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

his end His last words were Jesu have mercy on me and gather my soul with those that have run before me in this Race Next to him Mr. Andrew Guthrey Son to the Bishop of Murray And lastly Mr. William Murray a young Gentleman of some 19 years old Brother to the Earl of Tullibardin who most magnanimously encountred Death behaving himself as he said His End would prove as the greatest honour of his Family For this Blood Scotland hath since pretty well satisfied the Divine Justice I pray God it be yet fully expiated and attoned There escaped out of their clutches the Lord Ogleby the day before his designed Martyrdom disguised in his Sisters apparel To conclude these Funerals in Scotland Ferdinando Lord Fairfax Father to Sir Thomas the General whose Barony is Scotish dyed about the same time of a Gangrene occasioned by cutting a Corn on his toe and devolved that Honour to Sir Thomas In Ireland upon the advance of the Rebels in so formidable a posture against Dublin the Marquess of Ormond was forced to capitulate with the Parliament and in Iune according to agreement delivered that City to Colonel Iones and other Parliament-Commissioners who brought over with them 1000 Foot and 500 Horse and the Marquess came over into England and attended the King at Hampton-Court and in his removes with the Army with an account of Ireland till upon his going into the Isle of Wight he transported himself into France and from thence not long after back again into Ireland by the Kings Commission with the above mentioned Forces some recruits out of England and other broken Troops of the Marquesses amounting in all to 3000. Colonel Iones resolved to march against the Irish who under the Lord Preston within 12 miles of Dublin met him at a disadvantage and totally routed him killing many and taking some few prisoners the rest escaping with difficulty to Dublin The Parliament had undertaken the War and were therefore troubled at this unsuccessful beginning but they presently re-inforced Iones who taking courage met with the same Enemy again and neer Trim utterly defeated him crying over and above quits with him for his last defeat After his two Wings had discomfited the two Wings of the Irish by plain Valour their main Battle of 3000 Foot betook themselves to a Bog where the English followed and made great slaughter those that escaped thence the Horse killed This slaughter one of the greatest during all the War was reckoned just to 5470. The Commander of them with Preston hardly escaped and joyned with O Neal who lately had given a terrible defeat to the Scots in Vlster Upon this Victory twenty several places yielded themselves to Iones who omitted not to prosecute his success till the Winter summoned him to his quarters at Dublin Neer the same time the Lord Inchiqueen had a like good success in Munster against the Lord Taaf where he killed near 3000. But the Parliament designing to out him of his Command he being President of that Province and to confer it upon the Lord Lisle or Broghil to that purpose endeavouring to secure his person and convey him into England he declared against the Independent prevailing party in England and for a speedy composure with the King and forthwith joyned his Forces with the said Lord Taaf who with a part of that Catholick Army had declared solely for the King This spoiled all the Triumphs of Iones his Conquest and made the Parliament look about them Ireland being by this means further from being reduced than it was the first day of the Rebellion An enterprise Cromwel resolved to undertake when he had overcome the difficulties of his Invasion and Usurpation of the Government in England In the mean while a Treaty was set on foot by the Faction with O Neal and the Lord Inchiqueen's Commission taken away some of his Treacherous Officers put upon him to that purpose as Spies by the Parliament revealing and deposing his correspondencies with the Presbyterian party of the Parliament who were by the said Examinations sworn to have procured their pardon of the King to act for him for the future which Independent Fetch to beget a new impeachment bringing us back into England we proceed in the affairs thereof where we shall see the Scene altered the domineering Army and their Grandees at Derby-house which managed all seeking shelter for their outrages The House of Lords had scrupled the passing of the Votes of Non-addresses 10 against 10 but the Army quartering at the Mews and at White-Hall made them come to it whereupon the next day the Army gave them their Thanks and with those another piece of Journey-work which was comprised in a Message sent down from them to the Commons to desire their concurrence to the Engagement of those Members that fled to the Army to live and dye with the Army It was debated all day until 7 a clock at night and then the question put That this House doth approve the Subscription of the said Members to the said Engagement which was carried in the affirmative by 10 Voices To prosecute this project now that the Army was afraid of the Scots advance there being sufficient ground of quarrel as they had set forth in their Papers they would have the Parliament and City to own their late forcing of them if called to account for it see the base vicissitudes of Villany now insolent then most sordidly fearful Nor repeating all the Adjutators said to this subscribing the Engagement where they acknowledge That they Rule by Power onely and that the House of Commons is no longer theirs than they over-awe them and they fear the Critical day will come which will discover the Parliament to be no longer theirs than while they have a force upon it The Independent party Proposed to unite all Interests in the Houses City and Army and Cromwel made a Speech in Parliament to that purpose but was snapt up by a Member That they were chosen and trusted by the people to pursue one Common interest and Common good Safety and Liberty of the People and whosoever had any peculiar Interest eccentrick from that was not fit to Sit in that Assembly and deserved to be called to a strict account by those that trusted him And one of Cromwels Agents Mr. Glover was employed to the City on the same errand who offered them the release of their Aldermen then Prisoners and the setting up their Fosts and Chains upon a mutual agreement which the City likewise generously rejected as foreseeing the Scots Invasion and therefore denyed any correspondency with them upbraiding them with their past actions and reiterated Violences Cromwel was troubled at this rejectment but resuming his wonted impudence taxed his Agents by what Authority they had made that Overture who producing his own he falsly renounced it Yet the plot ceased not here his implacable malice cast about presently another way to

this excellent States-man without a very notable remarque which hath received credit from the mouthes of many honorable persons t was this At the time of the passing the Bill of Attainder in the House of Commons Sir Bevil-Greenvile and Sir Alexander Carew sitting together they both serving for the same County of Cornwall Sir ●evil bespoke Sir Alexander in such-like words Pray Sir let it not be said than any member of our County should have a hand in this ●minous business and therefore pray give your Vote against this Bill To whom the other instantly replyed If I were siere to be the next man that should suffer upon the same Scaffold with the same Ax I would give my consent to the passing of it And we have seen how exactly and in every circumstance this presagious saying of his was afterwards verified and accomplished It is observable moreover that none of all the Bishops that were advised with by the King in reference to his satisfaction concerning the Earls death escaped the fury of that Parliament and the times he only excepted as the King himself notes in his Book who counselled him by no means not for any considerations or reason of State or Time whatsoever to act against his conscience but that obeying the Dictates thereof he should refer the Issue to God which Counsel had it been followed doubtless those miseries which ensued presently after had never befallen him nor his Kingdomes the Earl being indeed one of the chief Pillars and Basis of his Authority and Government without whose ruine the Grandees of the Faction knew they could not effect or accomplish any thing such an absolute rare honest and loyal master-piece of Reason and Prudence so much strength of spirit to quicken his undertakings joyned therewith the age present saw not and well will it be for the next if it may compare and parallel him Thus far to the memory of his most useful life we must also parentate something to his lamented and most causeless death from which as we shall see in the conclusion of this History he had a most honourable Resurrection here On Sunday May 2. was solemnized at Court the marriage between the young Prince of Orange and the Princess Mary Before we attend the Earl to the Stage it will not be unworthy the Readers patience to observe Sir Dudley Carleton the Earls Secretary bringing him the news of the Kings passing the Bill of Attainder the Earl believing the King would not have done it arose from his chair and lifting up his eyes to Heaven clapt his hand upon his heart and said Put not your trust in Princes nor in the sons of men for in them there is no salvation A design was laid for his escape if we may believe Sir William Balfore Lieutenant of the Tower at that time whose report upon examination was that the Earl sent for him four days before his suffering and endeavoured to perswade him to connive at his escape promising to reward him with twenty thousand pounds and his Daughter in marriage to Balfores Son The said Balfore saying further that he was commanded to admit Captain Billingsley to march into the Tower with an hundred men for the better securing of the place but the said Billingsley coming he was denyed entrance by Balfore whereupon the Earl expostulates with the Lieutenant of the danger of opposing the Kings command Balfore answering that a design of his escape was discovered by three good-wives of Tower-street that peeping in at the key-hole of his door they saw him walking with Billingsley and heard them advising thereon and of a Ship to be in readiness for him below the River On the 8th of May 1641. the said Earl was brought to the Scaffold on Tower-Hill where were present some of the Nobility Sir George Wentworth his Brother and the Archbishop of Armagh to whom principally he directed his Speech which being so publique and transmitted by so many pens cannot certainly fail posterity and with much Christian resolution was offered there as a Sacrifice to popular fury heightned and enraged by the artifices and designs of some innovating principal Leaders to the following breaches and Rebellion To sum up all our misery in the total of this noble person the same day the King signed the Bill for his Execution he signed also another for the continuing of this Parliament till they should dissolve themselves the only lasting monument of all our troubles The Scots having thus obtained their aims against this honourable person whom they termed the enemy of their Country and having received a vast sum of money blood and the price of blood together were now pleased upon the disbanding of the English Army to march home and disband also as was before intimated having first obtained of his Majesty a grant to be present at the next sitting of their Parliament at Edinburgh which his Majesty condescended to and in August came thither having before his departure constituted the Earl of Leicester Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in the place of the Earl of Strafford but through the Rebellion and other contingencies and reasons of State falling out he never went over in that quality though preparations were made both here and there in order to his Government On the seventeenth of May divers of the Kings chiefest Officers of State fearing they might likewise be subject to the same destructive change with the Earl of Strafford resigne their places viz. The Lord Cottington Master of the Wards to the Lord Say Doctor Iuxon then Bishop of London resignes his office of Treasurer of England to five Commissioners Marquess Hertford was also sworn governour to the Prince in the stead of the Earl of Newcastle The Earl of Pembroke displaced from being Lord Chamberlain of the Kings Houshold and the Earl of Essex ordered to succeed him Upon the Kings going for Scotland the Parliament was Adjourned till the 20 of October during which recess and his Majesties absence the ill humours of discontents gathered amain The Faction was strengthened at home by open and avowed correspondencies which became publique in menaces and threatnings against the remaining disorders and abuses in the Government The Ax had but tasted of that blood of which it soon after glutted it self all persons of all Ranks and Conditions King Archbishop Duke Marquess Earls Lords Knights Gentlemen Ministers Mechanicks suffering under its edge A remarkable thing the parallel of it being no where in our English Chronicles But so the Noble Earl of Straffords blood was expiated and his innocency attended with the like victimes The Parliament now met together after their adjournment the King being still in Scotland where he so ordered affairs by his indulgence and bounty that it was verily thought upon his departure he had not left a malecontent in that Kingdom to the confirmation of which opinion the Scots were not wanting themselves it being their complement grown to a publique expression that his Majesty

drain the Fountain of his Masters life and Honour * Sir Iohn Bourchier another Yorkshire Knight an Independent Mercenary who from the Crisis of their prevalencie workt for them and that he might not be out of the way when occasion should serve them diligently dined at Hell and to compleat his work consented to this Murther * Col. Purefoy a Warwickshire Gentleman and Governour once of Coventry a great Zealot against Crosses and no less against Crowns He imbrued his hands in the Blood of his Prince but could not tell for the ease of his Conscience upon his death-bed how he should wipe them * Iohn Blakestone formerly a Shop-keeper in Newcastle where pretending himself a Presbyterian while the Scots were there he was chosen Burgess for that Town and jugling a while among the Independent Faction learnt a worse Trade and the wicked Craft of King-killing * Sir William Constable a Yorkshire-man one who sold his Lands to Sir Marmaduke after Lord Langdale in the beginning of our Troubles but when the said Lord was made a Delinquent regained them for nothing was a great Rumper and at their hand for this Parricide he died Governour of Gloucester and a great Commander in the North. * Richard Dean Colonel and General at Sea where he was slain by a Cannon-shot standing by the Renowned General Monk his Colleague This person was formerly a Hoymans servant in Ipswich and when the War began was a Matross in the Train of Artillery and role to a Captains Command therein and was famous first at the Siege of Exeter being a cross Fellow was thought fit to be one of Cromwels Complices to execute his Plots against his Sovereigns life * Francis Allen once a Gold-smith in Fleet-street where he leapt into a pretty Estate by marrying his Mistress was chose a Recruit of the Long Parliament and adhered to the Juncto for their admission of him was made one of the Treasurers at War a Customer and had Crone-house given him and held it in Capite Regis after that Murther was made one of the Committees for sale of his Majesties Lands c. * Peregrine Pelham a Yorkshire Tike not of the Sussex-Family a kind of Governour of Hull after Hotham the dutiful carriage of which place taught him afterwards this Trayterous deportment in the High Court of Justice * Iohn Moor formerly Colonel of the Guards and had the benefit of all Passes from London * Iohn Allured a Souldier of Fortune promoted for his hand in this Villany to be a Colonel died just before his Majesties Restitution * Humphry Edwards a Member of the Long-Parliament discontented against the King for being denied by him a Preferment he deserved not which rankled and fe●red him into this malicious Parricide * Sir Gregory Norton a poor Knight one of the Pensioners to the King had Richmond-Mannor and House as good as given him for this Service against his good Master and Sovereign * Iohn Ven a broken Silk-man in Cheap-side made Governour of Windsor-Castle in the beginning of the War and had other profits and emoluments It is credibly reported that he hanged himself certain it is he died strangely and suddenly * Thomas Andrews a Linnen-draper in London afterwards a Treasurer for the Guild-hall Plate and Receiver for the Army he afterwards proclaimed the Act against Kingly Government and very narrowly prevented Justice * Anthony Stapely a Sussex Gentleman and Colonel and Governour of Chichester strangely wrought into this wicked Conspiracie * Thomas Horton a Recruit to the Long-Parliament of so mean and unknown a Quality before St. Fagons-Fight that that 's all the Character can be given him here * Iohn Fry another Recruit to the Long-Parliament a Yeoman and Committee-man of Dorsetshire he proved an Arrian in Print which Colonel Downs charged him with and so no wonder he that dar'd deny the Divinity of Christ was so cruelly Traiterous to the Majesty of his Prince * Thomas Hammond Son to Prince Henry's Physitian who most ungratefully and disloyally was the Kings Jaylor and verified that sad Presage and Oracle of the King That there are but few steps between the Prisons and Graves of Princes to the great trouble of his most Loyal and Learned Brother Dr. Henry Hammond the Kings beloved Chaplain * Isaack Pennington Lord Mayor of London two years together against the Kings express Command from Oxford a most implacable Rebel yet for all the spoil he got broke twice and hop'd to make good all by the death of his Sovereign since his Imprisonment he died in the Tower * Simon Meyne a Buckingham-shire-man of a good Estate but an illegal Recruit of the Long-Parliament a great Committee-man and Sequestrator of other mens Estates and being so initiated thought it no great matter to assist in this business of the Kings life since his Imprisonment he died in the Tower These of the Kings Iudges marked with ¶ are such as are in Prison in the Tower of London and elsewhere and are under Sentence of Death to be Executed at the pleasure of the King and Parliament ¶ Sir Hardress Waller a Souldier of Fortune once a Cavalier in Judgment then a Presbyterian upon the new Model an Independent where finding the uncontroulable sweetness of Pay and likeliness of greater Spoils he was hardned into this Conspiracie against the King and mastered his hopes of Wealth in Ireland being Major-General he was a prisoner in the Tower of London and confessed and deprecated his crime ¶ William Heveningham Esquire a Gentleman of the fairest Estate and as Gentile and Ancient a Family as any in Suffolk To keep ill Company is the way to be wicked Other causes and inducements to this horrid action are not publique and I will not dive further ¶ Col. Henry Marten Son of Sir Henry Marten Judge of the Perrogative-Court a most lewd vicious and infamous person who first spoke Treason against the King and his Family in the House of Commons and was in complement committed and suspended There was no question but he would act what he spoke when the power thereof was in his fellow-Traytors hands ¶ Owen Row a Silk-man of London a constant Commander in the Independent Militia thereof and so trained up to the perpetration of this wickedness ¶ Augustine Garland a Recruit of the Long-Parliament for the Borough of Quinborough in Kent in 1647. Chair-man of the Committee that drew up the pretended Act for the Kings Trial as rare a Blade as the worst of them at the spoil of the Kingdom a Lawyer and suspected to have spit in the Kings Face at his Trial. ¶ Henry Smith a Lawyer but a mean one of a fair Estate in Leicestershire 40 which was added as the hire of this villany a Six Clerks place in Cancery supposed to be drawn in and complicated in this Guilt ¶ Robert Titchbourn a Linnen-draper

making him co-ordinate with his Parliament An impious Treasonable Tenet and the corrupt Founta●n and bitter source of all those undutiful and rebellious actions ●gainst that blessed Prince and since damn'd by a Parliament it self in those ●x●ress Epithets It therefor● the Indians do customarily every night with sorrowful Lamentations take le●ve of the Sun whom yet undoubtedly they expect in the Morning no wonder will it seem to posterity nor will these evidences of our consternation before recited be thought an hyperbolical strain if so disconsolately we saw our Sun pulled out of his Orb and darkned in the shadow of Death his Beams cut off and eloigned into obscure and remote corners from whence it was treason against these Princes of Darkness to return and with their hereditary successive influence to re-visit and revive the drooping dying hearts of a forlorn and deserted people Such was our condition in the deprivation and extinguishing of that lamp of life which supplied with so many vertues and graces rendred our Martyr'd Soveraign the most conspicuous of all Monarchs and might have prolonged his days to an extraordinary term so proportionate and fit had God and Nature made him to Eternity The same was our fearful case in the absence and exile of our present miraculously-restored Prince Charles the second whom yet wiser and kinder providence had secured in that cloud and by a timely rescue had in safety conveyed into Forrain Parts out of the reach of these Herods who would have stretched out their Hands also against his innocent and most precious Life Now when there was neither Sun Moon nor Stars the King murthered Regal Authority abolished the Heir excluded the House of Lords turned out of doors and the House of Commons turned into a Den of Thieves and packt Juncto and Conventicle of a most perdite sort of men did these Bats and Scritch-owls usurp the Dominiou of the night of our confusions and take upon them to Enact and give Laws suitable to their interests as rational as true which shewed they concerned the Law-givers not the receivers The first hoarse and ominous noise they made as a foundation and main principle of their wild Government was a fained note to catch the Vulgar and the mad rabble on whom they wholely depended and whom they were to flatter no force into slavery and servitude by the specious hopes of their arriving also in time to be Governours and States-men and to share in the honours and profits of their new Commonwealth This was concluded as is mentioned before in these few words viz. That all power and Authority is originally in the people And in order to that they now emitted a Tidy Act by way of a Proclamation which was with wonderful Expedition sounded all the Kingdom over in these or the like words That where as several pretences might be made to this Crown and Title to the Kingly Office set on foot to the apparent hazard of the publike Peace Be it Enacted and Ordained by this present Parliament and the Authority of the same that no Person whatsoever do presume to Proclaim declare publish or any ways to promote Charles Stuart Son of the said Charles late King of England commonly called Prince of Wales or any other person to be King on chief Magistrate of England or Ireland or of any Dominions belonging to them by colour of Inheritance Succession Election or any other claim whatsoever without the free consent of the People in Parliament first had or signified by a particular Act or Ordinance for that purpose any Law Statute Vsage or Custom to the contrary notwithstanding And whosoever shall contrary to this Act Proclaim or cause to be Proclaimed c. shall be deemed and adjudged a Traytor and suffer accordingly So did they contrive and imagine to obstruct and bar the way to the Throne which themselves had Invaded and parted into shares but such monstrous wickedness boyling up to an excess of malice towards the dead and living Proprietors of the Crown was not suffered to pass without an allay and cooler in a Printed Proclamation thrown about streets letting them see the people would not run a gadding after their Calves at Bethel as they would have fancied to themselves but would keep in the old path and beaten track of Government in the succession of Charles the second to the Majesty of England Which Proclamation was as followeth We the Noblemen Iudges Knights Lawyers Gentlemen Ministers Freeholders Merchants Citizens c. and other Free-men of England do according to our Allegiance and Covenant by these Presents heartily joyfully and unanimously acknowledge and Proclaim the Illustrious Charles Prince of Wales next Heir of the Blood Royal to his Blessed Father King Charles whose late wicked and Trayterous Murder we do from our so●ts abominate and all parties and consenters thereunto to be by Hereditary Birth-right and Lawful Succession rightful and undoubted King of Great Britain France and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging And that we will faithfully constantly and sincerely in our several places and callings defend and maintain his Royal Person Crown and Dignity with our Blates Lives and last drop of our Blood against all Opposers thereof whom we do hereby declare to be Traytors and Enemies to his Majesty and his Kingdoms In Testimony whereof we have ordered and caused these to be published and Proclaimed throughout all Countries and Corporations of this Realm the first day of February and the first year of his Majesties Raign God save King Charles the second This without any solemnity or indeed open appearance met with the chearful reception and inward Loyal resolutions as if vent had been given to a publike manifestation of Duty and Joy upon his Majesties present accession to the Crown for it revived the Hearts of mourning and disconsolate Subjects to see the sure and certain Succession thereof to be continued in the same most beloved name the Eldest Branch and descendant of their Martyr'd Soveraign in whose ruines the Regicides thought to have raked up and buried all the claims and just Titles to this Impartial Diadem In tendency whereunto they first considered how to keep the honest Members the Army had Secluded from entring in again that they might not have too many partakers in the spoil of the Kingdoms and therefore another Legislative by-blow was Enacted That all those Members that had assented to the Vote of the 5 of December concerning the Kings Concessions should never be re-admitted and such as Voted in the Negative should presently enter their said dissent or before they were to be admitted And this characteristical discrimination they most punctually insisted on to the very last as the main Pillar of their Oligarchy and we shall see this difference hardly laboured throughout their Usurpation On the 5 of February they fell again upon the standing remains of the dissolved Government the Peerage and Nobility of the Kingdom whose medling in

and trom his Castles shooting at some of the Frigats who adventured within their reach a Quarrel arose betwixt that King and this State whose Men of War seized on nine Brazile-ships as they were passing into that Harbour The Estates of Scotland had now notice of the Kings present coming into that Kingdom the Earl of Dunfermling Mr. Murrey and Sir William Fleming being sent before by the King to acquaint them therewith when the two last were dispatcht again to give the King to understand the exceptions they took against some uncovenanted Scotch Lords as Hamilton and Lauderdail and other English Royalists coming over with Him but before their Arrival the King was shipt having newly received the distastful intelligence of the Murther of his faithful Servant the Marquess of Montross which as Cases then stood He was forced to pass by having expostulated very sorrowfully thereof with the Parliament who by all means endeavoured to smooth and colour that perpetration with the Vows of their Allegiance in order whereunto they said they Executed that Nobleman and some others with him viz. Sir Iohn Vrrey Colonel Spotswood Ogilby and Sibbald a very inauspicious entrance and beginning of a right understanding between his Majesty and them that was cemented with such Loyal Blood The King as was said before shipt himself at Terbeyden a Village neer the Hague aboard a Friggot an excellent Sailor Commanded by young Van Trump old Van Trump attending the King on board and charging his Son to do his utmost devoir for the Kings preservation and with Tears parting for there was some intelligence of the English Fleet lying to intercept him there were also two other Men of War in Company who carried his Goods and Retinue well provided and alike able for Fight and Defence With these Ships He had not long been under sail but a Tempest drove Him upon one of the Danish Islands unknown to the Fleet but where they were most humanely and civilly Treated and whence after a tedious Navigation they Arrived at the Spey in the North of Scotland Colonel Graves and Captain Titus alone of the English attending on his person just as the English King-catchers were set sail from thence under their Admiral Popham to seek out after him At His Arrival He was Complemented in great State by the Nobility and brought to Saint Iohnstons and so to Sterling being presented in the way with very great gifts according to the ability of that Nation who were now rising generally in Arms and a Party of Horse under Major Cuningham sent to visit the English Borders and to get intelligence for the Messenger they had sent to London Colonel Gray was secured at which time Mr. Prin was laid up in Dunster-Castle and dismissed with a Guard back again unheard an Answer being then in preparation to be sent by a General a more honourable and more powerfully-attended Officer That Command of course was devolved upon the Lord Fairfax and he desired to accept it but he being inscrupled by some of the Presbyterian Ministers who were highly incensed at this War as it was cunningly foreseen by Oliver and his Party who never endeavoured his satisfaction and pretending a reluctancy from the obigations of the National Covenant to engage against their Brethren totally declined it transferring the long-expected Military Supremacy by a Vote of the Parliament to Cromwel who very zealously accepted the Charge and with all readiness prepared for the Expedition which makes the second Trophy or Garland of these strangely and wonderfully prosperous Free-States of England On the 12 of Iune it had been resolved that the Army should Advance Northward but it was the middle of Iuly before they Arrived there for on the 21 of that Month Cromwel quartered at Berwick from whence he sent a Letter and Declaration to the Committee of Estates fraught with hypocritical canting expressions which the said Committee supprest returning answer that they would reply to it by Messengers of their own And lest any of their people should be deluded by the like fair words they made it Treason for any person to Correspond with the English and fell a driving all their Cattle and Provisions in the parts next adjacent to them beyond Edenborough Cromwel's Army was now reckoned 16000 men effective with which he came first to Mardington his Head-quarters Iuly 25. thence to Hadington within 12 miles of Edenborough on the Hills whereabout the Scots had Encamped themselves declining to Engage till their additional Forces were come off the Hig●-lands On the 25 of Iuly the English advanced and attempted one of the said Hills where a small party of the Scots were and beat them presently off when a party of Scotch Horse fell in their Rear with such fury and vigour that they wholly disordered it and with Reserves and fresh Bodies seconded and pursued this advantage which being perceived by Major-General Lambert and Colonel Whaley who had the Rear-guard they couragiously Repulsed them to their Trenches in which action Lambert had his Horse shot under him was r●n through the Arm with a Lance and was taken Prisoner but was rescued by one Lieutenant Empson This past and the Army wet and weary on their way to Muscleborough Betwixt 3 and 4 in the Morning another party of some 1500 Horse the flower of the Army being veterane Blades under the Command of Colonel Montgomery and Straughan fell with great fury and more exact valour upon them betwixt sleeping and waking and brought a terrible fright and dismay upon the whole Army Charging almost clear through upon the Sands but returning with their Prisoners were set upon by fresh Troops under Colonel Okey in good order and forced to double their speed home to their Camp having lost 100 men to the same number in the former attempt and some of their Officers slain and wounded but came off otherwise with Honour enough giving the Invaders little hopes of so easie a Victory and Conquest as the Fates had decreed to them and their invincible Fortune At Home the Parliament was busie about their High Court of Iustice and making orders for the Composition of Royalists excluding all such who within six weeks from their last limitation some time before should not effectually have finished it and in order thereunto they Debated upon an Act August the 6 being pressed for Money to carry on this great undertaking abroad for the sale of Delinquents Lands and Voted so many Estates to be sold as would make up security for 200000 l. and that an Act should likewise be Passed for doubling on the Purchases of those Estates of Deans and Chapters c. And into this black list the Earl of Derby was now put and other unfortunate Royalists of which hereafter In the Month of Iune Doctor Levens formerly a Doctor of the Civil-law who had all along served the King was apprehended in his Lodgings being set by the State-spies and several Commissions from the King and

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 deliv●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 Athlo●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 disp●te beat them from the first and second Passes and at the third which was strongly fortified came to the B●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 th●m whereupon Ireton drew from Limerick and took in the st●o●g Castle of Neanagh in low Ormond and so retreated to his Winter-quarters a● 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 ●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 sei●●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