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A40752 A Further narrative of the passages of these times in the Common-wealth of England an act for renouncing and disanulling the pretended title of Charls Stuart, and for the taking away of the Court of Wards and Liveries, the judgment ... against James Naylor the Quaker : with the triall of Miles Sundercombe ... 1658 (1658) Wing F2560A; ESTC R38753 41,953 62

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body of the Lievtenant to bury it to which the Lievtenant answered she might have it to bury within or out of the Tower after the Coroner and his Jury had enquired of his death according to the custome of the place whereupon the Coroner summoned a Jury to view the body and to give in their verdict concerning the manner and cause of his death accordingly and the Doctors and Chirurgions having viewed the dead body together with the said Jury found blacknesse and setling of blood about his shoulders which they judged to come from the violence of the Fever and the inflamation of those parts which great distemper the said Jury was by them fully satisfied in as also of his former condition and also having examined severall other persons upon oath besides them as his Keeper his Nurse and his Uncle who was often with him in his sicknesse his Apothecaries and a Souldier that guarded him the night he dyed his wife being present before them also who was constantly attending upon him in his imprisonement except when she lay in and then were none with him but Nurses of her own appointment They upon clear and full Information gave up their verdict on Thursday the 14 day of this instant January 1657. as followeth in haec verba We find that upon the last day of December in the year of our Lord 1657. Edward Sexby late of the Parish of Peter in bonds in the County of Middlesex Esq at the Tower of London in the Parish and County aforesaid fell sick of a certain disease called a Violent Feaver and lived languishing from the said last day of December untill the 13th day of January in the year aforesaid at the Tower of London aforesaid in the parish and County aforesaid of the Fever aforesaid dyed And so we find that the said Edward Sexby dyed by Gods visitation in manner and form aforesaid and by no other wayes or means In witnesse whereof we have hereunto set our hands this 14. day of January 1657. It also appeared to the said Jury upon oath that the Lievtenant had ordered that the said Colonel Edward Sexby in his severall sicknesses should have what Doctors Chirurgions Apothecaries Nurses he pleased as aforesaid and all those that had to doe with him concerning food Physick or necessary attendance were alwayes of his own choice and by the Order of him his wife and friends and that he was very well accomodated in his chamber with what necessaries were requisite for him and when the Jury had given up their verdict as aforesaid the Lievtenant of the Tower sent away a Warder and a Lievtenant to Mris Sexby being then at her Mothers who lived in White-Fryers to acquaint her and her said Mother that the Jury had done their office and to know her further desire as to his buriall and whether she desired his body or no which then she might have if she pleased who returned answer that they had sent their maid with forty shillings to his Keeper for his Buriall in the Tower seeing he was Prisoner there whereupon he was put into a coffin and a grave made for him in the usuall burying place near the Tower chappel and the Bell having been rang for some space of time and those that repaired to the Warders where he was to accompany him to his grave being met together which were divers of the Warders Officers and Souldiers of the said Tower the Corps was in a seemly way carried to the said grave and intered upon the 15 of this instant January about 12 of the Clock of the same day in the Tower aforesaid A Day of Publick thanksgiving on Wednesday the Third of June next For the Great successe God hath been pleased to give the Navy of this Common wealth under the Command of Generall Blake against the Spaniard Together with a Narrative of the same Successe as it was Communicated in a Letter from the said Generall A Narrative Of the Action at Sancta Cruz. AFter taking in the Supply of Victuals that was brought us the latter end of March we spent two or three dayes before the Town of Cadiz and finding the Enemy there in no great forwardnesse to come forth with a Fleet as was expected The Generall on the 13th of April One thousand six hundred fifty seven called the Commanders together and communicated his thoughts ●o goe for Sancta Cruz on the Island of Tene●iffe laying before them the reasons that induced him to it which they all approved of and a favorable Gale-just at the time presented to carry us thither On the Eighteenth following in the evening we discovered Land supposed to be Point Negro but being thick and hazy could not certainly make it till Noon the next day whereby the Enemy had longer notice of our being on the Coast then we designed he should before we came to Action On Monday the twentieth of Aprill one thousand six hundred fifty seven we were by break of day fair in the Offin of Sancta cruz and as soon as 't was light perceived by a signall from one of our Frigots a Head that the West India Fleet were in the Bay Whereupon after a short conference how to order the attempt and earnest seeking to the Lord for his presence we fell in amongst them and by eight of the Clock were all at Anchor some under the Castle and Forts and others by the ships sides as we could birth our selves to keep clear one of another and best annoy the Enemy They had there five or six Galleons whereof were Admiral Vice-Admiral and Rere-Admirall with their Standart and Flags aloft and other considerable ships making up the number of sixteen some having Goods brought from the Indies still on board them others had taken in Goods and Provisions to carry back again Most of them were furnished with brasse Ordinance and as we have been informed since had their full companies of Seamen and Souldiers kept continually on board them from their first coming thither which was about the beginning of February last their Generall himselfe in all the time lying but one night out of his Ship they were moared close along the Shore which lies in the manner of a Semicircle commanded as far as the Ships rid by the Castle and surrounded besides with six or seven Forts with almost a continued line for musqueteers and great shot as the Ground between admitted And we were forced to come so near to doe our worke that many of the men we have slain and wounded were shot by the Musqueteers from the shore Notwithstanding it pleased God that in four hours time their men were beaten out and all the Ships put a shore except the Admiral and Vice-Admirall who made the most considerable resistance About two of the Clock the Vice Admirall was set on fire and the Admirall by some happy shot or other accident suddainly blown up having as we perceived just before many men on board her by the evening all the