Confederates to be Dissolv'd Soon after Lubomirskie with both his Sons kiss'd the Kings Hands and took the Oath of Fidelity Last Year you heard how Sabaday the great upstart Prophet to the Iews went to Constantinople to dâ—mand the Land of Promise for the Iews but upon his Arrival the Great Turk consulting with his Mufti and one of his Judges what to do with him concluded That he was to be dealt with as a Traytor to the Ottoman Empire and so to be Flea'd alive after which that People fell very severely upon the Iews and slew a great Number of them But the Sentence was respited and he only sent to the Prison of the Seven Towers in the Dardanelli from whence he wrote a Letter to the Hebrews in Smyrna encouraging them to stand fast in their Opinion after that taking upon him the Title and Personage of a Great King and Prophet insomuch that many Thousands of his Religion made their Visits to him in the Prison But the Visier taking notice of the great Confluence of People to him and fearing their Principles might lead them to some Action prejudicial to the Government gave Order to bring him from the Dardanels to Adrianople where being by a Learned Iew of his own Country after seven days Conference with him found to be an Impostor the Grand Visier so wrought upon him by Threats and Promises that he was content to lay his Royal Titles aside and to take a servile Employment upon him in the Grand Signiors Court leaving to his Country-men only Shame and Repentance To visit Sweden in the Circuit of this Year we find the Swedish Prince highly offended with the City of Bremen for encroaching too much upon the Priviledges of that Crown and assuming upon themselves to be a free Member of the Empire After tedious Parleys they come to Blows Wrâ—ngle lays close Seige but Brandenburgh Lunenburgh and the Dutch Engage in their Defence bringing their Forces together for their Relief the noise whereof for the Enemy now drew near so far wrought upon the Swede that he was willing to come to Composition and at length Articles are agree'd upon and the Siege rais'd upon condition That they should clayme no Vote or Session in the Meetings of the nether Circle That they should pay their Contributions as thereby directed That the Works of the City built upon the Kings Ground should continue That they should forbear to use the Title of a Free Imperial City For other things to enjoy their Customs Priviledges and Ecclesiastical and Civil Rights as in the Treaty 1648. But the Venetians have their Hands full the Great Turk bending all his Forces to the Conquest of Candia The Grand Visier had already laid Siege to the Great Town and rais'd a Battery near the Lazaret to hinder the Passage of the Veneâ—ian Ships for its Relief and was so offended with the Bassa of Canea and Candia Nova that he took off their Heads for being defective in their Duties as he pretended the Summer before The Venetians on the other side were very sâ—dulous in the Defence of their Territories solliciting all their Neighbouring Princes and having already receiv'd great Encouragements from the Pope and therefore the Event of the Siege was to be this Year Discovered Anno Dom. 1667. THE Swedes had offer'd a mediation last Year between the King of England and the States of Holland the result whereof was That the King of England did accept of Breda for the place of Treaty and would send for the Management thereof the Lord Hollis and Mr. Henry Coventry so soon as the Passports necessary for their Transportation should be ready which being communicated by the Swedish Embassadors they embraced the Offer most willingly however their preparations for setting out their Fleet were carried on with all imaginable diligence which the King of England saw but resolving that they should waste this Summer in a fruitless expence stood only upon his own Guard Some Ships the English had abroad but not to do any considerable Service but what their own Courage when they accidentally fell in with the Enemy led them to among the rest Captain Dawes in the Elizabeth meeting with 15 Sail of Rotterdam Men of War Fought with their Rear-Admiral of 64 Guns and Five others of 48 and 50 Guns and presently after with the Admiral of 70 Guns and two of his Seconds yet got clear of them all forcing the Enemy to lye by the Lee. Not long after the same Frigat engaged with Two Danish Men of War of 40 Guns apiece where after four hours Fight Captain Dawes was slain with a great Shot yet had the heart to Cry For God's sake never yield the Frigat to those Fellows Not long after the Lieutenant being desperately wounded the Master succeeding him slain the Gunner took place who so well ply'd the two Danes that they Steer'd away to their own Shore while the English Anchor'd within a Mile of them to repair the Damages which they had receiv'd The next morning though but badly ready yet they resolv'd to expect the Danes again who though they were to Windward of the English and had the advantage of the Current yet they would not attempt any thing â—urther although the English shot off a Gun in Defiance but could by no means come nigh them and therefore bore a way for England By this time the English Embassadours are Arriv'd at Breda and had made their Publick Entrie which was very Solemn they were met a Mile from the Town by 200 Horse sent by the Governor with whom went the Commander of the Town in the Governors Coach the Horse led the Van then sixteen Pages on Horseback and after them four Trumpets in the King of England's Liverie after them the Gentlemen of the Horse to the Embassadors followed by the Mareschal of the Embassie who preceded the Embassadors Coach which was very rich drawn with six Horses besides three others of their own and the Governors At the Gate of the Town they were met and Complimented by the Governor who passed with them in their own Coach to their House but while they were busie at the Transactions of Peace it will not be amiss to follow the Dutch Fleet in their Military Progress About the beginning of Iune they appear'd abroad at Sea with a considerable Fleet and finding no Enemy to resist 'um they kept plying upon the English Coast for many weeks together They had toward the latter end of April made an Attempt with a Squadron of Ships upon Burnt Island in Scotland but were beaten off with loss Their next attempt was upon the Platform at Sheer-Ness which being a place of small strength and consequently unable to resist the Force of their Artillery after a stout resistance made was quitted by Sir Edward Sprague Animated with this Success with 22 Sail they made up toward the Chain though with some difficulty several Vessels being sunk about Muscle-Bank which was
had faced Petworth and entred Midhurst and at last was clapt down before Aundel-castle the extremest parts of Sussex whose shore before we leave we must conjoyn a short account of the Isle of Iersey which by Sir Peter Osburn was now delivered to Sir Iohn Pennington still Vice-Admiral for the King in the narrow Seas in exchange of which good fortune the Garrison of Pool had received a very great success in an Expedition into the Country and the Earl of Warwick had joyned at Warcham with Col. Earl upon a designe against Câ—rf-castle but that succeeded not Monsieur le Prince de Harcourt came hither a while before as Ambassador Extraordinary to offer the French Kings interposition and arbitrement of the differences between King and Parliament and was convoyed and splendidly received at Oxford but his Coach and Pacquet searched as he passed the London-Fortifications which he highly complained of to the Parliament who to evade his Peace-making errand would not own him as an Ambassador Extraordinary He was followed upon the same account to Oxford whence he went and came twice with a Duch Ambassador but all to no purpose For the Parliament had now two fresh Armies asoot raised by the City and a third the Scots now upon their march though a little before they earnestly beâ—ought an Accommodation It is time here to remember other memorable things which happened a little before the first was that of the two Hothams Sir Iohn and his Son these persons eminent more especially the Father for adherence to the Parliament having first of all men denied the King admittance into his Towns and Magazines by putting themselves into Hull and keeping it by vertue of a power from the Lords and Commons now either touched in conscience for the unlawfulness and the undutifulness of that action or else not so highly regarded and considered as that important and leading piece of service might justly challenge from the Parliament the Queen being also newly arrived in those parts who probably might have dealt with Sir Iohn in the matter he began to falter from that firmness he had professed for the Parliament which being guessed at by some strict observers of him he not being reserved enough in a thing of that consequence a party was made against him in his own Garrison and he too late endeavouring to have secured Hull for the King was in the bustle knockt down in the streets secured with his Son and both sent up prisoners to the Tower whence not long after they were brought to tryal and execution At the same time also returned Sir Hugh Cholmly a Member likewise of the House of Commons and who had secured Scarborough for them which as before was afterwards put into the Kings hands by Brown Bushel The other thing remarkable was the death of Mr. Iohn Pym the great stickler against the King and his Prerogative the Speech-maker of the House of Commons that could wiredraw money with every word he uttered to the City He died when the Kingdom was in a flame which he had chiefly blown up not likely to be extinguished Nothing is reported of his end certainly and though there was a fable of his body being full of Lice sure we may be it was full of worms afterward and let judgment be left to God whether he engaged in the Times and Quarrel out of a misguided or a reclaiming Conscience Insert we here also as matters of State not War that upon the carrying the Great Seal to Oxford by the Lord Keeper Littleton a new great Seal was made by the Parliament which the King declared to be treasonable and soon after sent a Messenger to London one Daniel Kniveton to forbid the holding of the Term by any colour of the said Seal and did therewith adjourn the said Term but the Parliament were so far from giving heed to that Message of the Kings which was according to his duty delivered to the Judges in Westminster hall by the said Kniveton that by a Council of War held at Essex-House they sentenced him to be hanged for a Spy which was accordingly executed upon him at the old Exchange London on 27 November Add we also that in February the King convened the Members of both Houses who had deserted them at Westminster as a Parliament in Oxford They met in the Schools accordingly and proceeded to several Consultations but within a year totally disappeared To conclude this year with Military affairs in Ianuary the Scotch Forces according to compact entred England with a well-accomplisht Army and in February cross'd Tine And to sum up the rendition of places on both sides take this account Scarborough Brimingham Litchfield Howley-house Burton upon Trent Bradford Hallifax Bristol Gainsborough Dorchester Portland Weymouth Melcomb Beverly Bidiford Appleford Barnstable Exeter Dartmouth Howarden-Castle Arundel-Castle taken by the Lord Hopton Beeston-Castle Lapley-House Crew-House Hopton-Castle Warder-Castle regained Sturton-Castle and Newark relieved for the King where Prince Rupert gained a compleat victory against Sir Iohn Meldrum who commanded there with 7000 men against the Town The Parliamentarians were beaten from their entrenchments into a House called the Spittle or Exeter-House where they came to a surrender upon capitulation leaving their Arms and Bag and Bagage behind them and a thousand men slain on their side Reading Wardour-Castle Monmouth Taunton and Bridge-Water Tamworth-Castle Burley-House Glocester relieved Lyn yeilded to the Earl of Manchester Grafton-House and Arundel-House taken by Sir William Waller again being again recruited with a fresh Army and a new Commission given him to be a Major-General of the four Counties of Kent Surry Sussex and Hamp-shire which leads this Chronicle next to some remarkable actions of his which were much in expectation in the ensuing year Anno Dom. 1644. SIr William Waller after his reducement of Arundel-Castle Marched to find out the Lord Hopton to cry quits with him for his defeat at Roundway-Down Both Armies were near one another a good space for his Lordship hovered about Winchester and those parts and at Brandon-Heath near Alsford was drawn up having a little before in his intended March to the relief of Arundel beaten Colonel Norton into Chichester who endeavoured to impede him and stood ready to receive Sir William who had taken the advantage of a Hill from which the Royalists with fury beat him and drove him to another where under the shelter of some Bushes and Trees he so galled the Kings Horse that they were forced in some disorder to retreat to their Foot There was a hollow betwixt both bodies which each endeavouring to gain many men found it for their Graves on both sides The Lord Hopton therefore seeing the slaughter that was made and likely to continue upon his men timely drew off his Artillery and Cannon towards Winchester and then wheeling about Marched for Basing and so presently to Oxford In this fight was killed on the Kings
that the King was well rewarded for his lenity and sparing of blood which was at this place plenteously drawn from his own Army Of which of men of note were slain fewer than in any Battel whatsoever there being reckoned but three Colonel Sir William St. Leger Lieutenant-Colonel Topping and Lieutenant-Colonel Leak There were wounded Sir Iohn Greenvile the General the Earl of Brainford in the head and Sir Richard Campfield Colonel of the Queens Regiment of Horse of Common Souldiers a greater quantity than of the Parliaments neer three thousand But of their side not any person of note above a Captain and some five and twenty hundred killed The Earl of Essex had indubitably the honour as he had the pillage of the Field on which he lay all that night and having buried the Dead marched to Besiege Demington-castle where the Kings Artillery was secured by the care of the aforesaid Colonel Boys who intended not to part with them at any Rates though encompassed with so great and powerful an Army which after three several Summons three several days together assaulted it The King having marched his Army through Oxford on the thirtieth of the same month on the sixth of October Rendezvouzed them on Burlington-Green within a Mile Eastward of Oxford and so marched by Dorchester to Wallingford and forward for the relief of Dennington-castle which yet stifly defended it self Upon his approach and some resolute attempts upon their out-Guards over-night which passed with sundry Skirmishes the Enemy drew off next day and departed although they were two for one Hereabout and in this matter appears the first dissatisfaction of the Parliament as to the good management of their Arms the Earl of Essex being now suspected as careless or discontent And therefore they fell to debate concerning the Army in the House For Colonel Norton had writ a Letter to them that he had received a Warrant from a chief Commander in the Army to withdraw from Basing which was a thing to him unexpected but yet he obeyed and besides the commands of the Committee of both Kingdoms to the Army were lately much neglected and complained of This debate flew so high as it came to this question How chance the Parliament-forces permitted the Enemy to relieve Dennington-castle when they were two for one and why the Town of Newbery was quitted before the Enemy was marched away as the pretence of not fighting was because they would not quit Newbery It seems it was first resolved by the Council of State that Essex his Forces should not quit Newbery or draw out into the Field lest the King should take it for Winter-quarters but when the King should retreat from the relief of Dennington to fall upon his Rear But no such matter was prosecuted for the King possest himself of that Town as a good covert and quarter for his Army while the Parliaments Forces lay in the open Fields who being by the Kings approach to them at Hungerford and one thousand Horse sent under the same Colonel Gage from thence hastily dislodged also from the Siege of Basing where Manchester and his whole Army had shewed themselves onely departed to their Winter-quarters in Reading Henly Abington and Farnham and the King 's to Basing Odiam Newbery Blewbury and Marlborough Whilst they thus are lodged in their quarters there will be respite to look upon the Counsels and debates of the Parliament and the consultations of the King and the debates likewise in his Court and Parliament at Oxford And first the Earl of Manchester made his relation concerning the management of the business at Dennington-castle of great length in Writing which was in the nature of a Charge against his Lieutenant-General Cromwel who had fought so Fortunately for the Parliament He thereupon made answer to several particulars therein mentioned and pleaded first point of Priviledge because of the transmitting of that business from the Lords before any Charge was brought into the House of Commons This private Quarrel was presently quashed but the Publike disgusts were not so soon laid For the Independent Faction began now to appear and to be powerful in the House of Commons so that a suspicion was raised and somented by them that the Earl of Essex was more Royal than the Parliament ever intended when they gave him his Commission Upon this pretence and after several discourses it came at last to a debate wherein it was resolved to new model their Army and so by degrees to quit themselves of their General and to bethink of a new one that should not be of that dangerous greatness and honour who might not well be disputed with but to chuse one of a middle Estate betwixt the Peers and the People and so to be at last rid of all the Lords which afterwards they brought to pass To this end they began with a subtle Order That no Member of either House shall during this War enjoy and execute any Office or Command military or civil which hath been granted or conferred on any Member of either House or by any Authority derived from either House The Reasons published for this Order were these fine ones That all Commissions to Parliament-men being void the new modeling the Army may be carried on with the less exception when all are concerned alike That Military differences among the great Commanders being Parliament-men which might retard the work will hereby cease Those that shall be new elected Officers being of lesser quality and sooner subject to question and punishment and the Army also maintained at a lesser charge Forty days were limited from this Order by which all such Commissions and Commands were in the Army declared void with a resolution nevertheless expressed to pay off their Arrears which was meanly performed and at the same rate that the Earl of Essex had the Ten thousand pounds a year assigned him for the good service he had done the State out of the Lands of the Lord Capel whose Heirs now have his Honour and other Delinquents punctually paid him This Ordinance for new modelling the Army met notwithstanding with great opposition and as much after it was received into the House of alteration The Lords being instructed to soresee the evil consequences nor would they plenarily consent before the old trick of Petitions from City and Country compelled them to pass it The Title whereof was An Ordinance for the raising and maintaining of Forces for the defence of the Kingdom under the comand of Sir Thomas Fairfax He thereupon is sent for and privately comes out of the North and on the nineteenth of February was brought by four Members into the House of Commons where a Chair was set and he desired to sit therein the Speaker telling him of the great confidence and trust the Kingdom had put upon him in the Command of this Army from a sence of his Valour and Fidelity for the defence of the Laws and
and War having eaten things most reluctant to nature till the Kings affairs 1645 being desperate he accepted of no less honourable than his York Conditions and was now deservedly and as the onely fit person intrusted with this chief Bulwark and Fortress of Loyalty By him many additions were made to render it impregnable one most dangerous to the enemy was that he had caâ—sâ—d the ground before the Trenches to be broke and digged into pits wherein he had driven stakes so that it was neither safe for Horse nor man if they should attempt to storm to approach the Works But all this strength availed not against the Fate upon the Kings Cause besides that there was some Division among the Nobles at Court to whom the King had left a power of Treating with the Enemy insomuch that after a Summons the Governour by the advice of the Lords condescended to a Treaty which was managed at Marston at Mr. Crooks House by Commissioners on both sides and after a long debate all Hostility being exercised in the mean time especially when it was thought they would agree the besieged shot their great Guns continually by which they did some hurt killing a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Works and Prince Rupert received a shot in a Salley that he made rather to take the air than out of any great designe the Treaty came to a conclusion upon very noble Terms which Fairfax was willing to grant not knowing but that he might have been forced to continue there till the depth of Winter at which time the over-flowing of the Rivers which were now diverted might make him rise and leave the Siege there being plenty of all provisions in the Town to maintain it beyond that time The Articles being tedious and like those of Exeter need no repetition On Wednesday the 23 of Iune according to Agreement Sir Thomas Glemham marched out with a Body of 3000 compleat Foot through two Files of the Enemy which were placed at the East-Gate and extended to Shotover-hill where their Horse were drawn up in the Rear in a Solemn Military posture and having marched to Tame 900 of them laid down their Arms and had Passes to their own houses the rest or the most part of them took service under Colonel Tillier one of the Garrison for the French and some for the Spaniard A thousand more marched out at the North-gate whose habitations were in Glocester-shire and the Counties that way Prince Rupert and Maurice departed on the Monday before to Oatlands upon special Articles for themselves and a number of Gentlemen on Tuesday besides near 2000 that staid aâ—â—er the Army was entred for Passes so that there could not be less than 7000 men besides three Auxiliary Regiments of Scholars and Townsmen which were disarmed by the General upon his entrance then in the Town being the very flower and the Chivalry of the Kings Army There marched out likewise the Duke of York the Marquess of Hartford the Earls of Dorset and Southampton the Duke of Richmond and Earl of Lindsey being comprised in the said Articles who departed Oxford some while before the Siege and rendred themselves the Lords Cottington Lane and Dunsmore Secretary Nicholas Sir George Lisâ—e and abundance of brave Gentlemen and Officers so that it was a pleasant martial fight and many were the spectators from London to behold their exit The Duke of York was conveyed to St. Iames's to his Royal Brother and Sister under the Government of the Earl of Northumberland from whence by means of Colonel Ioseph Bamfield he was conveyed away according to the directions of the Queen his Mother into Holland as some while before the Princess Henrietta after married to the Duke of Orleans was by the Lady Dalkeith her Governess privately carried into France In these Articles Faringdon was also included the Governour Sir George Lisle being then in Oxford ratifying the same Colonel Poyntz and Colonel Rossiter had joyned their Forces and with the access of the Scottish Army resolved to besiâ—ge Newark upon which they long had a hankering desire They began the Siege in December which was continued with all obstinacy the Town defending it self resolutely and by often Salleys annoyed the besiegers doing notable Execution upon them The Scots lodged on the North-side with 6000 men making good Muschams bridge Poyntz on the South-side Colonel Rossiter and Lebunt at Blechington Claypool the first time he appears in service now put on by Cromwel with Leicester and Ely forces at Bennington the Nottingham Brigade at Stoak where the Lord Bellasis the Noble stout Governour gave them such a Camisade by a sudden eruption that he totally routed their Horse Poyntz being there and had near surprized the Foot but that Rossiter came opportunely in and designing to get between the Salliers and the Town made them leave their Victory and make home in their way whither they defeated the said Colonel Rossiter and safely returned in at their Works Nevertheless and though General Leven with his Army was drawn off from Newark disgusted for want pay Poyntz would not give over but having turned the River Trent quite from the Town on the North-side and the Scots having taken Sands Fort before who paid dear for their Approaches and the other River being also turned aside and several Forts and Batteries new raised within Musquet-shot of the Town a second Summons was sent in unto the Governour which had not prevailed for all their bravado's of danger had they not been reinforced with a command from the King to his Lordship to make as good Terms as he could and deliver the place for that the Peace of the Kingdome might the sooner be râ—stored Accordingly on the 4 of May a Treaty was entred into the Articles very fair but not so comprehensive as those given by Fairfax but yet such as signified the noble Governours resolution and pointed at his great desert he having approved himself an eminent Souldier and Servant of his King and Country throughout the War and was afterward his Majesties Governour of his Town of Hull While the Army was marching to Oxford Colonel Whaley with a thousand Foot and-four Troops of Horse was sent to besiege Banbury who lay before it ten weeks ere the Governour would hearken to any Terms as nobly angry with the Fortune of his Cause as disdainfully vext with the disparagement of the Siege the Castle able to defie their entire Army and which had often disappointed and beaten several united strengths that beleaguered it But I cannot so regretfully partake with that Loyal Garrison as Mr. Sprig doth zealously with the Town in a Paragraph of his worthy observation and which mâ—â—â— very justly be construed in a better sense than he meant it being a full â—ccount of that once-famous place for Zealotry Banbury once a great and fair Market-Town before the late Troubles but now having scarce the one half standing to gaze on the Ruines of
Governour therefore gave the Prince notice who not being in a condition to relieve the place there being a numerous Garrison within he accepted of Terms which to give Colonel Fortescue his due were the best given by any but the General himself and came the neerest his generous way of Treating and caressing an yielding Enemy Not long after followed the rendition of Scilly-Island and the Prince departed for France the like of Denbigh and Holt-Castle which concluded the Military Actions and left the Conquerours whose wreathed Bays would not well twine together the Presbyterian Thistle and the Independant Bramble not apt to such coalition but scratching and tearing one another worse embroyled than they had been throughout or before the War in the greatest difficulties of their designs or defeats The Pricks of these Triumphant Coronets sharply troubled the heads of the wearers and how to set them easily they knew not Ambition was the most poignant and grievous to Cromwel Disdain and Envy to the old Presbyterian Commanders from whence resulted a just indignation in some of their Grandees of having taken Arms to such ill purposes against the King But in most others of them the Itch of Sacriledge and Covetousness the longing after the spoils of the Kingdom rebated the acuteness of those animosites jealousies and distrust intending their private advantages and chiefly aiming at the kirnel Wealth and Riches and leaving the shell of Government to be crackt and broken by other mens teeth to give them the fruition of their projected profits and Estates For Cromwel as it might well be presumed now took up these resolutions which he had staggered at some while before to invade the Soveraignty unto which end incredible will it be how he had wrought upon the Grandees of his Faction and they upon the Rascality and rabble of the same leaven into so great a popularity that he became the very Idol of those so then called Saints The News-books every day were filled with the wonders of his Atchievements where he was present at any success all was attributed either to his fortune or Valour where they had Victory in his absence it was acknowledged to his Counsel and Prudence insomuch that by sober men it was well hoped such affronts to his General might have awakened him to some distruct of his aspiring method but by the secret wisdome of God he was blinded not onely in a destructive and supine compliance with this Rebel by a guilty omission of his care and inspection over him but infatuated into his most scelerate and abominable practises to the subversion of the Parliament and the execrable murther of the King They who Raised this Army against their Soveraign being Raised afterwards by that one of their own listing Usurper His main and first engine to the overthrow of the Government and Laws which took its mischievous effect was the disbanding part of the Army under Major-General Massey a Noble person and though formerly an enemy to the King in that unlucky Siege of Gloucester now suspected as inclinable to a moderate use of that Victory the Parliament had obtained He was known to have much affected General Essex of whose principles and intentions of duty to his Prince one may without danger say they were tainted by the contagion of the times but never corrupted or alienated from the Kings person Authority or Family or Peace of the Kingdom By disbanding the Forces under him the design of Cromwel was first to make a division and stir some ill humour in the Army as if that were the leading case next to make the standing Officers when they should know they were at his disposal more sure and obliged to him and then to instil into them his own Trayterous devices in sum to perpetuate the War till he had attained his ends and then continue them as the Turk doth his Ianizaries Accordingly at the Devises General Fairfax for upon him it was put disbanded Major-General Massey's and Colonel Cook 's Troops being in all 2500 Horse prepared but falsely to obey the Ordinance of Parliament receiving onely six weeks pay for many moneths Arrears and because the Parliament so vehemently tax the King for entertaining of Forreigners and also because it is very strange observe what he saith further Sir Thomas Fairfax his Pen travelling as far as great Alexanders Sword Divers of the disbanded came from very remote Countries and bad Passes some for Egypt others for Mesopotamia and Ethiopia Upon consideration of this passage besides that it wipes away the cavil of the Kings entertainment of Forraigners a more general and no less envious observation ariseth viz. that in some sort it may be said what was spoke of the Roman Civil Wars That all Nations and people were engaged in the fortune and Fate of Caesar or the Senate that the whole World was concerned in our English Confusions for by this black list of Auxiliaries from the other side of the Line and such remote Regions it being also unquestionable how dexterously and designedly all our potent Neighbours thrust themselves in at our Breaches our troubles and intestine feuds may be allowed to pretend to a like obnoxious greatness and reputation since the fame of our conflagration and incendiaries flew to such distant and scorched Climates Those Salamanders embroyled themselves in the fire of our contentions and by their Hue it had been no great prejudice to the Cause they maintained if a man had guessed them to be the Tutelary Angels thereof the inside of all the pretences of the War against the King appearing as black and foul as the outside of these their fellow-Souldiers So that while we shall now in its order and time repeat the subsequent perpetrations of the Party and Faction the War being wholly finished and they by the wise providence and permission of God possessed of all they quarrelled for though it is not fair to prepossess posterity the Reader and after-times will suspect or think there is some Hiatus or deficiency in the Register of these troubles if after such a promising conclusion wherein the necessity and blessing of Peace seemed to be well accommodated in that juncture besides the opportunity and obligation of the Parliament to make appear their many Declarations and Protestations both in behalf of his Majesty and the Kingdom he shall be on a sudden without any pause or expostulation or account of the designes and practises of the Parliament and Army plunged immediately and involved again in new and worser and more perplexed actions and politicks than in the middle of the War for now having laid aside the mask the smooth and soft cover of their beautiful pretences they put on the gastly and terrible Vizor that personated the Tyranny and Usurpation which soon after followed To proceed then The state of the matter was briefly this It was thought now high time by the principals of the conquering side to share the
now a coming from Newcastle and London for the accommodating their passage Cromwel likewise was very earnest and intent upon making or finding a way by Sterling and therefore on the eighth of February he marched thither again having been informed of some Fords thereabouts where he might pass his Army or at least impede their raising of new Forces and way-lay their marching into England which was given out as the grand designe a Force being lefâ— on that side the Water sufficient to sustain any impression of the English and to that Expedition Duke Hamilton Duke of Buckingham Lords Cleaveland Wentworth Wilmot and Colonel Massey who had a Noble and full Regâ—ment and was to be Major-General with Titus and Colonel Graves were designed Cromwel as was said to this purpose in very tempestuous weather reached his intended passes but found the approaches to them so boggy and unpassable that in the same stress of weather his Army half spoiled with cold and other discommodities he was forced to retire again as he had done twice before having onely Alarm'd the Scots and put them into a sudden posture of defence and to await the time of his Boats arrival and a happier season of the year About this time Hume-Castle was taken by Colonel Fenwick the Garrison having held it to extremity being forced to deliver it at mercy February 4. A Copy of the Governours Answer to the Summons for the quaint briskness thereof I have thought fit to pleasure the Reader withal Right Honourable I have received a Trumpeter of yours as he tells me without your Pass he had forgot it it seems and left it behind upon the Table to Render Hume-Castle to the Lord-General Cromwel please you I never saw your General nor know your General as for Hume-Castle it stands upon a Rock given at Hume-Castle this day before seven a Clock So resteth without prejudice of his Native Country Your most Humble Servant Iohn Cockburn Timtallon-Castle which had been very prejudicial to the English Sea-traders to Leith and had taken more men than all the Garrisons in Scotland having been Besieged above a week by Colonel Monke upon the 21 of February after the Mortar-pieces had played and a Battery of six Great Guns was raised yielded to mercy Sir Iames Seaton the Governour newly knighted not being able to obtain any other Condition but Colonel Monke out of his usual civility suffered not a man of them to be stript or plundered There were 15 Great Guns taken in it and the passage not onely freed but an Inlet opened to the Bass Island General Ruthen Earl of Brentford and Forth nominated to be this Kings General also deceased about this time and left that Command without any further competition to David Lesley old Leven having likewise retired himself both from Counsel and Service as superannuated but indeed disregarded Our New States at home found it opportune being grown so potent abroad and so dreaded at home to discard their Journey-men of the Council of Sate whose assistance they were forced to use though they would not assent and concur with them in their alteration of the Government and the Murder of the King c. but would act as it was now altered in the rearing of their Model twenty one of them such as were instrumental and principal in the Change as Cromwel Bradshaw and others of the Kings Judges being continued and twenty new ones of the same gang were surrogated in the others places for they could now do the work and receive the wages themselves To those a power was given of executing the Admiralship to all purposes and intents as any Admiral of England had executed it before About this time one Iohn Fry another of the Kings Judges having written a blasphemous Book against the Trinity but purposely against the Divinity of Christ as the Socinians teach was by a Vote disbanded their Company in the House and his Book ordered to be burnt by the Sheriffs of London not a word of the Hangman in the Order for that would have sounded ominous to the whole pack of them now in pomp and great splendor The King having visited Dundee Aberdeen and other places accompanied with Arguile who had raised men for Him in his Countries returned to St. Iohnstons and the Low-lands against the sitting down of the Parliament at that City which was appointed on the 2 of March in which interim He gave Audience to a Dutch Envoy who came to complain of the taking of 20 of their Merchant-ships by Sir Iohn Greenvile Governour for the King in the Isle of Scilly to which the King gave a favourable Answer The Earl of Derby likewise seized divers Vessels belonging to the English Irish Trade and held intelligence with the King in Scotland having employed one Master Berkenhead in the business who was taken about the beginning of March by Colonel Lilborne Sir Philip Musgrave and Sir Theophilus Gilby hardly escaping by rowing away in a Boat Several Dutch ships laden with Ammunition sent by the Lord Iermin as the Dutch pretended arrived likewise at Dundee whereabouts and over all the adjacent parts Drums were beating and a speedy march was resolved on The Earl of Calender a great Hamiltonian which party now swayed being newly come over Sea an Employment in spight of the Kirk was intended to be conferred on him On the 27 of February the Prince of Aurange was Buried in great state at Delf in Holland and Interred in the Vault of his famous Predecessors By the taking of these Papers and Mr. Berkenhead after the Earl of Derby's designe in Lancashire whither Massey was to have marched with a flying party and a kind of a motion he made that way but immediately retreated the States at Westminster to exact scrutiny addrest themselves and having traced it gave order for the apprehension of one Thomas Cook of Grays-Inne Esquire who being brought and attending at the Council-door gave his Keeper the slip and was pursued with a Proclamation and 100 pounds offered to any should take him and bring him in and was taken thereupon the next Week in an Upholsters-house in London and committed to the Tower and Major-General Harrison was ordered to march speedily into Lancashire to attend all motions and designes in those parts This Month Maj. Harrison of Guernsey Island kept for the Parliament having a designe upon Cornet-Castle held by Colonel Burgess for the King being now and then relieved with Shallops and Boats which struck in thither from the Coast of France attempted it by Storm having false information that most of the Garrison were dead and the rest weak and feeble but were so stoutly received that very few that Engaged got off again the Tide too coming in and drowning many of them to the utter disheartning of them from any future Assault so that they resolved to try what fair means would do and by a sum of Money amounting to 1500 pounds
with other good Conditions and Indemnity which there being no likelihood of doing His Majesty any Service by longer keeping it relief also being so very scarce difficult and uncertain was at last accepted and that little Citadel delivered into their Hands In Ireland the Forces there remaining being now under the sole Command of the Marquess of Clanrickard whom the Earl of Castlehaven did to the last assist in the Kings Service being drawn to the relief of Finagh were there totally routed 800 taken and killed Colonel Macdonnel his Lieutenant-Colonel and Major taken prisoners Colonel Mac Hugh and Colonel Caban killed and 376 Officers besides taken upon which followed the Rendition of Finagh upon Articles After these successes several Officers having liberty to go for England it was the fortune of the Colonels Axtell Sadler the Irish Adjutant-General and Colonel Le Hunt to be taken Prisoners by a Frigat of Scilly and there Landed and Imprisoned till such time as that Island acknowledged the possession of the States of England who having erected their High Court of Iustice had in revenge of Dorislaus and Ascham Sentenced Sir Henry Hide Cosen to Sir Edward then Lord-Chancellor with the King for taking upon him the quality of an Embassador from His Majesty to the Grand Seignior at Constantinople and demanding Audience in his Name which they aggravated with imputations of his designe of seizing those Merchants Estates there and Affronting Sir Thomas Bendish the old Resident there with his new Commission It booted nor availed Sir Henry who at his Tryal having been long out of England would have used the Italian Tongue as the readiest for his defence which was also charged upon him as his vanity and pride to deny extenuate or justifie the several parts of his accusation his Name was guilt enough He was Sentenced to be Beheaded which Death he suffered against the Old Exchange on Cornhill with as much courage of minde as weakness of Body and is justly inscribed to the Roll of Martyrs Captain Brown Bushel who had delivered Scarborough to Sir Hugh Cholmly then revolted in the year 1643. from the Parliament and being Prisoner at Hull for the same had been exchanged by Hotham then winding about to his Allegiance suffered in the same manner the 29 of March But it is not a rude Prolepsis of the time to assigne him because of the nearness of their Deaths for the same cause of Loyalty his place in this year in the Company of Sir Henry Hide Yet before we conclude the Revolution of this year we must adde one of the most remarkable occurrences in it viz. the Embassadors sent by this State to that of the Low Countries who departed hence about March the 10 and landed at Rotterdam the 14 being met by the way by two Yachts of State and handsomely accommodated at the English-house there by some of the said Company The Names of them were Chief-Justice Saint Iohn of the Common-Pleas formerly the Kings Sollicitor and the Earl of Straffords vehement Adversary and Mr. Walter Strickland stiled in their Credentials the Lords Embassadors Extraordinary from the Parliament of England and were the first that they ever sent to any Forrain Princes for as from Kings and Sovereigns they had just cause to fear their united Forces to chastise that infamous Regicide whose example was so dangerous to themselves Anno Dom. 1651. ON the 30 of March attended by a gallant Retinue of their own and such as that State sent with Coaches they were received to Audience where Saint Iohn in a well-composed Speech very gravely declared that notwithstanding several injuries received by the English Commonwealth and Subjects from that State yet the Parliament had sent them first to make a firm League and Friendship with them if they should think fit 2. That to that purpose they would renew that most amicable Treaty of Commerce made between the King of England and the Duke of Burgundy their then Sovereign in 1495. 3. He set forth those many advantages in point of Trade and Navigation the Dutch might receive from England by such a League discoursing of the commodiousness and Excellent Situation of the Ports and Harbours and other Emoluments 4. He expressed the just resentment of the Parliament for the Death of Doctor Darislaus and that he doubted not but their High and Mighty Lordships would give satisfaction therein and cause Justice to be Executed upon those Offenders Which said a Committee was appointed to confer with him further and he conducted in the same manner as he came to his own Lodgings But the States General shewed no great readiness to embrace this new Friendship of their Rival States although the Province of Holland did endeavour to promote it for the Prince of Aurange's Interest was yet very potent in their Assemblies which was the reason no Address had been made before in his life-time from the Parliament who very much courted this peoples Amity not onely from the nearness and likeness of both their rises to be Commonwealths but for that no danger was so neer and to be feared elsewhere from the Interest and Alliance of the King But the people were far more averse to any accommodation with Traytors and Murderers as they called these Ministers and their followers which Clamours were heightned by the Royalists then yet in great numbers residing there The Duke of York being then in the Country with the Princess of Aurange his Sister as also the Queen of Bohemia and Prince Edward her Son who first gave these Embassadors an Affront as they chanced to meet him in their Coach taking the Air neer the Hague with his Sister the Princess Henrietta in his Hand where in indignation he gave them the opprobrious names of Dogs and Traytors The next day several uproars were made about their House as if there were a resolution to Storm it nor was it safe for them or any of their Gentlemen to stir abroad and several advices were given them of designed attempts upon their persons Of both these affronts and injuries they complained to the States who after a long and tedious delay summoned Prince Edward to appear and answer but he pleaded he was a Prince of the Empire and Subject to no other Jurisdiction and for the other appointed them a Corps du guard to secure the House and by a Proclamation prohibited all manner of injuries or violence to be done unto them but notwithstanding the said indignities were yet committed frequently In this sort they continued there expecting an Answer and Conclusion which Mounsieur Bellieur did likewise hinder what in him lay his Servants and attendants being as quarrelsome and slighting of these English as any whosoever and in the interim six of the chiefest Gentlemen of their Retinue travelling upwards the Country were met by a Lorain-Colonel one Harter then going to the Spaw and kept Prisoners for a Ransome which at length was paid to the Spanish-Governour of
his interest and the Cause being the same the same Mercies have been continued And I doubt not but if the intended Change or rather Restitution be made as I hope it will the same God will continue his Blessings to that Good Old Cause wherein we are engaged and that good men will receive satisfaction by it Your Highness hath been told that the Title of King is upon the Foundation of Law and that a new Title must have a constitution to make the Laws relate unto it and that unto the Laws I shall onely adde this that a Title by relation is not so certain and safe as a Title upon the old Foundation of the Law and that a Title upon a present single Constitution as any new Title must be cannot be so firm as a Title both upon the present Constitution and upon the old Foundation of the Law likewise which the Title of King will be If any inconvenience should ensue upon your acceptance of this Title which the Parliament adviseth your Highness satisfaction will be that they did advise it On the contrary part if any inconvenience should arise upon your Highness refusal of this Title which the Parliament hath advised your burden will be the greater And therefore whatsoever may fall out will be better answered by your Highness complying with your Parliament than otherwise This question is not altogether new some instances have been given of the like to which I shall adde two or three The Title of the Kings of England in the Realm of Ireland was Lord of Ireland and the Parliament in the 33 year of Hen. 8. reciting that inconveniencies did arise there by reason of that Title did Enact that Hen. 8. should assume the Stile and Title of King of Ireland which in the Iudgement of this Parliament was preferred before the other In the State of Rome new Titles proved fatal to their Liberties Their case was not much unlike ours they were wearied with a Civil War and coming to a Settlement Cuncta discordiis civilibus â—â—ssa nomine principis sub imperium accepit some would not admit the Title Rex to be used but were contented to give the Titles of Caesar perpetuus Dictator Princeps Senatus Imperator Non sum Râ—x sed Caesar came at last to this Voluntas Caesaris pro lege habebatur The Northern people were more happy amongst themselves a private Gentleman of a Noble Family took up Arms with his Country-men against a Tyrant and by the blessing of God rescued their Native Liberties and Rights of their Country from the oppression of that Tyrant This Gentleman had the Title of Marshal given unto him which continued for some years Afterwards their Parliament judging it best to resume the old Title Elected this Gentleman King and with him was brought in the liberty of Protestant Religion and the establishment of the Civil Rights of that people which have continued in a prosperous condition ever since unto this day Sir I shall make no other application but in my prayers to God to direct your Highness and the Parliament as I hope be will to do that which will be most for his honour and the good of his people Cromwel's Speech to the Parliament in the Banquetting-house at White-hall the 8 of May. Mr. Speaker I Come hither to answer that that was in your last Paper to your Committee you sent to me which was in relation to the desires which were offered to me by the House in that they called their Petition I confess that business hath put the House the Parliament to a great deal of trouble and spent much time I am very sorry that it hath cost me some and some thoughts and because I have been the unhappy occasion of the expence of so much time I shall spend little of it now I have the best I can revolved the whole business in my thoughts and I have said so much already in testimony of the whole that I think I shall not need to repeat any thing that I have said I think it is a Government that the aims of it seek much a setling the Nation on a good foot in relation to Civil Rights and Liberties which are the Rights of the Nation and I hope I shall never be found to be of them that shall go about to Rob the Nation of these Rights but to serve them what I can to the attaining of them It hath also exceeding well provided for the safety and security of honest men in that great Natural and Religious Liberty which is Liberty of Conscience These are great Fundamentals and I must bear my testimony to them as I have and shall do still so long as God lets me live in this World that the intentions of the things are very honourable and honest and the Product worthy of a Parliament I have onely had the unhappiness both in my Conferences with your Committees and in the best thoughts I could take to my self not to be convicted of the necessity of that thing that hath been so often insisted upon by you to wit the Title of King as in it self so necessary as it seems to be apprehended by your selves and I do with all honour and respect to the judgment of the Parliament testifie that caeteris patibus no private judgement is to lye in the Ballance with the judgement of a Parliament but in things that respect particular persons every man that is to give an account to God of his actions he must in some measure be able to prove his own Work that is to have an approbation in his own Conscience of that he is to do or forbear and whilst you are granting others Liberties surely you will not deny me this it being not onely a liberty but a duty and such a duty as I cannot without sinning forbear to examine my own Heart and thoughts and judgement in every work which I am to set mine Hand to or to appear in or for I must confess therefore that though I do acknowledge all the other yet I must be a little confident in this that what with the circumstances that accompany Humane Actions whether they be circumstances of time or persons whether circumstances that relate to the whole or private or particular circumstances that compass any person that is to render an account of his own actions I have truely thought and do still think that if I should at the best do any thing on this account to answer your expectation it would be at the best doubtingly and certainly what is so is not of faith whatsoever is not of faith is sin to him that doth it whether it be with relation to the substance of the action about which the consideration is conversant or whether to circumstances about it which make all indifferent actions good or evil to him that doth it I lying under this consideration think it my duty onely I could have wished I had done it sooner for the sake of the House
great Solemnity advanced some eminent Persons to higher degrees of Dignity to be as Jewels to that Crown which should be placed on his Head they were Twelve in number six Earls and six Barons The Names of whom are as followeth Edward Lord Hide of Hendon Lord high Chancellour of England was created Earl of Clarendon Arthur Lord Capel was created Earl of Essex Thomas Lord Brudenel was created Earl of Cardigan Arthur Viscount Valentia in Ireland was created Earl of Anglesey Sir Iohn Greenvile Gentleman of His Majesties Bed-Chamber and Groom of the Stool was created Earl of Bath Charles Howard of His Majesties Privy Council was created Earl of Carlisle Denzil Hollis Esq was created Lord Hollis of Ifeld Sir Frederick Cornwallis was created Lord Cornwallis of Eye in Suffolk an antient Barony Sir George Booth Baronet was created Lord de-la-Mere Sir Horatio Townsend was created Baron of Lyn-Regis Sir Anthony Ashly Cooper was created Baron of Winterbourn St. Gyles Iohn Crew was created Lord Crew of Stene The Earls at their Creation had two Earls their supporters their Cap and Coronet carried by one their Sword by another and their Mantle by a third The Lords were likewise supported by two Lords their Cap and Mantle in the same manner but no Sword These Peers being thus led up Garter King of Arms attending them to the King upon their several approaches their Patents were presented by Sir William Walker Principal King at Arms which being by the Lord Chamberlain delivered to the King and from him to Secretary Nicholas were by him read and then given by His Majesty to the Respective Nobles who after they were vested with their Robes had their several Caps and Coronets placed upon their Heads by His Majesties own hands as he sate in a Chair of State These likewise were ordered to attend the King at his Coronation which Commenced its glories Monday the Twenty second of April aforesaid it having rained a Moneth together before it pleased God that not one drop fell on this Triumph which appeared in its full Lustre and Grandeur but as soon as the solemnity was past and the King and his Train at Dinner in Westminster-Hall it fell a Thundering Lightning and Raining with the greatest force vehemence and noise that was ever heard or seen at that time of the year The Streets were gravelled all the way and filled with a multitude of Spectators out of the Countrey and some Forreigners who acknowledged themselves never to have seen among all the great Mâ—gnificences of the World any to come near or equal this even the Vaunting French confessed their Pomps of the late Marriage with the Infanta of Spain at their Majesties entrance into Paris to be inferiour in its State Gallantry and Riches unto this most Illustrious Cavalcade Which proceeded on this manner as the NOBILITY and GENTRY were placed within and without the Tower First went the Horse-Guard of his Highness the Duke of York the Messengers of his Majesties Chamber the Esquires of the Knights of the Bath One hundred thirty six in number the Knight Harbenger the Serjeant-Porter the Sewers of the Chamber the Quarter-waiters of the six Clerks of the Chancery the Clerks of the Signet the Clerks of the Privy Seal the Clerks of the Council the Clerks of both Houses of Parliament the Clerks of the Crown the Chaplains in Ordinary having Dignities ten in number the King's Advocate and Remembrancer the Kings learned Counsel at Law the Master of the Chancery the Kings puisne Serjeants the Kings Attorney and Solicitors the King 's eldest Serjeants Secretaries of the French and Latine Tongues the Gentlemen-Ushers daily waiters the Sewers Carvers and Cup-bearers in ordinary the Esquires of the Body the Masters of standing Offices being no Councellors viz. of the Tents Revels Ceremonies Armory Wardrope Ordnance Master of Requests Chamberlain of the Exchequer Barons of the Exchequer and Judges of the Law according to their Dignity the Lord chief Baron the Lord chief Justice of the Common Pleas the Master of the Rolls the Lord chief Justice of England Trumpets the Gentlemen of the Privy-Chamber the Knights of the Bath sixty eight in Number the Knight Marshal the Treasurer of the Chamber Master of the Jewel-house Knights of the Privy Council Comptroller of his Majesties Houshold Treasurer of his Majesties Houshold Two Trumpets and Serjeants Trumpets Two Pursivants at Arms Barons eldest Sons Earls youngest sons Viscounts eldest sons Barons Marquesses younger sons Earls eldests sons Two Pursivants at Arms. Viscounts Dukes younger sons Marquesses eldest sons Two Heraulds Earls Earl Marshal and Lord Chamberlain of the Houshold Dukes eldest sons Serjeants at Arms on both sides the Nobility Clarencieux and Norroy Lord Treasurer Lord Chancellor Lord High Steward Duke of Ormond two persons representing the Duke of Normandy and Aquitain Gentleman-Vsher Garter Lord Mayor Sir Richard Brown The Duke of York alone The Lord High Constable of England Earl of Northumberland Lord Great Chamberlain of England Earl of Lindsey The Sword by the Duke of Richmond The KING Equerries and Footmen next and about his Majesty Gentlemen and Pensioners without them the Master of the Horse Duke of Albemarl leading a spare Horse the Vice-Chamberlain to the King Captain of the Pensioners Captain of the Guard the Guard the Kings Life guard Commanded by my Lord Gerrard the Generals Life-guard by Sir Philip Howard a Troop of Voluntier Horse and a Company of Foot by Sir Iohn Robinson The way from the Tower to Aldgate was guarded by the Hamlets from thence to Temple-Bar by the Trained-Bands of London on one side and lined with the Liveries on the other side with the Banners of each Company The Windows were all along laid with the best Carpets and Tapestry Bands of Musick in several places and the Conduits running with Wine In St. Pauls Church-yard stood the Blew-coat boys of Christ-Church Hospital One in behalf of the rest declared their joy for his Majesties wonderful preservation in his absence and his Arrival thither humbly beseeching his Majesties Gracious favour and indulgence according to the example of his Royal Ancestors and his Father of blessed memory The King was very well pleased with this Speech and after conferred something on the Boy that spoke it In the Strand and through Westminster also the ways were gravelled and rayled being guarded on both sides with the Trained bands of that Liberty and City and his Majesties two Regiments of Foot under the command of his Grace the Duke of Albemarle and Colonel Russel brother to the Earl of Bedford The houses were also richly adorned with the Carpets and Tapestry and Musick particularly a stage of Morice-dancers at the Maypole in the Strand in the several places all along his Majesties passage When his Majesty came through Temple-bar into his Antient and Native City of Westminster the Head-bayliff in a Scarlet Robe and High Constable in Scarlet received his Majesty with loud Musick where alighting off their horses and kneeling down to
very predicament but he having his Liberty upon Bail from the Serjeant at Arms left his Bail in the lurch and fled for it and put himself out of the benefit of this qualification Phelps one of the Clerks of the Court of Justice was marked for this but was not Sentenced The Earl of Middleton the King 's great Commissioner came about this time from Scotland to White-hall and on the 30th of this Moneth the Parliament was adjourned by the King to attend their business in the Country till the 20th of November the King and they parting with mutual satisfaction the Lord-Chancellor declaring that the King's confidence in them had not in the least deceived him Much discourse there was all the Summer that his Majesty would take a Progress to visit his Loyal City of Worcester and the places of his Sanctuary and Refuge in his escape thence and to that end his Tent-Office was held at Clarkenwell green to prepare and make all things ready for the accommodation of his Progress but the suspition of affairs and the designes of the old Enemy who as was said before was at work deferred it this year and a shorter journey took up the next Commissioners likewise came from the Parliament in Ireland with an acceptable present to the King at White-hall The Duke of York who had been chosen Captain to the Artillery-company in London and by their Deputies humbly requested to honour them with his acceptance which he was nobly pleased to do and lead with them in their Ground and see them Exercise to his good content accepted now likewise from them an invitation to dine with them on their annual Feast-day at Merchant-Taylors Hall whither accompanied him with the same invitation the Duke of Buckingham and divers other Persons of Honour This Moneth of August was the Reading of that excellent Lawyer and most accomplisht Gentleman Sir Heneage Finch his Majesties Sollicitor at the Inner Temple whose Nobleness and Generosity were herein equal to his matchless Abilities in the Laws as his magnificence in this Solemn occasion did make appear especially in that particular Treatment he gave the King who to honour this one of his best servants was graciously pleased to accept of it and to dine in that Hall a favour not before indulged to any of these famous Societies by any of his Royal Progenitors the most Illustrious Duke of York was present and Dined here with his Brother to both their likings and approbations Count Conningsmark from the young King and Queen of Sweden had been here some while and now came another more splendid Embassy by Count Brahe at whose reception near the Tower a Fray or Conflict happened betwixt the French and Spanish Embassadours Coaches for Precedency which should first follow the Swedes Coach both Parties came prepared for the Encounter but the French were basely worsted and seven or eight of them killed This had like to have caused a new Rupture betwixt both Crowns the French King sending a Messenger to Madrid to demand satisfaction but at the intreaty of the new-Married Queen the difference was put up While I am relating this Forreign matter I must insert that the Prince of Spain a Child about five years old dyed and a young Prince or Dolphin was born to the French King on All Saints day and therefore Christned Lewis Tous Sancts Several Prisoners in the Tower Regicides and others by reason of the practices of their Parties were now in October sent a way from the Tower to several remote places Castles and Islands for securing the Peace and with them the Market of Herbs which usually stood before in Cheap-side and by Tichburn in his Majoralty because it cumbred up the ways was placed in St. Pauls Church-yard and a Cross built there which is yet standing was by Proclamation to avoid the scandal of selling and buying in that Ground now removed into Aldersgate-street and Aldermanbury Several suspected persons of the Phanatick Party were now seized and committed to several Prisons The Right Noble Iames Duke of Ormond after several uneffectual designments of others was appointed by his Majesty Lieutenant of Ireland which Place and Dignity he had before so prudently discharged After the expiration of the Adjournment of the Parliament from Iuly last they met again the Twentieth of November now in their full and entire Constitution the Lords Spiritual the Bishops by virtue of the Act of Repeal made the last Session taking their places which the King in his Speech to the Houses did congratulate to them as a felicity He much desired to see accomplished in this goodly restored Fabrick of the Government On the Twenty fifth of the same Month the Regicides that came in upon Proclamation and were respited after Sentence to the pleasure of the Parliament were brought to the Bar of the House of Lords to answer what they could for themselves why Judgment should not be Executed they all Pleaded the Proclamation which they understood and supposed did extend to favour of Life upon the rendring themselves thereupon as likewise that as to the Crime they were all of them guilty of no malice toward the Person of the King Henry Marten added that he never obeyed any Proclamation before but this and hoped that he should not be Hanged for taking the Kings Word now They were remanded back again to the Tower from whence they came and no further proceeding had concerning them The Lord Chancellour in his Speech made mention of a Plot which one Major White had discovered and upon which several Persons had been secured that were Officers formerly in the Army and what care had been taken by the King to prevent the danger and to attain to a full discovery And this Michaelmas-Term one Iohn Iames one of the Fifth Monarchists a Small-coal-man by Trade and ingaged in Venners business but was absent or saved himself the last day they broke out but had not departed from his malice ever since that disappointment but continued his Meetings and Conventicles with others of his desperate Crew among whom he was a great Rabby or Teacher flew out into several Traiterous Speeches and Invectives against the Kings Person Government and Family which relisht of the same Design couched in Venners Declaration which being over-heard by some Neighbours living near the same Conventicle Iames was seized and carried before a Justice who Committed him to Newgate whence this Term he was brought to the Kings Bench Bar and there the Words were proved against him and he Convicted and Condemned as a Traytor On the Twenty seventh he was drawn on a Sledge to Tyburn some of his Sect and Opinion throwing themselves into the same Sledge and embracing him so fond were they of this their silly though bold Seducer At the Gallows he denyed the words but owned and avowed his Chilianism and the Personal Reign of Christ out of which respect he prayed not for the King or any Authority but with the
100 taken Prisoners Several of the Rebels were afterwards Sentenced and Executed among the rest Corson that first began the Mutiny and Malkel their Minister a main Incendiary of the people so that in a short time all things were reduc'd to their former quietness In imitation of England the Barbadoes another England in the other part of the World would not suffer the same Enemies of both to lie undisturb'd To which purpose the Lord Willoughby Governour of the Caribby Islands having set forth from the Barbadoes a considerable Fleet well Man'd and Victuall'd set sail from thence upon some particular designe and in his way burnt two ships richly laden in the Harbour of Los Santos and took two other Prizes but as he was in pursuit of his further designe there arose a Hurricane so violent that their Cables giving way they were forc'd to abandon themselves to the rage of the Storm which continued with that extremity that they were wholly separated and dispersed and the Lord Willoughby himself absolutely lost In Ianuary the Convention of the Estates of Scotland met according to appointment where the Oath of Allegeance being administred and taken by the several Members they fell upon the publick concernments as securing the Kingdom from publick and Domestick Dangers and how to put the same into a posture of defence and for the raising so much Money as should be thought convenient to defray the charge and thereupon 6000 l. per Moneth was agreed on for the entertainment of such Forces as should be employ'd in his Majesties service But in the parts neer Surinam the English were more successful than at the Barbadoes where they having destroy'd and ruin'd a considerable Colony of the Dutch at Apecawaca resolved to attempt something likewise upon the French and particularly to attack the Fort of Sinamary which they took together with fifty Prisoners and the Governour besides what were slain The English dismantled the Fort and carried away all the Guns and Ammunition Captain Reade also passing up the Canessa toward the Berbices a very populous Creek inhabited by the Enemy he landed at Carenteen and marching twenty miles by Land took the Fort of the Arawaces taking Men Women and Children Captives and much Booty with little or no loss But though it were how December some English Vessels were still abroad And among the rest Captain Robinson who lighting upon three Dutch Men of War neer the Texel destroy'd them all in requital of which curtesie the Dutch not long after took the Saint Patrick off of Portsmouth deserted by her own Fire-ship At the conclusion of the Year Captain Vtbert return'd from the Streights with the Squadron under his Command and seven Dutch Prizes Forein Affairs 1666. The King of France having receiv'd a very high Affront from the Great Turk in the person of his Embassador thought no way better than to send the same person again to require satisfaction for the repair of his Masters Honour But the Turk retaining in his minde the attempt upon Gigery and the Succours sent the Emperour would hearken to no Proposition that might add to the Honour of his solemn Entry so that he was forc'd at last to land as it were Incognito and privately attended to walk from the Ship to his House He went with much pomp to his Audience and at his Entry made several stops expecting the Visier would have risen to him but finding no more respect he sate down upon the Stool appointed for him and in his Masters Name whom he stil'd Emperour of France demanded more Honour to be done him But the Visier incens'd with the manner of his demanding it broke out into a passion which the French Embassador resenting rose from his seat and in going away thrâ—w the Capitulations with the Case over his Shoulder which hit the Visier on the Brest upon which the Visier commanded his Officers to apprehend and strike him which was accordingly performed and he hurried out of the Chamber where he had received several boxes of the Ear and blows upon the Brest and was carried Prisoner to the Bashaw's House where he was kept Prisoner in a base low Room under the Stairs and there detained four days till by the Intercession of the English Embassador he was deliver'd The King of France had sent a person of quality to be a Witness of the Great Turk'â— submission but he became a fairer testimony of his Embassador's hard usage The Electors of Brandenburgh and Colen the Dukes of Newburgh and Brunswick laboured hard to finde out ways expedient for composing the Differences between the Bishop of Munster and the States of the Vnited Provinces and with them the Emperour and the Princes of the Dyet at Ratisbone so that at length the Bishop was over-perswaded to conclude a Peace which was accordingly sign'd toward the beginning of the Year though he had received 100000 Rix-dollars from the King of England for carrying on the War but it lasted not long for when the King of France became their Enemy he broke it again which was not long after At Musco great alterations had like to have fallen out in matters of Religion For a certain Fâ—yaâ— in his Sermons endeavouring to make the people wiseâ— than formerly they had been in that ignorant Country among other Doctrines that were new â—here instructed them That Images signified nothing and therefore were not to be worshipped That the Saints know nothing of our Prayers to them and consequently were not to be call'd upon Which wrought so powerfully upon the people that many hundreds of them began to reform their ancient practice and openly refused the use of Pictures But a great party of Souldiers being sent immediately to reduce them from their Heresie frighted the generality into a Recantation some 20 persisting in their new Faith were burnt and 30 more hanged to terrifie the rest This being the second attempt of this nature in that blinde paâ—t of the World In Poland the difference between that King and Lubomirskie still continu'd But the generality of the Polish Nobility not only appeard to Mediate on his behalf but seeing no effect of their Mediation entred into a Confederacy with him against the King This brought the King to hearken to some terms of Agreement But while both sides were at work busie to contrive it the Royal Party endeavouring to put a more speedy end to those Affairs attempted to have surpris'd the Confederates at unawares but the Design was so timely discover'd that Lubomirskie by an Ambuscado of his best Troops cut off above Five Thousand of the Kings Souldiers in such a place where the King was forc'd to look on and behold the Slaughter of his men without being able to Assist them Whether upon this occasion or no is uncertain but a Peace immediately ensued between the King and the Confederates upon Condition of a General Act of Oblivion an Evacuation of Garrisons and the
with the Moors our nearest Neighbours we must not omit the Actions of those people whose Losses and Successes are to be narrowly observ'd by the English either their Allyes or Enemies Taffalette therefore having Intelligence that the people of Suz had united their Forces with those of Sancta Cruz march'd toward the farther part of Suz with an Army of 140000 Men which at first so Terrified those people that they presented him with their Leaders Head and with great submission begg'd his Pardon In confidence of this Taffalette Marches toward Sancta Cruz but the people Repenting of what they had done underhand renew'd a League with the Governor of that Town and unexpectedly setting upon the Army of Taffalette quite routed it and slew Taffalet's Brother who led the Van himself only escaping with four Horse but being soon recruited he return'd to Sancta Cruz and took it and in a short while recover'd what he had so unadvisedly lost But that which made the greatest noise in the World was the suddain Invasion of Loraine by the King of France For the surprise of which Country Marshal Crequi being sent with a great Army he over-ran the Country like a mighty Torrent insomuch that by the beginning of Winter there was scarce a Town in Lorraine that was not at the French Devotion The designe of the King of France was to lay aside the old Duke and confer the Dutchy on Prince Charles on condition that he should raise the Fortifications of Chastel and Espinal and give up to the King the Marquisate of Nomende Certain it was the King of France did send to the said Prince then at Vienna to offer him the Possession of Lorrain on condition he would hold it of him and to maintain no greater Number of Forces than he should think fit telling him withal that he were best have a care that upon his refusal the Duke of Guise did not accept of it upon the same terms The old Duke thus outed of all wandred up and down from place to place begging Ayd of the Neighbouring Princes who promis'd fair but did little more than come to a conditional Agreement for the raysing Forces for the common good and safety of the Empire This Alarm'd not only the Dutch on the one side but the Switzers on the other the Effect of which was that it made them both careful to put themselves into the best posture of Defence they might While this part of Europe is thus preparing for Mischief we find Russia over-whelm'd with an Inundation of Rebellion where one Stephen Radskin a Tumultuous Ring-leader having Poyson'd the Rabble with the fair pretences of Liberty the common motives to Insurrection of a small Snow-bal grew to a mountainous Number and having seiz'd the great Kingdoms of Astracan and Casan and got into his Possession the Treasures of the Great Duke in the chief City of Astracan he grew Potent and Formidable and made up for the City of Mosco it self taking upon him the Title of Duke Radzin But at length after a short Reign and having glutted himself with the Blood of as many Muscovitish Nobility as fell into his Power he was overthrown by Dolkerouski General to the Emperor and his whole Power totally disperst Anno Dom. 1671. IN the beginning of this Year dyed Her Royal Highness Anne Dutchess of York Wife to his Royal Highness the Duke of York and Daughter to the Earl of Clarendon being shortly after privately Interr'd in Henry the Seventh's Chappel at Westminster The Parliament still sitting had by this time prepar'd several other Acts ready for the Kings Royal Assent which the King being present in the House of Lords as readily pass'd The chiefest and most of Publick Concern was The Addition which they made to the King's Revenue by an Imposition upon Proceedings at Law not being unmindful of setling such differences as might arise about Houses burn'd in the Fire of London taking care also to prevent the Disorders of Seamen and the Imbezelment of the King's Stores After which they were again Prorogu'd to the 16th of April next ensuing However before they disperst both Houses met in a Body in the Banqueting-House where they made an 〈…〉 That the King would be pleased by His own Example to 〈…〉 the constant wearing the Manufactures of his own Kingdom and discountenance the use of Manufactures made in Forrein Countries who kindly receiving the Address told them That he had as little us'd in his own Person Forrein Manufacturs as any and would discountenance them for the future in those that should Nor must we pass by the Death of the Earl of Manchester Lord Chamberlain of His Majesties Houshold a Knight of the Garter and a Privy Councellor though his loss was soon recompenc'd by the succession of the Earl of St. Albans Soon after dy'd the Lord Chief Justice Keeling into whose Place the Lord Chief Justice Hale was immediately Sworn in his Place Sir Edward Turnor was made Lord Chief Baron and Sir Francis North Sollicitor-General Nor was it fit the Offices of such Eminent Ministers of Justice should be vacant when such Criminals were to be examin'd as were soon after discovered For upon the ninth of this Moneth four men coming to the Keeper of the Jewel-House in the Morning and desiring to see the Regal Crown were carried into the Room where it was kept but they Stabbing and Gagging the Keeper an ancient man and putting the Crown and Ball into two Bags which they had brought for that purpose fairly walk'd away and had almost past all the Sentinels but the Son-in-law of the Keeper casually passing by and seeing the condition his Father lay in run out hastily crying out to the Guards to stop 'um upon this they mending their pace made their own discovery Being then commanded to stand they fir'd a Pistol at the Sentinel but two of them were presently seized carried to White-hall and after Examination sent back again to the Tower to be kept close Prisoners where they had committed the Fact To make an annual Record of St. George's Feast is not necessary but of this as being more singularly Signal it may not be expedient to omit the rehearsal For now it was that the Earl of Carlisle introduc'd between his Royal Highness and Prince Rupert was Install'd as Proxie for the King of Sweden and the Earl of Winchelsey between the Duke of Ormond and the Duke of Buckingham was Install'd as Proxie for the Duke of Saxony both which Princes were invested the year before After them the Duke of Albemarle between the Earl of Sandwich and the Earl of Oxford was Invested in his own Stall Iune was Crown'd with the success of Sir Edward Sprague who being now the King's Admiral in the Mediterranean-Sea met with nine Men of War belonging to Argier together with three Merchant-men neer Bugia who upon his appearance retir'd under the shelter of the Castle and put themselves into the best posture
after the fight General Monk chiefly concâ—â—â—'d in the honour of this field The Highlanders sold for Slaves A union of parties endeavoured by the Scots The Parliament at Westminster appoint a Thanksgiving day Cromwel marcheth for Sterling Sep. 14. Liberty of Conscience Enacted in England The Sectaries raise an Army Col. Harrison made Maj. Gen. The Duke of Yoak at the Hague Prince Ruperts Fleet dispersed Nov. Princess Elizabeth dieth at Carisbroke Castle is buried in Newport Prince of Aurange died Octb. 27. Divisions among the Loyal parties in Ireland The Marq of Clanâ—ickards Forces â—eâ—eated by Col. Axtel Octob. 25. The Marq. of Ormoâ—â— and Lord Inchiqueen resolved to depart out of Ireland Nov. An Embassador from Portugal to the new States Dec. The Spanish Embassador likewise acknowledg'd them a Free-State Decem. An Insurrection in Norfolk Suppressed A High Court of Justice Erected at Norwich Mr. Cooper a Minister Maj. Saul and others Executed A memorable accident at Oxford Several Acts of Parliament Passed The Progress of Cromwel in Scotland The Trayterous Western Remonstrance of some Scots Ker defeated and taken Prisoner Edenburgh Castle yielded Dec. 24. The Articles for the Rendition of Edenburgh-Castle Col. Fenwick madâ— Goveâ—nour 〈◊〉 and of Leith for the Parliament The Scots boldly sollicitous with the King His Majesty withdraws to Gen. Middleton The manner of His Coronation January 1. The Lord-Chancellors Speech to the King His Majesties Answer He is accompanied by the Nobility to the Kirk of Scoone Mr. Robert Douglass preacheth before the King Prince of Aurange Christned Several of the King Friends preferred and intrusted Fife Castle attempted by the English Hume Castle taken Feb. 4 by Col. Fenwick for the Parliament The Governours Answer to the Summons Timtallon Castle yielded by Sir James Seaton to the Parliament of England General Ruthen Earl of Brentford and Forth deceaseth David Lesley General for the Scots A new Council of State March John Fry one of the Kings Iudges writts a Book against the Trinity he is Voted to leave the House and his Book to be burned A Dutch Envoy complains to the King of Sir Jo. Greenvile Governour of the Isle of Scilly and others The Prince of Aurange buried Feb. 21. Tho. Cook of Grays-Inne Esq. committed to the Tower Maj. General Harrison ordered to march into Lancashire Cornet Castle delivered by Col. Burgess to M. Harrison for the Parliament The Irish defeated at Finagh March 13. Sir Henry Hide Beheaded June 4 in London Câ—pt Brown Bushel Executed Mar. 29. The Lord Saint John and Strickland Embassadors to Holland They desire a firm League The States General shew no forwardness to this new friendship The Embassadors affronted by Prince Edward son to the Queen of Bohemia They complain to the States and have a Guard appointed them They depart for England June 20. Saint John 's Speech at his departure The Law and its Proceedings turned into English Apr. A new Welch Insurrection started Blackness Castle delivered to Cromwel The Loyal Nobility in Scotland restored to their Seats in Parliament The Kirk convâ—â—â—d at Glascow E. of Eglington surprized in his designe of raising Forces for the King Cromwel burneth the Lady Kilsithes house Maj. Sydenham slain and his party defeated Apr. 15 by the Lord Montgomery and Lord Cranston The Reduction of Scilly Island in May. St Maries Island surrendred June 2 by Sir John Greenvile to Gen. Blake and Sir Geo Ayscue Pr. Rupert and Pr. Maurice at Sea from Toulon An Agent from the D. of Florence to the Parliament of England Lord Howard committed to the Tower for Bribery Cromwel sick May. Part of a Letter from one of Cromwels Creatures An Act of Oblivion in Scotland The Royalists aâ—d Kirk-men good friends Earl of Calender Commander in chief of their new Levies The Presbyterian Ministers seized by the Council of State in order to their Tryal May. Mr. Love charged with High Treason Mr. Jackson fined 500 l. and committed to the Fleet for refusing to give Evidence against Mr. Love Mr. Love Sentenced July 5. Mr. Potter and Mr. Gibbons Sentenced July 25. Mr. Love and Mr. Gibbons Executed on Tower-hill An Act for abolishing the Marshals-Court in Southwark Another for the sale of Delinquents Lands Faulkner a perjured witness against the Lord Craven The Estates of the Royalists put to sale The Honours of the Royalists given by the King since Jan. 1641. abolished The Irish affairs June Lord Broghall defeats the Lord Muskerry Sir Charles Coot succesfull The Irish Council and Commanders in great straights Scots Leaguer in Tor-wood Cromwel stormeth Calendar house the defendants put to the Sword Newark house and two others taken Pr. Rupert takes a rich Spanish ship A fight in Fife between Sir John Brown and Maj. Gea Lambert July 20. The Scots worsted Sir John Brown taken and a while after dies Inchigarvey Castle and Brunt-Island delivered to the English St. Johnstons delivered to Cromwel The King marches for England July 21. The Parl. settle the Militia Royalists forbid to depart their Houses Correspondence with the King or his Party forbid The King at Carlisle Proclaimed there King of Great Britain He publisheth his Declaration Offereth an Act of Pardon to all but Cromwel Bradshaw and Cook Warrington fight Lambert and Harrison defeated by Massey The Earl of Derby joyus with the King in Lancashire The King summons Shrewsbury in vain The King comes to Worcester Aug. 22. The Parl. raise the Militia and London Regiments The King Summons the Country Wigon fight August 25. Lilburn defeats the Earl of Derby Slain on the Kings side Lord Widdrington Ma. Gen. Sir Tho. Tildesly Col. Mat. Boynton Sir Francis Gamul c. The Earl lâ—sing his George and Garter escapes Cromwel surrounds Worcester Au. 13. and possesseth Upton Bridge Worcester Fight The King defeated at Worcester Sep. 3. Worcester miserably plundered A Traytor hanged and his Widow bountifully rewarded Slain of the Kings side Duke Hamilton The Kings Standard his Coach and Horses and Collar of SS taken The King deliberates whither to fly The Lords leave him at Whiteladies The King in the wood Thursday morning Sep. 4. The King at Madely To Boscobel Col. Carlos directs the King to the Oak At Mosely with Mr. Whitgrave To Bently with Mrs. Jane Lane for Bristol The King met by the Lord Wilmot The dangerous Expression of a Farrier The King by Evesham At Cirencester to Mr. Nortons at Leigh The King and Lord Wilmot in danger of discovery at Chayermouth Adventures of the King At Heal at Mrs. Hides By Portsmouth to Brighthemstead Tetershal discovers the King Tetershal resolves to proceed in his voyage with the King King Embarques A notable passage Arrives at Rohan to Paris Most of the Scots taken Prisoners Cromwel and his Prisoners to London Sep. 12. The Prisoners sold. The Colours taken hanged up in Westminster hall Sterling castle surrendred Aug. 14 to Gen. Monke for the Parl. Dundee stormed Sep. 1 and taken by Gen. Monke the defendants put to
Assembly was ordered to bring in their Model of Church-Government and those Resolves were urged afterwards by many hundred Petitions and the Covenant prest to be universally taken Towards the end of this month they had licked up the form of their Directory but could not agree about the receiving of the Sacrament which dispute was then committed Hereupon the Parliament procâ—eded and voted the abolishing of the Common-Prayer-Book which gave some satisfaction to the Scots yet not fully contended them they had in the beginning of our Troubles openly named the Archbishop of Canterbury and prosecuted him as an Enemy to their Country as the great Incendiary of the broyls between both Nations and did not desist while they had him safe in the Tower now they would have his life also as a gratification of their assistance His head must be danced off like St. Iohn Baptist's at the Musick of their Bag-pipes This they publikely demanded so that an Ordinance for the Parliament durst not venture his Tryal at the Common-Law as was thought by some because of the clause of that Bill of Attainder against the Earl of Strafford that his Case should be no precedent and they knew the Judges though they might pack a Jury that should would never venture to condemn him And his tryal by Peers they vouchsafed not as alike dangerous passed the House of Commons whereby he was declared guilty and that sent up to the Lords for their concurrence who bogled at it as a very ill precedent so that it stuck for a while until Sir David Hawkins with his veterane Troops of Justice-cryers came bawled at the Lords House for speedy Execution of Delinquents And then a new Expedient was set on foot for the better dispatch that the Lords should come and sit in the House of Commons as to this business and make one work of it which some of them unworthily did an ill Omen or Presage what that degenerateness would come to when after some of the same persons sate there as Commoners By this trick after several brave Defences made at the Bar of the Lords House where with might and main his Enemies prosecuted his Innocence he was condemned the main Argument against him being used by Serjeant Wild That he was so guilty an offender that he wondred the people did not pull him in pieces as he came to and fro to his tryal and on the tenth of Ianuary brought to Tower-hill from a most sound and sweet repose that night till awakened by Pennington the Lieutenant of the Tower to go to his Execution whereat he was no whit dismayed his colour being as fresh in his Face as ever it was in his life which continued to his last minute At his death he made a Funeral-sermon for himself which was in lieu of a Speech where this is as he hinted it to be observed that though other Arch-bishops had lost their lives in this manner yet not the same way He being the first English-man that ever was condemned by an Ordinance of Parliament His body was decently interred in Alhallows Barkin London according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England of which he had been the chief Defender and Assertor leaving Sir Iohn Robinson his Nephew since Lieutenant of the Tower to inherit the remains of his Estate and the rewards of his great Services and Munificences to this Church and Kingdom Abington had been made a Garrison ever since the Earl of Essex marched into Cornwal and became so troublesome a neighbour to Oxford and the Country adjacent by the continual excursions of the Horse which were never less than a Regiment that Colonel Sir Henry Gage to prevent this perpetual annoyance no man daring to travail upon any of the Roads towards Oxford with provisions or other business more especially hindering the intercourse betwixt Oxford and Wallingford resolved to build a Fort at Culham-bridge within a mile of Abington on the London-road to repress the boldness of those parties who were constantly out thereabouts upon designes In the attempt thereof and to obstruct so dangerous an obstacle to their Eruption the Abingdon-forces under Colonel Brown Sally out Engage and maintain a short fight with the Royalists with little hopes of prevailing till an Unfortunate shot wounded Colonel Gage in the head of which he dyed as soon as he came to Oxford and so that project was laid aside The King had so closely prosecuted his intentions for Peace that it being in the depth of Winter both Armies in their quarters and the two Factions of Presbytery and Independency jealous of one another the modelling of the Army requiring also some gain and advantage of time a Treaty so often proposed by the King was now admitted to be managed at Vxbridge by Commissioners on both sides The Kings Commissioners were as Follow Duke of Richmond and Lenox Marquess of Hertford Earl of Southampton Earl of Kingston Earl of Chichester Lord Capel Lord Seymore Lord Hatton Lord Culpeper Sir Edward Nicholas Sir Edward Hide afterwards Lord Chancellor Sir Richard Lane Sir Thomas Gardiner Sir Orlando Bridgeman Mr. Iohn Ashburnham Mr. Ieffery Palmer Dr. Stuart and Dr. Hammond Divines The Parliaments Commissioners were Earl of Northumberland Earl of Pembroke Earl of Salisbury Earl of Denbigh Lord Wenman Mr. Denzil Hollis Mr. William Pierpoint Sir Henry Vane Jun. Mr. Crew Mr. Whitlock Mr. Prideaux Mr. Vines a Minister The Scotch Commissioners Lord London Sir Charles Erskin Mr. Dundas Mr. Brackley Mr. Alexander Henderson Minister The main things first to be treated of were first Religion second Militia third Ireland For Religion the King would not alter Government by Bishops but would give way to some amendments in the Liturgie upon advice For the Militia he would consent some Forts and Garrisons should remain in the Parliaments hands pro tempore for security of the agreement the King having the nomination of half the Commissioners For Ireland the King would not abrogate the Cessation until he were sure the Rebellion here were at an end having to avoid that popular demand and to prevent any insisting upon that point given Order to the Marquess of Ormond to conclude a Peace but however to continue the Cessation for a year for which he should promise the Irish if he could have it no cheaper to joyn with them against the Scots and Inchiqueen for by that time the King said he hoped his condition would be such as the Irish should be glad to accept of less or he enabled to grant more The Parliament on the contrary side insisted as to Religion upon the taking away of the Kings Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction his Donations and Temporalties of Bishopricks his First-fruits and Tenths of Bishops Deans Deans and Chapters not offering to constitute the least dependance of the Clergy upon the King to the Presbyterian mode compensating him with Bishops Lands in lieu of all those which of
and to carve to the Grandees the spoils of the Kingdom which were to be secured by these misunderstandings But against these Writers there appeared a Champion of Loyalty Judge Ienkins who out of the Parliaments Wrath with the Earl of Cleveland Sir Lewis Dives Sir Iohn Stawel and others Royalists was Committed to the Tower and being brought to the Chancery-Bar refused to own the Court and the Authority thereof and so was remanded in Order to a Tryal at the Kings-Bench where in the meâ—n while he fully Answered all those Cavils against the King by Reason Law and from the Parliaments own words and Declarations ridling their nice time-serving distinction of the Kings Person and Authority his Politick and Natural Capacity to be a meer Fiction never heard of before and that their as bold assumption of the Kings Vertual presence in the two Houses was also and alike Treasonable as he cited in the Case of the two Spencers in the 7 of Edward the 2. from their own Oracle Sir Edward Coke in the 7 part of his Reports fol. 11. He then runs over the whole Case and state of the Question and Dispute betwixt the Royalists and Parliamentarians which being published incredible it is how greedily they were bought up and how many honest people undeceived so that His Majesties Cause was every where under the nose of the Faction well spoken of We will for the honour of that Noble person give this short and summary account of it as a Sea-mark to Posterity First The Royalists have aided the King in this War contrary to the Parliaments Negative Oath and Votes warranted by the Statute of 25 Ed. 2. ch 2. They have maintained the Commission of Array by the Kings Command against their Votes by the Statute of the 5 Hen. 4.3 They have maintained Arch-bishops Bishops c. from Magna Charta and many other Statutes 4. They have maintained the Book of Common prayer warranted by five Acts of Parliament in Edw. 6. Queen Eliz. for Libels against which and Church-Government some have been Executed 5. They maintained the Militia of the Kingdom to belong to the King from the Statute of the 7 Edw. 1. and many Statutes since 6. They maintained the Counterfeiting of the Kings Great Seal to be High Treason as likewise the usurpation of the Kings Forts Ports and Shipping c. from the said Statute of 25 Ed. 3. and divers others since and the practice of all times 7. They maintain that the King is the only Supreme Governour in all Cases the Parliament that his Majestie is to be governed by them The former's warrant is the Statute of Queen Eliz. c. 8. They maintain that the King is King by an inherent Birth-right by Nature by Gods Law and by the law of the Land These say that his Kingly Right is an Office upon Trust. Their warrant is the Statute of the 1 of King James and the 5 of Queen Eliz. 9. They maintain that the politick capacity is not to be severed from the natural vide Coke as before their Oracle who hath declared to posterity that it is Damnable Detestable and Execrable Treason 10. They maintain that who aids the King at home or abroad ought not to be molested or questioned for the same These practice the contrary Their warrant is the Statute of 11 Hen. 7. 11. They maintain that the King hath power to disassent to any Bill agreed by the two Houses which these deny Their warrant is the Statute of 2 Hen. 5. the practice of all times the 1 Car. ch 7. and 1 Jam. ch 1. 12. They maintain that Parliaments ought to be holden in grave and peaceable manner without Tumults These abet and keep guards of armed men to wait upon them Their warrant is the Statute of 7 Edw. 2. 13. They maintain that there is no State within this Kingdom but the Kings Majesty and that to adhere to any other State within this Kingdom is High Treason Their warrant is the 3 of King Jam. and 23 Eliz. 14. They maintain that to levy a War to remove Counsellours to alter Religion or any Law established is High Treason These hold to the contrary Their warrant is the resolution of the Iudges Queen Elizabeth and Sir Edward Coke 15. They maintain that no man should be imprisoned put out of his lands but by due Course of Law and that no man ought to be adjudged to Death but by the Law established These have practised the contrary in London Bristol and Kent Their warrant is Magna Charta ch 29. The Petition of Right 3 Car. and divers others 16. They believe what the Laws say that the King can do no wrong that He is Gods Lieutenant and not able to do an unjust thing These charge Him with the spoil and blood of His Subjects which false imputation was like the rest of their actions contrary to all Law Reason Christianity or Humanity This eye-salve made the wilfully blinde more peevish and fuller of smart and anguish so that they were resolved to have hanged him but he had so hedged up their way to it by upbraiding them with their former Illegal and Tyrannical Cruelty that they only kept him in a strict duress which was enlarged by degrees till the time of Restitution 1660 when he was in health and at perfect freedom He was a great stickler likewise in the Feud betwixt the Presbyterian and Independent siding with the Army and doctrinating them with the Principles of Allegiance which they pretended to and animating them against the Parliament by perswading them that all their Ordinances made for their Indemnity and Arrears were insignificant and invalid and were but so many blinds for the present and that their security and satisfaction depended wholly upon the King which designe of his in that juncture of time did operate successfully until the cause of the contention ceasing Cromwel having mastered and surmounted all the rubs to his designe the effect the ruine of both likewise failed Miserable now were the complaints from several parts of the Kingdom by reason of the burden of Free-quarter In the third year of King Charles upon the Expedition for the Isle of Rhee the Lords and Commons in their Petition of Right when not above 2 or 3000 Souldiers were thinly Quartered upon the people but for a Month or two complained thereof to his Majesty as a great grievance contrary to the Laws and Customs of the Realm and humbly prayed as their right according to the Law of the Land that he would remove it which his Majesty presently granted Yet now though the Country was ten times more oppressed no remedy could be had the Army under pretence of Lodging Fire and Candle taking all other necessaries for which if at any time they pretended to offer money yet durst none take it for fear of greater damage the spoiler being only triable by a Council of War This the Souldiers were taught likewise by their Adjutators to
desperately Engaged with them no way prepared or thinking of fighting that day though Laughorn resolved to fight before Cromwel should come up who was then on his way and having laid an Ambuscado behind some Shrubs and Hedges in a Meadow did so gall and terrifie these raw and undisciplined Britons that they could not be made to stand or to keep any order but annoyed their fellows and gave the Parliament-Horse opportunity to engage their whole Body which being vigorously prosecuted and maintained the whole Army ran some 1500 killed 500 Officers besides 3000 Prisoners taken with all their Ammunition Bag and Baggage But the chief Officers and ablest Souldiers got some into Tenby and others into Pembroke whither Cromwel came presently and Besieged them both In his advance whither that he might not give Sir Nicholas Kemish leave or leisure and time to nestle in his acquisition he sent away Colonel Eure to attempt him who having a sufficient strength resolved forthwith to storm Chepstow-Castle having before Loyally refused all manner of Treaty which successfully was attempted and a disastrous slaughter made the resolute and noble Knight being killed in cold blood Sir Iohn Owen's Forces were likewise at the same time suppressed by Major-General Mitton and himself likewise taken prisoner Cromwel was now joyned with Horton by whose united Forces Tenby was first stormed and then yielded upon discretion but Pembroke was a harder bit being naturally and artificially well fortified and as well manned though not proportionably stored with necessaries and two or three Parliament-Ships lay before the Haven to keep out all supply if the Prince should have endeavoured it who was then at Sea of which presently But Cromwel's impatience of loitering before a single Town in a corner of the Kingdom when the Scots were advancing upon the same account with the besieged into England put him upon a resolution of storming it to which glorious and facile work Hugh Peters by his Sermons and Stories of Iericho animated the Souldiers Accordingly Approaches were made and a Line drawn round within Carbine-shot of the Works and the night and hour appointed for their falling on the Horse being drawn up and in the dark got close under the Gates to be ready at the opening of them by their Foot when entred The besieged suspecting this stilness of the Leaguer would and in a Storm had as closely prepared for the onset just about the time thereof calling off their Guards and Centries and making semblance of betaking themselves to rest when with great fury the Parliament-Foot fell on and having planted their Ladders scaled the Works the Trenches being filled with men like to a swarm of Bees making hast to get over which being the designed advantage the Flankers of the Town discharged all their Cannon laden with Chain-shot and so swept the Trenches that not a Ladder was standing abundance of men killed and maimed and left therein the rest forced to retreat being pelted fore-right from the Walls and those that were entred knockt on the Head some few onely escaping and becoming Prisoners This so daunted the Army that Cromwel thought not fit to expose them any more to such danger but to block and starve them out which the Besieged perceiving and no hopes of Relief and being already pinched with want they bethought themselves of making Conditions in time while the late Storm was yet in recent memory and some regard had to their strength and courage and while Cromwel was himself there upon which account they entred into a Treaty whereby Cromwel was too hard for them For giving good terms to the Souldiery and the inferior Officers who were willing to accept of less he reserved their three Leaders to discretion and some Superiour Commanders to two years Banishment and so having quieted that Welch commotion hastned on his Expedition against the Scots While all things appeared now ready to run into worser and more desperate mischiefs equally feared from a new War and that cicatrized and more perilous Peace we had rather past than enjoyed during the quarrelling Intrigues of the Independant and Presbyterian parties first the County of Essex though not so considerably then the neighbouring County of Surrey thought it a good and neighbourly Office to the Parliament to give them a taste in fair and civil language and peaceable quiet deportment of the whole Kingdoms resentment of their proceedings with the King that so without any more effusion of blood a stop might be put to those threatning evils that visibly were imminent upon the Nation To this purpose a calm milde and rational Petition was with all humility and without any tumultuous disorder attended on by a numerous yet civil and a well-reputed train presented to the two Houses on the 16 of May by the hands of the prime Gentlemen of that County who were presently ordered to withdraw and await their Answer while in the mean time the Faction gave notice to the Guards at White-hall and the Mews to come and free them from this otherwise unanswerable Address In the interim the Honest Country-men understanding their Answer was respited and that the chief of their County would onely be admitted to receive it withdrew themselves to several Inns in Westminster to put up and refresh their horses and themselves where they found the Troopers very quarrelsom and telling them that there was no room nor scarce accommodation for the Army which made most of them go into the Suburbs when presently the Guards of Janizaâ—ies marched in haste into the Hall and fell a hewing and cutting without any expostulation of the Petitioners business there and with some slaughter and more terrour drove them into the Palace-yards Among the rest that were killed was the Miller of Wandsworth a stout Fellow and who died not unrevenged being cut and run through with a Halbert the rest scattered and dispersed themselves being in no capacity of resistance and carried home their Answer for Peace written in the red Letters of their Fellows Blood This Petition had been Subscribing a Month before and much order and exactness used therein but one Rubrick blot dasht it into nothing the Triumphant Grandees never knew the ways of Peace and this method to it retorting their own practices in the beginning of our troubles was most distastful for it discovered to the people that the right prayer of Petitions was onely for Parliamentary Priviledges and that the Liberty of the Subject was but a subservient pretence They had attained the mystery and mastership of Government and therefore those silly Rudiments were to be forgotten but if their Crue would Petition against the King and their Country so was our English spirit charmed and transformed before they should be honoured with the Title of the well-effected and have the thanks of the House for nothing This sanguinous reception of so innocent a Paper was highly resented every where but the Kentish-men reflected
Enemy was now retired into his Garrisons that the weather was bitter and unfit for action the Winter being now come on or if it were not so that he had neither Meat nor Money wherewith to keep his men any longer together having since the Revolt of Munster which deprived him of the greatest share of his Contributions and Provisions been a long time already forced to live upon the spoil of the rest of the Country he concluded upon dispersing his Army into Quarters also which because the Principal Towns refused to admit them in he was fain to scatter over all the Kingdom The greatest part of the Vlster-Forces were sent into their own Province there to chuse a new General according as their conditions allowed them for Owen O Neal was dead and Luke Taafe with his men were sent back into Connaght to the Lord of Clanrickard The Lord Inchiqueen with the remainder of such as belonged unto him went over into the County of Clare the Lord Dillon with his into Meath and towards Athlone all the rest were scattered several ways onely Major-General Hugh O Neal was admitted with about 1600 Vlster-men into Clonmell as Governour and Kilkenny received also a competent Garrison to secure them against so ill Neighbours as both Rosse and Carrick were Here you may behold a summary of what past in the field since the Army first set forth until their going to their Winter-quarters in all which time how ill soever the success hath been nothing can with any colour of reason be laid to the Lord-Lieutenants charge except the not punishing those many Failings Treacheries and Disorders that were committed during this Summers Expedition Yet as to the disobedience and neglects in the Siege of Dublin I gave you Reasons why that was past over before and those that were committed since were for the most part by men of that condition and interest that it was neither safe nor fit all things considered to call them to an account As for Treacheries most of the Authors of them took care to secure themselves and in time get out of reach onely Crosby that betrayed Kingsale after he was designed to dye by the Lord-Lieutenant upon the Lord Inchiqueens coming to Town was I know not for what considerations reprieved and saved The want of money to pay the Souldiers and the exigences they were for the most part in after the mischance at Dublin did so much Authorize their disorders in the Country that if they had not been past by and connived at there had been no means of keeping them together So that I have many reasons to believe that notwithstanding the defeat at Dublin and success upon Drogheda Cromwel with all his great Army his Fleet and store of Money had been lost and sunk to nothing if the Castles of Wexford and Carrick had not been so foully given up nay and after that too if those Towns and Forces in Munster had not so treacherously Revolted Thus did the knavery and malice of a few steal away the Hearts of the generality of that undiscerning simple people from the Lord-Lieutenant few of them being able to judge at all of the Prudence and Integrity of his Conduct or to consider that the Army that was in the Field the foregoing Summer would have required four times the Contribution that was raised without leaving any surplus either to be hoarded up or sent beyond Seas From which his Excellency was so far that on the other side he frequently offered to engage at a very low rate all that remained Unmorgaged of his Princely Estate for the support of the Army The Surrender of Dublin truly had been made unto the people of Ireland by the arts of those that were at that time in Government amongst them a most odious thing though those very persons knew well enough it was themselves and not the Lord-Lieutenant that was in the fault by twice foully violating their Publike Faith with him First in breaking a Peace made and solemnly published both at Dublin and Kilkenny the Respective seats of the Kings Lieutenant and the Council of the Confederates and in seconding that Act after having imprisoned the Lord Muskery Sir Robert Talbott Sir Lucas Dillon Master Brown Master Belings and the rest of their Supreme Council that had made the Peace and still stood honestly to what they had done with bringing their Armies before Dublin where having caused the burning and destruction of those quarters the Town it self must have been lost unto them it upon overture of a Treaty with the Parliament they had not sent Men and Supplies to rescue it And next in the breach of that solemn Engagement made between them and the Marquess of Clanrickard as soon as upon belief of their resolution to return unto their Duty the Treaty was broke off and the Forces of the Parliament sent home again Could it be expected that after two such acts as these any wise man would trust or treat with the Irish any more whilst the Government was still in the same mens hands who after all this wrought the whole Assembly to declare they would never have any Protestant Governour more and namely not the Lord-Lieutenant and who were not ashamed at the same time both to annul the Peace and yet acknowledge that the forementioned Gentlemen that had been makers of it and suffered in justification of it had neither exceeded their instructions nor done any thing misbecoming honest men His Excellency was now at Kilkenny where having in vain endeavoured to qualifie the universal discontents and observing how fast notwithstanding the admonitory Declaration of all the Bishops from Clonmacnosse to the contrary the people being alienated with the ravaging and disorder of their own Armies and allured with the successes and smooth invitations of Cromwel run headlong in to him for Protection and under Contribution as also how great numbers of the Irish Souldiers some frighted with the Plague which now began to spread into the other Provinces of the Kingdom and others for want of livelihood as having neither meat nor pay flockt in unto the Enemy He went into Connaght to confer about carrying on of the publike business and the remedy of those disorders with the Marquess of Clanrickard at his Castle of Portumna about the end of Christmas who being a person of that eminent Merit towards our King and Nation and deserving so much Honour from all honest men I must I believe do a thing very displeasing to you not to give you a due Character of him here Upon his coming to Portumna the Lord-Lieutenant meets with Sir George Monro who was posted thither out of the North to make some Proposals in order to the reduction of Vlster to his Excellency and the Lord Clanrickard who had the Summer before assisted him towards his Vlster Expedition with a Regiment of Foot 100 Horse and 1000 pounds in money out of the Province of Counaght and in case
those overtures of his were not approved of to demand his Pass that he might leave the Kingdom but what he propounded was so plausible that in case Money and Arms could be had in time and in proportion to what he demanded as the infection of Galloway out of which Town chiefly both were to be had made it very difficult they judged it a very likely Expedition Whereupon the Lord Clanrickard desirous to keep so able a Commander as Sir George in the Kingdom furnisheth him with what Money he could at the present and sends him Northwards to lay and prepare the business before promising to do his uttermost endeavours to procure him those supplies of Money Ammunition and Arms by the time appointed as also to bring his Army up as far as Sligo there to countenance Sir George in his undertakings and be ready for any fair occasion that should present it self for the mastering of the Country After four or fivâ— days stay at the most his Excellency took his leave and hastened towards Kilkenny obliging the Lord Clanrickard to come after him to be present at a meeting he had appointed there for the procuring of a good understanding between the Clergy the Commissioners and himself and for taking the best order they could for the raising and maintaining an Army against the next Spring But though they met nothing at that time could be done or agreed upon wherefore the Lord Clanrickard returns into Connaght to take order for his Northern Expâ—dition which out of the great difficulties of getting his men together arising out of the universal distractions that were then in the Kingdom the hard Season of the year the Pestilence the want of Moneys and Provisions he could not possibly go through with against February which was the time designed nor even then when he did without very great necessities and inconveniencies to himself and his Army though that Noble Person declined no difficulty nor spared no Charge in his Majesties Service This failing in point of time and a great part of the Moneys promised him which nevertheless as things stood no mans industry could have remedied Sir George Monro complained very much of affirming that their opportunity was lost thereby especially now they being come the Army was able to move no further through extreme want of Provision kept from them by foul and contrary weather for which and the residue of the Money together with hopes of an accord between the Lord-Lieutenant and the Commissioners some days were spent in expectation but nothing in the end except onely a Letter from the Lord Ormond summoning the Lord Clanrickard suddainly away his Lordship was forced to leave his Army and the Northern business to the hazard and return back to meet the Lord-Lieutenant and the Commissioners at Loghreogh Wâ—ereupon Sir George Monro believing now the Lord-Lieutenant would leave the Kingdom seeing the divisions amongst the Irish grew daily greater and giving all for lost having received a defeat by Sir Charles Coot where the Earl of Claneboys was taken Prisoner and Colonel Henderson killed with some 800 Private Souldiers and lastly finding the impatience of his own party to treat with the Enemy as he had often before publikely declared he would retires himself to Eniskillin and having made Conditions for himself the remainder of his Party and his Officers that were in Prison gave up that place to the Enemy and departed the Kingdom Very soon after whose retirement the Lord Clanrickard's Army through extremity of want was forced to return from Sligo back towards the County of Galloway Where I will leave it and come back to his Excellency who being left by the Lord Clanrickard lately in Kilkenny after having caused Captain Tickle to be Executed for a designe he had of betraying that Town to Cromwel was by the breach growing daily wider between him and the Kingdom and through the increase of the Sickness now come thither at the joynt request of the Commissioners and Officers induced to remove towards Limerick where being negligently received without the accustomed respect used to the Kings Lieutenant he after a short stay departed thence into the County of Clare Immediately thereupon the Enemy having refreshed his men and encreased his Army with a great accession of old Souldiers that had formerly served under the Lord Inchiqueen and the Lord-Lieutenant takes the field and falls a Summoning Castles and bringing the Country under Contribution wherein he had a general success most of the Castles surrendring upon appearance of a party of Horse except Kiltenan which gave him some resistance His Excellencies Army through the forementioned obstinacy and disobedience of the Towns against receiving Garrisons was so far dispersed that there was no means of drawing them together neither if that were done of drawing them in a Body for the Country was destroyed and wast so that it could not supply him besides during these disagreements between the Lord-Lieutenant the Clergy and the Commissioners there were few or none of the Irish Souldiers if there had been Provisions for them that would obey his Excellencies Orders Of all which Cromwel was well aware and therefore went securely and with confidence to work carrying all before him Amongst other of his successes Ballisanon was sold unto him and Cahir Castle then the dwelling-house of Master Matthews a young youth and half Brother to the Lord-Lieutenant given him contrary to those strict orders left by his Excellency with Master Matthews for the keeping of it who was so conscious of his own misdoing in the Act that he refused upon several summons and invitations to appear before his Lordship and stayed sâ—â—ll in the Enemies quarters to secure himself from his Excellencies indignation But nevertheless this act of Master Matthews is made a ground of new susâ—â—â—â—ns and fresh clamours against his Lordship himself by the Irish who all this while run on in their extravagancies intent onely upon their disputes in hand as if there were no such man as Cromwel in the Kingdom insomuch that seeing so many several meetings assigned and so much time spent to so little purpose his Excellency concludes that those people would never be brought into order by him and therefore resolves to withdraw himself from the Government if not to depart the Kingdom and to commit the management of all unto the Marquess of Clanrickard which was the reason of his Lordships being sent for back again from Sligo The Enemy in the mean time having the Castles of Gowran and Laghlin together with the Officers Commanding in them delivered into his hands by the Common-Souldiers sets at last upon Kilkenny whence a while before the Earl of Castlehaven who was now left with chief Command in Lemster was drawn out with his Forces by reason the Sickness raged so leaving Sir Walter Butler and Major Walsh with about 50 Horse and some 400 Foot in the place where a breach being made and the Enemy
Assaulting they were bravely Repulsed leaving 600 Arms behind them after which check they resolved to march off and are sending their Artillery away silently before whilst the Townsmen convey a Drummer privately over the Wall and upon I know not what accord let the Enemy in unknown to the Souldiers who were then forced to retire to the Castle and make their Terms which being granted them they march away Kilkenny being gained by him let us leave Cromwel at Cashel for a while amongst his Committee-men and return into Connaght where the Clergy and Commissioners seeing that the Lord Clanrickard having refused to take the Government upon him was resolved in case they continued disobedient unto the Lord-Lieutenant lest the Kings Authority should be exposed to further disobedience and contempt to leave the Kingdom together with his Excellency and considering what a certain Ruine their departure would be unto them all are now courting the Lord-Lieutenant to stay and offer to come to composition with him who demands assurance from them that the Respective Towns of Limerick and Galloway shall receive sufficient Garrisons and that themselves with all the Souldiers and people shall hereafter readily obey him which they undertake unto him upon condition that all the English whatsoever under his Excellencies Command might be disbanded and sent away that the Bishops of the Kingdom might have a share in Council and the management of things that the Receiver-General which was Sir George Hamilton Brother-in-law to the Lord-Lieutenant a person of great parts Honour and Merit might give in his accounts all which his Excellency out of his great desire to satisfie and unite the people thereby to preserve the Country and the Kings Interest if it were possible at last assents unto This Agreement being made the English were accordingly to free the Irish of their Jealousies who either were or would seem to be equally suspicious of the Royalists as of those that had served the Parliament before disbanded and since there was no further employment for them nor means of getting away by Sea they had leave to make their Conditions with Cromwel to pass through his quarters out of the Kingdom which being granted by him all all the small remainder of the Lord Inchiqueens men except a few that Colonel Buller was to carry for Scilly went under the conduct of Colonel Iohn Daniel into the Enemies quarter so did the Lord Ards and after him Sir Thomas Armstrong with whom went also Master Daniel O Neal upon the score of carrying a Regiment into Spain There remained none behind that was permitted to bear any charge but Lieutenant-Colonel Treswell at the Lord Ormonds particular instance to Command his Guards of Horie onely Iohn Digby Colonel Henry Warren and Colonel Hugh Butler â—aid to wait upon his Excellencies person and bear him company in his aâ—â—entures Colonel Trevor rendred himself likewise upon the same account But before I go on I must not omit to tell you how Dean Boile who was sent to treat with Cromwel for the English that were disbanded being offered it as he says by Cromwel and imagining as himself affirms to do a service to the Lord-Lieutenant and the Lord Inchiqueen in it adventured of his own head to take Passes from him for their departure out of the Kingdom whereof as soon as ever Dean Boile was gone he makes use to debauch the Irish Garrisons to take Conditions from him assuring them the Lord-Lieutenant had received his Pass to depart the Kingdom though the Passes were absolutely without his Lordships privity or license accepted and with indignation resented but in the mean time Emer Mac Mahon Bishop of Cloghor who had been chosen General of the Vlster-Army having a good while since received his Commission from the Lord-Lieutenant was now gathering together his Army which in a short time after he had made up to be about 6000 men wherewith having taken several little Castles in his way he was marched up into the Claneboyes and become Master of the field The next enterprize Cromwel went in hand with was to take Clonmell which was kept by Major-General Hugh O Neal who behaved himself so discreetly and gallantly in defending it that Cromwel lost neer upon 2500 men before it and had notwithstanding gone away without it if they within had had store of Powder but their small proportion being spent the Governour with his Souldiers was fain to go out of the Town on the other side of the River by night towards Waterford and leave the Towns-men to make Conditions for themselves which they did the next morning the Enemy not knowing but the Garrison was still in Town till the Conditions were signed Thus the loss of this place and several other Garrisons for want of Ammunition was another effect of the disobedience of the Towns insomuch that had it not been for a little Magazine that the Lord Clanrickard had providently made beforehand and wherewith since the loss of Drogbeda his Excellencies Army the Scots the Vlsters and most of the Garrisons were furnished all might have gone to an irrecoverable ruine whilst the Walled-Towns like Free-States lookt on as unconcern'd denying to afford it to them About the time of the Siege of Clonmel David Roch having raised above 2000 men in the Counties of Corke and Kerry and beginning to make head with them received a small brush from the Lord Broghall which onely dispersed his men for a few days his loss being not considerable for any thing but the Bishop of Rosse who being taken was hanged with two other Priests by Cromwel for being found in Arms as he said against the States of England Soon after the gaining of Clonmel Cromwel upon Letters out of England inviting him thither went to Sea and leaves Ireton in chief Command behind him to subdue the rest of that miserable wasted Kingdom whilst himself went about the Conquest of new Empires more worthy of his presence Here I cannot but observe that of all those thousands that either came with him thither or were sent after there are now few tens surviving either to reap the benefit or report the stories of their Victories his Army upon his departure being sunk to a very inconsiderable number especially in Foot and neer three parts of those consisting of either Irish Ione's or the Lord Inchiqueen's men who onely are able to undergo the woful incommodities of that Country now groning under a universal Plague Famine and Desolation to that degree that if they had known but half the miseries that expect them there I am confident that no Threats nor Flatteries could have perswaded men out of England thither in hopes of reaping the fruits of their fellows labours in that destroyed Kingdom Which as low as 't is brought may chance to cost Cromwel a second Expedition and another Army and yet go without it For they have Waterford Galloway and Limerick three of the strongest
followed him and yet inclined to assist him knowing the danger of the enterprse considering the fewness of his number and that his Souldiers were much undisciplined and unlike to the former with whom he had done so great things began to be averse and have a suspition of the event Yet have I heard some say which knew well enough the situation of that Country that if he had not been suppressed in the nick he might have gained such strength amongst the Hills as might have given him leisure enough to have strengthened his own Party and tired out the Enemy Howsoever he was not altogether unmindful of a retreat There is in that Country a Castle called Dumbath the Lord or Laird thereof is the head of a very Antient Family but no friend of the Marquesses This Gentleman having left his House in the keeping of his Lady and some servants fled to Edenburgh The Lady though the place was naturally fortified yet upon summons delivered it to Colonel Hurry who was sent thither by the Marquess with a party of Foot to reduce it upon conditions her Goods and Estate might be secured and she with her Servants suffered to march away Hurrey having placed a Governour and a Garrison as he thought sufficient for the defence of the place returned to the Marquess who was advanced to the place or neer it where he was to lose at one Throw both his Life and Fortune The Marquess hearing of the Enemies approach made his whole Forces March at a great Trot to recover a Pass which they were not very far from when he himself in the Van-guard discovered the first party which was Straughan's Forlorn-hope advancing very fast upon him So that these with their hasâ—e and the Soul diers running found them both out of Breath and Order The second Party was Commanded by Straughan himself and the Rear-guard by Colonel Ker for he had divided them into three Bodies But now the first party being very neer there was a Forlorn-hope of 100 Foot drawn out to meet them who giving fire upon them put them to a disorderly retreat but being immediately seconded by Straughan's Party they made good their Charge and so terrified the Islanders with that breach that most of them threw down their Arms and called for Quarter Onely the Dutch-companies after they had bestowed a Volley or two amongst the Horse retreated into some shrubs hard by and there very valiantly defended themselves a while but were all taken at last There were killed in this business to the number of 200. taken 1200 very few escaped For the whole Country being in Arms especially Sunderland-men who came not to the Fight but to the Execution they killed or took Prisoners all such as fled In that skirmish was taken the Standard which he had caused to be made on purpose to move the affections of the people with this Motto Iudge and revenge my Cause O Lord and the Portraict of the late King beheaded exactly well done The Standard-bearer a very gallant young Gentleman was killed after he had several times refused quarter there was Colonel Hurrey taken the Lord Frendraught Sir Francis Hay of Dalgetie Colonel Hay of Naughton Colonel Gray and most of the Officers and two Ministers The Marquess after he saw the day was absolutely lost threw away his Cloak which had the Star on it having received the Order of the Garter a little while before his Sword was likewise found and not very far off his Horse which he had forsaken For so soon as he had got clear off that ground where the Skirmish was he betook himself to foot and lighting upon one of that Country or one of his own Souldiers I know not whether took his Highland Apparel from him and so in that Habit conveyed himself away But such narrow search being made for him he could not long escape yet he continued in the open fields three or four days without any notice gotten of him At last the Laird of Aston being in Arms with some of his Tenants and abroad in that search happened on him He had been one of his followers before In that place he had continued three or four days without Meat or Drink with one onely man in his company The Marquess knowing him and believing to finde friendship at his hands willingly discovered himself but Aston not daring to conceal him and being greedy of the reward which was promised to the Apprehender by the Council of State seized upon him and disarmed him 'T is said he profered great sums for his Liberty which being in vain he desired to dye by the hands of those that took him rather than be made an object of misery and shame as he knew very well he should by his enraged Enemies But neither of his desires was granted but in place of them a strong Guard set on him and so conveyed to David Lesley Straughan having atchieved his business with great expedition and freed the State from this much-feared danger returned to Edenburgh leaving the rest of the business to Lesley and Holborn where he received great rewards and thanks for his Eminent Service not without the great heart-burning of David Lesley who seeing a rival risen up to his honour and one whom he lookt upon as an upstart Souldier have so great success fretted not a little Howsoever forwards he moves to accomplish the rest of the work which was now of no great consequence for there rested nothing within the Country but onely the Castle of Dumbath which being out of all hopes of relief after the defeat so soon as they were perfectly assured thereof by some Prisoners they knew yielded the Garrison The Governour was prisoner at mercy the Souldiers being Dutch were upon terms to return homewards There was nothing else to be done save the reducing of the Islands and the Town of Kirkwall in Orkney where Colonel Iohnson and Colonel Harry Graham were left when the Marquess passed over to Cathnes but Montross either because he could not spare any Souldiers or because he expected better success had left them almost naked though there were several places in those Isles which might have been made very Tenable Colonel Iohnson having had notice of the defeat with those that were with him took shipping and returned from whence he came so did Harry Graham likewise else both of them had tasted of the same sauce which their General did Thus Lesley's Forces entred without any resistance seized upon the Arms which Montross had brought thither together with two pieces of Ordnance the Queen of Swedens present the little Friggot of 16 Guns which lay in Harbour the Master of her being gon ashore into one of the Islands and the Company seeing the event of the business revolted and brought in that likewise The Victory being now compleat there was a solemn day of Thanksgiving appointed through the whole Kingdom Bonfires Shooting of Ordnance and other testimonies or joy
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 delivâ—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 Athloâ—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 dispâ—te beat them from the first and second Passes and at the third which was strongly fortified came to the Bâ—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 thâ—m whereupon Ireton drew from Limerick and took in the stâ—oâ—g Castle of Neanagh in low Ormond and so retreated to his Winter-quarters aâ— 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 â—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 seiâ—â—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
the English Fleet discovered them and about eleven or twelve a clock Engaged them and Fought till six at Night in the bâ—ginning of the fight and the first Broad-side General Dean was shot almost off in the Middle by a Cannon-Bullet as he stood by General Monke who without any disturbance bad his Servants and Seamen to remove him and continued the Service without further notice of the accident Of the Dutch side an Admiral was blown up the Captain Cornelius Van Velso and Captain Bolter's ship and three more sunk which made Trump sail for the Dunkirk-Coast between and some of his ships over the Flats in hope to strand the English upon the pursuit and in case the great ships should with more heed desist from the Chase that the nimble and formost Frigats being too far Engaged and that without succour from them in those Shallows might fall without recovering into his hands by his turning upon them with his ablest and lightest Vessels of which he had store and so escaped that night In this days fight Rear-Admiral Lawson so Engaged with de Ruyter and two other Flag-ships and part of their Squadrons with his that Trump was forced to come in to his Relief with other of his best ships whilst the ordinary Men of war were catcht up and Boarded there being six more reckoned taken and sunk in the night whereof Trump by good Piloting made to the Coast aforesaid over those Shallows but the English found them again and Engaged them about eight in the Morning General Blake being now joyned with them with a Squadron of 18 more Men of War and continued till eleven or twelve when the Dutch began to flye for it and Van Trump to fire at those ships that ran but they being not to be staid run all into a huddle which made them an easie prey by reason of their confusion ninety Men of War being so mingled one with another that they could not come to do any Execution upon us without greater damage to themselves This lucky pursuit was continued till night and some fifteen more ships taken and had day lasted few of them had escaped Trump now steered S. and by E. with a fresh Eastward Gale it having been calm before and General Monke E. N. E. to Zealand and came to an Anchor at seven Fathom water and found the Dutch Fleet arrived at Blackenburgh one of those places of strength pawned to Queen Elizabeth for security of that assistance in men and money she afforded those States Van Trump laid the misfortune of this Defeat upon the ignorance and unskilfulness of his Captains And thus ended this Dutch Bravado upon our Coast and in the Downs where they had first attempted the tryal of strength and to wrest the Soveraignty of the Seas to the so breaking of their Stomacks that a resolution for Peace and Agreement was presently taken up and a Vessel with a white Flag and a Messenger to prepare the way for two Embassadors was sent into England so uncertain and ridiculous is the greatest Humane confidence The Council of State now issued out Summons for the Parliament-men the Officers had nominated and presented to Cromwel being persons of Integrity and Fidelity to the Commonwealth as the project was because there was no choice could be made by the Country without apparent hazard to the good Cause so long contested for for that the disaffected would creep in and therefore this extraordinary Proceeding was to be Authorized by the safety of the people the Supreme Law This was Sophistry in the Parliament it was the highest reason now with Oliver though the most palpable and bold subversion of the English Freedom that could be imagined but Oliver had the Sword and thought he gratified the people another way in exchange by freeing them from the Task-masters of the Parliament than whom with the Old Woman they thought they could not have worse whoever came next And that the new Commonwealth and its friends might see that there was no good to be done by a Parliament after the utmost experiment of it and to prepare the greater acceptableness of his Image of Government which had the Brass the Iron and the Clay to its Composition in its rise maintenance and perishment he gave them a tast and sight of the gross and most absurd destructive errours of this Purest Convention men differenced from the rest by the Character of Nathaniel being without Guile to whom he directed this Paper Forasmuch as upon the Dissolution of the late Parliament it became necessary that the Peace should be provided for and in order thereunto divers persons fearing God c. and of approved Fidelity and Integrity c. are by my self and the Council of Officers nominated to the Trust c. and having good assurance of your Love and courage for God and the Interest of his Cause and good people I Oliver Cromwel Captain General of all the Forces raised and to be raised within this Commonwealth do require and Summon You being one of the persons nominated to appear in the Chamber commonly called the Council-Chamber in Whitehall in the City of Westminster on the 4 of July there to take upon you the Trust c. to which ye are called and appointed a Member for the County of A. And these good men and true resolved to come together and give their Verdict against the Publick A good juncture now offered it self to the Scotch Nobility and the Loyal Party their adherents to redeem themselves and Country from the slavery of their new Master a great deal more costly and absolute than their Kirk-Rulers as having no other Communion with this than in the perillous concerns of Person and Estate The chief of these Nobles were the Earls of Glencarne Seaforth and Athol the Lairds Mac Cloud Mac Renalds the Frazers the Lord Kenmore the Earl of Kinoule though at present a Prisoner in Edenburgh-Castle from whence he Colonel Montgomery and Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Hay very nearly afterwards escaped into this Party They had lately received a Commission from the King and in Parties appeared up and down in order to their raising new Levies which they encreased to some competent numbers expecting additional supplies from beyond Sea and their Friends in the Low-lands and some English Auxiliaries of all which and the Velitatory War made by them hereafter in its place expect an Abstract and Epitome Nothing remarkable in Ireland but the raging of the Plague which followed the Sword and accompanied the High Court of Iustice as if no affliction could satisfie for the Barbarous Wickedness of that Nation on whom notwithstanding it fell not alone but spread it self afterwards into the English Quarters and carried away a great number of people Colonel Sullyman was now defeated in Kerry and his Major Fitz Gerald taken Prisoner and the Transplantation now begun The English still lay upon the Coast of Holland having for a while refreshed themselves at Soal-Bay into
at last gave out and fled towards the Texel having but one Flag standing among them the English Frigats pursuing them the smalness of some whereof made an Admiral-ship turn the Helm and stand to them and Engage but just upon his Boarding of one of them the biggest Frigats came in and took the Dutch-man whose Commanders with Lights in their Poops for day was so far spent in the Chace recovered the Texel and the English not daring to venture too far upon that Coast rode some â—ix Leagues that night over against it having lost two ships the Oak who perished by fire thrusting her self between to preserve the Rainbow from a Fire-ship and the Hunter-frigat an English Fire-ship who attended the orders of the Rear-Admiral Lawson whose behaviour this day also of Vice-Admiral Pen was very noble and Renowned most of the Fleet were maimed in their Rigging Shrouds and Masts especially the Merchant-men whose Captains having withdrawn themselves formerly from the brunt of the Engagement to save their Owners were now transferred to one anothers Commands and sought here stoutly especially the May-flower was terribly battered and hardly able to keep above Water but the greatest loss was of Commanders whose Names and their respective Ships out of which they were killed and wounded were as followeth The Dutch lost and had Burnt and Sunk 26 Men of War 30 were first reckoned but two of that number got into the Elbe much torn and two into Zealand the particulars of whose Captains taken Prisoners were as follows the rest were lost beyond our research for the Dutch would never publish them English Captains Slain Andrew Captain Thomas Graves Golden Cock Capt. Edmund Chapman William Capt. Iohn Taylor May-flower-Merchant Capt. William Newman Prosperous Capt. Crisp. Phoenix Capt. Owen Cox that took her from the Duth before And 500 Common Souldiers Slain English Captains Wounded Triumph Captain Peacock Lawrel Capt. Iohn Stokes Dragon Capt. Iohn Seaman Portland Capt. William Rouâ— Assurance Capt. P. Holland Tulip Capt. Ioseph Cubit And 800 Common Souldiers Wounded Dutch Captains taken Prisoners the Slain unknown Cornelius Evertson Vice-Admiral of Zealand and Captain of the Zealand-Lyon 28 Guns and 130 men Sunk Glause Iohnson Zanger Captain of the Westcappall 26 Guns and 104 Men Sunk Andrew Fomeen Captain of the Concord of Zirick-Zee 22 Guns 100 Men Burnt Gerbion Scotter Captain of the Golden Dolphin 30 Guns 110 Men Sunk Iohn de Hayes Commander of the Garland a ship formerly taken from us by the Dutch 44 Guns 180 Men Burnt It is suspected there were more Captains Prisoners but they were not discovered At least 4500 Dutch slain and wounded and it was certain of 120 Sail there returned but 90 into the Texel To honour and recompence the desert of the Generals and the Vice-Admiral and Rear-Admiral and their Flag-Officers the Parliament ordered them respectively Gold-Chains and to all the Officers and Captains Meddals of Gold Provision and Maintenance was likewise ordered for the Widows and Children of those that were slain as also care taken for the Wounded the moiety of all Hospital-revenues applied to their particular Cure as likewise the Tenths of all Prizes formerly belonging to the Lord-Admiral and lastly as an acknowledgment of this Victory a Thanksgiving on the 25 of August managed by Owen and Cradock The Dutch had given their Reward before having ordered 1000 l. besides the ship and furniture to those that should take the chief Admiral other Admirals 600 l. their Flag-ships 400 l. and 100 l. to those that with a valiant and courageous hand should take down the Admiral 's Flag and so proportionably but none of these Payments were ever claimed for the attempt was found more unfeasible The Dutch got upon the Steeples at the Hague and other high places about Scheveling and saw something of the Fight which they fancied to their advantage but the perfecter fight at Amsterdam undid their belief notwithstanding the English presently leaving their Coast heightned them to a vapour that it was an equal Combat and they gave it out accordingly General Monke having staid 12 Leagues to the Westward of the Texel some three or four days sailed for Soal-Bay again and met upon the English Coast with a terrible Storm to the endangering the Fleet but especially such ships as were shattered and thence some while after sent away Vice-Admiral Lawson to the Coast of Holland while De Wit was got ready and to Sea and home again with a Fleet of 60 Sail of War to fetch home 300 Merchant-men from the Sound from the East-Indies and all parts of the World the Sound being the appointed Rendezvouz of them all and brought them in safety home to the no little rejoycing and Triumph of the Dutch Merchants and to the asswaging the publick discontent at their late defeat The States had been in election of a Lieutenant-Admiral in place of Van Trump and at last agreed upon the Lord Opdam one that had been a Colonel of Horse in their service and of good Conduct and personal worth whom in imitation of the English they chose to this Sea-employment Trump's Funerals were ordered to be solemnized in the beginning of September when he was Interred at Delf in great State becoming so great a Captain the honour and defence of his Country in which he nobly fell A person of great affection to the Family and person of our King and very much an English-man in all things but his Nativity Of such an interest in this War that with him it begun and with him expired he being the soul that actuated it throughout In his glorious Urn we will deposite therefore this History and Record thereof and re-assume the mention of the Dutch in more friendly and amicable language but it is very necessary to look first homewards and retrospect the elaps'd sitting down of Oliver's Juncto at Westminster According to their Summons on the fourth of Iuly the Members of approved Fidelity c. met at the Council-chamber in White-hall where Cromwel in a zealous Speech much to the purpose of his Declaration and the occasion of the present meeting stuft with various citations of Scripture I am loth to nauseate the Reader with any more of his Harangues at large to his but far from the purpose devolved the supreme Trust which they translated into more common English adjourning themselves after a short Consultation to Westminster aâ—d giving themselves the Title and Authority of the Parliament of England voting Mr. Francis Rouse for their Speaker but with a Collateral Vote that he should continue in the Chair no longer than for a Month. They were persons for the most part of such mean and ignore extractions that so far were they from being taken notice of by the Shires each of whom but two or three represented that they were scarce known in the very Towns they were born or afterwards inhabited till the Excise then Committees for Sequestration and the War in the
of Voluntiers there In the mean time General Venables formed a new Regiment of Seamen to serve upon occasion at Land these were put under the conduct of Vice-Admiral Goodson the rest of the Regiments brought out of England were easily compleated to a full number likewise a Troop of gallant Horse were raised by the Islanders at their own cost and charges the Carcases of which were afterwards buried in the Souldiers Bellies for want of better food But these were not all the strength for the Planters Servants understanding that if they would serve the State their time should still go on and that at last in spight of their Masters they should enjoy their Freedoms in as ample a manner as if they had served them this spurred them on to become Souldiers of Fortune and many were presently listed into several Regiments accordingly The Fleet was also augmented by twenty sail of Dutch Vessels which were made prize for presuming to traffique with Prohibited Goods contrary to the Articles of Peace betwixt the two Nations The Land-Army being now in readiness their number was found to be so great that every ships share was as many as it could carry March 31 they set Sail from Barbadoes and in six days after came by the Lee under St. Christophers Here joyned with them about 1300 more which came off from several Islands in hopes to be made for ever from hence they shaped their course directly for Hispaniola On the 13 of April the whole Navy came fair by the Island and plainly discovered the sown of Sancta Domingo Immediately hereupon a Council was called and the Guides consulted withal here it was concluded that General Venables should to Land According to which resolution the next day he landed about ten Leagues to the West-ward of the Town with 7000 Foot a Troop of Horse and three days Provision of Victuals No sooner were they landed but every mans Tongue was tipt with Gold nothing could be thought on but the plunder of Plate and Jewels small things could not enter their minds as for Hangings Housholdstuff c. they would be cumbersome to carry and therefore they resolved to leave such things behinde them In this extasie of joy was the Souldiery when behold upon a sudden there appeared a Procâ—amation from the General commanding that when they entred the Town of Sancta Domingo no man should plunder either Money Plate or Jewels neither kill any tame Cattle on pain of Death This made the Army look Sower on their imaginary Sweetness their Golden Hearts were now turned to Leaden Heels so that it was indifferent to them whether they went farther or tarried there yet for all this on they marched through Woods of incredible thickness meeting no Enemy except the excessive heat of the Sun which caused an intolerable drought that oppressed them sorely having not had one drop of Water in many miles march but what they carried in their own Bladders so that Urine was as White-wine to them that could swallow it General Pen after the landing of these men set ashore three Regiments more under the Command of Colonel Buller in a Bay where a fair Fresh-water-River disburdened it self this was within two Leagues of the Town and appointed to be the place for conjunction of the whole Army It was not long before the General according to the appointment having peaceably past the Woods came to the River and joyned himself with Buller's Brigade Here upon view the Army was sound to be 9700 but few fighting men From this River the Army hasted away to take possession of the Town which in imagination was already won there marched on before the rest a Forlorn Hope consisting of 500 men afterward followed the main Body of the Army In this order they marched within four miles of the Town when on the sudden a small party of Spaniards encountered the Forlorn Hope and in an instant forced them in confusion through the next Regiment which was also routed the Body of the Army coming up to their rescue made the Enemy to retire to a Fort hard by in the Woods without any considerable loss at all to the Spaniards On the English side was slain Captain Cox the chief Guide for the place and many others The General having now seen the imbecility of his men through want of Water and many other necessaries he caused them to march back again to the River from whence they came to refresh themselves in order to a full prosecution of the designe in hand To which end Scaling-Ladders were made and two small Drakes mounted with a Morter-piece and Granado-shells which were landed from the Fleet these were conveyed by Water to be set on shore at a convenient place neer the Fort. All things being now in readiness to try conclusions the Army once again dislodged and were by the Guides promised to be brought upon the Town of St Domingo by a private way where they might pass thorough the Woods free from any Fort. Such a way there certainly was but these blinde Guides taking another to be it the whole Army were brought neer to the place where before they had been shamefully repulsed The Spaniards in the mean time having certain intelligence by Negroes and Molattoes of the English march prepared to entertain them in their passage April 25 1655. the whole Army approached near to a Fort which the Spaniards had in the Wood built of Brick in a triangular form without Flankers in it were nine pieces of good Ordnance and 300 resolute fellows to manage them The English Army a little before noon approaching neer this Fort were upon the sudden charged by a party of the Enemy that lay undiscovered among the Trees These resolute Spaniards being about seventy in number at first fired a round Volley of small shot upon the Forlorn Hope and then flew in like mad-men with their sharp Steel-Lances upon the English who were already even suffocated with Thirst and hardly able to stand much less to fight so that in a moment the General 's running-Regiment with half the Army flew back to the Rear and possest their fellows there with such a Pannick fear that every one began to shift for himself Mean while the Spaniards pursued the Victory with the greatest slaughter they were able to make for meeting with no resistance but what that ever-Renowned Gentleman Major-General Hayns was able to make with twelve men whom he engaged by the honour of their Country one whereof was Ensigne Boys who died not unrevenged in the midst of their Enemies they wreaked their fury at pleasure on these frighted men till at last being overcome with killing they retreated back in Triumph with seven English Colours the evident Trophies of their Victory The retreat of the Enemy gave opportunity for the Living to number the Dead Upon view it was found that 600 were slain outright 300 Wounded most in their backs and besides 200 more crept into Bushes and ran away
my bounds He was in sum fit to have made a Prince of Tartars or some other Cannibal Barbarous and Perfidious people or had he been a Hun or a Vandal we should have read him big and Famous in History His Court-friends did so far extol him that after his Death Sterry one of his Sycophant Chaplains was heard to preach That he was certain that that blessed Person meaning Cromwel was now sitting at the Right Hand of God making Intercession c. which was more than any meer Humane Glory could reach unto and his Funerals were set out to such a pomp and ostentation to vouch that value which by such people was set upon him Here should have been inserted the Honour he arrogated to himself by bestowing of Dignities but there being but one Viscount seigned by him and he the right Noble now Earl of Carlisle and some Baronets and Knights that are weary of their Titles I will not further weary the Reader RICHARD'S SHORT Usurpation THE Protectorian Government like a Hybrida or Mungrii-Monster begot of two different Species the Army the Sire and the Commonwealth the Dam could not be imagined in Reason propagable however Fortune that sports her self in strange productions prevailed against the course of Nature in her Political principles for this one Experiment or Curiosity meerly to demonstrate the power of her proud and most scornful inconstancy This miserable Person as far as she could make him such Richard the Son and Successor of Oliver being meerly set up as the But and Object of all her disgraceful and contemptuous injuries with which she Implacably exercised the deposed Estate of this Impotent Usurper The Vulture died and out of his Ashes rose a Titmouse who with the Frog in the Fable being swollen up with the flatteries and fond advice of his Counsellors durst vie his greatness with the Regal right till the tumid Bubble burst and vanish'd into nothing His great encouragers to his assuming the Title were Fleetwood himself Desborough his Uncle Sydenham the two Iones's and Thurloe who with other of the Council some of whom from this time providâ—d themselves of a surer interest in the Crown upon notice of the death of his Father immediately in a body attended him in his Lodgings and declared to him his Fathers appointment of him for his Successor which they did most obediently acknowledge to him as their Rightful and most Indubitable Prince and Governour and the next morning being Saturday Proclaimed him in great State the said Lords and most of the Superior Army-Officers attending the solemnity at the usual places in London the tenour of which was That whereas it had pleased God by his providence to take away the most Serene and most Illustrious Oliver Lord-Protector who according to the Petition and Advice in his life-time had declared the most Noble and Illustrious his Son the Lord Richard Cromwel to be his Successor the Council the Lord Mayor the Officers of the Army therefore do heartily and unanimously acknowledge the said Lord Richard as rightful â—rotector and Chief Magistrate and do require all persons to yield obedience beseeching God by whom Princes Raign to bless him with long life and the Nations under him with peace and happiness This being over the Mayor aâ—d Aldermen of the City of London according to Order from the Council that Saturday in the afternoon came down to White-hall and Condoled and Congratulated Richard at once and in their sight Fiennes the Lord-Commissioner gave him his Oath which was sufficient inauguration to the Protectorate according to the said Humble Petition and Mr. Manton the peculiar Chaplain to this Dignity as Prelate of the Protectorship said Prayers and Blessed him his Council Armies and People and so the Scene ended Notice was also given by Sir Oliver Fleming to all Forrain Ministers and Embassadors of the Decease of the Father and the setting up of the Son who all came and Condoled and then Congratulated him in very ample manner especially the French though the Cardinal then at Paris immediately upon the news that Cromwel was Dead hastened to our Queen Mother and congratulated her in a â—incerer and more effectual manner telling her that the grand Enemâ— of her and her Family was noâ— removed and that most certainly and infallibly the Restauration of the King our Soveraign was at hand as indeed it was concluded and I will add resolved on here by all his Friends and some of his former Enemies and from this very time the ground-work of his Restauration was most artfully layed But these Aiery Complements were nothing comparable to the Domestick Addresses which flâ—wâ—â— flocks from all parts of the three Nations of White-hall to salute and 〈…〉 his assumption to the Soveraignty he was celebrated there for the excellence of his Wisdom and nobleness of Minde even in some for the lovely composition of his Body as if he had been another Titus Deliciae Gentis Dominii Britannici Nay some drops of this Court Holy-water stilled upon his Wife his Father-in-law and Relations his dead Father was stiled and compared to Moses to Zerubbabel to Ioshua to Gideon to Elijah to the Chariots and Horsmen of Israel to David to Solomon to Hezekiah to Constantine to all that was either good or great in Holy or Humane writ and in most their parallels were nearer to Blasphemy than any of his qualities he was lamented as the Father of his Country but 't was in that sence no doubt in which he was caressed by that Book of Killing no Murther for as long as he lived the people should never enjoy their inheritance the restorer of pleasant Paths to dwell in of whom we were not worthy and what not every one striving to exceed the other in this monstrous and most absurd vanity of which the Independent Churches were also most foully guilty their Addresses being drawn by their Metropolitans Goodwyn and Nye These were ordered here first and Instructions sent down where any of the Council had interest to get the ablest Pens they could to indite and discant upon this solemn occasion But the Army for powerful words and number outdid all the other not a sneaking Garrison but hired a Scribe to write their minde to their young Master Richard These Flies tainted the contented and private minde of the unhappy man who having Maried one Major's Daughter of Southampton with whom he had a very competent Fortune aimed at no great things till the Grandeurs done to him had insinuated Pride and that inveagled his judgement to a persistency upon the ticklish point of the Supreme Power He was learned and instructed now to keep State and for the Government his Council would take care from whom in his name came first out a Proclamation continuing all Officers and Justices of the Peace in the life of his dear Father of most renowned and blessed Memory as the stile run whose Funerals were under consultation to be made and
which the Rump were now unarmed to dispute his Commission from them as Commissioner for governing the Army being then also expired and the publication of a Petition subscribed by Barebone's and others to abjure the King as afterwards with the Mayor and Court of Aldermen at Guild hall who used their endeavours with him in the business he marched out of the City with his Army to their Quarters and on Saturday sent another Letter to the Parliament wherein he laid open the dangerous designes countenanced by themselves in conniving at Lambert particularly the business of Barebone's Petition setting forth that there had been Oaths too many already and as before in the afternoon he Rendezvoused in Finsbury-fields and from thence marched into London where he and his Army were joyfully entertained declaring himself for the City and a free Parliament Towards evening the City rung every where with the news of it with such Acclamations and shone with so many Bonfires where they burnt and roasted all manner of Rumps in detestation of the Juncto then sitting that it seemed a Theatre of mad extasied people nor is it possible any expressions of it should reach the sense and belief of Posterity Money being thrown among the Souldiers as if now there would be no more occasion for it but that the Golden Age swiftly approached The Speaker at his return from the House being in danger of his life Innumerable the Ballads and Ribaldry made of this Rump The General continued in London and disarmed most of those Phanatick persons who had been listed by the Committee of Safety and notwithstanding the Order of the Rump yet kept their Arms. The aforesaid Conferences were yet held and the General assisted at the debates between some of the Members sitting and those that were excluded in 1648 in order to some composure having promised to stand by the City in the attainment of such a settlement as should secure the Nation These conferences coming to no Issue and the Rump having at last finished their Qualifications so rigid and unreasonable that no good or fair meaning appeared in them as he modestly and fairly told them He came with his Army into Westminster and parts adjacent and having that morning convened the aforesaid secluded Members at White-hall went with them to the House of Commons and see them safely sit in Parliament who presently vacated many Orders made by the aforesaid Remnant in 1648 in reference to the Death of the King and their own forcible seclusion as also all Votes lately made by them touching new Members to be elected to sit and serve in Parliament also all Orders referring to Sir George Booth's business and all Imprisonments and Sequestrations thereupon Next they constituted the General Captain and Commander in chief of all the Forces of England Scotland and Ireland discharged all Prisoners upon the account of a Free Parliament and suspended the Power of the Council of State till they had erected a new one of which the General was made one They likewise ordered the Gates and Portcullises of the City of London to be repaired and set up at the publick charge more especially care was taken by them for securing the Militia into honest and faithful hands both in London and the respective Counties The dispatch of the aforesaid Assessment was also recommended to the Commissioners and a great advance of money lent by the City for the present occasions their promptness now overmatching the Force before Sir Charles Coot declares for a Free-Parliament by the re-admission of the secluded Members and thereupon possessed himself of Dublin-castle having first of all surprized Galloway from Colonel Sadler in this manner He invited him and his Officers all Anabaptists to his house over the water to be merry which doing Sir Charles pretended a desire of drinking a glass of Wine in Galloway privately with Sadler so they two secretly took Boat with each a servant and being on the other shore Sir Charles said Colonel Sadler I am resolved for a Free-Parliament and to have this Garrison you have a Sword about you draw and fight or else engage your honour will make no disturbance in the Town upon our admission and my Declaration to which Sadler amazed and troubled answered He would acquiesce Whereupon he caused the Gate to be opened and Sir Charles having declared himself the Souldiers cried out A Coot a Coot and a Free-Parliament Whereupon nevertheless he secured and kept him prisoner as he did Sir Hardr. Waller at Dublin aforesaid and immediately all Ireland declared themselves satisfied in this most happy Change offering their lives and fortunes in the maintenance and defence of the Parliament to be now assembled Some Phanatick Troops of Rich's Horse rendezvoused at Bury in Suffolk where they began to mutiny but Colonel Ingoldsby and Captain Philip Howard Captain of the Life-guard being sent against them they presently were quieted and received their old Colonel Ingoldsby for their Commander whereupon a Proclamation issued for the better regulating the Army and keeping it in obedience requiring all Officers and Souldiers immediately to depart to their several Quarters and not remove without the Generals order or license in that behalf This made the Army sensible of that duty the Parliament expected from them whereupon they one Regiment after another presented their Addresses to the General owning and congratulating his happy management of the Affairs of the Kingdome Nor indeed was ever any man so deservedly courted but especially the City shewed themselves most affectionate admirers of those great Services he had done his Country most of the Twelve Companies having invited him successively to their Halls where he was feasted with all sumptuous Magnificence love or charge could show and afford The Parliament had no less resentments of his glorious undertakings for besides the Generalate they setled upon him the Stewardship of the Mannor of Hampton-court to preserve not Usurp and possess that Royal Mansion Several Prisoners of the Phanatique-Party nothing being charged against them were freed by the General who was now also constituted one of the Generals at Sea and Col. Montague now Earl of Sandwich the other The Scotch Lords who were taken Prisoners at Worcester and had been long secured in Windsor-Castle were now by order of Parliament released that Nation under Major General Morgan quietly awaiting the issue of the Affairs in England The Presbyterian-party were now very busie to have their Profession Established by Act of Parliament and therefore a Confession of Faith was tendred to the House which having been seven times read was passed and ordered to be Printed and likewise the Solemn League and Covenant was also ordered to be reprinted and read in all Churches once in every year and to be set up in the Parliament-house but it soon after found a different entertainment The Parliament resolved during their Session which should continue no longer than the end of March to proceed only
and departed Then Garter Principal King-at-Arms Proclaimed the King thrice with his Title in Latine French and English and at every time at the end cried Largess and the people shouted God save the King then the Lord Mayor Sir Richard Brown presented a Golden Cup and Cover full of Wine which the King drank off and gave it the Lord Mayor for his Fee By that time the third course was carrying in the King called for Water which the Earl of Pembrook assisted by another Earl brought in a Basin and Ewer and the King having washed withdrew to his Barge but before his departure it fell a Thundering Lightning and Raining as if it imitated the noise and fire of the Cannon which played from the Tower and it was observed that they kept time in this loud Musick so that they were distinctly to be heard the Thunder intermitting as if it staid to receive and answer the reciprocated and ecchoed Boation and clashes of the Guns And in all ancient Augury such signes were taken for the most auspicious however the mad remnant of the Rebellion would have it parallell'd to Saul's inauguration never considering the season nor the different occasion and case between the most ancient Kingly Right and descent in Christendom and that a new Title and Government in Iewry which had before the most special presence of God among them All the Kingdom over great rejoycing was made by Feasting and other Shows as Training the several Bands of the Countries with the additional Voluntary Gentry in a new and gallant Cavalry which shewed the resurrection of their former Loyalty in its immutable state of Peace But to proceed to the disclosing the whole lustre of this our present and most delightful Subject omitting the same Triumphs in Scotland and Ireland in the express resemblances of this Magnificence several Honours being conferred both by the Lord-Commissioner his Grace and the Lords-Justices on that Solemnity we will take a full view of all our personal Dignities at home We proceed then to those Magnificences of the King which are in him Honorante not in Honorato After the miserably vulgarly multitude of those evil Counsellors we had been oppress'd with for so many years who had raised themselves to the mysteries of Government by their publick scandals thereof in its former administration following the impious politicks of Absalom we saw an Assembly of Princes met in his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council whose superlative and eminent endowments assisted by their conspicuous Grandeur restored the form of the Brittish Empire such as Pallas gloried to be in the midst of her Heavenly descent such their Noble Extractions and their excellencies in all prudent menage of the Publick accomplished to Her own AUTHENTICAL INSTITUTION of true policy such Pilots whose happy and skilfull hand could guide the tossed Bark of the Kingdom in the darkest Night and the most frightful Tempests when there was neither Sun Moon nor Stars no face of Authority nor Rule no Directions nor Chart to follow in the unexampled case of our late Distractions and without any other Compass than their Piety to God Duty to their Prince and love to their Country by which they confidently steered through all those Shelves Rocks and Sands which imminently threatned its Shipwrack and Destruction Their sacred Names for perpetual Memory and to the Eternal Fame of this their blessed Conduct understanding that by his Majesties call to this sublime eminent dignity their precedent Services were signated and notified to the World as most Religiously and gratefully is due are here transmitted among the rest of his Majesties felicities to inquisitive Posterity The Names of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council HIs Royal Highness the Duke of York Earl of Clarendon Lord Chancellor of England Earl of Southampton Lord Treasurer Lord Roberts Lord Privy Seal Duke of Albemarle Earl of Lindsey Lord High-Chamberlaiâ— of England Duke of Ormond Lord Steward of his Majesties Houshould Marquess of Dorchester Earl of Northumberland Earl of Leicester Earl of Berkshire Earl of Portland Earl of Norwich Earl of St. Albans Earl of Sandwich Earl of Anglesey Earl of Carlisle Viscount Say and Seal Lord Wentworth Lord Seymor Chancellour of the Dutchy of Lancaster Lord Hollis Lord Cornwallis Lord Cooper Earl of Lauderdale Lord Berkly Sir George Carteret Sir Charles Compton Secretary Nicholas Secretary Morice To which have been since added Christopher Lord Hatton Rupert Duke of Cumberland the Duke of Buckingham Earl of Middleton a Scotch Lord the Kings Commissioner there From these Glories of the Crown we are next invited to as Illustrious those of Chivalry a medium betwixt War and Peace that there might be nothing that his Majesties Fortunes could not comprehend The most Honourable Order of the Garter Famous for its Martial and Civil Atchievements had been drag'd in the Dirt and trampled under Foot of Plebeian Anarchy and Usurpation when the innocent charm of its Motto Hâ—ni soit qui mal y pense Evil be to him that Evil thinks which had preserved it so many Ages found not veneration nor respect being ridled by that Monster of Rebellion to be a badge and significator of its certain though long-look'd-for Vltion and Avengement in its own dire Retorts and self-punishing Revolutions It is not nor ever will be forgotten how they abased this Royal Ensigne the highest Order of Knighthood in the World when it was derided by the most abject and meanest degree of the People when its True Blue was stained with the Blot of Faintise and imbecility of courage till another Saint George arose to be its Champion Assertor and Restorer of its Renown and Glory Some of these most Honourable Knights survived his Majesties Restitution some he made abroad others he decreed so and they were so de jure having had the Order sent them but the Investiture wanting The rest of these Noble Companions were allied to the Restoration all of them are ranked in the manner as they sate at Windsor April 16. 1662 being St. George his day where after the usual Magnificent Procession His Majesty renewed the usual Solemnities and Grandeurs thereof Himself being there in Person The Fellows and Companions of the most Noble Order of St. GEORGE commonly called the GARTER as they were the 23 of April in the Thirteenth year of King Charles the Second 1661. CHarles the Second King of Great Britain France and Ireland Soveraign of the Order Iames Duke of York the Kings only Brother Charles Lodowick Prince Elector Palatine Frederick William Marquess and Elector of Brandenburgh Rupert Count Palatine of the Rhine and Duke of Cumberland Edward Count Palatine of the Rhine William of Nassau Prince of Orange Barnard Duke of Espernon Charles Prince of Tarante William Cecil Earl of Salisbury Thomas Howard Earl of Berk-shire Algernon Piercy Earl of Northumberland Iames Butler Duke of Ormond George Villiers Duke of Buckingham Thomas Wriothesley Earl of Southampton William Cavendish Marquess of Newcastle George Digby Earl of Bristol
of Peterborough designed for that Command should arrive And for the Queens own Transportation the Royal Charles which brought the King from Holland was sent with this Fleet. In the mean while the Queen of Bohemia the King's Aunt died February 13. aged 66 years having been out of England 49 years and survived all the misfortunes of her Family which almost from the time of her Marriage in 1612. on St. Valentines day on the eve of which she now died had fallen very thick and chiefly and solely upon it She now came to her rest among her Royal Ancestors and Relations whose Glories and Honours she left more flourishing and greater than ever Her Decease was followed with a most violent and Tempestuous Winde February the 18th by which several persons were killed and much damage done in all parts of the three Kingdoms and in Forrain Countries which might give notice that all those Troubles and Calamities this Princess had suffered and by which most parts of Europe were Tempested were quite blown over and she gone to her last Repose A very unfortunate accident happened the same Month The Lord Buckhurst but now mentioned his Brother Mr. Edward Sackvile Sir Henry Bellasis Knight of the Bath Son and Heir to the Lord Bellasis Mr. Bellasis Brother to the Lord Faulconbridge and Mr. Wentworth Son to Sir George accompanying an acquaintance out of Town upon their Return being informed there were High-way men and Thieves in the Road meeting a Tanner and suspecting him for one of them after some resistance made by him killed him for this mischance they were Arraigned at the Kings Bench Bar but by the Iury quitted it not being probable that Persons of their Estates and Quality would set upon a single Person to do him injury but it might happen meerly by a mistake and good intent of freeing the Road. The Parliament had under their consideration the bringing of Lambert and Vane to their Tryal being excepted out of the Act of Oblivion as main Authors and Contrivers of those Troubles in the Rebellion and therefore desired His Majesty that he would be pleased to send for them from their remote Prisons they were in that they might be brought to Tryal that such bold Treasons might not pass with impunity On the other hand that they might testifie their acknowledgments to the Duke of Albemarle of his great merit and services in the Redemption of his Country they by Act now resolved to settle some Mannors and Lands upon him and confirmed the Kings Grants and Patents or what should afterwards by Grants or Patents be conferred on him The Duke of Ormond was likewise presented with the sum of Thirty thousand pounds in Bills of Exchange as a gratuity from the Parliament of Ireland in respect of the Services he had done that Kingdome in the same capacity before where also the Bill of settlement of Lands was the sole Affair in Debate the difficulty about Claims of the English and Irish intricating and perplexing the Bill so that the Dukes presence was very much desired as by whose prudence understanding and competent knowledge together with his equal relation to both Parties that tedious Work could only be accommodated which brings with it the conclusion of the year 1661 the 14 th year of the King Anno Domini 1662. THE beginning of this and the end of the last year was remarkable with a very notable Providence which for the more compact account of it is totally referred hither It hapned that among other the Fugitives for the parricidial Conspiracy in the Death of the King Miles Corbet Colonel Okey and Col. Barkstead which had traversed most parts of Low and some of High Germany where they had for a while resided at the City of Hanow under borrowed names about the beginning of March were returned to Delf in Holland having appointed their Wives to meet them there to understand their Affairs in England but these their Letters being intercepted and opened by the vigilance of Sir George Downing His Majesties Resident at the Hagâ—e they were all three taken together at Barkstead's and Okey's Lodging just as Corbet after Supper was going home by the Thief-takers and the Marshal of that Town Okey offered a resolute Escape Barkstead denyed himself and desired he might fetch his Cloak in the next Room Corbet as he said having taken Physick that day fell a Purging upwards and downwards in a very strange manner Sir George himself was present at the seizure and had them that Night secured in the common and ordinary Prison and thence conveyed them by the States order on Board the Blackmore Frigot then accidentally at Helveâ—t-Sluce having only brought over Mr. Armorer sent from the King to the Lords upon special occasions About the end of March they came to Gravesend where Sir Iohn Robinson Lieutenant of the Tower by Warrant from his Majesty with a Guard carried them to the Tower whence on the 16th of April they were brought to the Kings Bench Bar and there demanded what they could say for themselves why they should not die according to Law the Act of Attainder being read to them To which they alledged they were not the same persons mentioned therein whereupon Witnesses being ready were called and a Jury impannelled who gave verdict that they were the same persons and so the Lord Chief Justice Foster proceeded to Sentence which was the same with the former complices and sufferers for that Fact and was Executed on Saturday April the 19 at Tyburn where they with better ends than any of the rest acknowledged their resolved acquiescence under the Kings Government as of God and exhorted others to do so especially Colonel Okey a person that for his valour and other good qualities was pitied by all men for his being so blinded and ensnared in this Crime to his destruction They all pretended no malice to his late Majesty and their mistake of the Parliaments Authority for good and sufficient They were all three Hanged Bowelled and Quartered but his Majesty was graciously pleased out of regard to Colonel Okey's Christian and dutiful carriage to return his Quarters to his Friends to be interred which was done in the Chappel of the Tower by the Rites appointed in the Common-Prayer to prevent the unruly concourse of the Fanaticks who assembled in multitudes to accompany his Corps insomuch that the Sheriffs were forced to disperse them Barkstead's and Corbet's quarters were set upon the Gates the Head of the former upon a Pole on Traytors Gate in the Tower and Corbet's on London-Bridge For this kindeness and civility of the Dutch States the King ordered his Resident to thank them in his Name from which parts several of the Fanaticks that fled thither upon the Kings Restitution about this time travelled into Germany an invitation being published from one of the Princes there for all Nations to come and inhabit with full priviledges and immunities certain waste places of his
how diffusive the Kings Royal care was for the good of his Subjects as well far distant as neer home Mr. Warren employ'd for that purpose had now for the benefit of the English Trade in Africa made a Peace with Sancta Cruze Sophia and Morocco In the last of which Places when the Emperour heard that the English Agent was come to make a Peace with him he ordered a Guard of 500 Horse to Conduct him to his Court which attended the Agent above Fourscore Miles And all this while the Mediterranean Sea were secured by a strong Squadron of Ships under the Command of Sir Ieremy Smith Sir Christopher Mimms missing of the Dutch at home sail'd away for the Coast of Sweden where coming to an Anchor at the Mouth of the Elve with a Charge of Merchants under his Convoy General Wrangle made it his business to travel 30 miles to give him a visit Aboard his Ship whom the English Admiral entertain'd according to his Dignity The Parliament in Scotland Issued out a Proclamation Commanding all Ministers who had entred before the Year 49 and since the Restitution of the Church-Government by Archbishops and Bishops had Relinquish'd their Ministery or had been Deposed by their Ordinary to remove themselves within Forty days after their Relinquishment or Deposal out of the Parishes where they were Incumbents and not to Reside within Twenty miles of the same nor within six Miles of Edenburgh or any Cathedral nor within Three Miles of any Burgh Royal nor to Inhabit Two in one Parish upon Penalty of Incurring the Laws made against movers of Sedition This Proclamation was occasion'd by the Insolent Carriage of one Alexander Smith a Depos'd Minister who being taken at a Conventicle was conven'd before the High Commission-Court but gave such reviling Language against the Archbishop of St. Andrews who sate there as President that the Lord Commissioner ordered him to be put in Irons Twenty four hours in the Theives Hole In Ireland the Parliament being likewise Sate fell upon the Examination of certain of their Members who were said to have been in the Plot in the Year 1663. Robert Shapcott Alexander Staples and five others were call'd to the Bar and for that Reason were Expell'd the House and made incapable of ever sitting in any Parliament of that Kingdom Forein Affairs 1665. The King of Poland having made a fruitless and very unsuccessful expedition against the Muscovites the event thereof was That being deserted by his Tartars and Cossacks for fear of being surrounded by the Muscovites who having intelligence of his condition had gathered their Forces together with the same intention he was forc'd to make his retreat through a vast Desert of twenty Leagues over wherein meeting with neither Forrage nor other conveniencies his whole Cavalry was utterly ruin'd and all his Nobility and Gentry highly discontented to see themselves in that manner lost without a stroke dispersed themselves and left him This Calamity which they say broke his Heart was follow'd by the revolt of Lubomirsky a great Souldier and of high repute in that Country whose dignities and Estate the King had Confiscated as not conformable to his Government Lubomirsky takes Arms gathers together a very formidable Body and though now grown considerable both in his own Forces and the affections of the Polish Nobility tenders his service to the King offers to make use of his power against the Common Enemy the Muscovite on condition he might be restored to his Territories and Charges But the King giving no heed to his Proposals raises and Army marches against him and being come now within four miles of Lubomirskie with an intention to give him Battle he assembled his Nobility and Gentry and in a long Oration endeavour'd to encourage them to behave themselves resolutely against the Enemie of their Country and Rebel to himself But they gave him for answer That they acknowledged it was their duty to hazard their Lives against any publick Enemy whatsoever but to fight against their fellow-Subject and Citizen whom they could not finde to have committed any crime worthy so high a punishment as was inflicted on him they could not adventure at all This Answer so disturb'd the King that he withdrew himself and posted directly for Warsaw destitute of Counsel or Assistants and was at length forc'd to the Restauration of Lubomirskie to avoid the hazard of greater Inconveniencies This year a great Quarrel broke forth among the Princes of the Empire as the Electors of Mentz Triers Collen and others But as those difference were long a brewing so it was not an easie work to compose them though the Emperour was very diligent in his Mediation He had no reason to desire War who was in daily expectance of the arrival of his Contracted Empress the Infanta of Spain of whose hastening into Germany he had received certain intelligence from her Father In February he sent his power into Spain to the Duke de Medina de las Torres for the Marrying of her but she arrived not at Vienna this year But returning to feats of War we finde the Duke of Beaufort encountring in the Mediterranean-Sea with a Squadron of Argier Men of War five in number but two of them ran themselves aground the other three he caus'd three of his Captains to set upon who did so well acquit themselves that the Admiral of the Pyrates carrying 600 Men and 50 pieces of Cannon lost in the dispute above half her men the rest threw themselves into the Sea and set fire on the ship Nor did the other two carrying 400 Men and 30 Guns apiece run a better fortune being both sunk and burnt Nor did it serve their turns that they had withdrawn themselves within Carabine-shot of the very Forts belonging to Tunis This was an honourable undertaking and as successfully performed However the Victory which the Portugueses obtain'd against the Spaniard made a greater noise in the World which most not be forgotten as obtain'd by the Valour of the English At first the Spaniards Charg'd the Portuguez and French Horse so home that they beat them into the Rear but the English coming to charge recovered all the ground which the other had lost and kept it which so encourage'd the rest that they came on again afresh and then the English charging again with the same success as before caus'd the Enemy to quit the Field Major Trelawney charged the Prince of Parma at the head of his own Battalia kill'd most of his men and brought off his Standard He had his Horse â—lain under him but was remounted by his Lieutenant The General of the Horse was taken five thousand Prisoners all their Baggage and seven pieces of Cannon together with 3000 Mules But in the Imperial Court there was no small distraction by reason of the death of Duke Sigismunâ—â— the Emperour's Brother whom some supposed to have been taken away by Poison though others
affirm'd that he died by a heat taken in Hunting however the Emperour was very diligent to take all convenient orders for the prevention of any disquiet that might arise by reason of his death The Cessation made the last year between the Emperour and the great Turk began now to look with a favourable aspect toward a general conclusion of Peace The Emperour's Embassador Count Lesley having had a very honourable Reception from the Grand Visier at Constantinople And the Turkish Chiaux having been no less sumptuously attended by the Emperour's Commissioners appointed to conduct him to Vienna whither the Presents which he brought from the Grand Seignior were not a little sumptuous among the rest a Tent for Workmanship of Embroidery and Jewels valued at 200000 Rix-dollars In September the Peace betwixt the two Great Emperours was wholly concluded with that satisfaction to the Turk that Count Lesley the Emperour's Embassador acknowledged himself to have been Treated with that Civility and Magnificence that never any Imperial Embassador had received the like before It was thought this year would have put an end to the differences between the Duke of Savoy and the Commonwealth of Genoua But instead of Composure the Breach grew wider for the Duke of Savoy demanded the restitution of certain Villages which he claim'd as belonging to his Ancestors which the Genoueses in possession were loath to part with He also claim'd the right of Passage to carry Salt through the State of Genoua into Piedmont together with a priviledge of being nam'd first in all Articles of Treaty Better success had the Quarrel between the Electors of Mentz and Collen which with much difficulty this year was brought to a final conclusion upon Conditions That the City of Erford and the Villages thereto belonging should continue Hereditary to the Elector of Mentz the Duke of Saxony renouncing all pretences to them That Saxony should keep possession of seven Lordships which the Elector of Mentz laid claim to That Religion should remain unmolested according to the Auspurgh Confession And that the two Electors should enter into a League Offensive and Defensive The Portugueses heightned with their late Victories and still back'd with the English Succours Invade Galicia where they Sack'd 24 Towns and Villages at length coming before La Guarda the English leading the Van were commanded to enter the Town which they gain'd with small loss but in Storming the Fort they found a smarter resistance though that also was in a short time compell'd to yield but with the unhappy fall of Captain Charles Langley Lieutenant Senhouse and Ensigne Berry In Germany the Duke of Brandenburg makes new Levies of Horse and Foot and now with his Arms in his Hands he demands a Restitution of the Tolls at Genuep and a regulation of Quarterings and Musters through his Country which though Beverning was sent to excuse yet it could not be forgot The Dutch did not care to have too many Enemies which made the Brandenburgher think it seasonable to raise his Market the price of his Alliance being nineteen Tun of Gold At length all the Conferences of his Ministers and the Dutch ended in this That there should be a speedy meeting appointed to consult for the common Peace and Safety of that Circle of the Empire the Elector Declaring that he could not conclude any thing in relation to the present War without the consent of the rest of his Allies This year the Queen-Mother of France Anne of Austria Sister to Philip the 4 th departed this Life before her expiration making use of her last Breath to recommend to her Son The easing of his People to preserve Vnity between himself and his Brother and in all things to imitate the Example of his Grandfather Henry the 4th In Italy there arose a Contest of no small consequence between the Venetian and the Pope For the Venetian claiming the Sovereignty of the Adriatick-Sea finding a Vessel belonging to the Pope there demanded the Custom due to that Republick which the Master denying they carried the Vessel to Venice The Pope demands Restitution but they make such a tedious Demur that it amounted to a denyal Hereupon the Pope makes an Embargo in Ancona and all his other Ports of the Venetian Ships They send to their Embassador at Rome to complain the Pope denies him Audience but by the Mediation of the Cardinal Patron the difference was Compos'd in regard of their War with the Turks against whom the Pope then reigning was a most Devout Enemy About this time the Iews were strangely Alarm'd with the News of a New Messiah The Impostor was a person bred and born in Smyrna who in a short space grew to such a Head that no one Jew durst open his Mouth against him he drew after him great Multitudes and was strangely ador'd by the chiefest of the Iews That which contributed to the Imposture was a Confederacy of Thirty others who pretending themselves to have the Gift of Prophesie in all their Publique Ejaculations pointed out him for the Messiah Whether it were he or another but in Eden a great City in the Kingdom of Elal in Arabia Felix there was at the same time a Iew by the Name of Giorobaon who by his dextrous Oratory reduc'd all the Citizens for the most part Iews to his Obedience killing the Bassa and forcing the Garrison to submit to him In a little time his Numbers increas'd he calling himself their Prophet so that in a short time he drew after him all the Arabians of the Mountain Cabuburra thence passing through Arabia Pâ—trea he Possess'd himself of Medina and Mecca writing from those parts to all the Iews of Idumea and Syria to prepare for his Reception Nor were these two alone for at the same time one Sabadai not so Warlike but more Prophetical did strangely entoxicate the brains of his Brethren with an Assurance of the Arrival of their Expected Messiah and was so vain as to go to Constantinople to demand the Land of Promise from the Grand Signior One thing must not be omitted since we are among the Iews and the Turks That the Secretary to the Turkish Embassador sent to Conclude the Peace at Vienna after the business was over took an occasion whether out of Design or Devotion is for others to conjecture to absent himself with several Papers of Importance from his Masters Service and turn Christian. Yet notwithstanding the Turkish Peace the Emperour was not a little disturb'd by the Revolt of Palaffi Imbre who with a great number of ill-disciplin'd Vagabonds did very much infest Hungaria solliciting the Bassa of Ersa to his Assistance but through the great diligence of the Palatine of Hungaria he prevail'd little or nothing this Year more than in spoyling and Robbing the Country He was soon defeated and taken his Person was Committed to Prison where he remain'd till the Nuptials of the Empress at which time he
men of Saâ—y since the Truce made with him to be restor'd to their Liberty But the further issue of this Embassie is to be expected in the following Year And for this delay the Emperour excus'd himself for not engaging so great a person in a Country where he had not power to protect him Returning home we meet with no small loss in the Decease of the Duke of Albemarle after a long indisposition of Health in the sixty second year of his Age. His Garter being brought to the King was by his immediate command carried back to the Earl of Turrington then by his Father's death Duke of Albemarle with a further declaration that he should immediately also succeed in the place of Gentleman of his Bed-chamber and Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Devon and farther the King was pleas'd to send him word that as the last mark of Gratitude to the memory of the Deceased he would himself take care for the Funeral which not long after was perform'd with great Solemnity at the King 's particular charge Nor did the Dutchess his Wife stay long behinde him dying toward the latter end of the Moneth but was more privately buried in the Chappel of Henry the seventh The Republick of Venice had â—ent a very honourable Embassie into England in requital of which the Lord Falconbridge by the King's order departed in the same employment to the Venetian State being commanded in his way to visit some other Princes and States of Italy Nor must we omit the kindness of the Grand Duke of Tuscany who besides his civil entertainment of the Earl of Northumbâ—rland in acknowledgement of the courteous entertainment which he had received in England built and gave to the King of England two very stout Gallies for a guard of the Coast about Tangier being of great importance to the service of his Majesty The Parliament according to the term appointed in their last Prorogation was now assembled to whom the King as he was wont to do made a short Speech which was enlarged upon by another from the Lord-â—eeper The King therein recommended three things more especially to them the one was Unity among themselves the Union of England and Scotland and the Supply of his present and urgent Necessities As to the differences among themselves they were as soon as sate buried in oblivion and all matter of prejudice threatned thereby as suddenly vanish'd For they were no sooner sate but according to his Majesty's Recommendation both Houses came to a full agreement in the matter in debate between 'um greatly to the encouragement of all that regarded the good of the Nation as by the effect of their unanimous consultations soon after appeared Forein Affairs 1669. The Treaty at Aix la Chapelle one would have thought should have brought a general repose to Europe but jealousies of State had interrupted the quiet that should have attended upon it The King of France's new demands of appendencies to his Conquests in Flanders startled the Spaniards whereby Contributions were exacted by the French from places under the Spanish Jurisdiction as they took it for granted Nor did the States of Holland care at all for their Neighbourhood This made the Constable of Castile then Governour of the Spanish Netherlands in the place of Castel-Rodrigro send his Complaints to the French King who appointed Commissioners to sit at Lille for the composure of all these differences These Complaints the King of France eludes by renouncing his pretensions in one place and claiming in another quitting Charleroy and claiming Ipre quitting Conde and claiming Oudenard in which contests the Commissioners at Lille having spent many Moneths in vain were at length forc'd to break off without doing any thing On the other side Pompone the French Embassador endeavours all that might be to assure the States of Holland of the great inclinations of the King his Master to entertain all Friendship and good Correspondency with them telling them that he doubted not but the cares which he had for the glory of Christendom would in time sufficiently convince 'um of the vanity of those fears which some did endeavour to sow amongst ' um Nevertheless the States prepar'd for the security of their Frontiers and gave particular order to fortifie several Towns of Overyssel and upon the Borders of Westphalia In this juncture of time came news that the King of France had laid double Impositions upon the Manufactures of Holland in recompence of which kindness the Dutch lay an Imposition upon French Wine and Brandy proceeding at length to do the same upon all French Wares and forbid absolutely the Importation of Brandy and all other Distill'd Waters into Holland and upon this fuel those silent Animosities fed which afterwards brake out into greater Flames But between the States and Portugal there began to be a better understanding a new League being made betwixt them with condition that Cochin and Conomer in the East-Indies should remain to the Dutch and that four Millions of Money due to the States should be paid according to the Agreement made between them The Venetians in Candy had held out a long while against the main force of the Turk being assisted by many Princes of Europe especially the French first under the Command of Beaufort but with ill success he being slain in a Salley after him under the Conduct of the Duke of Navailles who after many Salleys and attempts finding little good to be done with what Souldiers he had left deserts the Garrison and returns for France though not without some disgrace to his person for the King of France hearing of his being landed commanded him to retire to his own possessions forbidding him to see his Face The Venetian seeing no hopes of keeping the Town any longer surrender'd it upon Articles and at length concluded a Peace inviolable for the advantage of Trade and mutual quiet of both Subjects King Casimire of Poland having resign'd and being now retired into France after many debates and much contention one Wisnowiskie a Native and one of the chief Nobility was the Elected King being Crown'd in September and soon after Married to Eleanor Sister to the Emperour of Germany This Year Clement the ninth of the House of Rospigliosi died at Rome having promoted six new Cardinals a little before his death A great Stickler against the Turks his Gallies under the Command of his Kinsman Don Vincenzo Rospigliosi being very serviceable to the Venetian After his Decease Cardinal Rospigliosi by vertue of a Brief acted as Pope till the new Election His death was followed by the death of the King of Denmark to whom succeeded his Son Christian the fifth The King of France at length signifies his willingness to refer the differences between himself and the Crown of Spain to the Arbitration of the Kings of England and Sweden But all this hinder'd not the conclusion of the Triple Alliance which was in the latter end of March in all points
which was to have met in October next was upon weighty considerations adjourned till the fourth of February following But in Scotland the Parliament had sate till this very time and had made several Act for the publick good of the Nation among the rest one that gave toward the defraying the King's Expences 864000 l. Sterling About this time also the Duke returning to London from the Fleet put an end to all further expectations of any considerable actions at Sea this year But to return to the French Camp Marshal Turenne upon the approach of the Imperialists and Brandenburghers sends to the Electors and Princes of the Empire to let them know in the King of France's Name That it was not the King's intention to meddle with any thing that belonged to the Empire and that if any of his Troops had entred into it it was the inevitable consequences of the War against the United Provinces and therefore understanding that several Forces were upon their march toward his Conquests to disturb his Possession and to give occasion of jealousie to his Allies he was therefore obliged to pass his Army over the Rhine And as for the Duke of Brandenburgh that the King had frequently requested him not to meddle with a War in which he had no concern And therefore if things went further they were desir'd to take notice that it was once in their power to have preserved the peace of the Empire and their own The Elector of Cologne and Bishop of Munster openly declared at the Dyet against the March of the Imperialists but the rest being for the most part Deputies could make no Reply without larger Commissions But the Duke of Hanover absolutely shew'd his dislike of their March by denying them passage through his Territories But now Sir Edw. Sprague gives us occasion to return to Sea again who being left with a Squadron to keep the Seas went to the Northwards where he spoil'd the Dutch Fishing-trade taking a Buss several Doggers and 350 Prisoners By Land Fortune might have been more kinde to a young General such as was the Prince of Orange in his first attempts but she favour'd him not at all For whereas he thought to have done great things he had still the worst in all his chiefest designes first at Woerden which he thought to have retaken from the French but being encounter'd by the Duke of Luxemburgh was forc'd to retreat with the loss of above 1500 of his men the second time at Charleroy which he had surrounded with the assistance of Count Marciâ— in order to lay a formal Siege to the place but being assail'd from without by the Sieur Montal and by the Garrison from within he was forc'd to raise his Siege and march off having lost neer 700 of his Souldiers the last in his attacque upon Swart-sluce where his designe again failing above 1600 of the Dutch came short home As for any thing else this year there was little considerable done either by the Prince Turenne or Bournonvile who was now General of the Imperialists in the place of Montecuculi Onely a kinde of Chess-play among the great Commanders and moving of the Armies from place to place as the Commanders saw most for their advantage yet for all that Turenne got ground and advanced as far as Hoxter Returning home we finde some changes of great Officers The Lord-Keeper Bridgeman desirous through Age to resigne his place the Earl of Shaftsbury was in his room made Lord-Chancellor of England and not long after the Commissioners of the Treasury laid aside and Thomas Lord Clifford Controuler made Lord High Treasurer And now the time coming on for opening the Exchequer again the King by another Declaration signified that the same inevitable Necessities still continuing which urg'd him to make the first stop did now compel him to make a second till the first of May ensuing In Holland the Duke of Luxenburgh General for the King of France taking advantage of the Frost with a great body of men advances almost as far as Leyden forces the Dutch from the strong Posts of Bodegrave Newerbrug and Swammerdam and takes them which put the Cities of Leyden and Amsterdam into such a Consternation that the Dutch to defend themselves were forc'd to cut their Dikes and put the Country under Water which caus'd such an Inundation that all the course Goods in Cellars and Ware-houses were utterly spoil'd being forcâ—d to bring all their Cattle into New Town and to kill great numbers of them meerly for want of Fodder for them But among all these disasters the retaking of Coverden did not a little revive them which they took with little loss the Bishop of Munster having drawn out a considerable part of the Garrison a little before upon some other designe Toward the beginning of December the Duke of Richmond Extraordinary Embassador from the King of England to the Court of Denmark departed this life He had been at Elsenore to dispatch the English Fleet there in a season of much Snow and very excessive Cold whence going aboard the Yarmouth-Frigat toward the Evening he return'd to shore in the ships Pinnace but in his passage was so pierc'd with the extremity of the sharp Air that before he came to the Shore he was insensible of what he did and in that condition being carried to his Calesche expired therein in his passage to Elsenore Upon his death the vacant honour of Knight of the Garter was supplied by the Earl of Southampton who was immediately Elected by the Soveraign and Companions of the Order It was no time to act but to provide for War and therefore the King in order to his preparations for the next Spring for the encouragement of his Seamen puts forth a Proclamation promising to every Seaman that would voluntarily List themselves in a Second Rate a free Largess to the value of six Weeks pay and to every one that would voluntarily List themselves in a Third Rate a free Largess to the value of one Moneths pay And further that their Pay should begin from the very first day of their Listing themselves Toward the latter end of the Year the Parliament the time of Prorogation being expired met again and being summoned to attend the King in the House of Lords the Chancellor by the King's Command acquainted them that by the advancement of Sir Edward Turner to be Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer the place of Speaker of the House was void and being thereupon directed to choose a new one they returned to the House and elected Sir Iob Charleton In the Afternoon of the same day the King met them again in the Lords House where after he had approved their choice he declared to them the success and charge of the War and his resolutions to carry it on with their assistance for the honour of the Nation which particulars were more largely insisted upon by the Lord Chancellor The
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After this followed the surrender of Treves to the Imperialists upon Articles of which one was That Crequy who had escaped thither from his Rout should be a Prisoner of War In September the Duke of Lorrain departed this life at Hermansteine neer Coblentz Farther off the King of Poland removed a very great Storm that threatned his Dominions by a very great overthrow of the Tartars wherein a great number of them were slain with the loss of their chief Standard which struck such a terrour into the Turks that with their Captain Ishmael Bassa they made a shameful Retreat out of the Polish Territories But the Low Countries had a worse Enemy to deal with for the Sea breaking into North-Holland the Inundation continued with that violence that many of the Cities of North-Holland had a great share of that Calamity The Harlemeer-Dyke was broken and all the Country round about lay under Water so that many of the Boors Houses were drown'd being covered with the Sea The same Fate befel South-Holland and it is said that had the Inundation continu'd 24 hours longer the whole Country would have run a hazard of being lost And thus you have an account in brief of all the most memorable Transactions since the greatest act of Providence that has been observed for many Ages The happy Restauration of his Majesty And we may aver that here is nothing but Truth if all the publick Intelligence of so many years have not fail'd This is then a Story in dead Colours it behoves them that will lay it in the lively Painting to take more pains than may be thought has here been taken and have greater helps than it was possible for us to have to make use of And therefore if there be any that with the Knowledge of a Privy-Councellor and the Eloquence of a Salust will undertake to cull out the most important Actions which are here reduc'd into order ready to his hand for some of these he must take or be silent and compile them into a judicious History we are ready to vail Bonnet in the mean time these few Sheets may pass for Common Satisfaction FINIS AN ALPHABETICAL TABLE A ABingdon-Garrison Page 70 Aberdeen and St. Andrews yielded 302 Abjuration of the King by the Rump 436 Account of the Dutch War from 315 c. to 323. Their Intrigues with forrein Princes and at home 323. of the Revenue and Charge of the Kingdom under the Vsurpation of Oliver 415 Act against proclaiming of the King 225. For Assessment 235. For sale of Cavaliers Estates ibid. Executed 303. For Marriages 351. For Irish Adventurers and Allotments 352. Several confirmed 500. Against Bishops repealed 501. Pretended of annulling the Title of the King 383 Accidents 315 Addresses how begun 67. To Cromwel upon the dissolution of the Parliament 343. To Richard 410. To the Rump from forrain Princes 423. To the Rump by the Army 422. to the King from the Nobility and Gentry of the whole Kingdom 452 Adjutators 127 forbid Adventurers for Ireland 352 Aix la Chappelle Treaty there 570 Alarm in London 403 Albans Earl 455 made Lord-Chamberlain 580 Allen Sir Thomas Lord Mayor of London 428 Allen Captain sent for the Streights 528. Allen Sir Thomas makes peace with Algiers 569. Lies before Algier 575. Algier Men of War destroyed by the English 578. Returns ibid. Albemarle's stay in London 539. General at Sea 550. One of the Commissioners of the Treasury 563. Dies 575. His Dutchess dies ibid Anabaptism the uppermost Religion 431 Andrews proclaims the Abolishing of Kingly Government and made Lord Mayor 231 Andrews Colonel beheaded 270 Anniversary Act of the King's Nativity 456 Anthony Sir Ashley-Cooper 427 Approbation of Ministers 359 Arches Triumphal 475 to 479 Ards Lord 240 Arguments for Cromwel's accepting the Kingship 386 to 390 Argyle a Privy Councellor sides with the Assembly 8. Policy and shifts 304. Marquiss seized 470. Beheaded 497 Arlington Earl sent into Holland 586. made Lord Chamberlain 599. Sent into France ibid. Armagh Arch-bishop dies 380 Armstrong Sir Thomas joyns with the Marquiss of Ormond 240 Army English very gallant and resolute 10. Parliament Army raised 36. New moduled 67. Quarrel with the Parliament about Irish Transportation and publickly declare their power over them 132. Purging the House ib. Pretend civilities to the King 132 to 136. Designe upon the City and claim the Militia 136. Declaration and insolence 140. Triumphantly through London 141. Delude the King Their Proposals 145 to 147. Suppress a Rising in London 170. Quarter in London Whitehal and the Mews 192. And force the Parliament ibid. Shipt for Ireland at Milford-Haven 237. English advance into Scotland 268. Face the Scots 272. Remonstrance to Richard 416. Their address to the Rump 422. Their representation to the Rump 428. New moulded by Lambert 429. Declaration upon outing the Rump ibid. Their Address joyfully receiving the King's Declaration 466. Disbanded 456 Array Commission 27 Articles of Scotch Cessation 15 Arundel Earl made General of the English 9 Arundel Castle taken by Sir William Waller 56 Ascham slain in Spain 236 Ashley Sir Bernard at Naseby 79. Mortally Wounded at Bristol 84 Ashley Sir Jacob defeated at Stow in the Wold 96. Deserts Newcastle 13 Ashby de la Zouch 97 Ashburnham Mr. John 99 Ashbâ—â—nham Mr. William 148 Aske Iudge 254 Assembly General indicted and meet by their own Authority packt and made up oâ— Lay-Elders refuse the Bishops to sit buâ— cite them to answer as Guilty dissolved within 7 days but continue nevertheless 8. Assembly of Divines 69. General in Scotland 325 Ashton Colonel Edward Quartered 404 Aston Sir Arthur Governour slain at Drogheda 244 Aubigny Lord 41. His Lady 47 Aurange Prince the Kings great Friend 235 dies and a new Prince born 276. Christned 282. Old Prince buried 284. His Interest in Holland 323 Avignon Sedition there 533. Peace composed 570 Axtel Guards the High Court of Iustice 205 Ayscue Sir George at Barbadoes 306. Returns to Plymouth 322. At Dover ibid. In danger Engageth De Ruyter at Plymouth and discharged 323. Prisoner 551 B Badajox Marquiss killed 383 Balmerino Lord his Treason 4 Baggot Kath. Ballishanon 241 242 251 Banbury 108 Barnstable 99 106 Barbadoes reduced 306. Wonder 526. Attempted by De Ruyter 537. Lord Willoughby wounded there 537. Sails from thence with a Fleet 557. Lost in a Hurricane ibid. The Bridge-town burnt there 568. Barbadoes Conspiracy 602. A Hurricane there 602 Barâ—bone denominates a Parliament 350. His Petition 437 Barons created 482 Baronets Catalogue 493 to 496 Bastwick Burton Pryn return from Banishment in great state 16 Bastwick Dr. of Physick Burton a Minister against Bishops c. 2 Basing-house Besieged by Waller in vain 62 Taken 91 BATTLES Edge-hill 40. Newberry first 50.51 Newberry second 65.66 Marston-moor 59. Tepper-moor Alderne Kilsith Philipshaugh in Scotland 73. Naseby 78 to 80. Lamport 82. Routon-heath 89. Colonel Jones defeated near Dublin 164. Defeats Lord Preston with a huge slaughter soon after at
Oxford relieve Banbury The Siege raised Col. Myn sâ—ain iâ— Glocestershâ—re and the Royalists worsted by Masâ—ey Who bestowed an honoâ—rable burial on the saiâ— Câ—lonâ—l Princâ— Rupert at the Severn where hapnâ—d daily Skirâ—â—â—hes He is worsted by Massey Monmouth bâ—â—â—aâ—â—d to Massey by Lieutenant-Coâ— Kirle Col Holtby Goverâ—our thereof escapes Massey active and vigilant Newberry second fight Octob. 27. Manchester's forces over-powered the Kings but are repâ—lied by Sir Bernard Astley The Duke of Yorks Regiment led by Sir Wil. St Leger and Pr. Maurices Brigade repulsed Essex his Horse too hard for the Kings over-powred Sir Humphry Bennet and Major Leg but are repulsed by the Lord Bernard Stuart Goring and Cleaveland worsted Earle of Cleaveland taken Prisoner and the Kings person in danger Earl of Manchester ingaged with Lord Ashley and Sir George Lisle they are worsted but relieved by Sir John Brown The King marcheth to Wallingford and so to Oxford Slain of note on the Kings side Sir William St. Leger Essex had the Field Col. Boys secured the Kings Artillery The King relieves Dennington-castle The Parliament suspect the Earl of Essex Manchester and Cromwel disser The Parliament resolve to new model their Army They Order that no Member shall bear command in either Military or Civil affairs The Ordinance for the new modeling the Army Decemb. 31. Sir Thomas Fairfax made General The stots advance Southward The first Address contrived by Oliver Cromwel The Scots tâ—â—â— Newcastle Plunder it Soâ—â—m thanks at London for their success Sir Alexander Carew beheaâ—ed fâ—â— endâ—avouring to betray Plymouth-Fort to the King Sir John Hotham and his son executed Jan. 1 2. for endeavouring to betray Hull and holding correspondence with the Marquess of Newcastle Hugh Peters accompanieth them at their deaths The Kings observations of them in his Meâ—itations The Assembly of Divines consult about Church-Government The Covenaâ—t prest to be universally takâ—â— The Commâ—n-Prayer abolished Sir David Hawkins a zealous stickler for the Parliament Archbishop of Canterbury bâ—headâ—d Vide Speechâ—s Buried at Alhallows Barking London Sir Henry Gage Câ—l for the King shot neer Abingdon Uxbridge Trâ—aty Jan. 3. Commissioners for the King at the Treaty at Uxbridge Commissioners for the Parliament Scotch Commissioners The main things to be treated of were Religon Militia and Ireland The King refuseth to alter Religion by Bishops but would admit of some amendments in the Liturgie He is willing some Garrisons should be in the Parliaments hands pro tempore but will not abrogate the Cessation in Ireland Mr. Love a strange Incendiary The Treaty ended in vain The Lord Macguire and Col. Mac Mahon hanged drawn and quartered Shrewsbury taken by Major-General Mitton for the Parliament He hath the thanks of the House The Parliament takes Scarborough and Weymouth they raise Plymouth Siege Ponfract castle relieved by Sir Marmaduke Langdale he routs the Parl. Forces under Col. Rossiter Essex Manchester and Denbigh resigne their Commissions A notable success at the Devises under Sir Jacob Ashley A Faction at Oxford the Lords Savil Percy and Andover confined The Parliament Adjourned The Parliament's new Generals Commission The Actions of the Renowned Marquess of Montross He arrives in the Highlands of Scotland He fights the Covenanters and obtains a great Victory at Tepper-Moor Hâ— makes great spoils in Argyles Country Who with the E. of Seaforth maâ—ch against him with two several Armies He routs Argyle defeats Col. Hurry at Brechin afterwards at Alderne and obtains a remarkable Victory at Alesford hills Lord Gourdons death Marquess of Montross affrights the Parliament at St. Johnstons His famous Victory at Kilsith David Lesley routed The Nâ—bility Gentry assist him The King orders Montross to disband Colonel Massey defeated at Lidbury by Prince Rupert He is forced to flye and narrowly escapes Sir Thomas Fairfax takes command of the Army Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice raise Horse in Worcester-shire Cromwel sent to intercept the Kings Forces routs them The Queens Standard taken He summons Blechington house the Governour Col. Windebank delivers it And was therefore shot to death Cromwel takes Sir William Vaughan at Radcot bridge Goring gives Cromwel his first brush The new modeled Army march to Blandford in Dorset-shire take Lieutenant-Col Hacket The King leaving Oxford takes the field Fairfax recalled from the West but leaves part of his Army there Oxford besieged the second time A cruel custome at Abingdon Borstal house besieged Gaunt house surrendred Chester distressed Relieved by the King Goring Hopton and Greenvile joyn and besiege Taunton Leicester Stormed and taken by Prince Rupert May 21. He takes Sir Robert Pye the Town is plundered The Parliament almost driven to despair The King and Royalists too confident of Success Sir Thomas Fairfax ordered to give the King-Battel York-shire a long time harrased by the Scots The unresolved which way to bend his Forces The Parliament order Fairfax to put their differences to the decision of a Battel They march to Marsh-Gibeon Major-General Brown Garisons Gaunt house The King at Daventry and Northampton Cromwel sent for by the Parliament to command their Horse The Kings Foot and Carriages quartered upon Burrough-hill The Parliaments Army at Gilsborough The Kings Army march to Pomfret Ireton with a strong party of Horse sent to fall upon his Flank The Kings Head-quarters at Naseby Alarm'd by Ireton he goes to Harborough and unhappily resolves to fight Naseby fight The Parliament forces Rendezvouz neer Naseby they discover the Kings Horse neer Harborough The King misinformed Cromwel commands the right Wing of the Parl. horse Ireton the left The Gen. and Skippon the main battel of Foot Whaley routs Langdale who commanded part of the Kings left Wing Prince Rupert routs the Parliaments left Wing Ireton taken Prisoner and the fortune of the day changing is released The Kings Foot over-powered by the Parliaments Horse His Cavalry in great distress Okey's Dragoons do notable Execution on the Kings Horse The Calamities of this day The Parliament take many of the Kings Officers and his Standard â— with his Cabinet of Letters which they unworthily publish The advantage equal to both parties The Lord Bard. did excellent service for the King Fiennes sâ—nt to London with the Prisoners The Parliaments Forces pursut the Kings The King at Ashby de la zouch He goes into Wales Sir Marmaduke Langdale flies to Newark Taunton distrest by the Lord Goring Leicester retaken Lord Hastings Governour thereof The Kings Souldiers march out with Staves in their hands The Parliaments Army march towards Marlborough The Club men rise They Petition the King and Parliament Taunton freed Iuly 7. And Goring after his defeating the besieged departed His Army quartered at Long-Sutton they march to Langport Massey resolutely attempis their Rear but with loss Langport fight General Fairfax routs the Lord Goring Langport fired General Fairfax at Bridgewater Sir Richard Greenvile and Sir John Berkley joyn with the Lord Goring Bridgewater taken July 23. by the Parliament The Parliaments forlorn