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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

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

where he made miserable havock intending utterly to break the spirits of that people who were so surely ingaged to Argyles side Here the Earl of Seaforth followed him with an Army and the Marquess of Aogyle had another of the other side Montross therefore resolved to fight with one first and so tell upon that party under Argyle which he totally ●outed killing 1500 on the place the rest escaped and so the Marquess of Montross bent his way after the other Army which he defeated at Br●●hin being newly put under the command of Colonel Hurry afterwards offers battel to Bayly who had another Army ready to fight him but he waited for advantages whereupon he marches after Hurry who had re●●uited and was pressing the Lord Gourdon having taken Dun ice in his way and at Alderne discomfits him killing ●300 and dispersing the rest He seeks out Baily to whom was joyned the Earl of Lindsey and at Ale●fo●d hills forced them to fight utterly routed them and obtained a remarkable victory but that which lessened the triumph was the death of the Lord Gourdon one that was as the right hand of Montross a very Loyal Right Noble Gentleman being eldest son to the Marquess of Huntl●y After this he comes to S. Iohnstons where he alar●m'd the Parliament there sitting and so into the Lowlands where the Kirk had another Army in readiness under the command of the aforesaid Baily At a place called Kilsith both Armies met and a cruel battel it was but in conclusion success and victory crowned Montrosses head and almost 6000 men were slain in this fight the p●rsuit being eagerly followed for a great way and the Covenanters at first fighting very resolutely but the fortune of Montross still prevailed The Nobility now every where readily assisting him and the Towns and Cities declaring for him so that that Kingdome which afforded men and assistance for the invasion of another Kingdome was not now able to defend it self The Governour so was Montross dignified be●ng seized of all places almost of strength even as far as Edinburgh where some Royal prisoners were delivered him The Estates of Scotland therefore send for Dav●d Leshley while Montross expected forces from the King under the Lord Dighy which staid too long and were afterwards defeated at Sherburn in Yorkshire Upon the arrival of Leshley most of the forces under Montross not dreading an Enemy so soon out of England were departed home so that Leshley finding Montross in a very weak condition at Philips-Haugh fell upon him before he could retreat almost before his Scours could give him intelligence and there routs him He at first resolved to lose his life with the field but being perswaded of better hopes he resolutely charged through and brought the flying remains of his Army safe into the Highlands where he began new Levies but the fortune of the King failing every where he was the next year ordered by the King then in the Scots custody to disband and depart the Kingdom And so we leave him till a more unhappy revolution of time The memory of this man had almost caused an Oblivion of some things done he●e during his great successes for Sir Iohn Hotham and his Son for intending the delivery of Hull which they had so unhandsomely before denied to the King were beheaded as also Sir Alexander Car●w and at last the Right Reverend Arch-Bishop of Canterbury for many pretended crimes of innovation and disaffection in matters of Religion was executed the tenth of Ianuary These mens deaths happened in December and Ianuary 1644. and are therefore here inserted To begin therefore the year 1645. Dennington Castle was the very 25th of March delivered to the Parliament which was counterpoised with a defeat given Col. Massey by Prince Rupert at Lidbury being surprized there and his foot routed his house consisting most of Officers with himself hardly escaped to Glocester At the same time the Army being new modelled Lievtenant General Cromwell was sent by Fairfax to hinder a conjunction of forces at Oxford from Worc●ster which he did defeating the Queens Regiment and afterwards took Blechington House by surrender for which Col. Windbank was shot to death at Oxford Notwithstanding which interruption the King matched from Oxford intending Northward to recover what he had lost there with a very compleat Army and coming to Leicester then garrison'd by Sir Robert Pye for the Parliament after s●mmons refused stormed it and took it the Souldiers for a while plundring the Town which had been the residence of a Parliament Committee from the beginning In the mean while General Fairfax was advanced from London with his new modelled Army and by Order of the Committee of both Kingdomes had besieged Oxford where he had received a notable salley but upon news of the Kings success at Leicester presently raised his siege resolving to fight the King as soon as he could overtake him The King was now in a dispute whether he should march upon his first intendments Northward or staying for some forces out of the West under Colonel Goring march for London When he had notice of Fairfaxes advance after him whom he thought to be taken up at Oxford whereupon by the ill late of things the King was advised not to delay time but even at midnight to dislodge from his quarters whether Fairfax was neerly come and the next morning to seek him out and to give him battel This happened to be at Naseby field on Saturday Iune the 14. where at the first encounter the Kings Army had the best on 't his right wing of horse discomfiting and overthrowing the left wing of the Parliaments under Skippon taking Ireton the Commissary General prisoner but the left wing consisting of Northern horse under Sir Marmaduke Langdale who were clearly for the Kings going Northward● to their own Country to relieve Pomfret Castle made no defence at all The King was very couragious and active in this field but the same over-eagerness of Prince Rupert half lost the day the foot being destitute after some slaughter threw down their A●ms and were taken prisoners to the number of four or five thousand the Kings Coach and in it his Cabinet afterwards most disloyally and dishonestly published to the world with other Letters and papers all his Artillery Arms Ammunition bag and baggage taken himself hardly escaping to Leicester that night and from thence to Ashby de la Zouch After this battel the Kings Cause and Arms visibly declined every where Leicester regained by the Parliament upon surrender while the King made hast towards Wales to the relief of Chester and there to form a new Army but Poyntz Middleton and Brereton rising from their siege met him at Rowton Heath where in the beginning as usual the King had the better but the Parliament being supplyed with fresh forces the King was vanquished there also and the right valiant Lord Bernard Stuart Earl of

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

therefore cruelty must a plot against the Protectors life by one Colonel Iohn Gerrard Mr. Fox Mr. Vowel and others who not being chargeable by the Laws for any such attempts were brought before a High Court of Justice and Colonel Gerrard and Mr. Vowel condemned and severally executed with Gerrard was executed Don Pontaleon the Portugal Ambassadors Brother who had made a Riot in the New-Exchange and slain a Gentleman to whose rescue this Noble Gerrard very bravely ventured and yet their fate was one General Middleton lands in Scotland with some supplyes from the King whereupon Glencarn and Seasort joyn with him and put a new face upon the Kings business there but in conclusion all came to nothing the Earl of Middleton being defeated at Longherry who had marched through all the Highlands after him and there overtook and worsted him Middleton himself escaping and the Earl of Glencarn and the Lords of the Royal Party coming in upon conditions till all was quieted in that Kingdome Anno Domini 1654. King Charles the Second about this time departed the Kingdome of France upon intimation of a Treaty then on foot betwixt that Crown and the Protector whom soon followed his Brother the Duke of York and the Duke of Glocester being tempted to turn Papist was fought out of the Jesuites Colledg by the Marquess of Ormond according to the command of the King his Brother Now according to the Instrument of Government Cromwel called his first Triennial Parliament which had sit but just five lunary moneths spent in debating the aforesaid Instrument and Cromwells Authority when Cromwell came sent for the House to the Painted Chamber and dissolved it with a very ted●ous and deceitful speech Now another plot after this dissolution of the Parliament which ended with much publick discontent and therefore was thought a very fit juncture for such a business was found out and discovered from abroad by one Manning one of the Secretaries to the King then at Colen The first eruption of this general design was at Salisbury on the sixteenth of March of some three hundred men under the command of Sir Ioseph Wagstaff in chief and Colonel Penruddo●k and Gr●ves consisting altogether o● men of quality and condition These proceeded Westward where at Blandford they proclaimed the King but Oliver knowing the plot before hand had sent some horse that way who forthwith pursued them they bending towards Devonshire where at Southmolton they were surprized in their quarters Wagstaff escaped but Penruddock and Groves though after quarter promised by Colonel Vnton Crook who took them with some twenty more were beheaded and executed 〈◊〉 several places Another party at the same time surprized the Town of Shrewsbury and endeavoured to take the Castle but were discovered and so failed of their enterprise The like rising also in Montgomerysh●re in Sherwood Forrest in Nottingham●hire and in Yorkshire and Northumberland so that though it was laid generally through the Nation yet by the treachery of that Manning the design was fr●strated which soon brought after it a trick called Decimation of the Cavaliers Estates for their old and this new so termed Delinquency The Protector had feared himself as he thought pretty fast in his new Usurpation he had concluded a League with the Dutch and Whitlock had made another for him with the Swede and now the French had also entred into the like Confederation prevening the Sp●n●ard the first design whereof proved to be an attempt upon the King of Spains West-Indies advised by Cardinal Mazarine and vigorously put in execution by the Protector for on the nineteenth of December a well-appointed Fleet set sail from Portsmouth to the Barbadoes where and not before the General had order to open their Commissions Venables for the Land and Pen for the Sea forces no body certainly knowing their design an occasion of much mischief afterwards to the expedition neither Commanders nor Souldiers being sufficiently provided for so long a service with necessaries On the 29th of Ianuary the whole Fleet except the Charity where the horses and other provisions were put aboard arrived at Anchor in Carlisle Bay at the Barbadoes and landed their men where having made up the three thousand they brought with them from England to the number of eight thousand with Planters from the adjacent Isles the 31 of March they set sail from the Barbadoes and six daies after at S. Christophers took in thirteen hundred men more Voluntiers and from thence on the thirteenth of April arrived at S. Domingo Here a Councel of War was called and it was determined that Gen Venables should land with seven thousand men and three daies provision ten or twelve leagues Westward to the Town the Army being ve●y joyf●l and expecting nothing less then heaps of gold accordingly they landed but then a Proclamation was made that no man should touch or plunder to his own use any plate money c. which so deaded their hearts that what with that and the incommodiousness and thirst they suffered in that hot passage being forced to drink their own Urine they were so disheartned and dismayed that at the very first encounter of the Enemy their courage failed them and an inconsiderable Enemy made great execution on them Anno Domini 1655. This first succesless combat struck a panick fear through the whole Army so that they began to grow afraid of the rustling of the leafs of those thick woods they wandred in but at last up they came to a Fort neer S. Domingo where having made ready their Mortar Guns to play upon it orders were given for the dismounting and hiding of them and the next day with all hast the Army reimbarqued again having neither provision nor any thing else fit for their long return to Windward for Barbadnes and therefore it was resolved that they should steer directly before the wind to Iamaica where they arrived on the eighteenth of May and meeting no opposition landed and possest themselves of the chiefest Town whereupon ensued a Treaty betwixt the Spanish Governour and the General which spun out time till the Inhabitants had conveyed away their best goods and cattel and soon after this worthy adventure the two Generals returned into England and for shew-sake were clapt up in the Tower by the Protector and presently again released But great was the mortality of this expedition scarce one in four surviving and the same misery befell them that were afterwards sent thither being two thousand stout old Souldiers under the several commands of Colonel Humphreys and Lievtenant Colonel Brayn who was sent last to command in chief in that new-gained Island But what honour was lost here was something compensated by the valour of General Blake who at the same time that this Fleet went for the West-Indies was sent with another into the Straits to repress the violence of the Pyrates of Algiers who had so infested those Seas that commerce was not free for any Nation Therefore having