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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37219	A memorial for the learned, or, Miscellany of choice collections from most eminent authors in history, philosophy, physick, and heraldry / by J.D., Gent.	J. D., Gent.; Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715.	1686 (1686)	Wing D38; ESTC R18713	93,900	252

Almighty shewed his Justice declaring as it plainly appeared against such horrid Rebellions for though they were so vastly numerous in comparison of the Kings Forces besides took them upon the surprize and so had the advantage of the on-set yet they were so bravely received that first their Horse were routed by ours who coming in afterwards upon the Foot had so absolute a Victory that they The Defeat of the Rebels killed 2000 upon the place and took a vast number of Prisoners so that they were not able to make the least head again The next day the Lord Grey was taken who was Commander of the Rebels Horse and on the 8th of July the late Duke of Monmouth was also taken The Duke of Monmouth Beheaded and on the 15th Beheaded on Tower-Hill So that by the Divine Blessing of Almighty God not only this rebellious attempt brought the deserved vengeance upon its common promoters but even the very Root and Foundation is extirpated so that 't is to be hoped that we shall never again be acquainted with such Domestick strifes but may even forget what a Rebel means The Loyal Party and the Kings Forces Argyle in Scotland taken his Party routed and he Executed in Scotland were before-hand with us for they took Argyle on the 18th of June and ruined his Forces and on the 30th of the same Month he was Beheaded at Edenburgh by which means there is so absolute and serene a Peace and Concord amongst His Majesties Subjects and Affairs are in so happy a posture in all his Dominions that perhaps England hardly ever knew the like June the 29th Mr. Richard Baxter was Mr. Baxter Fined Fined 500 Marks and bound to his Good Behaviour for seven years for publishing his seditious Annotations on the New Testament And at the same time Mr. Tho. Dangerfield who the Term before was convicted Dangerfield's Sentence upon an Information for writing and publishing a Scandalous Libel received Sentence at the Kings-Bench-Bar That he should stand in the Pillory at Westminster-Hall Gate and the Royal-Exchange be whipt from Aldgate to Newgate and from Newgate to Tyburn and that he should pay a Fine of 500 l. and find Sureties for his Good Behaviour during life This man after having received the last of these Punishments viz. his whipping from Newgate to Tyburn was returning in a Coach when being met by a Gentleman to whom he gave a saucy Answer to an impertinent Question the Gentleman being nettled made at him with a small Bamboo Cane which so unfortunately hit the Sufferer in Kill'd by a strange Accident the Eye that it pierced to his Brain and soon deprived him of Life which being upon Tryal judged Murther the Gentleman was executed for it at Tyburn On July the 2d the Parliament was adjourned Parliament Adjourned till the 4th of August after the enacting of many good Statutes and being met on the 4th of August they were farther adjourned till the 9th of November On July 22th there was an Installation An Installation at Windsor at Windsor of three Knights of the Garter Henry Duke of Norfolk Earl-Marshal of England Henry Earl of Peterborough Groom of the Stool to His Majesty and Lawrence Earl of Rochester Lord High Treasurer of England It was performed in the Royal Chappel of St. George within the Castle by the Dukes of Ormond and Beaufort two Knights of the said Order Commissioned thereunto by the Sovereign with all the accustomed Ceremonies after which the new Installed Knights Entertained the Commissioners and the other Noblemen and Persons of Quality there present at a splendid Feast in the Kings great Guard-Chamber within the said Castle His Majesty for all the foresaid wonderful Blessings of Almighty God to himself and all his happy Subjects was pleased by Proclamation to order an Universal A General Thanksgiving Thanksgiving on July the 26th throughout the Kingdom to that All-wise and powerful King of Heaven and Earth by whom all Earthly Monarchs Rule and are preserved from the horrid Machinations and rebellious Designs of all Barbarous Caballers and Seditious Plotters whatsoever Wherefore what remains now but that all True and Loyal Subjects unite their Prayers to Almighty God for the long Life and happy Reign of our most Wise most Powerful and most Excellent Monarch And say God Save King JAMES the Second A COLLECTION Of the most remarkable Occurrences Adventures notable Exploits and wonderful Casualties mentioned in Sir Richard Baker's Chronicle I Shall first take notice of the admirable A. D. 516. Arthur of Britain his great Deeds Arthur Son to Uter and King of Britain who in twelve set Battels discomfited the Saxons and in one his Sword Callibourn managed by his own invincible Arm gave Death to 800 of his Enemies which is but one and perhaps not the greatest of his wonderful Deeds 'T was he instituted the Order of Knights of the Round Table Cadwalladar about the year 687 going Cadwalladar against the Saxons and praying to God for good success was informed by an Angel That it was God's pleasure that the Britains should not rule this Land any longer whereupon he desisted from his Enterprize and so England became a Colony of the Saxons anon England was made into an Heptarchy Etheldred Daughter to Anna King of Etheldred the East-Saxons was twice married and yet continued a Virgin and afterwards turned Nun. When the Danes first invaded England A. D. 866. Nuns of Coldington the Nuns of Coldington to keep themselves from being polluted by the Danes deformed themselves by cutting off their upper Lips and Noses King Athelstone going to encounter the A. D. 924. A Miracle Danes prayed to God to shew some sign of his rightful Cause whereupon striking with his Sword he struck it an ell deep into a hard Stone Canutus the first Danish King of England A. D. 1017. A precious Jewel gave to the Church of Winchester a precious Jewel in form of a Cross valued at as much as the yearly Revenues of all England 'T was he that convinced his Flatterers of his small Power by his endeavouring to command the Tides of the Sea at Southampton Bishop Wolston in King William the Conqueror's A. D. 1066. A strange Wonder Time being commanded by the King to leave his Bishoprick Wolston answered A better than thou O King gave me these Robes and to him I will restore them and thereupon went and struck his Staff upon St. Edward's Monument who had made him a Bishop where it stuck so fast that by no strength it could be removed till himself removed it with ease which so terrified the King that he entreated him again to accept of his Bishoprick In this King's Time there hapned the A Fire greatest Fire that ever was in London by which the Cathedral of Pauls was utterly destroyed A great Lord sitting at a Feast was set A Lord devoured by Mice upon by Mice and though