A TRVE RELATION OF THE QVEENS MAJESTIES Return out of HOLLAND AND Of Gods mercifuâ—l preservation of Her from those great dangers wherein Her Royall Person was engaged both by Sea and Land ALSO Her MAJESTIES Letter sent to the STATES about the stay of Her Ammunition-Ship Written by One in the same Storm and Ship with Her Majestie Printed at York by Stephen Bulkley 1643. By speciall Command A TRVE RELATION OF THE QVEENS MAJESTIES Return out of HOLLAND c. Her Majesties first setting out of Holland with a Navy of fourteen Ships 〈◊〉 19. 1642. THe States Generall of the United Provinces notwithstanding many Arts and means used to perswade the contrary having prepared for Her Majesties Service nine Men of Warr with five lesser Ships for the Baggage Her Majesty on Thursday January the 19 1642 in the Afternoone at Sciveling two Miles from the Hague imbarked in a more threatning then promising Weather The Wind then was so slack that it made little further way that Night then to carry the Ships out of those perillous Shoares where had a Storme risen they had been in very great danger The next day when God had blessed us with Sea-roome enough the Wind began to rise very high and about midnight blew a fearfull and furious Storme which with the intermissions of some howres one day onely Tuesday excepted for six dayes together continued very vehement and terrible And by reason of the often Variation of the winds made a most raging Sea and so very tempestuous that the Ship was many times let to drive and hull it at Sea not being able to make any Saile with safety having been in great danger to be underset by the suddaine gusts and blasts which duck't and drowned the sailes in the Seas In this sad and unsafe condition did we live out all those dayes being tossed and driven to and fro on the Doggar Sands threatning to be our graves in which we had surely been buried if the care of Heaven had not more mercifully come in to our help Her Majesty saw and suffer'd all this so long with a Princely Patience and Courage and then perceiving how little She did advance in Her way to Newcastle took a Resolution there being no English Port else neer where She might safely adventure Her Person rather to return for Holland then to tug on and work out Her Way with contrary Winds and Weathers in such enraged Seas It was presented and pressed to Her Majesty That if any storme should arise and meet Her in that Shoare the danger would be greater then in the open Seas where She was Her Ship being tydie and good The * Sir Martin Van Tromp Admirall most skilfull and carefull of his Royall Charge and the Masters and Mariners answerably able and willing to doe their best seruice But Her Majesty kept still her resolution to returne Whereupon the Thursday Sennight after Shee imbarked we made our Course for Holland again and the next Day came on the Coast before Sciveling God blessing Her with the freedom from a Tempest in that place of perill where foure Ships had been wrack't of which we saw the bulk and ribs of an English one which had perished in the late Tempests on the shoare before our eyes The Admirall upon his comming in shot off a Peece of Ordinance to give notice of his return which they of the Town took presently and carried to the Hague so that some howers before Her Majesty could get to shoare the Queen of Bohemia the Princesse Royall and other of the Princesses the Prince Elector the Prince and Princesse of Orange with divers Persons of Quality and Honour were all ready in their Coaches at shoare tâ—redgeâ— attend Her landing and did drive and ridâ—redgeâ— into the Sea for joy and haste to see thaâ—redgeâ— happy sight of Her Majesties safety foâ—redgeâ— whose great perills heavy feares had layâ—redgeâ— upon them all the time of these Tempests That Evening a Fisherboat being founâ—redgeâ— out at Sea for contrary Tyde and Windâ—redgeâ— would suffer none to come from Land thâ—redgeâ— Admirall commanded and called it in an â—redgeâ— in it Her Majestie with some Persons oâ—redgeâ— chief quality not without some dangerouâ—redgeâ— weltrings of the Boat by reason of the higâ—redgeâ— Waves and Sands in that shallow shoarâ—redgeâ— came at last safe to Land And having rested and refreshed Her Self some time at the Town went after to the Hague to Her Bed that Night On Saturday the next Day after the rest who came in the three Ships with Her Majesty for but three came landed all in safety What was become of the other eleven was not then known but after it was That two missing or mistaking the Admiralls warning went on to Newcastle the propounded Port The others with some leaks and wounds and losses of Masts and sailes and tacklings came in after us or got safe to other Shoares But the two Ships wherein the Horses were one of them was runne on ground all the Men and some Horses being saved onely that wherein the Coachmen were is not yet heard of and therefore feared to be utterly lost All they in Holland who were in great anxietie and fear for the Queen at Sea not having ever known a greater storm by Land were very jocund and joyfull to hear and see Her safety Some said Her Majesty would never have adventured Her Self to Sea in such a Weather but to shew That a Queen feared not to be drowned Others thought that some Witches were made use of to raise those Winds But all saw That if any such villany came from Hell it was curb'd by Heaven in the mercifull preservation of the Queen and that When God will help the Divell cannot hurt us Her Majesty was entertained at the Hague by the Prince of Orange all the time of her last stay which was from Fryday January 27. to February the 13. And then 7. greater Ships being got ready for Her Majesty and five lesser for the Baggage with one of Her own bought before and now laden with Ammunition thirteen in all On Munday afternoon She went to Sâ—iveling and in that poore Fisher-Towne lodged three Nights upon an unexpected occasion For Her Ammunition-ship in the River of the Maze was watched by two Parliament ships as they call them the Providence and Greyhound who gave out that they would take that Ship or fire it oâ—redgeâ— sink it or sink with it Her Majesty knowing how much the Kings Service and his good Subjects and Souldiers in the North were concerned in it resolved not to goe without it but to stay there till Shee had it The Admirall hereupon having this Warrant from the States Generall and the Prince of Orange went with two Men of Warre to fetch it off and was bringing it away But was met and bourded and charged by the States of Holland the Provincials as they call them to have that Ship searched for Arms and not to carry it further but the Arms to
be taken out or kept safe in some other place fitting for it The Admiral upon this Arrest stopt and cast Anchor and came to acquaint the States General and the Prince with what was done and to doe further as it should be directed Now began all Eyes to see that good Providence which guided the Queen to return to Holland that Ship of Arms having been absolutely lost by Her absence which was so hardly redeemed and preserved by Her Royall Presence and Courage And by that it was For the Queen toucht with the sense of so visible an Indignity by the hands of Sir William Boswell resident in Holland for His Majestie sent to the States Generall a round and quick Letter See Her Maâ—esties Letter â—rinted after the Relation of the deep resentment which She justly had of that great affront then done Her and that the bands of Amity betwixt the King and them must needs be dissolved if that were done and endured This begat a Meeting of all the States the Prince of Orange being with them whose spirit this affront had moved much In it the matter was argued with the States of Holland who made the stay The Arrest by many condemned and concluded by all that the ship of Arms should come away with the rest to the Queen and the Admiralls Commission enlarged to fight with any that should attempt to hinder it or any with the Queen besides it The States of Holland now saying they tooke the ship of Arms till then for a private mans and not the Kings for which cause or colour they before had stayed it The Admirall thus arm'd went to fetch it away and after some expostulations by Letters with the two Parliament ships and the Messenger their Ministers vaine perswasions to the contrary bid them to lye still till the ship was gone or to keep off out of Cannon-shot or he would shoot at them The ship being got out to Sea the Providence made three shots at it none hitting it upon this the Admirall shot at them who in stead of answering him shot off a Peece on the other side from him and so went their way So on February sixteenth being Thursday that ship with the rest came to Sciveling to the Queen THat Day The Queens second comming out of Holland with a Navy of 13 Ships Feb. 16. 1642 Her Majesty imbarked again in the Princesse Royall of great Brittaine Her first ship And with a most blessed Weather on a quiet Sea by a soft and gentle Gale was brought on Sunday after within sight of Flamborough-head The Heavens and Winds for so long a time and many Dayes before continuing in those Winter Dayes and Northren Seas almost miraculously Faire and Intempestuous On Munday we got on as farr as Scarborough But then the Wind blew from Newcastle our onely intended Haven just in our Teeth and as God in great Mercy would have it said to us in the Language of His Providence Goe no further So we fell back into a safe Harbour Burlington-Bay and cast Anchor hard by the Shoare As Her Majesty rid at Anchor there some of the Gentry and Country People sent and came to present to the Queen some of their Country Provisions with their Joyes for Her Safety and happy Returne Her Majesty graciously accepted them doing them the Honour to let them kisse Her Hand Here God put into Her Heart another blessed Resolution It was to send to my Lord of Newcastle to give him word of Her being there and Her will if he so direct there to land His Excellency having but the Weeke before beaten the Forces out of Stamford Bridge and made his way into the East-Ryding of Yorkeshire was then very happily at Pocklington with his Army about twenty miles from Burlington On Tuesday came a Messenger with Tydings That the Generall of the Horse next Day about Noon would waite on Her Majesty at shoare with a thousand Horse And my Lord Gederall the next Day after with the rest of the Horse and Foote Army This was done accordingly For on Wednesday after Noone the Horse appeared on the shoare whereupon Her Majesty landed that Night at Burlington-Key All the Ordinance of the Ships speaking as much to those who were not near enough to see it Next Day as the Queen was at Dinner came His Excellency and Generall King with the Army of Foot and fiveteen hundred more Horse His Excellency tould the Queen Her landing so was in a most happy place and time for the Country and Army and Her selfe and Her Retinue So apparently it was For besides the great moiling of Men and Beasts this would save the Country a very vast expence of Moneys for Carriages in those long and ill wayes from Newcastle to Yorke this being but thirty miles and good way from it And the Army already much wearied in chases of the Enemy from which they came but the Day before would have been overtoyled and weakened in so long Convoyes and Marches to and fro for the Queens necessary conduct and Attendance of which great trouble Her Majesty now gave them a present case And both Country and Army magnified the mercyfull Providence of God to both who disposed so of his Winds and the Queens thoughts to bring them such an unexpected case and happinesse to the great joy and encouragement of them all And Her Majesty Retinue had their share in the happinesse too For by this meanes the Queen came much sooner to York now then she could had she landed at Her first comming at Newcastle And much safer too then if she had now arrived there considering the Dangers both of the Haven and ships which lay in waite for Her there fitted with Men of desperate minds to doe all possible Mischief and the many Accidents and Perills which might have befallen Her in comming thence Besides all this great advantage would have been necessarily given and as greedily taked from the Diversion and Division of the Army to make the Enemy more bould and busie to work his ends by the absence now frustrated by the keeping of it in one body and place The Army being now by Burlington the Queen after Dinner rid out in a Coach to see it which received great encouragement from Her comming and welcommed Her into the field with many hearty Acclamations and expressions of their Joyes such as much moved many to see them and in them the true old Genius and Spirit of the English Nation to their Princes of late degenerated into the strange Tongue of rude Invectives and Outcryes After sight of the Army which Her Majesty rid through through even to the new raised and unarmed Companies Shee returned to Her Lodging at Burlington Key But had another manner of Salutation sent Her from the Sea next Morning in a strange and till that time utterly unknown and unparallelly-barbarous Language For foure Ships and a Pinnace Voluntaries in the Parliaments Service which came over Night into the Roade
betwixt five and six of the Clock next Morning made above an hundred shots at the Houses in the Key for two Howers shooting crosse-bar-shots and many Bullets of twelve pound weight The names of the Captaines and Masters of the Ships were C. Hadock Commander of the Fleet. C. Lee. C North. C. Bedwart C. Peacock Master of the Pinnace and thereabouts all the while One of those Ships was directly planted against the House where the Queen lay and that and the other made many shots over it and on every side about it Her Majesty hereupon was suddainly called up out of Her Bed to avoid the Danger and leaving the House went and sat down under the Brow of an Hill which secured Her from the shot The Lords and Ladyes who were all thereabouts lodged made hast to goe with and after the Queen some of their Houses having been shot through before and the Bullets then flying about them in the Streets and Fields as they went And as they sate under the Hill some flew over their heads casting some rubbage and dust though no Danger then upon them so that of all the Queenes Company God be thanked not one was kil'd or hurt or touched though one of the common Souldiers was sore torn and a Serjeant slaine out right not farr from the Queenes Lodging These Ships upon Advertisement brought them of the Queenes comming were seen to hye away presently from Newcastle where till then they lay to doe such Service as they were directed to And where they are said to have bragged they would board sinke or sinke with the Queenes Ship could they meet it Gods Goodnesse gave them not the power of tryall by Sea though the Divells malice in them made them attempt to doe that Mischief by Land And to doe it the better in the Night they landed some of their Men on shoare who were heard to enquire for the Queenes Lodging at three of the Clock which they shot at by six a shroud suspition with the rest what was the Mark they aimed at Whether by Commission and by whose these bould Men did this barbarous Outrage the Justice of Heaven and Earth will doubtlesse concurr to examine and punish that so great a Blot and Burden of shame and Guilt may not lye on the Nation Upon this deliverance from the shot Her Majesty went that Day further out of their reach from Burlington Key to the Town And the Ammunition ship all this while in the Key hit though little hurt with all their shots was unladed and the Arms carried to the Town and there carefully kept in the old Church of the Monastery now decayed The Parish for that Sunday being desired for fear of danger to go to their Neighbour Churches at hand or to come so many as could to the Queenes Court where by Her Majesties leave there being else where no convenient Roome to be had Her Houshold had Service and Sermon for that Day At this the Country People wondered much who believed all with the Queen to be Papists though of all the English in Her Majesties Houshold not one Woman and but four men be all So willing are some to deceive and others to be deceived On Sunday after necessity pleading the Passe Her Majesty in the after-noone Marched with the Army and Ammunition from Burlington to Norburton about foure Miles off Thence next Day to Malton And there the Foot being left was next Day conducted by the Horse to York No Enemy all this while opposing or appearing That Ancient City received Her Majesty with many hearty welcoms and shouts and blessings accompanying Her all the way Shee went Sir Edmund Cooper Lord Major that true and tryed Lieutenant to his Liege and Sir Thomas Widdrington Recorder of the City with Speeches to that purpose So She was brought with much Joy and Honour on Tuesday March the seventh to Her Lodging in Sir Arthur Ingrams House where a Court of Guard attends Her Majesties safety which the Guard and Blisse of Heaven make good to Her as it hath hitherto been most mercifully and visibly with Her and for Her in Her Departure Absence and Return which hath been happy healthy and safe almost to a Miracle The Circumstances of Her going out were strange beyond all belief both at home and abroad but the issues have appeared good and happy above all expectation And Her staying as wonderfull That Her Majesty and Her Retinue being about or above two hundred Persons for Eleven Moneths time in a strange Land and unwonted Diet and Dwelling should but bury one Consumptive Man in Holland who brought his Death with him out of England but keep in and come out with so good a health was an unlook't for but not un-enjoyed Blessing And Her safety in Her comming out as singular At Her Majesties first comming out to Sea the Storms were most fierce and terrible for many Dayes But at the second the Winds and Weather most faire and comfortable all the time God Allmighty most mercifully preserved and blessed Her Majesty in both And at last gave Her an Arrivall most happy both to Her Self and to many Since that He delivered Her from the villainous attempts of the ships at Sea which put Her precious Life to a manifest Perill and Hazard A Signe from Heaven of Blessings to come upon the King and Queen to which the Majesty of Heaven long preserve them and the Kingdom by them Her MAJESTIES LETTER Sent to the STATES Concerning the stay of HER AMMUNITION-SHIP THE QVEENE OF GREAT BRITTAIN out of a desire by all means to conserve the friendship betwixt the King and the Lords the States Having omitted to take notice of very many indignities by which Shee hath been provoked here doth finde Her Selfe at this present offended in so high a degree That Shee cannot any longer with the Honour of the King Her most Deare Husband with-hold this Complaint which Shee now makes unto the Lords the STATES concerning an Order made to search and make stay of a Vessell which is Fraughted and Charged with Goods belonging to Her for which notwithstanding the STATES have already accorded their Free Passe-Port The QVEENE makes no difficulty to avow the transport of Ammunition as being absolutely necessary for Her safety and Shee hath chosen to furnish Her Selfe by this way rather then that of demanding a Licence by reason of an Order formerly made by the STATES to forbid the transport of Arms or Ammunition either for the KING or Parliament Which Order the KING hath great cause to believe very partiall for the Parliament by putting them in equall ranke with Him But the default of Observation of that Order hath been yet more displeasing to Her For that since that time great quantities of Ammunition have been transported for the Service of the Rebells and Ships also bought to be employed against the KING If the QUEENE hath not asked a particular Licence for all the things necessary for Her Service it hath been out of this consideration that Shee might not cast the STATES upon the inconvenience either of contradicting their own Order or of giving just offence to the KING But since all the care Her Majesty hath taken and the precautions used to conserve a good intelligence between the KING and the STATES which is established by so many past Treaties hath produced nothing but a continuation of Affronts and prejudices to the KINGS Service Her Majesty is obliged to make this Declaration That Shee receives this Order given for the stay of that Ship for a notable and high injustice and an indignity which Shee is obliged very neerly to resent Wherefore Her Majesty doth expect That the Lords the STATES having better considered the matter will give way to the departing of that Ship together with whatsoever is charged upon it for Her Service without which Her Majesty cannot resolve to depart Her Selfe The QVEENE is obliged to represent to the Lords the STATES that this injustice and Affront which Shee hath received by the arrest of this Ship cannot passe for lesse then a violation of the Friendship betwixt the KING and the STATES the consequences whereof will be very dangerous Wherefore Shee doth hope That they will not offer so just â—ledgeâ— cause of offence unto the KING nor so greaâ— a displeasure unto Her Selfe FINIS