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A43206	A chronicle of the late intestine war in the three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland with the intervening affairs of treaties and other occurrences relating thereunto : as also the several usurpations, forreign wars, differences and interests depending upon it, to the happy restitution of our sacred soveraign, K. Charles II : in four parts, viz. the commons war, democracie, protectorate, restitution / by James Heath ... ; to which is added a continuation to this present year 1675 : being a brief account of the most memorable transactions in England, Scotland and Ireland, and forreign parts / by J.P.	Heath, James, 1629-1664.; Phillips, John. A brief account of the most memorable transactions in England, Scotland and Ireland, and forein parts, from the year 1662 to the year 1675.	1676 (1676)	Wing H1321; ESTC R31529	921,693	648

Kingdom of England c. Here the Clerk read the Charge Which Charge being read unto him as aforesaid He the said Charles Stuart was required to give his Answer but he refused so to do expressing the several passages of his refusing in the former proceedings For all which Treasons and Crimes this Court doth adjudge that He the said Charles Stuart as a Tyrant Traytor Murtherer and a publike Enemy shall be put to Death by severing his Head from his Body Jan. 27. 1648. Which being read Bradshaw added This Sentence now read and published it is the Act Sentence Judgement and Resolution of the whole Court To which they all expressed their assent by standing up as was before agreed and ordered And then the King not being admitted to reply was taken by his Guards and carried to Sir Robert Cottons the Souldiers as he passed down the Staires scoffing at him and casting the smoak of their Tobacco a thing odious to him in his Face and strewing the Pipes in his way And one more insolent than the rest Spitting in his Face which his Majesty according to his wonted Heroick Patience took no more notice of than to wipe it away As he passed along further hearing the same wretches crying out Justice Execution He said Alass poor souls for a piece of money they would do so for their Commanders Being brought thus to Sir Robert Cottons a house neer adjoyning and thence by water to White-●all the Souldiers at their Commanders instigation who were set on likewise by Cromwel continued their brutish carriage toward him abusing all that seemed to shew any respect or even compassion to him not suffering him to rest in his Chamber but thrusting in and smoaking their Tobacco and disturbing his privacy But through all these Trials unusual to Princes he passed with such a calm and even temper that he let nothing fall unbeseeming his former Majesty and Magnanimity In the Evening a Member of the Army acquainted the Committee with his Majesties desire that seeing they had passed a Sentence of Death upon him and his time might be nigh he might see his Children and Doctor Iuxon Bishop of London might be admitted to assist him in his private Devotions and receiving the Sacrament Both which at length were granted At this time did some of the Grandees of the Army tempt the King with new Proposals but so destructive to the peoples Liberty and Safety so contrary to his Honour and Conscience and so reproachful to any Christian Government that he with the like courage and constancy which he had shewed throughout his Troubles rejected and chose the Cross to prepare him whereto the Lord Bishop of London on Sunday being that day guarded at Saint Iames's preached before him on these words In the day when God shall judge the secrets of all men by Iesus Christ according to my Gospel On Monday following the day before his death the Duke of Gloucester and the Lady Elizabeth were brought to him whom he most joyfully received and giving his Blessing to the Princess He had her remember to tell her Brother James when even she should see him That it was his Fathers last desire that he should look no more upon Charles as his eldest Brother onely but be obedient unto him as his Sovereign And that they should love one another and forgive their Fathers Enemies And then said unto her Sweet-heart you will forget this No said she I shall never forget it while I live And pouring forth abundance of Tears promised him to write down the particulars Then the King taking the Duke of Gloucester upon his Knee said Sweet-heart now they will Cut off thy Fathers Head upon which words the Child looked very wishfully on him Mark Child what I say They will Cut off my Head and perhaps make thee a King But mark what I say you must n●t be a King so long as your Brothers Charles and James do live for they will Cut off your Brothers Heads when they can catch them and Cut thy Head off too at last and therefore I charge you do not be made a King by them At which the Child sighing said I will be torn in pieces first Which falling so unexpectedly from one so young it made the King rejoyce exceedingly Another Relation from the Lady Elizabeths own Hand What the King said to me 29 of January last being the last time I had the happiness to see him He told me he was glad I was come and although he had not time to say much yet somewhat he had to say to me which he had not to another or leave in writing because he feared their Crueltie was such as that they would not have permitted him to write to me He wished me not to grieve and torment my self for him for that would be a glorious Death that he should die it being for the Laws and Liberties of the Land He bid me read Bishop Andrews Sermons Hookers Ecclesiastical Policy and Bishop Laud 's Book against Fisher which would ground me against Poperie He told me he had forgiven all his Enemies and hoped God would forgive them also and commanded us c. to forgive them He bid me tell my Mother that his thoughts had never strayed from her and that his Love would be the same to his last Withal he commanded me and my Brother to be obedient to her And bid me send his Blessing to the rest of my Brothers and Sisters with commendation to all his Friends So after he had given me his Blessing I took my leave Further he commanded us all to forgive those People but never to trust them for they had been most false to him and to those that gave them power and be feared also to their own Souls And desired me not to grieve for him for he should die a Martyr and that he doubted not but that the Lord would settle his Throne upon his Son and that we should all be happier than we could have expected to have been if he had lived With many other things which at present I cannot Remember The same day the Regicides met being sixty four in number at the Painted-Chamber in pursuance of their Bloody Sentence and appointed Sir Hardress Waller Harrison Ireton Dean and Okey to be a Committee to consider of the Time and Place for the Execution who having made a report fourty eight of the Commissioners meeting again the same day made this Resolve Vpon Report made for considering of the Time and Place of the Executing of the Iudgement against the King that the said Committee have Resolved that the open street before White-hall is a fit place and that the said Committee conceive it fit that the King be there Executed to Morrow the King having already notice thereof The Court approved thereof and ordered a Warrant to be drawn for that purpose which Warrant was accordingly drawn and agreed unto and

ordered to be ingrossed which was done and Signed and Sealed accordingly as followeth At the High Court of Iustice for Trying and Iudging of Charles Stuart King of England January 29. 1648. Whereas Char●es Stuart King of England is and standeth Convicted Attainted and Condemned of high Treas●n and other high Crimes and Sentence upon Saturday last was pronounced against him by this Court to be put to death by severing his Head from his Body of which Sentence Execution yet remains to be done These are therefore to will and require you to see the said Sentence Executed in the open street before White-hall upon the morrow being the 30 day of this instant Month of January between the hours of ten in the Morning and five of the afternoon of the same day with full effect And for your so doing this shall be your sufficient Warrant And these are to require all Officers and Souldiers and other the good People of this Nation of England to be assisting unto you in this Service To Col. Francis Hacker Colonel Huncks and Lieutenant Colonel Phray and every of them Given under our hands and S●als c. John Bradshaw Thomas Gray Oliver Cromwel c. But to amuse the people for prevention of a rescue they caused it to be rumoured as if they would respit the King and better consider of so weighty and important a business when the next day discovered their villany For Tuesday the 30 of Ianuary the Fatal day being come the Comissioners met and ordered four or five of their Ministers to attend upon the King at Saint Iames's where they yet kept him but his Majesty well knowing what miserable comforters they were like to prove refused to have conference with them That Morning before his Majesty was brought thence the Bishop of London d●d again Officiate and read Divine Service in his presence to which Duty the 27 Chapter of Saint Matthew being the History of our Saviours Passion was appointed by the Church-Calendar for the second Lesson The King supposing it to have been selected on purpose thanked him afterwards for his seasonable choice But the Bishop modestly declining those undue thanks told him that it came by course to be read on that day which very much comforted his Majesty who proceeded to the remaining duties of receiving from the Bishop the Holy Sacrament and the other preparations for his approaching passion His Devotions being ended about ten a clock his Majesty was brought from Saint Iames's to White hall by a Regiment of Foot with Colours flying and Drums beating through the Park part marching before and part behind with a private Guard of Partizans about him the Bishop on the one hand and Colonel Thomlinson who had the charge of him on the other bare-headed The Guards marching a slow pace as on a solemn and sad occasion to their ill-tuned Drums He bid them go faster as his usual manner of walking was saying That he now went before them to strive for an Heavenly Crown with less Sollicitude than he had often encouraged his Souldiers to fight for an Earthly Diadem B●ing ●ome to the end of the Park he went up the stayers leading to the Long 〈◊〉 in White-hall where he used formerly to lodge There finding an unexpected delay in being brought upon the Scaffold which they had begun but that Morning He past the most of that time having received a Letter from the Prince in the interim by Mr. Seymor in prayer About twelve a clock his Majesty refusing to dine eat onely a bit of Bread and drank a g●ass of Claret and about an hour after Colonel Hacker with other Officers and Souldiers brought him with the Bishop and Colonel Thomlinson through the Banqueting-house to the Scaffold whereto the passage was made through a Window A strong Guard of several Regiments of Horse and Foot were placed on all sides which hindred the neer approach of his miserable and distracted Subjects who for manifesting their sorrow were barbarously used and the King from speaking what he had designed for their Ears whereupon his Majesty finding himself disappointed omitted much of his intended Matter but having viewed the Scaffold which had Irons driven in it to force him down to the Block by Ropes if he should have resisted and the Axe of whose Edge he was very careful having minded one a Knight then present of touching it wi●h his Cloak The King being come upon the Scaffold look'd very earnestly upon the Block and asked Colonel Hacker if there were no higher And then spake thus directing his Speech chiefly to Colonel Thomlinson I Shall be very little heard of any body else I shall therefore speak a word to you here Indeed I could have held my peace very well if I did not think that holding my peace would make some men think that I did submit to the Guilt as well as to the Punishment But I think it is my dutie to God first and then to my Countrie to clear my self both as an honest man a good King and a good Christian. I shall begin first with my Innocency and in troath I think it not very needful for me to Insist long upon this For all the world knows that I did never begin a War with the two Houses of Parliament and I call God to witness unto whom I must shortly make an account that I did never intend to incroach upon their Priviledges They began upon me it is the Militia they began upon They confess'd the Militia was mine but they thought it fit to have it from me And to be short if any body will look to the dates of Commissions of their Commissions and mine and likewise to the Declaration he will see clearly that they began these unhappie Troubles not I. So as for the guilt of these enormous Crimes that are laid against me I hope that God will clear me out I will not for I am in charitie and God forbid that I should lay it upon the two Houses of Parliament there is no necessity of either I hope they are free of this guilt but I believe that ill instruments between them and me have been the chief cause of all this blood-shed So that as I finde my self clear of this I hope and pray God that they may too Yet for all this God forbid that I should be so ill a Christian as not to say that Gods judgements are just upon me Many times he doth pay justice by an unjust Sentence that is ordinarie I will say this That unjust Sentence that I suffered to take effect is punished by an unjust Sentence upon me So far I have said to shew you 〈…〉 am an innocent man Now to shew you that I am a good Christian I hope there is a good man that will bear me witness that I have forgiven all the world and even those in particular that have been the chief causers of my Death who they are

the Execution of the like Condemnation as also did Sir Iohn Owen who with a Britain confidence denied every tittle of the Charge against him especially that part relating to the death or Master Loyd the Sheriff of Cardigan and came off with the same danger and the like success as the Lord preceding whose Fate being referred to the Parliament proved fortunate but by the decision of one Vote 24 to 24 being divided in the question of his life and as I Remember it was the saving double voice of Lenthall the Speaker Sir Iohn Owen was carried more affirmatively the rest all in the Negative being turned off with their Ladies and their Relations Petitions to the same High Court who to shew their civility more than their mercy were pleased to gratifie the Ladies with a respit of two days as long as their Commission and power lasted On the 9th of March the Duke the Earl of Holland and Lord Capel being guarded from Saint Iames's to Sir Robert Cottons House the next fatal Stage of late to the Scaffold were severally brought to the Palace-Yard through the Hall their Judges then sitting and looking fore-right upon their Execution The Duke ascended first and to give him his due he kept a good seeming decorum in his last words and actions The Earl of Holland succeeded to this bloody Theatre who very Christianly penitently and compassionately enough prepared him for his end justifying his honest intentions in that his first and last action for the King and intimating that Duty we all owed to our present Soveraign and so suffered for him But the Lord Capel like a true Christian Heroe as he came last so did he sum up all both in his Speech Countenance and Gestures that was good praise-worthy and generous in them both resolutely asserting his own actions his late Soveraigns Cause and his present Majesties Rights recommending him to his people as the great example of true English worth and as the onely hope of the Kingdom So as with Sampson he may be said to have done these Philistins more harm at his Death than in all his Life raising and renewing the desires of the people after so deserving a Prince This Tragedy being over they resume afresh the debate of what persons were yet within their Clutches any way obnoxious to their Cannibal-Idol of Justice who could not be pleased but with whole Hecatombs and therefore the Noble Sir Iohn Stowel and Judge Ienkins those Champions of Law and Loyalty with Captain Brown Bushell were next ordered to be put in that fatal List of Traytors against their Commonwealth the Marquess of Winchester and Bishop Wren who had lain prisoner from the beginning of our Troubles hardly escaping the like dangerous qualification which was upon a ●orged information intended likewise against Major-General Brown and Sir Iohn Clotworthy and to that purpose the Case of all those secluded and thereafter imprisoned Members was ordered to a Committee to make a discrimination of their offences and render those two the most liable to their severity As for those who had escaped their hands by departing the Kingdom they satisfied their indignation by a decree of perpetual Banishment and present death upon the return of any so sentenced The chief of these besides the Kings Majesty whom God long preserve and the Duke of York c. were the Earl of Bristol the Duke of Buckingham the Lord Digby Lord Cottington Marquesses of Newcastle and Worcester Sir Edward Hide Lord Culpeper Lord Widdrington and some others who were very well satisfied they could do no more to them and were then following ●he hopeful fortunes of the King The rest of that unfortunate party were put to Ransome a Fine being set upon their Heads proportionable to their Estates to be paid within such times or else to be in the same predicament with the condemned Having thus made good their Conspiracy or by them stiled Agreement of bringing Delinquents to Justice that the exactness of their dire performances might credit th●ir intentions and resolutions and make them seem to the Vulgar the most impartial lovers of their Lives and Liberties but rather of their Estates they proceeded in the political part of Government by filling up their Committee of Estates to the number of 41. who were ordered particularly to enter their Assent to whatsoever the Juncto had done in reference to the King and Lords before they should act in that Committee and Cromwel thereupon reported to the House being impowered by them that of that just number 22 had refused to engage as to what was past but would joyn with them for the future and acknowledge the Supreme Power to be vested in them There could no expedient be found to salve this sore so they were contented to cicatrize it and gently lay aside all disputes or further contrasts about it but though they past it without doors they would not so within but totally precluded any further pretences of the Members of taking their places in Parliament who in some numbers returned to Westminster for they Voted That all such as ●ad absented themselves from the 5 of December should not sit till further order which was never vouchsafed till such claimers had given evidence of their adherence and closing with them In this same Month to take away the same dignity and priviledge as the House of Lords was to them from the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen and to make the Government of London à la mode Democratical they ordered a Quorum of the Common-Council to act without the Lord Mayor or the said Aldermen if they should refuse to joyn with them and not long after to put another affront though distant some space of time being the 24 of March ensuing upon the Mayor they order him to proclaim their Act for abolishing Kingly Government which he disdainfully and generously refusing his Lady likewise not suffering their Messenger that brought it to drink in her House but bidding him return to his Masters for his Wages upon the report thereof by Alderman Atkins a Member of their House they Voted him Imprisonment in the Tower for two Months and to be degraded of his Honour and disfranchised and to pay 2000 l. to be distributed among the Poor of Westminster the Hamlets and Southwark which was rigidly levied and Alderman Andrews one of the Kings Judges was Elected in his place for whose choice at his presentment for their approbation the House gave the City thanks and ordered the Barons of the Exchequer to swear him in these words That he should be faithful to the Commonwealth as it was now established in the Government of the City where he in state Proclaimed the said Act though the people hooted and reviled it and cryed aloud God save the King and would have made worse work but that the Guards of Horse awed them Alderman Sir Thomas Soams and Alderman Chambers for absenting themselves and justifying their conscientious refusal

such papers found with him whereupon he was brought before a Court-Martial and there Sentenced to be Hanged which was accordingly Executed on the 13 day of Iuly against the Old-Exchange in Cornhill where he Triumpht in his suffering See we next a piece of their Justice upon an inanimate Statue the old Kings Effigies in the Old-Exchange and the same with his Fathers at the West-end of Saint Pauls the first they had ridiculously in imitation of their more scelerate cruelty decollated but ashamed of that impotent Revenge had now ordered to be taken out of its Nich altogether and under the Basis thereof these words were decreed to be inscribed Exit Tyrannus Regum ultimus Anno Libertatis Angliae restitutae primo Annoque Domini 1648. Which stood a long while a Testimony of their Guilt and a memorial to Strangers of their impudent and bold-fac'd Treason which gave not onely Truth but even Time it self the lye For never was there such a thing as the first year of the Peoples Liberty under their Anarchical Usurpation The other Statue of the King at its fall from the Gallery at St. Pauls aforesaid light upon its Feet which was taken as a good and sure Omen and Presage that His Majesties glorious Memory Fame and Posterity should recover and dure magure all the designes and present prosperous successes of His and their Enemies Myn Heer Ioachim was Resident here about the same time from the Estates-General whom the Parliament because the said Estates had refused to give Audience to Mr. Strickland their Agent had sent home having limited his stay here to a prefixed time but at his departure gratified him with the free transport of some able Horses expressing likewise their desire of Amity at the same time they were somenting a Rebellion in France by offering aid to the City of Burdeaux then in Arms against their Soveraign hoping to make all the world follow their humour and that as their Libellers said the Government thereof might return to that Form and Constitution it obtained most universally before the Ambition and Tyranny of Single Persons within 1600 years last past had invaded and overthrown it the great motive and argument used to the Dutch for a neerer and strict alliance with that Plebeian Authority and Free-State The Duke of York had for a good while after the Kings departure continued at Iersey in which time Sir Richard Lane Lord-Keeper of the Seal died there until the latter end of August whereabouts he arrived at the Louvre in Paris bringing with him a considerable sum of Money the value of such Prizes as his Iersey-Frigats had brought in intending speedily to go thence into Holland which journey he pursued In London on the 22 of the same month Eusebius Andrews a former Royallist and Secretary to the Lord Capel being trepan'd a word newly heard in England being a Denomination of a leud sort of people that prostituted Strumpets under pretence of their being their Wives and having deprehended persons of Estates by a signe given in the Fact prosecuted them at Law to the recovery of great damages by one Bernards formerly his Major and engaged in a kind of Plot against the Parliament who having made a most accurate legal Plea against the lawfulness and Authority of the High Court of Iustice and notably defended himself was notwithstandnig Sentenced as a Traytor and had the favour onely of altering the manner of his Execution which was by the Axe on Tower-hill where he died like other Martyrs before him full of joy and blessed hope Sir Iohn Gell who had been one of their prime Champions in the beginning of the War was now in recompence of his service principally aimed at and endeavoured to have been wrought into the same Confederacy by the innocent sollicitation of Colonel Andrews and the partaking of his Man Captain Benson therein who was to that purpose onely concerned in this Plot of their own contrivance being both an old Reformade and so obnoxious to them for Arrears and inveterated discontent and a Presbyterian of which Party Sir Iohn was thought the onely Chieftain but he wisely and prudently declining all such matters save a professing himself the Kings Servant when opportunity should serve though the High Court of Iustice did what they could to bring him within the danger of their new Act of new Treason after several hearings at their Bar he was found onely guilty of Misprision of Treason for Concealing of it and to lose his Estate and suffer perpetual Imprisonment but Benson and Astly were Condemned and Benson October 7 Executed at Tyburn where he Loyally and Christianly taxing their treacherous cruelty and ingratitude finished his Course In Ireland the resolute Garrison of Tecroghan Governed by the Lady Fitzgarret with the same prudence and magnanimity as Latham-House was by the Countess of Derby in England having endured a very hard and long Siege rendred at last to the Parliaments Forces on the 26 of Iune and that as ennobled place for brave defence the Garrison of Duncannon where the famous Colonel Wogans Royalists resided together with Waterford surrendred on the 20 of August ensuing upon very good terms considering how the Plague and the Enemy had so destructively annoyed them and the Lord Preston the Governour Sailed into France Caterlogh and Charlemont two more important places followed the same Fortune and gave the Parliament such hopeful assurance of a sudden plenary Conquest that they were thinking of transporting some of their Foot thence into the West of Scotland where Sultan Cromwel was now practising hoping to gain Colonel Ker and Straughan a kinde of Puritan-Presbyterians of the last Edition over to their Party All in a Zealous way for the Gospel put up in Bags here at London for their new gude Brethren of the Rebellious Kirk of which fine juggle more anon Several jealousies animosities and discontents were now reigning among the Scots more supremely than the Kings Authority the Kings friends wholly discountenanced and laid by even Presbyterians themselves no way understanding one another some willing to give the King His Rights without more stipulation and Engagements others of them thinking they could not sufficiently debase His Authority and that it should wholly depend on the Kirk and to that purpose several irreverend Postulata were put to him beyond the Tenour of the Treaty at Breda and in fine that party prevailed so as that the Army then on foot was in effect but very little for the Kings Interest and Service but was wholly at the disposal of the rigid Covenanters This was not unknown to Cromwel who thereupon never ceased Scribling and Divulging of the English Armies good intentions to the people of Scotland With whom they have no Quarrel but against a Malignant powerful Faction who had brought in the King to the disturbance of the Publike National Peace and Frendship betwixt the two People and that he was willing by Conference to give

board the said Admiral and making them serve the Rebels against their wills c. The like he declared against the Genoese from whom he had taken another Vessel the objections against them being their Entertainment of Captain Hall sent into those Seas before Pen. As for the recognition of this State the Genoese did not that till afterwards when they saw what Influence the potent Fleets of this Commonwealth had upon all the Trade of Italy With these two Vessels and his own Men of War the Prince sailed to the Isles of Madera upon a designe against the Spanish Plate-fleet and Domingo but his ship the Reformation was so crazy and leaking that they could hardly bring her thither where it had been happier she had been broken up than so bunglingly mended those Carpenters and Ship-wrights not well understanding the Repair of such our Ships but indeed she was too Old for any slight Remedy While Cromwel attended the Scots at Tor-wood within a mile and a half of them at Falkirk at length the long-expected success of a Transportation into Fife manifested it self for Colonel Overton with 1400 Foot of his own and Colonel Daniels Regiment with four Troops of Horse of Colonel Lydcots having with the loss of a few men gained a place called North-ferry on the other side the Frith on the 17 of Iuly had as the time served intrenched themselves and before the Scotch Army then beyond Sterling could reach them with a sufficient Force to drive them out Major-General Lambert was passed over to them it being an Arm of the Sea on the 19 being Saturday in the afternoon whereupon Sir Iohn Brown Major-General of the Scotch Forces drew down upon them but Lambert with his Foot defended himself till his Horse came over the next day and then he drew out which Brown perceiving and that the Enemy was stronger than himself he wheeled about intending a retreat but being closely followed he Embatteled himself on the side of a Hill intending to protract time unless Lambert would venture up to him till more Forces then neer him were come up Lambert perceived as much and therefore committing the right Wing of the Horse to Okey himself in the Battel and Overton in the Reserve and Colonel Lydcot in the left Wing of Horse a furious fight began Okey couragiously charging up the Hill and was as gallantly charged by the Scots Lanciers the Highland-Foot did likewise good service for the whole Army was in a trice Engaged and in a trice ceased the brunt of it not continuing above a quarter of an hour the slaughter was very great occasioned said the English by reason of the Highlanders not understanding English and so uncapable of crying Quarter but by others it 's more justly imputed to Command for that the Highlanders were most hateful of all Scots to the Army as being more Loyal than the other the onely cause of the Quarrel However it were here were no less than 2000 slain and some 1600 taken Prisoners few of 4500 as they were computed the English far Exceeding them in number escaped with the lamentable tidings Sir Iohn Brown their Major-General and Colonel Buchanan and Scot were taken Prisoners in which condition Brown died not long after at Leith Before this defeat the Scots marched over Sterling-bridge to step this Invasion but understanding the remedilessness of it and Cromwel marching towards Sterling made him to retreat thither again in the mean while most of the Army was boated over Major-General Harrison who had attended about Carlisle and Cumberland to stop the Kings advance if He should have come that way when Cromwel lay about Edenburgh which was the shorter cut to London was now marched by Edenburgh way and the charge of the Army on this side the Frith with Colonel Riches and Colonel Bartons Forces then upon the same march committed to his Command while the English Army in Fife advanced to Saint Iohnstons from whence the Parliament and General Assembly had fled to Dundee affrighted with this news Inchigarvey-Castle standing in the midst of the Frith having been delivered on the 24 of Iuly with the Guns therein and Brunt-Island followed the said fortune on the 27 on which day Cromwel having sate down before Saint Iohnstons with his whole Army though a relief of two Regiments of Foot had been newly put in from over the Water yet despairing of holding out against so prevalent and numerous an Enemy upon the Englishes opening their Sluces Rendred upon Brunt-Island Articles which were the usual Military ones of Drums-beating c. on the third of August On the first whereof Cromwel had notice of the Kings removal from Sterling but nevertheless resolved to proceed with his business at Saint Iohnstons which being thus over he marched his men with all hast to Brunt-Island where he Ferried to Leith leaving General Monke to Command in Scotland with 7000 and on his march to reduce Sterling and hastned after the King It had all along been the Kings desire to have marched into England before this fatal opportunity and His coming was expected by His Friends every day though in no condition able to help Him being so spent wasted and terrified with the late and yet grievous Sequestrations and Sales but the King was imagined here by His Party to be able to do His business without them and the late immature discovery of Loves designe and his Sentence had quite bogled his Presbyterian well-wishers whatever they muttered to themselves of their adventurous Loyalty Indeed nothing so much heightned the hopes of all good men as those fears and distrusts and ill looks which the Phanatick-party discovered upon this occassion the rather because Harrison had lain so long in those parts by which the King entred on purpose and by express order to keep him out if possible or at least retard Him so in the Borders that Cromwel might overtake him there who was now three days march behind and Harrison also not very forward in his march And surely Cromwel was very sensible of his loytering at Saint Iohnstons through a proud humour of not rising without it since England was of the far greater concernment and it set him a little awry in the opinion of his Partisans The Parliament no sooner had notice of this Emergency by several Expresses who Rid as if their Necks had been at stake but out come three Acts or Proclamations together the one for the Militia setling it as it stood established and further forbidding all Royalists to depart from their Houses and Commanding all other people to give an account of their Servants to the next Officer if they shall absent themselves An Act forbidding Correspondence with the King or His Party And therewith another product of Treason in grain against the King His Person and Authority which said Decrees they did with confidence command to be published setting a good gloss and resolute Face upon their despairing and misgiving thoughts lest

Windsor castle Th. Andrews Anth. Stapely Th. Horton Recruit to the Long Parl. John Fry a Yeoman of Dorsetshire an Arrian Thom. Hammond B●other to Dr. Hammond the Kings Iaylor Isaac Pennington Lord Mayor of London Simon Meyne of Buckinghamshire died in the Tower Sir Hardress Waller a Souldier of Fortune Will H●veningham Esq 〈◊〉 antient Family in Suffolk Henry Marten Owen Row a Silk-man of London Augustine Garland a person relating to the Law Henry Smith one of the Six Clerks in Chancery Robert Titchbourn Lord Mayor of London George Fleetwood James Temple Thomas Wait. Peter Temple a London Linne●-draper B●●ges● for Leicester Robert Lilburn Brother to John Lilburn Gilbert Millington a Lawyer Vincent Potter an upstart Member John Downs a Citizen of London and a Colonel Thomas Wogan an obscure person John Lisle a Gentleman and Lawyer President of several High Courts of Iustice. Will. Say Esq. a Lawyer and Deputy-speaker of the House of Commons Valentine Walton Brother in law to Cromwel and Governour of Lyn. Edward Whaley a Wollen-draper his Family of Nottinghamshire a good souldier Edm. Ludlow the son of a Traytor a daring souldier Sir Michael Livesey of Kent John Hewson a Shoo-maker dead in Exile a bold Commander Will. Goffe a Salters Apprentice and a bold Commander Cor. Holland a servant to Sir Hen. Vane Thomas Challoner a great speech-maker against the K. Will. Cawley a Brewer of Chichester Nic. Love son to Dr. Love of Winchester John Dixwel Governour of Dover Castle Daniel Blagrave a recruit for Reading Daniel Broughton a Clerk Edward Dendy Serjeant at Arms. John Hutchison fined Francis Lassels fined Lord Munson Ja Challoner Esq. Sir Hen. Mildmay Ro. Wallop Esq. Sir Ja Harrington and John Phelps their Estates Forfeited drawn to Tyburn and Imprisoned during life The High Court of Iustice sits Jan. 20. A crimson Velvet-chair and Cushion for the President Silence made the Hall-gate set open Col. Thomlinson commanded to bring his prisoner He is brought to the Bar a chair of crimson-Velvet set for him Silence made the Act for the Tryal of Charles Stuart King of England read The Names of the Commissioners read The Presidens speech to the King Cook Solicitor-General offers to speak is forbid by the King He proceeds The Charge read President demands the Kings Answer His Majesty refuseth to Answer and disowns the Authority of the Court. Proves his Title to the Crown by succession not Election Is prevented by the Presidents insolent rebukes Who urgeth for an Answer The King still refuseth demanding their Authority The President answers their Authority is Gods and the Kingdoms The Court riseth The head of the Kings staff falls down ●e stoops and takes it up Some cry God save the King others Iustice and Execution by Axtels directions The Court sits the King comes in the people shout Solicitor moves for the Kings Answer President insists upon it His Majesty still denies the Authority of the Court. Refuseth to plead and offers to sh●w his Reasons Here the King would have delivered his Reasons but was not suffered His Majesty presseth to shew his Reasons but cannot be permitted He desires to Demur He is over-ruled by the Court and Interrupted The Cle●k re●d The Guards charged to take away their Prisoner The Court order the default and contempt to be Recorded The King guarded to Sir Ro. Cottons The Court adjourns The Court sits again The King comes The Sollicitor moves the Court for Iudgement The Presidents speech in behalf of the Court he demands a positive answer from the King His Majesty desires to speak for the Liberties of the people but is not permitted till he gives his Answer to Guilty or not Guilty 〈…〉 to give any particular answer desires 〈◊〉 to shew his Reasons is interrupted again and again The Clerk reads His Majesty justifies his proceedings and refuseth to Answer to the Charge The Guards ordered to take charge of their Prisoner The King goes forth and the Court adjourns His Majesties Reasons against the Iurisdiction of the Court which be intended to speak in Court but was hindered No proceeding just but what is warranted by the Laws of God or man No Impeachment can lie against the King The House of Commons cannot erect a Court of Iudicature Nor are the Membe●● of this House Co●●issioned by the people of England The Priviledges o●●a●liame●t Violated The higher House excluded and the major part of the lower deterred from sitting The frame of Government cha●ged The Court sits Silence commanded The King comes the souldiers cry for Iustice. His Majesty desires to be heard but not permitted The Court withdraws Serejant at Arms withdraws the King The Court returns resolving to proceed The King brought into the Court he urgeth to be heard and adviseth the Court against a ha●ty Iudgement The Presidents speech in defence of the Courts proceedings His Majesty is interrupted Silence commanded the Sentence read The Charge read The King required to give his Answer he refuseth The King guarded awa● He is abused by the Souldiers disturbed in his Devotions His admirable patience He desires to see his Children and Doctor Juxon The King tempted with new Proposals from some Grandees of the Army B. Juxon preacheth before him at Saint James ' s. His Maj. giveth his Blessing to the Duke of Gloucester and the Lady Elizabeth His pious advice to them The Duke of Gloucester 's reply The Lady Elizabeths Relation of what passed between his Majesty and her He adviseth her to read Bp. Andrew 's Sermons Hookers Policy and Bp. Laud against Fisher. A Committee appointed to consider of the time and place for Execution They agree upon the open street before White-hall the morrow following The Wa●ra●● for the Kings Ex●●ut●●● Sig●●d by Joh. Bradshaw Tho Gray Ol. Cromwel 〈◊〉 to Col. F● Hacker 〈◊〉 Hunks an● Li●● Co●o●el ●hray Factious Ministers appointed to attend the King he refuseth to confer with them Bp. of London readeth prayers to him and administers the Sacrament The King brought to White-hall Mr. Seymor presents his Majesty with a Letter from the Prince The Kings friends ●arbarously u●●d Engines to force the King 〈…〉 had ●●s●ted His Majesty had ●ot spo●en b●t that ●therwise he might be thought to submit to the guilt H● began not 〈◊〉 War span● Ho●s●s His Majes●y lays not the 〈…〉 the two 〈◊〉 i●l ●●struments the cau●e of it 〈…〉 Sentence pu●●shed with another His Majesty forgives all the world ev●● the ca●sers 〈◊〉 his death 〈…〉 wa● to P●ace Conquest an ill way seldom 〈◊〉 To give God his due and the K●ng his 〈◊〉 is the right way Give God his due in set●ing the Church As to the King it concerning 〈◊〉 hi● Majesty ●aves it Peoples Liberty consi●●s in having Government not s●aring in it His Majesty the Martyr of the People His Majestie de●●ares h●s R●ligio● * Afterwards Sir William Clerk The King makes ready for Execution Dr. Juxon comforts him It is known for to give it the Prince His Majesty