any of Olivers Iuntos that is they would not suffer themselves to be over-ruled by the dictates of an Imperious Army whereat the Great Officers took much offence first Remonstrating against and then compelling Richard to dismiss that comparatively honourable Assembly But Richard's own Obsequies as to his mock-dignity immediately attended this their funeral Pile and the Relicts of the long and long forgotten Parliament were conjured out of the Grave whither Oliver had sent them packing to be as it were his Administrators whom all thought so surely dead and safely buried that there had been no danger of this no less unlooked for than unwelcome Resurrection This Skeleton or Carcase of a rotten Parliament did so stink in the nostrils of all people that there was a general inclination to be rid of it but the good intentions for that purpose were in most Counties blasted before they were ripe for execution onely in Cheshire as hath been hinted a competent Party embodied themselves against whom Lambert was sent with treble their force whose puny Conquest over a few forlorn Gentlemen disheartened through the disappointment of Friends in other places was termed by one of Lambert's Parasiticall Officers in his own presence A Crowning Mercy alluding to Cromwel's expression which he used in his letter to the Speaker after Worcester business This being passed over by Lambert with a kind of an assenting silence compared with antecedent and ensuing Actions did clearely evidence that he had the like a spiring project in his pate and that he accounted not the thousand pound bestowed on him to by him a jewel by his Masters in which capacity he was resolved they should not long abide a sufficient reward for the great paines he had taken in gaining this in it self little and abating the consequences inconsiderable victory But General Monck Commander in cheif of Scotland had far other and more generous Resolutions which found a success answerable to the prudence wherewithall they were managed for making it the Ground of his proceedings to restore the now a second time ejected Rump-Parliament and afterwards to complete their imperfect number by re-admitting the long ago secluded members he doth first by Independent assistance dissipate the Anabaptisticall and fanaticall Crew and then by Presbyterian concurrence overthrow the Independents themselvs dexteriously applying the several factions in their order to one anothers ruine till at last by an inverted Method as it were he reduces us to that most happy posture we were in before the begining of this causeless and unnaturall Rebellion And now this Hydra-Parliament which had been once before legally by the King's death and twice violently by tumultuous Souldiery is now at last finally dissolved by themselves a priviledge they had long before extorted though till now unwilling to make use thereof and a better chosen in their stead who at the time appointed notwithstanding Lamberts flash in the interval which proved but as lightning before death convened and according to their duty did forthwith proclaim their undoubted Sovereign and sent Commissioners to invite him home to the Exercise of his Regal Government which hath filled our mouths with laughter and our hearts with mirth and occasioned the composing of this little Treatise the Author having no other mite whereby he might testifie his particular contentment in the midst of so publick and universal rejoycing But the Reader is to be advertised that this unfortunate Embrio conceived between His Majesty's being voted and coming in laboured far longer under the Press than under the Pen and when with much a do it had been produced it was so deformed and mis-shapen that a resolution was once taken to have stifled it in the birth and never to have permitted such a disfigured brat to have seen the light but upon second thoughts it hath liberty to wander abroad not out of any foolish fancy that it will finde acceptance but out of a consideration that it will be no greater cruelty to expose it to the wide world than to suffer it to perish in a private Study And yet to make some satisfaction for former errors and delay we shall now add what hath hitherto been wholly omitted or but superficially glanced at to wit His Majesty's extraction from the Scotish and what is chiefest from the Brittish Race that of the Saxon and Norman having been the principal if not sole subject of the precedent discourse The Scots according to their best Historians came originally out of Ireland about 300 years before the Incarnation of our blessed Saviour under the conduct of Fergus the first who was also King there which if so then hath our King lineally descended from that Fergus a better Title than that of bare modern Conquest even unto that Kingdome and possessed themselves of the North-western parts of Brittany And it is remarkable that notwithstanding a Custome begun in the very Infancy of their State and continued about a thousand years that if the Son which frequently happened were under age at the Fathers death the next of the blood-Royal should be not Guardian but King not only during the minority of the Orphan but even during his own natural life whereby these Tenants pur vie had too fair or rather too foul opportunities to change their manner of hold into fee-simple yet did the true Proprietor though for a while disseised still recover his patrimonial right as may be made evident out of Buchanan himself who was yet a greater friend to an Elective than Hereditary succession Kenneth the third and Malcolm the second were the first Alterers of this suspicious Custome Ordaining that from thence-forward Children should succeed their Parents immediately and have only Governors such as the Parents in their life time should appoint to oversee them and their Kingdome until they attained their maturity whence it came to pass that for the future interruptions were much rarer the regular course of Nature more duly observed and a greater restraint put into the Practisers of aspiring and ambitious kindred Nevertheless Machbeth Grandson to Malcolme the second though but by his youngest Daughter invaded the Sovereignty and having murthered the lawful King Donald related to the said Malcolm in an equal propinquity and that by the eldest Daughter Beatrice did for a while usurp but he was expelled and slain by Macduffe Thane or Earl of Fife and Malcolm the third Son of Donald installed in his Fathers Throne This is that Malcolm who as he found refuge in the English Court under the Protection of Edward the Confessor when he was forced to withdraw himself from Macbeth's persecution so did he afford the like succour in the Scotish to the Confessor's Nephew Edgar Etheling when he was driven out of his Countrey by William the Conqueror and took his Sister and Heir Margaret to Wife by whom he had a Daughter named Maud who being married to Henry the Conquerors Son was as hath been before declared the Bond whereby the Saxon and Norman Line were connected
welcomed and readily assisted by the Welsh from whose Princes he was descened as being the Son of Edmond of Haddam the Son of Owen Ap Teudor who could in a direct line derive his pedigree from the Noble Race of Cadwallader last King of the Britains on this side Severne as hath been before touched though a modern Writer more for the jest sake than out of reality sayes he was a Gentleman of no extraordinary lineage but lineaments which he makes to be the motive that induced Katherine of France Dowager of England after the death of Henry the fifth to take him for her second Husband Richmond having much increased his Army among his Country-men marches forward as far as Bosworth in Leicestershire where King Richard meets him and there the great controversy is finally decided in Battail Richard is slain and Richmond by a kind of military election saluted and in a manner Crowned King in the Field Henry the seventh for so must we now call him that was but lately Earl of Richmond sensible that the tumultuary approbation of Souldiers did of it self give him neither just or durable possession knowing likewise the weaknesse of the Lancastrian plea in opposition to that of York maries according to his solemn preingagement Elizabeth eldest Daughter of Edward the fourth which brought security to his estate and happinesse to the Kingdom the two Roses whose divisions had put the English to much expence of blood being thereby concorporated and for ever after linked in a most firm and indissolvable knot But as in a body that hath been troubled with a Cronique Disease though recovered yet are there still some peccant humours to be purged out so notwithstanding this Union and Recorciliation there remains dregs of discontents whereof the Queen Mother was the supposed Parent and Margaret Dutchess of Burgundy the known Nurse the first because she thought her Daughter not sufficiently respected for King Henry is not accused to have been over uxorious or indulgent to his wife the other being Sister of Edward the fourth bore an endlesse hatred to any of the Lancastrian Race The first Spirit they raised to disturb King Henryes quiet was one Lambert Symnell a stripling but so instructed by Simon a Priest who had higher directors that he could well personate the young Earl of Warwick Son of George Duke of Clarence whom the credulous Irish greedily entertain and acknowledge for their King And when Henry to detect the forgery had publickly shown in London the very Earl of Warwick whom he kept his Prisoner they retort the fiction upon himself and give out he had suborned a counterfeit on purpose to delude the simple multitude But this Pageantry quickly vanished the Conspirators are dispersed and Lambert taken who had the honour to be first made a Turn-spit in the Kings Kitchen but was afterwards preferred to be one of the Kings Falconers This was but the Prologue as it were to a more deep contrived Comi-Tragaedy that was to follow whereof the restlessâ— Dutchesse of Burgundy was the Inventer and one Perkin Wâ—rbeke the principal Actor But the Name and Scene is somewhat altered His Cue assigned him is to play the part of Richard Duke of York second Son of Edward the fourth who is feigned to have miraculously escaped the hands of his bloody Unckle Perkin was so good a proficient and had learned and could repeat his lesson so exactly that not the silly Iriâ—h alone but the French and Scotish Kings with many of the Nobility and Gentry of England were or would be deceived Nay Sir William Stanly himself Lord Chamberlain the Kings especial favorite is so far trâ—panned as to utter this improvident Speech which was construed high Treason that if he certainly knew that the young man was the undoubted Son and Heir of King Edward the fourth he would never fight or bear Arms against him for which he became headlesse though he had been the chief help and setter of the Crown upon King Henryes head Perkin at length is taken and committed to the Tower where soliciting the Earl of Warwick to make an escape he hastens both his own merited and that poor Earls undeserved execution Henry having thus composed his affairs at home seeks honourable matches for his children abâ—oad and marries his eldest Daughter Margaret to the Scotish King providently foreseeing that in case his issue Male failed this conjunction might be a means to associate the separated Kingdoms as his own had the Roses and so remedy the inconveniences of two distinct estates in one single Island Arthur his eldest Son Prince of Wales was espoused to Katherine Infanta of Spain but he dying before consummation we mean as to conjugal duty his brother Henry by dispensation from the Pope takes her to wife who on the wedding day was aâ—tired all in white in token that she was a pure and spotlesse Virgin It is conceived that the young Prince who henceforward is to be styled Henry the eighth had never any great fancy to the Lady as somwhat his Superiour in years but did raâ—â—â—r comply with his Fathers will than his own iâ—clinations However for a long time he lived with her in an outward loving seeming respectful manner But at length satiated with her company whom from the beginning he had not truly affected he meditates a divorce and hopes by money and Cardinal Woolseys interest in the Court of Rome with speed to effect the same Woolsey who by his obsequiousnesse to the Kings pleasure in all things had from a mean condition mounted to the highest degree of favour and power that a Subject is capable of is reported to be the first that injected the scruple into the Kings head touching the unlawfullnesse of his marriage with his Brothers Wife which once in could not in haste be put out again But in the prosecution the King and Woolsey had different ends Woolsey to revenge himself of Charles the fifth Emperour of Germany and Nephew to Katherine who had been a back-Friend to Woolsey in his attempted advancement to the Popedom and by proposing a match to the King out of France he thought to ingratiate with that Crown which might be more auspitious in promoting his towring designs But the King had another though not so deep a reach which more concerned his own private satisfaction than policy or reason of State For he desired to be unyoked from his old Queen that he might make a new one of one of her maids of honour Anne of Bolen with whom he was desperately in love which the Cardinal smelling out proves cold in the businesse delays to exercise his legantine power instigates the Pope to recall the cause to himself and proceeds slowly therein all which is performed accordingly but it concludes with the ruine of Woolsey's and the Popes Authority For impatient of these procrastinations Henry discards the one and renounces the other rejects Katherine marries Anne grows weary of her of incest with her own Brother cuts off
creatures are most greedy of natural freedom doth readily assent but these are prevented and her Actions interpreted as yet tending to the destruction of Queen Elizabeth for which she is tryed by certain delegated Commissioners who much resembled a late thing called an High Court of Justice is by them found guilty and shortly after beheaded at Fotheringham Castle in Northamtonshire but the true cause why she suffered was expressed to her self by the Earl of Kent one of her Judges a little before her reputed Martydom Madam says he if you live our Religion is in danger of which words she desired the Auditors to take special notice that confessedly it was not Treason but Religion for which she was to dye Iames the 6th King of Scotland Son of the late executed Mary now come to years of discretion expostulates with Queen Elizabeth about his Mothers death but the Queen puts it off upon the precipitation of her Secretary Davison intimating that if he stirred in the least manner to revenge it would irrecoverably hazard his hopes of the Succession of which yet she gives him but a very saint assurance But in her declining age some about her who had been shie before to intermeddle with so ticlish and unpleasing a point grow more peremptory and presse her to a positive declaration to whom her answer was It is the King of Scots due and let him have it Conform whereunto Iames King of Scotland immediately after her death is proclaimed King of England both which he converts into the name of Great Britany and now is Cadwalladers Prophecy before remembred exactly compleated that his Race should recover the sole Dominion of this Island for King Iames besides his direct descent from King Henry the seventh brought another but higher title if the former had not been sufficient from Banco a Nobleman of Scotland whose Son Fleance fled from the tyranny of Macheth the Usurper into wales and there married the Prince his Daughter by whom he had walter the first of the renowned Family of the Stewards but for the particulars of that conjunction we referre you to the British and and Scotish Historians King Iames arose in this our Horizon with much clearnesse notwithstanding Rawleighs mist and the smoak of the Gun-power-plot which were soon dispell'd but his setting was obscured by a little Cloud which shortly did overspread the whole Land He had married his eldest Daughter Elizabeth to Frederick Prince Palatine of the Rhene who unadvisedly gaping after the Kingdom of Behemia lost not only it but his own patrimonial possession King Iames who had more of Solomon than David in him sollicites restitution rather by Treaty than Arms and as the most conducing means to his peaceable ends entertains an overture of a match betwixt his Son Charles Prince of Wales and the Infanta of Spayn to whose King the Palatinate was by the Emperour configned over But the English Parliament takes exception at this intended Spanish affinity and as if Religion were at the Stake declaims against it Notwithstanding the King sends his Son into Spain who returns thence without a wife yet in his passage thither had an accidental sight of her in France who was by Heaven his designed Spouse As soon as Iames was dead Charles his Son is proclaimed King who immediately marries Henrietta Maria youngest Daughter to Henry the great King of France of whom as was just now hinted he had a transient view in his voiage to Spain which when this Princesse understood she is reported to have said That he needed not to have gone so far for a wife But now the seed of discontent which had been sowed in his Fathers time did begin to bud forth Scotland yields the first-fruits which also too much thrives in the English Plantation The Scotish Nobility enter into Combination against Episcopacy and the Service-book which they allege to be obtruded upon them For redresse of these imaginary grievances the Scots with swords in their hand approach his Majesty to present a Petition as is given out A Parliament in England is called to compose differences which rather increases them for which it is soon dissolved The Scots Invasion continues but at length a Pacification is made another Parliament is convened which working so far upon the Kings necessities extorts from him an inseparable jewel of his Prerogrative to wit a privilege not before asked or granted not to be discharged without their own consent In strength of this concession they proceed to other unseasonable demands which together with the tumults of the City occasioned the King to retire Northward and being denyed entrance into Hull for which Sir Iohn Hotham did afterwards receive his reward from those that imployed him he repairs to Nottingham where understanding that an Army was formed under the Earl of Essex at London and then on their March to bring him back as it was given out to his Parliament he sets up his Standard Royal but the appearance not answering expectation he directs his course towards Shrewsbury where by the confluence of the loyal Welsh his small forces are so increased that he is able to confront the Earl of Essex then at Worcester who retreats into Warwickshire and is overtaken at Edge-hill by his Majesty where the first signal battail is sought in which both sides were great losers and yet both sides assume the victory to themselves The war continues doubtful for three years but the Battail at Naseby in Northamptonshire proves fatal to the Kings affairs for after that succeeds little else but the ruine of his party in all places and surrender of most of his Garrisons till he was necessitated in disguise to leave Oxford his prime and well-nigh alone remaining hold then in a manner beleaguered and betake himself for Protection to the Scotish Army The Scots though they had received all possible satisfaction as to their own concernments yet could not refrain from intermeddling in the English distempers and were at that time besieging Newark upon Trent They at first received the King with all seeming promises of security as to his Person but having carried him with them to Newcastle do there barter him with the English for 200000 l. a price which as the French Embassador observed did far exceed that which Iudas received for betraying of our Saviour From Newcastle his bought and sold Majesty is conveyed by Commissioners deputed for that purpose from the Parliament of England to his house at Holdenby in Northamtonshire perhaps that he might be within prospect of that uncomfortable place Naseby where was given him his irreparable overthrow there to reside during the pleasure of the two Houses But not long it was ere Cromwel whose pulse at that time says a then pen-man began to beat a Lordly pace by his instrument Ioyce surprizes him in his bed and when Ioyce told Cromwel that he had the King in his Custody then quoth Cromwel I have the Parliament in my pocket Cromwels end in seizing on the