poste and bâ—ought the first newes to â—he king as he rod gave knowledge unâ—o his brother Sir Iohn Carie then Governour of Barwick this calme and discreet course of the English Lords in Proclaiming the King and quiet setling the whole Estate without faction or interruptiâ—n was as plausible unto all his loving Subjects as admired of Forraign Nations Aprill the fifth the King came from Eden-Borowgh to Barwick and the next day came newes of many disordered persons that were in Armes in the Borders whereat the King was much troubled and forthwith there was power sent to suppress them and after that when the King came to London he with the advise of the Counsell set all the parts of the North Borders in as good condition as any other parts of his Dominions Aprill the tenth divers prisoners were discharged out of the Tower amongst whom the Earle of Southampton was the chiefest Aprill the twenty seventh was thirteen persons slain and blown in peeces by misfortune at the Gunpowder Mill at Reddriffe Aprill the twenty eight at Westminster a very Royall Obsequy for the late Queene Elizabeth according to the Kings appointment by his Letters to the Lords of the Privie Counsell May the nineteenth Proclamation was made for the suppression of disordered persons in the North and for the mutuall Peace and Amity of both Kingdoms Iune the first there was one whipped through London for presuming to come to the Court having his house infected Iune the fourth Vallentine Thomas having been many yeers prisoner in the Tower of London was arraigned at the Kings Bench Barr and there condemned of High Treason for Conspiracy against our late Queene and some of her Counsell and the seventh of Iune about Six of the clock he was drawn from the Kings Bench in Southwarke to Saint Thomas a Waterings and there hanged and quartered Iuly the second the King Solemnized the Feast of Saint George at Winsor and Installed Prince Henry Knight of the Garter and there the chief Ladies of England did Hommage to the Queene There were also made Knights with Prince Henry the Duke of Lennox the Earle of South-Hampton the Earle of Marre and the Earle of Pembroke Within a few dayes after were made divers Proclamations for the apprehension of Anthony Copley Sir Griffin Markham Knight and William watson and VVilliam Cleark Priests and about the same time was apprehended as Traytors the Lord Cobham and his brother the Lord Gray Sir VValter Rawley and others The fifth of August was Commanded by the Bishops to be kept as a Holy day with Prayers Preaching and thanksgiving to Almighty God for the Kings escape from being murdered by Earle Gowrie in Scotland The Plague increased most gâ—ievoâ—sly in London and thereupon it wâ—s ordered that every Wednesdâ—y theâ—e shoâ—ld be a general Fasting and Prayer with preaching through the land to dâ—aw the people to humility and repâ—ntance This year was Bartholomew fair forbidden to be kept and Michaelmas Teâ—m adjorned and to be kept at Westminster but by reason of the sickness it was afterward kept at Winchester and the Lord Mayors great triâ—mphs and feasts was this year omitted The fourth of November the Lord Cobham the Lord Grey of Wilton were bâ—ought from the Tower of London unto Winchester to be arraigned and to that purpose were sent to Wâ—nchester Sir VValter Rawleigh Sir Grâ—ffin Markham Knights George Brook brother to the Lord Cobham Anthony Copley Gentleman William Watson and William Cleark Pâ—ieâ—â—s and the same day out of the Gâ—tehouse at Westminster went Sir Edward Parham he was acquitted by the Jury The twenty ninth of November were executed the two Pâ—iests and six daies after was George Brook hanged and the ninth of December Sir Griffin Markham and the two Barons aâ—ter they had been severally brought upon the Scaffold in the Castle of Winchester and had made their confessions and pâ—epared themselves to die upon a suddain the Kings Warrant written with his own hand was there delivered to Sir Benjamin Titchborne High Sheriff of Hampshire â—ommanding him to stay execution these three and Sir Walter Rawleigh were returned Pâ—isoners to the Tower again the fifteenth of December From the twenty third of December 1602. unto the twenty seâ—ond oâ— December 1603 theâ—e died of all diseases within London and the libeâ—ties thereof thiâ—ty eight thousand two hundred forty and four wheâ—eof of the Plague thirty thousand five hundred sâ—venty eight and the neâ—t year afteâ— London was clear of that infection and then were all the shires in England grievously visited note the work of God March the fifth was proclamation mâ—de for authorising the Book of Common Prayer February the twenty second Proclamation was made against all Jesuits and Seminaries that they shoâ—ld forthwith depart out of the Kingdome March the fifth Proclamation was made for conformation of the Ecclesiastical government of the Châ—rch of England and the book of Common Pâ—ayer as it had been used in the time of Queen Elizabeâ—h At this time Robert Dove of London Merchant Taylor gave competent meâ—ns â—oâ— ever for the toling of a bell in Saint Sepulchres Church to cause good people to pray for such prisoners as are to be executed out of Newgate and to cease when they are executed this bell should begin to toll at six a clock in the morning and the same is made known to the Prisoners that the said bell is to put them in mind to pâ—epare themselves for death Upon the first day of May Richard Haydock a Physitian asked forgiveness of the Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury for deluding the King and many oâ—hers under pretence of being inspired and to preach in his sleep by night with which deâ—eit he had strongly possest the vulgar as it was hard to remove them although he confessed the abuse In this moneth Iohn Lepton of Kepwick in the County of York Esq a Gentleman of an anâ—ient family and of good reputation his Majesties servant and one of the Grooms of his most honourable privy Chamber performed so memorable a journey as I may not omit to record the same to future ages the rather because I have heard sundry Gentlemen who were gooâ— horsemen â—nd likewise good Physâ—tians affiâ—me it was impoâ—sible to be done without danger of his life He â—ndertook to â—ide five several times betwixt London and York in six daies to be taken in one week betwixt Munday morning and Saturday night he began his journey upon Munday being the twentieth day of May betwixt two and three of the cloâ—k in the morning forth of Saint Martins neer Aldersgate within the City of London and came into York the same day betwixt the houres of five and six in the aâ—ternoon where he rested that night the noxt morning being Tuesday about three of the cloâ—k he took his journey fourth of York and came to his lodging in St. Martins aforesaid betwixt the houres of 6 and seven in the afternoon where he rested that night the next morning being
in the Cathedral Church of Pauls that the Church did shake as if it would have fallen and out of a dark cloud there leaped such a flash of lightning that all the Church seemed to be on a fire the people thinking they should have been burned ran all of them out of the Church fell groavling on the ground void of understanding an reg 15. The Iews at Norwich stole a boy and circumcised him an indirision of Christian Religion they had an intent to have crucified him at Easter for which fact they justly suffered as they deserved an reg 19. A Scholer of Oxford endeavouring to kill the King in his chamber at Woodstocst was taken and pulled to pieces with horses an reg 20. The Iews were constrained to pay twenty thousand mark or to be kept in perpetual imprisonment the wals of the Tower of London were thrown down by an Earthquake as they were some years before an reg 27. The Thames overflowed the banks about Lambeth and drowned houses and fields for the space of six miles all along In the great Hall at Westminster men did ride on horseback an reg 28. The sea flowing twice without an Ebb did make so horrible a noise that it was heard a great way into England and did much amaze and affright the people and not long afterwards in a dark night the sea seemed to be all on a fire and the waves to fight against one another so that the Marriners were not able to save their ships from shipwrack an reg 34. The steeple of Bow in Cheapside fell down and slew many men and women an reg 35. IX Edward the first called Long-shanks GReat Earthquakes lightning and thunders with a blazing star and a Comet in the appearance of a great Dragon which made many men afraid anno reg 3. An accusation was made for clipping the Kings coyn for which offence two hundred sixty and seven Iews were executed an reg 5. So great a frost that five arches of London Brige and all Rochester Bridge were born downe and carried away anno regni 9. The Summer was so exceeding hot that many died with the extremity thereof an reg 16. The King banished the Iews out of England giving them wherewith to bear their charges till they were out of England the number of the Iews expulsed were 15 M. and nine person an reg 19. Three men had their hands cut off for rescuing a prisoner from an Officer of the City of London an reg 22. The Monastery at Westminster was much ruined by fire an reg 27. X. Edward the second PEirce Gauston being banished and returned again into England was taken by the Barons of England and beheadded at Warwick Castle an reg 5. The King caused Writts to be published that no oxe stalled or corn-fed should be sold for more then four and twenty shillings no gras-fed oxe for more then sixteen shillings a fat stalled cow at twelve shillings another cow at ten shillings A Butt Motton whose wooll is well grown at twenty pence a fat mutton shorn at fourteen-pence a fat hogg of two years old at three shillings four pence a fat goose at two pence half penny in the City three pence a fat Capon at two pence in the City two pence half penny a fat hen at one penny in the City at three half-pence four pidgeons for one penny twenty four eggs for a penny in the city twenty eggs a penny I would they were so still an reg 6. And yet for all this there was a grievous famine and mortality so that the quick could hardly bury the dead the cattel died by reason of the corruption of the grass the famine was so great that some in holes and corners did eat the flesh of their own children the thieves that were in prison did pluck in pieces those that were newly brought in amongst them and greedily devoured them half alive an reg 11. A great murraine of kine happened insomuch that doggs and ravens eating of them were poysoned an reg 12. II. King Edward the third KIng Edward the second was cruelly murdered in the Castle of Berkley by the practise of the Queen his wife and the Lord Mortimer an reg 2. Roger Mortimer was taken and sent to London where he was condemned and hanged an reg 3. The sea brake in through all the banks of England so that great store of cattle were drowned an reg 11. In Oxfordshire a serpent was found having two heads and two faces like women one face attired of the new fashion of womens attire and the other face like the old attire and wings like a bat an reg 20. Many men and women perished with thunder and lightning Feinds and devils and strange apparitions were seen by men and spake to them as they travelled an reg 25. A frost in England from the midst of September to the moneth of April an reg 38. XII King Richard the second IAck Straw was beheaded for Rebellion against the King anno regni 3. Wat. Tiler being arrested by the Mayor of the City for high Treason was slain in Smithfield and all the rest of the crew pardoned by the King There was a general Earthquake of the effects whereof the waters did partake insomuch that it made the ships in the havens to totter an reg 6. The nobles rose against the King and in Oxford the West and Southern Schollars did assail the Northern by reason whereof many murders were committed an reg 11. XIII King Henry the fourth IOhn Holland late Duke of Excester Thomas Holland Duke of Surrey Edward Duke of Aumarle John Montacute Earl of Salisbury with several other persons having conspired privily to murder the King were all put to death for their treason an reg 2. King Richard died in Pontefrad Castle he was buried at Langley an reg 3. A pestilence in London consumed above thirty thousand persons and not long afterwards there followed a hard frost which continued fifteen weeks an reg 11. XIV King Henry the fifth RIchard Earl of Cambridge Sir Thomas Grey and others were executed at Southampton for a conspiracy against the King an reg 2. The King fought the memorable battail at Agin Court in France and obtained a marvellous victory anno reg 4. Sir John Oldcastle having broke out of the Tower was taken by the Lord Powis and sent to London where being convicted by the Parliament he was carried to St. Giles in the fields where he was both hanged and consumed with fire an reg 6. XV. King Henry the sixth THere was a great Earthquake which continued for the space of two houres an reg 5. A Welchman murdered a Widow in White-Chappel and stole away her goods but afterwards coming by the place where he did the murther the women of the Parish with stones and sheeps-hornes and durt off the dunghills made an end of him an reg 8. The gate on London bridge with the Tower next to Southwark fell down and the two
battail of Edge hill was fought an reg 17. After many battels at Newbery Marston Moore Naseby and other places the King was quite worsted and enforced to fly to the Scots an reg 22. The King being sold to the English by the Scots was brought from the Isle of Wight and being tryed by a High Court of Iustice was beheaded before the gates of Whitehal an reg 23. XXV Oliver Cromwel Protector AFter the death of King Charles Oliver Cromwel having made himself famous by many great atchievements was chosen to be Generalissimo of the Common-wealth of England in the place of the Lord Fairfax and advancing into Ireland he took Drogheda by storm and pursuing his victories he became absolute master of that Nation anno 1649. and 1650. The great battail at Dunbar was fought where the Scots were totally overthrown two and twenty great guns taken and arms for fifteen thousand men an 1651. The arms of the Crown of England and statues of King Charles were put down by order of Parliament 1651. Mr. Love the Minister and Mr. Gibbons were beheaded both on Tower hill 1651. The great battail at Worcester where the young King of Scotland was overthrown an 1652. Many great battails at sea betwixt English and Hollanders 1652. and 1953. The Lord General Cromwel was declared and sworn Lord Protector of the Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland 1654. The Hollanders obtained peace of the English 1654. A BRIEF ABSTRACT OF All the wonders and remarkable passages since William the Conquerour till the Raign of King Charles Written for the benefit of posterity To the Reader REader I have taken pains to abstract out of the Chronicle all the remarkable wonders and passages of concernment from William the Conqueror to the raign of King Charles I hope thou art not so ignorant but that thou wilt find it and grant it useful for us and our posterity hereafter Vale. Wonders and remarkable passages William Conquerour An. Reg. 3 An. Dom. 1069 A Gelricus Bishop of Durham being accused of treason was imprisoned at Westminster An. Reg. 4 Such a dearth was in England that men did eat horses cats dogs and mans flesh An. Dom. 1070 An. Reg. 5 King William bereaved all the Monasteries and Abbies of England of their gold and silver sparing neither Challice nor Shrine An. Dom. 1075 An. Reg. 10 Walter Bishop of Durham bought of King William the Earldome of Northumberland wherein he used such cruelty that the inhabitants slew him An. Dom. 1076 An. Reg. 11 The earth was hard frozen from the middest of November to the midd'st of April An. Dom. 1077 An. reg 12 Upon Palm Sunday about noon appeared a blazing Star neer unto the Sun An. Dom. 1078 An. reg 13 This year King William builded the Tower of London An. Dom. 1079 An. reg 14 Thurstone Abbot of Glassenbury in his Church caused three monks to be slain and eighteen men to be wounded that their blood ran down from the Altar to the steps An. Reg. 15 This year was a great wind on Christmas day a great Earthquake and roaring out of the earth the sixth of April An. reg 20 There was a great floud so Pauls Church burnt that hills were made soft and consumed and with their fall overwhelmed many villages to the great amazement of all An. reg 21 In a province of Wales called Rose was found the Sepulchre of Gawen upon the sea shore who was sisters son of Arthur the Great king of Brittain being in length fourteen foot King William being at Roan in Normandy went with a great Army into France spoyling all things as he passed last of all he burned the city of Meaux with our Lady Church and two Anchorits that were inclosed there the king cheared his men to feed the fire and came himself so neer that with the heat of his harness he got a disease also the Kings horse leaping over a ditch did burst the inner parts of the King with the pain whereof he was sore afflicted and returned to Roan where shortly after he ended his life the ninth day of September in the year of our Lord 1087. when he had raigned 20. years eight months and sixteen dayes I would have the Reader understand that I set down nothing but things that are remarkable in this kings dayes nor in any kings dayes else and that is the reason that the date of years do not follow in order for I skip a great part of needless things because I would not be too tedious nor abuse thy patience too much William Rufus An. Reg. 4 Agreat tempest fell on St. Lukes day especially in Winchcomb where a great part of the Steeple was overthrown and in London the wind overturned 606. houses and the roof of Bow Church in Cheap-side wherewith some persons were slain An. Reg. 6 This year was a great famine and so great a mortality that the quick were scant able to burie the dead An. Reg. 11 All the land that sometimes belonged to Earl Goodwin by breaking in of the sea was covered with sands and is yet to this day called Goodwin sands An. Reg. 13 In the summer blood sprang out of the earth at Finchamsted in Barkshire King William on the morrow after Lammas day hunting in the new Forrest sir William Tirrel shooting at a dear at unawares hit the King in the brest that he fell down dead and never spake word his men and especially that Knight hid themselves but some came back again and laid his body upon a colliers cart which one poor lean beast did draw to the City of Winchester where he was buried he reigned twelve years eleven months lacking eight daies Henry Beauclark Henry the first An. Reg. 2 VVInchester and Glocester burnt An. Reg. 5 There appeared about the sun four circles and a blazing star An. Reg. 13 This year was a great mortality of men and murren of beasts An. Reg. 15 The City of Worcester was burnt the tenth of October the River Medway by no small number of miles dâ—d so fail of water that in the midst of the Channel the smallest vessels and boates could not pass the self same day the Thames did suffer the like want of water for between the Tower of London and the Bridge not onely with horses but also a great number of men and children did wade over on foot An. Dom. 1115 Chichester was burnt many storms and a blazing starr An. Dom. 1116 In March was exceeding lightning and in December thunder and hail and the moon at both times seemed to be turned into blood An. Dom. 1119 An. Reg. 20 King Henry having tamed the French men and pacified Normandy returned into England in which voyage William Duke of Normandy and Richard his son and Mary his daughter Richard Earl of Chester and his wife with many noble men and to the number of 160. persons were drowned An. Reg. 23 The City of Glocester burnt An. Reg. 32 The City of Rochester sore defaced
months lacking eight dayes Henry of Winchester An. Dom. 1222 A young man was brought before the Arch-bishop of Canterbury who willed himself to be crucified and to be called Jesus and an old woman that had bewitched the young man to such madness procured her self to be called Mary the mother of Christ they were both closed up between two walls of stone where they ended their lives in misery The Citizens of London falling out with the Bailiffe of Westminster and the men of the Suburbs at a game of wrastling made a great tumult against the Abbot of Westminster for the which their Captain Constantine with some others were hanged the rest had their feet and their hands cut off Henry the third An. Reg. 13 An. Dom. 1230 GReat thunder and lightning which burnt many houses and slew both men and beasts An. Reg. 15 Upon the day of St. Paul when Roger Niger Bishop of London was at Masse in the Cathedral Church of S. Paul suddainly the weather waxed dark and a horrible thunder-clapp lighted on the Church the same was shaken as if it would have fallen and out of a dark cloud came such a flash of lightning that all the Church seemed to be on fire all the people thought they should have been burned and ran all out of the church and being astonished fell upon the ground voyd of all understanding none of all the multitude tarried in the Church save the Bishop and one Deacon which stood still at the high Al â—â—â— An. Dom. 1233 The seventh of April there appeared as it were four suns besides the natural sun of a red colour and a great circle of Christal colour An. Reg. 17 The morrow after Saint Martins day began thunders very horrible which lasted fifteen daies An. Reg. 19 This year was a great dearth and pestilence so that many poor people died for want of victuals An. Dom. 1235 The Jewes of Norwich stole a boy and circumcised him and had an intent to have crucified him at Easter for which fact they were convicted An. Dom. 1236 The Thames overflowed the banks so that in the great Pallace of Westmâ—nster men did row with Wherries in the midst of the Hall An. Dom. 1237 Ottobon a Cardinal came into England as a Legat from the Pope this year passed stormy and troublesome weather and very unhealthful An. Dom. 1238 Ottobon being lodged in the Abby of Osney the Scholars of Oxford slew his Master-cook and the Legat for fear got him into the Steeple of the Church where he stayed till the Kings Officers coming from Abingdon conveied him to Wallingford where he accused the misdoers Otho de Killeney a Standard bearer to the Scholers was taken and put into prison with twelve others who not long after went from Saint Pauls Church to the Legats house bare footed and bare headed where they asked him forgiveness A Scholer of Oxford enterprised to kill the king in his chamber at Woodstock was taken and pulled to pieces with horses An. Dom. 1240 The Stone work and Bulwork which the King caused to be builded by the Tower of London was shaken by a tempest and an Earthquake together that it fell down but the King commanded that the same should be builded again many strange fishes came to shore whereof forty were Sea Bulls and one of a huge bigness passed through the Bridge of London unhurt till he came to the Kings house at Mortlack and there he was killed An. Dom. 1241 An. Reg. 26 The Jews were constrained to pay 20000 marks or else to be kept in perpetual imprisonment The walls and bull-works that were newly builded about the Tower of London were again thrown down by an Earthquake An. Dom. 1263 The Thames overflowed the banks about Lambeth and drowned houses and fields the space of six miles in the great Hall at Westminster men took their horses backs An. Reg. 31 The Church of Saint Mildred in Canterbury and a great part of the City was burnt An. Reg. 32 A great plague was in England An. Reg. 32 The Town of New-Castle upon Tine was burned Bridge and all An. Reg. 33 By a strange Earth-quake tops of houses were thrown down walls did cleave the heads of Chimneys and Towers were shaken An. Reg. 34 In October the Sea flowing twice without ebbe did make such a horrible noyse that it was heard into England a great way besides this in a dark night the Sea seemed to be on a light fire and the waves to fight one against another so that the Marriners were not able to save their ships and at Winchelsea besides cottages for salt and fither-mens houses bridges and mills above three hundred houses with certain Churches through the violent rising of the Sea were drowned An. Dom. 1255 142 Jews were brought to Westminster which were accused for crucifying a child at Lincoln eighteen of them were hanged the rest remained long prisoners An. Reg. 43 A Jew at Tewksbury fell into a Privy upon the Saturday and would not be helped out because it was his Sabbath wherefore Richard of Clare Earle of Glocester kept him there while Munday at which â—ime he was dead An. Dom. 1263 In the 10 year of Richard the Emperour there was a Blazing-star seen three moneths at this time there was a Schisme among the Princes Electors in Germany An. Dom. 1264 There was slain of Jews in London to the number of 700. their wares spoiled and their Synagogues defaced a multitude more of them because one Jew would have forced a Christian man to have paid more then two pence for the usury of twenty shillings the week An. Dom. 1268 Variance fell between the fellowship of Gold-smiths and Taylors of London causing great mischief to be done and many men slain for which Riot twelve of the chief Captains were hanged An. Dom. 1269 The river of Thames was so hard frozen from Saint Andrews tide to Candlemas that men and beasts passed over from Lambeth to Westminster the Merchandize was carried from Sandwich and other Havens to London by Land An. Dom. 1271 The Steeple of Bowe in Cheap fell down and slew many people men and women An. Dom. 1272 In Iune began a great riot in Norwich through the which the Monastery of the Trinity was burned whereupon the King rode down and making enquiry for the chief doets thereof caused thirty of them to be condemned hang'd drawn quarter'd and their Quarters to be burned King Henry died on the sixteenth of November in the year of our Lord 1272. when he had reigned 56 years and 28 daies and was buried at Westminster he built a great part of the Church King Edward sir-named Long-shanks An. Reg. 2 An. Dom. 1274 THis year fell a great variance at Oxford between the Northern men and Irish men wherein many of the Irish men were slain An. Reg. 3 An. Dom. 1276 On Saint Nicholas day even were great Earthquakes Lightnings and Thunder with a great Dragon and a Blazing-star which made many
and hanged An. Dom. 1335 The Sea banks broke in all through England but specially in the Thames so that all the cattel and beasts near thereunto were drowned An. Dom. 1339 A sudden undation of water at New-Castle upon Tine bare down part of the Town wall where an hundred and twenty men and women were drowned An. Dom. 1350 In Oxfordshire near Chippingnorton was found a Serpent having two heads and two faces like women one face attired of the new fashion of womens attire and the other face like the old attire and wings like a Bâ—tt An. Reg. 25 Men and women perished in divers places with Thunder and Lightning Fiends or Devils and strange apparitions were seen by men and spake unto them as they travelled An. Reg. 36 A great dearth and pestilence in England in which died Henry Duke of Lancaster who was buried at Leicester An. Reg. 38 A great winde in England overturned houses and Church-steeples An. reg 37. A Frost in England lasted from the midst of September to the moneth of April An. Reg. 51 King Edward ended his life at his Mannour of Shene the 21 day of Iune in the year of our Lord 1377. when he had reigned fifty years four moneths and odd daies he was buried at Westminster King Richard of Bourdeaux An. Reg. 1 RIchard the Second the Son of Prince Edward being but eleven years old began his Reign the 21 of Iune in the year of our Lord 1377. in bounty and liberality he far passed all his Progenitors but for that he was young was most ruled by young counsel and regarded nothing the counsel of the sage and wise men of the Realm This thing turned the Land to great trouble and himself to great misery An. Dom. 1388 Iack Straw was beheaded for Rebellion against the King Wat Tyler arrested by the Mayor of the City of High-Treason was slain in Smithfield and all the rest of the crew pardoned by the King An. Reg. 6 A general Earthquake the 21 of May and a water-shaking which made the ships in the Haven to totter An. Reg. 7 Iohn Bale brought to Saint Albans was hang'd drawn and quarter'd Iohn Rawe Captain of the Rebels in Suffolk was hang'd and quarter'd An. Reg. 9 The 18 of Iuly was an Earthquake An. Reg. 11 An. Dom. 1390 The Nobles rise against the King In Oxford the Welsh and Southern Scholars assailed the Northern whereby many murders were committed An. Dom. 1391 The good man of the Cock in Cheap a Brewer at the little Conduit was murdered in the night by a Thief who came in at the gutter window as it was known long after by the same thief when he was condemned for felony His wife was burned in Smithfield and his three men hanged wrongfully An. Dom. 1397 The Earl of Arundel with many more were put to death for that they rebuked the King in matters of State something liberally An. Dom. 1398 Thomas Arundel Arch-bishop of Canterbury was banished the Realm An. Dom. 1399 Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster deceased and was honourably buried in Saint Pauls Church An. Reg. 23 The King exacted great sums of money of seventeen Shires of the Realm and laid to their charges that they had been against him with the Duke of Glocester the Earls of Arundel and Warwick wherefore he went about to induce the Lords both spiritual and temporal to make a submission by writing acknowledging themselves to be Traitors to the King though they never offended him Moreover he compelled them to set their hands to blanks to the end that so often as it pleased him he might oppreâ—â— them An. Reg. 23 But all this made nothing for him but all against him for within a while after he was sent to the Tower till the next Parliament which was begun the morrow after Michaelmas-day at which time he resigned all his power and Knightly title to the Crown of England and France to Henry Duke of Hereford and Lancaster when he had reigned twenty two years three moneths and odd daies Henry the Fourth Henry of Bollengbrook An. Reg. 1 HEnry the Fourth son to Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster was made King of England more by force then by lawful succession or election He began his Reign the 29 of September in the year 1399. An. Reg. 2 The King caused the Blanok Charters to be burnt made to King Richard Iohn Holland late Duke of Exeter Thomas Holland Duke of Surrey Edward Duke of Awmarl Iohn Mountecute Earl of Salisbury Thomas Spencer Sir Ralph Lumley Sir Thomas Blunt Sir Benedict Cely Knights with others conspired against King Henry and appointed privily to murder him but their Treason was found out and they were all put to death King Richard being in Pomfret-Castle died the fourteenth day of February his body was brought to London and so through the City of London to St. Pauls Church bare-faced three daies for all beholders from thence he was carried to Langley and there buried An. Dom. 1402 Certain men affirmed that King Richard was alive for the which a Priest was taken at Warwick who was drawn hanged and quarter'd Walter Waldock Prior of Lawd was likewise hanged and headed and eight grey Friers hanged and headed at London of the which one Richard Fresby Doctor of Divinity was drawn and hanged Sir Roger Claringdon Knight a Esquire and a Yeoman were beheaded at London and divers grey Friers hanged and beheaded and two at Leicester all these had published King Richard to be alive An. Dom. 1407 A Pestilence in London consumed above thirty thousand An. Dom. 1408 A Frost lasted fifteen weeks An. Dom. 1409 Henry Earle of Northumberland and the Lord Bardolph came into England with a great company pretending by Proclamation to deliver the people from the great oppression that they were burdened with but by Sir Thomas Rokebey Sheriff of York-shire he was encountred at Bramhammoor and there slain the Lord Bardolph was likewise wounded to death An. Dom. 1412 After the fortunate chances hapned to King Henry being delivered of all civil division he was taken with sickness and yeelded to God his spirit the 20 of March 1412. when he had reigned thirteen years six moneths and odd daies he was buried at Canterbury Henry of Monmouth An. Reg. 1 HEnry the Fifth began his Reign the 20 of March in the year 1412. This Prince exceeded the mean stature of men he was beauteous of visage his neck long body slender and lean his bones small nevertheless he was of marvellous great strength and passing swift in running An. Dom. 1413 Sir Iohn Old-Castle for divers points touching the Sacrament before the Archbishop of Canterbury the Bishop of London VVinchester and others was convicted and committed to the Tower of London out of the which he brake and fled An. Dom. 1414 Certain adherents of Sir Iohn Old-Castle assembled them in Thickets field near London but the King being warned took the field before them and so took of them such numbers that
by the labour of vvell-disposed people the same vvas squenched An. Dom. 1448 Adam Molins Bishop of Chichester Keeper of the Kings Privy Seal vvas by Sea-men slain at Portsmouth Bluebeard a Fuller taken beside Canterbury for raising a Rebellion vvas hanged and quartered An. Dom. 1449 The Duke of Suffolk vvas banished the Land vvho sailing tovvards France vvas met on the Sea by a Man of War and vvas beheaded his corps vvas cast up at Dover The Commons of Kent did rise in great numbers one Iack Cade being their Captain these Rebels did great mischief putting to death vvhom they pleased until at last the King offering them a pardon if they vvould submir they condescended to it Iack Cade their Captain fled and vvas slain in the Wilde of Sussex after this the King went down into Kent and finding who were the chief of this rebellion caused them to be hang'd drawn and quartered the 29. of Iune VVilliam Bishop of Salisbury was murdered by his own Tenants An. Reg. 35 An. Dom. 1456 A great riot was committed in London against the Italians and Lumbards An. Dom. 1457 At Erith were taken four great fishes whereof two were Whales Frenchmen landing at Sandwitch wasted the town and slew the inhabitants An. Reg. 36 Sir Thomas Piercie Lord Egremount and Sir Richard Piercie his brother being prisoners in Newgate brake out by night and went to the King other prisoners took the leads of the gate and defended themselves a long while against the Sheriffs and all other Officers An. Dom. 1458 A fray in Fleetstreet between men of the Court and the inhabitants of the same street in which fray the Queens Atturney was slain for this fact the King committed the Governors of Furnival Clifford and Barnards Inn to prison and William Taylor Alderman of the Ward with many others were sent to Windsor Castle An. Dom. 1459 The science of Printing was found in Germany at Magunce VVilliam Caxton of London Mercer brought it into England in the year 1471. and first practised it at the Abbie of St. Peters at VVestminster An. Reg. 38 The land being miserably divided the King fighting many battels in midst of several dissentions was at last worsted and Edward Earle of March got his kingdome from him An. Reg. 29 Edward Earl of March came to London with a mighty power of March men and accompanied with the Earl of VVarwick the 26 of February where he was joyfully received Edward being elected was proclaimed by the name of Edward the fourth on the fourth of March and King Henry lost his kingdome when he had reigned thritty eight years six months and odd dayes Edward the fourth An. Reg. 1 EDward Earl of March began his reign the fourth of March by the name of Edward the fourth in the year 1460. The twelfth of March VValter VValker Grocer living in Cheapside for speaking some words against King Edward was beheaded The thirteenth of March Edward took his journey towards the North where between Shierburn and Tad-Caster all the North part met him and on Palm Sunday the twenty ninth of March fought a great battel in which were slain Henry Piercy Earl of Northumberland Iohn Lord Clifford Iohn Lord Newel Leo Lord VVells and many of rank and quality on both sides to the number of 357 and eleaven persons but King Edward got the field the Duke of Exeter the Duke of Sommerset the Lord of Ross the Lord Hungerford fled to York to King Henry and then with the King and Queen and Prince fled to Barwick and so to Edenborough An. Reg. 3 Queen Margaret landed in the Nâ—rth where having but small succour was fain to take the Sea again and by a tempest of weather was driven to Barwick where she landed but lost her ships and goods Many battels were fought between the two Kings Henry and Edward and much blood was shed on both sides striving for supremacie one while the Commons with some of the Lords would have Henry restored again to his former dignity and another while Edward should rule at length Henry being overpowred was arrested and sent to the Tower where within a while after he was murdered and buried at Chertsey since removed to Windsor An. Reg. 4 A great pestilence and the Thames frozen over An. Reg. 11 Thomas the Bastard of Fauconbridge with a riotous company of shipmen and others of Essex and Kent came to London where being denied passage through the City he fired the gates wâ—n the Bulworks at Algate and entred the City but the Citizens killed them that entred causing the rest to flie pursued them as far as Black wall slaying many An. Reg. 12 King Edward rode into Kent where he caused inquiry to be made of the foresaid riotous persons hanged the rich by the purse and the other by the necks the Major of the town with others were beheaded there Thomas the Bastard of Falkonbridge was taken at Southampton and beheaded An. Reg. 14 The Duke of Exceter was found dead in the Sea between Dover and Callice Iohn Goose was burnt on the Tower hill An. Reg. 17 An. Dom. 1478 King Edward in his progress hunted in Thomas Burdits Park at a Buck and slew many Deer among the which one was a white Buck Thomas Burdit when he understood thereof wished the Bucks head in his bellie that moved the king to do it Burditt was apprehended of treason condemned drawn from the Tower of London to Tiburne and there beheaded An. Reg. 18 An. Dom. 1479 George Duke of Clarence Edwards brothâ—â— in the Tower of London was drowned in a Butt of Malmsey An. Reg. 19 A great dearth and a great sickness in London and divers other parts oâ— the Realme An. Reg. 21 Thieves for robbing St. Martins le grand in London three were drawn to the Tower hill and there hanged and burnt the other were pressed to death An. Reg. 23 King Edward making great proviâ—â—on for war into France ended his life at Westminster the ninth of April in the year 1483. when he had reigned twenty two years one moneth and odd daies he was buried at Windsor he left issue Edward the Prince and Richard Duke of York and five daughters Elizabeth that after was Queen Cicely Ann Katherine and Bridget Edward the fifth An. Reg. 1 EDward the fifth about the age of thiâ—teen years began his reign the ninth of April in the year 1483 which Prince reigned a small space either in pleasure oâ— liberty for his unnatural unkle Richard Duke of Glocester within three months deprived him of his life and Crown as it was generally reported this Edward reigned two months and ten daies Richard Duke of Glocester An. Reg. 1 RIchard the third brother to Edward the fourth was proclaimed king the 22 of Iune in the year 1483. he put to death Anthony Woodvile Earle Rivers Lord Richard Gray the Qâ—eens brother Sir Thomas Vaughan and Sir Richard Hawes at Pomfret and William Lord Hastings in the tower of London all in one day He was
Carlile from whence they were driven and many of them put to death also Sir Francis Bigott and others began a conspiracie and for the same were atainted The twenty ninth of March were twelve men of Lincolne drawn to Tiburn and there hanged and quartered for a new rebellion In Somerset shire was another rebellion began by Mr. Paulet and some other of his friends the chief of them to the number of sixty were condemned whereof fourteen were hanged and quartered one of them was a woman In Iune the Lord Darcie the Lord Hussey Sir Robert Constable Sir Tho. Pierce Sir Francis Bigott Sir Stephen Hamelton Sir Iohn Bulmer and his wife George Lumbley Nicholas Temple Robert Ask VVilliam Thrift Abbot of Fountains Anthony Abbot of Gervaur the Abbot of Rivers William Prior of Burlington all these were put to death Sir Robert Constable of Hull Ask hanged on a Tower â—t York Lady Bulmer burned in Smithfield Loâ—d Darcie beheaded at Tower hill Lord Hussey at Lincolne and the rest of them suffered at Tiburn The twelfth of October was born at Hampton-Court Prinâ—e Edward and Qâ—een Iane lost her life the 14 of October Alwin a Pâ—iest Harsam customer of Plimmouth and Thomas Evel were all hanged and quartered at Tiburn The twelfth of May Fryer Forrest was hanged and burned in Smithfield for denying the kings supremacy with him was burnt the gathering of Wales that is as much as to say Darvar an image The seventeenth of May was a great fire at Saint Margaret Pattons in London where many houses and many perâ—ons were burned Edmond Cunningsby for counterfeiting the kings signe Manual and Edward Clifford for the same cause were hanged at Tiburn The first of September was one Cartwel hangman of London and two other hanged by Clarken-wel for robbing a Booth in Bartholomew faire Henry Marquess of Exceter Earl of Devonshire Hen. Pool L. Mountacute Sir Edward Nevil the 9th of Ian. were beheaded on tower hill two Priests Crofts Collins and a Marriner were hanged and quartered at tyburn Iohn Lambert was burnt in Smithfield on Ashwednesday Iohn Potter and William Mannering hanged in Pauls Church-yard for killing of Roger Cholmley Esq in the same place The third of March Sir Richard Carew knight of the Garter and Master of the kings horse was beheaded on toweâ— hill The Vicar of VVansworth with his servant and his Chaplain and Fryer Ware wâ—â—e hâ—nged and quartered at Saint Thomas VVatrings At this time were all monasteries suppressed because the king like Ianus would look two wayes The Abbot of Reading and two Priests were hanged and quarter'd at Reading the same day was Richard Whiting Abbot of Glassenbury hanged and quartered at Tower-hill besides his Monastery according to an old Prophesie The Lady Anne Cleve received at Black-heath and brought to Greenwich and the sixth of the same moneth married to King Henry The ninth of Iuly Thomas Lord Cromwel Earl of Essex was committed to the tower of London the 28 of Iuly he was beheaded on tower-hill with the Lord Hungerford King Henry was divorced from the Lady Anne of Cleve The thirtieth of Iuly Robert Barnes Thomas Gerrard William Ierome Priests weâ—e burned in Smithfield the same day Thomas Abell Edward Powel and Richard Featherstone were hanged and qâ—â—â—tered for denying the kings supâ—emacy the fourth of August were drawn to Tyburne six persons and one lead Laurence Cook Prior of Doncaster William Horn a Laie bâ—other of the Charterhouse Giles Horn Gentleman Clement Philpot Edmond Broomeham Darbie Kenham Robert Bird Gervis Carow all put to death for denying the sâ—pâ—emacie The King married again The eighth of August Lady Katherine Howard was â—hewed openly as Qâ—een at Hampton-Court Great draught and a great death of hot buâ—ning agues and feavours the salt water flowed above London-bridge Ralph Egerton and Thomas Harman put to death for counterfeiting the Kings bâ—oad Seal In April certain persons began a new rebellion in York-shire whiâ—h were shortly taken and put to death in several places of which Leigh Tattersal and Thornton were put to death at London Sir Iohn Nevil Knight and ten persons more were put to death at York The Countess of Salisbury was beheaded in the tower Damport and Chapman were hanged at Greenwich for a robbery The 21 of Iune Lord Leonard Grey was beheaded on the tower-hill he was Deputy of Ireland the same day were hanged at St. Thomas VVatrings Mantile Roydon and Frowds Gentlemen for spoil and murder they had done in Nicholas Pelhams Park the Lord of Dacres of the South being in company on Saint Peters day was led from the tower to tyburn and there hanged On Christmas Eve at night began a great fire in the house of Sir Iohn Williams master of the Kings Jewels where many of those jewels were burnt and a great many of them stoln The Lady Katherine Howard whom the King had married for her unchast living with Thomas Culpeper and Francis Durham was by Parliament attainted Culpeper and Durham were hanged at Tyburn The 23 of Ianuary the King was proclaimed King of Ireland the 13 of February were beheaded within the Tower the Lady Katherine Howard otherwise called Queen Katherine and the Lady Rochford An. Reg. 34 An. Dom. 1542 The seventh of March Margaret Davy a Maid was boiled in Smithfield for poysoning three housholds where she had lived The 12 of Iuly King Henry married Lady Katherine Parre late wife to the Lord Latimer Anthony Person Robert Testwood and Henry Filmer were burnt at Windsor A great plague was at London and therefore Michaelmas term was adjourned to Saint Albans This year â—hanâ—ed four eclipses one of the Sun the 24 of Ianuary and three of the Moon German Gardner and Lark Parsons of Châ—lsey Singleton and Assbey were hanged at Tyburn for denying the Kings Supremacy An. Dom. 1544 The third of April a Gun-powder house in East-Smithfield was blown up and therein burned five men a boy and a woman This year was taken by the Kings ships on the English Coast the number of three hundred French ships so that the Grey-Friers Church in London was laid full of wine the Austin-Friers and Black-Friers were laid full of Herrings and other fish that were taken going into France A Priest did penance at Pauls-Cross and there confessed that he pricked his finger when he was at Mass and wiped it on the Corporis and Altar cloth and went about to make the people believe that the miraculous Host did bleed after the words of Consecration The 13 of February a Priest was set on the Pillory in Cheap-side and burnt in both cheeks with the letters F and A. a paper on his head wherein was written For false accusing which judgement was given by the Lord Chancellor in the Star-â—hamber a notable example of Justice An. Reg. 37 An. Dom. 1545 The French Kings Navy coming out of New-haven and Deep arrived in Sussex afore bright Hamsted where they set some of their Souldiers a land but the Beacons were fired and
Suffolk The second of May Ione Butcher was burned in Smithfield for heresie she held that Christ took no flesh of the Virgin Mary Richarâ— Lion Godard Gorran and Richard Ireland were executed the fourteenth of May for attempting a new rebellion in Kent In the moneth of May a miller at Battle-bridge was set in the pillory in cheap-side and had both his ears cut off for speaking some words against the Duke of Sommerset On Saint Valentines day at Feversham in Kent one Arden a gentleman was murdered by consent of his wife for the which fact she was on the fourteenth of March burnt at Canterbury Michael Master Ardens man was hanged in chains at Feversham and a maiden burnt Mosby and his Sister were hanged in Smithfield at London Green which had fled came again certain years after and was hanged in chains in the high-way over against Feversham and Black-VVill the Ruffin that was hired to do the act was burnt in Zealand at Flushing The twenty fourth of April a Dutch-man was burnt in Smithfield for an Arrian The twenty fifth of May an earthquake about Croydon and those parts did put the people in great fear An. Dom. 1552 The twenty sixth oâ— February Sir Richard Vine and Sir Martin Patridge were hanged on tower-hill Sir Martin Stanhope with Sir Thomas Arundel were beheaded there the last of April a house near to the tower of London with three barrels of powder was blown up the Gunpowder-makers being fifteen in number were all slain The third of August at Middleton eleven miles from Oxford a woman brought forth a child which had two perfect bodies from the navel upwards and were so joyned together at the navel that when they were laid out at length the one head and body was West and the other East the legs of both the bodies were joyned together in the midst they lived eighteen daies and they were women children The eighth of August were taken at Queenborough three great fishes called Dolphins and the week following at Black-wall was six more taken and brought to London The seventh of October were three great fishes called Whirl-pools taken at Gravesend The eighth of October was three more great fishes called Whirlpools taken at Gravesend and drawn up to the Kings Bridge at VVestminster King Edward being at the age of sixteen years ended his life at Greenwich on the sixth of Iuly when he had reigned six years five moneths and odd daies and was buried at VVestminster The tenth of Iuly was proâ—lamation made of the death of King Edward and how he had ordained that the Lady Iane Daughter to Frances Dutchess of Suffolk which Lady Iane was married to the Lord Gilford Dudley fourth son to the Duke of Northumberland should be Heir to the Crown of England The eleventh of Iuly Gilbert Pott draweâ— to Ninion Sanders Vintner dwâ—lling â—â— the sign of Sâ—int Iohn-Baptâ—st-head within Ludgate was set on the pillory in Cheap wiâ—h boâ—h his ears nailed to the Pillory and cut off for words speaking at the time of Proclamation of the Lady Iane. Lady Mary eldest daughter to King Henry the eight fled to Frammington Castle in Suffolk where the people of the countrey almost wholly resorted unto her In Oxford Sir Iohn Williams in Buckinghamshire Sir Edmond Peckham and in divers other places many men of worship offering themselves as guides to the common people gathered great powers and with all speed made towards Suffolk where the Lady Mary was Also the thirteenth of Iuly by the appointment of the Councel the Duke of Northumberland the Earl of Huntington the Lord Grey of Wilton and divers others with a great number of men of Armes set forward to fetch the Lady Mary by force and were on their way as far as Burie The ninteenth of Iuly the Counsel assembled themselves at Baynards Castle where they communed with the Earl of Pembrook and immediately with the Lord Mayor of London certain Aldermen of London and the Sheriffs Garter King of Arms and a Trumpet went into Cheap where they proclaimed Lady Mary daughter to King Henry the eight Queen of England France and Ireland The twentieth of Iuly Iohn Earl of Northumberland being at Saint Edmonsbury and having sure knowledge that the Lady Mary was at London proclaimed Queen of England returned back again to Cambridge and about five of the clock in the Evening he came to the market-place and caused the Lady Mary to be likewise proclaimed Queen of England but shortly after he was arrested and brought to the Tower of London the twenty fifth of Iuly under the conduct of Henry Earl of Arundel thus was the matter ended without any bloodshed which men feared would have brought the death of thousands Queen Mary An. Reg. 1 MAry the eldest daughter to King Henry the eight began her reign the sixth of Iuly in the year 1553. She came to London and was received with great joy and entred the Tower the third of August where Thomas Duke of Norfolk Doctor Gardner late Bishop of Winchester and Edward Courtney son and heir to Henry Marquess of Exeter prisoners in the Tower discharged the fifth of August Edmond Bonner late Bishop of London prisoner in the Marshal Seas and Cutbert Tunstal Bishop of Durham prisoners in the Kings Bench were restored to their Seas shortly after all the Bishops which had been deprived in the time of King Edward the sixth were restored to their Bishopricks again also all beneficed men that were married or would not forsake their opinions were put out of their livings and others set in the same The eleventh of August certain gentlemen minding to pass through London Bridge in a Wherrie were there overturned and six of them drowned The thirteenth of August master Bourn a Canon of Pauls preached at Pauls Cross so offended some of his audience that they breaking silence cryed out pull him down and one threw a dagger at him whereupon master Bradford and Master Rogers two preachers in King Edwards dayes with much labour conveyed the said master Bourn out of the audience into Pauls School The twenty second of August Iohn Duke of Northumberland Sir Iohu Gaites and Sir Thomas Palmer Knights were beheaded on tower hill The Queen was crowned at VVestminster the first of October by Doctor Gardiner Bishop of Winchester The twenty fâ—fâ—h of October the Baâ—ge of Gravesend was overturned and forty persons drowned In the beginning of the moneth of Ianuary the Emperour sent a nobleman called Egmont and certain other Embassadours into England to conclude a marriage between King Phillip his son and Queen Mary The twenty fifth of Ianuary Sir George Gage Chamberlain certified the Lord Major of London that Sir Thomas VViat with cettain other Rebels were up in Kent whereupon great watch was kept and that night the Lord Major himself rode about the City to look to the same and every night after two Aldermen did the like in the day time the gates of the City were guarded by substantial Citizens The
close all that night and so continually from place to place until the second of August in which space having by the power of God wonderfully overcome them he returned to Margaret in Kent now the Camp being kept at Tilbury in Essex under the charge of the Earl of Leicester the ninth of August her Majesty repaired thither where all the whole camp being set in order of Battalia she passed through every rank of them to their great rejoycing and lodged that night and the night following in the house of Master Edward Rich in the Parish of Hornedon on the next morning she returned to the camp and on the twelfth returned to Saint Iame's and shortly after the camp was dissolved Sunday the twentieth of August Master Nowel Dean of Pauls at Pauls Cross in the presence of the Lord Mayor and the Aldermen in scarlet all the Companies in their liveries preached moved them to give God thanks for the great victory given to our English Nation by the overthrow of the Spanish Fleet. August the twenty sixth at the Sessions nere unto Newgate were condemned eight men for being made Priests beyond the seas and remaining in this Realme contrary to the statute four temporal men for being reconciled to the Church of Rome and four others for releiving the others September the second at night a fierce fire brake out over against the Dutch Church in London to the great terror of the whole City but by the burning down of one house and pulling down some other the fire was quenched September the eighth the Minister at Pauls Cross moved the people to give God thanks for the overthrow of our enemies the Spaniards and there were shewed eleaven Ensignes or Banners taken in the Spanish ships by our men and on the next morning hanged on London Bridge towards Southwark where then the faire was kept being our Lady day October the eighth a stable was burned with the number of twenty horses at Drury house neer the Strand An. Reg. 32 November the nineteenth was this year kept holy day through the Realme with Sermons singing of Psalmes Bonefires and much rejoycing and thanksgiving unto God for the overthrow of the Spaniards our enemies upon the seas and a sermon at Pauls Cross tending to that end November the twenty fourth being Sunday the Queens Majesty having attendants upon her the privie counsel and other of the Nobility honourable persons as well spiritual as temporal in great number all on horseback did ride in a Chariot Throne the Lord Mayor and Aldermen attending her with all the companies in their Liveries stood along to Pauls Church where she heard a Sermon preached by Doctor Pierce Bishop of Salisbury and then went to the Bishops Palace where she dined and returned to Somerset house by torch light Ianuary the fifth at night a great wind in the North-east overturned trees and did great harm in many places February the first two souldiers were set on the Pillory at Leaden-Hall where they stood for the space of three houres the one had his ear nayled the other his tongue pierced with an aul which aul remained in his tongue till he was taken from the Pillory for abusing their Captains with bad words About this time Francis Ket Master of Art of Wimondham for holding divers detestable opinions against Christ our Saviour was burnt neer to the City of Norwich February the fifth two Souldiers were hanged on trees at the miles end for being mutinous April the fourteenth Philip Earl of Arundel was arraigned at Westminster of high treason and found guilty by his Peers and had judgement accordingly April the eighteenth Sir Iohn Norris and Sir Francis Drake with six of her Majesties ships twenty ships of war and an hundred fit for burden having in them a choice company of Knights Captains Gentlemen and souldiers departed from Plimouth and the twenty third of the same arrived at the Groin the twenty sixth they took the lower town with great store of Ordinance victuals cables and other furniture for shipping about the sixth of May they fought with the Spaniards at Borges Bridge where the enemy fled with the loss of seven hundred men the lower town of Groine was burned and the ninth of May our fleet set sail the Earl of Essex Sir Philip Butler and Sir Roger Williams met the Fleet so that on the sixteenth the whole navie arived at Phinicha where they set to land and the same day won both town and castle after this they divided the Armie whereof part matched with Sir Iohn Noris by land to Lisbon the rest with Sir Francis Drake passed by sea to Cascales the twenty fourth our men entred the suburbs of Lisbone where they obtained rich spoyles and plenty of every good thing the twenty seventh the Army left Lisbone and came to Cascales without any great fight or skirmish where they took the town and then returned for England but landing at Vigoe they took the town and wasted the Countrey The twenty first of Iune Sir Francis Drake arrived at Plimouth and the third of Iuly Sir Iohn Norris with the rest of the Fleet arrived there also the two Generals being offended one with the other The first of August at night was the greatest lightning and thunder that ever was seen or heard of any man living and yet but small hurt done God be praised The sixth of November Lodowick Grevil of Warwickshire Esquire was brought from the Tower of London to Westminster and there at the Kings Bench Bar for murder and other notorious crimes wherewith he was charged arraigned and found guilty but standing mute had Judgement to be pressed to death which was performed in the Goal of the King Bench in Southwark on the fourtâ—enth of November on the which day for the same fact his man was hanged at the Court Gate at Westminster An. Reg. 23 In this moneth of November the Citizens of London were oâ—tenâ—iâ—es affrighted by fire first on the twentieth about four a clock in the morn on Fish-street Hill where one fair house was burnâ—d to the ground and some people in helping to quench it were consumed and the houses next adjoyning to it Also the one side of Saint Leonards was sore spoiled On the twenty two of November at night about eleven of the clock one otheâ— house over against the first was in great danger but soon slaked On the twenty sixth about one of the cloâ—k in the morn one other house and some people were burnt and many other houses near about were spoiled The fifth of Ianuary about five a clock in the evening before Twelfth day began a terrible tempest of wind in the South-west which continued with great vehemency till about eleven a cloâ—k at night this in the City of â—ondon blew the tiles off mens houses and caused them to fear the overthrow of their houses the lesser West-gate of Saint Pauls next to the Bishops Palace was broken with bolts and locks and strong bars of iron
and quartered as being actors with the Earl of Essex March the fifteenth a new Scaffold was carried from Leaden Hall in the night to the Tower hill and there set up by torch light The eighteenth of March Sir Charles Danvers and Sir Christopher Blunt Knights were upon the new scaffold beheaded Two men were set on the Pillory in Fleetstreet whipped with gaggs in their mouths and their ears cut off for attempting to have robbed a Gentlewoman in Fetter lane in the day time putting gaggs into the mouths of the servants of the house because they should not cry out one of these thieves was afterward hanged and quartered at Saint Thomas Watrings August the twenty sixth Desmond and an other Knight brought out of Ireland were sent to the Tower of London In November the Lady Mary Ramsey widow to Sir Thomas Ramsey sometime Mayor of London was buried in the Parish Church or Hospital of Christ-church by Newgate-market a charitable dole or armes was given for her on the same day in the afternoon at the Leaden Hall seventeen poor people being weak and aged were there among the sturdy beggars crushed and troden to death Lightning and Thunder often before Christmas and in the holydayes and an Earthquake at London on Christmas Eve at noon In the month of Ianuary news came out of Ireland that on Christmas day that the Spaniards and Irish were overcome and slain in great numbers and the English were victors The eighteenth of Ianuary at night Bonfiers were made with ringing of Bells for joy of the news out of Ireland the victory of our men against Tyrone Windsor Boate was cast away against Black Friers stairs by a tempest April the nineteenth Peter Bullock Stationer and one named Ducket for printing of books offensive against the Queen and State were hanged at Tyburn April the twentieth Stichborne William Kenson and Iames Page Seminary Priests were drawn to Tyburn and there hanged and quartered The last of Iune Atkenson a customer of Hull was set on the Pillory in Cheap and with him three other who had been brought thither on horseback with their faces towards the horse tail and papers on their heads they were there whipped on the Pillory and lost their ears by judgement of the Star-Chamber for slanderous words by them spoken against the Counsel The same day in the afternoon fell great lightning and thunder with hail-stones in many places of nine inches compass which in Sandwich in Kent lay a foot deep on the ground broke the glass windows of their Churches and many tiles off their houses some barnes were fired with lightning February the seventeenth William Anderson alias Richardson a Seminary Priest was drawn to Tyburn and there hanged and quartered for being found in England contrary to the Statute In the month of March the Q lying at Richmond dangeros sick strait watches were set in London with warding of the Gates Lanthornes with lights all the night hanged out of Windowes at which newes the people were sore perplexed Thursday the twenty fourth of March about two of the Clock in the morning deceased Queen Elizabeth at her Mannor of Richmond in Surrey being aged seventy yeers and had Reigned four and forty yeers five moneths and odd dayes whose Corps was privily convaied to White Hall and there remained till the twenty eight of Aprill and then buried at Westminster The same day aforesaid the Nobility and Councell of State with as great peace prudence and providence as the heart of man could imagine assembled themselves together and far beyond the general imagination of all men being a matter of remarkable conscernment took speedy order aswell for the instant manifesting the Queens death as in publishing to the whole Realme for their lasting comfort the true and lawfull Successour and about eleven of the clock the same Thursday in the forenoone which according to the computation of the Church of England is the last day of the yeer 1602. being accompanyed with the Lord Major Aldermen and Sheriffes of London and many other of most Reverend and Honourable quality at the Cross in Cheape Proclaimed Iames the Sixth of that name King Scotland to be the right King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the faith being lineally descended from Margaret the eldest daughter to King Henry the Seventh by Elizabeth his wife which was the eldest daughter of King Edward the fourth the said Margaret was married to King Iames the fourth of that name King of Scotland in the yeer of our Redemption 1503. who had Issue Iames the fifth Who was father to Mary Queen of Scotland and the said Mary was mother to Iames the Sixth Monarch of the Island of great Brittany and King of France and Ireland This forenamed Proclamation was most distinctly and audibly read by Sir Robert Cecill Principall Secretary unto Queen Elizabeth also the Lords and Privie Counsellors of Estate with great diligence send speedily Condinge Messengers to his Majesty into Scotland who manifested their whole proceeding with tender of their zealous love and duty and the peoples universall joy and great desire to see their King which his Majesty most graciously accepted approved all their proceedings and returned them all Princely thanks Authorizing the Lords and others late Privie Counsellours of Estate to the Queene to persist as they had begun until He came personally unto them This Change was very Plausable and well pleasing unto the Nobility and Gentry and generally to all the Commons of the Realm among whom the name of a king was to strange that few could Remember or had seen a King before except they were aged persons considering that the Government of the Realme had continued neer the space of fifty yeeres under the Reigne of two Queens which is the far greater part of an old mans age but tidings hereof being brought to the king in Scotland he called a Coâ—nsell to him and taking order for setling all things in his Realme of Scotland began his voyage towards England King Iames. An. Reg. 1 PResently upon the death of Queene Elizabeth of Famous memory the Nobility of this land and Pâ—ivie Councellors of estate unto the said Queen accknowledged Iames the sixth then King of Scotland for their lawfull king and within six houres after her death the said Lords and Counsellors gave full satisfaction unto the people by three proclamations the first at the Court Gate the second at the Cross in Cheapside and the third at the Tower by the name of Iames the First King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith the King being then full thirty six yeers of age and Crouned King of Scots in his infancie began his Raign over the Isle of Great Brittany the 24. of March 1602. The Nobility and State aforesaid with â—ll speed sent Charles Piercy and Master Thomas Sommerset with Letters unto the King signifiying the death of the Queene and the tender of their duties love and alegianâ—e but Sir Robert Carie rid
and that whatsoever plot and treason was now in hand it must be performed in some unsuspected place and by some homebâ—ed Traytors whereupon new search was made about the Court and Parliament house but coâ—ld not as â—et find any thing out worthy their labours all which labors all which searches was performed with such silence and discretion as there rose no manner of suspition either in Court or City the Lord Chamberlain whose office it most concerned never rested day nor night and the night before the Parliament as Sir Thomas Knevet with others scouted about the Parliament house espied a fellow standing in a corner very suspiciously and asked him his name and what he was and what he did there so late who answered very bluntly his name was Iohn Iohnson Master Pearces man and keeper of his lodgings Sir Thomas Knevet still continued his search in all places and returning thither again found him lingring there still searched him and found under his cloke a dark Lanthorne with a candle burning in it and about him other signes of suspition that he stood not there for any good then the Knight entred the vaut where he found the powder covered with faggots and billots and then the Lord Chamberlain commanded the Traytor to be bound and being now three of the clock in the morning he went unto the King and with exceeding joy told his Majesty the treason was found out and the traytor in hold the King desired to see Faukes who when he came before the King used like trayterous speeches as he did at his first apprehension affirming he was the onely man to performe this treason saying it sore vexed him that the deed was not done and for that time would not confess any thing touching the rest of the conspirators but that he himself onely alone was the contriver and practiser of this treason Between five and six a clock in the morning the Conusel gave order to the Lard Major of London to look well to the City and in very calme manner to set civill watch at the Citie Gates signifying therewithall that there was a plot of treason found out and that the king would not go to Parliament that day the same day in the afternoon the manner of the treason was by way of Proclaimation made known unto the people for joy whereof there was that night within the City and about as many bonfires as the streets could permit and the peole gave humble and hearty thanks to Almighty God for their King and Countreyes right blessed escape Within three dayes after two other Proclamations were made signifying unto the people who were the chief Conspirators with commandment to apprehend Pearcy and Catesby and to take them alive if it were possible which said Pearcy and Catesby were gone to Holback in Warwick Shire to meet Winter Grante and others where under pretence of a great hunting they made account to raise the Countrey and surpâ—ize the lady Elizabeth from the Lord Harrington whom they meant to Proclaime Queen and in whose name they meant to take up Arms being perswaded that the King the Prince and the Duke of Yorke were at that time blown up in the Parliament House but when they found their treason was known and prevented and saw the Kings Forces round about the house so as they could not escape Pearsey and Catesby very desperately issued out and fighting back to back were both flain with one Musket shot Saturday the ninth of November the King went to Parliament where in the presence of the Queen the Prince the Duke of Yorke the Embassadours of the King of Spain and the Arch-Duke and the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons of the same he made a very solemne oration Manifesting the whole Complott or this treason Ianuary the nineteenth a great Porpaise was taken alive at West-Ham in alittle Creeke a mile and a half within the land and was presented unto Francis Gofton Esquire Chief Auditor of the Imprests and within a few dayes after a very great Whale came within eight miles of London whose length was divers times seen above the Water and the same was judged to be a great deal longer then any Ship in the River A few dayes before Christmass the Parliament broke up and began to sit again the twenty second of Ianuary being Tuesday and continued untill the twenty seventh of May next following in which Parliament they gave the King and and his Successours three entire Subsidies and six Fifteens and then the Parliament was proroâ—ged untill the eighâ—eenâ—h oâ— November at this 〈◊〉 the Clargie gave unto the King and his Successors four entire Subsidies and in this Parliament it was enacted that the fifth of November should be kept Holy day for ever with preaching and giving God thanks for his mercy in preventing that terrible danger of the late practise by Pearcy and Catesby with the rest of their wicked Crew to blow up the Parliament House Ianury the twenty seventh at Westminster were Arrained Thomas Winter Guydo Fawkes Robert Keyes and Thomas Bates for plotting to blow up the Parliament House Digging in the Mine taking oath and Sacrament for secresie and Sir Everard Digby for being made acquainted with the said treason yeelding assent to it and taking his corporal oath for secrecy all which Inditements were proved against them and by themselves confessed and thereupon had Judgement given them to be Drawn Hanged and quartered their limbes to be set upon the City Gates and their heads upon London Bridge according to which sentence the thirtieth of Ianuary Sir Everard Digby Robert Winter Iohn Graunt and Baites at the West end of Saint Pauls Church and the next day after the other four were executed in the Parliament yard and six of the eight acknowledged their guiltiness in this horrible plot and dyed very penitently but Graunt and Keyes did not so Saturday the twenty second of March between six and seven a clock in the forenoon a rumor was so dainly spread throughout the Court and the City of London that for certain the King that morning was slain as he was a hâ—nting in Okeing Parke twenty miles from London which dreadful newes still increased untill nine of the Clock being seconded by Infinite suggestions by reason whereof it was generally received for truth and thereupon the Court Gates were kept shut The Lord Major began to set Cuard at the City Gates and to raise the Trained bands Sir William Wade Liverenant of the Tower did the like with his Hamlets within his liberties and the Parliament was much amazed but by eleven of the Clock the joyfull news of the Kings good health was made known in London by Proclamation as it had been at the Court an houâ—e before whereat the people began to revive their vexed spirits which till then were wonderously surcharged with hearts grief This flying newes went three dayes journey into the Countrey before it was surpâ—est Friday the twenty eight of March 1606. wâ—s Araigned
of England he died suddenly at the Counsel table April the twenty ninth proclamation was made commanding the oath of allegiance to be ministred to all persons that should come from beyond the seas onely to distinguish honest subjects from traiterous practisers and not for any point or matter in religion all known Merchants and others of honest state and quality was exempte from takeing this oath this proclamation was made by reason that many suspitious persons of base sort came dayly from beyond seas and refused to take the oath Iune twenty third Thomas Garnet a Jesuit was executed at Tyburne having favour offered him if he would have taken the oath of allegiance which he refused This Summer at Astley in Warwick shire by reason of the fall of the Church there was taken up the corps of Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset he was buried the tenth of October 1530 in the twenty second year of the â—aign of Henry the eighth and albeit he had lain seventy eight yeers in the the Earth yet his Eyes Haire and flesh remained in a manner as if he had been newly buried For these five yeeres past great and manifold Roberies spoiles Piracies murders and Depredations within the Streights and elsewhere have been committed by severall Companies of English Pirats as well upon our own Nation as others but especially upon the Florentines and Venetians wherewith his Majesty was much grieved and for that cause published from time to time severall Proclamations denownsing the same offenders to be Rebells and therewithall gave order for their suppression and apprehensias Traiters and peace breakers but all this prevailed not for they still prevailed persisted and maintained their former villanies with which offenders there were some English Marchants who very cunningly underhand used Commerce Track and Trafficke for stollen goods to the great Cheriâ—â—ing of those Malefactors and dishonour of this Nation for redresse whereof the King by Proclamation the eighth of Ianuary Prohibited from all manner of medling or dealing with them upon great penalties all English Marchants whatsoever Commanding the judge of the Admiralty to proceed severely in Justice against all such offenders and that from him there should be no appeal granted to any person touching the premises all which notwithstanding the number of Pirats still increased and did much damage to the English Marchants and to all other Nations there were Hollanders and Easterlings that at this time and before became fierce Pirats and held consort with the English Robbers viz. Ward Bishop Sir Francis Vorny and others whereupon the King of Spain sent certain Ships of Warr under the command of Don Lewis Faxardo who very pollitickly about the middle of Iuly came upon them at Tunis and sudenly burned twenty of their ships lying in Harbor at which time though Captain Ward escaped in person by being then a shore yet his great Strength and Riches perished in the fire with some of his Confederates December the two and twentieth Nineteen Pirates were executed at Waping some had been in consort with the English Pirates Sunday the nineteenth of February when it should have been low water at London-Bridge quite contrary to course it was then high Water and presently it ebbed almost half an houre the quantity of a foot and then suddenly it flowed again almost two foot higher then it did before and then ebbed again untill it came to its course almost as it was at first so that the next flood began in a manner as it should and kept its due course in all respects as if there had been no shifting nor alteration of Tydes all this hapned before twelve a clock in forenoone the weather being indifferent calme The thirteenth of Iune the King Queen and Prince with many great Lords and others came to the Tower to make triall oâ— the Lions single valour and to have the Lions skill a great fierce Bear that had killed a Childe but the Lyons being tryed by one and one at a time and lastly by two together whâ—ch were bread in that open yard where the Bare was put loose for Combat yet would none of them assaile him but fled from him to their Dens after the first Lion was put forth then was there a Stone Horse put into the Bare and Lyon who when he had gazed upon them a while fell to grazing standing in the midst between them both and whereas at the first there was but two Mastives let in who fought stoâ—tly with a lion there was now six Dogs let in who flew all upon the Stone Horse being most in their sight at their first entrance and would soon have wearied the horse to death but that suddainly even as the King wisht there Entein thâ—ee stout Barewards who wonderous valliantly rescued the Horse and brought away the Doggs whilst the Lyon and the Bear stood staring upon them and the fifth of Iuly this Bare according to the kings Commandment was bayted to death by Dogges upon a Stage and the Mother of the murthered Child had twenty pound given her out of the money given by the people to see the death of the Bare Robert Allyley being Araigned at Newgate for fellony stood mute and and refused the ordinary triall whreupon as the manner is the Hangman came unto him to binde his hands but Allyley resisted and with his fist stroke him on the face in the presence of the Judges who presently Remembred that this priprisoner but the last Sessions before was there Convicted of Fellony and for the same had obtained the Kings Speciall pardon which pardons in generall are unto all persons but onely upon their good behaviour unto King and his Subjects and thereupon the Court gave judgment that for the blow he gave his hand should first be cut off and then his body to be hanged for that fact for the which he had his pardon according to which sentence he was presently executed at the Sessions Gate Thursday the third of May the French Queen was Crowned with all Solemnity in Paris and having been ten yeers before maried to the King and the next day was murthered in his Coach as he rode through Paris by a base villain that stabed him into the body twise with a long knife that he died instantly and his body was carried to the Loover presently upon the Kings death the Queen was made Regent during her sons minority viz. Lewis the thirteenth The twentieth of May being Sunday our King Queen and Prince the Duke of Yorke the lady Elizabeth and all the Lords and Ladies of the Court mourned in Black for the death of the French King Henry the fourth and about the end of Iune was he buried in Paris in as great Royalty as ever King of France upon the murrher of this French King the Lords and Commons of the house of Parliament of England humbly besought the King to have a more especiall care then formerly for the preservation of his Royall Person and also to the speedy order for the
avoiding of Emminent danger and keeping his subjects in their due obedience and forthwith the Commons of the Parliament for the manifestation of their alleigance love and duty they voluntarily of their own accord took the Oath of Allegiance and after them the Lords of the upper house did so likewise who ministred the same Oath to all their servants and followers and such as refused to take oath were put from their Lord Services and the Bishops in the Convocation House ordained that every Bishop in their severall visitations should minister the same Oath unto all their Clergie which they performed accordingly this oath was also ministred to others as followeth according to the Tenor of a speciall Statute made this Session of Parliament made in that behalf The fourth of Iune Proclamation was made commanding all Romane Priests and Iesuites and Seminaries to depart this Kingdom by the fourth day of Iuly next and not to return upon paine of the severity of the Law also by this Proclamation the King straitly commands all Recusants to return home to their dwellings not to come within 10 miles of the Court without speciall licence but to depart from London and the Court by the last day of this Moneth and to remain confined according to the Tenor of the Statute in that behalf provided Presently after that the Oath of Allegiance was ministred unto all officers Atturnies and Clarkes belong-to any of the Courts at Westminster Hall and the Exchequer and unto all Advocates and Proctors of the Spirituall Courts this Oath was also administred unto all Lawvers in the Inns of Court and Chancery and unto all Students and Schollers in both the Vniversities The appointed time now drew neer or Prince Henry to be created Prince of Wales and upon Thursday the last of May the Loâ—d Mayor and the Aldermen being accompanied with 54 several Companies of Citizens of London in several Barges bearing armes distinguished by their proper Ensignes Banners and streamers in warlike manner and therewithal plentiously furnished with several sorts of excellent Mâ—sick and had also to entertain the Prince divers pleasant and ingenious trophies upon the water all which in comely order went to Chelsea the Lord Mayor as Admiral going formost where from nine a clock in the morning till thâ—eâ— in â—hâ— afternoon they attended the coming of the Prince who could not come sooner by reason of the low ebb at which time the King came from Richmond being very honourably accompanied and attended and from Cheâ—sea the Lord Mayor and Citizens conducted his Highness unto the Court at White Hall as they returned from Chealsea the citizens led the way and the Lord Mayor followed them going alwaies next the Princes Barge to see this joyful sight the people for seven miles space swarmed on both sides the River and the Thames was covered with Boates Barges and Lighters full fraught with men women and childred and upon Sunday the third of Iune the King made twenty five Knights of the Bath and the next day the King crowned the prince his eldest son Henry prince of Wales in the great chamber at Westminster being perormed with great magnificence and solemnity and with full consent of all the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of the Parliament being all there present the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London were also present at this creation the princes titles were then proclaimed Viz. Henry prince of Wales Duke of Cornewal and Rotheser and Earl of Chester in honor of this creation there was the next night at the Court a most rich and royal mask of Ladies viz. the Queen the Lady Elizabeth daughter to our Soveraign Lord the King the Lady Arrabella the Countess of Arundel the Counress of Darbie the Countess of Essex the Countess of Dorset the Countess of Mountgomery the Visecounts of Haddington the Lady Elizabeth Gray the Lady Elizabeth Guilford the Lady Katherine Peter the Lady Winter the Lady VVindsor and upon Wednesday in the afternoon in the Tilt yard there were divers Earles Barons and others being in rich and glorious armour having most costly caparisons wonderous riâ—hly embrodered with pearl gold and silver the like abillements for horses were never seen before presented their several ingenious trophies before the King Queen and Prince and then ran a tilt where there was a world of people assembled to behold them and that night there were other triumphs upon the water with ships of war and Gallies fighting one against an other and against a great Castle builded upon the water and after these battels then an houres space there were many strange and variable fire works in the Castle and in the ships and Gallies This year the King builded a most stately ship for war being in all respects the greatest and goodliest ship that ever was made in England and this glorious ship the King gave to his sonne Henry prince of VVales the prince named it after his own dignity and called it the prince The seventh of December Iohn Roberts a Benedickt Monk sometimes provincial of the Benidictans in England and Thomas Summers a Seminary were condemned at Newgate and hanged at Tyburne they having been before sundry times taken and bannished and yet presumed to return again and bere to practice against King and State Upon Newyears day at night the prince oâ— VVales being acâ—ompanied with twelve others viz. Two Earles three Barons five Knights and two Esquires they performed a very stately mask in which was an excellent Sceane ingenious speeches and rare songs and with great variety of most delicate Musick The twentieth of April 1611. Sir Thomas Overburie was committed to the Tower and died there the fifteenth of September next following May the thirteenth being Munday in Whitson week at Windsor were enstalled Knights of the Garter Prince Charles Duke of York sonne to our soveraign Lord the King and Thomas Earl of Arundel and Robert Viâ—â—ount Rochester Wednesday the eighteenth of March 1611. Bartholomew Legate an obstinate Heretick and a strong Arian was burned in Smithfield and the eleaventh of April following viz. Edward Wightman an other perverse Heretick having refused more favour then he could desire or deserve was burned at Lichfield this Heritick would have made the people believe that he himself was the Holy Ghost and immortal with other vild opinions not fit to be mentioned amongst Christians May the twenty ninth 1612. Richard Newport and VVilliam Scot Seminaries were executed at Tyburne Iune the twenty fifth Robert Carliele and Iames Edwin were executed for murthering Iohn Turner fencer and the twenty seventh of Iune the Lord Sanquire was arraigned at the Kings Bench Bar for conspiring and hiring the said two persons to kill the said Turner the Lord confessed the Indightment and was executed upon a Gibber the 29 of Iune at Westminster In the months of October November and December there hapned great winds violent storms and tempests which caused much shipwrack upon the Ocean in havens and Rivers and did
great damage upon the land and the net spring extraordinary rain fell even till Saint Iames-tide and yet upon the humble and hearty prayers of the people in all Churches it pleased Almighty God to send a more plentiful harvest then had been in many years before Friday the sixteenth of October 1612. at eleven a clock at night aririved at Gravesend the most illustrious young Prince Fredrick the fift of that name Count Palatine of the Reyne being very princely attended he was received by Sir Lewis Lewkenor Knight master of the ceremonies whom the King had sent before to attend the coming of the Prince upon knowledge of his arrival the King sent speedily the Duke of Lenâ—x with other Earls and Barons to signifie his hearty welcome and the next Sunday they accompanied the Palsgrove by Barge from Cravesend to VVhite Hall where Prince Charles Duke of York received him at his first landing and brought him up into the great bankqueting house where he was entertained by the King Queen Henry Prince of Wales and the Lady Elizabeth The twenty ninth of October the Palsgrave dined at Guild-Hall and the chief nobility of the Land where he had presented unto him a rich Bason and Eure and two Liverypots richly engraven and richly guilded Friday the sixth of October died the most noble and hopeful Prince Henry Prince of Wales he was royally buried in the Chappel Royal at Westminster the seventh of December Upon Saint Thomas day the Palsgrave and Grave Marris were elected Knights of the Garter and upon Sunday the seventh of February the Palsgrave and Grave Maurice was enstalled at Windsor The fourteenth of February being Shrove Sunday the Lady Elizabeth was married to the Palsgrave in as most royal manner as ever Princes were with masking tilting and turnament and many rare showes both by land and water where the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London in behalf of the City and themselves presented the bride with a very fair chain of oriental Pearl And thus Reader have I presented thee a chain of the best oriental pearles I could pick out of K. Iames his raign being most remarkable and worthy observation who was called a second Solomon and the peace-maker of Christendome and had peace with all Nations and I conclude thus If we by Kings again should ruled be We wish to have no worse a King then he This land did flourish by the trades increase He rul'd he swai'd he liv'd he di'd in peace Remarkable Passages The Life and Reign of King Charles Anno. 1600 CHarles the second Son of King Iames on the ninetenth day of November in the yeer 1600. During his Infancy he was of a very sickly constitution and at his birth so unlike to live that his Christening was dispatched in haste but as he grew in yeers he did grow into strength An. Dom. 1602 Being two yeers old he was Created Duke of Albany Marquesse of Ormond Earle of Rosse and Barron of Ardmanock An. Dom. 1603 On the twenty sixth of March King Iames had newes that Queen Elizabeth was dead by Sir Robert Cary for which good newes this young D. of Albany was afterwards committed to the charge and governance of Sir Robert Caries Lady An. Dom. 1604 On the seventh of Iune 1604. he was created Duke of Yorke An. Dom. 1606 and in the sixth yeer of his age 1606. he was taken from the charge of the women Master Thomas Murray a Scot by Nation was made his Tutor he profited exceedingly in the knowledge of good letters An. Dom. 1611 In the 11. yeer of his age was he made Knight of the Garter and in the yeer following he lost his Brother Prince Henry whom he immediately succeded in the Dukedom of Cornwall An. Dom. 1616 On the third of November 1616. he was creared Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester and Flint An. Dom. 1622 And on the eighteenth of February 1622. attended with the Duke of Buckingham Sir Francis Cottington and Master Indimion Porter he being disguised took Ship at Dover arrived at Bulloign in France and having casually had a sight of Lady Henretta Mariah at a Mask at Paris he rode post from thence to the Court of Spain An. Dom. 1623 On the seventh of March he arrived at Madrid and the King of Spain being informed by Count D Olivares what a hazzardous adventure he had taken to have a sight of the Infanta he had that Royal entertainment given him which a Princely Sutor might expect and by his Courtly and Gallant behaviour did win much on the affections of the Infanta and the Articles of the Marriage were agreed upon but the Pope protracting time and there being no hope of the Restitution of the Palatinate which was one of the gratest occasion of his Journey having desired leave to return he with much danger arrived at Portsmouth on the fifth day of October 1623. The treaty with Spain being not now likely to proceed it was now thought fit to negotiate a Marriage with the Princes Hennaretta Mariah the youngest daughter of France which in the yeer 1624. was carrion by the Earle of Holland and afterwards concluded by the Earl of Carlile and King Iames did seem to be exceedingly well pleased with it An. Dom. 1624 On the yeer following March the seventh King Iames died at Thebalds and immediately afterwards Prince Charles was Proclaimed at the Court Gate King of Great Brittain France and Ireland The Funeralls of the deceased King were celebrated on the seventh of May and presently afterwards were the Espousals of King Charles with the Lady Hennaretta Mariah who on the twelfth of Iune landed at Dover the King being then at Canterbury did meet her the next day at Dover His first complement unto her was that he would be no longer master of himself then he was a servant to her And this love he continued to the last houre of his life for on the day before his unfortunate end his daughter the Lady Elizabeth with the Duke of Yorke being with much adoe permitted to come unto him he desired the Lady Elizabeth to assure her mother if ever she again did see her that his thoughts had never strayed from her and that his affections should be the same to the last On the Thursday following they came from Gravesend to Whitehall with a very great company of Lords and Ladies and the Great Guns from the Ships and the Tower of London did thunder forth their gratulations as shee passed by them On Saturday the eightenth of Iune there was a Parliament assembled but the plague growing hot it was adjourned to Oxford where the King did put them in minde as before of necessity of putting forth his Fleet the in pursuance of the war in which they had ingaged his father but the began now to quarrell at the greatnesse of the Duke of Buckingham and laid something to his charge in reference to the death of his father whereupon the King expecting monies to advance the affaires of the
king made such a stay in Cornwal that before he could return to Oxford the Earle of Essex was again in the head of an army seconded by the Earl of Manchester and Sir William Waller and at Neubery again there was a very hot incounter in which both sides drew off by degrees and the Parliaments side had the better of it Prince Rupert having marched from Latham house to York some certain moneths before there was a terrible fight at Marshon Moore between the army of the prince Rupert and the forces of the parliament where multitudes being slain there was three thousand taken prisoners twenty pieces of Ordnance and a considerable number of Officers not long afterwards York was surrendred and Colonel Brown at Abingdon performed remarkable service An. Dom. 1645 On the first of Ianuary 1645. Sir Iohn Hotham was executed on the Tower-hill for betraying his trust and on the next day his son followed the same fortune On the tenth of Ianuary the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury voted guilty of High Treason was brought unto the Scaffold on Tower-hill where his head at one blow was severed from his shoulders by the hands of the executioner The town of Taunton held out gallantly against the Kings party Pomferat was relieved by Sir Marmaduke Langdale the Treaty at Uxbridge took no effect the Earl of Essex being thought to be too mild the Lord Fairfax is made Captain General of the Parliaments forces in the mean time the kings force who had taken the field not long before do range up and down the countreys and having relieved Chester they faced Leicester and presently after began to storm it the Kings Canons playing upon the town a whole day and a night many breaches were made and the contestation was carryed on with much resolution on both sides in some breaches they came to the push of pike on Saturday they entred the town where much treasure was taken and in hot blood many were put to the sword Sir Thomas Fairfax who as I have said was wholly made General in the place of the Earl of Essex hearing this advanced from Gilling to Naseby where observing great bodies of horse to appear on the hils neer Harborough he ordered the army to randezvouse neer to Naseby to which places the royal army made their approches Saturday the fourteenth of Iune both armies ingaged the King having the better at the first for Prince Rupert had routed one wing of the Parliaments horse and followed the chace at Maston Moor so unadvisedly that he left the whole body of the foot open to the other wing who giving them a gallant charge did put the whole army to an absolute rout and made themselves masters of the kings Camp carriage and canon and of his Cabinet also where many letters were found which the Parliament afterwards published After this Leicester was immediately reduced and General Fairfax marching into the West defeated the Lord Goring and became master of all the Garrisons in the West and for a conclusion of all had the City of Bristol surrendred unto him at the same time there being no hope of relief Pomfret and Scarborough and Carlile and some other Garrisons in the North did yield themselves unto the mercy of the Parliament and Bazing house which a long time had been besieged was stormed and taken by Lieutenant General Cromwel A great defeat was given to the Lord Hopton at Torrington and the same fortune attended Sir Marmaduke Langdale at Sherburn all being lost in the west the prince of Wales found the opportunity to conveigh himself into France The King marching toward Chester which was then besieged by Sir William Berton and Colonel Iones was persued in the way and charged in the front by the besiegers routed at Bouton heath where the Lord Bernard Stuart was killed upon the place the last of the three brethren that had lost their lives in their princes quarrel After this the King returned to Oxford and was so much incensed against his two Nephews prince Rupert and Maurice for delivering up such places of great importance in the west the loss of Bristow did most of all perplex him who thereupon when prince Rupert and his brother Maurice returned to Oxford did command them to be disarmed and would not suffer them to walk the streets with their swords by their sides as they had done formerly though afterwards they were restored again to all apparances of favour An. Dom. 1646 In the twenty first of March Sir Iacob Astley was beaten at Donnington neer unto Stow in the Wold in the which fight himself was taken prisoner and the kings hopes quite lost Wherefore on the twenty seventh of April he left the City of Oxford in a disguse and on the fourth of May did put himself into the hands of the Scots at Newark who carrid him to Newcastle which occasioned the surrender of Oxford to the Lord Fairfax on the twenty fourth of Iune following On the fifteenth of Iuly prince Rupert went for France and prince Maurice to the Hague In the midst of August or thereabouts the Scots sold the King for the sum of two hundred thousand pounds in ready money the Commissioners sent by the House to receive him did bring him to Holmby On the fourteenth of September the Earl of Essex died An. Dom. 1647 In the moneth of February the Scots abandoned Newcastle and the Parliament voted the Army to disband those onely excepted who were reserved for the subduing of Ireland there began now to be some contestations in the House betwixt the Presbyterian and Independant party and the Parliament began to find that they had not the Army so much at their devotion as they conceived On the fourth of Iune Cornet Ioyce carried away the king from Holmby and brought him to Newmarket on the twenty eighth of Iune he was brought to Hatfield and from thence to Causam where after much importunity his children were permitted to come unto him at whose sight he was very joyful On the seventh of August the Lord Fairfax and his victorious Army did ride in triumph through the City of London a little before this there were eleven of the members of parliament impeached and Major General Massey and Colonel Poyntz abandoning the guarding of the City did fly over into Holland From Casam Lodge the King was removed to Hampton Court where being terrified with the apprehension of some dangers he put himself into the power of Col. Hammond in the Isle of Wight who secured him in Carisbrook Castle during his restraint in this place he wrote that excellent Book intituled Icon Basilicon Propositions were here sent unto him by both Houses of Parliament as had been before at Newcastle and Holmby house to which he returned the same answer as he did then An. Dom. 1648 The Parliament voted on the third of Ianuary that no more addresses should be made unto his Majesty February the twenty first Iudge Lenkins was brought unto the Bar of the House
into that liberty which I speak of they will never certainly enjoy themselves Sirs it was for this that I am hither come for if I would have given way to an arbitrary power that is to have all laws changed according to the power of the sword I needed not to have come here and therefore I tell you and I pray to God it be not laid to your charge that I am the Martyr of the people Introth sirs I should not hold you any longer I will onely say this to you that I could have desired some little time longer because I would put this which I have said in a little better order and have had it a little better digested then I have now done and therefore I hope you will excuse me I have now delivered my conscience and I pray God you take those courses that are best for the good of the kingdome and your own salvations Doctor Juxon Although it be very well known what your Majesties affections are to Religion yet because it may be expected that you should speak something to give satisfaction to the world therein I must beseech your Majesty to declare your self in that particular King I thank you heartily my Lord for this remembrance I had almost forgotten it in troth Sirs my conscience in religion is already as I think well known to all the world and therefore I declare before you all that I die a Christian according to the profession of the Church of Engl. as I found it left unto me by my Father and pointing to the Bishop of London this I do believe that this honest man will witnesse with me Then turning to the Officers he said Excuse me for the same I have a good Cause and a gracious God I will say no more On this the Bishop of London said unto him There is but one stage more this stage is full of noise and tumult it is but a short one but you may consider it will soon carry you from earth to heaven and there you will find an abundance of unrepented joy and comfort To this the King replied I passe from a corruptible to an incorruptible Crown where there is no disturbance no disturbance in the world The Bishop melting into tears assured him that he was exchanged from a temporall to an eternall crown a good exchange After this the King putting his hair under his cap after some short and fervent ejaculations in private with his hands and eyes lift up to heaven immediately stooped down and laid his neck upon the block and the King perceiving the Executioner prepared and armed to give the fatal blow said unto him Stay for the signe and after a very little pause stretching forth his hands the executioner at one blow severed his head from his body and even his enemies wept in private for what they had done in publick His body was put into a coffin covered with black velvet and carried from thence to his house at Saint Iamses where being embalmed and wrapped up in a sheet of lead it was exposed to the view of the people On Wednesday the 7 of Feb. his body was delivered to two of his servants to be buried at Windsor where the next day the Bishop of London the Duke of Richmond the Marquess of Hartford and the Earls of Lindsey and Southampton repaired and buried him in a vault in St. Georges Chappel it being the same vault where Henry the eight had beene heretofore interred The Life and death of Oliver Cromwel Lord Protector OLiver Cromwell was born in the town of Huntingdon he was descended from the family of the Williams in the Coun. of Glamorgan one whereof marrying with the onely child and daughter of the Lord Cromwell raised and beheaded by Henry the Eight the whole Family afterwards retained the Name of Cromwell which was thought more Honourable In the month of August 1649. Six moneths after the decease of King Charles Oliver Cromwell being chosen by the Parliament to be Governor of Ireland advanced into that Nation with a very gallant Army of Horse and Foot where having taken and besieged Dogheda by degrees became absolute master of that whole Nation In the same year Doctor Dorislaus who assisted at King Charles his death being sent as Agent into the Low Countreys was killed at the Hagne and Mr. Acham being not long afterwards sent as an Agent into Spain was killed at Madrid In the year 1650. the Common-wealth of England preparing to make war against the Scots Oliver Cromwell who for his many great services in the wars of England was made Lieutenant General was now chosen to be Generallissimo of the Armies of the Common-wealth of England in the place of the Lord Fairfax This year in the moneth of September was the famous battell of Dunbar where the English having totally overthrown the Scots did take ten Collonels 12 Lieutenant-collonels 9 Majors 47 Captains 72 Lientenants and eighty Ensignes two and twenty great Gunns and arms for fifteen thousand men In the same moneth Edenburgh and Leith were taken Col Eusebius Andrews being discovered to bring over Commissions to raise souldiers for the King of Scotland was condemned for it and beheaded on Tower hill Much about the same time Generall Blake at sea did ruine Prince Ruperts Fleet. In the year 1651. the Armes of the Crown of England were put down by order of Parliament and the Statues of King Chales were put down one of them at the old Exchange and the other at the west end of Pauls This year the Lord Saint Iohn and Mr. Walter Strickland were sent Ambassadors into Holland where they were much affronted by the English Royalists The Isle of Scilly was reduced and one Brown Bushell was beheaded at London a famous Royalist both by sea and land This year M. Love and Mr. Gibbons were beheaded on Tower-hill In the moneth of August the King of Scotland with an army of twelve thousand men did enter into England by the way of Carlile and on the third of September following was the battel at Worcester where the King of Scotland being over-powred lost the day where there were taken six Collonels of horse eight of foot thirty seven Captains of hoâ—se seventy three of foot seventy â—â—x Standards ninty nine Ensignes one hundred fifty and eight Colours all the Canon the Royall Standard the Kings coach and horses the King himself made an escape strangely and in a disguise passed unknown into France This yeare the Isle of Iersie was taken and the Isle of Man reduced and not long afterwards the strong castle of Gâ—ernsey was surrendred to the Paâ—liament In the moneth of May 1652. was the first Sea-fight betwixt the Engglish and the Hollanders Generall Blake gave the first volley and let flie three guns at Van-trumps flag to which Van-trump answered by a shot from the stern of his ship backwards signifying his disdain to veyl his flag and instead of striking his main top-saile he caused a red flag of
thousand and five hundred were taken prisoners and six men of war were sunk the English pursued their victory to the very mouth of the Texell and blocked up the Hollanders in their own ports In the mean time on the beginning of July Gen. Cromwell called another Parliament which by reason of the sudden and unexpected dissolution of it was called the short Parliament On the latter end of this moneth there was a memorable fight betwixt the Dutch and the English during the time of a treaty betwixt both Nations this battel was fought with admirable resolution on both sides The fight began in the evening which though but short was very smart The Dutch in the night-time being recruited with five and twenty gallant ships did fall of themselves the next morning on the English fleet with a great deal of gallantry and resolution In this fight Admirall Van-trump was slain there were twenty men of War of the Hollanders sunk or burnt in this fight Of the English there were slaine outright eight Captains and five hurt the Triumph and the Andrew two Frigots were sorely put to it and received great dammage in their sails and rigging The Hollanders seeing so great a number of their ships lost did face about and did bear away with al the sail they could make unto the Texell and the Engl. not judging it expedient to ingage too far upon them did set saile with the whole Fleet towards Yarmouth to dispose of such ships as were disabled and to put their wounded men on shore The Paâ—liament before mentioned being conceived too weak to go on with the management of the great and high affairs of State it was dissolved on the 12 of Decemb. following And presently afterward the Lord G. Cromwell was declared sworn Lord Protector of the Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland at Westminster in the presence of all the Judges the Barons of the Exchecquer and the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the city of London At this time certain Articles were presented which he took a solemn oath according to his custome to see them kept protesting moreover that he would mind nothing so much as the good of the Common-wealth and the glory of God Presently after this he was proclaimed Protector at the Palace-yard in Westminster and at the old Exchange by the Lord Mayor His Highness being now where he would be desired to know the affections of the people A report was raised that a great part of the army was discontented at his inauguration unto his new dignities whereupon the disaffected in severall counties thinking to joyn with them did take up arms and finding the succourse promised and expected to stand out against them they cryed out they were betrayed and most of them being taken were sent to forreign plantations On this account Sir Henry Slingsby was taken prisoner in York-shire beheaded afterwards upon another account of the same nature M. Penruddock M. Luces M. Thorpe M. Kensey M. Graves who cryed out much against Sir Ioseph Wagstaffe were condemned and executed in Wiltshire Much about the same time Mr. Peter Vowel was hanged at Charing-cross and on the same monday M. Iohn Gerrard and the brother to the Portugall Ambassadour were beheaded on Tower-hill On the third of September another Parliament was assembled which was dissolved again on the January following This year the Marquess of Leda came over in a magnificent manner as an Ambassadour from Spain but his Highness at that time having no desire to make any alliance with Spain did conclude a peace with the Crown of France This year on the latter end of December a gallant Fleet under the command of Generall Pen and Generall Venables did put forth to sea who on the tenth of May following arrived at Iamaica the design having miscarryed as Sancto Domingo in Hispaniola On the fifth of April the articles of peace were signed and delivered on the behalf of the two Nations of England and Holland the Protector to testifie his joy did most sumptuously intreat the Holland Ambassadours This year the Highlanders in Scotland disdaining the subjection of Generall Middleton but Generall Monk falling into the North of Scotland did give them so full a charge on the latter end of July that he absolutely defeated them and made them incapable of ever appearing in arms again An. Dom. 1655 This year his Highness constituted Major Generals for the preservation of the peace of the Common-wealth in the respective Counties of this Nation whose power appearing to be of too great a latitude they were afterwards disinvested of it The Lord Bulstrode Whitlock was sent Ambassadour into Sweden where he entred into a close league with that nation Generall Blake arriving with his fleet at Sunis sent unto the Governour of the place to demand satisfaction for some English ships which the pirats in those parts had taken away which being denied he came with the Vice-admirall and Rear-admirall within musket shot of the Castle on which he incessantly fired and on the other forts whilest the other ships took the opportunity to fire part of the Turkish Navy then riding in the Haven This was so well performed that in four hours space nine great vessels were burnt down to the very keels the English losing but five and twenty men and five and forty wounded Hereupon the King of Tunis sought to the English for peace and restored the prisoners which Blake had demanded for little or nothing The Lord Willougby of Parham the Lord Newport Mr. Seamor and M. Newport were sent to the Tower upon the suspition of a new Conspiracy His Highness going into S. Iamses Park for his recreation had his coach ready for him which was drawn with six Flanders horses he undertook to drive the coach himself but the horses impatient of his command did flie forth and threw him out of the coach-box on the ground being much hurt and bruised Not long afterwards his eldest son had a fal from his horse and did break his leg of which he still goes lame His Highness sent twelve good men of War well manned and well provided with all necessaries to Iameica with Colonel Humpheries Regiment not long afterwards Gene. Pen and after him General Venables arrived from Iameica who had not the same countenance from his Highness as when they did put forth to sea In the yeer 1656 Seven Spanish Ships comming from Lime in the Indies most richly laded were incountred in the way by Generall Montague about nine leagues from Cadis The fight was violent and the rather because it was known with what mettall the Ships of Spayn were laded In the fight the fortune of England easily prevailed there was one Ship burned another sunk two were taken and two run a ground one got away with a Portugall prize In the ship that was burned was Marquess of Budex his wife and one daughter In another of the Ships that were taken was the young Marques his brother and a sister
in Art or Wealth or Industry to render it illustrious On Tuesday November 23. the Effigies with all the solemnity and Pageantry that could be was brought in a stately Charriot from Somerset house to Westminster Abby and that day and many weeks afterwards the people in great multitudes came to behold it and with their hats off did reverence to it in the same place where before the Alter stood in the Temple of God but this blind superstition had its period in the moneth of May following at the time of the restauration of the long Parliament who having taken away the power from the son might well pull down the image of his Father Not long afterwards his Highness was advised by his Counsel to choose a Parliament it being conceived to be the onely way to establish himself in the affections of the people Writs therefore were issued for a free Parliament which met on the seven and twentieth of Ianuary next enâ—â—ing where the death of the two speakers Mr. Chalonel Cruse a person of admirable knowledge and integrity and Mr. Lisâ—ehoâ—e Long Recorder of London weâ—e the forerunners of the short life of that Parliament and of the short government of the Protector himself In this Parliament the Lady Mary Hewyt sister to the Earl of Lindsey and the Relict of Doctor Iohn Hewyt not long before beheaded petitioned the grand Committee of the whole House for grievances against the High Court of Justice for taking away the life of her deer husband but some Members of the House of Parliament who were present at the reading of it did declare themselves to be concerned in it and alledged that it was the priviledge of a Member of Parliament not to be petitioned against any where nor to seek redress from any Court but from the Parliament it self the Petition therefore was returned from her to the Committee with that intimation After this and several other Petions of a high nature for unjustly apprehending and detaining men Prisoners in the Tower and for the bannishing and the selling of several Gentlemen to the Barbadoes for slaves for which Serjeant Maeynerd was ordered to bring in a Bill for prevention of the like Tyranny in the future the accounts of the Common-wealth was called for and a Committee being appointed to examine them it was found that in the last five years the Common-wealth was much in arrears and by the ill mannagement of those who were intrusted with the receipts and disbursements of the money they were run in debt no less than five and twenty hundred thousand pounds At the last some transactions in the Army being taken into consideration and it being voted that all Officers of the Army should repair to their several charges and that they should hold no meeting during the sitting of Parliament but by the consent oâ— the Protector and both Houses and that none should be in office but such onely as world subscribe not to interrupt either house of Parliament in their proceedings it wrought so much upon the spirits of some of the Commanders that not long afterwards the Parliament was dissolved and a period given to the Government of the Protectorship THE RESTAURATION Of the Long PARLIAMENT THe long Parliament being dissolved in the year 1653. by the Lord Oliver Cromwel were now encouraged by the Lord Fleetwood and many other of the Commanders to return to exercise of their former power and promised the uttermost assistance of the Army therein and accordingly on the seventh of May 1659. some forty of them or thereabouts did meet in the painted Chamber from whence having the Mace carried before them they passed into the house where a Declaration was passed that all such as shall be imployed in any place of power in the Common-wealth be persons fearing God and faithful to the Common-wealth After this they chose a Counsel of State consisting for the most part of their own Members There being at the same time many Members of the same Parliament in London and some of them in the Hall they endeavoured to go up into the House but were not permitted by the Souldery amongst these Members was Sir George Booth who being of a high spirit and discontented at it did speak some words very hastily which as rashly afterwards he did put in practise The Parliament removed Col. Berkstead from being Leiutenant of the Tower many Petitions and complaints being preferred against him and Col. Fitz was chosen to supply his place A pardon was pulished for the most part of whatsoever had been acted from the interruption of the Parliament in April 1659. until the new convention of them on the ninth of may 1659. In the Moneth of Iune Leiu General Fleetwood was made Commander in chief of all the forces in England and Scotland the Lord Henry Cromwel was removed from his command in Ireland and Commissioners were appointed to govern that Nation in his place The Militia of the City of London and of the respective countries were revived and the Commissioners for the Militia of the three Nations were signed and delivered by the Speaker of the Parliament and ordered so to continue In the month of Iuly there was a whisper throughout the Nation that now was the time for a free Parliament and for the taking off the Taxes from the shoulders of the oppressed whereupon there began to be a general insurrection almost all England over but it was quickly supposed by the vigilance and the industry of the County Troops The insurrection which was most great and dangerous was in the Northwest of England where in the Counties of Lancashire and Cheshire and parts adjoyning Sir George Booth had drawn together an Army of four thousand persons some of them both Commanders and others having been actually in the service of the King of Scotland and the King his Father against these the Lord Lambert marched with an Army consisting of about seven thousand horse and foot and having given them a great rout at Winnington bridge he totally dispersed them Sir George Booth was taken afterwards at Newport Pagnel being disguised in the habit of a Lady from whence being sent to London with a strong guard he was enâ—ounterd in the way by a party of Colonel Hackers Regiment who did conveigh him prisoner to the Tower of London where for the present he continueth having been oftentimes examined by Sir Arthur Hazelrige Sir Henry Vane and others A Proclamation was agreed upon that if Iohn Mordant Esquire Son to the Earl of Peterborough Major General Massy Charles Stuart Earl of Litchfield of the family of the Duke of Ritchmond Sir Thomas Leventhop Knight William Compton Son to the Earl of Northampton Thomas Fanshaw son to Sir Thomas Fanshaw Knight and Major General Brown do not render themselves to the Parliament upon the seventeenth of September or to the Counsel of State they shall be accounted guilty of the treasonable crimes that are charged against which time is not expired at the ending of this History it being Thursday September 8. in the year 1659. To begin the year the Army submitted to the Parliament who sate again at Wewminster the nine Commanders whose Commissions were made void on the twelfth of Octob. were all commanded to depart to their houses most remote from London if otherwise they were found to stay there to be secured Sir Henry Vane was required to go to his house at Raby in the County of Durham and Major Salloway was committed prisoner to the Tower General Monck being on his march to London according to the desire of Parliament Mr. Scot and Mr. Luke Robinson were sent to congratulate him the Parliament conferred on him for his remarkable service a thousand pound a year and the Lord Mayor called a Common-Counsel where it was ordered that three of their Members should be sent unto him to acquaint him how sensible they were of the great service which he had performed for the good of the City and Common-wealth for which they were resolved at his coming to the City to give him some testimony of their gratitude On the eighteenth of this moneth the Parliament resolved upon Commissioners for the great seal and Judges of the several Courts of Justice in Westminster Hall as also of Judges for the Court of Admiralty and for the probate of Wills The City of Excester and Count of Devonshire have declared for the recelling of the Members that were secluded in the year 1648. which on wednesday last was delivered by Mr. Bamphield recorder of Excester to Mr. Speaker and it is informed that other Counties are adjoyning with them in a petition to the same effect The End