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A58041	Mercurius Rusticus, or, The countries complaint of the barbarous outrages committed by the sectaries of this late flourishing kingdom together with a brief chronology of the battels, sieges, conflicts, and other most remarkable passages, from the beginning of this unnatural war, to the 25th of March, 1646.	Ryves, Bruno, 1596-1677.; Barwick, John, 1612-1664. Querela Cantabrigiensis.; Wharton, George, Sir, 1617-1681. Mercurius Belgicus.	1685 (1685)	Wing R2449; ESTC R35156	215,463	414

and the Muses strive To own thee dead who wert them all alive Such an exact composure was in thee Neither exceeding Mars nor Mercury T was just tho hard thou shouldst dye Governour Of th' Kings chief Fort of Learning and of War Thy death was truly for thy Garrison Thou dy'dst projecting her Redemption What unto Basing twice successeful spirit Was done th' hast effected here in merit The Bridg was broken down The Fort alone GAGE was himself the first and the last stone Go burn thy Faggots Brown 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 shewn in this was Crime And GAGES Death will brand me to all Time In this month a fair new Ship called the John of London belonging to the East-India Merchants was brought to Bristol by the Loyalty of Capt. Mucknell and the rest of the Officers and Mariners of the Ship for His Majesties service wherein were 26 pieces of Ordnance mounted 17000. l. in Mony besides some other good Commodities For which good service the said Captain Mucknell had the honour to be the first Knight that ever the Prince of Wales made And within a few days after another Ship called the Fame of London of burthen 450 Tuns with 28 pieces of Ordnance mounted was by Tempest forced into Dartmouth where she was seised on for His Majesties service as lawful prize being bound for Dover or London The Ship had been abroad 4 years and was now returning homewards from the West-Indies laden with Bullion Oyl Couchaneille and other rich Commodities to the value of 40000 l. at least January the 30 th The Treaty began at Uxbridg wherein the candour of His Majesties reall intentions and desires of Peace was very perspicuous For His Majesty did not only Arm his Commissioners or any ten of them with a very large and powerful Commission to treat of conclude and settle a firm Peace in all His Dominions but did also by Proclamation appoint a solemn Fast on the 5 th day of February then next for a blessing on that Treaty with a Form of Common-Prayer set forth by His Majesties special Command to be used in all Churhes and Chappels within this Kingdom One of which Prayers drawn by His Majesties special direction and dictate I here afford the Reader The Prayer O Most merciful Father Lord God of Peace and Truth we a People sorely afflicted by the scourge of an unnatural War do 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 obduarte hearts with a true Christian desire of saving those mens blood for whom Christ himself hath shed His. Or if the guilt our great sins cause this Treaty to break off in vain Lord let the Truth clearly appear who those men are which under pretence of the Publick good do pursue their own 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 self even Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen February the 9 th Sir Walter Hastings Governour of Portland Castle for His Majesty took the great Fort at Weymouth and within two day after Sir Lewis Dives took the middle Fort and Town of Weymouth and in a skirmish there slew Major Sydenham a forward Rebel with some others This Town and Forts were not many days held by His Majesties Forces but were as unfortunatey lost as happily gained Febru●ry the 15 th Rowdon house neer Chippenham in Wiltshire after 9 days siege was taken by His Majesties Forces and in it 120 good Horse above 200 Foot with their Arms and provisions Col. Stevens the Mock-sheriff of Gloucestershire six Captains and above 20 inferiour Officers all at mercy February the 20 th The Lord Macguire an Irish Baron was executed by the common hangman at Tyburn by command of the Members at Westminster In the History of which execution recorded in many of their own Pamphlets written then and upon that subject the Reader may observe two Questions asked by Mr. Gibbs one of the Sheriffs 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 Country 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 knowledg there was never an one in England either Catholick or Protestant that knew of it but one and he was an Irish man and a Protestant and he came to the knowledg of it but by chance not at 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 Majestly irrefragably cleared by two acts of the Rebels own cruelty from two of the most scandalous aspersions by which the malice of these forging Rebels hath from time to time endeavcured 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 Canterbury In this the Lord Macguire both at their very dying hours 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 believe 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 known of the Kings Commission if any such thing had been February the 22 d. The Treaty at Uxbridg 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 February the 22 d. The Town of Shrewsbury was by treachery in the night delivered to Col. Mitton the Rebellious Governour of Wem Here you may see the Rebels Master-piece in hatching this treacherous Plot

would more inhumanly have abused a flourishing University than these pretended advancers of Religion and Learning have done it being a constant custom if not also the Law of Nations in the fiercest encounters of the most enraged parties to exempt and priviledge Scholars from if not protect them by their Martial proceedings To begin therefore with the first occasiion as we conceive from whence they pretended any cause of this rage and persecution against us though the meer conscience of so sensless a Rebellion cryed up only by the illiterate herd might afford reason enough for them to look asquint upon all Scholars quâ tales The contribution of a small pittance of Money to our Sovereigns extream necessity before any War was thought on by us is made to be our unpardonable crime though not then prohibited by any Order or Ordinance which added to the tenderness of our consciences in refusing their wicked confederacy commonly called the Covenant by the help of their Legislative Engine has bereaved us of all and cast us from our livelyhoods maintenance and Colledges For when His Sacred Majesty whom they made to be the first Grand Delinquent and whose Crown-Revenues and Estate together with his Towns Ships and Magazines they sequestred and seized on deigned by His Royal Letters to acquaint His poor University with His strange wants even of sustenance for his very houshold Our hearts burned within us to hear our living Founder whom we expected to be made by that time a great and glorious King as was promised him should almost starve while we had bread on our Table Whereupon out of our poverty a small and inconsiderable sum of Money was collected and tendered as a Testimony not only of our Loyalty to him as King or of our gratitude as our most gracious and bountiful Protector and Benefactor but also of our Charity to him as a Christian then in extream want and necessity We hope our Persecutors will Pardon us this expression seeing our Metaphysicks may with less danger of Treason abstract Charles from King than their bullets and this was the first flower out of which they suck'd all their venom which shortly after they disgorged upon us Hereupon his Sacred Majesty knowing well how eager that party was in revenging the least seeming provocation and being informed of that Cloud which was then hanging over us and ours for that action of Humanity Loyalty and Christian●ty out of his care and tenderness proffered to secure our Colledge Plate if we were content to deposite it in his hands which their intended Revenge had already swallowed without any Grace so much as of the publick faith and therefore wrote his most gracious Letters to us to take an exact survey of it not only for the weight but also of the form of every piece together with the Names Arms and Mottoes of the respective Donors that if perhaps his Majesty could not preserve it entire as it was he might restore it hereafter in the same weight and form and with the same marks All which he graciously insured upon his Royal word It behoved not us to refuse protection from that hand to which God for that end had entrusted a Scepter especially considering the concurrence of Actions about that time It is not unknown to most part of this Kingdom that not long before this the zealous Brethren of Essex and Suffolk had packt themselves together in a Religious Rout to give the first Essay of a Popular Reformation How happily this work did thrive in their hands has been already published to the Kingdom and the ruines of the two magnificent houses of the Countess Rivers with many other Gentlemens houses of quality are still dismal witnesses So that having found the sweet of their labours the Reformers would in all likelyhood have prosecuted the great work as far as Cambridge for a less prize than our University thanks be to God and our good Benefactors And we had good reason to fear the increase of their Army if they had come near us seeing the inferiour part of the Town had provided Arms and yet had no Commanders and some that durst discharge a Musquet made it their practice to terrifie us and disturb our Studies by shooting in at our windows And therefore lest our Plate should become a bait to have our Liberties rifled our Colledge pulled down and perhaps our Throats cut we thought it our wisest course to secure all by securing that in His Majesties gracious hands Upon these reasons which no judicious man will esteem otherwise than weighty we endeavoured to convey away some part of our Plate about the beginning of August 1642. which by the way was before either His Majesty Standard was erected or his Proclamation issued out to that end However many of us and others have suffered for it as fomenters of this War But within a few dayes after see how the just grounds of our fears concentred one Master Cromwell Burgess for the Town of Cambridge and then newly turn'd a man of War was sent down by his Masters above at the invitation of his Masters below as himself confessed to gather what strength he could to stop all passages that no Plate might be sent But his designs being frustrated and his opinion as of an active subtile man thereby somewhat shaken and endangered he hath ever since bent himself to work what revenge and mischief he could against us In pursuit whereof before that month was expired down he comes again in a terrible manner with what Forces he could draw together and surrounds divers Colledges while we were at our devotion in our several Chappels taking away Prisoners several Doctors of Divinity Heads of Colledges viz. D. Beale Master of S. Johns Colledge D. Martin Master of Queens Colledge and D. Sterne Master of Jesus Colledge men of such eminent worth and abilities as render them above the reach of our commendation and these he carryes with him to London in triumph And though there was an express Order from the Lords House for their imprisonment in the Tower which met them at Tottenham-high-crosse wherein notwithstanding there was no Crime expressed yet were they led captive through Bartholmew-fair and so as far as Temple-bar and back through the City to Prison in the Tower on purpose that they might be houted at or stoned by the Rable-rout Since which time now about three years together they have been hurryed up and down from one Prison to another at excessive and unreasonable charges and fees exacted from them far beyond their abilities to defray having all their goods Plundered and their Masterships and Livings taken from them which should preserve them from famishing And though in all this time there was never any Accusation brought much less proved against any of them yet have they suffered intolerable imprisonment ever since both by Land and Water especially that in the Ship where for ten days togethe● they with many other Gentlemen of great rank were kept

him we may justly receive at his hands heavier Judgments than these yet our Innocence will plead Not Guilty to the face of any Man who shall object against us any Civil Misdemeanors whereby we can more justly be deprived of our Fellowships than any free Subject in England of his fee Simple if they please to say he is guilty of Misdemeanors And as it hath pleased our gracious Master whose Ministers we are to make us examples though but of suffering to the rest of our Brethren So we hope he will continue unto us his grace of humilation under his mighty hand as an earnest of his exalting us in due time And in the interim that he will lay no more upon us than he shall be pleased to strengthen our infirmities to bear And that he will still preserve unto us a good conscience that whereas our persecutors speak evil of us as of evil doers they may be ashamed that falsly accuse our good conversation in Christ. FINIS Mercurius Belgicus OR A briefe Chronology of the Battels Sieges Conflicts and other most remakable passages from the beginning of this Rebellion to the 25 th of March 1646. Together with A Catalogue of the Persons of Quality slain on both sides CICERO Incerti sunt exitus pugnarum Marsque esi communis qui saepe spoliantem jam exultantem evertit perculit ab abjecto Printed in the Year 1685. The Preface Readers YOU have here a canded and impartial Epitomy of an unnatural War Subjects banding against their lawful Prince Brother against Brother and Father against Son Read but the said ensuing Story and therein consider the number and quality of Persons slain the destruction of Houses and Families the desolation of Cities and Towns the increase of Widows and Orphans the Tyranny and inhumanity of our new Legislators over their own Fellow-Subjects and you will easily conclude of these as Cicero did of Sylla's time Nemo illo invito nec bona nec patriam nec vitam retinere potueirt In earnest it may well be wondred whence these men have their minds God nor man nor Nature ever made them thus To be short the Reader may here see the flux and reflux of Fortune de la Guerre now this party flourisheth and that goes down anon that flourisheth and this goes down as if the guilt of our sins were drawing a heavy Judgment from Heaven upon this Land and these Rebels were ordained for the instruments of it But let us hope for better And particularly that God in the richness of his mercy will look down upon these macerated Kingdoms and periodize these distractions That Religion may again flourish in its purity maugre the Plots and impieties of all Seditiaries and Schismaticks That His Sacred Majesty may be re-established in His just Rights and Prerogatives that Parliaments may move in their own and known Centre the Ancient Laws of the Land re-inforced and freed from fellow-subjects Tyranny and Arbitration and the Subject re-estated in his Ancient Liberties freed from Murder Rapine and Plunder which that we may quickly see let it be the Subject of ever good Christian Prayer Memorable OCCURRENCES since the beginning of this REBELLION Anno Dom. 1641. IN December 1641. The House of Commons published a Remonstrance of the State of the Kingdom therein setting forth all the errors of his Majesties Government a meer design to alienate the affection of his Subjects from him The tenth of January following his Majesty with the Queen Prince and Duke of Yorke left White-hall and went to Hampton Court to avoid the danger of those frequent tumults then hazarding the safety of his Royal Person February the 23 d. 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 New-market and from thence to Yorke where after the Rebels had Guards for three Months before the Gentry of the Country raised a Guard for his Majesties Person Anno Dom. 1642. MAY the 20 th 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 days after July the second the Kings ship called the Providence Landed in the Creek of Kenningham near Hull till which time His Majesty had not a Barrel of Powder nor any Arms or Ammunition whatsoever July the 12 th the pretended two Houses Voted that the Earl of Essex should be General 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 th of July 1642. at which time he was made General of the Rebels August the sixth the Earl of Bedford having fruitlessely besieged the Lord Marquess of Hertford in Sherburn Castle for four days before retreated to Yevell the Noble Marquess sallied after him and with a small number fell on that great body of the Rebels Kill'd 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 d. His Majesty set up his Standard Royal at Nottingham for raising of Forces to suppress the Rebels then marching against him September the 23 d. Prince RUPERT with about 11 Troops of Horse gave a great overthrow to the Rebels in Wikefield near Worcester where Colonel Sands that commanded in chief received his mortal wound Major Douglas a Scot and divers other Captains and Officers slain and drowned Captain Wingate a Member of the House of Commons with four Coronets taken and two more torn in pieces This body of the Rebels was observed to be the flower of their Cavalry October the 23 d. was that signal great battel fought between Keynton and Edg-hill by his Majesties Army and that of the Rebels led by the Earl of Essex wherein the Rebels lost above 70 Colours of Coronets and Ensigns and His Majesty but only 16 Ensigns and not one Coronet The exact number that were slain on both sides in this Battel is not known But it is certain that the Rebels lost above three for one Men of eminence of his Majesties Forces who were slain in the Battel were the two Noble and valiant Lords Robert Earl of Lindsey Lord High Chamberlain of England and George Lord D. Aubigney Brother to the Duke of Richmond and Lenox Sir Edmund Verney Knight Marshal to His Majesty with some other worthy Centlemen and Soldiers but besides these three named there was not one Noble Man or Knight kill'd which was an extraordinary mercy of Almighty God considering what a glorious sight of Princes Dukes Marquesses Earls Viscounts Barons Knights and

Gospel by the same creature as those offered to a Prophet under the Law Or lastly why may not the blood of him that owned this Beast be required by this Beast of him that had his hand in shedding it This was not the first time that God gave commission to the Brute to execute his vengeance But I forget my self my business is to relate things done not to encounter Objections against their probability of doing To go on therefore Having brought Mr. Jones to Northampton his entertainment there was as bad as his usage in the way thither though it were in the depth of Winter when old age needed good fortifications of Lodging and Diet against the incursions of cold and wet yet they afforded him nothing but a hard mat with a little straw under him and to cover him and to keep him warm nothing but one blanket and his own wearing cloaths As for his food they give him the Bread of Affliction denying his own friends leave to supply him with competent diet to sustein nature and his growing infirmities yet to shew that Man lives not by bread only but by every word which proceedeth out of the mouth of God it pleased his good providence to preserve him like the young Children in Daniel fed only with Pulse so that he was in good plight and semed to want nothing though he continued in this distressed condition from Christmas to almost Easter about which time not remorse of conscience for so much cruelty practised on a decrepid old man but an Orthodox Reverend Divine but importunity of friends prevailed with the Rebels to release him of his imprisonment in Northampton and to remit him to a neighbour Minister of his one Mr. Walters Bachelor in Divinity Vicar of Doddington near Wellingborow a very learned and industrious Preacher and permitted him to Officiate in his own Cure at Easter there being but one Parish Church in the Town but no less than two thousand Communicants Having licence to visit his Charge not awed by that tyrannous usage which he had undergone Conscience of his duty doth press him to a punctual observance of the Orders and Canons of the Church he celebrates Divine Service according to the Book of Common Prayer preacheth Obedience as boldly as if there had been no Rebels in Northamptonshire administreth the Sacraments with the same Reverence Decency and Devotion as if there had been no Puritans in Wellingborow Nor doth the undaunted old man remit any thing enjoyned by Canon or Rubrick This constancy of his so incensed the Schismatical Puritanical Party of the Town that complaint is made at Northampton that Mr. Jones is the same man he was as much a true Son and Minister of the Church of England as ever Upon this information he is apprehended in Easter week and carried Prisoner to Northampton a second time where they use him with more inhumanity if it be possible than before they will not permit his Wife to visit him and kept him so short in his diet not suffering his Wife or friends to relieve him that most barbarously they starved him to death for about Whitsontide his spirits exhausted and his body pined by famine the good old Martyr resigned his Soul to God There is in Northampton one John Gifford for his extraction the Hog-herds Son of Little-Hougton for his education a Knitter afterwards a Hose-buyer now Mayor of Northampton and Colonel of the Town Regiment This man to his power Civil and Martial assumes an Ecclesiastical Superintendency too and orders what forms shall be used in Baptism the Lords Supper Burial of the Dead and the like When therefore they came to interr the skin and bones of this starved Martyr for flesh he had none the form enjoyned by this Gifford was the same which one Brooks a London Lecturer used at the burial of John Gough of S. James Dukes Place within Aldgate in London viz. Ashes to Ashes Dust to Dust Here 's the Pit and in thou must The World may in this see what devout Liturgies we are like to have when a Mayor of a Town shall suppress the Ancient pious forms and introduce rime Doggerels fitter for a painted Cloth in an Alehouse than the Church of Christ. Before I leave this particular Relation I must not forget to tell you one act of these Religious Reformers being at Willingborow at the Sign of the Swan two maid Servants making a bed some of these Rebels did sollicite them to incontinency but the Maids refusing to hearken to their beastly sollicitations they began to offer violence and to enforce what they could not perswade they still making resistance they shot one of them dead in the place and shot the other through the wrist such Monuments of Religion and Purity do these blessed Reformers leave at all places where they come Mr. Frederick Gibb Parson of Hartist in Suffolke in Morning Prayer before his Sermon desired his Parishoners to give attention to one of His Majesties Declarations newly set forth with an express Command to have it published in all Parish Churches thereby to rectifie the People and to wipe off those false Impressions which the Incendiaries of the Kingdom had made in them concerning the Kings Actions and Intentions whereupon one Mr. Coleman a Parishioner being present impudently replied unto him openly in the Church that he might be ashamed to abuse the People by Reading his Majesties Declarations unto them and therefore he would fetch him some Parliament Declarations which were a great deal better to be published unto them while this railing Rabshekeh reviled his Sovereign Mr. Gibb as if he had received the Command in that case given answer him not made no reply at all but as not heeding this snarler calls on the Congregation a second time to give attention Coleman interrupts him again and in a scoffing manner saies Well then Sir you mean to be an obedient Servant to his Majesty Mr. Gibb then thinking it not only seasonable but necessary to profess his Loyalty replied Yes Sir I am and hope to continue a faithful Servant unto Him as long as I live and so proceeds to read the Declaration the People notwithstanding all this Incouragement from Coleman to contradict with them standing very attentive to hear it The main drift of the Kings Declaration was to assure all His loving Subjects That as He expected that they should make the Laws the rule of their obedience so He would make the Laws the guide of His Government Mr. Gibb having published the Declaration Coleman stands up and most Traitorously replied to his Parson Well Sir the King neither is nor shall be Judge of the Law whatever such prating fellows as you would have him after this being inraged as the rest of that Faction are that the Peoples eyes should be opened or that they should being truly informed conceive of the King as he is a most just and pious Prince but still to look on him and all his actions through those

Sir Charles Lucas Col. Porter and Col. Tillier Prisoners In this Battel were slain on His Majesties part the Lord Cary Sir Thomas Metham Col. Ewer Col. Townley with some others of note and about 1500 common Soldiers On the Rebels part were slain Sir Charles Fairfax younger son to the Lord Fairfax with many other of their Commanders and at least 3000 common Soldiers This done the Rebels rally and sit down again before Yorke which was valiantly defended for three weeks after by Sir Tho. Glenham and then delivered upon honourable conditions to march away with Arms Bag and Baggage which conditions were most persidiously broken by the Rebels July the 6 th The Lord Hopton routed 350 of the Rebels near Warmister which were pursued above 20 miles by Sir Francis Dodington July the 15 th The King came to Bath with his Army which day the Queens Majesty arrived safe at Brest in Britanny notwithstanding 50 great shot made at her by Batty the Rebels Vice-Admiral July the 23 d. The King made His speech to the Summersetshire men on Kings-moore who came in to His Majesties assistance very cheerfully July the 31 st Middleton the Scot furiously assaulted Denington Castle and received a most shameful repulse leaving dead behind him one Col. eight Captains one Sergeant Major with many inferiour Officers and Soldiers August the 1 st His Majesty with his Army passed into Cornwal over Tamar at Polton bridg in pursuit of the Earl of Essex whom he had now chased through Devonshire August the 25 th The King gained from the Rebels the Castle of Lestithiel where their Army lay strongly encamped and in it took Col. Butler and some others Prisoners August the 30 th The Rebels horse in the night passed between His Majesties Quarters and fled towards Plymouth August the 31 st The Rebels Foot making towards Foy were beaten from five pieces of their Ordnance September the 2 d. The Rebels being deserted by their General the Earl of Essex who with the Lord Roberts fled to Plymouth in a Cock-boat the night past this day yeilded up to His Majesty all their Train of Artillery viz. 49 pieces of fair brass Ordnance 200 and odd barrels of Gunpowder with match ball c. proportionable above 700 Carriages and betwixt eight and 9000 Arms. His Majesty out of his wonted Clemency granting them their lives September the 5 th His Majesty having obtained so compleat a victory over the Rebels did as formerly after the defeat of Waller from Tavestock send his second message of Peace to Wistminster In the beginning of this month His Majesties forces in Scotland under the command of his Excellency James Lord Marquess 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 S. Johns Town where were kill'd above 1200 Rebels among which was the Laird of Rires and some others of note and seven brass Pieces taken this done His Majesties forces pursued them to S. Johns Town and took it and therein and in the battel took 2000 of the Rebels Prisoners with two pieces of Ordnance more all their Arms Ammunition and Baggage and this done with the loss of not above 60 men on His Majesties part The Rebels in this battel were commanded by the Earl of Tullibairne the Lord Drummond the Lord Elcho and Sir James Scot of Rossy their word was Jesus no Quarter And within a fortnight after this success his Excellency the Marquess of Montrosse and Major Gen. Mackdonald obtained a second victory over another body of Rebels in that Kingdom commanded by the Lord Forbes Burly and others near Aberdeen wherein the Marquess kill'd and took Prisoners at least 1000 with three pieces of Cannon and all their baggage without any considerable loss on His Majesties part among the Prisoners taken by the Marquess there was Sir William Forbes of Craigyvar and John Forbes of Boynly with others of note And soon after the Marquess took the Town of Aberdeen with all the Ordnance Ammunition and Arms and many of the fugitive Rebels therein September the 11 th The Garrison of Basing after 18 weeks siege wherein the Rebels lost many hundreds of their men was relieved from Oxford by Sir Henry Gage Septemb. the 12 th Ilfercombe in Devonshire rendered to General Goring for His Majesty September the 17 th Barnstaple in Devonshire that had revolted upon the Earl of Essex this approach submitted to His Majesty and obtained from him their second pardon September the 23 d. Col. John Fines having besieged the Castle of Banbury above a month before hired his men to storm it in five places in all which they were shamefully beaten off with great loss October the 7 th in the night Sir Richard Greenvile took the Town of Saltash by storming wherein 400 Rebels were kill'd and at least 300 taken Prisoners with their Arms this Town had been quitted by His Majesties forces not long before without any considerable loss October the 25 th The Earl of Northampton and Sir Henry Gage raised the siege of Banbury Castle fell upon Col. John Fines his flying Troops slew about 60 of them took above 100 Prisoners with about 200 horses one piece of Ordnance all their Ammunition and many Arms. October the 27 th 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 above 1000 of their men whereof Major Urrey with some other of their prime Commanders were part with the loss of Sir Anthony St. Leager and less than 100 others on His Majesties side who had the pillage of the field here the valiant Earl of Cleveland was casually taken Prisoner having his horse first kill'd under him November the 6 th His Majesty had his rendezvouz on Bullington-green betwixt Wallingford and Oxford November the 9 th His Army came to Dennington Castle which since His Majesties marching thence had been again besieged by the Rebels and raised the siege the Rebels not daring to withstand his Army November the 17 th The King having some days expected the Rebels who it seems were loth to hazard the last stake advanced towards them to Hungerford upon whose approach the Rebels left the field Whereupon His Majesty sent Sir Henry Gage with a party to supply the wants ef 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 the 19 th Monmouth that had lately been betrayed by Kirle was bravely regained by the Lord Herbert and Ragland wherein was taken the Rebels whole

Committee 14 pieces of Ordnance with store of Arms and Ammunition 30 Officers and common Soldiers proportionable whereby South-Wales is much secured November the 23 d. The King having thus victoriously defeated two of their Armies and driven away the third came to Oxford to entertain an overture of Peace certain Propositions being the same day come thither from London having disposed of his Army to their Winter Quarters November the 26 th 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 room December the 13 th His Majesty out of his wonted desire of Peace sent the Duke of Richmond and Earl 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 Yorkeshire which had been gallantly defended during 16 weeks siege by Capt. 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 Arms the rest without Arms. In this siege the Defendants amongst others made one remarkable salley wherein they took Sergeant Major General Forbs a Scot Prisoner with divers others here did Sir T. Fairfax also receive a shot in the Shoulder from the Castle December the 22 d. Colonel Eyre with some horse from Newarke took two Troops of horse at Upton belonging to the Rebels of Nottingham brought the Men Colours Horses and Arms all safe to Newarke December the 23 d. Sir Alexander Carew was beheaded on Tower-hill by Martial Law for intending 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 December the 24. Sir William Vaughan Governour of Shrawarden Castle for His Majesty fell on a party of Rebels at Welch Poole cammanded by Sir John Price kill'd some wounded others took 47 Prisoners 64 horse and many Arms. December the 28 th A party of the Lord Gorings Forces took Master Blakes house at Pinnel near Calne in Wiltshire and in it 59 Rebels but more Arms. December the 31 st The Members at Westminster Voted Sir Thomas Fairfax to be their new General cashiering the Earl of Essex with whom they had formerly sworn to live and die January the 1 st Young Hotham was beheaded on Tower-hill and Sir John Hotham his Father the morrow after both by Martial Law Here the Reader may take notice of a special mark of Gods judgment for the 23 April 1642. when old Hotham denied His Majesty admittance into Hull he held up his hands and prayed God never to prosper him or hiis posterity if he were not His Majesties Loyal Subject And now see both Father and Son adjudged by their fellow Members and condemned by their own beloved Marshal Law for intending to deliver up Hull to His Majesty The same first of January the Lord Astley took Lypyate House in Gloucestershire and in it 45 Prisoners with all their Arms Victuals and Ammunition Soon after this Sir Marmaduke Langdale totally routed Col. Ludlowes Regiment of horse at Salisbury took five Rebel-Captains Prisoners besides under-Officers and 80 common Soldiers 150 Horse and Arms with there Colours Ludlow himself hardly escaping January the 10 th The Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury was beheaded on Tower-hill It would be too long here where we aim at brevity to set down the particulars of his imprisonments the preposterous proceedings against him in his Trial and his pious magnanimity at the time of his death his Sermon on the Scaffold whereof here follows a true copy will satisfie the World that he died innocently and which is more that His Majesty hath been unjustly accused of an inclination to Popery Good People THis is an uncomfortable time to Preach yet I shall begin with a Text of Scripture Heb. 12.2 Let us run with patience that race which is set before us Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our Faith who for the joy that was set before him endured the Cross despising the shame and it set down at the right hand of the Throne of God I have been long in my Race and how I have looked to Jesus the author and finisher of my Faith He best knows I am now come to the end of my Race and here I find the Cross a death of shame but the shame must be despised or no coming to the right hand of God Jesus despised the shame for me and God forbid but I should despise the shame for Him I am going apace as you see towards the Red-Sea and my feet are now upon the very brink of it an Argument I hope that God is bringing me into the Land of promise for that was the way through which he led his People But before they came to it He instituted a Passeover for them a Lamb it was but it must be eaten with sour Herbs I shall obey and labour to digest the sour Herbs as well as the Lambe And I shall remember it is the Lords Passeover I shall not think of the Herbs nor be angry with the hand which gathereth them but look up only to him who instituted that and governs these For men can have no more power over me than what is given them from above I am not in love with this passage through the Red-Sea for I have the weakness and infirmities of flesh and blood plentifully in me And I have prayed with my Saviour ut transiret Calix iste that this Cup of red Wine might pass from me But if not Gods will not mine be done and I shall most willingly drink of this Cup as deep as he pleases and enter this Sea yea and pass through it in the way that he shall lead me But I would have it remembred Good People that when Gods Servants were in this boisterous Sea and Aaron among them the Aegyptians which persecuted them and did in a manner drive them into that Sea were drowned in the same Waters while they were in pursuit of them I know my God whom I serve is as able to deliver me from this Sea of Blood as he was to deliver the three Children from the Furnace and I most humbly thank my Saviour for it my Resolution is now as theirs was then They would not worship the Image the King had set up nor will I the imaginations which the People are setting up nor will I forsake the Temple and the truth of God to follow the bleating of Jereboams Calf in Dan and in Bethel And as for this People they are at this day miserably misled God of his mercy open their Eyes that they may see

a window in Cover Town with 5 common Soldiers only on His Majesties part The other in the beginning of July 1643. about which time Col. now Lord Jermyn with those Forces that guarded Her Majesty out of the North assisted by Col. Hastings now Lord Lowghborough took Burton upon Trent in Staffordshire by assault wherein there was taken Col. Houghton the Governour with all the inferiour Officers above 400 common Soldiers 8 pieces of Ordnance and good store of Ammunition and this done without any considerable loss The End Mercurius Belgicus OR Memorable Occurrences in Anno 1645. MARCH the 25 th 1645. The Lord Goring routed a party of the Rebels horse at Pitmaster neer Taunton in Summersetshire slew Major Roy that commanded them took 100 horse and Arms and about 50 Prisoners April the 1 st Major General Sir John Digby with a brigade of horse and Dragoons beat up the Rebels Quarters at and about Wincaunton took 100 Prisoners 2 Colours 300 horse and as many Arms without any considerable loss on His Majesties part April the 5 th A party of the Lord Gorings horse routed Colonel Pophams Regiment in Wiltshire kill'd 40 of them took Major Car that commanded them with at least 120 Prisoners with their horses and Arms. April the 14 th the siege of High-archall in Shropshire which had been continued by the Rebels for the space of 17 days was raised by themselves during this siege the defendants commanded by Sir Vincent Corbet and Capt. Armorer in several sallies kill'd and took at least 500 Rebels and 4 pieces of Ordnance April the 19 th A party of His Majesties Forces from Newark took the Fort at Nottingham Bridg by Scalado took some 50 Rebels in it besides an Ensign and 10 others kill'd and drowned 30 horse 200 Arms and 5 pieces of Ordnance Th●● Fort His Majesties Forces held about 11 days and then quitted it without any loss April the 22 d. Col. Masseyes Forces were totally routed by Prince Rupert at Ledbury in Hereford-shire where above 100 of them were slain Major Backhouse and neer 400 Prisoners taken whereof 27 Officers besides many hundred of Arms with all their Baggage and this done with the loss of but 5 common Soldiers only on His Majesties part April the 23 d. Major General Laughorne lying at the siege of Newcastle Emblin in Carmarden-shire was totally defeated by His Majesties Forces commanded by Col. now Lord Gerard who kill'd 200 of his men on the place took neer 500 Prisoners with all their Arms Ordnance and Baggage with the loss only of about 26 men on His Majesties part and some hurt April the 24 th Col. Cromwell the Independent General routed a party of 200 of His Majesties horse neer Oxford and no sooner summoned Blechington house but 't was delivered up to him by Col. Windebank the Governour who was soon after Condemned therefore by a Counsel of War and executed at Oxford accordingly April the 30 th Cromwell assaulted His Majesties Garrison of Farrington commanded as then by Lieutenant Colonel Burges who defended the place with such gallantry that Cromwell was repulsed with the loss of neer 200 men besides what were wounded a Captain and some others also taken Prisoners May the 7 th The Lord Goring routed a strong party of Cromwells horse near New-bridge betwixt Oxford-shire and Barkshire kill'd and wounded at least 80 took Major Bethell that commanded in chief Prisoner with divers common Soldiers and 2 Colours In the beginning of this month that unheard-of cruelty was put in practise in and about London by certain persons men and women appointed and authorized to inveigle and intice Children from their Parents and without their knowledge and so convey them on Shipboard to be sold and transported to new Plantations the Lord knows where This so much discontented the People that the houses at Westminster were glad to disavow the thing and forthwith make an order against it May the 11 th His Majesties Forces made a gallant sally from Scarborougb Castle wounded Sir John Meldrum that commanded the siege whereof he not long after dyed slew Colonel Cockeram Lieutenant Colonel Stanley Major Dent Captain Piercy and 50 others whereof most Commanders and took divers Prisoners On His Majesties part were only slain Capt. Gower and some 4 common Soldiers Soon after Capt. Zachary that commanded one of the Ships in the harbour of the Rebels Received a shot from the Castle whereof he dyed May the 15 th Hawkesley house a Garrison of the Rebels in Worcester-shire was surrendred to His Majesty the Governour Captain Gouge and 80 Soldiers submitting to mercy and the house afterwards slighted This done His Majesty with his Army marched towards Chester which had been long besieged by Sir William Bruerton but before His Majesty came within 20 miles of it the Rebels raised their siege May the 26 th Massey took Evesholme in Worcestershire a Garrison of His Majesties by storm and in it Col. Leg the Governour and some 300 common Soldiers with the loss only of about 20 men kill'd but more wounded May the 30 th His Majesties Army sate down before Leicester and the morrow morning early took it by storm and in it the whole Committee Sir Robert Pye and many hundred Prisoners many horses much Powder Arms and Ordnance and great store of wealth In the assault on His Majesties part were slain Col. St. George and about 80 others but of the Rebels about 120. The same day the Rebels quitted their several Garrisons of Bagworth Colehorton Kirby-bellows and Burleigh Whilst His Majesties Army was thus busied at Leicest Sir Thomas Fairfax the Rebels new General lay some 15 days blocking up of Oxford though fruitlessly for by several Sallies thence he lost many of his men some kill'd others taken Prisoners and not a small number running away so that he raised his siege thence the beginning of June And June 4. he assaulted Borstall house commanded by Sir William Campion for His Majesty but was beaten off with the loss of 300 of his men the brave Garrison losing but one man and 4 hurt June the 6 th there fell a strange hail storm in that part of Licestershire which is in and about Loughborough some of the Hailstones were as big as small hens eggs and the least as big as musquet bullets it destroyed the Corn and did much hurt in that part of the Country were it fell June the 9 th His Majesties Forces encountred a body of Rebels near Stokesey in Shorp-shire but being over-powred were forced to retreat with the loss of Sir William Croft a gallant Gentleman and some others June the 14 th Was that fatal Battle at Naesby-Down in Northamptonshire where His Majesties Army till then victorious was now by the incertainty of War much worsted his foot Ordnance and Baggage most lost In this battel Sir Peter Brown Sir Thomas Dallison Gol. Bawd Major Wilson and Capt. Thorold on His Majesties part were slain the whole number on both sides slain