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
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
farthest Arches of the said Bridge and no man perished anno reg 15. All the Lions in the Tower of London died an reg 16. The Postern of London by East-Smithfield against the Tower of London sunck by night and a great wind blew down almost one side of the street called the old change an reg 18. Eleaner Cobham Dutches of Glocester for sorcery received sentence of pennance from the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and on the seventeenth of November she came from Temple-Bar to Pauls with a Taper of wax in her hand which she offered at the Altar on the Wednesday following she went from Gracious street to Leaden-Hall and so to Algate and on the next Market day she went from Cheapside to St. Michaels in Conrnhil in form aforesaid an reg 20. The Commons of Kent did rise in great number one Jack Cade being their Captain these Rebels did great mischief but they submitted at last to the Kings mercy and Jack Cade was slain in the Wild of Sussex an reg 30. William Carton of London Mercer brought over into England from Germany the science of Printing which he practised afterwards at the Abby of St. Peters in Westminster an reg 38. XVI Edward the fourth MAny battails were fought betwixt King Edward and the adherents to King Henry the sixth in which King Edward still prevailed at the last King Henry was taken and sent to the Tower where he was murthered an reg 4. Some riotus persons that fired the gates of the City of London and would force their entrance into the City being apprehended the King caused the rich to hang by the purse and the poor by the neck an reg 12. George Duke of Clarence was drowned in a butt of Malmssey anno reg 18. XVII King Richard the fourth EDward the fifth being deprived of his life by his unnatural Uncle Ri. having raigned but two months some few daies his Uncle commonly called the usurper was proclaimed King and crowned at Westminster presently afterwards insued the death of the Duke of Buckingham who was beheaded at Salisbury for treason and on the year following was the battail at Bosworth field where Richard was slain himself and buried in the Grey Fryars Church at Leicester XVIII King Henry the seventh THe Sweating sickness began in the moneth of September which in six weeks time devoured a great number of people an reg 1. A commotion was made by the Commons in Cornwal upon the discontent of some subsedy which was granted to the King they came as far as Black Heath where three hundred of them were slain and fifteen hundred taken Prisoners the Lord Andely chief leader of them was beheaded on Tower hill an reg 10. Perkin Warbeck proclaimed himself King Richard the fourth second son to King Edward was taken being once pardoned before and executed at Tiburn an reg 11. XIX King Henry the eighth AN Insurrection of the Apprentises in London against Aliens for which divers of them were hanged with their Captain John Lincorn a Broker this being on the first of May it was called afterwards the ill May day anno regni 9. Richard Rice a Cook was boyled in Smithfield for poysoning divers persons at the Bishop of Winchesters house an reg 23. Many great personages were beheaded in this Kings daies and some of his own wives when he began to be weary of them XX. Edward the sixth THe Book of Common Prayers was read in English to the great contentment of the people an reg 2. The Commons made great commotions and rose against inclosures the Rebels in Norfolk and Suffolk were most formidable but being subdued by the Earl of Warwick Rob. Kett was hanged in Chains on the top of Norwich Castle and William his Brother was hanged on the top of Windham Castle an reg 3. XXI Queen Mary THe Popish Bishops were all restored an reg 1. Sir Thomas Wiatt having drawn forces together against the Queen and peace of the kingdome was beheaded anno reg 3. The French became Masters of Callice an reg 4. Many Protestants for their consciences did perish in the flames of Martyrdome during the raign of this Queen XXII Queen Elizabeth THe Book of Common Prayer was established and Mass clean suppressed an reg 1. The lofty spier of Pauls steeple which was two hundred foot high from the top of the Stone battlements was set on fire by lightning which fire ceased not till it came down to the roof of the Church and consumed all the bels and lead an reg 3. Sir Thomas Gresham did build the Royal Exchange at his own proper costs by the advice and incouragement of Queen Elizabeth an reg 8. The ground opened and certain rocks with a piece of ground removed and went forward for the space of four daies so that where pasture grounds was there was tillage and where tillage ground was there was pasture found in the place of it this was done neer Marlech in the County of Hereford an reg 13. Strange and numerous apparitions of great flies in Winter and terrible Earthquakes and a woman in London brought to bed of four children an reg 18. the like afterwards an reg 22. Mary Queen of the Scots was put to death an reg 31. and in the year following was the great victory against the Spanish Armado supposed to be invincible The Earl of Essex was beheaded the Earl of Southampton was also arraigned and found guilty of high treason an reg 43. XXIII King Iames. RObert Dove Merchant taylor gave means for ever for the toling of a Bell in Sepulchres Church to cause good people to pray for such prisoners as are to be executed an reg 2. The wonderful deliverance from the horrible gunpowder treason an reg 3. The great hard frost when boothes were set up on the River of Thames an reg 7. Sir Thomas Overbury was committed to the Tower where not long afterwards he was poysoned an reg 10. Prince Henry dyed on the sixth of Octob. 1611. and on the fourteenth of February following the Lady Elizabeth was married to the Palsgrave Sir Walter Raleigh that miracle of arms and arts was beheaded anno reg 16. XXIV King Charles KIng Charles was married to Henretta Maria sister to the King of France then living an reg 1. In this year the pestilence raged in London of which above five thousand died in one week The Earl of Castle-Haven being arraigned at the Kings Bench bar and found guilty of Rape and Sodomy was executed on Tower hill an reg 6. Mr. Pryn Doctor Bastwick and Mr. Burton were sentensed in the high Commission Court and ordered to be banished an reg 11. Ship-money this year was called upon to be paid which procured afterwards great divisions The King marched against the scots who would not endure any alteration in their religion The Scots in the second expedition having the better the King was enforced to call a Parliament an reg 15. The King and Parliament not agreeing the
by the labour of vvell-disposed people the same vvas squenched An. Dom. 1448 Adam Molins Bishop of Chichester Keeper of the Kings Privy Seal vvas by Sea-men slain at Portsmouth Bluebeard a Fuller taken beside Canterbury for raising a Rebellion vvas hanged and quartered An. Dom. 1449 The Duke of Suffolk vvas banished the Land vvho sailing tovvards France vvas met on the Sea by a Man of War and vvas beheaded his corps vvas cast up at Dover The Commons of Kent did rise in great numbers one Iack Cade being their Captain these Rebels did great mischief putting to death vvhom they pleased until at last the King offering them a pardon if they vvould submir they condescended to it Iack Cade their Captain fled and vvas slain in the Wilde of Sussex after this the King went down into Kent and finding who were the chief of this rebellion caused them to be hang'd drawn and quartered the 29. of Iune VVilliam Bishop of Salisbury was murdered by his own Tenants An. Reg. 35 An. Dom. 1456 A great riot was committed in London against the Italians and Lumbards An. Dom. 1457 At Erith were taken four great fishes whereof two were Whales Frenchmen landing at Sandwitch wasted the town and slew the inhabitants An. Reg. 36 Sir Thomas Piercie Lord Egremount and Sir Richard Piercie his brother being prisoners in Newgate brake out by night and went to the King other prisoners took the leads of the gate and defended themselves a long while against the Sheriffs and all other Officers An. Dom. 1458 A fray in Fleetstreet between men of the Court and the inhabitants of the same street in which fray the Queens Atturney was slain for this fact the King committed the Governors of Furnival Clifford and Barnards Inn to prison and William Taylor Alderman of the Ward with many others were sent to Windsor Castle An. Dom. 1459 The science of Printing was found in Germany at Magunce VVilliam Caxton of London Mercer brought it into England in the year 1471. and first practised it at the Abbie of St. Peters at VVestminster An. Reg. 38 The land being miserably divided the King fighting many battels in midst of several dissentions was at last worsted and Edward Earle of March got his kingdome from him An. Reg. 29 Edward Earl of March came to London with a mighty power of March men and accompanied with the Earl of VVarwick the 26 of February where he was joyfully received Edward being elected was proclaimed by the name of Edward the fourth on the fourth of March and King Henry lost his kingdome when he had reigned thritty eight years six months and odd dayes Edward the fourth An. Reg. 1 EDward Earl of March began his reign the fourth of March by the name of Edward the fourth in the year 1460. The twelfth of March VValter VValker Grocer living in Cheapside for speaking some words against King Edward was beheaded The thirteenth of March Edward took his journey towards the North where between Shierburn and Tad-Caster all the North part met him and on Palm Sunday the twenty ninth of March fought a great battel in which were slain Henry Piercy Earl of Northumberland Iohn Lord Clifford Iohn Lord Newel Leo Lord VVells and many of rank and quality on both sides to the number of 357 and eleaven persons but King Edward got the field the Duke of Exeter the Duke of Sommerset the Lord of Ross the Lord Hungerford fled to York to King Henry and then with the King and Queen and Prince fled to Barwick and so to Edenborough An. Reg. 3 Queen Margaret landed in the Nâ—rth where having but small succour was fain to take the Sea again and by a tempest of weather was driven to Barwick where she landed but lost her ships and goods Many battels were fought between the two Kings Henry and Edward and much blood was shed on both sides striving for supremacie one while the Commons with some of the Lords would have Henry restored again to his former dignity and another while Edward should rule at length Henry being overpowred was arrested and sent to the Tower where within a while after he was murdered and buried at Chertsey since removed to Windsor An. Reg. 4 A great pestilence and the Thames frozen over An. Reg. 11 Thomas the Bastard of Fauconbridge with a riotous company of shipmen and others of Essex and Kent came to London where being denied passage through the City he fired the gates wâ—n the Bulworks at Algate and entred the City but the Citizens killed them that entred causing the rest to flie pursued them as far as Black wall slaying many An. Reg. 12 King Edward rode into Kent where he caused inquiry to be made of the foresaid riotous persons hanged the rich by the purse and the other by the necks the Major of the town with others were beheaded there Thomas the Bastard of Falkonbridge was taken at Southampton and beheaded An. Reg. 14 The Duke of Exceter was found dead in the Sea between Dover and Callice Iohn Goose was burnt on the Tower hill An. Reg. 17 An. Dom. 1478 King Edward in his progress hunted in Thomas Burdits Park at a Buck and slew many Deer among the which one was a white Buck Thomas Burdit when he understood thereof wished the Bucks head in his bellie that moved the king to do it Burditt was apprehended of treason condemned drawn from the Tower of London to Tiburne and there beheaded An. Reg. 18 An. Dom. 1479 George Duke of Clarence Edwards brothâ—â— in the Tower of London was drowned in a Butt of Malmsey An. Reg. 19 A great dearth and a great sickness in London and divers other parts oâ— the Realme An. Reg. 21 Thieves for robbing St. Martins le grand in London three were drawn to the Tower hill and there hanged and burnt the other were pressed to death An. Reg. 23 King Edward making great proviâ—â—on for war into France ended his life at Westminster the ninth of April in the year 1483. when he had reigned twenty two years one moneth and odd daies he was buried at Windsor he left issue Edward the Prince and Richard Duke of York and five daughters Elizabeth that after was Queen Cicely Ann Katherine and Bridget Edward the fifth An. Reg. 1 EDward the fifth about the age of thiâ—teen years began his reign the ninth of April in the year 1483 which Prince reigned a small space either in pleasure oâ— liberty for his unnatural unkle Richard Duke of Glocester within three months deprived him of his life and Crown as it was generally reported this Edward reigned two months and ten daies Richard Duke of Glocester An. Reg. 1 RIchard the third brother to Edward the fourth was proclaimed king the 22 of Iune in the year 1483. he put to death Anthony Woodvile Earle Rivers Lord Richard Gray the Qâ—eens brother Sir Thomas Vaughan and Sir Richard Hawes at Pomfret and William Lord Hastings in the tower of London all in one day He was
crowned at Westminster on the seventh day of Iuly After this were taken for Traytors against the king Robert Ruff Serjeant of London VVilliam Davie Pardoner Iohn Smith Groom of king Edwards stirrop and Stephen Ireland Wardroper in the Tower with many more who were charged that they had sent Letters into Brittain to the Earl of Richmond and of Pembrook and also that they were minded to steal our of the Tower Prince Edward and his brother for the which they were drawn from VVestminster to the Tower of London and there upon the hill they were all four beheaded A grudge began between king Richard and the Duke of Buckingham insomuch that the Duke conspired with some Noble men against him intending to bring into the land Henry Earl of Richmond as heir to the Crown for which conspiracy the Duke of Buckingham was beheaded at Salisbury The thirteenth of December was a great fire in Leaden-hall in London where was burnt a number of houses and all the stocks for gunnes other provision belonging to the city King Richard borrowed great sums of mony of the City but being cut off before the time of payment came the City lost it Collingborn Esquire was drawn from Westminster to the tower of London and there upon the hill was headed and quartered An. Reg. 3 An. Dom. 1415 Sir Roger Clifford Knight and one Fortescue were drawne through London and at Saint Martin le grand Sir Roger would have broke from the Sheriffs and taken Sanctuary but the Sheriffs took him again and had him to tower hill where he was beheaded and Fortescue had his pardon Henry Earl of Richmond Iasper Earl of Pembroke his Uncle the Earl of Oxford and many other Knights and Esquires with a small company of Frenchmen landed at Milford Haven on the sixth of August whose coming when it was heard of in VVales divers Noble men with great companies met him and then marching against king Richard at a village called Bosworth near to Leicester he met with his enemies the 22 of August where between them was fought a very sharp battel in conâ—lusion whereof King Richard with divers others were slain and King Henry obtained a Noble victory and immediately the L. Stanley crowned him King in the field with the crown which was taken off King Richards head Richard was buried at the Grey-Friers Church at Leicester when he had held the crown two years two moneths Henry Earl of Richmond An. Reg. 1 HEnry the seventh born in Pembroke Castle began his reign the 22 of August in the year 1485. he was a Prince of marvellous wisdom policy justice temperance and gravity and notwithstanding many great troubles and war he kept his Realm in right good order for the which he was greatly honoured of Forraign Princes On the 22 of August was a great fire in Bredstreet in the which fire was burnt the Parson of Saint Mildreds and one man more of the Parsonage there The sweating sickness began the 21 of September and continued to the end of October of the which sickness a number of people died The 30 of October King Henry was crowned at Westminster he ordained a number of chosen Archers to give daily attendance on his person whom he named Yeomen of the Guard King Henry borrowed certain sums of money of the City which was repayed the nexr year after Wheat was sold for 3 shillings the bushel and Bay-salt at the like price The Cross in Cheap-side was new builded The King married Elizabeth the eldest daughter of Edward the 4th by the which means the two Houses York and Lancaster were united An. Reg. 6 Roger Shavelock a Taylor within Ludgate slew himself and forasmuch as he was a man of great wealth there was a great contest between the Kings Almoner and the Sheriffs of London An. Dom. 1493 A riot made upon the Eastelings or Stilliard-men by Mercers men and others of the City of London for the which many of them were sore punished An. Dom. 1494 An. Reg. 10 Wheat was sold at London for six pence the bushel Bay-salt at three pence half penny Nantwitch salt for six pence the bushel white herrings at six shillings the barrel red at three shillings the Cade red sprats six pence the Cade and Gascoin wine at six pound the Tun. Sir VVilliam Stanley was behe aded on Tower-hill An. Dom. 1495 Perkin Warbeck arrived in Kent where when he and his company saw they could have no comfort of the country they withdrew again to their ships but the Mayor of Sandwich with certain men of the country fought with the residue that were left behind and took 169 persons who were hanged in Kent Essex Sussex and Norfolk An. Dom. 1497 By meanes of a subsidy that was granted to the King a commotion was made by the Commons of Cornwall whiâ—h under the leading of Iames Lord Audley with Michael a Blacksmith and others came to Black-heath where the King met them overthrew them and took their Captains there was slain of the Rebels three hundred and taken fifteen hundred The Lord Audley was beheaded on Tower-hill the Blacksmith and Flamock were hanged and quartered at Tyburn The King sent an Army into Scotland under the Earl of Surrey and the Lord Nevil which made sharp war upon the Scots In Bedfordshire at the town of Saint Needs fell hailstones eighteen inches about Perkin Warebeck landed in Cornwall went to Bodmin where being accompanied with three or four thousand men he proclaimed himself King Richard the fourth second son of Edward the fourth from thence he went to Exeter and besieged it which City was valiantly defended by the inhabitants but many of the Rebels were slain and theâ— withdrew themselves to Taunton from thence Perkin fled to Bewdley where he took sanctuary and was afterward taken and pardoned his life An. Reg. 14 A Shoemakers son was hanged at Saint Thomas Watrings for naming himself to be Edward Earl of Warwick who was then kept close prisoner in the Tower An. Dom. 1499 Perkin Warbeck and Iohn-a-water were executed at Tyburn Edward Plantagenet Earl of Warwick son to George Duke of Clarence was beheaded at Tower-hill Shortly after Bluet and Astwood were hanged at Tyburn An. Reg. 19 The 21 of November at night a perillous fire began upon London-bridge near to Saint Magnus Church whereof six tenements were burnt The 7 of February certain houses more consumed with fire against Saint Buttolphs Church in Thames-street An. Reg. 21 The prisoners of the Marshalsey broke out and many of them being shortly after taken were put to execution especially those that had lain for Felony An. Dom. 1507 An. Reg. 23 About Christmas was a Bakers house burnt in Warwick-lane with the Mistress of the house and two women servants About this time the City of Norwich was much wasted with fire there was 160 houses consumed with most part of their goods King Henry died at Richmond the 22 of April when he had reigned 23 years and 8 moneths and
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
and that whatsoever plot and treason was now in hand it must be performed in some unsuspected place and by some homebâ—ed Traytors whereupon new search was made about the Court and Parliament house but coâ—ld not as â—et find any thing out worthy their labours all which labors all which searches was performed with such silence and discretion as there rose no manner of suspition either in Court or City the Lord Chamberlain whose office it most concerned never rested day nor night and the night before the Parliament as Sir Thomas Knevet with others scouted about the Parliament house espied a fellow standing in a corner very suspiciously and asked him his name and what he was and what he did there so late who answered very bluntly his name was Iohn Iohnson Master Pearces man and keeper of his lodgings Sir Thomas Knevet still continued his search in all places and returning thither again found him lingring there still searched him and found under his cloke a dark Lanthorne with a candle burning in it and about him other signes of suspition that he stood not there for any good then the Knight entred the vaut where he found the powder covered with faggots and billots and then the Lord Chamberlain commanded the Traytor to be bound and being now three of the clock in the morning he went unto the King and with exceeding joy told his Majesty the treason was found out and the traytor in hold the King desired to see Faukes who when he came before the King used like trayterous speeches as he did at his first apprehension affirming he was the onely man to performe this treason saying it sore vexed him that the deed was not done and for that time would not confess any thing touching the rest of the conspirators but that he himself onely alone was the contriver and practiser of this treason Between five and six a clock in the morning the Conusel gave order to the Lard Major of London to look well to the City and in very calme manner to set civill watch at the Citie Gates signifying therewithall that there was a plot of treason found out and that the king would not go to Parliament that day the same day in the afternoon the manner of the treason was by way of Proclaimation made known unto the people for joy whereof there was that night within the City and about as many bonfires as the streets could permit and the peole gave humble and hearty thanks to Almighty God for their King and Countreyes right blessed escape Within three dayes after two other Proclamations were made signifying unto the people who were the chief Conspirators with commandment to apprehend Pearcy and Catesby and to take them alive if it were possible which said Pearcy and Catesby were gone to Holback in Warwick Shire to meet Winter Grante and others where under pretence of a great hunting they made account to raise the Countrey and surpâ—ize the lady Elizabeth from the Lord Harrington whom they meant to Proclaime Queen and in whose name they meant to take up Arms being perswaded that the King the Prince and the Duke of Yorke were at that time blown up in the Parliament House but when they found their treason was known and prevented and saw the Kings Forces round about the house so as they could not escape Pearsey and Catesby very desperately issued out and fighting back to back were both flain with one Musket shot Saturday the ninth of November the King went to Parliament where in the presence of the Queen the Prince the Duke of Yorke the Embassadours of the King of Spain and the Arch-Duke and the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons of the same he made a very solemne oration Manifesting the whole Complott or this treason Ianuary the nineteenth a great Porpaise was taken alive at West-Ham in alittle Creeke a mile and a half within the land and was presented unto Francis Gofton Esquire Chief Auditor of the Imprests and within a few dayes after a very great Whale came within eight miles of London whose length was divers times seen above the Water and the same was judged to be a great deal longer then any Ship in the River A few dayes before Christmass the Parliament broke up and began to sit again the twenty second of Ianuary being Tuesday and continued untill the twenty seventh of May next following in which Parliament they gave the King and and his Successours three entire Subsidies and six Fifteens and then the Parliament was proroâ—ged untill the eighâ—eenâ—h oâ— November at this 〈◊〉 the Clargie gave unto the King and his Successors four entire Subsidies and in this Parliament it was enacted that the fifth of November should be kept Holy day for ever with preaching and giving God thanks for his mercy in preventing that terrible danger of the late practise by Pearcy and Catesby with the rest of their wicked Crew to blow up the Parliament House Ianury the twenty seventh at Westminster were Arrained Thomas Winter Guydo Fawkes Robert Keyes and Thomas Bates for plotting to blow up the Parliament House Digging in the Mine taking oath and Sacrament for secresie and Sir Everard Digby for being made acquainted with the said treason yeelding assent to it and taking his corporal oath for secrecy all which Inditements were proved against them and by themselves confessed and thereupon had Judgement given them to be Drawn Hanged and quartered their limbes to be set upon the City Gates and their heads upon London Bridge according to which sentence the thirtieth of Ianuary Sir Everard Digby Robert Winter Iohn Graunt and Baites at the West end of Saint Pauls Church and the next day after the other four were executed in the Parliament yard and six of the eight acknowledged their guiltiness in this horrible plot and dyed very penitently but Graunt and Keyes did not so Saturday the twenty second of March between six and seven a clock in the forenoon a rumor was so dainly spread throughout the Court and the City of London that for certain the King that morning was slain as he was a hâ—nting in Okeing Parke twenty miles from London which dreadful newes still increased untill nine of the Clock being seconded by Infinite suggestions by reason whereof it was generally received for truth and thereupon the Court Gates were kept shut The Lord Major began to set Cuard at the City Gates and to raise the Trained bands Sir William Wade Liverenant of the Tower did the like with his Hamlets within his liberties and the Parliament was much amazed but by eleven of the Clock the joyfull news of the Kings good health was made known in London by Proclamation as it had been at the Court an houâ—e before whereat the people began to revive their vexed spirits which till then were wonderously surcharged with hearts grief This flying newes went three dayes journey into the Countrey before it was surpâ—est Friday the twenty eight of March 1606. wâ—s Araigned
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
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