year besides that their Admiral Morosini with Twenty five Gallies some few Galliasses and several Fireships engaging above One hundred of the Turks Gallies with Sixty Saicks burnt sunk and took the greatest part of them among the rest of his Prisoners Two Bashaws with six Months Provision and Ammunition for supply of the Besiegers The success of Gayland an Enemy of the English must not be omitted who being at Argilla and hearing of a great Defeat given by Taffalette to Ben Buker wherein Ben Buker himself was taken Prisoner and that there was little hopes of getting another Army into the Field to oppose the Conquerour and finding how the ill news work'd upon his own people who began to threaten to desert him unless their wants were supplied he got out of Argilla with 300 men and Transported himself for Argier At this time about the beginning of March the King of Portugal having caus'd his Brother the King to resigne married the Queen and was by the three Estates of that Kingdom confirm'd in his Regency and in a solemn manner they swore Obedience to him accordingly Now though all things went well at home on the French side yet they had not the success which they promis'd themselves at Madagascar where by engaging themselves in other peoples Quarrels they not onely lost many Men but carrying themselves too high and imperious and forcing the Inhabitants to carry their Arms for them the Natives taking hold of the opportunity fell so heartily upon their new Lords that they destroy'd the greatest part of them But Queen Christina having disintrigu'd her self out of these Hurly-burlies at the latter end of the Year arriv'd at Rome where her entertainment was Pompous and Magnificent Nor did the Pope himself the next day disdain to give her a visit in his own proper person glad no question of so Eminent a Proselyte Anno Dom. 1669. THe 25 th of March being past the Year 1669 begins A Year wherein there could be nothing more calm and quiet than the surface of the English Affairs had not the future effects of its silent contrivances made it appear that though action fail'd 't was busie enough in Council Therefore Envoys and Embassadors were frequently employed a most certain Prognostick of active designes About the beginning of the Year the Earl of Carlisle was sent Embassador Extraordinary to Sweden While he repos'd himself in Copenhagen in which Court he was well known he receiv'd a Letter sent after him by the King of England in return of a very obliging Letter from the King of Denmark with the receipt whereof the King of Denmark was so well satisfied and pleased that at the seasonable instance of his Lordship he was pleas'd to cause his Orders to be dispers'd to all his Ports particularly to his Custom-places and Havens in Norway for restoring the Engish Trading to any part of his Kingdom or Dominions and the same priviledges which they formerly enjoy'd according to the Treaty concluded in the Year 1660. Being arriv'd in Sweden among other Transactions he had a private Audience in which he presented the King of Sweden with the little George worn by the Knights of the Order of the Garter which the King received with great expressions of joy being after that solemnly and publickly by a particular Commission presented and invested by the said Earl with all the peculiar Habits and Ornaments belonging to the said Order Other Embassadors were sent to other parts as Mr. Montague Extraordinary for France Sir Peter Wyche for Muscovy In Iuly the Earl of Winchelsey return'd from his Embassie at Constantinople Nor can History be so ungrateful to Learning as to bury in silence the Honour due to its most bountiful advancers It was therefore this Year that the University of Oxford being assembled in a full Body went to take possession of the New Theatre the magnificent gift of Dr. Sheldon Arch-Bishop of Canterbury where after the reading his Grace's Grant by the Register of the University Dr. South the University-Orator made a Speech sutable to the occasion After which several Panegyricks were pronounc'd in Prose and Verse concluding the Ceremony with several sorts 〈◊〉 Musick both Vocal and Instrumental But in the King's Ears the discords of Schism were more unpleasing for now from several parts of the Kingdom came several Informations that they who separated themselves from the established Worship met in greater numbers than formerly to such a degree as to endanger the publick Peace and greatly to the contempt of the Kings Indulgence to Tender Consciences which forc'd the King to issue out his Proclamation for the suppressing of such Meetings by putting the Laws in execution and proceeding particularly against the Preachers Learning always deserves an honourable Mecaenas and therefore the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury having upon satisfactory reasons refus'd the Vice-Chancellorship of Oxford Dr. Fell with the greatest part of the Body of the Convocation meeting at Worcester-house Install'd the Duke of Ormond Chancellor of that University The King was now diverting himself together with the Duke of York in the New Forest in Hampshire when they both receiv'd an express of the Death of their Mother the Queen Dowager of England who died upon the last of August at Colâ—mbe after a long Indisposition and decay of Health which made them both repair with all speed to Hampton-court Her body was for some time expos'd with usual Ceremonies in the Gallery of St. Columbes after which her Heart was in a Silver-Vessel inscrib'd with her Name and Title carried to the Monastery of Chaliot Her Body was carried to St. DeniÌ„s and plac'd in a Chappel behinde the Quire In November following she was buried after the Form and Magnificence which was formerly used at the Funeral of the Queen-Mother This Moneth brought us news that the Enemy was more than ordinarily busie about Tangier appearing often and in great numbers both of Horse and Foot They laid two considerable Ambushes to have surâ—riz'd the Garrison but one was discovered by the Sentinels the other by the barking of Dogs purposely kept there by the People and Souldiers by which means they were beaten off with considerable loss This not taking effect they appeared next day on the other side of the Town and gave the occasion of a smart dispute for an hour but were thence also forc'd to retire much to their disadvantage This made them quiet for some time when on a suddain they again shew'd themselves behinde a Hill neer a Fort call'd Iames's Fort here as the Onset was powerful so they met with equal resistance and a courage so much superiour as quickly forc'd 'um to leave the Enterprize and many of their men behinde with the loss only of one Corporal which this Year ended all the trouble of that Garrison The Duke of Ormond had been some time since call'd out of Ireland who thereupon left his Son the Lord Ossory to command in his
Newcastle what he must trust to if he will not comply with the offers of the Parliament If you refuse to assent you will lose all your friends in Parliament lose the City and all the Country and all England will joyn against you as one man they will process and depose you they will charge us to deliver your Majesty to them to render their Garrisons and to remove our Armies out of England and so both Kingdoms for eithers safety to agree and settle Religion and Peace without you to the Ruine of your Majesty and posterity and if you lose England you will not be admitted to come and Reign in Scotland We confess the Propositions are higher in some things than we approved of but we see no other means of closing with the Parliament And immediately thereupon Instructions are sent them from Scotland concerning the giving over of the King It had been debated in their Parliament and from thence sent to the Assembly for their advice by whom it was remitted in the affirmative and carried but by two voices in the Parliament and was accordingly transacted at Newcastle and London But the Scots were not so willing to be rid of the King as the Northern Counties were to be rid of the Scots of whom besides free quarter that Army had levied 20000 l. a month an unheard-of rate and a most unreasonable Several general complaints had been made but now they made up a charge of particulars with variety of imputation upon them which being also Printed the Scots Commissioners desired the suppression thereof or some other reparation which was as one may think well repaid in the sums of money they received upon this Contract which at first demand was no less than a Million but in consideration of a present round sum abated to 400000 l. whereof 200000 l. to be paid at two payments the first upon quitting Newcastle and marching beyond the River Tine the other upon the delivery of the King and their departure out of England and surrendring Carlile and Berwick to the performance on either part Hostages to be given The Scots insisted upon security for the remaining 200000 l. naming very conscionably and brotherly the sale of Delinquents estates but the Parliament would not so undervalue their credit nor prostitue it to their lustful eye cast upon so fair a partage of their Conquest nor buy the King and sell his friends The money they had was enviously enough bestowed on them being the sacrilegious rapine of Church-Lands then exposed to sale by Ordinance of Parliament but conveyed in pomp to the place of payment in thirty six Waggons six Regiments of the Army by the order of the General going with it for its Convoy and according to the agreement the first 100000 l. was paid at Northallerton in December Not to prosecute this subject further through so many diversities and change of countermines nor to touch on those irreverend Declarations from the Scotch Parliament and Assembly and their Reasons as unmannerly of not admitting the King into that his Kingdom it will suffice to say that at last they acquainted the Parliament having received their money that they were now upon going home and desired to know what service the Parliament would command them to the Parliament of Scotland which the King foreseeing and that he should be thus basely abandoned by them he betakes himself afresh to his sollicitation of his English Parliament wherein he saith That he had endeavoured by his Answer of the 24th of July last to their Propositions delivered him in the Name of both Kingdoms to make his intentions fully known But the more he endeavoured it he more plainly saw that any Answer be could make would be subject to misinformations and misconstructions which upon his own explanations he is most confident will give such satisfaction as to establish a lasting Peace He proposeth therefore again his coming to London upon security of both Houses where by his personal presence he may not onely raise a mutual confidence betwixt him and his people but also have all doubts cleared c. To conclude it is your King who desires to be heard the which if refused to a subject by a King he would be thought a Tyrant for it and to that end which all men did profess to desire Wherefore he conjures them as they desire really to shew themselves what they profess as good Christians or subjects that they accept this his Offer which he is confident God will so blâ—ss as to a happy Settlement c. A Reply was sent to the former by Sir Peter Killigrew one who had been the Parliaments Messenger throughout but none to this the two Houses being taken up with the business of disposal of his person somewhere else which was wholly remitted to them by the Negative Resolves of the Parliament of Scotland upon the Question of the Kings coming into that Kingdom That the Government shall be managed in the same manner and way as it hath been these five years last past and that fresh Assays and all means in the interim shall be used to make the King take the Covenant That if he shall do so yet the taking of it or passing the Propositions will not warrant them to assist him in England nor is the bare taking of it sufficient otherwise That the clause in the Covenant for defence of the Kings person is to be understood of the defence and safety of the Kingdom That if he refuse the Propositions he shall be disposed according to the Covenant and Treaty That he shall execute no power or Authority in Scotland till he do signe them and take the Covenant and that the Vnion be kept between both Nations His Majesty guessing at this their desperate and perfidious desertion of him had sounded their Commissioners then attending him in what condition or estate he was among them whether at Liberty or a Prisoner and put the Dilemma upon them If at liberty why he might not dispose of himself any-whither if in restraint what did they mean by his assenting and signing the Propositions which in no case could be valid or binding if agreed by him while a Prisoner To this the Scots had nothing to say but their Covenant with the English which they might not contravene and that according to the above mentioned Resolves which they now declared he was to be rendred to such hands as the Parliament of England should appoint who were expected every day upon that errand They further excused themselves from their reception and admission of his Majesty into Scotland from the danger and hazard they might incur his party being not yet so disbanded but that by his neer presence and advantage of his person they would resume their Arms and Courages and put that Nation in a worse broyl than before and for conclusion they told him they were in no condition to entertain him in that state and dignity
due to his person the Treasure exhausted and his Revenews eaten up so that there was but one way for his Majesty to turn which he might make hereafter large and convenient enough by a present speedy complyance with his two Houses at Westminster This made the King to look about him and to cast about which way to prevent and eschew this streight in which the baseness of the Scots had thus engaged him A design was therefore thought on of his escape from them but it was presently discovered and the surrender of him the rather expedited for the Scots were such honest dealers that having received their money upon the bargain they would not defeat their Chapmen of their purchase A wretched advantage to either the Scots never thriving after it but being totally at last vassalized and subdued and the Presbyterians in England every day growing less and less till they were swallowed up in the Anarchy and Medly of the following times and benighted in the succeeding confusions and Schisms We will leave the King thus in the Ballance between England and Scotland and cross over to Ireland of which little mention hath been yet made but shall now be remembred in its own series In the first four months of that Rebellion no less than 150000 Men Women and Children were Massacred there by the Irish Rebels an account whereof hath been published taken by the Rebels themselves lest they should have seemed more Cruel and Barbarous than indeed they were Some of these Murders were committed by old English Families Grafted upon Irish stocks and thereby became Roman-Catholicks such as were the Lords of the Pale who openly sided with the Irish and were their Chief Officers and Leaders The Earl of Leicester had been appointed Lord Deputy and he hastned thither but some difficulties intervening he by Commission appointed the Earl afterwards Marquess then Duke of Ormond to be his Lieutenant-General in that service who after many successful Encounters with the Irish whose numbers maintained the War more than their Valour though raised by the greatest incentive imaginable Natural desire of Libertie from the pressing Calamities of the Protestants there and the urgency of his Majesties affairs in England had concluded a Cessation by order of the King in 1643. Notwithstanding the Parliament-party and the Scots still carried on the War And to shew the Irish what they should trust to the Parliament in 1644 had Arraigned Mac Mahon and the Lord Macquire who a little before had broke out of Prison and after a months hiding were taken at the Kings-Bench Bar where Macquire insisted mainly on his Peerage but was over-ruled and both by a Jury of Middlesex-Gentlemen found guilty and sentenced for High-Treason for which soon after they were Executed as Traytors at Tyburn The Lord Inchiquin and the Lord Broughil condescended not likewise to this Treaty but with intermixed success stood out against the whole power of the Rebels and were at last greatly distressed To remedy this the Lord Lisle Son to the Earl of Leicester was now ordered to go for Ireland with an Army of 8000 men the Lord Muskerry was likewise General for the Irish in the Southern parts of the Kingdome who took several places of strength in a short time whereupon the Marquess of Ormond proceeded to make that Cessation a kind of Peace it being judged by the Lords of the Council there not onely an expedient for their safety for the Rebels threatned to besiege Dublin but also to divide them against one another the more moderate of them who had some sence of the Kings condition and had not altogether Renounced their Loyalty being for a composure but the Popes Nuncio and the inveterate Irish such as the Family of Oneal and Masquire and generally the Popish Clergy Opposing themselves thereto Notwithstanding it took some effect for the Marquess perceiving that no good could be done at present with the Parliament of England with whom he had Treated for supplies and assistance and had in lieu of it offered the Surrender of the places he held upon conditions to them and the Forces they should send came to agreement with the Rebels there and though the King had by his Letters from Newcastle ordered him not to proceed farther to any conclusion with them according as the Parliament had desired him yet seeing the necessity of falling into the hands of the Rebels or the Parliament and considering that the King when he writ this was in restraint and so his Commands might be dispensed with and that the Kings intention was to be judged better by them who saw the necessity of it upon the place and so not give way to other mens designs and false representations of it to his Majesty received these Propositions for Peace following being signed in November 1646 from the haughty Irish who thought themselves absolute First That the exercise of the Roman Catholick Religion be in Dublin and Drogheda and in the Kingdom of Ireland as free as in Paris or Brussels Secondly That the Council-Table consist of Members true and faithful to his Majesty and who have been enemies to the Parliament Thirdly That Dublin Drogheda Team Newby Cathirly Carlingford and all Protestant Garrisons be manned by the confederate Catholicks to keep the same for the use of the King and defence of the Kingdom Fourthly That the said Counsellours Generals Commanders and Souldiers do swear and engage to fight against the said Parliament of England and all the Kings Enemies and that they will never come to any agreement with them to the prejudice of his Majesties rights or the Kingdoms Fifthly That both parties according to their Oath of Association shall to the best of their power and cunning defend the Fundamental Laws of the Kingdom the Kings rights and liberties of the Subject These the Irish insisted upon and were held in play that they should be granted with such Provisoes as should become the Kings Honour and Conscience of which if that Loyalty they pretended was any way Real they ought not to be less sollicitous than the Marquess and in the mean while the Peace to be as good as Established which indeed by the said moderate party was thenceforward observed as to his Majesties Interest in that Kingdom The Parliament to stop this Agreement a little before dispatcht away the Lord Lisle who weary of his Journey at his setting out was recalled but part of his Army was Transported with whom was Colonel Monck the after Renowned General who being Tampered with and for his Liberty having endured a long Imprisonment in the Tower for the space of three years undertook an Employment for the Parliament in Ireland The Forces shipped from Chester were neer two thousand accompanied with three Commissioners from the Parliament to the Marquess who having offered Dublin upon some Terms which they were to present to his Majesty for him to signe upon non-performance thereof on their part by keeping the Paper from
Army he had done enough in giving them at Westminster for the Parliament sounded no more at the Head-quarters an account of Him But of this presently at large Most certain it is that this designe was laid solely by Cromwel and Ireton and personated by the Agitatours suspected many of them and that rationally for Jesuits who were as good at wicked Plots and Contrivances as either of those Catilines but most accomplished for execution having such Lawless yet most powerful Indemnity not onely to protect them but to shroud their other Conspiracies for themselves against this Church and State It is strange indeed to consider how many several interests were driven on among the Belials of this Army as then under the appearance of honest and most just ends the same pretence whereof served and was accommodate to each particular combinating against the Publike as so many lines tending to one Center with all which Cromwel wisely temporized giving secret encouragement to them all professing to intend the same things and to be of the Party but that for a while there was a necessity of concealing his resolutions To this purpose caresâ—ing the Papists upon all addresses or discourses with him as also familiarizing himself with the Levellers as the men indeed that were to do his business and were right of his complexion for the spoyl of the Kingdom to be compassed any manner of way but by setting up a Government or Laws for their projected Democracy was but a more exact method or Rule of Thievery of all which they most abominated Monarchy as the most regular and strict whose awful Authority could solely restrain their loose and licentious practises and keep the mad vulgar within their bounds from invading all propriety secured by the ancient Tenure of all Lands and Inheritances from the Crown and the Laws which their devilish intention was to abrogate and abolish and by a Wild parity lay all things in Common But for fuller satisfaction what this Intrigue or designe meant it will be requisite to consult the King's and the General 's or rather the Armies account thereof just as it was done and first from the Actors the General and Council of War Sir Thomas Fairfax his Letter MAster Speaker yesterday the King was taken from Holdenby by some Souldiers who brought him thence by his consent the Commissioners going along with Him That his Majesty lay that night at Colonel Mountagues after Earl of Sandwich and would be at New market next day That the ground of the removing the King was from an apprehension of some strength gathered to force the King from them whereupon he sent Colonel Whaley with his Regiment to meet the King and the Commissioners and to return them back again but they refused and were come to Sir John Cuts neer Cambridge Professing That this remove was without his consent or his Officers about him or the body of the Army or without their desire or Privity and that he will secure the King's person from danger Further assuring the Parliament that the whole Army endeavours Peace will not oppose Presbytery nor affect Independency or to hold a licentious freedom in Religion or interest in any particular party but will leave all to the Parliament Tiberius Letters about Sejanus were not half so mystical as these nor was there ever so daring braving an attempt done in the face of the Sun to the face and person of a Prince so covered and concealed under such obscurities and pretended ignorances which rendred the impudence of the action more dangerously fearful by how much the less it was conjecturable what it portended nor could the King himself at present well resolve himself or his two Houses in this juncture as we shall see in his acquainting of the Parliament with it by the Earl of Dunfermling where he saith contrary to what Fairfax before That he was unwillingly taken away by a strong party of Horse and desired of the Parliament to maintain the Laws of the Land and that though he might signe to many things in this condition yet he would not have them believed till further notice given by him to his two Houses The King imagined they would make use of his Authority by forcing his consent to some Proposals and designes of Government but they onely made a stalking Horse of his person keeping his interest by pretences of respect to him on foot meerly to countenance their own and outvy and awe the Presbyterian party At the news of it in London both Parliament and City were in such confusion and so distracted that they might well be excused from rightly judging of the fact therefore they first bethink of remedy the Houses order the Committee of Safety to sit all night and provide ne quid detrimenti accipiat respublica and dispatch a Messenger to the General requesting him not to come neerer London than twenty five miles for news was brought them they were upon a speedy March for the City who at the same time shut up their shops run to their Arms and make a fearful hurry for a while and then resolve to send Commissioners likewise and attend the Issue in peace in such a maze did this accident put them In the mean while the King is caressed by the Army and shown in state to the people who with great joy every where receive him and applaud the Army who to carry their business the fairer suffer some of his Majesties old Friends to have access to his person as the Duke of Richmond the two Doctors Sheldon and Hammond his Chaplains who Officiated with him in publike according to the Church of England and divers others of lesser note At this the Parliament take exceptions and send again to the General expostulating the matter and desiring him to re-deliver the King to the Commissioners aforesaid to be brought to Richmond and there to be guarded by Colonel Rossiters Regiment of Horse In Answer to this the Army declare and require after their like manner of expostulation about the Irish Expedition and Transporting the Army thither that it was against former Declarations of the Parliament the precedent case of the Kingdom of Scotland and the liberty and freedom of the People That the Houses may speedily be purged of such as ought not to sit there That such who abused the Parliament and Army and endanger the Kingdom may speedily be disabled from doing the like or worse That some determinate period of time may be set to this and future Parliaments according to the intent of the Bill for Triennial Parliaments That provision be made that they be not adjournable and dissolvable by any power but their own consent during their Respective period and then to determine themselves That the freedom of the people to present Grievances by Petition to the Parliament may be vindicated That the exorbitant powers of Country-Committees may be taken away That the Kingdom may be satisfied of the
Tyburn at two Sessions A new Council of State was as their annual change required now constituted Basil Earl of Denbigh being first named in the Act by which it was appointed by whom Mr. Anthony Ascham and Mr. Charles Vane were sent Agents to the respective Kings of Spain and Portugal in the Fleet with General Blake Care was likewise taken for another Fleet to be presently equipped which should consist of 30 great Men of War and several Frigats of great Force were now upon the Stocks and preparation made for others the Names of most of the former Navy being changed taking their new Names from the several places of the Parliaments Successes and Victories others relating to the Dignities of the Government as the President and the Faithful Speaker now newly lanched so that the Dutch began to look about them Several Complaints were now made to them from some that had suffered for their disloyalty in the Isle of Barbadoes as also from other of the Loyal American Dominions except New England that yet kept in Statu quo whereupon the State decreed to send a Fleet thither to reduce that place it being now Governed by the Lord Willoughby of Parham sent thither by the King from Holland whither his Lordship had withdrawn from the violence of the Army being one of those Peers whom they questioned for Treason in 1647. And Act came now out likewise Commanding all Royallists to depart London and twenty miles beyond it with an injunction not to stir five miles from their own habitation and to give notice to the next Officer of their arrival there and to make through work with them the Parliament was now in Debate of exposing several of their Estates to sale and such in the first place who were then beyond Sea and to raise these unhappy forfeitures to their greater advantage ordering that no Estate not Compounded for in the Delinquents life-time should be now Compounded for by his Heirs but should accrue entire to the State Against several Branches of this and other harsh usage particularly of that restraint and confinement within five miles of their dwelling the kinder Army interposed their desires as not consistent with their former Proposals but they well knew they were not to ask and must be disobeyed in that particular yea even in this most reasonable request of Liberty to those who had the benefit of Articles and had Compounded Another High Court of Iustice was now a forming which though the Act that Constituted it bore date the 5 of April in the year ensuing yet we mention it here because Montrosses Expedition and final defeat do challenge an entire space of time to register them Of this Court Keble one of the Commissioners of the Seal was now made President Bradshaw being too high to do that Journey-work any longer being President of the Councel of State it was erected in revenge of Ascham's and Doristaus's death as a Vote and Declaration of the States angrily expressed An Act passed likewise for the better managing of Estates under Sequestration which trust was committed to Samuel Moyer Iames Russel Edmund Winstow Iosias Barners William Mullins Arthur Squib and Rowland Moor names so terrible and Haberdashers-Hall their Court or Judicature so hated and infamed for the violences done by these persons there that they are not to be passed without a mark to Posterity They likewise Enacted the outing of all Officers who should not nor had taken the Engagement another Act against Mariners serving of Forrein Princes which still carried an ill aspect towards the Dutch another according to their tenour of professed Sanctity against Fornication which was passed in April but was not to take place till the 24 of Iune ensuing the first Reading thereupon was Harry Martin's who said it was made to catch Fools for that there was a Clause in it That no person should be convicted without the joynt-testimony of two witnesses yet an Old Man and an Old Woman of above 80 years old apiece suffered afterwards for it and for the open guilt whereof they had turned out Gregory Clement one of their Members though others lewd enough kept their Seats and finally one for the levying of 90000 lib. per mensem for the three first and 60000 l. for the three last months by which they hoped to ingratiate with the people now heavily complaining of the pressures and the ruine of their Trade And so we conclude this first year of the Government of our Novel Free States Anno Dom. 1650. WE begin the Year with the end of one of the Noblest Gallantest Persons that Age saw amongst all the Wars and Broils in Christendom A Captain whose unexampled Atchievements have fam'd a History and were its Volume ten times bigger it would yet be disproportionate to the due praises of this matchless Heroe Enter and Exit the glorious Marquess of Montross whose most lamentable Fare and Catastrophe we will here sum up in this no way competent compendious Narrative After his departure out of Scotland as you have read he betook himself to the Court of France where he was proffered the Captainship of the Scots Guards to that King a place of great Honour and Revenue but being delayed by Cardinal Mazarine who affected not that Nation and his spirit aiming at his own Princes Service he betook himself to the King then at the Hague where he endeavoured after the Murther of King Charles the first a like new Commission for Scotland but being thwarted therein by Duke Hamilton then residing there likewise and his confident Friends the Earls of Lauderdale and Calendar who was aemulous of his former glories in the Government and late War of that Kingdom he betook himself to the Emperor at Vienna where he was presently proffered the Command of an Army of 10000 men and to be independent of any other General but the Peace being concluded betwixt the Swede and the Emperour he departed upon pursuit of his adventure into Scotland having obtained a Commission from the King and in order to that Expedition was furnished with four ships from the Duke of Holstein some supplies from the King of Denmark and 1500 Arms from the Queen of Sweden and some Horse promised under General King from thence and a little neat Frigat â—or his own conveyance some monies also were disburst to him which were transmitted to Amsterdam for other the like occasions and necessaries and there falsly and basely squandred away by one Colonel Ogilby an old friend and now entrusted by the Marquess in that affair unfortunately and unhappily enough a limb of the Designe being thus broken With these the Marquess as is supposed fearing lest he should have an express command to desist from his purpose because the Treaty betwixt the Prince and the Scotish Commissioners was now very neer a conclusion did precipitate himself and those that were with him into a most inevitable ruine Now all those great
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
very desperate Captain Gibbons with 100 men staid in Kerry where the Irish out of fear and distrust of any preservation or favour from the English rose in Arms again there remained too the Island of Enisbuffin whose Forces had in December to the number of 500 in Boats fallen down upon the Isles of Arran Garrisoned by an English company of 150 under a Captain who upon the first Summons rendred the Fort in that Island upon leave to depart for which he was condemned to dye and the Officers under him Cashiered To recover this Isle being of consequence to the peace of the Neighbouring Country Commissary-General Reynolds was sent with a sufficient Force and likewise to reduce Enisbuffin At his approach to Arran it rendred to him upon the first Summons as before it was lost on the 15 of Ianuary where he left some ships for the better securing of it their absence being the occasion of the loss of it before and so marched to Enisbuffin but with more hast than good speed 300 of the Van of his Forces being cut off but the Island being blockt up Colonel Câ—sack the Governour accepted of the usual Articles for Transportation and Surrendered that place Never were any Christian people or Nation in such a wretched condition as those Irish who from a vain conceit of obtaining their Liberty and shaking off the English Yoâ—k by their Rebellion now found iâ— set closer and harder on suffering the very extremity of Revenge and the dregs of Rage from a merciless Conquering Enemy to whom first the crying Sin of their barbarous Massacres and then their contempt of the Kings Authority when received among them and lastly their fatal divisions among themselves caused by their Fryers and the Nuncio-party had given them over As to the Priests they were by Proclamation upon pain of Death Banished for ever out of the Kingdom as the like had been done lately before in England and many of them had already been snapt by the Irish High Court of Iustice. The Parliament were no way insensible of the Damage and disgrace they had suffered from the Dutch in the Downs and to minde them the more of it Cromwel and his Officers kept a Fast by themselves upon that occasion but added other causes viz. the delay of the new Representative according to the old strain and therefore thinking the meanness of their Pay might dishearten the Seamen from serving in the Fleet they raised their Wages from 19 to 24 shillings a month and 20 Nobles for every Gun in any ship they should take from the Enemy with other advantages as to the shares of the Prizes and the better to defray this allowance they ordered the Sale of Somerset-house Windsor-Castle Greenwich Hampton Court Vaâ—â—â— hall in Lambeth Cornbury-Park For the invitation to which purchases and all other Forfâ—iâ—â—d Lands they had abated the interest of Moneys from eight to six per cent that the advantages of laying out their Money with them might appear to the Usurer who by such Bargains could not get less than 50 l. per cent provided it would last and the Lands continue in their possession Those Houses notwithstanding escaped by the hinderance and artful delays of Oliver Cromwel who designed them for his own greatness and State in his projected Supremacy He was now debating in Council with his Bashaws about the very same matter and the Parliament fell presently upon the Bill to prevent him and his Armies desires for the same Representative and offered fair Ianuary the fifth The Danish Embassadors had in the beginning of October departed England and by the way visited Holland and continued their Journey by Land home where upon their arrival that King had declared himself for the Hollander yet the Parliament hoping to reclaim him and the want of those Merchandizes he had seized urging them to it sent Bradshaw a bold fellow like his Kinsman who preferred him to Copenhagen from Hamburgh where he resided with that City as their Agent He came to the Court before Christmas but was delayed Audience till after the Holy-daies and when he had it granted it was to so little purpose and of so great danger to him at his return he being besides affronted highly in the streets that he wisht himself quit of his Employment and at home again At his request for a Guard to convey him back and his payment of them and passing by-ways and over several Waters he at last in much fear being certainly way-laid recovered Hamburgh whence he sent the Parliament an account of his fruitless Negotiation for the goods were unladen and sold and the Merchants Books of Accompt seized and in the Kings hands desiring also the repayment of those Moneys he had disbursed for the carrying the Masters and Seamen of those ships to Lubeck and those parts being not able to stay in Denmark any longer where a Comet newly appeared the effects whereof were very visible in those calamities that presently began in this and the Swedish War in which that King was desperately Engaged The Dutch had been Commanded to Sea from Porto Longone some while before by the Spanish Governour so that the English ships were at liberty and Badiley was now at Leghorn of whom the Great Duke demanded the Phoenix to be restored to the Dutch at their instance to him as taken in his Port which being refused he commanded that those English ships that then lay within the Mole being six in number should put to Sea within ten daies the debate had lasted a good while before this resolution which the Duke said he could not in justice and by the Law of Nations deny to the Hollander the event of which we will presently relate At home the Dutch were still far perter Songs and by words and Pictures made of this English defeat the names of the ships discanted upon that were taken as ominous to us having lost the Garland c. and the like devices this the Vulgar the Great ones were consulting of sending a Fleet to seize all our America-Isles and to Lord it there as their Ships did in the Streights and de Wit was also now almost ready to put to Sea with another Fâ—eet of 40 ships and Van Trump was ordered to come away speedily with such Merchant-men as were râ—â—dy to set Sail and Anchor at the Thames mouth and block up General Blake and the Fleet that was there ready but he came too late to effect it for on the 8 of February from Quinborough the General set sail with about 60 men of War intending to joyn with 20 more from Portsmouth such a Force and of so sudden a rise that the Dutch found themselves much deceived in their designe abroad and Conclusions at home On the 11 of February the Portsmouth-Fleet the Wind blowing Eastward joyned with the General at Beechy head and thence sailed over against Portland where they lay a cross the Channel half Sea over to
Croxton yet held out the Castle and had it presently delivered from thence to Leverpool which was yielded likewise by Colonel Ireland while in the mean time Colonel Zanchy and Axtel took in Chirk-castle delivered by young Mr. Middleton upon terms of having two Months time to make Addresses to the Parliament the rest were to be Prisoners of War and among them was Colonel since Sir Edward Broughton Harding-Castle was yielded likewise upon the like Capitulations Sir George Booth had made his escape out of the Field and got away accompanied with four of his Servants in a Womans Disguise but at his Inne in Newport-pagnel was discovered and being guarded and secured one Gibbons a Minister posted to give the Parliament account of it and was rewarded by them as were no less than three several Messengers sent before from Lambert with the particulars of the Cheshire-defeat Upon his bringing to London Fleetwood was ordered to send a Guard and meet him at Highgate and secure him to the Tower whither the next day Sir Henry Vane and Sir Arthur Haslerig were sent to Examine him It hath since been plainly confirmed that General Monke was engaged with him in the same designe under pretence of a Free-Parliament and that the Marquess of Ormond in the Habit of a Pedlar was seen abâ—â—â— his House at Dalkeith but it was so secretly carried that nothing appeared at this time nor would Sir George be drawn to accuse any man Most certain it is the Kings Restitution was the bottome of this Designe for before the appearance of it he had withdrawn privately from Brussels and lay ready upon the Coast of Britany about St. Malo's and those places to take shipping for England upon the first good event of those his Loyal Friends and Subjects but Kent or Sussex was the place intended for his Landing Turenne the French General having engaged to wait upon him if he would oblige it But this unhappy account reaching him there he resolved to give over the prosecution of his right by the Sword at present seeing the almost-impossibility of recovering it by his English Subjects against these standing Armies and pass to St. Iean de Luz where the Treaty betwixt the two Crowns was then begun and whither Lockhart upon the arrival of a French Embassador hither was ordered to Travel where after several affronts done him while the Ministers of the King not to mention the Grandeurs of the Honours done to himself by the Cardinal and Don Lewis de Haro and during his short stay in the Realm of Spain who were first the Lord Iermyn his Plenipotentiary at that Treaty the Earl of Bristol the Lord Chancellor Sir Henry Bennet the Kings Resident at the Court of Spain after Secretary of State and others he was better advised to return and be gone with more hast than he came His Master's Concerns being wholly rejected and his Majesty's most affectionately undertaken by both those Potentates in private distinct Articles agreed between them As those Iuncto-men or Rumpers would have been taken into this affair of the Peace between France and Spain so they thrust themselves into the difference between the two Northern Kingdoms of Denmark and Sweden sending Mr. Sidney and Sir Thomas Honeywood Sir Henry Vane's Brother-in-law their Plenipotentiaries to those Crowns who having sâ—aid there to no purpose returned some time after to as much their Masters at home being lurcht before they had order to proceed in the same method and as far as the French or Dutch whose project of the Peace framed at the Hague being humbly tendered here by their Embassador was approved and these Commissioners to act according to that Module General Montague returned September the 24 about their coming thither and having given an account not of all he knew or did there concerning the War there to the Council of State was dismissed having given the King very good assurance of his readiness and affection to his service The Parliament now were consulting what more standing Forces to keep in the Kingdom and to keep in with the Sects and Quakers now numerous they repealed the Act of Iohn Lilburn's Banishment and released Iames Naylor as aforesaid out of Bridewel then against the last Royalists caused a new Sequestration-Act to be presently passed and Commissioners Names expedited Thus brisk they were always upon the Atchievement and accomplishment of every success which when it tickled them to arrogance and confidence scratched them soon after to their trouble and vexation for Lambert having done the Feat for them was now upon his progress in the Country to his own House at Craven in York-shire caressing the people having used his Victory very civilly although he was heard to say upon his setting forth questionless to make him more acceptable and less suspect to the Rump That he would not leave a Cavalier to Piss against the Wall or words to that effect Especially he made much of his Officers having invited them to his House aforesaid where their entertainment was concluded with a Draught of another Advice stiled A Petition to the Parliament General Monke in the mean time the better to conceal his affection to the King caused most of the Scotch Nobility to be seized on a sudden and upon the refusal of the Engagement secured them in Castles Very many yea most of them refused besides the Earl of Glencarn the General 's Confident and Privado as appeared not long after Lambert was Voted a Jewel of 1000 l. for a gratuity from the Parliament for his Cheshire-service but his ambition aimed at a higher Gem he therefore desired the Parliament that they would think of paying off the Militia who had deserved well as also the Irish Brigades and the Widows and relicts of such whose Husbands were drowned passing from thence to their assistance which they readily promised sitting brooding continually upon Acts of Sale and Forfeitures of such Estates whose last moities upon purchase had not been paid as also in sifting out all the persons engaged with Sir George and had traced it so close by their Beagles as to bring Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper one of their Council of State into suspicion as really he was a principal in the Plot having been of the Cabal and had kept intelligence with Sir George and had a party in Dorset shire which timely dispersed themselves but the great opinion they had of him stop'd the mouth of his Accusers and he knew well enough how to defend himself at their Bar. They had likewise got one of the King's Letters dated the 16 of May and other Papers which with the several Examinations were read in the House and a Thanksgiving-day thereupon appointed for this their great preservation They likewise Voted the Charter of the City of Chester void and that it should be no longer a County of it self but lie in Common as also the Ejection of the whole Ministry as Malignant and received soon after
Fourth the Demeasnes and Jurisdiction whereof lay in the Dutchy of Normandy in France under the English Soveraginty and Earl of Torrington in his own native County of Devon and Baron of Potheridge his own Patrimony Beauchamp and Teyes by which he hath right of Peerage in the three Kingdoms whose equal Felicity and Honour he advanced and raised before himself and now most deservingly shared with them by his Investiture in these Dignities which were compleated Iuly the 13 by his taking his place in the House of Lords attended by the House of Commons and introduced by the Duke of Buckingham In the same month General Montague was created Earl of Sandwich Viscount Hinchingbrooke his famous Mannor in Huntingtonshire and Baron of St. Neots in the same County and on the 16 of Iuly took likewise his place in the House of Peers where they both shine with that degree of splendor by which the Duke reduced and the Earl dawned at the day of Englands Glory and Liberty The Duke of Ormond was likewise made Earl of Brecknock and took his place among the Peers of England he was also made Lord Steward of his Majesties Houshold as the Earl of Lindsey was made Lord High-Chamberlain the Earl of Manchester Lord Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold and the Earl of Southampton Lord High-Treasurer of England Sir Frederick Cornwallis was made Treasurer of the Kings Houshold by an old Grant and Sir Iohn Berkley Comptroller and other Royalists were made Officers therein Several presents were made to the King from the several Cities and Boroughs of the Kingdom in Gold and Plate and resignation of Fee-farm-rents purchased from the Usurpers among the rest the City of London with a Complement of their good Stewardship by the mouth of their Recorder Sir William Wilde rendred their like Grant of New Parke in Surrey All the Rents accruing at Michaelmas-day were now secured from the late Purchasers of Kings Queens Bishops Dean and Chapters lands for the use of the right and unquestionable Proprietors to the defeating the miserable and unjust covetousness of such undue and unwarrantable penniworths A splendid Embassy came this Month of August from Denmark to congratulate his Majesties most happy Restitution as a little before the Lord Iermyn newly made Earl of Saint Albans the Title last failing in the renowned Marquess of Clanrickard Vlick de Burgh who had so eminently asserted his Majesties Rights in Ireland and after the reduction thereof came into England and died in London in some distress far unfitting his nobleness of minde as well as former most honourable Estate a while before the Kings Return was sent to France in the quality of Lord Embassador Extraordinary to that Crown Soon after the Prince de Ligne with a right Princely Train and retinue becoming the grandeur of the Affair he was sent to Congratulate from his Majesty of Spain betwixt whom and this Kingdom a Peace after a six years War was lately Proclaimed was with great state received and had solemn Audience by the King and departed and was succeeded by the Baron of Battevile to be Resident and Embassador in Ordinary at this Court. From the French King soon after came another Illustrious and grand Personage upon the same account by name the Count of Soissons who had married the Cardinal's Neece and entred and was entertained here with all sumptuous and extraordinary Magnificence In sum there was no Prince nor State in Europe who sent not or were not a sending their Embassador upon this wonderful occasion The Parliament after many debates and disputes alterations and insertions at last finished the Act of Oblivion which was extraordinary comprehensive and indulgent to the regret of many injured Royalists who found no better perswasive to their acquiescence in it but their unalterable duty to the King whose special Act this was Out of this were only excepted the Regicides and Murderers of their late Soveraign as to Life and Estate besides Colonel Lambert and Sir Henry Vane and Twenty others reserved to such Forfeitures as should by Parliament be declared the principal of these were Sir Arthur Haselrig Oliver Saint Iohn William Lenthal the Speaker Mr. Ny the Independent Minister Burton of Yarmouth and some Sequestrators Officers and Major-Generals of the Army amongst whom was Desborough Pine Butler Ireton c. They passed likewise an Act for a perpetual Anniversary Thanksgiving on the 29 of May the day of his Majesties Birth and Restauration a day indeed memorable and the most auspicious in our English Kalendar and worthy of a Parliaments Canonization Both which his Majesty gave his Royal Assent to as at the Adjournment to another for Disbanding of the Army and paying off the Navy which once looked upon us with the same feared perpetual danger as the Mamalukes or Ianizaries but by this happy conjuncture of his Majesties Fortune with his Wisdom and Goodness yielded after many Modules to its last Dissolution Great sums by Pole-money and other Assessments were imposed and speedily and cheerfully levied and paid to finish this desired work which had before wasted so many Millions of Treasure Mr. Scowen Mr. Pryn Col. King and Sir Charles Doyley were appointed Commissioners to disband them to which the Souldiery very willingly and with thanks to the King submitted the King giving them a Weeks pay as a Donative and Largess The Parliament adjourned till the 6 of November These Felicities of the King we have hitherto insisted on as the course of all worldly things is guided were abated and allayed by the immature and most lamented Death of the right Excellent Prince Henry Duke of Gloucester his Majesties youngest Brother a Prince of very extraordinary hopes Silence will best become our lamentation for his vertues and our loss of them transcend expression He died of the Small-pox Aged Twenty years and two months after much Blood-letting and was Interred with a private Funeral in Henry the Seventh's Chappel at Westminster just before the arrival of his Sister the Princess of Orange who came to joy and felicitate her Brothers in their happy Restitution With the King and Monarchy the Ecclesiastical Regiment by Bishops recovered it self by his Majesties Piety and Prudence that Aphorism being most sadly verified No Bishop No King and therefore on the 20 of September Dr. Iuxon Bishop of London that antient and excellent Prelate was by the King translated from that See to the Arch-bishoprick of Canterbury which was performed with great Solemnity and not long after several new Bishops persons the most eminent and valiant assertors of the Church and Laws of England were Consecrated in the Abby at Westminster and all the Diocesses filled of which together presently in an ensuing Catalogue Divine Vengeance had with a slow foot traced the murtherers of our Martyr'd Soveraign and through several Mazes at last overtook them the iron hand of Justice delivering them to the punishment due to that grand impiety nor was it
Dominions and an invitation was sent hither from them to others of the same principles to follow them Her Majesty Queen Catharina was now expected to be at Sea and therefore his Majesty came to the Parliament and acquainted them with the same and desired that as a Complement to her they would cause the Highways and Streets of London to be fitted and cleansed against her reception and to make what hast with convenience they could with the dispatch of those Bills under their consideration And soon after to remedy the perversness and obstinacy of the Quakers against taking the Oaths of Allegeance and Supremacy and their meeting and Conventicling publickly together to the pestring of the prisons whither they were Committed and their Enthusiast tricks one Thomas formerly a Lieutenant of that party poysoning himself and one Powel a Widdow poysoning of her Son-in-law and another person a Bill was passed against them with the said Bill for High-ways now ready for the King's assent which he gave by his Commission to the Lord Chancellor Lord Treasurer Duke of Albemarle and Earl of Manchester By this Act several inconvenient passages in London are to be enlarged and Houses that jutted into the street and obstructed the ways were to be pulled down as the upper end of Ludgate-hill on the South-side of the street and elsewhere Having but onely mentioned the Kings Declaration of his Marriage for his choice whereof both the Lords and Commons returned him their thanks it will not be impertinent in this place to give a larger and fuller account thereof This Royal Bride Heaven had more especially prepared and predisposed out of the Royal Family of the Kings of Portugal which having suffered an Ecclipse by the powerful interposition of the Spanish Monarchy for the space of neer an hundred years was now revisited in its Splendor in the assumption of Iohn Duke of Braganza the fourth of that Name King of Portugal by almost as miraculous a Turn as that of our Captivity by the Kings Restitution So Providence was pleased to adapt and fit both these Princes Conditions and Estates to this happy juncture of them in this Royal and happy Estate This was designed by King Iohn in the beginning of our Troubles and of his Reign and was one of the first Acts of State he did with us managed here by Don Antonio de Souza his Embassadour hither who was very instrumental in transacting His late Majesties Affairs of Forraign Concernments receiving and returning his Dispatches One Ingredient no doubt in point of Civility and Honour among those other of Affection and Interest that make up this Princely Match These were something as also his Majesties reflection on his Personal picque with the Spaniard who had very much disobliged him in the time of the Usurpation by courting and owning his Rebels to satisfie himself of some pretended injuries done him by his Grandfather and Father by loss of his Spanish Fleet in the Downs which the King had a most inviting opportunity here to remember Upon the return of the Conde de Mello as aforesaid with the Articles of Treaty and Marriage to Lisbon they were presently noysed about the City and more loudly reported from all the Cannon in the River both Portuges and Forraigners by which means without further Proclamation it was publick about the Town who like over-joyed People betook themselves to the presentest yet most solemn de monstrations thereof by Bonfires and Entertainments c. the Streets resounding with Healths al Re del Grand Brettanna which continued that Night and the next Day Not long after by an Express from England from the King to her she was Complemented with the Stile of Queen of Great Britain which put that Court into a new Splendor both to her Retinue and Attendance and all Honours and Duties done her as if she were actually Crowned It will not be much material to insist on all the other particulars viz. those several Messages sent and returned betwixt those two Royal Lovers together with the intercourse betwixt the Two Crowns in point of Alliance and Security nor the numerous resort of the English every day to Worship this Sun of the East and pay their Early Devotions to her It will be more unnecessary to relate those Romances and Fictions made by the Phanatick Crew at Home that there were a Fleet of Spaniards and Hollanders that lay ready in her way to intercept her Passage into England We will only mention the happy Arrival of that Fleet and the Royal Charles from England with Sir Richard Faâ—shaw sent to salute the Queen for his Majesty who now impatiently expected her Arrival as did the whole Nation together with him Just at the same time the Earl of Sandwich now the second time visited the Queen being appointed to attend her departure and to convey her into England the King her Brother and Mother with his Nobles and the whole Court in a solemn Procession and Cavalcade from his Palace where the English Gallantry there present assisted accompanied her till she Arrived at the River-side the Golden Tagus where she entred a Stately Brigandine and the Naval Triumphs commenced their Glory For as soon as the King and Queen were reimbarqued for Lisbon and returned with the discharge of all the Cannon the Fleet immediately with a fair wind and leading Gale began their course being as they past the River saluted by all the Block-Houses Forts and Castles with the imitation of their Thunder That Night and part of the next day the Wind and Weather was very propitious but then coming clear about and contrary it so retarded the Voyage that in a Fortnights time they hardly got into the middle of the Bay of Biscay where the Queens Majesty dispatcht away Mr. Montague Sir Tho. Sands and Sir Ioseph Douglas on the 29 of April at Seven at Night to give an account to the King of Her Condition which the untowardliness and averseness of the Wind had much altered by protracting her longing desires of meeting the King and also incommodating her by the tossing and topping of the Sea so that she lay sick for the most part of the Voyage until about Fifth of May with indefatigable working and skill the whole Fleet reached the Islands of Scilly the furthermost Western Dominions of England Her Arrival had been every day expected a fortnight before which caused the King to send down his only Brother the Duke of York Lord High Admiral to attend on her upon the Coast and to Complement her in his Name whereupon his Highness hasted to Portsmouth and on the Eleventh of May attended by the Duke of Ormond the Earls of Suffolk and Chesterfield the Lord Berckley and other Persons of Quality went aboard the stately Yacht with which the City of Amsterdam presented the King to Coast about the Isle of Wight to meet her Majesty On the same day Sir Ioseph Douglas making towards Portsmouth with an Express from her Majesty to
Embassador who began to deal roundly with 'um and to insist upon the very Letter of a late Treaty for the restitution of two French East-India Ships which had been so long and often demanded The Dutch offer'd certain small Vessels which they pretended would do the French business as well Hereupon a general Embargo was order'd by the King of France upon all their Merchants Vessels till the Dutch made satisfaction for the two Ships for though the Netherlanders had the confidence to with-hold 'um yet the King of France had effectually paid for 'um so that at length they were forc'd not only to part with the Ships but the Lading to booâ— In the mean while they enlarg'd their Embargo upon the English and not only made a Prohibition of Trade with England but also provided that none of the Subjects of that State should ensure any Goods belonging to the Subjects of the King of England And all Newters were forbid to carry Counterband-goods to the Dominions of his Majesty The Reason why the States were so backward with the Fleet was most certainly the aversness of the people whom it cost the States not a little cunning to make tractable to their purposes To which intent they insinuated into the ears and minds of the people That the King of England was not in a condition to set out a Fleet which they not only found to be otherwise but also purely done upon the stock of his own proper Authority and Credit When they saw that brought to pass the next thing they flatter'd the people withal was that though the King had strain'd himself to bring a Fleet to Sea yet that the Parliament would never supply him with a sum of Mony answerable to the Charge of so expensive a War Finding themselves deluded therein also by their Act for the Royal Aid the next suggestion was that the people would never submit to pay it But the voluntary Present made to his Majesty by the City of London soon clear'd that mistake To these they added that they should find friends in England together with great Aid and Support from Forein Princes wherein they found themselves at length totally disappointed Among the rest of their disappointments the King of Denmark's calling in all his Seamen out of Forein Service was not the least for thereby they were disfurnished of many able Sea-men which otherwise they might have had for their Mony This Month also arriv'd at London the Duke of Verneuil and Monsieur Courtin from the King of France and from the King of Spain the Conde de Molina The two former had their Audience within three days after their Entry which was very magnificent They were sent upon Mediation and Composure the event whereof the Dutch did much depend upon and extremely hearken after Nor were the Dutch a little active in hopes to deceive Forein Princes in Printing and publishing Libels to the scandal and defamation of the English Nation Among others the most remarkable of their Papers were the Remarks of the Deputies of the States General upon the Memorial of Sir George Downing Envoy Extraordinary c. A Discourse full of irreverence and falsehood of which the world was sufficiently convinc'd when they read the Reply of Sir George Downing thereto In the next place they Printed a pretended Letter from one Valkenburgh Director-General of Guinee to the States feigning how that at Adia the English after they had given quarter with rusty Knives cut off the Noses of those whom they had taken alive and exercised many other strange Amboyna-cruelties upon the Hollanders in these parts Therefore that so great a scandal might appear the more notorious there was publish'd an Account of the Guinee-Transactions In brief That Captain Robert Holmes who was Commanded for the Coast of Guinee in October 1663 coming thither all people complain'd how â—ll the Dutch had treated the English how they had engag'd the King of Barra to assault the English Factories which Designe failing how they had endeavour'd to corrupt the Officers of the Charles and Iames Islands to deliver up their Forts How they had counterfeited the King of England's Signe-Manual and Signet to countenance their Entry into the River had they not been frustrated by the notice which the King of Barra gave of the whole Designe After this Captain Holmes for the better security of some English Ships daily expected sailed to Cabo Verde fearing one Iohnson that was said to lie in the way where without any provocation they â—ired from the Fort killing his Master and wounding divers of the Company notwithstanding all which the Governour surrendring the place next morning he and all his Company were treated with all possible respect and civility by the Captain At Sestos they had been dealing with the King of that place to throw out the English inveigling the people abroad and then abusing them under English Colours the better to attain their ends The like was done upon the Coast of Castle de Mina where Valckenburgh offer'd a Bendy of Gold for every English head At another time they shot at a Convoy of Capt. Holmes from a Fort of theirs which so enrag'd the Moors that they fell upon the Fort and took it and would have put all the Hollanders to the Sword had not the Captain prevented them Lastly Captain Holmes having sent a Drum to Ariamaboa with Honorable Proposals contrary to the Rule of War they mangled stript and left him dead upon the place Which Account being so far from the Accusations of Valckenburgh gave no small satisfaction to the world so that they lost their aim among all just and sober Persons But now the Netherlanders finding how little they could boast of their Alliances near home they made great Brags of the kindness shewn their Embassador at a distance by the Emperor of Russia though by his reception no such thing appear'd for as for his Present which was of silver Plate it was so miserably thin that it would scarce endure the carrying His allowance was very ordinary and the person appointed to attend him as Master of the Ceremonies was only a Merchant and Alderman of the City who having at a drinking Bout began the Prince of Orange's health before that of the States General rais'd a very great Dispute so that upon the whole his Entertainment seem'd rather a matter of State and Custom than of kindness In England was observ'd a general Fast with a reverence befitting the Solemnity of the occasion both Queens did most affectionately concern themselves therein by express and particular Appointment commanding all their Servants to set themselves apart with more than ordinary Devotion for the Service of the Day This was answer'd with the happy Omens of future Victory from the fair success of small Enterprises For not long after were taken three men of War The first a Caper of seven Guns and 47 men The other were Direction-Ships
among actions of lesser note at Sea the courage of Captain Howard deserves remembrance who now commanding one of the King's ships render'd himself as signally faithful to his Sovereign as to his Owners who having certain Victuallers and other Merchant-men under his Convoy as he passed by the Bay of Cadiz five Dutch Men of War then under sail before the Bay having notice thereof being Vessels of 43 40 and 36 Guns apiece had immediately fetch'd up the Merchant-men but the Captain so behav'd himself with his Merlin a Frigat of 12 Guns only that the whole English Fleet had time to escape into the Bay of Tangier and by and by perceiving the headmost of the Dutch ships of 45 Guns who had done him most mischief to be making after the Fleet to their inevitable Ruine he frankly ran himself aboard the Dutch-man where he fought above an hour board and board till being himself dangerously wounded and all his Men dead or desperately wounded save eight he was at length compell'd to yield and carried into Cadiz But to return neerer home to the Grand Affairs betwixt England and Holland we finde the Netherlanders in no small perplexity They had now recalled their Embassador Van Gotch out of England who took his leave of the King at Oxford by him the King sends a Letter to the States wherein though he could not but charge them as the Authors of the War yet he signified to them his readiness to come to any fair terms of Accommodation nor could this Letter be so stifled by the contrary Faction but that the People got a view of it by which when they saw the disposition of the King of England they were not a little enrag'd at the Province of Holland who had so much endeavour'd to keep them in ignorance and made them more pliant to yield to those Alterations that not long after followed Munster so bestirs himself all the Winter that he allows no time for rest but upon Thaws and milde Weather so that he defeated several considerable parties of the Dutch and advanced not a little way into their Country of Friezland burning and spoiling some and taking other of their Towns whilst Prince Maurice with 18000 men is forc'd to look on without being able to attempt any thing of moment Their chief Assistants were the King of France and Dukes of Lunenburg As for the first he sent them a Supply of men but they brought along with them so much Rudeness and such Diseases into the Country that the Dutch were soon weary of their company for they were forc'd to quarter ' am in the Brandenburgher's Country which did them no good The thâ—eats of Waldeck and the conjunction of the Confederate-Forces did them as little kindness only it caus'd the Bishop to retire with his main Body out of Friezland leaving a sufficient strength in Garrisons for he had destroyed already 900 Horse in one place 200 Foot in another he had defeated two Troops of their Horse and 500 Foot in another place and 400 Foot that had repossessed themselves of Vriesveen forcing them to render themselves and had now Garrisoned his Foot in his new Conquests and withdrawn his Horse into his own Country The Dukes of Lunenburg grew cold in their assistance and sent to excuse themselves to the King of England for what they had done as being ignorant of the Grounds and Causes of the Bishop's taking Arms. The Brandenburgher offer'd a Mediation with the Bishop but with much delay Their main hopes was in the King of France who believing the Ballance of Affairs not even enough yet and 't is thought rather acting as he did out of an affectation of Sovereignty in the Mediterranean-Sea not only continues their friend but declares War against England acquainting the Queen-Mother of England that though he could no longer keep off a Declaration of War against his Majesty of Great Britain yet that he should always preserve the same esteem and value for his Majesty's Person hoping his Majesty would continue the same kindness and affection for him Accordingly upon the 27 th of Ianuary the French King's Declaration of War was publickly proclaim'd upon pretence of Succouring the States General in consequence of the Treaty 1662. But the Lord Hollis the King of England's Embassador in France having remonstrated the great injustice of that Declaration which subjected all English-men in their Estates and Persons to the last acts of Hostility contrary to the Treaties between the two Crowns allowing each party three Moneths time for the withdrawing their Estates and Persons after a Rupture The King of France thereupon issu'd out a second Proclamation giving the English the said Liberty of three Moneths to Transport themselves and Goods However in return of the first Declaration the King of England soon after that is to say in February publish'd also his Declaration of War against the French Importing that whereas the French King pretending an Alliance Defensive with the States General had proclaim'd a War against his Subjects That he was resolv'd to prosecute the War which the French King had so unjustly undertaken against him with his utmost Force by Sea and Land It was then admirable to see with what a harmony and chearfulness the Maritime Counties offer'd their service to his Majesty upon their receiving his first Orders to put themselves into a posture of defence But he being tender of continuing them under the trouble of a needless Duty was pleased to direct their dismission and return home till further occasion In the mean time Sr. Christopher Mimms was Crusing about with a Squadron of stout Ships who hearing of a Squadron of the Dutch that were out at Sea near Ostend he made away for Discovery and at length had a view of them out of fight of Land about Newport being in all 16 Sail and 3 Flags Fain he would have been dealing with them but they not daring to abide the shock made all the Sail they could away and easily escap'd him being neer their own Burrows The Pestilence was now so well abated that the King return'd again to White-Hall where the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs of London attended Him and humbly welcom'd Him home to his Chief City after so long and melancholy an absence The Term also which to prevent the too early resort of People to London and Westminster had been Adjourn'd to Windsor was now again Adjourn'd from thence to Westminster But the Parliament who should have met the 20th of this month were again Prorogu'd till the 23 of April by a special Commission directed to the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and others of the Lords both Spiritual and Temporal About this time Sir Thomas Clifford the Kings Extraordinary Envoy to Sweden and Denmark return'd into England And the Earl of Sandwich was sent Ambassadour extraordinary into Spain where what good Services he did the following years will declare And to shew
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
going and returning Sir Iohn dismiss'd them with promise of a speedy answer and upon consultation with the Earl of Bath it was agreed that Sir Ionathan Trelawney Major Sparks and Mr. Windham should go aboard At their approach De Ruyter met them at the Boat-side and inviting them aboard saluted them with 13 Guns excusing what had past and promising for the future that no other acts of that nature should be committed while he continu'd on the Coast. De Wit Doleman the Count de Horne with above 20 Captains more attended the English at the Great Cabin where they offer'd a Present to De Ruyter for his own Table but refus'd any greater supply till Peace should be Proclaim'd Accordingly upon their return the Earl of Bath sent the Admiral a Present of fresh Provisions with a fat Buck and some Fruit which De Ruyter receiv'd with seven Guns as an acknowledgement Notwithstanding De Ruyter's Complement after he parted from Plymouth two of the Dutch Fleet came before the Harbour of Hoy and advancing near the Shoar ply'd with their Broad-sides certain Works that were newly rais'd at the entrie of the Harbour but after an hour and an half they were forc'd to retire with several Shots receiv'd in their Hulls and the loss of one of their Top-Masts and several men without any loss to the English After this they were only seen to hover about the Coasts but without any farther Attempts and Peace ensu'd For about the beginning of Iune the Embassadours of England France and Sweden the Plenipotentiaries of the States and Denmark repair'd to the Castle belonging to the Prince of Orange where there was great care taken to avoid all contests about Precedency A while after Mr. Coventry one of the Embassadors being sent over into England and having receiv'd the King's Answer and Resolution touching the Articles discuss'd and agree'd to by the Plenipotentiaries return'd for Breda so that upon the Twenty first of Iune the Articles were sign'd by the Plenipotentiaries And upon the Fourteenth of August the Ratifications of the Peace were enterchang'd The Mediators first bringing in the Ratifications and other Instruments of the Dutch French and Danes into the English Embassadors Apartment receiv'd from them theirs in Exchange Which done the English Embassadors went into the Apartment of the Dutch and their Allies where they made and receiv'd the Compliments usual upon the Conclusion of so great an Affair The Peace was immediately Proclaim'd before the Doors of the several Plenipotentiaries in their respective Languages Afterwards upon the Twenty fourth of August it was publickly Proclaim'd in the City of London And as if this had not been enough it was afterwards confirm'd by an Additional Treaty made and concluded by Sir William Temple in Ianuary following Having thus pursu'd the Series of the Dutch War and Peace other intervening actions must not be omitted It was murmur'd that the Publick Treasure was wasted and miss-spent the King therefore to satisfie the People Issued out a Commission to several Members of both Houses to take an Accompt of such sums of Money as had been rais'd and assign'd to him during the present War being in all 2477500 l. granted at several times by several Acts with full Power to call to Accompt all Treasurers Pay-masters Receivers and all other Agents and Persons whatsoever And what had not been lately practis'd before by the King this Year the Feast of St. George was kept in his Palace of White-Hall The Earl of Southampton Lord High Treasurer of England being now lately Dead the King did not think fit to give the Place to any particular Person for the present but made the Duke of Albemarle the Lord Ashley Sir Thomas Clifford Sir William Coventry and Sir Iohn Duncomb by a Commission under the Great Seal his Commissioners for executing that Office The Parliament had met according to the Kings Proclamation in Iuly but were then Prorogu'd again till the Tenth of October at which time being again Assembled the King gave for one reason of his last Prorogation That it was to give himself time to do some things in the mean time which he hop'd would not be unwelcome to them which he had since done leaving his other Reasons to be deliver'd by the Lord Keeper who not only afterwards enlarg'd upon the King's Reasons for the said Prorogation but also recommended to them the Obstructions of Trade and the settlement of such a Ballance of Trade between England and Scotland that neither we should be prejudic'd by the Import of their Commodities here nor they put to seek new places of Vent abroad As to the Money rais'd for the War he told them what the King had done in reference to calling all Persons to Account and had committed the Examination thereof to themselves to follow their own Method adding withal that if any grievances had happen'd his Majesty would be as willing to have them Redress'd as they to have them Represented not doubting but that they would endeavour to Imprint the known Truth into his Subject hearts that there was no distinct Interest between the King and his People The Commons taking into Consideration the King's Speech resolv'd to return him their humble Thanks to which purpose having obtain'd the Concurrence of the Lords the Two Houses in a Body attended the King in the Banqueting-House where the Lord Keeper in the Name of the Two Houses made known to the King That they His Majesties Loyal and Faithful Subjects having taken into their serious Consideration the Speech wherein he was pleas'd to let them know the reasons of their last Prorogation which was to give himself time to do some things which would not be unwelcome to them but be a Foundation of a greater Confidence for the Future between the King and them They found themselves in duty bound to give him thanks and particularly for that he had Disbanded the New-rais'd Forces that he had dismist the Papists from his Guards and other Military Imployments for his Care in quickning the Execution of the Act restraining the Importation of Canary That He had seen the Canary Patent Vacated And Lastly for his displacing the Lord Chancellor But the Parliament having Sate till the Middle of December pass'd several Acts among the rest An Act for taking an account of the several Sums of Money therein mention'd An Act for Banishing and Disenabling the Earl of Clarenden to which when the King had given his Consent by Commission they Adjourn'd till February And because it was a general Complaint among the Seamen and Souldiers who had been in Service that they were frequently constrain'd to give money or lose some part of their Wages to recover the rest the King therefore for the more effectual Redress of such abuses if any were appointed the Duke of York and several of the Lords of the Council to receive and hear all such Complaints as any Sea-man or Souldier should
room But now to take the charge from-both the Lord Roberts arrives at Dublin Upon the news of this change the Lord Mayor and Aldermen the Provost of the Colledge the Dean of Christ-Church and most of the Clergy attended the Lord Ossory where the one acknowledged the many benefits which the City had received from the Government of his Father and himself the other the many benefits which the Church had enjoy'd as well by their good Examples as by the plentiful provision made them by the Clergy The reception of the new Lord-Deputy was intended to have been made with much State and Solemnity but he waving those publick Honours met the Lord-Deputy and the Council at the Council-Chamber the same Evening after his arrival where after he had taken the usual Oath the Lord-Deputy deliver'd him the Sword He was no fooner enter'd upon his Government but he issu'd out a Proclamation commanding all Governors and Officers to repair to their several Charges and Duties not admitting any dispâ—nsation to the contrary London had long layn in Ashes and the Confluence of all the World had been as long confin'd within the narrow limits of a Colledge-Court but now again the Merchants to their great satisfaction and the lasting Merits of Sir William Turner then Lord Mayor whose indâ—â—aâ—igable paâ—â— and zeal was Eminent in advancing and forwarding so great a Work met in the Royal Exchange a Fabrick equal to the Honour of the Undertakers and holding a true proportion with the rest of the Goodly Buildings of the Reviving City But now men began to listen after things a higher Nature seeing both Houses of Parliament again Assembled upon the 19th of October The King in a Speech acquainted them With his joy to see them at that time and the hopes he had of a happy meeting which he promis'd himself from the great experience he had of their Affection and Loyalty of which he did not doubt the Continuance briefly minding them of his Debts which though pressing he was unwilling to call for their Assistance till this time acquainâ—ing them also that what they last gave was wholly apply'd to the Navy and to the Extraordinary Fleet for which it was intended desiring they would now take his Debts effectually into their Consideration Afterwards hinting to them a Proposal of great Importance concerning the Vniting of England and Scotland which because it requir'd some length he left that and some other things to the Lord Keeper to open more fully which was by him done and then both Houses Adjourn'd At the beginning of November both Houses in pursuance of a Vote which they had made attended the King in the Banqueting House where the Lord Chief Justice Vaughan supplying the Room of the Lord Keeper in the name of both Houses return'd their Humble Thanks to the King for his Care of the Publick in Issuing out his Proclamation for the suppressing of Conventicles Humbly desiring his Majesty to continue the same care for the future In Reply to which his Majesty return'd an Answer to the satisfaction of both Houses But now Christmas drawing near and having sate above a Month without effecting any thing of consequence the Lords sent the Usher of the Black-Rod to the House of Commons to tell them That by Vertue of the King's Commission they desird their Attendance who Attending accordingly with their Speaker the Commission was read and the Parliament Prorogu'd till the 24th of February next ensuing At the same time that the Parliament of England sate at Westminster the Parliament of Scotland sate at Edenburgh where the Earl of Lauderdale having taken the Chair of State as Lord Commissioner of Scotland the Earls Commission was first read and then the doubtful Elections of Members refer'd to Examination That done the Kings Letter to the Parliament was twice read seconded by a shorter from the Lord Chancellor perswading them to a concurrence with the King in his Design of Uniting the Two Kingdoms Then they proceeded to Elect the Lords of the Articles the Bishops choosing Eight Bishops and those Eight Eight of the Nobility and these Sixteen making choice of Eight Knights and as many Burgesses by whom all Affairs were to be prepar'd for the House During this Session they Publish'd an Act for the Naturalization of Strangers within the Kingdom of Scotland Declaring that all Strangers of the Protestant Religion that should think fit to bring their Estates into the said Kingdom or should come to set up new Works and Manufactures therein should be Naturaliz'd as Native-Born Subjects of that Kingdom to all intents and purposes The King farther Declaring That upon application by such Strangers made to him he would grant them the free and publick use of their Religion in their own Language and the Libertie of having Churches of their own However no persons were to have the benefit of the said Act till first by Petition to the Lords of the Privy-Council containing an exact designation of their Names and places of Birth and former residences and that tâ—ey be of the Protâ—stant Religion They also made another Act asserting his Majesty's Supremacy over all persons and in all Causes Ecclesiastical By Sea little was this Year done only Sir Thomas Allen being again sent with a Squadron of Ships about the beginning of August came before Argier and sending in his Boat began to Treat they in Argier seem'd willing to make restitution of such Money as they had taken from an English ship bound for the East-Indies but not agreeing to some other demands the Treaty prov'd ineffectual thereupon he began actual Hostility seizing a Bark laden with Corn which rode in the Bay with eleven Moors and a Brigantine which he took in view of the Town From hence having done little or nothing else considerable he set sail for Tripoly the Bashaw of which place sent him an assurance of his readyness to prâ—serve Peace and a good Correspondence with the King of Great Britain And after a short crusing up and down in those Seas he return'd for Cadiz where this Year leaves him But being now so neer the English Territories at Tangier the King of England's Embassador Mr. Henry Howard must not be forgot who being sent by the King his Embassador Extraordinary to the Emperour of Morocco at that time Taffalette by vertue of his new Conquests was now arriv'd at Tangier but understanding the danger of hazarding his person among those Barbarians stay'd at that place expecting a sufficient strength to convoy and conduct him to his place of Audience In November he receiv'd his Safe-Conduct with an assurance from the Emperour that he should not fail of receiving all satisfaction in order to whatsoever he should desire for his security and that he had already caus'd Justice to be done to such as were found guilty of giving any affronts to his people And true it was that he caus'd all the English which were taken by the
of defence they could but the English in the mean while attacquing them with their Fire-ships perform'd their business with so much valour and success that they â—et the most part of the Enemies ships on fire those which escap'd the Flame were seiz'd on by the English the Men of War were the principal ships of Argier And to compleat this Victory Captain Beach brought in to the rest another ship of 40 Guns and 350 men which he had but newly taken So that now Sir Edward Sprague believing that by this loss the Algerines might be brought to an easie accomodation made a speedy return to his station before that Port. This Moneth the King minding to look after the condition of his Western Sea-port-Towns made a kinde of a Sea-progress For arriving first at Portsmouth he went in his Yacht to the Isle of Wight where he took a view of the most considerable Ports of the Island thence he return'd to Hurst-Castle thence he went to view Corf-Castle thence returning for Portsmouth again he sail'd away attended by five Frigats for Plymouth thence back to Dartmouth with an intention to return by Land to London Observing this the great Proverb of The Masters Eye The Moors and we were not yet so friendly but that Taffalette proceeding in his designe of attempting all the Christian Sea-port-Towns upon the Coast of Barbary would needs visit Tangier giving a warm attacque upon the Fort call'd Anne-Fort though at a distance firing upon our men in Rank and File and falling back while others supplied their places being the first time the Moors were observ'd to fight in such order but finding our men too hot they soon retreated And thus are the Moors become a part of the English History Then was the Parliament again Prorogu'd from the 16 th of April following till the 30 th of October 1672. The King as it afterwards appeared having now his hands full of forrein Consultations Nor was it for nothing that so many Agents and Embassadors were sent abroad Coventry Esq. for Sweden the Lord Sunderland for Spain it being the great care of Princes to draw what assistance they can from their Enemies Sir George Downing for Holland it being no less their care to offer all honourable terms of Peace if they may be obtain'd At home his Majesty to reward Valour and Vertue in consideration of that stout and memorable action perform'd by Capt. Boddison Captain of the Swallow a Merchant-man of 150 Tuns and 26 Men who had fought against an Argerine of 36 Guns and having Boarded him several times forc'd him at last shamefully to leave him and six of his men-behinde was pleased to order the Captain a Gold-Chain and a Medal Nor was the City of London having its publick Buildings recovered out of the late Ruines to a greater Splendor and Beauty than heretofore less mindful to make an Invitation to his Majesty to honour their Lord-Mayor's Feast with his presence which he did accordingly to shew how much he was pleased to see the City so reviv'd from such a sad Calamity The issue of Sir Edward Sprague's success against the Pyrates of Argier was by this known in England for he returning from the destruction of their ships to his former station before Argier it self found a strange alteration among those people for the Aga had taken off their General 's Head and soon after five of this General 's Souldiers cut off the Kingâ— Head and brought it openly in to the Divan crying out they must have Peace with the English Upon this they created a new King who seeing the inclinations of the people constrain'd by their own necessities thought it his best way to enter into a Treaty which at length ended in a Peace as honourable and advantageous as ever was made between the English and those Rovers It could no longer now be conceal'd what the secret Counsels of the Great ones had so long been aiming at For now the King publickly intending War with the Dutch openly Declared That seeing all the Princes and States his Neighbours were making preparations for War both by Sea and Land he look'd upon himself obliged for the safety of his Government and protection of his People to make such preparations as should be answerable to the preservation of both to which end he had given order for fitting and setting out a considerable Navy against the Spring but Money was wanting and his own Revenues all anticipated and deeply engaged As therefore the necessity was inevitable the Course taken was extraordinary It being thought absolutely convenient to put a stop upon the paying of any Money then brought in or to be brought in to the Exchequer during the space of one whole year To which as to the last remedy as the King himself declared nothing could have moved him but such a conjuncture of affairs when all the Neighbouring Princes and States were making such threatning preparations that his Government could not be safe without appearing in the same posture About this time died Dr. Cosens Bishop of Durham and Count Palatine there in the 77 th year of his Age and was buried at Aukland neer Durham Sir George Downing being now in Holland according to his particular Instructions was very urgent with the States in the affair of the Flag and by several Instances and several Memorials press'd for an Answer to his Demands but finding all their delays insufferable and all his endeavours consequently fruitless in a few Moneths return'd for England but after a private Examination by some of the Lords of the Council and report made thereof to the King he was by his Majesty's Warrant committed to the Tower for not having obey'd the Orders sent him It was not safe while we are going to Wars abroad to have dissention at home and therefore the King put forth a seasonable Declaration of his will and pleasure freely to indulge all Nonconformists and dissenting persons in matters of Religion asserting however his resolution to maintain the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England as it was establish'd And now they who would return no answer to Sir George Downing are Summoned by Sir Robert Holmes to remember their Duty in another manner For upon the 13 th of this Moneth five of the King's Frigats crusing by the Isle of Wight met with the Dutch Fleet of Smyrna-men and others to the number of 50 Sail convoy'd by six Men of War Above 20 of their Merchant-men carried between twenty and forty Guns apiece The English Frigats coming neer shot at them to make them strike and lower their Sail which when the Dutch refus'd to do the Fight began in the Afternoon and continued till Night then three Frigats more coming in the next Morning they fought again and all that day In the Evening five of their richest Merchant-men were taken their Rear-Admiral was Boarded by Captain Iohn Holmes but was so leaky that she
While the King of England is preparing his Fleet by Sea the King of France leaving the Management of Affairs at home in the Hands of the Queen begins his March at the Head of his Main Army himself and first he Arrives at Charleroy the chief place of Rendezvous whence he sends to Montery to assure him that though he were constrain'd to March through those Countries yet he would take care that not the least Act of Hostility should be committed Toward the beginning of May Turenne appear'd within a League of Maestricht which was soon after wholly Blockt up in which condition the King leaving it March'd directly with the gross of his Army toward Rhinebergh In the mean while at Sea the English Fleet being in all English and French 160 Sayl had often sight of the Dutch But upon the 28th of this Month about five of the Clock in the Morning a most brisk Fight began near the Bay of Southwold The Blew Squadron first Engag'd and the Royal Iames was the first Ship that fir'd next to which his Royal Highness who was becalm'd but the Blew Squadron and the French having a Gale came up with the Duke and Fought briskly In the Afternoon of the day the Soveraign St. Andrew and about 20 more getting the Weather-gage of the Dutch were hotly Engag'd about which time the Iames being over-presâ— with Number of Men of War and Fireships a Flag-ship of the Dutch lay'd himself athwart his Hawser but finding his Entertainment too hot cry'd out for quarter whereupon the English entring and leaving the Iames naked the Fireships took their advantage two of which were sunk the third took place and fir'd a stout ship where the Earl of Sandwich perish'd for want of Relief but his Captain Captain Haddock escap'd with a shot in his Thigh The Henry and Two other ships more were likewise disabled At Night the Dutch stood away which the Duke perceiving stood after them keeping in sight of their Lights all Night In the afternoon of the next day the Duke hors'd up his Bloody Flag and bore lasking upon the Dutch intending a second Engagement but on a suddain there fell such a thick Mist with much Wind that they could not see a ships length about an hour and a half after it cleer'd up again and the Bloody Flag was put out a second time but the Fog coming thick again nothing could be done Whereupon the Duke finding himself near the Oyster-Bank Tack'd about stood away some Leagues and came to an Anchor there he staid all Night and the next Morning till Ten a Clock but could hear nothing of the Enemy who were retir'd to the shallows of their own Coast. In this Engagement were lost out-right the Earl of Sandwich Captain Digby in the Henry Sir Iohn Cox in the Prince Sir Freschevile Hollis Monsieur de la Rabinier the French Rear-Admiral with several others several others Wounded about seven hundred Common Sea-men slain and as many Wounded and the Royal Iames only Burn'd In the Henry not an Officer was left alive and above half the Men slain The Katharine was taken and the Captain put on Board a Dutch ship and the Men clapt under Hatches the Dutch going about to Fire the ship at what time a French Sloop came in and cut away the Fireships Boat and then the English finding a way to break out upon the Dutch redeem'd both themselves and the ship and brought away Sixteen of the Dutch Prisoners that were a little before their Masters On the Dutch side were lost Admiral Van Ghent and Captain Brakhel most of their great ships miserably torn among the rest two sunk one by the Earl of Sandwich another by Sir Edward Sprage one taken and one Burn'd besides a very great loss of Common Sea-men another great Vessel suppos'd to be a Flag-ship was seen to sink neer Alborough and several others that were missing suppos'd to be sunk or burn'd As this was no small loss at Sea considering some advantage they had to be beaten into their own Ports so was their loss as great by Land the French having at the same time taken Rhineberg Wesel Oysup and Burick Groll Borkelo taken by the Bishop of Munster and after them Rees Sckenk-Sconce and several others underwent the same Fate possessed by the French Nor was this all for the French without much resistance had now forc'd their Passage over the Rhine neer Tolbuys This neer Approach of the French bred such a Confusion in the Netherlands that many of the most wealthy Inhabitants forsook the Country not willing to hazard their Persons and Estates in a Country falling into the hands of a Victorious Forreigner The States also themselves remov'd from the Hague to Amsterdam for their better security opening the Sluces and putting the Country round under Water to the dammage of above 18 Millions of Gilders The King of England being throughly informed of these Proceedings puts forth a seasonable Declaration signifying That if any of the Low Country Subjects either out of Affection to His Majesty or his Government or because of the oppression they meet with at home from their Governours should come into his Kingdoms they should be Protected in their Persons and Estates that they should have an Act for their Naturalization and that all such Ships and Vessels as they should bring along with them should be accompted as English built and enjoy the same Priviledges and Immunities as to Trade Navigation and Customs as if they had been built in England or belong'd to his own Subjects And to restrain the Licentious Tongues of those that were apt to talk too busily and sawcily of State-Affairs the King did farther by his Proclamation forbid all his loving Subjects either by Writing or Speaking to divulge or utter false News or Reports or to intermeddle in matters of Government or with any of his Majesties Councellors or Ministers in their common Discourses All this while the Dutch at Land began to be more and more streightned for on the one side the King of France was Advanc'd within Three Leagues of Amsterdam Arnhem Vtrecht and Zutphen and Emmerick surrendred up to him on the other side the Bishop of Munster press'd hard upon Frizeland having taken Deventer Groll Borkelo Doetechem and several other Places of lesser Consequence insomuch that the People began to Tumult in all places but more especially at Dort whither they sent for the Prince of Orange where as he was at Dinner with the Lords at the Paw being the Principal House in the Town the Burgers who were in Arms surrounded the House and sent up their Captains to tell the Lords That except they presently drew up a Paper and put their Hands to it for declaring the Prince Stadt-holder they would Cut all their Throats whereupon the Paper was immediately drawn up and sign'd by which the said Prince was declar'd Stadt-holder with all the Powers and Authorities in as ample
Lyonel Ienkins For the King of Spain Count Areschot and Don Emanuel de Lyra. For the Emperour Count Conningsech and the Baron D'Issola Count Tott for the Crown of Sweden For the Dutch Van Beverning Van Haren and Odyke For the French the Duke de Chausnes But the Dutch having other Designes in their heads than what were driven on in that place would yield to nothing there nor were they so fully instructed but that upon the Propositions delivered by the English Plenipotentiaries they pleaded they could give no positive Answer without consulting their Masters and returning to Holland had leisure enough to take their pleasure while the States were contriving an Answer which when they had delivered at Cologne was nothing but a device finely spun for delay which made Cologne a place of great Concourse but little business In the mean time the Dutch send a Letter to the King of England to which the King of England return'd so full an Answer that though they said The King was very sharp and obstinate in his Letter That nothing was to be done but to continue the War That no farther Instructions should be sent to their Deputies at Cologne till they saw how the Parliament would order matters to whom they were resolv'd to send a Copy of their Reasonable Proposals hoping otherwise to bring the King to better Termes Yet upon cooler thoughts they not only listned to the Motions of Peace but also came to terms of Accommodation and thereupon in February following they dispatch'd a Trumpeter into England by whom they receiv'd that satisfaction in Answer to their Letters from the King of England that soon after the Peace was concluded between His Majesty and the Spanish Embassador residing in London on the behalf of the Dutch The News was receiv'd with incredible joy in the Low Countries Sir Gabriel Sylvius was sent by His Majesty to the Prince of Orange to Complement him upon the Conclusion of the Peace with whom also the States did interchange the Ratification of the Articles In the interim His Majesty having caus'd a new sort of Brass Half-pence and Farthings to be made current throughout all England and Coyn'd in the Tower issued forth a Proclamation for the suppression of the particular farthings and halfe-pence of private Shopkeepers and being inform'd that Shop-keepers did notwithstanding continue to utter Halfe-pence and Farthings of their own stamping he caus'd them to be proceeded against according to Law which was so effectually done that many were Convicted and fin'd but upon submission by the King's mercy Pardon'd Before we fully conclude the Dutch War it will be necessary to relate a piece of Gallantry performed by Captain Harman in the Mediterranean Sea where the Vice-Admiral of Evertson's Squadron in a Man of War call'd the Sehaerlaes carrying 36 pieces of Cannon and 140 Men Commanded by Captain Pasqual De Witt met with Captain Harman in the Tygre returning from Tangier and coming both into Cadiz-Bay where Evertson lay to Careen the people of the Town began to laugh at the Dutch telling them That they durst not Fight the English that they had left their station for fear Which Evertson hearing told the Captain of the Dutch that to save his Honor he was oblig'd to Chalenge the English Captain Which being resolv'd upon De Witt fiâ—ted himself the best he could for the Rencounter next Morning Evertson thereupon furnish'd him with Two new Lieutenants 70 Souldiers and 60 Mariners more than he had making in all 270 Men. The Tygre which had not above 184 Men in all saw all these Preparations and prepared himself the best he could but without any more addition of Men. The next Morning getting out a League to Sea within view of the Town and in sight of the greatest part of the Inhabitants so soon as both Frigats came within Pistol-shot of each oâ—her the Fight began with that success to the English that with one Broad-side the Tygre shot down the Main-yard of the Dutch Vessel and kill'd and wounded above 80 Men without receiving much Damage so that after half an hours Dispute the Dutch ship was Boarded and taken by the English the Enemy having lost 140 Men and 86 Wounded The Dutch Man of War was so disabled and shot through and through that She was hardly fit for service to the great wonder of the beholders After which Captain Harman return'd into Port with great Honour having lost only 9 Men Kill'd out-right and 15 Wounded one of which was himself being shot in at the left Eye with a Musquet-Bullet that went out between the Ear and the Jaw-bone of which he was happily afterwards recover'd At home the Dutch made great rejoycing for the Conclusion of the Peace and being now quit from the fear of the English minded onely the setting out of a small Fleet consisting of 32 Men of War under Tromp Haen and young De Ruyter Nor was His Majesty less mindful to proceed against the Papists giving Order to the Judges to put the Laws against them in Execution Forein Affairs 1673. Toward the beginning of the Year the Elector of Brandenburgh concludes a Peace with the King of France and in order thereto draws his Troops out of the Territories of Cologne and Munster Allies of France and Monsieur Turenue drew out his out of the County of Mark. In Poland things were now in an indifferent quiet posture the Arch-bishop of Gnesna a great Opposer of the Kings Designes was Dead and the Dyet concluding in a very great Calme The Turk indeed threatned them but they doubted not of their Ability to oppose him But the King liv'd not long to see the fruits of his Accommodation dying toward the beginning of Autumn ensuing Great were the Fears of that Nation what would fall out during this interregnum and probably they might have suffered much had they not been free'd from those fears at present by a great overthrow given the Turks by the Polish-General Sobieski who Attacquing the Enemy in their Retrenchments by the Assistance of the Hussar Horsemen totally Defeated him so that of 45000 men not above 3000 remain'd alive after the Fight Two Bassa's were slain and a vast Plunder became a prey to the Victor besides the Castle of Cochim which the Turks had some while before taken from the Christians That which chiefly contributed to the obtaining this Victory was the valour of the Hussars and the Revolt of the Hospodars of Moldavia and Wallachia who fell from the Turk at the beginning of the Fight bringing with them again those Two Provinces under the Subjection of the Polish Crown from whence they had fallen off above 50 Years since But the chiefest Scene of War now lay in the Low Countries into which the King of France being fallen with a considerable Army toward the beginning of Summer had beleaguer'd Maestricht a Frontier Garrison and one of the strongest belonging to the States of Holland Among all other Actions perform'd at this
Spain and the Emperor should be Warranters for the Observance And now for the better support of the Prince of Oranges Dignity the Dutch East-India Company unanimously resolv'd to give Him and his Heirs Male after him Three in the Hundred of all that their gains upon the division And then having secur'd themselves from Munster they made an agreement with Lunenburgh to keep 14000 Men in the Service of the States they paying him such a certain Sum. About this time also the difference between the King of France and the State of Genoa were wholly Reconcil'd by the Mediation of the King of England But on the other side the King of France continues his German War so that Besancon the chief City of Franche Compte falls into his hands being rendred upon ordinary Articles after a short Siege Nor did the Ciradel hold out much longer The next Town Besiegd was Dole which not being able to withstand the Fortune of the French Arms yielded it self After which Solines and Castle St. Anne being taken made the Conquest of Franche Compte compleat About the middle of Iune was fought the Battle of Sanzeime between the Marshal Turenne and the Imperialists wherein the Imperialists being far less in Number had the worst It was fought from Nine in the Morning till Night when the Imperialists finding themselves over-powr'd retir'd in very good order leaving behind about 2000 Men. Nor was the loss of the French less considerable for they lost a great many common Soldiers but more Commanders A little before this the Dutch had taken the Island of Normantier from the French where they destroy'd a great deal of Corn but not long after quitted it upon Agreement made with the Inhabitants and the Religioâ—s Order of Cistertians in that Island to pay them 14000 Crowns in four Months and for their security taking with them the Abbot and some of the Principal Islanders After that they approach'd Bell Isle intending to have made a descent there but the Castle upon the Island was too well provided for their Entertainment In August was tought the Battle or rather Notable Skirmish call'd the Battle of Seneff between the Prince of Conde and the Confederates Imperialists Dutch and Spaniards in shoâ—t thus That the Confederates Army being upon their March toward a place call'd Binch the French tell upon the Rear and forcing them to Retreat through a narrow way which they could only pass in Files put them into great Confusion upon this the French soon became Masters of the Baggagâ— and Cannon when the Prince of Orange and after that the Germans came and engaged the Enemy so that the Fight continued till Night and then the French were forc'd to retreat to their Camp and the Prince of Orange and the Imperialists remain'd Masters of the Field The Prince of Orange was in great danger having been long Engag'd with the Enemy Several Officers of Quality were slain on both sides among the rest on the Prince of Orange's part Sir Walter Vane Major-General to the Prince having bravely behav'd himself was shot in the back and knee of which he dyed soon after and of 32 Colonels of the Dutch Army 26 were either Kill'd or Wounded the stress of the Fight lying upon them Many Common Souldiers were slain on both sides though the greatest Number was reported to be lost by the French being said to be above 3000 and many more confiderable Officers than upon the Dutch side The next Attempt of the Prince of Orange and the Confederates was upon Oudenard to which they had laid a â—ormal Siege but they were soon disturb'd by the Prince of Conde upon whose Approach and Resolution to fall upon them the Confederates drew off and marched toward Ghent In November Graves a strong Town Besieg'd by the Dutch was after a rough Siege and many Assaults retaken from the French The Garrison consisting of 1600 Foot aâ—d 400 Horse marching out upon Composition And now the Army of the Confederates and the French under Turenne lying near one another produc'd some considerable Action though their wary Commanders would not put all to the push nor was the Victory fully determin'd by the grandest of their peformances In the first place 4000 French Horse most of them the Troops of the King's Houshold Commanded by Monsieur Montauban fell upon some Munster Troops and a Regiment of Imperial Cuirassiers who guarded a certain Passage and with the suddainness of the Attack put the Imperialists into disorder but Caprara's Regiment that of the Prince of Lorain and some others coming to their Assistance they gave a stop to the Enemy till such time as other Lorain-Regiments came in the Fight was sharply maintain'd on both sides but at last the French were forc'd to retire the slaughter being great on both sides but greatest on the French and among the rest Mountauban himself was taken Prisoner The next was an Engagement between the Gross Bodies of both Armies for Turenne Advancing toward Colmar found the Confederates drawn up in Battalia readily attending his coming The Fight was bloody and tedious and many of the French Commanders were slain but more common Souldiers of the Imperialists side but Night coming on all Action ceased However the French continued in Arms all Night expecting to have renew'd the Fight next Morning but when the Imperialists perceiv'd that they retreated in great Disorder to Schlestadt and repassed the Rhine at Strasburgh Turrenne made himself Master of Colmar and sent Provisions to Brisaâ— which together with his keeping the Field were the Reasons that the French concluded themselves the Victors and sung Te Deum for their success at Paris On the other side the Imperialists took themselves to be Conquerours because their loss was no greater In Flanders there was nothing remarkable only the change of the Governour For Monterey being call'd home the Duke de Villa Hermosa was sent to succeed him Anno Dom. 1675. UPon the 13 th of April both Houses of Parliament met in pursuance of their last Prorogation They sate till above a Week in Iune following But the difference between the two Houses increasing about the business of Fag and Shirley upon which four Lawyers were Committed by the Commons to the Tower His Majesty was pleased upon the 9 th of Iune to Prorogue them again till the 13 th of October following having only signed some private Bills In May arriv'd in England the Prince of Newburgh having made some stay in London he went to Oxford where he was nobly treated by the University In the Barbadoes a Conspiracy was discover'd among the Blacks to have destroy'd the English which had been carried on with great secrecy till the very time of the Execution and was begun by the Blacks belonging to Captain Swanley who was kill'd by them But the Plot being found out several were made Exemplary In New-England the Natives under King Philip Hegamore of those parts fell upon the English and kill'd several and
Trim 164. Preston in Lancashire 178. Dunbar 273 Worcester 397 Beaufort encountered by Argier Pyratâ—s 546 Slain 576 Bâ—nnet Sir Humphrey 404 Benson Captain Executed 270 Beaumont a Minister Murthered at Pontfraict 227 Berkenhead Sir John Knighted 512 Berkley Sir John 98. Berkley Sir John and Col. Walter Slingsby 258 Bernard's Treachery rewarded 395 Betteley John Quartered 404 Bishops 12. Accused of high Treason to the Tower ten of them 26. Their Charge ibid. Restored to their Honours 502 Biddle an Infamous seducer 369 Blake blocks up Prince Rupert at Lisbon 256 At Lisbon again 267. A wary Commander 366. At Porto-Ferina defeats the Pyrates 372. Sails for the Coast of Spain 381. His desperate attempt upon the Spaniard in Sancta Cruz Fight 391. Fires the Spanish Fleet there ibid. Dies returning into England 402. His Character and Funeral ibid. Blackburn vide Moris Blackness yielded 288 Blechingdon-house 74 Blood attempts the Crown 580 Bourdeaux French Embassador owns Cromwel 359 Boys Sir John 62 Boyle Dean his management of affair with Cromwel about Articles for the English 252 Booth Sir George riseth in Cheshire 424 Defeated and taken 425. Sent to the Tower and Examined by Vane and Haslerig 426. Obtains his liberty of the Rump uppon Bail 433 Bramhal Dr. dies 522 Bradshaw the bold President of the high Court of Iustice 106 to 217. Dies 430 Bradshaw Agent at Hamburg and Denmark 334 Brain sent General to Jamaica 381 Brandenburghers 547 Mortogh O Brian lays down last Armes in Ireland 356 Breda the place of Treaty 560. English Embassadors there ibid. Plenipotentiaries meet Peace concluded 563 Bristol intended to be surprized for the King 45 46. Taken by his Forces 47. By Fairfax 87 Bristol Earl honoured with the Garter 344 Bridgewater taken 82 Brickbat flung at the Protector 's Coach 358 Broughton Col. 296 Broughil Lord lands in Munster with Forces from England 246. Defeats David Roch and hangs the Bishop of Ross 252. Brown Major-General 57. Reconciled to the King at Holmby 128. In a new designe discovered 434 Brown Bushel beheaded 285 Brooks Lord killed 42 Brunt-Island taken 294 Brunswick besieged and surrendred 583 Buchanan's Book burnt in Scotland 526 Buckingham Duke 177. sent into Holland 584 Buckhurst Lord c. 505 Burleigh Capt. 163 Butler Col. Richard taken 242 C Cahiâ— Castle weakly yielded 521 Calamy Minister Committed 514 Canons made against the Church of Rome and justifying this 12 Capel Lord Tryed and Sentenced 228. and Beheaded his noble deportment 229 Carlisle Earl sent into Sweden 572 Cavalcaâ—e and Procession from 474 to 486 Campeach taken 520 Canary prohibited 556 Candia besieged 559. Surrendred 577 Carlisle yielded to the Scots 106 Carnarvan slain 50 51 Casimire King of Poland dies in France 590 Carrick taken by Treachery 247. Attempted in vain to be recovered from Colonel Reynolds 248 Carteret Sir George Governour of Jersey 255 Castlehaven Earl for the King in Ireland and against the Nuntio's party 238 Casualties 315 Cavaliers to depart London 258. Conspire against Cromwel 366. Their Plot again discovered 401. They Plot against the Rump 423 Ceremonies in Religion one main cause of the War opposed and murmured at 2 3 Cessation granted by the Scots upon very difficult terms 15 Cessation agreed in Ireland 53 Chains of Gold and Medals given to the chief Sea-Officers 349 Chaloner Chute Speaker dies 416 Chancery regulated 368 Character of the Kings Iudges 196 to 203 Charles Prince in the Downs 175. At Goree in Holland 176 Charles the second Proclaimed King by dispersed papers 225 Chester Charter taken away 427 Chichister City 42 Chepstow-Castle taken by Sir Nicholas Kemish 171 St. Christophers and the Cariby Islands subdued 307 Christmass day Celebrated 398 City Alarm'd with a pretended Plot 403 City invite Parliament and Army to dinner 429. Send Sword-bearer to Gen. Monke 435. Their Gates and Portcullices pulled down 437 City and Companies feasts the General 438 Their joy upon the King's return 453 Lend the King Money 575 528 551 City Building begins 556 Citadels built in Scotland 313 Claypool's Lady dies buried 404 Dr. Clargis also Mr. Caryl Minister c. sent to Gen. Monke in Scotland 432 Clanrickard Marq. his services 249. Substituted Lord-Governour of Ireland 251. Defeated by Col. Axtel 277. Lays down his Arms 324 Clubmen 83 Clement Gregory 255 Clifford Lord made Lord Treasurer 588. Resignes his Staff 591 Clogher Bishop defeated 267 Clonmel yielded after a stout resistance 252 Colchester Siege 175 Cock-matches and Horse-races prohibited 359 Committee appointed for inspection of Charters 381. Committee of Safety 429. Like not themselves declare for another Parliament 433 Common-prayer abolished 69 Commonwealth altered by Cromwel 338 Composition 88 Compton Dr. made Bishop of Oxford 599 Commissioners in Scotland 166 Commission of the Great Seal altered 359 Commissioners for approbation of Ministers 359 Commissioners to treat with the King at the Isle of Wight 183 Commissioners to General Monke from the City 436 Commissioners to the King at Breda arrive at the Hague 447 Commissioners of the Treasury 563. To take account of publick Money ibid. To hear Seamens complaints 564 Cologne Treaty 594 Colmaer Battle 601 Colliers the Dutch designe 337 Confederate party of Irish Rebels 250 Confirmation of Acts 500 Constable Sir William dies and buried in Hen. 7th's Chappel 373 Contents of the Kings Declaration from Breda 445 Convocation in England grant 5th part of their Livings to Scotch War 12 Convention in Ireland 440 Conway Lord defeated 13 Coronation of the King 475 to 496 Cotterel Sir Charles sent to Brussels 532 Court erected for rebuilding the City 556 County-troops established 373 Councellors several Privy-Councillors made 584 Covenant first in Scotland what 7. Taken 45. Burnt by the Hangman 498 to 500 Council of State erected 226. New chosen 258 named by Cromwel 343. Supream power named by the Rump 421. A new one appointed 435 Courts of Iustice in Ireland 332 Courts â—it in the interval of the Rupture by Lambert 343 Coot Sir Charles defeats the Irish 250 267 305. His Stratagem on Galloway in Ireland for a free Parliament 438. Died 503 Cooper a Minister Executed 278 Corke vide Youghal Cowley Abr. dies 564 Craven Lord his Case 291 365 offered again to the Parliament but deferred by the Protector 392 Crew Dr. Bishop of Durham 599 Crosses demolished 45 Cromwel Lieutenant-General at Marston-moor at Islip 59 74 112 His Conspiracy in seizing the King at Holmby 129. Complements and Courts the King 144. And then abuseth him 147. Awes the Votes of Non-addresses 162. His Politicks on People City and King 163. Collogues the City and Parliament for fear of the Scots 165. Marcheth into Scotland 178. Makes the Scots disband 179. Treacherously surprizeth the Levellers his subtile Clemency 234. Graduated at Oxford ibid. And presented and treated by the City of London 234. Made Lord-Governour of Ireland 237. Lands there ibid. Storms Tredagh his cruelty and policy there Winter-quarter at Youghal 254. Sent for by Letters leaves Ireland and Ireton in
〈…〉 and Lambert fall out 428. Vote away Lambert's and eight more Field-commission Officers ib. Outed by Lambert 429. Reseated 43 〈…〉 ter company added to them 438. Arms defaced 446 Rupert Prince 40 44. And throughout the War Leaves Kingsale and puts to Sea with a Fleet 254. Blockt up at Lisbon 256 267. His Fleet dispersed and some taken 275. From Taulon to Sea 289. Seizeth Spanish ships why 293. In France â—37 General at Sea 550. Divides 〈…〉 yns again and fights 551 Russia Emperor 255. Embassadors Rycaut Paul returns from Constantinople 520 S. Sad condition of the Irish 333 Safety a Committee 429 Sales of the King 's Queen's Prince's Dâ—â—ns and Chapters Lands and Houses 256. Of Kings Houses agreed on but avoyded by Cromwel â—â—â— Salisbury River begun to be made 〈…〉 â—â—â— Sanzeime Battle 600 Salmasius his Royâ—l defence 236 Salters-Hall Commissioners for sale of prisoners Estates stopt 359 Sanderson Bishop dies 514 Saul Major Executed 278 Sandwich Earl keeps the Sea 528. Takes the Dutch East-Indie-fleet 541. He is sent Embassador into Spain 545. Arrives at Madrid 550. Sent to Portugal 569 Scalborough to the King by Brown Bushel 44. Yielded to the Parliament 193 Savoy and Genoa at odds 547 566 590. Saxony Duke installed Knight of the Garter by Proxey 580 Scilly Island rendred by Sir John Greenvile 288 289 Scot Robinson sent to meet Gen. Monk 435 Scotch troubles about English Liturgy and Book of Canons 3. Arm 1638. And desire the King of France's assistance 9. Cunningly agree upon a Pacification abuse the King who is betrayed by his Servants 10. War resumed proclaimed Rebels treated with soon after 15. Peace ratified in Parliament ibid. Favour the Parliaments cause 35. Enter England with an Army for the Covenant 56. At Hereford 87. Iuggle with and sell the King 120. Parliament dispute about the disposal of the King 115 Commissioners sence of the Parliaments Bills and Proposals Presbyters murther sâ—veral Scotch Gentlemen 164. Prepare a War under Hamilton 165 166. Enter England under Duke Hamilton 177. Defeated 178. Hamilton prisoner ibid. Scotland detests the Murther of the King and proclaims Charles the second at Edinburgh and expostulates with the Regicides at Westminster 232 Scots defeat a Royal party in the North of Scotland 333. Send Commissioners to the King 233. Defeated in Ulster in Ireland by Sir Charles Coot 247. They send Commissioners to the King 257. Their Names Except against Malignants their other terms 257. They endeavour to unite 274 Cavaliers admitted into Trust 282. Pass an Act of Oblivion 290. Encamped in Torwood 292. Noblemen taken at Elliot in Scotland and sent Prisoners to the Tower others of the Nobility submit 302. The reasons 304. Kirk reject the English Vnion 307. Deputies ordered to be chosen by the Commissioners 310. The affairs of the Kingdom ibid. Several Scots Earls and Noblemen taken after Worcester 298 New Great Seal 56. Great Seal broken 128 Sea-fight the first between us and the Dutch in the Downs an account of it 315 to 320 Second Sea-fight between Sir Geo Ayscue and De Ruyter at Plymouth 325 Third Sea-fight between Blake and De Wit in the North-Foreland 326 327. Fourth Sea-fight at Portland 335 Fifth Sea-fight at Leghorn betwixt Captain Appleton and Van Gallen 337 Sixth Sea-fight betwixt Gen. Monke Dean and Blake and Van Tromp behinde the Goodwyn-Sands 345 Seventh Sea-fight betwixt Gen. Monke and Tromp 346 to 349 Sea-men encouraged 534 Secluded Members restored and reseated Sieges and Skirmishes in Ireland 274 Selden John dies 366 Seneffe Battle 601 Serini beats the Turk 52. Is killed 533 Sexby Col. dies 398 Shaftsbury Earl Lord Chancellor 588 Dr. Sheldon Arch-bishop of Canterbury 523 Sheriffs discharged of expenses at Assizes 401 Ship-money voted illegal 17. The nature of it 16 17 Ships blown up neer London-bridge 361 Shrewsbury 38 39 71 Sickness in London 539. Abates 544 Skippon Major-General Articles for the Infantry at Lestithiel 58 Skirmishes Brill Ast-ferry 64 Slanning Sir Nicholas 46 Slingsby Sir Henry decoyed 304. Tryed and Beheaded 404 Smith Sir Jeremy keeps the Mediterranean Seas 544 Soissons Count Embassador hither 456 Sonds Freeman kills his Brother and is hanged 380 Southampton Earl 163 Spalding-Abby fell and killed 23 persons 380 Spaniard owns the English Commonwealth 278 Sprague Sir Edward sent into Flanders 569. Commands in the Streights 578. Destroys the Algerines 581. Returns 583. Spoyls the Dutch fishing 588 Stacy Edmond Executed 404 States of England pretended declare the maintenance of Laws 227. Are guilty of the Irish Rebellion with which they taxed the King 237. Erect a new Council of State 283. Proclaim the King Traitor and are in great fear and dispair at his entring England 294 Stamford Earl 42 Statues of the late King and King James pulled down and the Inscription writ under that at Old Exchange 269 Steel Recorder of London refuseth to be Knighted by Oliver 357. Made Lord-Chancellor of Ireland 366. Made Lord Chief-Baron of England 373 Stawel Sir John ordered for Tryal 229. At High Court of Iustice 279 Sterling-Castle taken 361 Sterry Oliver's Chaplain his Blasphemy 409 Strafford Earl Commander in chief against the Scots 13. Accused to the Parliament 15. To the Black-rod and Tower 16. Tryal 18. His willing resignation his attainder ibid. And deâ—th 19 St. Germain a Proclamation against him 602 St. John and Strickland Embassadors to the Dutch their business and departure 285 286 287. St. John 357. Stickles in the Council of State for terms with the King 440 Stratton Baron Lord Hopton dies 328 Straughan Col. 280 Stroker 540 Stuart Lord John killed 57. With Sir John Smith Col. Scot and Sandys and Colonel Manning ibid. Stuart Lord Bernard slain 89 Submission of the Irish 324 Sunderland Earl slain 51 Summons for persons of Integrity to take upon them the Government by Council of state 345 Sums of Money raised by the Parliament Supplies to Jamaica 377 Surrenders several 91. As Basing Tiverton Exeter Sheford 91 92 Surrenders in Ireland 270 Surinam 557 Surrey Petitioners assaulted 172 Sweden Queen supplies Montross 255. Complies with our States 358. Receives Whitlock ibid. Gives our Soveraign an interview 376 Sweden King invades Poland 373 Swedes stand firm for England 549. Besiege Bremen 559. Mediations excepted 560. Embassador dies in London 566. Makes peace with the Dutch 567. King presented with the Garter 572. Installed by Proxie 580. Ioyn with the French 597 Sydenham Major slain at Linlithgow 288 Syndercomb's Plot and death 384 385. T Tabaco taken by the English 591 Tables erected in Scotland 7 Tadcaster 42 Taffalette routed and slain 579. Moors beaten 581. Earl of Middleton Governour and makes peace with the Moors 594 Taaff Lord sent against Cromwel 246 Taaff Luke Major-General 248 Tangier 504. Iews expelled 525. Lord Bellasis Governour there 537. Moors beaten there 573 Tartar taken in Germany 526 Taylor the Kings Resident with the Emperour 329 Taxes a mark on them 331 Teviot Earl killed 527 Temple Sir William concludes â— League
Impeachment of high treason against the Earl of Strafford he is committed and Sir George Ratcliff sent for out of Ireland Dr. Williams Bishop of Lincoln released Mr. Pryn Dr. Bastwick and Mr. Burton received by the Londoners in pomp Sir John Finch Lord Keeper and Francis Windebanck Secretary of State charged with high treason they withâ—rew John James a Romish Catholique stabs Iustice Howard in Westminster-Hall The Case of Shipmoney stated The Iudges opinions thereupon Shipmoney vâ—tâ—d illegal The Iudgment of the Excheqâ—â—r agâ—inst Mr. Hambden vacated Mr. Hollis delivers a Charge against the A.B. Cant. the Scots do the like he is voted guilty of high treason and committed The King signs the Bill for Triennial Parliaments The Houses oppose Bishops temporal jurisdiction The Earl of Straffords Tryal Sir David Fowls and Sir William Pennyman witnesses against the Earl the last of whom wept He is condemned as guilty of high treason The faction make a hideous cry of Iustice. The King with much reâ—uctancy signs the Bill of Attainder A notable remarque concerning Sir Alexander Carew Those Bishops that consented to the Earls death escaped not the fury of the times Prince of Orange warries the Princess Mary Sir Dudley Carleton the Earls Secretary brings him word of his Majesties having passed the Bill of Attainder Life in Mr. Lloyds Memoires The English Army disband the Scotch receive a vast sum of money and return home The King visits his Parliament of Edinburgh The Earl of Leicester made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland The Parliament adjourned The faction encreaseth and grows strong The King settles the affairs of Scotland A Rebellion in Ireland The King returns from Scotland and is magnificently received at London The faction sâ—anderously charge the King and Arch-B Cant. with inclining to Popery Walker an Iron-monger thâ—ows a Libel into the Kings 〈◊〉 he is impriâ—oned Sir Richard Gurney Lord Mayor of London Most of the Irish Nobility revolted Sir Phelim Oneal their chief commandâ—r A full account of the Irish Rebellion and proceedings of the War there Roger Moor the chief instrument in the plot The Lord Viscount Gormanston one of their complices Owen O Conally discovers the Plot. Iuâ—â—ice Parsons and Sir Jo. Borlace double their Watches Mac Mahon and Mac-Guire their Lodgings watched Mac Mahon and his men after some resistance are sâ—cured and confess the Plot. The Lord Mac-guire seized The Council warn the people of the Rebellion by Proclamation The Lord Blaweys House Wife and Children surprised The Newry surprized with several other places of strength The Rebels take Dundalk besiege Tredagh They commit horrid Massacres in sundry places 1800 Pâ—rsons drowned 150000 Persons destroyed in the Province of Ulster only in five moâ—ths time Sir Phelim Oneal defeatâ—d at Duâ—dalk Dublin in great streights A Regiment raised for Sir H. Titchburn another for Sir Charles Coot Expresses sent to the King the Lord Lieutenant and the Parliament Owen O Conally rewarded with 200 l. in money and a pension of 200 l. per anum The Earl of Ormond Lieu. Gen. marched to Dublin with divers other Captains Major Roper with 600 Foot to Tredagh With 50 Horse under Sir Pat. Weems surprized by the Rebels and routed Some Rebels executed at Wicklo Luke Tool encounters Sir Charls Coote and is puâ— to flight The Lords and Gentry of the English Pale declare for the Roman Catholick Religion The Rebels in Lemster 20000 strong Sir Simon Harcourt arrives with a Regiment at Tredagh The Rebels are disheartned and defeated by Sir Henry Titchburn who recovered Dundalk Sir Phelim O Neal escapes to Ulster Sir George Monro recovers Newry and do's the Rebels much damage Tumults from London affront the King and Court Sir William Mason heads the Gentlemen of Grays-Inne to White-Hall prostering them and himself to his Majesty as a guard for his person The King receives them with respect The Tumultuous rabble countenanced by some Grandees of the faction Whereat the King is much troubled He demands five Members of the House of Commons and the Lord Kimbolton The House vote it a breach of priviledge They accuse several Bishops as guilty of high Treason They are Committed The Irish are proclaimed Rebels The King declares his charge against the five members The Parliament imprisons Sir Edw. Herbert The Tumults increase and the King retires to Hampton-Court A rumour concerning the Lord Digby Col. Lunsford committed The Scots interpose themselves the Parliament demands the Tower and the Militia Buckinghamshire men petition in behalf of Mr. Hambden The King leaves Hampton-Court the Queen and Princess of Aurange take ship for Holland The Parliament vote the Queen a Traytor The Militia the principal difference between King and Parliament The Commission of Arry An Ordinance of Parliament for ordering the Militia The Parliament send several Papers to the King The King is much troubled thereat and answers The Parliament declare their resolution of putting the Kingdom into a posture of defence The Earl of Warwick made Admiral of England The King answers the Parliaments Declation with another He offers a free Pardon to his people and propounds a râ—â—â—â—ciliation The faction set forth another Declaration concerning the Militia The King sends a Message to the Parliament concerning Ireland They plead the priviledge of Parliament The King proclaims against Papists The Yorkshire Gentry desire a right understanding between King and Parliament The King returns a gratious answer He resolving to go for Ireland sends a Message to the Parliament Sir John Hotham admitted into Hull The Parliament Petition the King for the Militia they insist upon the dangers of Popery Hull is Garrison'd and the King is troubled that they should Petition him and at the instant carve at their one pleasures He excuseth his repriving of some Iâ—suites The Parliament refuse to be governed by Commissioners in his Majesties absence The King resolves to possess himself of Hull But is denyed entrance by Sir John Hotham who stood on the Walls and â—eard himself proclaimed a Traytor The Duke of York and Prince â—lector bring in the Town are suffered to depart The King retreatâ—d to Beverly writes to the Mayor and Garrison of Hull And to the Parliament for Iâ—â—tice against Hotham Tâ—e Parliament order the Lord Liâ—â—tenant of Lincoln to â—uppress all Forcâ—s raiâ—ed against Hull Sir Richard Gurney Loâ—d Mayor 〈◊〉 London sent to the Tower The Parliament Authorize Sir John Hotham to raise the Trained Bands The King sâ—mmons the Gâ—ntry of York for the security of his Person The Parliament Conclude the K. intendeth War They take up Arms â—nder preâ—ence of râ—scuing the King from his evil Couâ—sel and prohibit all resort to the King They publish a Râ—monstrance Which is answâ—red by the King Theâ—â—aviâ—e the Scots to their 〈◊〉 Thâ— Scoâ—s pretend a zâ—al for his Majesty bâ—t deâ—â—aâ—â— for the Parliament and have their thanks Tâ—e Parliament set forth another Remonstrance which the King answers They send him 19 Propositions to York The King returns an answer
Lord Say Proprietor of the place The Castle demolished Colonel Whaley marcheth to Worcester Besiegeth it for the Parliament Colonel Washington the Governour yâ—ildeth July 23. Wallingford yeilded July 28 to the Parliament Sir Thomas Fairfax goeth to the Bath from thence to Ragland Castle to assist Colonel Morgan Sir Trevor Williams and Colonel Laughorn Sir Thomas Fairfax summons the Marquess of Worcester The Marquess his Answer He desires to send to know the Kings pleasure The General denyes it shews the inconveniencies of the Marquess hiâ— refusal The Marquess urgeth reasons on his side The Marquess excepted out of the Parliaments Pardon The General promiseth to interpose between his Lordship and the Committees The Marquess cites the Earl of Shrewsburies Case Ragland Castle surrendred Aug. 19 to the Parliament The Marquess casts himself on the Parliaments mercy Several persons of Quality in the Castle The Marquess a great Scholar to whom the King was much indebted he departs this life Major-General Mitton takes Conway Castle by Storm for the Parliament Carnarvan Castle delivered as also Ludlow Litchfield Close and Borstal house Pendennis Castle and Mount-Michael taken for the Parliament by Colonel Hammond John Arundel Esq. the Governour having order from the King to surrender Scilly Island Denbigh and Holt Castle Surrendred Cromwell the Idol of the pretended Saints He disbands 〈◊〉 of the Armâ— under Major-General Massey Cromwel designes to create differences in the Army Colonel Cooks Brigade disbanded * Anglia Rediviva * Anglia Rediviva Many of the disbanded Souldiers of Forreign Countries The Factions begin now to unmask themselves and lay open their intentions The two Factions Presbytery and Independency distruct each other The King maligned to his people his party highly exasperated The Scotch Parliament and Army ingross the wealth of the Nation The Scots are for ready Cash the others for Delinquents Estates The King in the Scots possession The Parliament of England consult concerning the Kings person The King at Newcastle May 13. The Sâ—ots Gen. Proâ—laims that no Papists nor Delinquents shall came neer the Kings Person The Scâ—ts lay heavy Assessments on the Northern Counties They send for their Horse The English Parliament Vote them home and 100000 l. to be paid to their Army The Scotch Commissioners gloze with the English Parliament The Dispates betwixt the King and Mr. Henderson at Newcastle Mr. Henderson languisheth and dyeth Mr. Stephen Marshal a great Preacher of the Covenant at Newcastle Politick disputes between the Parliament and the Scotch Commissioners 〈◊〉 and 〈…〉 〈…〉 11. The Scots urge the Parliaments promise of Uniformity and their ordering the Covenant to be printed in most Forrain Languages The Parliament publish a Declaration One Paragraph thereof relating to Church-Goverment c. The 23 Propositions sent to the King at Newcastle These the chiefest of the Propositions the rest relating to Ireland and other private Concerns Discouâ—â— between the King and the Parliaments Commissioners The King Answer to the Propositions August 1. Duke Hamilton and the Earl of Lanerick industrious to work his Majesty to consent The Fastioâ—s scandalize the King as being obstinate and perverse The Marquess of Montross ordered to lay down his Arms. He takes ship for Norway sollicites for the King in forain Courts at last betakes himself to the Court of King Charles the 2. The Earle of Lowdon unravels the compact of both Parliaments to the King The Lord Lowdon 's speech to the King Instructions sent from Scotland to Newcastle concerning giving over the King The Scots oppress the Northern Counties They agree with the Parliament to deliver the King for 400000 l. they insist upon the salt of Delinquents estates for security of performance But are pâ—id out of Church-Lands solâ— by â—rder of Paâ—liament The King delivered by the Scots The Kings Message from Newcastle of the 20th of December He prâ—pâ—sâ—th again his coming to London Scotch Parliament resolves concerning the Kings person A Plot noysed of the King's escape The affairs of Ireland related 150000 men women and children massacred by the Irish Rebels the English Lords of the Pale side with them Earl of Leicester appointed Lord Deputy and appoints the E. of Ormond to be his L. Gen. who after many successful encounters concludes a Cessation with the Rebels in 1643 by order from the King The Parl. party and Scots carry on the War there they arraign Mac Mahon and the L. Macquire both w ch were executed at Tyburn Ld. Inchiquin Lord Broughil in distress The Lord Lisle ordered to go into Ireland with an Army of 8000 men The Ld. Muskerry Gen. for the Irish. Marquess of Ormonds converts the Cessation into Peace it is â—â—pâ—â—ed by the Popiâ—h Câ—ergy and the inveâ—â—ate Papist A half peace made in Ireland Colonel Monck is sent by the Parliament into Ireland The Parliament and Popes Nuncio alike unconcerned in the Peace The Spaniard threatens to besiege Dublin The Nunâ—io and his party notwithstanding some divisions among them prosecute the War The Earl of Essex dyes Sept. 13. suspected to be poysoned A Zealous man for a composure and an able Souldier He was unfortunately married to the Lady Francis Howard and afterwards married to Sir Amias Pawlet's Daughter His Funeral solemnized Oct. 22 in a magnificent manner Drawn in Effigie upon a Chariot from Essex house to Westminster-Abby his Funeral Sermon preached by Mr. Vines Most of the Parliament-Nobility in close mourning The Effigie placed in the Chancel and privately defacâ—d The Earldom of Essex conferred on the Capels The Presbyterian Government and Directory no sooner set up but slighted The Ordinance for Presbyterian Government to be in force but three years The Directory established The Presbyterian and Independent parties divided The Independents subtile practices The self-denying Ordinance by which the Independents out-wit the Presbyterians The Presbyterians Counterplot of disbanding the Army Cromwel sents it and â—preâ—s it among his Souldiers They chuse Adjutatours to draw up the seâ—â—e of the Army â—â—d assist at their Councils of War Cromwel a compleat Polititian The Army declare not to disband till all their Arrears are paid The King and Newcastle turned over to the English Commissioners Feb. 6. They kiâ—â— the Kings hand he is coâ—veyed to Holdenby met in the way by the General who aâ—â—â—â—ted and kiâ—â—'d the Kings hands the King commends him for a truely Noble person At the Kings arrival at Holdenby his friends are forbid to attend him his Chaplains denyed admittance This solitude the occasion of his writing his excellent Meditations Major-General Brown reconciled to the King He â—iverts himself by Bowling with the Earl of Pembroke and Major-General Brown Harrington an ungrateful servant The Great Seal of England broken Cornet Joyce seizeth the King aâ— Holdenby June 4. The King deliberates what to do puts several questions to the Souldiers He requests them His Majesty takes horse is welcomed at Childersly by the General but especially by Cromwel The Army suffer the Kings friends and Chaplaiâ—s
retire with great loss Makes peace Duke of Yorks Son Christened Parliament Proroguâ—d August The manner of the Translation of the Archbishop of Canterbury Kings Progress Scotch Parliament Bishop of London one of the Kings Council Iudge Jenkins dies Dutch surpriz'd by the Turk Pope and K. of France differ They come to an Agreement The Turks Bâ—siege New-hausel New-hausel surrender'd Count Serini beats the Turks at the River Mur. The Portugals take Ginaldo in Galicia and totally rout the Spaniards The Protestants of Piedmont defeat the Forces of the Duke of Savoy Traytors executed Disorders at Newbury Sir Thomas Doleman seiseth upon the chief sticklers Jews expell'd Tangier Sir Richard Fanshaw Embassador in Spain English Complaints against the Dutch Resolves of the Houses therein The King declares himself Sir John Lawson with a Fleet for the Streights Buchanans Bank burned in Scotland A Proclamation agâ—inâ—t Contributions c. 〈…〉 rous Tartar Barbado's â—eâ—â—ir Sir John Lawson proclaims War against Argier A Memorandum deliver'd the States Parâ—iaâ—â—â—t Proâ—ogâ—ed The King sends to the City for Mony Granted Earl of Teviot kill'd Turks defeated Turks a second time defeated Lawson callâ—d home Capt. Allen in his room Embassadors sent abroad Sir G. Downing sent into Holland Naval preparations A second Loan by the City Dutch Bravado Prince Rupert at Sâ—a The D. of York set forth to Sea Opdam dares not adventure out The Dutch lay up their Fleet. Dutch Burdeaux-Fleet taken Duke of York returns to London Earl of Sandwich keeps the Sea Royal Katherine and Royal Oak Launched The States disappointed by the English Dutch Scandalous Libel Dutch Desâ—gnes The Condition 〈◊〉 the Dutch with other Kingdoms De Ruyter Sayls for Guiny Smyrna Fleet Encountr'd by Cap. Allen. Sir Tho. Modeford Arrives at Iamaica Act for the Royal Ayd Parliament Prorogu'd Seamen Encourag'd Reprisals granted against the Dutch Feb. 1664 5 Declaration of War against the Dutch Another Dutch Libel Dutch Embassies prove frâ—â—â—less Earl of Morpeth affronted by the Hollander Major Holms committed Dischargâ—d Forein Ministers complain in Holland Capt. Allen returns Dutch Manufactures prohibited Peace with Gayland Sir C Cotterel sent to Bruxels English Fleet ready to set sail Duke of York goes aboard English Fleet upon the Dutch Coast. English Officers cashier'd in Holland Cessation of Arms between the Turk and Emperor Grand Seignior leaves Constantinople Sireni kill'd The French at Gigery Portugals Victory Sedition in Avignon Lisle killâ—d April 1655. English Fleet at Sea French Embassador expostulates with the Dutch Embargo in France upon the Dutch Embargo in Holland upon the English Dutch endeavour to amuse the Common people French Embassadors to England Dutch Libel against the English Valkenburghs Letter Guinee Relation Dutch ill treated in Russia General Fast. Ships taken by the English Everts taken Dismiss'd Order and Discipline of the English Fleet. Two Dutch East-India Ships taken Duke of York makes for the Coast of Holland Several Holland Merchant-Men taken Smyrna Ships sunk Lord Bellasis Governour of Tangier The Moors shew themselves without Effect English Merchants return safe home De Ruyter attempts the Barbadoes Lord Willoughby wounded by Allen. Duch at Sea Their Numbers Captain Nixon Executed June 1664. Parl. Proroguâ—d A Curiosity A Loss The Duke of York Ingaging the Dutch Fleet gain'd a very â—â—cal Victory July 1665. The Sickness Queen Mother returns for France The King at Oxford Duke of Albemarle stays in London Disaffected Officers order'd to depart the City English Fleet Rendezvouse Bankert returns De Ruyter Sails for New-found-Land The Stroaker Casualty in Norfolk A General Fast King goes to Portsmouth to the Isle of Wight and returns for Sallsbury Parl. Prorogu'd De Ruyter returns into Holland and is made Admiral Dutch loss in China Bishop of Munster threatens Holland August Dutch Assayl'd by Tyddeman in Bergen East-Indie Ships taken Sept. 4. Parliament sits in the Schools at Oxford Octob. 10. His Majesty's Speech The Commons Answer Parliament Prorogu'd Thanks of the House given to the University Duke of Ormond returns into Ireland November 1665. Term at Oxford Captain Howard 's Valour against the Dutch Dutch Embassador recall'd out of England The King's Letter to the Dutch Munster active against the Dutch King of France supplies the Dutch Munster 's Success in Holland Lunenburg excuses himself to the King of England French King declares war against England January 1665. February the King of England declares War with France Sir Christopher Mimms Chases the Dutch Pestilence abates and the King returns to White-Hall Parl. Prorogu'd Earl of Sandwich sent Embassadour into Spain Peace made with the Moors in Africa General Wrangle comes aboard Sir Jeremy Smith Nonconformist Ministers suppress'd in Scotland Parliament in Ireland Irish Traytors there examin'd King of Poland 's ill success Lubomirsky revolts German Princes quarrel Beaufort encounters the Argier Pyrates in Argier Portugals defeat the Spaniards English bravery in Portugal The Emperour's Brother deceased Peace made between the Empâ—â—oâ— and the Turk Turkish Embassadâ—r's present to the Emperor Savoy and Genoua at odds Mentz and Collen Electors reconcil'd Portugueses make an inroad into Spain Brandenburg takes Arms and expostulates with the Dutch Queen-Mother of France dies The Venetian and the Pope differ A counterfeit Messiah appears among the Jews Another Jewish Prophet in Arabia Foelix Turkish Embassadour's Secretary turns Christian. Palaffi Imbre revolts from the Emperour King of Spain dy'd March Governor of Jamaica assaults the Ducth Plantations in America Dutch conclude Peace with the Dane Swede stands firm to England April 6. Parliament Prorogu'd A Proclamation requiring Desborough and others to return into England Plotters Try'd at the Old-Baily Condemned and Executed Earl of Sandwich Arrives at Madrid Lord Hollis returns from France The Fleet ready A French Drag came to nothing Iune The Fleet divided A Fight for two days together maintain'd by the Duke of Albemarie The Fight renew'd Prince Rupert appears Sir George Ayscue Prisoner July The City furnish the King with 100000 l. The Dutch out again The English at their hâ—els Another Engagement English Loss Dutch Loss Sir Robert Holmes enters the Vly Burns 160 sail of ships He lands on the Schelling and burns a Town The Dutch at Sea again The English follow them close but stormy Weather hinders any attempt Monsiâ—ur de la Roche taken in the Ruby Tromp and De Ruyter fall out A designe upon Guernsey discovered Spies hanged The dreadful Fire of London The King and the Duke of York take great pains to prevent it Suspected persons Imprisoned An Observation The King takes care to relieve the distressed A General Fast. His Majesties Declaration concerning the Re-building of the City Val. Knight committed for dangerous advice about it Parliament reassembles They thank the King for his care in the War Vote a Supply of 1800000 l. Another Supply of 1250000 l. A Court of Iudicature Erected for deciding differences in the City His Majesties Horse-Guard burn'd Proclamation prohibiting Importation of Canary The Parliaments
Address 〈◊〉 suppressing 〈◊〉 Insolencies Declaration of War against Denmark City Building begins Prodigious Storms in Lincoln-shire Prodigious Storm in Lincoln-shire A day of Thanksgiving for the ceasing of the Plague Ryot at Dumfreeze in Scotland The Lord Willoughby sets forth a Fleet from the Barbadoes A Hurricane His Lordship lost Scotch Convention meets At Surinam better success The French King affronted by the Turk An Embassador sent for reparation He is reviled Beaten and â—â—prisoned Swedes offer a Mediation Accepted Breda the Place of Treaty A Valiant Act of Capt. Dawes The English Embassadors enter Breda The Dutch Attempts upon the Coast. Burnt-Island attempted And Sheerness They seize the Royal Charles Royal Oak burnt Two Dutch Men of War burnt Commissioner Pett committed The Dutch come up into the River of Thames Dutch land neer Harwich Encounter'd by the Train'd-Bands They come up to Hull Haven are encounter'd by several ships that lay there Dutch attempt to land neer Wenbury in Devonshire Neer Cawland in Cornwal Sir Jonathan Trelawney Major Sparks and Mr. Windham sent aboard the Dutch Admiral Their Entertainment A Present sent De Ruyter Foy Harbour Attempted Plenipotentiaries meet and Tâ—eat at Breda Peace Concluded Commissioners to take an Account of Publick Money The Office of Lord High Treasurer in the Hand of Commissioners Parliament met Parl. Adjourn'd Commissioners appointed to hear the complaints of Seamen Mr. Cowley 's death Dutch beaten by Sir John Harmon in the West-Indies Three Dutch Men of War and a Prize taken Proclamation against Papists Woodmongers Charter demanded His Majesty lays the first Stone of the Royal Exchange The Duke of York the second Earl of Sandwich sent to Portugal January 22. February Proclamation to hinder the roving of private Men of War February Count de Dona the Swedish Embassador dies in England Maritime League concluded with the Dutch by Sir Wil. Temple Charles the second launched March 3. 1666 7. Proclamation against Papists Prentices make a Tumult May 1668. His Majesty goes to the House signes several Bills and adjourns the Parliament Lord Vaughan Chief-Iustice Iune 1668. Bridge Town burnt August 1668. Sir William Godolphin Knighted and made Resident-Embassador in Spain Sept. 1668. Duke of Munmoâ—th made Captain of the Horse-Guards Venetian Embassador has Audience Sir John Trevor made Secretary Dr. Wilkins Bishop of Chester Sir Thomas Allen made Peace with Argier Decem. 1668. Parliament Prorogu'd Ian. 166â— Dutchess of York brought to bed of a Daughter Sir Edward Sprague sent into Flanders The Duke of Tuscany arrives in England The Prince of Portugal made Râ—gâ—nt Earl of Carlisle sent into Sweden King of Sweden presented with the Garter Earl of Winchelsey returns Theater at Oxford fâ—nished Meetings suppressed Dr. Fell Vice-Chancellor of Oxford Queen-Mother of England dies The Moors attempt Tangier but beaten off Lord Roberts Lord-Deputy of Ireland Royal Exchange fâ—â—ish'd Pâ—â—â— Assembles Parl. attended the King in the Banqueting-House Parl. Prorogu'd till February Parl. in Scotland Sir Thomas Allen before Argier Mr. Henry Howard sent Embassador to Taffalette Duke of Albemarle dies His Dutchess dies Jan. 1669. Parliament meet The King signes several Acts and adjourns the House Dutchess of Orleans arrives in England Dies July 1670. Parliament in Scotland Act for the Treaty of Union passed there Argier men of War destroy'd Cap. Peirce shot to Death Parl. meet Peace between Spain and England ratifi'd Prince of Orange comes into England Sir Thomas Allen returns from the Streights Sir Edward Sprague Commands in his room D. of Ormond violently assaulted in the Night The King passes some Acts. Popish Priests Banish'd The Dutchess of York dyes Parl. Prorogu'd And an Address about English Manufactures Earl of Manchester dies The Crown attempted King of Sweden and Duke of Saxony by Proxies Install'd Knights of the Garter Sir Edward Sprague meets the Argerines and destroys them The King takes a Progress The Moors attack Tangier and are beaten off Parl. Prorogu'd Embassadors sent abroad Ian. 1671 2. Stop upon the Exchequer Sir George Downing presses for answer to the King's demands Sir George Downing committed Nonconformists indulg'd Sir Robert Holmes attacks the Dutch Fleet neer the Isle of Wight War declar'd against the Dutch Mar. 1661 2. War proclaim'd against Holland Sir Edward Sprague comes home The French King continues and increases Impositions on Dutch Goods notwithstanding their threats French Warlike preparations breeds jealousies Cologne fortifies The Dutch fortifie Maestricht Newburg fortifies Dusseldorp and Montery raises men in Flanders Brunswick Besieged They surrender The Escurial burnt The Dutch endeavour to get Assistants The Prince of Orange made their Captain-General The Emperor offers to Mediate Dutch Embassador slighted at Paris Convoys taken care of for the Merchants Several Lords call'd to the Privy Council King of France begins his March Turrenne blocks up Maestricht Fight between the English and Dutch Several Townes taken from the Hollanders Hollanders confus'd at the success of the French The King of Englands Declaration inviting the Dutch Subjects into England Dutch more and more distressed The People Mutiny Prince of Orange declar'd Stadtholder The Condition of the Dutch The Duke of Buckingham and the Earl of Arlington sent into Holland Duke of Buckingham and Earl of Arlington return English misâ— the Dutch East-Indie Fleet. Earl of Essex Lord-Deputy of Ireland The fall of De Wit and Van Putten The Confederates divert the French Magistrates chang'd in Holland Parl. adjourn'd The Duke of York returns from the Fleet and Action ceases Turenne 's Declaration Sir Edward Sprague spoyles the Dutch Fishing Prince of Orange succeeds ill Earl of Shaftsbury Lord-Chancellor Lord Clifford Lord-Treasurer Stop upon the Exchequer continued Duke of Richmond dies Parl. meet Sir Job Charleton made Speaker 18 Moneths Assessment given to the King The Parl. make an Address to to the King Parl. Adjourn'd James Piercy pretends to the Earldom of Northumberland The Island Tabago taken by the English Dutch at Sea May 26. May 28. June 4. July 17. July 20. August 10. Peace with the Dutch Proclamation against Papists April The Lord Lockhart Mediates a Peace between France and Spain Proclamation against scandalous News Sir Lyonel Jenkins and Sir Joseph Williamson return to London Duke of Monmouth chose Chancellor of Cambridge Earl of Arlington Lord-Chamberlain Sir Joseph Williamson Principal Secretary Earls of Ossory and Arlington â—ent into Holland A Marine Treaty between the King and the Uâ—ited Provinces Dr. Crew made Bishop of Durham Dr. Compton Bishop of Oxford The Dutchess brought to bed of a Daughter Sir Francis North Lord Chief-Iustice of the Common-Pleas Parl. meets Prince of Newburgh arrives in England Barbadoes Conspiracy Indians Rebel in New-England Northampton fâ—red River by Salisbury began to be made Navigable Parl. meets Proclamation against St. Germain the Iâ—suite Hurricane at Bardoes Jamaica fâ—ourishes
Petitioned against it but in vain the Sectaries had packt a new Common-council by Authority from the Juncto who constituted aâ—y 40 of them a Court and supreme to the Mayor whose first work was the framing a Petition for Justice against the King and other Capital Offenders which was afterwards delivered by Titchburn and had the thanks of the Mock-Parliament for their pains who now entred a Protestation against that satisfactory Vote of the 5th of December aforesaid and pursue the Dictates and Directions of the Army A little while before this Colonel Rainsborough was slain at Doncaster by a party of Royalists that â—allied out of Pomfract then besieged by Sir Edward Rhodes and the County-Forces as he was in his Inn and his Souldiers about him under a pretence of delivering him a Letter from Crowel They would have only taken him prisoner and carried him through his own Leaguer into their Castle but he refusing they pistoled him in his Chamber and departed untoucht A strange yet brave Adventure Scarbrough-Castle now likewise yielded to the Parliament whom we will leave and see the Armies like violence and outrages upon the King Colonel Ewres was appointed by the Parliament to this Service who assisted by Colonel Cobbet on the first of Decemb. according to Command received from Hammond the person of the King and hurried him out of that Isle away prisoner to Hurst-Castle within the term of those 20 days after the Treaty in which he was to remain according to the Houses Declaration in Honour Safety and Freedom This Castle stands a mile and a half in the Sea upon a Breach full of mud and stinking oaze upon low Tides having no fresh water within two or three miles of it so cold foggy and noysome that the Guards cannot endure it without shifting Quarters Here they frayed the King a while till Harrison was on his way to receive him who brought him to Winchester where the Mayor and Inhabitants caused the Bells to ring and at the Towns-end as was due and usual in the middle of the mire presented his Majesty with the Keys of the City and the Mace but in the very Ceremony were tumbled in the same mire by the Horse at the Command of Harrison The next day the King came to Farnham and so to Windsor where he kept his sorrowful and last Christmass being pent up in a corner of the Castle no man besides his Guards to come to him and all respect and reverence to his Person forborn while by Order of the Juncto he was sent for up to his Palace of St. Iames's Harrison impudently riding covered in the same Coach with him and his Myrmidons wounding any that shewed their Loyal Compassion and lamented this miserable condition of their beloved Sovereign In which we must leave him and return to our Grandees These offals of a Parliament having by an Ordinance taken away the Oaths of Supremacie and Allegeance usually administred to Freemen c. thereby to free themselves from those ties of Duty upon them and to make way for their ensuing Trayterous designe in order whereunto the Council of War had forbid any Ceremony or State to be used to the King and his Attendants lessened now proceeded roundly to their Army Journey-work for on the 28 of December Thomas Scot brought in the Ordinance for Trial of the King it was read and recommitted three several times and the Commissioners names of all sorts to engage the whole Body of the Kingdom in this Treason inserted and to give it a Foundation these Votes passed That the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament dâ— Declare and Adjudge that by the Fundamental Laws of the Realm it is Treason in the King of England for the time to come to Levy War against the Parliament and Kingdom of England With this Declaratory Vote the said Ordinance was carried up to the Lords by the Lord Gray of Grooby Ianuary 2. 1648. The Lords being 16 in number met that day and received it promising to send an Answer by Messengers of their own The first Question started by some Lords who had rather had a thinner House was Whether it should be presently debated which was affirmed The first Debate was upon the Declaratory Vote to which the Earl of Manchester said That the Parliament of England by the Fundamental Laws consisted of three Estates King Lords and Commons whereof the King is the first and chiefest He Calls and Dissolves Parliaments and without him there can be no Parliament and therefore it 's absurd to say the King can be a Traytor against the Parliament Then the Earl of Northumberland added That the greatest part at least twenty to one of the people of England were not yet satisfied whether the King Levied War first against the Houses or the Houses against him And if the King did Levy War first against the Houses there is no Law to make it Treason in him And for them to declare Treason by an Ordinance when the matter of Fact is not proved nor any Law extant to judge it by is very unreasonable The Earls of Pembroke and Denbigh said they would be torn in pieces before they would assent with the Commons so the Lords cast off the Debate and cast out the Ordinance and adjourned for seven days This netled the Commons who thereupon resolved to rid their hands of King Lords and their Fellow-Commons together by a leading Vote That all Members of Committees should proceed and act in any Ordinance wherein the Lords were joyned though the Peers should not Sit nor concur with them And added thereunto three other Democratical Resolves Ian. 4. 1648. 1. That the People are under God the Original of all just Power 2. That the Commons of England in Parliament Assembled chosen by and Representing the People have the Supreme Power of the Nation 3. That whatsoever is enacted or declared for Law by the House of Commons Assembled in Parliament hath the force of Law Which passed without one Negative Voice which shewed at whose beck they were And thus first they hatcht this Monster called An Act for the Trial of the King c. which is here transcribed transferring the names of the Commissioners to their ensuing Character An Act of Parliament of the House of Commons for Trial of Charles Stuart King of England WHereas it is notorious that Charles Stuart the now King of England not content with the many Encroachments which his Predecessors had made upon the People in their Rights and Freedom hath had a wicked designe to subvert the Antient and Fundamental Laws and Liberties of this Nation and in their place to introduce an Arbitrary and Tyrannical Government and that besides all other evil ways to bring his designe to pass he hath prosecuted it with Fire and Sword levied and maintained a Civil War in the Land against the Parliament and Kingdom whereby this Country hath been miserably
Redeemer and therefore if you will not joyn with me in prayer my reiterating it again will be both Scandalous to you and me So closing his eyes and holding up his hands he stood a good space at his inward Devotions being perceived to be inwardly moved all the while when he had done he called for the Executioner and gave him money who having brought unto him hanging in a Cord his Declaration and History hanged them about his Neck when he said Though it hath pleased his Sacred Majesty that now is to make him one of the Knights of the most Honourable Order of the Garter yet he did not think himself more honoured by the Garter than by that Cord and Book which he would embrace about his Neck with as much joy and content as ever he did the Garter or a Chain of Gold and therefore desired them to be tied unto him as they pleased When this was done and his arms tied he asked the Officers If they had any more Dishonour as they conceived it to put upon him he was ready to accept it And so with an undaunted Courage and Gravity suffered according to the Sentence past upon him Thus fell that Heroical Person by a most malicious and barbarous sort of cruelty but Sequitur ultor à tergo Deus there is a Fury at hand ready with a Whip of Snakes to punish this Viperous Brood of men For Cromwel having been secretly called for over from Ireland to amuse all parties both the Irish who trembled at his presence and made no considerable resistance against him and his fortune and the General himself at home who expected not such his sudden rivalship to his Command which gave him no time for mature consideration of the designe the Scots who though allarmed by frequent rumours of an English Invasion yet were not so forward in their Levies as having assurance of Fairfax's dissatisfaction was now wasted over into England preventing his Letters he had sent to the States to know their express pleasure for his departing that Kingdom which before we leave we must insert some omissions Colonel Hamond a Kentish Gentleman and firm Royallist who was a Colchestrian and had been imprisoned at Windsor being by the mutiny of his Souldiers the Marquess of Ormonds Regiment which he Commanded forced to render himself and Officers at discretion the Garrison being the Castle before mentioned of Gowran accepting of life from Cromwel and refusing to fight was immediately shot to death one Lieutenant only escaping The like fate suffered a Dutch Colonel one Major Syms and another Lieutenant-Colonel of the Lord Inchiqueens Loyal Party that yet adhered to him being worsted by the Lord Broghil where in fight they lost 600 men near Bandon-bridge Colonel Wogan that noble person who had been so constant a terrour to them having corrupted or converted his Keeper Colonel Phair's Marshal escaped with him to his old friends being reserv'd to the same death by Cromwel but by Providence to be a further plague to them in that another Kingdom place as we shall see in the continuation of this Chronicle About the same time with Cromwel arrived here from Holland the Lord Ioachimi in quality of Embassador from the States General sent on purpose to understand the condition of affairs here what stability this Common-wealth was yet grounded upon or like to obtain and report it to his Superiors Further yet in Ireland After the departure of Cromwel in the Province of Vlster where the Bishop of Cloghor Emir Mac Mahon was Generalissimo the Irish not being to be satisfied till the Conduct of Affairs was wholly left to themselves having gathered an Army of 5000 Foot and 600 Horse was ranging that Country at his pleasure having so ordered and interposed his Forces that Sir Charles Coot the President of Connaught and Colonel Venables who Commanded in Chief in Vlster for the Parliament could not joyn Forces and though other additions had been made to Coot with which they had faced Finagh and that part of that Province some while before yet durst they not engage till Iune on the second of which Month Cloghor being incamped on a boggy ground within half a mile of Sir Charles his Leaguer who was about 800 Horse and as many Foot stood and faced him for almost four hours and then drew over a Pass wherein Coot fell upon his Rear with 250 Horse and charged through two Divisions of Foot and had routed them but that their Horse came in to their rescue and repelled that Party but Colonel Richard Coot likewise advancing both came off with even hand and so the enemy over Faggots passed another way This was but a Trial of Skill but on the 18 of Iune Colonel Fenwick with 1000 having joyned with Sir Charles the matter came to a final decision Cloghor was encamped strongly on a side of a Hill to which Coot approached the Irish courageously descended to Battle but were so most resolutely received that in an hours time this Mitred General was defeated himself mortally wounded and taken with his Lieutenant-General Henry O Neale together with most of the Officers all of them Irish to the total loss of that Province and the utter ruine and destruction of that Rebel-Party that began the War and continued it when it might have expired by the closing with the Marquess of Ormond to the taking of Dublin and London-Derry The remaining Irish War was meerly defensive and of such weak dying efforts that all was given over there for desperate and lost and who cannot must not here acknowledge the unerring certainty of Divine Justice upon that bloody and pitiless people Now appeared in Print as the weekly Champion of the new Common-wealth and to bespatter the King with the basest of scurrilous raillery one Marchamount Needham under the name of Politicus a Iack of all sides transcendently gifted in opprobrious and treasonable Droll and hired therefore by Bradshaw to act the second part to his starcht and more solemn Treason who began his first Diurnal with an Invective against Monarchy and the Presbyterian Scotch Kirk and ended it with an Hosanna to Oliver Cromwel who in the beginning of Iune returned by the way of Bristol from Ireland to London and was welcomed by Fairfax the General many Members of Parliament and Council of State at Hounslo-heath and more fully complemented at his Lodgings and in Parliament by the Thanks of the House and the like significant address of the Lord Mayor c. of London being lookt upon as the only Person to the Eclipse and diminution of his Generals Honour whom we shall presently see paramount in the same supreme Command Prince Rupert was yet in the Harbor of Lisbon whither the Parliament had sent a Fleet to fight him and reduce those Ships to their service which the Prince declining and the King of Portugal refusing to suffer Blake to fall on in his Port
and trom his Castles shooting at some of the Frigats who adventured within their reach a Quarrel arose betwixt that King and this State whose Men of War seized on nine Brazile-ships as they were passing into that Harbour The Estates of Scotland had now notice of the Kings present coming into that Kingdom the Earl of Dunfermling Mr. Murrey and Sir William Fleming being sent before by the King to acquaint them therewith when the two last were dispatcht again to give the King to understand the exceptions they took against some uncovenanted Scotch Lords as Hamilton and Lauderdail and other English Royalists coming over with Him but before their Arrival the King was shipt having newly received the distastful intelligence of the Murther of his faithful Servant the Marquess of Montross which as Cases then stood He was forced to pass by having expostulated very sorrowfully thereof with the Parliament who by all means endeavoured to smooth and colour that perpetration with the Vows of their Allegiance in order whereunto they said they Executed that Nobleman and some others with him viz. Sir Iohn Vrrey Colonel Spotswood Ogilby and Sibbald a very inauspicious entrance and beginning of a right understanding between his Majesty and them that was cemented with such Loyal Blood The King as was said before shipt himself at Terbeyden a Village neer the Hague aboard a Friggot an excellent Sailor Commanded by young Van Trump old Van Trump attending the King on board and charging his Son to do his utmost devoir for the Kings preservation and with Tears parting for there was some intelligence of the English Fleet lying to intercept him there were also two other Men of War in Company who carried his Goods and Retinue well provided and alike able for Fight and Defence With these Ships He had not long been under sail but a Tempest drove Him upon one of the Danish Islands unknown to the Fleet but where they were most humanely and civilly Treated and whence after a tedious Navigation they Arrived at the Spey in the North of Scotland Colonel Graves and Captain Titus alone of the English attending on his person just as the English King-catchers were set sail from thence under their Admiral Popham to seek out after him At His Arrival He was Complemented in great State by the Nobility and brought to Saint Iohnstons and so to Sterling being presented in the way with very great gifts according to the ability of that Nation who were now rising generally in Arms and a Party of Horse under Major Cuningham sent to visit the English Borders and to get intelligence for the Messenger they had sent to London Colonel Gray was secured at which time Mr. Prin was laid up in Dunster-Castle and dismissed with a Guard back again unheard an Answer being then in preparation to be sent by a General a more honourable and more powerfully-attended Officer That Command of course was devolved upon the Lord Fairfax and he desired to accept it but he being inscrupled by some of the Presbyterian Ministers who were highly incensed at this War as it was cunningly foreseen by Oliver and his Party who never endeavoured his satisfaction and pretending a reluctancy from the obigations of the National Covenant to engage against their Brethren totally declined it transferring the long-expected Military Supremacy by a Vote of the Parliament to Cromwel who very zealously accepted the Charge and with all readiness prepared for the Expedition which makes the second Trophy or Garland of these strangely and wonderfully prosperous Free-States of England On the 12 of Iune it had been resolved that the Army should Advance Northward but it was the middle of Iuly before they Arrived there for on the 21 of that Month Cromwel quartered at Berwick from whence he sent a Letter and Declaration to the Committee of Estates fraught with hypocritical canting expressions which the said Committee supprest returning answer that they would reply to it by Messengers of their own And lest any of their people should be deluded by the like fair words they made it Treason for any person to Correspond with the English and fell a driving all their Cattle and Provisions in the parts next adjacent to them beyond Edenborough Cromwel's Army was now reckoned 16000 men effective with which he came first to Mardington his Head-quarters Iuly 25. thence to Hadington within 12 miles of Edenborough on the Hills whereabout the Scots had Encamped themselves declining to Engage till their additional Forces were come off the Higâ—-lands On the 25 of Iuly the English advanced and attempted one of the said Hills where a small party of the Scots were and beat them presently off when a party of Scotch Horse fell in their Rear with such fury and vigour that they wholly disordered it and with Reserves and fresh Bodies seconded and pursued this advantage which being perceived by Major-General Lambert and Colonel Whaley who had the Rear-guard they couragiously Repulsed them to their Trenches in which action Lambert had his Horse shot under him was râ—n through the Arm with a Lance and was taken Prisoner but was rescued by one Lieutenant Empson This past and the Army wet and weary on their way to Muscleborough Betwixt 3 and 4 in the Morning another party of some 1500 Horse the flower of the Army being veterane Blades under the Command of Colonel Montgomery and Straughan fell with great fury and more exact valour upon them betwixt sleeping and waking and brought a terrible fright and dismay upon the whole Army Charging almost clear through upon the Sands but returning with their Prisoners were set upon by fresh Troops under Colonel Okey in good order and forced to double their speed home to their Camp having lost 100 men to the same number in the former attempt and some of their Officers slain and wounded but came off otherwise with Honour enough giving the Invaders little hopes of so easie a Victory and Conquest as the Fates had decreed to them and their invincible Fortune At Home the Parliament was busie about their High Court of Iustice and making orders for the Composition of Royalists excluding all such who within six weeks from their last limitation some time before should not effectually have finished it and in order thereunto they Debated upon an Act August the 6 being pressed for Money to carry on this great undertaking abroad for the sale of Delinquents Lands and Voted so many Estates to be sold as would make up security for 200000 l. and that an Act should likewise be Passed for doubling on the Purchases of those Estates of Deans and Chapters c. And into this black list the Earl of Derby was now put and other unfortunate Royalists of which hereafter In the Month of Iune Doctor Levens formerly a Doctor of the Civil-law who had all along served the King was apprehended in his Lodgings being set by the State-spies and several Commissions from the King and
declared the Parliaments resolution of not altering any thing from their Laws save the Stile and Form of proceedings in the Kings Name nor would lay aside their Church-Government if peaceable nor suffer long such as were Ignorant and Scandalous persons to preach or Exercise in publike the great Eye-sore to that Kirk-governed people At first the Officers of the several Courts refused to give their Attendance and absented themselves but seeing their places wouâ—d be without demur disposed of they as suddenly complied As to Martial Affairs Dunotter-Castle after the Cannon had played two days against it was rendred to Colonel Morgan with several Regalia and Goods belonging to the Crown though that and the Chair of State and Scepter supposed to be there could not be found and the Earl Marshal on the 28 of May the Garrison having yielded upon Souldier-like Honourable Articles Colonel Fitch's Regiment was sent to Innerness where a little Frigat of four Guns built six mile up Land was brought down by the strength of Men to the Logh wherein the Highlanders passed to and fro to secure and provide for the Garrison and hinder the entercourse of the Scots A Citadel was likewise now designed here and another at Ayre by Major-General Dean consisting of six Bulworks which being to be raised upon Sand it was ordered that within and without it should be lined with Lime and these two Fortifications with two more one at Leith and another at St. Iohnstons being all built with Free-stone became the most artful and impregnable places and a Bridle to any Scotch Insurrection or National designe of Liberty Some Companies of Colonel Overton's were likewise shipped for the Orkney and Shetland-Islands the most Northern parts and point of Scotland who forsooth had readily embraced the English Union to no other purpose I wis than to give friendly Entertainment and Harbour to General Blake upon his sailing neer this time thither after Van Trump and the Dutch East India ships then expected home that way The Treaty continued yet with Arguile and other the Highland Hogens where he and Marquess Huntly and Montross's Sons had another conference at Saint Iohnstons but neither concluded nor abrupted the matter of their meeting saving promises and protestations of Friendship and Peaceableness and a kinde of neutrality in order to satisfie the expectation of a Plenary compliance of which Arguile was most prodigally complemental so that now neither from Irish nor Scot nor other of the Kings Dominions was there any thing more to be feared than that the States of England would loose the profit of Seizure and Confiscation by the submission and timely application of those in Arms against the Authority of their Victorious Commonwealth And they had sufficiently cautioned against such retrenchments of their Conquest except in case of Articles to important places and persons in Ireland as is said before it being taken for a known and unvariable Rule as for England there were now more Forfeitures hastening to their Corban by a new List of Papist-Delinquents to be Limboed by the States Inquisitors General at Drury-House These were their civil Garlands and Ovations not because they had saved but because they had ruined so many of their fellow-Subjects whose Fortunes and Estates Oyled the Wheels of their Triumphant Chariots and galloped it over all Obstacles and Impediments even through Rivers nay an Ocean of Blood For their precipitant Successes disdaining to be taken off their Glorious Career made the Belgick Lyon stoop to the Yoak and draw his part in the progress of their Fame which flew swift to all the parts of the World more to the wonderment than expectation of all Men who thinking the Circum abient Seas of their new-acquired Dominions not Water enough to wash off that Pollution and deep-dyed Guilt of the Murther of their Soveraign saw them most officiously to receive and swallow a further tribute of Blood as due to their challenged Soveraignty thereon and their impatient ambition of being supreme Lords over the High and Mighty and to domineer far and wide without Rivals or Competitors in this extended Empire of the Ocean The rise of this War on this side we partly hint here and have partly touched before namely the rejectment of their civil offer and Embassie made to the Dutch by Saint Iohn from the similitude of their Governments and their Arrival to it the danger they feared from Monarchs and Princes and from the interest of the Prince of Aurange with these States which by all means was to be weakened by the neerer alliance of both Commonwealths their indignation and disdain to be thus refused and lastly the proud felicity of their Atchievements which gave the advantage of Quarrel with whom they pleased and especially to revenge those Contumelies done to Dorislaus and Saint Iohn in the very presence of the States General their displeasure whereat they gave the Dutch a tast of in their Act forbidding forrain ships to trade hither c. the last October On the Dutch side the Quarrel arose chiefly from a vain presumption that they were able to Master the English at Sea for that people naturally measure their interest by Power not by Justice and there wanted not those great ones related to the Prince of Aurange who mainly promoted this Rupture among the States themselves and indeed they proved the Major part hoping then well of his Majesties affairs in Scotland But they proving bad the States of Holland and Zealand being maritime Provinces who had at first stickled for an alliance as was tendered had prevailed that three Embassadors to wit Myn Heeren Cats Schaep and Vandeperre should immediately pass into England upon the notice of the above-mentioned Act and resume the Treaty offered at the Hague these being at last come found very cool difficult tendencies or inclinations to Peace for the case as Saint Iohn said was now altered whereupon another Embassador the Lord Newport was sent with private Instructions but no power to conclude to enquire and inform himself in what readiness and preparation the Parliament were for a Naval War what discontents from the Royalist or Faction in the Army or Ambition among the Grandees themselves might effect to their advantage where though he mist of the main about Cromwel's intended overthrow of the Parliament yet they had encouragement enough to proceed on the designe of the Oceanâ—mastership and making themselves absolute Lords of the Worlds Commerce for having beaten and overcome the English and having their Harbours at command no Prince or people whatsoever should be able on dare to offend them but endure all whatsoever they should insolently enough command and require This was the main original and Bottom of that War though hastened and urged by some peremptory unexpected demands made here to their Embassadors concerning the old duty of the Herring-fishing the opening of the Scheld Custom-free from Middleburgh to Antwerp the Right of the Flag and the business of Amboyna which
of the Dutch was Boarded and taken and two more of their Men of War were sunk and another Blown up at the same time so that de Wit was glad to give over the Conflict and to ply his Sails being followed till the English Fleet was no more than 12 Leagues East-South-East off the Maze and that Coast of Holland which was no good shore for them to trust to and with the remainder of his Fleet pitifully torn came into Goree and there Harboured This Defeat he imputed to several of his Captains who did not their devoir in the Fight so that Commissioners of the Admiralty were appointed to try such as he should charge for their Cowardise or Failure he also added for another Reason the over-match of the English in number and ships which being beyond expectation more troubled the States than this easie Discomfiture Blake with Triumph came into the Downs and the most of his Fleet into Port to mend and recruit the Damages they had received having lost besides neer 300 men and as many wounded the Dutch twice their number for whose cure and entertainment several Houses in the nature of Hospitals were erecting on the Coast of Kent neer Dover and Deal by order of Parliament who enacted also the return of all Sea-men out of the Service of any other Prince or State into England in 40 days in these parts of the World allowing a twelvemonth to those in the East-Indies confirming the usage and custom of Death without mercy by throwing over-board such Carpenters and Ship-wrights as should be found in the Enemies ships c. The Noble Marquess of Worcester lately come from beyond Seas where his wants and distresses suffered him not to continue any longer was this Month of September taken in London and Committed to the Tower and ordered for a speedy Trial but after consideration of the matter it was superseded and his Lordship left in that forgotten durance There had been great discontents among the Vnited Provinces concerning their chusing of a Staâ—dholder and Captain-General which was to be the Prince of Aurange as was said before and these Disorders and Misfortunes at Sea did rather improve the Pince's Interest and therefore the States of Holland and Friesland prudentially bethought themselves of a means to be rid of both and that was by sending a Letter tending to an accommodation into England which at the worst should happen would be of much advantage to them this came about this time after the Fight and was in like manner answered as their other Papers so that as de Wit went out with a Mutiny the Sea-men refusing to go on Board till they were paid for their service already done in this War for which two of them were Executed at Amsterdam and some Burgers shot upon a sudden surmise of a Rescue so was he welcomed home with the like Uproar of the Women of Flushing who hated him the rather because he was a main Anti-party to the Family of Aurange to which that Province was always so addicted that though the States of Holland sent an Embassie to them to disswade them from their resolution taken in favour of the Prince and they hardly laboured it with Arguments of the Common Safety and the Nature of the War in hand which would thereby upon all events be made Irreconcilable yet they prevailed not but were dismist to the next General Vergadering or Assembly of all the Provinces who had effected their designe in Denmarke by making sure of that King to their Interest he refusing to let the 22 English Merchant-men go away out of his Port being laden with Hemp and Tar and such other necessaries for shipping and had recalled his Embassadors here in England but till their Arrival proceeded no further than a bare Imbargo having brought them within the Booms of his Castle at Elsenore for the better securing of them The want of those Commodities which mightily retarded the equipping of the English Fleets caused the Parliament to give order to Blake to send away Captain Ball with a Squadron of 18 Men of War to sail for the Sound and to carry a Letter to the King desiring him to deliver the said Ships and Goods to be Convoyed for the Dane at first pretended his care of saving them from the Dutch home by the said Fleet who in ten days time came to an Anchor within a mile of Elsenore-Castle and sent the Letter ashore by one of his Captains who was affronted by some of the Dutch there seizing his Boat but received a cold Answer that the King would not deliver them and did wonder they did approach so neer his Royal Residence with so great a Fleet which being received Captain Ball concluded presently to return but the night of his departure on the last of September the Antelope a new stately built Frigat of 50 Brass Guns run upon a Rock on Iutland side by the unadvisedness of the Pilot about three in the Morning and was there bulged and broke to pieces In his return he met and took 14 Holland Fisher-men but the Tyger-Frigat after a fight took and Boarded a Man of War of 20 Guns having killed and wounded 40 of them and brought them all up to Yarmouth Upon further dispute of this detainer which was of such evil consequence to our States it was at last alledged by that King that he kept those ships and Goods in lieu of those Moneys due to him from the late King according to his engagement with his Father in the German-War for the maintenance of so many Regiments against the Emperor and for other Sums accruing to him in the right of his Aunt the Mother of the said King and the Dutch were very willing to be dealing and chaffering on that account offering him the value of the Goods to what they should be rated at there in ready Money or rather than fail they would content the English Merchants that were concerned in those Bottoms and Ladings Myn Heer Boreel was likewise instant with the French King at this time for a speedy Conclusion of a League Offensive and Defensive Captain Pen having been recalled out of the Streights to this Service here Captain Badiley was sent in his place with the Paragon a Navy-Ship and 3 nimble Frigats the Phoenix the Constant Warwick and the Elizabeth who meeting with four Merchant-men from the Streights were set upon neer Portolongone in the Kingdom of Naples belonging to the Spaniard by Van Galen Commander of the Dutch Fleet of War in those Seas and after a day and a halfs dispute the English being sore battered and having by the ill managing of the fight by the ships crue of the Phoenix lost that Frigat were forced to retire under the protection of the Fort of Longone where the Dutch would have fallen upon them but were not permitted which made the Dutch block up the Port for a while but the Governours Command and another Fleet of the English under
to Dunkirk from his Prison at Carisbrook where none but a Barber and a sorry Tutor attended him besides Anthony Mildmay his Keeper where he was very joyfully received and thence conveyed to Brussels where he had further grandeurs and civilities done him and brought thence in the Princess of Aurange's Coach to Breda in Holland to the great joy of the Royal Family who every day feared his Life from those Bloody Usurpers Soon after he had enjoyed the Company of his Sister he was conducted into France by the Lord Langdale and the Lord Inchiqueen to visit his Mother his Royal Brothers and the Princess Henrietta whose delight and content in the fruition of him as one risen from the Dead I will not be so bold as to take upon me to express Some while before his arrival at Dunkirk and just upon the news of his leave and dismission out of England the French King had by the advice of the Cardinal Mazarine who was returned in great state to Court and Council being accompanied by most of the principal persons of that Kingdom and more particularly by the Duke of York who was in high Reputation in the Army and met by the King of France himsâ—lf out of the Town notwithstanding all the perswasions and obstructions that were used by the Queen-Mother of England and her Interest in that Crown sent hither Monsiâ—ur Bourdeaux Neuville a creature of the said Cardinals his Envoy hither to the Parliament who delivered his Letters to them on the 14â— but the Superscriptions not being as full and as ample as other Princes weâ—e they were returned again unbroken up to the Embassador who having others by him as was supposed presented them shortly after which were well â—eceived and an Answer promised to be with all speed returned The Portugal Embassador who had been in Treaty here about the Damages-done the English in 1649. came now to a conclusion thereof and there remaining 15500 l. in difference betwixt Him and the Parliaments Commissioners upon his submission and reference of it to the Parliament they defaulked and abated the said sum as a token of their respect and good will to that King M. Bourdeaux's Negotiation was most abominably resented here as well as abroad for a piece of the uncivilest policy the French were ever guilty of but the Cardinal could not be secure nor better ingratiate with the Traffiquers and Traders which consists of the Commonalty who had suffered more by English Sea-Rovery than by a Peace here the Superscription of those Letters being a meer Falsifie and a present satisfaction to the desires of the said Queen The Dutch Lion was now Rampant and roaring out Proclamations and Placaâ—â—s against bringing in any English Manufactures or holding correspondence with us as if he had the Prey under his Paws and were sure of Victory all Princes were made acquainted with this late success which lost nothing by carrying and their Friends and Allies encouraged to come in and take part of the spoil and to Friend and Foe they peremptorily forbid by a Declaration the supply of the English with any Utensils or provisions of War and Trump had already seized eleven Lubeckers laden with Eastland Commodities pretending to Ostend by which Lubeckers and Hamburgers most of the Holland-Trade in single ships was disguised so that the English ships resolved to seize all those that spoke IA without any Shiboleth or distinction Upon this score three Hamburgh ships laden with Plate coming from Cadiz were brought into Plymouth though they pretended to be bound for Flanders and that the Money belonged to the King of Spain and was consigned for the pay of his Armies immediately upon notice of their Seizure the Spanish Embassador at London made application by a special Audience in Parliament for their delivery and did most industriously sollicite and prosecute the same but the Wealth was too considerable and of as great concernment to their occasions in this Dutch War as the Spaniard could alledge any and therefore they remitted the Examination of the business to the Judges of the Admiralty where it proved a most tedious Affair one Mr. Violet a Goldsmith and Prosecutor for this State engaging himself most busily in procuring their adjudication for lawful Prize In Ireland the High Court of Iustice was now erected and in Circuit the first place of their sitting being at Kilkenny where the Grand Council of the Rebels in 1641. had their Residence and thence to Waterford Corke Dublin and Vlster c. They were attended and sate in very great State neer the pattern in England with 24 Halberdiers in good Apparel for their Guard and all other Officers sutable The President of this Court was one Justice Donelan an Irish Native pickt out on purpose for the greater terrour of the Delinquents to whom as assistants were joyned Justice Cook the Infamous Sollicitor against the King whom they would have most wickedly and by all abominable artifices by urging and soothing their Prisoners to confess as much entituled to that Rebellion but found not by all their scelerate practises what they sought for and Commissary-General Reynolds many persons were by these Condemned some of the chief whereof as Colonel Walter Bagnal Colonel Tool Colonel Mac Hugh and a greater number of lesser Quality suffered Death Bagnal being Beheaded a manner of Execution not usual in Ireland the Lord Clanmallero the Viscount Mayn and some others escaped but the Nation was was so generally scared and in such a fright that happy was he that could get out of it for no Articles were pleadable here and against a Charge of things done 12 years before little or no defence could be made and the cry that was made of Blood aggravated with the expressions of so much horrour and the no less daunting aspect of the Court quite contounded the amazed Prisoners so that they came like Sheep to the slaughter which had been such ravenous Wolves in preying upon the Lives of the poor unarmed English but the Spanish Army was so full of them and their late revolt at Burdeaux to the French side made them so suspicious that thereafter they became very unwelcome Auxiliaries and upon that account the Lord of Muskerry who had according to Articles Transported himself came back again to Ireland without leave and was taken and committed to Dublin-Castle and some while after Tried at the same High Court of Iustice. Sir Phelim O Neal that great and prime Ringleader of the Rebellion was likewise betrayed by his own party in February following at Vlster neer Charlemount and brought Prisoner to the Lord Caufield's house whose Father he had treacherously Murthered and sent with a Guard to the same place and Hanged and Quartered Insomuch that all Ireland was now wholly reduced for Colonel Barrow had taken most of the places in Vlster save what Forces were skulking in the Fastnesses and made a kinde of thieving War and that was yet
In this condition some 100 of the most faithful and cordial of the party Hungry Sleepy and Weary having staid no where reached Southmolton in Devonshire hoping at worst to get away by Sea but that night on the 15 of March their Quarters were beaten up by Captain Crook about ten a clock and some Houses forced but Colonel Penruddock maintained his quarters till he had Quarter promised and Articled which Crook afterwards unworthily and basely denied There were taken with him Colonel Iones a Kinsman of Cromwel's and Colonel Grove an old Royalist and some 60 other Prisoners and 120 Horse Sir Ioseph Wagstaff Mr. Robert Mason Esquire Clark and Mr. Thomas Mompesson escaped beyond Sea and so this unhappy effort was suppressed There were some shadows of the like at Rufford-Abbey in Nottinghamshire at Hessen-moor in York-shire neer Wrexham in Montgomery in Northumberland for which some were Executed and a like rumour of a designe upon Shrewsbury Sir Henry Slingsby in Custody and Sir Richard Maleverer and Mr. Hutton taken who fled for it and were retaken at Chester from whence they made a final escape and Sir Thomas Harris and the Lord Newport secured therâ—upon but all vanished and came to nothing and those mighty and pregnant hopes of the King's Restitution now in every mans Mouth and Wish proved frustraneous hac vice and Oliver very prajeant that he could thus over-reach the King in his own Designes This Treason came to be discovered to the King in this manner Some Gentlemen that were seized upon their coming home having visited his Majesty at Colen who was pleased upon their parting to go to the Stairs head with them and expressed some good apprecations of a designe which at their Examination were verbatim interrogated if they were not spoken at such a time Advice hereof was given to the King who remembring none but Colonel Tukâ— and this Manning who light the Candle to be present at the parting the same time declared the whole matter to the Colonel who surprized with the news having protested his Innocency by the Kings command went directly to Manning's Chamber and not staying the opening of the Door forced it and found him a chawing of Papers and a Packet by him newly come from Thurloe but so agast that he knew not what to say His Father had been slain a Colonel in the Kings Service as is afore related he himself had been the Earl of Pembroke's Secretary and for these considerations admitted into this Trust which he so basely abused At the instance of the whole Court the King was prevailed upon to let him be shot in one of the Castles of the Duke of Newburgh to terrifie all other faithless and disloyal Servants and to satisfie for some of that Blood Cromwel had spilt upon the score of his Perâ—idy where he wretchedly and most abjectly died Cromwel had drawn 4000 Foot out of Ireland under Colonel Axtel and Sadler and 600 Horse were marching out of Scotland two Troops whereof came from Ireland by that short cut of Sea to Ayre but upon the quelling of this Western-rising they all were remanded In February happened another terrible Fire in Fleet-street neer the Horn-Tavern which begun in a Grocers house and consumed eleven more the like happened at Aberfoyle in Scotland but far greater for quantity Major Wildman a great Leveller was taken neer Marleborough inditing Declarations against the Protector and was committed to Chepstow and the Lord Gray of Grooby was brought Prisoner to Leicester but upon application made to Oliver not long after released Lockhart one of the Scotch Judges Married Oliver's Niece about this time and grew famous thereby in the process of the Rebellion The regulation of Chancery and Hackney-Coaches took force now Another horrible Fire in Thredneedle-street to the loss of 200000 l. and upwards One Harris that was Hanged afterwards in 1661. for Counterfeiting the Lord Chancellor Hide 's Hand and breaking of a house therewith by armed Souldiers and was one of those that carried a Javelin at the Kings Martyrdome about this time Cheated one Manton and other Merchants with a counterfeit License as from Cromwel for Importing some Oyls and Whalebone from Holland which were forbidden by the Act and got neer 1000 l. of them Commissary-General Reynolds was made a kinde of Major-General of North-Wales which Module obtained all over England soon after but this was the proto-type The insensible and uâ—regarded growth of all Heresie and Errour in this licentious Toleration which invaded the Church among many other most pernicious Tenets besides c. made the Socinian to pass unobserved in this Chronicle since it would have been an Augean labour to cleanse the Current of time from that Sink and Colluvious Filth of those Monstrous Opinions Upon this score the Racovian-Catechism its divulgation and the suppression of it by the Ececutioner's Hands in the Fire came to be omitted in the year preceding As likewise Biddle the famous Seducer and Teacher of those Blasphemous Principles who was by this Dumb Parliament as Oliver called it committed to the Gate-house and thence sent to a remote Prison and his Books Burnt in the same manner besides the Englishing of the Alchoran and the three Grand Impostors damned for shame mist his due observation which therefore are here added in the close of this year Anno Dom. 1655. THe Cabal of Cardinal Mazarine and Cromwel's designe was now visible in the West-Indies and that formidable and amusing Expedition displayed to those parts of the World The rich Conceits the Usurper cherished from thence appeared in those frequent divertisements he gave himself beyond his usual reservedness and from that more than ordinary Pomp and State he arrogated to himself like another Grand Seignior nothing but Golden Smiles to be seen in his Court where the solemn Cringe and the parasitical Glaver were as much now studied to humour this Greatness as matriculating and introducing Piety and austere Hypocrisie And never was such a strange mixture in the Arts of any Courtier as these Times beheld much like the mysteries of the as strangely framed and tempered Government With much impatience did all men indeed await the issue of this grand Affair and to be certain the Hours could not be less tedious to them to whom belonged the approaching Golden Age but Parturiunt montes The following abstract will admonish the great ones that Fortune is not to be over-tempted and that without the Concurrence of good Deliberation Conduct and Valour she is not always obliged to her Favourites But to proceed during the abode of the Fleet at Barbadoes the Generals Colonels and inferiour Officers were not negligent in their several stations General Pen caused the Carpenters of each ship to set up those Shallops which were brought over in quarters out of England and ordered the Coopers to trim and fit Water-Casks Besides he sent two Frigats to St. Christophers and Mevis for raising
Hunt whom his Sisters coming to visit and take their farewel of him over-night of his Execution he changed Cloaths with one of them pretending before to be indisposed and to keep his Bed and with a Handkerchief as weeping and sobbing before his eyes was let out while a Guard at door watched his Sisters sleep that night who next Morning waking the supposed Major to make ready for Death perceived the Stratagem this incensed Cromwel farther so that he commanded all that were in Prison for that Rising should be forthwith Transported to the Caribbe-Islands and some Argier-Merchants or worse undertook it and sold them to the Barbarous and inhumane Flanters worse than ever were the Natives for Bond-men and Slaves About the same time all Jesuits and Seminaries were anew Exiled and all suspected Catholicks to abjure the Pope Purgatory Transubstantiation and all the Doctrines of that Church or else all their Estates to be seized The Judges Thorp and Nudigate laid down their Commissions in May. During the War in America and for all our Fleet lay in those parts the Spanish Plate-Fleet which was thought the main aim of our preparation and was therefore much feared for desperate was now at Sea and presently the Marquess De Lede who defended Maestricht so bravely some time before against the Prince of Aurange was sent Embassador to the Protector that the honourableness of his Person might gratifie Cromwel's ambition of Courtship and sweeten him to the Friendship and Alliance he had in his Instructions to offer and more easily to insinuate into the mystery of this conjunct designe He was nobly attended besides a numerous train of Lacqueys in silver and Green Livery and had Audience May 5 and continued his Complement and Cabal together the space of five Weeks in which time most of the action had passed in America and returned unsatisfied and re infecta though dismist with more than ordinary respects about the middle of Iune Now happened an occasion or rather Cromwel made it one for him to shew his zeal to the Protestant Cause and to shew himself to the World the Champion or Hector thereof this was also one secret step and reach to the Crown by invading the sacred Title of the Defender of the Faith due onely to the Hereditary Soveraigns of England Herein also he aimed as in the Proverb to hit two Birds with one Stone not doubting but to finde another Mine in the Charitable mindes and compassion of this Nation towards the parallel suffering of the old Waldenses in Piedmont to the Irish Massacres which were set out and drest here with greater skill of Butchery than the actors could handsomely do it there and it was said the Copy was drawn from that Original Most certain it is that they were in Rebellion and that the Duke of Savoy their Soveraign did chastise them to their Obedience though the Marquess Pianella a very zealous Catholick and the Earl of Quince the French Kings Lieutenant-General of his Italian Armies then joyned with that Dukes and stranger-Souldiers have little regard to any Religion where they may ravage without controle might exceed their Commissâ—on in inflicting the extremity of War which they had brought upon themselves and were before also odious more than enough to their Catholick Neighbours Whatever the matter was Cromwel takes the Massacre for granted enjoyns a Fast and at the close of that a Collection not limited and terminated in the liberal contributions in the Church at the Bason but the Collectors and other Officers of the Parish with the Minister were to go from door to door and stir up the Richer sort to a chearful Contribution which indeed was very forwardly and charitably given and intended and forthwith Mr. now Sir Samuel Moreland one of Mr. Thurloe's Secretaries was sent away as Envoy to the Court of Savoy Mr. Pell was dispatcht to the Protestant Cantons of Switzerland upon the same account and Mr. now Sir George Downing was sent after Mr. Moreland by the way of France where he began the complaint and proceeded All those three met together at Geneva to advise with that State how to manage this importance of Religion but Mr. Downing never pursued this Project farther being remanded hence to go Secretary of the Council newly made for Scotland Pell was sâ—nt of his formâ—r errand to the Cantons and Mr. Moreland returned to Turin to the Duke's Court where perceiving this fraud of Cromwel it was no great matter to bring him over soon after to the Kings service in which he continued Alderman Viner and Pack were made Treasurers for this Money which amounted to a very large sum and reaching the designe of the Protector a small parcel whereof was now remitted to Geneva the French King having newly before accommodated the business the Duke refusing to admit Cromwel's Mediation By this conclusion the truth appeared for in the very liminary words they acknowledged the Rebellion in express terms and begged pardon of their gracious Lord his Royal Highness which was here imputed and charged to the prevaâ—ication and collusion of the Cantons Mediation and the three Pastors their Commissioners in that affair There was one Artifice of the Protectors to set this business forward and to countenance it omitted which was Addresses from the Army here and abroad offering their service in this common Cause of the Protestant Religion no way doubting but that God in his due time would confound those Enemies of his People as he had shewn his Salvation by themselves in the same Controversie to that day Several Fires yet burst out in many parts of the Kingdome one in Barnaby-street in Southwark and new diseases were most rife and mortal This Easter-Term one Mr. George Coney a Merchant having been committed by the Commissioners of the Customes to the Serjeant at Arms for refusing to obey their Orders and Fine set for not paying the dues of some Merchandizes brought his Habeas Corpus in the Kings-Bench where he intended to disprove the Authority and Legality of his Commitment and baffle-their Warrant To this purpose Serjeant Maynard Twisden and Mr. Wadham Windham were retained of Counsel by him who pleading such matters for their Client as entrenched upon the Protector 's pretensions and his Publicans Power in that place into which profitable Employment they had scrued themselves by a pretence of serving the publick gratis and without any Salary were instantly committed to the Tower to consider better of Cromwel's Prerogative and to help his Jaylor Berkstead the Lieutenant thereof with the Fees of that chargeable Imprisonment where no Habeas Corpus would be allowed except upon the Knee their enlargement being granted upon their Petition and Submission to the Usurper Those and the like Forces and violences in the Law and the fear of infaming the Bench and his own Credit made Chief-Justice Rolles relinquish his place and sue for a Quietus est just as old Sir Henry Vane deceased
the Officers and some words but never a blow for the Soldiers were resolved not to Fight one against the other for the best Parliament or the best Cause that ever was in England In this posture they continued till Night when the Council of State who umpired the difference between the Red-Coats commanded and ordered them to their several Quarters as good friends as ever It must be remembred that the Rump suspecting of this Juncto of State had privately named another to Act if a dissolution should happen The Army-Officers the next day after this Conquest met at Whitehal and declared Fleetwood for their General They appointed also a select number of the Council of State to consider of fit ways to carry on the Affairs of the Common-wealth and suspended all those Officers that were active on the other side and referred them to a Court Martial for remedy giving power to Fleetwood Ludlow Desborough Lambert Sir Henry Vane and Berry to nominate all Officers and appointed the reviving of the old Laws of Military Discipline and that Fleetwood as before should be owned for General and Lambert and Desborough as Major and Commissary General the latter in England and Scotland too not a syllable mentioned of General Moncks consent to the bargain save that Colonel Cobbet was dispatched thither to inform him of the Passages as Colonel Barrough was sent upon the same errand to Ireland That Committee just before mentioned of which Vane Whitlock Lambert and Berry were chief Fleetwood and Desborough must needs be in begot or gigged themselves into another Committee called a Committee of Safety some few more being added from the City who were to consider of a form of Government and if they thought fit to advise with the General Council of Officers and to bring in a Draught within six weeks their power the same with the former Council of State to which this was added they were to call Delinquets to Tryal and to give Indemnity to all that had acted for the Parliament since 1641. to suppress Rebellious Insurrections to Treat with Forreign Princes to confer Offices and to state the Sales and Compositions of those late Delinquents their Names were as follow viz. Fleetwood Lambert Desborough Steel Whitlock Vane Ludlow Sydenham Salloway Strickland Seven last Members of the Rump Berry Laurence Olivers's President of his Council Sir Iames Harrington another Rumper Warreston a Scotch-man and Henry Brandrith a Cloath-drawer Citizen Cornelius Holland a Member Hewson Clark Bennet and Lilbourn Colonels of the Army These by Letters of Invitation being brought together to consider of a Government which Vane had already Projected the Cement whereof was an intended Marriage betwixt Lamberts's Son and his Daughter the Council of Officers emitted a Declaration shewing the reasons of the late Change and do thereby disanul the pretended Act of Treason Octob. 10. to Levy Money without consent in Parliament as done precipitantly and unduly and not according to the Custome of Parliament declare for Ministry and the maintenance of it by a less vexatious way than Tithes for Liberty and that the Army will not meddle in Civil Affairs but refer the Civil and Executive Power to the Council of State or Safety to provide for the Government and to set up a free State without King single Person or House of Lords And for Conclusion desire the Prayers of the Godly The Judges were nevertheless in this mad state of Affairs perswaded to sit in the several Courts Whitlock officiating the Chancery Sir Thomas Alleyn the Lord Mayor of London was likewise sworn before the Barons of the Exchequer Sir William Waller and others that had been snapt up by the Rump took advantage of it and brought their Habeas Corpus to the Kings Bench. Sir William got his liberty and shortly after the Earl of Northampton Lord Bellasis Faulconbridge Faulkland Castelton Lord Herbert of Ragland Lord Charles Howard were all released upon bail That wretch Bradshaw died at the Lodgings given him in the Deans-house at Westminster the beginning of this Moneth of Novemb. in the same desperate impenitence in which since the Fact he lived saying to a Gentleman on his Death-bed that charitably advised him to examine himself about the matter of the Kings Death That if it were to do again he would be the first man that should do it He was freed by this his Disease which was occasioned by an Ague as Cromwel's from the terrour and fear of the ensuing Change the apprehensions whereof setled in him ever since his Country the Cheshire Design He was grown publiquely confident and had left off his Guards he first kept about him but his privacy was more than usually and all his actions and gestures more reserved He was carried out with a great Funeral and much attendance of the Men of those Times and Interred in the Abby and his Crime published for his Commendation A little before died Edmund Prideaux the Attorney-General throughout the Usurpation by which he got a very vast Estate leaving Sixty Thousand pounds in Gold as credible report went in his Coffers besides Lands of very great demesnes This Change like a nine days wonder was quite over and the Army and Lambert here very brisk and slighting the Rump and all it could do when a Cooling Card came from the North in a Letter from General Monk declaring his unsatisfiedness with those proceedings of the Army which hugely deceived their Expectations because he had so readily concurred with their former mutation and the Officers there were many of them Phanaticks but the Case was altered he resolved to assert the Parliamentary Interest and when Cobbet sent hence came to Berwick he had him secured there and sent with a Guard Prisoner to Edinborough Castle The manner of his declaring for the Parliament was thus On the Eighteenth of October being at Dalkeith he sent for Col. Wilks Governour of Leith Lieutenant-Col Emerson Captain Ethelbert Morgan now made his Lieutenant-Colonel Lieutenant-Col Hubberthorne Cloberry and Miller to come to him whom he acquainted with his Resolution and they engaged to stand by him against the Factious part of the Army as he characterized them On the Nineteenth he come to Edinburgh where his own and Col. Talbot's Regiment with lighted Matches and Ball received him to whom he declared the same and promised them their Arrears at which they loudly shouted then he went to Leith where he was entertained in the like manner and at his departure had Seventeen Guns given him from the Citadel and Volleys from the Regiment Then he turned all the Anabaptist-Officers out of the Regiments and secured them in Timptallon-Castle At the same time upon pretences of consulting with Lieutenant-Col Young of Cobbets Regiment Lieutenant-Col Keyn and Major Kelke of Pearsons Regiment he sent for them to him and upon their coming clapt them up but released Keyn upon his promise of adherence Together with them he had advertisement that
taking Assembly at home having issued out Writs by his own Precept and Authority for convening some of the Nobles and two for every County of Scotland while as yet he lay in the Confines of England with some part of his Army from which parts he sent away a Letter by Col. Markham and Atkins to the City of London of the Tenour of the former intercepted to Devonshire which being read at a Common-Hall was by all means endeavoured to be blasted as fictitious and the Messengers imprisoned The Scotch Convention met the General according to his Summons at Edenburgh where he propounded to them First The security of the Peace in his absence which he said He was constrained to in defence of the Parliament and our Laws in general terms Secondly That they would Assist him if any Troubles should arise And Thirdly That they would raise him some money To this they readily answered being Oracled That as to the first they had no Arms and therefore were in no condition nor capacity to provide against any Insurrections but would endeavour Secondly That it could not be expected nor were it reasonable for them to interest themselves in a War which if prosperous had no assurance of advantage if unhappy would be farther ruinous to them Thirdly That as to moneys they were exhausted already but yet confiding in his Noble and Honourable design they would raise him a Twelve Moneths Assessement which amounted to Sixty thousand pounds and the Revenues of the Excise and Customes besides The Earl of Glencarn had the Chair here one of the General 's Privadoes a former Eminent Royallist and at present deem'd a moderate man having in all things complyed with the General 's Orders This is one of the Curtain-stories which cannot be pryed into as yet as are the other abstruse contrivances of the Kings Restitution it is sufficient to mind the Reader that some great Providence was at hand when a revengeful and most desperate Enemy gratified his Conquerour by the opening of his Heart and his Hands instead of striving with this advantage and arming himself to the recovery of that Peoples Liberty The Committee of Safety for all Vane's curious Modules liked not themselves in this their Government but to free themselves by a Proclamation declared their resolution for another Parliament and that they were upon qualifications and summoning one speedily One Barret sent out of Ireland with a Letter to Gen. Monke from the Army-party there was likewise imprisoned all the whole Force in Scotland were now together to wit the Generals Regiments Wilks's Talbot's Fairfax's Pearson's Read's Smith's and Sawrey's of Foot and His own Col. Twisleton's Morgan's and Saunders's of Horse the latter of whom was detained in a kind of restraint of Coventry nevertheless the General pretended still to an Agreement and therefore declaring not himself fully satisfied desired the addition of two more Commissioners to treat with his other three at Newcastle with five more of Wallingford-house the chief of whom was Col. Clerk who came post to Newcastle where having conferred the General sends for his Commissioners to be fully informed of the transaction before he ratified it because of the late mistake of his Commissioners at London and upon their arrival clapt up Col. Wilks for exceeding his Instructions The General was now at Berwick whence he sent Letters to Fleetwood assuring him that in all this difference there he had no personal quarrel against him but could return into a most firm friendship with him But now his temporizing came to an end for Hazelrig Morley Walton Col. Norton was then also present got into Portsmouth and Whetham the Governour formerly of the Generals Council in Scotland siding with them they presently seized upon such Officers as were thought to favour the Wallingfordians of which were Captain Brown and Captain Peacock and declared for the Parliament which coming to the Ears of the Council of Officers they presently ordered Major Cadwel with a Party of Horse to block them up who accordingly came to Gospur on the other side the water and Riches and Berries Troops were sent to joyn with him who instead thereof being inveagled by Col. Vnton Crook and Major Bremen marched into Portsmouth and joyned with Hazelrig Then began the Tumults in London and instant applications were made to the Lord Mayor and Aldermen to declare against both Army and Rump the last of whom was most abhorred and cryed out against with the general voice of No Rump and a Petition for a Free-Parliament as the only way to preserve the City and Kingdome was preferred for Hands which the Committee of Safety under high Penalties forbid but no regard being had to them nor no application of any person to them but their own Army-folk save that Sir George Booth obtained his Liberty upon Bail from them because of indisposition and for recovery of his health in better Ayr the said Petitions were carried on and high things resolved on Shops being shut up and the Publick only minded people running in clusters in the middle of the Street and hearing and telling of News an threatning or expecting as news came nothing but Destruction These things being posted to Wallingford-house Colonel Hewson with his Regiment was ordered to march into the City and quell these Tumults and Uproars who accordingly came strutting in and seeing some gatherings of Apprentices and others having commanded them to be gone bid his Musquetiers fire who killed two men about the Exchange Horse and Foot were also quartered in the Streets and round about the City Lambert seeing no good was to be expected by this Treaty his Messenger Col. Zanchy being secured at Berwick advanced to Perith having almost spoiled and wasted the Country about Newcastle with his numerous and indeed gallant Army for he had the flower of it with him both for Horse and Men money was wanting and could not be had so that free-quarter on which he was forced to subsist having almost undone himself to supply his incident necessities of the Expedition made him not only odious but disheartned his men which to remedy he concluded to March forward and so came to Perith intending to Fight Nothing in the interim but fears rage desperation revenge private and publick consultations about the redress of these mischiefs filled the City of London and nothing but a Free-Parliament could be thought of as a fit expedient which the Committee of Safety found it high time to personate being already certain that Portsmouth-story would spoil all and therefore to prevent the Rump Proclaimed December 15. a Free-Parliament to sit down the Twenty fourth of Ianuary upon sundry qualifications which were to be formed out of these Seven Fundamentals 1. No King 2. No single Person 3. The Army to be continued 4. Liberty of Conscience 5. No House of Peers 6. Legislative and Executive Power distinct 7. Both Assemblies of the Parliament and Council of State to be chosen by
Duke of Ormond who hath so often Governed this Realm hath given the greatest pledges of assurance of an happy Establishment whose beginning I will not trouble with the short-lived rumours of Commotions and Stirs now very frequent and rise by the Arts of our Male-Contents Thus far have I deduced the account of the Three Kingdoms from the most Funest War to a blessed and most promising Peace to us and our Posterity and may there be in the succeeding years of His Majesties and his Royal Progenies Reign which Almighty God derive through innumerable descents no other occasion of our Pens than the gratulatory Records of our undisturbed unalterable Repose Plenty and Tranquillity A BRIEF ACCOUNT Of the most Memorable TRANSACTIONS IN ENGLAND SCOTLAND and IRELAND AND Forein Parts From the Year 1662 to the Year 1675. LONDON Printed by I. C. for T. Basset at the George near Cliffords-Inne in Fleetstreet 1676. A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF TRANSACTIONS IN ENGLAND SCOTLAND and IRELAND c. THere is a justice due to the Memory of Actions as well as the Memory of Men and therefore since the times of Usurpation have had the favour done them as to have the Transactions of those Years publikely recorded though to the shame of those Times that had nothing but Enormity to signalize 'em with more justice may we assay to take a short view of those great and Noble Actions perform'd in the succeeding Years Not that we pretend to a History but in short â—â—â—nals and brief Collections to facilitate the way for those that shall hereafter take a larger and more considerable pains Anno Dom. 1663. THat which the expectations of people were most fix'd upon the beginning of this Year was the Session of Parliament which beginning on the 19 th of February 1662 continued to the 27 th of Iuly 1663. The first thing remarkable was a Petition of both Houses Representing that notwithstanding his Majesties unquestionable zeal and affection to the Protestant Religion manifested by his constant prosession and practice against all temptations whatsoever yet by the great resort of Iesuits and Romish Priests into the Kingdom the Subject was generally much affected with jealousie that the Popish Religion might much encrease and the Church and State be thereby insensibly disturb'd upon which the King set forth a Proclamation Commanding all Iesuits and Irish Scotch and English Priests to depart the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales before the 14 th of May then next ensuing upon pain of having the penalty of the Laws inflicted upon them But while they are bringing other Consultations to maturity many other things preceding the Conclusion of their deliberations are to be related In April his Majesty kept the Feast of St. George at Windsor where the Duke of Monmouth and the Prince of Denmark by his Deputy Sir George Carteret Vice-chamberlain were install'd Knights of the Garter Toward the later end of May came News from Iamaica that the English under the Command of Capt. Mymms being about 800 men had made an attempt upon the City of Campeach in the Golden Territories of the King of Spain and that they took the Town though defended with four Forts and 3000 men But the Spaniards having intelligence of their coming had sent away their Women and Riches yet though they miss'd their chief aim they took the Governour brought away 50 pieces of Ordnance and 14 Ships which were in Harbor The beginning of Iune brought News of a Conspiracie of several wicked persons in Ireland who were endeavoring to raise a new Rebellion there by surprizing the Castle of Dublin The Designe was to have been put in execution upon the 21 th of May and the Dâ—ke of Ormond first to be seiz'd To which effect divers persons with Petitions in their hands were to wait in the Castle while 80 Foot in the disguise of Handicrafts-men attended without Their business it was to trifle about for an opportunity to surprize the Guards The Plot was discovered and 500 lib. a head set upon five of the Ringleaders to what persons soever should apprehend them About this time his Majesty caus'd the Earl of Middleton's Commission as Commissioner of Scotland to cease and appointed the Earl of Rothes to succeed him in the same Quality On the third of Iune His Majesty by his Commission under the Great Seal of England to the Lord Chancellor Lord Treasurer Lord Privy Seal Duke of Albemarle Marquess of Dorchester and Lord High Chamberlain pass'd ten Bills which were all private ones but three of which the chiefest was for repair of the High-ways of Huntington Hertford and Cambridge-shires About the beginning of December Mr. Paul Rycaut Secretary to the Earl of Winchelsey came from Constantinople bringing with him the Grand Seigniors Ratifications of the several Treaties made with Argier and as a mark of the Kings satisfaction in the management of his Employment and the Message he brought His Majesty was pleas'd to honour him with a fair gold Chain and a Medal No less mindful was he of the Loyalty of his Island of Iersey and as a reward thereof muâ—â—bout the same time he order'd a stately silver Mace richly gilt to be bestowed upon the Bayliff or Chief Magistrate of the Island to be born ever after before him and his Successors as an honourable Badge of his Majesties affection to them for their constant adhering both to his Father and Himself It was received with all imaginable demonstrations of joy and the first that had the honour to have it born before him was Philip Carteret Esq. Brother to Sir George Vice-Chamberlain to his Majesty But now so loud and so hainous were the rebellious Treasons daily discovered in the North that it was thought convenient to give requitals of another nature and in the depth of winter to send a Commission of Oyer and Terminer to York for trial of the most notorious Offenders in that Conspiracie Seventeen were first arraign'd ten of which appeared to have been actually in arms at Farnley-wood The Plot was excellently open'd to have been a Designe which came from the Bishoprick about a year before and that an Intelligence was settled between the disaffected there and in Yorkshire as also in Ipswich in Suffolk and other Counties an Oath of Secresie taken and Agents employ'd at London and in the West of England for assistance In Iune preceding two Agitators were sent into Scotland to reconcile the Sectaries there who were entertained at one Oldroyd's house in Deusbury commonly known by the name of the Devil of Deusbury and afterwards divers meetings were appointed at a place called Stanh-house in York-shire Whereupon Marshden and Palmer were sent to London as Agitators to the Secret Committee there and at their return brought Orders to rise the 12 th of Octob. with assurance that the Insurrection should be general and Whitehal be attempted Nottingham Glocester and Newcastle were to be seized as Passes
very few his Memory however is there held in great Honor as if the Memory of his Courage were the Soul of the Garrison And seeing we are got so far abroad it may not be unseasonable to remember the famous Battle fought between the Turks and Christians under the conduct of Montecuculi it being one of the 〈◊〉 famous Occurrences of this year most fatal to the Infidels who that day left dead upon the field the flower of their Infantry to the number of 6 or 7000 among which two Bassaes all their Cannon above forty Colours with Plunder inestimable To which Honorable Victory the wounds of the French did not a little conduce Nor are we so slenderly to pass by another Atchievement of Geneal Souches the general good of Christendom being equally concern'd in both who with an unequal number of only six thousand encountring above 15000 of the Enemy near the Garrison of Lewentz with the loss only of 250 slew eight thousand thereby gaining an absolute Victory vast Booty and Provisions of all sorts All this while though there was open War with Argier and that Lawson kept so vigilant an eye over them yet by reason that either through Cowardize or want of sufficient force they were constrain'd to keep close in their Harbors that sedulous Admiral could do little good upon them otherwise than by blocking up their Harbors to keep them from Roving doing mischief His Majesty therefore having more occasion for so great and eminent a Commander at home sent for both him and C. Berkley into England to employ them against a more Noble Enemy in pursuance of which Order Sir Iohn Lawson returns for England leaving Captain Allen to Command in Chief in his Room who in a short time after brought them to that distress that they were glad to accept of Peace upon terms advantageous enough for the King of England The Divan disowning the Breach and laying the fault upon some few that for their own benefit would not be rul'd by their Superiors As thus his Majesties Arms so were his Counsels active abroad The Earl of Carlisle is sent Embassador to Muscovy and Sweden whither also Sir Gilbert Talbâ—t was likewise employ'd as a particular Envoy as likewise Mr. Coventry to Denmark All upon such important Instructions as the emergency of Affairs at that time requir'd but in general to keep a strict union and Correspondence with those Nations Neighbours of his Enemies Sir George Downing was presently after his return into England sent back again with full Instructions what he had to do Many Conferences he had about the Lists of Damages but the Dutch would return no positive Answer to any thing nor come to any Agreement hoping to prove the event of certain great expectations which they had not the least of which was the return of a vast Treasure in several great Fleets of Merchant-men His Majesty well knowing how strong a Nerve of War Mony is resolv'd to way-lay those vast Masfes of Wealth as they pass'd his own Channel mov'd also by certain Intelligence which he had that the Dutch were resolv'd in contempt of his power to send their Guinee preparations by Sea and that Opdam should convey them through the Channel To which end and purpose that he might be before-hand with the preparations of the Dutch the King strives with all his Puissance to make ready his Navy Whose Royal endeavours and indefatigable pains in his own particular Person were answered by the Success For such was the alacrity of his Subjects that saw him continually travelling from place to place by the presence of his own Majesty to encourage forward the work and to see all things effectually and speedily done that the City freely at the first demand made by the Earl of Manchester Lord Chamberlain of the Kings Houshold suppli'd him with another Loan of another hundred thousand Pounds which so highly promoted his Royal Designe that while the Dutch slattering themselves with vain suppositions of his want of Men and Mony and broken with the Calamity of the Pestilence were only forc'd to look on and with envy behold his vigorous preparations the King had furnish'd out such a magnificent Navy to the Sea as the Ocean had hardly seen in any former Ages On the other side the Dutch having consider'd the dangers of the Northern Passage seemingly lay aside all thoughts of going about by Scotland and resolve to force their passage through the Channel The Commissioners therefore of the several Admiralties having revictual'd Opdams Fleet from the middle of October to the middle of December gave him order to hasten out to Sea with the first wind and to Conduct the Guinee-Succors through the Channel having taken care for some other Ships from the Vlie and Texel to joyn with him and in the mean time they sent a Galliot before to their Director-General in Guinee to give him notice of their Proceedings Which resolution taken and carried on with so much vigour most men believ'd to have been extorted from them by the necessity of their present condition for they had scatter'd many Contempts upon the English Nation and yet falter'd in the point of execution Nor was the Issue of this Bravado it self other than what their â—ear presented for about the middle of October Prince Rupert arriv'd at the Spit-head with sixteen Sail of Men of War The first thing he discover'd was a small Man of War of 14 Guns which the Prince suspecting to be employ'd for Discovery and Advice sent his Smack out to Sea with Orders to forbid him to beat there any longer unless he were upon Trade upon which Message he vanish'd At the beginning of November the Duke of York Lord high Admiral of England departed towards his Charge at Portsmouth having receiv'd a most gracious farewel from his Majesty in a short while after he went aboard and joyn'd with the Prince and Earl of Sandwich so that it was no easie thing to unlock the Narrow Seas Opdam lay with his Fleet in the Goree and great debates there were whether he should out or no but the Wind continuing cross put an end to that Dispute And a fair excuse they had for not adventuring upon so great disadvantages as they were like to have found for as we said before the Duke was now joyâ—â—d with the Prince and the Earl of Sandwich Thereupon about the beginning of December perceiving great likelihood of Frosts and high Winds they thought good to lay up till Spring which was accordingly put in Execution to the great dissatisfaction of the Merchants who now found themselves abandon'd and left to all the hazards of a Winter Voyage Opdam return'd to the Hague and the Seamen were paid off And last of all for the better Information of the King of France how Affairs stood Monsieur Benninghen was dispatch'd away Post for Paris To recompence the Stay of the Royal Navy to
attend the Motion of the Netherlanders the Dutch Bourdeaux-Fleet laden with Wine Brandy and other Commodities fell all or the greatest part into our hands which together with many other Prizes at other times this Year taken made up the number of above a Hundred thirty five with great Caution condemnâ—d in the Admiralty of London Nine Dutch Ships were brought into Dover at one time laden with Canary Salt Oyl Brandy Spice and other good Merchandizes Certain it was that the Hollander received a very great Foyl in the Opinion of the People by that Action of withdrawing his Fleet the Vulgar being supported till then with an expectation of some mighty Actions to Answer their Prodigious Boasting This was all the Action of the English and Dutch Fleets at home For his Highness the Duke of York finding that the Netherlanders had laid up their Ships and that there was now no need of keeping so great a Navy abroad with all his Train upon the seventh of December arrived at White-Hall leaving a considerable number of stout Vessels under the Conduct of the Earl of Sandwich having before his departure by a Speech which he made them inspired the Seamen with an admirable resolution and chearfulness to obey the Commands of their Admiral in whatever Enterprise he should have further Order to Prosecute This year were Launch'd the Royal Catherine and the Royal Oak And that noble Ship the London being by an Accident blown up the City made their humble Addresses to His Majesty that they might have leave to make a Contribution among themselves for the building another Ship of equal Goodness The King graciously accepted their kind offer and to shew his greater Acceptance enjoyned them to add the Title of Loyal to the Name of London As yet there was no publique Declaration of War on either side Only the King seemed to Treat with his Arms in his hands And therefore Sir George Downing still prest in the heat of all this Preparation and Action according to his Instructions for Satisfaction of Damages The King had also made an Embargo upon the Dutch here in England which was carried so privately that Sir George Downing had Intelligence of it a full Week before the States knew any thing thereof By which means he gave timely Notice to fifteen or sixteen Sail of the English to Ship away insomuch that there remain'd nothing for the other to Seize but two inconsiderable Vessels and a Colchester Oysterboat About the List of Damages there were several Conferences with Sr. George Downing which prov'd all to little or no Effect But that which pinch'd them most was the Regulation propounded by Sir George for the Government of Trade for the future being very sensible that the English did make themselves much more Popular among the Natives where they settled than the Netherlanders had the fortune to do At length in Justification of their Proceedings they put forth a Scandalous Libel intituled An Extract out of the Memorials of the States General of the Vnited Provinces upon the Memorial of Sir George Downing Envoyè c. wherein they cast many Invective Aspersions upon His Majesty and put Sir George to the necessity of a Printed Vindication The reason of this delay was to feel the pulses of their Neighbours and to try what Assistance they could get from them especially France whither they had posted away Monsieur Benninghen as was said before but his Negotiation did no way answer their expectations Besides that the Minister of the Crown of Sweden charg'd them in a large Memorial with a direct breach of Articles neither would Denmark Meddle with their Cause The Bishop of Munster threatned 'um for the Eyler Fort The Emperour sollicited 'um to do Reason to Malta And Spain Visibly rejoyc'd for their misfortune before Calice Which at the latter end of Sixty four after all their Embassies and Negotiations was their Condition with Forraign Princes They were angry with His Majesty of England for making a Peace with Argier without their Assent whenas they had given order to De Ruyter who Commanded the Squadron which was sent to the Assistance of the English to leave that Enterprize having designed him to destroy the English Factories in Guiny to which purpose De Ruyter set Sayl from Gibralter about the latter end of September with Thirteen Ships and Arriving in Guiny made seizure of all that he found within his reach at Cape Verd and the Island of Gâ—gee where the Governour with his men finding himself deserted made Conditions to be Transported to Gambia But this was in part retaliated by the News which came from Captain Allen who with the Ships under his Command discovering about thirty Dutch-men which prov'd to be the Smyrna-Fleet with their Convey made up to them and upon their refusing to strike Sayl gave them a Salute which they answered After some Dispute the Dutch made for the Bay of Cadiz having lost four of their Richest Merchant-men and one taken and divers of the rest very much shatter'd one of the Captains of their Men of War was kill'd This Action was the more considerable in regard that the Sea was so high that Captain Allen could not bear out his lower Tire About the seventh of Iune Sir Thomas Modeford arriv'd at Iamaica with four hundred Passengers whither he was followed soon after with Three hundred more where they found themselves very well pleased with the Country and very much encourag'd to settle themselves the Governour endeavouring with all diligence to settle a fair Correspondence with his Neighbours both in Sancto Domingo and Cartagena to which purpose he call'd in all Private Men of War belonging to the Island On the 24th of November the Parliament met again at which time the King in a Speech signified to them how unkindly he had been treated by his Neighbours yet that he had upon the Stock of his own Credit set forth a Navy that would not decline meeting with all the Naval Power of the Enemy that he had borrowed very liberally out of his own Stores and of the City of London so that to discharge the one and replenish the other would require little less than Eight hundred thousand pounds That he expected from them all necessary Expedition in their Resolutions and that their Supply might be Real and Substantial This was Answered by Sir Edward Turnor then Speaker with all Expressions of Loyalty and Affection to the King setting forth the deep sence which the Parliament had of the Injuries of the Dutch of His Majesties Expences and the necessity of his Warlike Preparations Assuring Him of their Constancie and readiness to yield him all obedience both with their Bodies and Purses To make their words good they first past a Vote for a Supply of Four and twenty hundred seventy seven thousand and five hundred pounds a great heart-breaking at that time and that which shew'd the King would want no
manner as any of his Ancestors had enjoy'd they also renounc'd that perpetual Edict by which they had oblig'd themselves never to admit of a Stadtholder and discharg'd the Prince of the Oath he had taken never to accept of that Dignity which thing thus begun by a Tumult was afterwards Confirm'd in a full Assembly of the States General There were at this time taken from them by the French several Towns and Forts some of them of great Importance and by the Bishop of Munster six and besides this by the former Maestricht by the latter Groninghen Besiedg'd their Fleet in Port patching up their bruises Yet now the King of England compassionating their Condition and believing those misfortunes might have rendred 'um more humble sent over the Duke of Buckingham and the Earl of Arlington to try if now at length they would hearken to any Reasonable Terms of Accommodation It was remarkable with what joy and satisfaction they were receiv'd by the People the Men Women and Children joyning in their Acclamations as they pass'd along the Streets God bless the King of England God bless the Prince of Orange and the Devil take the States They passed from Holland through the Prince of Orange's Camp to Vtrecht where they found the King of France who had now reduc'd the whole Province of whom they had their Publick Audience in the Camp thither likewise came the Lord Hallifax sent by the King of England as his Envoy Extraordinary and was after his Audience joyn'd with them in Commission being thus all together they attended the Motion of the Camp in expectation of Plenipotentraries from Holland upon their last Proposition While they are upon Extraordinary Affairs abroad Henry Coventry Esq now return'd from Sweden is made Secretary of State at home in the room of Sir Iohn Trevor deceas'd and the Duke of Richmond Arrives in Sweden Embassador Extraordinary from the Court of England where he afterwards Dy'd Toward the Latter end of this Month the Duke of Buckingham Earl of Arlington and Lord Hallifax Arriv'd at White-Hall having expected fourteen days in the French Camp the return of the Dutch Deputies so that all which they effected at that time was a Promissory Act between the two Kings not to treat or conclude without a Participation and Inclusion of each others Interests which was afterwards form'd into Articles and Ratifi'd and Exchang'd with the French Embassadour at London The King of France had now drawn the Gross of his Army from the Neighbourhood of Amsterdam Marching for Boys-le-dâ—c and Maestricht both which he left block'd up the first by Turenne the second by Chamille and being satisfi'd at present with the Victorious Progress he had made return'd for Paris Yet the taking of Nimmenghen by Storm wherein were made Prisoners of War 4000 of the best Soldiers which the Dutch had and the appearance of the English Fleet upon the Coast of Holland was occasion enough to continue the Tumults and Insurrections which were now so general that there was scarce a Town in Holland where the people were not Masterless 'T is true the heat of Action began to cool for some time nor did the English Fleet do any thing more considerable but onely keep the Seas besides that they mist the taking of the Dutch East-Indie-Fleet of which there was only this account that the Cambridge and Bristol being upon the Scout had met with the East Indie-Fleet with whom there happen'd a smart Encounter insomuch that the Cambridge was forc'd to ly by to splice her Rigging and that though they both followed 'um again and gave 'um many Broad-sides yet because they could no way separate 'um nor the Bristol could carry out her lower tire they were forc'd to quit the Fight Only one ship too severely chac'd was forc'd to destroy her self This Moneth the Earl of Essex arriv'd in Ireland and having taken the usual Oath had the Sword delivered to him as Lord-Deputy of Ireland in the room of the Lord Berkley In Holland the Prince of Orange being now setled in the Supream Authority did not a little win the favour of the people by endeavouring to call to an account the chief of those who had been their former Leaders Among the rest he Imprisons Ruart Van Putten and his Brother De Wit Van Putten was accus'd of an Intention to have destroyed the Prince of Orange by the assistance of a Barber who was to have receiv'd from him a considerable sum of Money for doing it The Court of Holland upon examination of their Crimes having Condemned both the Brothers to lose all their dignities and employments and ordered 'um to quit the Country as Banish'd men Thereupon De Wit goes to the Prison to fetch away his Brother but the people being incensed that they deserved a greater punishment as they were coming out again forc'd 'um back again broke open the Prison-door hal'd 'um out and thus the Rabble having got 'um into their possession never left till they had beat and trampled 'um to death This not sufficing they dragg'd their dead Bodies about the Streets cut off their Fingers and Ears and then hung 'um up naked by the Heels upon the Gallows such was the miserable end of those two Brothers The first good fortune that befel the Dutch next to that of the escape of their East-Indie Fleet was the defence of Groninghen to which the Bishop of Munster had laid a most furious and close Siege but notwithstanding all his fury after several attacques and the loss of many men was at length forced to break up his Siege and depart having battered and burnt down above two hundred Houses with his Guns and Granadoes The Dutch had no question promised themselves great matters from the Emperour but there was nothing appear'd to give them any hopes till at length a general Treaty was concluded for the publick Security and general Defence of the Empire at Ratisbone which though it prov'd slow as passing three Colledges That of the Electors That of the Princes and That of the Free-Towns yet after this Conclusion the Imperial Forces being upon their march from one side and the Brandenburgher on the other to make a conjunction upon the Frontiers of the Enemy made a very seasonable diversion to give the Netherlander some breathing time so that Turenne was forc'd to draw off to attend their motion toward Leipstadt and the Bishop of Munster thought it convenient to look toward his own Territories for fear of the Brandenburgher So that now the Prince of Orange had some time to look after the Civil affairs and to settle disorders at home which he did by a change of the Magistrates in most of the Towns of the Low Countries wherein he was not a little encouraged by the satisfaction which it gave the generality of the people who now began to bâ— by little and little better composed in their mindes In England the Parliament
Cock-matches prohibited 359 Horton Adjutant to Maj. Gen. Brown at Dennington 63 Hotham refuseth to admit the King into Hull but suffers the Duke of York and Prince Elector Palatine is proclaimed Traitor 33 34. Revolts from the Parliament and his son and he sent Prisoners to the Tower 56. Executed 68 House of Lords voted useless 226. Protest against it ibid. Howard Lord adviseth Richard Cromwel 417 Howard Lady to the Tower 423 Howard Capt. his valour 543 Howard Master sent Embassador to Taffalette 575 Hoyle Alderman Hangs himself 256 Hull Garrison 33. Hotham Governour of it ibid. The dispute of transferring that Magazine 32 33 Humble Petition and Advice 393 Hume-castle yielded 283 Humphries-Col to Jamaica 377 I Jamaica 370 Jamaicans assault the Dutch Plantations 548 James John Executed 502 Jealousies Fears and pretended Plots 26 27 30.31 Jenkins Iudge his writings 155 156. Designed for slaughter 229. Dies 524 Jersey a new Mace 520. Surrendered to Col. Haynes 306 Jesuits in France proceeded against 570. Exiled 373 Jews treat for admission with Cromwel 379 Jewish Prophet 548 559 Imposition on Seal-coal 359 Independants rise 66. Quarrel with the Presbyterians and cajolethem 67. undermine and defeat them 112 113 139. Synod at Savoy 413 Inchiqueen Lord defeats Lord Taaff 164. Declares for the King ibid. Ioyns with the Confederate Catholicks for the King under the Lord of Ormond made Lieutenant General of the Army 238. His overfight like to be surpriâ—ed 245. Falsly suspected and accused by the Marquess of Antrim 263. Leaves Ireland 277 Indians rebel in new-New-England 601 Ingoldsby Col. offers aid to Richard 417. Suppresseth a Mutiny and Lambert Instrument of Cromwel's Protectorian Government and his Oath 354 Joachims Embassador from the Dutch 267. Sent home 270 St. Johnstons yielded 294 Jones draws out of Dublin to oppose the advance of the Marquiss of Ormond retreats 239. Raiseth the Siege before Dublin 211. Comes before Drogheda and retreats 243. Dies in the quality of Lieutenant-General 247 Ireland and Ulster Forces submit 344 Ireland its state and condition 238 Ireton's appearance and notice at Naseby-fight wounded 78. In the Cabal of the Army 84. Draws their Papers and Proposals 84 85. Parliament Votes 161. Intrigues between them 116 118 119. Dies of the Plague 305 Irish affairs an account of the Cessation and the Marq. of Ormond's Treaty with Rebels and Parliament the Articles thereof with the Rebels the Popes Nuntio there 122 123 124. Strength what after Cromwel's departure 253. Abused by Cromwel's fair carriage at first into horrible slavery at his departure 253. Defeated at Finagh 234. Their affairs 292 309 310. Seem to acquiess in Lambert's actions 431. Affairs 515 Judges Commissioned by the new State 224. New ones again 254. New placed by the Rump 422. Of the King and others exempted out of the Act of Oblivion 454. They that came in upon Proclamation respited from Execution 469. Brought to the House of Lords and remanded to Prison 502. Of the Law their Names 492 Justice High Court 203 to 217. Again erected 258 278. To try Col. Gerrard and Powel 360 K Kentish Insurrection 173. Suppressed ibid. Kent mastered and reduced by Rich and Berkstead 175 Keyling Sir John Lord Chief-Iustice 543 Ker Col. defeated 280 Killing no Murther a Book 395 King dispenceth with the Common prayer and Book of Canons in Scotland by a Declaration slighted and cavilled at as a device and opposed by the Earls of Hume and Lindsey with another Declaration 7 8 Arms against the Scots 9. At York and Barwick agrees upon a Pacification 10. Goeth to his Scotch Parliament 20. Departs thence with mutual satisfaction ibid. Received Magnificently at his return to the City ibid. Demands five Members 25. To Hampton-court to Dover to Greenwich Theobalds 27. To Royston New-market York ibid. Asserts his right in the Militia 30 31. His innocence of any designe of War c. ibid. Resolves for Ireland 32. Expostulates his affront at Hull from Beverley 34. Takes a guard of York-shire-Gentlemen ibid. His intentions of no War attested by the Lords ibid. Answers and refutes their Remonstrance 35. Forbids the Militia 36. Invites his Subjects to his assistance ibid. To Newark back to York to Nottingham sets up his Standard to Stafford-shire Leicester-shire confines of Wales and Shrewsbury and caresses the Gentry and Commonalty 37 38 39. Melts down his Plate at Shrewsbury and Mints it 38. Faceth Coventry to Southam 39. Stays and turns upon Essex his Speech 39 40. Takes Banbury to Oxford towards London at Brainford 41. Into the West after Essex Overtakes him at Lestithiel defeats him 58. in the associated Counties 88. Into Wales ibid. At Newark 90. At Oxford ibid. Escapes thence 99. To the Scots 100. Information of it and his Majesties Messages and the Parliaments Answers from 100 to 104. The King at Newcastle 114. disputes with Henderson 115. And betrayed by the Scots 121. His escape intended from the 122. Delivered to Commissioners 127. At Holmby 128. Carried away by Cornet Joyce 129. At Childersley with freedom of Chaplains 130. The designe of it 131 to 133. Deluded by the Army Proposals 132. At Hampton-court after many traverses 145. Pretendedly at Liberty and Honour 147. His nearness to London suspected by Cromwel 148. Frighted thence by Whaley and departs ibid. His Letters and Declarations there 148 to 151. In the Isle of Wight ibid. High Treason to conceal his Person ibid. His Message from the Isle of Wight 151 to 155. A blasphemous Hue and Cry against him ibid. Answers the Message with the Bills of Parliament His Declaration upon the Votes of Non-addresses 166 to 169. Kings Message and Answer to the Votes of a personal Treaty 181 182. Hath liberty of assistance and his Friends 183. Startled at the Remonstrance of the Army 187. Shews the unreasonableness of it ibid. His farewel to the Commissioners and Declaration concerning the Treaty 188 to 190. And his Letter of the result and advice to the Prince 190. Hurried from the Isle of Wight to Hurst-castle to Winchester to Windsor to St. James's 193. To the High Court of Iustice his defence and Reasons 203 to 215. Traiterously Sentenced ibid. Confers with his Children ibid. The Lady Elizabeth's relation of it 216. His Speech upon the Scaffold 218 to 219. Murthered 220. His Corps exposed to view ibid. Buried by the Duke of Richmond Marquiss of Hertford Durchester and Earl of Lindsey at Windsor 221. The Service-book denied at his Interment ibid. King Charles the second at Hague 235. Highly treated there and honoured 236. Departs for France by Rotterdam Dort Antwerp and Brussels treated by the Arch-Duke Leopold attended thence by Duke Lorrain to Compeign met there by the French King 237. At Jersey 257. At Breda ibid. Takes shipping at Terheyden for Scotland 268. Arrives there ibid. Withdrawing the Covenanting party 281. Crowned at Schoone ibid. Marched into England 294. Comes to Worcester 295. Summons the Country ibid. Flies by advice of the Earl of Derby to Whiteladies the
Mentz and Collen at odds 547 Messiah counterfeit 548 Meetings supprest 573 Middleton now a Parliamentarian General 62. Taken 301. Seeking aid from the Dutch 344. Lands in Scotland 358 Militia Ordinance 29 30. Petitioned by the Parliament 30 to 33. Messages about it ibid. On foot in Lincoln-shire 34 Mings Sir Christopher chaced the Dutch 544. Sails for the Coast of Sweden 545. General Wrangle comes aboard him ibid. Miracle ominous 390 Mohun Lord for the King Lord Hopton Sir John Berkley and Col. Ashburnham Commissioners for the King in the West 43 Montross Marq. his Battles and activity 73 74. His Declaration 254. Tragedy and death from 255 to 266. His Interment 497 Monarchy the antient and only British Government 223. Abolished in Scotland by English States 308 Monke a Colonel from Ireland to assist the King taken prisoner at Namptwich and thence to the Tower of London 53. To Ireland again 123. General his acts in Ireland for the pretended States 237. He had the honour of Dunbar 274. In Scotland 358. In Sir George Booths c. 426. Secures the Scotch Nobility 427. Declares against the proceedings of Lambert c. And secures Anabaptist Officers maintains intelligence in England and protracts time by offers of Composure 430 431. Sends Commissioners to London they agree to no purpose obtains his desire of the Scotch Convention 432. Signifies his coming to London 435. His passage and Narrative of his Cabal 436 437. Thanked by the Parliament 442. The great instrument of the Restitution Meets the King at Dover 450. Dignified with the Order of the Garter 451. With the title of Duke of Albemarle 455 Monmoth betrayed and regained 64 Monmouth Duke made Capt. Kings Guard 568. His valour at Maestricht 596. Made Chancellor of Cambridge 599 Monro Sir George defeated 247. His enterprize in Ulster 250 Modiford Sir Thomas in Jamaica 530 Mordant Lord John seized 403. Tryed and quitted 404. Summoned 423 Morris Col. Executed 254 Moor Lord 240 Morpeth Earl affronted in Holland 532 Moreland Sir Samuel 448 Mother of Cromwel dies 366 Montague Gen. 416. Dignified with the Earldome of Sandwich 455. To Algier and Lisbon 500. Brings home the Queen 507 Mulgrave Earl made Knight of the Garter 598 Munster success in Holland 544 Munson Lord Sir Henry Mildmay and Wallop Sentenced 501 Musco alteration in their Religion intended 558 Myn Colonel slain and his party routed by Massey 64 N Naerden taken from the Dutch 597 Nailor James the Quaker personates our Saviour 384. Sentenced ibid. Released by the Rump 426 Newburg Prince arrives in England 602 Newberry disorders 525 Newark yielded 701 Newcastle Earl afterwards Marquiss 42. Besieged in York 58. Disswades fighting after the defeat at Marston-moor sets sail for Hamburgh with most of the Nobility and Officers of his party 61 Newcastle taken 67 New-park given the City by the Rump 235 News of the Change by Cromwel acceptable to the King at Paris 344 New-buildings 392 Nimmegen taken 586 No Address votes 162 Nobility of the Loyal and Presbyterian party 444 Noblemen English for the Scotch peace against Strafford's advice 15. Summoned to a general Council at York ibid. Conclude the Peace ibid. Secured by the Rump in the Tower 753 Nobles their Catalogue 488 Nonconformists increase in the Reigns of Qu. Elizabeth and King James 2 Indulged 582 Norfolk-Insurrection 278 Northampton burnt 602 North Sir Francis Lord Chief-Iustice of the Common-pleas 599 Northumberland Earl General of the Scots second expedition 22. His reasons to reject the Ordinance for the Trial of the King 194 Northampton Earl 42. Killed 44 Northern Counties oppressed by the Scots 120 Norton Colonel 66 Norwich Earl General in Kent at Rochester and Black-heath at Bow and Stratford 174 Nuntio of the Popes in Ireland his business 123. Party in Ireland 238 Nye one of the Commissioners for approbation with Lockier 359 O Oblivion Act by the Parliament 309 Oblivion Act by the King 456. Another 590 Obstructions in sales of Kings and Queens Lands c. removed 310 Okey Col. dismist from Command 366 Okey Berkstead and Corbet seized in Holland tried and Executed 505 506 Omens and Prognostications of the Dutch War 315 O Neal Hugh put into Clonmel 248. Defends it very handsomly 252 O Neal joyns with the Independant-party 237 O Neal Sir Phelim hanged 333 Opdam made Lieutenant-Admiral in place of Van Tromp 349 Orange Prince arrives in England 578. Made Captain-General in Holland 579 584. Declared Stadtholder 586 Order for the Murther and Execution of the King 217 Ordinances of Parliament obeyed as Acts 36. For tryal of the King disputed and thrown aside by the Lords entituled by the Iuncto and passed as an Act 194 to 196. Ordinances published in Parliament 364 Orleans Dutchess comes into England 577. Dies ibid. Ormond Marquiss Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland 53. Capitulates with the Parliament Commissioners 164. Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland 238. He hath no power to punish any faults or Delinquents 243. Recruits his Forces and Garrison-Towns ibid. Makes agreement with O Neal by means of Daniel O Neal his Nephew 244. Resolves to fight Cromwel before Duncannon 246. Before Carrick 247. But disappointed he leaves Ireland 277. Hardly escapes out of Sussex 401. Main Instrument of the Restitutioâ— Made Earl of Brecknock 455. To Ireland Lord-Lieutenant 511. Duke of Ormond Chancellor of Oxford 571. Assaulted in the Night 578 Osborne Sir Thomas Lord-Treasurer 591 Other House meet and fawn upon the Commons 399. The Names of the Members ibid. Overton Maj. Gen. seized in Scotland 366 Overton Colonel 469 Owen Dr. preacheth before the Protector and Parliament 382 Owen Ro the great Rebel dies 248 Oxford the Kings chief Quarters and Court 47. Besieged by Fairfax 75. Yielded 106 P Pack Alderman 374 and 386 Palaffi Imbre revolts from the Emperour 548 Parliament in Ireland 4. Grant Subsidies to carry on the Scotch War 20 Parliament in England called and dissolved and why 12 Parliament in Scotland and Assembly and adjourned 17. Meet again and order their Army to march into England 13 Parliament meets at Oxford 56 Long Parliament 15. Enact a Triennial one 18. Deny his Majesties desire of going for Ireland the reasons 32 33. Forbid any resort to the King but his Servants Arm the several Counties Admit of no ways of accommodation 35. Arm and fight c. and having prevailed agree not about disposing the King 113 114 121. Buy the King from the Scots after much tampering and send Propositions to the King 118 119 121. Are refractory to all his condescentions offers and messages as appears 121. New Speakers 139. Fugitive Members sit with the Army in Council 140. Constrained to humour a Treaty in the Isle of Wight 158. Four Bills passed as Preliminaries with Proposals ibid. Necessitated to vote a personal Treaty the votes of Non-addresses cancell'd 180 181. Agree to his Majesties condescention as a ground for Peace 192. Forced by the Army ibid. Turned into a Iuncto 193. Parliament-men twelve a penny 339. Dissolved the manner of
of Maritime affairs with the Dutch 566. Extraordinary Embassador in Holland 568 Thurlo Secretary to Oliver 357 Theatre at Oxford finished 573 Tickle Captain Executed for treasonable designe of yielding Kilkenny 250 Tiddiman assails at Bergen 541 Timptallon-castle yielded 283 Tinmouth-castle by Lilburn for the King 179 Tomkins and Challoner Executed 47 Tower-street Powder-blow 25â— Traquair Earl Kings Commissâ—in Scotland 10 Treaty personal voted 180. Sir John Hippesly and Mr. Bulkly sent to the King a prisoner in Carrisbrook-castle 181. Begun and managed 183. So as ended 187. All that subscribed it voted by the Iuncto remaining to be uncapable of bearing Offices 193 Treavor Sir John made Secretary 569 Treavors Col. sides with the Marq. of Ormond engaged at the Siege of London-Derry intercepts Arms going from Monke to O Neal 240 Trial of the Kings Iudges 469 Trump Van defeats Blake in the Downs 330 in triumph to Guernsey Rochel 331 returns 335. Is killed 347. Buried and his Elegie 349 Tumults in Endinburg about the Common-prayer 5. The Bishop of that City in danger of life ib. Excused but recommended in London and at White-hall-gates 25. Encrease and drive away the Court 26. Against the Parliament 138 to 140 Tumults in London against Army and Rump 433 Tunbridge and Red-hill designe 424 Turner tryed and hanged 521 Turk besieges New-hausel 525. Surrendred 526. Defeated 527. Makes peace with the Emperour 533. His Embassadors Secretary turns Christian 548 Tuscany Duke comes into England 569. Gives the King two Gallies 575 V Vane Sir Henry tried beheaded 510 511 Vavasor Sir William goes beyond Sea after Marston-fight 61 Varny Sir Edward slain at Drogheda 244 Vaughan Sir Will. slain at Baggot Rath 242 Vaughan Sir John Lord Chief-Iustice 568 Ven a Colonel at Windsor 39 Venables General 369 St. Venant taken 396 Venetian Embassador in England 569 Venner's Insurrection and Trial and Execution 505 510 511 Vernon Sir Ralph 367 Vicariat of the Empire 397 Vieuville a French Marquiss slain 50 These are y e cheife of them that came to David to Ziklag and they were among y e mighty men helpers of the Warr. Croâ— 1.12.2 * We doubt not to evince to your Majesty that his Excellency and the Army under his Command c. have complied with the Obligations for which they were raised The Preservation of the Protestant Religion the honour and happiness of the King the Priviledges of Parliament the Liberty and Propriety of the Subject and the Fundamental Laws of the Land Vide Declaration of the Army May 1660. Distractions and Confusions about Church-Ceremonies In a Conference about them justified by K. James Fresh Commotions about them raised by Pryn Bastwick Burton and Lilburn All Pillori'd and Crop'd Pryn stigmatized they are fined and imprisoned Lilburn whipt at Carts tail Bishop Williams fined 10000 l. Troubles break out in Scotland England and Scotland United Scotland well setled Endeavours for conformitie in Discipline Articles of Perth Common-Prayer endeavoured to be introduced in Scotland The Kings Revocation cause of Tumults Laid upon the Bishop Commission of Superioritie and Tythes Honours and Titles adde to the Troubles Libels tax the Parliament Libeller fled Balmerino apprehended Strange Tumult abâ—ut reading Common-Prayer The Rabble continued their madness Proclamation against them Magistrates profess a detestation but soon joyned with them Ministers recant reading Service Petition against it and thereby endanger insurrection Proclamation to depart the City removing Term and seizing a Libel Another Insurrection Bishop of Galloway in danger Traquair and Wigton came to his relief with no less danger They send to the Provost and Bailiffs of Edinburgh for relief who were as bad or worse used A Conference but in vain Traquair troden down Another Proclamation against unlawful Assemblies but not regarded The Rabble petition Their petition sent to the King who by Proclamation resents the affronts of his chief Ministers Hume and Lindsey justifie the matter Four Tables A Covenant resolved on The King highly incensed thereat Hamilton sent unto Scotland They slight him and strengthen themselves Term returned to Edinburgh By Declaration Service and Canons dispensed with The Covenanters protest against it Hamilton having given the King an account of affairs is sent againâ— and enters a Treaty He returns to England hath power given him to satisfie the Scots if possible The Assembly at Glasgow Bishops excluded They protest against it They continue fitting notwithstanding a Proclamation to dissolve them Arguile owns the Covenanters The Scots arm Queen-Mother arrives The Scots have a competent Army The King raists an Army Arundel General-Hamilton commands the Fleet. A Declaration by the King The Assembly answers The Earls of Roxborough and Traquair Commissioners from the Covenanters Committed and released A Treaty began and soon ended The Parliament of Scotland proregued The Assembly abolish Episcâ—pacie Their Parlialiament adjourned They send the Earl of Dumfermling and Lord Loudon with a Remonstrance Loudon committed and released The P. Elector Palatine came into England Departed and taken by the French Released and returning â—nto England was allowed 8000 l. per annum A Sea-fight between the Flemings and the Spaniards The Hollanders worsted But in conclusion become Victors An ill Omen Lord Estrich Col. Ruthen and others sent to repair Edenburgh Castle they were resisted by the Covenanters The Nobility Gentry and Clergy assist the King with mony for the carrying on of the War Supplies from Ireland Lord Keeper Coventry dieth Succeeded by Sir John Finch A Parliament summoned They favour the Scots Are backward in assisting the King with mony Are dissolved The Convocation of the Clergy sit and assist the King with mony They make new Canons in opposition to Popery and the the Scotch Covenant Bishop Goodman dissents And is admonished by A. B. Laud. Tot said A. B. Libelled and his house assaulted Some of the factioâ— imprisoned and rescued Bensted a Seaman hanged The Scotch Army advance towards England Henry Duke of Glocester bâ—â—n The Earl of Northumberland General of the Kings Army Earl of Strafford Lieut. General The King comes to Northallerton Newborn sight Aug. 29. Gen. Lesley Earl of Leven engageth with the Lord Conway and â—â—â—eats him Sir Jacob Ashley deserts Newcastle that and Durham render themselves to Gen. Lesley The Earl of Stafford complains of the Lord Conway The Earl of Haddington the Scots M. G. with 20 Knights and Gentlemen slain at Dunglass The Scots proclaimed Traytors and the Kings Royal Standard set up at York The Scots petition the King and are answered by the Earl of Lanerick The Lords of England summoned to appear at York They agree to call a Parliament A Treaty of peace at Rippon The English insist on a Cessation The Scots refuse and propound 4 Praeliminaries The Earl of Strafford adviseth the King to fight them But in conclusion These Articles were agreed on The Parliament set they question several Bishops and Iudges and vote down Monopolies Mr. pym sent from the Commons to the Lords with an
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