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A62356	Observations historical and genealogical in which the originals of the emperor, kings, electors, and other the sovereign princes of Europe, with a series of their births, matches, more remarkable actions, and deaths, as also the augmentations, decreasings, and pretences of each family, are drawn down to the year MDCXC / written in Latin by Anthony William Schowart ... ; and now made English, with some enlargements relating to England.; Observationes historico-genealogicae. English	Schowart, Anton Wilhelm.; C. B.	1693 (1693)	Wing S892; ESTC R12594	215,513	512

Conspiracy to kill the King raise a Rebellion alter Religion subvert the State and procure an Invasion of which Sir Walter Raleigh a mortal Enemy to Spain and no Friend of the Scots was one and after a Fourteen Years reprieval by the means of the Spanish Lieger Gundomar had his Head taken off upon the former Judgment though there wanted not those that thought it was Jure Injuria And now came on the Business of Spain As King of Scotland the King was in Amity with Spain as King of England at War with it And therefore finding himself under that double Circumstance he first call'd in all Letters of Mart against the Spaniard and not long after concluded a Peace with them to the Confirmation of which Albertus and Isabella Archdukes of Austria were sworn And thus in Peace with all Christendom the King created his Second Son Charles Duke of Albany then Four Years old Duke of York Jan. 2. 1604. with the yearly Fee of 40 l. payable by the Sheriff of York out of the Issues c. of that County The Year following was discover'd the Gun-Powder Treason Plot which ended in the Attainder and Death of the Conspirators and was particularly congratulated by the King of Spain and Archdukes of Austria In the Year 1610. the King having had an Aid of his Subjects to make his Son a Knight created Prince Henry now Seventeen Years of Age Prince of Wales but he liv'd not long to enjoy it for during the Treaty of a Marriage between Frederick Prince Palatine of the Rhine with the Lady Elizabeth the King 's only Daughter he sell sick and died Novemb. 6. 1612. However the Marriage took effect and was consummated on St. Valentine's Day following And Prince Charles created Prince of Wales 1615. But hear the time the King had created his Son Henry Prince of Wales he created a new Patent-Honour of descendible Knighthood by the Name of Knights Baronets The occasion thus In the beginning of the King's Reign Charles Lord Montjoy Lord Deputy of Ireland return'd for England and brought over with him Hugh O Neal Earl of Tyrone who Queen Elizabeth yet living had submitted himself to the Queen's Mercy and whom the King pardon'd and made proclamation That he should be treated with Respect and Honour And yet in 1609. he goes off into Ireland and with Tyrconnel and others gets beyond-Sea and sollicites a new Assistance from foreign Princes but having left several forfeited Lands behind them in the Counties of Colerain Tyrone and Donegal the King comes to Articles with the City of London for the planting and building the same Which being accepted the King by his Charter 1611. erects the Ville of Derry into a City and the Town of Colerain into a Mayor-Town and together with the said forfeited Lands consolidates the whole into one County by the Name of the County of London-Derry And having by the same Charter created a Body Politick of Twenty four Persons Twelve of them to be annually elected out of the Twelve First Companies of London for the Government of the same by the Name of The Society of the Governour and Assistants London of the New Plantation of Ulster in the Realm of Ireland grants the said City Town County and forfeited Lands to the said Society and their Successors in perpetuity under the yearly Rent of 205 l. And now to give Countenance to it and put 200000 l. in his Pocket without being beholden to his Subjects he erected this new Honour and for him his Heirs and Successors covenanted with each of them respectively That they and the Heirs Males of their Body should take Place next the youngest Sons of Barons That by way of augmentation to their own Arms they should bear a part of O Neal's Arms viz. in a Canton or Escutcheon Argent a hand Dextre couped Gules And lastly stinted their Number to Two hundred Persons whose Issue as they chanc'd to fail should not be supplied with new Persons but the Order to run out In which last Clause yet the King covenanted for himself only and left out his Heirs and Successors tho' if the printed Lists be true Himself made Two hundred and One. In consideration of which each of them was to maintain Thirty Foot-Soldiers in Ireland for Three Years after the rate of Eight-pence a Day and for the payment of the Monies strike a Tally in the Exchequer for 1000 l. The King also some time after erected a like Order of Baronets of Nova Scotia who instead of the said Hand dextre couped should wear an Orange-colour'd Ribbon athwart their Shoulders as Knights of the Bath their Red Ribbon with a Medal on which the Arms of Scotland were enamell'd and a Pear-Pearl at the end of it with this Motto Faxment is honestae Gloria But whether besides the advantage of another Plantation he got as much by the one as he did by the other does not appear Though this may be said of both All Parties were well satisfied Nor happen'd there during this time any thing much remarkable saving the breaking one Favourites Neck to make way for another the placing and displacing of Great Officers the frequent Creations of Nobility which though it added to their Number may perhaps be thought to have taken from their Grandeur and the Death of Queen Anne which happen'd March 2. 1619. The Palsgrave Frederick thus strengthen'd with the Alliance of England was in the Year 1621. elected King of Bohemia Nor was he sooner invested in the Crown than the Imperial Bann issued against him which was so seconded with a longer Sword that having lost the Battel of Prague and with it his New Crown and his own Patrimony of the Upper and Lower Palatinate he was forc ' to retire into Holland On this King James though he never could be brought to own his Son-in-Law as a King had that care of his Daughter that he sent an Embassie to the Emperour to sollicite the Restitution of the Palatinate which returning without success he consults Gundomar what to do in the matter who advises him to make a Marriage with the Prince his Son and the Infanta of Spain Which said he would be easily effected if the Prince might have leave to make a Journey into Spain Which was accordingly done and the Prince receiv'd with all the Kindness and Magnificence imaginable Where having been spun out for eight Months together to no purpose contrary to the Expectation of most Men he return'd safe into England Whereupon the King taking new measures it was first resolv'd to recover the Palatinate by Arms in which the Parliament promised him a liberal Assistance and next to provide the Prince a Wife elsewhere For which purpose an Embassie was sent into France to treat of a Marriage with Henrietta Maria younger Daughter of King Henry IV. and Sister of Lewis XIII King of France which took effect but was not consummated 'till after the Death of King James which happen'd March 27. 1625. in the

'till the point were decided it came to a more bloody Trial in which besides their Admiral Van Trump slain they lost Vice-Admiral Evertson and Thirty two others sunk himself and four Captains and twelve hundred common Men taken up after the Fight and made what sail they could for the Texel Nor did Monck think it fit to pursue them as having bought the Victory with the loss of eight Captains and about five hundred common Men slain five other Captains and seven thousand private Men wounded and one Ship The Oak sunk While matters were thus at Sea the Army as well as the Nation were become so sick of our New Commonwealth on Shoar that they urge them to dissolve themselves which they not daring to refuse nor yet willing to yield determine it to Nov. 5. 1654. but trifled so much time about Qualifications for their Successors that Cromwel not meaning to stay so long and the Army declaring against them as a Party of Carnal Men and not to be trusted with the Choice of their Representatives turn'd them out of the House and set a Guard upon it April 23. 1653. This done Cromwel and his Officers constitute A Council of State made up of themselves and their Confederates of the late House and place the Supreme Authority in them 'till a Representative could be chosen which not long after was patch'd together of an hundred forty two known Persons as the Cant was Men fearing God and of approv'd Integrity but so ridiculous as to Man that it was thought Cromwel got them together to no other end than to bring Parliaments into contempt However they met July 4. and having declar'd themselves a Parliament the Council of State resign their Supremacy to them and they appoint a New Council of State consisting of Cromwel and his Officers with Power to transact all Publick Affairs treat with Ambassadours c. But in that five Months time that they sate they had so unhing'd every thing and done nothing but to the worse that even their Masters who brought them together were asham'd of them and most of themselves so sensible of it that their Speaker Rous with the Mace before him and a major part of them following him came to Whitehall and surrender'd to Cromwel the Instrument he had deliver'd to them at their first sitting and in four Days after the Officers of the Army having form'd a New Instrument of Government they entreat him to accept it under the Name of Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland which at first he seemingly refus'd 'till at last persuaded into what he had so long design'd he submits to the Exigence of Time and Affairs and was the same Afternoon viz. Decemb. 16. 1653. accordingly inaugurated in Westminster-Hall The Dutch by this time had made a truer Estimate of the English Force than they did when they began the War and having underhand tamper'd with Cromwel for a Peace and finding they might have easier Terms from him than the Rump would even hear of they sent over Ambassadours to him Nor was he so well setled as to refuse a fair Proffer and Money to boot whereupon a Peace was concluded between them and proclaim'd April 5. 1654. in which the King of Denmark was included And near the same time he made another with Queen Christina of Sweden Spain also France and Portugal seek his Friendship but Spain could not obtain it And so this first jobb being over he return'd Monck back into Scotland though with all his Art he could never get him back again and sent his second Son Henry Lord Deputy into Ireland and call'd a Parliament which met Septemb. 3. 1654. Nor had they searce taken their Seats ere they fell to disputing the Power by which they were call'd whereupon a Recognition of the Government as it was then setled in a single Person was sent them to subscribe with an Inhibition to any one of their entring the House 'till he had done it In which though most of them complied the whole was dissolv'd within the first five Months which was contrary to the said New Instrument In 1655. he made an attempt upon Hispaniola but miscarried in it and took Jamaica with little or no opposition And to cover at least secure against the Slurr at home he decimated all the Royalists i. e. took a Tenth part of their Estates and set up Eleven Major-Generals to Tax it and keep them in awe The Year following he call'd another Parliament which met Septemb. 3. and they perhaps guessing what he would be at present him an Humble Petition and Advice to take the Title of KING which he refus'd twice but being press'd to a more positive Answer he had the very Morning that he made the Third Denial resolv'd to accept it But whatever it was that made him change his Mind does not appear though if his Secretary Thurloe may be believ'd it was not that he fear'd the General Officers for there were New Commissions actually drawn for others who had accepted their Commands Where upon the Word King in the said Petition and Advice was expung'd and he in a more solemn manner invested with all the Regal Ornaments the Crown only excepted June 26. 1657. and proclaim'd by the Name of Oliver Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland After which the Parliament being adjourn'd to Jan. 20. he in the mean time in Imitation of the old Constitution created a New House of Lords by the Name of The Other House Of which the Commons taking no more notice than to ridicule it and then falling to dispute the Government he thought it high time to put an end to their sitting and dissolv'd them Not long after which having escap'd several Attempts of as well Commonwealths Men Fifth-Monarchy-Men as Royalists he at last to the wonder of Mankind died in his Bed on his twice-Auspicious Third of September 1658. having according to the Power given him by the said Humble Petition and Advice first declar'd his eldest Son Richard his Successor who contrary to the expectation of Fleetwood and Lambert whom Cromwel had severally cajol'd with the Promise of the Succession was the next Morning solemnly proclaim'd Lord Protector c. But he lasted not above three Quarters of a Year and in him ended the Protectorship And yet before we come to the Restauration it may not be amiss to remark the several Turns of Government that from the 30th of January 1648. befel the Nation 'till that happen'd For 1. The Monarchy was subverted and turn'd to a Republick under the Name of The Keepers of the Liberty of England by Authority of Parliament or for brevity sake The Rump and they lasted 'till April 1653. 2. Cromwel turn'd them out and plac'd the Supreme Power in A Council of State constituted by himself and they held it 'till July the same Year 3. From them he turn'd it into the hands of his Men of Integrity and made them a Parliament