Gasper Count of Marsin George Monk Duke of Albemarle Edward Montague Earl of Sandwich Aubery de Vere Earl of Oxford Charles Steward Duke of Richmond and Lenox Montague Berty Earl of Lindsey Edward Montague Earl of Manchester William Wentworth Earl of Strafford A Roll of the PEERS of the Kingdom of ENGLAND according to their Birth and Creations Dukes of the Blood Royal. JAmes Duke of York and Albany Lord High Admiral of England Rupert Duke of Cumberland These take Places in respect of their Offices Edward Earl of Clarendon Lord Chancellour of England Thomas Earl of Southampton Lord Treasurer of England DUKES Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk William Seymour Duke of Somerset George Villiers Duke of Buckingham Charles Stuart Duke of Richmond George Monk Duke of Albemarle MARQUISSES Iohn Paulet Marquiss of Winchester Edward Somerset Marquiss of Worcester William Cavendish Marquiss of Newcastle Henry Peirrepont Marquiss of Dorchester EARLS These three take places in respect of their Offices Montague Berty Earl of Lindsey Lord High Chamberlain of England Iames Butler Earl of Brecknock Lord Steward of his Majesties Houshold Edward Montague Earl of Manchester Lord Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold EARLS Aubery de Vere Earl of Oxford Algernoon Piercy Earl of Northumberland Francis Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury Gray Earl of Kent Infra aetat Charles Stanly Earl of Derby Iohn Mannours Earl of Rutland Hastings Earl of Huntingdon Infra aetat Thomas Wriothesly Earl of Southampton Wilâiam Russel Earl of Bedford Philip Herbert Earl of Pembrook and Montgomery Theophilus Clinton Earl of Lincoln Charles Howard Earl of Nottingham Iames Howard Earl of Suffolk Richard Sackvil Earl of Dorset William Cecil Earl of Salisbury Iohn Cecil Earl of Exeter Iohn Egerton Earl of Bridgewater Robert Sidney Earl of Leicester Iames Compton Earl of Northampton Charles Rich Earl of Warwick William Cavendish Earl of Devonshire Basil Fieldiâg Earl of Denbigh George Digby Earl of Bristol Lionel Cranfield Earl of Middlesex Henry Rich Earl of Holland Iohn Hollis Earl of Clare Oliver St. Iohn Earl of Bullingbrook Mildmay Fane Earl of Westmorland Edward Montague Earl of Manchester Thomas Howard Earl of Berk-shire Thomas Wentworth Earl of Cleveland Edward Sheffield Earl of Mulgrave Henry Cary Earl of Monmouth deceased without Issue male Iames Ley Earl of Marlborough Thomas Savage Earl of Rivers Montague Bertue Earl of Lindsey Lord Great Chamberlain of England Nicholas Knollis Earl of Banbury Henry Cary Earl of Dover Henry Mordaât Earl of Peterburgh Henry Gray Earl of Stamford Heneage Finch Earl of Winchelsey Charles Dormer Earl of Carnarvan Montjoy Blunt Earl of Newport Philip Stanhop Earl of Chesterfield Iohn Tufton Earl of Thanet Ierome Weston Earl of Portland William Wentworth Earl of Strafford Robert Spencer Earl of Sunderland Iames Savil Earl of Sussex Charles Goring Earl of Norwich Nicholas Leak Earl of Scarsdale Wilmot Earl of Rochester Infra aetat Henry Iermin Earl of St. Albans Edward Montague Earl of Sandwich Iames Butler Earl of Brecknock Edward Hide Earl of Clarenden Arthur Capel Earl of Essex Thomas Brudenal Earl of Cardigan Arthur Annelsley Earl of Anglesey Iohn Greenvile Earl of Bath Charles Howard Earl of Carlisle The Right Honourable Elizabeth Viscountess of Kynelmeky was by Letters Pattents Iune 14 Created Countess of Guildford for her life in the Twelfth year Caroli Sâcundi VISCOUNTS Leicester Devereux Viscount Hereford Francis Brown Viscount Montague Iames Fiennes Viscount Say and Seal Edward Conway Viscount Conway Baptist Noel Viscount Camden William Howard Viscount Stafford Thomas Bellasis Viscount Faulconberg Iohn Mordant Viscount Mordant BARONS Iohn Nevil Lord Abergavenny lately Deceased Iames Tutchet Lord Audley Charles West Lord De la Ware George Barkley Lord Barkley Thomas Parker Lord Morley and Monteagle Francis Lenard Lord Dacres Conyers Darcy Lord Darcy William Stourton Lord Stourton William Lord Sandys De la Vine Edward Vaux Lord Vaux Thomas Windsor Lord Windsor Thomas Wentworth Lord Wentworth Wingfield Cromwel Lord Cromwell George Eure Lord Eure. Philip Wharton Lord Wharton Francis Willoughby Lord Willoughby of Parham William Paget Lord Paget Dudley North Lord North. William Bruges Lord Chaundos Iohn Cary Lord Hunsdon William Petre Lord Petre. Dutton Gerrard Lord Gerrard Charles Stanhop Lord Stanhop Henry Arundel Lord Arundel of Warder Christopher Roper Lord Tenham Foulk Grevil Lord Brook Edward Montague Lord Montague of Boughton Charles Lord Howard of Charleton William Gray Lord Gray of Wark Iohn Roberts Lord Roberts William Craven Lord Craven Iohn Lovelace Lord Lovelace Iohn Paulet Lord Paulet William Maynard Lord Maynard Thomas Coventry Lord Coventry Edward Lord Howard of Escrick Warwick Mohun Lord Mohun William Botiller Lord Botiller Percy Herbert Lord Powis Edward Herbert Lord Herbert of Cherbury Francis Seamour Lord Seamour Thomas Bruce Lord Bruce Francis Newport Lord Newport of Higharchal Thomas Leigh Lord Leigh of Stone-Leigh Christopher Hatton Lord Hatton Henry Hastings Lord Loughborough Richard Byron Lord Byron Richard Vaughan Lord Vaughan Charles Smith Lord Carrington William Widdrington Lord Widdrington Humble Ward Lord Ward Thomas Lord Culpepper Isaac Astley Lord Astley Richard Boyle Lord Clifford Iohn Lucas Lord Lucas Iohn Bellasis Lord Bellasis Lewis Watson Lord Rockingham Charles Gerrard Lord Gerrard of Brandon Robert Lord Sutton of Lexington Charles Kirkhoven Lord Wotton Marmaduke Langdale Lord Langdale deceased William Crofts Lord Crofts Iohn Berkly Lord Berkly Denzil Hollis Lord Hollis of Ifeild Charles Lord Cornwallis George Booth Lord De la Mere. Horatio Townsend Lord Townsend Anthony Ashley Cooper Lord Ashley Iohn Crew Lord Crew The Lords Spiritual being restored to their Honours and Places in Parliament since the Coronation and to all the precedent Honours we have observed the Order of Time and not of Dignity as they should have been Ranked before the Lords Temporal A. DOctor William Iuxon Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury his Grace Primate and Metropolitan of all England was consecrated Bishop of London 1633. Translated from London to Canterbury 1660. A. Dr. Accepted Frewen Lord Arch-Bishop of York and Metropolitan of England was consecrated Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield 1644. Translated from thence to York 1660. Dr. Gilbert Sheldon Lord-Bishop of London was consecrated October 28 1660. Dr. Iohn Couzens Lord-Bishop of Durham was consecrated December 2 1660. Y. A. Dr. Brian Duppa Lord-Bishop of Winchester this See is now possessed by Dr. Morley Translated thither from the See of Worcester Prelate of the Garter and Lord Almoner he was consecrated Bishop of Chichester 1638. from thence Translated to Sarum 1640. and from thence to Winchester 1660. and since deceased 1662. A. Dr. William Piers Lord-Bishop of Bath and Wells consecrated 1632. A. Dr. Matthew Wren Lord-Bishop of Ely was consecrated Bishop of Hereford 1634. thence Translated to Norwich 1635. from thence to Ely 1638. A. Dr. Robert Skinner Lord-Bishop of Oxon was consecrated Bishop of Bristol 1636. thence Translated to Oxon 1640. A. Dr. William Roberts Lord-Bishop of Bangor and Sub-Almoner was consecrated 1637. A. Dr. Iohn Warner Lord-Bishop of
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
Assembly was ordered to bring in their Model of Church-Government and those Resolves were urged afterwards by many hundred Petitions and the Covenant prest to be universally taken Towards the end of this month they had licked up the form of their Directory but could not agree about the receiving of the Sacrament which dispute was then committed Hereupon the Parliament procâeded and voted the abolishing of the Common-Prayer-Book which gave some satisfaction to the Scots yet not fully contended them they had in the beginning of our Troubles openly named the Archbishop of Canterbury and prosecuted him as an Enemy to their Country as the great Incendiary of the broyls between both Nations and did not desist while they had him safe in the Tower now they would have his life also as a gratification of their assistance His head must be danced off like St. Iohn Baptist's at the Musick of their Bag-pipes This they publikely demanded so that an Ordinance for the Parliament durst not venture his Tryal at the Common-Law as was thought by some because of the clause of that Bill of Attainder against the Earl of Strafford that his Case should be no precedent and they knew the Judges though they might pack a Jury that should would never venture to condemn him And his tryal by Peers they vouchsafed not as alike dangerous passed the House of Commons whereby he was declared guilty and that sent up to the Lords for their concurrence who bogled at it as a very ill precedent so that it stuck for a while until Sir David Hawkins with his veterane Troops of Justice-cryers came bawled at the Lords House for speedy Execution of Delinquents And then a new Expedient was set on foot for the better dispatch that the Lords should come and sit in the House of Commons as to this business and make one work of it which some of them unworthily did an ill Omen or Presage what that degenerateness would come to when after some of the same persons sate there as Commoners By this trick after several brave Defences made at the Bar of the Lords House where with might and main his Enemies prosecuted his Innocence he was condemned the main Argument against him being used by Serjeant Wild That he was so guilty an offender that he wondred the people did not pull him in pieces as he came to and fro to his tryal and on the tenth of Ianuary brought to Tower-hill from a most sound and sweet repose that night till awakened by Pennington the Lieutenant of the Tower to go to his Execution whereat he was no whit dismayed his colour being as fresh in his Face as ever it was in his life which continued to his last minute At his death he made a Funeral-sermon for himself which was in lieu of a Speech where this is as he hinted it to be observed that though other Arch-bishops had lost their lives in this manner yet not the same way He being the first English-man that ever was condemned by an Ordinance of Parliament His body was decently interred in Alhallows Barkin London according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England of which he had been the chief Defender and Assertor leaving Sir Iohn Robinson his Nephew since Lieutenant of the Tower to inherit the remains of his Estate and the rewards of his great Services and Munificences to this Church and Kingdom Abington had been made a Garrison ever since the Earl of Essex marched into Cornwal and became so troublesome a neighbour to Oxford and the Country adjacent by the continual excursions of the Horse which were never less than a Regiment that Colonel Sir Henry Gage to prevent this perpetual annoyance no man daring to travail upon any of the Roads towards Oxford with provisions or other business more especially hindering the intercourse betwixt Oxford and Wallingford resolved to build a Fort at Culham-bridge within a mile of Abington on the London-road to repress the boldness of those parties who were constantly out thereabouts upon designes In the attempt thereof and to obstruct so dangerous an obstacle to their Eruption the Abingdon-forces under Colonel Brown Sally out Engage and maintain a short fight with the Royalists with little hopes of prevailing till an Unfortunate shot wounded Colonel Gage in the head of which he dyed as soon as he came to Oxford and so that project was laid aside The King had so closely prosecuted his intentions for Peace that it being in the depth of Winter both Armies in their quarters and the two Factions of Presbytery and Independency jealous of one another the modelling of the Army requiring also some gain and advantage of time a Treaty so often proposed by the King was now admitted to be managed at Vxbridge by Commissioners on both sides The Kings Commissioners were as Follow Duke of Richmond and Lenox Marquess of Hertford Earl of Southampton Earl of Kingston Earl of Chichester Lord Capel Lord Seymore Lord Hatton Lord Culpeper Sir Edward Nicholas Sir Edward Hide afterwards Lord Chancellor Sir Richard Lane Sir Thomas Gardiner Sir Orlando Bridgeman Mr. Iohn Ashburnham Mr. Ieffery Palmer Dr. Stuart and Dr. Hammond Divines The Parliaments Commissioners were Earl of Northumberland Earl of Pembroke Earl of Salisbury Earl of Denbigh Lord Wenman Mr. Denzil Hollis Mr. William Pierpoint Sir Henry Vane Jun. Mr. Crew Mr. Whitlock Mr. Prideaux Mr. Vines a Minister The Scotch Commissioners Lord London Sir Charles Erskin Mr. Dundas Mr. Brackley Mr. Alexander Henderson Minister The main things first to be treated of were first Religion second Militia third Ireland For Religion the King would not alter Government by Bishops but would give way to some amendments in the Liturgie upon advice For the Militia he would consent some Forts and Garrisons should remain in the Parliaments hands pro tempore for security of the agreement the King having the nomination of half the Commissioners For Ireland the King would not abrogate the Cessation until he were sure the Rebellion here were at an end having to avoid that popular demand and to prevent any insisting upon that point given Order to the Marquess of Ormond to conclude a Peace but however to continue the Cessation for a year for which he should promise the Irish if he could have it no cheaper to joyn with them against the Scots and Inchiqueen for by that time the King said he hoped his condition would be such as the Irish should be glad to accept of less or he enabled to grant more The Parliament on the contrary side insisted as to Religion upon the taking away of the Kings Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction his Donations and Temporalties of Bishopricks his First-fruits and Tenths of Bishops Deans Deans and Chapters not offering to constitute the least dependance of the Clergy upon the King to the Presbyterian mode compensating him with Bishops Lands in lieu of all those which of
and War having eaten things most reluctant to nature till the Kings affairs 1645 being desperate he accepted of no less honourable than his York Conditions and was now deservedly and as the onely fit person intrusted with this chief Bulwark and Fortress of Loyalty By him many additions were made to render it impregnable one most dangerous to the enemy was that he had caâsâd the ground before the Trenches to be broke and digged into pits wherein he had driven stakes so that it was neither safe for Horse nor man if they should attempt to storm to approach the Works But all this strength availed not against the Fate upon the Kings Cause besides that there was some Division among the Nobles at Court to whom the King had left a power of Treating with the Enemy insomuch that after a Summons the Governour by the advice of the Lords condescended to a Treaty which was managed at Marston at Mr. Crooks House by Commissioners on both sides and after a long debate all Hostility being exercised in the mean time especially when it was thought they would agree the besieged shot their great Guns continually by which they did some hurt killing a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Works and Prince Rupert received a shot in a Salley that he made rather to take the air than out of any great designe the Treaty came to a conclusion upon very noble Terms which Fairfax was willing to grant not knowing but that he might have been forced to continue there till the depth of Winter at which time the over-flowing of the Rivers which were now diverted might make him rise and leave the Siege there being plenty of all provisions in the Town to maintain it beyond that time The Articles being tedious and like those of Exeter need no repetition On Wednesday the 23 of Iune according to Agreement Sir Thomas Glemham marched out with a Body of 3000 compleat Foot through two Files of the Enemy which were placed at the East-Gate and extended to Shotover-hill where their Horse were drawn up in the Rear in a Solemn Military posture and having marched to Tame 900 of them laid down their Arms and had Passes to their own houses the rest or the most part of them took service under Colonel Tillier one of the Garrison for the French and some for the Spaniard A thousand more marched out at the North-gate whose habitations were in Glocester-shire and the Counties that way Prince Rupert and Maurice departed on the Monday before to Oatlands upon special Articles for themselves and a number of Gentlemen on Tuesday besides near 2000 that staid aââer the Army was entred for Passes so that there could not be less than 7000 men besides three Auxiliary Regiments of Scholars and Townsmen which were disarmed by the General upon his entrance then in the Town being the very flower and the Chivalry of the Kings Army There marched out likewise the Duke of York the Marquess of Hartford the Earls of Dorset and Southampton the Duke of Richmond and Earl of Lindsey being comprised in the said Articles who departed Oxford some while before the Siege and rendred themselves the Lords Cottington Lane and Dunsmore Secretary Nicholas Sir George Lisâe and abundance of brave Gentlemen and Officers so that it was a pleasant martial fight and many were the spectators from London to behold their exit The Duke of York was conveyed to St. Iames's to his Royal Brother and Sister under the Government of the Earl of Northumberland from whence by means of Colonel Ioseph Bamfield he was conveyed away according to the directions of the Queen his Mother into Holland as some while before the Princess Henrietta after married to the Duke of Orleans was by the Lady Dalkeith her Governess privately carried into France In these Articles Faringdon was also included the Governour Sir George Lisle being then in Oxford ratifying the same Colonel Poyntz and Colonel Rossiter had joyned their Forces and with the access of the Scottish Army resolved to besiâge Newark upon which they long had a hankering desire They began the Siege in December which was continued with all obstinacy the Town defending it self resolutely and by often Salleys annoyed the besiegers doing notable Execution upon them The Scots lodged on the North-side with 6000 men making good Muschams bridge Poyntz on the South-side Colonel Rossiter and Lebunt at Blechington Claypool the first time he appears in service now put on by Cromwel with Leicester and Ely forces at Bennington the Nottingham Brigade at Stoak where the Lord Bellasis the Noble stout Governour gave them such a Camisade by a sudden eruption that he totally routed their Horse Poyntz being there and had near surprized the Foot but that Rossiter came opportunely in and designing to get between the Salliers and the Town made them leave their Victory and make home in their way whither they defeated the said Colonel Rossiter and safely returned in at their Works Nevertheless and though General Leven with his Army was drawn off from Newark disgusted for want pay Poyntz would not give over but having turned the River Trent quite from the Town on the North-side and the Scots having taken Sands Fort before who paid dear for their Approaches and the other River being also turned aside and several Forts and Batteries new raised within Musquet-shot of the Town a second Summons was sent in unto the Governour which had not prevailed for all their bravado's of danger had they not been reinforced with a command from the King to his Lordship to make as good Terms as he could and deliver the place for that the Peace of the Kingdome might the sooner be râstored Accordingly on the 4 of May a Treaty was entred into the Articles very fair but not so comprehensive as those given by Fairfax but yet such as signified the noble Governours resolution and pointed at his great desert he having approved himself an eminent Souldier and Servant of his King and Country throughout the War and was afterward his Majesties Governour of his Town of Hull While the Army was marching to Oxford Colonel Whaley with a thousand Foot and-four Troops of Horse was sent to besiege Banbury who lay before it ten weeks ere the Governour would hearken to any Terms as nobly angry with the Fortune of his Cause as disdainfully vext with the disparagement of the Siege the Castle able to defie their entire Army and which had often disappointed and beaten several united strengths that beleaguered it But I cannot so regretfully partake with that Loyal Garrison as Mr. Sprig doth zealously with the Town in a Paragraph of his worthy observation and which mâââ very justly be construed in a better sense than he meant it being a full âccount of that once-famous place for Zealotry Banbury once a great and fair Market-Town before the late Troubles but now having scarce the one half standing to gaze on the Ruines of
hope proving more and more vain so wretchedly stupid were the Londoners they marched into Essex and by the way seized upon the Arms and Ammunition that then lay in the Earl of Warwick's House at Leez as then in open hostility against the Prince and so further into the County until at last they setled in the Town of Colchester Fairfax understanding of this Go-by and their conjunction having dispatcht away Colonel Rich and Colonel Barkstead with their Regiments to reduce and free those Castles which the Kentish-men as aforesaid had taken with all hast passed his Army over at Gravesend to make the quicker pursuit after them having underhand received recruits and supplies both of men and money from Skippon to re-inforce him who every day privately listed men for the Service At Colchester the Lord Capel with some Horse of his own raising met him and a Troop of Veterane Royalists from London who fought their way at Epping with some Army-Horse laid to obstruct all additions from the City by that Road came also entire at the same time just as the Van of Fairfax his Army was Skirmishing at the Towns-end where they so peppered the Enemy that in great confusion he ran to the Body having had an Essay what Sparks he had to deal with Sir George Lisle was made Major-General of the Essex-Forces and the rest of the Army distributed into Regiments and distinct Commands and had their posts and places assigned them The Town was inconsiderable either in it self as being intenible and undefensive nothing but a Brest-work cast up about it and as to the adjacent parts of the County to receive any provisional relief or great Force into it so that there was no hopes of setling or planting in it for in all probability it was not thought possible to hold out a Month to an end nevertheless by their industry courage vigilance and patience it held out three compleatly against a victorious Enemy recruited as aforesaid and assisted with the Forces of the Neighbouring County of Suffolk on whom deservedly the slaughter principally fell for so basely engaging against whom they had promised to joyn with these Essex-Royalists Several attempts were made by Fairfax to take the place by Force and many Sallies were in requital made by the Besieged who both in assayling and defending did great Execution From the beginning to the ending of the Siege scarce a day passed without actions from within at first to fetch in Cattel then to cut Grass which was stained all over with Blood for the Besieged would have it who had now planted some Cannons upon St. Mary's-Steeple whence they cruelly annoyed the Leaguer Insomuch that Fairfax seeing the loss of his men and the courage of the Defendants gave over his resolution of Storming proceeding with his Approaches to begirt them close and fortifying his Camp to starve them and also to fire them out which forced the Besieged to burn the Suburbs that he intended for shelter but he possest the Lord Lucas his House Sir Charles his Brother and ruined it The provision they had in the Town besides what they fought for and brought in afterwards would not suffice for above a Month and all hopes were abandoned of getting in more yet the courageous and generous sufferance of these Loyal Souldiers resolved to undergo all misery rather than yield and so free the Army to march against the Scots who were now entred England upon the same account Their main support was the sauce and relish to their meat good store of Prunes and Plums with which the Town was stored that did a little palate their Hors-flesh to them which they were forced to kill and dress for their victuals a good while before their Surrender there was also some Corn which Sir Charles charitably distributed among the Towns-folk but the Souldiers borrowed it again in their extremity in which we must leave these Noble Gentlemen and take a view of other concurrent endeavours for the King and Kingdom The Fleet which the Parliament had stollen and debauched from their Duty by their first pretences perceiving that indeed they were but such and no more repenting of their past service did to satisfie for their former offences now turn sides and rendred themselves to the Prince now made Captain-General of His Fathers Forces The Parliament had some inkling thereof and therefore had Commissioned Colonel Rainsborough a Sea-man formerly to the Command thereof whom the Loyal Mariners fairly put on Shore having posed him with this Question of engaging for their Soverain and at the same time their former Vice-Admiral Sir William Batten now Knighted by the Prince being disbanded by the Independent Rulers as more honest than they would have him brought some other Ships to His Majesties Obedience With this Naval Force the Prince departed from Holland and came into Yarmouth-Road where it was deliberated whether he should land and attempt the Relief of Colchester There were then in company with Him His Illustrious Brother the Duke of York who in April before had happily escaped from St. Iames's where heâ was kept by the Earl of Northumberland his Guardian by the conduct of Colonel Bamfield who was employed therein by the Queen the Duke pretending to play in the dusk of the Evening was disguised in Maiden-habit and landed safely at Dort in Holland Prince Rupert the Earl of Brainford the Lords Hopton Wilmot Willougbby who had deserted the Parliament having been charged imprisoned and affronted by the Army and Culpeper and other Gentlemen but understanding that Colonel Scroop was attending thereabout they concluded it hazardous to venture the reputation of the Princes first Arms upon so well-appointed an Enemy and thereupon weighed Anchor and stood into the Downs The Navy consisted of 20 Ships of War most of the first and second Rate the other Frigats well manned and furnished which anchoring neer the Mouth of the Thames put the City into great fear no Ships possibly going in or out without the Princes permission a Hamborough-bound Ship richly laden being seized on by him In all haste thereâore the Parliament order their old Admiral Robert Rich Earl of Warwick to Equip another Fleet then in the River and to set to Sea hoping by his Authority and influence to reclaim their Revolters or if not upon the coming of more Ships from Portsmouth which accordingly joyned with him to fight the Prince In pursuance of this Command Warwick appears with his Fleet about Quinborough but for all his former indearedness to the Sea-men and their affection his Masters confided in he durst not engage lest a total defection might have ensued for the Mariners were grown sensible how Trade and consequently Navigation was decayed by the long continuance of the War and had more kindness besides for Batten than they had for the Earl which the Prince was sensible of and therefore in civil terms by a Message required him to submit
and bring in the Fleet under his Command offering him those advantages and so obligingly inviting him to such just ends and purposes that of all the unhappinesses that befel that Nobleman as there were many in his Family and Relations afterwards this his refusal made the greatest breach of his Honour as appeared to him not long after this when he was ignominiously turned out as a dangerous person by his Masters and saw his onely Brother murdered by their Hands In the mean while of Warwick's preparation the Prince that he might not seem to be unactive and to have done nothing worthy his adventure and presence landed 500 men to the Relief of Sandwich Walmer and Deal-Castles besieged as abovesaid At Deal they were first opposed and though they did as much as possible could be expected from men yet were they finally vanquished by the unerring victorious hand of the Army-Forces whereupon instantly ensued the rendition of those Castles and the Prince without any other effect than a perswasive Letter sent to the House of Lords for the obtaining of a Personal Treaty with his Father which soon after ensued set sail for Goree in Holland where he Anchored his Ships Warwick vauntingly following him and demanding the States to thrust them out to Sea according to the laws thereof but the States were civiller and wiser Prince Rupert therefore was constituted Admiral thereof whose Navigation we shall in its place duely observe To prosecute and advantage the same Royal Interest another designe was laid in Surrey where neer Kingston appeared some 500 men under the Command of the Earl of Holland with the Duke of Buckingham the Lord Francis Villiers his Brother the young Earl of Peterburgh the Lord Petre and others but they no sooner rose but Colonel Rich and Major Gibbons were upon the back of them as they Rendâzvouz'd between Ewel and Nonsuch-Park Sir Michael Livesy joyned also with the other Parliament-Forces and presently attaqued these upstarts who had intended for Rygate but were compelled to steer their course for Kingston in the way whither they were all along skirmished for to preserve their few Foot they had placed before they were forced to march slowly In one of those onsets the nobly-spirited Lord Francis being too far engaged by his metalsom courage was taken Prisoner and refusing Rebels quarter was basely killed by a mean and rude hand with whose fall fell the courage of all the other For Holland having gotten the Town gave the Foot opportunity to shift for themselves and posted away with his Horse to St. Neots in Huntington-shire where the next day he and his Party was surprized by Colonel Scroops Regiment of Horse Colonel Dalbeir formerly a great Parliamentarian being slain in the defence of his quarters the Duke of Buckingham and the Earl of Peterborough escaped into Lincoln-shire and so beyond Sea leaving their Estates to satisfie for their offence and the Earl of Holland was sent Prisoner to Warwick-Castle where he continued till he was removed to his Tryal and his Death To sum up all the disastrous events of this Second War as it was called though the mention and hopeful concerns of Peace should orderly and of right intervâne a Personal Treaty being now Voted of which presently we must look Northwards where on the 13 of Iuly the Scotch Army after tedious debates and struglings with the Kirk and Presbyterian party of that Kingdom entred England bringing with them a Declaration containing these five points 1. That the King be forthwith brought to London to Treat in Person with the two Houses of Parliament 2. That all those who had a hand in or contrived the carrying of the King away from Holdenby be condignly punished 3. That the Army be disbanded 4. That Presbytery be setled 5. That the Members of Parliament who were forcibly secluded from the Houses may be reseated The third first and last being the very sense of the Essex Surrey Kent and London Petitions Of this Army Duke Hamilton lately freed from his Imprisonment by the Kings Commitment at Pendennis-Castle was made General which when the King first understood he sadly and prophetically foretold the fatal Issue of that Expedition reckoning him as an unfortunate if not a self-ended person as his Service in Germany in supply of the King of Sweden and in favour of the Prince Elector Palatine to the Ruine of many brave English Gentlemen did evidently declare Colonel Middleton afterwards Earl of Middleton His Majesties High Commissioner of Scotland was Major-General and the Earl of Calender Lieutenant-General It consisted of 15000 Horse and Foot effective and was increased by an addition of 3000 English under Sir Marmaduke after Lord Langdale and Sir Philip Musgrave antient Families in those parts who had a while before surprized Carlile and Berwick neer the same time that Major Morris surprized Pomfret-Castle which Cromwel afterwards in his Northern march visited and took the Town thereof just upon the time of the Welch Insurrection For the Honour of another brave person we may not omit Colonel Wogan then a Captain in the Parliaments Army who perceiving the wicked designes of his party deserted them and being sent to oppose did joyn with this Scotch Army before their advance into England bringing a gallant Troop along with him He afterwards did the King eminent service in Scotland and Ireland of which hereafter This entire strength wandering by the way of Westmerland and Cumberland which affords a pleasant passage wherewith the Reader may be diverted one Colonel Stuart who was in this Expedition being afterwards set on the Stool of Repentance by the Kirk with others in the same Engagement and being asked gravely and severely by the Minister whether he was not convinced that by his Malignancy he went out of the way suddenly replied Yea for we went a wrong through Westmerland c. when we should have marcht for York and so to London an ominous presage besides the unluckiness of the General of their overthrow none of their Armies thriving that came that Road. Major-General Lambert made the first opposition but was beaten by the English and forced back to Appleby and so to a further retreat Sir Marmaduke taking in some small places of strength by the way until he joyned with Cromwel now come from Wales to whom the chiefty of that service was committed his whole strength amounting to 11000 most of them Horse and Dragoons At Preston in Lancashire both Armies faced one another and some two miles thence on a Moor on the East-side of the Town engaged the brunt of the fight continued but two hours nor had it endured so long but through the valour of the English Royalists on whom the stress lay The Scots Army was so ill ordered that they came not all to the Fight nor could relieve one another so that a general Rout ensued one part flying towards Lancaster who were pursued by Col. Twisleton and
finde good security and other Royalists were imprisoned and got cleaverly away and in March arrived at Rotterdam in Holland where on the New-bridge he accidently met with Colonel Massey who claiming knowledge of him from Lidbury-fighâ where they more unhappily encountred each other his Lorâship was civilly and Nobly pleased âupon the Colonels protestation of a ââurn and entire obedience to his Majesties Authority to pass with him in company to the Hague whither this occasion happily directs us The King our Soveraign Charles the second then kept his Court there furnished with Blacks and other mournful Emblââs of his raââârs Death at the charge of the Prince of Aurange whose moâââignal kindnesses to the Royal Faââây may not pass without a due Commemoration The King was here attended by the Lord Marquess of Montress the Lords Hopton Wilmot Culpeper Weâworth and other great Personages Sir Edward Hide Sir Edward Nicholas and a Noble though poor retinue of old Royalists who had vowed to his Majesties Fortunes The Relator was present when the Lord of Loughborough added Colonel Massey to that number both of them kissing the Kings Hand the same morning the Lord in his Majesties Privy-Chamber where he was received by the King with all possible gladness and joy of his escape and other endearments the Colonel was very respectfully and civilly treated and confirmed into the Kings Service and Trust by his Majesties gracious acceptation of his sorrow for his former actions and his resolutions of reparatory Duty The new Estates of England liked not well of his so neer neighbourhood and entertainment in a Commonwealth too and thought their greatness so formidable that it could perswade without any more trouble all places and people to his dereliction and to this purpose they insinuated the same intentions to Myn Heer Pauw the then Dutch Resident here who was sent over by the States as also another Embassador from the French besides the earnest intervention of the Scots Commissioners to intercede for the King with whom they had several discourses about the dangerous greatness of the Prince of Aurange and 't is reported the Man was made by them He departed hence about the middle of March very well pleased with the pronts of his Embassie Though they could not reach the King and though some of his best Subjects had outreached them yet many others could not so escape them Master Beaumount a Minister belonging to the Garison of Pomfret then beleagured by Major-General Lambert in place of Rainsborough who was killed and buried at Wapping neer London as aforesaid was taken for holding correspondence in cypher and by a Council of War Condemned and Hanged before the Castle presently after the Kings Death and deserves to be placed as the Protomartyr for King Charles the second But this was but a puny victime to the ensuing Sacrifices for the old pretence of Justice challenged new does by the evidence of its former administration which would have been thought but a step purposely made to their ambitious Usurpation if other blood not so obnoxious to their grand designe should not in pursuance of their declared impartial bringing to condigne punishment all sorts of Delinquents be offered up to their Idol of Liberty There was also another Reason of State in it for that the House of Lords being so easily laid aside it was requisite while the first violence was yet recent utterly to disanimate the Nobility by another as lawless more bloody infringement of their Priviledges In order to this a new High Court of Iustice was Erected by an Act to that purpose wherein other Drudges were named under the conduct of the former President for that the State-Grandees could not themselves intend such minute matters as the lives of the Peerage Before this Tribunal were brought as in the said Act were named Iames Duke Hamilton as Earl of Cambridge and Naturalized thereby in this Kingdom Henry Rich Earl of Holland George Lord Goring then Earl of Norwich Arthur Lord Capel and Sir Iohn Owen of North-Wales Duke Hamilton was the first of those that came to this Bar where he was soothâd by Bradshaw according to instruction in hopes he would be won to discover his partakers in the late Parliament and City and Peters to that purpose gave evidence that Lambert gave him quarter when Colonel Wait who took him denied it to the House but when the Court perceived he was not so free therein offering in lieu of such Treachery 100000 l. for his life and promising to joyn interests with Arguile in Scotland Bradshaw took him up short and for all his plea of quarter and to what he further ârged against his Naturalization that he himself was never Naturalized but that it was his Father whose right devolved no more to him by the Civil Law than the same Franchise doth to Children in other Countries hastily was answered that in the 15 year of King Charles he was called to Parliament by Writ as Earl of Cambridge They objected against him also his breach of Faith passed to the Governour of Windsor for his true Imprisonment from whence he had escaped and was retaken in Southwark which breach he denied and challenged the Governour of untruth in that particular After much delay which he obtained in hopes of a discovery and several arguments of his Counsel assigned for him Bradshaw at last snapt him up telling him of his Treasons and Murthers and gave final Sentence The Lord Capel likewise after several brave legal Defences as his Peerage c. and his plea of quarter given by Fairfax who in open Court construed that quarter to be but a present saving from the promiscuous slaughter with a reference still to a Judicial proceeding was over-ruled they urged also against him his escape out of the Tower which he proved to amount to no more at the most of it in any other case than a bare Felony and within the benefit of the Clergy His resumed argument when all would not do was the Honour of the Sword which seeing how little those that should have justly asserted it did value he resolved to trouble himself no longer at their Bar but being demanded what he could say more for himself replied nothing but with a chearful resignation of himself to providence expected his Doom then impending over him The Earl of Holland came not to their Bar while they had finished with the other Lords by reason of his indisposition which delayed him at Warwick-Castle but such was their impatient pretensions to Justice that they got him conveyed to their High Court and as they had done by the rest over-ruled his plea which he argued in much weakness taking a spoonful of some Cordial every foot between his words of quarter given and concluded him in the same Sentence The Lord Goring so artificially and wisely pleaded to them in Form Not Guilty and withal insisted upon his Commission and Authority and harmlesness therein that he escaped
the Execution of the like Condemnation as also did Sir Iohn Owen who with a Britain confidence denied every tittle of the Charge against him especially that part relating to the death or Master Loyd the Sheriff of Cardigan and came off with the same danger and the like success as the Lord preceding whose Fate being referred to the Parliament proved fortunate but by the decision of one Vote 24 to 24 being divided in the question of his life and as I Remember it was the saving double voice of Lenthall the Speaker Sir Iohn Owen was carried more affirmatively the rest all in the Negative being turned off with their Ladies and their Relations Petitions to the same High Court who to shew their civility more than their mercy were pleased to gratifie the Ladies with a respit of two days as long as their Commission and power lasted On the 9th of March the Duke the Earl of Holland and Lord Capel being guarded from Saint Iames's to Sir Robert Cottons House the next fatal Stage of late to the Scaffold were severally brought to the Palace-Yard through the Hall their Judges then sitting and looking fore-right upon their Execution The Duke ascended first and to give him his due he kept a good seeming decorum in his last words and actions The Earl of Holland succeeded to this bloody Theatre who very Christianly penitently and compassionately enough prepared him for his end justifying his honest intentions in that his first and last action for the King and intimating that Duty we all owed to our present Soveraign and so suffered for him But the Lord Capel like a true Christian Heroe as he came last so did he sum up all both in his Speech Countenance and Gestures that was good praise-worthy and generous in them both resolutely asserting his own actions his late Soveraigns Cause and his present Majesties Rights recommending him to his people as the great example of true English worth and as the onely hope of the Kingdom So as with Sampson he may be said to have done these Philistins more harm at his Death than in all his Life raising and renewing the desires of the people after so deserving a Prince This Tragedy being over they resume afresh the debate of what persons were yet within their Clutches any way obnoxious to their Cannibal-Idol of Justice who could not be pleased but with whole Hecatombs and therefore the Noble Sir Iohn Stowel and Judge Ienkins those Champions of Law and Loyalty with Captain Brown Bushell were next ordered to be put in that fatal List of Traytors against their Commonwealth the Marquess of Winchester and Bishop Wren who had lain prisoner from the beginning of our Troubles hardly escaping the like dangerous qualification which was upon a âorged information intended likewise against Major-General Brown and Sir Iohn Clotworthy and to that purpose the Case of all those secluded and thereafter imprisoned Members was ordered to a Committee to make a discrimination of their offences and render those two the most liable to their severity As for those who had escaped their hands by departing the Kingdom they satisfied their indignation by a decree of perpetual Banishment and present death upon the return of any so sentenced The chief of these besides the Kings Majesty whom God long preserve and the Duke of York c. were the Earl of Bristol the Duke of Buckingham the Lord Digby Lord Cottington Marquesses of Newcastle and Worcester Sir Edward Hide Lord Culpeper Lord Widdrington and some others who were very well satisfied they could do no more to them and were then following âhe hopeful fortunes of the King The rest of that unfortunate party were put to Ransome a Fine being set upon their Heads proportionable to their Estates to be paid within such times or else to be in the same predicament with the condemned Having thus made good their Conspiracy or by them stiled Agreement of bringing Delinquents to Justice that the exactness of their dire performances might credit thâir intentions and resolutions and make them seem to the Vulgar the most impartial lovers of their Lives and Liberties but rather of their Estates they proceeded in the political part of Government by filling up their Committee of Estates to the number of 41. who were ordered particularly to enter their Assent to whatsoever the Juncto had done in reference to the King and Lords before they should act in that Committee and Cromwel thereupon reported to the House being impowered by them that of that just number 22 had refused to engage as to what was past but would joyn with them for the future and acknowledge the Supreme Power to be vested in them There could no expedient be found to salve this sore so they were contented to cicatrize it and gently lay aside all disputes or further contrasts about it but though they past it without doors they would not so within but totally precluded any further pretences of the Members of taking their places in Parliament who in some numbers returned to Westminster for they Voted That all such as âad absented themselves from the 5 of December should not sit till further order which was never vouchsafed till such claimers had given evidence of their adherence and closing with them In this same Month to take away the same dignity and priviledge as the House of Lords was to them from the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen and to make the Government of London à la mode Democratical they ordered a Quorum of the Common-Council to act without the Lord Mayor or the said Aldermen if they should refuse to joyn with them and not long after to put another affront though distant some space of time being the 24 of March ensuing upon the Mayor they order him to proclaim their Act for abolishing Kingly Government which he disdainfully and generously refusing his Lady likewise not suffering their Messenger that brought it to drink in her House but bidding him return to his Masters for his Wages upon the report thereof by Alderman Atkins a Member of their House they Voted him Imprisonment in the Tower for two Months and to be degraded of his Honour and disfranchised and to pay 2000 l. to be distributed among the Poor of Westminster the Hamlets and Southwark which was rigidly levied and Alderman Andrews one of the Kings Judges was Elected in his place for whose choice at his presentment for their approbation the House gave the City thanks and ordered the Barons of the Exchequer to swear him in these words That he should be faithful to the Commonwealth as it was now established in the Government of the City where he in state Proclaimed the said Act though the people hooted and reviled it and cryed aloud God save the King and would have made worse work but that the Guards of Horse awed them Alderman Sir Thomas Soams and Alderman Chambers for absenting themselves and justifying their conscientious refusal
passed for removing obstructions in the sale of the King Queen and Princes Lands as they then called them and several Mannors and Lands were apportioned to the Souldiers for their Arrears whose Debentures were now stated by the Committee of the Army the Common Souldiers purchasing in manner of a Corporation by Regiments the frequency of these Debentures which the old Officers and Reformadoes sold at Half a Crown in the pound and so drew in a great number of Citizens to be Bargainers with the Trustees named in the Act for the sale of the said Lands and Hereditaments which were thereby invested and setled on them for the use of the Common-wealth gave an opportunity to one Granger and his Complices to counterfeit the Hands of the said Committee by which means several false Debentures were put upon the Commissioners and more Cheats upon those that bought them when at last they came to be discovered This Granger who justified his little Cheats by their great ones continued this kinde of Trade throughout the Usurpation in levying Assessements by Warrants which he would counterfeit and make use of to any of the Treasurers of the Costome-house or Chamber of London and to any Collectors and Receivers of any publike Money especially in Cromwels raign and yet never suffered further than the Pillory and a Temporary Imprisonment and is yet alive and in custody for his former Cheats and the like endeavours and attempts of late The King was yet at Iersey whither the Lord Libberton was Arrived and having delivered his Letters to the King from the Committee of Estates of Scotland was very well received and liked of by the King and in February dispacht away and on the 18 of the said Month landed at Leith with Letters likewise from the King which though they were not in all particulars according to the wish and mind of the Estates yet did they so far satisfie that Commissioners were appointed forthwith to go for Holland to commence the Treaty which was appointed by the King at Breda the Prince of Aurange being desired by the Scots to moderate and mediate in that affair The King in his departure from Iersey was by a sudden Gust of Wind near over-set it being a little Bark that conveyed him into France had not one of his Retinue very fortunately with his Knife cut the Cordage that held the Main-sheet and let it flie in the Wind. So the good hand of Providence still took care of and preserved him to most glorious and wonderful Revolutions In the interim the Scots are busie in purging their Army of alâ Officers who were any way concerned in Hamilton's Engagement and were not througâly Kirkified twelve of such being turned out of Command in Lâshes own Regiment to leave no advantage to the King of requiring any favour for such of hiâ own or that Party to be admitted into Places or Trust and withal they thought fit now to give an answer to that mentioned Declaration of the Marquess of Montross most virulently and falsly answering the Contents thereof by utter denial of their promoting the War in England or selling the late King or tying his Son their present Sovereign to any further Conditions or Agreements than what his Predecessors had constantly been bound to and the Laws and Customs of the Nation did require and finally adjured all men to beware of Apostacie or taking part with that Monster of Men so they stiled that Martyr the Honour of their Country Iames Graham more deservedly and famously known Marquess of Montross But the Sun was not clearer at Noon-day than the truth of that Charge in very particular as full experience did convincingly demonstrate The Commissioners names that were sent and who departed in March were the Earls of Cassils and Lothian Sir Iohn Smith the Lord Libberton Laird Broady Iefferies Leviston Wood and Hutchinson who had Inââructions to acquaint the King that the Committee of Estates and General Assembly were not satisfied with his last Letters and to insist that he would take the National Covenant and enjoyn others to do it that he would abandon the Counsel and Company of the Marquess of Montross and other such Malignants that then they should invite him to come into his Realm of Scotland and take his Word that he would not bring any Cavaliers over with him they having already excepted not deigning further mention of Montross against Duke Hamilton the Earl of Lauderdaile Dunfermling Ruthen the Lords Napier Fendraught St. Clare Garnegy and Eython and some others and commanded the Earl of Calendar upon penalty of 100000 Mark Scots to depart the Kingdom other matters upon the Treaty the King left to the Parliament which he likewise allowed and confirmed and all proceedings had been had or done therein which shall suffice for the account of that Transaction neither the King nor the Commissioners taking any notice of Montrosses preparation to come into that Kingdom but purposely avoiding any dispute about it of which we shall have occasion to speak presently At home the Parliament to comply with the Proposals of the Army and their former Agreements made shew of dissolving themselves and chusing a new Representative and debated upon qualifications of Members for new Tumults were feared among the Souldiery and one Marston a notable Adjutator who had escaped from Burford defeat was now ordered to be taken into Custody The Messengers accordingly came to his Lodging in Aldersgate-street and sending him word to come down he with a Stilletto killed two of them out-right and sorely wounded the third and escaped but being retaken and terribly cut in his endeavouring to make another escape he was Arraigned at the Sessions-house in the Old Baily and condemned to be hanged in the said Street which was accordingly executed so preventing another death from the grievousness of his wounds He was a truly stout person and died as resolutely as his weakness would permit Sir Iohn Berkley and Colonel Walter Slingsby were now taken at Colonel Travanions house in Cornwal and secured which made them conceive there was some designes on foot for the King to be put in execution At the same time they proceeded with the old Vizor of Piety voting some Expedients for the propagation of the Gospel and withal very strictly urging Subscriptions to the new Engagement which at last visited the University of Oxford and was as unwelcome and destructive to the new Fellows and Scholars put in by the Presbyterian Party of Parliament in 1647 and 48. as the Covenant was being tendered in the like manner to the rightful proprietors the Loyal Students then ejected particularly Doctor Reynolds who come in the place of Doctor Fell resigned it to one Owen who was made Doctor in Divinity famous for his primer and his better Lesson of flattery with Oliver and Dean of Christ-Church Never greater or more Robberies committed by Thieves than at this time for which almost 60 suffered at
Conditions some of thâse that did being Imprisoned the Court and Camp being sadly affected with this loss The Provost of Edenburgh Sir James Stuart is in Town but keeps private lest the Wives in the streets should abuse him as they did Straughan and Ker at their coming hither the Lord Warreston who came as he pretended for the Records is not yet returned but stays in Town for he cares not to go back He and the rest of that Remonstrant Tribe are Summoned to come to Parliament Colonel Dundass Straughan and Captain Giffan with Abernethy Swinton and Andrews were else to be Excommunicated and Declared Traytors which was done January 14. Mr. James Guthry and the Earl of Lothian and General Holborn were generally suspected with Sir John Chiefly who are every day expected in our Quarters Rutherford and Gillespy are likewise dissenters from the present manage of affairs Ker saith his wound on his right hand is Gods Justice against him for lifting it up against us in such a cause as he maintained And so I will conclude all those Treasonable practices and fomented divisions of that Nation against their common Interest Having first acquainted the Reader with an occurrence of the like nature from the better mannered and necessity-instructed Kirk who yet would fain have been paramount and were most boldly sollicitous with the King to consent to some other Acts mis-becoming the Majesty of a Soveraign and the Honour of His Crown which the King generously and disdainfully refusing there flew such rumours and whispers as if some disloyal and dishonest Counsels were hatching against his Person whereupon the King privately withdrew himself to his Northern Friends and Forces under General Middleton till such time as a right understanding Hostages being given on both sides as to his party and theirs was setled betwixt them which was firmly and absolutely concluded in an unanimous resolve of his immediate Coronation which was solemnly performed on the first of Ianuary in this manner First the Kings Majesty in a Princes Robe was conducted from his Bedchamber by the Constable on his right hand and the Marshal on his left to the Chamber of Presence and there was placed in a Chair under a Cloath of State by the Lord of Angus Chamberlain appointed by the King for that day and there after a little repose the Noblemen with the Commissioners of Barons and Burroughs entred the Hall and presented themselves before His Majesty Thereafter the Lord Chancellor spoke to the King to this purpose Sir your good Subjects desire You may be Crowned as the righteous and Lawful Heir of the Crown of this Kingdom that You would maintain Religion as it is presently professed and established Also that You would be graciously pleased to receive them under Your Highness's Protection to Govern them by the Laws of the Kingdom and to defend them in their Rights and Liberties by Your Royal Power offering themselves in most humble manner to your Majesty with their Vows to bestow Land Life and what else is in their Power for the maintenance of Religion for the safety of Your Majesties sacred Person and maintenance of Your Crown which they intreat Your Majesty to accept and pray Almighty God that for many years You may happily enjoy the same The King made this Answer I do esteem the affections of my good People more than the Crowns of many Kingdoms and shall be ready by Gods assistance to bestow my Life in their defence wishing to live no longer than I may see Religion and this Kingdom flourish in all happiness Thereafter the Commissioners of Borroughs and Barons and the Noblemen accompanied His Majesty to the Kirk of Scoone in order and rank according to their quality two and two The Spurs being carried by the Earl of Eglington Next the Sword by the Earl of Rothes Then the Scepter by the Earl of Crawford and Lindsey And the Crown by the Marquess of Arguile immediately before the King Then came the King with the great Constable on the right hand and the great Marshal on his left his Train being carried by the Lord Ereskine the Lord Montgomery the Lord Newbottle and the Lord Machlelene four Earls Eldest Sons under a Canopy of Crimson-Velvet supported by six Earls Sons to wit the Lord Drummond the Lord Carnegie the Lord Ramsey the Lord Iohnston the Lord Brâchin the Lord Yester and the six Carriers supported by six Noblemens Sons Thus the Kings Majesty entred the Kirk The Kirk being fitted and prepared with a Table whereupon the Honours were laid and a Chair set in a fitting place for His Majesty to hear a Sermon over against the Minister and another Chair on the other side where He received the Crown before which there was a Bench decently covered as also for seats about for Noblemen Barons and Burgesses and there being also a Stage in a fit place erected of 24 foot square about four foot high from the ground covered with Carpets with two stairs one from the West another to the East upon which great Stage there was another little Stage erected some two foot high ascending by two steps on which the Throne or Chair of State was set The Kirk thus fittingly prepared the Kings Majesty entred the same accompanied as aforesaid and first set himself in his Chair for hearing of Sermon which was Preached by Mr. Robert Douglas A la mode the Covenant About this time the young Prince of Aurange was Christened at which celebration the States General of Holland of Amsterdam of Delf were his God-fathers and the Queen of Bohemia and the old Princess of Aurange his God-mothers and was named William Frederick Henry But this being over the King intended to march Northward to hasten the said levies by his presence but the Nobility and Gentry of the High-lands promising to effect that affair with all expedition he went no further than Aberdeen having more occasion to continue in the Southern parts to keep the newly re-cemented friendship betwixt both parties entire and from other new Ruptures and to countenance his friends who now were admitted into the chiefest places of Trust and Offices Duke Hamilton being received into the Army Earl of Crawford made Governour of Sterling Middleton Lieutenant-General and other Loyal Scotch Lords in Offices and Commands befitting their quality and to their seats in Parliament which was to set down the 15 of February the King diverting himself in the mean time at his house of Falkland care being taken to secure the Castle of Fife from any Invasion two attempts that way being already made in the beginning of February upon Brunt Island which nevertheless miscarried with a great loss of men but the want of Provisions the English then laboured under and their having hopes of plenty on that âide Fife being the fertilest and most abounding place in all Scotland made them every day contrive and venture a landing thereon and flat-bottomed Boats and Sloops were
discourses were concerning his Death as either partie wished for he was brought very low but being recovered to some degree of Health by these Gentlemen it was presently sounded like a Proclamation and I have therefore thought fit to transcribe a piece of the Letter that the World may see what queer Hypocrites his Attendants like himself and his times were by the pious Nonsense and most Blasphemous Flattery of this Apocryphal Epistle If I knew the Secretary or Inditer I would Chronicle him for his Pen. Truly Sir His Life and Health are exceeding precious and I account it every day a greater mercy than other that we have his Life observing that every dispensation of God draws him nearer to himself and makes him more Heavenly and Holy and by consequence more useful for his Generation in the management of that power God hath Committed to him c. The Parliament of Scotland after long debate had Passed an Act of Olivion for all things done thitherto inviting thereby all Parties to joyn in carrying on the Service of King and Kingdom and a new Engagement with the Sacrament was taken by the Kings Army to adhere to him whereupon all Faction and Division seemed to be laid aside the Royalists and Kirk-men good Friends and the Earl of Calendar made Commander in chief of the new Levies and this newly made Peace and Friendship was no more than just necessary for the Wolf was at the Door and ready to seize In the interim it was thought expedient for some of their Horse to march to Dumfrize in the West of Scotland now deserted by the Enemy and to make more considerable Levies On the 7 of May Mr. Love Mr. Ienkins Mr. Drake and other Presbyterians had been seized by order of the Council of State in order to their Tryal before the High Court of Iustice as yet standing by Adjournments and having three times convened before them old and resolute Sir Iohn Stawel who so gravelled them that at the third Hearing they were forced to desist from the pursuit of his Blood and making report thereof to the Parliament they Voted the sale of his Estate giving him sad cause to complain with Iob With the Skin of my Teeth am I escaped making an exception to that general Rule Vestigia cerno omnia te adversum spectantia nulla retrorsum He first escaping Condemnation at that Tribunal Now the aforesaid Ministers with some Laicks Engaged in the said practise for the King were brought thither and Mr. Love first and principally charged with High Treason against the State for holding correspondence with the King and his Party and supplying them with Money contrary to an Act of Parliament in that case provided After several appearances in all which Mr. Love very undauntedly disputed the Court one Mr. Iackson a Minister denying to give in Evidence against him was fined 500 l. and committed to the Fleet which made him more passionate and confident but the accusation being at last proved against him he desired Lawyers to assist him and had them assigned but they not having taken the Engagement would not be admitted to Plead Mr. Hales onely excepted In sum his main defence appearing to be equivocal in that he averr'd he did not personally correspond neither Write nor receive Letters nor send any or receive any Money to that use himself and to consist also of an allegation of his merits mixt with invectives against the Court and its Authority which he aided with Scripture-proof in an Oration of two hours on the 15 of Iune On the 5 of Iuly they proceeded to Sentence which was that he should be Beheaded the time appointed the 15 day of the same Month which by several Petitions of his Wife and others was respited to the 15 of August And in the mean time on the 18 of the same Month Mr. Potter an Apothecary in Black-friers and one Mr. Gibbons were tryed before the same Court Potter confessed and craved their mercy Gibbons pleaded matter of Law but on the 25 of Iuly they were both Sentenced as Mr. Love who not coming up to the Parliaments expectation of discovery and more humble submission and acknowledgement of their Authority and the King advanced into England had his Reprieve cassated by the Parliament who referring him to the High Court of Iustice they ordered his Execution with Gibbons on the 22 of August which was done on Tower-hill accordingly Mr. Love resolutely enough and I am loath to prejudice his Memory for his designe was good proof of his Loyalty Gibbons bewrayed something of pusillanimity as being a Taylor and after a kind of Sollicitor to Mr. Hollis for whose relation more than his own guilt he was thought fit to suffer for when the Blow was just a coming upon his Neck he turned his Eyes and Face towards the Executioner in hopes or desire at least of some Reprieve but present Death freed him with other troubles and sollicitudes of Life from that sudden anxiety And so we have done with our High Court of Iustice for this Session This High Court of Iustice was so much their darling that the antient Judicatures had little or no respect especially they could not endure any of those Courts that more immediately related to the King and as they had changed the name of his Bench to the Vpper-Bench so now that there might remain no footsteps of a Court or the Majesty of a Prince they abolished the Marshals-Court at Southwarke which was a kinde of a peculiar Kings-Bench for the Verge that is 12 miles circuit every way round the Kings Residence and Palace that there might be no annoyance nor disorder committed neer his Person It was resolved therefore Iuly the 8 that the Court of the Knight-Marshal held in Southwarke should be from and after the first of August next absolutely dissolved and taken away and no further Suit Action or Proceeding to be had thereupon About this time they passed another Act which as that struck at the Root of the Royalty of England so this lopt the Branches that clave to it viz. An Act for the sale of Delinquents Lands such as had with the utmost of their Lives and Fortunes served the late King in our unnatural Wars It will be needless and too bulky to name them particularly we will mention onely some of the principal the Duke of Buckingham the Marquesses of Newcastle Worcester Winchester the Earls of Cleveland Norwich Scarsdale the Lords Hapton Wilmot Langdale Gerard Cottington Iermin Percy Culpeper Hide and lastly the Lord Craven whose Princely Estate was enough to help them to a quarrel against him which they managed by a perjured Fellow one Faulkner into a suspition of Treason he deposing that the said Lord Craven had delivered a Petition to the King at Breda from him and other Cavalier-Officers wherein the Parliament were termed Bloody and Barbarous Rebels and Traytors This wretched subornation was laid
they might not seem what they were most sure of from the people to be wanting to themselves in this perplext and unconsulted occurrence The King departed from Sterling the last of Iuly and came into England by the way of Carlisle and upon His first footing there was Proclaimed rightful King of Great Britain and did thereupon publish his Declaration wherein He offered His free Grace and Pardon to be confirmed by an Act thereafter to all His Subjects of England of whatever Nature or Crime their Offences were excepting Cromwel Bradshaw and Cook the more immediate Murtherers of His Father and therewith prosecuted His march being Proclaimed in the same manner through all the Towns He passed The English that accompanied Him of Note were the Duke of Buckingham Earl of Cleaveland Lord Wentworth Lord Wilmot Colonel Wogan I finde him in all Services Colonel Matthew Bointon Major-General Massey and Colonel Graves Titus and Major Ashurst The King marched directly North-west to Lancashire whither Harrison with some of Lamberts men had got before Him intending to stop His further passage at Warrington to which service they had obliged and animated the new-raised Cheshire-Foot amounting to neer 3000 but both they and Harrison received a notable defeat at that place by the conduct of Colonel Massey who set them a forerunning with a greater speed than they had made hitherto to overtake the King to whom in this County came the Earl of Derby who landed at Wye-water from the Isle of Man though not with the same instantaneous or indeed any success which his great Ancestor the noble Stanly brought to His Majesties Royal Progenitor King Henry the seventh upon his like dispute for the regaining of the Crown With the Earl of Derby the King left some Forces of English under his Major-General Sir Thomas Tildesly to strengthen what Forces he brought with him and to countenance those Levies he was to make in that County where he was very well beloved both for his own and his Ancestors worth and most liberal Hospitality Massey was left here behind but presently recalled From Warrington the King passed with quick marches through part of Cheshire to Newport in Shropshire whence He sent His Invitations and Summons to Colonel Mackworth Governour of Shrewsbury and Sir Thomas Middleton Mackworth confidently refused directing his answer to the Commander in chief of the Scotch Forces not owning the King for so much as their Soveraign On the 22 of August the Van of the Kings Army entred Worcester some resistance being attempted to be made by some new-raised Forces under one Colonel Iames and by the influence of Baron Wilde but the Towns-men saved them the labour of driving them out and most joyfully welcomed these weary guests and such too as in 1645. had been extremely oppressive and intolerably burdensome at the Siege of Hereford but their gladness at the Kings presence and hope of his Restitution obliterated all other considerations and remembrances whatsoever The Mayor and his Brethren at the Kings Intrado did him the customary but most chearful Obeysances tendring Him the Keys and the Mace upon their Knees and bidding Him and His Forces welcome to this His Majesties Antient and Loyal City where the same day with great solemnity He was anew Proclaimed and the tired Souldiers most abundantly provided for being in all Scotch and English some 13000 who had marched 300 miles outright in 3 weeks In the mean time the Parliament had amassed a numerous Militia in all the Counties of England and had mustred the London-Regiments in Morefields with a full yet not quarter appearance of such as would fight for them against their Prince as they witnessed by that dumb silence which was obstinately kept upon the Reading of their Proclamation against the King and burning his Declaration at the head of every Regiment who were designed onely for the service and security of the City The Country-Troops in the mean time advanced and glad were the Members that the King stayed for them for nothing was more dreaded than His continued march to London which place would have soon ridded their fears upon an approach of the Kings Army but 30 miles further from Worcester but to prevent that as Essex did before at the beginning of the War whose first efforts took this way Cromwel by long marches through Newcastle Rippon Ferrybrigs Doncaster Mansfield and Coventry had interposed himself and joyned with his Army at Keynton where a General Council of all his Officers was held and a speedy advance to Worcester resolved on Lieutenant-General Fleetwood being dispatcht to bring up his Forces then on their way at Banbury the gross of all the Forces amounting to above 40000 effective Militia and all The King had Summoned in all the Country to his assistance and Rendezvouzed on the 26 of August upon Pitzfodder-Heath neer that City and went on with the Fortifications and rearing the Mount Of the chief of those that came in was the Lord Talbot after Earl of Shrewsbury and Colonel Howard Colonel Sir Edward Broughton and Captain Benbow and some adventurers from London who were forced to pass through the Parliaments Army nor could it be expected any could appear when such powerful Militia's were up every where so that all the new accessional strength the King received was no way considerable save for the Gallantry and Noble Loyalty of such as in these disadvantages owned His Majesties Cause and Fortunes Yet there was a Noble Person and some few of his partakers whom froward unkinde Fate had banded from one ruine to a worse and had added to that number of English at Worcester This was the truly Honourable Earl of Derby that was left behinde in Lancashire to raise that County whose Levies with that Force left him did not amount to above 1200 men though a little more time had rendred him formidable with those he was marching upon a designe to fall upon Cromwel's own Regiment quartering upon their march in Lancaster when in the nick comes Colonel Lilburn with 10 Troops of Horse sent by the General from York upon this very Service having with him two Regiments of the Cheshire-Foot and other additions of Horse The Earl was now in the midst of both these Parties and therefore resolved to fight with Lilburn finding his men couragious and desirous to engage though most Horse and in Lanes and accordingly charged them so furiously that he totally routed their first Troops and made an impression into their Body so far that they began to run while other fresh Reserves coming in they were forced to face about being annoyed with the Musquets yet did they renew the charge again and had they had but another Reserve they had in all probability won the day for it was upon a second Turn when another supply resisted the torrent of their Valour which left undeniable proofs of it self in the death of most of the Commanders of their Wounds in and
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 âan 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 âor 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
part of the Fleet under General Pen set sail for England and neer half way home lost the Paragon a Navy-ship by fire none of that company daring to come in to her relieâ because of her Powder so that neer 140 men were lost by fire and water those that could swim escaped being taken up by Boats after the Blow On the 3 of September General Pen arrived at Portsmouth and on the ninth Venables with his Wife very sick and much altered and Quarter-Master-General Rudyard landed at the same place in the Marston-moore Command by Rear-Admiral Blag the Fleet at Iamaica consisting of some 20 sail being left under the Command of Vice-Admiral Goodson Upon their coming to London where Venables alledged the danger and encrease of sickness for the cause of his return Pen the resolution of the Council of War they were both Committed to the Tower to satisfie the expectation of the people more than any intention of bringing Venables to an account for this base and dishonourable Expedition The Cavils at the Isle of Rhee's unfortunate business were now regested and retorted upon those Enemies and Traducers of the King whose party was very well pleased with this disgrace done to Oliver which carried with it future advantages against the Usurpation that had designed this Forrain Exchequer for the perpetual pay of his everlasting Red-coats General Blake as was said before having met with the Spanish Fleet under the Command of General Paulo di Contreras waiting for the Plate-Fleet about the Southern Cape and mutually saluted one another returned to Victual and recruit in England and landed at Chattam The Mart at Frankfort in Germany was held this September which with other affairs invited the King from Colen He went ârom Bonne by Water being Towed in a Pleasure-boat and two other necessary Vessels for his dressing Provision and accommodation and was saluted by all the Towns neer which they passed with most ample Ceremonies and where he entred with the like presents In his Company were the Prince of Aurange and the Duke of Gloucester attended by the Marquess of Ormond Earl of Norwich Lord Newburgh Colonel Dan. O Neal Doctor Frazer the Lady Stanhop and Lord Hemfleit her Husband and other Domesticks An interview had been appointed at a Village called Koningsteyn or Kingston betwixt Queen Christina of Sweden then journeying to the Arch-Duke of Inspruck's Country for Italy where she was highly Treated by the said Arch-Duke and there professed her self a Roman-Catholick The King at this Village after the publick Ceremonies were over had private Conference with this Princess the space of an hour and then the Duke of Gloucester and Princess of Aurange did the like which passed the Noblemen and neer Attendants had reception given them The Prince Elector of Heidelburgh with Prince Rupert gave her likewise a visit in this Town and had the same converse with her Both the King and She were invited by him to Heidelburgh but they took several ways for his Majesty having continued some time at Frankfort where the States and Deputies of the Empire were assembled to finish what was left at the Diet the Kings business there depending before that Assembly and having been splendidly entertained as in all places of Germany where he came and there received an honourable pressing invitation from the Prince Elector of Mentz by his Earl-Marshal who was sent on the Embassie with a Train to conduct him from Frankfort dâparted thence with the noise of the Cannon and the Volleys and Acclamations of the Citizens and arrived at Mentz having been feasted at a magnificent Supper in a Village by the way whence next morning in all the State that Prince could set out or furnish his entrance with the King departed for Mentz and was there entertained two or three days with an Expence befitting his Dignity and diverted with all honourable Recreations and with the same Grandeurs departed for Colen Most abominable impudent scandals were Printed in the News-Book here of the King and the meanness of those Respects done him when it is most true greater Honours were not done to any Prince in the World so much did the injury of his Condition advance these peoples Civility While he progressed hereabouts one Dury a Minister sent by Cromwel was perambulating these parts with Credentials or Commission from him who would needs be doing in Religious Plots as well as Civil to make himself famous to discourse and Treat with all the Churches of the Reformed Perswasions Calvinists and Lutherans about an Agreement and Union and that the Doctrine might be one and the same and that his Highness desired to be Instrumental in such a Pious Work of general Communion but the main of his Mission being to set forth Oliver this Will in the Wisp vanished and returned for England whither an Embassador from Venice that had layn some while here incognito appeared in that quality in the room of Signior Pauluzzi recalled and did notably complement Cromwel with his puissance valour and prudence and offered the respects and Friendships of that Signiory And Arguile from Scotland came to kiss his Highness Hands On the 24 of October the French Peace having been some while before concluded was solemnly Proclaimed first in the Court at White-hall next at Temple-Bar and so in other places and Monsieur De Bourdeaux the French Embassador next day treated at Dinner by the Protector In this Treaty the Royal Family of England all but the Queen-Mother were totally Excluded though the Duke of York still continued at Paris till after the arrival of Lockhart Cromwel's Embassador thither soon after when he departed for Brussels having been complementally invited to the next Summers Campagnia Thus Corruptio unius est generatio alterius the Spanish Peace was all to pieces for the same day that the French Peace was Proclaimed an Embargo was laid upon all Goods in the Canaries and the Spanish Embassador Don Alonso de Cardenas departed hence and by Gravesend shipt himself for Flanders and a Trader at Vigo in Spain was taken and seized and a Declaration of War published by that King Whereupon Cromwel presently erected a Committee of Trade of which his Son and Heir apparent Richard was the first named to consult how to manage and secure it An Embargo was likewise soon after laid here upon all ships and one Mr. Maynard dispatcht to the King of Portugal to make sure of his Ports and with some other intrigues a Fleet was likewise preparing to set out to Sea and the Footing in Iamaica resolved to be kept Maj. Sedgewick and Colonel Humphries with a Squadron of ships and a Regiment to 1000 fresh men having toucht at Barbadoes being landed there now where Sedgewick sent to Command in chief with Colonel Fortescue of the old and most of the new comers died of the Infection that was among them Humphries with much ado and danger of Death returned home in safety
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
Night from Somerset-House thither from whence they proceeded with the Funeral through a lane of Guards of the Duke of Albermarl's Regiment of Foot First went several Gentlemen and Knights next the Servants of his Highness the Duke of York then the Servants of the Queen after whom came his Majesties Servants and next those of the Deceased Lady then two Heraulds before Iames Marquess now Duke of Ormond Lord Steward of his Majesties Houshold and Edward Earl of Manchester Lord Chamberlain of the same after whom went Edward Lord Hide Lord Chancellor of England with the Purse and Mace born before him after whom came another Herauld with a Coronet upon black Velvet and then the Royal Corpse carried by her own Servants the Pall being supported by six Earls and the Canopy carried over it by several Baronets His Highness the Duke of York as principal Mourner followed the Corpse with a Herauld before him divers persons of quality bearing his Train In this order they came to King Henry the 7 th's Chappel where she was Interred in a Vault particularly set apart for the Royal Line This Princess and the Duke of Gloucester who preceded her to Bliss needed no Effigies to present them to our Eye being like Vertue not to be Pictured and can have no resemblances but in the mind where with immortality they have placed their Monuments to dure and last with Eternity it self E contra on the Thirtieth of Ianuary that the Earth might no longer cover the Blood which was impiously and traiterously split on that day Vengeance pursuing those wicked miscreants even beyond the Sanctuary of the Grave the odious Carcasses of Cromwel Ireton and Bradshaw were digged out of the ground from those sumptuous Monuments which as they did the Throne in their Life they had now Usurped in their Death they were drawn in a Cart from Westminster where they were first interred to the Red Lyon in Holborn and thence on Sledges to Tyborn where they were pulled out of their Coffins and hang'd at the several Angles or Corners of that accursed Tree with the dregs of Peoples Curses and Execrations from Ten a Clock till Sun-setting and then cut down their loathsome Bodies thrown into a deep hole under the Gallows their Heads cut off and placed aloft upon Westminster-Hall Where they will continue the Brand-marks of their Posterity and the expiatory remains of their accursed Crime Notwithstanding the seizing of many suspected Persons Fifth Monarchists as Colonel Overton of whom before Cornet Day Courtney Major Allen c. yet that Sect persisted in a Devilish design which soon after in the beginning of Ianuary they thus executed This strange and unheard-of Action will afford the truest sight and judgment of this Fanatick crew even beyond all Example or History of the most perdite sort of men For but a handful of these wild People dared to attempt the City of London and that at two several times First on Sunday the Sixth of Ianuary 1660. After their meeting at Coleman-street in the same City having then a gracious Liberty from the King for their Devotion they Armed themselves and came to St. Pauls in the Dusk of the Evening where having Mustered and ordered their small Party they placed Centinels for the time one of whom killed an Innocent Person coming by accidentally for saying when he was demanded by them who he was for For God and King Charles After this Exploit the Alarm being given and some Parties of the Trained Bands coming upon them and Charging them after they had repulsed those few Files they Marched to Bishops-gate where they passed and from thence to Cripple-gate where they came into the City again and so to Aldersgate where the Constable being weakly attended at their threatning him for the Keys let them out again Here they declared themselves for King Iesus and their Friends or Masters upon the Gates Thence they proceeded to Beech-lane where a Headborough opposing them they shot him and killed him It is observable that none whomsoever or wheresoever they shot recovered of the hurt it being conceived they poysoned their Bullets and Slugs by chawing or other destructive Art And so with all haste made towards Canewood where they lurked a while resolving to make another Insurrection in the City till they were routed by a Party of Horse and Foot sent to drive them out thence and some Thirty taken Prisoners and brought before the General who sent them to the Gate-house Notwithstanding the others after they had quitted the Wood returned for London with assurance of success in their begun enterprize Venner telling them a Wine-Cooper by Trade he was assured that no Weapons formed against them should prosper nor a hair of their Head be touched which their impunity in their first attempt made them very credulous of even to an absolute confidence It may not be omitted that just before this sudden eruption the King was gone to Conduct his Mother and Sister who feared the same mortal Infection of the small Pox and had had some grudges thereof to Portsmouth in order to their Embarquing for France which opportunity they took for their Rebellious Tumult having disposed as they thought the minds of their late Party to take part with them by their Declaration called A door of Hope opened stuft with abominable slanders against the whole Royal Family and the General who with the Duke of York appeared presently with part of the Life-Guards to suppress them To proceed on Wednesday-morning Ianuary the Ninth after the Watches and Guards were removed they re-inforced their first Enterprize Their first effort and appearance was at Thredneedle-street where they alarm'd the Trained Band that was to watch all that Day a Party of whom being sent out to follow them were forced to retreat to their Mainguard who Marching in a Body towards them the Fifth-Monarchists retreated into Bishops-gate-street some of them into an Ale-house known by the Sign of the Helmet where after a sharp Dispute two were killed and as many taken the same number being killed and wounded of the Trained-Bands The next sight of them for they were just like wild-fire was at Golledg-Hill by which way they went up into Cheapside and so into Wood-street Venner being their chief Leader having a Murrion on his Head and a Halbert in his Hand Here was the main and fiercest Action for they fought stoutly with two of the Trained-Bands of Foot in very good Discipline and Order Here also they received a Charge from the Horse of the Life-Guard whom they put to the Retreat till being over-powr'd and Venner knockt down and wounded with Shot Tufney and Crag two more of the chief of their Teachers being killed by him they began to give ground and soon after dispersed themselves in flight taking several routs and ways The greatest part of them went down Wood-street to Cripple-gate firing in the Rear at the Trained-Bands of Yellow then in close pursuit of them This Train-Band
great Solemnity advanced some eminent Persons to higher degrees of Dignity to be as Jewels to that Crown which should be placed on his Head they were Twelve in number six Earls and six Barons The Names of whom are as followeth Edward Lord Hide of Hendon Lord high Chancellour of England was created Earl of Clarendon Arthur Lord Capel was created Earl of Essex Thomas Lord Brudenel was created Earl of Cardigan Arthur Viscount Valentia in Ireland was created Earl of Anglesey Sir Iohn Greenvile Gentleman of His Majesties Bed-Chamber and Groom of the Stool was created Earl of Bath Charles Howard of His Majesties Privy Council was created Earl of Carlisle Denzil Hollis Esq was created Lord Hollis of Ifeld Sir Frederick Cornwallis was created Lord Cornwallis of Eye in Suffolk an antient Barony Sir George Booth Baronet was created Lord de-la-Mere Sir Horatio Townsend was created Baron of Lyn-Regis Sir Anthony Ashly Cooper was created Baron of Winterbourn St. Gyles Iohn Crew was created Lord Crew of Stene The Earls at their Creation had two Earls their supporters their Cap and Coronet carried by one their Sword by another and their Mantle by a third The Lords were likewise supported by two Lords their Cap and Mantle in the same manner but no Sword These Peers being thus led up Garter King of Arms attending them to the King upon their several approaches their Patents were presented by Sir William Walker Principal King at Arms which being by the Lord Chamberlain delivered to the King and from him to Secretary Nicholas were by him read and then given by His Majesty to the Respective Nobles who after they were vested with their Robes had their several Caps and Coronets placed upon their Heads by His Majesties own hands as he sate in a Chair of State These likewise were ordered to attend the King at his Coronation which Commenced its glories Monday the Twenty second of April aforesaid it having rained a Moneth together before it pleased God that not one drop fell on this Triumph which appeared in its full Lustre and Grandeur but as soon as the solemnity was past and the King and his Train at Dinner in Westminster-Hall it fell a Thundering Lightning and Raining with the greatest force vehemence and noise that was ever heard or seen at that time of the year The Streets were gravelled all the way and filled with a multitude of Spectators out of the Countrey and some Forreigners who acknowledged themselves never to have seen among all the great Mâgnificences of the World any to come near or equal this even the Vaunting French confessed their Pomps of the late Marriage with the Infanta of Spain at their Majesties entrance into Paris to be inferiour in its State Gallantry and Riches unto this most Illustrious Cavalcade Which proceeded on this manner as the NOBILITY and GENTRY were placed within and without the Tower First went the Horse-Guard of his Highness the Duke of York the Messengers of his Majesties Chamber the Esquires of the Knights of the Bath One hundred thirty six in number the Knight Harbenger the Serjeant-Porter the Sewers of the Chamber the Quarter-waiters of the six Clerks of the Chancery the Clerks of the Signet the Clerks of the Privy Seal the Clerks of the Council the Clerks of both Houses of Parliament the Clerks of the Crown the Chaplains in Ordinary having Dignities ten in number the King's Advocate and Remembrancer the Kings learned Counsel at Law the Master of the Chancery the Kings puisne Serjeants the Kings Attorney and Solicitors the King 's eldest Serjeants Secretaries of the French and Latine Tongues the Gentlemen-Ushers daily waiters the Sewers Carvers and Cup-bearers in ordinary the Esquires of the Body the Masters of standing Offices being no Councellors viz. of the Tents Revels Ceremonies Armory Wardrope Ordnance Master of Requests Chamberlain of the Exchequer Barons of the Exchequer and Judges of the Law according to their Dignity the Lord chief Baron the Lord chief Justice of the Common Pleas the Master of the Rolls the Lord chief Justice of England Trumpets the Gentlemen of the Privy-Chamber the Knights of the Bath sixty eight in Number the Knight Marshal the Treasurer of the Chamber Master of the Jewel-house Knights of the Privy Council Comptroller of his Majesties Houshold Treasurer of his Majesties Houshold Two Trumpets and Serjeants Trumpets Two Pursivants at Arms Barons eldest Sons Earls youngest sons Viscounts eldest sons Barons Marquesses younger sons Earls eldests sons Two Pursivants at Arms. Viscounts Dukes younger sons Marquesses eldest sons Two Heraulds Earls Earl Marshal and Lord Chamberlain of the Houshold Dukes eldest sons Serjeants at Arms on both sides the Nobility Clarencieux and Norroy Lord Treasurer Lord Chancellor Lord High Steward Duke of Ormond two persons representing the Duke of Normandy and Aquitain Gentleman-Vsher Garter Lord Mayor Sir Richard Brown The Duke of York alone The Lord High Constable of England Earl of Northumberland Lord Great Chamberlain of England Earl of Lindsey The Sword by the Duke of Richmond The KING Equerries and Footmen next and about his Majesty Gentlemen and Pensioners without them the Master of the Horse Duke of Albemarl leading a spare Horse the Vice-Chamberlain to the King Captain of the Pensioners Captain of the Guard the Guard the Kings Life guard Commanded by my Lord Gerrard the Generals Life-guard by Sir Philip Howard a Troop of Voluntier Horse and a Company of Foot by Sir Iohn Robinson The way from the Tower to Aldgate was guarded by the Hamlets from thence to Temple-Bar by the Trained-Bands of London on one side and lined with the Liveries on the other side with the Banners of each Company The Windows were all along laid with the best Carpets and Tapestry Bands of Musick in several places and the Conduits running with Wine In St. Pauls Church-yard stood the Blew-coat boys of Christ-Church Hospital One in behalf of the rest declared their joy for his Majesties wonderful preservation in his absence and his Arrival thither humbly beseeching his Majesties Gracious favour and indulgence according to the example of his Royal Ancestors and his Father of blessed memory The King was very well pleased with this Speech and after conferred something on the Boy that spoke it In the Strand and through Westminster also the ways were gravelled and rayled being guarded on both sides with the Trained bands of that Liberty and City and his Majesties two Regiments of Foot under the command of his Grace the Duke of Albemarle and Colonel Russel brother to the Earl of Bedford The houses were also richly adorned with the Carpets and Tapestry and Musick particularly a stage of Morice-dancers at the Maypole in the Strand in the several places all along his Majesties passage When his Majesty came through Temple-bar into his Antient and Native City of Westminster the Head-bayliff in a Scarlet Robe and High Constable in Scarlet received his Majesty with loud Musick where alighting off their horses and kneeling down to
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
and departed Then Garter Principal King-at-Arms Proclaimed the King thrice with his Title in Latine French and English and at every time at the end cried Largess and the people shouted God save the King then the Lord Mayor Sir Richard Brown presented a Golden Cup and Cover full of Wine which the King drank off and gave it the Lord Mayor for his Fee By that time the third course was carrying in the King called for Water which the Earl of Pembrook assisted by another Earl brought in a Basin and Ewer and the King having washed withdrew to his Barge but before his departure it fell a Thundering Lightning and Raining as if it imitated the noise and fire of the Cannon which played from the Tower and it was observed that they kept time in this loud Musick so that they were distinctly to be heard the Thunder intermitting as if it staid to receive and answer the reciprocated and ecchoed Boation and clashes of the Guns And in all ancient Augury such signes were taken for the most auspicious however the mad remnant of the Rebellion would have it parallell'd to Saul's inauguration never considering the season nor the different occasion and case between the most ancient Kingly Right and descent in Christendom and that a new Title and Government in Iewry which had before the most special presence of God among them All the Kingdom over great rejoycing was made by Feasting and other Shows as Training the several Bands of the Countries with the additional Voluntary Gentry in a new and gallant Cavalry which shewed the resurrection of their former Loyalty in its immutable state of Peace But to proceed to the disclosing the whole lustre of this our present and most delightful Subject omitting the same Triumphs in Scotland and Ireland in the express resemblances of this Magnificence several Honours being conferred both by the Lord-Commissioner his Grace and the Lords-Justices on that Solemnity we will take a full view of all our personal Dignities at home We proceed then to those Magnificences of the King which are in him Honorante not in Honorato After the miserably vulgarly multitude of those evil Counsellors we had been oppress'd with for so many years who had raised themselves to the mysteries of Government by their publick scandals thereof in its former administration following the impious politicks of Absalom we saw an Assembly of Princes met in his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council whose superlative and eminent endowments assisted by their conspicuous Grandeur restored the form of the Brittish Empire such as Pallas gloried to be in the midst of her Heavenly descent such their Noble Extractions and their excellencies in all prudent menage of the Publick accomplished to Her own AUTHENTICAL INSTITUTION of true policy such Pilots whose happy and skilfull hand could guide the tossed Bark of the Kingdom in the darkest Night and the most frightful Tempests when there was neither Sun Moon nor Stars no face of Authority nor Rule no Directions nor Chart to follow in the unexampled case of our late Distractions and without any other Compass than their Piety to God Duty to their Prince and love to their Country by which they confidently steered through all those Shelves Rocks and Sands which imminently threatned its Shipwrack and Destruction Their sacred Names for perpetual Memory and to the Eternal Fame of this their blessed Conduct understanding that by his Majesties call to this sublime eminent dignity their precedent Services were signated and notified to the World as most Religiously and gratefully is due are here transmitted among the rest of his Majesties felicities to inquisitive Posterity The Names of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council HIs Royal Highness the Duke of York Earl of Clarendon Lord Chancellor of England Earl of Southampton Lord Treasurer Lord Roberts Lord Privy Seal Duke of Albemarle Earl of Lindsey Lord High-Chamberlaiâ of England Duke of Ormond Lord Steward of his Majesties Houshould Marquess of Dorchester Earl of Northumberland Earl of Leicester Earl of Berkshire Earl of Portland Earl of Norwich Earl of St. Albans Earl of Sandwich Earl of Anglesey Earl of Carlisle Viscount Say and Seal Lord Wentworth Lord Seymor Chancellour of the Dutchy of Lancaster Lord Hollis Lord Cornwallis Lord Cooper Earl of Lauderdale Lord Berkly Sir George Carteret Sir Charles Compton Secretary Nicholas Secretary Morice To which have been since added Christopher Lord Hatton Rupert Duke of Cumberland the Duke of Buckingham Earl of Middleton a Scotch Lord the Kings Commissioner there From these Glories of the Crown we are next invited to as Illustrious those of Chivalry a medium betwixt War and Peace that there might be nothing that his Majesties Fortunes could not comprehend The most Honourable Order of the Garter Famous for its Martial and Civil Atchievements had been drag'd in the Dirt and trampled under Foot of Plebeian Anarchy and Usurpation when the innocent charm of its Motto Hâni soit qui mal y pense Evil be to him that Evil thinks which had preserved it so many Ages found not veneration nor respect being ridled by that Monster of Rebellion to be a badge and significator of its certain though long-look'd-for Vltion and Avengement in its own dire Retorts and self-punishing Revolutions It is not nor ever will be forgotten how they abased this Royal Ensigne the highest Order of Knighthood in the World when it was derided by the most abject and meanest degree of the People when its True Blue was stained with the Blot of Faintise and imbecility of courage till another Saint George arose to be its Champion Assertor and Restorer of its Renown and Glory Some of these most Honourable Knights survived his Majesties Restitution some he made abroad others he decreed so and they were so de jure having had the Order sent them but the Investiture wanting The rest of these Noble Companions were allied to the Restoration all of them are ranked in the manner as they sate at Windsor April 16. 1662 being St. George his day where after the usual Magnificent Procession His Majesty renewed the usual Solemnities and Grandeurs thereof Himself being there in Person The Fellows and Companions of the most Noble Order of St. GEORGE commonly called the GARTER as they were the 23 of April in the Thirteenth year of King Charles the Second 1661. CHarles the Second King of Great Britain France and Ireland Soveraign of the Order Iames Duke of York the Kings only Brother Charles Lodowick Prince Elector Palatine Frederick William Marquess and Elector of Brandenburgh Rupert Count Palatine of the Rhine and Duke of Cumberland Edward Count Palatine of the Rhine William of Nassau Prince of Orange Barnard Duke of Espernon Charles Prince of Tarante William Cecil Earl of Salisbury Thomas Howard Earl of Berk-shire Algernon Piercy Earl of Northumberland Iames Butler Duke of Ormond George Villiers Duke of Buckingham Thomas Wriothesley Earl of Southampton William Cavendish Marquess of Newcastle George Digby Earl of Bristol
usual confidence of his Party made an end His Quarters were disposed of by his Majesties Orders and his Head set upon a Pole in White Chappel near the place of his Meeting for example to his Fellows Some discourses there were of a Design about Dunkirk and the Duke of York passed over there this Month carrying the Garrison money and upon his arrival viewed the Fortifications and Lines and found it stronger by some new Forts the Governour the Lord Rutherford now made Earl of Tiviot and Governour of Tangeir had raised thereabouts and after a short stay returned again for England In Ireland Sir Charles Coot Earl of Mountrath one of the Three Justices of that Kingdome died and was buried in State the power of the other Two remaining being invested in Sir Maurice Eustace and the Earl of Orery till the arrival of the Duke of Ormond He had done excellent Service in that Kingdome against the Rebels and though he afterwards sided with those here yet did he by his last Actions in securing that Kingdome to the Interest of his Majesty and helping on the Restitution redeem his former demerits which could be charged on him no otherwise than as a Souldier of Fortune he was one of General Monck's right hands in carrying on the Change The Duke of Ormond was by the Parliament of Ireland gratulated upon his appointment to that Government by Letters sent from the Speakers of both Houses The Council for the Principality of Wales was also erected by the King and setled at Ludlow the usual Residence the Earl of Carbery Lord Vaughan was made President the old Earl of Norwich Clerk of the Council and others of the Nobility and Gentry Assistants Judges also were established and the said Lord President in great State brought into the Town attended by a great Train of the chief Persons thereabouts and joyfully welcomed and complemented This Christmass the Honourable Society of Lincolns-Inne renewed their Custom of the Inns of Court by chusing a Prince who during the Festival commands like a Soveraign in the places adjoyning to the said Inne the Gentleman chosen this time was one Iohn Lort Esquire a Gentleman of Wales by the Title of Prince Le Grange he gave and the King was pleased to accept a Treatment from him the Ceremonies due to a Prince being exactly observed in every respect a Council Judges and Officers of State Honour and Nobility attending this his Highness whom the King at the expiration of his term of Royalty made a Knight Baronet The Marquess Durazzo Embassador from the Republick of Genoa was about this time honourably received by the King attended through the City to Sir Abraham Williams his house by the Earl of Carlisle Complemented from the King by the Earl of Bullingbrook and brought to Audience by the Lord Buckhurst In Scotland Episcopacy which had been so long banished thence was now reduced with all gladness and testimonies of a welcome reception after the experience of so many miseries and confusions which had befallen that Nation through the Fury and Zealotry of the Kirk The four Bishops that were Consecrated at Lambeth a little before this whereof Dr. Iames Sharpe Arch-Bishop of St. Andrews Metropolitan of Scotland was one Consecrating others in that Kingdom the whole Order being there defunct by the long Usurpation of the Presbyterian Discipline To the confirmation therefore of this Sacred resetled Authority the Lord-Commissioner with most of the Nobility and Gentry accompanied the Arch-Bishop of Glascow where the Kirk-Rebellion was first hatched to that City where the face of things was quite altered no Person or occasion ever welcomer or more acceptable than this as their Bells and Bonefires declared And here the Lord Commissioner put sorth a Proclamation prohibiting the payment of any Ecclesiastical Rents o Tythe or profits of the Ministry whatsoever to any who in a short time limited should not acknowledge and own their Diocesan Bishop and his Authority and receive Induction from him Some few grand Factious Predicants stood out and were cuted of their Livings and others the most unquiet and refractory Commanded to depart that Kingdom now well cleared of that Clergy the Original and Fountain of those bitter waters and Rivers of Blood which overflowed the three Nations A like Church-work was taken in hand in England the King at his Entrance into London upon his Restitution-day May 29 fadly observed and shook his Head at the Ruines of St. Paul's Cathedral and therefore the first vacancy his affairs permitted him was bestowed on the consideration of that Religious Structure and thereupon he issued out a Commission to Sir Orlando Bridgeman Sir Ieoffery Palmer and others of the Long Robe with other Gentlemen to take some speedy Order for the Repair thereof and to that pious work he gave the Arrears of Impropriations and Ecclesiastical Livings excepted out of the Act of Oblivion impowering to call all such as owed any Moneys thereupon to account and to lay it out to that use The former Dean of which Cathedral Dr. Nicholas Brother to Master Secretary of State Sir Edward died now of a malignant Feavor called the Country new Disease and Dr. Barwick a man that had suffered all Extremities even of Dungeon and Famine in the Tower from the Rump soon after the King's death was substituted by the King in his place it being reckoned with the late improvement the best Deanry now in England Soon after Dr. Nicholas died Dr. Nicholas Monke Bishop of Hereford and Brother to the Noble General whose private Contemplative liâe was no less observed than Jewels in the dark which then shine brightest his Illustrious Brother governing the conspicuous splendor of the Times while he ruled with the recluse vertues of his minde in the obscurity of the Church which afterwards spread and lustre it borrowed from the Beams of this its Luminary though now suddenly deprived of a great part of it in this his Setting And most fit it is that his Name should be Canonized and for ever had Sacred in our Kalendar and Church-Annals About the same time died also Dr. Brian Walton Lord-Bishop of Chester famous for the Polyglotte-Bible and other Excellencies becoming a Prelate nor did his successor Dr. Ferne many weeks outlive him whose defences of the Church will never be forgotten And lastly died Dr. Thomas Fuller known by his several Books and indefatigable industry better than by any account can here be given of him Such a Train of Scholars and Learned men did barbarous Death lead in Triumph to the Captivating Grave that her envious Pomp might draw our eye and tears to this sad spectacle and that might honourably accompany the Fate of the Bishop of Hereford A Fleet was Rigg'd and set to Sea to fetch home the Queen from Portugal and to carry the Forces to Tangier which was delivered by the Portugueze Garrison to Sir Richard Stayner who with 500 men was left to maintain it till the Earl
Dominions and an invitation was sent hither from them to others of the same principles to follow them Her Majesty Queen Catharina was now expected to be at Sea and therefore his Majesty came to the Parliament and acquainted them with the same and desired that as a Complement to her they would cause the Highways and Streets of London to be fitted and cleansed against her reception and to make what hast with convenience they could with the dispatch of those Bills under their consideration And soon after to remedy the perversness and obstinacy of the Quakers against taking the Oaths of Allegeance and Supremacy and their meeting and Conventicling publickly together to the pestring of the prisons whither they were Committed and their Enthusiast tricks one Thomas formerly a Lieutenant of that party poysoning himself and one Powel a Widdow poysoning of her Son-in-law and another person a Bill was passed against them with the said Bill for High-ways now ready for the King's assent which he gave by his Commission to the Lord Chancellor Lord Treasurer Duke of Albemarle and Earl of Manchester By this Act several inconvenient passages in London are to be enlarged and Houses that jutted into the street and obstructed the ways were to be pulled down as the upper end of Ludgate-hill on the South-side of the street and elsewhere Having but onely mentioned the Kings Declaration of his Marriage for his choice whereof both the Lords and Commons returned him their thanks it will not be impertinent in this place to give a larger and fuller account thereof This Royal Bride Heaven had more especially prepared and predisposed out of the Royal Family of the Kings of Portugal which having suffered an Ecclipse by the powerful interposition of the Spanish Monarchy for the space of neer an hundred years was now revisited in its Splendor in the assumption of Iohn Duke of Braganza the fourth of that Name King of Portugal by almost as miraculous a Turn as that of our Captivity by the Kings Restitution So Providence was pleased to adapt and fit both these Princes Conditions and Estates to this happy juncture of them in this Royal and happy Estate This was designed by King Iohn in the beginning of our Troubles and of his Reign and was one of the first Acts of State he did with us managed here by Don Antonio de Souza his Embassadour hither who was very instrumental in transacting His late Majesties Affairs of Forraign Concernments receiving and returning his Dispatches One Ingredient no doubt in point of Civility and Honour among those other of Affection and Interest that make up this Princely Match These were something as also his Majesties reflection on his Personal picque with the Spaniard who had very much disobliged him in the time of the Usurpation by courting and owning his Rebels to satisfie himself of some pretended injuries done him by his Grandfather and Father by loss of his Spanish Fleet in the Downs which the King had a most inviting opportunity here to remember Upon the return of the Conde de Mello as aforesaid with the Articles of Treaty and Marriage to Lisbon they were presently noysed about the City and more loudly reported from all the Cannon in the River both Portuges and Forraigners by which means without further Proclamation it was publick about the Town who like over-joyed People betook themselves to the presentest yet most solemn de monstrations thereof by Bonfires and Entertainments c. the Streets resounding with Healths al Re del Grand Brettanna which continued that Night and the next Day Not long after by an Express from England from the King to her she was Complemented with the Stile of Queen of Great Britain which put that Court into a new Splendor both to her Retinue and Attendance and all Honours and Duties done her as if she were actually Crowned It will not be much material to insist on all the other particulars viz. those several Messages sent and returned betwixt those two Royal Lovers together with the intercourse betwixt the Two Crowns in point of Alliance and Security nor the numerous resort of the English every day to Worship this Sun of the East and pay their Early Devotions to her It will be more unnecessary to relate those Romances and Fictions made by the Phanatick Crew at Home that there were a Fleet of Spaniards and Hollanders that lay ready in her way to intercept her Passage into England We will only mention the happy Arrival of that Fleet and the Royal Charles from England with Sir Richard Faâshaw sent to salute the Queen for his Majesty who now impatiently expected her Arrival as did the whole Nation together with him Just at the same time the Earl of Sandwich now the second time visited the Queen being appointed to attend her departure and to convey her into England the King her Brother and Mother with his Nobles and the whole Court in a solemn Procession and Cavalcade from his Palace where the English Gallantry there present assisted accompanied her till she Arrived at the River-side the Golden Tagus where she entred a Stately Brigandine and the Naval Triumphs commenced their Glory For as soon as the King and Queen were reimbarqued for Lisbon and returned with the discharge of all the Cannon the Fleet immediately with a fair wind and leading Gale began their course being as they past the River saluted by all the Block-Houses Forts and Castles with the imitation of their Thunder That Night and part of the next day the Wind and Weather was very propitious but then coming clear about and contrary it so retarded the Voyage that in a Fortnights time they hardly got into the middle of the Bay of Biscay where the Queens Majesty dispatcht away Mr. Montague Sir Tho. Sands and Sir Ioseph Douglas on the 29 of April at Seven at Night to give an account to the King of Her Condition which the untowardliness and averseness of the Wind had much altered by protracting her longing desires of meeting the King and also incommodating her by the tossing and topping of the Sea so that she lay sick for the most part of the Voyage until about Fifth of May with indefatigable working and skill the whole Fleet reached the Islands of Scilly the furthermost Western Dominions of England Her Arrival had been every day expected a fortnight before which caused the King to send down his only Brother the Duke of York Lord High Admiral to attend on her upon the Coast and to Complement her in his Name whereupon his Highness hasted to Portsmouth and on the Eleventh of May attended by the Duke of Ormond the Earls of Suffolk and Chesterfield the Lord Berckley and other Persons of Quality went aboard the stately Yacht with which the City of Amsterdam presented the King to Coast about the Isle of Wight to meet her Majesty On the same day Sir Ioseph Douglas making towards Portsmouth with an Express from her Majesty to
Duke of Ormond who hath so often Governed this Realm hath given the greatest pledges of assurance of an happy Establishment whose beginning I will not trouble with the short-lived rumours of Commotions and Stirs now very frequent and rise by the Arts of our Male-Contents Thus far have I deduced the account of the Three Kingdoms from the most Funest War to a blessed and most promising Peace to us and our Posterity and may there be in the succeeding years of His Majesties and his Royal Progenies Reign which Almighty God derive through innumerable descents no other occasion of our Pens than the gratulatory Records of our undisturbed unalterable Repose Plenty and Tranquillity A BRIEF ACCOUNT Of the most Memorable TRANSACTIONS IN ENGLAND SCOTLAND and IRELAND AND Forein Parts From the Year 1662 to the Year 1675. LONDON Printed by I. C. for T. Basset at the George near Cliffords-Inne in Fleetstreet 1676. A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF TRANSACTIONS IN ENGLAND SCOTLAND and IRELAND c. THere is a justice due to the Memory of Actions as well as the Memory of Men and therefore since the times of Usurpation have had the favour done them as to have the Transactions of those Years publikely recorded though to the shame of those Times that had nothing but Enormity to signalize 'em with more justice may we assay to take a short view of those great and Noble Actions perform'd in the succeeding Years Not that we pretend to a History but in short ââânals and brief Collections to facilitate the way for those that shall hereafter take a larger and more considerable pains Anno Dom. 1663. THat which the expectations of people were most fix'd upon the beginning of this Year was the Session of Parliament which beginning on the 19 th of February 1662 continued to the 27 th of Iuly 1663. The first thing remarkable was a Petition of both Houses Representing that notwithstanding his Majesties unquestionable zeal and affection to the Protestant Religion manifested by his constant prosession and practice against all temptations whatsoever yet by the great resort of Iesuits and Romish Priests into the Kingdom the Subject was generally much affected with jealousie that the Popish Religion might much encrease and the Church and State be thereby insensibly disturb'd upon which the King set forth a Proclamation Commanding all Iesuits and Irish Scotch and English Priests to depart the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales before the 14 th of May then next ensuing upon pain of having the penalty of the Laws inflicted upon them But while they are bringing other Consultations to maturity many other things preceding the Conclusion of their deliberations are to be related In April his Majesty kept the Feast of St. George at Windsor where the Duke of Monmouth and the Prince of Denmark by his Deputy Sir George Carteret Vice-chamberlain were install'd Knights of the Garter Toward the later end of May came News from Iamaica that the English under the Command of Capt. Mymms being about 800 men had made an attempt upon the City of Campeach in the Golden Territories of the King of Spain and that they took the Town though defended with four Forts and 3000 men But the Spaniards having intelligence of their coming had sent away their Women and Riches yet though they miss'd their chief aim they took the Governour brought away 50 pieces of Ordnance and 14 Ships which were in Harbor The beginning of Iune brought News of a Conspiracie of several wicked persons in Ireland who were endeavoring to raise a new Rebellion there by surprizing the Castle of Dublin The Designe was to have been put in execution upon the 21 th of May and the Dâke of Ormond first to be seiz'd To which effect divers persons with Petitions in their hands were to wait in the Castle while 80 Foot in the disguise of Handicrafts-men attended without Their business it was to trifle about for an opportunity to surprize the Guards The Plot was discovered and 500 lib. a head set upon five of the Ringleaders to what persons soever should apprehend them About this time his Majesty caus'd the Earl of Middleton's Commission as Commissioner of Scotland to cease and appointed the Earl of Rothes to succeed him in the same Quality On the third of Iune His Majesty by his Commission under the Great Seal of England to the Lord Chancellor Lord Treasurer Lord Privy Seal Duke of Albemarle Marquess of Dorchester and Lord High Chamberlain pass'd ten Bills which were all private ones but three of which the chiefest was for repair of the High-ways of Huntington Hertford and Cambridge-shires About the beginning of December Mr. Paul Rycaut Secretary to the Earl of Winchelsey came from Constantinople bringing with him the Grand Seigniors Ratifications of the several Treaties made with Argier and as a mark of the Kings satisfaction in the management of his Employment and the Message he brought His Majesty was pleas'd to honour him with a fair gold Chain and a Medal No less mindful was he of the Loyalty of his Island of Iersey and as a reward thereof muââbout the same time he order'd a stately silver Mace richly gilt to be bestowed upon the Bayliff or Chief Magistrate of the Island to be born ever after before him and his Successors as an honourable Badge of his Majesties affection to them for their constant adhering both to his Father and Himself It was received with all imaginable demonstrations of joy and the first that had the honour to have it born before him was Philip Carteret Esq. Brother to Sir George Vice-Chamberlain to his Majesty But now so loud and so hainous were the rebellious Treasons daily discovered in the North that it was thought convenient to give requitals of another nature and in the depth of winter to send a Commission of Oyer and Terminer to York for trial of the most notorious Offenders in that Conspiracie Seventeen were first arraign'd ten of which appeared to have been actually in arms at Farnley-wood The Plot was excellently open'd to have been a Designe which came from the Bishoprick about a year before and that an Intelligence was settled between the disaffected there and in Yorkshire as also in Ipswich in Suffolk and other Counties an Oath of Secresie taken and Agents employ'd at London and in the West of England for assistance In Iune preceding two Agitators were sent into Scotland to reconcile the Sectaries there who were entertained at one Oldroyd's house in Deusbury commonly known by the name of the Devil of Deusbury and afterwards divers meetings were appointed at a place called Stanh-house in York-shire Whereupon Marshden and Palmer were sent to London as Agitators to the Secret Committee there and at their return brought Orders to rise the 12 th of Octob. with assurance that the Insurrection should be general and Whitehal be attempted Nottingham Glocester and Newcastle were to be seized as Passes
enjoy'd the benefit of a general Oblivion Towards the beginning of Autumn dy'd the King of Spain and the Queen-Mother was Confirm'd Regent much to the settlement of that Kingdom Anno Dom. 1666. THE War continuing between the English and the Dutch the beginning of this Year brought Intelligence from America where the Governour of Iamaica resolves to Attaque their American Plantations and accordingly by the Assistance of the Buccaneers or Hunters upon Hispaniola made themselves Masters of Sancta Eastachia Salia St. Martins and Bonaira and took the Island Tabago by Storm At which time a Party sent from the Barbadoes to have done the same being thus prevented fell upon the Dutch Plantations in the Continent where they possess'd themselves of New Zealand taking the Fort with seven Guns upon the River Maccurah and Wina they spoil'd Ten Sugar-works and took 500 Negroes which they sent to Martinego And thus with a handful of Men they Expell'd the Dutch out of all their Plantations in the West-Indies excepting only Curressa being a Fort built by the Dutch in an Island without any Plantation and not worth Attempting At home the Dutch endeavour all they can to strengthen themselves with Alliances and therefore make Peace with the Dane on condition That both Parties absolutely renounce all manner of Pretences whereby Denmark became a gainer of 60 Tun of Gold All disorders in Norway were to be quite taken away which doubled the King's Revenues at that time Lastly the Hollanders were to pay yearly to the Dane 15 Tun of Gold so long as the War with England lasted In lieu whereof the Dane was to maintain 30 Men of War in the Sound to which the Hollander was to add Eight or Ten with some Land-forces This the Swede took ill Declaring to all Publick Ministers his Resolution to stand firm to the League with England in order whereunto Wrangle understanding that some Dutch ships were come into the Elbe where then a Fleet of English Merchants rode commanded a Swedish man of War to Guard them and rather to sink by their sides than see them injur'd the same care being likewise taken to secure the English in Schonen They also sent an Embassadour into Denmark to Expostulate the Reason of their Alliance and to shew their dislike of the whole Transaction and when the Danish Resident in a studied Speech endeavour'd to give the Queen and Regents of Sweden an accompt of his Masters Intentions in that League for the security of the Sound and the Provocations pretended from England which forc'd him to Revenge and offer'd the Crown of Sweden to be included in the same Alliance He was presently Answered That the Procedure of his Master seem'd so fowl and Dishonourable that they knew not how any Prince for the future could Treat with him But the Swedes seeing what the Dane had done resolv'd in no wise to suffer the Sound to be shut up at pleasure reinforc'd their Garrisons in Schonen and prepar'd a sufficient Navy for their Defence However to shew themselves not altogether averse from Peace the Swedes did frame a Project for an Accommodation between the States and them which contain'd so many points of Restitutinos Reparations and amends to be made by the States that they were nothing pleased with it Besides the Swede insisted to be admitted into the Trade of India a point above all the rest which the Dutch were most jealous of The King now taking into consideration the hazardous consequences by the extraordinary resort of People to the Parliament by his Commission directed to the Lord Chancellour Prorogu'd them to the 18 of September next He also Issued out a Proclamation whereby Iohn Desborough Thomas Kelsey and others were requir'd to return into England and render themselves and in case of Disobedience to stand Guilty and be Attainted of High Treason A while after Desborough was brought over from Ostend in the Little Mary and Committed to Dover Castle by the Lord Middleton but at length released by the Kings Order Another Proclamation was issued out Giving all Persons that would liberty till the 25th of December following to export all Woollen Manufactures beyond Sea in regard that the War and Contagion bad caus'd such a deadness of Trade in the Nation But at the Old Baily were Try'd several Malefactors in all Eight Persons formerly Officers or Souldiers in the Rebellion among whom the most noted was Iohn Rathborn an old Army-Colonel Their Indictment was For Conspiring the King's Death and the overthrow of the Government having in the Kings absence from the City laid their Plot and Contrivance for surprisal of the Tower the killing General Monk Sir Iohn Robinson the Lieutenant of the Tower and Sir Richard Brown Major-General of the City and then to have declared for an equal division of Lands The better to effect this Design the City was to have been Fir'd and the Portculââces to have been let down to keep out all Assistance the Horse-Guard to have been Surpriz'd in the several Innes where they were quarter'd several Ostlers having been gain'd for that purpose The Tower had been View'd and its Surprisal Order'd by Boats over the Moat and so to Scale the Wall There was in the Conspiracy one Alexander who made his Escape who had distributed several Sââs of Money to these Conspirators and for the carrying on the Design more effectually they were told of Great Ones that sate constantly in London who issued out all Orders which Council received their Directions from a Council in Holland who sate with the States The Third of September was pitch'd upon for the Attempt as being found by a Scheme Erected for that purpose a Luckie Day a Planet then Ruling which Portended the downfall of Monarchy They were found Guilty of High Treason and Executed at Tyburn The Month of May was without Action only in the beginning thereof the Fleet being ready to set Sail His Majesty and the Duke of York went down to see the Condition thereof and having staid there three days return'd to White-Hall Toward the latter end of May the Earl of Sandwich His Majesties Extraordinary Embassadour Arriv'd at Madrid and the Lord Hollis return'd from his Embassie in France The Fleet was now ready under the Conduct of Prince Rupert and the Duke of Albemarle But while they are searching for the Enemy it will not be amiss to relate a Combate of lesser Note for the Honour of the English Courage abroad as well as at home The Guiny Frigate being in the Port of Lisbon found there a French Man of War the Captain whereof bragg'd what he would do when the Guiny Frigat should dare to put to Sea Which Captain Coite understanding stood out to Sea expecting when the French Champion would follow but he consulting more his own security than his honour was content to let the Guiny Frigat tire her self with attendance so that the Captain having stay'd
going and returning Sir Iohn dismiss'd them with promise of a speedy answer and upon consultation with the Earl of Bath it was agreed that Sir Ionathan Trelawney Major Sparks and Mr. Windham should go aboard At their approach De Ruyter met them at the Boat-side and inviting them aboard saluted them with 13 Guns excusing what had past and promising for the future that no other acts of that nature should be committed while he continu'd on the Coast. De Wit Doleman the Count de Horne with above 20 Captains more attended the English at the Great Cabin where they offer'd a Present to De Ruyter for his own Table but refus'd any greater supply till Peace should be Proclaim'd Accordingly upon their return the Earl of Bath sent the Admiral a Present of fresh Provisions with a fat Buck and some Fruit which De Ruyter receiv'd with seven Guns as an acknowledgement Notwithstanding De Ruyter's Complement after he parted from Plymouth two of the Dutch Fleet came before the Harbour of Hoy and advancing near the Shoar ply'd with their Broad-sides certain Works that were newly rais'd at the entrie of the Harbour but after an hour and an half they were forc'd to retire with several Shots receiv'd in their Hulls and the loss of one of their Top-Masts and several men without any loss to the English After this they were only seen to hover about the Coasts but without any farther Attempts and Peace ensu'd For about the beginning of Iune the Embassadours of England France and Sweden the Plenipotentiaries of the States and Denmark repair'd to the Castle belonging to the Prince of Orange where there was great care taken to avoid all contests about Precedency A while after Mr. Coventry one of the Embassadors being sent over into England and having receiv'd the King's Answer and Resolution touching the Articles discuss'd and agree'd to by the Plenipotentiaries return'd for Breda so that upon the Twenty first of Iune the Articles were sign'd by the Plenipotentiaries And upon the Fourteenth of August the Ratifications of the Peace were enterchang'd The Mediators first bringing in the Ratifications and other Instruments of the Dutch French and Danes into the English Embassadors Apartment receiv'd from them theirs in Exchange Which done the English Embassadors went into the Apartment of the Dutch and their Allies where they made and receiv'd the Compliments usual upon the Conclusion of so great an Affair The Peace was immediately Proclaim'd before the Doors of the several Plenipotentiaries in their respective Languages Afterwards upon the Twenty fourth of August it was publickly Proclaim'd in the City of London And as if this had not been enough it was afterwards confirm'd by an Additional Treaty made and concluded by Sir William Temple in Ianuary following Having thus pursu'd the Series of the Dutch War and Peace other intervening actions must not be omitted It was murmur'd that the Publick Treasure was wasted and miss-spent the King therefore to satisfie the People Issued out a Commission to several Members of both Houses to take an Accompt of such sums of Money as had been rais'd and assign'd to him during the present War being in all 2477500 l. granted at several times by several Acts with full Power to call to Accompt all Treasurers Pay-masters Receivers and all other Agents and Persons whatsoever And what had not been lately practis'd before by the King this Year the Feast of St. George was kept in his Palace of White-Hall The Earl of Southampton Lord High Treasurer of England being now lately Dead the King did not think fit to give the Place to any particular Person for the present but made the Duke of Albemarle the Lord Ashley Sir Thomas Clifford Sir William Coventry and Sir Iohn Duncomb by a Commission under the Great Seal his Commissioners for executing that Office The Parliament had met according to the Kings Proclamation in Iuly but were then Prorogu'd again till the Tenth of October at which time being again Assembled the King gave for one reason of his last Prorogation That it was to give himself time to do some things in the mean time which he hop'd would not be unwelcome to them which he had since done leaving his other Reasons to be deliver'd by the Lord Keeper who not only afterwards enlarg'd upon the King's Reasons for the said Prorogation but also recommended to them the Obstructions of Trade and the settlement of such a Ballance of Trade between England and Scotland that neither we should be prejudic'd by the Import of their Commodities here nor they put to seek new places of Vent abroad As to the Money rais'd for the War he told them what the King had done in reference to calling all Persons to Account and had committed the Examination thereof to themselves to follow their own Method adding withal that if any grievances had happen'd his Majesty would be as willing to have them Redress'd as they to have them Represented not doubting but that they would endeavour to Imprint the known Truth into his Subject hearts that there was no distinct Interest between the King and his People The Commons taking into Consideration the King's Speech resolv'd to return him their humble Thanks to which purpose having obtain'd the Concurrence of the Lords the Two Houses in a Body attended the King in the Banqueting-House where the Lord Keeper in the Name of the Two Houses made known to the King That they His Majesties Loyal and Faithful Subjects having taken into their serious Consideration the Speech wherein he was pleas'd to let them know the reasons of their last Prorogation which was to give himself time to do some things which would not be unwelcome to them but be a Foundation of a greater Confidence for the Future between the King and them They found themselves in duty bound to give him thanks and particularly for that he had Disbanded the New-rais'd Forces that he had dismist the Papists from his Guards and other Military Imployments for his Care in quickning the Execution of the Act restraining the Importation of Canary That He had seen the Canary Patent Vacated And Lastly for his displacing the Lord Chancellor But the Parliament having Sate till the Middle of December pass'd several Acts among the rest An Act for taking an account of the several Sums of Money therein mention'd An Act for Banishing and Disenabling the Earl of Clarenden to which when the King had given his Consent by Commission they Adjourn'd till February And because it was a general Complaint among the Seamen and Souldiers who had been in Service that they were frequently constrain'd to give money or lose some part of their Wages to recover the rest the King therefore for the more effectual Redress of such abuses if any were appointed the Duke of York and several of the Lords of the Council to receive and hear all such Complaints as any Sea-man or Souldier should
with 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 ãâ¦ã That the King would be pleased by His own Example to ãâ¦ã 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-dâc 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
of Maritime affairs with the Dutch 566. Extraordinary Embassador in Holland 568 Thurlo Secretary to Oliver 357 Theatre at Oxford finished 573 Tickle Captain Executed for treasonable designe of yielding Kilkenny 250 Tiddiman assails at Bergen 541 Timptallon-castle yielded 283 Tinmouth-castle by Lilburn for the King 179 Tomkins and Challoner Executed 47 Tower-street Powder-blow 25â Traquair Earl Kings Commissâin Scotland 10 Treaty personal voted 180. Sir John Hippesly and Mr. Bulkly sent to the King a prisoner in Carrisbrook-castle 181. Begun and managed 183. So as ended 187. All that subscribed it voted by the Iuncto remaining to be uncapable of bearing Offices 193 Treavor Sir John made Secretary 569 Treavors Col. sides with the Marq. of Ormond engaged at the Siege of London-Derry intercepts Arms going from Monke to O Neal 240 Trial of the Kings Iudges 469 Trump Van defeats Blake in the Downs 330 in triumph to Guernsey Rochel 331 returns 335. Is killed 347. Buried and his Elegie 349 Tumults in Endinburg about the Common-prayer 5. The Bishop of that City in danger of life ib. Excused but recommended in London and at White-hall-gates 25. Encrease and drive away the Court 26. Against the Parliament 138 to 140 Tumults in London against Army and Rump 433 Tunbridge and Red-hill designe 424 Turner tryed and hanged 521 Turk besieges New-hausel 525. Surrendred 526. Defeated 527. Makes peace with the Emperour 533. His Embassadors Secretary turns Christian 548 Tuscany Duke comes into England 569. Gives the King two Gallies 575 V Vane Sir Henry tried beheaded 510 511 Vavasor Sir William goes beyond Sea after Marston-fight 61 Varny Sir Edward slain at Drogheda 244 Vaughan Sir Will. slain at Baggot Rath 242 Vaughan Sir John Lord Chief-Iustice 568 Ven a Colonel at Windsor 39 Venables General 369 St. Venant taken 396 Venetian Embassador in England 569 Venner's Insurrection and Trial and Execution 505 510 511 Vernon Sir Ralph 367 Vicariat of the Empire 397 Vieuville a French Marquiss slain 50 These are y e cheife of them that came to David to Ziklag and they were among y e mighty men helpers of the Warr. Croâ 1.12.2 * We doubt not to evince to your Majesty that his Excellency and the Army under his Command c. have complied with the Obligations for which they were raised The Preservation of the Protestant Religion the honour and happiness of the King the Priviledges of Parliament the Liberty and Propriety of the Subject and the Fundamental Laws of the Land Vide Declaration of the Army May 1660. Distractions and Confusions about Church-Ceremonies In a Conference about them justified by K. James Fresh Commotions about them raised by Pryn Bastwick Burton and Lilburn All Pillori'd and Crop'd Pryn stigmatized they are fined and imprisoned Lilburn whipt at Carts tail Bishop Williams fined 10000 l. Troubles break out in Scotland England and Scotland United Scotland well setled Endeavours for conformitie in Discipline Articles of Perth Common-Prayer endeavoured to be introduced in Scotland The Kings Revocation cause of Tumults Laid upon the Bishop Commission of Superioritie and Tythes Honours and Titles adde to the Troubles Libels tax the Parliament Libeller fled Balmerino apprehended Strange Tumult abâut reading Common-Prayer The Rabble continued their madness Proclamation against them Magistrates profess a detestation but soon joyned with them Ministers recant reading Service Petition against it and thereby endanger insurrection Proclamation to depart the City removing Term and seizing a Libel Another Insurrection Bishop of Galloway in danger Traquair and Wigton came to his relief with no less danger They send to the Provost and Bailiffs of Edinburgh for relief who were as bad or worse used A Conference but in vain Traquair troden down Another Proclamation against unlawful Assemblies but not regarded The Rabble petition Their petition sent to the King who by Proclamation resents the affronts of his chief Ministers Hume and Lindsey justifie the matter Four Tables A Covenant resolved on The King highly incensed thereat Hamilton sent unto Scotland They slight him and strengthen themselves Term returned to Edinburgh By Declaration Service and Canons dispensed with The Covenanters protest against it Hamilton having given the King an account of affairs is sent againâ and enters a Treaty He returns to England hath power given him to satisfie the Scots if possible The Assembly at Glasgow Bishops excluded They protest against it They continue fitting notwithstanding a Proclamation to dissolve them Arguile owns the Covenanters The Scots arm Queen-Mother arrives The Scots have a competent Army The King raists an Army Arundel General-Hamilton commands the Fleet. A Declaration by the King The Assembly answers The Earls of Roxborough and Traquair Commissioners from the Covenanters Committed and released A Treaty began and soon ended The Parliament of Scotland proregued The Assembly abolish Episcâpacie Their Parlialiament adjourned They send the Earl of Dumfermling and Lord Loudon with a Remonstrance Loudon committed and released The P. Elector Palatine came into England Departed and taken by the French Released and returning ânto England was allowed 8000 l. per annum A Sea-fight between the Flemings and the Spaniards The Hollanders worsted But in conclusion become Victors An ill Omen Lord Estrich Col. Ruthen and others sent to repair Edenburgh Castle they were resisted by the Covenanters The Nobility Gentry and Clergy assist the King with mony for the carrying on of the War Supplies from Ireland Lord Keeper Coventry dieth Succeeded by Sir John Finch A Parliament summoned They favour the Scots Are backward in assisting the King with mony Are dissolved The Convocation of the Clergy sit and assist the King with mony They make new Canons in opposition to Popery and the the Scotch Covenant Bishop Goodman dissents And is admonished by A. B. Laud. Tot said A. B. Libelled and his house assaulted Some of the factioâ imprisoned and rescued Bensted a Seaman hanged The Scotch Army advance towards England Henry Duke of Glocester bâân The Earl of Northumberland General of the Kings Army Earl of Strafford Lieut. General The King comes to Northallerton Newborn sight Aug. 29. Gen. Lesley Earl of Leven engageth with the Lord Conway and âââeats him Sir Jacob Ashley deserts Newcastle that and Durham render themselves to Gen. Lesley The Earl of Stafford complains of the Lord Conway The Earl of Haddington the Scots M. G. with 20 Knights and Gentlemen slain at Dunglass The Scots proclaimed Traytors and the Kings Royal Standard set up at York The Scots petition the King and are answered by the Earl of Lanerick The Lords of England summoned to appear at York They agree to call a Parliament A Treaty of peace at Rippon The English insist on a Cessation The Scots refuse and propound 4 Praeliminaries The Earl of Strafford adviseth the King to fight them But in conclusion These Articles were agreed on The Parliament set they question several Bishops and Iudges and vote down Monopolies Mr. pym sent from the Commons to the Lords with an
Stapleton The Parliaments Declaration wherein they make the King the Author of the War Their Votes of Non-address to the King 16 Janua 1647. None to apply themselves to him without leave from bâth Houses Whosoever doth to âââr the penalties of High Treason That they will receive no more Messages from the K. and enjoyn all persons not to bring any frâm him They publish another Remonstâânce ãâã Arthur Haslerig 's Brother subâras one Smallinâ to vilifie the K. Col. Hamond tuââs away his Majesties Servants The King a clâse Prisoner Captain Burleigh beaâs â Drum in the Island for the King He is supprest and seized by Col. Hamond Major Rolf accused for designing the Kings death Seized in Bishops-gate-street Capt. Burleigh Executed at Winchester Feb. 10. Rolf quitted by Ignoramus by the same Iury. Rainsborough commanded by the Parliament to guard the Island The Army declare for the Parliament Many gallant persons put to death in Scotland Col. Nathaniel Gordon and another oâ his âame executed at St. Johnstons Sir Robert Spotswood executed Mr. Andrew Guthery and Mr. William Murray executed Lord Ogleby ââap s. Ferdinando Lord Fairfax ââth of a Gangrene Maâq of Ormond ãâã Dublin to Col. Jones The Marquess attends the King Goes into France thence into Ireland Col. Jones routed Col. Jones kills 5470 Irish nâer Trim. Preston hardly escapes and joyns with O Neal. The Lord Inchiqueen defeates the Lord Taaf Declares for the King and joynâth with the said Lord. The English Faction Treat with O Neal. The Lord Inchiqueens Commission taken from him The House of Lords scruple the Vâtâ of Noâ-Addresses they at last pasâ it and are ãâã by the ãâã The Independents Propose to unite all Interests in the Houses City and Army Cromwel makes a speech to that pârâââââe is confronted Glover sent to the City and rejected Cromwel troubled thereat The Scots Commissioners signifie their desires and depart home The Committee at Derby-house gâows powerful The Parliament sent Commissioners into Scotland The Scots set forth an angry Declaration That and their Covenant is slighted The Scots mad ãâã an Expedition His Majesties elegant Declaration in Answer to the Votes of no further Addresses The Parliaments Visitation of the University of Oxford ââd tâning out oâ the Loyal aâd Learned Schâlars The Earl oâ Pembroke made by them Chancellour of the University Alderman Warner Lord Mayor of London a factious person A Tumuât and Insurrection is London by the Boys and Prentices Apr. 9. Sir Thomas Fairfax with part of the Army enters quells it and disperseth them Kensey and Matthews the one a Vintner the other a Meal-man condemned but reprieved by the mediation of Alderman Tichborn and afterwards pardoned Col. Laughorn Poyer and Powel rise for the King in Wales thây secure Pembroke and Tenby Castles Chopstow Castle ãâ¦ã ââcholas Kemish and Siâ John Owen ãâ¦ã for the King in North-Wales Col. Hârton sent to ãâã them Col. Fleming Commands a party against the Royalists he is set upon and routed lays violent hands on himself and dieth St. Fagons fight May 8. Col. Horton defeats Laughorn Cromwel sends Col. Eure to attempt Sir Nich. Kemish Chepstow Castle retaken May 25. Sir Nich. Kemish killed in cold blood Sir Jo Owen ' s Forces suppressed by M. Gen. Mitton and himself taken Cromwel joyns with Horton Tenby stormed and yieldeth Pembroke besieged by Oliver Cromwel Hugh Peters encourageth his Souldiers in his Sermon Pembroke stormed to the besiegers loss But at length delivered Essex Surry and London Petition for Peace The Guards of the Army fall upon them and disperse theâ some are killed The Kentish Insurrection May 24. They Rendezvouze neer Rochester Lord Goring Earl of Norwich their General The Army yield the Militia again to the City and cajole them Col. Culpeper endeavours to perswade the City to Declare for the King they refuse Skippon madâ Major-General of London Maidstone fight June 2. The Royalists Roâted Earl of Norwich and Kentish Forces at Black beath wooes the City for passage denied Fârries into Essex June 3. The Essex Forces joyn with him at Bow Sir Charles Lucas their General They seize the Earl of Warwick's Arms and march to Colchester Lord Capel assists them with a party of Horse Sir George Lisle Major-General of the Essex Forces for the King Colchester Siege The Lord Lucas Sir Charles his Brother his House ruined The condition of the besieged They eat horse-flesh The Fleet comes in and render themselves to the Prince July 27. Their Commander Col. Rainsborough set on Shore Vice-Admiral afterwards Sir Will. Batten brings more Ships to the Prince The Prince in Yarmouth Road with the Duke of York Pr. Rupert E. of Brainford Lord Hopton Lord Wilmot Lord Willoughby c. The Prince takes a Hamborough ship Lord Rich Earl of Warwick Admiral for the Parliament ordered to set forth a Fleet. Earl of Warwick at Quinborough the Prince summons him He refuseth Prince Charles with the Fleet at Goree in Holland Pr. Rupert made Admiral Earl of Holland appears in Arms at Kingston July 7. accompanied by the D. of Buckingham the Lord Francis Villiers the young E. of Peterborough the Ld. Petre c. Tâây are attaqued by Sir Michael Livesy 's Forces and other Parliamentariaâs Lord Francis Villiers slain Earl of Holland flies into Huntington shire and is taken by Col. Scroop Col. Dalbier slain Duke of Buckingham and E. of Peterborough escape beyond Sea Earl of Holland sent to Warwick Castle Scotch Army enters England unâer command of Duke Hamilton Colonel afterwards Earl of Middleton Major-Gen E. of Calendar Lieât Gen. Sir Marmaduke afterwards Lord Langdale and Sir Philip Musgrave joyn Forces with them Col. Wogan revolts from the Parliament Col. Stuart 's saying on the Stool of Repentance Major-General Lambert opposeth Sir Marmaduke Langdale but forced to retreat Cromwel joyns with Lambert Preston Fight August 17. The Scots defeated Major-General Middleton taken Duke Hamilton flies Is taken by the Lord Gray of Grooby Monro coming to assist Hamilton but returns Cromwel marches into Scotland He is feasted by Argyle His policie in diâaâminâ and disbanding the Scots Forces Sir Matthew Boynton Governor of Scarbrough for the King Major Lilburn seizeth Tinmouth Castle for the King It is resurprized for the Parliament The Castle stormed Lilburn and the Souldiers put to the Sword Colchester surrendred August 28. on hard terms Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle shot to death Aug. 28. Sir Bernard Gascoyn sentenced to be shot to death but reprieved The Londoners continue Neuters A Personal Treaty voted Jun. 30. Resolves That a Personal Treaty with the King be held at the Islâ of Wight That a Committee be sent to his Majesty to acquaint him therewithal Earl of Middlesex Sir Io. Hippeâley and John Bulkley Esq. delegated ââ the Parliament to attend on the King His Majesties Answer to the two Houses of Parliament The King chearfully embraceth the overtââes of Peace Demands of the Parliament to recal those Votes and Orders
gives the Signal He is Executed The Corps committed to the care of his servants Carriâd to Windsor Some Lords get an order for the burial of the King They desire it might be in St. Gorge 's Chappel by Common-prayer are denyed They expostulate but prevail not Seeking a place for Burial they finde Hen. 8 's Vault The Funeral England had not been without Regal Government from the begininng It had change of Governours not change of Government The Royal race had continued 562 years in ouâ Regality Now clouds aââ darknâââ blackâess and ãâ¦ã Horrour and Amazemânt ãâ¦ã dissolution His Majesty might have lived very long The Prince abââât but in safety In the night of confusion Bats and Scritch-owles rule They make an Act forbidding the Proclamation of a King c. Jan. 30. A Proclamation thrown about streets The Procclamation They Vote the Exclusion of the Members the Army had secluded The House of Lords Voted useless Feb. 5. The protestation of the Nobility against it The Kingly Power Voted Useless Feb. 7. A Council of Sate in Force Iudges Commissioned They declare to preserve and maintain the Laws A new stamp for Coyn Voted Agents and Envoys designed to Forrain Princes The monthly Fast Nulled Several escapes of the Cavalier party viz. Col. Massey Sir Lewis Dives Mr Holden and Lord Capel the last of them betrayed by Davis a Water-man and retaken Lord Loughborough escapes from Windsor-Castle with several others The King at the Hague Feb. c. The Prince of Aârange a friend to the Royal Family Mr. Beaumont Executed at Pomfret Feb. 7. A new High Court of Iustice erected Duke Hamilton Earl of Holland Lorâ Capel Trâed by the High Court of Iustiââ The Lord Capel ' s legal Defences The Lord Goring and Sir John Owen reprieved Dâke Hamilton E. of Holland and Lord Capel beheaded Mar. 9. Other capital Delinquents in nomination As Sir John Stowell Iudge Jenkins and Cap. Brown Bushell Marq. of Winchester Bâ Wren Ma. Gen Brown and Sir John Cloâworthy hardly escaping Several qualifications of Delinquents to life and Eâtate Tâe chief of whom were the Kings Majesty the D. of York E. of Britol D. of Buckingham Lord Digby Lord Cottington Marq of New-castle Marq of Worcester Sir Ed. Hide Lârd Culpepeâ and Lord Wâddrington Secluded Members totally Excluded The Parliaments proceâdings in reference to the City Alderman Reynoldson the Lord Mayor outed and fined and Alderman Andrews one of the Kings Iudges placed in his stead He proclaims the Act for abolishing Kingly Government Sir Thomas Soams and Alderman Culham degraded Col. Poyer Executed April 25. Col. Laughorn and Col. Powel condemned Pomfret-Castle delivered Mar. 24 to Maj. Gen. Lambert John Lilburn and some of his party secured An account of the state of Scotland Charles the second proclaimed King at Edingburgh The English ãâã State tampers with the Scotch Parliament Sir Jos. Douglas is sent from the Scots to the King at the Hague Innerness seized for the King Lord ãâ¦ã Lockier the Leveller shot to death in Saint Paul 's Church-yard Eleven Regiments designed by Cromwel for the Irish service Thompson a corneâ with 2 Troâps enters Northampton and declares his and the Armies resolution against that Expedition Several Regiments confederate in the same designe Cromwel by treachery surprizeth them Levellers defeated at Burford in May. Thompson and two more Executed Their Chieftain slain in Wellingborough wood Fairfax complemented at Oxford and treated at Dinner in the City of London They present Fairfax and Cromwel with Gold and Plate England made a Free-State Iune A new Mace made 4000 l. a year out of the D. of Buckinghams Estate given to Fairfax Lord Cottington's Estate to Bradshaw Several Acts to raise money Several Castles demolished A short account of the King at the Hague Salmasius ãâã in the Kings defenâe Is ãâã by Miltoâ the likâwise answerâ His Majââties Meditations which Answer was since burned by the common Hang-maâ The condition his Majâsty was in at the Hague Dr. Dorislaus their Envâr to the Estates General killed at the Hague May. Ascham their Envoy to Spain killed by one Sparks âho was therefore Executed King Charles the second departs for France Iune The King magnificently treated by the Arch-Duke The Dutchess of Savoy assignes him 50000 crowns per Ann. Duke of Gloucester and the Princess Eliz. at Penshurst with the Countess of Leicester The affairs of Ireland summed up together Note they taxed the King with what themselves were guilty Lieut. Gen. Cromwel Voted Lord-Governour of Ireland The Parl. Army hiââ from Milford-Haven to Wales Cromwel lands at Dublin The State of the Kingdom âf Ireâand The English Roman Catholikes declare for the King and desire the Marq. of Ormond may be their General An Association with O Neal by Sir Charles Coot and Col. Monke then in Arms for the Parliament The Cânfederates aâd the Lord Inchiqueens Forces do not brook one another thây with the Marq. of Clanrickard and the E. of Castlehaven designe to reduce Dublin Lord Inchiqueen Lieâ Gen. for the King O Neal joyns with the Independent party Col. Monke agrees with him O Neal Relieves London-Derry The ill consequence thereof to the Kings affairs The Marquess of Ormond comes before Dublin Aug. Sir Thomas Armstrong Col. Trevors and the Lord Moor declare for the King O Neal defeated Drogheda taken Dundalke surrendred to the King His Majâsties Presence most necessary and most desired in Ireland The Siege of Dublin by the Kings Forces Aug. Dublin Relieved by a sally the Forces of the Gairison made Aug. 22. The Marq of Ormond ãâ¦ã Dâblin Aug. â Sir William Vaughan ãâ¦ã Wogan ãâã pâisoners Marq. oâ Ormond âakes Bâllâsannon for the Kiâg A âust deploration of this calamity O Neal relieveâ Coot The Plaguâ in the Loyal Provinces of Ireland The Marq. of Ormond not able to punish the cowardise and treachery of the Parties The Marq. of Ormond recruits his Forces Drogheda Garrisoned with the flower of the Army Sir Arthur Aston made Governour of Drogheda Col. Daniel O Neal Governour of Trim dispatched to treat with Owen O Neal. Sir Richard Barnwell and ãâã Nicholas Plunkett sent to assist him and conclude an Agreement Drogheda besieged by Cromwel The Masââââ at Drogheda Sir Arthur Aston c. kiliâ Sep. 16. 3000 Souldiers put to Sword The Marquess of Ormond endeavours to strengthen other places Sir Edmund Butler Governour of Wexford for the K. It is besieged by Cromwel surprised and stormed 2000 put to the Sword Several Troops of the Lord Inchiqueens Revolt Luke ãâ¦ã Rosâe ãâ¦ã Rosâe surrââdred Litu Geâ Farrâll ãâ¦ã of Oâmond Lord Inchiqueen 's Officers are treachârour They are discovered and taken and no conditions Released Cromwel baâââed by Colonel Wogan at Duncannon Corke Youhall and all the English Towns of Munster revolt Lord Inchiqueen suspected accused by the Marq. of Antrim Carrick taken by Lieu. Gen. Jones The Marq. of Ormond deââââ to sight Cromwel Lieu. General Farrel made Governour of Waterford Cromwel
after the fight General Monk chiefly concâââ'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 Clanâickards Forces âeâeated by Col. Axtel Octob. 25. The Marq. of Ormoââ 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 Goveânour ãâã 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 Câpt 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 convâââd 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 aâd 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 lâsing 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 hoâourably by the Parliament Parliament resolves thereupon Sir John Greenvil rewarded with a 500 l. Iewel The City of London express the like The Army the same The Fleet also and Dunkirk The Rump's Arms defaced Parliament Resolves towards the King's Restitution Commissioners arrived at the Hague The King prepares to dâpart King Charles the Second Solemnly Proclaimed The Dutch magnificent Treatment of the King Sir Samuel Moreland and Sir George Downing Duke of York aboard the Fleet. The King departs for England The Speech of the States thereupon The King departs and embarques The King Embarques for England May 23. Lands at Dover May 25. The General meets him at his arrival The King rides to Canterbury The King rides to Canterbury To Rochester at Col. Gibbons To Dartford receives the Declaration of the Army The manner of His Majesties entrance into London The Earl of Manchester's Speech to the King The joy of the City Affairs ãâã home And in Ireland The King and the Dukes to the House of Lords The King comes to the Parliament and passeth several Acts. A Proclamation for the King's Iudges to render themselves Other persons excepted out of the Act of Oblivion Hutchinson and Lassels crave Pardon Parliament lay hold on his Majesties Declaration from Breda The General dignified with the Title of D. of Albemarle Several Dignities and Offices conferred Fee-farm rents resigned Lord Jermyn Earl of St. Albans Embassador into France Prince de Ligne Count de Soissons Embassador hither Act oâ Oblivion passed Duke of Gloucester dies Sept. 13. Princess of Orange arrives Sept. Episcopacy re-established The Kings Iudges brought to Tryal Oct. 9. Harrison Waller Heveningham with Adrian Scroop c. Harrison tried Oct. 11. Sir Heneage Finch opens the Indictment The Sentence Col. Adrian Scroop Carew tryed Scot tryed Octob. 12. Gregory Clement Colonel Iones Cook October â3 Peters Octob. 13. Daniâl Axtel Colonel Hacker William Hewlet Daniel Harvey Isaac Pennington Henry Marten Gilbert Millington Alderman Tichburn Owen Roe Robert Lilburn Mr. Smith Downs Potter Garland c. Vincent Potter August Garland Simon Meyn James and Peter Temple Tho. Wayt. Sir Hardress Waller Harrison Executed Carew Executed John Cook Hugh Peters Executed Thomas Scot Gregory Clement Adrian Scroop and John Jones Executed Francis Hacker and Daniel Axtel Executed Toâ dye impinitent as to the Fact * Cook the Solicitor Hugh Peters 's stupidity Prisoners that came in upon Proclamation respited Queen Mother arrives in England The Parliament re-assemble Argyle committed Princess of Aurange dies Decemb 24. Parliament Dissolved Princess of Aurange her Funeral Decemb. 26. Sejanus ducitur unco spectandus gaudent omnes quae labra quis illis vultus erat Cromwel Ireton and Bradshaw dig'd up and hang'd c. Venner 's Insurrection There were two Executed in Cheap-side the same day Prichard the Cow-keeper and another of them Sir Arthur Hazelrig dies Mr. Crofton committed The Kingâs passage through London to his Coronation The Oath of the Knights of the Bath Creation of Earls and Barons at the same time The Kings procession to the Abbey The Dukes of Norfolk and Somerset were restored by Act of Parliament 12 year Caroli Secundi * James Butler Duke of Ormond was Created Earl of Brecnock Baron Butler of Lawthy A new Parliament May 8. Portugal Match mentioned by the King to the Parliament The Queen of Bohemia returns into England The Marquess of Montross enterred in State May 11. Arguile beheaded May aâ and Guthrey and Giffân Hang'd June 1 Plots and Designes laid by the Fanaticks Sir Charles Lucas re-interred with Solemnity Jun. 7. Several Laws confirmed and made c. Mr. Pryn questioned c. Mr. Pryn questioned by the House Acts against Bishops repealed Lord Munson Sir Henry Mildmay and Wallop sentenced Parliament adjourned July 30 to Nov. 02. The King is entertained at the Inner Temple by Sir Heneage Finch The Lords Spiritual restored Regicides before the House of Lords November John James Hanged and Quartered Novemb. 27. Sir Charles Coot died December A Council of the Principality of Wales re-established at Ludlow Episcopacy established in Scotland The King reflects on the ruine of St. Pauls London Fatality among the Clergy Another Fleet for Portugal and Tangier Queen of Bohemia dies Feb. 13. A Storm Feb. 18. An unfortunate Accident happened to the Lord Buckhurst and others Lambert and Vane ordered to Tryal The General honoured c. Miles Corbet Colonel Okey and Barkstead taken in Holland sent over to the Tower Sentenced and Executed Ap. 2. Col. Okey 's body giâen to his Friends Acts of Parliament passed An account of the Marriage of the King c. The Queen reReimbarques April 13. The Duke of York at Sea to attend the Queens Arrival with the Duke oâ Osmond c. Queen Arrives May 13. The King stays to give his consent to Bills Preparing The Nature of several private Bills King at Portsmouth Queen at Hampton-Court Lord Lorn pardoned by the King Tangiers condition Sir Henry Vane and Colonel Lambert Condemned Sir Henry Vane Executed June 1â A Proclamation for Twenty miles againt Rump Officers Presbyterians endeavours for Toleration Forces sent under the Earl of Inchequeen to Assist the King of Portugal Duke of Ormond arrived in Ireland Gloucester Walls c. Demolished Dunkirk returned to the French King October Dr. John Berkerhead Knighted A Plot discovered Philips Tongue Gibs and Stubs Executed December 22. Embassadors with Presents from Russia Mr. Calamy Committed Lord Warreston in the Tower Declaration of the King and Resolutions of the Parliament Parliament begins esuits banish Campeach takââ Irish Plot. Earl of âotâes Commissioner in Scotland Bills passed by Commission Mr. Rycaut comes from Constantinople Jersey a new ãâã Northern Plot discovered Plotters âri'd Executed Turner tryed and hanged A Printer tried and executed Others Pillori'd and Fined A remarkable proviâence A barbarous murther committed by a Portugueze Servant upon his Master The Lord Holles Embassador to the French King June Iudge Mallet by reason of his age dispenced with and Sir John Keeling sworn in his place Dr. Bramhal departs this life Gayland assaults Tangier Reâreats with ãâã Makes another Attack but is forc'd to
Address ãâã suppressing ãâã Insolencies Declaration of War against Denmark City Building begins Prodigious Storms in Lincoln-shire Prodigious Storm in Lincoln-shire A day of Thanksgiving for the ceasing of the Plague Ryot at Dumfreeze in Scotland The Lord Willoughby sets forth a Fleet from the Barbadoes A Hurricane His Lordship lost Scotch Convention meets At Surinam better success The French King affronted by the Turk An Embassador sent for reparation He is reviled Beaten and ââprisoned Swedes offer a Mediation Accepted Breda the Place of Treaty A Valiant Act of Capt. Dawes The English Embassadors enter Breda The Dutch Attempts upon the Coast. Burnt-Island attempted And Sheerness They seize the Royal Charles Royal Oak burnt Two Dutch Men of War burnt Commissioner Pett committed The Dutch come up into the River of Thames Dutch land neer Harwich Encounter'd by the Train'd-Bands They come up to Hull Haven are encounter'd by several ships that lay there Dutch attempt to land neer Wenbury in Devonshire Neer Cawland in Cornwal Sir Jonathan Trelawney Major Sparks and Mr. Windham sent aboard the Dutch Admiral Their Entertainment A Present sent De Ruyter Foy Harbour Attempted Plenipotentiaries meet and Tâeat at Breda Peace Concluded Commissioners to take an Account of Publick Money The Office of Lord High Treasurer in the Hand of Commissioners Parliament met Parl. Adjourn'd Commissioners appointed to hear the complaints of Seamen Mr. Cowley 's death Dutch beaten by Sir John Harmon in the West-Indies Three Dutch Men of War and a Prize taken Proclamation against Papists Woodmongers Charter demanded His Majesty lays the first Stone of the Royal Exchange The Duke of York the second Earl of Sandwich sent to Portugal January 22. February Proclamation to hinder the roving of private Men of War February Count de Dona the Swedish Embassador dies in England Maritime League concluded with the Dutch by Sir Wil. Temple Charles the second launched March 3. 1666 7. Proclamation against Papists Prentices make a Tumult May 1668. His Majesty goes to the House signes several Bills and adjourns the Parliament Lord Vaughan Chief-Iustice Iune 1668. Bridge Town burnt August 1668. Sir William Godolphin Knighted and made Resident-Embassador in Spain Sept. 1668. Duke of Munmoâth made Captain of the Horse-Guards Venetian Embassador has Audience Sir John Trevor made Secretary Dr. Wilkins Bishop of Chester Sir Thomas Allen made Peace with Argier Decem. 1668. Parliament Prorogu'd Ian. 166â Dutchess of York brought to bed of a Daughter Sir Edward Sprague sent into Flanders The Duke of Tuscany arrives in England The Prince of Portugal made Râgânt Earl of Carlisle sent into Sweden King of Sweden presented with the Garter Earl of Winchelsey returns Theater at Oxford fânished Meetings suppressed Dr. Fell Vice-Chancellor of Oxford Queen-Mother of England dies The Moors attempt Tangier but beaten off Lord Roberts Lord-Deputy of Ireland Royal Exchange fââish'd Pâââ Assembles Parl. attended the King in the Banqueting-House Parl. Prorogu'd till February Parl. in Scotland Sir Thomas Allen before Argier Mr. Henry Howard sent Embassador to Taffalette Duke of Albemarle dies His Dutchess dies Jan. 1669. Parliament meet The King signes several Acts and adjourns the House Dutchess of Orleans arrives in England Dies July 1670. Parliament in Scotland Act for the Treaty of Union passed there Argier men of War destroy'd Cap. Peirce shot to Death Parl. meet Peace between Spain and England ratifi'd Prince of Orange comes into England Sir Thomas Allen returns from the Streights Sir Edward Sprague Commands in his room D. of Ormond violently assaulted in the Night The King passes some Acts. Popish Priests Banish'd The Dutchess of York dyes Parl. Prorogu'd And an Address about English Manufactures Earl of Manchester dies The Crown attempted King of Sweden and Duke of Saxony by Proxies Install'd Knights of the Garter Sir Edward Sprague meets the Argerines and destroys them The King takes a Progress The Moors attack Tangier and are beaten off Parl. Prorogu'd Embassadors sent abroad Ian. 1671 2. Stop upon the Exchequer Sir George Downing presses for answer to the King's demands Sir George Downing committed Nonconformists indulg'd Sir Robert Holmes attacks the Dutch Fleet neer the Isle of Wight War declar'd against the Dutch Mar. 1661 2. War proclaim'd against Holland Sir Edward Sprague comes home The French King continues and increases Impositions on Dutch Goods notwithstanding their threats French Warlike preparations breeds jealousies Cologne fortifies The Dutch fortifie Maestricht Newburg fortifies Dusseldorp and Montery raises men in Flanders Brunswick Besieged They surrender The Escurial burnt The Dutch endeavour to get Assistants The Prince of Orange made their Captain-General The Emperor offers to Mediate Dutch Embassador slighted at Paris Convoys taken care of for the Merchants Several Lords call'd to the Privy Council King of France begins his March Turrenne blocks up Maestricht Fight between the English and Dutch Several Townes taken from the Hollanders Hollanders confus'd at the success of the French The King of Englands Declaration inviting the Dutch Subjects into England Dutch more and more distressed The People Mutiny Prince of Orange declar'd Stadtholder The Condition of the Dutch The Duke of Buckingham and the Earl of Arlington sent into Holland Duke of Buckingham and Earl of Arlington return English misâ the Dutch East-Indie Fleet. Earl of Essex Lord-Deputy of Ireland The fall of De Wit and Van Putten The Confederates divert the French Magistrates chang'd in Holland Parl. adjourn'd The Duke of York returns from the Fleet and Action ceases Turenne 's Declaration Sir Edward Sprague spoyles the Dutch Fishing Prince of Orange succeeds ill Earl of Shaftsbury Lord-Chancellor Lord Clifford Lord-Treasurer Stop upon the Exchequer continued Duke of Richmond dies Parl. meet Sir Job Charleton made Speaker 18 Moneths Assessment given to the King The Parl. make an Address to to the King Parl. Adjourn'd James Piercy pretends to the Earldom of Northumberland The Island Tabago taken by the English Dutch at Sea May 26. May 28. June 4. July 17. July 20. August 10. Peace with the Dutch Proclamation against Papists April The Lord Lockhart Mediates a Peace between France and Spain Proclamation against scandalous News Sir Lyonel Jenkins and Sir Joseph Williamson return to London Duke of Monmouth chose Chancellor of Cambridge Earl of Arlington Lord-Chamberlain Sir Joseph Williamson Principal Secretary Earls of Ossory and Arlington âent into Holland A Marine Treaty between the King and the Uâited Provinces Dr. Crew made Bishop of Durham Dr. Compton Bishop of Oxford The Dutchess brought to bed of a Daughter Sir Francis North Lord Chief-Iustice of the Common-Pleas Parl. meets Prince of Newburgh arrives in England Barbadoes Conspiracy Indians Rebel in New-England Northampton fâred River by Salisbury began to be made Navigable Parl. meets Proclamation against St. Germain the Iâsuite Hurricane at Bardoes Jamaica fâourishes
by night which was the usual course carried Links in their hands like right boutefeus to light their Complices and Partakers in this monstrous Riot So that the danger appearing in a method and form the dire prognostick of Battalia and flighting the opposition of a Corps du Guard erected over against Scotland-yard which was maintained by the Trained Bands of St. Clements and St. Martins the Gentlemen of the honourable Society of Grayes-Inne under the leading of Sir William Mason in good order ranked two and two marched from their randezvouz at Covent-Garden to White-Hall and proffered their Loyal Service to the King as a Guard to his person against those formidable tumults They were received by the King with all respect and acknowledgements of this seasonable tender which manifested that Law Reason and Civility were disengaged from the Rebellion but the Kings sudden remove dispensed with their Duty The King sensible from what quiver this Arrow came and not longer able to endure these indignities which he had so often moved the two Houses though in vain to prevent or punish resolved to seize on those Grandees who principally abetted those tumults and also had had a deep hand in the Scotch troubles having intercepted Letters of correspondence between them and the Covenanters the untoward Issue and Event whereof as whereby his English Subjects had presumed to obtain by tumults the same demands lay yet heavy on his heart and boded the fame conclusions Taking therefore with him a Guard of his own domestick Servants and some Gentlemen casually then in the Court late in one of the Christmas-nights he came to the door of the House of Commons and entred and demanded five members thereof as also one of the House of Peers the Lord Kimbolton viz. Mr. Pyns Mr. Hambden Mr. Holles Mr. Stroâd and Sir Arthur Haslerig but they having notice of the Kings coming to this purpose by one Langrish a Servant of the Queens had time and but just enough to withdraw themselves into Westminster-Hall where they lay hid in the Kings-bench-Court until the business of that night was over and then betook themselves into London to the Guild-Hall whereto the House not long after adjourned it self in a grand Committee for their safeguard and security This attempt of the King the House presently voted a breach of priviledge and ran so high as to complain of evil Councellours about the King demanding the persons of those who gave that advice to the King Nay so highly did they insist upon and urge this violation of their freedom that all the King could do gave them no satisfaction though he endeavoured to excuse it so that it continued their plea throughout the War But how it was retaliated upon them both by themselves and Oliver in the several Exclusions and Forces afterwards put upon that House needs no particular indigitation Having therefore got this claw against the King they resolve to revenge themselves on the Bishops some of whom they suspected to be the chief instruments in that business Particularly to gratifie the City whom they had wholly devoted at their service who might see the Parliaments readiness to comply with their clamours against that Venerable Order Twelve of these the Commons accused to the Lords as guilty of High Treason whereof ten were committed to the Tower and two to the Black Rod. At the same time also the Irish were proclaimed Rebels thirty Proclamations hereof being onely Printed for some reasons of State the King reserved to himself then though afterwards when the Parliament among other things taxed him with this he gave them a full and satisfactory answer as not willing to make the Irish desperate and utterly undo his Protestant Subjects who were as then far too weak to withstand so potent a Rebellion which the King was willing so far to comply with the Parliament as to declare it so For the number of them he said it was the request of the said Lords Justices of Ireland there should be but twenty as many of themselves well knew Like wise to satisfie the Parliament about that business of the five members he now declared his charge against them which consisted of several things relating to intelligence held with the Scots while declared Traytors That they trayterously endeavoured by many foul Aspersions upon his Majesty and Government to alienate the affections of the people and to make his Majesty odious to them That they trayterously endeavoured to subvert the fundamental Laws and Government of this Kingdom and to deprive the King of his Regal and to place on Subjects an arbitrary and illegal power That they endeavoured to draw his Majesties late Army in the North to disobedience to his Majesties command That they invited the Scots to invade England That they trayterously endeavoured the subversion of the rights and very being of Parliament That for the compleating of their trayterous designes they have endeavoured as far as in them lay by force and terrour to compel the Parliament to joyn with them in their trayterous designes and to that end countenanced and raised the tumults against the King and Parliament That they had trayterously conspired to levy and had actually levyed war against the King This was as I said before declared by the King but in hopes and order to accommodation this course being thought a good expedient thereto was laid aside and not prosecuted But the Parliament left it not so imprisoning for a while the Kings Atturney Sir Edward Herbert demanding those evil Councellours that gave this advice against the five Members to punishment Herewith the Tumults so increased about White-Hall and Westminster that the King Queen Prince and Duke of York were forced for security of their persons to retire to Hampton-Court being necessitated to take sufficient forces of his Courtiers for his guard About this time there was a false rumour raised by the Lord Digbies passing through Kingston neer London of a plot to raise Horse against the Parliament whereupon Col. Lunsford then with him was committed to Prison and this story improved into a calumny against the King The Scots now interposed themselves betwixt the King and Parliament though siding clearly with the Parliament having by Treaty agreed with them to send over 2500 men into the North of Ireland upon the English pay Through their thus taking of their parts the Parliament flew high now in their demands requiring the disposal of the Command of the Tower and the management of the Militia which being refused they desisted not but on the 26 of Ianuary Petitioned the King for them both to which the King by several reasons answered in the nagative Now again they insisted upon it as also upon the business of the five Members still to exasperate the people who cryed out against Popish Lords and Bishops sitting in Parliament to which the King answered as before and declared his readiness to pass an Act of general
part that valiant person Iohn Lord Stuart second Brother to the Duke of Richmond who dyed at Abbington of his wounds as also Sir Iohn Smith Colonel Sandys Colonel Scot and Colonel Manning father to that person who betrayed the King to Cromwel while he resided at Colen in the designe of Colonel Penruddock for which he was shot to death in the Duke of Newburghs Country with divers Persons of Quality wounded among whom was Sir Edward Stowel Eldest Son to Sir Iohn and Sir Henry after Lord Bard besides private Souldiers above 1400. Of the Parliaments side few men of note were killed about 900 common Souldiers Colonel Dolbeir wounded and Colonel Tompsons Leg shot off by a Cannon-bullet About this time the Dutch Ambassadors came to Oxford again endeavouring to mediate between the King and Parliament but returned re infecta from whence the King also was designing to march being newly come thither from Reading which he slighted Sir Charles Blunt a couragious Gentleman on the Kings side was slain about this time Great and extraordinary preparations were now made for this Campagnia which I shall next relate Essex and Waller who had followed the Lord Hopton to Basing and there shewed a mind of 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 soon after In this place which afterwards proved a Thom to the Kings foot not being able but in great Parties to stir out of Oxford Essex left Colonel Brown and constituted him Governour thereof This famous Person as his actions all along after declared especially his latter in his Industrious Loyal endeavours for the Restitution of his Majesty was no inconsiderable part of the War having been designed by the Parliament to the suppression of the Kentish-Commotions and then as an assistant to Sir William Waller at the taking in of Winchester and Chichester was afterwards when the War was ended and the King brought to Holmby made one of the Commissioners to attend his Majesty where he was so gained upon by his Princely Goodness and Vertues that from that time he was wholly changed and reduced from all false Opinions concerning his Majesty and afterwards proved a most Cordial and Loyal actor and sufferer for him and his Cause To return the King in the mean while marched 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 fallen 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 Manchester's and Fairfax's In his way he Storms Bolton and takes it but of that by and by The King having Traversed his ground came back again from Worcester and Sir William Waller from out of the Skirts of Glocester-shire was ready at his heels Insomuch that he overtook him neer Banbury at a place called Cropredy-bridge Waller drew up in Battalia on a Hill expecting the advantage of the Kings passing the Bridge which the King adventuring to do Waller descends from his Post and falls upon the Kings Rear beyond the Bridge where he was so gallantly received by the Earls of Cleaveland and Northampton that he was quite Routed Six hundred killed and Seven hundred taken Prisoners his Train of Artillery and many of the Officers so that Sir William was forced to flie and have recourse to London for another recruit It was therefore resolved upon this defeat of Waller that the King 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 Month of Iuly was fain to be gone from thence for fear of a Siege leaving the young Lady to the tuition of the Countess of Dalkeith to France where she landed on the 25th at Brest in Britany At the beginning of August the King had overtaken the said Earl at Lestithiel his Forces 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 Provision from them After two or three days leaguer 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 Arms 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 The Marquess of Newcastle had been besieged above nine weeks in York by the joynt Forces of the Earl of Manchester the Lord Fairfax and the Scotch Army under Lesly for the relief whereof Prince Rupert was sent who passed through Shrop-shire and thence through Lancashire increasing his Forces by the way from the several Garrisons and Parties thereabouts In his way he raised the Siege of Latham-house where the Countess of Derby had stoutly defended her self for a long time He moreover took Stopford Leverpool and Bolton the last whereof refusing his Summons and being in no condition to withstand his power he deservedly having mastered it by a Storm the third time pillaged using the right of Arms to those who had provoked him by their impotent obstinacy Besides it was noted for a Town of Sectaries and such-like people On Sunday the last day of Iune the Prince came to Knaresborough fourteen miles from York the next morning over Burrough-Bridge and that night by the River to York upon whose approach the besiegers quit their quarters and those in York pursued their Rear and seized some Provisions the next morning Iuly the second the Prince advanced after them resolving to give them Battel which resolution was opposed by the Marquess of Newcastle as one who well knew the several concerns of the three confederate parties among whom there had passed some Jarrings in their Councels for Command But the Prince was determined to put an end to the Scotch danger which onely retarded the Kings entire success by a present fight and though he be much blamed for it yet it
of Beaten Gold and Cromwel with 300 pounds worth of Plate and 200 pieces of Gold and great rejoycing there was and smiling too at this the Cities kindness whose Proclaiming of the Act for abolishing the Kingly power having touched before I think I am not obliged to the worth or worshipfulness of the matter to say any thing more of it here in its place but in lieu thereof will pleasure the Reader with a contra-aspect in this Archive and Premier Record of Englands being a Free-State Created by these Hogen Mogen words Be it Enacted and Declared by this present Parliament and by the Authority thereof that the People of England and all the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging are and shall be and are hereby Constituted Made and Declared a Commonwealth and Free-State and shall so be Governed by the Supreme Authority the Representatives of the people in Parliament and by such as they shall constitute as Officers for the good of the people and that without any King Single Person or House of Lords And for the Honour and Grace of this Free-State a new Mace was now made and brought to be Consecrated in the House wrought with Flowers instead of the Cross and on the bottome and the top the Arms of England and Ireland which was so well liked that they ordered all the Maces in England should be made after that pattern But that which they did most like a Free-State was giving and bounteously bestowing Estates upon one another for besides smaller Rents and lesser Sums kindly squandered and reciprocated among the Journey-men by themselves no less than 4000 a year was given to Fairfax out of the Duke of Bukingham's Revenues the Lord Cottington's Estate to Bradshaw and so to other their deserving Favorites And to requite the City for their civility of the late Treatment and to engage them at a pinch New-park with all the Deer therein was liberally conferred upon them to hold it in Common Soccage from any body a very excellent Tenure and Title Great givers must be great receivers and therefore besides their former Act of selling the Kings Houshold-goods which was pretended to satisfie his Debts but such Creditors as ventured upon them found them dear pennyworths not onely in conclusion but for the present being rated and prized so unreasonably that 100 l. in goods would not yield above ten in money There came out an Act for the sale of Deans and Chapters Lands the product whereof though encumbred with Debentures amounted to a clear account of incredible sums and another for the sale of the Mannors Houses Lands and Forrests of the King Queen or Prince but White-hall for that it was the residence of my Lords the Committee of Estates Saint Iames's and Windsor-Castle were by them excepted and Cromwel for a pleasant retreat for his future greatness saved Hampton-Court and Greenwich and the French-Church having obtained the use of the Chappel of Somerset-house rescued that likewise from sale because the Purchasers could not build upon the ground with any conveniencie if that were not demolished But the grand money-making Act the very Mint of their Commonwealth was an Act of the 7th of April for 90000 l. a Month which rose higher afterwards though in the middle of the War it was never more than 56000 and there were three Armies in pay but it seems the good Husbands had accounted and then published it that the Monthly charge was 160000 pound and that the standing force amounted to 40000 men in England and Ireland About this time several Inland Castles were demolished as Winchester Lancaster Belvoir Nottingham c. and some reparations made to the several Proprietors It will be requisite now to enquire what and how the King doth since we left him at the Hague while his Rebels rant it away in such ample manner and carry all before them 'T is true he wanted not a Kingdom being lookt upon by the people of those Vnited Provinces with the same respect as if he were their Soveraign nor did they âail of giving manifest demonstration thereof His Fathers Death was with all State Condoled and his ascent to the Throne Gratulated and that moreover both by the Swedish and Danish Embassadors then resident at that Court especially the Prince of Aurange by his respects and observance obliged all persons to the reverence of his Person as if no such misfortunes had befallen him nor could any thing but a vertuous tempered minde amidst such caresses and Honours been sensible of so sudden so dis-regarded and discountenanced adversity To better also his condition as to his Kingdoms came forth several defences of his Authority in several Treatises especially that of Salmasius called The Royal Defence which one Milton since stricken with blindness cavilled at who wrote also against that imcomparable Book and Remains of King Charles the Martyr about this time produced to light though endeavoured by all means to be supprest called Eikon Basilike in an impudent and Blasphemous Libel called Iconoclastes since deservedly burnt by the Common Executionâr doth justly challenge to be here Registred Thus He triumpht by the Pen and great were the expectations of his like success by the Sword Scotland being wholely his and Ireland vâry neer reduced to the same obedience the affairs of both which Kingdoms calling him away He resolved to depart from this His long-continued abode and after mature consultations with the Princes His Allyes and His neerer Relations His disconsolate Mother then in France to determine to which Realm He should first betake Him but before His departure fell out this remarkable passage at His Court at the Hague One Doctor Dorislaus a Dutch-man and School-Master that fled his Country and here became a Civilian then pertainer to the University of Oxford and a Professor there but disappointed of his ambitious expectations in the beginning of the War became the Parliaments Judge-Advocate in their Army and at the expiration thereof by his acquaintance with Sir Henry Mildmay a great Enemy to though raised by the King at whose House in Essex he ordinarily played at Cards on Sundays was promoted to the Employment of drawing up that Charge against the King and the rather for that no Englishman durst finde or make a way to that illegal and unprecedented business After that perpetration he was thought the onely fit man to be sent over as an Envoy to his Country-men to prosecute the designs of that Fact which would look the handsomer to them by this their Subjects hand in it though he durst not have appâard there but in the quality of a Forrain Minister He arrived there in May and the first night as he was at Supper there one Colonel Whitford a Scotch-man then attending the Kings Court with some twelve other Royalists regretting and disdaining the affront done to the King by the impudent boldness of this Fâllows address in the Face of His Majesty entred his Lodging
Iersey with the onely Conditions of taking the National-Covenant and renouncing of Montross and other Royalists of that Nation For in the beginning of September the King was arrived there with His Brother the Duke of York in company with Sir George Carteret the Governour and other his Nobles and Confident Followers having before his departure designed some of his Lords as Embassadors to several Princes The French also had prohibited the Importation of Cloth into France in a proud revenge and quittal whereof the Parliament forbad the Importation of French-wines and the States General of the Vnited Provinces had denied Audience to Walter Strickland their new Resident after several instances onely the Spaniard who had lately before acknowledged the same Provinces for a Free State began to wind about and to insinuate a Compaliance wâth the English One as imagining it no way dangerous but advantageous to his Interest and Stale Ambition of Universal Soveraignty as Campanella had designed it For in tendency thereunto he prohibited his Subjects in Flanders to serve the King at Sea his Ports being before open to such Vessels that served the King and were Manned with Flemings for the most part and did also underâtand hold Intelligence with this State But the Emperour of Russia no sooner heard of the Kings Death but he immediately Commanded all the English to depart his Dominions and was hardly perswaded having first secured their Goods to give them leave to stay a while in Arch-Angel his onely Port of Trade whither from his Court and City of Musco he had driven them He had profered to the Lord Culpeper His Majesties Embassador to have given him all the English Estates but he declining it and telling the Emperour the King conceived very well of those His Subjects he very frankly lent the King 20000 l. with a protestation of his further good will if he had not been so greatly engaged in a War at home The Dane the Swede and the Pole knew not what to make of our New Lords and so let them alone the Portugal's actions Declared Him Several Affronts were likewise given them under their very Noses the London Presbyterian Ministers would not Officiate neither at their Fasts nor Thanksgivings for which Contempts several of them were brought before their Committees and after severe reprehension and warning dismissed as namely Master Love Master Ienkins and Master Ash And the Levellers began to make new broils the Garrison of Oxford of Colonel Ingoldsby's Regiment mutining and securing their Officers while Lilburn and his Associates vex them in print by a new Pamphlet called the Apprentices Outcry The Mutineers were suppressed in a manner by themselves and two of them shot to Death Lilburn having been kept a long while before Prisoner in the Tower was now brought to his Tryal at Guild hall by a Commission of Oyer and Termier directed to the new Lord-Commissioner Keeble Justice Iermin and others where after a confident defence of himself reading of several Statutes and thumming of Magna Charta and a hundred Slurs upon the Court he was acquitted by his Jury and not long after chosen a Common-Council-man for the City though the Parliament by Vote afterwards disallowed it and made him uncapable of any Office And finally that I may have done with this Trouble-world not long after Sentenced him to Banishment which was procured by the old Feud betwixt him and Sir Arthur Hasilrigge To secure themselves therefore from that and all other Parties they Legislated a thing called an Engagement which though at its first designment it reached onely persons in Office and Trust and the Lawyers that Pleaded with an additional precept to the several Benches to remove out of their Chambers in the Respective Inns of Court all who had served the King in the late War saving the benefit of Articles as they had kept them some good while before from the Bar yet at last it included all sorts of men from 18 years old and upwards who were enjoyned to recognize and then subscribe this knack in these Republican words You shall promise to be true ââd faithful to the Commonwealth of England as it is now established without King or House of Lords And their repeated prosperous violation of all things Sacred and Civil had so prob Dolor Atheisted the Land that people jested themselves into this snare the Royalists and some such sober Presbyterians onely disavowing it though no protection or benefit of the Law was to be had without it On the 4 of Ianuary happened a most terrible blow by Gunpowder in Tower-street out of a Ship-chandlers cellar who going down about 8 of the Clock about some business there with a Candle it unfortunately sparkled into the Powder as was conceived and blew up and spoiled above 100 Houses some 60 persons being killed the most whereof were slain as they were drinking in the Rose-Tavern in whose Ruines they were over-whelmed This accident invited the curiosity of some to say that the Treason committed that time Twelve month before was followed with this its sutable attendant to point to the Authors the likeness of their Villany But whatever that disaster signified the Death of Alderman Hoyle a great Rumper of York who hanged himself on the same day and hour Twelve month that the King was Murthered plainly shewed the vengeance and displeasure of God against that monstrous and abominable Fact This was the Evening-Sacrifice to their Thanksgiving-Devotion in most solemn manner celebrated by the States aâ Westminster in commemoration of their lately recovered Liberty from the Laws and a just Government by the Death of the King being the Anniversary of his Martyrdom but had so many ill Omens and sinister Prognosticks that they rased this Festival out of their Kalendar which carried in it so many signal remarques of the just Judgement and Veâgeance of God upon that impious Fact and their no less abominable mockery of Him as the Author thereof in this their pretended religious observation of that fatal Providence General Blake was now fitting out to Sea with a lusty Fleet to hinder Prince Rupert now Commanding in the Western-seas from doing further prejudice to the Trade the Nation being then much incommodated by several Ships of War set out by His Majesties Commission the execution whereof could not discern betwixt His Subjects and His Rebels The Prince was then in Harbour at Lisbone whither Blake directly sailed with 16 able Men of War and blockt up the Port demanding license to fall upon the Prince in the River which being denied an attempt was made by him but the Castles firing upon his foremost Frigots in favour and protection of the Prince's Fleet he was forced to give it over and come to an Anchor at the Mouth of the Tagus resolving to stop and seize such Vessels of the Portugals as should make for that place and the Brazile Sugar-Fleet was then daily expected An Act now
these though uncertain friends rather than expect it from so implacable an Enemy And in some sort it may be said that this overthrow did much serve to conciliate both interests for the Kirk could not now defend it self with its own Arms and was constrained to accept of help from those they had rejected so that the Earl of Cleaveland Lord Wilmot and other English Royalists we shall mention the Scotch by and by who were upon their departure none but the Duke of Buckingham and Colonel Massey Graves and Titus being permitted to stay now continued there so that the common voice then was that the King had lost nothing in the discomfiture of that Army of the Kirk The same day in the afternoon presently after this blow the Scots quitted Leith and Edenburgh whither old Leven got by nine of the clock Lesley at two and had packt up their Bag and Baggage and by Queens-ferry marched to Sterling Cromwel marched fast after them and the next day quartered at the two places aforesaid with a resolution to fortifie Leith Lieutenant-Colonel Paul Hobson being made Governour thereof and Colonel Overton of Edenburgh with his Brigade to secure it while the Army marched towards Sterling having received recruits by shipping from Dunbar Upon occasion of this Victory several Ministers in London of the Presbyterian way were summoned to appear Sept. 18 before the Committee of the Militia according as Cromwel had intimated in the before-recited Letter and charged to observe the Thanks-giving day the Parliament had appointed for this their great success in Scotland On the 14 of September General Cromwel marched out of Edenburgh with 7 days Provision for the Scots had not left any manner of subsistance betwixt that and Sterling and on the 15 reached beyond Linlithgow but through bad weather was constrained to retreat thither that night for shelter the 16 to Falkirk within a mile of Sterling from whence fresh Letters of the old strain were sent into that City but the Trumpeter was not suffered to enter whereupon Order was given for a Storm but upon better thoughts of the danger forborn so that on the 19 of September they returned to Linlithgow whither came General Dean to him from shipboard being newly arrived at Leith in the Speaker Frigot and fortified the Town being the Road-way betwixt Edenburgh and Sterling and a sufficient Garrison was left to maintain it and so on the 22 the English returned to Edenburgh where Colonel Whaley had offered the Ministers fled to the Castle leave to come out and Preach in their several Parishes but they refused Now was the time of the Independent Ecclesiastical Government for the Parliament would no longer halt between two opinions An Act was now published for relief of Religious and Peaceable people from the rigour of former Acts of Parliament whereby the compulsive Authority of Presbytery and its appurtenances of Lay Elders was quite annihilated and the Separatists and Sectaries were the onely Church countenanced then in London who to make themselves more considerable and in grateful acknowledgment to the Parliament raised one Regiment of Horse and another of Foot of well-affected persons to be ready upon all occasions for defence of the Commonwealth and marched in good equipage through the City to Hide-park being then made up three Regiments of Foot and two of Horse to the number of 8000. being led by Colonel then made Major-General Harrison Several other recruits for the Army were now drawn out of Colonel Barkstead's Regiment in the Tower and new men raised in divers Counties for the same service The Duke of York was now at the Hague from whence he went to Breda whereabout at a Town called Longstraet in Brabant His Brother the Prince of Aurange was raising of some Troops designed as it was thought for Scotland to be commanded by the Duke from whence a while after he passed to the Rhyne in Guelderland accompanied with some English Noble-men and Sir George Ratcliff Sir Iohn Byron and Sir Iohn Berkley and thence returned to the Hague where the Lords Iermyn and Seymor with Colonel Progers left him with the Piercy the Lord Culpeper taking his journey into the Dutchy of Cleve the Lord Cottington and Sir Edward Hide were at the same time at Madrid in Spain negotiating the Kings affairs at that Court where finding nothing but shews and temporary Counsels in relation to any assistance from thence they resolved to depart The Lord Goring was likewise newly come into the Low Countries Prince Rupert having disengaged himself of the English Fleet at Lisbon that had long blockt him up being now at Sea on the same coast of Spain on the beginning of November where at Velos and Malaga he had burnt five or six English ships advice hereof was presently given to General Blake then with the same Fleet hovering about that shore who on the 3 and 4 of November with some of his said ships first mastered the Robuck another of the Princes named the Black Prince of 44 Guns being ready to be boarded ran on shore and on the 5 of November four more ran a ground the Guns Tackle and Furniture of all which were then demanded of the King of Spain by Fisher the Parliaments Agent there and promised to be delivered as a pledge of that respect the King of Spain was now manifesting to the Authority of the Commonwealth of England Prince Rupert with the Reformation and his Brother Prince Maurice in the Swallow by good intelligence avoiding the same Fleet sail'd into the Adriatick Sea and refreshing themselves a while at Sicily when Blake sailed to the Isle of Majorca guessing that for their Rendezvouze put to Sea again and took an English ship called theâ Marmaduke laden from Archangel in Russia to Legorn with Caveer and Hides of a great value and with her sailed into Toulon and there exposed her to sale and âook up their remaining part of Winter in that station In requital of which eâtertainment the Parliament made seizure of several ships both of War and Merchandise belonging to the French Nation But before this loss came a greater to the King for it pleased God on the 16 of September to lessen the number of that sorrowful Family by the death of the Princess Elizabeth who died at Carisbroke-Castle having lain sick a fortnight she first complained of her Head after her coming from Bowls with her Brother the Duke of Gloucester and though little care was taken there the place affording no learned Physician yet Dr. Mayârn sent down some fitting Cordials but her grief was irremediable In October she was buried in the Church of Newport the Mayor and Aldermen attending her to her Grave This was seconded with the death of the Prince of Aurange who some while before having had several contests with the Burgermasters of some of the chief Cities of Holland and had designed the seizing of Amsterdam in order to the accomplishing his intentions
now a coming from Newcastle and London for the accommodating their passage Cromwel likewise was very earnest and intent upon making or finding a way by Sterling and therefore on the eighth of February he marched thither again having been informed of some Fords thereabouts where he might pass his Army or at least impede their raising of new Forces and way-lay their marching into England which was given out as the grand designe a Force being lefâ on that side the Water sufficient to sustain any impression of the English and to that Expedition Duke Hamilton Duke of Buckingham Lords Cleaveland Wentworth Wilmot and Colonel Massey who had a Noble and full Regâment and was to be Major-General with Titus and Colonel Graves were designed Cromwel as was said to this purpose in very tempestuous weather reached his intended passes but found the approaches to them so boggy and unpassable that in the same stress of weather his Army half spoiled with cold and other discommodities he was forced to retire again as he had done twice before having onely Alarm'd the Scots and put them into a sudden posture of defence and to await the time of his Boats arrival and a happier season of the year About this time Hume-Castle was taken by Colonel Fenwick the Garrison having held it to extremity being forced to deliver it at mercy February 4. A Copy of the Governours Answer to the Summons for the quaint briskness thereof I have thought fit to pleasure the Reader withal Right Honourable I have received a Trumpeter of yours as he tells me without your Pass he had forgot it it seems and left it behind upon the Table to Render Hume-Castle to the Lord-General Cromwel please you I never saw your General nor know your General as for Hume-Castle it stands upon a Rock given at Hume-Castle this day before seven a Clock So resteth without prejudice of his Native Country Your most Humble Servant Iohn Cockburn Timtallon-Castle which had been very prejudicial to the English Sea-traders to Leith and had taken more men than all the Garrisons in Scotland having been Besieged above a week by Colonel Monke upon the 21 of February after the Mortar-pieces had played and a Battery of six Great Guns was raised yielded to mercy Sir Iames Seaton the Governour newly knighted not being able to obtain any other Condition but Colonel Monke out of his usual civility suffered not a man of them to be stript or plundered There were 15 Great Guns taken in it and the passage not onely freed but an Inlet opened to the Bass Island General Ruthen Earl of Brentford and Forth nominated to be this Kings General also deceased about this time and left that Command without any further competition to David Lesley old Leven having likewise retired himself both from Counsel and Service as superannuated but indeed disregarded Our New States at home found it opportune being grown so potent abroad and so dreaded at home to discard their Journey-men of the Council of Sate whose assistance they were forced to use though they would not assent and concur with them in their alteration of the Government and the Murder of the King c. but would act as it was now altered in the rearing of their Model twenty one of them such as were instrumental and principal in the Change as Cromwel Bradshaw and others of the Kings Judges being continued and twenty new ones of the same gang were surrogated in the others places for they could now do the work and receive the wages themselves To those a power was given of executing the Admiralship to all purposes and intents as any Admiral of England had executed it before About this time one Iohn Fry another of the Kings Judges having written a blasphemous Book against the Trinity but purposely against the Divinity of Christ as the Socinians teach was by a Vote disbanded their Company in the House and his Book ordered to be burnt by the Sheriffs of London not a word of the Hangman in the Order for that would have sounded ominous to the whole pack of them now in pomp and great splendor The King having visited Dundee Aberdeen and other places accompanied with Arguile who had raised men for Him in his Countries returned to St. Iohnstons and the Low-lands against the sitting down of the Parliament at that City which was appointed on the 2 of March in which interim He gave Audience to a Dutch Envoy who came to complain of the taking of 20 of their Merchant-ships by Sir Iohn Greenvile Governour for the King in the Isle of Scilly to which the King gave a favourable Answer The Earl of Derby likewise seized divers Vessels belonging to the English Irish Trade and held intelligence with the King in Scotland having employed one Master Berkenhead in the business who was taken about the beginning of March by Colonel Lilborne Sir Philip Musgrave and Sir Theophilus Gilby hardly escaping by rowing away in a Boat Several Dutch ships laden with Ammunition sent by the Lord Iermin as the Dutch pretended arrived likewise at Dundee whereabouts and over all the adjacent parts Drums were beating and a speedy march was resolved on The Earl of Calender a great Hamiltonian which party now swayed being newly come over Sea an Employment in spight of the Kirk was intended to be conferred on him On the 27 of February the Prince of Aurange was Buried in great state at Delf in Holland and Interred in the Vault of his famous Predecessors By the taking of these Papers and Mr. Berkenhead after the Earl of Derby's designe in Lancashire whither Massey was to have marched with a flying party and a kind of a motion he made that way but immediately retreated the States at Westminster to exact scrutiny addrest themselves and having traced it gave order for the apprehension of one Thomas Cook of Grays-Inne Esquire who being brought and attending at the Council-door gave his Keeper the slip and was pursued with a Proclamation and 100 pounds offered to any should take him and bring him in and was taken thereupon the next Week in an Upholsters-house in London and committed to the Tower and Major-General Harrison was ordered to march speedily into Lancashire to attend all motions and designes in those parts This Month Maj. Harrison of Guernsey Island kept for the Parliament having a designe upon Cornet-Castle held by Colonel Burgess for the King being now and then relieved with Shallops and Boats which struck in thither from the Coast of France attempted it by Storm having false information that most of the Garrison were dead and the rest weak and feeble but were so stoutly received that very few that Engaged got off again the Tide too coming in and drowning many of them to the utter disheartning of them from any future Assault so that they resolved to try what fair means would do and by a sum of Money amounting to 1500 pounds
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
Captain Appleton then at Legborn engaging of their Ships away the two Frigats made away from Longone and took a ship claimed by the Genoese and brought her to their Fleet whose Commander was now at Legborn interceding with that Duke for the liberty of Captain Appleton there restrained upon some picque for the Great Duke of Florence in whose tuition that City is was not over-qualified with respect to this Republick however his Interest and advantage of our Trade and famous Mart there kept him neutral and indifferent The Lord Hopton that most Renowned General in the West for the King departed this Warfare of Life in the end of September at Bruges in Flanders an Heroe worthy of Pompey's distanced Urns that each Region of the World should have inhumed a piece of him that his Interment might have been as large as his Fame which hath told the Universe the Glory of his Actions but what is so envied him was direfully indulged to the Royal Cause and the assertors of it Iacere uno non potuit tantae ruina loco All Nations and people saw and felt the woful Effects and Consequences of our subverted Monarchy and in that overthrow nothing was more miserable than the undeserved Wandrings and Distresses of these Loyal and most Noble Exiles whose Condition mindes us to attend it a little further Against the French Kings returning in peace to his tumultuous City of Paris in this Month wrought by the means and counsel of our Soveraign He with the rest of his Lords and Nobility then of his Council at Paris in great State went out to meet him and welcome him home to his Palace of the Louvre A most acceptable glad Complement to that Prince but a sad reduction to his own minde of that untamable force and injury by which he was kept out from his Kingdoms though now the progress of Providence did seem to verge and dispose events to the former course of the English Soveraignty For the French King before the Cardinals return gave most express assurance of his utmost assistance to the regaining his Crowns as soon as he had setled his own and was thereby rendered capable of doing it and the Dutch had now likewise made overtures to him of espousing his Interest and had granted him already free Ports in their Country for his Men of War to harbour in and sell their Prizes they should take and there was every day expectation of Prince Rupert to come and command a Squadron in that Service upon the Kings account The same forward hopes he had likewise received from several Princes of Germany viz. The Emperour himself with whom the King had one Mr. Taylor his Resident in honourable esteem the Marquess of Brandenburgh the Dukes of Brunswick and Lunenburgh and the rest of those Potentates His Couzen the Prince Elector Palatine was yet raw in the World having newly Frankendale delivered to him by the Spaniard who had kept it neer forty years as also from the King of Denmark A Diet was now also to be held at Ratisbone for the Election of a King of the Romans the onely opportune time for ââm to prosecute his business for supplies and assistance to recover his Rights finding all the respective Princes personally present Therefore the Lord Wilmot now honoured upon this grand Affair with the Title of Earl of Rochester the Duke of Buckingham was designed his Colleague was honoured with the Embassie thither and provision made to discharge the State and expence of it that the King might appear not altogether lost in the world or as an abject and forlorn Prince since not pitty of his misfortunes but indignation at his injuries was the best motive to his assistance and this becoming Grandeur was in good time set out amply and honourably enough by the liberal Purse of his dear Relations and the seasonable payment of his Money out of the French Treasury His Lordship departed home but in Ianuary and by the way of Heidelberg where the same Prince Elector was gone before arrived at Strasburgh and was with all possible evidence and expressions of Honour and Devotion to his Majesties cause and present business received by that most Illustrious and grand Assembly The Lord Wentworth was afterwards sent in the same Employment to the King of Denmark and by him welcomed and entertained with all demonstrations of love and affection becoming his Relation where the Dutch upon their engagement of saving that King harmless from any demand or whatsoever pretence of the English had engaged him to joyn in a League Offensive and Defensive with that State and to concur in any other designe whatsoever The King yet at Paris amidst a hundred Caresses Gratulations and Treatments given him by the King the Queen-Mother and all the Grandees of that Court upon the happy occasion of the late peaceful settlement The Dutch with extraordinary diligence and intent care of their honour and interest in this Quarrel had equipped another Fleet which was now committed to Van Trump though some rumours were spread as if he should be honourably laid aside in the administration of another Land-Office in the inspection of the Admiralty a Fleet of 300 Merchant-men bound for France and the Levant and these Occidental parts being ready for his Convoy Intelligence was now likewise given him that as formerly the States had been informed the English Fleet was no way recruited but that the most part of that Fleet with which De Wit Engaged was gone into Ports and that now Blake might be easily beaten in the Downs and so the Mouth of the River stopt the War come to a period and the Dutch have satisfaction for the damage done them and Sea-Towns in England put into their hands for future security and nothing less would content Hans in this Top-gallant humour On the 29 of November Trump presented himself with 80 Men of War and ten Fireships on the back-side of the Goodwyn again and according to expectation found General Blake attended with no more than forty and odd fail as if he had been ignorant how to use his late Victory which came now to the dispute and to be an undecided controversie again yet Blake generously disdaining to be affronted again in the Downs having called a Council of War it was concluded he should fight though at so unequal disadvantage but the Wind rising the Engagement was hindred till the next day and Anchoring the night before a little above Dover-road fair by the Enemy neer morning both Fleets plyed Westward we having the Weather-gage and about eleven or twelve a clock Engaged neer the same place where the first Encounter was but not with the same success for half the Fleet did not Engage the Victory Vantguard and the Triumph the Admiral-ship bore most of the stress of the Fight being at one time engaged with 20 Dutch men and were sorely torn in their Rigging Sails Yards and Hull yet they fought till after it was dark
Free Parliament was but a reciprocation for that power which made him a Protector made them a Parliament and therefore was very sorry they should go about to destroy the Settlement which to prevent and cease such Debates though he denied any Negative Voice he was necessitated to appoint a Tâst or Recognition of the Government as it was established by every Member before they sate in the House again This bogled at the first three quarters of them especially the Commonwealths-men and those of the late Long Parliament so that of four hundred and odd there appeared but two hundred but were made up at last three hundred for the old ones would not be baulked so and fell afrâsh upon the same dispuâes and ran out all the Articles resolving to put the whole judgement of the House upon them into one entire Bill and so present it but in truth to spin out time and work upon the Protector 's occasions for Money which was proposed in the House and coldly and slowly considered Just at their sitting down the Protector published several Ordinances which being passed and bore date before were to pass as Authentick as Acts by the Instrument one for paying the Money into the Treaââây that was raised for the propagation of the Gospel in Wales another for making Souldiers free of all Corporations and to exercise any Trades another to turn out all honest men under the notion of scandalous Preachers and Ministers Common-Prayer being their chiefest imputation and a fourth to survey Kings Lands c. and for doubling upon Deans and Chapters which sales those many changes of Power had much retarded and depretiated The more occult cause of the publication of these Ordinances was to let the Parliament understand that Oliver took his Instrument to be in a good Case and sufficiently warranted already Amidst these Jars and discords about it the Serpentine Charms of Cardinal Mazarine had lulled the Protector in an imaginable Dream of the worlds Wealth and rich Empire of America to divert his neer designes upon the neighbourhood of France to which War he was the rather enclined from the near allyance of this Crown to that and having excluded its Interest in Holland to drive it out of that Kingdom But the policy of the Cardinal so outreached that designe that it extended his thoughts to the other World giving him the fruition of Great Alexander's Wish This complot between them which of the Spanish and English side very much conduced to the French was most pertinaciously secreted to the very time of publick Hostility in those American parts though it was guessed at and the noise of Hispaniola was very rife in discourse about this time The Protector began to Arm for the expedition in November and December 2000 men old Royalists and reduced necessitated persons making up the gross of the Army to which some Red-coats for the more terrour and assurance were added being drawn by Lot out of the several Regiments The Command of the Land-service was conferred upon Colonel now General Venables a confident of Cromwels who very unmanly carried his Wife with him and General Pen for Sea who at the end of December was ready at Portsmouth where attended Colonel Hayns Major-General of the Army and departed first with the Rear-Admiral Blag for Barbadoes and was followed soon after by the whole Fleet who had on board Commissioners for managing the Treasure that was expected from the Mountains of Gold which Publicans like Achans in the Camp were one chief cause of the successlessness of this Indian War On the 29 of Ianuary following the whole Fleet arrived after a good and speedy passage at Carlisle-Bay in the Isle of Barbadoes all except the two Charities which were driven by Weather into Ireland putting out to Sea after the Fleet and were much wanted the Horses for the service being aboard them and here for a while we leave them The Parliament after they had chawed upon the Recognition and voted it not to bâ taken as absolute in every point of the Instrument limited it onely to the Single person and successive Parliaments and continued their debates as high as ever resolving themselves into a Grand Committee to examine every particle of it another to hear and examine the Case of the Lord Craven and Sir Iohn Stawel and to give redress to them for there were abundance of good Patriots in the House and who were resolved to do their Country service The Cases were accordingly heard Mr. Serjeant Maynard of Counsel with the Lord Craven and Latch for the Purchasers who argued it very hard but before a Report could be made which was in favour of his Lordship Cromwel terminated his hopes and it was in vain to look for remedy from him for that would deter all future Purchasers and the Parliaments sitting for he had never heard from them since their coming thither telling them after many good morrows of a designe of the common Enemy to whose hands it was then agreed by some of themselves whom he could discover to deliver the Cause and the good people c. and so they parted Cromwel spake not without book for at that time he held good intelligânce with one Manning one of the Clerks belonging to the Secretary with the King now at Colen where he was most amply and with more than customary honours welcomed from the Spaw and Aken in Germany From Colen the King to convey his Sister into Holland brought her on hâr way to Dusseldorp to the Duke of Newburgh where they were no less sumptuously treated thence the King journeyed with the Princess as âar as Benningen on the way and returned to Hunt with the said Duke the King 's Cordial and most Noble Friend At his return to Colen the Marquess of Ormond had conducted and brought away the Duke of Gloucester from the Jesuits Colledge at Paris who with the Queen-Mother that sent the Marquess of Praslin and the Lord Abbot Mountague to perswade him him to stay and not to displease his Mother but follow her advice which was to have him trained up in the Romish Religion laboured to that purpose but the young Prince understanding his Brothers pleasure answered according as his blessed Father had enjoyned him That he was to obey his Soveraign before his Mother and so came away with the Marquess to the King General Blake was in the interim set to Sea for the Streights and it was given out to intercept the Duke of Guise who was then going to invade the Kingdom of Naples but he was landed 14 days before he came to that Coast though he might have prevented him if he had had such Commission but the League was certainly struck betwixt the Cardinal and Protector however they vânted such talk to amuse the Spaniard for every day there was news of a Rupture and an Embargo in France and the Cardinals Regiment was in good âarnest drawn down to the Sea-side by Deip on purpose
Hunt whom his Sisters coming to visit and take their farewel of him over-night of his Execution he changed Cloaths with one of them pretending before to be indisposed and to keep his Bed and with a Handkerchief as weeping and sobbing before his eyes was let out while a Guard at door watched his Sisters sleep that night who next Morning waking the supposed Major to make ready for Death perceived the Stratagem this incensed Cromwel farther so that he commanded all that were in Prison for that Rising should be forthwith Transported to the Caribbe-Islands and some Argier-Merchants or worse undertook it and sold them to the Barbarous and inhumane Flanters worse than ever were the Natives for Bond-men and Slaves About the same time all Jesuits and Seminaries were anew Exiled and all suspected Catholicks to abjure the Pope Purgatory Transubstantiation and all the Doctrines of that Church or else all their Estates to be seized The Judges Thorp and Nudigate laid down their Commissions in May. During the War in America and for all our Fleet lay in those parts the Spanish Plate-Fleet which was thought the main aim of our preparation and was therefore much feared for desperate was now at Sea and presently the Marquess De Lede who defended Maestricht so bravely some time before against the Prince of Aurange was sent Embassador to the Protector that the honourableness of his Person might gratifie Cromwel's ambition of Courtship and sweeten him to the Friendship and Alliance he had in his Instructions to offer and more easily to insinuate into the mystery of this conjunct designe He was nobly attended besides a numerous train of Lacqueys in silver and Green Livery and had Audience May 5 and continued his Complement and Cabal together the space of five Weeks in which time most of the action had passed in America and returned unsatisfied and re infecta though dismist with more than ordinary respects about the middle of Iune Now happened an occasion or rather Cromwel made it one for him to shew his zeal to the Protestant Cause and to shew himself to the World the Champion or Hector thereof this was also one secret step and reach to the Crown by invading the sacred Title of the Defender of the Faith due onely to the Hereditary Soveraigns of England Herein also he aimed as in the Proverb to hit two Birds with one Stone not doubting but to finde another Mine in the Charitable mindes and compassion of this Nation towards the parallel suffering of the old Waldenses in Piedmont to the Irish Massacres which were set out and drest here with greater skill of Butchery than the actors could handsomely do it there and it was said the Copy was drawn from that Original Most certain it is that they were in Rebellion and that the Duke of Savoy their Soveraign did chastise them to their Obedience though the Marquess Pianella a very zealous Catholick and the Earl of Quince the French Kings Lieutenant-General of his Italian Armies then joyned with that Dukes and stranger-Souldiers have little regard to any Religion where they may ravage without controle might exceed their Commissâon in inflicting the extremity of War which they had brought upon themselves and were before also odious more than enough to their Catholick Neighbours Whatever the matter was Cromwel takes the Massacre for granted enjoyns a Fast and at the close of that a Collection not limited and terminated in the liberal contributions in the Church at the Bason but the Collectors and other Officers of the Parish with the Minister were to go from door to door and stir up the Richer sort to a chearful Contribution which indeed was very forwardly and charitably given and intended and forthwith Mr. now Sir Samuel Moreland one of Mr. Thurloe's Secretaries was sent away as Envoy to the Court of Savoy Mr. Pell was dispatcht to the Protestant Cantons of Switzerland upon the same account and Mr. now Sir George Downing was sent after Mr. Moreland by the way of France where he began the complaint and proceeded All those three met together at Geneva to advise with that State how to manage this importance of Religion but Mr. Downing never pursued this Project farther being remanded hence to go Secretary of the Council newly made for Scotland Pell was sânt of his formâr errand to the Cantons and Mr. Moreland returned to Turin to the Duke's Court where perceiving this fraud of Cromwel it was no great matter to bring him over soon after to the Kings service in which he continued Alderman Viner and Pack were made Treasurers for this Money which amounted to a very large sum and reaching the designe of the Protector a small parcel whereof was now remitted to Geneva the French King having newly before accommodated the business the Duke refusing to admit Cromwel's Mediation By this conclusion the truth appeared for in the very liminary words they acknowledged the Rebellion in express terms and begged pardon of their gracious Lord his Royal Highness which was here imputed and charged to the prevaâication and collusion of the Cantons Mediation and the three Pastors their Commissioners in that affair There was one Artifice of the Protectors to set this business forward and to countenance it omitted which was Addresses from the Army here and abroad offering their service in this common Cause of the Protestant Religion no way doubting but that God in his due time would confound those Enemies of his People as he had shewn his Salvation by themselves in the same Controversie to that day Several Fires yet burst out in many parts of the Kingdome one in Barnaby-street in Southwark and new diseases were most rife and mortal This Easter-Term one Mr. George Coney a Merchant having been committed by the Commissioners of the Customes to the Serjeant at Arms for refusing to obey their Orders and Fine set for not paying the dues of some Merchandizes brought his Habeas Corpus in the Kings-Bench where he intended to disprove the Authority and Legality of his Commitment and baffle-their Warrant To this purpose Serjeant Maynard Twisden and Mr. Wadham Windham were retained of Counsel by him who pleading such matters for their Client as entrenched upon the Protector 's pretensions and his Publicans Power in that place into which profitable Employment they had scrued themselves by a pretence of serving the publick gratis and without any Salary were instantly committed to the Tower to consider better of Cromwel's Prerogative and to help his Jaylor Berkstead the Lieutenant thereof with the Fees of that chargeable Imprisonment where no Habeas Corpus would be allowed except upon the Knee their enlargement being granted upon their Petition and Submission to the Usurper Those and the like Forces and violences in the Law and the fear of infaming the Bench and his own Credit made Chief-Justice Rolles relinquish his place and sue for a Quietus est just as old Sir Henry Vane deceased
Voted the Courts and the Term to be in as full force as if the Benches were full afterwards they anew constituted all those Serjeants in Oliver's time and Bradshaw Serjeant Terril a Buckingham-shire-Gentleman and one formerly of their party but never in such publick Office before and now making use of it to good purposes and Serjeant Fountain an eminent Royalist formerly at Oxford were made Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal Bradshaw was sick the other two received it at the Hands of the Speaker at the Clerk Thomas St. Nicholas in stead of Scobel his Table and took the old Engagement whither came now a Petition or Address from the Army in prosecution of their condition of dividing the Judicative and Executive power and to that purpose they had couched herein a project of a co-ordinate or select Senate the product of Sir Henry Vane's Wisdome and conveyed into their Heads by Lambert who was Dominus fac totum This was promised to be forthwith considered and the presenters had the Thanks of the House who resolved to new Commissionate the Officers which was done in the same manner as before the Speaker in few words declaring That the Parliament in confidence of their Ability and Fidelity did confer c. and this went throughout the Army one Regiment after another Fleetwood who by another of those by 15 Conditions was to be Commander in Chief by Land and Sea was made Lieutenant-General with the said express Command the Transcript of an Act so Intituled it being so agreed being presented and read and delivered to him at the Clerks Table aforesaid as his Commission Captain Lawson was made Vice-Admiral and to Command the Fleet for the Narrow Seas this Summer This disposal laying aside General Montague who was expected shortly from the Sound as one in whom they had no confidence nor any Interest Addresses likewise came from the Independent and Anabaptist Churches some of whom kept a Thanksgiving and invited all the other Congregations of that Sect to joyn with them in that Voluntary Solemnization of this good providence the chief of these were one Iessey's and Canne's Disciples the prime favourites of this RUMP which Name it now universally obtained And it will not be impertinent to the designe of this Chronicle to give an account of it since it was the frequentest word or by-word of the times This Term was first given them by one Mr. Walker who writ the History of Independency upon their secluding and debarring the House to their Fellow-Members in 1648. when there remained a Fag-end or Tail but was almost abolished by the height and violence of their prosperity nor was heard of again until Richard's Parliament when Major-General Brown repeating the many injuries he had received from that party or Juncto in a scornful Apostrophe branded it with this Note of Infamy The RVMP which now upon their re-admission again was their onely appellation except among their own party To court and oblige the Souldiery about Town and who as their Guards attended them they raised the Foot 's Pay a penny and the Horse three pence a day Colonel Alured and Overton were taken into favour the last made Governour of Hull the other Captain of their Life-guard which now they had established Sir Henry Vane's son being their Cornet Lockhart was also confirmed Governour of Dunkirk from which place they had received Addresses as also an Embassador from France another from the States General from the King of Poland an Evoy from Sweden the like from the Hans Towns from Genoa and Portugal so far had the dread of those inconsiderable persons by their former successes possessed most of the Princes of Europe Spain's friendship they made themselves sure of with whom at their breaking up they were in most perfect friendship and correspondence They had an eye also to Ireland and by Dispatches thither had frighted the Illustrious Lord Harry to a tame surrender of that Government into the hands of the Lord Chancellor Steel and Miles Corbet the Chief-Baron of that Exchequer upon the very first notice of such Orders coming which to oblige them the more he signified by an Express and that he was preparing to follow with all speed to give them an account of that Kingdom which he left in a very good condition and hoped his Successors might reap more content in the Government than he had found He arrived post-hast immediately after and having given his account to the Council of State had liberty granted him of going into the Country or whither he pleased as his Order expresly and indulgently declared To perform on their part with the Army now came out the new Act of Indemnity to all such as had been any way instrumental or active or concerned in the late Mutations of Government from the date of the 22 of April to the 7th of May 1659. with a Proviso of their taking the Engagement Just in the publication of which happened a Fray or skirmish at Enfield forrest the Country who had right of Commons being deprived thereof by certain Enclosures to new-erected Buildings by some Officers of the Army who had purchased the Kings Lands there and kept Guards there to secure this their Trespass and violence but the Country-people mastered them killing one or two and wounded a Serjeant took the rest and got them committed to Newgate for assaulting them as they were throwing down the Ditches and Hedges whence their good Masters ordered them soon after to be bayled being nine in number To the old trade they fell next against the Royal party Priests and Jesuits being joyned with them in the same Condemnation which was that all such as had not compounded or compounded and not paid their Fines should first depart twenty miles and before the first of August leave the Kingdom or else suffer as Traytors notwithstanding the Council of State was impowered upon subscription and security to do as they should see cause in that matter for besides the old grudge they had now information of a Cavalier-plot laid some time before by the same hands that betrayed the last to Cromwel who fearing the quick reward of their Treachery did the same Offices to this Rump Hereupon they began to settle their respective Militia's and being fully satisfied concerning Mr. Mordant's actings for and correspondence with the King they required him by Proclamation to appear before the 17 of August or else his offences should be taken pro confesso the designe still opening by the unwary discourses of the Lady Howard Daughter to the Earl of Berk-shire and the indiscreet conveyance of some Letters whereupon she and Mr. Ernestus Byron and Mrs. Sumner were committed to the Tower as also Mr. Harlow for some reports and stories of their base actions by the Council of State in order to Tryal The Duke of Buckingham who had some while before Married the Lord Fairfax's Daughter and was therefore spighted by Cromwel who had
of Fact will sufficiently shew this Transaction of the General with the several Counties and the Commissioners of the Rump Scot and Robinson appointed to wait on him meerly to sift out and discover his intentions I will give the Reader a bare Journal of the Affairs as they passed But before I proceed the Reader is to take notice That our Soveraign having been highly treated at his return from St. Iean de Luz at Paris by the Duke of Orleans and regarded now as the Monarch of great Britain such assured confidence there was of his Restitution passed in great State publiquely to Brussels where His return was no less magnificently welcomed and there abode till the dissolution of this Parliament the Rump which now as their last Engine and dying Efforts are most vigorous against Monarchy and its fortress of Loyalty had under their consideration an Act for Renuntiation and Abjuration of the Title and Right of the King and the whole Line of King Iames. Oliver had proceeded to the disanulling it this to the damning of the Nation who had sworn to maintain it But rather than sink as they plainly saw the King would at last be too hard for them by the late Commotions and Insurrections in his behalf therefore they bethought themselves of this Italian revenge to ruine the Bodies and Souls together of their Enemies this was afterwards prosecuted while the General was among them and a Petition delivered by Barebones and other Good-Old-Cause-men and Fanaticks and they most abominably thanked for this their love and care of the Common-wealth At the same time Sir Iohn Roll and other Devonshire Gentlemen listed and engaged all that Country upon the account of a Free-Parliament according to the Cabal betwixt the General and him Mr. Morrice now Secretary and others And this strength the General relyed on upon all events as his own Country-men and doubtless this resolution of that County was of very great influence in the ensuing Affairs Scot and Robinson were sent to cajole the General with another Letter of thanks to him as also another was sent to Major-General Morgan Col. Sydenham a Member of the Committee of Safety and of Oliver Cromwels's Council discharged the House A tumult at Exeter about a Free-Parliament Commissioners and Judges appointed for the several Courts Alderman Fouk Vincent and Colonel Bromfield ordered by the City to meet and congratulate the General The General at Nottingham came our a Declaration of the Parliament against Kingship but not a word of Dâssolving themselves or filling up the House Sir Robert Pye and Major Fincher for tendring a Declaration of the County of Berk-shire for a Free-Parliament were committed to the Tower which fored a Vote for Qualifications c. The Lady Monck arrived at White-hall the Minerva and great Patroness of this grand design General Monck arrived at Leicester and was met there by Scot and Robinson who sent the Parliament a copy of his Letter to the Devonshire Gentlemen great seeming kindness past between them An Act passed the House being a Bill of Assessment of One hundred thousand pounds a Moneth for six Moneths throughout England Scotland and Ireland they had made it at first for Twelve but it passed at last for Six At Harborough the General was met with the London-Commissioners to whom he speaks fair the High Sheriff of Northamptonshire and the Major of the Town congratulate him The Lord Falkland came thither also with the Oxfordshire Address for a Free-Parliament attended by the Gentry of that County and had a fair reception at Stony Stratford the Gentlemen of Bucks the like at Dunstable and at St. Albans he received more of the same nature from the County of Norfolk by the hands of the Lord Richardson and Sir Horatio Townsend and other places to which he answered ambiguously and fairly giving them all civil and most obliging Reception even to the Apprentices of London who came thither with a Petition of the same nature the General parting with the expressions of his care and endeavour for their and the Cities good and was uncovered all the while Thence he desired the Parliament that the Army in Town for fear of Infection be distributed into the Country to make room for his own Forces about which Tumults arose in the Guards at St. Pauls and more pertinaciously at Somerset-house which caused the General being invited also by the Rump to make extraordinary hast thither Several Reports made to the House concerning Qualifications and Elections On the second of February he Rendezvouzed that morning at Finchly-heath where he drew up his Army having marched from Barnet and by St. Iohns-street and Holborn down Chancery-lane came with his Army into the Strand where at Somerset-house he was met by the Speaker They saluted each other with the Title of Lord-General The General afterwards waited on him to his Coach and then to refresh but he refused White-hall for his Quarters Next day after he was conducted to his audience at the House where he had a Speech made to him by the Speaker being a thankful Commemoration of his services to which he modestly replied refusing to sit in the Chair placed for him by their order declining all the praises given him as he never intended any service for them but desiring them to be very tender of the Gentry of this Kingdom which would prove their Interest and of Oaths and Engagements c. so was with great respects reconducted and attended to his Lodging where he continued in good intelligence with them till their politick Revenge put him upon this Adventure to make a Feud between him and the City for the City refusing to pay the money assessed upon them by the late Act of 100000 l. per mensem the Rump order the Gates and Portcullices to be pulled down by the General and several Citizens to be apprehended viz. Sir William Vincent Sir Thomas Bludworth Sir Laurence Bromfield Sir Richard Ford Major Cox Mr. Penning Lieutenant-colonel Iackson Mr. Spencer Major Chamberlain and Mr. Brown a Grocer in Wood-street and sent to the Tower which the General performed They likewise ordered the discontinuance of the Common Council for that year and proceeded to nominate another and to settle a new Militia The Gates were accordingly pulled down the thumps of the Hammers even piercing the hearts of the Citizens Such an affront and revenge never any of our Princes in his greatest rage did to this place where likewise the Army was perforce Quartered But after the pulling down of the Gates the General sent a Letter to the Parliament acquainting them how grievous and distastful the action was to his nature intimating also the great Merit of the City towards them throughout the War and on Friday after several Conferences managed before him by some of the secluded Members and City and others of the Rump He pretending his desire of satisfaction for their Exclusion of the evidence of danger of their readmission
Loyalty the Bonfires continuing till day-break fed by a constant supply of Wood and maintained with an equal excess of gladness and fewel Thus far this memorable and miraculous Affair hath carried me not willing to break off the gladsome speculation and review of his glory and happy Influences I must now a little retrospect to what passed at home in the Parliament and Kingdome Several Acts were in agitation one for removing and preventing all questions and disputes concerning the Sitting and Assembling of this present Parliament as also that of Oblivion and Indempnity and another for Sales and Purchases and in the mean while it was ordered by the Lords That a stop be put to the demolishing defacing or committing wast in any Houses or Lands belonging to his Majesty and that no Wood nor Timber should be felled and the like done in the Lands belonging to the Duke of Buckingham the Lord Craven and Sir Iohn Stawel The Commons ordered Ten thousand pounds to be sent as a present to the Duke of York also that the Scotch Colours taken at Preston Dunbar and Worcester and hung up in Westminster-hall should be taken down which was accordingly executed and the Kings Arms placed in the Courts of Judicature Col. Harrison one of the Kings most malicious Judges was apprehended in Staffordshire and brought up to London and by his Excellencies Order Committed to the Tower while Whitehall was then a preparing for his Majesty The House of Commons taking into consideration the business of the Piedmont-Collection-money declared their detestation and abhorrence of the diversion of the said Money from the charitable uses to which pretendedly it was designed The King was Proclaimed with great joy throughout the Nation while divers of the Kings Judges out of consciousness of their guilt escaped beyond Sea In Ireland also the King was by the Convention there Assembled Proclaimed with the usual Ceremonies Several of the eminentest of that Nation were also ordered to be sent to his Majesty in the name of that Kingdome with a present of Four thousand pound to the Duke of York so sympathetically did the Irish Harp move with the same touches on the English The most Illustrious Princes the Dukes of York and Gloucester went to the House of Lords and there took their places whither the next day came the King himself by Water in the Brigandine which brought him aboard the Charles from Holland the Yeomen of the Guard making a lane the Heralds at Arms in their rich Coats the Maces and the Lord General Bare-headed before him being seated the Commons were called to whom the King in a Speech pressed very much the Act of Oblivion and Signed some Bills viz. One for Confirmation of the Parliament Another for the Tax of Seventy thousand pounds per Mensem for three Moneths from the 24 of Iune A third for continuance of Process and Judicial Proceedings and then returned to Whitehall where he chose the Lords of his Privy Council among whom were several of the Long Parliament His Majesty also graciously and judiciously provided for the Benches and Courts of Judicature for the Chancery the Lord Chancellour Hide for the Rolls the Lord Culpepper who soon after dyed and the place was by the Kings favour bestowed on Sir Harbottle Grimstone for the Kings Bench Sir Robert Foster Justice Mallet and Sir Thomas Twisden in the Common-Pleas Justice Atkins and in the Exchequer Sir Orlando Bridgeman Sir Ieoffry Palmer Attorney and Sir Heneage Finch Sollicitor-General Mr. Iohn Heath son of Sir Robert Atturney to the Dutchy But of this a fuller account Several Persons guilty of the Murther of King Charles the First making their escapes beyond Sea a Proclamation drawn up by the Parliament was published by his Majesty summoning the persons therein named who sate gave Judgment and Assisted in that horrid and detestable Fact to render themselves within Fourteen days after the Publication of that His Majesties Royal Proclamation to the Speaker or Speakers of the Parliament or to the Lord Mayor of London or to the respective Sheriffs of the Counties of England and Wales and that no person should presume to conceal or harbour them under misprision of Treason whereupon divers came in and submitted and were secured in the Tower Several Addresses were made to the King from the Nobility and Gentry of all the Counties congratulating his Majesties Restitution to his Throne and Kingdoms and testifying their exceeding joy and willingness to maintain his Majesties Royal Person and Authority Divers eminent persons for their service and affection to his Majesty were honoured with Knighthood The House of Commons ordered that others besides the Actual Judges of the King should be excepted out of the Act of Oblivion which was now very far proceeded in as namely Andrew Broughton Phelps Iohn Cook Hugh Peters and Edward Denby This so affrighted others who had a hand in that execrable business that Colonel Iohn Hutchinson a Member in this Parliament and Colonel Francis Lassells Petitioned the House confessing their guilt and withal the Artifices that were used to draw them in and by this submission obtained Pardon upon some forfeitures Hugh Peters was taken about this time in Southwarke at first he denyed his Name but being brought before Sir Iohn Robinson then made Lieutenant of the Tower he was known and acknowledged himself and was there secured The Parliament thought not themselves nor the people of England freed from that guilt and punishment which our unhappy times had contracted unless they laid hold on his Majesties Grace mentioned in his Declaration from Breda and therefore Resolved That the House doth declare that they do in the Name of themselves and all the Commons of England lay hold on his Majesties gracious Pardon mentioned in his Declaration with reference to the excepting of such as shall be excepted in an Act of Pardon and accordingly a Declaration was made and presented to the King by Master Denzill Hellis His Majesty was graciously pleased to signifie his readiness and willingness to comply with that his Royal Word and gave direction for a Proclamation to that purpose In the mean while several of the eminentest in Offices under the Usurpation to make sure of this Grace offered from Breda got their particular Pardons exemplified under the Great Seal of England as they were well advised by the notoriety of their Guilt and their distrustful Consciences to secure and discharge which trouble the King was more than ordinary pressing for a speedy Passing of the Act of Oblivion as on the other side his Sentiments of those services to his Restitution gave him the immediate resolutions of dignifying those Illustrious Personages who most instrumentally and principally did accomplish it And therefore on the 12 of Iuly he honoured the most noble General Monck with the Titles of Duke of Albemarle which Dutchy formerly was appropriate to the Blood Royal and was extinct in the Reign of Henry the
disaffection to the Government but not many they were that were upon this account outed and discharged By virtue of the Allyance and Treaty with the Crown of Portugal several Forces were sent hence to Assist that Kingdome against the prevailing Power of the Spaniard who just at the Majority of that King and his taking the Government into his own hands had made a formidable Invasion and Progress into those Dominions These Forces most of them immediately set Sayl from Dunkirke some Troops and Companies Landing there from Leith all Commanded in chief by his Excellency the Earl of Inchiqueen the famous Souldier in Ireland Colonel Morgan late Governour of Scotland being his Major-General they arrived well and in good health there on the Twenty ninth of Iune and after a little refreshment and being prohibited to eat the Fruit of the Countrey for fear of Fevours and other Distempers advanced towards the Campania but the Spaniard having notice thereof thought it not advisable to Fight with them in their strength and vigour but to waste them with the usual incommodities of those Climates to us and retreated back again immediately into Spain In Iuly following the Duke of Ormond Lord Lieutenant of Ireland His Majesty having given him a very Honourable and friendly farewel and having received the like civilities from the whole Court set forwards in his Journey and Voyage to that Kingdome where he Arrived three weeks after and was most Magnificently received into the City of Dublin and congratulated and welcomed by the whole Body of that People in Parliament to whom in their Assembly he delivered himself in a most Excellent Speech There was mention made before of the Commissioners for Regulating Corporations for the securing of the peace of the Kingdome by these Gentlemen named for each County City and Borrough it was ordered besides the displacing of Officers that the Walls of the respective Cities and Towns of Gloucester and Coventry Northampton Taunton and Leicester and other places which had Bulworks and Garrisons and maintained them throughout the War against the King and were the Reception of and maintenance the Rebellion should be demolished as Examples and Security to successive times the County-Troops and respective Trained Band-Regiments guarded these places when they were Demolished Dr. Gauden the Bishop of Exeter died about this time September as also William Lenthal the Speaker of the Long Parliament very penitently The Town of Dunkirk taken from the Spaniard in One thousand six hundred fifty eight and kept ever since at a vast and great charge was by advice of the Lords of his Majesties Privy Councel as being never annexed by Act of Parliament to the Crown of England returned to the French King who upon surrender of it in the year aforesaid delivered it unto us Now for the sum of Five hundred Thousand pounds fully paid that Fortress was delivered into the Possession of the French under the Government of the Count d'Eâirades and his Deputy the Marquess of Montpear two English Companies with the Governour only Guarding the Gates at their entrance and delivering the Keys of the same Town The Honourable Sir Edward Nicholas having served his Majesty and his Father as Secretary of State for many years obtained his Quietus est from the King who would have dignified his Merit with a Barrony which Sir Edward modestly declined because His Majesty should not increase the Nobility and Sir Henry Bennet late the Kings Resident in Spain a very excellent Person was named to that Preferment Among these and the like Honours conferred by the King upon his Faithful and Loyal Servants and Subjects which the purport of this Chronicle obliged me to take notice off and be their Herauld this time challenged my observance of a Dignity conferred on that eminent and worthy Personage Dr. Iohn Berkenhead Knighted with a Testimony from his Majesty that he had done his Father and himself very signal and great services during the last twenty years Revolution and there is scarce any Honest man in the Three Kingdoms who will not say Amen to this his Majesties EVGE There had been suspition of a Plot and the City Trained Bands had watched and warded every Night for the most part of the Summer ever since the Kings departure to meet the Queen but now the Design appeared the first named was one Captain Baker a New-England-man an acquaintance of Hugh Peters there and preferred to be one of Olivers Band of Pensioners this Fellow acquaints one Hill the Son of a Phanatick or Independant Preacher in the Street and tells him of a Designe and brings him acquainted at several Meetings of divers of the Conspiracy which he having good information of revealed with the names of the Conspirators to Sir Richard Brown Some of those engaged thus only met and heard and reported their discourses of Arms and other preparations to their own gang but approved the Treason so well that they never discovered it This Plot was against the Sacred Life of the King the Duke of York the noble Duke of Albemarle and Sir Richard Brown and generally the Bishops Nobility Gentry and Commonalty that were not of their Opinions and Assisted them not and they had ready prepared a draught of their Government their Councels were carried on by six who never sate twice in a Place nor could be known to any two their Commander in chief was Ludlow Colonel Danvers Mr. Nye Mr. Lockyer and one Lieutenant Strange the Captains Spencer and Taverner were favourable to the Design and would surprize Deal Castle in Kent as Windsor was certain to be theirs and the Word the Night they were to fall on which after several put offs was appointed the last of October was to be given them by George Phillips a Serjeant in the Colonels Company of the White Regiment For this the Eleventh of December the said George Phillips Thomas Tongue a Distiller of Strong Waters Francis Stubs being a Cheesmonger Iames Hind Gunner Iohn Sellers Compass-maker and Nathanael Gibs Felt-maker were Convicted by Evidence of their fellow-Conspirators Edward Rigge Bradley and others only Hind Pleaded Guilty and craved the King's Mercy they alledged they never Acted such Trayterous intentions but the Design was proved to have been communicated and laid open to them after their full Defence they were all found Guilty and on the Twenty second of December Phillips Tongue Gibs and Stubs were Executed according to Sentence but His Majesty was graciouâly pleased to give their Quarters to be buried but their Heads to be set up upon several Poles two on each Tower-Hill the nearest place to the Tower On the Twenty sixth of December his Majesty to satisfie the Kingdome of his intents in reference to the unsatisfiedness of Dissenters to the Established Settlement of the Church expressed his Indulgence to their Consciences so far as such Liberty would not Disturb the Publick Peace nor entrench upon the Orthodox Religion professed and that he
very few his Memory however is there held in great Honor as if the Memory of his Courage were the Soul of the Garrison And seeing we are got so far abroad it may not be unseasonable to remember the famous Battle fought between the Turks and Christians under the conduct of Montecuculi it being one of the ãâã famous Occurrences of this year most fatal to the Infidels who that day left dead upon the field the flower of their Infantry to the number of 6 or 7000 among which two Bassaes all their Cannon above forty Colours with Plunder inestimable To which Honorable Victory the wounds of the French did not a little conduce Nor are we so slenderly to pass by another Atchievement of Geneal Souches the general good of Christendom being equally concern'd in both who with an unequal number of only six thousand encountring above 15000 of the Enemy near the Garrison of Lewentz with the loss only of 250 slew eight thousand thereby gaining an absolute Victory vast Booty and Provisions of all sorts All this while though there was open War with Argier and that Lawson kept so vigilant an eye over them yet by reason that either through Cowardize or want of sufficient force they were constrain'd to keep close in their Harbors that sedulous Admiral could do little good upon them otherwise than by blocking up their Harbors to keep them from Roving doing mischief His Majesty therefore having more occasion for so great and eminent a Commander at home sent for both him and C. Berkley into England to employ them against a more Noble Enemy in pursuance of which Order Sir Iohn Lawson returns for England leaving Captain Allen to Command in Chief in his Room who in a short time after brought them to that distress that they were glad to accept of Peace upon terms advantageous enough for the King of England The Divan disowning the Breach and laying the fault upon some few that for their own benefit would not be rul'd by their Superiors As thus his Majesties Arms so were his Counsels active abroad The Earl of Carlisle is sent Embassador to Muscovy and Sweden whither also Sir Gilbert Talbât was likewise employ'd as a particular Envoy as likewise Mr. Coventry to Denmark All upon such important Instructions as the emergency of Affairs at that time requir'd but in general to keep a strict union and Correspondence with those Nations Neighbours of his Enemies Sir George Downing was presently after his return into England sent back again with full Instructions what he had to do Many Conferences he had about the Lists of Damages but the Dutch would return no positive Answer to any thing nor come to any Agreement hoping to prove the event of certain great expectations which they had not the least of which was the return of a vast Treasure in several great Fleets of Merchant-men His Majesty well knowing how strong a Nerve of War Mony is resolv'd to way-lay those vast Masfes of Wealth as they pass'd his own Channel mov'd also by certain Intelligence which he had that the Dutch were resolv'd in contempt of his power to send their Guinee preparations by Sea and that Opdam should convey them through the Channel To which end and purpose that he might be before-hand with the preparations of the Dutch the King strives with all his Puissance to make ready his Navy Whose Royal endeavours and indefatigable pains in his own particular Person were answered by the Success For such was the alacrity of his Subjects that saw him continually travelling from place to place by the presence of his own Majesty to encourage forward the work and to see all things effectually and speedily done that the City freely at the first demand made by the Earl of Manchester Lord Chamberlain of the Kings Houshold suppli'd him with another Loan of another hundred thousand Pounds which so highly promoted his Royal Designe that while the Dutch slattering themselves with vain suppositions of his want of Men and Mony and broken with the Calamity of the Pestilence were only forc'd to look on and with envy behold his vigorous preparations the King had furnish'd out such a magnificent Navy to the Sea as the Ocean had hardly seen in any former Ages On the other side the Dutch having consider'd the dangers of the Northern Passage seemingly lay aside all thoughts of going about by Scotland and resolve to force their passage through the Channel The Commissioners therefore of the several Admiralties having revictual'd Opdams Fleet from the middle of October to the middle of December gave him order to hasten out to Sea with the first wind and to Conduct the Guinee-Succors through the Channel having taken care for some other Ships from the Vlie and Texel to joyn with him and in the mean time they sent a Galliot before to their Director-General in Guinee to give him notice of their Proceedings Which resolution taken and carried on with so much vigour most men believ'd to have been extorted from them by the necessity of their present condition for they had scatter'd many Contempts upon the English Nation and yet falter'd in the point of execution Nor was the Issue of this Bravado it self other than what their âear presented for about the middle of October Prince Rupert arriv'd at the Spit-head with sixteen Sail of Men of War The first thing he discover'd was a small Man of War of 14 Guns which the Prince suspecting to be employ'd for Discovery and Advice sent his Smack out to Sea with Orders to forbid him to beat there any longer unless he were upon Trade upon which Message he vanish'd At the beginning of November the Duke of York Lord high Admiral of England departed towards his Charge at Portsmouth having receiv'd a most gracious farewel from his Majesty in a short while after he went aboard and joyn'd with the Prince and Earl of Sandwich so that it was no easie thing to unlock the Narrow Seas Opdam lay with his Fleet in the Goree and great debates there were whether he should out or no but the Wind continuing cross put an end to that Dispute And a fair excuse they had for not adventuring upon so great disadvantages as they were like to have found for as we said before the Duke was now joyââd with the Prince and the Earl of Sandwich Thereupon about the beginning of December perceiving great likelihood of Frosts and high Winds they thought good to lay up till Spring which was accordingly put in Execution to the great dissatisfaction of the Merchants who now found themselves abandon'd and left to all the hazards of a Winter Voyage Opdam return'd to the Hague and the Seamen were paid off And last of all for the better Information of the King of France how Affairs stood Monsieur Benninghen was dispatch'd away Post for Paris To recompence the Stay of the Royal Navy to
hands while he had such large Sums to carry on the War In a short time the Prâpositions of the several Counties and the Names of the Commissioners were agreed upon by both Houses of Parliament Upon the Eleventh of February following the King Sign'd the Act being Entituled An Act for granting a Royal Ayd of Twenty four hundred threescore and seventeen thousand and five hundred pounds For which his Majesty return'd his Royal thanks In the beginning of March following his Majesty having passed several other Acts presented him by both Houses and receiv'd their good wishes for the prosperity of his undertakings delivered in a Speech by the Speaker Prorogued them till the Twenty first of Iune 1665. A little before the Parliament met His Majesty set forth a Declaration for Encouragement of Marriners and Seamen employ'd in the Service Allowing all Officers and Seamen after the rate of Ten shillings per Tun for every lawful Prize and to take to themselves as free Pillage whatever they should take on or above the Gun-Deck with his Royal Promise to provide for the Sick and Wounded Widows Children and Impotent Parents of such as should be Kill'd with several other advantages mention'd in the said Declaration His Majesties Wisdom and Goodness in that and in all other things plentifully providing for all Events both of War and Peace In December following His Majesty setting forth the Consideration which he had taken of the Injuries Affronts and Spoyls done by the Subjects of the Vnited Provinces to the Ships Goods and Persons of His Majesties Suâjects notwithstanding many and frequent demands for Redress by the Advice of His Privy Councel ordered That general Reprisals should be granted against the Ships and Goods and Subjects of the Vnited Provinces As this did not a little vex the Dutch so with greater reason the action of De Ruyter in Guiny did Incense the King of England and therefore in the beginning of February he put forth a Declaration That the Subjects of His Majesty had sustained several Injuries and Damages from the Subjects of the United Provinces That he had made Complaint thereof and frequently demanded Satisfaction That instead of Reparation they had not only ordered De Ruyter to desert the Consortship against the Pyrats of the Mediterranean Sea but also to do all acts of Violence and Hostility against His Majesties People in Africa And that therefore His Majesty did with the Advice of his Privy Councel Declare the Dutch the Aggressors Impowring His Majesties Fleet to Fight and Destroy the Ships of the Netherlanders This Declaration being a solemn Denuntiation of War was proclam'd in the beginning of March at White-hall Temple-bar and the Royal-Exchange with the usual Solemnities This Declaration charging them to be the Aggressors stuck heavily in their Stomachs and they took it into their serious consideration But instead of answering to so high a Charge they contented themselves with a second Libel which they had publish'd somewhile before which they call'd A Summary Observation and Deduction delivered by the Deputies of the States General upon the Memorial of Sir George Downing Envoy Extraordinary of the King of Great Britain As lewd a piece for foulness of Language and weakness of Defence as ever came into the light under pretence of Authority In the mean while their Embassies to Swedeland and Denmark went slowly on and instead of being befriended by France the Embassador of that Crown is order'd to demand reparations for the loss of two very considerable East-India Ships taken from the Subjects of that Kingdom And at the same time his Electoral Highness renewed his demands of satisfaction from the Governors of Wasel for the affront offerâd to the Son of his Excellencie the Earl of Carlisle of which it may not be unseasonable now to give the Relation The Lord Morpeth Son of the Earl of Carlisle travelling from Munster to Collen found a Tâoop of Horse drawn up in his way the Captain whereof coming to the young Lord told him he had Orders to carry that Company to Wesel by a Verbal Order from the Governour which he did and lodg'd the Company in two Inns. After they had been two days Prisoners one Hayes a Gentleman belonging to the Duke of Brandenburghs Council in Cleve demanded the Prisoners in the Dukes name threatning to seize the Goods of the States Subjects in the Dukes Dominions in case of refusal The Governor answer'd that he was inform'd they were gathering a Party to fall upon his Garrison but finding the Information false he gave them all free liberty to proceed in their Journey But the Lord Morpeth and the English not so contented went to Cleve and there in the Dukes Court exhibited a Charge against the Governor Not long after Major Holmes was committed to the Tower upon several Accusations laid against him But when the whole matter came to be strictly enquired into and examined he did so fully clear himself upon every point that the King was not only pleas'd to discharge but to honour him with a singular mark of his favour Toward the middle of March several Memorials were delivered in by the Ministers of France Portugal and Swede complaining of their Ships being detained contrary to the Usage and Practice of their Friends and Allies To which the States gave little or no satisfaction only permitted some French Ballast-ships to go out About the latter end of March Captain Allen arriv'd in the Downs with a considerable Squadron of his Majesties Fleet and a Convoy of rich Merchants together with a rich Prize one of them that were taken at Cadiz a lusty Ship which was afterwards made a man of War and carried above 40 Guns About this time his Majesty publish'd a Proclamation prohibiting the Importation or Retailing of any Commodities of the Growth or Manufacture of the States of the United Provinces occasion'd by a Prohibition on their parts of the Importing or Vending any Goods or Wares made in any of the Kings Dominions But while we prepare for War at home we make Peace abroad For the English in Tangier had by this made an advantageous Accord with Gayland the Mâors being very ready to agree with them in all Amity and good Correspondence Nor was it less pleasing to hear of Sir Charles Cotterels reception at Bruxels who being sent on his Majesties behalf to preserve and continue the Ancient Amity had an entertainment sutable to his Quality If there were any thoughts of Peace among the Hollanders it was only in shew for their preparations for War were open and publick and therefore the King with most indefatigable diligence journey'd from Port to Port to hasten out his Fleet already in great readiness as also by his presence to incourage the Seamen that by the 25 th of March ending the Year 1664 the Fleet most magnificently prepar'd with all Provisions necessary was ready to receive their most
make of any Exactions practis'd upon them by any of the Officers Sub-Officers or Clerks in the Navy-Office or Treasury-Office that if the same should appear to be true Justice might be done upon the one and Satisfaction given to the other About this time dy'd Mr. Abraham Cowley one of the chiefest Ornaments of this Age whose Immature Death succeeding Ages will lament when they finde what Treasures they have lost by his untimely Fate His temperate Life did not deserve so short a Period But Heaven perhaps thought he had done enough that could not well do more than make himself Immortal His Body was convey'd from Wallingford-House to Westminster-Abbey attended by many Persons of very great Quality over whose Grave has been since Erected a stately Monument to Eternize his Memory In America the French had a Design upon Mevis having drawn out all their Forces from Martenico Guadaloup and St. Christophers strengthen'd also with an additional force of their own and two Dutch Men of War being in all 32 Sail but being encountred by 10 Sail of the English who were sent by Lieutenant General Willoughby for the relief of the Island the English so smartly Encountr'd them that he Chased them home to St. Christophers Upon the Return of the English to Mevis they found Sir Iohn Harman newly Arriv'd there with seven Men of War and two Fireships who understanding what had happen'd resolv'd to fall upon them in their own Ports which he did so effectually that he burn'd their Admiral and six or seaven of their best Ships more the rest all but two were sunk partly by the industry of the Enemy partly by the Shot of the English Ships in which Service the English lost not above 80 Men with little damage to their Vessels From the other Indies two ships about this time arriv'd under the Convoy of Sir Ieremy Smith who having been cruising in the Streights the most part of the Summer had met with no opportunity of considerable action more than to keep the Dominion of the Seas However at length he made a shift to meet with two Dââch East-Indie-Prises outward bound which he brought home returning into St. Helâens-Road toward the end of September Nor did the Dutch at any time Triumph where the number was not too unequal as appeared by the success of six of our smaller Frigats who falling in with three Holland Men of War of 42 36 and 30 Guns and two Merchant-men to the Northward took the three Men of War and one of the Merchant-men being forc'd to quit the other upon view of a whole Squadron of the Enemy At home the King had notice of the great concourse of very many persons of the Romish Religion to the Chappels of St. Iames and Somerset-house and therefore gave order in âouncil That if any of his Subjects not being of the Families of the Queen or Queen-Mother or of Forrein Embassadors should repair to hear Mass or perform any Exercises of the Romish Religion that they should be severely prosecuted and such punishments inflicted upon them as by Law were provided And for the better discovery of such as were addicted to Popery the Lord-Keeper was Authoriz'd to issue out Commissions of Dedimus Potestatem for administring the Oaths of Allegeance and Supremacy in all places of England and Wales where they had not been already granted by the Lord-Chancellor The abuses also of the Company of Woodmongers were look'd into and upon frequent consultations thereupon had it was thought fit that for the conveniency of the Publick their Charter should be surrender'd which when they peremptorily refus'd to do the Atturney-General was order'd to proceed against them by Quo Warranto and by Information in the Crown-Office The City began to rise with more splendor now than ever which the King to forward as much as in him lay as soon as the Foundation of the Royal Exchange was appointed to be laid was pleased to be present and assisting at the Solemnity His Majesty there placing the first Stone with the usual Ceremonies Not long after the Duke of York attended with several persons of Honour went into the City and being honourably receiv'd by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen with the usual Ceremonies upon such occasions laid the first Stone for a second Pillar which gave so great an encouragement to the Workmen that never did so large a Structure go on with greater Vigour The remaining part of the Year was more for Counsel than Action And therefore the King for the better regulating affairs for the future among other Important parts thereof taking into his consideration the ways and methods of managing matters at the Council-Board establish'd several standing Committees for several businesses with regular daies for their Assembling And not content to have Peace at home His Majesty to shew himself a Mediator among his Neighbours sent his Embassador the Earl of Sandwich on that Grand Errand of making Peace between Spain and Portugal who soon after he had his dispatches arriv'd at Lisbon He no sooner had had his Audience but upon the resignation of the former King the Infanta his Brother took possession of the Scepter However so well he manag'd his employ that in a short while after the Articles were fully agreed on between the two Crowns of Spain and Portugal and the Ratification mutually exchang'd between the said Embassador of England and the Spanish and Portugueze Commissioners and soon thereupon publish'd both at Madrid and Lisbon The Insolencies of private Men of War were about this time very great and therefore the King taking into consideration as well the safeguard and protection of his own Subjects as of his Allies the disturbances of Commerce and the diminution of his own Revenues in his own Ports and Harbours set forth a Proclamation commanding an inviolable Tâuce and Cessation in his own Ports Havens and Roads That his Subjects by Sea and Land should do their utmost to hinder the roving and hovering of any Men of War neer the Entry of any of his Ports or Harbours That if any Men of War of one side came into any Port where were Merchant-men of another party the Merchant-men should be suffer'd to depart two Tides before the Men of War That no Privateer with forrein Commission should stay above 24 hours in any of his Majesties Ports or Harbours That none of his Majesties Subjects should contract or deal with any forrein Man of War That no Mariner or Officer being the King 's Subject should presume to put himself into the service of any forrein Prince or State Toward the beginning of this Moneth the Paâââament according to their Adjournment met At which time the King coming to the House of Lords directed his Speech to both Houses telling them that he had made a League Defensive with the States of the Vnited Provinces with a League also for an Efficacious Mediation of Peace betwixt the two Crowns
year besides that their Admiral Morosini with Twenty five Gallies some few Galliasses and several Fireships engaging above One hundred of the Turks Gallies with Sixty Saicks burnt sunk and took the greatest part of them among the rest of his Prisoners Two Bashaws with six Months Provision and Ammunition for supply of the Besiegers The success of Gayland an Enemy of the English must not be omitted who being at Argilla and hearing of a great Defeat given by Taffalette to Ben Buker wherein Ben Buker himself was taken Prisoner and that there was little hopes of getting another Army into the Field to oppose the Conquerour and finding how the ill news work'd upon his own people who began to threaten to desert him unless their wants were supplied he got out of Argilla with 300 men and Transported himself for Argier At this time about the beginning of March the King of Portugal having caus'd his Brother the King to resigne married the Queen and was by the three Estates of that Kingdom confirm'd in his Regency and in a solemn manner they swore Obedience to him accordingly Now though all things went well at home on the French side yet they had not the success which they promis'd themselves at Madagascar where by engaging themselves in other peoples Quarrels they not onely lost many Men but carrying themselves too high and imperious and forcing the Inhabitants to carry their Arms for them the Natives taking hold of the opportunity fell so heartily upon their new Lords that they destroy'd the greatest part of them But Queen Christina having disintrigu'd her self out of these Hurly-burlies at the latter end of the Year arriv'd at Rome where her entertainment was Pompous and Magnificent Nor did the Pope himself the next day disdain to give her a visit in his own proper person glad no question of so Eminent a Proselyte Anno Dom. 1669. THe 25 th of March being past the Year 1669 begins A Year wherein there could be nothing more calm and quiet than the surface of the English Affairs had not the future effects of its silent contrivances made it appear that though action fail'd 't was busie enough in Council Therefore Envoys and Embassadors were frequently employed a most certain Prognostick of active designes About the beginning of the Year the Earl of Carlisle was sent Embassador Extraordinary to Sweden While he repos'd himself in Copenhagen in which Court he was well known he receiv'd a Letter sent after him by the King of England in return of a very obliging Letter from the King of Denmark with the receipt whereof the King of Denmark was so well satisfied and pleased that at the seasonable instance of his Lordship he was pleas'd to cause his Orders to be dispers'd to all his Ports particularly to his Custom-places and Havens in Norway for restoring the Engish Trading to any part of his Kingdom or Dominions and the same priviledges which they formerly enjoy'd according to the Treaty concluded in the Year 1660. Being arriv'd in Sweden among other Transactions he had a private Audience in which he presented the King of Sweden with the little George worn by the Knights of the Order of the Garter which the King received with great expressions of joy being after that solemnly and publickly by a particular Commission presented and invested by the said Earl with all the peculiar Habits and Ornaments belonging to the said Order Other Embassadors were sent to other parts as Mr. Montague Extraordinary for France Sir Peter Wyche for Muscovy In Iuly the Earl of Winchelsey return'd from his Embassie at Constantinople Nor can History be so ungrateful to Learning as to bury in silence the Honour due to its most bountiful advancers It was therefore this Year that the University of Oxford being assembled in a full Body went to take possession of the New Theatre the magnificent gift of Dr. Sheldon Arch-Bishop of Canterbury where after the reading his Grace's Grant by the Register of the University Dr. South the University-Orator made a Speech sutable to the occasion After which several Panegyricks were pronounc'd in Prose and Verse concluding the Ceremony with several sorts ãâã Musick both Vocal and Instrumental But in the King's Ears the discords of Schism were more unpleasing for now from several parts of the Kingdom came several Informations that they who separated themselves from the established Worship met in greater numbers than formerly to such a degree as to endanger the publick Peace and greatly to the contempt of the Kings Indulgence to Tender Consciences which forc'd the King to issue out his Proclamation for the suppressing of such Meetings by putting the Laws in execution and proceeding particularly against the Preachers Learning always deserves an honourable Mecaenas and therefore the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury having upon satisfactory reasons refus'd the Vice-Chancellorship of Oxford Dr. Fell with the greatest part of the Body of the Convocation meeting at Worcester-house Install'd the Duke of Ormond Chancellor of that University The King was now diverting himself together with the Duke of York in the New Forest in Hampshire when they both receiv'd an express of the Death of their Mother the Queen Dowager of England who died upon the last of August at Colâmbe after a long Indisposition and decay of Health which made them both repair with all speed to Hampton-court Her body was for some time expos'd with usual Ceremonies in the Gallery of St. Columbes after which her Heart was in a Silver-Vessel inscrib'd with her Name and Title carried to the Monastery of Chaliot Her Body was carried to St. DeniÌs and plac'd in a Chappel behinde the Quire In November following she was buried after the Form and Magnificence which was formerly used at the Funeral of the Queen-Mother This Moneth brought us news that the Enemy was more than ordinarily busie about Tangier appearing often and in great numbers both of Horse and Foot They laid two considerable Ambushes to have surâriz'd the Garrison but one was discovered by the Sentinels the other by the barking of Dogs purposely kept there by the People and Souldiers by which means they were beaten off with considerable loss This not taking effect they appeared next day on the other side of the Town and gave the occasion of a smart dispute for an hour but were thence also forc'd to retire much to their disadvantage This made them quiet for some time when on a suddain they again shew'd themselves behinde a Hill neer a Fort call'd Iames's Fort here as the Onset was powerful so they met with equal resistance and a courage so much superiour as quickly forc'd 'um to leave the Enterprize and many of their men behinde with the loss only of one Corporal which this Year ended all the trouble of that Garrison The Duke of Ormond had been some time since call'd out of Ireland who thereupon left his Son the Lord Ossory to command in his
and that he did not receive the profits of it But the Emperour denied he knew of his being a Plenipotentiary and that it was not for one of his Subjects to take up Interests contrary to the Interest of his Soveraign and would not hear of his Release During these Treaties the King of France had possess'd himself of a great part of the Palatinate and had put a Garrison into Germerstein of 300 Souldiers yet proffered the Elector if he would stand Neuter to satisfie him for all his Damages and to withdraw his Souldiers out of Gemerstein and put it into the Hands of any Neutral Prince of the Empire which he refus'd upon Caprara's coming to his Succour The Switzers to hinder the King of France from coming into Burgundy offered that Burgundy might stand Neutur proffering themselves security that that Province should punctually observe the Neutrality and that they would guard the Avenues into it against any Forces of the Empire And thus stood Affairs at the end of this year Anno Dom. 1674. PEace being now concluded between the English and the Dutch this Year was not memorable for much at home The first motion of the Court this Moneth was to Windsor where the Earl of Mulgrave was Install'd Knight of the Garter This Moneth also the King by his Embassador the Lord Lockhart offer'd his Mediation between the King of France and the Queen of Spain to compose the differences betwixt them And to the end he might be no way concern'd in their differences by publick Proclamation forbid any of his Subjects to enter into the Service of any forrain Prince He also set forth a Proclamation forbidding the broaching and uttering false and scandalous News as also against any that should talk impertinently of the Government or the Governours In May Sir Lionel Ienkins and Sir Ioseph Williamson return'd to London from Cologne Who were followed into England by the Baron de Reed Van Benninghen and Van Haren Extraordinary Embassadors from the States of Holland In Iune came a strict Proclamation against the Jesuites and Friests Commanding their discovery and apprehension and promising five pounds for every one that should be discovered and taken Toward the beginning of September upon Resignation of the Duke of Buckingham the Duke of Mânmouth was made Chancellor of the University of Cambridge The Ceremony was performed with all its circumstances at Worcester-house in London Not long after the Right Honourable the Earl of St. Albans having resign'd into his Majesty's Hands the Staff of Office of Lord-Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold his Majesty was pleas'd to give it to the Right Honourable the Earl of Arlington in recompence of his long and faithful Services and particularly for having performed to his Majesties satisfaction for the space of twelve years the Offiâe of Principal Secretary of State which his Majesty was pleas'd to conâer at the same time upon the Right Honourable Sir Ioseph Williamson Knight one of the Clerks then of his Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council for his long and faithful service in the said Office under Sir Edward Nicholas and the Earl of Arlington and in his place Philip Lloyd Esq was sworn one of the Clerks of the Privy-Council Upon the 22 of September his Majesty was pleas'd to cause a Proclamation to be published for the further prorogation of the Parliament from the 10 th of November till the 13 th of April ensuing In the beginning of December the Earls of Ossory and Arlington together with the Heer Odike not long before Extraordinary Embassador in England arrived at the Hagne where they went to pay their Respects to the Prince of Orange About the same time was concluded between his Majesties Commissioners and those of the States General of the Vnited Provinces a Treaty Marine for all parts of the World in pursuance of the 8 th and 9 th Articles of the late Treaty of Peace made at Westminster the February before and was after ratifi'd by the States in the beginning of February following Presently after His Majesty having been graciously pleased to Translate the Right Reverend Father in God Dr. Crew Bishop of Oxford and Clerk of the Closet to his Majesty to the Sea of Durham made choice of the Honourable Dr. Compton Brother to the Right Honourable the Earl of Northampton to succeed in his place Toward the middle of December His Majesty having been pleased at his entertainment at Guild-Hall when Sir Robert Viner was newly Lord-Mayor of the City graciously and freely to condescend to the acceptance of the Freedom of London in the Chamberlains Office from the Hands of Sir Thomas Player Chamberlain beyond the Example of any of his Predecessors The said Sir Robert Viner Lord-Mayor thereupon having first obtained his Majesties leave presented his Majesty in the Name of the City with the Copy of the Freedom in a large square Box of Massie Gold the Seal of the Freedom hanging at it enclosed in a Box of Gold set all over with large Diamonds Toward the beginning of Ianuary Her Royal Highness was brought to Bed of a Daughter Christen'd at St. Iames's by the Bishop of Durham by the Name of Catherina Laura the Duke of Monmouth being God-father and the Lady Mary and the Lady Anne God-mothers The Term begining at the latter end of Ianuary Sir Francis North the King's Attorney-General was sworn Lord Chief-Justice of the Common-Pleas in the room of Sir Iohn Vaughan deceased In the beginning of February his Majesty caused several Orders and Resolutions concerning Papists to be publish'd That the Conviction of Popish Recusants should be encouraged quickned and made Effectual That no Person of what Condition or Quality soever should presume to say Mass in any part of this Kingdom That all Persons born within His Majesties Dominions being in Orders by Authority deriv'd from the Church of Rome should depart the Kingdom by a short time prefix'd That none of His Majesties Subjects should presume to send their Children to be Educated in any Popish Colledges or Seminaries upon a strict Penalty That none of his Majesties Subjects being Popists or so reputed should presume to come into His Majesties Presence into White Hall St. James's or any place where His Majesties Court should be And Lastly That care should be taken for the suppression of Conventicles Forrein Affairs 1674. The first thing that presented it self of most Importance beyond Sea this Year was that the King of France gave order to quit all his Conquests in the Netherlands belonging to the States of Holland except Maestricht The States also to be rid of so great a trouble as the Bishop of Munsteri makes Peace with him the Baron D' Issola signing the Articles on the behalf of the Emperor The chief Articles whereof were That the Bishop should restore all places taken during the War That the Treaty of Cleves should be punctually observ'd And that the King of
Trim 164. Preston in Lancashire 178. Dunbar 273 Worcester 397 Beaufort encountered by Argier Pyratâs 546 Slain 576 Bânnet Sir Humphrey 404 Benson Captain Executed 270 Beaumont a Minister Murthered at Pontfraict 227 Berkenhead Sir John Knighted 512 Berkley Sir John 98. Berkley Sir John and Col. Walter Slingsby 258 Bernard's Treachery rewarded 395 Betteley John Quartered 404 Bishops 12. Accused of high Treason to the Tower ten of them 26. Their Charge ibid. Restored to their Honours 502 Biddle an Infamous seducer 369 Blake blocks up Prince Rupert at Lisbon 256 At Lisbon again 267. A wary Commander 366. At Porto-Ferina defeats the Pyrates 372. Sails for the Coast of Spain 381. His desperate attempt upon the Spaniard in Sancta Cruz Fight 391. Fires the Spanish Fleet there ibid. Dies returning into England 402. His Character and Funeral ibid. Blackburn vide Moris Blackness yielded 288 Blechingdon-house 74 Blood attempts the Crown 580 Bourdeaux French Embassador owns Cromwel 359 Boys Sir John 62 Boyle Dean his management of affair with Cromwel about Articles for the English 252 Booth Sir George riseth in Cheshire 424 Defeated and taken 425. Sent to the Tower and Examined by Vane and Haslerig 426. Obtains his liberty of the Rump uppon Bail 433 Bramhal Dr. dies 522 Bradshaw the bold President of the high Court of Iustice 106 to 217. Dies 430 Bradshaw Agent at Hamburg and Denmark 334 Brain sent General to Jamaica 381 Brandenburghers 547 Mortogh O Brian lays down last Armes in Ireland 356 Breda the place of Treaty 560. English Embassadors there ibid. Plenipotentiaries meet Peace concluded 563 Bristol intended to be surprized for the King 45 46. Taken by his Forces 47. By Fairfax 87 Bristol Earl honoured with the Garter 344 Bridgewater taken 82 Brickbat flung at the Protector 's Coach 358 Broughton Col. 296 Broughil Lord lands in Munster with Forces from England 246. Defeats David Roch and hangs the Bishop of Ross 252. Brown Major-General 57. Reconciled to the King at Holmby 128. In a new designe discovered 434 Brown Bushel beheaded 285 Brooks Lord killed 42 Brunt-Island taken 294 Brunswick besieged and surrendred 583 Buchanan's Book burnt in Scotland 526 Buckingham Duke 177. sent into Holland 584 Buckhurst Lord c. 505 Burleigh Capt. 163 Butler Col. Richard taken 242 C Cahiâ Castle weakly yielded 521 Calamy Minister Committed 514 Canons made against the Church of Rome and justifying this 12 Capel Lord Tryed and Sentenced 228. and Beheaded his noble deportment 229 Carlisle Earl sent into Sweden 572 Cavalcaâe and Procession from 474 to 486 Campeach taken 520 Canary prohibited 556 Candia besieged 559. Surrendred 577 Carlisle yielded to the Scots 106 Carnarvan slain 50 51 Casimire King of Poland dies in France 590 Carrick taken by Treachery 247. Attempted in vain to be recovered from Colonel Reynolds 248 Carteret Sir George Governour of Jersey 255 Castlehaven Earl for the King in Ireland and against the Nuntio's party 238 Casualties 315 Cavaliers to depart London 258. Conspire against Cromwel 366. Their Plot again discovered 401. They Plot against the Rump 423 Ceremonies in Religion one main cause of the War opposed and murmured at 2 3 Cessation granted by the Scots upon very difficult terms 15 Cessation agreed in Ireland 53 Chains of Gold and Medals given to the chief Sea-Officers 349 Chaloner Chute Speaker dies 416 Chancery regulated 368 Character of the Kings Iudges 196 to 203 Charles Prince in the Downs 175. At Goree in Holland 176 Charles the second Proclaimed King by dispersed papers 225 Chester Charter taken away 427 Chichister City 42 Chepstow-Castle taken by Sir Nicholas Kemish 171 St. Christophers and the Cariby Islands subdued 307 Christmass day Celebrated 398 City Alarm'd with a pretended Plot 403 City invite Parliament and Army to dinner 429. Send Sword-bearer to Gen. Monke 435. Their Gates and Portcullices pulled down 437 City and Companies feasts the General 438 Their joy upon the King's return 453 Lend the King Money 575 528 551 City Building begins 556 Citadels built in Scotland 313 Claypool's Lady dies buried 404 Dr. Clargis also Mr. Caryl Minister c. sent to Gen. Monke in Scotland 432 Clanrickard Marq. his services 249. Substituted Lord-Governour of Ireland 251. Defeated by Col. Axtel 277. Lays down his Arms 324 Clubmen 83 Clement Gregory 255 Clifford Lord made Lord Treasurer 588. Resignes his Staff 591 Clogher Bishop defeated 267 Clonmel yielded after a stout resistance 252 Colchester Siege 175 Cock-matches and Horse-races prohibited 359 Committee appointed for inspection of Charters 381. Committee of Safety 429. Like not themselves declare for another Parliament 433 Common-prayer abolished 69 Commonwealth altered by Cromwel 338 Composition 88 Compton Dr. made Bishop of Oxford 599 Commissioners in Scotland 166 Commission of the Great Seal altered 359 Commissioners for approbation of Ministers 359 Commissioners to treat with the King at the Isle of Wight 183 Commissioners to General Monke from the City 436 Commissioners to the King at Breda arrive at the Hague 447 Commissioners of the Treasury 563. To take account of publick Money ibid. To hear Seamens complaints 564 Cologne Treaty 594 Colmaer Battle 601 Colliers the Dutch designe 337 Confederate party of Irish Rebels 250 Confirmation of Acts 500 Constable Sir William dies and buried in Hen. 7th's Chappel 373 Contents of the Kings Declaration from Breda 445 Convocation in England grant 5th part of their Livings to Scotch War 12 Convention in Ireland 440 Conway Lord defeated 13 Coronation of the King 475 to 496 Cotterel Sir Charles sent to Brussels 532 Court erected for rebuilding the City 556 County-troops established 373 Councellors several Privy-Councillors made 584 Covenant first in Scotland what 7. Taken 45. Burnt by the Hangman 498 to 500 Council of State erected 226. New chosen 258 named by Cromwel 343. Supream power named by the Rump 421. A new one appointed 435 Courts of Iustice in Ireland 332 Courts âit in the interval of the Rupture by Lambert 343 Coot Sir Charles defeats the Irish 250 267 305. His Stratagem on Galloway in Ireland for a free Parliament 438. Died 503 Cooper a Minister Executed 278 Corke vide Youghal Cowley Abr. dies 564 Craven Lord his Case 291 365 offered again to the Parliament but deferred by the Protector 392 Crew Dr. Bishop of Durham 599 Crosses demolished 45 Cromwel Lieutenant-General at Marston-moor at Islip 59 74 112 His Conspiracy in seizing the King at Holmby 129. Complements and Courts the King 144. And then abuseth him 147. Awes the Votes of Non-addresses 162. His Politicks on People City and King 163. Collogues the City and Parliament for fear of the Scots 165. Marcheth into Scotland 178. Makes the Scots disband 179. Treacherously surprizeth the Levellers his subtile Clemency 234. Graduated at Oxford ibid. And presented and treated by the City of London 234. Made Lord-Governour of Ireland 237. Lands there ibid. Storms Tredagh his cruelty and policy there Winter-quarter at Youghal 254. Sent for by Letters leaves Ireland and Ireton in
of the Parliament Forces departs London 38. Attends the King's motion 39. Fights at Edge-hill retreats to Coventry 40 41. Relieves Gloucester 49. At Newberry 50. At Theal Redding London 52. Marches reduce the West 58. Pounded at Lestithiel and escapes with Lord Roberts by Boat to Plymouth 58. Resignes his Commission 72. Dies 124 Earl of Essex Lord-Deputy 587 Essex County joyns with Lord Goring Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle 174 Estate of the Kingdom in a sad condition after the death of the King 124 125 Everts taken 536. dismist ibid. Exchange Royal finished 574 Exchequer shut 582 Execution of the Kings Iudges 466 Exeter yielded and Articles 98 99. Engagement forced by the Independant-party for the Parliament to live and die with the Army City refuse the Parliaments Orders and Acts 231. Tumults about a free Parliament Excise 157 Exclusion of secluded Members 229. F Fairfax General in Commission 74. Marcheth 75. Is cajoled to manage the seizure of the King Made Generallissimo and Constable of the Tower 141. Marcheth against the Levellers 234. Complemented and graduated at Oxford with Cromwel and Lambert ibid. Magnificently treated and presented by the City ibid. Lays down his Commission 268. Arms against Lambert 434 Faulkland Lord-Viscount slain 51 Fanshaw Sir Richard Embassador in Spain 525 Fatality among the Clergy 504 Farrel Lieutenant-General of Ulster-Army 245. Put into Waterford to defend it 247 Farewel to the Scotch-War Fast general 540 Faulkner perjured 291 Faulconbridge Lord Arms against Lambert sent to Venice 575 Fee-farm Rents 455 Feak Parson 540 Fiennes Lord Commissioner Fifth-Monarchists plot against Cromwel 366 FIGHTS at Newborn with the Scots 13 Worcester in the Lanes 40. Brainford 41. Yarum 42. Wakefield 43. At Liscard ibid. Caversham-bridge ibid. Hopton-heath 44. Bramham-moor ibid. Chalgrave-field 45. Stratton ibid. Middleton-Cheney Lansdown 46. Round-way-down ibid. Adderton-heath and Bradford 47. Stow in the Wold 49. Auburn-chace 50. Newark at the relief of it by Prince Rupert 56. Brandia or Cherington 57. Cropredy 58. Lidbury 74. Sherburn 90. Torrington 93. Saint Fagons 171. Maidstone 174. At Dublin 241. Muscleborough 264. Warrington 295. Wigan 296 Fincher Mayor vide Pye resigned Finch Sir Heneage his Reading 501. Made Lord-Keeper 594 Fire in London 554. In the Horse-Guards 556. In Fleet-street 368. Another at Aberfoyle in Scotland ibid. Another in Thred-needle-street 368. At Lambeth 373. At St. Johnstons in Scotland 381 Fleet sent under Hamilton to the Frith in Scotland 9 Fleet Spanish denied protection and ruined by the Dutch in the Downs 11 Fleet returns to the Prince Earl of Warwick imployed against them as Admiral 175 176. Fleets Dutch and English at Shetland 322 Fleet under Pen from Jamaica accidents of the return 376 Fleet declare their Royal acceptance c. 446 Fleet English 532. Beats the Hollander 538. English Hamburgh-fleet taken 538. Rendezvouz ibid. Fleet ready 250. Divided ibid. Fleets Engage ibid. Engage again 552. Out again 553 Fleets Engaged 584. Fleets Engaged 591 Fleetwood made Deputy of Ireland 366. More of him Forrain Princes how affected to our States 254 Forces from Ireland to assist the King 53. Surprized and defeated 54. Sent by Cromwel to assist the French 391. Vnder Earl Inchiqueen to Portugal 511 Fornication Act 225 Fray likely at Westminster At Tower-hill Fundamentals of the Army French prohibit English Cloath and are prohibited their Wines 255. Conclude a peace with Cromwel 377. Their Fleet taken by Blake 325. At Gigery 533. Embassadors in England 535. King supplies the Dutch 544. Declares against England ibid. Embassadors beaten and Imprisoned in Turkey 558. Lays claim to the Low-Countries breaks with Spain 579. Invades Lorrain 579. Breaks with the Dutch 583 Free Parliament noised 434 Frigats of Brest rove at sea 356 Furstenburgh Count seized 598 G Gates and Portcullices of London pulled down 437 Gayland 522 523. Makes peace 532. Transports himself for Tangier 571 Gell Sir John Sentenced 270 A General required by Officers of the Army 439 Gentry secured over England 373 Gerrard Col. John and Sir Gilbert 538. Col. John beheaded 361 Gibbons Sentenced 290 Glencarn Earl submits to the English 362. Prisoner in Edenburgh 380. Chair-man to the Scotch Convention 432 Gloucester Duke born 13. With the King at Colen from the Iesuits at Paris 365. Dies 456 Gloucester Siege and Summons and Relief by Essex 49. Walls demolished 512. Cathedral begged 381 Godolphin Sir Will. Knighted and sent into Spain 568 Goff Col. friend to Richard Cromwel 417 Goring Col. into France 39 Goring Lord Condemned but saved 228 Goodman Bishop refuseth to subscribe Canons against the Church of Rome 12 Good Old Cause 417 Grace Colonel 324 Graigs Town 245 Grantham Col. killed 380 Grantham Town 44 Granger a Forger 256 Greenvile Sir John 445. Rewarded by the Parliament and City 446 Greenvile Sir Bevil 46 Great Cities and Towns in Ireland refuse to admit Garrisons which proved their ruine 244. Accept of them at last upon condition the English be dismist Cavaliers and others 251 Grey Lord Grooby 291 Groves Col. vide Penruddock Guiny Relation 535 Guernsey-castle stormed 284. A designe uppon it discovered 554 Gunning Dr. in Divinity his Congregation seized and plundred for celebrating Christmass 398 Gurney Lord Mayor in the Tower 34 Guthury and Giffan Hanged 497 H Haberdashers-Hall 129 Hackney-coaches regulated 368 Haddington Earl blown up by Gunpowder in Scotland 14 15 Hamilton Marquiss the Kings Commissioner into Scotland at London 7. Prisoner to Pendennis-castle 52. Defeated and taken Prisoner 178 Hamilton Duke tryed and sentenced 228. Beheaded 229 Hamond Col. secures the Kings person 151. His baseness 163. Shot in Ireland ibid. Hannam the Infamous Thief breaks Prison and escapes 376. Hanged 381 Harman Capt. his Exploit 595. Beats the Dutch 564 Harrisons impudence in bringing the King to London 193. A main man for the little Parliament outed and dissatisfied 353. Apprehended 453 Harris a great Cheat 368 Harvey Sir Daniel sent to Constantinople 568 Hazelrig Sir Arthur seizes Portsmouth 433. returns to Westminster and is thanked by the Rump 435. Dies 474 Healing Parliament 470 Henrietta Princess 469 Henchman Dr. Bishop of London 524 Hertford Marquiss 38 Heresies and Schismes 368 Hewit Dr. seized 404. Tried and Beheaded ibid. Hewson Col. made Master of Arts in Oxford 234 Marcheth into London 433 Hide Sir Henry beheaded 285 Highland-War in Scotland its account 361 362. Hinde the High-way man 303 Hispaniola expedition from 369 to 372 Holland Earl Lieutenant-General of Horse against the Scots 9. Rising at Kingston and defeated 177. Tryed and Sentenced 228. Executed in Palace-yard Westminster 229 Hollis Lord Embassador into France 522. Returns for England 550 Holmes Major Committed 532. Discharged ibid. Enters the Vly 553. Attacques the Dutch Fleet 582. Holstein Duke 255 Honours and Dignities denied to some Male-Contents another cause of the Scotch troubles 4. Honours given by the King vacated 292 Hopton Lord 42. Disbanded honourably after many services and Victories at Truro in Cornwal 96 97 Horse-races and
Cock-matches prohibited 359 Horton Adjutant to Maj. Gen. Brown at Dennington 63 Hotham refuseth to admit the King into Hull but suffers the Duke of York and Prince Elector Palatine is proclaimed Traitor 33 34. Revolts from the Parliament and his son and he sent Prisoners to the Tower 56. Executed 68 House of Lords voted useless 226. Protest against it ibid. Howard Lord adviseth Richard Cromwel 417 Howard Lady to the Tower 423 Howard Capt. his valour 543 Howard Master sent Embassador to Taffalette 575 Hoyle Alderman Hangs himself 256 Hull Garrison 33. Hotham Governour of it ibid. The dispute of transferring that Magazine 32 33 Humble Petition and Advice 393 Hume-castle yielded 283 Humphries-Col to Jamaica 377 I Jamaica 370 Jamaicans assault the Dutch Plantations 548 James John Executed 502 Jealousies Fears and pretended Plots 26 27 30.31 Jenkins Iudge his writings 155 156. Designed for slaughter 229. Dies 524 Jersey a new Mace 520. Surrendered to Col. Haynes 306 Jesuits in France proceeded against 570. Exiled 373 Jews treat for admission with Cromwel 379 Jewish Prophet 548 559 Imposition on Seal-coal 359 Independants rise 66. Quarrel with the Presbyterians and cajolethem 67. undermine and defeat them 112 113 139. Synod at Savoy 413 Inchiqueen Lord defeats Lord Taaff 164. Declares for the King ibid. Ioyns with the Confederate Catholicks for the King under the Lord of Ormond made Lieutenant General of the Army 238. His overfight like to be surpriâed 245. Falsly suspected and accused by the Marquess of Antrim 263. Leaves Ireland 277 Indians rebel in New-England 601 Ingoldsby Col. offers aid to Richard 417. Suppresseth a Mutiny and Lambert Instrument of Cromwel's Protectorian Government and his Oath 354 Joachims Embassador from the Dutch 267. Sent home 270 St. Johnstons yielded 294 Jones draws out of Dublin to oppose the advance of the Marquiss of Ormond retreats 239. Raiseth the Siege before Dublin 211. Comes before Drogheda and retreats 243. Dies in the quality of Lieutenant-General 247 Ireland and Ulster Forces submit 344 Ireland its state and condition 238 Ireton's appearance and notice at Naseby-fight wounded 78. In the Cabal of the Army 84. Draws their Papers and Proposals 84 85. Parliament Votes 161. Intrigues between them 116 118 119. Dies of the Plague 305 Irish affairs an account of the Cessation and the Marq. of Ormond's Treaty with Rebels and Parliament the Articles thereof with the Rebels the Popes Nuntio there 122 123 124. Strength what after Cromwel's departure 253. Abused by Cromwel's fair carriage at first into horrible slavery at his departure 253. Defeated at Finagh 234. Their affairs 292 309 310. Seem to acquiess in Lambert's actions 431. Affairs 515 Judges Commissioned by the new State 224. New ones again 254. New placed by the Rump 422. Of the King and others exempted out of the Act of Oblivion 454. They that came in upon Proclamation respited from Execution 469. Brought to the House of Lords and remanded to Prison 502. Of the Law their Names 492 Justice High Court 203 to 217. Again erected 258 278. To try Col. Gerrard and Powel 360 K Kentish Insurrection 173. Suppressed ibid. Kent mastered and reduced by Rich and Berkstead 175 Keyling Sir John Lord Chief-Iustice 543 Ker Col. defeated 280 Killing no Murther a Book 395 King dispenceth with the Common prayer and Book of Canons in Scotland by a Declaration slighted and cavilled at as a device and opposed by the Earls of Hume and Lindsey with another Declaration 7 8 Arms against the Scots 9. At York and Barwick agrees upon a Pacification 10. Goeth to his Scotch Parliament 20. Departs thence with mutual satisfaction ibid. Received Magnificently at his return to the City ibid. Demands five Members 25. To Hampton-court to Dover to Greenwich Theobalds 27. To Royston New-market York ibid. Asserts his right in the Militia 30 31. His innocence of any designe of War c. ibid. Resolves for Ireland 32. Expostulates his affront at Hull from Beverley 34. Takes a guard of York-shire-Gentlemen ibid. His intentions of no War attested by the Lords ibid. Answers and refutes their Remonstrance 35. Forbids the Militia 36. Invites his Subjects to his assistance ibid. To Newark back to York to Nottingham sets up his Standard to Stafford-shire Leicester-shire confines of Wales and Shrewsbury and caresses the Gentry and Commonalty 37 38 39. Melts down his Plate at Shrewsbury and Mints it 38. Faceth Coventry to Southam 39. Stays and turns upon Essex his Speech 39 40. Takes Banbury to Oxford towards London at Brainford 41. Into the West after Essex Overtakes him at Lestithiel defeats him 58. in the associated Counties 88. Into Wales ibid. At Newark 90. At Oxford ibid. Escapes thence 99. To the Scots 100. Information of it and his Majesties Messages and the Parliaments Answers from 100 to 104. The King at Newcastle 114. disputes with Henderson 115. And betrayed by the Scots 121. His escape intended from the 122. Delivered to Commissioners 127. At Holmby 128. Carried away by Cornet Joyce 129. At Childersley with freedom of Chaplains 130. The designe of it 131 to 133. Deluded by the Army Proposals 132. At Hampton-court after many traverses 145. Pretendedly at Liberty and Honour 147. His nearness to London suspected by Cromwel 148. Frighted thence by Whaley and departs ibid. His Letters and Declarations there 148 to 151. In the Isle of Wight ibid. High Treason to conceal his Person ibid. His Message from the Isle of Wight 151 to 155. A blasphemous Hue and Cry against him ibid. Answers the Message with the Bills of Parliament His Declaration upon the Votes of Non-addresses 166 to 169. Kings Message and Answer to the Votes of a personal Treaty 181 182. Hath liberty of assistance and his Friends 183. Startled at the Remonstrance of the Army 187. Shews the unreasonableness of it ibid. His farewel to the Commissioners and Declaration concerning the Treaty 188 to 190. And his Letter of the result and advice to the Prince 190. Hurried from the Isle of Wight to Hurst-castle to Winchester to Windsor to St. James's 193. To the High Court of Iustice his defence and Reasons 203 to 215. Traiterously Sentenced ibid. Confers with his Children ibid. The Lady Elizabeth's relation of it 216. His Speech upon the Scaffold 218 to 219. Murthered 220. His Corps exposed to view ibid. Buried by the Duke of Richmond Marquiss of Hertford Durchester and Earl of Lindsey at Windsor 221. The Service-book denied at his Interment ibid. King Charles the second at Hague 235. Highly treated there and honoured 236. Departs for France by Rotterdam Dort Antwerp and Brussels treated by the Arch-Duke Leopold attended thence by Duke Lorrain to Compeign met there by the French King 237. At Jersey 257. At Breda ibid. Takes shipping at Terheyden for Scotland 268. Arrives there ibid. Withdrawing the Covenanting party 281. Crowned at Schoone ibid. Marched into England 294. Comes to Worcester 295. Summons the Country ibid. Flies by advice of the Earl of Derby to Whiteladies the
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
it 340. Dumb one meets 362. Another pretended Parliament 382. Memberr excluded ibid. In a full House with the Other House 398 399. Dissolved 401. One called by Richard their Transacting with him and the Other House and the Army 413 to 418. The Long one dissolved 439. Most gladly and reverendly reecive the Kings Letters 445. Their resolves thereupon 446. Their affairs before the King's return 453. They say hold on his Majesties Declaration from Breda 454. Dissolved 470. Another meet by the Kings Writ 496 Parliament 519.520 Prorogued 523 527. Meet 530. Prorogued 532. Meet at Oxford 542. Prorogued 543. Their Thanks to the Vniversity ibid. Prorogued 545 549. Meet 555. Vote a supply ibid. Prorogueâ and meet 563. Adjourn 564. Meet 566. Adjourn 568. Adjourn ibid. Prorogued 569. Meet and Prorogued 574. Meet 576. Adjourned 577. Prorogued 580. They make an address about English Manufactures 580. Prorogued 581. Adjourned 587. Meet 589. Adjourned 590. Meet and prorogued 591. Meet 602. Prorogued ibid. Meet again ibid. Parliament of Scotlaud 524 526. Proceed against Nonconformists 545. Meet at Edinburgh 574. Pass the Act for a Treaty of Vnion 577 Parliament in Ireland 545 Patrick Pursel Irish Maj. Gen. his treachery and cowardise 241 Pauw Embassador from Holland 227. Dies 324 Piercy James pretends to the Earldom of Northumberland 590 Piercy Capt. Executed 578 Pembroke Siege 172 Pen Sea-Capt. 293. Sea-General 369 376 Pennington and Pym 36. Pym dieth 56 Penâeââis-castle 111 Pendruddock's Insurrection c. 367. Tried and Beheaded 372 Perth in Scotland five Articles 3 Petitions from Essex Surrey c. for peace 172 Petition and Advice 393 Phanatick Plots 500 512 Phelim O Neal Irish General 21 Phenix lost 328. Regained 330 Philips Young Stubs Baker and two Gibs Executed 513 Piedmont story of a Massacre 373 ââague in the Loyal-Irish Provinces 242 ãâã ships taken by Sir Richard Stainer 383 ãâ¦ã tentiaries of the Rumpin the Sound 462 ãâ¦ã tentiaries return from Cologne 599 Plot pretended against the Protector 358. Another started 403. vide Cavalier Plot in Ireland 520. Plotters Executed 545 Plot in England 520. Plotters tryed 521. Executed ibid. More Plotters 549. Condemned and Executed 550 Pontefract-Castle 72. Dâlivered 131 Poland King his ill success 545. Polanders revolt 546 549. Make peace with the Tartars 568. The King resignes 571. Several pretend to the Crown ibid. New King Elected 577. New dissentions there 590. King dies 596. Defeats the Turks ibid. Popham Sea-General dies 303 Pope and King of France quarrel 524. Agree 525. Popes Iustice 571. Dies 577. A new one chosen 579 596 Popish Priests Banished 578 599. Orders against popish Priests ibid Porta Ferina Fight 374 Porto Longone fight between the Dutch and Capt. Badily 328 Portsmouth taken 39 Portugueze murthered 522 Portugal Embassador to the new English States 277. Concludes a peace 332. Concludes a League ibid. His Brother Dân Pontaleon Sa Beheaded for what 361. That King dies 383 Portugal Match declared by the King 497 Portugal routs the Spaniard 526. Victory 533 546. Invade Spain 547. At peace with Spain 570. Prince of Portugal made Regent 572 Potter Condemned 290 Powel and Laughorn saved ibid. Power onely in the people 225 Poyntz Col. 89 91 139 143. Poyer Col. shot to death 231 Prentices Tumult 568 Presbyterian Government established for three years 125. Ministers own not the Parliament 255. Seized by the Council of State 290 Presbytery tending to an establishment 439 Presbyterians endeavour a Toleration 511 Pride and Hewson and Sir Hardress Waller force the Houses 192 Private Bills pass'd by the King 509 Prizes taken from the Dutch 322 Proclamation of the King 's Privy Council slighted in Scotland 5 7. Of the King for the Kings Iudges to render themselves 454 Of twenty miles to Rump Officers 511. Against Papists 565 Propositions to the King at Colbrook on his march to London 41. Made for tryal of the King by the Iuncto 194 195. Protestants in Savoy 526 Pryn writes agaidst Bishops and Ceremonies put in the Pillory for it 2. Meets the Rump 420 Publick Faith 37 Putten Van his fall 589 Q Qualifications made by the Rump of all such to bold Offices 421 Quarter free 156 Quarrel the state of it between the Scots and Cromwel 271 Queen-Mother Mary de Medicis coming to England taken for Ominous why 9 Queen with the Princess of Aurange for Holland carries the Crown-Iewels 27. Lands in Burlington-Bay 42. Endangered by shot proclaimed Traitor 44. Meets the King at Edgââ hill 43. Goes for security from Oxford to Exeter 57. From thence to France 58 Queen-mother arriââs ãâã England 469. Departs Returns 4ââ Returns for France 539. Dies 573. Queen of Bohemia likewise dies 504 Queen Catherine âmbarkes from Lisbon 507. Arrives aâ âââââmouth 508. At Hampton-court 509. To White-hall ibid. R Ragland-Castle 109 110 111. Duke of Richmond with the King 132 147 Rainsborough tur ãâ¦ã of the Navy by the Sea-men ãâ¦ã at Doncaster 193 Ramsey Colâ 42 Rea Lord defeatââ ãâã ââotland 233 Reâââng besieged and rendred 43 ãâ¦ã in Ireland 20 to 25. The Rebels proclaimed Traitors 26 Recognition-Act and expedient for it the Army jar-with Richard 414 Red-house stormed 272 Remedies proper against late troubles 508 Remonstrance a second of the Parliament worse than the former 35 Armies villaâââ Remonstrance first against the King 185 186. The Module of our ruine 136 Remonstrance of the Western Scots 280 Remonstrants their folly 304 Repeal of Act against Bishops 501 Resolution of Parliament in answer to the Kings Declaration 51â Restitution of King and Kingdom 444 Revocation and Impropriation-Act in Scotland original of those troubles ââ4 Reynolds Commissary-General in âreland his actions 310 Reynolds Col. Knighted 373. Meets the Duke of York 397. Sent for by Cromwel there upon and cast away ibid. Reynoldson Lord-mayor refuseth to proclaim the Act against Kingly Government fined Imprisoned and degraded 231 Richard Protector 409. his advice and Councellors ibid. Proclaimed a story of his guards 413. Calls a Parliament ibid. Offered terms by the King his suspence 417. Consents to a Commission and Proclamation to dissolve the Parliament 317. Layd aside by the Army in danger of arrest and hides himself 418. Gives a transcript of his debts resolveth and promiseth to acquiesce under the Rump 422 Richlieu intermeddles with the Scotch War 9 Riches Regiment of Horse mutiny at Bury 438 Richmond Duke diâs 589 Riot at Lambeth-house Riâers rescued 12 13 Roberts Lord for the Parliament Deputy of Ireland 573 De la Roche taken 5ââ Roch David defeated vide Broughil âââ Rochester Earl at Ratisbone Diet in Gerâââny 329 Rolf treacherously intends to murther ãâã King 16â Rosa Canonized at Rome 57â Ross in Ireland yielded by Luke Taaff ââ Cromwel 2ââ Rothes Earl L. Commissioner in Scotland 5ââ Rous Francis Speaker to the little Parl. 349 Rudyard Sir Benjamin a Patriot â36 De Ruyter at mouth of Channel 326 Ruines of St. Pauls ââ4 Rump 419. Debar the secluded Me ãâ¦ã Derivation of the Rump
Impeachment of high treason against the Earl of Strafford he is committed and Sir George Ratcliff sent for out of Ireland Dr. Williams Bishop of Lincoln released Mr. Pryn Dr. Bastwick and Mr. Burton received by the Londoners in pomp Sir John Finch Lord Keeper and Francis Windebanck Secretary of State charged with high treason they withârew John James a Romish Catholique stabs Iustice Howard in Westminster-Hall The Case of Shipmoney stated The Iudges opinions thereupon Shipmoney vâtâd illegal The Iudgment of the Excheqââr agâinst Mr. Hambden vacated Mr. Hollis delivers a Charge against the A.B. Cant. the Scots do the like he is voted guilty of high treason and committed The King signs the Bill for Triennial Parliaments The Houses oppose Bishops temporal jurisdiction The Earl of Straffords Tryal Sir David Fowls and Sir William Pennyman witnesses against the Earl the last of whom wept He is condemned as guilty of high treason The faction make a hideous cry of Iustice. The King with much reâuctancy signs the Bill of Attainder A notable remarque concerning Sir Alexander Carew Those Bishops that consented to the Earls death escaped not the fury of the times Prince of Orange warries the Princess Mary Sir Dudley Carleton the Earls Secretary brings him word of his Majesties having passed the Bill of Attainder Life in Mr. Lloyds Memoires The English Army disband the Scotch receive a vast sum of money and return home The King visits his Parliament of Edinburgh The Earl of Leicester made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland The Parliament adjourned The faction encreaseth and grows strong The King settles the affairs of Scotland A Rebellion in Ireland The King returns from Scotland and is magnificently received at London The faction sâanderously charge the King and Arch-B Cant. with inclining to Popery Walker an Iron-monger thâows a Libel into the Kings ãâã he is impriâoned Sir Richard Gurney Lord Mayor of London Most of the Irish Nobility revolted Sir Phelim Oneal their chief commandâr A full account of the Irish Rebellion and proceedings of the War there Roger Moor the chief instrument in the plot The Lord Viscount Gormanston one of their complices Owen O Conally discovers the Plot. Iuââice Parsons and Sir Jo. Borlace double their Watches Mac Mahon and Mac-Guire their Lodgings watched Mac Mahon and his men after some resistance are sâcured and confess the Plot. The Lord Mac-guire seized The Council warn the people of the Rebellion by Proclamation The Lord Blaweys House Wife and Children surprised The Newry surprized with several other places of strength The Rebels take Dundalk besiege Tredagh They commit horrid Massacres in sundry places 1800 Pârsons drowned 150000 Persons destroyed in the Province of Ulster only in five moâths time Sir Phelim Oneal defeatâd at Duâdalk Dublin in great streights A Regiment raised for Sir H. Titchburn another for Sir Charles Coot Expresses sent to the King the Lord Lieutenant and the Parliament Owen O Conally rewarded with 200 l. in money and a pension of 200 l. per anum The Earl of Ormond Lieu. Gen. marched to Dublin with divers other Captains Major Roper with 600 Foot to Tredagh With 50 Horse under Sir Pat. Weems surprized by the Rebels and routed Some Rebels executed at Wicklo Luke Tool encounters Sir Charls Coote and is puâ to flight The Lords and Gentry of the English Pale declare for the Roman Catholick Religion The Rebels in Lemster 20000 strong Sir Simon Harcourt arrives with a Regiment at Tredagh The Rebels are disheartned and defeated by Sir Henry Titchburn who recovered Dundalk Sir Phelim O Neal escapes to Ulster Sir George Monro recovers Newry and do's the Rebels much damage Tumults from London affront the King and Court Sir William Mason heads the Gentlemen of Grays-Inne to White-Hall prostering them and himself to his Majesty as a guard for his person The King receives them with respect The Tumultuous rabble countenanced by some Grandees of the faction Whereat the King is much troubled He demands five Members of the House of Commons and the Lord Kimbolton The House vote it a breach of priviledge They accuse several Bishops as guilty of high Treason They are Committed The Irish are proclaimed Rebels The King declares his charge against the five members The Parliament imprisons Sir Edw. Herbert The Tumults increase and the King retires to Hampton-Court A rumour concerning the Lord Digby Col. Lunsford committed The Scots interpose themselves the Parliament demands the Tower and the Militia Buckinghamshire men petition in behalf of Mr. Hambden The King leaves Hampton-Court the Queen and Princess of Aurange take ship for Holland The Parliament vote the Queen a Traytor The Militia the principal difference between King and Parliament The Commission of Arry An Ordinance of Parliament for ordering the Militia The Parliament send several Papers to the King The King is much troubled thereat and answers The Parliament declare their resolution of putting the Kingdom into a posture of defence The Earl of Warwick made Admiral of England The King answers the Parliaments Declation with another He offers a free Pardon to his people and propounds a rââââciliation The faction set forth another Declaration concerning the Militia The King sends a Message to the Parliament concerning Ireland They plead the priviledge of Parliament The King proclaims against Papists The Yorkshire Gentry desire a right understanding between King and Parliament The King returns a gratious answer He resolving to go for Ireland sends a Message to the Parliament Sir John Hotham admitted into Hull The Parliament Petition the King for the Militia they insist upon the dangers of Popery Hull is Garrison'd and the King is troubled that they should Petition him and at the instant carve at their one pleasures He excuseth his repriving of some Iâsuites The Parliament refuse to be governed by Commissioners in his Majesties absence The King resolves to possess himself of Hull But is denyed entrance by Sir John Hotham who stood on the Walls and âeard himself proclaimed a Traytor The Duke of York and Prince âlector bring in the Town are suffered to depart The King retreatâd to Beverly writes to the Mayor and Garrison of Hull And to the Parliament for Iââtice against Hotham Tâe Parliament order the Lord Liââtenant of Lincoln to âuppress all Forcâs raiâed against Hull Sir Richard Gurney Loâd Mayor ãâã London sent to the Tower The Parliament Authorize Sir John Hotham to raise the Trained Bands The King sâmmons the Gântry of York for the security of his Person The Parliament Conclude the K. intendeth War They take up Arms ânder preâence of râscuing the King from his evil Couâsel and prohibit all resort to the King They publish a Râmonstrance Which is answâred by the King Theââaviâe the Scots to their ãâã Thâ Scoâs pretend a zâal for his Majesty bât deââaââ for the Parliament and have their thanks Tâe Parliament set forth another Remonstrance which the King answers They send him 19 Propositions to York The King returns an answer
Oxford relieve Banbury The Siege raised Col. Myn sâain iâ Glocestershâre and the Royalists worsted by Masâey Who bestowed an honoârable burial on the saiâ Câlonâl Princâ Rupert at the Severn where hapnâd daily Skirâââhes He is worsted by Massey Monmouth bâââaââd to Massey by Lieutenant-Coâ Kirle Col Holtby Goverâour thereof escapes Massey active and vigilant Newberry second fight Octob. 27. Manchester's forces over-powered the Kings but are repâlied by Sir Bernard Astley The Duke of Yorks Regiment led by Sir Wil. St Leger and Pr. Maurices Brigade repulsed Essex his Horse too hard for the Kings over-powred Sir Humphry Bennet and Major Leg but are repulsed by the Lord Bernard Stuart Goring and Cleaveland worsted Earle of Cleaveland taken Prisoner and the Kings person in danger Earl of Manchester ingaged with Lord Ashley and Sir George Lisle they are worsted but relieved by Sir John Brown The King marcheth to Wallingford and so to Oxford Slain of note on the Kings side Sir William St. Leger Essex had the Field Col. Boys secured the Kings Artillery The King relieves Dennington-castle The Parliament suspect the Earl of Essex Manchester and Cromwel disser The Parliament resolve to new model their Army They Order that no Member shall bear command in either Military or Civil affairs The Ordinance for the new modeling the Army Decemb. 31. Sir Thomas Fairfax made General The stots advance Southward The first Address contrived by Oliver Cromwel The Scots tâââ Newcastle Plunder it Soââm thanks at London for their success Sir Alexander Carew beheaâed fââ endâavouring to betray Plymouth-Fort to the King Sir John Hotham and his son executed Jan. 1 2. for endeavouring to betray Hull and holding correspondence with the Marquess of Newcastle Hugh Peters accompanieth them at their deaths The Kings observations of them in his Meâitations The Assembly of Divines consult about Church-Government The Covenaât prest to be universally takââ The Commân-Prayer abolished Sir David Hawkins a zealous stickler for the Parliament Archbishop of Canterbury bâheadâd Vide Speechâs Buried at Alhallows Barking London Sir Henry Gage Câl for the King shot neer Abingdon Uxbridge Trâaty Jan. 3. Commissioners for the King at the Treaty at Uxbridge Commissioners for the Parliament Scotch Commissioners The main things to be treated of were Religon Militia and Ireland The King refuseth to alter Religion by Bishops but would admit of some amendments in the Liturgie He is willing some Garrisons should be in the Parliaments hands pro tempore but will not abrogate the Cessation in Ireland Mr. Love a strange Incendiary The Treaty ended in vain The Lord Macguire and Col. Mac Mahon hanged drawn and quartered Shrewsbury taken by Major-General Mitton for the Parliament He hath the thanks of the House The Parliament takes Scarborough and Weymouth they raise Plymouth Siege Ponfract castle relieved by Sir Marmaduke Langdale he routs the Parl. Forces under Col. Rossiter Essex Manchester and Denbigh resigne their Commissions A notable success at the Devises under Sir Jacob Ashley A Faction at Oxford the Lords Savil Percy and Andover confined The Parliament Adjourned The Parliament's new Generals Commission The Actions of the Renowned Marquess of Montross He arrives in the Highlands of Scotland He fights the Covenanters and obtains a great Victory at Tepper-Moor Hâ makes great spoils in Argyles Country Who with the E. of Seaforth maâch against him with two several Armies He routs Argyle defeats Col. Hurry at Brechin afterwards at Alderne and obtains a remarkable Victory at Alesford hills Lord Gourdons death Marquess of Montross affrights the Parliament at St. Johnstons His famous Victory at Kilsith David Lesley routed The Nâbility Gentry assist him The King orders Montross to disband Colonel Massey defeated at Lidbury by Prince Rupert He is forced to flye and narrowly escapes Sir Thomas Fairfax takes command of the Army Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice raise Horse in Worcester-shire Cromwel sent to intercept the Kings Forces routs them The Queens Standard taken He summons Blechington house the Governour Col. Windebank delivers it And was therefore shot to death Cromwel takes Sir William Vaughan at Radcot bridge Goring gives Cromwel his first brush The new modeled Army march to Blandford in Dorset-shire take Lieutenant-Col Hacket The King leaving Oxford takes the field Fairfax recalled from the West but leaves part of his Army there Oxford besieged the second time A cruel custome at Abingdon Borstal house besieged Gaunt house surrendred Chester distressed Relieved by the King Goring Hopton and Greenvile joyn and besiege Taunton Leicester Stormed and taken by Prince Rupert May 21. He takes Sir Robert Pye the Town is plundered The Parliament almost driven to despair The King and Royalists too confident of Success Sir Thomas Fairfax ordered to give the King-Battel York-shire a long time harrased by the Scots The unresolved which way to bend his Forces The Parliament order Fairfax to put their differences to the decision of a Battel They march to Marsh-Gibeon Major-General Brown Garisons Gaunt house The King at Daventry and Northampton Cromwel sent for by the Parliament to command their Horse The Kings Foot and Carriages quartered upon Burrough-hill The Parliaments Army at Gilsborough The Kings Army march to Pomfret Ireton with a strong party of Horse sent to fall upon his Flank The Kings Head-quarters at Naseby Alarm'd by Ireton he goes to Harborough and unhappily resolves to fight Naseby fight The Parliament forces Rendezvouz neer Naseby they discover the Kings Horse neer Harborough The King misinformed Cromwel commands the right Wing of the Parl. horse Ireton the left The Gen. and Skippon the main battel of Foot Whaley routs Langdale who commanded part of the Kings left Wing Prince Rupert routs the Parliaments left Wing Ireton taken Prisoner and the fortune of the day changing is released The Kings Foot over-powered by the Parliaments Horse His Cavalry in great distress Okey's Dragoons do notable Execution on the Kings Horse The Calamities of this day The Parliament take many of the Kings Officers and his Standard â with his Cabinet of Letters which they unworthily publish The advantage equal to both parties The Lord Bard. did excellent service for the King Fiennes sânt to London with the Prisoners The Parliaments Forces pursut the Kings The King at Ashby de la zouch He goes into Wales Sir Marmaduke Langdale flies to Newark Taunton distrest by the Lord Goring Leicester retaken Lord Hastings Governour thereof The Kings Souldiers march out with Staves in their hands The Parliaments Army march towards Marlborough The Club men rise They Petition the King and Parliament Taunton freed Iuly 7. And Goring after his defeating the besieged departed His Army quartered at Long-Sutton they march to Langport Massey resolutely attempis their Rear but with loss Langport fight General Fairfax routs the Lord Goring Langport fired General Fairfax at Bridgewater Sir Richard Greenvile and Sir John Berkley joyn with the Lord Goring Bridgewater taken July 23. by the Parliament The Parliaments forlorn
led by Hewson a daring Souldier The town fired Colonel Okey takes Burrough Garrison for the Parliament The Clubmen dispersed They were Ten thousand in a Body The Motto of one of their Colours Sherburn Castle besieged and Bath taken Sir Lewes Dives the Governour of Sherburn Castle maks a notaâââ defence The General Summons the Castle and offers the Ladies and women their liberty to depart The Castle again Summoned The Governours resolute answer Sherburn Castle taken August 15. Sir Lewis Dives imprisoned in the Tower he escapes to Ireland Nunny Castle taken by Colonel Rainsborough for the Parliament Ireton sent towards Bristol Several Salleys with different success Sir Bernard Ashley mortally wounded Sir Thomas Fairfax's Summons to Prince Rupert Observe the strange guise of these words The Trumpeter detained a Cessation Prince Rupertâ Answer Sir Thomas Fairfax's reply Bristol Stormed Sept. 10. and afterwards delivered upon Articles Sir Richard Crane slain The Royalists march to Oxford The Gen. waits on Prince Rupert two miles out of Bristol The Plague at Bristol Sir Tho. Fairfax removes to Bath Sir Hugh Cholmley delivers Scarborough to Sir Matthew Boynton for the Parliament July 25. Raby Skipton Sandal and Pomfret-Castles delito the Parl. Hereford besieged by the Scots They take Canon-Froom Sir Barnabas Scudamore Governour of Hereford The Siege raised The King in person encounters the Scots at Bewdley and worsâeth them defeats Sir John Gell and enters the Association and surpriseth Huntingdon and Cambridge St. Ives fined 500 pound by toe King The King at Oxford The Royalists began to come in upon composition The King marcheth towards Wales comes to Ludlow designing to relieve Chester Routon heathfight Sept. 24. The Parliaments Forces under General Poyntz beaten but reserves coming in the King is worsted The King quits Chester and goes into Wales Eikon Basil. The King assists Montross with Horse Sherburn fight Octo. 25. in York shire The Royalists forced to fââ by Colonel Copley and Colonel Lilburn Lord Digby routed at Carlisle Sands he flies into Ireland The King at Newark Octob. Lord Bellasis Governour thereof Lord Digby charged with disloyalty by divers Lords the King his friend The King returns to Oxford Gen. Poyntz routs the Kings Cânvoy Belvoyr taken Sir Gervas Lucas Governour thereof Several Castles and Houses taken Berkley Castle Surrendred by Sir Charles Lucas Devises and Winchester Surrendred by the Lord Ogle Basing-house stormed and taken Doctor Griffiths Daughter slain Marquess of Winchester and the Governour sent Prisoners to London Basing-house demolished The plunder great and rich Langford-house Surrendâed to Cromwel Tiverton taken by Fairfax Major Sadler executed Sir Gilbert Talbot taken Prisoner Transactions in the West betwixt the Armies The siege of Exeter by the Lord Fairfax Prince Rupert endeavours accommodation with Fairfax General Goring goes into France Lord Wentworth commands his Troops A skirmish at Corf Castle between the Kings Horse and the Parliaments the Kings Horse worsted Fairfax at Dartmouth Plymouth siege dâserted Lord Wentworth worsted by Cromwel Darmouth stormed and taken Sir Hugh Pollard Governour Sir Henry Cary hath conditions to march the Governour and the Earl of Newport have quarter given Torrington fight it is taken by the Parliament 80 baârels of Powder fired in a Church the guard killed the Army and Town endangered Lord Hopton and Lord Capel wounded Lord Hoptons Commission taken Lord Hopton a valiant and discreet Souldier Shelford house stormed and taken by Maj. Gen. Poyntz Col. Stanhop the Governour thereof killed and the house demolished The Countess of Derby surrenders Larham house A neat Stratagem Bolton Castle and Beeston Castle delivered Hereford taken by surprisâ December 18. Lord Brudenel fourteen Knights and Iudge Jenkins taken Prisoners Westchester taken Sir William Brereton Commander for the Parliament Lord Byron surrenders Chester The Court of Wards Voted down The Kings Forces under Sir Jacob Ashley defeated at Stow in the Would March 12. Sir Jacob Ashley taken Prisoner Lord Hopton disbands Sir James Smith falls on a party of Parliamentarians with success The Prince and Lord Culpeper set sail for Scilly Lord Hopton complemented by the Parliament General The Parliament Army beat up the Princes quarters neer St. Columbe Major-General Perr a gallant-Commander mortally wounded A Treaty concluded on at Tresilian bridge a Cessation agreed on Nine Brigades disbanded The Conditions of their disbanding Thââ take shipping at Plymouth Lord Hopton and Wentworth sail into Scilly Abingdon attempted by Sir Stephen Hawkins Ashby deâla-zouch surrendred to the Parliament by the Lord Loughborough Dennington Castle surrendred Mar. 25. 1646. to the Parliament and demolished Ruthen Castle delivered to the Parliament by Sir William Vaughan April 8. Corf Castle taâââ Exeter City delivered Apr. 3. to the Lord Fairfax by the Governour Sir John Berkley by a Treaty between Commissioners on both sides The Conditions Sir John Stawel included in the Articles The General marcheth to Tiverton and towards Oxford * Anglia Rediviva Woodstock surrendred April 26 to Colonel Rainsborough for the Parliament The King leaves Oxford April 27. Tâe King disguised comâs to the Scotch Army May 4. The King reiterated Messages for peace the first Dec. 5. The Parliaments answer Message of the 15 of December 1645. Message of the 15 of Decem. for a Personal Treaty Another to the same purpose Decemb 29. Royalists expeled the Lines of Communication The Parliaments Answer January 14. The King replies Jan. 15. The Kings Message and Answer of the 17 of January to that of the 13. His Majesties Messageâ of the 24th of Jan. The King commands a general weekly Fast in Oxford The Earl of Glamorgan ãâã by the Lord Digby and for a while ãâã ãâã Maâesties ãâã Jan. 29. The Parliament publish an Ordinance for the Scizure of the King and his Adherents They pretend to invite the Prince by Commissioners The Prince departing for France Barnstable surrendred April 7 th Ruthen Castle St. Michaels Mount and Dunster Castle Surrendred Arch-Bishop of York declares for the Parliament Dudly Castle surrendred Sir Thomas Fairfax câmâs before Oxford he summons a Council of War raiseth a great Fort neer the Town Sir Thomas Glemham Govârâââr of Oxford Carlile âieâled to the Scâts July 1â 1645 by Sir Thomas Glemham Divisions at Court among the Nobles at Oxford Oxford delivered June 23. The Governour marcheth to Tame Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice depart to Oatlands Duke of York and many persons of great Quality depart from Oxford Duke of York conveyed to St. Iames's sooâ after into Holland the Princess Henrietta to France a while before Faringdon included in the Oxford Articles ãâã Parliament-Forces under Col. Poyntz and Col. Rossiter besiege Newark General Leven with his Scots draws of from Newark the Town Summoned Lord Bellasis the Governour commanded by the King to surrender May 4 a Treaty entred into and Newark yeilded The Parliament-Forces under Col. Whaley besiege Banbury * Anglia Rediviva Sir William Compton the Governour yields on honourable Terms May 8.
to attend him Cromwel the chief conspirator in seizing the King Cromwel sets up the Levellers They designe to lay all things in common Sir Thomas Fairfax his Leter to the Parliament The Kings Message concerning it The perplexed thoughts of the Parliament and City about it The Duke of Richmond Dr. Sheldon and Dr. Hammond suffered to have access to the King The Army declare The Parliament demur to the suspending of their Members They forbeare sitting of themselves The Army quote thâ Cases of the Earl of Strafford ArchâB of Canterbury and Ld. Keeper Finch The King and Parliament over-awâd by Cromwel his remarkable expression His Majesties Meditation on the designes of the several factions His Majesty desires his Childrens company Sir Thomas Fairfax his Letter to the Parliament concerning the Kings desire of seeing his Children A Letter from the King to the Duke of York inclosed The King enjoy his Children company two days His Nephew the Prince Elector Palatine visits him The Armies designe upon the City of London The Citizens Petition the Lord Mayor in behalf of the King and the Army The solemn ânâagement of the City A Declaration of the Lords and Commons forbidding subscriptions to the Engagement The rashness and precipetancy of the City The Preâtices and Râââle Tumult the Parliament-House The Parl. ãâ¦ã Speakârs The former Speaker to the Commons mânaced by Cromwel Both the old Speakers go to the Army The Lord Grey of Wark chââen Speaker to the Lords Mr. Hen. Pelham Speaker for the Commons The Parl. Vote the re-admission of the 11 Membeâs The Committee of Safety set up Tumults in London about listing of Forces The Army approach within 10 miles of London The Kings Declaration clearing himself of any designâ of war He as a Neuter attends the Issue of Divine Providence ãâã Fugitive Members sit in Council with the Army The Armies Declaration Fairfax sends warrants for the Trained-Bands to march against the City The City submits on dishonourable Conditions The Fugitive Members reseated Aug. 6. and the former Speakers placed by the General The Parl. appoint a day of Thanksgiving for their reâsettlement The Army feasâed by the City Sir Thomas Fairfax made Generalissimo and Constable of the Tower The Souldiers ordered a months gratuity The 11 imâeachâd Membârs withâraâ One of them viz. Mr. Nichols sâized on by Cromwel and abââed Sir Philip Stapleton passeth over to Calice and dyes miserablâ All Votes Ordââs anâ Oââinances passed in the ãâã of the Speakers aâtogateâ The Sollicitour-General St. John Hazelrigg Sir Hen. Vane Junior Tho. Scot Cornelius Holland Prideaux Gourdon Sir John Evelin âunior and Henry Mildway all Regicides and busie contrivers of the Armies designes The Ordinance of Null and Void passed August 20. ãâ¦ã Citizens of London impeacheâ and comâââtâd The impeachment ãâã by Sir John Evelin junior and Miles Corbet Poyntz and Massey ãâã to Holland The King brought to Hampton Court Commissioners sent to him from the Parliament with Propositions The Preface thereunto His Majesties Answer to them Sept. 9. Those Propâsiâtiââs ãâ¦ã with ãâ¦ã a Newcastle His Majesty ãâã the Army Proposaâ Cromwel iâgâglâs with his Majesty A abstract of the Armies Proposals Money enough be sure this they intended for a Law no doubt and might have been put first the other being meerly subâârvient to it They indulge the King in not abrogating the Common-Prayer and claw with the Papist Life to the Royalist and death to the Presbyter The rarest Article in the Pack Divers pretences in favour of the Cavaliers Cromwel designes to please all Parties by Proposing to regulate the Law and Assesstments Asserting the peopleâ rights in Peâââioning agâââst Forrest-Lands Excise Monopolies c. Cromwel and other Grandees of the Army frequently with the King Cromwel hasfleth with the King and is discovered The King still kept at Hampton Court with the publike use of Common-prayer in great State his friends and Chaplains about him The Faction and Cromwel suspect and fear âhe Kings neerness to London Colonel Whaley pretends to the King that the Adjutators designe to Murther him They fright the King from Hampton Court who by the advice of Sir John Berkley and Mr. John Ashburnham escapes to the Isle of Wight Colonel Hammond Governour thereof ãâ¦ã Dowagers of South-hampton Nov. 11. The King is misled Whaley takes âhe Kings âapers left behind him in his Chamber The First directed to the Lord Mountague The second to Colonel Whaley His Majesties Message left behinde Him at Hampton-Court to both Houses of Parliament The King seized by Col. Hamond in the Isle of Wight and conveyed to Carlsbrook Castle Nove. 14. The Parl. make it High Treason for any to conceal the King They command Col. Hamond to send the Kings attendants up to London he refuseth The King pleads in their behalf The Parliament vote that no Cavalier or Papists be admitted into the Island The Gen. hath the command of his person The King allowed 5000 l. for the âxpences of his Court. The Kings Message to the Parliament from his inprisonment in Carisbrook-Castle He professeth as he is a Christian and a King to defend the Government of the Church by Arch-bishops Bishops c. Their Order being placed in the Church by the Apostles And he and His Predecessors having Sworn to maintain it Bât agrees that their Power may be so limited as not to be grievous to tender Consciences The King consânts that the power of the Militia both by Land and Sea shall be ordered by the Parliament during his Raign He promiseth to pay the Army their Arrears Consenteth that the great Offices of State and naming of Privy Counsellors shall be in the Power of the two Houses during his raign He ãâ¦ã at London with ãâ¦ã Several scurrilous Pamphlets published to defame His Majesty Especially Needham's âatitulâd a Hue and Cry after the King Iudge Jenkins sloutly vindicates the King's Cause and Party Iudge Jenkins imprisoned and enlarged at the Restauration of King Charles the second The burden of Free-quarter Cromwel and his supernumeraries the cause thereof Vast sums of money raised for the Souldiery Debentures sold. The Excise an excessive Tax and carefully upheld Several refuse to pay it and tumults happen The Butchers at Smithfield-bars London fire the Excise-house several of them tryed but acqitted White a Leveller Executed at Ware And Thompson condemned by a Council of War The Parliament constrained to humour a Treaty Four Bills tendred to the King at the Isle of Wight before the Treaty should begin Their Proposals to the King The Scotch Commissioners declare their dissent from the Proposals and Bills His Majesties Answer to the Bills c. His Majesty again presseth for a personal Treaty Sir Thomas Wroth flies high and inveighs against the King in the House of Commons * The History of Indâpendency p. 70. He is seconded by Commisary Ireton And both of them backed by Cromwel Who laid his Hand upon his Sword not long before baffled by Sir Philip
the Sword The Town miserably plundred Aberdeen yielded St. Andrews Fined 500 l. Scotch Nobles taken at Ellet in the Highlands and Sir John Daniel and Col. Douglas taken at Dumfreiz Aug. A New Representative debated of The High Court of Justice pardons Mr. Jenkins and others Cap. Symkins Sir Timothy Fetherstonhaugh and Col. Benbow Executed Oct. The Earl of Derby Beheaded at Bolton Octob. 15. Several other Royalists taken James Hinde the sam'd High-way-man taken and Hang'd drawn and quartered at Worcester The Estates of the Lord Craven and other Royalists exposed to sale General Popham 's Funeral Octob. 24. The Scotch Union projected Commissioners named to go into Scotland Gen. Monke protects the Marq. of Montross his Children and Family Limerick besieged by Deputy Ireton for the Parl. Hugh O Neal Gâvârâour tâereof Ireton defeâted before Limerick Limerick ãâã October 29. Sir Charles Coât ãâã a party of Irish. Clare Castle taken by the English Ireton dies of the Plague at Limerick Nov. 25. Edmund Ludlow constituted in his place Ireton lies in state at Summerset house His Character Jersey surrendââd Nov. and Dec. to the Parliament Mount Orgueil and Elizabeth Castle âurrendred Isle of Man reduced Dec. Barbadoes reduced by Sir Geo Ayscue Jan. Lord Willoughby Governour thereof St. Christophers the same The Scotch Kirk reject and declare against the Union Monarchy abolished in Scotland Jan. Dumbarton surrendered Jan. 5 by Sir Charles Erskin to the Parliament The Dutch Commerce and Fishing molested at Sea The 1 of Dec. the time limited by tââ Act ââomacked by the Dutch The Dutch Embassadors tâeat January The Parliament publish an Act of Oblivion John Lilburn Banished Josiah Primate fined 4000 l. Lord Clanrickard sues to Lieu. Gen. Ludlow for a peace His Answer Arguile treats with Commissioners at Dumbarton Blackness Castle ordered to be blown up Moss-Troopers busie and mischievous Several places in Ireland taken by the English An Act for removing obstructions in the sale of Crown-lands Black-monday March 29 predicted by Will. Lilly The King at Paris April The Duke of York Renowned for this Service The King at St. Germains with the Marq. of Ormond and E. of Castlehaven Several parties of the Irish submit Lord Clanrickard takes Ballishannon and Dungal Castle Lord Muskerry yields Galloway surrendered Irelands Râines Submissions and surrenders Ballishannon retaken and Slego surrendered to the Parliament The affairs of Scotland Dunotter Castle yielded May 28. Citadels built in Scotland The rise of the Dutch War A great Fire at Glascow Congleton Chuââh in Cheshire fired by Lightning The like Fire in Essex The State-house of Amsterdam burnt Sâa-fights seen in the Air. An Encounter between the Forces of England and Holland Capt. Young 's Letter Gen. Blake 's Letter Maj. Bourne 's Relation Admiral Trump 's Letter to the States of Holland The Datch Embassadors Paper to the Council of State The Parliaments Answer thereunto Their Demands Trump in the Downs The English and Dutch Fleets July Encounter They are scattered by a Storm Blake takes several of their Frigats and divers Prisoners De Buyter and Sir Geo Ayscue 's Engagement at Plymouth Au. 16. Sir Geo Ayscue rewarded for hâs service The States of Holland excite several Princes to assist them The Lord Embassador Monsieur Paw dieth of a surfeit by broyld Salmon Marq. Clanrickard lays down Arms. Cromwel 's designe upon the Parliament appears Dunkirk taken by the Spaniard and the French Fleet with relief seized by Geâ Blake A General Assembly in Scotland Dismist by Lieu. Col. Cotterel De Ruyter with a Fleet at the mouth of the Channel De Wit joyns with him De Wit worsted by Blake Marq. of Worcester taken and committed to the Tower Mutiny in Holland Some of their Seamen Executed A Fleet of War sent to the Sound c. Lord Hopton dyes at Bruges in Flanders September The Earl of Rochester to the Diet in Germany Van Trump at Sea with a Fleet. Blake defeated in the Downs by Trump Nov. 29. The Dutch Seamen steal Sheep at Rumney Marsh and come off with loss Trump neer the Isle of Wight The Phoenix regained Nov. 30 by Capt. Cox The Parliaments three Geâârals Blake Dean and Monke A Maâque on the Taxes The Dutch Bravadoes The Duke of Gloucester sent away from Carisbrook to Dunkirk Feb. Conducted into France by the Lords Langdale and Inchiqueen The French Envy M. Bourdeaux owns the State c. December The Portugal Embassador concludes The Dutch forbid any to supply the English with provisions of War Torce of their Hamburgh ships laden with Plate taken A High Court of Iustice in Ireland Iustice Donelan President thereof Several persons Condemned Lord Muskerry taken and committed to Dublin Castle Sir Phelim O Neal the great Rebel hanged c. The Condition of Ireland The Priests Banished Cromwel and his Officers keep a Fast. Seamens Wages raised The Kings Houses of Hampton Court to be sold c. Moneys thereâpon at six per cent Agent Bradshaw to Copenhagen He is affronted and in danger English under Blake at Sea Van Trump returns through the Channel Feb. Portland fight Feb. 18 between Dutch and English Stoutly maintained on either side A Fight at Leghorn March 2. The English worsted Prince Maurice drowned in the West-India's Prince Rupert arrives in France Mar. De Wit at sea with another Fleet. The Dutch designe of weakning us by taking our Colliers Sir John Gell and several Scots released from the Tower and others preferred * Twelve Parliament-men for a penny The manner of dissolving the Parliament A Declaration of the General and Council of Officers about the Dissolution c. * An Act for filling up the Parliament Addresses to Cromwel Vice-Admiral Pen in the Downs with a Fleet of 70 sail Cromwel a Dictator A Council of State Marlborough burnt Ap. 28. Lord Digby honoured with the order of the Garter Ulster forces in Ireland submit Trump in the Downs having given the English a go-by Engaged by Gen. Monke and Dean c. June 2 Gen. Dean slain Trump defeated June 2 3. The Dutch hang out a white Flag and send a Messenger to the English in order to a Peace A new Parliament called The Summons New Scotch Troubles The Dutch Trade at a stand The last Dutch Engagement between Gen. Monke and Van Trump on the Coast of Holland July 29. Van Trump slain and the Dutch defeated July 31. Gold Chains and Meddals ordered by the Parl. to be given to the chief Commanders and Officers A Thanksgiving appointed De Wit conveys a great Fleet from the Sound Lord Opdam made Lieutenant-Admiral in place of Van Trump who was Interred at Delf in great State Little Parliament met July 4. Mr. Francis Rouse their Speaker Called Barebone 's Parliament a Leather-sellers Name in Fleetstreet one of the said Convention The Names of the Parliament men Act for Marriages A new Body of the Law to be made An Act for ââââh Adventurers and Allotments Whitlock Embassador to Sweden A Summary of what
retire with great loss Makes peace Duke of Yorks Son Christened Parliament Proroguâd 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 Bâsiege 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 agâinât Contributions c. ãâ¦ã rous Tartar Barbado's âeââir Sir John Lawson proclaims War against Argier A Memorandum deliver'd the States Parâiaââât Proâogâed The King sends to the City for Mony Granted Earl of Teviot kill'd Turks defeated Turks a second time defeated Lawson callâd 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 Sâa 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 Desâgnes The Condition ãâã 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 frâââless Earl of Morpeth affronted by the Hollander Major Holms committed Dischargâd 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 killâd 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. Proroguâd A Curiosity A Loss The Duke of York Ingaging the Dutch Fleet gain'd a very ââcal 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 Empââoâ and the Turk Turkish Embassadâr'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 hâels 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 Monsiâur 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
after the Battle the names of which were the Lord Widdrington Major-General Sir Thomas Tildesly Colonel Mat. Boyton Sir Francis Gamul Lieutenant-Colonel Gallyard and Major Trollop and Chester the Prisoners were Sir William Throckmorton Colonel Richard Leg Colonel Robinson Bayns Gerard Lieutenant-Colonel Rigby Constable and Major Gower and some 300 Prisoners among whom were some Reformadoes and some 80 slain for the chief slaughter fell on the other side during the fight The Earl of Derby having lost his George and Garter fled with some 30 towards Worcester having by the good providence of God who alone is able to bring Evil out of Good sheltered himself one night in a house called Boscobel which Heaven by this means had prepared for the Kings retreat and preservation By this time Cromwel had surrounded that City with his spreading Host in as neer a compass as the Rivers and Passes would suffer him the Kings Army as yet lying out of the Town a mile in the fields The first Pass endeavoured to be taken was Vpton-Bridge on Fleetwoods side which Major-General Lambert attempted with 500 Horse and Dragoons and after a brisk dispute wrested from Col. Massey who in defence thereof received a wound in his Hand the first mark of his redeemed honour in that member which had been so unhappily active and successful against the King The Scots having thus abandoned the place it was presently possest by a strong party of Horse and Foot in order to the present advance of the rest of the Army The Scots now drawn closer to Worcester made many Salleys breaking down two or three Bridges over the River Team and shewing a well-ordered and governed courage but September the 3 that ominous day being arrived Cromwel resolved to venture the event upon its former auspicia and to that purpose having his Boats in readiness pass'd over his men in the afternoon of that day he drew out from his own Post and having given the signal to the whole Army to fall on began the Fight in this manner Cromwel himself in person about three a clock with his Life-Guard and Colonel Hacker's Regiment of Horse with part of his own Regiment and Colonel Ingoldsby's and Fairfax's entire passed over his Bridge of Boats upon the Severn and marched towards the City after him Lieutenant-General Fleetwood who had been most part of that day marching of five miles from Vpton to Powick-bridge which the Kings Army had broken down passed with Colonel Goff's and Major-General Dean's Regiments and joyntly advanced the Kings Forces encountering them at the Hedges and disputing every field with them in such order and with such gallantry that these already over lest they should not be wholly discouraged with the hotness of the Service were relieved by Reserves and they by others no considerable progress yet made the Highlanders proving excellent fire-men and coming to the But-end at every foot till weary and their Ammunition spent the King being then upon the place Commanded them in some haste into the City and hastened himself to the other side where Colonel Hayn's Regiment with Cobbet's stood about Powick-Bridge and were entertained with no less manhood and slaughter and though Colonel Matthews was the Reserve to the other two Regiments yet did the Scotch Foot fairly drive them from their ground till their little Army being every way engaged and no seconds or supplies to be expected after some wheelings in a careless regard of the Enemy as if they feared not to make which way they pleased they drew likewise into the Town as did that Brigade which opposed the Regiments of the Lord Gray Colonel Blague Gibbons and Marsh. But they stayed not long there but as if their pent spirits had broke out with greater fury they sallied out in great Bodies upon the Generals side who had now brought the Militia-Forces into play the Veterans wisely detrecting to engage first upon the Storm which was then intended but there was yet field-matter enough to do In the head of one of those Squadrons the King himself Charged with that gallantry which would have become our admiration in other men and shewed he had not forgot the Discipline of War in which he had been brought up from his youth In one of those Charges he made Duke Hamilton a better Souldier and noble gallanter person than his Brother received a shot in his Thigh whereof presently after he died The loss that was sustained by the Enemy fell principally upon the Essex-Foot and those of Cheshire and Surrey who returned in thin Troops and Companies to their Counties but fresh and entire Brigades and Regiments in Reserves namely Desborough's Regiment of Horse Cromwel's of Horse Major-General Lambert's of Horse Whaley's Harrison's and Tomlinson's Brigades with other Foot re-inforcing them the Scots by the over-powering multitude were driven into the Town Lesley with 2000 Horse upon what account not known not stirring out of the Town to relieve them when the Enemy entred pell-mell with them and gained the Fort-Royal about seven a clock at night at which time the King left the Town it being dusk and accompanied with some 60 Horse of the chiefest and most confident of his Retinue though many more pressed to bear him Company departed out of St. Martins gate and it was reported that Cobbet very narrowly mist of him as the King left his Lodging whither he first hastned The Enemies Foot was now got into the Town and according to their order fell a Plundering the Town in a most barbarous manner as if Turks were again Sacking of Constantinople and giving no Quarter to any they found in the Streets Through this their greediness of spoil they kept the Horse out lest they should have shared the better part and to that purpose kept the Gates fast as they were and so favoured as God would have it the Kings escape Some Scots who had got into one of the Churches held out till next morning when they obtained Quarter for Life by which time there was not an Inhabitant in Worcester Friend or Foe left Unplundered but the Loyal Inhabitants soon recovered themselves being supplied with fresh Wares to their desires from London without any scruple of credit or payment and their Debts forborn till such time as God should enable them which the Gentry and Inhabitants round about them endeavoured to bring to pass by thâiâ more than ordinary resort to that Market for all necessaries and upon all occasions The Mayor being Knighted by the King and Aldermen were Committed to Prison and the Wife of one Guyes who for betraying the designes of the King in that Garrison was Hanged was rewarded with 200 l. per annum and 200 l. down There were slain in Field and in Town in the last the most and in pursuit some 2000 and some 8000 taken Prisoners in several places most of the English escaping by their Shibboleth the principal were Duke Hamilton who presently died of his wounds