigh Basil Fielding son of William Fielding earl of Denbigh was an officer in the parliament army at Edge-hill where his father fought on the part of the king In 1644 he took Russel House in Staffordshire and by that means opened a communication between Coventry and London and afterwards with a small number of men routed three thousand of the king's forces sent to the relief of Dudley Castle which he was then besieging In 1643 he succeeded to the peerage by the death of his father in consequence of several mortal wounds he had received in a hot engagement near Birmingham Upon the new modelling of the army he resigned his commission together with the earls of Essex and Manchester but still continued to act in concert with the republican party The earl of Denbigh was the chief of the commissioners sent to treat with the king in the Isle of Wight and when his majesty was about to deliver to him his answer to the parliament sealed he told him That though they had no authority to treat with him or to do any thing but to receive his answer yet they were not to be looked upon as common messengers and to carry back an answer that they had not seen and upon the matter refused to receive it and said they would return without any except they might see what they carried The king conceiving their return without his answer would be attended with the worst consequences told them that he had some reason for having offered to deliver it to them in that manner but if they would give him their words that the communicating it to them should be attended with no prejudice to him he would open it and cause it to be read and thereupon he opened it and gave it to one to read The earl of Denbigh died November 28 1675. Russell Hall and Oswestree taken The due praise of the right honourable L. Fairfax Ferdinand lord Fairfax at the commencement of the civil war received a commission from the earl of Essex generalissimo for the parliament to command all the forces of Yorkshire and the adjacent counties in chief by which in less time than could be reasonably imagined he was enabled to draw together an army of five or six thousand horse and foot so that York was in danger of falling into the hands of the parliament But the earl of Newcastle marched quickly to its relief and having left a good garrison in Newcastle and fixed such small garrisons in his way as might secure his communication with that port to which all his ammunition was to be brought he entered York and though the lord Fairfax kept Selby and Cawood the earl of Newcastle was absolute master of the field and totally routed Fairfax at Adderton Moor in June 1643 but he and his son sir Thomas gained a complete victory over colonel Bellasyse governor of York at Selby the eleventh of April 1634 for which the parliament ordered a general thanksgiving After sir Thomas Glemham had surrendered York and the earl of Newcastle had retired beyond the seas he succeeded to the government of that city and of the northern counties He died at York March 13 1647-8 The Covenant taken in york-shire Newcastle routed neer Tadcaster Newcastle again routed neer Bradford VVhitby Cawood and Axholm Island taken The due praise the right honourable L. Roberts John lord Roberts had the command of a regiment under the earl of Essex and at Newbury led the parliament forces to the charge with great gallantry and by his courage and conduct routed the royal army He with part of his brigade defended Plymouth against the combined force of the enemy and several times repulsed them to their great loss He was a leading man in the councils of the patriotic junto and had afterward a principal hand in the restoration He had much learning but it was mixed with the pedantry of the time of James I. and was of a morose and splenetic temper He was appointed lord-lieutenant of Ireland by Charles II. in 1669 in a time of confusion when the various claims to the estates in that kingdom was to be adjusted His parts were by no means equal to this government at so critical a juncture as he had a genius rather for starting than solving difficulties He treated the Irish nobility with haughtiness and contempt and was himself treated with much less ceremony than he expected The king found it necessary to remove him from this employment and soon after his return to England appointed him president of the council and created him earl of Radnor He was observed to puzzle business and retard the dispatch of it more than any man that had ever been in the great offices which he enjoyed He died in the year 1685. His daughter Letitia Isabella who was first married to Charles earl of Drogheda was afterward the wife of Mr. Wycherly the dramatic poet The King routed at Newbery sight 15 Garrisons taken in Cornwall The due praise of the right honorable L. Brook Lord Brook was one of those patriots who so ardently longed for liberty that he was determined to seek it in America if he could not find it at home He and lord Say had actually agreed to transport themselves to New England but the sudden turn of affairs prevented their voyage Having

of Essex made Generall of England in the yeere 1641. The Kings forces routed and Worcester taken Edge hill sight Prisoners taken Reading taken Aprill 18. 1643 Glocester relieved Cirencester taken Newbery sight * Alexander Lesley earl of Leven acquired the highest reputation as a soldier under Gustavus Adolphus king of Sweden who appointed him governor of Stralsund which he bravely and vigilantly defended against the Imperialists He was also governor of the cities along the coast of the Baltic and afterward felt-marshall over the army in Westphalia He had the supreme command of the Scottish army when it invaded England and was upon the cessation of arms betwixt the two kingdoms created an earl and about the same time made governor of the castle of Edinburgh He also commanded the army that marched into England in 1644 and which had so considerable a share in the battle of Marston Moor the greatest that was fought during the civil war Soon after the defeat of the royal army at this place general Leven the earl of Manchester and Fairfax with their combined forces sat down before York which presently surrendered upon terms They soon after divided their armies and Leven returning into the North took the rich town of Newcastle Zachary Hamilton preceptor to the Pretender's son told lord Hailes that Lesley was a soldier of fortune and that one day on a march in Scotland he said to an officer There is the house where I went to school How General answered the officer I thought you could not read Pardon me I got the length of the letter G. The due praise of Alexander Lesley Earl of Leven Lesleyes salutation and courting at the Court of England See their Speeches in print Cocket Island taken Ian. 20. 1643. Tinby taken March 19. 1643. Durham and Lomby taken April 14 15 1646. York besieged The battell at Marston-moore York taken Newcastle besieged Newcastle taken Octob. 20. 1644. Carlisle taken Newark taken by the assistance of our brethren of Scotland * The Earl of Warwick who assisted in the king's council was not much wondered at for deserting his royal master whom he had never well served nor did he look upon himself as obliged by that honour which he knew was conferred upon him in the crowd of those whom his majesty had no esteem of or ever proposed to trust so his business was to join with those to whom he was indebted for promotion He was a man of a pleasant and companionable wit and conversation of a universal jollity and such a licence in his words and in his actions that a man of less virtue could not be found so that one might reasonably have believed that a man so qualified would not have been able to have contributed much to the overthrow of a nation and kingdom But with all these faults he had great authority and credit with those people who in the beginning of the troubles did all the mischief and by opening his doors and making his house the rendezvous of all the silenced ministers in the time when there was authority to silence them and spending a good part of his estate of which he was very prodigal upon them and by being present with them at their devotions and making himself merry with them he became the head of that party and got the character of a godly man When the king revoked the earl of Northumberland's commission of admiral he accepted that office from the parliament and never quitted their service and when Cromwell dissolved that parliament he betook himself to the protection of the Protector married his heir to his daughter and lived in so entire a confidence and friendship with him that when the Protector died he exceedingly lamented him The earl of Warwick died April 19 1659 aged 71 and lies buried in Folstead Church Essex He left his estate which before was subject to a vast debt more improved and repaired than any man who trafficked in that desperate commodity of rebellion The due praise of Robert Earl of Warwick The E. of Warwick made high Admirall of England in the yeer 1642. The Navy at Sea secured Portsmouth taken Carmarthen Casurprized by the Earle of Warvvick * Edward earl of Manchester a nobleman of many great and amiable qualities was a zealous and no less able patron of liberty but without enmity to monarchy or the person of the king He was one of the avowed patriots in the house of peers and the only member of that house who was accused by Charles of high-treason together with the five members of the house of commons In the civil war he had the charge of seven of the associated counties and with his usual activity and address raised an army of horse which he commanded in person Soon after he entered upon his command he forced the town of Lynne to submit to the parliament and defeated the earl of Newcastle's army at Horn Castle In 1644 he took Lincoln by storm and had a principal share in the victory at Marston Moor After the battle of Newbury he was suspected of favouring the king's interest was even accused by Cromwell of neglect of duty and by the self-denying ordinance deprived of his commission He had been bred up in the court under the favour of the duke of Buckingham a lady of whose family he had married and had attended upon the prince when he was in Spain was called to the house of peers in the lifetime of his father which was a very extraordinary favour Upon the death of the duke of Buckingham his wife being likewise dead he married the daughter of the earl of Warwick a man in no grace at court and looked upon as the greatest patron of the Puritans because of much the greatest estate of all who favoured them after this second marriage lord Manchester totally estranged himself from the court and entered into all the politics of his father-in-law but at last he heartily concurred in the restoration of Charles the Second who appointed him lordchamberlain of his household He died May 5 1671 aged sixty-nine The due praise of the Earle of Manchester Colours and prisoners taken Horncastle Gainesborough and Lincolne taken York besieged Tickell Shelford and VVelbeck taken The due praise of the Earle of Calendar James Levingston earl of Calendar who descended from the house of Linlithgow was formed as a soldier in the wars of Bohemia Holland Sweden and Germany and acquired a great reputation in his military character He was a gentleman of the bedchamber to Charles I. who created him lord Levingston of Almont in 1633 and earl of Calendar 1641. Upon the eruption of the civil war he took the side of the parliament but afterward attached himself to the king He marched into England soon after the battle of Marston Moor with ten thousand men to assist the earl of Leven in reducing York He was lieutenant-general of the Scots army that attempted to rescue Charles from his confinement in the Isle of Wight His most

grant may be effectuall that righteousnes may take place and peace and truth may meet together so shall our Kingdom flourish and we become a happy people by continuing in the Bond of Unity Courteous Reader if you meet with errata for I am conscientious to my selfe of my owne insufficiency I intreate you to impute them to the Diurnalls my best Intelligencers And as for other slips not suiting with thine affection yet per●it judicium cum res transit in affectum I must conclude with Lypsius his deprication Mihi quidem mens ubique bona si alibi humana haec lingua aut calamus hic titubavit ne asperè quaeso minus luam To close all as I prefixed to this short Epistle a Doxalogie so I shut it up with the Psalmists thankful acknowledgment which that renowned Conqueror Hen. 5 commanded to be sung in his Campe after the famous Victory at Agin-Court Not unto us Lord not unto us not to our Parliament not to our Armies not to our Navy nor to London but to thy name give the praise Ps. 115. 5. By John Leycester Robert Earle of Essex his Exellence Lord Generall of the Parlints Army etc lately deceased CHAP. I. Upon the illustrious and right honourable ROBERT Earle of Essex sometimes Generall of England lately deceased * Brightest Starre of the whole constellation Of warlike Worthies sending influence Of vigour to an old collapsed Nation Divided not by Romish negligence Had not thy courage cop'd with bloudy men Thy Conquests had not been so got with bloud But destruction needs must follow when Their cruelty threatning like a swelling floud Life and Lawes with an imperiall rage Providence by thy prowesse did asswage That furious torrent leaving the crimson ground Edg-hill and Newb'ry Marsh thy fame to sound For in those fields thou didst triumphantly Conquer the enemy and got'st the victory Therefore thou had'st instead of passing Bells The Drums and Cannons thunder forth thy knels THis our never sufficiently honoured English Generall his Excellency the Earle of Essex deserves a record written in letters of gold and a tomb carved out in precious stones with this inscription upon it for after Ages to read Here 's intomb'd Robert Devereux Brave renouned Earle of Essex Who was in English mens account The Phoenix Peer Lord Paramount A friend to Truth and Peace he was God lov'd him well that was the cause That he away from hence was sent Into the highest Firmament Where I leave him amongst the Angels and glorious host and descend from his celestiall to this terrestriall actions in some measure to speak of what he did most gallantly perform in the time he was late Lord Generall of England which was in the yeare 1641. and upon the third of July in the said year his Excellency rode through London to take a view of his voluntarie Citizens and Apprentices of London that had listed themselves under him and were met to be mustered in the new Artillery whither their renouned Generall no sooner came but was entertained with shouts of joy flinging up their hats into the ayre and crying with a loud voice We will live and die with you my Lord and he answered And I by the help of God am ready to do the like with you Never was Generall better beloved by his Souldiers then he was many of them to this day with heavy hearts shake their heads and cry Adieu brave Devereux adieu This renouned Generall had no sooner received his instruction from the Parliament but he marched into the field and hearing of the Kings Forces near Worcester plundering and spoiling the Countrey he marched up to them fell suddenly upon them and utterly routed them the 12. of September 1642. and afterwards tooke the City of Worcester and hearing the Kings scattered Forces got a head neare unto Shrewesbury in Shropshire he marched after them and drove them before him untill they saw their own advantage of time and place pitched there maine body upon a place called Edge-hill neere Keynton where our noble Generall drew up to them and most gallantly charged them in his own person and after a fierce battell the Enemy were wholly routed and most confusedly retreated with great losse where was taken the Kings Standard the L. Willoughby Sir Edward Stanley Col. Vavasour Col. Lunsford with many hundreds more in which sight was slain the Earl of Lindsey the Kings Generall the L. Aubeny Sir Edmond Verney the Kings Standard-bearer with divers other Officers of quality and many hundred common souldiers Octob. the 22. 1642. in this battell the Earl of Essex fought so gallantly shewing so much courage and fidelity that his very enemies did acknowledge it The winter was no sooner over past that Artillery might bee drawne but his Excellency againe tooke field and marched up to Reading and straightly besieged it and after a small time tooke it Aprill the 18. 1643. and afterwards marched to Glocester and relieved it then to Cirencester and took it and drew up the whole Army and gave the Kings Army battell at Newbery and utterly routed them kill'd five Lords and many hundreds more in this fight our noble Generall did in his owne person charge the enemy to the great encouragement of his Souldiers and after he had performed this service he marched for the relief of the oppressed West Countrey and beat up the enemies quarters before him tooke the town of Barnstaple in Devonshire and the Castle of Taunton-Deane with all the ammunition the 22. of June 1644. and afterwards marched up to Mount Stamford and tooke it with all the ammunition as also the town of Plympton with the Garrison of Saltash and Launceston with four or five more small Garrisons And againe he marches forward and takes Greenvill-house and Newbridge with all the ammunition the 14 of July 1644. and afterward took Tadcaster in Cornwall and Foy with many Ships in the Harbour These with many more did this renouned Generall his Excellency the Earle of Essex performe alwaies bearing a tender respect to his souldiers to see them well provided for And this was and is noble Essex's honor that he was mercifull to man and beast himselfe free from cowardice or covetousnesse pride or contention His Exellence Alexander Lasley Generall of the Scotch Army CHAP. II. Upon the right Honourable Alexander Lesley Earle of Leven Generall of the Scots Army * The great Commander of our warlike Friends And Brethren is this noble valiant Scot Whose sincere heart 's free from selfe-seeking ends His love and labour must not be forgot York Newcastle and her Marquesse knowes Their conquer'd State and his sad overthrowes Digby and Langdale too may waile their losse And that rebellious Army of Montrosse IF art could invent or wisdom delineate the height of perfection that is to be found in the most noble parts of military Discipline then renouned Lesley would be the admiration of all the world who now hath

100. Neer Stafford of the E. of Northamptons men 140. At Middlewich of Sir Tho. Ashtons 30. Neer Malmsbury 10. In the Forrest of Dean by Sir W. Waller 600. At Lichfield close 30 At Sherborn town 10 At Dorchester 60 At Causam bridge 100 At Hereford 20 At the taking of Stafford by Sir William Brereton 3 Neer Newark by Col. Cromwell 100 At Whit-Church 150 Neer Nottingham divers but of note 4 At Friznol hill 200 At Glocester siege at least 220 In skirmish at Auborn hills 80 At Newbery fight of dead and wounded 140 cart-load   Slain about 200 In the pursuit neer Reading 100 At Gainsborough siege raising 300 At Stamford 200 Neer Burleigh of club-men 50 In Kent at Tunbridge 20 In fight by the E. of Manchester neer Horn-castle 1000 At Weem 6 cart-load of dead about 60 At Plimouth 25 At Alton 40 At Plimouth siege raising 100 At Winsby fight 100 At Namptwich siege 500 Slain in raising the siege 800 By the L. Fairfax neer Hull 30 Neer Nottingham 100 By Col. Lambert at Bradford 100 At Alrezford 400 At the storming of Lincoln 400 At Lime 140 At an assault against Lime by stratagem 400 At Dudley castle by the E. of Denbigh 100 In all against Lime in that siege 2000 At Marston Moor 41●0 In Penbroke-shire by Colon Laughorn and Cap. Mitton 500 At New bridg 200 At Ridmarly 100 Neer Crowton house by S. W. Brereton 400 At Mountgomery castle 500 At Pool 16 At Newbery 200 At Taunton siege 1000 At Nazeby 800 Besides Irish Queans 300 At Langport 220 At Routon Heath 400 At Bazing house 300 The full number 21560 A List of those that have fled out of the Kingdom THe Lord Goring senior Sir Iohn Finch c. Sir Francis Windebank The Lord George Digby The Earle of Yarmouth The Lord Percy The Marquis of Newcastle The L. Widrington Sir Hugh Cholmley The L. Goring junior General Hinderson The L. Newport Mr. Walt. Mountague L. Culpepper The E. of Huntington The L. of Loughborough The E. of Northampton Sir Rich. Greenvill Sir Nich. Crispe L. Hopton The L. Wentworth The L. Capel Sir Endi Porter Major General Taplane Sir VVil Neave M. Ashburnham with many others COurteous Reader take notice that many more were slain at other places but in regard I could not have certain intelligence of them I thought it fit rather to break off then to proceed superfluously here being all that were slain in chiefe Battels and Skirmishes at the most remarkable Towns and Castles that were besieged and taken by storm from the Enemy FINIS An Addition of the late proceedings of the Army to this present IN April 1648 a great tumult insurrection and mutiny first began on the Lords day in the afternoon in the County of Middlesex where they seized on the colours of one of the Trained Bands of the said County being dispersed by some of the Lord G. forces did gather together within the City of London and liberties thereof and in a riotous manner did breake open divers houses and Magazens and took away plate and mony and seized upon the drums of the trained Bands seized upon the Gates Chaines and Watches marched to the Lord Mayors and shot into his house beate back his Guards and killed one of them came to the Magazeen at Leaden-hall but by the speedy and seasonable aide of the Lo. G. Horse their Drak coulors were taken for which the Militia in the name of the City by unanimous consent of the Common-Councel was to return to his Excellency the Lord Generall hearty thankes A rising in Norwich where they seised upon the Magazin and those that fired the same were destroyed but those that were cordiall friends to the Parliam being underneath the house fell part of it upon them that part below them were all saved one having his head seen was digged out after he was out he told of others until all were digged out without losse of life or limbe The old Lord Goring was on the 5 of June 1648. proclaimed Generall of the Kentish forces upon the hill neer Alisford where their body was drawn up consisting of 8000 men and 3000 more in Maidston and Alisford coming as a fresh supply there were 300 slaine and about 1300 prisoners among which were Gentlemen of good quality Sir Gamaliell Dudley Sir William Brookman Esq Scot Maj. Price and others there were about 500 Horse 3000 Armes nine foot colours and eight peeces of Cannon with store of Ammunition taken their word was KING and KENT ours TRUTH the rest marched over Rochester bridge with about 3000 Horse and Foot most of them were Cavaliers Prentices and water-men these fled over the water into Essex by Woolidge and Greenwich June 30 1648. 600 horse met for the King about Kingstone and the Duke of Buckingham with them Lord Francis Earle of Holland Lo. Andrew Lo. Camden and others Proclamation was made that they expected the Parliament would have settled the Kingdome but because they would not they would fetch the King and live and dye with him to settle it also Col. Leg and others of the Kings Officers Captain Pritty with a party of Horse from Windsor fell into Kingston and took 20 prisoners and beate all the Royalists out of the town 6 July Lord Gray of Groby sent a party of Horse under Colonell Hacket took 200 of them and routed the whole body of them near Wiloby 5 July Col. Rossiler had a victory against the Pontefret forces 4 Cornets 2 Ensignes 42 Gentlemen of quality 500 Prisoners were all Horse except 100 Dragoones 8 Carriages taken with Armes and Ammunition Col. Pocklington Col. Cholmley slaine all their Coulours bag and baggage taken 10 July was defeated totally the Royall party with the Earl of Holland at St. Needs by a party of Horse commanded by Col. Scroop sent from the Leagure before Colchester the Parliaments Forlorne charged and routed them before the body came up but when the body came up they in an instant fled severall waies yet many fell the Duke of Buckingham fled with about 60 Hors towards Lincolnshire the E. of Holland was taken in his chamber Sir Gil. Gerrard Col. Skemisher M. Holland M. Sleping Lieu. Col. Goodwin C. Dolbeire slain C. Leg. wounded 10 prisoners taken Kenelm Digbyes son slain 100 gallant Horse taken good store of gold and silver good cloaths weapons good store 10 July 1648. was surrendered Pembrooke Towne and Castle to Lieut. Gen. Crumwell for the use of the Parliament upon honourable termes The Commanders were to depart the Kingdom not to return within two years other gentlemen and private souldiers had free liberty to goe to their habitations 1 July 1648 Were prisoners taken in Northumberland by Col. Lilburn of which Col. Grey commander in chiefe ●00 Souldiers between 4 and 500 Horse and many Arms they were 1200 and Coll. Lilburne 900 600 from Barwicke should have joyned with Col. Grey that day A great defeate given to the enemies forces in Wales