Lloyd now called Sir Rich. Lloyd Mr. David Jenkins Sir George Strode George Carteret Esq now called Sir Geo. Carteret Sir Charles Dallison Kt. Richard Lane Esq now called Sir Rich. Lane Sir Edward Nicholas John Ashburnham Esq Sir Edward Herbert Kt. his Majesties Attorney-General Lord Rae George Gourdon sometime Marquess of Huntly James Graham sometime Earl of Montross Robert Dalyell sometime Earl of Carnewath James Gordon sometime Viscount of Aboyne Lodowick Linsey sometime Earl of Crawford James Ogley sometime Earl of Airby Alester Madonald Gordon Younger of Gight Col. John Cockram Graham of Gorthie Mr. John Maxwell sometime pretended Bishop of Ross And all such others as being processed by the Estates for Treason shall be condemned before the Act of Oblivion be passed 2 Qualification All Papists and Popish Recusants who have been now are or shall be actually in Arms or voluntarily assisting against the Parliaments or Estates of either Kingdom and by name The Marquess of Winton Edward Earl of Worcester Lord Brudnell Carell Mollinex Esq Lord Arundel of Warder Sir Francis Howard Sir John Winter Sir Charles Smith Sir John Prestan Sir Bazil Brooke Lord Audley Earl of Castlehaven in the Kingdom of Ireland William Shelden of Beely Esquire Sir Henry Beddingfield 3 Qualification All persons who have had any hand in the plotting designing or assisting the Rebellion of Ireland except such persons who having onely assisted the said Rebellion have rendred themselves or come into the Parliament of England 4 Qualification That Humfrey Bennet Esq Sir Edward Ford. Sir John Penruddock Sir George Vaughan Sir John Weld Sir Robert Lee. Sir John Pate John Ackland Edmond Windham Esq Sir John Fitzharbert Sir Edw. Lawrence Sir Ralph Dutton Henry Lingen Esq Sir Hen. Fletcher Sir Rich. Minshall Laurence Halestead John Denham Esq Sir Edmund Fortescue Peter Sainthill Esq Sir Tho. Tildisley Sir Hen. Griffith Michael Wharton Esq Sir Hen. Spiller Mr. Geo. Benyon now called Sir Geo. Benyon Sir Edw. Walgrave Sir Edw. Bishop Sir William Russell of Worcestershire Thomas Lee of Adlington Esq Sir John Girlington Sir Paul Neale Sir William Thorold Sir Edward Hussey Sir Tho. Lyddell Sen. Sir Philip Musgrave Sir John Digby of Nottinghamshire Sir Robert Owseley Sir John Many Lord Cholmley Sir Tho. Aston Sir Lewis Dives Sir Peter Osbourne Samuel Thornton Esq Sir John Lucas John Claney Esq Sir Tho. Chedle Sir Nicholas Kemish Hugh Lloyd Esq Sir Nicholas Cripse Sir Peter Ricaut And all such of the Scottish Nation as have concurred in the Votes at Oxford against the Kingdom of Scotland and their proceedings or have sworn or subscribed the Declaration against the Convention and Covenant and all such as have assisted the Rebellion in the North or the Invasion in the South of the said Kingdom of Scotland or the late Invasion made there by the Irish and their Adherents be removed from his Majesties Councils and be restrained from coming within the Verge of the Court and that they may not without the advice and consent of both Houses of the Parliament of England or the Estates in the Parliament of Scotland respectively bear any Office or have any Employment concerning the State or Commonwealth And in case any of them shall offend therein to be guilty of High-Treason and incapable of any pardon from his Majesty and their Estates to be disposed as both Houses of the Parliament of England or the Estates of the Parliament in Scotland respectively shall think fit And that one full third part upon full value of the Estates of the persons aforesaid made incapable of Employment as aforesaid be employed for the payment of the publick Debts and Damages according to the Declaration Branch 1. That the late Members or any who pretended themselves late Members of either House of Parliament who have not onely deserted the Parliament but have also sate in the unlawful Assembly at Oxford called or pretended by some to be a Parliament and voted both Kingdoms Traytors and have not voluntarily rendred themselves before the last of October 1644. be removed from his Majesties Councils and be restrained from coming within the Verge of the Court. And that they may not without advice and consent of both Kingdoms bear any Office or have any Employment concerning the State or Commonwealth And in case any of them shall offend therein to be guilty of High-Treason and incapable of any pardon by his Majesty and their Estates to be disposed as both Houses of Parliament in England or the Estates of the Parliament of Scotland respectively shall think fit Branch 2. That the late Members or any who pretended themselves Members of either House of Parliament who have sate in the unlawful Assembly at Oxford called or pretended by some to be a Parliament and have not voluntarily rendred themselves before the last of October 1644. be removed from his Majesties Councils and restrained from coming within the Verge of the Court and that they may not without the advice and consent of both Houses of Parliament bear any Office or have any Employment concerning the State or Commonwealth And in case any of them shall offend therein to be guilty of High-Treason and incapable of any pardon from his Majesty and their Estates to be disposed as both Houses of the Parliament of England shall think fit Branch 3. That the late Members or any who pretended themselves Members of either House of Parliament who have deserted the Parliament and adhered to the Enemies thereof and have not rendred themselves before the last of October 1644. be removed from his Majesties Councils and be restrained from coming within the Verge of the Court and that they may not without the advice and consent of both Houses of Parliament bear any Office or have any Employment concerning the State or Commonwealth And in case any of them shall offend therein to be guilty of High-Treason and incapable of any pardon from his Majesty and their Estates to be disposed as both Houses of Parliament in England shall think fit 5 Qualification That all Judges and Officers towards the Law Common or Civil who have deserted the Parliament and adhered to the Enemies thereof be incapable of any place of Judicature or Office towards the Law Common or Civil And that all Serjeants Counsellors and Attorneys Doctors Advocates Proctors of the Law Common or Civil who have deserted the Parliament and adhered to the Enemies thereof be incapable of any practice in the Law Common or Civil either in publick or private and shall not be capable of any preferment or employment in the Commonwealth without the advice and consent of both Houses of Parliament And that no Bishop or Clergy-man no Master or Fellow of any Colledge or Hall in either of the Universities or elsewhere or any Master of School or Hospital or any Ecclesiastical person who hath deserted the Parliament and adhered to the Enemies thereof shall hold or enjoy or be capable of any preferment or employment in Church or Common-wealth
Counties to wit of Buckinghamshire and Essex are egg'd on that being armed in several bodies they might come and petition that their Members might have free liberty of voting and that their Priviledges might be kept inviolate Although the Kentish-men who came to supplicate on the other side were denied liberty to enter the Gates of London and others who were about to do the like were restrained by threats and reproaches So that by polling and in a manner mustering the people they give the signal to War The accused Members abscond in London until they might feel the pulses and stir up the Citizens to draw out for their Guard and conduct them to the House in arms and triumph The King being advertised of this though at that time by the care and contrivance of Gurney the then Lord Mayor many valiant and loyal men offered themselves to mix with the Croud and being scattered through the streets like Spectators to oppose the Army if they attempted any thing against the King yet his Majesty hoping that these storms might break and spend themselves by giving way to them he with the Queen removed to Windsor-Castle But afterwards the Quarrel rising higher having sent the Queen beyond Sea under pretext of accompanying her eldest Daughter lately married to the Prince of Orange over into Holland but in reality that she might pass the Winter secure from the future storm and having sent for the Prince whom as he was informed the Factious did intend to seize by authority of Parliament he moves towards York but not before he wrote to the Parliament giving them the reasons of his departure perswading them by all means to Peace and desiring them That whatever it was they so much desired that he would grant and do for them they would set it down in writing that without ambiguiety they would state what the Parliament and People claimed and what on the other hand was to be granted to the King and he religiously protests that he would have the Rights of others no less to be inviolate than his own and that he would most willingly give his consent to all things that might contribute to the restoring of Peace and the just Rights of his Crown and Kingdom They not onely slight but caluminate this goodness of so gracious a King as if it were contrary to the Priviledges of Parliament to be informed what was fit to be done and that their consultations should be interrupted by Letters It can hardly be exprest how much the House of Commons proud of the favour of the Multitude pretended to be scared at these admonitions to Peace as portending new dangers and ruine in disguise Hence laying hold of the opportunity the House of Commons being onely the third and lowest Estate of the Kingdom the Lords being as yet averse from so unjust a desire had the boldness to demand that the power of all Castles and Forts and of the Militia should be put into their hands When they could not obtain this from the King they move all the Towns and Corporations that sided with them that as of their own accord they should make musters train up the Youth in Military Discipline and divide them into Companies which was afterward confirmed and approved in the House of Commons as done according to Law They pass also a Vote in their own House that by Authority of Parliament Deputies should be named in each County To exercise arm draw out and muster the Youth and those that were fit to carry Arms that they might be ready upon the future Orders of Parliament for suppressing Rebellions resisting Invasions c. Having at length by their known Arts prevailed with the Lords to give their consent both Houses joyn in an Address to the King That it was a thing not onely expedient but necessary to be done as well for himself as for the State pretending fears from France Germany and Spain who then were all in Arms and the intelligence they had from Paris Venice and Rome that the restless Papists and ill men were plotting and contriving how they might overset the Parliament of England and the reformed Religion The King willing to grant any thing for Peace sake yields them a share in the power of the Militia for a certain time reserving to himself the supreme Authority whereby he might be able to maintain the Dignity of the Crown and the Rights of Parliament He approves also the Deputies appointed by them some Londoners excepted and does pathetically exhort and adjure them That at length laying aside vain fears and mutual jealousies they would calmly and seriously consider by what means the troubled State divided into several Factions and torn almost into pieces by it self might be united again into one and that since no former Prince had made greater Concessions to his Subjects they would peaceably enjoy them But they slighting this Indulgence of the King and his sound Admonitions impose upon the rest with their bugbears of Fears and Jealousies They ordered strict Watch to be kept in suspected places the Beacons to be watch'd and prepare Pilots as for a War The People are dayly stirred up with false Rumours spread amongst the Multitude On Sundays when they are in Church at their Devotion they are put into panick fears as if the Papists who were to come no man knew whence were ready to burn their houses and to mingle their Bloud with their Prayers and by and by again that their throats were to be cut by enemies lurking in the Woods and Vaults under ground And many though not the wisest of the Londoners were perswaded that the River of Thames was to be blown up by Gunpowder to drown the City in the night-time so ridiculous were the surmises that gave occasion to most fatal changes By these and such-like tricks the Populace is frightened out of their senses and resolved to do any thing to rid themselves of these apprehensions Amongst the other preparatiss to War all the particulars whereof it is not our designe to trace the cunninger sort smelt a Plot as if the King in his progress to the North intended to seize the Town and well-provided Magazine of Hull which might be of great consequence in carrying on the War That they might prevent this the Factious of their own head without any authority from both Houses give the government of the place to Sir John Hotham which he instantly secured with a Garison and the assistance of some Towns-men So soon as the King had notice of this he marched thither attended with his Nobles and Servants but the Gates being shut and Souldiers planted upon the Walls he is denied entrance The King being highly offended commands the Governour to let him enter attended onely with twenty Gentlemen on horseback but he refusing to let him in unless alone is proclaimed a Traytor and the King by Letters to the Parliament
be a sufficient Conviction of Popish Recuâ—ancy An Act or Acts of Parliament for Education of the Children of Papists by Protestants in the Protestant Religion VIII An Act or Acts for the true Levie of the Penalties against them which Penalties to be levied and disposed in such manner as both Houses shall agree on wherein to be provided that his Majesty shall have no loss IX That an Act or Acts be passed in Parliament whereby the practices of Papists against the State may be prevented and the Laws against them duly executed and a stricter course taken to prevent the Saying or Hearing of Mass in the Court or any other part of this Kingdom or the Kingdom of Ireland The like for the Kingdom of Scotland concerning the four last preceding Propositions in such manner as the Estates of the Parliament there shall think fit X. That the King do give his Royal assent to an Act for the due observation of the Lords Day XI And to the Bill for the suppression of Innovasions in Churches and Chappels in and about the Worship of God XII And for the better advancement of the preaching of Gods holy Word in all parts of this Kingdom XIII And to the Bill against the enjoying the pluralities of Benefices by Spiritual Persons and Non-Residency XIV And to an Act to be framed and agreed upon by both Houses of Parliament for the reforming and regulating of both Universities of the Colledges of Westminster Winchester and Eaton XV. And to such Act or Acts for raising of Moneys for the payment and satisfying of the publick Debts and Damages of the Kingdom and other publick uses as shall hereafter be agreed on by both Houses of Parliament and that if the King do not give his Assent thereunto then it being done by both Houses of Parliament the same shall be as valid to all intents and purposes as if the Royal Assent had been given thereunto The like for the Kingdom of Scotland And that his Majesty give assurance of his consenting in the Parliament of Scotland to an Act acknowledging and ratifying the Acts of the Convention of Estates of Scotland called by the Council and Conservers of the Peace and the Commissioners for the common Burthens and assembled the two and twentieth day of June 1643. and several times continued since and of the Parliament of that Kingdom since convened XVI That the Lords and Commons in the Parliament of England assembled shall during the space of twenty years from the first of July 1646. arm train and discipline or cause to be armed trained and disciplined all the Forces of the Kingdoms of England and Ireland and Dominion of Wales the Isles of Guernsey and Jersey and the Town of Barwick upon Tweed already raised both for Sea and Land-service and shall from time to time during the said space of twenty years raise levy arm train and discipline or cause to be raised levied armed trained and disciplined any other Forces for Land and Sea-service in the Kingdoms Dominions and places aforesaid as in their Judgments they shall from time to time during the said space of twenty years think fit and appoint and that neither the the King his Heirs or Successors nor any other but such as shall act by the authority or approbation of the said Lords and Commons shall during the said space of twenty years exercise any of the Powers aforesaid And the like for the Kingdom of Scotland if the Estates of the Parliament there shall think fit That Moneys be raised and levied for the maintenance and use of the said Forces for Land-service and of the Navy and Forces for Sea-service in such sort and by such ways and means as the said Lords Commons shall from time to time during the said space of twenty years think fit and appoint and not otherwise That all the said Forces both for Land and Sea-service so raised or levied or to be raised or levied and also the Admiralty and Navy shall from time to time during the said space of twenty years be employed managed ordered and disposed by the said Lords and Commons in such sort and by such ways and means as they shall think fit and appoint and not otherwise And the said Lords and Commons during the said space of twenty years shall have power 1. To suppress all Forces raised or to be raised without authority and consent of the said Lords and Commons to the disturbance of the publick Peace of the Kingdoms of England and Ireland and Dominion of Wales the Isles of Guernsey and Jersey and the Town of Barwick upon Tweed or any of them 2. To suppress any foreign Forces who shall invade or endeavour to invade the Kingdoms of England and Ireland Dominion of Wales the Isles of Guernsey and Jersey and the Town of Barwick upon Tweed or any of them 3. To conjoyn such Forces of the Kingdom of England with the Forces of the Kingdom of Scotland as the said Lords and Commons shall from time to time during the said space of twenty years judge fit and necessary To resist all foreign Invasions and to suppress any Forces raised or to be raised against or within either of the said Kingdoms to the disturbance of the publick Peace of the said Kingdoms or any of them by any authority under the Great Seal or other Warrant whatsoever without consent of the said Lords and Commons of the Parliament of England and the Parliament or the Estates of the Parliament of Scotland respectively And that no Forces of either Kingdom shall go into or continue in the other Kingdom without the advice and desire of the said Lords and Commons of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of the Kingdom of Scotland or such as shall be by them appointed for that purpose And that after the expiration of the said twenty years neither the King his Heirs or Successors or any person or persons by colour or pretence of any Commission Power Deputation or Authority to be derived from the King his Heirs or Successors or any of them shall raise arm train discipline employ order mannage disband or dispose any of the Forces by Sea or Land of the Kingdoms of England and Ireland the Dominion of Wales Isles of Guernsey and Jersey and the Town of Barwick upon Tweed Nor exercise any of the said Powers or Authorities in the precedent Articles mentioned and expressed to be during the said space of twenty years in the said Lords and Commons Nor do any act or thing concerning the execution of the said Powers or Authorities or any of them without the consent of the said Lords and Commons first had and obtained That after the expiration of the said twenty years in all cases wherein the Lords and Commons shall declare the safety of the Kingdom to be concerned and shall thereupon pass any Bill or Bills for the raising arming training disciplining employing mannaging ordering or disposing of the Forces by Sea or Land of the Kingdoms
Impositions upon Commodities shall remain in the hands of those to whom they have been granted until further order be taken about all these things That the Commission of Oyer and Terminer Grand Assizes and Goal-delivery shall have Power according to the standing Laws of punishing Murders Felony Thefts and Robberies until the twentieth of May following That Courts be established according to the Will and Pleasure of the Deputies or Commissioners in matters belonging to themselves That the Romish Priests who behave themselves modestly shall not at all be molested but shall enjoy the Salaries paid them by the Laicks for their maintenance and the enclosures of the ancient demolished Monasteries and Abbeys As to other matters that the King with consent of his Parliament shall order them For expeding of those Conditions the Papists chose about fifteen Deputies or Commissioners that as so many Mediators betwixt the King and the People they might bring back the Confirmation of them So dear did a frail and transitory Peace with Rebels cost the King But necessity is a prevalent Orator that perswades Men even to unbeseeming and many times to dishonourable Resolutions Nevertheless the Lord Lieutenant whether willingly or unwillingly agrees to these Articles And the Peace is instantly proclaimed by the Heralds But Ouen Ro-Oneal and the Native Irish that were on his side refused to acquiesce to these Conditions of Pacification under pretext that their Religion was not sufficiently secured Jones also and others find fault with the Commissions as too ample and as they gave it out unseasonable and that likewise they were patcht up with the King without the Authority of Parliament But the Lord Ards with the rest of the Scots who abominating the Rump-Parliament first favoured and then struck in with the Kings Party bestir themselves bravely in taking in the Castles and Garrisons which held out for the Rebels in Vlster The Lord Lieutenant being General in the mean time had many and great Affairs to mind Men Arms Money Ammunition and all Military Provisions are wanting which nevertheless were to be raised amongst Men of contrary Interests different Perswasions and who mutually hated one another The English indeed were of themselves ready to undergo any danger but they were but few in number and of bad Correspondence with the Irish by reason of their ancient Feuds and Animosities And suspecting their Courage no less than their Loyalty they decline to serve with them under the same Ensigns The Irish again being in a great part Treacherous Bloody and Perfidious divided amongst themselves into several Factions were more apt to sheathe their Swords in one anothers Bowels than to fight against the Common Enemy Nevertheless by his own Presence Wisdom Diligence and at his own Charges being assisted with seven or eight trusty Commanders he luckily mastered all these difficulties He found the Magazines of Ireland exhausted the Treasury empty and the Citizens and Inhabitants in whose Hands was all the money of the Kingdom very unwilling and sparing to contribute and the Roman Clergy opposing and undermining his Designs Wherefore in the beginning he got together a small Army which being increased in number by the conjunction of Inchiqueens Forces and the rest of the English his fellow Souldiers for the first Months he provided them pay either of his own money or what he could borrow from others Thus being pretty well provided with Men and Ammunition he marches through Queens County streight against Jones and by the way takes in some Castles belonging to Ouen-Ro-Oneal of which the most remarkable were Kildare and Talboth Jones having had certain intelligence of this March advanced to meet the Lord Lieutenant But being informed by his Spies that he was coming with a greater Army than he was able to encounter and distrusting his own Souldiers he forthwith returns to Dublin The Lord Deputy in the mean time passes the River Liff where having called a Council of Inchiqueen Taff Dillo Preston and the rest of the Principal Commanders they consult what was best to be done whether they should besiege Dublin or directing their course another way take the Towns about or else rather block up the City and at the same time have an eye upon the other places Being as yet doubtful what to do they advance to view Dublin and so to take a resolution upon the spot But Jones expected them with an Army without the Walls but under the Cannon of the Town Both Armies were drawn up but without any Skirmishing That night the Lord Deputy Quartred at Finglass three miles distant from Dublin Next day all the Papists both Men and Women that were unfit for War are thrust out of the Town and the Cavalry that were needless in the Siege are sent to Drogheda at the mouth of the River of Boin that they might incommode the Enemy in the Rere and take care to send Provisions into the place So soon as the Lord Lieutenant had notice of this he sends the Lord Inchiqueen Lieutenant-General to pursue Jones's Horse and if opportunity offered to take in the Towns on all hands In the mean time he thought it not convenient to divide his Army but to encamp and entrench himself with his whole Forces near Dublin that he might intercept the Provisions going into the place and entice the Souldiers and Citizens to desert it not doubting but that the Souldiers would be easily inclinable to do so Affairs being doubtful his Neighbourhood affording opportunity and the City being straitned for want of Provisions and the rather knowing that most of the Souldiers who were in Garrison had formerly sworn to be true to him This he found to be a successful resolution for about two thousand by stealth and as every one best could taking occasion to get out came over to his Camp Nay he was not wanting to essay Jones himself by many fair Promises which he made him one after another But he that he might oppose Art to Art having threatned the Deserters with most severe Punishments pretended a willingness to comply with honourable Conditions and shuffled off the Treaty with shifts and delays though sometimes he seemed to be at a stand and uncertain what to do However he sent private intelligence to the Rump-Parliament and the General in what dangerous straits he was earnestly beseeching them to hasten the sending him Relief In the mean time he surrounds the Walls views the Works repairs what is defective casts up new Works plants Palisadoes drives sharp Stakes into the ground and did what lay in his power to fortifie the place Nay and having sallied out upon the Enemies Camp near Finglass he took amongst other Prisoners a Relation of his own whom for a terrour to all others that they might not desert he caused to be hanged Inchiqueen on his part falls in upon a Troop of Jones's Horse and beat them in their Quarters and next morning pursuing the rest that were Commanded by the
Younger Coot he easily put them to the rout so that most part of them being either killed or taken he pursues the rest as far as Drogheda in which place the Souldiers and Towns-People being put into great consternation in a Weeks time he reduced it under his own power About the same time the Lieutenant-Gederal Inchiqueen had notice given him of an Agreement betwixt Ouen-Ro-Oneal and Monck made at Dundalk whereby all necessary Provisions Powder Shot and Mony were to be furnished for the relief of Derry blockt up by the Lord Ards and Scots and that Ouen afterward should make an Inrode into Leinster and Munster that by this Stratagem he might draw off the Lord Lieutenant from the Siege of Dublin To put this in Execution Farell is Commanded out with five hundred Foot and three hundred Horse But Inchiqueen waiting for him in his return charged him routed him and obtained the Booty he intended After that having received fresh recruits of Men he besieges Dundalk which notwithstanding Moncks resistance the Souldiers delivered up after two days Siege with all the Artillery and Ammunition And being thus encouraged by the Smiles of Fortune and chusing rather to make advantage of his Victories than to enjoy them he reduced Green-Castle Neury and Trim. After which good Services he returns to the Lord Lieutenant having left Garrisons in the places he had taken better provided of Men Mony and Ammunition than before But seeing we have in this place made mention of Ouen-Ro-Oneal it is fit we relate a great Action of his before we continue the History of the Siege of Dublin The Lord Ards with the other Commanders had driven all the English Forces out of Vlster only Derry under the Command of the Elder Coot remaining which could give them any molestation It is a City seated upon Logh Foyle where it contracts it self into narrower compass and is on each side beautified with goodly Meadows and Pastures as the Water is inriched with Fishes Heretofore a Colony of English under the Conduct of Colonel Docwray was there established and many Londoners flocking thither afterwards it was called London-Derry the delightfulness of which place drew to it so vast a number of Inhabitants that it became without Controversie the chief City of Vlster Ards used all diligence to reduce this last place but not by Storm Approaches or Mines but by Building new Forts or taking those that were round it that so intercepting all Relief by Sea and Land it might at length be forced to surrender And indeed Provisions being exhausted and all other necessaries wanting they had been reduced to utmost straits had not Ouen-Ro-Oneal in the very nick of extremity and when the Garrison were at the last gasp brought them succour For he though he had been in a late overthrow sufficiently bang'd by Inchiqueen yet hastens with five thousand Foot and four hundred Horse to snatch the City out of the Jaws of the Enemy which indeed he performed very successfully and seasonably For swift-flying Fame having brought the news of his approach Ards thought it safer presently to draw off his Army than rashly to sight this Enemy that had the English in the City to assist him and leave Garrisons in Convenient places that might curb and block up the Town till upon Ouen's departure the Siege might be renewed again But Ouen with the joint assistance of the Besieged takes in all the Neighbouring Forts and restored distressed London-Derry to full liberty Now the Reader is to take notice what Reward he had from the Rump-Parliament for so important an Action He had made an Agreement in writing Signed and Sealed with Coot and Monck for relieving London-Derry in name of the Rump-Parliament which was sent into England to be Confirmed by the Members Letters were likewise sent in Favour of Ouen commending and extolling him for a Just Enemy a strict observer of his Faith a Man of Constancy and Resolution and true to his word and who if they thought it fit would be very useful to their Cause And both of them flatter him with hopes as if there were no doubt to be made of the Consent of the Rump-Parliament The Rump-Parliament trisled away time in deliberating about these Conditions until they might have intelligence of the overthrow of Ormond and of the Successes of Cromwel And then they reject Ouen-Ro-Oneal thanking Coot and Monck for their Faithfulness and good Services they had rendred to the Parliament But without longer digression let us return to Dublin and Inchiqueen who having performed Actions beyond expectation returned triumphantly to Finglass where the Lord Lieutenant had settled his Camp A Council of War being held there it was resolved to besiege Dublin but yet to try first if they could reduce it by Hunger rather than by a Storm and Assault lest that Royal City and Capital of all Ireland might be Sackt or Burnt by the enraged Souldiers and Friends and Foes be equally destroyed It was therefore thought fit to attack it on both sides and for that end the Lord Dillo being left with five hundred Horse and two thousand Foot to block up the North and farther side of the City the Lord Lieutenant himself with the rest of the Army crossing the River lies down upon the other and South side of it But whilst they are passing over to go to Rathmecus where the River being narrower afforded a more convenient place for building a Fort to hinder Importations into the Town the English Fleet comes in view with relief to the Besieged wherein were embarked Colonel Reynolds Commander of the Horse and Venables who had the Command not only of his own Foot but also of the Regiment newly raised by Monck and others They all in Health and good Plight had set Sail from Chester and with a prosperous Wind arrived at Dublin bringing with them all necessary Provisions With them also came no small number of Temporizers who presently flying over to the Royal Camp give it out for a certain that no more Men were to come to the relief of Dublin but that the whole English Army was to sail to Munster where it was clear that many of their Friends and not a few of Inchiqueens Men who loved changes would joyn with them So soon as the Lord Lieutenant heard this he forthwith designs Inchiqueen for Munster with the choicest of his Foot and almost the whole Horse with orders to oppose the Enemy incourage and confirm the Province and to beware of those whose Fidelity and Honesty was suspected He in the mean time resolved to raise the Siege and encamp his Souldiers at some distance in two or three distinct Camps where being strongly entrenched they might assist one another if occasion required watch the Enemy's motion and hinder Provisions from being conveyed into the Town But at the very instant the Commanders repining that they should be disappointed of
redoubled by the former repulses they make the way which they found not into the Town and put to the Sword all they meet without favour or compassion The Governour with some of the Souldiers fled instantly to the Castle a place strong by Art and Nature but the Cromwellians entering Pell-mell with them some of whom clambered up the Walls not without the help of the Souldiers of the Garrison they were all put to the Sword Some flying into the Church are killed as Sacrifices at the Divine Altars not a few poor wretches having got up to the Church Roof were forced to tumble down by the smoke of kindled Hay and Gunpowder There was but one single Person that saved his life by despair who for fear of the Flames throwing himself headlong down from the top of the Church fell amongst the Enemies without any other hurt but that he broke his Leg whom for the extraordinariness of the thing they spared and kept alive The rest fleeing to the Ramparts begg'd quarter but in vain All are knocked down wheresoever they are found neither the Gown nor the Dwelling House affored any Protection nor was there any great respect had to either Sex The Souldiers continued three days in cruelly slaying the Towns-People that had carried Arms whom they dragged out of their lurking holes and in Pillaging and Plundering the Town Nay and those also who after the fifth day came creeping out of their hiding-places were most inhumanly put to death About four thousand Men died in that Butchery rather than Fight So within the short space of one Week was that City undone which for whole three years together had resisted all the Rage and Attempts of the Irish Rebels This Town being thus taken and plundered the Royal Cause was quite extinguished in Ireland For all the other Garrisons were terrified into so great a consternation that they trembled at the very Name of Cromwell The Towns or Places that were sufficiently provided make either no resistance at all or but very faintly The Garrison of Dundalk in great fear betake themselves to flight in their haste leaving behind them their Brass Guns Neury Green-Castle and Trim with some others surrender with a little less dishonour and fall under the power of the Enemy The Lord Lieutenants Levies in the mean time go slowly on The English in many places falling off to the contrary Party which had Fortune and most of their Country-men on their side yet whether it was through the Severity of Discipline or the Example and Authority of the Commanders they were with much adoe for some time kept together but at length most desert and quit the Service There were some however whom shame a sense of Honesty and a respect they owed to their Commanders still retained within the bounds of Loyalty and Duty The Irish fall likewise into pieces some hating the Lord Lieutenant as a Calvinist whom God would never bless others not dissembling their satisfaction at the unsuccessful Battel of Dublin and the taking of Drogheda much more wherein more of the English and Royal Party perished which gave them hopes that for the future the Government must of necessity fall into the Hands of the Roman Catholicks or rather be changed The Towns who had engaged to pay money into the Exchequer either wholly refuse to do it or do it but slowly Nay the Roman Catholicks set light by all that the Convention of Estates and Deputies acted The Titular Clergy and truly Implicite Papists refuse to pay any Taxes And when accordng to the circumstances of Time Places and Persons they were perhaps somewhat rigidly exacted they presently complain and cry out of breach of Faith and that the Conditions of Peace are violated and under pretext of a just and equitable Government an absolute Tyranny exercised Factions and Animosities began to arise amongst the Souldiers also some following the Roman Catholicks and others the Royal Catholicks whilst many weary of the War were ready to save stakes and compound with the Rump-Parliament Nevertheless the Lord Lieutenant raised an Army such as he could but not such as he durst engage Cromwell with which nevertheless might appear now and then at a distance cut off some of his Parties and often intercept his Provisions Cromwell understanding his designs resolved not to be idle nor to let slip his opportunities but laying hold of occasion by the Fore-lock he gives Huson the Command of Dublin with Orders to molest and give no rest to all the Country about with the Auxiliary Forces that were joyned him And he himself passing by Dublin marches straight to Wexford This is but a little Town though a convenient Harbour for Ships and for Importing Provisions and other necessaries of War into the very heart of Ireland more Commodious than the Port of Dublin This place being summoned to render the Governour Synott seemed not at first averse only delayed time until he might receive a supply of five hundred Men under Collonel Buther At length there being no more hopes of a Surrender Cromwell forthwith attacks it and at first makes himself Master of a Castle not without suspicion of treachery that commanded the Walls then battering the Town and Walls with his great Guns the Garrison being disordered with so sudden a misfortune and forsaking their Posts he takes the Town Nevertheless the Wexfordians flocking together into the Market-place as if their blood after a little fainting fit had more impetuously burst out of the heart their All being at stake they made a brave resistance but the Match was unequal for they all fell under the Sword of the Conquerour and so the Garrison paid dear for their late standing to the defence of the Town which being plundered was committed to the Government of Colonel Shelburn Wexford being thus subdued the Neighbouring Places surrender of their own accord Wickelow Arklow and which hardly deserve the naming Euiscorven and Fuernes It was now about the midle of November when the coldness of the Weather and continual Rains seemed to require that the Souldiers who were troubled with Fluxes and other Diseases which attend a Camp should be sent into Winter-Quarters Nevertheless Cromwell is for new Victories and straight marches to Ross The River Barrow runs by this Town affording a safe Harbour for Ships of eight hundred Tun Burden which may lay their sides to the very Walls and it is situated four miles above Waterford upon the Suir that falls into the Barrow The Lord Taff was Governour of this place and on the other side of the River was the Army with the Lord Lieutenant the Earls of Clanricard Ards and Castle-Haven who in view of Cromwell sent a reliefe of fifteen hundred men into the Town Yet for all that Cromwell attempts the place and with six or seven great shot softens the Governours resolution who delivering up the Town with the Canon upon condition to march out with the
sends two thousand five hundred Horse under the command of Reynolds and Theophilus Jones the Brother of the late Jones to hinder the Lord Lieutenants Levies and to reduce Towns every where as occasion did present For he understood that the Lord Lieutenant having held a Council of the Irish Nobility and Bishops at Baltimore in West Meath it was resolved that on the one hand that is to say in the North Cromwell should be kept in play and harressed with frequent Incursions whilst he should make greater Levies and join together the Forces of the Counties that on the other hand to wit in the South the Bishop of Ross should relieve the Besieged in Clonmell or at least give Cromwell some diversion But Reynolds being much stronger in Horse prevents the Lord Lieutenant and as if he had had him in a Toyl renders all unsafe nor did he desist before he had driven the Earl of Castle-haven and all the Governours of Castles into Connaght Nay and over and above he took Bala-house near to Trim and forced Finagh and other neighbouring places to Surrender But a greater storm was coming upon the English out of Munster for the Bishop of Ross pittying the Condition of so many brave Men that were Besieged in Clonmel advanced to their relief with four thousand Foot and three hundred Horse But Broghill meeting him with twelve hundred Foot and fourteen hundred Horse part of which he himself had and part he had received from Cromwell he easily defeated and put them all to slight having slain and wounded seven hundred and taken an hundred Prisoners and amongst them the Bishop whom because he had turned his Myter into a Helmet and used the Temporal Sword instead of the Spiritual he caused ignominiously to be hanged before Caringdred which Garrison he having lately taken in Munster the Captain would not deliver up till he was terrified by that sad Spectacle In the mean time the Siege of Clonmel is carried on and though the Garrison bravely defended it and had beat off the Enemy in a fierce Assault with the loss of Colonel Culham and many others yet fearing since there was no hopes of Relief that they would at length fall as Sacrifices under the bloody hands of Cromwell packing up Bag and Baggage about Mid-night thay desert the Town and secure themselves by flight The Mayor and Towns-People destitute of Defence without mentioning the departure of the Garrison desire a Cessation and Parly and upon condition of saving their Houses from being Plundered and of liberty of living as they had formerly done they very willingly open their Gates But the morning discovering the trick Cromwell was vexed and sends some Troops to pursue the Garrison in the Rear But they were before got out of reach having in the night time past the Hills and most difficult ways but the Cromwellians overtaking many Straglers who by reason of their Wounds or other hindrances staid behind amongst them there were not a few Women put them all without Mercy to the Sword Afterwards the little Towns that lay about Duncannon Waterford and Carlow were taken in that these stronger Garrisons being more and more straitned if they could not by Force and Assault they might at least at length be starved into a Complyance and Submission Nor were the other Cromwellian Commanders less successful in the remaing parts of Ireland For the Elder Coot joyned to Venables in Vlster not to mention any but the principal strong holds took Culmore Done Ems Castle seated in Logh Suile Colrane famous for a Salmon fishing standing commodiously upon the River Wane Armagh and the Scots and Irish to the number three thousand four hundred whom Monro a Scottish Man brought to raise the Siege being cut off Karick Fergus Belfast Castlefordan Carlingford Margraff Monagh and Liskelagh At length he routed Eyer-Marmahon Bishop of Cloger who by the Votes of the Vlster Nobility being substituted in place of the late Oneal commanded four thousand Foot and four hundred Horse But coming to an Engagement they were all broken and dispersed and their Mitered General taken and Hanged It is observable of this Army that they were all Roman Catholicks who upon that account more confidently promised themselves the Victory Charlemont cost a great deal of Labour and Pains nor at length would the Garrison surrender it but upon very honourable terms Huson also subdued Kilmalock Hariston Hau Blackwater Rabrig Talbo At h Dermit Castle and which we mentioned before Kildare Belsannon and Lochlin I purposely omit Yekrohan and other places which Reynolds and other Commanders subdued to the rest of Logh Foyl It was about the beginning of May when Cromwell within less than a year with wonderful success having carried his victorious Ensignes through three Provinces of Ireland like a thunderbolt of War of whom it might truly have been said and to his praise had he fought for his Prince Veni vidi vici I came I saw I overcame is now recalled to fresh Labours and to a new War against the Scots of which I shall hasten to the Relation after I have given the Reader in one glance a view of the remaining affairs of Ireland Cromwell therefore hastening his expedition leaves Ireton his Son in Law General of the Forces of Ireland who without longer delay besieges Waterford and at the same time two other Castles Carlow and Duncannon Preston Commanded Waterford not very willing to hold out a place difficult to be maintained by reason it was beset on all hands and no hopes of relief Nevertheless at first he seemed to carry high and demands Conditions accordingly which being rejected by the Enemy when he perceived himself shut up within the Walls Batteries raised and the great Guns begin to roar he abates a little of his height and at length condescends to these Articles That the Ships Guns Ammunition and publick Provisions shall be delivered up to the Common-wealth That the Governour all the Colonels inferiour Officers and Souldiers with their Horses shall march out with Drums beating flying Colours charged Musquets lighted Matches and have safe conduct to Athlome That the Sick and wounded Towns-People shall remain there until they recover That such as intended to transport their Families beyond Sea shall have three Months time to do it in That those who would stay at home shall be free from all Injuries That the Servants of Preston shall have liberty to pack up and carry away all his Goods that he hath either in this place or else-where at Carlow In the same manner and upon the same Conditions out of Carlow and Duncannon fifteen hundred Men marched all under the Command of young Preston for the elder was at that time sick But it is now time to return to the Lord Lieutenant whom as the Papist Clergy had by all means formerly withstood so now affairs declining and daily running into Ruin they licentiously slight and despise
having sent before him five thousand Prisoners who being sufficiently exposed to the Scoffs and derision of the People are either clapt up in Prisons or sent to the New World there to drudge in the Sugar Mills In the mean time Monck who was deservedly afterwards Created Duke of Albermarle being made General of the English Forces to the number of six thousand which Cromwell had left behind him in Scotland attacques Sterling-Castle and takes it by surrender with all the Guns Ammunition much Provision five thousand Arms the Registers Coffers Jewels and several Monuments and Relicks of Kings together with that lofty Inscription Nobis haec invicta dedere centum sex proavi Colonel Alured surprised and took the Aged Earl of Levin the Earl of Crawford-Lindsey Lord Ogilby and many other Noblemen whilst they were met for raising of Soldiers at Ellet a Town in Pearthshire Sir Philip Musgrave also the Provost of St. Johnstone and others being about the same business are taken at Dumfrise But Dundee because it had the boldness to hold out was stormed and taken by assault and the whole Town left to the mercy of the Soldiers who kill'd and plunder'd all they found Aberdeen and other Towns and Forts being warned by this sad example of their own accord yielded to the Enemy A little after the Marquess of Argile made a shew of maintaining the Interest of the Kingdom as also the Highlanders but having obtained indifferent good Conditions they also yield and submit their necks to the English Yoke Afterward four Citadels are built strong both by Art and Situation to which by Sea men and Provisions might easily be transported from England to wit at Air Innerness St. Johnston and Leith besides Sterling Castle standing on the Brow of a Hill and Edingburrough Castle which we described before Nay in every County they keep a Garison in some Castle or other that if any new Rebellion should arise they might have opportunity to suppress it where-ever it happened in Scotland Nor could the main Land of Scotland put bounds to the Victory of the English who slighting the dangers of those raging and voracious Seas carry their Victories over to the Isles Orkney and Shetland But as when the Serpent is bruised in the Head he often threatens with his Tail so the Marquess of Huntley Earls of Glencairn and Athol Midleton and others stir the Embers and raise new flames of a War But Morgan easily reduced them having before they could joyn routed the chief of them Henceforward they who had been accustomed to be most unruly and disobedient when occasion of Kicking offered are fain to bite upon the Bit and upon capitulation promise to live quietly for the future Now are Judicatures and Courts of Justices opened in Scotland for which end amongst other Itinerary Judges are sent from England George Smith John Marss Edward Moseley to whom were added of the Scots the Lord Craighall Lockhart and Swinton not to be forgotten A Council of State is also made up of English not of the best Quality who were matched by some Scots mingled with them nay in every Shire a Meeting is called wherein renouncing the King they are obliged to subscribe to the English Government and to unite into one Common-wealth with the English And at length they are commanded to send thirty Commissioners to the Parliament of England Nor is it to be denyed but that they were English though from Scotland who were appointed to that Office except the Marquess of Argile and Laird of Swinton which two were the only Scots that hearded themselves into that Parliament The use of Arms is likewise denyed to that Nation nay and of Horses also except only for some necessary ends and uses Besides their Commerce and Negotiations with Foreigners are narrowly observed lest under that pretext they might hatch mischief against the Common-wealth of England So much they got by disturbing the quiet of England and by medling in the stirs and troubles of others nay and by being the Authors of the innumerable Calamities which we suffered So they fell into the Pit that they dug for us and were taken in the Snares which they had laid for the Innocent nor was there any hopes of a Deliverer or an Avenger till God should think fit to look down from his Mountain and having chastised the perverseness of the People have Mercy upon them But so much for Scotland let us therefore leave it and return to matters that properly concern our selves Jersey must now come upon the Stage for the subduing whereof Hains with great preparations of Soldiers and all things necessary is empowred who passing over thither with about seventy sail of Ships great and small for three days space was beat off from several places of the Island by Sir George Cartright Governour of the Island since deservedly Vnder Chamberlain of the King's Houshold though sooner than was expected he afterward obtained the Victory For making a descent in the night time and Bovil who commanded the Cavalier Party doing his utmost to hinder the Enemies Landing being killed in the first Encounter the rest seized with a sudden fear and Consternation are put to flight The Inhabitants after that submitted to the will and pleasure of their new Masters Elizabeth Castle also standing upon a Rock and at high water encompassed by the Sea being battered and torn with great Guns and Mortar-Peeces one of which was so fatal as at one blow to kill or mangle eight and forty Soldiers after two Months siege capitulates upon Condition that the Governour and Garison with Bag and Baggage should have liberty to pass over into France Next follows the Isle of Mann this place though defended by Feminine Valour to wit by the Countess of Derby yet vied so much in honour with men that it was doubtful whether in the Royal Cause Sir George Cartright or she fell the last Victim under the Hands of the Traytors All the Provinces thus subdued an Act of Oblivion passes whereby the memory of what was past being abolished all Crimes whatsoever are pardoned But this was hampered with so many Limitations Restrictions Exceptions and ensnaring Clauses that there was little hopes for true Penitents to expect any good from it But such however as it was Cromwell alone was to be thanked for it by him chiefly it was proposed and by his means and endeavours it past in the Rump-Parliament that by so doing he might by a shew of kindness claw the suffering and vanquished People and at the same time heap hatred and indignation upon the Heads of his fellow Traytors For now forsooth it was time to put an end to Rapine and Violence Did they take so much pleasure in undoing Estates and ruining Families There was enough allowed to anger and revenge That it was altogether fit to shew Clemency and Mercy to the Guilty who having sufficiently payed for their faults
Churches under their government The King answered With a willing and devout heart I promise and grant my Pardon and that I will preserve and maintain to you and the Churches committed to your charge all Canonical Priviledges and due Law and Justice and that I will be your Protector and Defender to my power by the assistance of God as every good King in his Kingdom in right ought to protect and defend the Bishops and Churches under their government Then the King arose and was led by the Bishops of Duresme and Bath and Wells to the Communion-Table where he made a solemn Oath in sight of all the People to observe the Premises and laying his hand upon the Bible said The OATH The things which I have here promised I shall perform and keep So help me God and the Contents of this Book On the eighth of May a new Parliament met which continued many years Since the year before the Regicides had been brought to condign punishment the three Estates of Parliament now condemned to the flames the Solemn League and Covenant the Bond of the English and Scottish Conspiracy and Sacrament of the Presbyterian Villany The same was done by the Parliament of Scotland and Ireland and that which had raised a Civil Combustion and propagated the same all over Britain and Ireland is now burnt by the hand of the Hangman and by its own ashes expiated at length the wickedness of three Nations This year was concluded or the new begun by the further punishment of Regicides For by Order of Parliament Mouson an upstart Lord Sir Henry Mildmay heretofore Keeper of the Jewels to the late King and therefore the more criminal and Robert Wallop on the seven and twentieth of January the day whereon the blessed King had been condemned were in Hurdles with Halters about their necks dragged to Tyburn and back again to Town being sentenced to perpetual imprisonment It was sufficiently made out that they had been Members of that execrable High Court of Justice but because they had not signed the Warrant for the Kings execution they were onely punished by Bonds and Imprisonment Hazelrigg in the mean time one of the bitterest of all the Traytors being sentenced to the same punishment pined away with anger and grief and unable to bare his disgrace prevented the dishonour and his captivity by a timely death in the Tower of London The same punishment was inflicted upon the Traytors who as we said before came in upon the Kings Proclamation For being brought to the Bar because waving all defence they humbly acknowledged their Crime and that they were a Crew most part of them of silly seduced Rascals drawn in either by the arts or threatnings of Cromwel they redeemed their necks from the Gallows which they had so often deserved by a perpetual imprisonment to which being closely confined they lived to see their Villany punished by Infamy But fortune was more favourable to the Traytors that came in at home than to those who fled abroad for about that time Sir George Downing being Embassadour in Holland had intelligence that three of the Fugitive Regicides Barkstead Okey and Corbet being come back out of Germany lurked in Delf He therefore having obtained a Warrant from the States General seized them and sent them over to England where being brought to a tryal they were condemned for High-Treason and April the nineteenth executed at Tyburn They went all to death with a fanatical ostentation of Piety But Barkstead and Corbet approaching to their end after many ugly delays and cups of Strong-waters unwillingly put their trembling necks into the Halter which quickly put an end to the Wretches half dead already for fear But Okey being a man of an undaunted mind and making use of his courage to the last went off with the bravoury of a Souldier and not undecently had he so died for his Country Corbet was heretofore an inspired prating Lawyer more skilful in the Principles of Fanaticks than in the Laws he got to be a Member of that long and black Parliament and no man was more professedly an implacable Enemy to the King The low extraction of Okey is buried in obscurity Being a Tallow-chandler in London and weary of his poor condition he followed the profitable Wars of the Parliament where his daringness advanced him to the place of a Colonel and at length to be one of the chief Judges in trying and sentencing the King Barkstead was heretofore a whifling Goldsmith in London and had raised himself upon the Ruines of his Country But those who knew the cunning of Oliver in chusing his Magistrates wondered that he preferred so silly and idle a fellow even to be a Colonel and Lieutenant of the Tower of London besides other Offices But that kind of stupid fierceness was more useful to Cromwel than the cunninger knavery of others for the Tyrant himself for the most part looked another way and commanded the Villanies which he would not behold so that this fellow no doubt was privy to the furious Councils of Cromwel and a trusty Minister of his Protectoral Cruelty And so long as he was chief Jaylor to Oliver the barbarous Villain was never startled at the sight of the Murders and Imprisonments of so many Nobles and worthy Subjects His head was set upon a Gate of the Tower whereof heretofore he had been Governour that upon the same Stage where he acted his greatest Crimes he might suffer his greatest Punishment The first Prodigy of the Regicides was their matchless impudence in putting to death the King and their next their obstinacy to the last For when they had murdered the best of Kings to the shame of Christianity the infamy of the Reformation and the universal reproach and malediction of Fanatick Zeal these godly Regicides were ashamed when Treason stuck in their breasts to confess their hypocritical pretending Religion even at the last gasp Nay their Godliness made them so impudent as rather to know themselves guilty and deny it to save their reputation amongst their Brethren than humbly and modestly to acknowledge their Crimes The Authority of Parliament was the onely thing that all of them alleadged to justifie their Parricide as if a Gang of fifty Robbers who had so often violated that Authority had been worthy of that name when there was neither the colour nor resemblance of a House of Commons left Nec color Imperii nec frons fuit illa Senatûs But since they could live no longer to do mischief their whole care was at their death to harden the minds of their Party by a fanatical assertation of dying good men when it was rather the highest Judgment of an offended God to let them fill up the Cup of their bold Indignities by a desperate end It was time now for the King who was a Batchelour to think of Marriage that he might leave a Posterity for the future