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A96278	Englands Iliads in a nut-shell. Or, A briefe chronologie of the battails, sieges, conflicts, and other most remarkable passages from the beginning of this rebellion, to the 25. of March, 1645.	Wharton, George, Sir, 1596-1672.	1645 (1645)	Wing W1544; Thomason E1182_3; ESTC R208159	28,009	48

best thing in it selfe for the beeter the thing is in nature the worse it is corrupted And that being the highest Court over which no other hath jurisdiction when t is mis-informed or mis-governed the Subject is left without all remedy But I have done I forgive all the world all and every of those bitter Enemies which have persecuted me and humbly desire to be forgiven of God first and then of every man whether I have offended him or not if he do but conceive that I have Lord doe thou forgive me and I beg forgivenesse of him And so I heartily desire you to joyne in Prayer with me O Eternall God and mercifull Father look down upon me in mercy in the riches and fulnes of all thy mercies look upon me but not till thou hast nailed my sins to the Crosse of Christ not till thou hast bathed me in the bloud of Christ not till I have hid my self in the wounds of Christ that so the punishment due unto my sinnes may passe over me And since thou art pleased to try me to the uttermost I humbly beseech thee give me now in this great instant full patience proportionable comfort and a heart ready to dye for thy honour the King's happinesse and this Churches preservation And my zeale to these far from Arrogancy be it spoken is all the sinne humane frailties excepted and all incidents thereto which is yet known to me in this particular for which I now come to suffer I say in this particular of Treason but otherwise my sins are many and great Lord pardon them all and those especially what ever they are which have drawn down this present judgement upon me and when thou hast given me strength to beare it doe with me as seems best in thine owne eyes and carry me through death that I may look upon it in what visage soever it shall appear to me Amen And that there may be a stop of this issue of bloud in this more then miserable Kingdome I shall desire that I may pray for the people too as well as for my selfe O Lord I beseech thee give grace of repentance to all Bloud-thirsty people but if they will not repent O Lord confound all their devices defeat and frustrate all their designes and endeavours upon them which are or shall be contrary to the Glory of thy great Name the truth and sincerity of Religion the establishment of the King and his posterity after him in their just rights and Priviledges the honour and conservation of Parliaments in their just power the preservation of this poore Church in her truth peace and patrimony and the settlement of this distracted and distressed People under their ancient Lawes and in their native Liberties And when thou hast done all this in meere mercy for them O Lord fill their hearts with thankefulnesse and with religious dutifull obedience to thee and thy Commandements all their dayes So Amen Lord Jesus Amen and receive my Soule into thy Bosome Amen Our Father which art in heaven c. Jan. 11. Sir Henry Gage Governour of Oxford marched thence with a party of horse and foot towards Abingdon with intention to raise a Fort at Cullom bridge but Browne having treacherous notice of the design was prepared accordingly which begat a hot skirmish wherein the Rebels lost Major Bradbury and at least 30 others slaine and on his Majesties part not above 7. common souldiers but by great misfortune Sir Hen Gage himselfe marching in the front of his men did here receive a fatal shot whereof within few hours after he dyed His Body was afterwards interred at Oxford with funebrious exequies and solemnities answerable to his merits who having done His Majesty speciall service was whilst living generally beloved and dead is still universally lamented His daily refreshed memory makes me trespasse on the Readers patience with this ELEGIE Vpon the never-enough lamented death of Sir HEN GAGE the most desired Governour of Oxford SO Titus called was The worlds delight And straight-way dy'd The envious Sisters spight Still the great favourite The darling head Unto the Fates is alwayes forfeited Our Life 's a Chase where though the whole Herd fly The goodlyest Deere is singled out to dye And as in beasts the fattest ever bleeds So amongst men he that doth bravest deeds He might have liv'd had but a coward feare Kept him securely sculking in the reare Or like some sucking Colonell whose edge Durst not advance a foot from a thick hedge Or like the wary Skippon had so sure A suit of Armes he might besieg'd endure Or like the politick Lords of different skill Who thought a Saw-pit safer or a hill Whose valour in two organs too did lye Distinct the ones in 's eare th' others in his eye Puppets of War Thy name shall be divine And happily augment the number Nine But that the Heroes and the Muses strive To owne thee dead who wert them all alive Such an exact composure was in thee Neither exceeded Mars nor Mercurie T was just though hard thou shouldst dye Governour Of th' Kings chiefe Fort of Learning and of War Thy death was truly for thy Garrison Thou dy'dst projecting her Redemption What unto Basing twice successefull spirit Was done th' hast effected here in merit The Bridge was broken downe The Fort alone GAGE was himselfe the first and the last stone Goe burne thy Faggots Browne and grieve thy Rage Lets thee out live the gentle grasp of GAGE And when thou read'st in thy Britanicus The boasted story of his death say thus The Valour I have shewne in this was Crime And GAGES Death will brand me to all Time In this moneth a faire new Ship called the John of London belonging to the East-India Merchants was brought to Bristol by the loyalty of Captain Mucknell and the rest of the Officers and Mariners of the Ship for His Majesties service wherein were 26. Peeces of Ordnance mounted 17000. l. in money besides some other good commodities For which good service the said Captaine Mucknell had the honour to be the first Knight that ever the Prince of Wales made And within a few dayes after another Ship called The Fame of London of burthen 450. Tunnes with 28. Peeces of Ordnance mounted was by Tempest forced into Dartmouth where she was seized on for His Majesties service as lawfull prize being bound for Dover or London This Ship had been abroad 4 yeares and was now returning homewards from the West-Indies laden with Bullion Oyle Couchaneille and other rich commodities to the value of 40000. l. at least Jan. 30. The Treaty began at Uxbridge wherein the candour of His Majesties reall intentions and desires of Peace was very perspicuous For His Majesty did not only arme his Commissioners or any ten of them with a very large and powerfull Commission to treat of conclude and settle a firme Peace in all His Dominions but did also by Proclamation appoint a solemne Fast on the 5. day of February

then next for a blessing on that Treaty with a Forme of Common-Prayer set forth by His Majesties speciall command to be used in all Churches and Chappels within this Kingdome One of which Prayers drawne by His Majesties special direction and dictate I here afford the Reader THE PRAYER O Most mercifull Father Lord God of Peace and Truth we a People sorely afflicted by the scourge of an unnaturall Warre doe here earnestly beseech Thee to command a Blessing from Heaven upon this present Treaty begun for the establishment of an happy Peace Soften the most obdurate hearts with a true Christian desire of saving those mens blood for whom Christ himselfe hath shed His Or if the guilt of our great sinnes cause this Treaty to break off in vaine Lord let the Truth clearly appeare who those men are which under pretence of the Publick good doe pursue their owne private ends that this People may be no longer so blindly miserable as not to see at least in this their Day the things that belong unto their Peace Grant this gracious God for his sake who is our Peace it selfe even Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Feb. 9. Sir Walter Hastings Governour of Portland Castle for His Majesty took the great Fort at Weymouth and within two dayes after Sir Lewis Dives took the middle Fort and Towne of Weymouth and in a skirmish there slew Major Sydenham a forward Rebell with some others This Towne and Forts were not many dayes held by His Majesties Forces but were as unfortunately lost as happily gained Feb. 15. Rowdon house neere Chippenham in Willshire after 9 dayes siege was taken by His Majesties Forces and in it 120 good Horse above 200 Foot with their Armes and Provisions Col Stevens the Mock-Sheriffe of Gloucestershire 6 Captaines and above 20 inferiour Officers all at mercy Feb. 20 The Lord Macguire an Irish Baron was executed by the common hangman at Tyburne by command of the Members at Westminster In the history of which execution recorded in many of their owne Pamphlets written then and upon that subject the Reader may observe two Questions asked by Master Gibbs one of the Sheriffes of London and answered by that Lord the very instant before his death The first was Whether he knew of any Commission the King had granted to the Irish Rebels for the commotion they had raised in their countrey he answered That he never knew nor heard of any The second was Whether there was not some agreement made by the Irish Commissioners before the Rebellion first brake out with the Recusants of England he answered That to his knowledge there was never an one in England either Catholique or Protestant that knew of it but one and he was an Irish-man and a Protestant and he came to the knowledge of it but by chance not as he was an actor in it Out of which and out of that delivered by the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury on the Scaffold immediately before his death the world may evidently see His Majesty irrefragably cleared by two acts of the Rebels owne cruelty from two of the most scandalous aspersions by which the malice of these forging Rebels hath from time to time endeavoured to make His sacred Majesty odious to his people Salutem ex inimicis nostris may the King well say seeing his enemies actions turned to his justification quite contrary to their intendments The first was an imagined inclination in His Majesty to Popery The second a pretended commissionating of the Irish Rebellion In the first the Arch-Bishop of Cant. In this the Lord Macguire both at their very dying houres have rendred His Majesty as innocent as the Rebels intended him odious I say innocent because we know the worst of Rebels cannot but credit those persons especially testifying at such time when they were immediately after to give an account of all their actions to the knower of all hearts Nor can any one beleeve but the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury who was daily conversant with His Majesty in matters of Religion must needs know the very depth of his heart therein And the Lord Macguire who was privy to the first motion of the Irish Rebellion must likewise of necessity have knowne of the Kings Commission if any such thing had been Feb. 22. The Treaty at Uxbridge was broken up though His Majesty sent a particular message and his Commissioners did earnestly desire that the same might be continued In this Treaty His Majesties Commissioners condescended much but those of Westminster would abate nothing of the rigour of their first unheard-of Propositions which was the cause the Treaty took no better effect Feb. 22. The Towne of Shrewsbury was by treachery in the night delivered to Col. Mitton the rebellious Governour of VVem Here you may see the Rebels master-piece in hatching this treacherous plot in the time of Treaty wherein they used the name of Peace onely as a masque for their designes but intended nothing lesse In this Towne the Rebels did most barbarously execute 13. of His Majesties souldiers which his Highnesse Prince Rupert did soone after justly requite lege talionis by hanging up a like number of theirs which he had taken without Quarter given Feb. 25. Sir Marmaduke Langdale routed a great Body of Rebels consisting of at least 1200 Horse and Dragoons commanded by Col Rossiter a Scot neere Melton Mowbray in Leicest shire killed above 30 of them took 46 Prisoners with 4 Colours of horse with the losse of Sir John Girlington a gallant Knight Capt. Gascoigne and not above 6 or 7 common Souldiers on his Majesties part Feb. 25. Colonel Roger Molineux with a party of Horse from Newarke took the Rebels Committee at Wirksworth in Darbyshire where they were gathering contribution viz. Master Wigfall Sir John Gells sonne in law Master Edward Charleton Master Buxton Major Molins Captaine Harstaffe Lieutenant Boteler about 70 Troopers and Dragooners with all their Horse and Armes and 400. l. in money In this action some of the Rebels were killed whereof Master Sellors a busie Sequestrator was one and on His Majesties part onely one man lost Feb 26. Sir William and Sir Charles Compton Brothers to the noble Earle of Northampton with 300 horse routed 400 of the Rebels horse of Northampton neere Daventry in that County killed 13 wounded many took 36 prisoners with 50 Horse and good store of Armes In the latter end of this month a party of His Majesties Forces from Hereford took Castle-ditch a Garrison of the Rebels on the borders of that County and in it Colonel Hopton the Governour sonne to Sir Richard Hopton his Under-officers above 60 Foot Souldiers with their armes and provisions and some horse March 1. Pontfract Castle that had been long besieged not without much losse to the Rebels by frequent sallyes made by the Defendants and otherwise was relieved by Sir Marmaduke Langdale who there utterly defeated the Lord Fairfax whole Army killed 300 on the place besides many drowned took above 700 Prisoners

ENGLANDS ILIADS IN A NVT-SHELL OR A briefe Chronologie of the Battails Sieges Conflicts and other most remarkable passages from the beginning of this Rebellion to the 25. of March 1645. CICERO Incerti sunt exitus pugnarum Marsque est communis qui saepe spoliantem jam exultantem evertit perculit ab abjecto OXFORD Printed in the Yeare 1645. THE PREFACE Readers YOu have here presented to your view a Little-great Book Little in respect of its bulk but Great in its Contents Wherein the sad effects of a Triennial Rebellion are epitomiz'd with candour and impartiality Herein whoever considers the number of persons slaine the destruction of Houses and Families the desolation of Cities and Townes the increase of Widdowes and Orphanes may easily determine whether Jupiter or Mars whether the white Angel or the black whether Jehova or Abaddon gave beginning to this pretended Parliament and whether hath had the greater influence on their actions who being inspired by a fatall Genius have plotted to bring this late flourishing Kingdome to utter ruine In a word if the representment of the crying guilt of bloud may worke any remorse of conscience in the Rebellious or the evidence of a good cause infuse any encouragement into His Majesties loyall Subjects it is the utmost aime this labour looks to and may happily be a meanes of the continuance of this Work till such time as Almighty God in his goodnesse shall please to set a period to this Rebellion by rewarding it with its due Guerdon by restoring Religion to its genuine purity freed from Sectaries and profanenesse by re-establishing the King in his just rights and prerogatives by re-inforcing the known Laws of the Land freed from Fellow-Subjects Tyranny and Arbitration and by re-estating the Subject in his ancient Liberties freed from Rapine and Plunder Which that wee may quickly see let it be the subject of every good Christians Prayer May 20. 1645. Memorable Occurrences since the beginning of this Rebellion Anno Dom. 1641. IN December 1641. The House of Commons publisht a Remonstrance of the State of the Kingdome therein setting forth all the errors of his Majesties Government a meer designe to alienate the affection of his Subjects from him The tenth of Ianuary following his Majesty with the Queen Prince and Duke of Yorke left White-hall and went to Hampton Court to avoide the danger of those frequent tumults then hazarding the safety of his royall person February the 23. the Queens Majesty took shipping at Dover having been driven before from White-Hall by the frequent tumults of the Rebels And soon after his Majesty went to Newmarket and from thence to Yorke where after the rebels had Guards for 3 monthes before the Gentry of the countrey raised a Guard for his Maiesties person Anno Dom. 1642. MAY the 20. it was voted by both Houses That the King intended to levie war against the Parliament which they did on purpose to excuse themselves for raising a Rebellion against His Majesty as appeared within few dayes after July the second the Kings ship called the Providence landed in the Creek of Kenningham neer Hull till which time his Majesty had not a Barrell of powder nor any Armes or Ammunition whatsoever Iuly the 12 the pretended two Houses Voted That the Earle of Essex should be Generall of their Army and that they would live and die with him August the first the Earl of Essex caused all the men then raised being in number about 10000 to be committed to Officers and divided into Regiments which men had been raising ever since the 12 of Iuly 1642. at which time he was made Generall of the Rebels August the 6. the Earle of Bedford having fruitlessely besieged the Lord Marquesse of Hertford in Sherburn Castle for 4 dayes before retreated to Yevell the Noble Marquesse sallied after him and with a small number fell on that great body of the Rebels killed above 140 whereof 9 Commanders took divers prisoners and routed the rest so as he marched away and after divided his small Forces going himself into Wales and Sir Ralph now Lord Hopton into Cornwall of both which there followed so good an effect August the 22. His Majesty set up his Standard Royall at Nottingham for raising of Forces to suppresse the Rebels then marching against him September 23. Prince RVPERT with about 11 Troops of Horse gave a great overthrow to the Rebels in Wikefield neare Worcester where Colonell Sands that commanded in chief received his mortall wound Major Douglas a Scot and diverse other Captaines and Officers slaine and drowned Captaine Wingate a Member of the House of Commons with four Coronets taken and two more torne in pieces This body of the Rebels was observed to be the flower of their Cavalrie October the 23 was that signall great battell fought between Keynton and Edge-hill by his Majesties Army and that of the Rebels led by the Earle of Essex wherein the Rebels lost above 70 Colours of Coronets and Ensignes and his Majesty but onely 16 Ensignes and not one Coronet The exact number that were slaine on both sides in this Battaile is not knowne But it is certaine that the Rebels lost above three for one Men of eminence of his Majesties Forces who were slaine in the battaile were the two Noble and valiant Lords Robert Earle of Lindsey Lord High Chamberlaine of England and George Lord D. Aubigney brother to the Duke of Richmond and Lenox Sir Edmund Verney Knight Marshall to His Majesty with some other worthy Gentlemen and Souldiers but besides these three named here was not one Noble-man or Knight killed which was an extraordinary mercy of Almighty God considering what a glorious sight of Princes Dukes Marquesses Earles Viscounts Barons Knights and Gentlemen of all Orders were not only present but engaged themselves against the Rebels as much or more then Common Souldiers which they most cheerfully did by example of his sacred MAJESTY whose Royall undaunted Courage put life into every man exposing His Sacred Person to so much danger as all good men doe tremble to remember His Royall Sonnes the two young Princes CHARLES Prince of Wales and JAMES Duke of Yorke being also in the field in very much danger if God whose cause it was had not covered their heads in the day of battaile The Rebels as they had few men of quality to lose so those they had were sensible of their guilt which then they expressed by their flight some sculking into holes and Saw-pits and others running out before they were well in the field They lost of note the Lord Saint Iohn eldest sonne to the Earle of Bulling brooke Sir Charles Essex with many inferiour Officers October the 27 His Majesty to compleat his victory in Keynton field drew his whole Army before Banbury but after the firing of one peece of Ordnance the Rebels submitted to His Majesties mercy which were in number about 800 foot of the Earle of Peterboroughs and Lord Says Regiments with

a wound whereof he afterwards died Aprill the 11 there was a fight neare unto Ancaster in the County of Lincolne betwixt the Kings Forces under the command of Colonell Cavendish and the rebels of that County under young Hotham their then Generall in which fight the most part of the rebels were slaine and taken prisoners their Generall put to flight and their whole Body totally routed On the 21 day being Friday the Close at Lichfield after three wekees siege and the losse of some men was yeilded upto Prince Rupert together with the Ordnance and Ammunition all sorts of Armes except the Horse-mens Armes and a certaine number of Musquets and all such Treasure which had been formerly conveyed in thither and did not properly belong to the Souldiers there These souldiers were part of those Forces under the command of the late Lord Brook a great Leader in this Rebellion and a malicious enemy to the Church who was killed in his assaulting this Church by a shot into the eye on Saint Chads day who was the first Bishop of this See in memory of whom this Cathedrall was built and called Saint Chads Church The last day of Aprill his Excellency the Earl of Newcastles Forces encountered with and totally routed a whole Body of the rebels consisting of above 3000 men which were going to releive the Towne of Leedes killed 150 of them in the place took 240 prisoners 3 peeces or Ordnance together with all their victuall Ammunition May the 6 Iames Earle of Northampton the true heire of his Fathers Loyalty and valour encountered with a Body of the Rebels in Middleton Cheny Town-field near Banbury consisting of about 700 foot and 5 Troops of Horse where he wholly routed their Foot killed 217 upon the plaine took above 300 prisoners all their Ordnance and Ammunition 416 Musquets 150 Piques and above 500 swords pursued the fugitive horse and killed and took many of them the rest made what hast they could to Northampton In this fight his Lordship lost but three men and those not of any note Nor had above one Officer so much as hurt Upon the 16 of May the Lord Hopton assaulted the great rebellious Body then intrenched neare Stratton on the Borders of Devonshire fought with them full tenne houres and having spent his Ammunition insomuch that he had not powder left to serve one houre longer fell upon the rebels with Swords Piques and Musquet stocks And with unexpressible valour wholly routed the rebels Army killed many hundreds of them in the place wounded many more took 1700 prisoners whereof above 30 Commanders all their Canon being 11 Peeces of Brasse Ordnance and 4 of Iron 2 Morter peices 75 Barrels of Powder with Shot and March proportionable betwixt 2 and 3000 Armes and 3000l in mony there being not above 46 of the Kings Forces killed and hurt and amongst those not any one Commander or Gentleman of Quality May the 23. The Queen was most traiterously voted a Traitour for her love so exemplarily expressed to the King her husband May the 30. Master Robert Yeomans and Master George Boucher two Citizens of Bristoll were there publiquely murthered by Colonell Nathaniel Fines for their loyalty to His Majesty Iune the 18 1643. His Highnesse Prince Rupert beat up the Quarters of the rebels at Postcombe and Chinner in Oxfordshire killed some 50 of the rebels there Quartered took about 120 prisoners almost all their Horses and Armes and three of Sir Samuel Lukes Dragoon-Cornets obtained a great victory in Chalgrove field and utterly defeated the rebels horse-men and Dragooners slew divers of their Commanders especially Colonell Iohn Hampden one of the five Members accused of high Treason who in this fight received his mortall wound in this very Chalgrove field where he first mustered and drew up men in Armes to put in execution the rebellious Ordinance for the Militia On Friday the last of Iune His Excellency the Earle of Newcastle obtained a great victory against the Northern rebels under the Lord Fairfax upon Aderton heath within the County of Yorke In which fight my Lord soon put the rebels into such confusion that they could not be reduced again into any Order untill hee had gained all their 5 peeces of Canon which hee presently turned against them the sight whereof did so terrifie them that they made what hast they could towards Leedes But finding that his Excellencies horse had intercepted that passage their last shift was to recover Bradford which was done in such a disorderly manner that his Excellency in the pursuit of them killed and took above 2000 whereof above 1500 prisoners As for their Generall Fairfax hee with much adoe made shift with one poore Troop of horse to get at night into Leedes leaving the rest to the mercy of the Victor Iuly the 1. The Earle of Essex being with his Army at Tame in Oxfordshire sent Colonell Middleton with 500 horse and Dragoones to Padbury to way-lay Prince Rupert and his Forces from returning from Buckingham to Oxford while Essex with his Army fell on the Prince but Sir Charles Lucas by his Scouts discovered the rebels designe and accordingly met them with three Troops of his own Regiment wherewith hee routed all Middletons 400 horse and dragoons pursued them to their passe at Werthill brooke followed them through the foard in despight of all their Muskettiers there slew above 100. took 40 prisoners and prevented the rebels hopefull designe The same day the Marquesse of Newcastle besieged Bradford bestowed upon it above 40 shot from his great Artillery and the morrow after made himselfe master of the Town In which he took 2000 prisoners with all the Horse Armes and Ammunition which either the rebels found in the Towne or brought thither with them Hereupon the rebels deserted the Towne of Hallifax and presently after Sir Hugh Cholmely fell upon Beverly and took it for his Majesty Iuly the 5. Master Tomkins and Master Challoner were most barbarously murthered by the rebells in London for their Fidelity to his Majesty And the same fifth day there was a fight on Landsdown-hill betwixt his Majesties forces under the command of the Marquesse of Hartford and the rebels under Sir William Waller vvho after 11 houres fight stuck their lighted matches in the hedges and ran quite avvay leaving behind them above 500 Musquets 14 barrells of povvder a vvhole Stand of Piques vvith good store of all sorts of Armes Their foot vvere absolutely routed and all dispersed his losse of Officers and horse vvere great many hundreds of his men vvere killed his Majesties force having the pillage of the field And here vvas that most valiant Knight Sir Bevill Greenvill unfortunately slain in the Front of his men with some others of lesse quality The 13 of Iuly about 4 a clock in the afternoone the King and Queens Majesty met at Edge-Hill vvhere the rebels had received their maine overthrovv and the same day and houre his Majesties Forces under the Command of the

Generall the Earle of Essex who with the Lord Roberts fled to Plymouth in a Cock-boat the night past this day yeelded up to his Majesty all their Traine of Artillery viz. 49. peeces of faire Brasse Ordnance 200 and odde barrels of Gunpowder with match ball c. proportionable above 700 Carriages and betwixt 8 and 9000 Armes His Majesty out of his wonted Clemency granting them their lives September 5. His Majesty having obtained so compleat a victory over the rebels did as formerly after the defeat of Waller from Tavestocke send his second message of Peace to Westminster In the beginning of this month his Majesties forces in Scotland under the command of his Excellency Iames Lord Marquesse of Montrosse and General Major Mackdonald who not long before landed in that Kingdom with 1000 Irish obtained a great victory over the rebels there upon Newbigging moore near Saint Iohns Town where were killed above 1200 rebels among which was the Laird of Rires and some others of note and 7 brasse Peeces taken this done his Majesties forces pursued them to St. Iohns Town and took it and therein and in the battell tooke 2000 of the rebels prisoners with 2 peeces of Ordnance more all their Arms Ammunition and Baggage and this done with the losse of not above 60 men on his Majesties part The rebels in this battell were commanded by the Earle of Tullibairne the Lord Drummond the Lord Elcho and Sir Iames Scot of Rossy their word was Jesus No quarter And within a fortnight after this successe his Excellency the Marquis of Montrosse Major Gen. Mackdonald obtained a second victory over another body of rebels in that Kingdom commanded by the Lord Forbes Burly and others neare Aberdeen wherein the Marquesse killed and took prisoners at least 1000. with 3 peeces of cannon and all their baggage without any considerable losse on his Majesties part among the prisoners taken by the Marquesse there was Sir William Forbes of Craigyvar and John Forbes of Boynly with others of note And soon after the Marquesse took the Towne of Aberdeen with all the Ordnance Ammunition and Armes and many of the fugitive rebels therein September 11. The Garrison of Basing after 18 weeks siege wherein the rebels lost many hundreds of their men was releived from Oxford by Sir Henry Gage September 12. Ilfercombe in Devonshire rendred to Generall Goring for his Majesty September 17. Barnstaple in Devonshire that had revoled upon the Earle of Essex his approach submitted to his Majesty and obtained from him their second pardon Septemb. 23. Colonell Iohn Fines having besieged the castle of Banbury above a month before hired his men to storme it in five places in all which they were shamefully beaten off with great losse October 7 In the night Sir Rich. Greenvile took the Town of Saltash by storming wherein 400 rebels were killed and at least 300 taken prisoners with their Arms this Town had been quitted by his Majesties forces not long before without any considerable losse Octob. 25. The Earl of Northampton and Sir Hen. Gage raised the siege of Banbury castle fell upon Colonell John Fines his flying troopes slew about 60 of them took above 100 prisoners with about 200 horses one peece of Ordnance all their Ammunition and many Armes Octob. 27. The rebels having thus lost two of their Armies called the third under the Earl of Manchesters command out of the Associated Counties and forced other Regiments out of London to withstand the King who was now advanced to Newberry with part of his Army where the rebels apprehending a great advantage in regard that the rest of his Majesties forces were not come up fell upon his Majesties quarters but were beaten off with the slaughter of about 1000 of their men whereof Major U●rey with some other of their prime Commanders were part with the losse of Sir Antho St. Leager and lesse then 100 others on his Majesties side who had the pillage of the field here the valiant Earle of Cleveland was casually taken prisoner having his horse first killed under him November 6 His Majesty had his rendezvouz on Bullington green betwixt Wallingford and Oxford November 9. His Army came to Dennington castle which since his Majesties marching thence had been againe besieged by the rebels and raised the siege the rebels not daring to withstand his Army November 17. The King having some dayes expected the rebels who it seemes were loath to hazard the last stake advanced towards them to Hungerford upon whose approach the rebels left the field Whereupon his Majesty sen● Sir Henry Gage with a party to supply the wants of Basing that had been besieged all this Summer by five Colonels and their Regiments but the rebels had raised the siege before his approach November 19. Monmouth that had lately been betrayed by Kirle was bravely regained by the Lord Herbert of Ragland wherein was taken the rebels whole Committee 14 peeces of Ordnance with store of Armes and Ammunition 30 Officers and common souldiers proportionable whereby South-Wales is much secured November 23. The King having thus victoriously defeated two of their Armies and driven away the third came to Oxford to entertaine an overture of Peace certaine Propositions being the same day come thither from London having disposed of his Army to their winter Quarters Novemb. 26. A Vote passed by the members of the House of Commons at Westminster for the utter abolishing and taking away of the book of Common Prayer with intention to set up a new device to be called a Directory in its roome Decemb. 13. His Majesty out of his wonted desire of Peace sent the Duke of Richmond and Earle of Southampton to the Houses of Parliament at Westminster for a Treaty as the best expedient for Peace About the middle of this month Helmsley Castle in Yorkshire which had been gallantly defended during 16 weeks siege by Captain Jordan Crosland and some others was delivered up to the Rebels under command of the Lord Fairfax upon honourable conditions to march away the Governour and Officers with their horses and Armes the rest without Armes In this siege the Defendants amongst others made one remarkable salley wherein they took Sergeant Major Generall Forbs a Scot prisoner with divers others here did Sir T. Fairfax also receive a shot in the shoulder from the Castle Decemb. 22. Colonell Eyre with some horse from Newarke took 2 Troops of horse at Upton belonging to the Rebels of Nottingham brought the men colours horses and Armes all safe to Newarke Decemb. 23. Sir Alex Carew was beheaded on Tower-Hill by Martial Law for intanding to deliver up the Island at Plymouth to His Majesty he was observed to be most violent against his Majesty in the beginning of this rebellion but it should seem he had of late some disposition to be a convert which made his fellow members think fit to dispatch him to another world Decemb. 24. Sir Will Vaughan Governour of Shrawarden castle for his