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A59136	The history of England giving a true and impartial account of the most considerable transactions in church and state, in peace and war, during the reigns of all the kings and queens, from the coming of Julius Cæsar into Britain : with an account of all plots, conspiracies, insurrections, and rebellions ... : likewise, a relation of the wonderful prodigies ... to the year 1696 ... : together with a particular description of the rarities in the several counties of England and Wales, with exact maps of each county / by John Seller ...	Seller, John, fl. 1658-1698.	1696 (1696)	Wing S2474; ESTC R15220	415,520	758

Commons Ordered he should be brought to Exemplary Punishment and all his Books Burnt Nor do I hear that ever he made any Defence or Answer to those Articles that were brought against him It is affirmed That Dr. Laud who was a mighty stickler for Arminianism and Ceremonies and who first of all set up this Mountague understanding from the D. of Buckingham that the King intended to leave Mr. Mountague to a Tryal was heard to say I seem to see a Cloud arising and threatning the Church of England God in his Mercy dissipate it After this the Commons Question'd several Persons who were of the Council of War in the Affairs of the Palatinate concerning the management of that Business But the King understanding that the House of Commons were very busie in searching the Original of a Letter under the Signet written to the Mayor of York for Reprieving divers Jesuits Priests and Popish Recusants interrupted their Proceedings therein by a Message sent by Sir Richard Weston Chancellor of the Exchequer demanding a Supply for the English and Irish Forces this was so highly resented by the House that Mr. Clement Cook one of the Members openly Protested That it was better to Dye by a Forrign Enemy than to be Destroy'd at Home And Dr. Turner another Member of the House seconded him with these Quaeries 1. Whether the King had not lost the Regality of the Narrow Seas since the D. of Buckingham was Admiral 2. Whether his not going as Admiral in this last Fleet was not the Cause of the ill Success 3. Whether the King's Revenues has not been Impaired through his Immense Liberality 4. Whether he hath not Engrossed all Offices and preferred his Kindred to unfit Places 5. Whether he hath not made Sale of places of Judicature 6. Whether Popish Recusants have not Dependence upon his Mother and Father in Law These bold Expressions so provok'd the King that he immediately sent Sir Richard Weston to Demand Satisfaction whereupon Dr. Turner made a Speech in his own Vindication alledging That what he had said was for the Good of the Kingdom and not Reflecting upon any one in particular with much more to the same Purpose And the further Debate of the matter being referr'd till another time Dr. Turner in the mean time with-drew himself and sent a Letter to the Speaker to excuse his Absence Sir William Walter speaking his Opinion about Grievances said That the true cause of them was because as was said of Lewis the 11th all the King's Council rode upon one Horse Thereby alluding to the D. of Buckingham's sole Management of all Affairs But for all these Discourses the Commons taking the King's Necessities into Consideration Voted three Subsidies and three Fifteens and that the Bill should be brought in assoon as the Grievances represented were redressed They likewise Consider'd of the matter of the D. of Buckingham and the mis-employing of the Revenue But the King observing they did not make such haste as he Expected in answering his last Message Summons both Houses together and by the Lord-Keeper complains to them for not Punishing Dr. Turner and Mr. Cook and likewise for searching his Signet-Office and justified the D. of Buckingham to have acted nothing of publick Concernment without his special Warrant and therefore forbid them to Concern themseves any farther therein and Blamed them for being too sparing in the matter of Supply and for Ordering the Bill not to be brought in till their Grievances were heard and Answered which he would not Admit of To which the King himself added He must also put them in Mind That his Father moved by their Counsel and won by their Perswasion broke the Treaties and that be himself was their Instrument towards his Father and was Glad to be Instrumental in any thing which might please the whole Body of the Realm nor was there any in greater Favour then than the Duke whom they now Traduced but that now finding him so far intangled in a War that he could make no Honourable nor safe Retreat they made Necessity their Priviledge and set what Rate they pleased upon their Supplies a Practice not very Obliging towards Kings And whereas Mr. Cook told them It was better for them to Dye by a Foreign Enemy than to be Destroyed at Home indeed he thought it more Honourable for a King to be Invaded and almost Destroyed by a Forreign Enemy than to be Despised at Home The Commons in Answer to this presented the King with a very Dutiful Remonstrance acquainting him That they gratefully Acknowledged his Majesty's Expressions of Affection to his People and Parliaments that they had taken Mr. Cook 's and Dr. Turner's Words into Consideration and might have given a good Account thereof by this time if His Majesty's Message had not Interrupted them That they had the Presidents of former Parliaments for Searching Letters of his Majesty and his Secretary of State the Signet-Office and other Records upon the like Occasions That it was the unquestionable Priviledge of Parliaments to Complain of any Person of any Degree and their Proceedings in Relation to the Duke should not Prejudice either Crown or Kingdom That they were willing to Supply his Necessities Liberally and Faithfully if Additions might be made of other things which concerned his Service and were now in Consultation amongst them The King having received this Remonstrance returned this Answer to it That he would have them in the first place Consult about matters of the greatest Importance and they should have time enough for other things afterwards Not long after this the Earl of Bristol being Ordered by the King to be Examined by a Committee of Lords about his Negotiations in Spain and having been in Prison and prohibitted access to his Majesty ever since his Return Petition'd the House of Lords for his Liberty or to come to a Tryal who applying themselves to the King he granted a Writ for the Earl's coming to Parliament but with a Proviso That his Personal attendance should be forborn Whereupon the Earl sent another Petition to the Lords that he might be heard both as to his Restraint and of what he had to say against the Duke At this the King was much concern'd and let the Lords know That it was his Royal Pleasure that the Earl of Bristol might be sent for as a Delinquent to answer his Offences to the House and his Scandalizing the Duke of Buckingham and the King likewise by Reflection Upon this the Earl was brought to the Bar and being ready to be Impeached of High-Treason by the Attorney-General the Earl said My Lords I am a Freeman and Peer of the Realm Vnattainted I have something to say of high Consequence to His Majesty's Service and I beseech your Lordships give me leave to Speak The Lords thereupon bid him go on Then said he I accuse that Man the Duke of Buckingham of High-Treason And immediately he presented Twelve Articles against him This unexpected procedure of the

and in Henry the Seventh's Jane Boughton a Woman of Fourscore Years of Age was burnt in Norfolk another in Smithfield several Branded and others did Pennance going in their Shirts with Ropes about their Necks and carrying Faggots on their Backs and Will. T●lsworth being Condemned as a Heretick for owning the Scriptures for the true Rule of Faith and saving Knowlidge and denying the Romish Traditions and Image Worship c. to make the flaming Scene more dreadful being bound to a Stake in Amersham and the Wood placed about him they compelled his own Daughter with a Torch to Light his Funeral Pile whilst he was Singing and Rejoycing in his Martyrdom till the Flames stopped his Breath and his Soul mounted on Firy Wings to Everlasting Rest And about two Years after in Buckinghamshire were Burned John Melton Tho. Bernard and one Roberts taking that cruel Death with admirable Patience and Cherfulness Thomas Norrice Suffered in the like manner at Norwich and Tho. Guest at Salisbury and a Woman at Chiping Sudbury and in this Reign several other Persons in divers Places some against whom there were no colourable Accusations after severe Rackings and Torturings were found Murthered in Goals and Hundreds fled into Germany c. Cardinal Wolsey in the beginning of Henry the Eighth's Reign doing all under him or rather above him for he did only what he pleased to ingratiate himself with the Court of Rome as aiming at the Pontificate loosed the Reins of Persecution against those that had separated themselves from the Romish Churches for indeed about this time two things mainly encreased the Gospel Professors in England and other Nations viz. One The appearance of Martin Luther in Germany who openly with all his might opposed it and had gained some Princes to his side and the other the Noble Mystery of Printing which began to be much used whereby good Books were more easily Promulgated and Dispersed through divers Nations in their proper Languages These alarmed the Pope and his Clergy fearful of their Diana Profit to raise dreadful Persecutions against the Professors of the Gospel raging against them even to Madness and of this England now had a smarting share For in the Year 1511 John Brewster and William Sweeting were Burnt in Smithfield and also Robert Harrison William Carder and Agnese Greble the Husband and Daughter being forced in as Witnesses to take away the Life of the latter and one Mr. Stye for having the Book of Revelations in English was Burnt with that and other good Books hanging about his Neck in a String in the ●ashion of Popish Beads and five Persons for Reading the four Evangelists in English were Accused for having in their possession and Reading Heretical Books containing many Damnable Opinions and in the Year 1514 Richard Hun was found Murthered in the Lollards Castle after many Torments and much Cruelty had been excercised towards him However their Mallice extended to his dead Body for it was committed to the Flames and about this time John Stile John Brown and Thomas Man were Burnt in Smithfield Robert Cousens at Buckingham Christopher Shoomaker at Newbury Robert and Richard Bartlet and John Scrivener likewise suffer'd the Flames after all ways had been in vain used to make them Renounce their Profession and thinking to terrify the latter his Children were compelled to set Fire to the pile that burnt him In the Year 1519 Six Persons were Burnt at Coventry and soon after them Thomas Harding and Robert Silkeb And the Body of William Tracy Esq in Gloucestershire because his Executors refused to Pay for Singing his Soul out of Purgatory was dug up and burnt being Charged for the fore-mentioned reason to have dyed a Heretick One Richard Brayfield who had been a Monk at Bury in Suffolk but left it upon seeing the Debauched and Dissolute Lives of the other Monasticks was accused of Heresy hurry'd to a Dungeon bound Gagg'd and Whipt and then standing to his Profession of that Truth Recorded in Holy Writ opposite to the Romish Tenents he was Degraded and Condemned when being Burnt in London the Fire was on purpose made so scanty that he continued in it half an Hour Alive without Complaining and his Left Arm being burnt he cherfully rubbed it with his Right Hand so that it fell into the Fire and so in Prayers without moving his Body he cherfully ended his days in a bed of flames Some that were Imprisoned they fed with Sawdust some were kept continually in the Stocks with great Waights on their Leggs some with Manacles and bars of Iron fixed about their Necks and many Rack'd till they were Lamed and Distorted in Body James Bainham John Tewsbury Valentine Sheaf and his Wife John Bent and Mr. Trapnel suffered the Flames three Persons were Hanged in Chains and Starved to Death for burning a Wooden Image called the Rood at Dover Court Andrew Honor John Frith Thomas Bennet John Lambert William Tindal William Leighton and Mr. Collier a Lawyer suffered the Flames accused for Lutherans for so now they termed the Professors of the Gospel Truths And a little while after Dr. Barns William Hieron Thomas Garret made their passage from this to a better World through the Fire in Smithfield Anthony Parker Henry Filmer and Robert Testwood were Burnt at Windsor and many Dyed in Prison some Natural Deaths others suspected to be Murthered In the Year 1541 Kerby and Clarke were Burnt at Ipswich and Bury and Anno 1546 Mrs. Ann Askew a Gentlewoman belonging to Queen Catharine Par because she would not accuse the Queen and other great Ladies of favouring the Lutheran Tenents was put upon the Rack Wriothsley the Chancellor playing the part of the Hangman in Torturing and Stretching her Limbs but tho' he Sweat at this barbarous Work she bore it wi●●out a Sigh or Groan till the Bloodthirsty Wretch was weary with Tormenting her yet being Condemned for Heresy she was burnt in Smithfield where she Dyed with such Constancy Courage and composedness of Mind that by her Death many who saw her suffer were Converted and at the same time and place suffered in the ●●ames Nicholas Bellerian a Minister John Addams a Taylor and John Lassets a Gentleman belonging to the Court who were much encouraged to undergo their Sufferings as having beheld the Constancy and Patience of Mrs. Askew And Sir John Blage a Gentleman of the Kings Privy-Chamber was by the Romish Bishops Condemned for Speaking against the Efficacy of the Mass but by the Earl of Bedford's Intercession Pardoned when the King soon after meeting him said Ah my Pigg how do'st thou Truly reply'd the Knight feelingly If your Majesty had not been kinder to mee than your Bishops your Pigg had been Roasted long ere now Soon after this Bishop Gardener procured the King to put out a Proclamation for taking away the use of the Scriptures and all other Books in English that might Enlighten the People in the ways of Truth or that shewed them the Absurdities of the Romish

Earl's caused the Attorney-General to draw up a Charge against him consisting of Eleven Articles of matters of divers Natures And beside these Articles against the Duke the Earl of Bristol exhibited Eleven others against the Lord Conway The Earl likewise gave in his Answer to each particular Article of his Impeachment And now whilst these two Peers were thus Contesting the House of Commons presented an Impeachment against the Duke consisting of twelve Articles to each of which the Duke made Replies But that not Satisfying the Commons they drew up another Declaration of Grievances against the Duke whom they resolved by all means to bring down which Declaration was read before the Bill of Subsidies Which so Incensed the King that he Dissolved the Parliament the very next Day and thereby lost Four Subsidies and Three Fifteenths rather than the Duke should be farther Question'd by the Parliament tho' one of the Articles against the Duke was for a strong Presumption of his having Poisoned the King's Father And thus ended this King's Second Parliament After this Dissolution the King Committed the Earl of Bristol to the Tower and Published first a Proclamation for Burning all Copies of the Commons Declaration and then a Declaration shewing the Grounds and Reasons of his Dissolving this and the former Parliament There were several Occasions at this time which required considerable Sums of Money for besides the Palatinate there was great Likelihood of a War with France upon occasion of the French King 's using the Vaunt-Guard one of the King's Men of War lent to the French King to go against Genoa with six other Merchants Ships turn'd into Men of War against the French Protestants in Rochel expresly contrary to Agreement and the King being extreamly Troubled at it demanded Satisfaction of the French King who Deferring to give it the King seized a rich French Ship and the French King Arrested the Goods of the English Merchants in France to the Value of about 300000 l. tho' afterwards Restoration was made on both sides But the Insolent Practices of the Priests and Jesuits belonging to the Queen especially her Confessor soon caused another Rupture for he imposed upon her as a Pennance to wait upon his Servants at their Dinner and to walk on Foot in a rainy Morning from Sommerset-House to St. James's and from thence to Tyburn to offer up her Prayers for the Souls of the Romish Martyrs i. e. Traytors or Jesuits that had been Executed there himself the mean while riding by her in his Coach But these Arrogancies being unsufferable the Queens French Domesticks were paid off and sent Home Hereupon the French King tho' this was no more than what himself had done before in sending back all the Spanish Courtiers that came with his Queen Arrested all the English Merchants Ships that lay in the River of Bourdeaux this was so ill resented by the King that the Peace so lately patch'd up was now turn'd into an open War And the King thereupon made use of those Forces against the French which were designed against the Spaniard complying now with the Desires of the Rochelers who had humbly Sued to him for Aid and Protection But the Fleet design'd for their Relief not going out till after Michaelmas a very improper Season to send out a Fleet of great Ships to Sea encountred only with Storms and Tempests and return'd Home again without doing any thing leaving the poor Rochellers in a worse Condition than they were before The Assessment of the Loan again set on Foot since the Parliaments Dissolution being generally Opposed the People of lower Rank were Ordered to appear in the Military-Yar near St. Martins in the Fields to be Listed for Soldiers it being thought fit that those who could not with their Pur●es should assist the King with their Persons But several Gentlemen and others of Ability for refusing the Loan were Committed Prisoners to the Fleet Mar●●●sea Gate-House and other Prisons Sir John Elliot who Petition'd his Majesty declaring that he could prove by many Presidents That all manner of Aids and Taxes in former Kings Reigns were never Levied but the general Consent of the Nobility and Commons Assembled in Parliament Notwithstanding which he was Committed to the Gate-House Dr. Sybthorp and Manwaring two Eminent Preachers at Court instead of Preaching the Gospel Preach'd up the Necessity and Duty of the Loan one of them Asserting That the Prince hath power to Direct his Counsel and make Laws and that Subjects if they cannot exhibit Active Obedience in case the thing Commanded should be against the Law of God or Nature yet ought to yield Passive Obedience and in all other Cases they were bound to Active Obedience The other was more express to the Purpose and affirmed That the King 's Royal Command in imposing of Loans and Taxes though without Consent in Parliament did Oblige the Subjects Conscience upon pain of Eternal Damnation Which Position being highly Applauded at Court the Sermon of Dr. Sybthorp call'd Apostolick Obedience was approved by Dr. Laud then Bishop of London and an Express sent from the King to Archbishop Abbot to License it which he refusing the King suspended him from his Archiepiscopal See and a Commission was Granted to five Bishops to execute his Office And now the D. of Buckingham to clear his Reputation and shew his Diligence in his Admiral-ship with some difficulty compleated his Naval Forces consisting of 6000 Horse and Foot in Ten Royal Ships and Ninety Merchant-Men with which he set Sail from Portsmouth June 27th 1627. and Published a Manifesto of the King's Affection to the Reformed Churches in France and his Displeasure for the last Mis-employing of his Ships against the Rochellers But after all through the Duke 's ill Conduct or Obstinacy in going before St. Martin's Castle in the Isle of Rhee against which his Council disswaded him rather than against the Mede another Castle in that Island which they might in all likelihood have carried and would have been a safe place of Retreat in case of Necessity this great Design Miscarried with the Death of near Two Thousand common Souldiers Thirty Prisoners of Note and Forty four Colours taken Yet to make some Amends for this Miscarriage a great French Ship was taken upon the Coasts of Holland Laden with all sorts of Ammunition to a great Value Also Sir John Pennington took 34 rich French Merchant-men homeward-bound and brought 'em all safe into England The lowness of the Exchequer the late Miscarriage at the Isle of Rhee and the present distressed Condition of the Rochellers being laid before the Lords of the Council it was thereupon resolved to call another Parliament and Writs were forthwith issued out accordingly And the Parliament met the 27th of March and the King tells them That the greatness of the Danger requires a speedy Supply and hopes they will prove such true Patriots as not to deceive his Expectations The first thing the Commons went upon was the Grievances