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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

you in a way First you are out of the way for certainly all the wayes you ever had yet as far as I could find by any thing is in the way of Conquests Certainly this is an ill way for Conquest in my Opinion is never just except there he a just and good cause either for matter of wrong or a just title and then if ye go beyond the first quarrel that ye have that makes it unjust at the end that was just at first for if there be only matter of Conquest then it is a great robbery as a Pyrate said to Alexander That he was the great Robber himself himself was but a petty Robber And so Sirs I do think for the way that you are in you are much out of the way Now Sirs to put you in the way believe it you will never go right nor God will never prosper you until you give God his due the King his due that is my Successor and the people their due I am as much for them as any of you You must give God his due by regulating rightly his Church according to the Scripture which is now out of order and to set you in a way particularly now I cannot but only this A National Synod freely called freely debating among themselves must settle this When every Opinion is freely and clearly heard For the King indeed I will not the Laws of the Land will clearly instruct you for that therefore because it concerns mine own particular I only give you a touch of it For the People truly I desire their liberty and freedome as much as any body whomsoever But I must tell you that their liberty and their freedome consist in having Government under those Laws by which their lives and theirs may be most their own it is not in having a share in the Government that is nothing pertaining to them A Subject and a Soveraign are clean different things and therefore until you do that I mean that you put the people into that liberty as I say certainly they will never enjoy themselves Sirs it was for this that now I am hither come for if I would have given way to an arbitrary way for to have all Laws changed according to the power of the Sword I need not have come here and therefore I tell you and I pray God it be not laid to your charge that I am the Martyr of the people Introath Sirs I shall not hold you any longer I will only say this to you that I could have desired some little time longer because I would have put this what I have said in a little better order and have had it a little better digested then I have done and therefore I hope you will excuse me I have delivered my Conscience I pray God you take those courses that are best for the good of the Kingdome and your own Salvation After some Ejaculations he laid down his Head upon the Block and stretched out his hands The S●gn 〈◊〉 had it severed from his body at one blow by the Vizarded Executioner who presently held it up and shewed it to the people His Head and Trunk were afterwards coffined in Lead and exposed to publick view at S. Iames's till lastly the Duke of Len●● the Marquess of Hartford the Earl of Southampton and the Bishop of London begged the Body to bury it which they conducted to Windsor Chappel-Royal and there interred it with only this Insc●●ption upon the Co●●● CHARLES KING OF ENGLAND MDC.XLVIII After this most 〈◊〉 murder they declared themselves to be a Free State setting out a Proclamation wherein they declare th●t no person hath Right to the Crown o● England abolishing thereby the ●ingly ●overnment and debarring of our Rightful Soveraign ●om any claim c. declaring him also a Traytor with the rest of the Royal Issue for refusing the publication of which the Lord Mayor Reynoldson was outed imprisoned and fined 2000 l. In March they proceed with their High Court of Justice newly modelled and a new President to the Tryal of these Noble persons they had in custody about the last years risings whereof Duke Hamilton Earl of Holland Earl of Norwich the Lord Capel and Sir Iohn Owen were condemned to be beheaded the Duke and Holland and Capel were accordingly executed in the Palace-yard the other two with much ado were pardoned P●nt●fract Castle was now rendred to the Parliament by Colonel Morris being the last Garrison for the King in England Now they had leisure to look towards Ireland whether Lievtenant General Cromwell was sent with an Army of 10000 men which landed about this time at Dublin where a little before Colonel Iones the Governour having received a supply of 1000 men had sallied out and beaten my Lord of Ormond from off the siege where he lay with 20000 and upwards through the carelesness and treachery of the Guards Here were slain to the number of three thousand and five thousand taken prisoners this proved the loss of all Ireland which was then entirely for the King save this City and London-Derry Anno Domoni 1649. Cromwell upon his arrival sets presently forward towards Tredah whereinto the Lord Lievtenant Ormond had put a Garrison of choice English and some Irish to this Town he gave three assaults and was valiantly repulsed but in conclusion of the third the Town was entred and man woman and children put to the sword for three daies in cold bloud with the Governour himself Sir Arthur Aston a well experienced and valiant Captain Anno Dom. 1649. and 1650. VPon this success Trim and Dundalk yielded themselves to him the Marquess of Ormond hovering neer him with his Army but yet not daring to attempt any thing Wexford was the next Town he attaqued which by storm he took also putting all in arms to the sword thence to Passage Fort and so to Waterford from whence he considering the Winter approaching drew off to quarters having already possession of most of the Towns of Ireland Limrick Galloway Clonmell and Kilkenny excepted which soon after were reduced by him and his Successor Ireton and that Kingdome was wholly brought in subjection to the Parliament The next thing that busied the new Commonwealth was the affairs of Scotland who had long before proclaimed the King and were now treating with him therefore they recalled home Lievtenant General Cromwell whom upon Fairfaxes refusal of going against the Scots they now advanced to be General He came Iune the last to London having landed at Bristol and was highly treated by the Parliament Dorislaus that drew up the charge against the King was killed at the Hague in May last and Ascham that was sent on the same errand to the King of Spain was killed also by some English men in his Inne at Supper this did mightily inrage the new Commonwealth that their Min●sters could no where be protected According to the conclusion of the Treaty between the King and his Subjects

anchored before Algiers he demanded restitution and had a civil answer from thence to his satisfaction thence he arrived at Tunis demanding as before to which the Dye or Vice-King returned answer that there were the Castles and Ships of the Grand Seignior that he might do his worst they were not to be scared with his Fleet whereupon a Councel of War being called it was resolved to attaque the Castles and Port of Ferino wherein lay nine Frigats of War and to burn them which accordingly and in despight of all their Ordnance and Castles they effected with a very small loss The news hereof was carried to the Grand Seignior to the glory of the English Nation About this time a massacre was committed in Piedmont on the Protestants there many say not for Religion but Rebell on and vast sums of money were raised by a Declaration of the Protectors resenting their miserable estate most part of which came into his own purse at the Conclusion yet while he was taking money in one hand for the Christians accompt he had another open for the Jewish who about this time had offered large sums for their readmistion into this Kingdome this could not be done without an odium and yet the Protector kept what he had in hand as earnest from them The next design was a Turkish one having erected the office and power of Major Generals equal to Bashaws for the several Counties but they being upstarts and something eclipsing his own entire greatness he soon after laid them aside but never totally abrogated them having made use of them to levy his new extortion of Decimation A War now was declared betwixt the Spaniard and the Prorector who sent the two Generals Blake and Montague new made one to block up the Port at Cadiz and to way-lay the Plate-Fleet in its return from the Indies nothing was omitted to get money which the people of England would not part with to him while the French peace was then proclaimed which had been agreed on as before Before Cadiz the English lay hoping to draw the Spaniards out but he would not stir imagining the English must remove for fresh water homeward but that was found neerer there at Wyers Bay in Portugal whether the Generals being gone for the aforesaid purpose leaving Rear-Admiral Stayner to have an eye upon the Coast and port of Cadiz he crusing up and down espied a Fleet making thitherwards whereupon being to Leeward he made all the possible speed he could to get up to them they supposing his Squadron to be but Fishermen and having received false intelligence the day before that the English were departed and presently ingaged The Spaniards were eight tall Galeons he but three that fought viz. the Speaker the Bridgewater and the Plymouth the fight was soon over of the Spanish two were taken two burnt one sunk two ran ashore and one escaped In one of those that was taken great riches were found both in Plate and in Cocheneal but in the other little save hides For this Victory a Thanksgiving day was ordered and much rejoycing at Wh●tehall Anno Domini 1656. Nevertheless this money would not serve turn and therefore the Protector resolved to put it to tryal what he could do by a Parliament hoping this success and his reputation abroad might have begot a dread and reverence upon the people so that he summons a Parliament by his own Writ to be held at Westminster the 17th of September where finding the Election not answering his intendments many of the late Assembly being returned again for this he imposeth a recognition of his Authority to be taken by every Member before he should sit in the House and thereupon excludes far the major part Others also offended at this manner of proceeding voluntarily absented themselves and retired into their respective Counties so that having packt this Convention according to his mind the remnant chose Sir Thomas Widdrington Speaker and fell to work enacting several things for the Protector first for security of his person and dignity which had lately been attempted by one Syndercomb and for which he was convicted and condemned at the Kings Bench Bar then called the Upper bench and was supposed to prevent his execution to have poysoned himself the night before in the Tower from whence he was drawn naked at a horse tail and burned under the Scaffold at Tower-hill and a stake drove through him and the next the life of the Cause for raising of money to maintain the War against Spain and for continuing Tonnage and Poundage another was an Act for preventing buildings in and about London a whole years Revenue to be paid for all such houses as had been built upon new foundations since the year 1620. and an Act confirming and continuing the Excise But the chiefest of all was a device called The humble Petition and Advice wherein Cromwell was entreated to be King but his ambition durst not venture upon it as things yet stood so he was contented to be installed again Lord Protector by the Authority of Parliament which was wanting before and that solemnly and very stately was soon after celebrated and the Parliament adjounred Anno Domini 1657. Leave we the Protector awhile and return to General Blake on the Coast of Spa●n where finding nothing to do being informed that the Plate-Fleet was arrived in the Canary Islands and unladen he resolved to sail thither and fire the Galeons in the Harbour of Sancta Cruz which with much bravery though with as much danger and hazard on the 20th of April was attempted first by Sir Richard Stayner and seconded by the whole Fleet so that in four hours space they fired sixteen ships and slew many hundred Spaniards on board and on shore losing only some 50 slain and 120 wounded For this exploit the General had a Diamond nigh worth five hundred pound sent him and Captain Stayner was Knighted by Oliver but since the King out of respect to his merit hath confirmed him a Knight On the 19th of April a conspiracy was found out of the Fifth Monarchists at a house in Shoreditch several Arms and Colours were taken as l●kewise Major General Harrison Colonel Rich Vice-Admiral Lawson Venner and others of that party were secured it came to nothing then but burst out dangerously since This Summer the Protector according to compact and agreement with the French had sent over some forces to joyn with the French King against the Spaniard in Flanders These under the Command of Commissary General Reynolds landed in Picardy and about the end of October the French and he came and sit down before Mardike a Fort neer Dunkirk and of concernment to the taking of Dunkirk it self This place after a short siege was rendred and by the French put into the English hands and so the French betook themselves to their winter-quarters while the Spaniard under the leading of the Duke of York attempted by storm in the night time to regain

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