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Ianuaries accovnt, giving a full and true relation of all the remarkable passages of that month, this present yeare, 1645 drawne up together to give a generall satisfaction to the whole kingdome, of the just and legall proceedings of that High and Honourable Court of Parliament.
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Teachers Elders and Deacons should be the Officers of the Church Plimmouth hath had great successe against Grenvils Forces who having then one great Work were beaten off with the loste of 75 men left dead on the place An Order was made by the Commons for the triall of one Dobson a Stationer by a Councell of War for Printing scandalous books There is order taken also for the suppressing of Oxford Aulicasses Printed at London or conveyed hither An Ordinance was made for the assessement of the Counties for raising of the summe set on them for the maintenance of the twenty one thousand Horse and Foot according to the new moddell of an Army After the defeat at Abington they were much distracted at Oxford whither Sir Henry Gage killed at Abington was brought and buried there The Lord Savil the L. Piercy and the L. Andover were confined to their chambers some say for mocking Prince Rupert and asking him if he had brought Abington in his pocket others say for giving intelligence Three hundred Horse and Prisoners were taken by Colonell Holborne who also forced the Enemy to Bristol and since hath taken Sydenham house with a hundred Prisoners one Captaine a Lieutenant many other officers with store of Armes and Amunition Sir Thomas Fairfax is made Commander in chiefe of the Forces according to the new moddell of the Army And Major Skippon is made Sergeant-Major-Generall of the same and severall other Officers are voted by the House There is an Appendix to the Directory presented to the Commons and by them transmitted to the Lords for the abolishing of Holidayes and holynesse attributed to places and a Committee is appointed to consider of certaine dayes for the recreations of Apprentices and servants in a civill orderly way so that there will be no more drunken Saint-dayes now Sir Peter Killigrew returned from Oxford on Wednesday last January 22. with His Majesties Answer concerning the Treaty which was sealed up in a Letter of Ruperts to the Lord Generall The contents of the conduct runne to this effect That our Commissioners namely Algernon Earle of Northumberland Earle of Pembroke Earle of Salisbury Earle of Denbigh of the House of Lords And the Lord Waiman Mr. Hollis Mr. Pierpoint Mr. Whitlock Sir Henry Vane junior Mr. Solliciter Mr. Crew and Mr. Prideaux of the House of Commons in Parliament assembled at Westminster And the Marquesse of Argile the Lord Louthian the Lord Muitland Sir Charles Erskin Mr. Kereday Mr. Berkley Mr. Henderson and othere Commissioners from the Parliament of Scotland with their attendants not exceeding the number of a 108. with their Horse Carriages and other necessaries are to passe between London and Vxbridge when and so often as they shall thinke fit during the time of the Treaty without any let or molestation whatsoever The Propositions from the King are these THat His Majesties Revenues Magazins Towns Forts and Ships that have been taken or kept from him may be restored That whatsoever hath been done or published contrary to the known Lawes of the Land or derogatory to His Majesties legall and known Rights be renounced and recalled that no seed may remain of the like to spring out for the future That whatsoever illegall power hath been claimed or exercised over His Majesties Subjects as imprisoning and putting to death their persons without Law stopping Habeas Corpus and putting Impositions upon their estates without Act of Parliament either by one or both Houses or by any Committee of both or either Houses be disclaimed and the persons committed be forthwith discharged That His Majesty will consent to make a Law to establish and to maintain the Protestant Religion and for the firmer establishing thereof desires there may be a Bill drawn up for the continuance of the Booke of Common Prayer and to maintain it from all soonne and violence That there be a Bill also for the eâ—se of tender Consciences in such particulars as shall be agreed upon and that as to the best expedient thereunto there be a Nationall Synod called legally with all convenient speed That all persons which shall be excepted and agreed upon on either side to be excepted out of the Generall Pardon be tried per Pares according to the usuall custome and known Laws of the Land to be either acquitted or condemned And to the intent that Trade may not suffer nor any interruption to the Treaty and that there may be a Cessation of Arms and a free Trade with all possible speed concluded on And as to what shall be debated His Majesty gives power to his Commissioners or any ten of them to agree and conclude upon them In the new Army of 21000 the chiefe Commanders nominated are Sir Thomas Fairfax to command in chiefe and Major Skippon to be Serjeant-Major-Generall the foure Colonels of Horse and Foot are Col. Holborn Col. Middleton Col. Fortescue Col. Barkley And honours are by the Parliament to bee conferred on the Earle of Essex and Sir William Belfore for their valiant and faithfull services for the Commonwealth It is certaine Colonel Holborn hath taken Sydenham house and therein a 100 prisoners with the high Sheriffe of Summersetshire and ten Commissioners of Array That he hath taken some hundreds of Hoptons forces and driven the rest towards Bristol that Plimmouth is in a good condition That the King hath assigned Prince Maurice to be Generall of Worcester Hereford and Shropshire The Kings Commissioners are the Duke of Richmond Marquesse Hartford Earle of Southampton Earle of Kingston Earle of Chichester Lord Seymor Lord Hatton L Capel L. Culpepper Sir Orlando Bridgeman Sir Edward Nicholas Sir Ed. Hide Sir Richard Lane Sir Thomas Gardiners Mr. John Ashburnham and Mr. Jeffery Palmer with Doctor Stewart Dr. Laney Dr. Shelden and their attendants to the number of 108. But some of their Commissioners at Oxford must leave their new Titles behinde them for the Houses wil not allow the new made Lords their Titles the rest that have gotten new honours since Littleton went away upon such tearmes And on Saturday Sir Peter Killigrew posted to signifie so much unto them and also to carry them a safe conduct upon the same conditions This Treaty is the great expectation of the Kingdome and this eclipse may signifie Peace and that Eclips'd Religion losing now her light Yet once shine out again most fair and bright This Treaty brings Englands weale or woe and therefore worthy to be prayed for happy were it to see the King as the Sunne doth comming towards us for then our joy would beginne to spring Sir William Breretons Forces have taken Prisoners near Chester Colonell Woiden Col. Wen Lieutenant Colonell Gray Lieutenant Colonell Gough Captaine Rorey Capt. Oneal an Irishman with thirteen other Commanders 200 common Souldiers as many Horse store of Armes and killed and wounded many of them Instructions are agreed upon what particulars shall bee treated off the first nine dayes namely on the setling of Religion the Militia and the affaires of Ireland Sir Richard Greenvil hath in the West slaine the two Champernoons in this manner Colonell Champernoon provoked by him fired his Pistol upon him without effect then Greenvil pistoled the Colonell and slew him his brother fired his Pistoll upon Greenvil which missing Greenvil drew his sword and run him through and so killed both the brothers Cornwall begins to rise up in Armes being weary of the cruelty of this insolent and bloudy Commander Greenvil Chester is at this present besieged round and an hundred and twenty Demy Canon shot were made in one day against Pomfract Castle against which a new mount is raised and many breaches are made An India Ship was caried into Bristol by the treacherous master thereof Sir Thomas Middleton keeps the Welch in obedience and maintaines divâ—rs Garisons there Thus have you a true account of the passages of this Month of January happy in the beginning of the Treary of Peace unto which God send a blessed issue Seen and alowed LONDON Printed for Richard Harper and are to be sold at his shop in Smithfield 1645. 1644
IANUARIES ACCOVNT Giving a full and true Relation of all the remarkable passages of that Month this present Yeare 1645. 1644 Drawne up together to give a generall satisfaction to the whole Kingdome of the just and legall proceedings of that High and Honourable Court of PARLIAMENT THe first day of the Yeare according to the season of the time it being good all the month to take off superfluous branches from Fruit-trees The Commonwealth had a young twig cut from it proceeding from as bad a body or stocke Sir John Hotham father to Captaine Hotham who about eleven of the clocke the same day was brought to the Seaffold on Tower-hill where he prayed but confessed nothing so difficult a thing it is for great men to deale plainly with their consciences even at the instant of death but he justified his actions and so lying downe on the block his head being cut oft at one blow Streight boughs may grow from a crooked Tree but it is worthy to be remembred that the Sonne being lopt off by the Axe of Justice the same weeke the Father who like an old Oake had stood the shaking tempests of many Winters should now come to so sad a fall This Sir John Hotham may be a lecture unto all great persons to instruct them to keep a true and sound heart in which part he being rotten was by the hand of Justice cut downe for his treacherous carriage in many businesses as his denying my Lord Fairfax necessaries to fight against the Earle of Newcastle he severall times had in his custody the Lord George who comming to England alone hath beene the death of many thousand men and a million of prejudices to the Kingdome in the estates of men besides his intent of delivering up Hull for which the State saw it just and necessary that he should dye these two executions it is to be hoped will not only fright those at Oxford from farther tampering with any of our party but also make all ours interested to forbear the least thoughts of compliance with the Enemy for treachery is a staine never got out These two the fatherand the son being gone out of the world and which is the greatest misery of all unpitied the Scripture now was in a man that should have advanced Religion and Gods word fulfilled The Axe is now laid to the root of the tree and every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit shall be hewen downe and cast into the fire for the first part it was well enough knowne that this Tree being first planted in St. John Colledge in Oxford flourished there a long time untill he was removed to grow in the fat soil of an Episcopal dignity being made Archbishop of Canterbury and now being firmly rooted in that high Grace he having little grace did not as the text saith Bring forth good fruit unlesse the endeavoring to bring in Popery instead of the Protestant Religion his persecuting the members of Christ by imprisonment and cutting off ears his cruelty in the high Commission Court his silencing of faithfull Ministers his desiring to be made a Cardinall from Rome and his opposing of Parliaments and therein his subverting the Lawes of the Kingdome to bring in the Romish Hierarchy and many other wicked plots unlesse I say these were good fruits he brought forth none else so that this Tree being by the judicious censure of Parliament knowne and proved to bring forth nothing but malice Popery malignancy and treason against the Kingdome and State he was as the Scripture saith condemned to have the Axe not only laid unto him though he hoped for mercy but to be hewen downe And so on January the tenth he came from the Tower to the place of Execution where on the Scaffold heo had many spectators who came to see this old Popish Oake cut downe who there on the Scaffold on Tower-hill preacht his Funerall Sermon upon Heb. 12.1.2 Let us run with patience that race that is set before us looking unto Jesus the Author and finisher of our faith who for the joy that was set before him endured the crosse despising the shame and is set downe at the right hand of the Throne of God His Sermon may be thus epitomized in these briefe heads First an application of the words unto himselfe I have been long in my race and how I have looked unto Jesus the author and finisher of my faith is best knowne to him Then he begins to mocke the people in these words The Israelites would not worship the Image which the King had set up Nor shall I the Imaginations which the people are setting up nor will I forsake the Temple and the Truth of God to follow the bleating of Jeroboams Calves in Dan and Bethel Then he blessed the people and prayed God to open their eyes that they might see the right way meaning to Popery Then he said that Simon Sudbury a Bishop lost his head in the fury of Wat Tiler as if he were put to death by Rebels and in a time of Rebellion Then he prayes for the King and professed himselfe to dye in the Protestant Religion but who ever saw a Protestant Bishop desire a Cardinals Cap. But you may read his Sermon at large which being ended he plucked off his doublet and after some prayers laid his head on the block and at one blow his policy and Popery were both out off Munday the 13. after debate it was resolved by the Commons that the number of the new Army now raised should be 21000 Horse and Foot This day Col. Jepson the Governour of Plimmoth set upon Colonell Gorings Quarters tooke some Horse and divers Prisoners Colonell Mitton also with a party from his Garrison at Oswestree fell upon three Troops of Sir John Birons Horse and tooke two Captaines of Horse one Lieutenant one Quartermaster nineteen Troopers twenty case of Pistols twelve Carbines foure Muskets and routed all the rest Ian. 14. The Lord Inchequin was by Commission made President of Munster The House passed a Vote to this effect That many Congregations may bee under one Presbyteriall Government Abington was attempted to be stormed by P. Rupert Maurice Colonell Gage Governour of Oxford and others with a party of about 1000. Horse and 800. foot but they were soone beaten from Cullam bridge our men marching through the overflowing waters In this Service we lost of note only Major Bradbury slain upon the bridge and seven or eight common Souldiers of the Enemies there were slaine Sir Henry Gage Governour of Oxford the Major of the Princes Regiment with his Lieutenant and the Enemy carried away three cart load of dead men The Towne and Castle of Cardigan in Wales is taken by Major Generall Laughorne the Towne with little difficulty but the Castle held out obstinately wherein were taken an hundred Commanders and Souldiers The States of Holland have desired a passe from the Parliament to goe to Oxford It is voted by the Commons that Pasters Doctors