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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44622	Caroloiades, or, The rebellion of forty one in ten books : a heroick poem.	Howard, Edward, fl. 1669.	1689 (1689)	Wing H2966; ESTC R17386	122,140	396

P●…ons as are most 〈◊〉 in Story i i● this a● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of this Poem so to be understood that Prolixity may be avoided in repeating of proper Maines a Sir George Loer a Gallant Gentleman then Major to the Regiment of Col. Thomas Howard since Earl of Berks Slain in this Battle b That the Lord Dencourt was found Dead as is here describ'd is known from History * By which is intimated both the Heroick end of this Gallant Person and the Noble T●tle of Baron of Lansdown given to his Posterity by King Charles 〈◊〉 Second * A Large Borrough-Town in the Middle of Wiltshire a A Lordship that did belong to the Earl and therefore speciously Nominated by Waller the better to disguise his intended design b By the Author of this Poem Personally observ'd he being in Arms all the time of that Western Expedition * One Pierce an Inhabitant of the Devises who discover'd to t●● Lord Hopton where for some time he had hidden Powder * Call'd from the Village Adjacent Round-way-Hill or Down but since by way of Joque call'd Run-away-Hill Alluding to the confused flight of the Rebels there * Hazelrig a Zealous Republican * The reason for Introducing this Character is so fully give●… in the Third Book as it needs not be here repeated * By whose Conduct Glocester was preserv'd tho' afterwards he had cause to repent it being persecuted by his own Party for not complying with their Antimonarchical Designs if not suspected to have remorse of Conscience for opposing of his Sovereign * By whose Character I suppose the Reader may judge that the Infamous Hugh Peter who may not be improperly termed the most Artificial Canter of that time 's Pulpit-Traytors was Intended 〈◊〉 he has the Authors consent so to understand this Nominal * By which is Intimated the Attacque that was given by the Kings Cavalry Commanded by Prince Rupert to my Lord of Essex his Army marching to relieve Glocester near Stow an open Part of that Countrey * A very Important Remark the Earl having left his Army in a Strait in Cornwall he took Shipping for London and left Skippon behind him to Treat for the Army of which the Infantry had Terms leaving Arms behind them their Horse having broken through one Wing of the Kings Army These very men fought resolutely above others soon after at the Second Newberry Fight as is intimated here and in Fight were heard to express their desire to revenge the Kings success in Cornwall * Their self-denying Ordinance so call'd because it allow'd no person of either House to have Military Command tho' purposely form'd to lay aside the Earl of Essex and some others 〈◊〉 him notwithstanding which Cromwell was so favour'd as by particular dispensation to serve under Fairfax * This manner of Gallantry in Lyle as a brave Incouragement to Militants whom he commanded at the sight above mention'd was observ'd by many and lest it should not have an Honourable Record from History is here mention'd * In which as some write were kill'd on both fides Nine Thousand Men. * That some Numbers of Walloons were entertained by the 41 Parliament for their Military ●ervice is well known to all that are acquainted with that Time. * A Remarkable Parasite and Traytor as he is de●●ri●●d in the Third Book of this Poem * Call'd Aurora by Poetical denomination * The ●arl of Lindsey Lord Ashly Noble Collonel Russel all then Eminent Commanders under King Charles the First * A Method in all the Martial parts of this Poem chiefly observ'd to avoid a prolix mention of Proper Names the Clogs of Poetry and are more properly enumerated by Historical relations * He was Major-General to the Parliament Army as is mention'd before in this Poem and he was no less a knowing Commander then valiant in Person * A Noble accomplish'd Person now living who Gallantly ●●fended that Town against all Opposers * Said to have been a Taylor by Profession * That the King by his touch did cure some persons that were brought to him being Infirm as above-mention'd during his Imprisonment in the Isle of Wight was cr●…ly Reported * Duke Hambleton who before had been for some Miscarriages of his or doubted Loyalty Imprison'd by the King at Pendennis-Castle and being after freed march'd into England in the year 1648 and was taken and beheaded soon after by the Impious High-Court of Justice which wicked Tribunal had first Sentenced to death K. Charles the First * The Earl of Holland who as the Chief Commander Rose with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●f Buckingham 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Ld. ●rancis who was k●●d in that Action and other Persons of Quality * This referrs for want of other Room in this Poem to the Tryalls of these two Peers before the then pretended High Court of Justice which was Subsequent to the death of King Charles the First when Goring Earl of Norwich was sav'd as was thought by the favour of Lenthall Speaker to the ●arliamentary Usurpers but the other the Lord Capell Sentenc'd to death whose Heroick Speech and End is well known to Story * A Famous Commander under Julius Caesar highly renown'd in Story for his extraordinary Atchievements and Fortitude at his death to whom Heroick Lucas may be deservedly parallel'd * Where King Charles the Second soon after his Restauration in 〈◊〉 of their Memory erected a stately Monument 〈◊〉 A Castle in the Isle of Wight in which the King was then in Prison and had been there Restrain'd by Hammond for several Months before * This Heinous Traytor had been employ'd by some of the Army to Pistoll the King in Carisbro ●k-Castle where he was restrain'd but as ●e endeavour'd to make two Gentlemen his Assistants that there ●…en'ed on the King he was discover'd and accus'd by them but 〈◊〉 that wicked Time ●ound favour enough to save him from death contrary to his demerit * At Preston in Lancashire where Duke Hambleton was defeated by Cromwell in the year 1648. * Which Noble Gentleman was said to be kill'd by the Secret Intimation of Cromwell to his Souldiers when he might have sav'd his Life * At which place Cromwell having formerly seiz'd the King by his Contrivance at Holmby where he was kept and attended by Commissioners of the then Parliament he solemnly engaged a● Redding to restore him Insomuch as this afflicted Prince said openly if Cromwell had a Soul he should be restor'd to his Throne * The Devill who in the shape of a dead friend more to Insin●ate his Execrable Delusion and Temptation is thus suppos'd to have appear'd to Cromwell * Poetically taken for the God of Winds and by the subsequent Verses is here Intentionally describ'd the prodigious Tempest at the death of this horrible Usurper * Which was held with the King in the Isle of Wight by Commissioners from the Houses notwithstanding which hi● 〈◊〉 was 〈◊〉 in the time of treaty by the force of the Army * The Painted Chamber in Westminster the usual place for Parliamentary Conferences * The very wicked Expression that Harrison was 〈◊〉 with at his Tryal when Condemn'd for this Ex●●rabl● Treas●● * Queen Elizabeth * King Edward the Last of the Saxon Monarchs and for his Holiness of Life Sirnam'd the Confessor * Feign'd by Poets the Judge of Hell and may in some sort resemble Bradshaw President of this wicked Court. * Wife to the Lord Fairfax General of the Army * Who for the most part were the meanest of their party and of Low Extraction * To which purpose the Queen sent a Letter to Lenthall the then Speaker of the pretended House of Commons