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B21038	The history of His sacred Majesty Charles the II, King of England, Scotland, France & Ireland, defender of the faith &c. begun from the murder of his royall father of happy memory & continued to this present year, 1660 / by a person of quality.	Dauncey, John, fl. 1663.; Davies, James.	1660 (1660)	Wing D292	74,871	224

mony set upon his head for which many hundreds out of covetousnes made it their business to search for him they will confess ingeniously that God was never so merciful to any people as to us in delivering his sacred Majesty so wonderfully out of the hands of his Enemies who breathed out nothing but his death and destruction that we may yet have hopes to be a happy Nation But let us now returne to give a full account of this dismal loss at Worcester in which most of his Majesties foot were either made a prize or a sacrifice to their enemies swords of the horse there escaped 300. out of the field but were most afterwards either taken or kil'd by the country people in their flight three thousand were judged slain in the Field and about seaven thousand taken prisoners whereof the chief were the Earles Derby Lauderdale Cleveland Shrewsburge the Lord Wentworth and many other noble persons taken in the pursuit And the chief of those taken in the battel were the Earles of Carnworth and Kelly the Lord Synclare Sir John Packington the Major Generals montgomery and Piscotty and the Virgil of this Age that thrice worthy Mr. Richard Fanshaw Translator of the renowned Paster Fido and Secretary to his Majesty As for the thrice noble Duke Hamilton he was taken but not overcome overpowred but not vanquisht For after having made a most Heroick resistance he was reduced under his enemies power more for want of strength then valour but death entring in at those wounds which he so gallantly received in defence of his Soveraign soon after released him Major General Massey though he escaped the field yet his wounds being desperate he was forced to surrender himself to the Countess of Stamford was by her Son the Lord Grey of Grooby after the recovery of his wounds sent up prisoner to the Parliament and by them committed to the Tower from whence he not long after escaped and went to his Majesty beyond sea This strange and wonderfull Victory as the Juncto at Westminster gave it out to be though they had six to one in the field made that Sectarian party cock-a-hoop to make it the greater publick days of Thanksgiving are appointed to make God the patronizer of their villanies murders tyrannyes and treasons and now they boast in all their discourses how clearly it might appear that God owned their cause and disowned their adversaries I think a modern writer hath sufficiently confuted that commonly received tenent of Politicians * See Modern Policy That successe denotes actions to be either just or unjust I shall therefore leave the sober Reader here to satisfie himself refer it to him whether such do not justly deserve Ovid's wish Careat successibus opto Quisquis ab eventu facta notanda putat Let him for ever in successe be poor That thinks it justifies his cause the more But this Nation is so highly sensible of the injustice put upon them by those who pretend so much right in their Cause that there 's no loyal Subject but will thinke according to reason that it was not the justice of their cause but our own and the Nations sinnes which caused God to raise up these men as scourges both to Prince People to the prince only for the peoples sake Some I have heard which out of a spirit which I cannot well define have endeavoured to brand his Royal Majesty with Cowardize in this battel which from whence it could proceed unless from their own coward nature which would insimulate another in that of which themselves are guilty I cannot imagine since Cromwell the greatest of his Enemies because the most desirous of his Kingdomes yet had so much of truth in him as to give a high and noble Character of his valour But to proceed we have now said enough of this fatall battel the seeming ruine of the Royal Interest in England unless God of his mercy be pleased to restore it for the good peace and quiet of these Nations since without it we cannot hope to enjoy any His sacred Majesty being landed in France near Havre de Grace from thence with a Noble Lord in his Company posted directly for Roan where they stayed to alter their disguises and furnish them with habits answerable to their qualities his Majesty from thence having dispach't Letters to the French Court to acquaint his friends there of his safe Arrival which doubtless caused no little joy in those who were real to him and almost despaired ever again to have seen him The Duke of Orleans sends his own Coach to fetch him and several persons of quality go to meet him by whom he was attended to Paris and there received with all possible expressions of joy lodgings and attendants being forthwith provided for him in the Louure where at his first arrival he was visited by the Queen his Mother the Duke of Orleans who of all persons in the Kingdome exprest himselfe the most ready to do him service and the next day visits him again accompanied with his Daughter Madamoiselle he is likewise courted by the Dukes of Beaufort Langueville Guize the Marshall Thurine and many other Peers Nobles of France who all congratulate his safe deliverance And now his Majesty having lost all hopes of any furthermeans of attaining his Dominions by force leads here a retired life yet living in regard of his high alliance and extraction in great esteem with all the French Nobility Insomuch that notwithstanding his present low condition there was very great talk of a match to be made up between him the Madamoiselle de Orlians the richest princess in Christendome yet by some means or other it came to no effect though the Queen of England his Mother was an earnest promoter of it and also the Duke of York to Longuevelle's Daughter Whilst these things were transacting hapned that lately reconciled Fracture between the Prince of Conde and Cardinal Mazarine most of the Prince of the Bloud siding with the first the King of France who was newly declared of age to sway the Scpter himselfe with the last The cause of the quarrel was that extravagant power which Mazarine a stranger had usurped in the government of the Kingdome both depriving the Princes of the bloud of their Right and oppressing the people whose daily murmurings more encouraged the Princes against him this power he had got into his hands in the Regency of the Queen Mother whose grand Favourite he only was The Princes therefore though they could not dureing her Regency who so much loved him yet hoped they might effect somthing now the King himselfe is come to govern to which intent they charge him with several miscarriages of State which the Cardinal defends the King also enclines to his side by the instigation of the Queen his Mother yet nothing but the Cardinals banishment will satisfie the Princes who join the Duke of Lorain to them then in the service

men in the Nation i. e. such as had the greatest sums of money by selling such cheap penniworths of the Kings Queens Bishops Deans and Chapters lands which together with the purchases of the estates of such loyal subjects to his Majesty as those in power were pleased to stile Delinquents had near infatuated a good part of the Nation But to proceed let us now begin with these distinctions 'T is an old Proverb in English When theives fall out then honest men come by their Goods may it now prove as true as old which God be praisd we have some reason to hope Oliver Cromwell the greate●● though most heroick enemy of his King Countrey being dead his son Richard is proclaimed Protector and for some times seemingly complyed with but Lambert's ambition which had long lain hid begins now to appear and something he whispers into the ears of the Army which mixt with the great love they had formerly for him easily creates a dislike of Richards Government which afterward wrought to such a height that by a joynt-Conspiracy the Protectorship is disjoynted and Richard deprived of his Government the taking away of which he as willingly consents to as they are ready to deprive him of it This was the first jarring which this Generation had amongst themselves which withstanding was composed by the Protector 's easie consent without the shedding of one drop of bloud But there yet remained to his deposers the greatest task since they were sufficiently sensible that though they had pull'd down one civil Government they must be inforc't though never so unwillingly to set up another For they very well knew that they had already so much gul'd the Nation that they could not but now be sensible of their many abuses yet they fly to their old pretences of Religion and Liberty and under that pretence since they must at least establish the face of civil government they call a Parliament again Resolving to have one like themselves that Juncto which was formerly desolved by Oliver was those that murdered their King had for some years enslaved their Native Countrey Yet I cannot tell whether it were their inclinations to the General or Lambert's particular perswasions which called these men even out of the grave of infamy to sit again in the House and rule as Lords Paramount over these Nations though I have a great deal of reason to believe it was the latter since Lambert's ambition might rather prompt him to begin with those men con over an old lesson exeperimentally taught him by his old Master Oliver then hazard the venture of a new one But this Juncto being thus recall'd to their seats in the House and the exercise of their former Arbitrary power and authority by their Quondam servants of the Army accept of the invitation and accordingly met in the Parliament House whether likewise there assemble severall of those Members which had formerly been secluded debar'd sitting in 1648. These demand now an equall right with the others either to Consult or Vote but as they had been formerly violently thrust out so they are now forcibly kept out by the Officers of the Army This causes another as great distraction of their affairs For these secluded Members doe not only dispute their right by Law and Reason which could nothing prevail with sword-men but Sir George Booth and some others levy Armes now more truly in defence of Parliamentary priviledges then those raised in 1642. This small Army raised in Cheshire gave Lambert as fair an opertunity to put in execution his ambitious designes as possibly could be for he being sent with the greatest force of the Army against Sir George easily overcomes him takes him prisoner retakes those Holds which he had possest himself of and so returnes victorous This fortunate success revived his ancient credit with the Army and now he begins to practise the ruin of those which he had so lately set up that be might give full scope to his own Ambition They found out his designs but yet not being able to hinder them are forc'd shortly after to submit to a dissolution Thus was this Nation hurried into changes of Government and Anarchicall confusions by persons who endeavoured only to promote their own ends self interest yet by these strange endeavours of their own they only lost themselves for the people now beginning to discover their juggles do as much detest them though they might for the present force the people to a submission by sword-law yet could no Government whatsoever by them establisht be firme or dureable since it must be settled contrary to the Genius of the people For even those who were formerly such strong enemies and opposers of Monarchy and Kingly Government undeceived by those many delusions which they see put upon the Nation by those who pretended so much to Religion and Liberty and the settling of a Free State or Commonwealth whilst they intended only their own ends are now as much affected as they were formerly disaffected with Monarchicall Government finding that those who adventure to change a settled Government before they have determined of another in its stead run into fancies and Chymera's and vainly endeavour to build castles in the air But to proceed This party being thus divided among themselves there were great hopes and certainly greater wishes that that power wherewith they had for some years past arbitrarily governed the Nation by turns might at length come to a period which by the eye of reason was now in greater probability then ever they by their intestine devisions running headlong to their own ruine Fleetwood Lambert and the rest of the Officers of the Army have now the sole Authority and having the longest sword make their wills a law yet somewhat to satisfy the people to make at least the face of a civill government they set up a new kind of a thing which they composed of themselves some other choice persons which they call a Committee of Safety and to these they give full Authority over these Nations without ever asking the peoples consent This Government is far more the scorn and derision of the people then the the other yet notwithstandinding their spirits are by constant use so subjected to slavery that their Asinine backs are forced to endure this as well as other more intolerable burthens they not daring all this while to adventure the regaining of their Liberties nor indeed do other then by their tongues express their hate and anger But all this while those divisions of theirs and the peoples being weary of them and extreamly for his Majesties interest it being a rule in Politicks that the peoples hatred to an usurper doth alwayes produce their love to a lawfull Prince nor had they before 'till deluded by those Tyrannizers any time to consider the Miseries of their lawfull Soveraign which now they begin to compassionate seeing him the only person whom these men endeavour by

Vice The strictest rewarder of Virtue The constantest preserver of Religion And the truest lover of his Subjects This is a short Character of his illustrious Majesty which I feare those that know him will rather think to come short of then reach his due praise so sweetly vertuous is he in all his Carriages so affable in his discourse so void of passion anger that he was never yet heard or seen in Choller the utmost extent of any passion that ever was discerned in him being towards one of his Meniall Servants who justifying himselfe in what he had done amisse his Majesty with some motion told him that he was an insolent fellow Yet this is that Prince whose vertues we have given leave to Forraign Nations to admire whilst we our selves have rested as well ignorant of his deserts as destitute of our own Liberty whilst either infatuated or blinded by those who have Tyrannically usurp'd Governments over us we have been contented to sit still see him Expulsed and exil'd from his due Rights Royalties and our selves from our Freedom Priviledges Nor hath God alone been merciful to us in endowing his sacred Majesty with such Heroick Vertues but he hath given us a stock of Noble Princes who seem to Emulate Virtues in one another and growe up like Royal Oaks to maintain the Honour and Glory of this Nation but are yet and have a long time been the disgrace of it all the Nations in Europe laughing at the English folly who slight that happinesse which they might enjoy As for the illustrious Duke of York his Fame is spread so far over the World that my selfe have heard the very Turks commend and applaud his Vallour which was so esteemed among the French that before he arrived at twenty one years of Age he was by that King thought worthy the Command of Liu. General of his Armies which he managed with such care prudence that seldom any affairs he took in hand produced not its desired successe since his being in requital of his services complemented out of that Kingdome of France though he hath not had such eminent commands confer'd on him by the Spaniard yet have they alwaies thought him worthy the highest imployment and respect As for the Duke of Glocester he is esteemed by most to be fitter for a Councellour then a Souldier His Carriage is grave somwhat severe of a Sagace Genious and understanding and very much prying into State Affairs which have made most judge him the fitter for a Councill board These three Princes are like three Diamonds or Pearls which we have ignorantly cast away not come to know the worth of them till we come to want them Their vertues having made them resplendent throughout all the World and rendred them if we justly consider it the only means whereby we can attain to happiness for what Nation can be more blessed then that which hath for her Prince a just King to Govern a Valiant Duke to Defend and a Wise Counsellour to Advise May the God of Heaven then open our Eyes and let us at length see our Errour and heartily repent of it by calling our Native Soveraign to the possession of his due Rights which the Divine Majesty I hope will be Gratiously pleased to Grant Thus far the History March 1660. POST-SCRIPT WHen this admirable miraculous foregoing History came first out which contayns so great wonders that noe former age can parralel or future believe it may well without derogation from the author be owned by a person of Quality for so questionlesse he was and a person of Honour and loyall confidence that at that time before the dawning of our day of Liberty or the arising of our long set Sun which by its appearing inlightens comforts and refreshes these our Kingdoms of England Scotland Ireland CHARLES the second defender of the faith c. I say much may well be attributed to his confident bouldnes at that time to publish it when to speak truth reason or loyaltie was accounted Error Treason dangerous And although it be not so full as it might be either for manner or Matter in setting forth the worthy deserved Praise of our most gratious Soveraign whose perfections whosoever shall undertake to describe must needs fall short and of his Miraculous escape but that it may well be said of it as the Queen of Sheba said of the Wisdom of Solomon c. behold the halfe was not tould of what she found though reported by fame which seldome looses in the Progresse nor of the wonderfull signall mercy to his Kingdoms and Subjects thereby as is well exprest in the 107. psalme and the 43. Who so is wise may may understand these things and such shall understand the loving kindness of the Lord. And truly I think never people had more cause chearfully thankfully to acknowledge the goodnes of God herein and expresse it by their duty and obedience The wisemans advice its wisdome to take Pro. 24. 21.22 My Sonfear God and the King medle not with them that be seditious and desirous of change c. Have we not been ever since the sad Sacrifice of his sacred Majesty who God has made a Saint and they a Martyr of most pretious and blessed memory who was Murthered by the pretended sword of Justce to say noe more of it was as horrid a crime as ever the Sun beheld oppresed by high Courts of Injustice and other arbitrary impositions more then ever was done by coular of authority in the raigns of all the KINGS since the CONQVEST Did not the want of our King bring on us Vsurpation Tirrany Enmity Animositie Poverty and all Misery All which will be remov'd and to our comfort if our sinnes and disobedience hinders not we shall assuredly enjoy a Settlement of Religion Law Liberty Property Peace Penty Honour and Safety Has not his singular wisdom discovered and directed a way not only for discharging those large arrears which before daily increased on us to the Army and otherwise which is in a short time done but also for their disbanding in England to free us thereby for the future from those insupportable burthens Read but his gratious General pardon before which who could justly say he was free and see his unparaleld clemency who to us Ariseth like the Sun of Righteousnes with healing under his wings Mal. 4.2 And if ingratitude be the worst of crimes as I think was never yet questioned how inexcusable then in the Eyes of all the world shall such be that after so great favour shall either in thought word or deed think speak or act any thing against him Read but his Declaration concerning Ecclesiasticall affaires with what Religious care caution has he fram'd it to the Satisfaction of all interests that pretend to Religion Reason or Civility Provided they quietly conforme to the Establisht Laws and make not Religion as some formerly did a Match to give fire