Windward from us who made sail and went towards Dover We wanted two of our Ships who were in the Rear of our Fleet the Captains Tuynman's of Middleburgh and Siphe Fook's of Amsterdam both ships of the Direction whereof we found that of Captain Siphe Fook's about noon floating without Masts The Skipper and the Officers declared unto us that they were taken by three ships of the Parliament two hours after Sun-set who took from aboard the Captain and Lieutenant with 14 or 15 men more and put instead of them many of the English but they fearing that the ship would sink they took the flight after they had plundered all in hostile manner They declared also that they see the said Tuynman's being with them in the Rear of our Fleet an hour before he was taken We intend with this Easterly wind to cross to and fro that we may finde out the said Streight vaerders if it be possible and with all other Ships with whom we may meet to bring them safe in our Country So ending was Subscribed M. Harp Trump Dated the 30 of May 1652. from aboard the Ship The Lords Embassadors Paper Exhibited â—3 3 Iune 1652. To the Council of State of the Commonwealth of England Most Illustrious Lords Even as both by word of mouth and also by Writing we have signified to this Council on the 3 and 6 days of this Month taking God the searcher of Mens Hearts to witness that the most unhappy Fight of the Ships of both Commonwealths did happen against the knowledge and will of the Lords States General of the Vnited Netherlands so also are we daily more and more assured both by Messages and Letters witnessing the most sincere hearts of our said Lords and that with Grief and astonishment they received the Fatal News of that unhappy rash Action and that upon what we thereupon presently sent them word of they did consult and endeavour to finde out what Remedy chiefly may be applied to mitigate that raw and Bloody Wound To which end they have written out for to gather a solemn Meeting or Parliament of all the Provinces whereby we do not doubt but there will be provided for these Troubles by Gods favour such a Cure and present help whereby not onely the outward cause of all further Evil may be taken away but also by an Intâ—rn comfort the mindes may be redressed and reduced again to a better hope of our Treaty in hand which thing being now most earnestly agitated by our Lords for the common good of both Nations to shun that detestable shedding of Christian Blood so much desired and would be dearly bought by their common Enemies of both Nations and of the Reformed Religion We again do crave of this most Honourable Council and beseech you by the Pledges both of the common Religion and Liberty mean while to suffer nothing to be done out of too much heat that afterwards may prove neither revocable nor repairable by too late idle Vows and Wishes but rather that you would let us receive a kinde Answer without further delay upon our last Request Which we do again and again desire so much the more because we understand that the Ships of our Lords and of our Skippers both on the broad-sea as in the Ports of this Commonwealth some by force some by Fighting are taken by your men and kept Given at Chelsey 13 3 Iune 1652. Signed I. Cats G. Schaep P. Vanderperre The Answer of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England to the Papers presented to them by the Council of State from the Embassadors Extraordinary of the Lords the States General of the United Provinces The first whereof was dated the 3 of June the second the 6 of June and the last dated the 13 of June 1652. new Stile upon occasion of the late Fight between the Fleets The Parliament of the Commonwealth of England calling to minde with what continued Demonstrations of Friendship and sincere Affections from the very beginning of their Intestine Troubles they have proceeded towards their Neighbours of the Vnited Provinces omitting nothing on their part that might conduce to a good Correspondence with them and to a growing up into a more neer and strict Union than formerly do finde themselves much surprized with the unsutable Returns that have been made thereunto and especially at the Acts of Hostility lately committed in the very Roads of England upon the Fleet of this Commonwealth the matter of Fact whereof stated in clear Proofs is hereunto annexed upon serious and deliberate consideration of all and of the several Papers delivered in by our Excellencies to the Council of State the Parliament thinks fit to give this Answer to those Papers The Parliament as they would be willing to make a charitable Construction of the Expressions used in the said Papers endeavouring to represent the late Engagement of the Fleets to have happened without the knowledge and against the minde of Your Superiours So when they consider how disagreeable to that profession the Resolutions and Actions of Your State and their Ministers at Sea have been even in the midst of a Treaty offered by themselves and managed here by Your Excellencies the extraordinary preparations of 150 Sail of Men of War without any visible occasion but what doth now appear a just ground of jealousie in your own Judgements when Your Lordships pretended to excuse it and the Instructions themselves given by Your said Superiours to their Commanders at Sea do finde too much cause to believe That the Lords the States General of the Vnited Provinces have an intention by Force to Usurp the known Rights of England in the Seas to destroy the Fleets that are under God their Walls and Bulworks and thereby expose this Common-wealth to Invasion at their pleasure as by their late Action they have attempted to do Whereupon the Parliament conceive they are obliged to endeavour with Gods assistance as they shall have opportunity to seek Reparation of the Wrongs already suffered and Security that the like be not attempted for the future Nevertheless with this minde and desire That all Differences betwixt the Nations may if possibly be peaceably and friendly composed as God by his Providence shall open a way thereunto and Circumstances shall be conducing to render such Endeavours less delatory and more effectual than those of this kinde heretofore-used have been This Answer Insinuating the intention of a War being Communicated to the States General they ordered their remaining Embassador to insist upon and demand a Categorick-Answer so was it called to their Proposals in the Treaty positively off or on which being made The House took into debate the business of the Embassador Extraordinary from the States General of the Vnited Provinces and thereupon Passed these Resolutions to be sent to the Embassador in Answer to his fourth and last Paper 1. That the Lords the States General of the United Provinces do pay and satisfie unto this Commonwealth the Charges and Damages this State hath sustained and been put unto by the Preparations of the said States
be made for the freedom of such Elections 6. That the Parliament onely have Power to direct further as to Parliaments and for those two ends expressed before their Orders there to pass for Laws 7. That there be a Liberty for Entring Dissents in the House of Commons and no man further censurable for what he shall say in the House exclusion by c. from that Trust and that by the House it self 8. That the Iudicial Power in the Lords and Commons without further Appeal may be cleared The King not to be capable to forgive persons adjudged by them without their consent 9. That the Peers have no Iurisdiction against the Commons without the concurring Iudgment of the House of Commons as also may be vindicated from any other Iudgement c. than that of their equals 10. That Grand Iury-men be chosen by several parts or divisions of each County respectively not left to the discretion of any Vnder-Sheriff which Grand Iury-men at each Assize shall present the names of persons to be made Iustices of the Peace and at the Summer-Assizes the names of three out of which the King may prick one for Sheriff Secondly being another principle For the future security to Parliaments and the Militia in general in order thereunto That it be provided by Act of Parliament 1. That the power of the Militia by Land and Sea during the space of ten years shall be disposed by the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament or persons they shall nominate 2. That it shall not be exercised by the King nor any from him during the said space nor afterwards but by advice of the Parliament or Council of State or such Committees in the Interval 3. That the said Lords and Commons c. raise and dispose of Money for the Forces thought necessary and for payment of publike debts and uses of the Kingdom 4. That these ten years security may be the firmer It be provided That none that have been in hostility against the Parliament in the late War shall be capable of any Office or Trust for five years without consent of Parliament nor to sit as Members thereof till the second Biennial Parliament be past Thirdly For the ordering of the peace and safety of this Kingdom and Ireland 1. That there be Commissioners for the Admiralty an Admiral and Vice-Admiral now agree on with power to execute amply the said Offices and pay provided for the service 2. That there be a lord-Lord-General for the Forces that are to be in pay 3. That there be Commissioners for the standing Militia in every County consisting of Trained Bands and Auxiliaries not in pay to discipline them 4. A Council of State to surperintend the powers given those Commissioners 5. That the said Council have the same power with the Kings Privy Council but not make War or Peace without consent of Parliament 6. That that Council consist of trusty and able persons to continue si bene se gesserint but not above seven years 7. That a sufficient Establishment be provided for the pay of the standing Forces the Establishment to continue till two months after the meeting of the first Biennial Parliament or Saint Tibs Eve Fourthly That an Act be passed for disposing the great Offices for ten years by the Lords and Commons in Parliament and by the Committees in the Intervals with submission to the approbation of the next Parliament and after that time they to name three and the King out of them to appoint one for the succession upon a vacancie Fifthly For disabling the Peers made by the King since the Great Seal was carried away May 21. 1642. to sit and Vote in Parliament Sixthly An Act to make void all the Acts Declarations c. against the Parliament and their Adherents and that the Ordinances for Indempnity be confirmed Seventhly An Act to make void all Grants passed under the said Seal since May 1642. and to confirm and make those valid that passed under the Great Seal made by Authority of Parliament Eighthly An Act for Confirmation of Treaties between England and Scotland and constituting Conservators of the Peace between them Ninthly That the Ordinance for taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries be confirmed by Act but the Kings Revenue made up another way and the Officers thereof to have reparation Tenthly An Act declaring void the Cessation of Ireland leaving that War to the prosecution of the Parliament Eleventhly An Act to take away all Coercive Power Authority and Iurisdiction of Bishops and other Ecclesiastical Officers whatsoever extending to civil Penalties upon any and to repeal all Laws whereby the Civil Magistracie hath been or is bound upon any Ecclesiastical Censure to proceed ex Oâ—â—icio unto any Civil Penalties against any persons so censured Mark here is not a word of abolishing Episcopacy or confirming the sale of their Lands in which they knew the Presbyterians were entangled but the King extreamly gratified who abominated Sacriledge and so was the likelier never to comply with the Parliament who made it one of their principal demands which Cromwel designed Twelfthly That there be a repeal of penal Acts or Clauses enjoyning the Common-Prayer and imposing Penalties for not coming to Church some provision to be made for discovering of Recusancie Thirteenthly That the taking of the Covenant be not inforced upon any c. but that all Ordinances enjoyning that be repealed Fourteenthly That the things before proposed being provided for his Majestie his Queen and Royal Issue may be restored to a condition of Safetie Honour and Freedom in this Nation without diminution to their personal Rights or further limitation to the exercise of their Power than according to the particulars aforegoing Fifteenthly For the matter of Compositions 1. That a less number out of the persons excepted in the two first qualifications not exceeding five for the English being nominated particularly by the Parliament besides the Irish Rebels may be reserved to the Iudgment of the Parliament c. And many more good morrows in favourable restrictions of the Parliament's severity to poor Cavaliers whom they reserved for their more ravenous jaws thinking by these wiles first to betray and then devour them and therefore now the Tyger is become a mediator to the Wolf to spare the innocent sheep that 's encompassed between them The rest of this batch was for particular redresses of the Law and abuses of the Lawyers concerning Imprisonments for Debts Regulating Assessements and remedies against the contentious Suits of Tythes for asserting the peoples right in Petitioning against Forrest-Lands and almost all particular grievances especially the Excise and Monopolies against Corporation-Oaths as grievous to tender Consciences being too long to enumerate The drift of all being to please all sorts of people one or other hitting the humour of every man but chiefly gratifying the Fanaticks and miserable Vulgar who were to be deluded and then used as a bridge to their own slavery
Iersey with the onely Conditions of taking the National-Covenant and renouncing of Montross and other Royalists of that Nation For in the beginning of September the King was arrived there with His Brother the Duke of York in company with Sir George Carteret the Governour and other his Nobles and Confident Followers having before his departure designed some of his Lords as Embassadors to several Princes The French also had prohibited the Importation of Cloth into France in a proud revenge and quittal whereof the Parliament forbad the Importation of French-wines and the States General of the Vnited Provinces had denied Audience to Walter Strickland their new Resident after several instances onely the Spaniard who had lately before acknowledged the same Provinces for a Free State began to wind about and to insinuate a Compaliance wâ—th the English One as imagining it no way dangerous but advantageous to his Interest and Stale Ambition of Universal Soveraignty as Campanella had designed it For in tendency thereunto he prohibited his Subjects in Flanders to serve the King at Sea his Ports being before open to such Vessels that served the King and were Manned with Flemings for the most part and did also underâ—tand hold Intelligence with this State But the Emperour of Russia no sooner heard of the Kings Death but he immediately Commanded all the English to depart his Dominions and was hardly perswaded having first secured their Goods to give them leave to stay a while in Arch-Angel his onely Port of Trade whither from his Court and City of Musco he had driven them He had profered to the Lord Culpeper His Majesties Embassador to have given him all the English Estates but he declining it and telling the Emperour the King conceived very well of those His Subjects he very frankly lent the King 20000 l. with a protestation of his further good will if he had not been so greatly engaged in a War at home The Dane the Swede and the Pole knew not what to make of our New Lords and so let them alone the Portugal's actions Declared Him Several Affronts were likewise given them under their very Noses the London Presbyterian Ministers would not Officiate neither at their Fasts nor Thanksgivings for which Contempts several of them were brought before their Committees and after severe reprehension and warning dismissed as namely Master Love Master Ienkins and Master Ash And the Levellers began to make new broils the Garrison of Oxford of Colonel Ingoldsby's Regiment mutining and securing their Officers while Lilburn and his Associates vex them in print by a new Pamphlet called the Apprentices Outcry The Mutineers were suppressed in a manner by themselves and two of them shot to Death Lilburn having been kept a long while before Prisoner in the Tower was now brought to his Tryal at Guild hall by a Commission of Oyer and Termier directed to the new Lord-Commissioner Keeble Justice Iermin and others where after a confident defence of himself reading of several Statutes and thumming of Magna Charta and a hundred Slurs upon the Court he was acquitted by his Jury and not long after chosen a Common-Council-man for the City though the Parliament by Vote afterwards disallowed it and made him uncapable of any Office And finally that I may have done with this Trouble-world not long after Sentenced him to Banishment which was procured by the old Feud betwixt him and Sir Arthur Hasilrigge To secure themselves therefore from that and all other Parties they Legislated a thing called an Engagement which though at its first designment it reached onely persons in Office and Trust and the Lawyers that Pleaded with an additional precept to the several Benches to remove out of their Chambers in the Respective Inns of Court all who had served the King in the late War saving the benefit of Articles as they had kept them some good while before from the Bar yet at last it included all sorts of men from 18 years old and upwards who were enjoyned to recognize and then subscribe this knack in these Republican words You shall promise to be true â—â—d faithful to the Commonwealth of England as it is now established without King or House of Lords And their repeated prosperous violation of all things Sacred and Civil had so prob Dolor Atheisted the Land that people jested themselves into this snare the Royalists and some such sober Presbyterians onely disavowing it though no protection or benefit of the Law was to be had without it On the 4 of Ianuary happened a most terrible blow by Gunpowder in Tower-street out of a Ship-chandlers cellar who going down about 8 of the Clock about some business there with a Candle it unfortunately sparkled into the Powder as was conceived and blew up and spoiled above 100 Houses some 60 persons being killed the most whereof were slain as they were drinking in the Rose-Tavern in whose Ruines they were over-whelmed This accident invited the curiosity of some to say that the Treason committed that time Twelve month before was followed with this its sutable attendant to point to the Authors the likeness of their Villany But whatever that disaster signified the Death of Alderman Hoyle a great Rumper of York who hanged himself on the same day and hour Twelve month that the King was Murthered plainly shewed the vengeance and displeasure of God against that monstrous and abominable Fact This was the Evening-Sacrifice to their Thanksgiving-Devotion in most solemn manner celebrated by the States aâ— Westminster in commemoration of their lately recovered Liberty from the Laws and a just Government by the Death of the King being the Anniversary of his Martyrdom but had so many ill Omens and sinister Prognosticks that they rased this Festival out of their Kalendar which carried in it so many signal remarques of the just Judgement and Veâ—geance of God upon that impious Fact and their no less abominable mockery of Him as the Author thereof in this their pretended religious observation of that fatal Providence General Blake was now fitting out to Sea with a lusty Fleet to hinder Prince Rupert now Commanding in the Western-seas from doing further prejudice to the Trade the Nation being then much incommodated by several Ships of War set out by His Majesties Commission the execution whereof could not discern betwixt His Subjects and His Rebels The Prince was then in Harbour at Lisbone whither Blake directly sailed with 16 able Men of War and blockt up the Port demanding license to fall upon the Prince in the River which being denied an attempt was made by him but the Castles firing upon his foremost Frigots in favour and protection of the Prince's Fleet he was forced to give it over and come to an Anchor at the Mouth of the Tagus resolving to stop and seize such Vessels of the Portugals as should make for that place and the Brazile Sugar-Fleet was then daily expected An Act now
sunk immediately In this action Sir Robert Holmes was Admiral the Earl of Ossery Vice-Admiral and Sir Freschevil Hollis Rear-Admiral The first blow thus given the King publishes his Declaration of War against the States General of the Vnited Provinces to this effect That the dissatisfaction his Majesty had in the carriage of the States General of the United Provinces towards him for some years past being come to that pass that be could no longer without the diminution of his own Glory dissemble the indignation rais'd in him by a Treatment so unsuitable to the great Obligations which he and his Predecessors had so liberally heap'd upon them he was resolv'd to declare a War against them forbidding all his Subjects to hold correspondence with them upon pain of death This Declaration was with the solemnities openly Proclaimed at the usual places both in London and Westminster of which more in the succeeding years And now to share in the Triumphs of this War Sir Edward Sprague returns happy in the favours which his Prince did afterwards bestow upon him for his services in the Mediterranean Sea It stock mightily in the Stomack of the Dutch that the King of France should lay such Impositions upon their own Domestick Manufactures and the King of France was glad it did and therefore though they sent him word That unless he took off those Impositions he should not take it ill if they laid an Impost of 50 per Cent. upon Salt and all other Merchandises of France And though they were at the charge of an Embassador to press for an Answer to this Affair yet they found the King took no care to give 'um any satisfaction at all in that particular They therefore thus exasperated lay the Imposition The King so exasperated lays hold of the occasion Taxes all Spices and Herring imported by the Dutch and forbids his Subjects to lade any Brandy or other Commodities aboard any Holland-Vessels Besides this they saw the King of France's Forces drawing into a Body in Flanders and that with such an unusual preparation as the buying up of all the Flambeaux or Torches that could be got in the Country as if the French intended to labour day and night whereby all the adjacent parts began to be very inquisitive into their own strength Cologne at odds with her Elector comes with much ado to reasonable Terms and in the mean time falls to Fortifying with all her might and the Emperour took that City so far into his protection that he sent the Marquiss of Grana to keep it in his Name to the great encouragement of the Inhabitants Munster was so kinde as to offer this City his Forces for their assistance provided they would admit of no other Garrison but they thought it not convenient to accept of his offer The Dutch repair the Works of Maestricht re-inforcing the Garrison with Men and Provision fearing the violence of the Storm there The Duke of Newburgh fortifies Dusseldorp upon the Rhine careful of the Imperal Territories Monterey in Flanders makes it his utmost endeavour to raise Men and Money for the defence of the remaining part of the Spanish Jurisdictions In this interim of time the two Dukes of Brunswick resolving to bring that City to that obedience which they affirm'd to be due and challeng'd from it lay Siege to the Town with considerable Forces the Townsmen within made a notable resistance for the time but when the Duke's Army began to approach neer the Walls and were ready to fling their Granadoes and other Combustible stuff in their very Houses they were forc'd to surrender on Conditions that the Magistrates and Inhabitants should do Homage to the Duke of Wolfenbuttel as the rest of his Subjects receive and pay his Garrison and pay moreover a considerable sum of Money for their disobedience Those Flames that could not have their will upon Brunswick are now raging upon the beautiful Escurial the most magnificent piece of work in all Spain if not in Europe It was several days consuming and among other things was destroy'd the famous Library there a loss the most considerable as being most difficult if not altogether impossible to be repair'd But to return to other Combustions in the midst whereof we finde the Dutch labouring all they could to get the Dane and Swede on their side But the King of France had put the Dane and they far enough asunder for the King of Denmark having referr'd the matter in difference concerning the remaining Subsidies due from the States to that Crown to the King of France He makes an Award for the payment of five Millions of Crowns Principal and one Million Interest so that it was in vain for Amerongen to Sollicite there till the States had submitted to that advantageous determination Besides that the continual Negotiations of the King of England's Embassadors and extraordinary Envoys had no small influence upon those Crowns so that the Negotiation of Van Haren gave little satisfaction to his Masters Their Consultations are therefore all employed for provision of Men and Arms and lest they should want a Head the Prince of Orange is now by the general Consent of the States in a full Assembly captain- made their captain-Captain-General and Admiral for that Campagne engaging to renew it again after Expiration during Life Commissioners were also appointed to Assist him De Wit Van Putten and others The Emperor seeing things at this height offer'd his own Mediation between the King of France and the States buâ— now prov'd too late And as for the Queen-Regent of Spain the King of France had sent to know Her positive Answer how she would behave her self in this juncture of Affairs but she being a Lady took time to give in her Answer Nor was it without some kinde of slight that the Dutch Embassador was dismist from Paris when desiring leave for his last Audience and a Pass for the safe Transporting his Goods by Sea Reply was made That for his Audience he might have it so soon as he pleas'd but for his Goods they were to be view'd by the Officers of the Customs before they could stir Anno Dom. 1672. THE War with the Year being thus openly begun the King of England in the first place takes care for the security of his own Subjects Trading by Sea by allowing them sufficient Convoys and giving them liberty to Sayl their Vessels with the assistance of what Forrein Marriners they could procure taking particular Order also against the sculking and absconding of such Officers and Sea-men who were his own Natural Subjects And knowing that Actions of Importance depend in their success upon good Advice he call'd to his Privy Council four persons of great Honour and Integrity Henry Marquess of Worcester President of the Council of Wales Arthur Earl of Essex Thomas Viscount Falconbridge and George Viscount Hallifax and soon after Sir Thomas Osburn Baroner
and that he did not receive the profits of it But the Emperour denied he knew of his being a Plenipotentiary and that it was not for one of his Subjects to take up Interests contrary to the Interest of his Soveraign and would not hear of his Release During these Treaties the King of France had possess'd himself of a great part of the Palatinate and had put a Garrison into Germerstein of 300 Souldiers yet proffered the Elector if he would stand Neuter to satisfie him for all his Damages and to withdraw his Souldiers out of Gemerstein and put it into the Hands of any Neutral Prince of the Empire which he refus'd upon Caprara's coming to his Succour The Switzers to hinder the King of France from coming into Burgundy offered that Burgundy might stand Neutur proffering themselves security that that Province should punctually observe the Neutrality and that they would guard the Avenues into it against any Forces of the Empire And thus stood Affairs at the end of this year Anno Dom. 1674. PEace being now concluded between the English and the Dutch this Year was not memorable for much at home The first motion of the Court this Moneth was to Windsor where the Earl of Mulgrave was Install'd Knight of the Garter This Moneth also the King by his Embassador the Lord Lockhart offer'd his Mediation between the King of France and the Queen of Spain to compose the differences betwixt them And to the end he might be no way concern'd in their differences by publick Proclamation forbid any of his Subjects to enter into the Service of any forrain Prince He also set forth a Proclamation forbidding the broaching and uttering false and scandalous News as also against any that should talk impertinently of the Government or the Governours In May Sir Lionel Ienkins and Sir Ioseph Williamson return'd to London from Cologne Who were followed into England by the Baron de Reed Van Benninghen and Van Haren Extraordinary Embassadors from the States of Holland In Iune came a strict Proclamation against the Jesuites and Friests Commanding their discovery and apprehension and promising five pounds for every one that should be discovered and taken Toward the beginning of September upon Resignation of the Duke of Buckingham the Duke of Mâ—nmouth was made Chancellor of the University of Cambridge The Ceremony was performed with all its circumstances at Worcester-house in London Not long after the Right Honourable the Earl of St. Albans having resign'd into his Majesty's Hands the Staff of Office of Lord-Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold his Majesty was pleas'd to give it to the Right Honourable the Earl of Arlington in recompence of his long and faithful Services and particularly for having performed to his Majesties satisfaction for the space of twelve years the Offiâ—e of Principal Secretary of State which his Majesty was pleas'd to conâ—er at the same time upon the Right Honourable Sir Ioseph Williamson Knight one of the Clerks then of his Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council for his long and faithful service in the said Office under Sir Edward Nicholas and the Earl of Arlington and in his place Philip Lloyd Esq was sworn one of the Clerks of the Privy-Council Upon the 22 of September his Majesty was pleas'd to cause a Proclamation to be published for the further prorogation of the Parliament from the 10 th of November till the 13 th of April ensuing In the beginning of December the Earls of Ossory and Arlington together with the Heer Odike not long before Extraordinary Embassador in England arrived at the Hagne where they went to pay their Respects to the Prince of Orange About the same time was concluded between his Majesties Commissioners and those of the States General of the Vnited Provinces a Treaty Marine for all parts of the World in pursuance of the 8 th and 9 th Articles of the late Treaty of Peace made at Westminster the February before and was after ratifi'd by the States in the beginning of February following Presently after His Majesty having been graciously pleased to Translate the Right Reverend Father in God Dr. Crew Bishop of Oxford and Clerk of the Closet to his Majesty to the Sea of Durham made choice of the Honourable Dr. Compton Brother to the Right Honourable the Earl of Northampton to succeed in his place Toward the middle of December His Majesty having been pleased at his entertainment at Guild-Hall when Sir Robert Viner was newly Lord-Mayor of the City graciously and freely to condescend to the acceptance of the Freedom of London in the Chamberlains Office from the Hands of Sir Thomas Player Chamberlain beyond the Example of any of his Predecessors The said Sir Robert Viner Lord-Mayor thereupon having first obtained his Majesties leave presented his Majesty in the Name of the City with the Copy of the Freedom in a large square Box of Massie Gold the Seal of the Freedom hanging at it enclosed in a Box of Gold set all over with large Diamonds Toward the beginning of Ianuary Her Royal Highness was brought to Bed of a Daughter Christen'd at St. Iames's by the Bishop of Durham by the Name of Catherina Laura the Duke of Monmouth being God-father and the Lady Mary and the Lady Anne God-mothers The Term begining at the latter end of Ianuary Sir Francis North the King's Attorney-General was sworn Lord Chief-Justice of the Common-Pleas in the room of Sir Iohn Vaughan deceased In the beginning of February his Majesty caused several Orders and Resolutions concerning Papists to be publish'd That the Conviction of Popish Recusants should be encouraged quickned and made Effectual That no Person of what Condition or Quality soever should presume to say Mass in any part of this Kingdom That all Persons born within His Majesties Dominions being in Orders by Authority deriv'd from the Church of Rome should depart the Kingdom by a short time prefix'd That none of His Majesties Subjects should presume to send their Children to be Educated in any Popish Colledges or Seminaries upon a strict Penalty That none of his Majesties Subjects being Popists or so reputed should presume to come into His Majesties Presence into White Hall St. James's or any place where His Majesties Court should be And Lastly That care should be taken for the suppression of Conventicles Forrein Affairs 1674. The first thing that presented it self of most Importance beyond Sea this Year was that the King of France gave order to quit all his Conquests in the Netherlands belonging to the States of Holland except Maestricht The States also to be rid of so great a trouble as the Bishop of Munsteri makes Peace with him the Baron D' Issola signing the Articles on the behalf of the Emperor The chief Articles whereof were That the Bishop should restore all places taken during the War That the Treaty of Cleves should be punctually observ'd And that the King of
eight Coach-horses to General Essex and in order to Sir Iohns Tryal he is proclaimed Traytor sent to London and committed prisoner to the Gate-house Iames Lord Strange Son and Heir of William Earl of Derby was likewise by the Parliament impeached of High Treason for that he upon the 15th of Iuly last did at Manchester in the County of Lancaster summon and raise Forces for the service of the King They further charging him with being the death of Richard Percival a Linnen-webster and cause their said Charges to be published in the Churches of Lancaster and Chester Sir Iohn Byron raiseth some Troops in the County of Oxford for the King and being suddenly surprized by the Parliamentarians sustaineth some loss and by them he and his Associates are declared Rebels He then marcheth to Worcester which Town he seizeth for the King At York the King made the Marquess of Hertford Leiutenant-General of the Western Counties intending forthwith himself to set upon Hull whose stores he had designed once to have made a Magazine for Ireland to reduce those Rebels which he had often declared to the two Houses but they would by no means consent to it but upon deliberate advice he past by it onely making one attempt neer it to shew his just indignation and to satisfie his Honor where he lost unhappily some twenty men and marched directly into Nottinghamshire About the beginning of August he came to Nottingham-Town and on the tenth of the same month published his Royal Proclamation commanding and enjoyning all his Subjects to the Northward of Trent and twenty miles Southward to Rendezvous at Nottingham the 23 of that instant where he according to the purport of his Proclamation set up his Standard and where appeared five or six thousand men After a view and Muster of these Royal Volunteers the King proceeded to the nomination of a General who was the Right honorable the Earl of Lindsey General formerly for the Rochel-Expedition and the Parliament made Robert Earl of Essex their captain-Captain-General the Earl of Bedford General of the Horse Essex about this time departed from London in great state and magnificence The King leaves Nottinghamshire and marched into Staffordshire thence into Leicestershire carâ—ssing the Gentry all the way he went so into the Confines of Wales and sat down at last in Shrewsbury where after he had a while rested the Gentry Freeholders and Inhabitants of that County with other additions out of Wales being assembâ—ed he made this Oration which for its excellency and because it contains the truth of the quarrel is here inserted GENTLEMEN IT is some benefit to me from the insolency and misfortunes which have driven me about that they have brought me to so good a part of my Kingdom and to so faithful a part of my people I hope neither you nor I shall repent in coming hither I will do my part that you may not and of you I was confident before I came The residence of an Array is not usually pleasant to any place and mine may carry more fear with it since it may be thought being robbed and spoiled of all mine own and such terrour used to fright and keep all men from supplying of me I must onely live upon the aid and relief of my people but be not afraid I would to God my poor Subjects suffered no more by the insolence and violence of that Army raised against me though they have made themselves wanton even with plenty than you shall do by mine and yet I fear I cannot prevent all disorders I will do my best And this I promise you no man shall be a looser by me if I can help it I have sent hither for a Mint I will melt down all my own plate and expose all my Land to sale or morgage that if it be possible I may not bring the least pressure upon you in the mean time I have summoned you hither to do that for me and your selves for the maintenance of your Religion and the Law of the Land by which you enjoy all that you have which other men do against us Do not suffer so good a Cause to be lost for want of supplying me with that which will be taken from you by those who pursue me with this violence And whilst these ill men Sacrifice their Mony Plate and utmost industry to destroy the Common-wealth be you no less liberal to preserve it Assure your selves if it please God to bless me with success I shall remember the assistance that every particular man here gives me to his advantage However it will hereafter how furiously soever the minds of men are now possest be honour and comfort to you that with some charge and trouble to your selves you did your part to support the King and preserve the Kingdom With those expressions to which his actions agreed he so won the affectioâ—s of that County and the adjacent that before the middle of October which was about three weeks after his first coming to Shrewsbury with a small party rather than any force or Army he was grown to a compleat strength consisting of about 6000 foot 3000 brave horse and almost 2000 Dragooners From thence having issued out Warrants for Horses and Caâ—ts in order to his removal he marched along within view of Coventry but made no essay or attempt upon it not intending to lose any time in sitting down before it unless the Town had been freely surrendred to him From thence he came to Southam not many miles distant from their Lord General This March of his struck some terror into the City of London it self though all their Army was then in a readiness and attending the King therefore the Trained Bands were speedily raised for a guard of the City and fortifications such as the time would allow were ordered to be forthwith made round it acâ—ording to which Order many hundreds of men were set on work who were soon alter seconded by the several Companies and Parishes in London and the Suburbs as also by the Wives and Maids who followed a Drum in rank and file with a Rampier-basket between two of them until a regular Line and Circumvaâ—lation taking up twelve miles in circuit was quite finished Windsor-Castle was at this time garrisoned by the Parliament Col. Ven being sent down with twelve Companies of foot in one whereof Barkstead the Regicide commanded it being his first military employment as Governour Divers Citizens suspected for their affection and loyalty to the King were also at this time secured And the association of the several Counties first projected and begun and mony and plate raised for the Parliament in so great danger did the Cock-sure Grandees of the Faction then see and find themselves Indeed the Kings design was London which at the approach of such an Army would put his friends in a capacity to appear for him and
and with a broad Sword cleaved his Head and killed him suffering his Pagâ— to escape but by a mistake wounding another Dutch-man for him at their 〈◊〉 coming in and having done the deed quietly departed and though the States pretended a Hue and Cry yet the people were generally well satisfied and applauded the Execution but our States here were outragiously mad and published a Paper wherein they imputed this Fact to the Royalists and upon the next occasion threatned to retaliate it upon those of that party then in their Hands yet Ascham their Agent and Envoy to Spain some time after with 〈◊〉 Interpreter Signour Riba was served in the same manner at his arrival at Madrid in his Inn by one Sparks and other English Merchants upon the same account Sparks fled to the Venetian Embassadors and thence to Sanctuary but by the subtile Don to curry with our Masters then dreadful to his Plate-trade and for othâ—r designed advantages was at their important instance taken thence and with all mens pitty and indignation at the meanness of the Spaniard thereafter Executed The King on the 15 of Iune departed from the Hague in company with his Sister and her Husband the Prince of Aurange in their Coach and came early to Rotterdam where the Burgers were in Arms and was Nobly received and saluted at his passing the Gates with all the Artillery and Ringing of the Bells and other signes of Joy and Honour though the English Company there durst not as of themselves give any particular proof thereof From thence to Dort where he was received in the same ample manner and then to Breda and so to Antwerp where by the Arch-Dukes order he was met and entertained with 〈…〉 and presented with a most splended Chariot with eight Horses 〈…〉 welcomed by the Marquess of Newcastle who had fixed 〈…〉 out of respect to the great Civility he found from that people 〈…〉 him Excise-free with other immunities and priviledges and 〈…〉 to Brussels whâ—re his Treatments were most Royally ordered as the Kâ—ng â—ftâ—rwâ—rds acknowledged for the most sumptuous magnificenâ—y and pâ—easing 〈◊〉 He ever met with and with the same grandeurs as if the King of Spain had received them himself which Amplitudes were observed throughout 〈◊〉 passage and at his departure thence the Duke of Lorrain gave him the like entertainment and conveyed him on his way to France where in Compâ—â—gne the French King accompanied with the most and chiefest of his Nobility received him with all the Testimonies of affection and Honour and brought him in State to Saint Germains to the Queen his Mother where we will leave him in Counsel with his surest and most beloved friends The Dutchess of Savoy his Aunt having made him an assignment of 50000 Crown a year and several the like proffers from others of his Family while His Brother the Duke of Gloâ—cester and the Princess Elizabeth were transferred from the Earl of Northumberland's to the care of the Countess of Leicester at Penshurst with the maintenance of 3000 a year which was afterwards lessened when they came into the custody of Anthony Mildmay at Carisbroke in the Isle of Wight there being a bold but credible rumour of a resolution of our States putting the Duke to a Merchant or some other Trade The Commonwealth of England was now wholâ—y busiâ—d about the affairs of Ireland which proving very desperate Colonel Monk lately dismist from his Imprisonment in the Toâ—er upon account of his service in this Kingdom having vowed 〈…〉 draw Sword against the King in England was ordered privately to jâ—yn 〈…〉 O Neal and Nuntio party the bloodiest of 〈◊〉 the Râ—bels to pâ—â—â—erve what was yet leâ—t the Parliament of which more hereafter and in the mean time all possible speed was made for the Expedition hencâ— money was mainly wanting and therefore the City was desired to lend â— 20000 l. upon the security of the Act of 90000 l. per mensem but that not proving satisfactory the Act for the sale 〈◊〉 Dean and Chapters-lands then greedily bought up by old Arrears Debentures and Doublings was offered and additional Acts for removing of Obstructions were passed and sums of money to be raised thereupon secured for the same Lieutenant-General Cromwel was complemented with the Command which aâ—ter some debate he accepted and was Voted Lord-Governour of Iâ—eland Fairfax yet continuing General in both Kingdoms Towards the second of Iuly most of the Army designed for that service was drawn to the Sea-side and Colonel Venables Regiment shipped over with some 1500 more which with Tuthills Regiment newly landed before made Iones the Governour of Dublin 7000 strong with which he attempted several times against the Marquess of Ormond with little and various success On the 13 of August Cromwel having passed to Bristol and by reason of cross weather compelled to go for his passage to Milford-Haven with a Fleet of 60 Dutch and English Bottoms set sail and the next day after landed at Dublin his whole Force with Iones now made his lieutenant-Lieutenant-General amounting to 15000 men It will be now very necessary to give an account of the state of that Kingdom and because it is the first atchievement of the New State it shall be rendred entire without any interfering affair though without any other Apology it will take up the most part of the remaining year The Relation whereof we have from an Actor and Eye-Witness there as he hath most elegantly and orderly laid it down worthy of all belief and even pleasant in the ruines he deplores who with many other Loyal English Gentry having escaped or left England to the barbarities of the Usurpation joyned with the more civiller Irish and pursued the Kings Cause in this another of his Kingdoms The Marquess of Ormond Lord-Lieutenant of that Kingdom being prest with the danger of a Siege from the Roman-Catholick-Confederates who had broken their League and Treaty with him had delivered Dublin as aforesaid in 1647. to the Parliaments Commissioners having articled for his free passing to the King and for those sums of money he had expended for the English Interest out of his own private purse when that Exchecquer was drained and accordingly having waited on the King while the Army carried him about with an account of his Actions passed into France whence about September 1648. the said Catholick Confederates perceiving a storm impending on them from England had by Letters to the King importuned His resending to them upon their Engagement and Protestation of plenary submission to his Majesties Authority and to him as his Lieutenant as being the onely fit qualified person for his Interest Birth and Relation to preside in that Nation His Lordship accordingly undertook the Commission and though all things promised fair by the agreement made with the Lord Inchiqueen who had had several successes against the Rebels and had joyned Forces with the said Confederates yet did the
Redeemer and therefore if you will not joyn with me in prayer my reiterating it again will be both Scandalous to you and me So closing his eyes and holding up his hands he stood a good space at his inward Devotions being perceived to be inwardly moved all the while when he had done he called for the Executioner and gave him money who having brought unto him hanging in a Cord his Declaration and History hanged them about his Neck when he said Though it hath pleased his Sacred Majesty that now is to make him one of the Knights of the most Honourable Order of the Garter yet he did not think himself more honoured by the Garter than by that Cord and Book which he would embrace about his Neck with as much joy and content as ever he did the Garter or a Chain of Gold and therefore desired them to be tied unto him as they pleased When this was done and his arms tied he asked the Officers If they had any more Dishonour as they conceived it to put upon him he was ready to accept it And so with an undaunted Courage and Gravity suffered according to the Sentence past upon him Thus fell that Heroical Person by a most malicious and barbarous sort of cruelty but Sequitur ultor à tergo Deus there is a Fury at hand ready with a Whip of Snakes to punish this Viperous Brood of men For Cromwel having been secretly called for over from Ireland to amuse all parties both the Irish who trembled at his presence and made no considerable resistance against him and his fortune and the General himself at home who expected not such his sudden rivalship to his Command which gave him no time for mature consideration of the designe the Scots who though allarmed by frequent rumours of an English Invasion yet were not so forward in their Levies as having assurance of Fairfax's dissatisfaction was now wasted over into England preventing his Letters he had sent to the States to know their express pleasure for his departing that Kingdom which before we leave we must insert some omissions Colonel Hamond a Kentish Gentleman and firm Royallist who was a Colchestrian and had been imprisoned at Windsor being by the mutiny of his Souldiers the Marquess of Ormonds Regiment which he Commanded forced to render himself and Officers at discretion the Garrison being the Castle before mentioned of Gowran accepting of life from Cromwel and refusing to fight was immediately shot to death one Lieutenant only escaping The like fate suffered a Dutch Colonel one Major Syms and another Lieutenant-Colonel of the Lord Inchiqueens Loyal Party that yet adhered to him being worsted by the Lord Broghil where in fight they lost 600 men near Bandon-bridge Colonel Wogan that noble person who had been so constant a terrour to them having corrupted or converted his Keeper Colonel Phair's Marshal escaped with him to his old friends being reserv'd to the same death by Cromwel but by Providence to be a further plague to them in that another Kingdom place as we shall see in the continuation of this Chronicle About the same time with Cromwel arrived here from Holland the Lord Ioachimi in quality of Embassador from the States General sent on purpose to understand the condition of affairs here what stability this Common-wealth was yet grounded upon or like to obtain and report it to his Superiors Further yet in Ireland After the departure of Cromwel in the Province of Vlster where the Bishop of Cloghor Emir Mac Mahon was Generalissimo the Irish not being to be satisfied till the Conduct of Affairs was wholly left to themselves having gathered an Army of 5000 Foot and 600 Horse was ranging that Country at his pleasure having so ordered and interposed his Forces that Sir Charles Coot the President of Connaught and Colonel Venables who Commanded in Chief in Vlster for the Parliament could not joyn Forces and though other additions had been made to Coot with which they had faced Finagh and that part of that Province some while before yet durst they not engage till Iune on the second of which Month Cloghor being incamped on a boggy ground within half a mile of Sir Charles his Leaguer who was about 800 Horse and as many Foot stood and faced him for almost four hours and then drew over a Pass wherein Coot fell upon his Rear with 250 Horse and charged through two Divisions of Foot and had routed them but that their Horse came in to their rescue and repelled that Party but Colonel Richard Coot likewise advancing both came off with even hand and so the enemy over Faggots passed another way This was but a Trial of Skill but on the 18 of Iune Colonel Fenwick with 1000 having joyned with Sir Charles the matter came to a final decision Cloghor was encamped strongly on a side of a Hill to which Coot approached the Irish courageously descended to Battle but were so most resolutely received that in an hours time this Mitred General was defeated himself mortally wounded and taken with his Lieutenant-General Henry O Neale together with most of the Officers all of them Irish to the total loss of that Province and the utter ruine and destruction of that Rebel-Party that began the War and continued it when it might have expired by the closing with the Marquess of Ormond to the taking of Dublin and London-Derry The remaining Irish War was meerly defensive and of such weak dying efforts that all was given over there for desperate and lost and who cannot must not here acknowledge the unerring certainty of Divine Justice upon that bloody and pitiless people Now appeared in Print as the weekly Champion of the new Common-wealth and to bespatter the King with the basest of scurrilous raillery one Marchamount Needham under the name of Politicus a Iack of all sides transcendently gifted in opprobrious and treasonable Droll and hired therefore by Bradshaw to act the second part to his starcht and more solemn Treason who began his first Diurnal with an Invective against Monarchy and the Presbyterian Scotch Kirk and ended it with an Hosanna to Oliver Cromwel who in the beginning of Iune returned by the way of Bristol from Ireland to London and was welcomed by Fairfax the General many Members of Parliament and Council of State at Hounslo-heath and more fully complemented at his Lodgings and in Parliament by the Thanks of the House and the like significant address of the Lord Mayor c. of London being lookt upon as the only Person to the Eclipse and diminution of his Generals Honour whom we shall presently see paramount in the same supreme Command Prince Rupert was yet in the Harbor of Lisbon whither the Parliament had sent a Fleet to fight him and reduce those Ships to their service which the Prince declining and the King of Portugal refusing to suffer Blake to fall on in his Port
and receive satisfaction therein otherwise to decide the Iustice of that Cause by Battle To which when no Answer would be returned he advanced on the 10 of August having recruited his Army by those Provisions that were plentifully brought by sea the Fleet sailing an even pace with him and observing the same Signals on the West-side of Edenburgh up to the Line of the Scotch Army playing his Cannon which were likewise Answered and Encamped on Pencland-hills a little above Edenburgh-Castle intending to march for Queens-ferry but the Passes were so difficult and other considerations intervened that he proceeded no further Next morning came a Letter to the General with a Declaration from the Estates and Kirk by sound of Trumpet Declaring that the Quarrel being now stated and the King ready to consent to their demands they were resolved to put it to the Issue and that the world may see what that was like to prove it will be worthy the memory of those transactions to particularize them in this short abstract In the Declaration of the Kirk or Commissioners of the General Assembly to Cromwel as the state of the Quarrel they most undutifully set forth to the giving up the merit of the Cause That the King stumbling at and refusing to Subscribe unto the Declaration offered him by the Committee of Estates and Commissioners of the Kirk concerning His former carriage and resolution for the future is cause of just grief and offence in reference to the Cause of God and the Enemies and Friends thereof And therefore they do Declare that they do not nor will not Espouse any Malignant Party or Quarrel but that they Fight meerly upon their former grounds and Principles in the Cause of God and the Kingdom nor will they own the King nor his Interest further than be owns and prosecutes the Cause of God c. Concluding that they will Answer Oliver Cromwel 's Letters and clear themselves from the Falshoods contained therein as if they owned the late Kings proceedings and were resolved to prosecute His present Majesties Interest upon any other terms than as above mentioned And this peremptory Kirk-resolution was Signed by A. Ker then one of the chief Colonels of the Scotch Army To this Cromwel takes very good occasion to reply and help out their Sophistry with some more of his own and to let the Scots see of how neer affinity the Kirk and the Congregational way were in this respect to the King he permitted nay caused their Declaration to be publikely read to his Army putting the Scotch-remonstrants upon these Dilemma's namely That their professed disowning of Malignants and receiving and assisting their Head and Chief in whom all their hope lies cannot consist in common sence or prudence reciting as evidence thereof the late Popish affairs in Ireland and Prince Rupert 's raving at Sea That suppose He the King should give security of his turning it must be some other way than by a few and faigned formal submissions for it is his necessity and his old Complices that Counsel him to that Compliance Nor is it possible for the Scots in the way that they are now in to be able to secure themselves or England and concludes that upon this Quarrel if they be ready to fight his Army attends there for that purpose and therefore the Scots cannot complain for want of an opportunity These pestilent and alike dangerous Papers which in effect seemed rather an Agreement than cause of quarrel between the Antagonists were warily considered by some even of themselves who loved the King as of sudden and desperate consequence to His Majesties Person and Government so highly vilified and disregarded so that a Declaration to the liking of the Kirk was extorted from him that there might no cause of pretence remain either for their obstinate carriage towards Him or ready Compliance with the Enemy Hereupon the English Army advanced again and though several Bodies of Scotch Horse appeared yet they presently withdrew upon their approach which that it might not be altogether frustrate Cromwel in sight of them caused a Garrison called Red-house within a mile and a half of Edenburgh to be storm'd wherein were taken 60 Foot and the House made Tenable and manned by the English while the Scots being necessitated for Provisions and to joyn with some other Forces from Fife and the West had marched two miles beyond Edenburgh having a great Hill on the one side and the City and a River on the other so that it was very hazardous to Engage them being drawn up in Battalia the great Guns playing on both sides In which posture and attendance the Scots and English stood and neither changed ground till Provisions growing exceeding scarce Cromwel retreated to Pencland-hills Lambert having had some discourse and conference with Straughan c. about the former equity of their Cause de lana Caprina and thence with some difficulty by reason of bad weather to Mussleborough for provant and thence a few days after to Dunbar with intention by shipping or any other way to get into England being now closely followed by the Scoth Army in their Rear who rightly guessing the English to be weakned with long marches and want of Victual made cock-sure of a total Victory which snatching at before it was ripe for them fearing nothing more than that they would escape them they saw themselves miserably frustrated and their despairing Enemy a most insulting Conquerour On Sunday at night the first of September the English making at most not above 12000 men came to Dunbar whither the Scots keeping close at their Heels came also and drew up their whole Army consisting of between 20 and 24 thousand men upon a high Hill within a mile of the Town to the great amazement at first of the English but despair adding resolution to their Courage they presently drew out in Battalia in the Corn-field neer adjoyning and so stood all night being Encamped upon a neck of Land whose breadth was not a mile and a half from Sea to Sea so that they were by Land quite cooped up In confidence therefore of an assured Victory David Lesley who Commanded this Kirk-Army in chief began to advance as early as the Sun next morning and drew down the Hill fixing at the foot thereof and about four a clock in the afternoon brought down his Train there being a great Ditch betwixt both the Armies That night the English by Command placed themselves close to the Ditch and placed their Field-pieces likewise in every Regiment that they might be in a readiness in case the Enemy should attempt any thing upon them who were vainly expecting terms of a Rendition boasting that they had them in a worle Pound than the King had the Earl of Essex at Lestithiel in Cornwall The Ministers having their Voice in the Council of War held by this Kirk-Army most earnestly urged the Engagement and Fight against those that were of opinion to
of reducing the stubborness of some of the principal there to their obedience in the discussing and conclusion of that affair as he was Hunting neer Arnhem a destemper seized him which turning to the Small Pox and a Flux of putrified blood falling upon his Lungs presently carried him away on the 17 of October not without suspition of Poison leaving behind him the Princess Royal neer her time who to the great joy of the Low Countries was delivâ—red of a young Prince on the 5 of November as a cordial to that immoderate grief Her Highness and her Family took from this sad providence the Prince being the most sincere and absolute friend his late and present Majesty found in the greatest difficulties of their affairs The War in Ireland went on prosperously still with the Parliament the success being very much facilitated by the misunderstanding and divisions that were among the Catholicks and the Protestant Loyal party there in so much that the Lord Ormond the Lieutenant was not regarded among them nor he able through this means to make any head against Ireton then left Deputy in that Kingdom so that little of any memorable action passed in the field till the expiration of the Summer at which time Ireton intending to besiege Limrick one of the strongest Cities in Ireland marched from Waterford and made a compass into the County of Wicklow which being stored with plundered Cattle furnished him with 1600 Cows for provision in that Leaguer and so marched to Athloâ—e in hopes to gain it but finding the Bridge broke and the Town on this side burnt he left that and took two other Castles and the Bur on the same side and presently clapped down before Limrick having marched 150 miles and in some Counties 30 miles together and not a house or living creature to be seen The Marquess Clanrickard to whom the Military power was by general consent devolved as being a Papist and a Native of most Antient and Noble Extraction and by the very good liking of the Marquess of Ormond who had had large experience of his exemplary fidelity to the King and the English interest ever since the very first Rebellion in 1641 having notice of the Enemies being at Athlone marched with 3000 men to whom joyned afterwards young Preston late at Waterford presently to the relief of it if any thing should have been attempted and passing the Shanon having notice of Ireton's quitting Athlone took the two Castles again and laid siege to the Bur where two great Guns had been left by the English To the relief whereof likewise Colonel Axtel having fac'd them before but now reinforced marched with a resolution to Engage being in all some 2500 men whereupon the Marquess Clanrickard quitted the Siege and retreated to Meleke Island bordering upon the Shanon into which there was but one Pass and a Bog on each side On the 25 of October a little before night Axtel made a resolute attempt upon them and after a sharp dispâ—te beat them from the first and second Passes and at the third which was strongly fortified came to the Bâ—t-end of the Musquet and entred the Island which the Irish in flight deserted leaving most of their Arms behind 200 Horse all their Waggons and Baggage so that what by the Sword and the River one half of that Army perished On the English side Captain Goff and a hundred more were killed the Marquess was himself not present but was gone upon a designe against the Siege at Limerick which advanced very slowly The next day the Irish quitted all the Garrisons they had taken and fired thâ—m whereupon Ireton drew from Limerick and took in the stâ—oâ—g Castle of Neanagh in low Ormond and so retreated to his Winter-quarters aâ— Kilkenny in November These untoward events and misfortunes one upon the neck of another together with the displacency and dissatisfaction among themselves made the Lord Ormond despair of retriving His Majesties interest in that Kingdom without forrain assistance and therefore he resolved to depart and signified his intentions accordingly to the Council of of the Irish who after some arguments and intreaties of his further stay did at last humbly and sorrowfully take leave of him rendring him all expressions of thanks and honour for those unwearied Services he had done his Country and passed several Votes in record thereof desiring his Lordship to excuse those many failures which evil times and strange necessities had caused in them and desiring him to be their Advocate to His Majesty and to other Princes to get some aid and supplies from them to the defence of that gasping Realm that now strugled with its last Fate About the beginning of December the Marquess took shipping in a little Frigat called the Elizabeth of 28 Tuns and 4 Guns and set sail from Galloway followed by the Lord Inchiqueen Colonel Vaughan the Noble Colonels Wogan and Warren and some 20 more persons of Honour intending for France Scilly or Iersey but happily landed at St. Malos in France in Ianuary whence they went to Paris and gave the Queen-Mother an account of that Kingdom Thence the Marquess of Ormond removed to Flanders and the Lord Inchiqueen into Holland and came to Amsterdam the Valiant Wogan taking the first opportunity in Scilly in order to his further service of the King in Scotland where he first manifested his Zeal and gallantry to the Royal Cause The noise of these lucky Atchievements had made most of the Neighbouring Princes consider a little further and more regardfully of this Commonwealth more especially such whose Trade by Sea might be incommodated by their Naval-force which now Lorded it in gallant Fleets upon the adjoyning Seas The first whom this danger prevailed upon was the King of Portugal Iohn the 4. whose Fleet laden with Sugar from Brasile General Blake had met with and for his entertainment of Prince Rupert with his Fleet now newly taken and dispersed brought away 9 of them into the River of Thames where they were delivered to the Commissioners for Prize-goods then newly established by Authority of Parliament upon which score the State received in few years many hundred thousand pounds and was cheated of almost as much whose names were Blackwel Blake Sparrow and upon the Dutch-War others particularly named for that very Affair because of its continual Employment In the Month of December therefore he sent hither his Embassador who landed at â—he Isle of Wight and gave notice to the Council of State of his Arrival who instead of a better complement sent him a safe Conduct for his Journey to London there being then open Hostility between the two Nations for that the King of Portugal to satisfie himself of his damages sustained in his Sugar-fleet had seiâ—â—d all the English Merchants goods in Lisbon On the 11 of December he had Audience before a Committee of Parliament attended with the Master of the Ceremonies and 20 of his own retinue in the House
now a coming from Newcastle and London for the accommodating their passage Cromwel likewise was very earnest and intent upon making or finding a way by Sterling and therefore on the eighth of February he marched thither again having been informed of some Fords thereabouts where he might pass his Army or at least impede their raising of new Forces and way-lay their marching into England which was given out as the grand designe a Force being lefâ— on that side the Water sufficient to sustain any impression of the English and to that Expedition Duke Hamilton Duke of Buckingham Lords Cleaveland Wentworth Wilmot and Colonel Massey who had a Noble and full Regâ—ment and was to be Major-General with Titus and Colonel Graves were designed Cromwel as was said to this purpose in very tempestuous weather reached his intended passes but found the approaches to them so boggy and unpassable that in the same stress of weather his Army half spoiled with cold and other discommodities he was forced to retire again as he had done twice before having onely Alarm'd the Scots and put them into a sudden posture of defence and to await the time of his Boats arrival and a happier season of the year About this time Hume-Castle was taken by Colonel Fenwick the Garrison having held it to extremity being forced to deliver it at mercy February 4. A Copy of the Governours Answer to the Summons for the quaint briskness thereof I have thought fit to pleasure the Reader withal Right Honourable I have received a Trumpeter of yours as he tells me without your Pass he had forgot it it seems and left it behind upon the Table to Render Hume-Castle to the Lord-General Cromwel please you I never saw your General nor know your General as for Hume-Castle it stands upon a Rock given at Hume-Castle this day before seven a Clock So resteth without prejudice of his Native Country Your most Humble Servant Iohn Cockburn Timtallon-Castle which had been very prejudicial to the English Sea-traders to Leith and had taken more men than all the Garrisons in Scotland having been Besieged above a week by Colonel Monke upon the 21 of February after the Mortar-pieces had played and a Battery of six Great Guns was raised yielded to mercy Sir Iames Seaton the Governour newly knighted not being able to obtain any other Condition but Colonel Monke out of his usual civility suffered not a man of them to be stript or plundered There were 15 Great Guns taken in it and the passage not onely freed but an Inlet opened to the Bass Island General Ruthen Earl of Brentford and Forth nominated to be this Kings General also deceased about this time and left that Command without any further competition to David Lesley old Leven having likewise retired himself both from Counsel and Service as superannuated but indeed disregarded Our New States at home found it opportune being grown so potent abroad and so dreaded at home to discard their Journey-men of the Council of Sate whose assistance they were forced to use though they would not assent and concur with them in their alteration of the Government and the Murder of the King c. but would act as it was now altered in the rearing of their Model twenty one of them such as were instrumental and principal in the Change as Cromwel Bradshaw and others of the Kings Judges being continued and twenty new ones of the same gang were surrogated in the others places for they could now do the work and receive the wages themselves To those a power was given of executing the Admiralship to all purposes and intents as any Admiral of England had executed it before About this time one Iohn Fry another of the Kings Judges having written a blasphemous Book against the Trinity but purposely against the Divinity of Christ as the Socinians teach was by a Vote disbanded their Company in the House and his Book ordered to be burnt by the Sheriffs of London not a word of the Hangman in the Order for that would have sounded ominous to the whole pack of them now in pomp and great splendor The King having visited Dundee Aberdeen and other places accompanied with Arguile who had raised men for Him in his Countries returned to St. Iohnstons and the Low-lands against the sitting down of the Parliament at that City which was appointed on the 2 of March in which interim He gave Audience to a Dutch Envoy who came to complain of the taking of 20 of their Merchant-ships by Sir Iohn Greenvile Governour for the King in the Isle of Scilly to which the King gave a favourable Answer The Earl of Derby likewise seized divers Vessels belonging to the English Irish Trade and held intelligence with the King in Scotland having employed one Master Berkenhead in the business who was taken about the beginning of March by Colonel Lilborne Sir Philip Musgrave and Sir Theophilus Gilby hardly escaping by rowing away in a Boat Several Dutch ships laden with Ammunition sent by the Lord Iermin as the Dutch pretended arrived likewise at Dundee whereabouts and over all the adjacent parts Drums were beating and a speedy march was resolved on The Earl of Calender a great Hamiltonian which party now swayed being newly come over Sea an Employment in spight of the Kirk was intended to be conferred on him On the 27 of February the Prince of Aurange was Buried in great state at Delf in Holland and Interred in the Vault of his famous Predecessors By the taking of these Papers and Mr. Berkenhead after the Earl of Derby's designe in Lancashire whither Massey was to have marched with a flying party and a kind of a motion he made that way but immediately retreated the States at Westminster to exact scrutiny addrest themselves and having traced it gave order for the apprehension of one Thomas Cook of Grays-Inne Esquire who being brought and attending at the Council-door gave his Keeper the slip and was pursued with a Proclamation and 100 pounds offered to any should take him and bring him in and was taken thereupon the next Week in an Upholsters-house in London and committed to the Tower and Major-General Harrison was ordered to march speedily into Lancashire to attend all motions and designes in those parts This Month Maj. Harrison of Guernsey Island kept for the Parliament having a designe upon Cornet-Castle held by Colonel Burgess for the King being now and then relieved with Shallops and Boats which struck in thither from the Coast of France attempted it by Storm having false information that most of the Garrison were dead and the rest weak and feeble but were so stoutly received that very few that Engaged got off again the Tide too coming in and drowning many of them to the utter disheartning of them from any future Assault so that they resolved to try what fair means would do and by a sum of Money amounting to 1500 pounds
with other good Conditions and Indemnity which there being no likelihood of doing His Majesty any Service by longer keeping it relief also being so very scarce difficult and uncertain was at last accepted and that little Citadel delivered into their Hands In Ireland the Forces there remaining being now under the sole Command of the Marquess of Clanrickard whom the Earl of Castlehaven did to the last assist in the Kings Service being drawn to the relief of Finagh were there totally routed 800 taken and killed Colonel Macdonnel his Lieutenant-Colonel and Major taken prisoners Colonel Mac Hugh and Colonel Caban killed and 376 Officers besides taken upon which followed the Rendition of Finagh upon Articles After these successes several Officers having liberty to go for England it was the fortune of the Colonels Axtell Sadler the Irish adjutant-Adjutant-General and Colonel Le Hunt to be taken Prisoners by a Frigat of Scilly and there Landed and Imprisoned till such time as that Island acknowledged the possession of the States of England who having erected their High Court of Iustice had in revenge of Dorislaus and Ascham Sentenced Sir Henry Hide Cosen to Sir Edward then Lord-Chancellor with the King for taking upon him the quality of an Embassador from His Majesty to the Grand Seignior at Constantinople and demanding Audience in his Name which they aggravated with imputations of his designe of seizing those Merchants Estates there and Affronting Sir Thomas Bendish the old Resident there with his new Commission It booted nor availed Sir Henry who at his Tryal having been long out of England would have used the Italian Tongue as the readiest for his defence which was also charged upon him as his vanity and pride to deny extenuate or justifie the several parts of his accusation his Name was guilt enough He was Sentenced to be Beheaded which Death he suffered against the Old Exchange on Cornhill with as much courage of minde as weakness of Body and is justly inscribed to the Roll of Martyrs Captain Brown Bushel who had delivered Scarborough to Sir Hugh Cholmly then revolted in the year 1643. from the Parliament and being Prisoner at Hull for the same had been exchanged by Hotham then winding about to his Allegiance suffered in the same manner the 29 of March But it is not a rude Prolepsis of the time to assigne him because of the nearness of their Deaths for the same cause of Loyalty his place in this year in the Company of Sir Henry Hide Yet before we conclude the Revolution of this year we must adde one of the most remarkable occurrences in it viz. the Embassadors sent by this State to that of the Low Countries who departed hence about March the 10 and landed at Rotterdam the 14 being met by the way by two Yachts of State and handsomely accommodated at the English-house there by some of the said Company The Names of them were Chief-Justice Saint Iohn of the Common-Pleas formerly the Kings Sollicitor and the Earl of Straffords vehement Adversary and Mr. Walter Strickland stiled in their Credentials the Lords Embassadors Extraordinary from the Parliament of England and were the first that they ever sent to any Forrain Princes for as from Kings and Sovereigns they had just cause to fear their united Forces to chastise that infamous Regicide whose example was so dangerous to themselves Anno Dom. 1651. ON the 30 of March attended by a gallant Retinue of their own and such as that State sent with Coaches they were received to Audience where Saint Iohn in a well-composed Speech very gravely declared that notwithstanding several injuries received by the English Commonwealth and Subjects from that State yet the Parliament had sent them first to make a firm League and Friendship with them if they should think fit 2. That to that purpose they would renew that most amicable Treaty of Commerce made between the King of England and the Duke of Burgundy their then Sovereign in 1495. 3. He set forth those many advantages in point of Trade and Navigation the Dutch might receive from England by such a League discoursing of the commodiousness and Excellent Situation of the Ports and Harbours and other Emoluments 4. He expressed the just resentment of the Parliament for the Death of Doctor Darislaus and that he doubted not but their High and Mighty Lordships would give satisfaction therein and cause Justice to be Executed upon those Offenders Which said a Committee was appointed to confer with him further and he conducted in the same manner as he came to his own Lodgings But the States General shewed no great readiness to embrace this new Friendship of their Rival States although the Province of Holland did endeavour to promote it for the Prince of Aurange's Interest was yet very potent in their Assemblies which was the reason no Address had been made before in his life-time from the Parliament who very much courted this peoples Amity not onely from the nearness and likeness of both their rises to be Commonwealths but for that no danger was so neer and to be feared elsewhere from the Interest and Alliance of the King But the people were far more averse to any accommodation with Traytors and Murderers as they called these Ministers and their followers which Clamours were heightned by the Royalists then yet in great numbers residing there The Duke of York being then in the Country with the Princess of Aurange his Sister as also the Queen of Bohemia and Prince Edward her Son who first gave these Embassadors an Affront as they chanced to meet him in their Coach taking the Air neer the Hague with his Sister the Princess Henrietta in his Hand where in indignation he gave them the opprobrious names of Dogs and Traytors The next day several uproars were made about their House as if there were a resolution to Storm it nor was it safe for them or any of their Gentlemen to stir abroad and several advices were given them of designed attempts upon their persons Of both these affronts and injuries they complained to the States who after a long and tedious delay summoned Prince Edward to appear and answer but he pleaded he was a Prince of the Empire and Subject to no other Jurisdiction and for the other appointed them a Corps du guard to secure the House and by a Proclamation prohibited all manner of injuries or violence to be done unto them but notwithstanding the said indignities were yet committed frequently In this sort they continued there expecting an Answer and Conclusion which Mounsieur Bellieur did likewise hinder what in him lay his Servants and attendants being as quarrelsome and slighting of these English as any whosoever and in the interim six of the chiefest Gentlemen of their Retinue travelling upwards the Country were met by a Lorain-Colonel one Harter then going to the Spaw and kept Prisoners for a Ransome which at length was paid to the Spanish-Governour of
Acton with the Speaker and the Members and the Lord Mayor and Recorder Steel who in a set Speech congratulated his great Successes and like a false Prophet by a mistaken Prolepsis applied these words of the Psalmist To binde their Kings in Chains and their Nobles in Fetters of Iron in an arrogant Exaltation of his Atchievements Next day the Common Prisoners being driven like a herd of Swine were brought through Westminster into Tuthill-Fields a sadder spectacle was never seen except the miserable place of their defeat and there sold to several Merchants and sent to the Barbadoes the Colours taken were likewise hanged up in Westminster-hall with those taken before at Preston and Dunbar The heart of the Scotch War was now broken yet some strugling there was in the Limbs and extremities thereof for Life Sterling-Castle seeing it to no purpose to endure a Storm or a Siege rendred upon Articles August the 14 to General Monke a more sumptuous stately building than Edenburgh-Castle where the Kings Royal Robes the Cloth of State and all the Scotch Records were found and seized From hence the General came before Dundee whither the Scots had conveyed the best part of their Moveables as a secure depository and Summoned it which the Governour slighting having 800 men besides the Citizens in Garrison General Monke gave order to Sorm it and accordingly Horse and Foot about noon September the first having a piece of white out behind fell on resolutely and the besieged being then in their cups and worse drunk with a haughty confidence after a short but sharp resistance mastered the place and put all they found in Arms to the Sword and plundered the Town of all its former and newly-put-in wealth which amounted to vast sums Houshould-goods were of so mean an account that nothing but Plate and Money was regarded and for which Feather-beds were ript and the Feathers thrown about for it was absolutely the richest Town in Scotland but now lest not worth a groat there were taken here also 60 sail of all sorts of ships that lay in the Harbour which likewise came into the Conquerours hands Aberdeen 40 miles further Northwards yielded without any further constraint and St. Andrews the other University was fined 500 l. for not surrendring upon the first Summons but upon their humble Petition setting forth that the Town was no more than a Receptacle for poor Scholars it was most part remitted Just a little before the storm of Dundee a party sent under Colonel Matthew Allured surprized a Convention or Pack of Scotch Peers and Presbyters at Ellet in the Highlands not without suspition of their own setting themselves or at least of some treacherous persons among them their names were General Lesley Earl Marshal Earl of Crawford Earl of Keith Lord Ogilby Lord Burgenny Lord Humly Lord Lee Sir Iames Fowles Sir Iames Lockbart and 20 more Knights and Gentlemen Mr. Mungo Law and Mr. Robert Douglas eminent Kirk-men and Mr. Iames Sharp now Lord-Arch-bishop of Saint Andrews and five or six more with 70 Servants the Souldiers that took them had as good if not a better Market than the Dundee-blades getting many of them 500 or 400 pounds apiece and all of them very considerable sums These Lords and Lairds and their fellows the Ministers were â—hipt for London that they might give no disturbance to the Parliaments new-intended settlement and union of that Kingdom with this old Lesley obtained the favour from Sir Arthur Hasilrig stopping at Newcastle to stay at his Son-in-laws Mr. De la Val of Northumberland The first thing the Parliament now debated upon after Cromwel's sitting in the House was a new Representative at his instance and motion which same project he had hinted covertly in all his Letters to the Parliament under the true interest of a Commonwealth-Foundation but that which was least talkt of and mainly intended was an Act for the encouragement of the English Navigation the Soveraignty at Sea being the main controversie which both in point of Honour and Interest neither State we nor the Dutch would acknowledge to the other The Judges of the High Court of Iustice now proceeded where they left off with Mr. Love in the Presbyterian-Plot and accordingly on the 10 of October Colonel Vanghan a Leatherseller Captain Hugh Massey Mr. Ienkins Mr. Drake did all of them confess their fault and guilt alledging onely for defence their Oath of Secrecy c. After this confession they were remanded to Prison but at the intercession of the Lord Fairfax as 't is supposed and to honour their late-acquired Victory the Parliament was pleased upon their Petitions that of Mr. Ienkins coming home to their haughty humour and acknowledging their Authority from God and which was Printed here by their Order for a pattern to the rest of the Presbyters and reprinted at Holland to divulge their other Conquest over the stubborn Rabbinical Tribe they were quitted of their Imprisonment and restored But though they escaped it was not other persons good hap A Court Marshal was now established at Chester whither divers English Prisoners taken at Newport and in the pursuit had been brought ten whereof were Comdemned by Vertue of the Act against holding correspondence with the King and five Executed among whom was one Captain Symkins a Gentleman that carried the Kings Letter of Invitation to Sir Thomas Middleton and presently after Sir Timothy Fetherstonhaugh Colonel Benbow and the Earl of Derby were Tryed by the same Court-Marshal wherein Colonel Mackworth above mentioned sate President and Major-General Mitton assisted with other standing Officers The Earl would fain have been heard by the Members at Westminster and writ up to the General and sent a Petition offering the surrender of the Isle of Man but nothing would move the inexorable Rhadamanths of the Parliament though he had subjoyned an account of the designe at their own or their Agents desire whereupon he held to his Plea for Quarter given him by Captain Edge which being over-ruled with the same argument and solution as they made to the Lord Capel they avowing the Court to be a Civil Authority as proceeding upon and by direction of Authority of Parliament he as the other two Gentlemen afterwards was adjudged to dye the Earl at Bolton the 15 of October Sir Timothy at Chester by the Axe and Colonel Benbow to be shot at Shrewsbury After Sentence the Earl made an escape out of the Window being as 't is supposed Tranpann'd out of some money in hope and proffer of an Escape but was presently retaken upon the sands of the River Dee and secured and guarded till the day of his Martyrdom at Bolton aforesaid where to the publike grief and lamentation of the Inhabitants who refused to lend a Nail or Stick to the building of the Scaffold though the very pretence of his Execution there was for the Blood spilt there by him on Prince Rupert's Storming the Town in
Clanrickard kept about Slego and the County of Cavan they surprized likewise three Troops of Colonel Sanchy's Regiment and the notable Quarter-beater Nash killed Colonel Cook coming with a party from Cork but was slain in the onslaught though his party were victorious The besieged likewise in Limerick made many fierce Salleys refusing to hearken to any Conditions being governed by that right-valliant Hugh O Neal who defended Clonmel so resolutely and resolved to hold this out to extremity In one Salley of 1000 men they killed above 300 five whereof were Captains two of thâ—m in Colonel Henry Cromwel's Regiment and upon the English attempt made upon the Island before the Town which was encompassed with a Line and a Fort in the middle of it by reason the Boats not being able to carry above forty men and being but three Boats in all could not return with seconds to make good the Landing and footing that was made in time the whole party consisting of 160 was partly cut off and drowned with their Leaders Major Walker Captain Graves and Captain Whiting in the view of the Leaguer but out of their power to relieve them This happened on the 15 of Iuly and being so signal a defeat was imputed by Ireton who pretâ—nded too great acquaintance with Gods Counsels to breach of Articles as to Quarter promised to the Irish who delivered a Castle neer adjoyning by Colonel Tuthil who after caused the men to be knockt on the head and for which he was worthily by Ireton cashiered the Army Ireton was nevertheless resolute not to depart without it though the Governour in hopes that Winter would force him to draw off or else some happy râ—ncounter might relieve him was as obstinate on the other side but at last the Victuals being all spent about the middle of October he was forced to embrace a Treaty hoping for those Articles which Ireton had offered the Town three months before but they would not be granted so that in conclusion himself and 21 more were constrained to yield to mercy of whom the chief were M. G. Patrick Purcel who lost the Leaguer at Dublin by his Treachery or Cowardise David Roch the Lord Roch's Son Sir Richard Everard and the Mayor of the Town and an Alderman through whose resolution the Citizens were encouraged to hold out the rest were Fryers and persons guilty of the Massacres in the first years of the Rebellion whom divine Vengeance found out here and a general Article of that nature was inserted upon all surrenders thereafter and delivered them on the 29 of October upon some hard terms for the Citizens and Souldiers About the same time Sir Charles Coot defeated a party of Fitz Patrick's and Odwyr's Forces who had re-gained Meleck Island after the taking of it by Colonel Axâ—el after a resolute defence thereof to the quite baâ—fling of his Foot who were worsted two or three times together but the gallantry of the Horse recovered the day and made 300 desperate Irish accept of Quarter onely for their Lives some 300 more being slain and drowned Limerick being taken Ireton marched to joyn with Sir Charles Coot to attempt something further and together took in Clare-Castle but the weather not proving so seasonable and the Souldiers tired out with duty at the Siege of Limerick they parted into Winter-Quarters Coot to straighten Galloway neer which he had built some Forts ships of War lying about the Harbour to intercept Relief and a Summons having been sent in to G. Preston by way of Catechizing that vanity of a Souldiers Honour with a Letter to the Citizens from Ireton offering Limerick's first Terms and laying open their suffering from their stubbornness on purpose as Preston elegantly answered to divide them to their common Ruine and Ireton back again to Limerick in the way whither he fell sick on the 15 of November and after Purging and Bleeding and other means used died of the Plague in that City on the 27 of the same month the Commissioners for the Parliament there substituting to his Command in the Army while the Parliament or General for Cromwel was lately so made of Ireland should otherwise appoint Edmund Ludlow the lieutenant-Lieutenant-General of the Army in that Kingdom On the 17 of December his Carcass was landed at Bristol and pompously dismist to London where it was for a time in State at Sommerset-house all hung with black and a Scutcheon over the gate with this Motto Dulce est pro patria mori how suitable that Countryman best told who Englished it in these words It is good for his Country that he is dead On February 6 following he was Interred in H. 7's Chappel but hath since found to say no more a more fitting and deserved Sepulture A man of great parts and abilities but natured to mischief and the evil of those times he was born to make worse and most prodigiously Infamous no man came suited with so great capacity to the overthrow of the Government reckoning his impiety or rather vizarded piety into his indowments The Council of State was now November the 24 the one half of it changed according to the annual custome in which month all that remained of the English Dominions unreduced was attaqued namely Iersey-Island where Colonel Iames Heyns who Commanded in chief landed his men up to the Neck in the Sea and bravely withstood a gallant charge of the Island-horse and got firm footing thereon and forthwith fell a Summoning the Castles Mount Orgueil wherein was Sir Philip Carteret yielding presently upon good Conditions which that civil Commander ever used to offer but it was the 18 of December before Elizabeth-Castle one of the most impregnant places in the World came to a surrender upon very honourable and advantageous terms as the importance of the place deserved Sir George Carteret having order from the King to make what terms he could for himself there were some Morter-pieces first played one of which lighting and bursting in the Chappel of the Castle killed some 20 men and tore the stones into shivers and made him the willinger to Treat Sir George having clearly indemnified himself and the Islanders and some way bettered his condition departed into France and General Blake came home by Gâ—ernsey-Castle which having faced not willing to attempt or stay before it he leâ—t order to buy it which was now about this time effected as we have anterelated it in the account of its storming by Major Harrison the Commander in chief of that Island and since at Iersey for fear so little a spot of ground should have mist our observation The Isle of Man was also at the same time reduced by Colonel Duckenfield without any considerable opposition Rushen and Peel-Castle stood out a while but upon the news of the Death of the Earl whom Duckenfield in his Letters not thinking a Summons befitting him to a woman had stiled the late Earl of Derby grief overcame their
Dean was now remanded and returned from Scotland as a more confiding deserver on whom another sea-Sea-General was to be conferred Sir George had 300 l. in Ireland per annum and 300 l. in Money for his pains In the mean time the States of Holland sent away Messengers and Expresses to Denmark and the Hans Towns to Sweden and Poland to give notice of the Commencement of this War and to gain these several States to their party Cordage and Tar being no way else to be had as also to give timely advice to their Merchants how to manage and secure their Estates from the English A Proposal was likewise framed of sending for Prince Rupert then about the Western Isles of America having taken some West-Country Ships being known by his black Ancient which he wore in his Poop as a mourning Emblem of the Kings Death attended but with a Fleet of six ships and espousing the Kings Quarrel but those were but high-flown vapours of their own without any ground save that the Prince of Aurange was generally and publickly commended to and almost enforced upon the State as Statdholder and Captain-General as was his Father and some affronts were done to those that were known to be disaffected to that Family among whom was the Lord Embassador Paw whose house they attempted to Storm nor was De Wit one of their prime Seamen much more in favour as the Zealanders soon after evidenced Their Interest indeed was so much the more considerable because of the Marquess of Brandenburgh the next ally but the King whose Usurped Rights it vindicated and asserted would much conduce to the advantaging of them in a vigorous prosecution of the War from whom they had already promises of a large assistance of 10000 men upon no other score but his Nephews as appeared in his non-performance of that proffer when the States of Holland boggled at the Overtures and Demands made by the other Provinces about the Prince and in the same kinde he served them having engaged their concernment in the Polish War not long after leaving them in the lurch after the Elbing-Treaty So that of all Princes their Friends they now relied most upon the Dane and the French with whom they doubted not to make a League Offensive and Defensive against the English Slily assisted by the Spaniard and hoping of a fair beginning of Amity with Sweden onely Yet nevertheless confident were our States of going luckily through this hazardous and potent Enmity or would their proud stomacks Drunk with success as the Dutch Declaration twitted them abate a sillable of what they had determined for having given that Categorick or positive Answer above recited upon the Dutch Embassadors desire of leave to depart according to their Superiours as peremptory orders they without any more ado presently offered them Audience in order thereunto Monsieur Paw in a Latine Speech delivered the sense of the Quarrel and Breach in very equal words without any further expedients mentioned by them to resume the accommodation Paw at his return quickly died of a surfeit of broyl'd Salmon no way lamented by the house of Aurange a man suspected of ill Counsel given against the Martyr-King he being sent hither about the time of his Martyrdom and known to have some of his Majesties Houshold-goods and Jewels as Bribes however honested by a pretence of purchase for his service to the English States The Lord Williamson and his colleague Embassadors of Denmark demanded the same Audience the same time being about the 29 of Iune In Ireland after Sir Charles Coot had taken in Ballymote he pressed so hard upon the Lord Clanrickard that he was forced for shelter to betake himself into the Isle of Carick while Sir Charles quartered at Portumna resolved to reduce him which being inevitable the gallant Marquess came now at last in this desperate Juncture to an Agreement which was no more than ordinary Liberty to Transport himself and 3000 Irish more into any Pieces Country and service then in Amity with England within a short limitation of time Not long after Colonel Richard Grace being pursued into his Fastness being the strong Fort of Inchlough in a Bog yielded upon the like Terms on the first of August to Colonel Sanckey there marched out with him 1050 men for Transportation O Brian yet held out in the Mountains of Kerry and Cork Birn Phelim Mac Hugh and Cavenagh in the Fastnesses of Wexford and Wicklow O Neal and Rely in Vlster to all which places under Reynolds Venables Sanchy Sir Charles Coot and Lieutenant-General Ludlow distinct Forces were ordered to march Fitz Patrick and Odwire's men were also now shipt the Commissioners for the Parliament very willing to be rid of their Company and they as glad to be gone to avoid the Halter then threatned by a High Court of Iustice. In Scotland there were some stirs in the Highlands by Glengary the Frazers and Mac Reynolds and some other Septs whereof one Mac Knab was killed with some more of his men being in a party which was met with by the English Highland-Forces of Lilburn and other Regiments Encamped at Innerara one of Arguile's strong Castles but nothing else happened though the Scots were 1500 strong but Arguile absolutely complied with the Parliament sending them provision and supplies of all sorts yet before Summer was quite spent the Highlanders had made a shift to surprize two of their new-Garrisoned Castles in these parts and made good their several Clans and possessions At home the Parliament had a greater mischief breeding against them than they feared from the most dangerous of their Forrain Enemies A dangerous Imposture of Ambition whose quabbing beating pains gave them no rest nor could all their skill tell how to asswage or cure it It swelled every day more and more in continual Addresses Desires Petitions Declarations till it came to be ripe and then burst out to the dissolution of this Political body This was the reiterated and inculcated story of the Parliaments providing for future equal Representatives and putting a period to this than which nothing could be more distastful and of greater antipathy to the present Members which yet they did most artfully conceal and dissemble in a hundred complying Votes and Resolves even to the ascertaining of the longest day November the 5 1654. for their sitting but that was two years too long for Cromwel whose Fingers itched to be managing a Scepter In order to this delay the Committee that first sat and hatcht upon this Bill were removed from the Nest and the addle Eggs put under the chill incumbency of other Wilde-towl and they to proceed therein with all expedition a thing so unlikely that Sultan Cromwel who expected a Grand Cairo brood resolved not to be baffled much longer or await the leisure of his Mercenary servants as after a Fast and Humiliation of him and his Council of Officers and the Communication of the grounds thereof to the whole Army in
of the Dutch was Boarded and taken and two more of their Men of War were sunk and another Blown up at the same time so that de Wit was glad to give over the Conflict and to ply his Sails being followed till the English Fleet was no more than 12 Leagues East-South-East off the Maze and that Coast of Holland which was no good shore for them to trust to and with the remainder of his Fleet pitifully torn came into Goree and there Harboured This Defeat he imputed to several of his Captains who did not their devoir in the Fight so that Commissioners of the Admiralty were appointed to try such as he should charge for their Cowardise or Failure he also added for another Reason the over-match of the English in number and ships which being beyond expectation more troubled the States than this easie Discomfiture Blake with Triumph came into the Downs and the most of his Fleet into Port to mend and recruit the Damages they had received having lost besides neer 300 men and as many wounded the Dutch twice their number for whose cure and entertainment several Houses in the nature of Hospitals were erecting on the Coast of Kent neer Dover and Deal by order of Parliament who enacted also the return of all Sea-men out of the Service of any other Prince or State into England in 40 days in these parts of the World allowing a twelvemonth to those in the East-Indies confirming the usage and custom of Death without mercy by throwing over-board such Carpenters and Ship-wrights as should be found in the Enemies ships c. The Noble Marquess of Worcester lately come from beyond Seas where his wants and distresses suffered him not to continue any longer was this Month of September taken in London and Committed to the Tower and ordered for a speedy Trial but after consideration of the matter it was superseded and his Lordship left in that forgotten durance There had been great discontents among the Vnited Provinces concerning their chusing of a Staâ—dholder and captain-Captain-General which was to be the Prince of Aurange as was said before and these Disorders and Misfortunes at Sea did rather improve the Pince's Interest and therefore the States of Holland and Friesland prudentially bethought themselves of a means to be rid of both and that was by sending a Letter tending to an accommodation into England which at the worst should happen would be of much advantage to them this came about this time after the Fight and was in like manner answered as their other Papers so that as de Wit went out with a Mutiny the Sea-men refusing to go on Board till they were paid for their service already done in this War for which two of them were Executed at Amsterdam and some Burgers shot upon a sudden surmise of a Rescue so was he welcomed home with the like Uproar of the Women of Flushing who hated him the rather because he was a main Anti-party to the Family of Aurange to which that Province was always so addicted that though the States of Holland sent an Embassie to them to disswade them from their resolution taken in favour of the Prince and they hardly laboured it with Arguments of the Common Safety and the Nature of the War in hand which would thereby upon all events be made Irreconcilable yet they prevailed not but were dismist to the next General Vergadering or Assembly of all the Provinces who had effected their designe in Denmarke by making sure of that King to their Interest he refusing to let the 22 English Merchant-men go away out of his Port being laden with Hemp and Tar and such other necessaries for shipping and had recalled his Embassadors here in England but till their Arrival proceeded no further than a bare Imbargo having brought them within the Booms of his Castle at Elsenore for the better securing of them The want of those Commodities which mightily retarded the equipping of the English Fleets caused the Parliament to give order to Blake to send away Captain Ball with a Squadron of 18 Men of War to sail for the Sound and to carry a Letter to the King desiring him to deliver the said Ships and Goods to be Convoyed for the Dane at first pretended his care of saving them from the Dutch home by the said Fleet who in ten days time came to an Anchor within a mile of Elsenore-Castle and sent the Letter ashore by one of his Captains who was affronted by some of the Dutch there seizing his Boat but received a cold Answer that the King would not deliver them and did wonder they did approach so neer his Royal Residence with so great a Fleet which being received Captain Ball concluded presently to return but the night of his departure on the last of September the Antelope a new stately built Frigat of 50 Brass Guns run upon a Rock on Iutland side by the unadvisedness of the Pilot about three in the Morning and was there bulged and broke to pieces In his return he met and took 14 Holland Fisher-men but the Tyger-Frigat after a fight took and Boarded a Man of War of 20 Guns having killed and wounded 40 of them and brought them all up to Yarmouth Upon further dispute of this detainer which was of such evil consequence to our States it was at last alledged by that King that he kept those ships and Goods in lieu of those Moneys due to him from the late King according to his engagement with his Father in the German-War for the maintenance of so many Regiments against the Emperor and for other Sums accruing to him in the right of his Aunt the Mother of the said King and the Dutch were very willing to be dealing and chaffering on that account offering him the value of the Goods to what they should be rated at there in ready Money or rather than fail they would content the English Merchants that were concerned in those Bottoms and Ladings Myn Heer Boreel was likewise instant with the French King at this time for a speedy Conclusion of a League Offensive and Defensive Captain Pen having been recalled out of the Streights to this Service here Captain Badiley was sent in his place with the Paragon a Navy-Ship and 3 nimble Frigats the Phoenix the Constant Warwick and the Elizabeth who meeting with four Merchant-men from the Streights were set upon neer Portolongone in the Kingdom of Naples belonging to the Spaniard by Van Galen Commander of the Dutch Fleet of War in those Seas and after a day and a halfs dispute the English being sore battered and having by the ill managing of the fight by the ships crue of the Phoenix lost that Frigat were forced to retire under the protection of the Fort of Longone where the Dutch would have fallen upon them but were not permitted which made the Dutch block up the Port for a while but the Governours Command and another Fleet of the English under
a little before which the Garland whose venturous Captain out of a noble resolution boarding Van Trump himself was slain in the fight and overpowred with his Reserves a Navy-ship of the third Rate with forty Guns was boarded by two Dutch Flags and taken as likewise the Bonadventure attempting to relieve them its Captain Hookston being slain before the Tryumph could succour them and this was not done without great hazard for Blake was boarded twice and had his Top-mast shot by the board and had not the Vantguard and Saphire stood resolutely to him might have gone neer to be lost the Hercules was likewise run on shore and all the whole Fleet that engaged was miserably rent and torn and had it not been for the night would hardly have come off whereas now they retreated to Dover and so into the River against Leigh to save themselves The Dutch Triumphantly continued where they were resolving to fall upon Blake with their whole Fleet and Fire-ships the next day at two of the clock but missing of them sent their Scouts to Harwich and Yarmouth to see if they were there purposing to pursue the same Resolution In the mean time some of their Sea-men went ashore into Rumney-marsh to steal Sheep but the Troopers were in a readiness and killed six of them and took eight more Trump still continued with his Fleet plying between the Isle of Wight and the North-foreland somewhat betwixt Calice and Dungenness having put ashore the Lieutenant of the Garland and other Sea-men who informed that one Dutch ship was blown up and but two men saved and that Trump and another Flag-shiâ— and de Ruyter had received damage Amidst all this Fray a rich Streights English ship called the Employment valued at 200000 l. got safe into Harbour at Portsmouth being pursued by seven Dutch sail of Frigats And a little before this Grand Engagement the Diamond had more luckily light upon a Hollander from Spain laden with 100 Buts of Sack a great quantity of Cocheneal 60 Bags of fine Spanish-wool 2000 Bars of Silver 400 West-India Hides to a great value the Ruby and the Portsmouth had likewise set upon two Dutch Men of War and were just upon boarding of them having disabled their sailing but at the very instant an unlucky shot came and carried away the Ruby's Masts by the Board and put her into the same condition being Towed home by the Portsmouth and leaving the Hollanders a drift at Sea but for that disappointment see a more successful and deservedly famed English Exploit It was related before how the Dutch at Portolongone-fight had taken the Phoenix Frigat and brought her into Leghorn-Road where they blockt up Captain Appleton and his Squadron this was 〈◊〉 an eye-sore to the English as well for the scandal and dishonour of it she lying in view Commanded by young Van Trump as also for the ill consequences of it being a pattern or module for the Dutch to build by for she was an excellent Saylor and might be made use of also to decoy other ships that Captain Cox the former Lieutenant of her having imparted his designe to the rest of the English on the twentieth of November at night being St. Andrews day which is an usual Feasting day with the Hollander as well as the Scot accompanied with three Boats in which were about 100 men Rowed close on board the Phoenix and answering the Sentinel that they were Fisher-men got under her Stern and so by her Sides and presently entred and having shut down the Hatches and secured the Decks they made towards the Great Cabin where Van Trump and other Captains were making merry one of those with his Servants about him made some resistance and killed one with a Pistol Trump got out of the Windows in the mean while into a Boat that was tyed at the Stern and escaped 'T was an hour and a half before they had subdued the Dutch to a submission being nevertheless all the while under sail and no noise so much as of a Musquet to give notice to the Dutch Fleet being to be heard and so came with her cleverly away to Naples having killed in the Conflict nine of that Company The Parliament had now constituted three Generals for the next years Sea-service namely Blake again Dean and General Monke and had constituted a Committee for the better managing of the Navy viz. young Sir Henry Vane Mr. Saloway Colonel Thompson and Iohn Carew and for the more vigorous prosecution of the War now looking with a very ill aspect towards them but sink that must they would swim the Tax was raised again to 120000 l. per mensem at which rate it had almost continued since their Stateship and out-lived them but two Months And lo a new Scene the Council of State shifted for the next year again 21 of the old customarily to stand and 20 new ones added that it might be share and share like and every man have his Cue in this Play of Princes Van Trump having thus in part effected his designe upon Blake who avoided sinking or stranding by his getting into the River plied somewhat more Westward betwixt Calice and Dungenness and there met with some English ships come from the Barbadoes wherein were most of the Goods and other things belonging to the late Governour for the King the Lord Willoughby of Parham and so leisurely crossing up and down the Channel to Guernsey Island on which it was voiced they had concluded an attempt having examined a Master of a Barque belonging to the place concerning its Ports and Havens intending thereby with Fleets of War to impede altogether our Navigation And so confident were they grown by this success that they reported their General wore a Broom in his Main-top intimating that he would sweep the Narrow Seas of all English shipping who in this Rant and Vapour arrived at the Isle of Rhee to stay there for his re-convoying the Merchants from those quarters The States of Holland were not more perplext about their admission of a Stadtholder than ours were cunningly and imperceptibly undermined by a would be Protector who to leave no Competitor to that single Greatness he grasped at and was to lay hold on very dexterously quitted his fears from those dangers his ambition of being a Monarch did so fairly invite from the indubitable Right and neer assumption and ascent to the Throne of Henry Duke of Gloucester whose claim and person was ready against his intrusion and at hand upon any such occasion On the 17 of December he carried a Vote of Transporting him beyond Sea on pretence of lessening the charge of the Commonwealth all which should now allow him a pittance and that quamdiu se bene gesserit as long as he should please them and not keep his Brother company which condition was sure to discharge their fine Exhibition before any payment would come about Accordingly in February â—ollowing they sent him away
were rather Simon Magus his own Disciples and certainly there were never such Simoniacks in the World not a Living of value but what a Friend or the best Purchaser was admitted into to which Humane Learning even where a former Right was was a good and sufficient Bar no less to the Ruine than the Scandal of the Church of England and the Protestant Religion and professors thereof several ignorant bold Laicks being inducted into the best Spiritualities as best consisted with Oliver's Interest which depended upon the Sectaries and their hideous divisions in Religion Anno Dom. 1654. HAving thus described the Foundation of this Stratocracy or Army-power we shall not be obliged to any tedious survey of the superstructure which was onely for shew and of little duration supported with temporary shifting Props in every emergency for this great one rather inhabited a Labyrinth than a Court which shewed much variety of Art but like a House of Cards was ready to be whelmed over his Head with every gust of adverse Fortune a cross Restive Government he had of it and was never able to keep it in the right Road and true way of policy And so we proceed in a brief account of State-Occurrences The 6 of April came forth an Ordinance settling Commissioners for Probation of Wills and Administrations c. by want of which power there having been no settled Judge of the Prerogative-Court whose Name abolished the thing very great and many inconveniencies had happened to the Nation Another Ordinance prohibited Cock-matches and Horse-races and all such confluxes or meetings of people for a Plot was now a hatching at White-hall and this was the first overt-signe of it Next the Commission of the Great Seal was altered and Whitlock Lisle and Sir Thomas Widdrington were made Commissioners A Prohibition by another Ordinance to the Committee at Salters Hall concerning Prisoners which were selling of Estates though never so barred by Law to satisfie the Creditors which would have made a quick confusion of Propriety And the Dutch Peace the charge of the War being now paid by that State according to private agreement of the sum was fully concluded and in April Proclaimed A Quaking Prophetess named Hannah Trapnel a forerunner of Iames Naylor now appeared who reported her Visions and Raptures and was attended by several of the Grandees of the male-contented party as Carew and others the most of her delusions she acted in the Counties of Devonshire and Cornwal till she was with some of her Partizans secured in Prison The Scotch Affairs were reputed finished as to any War though the Bustle yet so held and encreased in the Highlands that the spoils of the Conquest were now set out and made accomptable to the Victor The Lords Estates and Hereditaments of the Scotch Nobility and Gentry who Invaded England under Duke Hamilton and came in with the King to Worcester and were yet in Arms were ordered to be sold and to that purpose were invested in the Trust of Sir William Hope Lockhart Sir Richard Saltonstall Lieutenant-Colonel Wilks and others and were actually seized into their hands and the rest of them were Fined in several sums of Money to be paid within six Months some 2000 l. some 5000 l. some few 10000 l. but none under 1000 l. amounting to a greater mass of silver than Scotland was worth in ready Cash so that those who were compell'd to obey though many complemental and humble applications and addresses as is customary to that Nation were made for mitigation were forced to take up Money at unreasonable Interest which rose at last by the like occasions to 30 in the hundred An Ordinance passed with this for uniting of Scotland into one Commonwealth with England it seems the Act of Parliament to the same purpose was not sufficient and the Arms thereof ordered to be quartered as were the Irish with our Cross and Harp and Oliver's Lion Salâ—ant was placed in the middle which is as good Herauldry as this Escutcheon deserves That Kingdom by vertue thereof to be charged no otherwise in Assessments and Tax than proportionably to England and to pay no greater Excise c. An Ordinance likewise for mending and repairing Highways and Bridges which the War had spoiled and were yet every where unrepaired a very necessary and good work for the benefit of the Nation no Waggon being suffered thereafter to travel with above five Horses nor six Oxen and one Horse and care was taken likewise about the shodding of the Wheels General Monke arrives in Scotland and Proclaims Oliver in great state at Edenburgh and Arguile plainly and openly sides with the English and foments divisions among the Scots his Son the Lord Lorn departing in a discontent and quarrel from the Earl of Glencarn and returning to the old Fox his Father The French King Crowned at Rheims having been declared Major and our Soveraign invited to the Solemnity while the Intrigues of Mazarine were driving a conclusion of peace with Cromwel The Designe now appeared which Oliver had hatched for some while and had laboured by his treacherous Agents to mature to something therefore first of all a general search is made throughout London for Cavaliers and thereupon Colonel Iohn Gerrard as before Mr. Vowel and Somerset Fox were brought before the High Court of Iustice Proclaimed the 13 and sitting the 31 of Iune in which interval they had prepared their business and provided Witnesses and drew up the Charge After twice or thrice Conventing of the aforesaid Gentlemen an Accusation was brought of their intention to assassinate the Protector with one Major Henshaw and others fled to the proof whereof they produced young Mr. Charles Gerrard against his Brother as also one Wiseman and one Mr. Hudson a blinde Minister whose Brother was that eminent person who accompanied and guarded the late King in his flight from Oxford that had been cherished by Mr. Vowel against him who yet retracted from his Examination and could not be brought by the threats of the Court to make it good and yet they made it valid Somerset Fox as he was instructed before by promise of Life confessing the Guilt thereby involving the other two innocent Gentlemen and craving mercy It availed not them to deny this Charge though never so much reason and strength of argument on their side Lisle the President summing up the prejudiced suffrages of the Court gave Sentence of Hanging which was Executed Iuly the 10 on Mr. Vowel at Charing-Cross where with a Roman Spirit tempered with Christian Patience he suffered his Martyrdom off from a Stool â—etcht from the Guard the adjacent Neighbours refusing to lend any thing to his Death the Executioner having his Ladder not in readiness Colonel Gerrard was Beheaded on Tower-hill who expresly denied the intention of the Fact and from this reason because he thought it might be far from the honour and great minde of the King whose injunction this was said
designed one of his Daughters for him and had been lately released by Richard's Parliament out of Windsor-castle came in now and gave security for his peaceable demeanour Arms were every where privately bought up and on the other side Ireton the then Lord-Mayor a very active person Brother to Ireton deceased raised a Regiment of City-Horse though the City Petitioned against it and the separated Churches raised three Regiments of their Members under Sir Henry Vane Colonel White and Skippon who being through-paced for the Good Old Cause was by them made major-Major-General of the City and all Horses secured therein Posts came now from several parts of the Kingdom of Stirs and Insurrections the two first whereof were at Tunbridge but a party of Horse the Council of State having right and punctual Information were soon at the appointed place of Rendezvouze so that those that would have met there dispersed themselves some few being taken Prisoners The other at Red-hill in Surrey where appeared some 100 under the Command of the Earl of Litchfield since Duke of Richmond who upon notice of the Armies Horse advancing got timely away young Mr. Sackvile Crow Mr. Penruddock and some others of note among whom was one Captain Elsemere formerly a Captain in Ingoldsby's Regiment being taken and some former Troopers of the same who were afterwards Sentenced Colonel Massey appeared likewise in Gloucester-shire but by the same perfect intelligence at White-hall he was no sooner up but he was seized and taken by some of their Horse and being put behinde one of the Troopers to bring him away as they were marching down a Hill the Horse fell and gave the Colonel an opportunity to shove the Trooper forwards and to make his escape into an adjoyning Wood which was the fourth he made during these troubles Hertford shire and Essex were associated likewise in the same designe now forming and acting but the like discovery prevented it Sir Thomas Leventhorpe and Mr. Thomas Fanshaw hardly escaping a surprize and seizure major-Major-General Brown was not idle all the while in London several Lists being filled with undertakers of the Kings Quarrel but such was the vigilance of the Council of State who sate day and night and so many defeats and disappointments and so many Prisoners evey day brought in that nothing was done here Lambeth Gate-house was made a Goal and Sir Francis Vincent and Colonel Brown of Surrey concerned in the Earl of Litchfield's attempt were Committed thither But that which look'd indeed formidable was the rising of Sir George Booth in Cheshire who was a secluded Member of the Parliament with him appeared the Lord Kilmorry Mr. Needham Brother to the said Lord Mr. Henry and Mr. Peter Brook a Member likewise Sir William Neil Major-General Randal Egerton an eminent constant Royalist who brought his former Valour upon this Stage and Colonel Robert Werden of the same party which last two were put into that Proclamation wherein Sir George Booth Sir Thomas Middleton with their adherents were Proclaimed Traytors the same Sir Thomas Middleton and his sons who Garrisoned Chirk and Harding Castles the last belonging of Justice Glyn there joyned also with him the Earl of Derby whose Family Interest in that Country with the same magnanimous Loyalty this young Nobleman essayed to resuscitate and gave great demonstration of his personal worth and Gallantry in the ensuing Engagement but I may not be as I ought copious in his praise Nec Deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus Colonel Gilbert Ireland who seized Liverpole Mr. Warburton and Mr. Leigh the Lord Cholmondley Mr. Marbury Mr. since Sir Ieoffery Shackerly and others these Rendezvouzed at Routon heath and appeared to the number of 3000 and upwards where a Declaration was read and published shewing that they took up Arms for a Free-Parliament and to unyoak the Nation from the slavery of those men at Westminster To second this the noble Lord Byron with Colonel Charles White with a party from Nottingham Rendezvouzed at Sherwood-forrest with a designe on Belvoyr-castle but were frustrated and so onward to Derby where they published Sir George's Declaration which the Towns-men very well approved of but Forces under Colonel Sanders being on their way thither they were forced to sit still and cry peccavi Colonel White was taken Prisoner Another appearance there was about Shrewsbury but all came to nothing the Lady Littletons's Sons and the Whittingtons were herein engaged As soon as the news of this Sir George Booth's rising was publique a Petition was presented to the Parliament from some pretended Cheshire-men wherein they set forth that to prevent the like Rebellious Insurrections the Parliament should discharge all Tenants of their Tenures from Delinquent Land-lords and that they should hold their Lands thenceforth of the Commonwealth at the same time and straight a Committee was ordered to withdraw and bring in a draught of this deviâ—e and Major-General Lambert was Commissioned to march with three Regiments of Horse and three of Foot and some Dragoons Militia-forces being to joyn with him in his march and some Forces out of Ireland under Colonel Zanchy and Axâ—el â— to the reduction of Sir George and his Forces Colonel Desb rough was likewise sent with the same Command and some Forces into the West Proclamatiâ—n came out at this time against Mr. Mordant the Earl of Litchfield â—â—jor-Genâ—ral Brown Sir William Compton Sir Thomas Leventhorpe and Mr. Faâ—shaw the three last of whom rendered themselves within the time the two first fled and the Major-General awaiting another opportunity absconded himself at Stationers-Hall by the faithful secrecy of Captain Burroughâ— The Earl of Stamford who was likewise engaged in this business was taken at his House in Arms and carried Prisoner to Leicester which was the condition of many other Gentlemen the Earl of Oxford Prisoner to the Serjeant at Arms the Lords Faulkland and Delaware to the Tower whither not long after was brought the Lord Viscount Falconbridge the Lord Bellasis and Earl of Chesterfield Lord Charles Howard and Lord Castleton Lambert with no great hast marched to the Confines of Chester desirous to make a War of it and to settle himself in the Souldiers affections but such course had been taken by his Masters that very few accessions of strength came in to Sir George more than what were first numbered who nevertheless resolved to abide the fortune of Battle and drew up neer Norwich whither Lambert was advancing in the Meadows adjoyning having the Rivers before them and the Bridges guarded but Lambert's Horse and Foot resolutely falâ—â—â—g on together at the Bridge the Fight was soon over all the defence being made by one Morgan a gallant Gentleman and some Horse of his Troop who presently died of his Wounds There were not above 30 killed in all and some 500 taken Prisoners and most of the Gentlemen and Officers This was August 16. and presently the Army advanced to Chester where Colonel
Croxton yet held out the Castle and had it presently delivered from thence to Leverpool which was yielded likewise by Colonel Ireland while in the mean time Colonel Zanchy and Axtel took in Chirk-castle delivered by young Mr. Middleton upon terms of having two Months time to make Addresses to the Parliament the rest were to be Prisoners of War and among them was Colonel since Sir Edward Broughton Harding-Castle was yielded likewise upon the like Capitulations Sir George Booth had made his escape out of the Field and got away accompanied with four of his Servants in a Womans Disguise but at his Inne in Newport-pagnel was discovered and being guarded and secured one Gibbons a Minister posted to give the Parliament account of it and was rewarded by them as were no less than three several Messengers sent before from Lambert with the particulars of the Cheshire-defeat Upon his bringing to London Fleetwood was ordered to send a Guard and meet him at Highgate and secure him to the Tower whither the next day Sir Henry Vane and Sir Arthur Haslerig were sent to Examine him It hath since been plainly confirmed that General Monke was engaged with him in the same designe under pretence of a Free-Parliament and that the Marquess of Ormond in the Habit of a Pedlar was seen abâ—â—â— his House at Dalkeith but it was so secretly carried that nothing appeared at this time nor would Sir George be drawn to accuse any man Most certain it is the Kings Restitution was the bottome of this Designe for before the appearance of it he had withdrawn privately from Brussels and lay ready upon the Coast of Britany about St. Malo's and those places to take shipping for England upon the first good event of those his Loyal Friends and Subjects but Kent or Sussex was the place intended for his Landing Turenne the French General having engaged to wait upon him if he would oblige it But this unhappy account reaching him there he resolved to give over the prosecution of his right by the Sword at present seeing the almost-impossibility of recovering it by his English Subjects against these standing Armies and pass to St. Iean de Luz where the Treaty betwixt the two Crowns was then begun and whither Lockhart upon the arrival of a French Embassador hither was ordered to Travel where after several affronts done him while the Ministers of the King not to mention the Grandeurs of the Honours done to himself by the Cardinal and Don Lewis de Haro and during his short stay in the Realm of Spain who were first the Lord Iermyn his Plenipotentiary at that Treaty the Earl of Bristol the Lord Chancellor Sir Henry Bennet the Kings Resident at the Court of Spain after Secretary of State and others he was better advised to return and be gone with more hast than he came His Master's Concerns being wholly rejected and his Majesty's most affectionately undertaken by both those Potentates in private distinct Articles agreed between them As those Iuncto-men or Rumpers would have been taken into this affair of the Peace between France and Spain so they thrust themselves into the difference between the two Northern Kingdoms of Denmark and Sweden sending Mr. Sidney and Sir Thomas Honeywood Sir Henry Vane's Brother-in-law their Plenipotentiaries to those Crowns who having sâ—aid there to no purpose returned some time after to as much their Masters at home being lurcht before they had order to proceed in the same method and as far as the French or Dutch whose project of the Peace framed at the Hague being humbly tendered here by their Embassador was approved and these Commissioners to act according to that Module General Montague returned September the 24 about their coming thither and having given an account not of all he knew or did there concerning the War there to the Council of State was dismissed having given the King very good assurance of his readiness and affection to his service The Parliament now were consulting what more standing Forces to keep in the Kingdom and to keep in with the Sects and Quakers now numerous they repealed the Act of Iohn Lilburn's Banishment and released Iames Naylor as aforesaid out of Bridewel then against the last Royalists caused a new Sequestration-Act to be presently passed and Commissioners Names expedited Thus brisk they were always upon the Atchievement and accomplishment of every success which when it tickled them to arrogance and confidence scratched them soon after to their trouble and vexation for Lambert having done the Feat for them was now upon his progress in the Country to his own House at Craven in York-shire caressing the people having used his Victory very civilly although he was heard to say upon his setting forth questionless to make him more acceptable and less suspect to the Rump That he would not leave a Cavalier to Piss against the Wall or words to that effect Especially he made much of his Officers having invited them to his House aforesaid where their entertainment was concluded with a Draught of another Advice stiled A Petition to the Parliament General Monke in the mean time the better to conceal his affection to the King caused most of the Scotch Nobility to be seized on a sudden and upon the refusal of the Engagement secured them in Castles Very many yea most of them refused besides the Earl of Glencarn the General 's Confident and Privado as appeared not long after Lambert was Voted a Jewel of 1000 l. for a gratuity from the Parliament for his Cheshire-service but his ambition aimed at a higher Gem he therefore desired the Parliament that they would think of paying off the Militia who had deserved well as also the Irish Brigades and the Widows and relicts of such whose Husbands were drowned passing from thence to their assistance which they readily promised sitting brooding continually upon Acts of Sale and Forfeitures of such Estates whose last moities upon purchase had not been paid as also in sifting out all the persons engaged with Sir George and had traced it so close by their Beagles as to bring Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper one of their Council of State into suspicion as really he was a principal in the Plot having been of the Cabal and had kept intelligence with Sir George and had a party in Dorset shire which timely dispersed themselves but the great opinion they had of him stop'd the mouth of his Accusers and he knew well enough how to defend himself at their Bar. They had likewise got one of the King's Letters dated the 16 of May and other Papers which with the several Examinations were read in the House and a Thanksgiving-day thereupon appointed for this their great preservation They likewise Voted the Charter of the City of Chester void and that it should be no longer a County of it self but lie in Common as also the Ejection of the whole Ministry as Malignant and received soon after
an Address from the Leicester-shire Levites of gratulation upon this their success and a disclaiming and renouncing of any hand in that business which was feared would prove most Fatal to the whole Presbytery whose designe this was vogued to be by the insulting Sectary who could not endure to hear of Tithes which the Rump in policy had lately Voted pro tempore But Lambert's ambition interposed betwixt them and danger for a Paper sent to Colonel Ashfield Cobbet and Lieutenant-Colonel Duckenfield from other of Lambert's Officers coming to the notice of the Rump they sent to demand it and having it delivered presently understood the device of it and after a quick debate of this Petition Address and Proposals angrily Voted That to have any more General Officers in the Army than are already setled by the Parliament was unnecessary burdensome and dangerous to the Commonwealth Notwithstanding the Officers met in solemn Council about it Lambert being come to Town and sitting there in person and acting his own designe among them and bidding fair for it among the Rump the ablest of whom he had made sure to himself and What need was there of the other Haslerig who was the most formidable being known to dare and say more than he would do as Cromwel's carriage towards him had sufficiently evidenced At this Council the Petition was concluded on and ordered to be presented to the Parliament on the 4 of October by Major-General Desborough which he accordingly delivered to the Speaker as the sense of the Army which coming in such attendance and the countenance and awe of their Masters made them put on another face and very fairly answer the Sword-Grandee with a Complement of taking it into their first Consideration nothing to intervene save the Dinner the City gave them both Parliament and Army-Officers after a Sermon preached at Christ-Church upon their Thanksgiving October the sixth at Grocers-Hall for the Cheshire-Victory where they eat in spite and would have better become a Fray than a Feast though the Army-friends in London designed this Treat to conciliate the Rump by their surfeiting on the Memory of this day which they owed to Lambert as he that freed them from a worser danger than his whatsoever designements but the result was they fed heartily and thanked the City next day heartily by Members whereof Atkins was one sent to take the other repast and Bottle of this high Entertainment and withal the City obtained the favour of having liberty to chuse a new Lord Mayor which was Sir Thomas Alleyn which had been before denied and Ireton Voted to continue it again so that the City-Cost was well expended An Answer was now again required to be given to this Representation as it was now called and thereupon the Members who had had under their consideration an Act for Assessment of 120000 l. per mensem which they had perfected some while before and let it rest as being informed of this device of Lambert on purpose to leave him Moneyless and without any support to his Ambition very closely and as cunningly applied themselves to the debate of the Representation which consisting of seven or eight immaterial desires concerning maimed Souldiers Widows the Militia-pay Lambert's Officers rewards and such like had this onely substantial Article that the Parliament would Commission a General whom they named viz. Charles Fleetwood The Rump answered readily in the affirmative to the rest but to this Choak-pear they by Resolve stoutly declared That the Army as other Free-men have right to Petition but must take care both in the manner and matter of it and that the Wisdom of the Parliament is to be referred to in all matters and what they had or should decree and this for answer to their demand of a General and withal Voted hereupon as knowing they were betrayed by some of their own selves That it is the duty of every Member to inform to his knowledge of any thing that concerns the publick safety and foreseeing the imminent danger of a force ordered the Council of State to seize all publick Papers whatsoever and at the same instant passed an Act which did the feat that it should be Treason for any person or persons to levy Money without the consent of Parliament Before the whole answer could be framed Lambert not liking a word of that about the General which was the main caused his Representation to be Printed that the equity and justice of it might be publick and justifie his future Actions for though Fleetwood was mentioned to that Supreme Command it was resolved as easie a thing to supplant him as Richard if the Rump had consented to the Proposals This no sooner appeared together with a Letter delivered by Okey a friend to his fellow-Regicides to the House that was sent him from some Officers of the Army to the same purpose but the Rump Voted October the 12 that the several Commissions of Colonels Iohn Lambert Iohn Desborough Iames Berry Thomas Kelsey Richard Ashfield Ralph Cobbet William Packer Robert Barrow and Major Richard Creed who subscribed the same Letter should be vacated Resolved also that the Government of the Army should be managed by Commissioners That an Act be brought in for repealing the Act whereby Fleetwood was constituted Lieutenant-General and Commander in chief and that Fleetwood Ludlow General Monke Haslerig Walton Morly and Overton do execute the powers granted to Fleetwood until the 12 of February four months from the date of this Resolve as also the next Officers in the respective Regiments of these Colonels do succeed in their places Lieutenant-Colonel Campfield to Lambert and so in the rest and the Serjeant at Arms was ordered to attend these Cashiered Officers with these Orders and Resolutions In the mean while Haslerig in a great heat and Herbert Morley his Son-in-law and other the Commissioners then present for the Army by Order sare up all night in the Speakers Chamber adjoyning to the House and issued out several Commands to such Forces and Commanders as they thought would stand by them resolving to oppose Force to Force and be baffled no more with this Legionary Spirit that had haunted and plagued them so often But Lambert was awake also and at the same time marched several Regiments into King-street Westminster and possessed himself of all the avenues to the Palace such Forces as these Commissioners had got to their side being forced to march round St. Iames Wall in the night time and so through Tuttle-street into the Abby and St. Margarets Westminster Church-yard both parties standing upon their Guard till the Morning October 13. at which time about eleven a Clock the Speaker coming to the House in his Coach was stopped neer the Gate that leads into the Palace by Lieutenant Col. Duckenfield and his Coach turned and sent back Lambert on Horseback then faced the Regiment of Morley and Mosse in the said Church-yard and much stiffness and ill looks there passed between
the Officers and some words but never a blow for the Soldiers were resolved not to Fight one against the other for the best Parliament or the best Cause that ever was in England In this posture they continued till Night when the Council of State who umpired the difference between the Red-Coats commanded and ordered them to their several Quarters as good friends as ever It must be remembred that the Rump suspecting of this Juncto of State had privately named another to Act if a dissolution should happen The Army-Officers the next day after this Conquest met at Whitehal and declared Fleetwood for their General They appointed also a select number of the Council of State to consider of fit ways to carry on the Affairs of the Common-wealth and suspended all those Officers that were active on the other side and referred them to a Court Martial for remedy giving power to Fleetwood Ludlow Desborough Lambert Sir Henry Vane and Berry to nominate all Officers and appointed the reviving of the old Laws of Military Discipline and that Fleetwood as before should be owned for General and Lambert and Desborough as Major and Commissary General the latter in England and Scotland too not a syllable mentioned of General Moncks consent to the bargain save that Colonel Cobbet was dispatched thither to inform him of the Passages as Colonel Barrough was sent upon the same errand to Ireland That Committee just before mentioned of which Vane Whitlock Lambert and Berry were chief Fleetwood and Desborough must needs be in begot or gigged themselves into another Committee called a Committee of Safety some few more being added from the City who were to consider of a form of Government and if they thought fit to advise with the General Council of Officers and to bring in a Draught within six weeks their power the same with the former Council of State to which this was added they were to call Delinquets to Tryal and to give Indemnity to all that had acted for the Parliament since 1641. to suppress Rebellious Insurrections to Treat with Forreign Princes to confer Offices and to state the Sales and Compositions of those late Delinquents their Names were as follow viz. Fleetwood Lambert Desborough Steel Whitlock Vane Ludlow Sydenham Salloway Strickland Seven last Members of the Rump Berry Laurence Olivers's President of his Council Sir Iames Harrington another Rumper Warreston a Scotch-man and Henry Brandrith a Cloath-drawer Citizen Cornelius Holland a Member Hewson Clark Bennet and Lilbourn Colonels of the Army These by Letters of Invitation being brought together to consider of a Government which Vane had already Projected the Cement whereof was an intended Marriage betwixt Lamberts's Son and his Daughter the Council of Officers emitted a Declaration shewing the reasons of the late Change and do thereby disanul the pretended Act of Treason Octob. 10. to Levy Money without consent in Parliament as done precipitantly and unduly and not according to the Custome of Parliament declare for Ministry and the maintenance of it by a less vexatious way than Tithes for Liberty and that the Army will not meddle in Civil Affairs but refer the Civil and Executive Power to the Council of State or Safety to provide for the Government and to set up a free State without King single Person or House of Lords And for Conclusion desire the Prayers of the Godly The Judges were nevertheless in this mad state of Affairs perswaded to sit in the several Courts Whitlock officiating the Chancery Sir Thomas Alleyn the Lord Mayor of London was likewise sworn before the Barons of the Exchequer Sir William Waller and others that had been snapt up by the Rump took advantage of it and brought their Habeas Corpus to the Kings Bench. Sir William got his liberty and shortly after the Earl of Northampton Lord Bellasis Faulconbridge Faulkland Castelton Lord Herbert of Ragland Lord Charles Howard were all released upon bail That wretch Bradshaw died at the Lodgings given him in the Deans-house at Westminster the beginning of this Moneth of Novemb. in the same desperate impenitence in which since the Fact he lived saying to a Gentleman on his Death-bed that charitably advised him to examine himself about the matter of the Kings Death That if it were to do again he would be the first man that should do it He was freed by this his Disease which was occasioned by an Ague as Cromwel's from the terrour and fear of the ensuing Change the apprehensions whereof setled in him ever since his Country the Cheshire Design He was grown publiquely confident and had left off his Guards he first kept about him but his privacy was more than usually and all his actions and gestures more reserved He was carried out with a great Funeral and much attendance of the Men of those Times and Interred in the Abby and his Crime published for his Commendation A little before died Edmund Prideaux the Attorney-General throughout the Usurpation by which he got a very vast Estate leaving Sixty Thousand pounds in Gold as credible report went in his Coffers besides Lands of very great demesnes This Change like a nine days wonder was quite over and the Army and Lambert here very brisk and slighting the Rump and all it could do when a Cooling Card came from the North in a Letter from General Monk declaring his unsatisfiedness with those proceedings of the Army which hugely deceived their Expectations because he had so readily concurred with their former mutation and the Officers there were many of them Phanaticks but the Case was altered he resolved to assert the Parliamentary Interest and when Cobbet sent hence came to Berwick he had him secured there and sent with a Guard Prisoner to Edinborough Castle The manner of his declaring for the Parliament was thus On the Eighteenth of October being at Dalkeith he sent for Col. Wilks Governour of Leith Lieutenant-Col Emerson Captain Ethelbert Morgan now made his Lieutenant-Colonel Lieutenant-Col Hubberthorne Cloberry and Miller to come to him whom he acquainted with his Resolution and they engaged to stand by him against the Factious part of the Army as he characterized them On the Nineteenth he come to Edinburgh where his own and Col. Talbot's Regiment with lighted Matches and Ball received him to whom he declared the same and promised them their Arrears at which they loudly shouted then he went to Leith where he was entertained in the like manner and at his departure had Seventeen Guns given him from the Citadel and Volleys from the Regiment Then he turned all the Anabaptist-Officers out of the Regiments and secured them in Timptallon-Castle At the same time upon pretences of consulting with Lieutenant-Col Young of Cobbets Regiment Lieutenant-Col Keyn and Major Kelke of Pearsons Regiment he sent for them to him and upon their coming clapt them up but released Keyn upon his promise of adherence Together with them he had advertisement that
which the Rump were now unarmed to dispute his Commission from them as Commissioner for governing the Army being then also expired and the publication of a Petition subscribed by Barebone's and others to abjure the King as afterwards with the Mayor and Court of Aldermen at Guild hall who used their endeavours with him in the business he marched out of the City with his Army to their Quarters and on Saturday sent another Letter to the Parliament wherein he laid open the dangerous designes countenanced by themselves in conniving at Lambert particularly the business of Barebone's Petition setting forth that there had been Oaths too many already and as before in the afternoon he Rendezvoused in Finsbury-fields and from thence marched into London where he and his Army were joyfully entertained declaring himself for the City and a free Parliament Towards evening the City rung every where with the news of it with such Acclamations and shone with so many Bonfires where they burnt and roasted all manner of Rumps in detestation of the Juncto then sitting that it seemed a Theatre of mad extasied people nor is it possible any expressions of it should reach the sense and belief of Posterity Money being thrown among the Souldiers as if now there would be no more occasion for it but that the Golden Age swiftly approached The Speaker at his return from the House being in danger of his life Innumerable the Ballads and Ribaldry made of this Rump The General continued in London and disarmed most of those Phanatick persons who had been listed by the Committee of Safety and notwithstanding the Order of the Rump yet kept their Arms. The aforesaid Conferences were yet held and the General assisted at the debates between some of the Members sitting and those that were excluded in 1648 in order to some composure having promised to stand by the City in the attainment of such a settlement as should secure the Nation These conferences coming to no Issue and the Rump having at last finished their Qualifications so rigid and unreasonable that no good or fair meaning appeared in them as he modestly and fairly told them He came with his Army into Westminster and parts adjacent and having that morning convened the aforesaid secluded Members at White-hall went with them to the House of Commons and see them safely sit in Parliament who presently vacated many Orders made by the aforesaid Remnant in 1648 in reference to the Death of the King and their own forcible seclusion as also all Votes lately made by them touching new Members to be elected to sit and serve in Parliament also all Orders referring to Sir George Booth's business and all Imprisonments and Sequestrations thereupon Next they constituted the General Captain and Commander in chief of all the Forces of England Scotland and Ireland discharged all Prisoners upon the account of a Free Parliament and suspended the Power of the Council of State till they had erected a new one of which the General was made one They likewise ordered the Gates and Portcullises of the City of London to be repaired and set up at the publick charge more especially care was taken by them for securing the Militia into honest and faithful hands both in London and the respective Counties The dispatch of the aforesaid Assessment was also recommended to the Commissioners and a great advance of money lent by the City for the present occasions their promptness now overmatching the Force before Sir Charles Coot declares for a Free-Parliament by the re-admission of the secluded Members and thereupon possessed himself of Dublin-castle having first of all surprized Galloway from Colonel Sadler in this manner He invited him and his Officers all Anabaptists to his house over the water to be merry which doing Sir Charles pretended a desire of drinking a glass of Wine in Galloway privately with Sadler so they two secretly took Boat with each a servant and being on the other shore Sir Charles said Colonel Sadler I am resolved for a Free-Parliament and to have this Garrison you have a Sword about you draw and fight or else engage your honour will make no disturbance in the Town upon our admission and my Declaration to which Sadler amazed and troubled answered He would acquiesce Whereupon he caused the Gate to be opened and Sir Charles having declared himself the Souldiers cried out A Coot a Coot and a Free-Parliament Whereupon nevertheless he secured and kept him prisoner as he did Sir Hardr. Waller at Dublin aforesaid and immediately all Ireland declared themselves satisfied in this most happy Change offering their lives and fortunes in the maintenance and defence of the Parliament to be now assembled Some Phanatick Troops of Rich's Horse rendezvoused at Bury in Suffolk where they began to mutiny but Colonel Ingoldsby and Captain Philip Howard Captain of the Life-guard being sent against them they presently were quieted and received their old Colonel Ingoldsby for their Commander whereupon a Proclamation issued for the better regulating the Army and keeping it in obedience requiring all Officers and Souldiers immediately to depart to their several Quarters and not remove without the Generals order or license in that behalf This made the Army sensible of that duty the Parliament expected from them whereupon they one Regiment after another presented their Addresses to the General owning and congratulating his happy management of the Affairs of the Kingdome Nor indeed was ever any man so deservedly courted but especially the City shewed themselves most affectionate admirers of those great Services he had done his Country most of the Twelve Companies having invited him successively to their Halls where he was feasted with all sumptuous Magnificence love or charge could show and afford The Parliament had no less resentments of his glorious undertakings for besides the Generalate they setled upon him the Stewardship of the Mannor of Hampton-court to preserve not Usurp and possess that Royal Mansion Several Prisoners of the Phanatique-Party nothing being charged against them were freed by the General who was now also constituted one of the Generals at Sea and Col. Montague now Earl of Sandwich the other The Scotch Lords who were taken Prisoners at Worcester and had been long secured in Windsor-Castle were now by order of Parliament released that Nation under Major General Morgan quietly awaiting the issue of the Affairs in England The Presbyterian-party were now very busie to have their Profession Established by Act of Parliament and therefore a Confession of Faith was tendred to the House which having been seven times read was passed and ordered to be Printed and likewise the Solemn League and Covenant was also ordered to be reprinted and read in all Churches once in every year and to be set up in the Parliament-house but it soon after found a different entertainment The Parliament resolved during their Session which should continue no longer than the end of March to proceed only
so â—ong possessed them even to their personating a concurrent Contentment in this strange mutation of affairs Only the vexed Rump and furious Sir Arthur Hazelrig were most outragiously disturbed by finding themselves so out-witted and to have made all this stir with Lambert for no other purpose but to undo themselves they recollected now what Idiots and desperate Fools they were in rejecting a Letter from the King which was presented by Henry Nevil as casually put into his hand and their Voting of it not to be read or opened in the House full of all Princely tenderness to their monstrous Crimes and Treasons which being now on their part in exorable and unexpiable but in their deserved punishment they resolved on another Essay and device like the Foxes tyed by the Tayls with fire at them to offer at another attempt which though it would not revenge them would if it succeeded indempnate and impunifie them For while all things thus seemed to forward and further his Majesties Return into these Kingdoms an Address being signed by the whole Army wherein they vehemently testified their acquiescence in whatever the Counsels of the ensuing Parliament should produce and their abhorrence of former practices by intruding into the Government and interposing themselves against all Reason and Duty in civil Matters Colonel Lambert as the last dying effort of those monstrous Violences which had so long prevailed against the bars of Law and Authority broke out from his imprisonment in the Tower notice whereof being given a Proclamation was sent after him requiring him to render himself within 24 hours at his utmost Peril and prohibiting any to conceal him declaring likewise that whosoever should take him should have 100 l. for his pains This Escape was thought to have been effected by the connivence or permission of Colonel Morley Lieutenant of the Tower whereupon the General sent four Companies of Foot under Major Nicholas of whose faith he had experience to command there and presently gave order for Forces to march in order to the reducing and re-taking of the said Colonel Lambert to which service most of the Gentry and Nobility in Town presently offered themselves as also in the Country especially in Warwick-shire under the Lords Brook and Conway where the first intelligence of him was had He appeared first about Tocester with a small company of Horse from thence to Naseby where Major Creed joyned with one hundred more intending for Edge-hill but within two miles of Daventry Colonel Ingoldsby met him augmented to four Troops and some Foot making neer seven hundred but if he had stood two or three days would have encreased to a formidable power the Phanaticks of the Army marching from all parts of the Kingdom to this Rendezvouze one whereof was Captain Haselrig's who being surprized by Ingoldsby's Forlorn promised upon his Liberty to bring over his Troop which accordingly was done Upon this Lambert desired a Parley thinking so to work upon the Souldiery and there offered as a security to all Interests the re-admission of Richard to be Protector this being waived as a stale device and Lambert seeing Colonel Ingoldsby ready to fall on and that another Troop was revolted from him he presently betook himself to flight losing there the name of that Valour especially among his enraged Phanaticks which he had purchased throughout the War crying out twice Pray my Lord let me escape what good will my life or perpetual imprisonment do you he divined well which though mounted on a Barb being on Plow-lands he could not effect but was taken by Colonel Ingoldsby's own hands Creed Axtel and Cobbet escaped though pursued some miles Being thus secured he was sent up in a Coach to the Tower and came by Hide-park on Tuesday April the 24 the day before the opening of the Parliament when the City-forces exceeding for gallantry and number all former shows Mustred there before the General and the Council of State the field resounding with the cry of King Charles the second Now at last our Right and desires so long contended for prevailed for April the 25. the Free-Parliament sate down in two Houses they met first at Saint Margareâ—s Church Westminster where Doctor Reynolds Preached before them The Lords chose the Earl of Manchester for their Speaker and the House of Commons Sir Harbottle Grimston Mr. Brown Clerk to the former Mr. Iessop to the latter I may not omit that the Lord General was chosen Knight of his own County of Devon and also by the University of Cambridge and not above four Rumpers were returned Scot made a bustle for his new Election at Wickham against Major-Gen Brown's Eldest Son but stood not to it for he fled to Bruxels where he was known though he relyed on the Protection of the Spanish-Ambassador here formerly and was taken and sent hither back again not long after The first thing of note done by the Parliament was an appointment of a Thanksgiving-day to God for raising up his Excellency and other eminent persons and making them instrumental in delivering the Kingdome from Thraldom and Misery and ordered that the said General should have the acknowledgment and hearty thanks of the Parliament for the eminent and unparallel'd Services done these Nations in freeing them from Slavery which was accordingly performed Thanks also were given afterwards to Col. Ingoldsby for his retaking of Lambert Several persons Officers of the Army and other ill-affected people were apprehended and secured in several places for the strengthning and establishing the peace and happiness of the Kingdom so forwardly and so happily begun and advanced for now at last we were arrived at the brink and to the prospect of our ancient Government and to the hopeful confirmation of our Peace after which we had so long laboured in vain and here our Troubles cease to whom in this alluding rapture we bid farewel Hunc Finem Belli quod res commiscuit omnes Non Gladii non Saxa dabant non tela sed ille Perfidiae vindex tanti sanguinis Ultor MONKIUS Hic murus abeneus esto Thus ends the War which overwhelm'd the State Suffering a weaponless and bloodless Fate MONK'S conquering Prudence did Revenge and cease Murder and Treason HE our Wall of Peace A CHRONICLE OF THE CIVIL WARS OF ENGLAND SCOTLAND and IRELAND THE FOURTH PART BEING The Restitution THE suspence and stilness which ensued so many tempestuous Agitations was so far from becalming the Passions of Men and entertaining the Nation in the present felicity and acquiscence of things as is usual in the complacency of such unexpected and impatienced blessings that it transported them at the same instant to more vigorous and active Resolutions in pursuance of that happy Auspicium which so faitly directed to a plenary and compleat Establishment It was enviously fresh in the minds of all Loyal and good men with what scorn and contemptuous derision the Enemies of the Kingdoms peace and the brood
Proclamations in such cases have been always used to the end that all good Subjects might upon this occasion testifie their Duty and Respect And since the Armed Uiolence and other the Calamities of many years last past have hitherto deprived us of any opportunity wherein we might express our Loyalty and Allegiance to his Majesty We therefore the Lords and Commons now assembled in Parliament together with the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common-Council of the City of London and other Free-men of this Kingdom now present do according to our Duty and Allegiance heartily joyfully and unanimously Acknowledge and Proclaim That immediately upon the decease of our late Soveraign King CHARLES the First the Imperial Crown of the Realm of England and of all the Kingdoms Dominions and Rights belonging to the same did by Inherent Birthright and lawful undoubted Succession descend and come to his Most Excellent Majesty King CHARLES the Second as being lineally justly and lawfully next Heir of the Blood Royal of this Realm and that by the goodness and providence of Almighty God He is of England Scotland and Ireland the most Potent Mighty and Undoubted King And thereunto We most humbly and faithfully do submit and oblige our Selves our Heirs and Posterities for ever This was Solemnized with the greatest Magnificence and joy possible the Lords and Commons and Lord Mayor attending it the shouts and acclamations at the reading of it in Cheap-side were so loud and great that Bow-bells or any other Bells in the Town though all then Ringing could not be heard All was concluded with unspeakable mirth and numerous Bonefires at night which yielded not their flames but to the rising Sun I shall not intrude other matters at home into this grand Affair but reserve them until â—hereafter and proceed The Dutch also as knowing it would please the King enlarged their Civilities and respects to the Commissioners of the Parliament and City who received them from their Deputies with much satisfaction likewise several Provisions were sent aboard the Fleet and the General He also complemented with the Kings Restitution For a Conclusion of those great Magnificences with which they had entertained his Majesty a Fortnight they resolved to give him a Farewel-Treatment with all the sumptuousness expressible which they performed and in the end presented him with the richest Bed and Furniture with Tapestry for Hangings imbossed with Gold and Silver and adorned with Pictures as could be had the Bed was made at Paris for the Princess of Orange but her Husband dying Eight days before she was delivered it was never used A little before this time Sir Samuel Moreland Thurloe's Agent for Oliver at the Court of Savoy came to the King where he was kindly received having done the King several good Offices and discovered the intrigues of Oliver and the Rump and was Knighted he revealed also several eminent Royalists as Sir Richard Willis Colonel Bamfield and others who betrayed the King's Affairs and Friends to Oliver Hither also about the same time came Sir George Downing who was also graciously received who had done the like good services for his Majesty and was likewise Knighted and continued his Majesties Resident with the States On Sunday the 20 th of May the King heard Doctor Hardy after Dean of Rochester Preach before him the place intended was the French-Church after their Sermon but they knowing of it being greedy to see the King would not come out of their Seats so that it was done in the Princesses Lodgings Here the King touched many of the Evil. In the mean while the Duke of York took the Oath of Allegiance of the Fleet having gone aboard the Naseby where the General treated him which Ship at his departure when the shore resounded with the Artillery he called the Charles as afterwards the whole Fleet was new Christened in their way homewards The King having thanked the States General and of Holland in their Publick Assemblies whither he went on foot took his leave of them recommending to them the interest of his Sister and Nephew the Prince of Orange and was re-saluted by them upon the same as also by the several Ministers of the several Princes one whereof the Count of Oldenham sent an Embassador with Credentials to the King just before his departure being the sole Minister so qualified while his Majesty staid at the Hague On Wednesday the 22 of May Stilo veteri the King departed and it may be said there was no night between Tuesday and that particularly for those who found no place to put their heads in the houses not being able to lodge the croud of people that ran there from all the neighbouring Towns the most part whereof were constrained to walk the streets though the wiser sort took up their Quarters for their advantage of seeing the King's departure on Downs and Sand-hills which bordered all along the Sea-coast where they might see the Fleet and the King Embarquing so that it is a question whether the Hollander more wondered or we more joyed The Speech spoken by the States of Holland at his Farewel for the notableness thereof is here inserted IF one may judge of the content which we have to see your Majesty depart from our Province by the satisfaction we had to possess you we shall have no great trouble to make it known to you Your Majesty might have observed in the Countenance of all our people the joy they had in their hearts to see a Prince cherished of God a Prince wholly miraculous and a Prince that is probably to make a part of their Quietness and Felicity Your Majesty shall see presently all the streets filled all the ways covered and all the hills loaden with people which will follow you even to the place of your Embarquement and would not leave you if they had wherewith to pass them to your Kingdom Our joy is common unto us with that of our Subjects but as we know better than they the inestimable value of the Treasure we possess so are we more sensible of this sad separation It would be insupportable to us Sir if we re-entred not into our selves considered not that it is the thing of the world we most desired and the greatest advantage also that we could wish to your Majesty We acquiesce therein because we know that this removal is no less necessary for us than glorious to your Majesty and that 't is in your Kingdom that we must finde the accomplishment of the prayers we have made and make still for you and us so shall we not fail to profit thence as well as from the assurances which it hath pleased you to give us of an immutable affection towards this Republick We render most humble thanks unto your Majesty for them and particularly for the illustrious proof which it hath pleased you to give us thereof by the glorious Visit wherewith you honoured our Assembly We shall conserve the memory of it
most dearly and make the marks of that goodness to pass to our last Posterity to the end they may acknowledge it with the same respect with which we have received it The appointment wherein we see your Majesty ready to take horse for the pursuit of your Iourney forbids us to enlarge our selves upon a Subject which would never weary us if we had words conformable to our respectful sentiments But we have no minde to encrease the just impatience which your Majesty shall have to see your self returned into your Kingdom We pray God Sir that it be quiet and happy and that as he hath disposed the hearts and affections of your Subjects to acknowledge their Soveraign and lawful Prince it will please him also to command the Winds and Seas to expedite your Voyage and that after you have received on your own Coast the same Prayers which we shall reiterate you may injoy in your Royal Person and in your Posterity for ever all the Felicity and Prosperity which your humble Servants wish unto your Majesty 'T is certain that their entertainment of the King and their Presents cost the Dutch above 100000 l. The King departed as before is mentioned accompanied with Prince William of Nassau and the Admiral of Holland having the Prince of Orange before him being in the midst of his two Brothers the Dukes of York and Gloucester on horse-back the Ladies attending on him in their Coaches all along the way where the Citizens the Horse and the Regiment of the Guards stood in Battalia the Cannon thundred being answered with peals of Musick which conveyed the like Mirth to the English Fleet Riding at Scheveling The King with his Aunt his Sister and some other Illustrious Persons having taken his last leave of the States went first on board a Barge prepared by the Dutch whose Streamers and Flags had this impress Quo fas fata alluding to Dieu mon Droit but upon the approach of a Brigandine from General Montague he entered therein and came on board the Charles the Seamen seeming to be in an extasie being possessed of their beloved Prince Soon after he came up to the Poop to behold again that multitude on the Downs of Scheveling saying That he thought his own Subjects could scarce have more tenderness for him than those people on whose Affections he saw he reigned no less than he was going to raign on the Wills of the English Much ado there was to part the Princess of Orange from him whom many other considerations as strong as Birth had rendred most dear to him till at last the General who with all possible demonstrations of Loyalty had received the King having all the Retinue shipt caused the Anchors to be weighed and the Sails to be spread and then with Tears and Embraces she left him and was rowed back again with the same company to the Holland-shore which lost fight of the Fleet about the evening No sooner was the Fleet under sail but the Cannon began to roar giving notice that the Lord of the Sea was in his rightful possession which Thundring continued till night Next day they had little winde but so much as on Friday-morning they came within sight of Dover whereupon an Express was sent to the General then at Canterbury to hasten to Dover which he did accordingly and about one of the clock with a gallant Train came thither About three of the clock in the afternoon his Majesty landed at the Beach neer the Peer of Dover with the Dukes and his Nobles Every man now put themselves into a posture to observe the meeting of the best of Kings and best-deserving without flattery is it spoken of Subjects This solemn and unexampled meeting did with the joy thereof infuse a suspence of fear that the Congress of the King and the General would of one part or other fail in Affection or Ceremony but this Interview dispensed with all punctilio other than that the General kneeled and the King kissed and embraced him to the most pleasing satisfaction of Nobility and People His Majesty then walked up with the General under a Canopy a Chair of State being carried by his Coach-side In the way the Mayor and Aldermen of Dover with the Minister met his Majesty who after a short Speech presented him a Bible with Gold-clasps the ordinary Present of the Presbyterian Ministers Then his Majesty took Coach he and the Duke of York at one end and the Duke of Gloucester and his Exellencie at the other the Duke of Buckingham in the Boot About two miles from Dover the King took horse the Dukes on the right hand of the King the General on the left bare followed by the Duke of Buckingham and the rest of the Nobility and Gentry uncovered and came to Canterbury where he was met and complemented by the Mayor and Aldermen and Recorder of that City and presented with a Golden Tankard and so conducted to the Palace Here he made the General Knight of the Honourable Order of the Garter the Duke of York putting the Order about his Neck Saturday and Sunday he staid here and on Munday-morning departed for Rochester whither that evening he arrived and went from his Lodging to Chattam to see the Soveraign and other Ships of the Royal Navy and at night returned to his Lodgings at Colonel Gibbon's where he was welcomed by an Address from the Regiment of the said Colonel delivered by himself which his Majesty graciously accepted Betwixt four and five on Tuesday-morning being the most happy and auspicious 29 th of May his Majesty's Birth-day he departed from Rochester the Militia-Forces of Kent lining the ways and the Maidens strowing Herbs and Flowers the Towns through which he passed hanging out White sheets Being come to Dartford the Officers of the Regiments of Horse presented an humble Address to him wherein they declared their readiness to sacrifice their lives in defence of his Majesty's Person and Government At Black-heath the Army was drawn up where his Majesty viewed them using many gracious Expressions towards them which were answered by loud acclamations The several Regiments being there placed in order His Majesty advanced towards London and about one a Clock came to Saint George's Fields where the Lord Mayor and the Aldermen were in a Tent ready to receive him The Sword being there delivered him he re-delivered it and Knighted Sir Thomas Alleyn After a short repast the King proceeded into London by Southwarke from the Bridge to Temple-Bar the Streets were railed on the one fide with standings for the Liveries and lined on the other with the Trained Bands to which were added some Gentlemen-Volunteers all in white Doublets under Sir Iohn Stawel The manner of his Majesties Triumphal and Magnificent Passage through this orderly ranking was thus First marched a Troop of Gentlemen led by Major-General Brown brandishing their Swords in Cloath of Silver-doublets being about Three hundred
Rochesters consecrated 1637. A. Dr. Henry King Lord-Bishop of Chichester was consecrated 1641. Dr. Humphry Heuchman Lord-Bishop of Salisbury was consecrated October 28. 1660. Dr. George Morley Lord-Bishop of Worcester was consecrated October 28. 1660. since possessed by Dr. Gauden after by Dr. Earles late Dean of Westminster Dr. Robert Sauderson Lord-Bishop of Lincoln was consecrated October 28. 1660. since deceased and Dr. Laney Translated thither Dr. George Griffith Lord-Bishop of St. Asaph was consecrated October 28. 1660. Dr. William Lucy Lord-Bishop of St. Davids was consecrated December 2. 1660. Dr. Benjamin Laney Lord-Bishop of Peterborough was consecrated December 2. 1660. Dr. Hugh Lloyd Lord-Bishop of Landaff was consecrated December 2. 1660. Dr. Richard Sterne Lord-Bishop of Carlisle was consecrated December 2. 1660. Y. Dr. Brian Walton Lord-Bishop of Chester was consecrated December 2. 1660. Y. This See was possess'd by Dr. Fern who dying also Dr. George Hall was Lord-Bishop thereof Dr. Iohn Gauden who dying Dr. Seth Ward is since Lord-Bishop thereof Lord-Bishop of Exeter was consecrated December 2. 1660. Dr. Gilbert Ironside Lord-Bishop of Bristol was consecrated Ianuary 13. 1660. Dr. Edward Reynolds Lord-Bishop of Norwich was consecrated Ianuary 14. 1660. Dr. William Nicholson Lord-Bishop of Gloucester was consecrated Ianuary 13. 1660. Dr. Nicholas Monke Lord-Bishop of Hereford was consecrated Ianuary 13. 1660. who dying Dr. Herbert Crofts was consecrated in his place 1661. Dr. Iohn Hacket Lord-Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield A. Notes the ancient Bishops Y. The Diocesses in the Province of York All the rest are in the Province of Canterbury The Names of the Iudges EDward Earl of Clarendon Lord High-Chancellor of England Sir Robert Foster Knight Chief-Justice of the Kings-Bench Sir Harbottle Grimstone Baronet Master of the Rolls Sir Orlando Bridgeman Knight and Baronet Chief-Justice of the Common-Pleas Matthew Hale Chief-Baron of the Exchequer Sir Thomas Mallet Knight Justices of the Kings-Bench Sir Thomas Twisden Knight Justices of the Kings-Bench Sir Wadham Windham Knight Justices of the Kings-Bench Sir Robert Hide Knight Justices of the Common-Pleas Sir Thomas Terril Knight Justices of the Common-Pleas Sir Samuel Brown Knight Justices of the Common-Pleas Sir Edward Atkins Knight Barons of the Exchequer Sir Christopher Turner Knight Barons of the Exchequer Sir Ieoffrey Palmer Knight attorney-Attorney-General Sir Iohn Glynne Knight The Kings Serjeants at Law Sir Iohn Maynard Knight The Kings Serjeants at Law Sir William Wilde Knight The Kings Serjeants at Law The two Principal Secretaries of State persons eminent for their faithful and industrious Loyalty Sir Edward Nicholas of the same place to his late Majesty and Sir William Mâ—rice the onely Confident the Renowned General the Duke of Albemarle used in those blessed Counsels toward the Restitution of the King and Kingdom The Names of the BARONETS made by Letters Patents since his Majesties most happy Restauration Anno 1660. With the times of their several Creations Anno Duodecimo Caroli Regis Secundi SIR Orlando Bridgeman Knight was created Baronet Iune the 7th in the Twelfth Year of the Raign of our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles the Second in the year of our Lord 1660. Sir Ieoffery Palmer Kt. created Baronet Iune the 7. Sir Heneage Finch in Com. Bucks Kt. created Baronet Iune 7. Sir Iohn Langham in Com. Northampton Kt. created Baronet Iune 7. Sir Robert Abdy in Com. Essex Kt. created Baronet Iune 9. Thomas Draper in Com. Berks Esq. created Baronet Iune 9. Humphrey Winch in Com. Bedford Esq. created Baronet Iune 9. Ionathan Rease Esq. created Baronet Iune 9. Henry Wright in Com. Essex Esq. created Baronet Iune 12. Hugh Speke in Com. Wilts Esq. created Baronet Iune 12. Nicholas Gould of the City of London created Baronet Iune 13. Sir Thomas Adams of the City of London Kt. created Baronet Iune 13. Richard Atkins in Com. Surrey Esq. created Baronet Iune 13. Thomas Allen of the City of London Esq. created Baronet Iune 14. Henry North in Com. Suffolk Esq. created Baronet Iune 15. Sir William Wiseman in Com. Essex Kt. created Baronet Iune 15. Thomas Cullum in Com. Suffolk Esq. created Baronet Iune 18. Thomas Davy in Com. Essex Esq. created Baronet Iune 20. George Grubbum How in Com. Wilts Esq. created Baronet Iune 20. Iohn Cutts in Com. Cambridge Esq. created Baronet Iune 20. William Humble of the City of London Esq. created Baronet Iune 20. Solomon Swale in Com. York Esq. created Baronet Iune 21. Gervas Ews in Com. Suffolk Esq. created Baronet Iune 22. Robert Cordel in Com. Suffolk Esq. created Baronet Iune 22. Sir Iohn Robinson of the City of London Kt. created Baronet Iune 22. Iohn Abdy in Com. Essex Esq. created Baronet Iune 22. Henry Stapleton in Com. York Esq. created Baronet Iune 23. Iacob Ashly in Com. Warwick Esq. created Baronet Iune 25. Sir Robert Hilliard in Com. York Esq. created Baronet Iune 25. Sir William Bowyer in Com. Bucks Kt. created Baronet Iune 25. Iohn Shuckbrugh in Com. Warwick Esq. created Baronet Iune 26. William Wray in Com. Lincoln Esq. created Baronet Iune 27. Francis Hollis in Com. Dorset Esq. created Baronet Iune 27. Nicholas Steward in Com. Southampton Esq. created Baronet Iune 27. George Warberton in Com. Pal. of Chester Esq. created Baronet Iune 27. Oliver St. Iohn in Com. Northampton Esq. created Baronet Iune 28. Sir Ralph Delaval in Com. Northumberland Kt. created Baronet Iune 29. Andrew Henley in Com. Somerset Esq. created Baronet Iune 30. Thomas Ellis in Com. Lincoln Esq. created Baronet Iune 30. Sir Iohn Covert in Com. Sussex Kt. created Baronet Iuly 2. Maurice Berkley in Com. Somerset Esq. created Baronet Iuly 2. Peter Harr of the City of London created Baronet Iuly 2. Henry Hudson in Com. Leicester Esq. created Baronet Iuly 3. Thomas Herbert in Com. Monmouth Esq. created Baronet Iuly 3. Thomas Middleton in Com. Denbigh created Baronet Iuly 4. Verney Noel in Com. Leicester Esq. created Baronet Iuly 6. George Ruswel in Com. Northampton Esq. created Baronet Iuly 7. Robert Austen in Com. Kent Esq. created Baronet Iuly 10. Robert Hales in Com. Kent Esq. created Baronet Iuly 12. Iohn Clarke in Com. Oxford Esq. created Baronet Iuly 13. William Thomas in Com. Essex Esq. created Baronet Iuly 13. Sir William Boothby in Com. Derby Kt. created Baronet Iuly 13. Wolstan Dixey in Com. Leicester created Baronet Iuly 14. Iohn Bright in Com. York Esq. created Baronet Iuly 16. Iohn Warner in Com. York Esq. created Baronet Iuly 16. Sir Iohn Harbey in Com. Hartford Kt. created Baronet Iuly 17. Sir Samuel Moreland in Com. Berks Kt. created Baronet Iuly 18. Sir Thomas Hewet in Com. Hartford Kt. created Baronet Iuly 19. Edward Honywood in Com. Kent Esq. created Baronet Iuly 19. Basil Dixwel in Com. Kent Esq. created Baronet Iuly 19. Sir Richard Brown of the City of London Kt. created Baronet Iuly 20. Marmaduke Gresham in Com. Surrey Esq. created Baronet Iuly 20. Henry Kernor in Com. Salop Esq. created Baronet Iuly 23. Sir Iohn Aubrey in Com. Glamorgan
attend the Motion of the Netherlanders the Dutch Bourdeaux-Fleet laden with Wine Brandy and other Commodities fell all or the greatest part into our hands which together with many other Prizes at other times this Year taken made up the number of above a Hundred thirty five with great Caution condemnâ—d in the Admiralty of London Nine Dutch Ships were brought into Dover at one time laden with Canary Salt Oyl Brandy Spice and other good Merchandizes Certain it was that the Hollander received a very great Foyl in the Opinion of the People by that Action of withdrawing his Fleet the Vulgar being supported till then with an expectation of some mighty Actions to Answer their Prodigious Boasting This was all the Action of the English and Dutch Fleets at home For his Highness the Duke of York finding that the Netherlanders had laid up their Ships and that there was now no need of keeping so great a Navy abroad with all his Train upon the seventh of December arrived at White-Hall leaving a considerable number of stout Vessels under the Conduct of the Earl of Sandwich having before his departure by a Speech which he made them inspired the Seamen with an admirable resolution and chearfulness to obey the Commands of their Admiral in whatever Enterprise he should have further Order to Prosecute This year were Launch'd the Royal Catherine and the Royal Oak And that noble Ship the London being by an Accident blown up the City made their humble Addresses to His Majesty that they might have leave to make a Contribution among themselves for the building another Ship of equal Goodness The King graciously accepted their kind offer and to shew his greater Acceptance enjoyned them to add the Title of Loyal to the Name of London As yet there was no publique Declaration of War on either side Only the King seemed to Treat with his Arms in his hands And therefore Sir George Downing still prest in the heat of all this Preparation and Action according to his Instructions for Satisfaction of Damages The King had also made an Embargo upon the Dutch here in England which was carried so privately that Sir George Downing had Intelligence of it a full Week before the States knew any thing thereof By which means he gave timely Notice to fifteen or sixteen Sail of the English to Ship away insomuch that there remain'd nothing for the other to Seize but two inconsiderable Vessels and a Colchester Oysterboat About the List of Damages there were several Conferences with Sr. George Downing which prov'd all to little or no Effect But that which pinch'd them most was the Regulation propounded by Sir George for the Government of Trade for the future being very sensible that the English did make themselves much more Popular among the Natives where they settled than the Netherlanders had the fortune to do At length in Justification of their Proceedings they put forth a Scandalous Libel intituled An Extract out of the Memorials of the States General of the Vnited Provinces upon the Memorial of Sir George Downing Envoyè c. wherein they cast many Invective Aspersions upon His Majesty and put Sir George to the necessity of a Printed Vindication The reason of this delay was to feel the pulses of their Neighbours and to try what Assistance they could get from them especially France whither they had posted away Monsieur Benninghen as was said before but his Negotiation did no way answer their expectations Besides that the Minister of the Crown of Sweden charg'd them in a large Memorial with a direct breach of Articles neither would Denmark Meddle with their Cause The Bishop of Munster threatned 'um for the Eyler Fort The Emperour sollicited 'um to do Reason to Malta And Spain Visibly rejoyc'd for their misfortune before Calice Which at the latter end of Sixty four after all their Embassies and Negotiations was their Condition with Forraign Princes They were angry with His Majesty of England for making a Peace with Argier without their Assent whenas they had given order to De Ruyter who Commanded the Squadron which was sent to the Assistance of the English to leave that Enterprize having designed him to destroy the English Factories in Guiny to which purpose De Ruyter set Sayl from Gibralter about the latter end of September with Thirteen Ships and Arriving in Guiny made seizure of all that he found within his reach at Cape Verd and the Island of Gâ—gee where the Governour with his men finding himself deserted made Conditions to be Transported to Gambia But this was in part retaliated by the News which came from Captain Allen who with the Ships under his Command discovering about thirty Dutch-men which prov'd to be the Smyrna-Fleet with their Convey made up to them and upon their refusing to strike Sayl gave them a Salute which they answered After some Dispute the Dutch made for the Bay of Cadiz having lost four of their Richest Merchant-men and one taken and divers of the rest very much shatter'd one of the Captains of their Men of War was kill'd This Action was the more considerable in regard that the Sea was so high that Captain Allen could not bear out his lower Tire About the seventh of Iune Sir Thomas Modeford arriv'd at Iamaica with four hundred Passengers whither he was followed soon after with Three hundred more where they found themselves very well pleased with the Country and very much encourag'd to settle themselves the Governour endeavouring with all diligence to settle a fair Correspondence with his Neighbours both in Sancto Domingo and Cartagena to which purpose he call'd in all Private Men of War belonging to the Island On the 24th of November the Parliament met again at which time the King in a Speech signified to them how unkindly he had been treated by his Neighbours yet that he had upon the Stock of his own Credit set forth a Navy that would not decline meeting with all the Naval Power of the Enemy that he had borrowed very liberally out of his own Stores and of the City of London so that to discharge the one and replenish the other would require little less than Eight hundred thousand pounds That he expected from them all necessary Expedition in their Resolutions and that their Supply might be Real and Substantial This was Answered by Sir Edward Turnor then Speaker with all Expressions of Loyalty and Affection to the King setting forth the deep sence which the Parliament had of the Injuries of the Dutch of His Majesties Expences and the necessity of his Warlike Preparations Assuring Him of their Constancie and readiness to yield him all obedience both with their Bodies and Purses To make their words good they first past a Vote for a Supply of Four and twenty hundred seventy seven thousand and five hundred pounds a great heart-breaking at that time and that which shew'd the King would want no
hands while he had such large Sums to carry on the War In a short time the Prâ—positions of the several Counties and the Names of the Commissioners were agreed upon by both Houses of Parliament Upon the Eleventh of February following the King Sign'd the Act being Entituled An Act for granting a Royal Ayd of Twenty four hundred threescore and seventeen thousand and five hundred pounds For which his Majesty return'd his Royal thanks In the beginning of March following his Majesty having passed several other Acts presented him by both Houses and receiv'd their good wishes for the prosperity of his undertakings delivered in a Speech by the Speaker Prorogued them till the Twenty first of Iune 1665. A little before the Parliament met His Majesty set forth a Declaration for Encouragement of Marriners and Seamen employ'd in the Service Allowing all Officers and Seamen after the rate of Ten shillings per Tun for every lawful Prize and to take to themselves as free Pillage whatever they should take on or above the Gun-Deck with his Royal Promise to provide for the Sick and Wounded Widows Children and Impotent Parents of such as should be Kill'd with several other advantages mention'd in the said Declaration His Majesties Wisdom and Goodness in that and in all other things plentifully providing for all Events both of War and Peace In December following His Majesty setting forth the Consideration which he had taken of the Injuries Affronts and Spoyls done by the Subjects of the Vnited Provinces to the Ships Goods and Persons of His Majesties Suâ—jects notwithstanding many and frequent demands for Redress by the Advice of His Privy Councel ordered That general Reprisals should be granted against the Ships and Goods and Subjects of the Vnited Provinces As this did not a little vex the Dutch so with greater reason the action of De Ruyter in Guiny did Incense the King of England and therefore in the beginning of February he put forth a Declaration That the Subjects of His Majesty had sustained several Injuries and Damages from the Subjects of the United Provinces That he had made Complaint thereof and frequently demanded Satisfaction That instead of Reparation they had not only ordered De Ruyter to desert the Consortship against the Pyrats of the Mediterranean Sea but also to do all acts of Violence and Hostility against His Majesties People in Africa And that therefore His Majesty did with the Advice of his Privy Councel Declare the Dutch the Aggressors Impowring His Majesties Fleet to Fight and Destroy the Ships of the Netherlanders This Declaration being a solemn Denuntiation of War was proclam'd in the beginning of March at White-hall Temple-bar and the Royal-Exchange with the usual Solemnities This Declaration charging them to be the Aggressors stuck heavily in their Stomachs and they took it into their serious consideration But instead of answering to so high a Charge they contented themselves with a second Libel which they had publish'd somewhile before which they call'd A Summary Observation and Deduction delivered by the Deputies of the States General upon the Memorial of Sir George Downing Envoy Extraordinary of the King of Great Britain As lewd a piece for foulness of Language and weakness of Defence as ever came into the light under pretence of Authority In the mean while their Embassies to Swedeland and Denmark went slowly on and instead of being befriended by France the Embassador of that Crown is order'd to demand reparations for the loss of two very considerable East-India Ships taken from the Subjects of that Kingdom And at the same time his Electoral Highness renewed his demands of satisfaction from the Governors of Wasel for the affront offerâ—d to the Son of his Excellencie the Earl of Carlisle of which it may not be unseasonable now to give the Relation The Lord Morpeth Son of the Earl of Carlisle travelling from Munster to Collen found a Tâ—oop of Horse drawn up in his way the Captain whereof coming to the young Lord told him he had Orders to carry that Company to Wesel by a Verbal Order from the Governour which he did and lodg'd the Company in two Inns. After they had been two days Prisoners one Hayes a Gentleman belonging to the Duke of Brandenburghs Council in Cleve demanded the Prisoners in the Dukes name threatning to seize the Goods of the States Subjects in the Dukes Dominions in case of refusal The Governor answer'd that he was inform'd they were gathering a Party to fall upon his Garrison but finding the Information false he gave them all free liberty to proceed in their Journey But the Lord Morpeth and the English not so contented went to Cleve and there in the Dukes Court exhibited a Charge against the Governor Not long after Major Holmes was committed to the Tower upon several Accusations laid against him But when the whole matter came to be strictly enquired into and examined he did so fully clear himself upon every point that the King was not only pleas'd to discharge but to honour him with a singular mark of his favour Toward the middle of March several Memorials were delivered in by the Ministers of France Portugal and Swede complaining of their Ships being detained contrary to the Usage and Practice of their Friends and Allies To which the States gave little or no satisfaction only permitted some French Ballast-ships to go out About the latter end of March Captain Allen arriv'd in the Downs with a considerable Squadron of his Majesties Fleet and a Convoy of rich Merchants together with a rich Prize one of them that were taken at Cadiz a lusty Ship which was afterwards made a man of War and carried above 40 Guns About this time his Majesty publish'd a Proclamation prohibiting the Importation or Retailing of any Commodities of the Growth or Manufacture of the States of the United Provinces occasion'd by a Prohibition on their parts of the Importing or Vending any Goods or Wares made in any of the Kings Dominions But while we prepare for War at home we make Peace abroad For the English in Tangier had by this made an advantageous Accord with Gayland the Mâ—ors being very ready to agree with them in all Amity and good Correspondence Nor was it less pleasing to hear of Sir Charles Cotterels reception at Bruxels who being sent on his Majesties behalf to preserve and continue the Ancient Amity had an entertainment sutable to his Quality If there were any thoughts of Peace among the Hollanders it was only in shew for their preparations for War were open and publick and therefore the King with most indefatigable diligence journey'd from Port to Port to hasten out his Fleet already in great readiness as also by his presence to incourage the Seamen that by the 25 th of March ending the Year 1664 the Fleet most magnificently prepar'd with all Provisions necessary was ready to receive their most
renowned Admiral the Duke of York who some days before went early in the morning to his Charge attended with divers Eminent and Honourable Voluntiers It was a Navy for number of Ships and choice of men such an one as the Nation never set to Sea one more formidable nor more glorious This did not a little terrifie the Dutch besides that some Weeks before they had been put to a great disorder upon the appearance of some part of the English Fleet under the Earl of Sandwich which though at a distance and without any rational appearance of danger set them into such a confusion that it fell little short of a general Consâ—erâ—ation Nor were they yet able to come forth though making all the haste they could Nor had they done any thing considerable all the Winter before only sent Bankert to Sea which to what intent soever it was contriv'd the Designe prov'd ineffectual For attempting to go about by the North he met with nothing but the boistrousness of a tempestuous Sea making a quick return home and leaving behind him four of his best Ships unmercifully shatter'd in the storms And thus while the English are their Enemies at Sea they will make use of none of the English friendship by Land And to that purpose they order a Cassation of the English and Scotch Regiments only that the Officers might be admitted again taking an Oath to be faithful to the Lords States General and to the States of the respective Provinces whom they serv'd But the English were so Loyal as to throw up their Commissions disdaining to serve upon such monstrous Terms the profest Enemies of their Prince and Country Forein Affairs 1664. That which was most remarkable this Year in Forein parts besides what we have already related as they fell in time that is to say the two great Victories obtain'd against the Turk by the Emperor was the Cessation of War that ensued thereupon of great Concernment not only to those Empires but to all Christendom a solemn Peace not long after ensuing The City of Constantinople was so fatal to the Grand Seignior then reigning that he resolv'd to make this Year to be not a little fatal to it by withdrawing his Court and presence from thence and that with so much indignation against the Place that he vow'd he would rather set fire to it with his own hands than return to it again whereupon he retired to Adrianople a place seated fit for his Sports of Hawking and Hunting Divertisements that made him seek Peace rather than War But the joy of this Cessation was not a little disturb'd by the death of Count Serini who being upon the chase of a Boar and seeing the Beast likely to escape quitted his Company and follow'd him single till coming near him he fired his Pistol at him The Boar finding himself wounded furiously rush'd upon the Count and then with four deadly wounds the first in the neck the next in the head the third in his belly and the fourth in his foot tore him up and dispatch'd him The French this Year had a mind to get some footing in Barbary and to that end got possession of a small Sea-port Town or Fort call'd by the name of Gigery The Moors to expel them thence came down with great Forces and in assailing and defending great Numbers were slain on both sides The Moors in one Assault they made upon it this year lost six hundred men the Duke of Beaufort being wounded on the French side In which posture we shall leave them for this Year Only it is not to be forgotten that the Great Turk in revenge of the Battle of Leweniz and the surprize of Gigery caus'd all the French which he found in his Dominions to be put to death But the Portugals with better success under the Conduct of their General Pedro Iaques de Megalharma gave battle to the Spaniards under the Duke of Ossuna whom they utterly overthrew with the loss of 500 men slain upon the place 300 Prisoners and all their Baggage and Provision which became a Booty to the Conquerour In Avignon happen'd a very great disturbance insomuch that above twenty thousand Burgers gather'd themselves together against the Vice-Legat having first fallen upon the Garrison some of whom they threw over the Walls and put the rest to flight This Commotion was rais'd upon a pretence that the Vice-Legat went about to impose something upon them against the Liberty of the Inhabitants But ot length by mediation of their Archbishop they were brought to terms of accommodation upon condition that the Italian Garrison should depart the Town and Country and the Italian Provost with his Officers be banisht for ever out of their Territories The Pope took very ill the proceedings of the Vice-Legat But for better security Monsieur de Merceur was appointed to do his best in conjunction with the Forces of the Neighbourhood either by fair means or by foul to bring them to reason At length a composure was made between the Pope and the King of France and Avignon was restor'd into the possession of the Romish See upon Conditions which will be hereafter mentioned In August came news from Losanna that certain Irish-men having Intelligence that a knot of the Murtherers of the late King were gotten together in that place and there entertain'd and protected by the Magistracie of the Town enter'd into a Consultation how they might seize and carry some of those Regicides off and deliver them up to the Justice of that Government which they had so hainously betrai'd The Persons nam'd to be of the Gang were Goff Ludlow Lisle Whally and Fare whereupon in the disguize of Lacqueys they attempted them as they were going to Church under the very Guards of the Town and accompani'd with the Magistrates Bayliffs and Burgomasters of the place But finding it impossible to bring any of them off alive they fell in particular upon Lisle as one whom they knew to have been the Condemner of several of the Kings best and most Loyal Subjects whom they shot dead upon the spot After the act was done they were forc'd to encounter the Guards and several other people who engag'd themselves on the behalf of the Rebels wherein they acquitted themselves to a Miracle wounding divers and having broke through them they cri'd with a loud voice Vive le Roy d'Angleterre and so â—ode quite away Anno Dom. 1665. THe Duke of York was now aboard the English Fleet well man'd and in brave order and furnish'd with all things necessary and answerable to the indefatigable care and diligence of so great a Monarch and the free expences of his large Dominions The Dutch neither ready nor likely to come forth as in the event it prov'd so that among them there was nothing memorable but the bustle of Council and hurry of unfinish'd preparations The first Alarm they had was from the French
Embassador who began to deal roundly with 'um and to insist upon the very Letter of a late Treaty for the restitution of two French East-India Ships which had been so long and often demanded The Dutch offer'd certain small Vessels which they pretended would do the French business as well Hereupon a general Embargo was order'd by the King of France upon all their Merchants Vessels till the Dutch made satisfaction for the two Ships for though the Netherlanders had the confidence to with-hold 'um yet the King of France had effectually paid for 'um so that at length they were forc'd not only to part with the Ships but the Lading to booâ— In the mean while they enlarg'd their Embargo upon the English and not only made a Prohibition of Trade with England but also provided that none of the Subjects of that State should ensure any Goods belonging to the Subjects of the King of England And all Newters were forbid to carry Counterband-goods to the Dominions of his Majesty The Reason why the States were so backward with the Fleet was most certainly the aversness of the people whom it cost the States not a little cunning to make tractable to their purposes To which intent they insinuated into the ears and minds of the people That the King of England was not in a condition to set out a Fleet which they not only found to be otherwise but also purely done upon the stock of his own proper Authority and Credit When they saw that brought to pass the next thing they flatter'd the people withal was that though the King had strain'd himself to bring a Fleet to Sea yet that the Parliament would never supply him with a sum of Mony answerable to the Charge of so expensive a War Finding themselves deluded therein also by their Act for the Royal Aid the next suggestion was that the people would never submit to pay it But the voluntary Present made to his Majesty by the City of London soon clear'd that mistake To these they added that they should find friends in England together with great Aid and Support from Forein Princes wherein they found themselves at length totally disappointed Among the rest of their disappointments the King of Denmark's calling in all his Seamen out of Forein Service was not the least for thereby they were disfurnished of many able Sea-men which otherwise they might have had for their Mony This Month also arriv'd at London the Duke of Verneuil and Monsieur Courtin from the King of France and from the King of Spain the Conde de Molina The two former had their Audience within three days after their Entry which was very magnificent They were sent upon Mediation and Composure the event whereof the Dutch did much depend upon and extremely hearken after Nor were the Dutch a little active in hopes to deceive Forein Princes in Printing and publishing Libels to the scandal and defamation of the English Nation Among others the most remarkable of their Papers were the Remarks of the Deputies of the States General upon the Memorial of Sir George Downing Envoy Extraordinary c. A Discourse full of irreverence and falsehood of which the world was sufficiently convinc'd when they read the Reply of Sir George Downing thereto In the next place they Printed a pretended Letter from one Valkenburgh director-Director-General of Guinee to the States feigning how that at Adia the English after they had given quarter with rusty Knives cut off the Noses of those whom they had taken alive and exercised many other strange Amboyna-cruelties upon the Hollanders in these parts Therefore that so great a scandal might appear the more notorious there was publish'd an Account of the Guinee-Transactions In brief That Captain Robert Holmes who was Commanded for the Coast of Guinee in October 1663 coming thither all people complain'd how â—ll the Dutch had treated the English how they had engag'd the King of Barra to assault the English Factories which Designe failing how they had endeavour'd to corrupt the Officers of the Charles and Iames Islands to deliver up their Forts How they had counterfeited the King of England's Signe-Manual and Signet to countenance their Entry into the River had they not been frustrated by the notice which the King of Barra gave of the whole Designe After this Captain Holmes for the better security of some English Ships daily expected sailed to Cabo Verde fearing one Iohnson that was said to lie in the way where without any provocation they â—ired from the Fort killing his Master and wounding divers of the Company notwithstanding all which the Governour surrendring the place next morning he and all his Company were treated with all possible respect and civility by the Captain At Sestos they had been dealing with the King of that place to throw out the English inveigling the people abroad and then abusing them under English Colours the better to attain their ends The like was done upon the Coast of Castle de Mina where Valckenburgh offer'd a Bendy of Gold for every English head At another time they shot at a Convoy of Capt. Holmes from a Fort of theirs which so enrag'd the Moors that they fell upon the Fort and took it and would have put all the Hollanders to the Sword had not the Captain prevented them Lastly Captain Holmes having sent a Drum to Ariamaboa with Honorable Proposals contrary to the Rule of War they mangled stript and left him dead upon the place Which Account being so far from the Accusations of Valckenburgh gave no small satisfaction to the world so that they lost their aim among all just and sober Persons But now the Netherlanders finding how little they could boast of their Alliances near home they made great Brags of the kindness shewn their Embassador at a distance by the Emperor of Russia though by his reception no such thing appear'd for as for his Present which was of silver Plate it was so miserably thin that it would scarce endure the carrying His allowance was very ordinary and the person appointed to attend him as Master of the Ceremonies was only a Merchant and Alderman of the City who having at a drinking Bout began the Prince of Orange's health before that of the States General rais'd a very great Dispute so that upon the whole his Entertainment seem'd rather a matter of State and Custom than of kindness In England was observ'd a general Fast with a reverence befitting the Solemnity of the occasion both Queens did most affectionately concern themselves therein by express and particular Appointment commanding all their Servants to set themselves apart with more than ordinary Devotion for the Service of the Day This was answer'd with the happy Omens of future Victory from the fair success of small Enterprises For not long after were taken three men of War The first a Caper of seven Guns and 47 men The other were Direction-Ships
own Lands for the Publick benefit and to remit the Duties arising from Hearth-money for seven Years to all that should Erect any New Buildings according to his Declaration And therefore Valentine Knight for presuming to Print certain Propositions for Re-building the City with considerable advantages to the Crown was Committed to Custody as being repugnant to the Gracious offers of the King After this Distraction in the City the Parliament met at Westminster according to the time limited at their last Prorogation to whom the King expressed his satisfaction to see them so happily met again making known to them the Progress and vast Expenses of the War and the urgent occasion of supply Whereupon the House resolv'd that the humble and hearty thanks of the House should be return'd to the King for his great Care in the Management of the War and that they would supply him proportionably to his Occasions and afterwards in a Body attended the King in the Banqueting-House to signifie the same to his Majesty in order whereunto they Voted a Supply of 1800000 l. In relation to which in Ianuary following they passed an Act for raising money by a Pole and otherwise toward the maintenance of the present War to which the King gave his Royal Assent in the House of Lords But that not being thought sufficient they so diligently ply'd their business that in February they passed another Act for granting the Sum of Twelve hundred and fifty thousand three hundred and forty seven pounds thirteen shillings for the same reasons and upon the same occasion as the former And to shew their readiness to forward the Re-building of the City they passed another Act for Erecting a Court of Judicature to determine all differences touching Houses Burn'd or Demolish'd in the Fire which with an Act for the Relief of Prisoners was the chief business of this Session being upon the 8 th of February Prorogu'd till the 10 th of October following That Fire which had lay'd the City of London in Ashes now threatned the City of Westminster and the Kings Palace it self having by the misfortune of a Candle falling into the straw violently seiz'd upon the Horse-Guard in the Tilt-yard over against White-Hall burning down the North-West part of the Building but being so close under the King 's own Eye it was by the timely help which the King and the Duke of York caus'd to be apply'd in a very short time stop'd and wholly master'd About this time complaint was made by several Merchants of the ill dealings of the Inhabitants of the Canary-Islands in enhansing the Prizes of their Wines Banishing the English Consul and Factors out of the Island of Tenariff publickly declaring against the Loading or Unloading of the English Ships with other severe dealings with the Merchants of England Traâ—ing thither Upon consideration whereof the King put forth a Proclamation Prohibiting the Importing of any Wines of the growth of the Canary-Islands and all Trade and Commerce with those Parts And at the same time another Proclamation came forth Prohibiting the Importation of any Manufactures Wines Merchandizes or Commodities whatsoever of the Growth of France or of any Lands Territories or Places belonging to the French King No less care was taken for suppressing the Insolencies of the Papists upon the humble Address of the Lords and Commons made to the King to that purpose And therefore all Popish Priests and Jesuits were by publick Proclamation likewise Commanded by a prefix'd time to depart the Kingdom And now the King to justifie his Breaking with Denmark Published a Deduction of all the Transactions of Affairs between Himself and the King of Denmark with his Declaration of War against the said King and the Motives that oblig'd him thereto wherein the King alledges that he had been unavoidably provok'd by the King of Denmark by many Aspersions Indignities and breach of Faith which that King had offered him making the Assault made by His Majesties Ships in the Port of Berghen the Ground of his late entring into a League Offensive and Defensive with the States of the Vnited Provinces whereas in truth his Majesty had the Freedom of that Port frankly offer'd him by the King of Denmark himself at a time when his Majesty thought nothing of it and that in order to the doing those very Acts of Hostility wherewith he was then reproach'd And for a good Omen of his Majesties Success in the beginning of November came News That the Vice-Admiral of Denmark was taken by some of His Majesties Frigats upon the Coast of Scotland Too long had the City now lain in Ashes when Sir George Moore a Proprietor in some Houses in Fleetstreet upon promise of conforming to the Model Form and Scantling set by the Committee appointed by the King for that purpose had liberty given him to begin that great Work which was soon after followed with that Expedition and Beauty that none could imagine but they who beheld it It was a Year of Wonders and this not the least which happen'd in the County of Lincoln where at a place call'd Welborn after a Prodigious Thunder with Hail-stones as big as Pigeons eggs there follow'd a Storm and Tempest with so great violence that it threw down most of the Houses to the ground broke down and tore up Trees by the Roots dispersing the Corn and Hay from thence going to the next Village call'd Willington it threw down some Houses which with the fall kill'd two Children thence proceeding to Nanby it fell so violently upon the Church that it dash'd the Spire in pieces tearing and rending the Church it self both in the Body and Timber-work so that it left little of the Wall standing with the body of the Steeple It was observed to run only in a Chaâ—el which had it held any considerable breadth could not but have Ruin'd a considerable part of the County But that which after so many severe Calamities reviv'd the Hearts of the City was the absolute ceasing of her devouring Enemy The Sickness in acknowledgment whereof the King order'd a publick day of Thanksgiving In Scotland there happen'd a Riot of no small consequence at Dumfreeze where some persons having gathered the people of the Neighbouring Parishes to the number of about two hundred arm'd with Clubs and Sythes took Sir Iames Turner out of his Bed carried him naked into the Market-place and had much ado to be restrain'd from cutting him in pieces for his severity as they pretended in exacting Fines upon Nonconformists Nor was this contemptible number long ere they increased to a considerable force in all 1600 men and were marching within four miles of Edenburgh when hearing that the whole Country was up in Arms against them they thought it more convenient to return but being set upon by Lieutenant-Colonel Dyel and Major-General Drummond neer Glencarn-Kirk they were totally defeated 500 slain upon the place and
100 taken Prisoners Several of the Rebels were afterwards Sentenced and Executed among the rest Corson that first began the Mutiny and Malkel their Minister a main Incendiary of the people so that in a short time all things were reduc'd to their former quietness In imitation of England the Barbadoes another England in the other part of the World would not suffer the same Enemies of both to lie undisturb'd To which purpose the Lord Willoughby Governour of the Caribby Islands having set forth from the Barbadoes a considerable Fleet well Man'd and Victuall'd set sail from thence upon some particular designe and in his way burnt two ships richly laden in the Harbour of Los Santos and took two other Prizes but as he was in pursuit of his further designe there arose a Hurricane so violent that their Cables giving way they were forc'd to abandon themselves to the rage of the Storm which continued with that extremity that they were wholly separated and dispersed and the Lord Willoughby himself absolutely lost In Ianuary the Convention of the Estates of Scotland met according to appointment where the Oath of Allegeance being administred and taken by the several Members they fell upon the publick concernments as securing the Kingdom from publick and Domestick Dangers and how to put the same into a posture of defence and for the raising so much Money as should be thought convenient to defray the charge and thereupon 6000 l. per Moneth was agreed on for the entertainment of such Forces as should be employ'd in his Majesties service But in the parts neer Surinam the English were more successful than at the Barbadoes where they having destroy'd and ruin'd a considerable Colony of the Dutch at Apecawaca resolved to attempt something likewise upon the French and particularly to attack the Fort of Sinamary which they took together with fifty Prisoners and the Governour besides what were slain The English dismantled the Fort and carried away all the Guns and Ammunition Captain Reade also passing up the Canessa toward the Berbices a very populous Creek inhabited by the Enemy he landed at Carenteen and marching twenty miles by Land took the Fort of the Arawaces taking Men Women and Children Captives and much Booty with little or no loss But though it were how December some English Vessels were still abroad And among the rest Captain Robinson who lighting upon three Dutch Men of War neer the Texel destroy'd them all in requital of which curtesie the Dutch not long after took the Saint Patrick off of Portsmouth deserted by her own Fire-ship At the conclusion of the Year Captain Vtbert return'd from the Streights with the Squadron under his Command and seven Dutch Prizes Forein Affairs 1666. The King of France having receiv'd a very high Affront from the Great Turk in the person of his Embassador thought no way better than to send the same person again to require satisfaction for the repair of his Masters Honour But the Turk retaining in his minde the attempt upon Gigery and the Succours sent the Emperour would hearken to no Proposition that might add to the Honour of his solemn Entry so that he was forc'd at last to land as it were Incognito and privately attended to walk from the Ship to his House He went with much pomp to his Audience and at his Entry made several stops expecting the Visier would have risen to him but finding no more respect he sate down upon the Stool appointed for him and in his Masters Name whom he stil'd Emperour of France demanded more Honour to be done him But the Visier incens'd with the manner of his demanding it broke out into a passion which the French Embassador resenting rose from his seat and in going away thrâ—w the Capitulations with the Case over his Shoulder which hit the Visier on the Brest upon which the Visier commanded his Officers to apprehend and strike him which was accordingly performed and he hurried out of the Chamber where he had received several boxes of the Ear and blows upon the Brest and was carried Prisoner to the Bashaw's House where he was kept Prisoner in a base low Room under the Stairs and there detained four days till by the Intercession of the English Embassador he was deliver'd The King of France had sent a person of quality to be a Witness of the Great Turk'â— submission but he became a fairer testimony of his Embassador's hard usage The Electors of Brandenburgh and Colen the Dukes of Newburgh and Brunswick laboured hard to finde out ways expedient for composing the Differences between the Bishop of Munster and the States of the Vnited Provinces and with them the Emperour and the Princes of the Dyet at Ratisbone so that at length the Bishop was over-perswaded to conclude a Peace which was accordingly sign'd toward the beginning of the Year though he had received 100000 Rix-dollars from the King of England for carrying on the War but it lasted not long for when the King of France became their Enemy he broke it again which was not long after At Musco great alterations had like to have fallen out in matters of Religion For a certain Fâ—yaâ— in his Sermons endeavouring to make the people wiseâ— than formerly they had been in that ignorant Country among other Doctrines that were new â—here instructed them That Images signified nothing and therefore were not to be worshipped That the Saints know nothing of our Prayers to them and consequently were not to be call'd upon Which wrought so powerfully upon the people that many hundreds of them began to reform their ancient practice and openly refused the use of Pictures But a great party of Souldiers being sent immediately to reduce them from their Heresie frighted the generality into a Recantation some 20 persisting in their new Faith were burnt and 30 more hanged to terrifie the rest This being the second attempt of this nature in that blinde paâ—t of the World In Poland the difference between that King and Lubomirskie still continu'd But the generality of the Polish Nobility not only appeard to Mediate on his behalf but seeing no effect of their Mediation entred into a Confederacy with him against the King This brought the King to hearken to some terms of Agreement But while both sides were at work busie to contrive it the Royal Party endeavouring to put a more speedy end to those Affairs attempted to have surpris'd the Confederates at unawares but the Design was so timely discover'd that Lubomirskie by an Ambuscado of his best Troops cut off above Five Thousand of the Kings Souldiers in such a place where the King was forc'd to look on and behold the Slaughter of his men without being able to Assist them Whether upon this occasion or no is uncertain but a Peace immediately ensued between the King and the Confederates upon Condition of a General Act of Oblivion an Evacuation of Garrisons and the
make of any Exactions practis'd upon them by any of the Officers Sub-Officers or Clerks in the Navy-Office or Treasury-Office that if the same should appear to be true Justice might be done upon the one and Satisfaction given to the other About this time dy'd Mr. Abraham Cowley one of the chiefest Ornaments of this Age whose Immature Death succeeding Ages will lament when they finde what Treasures they have lost by his untimely Fate His temperate Life did not deserve so short a Period But Heaven perhaps thought he had done enough that could not well do more than make himself Immortal His Body was convey'd from Wallingford-House to Westminster-Abbey attended by many Persons of very great Quality over whose Grave has been since Erected a stately Monument to Eternize his Memory In America the French had a Design upon Mevis having drawn out all their Forces from Martenico Guadaloup and St. Christophers strengthen'd also with an additional force of their own and two Dutch Men of War being in all 32 Sail but being encountred by 10 Sail of the English who were sent by Lieutenant General Willoughby for the relief of the Island the English so smartly Encountr'd them that he Chased them home to St. Christophers Upon the Return of the English to Mevis they found Sir Iohn Harman newly Arriv'd there with seven Men of War and two Fireships who understanding what had happen'd resolv'd to fall upon them in their own Ports which he did so effectually that he burn'd their Admiral and six or seaven of their best Ships more the rest all but two were sunk partly by the industry of the Enemy partly by the Shot of the English Ships in which Service the English lost not above 80 Men with little damage to their Vessels From the other Indies two ships about this time arriv'd under the Convoy of Sir Ieremy Smith who having been cruising in the Streights the most part of the Summer had met with no opportunity of considerable action more than to keep the Dominion of the Seas However at length he made a shift to meet with two Dâ—â—ch East-Indie-Prises outward bound which he brought home returning into St. Helâ—ens-Road toward the end of September Nor did the Dutch at any time Triumph where the number was not too unequal as appeared by the success of six of our smaller Frigats who falling in with three Holland Men of War of 42 36 and 30 Guns and two Merchant-men to the Northward took the three Men of War and one of the Merchant-men being forc'd to quit the other upon view of a whole Squadron of the Enemy At home the King had notice of the great concourse of very many persons of the Romish Religion to the Chappels of St. Iames and Somerset-house and therefore gave order in â—ouncil That if any of his Subjects not being of the Families of the Queen or Queen-Mother or of Forrein Embassadors should repair to hear Mass or perform any Exercises of the Romish Religion that they should be severely prosecuted and such punishments inflicted upon them as by Law were provided And for the better discovery of such as were addicted to Popery the Lord-Keeper was Authoriz'd to issue out Commissions of Dedimus Potestatem for administring the Oaths of Allegeance and Supremacy in all places of England and Wales where they had not been already granted by the Lord-Chancellor The abuses also of the Company of Woodmongers were look'd into and upon frequent consultations thereupon had it was thought fit that for the conveniency of the Publick their Charter should be surrender'd which when they peremptorily refus'd to do the Atturney-General was order'd to proceed against them by Quo Warranto and by Information in the Crown-Office The City began to rise with more splendor now than ever which the King to forward as much as in him lay as soon as the Foundation of the Royal Exchange was appointed to be laid was pleased to be present and assisting at the Solemnity His Majesty there placing the first Stone with the usual Ceremonies Not long after the Duke of York attended with several persons of Honour went into the City and being honourably receiv'd by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen with the usual Ceremonies upon such occasions laid the first Stone for a second Pillar which gave so great an encouragement to the Workmen that never did so large a Structure go on with greater Vigour The remaining part of the Year was more for Counsel than Action And therefore the King for the better regulating affairs for the future among other Important parts thereof taking into his consideration the ways and methods of managing matters at the Council-Board establish'd several standing Committees for several businesses with regular daies for their Assembling And not content to have Peace at home His Majesty to shew himself a Mediator among his Neighbours sent his Embassador the Earl of Sandwich on that Grand Errand of making Peace between Spain and Portugal who soon after he had his dispatches arriv'd at Lisbon He no sooner had had his Audience but upon the resignation of the former King the Infanta his Brother took possession of the Scepter However so well he manag'd his employ that in a short while after the Articles were fully agreed on between the two Crowns of Spain and Portugal and the Ratification mutually exchang'd between the said Embassador of England and the Spanish and Portugueze Commissioners and soon thereupon publish'd both at Madrid and Lisbon The Insolencies of private Men of War were about this time very great and therefore the King taking into consideration as well the safeguard and protection of his own Subjects as of his Allies the disturbances of Commerce and the diminution of his own Revenues in his own Ports and Harbours set forth a Proclamation commanding an inviolable Tâ—uce and Cessation in his own Ports Havens and Roads That his Subjects by Sea and Land should do their utmost to hinder the roving and hovering of any Men of War neer the Entry of any of his Ports or Harbours That if any Men of War of one side came into any Port where were Merchant-men of another party the Merchant-men should be suffer'd to depart two Tides before the Men of War That no Privateer with forrein Commission should stay above 24 hours in any of his Majesties Ports or Harbours That none of his Majesties Subjects should contract or deal with any forrein Man of War That no Mariner or Officer being the King 's Subject should presume to put himself into the service of any forrein Prince or State Toward the beginning of this Moneth the Paâ—â—â—ament according to their Adjournment met At which time the King coming to the House of Lords directed his Speech to both Houses telling them that he had made a League Defensive with the States of the Vnited Provinces with a League also for an Efficacious Mediation of Peace betwixt the two Crowns
into which Sweden had offer'd to enter as a Principal Then putting them in minde of his vast Expences pasâ— and necessarily to ensue by the building of Ships and setting out another Navy he desir'd their speedy assistance with Money Lastly he recommended to their care to consider of a course how to beget a better Union of his Protestant Subjects After this Peace with the Dutch ensued the Peace with Spain not only renewing the ancient Friendship but enlarging the Trade and Commerce between both Kingdoms concluded in May last and this Moneth Proclaimed in England Toward the beginning of the Moneth the Count De Dona Embassador Extraordinary from the Crown of Sweden arriv'd at London but before he had concluded his Negotiation died in May following Toward the latter end of the Moneth Sir William Temple Envoy Extraordinary from his Majesty to the States of the Vnited Provinces having exchanged the Ratification of the late concluded League concluded another League concerning Maritime Affairs and having sent it into England for confirmation departed from Holland for Brussels The third of this Moneth was Launch'd that Famous Ship still known by the Name of Charles the Second This Moneth also upon the Petition of the Commons in Parliament a Proclamation was issu'd forth to enforce the Laws against Conventicles and for preserving the Peace of the Nation against unlawful Assemblies Forein Affairs 1667. A Gentleman of Savoy having his Head cut off at Geneva for some Crime committed there the Duke of Savoy did so exceedingly resent their Proceedings which he affirm'd to be both against the last Treaty between that City and him and against the Law of Nations that he was resolv'd to employ his Arms against them The City of Geneva appeal'd to the Switzers who in a Dyet at Baden as well of the Roman-Catholicks as Protestants where were also present the Embassadors of the Emperour and King of Spain unanimously resolv'd to give their Assistance to Geneva The Emperour's Embassador declar'd the like in the Name of his Master who was oblig'd to protect Geneva as an Imperial City being unjustly assaulted by a Prince of the Empire The Spanish Embassador deliver'd himself also in their favour But the main Affair which alarm'd the Princes of Europe was the pretension which the King of France made to the Spanish Netherlands and his great preparations to get the possession of what he laid claim to by force of Arms. Castle-Rodrigo represented to the King of France the scandal which would be given to all the World when they should see him engaged in a War against a Brother of only six years of age and a Regency subordinate to the Laws of a Testator without any form of Justice or demand of satisfaction That he doubted not but the Queen his Mistriss would willingly refer her self to the Princes of the Roman Empire to the Crown of England or the Vnited Provinces And thereâ—ore left it to his consideration how unjust it would be to attempt any Invasion without those Formalities and Interpositions which the Christian Princes had always observed Of this the King of France takes little notice for he thought he had done enough a little before by his Letter to the Queen of Spain wherein he wrote to her that she could not but know the right which the Queen his Wife had to several Territories of the Netherlands which she knowing to be solid had desir'd her Majesty to take particular Cognizance of and do her Justice therein That she in her Answer had not only pretended that she could not upon any consideration of that Affair enter into a discussion thereof but had sent Orders to the Governour of Flanders to administer the Oath of Fidelity to be administred to all the States and People of that Country which being an absolute refusal of doing him Justice had put him upon a necessity of being wanting to his Honour to himself to his Queen and the Dolphin his Son should he not by force of Arms endeavour to obtain that reason which had been denied him The Queen of Spain returns for Answer that the King of France could not be ignorant of the just Rights of the King her Son however that she was willing to enter into an Amicable Treaty wherein the Rights of her Son and Him might be seasonably examin'd so that Justice might take place by the ways and means most proper But the King of France not liking these delays of Words falls into the Spanish Territories in the Netherlands and takes Tournay Doway Bergen St. Winox Courtrich Oudenard and Lille and almost wholly reduces those parts under his Jurisdiction and besides all this he defeats a great part of the Spanish Army under Marcin killing 2000 upon the place and pursuing the rest to the very Walls of Damin On the other side he sends the Duke of Crequi with a Body of 8000 men to secure Alsatia and to prevent any Succours that the Emperour might send And hearing that his Forces were upon their March commanded the Prince of Conde as Generalissimo of that place to send a supply to Crequi to lie in their way Toward the latter end of the Year he fell into Franche Comte where the Prince of Conde took Bessanson Dole Gray Besterans Rochefort and so many other places that by the latter end of February the Conquest of that place was wholly compleated Though the Swedes stood firm to England during the War yet now that the King of England had concluded a Peace with the Dutch they also did the same The chief Conditions of the Treaty were That Swedeland should give up all their pretensions upon account of the Fort Cabo Corso in Guiny and the Ship Christina That the Swedes should give up all their Rights to the East-Indies and neither directly nor indirectly sail into those Coasts upon the account of Trade For which the King of Sweden should receive from the Dutch the sum of 140000 Crowns This Year toward the latter end of May died Pope Alexander the 7 th in the sixty ninth year of his Age and the twelfth of his Papacy In his place after several warm disputes was at length chosen Iulio Rospigliosi of Pistoya Secretary of State to the late Pope deceased He entred upon the Chair in the 71 year of his age by the Name of Clement the ninth As for the Venetian he had his hands full this year the City of Candy being now closely Besieged but though it were with greater numbers Assaulted it was with greater courage all this year defended Nor was Poland free from the Irruptions of the Tartars who had almost defeated the Polish General Sobieskie but that he made a timely Peace with them upon condition of a general Oblivion release of Prisoners on both sides and a sum of Money to be paid them Anno Dom. 1668. TOward the end of March several idle persons in and about the City being got together and abusing the Liberty givâ—n 'um by
Reside there as his Legate France may be thought to have no kindness for the Jesuits however the most Christian King could not be said to do amiss not to let 'um Triumph over their Superiors for Complaint being made that the Jesuits in the Diocess of Fambers had refus'd to give Obedience to the Bishop of that Diocess the King gave leave to the Bishop to proceed against them by Excommunication according to the Priviledges of the Gallicane Church whereupon the Bishop suspended them from all their Functions forbidding them to Preach Teach or Confess any person within the Territories of his Diocess The King of France being now Master of several Towns of Flanders late under the Jurisdiction of the Spaniards and having totally reduc'd the County of Burgundy under his Subjection of which in favour of the Prince of Conde he immediately granted two Reversions one to the Duke D' Enguien Son of the said Prince and the other to the Duke of Bourbon his Grand-Child thought it convenient to listen to the Mediation then proffer'd by several Princes of Europe chiefly by the King of England and the States of the Vnited Netherlands so that a Treaty was concluded upon and Aix la Chapelle appointed the Place for the Commissioners to meet in In the mean time while the Spaniards lay upon their Demurs a League was Concluded by the Mediation of the Earl of Sandwich the King of Englands Embassador at Lisbon between the two Crowns of Spain and Portugal a League of sincere and perpetual Peace containing a Release of Prisoners Nullity of Confiscations Freedom of Commerce and such other Usual Articles which were in Six Months after Publication to be Confirm'd and Ratifi'd by the King of Great Britain And now as if the General Design of Europe were Peace the Commissioners meet at Aix la Chapelle for the King of England Sir William Temple for the Dutch Mr. Beverning for the French Monsieur Colbert for the King of Spain the Baron of Bergeick who having some time before Sign'd Provisional Articles in order to a final Conclusion whereby a suspension of Arms was granted and the March of the French Army Countermanded at length fell seriously to their Work so that by the second of May the Articles of General Peace were sign'd by the Plenipotentiaries of both Kings and afterwards Proclaim'd through all the Chief places of France Spain and Flanders to the general content of Europe and satisfaction of the Mediators But notwithstanding this fair Peace the Spaniards did not like the Neighbourhood of the French and therefore would have made an Exchange of some other Territories of theirs lying farther off for that oâ— Frâ—nche Comâ—e On the otherside the French not satisfi'd with what they had got Claim'd several Towns as dependencies upon their late Conquests as the Towns of Conde Newport and other places Hereupon to end these differences and to settle the bounds of the French Jurisdiction Commissioners are appointed to meet at Lille but they determine nothing upon which the French King makes a positive demand of all that he Challeng'd and the Spaniards Order the several Commanders to have a care of the Defence of their several Charges In which posture we leave 'um hatching new Discords for this Year Leaving these great Actors upon the Stage of the World we are coming to one who is making his Exit for the King of Poland at the beginning of the Year had signifiâ—â— to the publick Dyet of that Kingdom his Resolution to make a Resignation many applications were made to him whether Real or out of Ceremony not here to be determin'd that he would please to change his purpose and some other delays happen'd as in a matter of so great importance so that the Ceremony was not perform'd till September at which time the King appearing in the publick Assembly and in a pathetick Speech insisting on his misfortune to meet with such bad times and desiring pardon for what had been done amiss during the time of his Raign departed out of the Assembly and in his own Coach leaving the Castle went to a private House he had in the City The Nobility would have attended him but he refus'd it But there were enough that ardently coveted what he had so calmly forsaken The Duke of Muscovy was urgent for his own Son The Emperour for the Prince of Lorrain And the French King for the Duke of Newburg a Creature of his own But the Pole refus'd all but more especially the French whose Embassador the Bishop of Bezieres they would not endure should stay in the Kingdom to have any finger in the Election Nor was any thing this Year concluded In Holland Monsieur Cariâ—ius put a very hard Riddle to the States When they would be pleas'd to pay his Majesty the King of Denmark several sums of Money which he pretended to be due upon Promise particularly 400000 Rixdollars from the States of Holland and 14000 from those of Amsterdam This Question occasion'd many Debates and Conferences and was at length put to the Arbitration of the King of France Now for varieties sake and to shew there was some Justice at Rome I must not omit an Act of the Pope at this time raigning A Complaint being Exhibited to his Holiness by a person of Tivoli that whereas he had liv'd several years with his Mother with great content and satisfaction upon an Estate of 1500 Dollars per Annum His Mother falling sick was during her sickness so far prevail'd upon by a Jesuit her Confessor that she had by Will given away all the Estate to the Order not reserving any thing for the subsistance of him her Son The Pope extreamly dissatisfi'd with this Complaint sent for his own Confessor and in very severe Language commanded him to finde out the General and in his Name to require him to write to the Superior at Tivoli to restore the Petitioner his Land again Nor must we omit now we are at Rome the Canonization of an American Virgin named Rosa a Nun in a Covent of St. Dominick For every body in England does not understand what a glorious thing it is to be made a Saint The Church was hung with Tapistry and Inscriptions in honour of the New Saint on the Altar stood her Image and about it the Arms of the Pope the King of Spain the Kingdom of Peru and this Religious Dominican During the Te Deum one of the Cannons of St. Peters Church was fir'd a great number of Drums and Trumpets sounding and several Vollies of shot given by a Squadron of Germans drawn up neer the Church After which a solemn Mass was sung by six Quires of Musick In the Afternoon the Pope heard Vespers in the same Church present several Cardinals with the Embassadors and Ministers of Forrein Princes and the Evening spent in Lights and Fire-works The Venetians are busied for the defence of their Candia and by the Assistance of the French hold the Turk hard to it this
Siege there was none more Signal than the Atchievment of the Duke of Monmouth who Commanding one of the Posts where the Enemy made a Vigorous Sally and springing a Mine which slew a Captain an Ensign and fifty Souldiers and seeing the out-Guards give ground sent a Party of the King of France's Musquettiers design'd for the Guard of his own Person to make good the Post but seeing them retire with only 12 Voluntiers all English through a storm of Shot hasted to their Relief The Enemy had now possess'd a Half-moon which had been but lately taken from them before but the presence and Encouragement of the Duke and the small succour he brought with him so animated the retiring Musqueteers that they fell on anew and the Duke with some little help more rallied out of the Trenches recover'd the Halfe-Moon and deliver'd it to Monsieur Fuillade who came to relieve him at the ordinary hour The regaining of which Post so soon was no small reason of the Rendition of the Town which soon after in the beginning of Iuly followed upon honourable Conditions to the Souldiers and Townsmen both as to the Privileges of Religion and Trade Of English Commanders slain at this Siege were none of Note but Sir Henry Iones who Commanded the English Regiment of Light-Horse and only accompanied the Duke of of Monmouth as a Voluntier to the regaining the Half-moon before-mentioned But the Dutch were not a little comforted for the loss of this Town by the recovery of Vtrecht and Woâ—â—den which were quitted by the French without any Damage done to the Fortifications or Inhabitants upon a consideration of a certain sum of Money given to the Souldiers by the Townsmen and the retaking of Ban which was at length surrendred into their hands after it had been Besieged by the whole power of the Confederates their own and the Forces of the Imperialists and Spaniards who had in the middle of October declar'd open War against the French so that there was nothing more frequent than the Meetings and Conferences of Monterey and the Prince of Orange together as to the ordering and governing their common Interests But Naerden fell into the Hands of the French for the loss of which they were so much incens'd that they Beheaded the Governour Monsieur Paâ— for surrendring it in so short a time though it were afterwards retaken by the Prince of Orange to their great joy In the mean while the Pope being at more leisure at Rome thought it convenient to fill up the vacancies of the Conclave to which end he disposed of four Hats this Year One to Francisco Nerli a Florentine of 38 years of Age A second to Seignior Ieronimo Gustoldi a Genâ—ese 60 years old A third to Ieronimo Casanalti a Neapolitan 58 years old And the fourth to Pietro Bassaduana a Venetian Aged about 60 years A fifth was intended but not then disposed of The King of France was fretted at the March of the Emperour's Forces and therefore to try if he could stop their further March he writes to the King of Sweden to do his utmost endeavour who was at present a Mediator between them and at the same time gives a Memorial to the Swedish Embassador in his Camp wherein he pretended how tender he had been all along of the Peace of the Empire but withal declares that if the Emperour did persist to give assistance to the Dutch and should march his Forces out of Bohemia he was resolv'd to oppose him to the utmost of his power with all his Forces Besides this Threatning Letter and his passing into Alsatia and hovering from thence about Charleroy the King of France did little else returning soon after to Paris The Dutch secur'd from the English strive to strengthen themselves by other Alliances And therefore having by a publick Placaert conferr'd the Commands of Stadtholder Captain and admiral-Admiral-General of the Provinces of Holland and West-Friezland to the Prince and his Heir-Males by Lawful Marriage with all Rights and Priviledges thereto belonging who thereupon took his Seat in the Assembly of the States of Holland and West-Friezland as Primier Noble The next thing they did was to conclude such a League as they thought most advantageous and thereupon a League was entred into and ratified by them and the Emperour the King of Spain on the one part and the Duke of Lorain on the other The Conditions whereof were That the Duke of Lorain should raise an Army of 18000 Horse and Foot by the times in the Treaty limited to be paid by the Emperour the King of Spain and the States after the rate of 9000 Crowns per Moneth and to act by their orders and directions The League to last 10 years On the other side the Swede joyns himself strictly to the French upon condition to receive 50000 Crowns a Moneth from the King of France for six years to begin presently after the conclusion of the Peace Being obliged to declare himself for the French in case the States the Emperour and the King of Spain did not make a League with the French before the fifteenth of May next ensuing But there was no likelyhood of that for the King of France having demanded satisfaction at the Emperour's Court for the injury done to Count Furstenburgh Plenipotentiary for the Bishop of Cologne but obtaining none the Emperour rather seeking to justifie the action than to punish the actors recalled his Embassadors from Cologne and brake off the Treaty Nor would the Interposition of the King of England prevail though he offered his Mediation to reconcile the differences between the two Crowns of France and Spain The Swedes also proposed That the Spaniards should give Aire St. Omer and Ipres into the Hands of the French on Condition that the French should quit all they had got in those parts and restore Maestricht to the Spaniards But all in vain the Spaniards affirming that the French were to restore not only the places they had got in this War but also all the places they had possessed themselves of since the Treaty with the Pyreneans The business of Count Furstenburgh was this He being at Cologne and going in his Coach accompanied only with his Secretary and two Gentlemen more attended by three Lacqueys to visit the Elector of Cologne whose Plenipotentiary and chief Minister he was was set upon in the Street by nine persons armed with Sword and Pistol who being too strong for the Count's party after some kill'd and hurt on both sides the Count was forc'd out of the City where stood another strong party to receive him who carried him to Bonne whence he was sent Prisoner to Vienna The Emperour pretended him a Subject of the Empire and that he had contrary to his trust taken part with his Enemies Nor were the Swedes as well as the King of France less active in interposing for his Liberty affirming that he was the Elector's Plenipotentiary that though he had a French Regiment it was only Nominal
Cock-matches prohibited 359 Horton Adjutant to Maj. Gen. Brown at Dennington 63 Hotham refuseth to admit the King into Hull but suffers the Duke of York and Prince Elector Palatine is proclaimed Traitor 33 34. Revolts from the Parliament and his son and he sent Prisoners to the Tower 56. Executed 68 House of Lords voted useless 226. Protest against it ibid. Howard Lord adviseth Richard Cromwel 417 Howard Lady to the Tower 423 Howard Capt. his valour 543 Howard Master sent Embassador to Taffalette 575 Hoyle Alderman Hangs himself 256 Hull Garrison 33. Hotham Governour of it ibid. The dispute of transferring that Magazine 32 33 Humble Petition and Advice 393 Hume-castle yielded 283 Humphries-Col to Jamaica 377 I Jamaica 370 Jamaicans assault the Dutch Plantations 548 James John Executed 502 Jealousies Fears and pretended Plots 26 27 30.31 Jenkins Iudge his writings 155 156. Designed for slaughter 229. Dies 524 Jersey a new Mace 520. Surrendered to Col. Haynes 306 Jesuits in France proceeded against 570. Exiled 373 Jews treat for admission with Cromwel 379 Jewish Prophet 548 559 Imposition on Seal-coal 359 Independants rise 66. Quarrel with the Presbyterians and cajolethem 67. undermine and defeat them 112 113 139. Synod at Savoy 413 Inchiqueen Lord defeats Lord Taaff 164. Declares for the King ibid. Ioyns with the Confederate Catholicks for the King under the Lord of Ormond made Lieutenant General of the Army 238. His overfight like to be surpriâ—ed 245. Falsly suspected and accused by the Marquess of Antrim 263. Leaves Ireland 277 Indians rebel in New-England 601 Ingoldsby Col. offers aid to Richard 417. Suppresseth a Mutiny and Lambert Instrument of Cromwel's Protectorian Government and his Oath 354 Joachims Embassador from the Dutch 267. Sent home 270 St. Johnstons yielded 294 Jones draws out of Dublin to oppose the advance of the Marquiss of Ormond retreats 239. Raiseth the Siege before Dublin 211. Comes before Drogheda and retreats 243. Dies in the quality of lieutenant-Lieutenant-General 247 Ireland and Ulster Forces submit 344 Ireland its state and condition 238 Ireton's appearance and notice at Naseby-fight wounded 78. In the Cabal of the Army 84. Draws their Papers and Proposals 84 85. Parliament Votes 161. Intrigues between them 116 118 119. Dies of the Plague 305 Irish affairs an account of the Cessation and the Marq. of Ormond's Treaty with Rebels and Parliament the Articles thereof with the Rebels the Popes Nuntio there 122 123 124. Strength what after Cromwel's departure 253. Abused by Cromwel's fair carriage at first into horrible slavery at his departure 253. Defeated at Finagh 234. Their affairs 292 309 310. Seem to acquiess in Lambert's actions 431. Affairs 515 Judges Commissioned by the new State 224. New ones again 254. New placed by the Rump 422. Of the King and others exempted out of the Act of Oblivion 454. They that came in upon Proclamation respited from Execution 469. Brought to the House of Lords and remanded to Prison 502. Of the Law their Names 492 Justice High Court 203 to 217. Again erected 258 278. To try Col. Gerrard and Powel 360 K Kentish Insurrection 173. Suppressed ibid. Kent mastered and reduced by Rich and Berkstead 175 Keyling Sir John Lord Chief-Iustice 543 Ker Col. defeated 280 Killing no Murther a Book 395 King dispenceth with the Common prayer and Book of Canons in Scotland by a Declaration slighted and cavilled at as a device and opposed by the Earls of Hume and Lindsey with another Declaration 7 8 Arms against the Scots 9. At York and Barwick agrees upon a Pacification 10. Goeth to his Scotch Parliament 20. Departs thence with mutual satisfaction ibid. Received Magnificently at his return to the City ibid. Demands five Members 25. To Hampton-court to Dover to Greenwich Theobalds 27. To Royston New-market York ibid. Asserts his right in the Militia 30 31. His innocence of any designe of War c. ibid. Resolves for Ireland 32. Expostulates his affront at Hull from Beverley 34. Takes a guard of York-shire-Gentlemen ibid. His intentions of no War attested by the Lords ibid. Answers and refutes their Remonstrance 35. Forbids the Militia 36. Invites his Subjects to his assistance ibid. To Newark back to York to Nottingham sets up his Standard to Stafford-shire Leicester-shire confines of Wales and Shrewsbury and caresses the Gentry and Commonalty 37 38 39. Melts down his Plate at Shrewsbury and Mints it 38. Faceth Coventry to Southam 39. Stays and turns upon Essex his Speech 39 40. Takes Banbury to Oxford towards London at Brainford 41. Into the West after Essex Overtakes him at Lestithiel defeats him 58. in the associated Counties 88. Into Wales ibid. At Newark 90. At Oxford ibid. Escapes thence 99. To the Scots 100. Information of it and his Majesties Messages and the Parliaments Answers from 100 to 104. The King at Newcastle 114. disputes with Henderson 115. And betrayed by the Scots 121. His escape intended from the 122. Delivered to Commissioners 127. At Holmby 128. Carried away by Cornet Joyce 129. At Childersley with freedom of Chaplains 130. The designe of it 131 to 133. Deluded by the Army Proposals 132. At Hampton-court after many traverses 145. Pretendedly at Liberty and Honour 147. His nearness to London suspected by Cromwel 148. Frighted thence by Whaley and departs ibid. His Letters and Declarations there 148 to 151. In the Isle of Wight ibid. High Treason to conceal his Person ibid. His Message from the Isle of Wight 151 to 155. A blasphemous Hue and Cry against him ibid. Answers the Message with the Bills of Parliament His Declaration upon the Votes of Non-addresses 166 to 169. Kings Message and Answer to the Votes of a personal Treaty 181 182. Hath liberty of assistance and his Friends 183. Startled at the Remonstrance of the Army 187. Shews the unreasonableness of it ibid. His farewel to the Commissioners and Declaration concerning the Treaty 188 to 190. And his Letter of the result and advice to the Prince 190. Hurried from the Isle of Wight to Hurst-castle to Winchester to Windsor to St. James's 193. To the High Court of Iustice his defence and Reasons 203 to 215. Traiterously Sentenced ibid. Confers with his Children ibid. The Lady Elizabeth's relation of it 216. His Speech upon the Scaffold 218 to 219. Murthered 220. His Corps exposed to view ibid. Buried by the Duke of Richmond Marquiss of Hertford Durchester and Earl of Lindsey at Windsor 221. The Service-book denied at his Interment ibid. King Charles the second at Hague 235. Highly treated there and honoured 236. Departs for France by Rotterdam Dort Antwerp and Brussels treated by the Arch-Duke Leopold attended thence by Duke Lorrain to Compeign met there by the French King 237. At Jersey 257. At Breda ibid. Takes shipping at Terheyden for Scotland 268. Arrives there ibid. Withdrawing the Covenanting party 281. Crowned at Schoone ibid. Marched into England 294. Comes to Worcester 295. Summons the Country ibid. Flies by advice of the Earl of Derby to Whiteladies the
Mentz and Collen at odds 547 Messiah counterfeit 548 Meetings supprest 573 Middleton now a Parliamentarian General 62. Taken 301. Seeking aid from the Dutch 344. Lands in Scotland 358 Militia Ordinance 29 30. Petitioned by the Parliament 30 to 33. Messages about it ibid. On foot in Lincoln-shire 34 Mings Sir Christopher chaced the Dutch 544. Sails for the Coast of Sweden 545. General Wrangle comes aboard him ibid. Miracle ominous 390 Mohun Lord for the King Lord Hopton Sir John Berkley and Col. Ashburnham Commissioners for the King in the West 43 Montross Marq. his Battles and activity 73 74. His Declaration 254. Tragedy and death from 255 to 266. His Interment 497 Monarchy the antient and only British Government 223. Abolished in Scotland by English States 308 Monke a Colonel from Ireland to assist the King taken prisoner at Namptwich and thence to the Tower of London 53. To Ireland again 123. General his acts in Ireland for the pretended States 237. He had the honour of Dunbar 274. In Scotland 358. In Sir George Booths c. 426. Secures the Scotch Nobility 427. Declares against the proceedings of Lambert c. And secures Anabaptist Officers maintains intelligence in England and protracts time by offers of Composure 430 431. Sends Commissioners to London they agree to no purpose obtains his desire of the Scotch Convention 432. Signifies his coming to London 435. His passage and Narrative of his Cabal 436 437. Thanked by the Parliament 442. The great instrument of the Restitution Meets the King at Dover 450. Dignified with the Order of the Garter 451. With the title of Duke of Albemarle 455 Monmoth betrayed and regained 64 Monmouth Duke made Capt. Kings Guard 568. His valour at Maestricht 596. Made Chancellor of Cambridge 599 Monro Sir George defeated 247. His enterprize in Ulster 250 Modiford Sir Thomas in Jamaica 530 Mordant Lord John seized 403. Tryed and quitted 404. Summoned 423 Morris Col. Executed 254 Moor Lord 240 Morpeth Earl affronted in Holland 532 Moreland Sir Samuel 448 Mother of Cromwel dies 366 Montague Gen. 416. Dignified with the Earldome of Sandwich 455. To Algier and Lisbon 500. Brings home the Queen 507 Mulgrave Earl made Knight of the Garter 598 Munster success in Holland 544 Munson Lord Sir Henry Mildmay and Wallop Sentenced 501 Musco alteration in their Religion intended 558 Myn Colonel slain and his party routed by Massey 64 N Naerden taken from the Dutch 597 Nailor James the Quaker personates our Saviour 384. Sentenced ibid. Released by the Rump 426 Newburg Prince arrives in England 602 Newberry disorders 525 Newark yielded 701 Newcastle Earl afterwards Marquiss 42. Besieged in York 58. Disswades fighting after the defeat at Marston-moor sets sail for Hamburgh with most of the Nobility and Officers of his party 61 Newcastle taken 67 New-park given the City by the Rump 235 News of the Change by Cromwel acceptable to the King at Paris 344 New-buildings 392 Nimmegen taken 586 No Address votes 162 Nobility of the Loyal and Presbyterian party 444 Noblemen English for the Scotch peace against Strafford's advice 15. Summoned to a general Council at York ibid. Conclude the Peace ibid. Secured by the Rump in the Tower 753 Nobles their Catalogue 488 Nonconformists increase in the Reigns of Qu. Elizabeth and King James 2 Indulged 582 Norfolk-Insurrection 278 Northampton burnt 602 North Sir Francis Lord Chief-Iustice of the Common-pleas 599 Northumberland Earl General of the Scots second expedition 22. His reasons to reject the Ordinance for the Trial of the King 194 Northampton Earl 42. Killed 44 Northern Counties oppressed by the Scots 120 Norton Colonel 66 Norwich Earl General in Kent at Rochester and Black-heath at Bow and Stratford 174 Nuntio of the Popes in Ireland his business 123. Party in Ireland 238 Nye one of the Commissioners for approbation with Lockier 359 O Oblivion Act by the Parliament 309 Oblivion Act by the King 456. Another 590 Obstructions in sales of Kings and Queens Lands c. removed 310 Okey Col. dismist from Command 366 Okey Berkstead and Corbet seized in Holland tried and Executed 505 506 Omens and Prognostications of the Dutch War 315 O Neal Hugh put into Clonmel 248. Defends it very handsomly 252 O Neal joyns with the Independant-party 237 O Neal Sir Phelim hanged 333 Opdam made Lieutenant-Admiral in place of Van Tromp 349 Orange Prince arrives in England 578. Made Captain-General in Holland 579 584. Declared Stadtholder 586 Order for the Murther and Execution of the King 217 Ordinances of Parliament obeyed as Acts 36. For tryal of the King disputed and thrown aside by the Lords entituled by the Iuncto and passed as an Act 194 to 196. Ordinances published in Parliament 364 Orleans Dutchess comes into England 577. Dies ibid. Ormond Marquiss Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland 53. Capitulates with the Parliament Commissioners 164. Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland 238. He hath no power to punish any faults or Delinquents 243. Recruits his Forces and Garrison-Towns ibid. Makes agreement with O Neal by means of Daniel O Neal his Nephew 244. Resolves to fight Cromwel before Duncannon 246. Before Carrick 247. But disappointed he leaves Ireland 277. Hardly escapes out of Sussex 401. Main Instrument of the Restitutioâ— Made Earl of Brecknock 455. To Ireland Lord-Lieutenant 511. Duke of Ormond Chancellor of Oxford 571. Assaulted in the Night 578 Osborne Sir Thomas Lord-Treasurer 591 Other House meet and fawn upon the Commons 399. The Names of the Members ibid. Overton Maj. Gen. seized in Scotland 366 Overton Colonel 469 Owen Dr. preacheth before the Protector and Parliament 382 Owen Ro the great Rebel dies 248 Oxford the Kings chief Quarters and Court 47. Besieged by Fairfax 75. Yielded 106 P Pack Alderman 374 and 386 Palaffi Imbre revolts from the Emperour 548 Parliament in Ireland 4. Grant Subsidies to carry on the Scotch War 20 Parliament in England called and dissolved and why 12 Parliament in Scotland and Assembly and adjourned 17. Meet again and order their Army to march into England 13 Parliament meets at Oxford 56 Long Parliament 15. Enact a Triennial one 18. Deny his Majesties desire of going for Ireland the reasons 32 33. Forbid any resort to the King but his Servants Arm the several Counties Admit of no ways of accommodation 35. Arm and fight c. and having prevailed agree not about disposing the King 113 114 121. Buy the King from the Scots after much tampering and send Propositions to the King 118 119 121. Are refractory to all his condescentions offers and messages as appears 121. New Speakers 139. Fugitive Members sit with the Army in Council 140. Constrained to humour a Treaty in the Isle of Wight 158. Four Bills passed as Preliminaries with Proposals ibid. Necessitated to vote a personal Treaty the votes of Non-addresses cancell'd 180 181. Agree to his Majesties condescention as a ground for Peace 192. Forced by the Army ibid. Turned into a Iuncto 193. Parliament-men twelve a penny 339. Dissolved the manner of
to them The King is assisted by the Yorkshire Gentry The Lâ—â—doâ—â—rs affect the Parliament The King writes to the Lord Mayor Court of Aldermen they pâ—rsist the King sends out his Commissions of Array And publisheth a General Declaration inviting all his loving Subjects to assist him Promiseth 8 l. per cent and his Lands Parks and Houses for security Proclaims the Legality of his Commissions of Array The Parliament justifie their proceedings Sir Ben. Rudyard and other Members of Parliament earnest for an accommodation Mr. Hambden Mr. Pym and Isaac Penington Lord M. of London as violent for a war The Militia set on foot The â—â—â—â—iament borâ—â—w money oâ—â—he publick Faith The King 〈…〉 for 〈◊〉 peace Several fâ—â—tious rumours raised against the Kings friends The London Miniâ—ters and Citizens too violent for the Faction The King at Newark he sends to the Lord Willoughby of Parham to defill from aiding the Rebellion and returns to York The King causeth the Earl of Stamford to be proclaimed Traytor Sir John Lucas proclaimed Traytor by the Parliament and committed James Lord Strange Impeaâ—hed of High Treason by the Parliament Sir John Byron worsted by the Parliament-Forces and declared Rebel He marcheth to Worcester and takâ—s it for the King The Marquess of Hertford L. G. of the West for the King The King attempts Hull with 〈◊〉 and sâ—ts 〈◊〉 Standard at Nottingham The Earl of Lindsey General for the King The Earl of Essex Captain-G for the Parliament The Earl of Bedford G. of their Hâ—râ—e Essex departs from London in state The King in Stafford-shire and Leicestershire His Oration to the Gentry Freeholders and Inhabitants Wherein he promiseth to have a tender respect to his Subjects Choosing rather to melt downe his own plate Sell or Morgage his Land than to oppress them The King at Shrewsbury with 6000 fâ—ot 3000 hoâ—â— and â—â—ar 2000 Dragooners He marcheth 〈◊〉 oâ— Coventry The Londoners 〈…〉 Câ—l Ven governs Windsor Castle for the Parliament where Barksted commands 〈◊〉 The Parliament 〈…〉 of the Counties Fortsmouth and Southsea Castle taken for the Parliament by Sir John Merrick Goring goes to France A smart skirmiâ—h near Worcester Major Douglass kill'd Worcester Garrisoâ—'d for the Parliament by the Earl of Essex The King coins his plate into money Edge-hill fight Prince Rupert commands the right Wâ—â—g of the Horse The Lord Wilmot Commands the left â—ing The Earl of Lindsey General for the King The Earl of Essex General for the Parliament Their chief Commanders were Colonel Ramsey Sir William Balfour Sir Philip Stapleton and the Lord Fieldâ—ng Prince Rupert ovâ—rthrows Col. Ramsey Col. Essex kill'd Prince Rupert's mistake Col. Hambden comes to assist Essex Lord Wilmot worsted by Sir Wil. Balfour E. of Lindsey mortally wounded his Son the Lord Willoughby taken prisoner Sir Edmond Verney slain The Kings Standard taken and rescued by Sir John Smith whom the King therefore Knighted Both Armies divide The King retreats Earl of Essex marcheth to Warwick The Victory doubtful on either part Banbury Garrisoned by the King Solemn thanks given on both sides The Parliament reward the Earl of Essex with 5000 l. Slain on both sides neer 6000. On the Kings side the Lord Aubigney Col. Munro c. On the Parliaments the Lord St. John Lieu. Col. Ramsey Earl of Essex marcheth towards Coventry the King by Ayno to Banbury to Oxford and towards London Commissioners from the Parliament tender Propositions only to prevent the Kings intentions and to gain time for Essex to recruit a notable Skirmish at Branford where the King met with the Regiments of Col. Hollis Col. Hambden and the Lord Brooks 300 Parliamentarians slayn among whom Lieu. Col. Quarles as many taken prisoners The King at Oxford Sir William Waller takes Winchester Chichester delivered to the Parliament Marlborough to the King Lord Hopton Arms against the Earl of Stamford his Regiment put to the Sword by Prince Rupert at Cyrencester Glocester summoned Litchfield-Close Garrisoned by the K. Besieged by the Lord Brooke He is killed by a Musket-shot The Close delivered to the Parliament The Regiments of the Lord Wilmot Lord Grandison Lord Digby Sir William Penniman Col. Blague Col. Usher and Col. Grey take Marlborough with the Governour Col. Ramsey Tadcaster besieged by the Earl of New-Castle taken and Garrison'd by the King Lord Fairfax stormeth Leeds The Royalists defeated Belvoir-castle surprized for the King Col. Massey active in Glocester-shire Salisbury plundered by the Faction Yarum fight Sir Gilb. Gerrard puts Hambden to flight Queen landing at Burlington-Key is in imminent danger But escaping is conducted to York and from thence to the King at Edge-Hill Reading besieged by the Earl of Essex The Governour Sir Arthur Aston wounded Col. Fielding yields the Town to the Parliament Marq. of Newcastle defeated at Wakefield by Sir Thomas Fairfax Monmouth and Hereford taken by Sir Wil. Waller for the Parliament Ferdinando Lord Fairfax and his son Tho. Fairfax with others proclaimed Traytors by the Earl of Cumberland and the Earl of Newcastle The two aforesaid Earlâ— proclaimed Traytors by the Parliamâ—nt The King mâ—re prosperous in the West Liskard fight January 19. Sir Ralph Hopton chief Commander for the King at Liskard He orders publike Prayers at the head of each Squadron The Royalists get the day and come to Liskard Salt Ash assaulted by Hopton Litchfield besieged aâ—d â—ummonâ—d iâ— the Eaâ—l of Northampton March 19. Tâ—e 〈…〉 by Brereton and Gell Hopton-Heath Fight Tâ—e Earl of Northampton state â—itchfield 〈◊〉 to Prince Rupert Grantham taken for the K. by Colonel Cavendish Marlborough for the Parliament Prince â—upert at Brimingham A slight skirmish The Earl of Denbigh slain Scarborough delivered by Capt. Brown Bushel for which he was beheaded Fairfax dâ—feated at Bramham-Moor The Parliaments Cause endangered the Scots invited to their assistance Queen proclaimed Traytoâ— Cheapside-Cross and other Crosses demolished The Regalia seized at Westminster by Mr. H. Martin Covâ—nant taken by the Parliament the Londoners and all within the Parliaments command Essex advanceth from Reading to Tame Prince Rupert falls upon their quarters Chalgrave fight Hambden mortally wounded Id. Littleton â—lies with the Great Seal to Oxford a new one voted Sir R. Hopton marcheth into Devon-shire against the E. oâ— Samford and Ma. Gâ—â— Chudleigh Stratton fight The Kings party worsted Ma. G. Chudleigh taken by Sir John Berkley and the fortune of the day restored Hopton then created Baron Hopton of Stratton Col. Thomas Essex and Col. Nat. Fiennes Governours of Bristol Yeomans and Bourcher executed Earl of Northampton defeats Coloâ—â—l John Fiennes Wardour Castle taken for thâ— Parliament and a whâ—le after retaken by Sir Francis Dorrington Sir William Waller Garrisons Taunton and Bridg-Water for the Parliament Hopton joyns with Prince Maurice aâ—d Marq. of Hartford Landsdown fight Sir Bevil Greenvil and Sir Nicholas Slanning advance towards Sir William Waller Thâ—y are disordered Maâ—or Lowre and Sir Bevil Greenvil slain Lord Hopton hurt Divers others slain Lord Hopton
after the fight General Monk chiefly concâ—â—â—'d in the honour of this field The Highlanders sold for Slaves A union of parties endeavoured by the Scots The Parliament at Westminster appoint a Thanksgiving day Cromwel marcheth for Sterling Sep. 14. Liberty of Conscience Enacted in England The Sectaries raise an Army Col. Harrison made Maj. Gen. The Duke of Yoak at the Hague Prince Ruperts Fleet dispersed Nov. Princess Elizabeth dieth at Carisbroke Castle is buried in Newport Prince of Aurange died Octb. 27. Divisions among the Loyal parties in Ireland The Marq of Clanâ—ickards Forces â—eâ—eated by Col. Axtel Octob. 25. The Marq. of Ormoâ—â— and Lord Inchiqueen resolved to depart out of Ireland Nov. An Embassador from Portugal to the new States Dec. The Spanish Embassador likewise acknowledg'd them a Free-State Decem. An Insurrection in Norfolk Suppressed A High Court of Justice Erected at Norwich Mr. Cooper a Minister Maj. Saul and others Executed A memorable accident at Oxford Several Acts of Parliament Passed The Progress of Cromwel in Scotland The Trayterous Western Remonstrance of some Scots Ker defeated and taken Prisoner Edenburgh Castle yielded Dec. 24. The Articles for the Rendition of Edenburgh-Castle Col. Fenwick madâ— Goveâ—nour 〈◊〉 and of Leith for the Parliament The Scots boldly sollicitous with the King His Majesty withdraws to Gen. Middleton The manner of His Coronation January 1. The Lord-Chancellors Speech to the King His Majesties Answer He is accompanied by the Nobility to the Kirk of Scoone Mr. Robert Douglass preacheth before the King Prince of Aurange Christned Several of the King Friends preferred and intrusted Fife Castle attempted by the English Hume Castle taken Feb. 4 by Col. Fenwick for the Parliament The Governours Answer to the Summons Timtallon Castle yielded by Sir James Seaton to the Parliament of England General Ruthen Earl of Brentford and Forth deceaseth David Lesley General for the Scots A new Council of State March John Fry one of the Kings Iudges writts a Book against the Trinity he is Voted to leave the House and his Book to be burned A Dutch Envoy complains to the King of Sir Jo. Greenvile Governour of the Isle of Scilly and others The Prince of Aurange buried Feb. 21. Tho. Cook of Grays-Inne Esq. committed to the Tower Maj. General Harrison ordered to march into Lancashire Cornet Castle delivered by Col. Burgess to M. Harrison for the Parliament The Irish defeated at Finagh March 13. Sir Henry Hide Beheaded June 4 in London Câ—pt Brown Bushel Executed Mar. 29. The Lord Saint John and Strickland Embassadors to Holland They desire a firm League The States General shew no forwardness to this new friendship The Embassadors affronted by Prince Edward son to the Queen of Bohemia They complain to the States and have a Guard appointed them They depart for England June 20. Saint John 's Speech at his departure The Law and its Proceedings turned into English Apr. A new Welch Insurrection started Blackness Castle delivered to Cromwel The Loyal Nobility in Scotland restored to their Seats in Parliament The Kirk convâ—â—â—d at Glascow E. of Eglington surprized in his designe of raising Forces for the King Cromwel burneth the Lady Kilsithes house Maj. Sydenham slain and his party defeated Apr. 15 by the Lord Montgomery and Lord Cranston The Reduction of Scilly Island in May. St Maries Island surrendred June 2 by Sir John Greenvile to Gen. Blake and Sir Geo Ayscue Pr. Rupert and Pr. Maurice at Sea from Toulon An Agent from the D. of Florence to the Parliament of England Lord Howard committed to the Tower for Bribery Cromwel sick May. Part of a Letter from one of Cromwels Creatures An Act of Oblivion in Scotland The Royalists aâ—d Kirk-men good friends Earl of Calender Commander in chief of their new Levies The Presbyterian Ministers seized by the Council of State in order to their Tryal May. Mr. Love charged with High Treason Mr. Jackson fined 500 l. and committed to the Fleet for refusing to give Evidence against Mr. Love Mr. Love Sentenced July 5. Mr. Potter and Mr. Gibbons Sentenced July 25. Mr. Love and Mr. Gibbons Executed on Tower-hill An Act for abolishing the Marshals-Court in Southwark Another for the sale of Delinquents Lands Faulkner a perjured witness against the Lord Craven The Estates of the Royalists put to sale The Honours of the Royalists given by the King since Jan. 1641. abolished The Irish affairs June Lord Broghall defeats the Lord Muskerry Sir Charles Coot succesfull The Irish Council and Commanders in great straights Scots Leaguer in Tor-wood Cromwel stormeth Calendar house the defendants put to the Sword Newark house and two others taken Pr. Rupert takes a rich Spanish ship A fight in Fife between Sir John Brown and Maj. Gea Lambert July 20. The Scots worsted Sir John Brown taken and a while after dies Inchigarvey Castle and Brunt-Island delivered to the English St. Johnstons delivered to Cromwel The King marches for England July 21. The Parl. settle the Militia Royalists forbid to depart their Houses Correspondence with the King or his Party forbid The King at Carlisle Proclaimed there King of Great Britain He publisheth his Declaration Offereth an Act of Pardon to all but Cromwel Bradshaw and Cook Warrington fight Lambert and Harrison defeated by Massey The Earl of Derby joyus with the King in Lancashire The King summons Shrewsbury in vain The King comes to Worcester Aug. 22. The Parl. raise the Militia and London Regiments The King Summons the Country Wigon fight August 25. Lilburn defeats the Earl of Derby Slain on the Kings side Lord Widdrington Ma. Gen. Sir Tho. Tildesly Col. Mat. Boynton Sir Francis Gamul c. The Earl lâ—sing his George and Garter escapes Cromwel surrounds Worcester Au. 13. and possesseth Upton Bridge Worcester Fight The King defeated at Worcester Sep. 3. Worcester miserably plundered A Traytor hanged and his Widow bountifully rewarded Slain of the Kings side Duke Hamilton The Kings Standard his Coach and Horses and Collar of SS taken The King deliberates whither to fly The Lords leave him at Whiteladies The King in the wood Thursday morning Sep. 4. The King at Madely To Boscobel Col. Carlos directs the King to the Oak At Mosely with Mr. Whitgrave To Bently with Mrs. Jane Lane for Bristol The King met by the Lord Wilmot The dangerous Expression of a Farrier The King by Evesham At Cirencester to Mr. Nortons at Leigh The King and Lord Wilmot in danger of discovery at Chayermouth Adventures of the King At Heal at Mrs. Hides By Portsmouth to Brighthemstead Tetershal discovers the King Tetershal resolves to proceed in his voyage with the King King Embarques A notable passage Arrives at Rohan to Paris Most of the Scots taken Prisoners Cromwel and his Prisoners to London Sep. 12. The Prisoners sold. The Colours taken hanged up in Westminster hall Sterling castle surrendred Aug. 14 to Gen. Monke for the Parl. Dundee stormed Sep. 1 and taken by Gen. Monke the defendants put to
the Sword The Town miserably plundred Aberdeen yielded St. Andrews Fined 500 l. Scotch Nobles taken at Ellet in the Highlands and Sir John Daniel and Col. Douglas taken at Dumfreiz Aug. A New Representative debated of The High Court of Justice pardons Mr. Jenkins and others Cap. Symkins Sir Timothy Fetherstonhaugh and Col. Benbow Executed Oct. The Earl of Derby Beheaded at Bolton Octob. 15. Several other Royalists taken James Hinde the sam'd High-way-man taken and Hang'd drawn and quartered at Worcester The Estates of the Lord Craven and other Royalists exposed to sale General Popham 's Funeral Octob. 24. The Scotch Union projected Commissioners named to go into Scotland Gen. Monke protects the Marq. of Montross his Children and Family Limerick besieged by Deputy Ireton for the Parl. Hugh O Neal Gâ—vâ—râ—our tâ—ereof Ireton defeâ—ted before Limerick Limerick 〈◊〉 October 29. Sir Charles Coâ—t 〈◊〉 a party of Irish. Clare Castle taken by the English Ireton dies of the Plague at Limerick Nov. 25. Edmund Ludlow constituted in his place Ireton lies in state at Summerset house His Character Jersey surrendâ—â—d Nov. and Dec. to the Parliament Mount Orgueil and Elizabeth Castle â—urrendred Isle of Man reduced Dec. Barbadoes reduced by Sir Geo Ayscue Jan. Lord Willoughby Governour thereof St. Christophers the same The Scotch Kirk reject and declare against the Union Monarchy abolished in Scotland Jan. Dumbarton surrendered Jan. 5 by Sir Charles Erskin to the Parliament The Dutch Commerce and Fishing molested at Sea The 1 of Dec. the time limited by tâ—â— Act â—â—omacked by the Dutch The Dutch Embassadors tâ—eat January The Parliament publish an Act of Oblivion John Lilburn Banished Josiah Primate fined 4000 l. Lord Clanrickard sues to Lieu. Gen. Ludlow for a peace His Answer Arguile treats with Commissioners at Dumbarton Blackness Castle ordered to be blown up Moss-Troopers busie and mischievous Several places in Ireland taken by the English An Act for removing obstructions in the sale of Crown-lands Black-monday March 29 predicted by Will. Lilly The King at Paris April The Duke of York Renowned for this Service The King at St. Germains with the Marq. of Ormond and E. of Castlehaven Several parties of the Irish submit Lord Clanrickard takes Ballishannon and Dungal Castle Lord Muskerry yields Galloway surrendered Irelands Râ—ines Submissions and surrenders Ballishannon retaken and Slego surrendered to the Parliament The affairs of Scotland Dunotter Castle yielded May 28. Citadels built in Scotland The rise of the Dutch War A great Fire at Glascow Congleton Chuâ—â—h in Cheshire fired by Lightning The like Fire in Essex The State-house of Amsterdam burnt Sâ—a-fights seen in the Air. An Encounter between the Forces of England and Holland Capt. Young 's Letter Gen. Blake 's Letter Maj. Bourne 's Relation Admiral Trump 's Letter to the States of Holland The Datch Embassadors Paper to the Council of State The Parliaments Answer thereunto Their Demands Trump in the Downs The English and Dutch Fleets July Encounter They are scattered by a Storm Blake takes several of their Frigats and divers Prisoners De Buyter and Sir Geo Ayscue 's Engagement at Plymouth Au. 16. Sir Geo Ayscue rewarded for hâ—s service The States of Holland excite several Princes to assist them The Lord Embassador Monsieur Paw dieth of a surfeit by broyld Salmon Marq. Clanrickard lays down Arms. Cromwel 's designe upon the Parliament appears Dunkirk taken by the Spaniard and the French Fleet with relief seized by Geâ— Blake A General Assembly in Scotland Dismist by Lieu. Col. Cotterel De Ruyter with a Fleet at the mouth of the Channel De Wit joyns with him De Wit worsted by Blake Marq. of Worcester taken and committed to the Tower Mutiny in Holland Some of their Seamen Executed A Fleet of War sent to the Sound c. Lord Hopton dyes at Bruges in Flanders September The Earl of Rochester to the Diet in Germany Van Trump at Sea with a Fleet. Blake defeated in the Downs by Trump Nov. 29. The Dutch Seamen steal Sheep at Rumney Marsh and come off with loss Trump neer the Isle of Wight The Phoenix regained Nov. 30 by Capt. Cox The Parliaments three Geâ—â—rals Blake Dean and Monke A Maâ—que on the Taxes The Dutch Bravadoes The Duke of Gloucester sent away from Carisbrook to Dunkirk Feb. Conducted into France by the Lords Langdale and Inchiqueen The French Envy M. Bourdeaux owns the State c. December The Portugal Embassador concludes The Dutch forbid any to supply the English with provisions of War Torce of their Hamburgh ships laden with Plate taken A High Court of Iustice in Ireland Iustice Donelan President thereof Several persons Condemned Lord Muskerry taken and committed to Dublin Castle Sir Phelim O Neal the great Rebel hanged c. The Condition of Ireland The Priests Banished Cromwel and his Officers keep a Fast. Seamens Wages raised The Kings Houses of Hampton Court to be sold c. Moneys thereâ—pon at six per cent Agent Bradshaw to Copenhagen He is affronted and in danger English under Blake at Sea Van Trump returns through the Channel Feb. Portland fight Feb. 18 between Dutch and English Stoutly maintained on either side A Fight at Leghorn March 2. The English worsted Prince Maurice drowned in the West-India's Prince Rupert arrives in France Mar. De Wit at sea with another Fleet. The Dutch designe of weakning us by taking our Colliers Sir John Gell and several Scots released from the Tower and others preferred * Twelve Parliament-men for a penny The manner of dissolving the Parliament A Declaration of the General and Council of Officers about the Dissolution c. * An Act for filling up the Parliament Addresses to Cromwel Vice-Admiral Pen in the Downs with a Fleet of 70 sail Cromwel a Dictator A Council of State Marlborough burnt Ap. 28. Lord Digby honoured with the order of the Garter Ulster forces in Ireland submit Trump in the Downs having given the English a go-by Engaged by Gen. Monke and Dean c. June 2 Gen. Dean slain Trump defeated June 2 3. The Dutch hang out a white Flag and send a Messenger to the English in order to a Peace A new Parliament called The Summons New Scotch Troubles The Dutch Trade at a stand The last Dutch Engagement between Gen. Monke and Van Trump on the Coast of Holland July 29. Van Trump slain and the Dutch defeated July 31. Gold Chains and Meddals ordered by the Parl. to be given to the chief Commanders and Officers A Thanksgiving appointed De Wit conveys a great Fleet from the Sound Lord Opdam made Lieutenant-Admiral in place of Van Trump who was Interred at Delf in great State Little Parliament met July 4. Mr. Francis Rouse their Speaker Called Barebone 's Parliament a Leather-sellers Name in Fleetstreet one of the said Convention The Names of the Parliament men Act for Marriages A new Body of the Law to be made An Act for â—â—â—â—h Adventurers and Allotments Whitlock Embassador to Sweden A Summary of what
King â—â—tertains Forces in Flanders Cromwel assists the French with 6000 Geâ— Blake desperate attempt on the Spaniard Sancta Cruz fight Apr. 20. The Spanish Fleet fired The English in danger but delivered by a Miracle The Parâ— appoint a Thanksgiving and present their General Blake with 500 l. Capt. Stainer Knighted The Lord Craven 's Case offered to the Parl. but deferred by the Protector Cromwel Signes Acts. His Speech The Humble Petition and Advice Cromwel's Speech at his acceptance thereof His Investiture The Protector installed c. The Speaker's Comment on the Ceremonies thereof A Book called Killing no Murther published now A terrible Blow of Gunpowder neer Wapping An Earthquake in Cheshire Several Murthers and other accidents c. Bernards that betrayed Col. Andrews Hanged for Robbery St. Venant taken by the United Forces Mardike taken Sep. 23. and put into English hands Mardike Stormed by night Octo. 22. Col. Reynolds c. cast away on the Goodwyn-sands Sir Philip Medows the Protector 's Envoy to Denmark Colonel Jephson to Sweden Cromwel Swears his Privy Council The Earl of Mulgrave made onâ— Rich. Cromwel another Lord of the Council and Chancellor of Oxford Cromwel 's advancement of his Sons His Daughter Mary Married to the Lord Faulconbridge His Daughter Francis Married to the E. of Warwick 's Grand-son A new East-India Company constituted Mr. Downing Cromwel 's Envoy into Holland The solemnizations of Christmass forbidden c. Dr. Gunning 's Congregation seized and Plundered The Other House as instructed fawn upon the lower The Names of Cromwel 's Other Houses The Names of the Iudges of both Benches with the Barons of the Exchequer and Serjeants at Law A Humiliation day appointed The Parliament dissolved Cavalier-Plot discovered and Marq. of Ormond hardly escapes Sheriffs discharged of expence at Assizes Blake dies returning home His Character Cromwel 's Fears and perplexed condition Royalists ordered to depart from London A Plot discovered and the persons engaged in it secured The King in readiness with Forces under General Marsin Sir Henry Slingsby decoyed The City Alarm'd with a pretended Plot May 16. A High Court of Iustice. The Tryal of Sir Henry Slingsby and Dr. John Hewit Mr. John Mordant tryed and acquitted Sir Henry Slingsby and Dr. Hewit Beheaded on Tower-hill June 8. Ashton Bettely and Stacy hanged c. Earl of Warwick dieth The Lady Claypole dieth Earl of Mulgrave dieth A great â—â—hale at Greenwich Sir Tho Widdrington made Lord Chief-Baron Dunkirk Besieged by English and French Forces Don John of Austria designes to relieve Dunkirk Dunkirk Battle The Spanish Army routed The Duke of York 's Conduct and Valour in this service The Governour Marquess De Lede killed Thâ— Dunkirkers treat June 22. And â—urrendered upoâ— Articles The English possess Dunkirk Cromwel dies Sep. 3. Cromwel senseless before his death His Character Richard 's Adviâ—â— and Coâ—â—sellors Richard Proclaimed 〈◊〉 Sworn French Cardinal â—oys the Queen-Mother with Cromwel 's death Addresses to Richard full of Blasphemous expressions of Oliver 60000 l. allotted for the Expence Cromwel 's Funeral Independent Synod at the Savoy Richard out-runs his guards and endangered at hawking Richard 's Parliament meet Jan. 27. An Expedient in Recognizing Richard and the other House not Excluding the ancient Peers The notable proceedings of the Parliament The Revenue and charges of the Kingdom The Army and Protector jar Gâ—â— Montague with a Fleet to the Sound Mar. 30. The Armies Remonstrance to Richard The Speaker Mr. Chaloner Chute dieth Richard offered terms by the Danish Embassador The wretched suspence of Richard Resolves of Parliament against Meeting of the Army-Officers Richard thrown aside and in dangerâ— of Arrests and dares not appear The Names of the Rump-Parliament-Members Rumps Declaration Secluded Members offer to sit with the Rump The Rump Exclude the former secluded Members Qualifications of the 9 of May A Council of State chosen The Term discontinued Note Richard was to have 20000 l. in all per annum and his Mother 8000 l. more Benches supplied Armies Address The derivation of Rump Addresses from Forrain Princes Henry Cromwel ordered to surrender the Government of Ireland An Act of Indemnity published A Skirmish at Enfield chace Royalists Priests and Iesuits banished A new Cavalier-Plot generally laid and discovered by indiscretion and Treachery c. Tunbridg and Red-hill Risings suppressed Massey likewise in Gloucester-shire Sir George Booth 's rising in Cheshire Aug. Lambert senâ— to reduce Sir Geo Booth Several Noblemen Prisonerâ— Sir George Booth defeated Aug. 19 Sir George Booth taken at Newport-pagnel The King about St. Malos and Coast of Britany At St. Jean de Luz The Rumps Plenipotentaries into the Sound The Act for Lilburn 's Banishment repealed James Naylor released The General 's policy in securing the Scotch Nobility Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper questioned by the Rump Chester Corporation and Charter taken away Army-Representation debated Published by Lambert before answered Rump Resolute and void the Commissions of Lambert c. The Speaker stopt and a Fray expected Lambert prevailed against the Rump Army new moduled City invite Parl. and Army to a Dinner on thanks-giving day Oct. 6. The Committee of Safety The Army Declaration upon this change Bradshaw the President dieth Novemb. Aturney Gen-Prideaux dieth G. Monke declares his unsatisfiedness with the Army proceedings the the manner how Oct. 18. Secures Anabaptist Officers The Gen. sends Letters And maintains correspondence c Lambert offered Terms from the King by the Lord Hatton Anabaptist like Presbytery hath its turn Sir William Wild chose Recorder of London Doctor Clargis sent to the Gen. in Scotland Novemb. Moncks Commiâ—sioners agree to no purpose Novemb General Monke calls a Scotch Convention and obtains his demands The Earl of Glencarn Chair-man to that Convention Portsmouth seized by Hazelrig December 4. Tumults in London about a Free-Parliament Decemb. throughout Hewson Marcheth with Terrour into London Lambert would Fight A Free-Parliament noised as the only expedient Major General Brown in a new Design Wallingford-House broke up and Army submit Lord Fairfax Arms against Lambert Lambert deserted The Rump reseated Dec. 26. The City sent their Sword-bearer to the Gen. Hazelrig thanked c. General Monk signifies his intentions of coming to London Robinson and Scot sent to meet him The King returns in State and with great Reception to Brussels Abjuration of the King intended by the Rump Lady Monck arâ—ives at White-hall The brief relation of the turn and chaâ—ge by Gen. Monck in iâ—s series and compendious view Gen. Monck at London Gates and Portcullices pulled down Feb. 9. The General rendezvoused in Finsbury-fields and declares for a free Parliament and City Feb. 9. Bonfires and Rumps roasted that night Secluded Members restored Feb. 21. Sir Charles Coot wonderfully reduceth Ireland Rich his Regiment mutiny The City Feast the General Made Gen. at Sea with Montague Presbytery tendring an Establishment The Engagement annulled Writs for a Free-Parliament The Long-Parliament Dissolved Marc. 23. Agitating forbid
General and their attempts this Summer the Particulars whereof shall be in due time produced 2. That upon the payment of the sum to be agreed upon as aforesaid for Charges and Damages or securing the same to the satisfaction of the Parliament there shall follow immediately thereupon a Cessation of all Acts of Hostility and the Ships and Goods taken since the Difference shall be Released 3. The two former Propositions being assented unto and put in Execution the security for the time to come which the Parliament doth expect is by both States contracting a firm Alliance and Consistency of Interest for the good of both which the Parliament of England is willing on their part by all just ways and means to endeavour And so we pass from these civil Debates to the prosecution of the War This rude accost being over by reason of the night the two Fleets parted Van Trump to the back of the Goodwyn-sand whence he sailed for Zealand and being recruited to the number of 120 sail while General Blake with 70 Men of War was gone Northwards to seize upon their Busses and Fishing-trade and to meet their East-India-men five in number coming as usually since Amboyna home that way came into the Road of the Downs again where Sir George Ayscue who arrived at Plymouth May 25 from the Barbadoes and came thither on the 6 of Iune was ordered by the Parliament to attend till a Fleet was made ready in the River of Thames to joyn with him having in the interim on the first of Iune seized on 10 sail with a Man of War of 22 Guns sent to give notice to all Merchant-men and on the 17 fourteen more some whereof were stranded with three Men of War of twenty twenty six and thirty Guns Van Trump having understood the aforesaid opportunity clapt in between the River and Sir George leaving part of his Fleet to the Westward resolving to surprize those ships coming out or to sink those under Sir George Ayscue but advice being immediately given from Dover of the posture of the Enemy the Navy within budged not and thereupon the Dutch presently addrest themselves to the other part of the designe and the opportune time of Ebb coming on the 8 of Iuly they sailed towards Sir George but the Wind failing they came to an Anchor a League off and the next Ebb against which time a Platform was cast up between Deal and Sandown-Castles and Cannon planted thereon to bear upon them as they came in and the Militia thereabouts in Arms at the shore from whence several Mariners reinforced the Fleet which consisted of no more than 15 ships as they were under sail the Wind came fully about South-west which the Dutch afterwards said was the Witch-Act Wind and blew so directly in their Teeth that they could not possibly make up to them and it being likely to continue so for it came in with a brisk gale Trump that had no longer time to stay the Fleets of Merchants for the Northern Eastern and West-India Seas waiting his return for their Convoy Northwards departed for Holland and having received the said charge of ships and order about the Fishing sailed towards the Sound whence having secured and left that part of his Fleet to their Voyage he proceeded with the rest towards the Northermost point of Scotland the Isles of Orkney where General Blake was newly in Harbour after a Squadron of his Frigats had spoiled the Herring-fishing by driving most seizing some other Busses which after the accustomed Toll of every tenth Herring as was in gross computed being paid were released with a charge of Fishing there no more without English leave and the taking of their 12 Men of War that guarded them 3 whereof were afterwards sunk They made a stout and gallant resistance and killed abundance of the English It was Trump's Resolution to have here Engaged likewise with Blake having met already with the Dutch East-India Fleet of five Sail but upon a sudden such a Storm arose that he was glad to put to Sea and there his Fleet was so scattered and dispersed that he came home but with 42 sail the rest came after much tossing to an Anchor some at Norway the rest in Scotland with two of the East-India ships which at first were given for lost with those War-ships that were missing but shortly after all except six came home in safety Trump to Scheveling and so to the Hague to give an account Blake first to the Coast of Holland with six of the Dutch Frigats he had taken and 900 Prisoners in them and thence to Yarmouth for Victual and cross again to the Enemies Coast several losses having happened to both Nations in the mean time by private Free-booters and some small Men of War taken from us While Van Trump's Fleet was now rigging and fitting out another Fleet of 50 Men of War set to Sea from Zealand to go Westward and Convoyed a Fleet of Merchant-men the same way where Sir George Aycue's station was about Plymouth at which Port two Streights-men newly arrived and five East-India ships came in soon after in safety in expectation of them They were seen first at Bright hemstead in Sussex where they chased and took some Barques and so Westward 〈◊〉 the back of the Isle of Wight advertisement whereof being given it was resolved that Sir George with his Fleet of 40 Men of War most Merchant-men except the Flag-ships should stretch over to the Coast of France to meet them Accordingly on the 16 of August between one and two of the clock in the afternoon they got sight of the Enemy who quitted their Merchant-men being 50 in number About four the fight began the English Admiral with 9 others charging through their Fleet but received most damage in the Shrouds Masts Sails and Rigging which was repaid the Dutch in their Hulls Sir George having thus passed through them got the Weather-gage and Charged them again but all his Fleet not coming up and the night already entred they parted with a drawn Battle Captain Peck the Rear-Admiral lost his Leg whereof soon after he died several Captains were wounded but no ship lost onely some shattered and torn of the Dutch not one was said to be lost though many of them shot through and through but so that they were able to proceed in their Voyage and Anchored the next day after being followed by the English at the Isle of Bassa but no further attempt was made by our Fleet by reason as 't was pretended of the danger of the French Coast from whence they returned to Plymouth sound to mend and repair their damage Whatever the matter might be Sir George was never employed more in their Service but 't was judged not any default here but the Honourable largeness of his Articles at Barbadoes were the cause thereof and
Elections for the Free-Parliament St. John stickles in the Council of State for Propositions and Terms with the King A Convention in Ireland A Letter sent to the Rump by the King Lambert escapes from the the Tower April 11. Defeated and taken Apr. 22. Lambert proposeth the restoring of Rich. Protector Lambert dismayed and taken Apr. 22. A Free-Parliament April 22. The Restitution of the King and Kingdom The renowned General the happy instrument of the Restitution The Duke of Ormond the next The King the great Agent All the Loyal Nobility and Gentry And of some formerly engaged against it The King departs to Breda from Brussels Complemented upon his departure Dispatches the L. Mordaunt and Sir John Greenvil from Breda His Majesty's Letter and Declaration was brought Contents of the Declaration Received most hoâ—ourably by the Parliament Parliament resolves thereupon Sir John Greenvil rewarded with a 500 l. Iewel The City of London express the like The Army the same The Fleet also and Dunkirk The Rump's Arms defaced Parliament Resolves towards the King's Restitution Commissioners arrived at the Hague The King prepares to dâ—part King Charles the Second Solemnly Proclaimed The Dutch magnificent Treatment of the King Sir Samuel Moreland and Sir George Downing Duke of York aboard the Fleet. The King departs for England The Speech of the States thereupon The King departs and embarques The King Embarques for England May 23. Lands at Dover May 25. The General meets him at his arrival The King rides to Canterbury The King rides to Canterbury To Rochester at Col. Gibbons To Dartford receives the Declaration of the Army The manner of His Majesties entrance into London The Earl of Manchester's Speech to the King The joy of the City Affairs 〈◊〉 home And in Ireland The King and the Dukes to the House of Lords The King comes to the Parliament and passeth several Acts. A Proclamation for the King's Iudges to render themselves Other persons excepted out of the Act of Oblivion Hutchinson and Lassels crave Pardon Parliament lay hold on his Majesties Declaration from Breda The General dignified with the Title of D. of Albemarle Several Dignities and Offices conferred Fee-farm rents resigned Lord Jermyn Earl of St. Albans Embassador into France Prince de Ligne Count de Soissons Embassador hither Act oâ— Oblivion passed Duke of Gloucester dies Sept. 13. Princess of Orange arrives Sept. Episcopacy re-established The Kings Iudges brought to Tryal Oct. 9. Harrison Waller Heveningham with Adrian Scroop c. Harrison tried Oct. 11. Sir Heneage Finch opens the Indictment The Sentence Col. Adrian Scroop Carew tryed Scot tryed Octob. 12. Gregory Clement Colonel Iones Cook October â—3 Peters Octob. 13. Daniâ—l Axtel Colonel Hacker William Hewlet Daniel Harvey Isaac Pennington Henry Marten Gilbert Millington Alderman Tichburn Owen Roe Robert Lilburn Mr. Smith Downs Potter Garland c. Vincent Potter August Garland Simon Meyn James and Peter Temple Tho. Wayt. Sir Hardress Waller Harrison Executed Carew Executed John Cook Hugh Peters Executed Thomas Scot Gregory Clement Adrian Scroop and John Jones Executed Francis Hacker and Daniel Axtel Executed Toâ— dye impinitent as to the Fact * Cook the Solicitor Hugh Peters 's stupidity Prisoners that came in upon Proclamation respited Queen Mother arrives in England The Parliament re-assemble Argyle committed Princess of Aurange dies Decemb 24. Parliament Dissolved Princess of Aurange her Funeral Decemb. 26. Sejanus ducitur unco spectandus gaudent omnes quae labra quis illis vultus erat Cromwel Ireton and Bradshaw dig'd up and hang'd c. Venner 's Insurrection There were two Executed in Cheap-side the same day Prichard the Cow-keeper and another of them Sir Arthur Hazelrig dies Mr. Crofton committed The Kingâ—s passage through London to his Coronation The Oath of the Knights of the Bath Creation of Earls and Barons at the same time The Kings procession to the Abbey The Dukes of Norfolk and Somerset were restored by Act of Parliament 12 year Caroli Secundi * James Butler Duke of Ormond was Created Earl of Brecnock Baron Butler of Lawthy A new Parliament May 8. Portugal Match mentioned by the King to the Parliament The Queen of Bohemia returns into England The Marquess of Montross enterred in State May 11. Arguile beheaded May aâ— and Guthrey and Giffâ—n Hang'd June 1 Plots and Designes laid by the Fanaticks Sir Charles Lucas re-interred with Solemnity Jun. 7. Several Laws confirmed and made c. Mr. Pryn questioned c. Mr. Pryn questioned by the House Acts against Bishops repealed Lord Munson Sir Henry Mildmay and Wallop sentenced Parliament adjourned July 30 to Nov. 02. The King is entertained at the Inner Temple by Sir Heneage Finch The Lords Spiritual restored Regicides before the House of Lords November John James Hanged and Quartered Novemb. 27. Sir Charles Coot died December A Council of the Principality of Wales re-established at Ludlow Episcopacy established in Scotland The King reflects on the ruine of St. Pauls London Fatality among the Clergy Another Fleet for Portugal and Tangier Queen of Bohemia dies Feb. 13. A Storm Feb. 18. An unfortunate Accident happened to the Lord Buckhurst and others Lambert and Vane ordered to Tryal The General honoured c. Miles Corbet Colonel Okey and Barkstead taken in Holland sent over to the Tower Sentenced and Executed Ap. 2. Col. Okey 's body giâ—en to his Friends Acts of Parliament passed An account of the Marriage of the King c. The Queen reReimbarques April 13. The Duke of York at Sea to attend the Queens Arrival with the Duke oâ— Osmond c. Queen Arrives May 13. The King stays to give his consent to Bills Preparing The Nature of several private Bills King at Portsmouth Queen at Hampton-Court Lord Lorn pardoned by the King Tangiers condition Sir Henry Vane and Colonel Lambert Condemned Sir Henry Vane Executed June 1â— A Proclamation for Twenty miles againt Rump Officers Presbyterians endeavours for Toleration Forces sent under the Earl of Inchequeen to Assist the King of Portugal Duke of Ormond arrived in Ireland Gloucester Walls c. Demolished Dunkirk returned to the French King October Dr. John Berkerhead Knighted A Plot discovered Philips Tongue Gibs and Stubs Executed December 22. Embassadors with Presents from Russia Mr. Calamy Committed Lord Warreston in the Tower Declaration of the King and Resolutions of the Parliament Parliament begins esuits banish Campeach takâ—â— Irish Plot. Earl of â—otâ—es Commissioner in Scotland Bills passed by Commission Mr. Rycaut comes from Constantinople Jersey a new 〈◊〉 Northern Plot discovered Plotters â—ri'd Executed Turner tryed and hanged A Printer tried and executed Others Pillori'd and Fined A remarkable proviâ—ence A barbarous murther committed by a Portugueze Servant upon his Master The Lord Holles Embassador to the French King June Iudge Mallet by reason of his age dispenced with and Sir John Keeling sworn in his place Dr. Bramhal departs this life Gayland assaults Tangier Reâ—reats with 〈◊〉 Makes another Attack but is forc'd to