to Rebellion Who knows not that in our unfortunate jnterregnum the design of our hardharted task-masters was to blind if not put out the Eyes of the three Kingdoms by endeavouring to pilladge those formerly famous Seminaries of Learning and discourage it for the future as if they had been of that judgement that ignorance was the Mother of devotion All which and much more that might justly be vrged on this subject must needs make us acknowledge as it is in the forementioned psalme and that often as it is there to Praise the Lord for his goodnes in restoring him declare the wonders that he hath done for him and the people of these Kingdones I am sure we may justly say If God had not been on our side we had been destroyed but to him for ever be the praise The snare is broken and we are delivered Yet there are a sort of people in the world and too many in this kingdome the more is the pitty God grant there be none in England the Epistle of Saint Jude espetially the 10. 16. describs them that through ignorance misinformation prejudice or advantage are redy to slander the foot-steps of the LORDS anoynted who live in this dark corner of Ireland and are ignorant of the worth of that happines that is in the King to themselves thereby I thought it therefore a necessary duty having this History by me to get it reprinted here for information being as far from endeavouring to gain applause thereby as I am uncapable of attaining it by any thing from my selfe only that I may manifest the goodnes of God which is the duty of every Christian and my loyalty which is the duty of every Subject good Christian though for these twelve years I have been a sufferer for it and informe those that yet know not so much as this manifests To the Lord the only ruler of Princes whose right hand and mighty arm hath done it for ever be the praise Yea let all the People praise thee O Lord for thy goodnes to us in restoring the light of our Eyes the breath of our Nostrills the Kings most excellent Majesty the restoring of whom unto his Throne must needs be acknowledged the hand of God and if enough to convince an Athist may evince to the World the validity of vnited and devout prayers such as are injoyned with good authority by the Church of England and are the very Marrow of the Scriptures and where are not Scripture are vncontroulably agreeing composed by those that lay'd down their lives to maintaine and bequeathed as the best Legacy to their Wives and Children And in a word are those prayers for which our blessed Saviour will not refuse to be an intercessour and which have so miraculously restored the defendor of our Faith to his Throne which noe rational man alive but may well conclude being as I am confident they were put up to the Throne of Grace with pure upright hearts by the dutifull and obedient Sons of the Church And therefore let all but espetially such never forget to return due praise for his mercyes to us and to our King and as it is there directed yeild praise and thanksgiving for our deliverance from those great and apparent dangers where with we were incompassed and to acknowledge it his goodnes that we were not delivered over as a prey unto them beseeching still his goodnes and mercy to us that all the World may know that he is our Saviour and mighty Redeemer And that all those that do confess his holy Name may agree in the truth of his holy word and live in vnity and Godly love that under our Lawfull King and governour we may be Godly and quietly governed And for our most gratious Soveraign also let us pray That he knowing whose Minister he is may aboue all things seeke his honour glory that so we his Subjects duly considering whose authority he hath may honour and humbly obey him according to Gods blessed word and Ordinance And as it is directed by that Divine Orthodox ancient and best lyturgie of the Church of England To keep and strengthen in the true worship of thee in righteousnes and holynes of life thy Servant CHARLES our most gratious KING and Governour That it may please thee O Lord to rule his heart in thy faith feare and love that he may ever more have affiance in thee and ever seek thy honour and glory That he may alway incline to thy will and walk in thy way Endue him plentyously with heavenly gifts grant him in health wealth long to live strengthen him that he may Vanquish and over come all his Enemies and finally after this life he may attain everlasting Ioy and felicity through Iesus Christ our Lord. As for those who so barbarously acted in that horrid crime the Murder of his Sacred Majesty of blessed memory they have had at least some of them the reward of Regicides So let his Enemies perish O Lord and all that rise up against him But on his own head let his Crown flourish Let his dayes be many and prosperous and let all but espetially those that are truly loyal finde the Comfort of it The unexpressable joy of all his Subjects felt and declared at his return requires a Volume and at this place cannot be inform'd it being indeed beyond expression God inclining the hearts of all his people as some times all the Subiects of King David the people of Juda to bring home their King 2. Sam. 19.14 Take one for all a Copie of Verses presented with his own hand at his return to his Government By that most Honorable and Heroick person and renowned Champion of the English interest in Jreland which Maugre all opposition will eternize his fame to all posterity The Lord President of Munster all that know him know his excellency that way it s enough to say they are his and they follow as well worthy to conclude the History of his most excellent Majesty whom God preserue H F Cork 22. No 1660. TO THE KING UPON HIS MAJESTIES Happy Return AS the Great World at first in Cbaos lay Then darknes yeilded to triumphāt day And all that wild and undigested Mass Did into Forme and to perfection pass So in our lesser World Confusions were Many and vast as now our Blessings are Our past and present State fully express All we could bear and all we would possess Wonder not that your forces could not bring You to Your Crowns nor us unto our King Fate made therein this high design appear Your Sword shall rule abroad Your Virtues here The lesser Conquest was to you deny'd That by the greater it might be suppy'd Nor think it strang that som so long have strove With that which they did most admire love Since all against their dissolution pray Although to Heav'n there is no other way Like to Bethesdas Pool our Common-wealth Till it was troubled could not give
habit with an Highlander yet all could not prevail to his Escape for the whole Country was raised up in armes in search after him and a price set upon his head by the States but espetially the Presbyterian Ministers exhorted the people to endeavour his atachment as a thing necessary to their Salvation At length the whole Countrey being up in armes about him and no way left for this distressed Marquess to escape he thought it better to throw himselfe upon the Lord Aston formerly a friend of his and now out in the search with some of his Tennants then fall into the hands of his more inveterate and implacable enemies But this Lord notwithstanding he had formerly been Montross's follower either out of fear or covetousness durst not conceal him but sent him with a strong guard to David Lesly by whom he was directly sent to Edenbrough shortly after brought to his Tryall before the Parliamant of Scotland where all the while notwithstanding those many ignominious affronts and disgraces thrown upon him as his being intriumphant manner brought through Edenbrough bound in a Cart yet he carried himself with so much Magnanimity and Courrage That those of his Enemies who did not pity him yet were almost ashamed of their vilainies towards him The Parliament of Scotland upon the first newes of this Noble Marquess being made a Prisoner met and resolved to pass a sentence upon him before either he was come up or had at all answered for himself though when they allowed him to speak somwhat for himself which he pronounced with gravity void of passion yet he had as good have held his peace for the sentence being agreed upon it was past to this effect That he should be carried to the place from whence he came and from thence to morrow being the 21. day of May 1650. be carried to the high Cross in Edinbruogh and be hanged upon a Gibbe thirty foot high and there hang for the space of three hours in the sight and view of all people with his History and Declaration hanging about his Neck after which he should be taken down beheaded and quartered his head to be placed upon he Talbooth or prison house in Edenbrough and his legs arms over the gates of the Cities of Sterling Glascow S. Iohns town and Aberdeen And in case he repented by which means his sentence of Excomunication might be taken off by the Kirk the bulk of his body might be buried in Grayfriers if not to be buried in the Common burying place for thieves and robbers Thus far did their unparallel'd hatred and malice extend even to his dead Corps This Sentence being aggravated by the Chancellour in the utmost terms of horrour that his spleen could invent was yet mildly and unpassionately received by this Illustrious Marquess who answered nothing to it But That he took it for a greater honour to have his head stand on the prison gate for this quarrel then to have his picture in the Kings Bed-chambers and least his loyalty should be forgotten they had highly honoured him in designing lasting Monuments to four of the chiefest Cities to bear up his memorial to all posterity wishing he had flesh enough to have sent a piece to every City in Christendome to witness his loyalty to his King and Countrey The next day being the day appointed for his execution richly habited in a scarlet Cloak laced with gold but his soul adorned with constant Loyalty the far richer Ornament of the two he marched along the street with so composed a Courrage Gravity that most of his Enemies either pityed or admired him being come to the place of execution he was some time detained with many frivolous questions of the flea-bitten Clergy being ready to mount up the lader he said it was Jacob 's Lader by which he should mount to Heaven His Speech to the people was short and much to this effect That he was sory if his end should be scandalous to any good Christian but that it often happened to the Righteous according to the wayes of the wicked that they who knew him should not disesteem him for his ignominious death That he confessed it was the judgement of God upon him for his privat sins but as for his condemners they were but instruments That they had perverted judgement and justice and oppressed the poor yet he desired God to forgive them for he heartily forgave them That what he did in that Kingdome he did it in obedience to the just commands of his Sovereign to assist him against those which rose up against him That it was not his fault that he lay under the sensure of the Church since 't was only for doing his duty That for what was said of him that he should blame the King he said 't was most false for saies he the late King lived a Saint and died a Martyr That if ever he should wish his soul in any mans place it should be in his That for the King now living he was a Prince under whom any people might live most happily his commands were righteous his promises saithfull and his dealings just Finally that he commended his soul to God his service to his Prince his good will to his friends and his name charity to all good people This was the sum of his speech on the ladder which and some private prayers being finished he mounted up the top of that prodigious Gibbet where his History and Declaration being tied about his neck and his hands bound by the Executioner he turned about and gave him some gold asking If they had any more dishonour as they conceived it to put upon him he was ready to accept it and then with a great deal of magnanimity biding the Executioner turn him off when he should hold up his hands it was accordingly performed Thus nobly lived and thus ignominiously yet nobly died the truest of friends the loyallest of Subjects the faithfullest of Servants the best of Masters and the valiantest of Captains Iames Graham Marquess of Montross Earl of Rindardin Lord of Groaem and Baron of Montdieu whose death was not only lamented as a private but rather as publick loss most of the Princes in Europe deploring the unfortunate fall of so Noble and Heroick a person for he was endowed with such winning graces that whereever he came he was both honoured and esteemed and whereever he Commanded both feared and loved His enemies Mallicce though he was dead kept still alive for after they had beheaded him and cut off his quarters they would not permit that bulk of his body which remained to be buried in any other place then the Borough Moor. But this Noble Marquess suffered not alone for soon after Col. Hurrie notwithstanding he pleaded the benefit of Quarter young Spotswood of Daersie A most compleat Gentleman Sir Francis Hay Col. Sibbalds two most accomplished persons though they had all the favour to be beheaded There was likewise one Captain
Charters who being put in hopes of life by the perfidious Kirk upon his recantation made a long speech upon the Scaffold acknowledging his Apostacy from the Covenant and desiring to be reconciled to the Kirk but had notwithstanding his head struck off This was the fatall and Tragicall Event of his Majesties affairs in Scotland under Montrosse's Conduct let us now turn to see how the treaty at Breda went on in the mean time But before I proceed any further give me leave to speak a word or two concerning the Magnanimous Col. Will. Sibbalds who say some confessed himselfe guilty of the Murther of D. Dorislaus the English Agent at the Hague which I must ingeniously confesse I believe upon good ground to be only a Calumny and scandal raised from the so far extended Marice of his enemies for I can find nothing either in his speech at Death or in any Records of credit tending to such a confession though much against any likelyhood of it nor can I imagine that any man could with so much resolution as he dyed with part from this world and have so great a load and blot upon Conscience But to proceed Great debates there were in the mean time between his Majesty and the Scotch Commissioners concerning the Treaty and great demurs there were upon it for besides the striving of some Lords who had a kind of a serious Antipathy to the Scots perfidiousness and endeavoured to perswade his Majesty not to trust them who had betrayed his Father The King himselfe stuck highly as he had reason about the business of of taking the Covenant For 1. There was no reason why he should be enforced to relinquish the Religion of his Fathers and whilst he permitted to his Subjects Liberty of Conscience it would be very inconsistent with their so earnestly pretended desires of a peace and agreement to deny him the same priviledge which he gave them 2. That Covenant tendered and so earnestly prest upon him by them was an Obligatory Covenant to bind the Subjects to him and not for him to swear to and therefore he judged it sufficiently satisfactory to pass an act for the peoples taking it Whilst these demurs and delayes were in the Treaty the Scotch Commissioners give a visit to the Illustrious Prince of Orange whom they intreat to be a Mediator between them and their King His Majesty likewise withdrawes himselfe for some time from Breda to the Hague there to advise with his Aunt the Queen of Bohemia the Prince of Orange and other friends about what he were best to resolve on or determine But the Estates of Scotland though their proposed Conditions were already unreasonable yet resolve to add more weight to the scale the Earl of Carnworth and Mr. Murrey are sent over to the Commissioners at Breda with new instructions and propositions As 1. That his Maiesty should confirm all Acts done in some late Sessions of Parliament without any exception 2. That neither Montross nor any of his adherents be admitted to come into the Kingdome of Scotland But notwithstanding the harshness of the Conditions the King is earnestly pressed to come to a full conclusion with the Scots Though many Lords of the contrary faction pleaded for an utter rejection of their propositions alleadging to his Majesty That the Covenanters horid perfidousness to his Father might be a sufficient motive and inducement for him not to trust them That the more willing he was to condiscend to their Propositiōs the more impudent they were still in proposing things most unreasonable That should he accept of their Conditions they would so tye up his hands that he would be then but a King only in Title which he was without them On the other side the Earl of Lauderdale the Lord Wilmot Piercy and others of his Majesties Council who stood for an accomodation with the Scots urged That his Majesties affairs both in Ireland under the Marquess of Montross and in the Navy under Prince Pupert were in so weak and tottering a Condition that no helpe could be expected from them That all the Princes in Europe were so imbroyled in Wars of their own that it was in vain to crave any Forreign aid that therefore there was no way left for his Majesty to regain his lost Rights and Kingdoms but by complying with his Subjects of Scotland and though it were upon such Conditions as would at first seem harsh those Curbs might in time possession got be thrown off by degrees these reasons swayed with his Majesty the Treay went on with a clearer face then formerly But now there happens a strong demur or as most supposed a business that would wholly break off the Treaty for the newes of Montrosse's ignominious death being come to Breda extreamly incensed the whole Court and those who were against the Treaty bestirred themselves strongly still endeavouring to avert the King wholly from it by telling him That they had by thus murthering his Leiutennant Demonstrated to the World what they would do to him if they had him in their power That it was an act of rashnesse and desperation to trust them or to have any more to do with such a perfidious generation That they only cunningly and subtilly endeavoured to entrap him that they might destroy him But notwithstanding their heat his Majesty conceals his anger which doubtless could not but be great for the death and the so Ignominious death of so good and loyal a subject and Servant and that too in his quarrel and for obeying his just commands only he expresses his resentment of their so strange proceedings to the Committee of Estates by a Message sent by Mr. Murrey to this effect That it could not but grieve and perplex him to hear that whilst they pretended to conclude a peace they proceeded in the way of War and that whilst they treated of an accord with him they shed the bloud of his best Subjects and that in such a manner that if true as reported they could not imagine but it must extreamly incense him he therefore desired them to give him an account of their businesse To this they return Answer That their affections were still reall to him that it rejoyced their very soules to hear that he would be willing to concur with them in a peace and agreement That as for the Death of Montross they desired it might be no obstacle in the way for that they did nothing in it but with a reall intention to promote his interest Thus they endeavoured to excuse them selves but it was not their excuse nor their so many reiterated Protestations of fidelity but the necessity of the Kings affairs which drew him not long after to conclude the Treaty at Breda notwithstanding the violent opposers of it by condescending to most of their desires The conclusion of the Treaty was soon carried to Edenbrough where the Parliament being met it was yet by some of those who favoured the Secterian party in England
of the Spaniard with an Army of ten thousand men so that they intend with his assistance if they could not obtain their desires by fair means to have forc't it Thus these differences were arrived to such a height that nothing but a Civil war was like to ensue which made his Sacred Majesty of England use his utmost endeavours to compose stay this breach before it came to an utter overflow to which effect he dayly went to fro be twixt the King the Princes endeavouring to bring them to a reconciliatiō urging by his own example the miseries and calamities that must necessarily fall upon every mans head by a Civil War telling the King that the late example of his Royall Father of happy memory might be an inducement to him to be at peace with his Subjects rather then embroil his Kingdomes in a bloudywar by which though he might for the present gaine the better yet in the end he would stil be sure to have the worse Yet these Arguments and his Majesties earnest endeavours for peace and reconciliatiō produced nothing but only contracted an unjust odium upon him from both parties for his good will the Princes believing that he counselled the King against them and the Cardinal against him So that he lost the love of both by endeavouring to mak them love one another yet notwithstanding the ill successe he had this Noble Prince still pursues his pacifick intentions til such time as he gains a conference between the King Cardinall Princes but this proves ineffectuall For the Princes heightned with the aid they expected from the Duke of Lorain instead of coming to an accord only exasperate differences Yet his Sacred Majesty ceases not but endeavours to bring them yet to a peaceable compliance in order threunto procures another Conference where he himself would be Moderatour but this proves as ineffectuall as the former For the Prince of Conde was above all others outragious and would come to no agreement except Mazarine were first banished France and the French King as violently persisted in his resolution against it alledging That he had approved himself both a faithfull servant and an able Minister of State So in stead of agreement both sides prepare for War yet are both sides equally angry exasperated against his sacred Majesty for his good will toward them and the Nation the one and other party imagining that both he and his Mother had given counsels opposite to their designes But that which above all exasperated the Princes against his Majesty of England was the sudden luke-warmness of the Duke of Lorain in the business For though he had drawn off his Army as though he had complied with their resolutions to come to a battel yet being sent for by the Princes to advance towards Paris he refused to come which made the Princes believe there had been some underhand dealing with him and that which most of all encreased their jealousies that King Charles had a hand in it was this The Duke of Beaufort coming to the Camp of Lorain to desire him in the name of the Princes to come up and fight found there his Majesty his brother the Duke of York in private conference with Lorain who withdrawing when Beaufort appeared Beaufort finding the Duke's aversness to the enterprize confirmed him and he confirmed the Princes of the King of England's endeavours whereby he had withdrawn Lorain from their party This coming to the peoples ears who were absolute favourers of the Princes and inveterate enemies to Mazarine so extreamly incensed them against the English Princes that they threaten violence and indignities to their persons are not afraid to affront the Queen their Mother in her Coach which made his Majesty to avoid the popular fury retire himself from the Lovure to St. Germane Nor is the Cardinal less incensed though under a more politick vail For though both Princes and People might imagine believe that his Majesty had counsel'd things opposite to their intentions yet the Cardinal very well knew that he had advised the King as the best course to consent to his departure out of the Kingdome and that if he had endeavoured to draw Lorain from their party 't was only out of a desire he had to expedite their agreement he therefore resolves to thwart him in all his designs And so he did to the utmost of his endeavours For his Majesty though suspected by the Prince in his several conferences with Lorain to have endeavoured to divert him from them was only transacting with him for the recovery of his Kingdome of Ireland out of the hands of the English Republick to which effect several Articles were drawn up between the Duke of Lorain and the Lord Taaff two of which were 1. That the Duke of Lorain should transport an Army of 10000. men at his own charge into Ireland there to joyn with such as should be found Loyal for the Recovery of his Majesties Rights in that Kingdom 2. That the Duke of Lorain should by his Majesty be invested with the power and Title of Protector Royall of Ireland These Articles though drawn up never came to be signed the cause of which some have imagined to be the disability of the Duke to performe the Enterprise without the Aid of some other Prince but we may in more reason guess it proceeded from the strenuous endeavours of Mazarine his Majesties so lately made-enemy to divert the Duke's Army then from any other cause Many in England upon hearing of these Propositions made to the Duke of Lorain which I must confess some believe to have never proceeded any farther then discourse of the Duks feared his Majesties too great inclination to the Romish Religion which fear his after retirement at St. Germain's convinced there was no need of For here he spent his time wholly in Piety and Devotions according to the best worship of the Church of England never forgeting to pray for those his Enemies who were not only content to have deprived him of his Kingdoms but continually belched forth both slanders and maledictions against him His Majesty having staid at S. Germains till such time as the heate of the popular fury was over which decreased still towards them as they found Mazarine more averse to him returned again to the Lovure where during his abode his brother the Duke of Gloucester who had a long time been detained by the Juncto of England in the Isle of Wight and was lately permitted by them to go to his Sister the Princess Royal in Holland came to him accompanied from the Hague by Sir Marmaduke Langdale and Sir Richard Greenvile he was at his arrivall at Paris honourably received by the King of France and Queen Mother and courted according to his birth by the rest of the Grandees and Peers of the Kingdome Likewise during his Majesties abode here arrived his Quondam Preserver Mrs. Jane Lane who after she had taken leave of
scorne and derision of the world by selling them to those Plantations a punishment inflicted usually on none but thieves and vagabonds Yet I hope those Noble soules who were thus dealt withall account those miseries and hardships they have endured but little in respect of the cause for which they suffered them But to return to our Princes abroad The Duke of Glocester in his journy from Paris with the Marquess of Ormond touched at the Hague where he found his Sister newly returned from her journey with his Majesty and having staid with her some time there she accompanied him to visit their Brother the King again at Colen with whom she staid till after the fair at Frankford whither his Majesty accompanied with his Royal Sister the Duke of Glocester the Marquess of Ormond the Earle of Norwich the Lord Newburg and several Ladies and persons of Quality went in progress part of the way they went by Land and the other part by water being complemented in all Princes countries through which they passed by their chief Ministers of State and saluted with the great Guns from their Towns Castles but particularly being come into the Territories of the Elector of Mentz they were saluted by his grand Marshall who in the name of his Master the Elector invited his Majesty the Princess Royall the Duke of Glocester to his Court but in regard that the intent of their progress was to see that renowned Fair at Franckford which now drew nigh his Majesty sent the Lord Newburgh back with the grand Marshal returning thanks to the Elector for his civilities but desiring to be excused till their return when his Majesty with his Royal Sister Brother would not Faile to come and give him thanks in person and so his Majesty with his Noble company continued their journy Being arrived at Frankford advice was brought to his Majesty that the Queen of Swethland who had some time before Voluntarily surrendered her Kingdom into the hands of Carolus Gustavus her Kinsman was passing that way in her intended Journey for Italy whereupon his Majesty sent a Noble Lord to acquaint her Royall Highness the Queen Christina that he was ready to wait upon her at what place soever she should be pleased to appoint for an interview her Majesty received the message with a great deal of affection telling the Messenger That she was highly obliged to his Majesty of England for so great an honour and that if he pleased she would not fail to meet him at Conningstein a village not far from Frankford where his Majesty for the time resided And accordingly there these two Potentates both equally deprived of their Kingdomes only with this distinction the one Voluntary the other by force and Tyranny met the Queen of Sweden being there first attended his Majesty he being come was immediately admitted in a room there purposely provided and having had neer halfe an hours private discourse with her the Duke of Glocester was admitted and presently after the Lords that attended his Majesty there passing between their two Majesties many ceremonious complements so after a little longer discourse they took their leaves The Princesse Royal being a little indisposed went not to this interview His Majesty having tarried at Franckford as long as seem'd convenient to that Royall Company in his departure thence according to the promise he had before made by the Lord Newburgh passed through the Elector of Mentz his Country resolving to give him a visit but that Noble Prince had so much of honour in him that he met his Majesty a great part of the way and conducted him with his Royall Company to a Pallace of his where he sumptuously entertained them for three or four dayes and then himself in person accompanied them a good part of their way to Colen from whence shortly after his Majesties arrival there the Princess Royal departed for Holland In the mean time the Protector of England having made a peace with the Hollander fearing that the Nation should grow rebellious to him if they lay free from wars which would fill their purses resolves to keep them low at a diet to which effect he begins a war with Spain at first in his Western Territories but soon after that business not succeeding in his Europaean Quarters which made Mazarine with all hast possible endeavour the concluding the Leageu Offensive and Defensive with the Protector which being by him considered to be as beneficiall for his own interest as for the French was easily and willingly assented to but the chief Articles of this Peace was that his Majesty the Duke of York and Glocester with all their relations and friends should be expelled out of and no more admitted into the Kingdom of France Certainly had the French King had but the least touch or sense of honour he would have counted this the hardest condition in the world or indeed he would never at all have treated with the protector but that he should yeild to such a condition as to banish out of his Kingdome those who came to him for succour and relief in the utmost extreamity that ever Princes were put too and these too his nearest relations being Brothers Sisters children And this to make a league offensive with him who had murdered their Father expelled them out of their Dominions What was this but the owning of that murder and aggravating their oppressions instead of relieving them But neither honour nor relation can stand in competition with self-Interest His Maiesty had before fore-saw what the event of this treaty would be and had therefore wisely wihdrawn himselfe from France to prevent a complemental expulsion But the Duke of York who in regard of the great command which he had in the Army had staid there til the conclusion of the League was now warned to depart with al his retinnue consisting of a gallant number of young English gentlemen bred up under his valour conduct notwithstanding those many great services which he had performed for that Kingdom in requitall of which he had only a complemental Apology made him for the necessity of his departure and a small time respited for his stay during which he was visited by the Duke of Modena then in France and other French Grandees but more espetially by the Marshal of Turine who extreamly loved him and above all others expressed a sorrow for his dismisment but at length the day perfixed being come his grace having solemnly taken his leave of the King of France the Queen his Mother the rest of his Friends at the French Court he takes his journey towards Flanders accompanied by the Earl of Yarmouth severall other English Lords For upon the rupture of the Peace between Oliver Cromwell and the King of Spain Don John de Austria Governour Royall of the Low Countries for his Catholick Majesty commiserating our Kings unfortunate Condition now that his Interest might stand them in some stead had sent the