though Farell earnestly begg'd it they denied the use of their Boats of which they had plenty to the poor Fugitives nor would they suffer them in this danger to enter the Town nor any of them to Winter without the Walls though it was put to their option to chuse what Men and Colonels they pleas'd nor would they afford them any Pay or Money for providing Victuals and other necessaries Neither did the Wexford Expedition succeed better for Inchiqueen marching thither when he was but five Miles from the place by cross Fortune he met with Major General Nelson who had then Command in those parts Inchiqueen charged him and although he put some of his Men to flight yet he was taught by the rest that it would not be so easie a matter to subdue Wexford And Huson marching towards Arklow frightened him from proceeding farther The Souldiers in the mean time agreeing ill among themselves About the same time Cromwell received a seasonable supply both of Men and Ammunition partly from Bristol and partly from Milford Haven And so being sufficiently recruited about the latter end of February he drew out his Army and resolved to fall upon the Enemy And therefore he thought fit to divide his Forces and march different ways that he might amuse the Enemy as not knowing whither he designed He himself goes before with the light Horse-men and part of the Foot by Maltow the upper way into the County of Tipperary By another way Ireton and Reynolds with the rest of the Horse and Foot the Artillery and Ammuition march towards Carick Broghill with some Horse being left behind to scour the Country secure Munster fly too and again and watch the motions of the Enemy Ingoldsby had Orders with a Select Party to hover about Limmerick where he fell in into the Quarters of three hundred of Inchiqueens Horse with three Colonels and other Commanders and routed them two of which Colonels Broghill condemned to be shot to death Cromwell takes in Cahir Castle standing upon a high Rock in the River Suir as also the Castles of Kiltemon Foldea-Bridge Clogen and Roghill and lies down before Calan a Town of the same name with the River where Ireton and Reynolds joyn him with the other part of the Army having upon their March reduced several Castles as Arkemon Dunder Knoctovery Bullinard and others and having besieged Calan with three Camps and Raynolds having put an hundred and fifty Horse to flight in a days time they take it putting all to the Sword except Butlers Men who being summoned surrendred before a Gun was fired After that they make themselves Masters of Fethered and Thomas Town with the adjacent places And now Cromwell calls Huson from Dublin to joyn him with what supplies the Men of Wexford and the neighbouring Garrisons could afford which amounted to three thousand five hundred He having by the by taken Belsannon and Kildare comes to Lochlin which being without any difficulty reduced he crosses the Barrow and joyns Cromwell The first thing they attempt after this Conjunction making now eleven thousand Foot and about four thousand Horse was to besiege the Town of Gora which place either trusting too much to its own Strength or relying on Ormonds Regiment under the Command of Hammond was to its own misfortune so bold as to make a resistance But after that the Walls had for some time been battered the Garrison began to Mutiny and the place was instantly surrendered the Conquerour inflicting no other punishment upon them but the causing the Colonel and the Commanders to be shot to death From thence they march to Kilkenny through which runs the River Noir a pleasant place and without comparison the chief of all the In-land Towns of Ireland but withall the Spring-head of an execrable Rebellion and the Center as I may justly call it from which all the Treasons and damnable Councils against the King Country and Religion were as so many Lines drawn it was as yet the seat of the Commitee of Estates who upon the approach of the danger fled to Athlome upon the River Shannon upon the Borders of Connaght as a place more secure for their Consultations Kilkenny is divided into three parts one on the farther side of the River the other with a Castle opposite unto it and the third separated from the other two by Walls Cromwell lies down before it and according to the Custom of War summons it to surrender The Governour refusing without more delay he attaques it by force and having observed a convenient place he presently raises a Battery and from thence plays upon the Town The Governour now perceiving the danger causes forthwith two works to be cast up within the Walls with Palisadoes and Engines laid in the way to hinder an entry whilst the Souldiers in a full Body were posted behind to receive the Enemy if they attempted it The Breaches being made in the Walls the Retrenchments within appear Therefore to facilitate the Assault Ewers is commanded with a thousand Men to fetch a compass about and at the same time to attaque the other Town adjoining to this Here they come to blows but with more Resolution than Success the Besiegers being beat off with the loss of about seventy Men two Colonels and other Commanders Nevertheless Ewers gains the Town which though divided from the other yet served to straiten it and distract the Garrison Next Night another Officer is sent over the River with a Body of Men that by break of day he might break in into the other Town which he having performed with the loss of thirty Men whilst he attempted to burn down the Gate to make way into the City over the Bridge about fifty being exposed to shot fell At length the Governour perceiving himself attacqued on all hands and that there was no hopes of relief He capitulates and upon these Conditions delivers up the City into the hands of the Enemy That the Canon Arms and all the Ammunition should be delivered to Cromwell all the Citizens have leave to continue in the place or to remove any where else as they thought fit That the Officers and Souldiers should with Arms Bag and Baggage march to Athlome and that the Citizens should pay two thousand pounds to Cromwell And so in eight days time for the Siege lasted no longer Kilkenny was reduced under Subjection which for a great many years had given Laws to all the rest Next upon the Stage of War succeeds Clonmell a considerable well Peopled Town and walled round lying upon the Suir four Leagues from Waterford This place was defended by Hugh Boy-Oneal with a Garrison of two thousand Foot and an hundred Horse whose Reputation was much heightned by his Pains and Assiduity as having caused several considerable works to be made for the security of the place Hither does Cromwell now convert the stress of the War and having encamped and strongly entrenched himself he
Peace But on the third day when it was Calm they began to thunder on both sides with their great Guns on the one hand from Threscoe and the other Islands and on the other from St. Mary's Grimsby Haven being betwixt them But the Governour Greenvill now Earl of Bath wanting supplies at length upon pretty good Conditions surrenders the Island Shortly after that continual Victories might drop into to the lap of the Rebels news was brought from the Caribbe Islands that Barbadoes the richest of them had delivered it self up into the power of Aisckew according to the example of which the rest would take their measures He with eighteen or twenty Sail of Men of War had steered his Course to the West Indies to reduce those Islands once more under the yoak of England and setting upon them unexpectedly he took twenty or thirty Dutch Ships who in contempt of two Acts drove a Trade with them cruising off and on in sight of the Island he blocked it up for the space of six Months and at length a Sedition arising amongst the Planters he forced the Lord Willoughby whom the King had made Governour of it to surrender Whilst these things are acting in the Indies they erect of new in England a High Court of Justice as they were pleased to call it not upon the account of a present Emergent but to continue for six Months which if it could pass without the envy of Tyranny and Oppression might be adjourned de die in diem Keeble is by the Rump-Parliament made President of this Court being assisted by others and fifty Assessors of the popular Faction Most of these being Souldiers were ready at the beck of the General to smite the Prisoner as an Enemy all the rest were Creatures of the new Common-wealth whose hopes and whole Estates depended upon the favour of the Parricides except perhaps one or two who had more Zeal than Judgment And this horrid Violence unheard of under the Government of our Kings past in all Ages is imposed upon the ignorant multitude under the specious name of Justice These Men had Power to bring before them try and punish without appeal any that had held Correspondence with the King Queen Duke of York the Royalists or Irish that had assisted them by Word or Deed or received them into their Houses or that had delivered up any Castle Town or Ship or had attempted any such Surrender besides many other Crimes of the same nature Now if you inquire into the constitution of the Court and whence it derived its Authority you must know that it was first appointed against the Kings Majesty by those who were so far from having any Power of administring Justice that by our Laws and Customs they had not the Power to condemn the meanest Slave then against the Nobles afterwards as occasion offered it was of ten made use of but now was turned into a custome If any man was suspected of plotting and contriving against the Publick he was presently dragged before this supreme Tribunal and exposed to the Calumnies of pettifogging Lawyers who for a little Reputation and Profit sold their Souls in pleading against him who having none to defend his Cause and being terrified or shamed out of Countenance without the Evidence of two Witnesses or the Verdict of a Jury of twelve men which has onely force in England he is Condemned and why should not I say Murdered It was indeed no small matter of terrour to see a drawn Sword hanging as by an Hair over all mens naked Heads at every minute ready to fall upon them About that time especially and afterward when Cromwell had got the chief administration of the Government whole swarms of informers wandered about in all places both publick and private sacred and prophane They listned in Churches sneaked into companies in Taverns and Alehouses and went to wrestling in the Rings Noblemen and Gentelmens Servants were corrupted that they might discover what their Masters talked at Table the chief Vintners or their Drawers at least were feed to hearken to the free discourses of their Customers over their Wine either in the room or skulking behind the Hangings or thin partition Walls Such kind of Spies and eave-droppers Hiero the Tyrant of Syracusa used to employ who were called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In a word Prisons were full of accusers that they might accuse so that there was no Village free from snarlings nor snares The Cities themselves were filled with solitude silence trembling and fear All flocked into the Countrey not for pleasure or the Society of their Neighbours but where they could find solitude and retreat where the Barrenness and desertness of the place might neither allure Soldiers nor secure Informers where they might neither be known nor have acquaintance and where avoiding the company of men they might have the satisfaction of being secure without the pleasure of the Countrey or company All Neighbourhood Society and intimacy were suspected Those who where naturally averse from ill things yet often deceived because they had been deceived before Into such confusion had the Rout the disturber of common Peace put all things With observant eyes do curious Spies run about and were not idle when they had nothing to do They tope it stoutly that by a gentle rack they may pump out the secrets of the heart They pry into words and actions but much more into mens looks the interpreters of the mind It is their business to hanker about for Rumors and spread reports to rouze the drooping hopes of the credulous and to foment them with strange stories which afterwards vanishing into smoak they might be cowed and rendered more pusillanimous for the future The Noblemen and Gentlemen who had been of the contrary side are pursued with secret whispers and calumnies wherever they could be pickt up onely to vex them the more moderate are obnoxious to Suspicions Those who were found any way to have assisted or corresponded with the King were either forced to bribe lustily or to stand a Tryal There were also a kind of Duckoys and Trapans of all men the most accursed whose chief study was to teaze the more hot-headed and cholerick and draw them thereby into Capital snares and when they had thus caught them inform against them that they might be brought to a Tryal or oppress them with secret Calumnies Colonel Andrews thus circumvented lost his Head Nor was the president Bradshaw ashamed openly to declare in Court that by counterfeit Letters he had corresponded with him in the name of the King Thus was the Estate of the Lord Craven confiscated though being no way obnoxious but for a large Estate which he possessed in England he lived beyond Seas in Holland Whither one Faulkner of that Gang a turn-coat to the Kings Party being sent but for what end I dare not affirm laid a snare for him One single
the mean time moving from York came to Newcastle and Monk leaving Berwick marched along the borders of Scotland and pitched at Caldstream an inconsiderable Village upon the River of Tweed but now famous by the Pavillion of so great a General It was for some time the Capital of the Affairs of Britain and had the splendour of a City For Veios habitante Camillo Illic Roma fuit Veii was Rome if there Camillus lived The season was very sharp the ground being covered with Snow and Lambert's Souldiers wanting provisions and money were forced to live upon what they plundered from the Villages and Country about the want of Pay being some excuse for that licentiousness Monk's Forces in the mean time being provided of all necessaries kept themselves secure within their Camp Monk's Army more considerable for valour than number consisted onely of four Regiments of Horse commanded by Johnston Morgan Knight and Cloberry brave men and Commanders consummated in War and of six Regiments of Foot under the command of Major-General Morgan another Morgan Fairfax Rhede Lidcott and Hublethorn Price and Gomble were the Chaplains Clark Secretary and Barrow Physician to the General Whilst matters were in this state in the Camps at a distance London was divided by Factions On the one hand the Republican Sectarians whose hopes were founded on mischief stood for the Rump-Parliament on the other the Souldiers in the City were for Fleetwood and the Committee of Safety but juster Grievances were to be heard amongst the frequent sighs of the good Citizens That the Rump-Parliament made up of most profligate wretches was in vain turned out if the Government must remain in the hands of the Commitee of Safety a new name for old Rogues and the Cromwels had fallen in vain if Fleetwood and Lambert must be raised to Supreme Authority Though the soft temper of the one was less feared than the imperious ambition of the other And some there were that at a distance wished well to Monk and looked upon him as a fitter Restorer of their Liberty who taking boldness from despair spared not to say That the Commonwealth was almost undone whilst sacrilegious Robbers contend about the Government that England was never in so great distress nor reduced to such extremity that having suffered the greatest evils nothing worse could befal them And so with bitter Invectives they reckon up the Imprisonments Sequestrations continual Taxes and the other severities they had been obnoxious to That they had long enough born the burden of the accursed Parliament and groaned under the Yoke of an enraged Enemy That the Power of both was abominable and their Bondage grievous That wicked Parricides laughed at their Miseries whilst they falsly call Slavery Peace Cruelty and Slaughter Discipline That since whether they be overcome or do submit they must perish how much more honourably would they perish in the embraces of their Liberty and Country That slavery is less ignominious to those who attempt their freedom and that they had already sinned enough through cowardise That they should shake off the Yoke of the Jangling Traytors and put an end to so many years bondage That the rash attempts of the daring have often been favoured by fortune That secret hopes in Monk wealth in the City the fortune of London and God their Protector were still in being That it would be glorious to themselves and Posterity to have expiated the civil Troubles wantonly begun by their Ancestors and the Royal Bloud of Charles the Martyr by restoring his Son with no other helps than the Loyalty of his own Subjects Amidst these discontented Speeches and City-tumults a vast croud of Prentices and Serving-men got together a bold sort of men accustomed to an insolent kind of City-liberty who tired out by long slavery with a licentious freedom run about in all places in a tumultuary and confused manner demanding a new and full Parliament as the onely Remedy to their Evils But Colonel Hewson formerly a Cobler being by Fleetwood sent into the City with a Party of brisk Souldiers in a moment suppressed the defenceless anger of the Rabble and the headless Multitude and used many severities against the Citizens The Grievances of the City increasing daily Wetham Governour of Portsmouth admitted into the place three Members of the late excluded Rump and Colonels in the Army to wit Hazelrigg Walton and Morley against whom Fleetwood having sent Forces they despairing of the strength of their Friends and having neither money nor credit revolted to the Enemy Nor was this all the misfortune that befel Fleetwood and the Committee of Safety for Vice-Admiral Lawson with a Fleet of Ships true to the Cause stopt the mouth of the River of Thames threatning to suffer none to escape by Sea if they did not again restore the Rump to the power of Government All things everywhere growing worse and worse the Committee of Safety was startled and Fleetwood unfit for adversity who never could bear prosperity and growing daily more contemptible and cheap neither constant in his Resolution nor resolute in his Treachery having sent a fawning Messenger to Lenthal the Speaker he prays and beseeches more slavishly than became a General that the Members being forthwith called together they would take upon them the Government and receive them into favour who confessed their errour And indeed many of the Committee of Safety though they were very desirous of retaining their Power yet consulted about the restoring of the Rump knowing very well that their Government would not be long if Lambert returned victorious from the North. And now General Fleetwood's Regiments selling their souls and bloud for Eight pence a day under Colonels of the Democratical Faction return under the power of the Rump forgetting their yesterdays-Commander who carried the empty Title of General Nor was there any publick Commodity so saleable as the Treachery of the Souldiers This was the Exit of the two months-whirlegig of Government the very names of Fleetwood and Lambert grew contemptible and Safety forsook the Committee So soon as Monk understood that the Fleet were for the Rump and that the Garrison of Portsmouth was of the same mind having speedily recalled his Commissioners he broke off the Conference and Overture of Peace with Lambert In the mean time he wrote to him That since he understood that the Parliament by their own authority had chosen Portsmouth for their Session he thought it not consonant to his trust and modesty by private Debates to constitute a private Commonwealth but rather setting aside the Quarrels of the two Armies to refer the administration of publick Affairs to their prudence and care The Reverend Rump now strikes in again in the last year of their government and probably the best for the Publick though reinstated more by the beggary than the good will of the Souldiers And this was the reason that their chief care was
for money and that the Souldiers might be paid by the spoils of the State Lambert's forces are imperiously commanded back to their Garrisons and forthwith to leave the Field upon pain of disobeying the Supreme Power and forfeiting their Duty And at the same time news was brought to Monk's Camp that the Committee of Safety was broken and the Rump again in power What could Lambert now between hawk and buzzard do he was forsaken by Fortune deluded by Fleetwood's confidence over-reached by Monk under a colour of Peace and despised by the Rump Should he return to London it was a long and difficult march and perhaps as late for the succour of his friends as dangerous to himself having such an Enemy in the rear Should he engage Monk in a Country improper for Horse the ground being covered over with Ice and Snow it would be very uncertain if not in vain since in the dead of Winter his Horse could do no feats What to do he could not tell Nor were Lambert's men truer to their Trust than Fleetwood's had been at London for so soon as they heard of the defection of the London-Regiments basely without consulting their General nay and slighting his authority they submit to the Rump Few now were to be seen at Lambert's door and fewer within nothing but silence and seldom any Guards He was no more General nor cause of the War but where he hoped for Laurel and Triumph he was fain to search a hiding place so that without any attendance he speedily and secretly betook himself to London So fallacious and uncertain a thing is Power when it is too great A certain kind of Triumviral Power now exerted it self in Britain under Monk Fleetwood and Lambert not much unlike to that Roman Triumvirat of Caesar Pompey and Crassus With almost the same gallantry Monk behaved himself in Scotland as Caesar heretofore governed in Gallia but out of their Governments Monk out-did Caesar for the Roman being come into the City offered violence to the Senate and unjustly usurped the Dictatorship The other entering London under colour of restoring the Parliament by a rare instance of Loyalty and Modesty restored the King Nor were the emulous and competing Crassus and Pompey more sollicitous in drawing in Caesar than Fleetwood and Lambert were in endeavouring to associate Monk into the Government for though they contributed their mutual assistance in overturning the Rump-Parliament yet it is certain they hardly conspired in any thing but in the fear that both of them had of Monk Fleetwood was jealous of Lambert's ambition and Lambert could not brook Fleetwood's authority the one could not admit of an Equal nor the other of a Superiour Monk therefore was courted by Letters from both as having it in his power to give the Government to what Party he pleased Nor could Fleetwood have expected better Conditions from Lambert had he prevailed against Monk which those who favoured Fleetwood in his Army perceiving avoiding all opportunity of fighting with Monk lest Lambert perchance getting the victory might turn out his Rival Fleetwood Lambert can hardly be compared to Pompey unless it be in boundless ambition and the unhappy issue thereof and Fleetwood not at all to Crassus But without doubt it was the interest of the Publick that both were undone seeing Monk getting the better restored at length Britain to it self Lambert's Forces in all places having either run away or submitted Monk divides his Army and under his own and Morgan's conduct marches streight to London a march that will be famous in all future Ages and memorable to Posterity On New-years-day having sent before the Foot he moved from Caldstream and the day after he himself followed with the Horse and took his Quarters at Wellar the next day when he was come to Morpet he received Letters from the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen of London sent by the City Sword-bearer wherein they earnestly entreat him That according to the great Trust and Power he had having now found an occasion than which Providence had never offered a greater he would relieve the distressed State and call a new and full Parliament as the onely support of their tottering Country freely offering him the assistance and concurrence of the City in the affair And now on the fourth of January Monk having marched his Army over desert Mountains in deep Winter-Snow arrived at Newcastle and the day following sets forward to Durham from thence directing his march to York near Allerton he was honourably received by the Sheriff of the County Being next day come to York he was met by a multitude of Citizens and Persons of Quality and by them splendidly conducted into the City Having performed so great a march in so short a time he rested here five days either that he might let the news of his coming flie before him to London or that having allowed some time he might by his Agents of whom he had a great many in the City be early informed of the Councils of the Rump and inclinations of the Citizens Here Monk met with Fairfax a famous Souldier and his old Companion in the Wars who now following his own humour had risen in Arms against Lambert and was with no contemptible Forces but far greater reputation come over to the right side being now with more honour an Enemy than he had heretofore been General of the same Army During this stay at York Monk received into his service some Regiments of Lambert's Army having changed the Colonels and Officers and no Enemy now appearing anywhere he mustered his Army and sent back part of it under the command of Morgan into Scotland He himself with four thousand Foot and eighteen hundred Horse marches forwards towards London Such was the Army of Monk the least and yet most renowned body of men that ever marched through England which being hardly a third part in number to the enemy buoyed up the fate of tottering Britain and the fortune of Charles the Second The Army marching from hence and being come to Nottingham he was met by Clarges who came post from London a man deservedly of great interest and authority with him He secretly informed him of the designes of the Rump the strength of the City-Forces the suspicions and jealousies of the Sectarians and that the hopes of the Citizens depended wholly on him Upon his march he was met at Leicester and congratulated by Scot and Robinson Commissioners from the Rump upon pretext of doing honour to the General and civilly waiting upon him in his march but in reality as Spies to dive into his secrets and diligently to observe his words and actions Nor was Monk less circumspect but being a great concealer of his thoughts and sparing in words accommodating all his discourse to occasion and shewing the Commissioners all imaginable respect in the Army he confirmed them in the opinion of his sincerity In this long and
Aspersion of Cowardise they give Cromwell assurance that they would shortly fight him And march to the right hand and come to a halt He presently following finds a Marish betwixt them From thence he marches to Musselbrough to hinder its being surprised and presently after to Haddington Next day to Dunbar the Scots molesting them in their march Who encamp thereabouts About break of day Lambert first falls in upon the Scots and presently after Cromwell who obtain a great Victory Leslie himself the Messenger of the defeat renders vain the confidence of the Pulpits Edinburrough and Leeth forthwith yield to the Conquerour But the Castle inexpugnable by Scituation and Art holds out Therefore he commands works to be cast up against it From thence he pursues the remnâ—nt of the Army to Sterling but in vain and leaving that place visits the Ministers at Glasgow endeavouring to allure thâ—m to hâ—s side and by Letters tries what he could work upon Ker and Straughan After three days having taken Jedbrough he returns to Edenburrough Monck marches against Robbers Takes Roslan and the strong Castle of Tantallon As Fenwick did Hume Castle almost as strong Cromwell earnestly sets about the reduction of Edinburrough Castle And having therefore in vain essayed Mines he batters it with hâ—s Cannon Till the Governour having in vain desired a conference and liberty to write to the Council of Scotland And his Wife at length being bruised by a Granado-shell Consented to these Articles And delivers up the Castle The Scots consult what is best to be done The King slighted resolves to fly to the Highlanders who were in Arms apart And by whom he was invited And privately flies to the house of the Lord Diddop Montgomery follows him And prevails with his Majesty to return The Prince of Orange dies The Scots at length admit all to the War But not till they took the Covenant Those that resisted were by the King's means united to the rest The Ministers disagree among themselves The Remonstrance subscribed by many Who behaving themselves seditiously Ker is ordered to apprehend Straughan who presently after died Cromwell pursue Ker Who unexpectedly falls upon Lambert But unfortunately A Conspiracy discovered at London For raising an Army in Scotland to invade England All that were found guilty of this are condemned and two suffer * Love he and Gibbons were the two that suffered Another Conspiracy in Norfolk Suffolk and Cambridge-shire But in vain The Welshmen with like success The King is Crowned at Scoon And sets himself wholly to the defeâ—ce of the Kingdom Dissentions are extinguished The Favourers of the Rebel-Parricides are punished The King sets up his standard And having mustered his Army encamps at Torwood The Scots celebrate the Kings-Birth-day Cromwell visits Torwood Not daring to attempt it Overton passes Forth And presently after Lambert Who obtained a Victory over the Scots Garrisons being summoned presently surrender Cromwell takes the town of St. Johnston The King in the mean time marches streight to England By Carlisle Troublesome to no man In the chief Towns he is prâ—claimed King of England c. The Parricides quaking at the news of it Harrison and Lambert wait the motions of the King and in vain oppose him at Warrington Bridge The King easily possesses himself of Worcester He kindly invites the Londoners to his assistance Who unworthily receive his Letters He demands aid of all his Subjects Many Gentlemen come But only two thousand of the Common People Why so few came in Cromwel with a vast Army Besieges Worcester The Earl of Derby with a handful of new raised Men Is defeated by Lilburn Massey is beat out of Upton which the Cromwellians possess themselves of Middleton in the night time Sallies cut upon the Enemy To his loss The King himself marches out to defend Powick-bridge Which the Enemies possess themselves of There is a sharp engagement at Perry-wood where the King behaved himself most valiantly But being over-powered by number He returns into the Town Where in vain encouraging his Men now in disorder he slips out at St. Martins Gate He exhorts the Horse to renew the Fight but they are deaf to all entreaties The Town is taken and the Fort Royal the Soulders that kept it being put to the Sword The number of the slain And Prisoners The King leaving the Scottish Horse betakes himself to By ways And at the perswasion of the Earl of Derby goes towards Boscobel When they came to the House called Whitladies He commits himself to the hiding of the Pendrels Brothers Wilmot being before sent to London Whilst the Nobles essay to overtake Lesly They are dispersed by Lilburn's men Derby and others being taken Lesly and his men became a prey to the Enemy Or what was worse to the Countrey People Massey yielding himself to a noble Lady is Câ—st into the Tower of London From whence he escapes in disguise A full account where the King lurked in England Ashenhurst's Souldiers search the Monastery A Countrey-man's Wife brings Victuals into the Wood for the King to feed upon In the Evening he comes to Richard Pendrell's House From thence intending to go into Wales That Night he goes on Foot towards the Severn Richard Pendrell being his Guide He is frightned by a Miller At Madely he is lodged in a Barn The River being strictly guarded he returns into the Wood from whence he came Early in the Morning he is by Carlos brought into Boscobel-house Having taken refreshment he climbs up upon an Oak In the Night time he is hid in a Priests-hole Pendrell the Miller being asked concerning the King Preserved his Loyalty unviolated Wilmot coming out of a Marle-pit is committed to the care of Whitgrave To visit whom the King mounted on a Millers Beast goes to Mosely Soldiers câ—me to seize Whitgrave And depart The King is again searched after in the Abbey He removes to Bently from thence to go to Bristol as the servant of Jane Lane He sets forth upon his journey accompanied with Lassels and Wilmot At Bromsgrove he falls in discourse with a Smith about himself At Stratford he passes through Soldiers without any hurt Lodges at Cirencester Then at Marsfield and the third day at Norton where he pretends himself sick And is visited by Doctor Gorge In the Buttery he discourses with a bragging fellow about the King He is discovered by the Butler A most faithful man By whose means VVilmot is introduced He sounds VVindham's mind With good success Jane counterfeits Letters as from her dying Father For a pretext of departing late at Night They go to Carew-Castle And next day to Trent where VVindam lived A report of the King's Death Elden freights a Ship at Chayermouth Peters's device whereby he provides lodgings in that place The King goes thither carrying Juliana Conisbey with him as his Bride But losing hopes of a Ship he presently departs Why the Master of the Vessel failed so foully They came to Bridport full of Soldiers Where