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A70196	A brief chronicle of all the chief actions so fatally falling out in these three kingdoms, viz. England, Scotland & Ireland from the year, 1640, to this present twentieth of November, 1661 : containing the unhappy breaches, sad divisions, the great battels fought, number of men, with the eminent persons of honor and note slain, with several debates and treaties : also, the happy escape by a wonderful delivererance of His Majestie at Worcester, more fully expressed then hitherto : with His Majesties happy return, together with what passages of note hapned to this present November, 1661 : the like exact account hath not as yet been printed.	Heath, James, 1629-1664.; Lee, William, fl. 1627-1665.	1662 (1662)	Wing H1318A; ESTC R19419	54,711	72

this then exclusion of their Members and taxes and the fear of other pressures the Nation having had too late and long experience of their Government so stomacked the people that designs were every where laid to turn them out of their new acquired Authority But the most powerfullest attempt against them was in Cheshire under Sir George B●ooh with whom there rose to the number of 4000 or 5000 men and most of the Gentlemen of that County Against these Major General Lambert then highly in favour with the Rump so it was commonly called was sent with an Army which with addition out of Ireland very neer equalled that number At a place called Northwich a small skirmish happened between them some fourteen killed and wounded whereupon those under Sir George Booth fled and Chester was delivered with some other holds newly possest by the Cheshire men to Lambert and Zanchy whom he left behind him to reduce them while he himself passed through Lancashire to his house at Craven where with his Officers plotted the dissolution of the Rump which accordingly upon his coming up to London was put in execution October the 11th and now the Army had the sole power in their hands again Lambert hereupon for we must suppose he is the Agent for his own ambition though also agreed upon by Fleetwood and the rest of the Officers erect a Committee of Safery of some thirty of the most eminent amongst them into whose hands they devolve the Supreme Authority But the Members o● the Rump resolve not to be baffled so Sir Arthur Hazelrig in December possest himself of Portsmouth and General Monk in Scotland declares his unsatisfiedness in these proceedings of the Army at London so that while Lambert was ingaged in the North and attending the issue of a Treaty with General Monk there the Members return from Portsmouth to London through the division they had wrought in the Army the way they chalked out to their own ruine The Lord Fairfax was also risen with a sufficient force restraining Lamberts men from free quarter so that lacking money and news arrived of the Parliaments sitting at Westminster he comes back to London whither immediately followed him General Monk having been courted all along his march by the Gentlemen of all the Counties of England for a free Parliament At his coming to the Parliament he declared the sense of the Countryes through which he passed but nothing less was minded by them then a new or free Parliament but this and other his actions rendred him very suspitious to them nor was any man assured of his intentions To try him therefore the Rump having been denied moneys by the City and therefore offended with them to ruine both by their express Command the General was sent with his Army into the City pulled down their Gates and Portcullises seized several Citizens at the Guildhall and sent them to the Tower this seemed to portend some dreadful conclusion But in the interim the Rump voted that the Government of the Army should rest in five persons making the General one of those which procedure of theirs presently drew the Curtain to the Scene and design ensuing Anno Dom. 1660. For now the General having rendezvcuz●d his Army in Finsbury fields acquainted his Officers with the necessity of introducing the secluded Members ever since 1648. into the Parliament in order to the well-settlement of the Nations to which they assented and forthwith the whole Army marched into London where upon the joyful news of this miraculous turn expecting nothing but massacres and plunderings they were most welcomely entertained nothing being thought too good for these Guests whom they little before more then suspected for their Enemies This was Saturday the of February in the afternoon so that at night the Town was all of a blaze every door having a bonfire where all the contumely and disgrace that could be done a perdite and hated sort of men by burning roasting and frying of all manner of Rumps of Creatures was most spitefully performed their Speaker getting home with much danger to his house in Chancery-lane A fortnights time the General let them alone minding them only of their dissolution which time they spent in making qualifications for the Members to serve in the ensuing Parliament which were so many and so strict and unreasonable that the General delayed no longer but on Munday having convened the aforesaid secluded Members at Whitehall went with them to the Parliament House and there put them in to the confusion and astonishment of the Rumpers many of whom forbore to sit thereafter in company with them as knowing what would ensue The said Members being thus setled addrest themselves immediately to the settlement c. making the General Captain General of all the Forces in the three Kingdomes and nulling some former destructive Votes and establishing a Militia of well-affected and loyal persons in the several Countie of England and then according to the contract and compromise with the General on the day of March dissolved that long and fatal Parliament having ordered Writs to issue out for a new one to sit down at Westminster the 25th of April next the year 1661. In this interval the Government was lodged in a Councel of State who persisted in the same wayes for a settlement leaving the Top-stone to be laid by the Free Parliament a term unusual to our Ancestors but to this Generation a delightful novelty after so many forces and violences upon so many in so few years Colonel Lambert at the instance of the General had by the Rump been sent to the Tower from whence now he broke and escaped and came to Edge-●●ll where was intended a great Rendezvouz of the Phanatick part of the Army then male-contented with the proceedings but his design failed of the expected assistance Colonel Ingoldsby being sent in pursuit of him and dispersing his small party at the same place from whence he was brought to London and committed a safer prisoner to the Tower aforesaid On the 25th of April the Parliament convened in both Houses to whom a week after their sitting came a Letter from the Kings Majesty with another to the General and one to the City of I widon brought by Iohn Lord Viscount Mordant and Sir Iohn Greenvile now Earl of Bath which were all with due humility and gladness received and a Vote passed in Parliament that their most humble thanks should be presented by Commissioners appointed to attend his Majesty then at the Hague for his gracious Letters and he should be desired to return with all convenient speed to the exercise of his Kingly Government and Sir Thomas Clarges was first dispatcht by the General on the same Errand where at Court he was very much welcomed Tuesday the eighth of May the King was proclaimed with all the magnificences usual but with the unusual and extraordinary joy of the people who made great bonfires that night and seemed as it were to be in a

kind of extasie On the 25th the King landed from Holland being attended by a gallant Fleet commanded by the Earl of Sandwich at 〈◊〉 where the Genral met him the Sea and Heaven and Earth ●ung with the peals of Ordinance and so to Canterbury to Rochester and on the 29 day being Tuesday his most auspicious Birth-day triumphantly and peaceably entred his Royal City of London where the acclamations and shoutings were so loud and hearty that it is impossible to eccho or express them to the great pleasure and yet disturbance of the King who about six in the evening came to his Palace at Whitehal where in the Banquetting House both Houses attended him All the way the way through the City the General rode bareheaded next before his Majestie his two Brothers York and ●●oncester riding of each side covered After a short congratulation the King being weary went to his Bed-chamber where he supped and so to his rest having come 27 miles that day besides his going through London and within two days after his Royal Brethren having taken their places in the House of Lords came to the Parliament where he made a Speech earnestly pressing the Act of Free pardon and indempnity which he had promised in his Declaration from Dreda The next thing he did was the emitting a Proclamation requiring all those who had a hand in the execrable murther of his Father to render themselves within such a time which some obeyed the rest fled those that came in were by the Act of Pardon which came out soon after with some other respited till another Parliament should determine of them either to life or death This was in favour for their ●endring themselves On the day of August dyed the most noble and accomplisht Prince Henry Duke of Gloucester of the Small Fox at Whitehal to the very great sorrow of the whole Kingdom being a Prince of singular vertues and endowments In October 1661. they with the rest that were apprehended for the said 〈◊〉 were severally arraigned at the Sessions House in the Old-Bailey before Sir Orlando 〈◊〉 where after Tryal they were all found guilty and convicted of High-Treason for compassing contriving and bringing about the death of the King for which 26 of them 〈◊〉 sentence to be drawn hanged and quartered sixteen of them who rendred themselves according to the aforesaid Proclamation were respited till the Parliament should by an Act determine of them but the other ten viz. Mojor General Harrison Iohn Carew Iohn Cook the Sollicitor to the pretended Cour● o● Justice Hugh Peter 〈◊〉 Thomas Scot Gregory Clement Iohn Iones Adrian Scroop Francis Ha●ker and Daniel Ax●el were executed according to the sentence eight of them at Charing ●ross and the two last at Tybur● their Heads set upon Westminster-Hall and London-Bridge and their quarter upon the Gate● of London In December the King dissolved the Parliament which he honored with the Epithere of The Healing Parliament and on the 24 of December dyed also that most illustrious Princess of 〈◊〉 His Majesties Sister of the same disease which snatch away her Brother the Duke o● Gloucester to the extreme grief of the King ●he Queen Mother and the whole Court The Queen Mother had come over some while before with her Daughter the Lady 〈◊〉 and now prepared for her depath●ed feating the disease might run in the blood the young Princess being not very well and accordingly the King in company with them to bring them to the water side came to Portsmouth in the Christmast time and thence the Ladies took shipping for 〈◊〉 While the King was but this short while absent hapned that despera●e Rebellion and Insurrection in the City of London by the Fifth Monarchists at two sundry times on the ninth of Ianuary at night being Sunday where they alarmed the City marched through the gates threatning to take down their Masters those Regi●ide quarters killing some four men and so●sc●lked till Wednesday morning next● at which time they 〈◊〉 again and resolutely fought with the Trained Bands and a Squadron of the Life guard of Horse in Woods●●●t 〈…〉 their ground till they were surrounded and 〈◊〉 they began to retreat but still in order There were killed 〈◊〉 some eighteen and they killed as many Venner● a Wine Cooper who was their Leader was taken and twenty more 〈◊〉 of which were executed with him at seueral places in London being convicted of High-Treason for levying war against the King On Ianuary 30. 1660. the bodies of Oliver Cromwel 〈…〉 and Hinry Ireton were removed from their Interments in Westminster Abbey and hanged at Tyburn and there buried their heads set upon Westminster-Hall In Michaelmas Term this year there was a call of fourteen Sergeants at Law and the Courts at Westminster were filed with Judges the names of which most Grave and Honorable Persons are as followeth Sir Robert Foster Lord chief Justice of England Sir Thomas Mullet Sir Thomas Tw●sden Sir Wadham Windham of the Kings Bench Sir Orlando Bridgeman Lord chief Justice Sir Robert Hyde Sir Samuel Brown Sir Thomas Tyr●yl in the Common Pleas Sir Matthew 〈◊〉 Sir Edward Atkins Sir Christopher Turner Barons of the Exchequer Anno Dom. 1661. HIs Majestie at His dissolution of the Parliament having promised to call another with all convenient expedition issued out Writs for the election thereof and appointed the eighth of May for their sitting down at Westminster where they accordingly convened and ratified several Acts made by the preceding Parliament which being not summoned by the Kings Writ was not by Law held sufficient the Act of Oblivion was first confirmed being very much urged and pressed by the King as the foundation of a sure and lasting settlement At the opening of the Parliament the King acquainted them with His resolution of marrying Donna Catharina the Infanta of Portugal which they very joyfully received by a Vote passed to that purpose in both Hou●es There likewise passed an Act in repeal of that 1 Carol. 17. against the Civil Power of Bishops thereby debarring them from their Priviledges as Peers which by this Repeal are to be restored fully unto them with many other Acts of Publique concernment and then adjourned till the November 20. instant The Right Honorable the Earl of Sandwich having sailed with a Fleet of men of War to the Coasts of Barbary to confirm the League between those Pyrates and this Nation came to an Anchor at Algeir where he entred into a Treaty with the Governor of that Port which not succeeding the Fleet weighed and stood into the Harbour where after the had fired some ships and done some execution on shore he came out again having received some little loss both of men and rigging From thence he set sail towards the Coast of Spain leaving Vice Admiral Lawson to guard the said Port. By a Commission from the King the Right Honorable the Earl of Peterburgh was made General for the expedition to Tanger a strong place and Fortress of the Portugals on the streights of Gibrala●r and Forces are now ready to imbark in company with that Fleet which is going to bring home her Majestie the Queen from Lisbon About this time hapned a fray or conflict on Tower-hill at the Reception of the Swedish Ambassador betwixt the French and Spanish Ambassadors Coaches for Praecedency where seven or eight were killed and the French worsted This so highly incensed the French King that he sent to Madrid to demand satisfaction but received none so that upon this and some other janglings there is now a kinde of a petty Hostility between them During this clash the Prince of Spain dyed and to the King of France was born a Daulphin Christned by the name of Lewes To●s Saints because he was born on All-Saints Day October Col. Lambert Sir Henry Vane Sir Hadress Waller Col. Cobbet were sent away from the Tower to several remote places for their own preservation as well as security of the peace and divers others secured upon account of a Plot a Narrative whereof cannot be given yet not in this piece which hath attained its conclusion FINIS October Novem. Decem. 〈◊〉 ●●odah ●●●eged F●● relleved Jan. 10. T●● K●ng removeth from the parliament March The King at York Excluded H● April May June the militia set on foot July August the Kin● sets up his Standard at Nottingham August Sept. th● King 〈◊〉 Shrewsbury Portsmouth taken Aug. 2. A skirmish in Worcestershire Octo 23. Edg-hill Fight Novem. Nov. 1 Bramfor Fight Decem● Cirencester stoemed Febr. 1. March My Lord Brook killed at Litchfield May Litchfie●●etaken ●y the King TheE of Noth●mprton slain April 6 Reading besieged May 16 Stratton fight June The Covenant taken Hambden killed July Landsdown Fight July 5. July July 27. Bristol surrendred Exeter delivered August 10 Glocester besieged Glocester relieved Sept. 8 Auborn Chase sight Sept. 19. Newb. ●irst fight Sept. 20. Novemb Decemb 8. January Mar. 29 Charrington Fight April April ●une Cropr●dy bridg●●ight ●une 29. Leistithiel surrender Aug. 5. The Earl of Essex vanquished in Cornwal 〈…〉 Fight ●000 killed at Marston ●loor ●uly 16. York ●iel●ed ●o the Parlia●ent 〈…〉 ●iege of ●asing ●●ised Nov. 21. Newbery second Fight Colonel Massey defeats Myn and takes Mon-mouth Decemb 〈…〉 T●●● my modelled and Gen Fa●rfax declared Jan. 11. 30 Vxbridg ●●●ty Mar. 2● Alle●ne fight July 22. Kilsith Field Aug 27. Vide● spee●hes pages 5. April May 31 June June 14 Naseby Fight Leices●●ake● Rowlin Hea●h Fight Sept. 24. June 28. July 10. Lamport Fight Br●oll ●e●verd Aug 1● ●●●●ng House to me● Sept. 14. Novem. ●auary April June 3 Septem Novem. June July 26. June Fagans ●ight say 8. Maidstone Fight June 2. June The N●vy revolt● Augu● July Kingston Insurrection ●reston ●ight Aug. 17 ●●omwel ●st into ●tland ●lche 〈◊〉 ●lded ●gust Treaty at the Isle of Wight October January Vide speech page 3● Vide speech page 32. Dublin freed and the Marques of Ormond defeated August ●uly 22. ●uary Sept. 28. Decemb 20. Feb. 18. April July 4. Decemb 12. Decemb March May June Vide Speech June Sir Geo●●ooth ●feated 〈◊〉 20.

To that intent one Mr. Giffard an Inhabitant thereabouts was called for who with the assistance of one Mr. Walker formerly a Scoutmaster in the ●ings Army with some difficulty the King riding all the night brought him to a place called the W●ite-Ladies a mile b●v●nd Boscabell to avoid suspition of staying there At their coming to White-Ladies on break of day Thursday Septemb. 4. one George Pendrill the youngest brother of the four being awakened with the loud noyse they made at the gates and hearing distinctly Mr. G●ffards voice calling him ran down in hi● shirt and opened the door whereupon the King and th● Noblem●n presently entred the house the Kings horse being brought into the Hall where another consultation was held what should be done for the safety of the Kings person in this exigence At last it was concluded that this George should go presently to Tong and enquire what news or whether any parties were stir●ing or no and in the mean while one Martin was sent by Colonel Ros●anrck by order of the Earl of Derby for William Pendrill the eldest Brother who presently came and there met his Brother George who had brought Richard by Mr. Giffards order along with him and informed the King that the coast was yet clear Whereupon all dispatch was made to get the King out before any further danger the King hair was first out off by my Lord Wilmot then rounded by William Pendrill and at the same t●me Richard had by direction from Mr. Giffard fetcht his b●st cloaths being a jump and breeches of green course cloth and a Doe-kin leather doublet the hat was borrowed of Humphrey Pendrill the Miller being an old grey one that turned up its brims the shirt which in that Country language they call an Harden or Noggen-shirt a kind of linnen that is made of the coursest of the hemp was had of the aforesaid Martin George Pendrill lent the band and William Creswell the shoes which the King having presently unstript himself of his own cloaths did quickly put on His ●uft-coat and linnen doubler and a grey pair of breeches which he wore before he gave into his brothers hands who forthwith buried them under ground where they lay five weeks before they durst take them up again The Jewels off his arm he gave to one of Lords then departing Straightwith William Pendrill was brought to the King by the Earl of Derby and the care and preservation of his most Sacred Majesty committed to his charge and the rest of the Brothers the Earl himself would have staid but there was no undertaking security for them both so presently the Lords took their heavy leave and departed every one shifting for himself The Duke of Buckingham Earl of Derby Lord Talbot the Earl of Lauderdale and the rest of that party being overtaken at Newport in their march Northward and routed the Duke escaped and found a hiding place at a friends of his Family in Shropshire the rest were taken the Earl of Derby most inhumanely and unjustly beheaded at Bolton with Sir Timothy Fetherston-Haugh and some others elsewhere and imprisoned only the Lord W●lmot since decea●ed during the Kings Exile abroad staid behind and wa● by Iohn Pendrill through many difficulties and tryals o● several places conveyed safely to Mr. Whitgrea●s at Mosely Now the King and his company being departed having taken a Woodbill into his hand went out with Richard into the adjoyning wood called Spring Coppice William departed home and George and Humphrey went out to scout and lay hovering about the woods to hear or see if any approached that way You must note here that these Brothers had taken into their assistance one Frances Yates their Sisters Husband who was also with the King in the wood they being by profession wood-cutters But the King had not been an hour in the wood before a party of horse in pursuit of him was come to White-Ladies and had enquired and sound out by some of the Inhabitants that the King with a party had been there as they supposed but they affirmed directly that he was gone away with all speed from thence in the said company Northwards Upon which words spurr'd on by the expectat on greediness of their prey supposing the King and his Lords were all together they made no stay or further inquisition or search save only in the house and rode away as fast as they could possible This the King was informed of by his two aforesaid Sco●ts who stragled for intelligence neer the village This Thursday the King continued all day in the wood upon the ground Richard Pendrill being constantly with him and sometimes the other three It proved to be a very rainy day and the King was wet with the showers thereupon Francis Yates his wife came into the wood on whom the King at first lookt something dubiously yet resolutely askt her whether she could be faithful to a distressed Cavalier To which she replyed Sir I will die rather then discover you She brought with her a blanket to keep the King dry and his first meat he eat there viz. a mess of milk eggs and sugar in a black earthen cup which the King guessed to be milk and apples and said he loved it very well After he had drank some and eat some in a Pewter spoon he gave the rest to George and bid him eat it for it was very good There was nothing of moment passed this day in Court but only his Majesty exchanged his Wood-bill for Francis Yates his Broom-hook being something lighter The King was hardly brought to fashion himself to their gate or to bend his streight body down to his feet the language in his stay and passing to Worcester he could tune pretty well most of the day was spent in conforming him to their words till about five a clock that evening the King with his gallant Retinue of Richard Humphry George and Francis Yates left the wood and betook himself to Richards little house where he went under the name of William Iones a Woodcutter newly come thither for work At his coming the good wife for his entertainment at supper was preparing a Fricass of Bacon and Eggs and while that was doing the King held on his knees their Daughter Nan He eat very little ruminating and pausing on his intended passage into Wales After supper ended the Mother of the Pendrills came and kneeled and took her leave of the King so did the rest of his poor mean attendants only Richard went along with the King to conduct and guide him it being then dark and the way troublesome Their intended journey was to Mr. Wolfes of Madely some 5 miles distant from White-Ladies of whom the King had a good character from his servant Richard By the way they were put to a fright at a Mill-water by a Miller that had taken into his protection some of the same undone party so that Richard was forced to wade through and the King to follow

King kept himself in the secret place where he lay that night having been much discommodated through the shortness of it As soon as the appointed hour was come Humphrey the Miller was ready with his horse that should carry the King for none other with safety and convenience could he had This was a kind of War-horse that had carried many a load of provision meal and such like but now there was put on him a bridle and a saddle that had outworn its tree and irons The horse standing at the door the King came out intending to have none along with him but Iohn but the other five brothers insisting on the danger of his going so ill attended so many stragling souldiers lying up and down the Country he agreed to have them all along with him and so took his farewell of Colonel Carelos who very disconsolately parted from him The King being mounted the six Brethren guarding him behind and before and on each side Humphrey leading the horse they began their journey The way wa● something dirty and every where the horse blundering caused the King to suspect falling and to bid Humphrey have a care to which he returned that his horse had carried many a heavy weight before but never the price of three Kingdomes and therefore he might be excused by reason of his extraordinary burden When they came within a mile of the house they made fast the horse and came the foot-way through the fields thither before the King went into the house he took his leave of all of them but Iohn they upon their knees crying and praying for his safety and preservation As they were departing the King called them back and said I am so full of care that I do forget what I do but here is my hand giving it them to kiss if God bless me I will remember all another day A promise his Majesty hath most graciously perfopmed When he came into the house with none but Iohn he was most submisly and cordially welcomed by Mr. Whitgreave who presently conducted him to my Lord Wilmot in the secret place who with infinite gladness ●ell down and imbraced his knees The first thing they did was to shist his Majesty by taking off that course shirt and putting on a ●●er and changing his stockings and shoes Next they consulted about his Majesties manner of escape out of England whereupon Col. Lane was propounded as a very fit and necessary instrument in that business and agreed on and accordingly transacted as before designed by my Lord Wilmot which was that the never-to-be-forgotten Lady Iane Lane under some pre●ence of visiting her Sister and other affairs in Bristoll should g●t a Pass for her Man and her self and that the King should be the Man and ride before her This was concluded on and done Mrs. Lane sending some Spring-water in which Wallnuts had been boiled to discolour his hands and face and other parts open to view and on Thursday night the eleventh of September Colonel Lane came with her all things fit for his Majesties journey being provided to a field adjoyning to Mr. Whitgreaves house where the King was mounted before her and from thence they immediately set forward having directions given to know the Country and recommendations also to the Allies friends and acquaintance of her Family if any sinister rancounter should put them to tryal At one Town in their journey they met with a Troop of horse but the Captain perceiving they rid double commanded the Troop to open to the right and left and so past them Being come to Bristoll they endeavoured to get a passage thereabouts for France his Majesty being Nobly and secretly entertained at the house of Mr. Norton at Leigh hard by Bristoll since Knighted for his loyalty but it not succeeding there and my Lord Wilmot being come to Bristoll it was agreed to go for Salisbury where the King had entertainment by the Relations of Sir Edward Nicholas his Majestics Secretary Here Colonel Gunter fortunately came to know the King by whose conveyance the King was brought sale into Sussex to the habitation of this Noble Gentleman and a Bark b●b● means procured for fifty pound to transport two Gentlemen upon account of a quarrel and Duel lately fought into France The Master not knowing otherwise while at Sea who safely and dutifully landed them at Deep in Normandy from whence the King went immediately to Paris where he was welcomed by that Court but most joyfully received by our Queen his Mother and the Duke and that most affectionate Uncle of his Majesties the late deceased Duke of Orleans of famous memory De Bello ducit Pax laeta Triumphos Anno Domini 1652. AF●er this defeat Scotland is with little difficulty General Mon● seizing most of the Scotch Presbyterian Nobility at Ellas where they were in Councel reduced to the obedience of the Parliament Garrisons were placed every where and four Citradels most impregnably fortified at Leith S. Iohnstons Ayre and Innerness so that the total Conquest of that Nation was by the English then accomplished and so far forth secured for ever This Triumph swelled the new State to other great enterprizes the Dutch had stood upon some punctilio of honour with them as being the junior state and for their relation to the Prince of Aurange their General were suspected though many variations in that compass of adherance to the King his Brother-in-law the said Prince being lately dead For these reasons the Parliament published an Act by them made for the incouragement of Navigation the most advantagious and pleasing to the English Marriners and as hurtful and displeasant to the Hollander forbidding any goods to be exported from any place but what were of the growth and manufacture thereof in any other vessels but their own and English which totally excluded the Hollander saving some petty Merchandises of Linen Maderas c. The States of Holland hereupon arm and set forth a Fleet of ships under Admiral Van-Trump who meeting with our Fleet at the Downs in the beginning of May under Bourn who was soon relieved by General Blake the Flag being refused by the Dutch the fight began and continued about four houres till night the success lighting on the English This attempt made by the Dutch highly exasperated the then State who were used to the excesses and uncoutroulments of Fortune so that the Ambassadors here could not allay their fury but departed home Sir George A●scue one of the Parliaments Captains over a Squadron of ships being about Plymouth met with a Sail of fifty Dutch Men of War and by night after some conflict parted equally from them General Blake roving about the Downs met with the French Fleet then bound for the relief of Dunkirk besieged by the Spaniard which he took altogether and thereupon that Town was rendred to the Arch-Duke Leopold On the 28 of September the English met the Dutch Fleet at a place called the Kentish-Knock where some of the