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

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