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A70196	A brief chronicle of all the chief actions so fatally falling out in these three kingdoms, viz. England, Scotland & Ireland from the year, 1640, to this present twentieth of November, 1661 : containing the unhappy breaches, sad divisions, the great battels fought, number of men, with the eminent persons of honor and note slain, with several debates and treaties : also, the happy escape by a wonderful delivererance of His Majestie at Worcester, more fully expressed then hitherto : with His Majesties happy return, together with what passages of note hapned to this present November, 1661 : the like exact account hath not as yet been printed.	Heath, James, 1629-1664.; Lee, William, fl. 1627-1665.	1662 (1662)	Wing H1318A; ESTC R19419	54,711	72

Landsdown neer Bath Iuly the fifth The Cavaliers were less in number but supplyed that with valour the fight began about three in the afternoon and was maintained till neer the same time next morning Here my Lord Hoptons powder was blown up by which he was hurt himself and was compelled for want of it to quit the field and shelter his Army in the Devices of his side were lost in this fight about a thousand The persons of quality slain were Sir Bevil Greenvile Mr. Leak my Lord Denicourts son Mr. Barker Mr. Lower and other Gentlemen The loss of private souldiers was as great on Sir Williams side but no persons of extraordinary note Upon my Lord Hoptons taking into the Devices Sir William Waller presently pursued him and cooped him up whereupon a Messenger was dispatcht to the King to inform him of the desperate condition my Lord was in if not timely relieved Prince Maurice the Earl of Carn●van and my Lord Wilmo● were sent presently with a party of fifteen hundred horse who made such expedition that on the thirteenth of Iuly by break of day they presented themselves alike to besiegers and the besieged to whom they gave a signal of their relief upon a rising ground and presently in an entire body charged Sir Williams Army being received by Sir Arthur Hazelrigs Curaziers at first but they being broken the Fortune of the day soon fell to the Royallists The Parliaments Foot after a little execution done upon them the besieged also being ready to fall upon them laid down their Arms and submitted Sir William Waller and Sir Arthur with much difficulty and greater speed escaped and came throughout to London with the bad news Here were slain neer a thousand men four thousand taken four brass Guns twenty eight Colours of Foot and nine Cornets This loss soon reduced Bristol into the Kings hands being delivered by Colonel Fiennes after three dayes siege for which surrender he had like to have lost his head These successes drew the King into the West where Dorchester Portland Weymouth and Melcomb submitted themselves The like in the North Beverley taken by the Earl of Newcastle Bedford Appleford and Barnstable surrendred and after a little dispute before Exeter and some Granadoes thrown in and firing part of the Suburbs the great Sconce being taken in storm that City was delivered to Prince Maurice and Sir Iohn Berkley made Governour It was therefore concluded to set upon Glocester being the only considerable place that held out for the Parliament in the West and lay very inconvenient hindring the intercourse betwixt Wales and the Kings Countryes the King therefore the tenth of August came himself from Oxford in person before it with a Royal Army while it was hardly imaginable where the Parliament could raise another Army and that done to march for London which proved a fatal mistake to the King for if he had gone directly for London there was no opposition in readiness against him not any place to stay him The King therefore summons Glocester to which the Governor and Mayor return a negative answer so the Guns were set on work many attempts on both sides till the besieged had little or no ammunition left them when on the eighth of September Essex having made up an Army with the Trained-Bands of London and new raised men in the respective Militia's and associated Counties then entirely at the Parliaments devotion came to the releif of it having been encountred at Stow in the Would by several parties of Horse under Prince Rupert but he could not be stopt from advancing Being come within five miles of Glocester upon the brim of a steep hill he discharged two pieces of Canon as a signal of their releif which was answered by the Town whereupon the King drew off from before the siege and marched hastily away intending to intercept Essex from returning his men being almost wearied and tired out with their hard march and weather But Essex having releived the Town with all manner of provision directed his march back again and falling into Cirencester from whence the King dislodged the day before and had lest some baggage behinde him took 400 prisoners and the next day matched toward Newbery and by the way was attaqued in Auborn Chase by several Squadrons of the Kings Horse here was killed that French Marquess Mous De la Vejuville having behaved himself valiantly The next day the King possest himself of Newberry the place Essex aimed at so that both Armies met h●re and began the fight early in the morning abundance of resolution and valour was manifested on both sides but especially the Trained Bands of London performed far beyond releif Prince Rupert was repelled and beaten back to the right wing of the Kings Army but returned again to the charge with greater fury This Battel like Edge-hill was dubious as to the success but something more bloody The Kings General here was the Lord Ruthen made lately Earl of Brentford On the Kings side were slain near 2500 men among whom were the Earl of Carnarven who had done the King special service the Earl of Sunderland and the learned Lord Faulkland very near the Kings person with Col. Constable Of the Parliaments side not any of note slain save Col. Tucker and some few Officers the number of their slain being near 3500 men After the fight was over in the field a party of Horse under the command of Col. Hurrie followed the Parliament Army in the Lanes toward Reading and put them into some disorder but the body facing about they were repelled back again with loss And so the Parliamentarians to Reading the Trained Bands to London whether soon followed the General and the King returned to Oxford This moneth the King pressed by his Protestant Subjects of Ireland who were not able to subsist longer under the war conclude a Cessation with the Irish Rebels and in November following received a Supply of 3000 men of his Protestant Army which landed in Wales under the command of Sir Michael Ernely the renowned Col. Monk now Duke of Albemarle and others which being by Prince Ruperts order divided into other Regiments were made unserviceable pat of them with the said Colonel being being surprised at Nantwich by Sir Thomas Fairfax Mr. Pym a great stickler of the Faction and the onely Grandee of the times died Hawarden Arundel and Beeston Castles rendred to the King Graston House taken by the Parliament and Arundel in the next Mon●th taken again by Sir William Waller Now according to stipulation and Compact the Scots enter England with an Army of 2000 in maintenance and purstiance of the end of the Covenant against this invasion the King protested as a Rebellion and sent the Marquess Hamilton prisoner to Pendennis as having deceived the trust the King put in him he all along suggesting that the Scots would never attempt such a thing and yet maintaining correspondencies with

A BRIEF CHRONICLE OF All the chief Actions so fatally falling out in these three Kingdoms viz. England Scotland Ireland From the year 1640. to this present twentieth of November 1661. CONTAINING The unhappy Breaches sad Divisions the great Battels fought number of men with the Eminent Persons of Honor and note slain with several Debates and Treaties ALSO The happy Escape by a Wonderful deliveverance of His Majestie at Worcester more fully expressed then hitherto with His Majesties happy return together with what passages of note hapned to this present November 1661. The like exact account hath not as yet been printed LONDON Printed for William Lee at the Turks-Head in Fleetstreet 1662. TO THE READER Courteous Reader This useful Manual which hath been so long desired now offers it self to your hands the English Iliads in a nut-shel being comprized in such an Epitomy and Abridgement yet with so much perspicuity faithfulness and truth as would be allowance enough for a reasonable volumn Even same small and minute actions where like little wires that give motion to the grand Engine they had to the main design are here registred with a most exact Chronology of their time but as to passages of greater moment the actions of the Field Leagures Stratagems storming of Towns and Castles they have roomy place here without that bustle they made in the Kingdoms And that the memory of those Noble and Valiant Persons who fell and who survived this fatal War might be orderly transmitted to posterity we have also inserted them in their several stations of Command Life and Death the irreparable loss of whom fell chiefly on the Royal and justest side Abundance of English blood hath been shed profusely in several Quarrels both at home and abroad before but never such a slaughter as this so that it passeth easie Arithmetick which causeth that the gross of the numbers slain is as much of the multitude as could be recovered But behold the greatest misery of this War the issue of it when it was past was ten times worse then the War it self like the Viper that expires in the production of many The Medusa of War brought forth a Hydra of Peace in a Serpentine Commonwealth and Democratical Anarchy we had lost what was pretended to be fought for as soon as we had done fighting such our fury such our strange fate This obliged the Collector of this Chronicle to proceed in the tracing of those till then untrodden steps of Government through all the changes and variations during the Usurpation wherein you shall finde all the most considerable passages and remarks of State of the War and Treaties abroad with Forreign Princes and Commonwealths particularly set down so conform to the Originals that herein you will have the pleasure to see all over again which with sorrow you so lately underwent with the happy restitution of His Majestic and other passages deduced to this present day Olim haec meminisse juvabit Thine W. Lee. Novemb 18. 1661. A Brief CHRONICLE OF THE Civil Wars OF England Scotland and Ireland From 1640. to the end of the Year 1661. NO higher or greater cause can be assigned for this war setting aside the sins of all Times and Nations to which the Justice of Heaven is seldom long a Debtor but the fate and catastrophe of Kingdoms and Monarchies which do at certain periods of time taste of that vicissitude and mutability to which other sublunary things are more frequently subjected The secondary causes of it are so many and so uncertain so variously reported and beleeved that it would spend the paper allotted to this Epitome in ascertaining them therefore to contain and keep within the limits of this designment something onely stall be said of them that was obvious to every eye not favouring of partiality or affection 〈…〉 Many disorders and irregulari●●es there were in the State no doubt contracted through a long and lazy peace bolstred up with an universal trade which procured a general wealth the patent of wantonness the excess of National riches being but as the burden which the A● carries and mistakes for provender people being onely the better enabled to sustain the future misery with their present plenty These conceived abuses in the menage of the State like ill Humors where they finde an equal resistance or over power of Nature sunck and descended upon the Ecclesiastical regiment too impotent to sustain those general assaults which were given it The first complaint of the people was male-administration and delinquency of some about the King this terrified but a few though it reached the life of that incomparable Statesman the Earl of Strafford some others dreading more the popular fury then their objected crimes withdrawing and absenting themselves from the present storm impending After the Earl of Strafford was beheaded at Tower hill the King being forced to assent to the Bill for his execution all things ●un a main with●unany stop to the ensuing breach and confusion The Axe had but tasted of that blood of which it soon after glutted it self all persons of all rank and conditions King Lords Bishops Knights Gentlemen Ministers Mechanicks suffering under its edge A remarkable thing the paralle● of it being no where in our English Chronicles but so that blood of Straffords was at last expiated 〈◊〉 will be seen in the series of our late unhappy troubles When this fatal business was over then began the cry No Bishops no Bishops who were at last by an Act of Parliament extorted from the King devoyded and barred from sitting and voting in the House of Lords or exercising any remporal Jurisdiction to this the Parliament were the better induced and the more strongly inclined from several complaints made to them which were before famous through the Nation of their haid and barbarous usage of several Ministers and others for the business of non-conformancy Amongst the rest the case of Mr. Pryn Mr. Burton Dr. Bastick were very notorious These men at this time in the beginning of our troubles were brought from their prisons in distant remote parts of England in triumph to London and soon after most of the Bishop committed to the Tower under no less then a charge of High Treason which being not to be evidenced most of them were after some time dismissed upon bail onely the Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of Ely were reserved to their Justice Many honest Patriots there were no doubt of that party which inclined to the clipping and abridging the power of the Hierarchy which they so unhappily mistook the importunities of the people made others otherwise principled to swim with the stream but no sooner this Fit was over but we were ●eised all over with the disease of a Civil War The King had been so affronted with the daily tumults which those for Justice against Straford and No Bishops brought with them had so often moved for the prevention and remedy thereof in vain that having certain intelligence who

to Oxford The King marched from Oxford where by the way to London came Commissioners from the Parliament rendring Propositions and desiring that during the Treaty the Kings Army should march no neerer this way to spin time while Essex could recruit his Army therefore the King advanced from C●lebrook and came to Brainford where part of the Parliaments Army being the Regiments of Col. Hollis Hambden● and the L. Brooks for a while maintained themselves stoutly but being over-power'd some were driven into the river and there drowned and 300 slain and as many taken prisoners This brought a general consternation upon the City of London all shops were shut up and all the Regiments both Trained-Bands and Auxiliary were drawn out so that the Earl of Essex had a most compleat and numerous Army o● a sudden Hereupon the King presently marched away fearing to be incompassed by the Parliamentarians over Kingston-bridge which he broke down to stop the pursuit Essex made after him to Reading and so to Oxford where he took up his Winter quarters The Cities of Winchester and Chichester delivered to the Parliament Marlborough to the King and my Lord Hopton prevailed against the Earl or Stamford several Townes taken for the King in the West others for the Parliament in the North. Cyrencester had been Garrisoned by the Parliament Forces of Glocester being the midway betwixt that City and Oxford upon this place Prince Rupert had a design though his march that way was given out for the regaining of Shudly Castle out of which Col. Massey had smothered the Cavaleirs with wet hay for after he had passed some ten miles beyond Cirencester he suddenly returned back and surprising the Guards within two hours time became Master of the place puting the Earl of Stamfords Regiment to the sword who made a stout opposition taking 1100 prisoners and 8000 Arms and other provisions for war it being newly made a Magazeen From thence the Prince came before Glocester summoned the Town and departed The Lord Brooks and Northampton were in Arms against each other in the Counties of Warwick and Stafford where several small skirmishes had been between them at last in March the Lord Brook came and besieiged Litchfield Close garrisoned by the King and as he was viewing the approaches to it out of a window in the Town a single bullet from the Close shot him in the head through the eye of which he fell down dead nevertheless the siege was continued and the Close delivered to the Parliamentarians In the North the Queen landed at Bridlington Bay with some supplies of money and Arms for the King and with her Lieut. Gen. King she was conveyed to York and afterwards met the King at Edge-hill where the fight had been And so ended this year with the surrender at Malmsbury to the Parliament again and the defeat of the Lord Fairfax who was chief of the Parliaments forces in the North of ' Bramham by the Earls of Newcastle and Cumberland Scarborough delivered to the King by Brown Bushel Anno Domini 1643. PRince Rupert having coasted the Country from Glocester into Wales returned back by Litchfield intending to reduce it again he had not long lain before it but he compelled the Garrison to surrender To the releif hereof Sir Iohn Gell and Sir William ' Brereton having gathered a considerable strength marched these were met by part of Prince Ruperts forces and some under the command of the valiant Earl of Northampton where the said releif was defeated Sir Iohn Gell routed though the victory cost dear through the loss of that brave Earl who refusing quarter was killed by a private Souldier After General Essex had recruited his Army with new supplies the first thing he attempted was the siege of Reding which being manfully defended by Sir Arthur Aston till he received a wound on his head by the falling of a brick-bat and the releif brought by the King himself from Oxford being worsted at Caversham-Bridge after ten days siege was yeilded by Col. Fielding then substituted Governor to the Parliament In the North things went something equaller then before on the Parliaments side Sir Thomas Fairfax had defeated the Kings Forces under the Marquess of Newcastle at Wakefield and hoyed up the sinking interest of that Cause Monmouth likewise was taken by the Parliaments Forces as also Worder Castle but in the West the King prevailed my Lord Hopton commanded there being a valiant and expert Royalist for the Parliament the Earl of Stamford and Colonel Chidleigh these opposite Forces met the 16. of May in Stratton-field where the Parliamets foot stood stifly to the business but the Horse either through treachery or cowardize not seconding or releiving their Foot an entire Victory fell to the Cavaleers some 1500 of the Parliamentarians being slain and taken prisoners but do of great account lost on either side Chidleigh afterwards came over to the King and my Lord Hopton was made for this good service Baron of Stratton Now the Parliament flew high in their Consultations at home the Grandees working upon the sober part of the Parliament that this action of the Queens in bringing over Arms Money and other provisions for the assistance of the King was a dangerous destructive business wound up the anger of the Two Houses to such a pitch that the Queen was proclaimed Traytor and at the same time down went all the Crosses throughout England particularly the third of this moneth Cheapside-cro●s was demolished After this beginning of Reformation the Parliament took the Solemn League and Covenant at Westminster this was first framed in Scotland and was generally taken by them in the year 1639. the main drift of it was against the Episcopal Dignity and was now for the mutual endearment of the two Nations assistance being promised the Parliament from Scotland pressed upon all in England where the Parliaments power was paramount being taken throughout London the fifth of this moneth The Earl of Essex advanceth from Reading to Tame where a general sickness seized upon the Army during their quartering thereabout Prince Rupert fell into part of their quarters but the Essexians taking the Alarum and drawing out the business came to a fight in Chalgrave field where Colonel Hambden was mortally wounded It was observeable that in this place the said Colonel Hambden first listed and trained his men in the beginning of the war The Lord Keeper Littleton having fled with the Great Seal to Oxford according to the Kings Command the Parliament voted a new Great Seal to be made The Parliament to redress their affairs in the West had made Sir William Waller Major General of those Counties and had sent him down with a well-furnished Army to meet the Kings Army under my Lord Hopton who having cleared Devonshire after Strafton fight marched Eastward where in Somersetshire Sir William had taken Taunton and Br●dgewater Both these Armies met at

greatest English ships struck on the Sands but getting off again they so fiercely plyed the Dutch that they were forced to fly saving themselves from a greater loss then the disabling of some six ship whereof the Rear-Admiral was one This was recompensed by the Dutch who took a Man of War in the Stra●ts by Porto-Longone On the twentieth of December Van-Trump with a new rigged Fleet came again to the Downs with 100 Men of War and Fireships where Blake unhappily with a small number met them and was forced to sail for it being much indangered himself Here were lost the Garland and Bonadventure and two other Merchants Ships besides the Vanguard and Victory very much shattered The Dutch crowed upon this Victory and with a numero●s Fleet of Merchant-men sailed to Rochel giving out that they would sweep the Seas of the English but at their return the English met them at Portland and gave them such a re-encounter that after three daies fight very terrible the Dutch fled nine Men of War being taken and fifty Merchant-men much slaughter on both sides but the most on the conquered Van-Trump to Calice and thence to the Weilings the English to Dover and so to Ports This a second time was repaid us by an overthrow given us in the Straits where five of our Ships being not longer to be protected by the Duke of Florence coming out of Legorn were over-powred by a Dutch Fleet of 24 Soil and the Leopard and another Bonaventure taken with other damages to the Levant Trade But such was their great preparations at home that the Parliament minded nothing else waving all publick businesses from the King of France concerning the Ships taken at Dunkirk and another message from Bourd●aux and for a while deferring the Portugal Embassador who came to offer restitution And yet in the height of this grand design an unexpected or at least an unwardable blow quite undid them and their designs leaving them as became the laughter and scorn of the Nation while their General having turned them out and dissolved them made himself after a short intervall of time the Supreme Magistrate Anno Domini 1653. FOr on the twentieth of April 1653. Cromwell suddenly and forcibly turns out the Parliament who had for four years and as much as from Ianuary to April this year since they murthered the King tyrannized over the three Nations After this violation of that violencing Parliament Cromwell and his Officers call a new Representative and erect a new Councel of State wherein not one man of but only such as were revolters from the Commonwealth were admitted By the FACE of this new erected Councel a Convention is assembled of 120. who did nothing but folly and mischief against Church and people particularly by their lawless act of Marriages and vote against Tythes and then the cunninger part of them reassigned their Trust and Power to the same hand that gave it having made an Act also for a Tax according to the old mode of 120000 pound per mensem By this shift of power Cromwell was as they and he said invested with the Supreme Authority it being devolved unto him by the late resignation and therefore a new device of Government was now projected which was contained in an Instrument consisting of 42 Articles whereby he is made Lord Protector of England Scotland and Ireland and solemnly installed before the Lord Mayor of London on the sixteenth of the same moneth This was pretended to be drawn out of Magna Charta but what need we say of it Some struglings there were about the beginning of the new year in Scotland and Ireland in the first for life the other of death the Scotch hoping to recover themselves and the Irish at the l●st gasp all places and persons being neer reduced to the Usurper During this intermission of Government in England yet there was no vacancy of War betwixt us and the Hollanders who sensible of their own weakness and the new Protectors troubles in his ambitious aspiring designs sent over Embassadors to treat While they were here the Fleets of both States being prepared and out at Sea happened two dismal encounters the first on the 23 of Iuly the Dutch having before conveyed one Fleet out towards the East and West France Spain and the Levant about by Scotland and conveyed two Fleetshome one from the Baltick and Northern Sea from Prussia and another that came about from France Levant c. which continued for three daies fighting and flying in the first whereof General Dean was slain with a Canon bullet hard by General Monck so Providence distinguished betwixt a King-Murderer and a King-Restorer and the two next in seizing and entring several ships in the pursuit until such time as they got into the Weylings having lost seventeen Men of War whereof eleven taken and six sunk and many prisoners taken and which was worst the Coast of Holland was so blockt up that no ships could safely arrive in their harbours nor no joyning of one part of the Fleet then a rigging new to remedy this overthrow with another All preparations were therefore made by the Hollander to recover not only their credit but their livelihood and subsistance which was to drive the English from the coast and General Van-Trump having fitted himself with the choice of his Country both for men and ships resolved for to effect it whereupon on the second of Iuly he sailed from the Weylings and soon after joyned with a Fleet from the Texel at the sight of which Fleets the English weighed and on the 23 in the afternoon part of the English under General Monk then Admiral charged through them the next day the whole Fleet came up but being blustrous weather could not ingage but on Saturday both Fleets fell to it and made an end the Dutch being worsted and miserably shattered thirty six ships taken burnt and sunk the rest escaping into the Texel from whence were lately some of them equipped This was the parting blow of that War the Dutch Ambassadors concluding a peace presently which was transacted by Oliver and concluded by him for the facilitating his vaster designs at home this adding reputation to his future undertakings and so the quarrel for the Dominion of the Seas ended This War so ended with such honourable success and advantage Cromwell having as before is said the power resigned into his hands took upon him to act as chief Magistrate urg'd thereto by the Army and the well-affected people and installed himself as before at Westminster the sixteenth day of December Lord Protector of the three Nations Being also now proclaimed by his Councel with the stile aforesaid endeavours were used every where to countenance it with Addresses but the main one was the invitation of the City for him to dine at Grocers Hall which they sumptuously performed and he ambitiously enough received Knighting the Mayor for the Cities kindness But kindness would yield no money

it from the English but were valiantly repulsed General Blake returning home from hi● Triumphs over the Spaniard died on Shipboard in sight of English Land and General Reynolds returning out of Flanders to England was cast away in the Goodwin Sands and with him Colonel White and others By one of the clauses of the humble Petition and Advice it was declared that the Parliament should consist of two Houses therefore Cromwell during the adjournment fill'd up the number of that Other House that was its name consisting of sixty two persons most of them Officers of the Army and his neer Relations most of them of mean extraction These nevertheless at the expiring of the prorogation appeared and took their places in the House of Lords according as the antient custome was whether the Protector came and sent for the House of Commons where he made a canting speech to them but the Commons returning to their House having admitted all their Members would neither own the new Lords nor him that made them so but fell into high disputes about the Government so that Cromwell seeing how the game was likely to go came and in a great ●ury within ten daies after their resitting dissolved them Anno Domini 1658. After the dissolution of this Parliament as of course and according to custome another plot was discovered and this was clearly of Cromwells own making the City was to be fired and a general insurrection and massacre of the well-affected In this snare were taken Sir Henry Slingsby Doctor Hewet and Master now Sir Thomas Woodcock Iohn now Lord Viscount Mordant and others of meaner rank as Colonel Ashton Thomas Bettley Edmond Stacy and others Sir Henry Slingsby and Doctor Hewet were beheaded at Tower-hill and the three last hang'd and quartered in the streets of London Dunkirk after a gallant defence and a field battel in attempting the relief where the English had the honour and the French and English the victory of the day was on the 25th of Iune delivered to the United Forces and by the French King put into the English hands Lockhart formerly Ambassador in France and then General of the English being made Governour thereof Now it pleased God suddenly after this tyranny and cruelty committed on those innocent persons above-named to call this Protector to an account who lingring some time with an ague and a pain in his intestines on the third day of September his great fortunate day breathed out h●s last his death being ushered by a most terrible wind and the coming of a Whale up the River of Thames of twenty yards long Thus ended that wretched Politique After Oliver Protector war dead his Son Richard according to an Article in the Instrument o● Government by which he was to declare his Successor was by his Fathers Councel proclaimed Lord Protector of these three Nations with the usual solemnities and accordingly owned by several addresses from most parts of the Kingdome but drawn and subscribed by some particular persons of the times who obtruded them upon the rest He was courted also by the French Swedish Dutch Ambassadors who all condoled him for his Fathers death After a little respit of time Richard was advised to call a Parliament the Courtiers thinking that what with the Army and the Lawyers they should make their party good for the Protector in the House of Commons being sure of their other House of Peers and in the mean time took care for his Fathers Funerals which were solemnized in most ample manner above the expences usual to any of our Kings deceased November 23. 1658. The Parliament being convened on the 27th of Ianuary the Protector and his new Lords gave them a meeting in the Lords House where he made a speech to them which was seconded by the Keeper Fiennes and so departed to Whitehall the Lords keeping their seats and the major part of the House of Commons not vouchsafing audience betook themselves to their own house and elected Challoner Chute for their Speaker The Parliament being in some measure fuller then it used by reason of Knights and Burgesses from Scotland and Ireland began with the old Trade of questioning the power In conclusion the debate came to this result that they would recognize the Lord Protector but so that nothing should be binding till all other Acts to be prepared by the Parliament should likewise pass and be confirmed For the other House also that no stop might be put to the great design of setling the Kingdome which was then aimed at and that question of owning them being but a baulk to their proceeding they resolved to transact with them for this Parliament as a House of Peers not excluding the right of other the Peers of England The Protector at the instance of the King of Sweden had rigg'd forth a Fleet for the Sound which being ready to set sail the Parliament ordered that for this time the Protector should have the mannagement of the Militia in this expedition reserving to themselves the Supreme right thereto that Fleet after six moneths time returned back again re infecta Now the debates flew high in the House of Commons tending to the lessening the power of the Sword which was grown so exorbitant therefore the Army being sensible whereto such consultations would finally tend resolved to break up the Parliament and accordingly having secured the Protector made him sign a Commission to Fiennes to dissolve it which accordingly was done though the House of Commons to prevent it adjourned themselves for three daies but then out came a Proclamation forced likewise from the Protector whereby he declared that Parliament to be absolutely dissolved Now the Army and some of the tail of the Parliament which were turned out by Oliver in 1653. joyn their heads together and so make way for their free Commonwealth again Richard Protector is laid aside the Officers of the Army playing some eight daies with the Government and then resigning it to those men who very readily imbraced the motion and met May 7. in the House the Old Speaker and some forty more making up a Quorum and forthwith published a Declaration how that by the wonderful Providence and goodness of God they were restored which to most seemed the saddest judgement could befall the Nation Presently they fall to their old trade of squeezing money and providing sure for themselves against any more attempts of the Army leisurely purging out those that had been active with Oliver against them but by all means refuse to admit those Members that by the like force were formerly secluded in 1648. They depose the Protector and make him sign a Resignation yet promising him the yearly allowance of 10000 l. per annum and the payment of his debts so that they thought themselves now cock-sure levying money by taxes before hand to gratifie the Army for the peoples love they never expected and then settle the Militia in confiding hands Anno Domini 1659. But