battail of Edge hill was fought an reg 17. After many battels at Newbery Marston Moore Naseby and other places the King was quite worsted and enforced to fly to the Scots an reg 22. The King being sold to the English by the Scots was brought from the Isle of Wight and being tryed by a High Court of Iustice was beheaded before the gates of Whitehal an reg 23. XXV Oliver Cromwel Protector AFter the death of King Charles Oliver Cromwel having made himself famous by many great atchievements was chosen to be Generalissimo of the Common-wealth of England in the place of the Lord Fairfax and advancing into Ireland he took Drogheda by storm and pursuing his victories he became absolute master of that Nation anno 1649. and 1650. The great battail at Dunbar was fought where the Scots were totally overthrown two and twenty great guns taken and arms for fifteen thousand men an 1651. The arms of the Crown of England and statues of King Charles were put down by order of Parliament 1651. Mr. Love the Minister and Mr. Gibbons were beheaded both on Tower hill 1651. The great battail at Worcester where the young King of Scotland was overthrown an 1652. Many great battails at sea betwixt English and Hollanders 1652. and 1953. The Lord General Cromwel was declared and sworn Lord Protector of the Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland 1654. The Hollanders obtained peace of the English 1654. A BRIEF ABSTRACT OF All the wonders and remarkable passages since William the Conquerour till the Raign of King Charles Written for the benefit of posterity To the Reader REader I have taken pains to abstract out of the Chronicle all the remarkable wonders and passages of concernment from William the Conqueror to the raign of King Charles I hope thou art not so ignorant but that thou wilt find it and grant it useful for us and our posterity hereafter Vale. Wonders and remarkable passages William Conquerour An. Reg. 3 An. Dom. 1069 A Gelricus Bishop of Durham being accused of treason was imprisoned at Westminster An. Reg. 4 Such a dearth was in England that men did eat horses cats dogs and mans flesh An. Dom. 1070 An. Reg. 5 King William bereaved all the Monasteries and Abbies of England of their gold and silver sparing neither Challice nor Shrine An. Dom. 1075 An. Reg. 10 Walter Bishop of Durham bought of King William the Earldome of Northumberland wherein he used such cruelty that the inhabitants slew him An. Dom. 1076 An. Reg. 11 The earth was hard frozen from the middest of November to the midd'st of April An. Dom. 1077 An. reg 12 Upon Palm Sunday about noon appeared a blazing Star neer unto the Sun An. Dom. 1078 An. reg 13 This year King William builded the Tower of London An. Dom. 1079 An. reg 14 Thurstone Abbot of Glassenbury in his Church caused three monks to be slain and eighteen men to be wounded that their blood ran down from the Altar to the steps An. Reg. 15 This year was a great wind on Christmas day a great Earthquake and roaring out of the earth the sixth of April An. reg 20 There was a great floud so Pauls Church burnt that hills were made soft and consumed and with their fall overwhelmed many villages to the great amazement of all An. reg 21 In a province of Wales called Rose was found the Sepulchre of Gawen upon the sea shore who was sisters son of Arthur the Great king of Brittain being in length fourteen foot King William being at Roan in Normandy went with a great Army into France spoyling all things as he passed last of all he burned the city of Meaux with our Lady Church and two Anchorits that were inclosed there the king cheared his men to feed the fire and came himself so neer that with the heat of his harness he got a disease also the Kings horse leaping over a ditch did burst the inner parts of the King with the pain whereof he was sore afflicted and returned to Roan where shortly after he ended his life the ninth day of September in the year of our Lord 1087. when he had raigned 20. years eight months and sixteen dayes I would have the Reader understand that I set down nothing but things that are remarkable in this kings dayes nor in any kings dayes else and that is the reason that the date of years do not follow in order for I skip a great part of needless things because I would not be too tedious nor abuse thy patience too much William Rufus An. Reg. 4 Agreat tempest fell on St. Lukes day especially in Winchcomb where a great part of the Steeple was overthrown and in London the wind overturned 606. houses and the roof of Bow Church in Cheap-side wherewith some persons were slain An. Reg. 6 This year was a great famine and so great a mortality that the quick were scant able to burie the dead An. Reg. 11 All the land that sometimes belonged to Earl Goodwin by breaking in of the sea was covered with sands and is yet to this day called Goodwin sands An. Reg. 13 In the summer blood sprang out of the earth at Finchamsted in Barkshire King William on the morrow after Lammas day hunting in the new Forrest sir William Tirrel shooting at a dear at unawares hit the King in the brest that he fell down dead and never spake word his men and especially that Knight hid themselves but some came back again and laid his body upon a colliers cart which one poor lean beast did draw to the City of Winchester where he was buried he reigned twelve years eleven months lacking eight daies Henry Beauclark Henry the first An. Reg. 2 VVInchester and Glocester burnt An. Reg. 5 There appeared about the sun four circles and a blazing star An. Reg. 13 This year was a great mortality of men and murren of beasts An. Reg. 15 The City of Worcester was burnt the tenth of October the River Medway by no small number of miles dâ—d so fail of water that in the midst of the Channel the smallest vessels and boates could not pass the self same day the Thames did suffer the like want of water for between the Tower of London and the Bridge not onely with horses but also a great number of men and children did wade over on foot An. Dom. 1115 Chichester was burnt many storms and a blazing starr An. Dom. 1116 In March was exceeding lightning and in December thunder and hail and the moon at both times seemed to be turned into blood An. Dom. 1119 An. Reg. 20 King Henry having tamed the French men and pacified Normandy returned into England in which voyage William Duke of Normandy and Richard his son and Mary his daughter Richard Earl of Chester and his wife with many noble men and to the number of 160. persons were drowned An. Reg. 23 The City of Glocester burnt An. Reg. 32 The City of Rochester sore defaced
Suffolk The second of May Ione Butcher was burned in Smithfield for heresie she held that Christ took no flesh of the Virgin Mary Richarâ— Lion Godard Gorran and Richard Ireland were executed the fourteenth of May for attempting a new rebellion in Kent In the moneth of May a miller at Battle-bridge was set in the pillory in cheap-side and had both his ears cut off for speaking some words against the Duke of Sommerset On Saint Valentines day at Feversham in Kent one Arden a gentleman was murdered by consent of his wife for the which fact she was on the fourteenth of March burnt at Canterbury Michael Master Ardens man was hanged in chains at Feversham and a maiden burnt Mosby and his Sister were hanged in Smithfield at London Green which had fled came again certain years after and was hanged in chains in the high-way over against Feversham and Black-VVill the Ruffin that was hired to do the act was burnt in Zealand at Flushing The twenty fourth of April a Dutch-man was burnt in Smithfield for an Arrian The twenty fifth of May an earthquake about Croydon and those parts did put the people in great fear An. Dom. 1552 The twenty sixth oâ— February Sir Richard Vine and Sir Martin Patridge were hanged on tower-hill Sir Martin Stanhope with Sir Thomas Arundel were beheaded there the last of April a house near to the tower of London with three barrels of powder was blown up the Gunpowder-makers being fifteen in number were all slain The third of August at Middleton eleven miles from Oxford a woman brought forth a child which had two perfect bodies from the navel upwards and were so joyned together at the navel that when they were laid out at length the one head and body was West and the other East the legs of both the bodies were joyned together in the midst they lived eighteen daies and they were women children The eighth of August were taken at Queenborough three great fishes called Dolphins and the week following at Black-wall was six more taken and brought to London The seventh of October were three great fishes called Whirl-pools taken at Gravesend The eighth of October was three more great fishes called Whirlpools taken at Gravesend and drawn up to the Kings Bridge at VVestminster King Edward being at the age of sixteen years ended his life at Greenwich on the sixth of Iuly when he had reigned six years five moneths and odd daies and was buried at VVestminster The tenth of Iuly was proâ—lamation made of the death of King Edward and how he had ordained that the Lady Iane Daughter to Frances Dutchess of Suffolk which Lady Iane was married to the Lord Gilford Dudley fourth son to the Duke of Northumberland should be Heir to the Crown of England The eleventh of Iuly Gilbert Pott draweâ— to Ninion Sanders Vintner dwâ—lling â—â— the sign of Sâ—int Iohn-Baptâ—st-head within Ludgate was set on the pillory in Cheap wiâ—h boâ—h his ears nailed to the Pillory and cut off for words speaking at the time of Proclamation of the Lady Iane. Lady Mary eldest daughter to King Henry the eight fled to Frammington Castle in Suffolk where the people of the countrey almost wholly resorted unto her In Oxford Sir Iohn Williams in Buckinghamshire Sir Edmond Peckham and in divers other places many men of worship offering themselves as guides to the common people gathered great powers and with all speed made towards Suffolk where the Lady Mary was Also the thirteenth of Iuly by the appointment of the Councel the Duke of Northumberland the Earl of Huntington the Lord Grey of Wilton and divers others with a great number of men of Armes set forward to fetch the Lady Mary by force and were on their way as far as Burie The ninteenth of Iuly the Counsel assembled themselves at Baynards Castle where they communed with the Earl of Pembrook and immediately with the Lord Mayor of London certain Aldermen of London and the Sheriffs Garter King of Arms and a Trumpet went into Cheap where they proclaimed Lady Mary daughter to King Henry the eight Queen of England France and Ireland The twentieth of Iuly Iohn Earl of Northumberland being at Saint Edmonsbury and having sure knowledge that the Lady Mary was at London proclaimed Queen of England returned back again to Cambridge and about five of the clock in the Evening he came to the market-place and caused the Lady Mary to be likewise proclaimed Queen of England but shortly after he was arrested and brought to the Tower of London the twenty fifth of Iuly under the conduct of Henry Earl of Arundel thus was the matter ended without any bloodshed which men feared would have brought the death of thousands Queen Mary An. Reg. 1 MAry the eldest daughter to King Henry the eight began her reign the sixth of Iuly in the year 1553. She came to London and was received with great joy and entred the Tower the third of August where Thomas Duke of Norfolk Doctor Gardner late Bishop of Winchester and Edward Courtney son and heir to Henry Marquess of Exeter prisoners in the Tower discharged the fifth of August Edmond Bonner late Bishop of London prisoner in the Marshal Seas and Cutbert Tunstal Bishop of Durham prisoners in the Kings Bench were restored to their Seas shortly after all the Bishops which had been deprived in the time of King Edward the sixth were restored to their Bishopricks again also all beneficed men that were married or would not forsake their opinions were put out of their livings and others set in the same The eleventh of August certain gentlemen minding to pass through London Bridge in a Wherrie were there overturned and six of them drowned The thirteenth of August master Bourn a Canon of Pauls preached at Pauls Cross so offended some of his audience that they breaking silence cryed out pull him down and one threw a dagger at him whereupon master Bradford and Master Rogers two preachers in King Edwards dayes with much labour conveyed the said master Bourn out of the audience into Pauls School The twenty second of August Iohn Duke of Northumberland Sir Iohu Gaites and Sir Thomas Palmer Knights were beheaded on tower hill The Queen was crowned at VVestminster the first of October by Doctor Gardiner Bishop of Winchester The twenty fâ—fâ—h of October the Baâ—ge of Gravesend was overturned and forty persons drowned In the beginning of the moneth of Ianuary the Emperour sent a nobleman called Egmont and certain other Embassadours into England to conclude a marriage between King Phillip his son and Queen Mary The twenty fifth of Ianuary Sir George Gage Chamberlain certified the Lord Major of London that Sir Thomas VViat with cettain other Rebels were up in Kent whereupon great watch was kept and that night the Lord Major himself rode about the City to look to the same and every night after two Aldermen did the like in the day time the gates of the City were guarded by substantial Citizens The
and quartered as being actors with the Earl of Essex March the fifteenth a new Scaffold was carried from Leaden Hall in the night to the Tower hill and there set up by torch light The eighteenth of March Sir Charles Danvers and Sir Christopher Blunt Knights were upon the new scaffold beheaded Two men were set on the Pillory in Fleetstreet whipped with gaggs in their mouths and their ears cut off for attempting to have robbed a Gentlewoman in Fetter lane in the day time putting gaggs into the mouths of the servants of the house because they should not cry out one of these thieves was afterward hanged and quartered at Saint Thomas Watrings August the twenty sixth Desmond and an other Knight brought out of Ireland were sent to the Tower of London In November the Lady Mary Ramsey widow to Sir Thomas Ramsey sometime Mayor of London was buried in the Parish Church or Hospital of Christ-church by Newgate-market a charitable dole or armes was given for her on the same day in the afternoon at the Leaden Hall seventeen poor people being weak and aged were there among the sturdy beggars crushed and troden to death Lightning and Thunder often before Christmas and in the holydayes and an Earthquake at London on Christmas Eve at noon In the month of Ianuary news came out of Ireland that on Christmas day that the Spaniards and Irish were overcome and slain in great numbers and the English were victors The eighteenth of Ianuary at night Bonfiers were made with ringing of Bells for joy of the news out of Ireland the victory of our men against Tyrone Windsor Boate was cast away against Black Friers stairs by a tempest April the nineteenth Peter Bullock Stationer and one named Ducket for printing of books offensive against the Queen and State were hanged at Tyburn April the twentieth Stichborne William Kenson and Iames Page Seminary Priests were drawn to Tyburn and there hanged and quartered The last of Iune Atkenson a customer of Hull was set on the Pillory in Cheap and with him three other who had been brought thither on horseback with their faces towards the horse tail and papers on their heads they were there whipped on the Pillory and lost their ears by judgement of the Star-Chamber for slanderous words by them spoken against the Counsel The same day in the afternoon fell great lightning and thunder with hail-stones in many places of nine inches compass which in Sandwich in Kent lay a foot deep on the ground broke the glass windows of their Churches and many tiles off their houses some barnes were fired with lightning February the seventeenth William Anderson alias Richardson a Seminary Priest was drawn to Tyburn and there hanged and quartered for being found in England contrary to the Statute In the month of March the Q lying at Richmond dangeros sick strait watches were set in London with warding of the Gates Lanthornes with lights all the night hanged out of Windowes at which newes the people were sore perplexed Thursday the twenty fourth of March about two of the Clock in the morning deceased Queen Elizabeth at her Mannor of Richmond in Surrey being aged seventy yeers and had Reigned four and forty yeers five moneths and odd dayes whose Corps was privily convaied to White Hall and there remained till the twenty eight of Aprill and then buried at Westminster The same day aforesaid the Nobility and Councell of State with as great peace prudence and providence as the heart of man could imagine assembled themselves together and far beyond the general imagination of all men being a matter of remarkable conscernment took speedy order aswell for the instant manifesting the Queens death as in publishing to the whole Realme for their lasting comfort the true and lawfull Successour and about eleven of the clock the same Thursday in the forenoone which according to the computation of the Church of England is the last day of the yeer 1602. being accompanyed with the Lord Major Aldermen and Sheriffes of London and many other of most Reverend and Honourable quality at the Cross in Cheape Proclaimed Iames the Sixth of that name King Scotland to be the right King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the faith being lineally descended from Margaret the eldest daughter to King Henry the Seventh by Elizabeth his wife which was the eldest daughter of King Edward the fourth the said Margaret was married to King Iames the fourth of that name King of Scotland in the yeer of our Redemption 1503. who had Issue Iames the fifth Who was father to Mary Queen of Scotland and the said Mary was mother to Iames the Sixth Monarch of the Island of great Brittany and King of France and Ireland This forenamed Proclamation was most distinctly and audibly read by Sir Robert Cecill Principall Secretary unto Queen Elizabeth also the Lords and Privie Counsellors of Estate with great diligence send speedily Condinge Messengers to his Majesty into Scotland who manifested their whole proceeding with tender of their zealous love and duty and the peoples universall joy and great desire to see their King which his Majesty most graciously accepted approved all their proceedings and returned them all Princely thanks Authorizing the Lords and others late Privie Counsellours of Estate to the Queene to persist as they had begun until He came personally unto them This Change was very Plausable and well pleasing unto the Nobility and Gentry and generally to all the Commons of the Realm among whom the name of a king was to strange that few could Remember or had seen a King before except they were aged persons considering that the Government of the Realme had continued neer the space of fifty yeeres under the Reigne of two Queens which is the far greater part of an old mans age but tidings hereof being brought to the king in Scotland he called a Coâ—nsell to him and taking order for setling all things in his Realme of Scotland began his voyage towards England King Iames. An. Reg. 1 PResently upon the death of Queene Elizabeth of Famous memory the Nobility of this land and Pâ—ivie Councellors of estate unto the said Queen accknowledged Iames the sixth then King of Scotland for their lawfull king and within six houres after her death the said Lords and Counsellors gave full satisfaction unto the people by three proclamations the first at the Court Gate the second at the Cross in Cheapside and the third at the Tower by the name of Iames the First King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith the King being then full thirty six yeers of age and Crouned King of Scots in his infancie began his Raign over the Isle of Great Brittany the 24. of March 1602. The Nobility and State aforesaid with â—ll speed sent Charles Piercy and Master Thomas Sommerset with Letters unto the King signifiying the death of the Queene and the tender of their duties love and alegianâ—e but Sir Robert Carie rid
crowned at Westminster on the seventh day of Iuly After this were taken for Traytors against the king Robert Ruff Serjeant of London VVilliam Davie Pardoner Iohn Smith Groom of king Edwards stirrop and Stephen Ireland Wardroper in the Tower with many more who were charged that they had sent Letters into Brittain to the Earl of Richmond and of Pembrook and also that they were minded to steal our of the Tower Prince Edward and his brother for the which they were drawn from VVestminster to the Tower of London and there upon the hill they were all four beheaded A grudge began between king Richard and the Duke of Buckingham insomuch that the Duke conspired with some Noble men against him intending to bring into the land Henry Earl of Richmond as heir to the Crown for which conspiracy the Duke of Buckingham was beheaded at Salisbury The thirteenth of December was a great fire in Leaden-hall in London where was burnt a number of houses and all the stocks for gunnes other provision belonging to the city King Richard borrowed great sums of mony of the City but being cut off before the time of payment came the City lost it Collingborn Esquire was drawn from Westminster to the tower of London and there upon the hill was headed and quartered An. Reg. 3 An. Dom. 1415 Sir Roger Clifford Knight and one Fortescue were drawne through London and at Saint Martin le grand Sir Roger would have broke from the Sheriffs and taken Sanctuary but the Sheriffs took him again and had him to tower hill where he was beheaded and Fortescue had his pardon Henry Earl of Richmond Iasper Earl of Pembroke his Uncle the Earl of Oxford and many other Knights and Esquires with a small company of Frenchmen landed at Milford Haven on the sixth of August whose coming when it was heard of in VVales divers Noble men with great companies met him and then marching against king Richard at a village called Bosworth near to Leicester he met with his enemies the 22 of August where between them was fought a very sharp battel in conâ—lusion whereof King Richard with divers others were slain and King Henry obtained a Noble victory and immediately the L. Stanley crowned him King in the field with the crown which was taken off King Richards head Richard was buried at the Grey-Friers Church at Leicester when he had held the crown two years two moneths Henry Earl of Richmond An. Reg. 1 HEnry the seventh born in Pembroke Castle began his reign the 22 of August in the year 1485. he was a Prince of marvellous wisdom policy justice temperance and gravity and notwithstanding many great troubles and war he kept his Realm in right good order for the which he was greatly honoured of Forraign Princes On the 22 of August was a great fire in Bredstreet in the which fire was burnt the Parson of Saint Mildreds and one man more of the Parsonage there The sweating sickness began the 21 of September and continued to the end of October of the which sickness a number of people died The 30 of October King Henry was crowned at Westminster he ordained a number of chosen Archers to give daily attendance on his person whom he named Yeomen of the Guard King Henry borrowed certain sums of money of the City which was repayed the nexr year after Wheat was sold for 3 shillings the bushel and Bay-salt at the like price The Cross in Cheap-side was new builded The King married Elizabeth the eldest daughter of Edward the 4th by the which means the two Houses York and Lancaster were united An. Reg. 6 Roger Shavelock a Taylor within Ludgate slew himself and forasmuch as he was a man of great wealth there was a great contest between the Kings Almoner and the Sheriffs of London An. Dom. 1493 A riot made upon the Eastelings or Stilliard-men by Mercers men and others of the City of London for the which many of them were sore punished An. Dom. 1494 An. Reg. 10 Wheat was sold at London for six pence the bushel Bay-salt at three pence half penny Nantwitch salt for six pence the bushel white herrings at six shillings the barrel red at three shillings the Cade red sprats six pence the Cade and Gascoin wine at six pound the Tun. Sir VVilliam Stanley was behe aded on Tower-hill An. Dom. 1495 Perkin Warbeck arrived in Kent where when he and his company saw they could have no comfort of the country they withdrew again to their ships but the Mayor of Sandwich with certain men of the country fought with the residue that were left behind and took 169 persons who were hanged in Kent Essex Sussex and Norfolk An. Dom. 1497 By meanes of a subsidy that was granted to the King a commotion was made by the Commons of Cornwall whiâ—h under the leading of Iames Lord Audley with Michael a Blacksmith and others came to Black-heath where the King met them overthrew them and took their Captains there was slain of the Rebels three hundred and taken fifteen hundred The Lord Audley was beheaded on Tower-hill the Blacksmith and Flamock were hanged and quartered at Tyburn The King sent an Army into Scotland under the Earl of Surrey and the Lord Nevil which made sharp war upon the Scots In Bedfordshire at the town of Saint Needs fell hailstones eighteen inches about Perkin Warebeck landed in Cornwall went to Bodmin where being accompanied with three or four thousand men he proclaimed himself King Richard the fourth second son of Edward the fourth from thence he went to Exeter and besieged it which City was valiantly defended by the inhabitants but many of the Rebels were slain and theâ— withdrew themselves to Taunton from thence Perkin fled to Bewdley where he took sanctuary and was afterward taken and pardoned his life An. Reg. 14 A Shoemakers son was hanged at Saint Thomas Watrings for naming himself to be Edward Earl of Warwick who was then kept close prisoner in the Tower An. Dom. 1499 Perkin Warbeck and Iohn-a-water were executed at Tyburn Edward Plantagenet Earl of Warwick son to George Duke of Clarence was beheaded at Tower-hill Shortly after Bluet and Astwood were hanged at Tyburn An. Reg. 19 The 21 of November at night a perillous fire began upon London-bridge near to Saint Magnus Church whereof six tenements were burnt The 7 of February certain houses more consumed with fire against Saint Buttolphs Church in Thames-street An. Reg. 21 The prisoners of the Marshalsey broke out and many of them being shortly after taken were put to execution especially those that had lain for Felony An. Dom. 1507 An. Reg. 23 About Christmas was a Bakers house burnt in Warwick-lane with the Mistress of the house and two women servants About this time the City of Norwich was much wasted with fire there was 160 houses consumed with most part of their goods King Henry died at Richmond the 22 of April when he had reigned 23 years and 8 moneths and
the country came down so fast upon them that the French men fled Some certain ships of the Kings Ships called Hedgehogs one of them had a mischance before Westminster a firkin Men burned of powder took fire and killed seven men and the eighth man was drowned The 20 of Iuly the King being at Another mischance Portsmouth the goodly ship called the Rose with Sir George Carrow the Captain and many other Gentlemen were drowned in the midst of the Haven The French were beaten off at the Isle of Wight and likewise in Sussex at a place called New-haven One William Foxley Potmaker for the Mint in the tower of London fell asleep the 27 of April who could not be wakened neither by kicking cramping or pinching till the first day of the next term whiâ—h was full fourteen daies and fifteen nights the cause of this his thus sleeping could not be known though the same were diligently enquired after by the Kings Physitians and men of learning yea the King himself examined him and he was in all points found as he had slept but one night and he was living till the year of our Lord 1587. The 16 of Iuly were burned in Smithfield for the Sacrament Anne Askew Iohn Lassels Nicholas Overden Priest Iohn Adlam taylor and Doctor Shaxton sometimes Bishop of Salisbury preached at the same fire and recanted perswading them to do the like but they would not The Admiral of France came to England where he was gallantly and honourably entertained the English in those daies kept them at a distance and forced them to submit The 12 of December Thomas Duke of Norfolk and Henry Earl of Surrey his son was sent to the tower Henry Howard Earl of Surrey was beheaded on the tower-hill the 19 of Ianuary The 28 of Ianuary King Henry deceased and left the Crown to his son Prince Edward Lady Mary his daughter by Katherine and the third Lady Elizabeth by Queen Anne of Bullen he deceased when he had reigned 37 years nine moneths and odd daies and was buried at VVindsor Edward the Sixth An. Reg. 1 EDward the sixth began his reign the 24 of Ianuary 1546. when he was but nine years old King Henry his Father had appointed by his Will for his Privy-Councel the Archbishop of Canterbury the Chancellour the Bishop of Durham with others to the number of sixteen The sixth of February the Earl of Hertford was elected to be Protector to the Kings person the sixth of February the Lord Protector in the Tower of London endued King Edward with the Order of Knighthood King Edward was crowned at Westminster the twentieth of February An. Dom. 1557 The fifteenth of May Doctor Smith recanted at Pauls-Cross The Lord Protector and the rest of the Councel sent Commissioners into all parts of the Realm willing them to take down all images out of their Churches for the avoiding of idolatry with them were sent divers preachers to perswade the people from their Beads and at that time procession was forbidden The Church-Service read in English to the people On Saint Peters day Stephen Gardner Bishop of Winchester preached before the King for the which he was sent to the Tower An. Reg. 2 An. Dom. 1548 The seventh of Iuly a Priest was hanged and quarter'd in Smith-field for killing one Mr. Body one of the Kings Commissioners other of his Fellows were put to death in other places A great pestilence in London The 16 of September Saint Anns Church within Aldersgate was burnt An. Reg. 3 The 16 of Ianuary Thomas Seimer Lord Admiral was sent to the Tower of London he was Brother to the Lord Protector on the 20 of March he was beheaded on the Tower-hill An. Dom. 1549 The 23 of April six houses at Broken-wharf were burned In May by reason of a Proclamation for Inclosures the Commons of Sommersetshire and Lincolnshire made a commotion and brake up certain Parks of Sir VVilliam Herberts and the Lord Sturtons but Sir VVilliam Herbert slew and executed many of those Rebels In Iuly the Commons of Essex and Kent Suffolk and Norfolk rose against Inclosures and pulled down many parks and houses Also the Commons of Cornwall and Devonshire desired not only the inclosures might be disparked but also to have their old Religion these besieged the City of Exeter which was valiantly defended Iohn Lord Russel with a number of Souldiers enter'd the City of Exeter slew and took prisoners more then four thousand and after hanged a number of them in the town and about the country the Lord Grey likewise with strangers horsemen slew many people and spoiled the country The last of Iuly VVilliam Lord Marquess of Northampton entered the City of Norwich and on the morrow the rebels also entered the town burnt part thereof put the Lord Marquess to flight and slew the Lord Sheffield Divers persons were executed as aiders of the aforesaid rebels of the which one was hanged within Algate and an other at the Bridg-foot towards Southwark The rebels in Norfolk and Suffolk incamped themselves at Mount Surrey near unto Norwich against whom Sir Iohn Dudley Earl of VVarwick went with an army where meeting with the rebels they had thought all to have died in the place but God brought it to pass as well there as in all other places they were partly by power constrained partly by promise of a pardon perswaded to submit themselves the Earl of VVarwick enter'd the City of Norwich the 27 of August when he had slain above five thousand rebels and taken their chief Captain Robert Kett of Windam tanner The twentieth of September Edmond Bonner Bishop of London was sent from Lambeth to the Marshalsey for a Sermon which he preached at Pauls-cross on the first of December on the first of October he was deprived of his Bishoprick and sent again to the Marshalsey for disobeyding the Kings order in Religion The twentieth of November Robert Kett and VVilliam Kett his brother were dâ—livered out of the tower of London to Sir Edward Windam Sheriff of Norwich where Robert Kett was hanged in chains on the top of Norwich castle and William Kett hanged on the top of Windam-steeple The nineteenth of Ianuary were murdered by St. Sepulchres Church without Newgate in London two Captains that had served the King at Boloigne and elswhere the one that was murdered was Sir Peter Gambo the other Filieirga which murders were committed by Charles Gavero a Flemming who came post from Barwick to do that act the next morning he with three of his companions were taken in Smith-field and carried to Newgate and the twenty fourth of Ianuary they were all 4 hanged in Smithfield Charles Gavero Balthazar Gavero Nicholas Dissalveron and Francis Devalasco The twenty seventh of Ianuary Humphrey Arundel Esquire Thomas Holmes VVinslowe and Bury captains of the rebels in Devonshire were hanged and quarter'd at Tyburn The tenth of February one Bell was hanged and quarter'd at Tyburn for moving a new rebellion in
Kingdom and not accusations against those who were then the principall Ministers of state dissolved the Parliament The contagion raging in London Michaelmas Terme was ordered to be kept at Redding and speciall Instructions were given to the Judges to put in execution the statutes against Recusants An. Dom. 1626 On the sixth of February the solemnity of his Coronation were celebrated And a Parliament was called again on the sixt of the same moneth where the King demanding a supply for monies and representing that on the yeer before the Fleet miscarried at Cuziz for wat of it Master Clement Cooke son to the Lord Cooke stood up and said it was better to dye by a forraign Enemie then to be destroyed at home at which most insolent words the King was much troubled and instead of satisfaction hearing of a Declaration that was then contriving by some busy heads he disolved that Parliament also This yeer the King of France seized An. Dom. 1527 on all the English ships which lay at Burdeaux and other places and then began an open war against England wherefore in the yeer following the Duke of Buckingham with ten of the Navy Royall and ninety Marchantmen set sayl from Portsmouth and landed at the Isle of Ree from whence in September following he was beaten off with the loss of 2000. common Souldiers and fifty Officers An. Dom. 1628 The Rochellers having sollicited the King of England whom they found to be powerfull at Sea for his assistance the King called another Parliament on the seventeenth of March where a bill being drawn up against Tunnage and Poundage which the King by no meanes would condescend unto the Parliament was adjourned the twentieth of Decemb. In the meantime the Duke of Buckingham being ready again to set sayl from Portsmoth was killed by Iohn Felton a discontented officer of the last yeers Army who for that offence was hanged up in chaines neer unto the place where the murder was committed The Duke being slain the Earl of Lindsey was chosen Admirall who found the Haven of Rochell so strongly barred that it was impossible for his Ships to force their way give relief unto the besieged who thereupon submitted to their King without delay In the yeer 1629. a peace was concluded betwixt England and the two Crownes of France and Spain The Parliament called on the yeer before was dissolved by the King who extreamly complained against the carriages of some men in the House of Commons who being examined by the Lord Treasurer were sent some of them to the Tower some to the Gatehouse and some to the Fleet. Charles Iames eldest son to the King was borne at Greenwitch May the thirteenth and dyed almost as soone as he was borne being first Christened by one of the Kings Chaplains An. Dom. 1630 Doctor Layton a Schotchman having wrote a Book inciting the people to kill all the Bishops had his nose slit his eares cropt and was stigmatized in the forehead Peter Paul Rubin the famous Painter having made overtures for a peace with Spain the said peace was afterwards proclaimed November the twenty seventh 1630. In which it was articled that the King of Spain should use all his power and interest with the Emperour for the restitution of the Palatinate to King of Bohemiah Charles Duke of Cornewall by birth was born at Saint Iame's May 19. 1630. An. Dom. 1621 On the twenty fifth of Aprill the Earl of Castle-haven being Arraignen at the Kings Bench Bar and found guilty of Rape and Sodomy was by his Peeres condemned and executed on the Tower Hill the fourteenth of May following On the 4. of Novem. the Queen was delivered of her eldest daughter who was baptized Mary An. Dom. 1632 The Church of Saint Pauls was this yeer begun to be repaired and on the second of December the King was visited with the small pox An. Dom. 1633 May the thirteenth the King went to Scotland attended with a gallant train and on the tenth of Iune he was crowned at Edenbrough and on the twentieth of Iuly returned safe to the Queen at Greenwitch This yeer the Arch Bishop of Canterbury Doctor Abbot died and Doctor Land then Bishop of London succeeded in his place On the thirteenth of October the Queen was delivered of her third son who was Baptized Iames and on the twenty fourth of the same moneth was Created Duke of York Orders were sent into Scotland for the observing of the Church Discipline as in England which was the the occasion of great tumults and the sad war that followed An. Dom. 1634 The Dutch this yeer began to incroach upon his Majesties Dominions by Sea which was defended by Grotius in his Book intituled Mare Liberum and answered by Master Selden in his book intituled Mare Clausum Writts being issued out to rayse money for a certain number of Ships to be set forth for the defence of the Nation which then was called Ship money some of the discontented members of the former Parliament were absolutely against it and it begat a great quarrell An. Dom. 1635 On the sixth of March 1635. William Iuxon Bishop of London was made Lord Treasurer On the eighth of Ianuary the Lady Elizabeth was borne who survived her father but dyed with hearts grief not long afterwards An. Dom. 1636 In September the Earl of Arundel was sent Ambassadour extraordinary to the Emperour This yeer 1636. Master Prin Doctor Bastwick and Master Burton in the moneth of Iune were sentenced in the high Commission Court and ordered to be banished c. Master Hamden refusing to pay Ship money sentence passed against him by twelve of the Judges who absolutely declared for the legality of it only Judge Hutton and Judge Crook dissented An. Dom. 1637 On the twenty third of Iune 1637. the Book of Common prayers being begun to be read in Scotland according to the Kings orders there began a great uprore all the Churches protesting absolutely against it whereupon by the Kings Command a Proclamation was published and severe penalties to be inflicted on the contemners of it but nothing would prevail whereupon the Marques of Hamilton was sent down to Scotland and a treaty there was but it took no effect for during the said treaty the Scots had provided all things necessary for war and not long afterward Episcopacy was there totally abollished This yeer on the seventeenth of March the Queen was delivered of a daughter who at the Font received the name of Ann. This yeer there were great contestations in Scotland two Petitions were presented against the Common prayer book Proclamations were made at Edinborough and severall places for preventing of disorders but to no effect for the Covenanters every where began to rayse Arms impose texes seise on the Kings Castles and prepare for war having chosen David Lesly an old Soldier for their Generall On the latter end of October the Queen mother came into England which many people looked upon as a forerunner of mischief
avoiding of Emminent danger and keeping his subjects in their due obedience and forthwith the Commons of the Parliament for the manifestation of their alleigance love and duty they voluntarily of their own accord took the Oath of Allegiance and after them the Lords of the upper house did so likewise who ministred the same Oath to all their servants and followers and such as refused to take oath were put from their Lord Services and the Bishops in the Convocation House ordained that every Bishop in their severall visitations should minister the same Oath unto all their Clergie which they performed accordingly this oath was also ministred to others as followeth according to the Tenor of a speciall Statute made this Session of Parliament made in that behalf The fourth of Iune Proclamation was made commanding all Romane Priests and Iesuites and Seminaries to depart this Kingdom by the fourth day of Iuly next and not to return upon paine of the severity of the Law also by this Proclamation the King straitly commands all Recusants to return home to their dwellings not to come within 10 miles of the Court without speciall licence but to depart from London and the Court by the last day of this Moneth and to remain confined according to the Tenor of the Statute in that behalf provided Presently after that the Oath of Allegiance was ministred unto all officers Atturnies and Clarkes belong-to any of the Courts at Westminster Hall and the Exchequer and unto all Advocates and Proctors of the Spirituall Courts this Oath was also administred unto all Lawvers in the Inns of Court and Chancery and unto all Students and Schollers in both the Vniversities The appointed time now drew neer or Prince Henry to be created Prince of Wales and upon Thursday the last of May the Loâ—d Mayor and the Aldermen being accompanied with 54 several Companies of Citizens of London in several Barges bearing armes distinguished by their proper Ensignes Banners and streamers in warlike manner and therewithal plentiously furnished with several sorts of excellent Mâ—sick and had also to entertain the Prince divers pleasant and ingenious trophies upon the water all which in comely order went to Chelsea the Lord Mayor as Admiral going formost where from nine a clock in the morning till thâ—eâ— in â—hâ— afternoon they attended the coming of the Prince who could not come sooner by reason of the low ebb at which time the King came from Richmond being very honourably accompanied and attended and from Cheâ—sea the Lord Mayor and Citizens conducted his Highness unto the Court at White Hall as they returned from Chealsea the citizens led the way and the Lord Mayor followed them going alwaies next the Princes Barge to see this joyful sight the people for seven miles space swarmed on both sides the River and the Thames was covered with Boates Barges and Lighters full fraught with men women and childred and upon Sunday the third of Iune the King made twenty five Knights of the Bath and the next day the King crowned the prince his eldest son Henry prince of Wales in the great chamber at Westminster being perormed with great magnificence and solemnity and with full consent of all the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of the Parliament being all there present the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London were also present at this creation the princes titles were then proclaimed Viz. Henry prince of Wales Duke of Cornewal and Rotheser and Earl of Chester in honor of this creation there was the next night at the Court a most rich and royal mask of Ladies viz. the Queen the Lady Elizabeth daughter to our Soveraign Lord the King the Lady Arrabella the Countess of Arundel the Counress of Darbie the Countess of Essex the Countess of Dorset the Countess of Mountgomery the Visecounts of Haddington the Lady Elizabeth Gray the Lady Elizabeth Guilford the Lady Katherine Peter the Lady Winter the Lady VVindsor and upon Wednesday in the afternoon in the Tilt yard there were divers Earles Barons and others being in rich and glorious armour having most costly caparisons wonderous riâ—hly embrodered with pearl gold and silver the like abillements for horses were never seen before presented their several ingenious trophies before the King Queen and Prince and then ran a tilt where there was a world of people assembled to behold them and that night there were other triumphs upon the water with ships of war and Gallies fighting one against an other and against a great Castle builded upon the water and after these battels then an houres space there were many strange and variable fire works in the Castle and in the ships and Gallies This year the King builded a most stately ship for war being in all respects the greatest and goodliest ship that ever was made in England and this glorious ship the King gave to his sonne Henry prince of VVales the prince named it after his own dignity and called it the prince The seventh of December Iohn Roberts a Benedickt Monk sometimes provincial of the Benidictans in England and Thomas Summers a Seminary were condemned at Newgate and hanged at Tyburne they having been before sundry times taken and bannished and yet presumed to return again and bere to practice against King and State Upon Newyears day at night the prince oâ— VVales being acâ—ompanied with twelve others viz. Two Earles three Barons five Knights and two Esquires they performed a very stately mask in which was an excellent Sceane ingenious speeches and rare songs and with great variety of most delicate Musick The twentieth of April 1611. Sir Thomas Overburie was committed to the Tower and died there the fifteenth of September next following May the thirteenth being Munday in Whitson week at Windsor were enstalled Knights of the Garter Prince Charles Duke of York sonne to our soveraign Lord the King and Thomas Earl of Arundel and Robert Viâ—â—ount Rochester Wednesday the eighteenth of March 1611. Bartholomew Legate an obstinate Heretick and a strong Arian was burned in Smithfield and the eleaventh of April following viz. Edward Wightman an other perverse Heretick having refused more favour then he could desire or deserve was burned at Lichfield this Heritick would have made the people believe that he himself was the Holy Ghost and immortal with other vild opinions not fit to be mentioned amongst Christians May the twenty ninth 1612. Richard Newport and VVilliam Scot Seminaries were executed at Tyburne Iune the twenty fifth Robert Carliele and Iames Edwin were executed for murthering Iohn Turner fencer and the twenty seventh of Iune the Lord Sanquire was arraigned at the Kings Bench Bar for conspiring and hiring the said two persons to kill the said Turner the Lord confessed the Indightment and was executed upon a Gibber the 29 of Iune at Westminster In the months of October November and December there hapned great winds violent storms and tempests which caused much shipwrack upon the Ocean in havens and Rivers and did
into that liberty which I speak of they will never certainly enjoy themselves Sirs it was for this that I am hither come for if I would have given way to an arbitrary power that is to have all laws changed according to the power of the sword I needed not to have come here and therefore I tell you and I pray to God it be not laid to your charge that I am the Martyr of the people Introth sirs I should not hold you any longer I will onely say this to you that I could have desired some little time longer because I would put this which I have said in a little better order and have had it a little better digested then I have now done and therefore I hope you will excuse me I have now delivered my conscience and I pray God you take those courses that are best for the good of the kingdome and your own salvations Doctor Juxon Although it be very well known what your Majesties affections are to Religion yet because it may be expected that you should speak something to give satisfaction to the world therein I must beseech your Majesty to declare your self in that particular King I thank you heartily my Lord for this remembrance I had almost forgotten it in troth Sirs my conscience in religion is already as I think well known to all the world and therefore I declare before you all that I die a Christian according to the profession of the Church of Engl. as I found it left unto me by my Father and pointing to the Bishop of London this I do believe that this honest man will witnesse with me Then turning to the Officers he said Excuse me for the same I have a good Cause and a gracious God I will say no more On this the Bishop of London said unto him There is but one stage more this stage is full of noise and tumult it is but a short one but you may consider it will soon carry you from earth to heaven and there you will find an abundance of unrepented joy and comfort To this the King replied I passe from a corruptible to an incorruptible Crown where there is no disturbance no disturbance in the world The Bishop melting into tears assured him that he was exchanged from a temporall to an eternall crown a good exchange After this the King putting his hair under his cap after some short and fervent ejaculations in private with his hands and eyes lift up to heaven immediately stooped down and laid his neck upon the block and the King perceiving the Executioner prepared and armed to give the fatal blow said unto him Stay for the signe and after a very little pause stretching forth his hands the executioner at one blow severed his head from his body and even his enemies wept in private for what they had done in publick His body was put into a coffin covered with black velvet and carried from thence to his house at Saint Iamses where being embalmed and wrapped up in a sheet of lead it was exposed to the view of the people On Wednesday the 7 of Feb. his body was delivered to two of his servants to be buried at Windsor where the next day the Bishop of London the Duke of Richmond the Marquess of Hartford and the Earls of Lindsey and Southampton repaired and buried him in a vault in St. Georges Chappel it being the same vault where Henry the eight had beene heretofore interred The Life and death of Oliver Cromwel Lord Protector OLiver Cromwell was born in the town of Huntingdon he was descended from the family of the Williams in the Coun. of Glamorgan one whereof marrying with the onely child and daughter of the Lord Cromwell raised and beheaded by Henry the Eight the whole Family afterwards retained the Name of Cromwell which was thought more Honourable In the month of August 1649. Six moneths after the decease of King Charles Oliver Cromwell being chosen by the Parliament to be Governor of Ireland advanced into that Nation with a very gallant Army of Horse and Foot where having taken and besieged Dogheda by degrees became absolute master of that whole Nation In the same year Doctor Dorislaus who assisted at King Charles his death being sent as Agent into the Low Countreys was killed at the Hagne and Mr. Acham being not long afterwards sent as an Agent into Spain was killed at Madrid In the year 1650. the Common-wealth of England preparing to make war against the Scots Oliver Cromwell who for his many great services in the wars of England was made Lieutenant General was now chosen to be Generallissimo of the Armies of the Common-wealth of England in the place of the Lord Fairfax This year in the moneth of September was the famous battell of Dunbar where the English having totally overthrown the Scots did take ten Collonels 12 Lieutenant-collonels 9 Majors 47 Captains 72 Lientenants and eighty Ensignes two and twenty great Gunns and arms for fifteen thousand men In the same moneth Edenburgh and Leith were taken Col Eusebius Andrews being discovered to bring over Commissions to raise souldiers for the King of Scotland was condemned for it and beheaded on Tower hill Much about the same time Generall Blake at sea did ruine Prince Ruperts Fleet. In the year 1651. the Armes of the Crown of England were put down by order of Parliament and the Statues of King Chales were put down one of them at the old Exchange and the other at the west end of Pauls This year the Lord Saint Iohn and Mr. Walter Strickland were sent Ambassadors into Holland where they were much affronted by the English Royalists The Isle of Scilly was reduced and one Brown Bushell was beheaded at London a famous Royalist both by sea and land This year M. Love and Mr. Gibbons were beheaded on Tower-hill In the moneth of August the King of Scotland with an army of twelve thousand men did enter into England by the way of Carlile and on the third of September following was the battel at Worcester where the King of Scotland being over-powred lost the day where there were taken six Collonels of horse eight of foot thirty seven Captains of hoâ—se seventy three of foot seventy â—â—x Standards ninty nine Ensignes one hundred fifty and eight Colours all the Canon the Royall Standard the Kings coach and horses the King himself made an escape strangely and in a disguise passed unknown into France This yeare the Isle of Iersie was taken and the Isle of Man reduced and not long afterwards the strong castle of Gâ—ernsey was surrendred to the Paâ—liament In the moneth of May 1652. was the first Sea-fight betwixt the Engglish and the Hollanders Generall Blake gave the first volley and let flie three guns at Van-trumps flag to which Van-trump answered by a shot from the stern of his ship backwards signifying his disdain to veyl his flag and instead of striking his main top-saile he caused a red flag of