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A35236	The history of Oliver Cromwel being an impartial account of all the battles, sieges, and other military atchievements wherein he was ingaged, in England, Scotland and Ireland, and likewise of his civil administrations while he had the supream government of these three kingdoms, till his death : relating only matters of fact, without reflection or observation / by R.B.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1692 (1692)	Wing C7331; ESTC R21152	119,150	194

submission than ever was before resolved on the eleven Impeached Members were restored to their seats and the Houses debated of treating with the King upon his own security personally at London with honour freedom and safety But this was not carried only a Treaty was Vored to be in the Isle of Wight and that the King should chuse the place in that Island In persnance whereof the E. of Midd●esex and two of the H. of Commons were sent to the King who answered That he was very ready to treat of peace Upon which five Peers and ten Commoners were immediately chosen and sent to Newport During this Treaty the King found all kind of respect and observance from the Commissioners being attended with a Royal Retinue the D. of Richmond Marquess of Hartford the Earls of Southampton and Lindsey with a number of other Gentlemen of Quality who waited in his Train his own two Chaplains and divers of his Lawyers to advise him in the Treaty being likewise allowed him While these things were Transacting at Westminster Cromwel having finished matters in Scotland prepares for his return and Octob. 16. 1648. leaves Endenburgh being conducted some miles on his way by Argyle and other Scotch Noblemen who took their leaves with mutual demonstrations of kindness and marching toward Carlisle when he came into Yorkshire he was defired by the Committee to reduce the Castles of Scarborough and Pomfret in his way the last of which was defended by Coll. John Maurice with great courage not by the strength of the place but the valour of the Defendants The Garrison consisted of four hundred Foot and one hundred and thirty Horse but all daring fellows who daily performed some notable Exploit by their sallies as one time by seizing Sir Arthur Ingram with a Troop of Horse and obliging him to pay fifteen hundred pounds to obtain his liberty Soon after they took Captain Clayton and most of his Troop and brought into the Castle two hundred head of cattel and many Horses though Sir Hen. Cholmly at that time beleaguered it to keep them in One morning before day forty Horse sallied out and speeding to Doncaster where Coll. Rainsborough who had a commission to command the siege in chief then Quartered three of them went into the Town and inquired for Coll Rainsboroughs Quarters to which being directed they went thither pretending to deliver him letters from Lieutenant-General Cromwel the Collonel little suspecting their business considently opens the door to receive the letters but one of them instantly stabb'd him to the heart and though his Forces guarded the Town yet they got back into the Castle at mid-day To reduce this place Cromwel having settled the Northern counties now comes and orders the siege to be streightned leaving a strong party under Lambert who was come from Scotland to prevent their ranging abroad and in a while it was surrendred Cromwel marches up to London and takes his place in parliament who in his absence had recalled their Vote of Non-addresses and were treating with the King at Newport but while this Treaty proceeded and some months were spent in debates concessions and denials another sudden alteration happened which threw the King from the height of honour to the lowest condition for some fearing they might be in danger if the King were restored to his Throne contrived to take him away quite while others were as earnest for re-advancing him so that things were brought to no issue before Cromwels return who had now the thanks of the House given him by the Speaker for his prudent conduct of affairs in Scotland At the same time several petitions were presented to the Parliament and some to General Fairfax That whoever had offended against the Common wealth no persons excepted might be brought to speedy Jnstice that the same fault may have the same punishment in the person of K. or Lord as in the person of the poorest Commoner That such as speak or act on the Kings behalf till he be acquitted of shedding innocent blood be proceeded against as Traytors c. The first petition of this kind was presented to the parliament Sept 11. the Title was To the most Honourable the Commons of England assembled in Parliament The humble petition of many thousands of well-affected men in the Cities of London and Westminster in the Burrough of Southwark and the neighbouring Villages Inhabitants This petition which broke the Ice was in a month followed by several others from divers Counties in England and from several Regiments of the Army as from Oxford Leicester from many commanders in the Army from Iretons and Ingolsbys Regiment the design of all being the same That Justice might be done on the chief Authors of so much Bloodshed in England and that those who had been raisers of this second War and were now in the Parliaments custody Hamilton Holland Capel Goring and the rest might be punish'd and especially the King himself c. These petitions were daily presented to the Parliament during the Treaty and by them laid aside but at last these desires prevailed especially after the Remonstrance of Fairfax Cromwel and the General Council of Officers at St. Albans of Nov. 11. 1648. At the same time Cromwel sent Coll. Ewer to the Isle of Wight to take the King out of the custody of Coll. Hammond at Newport and to confine him to Hurst Castle till further Order and this without consent of the Parliament and thus the Treaty was violently broken off though the House of Lords Voted That the Kings Concessions were a sufficient ground of peace and the major part of the Commons did the same But Cromwel and the Army being now come to London resolve to hinder the same and discharge the Trained Bands from guarding the parliament Collonel Prides and Riches Regiments supplying their rooms by whom above forty Members of the House of Commons as they were coming to the House were seized and made prisoners Nay further they accuse M. G. Brown and above Ninety Members for inviting the Scots into England the last Summer and therefore desired they might be excluded the House which being done and the House new modelled they Voted That no message be received from the King upon pain of High Treason That Fairfax and the Army take care of the King and that the Council of War draw up a charge against him Dec. 13. 1648. The King is brought from Hurst Castle to Windsor and the Commons declare the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance to be void and that it is Treason for the King to levy War against the Common-wealth but the Lords deny that the King can commit any Treason against the Common-wealth and reject the Ordinance for his Tryal by a new Tribunal which they had erected to consist of one hundred and fifty Commissioners six whereof were of the Lords House the rest Officers of the Army and some few Citizens And the Commons further declare That the people under God are the original

the House in obedience to his commands dissolved This was the fourth parliament he had dissolved having turned out the Long parliament the Little parliament the Recognition parliament and the present Juncto It was said of the three latter which was summoned by Cromwel himself That the first was called but not chosen The second did just nothing And the third did nothing Just The Royalists now make another attempt for restoring King Charles of which the protector had Intelligence by his Emissaries so that when the design was just ripe for execution he published a Proclamation for all Cavaliers to depart twenty miles from London and VVestminster and the Marquess of Ormond who was personally concerned in the Intrigue with much difficulty escaped in a small Boat from Sussex to Flanders but several others were seized as coll Russel Sir Will. Compton Sir Will. Clayton Mr. Mordam brother to the Earl of Peterborough Dr. John Hewit preacher at St. Gregories by St. Pauls Mr. Woodcock Mr. Mansel Mr. Mallory Sir Henry Slingsby and many more most of them were kept close prisoners till some were prevailed upon to be Witnesses against others The design was laid in Kent Essex Surrey and Sussex the King being ready to have passed over from Flanders with an Army under the conduct of Count Marcin the P. of Cond●'s General and Portsmouth Hull and other Maritime Fortresses were treated for The Protector sent for the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London acquainting them with what discoveries he had made and the danger they were in who thereupon chose a new Lieutenancy and changed the Officers of the Trained Bands and the Protector doubled his Guards and an alarm was given that on May 16. the Cavaliers had appointed for their rising and firing the Town and all the Souldiers about the City were to be murdered whereupon all the six Regiments were raised at once and divers Citizens seized Soon after another High Court of Justice was erected before whom Dr. Hewit and Sir Henny Slingsby were brought and charged with High Treason upon these Articles 1. That they had traiterously and maliciously endeavoured to raise force and Ievy War against his Highness and the Government and to subvert and alter thesame 2. That they had traiterously declared published and promoted Charles Stuart eldest Son of the late K. Charles to be King of England Scotland and Ireland 3. That they had held Intelligence with the said Charles Stuart Dr. Hewit would not own the Court but pleaded several cases against it and was therefore condemned as mute Mr. Mordant was next set to the Bar who argued so very plainly and fully against the Evidence that he was acquitted by one voice only Sir Henry Slingsby defended himself by alledging That what was said by him about seducing the Governor of Hull and perswading him to surrender that Garrison to the King was but only in Jest and discourse He was found guilty and condemned Mr. Mallory pleaded guilty and was saved Mr. Woodcock cleared-himself so well that they could fasten nothing upon him June 8. 1657. Dr. Hewit and Sir Henry Slingsby were Beheaded on Tower-hill though many endeavours were used and much sollicitation made to save their Lives Some other persons of inferior quality were likewise Tryed and Executed upon this account as Coll. Edw. Ashton who was Hang'd and Quartered at Mark-lane-end in Tower-street Edmund Stacy against the Royal-Exchange and John Bettely in Cheapside About this time a great Whale of sixty foot long came up as far as Greenwich to the admiration of all that saw his vast bulk being persued with Guns and other weapons with great danger and at length was brought dead to the shore The French and English Armies being joined now sate down before Dunkirk resolving to take it before they stirred which hotly alarmest the Spaniards in all their Quarters whereupon Don John of Austria considering the importance of this place as being the Key of Flanders and a Frontier of France so that if the English possessed it they might have an opportunity to conquer all Flanders by the Forces that might be continually landed from England with the supplies of money which this Town by their Booties brought into the Treasury Upon these and the like motives he resolved to attempt its relief though with the hazard of his whole Army but whilst he is getting them together the English and French Forces had in a short time run their Trenthes to the Spanish Counterscarp and still approached nigher the wall which the Spaniards having notice of and fearing their relief might come too late he made all possible halfe to its assistance the better to effect which Don John their General dreins most of the Garrisors and compleats a body of sixteen thousand men with which he marches with all speed through Fuernes and Incamps within a wile and half of Marshal Tureins Quarters of which the Confederates having advice immediately dislodge with a body of about fifteen thousand leaving still enough to Guard the Trenches and make good the approaches if the Townsmen should attempt a Sally With this Detachment of men and ten pieces of Cannon T●rem faces the Spaniard The English Foot were drawn up in four great Battalions and were ordered to give the first assault upon four other Battalions of Spanish Foot who had the advantage of the ground being placed upon three rising Hillocks and were seconded by Don John himself The English were commanded by the L● Lockhart who having first ordered a Forlorn Hope of 300 Musketeers to mount the Sand Hills together with his own Regiment of Foot under Coll Fenwick they stoutly maintained their ground though the Spaniards played down continual Volleys of shot among them and the French refused to second them He then sent another considerable Brigade to their relief who instantly fell in with the But end of their Muskets among the Spanish Foot and they not being used to such Club Law left the Field and fled whereupon the French Horse seeing the good fortune of the English Foot fell in upon the Spanish Horse few of whom stood the charge except those under the command of the Dukes of York and Glocester who after some resistance were forced by the number of the assailants to follow the rest In this Battel a great part of the L. Lockharts Regiments were either slain or wounded and Lt. Coll. Fenwick was killed by a Mnsket Bullet The slaughter was great the French Horse being very severe in the pursuit so that near 3000 were slain and many Spanish Noblemen killed wounded and taken Prisoners This total rout of the Relievers Army put dispair into the Dunkirkers who could now expect no relief either by Sea or Land the English Fleet blocking them up by Sea and Don John of Austria not being able to recruit his Army by Land Yet the Marquess of Leda their Governour to demonstrate some courage made frequent strong Sallies upon the French Quarters which seemed to proceed rather from Despair than