avoiding of Emminent danger and keeping his subjects in their due obedience and forthwith the Commons of the Parliament for the manifestation of their alleigance love and duty they voluntarily of their own accord took the Oath of Allegiance and after them the Lords of the upper house did so likewise who ministred the same Oath to all their servants and followers and such as refused to take oath were put from their Lord Services and the Bishops in the Convocation House ordained that every Bishop in their severall visitations should minister the same Oath unto all their Clergie which they performed accordingly this oath was also ministred to others as followeth according to the Tenor of a speciall Statute made this Session of Parliament made in that behalf The fourth of Iune Proclamation was made commanding all Romane Priests and Iesuites and Seminaries to depart this Kingdom by the fourth day of Iuly next and not to return upon paine of the severity of the Law also by this Proclamation the King straitly commands all Recusants to return home to their dwellings not to come within 10 miles of the Court without speciall licence but to depart from London and the Court by the last day of this Moneth and to remain confined according to the Tenor of the Statute in that behalf provided Presently after that the Oath of Allegiance was ministred unto all officers Atturnies and Clarkes belong-to any of the Courts at Westminster Hall and the Exchequer and unto all Advocates and Proctors of the Spirituall Courts this Oath was also administred unto all Lawvers in the Inns of Court and Chancery and unto all Students and Schollers in both the Vniversities The appointed time now drew neer or Prince Henry to be created Prince of Wales and upon Thursday the last of May the Loâ—d Mayor and the Aldermen being accompanied with 54 several Companies of Citizens of London in several Barges bearing armes distinguished by their proper Ensignes Banners and streamers in warlike manner and therewithal plentiously furnished with several sorts of excellent Mâ—sick and had also to entertain the Prince divers pleasant and ingenious trophies upon the water all which in comely order went to Chelsea the Lord Mayor as Admiral going formost where from nine a clock in the morning till thâ—eâ— in â—hâ— afternoon they attended the coming of the Prince who could not come sooner by reason of the low ebb at which time the King came from Richmond being very honourably accompanied and attended and from Cheâ—sea the Lord Mayor and Citizens conducted his Highness unto the Court at White Hall as they returned from Chealsea the citizens led the way and the Lord Mayor followed them going alwaies next the Princes Barge to see this joyful sight the people for seven miles space swarmed on both sides the River and the Thames was covered with Boates Barges and Lighters full fraught with men women and childred and upon Sunday the third of Iune the King made twenty five Knights of the Bath and the next day the King crowned the prince his eldest son Henry prince of Wales in the great chamber at Westminster being perormed with great magnificence and solemnity and with full consent of all the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of the Parliament being all there present the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London were also present at this creation the princes titles were then proclaimed Viz. Henry prince of Wales Duke of Cornewal and Rotheser and Earl of Chester in honor of this creation there was the next night at the Court a most rich and royal mask of Ladies viz. the Queen the Lady Elizabeth daughter to our Soveraign Lord the King the Lady Arrabella the Countess of Arundel the Counress of Darbie the Countess of Essex the Countess of Dorset the Countess of Mountgomery the Visecounts of Haddington the Lady Elizabeth Gray the Lady Elizabeth Guilford the Lady Katherine Peter the Lady Winter the Lady VVindsor and upon Wednesday in the afternoon in the Tilt yard there were divers Earles Barons and others being in rich and glorious armour having most costly caparisons wonderous riâ—hly embrodered with pearl gold and silver the like abillements for horses were never seen before presented their several ingenious trophies before the King Queen and Prince and then ran a tilt where there was a world of people assembled to behold them and that night there were other triumphs upon the water with ships of war and Gallies fighting one against an other and against a great Castle builded upon the water and after these battels then an houres space there were many strange and variable fire works in the Castle and in the ships and Gallies This year the King builded a most stately ship for war being in all respects the greatest and goodliest ship that ever was made in England and this glorious ship the King gave to his sonne Henry prince of VVales the prince named it after his own dignity and called it the prince The seventh of December Iohn Roberts a Benedickt Monk sometimes provincial of the Benidictans in England and Thomas Summers a Seminary were condemned at Newgate and hanged at Tyburne they having been before sundry times taken and bannished and yet presumed to return again and bere to practice against King and State Upon Newyears day at night the prince oâ— VVales being acâ—ompanied with twelve others viz. Two Earles three Barons five Knights and two Esquires they performed a very stately mask in which was an excellent Sceane ingenious speeches and rare songs and with great variety of most delicate Musick The twentieth of April 1611. Sir Thomas Overburie was committed to the Tower and died there the fifteenth of September next following May the thirteenth being Munday in Whitson week at Windsor were enstalled Knights of the Garter Prince Charles Duke of York sonne to our soveraign Lord the King and Thomas Earl of Arundel and Robert Viâ—â—ount Rochester Wednesday the eighteenth of March 1611. Bartholomew Legate an obstinate Heretick and a strong Arian was burned in Smithfield and the eleaventh of April following viz. Edward Wightman an other perverse Heretick having refused more favour then he could desire or deserve was burned at Lichfield this Heritick would have made the people believe that he himself was the Holy Ghost and immortal with other vild opinions not fit to be mentioned amongst Christians May the twenty ninth 1612. Richard Newport and VVilliam Scot Seminaries were executed at Tyburne Iune the twenty fifth Robert Carliele and Iames Edwin were executed for murthering Iohn Turner fencer and the twenty seventh of Iune the Lord Sanquire was arraigned at the Kings Bench Bar for conspiring and hiring the said two persons to kill the said Turner the Lord confessed the Indightment and was executed upon a Gibber the 29 of Iune at Westminster In the months of October November and December there hapned great winds violent storms and tempests which caused much shipwrack upon the Ocean in havens and Rivers and did
was buried at Westminster in the new Chappel which he caused to be builded he left issue Henry Prince of Wales who succeeded in the Kingdome Lady Margaret Queen of Scots and Lady Mary promised to Charles King of Castile Henry the Eighth An. Reg. 1 HEnry the Eighth at the age of eighteen years began his reign the 22 of April Anno 1590. of personage he was tall and mighty in wit and memory excellent the third of Iune he married Lady Katherine his first wife who had been late wife to Prince Arthur deceased On Midsommer day the King and Queen were crowned at Westminster An. Dom. 1510 Sir Richard Emson Knight and Edmond Dudley Esquire who had been great Councellors to King Henry the seventh were beheaded on Tower-hill the eighteenth of August An. Dom. 1515 Richard Hunne a Merchant-Taylor of S. Margarets Parish of Bridge-street who had been put in the Lollards Tower about the end of October was now the fifth of December found hanged in the same place and after burned in Smithfield An. Dom. 1517 The Thames was frozen that men with horse and carts might pass betwixt Westminster and Lambeth An. Dom. 1517 An. Reg. 9 On May-eve was an insurrection of young men and Apprentices of London against Aliens of the which divers were hanged vvith their Captain Iohn Lincorn a Broker the residue Ill May-day to the number of four hundred men and eleven vvomen tyed in ropes all along one after another in their shirts came to Westminster-hall vvith halters about their necks and vvere pardoned An. Dom. 1518 Many died in England of the svveating sickness and especially about London wherefore Trinity Term was one day at Oxford and then adjourned to Westminster An. Dom. 1521 The 27 of May was Edward Duke of Buckingham beheaded King Henry wrote a book against Luther and therefore the Pope named him Defender of the Faith An. Dom. 1524 In December in the City of Coventry Francis Philip Christopher Pickering and Anthony Mainle intended to have taken the Kings treasure of his Subsidy as the same came towards London therewith to have raised men and to have taken the Castle of Killingworth and then to have made wars against the King for the which they were drawn hanged and quarter'd at Tyburn the other of their conspiracy were executed at Coventry An. Dom. 1526 The eleventh of February four Merchants of the Still-yard did penance at Pauls and Doctor Barnes bare a faggot An. Dom. 1527 An. Reg. 19 In November December and Ianuary fell abundance of rain that thereof ensued great floods which destroyed corn-fields pasture and beasts then was it dry till the twelfth of April and from that time it rained every day and night till the third of Iune Such a scarcity of bread was then at London and all England over that many died for want of succour The bread-carts coming from Stratford to London were met by the way and the people were ready to pâ—ll it out of the carts insomuch that the Mayor and Sheriffs were forced to go and rescue the same and see the carts brought to the markets appointed Wheat was then at fifteen shillings the quarter shortly after the Merchants of the Still-yard brought from Dansk such store of wheat and rye that it was better cheap in London then in any part of the Realm beside An. Reg. 23 Richard Rice a Cook was boiled in Smithfield for poysoning divers persons at the Bishop of Winchesters house The eleventh of April seven men with their horses and a ferry man were drowned at Lambeth Thomas Bilney was burned at Norwich An. Reg. 24 An. Dom. 1532 The 25 of May was taken between London and Greenwich two great fishes called Hurlepools Five men were hanged and quarter'd at Tyburn for coyning and clipping of money A great fish was taken at Blackwall which was brought to Westminster to the King An. Reg. 26 The 15 of May was a great fire at Salters Hall in Bredstreet The fourteenth of August was a great fire at Temple-bar the sixteenth of August was the Kings Stable burned at Charing-cross wherein were burned many great horses and great store of hay An. Dom. 1537 The Prior of the Charter-house at London the Prior of Beval the Prior of Exham Reynolds a Brother of Simon and Iohn Hail Vicar of Thisleworth were all condemned drawn and hanged and quarter'd at Tyburn the fourth of May. The eighteenth of Iune three Monks of the Charter-house of London Exmewe Middlemore and Nidigate were hanged and quarter'd at Tyburn The 22 of Iune Doctor Iohn Fisher Bishop of Rochester was beheaded on the Tower-hill The sixth of Iuly Sir Thomas Moor was beheaded on Tower-hill Within a while after the Lady Ann Queen was had to the Tower and there for things laid to her charge was shortly after beheaded The nineteenth of May the Lord Rochford Brother to the said Queen Henry Norrice Mark Smeton William Brierton and Francis Weston all of the Kings Privy Chamber about matters touching the Queen were put to death In the beginning of October at an Assise for the Kings subsidie kept in Lincolnshire the people made an insurrection and gathered nine and twenty thousand persons together against those the king did send the Duke of Suffolk the Earl of Shrewsbury and the Earl of Rutland with a strong power whereof when the Rebels heard they desired pardon brake up their Army and departed home but their Captains were apprehended and executed The ninth of October a Priest and a Butcher were hanged for speaking in the behalf of the Lincolneshire men they were hanged at VVindsor After began an insurrection for the sames causes in York-shire the people gathered to the number of forty thousand against those Rebels the king sent the Duke of Norfolk the Earl of Shrewsbury and the Marquess of Exceter with a great Army with whom a battel was appointed to be fought on the Eve of Simon and Iude but there fell such rain the night before that the two armies could not meet wheâ—eupon they desired the D. of Norfolk to sue to the King for a pardon and that they might have their liberties whiâ—h the Duke promised and rid post to the king then lying at Windsor to know his pleasure and so appeased them Ask that was the chief in this rebellion came to London and was not onely pardoned but rewarded with gifts the king dealt with this Ask as his Father did with Perkin Warbeck let him alone a while to see what he would do and these kings did but just play with these miscreants as the cat playes with the mouse for they were both of them hanged The twelfth of December the Thames being frozen the king and Queen Iane rode through London to Greenwich The third of February was Thomas Fitz Garret son and heir to the Earle of Kâ—ldare beheaded and five of his Uncles drawn hanged and quartered at Tiburn in this moneth Nicholas Musgrave Thomas Gilby and others stirred a new rebellion and besieged the City of
poste and bâ—ought the first newes to â—he king as he rod gave knowledge unâ—o his brother Sir Iohn Carie then Governour of Barwick this calme and discreet course of the English Lords in Proclaiming the King and quiet setling the whole Estate without faction or interruptiâ—n was as plausible unto all his loving Subjects as admired of Forraign Nations Aprill the fifth the King came from Eden-Borowgh to Barwick and the next day came newes of many disordered persons that were in Armes in the Borders whereat the King was much troubled and forthwith there was power sent to suppress them and after that when the King came to London he with the advise of the Counsell set all the parts of the North Borders in as good condition as any other parts of his Dominions Aprill the tenth divers prisoners were discharged out of the Tower amongst whom the Earle of Southampton was the chiefest Aprill the twenty seventh was thirteen persons slain and blown in peeces by misfortune at the Gunpowder Mill at Reddriffe Aprill the twenty eight at Westminster a very Royall Obsequy for the late Queene Elizabeth according to the Kings appointment by his Letters to the Lords of the Privie Counsell May the nineteenth Proclamation was made for the suppression of disordered persons in the North and for the mutuall Peace and Amity of both Kingdoms Iune the first there was one whipped through London for presuming to come to the Court having his house infected Iune the fourth Vallentine Thomas having been many yeers prisoner in the Tower of London was arraigned at the Kings Bench Barr and there condemned of High Treason for Conspiracy against our late Queene and some of her Counsell and the seventh of Iune about Six of the clock he was drawn from the Kings Bench in Southwarke to Saint Thomas a Waterings and there hanged and quartered Iuly the second the King Solemnized the Feast of Saint George at Winsor and Installed Prince Henry Knight of the Garter and there the chief Ladies of England did Hommage to the Queene There were also made Knights with Prince Henry the Duke of Lennox the Earle of South-Hampton the Earle of Marre and the Earle of Pembroke Within a few dayes after were made divers Proclamations for the apprehension of Anthony Copley Sir Griffin Markham Knight and William watson and VVilliam Cleark Priests and about the same time was apprehended as Traytors the Lord Cobham and his brother the Lord Gray Sir VValter Rawley and others The fifth of August was Commanded by the Bishops to be kept as a Holy day with Prayers Preaching and thanksgiving to Almighty God for the Kings escape from being murdered by Earle Gowrie in Scotland The Plague increased most gâ—ievoâ—sly in London and thereupon it wâ—s ordered that every Wednesdâ—y theâ—e shoâ—ld be a general Fasting and Prayer with preaching through the land to dâ—aw the people to humility and repâ—ntance This year was Bartholomew fair forbidden to be kept and Michaelmas Teâ—m adjorned and to be kept at Westminster but by reason of the sickness it was afterward kept at Winchester and the Lord Mayors great triâ—mphs and feasts was this year omitted The fourth of November the Lord Cobham the Lord Grey of Wilton were bâ—ought from the Tower of London unto Winchester to be arraigned and to that purpose were sent to Wâ—nchester Sir VValter Rawleigh Sir Grâ—ffin Markham Knights George Brook brother to the Lord Cobham Anthony Copley Gentleman William Watson and William Cleark Pâ—ieâ—â—s and the same day out of the Gâ—tehouse at Westminster went Sir Edward Parham he was acquitted by the Jury The twenty ninth of November were executed the two Pâ—iests and six daies after was George Brook hanged and the ninth of December Sir Griffin Markham and the two Barons aâ—ter they had been severally brought upon the Scaffold in the Castle of Winchester and had made their confessions and pâ—epared themselves to die upon a suddain the Kings Warrant written with his own hand was there delivered to Sir Benjamin Titchborne High Sheriff of Hampshire â—ommanding him to stay execution these three and Sir Walter Rawleigh were returned Pâ—isoners to the Tower again the fifteenth of December From the twenty third of December 1602. unto the twenty seâ—ond oâ— December 1603 theâ—e died of all diseases within London and the libeâ—ties thereof thiâ—ty eight thousand two hundred forty and four wheâ—eof of the Plague thirty thousand five hundred sâ—venty eight and the neâ—t year afteâ— London was clear of that infection and then were all the shires in England grievously visited note the work of God March the fifth was proclamation mâ—de for authorising the Book of Common Prayer February the twenty second Proclamation was made against all Jesuits and Seminaries that they shoâ—ld forthwith depart out of the Kingdome March the fifth Proclamation was made for conformation of the Ecclesiastical government of the Châ—rch of England and the book of Common Pâ—ayer as it had been used in the time of Queen Elizabeâ—h At this time Robert Dove of London Merchant Taylor gave competent meâ—ns â—oâ— ever for the toling of a bell in Saint Sepulchres Church to cause good people to pray for such prisoners as are to be executed out of Newgate and to cease when they are executed this bell should begin to toll at six a clock in the morning and the same is made known to the Prisoners that the said bell is to put them in mind to pâ—epare themselves for death Upon the first day of May Richard Haydock a Physitian asked forgiveness of the Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury for deluding the King and many oâ—hers under pretence of being inspired and to preach in his sleep by night with which deâ—eit he had strongly possest the vulgar as it was hard to remove them although he confessed the abuse In this moneth Iohn Lepton of Kepwick in the County of York Esq a Gentleman of an anâ—ient family and of good reputation his Majesties servant and one of the Grooms of his most honourable privy Chamber performed so memorable a journey as I may not omit to record the same to future ages the rather because I have heard sundry Gentlemen who were gooâ— horsemen â—nd likewise good Physâ—tians affiâ—me it was impoâ—sible to be done without danger of his life He â—ndertook to â—ide five several times betwixt London and York in six daies to be taken in one week betwixt Munday morning and Saturday night he began his journey upon Munday being the twentieth day of May betwixt two and three of the cloâ—k in the morning forth of Saint Martins neer Aldersgate within the City of London and came into York the same day betwixt the houres of five and six in the aâ—ternoon where he rested that night the noxt morning being Tuesday about three of the cloâ—k he took his journey fourth of York and came to his lodging in St. Martins aforesaid betwixt the houres of 6 and seven in the afternoon where he rested that night the next morning being
Wednesday betwixt two and three of the clock he took his journey forth of London and came into York about seven of the clock the same day where he rested that night the next morning being Thursday betwixt two and three of the clock he took his joâ—rney forth of York and câ—me to London the same day beâ—wixt seven and eight of the clock where he rested that night the next morning being Friday betwixt 2. and 3. of the clock he took his journey towards Yorke and came thither the same day betwixt the howres of seven and eight in the afternoon so as he finished his appâ—inted journey to the admiâ—ation oâ— all men in five dayes accoâ—ding to hiâ— pâ—omise and upon Munday the twenty seventh of this moneth he went from Yorke and came to the Court at Greenwich upon Tueseday the twenty eight to his Majesty in as fresh and cheerfull manner as when he first began The second of Iuly 1605 seventeen Scottish Ministers contrary to the Kings former Expâ—ess Comandment hâ—ld a Sollemne Assembly at Aberdine in Scotland who being Convented foâ— the same before the Counâ—â—ll of Scotland utteâ—ly denied not onely their Loâ—dships authority in that behalf but the Kings also saying that in matters Ecclesiasticall they neitheâ— owe noâ— ought to acknowledge themselves in any subjection either to the King or to any Temporall power and that all Spâ—rituall difference ought to be tryed and determined by the Church as Competent Judges justifying their voluntary meeting to be good and warrantable by the word of God alleadging the severall Assemblies of the Aposâ—les without knowledge or conâ—ent oâ— any Temporall Esâ—ate for which Riot and for denying the Kings Supremacy in Causes Ecclesiasticall Six of the chief of them the tenth of Ianuary following at Blackness were arâ—aigned and condemned of High Treason Iuly the eighth Proclamation was mâ—de against Pirates and other English Maâ—iners and Souldiers who under pretence of Serving the Staâ—es robbed divers English men and others who made complaint thereof to his Majesty Now this is the third Proclamation against Pirats William Calverley of Carverley in Yorkshire Esquire murdered two of his own children at home at his own hoâ—se then stab'd his wiâ—â— inâ—o the body with full intent to have killed her and then instantly with like fury went from his house would have killed his childe at nuâ—se but was pâ—evented he was pâ—est to death at Yorke the fifth of March. Thomas Pearcy Robert Catesby and oâ—herâ— in the last yeer of Queen Elizabeths Raign by the Insâ—igation of certain Jesuits practised with the King of Spain to send a well furnished Army upon England promising him great aide to entertain them at their arrivall at Milford Haven and to that end the King promised to send them fifty thousand pound for Levying of Horse and Foot and preparation in England for them of Ammunition but when this was in a maner concluded upon Queen Elizabeth died and the King of Spain upon certain knowleâ—ge that King Iames was establiâ—hed diâ—pâ—tched his Embassadoâ—â—â—â—nâ— Commiâ—sioners for England for conâ—â—â—mation oâ— a laâ—â—ing Peace between them yet nevertheless the said Robert Catesby sent Thomas VVinter again to the King of Spain to Resollicite their former project but the King answered him Your old Queen is dead with whom I had warres and you have a King with whom I have ever been at Peace and amity and for continuance thereof I have sent my Commissioners and untill I see what will become thereof I will not hearken unto any other course whatsoever when VVinter returned and made this known unto Catesby Percey and the rest they began to cast about what might be done of themselves to the Advance of the Romane Catholike Religion but first they would see the event of the first Parliament if they would mittigate any former lawes and try what good the conclusion of Peace with Spain would do before they attempted any further but when they perceived that neither Parliament nor publiâ—ke peace soâ—ted in any part to their desires and that the peace concluded with Spain was rather a more ready means for the law to proceed against them then otherwise because the peace concerned onely the amity of christian princes for the general good of Christendome without any particular or private respect then Catesby told the rest he had a devise in his head that should free them and the rest of the Catholicks here in England from their oppressors and when he had found out fit Ministers for execution of his devise after they had taken oath and Sacrament for seâ—recie he told them he had devised the mean to blow up the Parliament house by undermining the same when the King and Queen and Prince and Commons were assembled which project they presently embraced and forthwith Pearcie hired lodgings close to the Parliament house and then they appointed miners who with great difficulty digged and undermined part of the wall but after a while they understood that the vante right under the Parliament house was to be let then Guido Faukes hired it this Guido Fawks was of late a Souldier in Flanders and for that purpose sent for who by consent of the rest changed his name and was called Iohn Iohnson Master Pearcies man after they had hired the vaute they secretly conveighed into it thirty and six barrels of powder and covered them over with billets and faggots About ten daies before the Parliament began an unknown party met with a servant of my Lord Mounteagles and delivered him a letter charging him speedily to deliver it to my Lord which he did when his Lord had read it and observed the dangerous contents with a special caveat not to appear the first day of Parliament he was amazed and forthwith delivered it to the Earl of Sallisbury the Kings chief Secretary and Counselloâ— of State when the Earl had judiciously observed the strange phrase and tenoâ— thereof with the terrible threats therein against the whole state he acquainted the Lord Chamberlain therewith and then they shewed it to the Lord Admiralâ— the Earls of Worcester and Northampton who instantly consulted what was fittest to be done omitting neither time dilligence nor industry all which notwithstanding they could not as yet find out the depth of this mystery and were therefore much troubled in mind because the appointed day of Parliament drue near which was Tuesday the fifth of November the Saturday before the King being returned from hunting the said Lord acquainted his Highness with what had past and when his Majesty had well noted the strange contents of the letter which purported the suddain ruine of the state the King said that notwithstanding the slight regard that should be given to scattered Libels yet this was more quick then was usually in Libels and willed them to search in all places as well not dayly frequented as of usual repair and as conceâ—ning any forraign disturbance or invaâ—ion he well knew the force and preparation of all Châ—istian Nations
great damage upon the land and the net spring extraordinary rain fell even till Saint Iames-tide and yet upon the humble and hearty prayers of the people in all Churches it pleased Almighty God to send a more plentiful harvest then had been in many years before Friday the sixteenth of October 1612. at eleven a clock at night aririved at Gravesend the most illustrious young Prince Fredrick the fift of that name Count Palatine of the Reyne being very princely attended he was received by Sir Lewis Lewkenor Knight master of the ceremonies whom the King had sent before to attend the coming of the Prince upon knowledge of his arrival the King sent speedily the Duke of Lenâ—x with other Earls and Barons to signifie his hearty welcome and the next Sunday they accompanied the Palsgrove by Barge from Cravesend to VVhite Hall where Prince Charles Duke of York received him at his first landing and brought him up into the great bankqueting house where he was entertained by the King Queen Henry Prince of Wales and the Lady Elizabeth The twenty ninth of October the Palsgrave dined at Guild-Hall and the chief nobility of the Land where he had presented unto him a rich Bason and Eure and two Liverypots richly engraven and richly guilded Friday the sixth of October died the most noble and hopeful Prince Henry Prince of Wales he was royally buried in the Chappel Royal at Westminster the seventh of December Upon Saint Thomas day the Palsgrave and Grave Marris were elected Knights of the Garter and upon Sunday the seventh of February the Palsgrave and Grave Maurice was enstalled at Windsor The fourteenth of February being Shrove Sunday the Lady Elizabeth was married to the Palsgrave in as most royal manner as ever Princes were with masking tilting and turnament and many rare showes both by land and water where the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London in behalf of the City and themselves presented the bride with a very fair chain of oriental Pearl And thus Reader have I presented thee a chain of the best oriental pearles I could pick out of K. Iames his raign being most remarkable and worthy observation who was called a second Solomon and the peace-maker of Christendome and had peace with all Nations and I conclude thus If we by Kings again should ruled be We wish to have no worse a King then he This land did flourish by the trades increase He rul'd he swai'd he liv'd he di'd in peace Remarkable Passages The Life and Reign of King Charles Anno. 1600 CHarles the second Son of King Iames on the ninetenth day of November in the yeer 1600. During his Infancy he was of a very sickly constitution and at his birth so unlike to live that his Christening was dispatched in haste but as he grew in yeers he did grow into strength An. Dom. 1602 Being two yeers old he was Created Duke of Albany Marquesse of Ormond Earle of Rosse and Barron of Ardmanock An. Dom. 1603 On the twenty sixth of March King Iames had newes that Queen Elizabeth was dead by Sir Robert Cary for which good newes this young D. of Albany was afterwards committed to the charge and governance of Sir Robert Caries Lady An. Dom. 1604 On the seventh of Iune 1604. he was created Duke of Yorke An. Dom. 1606 and in the sixth yeer of his age 1606. he was taken from the charge of the women Master Thomas Murray a Scot by Nation was made his Tutor he profited exceedingly in the knowledge of good letters An. Dom. 1611 In the 11. yeer of his age was he made Knight of the Garter and in the yeer following he lost his Brother Prince Henry whom he immediately succeded in the Dukedom of Cornwall An. Dom. 1616 On the third of November 1616. he was creared Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester and Flint An. Dom. 1622 And on the eighteenth of February 1622. attended with the Duke of Buckingham Sir Francis Cottington and Master Indimion Porter he being disguised took Ship at Dover arrived at Bulloign in France and having casually had a sight of Lady Henretta Mariah at a Mask at Paris he rode post from thence to the Court of Spain An. Dom. 1623 On the seventh of March he arrived at Madrid and the King of Spain being informed by Count D Olivares what a hazzardous adventure he had taken to have a sight of the Infanta he had that Royal entertainment given him which a Princely Sutor might expect and by his Courtly and Gallant behaviour did win much on the affections of the Infanta and the Articles of the Marriage were agreed upon but the Pope protracting time and there being no hope of the Restitution of the Palatinate which was one of the gratest occasion of his Journey having desired leave to return he with much danger arrived at Portsmouth on the fifth day of October 1623. The treaty with Spain being not now likely to proceed it was now thought fit to negotiate a Marriage with the Princes Hennaretta Mariah the youngest daughter of France which in the yeer 1624. was carrion by the Earle of Holland and afterwards concluded by the Earl of Carlile and King Iames did seem to be exceedingly well pleased with it An. Dom. 1624 On the yeer following March the seventh King Iames died at Thebalds and immediately afterwards Prince Charles was Proclaimed at the Court Gate King of Great Brittain France and Ireland The Funeralls of the deceased King were celebrated on the seventh of May and presently afterwards were the Espousals of King Charles with the Lady Hennaretta Mariah who on the twelfth of Iune landed at Dover the King being then at Canterbury did meet her the next day at Dover His first complement unto her was that he would be no longer master of himself then he was a servant to her And this love he continued to the last houre of his life for on the day before his unfortunate end his daughter the Lady Elizabeth with the Duke of Yorke being with much adoe permitted to come unto him he desired the Lady Elizabeth to assure her mother if ever she again did see her that his thoughts had never strayed from her and that his affections should be the same to the last On the Thursday following they came from Gravesend to Whitehall with a very great company of Lords and Ladies and the Great Guns from the Ships and the Tower of London did thunder forth their gratulations as shee passed by them On Saturday the eightenth of Iune there was a Parliament assembled but the plague growing hot it was adjourned to Oxford where the King did put them in minde as before of necessity of putting forth his Fleet the in pursuance of the war in which they had ingaged his father but the began now to quarrell at the greatnesse of the Duke of Buckingham and laid something to his charge in reference to the death of his father whereupon the King expecting monies to advance the affaires of the
king made such a stay in Cornwal that before he could return to Oxford the Earle of Essex was again in the head of an army seconded by the Earl of Manchester and Sir William Waller and at Neubery again there was a very hot incounter in which both sides drew off by degrees and the Parliaments side had the better of it Prince Rupert having marched from Latham house to York some certain moneths before there was a terrible fight at Marshon Moore between the army of the prince Rupert and the forces of the parliament where multitudes being slain there was three thousand taken prisoners twenty pieces of Ordnance and a considerable number of Officers not long afterwards York was surrendred and Colonel Brown at Abingdon performed remarkable service An. Dom. 1645 On the first of Ianuary 1645. Sir Iohn Hotham was executed on the Tower-hill for betraying his trust and on the next day his son followed the same fortune On the tenth of Ianuary the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury voted guilty of High Treason was brought unto the Scaffold on Tower-hill where his head at one blow was severed from his shoulders by the hands of the executioner The town of Taunton held out gallantly against the Kings party Pomferat was relieved by Sir Marmaduke Langdale the Treaty at Uxbridge took no effect the Earl of Essex being thought to be too mild the Lord Fairfax is made Captain General of the Parliaments forces in the mean time the kings force who had taken the field not long before do range up and down the countreys and having relieved Chester they faced Leicester and presently after began to storm it the Kings Canons playing upon the town a whole day and a night many breaches were made and the contestation was carryed on with much resolution on both sides in some breaches they came to the push of pike on Saturday they entred the town where much treasure was taken and in hot blood many were put to the sword Sir Thomas Fairfax who as I have said was wholly made General in the place of the Earl of Essex hearing this advanced from Gilling to Naseby where observing great bodies of horse to appear on the hils neer Harborough he ordered the army to randezvouse neer to Naseby to which places the royal army made their approches Saturday the fourteenth of Iune both armies ingaged the King having the better at the first for Prince Rupert had routed one wing of the Parliaments horse and followed the chace at Maston Moor so unadvisedly that he left the whole body of the foot open to the other wing who giving them a gallant charge did put the whole army to an absolute rout and made themselves masters of the kings Camp carriage and canon and of his Cabinet also where many letters were found which the Parliament afterwards published After this Leicester was immediately reduced and General Fairfax marching into the West defeated the Lord Goring and became master of all the Garrisons in the West and for a conclusion of all had the City of Bristol surrendred unto him at the same time there being no hope of relief Pomfret and Scarborough and Carlile and some other Garrisons in the North did yield themselves unto the mercy of the Parliament and Bazing house which a long time had been besieged was stormed and taken by Lieutenant General Cromwel A great defeat was given to the Lord Hopton at Torrington and the same fortune attended Sir Marmaduke Langdale at Sherburn all being lost in the west the prince of Wales found the opportunity to conveigh himself into France The King marching toward Chester which was then besieged by Sir William Berton and Colonel Iones was persued in the way and charged in the front by the besiegers routed at Bouton heath where the Lord Bernard Stuart was killed upon the place the last of the three brethren that had lost their lives in their princes quarrel After this the King returned to Oxford and was so much incensed against his two Nephews prince Rupert and Maurice for delivering up such places of great importance in the west the loss of Bristow did most of all perplex him who thereupon when prince Rupert and his brother Maurice returned to Oxford did command them to be disarmed and would not suffer them to walk the streets with their swords by their sides as they had done formerly though afterwards they were restored again to all apparances of favour An. Dom. 1646 In the twenty first of March Sir Iacob Astley was beaten at Donnington neer unto Stow in the Wold in the which fight himself was taken prisoner and the kings hopes quite lost Wherefore on the twenty seventh of April he left the City of Oxford in a disguse and on the fourth of May did put himself into the hands of the Scots at Newark who carrid him to Newcastle which occasioned the surrender of Oxford to the Lord Fairfax on the twenty fourth of Iune following On the fifteenth of Iuly prince Rupert went for France and prince Maurice to the Hague In the midst of August or thereabouts the Scots sold the King for the sum of two hundred thousand pounds in ready money the Commissioners sent by the House to receive him did bring him to Holmby On the fourteenth of September the Earl of Essex died An. Dom. 1647 In the moneth of February the Scots abandoned Newcastle and the Parliament voted the Army to disband those onely excepted who were reserved for the subduing of Ireland there began now to be some contestations in the House betwixt the Presbyterian and Independant party and the Parliament began to find that they had not the Army so much at their devotion as they conceived On the fourth of Iune Cornet Ioyce carried away the king from Holmby and brought him to Newmarket on the twenty eighth of Iune he was brought to Hatfield and from thence to Causam where after much importunity his children were permitted to come unto him at whose sight he was very joyful On the seventh of August the Lord Fairfax and his victorious Army did ride in triumph through the City of London a little before this there were eleven of the members of parliament impeached and Major General Massey and Colonel Poyntz abandoning the guarding of the City did fly over into Holland From Casam Lodge the King was removed to Hampton Court where being terrified with the apprehension of some dangers he put himself into the power of Col. Hammond in the Isle of Wight who secured him in Carisbrook Castle during his restraint in this place he wrote that excellent Book intituled Icon Basilicon Propositions were here sent unto him by both Houses of Parliament as had been before at Newcastle and Holmby house to which he returned the same answer as he did then An. Dom. 1648 The Parliament voted on the third of Ianuary that no more addresses should be made unto his Majesty February the twenty first Iudge Lenkins was brought unto the Bar of the House
An. Dom. 1639 On the seventeenth of March 1639. The King set forth against the Scots attended with a Royall Army and on the seventeenth of Iune a generall accord was made at Barwick upon which the King presently disbanded his forces and returned to London whither he was no sooner come but the Scot did openly protest against the Pasification and retained the Officers of the Army in pay hereupon the King was inforced to call for the Lord Leievetenant out of Ireland whom not long afterwards he created Earl of Straford The Bishop of Canterbury reviving the antient Ceremonies was looked upon as addicted too much to to the Religion of Rome An. Dom. 1640 On the thirteenth of August 1640. Another Parliament assembled and the King finding that they had no desire to assist him with money to advance against the Scots but were ready to comply with them he dissolved that Parliament to the great grief both of City and countrey Iuly the eighteenth The Queen was delivered of a Son who was baptized Henry On the twentieth of August the King marched towards the North in his own person having received some large contributions from the Clergie and a very considerable number of the Gentry At Annick he understood of a defeat given by Generall Lesly to a party of his consisting of 3000. foot and 1200. Horse that Sir Iacob Ashley had deserted Newcastle and that the Scots had imposed a task of 350. pound a day on the Bishoprick of Dirham and 300. pound a day on the Countey of Northumberland which sad newes did much afflict him On the twenty fourth of Septem the Lords being assembled with the King at Yorke it was resolved that a Parliament should be called on the third of November following In the mean time the English to gain a cessation of Arms was inforced to yeeld to the Scots unreasonable propositions This Parliament by reason of the long Sessions of it being called the long Parliament being met Master Prin Master Burton and Doctor Bastwick were released of their Imprisonment having great dammages allowed them The Earl of Straford the Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop Wren were impeached of High treason and to the Tower Sir Francis Windebank and the Lord Finch fled beyond the Seas and most of the Judges who had declared themselves for Ship money were voted delinquents Judge Barkely was arrested by the Usher of the Black Rod for high Treason as he sate one the Kings Bench. An. Dom. 1641 On the two and twentieth of March 1641 the tryall was of the Lord Straford which continued many dayes and having said as much for himself as man could speak and the King himself interceding for him it made his cause the worse and on Wednesday the twelft of May he was beheaded on Tower Hill On the second of May the Lady Mary was married to the Prince of Orange with great solemnity Three hundred thousand pounds was ordered for the Scotch Army to send them out of England to which they were a charge unsupportable The Parliament adjourned from the eight of September to the twentieth of October and on the tenth of August the king went to Scotland and came back to London on the beginning of November following About the latter end of October brake out the barbarous inhumane Rebellion in Ireland where above two hundred thousand persons were most barbarously murdered An. Dom. 1642 On the fourth of Ianuary 1642. the King attended with divers Gentlemen came into the house of Commons and seating him in the Speakers Chayre demanded five members of the house to be delivered to him whose names were Sir Ar. Hazelrig Master Denzill Hollis Master Prin Mr. Hamden and Master Sroud but finding they were not there he went into his coach for London being informed they were fled thither and made Proclamation for their apprehension which the Commons voted illegall and scandalous In February the King and Queen went to Canterbury with the Princes wife to the Prince of Orange the Queen understanding that the house intended to charge her with Treason went along with the Princesse her daughter into Holland Much about this time the Bishops were quite voted down The king coming back to Greenwitch went afterwards towards Yorke in the mean time the Parliament doth Seise upon the Magazine at Hull and Regiments of Horse and Foot are Listed and the Earl of Essex appointed to be Generall the noyse of whose preparations doth hasten the King from Yorke to Nottingham where he Sets up his sttandard and much encreaseth his Forces as he marcheth on Sunday October twenty third was the great Battaile fought at Edgehill the fight terrible and five thousand slain upon the place He afterwards marcheth towards London and at Brainford defeateth a Regiment of the Parliaments but finding how numerous the Earle of Essex Army was that lay betwixt Brainford and London he retired to his Winter quarters at Oxford An. Dom. 1643 On the latter end of February 1643. the Queen who had bin accused of pawning the Jewels of the Crown came to him and brought great supplies of powder Arms and Ammunition The ensuing Summer made the King master of the North and West Some few places onely excepted The Earl of Newcastle had cleared all beyond the Trent but Hull and Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice had redewced Bristol Exeter and all the Towns of any importance in the West Pool Lime and Plimotuh excepted but making some stay to reduce Glocester the Siege was raysed by the Earl of Essex and on the twentieth of September the famous Battaile of Newbery was fought where many were flain on both sides and on the next day Prince Rupert follow-the Reare of the Earle of Essex Army almost as far as Reading An. Dom. 1644 The K. being come to Oxford he Summoned a Parliament which appeared on the two and twentieth day of Ianuary and on the Sixteenth of the same moneth the Scots Army entred England consisting of eighteen thousand foot and two thousand horse at this time Newark being besieged by Sir Iohn Meldrum with an Army of seven thousand Prince Rupert with four thousand horse and one thousand foot doth raise the siege not long afterwards Latham house was relieved by him The Queen went from Oxford to the west of England April 16. where at Exceter she was delivered of a daughter Henretta who not long afterwards did follow her into France where she still remains on the yeer before she was brought to bed of a daughter at Oxford whose name was Katharine and died almost as soon as it was born The King having given a defeat to Sir William Waller at Cropredy Bridge advanced after the Earl of Essex and followed him so close that at last he forced him into Cornwal his horse taking the advantage of the night made a shift to escape but the foot came to capitulation and delivered up their Arms and Artillery there being nine thousand arms and forty nine pieces of excellent brass Ordnance the
for which he was fined a thousand pound and a charge was voted to be brought in against him The Welâ—h being up in arms to the number of eight thousand foot and four hundred horse were defeated by Colonel Horton There were several insurrections in Kent Cornwal Essex Suffolk Cambridge-shire and other places There was a sharp incounter at Maidstone betwixt the Kentish forces and those of the Parliaments the fight continued six houres at the last the town was taken and 1400 prisoners with good store of booty The Seamen revolt and refuse to serve the Earl of Warwick the Earl of Holland riseth in arms with the Lord Francis brother to the Duke of Buckingham the Lord Francis was killed about King-stone and the Earl of Holland flying to Saint Needs was taken by Col. Scroope and sent prisoner to Warwick Castle Sir Iohn Owen is taken prisoner in Wales the Kentish being scattered did put themselves in the town of Colchester which being strongly besieged by Sir Thomas Fairfax did yield upon composition Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle were there shot to death and the noble L. Capel was reserved for the scaffold where he looked death in the face with an undaunted magnanimity The marriners that revolted being discontented that prince Rupert and prince Mauris were there Admirals fell off with the greatest part of their ships and return again to the Earl of Warwick Lieutenant General Cromwel having reduced Wales and the three Captains that were the ringleaders having yielded themselves whose names were Langhorn Poyer and Powel two whereof were afterwards shot to death he marched against the Scotts in Lanchashire who allthough they were formidable in their numbers yet he discomfits them takes all their Foot Canon Armes Ammunition the Duke did render himself prisoner to the Lord Gray Sir Marmaduke Langdale and Lievtenant General Middleton were both taken prisoners Following this blow Lie Ge. Crom. advanceth into Scotland suppressed all those that did there oppose him and had the towns of Barwick and Carlile delivered to him In the mean time the Parliament recal the Votes of no addresses to the King and ordered that a personal treaty should be at Newport in the Isle of Wight but the Commissioners sent thither spent so much time before they drew towards a conclusion that they gave the Officers of the Army the oppertunity to frame a remonstrance in which it was declared that the King was the sole cause of all that bloodshed which had been in the kingdome and nothing could be more expedient then to bring him to the barr of Justice in persuance whereof some of the officers having seized upon his person did bring him over to Hurst Castle in Hampshire and from thence by degrees to Windsor and at last to Westminster In the mean time the Army having purged the House of all those Members whom they conceived to be opposite to them they did erect a High-Court of Justice Serjeant Bradshaw being chosen to be presisâ—dent of it On Saturday Ianuary the twentieth his Majesty was brought from the Palace of Saint Iames unto Westminster-hall where being brought up into the Court he was no sooner sate but the Lord president told him that they were assembled by the authority of the Commons of England to proceed to his tryal for betraying the trust reposed in him by the people and commanded his charge to be read which was to this effect That being admitted King of England and intrusted with a limited power to govern according to the laws for the good of the people out of a wicked design to hold up a tyrannical power to overthrow the peoples rights he the said Charles Stuart hath trayterously and malitiously leavied war against the parliament particularly on or about the 13 of Iune 1642 at Beverley and on the 24 of August at Nottingham where he set up his Standard of war and on the 23 of October at Edgehil and at many other times in other places by which cruel and unnatural war by him levied much innocent blood hath been spilt much treasure wasted and some parts of the land spoyled even to desolation by which and by granting Commissions to the prince his son it appeareth that the said Charles Stuart is the author and contriver of the said unnatural war and thereby guilty of all the murders and Treasons committed in the said war for the which he is impeached as a Tyrant Traitor and Murtherer and it was desired that he may answer the premises that such procedings and sentences may be had upon him as are agreeable to Justice Lord President Sir you heard your Charge read and it is desired that in the behalf of the Commons of England you do put in your answer to it King I would know by what power I was called hither I was not long agoe in the Isle of Wight how I came thither it is too long to relate I would know by what lawfull Authority I was brought from thence and when I know that I shall answer Remember I am your King and what sins you bring upon your heads and think well upon it I say think well upon it before you go from one sin to a greater I will not betray my trust by answering to a new and unlawfull Authority Lord Presi If you had been pleased to have observed what had been-hinted to you you would have known by what Authority it is by that Authority which Authority require you in the name of the people of England by which you are Elected King to answer them King Sir I deny that Lord Presi If you acknowledge not the Authority of the Court they must proceed King Let me know by what Authority I am called hither I stand more for the priviledge of my people then any that is seated here Lord Press The Court desires to know whether this is all you will answer King I do desire that you would give me and all the World satisfaction in this It is no slight thing you are about I am sworn to to God for the peace of my Countrey and therefore you may do well first to satisfy God and afterwards the World by what Authority you do this There is a God in Heaven that will call you and all that gives you power to account Lord Pres The Court expects your finall Answer you desire satisfaction of their Aâ—â—hority It is by Gods Authority and that 's our present worke King That Which you have said satisfies no reasonable Man Lord Pres That is in your apprehension We that are your Iudges think it reasonabl The President commanded the King to be taken who accordingly was convayed back to S. Iamses On the Munday following the Court having met in the Painted Chamber did order that the King should be suffered to argue to the Iurisdiction of the Court which if he did the President should give him to understand That the Commons in England Assembled in Parliament have Constituted this Court whose power may not nor