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A61191	Anglia rediviva Englands recovery being the history of the motions, actions, and successes of the army under the immediate conduct of His Excellency Sr. Thomas Fairfax, Kt., Captain-General of all the Parliaments forces in England / compiled for the publique good by Ioshua Sprigge ...	Sprigg, Joshua, 1618-1684.; Fiennes, Nathaniel, 1607 or 8-1669.	1647 (1647)	Wing S5070; ESTC R18123	234,796	358

engage p. 195. l. 25. f. Holsworth r. Holsworthy so p. 197. l. 27. l 30. who all dele who p. 196 l. 7. this last defeat dele last l. 14. f. Sir George Digby r. Sir Iohn l. ●…d f. Governour r. Commander p. 197. l last but one f. Tomerton r. Tamerton l 25. f. Taverstock r. Tawstock p. 198. l. 14. f. by the r. but by the p. 199. l. 9. f. Lime Regiment r. Plimouth Regiment p. 252. l. 7. f. the end r. therein p. 253. l. 16. f. old through time r. old decayed through c. p. 281 l. 8. f. divine r. dimm p. 284. l. 11. f presumptory r. peremptory p. 313. l. 4. f. last r. cast p. 315. l. last but four f. the r. that l. last but two f. Victory sweld r. Victory-sweld p. 317. l. 14. f. possimus r. poscimus l. 23. f. commonalty r. commodity p. 320. l. penult after acceptance of r. God ANGLIA REDIVIVA OR ENGLAND'S RECOVERY PART I. CHAP. I. Containing by way of Proeme and Introduction a generall account of the miserable condition of this Kingdome before this present Parliament The occasion and Instruments of calling it The snare laid for us in a former Parliament The quarrel between the Royall party and the Parliament stated And shewing how the Command of the Parliaments Forces came to be devolved to Sir Thomas Fairfax their present Generall Englands misery to be reckoned from a longer date then this late discovery PRRINCIPLES of Misery and seeds of Diseases in the Body politique strengthening themselves through a long tract of time and at length discovering themselves more and more in outward symptomes afforded an happy rise and advantage of seeking out the means of cure Of which God had not left this Kingdome destitute in so sufficient a proportion as that few States or Common-wealths in the world enjoy the like The constitution of Englands Government highly to be approved Being of it self of a sound and healthy constitution and temper able if not obstructed to conflict with and expell all burthensom humours and correct all vitious dispositions to Tyranny There being no Government better tempered in the world if true to themselves in a timely application of Remedies at hand The Peeres at York petition the King for this Parliment Accordingly therefore so soon as the Body by the Nobler senses began to take notice of and be seriously affected with her sicknesses and to be sensible of the meanes at hand Recollecting their resolution they urge the calling of this second PARLIAMENT section 2 The snare that was laid for us in the former Parliament There was a former Parliament called by the KING And never was the Kingdome in greater danger For never more danger then when good meanes are tampered with to bad ends when Ahab cals a Fast to accuse Naboth and Satan transformeth himself into an Angel of light The snare broken And this first act and putting forth of the Politique nature though not perfective of the Cure nor having any thing in it again so eminently remarkable as the National justice and affection expressed to the Scots declining upon ever so fair proffers and conditions to assist the King in his engagements against them an act that should ever make the English of precious remembrance with that Nation Yea though this first Essay of Nature was seemingly overcome by the prevalency of the malignant matter to the breaking up of that Parliament yet was it not in vain For notwithstanding that for the present the Disease took its turn and did appear in a higher way of opposition and contest to strengthen it self and to overcome its antidote yet this did but put Nature upon more vigorous and industrious actings to defend it self as was need and so was subservient unto the calling of this second Parliament section 3 The utmost endeavours of the Malignant party Wherein both Interests conflicting and the Malignant party seeing it self so eminently threatned and endangered and redacted to that extreme necessity as to use the utmost means for its preservation and being no longer able to endure at so neer a distance those strong motions and workings of the Heart betakes it self from the vital parts to some remoter members of the Body gathers and settles there causing an inflammation of those parts hopes to derive the same from part to part through the whole body at last choosing to sacrifice all rather then to be corrected at all Hereupon the Heart of this Kingdome I mean the Parliament which had performed its own defence so well endeavours its office for the Body The Parliaments Arms defensive and being necessitated to meet with the distemper in the way it had put it self opposeth fire to fire force to force sword to sword hoping by this means as by the opening of a Vein to breath out the Distemper though with the losse of some Blood section 4 The quarrel between the King and Parliament stated The King with his unhappy Counsellours and Courtiers who had promised themselves to be petty Tyrants under him had driven on far and well neer accomplished the great designe of an Absolute Arbitrary and Tyrannicall Government The Popish and Prelatical party fall in for their Interest hopeing by this means to usher in the long-wished for Alteration of Religion within this and the neighbour-Kingdomes The troubles of Scotland and the Parliaments of both Kingdomes ensuing thereupon The Execution of Strafford and Prosecution of his Companions Partisans unexpectedly crosse and interrupt this grand designe The King offered the Scots foure Counties to be annexed to the Crown of Scotland viz. Northumberland Cumberland Westmerland and the Bp. of Durham to come up to London and serve him against the Parliament and moreover the ransacking of the City of London which was reckoned to them at a greater value then the 300000. l. the Parliament granted them Many wayes are attempted many practices are set on foot Every stone is turned the Armies of both Nations English and Scotish are tampered with to overthrow the proceedings and power of the Parliament And when all these wayes proved successelesse secret practices and bands are set on foot in Scotland a Rebellion is raised in Ireland and in the end the King attempts to seize the persons of some eminent Members of both Houses and by an example not to be paralleled in the story of any Age comes himself in person accompanied with a band of Ruffians to take five of the Members of Commons by force out of that House As divers Souldiers and other loose people flocked to Court so many well-affected Citizens and others testified their affection in a voluntary way to the Parliament the preservation of their persons and priviledges These called the other Cavaliers and they termed these Round-heads whence arose those two Names whereby in common talk the two parties in this War were by way of nick-name distinguished The Parliament upon the attempt of

or other Nations it was not without some Jealousie that in them there was some mixture and glosses of Oratory and Art the more to set off and give Lustre to the Acts as Arguments of Emulation for others to follow the Foot-steps of their Vertues but the Actions of your Excellency will adde Lnstre and Beliefe to them being all verified in you And indeed here considering the swift Martches and the Ex peditions in these grand and difficult Attempts which were prosecuted and effected by your Excellency I may say The Almighty came Riding on the Wings of the Wind for these were nothing else but the Magnalia Dei acted in and by you his Instrument It was the Custome of the ancient Romans after a glorious and succesfull Prince to derive his Name to Posterity in memorie of his Vertues as after that great Prince JULIUS CAESAR his Successors retained the Name of CAESARS as AUGUSTUS CAESAR TYBERIUS CAESAR c. Thus hereafter all Famous and Victorious succeeding Generals in this Kingdome if the time shall prove so unfortunate will desire the addition of the Name of FAIR FAX And surely the Honour of the late Lord General was not whiles he lived any way eclipsed by the succession of your Excellency in his Command but rather augmented whiles each retained the brightnesse of his owne Honour having both Rayes enough to enlighten a Kingdome then overset with Clouds and thick darknesse I shall need to say no more but this That the Wo●ld will admire your Excellencies Worth Posterity will honour your Name and that the whole House of Commons in the Name of the Commons of England doth returne you Thanks for your faithfull and memorable Services the beginning continuance and effect whereof I must solely attribute to the Almighty the Lord of Hosts and Victories But never had JuliusCaesar the honor in those Civil wars when he came to Rome as a Conquerour one poor Metellus confronts him and gives check to his Victory sweld spirit breaking up the Doors of Saturnes Temple Indeed there is a manifest cause of difference Caesar did not plead the Senates cause did not fight for the Roman Liberties The Senate fled when Caesar drew neare but his Excellenci●s Warre was the Parliments Peace by his Motion they sat still Happy man may I say of him that is able to Engage Kingdomes and Parliaments in such Respects and Dutyes and happy Kingdome and Parliament also for whose Exstreame and low Condition God Reserves such a chosen Vessell To all which his Excellency made a very modest returne Expressing How much he Esteemad himselfe Honoured by the great Respects of the Houses towards him and that he accounted it his greatest Happinesse under God to be in the least kind Instrumentall for theirs and the Kingdomes good So great was the benefit and Obligation of his Excellencies Services that the Lord Major and Aldermen in their owne and Cities interest feeling the same particularly could not discharge themselves in their Consciences to acknowledge to their General in their representive the Commons of England but on the Tuesday following came with a Train of Coaches to his Excellencies house in the name and on the behalfe of the City to render Thanks unto him by whose watchfulnesse this famous City so much longed for by the Enemy was preserved from being sackt and plundered as well as the Kingdome recovered Master Glyn the Recorder was their Mouth to this effect SIR I Am to declare unto you in the behalf of ihe Lord Major and the whole City that they in the first place blesse Almighty God for the great Victories and Successes wherewith it hath pleased God to Crowne your faithfull Endeavours And next they give your Excellency hearty Thanks for your great and incomparable Services whereby you have setled the City and whole Kingdome in so peaceable a Condition as it is at this day To which his Excellency gave a very modest Reply in way of Thankfulnesse for that Visit and the Respects of the City towards him And in close the Recorder further gave his Excellency to understand That the City intended very shortly to make a further acknowledgment of their Thankfulnesse and to give a greater Testimony of the high Esteeem t●ey had of his Excellency month December 1646 And thus I have brought his Excellency to Towne and here I could be glad to leave him Pacem te possimus omnes but I must carry him Forth againe but 't is not to War nor Battell 't is to discharge Armies and Souldiers that England may if it be the Will of God be a quiet Habitation againe and the noyse of War not heard in it His Excencellency had not long staid at London but he was Ordered to provide a Convoy to goe with the two hundred thousand pounds for the Scottish Army upon their martching out of England His Excellency living more to the Publick Service and Commonalty then his owne Ease or Accommodation On Thursday Decemb. 18. went from London towards Northampton having before ordered most of his Forces to advance to those parts and appointed three Regiments of Horse viz. Colonel Sir Robert Pye's Colonel Grave's and Colonel Rossiter's and three Regiments of Foot viz. Major-General Skippon's Colonel Lilburnes and Colonel Sir Hardresse Waller's to martch under the command of Major-General Skippon as a Convoy to the said Money to Newcastle upon Tyne a tedious Winter martch being neer two hundred miles from the place where some of them received the Money yet the better to be undergone when it ends not in fighting as many tedious Martches of this Army have done And thus you have an account of six Regiments how they are disposed the rest of the Army I leave in their Quarters to practice Saint John Baptists Lesson Doe violence to no man and be content with your Wages And would to God I might here set Finis to our English Troubles as well as to this History Times and Issues are in the Hand of God we cannot know what is to come let us look over and recount with thankfulnesse what God hath done for us who for his Works sake among us is glorious in the Eyes of all Nations yea in the Consciences of our Enemies who cannot but confesse our Rock is not as their Rock if he be not glorious in our Eyes t is the least can be said his Mercies have been ill bestowed upon us It may be expected here I should conclude with a Panegyrick of the Army and a Paraenetick to the Kingdome to Love and Honour them but me thinks there should be no need of that the whole Story proclaimes their Worth and Merit their Name is Engraven by God himselfe as with the Poynt of a Dyamond on the Gates and Wals of many of our chiefe Places Yea they have Sown a Name to themselves in the Earth and Watered it with their Blood in many places of this Kingdome and if all those great Works God hath done for the Kingdome by them have not