so â—ong possessed them even to their personating a concurrent Contentment in this strange mutation of affairs Only the vexed Rump and furious Sir Arthur Hazelrig were most outragiously disturbed by finding themselves so out-witted and to have made all this stir with Lambert for no other purpose but to undo themselves they recollected now what Idiots and desperate Fools they were in rejecting a Letter from the King which was presented by Henry Nevil as casually put into his hand and their Voting of it not to be read or opened in the House full of all Princely tenderness to their monstrous Crimes and Treasons which being now on their part in exorable and unexpiable but in their deserved punishment they resolved on another Essay and device like the Foxes tyed by the Tayls with fire at them to offer at another attempt which though it would not revenge them would if it succeeded indempnate and impunifie them For while all things thus seemed to forward and further his Majesties Return into these Kingdoms an Address being signed by the whole Army wherein they vehemently testified their acquiescence in whatever the Counsels of the ensuing Parliament should produce and their abhorrence of former practices by intruding into the Government and interposing themselves against all Reason and Duty in civil Matters Colonel Lambert as the last dying effort of those monstrous Violences which had so long prevailed against the bars of Law and Authority broke out from his imprisonment in the Tower notice whereof being given a Proclamation was sent after him requiring him to render himself within 24 hours at his utmost Peril and prohibiting any to conceal him declaring likewise that whosoever should take him should have 100 l. for his pains This Escape was thought to have been effected by the connivence or permission of Colonel Morley Lieutenant of the Tower whereupon the General sent four Companies of Foot under Major Nicholas of whose faith he had experience to command there and presently gave order for Forces to march in order to the reducing and re-taking of the said Colonel Lambert to which service most of the Gentry and Nobility in Town presently offered themselves as also in the Country especially in Warwick-shire under the Lords Brook and Conway where the first intelligence of him was had He appeared first about Tocester with a small company of Horse from thence to Naseby where Major Creed joyned with one hundred more intending for Edge-hill but within two miles of Daventry Colonel Ingoldsby met him augmented to four Troops and some Foot making neer seven hundred but if he had stood two or three days would have encreased to a formidable power the Phanaticks of the Army marching from all parts of the Kingdom to this Rendezvouze one whereof was Captain Haselrig's who being surprized by Ingoldsby's Forlorn promised upon his Liberty to bring over his Troop which accordingly was done Upon this Lambert desired a Parley thinking so to work upon the Souldiery and there offered as a security to all Interests the re-admission of Richard to be Protector this being waived as a stale device and Lambert seeing Colonel Ingoldsby ready to fall on and that another Troop was revolted from him he presently betook himself to flight losing there the name of that Valour especially among his enraged Phanaticks which he had purchased throughout the War crying out twice Pray my Lord let me escape what good will my life or perpetual imprisonment do you he divined well which though mounted on a Barb being on Plow-lands he could not effect but was taken by Colonel Ingoldsby's own hands Creed Axtel and Cobbet escaped though pursued some miles Being thus secured he was sent up in a Coach to the Tower and came by Hide-park on Tuesday April the 24 the day before the opening of the Parliament when the City-forces exceeding for gallantry and number all former shows Mustred there before the General and the Council of State the field resounding with the cry of King Charles the second Now at last our Right and desires so long contended for prevailed for April the 25. the Free-Parliament sate down in two Houses they met first at Saint Margareâ—s Church Westminster where Doctor Reynolds Preached before them The Lords chose the Earl of Manchester for their Speaker and the House of Commons Sir Harbottle Grimston Mr. Brown Clerk to the former Mr. Iessop to the latter I may not omit that the Lord General was chosen Knight of his own County of Devon and also by the University of Cambridge and not above four Rumpers were returned Scot made a bustle for his new Election at Wickham against Major-Gen Brown's Eldest Son but stood not to it for he fled to Bruxels where he was known though he relyed on the Protection of the Spanish-Ambassador here formerly and was taken and sent hither back again not long after The first thing of note done by the Parliament was an appointment of a Thanksgiving-day to God for raising up his Excellency and other eminent persons and making them instrumental in delivering the Kingdome from Thraldom and Misery and ordered that the said General should have the acknowledgment and hearty thanks of the Parliament for the eminent and unparallel'd Services done these Nations in freeing them from Slavery which was accordingly performed Thanks also were given afterwards to Col. Ingoldsby for his retaking of Lambert Several persons Officers of the Army and other ill-affected people were apprehended and secured in several places for the strengthning and establishing the peace and happiness of the Kingdom so forwardly and so happily begun and advanced for now at last we were arrived at the brink and to the prospect of our ancient Government and to the hopeful confirmation of our Peace after which we had so long laboured in vain and here our Troubles cease to whom in this alluding rapture we bid farewel Hunc Finem Belli quod res commiscuit omnes Non Gladii non Saxa dabant non tela sed ille Perfidiae vindex tanti sanguinis Ultor MONKIUS Hic murus abeneus esto Thus ends the War which overwhelm'd the State Suffering a weaponless and bloodless Fate MONK'S conquering Prudence did Revenge and cease Murder and Treason HE our Wall of Peace A CHRONICLE OF THE CIVIL WARS OF ENGLAND SCOTLAND and IRELAND THE FOURTH PART BEING The Restitution THE suspence and stilness which ensued so many tempestuous Agitations was so far from becalming the Passions of Men and entertaining the Nation in the present felicity and acquiscence of things as is usual in the complacency of such unexpected and impatienced blessings that it transported them at the same instant to more vigorous and active Resolutions in pursuance of that happy Auspicium which so faitly directed to a plenary and compleat Establishment It was enviously fresh in the minds of all Loyal and good men with what scorn and contemptuous derision the Enemies of the Kingdoms peace and the brood
Religion While this Army was a modelling many disorders happened which retarded their settlement it was to consist of fourteen thousand Foot and seven thousand Horse and Dragoons effective so that the Spring was well advanced before they were in any readiness Therefore the Scots Army was intreated to advance South-ward with all speed to assist the Parliament in the mean time It is to be noted that the first contrivance of Addresses was from Oliver Cromwel who having by this Model and by a Salvo to him from the injunction of the Ordinance the Regiment of Colonel Leg which had been in some muttering and discontent against the Parliament conferred on him did as soon as he had Mustered them present a Paper to them wherein they professed their future adherence to the Parliament in all duty and affection as to the utmost hazard of their lives which Precedent and leading Case was followed throughout the Army and since throughout the Times The Scots we said before were sent for to march more Southward having left all things secure behind them save Carlisle which was then Besieged for Newcastle they had taken of which we must speak a little They had layn a long while for many months a close and desperate Siege to it where several Sallies and Skirmishes had happened it proving one of the hardest resolutest Sieges in the Kingdom all sorts of policy of peace and war by Treaty by Mines by Assaults having been frequently used but to little purpose the Inhabitants resolving never if possible to fall into the Scots hands But on Saturday the nineteenth of October all the Scotch Army furiously set upon the Town and having weakened the defences thereof both as to the Fortifications and the Garrison having made three breaches by their Battery and Mines after a tedious Storm they at last mastered it Sir Iohn Morley and Sir Nicolas Cole and Sir George Baker got to the Castle where being forced by necessity they came to a Capitulation which in Articles concluded a surrender on the twenty seventh of the same month The town being taken by assault was plundered sufficiently over and over again and thanks was given solemnly at London for the giving of Newcastle up to their Brethren of Scotland And very great reason they had to do so for the poorer sort of people had been almost starved for the last two years for want of fuel Coles having risen to the price of four pound a Chaldron never heard of before in London as to the half of it Sir Iohn Hotham and his son had been prisoners in the Tower of London since Iuly 1643. Now upon the new Model several of the old strains were heard as every Change began with Outcryes the noyse was justice now against Delinquents the Sword had glutted it self almost with blood now the Ax was to tast some of it but because of order it is fit to put Sir Alexander Carew in the forlorn of those men who on the three and twentieth of December was beheaded on Tower-Hill being condemned by a Council of War held at Guild-hall for endeavouring to betray Plymouth-Fort where he was Commander to the King This unfortunate person of whom something strange as to the business of the Earl of Strafford hath been said before was brother to the more miserable Iohn Carew one of the Judges of his late Majesty On the twenty seventh of December Sir Iohn Hotham received sentence in like manner for his endeavour to betray Hull to the King and for holding and maintaining correspondence and intelligence with the Marquess of Newcastle and others the Earl of Manchester and other great persons sitting in the Hustings Court at Guild-hall as Judges He would have evaded the Charge but he could not throughly do it and so mainly insisted on the great service he had done before at Hull when he might have expected great honour and preferment He also produced some witnesses of quality on purpose to take off the testimony of the Examinants against him but they were not received for sufficient His Excecution should have been on the thirty first of December upon Tower-hill where the multitude was assembled the Scaffold his Coâ—fin and Executioner was in readiness but as he was on his way thither a Reprieve came from the Lords for four days longer which the Commons so stomacked that conceiving their Priviledge hereby invaded they ordered he should dye on the second of Ianuary which was accordingly performed his son suffered the day before for the same offence and both of them dying with great reluctancy and reflecting upon the Parliament being assisted in this sad business with no better comforter than Hugh Peters In their grave we leave them with that most excellent memorial of them in the Kings book than which nothing can be more truely or pathetically said of them give me leave for an example to posterity to transcribe a Paragraph Nor did a solitary vengeance serve the turn the cutting off one head in a family is not enough to expiate the affront done to the head of the Common-weal the eldest son must be involved in the punishment as he was infected with the sin of his father against the father of his Country Root and Branch God cuts off in one day That which makes me more pitie him is that after he began to have some inclinations towards a repentance for his sin and reparation of his duty to me he should be so unhappie as to fall into the hands of their Iustice and not my Mercie who could as willingly have forgiven him as he could have asked that favour of me Poor Gentleman he is now become a notable Monument of unprosperous Disloyaltie teaching the world by so sad and unfortunate a spectacle that the rude carriage of a Subject carries always its own Vengeance as an unseparable shadow with it and those oft prove the most fatal and implacable Executioners of it who were the first employers in the service Less than this could not be afforded to this most notable passage of the times whose ill beginning with this man brought him to this ill and unfortunate end The Assembly of Divines Convocated by the Parliament had sate a good while in consultation of Church-Government and though they were forward enough to subvert what they sound standing yet by the interposition of more moderate and learned Divines who happened to be chosen among the rest such as Dr. Featly whom at last the Parliament stifled in restraint and Dr. after Bishop Gauden and others that speed was retarded but upon this request of the Parliament to the Scots for their speedy advance in exchange of mutual kindness they demanded the speedy settlement of the Presbyterian Government and that the Orders and Ceremonies of the Church of England might not be used in the interim in any of the Churches of the places where they should happen to quarter Presently upon the receipt of this Letter the
contributing any remedy to the evils will not complain of their neglect of him and delays of Answer but sends these Propositions this way which he intended by the forementioned persons For conceiving that the former Treaties hitherto proved ineffectual chiefly for want of power in those persons that treated as likewise because those from whom their power was derived not possibly having the particular information of every several debate could not give so clear a judgment as was requisite in so important a business his Majesty therefore desires that he may have the engagement of the two Houses at Westminster the Commissioners of the Parliament of Scotland the Mayor Aldermen and Common-Council and Militia of London of the chief Commanders in Sir Thomas Fairfax his Army for his Majesties free and safe coming to and abode in London or Westminster with such of his Servants and Train not exceeding the number of three hundred for the space of forty days and after the same time for his free and safe repair to any of his Garrisons Oxford Newark Worcester c. which he shall appoint there to have a Personal Treaty with his two Houses to begin with the three heads which were Treated on at Oxford And for the better ingredience and expedition thereto will commit the great trust of the Militia for seven years into the hands of a mixt number of his own and their party and calls God to witness of his sincere intentions to Peace and adjures them likewise to the same To this he is instant with them for an answer and for the facilitating of the way to a Treaty and their better inducement without any expostulation which he says he purposely forbears he adds now more particularly and to the respective interests That upon his repair to Westminster he doubts not but so to joyn his indeavours with his two Houses of Parliament as to give just satisfaction not onely concerning the business of Ireland but also for the setling a way for the payment of publique debts as well to the Scots as to the City of London and others and resumes his desire afresh for a Personal Treaty and that they would accept of his former offers But the House of Commons resolved to keep to their first Answer not to treat but to send Propositions the main whereof was an absolute avoydance of the Kings concession as to the Militia which they would have solely vested in themselves and no other And to give colour to this unreasonable stifness and to obstruct a Personal Treaty they Vote how great danger there is already to the Parliament and City in the resort of so many Cavaliers to London and thereupon an Ordinance is made anew setling the Militia thereof and requiring them to provide for the safety of the City and to search for Delinquents and to expel them the Lines of Communication and then on the 14 of Ianuary returned his Majesty this Answer They repeated the innocent blood spilt by his Majesties Command and Commission Irish Rebels brought over and more with Forraign Forces on coming the Prince of Wales heading an Army in the West and Garrisons kept against them and Forces likewise in Arms for him in Scotland That for that reason until satisfacton and security be given unto both Kingdoms his coming cannot be convenient nor do they conceive it can be any way conducing to Peace that his Majesty should come to his Parliament for a few days with thoughts of leaving it especially with intentions of returning to Hostility against it And do note likewise that his Majesty desires not onely the engagement of the Parliament but of the Lord Mayor and the Officers of the Army and the Scotch Commissioners which is against the honour and priviledges of Parliament those being joyned with them who are subject and subordinate to their Authority They insist upon their Propositions as the safest and surest way to settle Peace as well in England as in Scotland of which Kingdom in his Letters he makes no mention In proceeding according to these just and necessary grounds for the putting an end to the bleeding calamities of these Nations his Majesty shall have the glory to be the principal instrument in so happy a work and they however misinterpreted shall approve themselves to God and man But what Before this came to hand the King sends another Message to know the reason of the detention of his Trumpet and farther offers the free and publique use of the Directory as commanded by the Parliament and then practised in some parts of the City of London to such as shall desire it and testifies to God and the World who they are that not only hinder but reject this Kingdoms future happiness it being so much the stranger that his Majesties coming to Westminster which was the first and greatest pretence of taking up Arms should be so much as delayed much less not accepted or refused But his Majesty hopes that God will no longer suffer the malice of wicked men to hinder the Peace of his too much afflicted Kingdoms From Oxford Ianuary 15. In the mean while some Papers concerning the Kings Transactions about a Peace in Ireland were published on purpose by the Parliament to cast a scruple into the minds of men as if while the King Treated he meant a new War by Ayds from thence and so to prejudice him in his peoples minds who began to murmur at the averseness and delays of the Parliament which news coming to the Kings ears he sends them a stinging and sharp Message which was the next day after he had received their Answer His Majesty thinks not fit to Answer those aspersions which are returned as Arguments for his not admittance to Westminster to a Personal Treaty because it would enforce a stile not sutable to his end being the peace of these miserable Kingdoms yet thus much he cannot but say to Those that have sent him this Answer That if they had considered what they had done themselves in occasioning the sheding of so much inocent blood by withdrawing themselves from their duty to him in a time when he had granted so much to his Subjects and in violating the known Laws of the Kingdom to draw an exorbitant power to themselves over their fellow-Subjects to say no more to do as they have done they could not have given such a false Character of his Majesties Actions That his Majesty with impatient expectation requires their Answer to his desire of a Personal Treaty as the onely expedient For certainly no rational man can think their last Paper can be an Answer to his former Demands the scope of it being That because there is a War therefore there should be no Treaty for Peace And is it possible to expect that the Propositions mentioned should be the ground of a lasting Peace when the persons that send them will not endure to hear their own King speak But what ever his success this way hath
Soveraignty but the difficulty of doing it in regard of those mutual distrusts that waxed every day stronger betwixt the two factions of Presbytery and Independency delayed a while the actual fruition of their desires The Bucket of interest went up and down a long while one side secretly closing with the King in a seeming tenderness for his Rights and Person to ballance the other who by an obstinacy against him and his Government engaged most of the first leaven of that tumultuous rabble to an adherence and strengthning of their party from an expectation of spoil and preferment upon their Models after their subversion of Monarchy In these their distractions the onely expedient for both was to protract time and await a more advantagious and favourable juncture for either of them wherein to compass and accomplish their several aims and divided projections upon the Kingdom Therefore the same publike ends and common concernments which were the pretended causes of the War were now declared to be insisted on as to constant and perpetual security viz. the Laws Religion and Liberty That the bâ—â—ting the Enemy in the Field was not sufficient alone to that purpose but that some provision must be made for the future and that those establishments of the publike upon a firm Peace would require time after so many commotions and dislocations such disorder and confusion of the policy of the Government To this purpose the King was held out to his people as an obstinate person no way changed in his mind as to their good but that all his offers of Treaty and Peace were meerly to impose upon their credulous affections intending nothing less than satisfaction to his Parliament against whom he had waged a long and bloody War That in a just resolution they had proceeded and would persist on their way of Propositions on which alone a lasting Peace might be grounded and expected That in the mean time they would take care that the Common Enemy should take no advantage of raising a new War indeed their tyrannical method of Composition for their Loyalty in the first might well make them as good as their words And with the old flourishes of Liberty and happy times inculcating their Successes and ascribing them to their Cause they thus offered to amuse the people exchanging their fineness and smoothness of words for the real repose and tranquillity looked for by the Kingdom This proceeding highly exasperated the Kings party and as much encouraged the desperadoes of their own to claw them with Petitions and Addresses of Thanks for these resolutions proving the onely means to continue the rupture and consequently their Power and Authority which how then and hereafter they executed we will now more particularly relate having laid down these SEEDS of the SECOND WAR as they and from then their Sequestrators and Committees were most wrathfully pleased to call it when they wrongfully placed it upon their score and account These were the transactions and the devices of the English Parliament and Army it will be requisite to see what the same bodies of Scotland do in reference to the Peace of both Kingdoms and we shall finde them in as great a strangeness to it as the former and not with far different purposes and intentions For the Scots would have money in Coyn and Specie the other were for the value in great penny-worths and purchases of Delinquents Estates The Scots as was said before had the King in their possession a good pawn and pledge for the debt accrued to them before for the pay due for their service in England which being not over-hastily pay'd they quitted their post at the Siege of Newark and with the King marched Northwards bearing him in hand that they were his gude Subjects and would stand as far as 't was consistent with their Covenant for his person and interests As the Army marched so did the King making the limits of their Quarters to be his Court until by leasurable journeys and which were interrupted by several Expostulations Expresses from Westminster he came at last and took up his residence at Newcastle where appeared such a deal of Scotch bravery especially among the Commanders of their Army that the place appeared like the revived Court of King Iames after his assumption to the Crown of England Every rag worn by them being bought and purchased if so fairly come by with English gelt In the mean while the Parlianent were debating concerning the Person of the King but it was so ticklish a point that they agreed not to any present positive settlement or entertainment of it but negatively in signifying to the Scots that in England his Majesty might be disposed by none but the Parliament of England That their Army in England is theirs and under their pay and pretending the inconvenience of the great distance of the King from them as to obtaining of his assent and then the Covenant This begat in the King another meditation in his Eikon Basil. where he discourseth and deplores those events which put him to such a choice but resolutely fixeth himself on his own Honour and Conscience however it should please God to order this disposition of him in the Scots hands And contrariwise it raised in the faction Soliloquies and Charms which way they might extricate this puzling difficulty As the first expedient the old stalk of courting the Prince was agreed upon and therefore they sent a Letter to the Governour of Gâ—ernsey to be conveyed to him At the Kings Arrival at Newcastle he was there received with all demonstrations of respect both from the Town and the Scots on the Towns part with the usual customes of Bone-fires and ringing of the bells and apprecations for his Majesties happy restitution and speedy accommodation with his Parliament on the Scots in a semblance of the same gladness and duty with protestations to the same purpose as the inhabitants wishes but which suddenly lost belief when their General signified by Proclamation not onely that no Papists or Delinquents should come neer his Person but also That although his Majesties Person were present yet all men whatsoever should yield Authority to the Ordinances of the Parliament A parcel of which Authority they themselves imitated laying heavy Assessments upon all the Northern Counties pretending the Parliaments negligence of their pay so that those poor people were ready to rise and free themselves from these oppressors having in vain Petitioned them at Westminster for relief which the Scots senting they privately sent for their Horse under David Lesly who had defeated Montross at Philipshaugh of which briefly before and driven him far enough into the High-lands to return to their main Army then at Newcastle to reinforce it and to secure themselves in their Quarters till the bargain should be made They at Westminster understanding hereof do resent this additional force of Scots and thereupon in anger Vote That this Kingdom hath no further
and leaving his Estate to be divided betwixt the Marquess of Hertford who married his Sister and his Cozen Leicester Devereux after his decease Lord Viscount Hereford which onely title of all the rest he now enjoys his Title and Dignity of the Earldom of Essex being transferred long after to the Noble and most Loyal Family of the Capels in the 13th year of King Charles the second The very soul of Presbytery now departed that which actuated its mass and matter the inform Schism in the Church to a most unnatural division in the State and armed its hands with Force and violence to propagate its dominion and Magisterial Usurpation when from pretentions of Ecclesiastical Authority it invaded the Civil Supremacy and Government it was now culminant and with this great Patron and Champion of it was come to its 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or full stop having been declared by Ordinance of Parliament for the onely Religion and manner of Worship in England but to make an experiment of in onely the Ordinance was to continue no longer than three years a limitation which boded its abolition and forespoke the inconveniences and unsuitableness thereof to our Laws Manners and Customs Nothing but the best things are perpetual say the Philosophers all immoderate things are short-lived and 't was a secret but mortal wound this prescription of time gave to the pretended Divine Right of Presbytery which by that Plea must always be invariable unchangeable and indeterminable But when this first great Pillar of it fell as it is observable such Great Ones seldome go unaccompanied it submitted to its period its great blaze and flames it had raised waning into a glimmering and suspicious light lookt upon rather as a Meteor or Exhalation that any fixed Luminary the ill influence thereof confirming our belief And the Directory established the same time was clearly such an ignis fatuus which was to serve as a guide to the wandring extemporary excursions of prayer not allowing any certain or sure Form the onely help and promoter of true Piety and Devotion It languished for a while after in London but with such slighting and disregarding as was due to the worshipful Pageantry of that Motly and time-serving Ordinance wherein Presbytery and Independency were so blended and moulded together that the least touch would separate and divide them as was presently seen in the Contests between these two parties It will be therefore requisite to give an account here of the manner and design of that rupture between them it proving the rise of all those calamities that after befel the King The Presbyterians were more numerous the Independents more active vigilant and restless watching all opportunities and present both in publike and private Counsels oft have they wearied out the House with long unnecessary debates to unseasonable times of night and when the Members of the other faction being tyred and diseased had withdrawn themselves slipt in a Vote of great concernment and carried it by themselves If in a full House any thing contrary or destructive to their designs was ready to pass by putting in Proviso's and perplexing the matter or by instance of further consideration of affairs of such importance they so hinder'd it that it dyed an Embryo abortive Some of the Grandees of the other party they likewise so wrought upon that they became false friends to their own side the weaker sort of them they amused with fair offers They scrued themselves by one means or other by promises preferments largesses into all manner of persons who could either hinder or advance their designs and when they had proceeded so forward by this smooth way they attained the rest by Menace and Threats and the formidable insolence of their Army which they had solely at their Devotion yet notwithstanding they were shreudly put to it and countermined by some eminent Patriots whose indefatigable diligence and sagacity was yet deluded by these following Artifices Their prodigal liberality of bestowing 5000 l. and 10000 l. on some of the chief of the Presbyterian Members for their losses and sufferings far beyond the value of them was the first This clearly begot in them a supine negligence of their main drift Next they surrogated and substituted in the place of those Members whom they had expelled for their Loyalty men of mean fortunes and wholly addicted to and of the Army who awed by drawing their Troops thither the several Boroughs at their Elections by which means they became at last a competent party in the House to carry any thing But the main Engine was the Self-denying Ordinance whereby all Members of either House were discharged from bearing any Office Military or Civil and obliged to quit all their places of profit and preferment that the publike business might be better attended By this shift they heaved out many eminent Presbyterians who were possessed of Places and Offices in the Treasury Garrisons and Commands of like consequence and put in their friends or those whom the profit would soon render such in their stead So that by this device the Presbyterians were absolutely stript of all Power and were wip'd and cheated out of the Militia for which they began the War and which they had violently wrested from their Soveraign Who cannot here but admire the wonderful steps and traces of Divine Justice The Presbyterians were not wholly insensible whitherto this tended but they could not with any pretence of honesty resist the plausibility of this Ordinance lest they should seem all along to have sought themselves and not the Kingdoms good A cry very rife and loud put into the heads of some Democratical and Levelling Scriblers of the Fanatick Rabble by Cromwel and his Privy Council They cast about therefore to check and counterplot this grand Stratagem by another as subtile and altogether more feisible and necessary that was to disband the Army since they perceived they had lost their Command and disposal of it The Independents had used the same trick with good success in their modelling and disbanding Colonel Massey and the Peace of the times and the charge of the Kingdom did seem more instantly to require an end of the War here as Ireland the translation of it thither But the Independent Faction soon smelt out the design and gave notice to Cromwel who was still licensed to continue in all his Commands his Ironsides by which name he was now called being ORDINANCE-PROOF of its undoubted effect if the Army interposed not He upon conference with his Privado Ireton agrees to spread it among the Souldiers and withal to add their own comment That the Parliament by the prevailing Vote of some unsound Members were resolved to disband the Army and cheat them of their Arrears and send them in a wanting condition into Ireland to be Butchered by the Rebels for having thus faithfully served them in England And we may soon imagine what a quarrel and hatred this begot
be made for the freedom of such Elections 6. That the Parliament onely have Power to direct further as to Parliaments and for those two ends expressed before their Orders there to pass for Laws 7. That there be a Liberty for Entring Dissents in the House of Commons and no man further censurable for what he shall say in the House exclusion by c. from that Trust and that by the House it self 8. That the Iudicial Power in the Lords and Commons without further Appeal may be cleared The King not to be capable to forgive persons adjudged by them without their consent 9. That the Peers have no Iurisdiction against the Commons without the concurring Iudgment of the House of Commons as also may be vindicated from any other Iudgement c. than that of their equals 10. That Grand Iury-men be chosen by several parts or divisions of each County respectively not left to the discretion of any Vnder-Sheriff which Grand Iury-men at each Assize shall present the names of persons to be made Iustices of the Peace and at the Summer-Assizes the names of three out of which the King may prick one for Sheriff Secondly being another principle For the future security to Parliaments and the Militia in general in order thereunto That it be provided by Act of Parliament 1. That the power of the Militia by Land and Sea during the space of ten years shall be disposed by the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament or persons they shall nominate 2. That it shall not be exercised by the King nor any from him during the said space nor afterwards but by advice of the Parliament or Council of State or such Committees in the Interval 3. That the said Lords and Commons c. raise and dispose of Money for the Forces thought necessary and for payment of publike debts and uses of the Kingdom 4. That these ten years security may be the firmer It be provided That none that have been in hostility against the Parliament in the late War shall be capable of any Office or Trust for five years without consent of Parliament nor to sit as Members thereof till the second Biennial Parliament be past Thirdly For the ordering of the peace and safety of this Kingdom and Ireland 1. That there be Commissioners for the Admiralty an Admiral and Vice-Admiral now agree on with power to execute amply the said Offices and pay provided for the service 2. That there be a Lord-General for the Forces that are to be in pay 3. That there be Commissioners for the standing Militia in every County consisting of Trained Bands and Auxiliaries not in pay to discipline them 4. A Council of State to surperintend the powers given those Commissioners 5. That the said Council have the same power with the Kings Privy Council but not make War or Peace without consent of Parliament 6. That that Council consist of trusty and able persons to continue si bene se gesserint but not above seven years 7. That a sufficient Establishment be provided for the pay of the standing Forces the Establishment to continue till two months after the meeting of the first Biennial Parliament or Saint Tibs Eve Fourthly That an Act be passed for disposing the great Offices for ten years by the Lords and Commons in Parliament and by the Committees in the Intervals with submission to the approbation of the next Parliament and after that time they to name three and the King out of them to appoint one for the succession upon a vacancie Fifthly For disabling the Peers made by the King since the Great Seal was carried away May 21. 1642. to sit and Vote in Parliament Sixthly An Act to make void all the Acts Declarations c. against the Parliament and their Adherents and that the Ordinances for Indempnity be confirmed Seventhly An Act to make void all Grants passed under the said Seal since May 1642. and to confirm and make those valid that passed under the Great Seal made by Authority of Parliament Eighthly An Act for Confirmation of Treaties between England and Scotland and constituting Conservators of the Peace between them Ninthly That the Ordinance for taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries be confirmed by Act but the Kings Revenue made up another way and the Officers thereof to have reparation Tenthly An Act declaring void the Cessation of Ireland leaving that War to the prosecution of the Parliament Eleventhly An Act to take away all Coercive Power Authority and Iurisdiction of Bishops and other Ecclesiastical Officers whatsoever extending to civil Penalties upon any and to repeal all Laws whereby the Civil Magistracie hath been or is bound upon any Ecclesiastical Censure to proceed ex Oâ—â—icio unto any Civil Penalties against any persons so censured Mark here is not a word of abolishing Episcopacy or confirming the sale of their Lands in which they knew the Presbyterians were entangled but the King extreamly gratified who abominated Sacriledge and so was the likelier never to comply with the Parliament who made it one of their principal demands which Cromwel designed Twelfthly That there be a repeal of penal Acts or Clauses enjoyning the Common-Prayer and imposing Penalties for not coming to Church some provision to be made for discovering of Recusancie Thirteenthly That the taking of the Covenant be not inforced upon any c. but that all Ordinances enjoyning that be repealed Fourteenthly That the things before proposed being provided for his Majestie his Queen and Royal Issue may be restored to a condition of Safetie Honour and Freedom in this Nation without diminution to their personal Rights or further limitation to the exercise of their Power than according to the particulars aforegoing Fifteenthly For the matter of Compositions 1. That a less number out of the persons excepted in the two first qualifications not exceeding five for the English being nominated particularly by the Parliament besides the Irish Rebels may be reserved to the Iudgment of the Parliament c. And many more good morrows in favourable restrictions of the Parliament's severity to poor Cavaliers whom they reserved for their more ravenous jaws thinking by these wiles first to betray and then devour them and therefore now the Tyger is become a mediator to the Wolf to spare the innocent sheep that 's encompassed between them The rest of this batch was for particular redresses of the Law and abuses of the Lawyers concerning Imprisonments for Debts Regulating Assessements and remedies against the contentious Suits of Tythes for asserting the peoples right in Petitioning against Forrest-Lands and almost all particular grievances especially the Excise and Monopolies against Corporation-Oaths as grievous to tender Consciences being too long to enumerate The drift of all being to please all sorts of people one or other hitting the humour of every man but chiefly gratifying the Fanaticks and miserable Vulgar who were to be deluded and then used as a bridge to their own slavery
of Orkney and Colonel Fitch's Regiment marched towards Innerness The Dutch had rankled with spleen at the successes of this State as no way compatible with but surmounting those indifferent equal Proposals and Overtures made before the accomplishment thereof and perceiving how regardless and cool the Parliament was now as to any further transaction of a League but that on the contrary their Fishing was molested in these Seas upon the old Title of Soveraignty and that upon any the least pretences of French Goods and Lading their Merchant-ships were searched stayed and sometimes adjudged Prize thought it advisable to send over Embassadors as well to obtain reparation for those damages as to provide for future security against the like by a Treaty and in case they perceived the aversness or untowardness of the State thereto to fully inform themselves what Naval preparation there was in hand and in what readiness and how the Nation stood affected to or would yet endure the Government as by a Copy of their Instructions since appeared The Embassadors Myn heeren Catz Schaep and Vande Perre of Zealand as of custome and right one of that Province must be in the Embassie hither were ordered to be gone with all speed upon the notice of the Act for the encouragemâ—nt of the English-Navigation c. But the Wind blowing at Southwest from the very day of the date of the said Act neither they nor other ships bound thence from England with East and West-India Commodities Spice and such-like could stir out of their Ports to the great exasperation of that people who when they see the day elapsed being the first of December and had notice that the Parliament would not allow a day longer even to the English themselves upon any account whatsoever though to the breaking of several Merchants whose Estates were coming over in such Goods thence procured the Lords to make an Arrest and Imbargo upon all English ships then in the Texel but which the States were willing soon after to recal and make shew of good Correspondence and Friendship as in this and other occasions they yet testified The Embassadors with the first opportunity the rather to prevent Monsieur Speering then at the Hague and Commissioned by the Queen of Sweden for her Embassador into England as unwilling to be the last should own this Common-wealth put to Sea and arrived here about the middle of Ianuary and for the greater credit of the sincerity of their intentions to Peace and Amity they brought over their Families by which it might appear they intended to stay till that great affair was finished by them being also men for their particular persons very acceptable to the State here Soon after their Reception they had Audience in the Parliament-house and a Committee appointed to confer with them by whom they were at the entrance of their business choaked with our claim to and their dues for the Herring-fishing with the old story of bloody Amboyna and a demand of a Free-trade in the Schelde from Middleburgh to Antwerpe where the English had a good Trade once within 100 years then the most famous Mart of the Low-countries yea of Europe but by the Hollanders seizing of Flushing and building the Fort Lillo opon that River in their Wars against the Spaniard the Merchants and Inhabitants disaffected otherwise to the King of Spain in the beginning of that War betook themselves to Amsterdam which by the sudden breaking in of the Sea and breaking down of Dams became a most convenient and capacious Harbour and consequently a great Mart as lying most opportune for the Trade of the East and North-East Seas Monsieur Speering arrived here likewise and was well received a short while after and laid a foundation of that Treaty which was afterwards concluded by the Lord Whitlock with that Queen but he deceasing here soon after Monsieur Appleboom Resident also at the Hague was substituted to his Embassie in like manner The 24 of February came out their Act of Oblivion whereout Sir Iohn Webster of Amsterdam was totally excluded together with the Executors of the Arch-bishop of Canterbury the slayers of Dorislaus and Ascham the Viscount Mansfield and Lord Goring and General George Lord Goring and Charles his Sons which particulars out of a multitude of publike exceptions as H. Martin discanted on it I thought fit to give the Reader a hint of that such a precious Record of their absolute greatness as the taking upon them to pardon when they needed it onely themselves might not totally be lost the Preface and Induction to it being a fallacy a non concesso that because the generality of the Nation had shewed themselves ready to suppress the late Scotch Invasion at Worcester therefore the Parliament out of meer grace c. but all this favour to be of no benefit to any one without taking the Engagement Their Committee for Regulation of the Law had likewise proceeded so far as to take an account of all Courts and Offices concerning their Fees and to see they did Execution of Justice for corruption wherein Iohn Lilburn and Iosiah Primate having taxed their Commissioners at Haberdashers-hall about a Cole-pit Primate pretended to but Sir Arthur Haslerig had possession of by vertue of one Colonel Wray's Delinquency the said Lilburn was banished on the 30 day of Ianuary and Primate fined 4000 l. to the said Commissioners and Sir Arthur and committed to the Fleet but upon submission Released In Ireland the War was almost at an end nothing considerable but Galloway and some few Castles holding out and some loose parties forraging the Country whereupon the Lord â—lanrickard then in Galloway about the beginning of March sent a Letter to Lieutenant-General Ludlow to desire of him that in order to a composure and conclusion of that bloody wasting War in that Kingdom he or the Commissioners would give safe-conduct for the chief persons of the Irish out of every County to meet and to agree of terms about a Peace not doubting as he expressed if it should be refused but that they were able to maintain themselves till supplies from abroad and courage at home and their wants and discouragements from England should alter the case To this was answered by Ludlow That the Commissioners could not nor would allow such a thing as a Council of the Irish to settle the Kingdom but that if they would submit they should have such Articles and Conditions as was fit for them For that the Parliament whose that Kingdom was would have the ordering and Government of it and that it was not for those in Arms against their Authority to think of such an absurd condescention This Answer being returned to two or three offers of surrender took not effect yet prevailed on several parties as the Lord Muskerry's Fitz Patrick's and the Odwyr's to come in and submit with liberty of transporting their Forces into the service of the King of Spain or to abide
at home under such and such fines but none to be indempnified by any Articles that should be found guilty of any Massacre in the first year of the Rebellion Galloway had before offered to capitulate but because the Articles were somewhat of the largest demand they were first transmitted to the Parliament for there was no plenipotence then in Ireland Lambert was nominated but by Cromwel mockt of the honour of Lord-Deputy a person too brisk and understanding and seeking his Interest too much for that employment it being reserved for Fleetwood after his Marriage with Oliver's Daughter and Ireton's Relict The English had now a meeting with the Marquess of Arguile after many delays and put offs and fine excuses for them about the 20 of March at Dumbarton-Castle whither within an hour after the arrival of the Parliaments-Commissioners Major-General Dean and Major Saloway for Dean was not thought Mercurial enough of himself to word it with the Scot he came attended by some 30 persons having ordered before the most of his Name and Septs of Highland-Gentry to wait on him He insisted much upon the Salvo Iure of the Kirk who had fasted and prayed for a blessing on this meeting the Marquess being the Patron and principal defender of their mouldering Presbytery After two or three days conference the Sophie's parted having entertained their time with some Godly descants upon providence the Parliaments most Supreme Authority and his Highland mightiness Blackness-Castle was now ordered to be blown up with Powder by Dean who passed by Newark-house Garrisoned as was said last Summer by the English but retaken soon after by Colonel Massey in his march upon the Lancashire designe to Ayre where the platform of a Citadel was now laid as being most convenient for the Trade either of France or Ireland lying the most Westward part of Scotland to the Highlands Several mischiefs were about this time done by the Moss-Troopers about the Borders A considerable party of Horse and Foot under Commissary-General Reynolds were sent to Athlone which lies in the center of Ireland where he in this month of March reduced Bally League and two other Garrisons in the Collough and thereby gained a very considerable Pass over the Shannon and firm hold and footing in the County of Longford so that in all with Logh-rea Portumna Ballinaston Melecha Ragera c. thirty several places were taken Galloway was now likewise upon Treaty of a surrender and had sent out their Propositions in the framing whereof some disputes and difference arose betwixt the Souldiers and Citizens but by the wisdome and menage of the Marquess Clanrickard were again accommodated That which made this willingness of yielding was the several losses of Vessels with Corn and Provision intercepted by some ships of the Parliament who watched that Harbour and Lorrain was despaired of being now engaged upon a march into France Those Articles being thought too high by L. G. Ludlow then Commander in chief in Ireland were by him and the Commissioners transmitted to England The year ends with an Act for removing obstructions in the sale of the King Queens Lands c. the Commissioners being Sir William Roberts Francis Mussenden and others who made quick work of the Royal Revenue Anno Dom. 1652. THis Year began with a most dreadful expectation of an approaching Eclipse on the 29 of March the effects whereof one William Lilly a man infamous for Prognosticks and Divinations against the King His Cause and His Party and others of that Astrological Tribe had predicted should be sudden and most pernicious and during the time thereof it should be so dark that men should hardly be able to Read or Write without a Candle the day it happened on being therefore called by them Black-munday But Lilly so shot beyond the mark it proving not half so gloomy and terrible though most people were so foolishly fearful as to take Antidotes and keep close for fear of some maligne Influences and Vapours that his credit of Vaticination was utterly lost and regarded no more for the future than one of his old worthless Almanacks I mention this the rather because this mans wilde presages were the Oracles of the Vulgar for on his fatidical Lips they depended which never failed of pronouncing successes to those Worthies of Westminster whose Balaam he might have been said to have been being hired by them to detract from the King The Parliament having the Dutch business mainly in their Eye it was necessary that a full and plenary deliberation and resolution should be used in that affair and therefore they ordered the vacating of several Committees that the House might be better attended and the Publike first served the powers of the Committees for the University and Indemnity which it had been happy for the Royalists had never been in 〈◊〉 were now recalled the one was utterly extinct the other revived soon 〈◊〉 in that of-it-self-enough injurious Judicature at Haberdashers-hall the Câ—â—missioners thereof being Authorized to proceed in this The King was yet at Paris during the Commotions and Broils between the French King and the Princes of the Blood more especially the two Princes of Conde and Comi for the Duke of Orleans the Kings Uncle was rather an abettor than a principal in the Quarrel which arose from Cardinal Mazarine's prevalency and Authority at Court Paris was then troubled with the same Meagrome that whirl'd the City of London into those tumultuous Uproars in 1641. and as mad against the Errours of Government and evil Counsellors and had the like nay greater advantages and countenance of a Nobility and the Blood Royal though that King was not then to seek for Arms Money or his Castles but with a well-furnisht Army was able to chastise these undutiful demeanors of His Subjects The Spaniard whose Interest it was to keep these dissentions on foot foreseeing the weakness of the Princes Forces offered them his assistance having almost mastered Barcelona the Capital City in Catalonia held by the French and Graveling in Flanders just upon the surrender and Dunkirk designed also to the same Conquest and presently sent in the Duke of Lorrain with all his Forces into France while in the interim Marshal De Turenne the Kings General had defeated the Duke De Nemours with the Princes Army at Estampes But these Auxiliaries seemed so to turn the ballance of that Victory that the King our Soveraign who had from his first arrival laboured in the intrigue of that difference perswading the French King to some condescentions of Peace and had passed personally betwixt both parties advising that King from the unhappy Issues of the War in England which had so fatally evened to Himself not to refuse an Accommodation and accounting to the Princes the Kings strength and power and probability of reducing them though to little effect Now to save the further effusion of Blood and to prevent that Ruine which he saw so neer at hand
declared the Parliaments resolution of not altering any thing from their Laws save the Stile and Form of proceedings in the Kings Name nor would lay aside their Church-Government if peaceable nor suffer long such as were Ignorant and Scandalous persons to preach or Exercise in publike the great Eye-sore to that Kirk-governed people At first the Officers of the several Courts refused to give their Attendance and absented themselves but seeing their places wouâ—d be without demur disposed of they as suddenly complied As to Martial Affairs Dunotter-Castle after the Cannon had played two days against it was rendred to Colonel Morgan with several Regalia and Goods belonging to the Crown though that and the Chair of State and Scepter supposed to be there could not be found and the Earl Marshal on the 28 of May the Garrison having yielded upon Souldier-like Honourable Articles Colonel Fitch's Regiment was sent to Innerness where a little Frigat of four Guns built six mile up Land was brought down by the strength of Men to the Logh wherein the Highlanders passed to and fro to secure and provide for the Garrison and hinder the entercourse of the Scots A Citadel was likewise now designed here and another at Ayre by Major-General Dean consisting of six Bulworks which being to be raised upon Sand it was ordered that within and without it should be lined with Lime and these two Fortifications with two more one at Leith and another at St. Iohnstons being all built with Free-stone became the most artful and impregnable places and a Bridle to any Scotch Insurrection or National designe of Liberty Some Companies of Colonel Overton's were likewise shipped for the Orkney and Shetland-Islands the most Northern parts and point of Scotland who forsooth had readily embraced the English Union to no other purpose I wis than to give friendly Entertainment and Harbour to General Blake upon his sailing neer this time thither after Van Trump and the Dutch East India ships then expected home that way The Treaty continued yet with Arguile and other the Highland Hogens where he and Marquess Huntly and Montross's Sons had another conference at Saint Iohnstons but neither concluded nor abrupted the matter of their meeting saving promises and protestations of Friendship and Peaceableness and a kinde of neutrality in order to satisfie the expectation of a Plenary compliance of which Arguile was most prodigally complemental so that now neither from Irish nor Scot nor other of the Kings Dominions was there any thing more to be feared than that the States of England would loose the profit of Seizure and Confiscation by the submission and timely application of those in Arms against the Authority of their Victorious Commonwealth And they had sufficiently cautioned against such retrenchments of their Conquest except in case of Articles to important places and persons in Ireland as is said before it being taken for a known and unvariable Rule as for England there were now more Forfeitures hastening to their Corban by a new List of Papist-Delinquents to be Limboed by the States Inquisitors General at Drury-House These were their civil Garlands and Ovations not because they had saved but because they had ruined so many of their fellow-Subjects whose Fortunes and Estates Oyled the Wheels of their Triumphant Chariots and galloped it over all Obstacles and Impediments even through Rivers nay an Ocean of Blood For their precipitant Successes disdaining to be taken off their Glorious Career made the Belgick Lyon stoop to the Yoak and draw his part in the progress of their Fame which flew swift to all the parts of the World more to the wonderment than expectation of all Men who thinking the Circum abient Seas of their new-acquired Dominions not Water enough to wash off that Pollution and deep-dyed Guilt of the Murther of their Soveraign saw them most officiously to receive and swallow a further tribute of Blood as due to their challenged Soveraignty thereon and their impatient ambition of being supreme Lords over the High and Mighty and to domineer far and wide without Rivals or Competitors in this extended Empire of the Ocean The rise of this War on this side we partly hint here and have partly touched before namely the rejectment of their civil offer and Embassie made to the Dutch by Saint Iohn from the similitude of their Governments and their Arrival to it the danger they feared from Monarchs and Princes and from the interest of the Prince of Aurange with these States which by all means was to be weakened by the neerer alliance of both Commonwealths their indignation and disdain to be thus refused and lastly the proud felicity of their Atchievements which gave the advantage of Quarrel with whom they pleased and especially to revenge those Contumelies done to Dorislaus and Saint Iohn in the very presence of the States General their displeasure whereat they gave the Dutch a tast of in their Act forbidding forrain ships to trade hither c. the last October On the Dutch side the Quarrel arose chiefly from a vain presumption that they were able to Master the English at Sea for that people naturally measure their interest by Power not by Justice and there wanted not those great ones related to the Prince of Aurange who mainly promoted this Rupture among the States themselves and indeed they proved the Major part hoping then well of his Majesties affairs in Scotland But they proving bad the States of Holland and Zealand being maritime Provinces who had at first stickled for an alliance as was tendered had prevailed that three Embassadors to wit Myn Heeren Cats Schaep and Vandeperre should immediately pass into England upon the notice of the above-mentioned Act and resume the Treaty offered at the Hague these being at last come found very cool difficult tendencies or inclinations to Peace for the case as Saint Iohn said was now altered whereupon another Embassador the Lord Newport was sent with private Instructions but no power to conclude to enquire and inform himself in what readiness and preparation the Parliament were for a Naval War what discontents from the Royalist or Faction in the Army or Ambition among the Grandees themselves might effect to their advantage where though he mist of the main about Cromwel's intended overthrow of the Parliament yet they had encouragement enough to proceed on the designe of the Oceanâ—mastership and making themselves absolute Lords of the Worlds Commerce for having beaten and overcome the English and having their Harbours at command no Prince or people whatsoever should be able on dare to offend them but endure all whatsoever they should insolently enough command and require This was the main original and Bottom of that War though hastened and urged by some peremptory unexpected demands made here to their Embassadors concerning the old duty of the Herring-fishing the opening of the Scheld Custom-free from Middleburgh to Antwerp the Right of the Flag and the business of Amboyna which
that though his Death be unknown yet his Life and the Renown of it is famous and the Glory of it Proclaimed throughout the World he set sail from those unfortunate Islands and arrived at Nants in Briâ—any in March with the Swallow and a Prize laden with Tobacco and a little Frigat and soon after his Arrival fell Sick but happily recovering he was invited to Paris and Complemented by the French King who sent the first Gentleman of his Chamber to salute him and highly and cordially welcomed by our Soveraign yet in that Court where now the whole Royal Family were very neer met together Monsieur Borâ—el Embassador from the Queen of Sweden being the third within the space of a year arrived in England about the same time and other Letters came again from the States of Holland and West-Friezsland to the Parliament the Dutch at the same time meditating on a speedy Peace and a potent carrying on of the War having prohibited the Greenland-Voyage again for that year and making all Expedition to set de Wit with another Fleet to Sea the Ballance of Victory standing still in aequilibrio for what was lost in the Channel was gained in the Streights and 't was concluded they that could raise most Men and Ships would be sure to carry it And their first designe was now upon our Colliers the great Nursery and Seminary of Sea-men for the Service whom if they could intercept being about 150 sail and but ten Men of War for their Convoy the Work was done A Fleet of 20 great ships and some little Frigats was dispatcht first and de Wit followed which first Squadron having been descryed by the Colliers at Sea they with their Convoy put into Scarborough and there under the protection of that Castle and new Platforms raised to gall the Dutch if they approached which was well perceived by them they Anchored till the Dutch drew quite off having pretended it twice before upon the coming of Vice-Admiral Pen with his Fleet that way The year ends with the release of Sir Iohn Gell and some Scotch Prisoners out of the Tower among whom was Mr. Robert Douglas and submission of the Lord Iniskillin Colonel Conuer and Mac Guire in Ireland upon the usual Terms of Transportation and an Act Constituting Iohn Bradshaw their bold President and their great Favourite to be Chancellor and Bartholomew Hall one of the Lord Whitlock's Dependants to be Atturney of the Dutchy of Lancaster that they might do something for their Friends before they dye And lo a Revolution A CHRONICLE OF THE CIVIL WARS OF ENGLAND SCOTLAND and IRELAND THE THIRD PART BEING The Protectorate Anno Dom. 1653. NOw to the reproach of Fortune and her glorious Pageant of an English Commonwealth which she had set up for another Wonder in the world to brave the Pyramids of Stone Colossus of Brass as to the defence of Times injury having subdued all likelihood or appearance of danger from without all Princes being ready to entertain their Friendship See the frailty of this structure the undermines and the cheating deceitful labour of their Architect and prime Workman in the Ground-work of this Republican Fabrick That Foundation was laid upon the Ruines of Monarchy the seeds whereof being laid in the King's Death through a four years corruption of time reared its Head now though with a forced and precoce blade a fading verdure that bespoke its unseasonableness and sudden perishment in the Family and Person of this Usurper and exerted it self afterwards in the Hundredfold Fruits of an yielding and obedient people to their Rightful Soveraign It was perceivable now what Chimera's were in the projection of the Commonwealth which had so many ambitious and covetous Masters every one of them managing his designe and stretching it to the same measure of perpetuity Sons and Nephews being brought into the Parliament and the same Relations upon the score of Inherent Merit brought into the Army and these interessedly opposite and contrary to one another the Single self to the reducing of it to Monarchical Regiment in this very Democratick form being solely intended so that it was little labour for Cromwel with his Instrument in his Hand to charm the several divided Factions of that Individuum vagum there being no other cement or obligation of their holding together but that glutinous and sticking Guilt of the Kings Blood and all places of Command and Profit were already in the Hands of his Friends and Favourites without any quarrel or indeed without any perceivance of his Grand designe which as it had worried the Kingdom to the destruction of the King so was it after to weary them with another Parliament by their barbarous and strange proceedings and so recommend himself to the People He indeed took a very happy juncture for the Execution of it just as the Scale of the Dutch difference was turned and Victory was inclining to the English and when a very potent Fleet was out at Sea and the Moneys at the rate of 120000 l. per mensem was just coming in and their Exchequer and other Receipts pretty full with the several Incomes Forfeitures and Revenues and as to his assurance of it he wanted not any assistance the Army onely his and a third part of the Parliament joyning with him in his Conspiracy which yet was a rash and hazardous venture There had been no Law nor Government before now even Prudence and Wisdom forsook the Grandees and Principals in the proceeding Rebellion For it was then clearly and truly judged that the setting up of this private and indeed debaucht Person and Family in opposition to the King the memory of whose super-excellent Vertues Gifts and Graces and His cruel Martyrdom were yet recent and His Heirs would presently ruine the Usurper for it being like to prove a War betwixt the Crown and Iack Cade it was rightly concludible that no longer than his Rebel-rout could be maintained and kept together could it be expected that Oliver's bloody house could stand The prosperous Rebel never boded this nor did he think it within his consideration his great aims were upon the Parliament an impotent and feeble Crue that stood upon his Crutches and yet threatned to beat him with them such Masters of Defence they were This made him forsake his Wiles and Fabian delays and with his Sword riddle the Oracle of this Delphick Parliament by its dissolution Fate never played such a frolick prank nor was there ever such a Scene of Mirth in all her Mazes and Varieties of Government Nor often do wicked great men survive the infamy and dishonour of their Actions and live the infamous obloquie and reproach of themselves but as if God would invert the threatned punishment of the breach of the fifth Commandment these unexampled parricides were decreed to outlive the desire of Life and to see all their Greatness buried their Reputation abroad and their Dread at home fallen into such Ignominy and Disgrace
were rather Simon Magus his own Disciples and certainly there were never such Simoniacks in the World not a Living of value but what a Friend or the best Purchaser was admitted into to which Humane Learning even where a former Right was was a good and sufficient Bar no less to the Ruine than the Scandal of the Church of England and the Protestant Religion and professors thereof several ignorant bold Laicks being inducted into the best Spiritualities as best consisted with Oliver's Interest which depended upon the Sectaries and their hideous divisions in Religion Anno Dom. 1654. HAving thus described the Foundation of this Stratocracy or Army-power we shall not be obliged to any tedious survey of the superstructure which was onely for shew and of little duration supported with temporary shifting Props in every emergency for this great one rather inhabited a Labyrinth than a Court which shewed much variety of Art but like a House of Cards was ready to be whelmed over his Head with every gust of adverse Fortune a cross Restive Government he had of it and was never able to keep it in the right Road and true way of policy And so we proceed in a brief account of State-Occurrences The 6 of April came forth an Ordinance settling Commissioners for Probation of Wills and Administrations c. by want of which power there having been no settled Judge of the Prerogative-Court whose Name abolished the thing very great and many inconveniencies had happened to the Nation Another Ordinance prohibited Cock-matches and Horse-races and all such confluxes or meetings of people for a Plot was now a hatching at White-hall and this was the first overt-signe of it Next the Commission of the Great Seal was altered and Whitlock Lisle and Sir Thomas Widdrington were made Commissioners A Prohibition by another Ordinance to the Committee at Salters Hall concerning Prisoners which were selling of Estates though never so barred by Law to satisfie the Creditors which would have made a quick confusion of Propriety And the Dutch Peace the charge of the War being now paid by that State according to private agreement of the sum was fully concluded and in April Proclaimed A Quaking Prophetess named Hannah Trapnel a forerunner of Iames Naylor now appeared who reported her Visions and Raptures and was attended by several of the Grandees of the male-contented party as Carew and others the most of her delusions she acted in the Counties of Devonshire and Cornwal till she was with some of her Partizans secured in Prison The Scotch Affairs were reputed finished as to any War though the Bustle yet so held and encreased in the Highlands that the spoils of the Conquest were now set out and made accomptable to the Victor The Lords Estates and Hereditaments of the Scotch Nobility and Gentry who Invaded England under Duke Hamilton and came in with the King to Worcester and were yet in Arms were ordered to be sold and to that purpose were invested in the Trust of Sir William Hope Lockhart Sir Richard Saltonstall Lieutenant-Colonel Wilks and others and were actually seized into their hands and the rest of them were Fined in several sums of Money to be paid within six Months some 2000 l. some 5000 l. some few 10000 l. but none under 1000 l. amounting to a greater mass of silver than Scotland was worth in ready Cash so that those who were compell'd to obey though many complemental and humble applications and addresses as is customary to that Nation were made for mitigation were forced to take up Money at unreasonable Interest which rose at last by the like occasions to 30 in the hundred An Ordinance passed with this for uniting of Scotland into one Commonwealth with England it seems the Act of Parliament to the same purpose was not sufficient and the Arms thereof ordered to be quartered as were the Irish with our Cross and Harp and Oliver's Lion Salâ—ant was placed in the middle which is as good Herauldry as this Escutcheon deserves That Kingdom by vertue thereof to be charged no otherwise in Assessments and Tax than proportionably to England and to pay no greater Excise c. An Ordinance likewise for mending and repairing Highways and Bridges which the War had spoiled and were yet every where unrepaired a very necessary and good work for the benefit of the Nation no Waggon being suffered thereafter to travel with above five Horses nor six Oxen and one Horse and care was taken likewise about the shodding of the Wheels General Monke arrives in Scotland and Proclaims Oliver in great state at Edenburgh and Arguile plainly and openly sides with the English and foments divisions among the Scots his Son the Lord Lorn departing in a discontent and quarrel from the Earl of Glencarn and returning to the old Fox his Father The French King Crowned at Rheims having been declared Major and our Soveraign invited to the Solemnity while the Intrigues of Mazarine were driving a conclusion of peace with Cromwel The Designe now appeared which Oliver had hatched for some while and had laboured by his treacherous Agents to mature to something therefore first of all a general search is made throughout London for Cavaliers and thereupon Colonel Iohn Gerrard as before Mr. Vowel and Somerset Fox were brought before the High Court of Iustice Proclaimed the 13 and sitting the 31 of Iune in which interval they had prepared their business and provided Witnesses and drew up the Charge After twice or thrice Conventing of the aforesaid Gentlemen an Accusation was brought of their intention to assassinate the Protector with one Major Henshaw and others fled to the proof whereof they produced young Mr. Charles Gerrard against his Brother as also one Wiseman and one Mr. Hudson a blinde Minister whose Brother was that eminent person who accompanied and guarded the late King in his flight from Oxford that had been cherished by Mr. Vowel against him who yet retracted from his Examination and could not be brought by the threats of the Court to make it good and yet they made it valid Somerset Fox as he was instructed before by promise of Life confessing the Guilt thereby involving the other two innocent Gentlemen and craving mercy It availed not them to deny this Charge though never so much reason and strength of argument on their side Lisle the President summing up the prejudiced suffrages of the Court gave Sentence of Hanging which was Executed Iuly the 10 on Mr. Vowel at Charing-Cross where with a Roman Spirit tempered with Christian Patience he suffered his Martyrdom off from a Stool â—etcht from the Guard the adjacent Neighbours refusing to lend any thing to his Death the Executioner having his Ladder not in readiness Colonel Gerrard was Beheaded on Tower-hill who expresly denied the intention of the Fact and from this reason because he thought it might be far from the honour and great minde of the King whose injunction this was said
part of the Fleet under General Pen set sail for England and neer half way home lost the Paragon a Navy-ship by fire none of that company daring to come in to her relieâ— because of her Powder so that neer 140 men were lost by fire and water those that could swim escaped being taken up by Boats after the Blow On the 3 of September General Pen arrived at Portsmouth and on the ninth Venables with his Wife very sick and much altered and Quarter-Master-General Rudyard landed at the same place in the Marston-moore Command by Rear-Admiral Blag the Fleet at Iamaica consisting of some 20 sail being left under the Command of Vice-Admiral Goodson Upon their coming to London where Venables alledged the danger and encrease of sickness for the cause of his return Pen the resolution of the Council of War they were both Committed to the Tower to satisfie the expectation of the people more than any intention of bringing Venables to an account for this base and dishonourable Expedition The Cavils at the Isle of Rhee's unfortunate business were now regested and retorted upon those Enemies and Traducers of the King whose party was very well pleased with this disgrace done to Oliver which carried with it future advantages against the Usurpation that had designed this Forrain Exchequer for the perpetual pay of his everlasting Red-coats General Blake as was said before having met with the Spanish Fleet under the Command of General Paulo di Contreras waiting for the Plate-Fleet about the Southern Cape and mutually saluted one another returned to Victual and recruit in England and landed at Chattam The Mart at Frankfort in Germany was held this September which with other affairs invited the King from Colen He went â—rom Bonne by Water being Towed in a Pleasure-boat and two other necessary Vessels for his dressing Provision and accommodation and was saluted by all the Towns neer which they passed with most ample Ceremonies and where he entred with the like presents In his Company were the Prince of Aurange and the Duke of Gloucester attended by the Marquess of Ormond Earl of Norwich Lord Newburgh Colonel Dan. O Neal Doctor Frazer the Lady Stanhop and Lord Hemfleit her Husband and other Domesticks An interview had been appointed at a Village called Koningsteyn or Kingston betwixt Queen Christina of Sweden then journeying to the Arch-Duke of Inspruck's Country for Italy where she was highly Treated by the said Arch-Duke and there professed her self a Roman-Catholick The King at this Village after the publick Ceremonies were over had private Conference with this Princess the space of an hour and then the Duke of Gloucester and Princess of Aurange did the like which passed the Noblemen and neer Attendants had reception given them The Prince Elector of Heidelburgh with Prince Rupert gave her likewise a visit in this Town and had the same converse with her Both the King and She were invited by him to Heidelburgh but they took several ways for his Majesty having continued some time at Frankfort where the States and Deputies of the Empire were assembled to finish what was left at the Diet the Kings business there depending before that Assembly and having been splendidly entertained as in all places of Germany where he came and there received an honourable pressing invitation from the Prince Elector of Mentz by his Earl-Marshal who was sent on the Embassie with a Train to conduct him from Frankfort dâ—parted thence with the noise of the Cannon and the Volleys and Acclamations of the Citizens and arrived at Mentz having been feasted at a magnificent Supper in a Village by the way whence next morning in all the State that Prince could set out or furnish his entrance with the King departed for Mentz and was there entertained two or three days with an Expence befitting his Dignity and diverted with all honourable Recreations and with the same Grandeurs departed for Colen Most abominable impudent scandals were Printed in the News-Book here of the King and the meanness of those Respects done him when it is most true greater Honours were not done to any Prince in the World so much did the injury of his Condition advance these peoples Civility While he progressed hereabouts one Dury a Minister sent by Cromwel was perambulating these parts with Credentials or Commission from him who would needs be doing in Religious Plots as well as Civil to make himself famous to discourse and Treat with all the Churches of the Reformed Perswasions Calvinists and Lutherans about an Agreement and Union and that the Doctrine might be one and the same and that his Highness desired to be Instrumental in such a Pious Work of general Communion but the main of his Mission being to set forth Oliver this Will in the Wisp vanished and returned for England whither an Embassador from Venice that had layn some while here incognito appeared in that quality in the room of Signior Pauluzzi recalled and did notably complement Cromwel with his puissance valour and prudence and offered the respects and Friendships of that Signiory And Arguile from Scotland came to kiss his Highness Hands On the 24 of October the French Peace having been some while before concluded was solemnly Proclaimed first in the Court at White-hall next at Temple-Bar and so in other places and Monsieur De Bourdeaux the French Embassador next day treated at Dinner by the Protector In this Treaty the Royal Family of England all but the Queen-Mother were totally Excluded though the Duke of York still continued at Paris till after the arrival of Lockhart Cromwel's Embassador thither soon after when he departed for Brussels having been complementally invited to the next Summers Campagnia Thus Corruptio unius est generatio alterius the Spanish Peace was all to pieces for the same day that the French Peace was Proclaimed an Embargo was laid upon all Goods in the Canaries and the Spanish Embassador Don Alonso de Cardenas departed hence and by Gravesend shipt himself for Flanders and a Trader at Vigo in Spain was taken and seized and a Declaration of War published by that King Whereupon Cromwel presently erected a Committee of Trade of which his Son and Heir apparent Richard was the first named to consult how to manage and secure it An Embargo was likewise soon after laid here upon all ships and one Mr. Maynard dispatcht to the King of Portugal to make sure of his Ports and with some other intrigues a Fleet was likewise preparing to set out to Sea and the Footing in Iamaica resolved to be kept Maj. Sedgewick and Colonel Humphries with a Squadron of ships and a Regiment to 1000 fresh men having toucht at Barbadoes being landed there now where Sedgewick sent to Command in chief with Colonel Fortescue of the old and most of the new comers died of the Infection that was among them Humphries with much ado and danger of Death returned home in safety
Croxton yet held out the Castle and had it presently delivered from thence to Leverpool which was yielded likewise by Colonel Ireland while in the mean time Colonel Zanchy and Axtel took in Chirk-castle delivered by young Mr. Middleton upon terms of having two Months time to make Addresses to the Parliament the rest were to be Prisoners of War and among them was Colonel since Sir Edward Broughton Harding-Castle was yielded likewise upon the like Capitulations Sir George Booth had made his escape out of the Field and got away accompanied with four of his Servants in a Womans Disguise but at his Inne in Newport-pagnel was discovered and being guarded and secured one Gibbons a Minister posted to give the Parliament account of it and was rewarded by them as were no less than three several Messengers sent before from Lambert with the particulars of the Cheshire-defeat Upon his bringing to London Fleetwood was ordered to send a Guard and meet him at Highgate and secure him to the Tower whither the next day Sir Henry Vane and Sir Arthur Haslerig were sent to Examine him It hath since been plainly confirmed that General Monke was engaged with him in the same designe under pretence of a Free-Parliament and that the Marquess of Ormond in the Habit of a Pedlar was seen abâ—â—â— his House at Dalkeith but it was so secretly carried that nothing appeared at this time nor would Sir George be drawn to accuse any man Most certain it is the Kings Restitution was the bottome of this Designe for before the appearance of it he had withdrawn privately from Brussels and lay ready upon the Coast of Britany about St. Malo's and those places to take shipping for England upon the first good event of those his Loyal Friends and Subjects but Kent or Sussex was the place intended for his Landing Turenne the French General having engaged to wait upon him if he would oblige it But this unhappy account reaching him there he resolved to give over the prosecution of his right by the Sword at present seeing the almost-impossibility of recovering it by his English Subjects against these standing Armies and pass to St. Iean de Luz where the Treaty betwixt the two Crowns was then begun and whither Lockhart upon the arrival of a French Embassador hither was ordered to Travel where after several affronts done him while the Ministers of the King not to mention the Grandeurs of the Honours done to himself by the Cardinal and Don Lewis de Haro and during his short stay in the Realm of Spain who were first the Lord Iermyn his Plenipotentiary at that Treaty the Earl of Bristol the Lord Chancellor Sir Henry Bennet the Kings Resident at the Court of Spain after Secretary of State and others he was better advised to return and be gone with more hast than he came His Master's Concerns being wholly rejected and his Majesty's most affectionately undertaken by both those Potentates in private distinct Articles agreed between them As those Iuncto-men or Rumpers would have been taken into this affair of the Peace between France and Spain so they thrust themselves into the difference between the two Northern Kingdoms of Denmark and Sweden sending Mr. Sidney and Sir Thomas Honeywood Sir Henry Vane's Brother-in-law their Plenipotentiaries to those Crowns who having sâ—aid there to no purpose returned some time after to as much their Masters at home being lurcht before they had order to proceed in the same method and as far as the French or Dutch whose project of the Peace framed at the Hague being humbly tendered here by their Embassador was approved and these Commissioners to act according to that Module General Montague returned September the 24 about their coming thither and having given an account not of all he knew or did there concerning the War there to the Council of State was dismissed having given the King very good assurance of his readiness and affection to his service The Parliament now were consulting what more standing Forces to keep in the Kingdom and to keep in with the Sects and Quakers now numerous they repealed the Act of Iohn Lilburn's Banishment and released Iames Naylor as aforesaid out of Bridewel then against the last Royalists caused a new Sequestration-Act to be presently passed and Commissioners Names expedited Thus brisk they were always upon the Atchievement and accomplishment of every success which when it tickled them to arrogance and confidence scratched them soon after to their trouble and vexation for Lambert having done the Feat for them was now upon his progress in the Country to his own House at Craven in York-shire caressing the people having used his Victory very civilly although he was heard to say upon his setting forth questionless to make him more acceptable and less suspect to the Rump That he would not leave a Cavalier to Piss against the Wall or words to that effect Especially he made much of his Officers having invited them to his House aforesaid where their entertainment was concluded with a Draught of another Advice stiled A Petition to the Parliament General Monke in the mean time the better to conceal his affection to the King caused most of the Scotch Nobility to be seized on a sudden and upon the refusal of the Engagement secured them in Castles Very many yea most of them refused besides the Earl of Glencarn the General 's Confident and Privado as appeared not long after Lambert was Voted a Jewel of 1000 l. for a gratuity from the Parliament for his Cheshire-service but his ambition aimed at a higher Gem he therefore desired the Parliament that they would think of paying off the Militia who had deserved well as also the Irish Brigades and the Widows and relicts of such whose Husbands were drowned passing from thence to their assistance which they readily promised sitting brooding continually upon Acts of Sale and Forfeitures of such Estates whose last moities upon purchase had not been paid as also in sifting out all the persons engaged with Sir George and had traced it so close by their Beagles as to bring Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper one of their Council of State into suspicion as really he was a principal in the Plot having been of the Cabal and had kept intelligence with Sir George and had a party in Dorset shire which timely dispersed themselves but the great opinion they had of him stop'd the mouth of his Accusers and he knew well enough how to defend himself at their Bar. They had likewise got one of the King's Letters dated the 16 of May and other Papers which with the several Examinations were read in the House and a Thanksgiving-day thereupon appointed for this their great preservation They likewise Voted the Charter of the City of Chester void and that it should be no longer a County of it self but lie in Common as also the Ejection of the whole Ministry as Malignant and received soon after
Fourth the Demeasnes and Jurisdiction whereof lay in the Dutchy of Normandy in France under the English Soveraginty and Earl of Torrington in his own native County of Devon and Baron of Potheridge his own Patrimony Beauchamp and Teyes by which he hath right of Peerage in the three Kingdoms whose equal Felicity and Honour he advanced and raised before himself and now most deservingly shared with them by his Investiture in these Dignities which were compleated Iuly the 13 by his taking his place in the House of Lords attended by the House of Commons and introduced by the Duke of Buckingham In the same month General Montague was created Earl of Sandwich Viscount Hinchingbrooke his famous Mannor in Huntingtonshire and Baron of St. Neots in the same County and on the 16 of Iuly took likewise his place in the House of Peers where they both shine with that degree of splendor by which the Duke reduced and the Earl dawned at the day of Englands Glory and Liberty The Duke of Ormond was likewise made Earl of Brecknock and took his place among the Peers of England he was also made Lord Steward of his Majesties Houshold as the Earl of Lindsey was made Lord High-Chamberlain the Earl of Manchester Lord Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold and the Earl of Southampton Lord High-Treasurer of England Sir Frederick Cornwallis was made Treasurer of the Kings Houshold by an old Grant and Sir Iohn Berkley Comptroller and other Royalists were made Officers therein Several presents were made to the King from the several Cities and Boroughs of the Kingdom in Gold and Plate and resignation of Fee-farm-rents purchased from the Usurpers among the rest the City of London with a Complement of their good Stewardship by the mouth of their Recorder Sir William Wilde rendred their like Grant of New Parke in Surrey All the Rents accruing at Michaelmas-day were now secured from the late Purchasers of Kings Queens Bishops Dean and Chapters lands for the use of the right and unquestionable Proprietors to the defeating the miserable and unjust covetousness of such undue and unwarrantable penniworths A splendid Embassy came this Month of August from Denmark to congratulate his Majesties most happy Restitution as a little before the Lord Iermyn newly made Earl of Saint Albans the Title last failing in the renowned Marquess of Clanrickard Vlick de Burgh who had so eminently asserted his Majesties Rights in Ireland and after the reduction thereof came into England and died in London in some distress far unfitting his nobleness of minde as well as former most honourable Estate a while before the Kings Return was sent to France in the quality of Lord Embassador Extraordinary to that Crown Soon after the Prince de Ligne with a right Princely Train and retinue becoming the grandeur of the Affair he was sent to Congratulate from his Majesty of Spain betwixt whom and this Kingdom a Peace after a six years War was lately Proclaimed was with great state received and had solemn Audience by the King and departed and was succeeded by the Baron of Battevile to be Resident and Embassador in Ordinary at this Court. From the French King soon after came another Illustrious and grand Personage upon the same account by name the Count of Soissons who had married the Cardinal's Neece and entred and was entertained here with all sumptuous and extraordinary Magnificence In sum there was no Prince nor State in Europe who sent not or were not a sending their Embassador upon this wonderful occasion The Parliament after many debates and disputes alterations and insertions at last finished the Act of Oblivion which was extraordinary comprehensive and indulgent to the regret of many injured Royalists who found no better perswasive to their acquiescence in it but their unalterable duty to the King whose special Act this was Out of this were only excepted the Regicides and Murderers of their late Soveraign as to Life and Estate besides Colonel Lambert and Sir Henry Vane and Twenty others reserved to such Forfeitures as should by Parliament be declared the principal of these were Sir Arthur Haselrig Oliver Saint Iohn William Lenthal the Speaker Mr. Ny the Independent Minister Burton of Yarmouth and some Sequestrators Officers and Major-Generals of the Army amongst whom was Desborough Pine Butler Ireton c. They passed likewise an Act for a perpetual Anniversary Thanksgiving on the 29 of May the day of his Majesties Birth and Restauration a day indeed memorable and the most auspicious in our English Kalendar and worthy of a Parliaments Canonization Both which his Majesty gave his Royal Assent to as at the Adjournment to another for Disbanding of the Army and paying off the Navy which once looked upon us with the same feared perpetual danger as the Mamalukes or Ianizaries but by this happy conjuncture of his Majesties Fortune with his Wisdom and Goodness yielded after many Modules to its last Dissolution Great sums by Pole-money and other Assessments were imposed and speedily and cheerfully levied and paid to finish this desired work which had before wasted so many Millions of Treasure Mr. Scowen Mr. Pryn Col. King and Sir Charles Doyley were appointed Commissioners to disband them to which the Souldiery very willingly and with thanks to the King submitted the King giving them a Weeks pay as a Donative and Largess The Parliament adjourned till the 6 of November These Felicities of the King we have hitherto insisted on as the course of all worldly things is guided were abated and allayed by the immature and most lamented Death of the right Excellent Prince Henry Duke of Gloucester his Majesties youngest Brother a Prince of very extraordinary hopes Silence will best become our lamentation for his vertues and our loss of them transcend expression He died of the Small-pox Aged Twenty years and two months after much Blood-letting and was Interred with a private Funeral in Henry the Seventh's Chappel at Westminster just before the arrival of his Sister the Princess of Orange who came to joy and felicitate her Brothers in their happy Restitution With the King and Monarchy the Ecclesiastical Regiment by Bishops recovered it self by his Majesties Piety and Prudence that Aphorism being most sadly verified No Bishop No King and therefore on the 20 of September Dr. Iuxon Bishop of London that antient and excellent Prelate was by the King translated from that See to the Arch-bishoprick of Canterbury which was performed with great Solemnity and not long after several new Bishops persons the most eminent and valiant assertors of the Church and Laws of England were Consecrated in the Abby at Westminster and all the Diocesses filled of which together presently in an ensuing Catalogue Divine Vengeance had with a slow foot traced the murtherers of our Martyr'd Soveraign and through several Mazes at last overtook them the iron hand of Justice delivering them to the punishment due to that grand impiety nor was it
much to the discredit of Parliaments as if the Crown were jealous as Parliaments or that Parliaments were jealous of the Crown While these things were transacting Sir Iohn Lawson Admiral of the English Fleet sent into the Mediterranean Sea to repress the Insolencies of the Pirates of Argier sent home seventeen Ships and between two and three hundred men and great store of Goods which those Corsairs had taken prize to the Honor of the Publick and private satisfaction of many Nor can we omit the punishment of a Criminal Book long after the Author's decease For with the same justice may Books as well as men be executed for Treason And therefore long after his death about the beginning of May was Mr. George Buchanans Book De Iure Regni apud Scotos call'd in and suppress'd by an Act of the Parliament of that Kingdom having been condemned before by another Act of Parliament in the year 1584. Nor was it less to the advantage of his Majesties Service that at the same time they issued out another Proclamation To prohibit all persons to seek demand receive or deliver any Contributions or Supplies but what were publickly allow'd and practiz'd without allowance of the Lords of the Privy Council For without Libels and Collections the grand support of Conventicles it is morally impossible to unsettle any Government Among such serious things as these Historians have allow'd themselves to entertain their Readers with miraculous Accidents Which puts us in mind of the portentous Tartar which Count Serini was reported to have taken about this time From the shoulder upward he had the shape of a Giant-like man his Neck long and like that of a Horse with a Manâ— the lower part of his face like a man with a great wild Beard the upper part like a Horse with large Ears He was arm'd with a great Bowe and a Quiver by his side with a long Dart. If this Relation may not gain sufficient credit yet the Monster may serve to fight many Ages hence with Regulus's his Serpent Another strange Accident was related from the Barbado's then published not without great Authority which was that about 900 miles Eastward of the Barbadoes a Vessel being in her full course a certain great Fish struck the Ship on the Star-board side and passing under it touch'd the Rudder and threw the Sâ—eâ—rs-man from the Helm and when she came on the other side heav'd a great Sea into the Ship At her first stroke she ran her Horn through the sheathing a three-Inch Plank and threw the Timber into the Cieling where it broke short off so that a piece of 12 Inches long and 100 and a half weight was left in the hole Had not the Horn been broke in the hole the Vessel had been lost for notwithstanding that stoppage the water came in so fast that it kept a Pump imploy'd The Horn was like an Elephants Tooth but more ponderous But passing over these Relations of lighter moment the next Intelligence which we meet withal is of Sir Iohn Lawson who having offer'd all fair Accommodation to the Pyrates of Argier yet finding them disdain his proffer'd Peace he declares open War against them and immediately after took one of their Corsairs of thirty four Guns and 260 men which he sent into Majorca Part of the Prisoners being Turks and Moors he sold to the Duke of Beaufort Admiral to the King of France then in those Seas But now his Majesty mindful of the great work he had in hand had given his particular Instructions to his Embassador in the Netherlands who thereupon about the middle of May gave in his Memorandum to the States of the damages which the English complain'd to have suffer'd by the Subjects of those Provinces But the unprepar'd Belgian not finding it convenient to give such speedy Answers resolv'd to send their own Embassadors to the King himself which as it was a way of answering more magnificent so it was the occasion of greater delay Upon the 17 th of May the Commons being met in the House of Lords His Majesty in a gracious Speech gave both Lords and Commons to understand his Royal Approbation of their Cares and Labors for the good of the Publick together with a Princely acknowledgment of their compliance with his pleasure in the dispatch of the business of the last Sessions Afterwards his Majesty caused them to be Prorogued till the 20 th of August ensuing Withal declaring that unless something extraordinary should fall out it was his Royal purpose not to call them together till November following whereof they should have seasonable notice by Proclamation Upon which Sir Edward Turnor then Speaker represented to his Majesty the humble Thanks of the House for his Gratious acceptance of their endeavours in the Service of his Majesty and the Publick After which he particularly insisted upon the unsettled condition of the Country by reason of Phanaticks Sectaries and Non-conformists and next to that upon the Injuries complain'd of by our Merchants concerning the frauds and practises of our Neighbours the Dutch in the East and West-Indies in Turkey and Africa which besides the Indignities offer'd to his Royal Majesty and the Crown of England were computed to amount to no less than the value of seven or eight hundred thousand Pounds Lastly he presented the Heads of several Bills ready for his Royal assent Accordingly his Majesty sign'd several private and some few publick Acts among the rest An Act to prevent and suppress Seditious Conventicles which though it occasion'd great trouble to the Magistrates of the several Counties yet it made apparent their faithful care and Loyalty to his Majesties Service so that indeed it was the whole employment of this Year to apprehend and try the daily offenders against this Statute His Majesty in the mean time finding it agreeable to his Royal wisdom forthwith to equip two considerable Fleets both to secure his Subjects in their freedom of Trade and maintain the Honor and Interest of the English Nation employ'd some of the Lords of his most Honorable Privy Council to the City of London for the Loan of an hundred thousand pounds upon so extraordinary an occasion referring them to the Lord Treasurer for terms of repayment This was received with so dutiful a compliance by the Common Council of the City that the said Supply was presently Voted acquitting themselves at once both in point of Loyalty and prudence Their present duty and Service to the King manifestly redounding to the welfare and safety of themselves While his Majesty is thus busied in his preparations at home we may look abroad where we are forc'd to behold the fall of the Noble Earl of Teviot who upon the third of May passing the Iews River fell into an ambush planted there by Gayland shelter'd by a thick wood and seconded by his whole Army The Party which the Earl commanded was totally lost excepting a
hands while he had such large Sums to carry on the War In a short time the Prâ—positions of the several Counties and the Names of the Commissioners were agreed upon by both Houses of Parliament Upon the Eleventh of February following the King Sign'd the Act being Entituled An Act for granting a Royal Ayd of Twenty four hundred threescore and seventeen thousand and five hundred pounds For which his Majesty return'd his Royal thanks In the beginning of March following his Majesty having passed several other Acts presented him by both Houses and receiv'd their good wishes for the prosperity of his undertakings delivered in a Speech by the Speaker Prorogued them till the Twenty first of Iune 1665. A little before the Parliament met His Majesty set forth a Declaration for Encouragement of Marriners and Seamen employ'd in the Service Allowing all Officers and Seamen after the rate of Ten shillings per Tun for every lawful Prize and to take to themselves as free Pillage whatever they should take on or above the Gun-Deck with his Royal Promise to provide for the Sick and Wounded Widows Children and Impotent Parents of such as should be Kill'd with several other advantages mention'd in the said Declaration His Majesties Wisdom and Goodness in that and in all other things plentifully providing for all Events both of War and Peace In December following His Majesty setting forth the Consideration which he had taken of the Injuries Affronts and Spoyls done by the Subjects of the Vnited Provinces to the Ships Goods and Persons of His Majesties Suâ—jects notwithstanding many and frequent demands for Redress by the Advice of His Privy Councel ordered That general Reprisals should be granted against the Ships and Goods and Subjects of the Vnited Provinces As this did not a little vex the Dutch so with greater reason the action of De Ruyter in Guiny did Incense the King of England and therefore in the beginning of February he put forth a Declaration That the Subjects of His Majesty had sustained several Injuries and Damages from the Subjects of the United Provinces That he had made Complaint thereof and frequently demanded Satisfaction That instead of Reparation they had not only ordered De Ruyter to desert the Consortship against the Pyrats of the Mediterranean Sea but also to do all acts of Violence and Hostility against His Majesties People in Africa And that therefore His Majesty did with the Advice of his Privy Councel Declare the Dutch the Aggressors Impowring His Majesties Fleet to Fight and Destroy the Ships of the Netherlanders This Declaration being a solemn Denuntiation of War was proclam'd in the beginning of March at White-hall Temple-bar and the Royal-Exchange with the usual Solemnities This Declaration charging them to be the Aggressors stuck heavily in their Stomachs and they took it into their serious consideration But instead of answering to so high a Charge they contented themselves with a second Libel which they had publish'd somewhile before which they call'd A Summary Observation and Deduction delivered by the Deputies of the States General upon the Memorial of Sir George Downing Envoy Extraordinary of the King of Great Britain As lewd a piece for foulness of Language and weakness of Defence as ever came into the light under pretence of Authority In the mean while their Embassies to Swedeland and Denmark went slowly on and instead of being befriended by France the Embassador of that Crown is order'd to demand reparations for the loss of two very considerable East-India Ships taken from the Subjects of that Kingdom And at the same time his Electoral Highness renewed his demands of satisfaction from the Governors of Wasel for the affront offerâ—d to the Son of his Excellencie the Earl of Carlisle of which it may not be unseasonable now to give the Relation The Lord Morpeth Son of the Earl of Carlisle travelling from Munster to Collen found a Tâ—oop of Horse drawn up in his way the Captain whereof coming to the young Lord told him he had Orders to carry that Company to Wesel by a Verbal Order from the Governour which he did and lodg'd the Company in two Inns. After they had been two days Prisoners one Hayes a Gentleman belonging to the Duke of Brandenburghs Council in Cleve demanded the Prisoners in the Dukes name threatning to seize the Goods of the States Subjects in the Dukes Dominions in case of refusal The Governor answer'd that he was inform'd they were gathering a Party to fall upon his Garrison but finding the Information false he gave them all free liberty to proceed in their Journey But the Lord Morpeth and the English not so contented went to Cleve and there in the Dukes Court exhibited a Charge against the Governor Not long after Major Holmes was committed to the Tower upon several Accusations laid against him But when the whole matter came to be strictly enquired into and examined he did so fully clear himself upon every point that the King was not only pleas'd to discharge but to honour him with a singular mark of his favour Toward the middle of March several Memorials were delivered in by the Ministers of France Portugal and Swede complaining of their Ships being detained contrary to the Usage and Practice of their Friends and Allies To which the States gave little or no satisfaction only permitted some French Ballast-ships to go out About the latter end of March Captain Allen arriv'd in the Downs with a considerable Squadron of his Majesties Fleet and a Convoy of rich Merchants together with a rich Prize one of them that were taken at Cadiz a lusty Ship which was afterwards made a man of War and carried above 40 Guns About this time his Majesty publish'd a Proclamation prohibiting the Importation or Retailing of any Commodities of the Growth or Manufacture of the States of the United Provinces occasion'd by a Prohibition on their parts of the Importing or Vending any Goods or Wares made in any of the Kings Dominions But while we prepare for War at home we make Peace abroad For the English in Tangier had by this made an advantageous Accord with Gayland the Mâ—ors being very ready to agree with them in all Amity and good Correspondence Nor was it less pleasing to hear of Sir Charles Cotterels reception at Bruxels who being sent on his Majesties behalf to preserve and continue the Ancient Amity had an entertainment sutable to his Quality If there were any thoughts of Peace among the Hollanders it was only in shew for their preparations for War were open and publick and therefore the King with most indefatigable diligence journey'd from Port to Port to hasten out his Fleet already in great readiness as also by his presence to incourage the Seamen that by the 25 th of March ending the Year 1664 the Fleet most magnificently prepar'd with all Provisions necessary was ready to receive their most
affirm'd that he died by a heat taken in Hunting however the Emperour was very diligent to take all convenient orders for the prevention of any disquiet that might arise by reason of his death The Cessation made the last year between the Emperour and the great Turk began now to look with a favourable aspect toward a general conclusion of Peace The Emperour's Embassador Count Lesley having had a very honourable Reception from the Grand Visier at Constantinople And the Turkish Chiaux having been no less sumptuously attended by the Emperour's Commissioners appointed to conduct him to Vienna whither the Presents which he brought from the Grand Seignior were not a little sumptuous among the rest a Tent for Workmanship of Embroidery and Jewels valued at 200000 Rix-dollars In September the Peace betwixt the two Great Emperours was wholly concluded with that satisfaction to the Turk that Count Lesley the Emperour's Embassador acknowledged himself to have been Treated with that Civility and Magnificence that never any Imperial Embassador had received the like before It was thought this year would have put an end to the differences between the Duke of Savoy and the Commonwealth of Genoua But instead of Composure the Breach grew wider for the Duke of Savoy demanded the restitution of certain Villages which he claim'd as belonging to his Ancestors which the Genoueses in possession were loath to part with He also claim'd the right of Passage to carry Salt through the State of Genoua into Piedmont together with a priviledge of being nam'd first in all Articles of Treaty Better success had the Quarrel between the Electors of Mentz and Collen which with much difficulty this year was brought to a final conclusion upon Conditions That the City of Erford and the Villages thereto belonging should continue Hereditary to the Elector of Mentz the Duke of Saxony renouncing all pretences to them That Saxony should keep possession of seven Lordships which the Elector of Mentz laid claim to That Religion should remain unmolested according to the Auspurgh Confession And that the two Electors should enter into a League Offensive and Defensive The Portugueses heightned with their late Victories and still back'd with the English Succours Invade Galicia where they Sack'd 24 Towns and Villages at length coming before La Guarda the English leading the Van were commanded to enter the Town which they gain'd with small loss but in Storming the Fort they found a smarter resistance though that also was in a short time compell'd to yield but with the unhappy fall of Captain Charles Langley Lieutenant Senhouse and Ensigne Berry In Germany the Duke of Brandenburg makes new Levies of Horse and Foot and now with his Arms in his Hands he demands a Restitution of the Tolls at Genuep and a regulation of Quarterings and Musters through his Country which though Beverning was sent to excuse yet it could not be forgot The Dutch did not care to have too many Enemies which made the Brandenburgher think it seasonable to raise his Market the price of his Alliance being nineteen Tun of Gold At length all the Conferences of his Ministers and the Dutch ended in this That there should be a speedy meeting appointed to consult for the common Peace and Safety of that Circle of the Empire the Elector Declaring that he could not conclude any thing in relation to the present War without the consent of the rest of his Allies This year the Queen-Mother of France Anne of Austria Sister to Philip the 4 th departed this Life before her expiration making use of her last Breath to recommend to her Son The easing of his People to preserve Vnity between himself and his Brother and in all things to imitate the Example of his Grandfather Henry the 4th In Italy there arose a Contest of no small consequence between the Venetian and the Pope For the Venetian claiming the Sovereignty of the Adriatick-Sea finding a Vessel belonging to the Pope there demanded the Custom due to that Republick which the Master denying they carried the Vessel to Venice The Pope demands Restitution but they make such a tedious Demur that it amounted to a denyal Hereupon the Pope makes an Embargo in Ancona and all his other Ports of the Venetian Ships They send to their Embassador at Rome to complain the Pope denies him Audience but by the Mediation of the Cardinal Patron the difference was Compos'd in regard of their War with the Turks against whom the Pope then reigning was a most Devout Enemy About this time the Iews were strangely Alarm'd with the News of a New Messiah The Impostor was a person bred and born in Smyrna who in a short space grew to such a Head that no one Jew durst open his Mouth against him he drew after him great Multitudes and was strangely ador'd by the chiefest of the Iews That which contributed to the Imposture was a Confederacy of Thirty others who pretending themselves to have the Gift of Prophesie in all their Publique Ejaculations pointed out him for the Messiah Whether it were he or another but in Eden a great City in the Kingdom of Elal in Arabia Felix there was at the same time a Iew by the Name of Giorobaon who by his dextrous Oratory reduc'd all the Citizens for the most part Iews to his Obedience killing the Bassa and forcing the Garrison to submit to him In a little time his Numbers increas'd he calling himself their Prophet so that in a short time he drew after him all the Arabians of the Mountain Cabuburra thence passing through Arabia Pâ—trea he Possess'd himself of Medina and Mecca writing from those parts to all the Iews of Idumea and Syria to prepare for his Reception Nor were these two alone for at the same time one Sabadai not so Warlike but more Prophetical did strangely entoxicate the brains of his Brethren with an Assurance of the Arrival of their Expected Messiah and was so vain as to go to Constantinople to demand the Land of Promise from the Grand Signior One thing must not be omitted since we are among the Iews and the Turks That the Secretary to the Turkish Embassador sent to Conclude the Peace at Vienna after the business was over took an occasion whether out of Design or Devotion is for others to conjecture to absent himself with several Papers of Importance from his Masters Service and turn Christian. Yet notwithstanding the Turkish Peace the Emperour was not a little disturb'd by the Revolt of Palaffi Imbre who with a great number of ill-disciplin'd Vagabonds did very much infest Hungaria solliciting the Bassa of Ersa to his Assistance but through the great diligence of the Palatine of Hungaria he prevail'd little or nothing this Year more than in spoyling and Robbing the Country He was soon defeated and taken his Person was Committed to Prison where he remain'd till the Nuptials of the Empress at which time he
100 taken Prisoners Several of the Rebels were afterwards Sentenced and Executed among the rest Corson that first began the Mutiny and Malkel their Minister a main Incendiary of the people so that in a short time all things were reduc'd to their former quietness In imitation of England the Barbadoes another England in the other part of the World would not suffer the same Enemies of both to lie undisturb'd To which purpose the Lord Willoughby Governour of the Caribby Islands having set forth from the Barbadoes a considerable Fleet well Man'd and Victuall'd set sail from thence upon some particular designe and in his way burnt two ships richly laden in the Harbour of Los Santos and took two other Prizes but as he was in pursuit of his further designe there arose a Hurricane so violent that their Cables giving way they were forc'd to abandon themselves to the rage of the Storm which continued with that extremity that they were wholly separated and dispersed and the Lord Willoughby himself absolutely lost In Ianuary the Convention of the Estates of Scotland met according to appointment where the Oath of Allegeance being administred and taken by the several Members they fell upon the publick concernments as securing the Kingdom from publick and Domestick Dangers and how to put the same into a posture of defence and for the raising so much Money as should be thought convenient to defray the charge and thereupon 6000 l. per Moneth was agreed on for the entertainment of such Forces as should be employ'd in his Majesties service But in the parts neer Surinam the English were more successful than at the Barbadoes where they having destroy'd and ruin'd a considerable Colony of the Dutch at Apecawaca resolved to attempt something likewise upon the French and particularly to attack the Fort of Sinamary which they took together with fifty Prisoners and the Governour besides what were slain The English dismantled the Fort and carried away all the Guns and Ammunition Captain Reade also passing up the Canessa toward the Berbices a very populous Creek inhabited by the Enemy he landed at Carenteen and marching twenty miles by Land took the Fort of the Arawaces taking Men Women and Children Captives and much Booty with little or no loss But though it were how December some English Vessels were still abroad And among the rest Captain Robinson who lighting upon three Dutch Men of War neer the Texel destroy'd them all in requital of which curtesie the Dutch not long after took the Saint Patrick off of Portsmouth deserted by her own Fire-ship At the conclusion of the Year Captain Vtbert return'd from the Streights with the Squadron under his Command and seven Dutch Prizes Forein Affairs 1666. The King of France having receiv'd a very high Affront from the Great Turk in the person of his Embassador thought no way better than to send the same person again to require satisfaction for the repair of his Masters Honour But the Turk retaining in his minde the attempt upon Gigery and the Succours sent the Emperour would hearken to no Proposition that might add to the Honour of his solemn Entry so that he was forc'd at last to land as it were Incognito and privately attended to walk from the Ship to his House He went with much pomp to his Audience and at his Entry made several stops expecting the Visier would have risen to him but finding no more respect he sate down upon the Stool appointed for him and in his Masters Name whom he stil'd Emperour of France demanded more Honour to be done him But the Visier incens'd with the manner of his demanding it broke out into a passion which the French Embassador resenting rose from his seat and in going away thrâ—w the Capitulations with the Case over his Shoulder which hit the Visier on the Brest upon which the Visier commanded his Officers to apprehend and strike him which was accordingly performed and he hurried out of the Chamber where he had received several boxes of the Ear and blows upon the Brest and was carried Prisoner to the Bashaw's House where he was kept Prisoner in a base low Room under the Stairs and there detained four days till by the Intercession of the English Embassador he was deliver'd The King of France had sent a person of quality to be a Witness of the Great Turk'â— submission but he became a fairer testimony of his Embassador's hard usage The Electors of Brandenburgh and Colen the Dukes of Newburgh and Brunswick laboured hard to finde out ways expedient for composing the Differences between the Bishop of Munster and the States of the Vnited Provinces and with them the Emperour and the Princes of the Dyet at Ratisbone so that at length the Bishop was over-perswaded to conclude a Peace which was accordingly sign'd toward the beginning of the Year though he had received 100000 Rix-dollars from the King of England for carrying on the War but it lasted not long for when the King of France became their Enemy he broke it again which was not long after At Musco great alterations had like to have fallen out in matters of Religion For a certain Fâ—yaâ— in his Sermons endeavouring to make the people wiseâ— than formerly they had been in that ignorant Country among other Doctrines that were new â—here instructed them That Images signified nothing and therefore were not to be worshipped That the Saints know nothing of our Prayers to them and consequently were not to be call'd upon Which wrought so powerfully upon the people that many hundreds of them began to reform their ancient practice and openly refused the use of Pictures But a great party of Souldiers being sent immediately to reduce them from their Heresie frighted the generality into a Recantation some 20 persisting in their new Faith were burnt and 30 more hanged to terrifie the rest This being the second attempt of this nature in that blinde paâ—t of the World In Poland the difference between that King and Lubomirskie still continu'd But the generality of the Polish Nobility not only appeard to Mediate on his behalf but seeing no effect of their Mediation entred into a Confederacy with him against the King This brought the King to hearken to some terms of Agreement But while both sides were at work busie to contrive it the Royal Party endeavouring to put a more speedy end to those Affairs attempted to have surpris'd the Confederates at unawares but the Design was so timely discover'd that Lubomirskie by an Ambuscado of his best Troops cut off above Five Thousand of the Kings Souldiers in such a place where the King was forc'd to look on and behold the Slaughter of his men without being able to Assist them Whether upon this occasion or no is uncertain but a Peace immediately ensued between the King and the Confederates upon Condition of a General Act of Oblivion an Evacuation of Garrisons and the
of defence they could but the English in the mean while attacquing them with their Fire-ships perform'd their business with so much valour and success that they â—et the most part of the Enemies ships on fire those which escap'd the Flame were seiz'd on by the English the Men of War were the principal ships of Argier And to compleat this Victory Captain Beach brought in to the rest another ship of 40 Guns and 350 men which he had but newly taken So that now Sir Edward Sprague believing that by this loss the Algerines might be brought to an easie accomodation made a speedy return to his station before that Port. This Moneth the King minding to look after the condition of his Western Sea-port-Towns made a kinde of a Sea-progress For arriving first at Portsmouth he went in his Yacht to the Isle of Wight where he took a view of the most considerable Ports of the Island thence he return'd to Hurst-Castle thence he went to view Corf-Castle thence returning for Portsmouth again he sail'd away attended by five Frigats for Plymouth thence back to Dartmouth with an intention to return by Land to London Observing this the great Proverb of The Masters Eye The Moors and we were not yet so friendly but that Taffalette proceeding in his designe of attempting all the Christian Sea-port-Towns upon the Coast of Barbary would needs visit Tangier giving a warm attacque upon the Fort call'd Anne-Fort though at a distance firing upon our men in Rank and File and falling back while others supplied their places being the first time the Moors were observ'd to fight in such order but finding our men too hot they soon retreated And thus are the Moors become a part of the English History Then was the Parliament again Prorogu'd from the 16 th of April following till the 30 th of October 1672. The King as it afterwards appeared having now his hands full of forrein Consultations Nor was it for nothing that so many Agents and Embassadors were sent abroad Coventry Esq. for Sweden the Lord Sunderland for Spain it being the great care of Princes to draw what assistance they can from their Enemies Sir George Downing for Holland it being no less their care to offer all honourable terms of Peace if they may be obtain'd At home his Majesty to reward Valour and Vertue in consideration of that stout and memorable action perform'd by Capt. Boddison Captain of the Swallow a Merchant-man of 150 Tuns and 26 Men who had fought against an Argerine of 36 Guns and having Boarded him several times forc'd him at last shamefully to leave him and six of his men-behinde was pleased to order the Captain a Gold-Chain and a Medal Nor was the City of London having its publick Buildings recovered out of the late Ruines to a greater Splendor and Beauty than heretofore less mindful to make an Invitation to his Majesty to honour their Lord-Mayor's Feast with his presence which he did accordingly to shew how much he was pleased to see the City so reviv'd from such a sad Calamity The issue of Sir Edward Sprague's success against the Pyrates of Argier was by this known in England for he returning from the destruction of their ships to his former station before Argier it self found a strange alteration among those people for the Aga had taken off their General 's Head and soon after five of this General 's Souldiers cut off the Kingâ— Head and brought it openly in to the Divan crying out they must have Peace with the English Upon this they created a new King who seeing the inclinations of the people constrain'd by their own necessities thought it his best way to enter into a Treaty which at length ended in a Peace as honourable and advantageous as ever was made between the English and those Rovers It could no longer now be conceal'd what the secret Counsels of the Great ones had so long been aiming at For now the King publickly intending War with the Dutch openly Declared That seeing all the Princes and States his Neighbours were making preparations for War both by Sea and Land he look'd upon himself obliged for the safety of his Government and protection of his People to make such preparations as should be answerable to the preservation of both to which end he had given order for fitting and setting out a considerable Navy against the Spring but Money was wanting and his own Revenues all anticipated and deeply engaged As therefore the necessity was inevitable the Course taken was extraordinary It being thought absolutely convenient to put a stop upon the paying of any Money then brought in or to be brought in to the Exchequer during the space of one whole year To which as to the last remedy as the King himself declared nothing could have moved him but such a conjuncture of affairs when all the Neighbouring Princes and States were making such threatning preparations that his Government could not be safe without appearing in the same posture About this time died Dr. Cosens Bishop of Durham and Count Palatine there in the 77 th year of his Age and was buried at Aukland neer Durham Sir George Downing being now in Holland according to his particular Instructions was very urgent with the States in the affair of the Flag and by several Instances and several Memorials press'd for an Answer to his Demands but finding all their delays insufferable and all his endeavours consequently fruitless in a few Moneths return'd for England but after a private Examination by some of the Lords of the Council and report made thereof to the King he was by his Majesty's Warrant committed to the Tower for not having obey'd the Orders sent him It was not safe while we are going to Wars abroad to have dissention at home and therefore the King put forth a seasonable Declaration of his will and pleasure freely to indulge all Nonconformists and dissenting persons in matters of Religion asserting however his resolution to maintain the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England as it was establish'd And now they who would return no answer to Sir George Downing are Summoned by Sir Robert Holmes to remember their Duty in another manner For upon the 13 th of this Moneth five of the King's Frigats crusing by the Isle of Wight met with the Dutch Fleet of Smyrna-men and others to the number of 50 Sail convoy'd by six Men of War Above 20 of their Merchant-men carried between twenty and forty Guns apiece The English Frigats coming neer shot at them to make them strike and lower their Sail which when the Dutch refus'd to do the Fight began in the Afternoon and continued till Night then three Frigats more coming in the next Morning they fought again and all that day In the Evening five of their richest Merchant-men were taken their Rear-Admiral was Boarded by Captain Iohn Holmes but was so leaky that she
with him hasts to the St. George and puts up the Flag which when the Earl of Ossory saw who had in the mean time brought new Foresails to his Yards he sent Norborough to tell him that if he would he would set upon Tromp and board him if he had assistance Sprague praises his resolution bids him go on and he would immediately be with him But his suddain death was the loss of a Noble Designe For he had not been long aboard the St. George when through the loss of her Main-mast he was forc'd to forsake her too and as he was going aboard the Royal Charles the Boat being shatter'd to pieces by an accidental shot he was himself drown'd in the Ocean over which he had so often Triumph'd After Sprague's ship had lost her Masts Tromp confident of carrying her bore up briskly and gave her a Broad-side and brought up two Fire-ships but all in vain for as he pass'd by he was so severely gall'd by the Earl of Ossory that he had hardly time to discharge six of his own Guns Neither did the Earl of Ossory leave the Flag-ship till he saw her tow'd off by the Hampshire Tromp sufficiently wearied having got his Squadron together at first retir'd but when he saw De Ruyter coming toward him he stay'd By and by the Prince was to be discern'd a far off with his Squadron who had born the brunt of the Zealand-Squadron and De Ruyter all the day for the French having gain'd the Wind in the beginning of the Fight never came in but at two of the clock the Prince and De Ruyter as it were by consent seem'd to leave off for both being sollicitous for the rest of their Fleets whom they saw afar off sail'd peaceably and directed their course toward their Friends though all the while within Cannon-shot But now De Ruyter being joyn'd with his own falls upon the Blue endeavouring to separate that Squadron from the Prince but in vain the Prince making all haste to come in and the other seasonably joyning with him Then began a most sharp dispute on both sides at what time the Prince sending two Fire-ships guarded by Captain Leg upon the Enemy put them into such a confusion that had the French then come in being as they were Masters of the Wind the Dispute with the Dutch concerning the Dominion of the Sea had certainly been at an end The Dutch lost two Flag-Officers several Captains and about 1000 Common Seamen Among the English Sprague was much lamented Captain Neve was slain Reeves and Heywood died of their Wounds Of the French but one Commander slain The loss of Common English Seamen was not so great being chiefly in the Earl of Ossory's and Sir Edward Sprague's ships About the middle of Iune the Lord Clifford of Chudleigh resign'd his Staff as Lord-Treasurer into the King's hands and Sir Thomas Osborn created Viscount Osborn of Dumblaine in Scotland and afterwards Earl of Danby in England was made Lord-Treasurer in his room Upon the 10 th of October the Parliament meeting according to their last Adjournment were Prorogu'd by Commission till the 27 th of the same Moneth then meeting again they were prorogu'd till the seventh of Ianuary following After which the King having taken the Great Seal from the Earl of Shaftsbury gave it to his Attorney-General Sir Heneage Finch afterwards created Lord Daventry in the County of Northampton Soon after His Majesty was pleas'd to call before him in Council the two Lord Chief-Justices and the Lord Chief-Baron commanding them to consider of the most effectual means for putting the Laws in Execution for preventing the growth of Popery and at the same time ordered that no Roman-Catholick or so reputed should presume after the 18 th of November to come into his presence to his Palace or where his Court should be and the Lord-Steward and Lord-Chamberlain of the Houshold were ordered to see the same effectually put in execution And by further Order a little after forbid them to come neer St. Iames's House or into the Park Immediately after in pursuance of his Gracious Assurance to both Houses of Parliament His Majesty issued out his Royal Proclamation to the same effect further requiring the Judges and all Justices of the Peace to take effectual care for the prosecution of all Papists and Popish Recusants according to the Laws and Statutes of the Realm About the latter end of November the Dutchess of Modena arriving at Dover in order to her Intermarriage with his Royal Highness the Duke of York was there met by the Duke and some few days after coming from Gravesend to London by Water was by his Majesty and divers of the Nobility met in Barges upon the River and so conducted to White-hall where after her Royal Highness had been received in the most obliging and kinde manner by her Majesty she was conducted to St. Iames's Within few days after their Royal Highnesses gave Audience to the French Portugal Swedish and Danish Embassadors as likewise to the Residents of Venice and Newburgh who all went to Complement them upon their late Marriage About this time his Majesty the great numbers of extraordinary Servants that had been sworn and admitted into his Service who making use of the Protections they receiv'd thereby did obstruct the due course of Law issued forth an Order in Council whereby all persons that did not by vertue of their Places receive Fee Wages Salary Diet or Board-wages should be absolutely disabled from making use of any Protection whatsoever for the future to save them from the prosecution of their Creditors From Tangier came Intelligence that the Earl of Middleton Governour understanding the defeat and death of Gayland and the great success of Muly Ishmael in those parts and having receiv'd a kinde Letter from the said Muly Ishmael purporting his great desire to be in Amity with the Governour and a proposition of sending Commissioners to treat with him accordingly appointed Major White Alderman Read and Mr. Wollaston for that purpose with full power and Instructions to conclude a Peace and Treaty of Commerce and particularly for the Redemption of the Captives in Sally wherein the Earl doubted not the same success as he had had with Gayland above a year before with whom he had made so firm a Peace that the Moors and Inhabitants of Tangier convers'd together as if they had been one Nation Notwithstanding the vigour and fury of the War yet neither in the height of this years Preparation nor Action were the thoughts of Peace laid aside but rather all endeavours tending thereto vigorously pursued To this purpose a Treaty was concluded on between the King of England and the Dutch whereat the Allies of both Parties were to be present The place accepted of by the King of England was Cologne whither by the middle of Summer and some before came all the Plenipotentiaries of the several Confederates For the King of Great Britain Sir Ioseph Williamson and Sir
Lyonel Ienkins For the King of Spain Count Areschot and Don Emanuel de Lyra. For the Emperour Count Conningsech and the Baron D'Issola Count Tott for the Crown of Sweden For the Dutch Van Beverning Van Haren and Odyke For the French the Duke de Chausnes But the Dutch having other Designes in their heads than what were driven on in that place would yield to nothing there nor were they so fully instructed but that upon the Propositions delivered by the English Plenipotentiaries they pleaded they could give no positive Answer without consulting their Masters and returning to Holland had leisure enough to take their pleasure while the States were contriving an Answer which when they had delivered at Cologne was nothing but a device finely spun for delay which made Cologne a place of great Concourse but little business In the mean time the Dutch send a Letter to the King of England to which the King of England return'd so full an Answer that though they said The King was very sharp and obstinate in his Letter That nothing was to be done but to continue the War That no farther Instructions should be sent to their Deputies at Cologne till they saw how the Parliament would order matters to whom they were resolv'd to send a Copy of their Reasonable Proposals hoping otherwise to bring the King to better Termes Yet upon cooler thoughts they not only listned to the Motions of Peace but also came to terms of Accommodation and thereupon in February following they dispatch'd a Trumpeter into England by whom they receiv'd that satisfaction in Answer to their Letters from the King of England that soon after the Peace was concluded between His Majesty and the Spanish Embassador residing in London on the behalf of the Dutch The News was receiv'd with incredible joy in the Low Countries Sir Gabriel Sylvius was sent by His Majesty to the Prince of Orange to Complement him upon the Conclusion of the Peace with whom also the States did interchange the Ratification of the Articles In the interim His Majesty having caus'd a new sort of Brass Half-pence and Farthings to be made current throughout all England and Coyn'd in the Tower issued forth a Proclamation for the suppression of the particular farthings and halfe-pence of private Shopkeepers and being inform'd that Shop-keepers did notwithstanding continue to utter Halfe-pence and Farthings of their own stamping he caus'd them to be proceeded against according to Law which was so effectually done that many were Convicted and fin'd but upon submission by the King's mercy Pardon'd Before we fully conclude the Dutch War it will be necessary to relate a piece of Gallantry performed by Captain Harman in the Mediterranean Sea where the Vice-Admiral of Evertson's Squadron in a Man of War call'd the Sehaerlaes carrying 36 pieces of Cannon and 140 Men Commanded by Captain Pasqual De Witt met with Captain Harman in the Tygre returning from Tangier and coming both into Cadiz-Bay where Evertson lay to Careen the people of the Town began to laugh at the Dutch telling them That they durst not Fight the English that they had left their station for fear Which Evertson hearing told the Captain of the Dutch that to save his Honor he was oblig'd to Chalenge the English Captain Which being resolv'd upon De Witt fiâ—ted himself the best he could for the Rencounter next Morning Evertson thereupon furnish'd him with Two new Lieutenants 70 Souldiers and 60 Mariners more than he had making in all 270 Men. The Tygre which had not above 184 Men in all saw all these Preparations and prepared himself the best he could but without any more addition of Men. The next Morning getting out a League to Sea within view of the Town and in sight of the greatest part of the Inhabitants so soon as both Frigats came within Pistol-shot of each oâ—her the Fight began with that success to the English that with one Broad-side the Tygre shot down the Main-yard of the Dutch Vessel and kill'd and wounded above 80 Men without receiving much Damage so that after half an hours Dispute the Dutch ship was Boarded and taken by the English the Enemy having lost 140 Men and 86 Wounded The Dutch Man of War was so disabled and shot through and through that She was hardly fit for service to the great wonder of the beholders After which Captain Harman return'd into Port with great Honour having lost only 9 Men Kill'd out-right and 15 Wounded one of which was himself being shot in at the left Eye with a Musquet-Bullet that went out between the Ear and the Jaw-bone of which he was happily afterwards recover'd At home the Dutch made great rejoycing for the Conclusion of the Peace and being now quit from the fear of the English minded onely the setting out of a small Fleet consisting of 32 Men of War under Tromp Haen and young De Ruyter Nor was His Majesty less mindful to proceed against the Papists giving Order to the Judges to put the Laws against them in Execution Forein Affairs 1673. Toward the beginning of the Year the Elector of Brandenburgh concludes a Peace with the King of France and in order thereto draws his Troops out of the Territories of Cologne and Munster Allies of France and Monsieur Turenue drew out his out of the County of Mark. In Poland things were now in an indifferent quiet posture the Arch-bishop of Gnesna a great Opposer of the Kings Designes was Dead and the Dyet concluding in a very great Calme The Turk indeed threatned them but they doubted not of their Ability to oppose him But the King liv'd not long to see the fruits of his Accommodation dying toward the beginning of Autumn ensuing Great were the Fears of that Nation what would fall out during this interregnum and probably they might have suffered much had they not been free'd from those fears at present by a great overthrow given the Turks by the Polish-General Sobieski who Attacquing the Enemy in their Retrenchments by the Assistance of the Hussar Horsemen totally Defeated him so that of 45000 men not above 3000 remain'd alive after the Fight Two Bassa's were slain and a vast Plunder became a prey to the Victor besides the Castle of Cochim which the Turks had some while before taken from the Christians That which chiefly contributed to the obtaining this Victory was the valour of the Hussars and the Revolt of the Hospodars of Moldavia and Wallachia who fell from the Turk at the beginning of the Fight bringing with them again those Two Provinces under the Subjection of the Polish Crown from whence they had fallen off above 50 Years since But the chiefest Scene of War now lay in the Low Countries into which the King of France being fallen with a considerable Army toward the beginning of Summer had beleaguer'd Maestricht a Frontier Garrison and one of the strongest belonging to the States of Holland Among all other Actions perform'd at this
and that he did not receive the profits of it But the Emperour denied he knew of his being a Plenipotentiary and that it was not for one of his Subjects to take up Interests contrary to the Interest of his Soveraign and would not hear of his Release During these Treaties the King of France had possess'd himself of a great part of the Palatinate and had put a Garrison into Germerstein of 300 Souldiers yet proffered the Elector if he would stand Neuter to satisfie him for all his Damages and to withdraw his Souldiers out of Gemerstein and put it into the Hands of any Neutral Prince of the Empire which he refus'd upon Caprara's coming to his Succour The Switzers to hinder the King of France from coming into Burgundy offered that Burgundy might stand Neutur proffering themselves security that that Province should punctually observe the Neutrality and that they would guard the Avenues into it against any Forces of the Empire And thus stood Affairs at the end of this year Anno Dom. 1674. PEace being now concluded between the English and the Dutch this Year was not memorable for much at home The first motion of the Court this Moneth was to Windsor where the Earl of Mulgrave was Install'd Knight of the Garter This Moneth also the King by his Embassador the Lord Lockhart offer'd his Mediation between the King of France and the Queen of Spain to compose the differences betwixt them And to the end he might be no way concern'd in their differences by publick Proclamation forbid any of his Subjects to enter into the Service of any forrain Prince He also set forth a Proclamation forbidding the broaching and uttering false and scandalous News as also against any that should talk impertinently of the Government or the Governours In May Sir Lionel Ienkins and Sir Ioseph Williamson return'd to London from Cologne Who were followed into England by the Baron de Reed Van Benninghen and Van Haren Extraordinary Embassadors from the States of Holland In Iune came a strict Proclamation against the Jesuites and Friests Commanding their discovery and apprehension and promising five pounds for every one that should be discovered and taken Toward the beginning of September upon Resignation of the Duke of Buckingham the Duke of Mâ—nmouth was made Chancellor of the University of Cambridge The Ceremony was performed with all its circumstances at Worcester-house in London Not long after the Right Honourable the Earl of St. Albans having resign'd into his Majesty's Hands the Staff of Office of Lord-Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold his Majesty was pleas'd to give it to the Right Honourable the Earl of Arlington in recompence of his long and faithful Services and particularly for having performed to his Majesties satisfaction for the space of twelve years the Offiâ—e of Principal Secretary of State which his Majesty was pleas'd to conâ—er at the same time upon the Right Honourable Sir Ioseph Williamson Knight one of the Clerks then of his Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council for his long and faithful service in the said Office under Sir Edward Nicholas and the Earl of Arlington and in his place Philip Lloyd Esq was sworn one of the Clerks of the Privy-Council Upon the 22 of September his Majesty was pleas'd to cause a Proclamation to be published for the further prorogation of the Parliament from the 10 th of November till the 13 th of April ensuing In the beginning of December the Earls of Ossory and Arlington together with the Heer Odike not long before Extraordinary Embassador in England arrived at the Hagne where they went to pay their Respects to the Prince of Orange About the same time was concluded between his Majesties Commissioners and those of the States General of the Vnited Provinces a Treaty Marine for all parts of the World in pursuance of the 8 th and 9 th Articles of the late Treaty of Peace made at Westminster the February before and was after ratifi'd by the States in the beginning of February following Presently after His Majesty having been graciously pleased to Translate the Right Reverend Father in God Dr. Crew Bishop of Oxford and Clerk of the Closet to his Majesty to the Sea of Durham made choice of the Honourable Dr. Compton Brother to the Right Honourable the Earl of Northampton to succeed in his place Toward the middle of December His Majesty having been pleased at his entertainment at Guild-Hall when Sir Robert Viner was newly Lord-Mayor of the City graciously and freely to condescend to the acceptance of the Freedom of London in the Chamberlains Office from the Hands of Sir Thomas Player Chamberlain beyond the Example of any of his Predecessors The said Sir Robert Viner Lord-Mayor thereupon having first obtained his Majesties leave presented his Majesty in the Name of the City with the Copy of the Freedom in a large square Box of Massie Gold the Seal of the Freedom hanging at it enclosed in a Box of Gold set all over with large Diamonds Toward the beginning of Ianuary Her Royal Highness was brought to Bed of a Daughter Christen'd at St. Iames's by the Bishop of Durham by the Name of Catherina Laura the Duke of Monmouth being God-father and the Lady Mary and the Lady Anne God-mothers The Term begining at the latter end of Ianuary Sir Francis North the King's Attorney-General was sworn Lord Chief-Justice of the Common-Pleas in the room of Sir Iohn Vaughan deceased In the beginning of February his Majesty caused several Orders and Resolutions concerning Papists to be publish'd That the Conviction of Popish Recusants should be encouraged quickned and made Effectual That no Person of what Condition or Quality soever should presume to say Mass in any part of this Kingdom That all Persons born within His Majesties Dominions being in Orders by Authority deriv'd from the Church of Rome should depart the Kingdom by a short time prefix'd That none of His Majesties Subjects should presume to send their Children to be Educated in any Popish Colledges or Seminaries upon a strict Penalty That none of his Majesties Subjects being Popists or so reputed should presume to come into His Majesties Presence into White Hall St. James's or any place where His Majesties Court should be And Lastly That care should be taken for the suppression of Conventicles Forrein Affairs 1674. The first thing that presented it self of most Importance beyond Sea this Year was that the King of France gave order to quit all his Conquests in the Netherlands belonging to the States of Holland except Maestricht The States also to be rid of so great a trouble as the Bishop of Munsteri makes Peace with him the Baron D' Issola signing the Articles on the behalf of the Emperor The chief Articles whereof were That the Bishop should restore all places taken during the War That the Treaty of Cleves should be punctually observ'd And that the King of
Corn. After this followed the surrender of Treves to the Imperialists upon Articles of which one was That Crequy who had escaped thither from his Rout should be a Prisoner of War In September the Duke of Lorrain departed this life at Hermansteine neer Coblentz Farther off the King of Poland removed a very great Storm that threatned his Dominions by a very great overthrow of the Tartars wherein a great number of them were slain with the loss of their chief Standard which struck such a terrour into the Turks that with their Captain Ishmael Bassa they made a shameful Retreat out of the Polish Territories But the Low Countries had a worse Enemy to deal with for the Sea breaking into North-Holland the Inundation continued with that violence that many of the Cities of North-Holland had a great share of that Calamity The Harlemeer-Dyke was broken and all the Country round about lay under Water so that many of the Boors Houses were drown'd being covered with the Sea The same Fate befel South-Holland and it is said that had the Inundation continu'd 24 hours longer the whole Country would have run a hazard of being lost And thus you have an account in brief of all the most memorable Transactions since the greatest act of Providence that has been observed for many Ages The happy Restauration of his Majesty And we may aver that here is nothing but Truth if all the publick Intelligence of so many years have not fail'd This is then a Story in dead Colours it behoves them that will lay it in the lively Painting to take more pains than may be thought has here been taken and have greater helps than it was possible for us to have to make use of And therefore if there be any that with the Knowledge of a Privy-Councellor and the Eloquence of a Salust will undertake to cull out the most important Actions which are here reduc'd into order ready to his hand for some of these he must take or be silent and compile them into a judicious History we are ready to vail Bonnet in the mean time these few Sheets may pass for Common Satisfaction FINIS AN ALPHABETICAL TABLE A ABingdon-Garrison Page 70 Aberdeen and St. Andrews yielded 302 Abjuration of the King by the Rump 436 Account of the Dutch War from 315 c. to 323. Their Intrigues with forrein Princes and at home 323. of the Revenue and Charge of the Kingdom under the Vsurpation of Oliver 415 Act against proclaiming of the King 225. For Assessment 235. For sale of Cavaliers Estates ibid. Executed 303. For Marriages 351. For Irish Adventurers and Allotments 352. Several confirmed 500. Against Bishops repealed 501. Pretended of annulling the Title of the King 383 Accidents 315 Addresses how begun 67. To Cromwel upon the dissolution of the Parliament 343. To Richard 410. To the Rump from forrain Princes 423. To the Rump by the Army 422. to the King from the Nobility and Gentry of the whole Kingdom 452 Adjutators 127 forbid Adventurers for Ireland 352 Aix la Chappelle Treaty there 570 Alarm in London 403 Albans Earl 455 made Lord-Chamberlain 580 Allen Sir Thomas Lord Mayor of London 428 Allen Captain sent for the Streights 528. Allen Sir Thomas makes peace with Algiers 569. Lies before Algier 575. Algier Men of War destroyed by the English 578. Returns ibid. Albemarle's stay in London 539. General at Sea 550. One of the Commissioners of the Treasury 563. Dies 575. His Dutchess dies ibid Anabaptism the uppermost Religion 431 Andrews proclaims the Abolishing of Kingly Government and made Lord Mayor 231 Andrews Colonel beheaded 270 Anniversary Act of the King's Nativity 456 Anthony Sir Ashley-Cooper 427 Approbation of Ministers 359 Arches Triumphal 475 to 479 Ards Lord 240 Arguments for Cromwel's accepting the Kingship 386 to 390 Argyle a Privy Councellor sides with the Assembly 8. Policy and shifts 304. Marquiss seized 470. Beheaded 497 Arlington Earl sent into Holland 586. made Lord Chamberlain 599. Sent into France ibid. Armagh Arch-bishop dies 380 Armstrong Sir Thomas joyns with the Marquiss of Ormond 240 Army English very gallant and resolute 10. Parliament Army raised 36. New moduled 67. Quarrel with the Parliament about Irish Transportation and publickly declare their power over them 132. Purging the House ib. Pretend civilities to the King 132 to 136. Designe upon the City and claim the Militia 136. Declaration and insolence 140. Triumphantly through London 141. Delude the King Their Proposals 145 to 147. Suppress a Rising in London 170. Quarter in London Whitehal and the Mews 192. And force the Parliament ibid. Shipt for Ireland at Milford-Haven 237. English advance into Scotland 268. Face the Scots 272. Remonstrance to Richard 416. Their address to the Rump 422. Their representation to the Rump 428. New moulded by Lambert 429. Declaration upon outing the Rump ibid. Their Address joyfully receiving the King's Declaration 466. Disbanded 456 Array Commission 27 Articles of Scotch Cessation 15 Arundel Earl made General of the English 9 Arundel Castle taken by Sir William Waller 56 Ascham slain in Spain 236 Ashley Sir Bernard at Naseby 79. Mortally Wounded at Bristol 84 Ashley Sir Jacob defeated at Stow in the Wold 96. Deserts Newcastle 13 Ashby de la Zouch 97 Ashburnham Mr. John 99 Ashbâ—â—nham Mr. William 148 Aske Iudge 254 Assembly General indicted and meet by their own Authority packt and made up oâ— Lay-Elders refuse the Bishops to sit buâ— cite them to answer as Guilty dissolved within 7 days but continue nevertheless 8. Assembly of Divines 69. General in Scotland 325 Ashton Colonel Edward Quartered 404 Aston Sir Arthur Governour slain at Drogheda 244 Aubigny Lord 41. His Lady 47 Aurange Prince the Kings great Friend 235 dies and a new Prince born 276. Christned 282. Old Prince buried 284. His Interest in Holland 323 Avignon Sedition there 533. Peace composed 570 Axtel Guards the High Court of Iustice 205 Ayscue Sir George at Barbadoes 306. Returns to Plymouth 322. At Dover ibid. In danger Engageth De Ruyter at Plymouth and discharged 323. Prisoner 551 B Badajox Marquiss killed 383 Balmerino Lord his Treason 4 Baggot Kath. Ballishanon 241 242 251 Banbury 108 Barnstable 99 106 Barbadoes reduced 306. Wonder 526. Attempted by De Ruyter 537. Lord Willoughby wounded there 537. Sails from thence with a Fleet 557. Lost in a Hurricane ibid. The Bridge-town burnt there 568. Barbadoes Conspiracy 602. A Hurricane there 602 Barâ—bone denominates a Parliament 350. His Petition 437 Barons created 482 Baronets Catalogue 493 to 496 Bastwick Burton Pryn return from Banishment in great state 16 Bastwick Dr. of Physick Burton a Minister against Bishops c. 2 Basing-house Besieged by Waller in vain 62 Taken 91 BATTLES Edge-hill 40. Newberry first 50.51 Newberry second 65.66 Marston-moor 59. Tepper-moor Alderne Kilsith Philipshaugh in Scotland 73. Naseby 78 to 80. Lamport 82. Routon-heath 89. Colonel Jones defeated near Dublin 164. Defeats Lord Preston with a huge slaughter soon after at
the Parliament did Barebone 's Parliament dissolved Dec. 12. Squib 's and Harrison 's Speeches upon this occasion in the House The Speaker resignes the Instrument The Protector Install's Dec. 16. The heads of the Module of Government The Protector 's Oath The Proclamation of the Protector Major-Gen Harrison and other Colonels disgust the Usurper The Anabaptists and Sectaries favoured by the Protector His Council The Dutch Embassadors have Audience Col. Lilburn chief Commander in Scotland He defeats the Royalists Col. Wogan slain Mortogh O Brian submits March Cromwel inclined to Friendship with the French The Frigats at Brest rove at Sea Serjeants at Law made The Dutch Peace The Protector Dines at Grocers-hall and Knights Alderman Viner Feb. 8 A Brick-bat flung at the Protectors Coach Gen. Monke sent by the Protector to Scotland to command in chief A Plot. Col. Gerrard c. seized Feb. Cromwel sends his Son Henry into Ireland Cromwel ensures himself Whitlock Embassador to Sweden owns the Protector Monsieur Burdeaux Embassador in Ordinary to the Protector Commissioners Nye c. for approbation of Ministers March Cock-matches and Horse-races prohibited and all such concourses of people The Commission of the Great Seal altered Hannah Trapnel a Quaking Prophetess secured Scotch Estates sold. Gen. Monke proclaims Oliver at Edenburgh Arguile sides with the English A High Court of Iustice. Lisle President thereof Col. Gerrard and Vowel Executed July 10. Col. John Gerrard aâ—d the Portugal Embassador's Brother Beheaded July 10. Ships blown up neer London Bridge A short account of the Highland War The Earl of Glencarn submits to the English The Farewel to the Scotch War The King through Leige to the Spaw Cromwel falls from his Coach-box Mr. Scrugg's Counsellorâ— A Parliament and met Sep. 3. Cromwel's Speech Sâ—vera Orâ—â—nances pubâ—iâ—hed in Pâ—â—â—iament The designe on the West-Indies Sep. The Parl. Examine the Cases of the Lord Craven and Sir John Stawel The Duke of Gloucester with the King at Colen Gen. Blake a wary Commander Cromwel's Mother dieth and is Buried in State in Hen. 7th 's Chappel Mr. John Selden dyes Fleetwood made Deputy of Ireland Steel Lord-Chancellour and Pepys Lord-Chief-Iustice The Cavaliers and Fifth-Monarchy-Plot Maj. Gen. Overton Col. Okey and other Officers Cashiered Overton Committed to the Tower The Kings designe discovered by Manning Sir Ralph Vernon Imprisoned Western Insurrection Sir Joseph Wagstaff Col. Penruddock and Grove at Salisbury The King Proclaimed at Blandford March Penruddock and Grove taken Sir Joseph Wagstaff escapes Manning shot in the Duke of Newburgh 's Country A terrable fire in Fleet-street London another at Abetsoyle in Scotland Major Wildman Committed The Chancery and Hackney-Coaches regulated A great fire in Thredneedle-street London Harris a great Châ—â—t Heresies and Sects Biddle a famous seducer Publisher of the Racovian Catechism The Turkish Alchoran Englished The three grand Impostors a seditious piece Hispaniola and Jamaica Expidition A suddâ—â— and strange Deâ—eat to the English They Rally And are again Defeated by the Spaniards Considerations of this defeat James Duke of Richmond dieth Windsor Knights The Tryal of Penruddock c. May. Six Condemned at Salisbury 26 at Exeter And sive at Chard Major Hunt 's handsome escape Transportation of Royalists June Iesuits Exiled Iudges Thorp and Newdigate lay down their Commissions Marquess De Lede in England Cromwel pretends to compassionate the Waldenses Mr. Moreland in Savoy Serj. Maynard c. to the Tower Porta Ferino fight Apr. 4. Nath. Fiennes made Cromwel 's Lord Privy-Seal Steel made Lord Chief-â—aron Lambert Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and Glyn made Lord Chieâ—-Iustice Cromwel gives preserments to several Officers and others Sir Wil. Constable one of the Kings Iudges dieth and is buried in Hen. 7 th's Chappel A terrible fire at Lambeth The Nobility and Gentry of England secured An Agent from the Prince of Transilvania departs The King of Sweden in Poland A Swedish Embassador Hannum the infamous Thief breaks Prison and escapes Pen returns and Venables Sept. King Charles at Frankfort He is honourably treated by the Prince Elector of Mentz Dury a Minister one of Cromwel 's Agents An Embassador from Venice complements Cromwel Arguile comes to kiss his Hands French peace concluded Octob. 24. The Royal Family of England Excluded The Spaniard declare a war with England The Loyal Clergie supprest â—â—omwel 〈◊〉 a new Authority Autâ—â—â—y Royalists forbid to wear Arms. Mr. Davison c. escapes at St. James's They kill a Souldier and are retaken are Indicted for Murther but found guilty onely of Man-slaughter Cromwel and the Jews treat about a Toleration Manasseh Ben Israel their Agent Note that it cost the people of England a whole fifteenth to get them expelled in Ed. r. Earl of Glencarn Prisoner in Edenborough 23 persons killed by the fall of Spalding Abbey Sir Tho Ashcock cut his Throat Sir Thomas Wortley killed A Stationers Servant in Fleet-street hangeth himself Colonel Granthamson killed The Bp. of Armagh dieth Cromwel allowes 200 l. towards his Funeral Thames Ebbe and flow twice in two hours Sir George Sonds his two unfortunate Sons the one â—illing the other and â—s 〈◊〉 for it A rencounter at Sea Maj. General Worsley dieth and is buried in Hen. 7 th's Chappel Wrestling in Moor-fields forbid Hannam the great Thief Hanged A great fire at St. Johnstons in Scotland A Committee appointed for inspection of Charters Gloucester Cathedral a School-house and Church Cromwel 's designe in setting up the Maj. Generals first to awe Elections The awe of Elections to Parliament Mr. Villiers changeth his Name by patent to Danvers The Parliament met Dr. Owen Preacheth before the Protector Exclusion of Membâ—rs thrâ— Parliament Sir Thomas Widdrington chosen Speaker The King's Title to the Crown annuled A Bill for the Protector 's safety The Paâ—l promise to assist him againâ—t the Spaniards The Plate-ships taken by Capt. Stayner Sep. Marq. of Badajox one of the King of Spain 's Governours killed The Parliament appoint a day of Thanksgiving The King of Portugal dies James Naylor the Quaker appears He pâ—â—sonates our Saviour He is sentenced to stand twice in the Pillory to be twice whipt to be Stigmatized and to be Bored through the Tongue Lambert appears in his behalf The King at Bruges Several Prisoners released Sindercomb 's Plot. The Parliament congratulates Cromwel 's deliverance The Contents of the Speaker's Speech Syndercombe Condemned at the Kings-Bench by Iustice Glyn. He is sent to the Tower and the night before his Execution found dead He is buried under the Scaffold at Tower-hill a Stake being driven through his Body The Parliament dine with the Protector Jan. Alderman Pack motions Cromwel for King The Peace with Portugal Proclaimed Sir Thomas Widdrington commends the Title and Office of a King Cromwel courted to accept it The Ld. Whitlock's Speech to the Protector The Protector 's Speech to the Parliament concerning the Title of King Lambert turned off Fifth-Monarchy Plot. One Machlin 〈◊〉 in his Age. The