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A70196	A brief chronicle of all the chief actions so fatally falling out in these three kingdoms, viz. England, Scotland & Ireland from the year, 1640, to this present twentieth of November, 1661 : containing the unhappy breaches, sad divisions, the great battels fought, number of men, with the eminent persons of honor and note slain, with several debates and treaties : also, the happy escape by a wonderful delivererance of His Majestie at Worcester, more fully expressed then hitherto : with His Majesties happy return, together with what passages of note hapned to this present November, 1661 : the like exact account hath not as yet been printed.	Heath, James, 1629-1664.; Lee, William, fl. 1627-1665.	1662 (1662)	Wing H1318A; ESTC R19419	54,711	72

you in a way First you are out of the way for certainly all the wayes you ever had yet as far as I could find by any thing is in the way of Conquests Certainly this is an ill way for Conquest in my Opinion is never just except there he a just and good cause either for matter of wrong or a just title and then if ye go beyond the first quarrel that ye have that makes it unjust at the end that was just at first for if there be only matter of Conquest then it is a great robbery as a Pyrate said to Alexander That he was the great Robber himself himself was but a petty Robber And so Sirs I do think for the way that you are in you are much out of the way Now Sirs to put you in the way believe it you will never go right nor God will never prosper you until you give God his due the King his due that is my Successor and the people their due I am as much for them as any of you You must give God his due by regulating rightly his Church according to the Scripture which is now out of order and to set you in a way particularly now I cannot but only this A National Synod freely called freely debating among themselves must settle this When every Opinion is freely and clearly heard For the King indeed I will not the Laws of the Land will clearly instruct you for that therefore because it concerns mine own particular I only give you a touch of it For the People truly I desire their liberty and freedome as much as any body whomsoever But I must tell you that their liberty and their freedome consist in having Government under those Laws by which their lives and theirs may be most their own it is not in having a share in the Government that is nothing pertaining to them A Subject and a Soveraign are clean different things and therefore until you do that I mean that you put the people into that liberty as I say certainly they will never enjoy themselves Sirs it was for this that now I am hither come for if I would have given way to an arbitrary way for to have all Laws changed according to the power of the Sword I need not have come here and therefore I tell you and I pray God it be not laid to your charge that I am the Martyr of the people Introath Sirs I shall not hold you any longer I will only say this to you that I could have desired some little time longer because I would have put this what I have said in a little better order and have had it a little better digested then I have done and therefore I hope you will excuse me I have delivered my Conscience I pray God you take those courses that are best for the good of the Kingdome and your own Salvation After some Ejaculations he laid down his Head upon the Block and stretched out his hands The S●gn 〈◊〉 had it severed from his body at one blow by the Vizarded Executioner who presently held it up and shewed it to the people His Head and Trunk were afterwards coffined in Lead and exposed to publick view at S. Iames's till lastly the Duke of Len●● the Marquess of Hartford the Earl of Southampton and the Bishop of London begged the Body to bury it which they conducted to Windsor Chappel-Royal and there interred it with only this Insc●●ption upon the Co●●● CHARLES KING OF ENGLAND MDC.XLVIII After this most 〈◊〉 murder they declared themselves to be a Free State setting out a Proclamation wherein they declare th●t no person hath Right to the Crown o● England abolishing thereby the ●ingly ●overnment and debarring of our Rightful Soveraign ●om any claim c. declaring him also a Traytor with the rest of the Royal Issue for refusing the publication of which the Lord Mayor Reynoldson was outed imprisoned and fined 2000 l. In March they proceed with their High Court of Justice newly modelled and a new President to the Tryal of these Noble persons they had in custody about the last years risings whereof Duke Hamilton Earl of Holland Earl of Norwich the Lord Capel and Sir Iohn Owen were condemned to be beheaded the Duke and Holland and Capel were accordingly executed in the Palace-yard the other two with much ado were pardoned P●nt●fract Castle was now rendred to the Parliament by Colonel Morris being the last Garrison for the King in England Now they had leisure to look towards Ireland whether Lievtenant General Cromwell was sent with an Army of 10000 men which landed about this time at Dublin where a little before Colonel Iones the Governour having received a supply of 1000 men had sallied out and beaten my Lord of Ormond from off the siege where he lay with 20000 and upwards through the carelesness and treachery of the Guards Here were slain to the number of three thousand and five thousand taken prisoners this proved the loss of all Ireland which was then entirely for the King save this City and London-Derry Anno Domoni 1649. Cromwell upon his arrival sets presently forward towards Tredah whereinto the Lord Lievtenant Ormond had put a Garrison of choice English and some Irish to this Town he gave three assaults and was valiantly repulsed but in conclusion of the third the Town was entred and man woman and children put to the sword for three daies in cold bloud with the Governour himself Sir Arthur Aston a well experienced and valiant Captain Anno Dom. 1649. and 1650. VPon this success Trim and Dundalk yielded themselves to him the Marquess of Ormond hovering neer him with his Army but yet not daring to attempt any thing Wexford was the next Town he attaqued which by storm he took also putting all in arms to the sword thence to Passage Fort and so to Waterford from whence he considering the Winter approaching drew off to quarters having already possession of most of the Towns of Ireland Limrick Galloway Clonmell and Kilkenny excepted which soon after were reduced by him and his Successor Ireton and that Kingdome was wholly brought in subjection to the Parliament The next thing that busied the new Commonwealth was the affairs of Scotland who had long before proclaimed the King and were now treating with him therefore they recalled home Lievtenant General Cromwell whom upon Fairfaxes refusal of going against the Scots they now advanced to be General He came Iune the last to London having landed at Bristol and was highly treated by the Parliament Dorislaus that drew up the charge against the King was killed at the Hague in May last and Ascham that was sent on the same errand to the King of Spain was killed also by some English men in his Inne at Supper this did mightily inrage the new Commonwealth that their Min●sters could no where be protected According to the conclusion of the Treaty between the King and his Subjects

To that intent one Mr. Giffard an Inhabitant thereabouts was called for who with the assistance of one Mr. Walker formerly a Scoutmaster in the ●ings Army with some difficulty the King riding all the night brought him to a place called the W●ite-Ladies a mile b●v●nd Boscabell to avoid suspition of staying there At their coming to White-Ladies on break of day Thursday Septemb. 4. one George Pendrill the youngest brother of the four being awakened with the loud noyse they made at the gates and hearing distinctly Mr. G●ffards voice calling him ran down in hi● shirt and opened the door whereupon the King and th● Noblem●n presently entred the house the Kings horse being brought into the Hall where another consultation was held what should be done for the safety of the Kings person in this exigence At last it was concluded that this George should go presently to Tong and enquire what news or whether any parties were stir●ing or no and in the mean while one Martin was sent by Colonel Ros●anrck by order of the Earl of Derby for William Pendrill the eldest Brother who presently came and there met his Brother George who had brought Richard by Mr. Giffards order along with him and informed the King that the coast was yet clear Whereupon all dispatch was made to get the King out before any further danger the King hair was first out off by my Lord Wilmot then rounded by William Pendrill and at the same t●me Richard had by direction from Mr. Giffard fetcht his b●st cloaths being a jump and breeches of green course cloth and a Doe-kin leather doublet the hat was borrowed of Humphrey Pendrill the Miller being an old grey one that turned up its brims the shirt which in that Country language they call an Harden or Noggen-shirt a kind of linnen that is made of the coursest of the hemp was had of the aforesaid Martin George Pendrill lent the band and William Creswell the shoes which the King having presently unstript himself of his own cloaths did quickly put on His ●uft-coat and linnen doubler and a grey pair of breeches which he wore before he gave into his brothers hands who forthwith buried them under ground where they lay five weeks before they durst take them up again The Jewels off his arm he gave to one of Lords then departing Straightwith William Pendrill was brought to the King by the Earl of Derby and the care and preservation of his most Sacred Majesty committed to his charge and the rest of the Brothers the Earl himself would have staid but there was no undertaking security for them both so presently the Lords took their heavy leave and departed every one shifting for himself The Duke of Buckingham Earl of Derby Lord Talbot the Earl of Lauderdale and the rest of that party being overtaken at Newport in their march Northward and routed the Duke escaped and found a hiding place at a friends of his Family in Shropshire the rest were taken the Earl of Derby most inhumanely and unjustly beheaded at Bolton with Sir Timothy Fetherston-Haugh and some others elsewhere and imprisoned only the Lord W●lmot since decea●ed during the Kings Exile abroad staid behind and wa● by Iohn Pendrill through many difficulties and tryals o● several places conveyed safely to Mr. Whitgrea●s at Mosely Now the King and his company being departed having taken a Woodbill into his hand went out with Richard into the adjoyning wood called Spring Coppice William departed home and George and Humphrey went out to scout and lay hovering about the woods to hear or see if any approached that way You must note here that these Brothers had taken into their assistance one Frances Yates their Sisters Husband who was also with the King in the wood they being by profession wood-cutters But the King had not been an hour in the wood before a party of horse in pursuit of him was come to White-Ladies and had enquired and sound out by some of the Inhabitants that the King with a party had been there as they supposed but they affirmed directly that he was gone away with all speed from thence in the said company Northwards Upon which words spurr'd on by the expectat on greediness of their prey supposing the King and his Lords were all together they made no stay or further inquisition or search save only in the house and rode away as fast as they could possible This the King was informed of by his two aforesaid Sco●ts who stragled for intelligence neer the village This Thursday the King continued all day in the wood upon the ground Richard Pendrill being constantly with him and sometimes the other three It proved to be a very rainy day and the King was wet with the showers thereupon Francis Yates his wife came into the wood on whom the King at first lookt something dubiously yet resolutely askt her whether she could be faithful to a distressed Cavalier To which she replyed Sir I will die rather then discover you She brought with her a blanket to keep the King dry and his first meat he eat there viz. a mess of milk eggs and sugar in a black earthen cup which the King guessed to be milk and apples and said he loved it very well After he had drank some and eat some in a Pewter spoon he gave the rest to George and bid him eat it for it was very good There was nothing of moment passed this day in Court but only his Majesty exchanged his Wood-bill for Francis Yates his Broom-hook being something lighter The King was hardly brought to fashion himself to their gate or to bend his streight body down to his feet the language in his stay and passing to Worcester he could tune pretty well most of the day was spent in conforming him to their words till about five a clock that evening the King with his gallant Retinue of Richard Humphry George and Francis Yates left the wood and betook himself to Richards little house where he went under the name of William Iones a Woodcutter newly come thither for work At his coming the good wife for his entertainment at supper was preparing a Fricass of Bacon and Eggs and while that was doing the King held on his knees their Daughter Nan He eat very little ruminating and pausing on his intended passage into Wales After supper ended the Mother of the Pendrills came and kneeled and took her leave of the King so did the rest of his poor mean attendants only Richard went along with the King to conduct and guide him it being then dark and the way troublesome Their intended journey was to Mr. Wolfes of Madely some 5 miles distant from White-Ladies of whom the King had a good character from his servant Richard By the way they were put to a fright at a Mill-water by a Miller that had taken into his protection some of the same undone party so that Richard was forced to wade through and the King to follow

the cheif of that Cabal Several Towns and Castles lost and taken by both parties Anno Domini 1644. SIR William Waller after his reducement of Arundel Castle marched to finde out my Lord Hopton to cry quits with him for his defeat at Roundway Down both Armies were near one another a good space for my Lord hovered about Winchester and those parts at Brandon Heath near Alesford Hopton was drawn up having a little before in his intended march to the releif of Arundel beaten Col. Norton into Chichester who endeavoured to impede him and stood ready to receive Sir William who had taken the advantage of a hill from which the Cavaliers with fury beat him and drove him to another where under the shelter of some bu●hes and trees he so galled the Kings Horse that they were forced in disorder to retreat on their foot There was a hollow betwixt both Bodies which each endeavouring to gain many men found it for their graves on both sides My Lord Hopton therefore seeing the slaughter that was made and likely to continue upon his men timely drew off his Artillery and Canon towards Winchester and then wheeling about marched for Basing and so presently to Oxford In this fight was killed on the Kings part that valiant person Iohn Lord Stuart second Brother to the Duke of Richmond who died at Abbington of his wounds received Here Sir Iohn-Smith Col. Sandys Col. Scot and Col. Manwaring with divers other persons of quality wounded among whom was Sir Edward Stawell eldest son to Sir Iohn and Sir Henry now Lord Bard besides private souldiers above 1400. Of the Parliaments side few men of note killed about 900 common souldiers Colonel Dolbier wounded and Colonel Thompsons leg shot off by a Canon buller The Earl of Essex and Waller who had followed my Lord Hopton to Basing and there shewed a mind or besieging the House now joyned their Armies together amounting to a very great strength with intention to set upon the King at Oxford wherefore the Queen was sent away with a sufficient Convoy to Exeter in the mean time Essex plunders Abbington and makes a Garrison of it afterwards The King in the mean while marcheth with his Army from Oxford to Worcester which caused the two Parliament Generals to divide their forces again Waller was to go after the King as they termed it A King-catching while Essex marched with another gallant Army into the West which was totally lost from the Parliament The King had but few forces about him by reason that Prince Rupert was sent with the greatest part of the Army to the relief of York then besieged by the joynt power of three Armies the Scots Manchesters and Fairfaxes Prince Rupert in his way storms Bolton and plunders it The King having traversed his ground came back again from Worcester and Sir William Waller from out of the skirts of Glocestershire was ready at his heels so he overtook him neer Banbury at a place called Cropredy-Bridge Waller drew up in Bartalia on a hill expecting the advantage of the Kings pasting the Bridge which the King adventuring to do Waller descends from his Post and fall upon the Kings Rear beyond the Bridge where he was so gallantly received by the Earls of Cleveland and Northampton that he was quite routed 600 kill'd and 700 taken prisoners his Train of Artillery and many of his Officers so that Sir William was forced to fly to have recourse ●o London for another recruit It was therefore resolved upon this defeat of Waller that the K●ng should immediately follow the Earl of Essex who was advanced so far that the Queen who was delivered of the Princess Henrietta at Exeter the sixteenth of Iune in the moneth of Iuly was fain to be gone from Exeter for fear of a siege and carry the young Lady along with her into France where she landed on the 25th at Brest in Britany At the beginning of August the King had overtaken the Earl of Essex at L●stithel his force in so ill a condition through their long march and their want of necessaries which the Country people kept from them that it was concluded an easie thing to conquer them The King therefore resolved to coop them up and keep all manner of provisions from them After two or three daies league in this manner the Parliament horse broke through the Kings Army by night the General and the Lord Roberts at whose instance this expedition was undertaken got by boat from Foy to Plymouth and the foot being destitute and deserted by the horse under the Command of Major General Skippon came to a Capitulation by which it was agreed they should render their A●ms Ammunition Artillery and Stores into the hands of the King and have liberty as many as would to pass home they engaging never more to bear Arms against the King so that by this defeat the Parliament were quite undone in the West as to present appearance But though success crowned the King here it failed him as much in the North whether Prince Rupert was advanced as was said before for the relief of York For upon notice of the Princes approach having with him the bravest Army that ever was seen in England both for number and persons The Confederate Forces of Scotch and English drew of● from before the City and drew up into a fighting posture On the 〈◊〉 of Iuly the Marquess of Newcastle the Prince joyned their forces together On the third both Armies met one another upon a great plain called Marston-Moo● the Prince being General commanded the right wing General Goring Sir Charles Lucas and Col. Tillier the main body and my Lord of Newcastle the left wing who had a stout Regiment of White-coats called his Lambs At the first onset the Prince totally routed the Scots who were opposed to him and out of desire of revenge for their unnatural siding with the Parliament of England pursued them so lar that he came not back time enough to the assistance of his own But most remarkable was the valour of the English under Manchester led by Lievtenant General Cromwell who being the Reserve of the Army when the Prince was so far ingaged fell in so impetuously with the Curaziers that they bore down all before them the field was now almost cleared the Scots and Fairfaxes men on one side being fled and giving the day for lost and the main body of the Kings being discomfited and Prince Rupert just returned to see the overthrow so that there was none standing in the field save only my Lord of Newcastles men upon whose Lambs a terrible slaughter was committed while they discharged the parts of valiant expert and Loyal Subjects refusing quarter and casting themselves into rings till there were very few of them left and it had been a shame for the enemy to have killed such gallant and brave persons In conclusion the Cromwellians prevailed killing of the King Army

this then exclusion of their Members and taxes and the fear of other pressures the Nation having had too late and long experience of their Government so stomacked the people that designs were every where laid to turn them out of their new acquired Authority But the most powerfullest attempt against them was in Cheshire under Sir George B●ooh with whom there rose to the number of 4000 or 5000 men and most of the Gentlemen of that County Against these Major General Lambert then highly in favour with the Rump so it was commonly called was sent with an Army which with addition out of Ireland very neer equalled that number At a place called Northwich a small skirmish happened between them some fourteen killed and wounded whereupon those under Sir George Booth fled and Chester was delivered with some other holds newly possest by the Cheshire men to Lambert and Zanchy whom he left behind him to reduce them while he himself passed through Lancashire to his house at Craven where with his Officers plotted the dissolution of the Rump which accordingly upon his coming up to London was put in execution October the 11th and now the Army had the sole power in their hands again Lambert hereupon for we must suppose he is the Agent for his own ambition though also agreed upon by Fleetwood and the rest of the Officers erect a Committee of Safery of some thirty of the most eminent amongst them into whose hands they devolve the Supreme Authority But the Members o● the Rump resolve not to be baffled so Sir Arthur Hazelrig in December possest himself of Portsmouth and General Monk in Scotland declares his unsatisfiedness in these proceedings of the Army at London so that while Lambert was ingaged in the North and attending the issue of a Treaty with General Monk there the Members return from Portsmouth to London through the division they had wrought in the Army the way they chalked out to their own ruine The Lord Fairfax was also risen with a sufficient force restraining Lamberts men from free quarter so that lacking money and news arrived of the Parliaments sitting at Westminster he comes back to London whither immediately followed him General Monk having been courted all along his march by the Gentlemen of all the Counties of England for a free Parliament At his coming to the Parliament he declared the sense of the Countryes through which he passed but nothing less was minded by them then a new or free Parliament but this and other his actions rendred him very suspitious to them nor was any man assured of his intentions To try him therefore the Rump having been denied moneys by the City and therefore offended with them to ruine both by their express Command the General was sent with his Army into the City pulled down their Gates and Portcullises seized several Citizens at the Guildhall and sent them to the Tower this seemed to portend some dreadful conclusion But in the interim the Rump voted that the Government of the Army should rest in five persons making the General one of those which procedure of theirs presently drew the Curtain to the Scene and design ensuing Anno Dom. 1660. For now the General having rendezvcuz●d his Army in Finsbury fields acquainted his Officers with the necessity of introducing the secluded Members ever since 1648. into the Parliament in order to the well-settlement of the Nations to which they assented and forthwith the whole Army marched into London where upon the joyful news of this miraculous turn expecting nothing but massacres and plunderings they were most welcomely entertained nothing being thought too good for these Guests whom they little before more then suspected for their Enemies This was Saturday the of February in the afternoon so that at night the Town was all of a blaze every door having a bonfire where all the contumely and disgrace that could be done a perdite and hated sort of men by burning roasting and frying of all manner of Rumps of Creatures was most spitefully performed their Speaker getting home with much danger to his house in Chancery-lane A fortnights time the General let them alone minding them only of their dissolution which time they spent in making qualifications for the Members to serve in the ensuing Parliament which were so many and so strict and unreasonable that the General delayed no longer but on Munday having convened the aforesaid secluded Members at Whitehall went with them to the Parliament House and there put them in to the confusion and astonishment of the Rumpers many of whom forbore to sit thereafter in company with them as knowing what would ensue The said Members being thus setled addrest themselves immediately to the settlement c. making the General Captain General of all the Forces in the three Kingdomes and nulling some former destructive Votes and establishing a Militia of well-affected and loyal persons in the several Countie of England and then according to the contract and compromise with the General on the day of March dissolved that long and fatal Parliament having ordered Writs to issue out for a new one to sit down at Westminster the 25th of April next the year 1661. In this interval the Government was lodged in a Councel of State who persisted in the same wayes for a settlement leaving the Top-stone to be laid by the Free Parliament a term unusual to our Ancestors but to this Generation a delightful novelty after so many forces and violences upon so many in so few years Colonel Lambert at the instance of the General had by the Rump been sent to the Tower from whence now he broke and escaped and came to Edge-●●ll where was intended a great Rendezvouz of the Phanatick part of the Army then male-contented with the proceedings but his design failed of the expected assistance Colonel Ingoldsby being sent in pursuit of him and dispersing his small party at the same place from whence he was brought to London and committed a safer prisoner to the Tower aforesaid On the 25th of April the Parliament convened in both Houses to whom a week after their sitting came a Letter from the Kings Majesty with another to the General and one to the City of I widon brought by Iohn Lord Viscount Mordant and Sir Iohn Greenvile now Earl of Bath which were all with due humility and gladness received and a Vote passed in Parliament that their most humble thanks should be presented by Commissioners appointed to attend his Majesty then at the Hague for his gracious Letters and he should be desired to return with all convenient speed to the exercise of his Kingly Government and Sir Thomas Clarges was first dispatcht by the General on the same Errand where at Court he was very much welcomed Tuesday the eighth of May the King was proclaimed with all the magnificences usual but with the unusual and extraordinary joy of the people who made great bonfires that night and seemed as it were to be in a

set●on foot his Commission of Array which the Parliament likewise inhibit to be obeyed any where but neither of them signified any thing to those that were bent and inclined to each Cause so that the preparations for War both of Men Horse Money and Arms went on very fast especially on the Parliament side at London where all persons of all ages and Sexes contributed so excessively to the furtherance of the War that the sum which it amounted unto is almost incredible This money was borrowed upon the credit of the PVBLICK FAITH a name much adored then and as much contemned and hated now The King finding how the pulse of these distracted Kingdom did beat giving symptomes of some violent disease and distemper approaching redoubled His instances to the Houses for peace adjuring them to prevent that bloodshed now so threatning and imminent and they regest the like entreaties and obtestation● upon him but not bating an ace or receding a tittle from their first Demands so that there was no hopes or likelihood of a Pacification His Majesty therefore having called the Gentry of York together at a Rendezvous protested his unwillingness as well as unprovidedness for a War desiring if he should be thereunto compelled their assistance in the maintenance of His most just Cause and then departed for Lincolnshire to Newark whether he had sent before his Letters Mandatory to my Lord Willoughby of Parham charging him to desist from raising levying opexercising any forces within that County by vertue of his Commission from the Parliament wherein nevertheless he had proceeded Here the King convened the Gentlemen of this County and made to them the like protestations and having received some small Supplies returned back again to York At the same time the Parliament were listing men apace appointed their General and the Superior Officers of the Army At York the King made the Marquess of Hertford Lieutenant General of the Western Counties intending forthwith himself to set upon Hull a place he had designed once to have made a magazine for Ireland to reduce those Rebells which he had often declared to the two Houses but they would by no means consent to it but upon deliberate advice he pass by ●t onely making one attempt near it to shew his just indignation and to satisfie his Honor where ●e lost unhappily some twenty men and marched directly into Nottinghamshire About the beginning of August he came to Nottingham Town and on the tenth of the same Moneth published his Royal Proclamation commanding and enjoyning all his Subjects to the Northward of Trent and twenty miles Southward to Rendezvous at Nottingham the 23. of that instant where he according to the purpose of his Proclamation set up his Standard where appeared 5 or 6000 m●n After a view and Muster of these Royal Volunteers the King proceeded to the nomination of a General who was the Right Honourable the Earl of Lindsey General formerly for the Ro●hil Expedition and the Parliament made Robert Earl of Essex their Captain General the Earl of Bedford General of the Horse Essex about this time departed from London in great state and magnificence The King leaves Nottinghamshire and marched into Staffordshire thence into Leicestershire caressing the Gentry all the way he went so into the Confines of Wales and sate down at last in Shresbury where he much increased his strength whereupon the Earl of Essex was ordered to advance towards the King and hinder his new Leavies having then Commission to rescue the King out of the hands of his evil Councellors He marched therefore from S. Albans into Northampton being strong to the number of 14000 men Portsmouth was now taken by Sir Iohn Merrick having first surprized Southsea Castle and held for the Parliament Co●●o Goring being forced to yield it the Town being commanded by that Castle before the Marquess of Hertford could come to the relief of it being then besieged in Sherburn by the Earl of Bedford Goring according to agreement passing for the present over into France The Earl of Essex advanceth into Worcestershire while the Army staid still at Shrewsbury expecting forces out of Southwales to prevent the conjunction of whom Essex sent a party of horse under the command of Colonel Sands betwixt whom and Prince Rupert and the Lord Byron happened a smart incounter in the lanes neer Worcester City where at first the Parliament Army had the better but Prince Rupert falling in the Rear forced them to leave their design Colonel Sands was desperately wounded his Major Douglass was killed with the loss of threescore men nevertheless Essex hastily advancing the Cavaliers quitted Worcester which was Garrison'd for the Parliament While the Earl of Essex staid here about setling the Militia the King passed directly away from Shrewsbury where he had coyned money out of the Plate freely brought him by the Gentry to London having got the start of Essex who thereupon doubled his hast after him the King therefore resolved to fight him and staid at Keynton whether next morning came the Essexians Sunday the 23 of Octob. being the same day twelvemoneth the Irish Rebellion broke forth both Armies met at the bottom of Edge-hill from which the Kings forces descended to the fight The Earl of Linsey commanded the main body Prince Rupert commanded the right wing the left was commanded by the Lord Wilmot Of the Parliaments side the Earl of Essex commanded the battel Sir Iames Ramsey the left wing of horse and Sir William Balfour and Sir Philip Stapleton the left Prince Rupert suddenly overthrew the left wing of horse under Ramsey but overcharging and following the pursuit too far Essex seeing the Kings foot destitute on that side charged furiously where the General Lindsey fighting with a half pike in his hand afoot was wounded of which he presently died and taken and his Son the Lord Willoughby coming to his rescue was taken with him The Standard-bearer also Sir Edmund Varney so valiantly the Parliamentarians prest upon the Kings foot was killed and the Standard seized but freed again by Sir Iohn Smith who was Knighted under it and it committed to his defence Here was also killed the Noble Lord Aubigney with sundry other inferiour Officers On the Parliaments side were slain the Lord S. Iohn of Bletso who died presently of his wounds being offered in exchange for the Lord Willoughby and Col. Tho. Essex newly come from Worcester The number of the slain on both sides was very neer equal in the whole amounting to neer 5000 men and the victory remained as equal betwixt them the Earl of Essex lodging that night which parted the fray upon the field where they fought and the King ascending the hill from whence he came down that morning keeping great fires all the night 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

of Holland prisoner with some forty more the Duke and the Earl of Peterborough hardly escaping and dispersed the whole party The Scotch Army was advanced now as far as Preston in Lancashire where Lievtenant General Cromwell being joyned with Major General Lambert awaited them At this time also Scarborough declares for the King Sir Matthew Boynton being Governour there August 17. both Armies faced one another and within two hours time the Scots begin to flinch so that the brunt of the fight fell upon the English who sided with them The Scots being ready to fly the Parliament Army doubled their courage and put them to the rout two several wayes The next morning being the 18th of August the Scot made a stand and did some notable execution on the p●r●●●ers but the Army coming up they fled again crying Mercy Mercy so that they might be heard five miles together an end multitudes were killed and more taken prisoners being in number equivalent to the Army that vanquished them Duke Hamilton fled first to Namptwich with three thousand horse there the Country took five hundred of them and thence to Vttoxeter in Staffordshire where he was taken by my Lord Grey of Grooby Monro escaped with part of the Scotch Horse to Berwick and so into Scotland but Middleton was taken by the way thither After it was known which way Hamilton took Cromwell followed after Monro into Scotland and there begun intelligence with some of those Scots in tendency to his a●ter-design and after they had cajoled one another he departed into England having received the thanks of the Committee of Estates for the service he had done their Nation Upon the news of this defeat sent in by General Fairfax to the besieged in Colchester a Councel of War was held what to do it was once agreed to make an eruption out and attempt the whole Army beleaguring them but this through some suspition amongst the Souldiers of being deserted by their Officers in the action was frustrated whereupon it came to a resolve of treating with the Enemy and so it was concluded the besieged having eaten all their horses and the dogs in the Town that the Officers should be left to discretion the souldiers to have their lives and the Town to pay 14000 l. to preserve it from plunder Whereupon the Town being surrendred Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle were shot to death presently and not long after the Lord Capel was beheaded by a sentence of the High Court of Justice In the perplexity of these affairs the Treaty was voted in the Isle of Wight and accordingly effectually prosecuted the King being in a kind of Regality in the said Isle and so far had it proceeded that in November the Parliament voted the Kings Concessions to be sufficient ground for them to proceed on to the settlement of the Kingdome when the Army being now Lords and Masters through their late success came and put a force upon the House of Commons excluding above 140. and by the remnant of their faction in the House unvoted these Votes and the Army next remov'd the King from Wight to Hurst Castle then to Winchester then to Windsor and so to Saint Iames and last to the High Court of Justice where after four times being at that detestable Bar and refusing to own their Jurisdiction they pronounced the Sentence and the order place and time of the execution was referred to Colonel Harrison c. who appoint Tuesday Ian. 30. before Whitehall gates in the open place where accordingly that execrable murder was perpetrated by the hands of a Vizarded Executioner to the amazement of the whole world and to the unexpressible sorrows of this Church and Kingdome The Kings last words on the Scaffold being the sum of the Life Tryal and Death of that most incomparable pious Prince are here fully inserted to serve for all I shall be very little heard of any body else I shall therefore speak a word to you here Indeed I could have held my peace very well if I did not think that holding my peace would make som men think that I did submit to the Guilt as well as to the Punishment But I think it is my duty to God first and then to my Country to clear my self both as an honest man a good King and a good Christian I Shall begin first with my Innocency and in tr●ath I think it not very needful for me to insist long upon this For all the world knows that I did never begin a War with the two Houses of Parliament and I call God to witness unto whom I must shortly make an account that I did never intend to incroach upon their Priviledges They began upon me it is the Militia they began upon They confess the Militia was mine but they thought it fit to have it from me And to be short if any body will look to the dates of Commissions of their Commissions and mine and likewise to the Declaration he will see clearly that they began these unhappy Troubles not I. So as far the guilt of these enormous Crimes that are laid against me I hope that God will clear me out I will not for I am in charity and God forbid that I should lay it upon the two Houses of Parliament there is no necessity of either I hope they are free of this guilt but I believe that ill Instruments between them and me have been the chief cause of all this blood-shed So that as I find my self clear of this I hope and pray God that they may too Yet for all this God forbid that I should be so ill a Christian as not to say that Gods Judgements are just upon me Many times he doth pay Justice by an unjust Sentence that is ordinary I will only say this That unjust Sentence that I suffered to take effect is punished by an unjust Sentence upon me So far I have said to shew you that I am an innocent man Now to shew you that I am a good Christian I hope there is a good man that will bear me witness that I have forgiven all the world and even those in particular that have been the chief causers of my death Who they are God knows I do not desire to know I pray God forgive them But this is not all my charity must go further I wish that they may repent for indeed they have committed a great sin in that particular I pray God with S Stephen that this be not laid to their charge And withall that they may take the right way to the peace of the Kingdome for my charity commands me not only to forgive particular men but to endeavour to the last gasp the peace of the Kingdome So Sirs I do wish with all my soul I see there are some here that will carry it further that they endeavour the peace of the Kingdome Sirs I must shew you both how you are out of the way and put