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A31597	The present vvarre parallel'd, or, A briefe relation of the five yeares civil warres of Henry the Third, King of England with the event and issue of that unnaturall warre, and by what course the kingdome was then setled againe / extracted out of the most authenticke historians and records.	Chamberlayne, Edward, 1616-1703.	1647 (1647)	Wing C1846; ESTC R36298	18,912	26

was agreed upon by the King and his adherents and the five Members and their adherents that the difference should be referred to the French Kings arbitrement * The King of France upon the day of hearing gave sentence that the said Ordinance whereby the King was deprived of his regall power should be made null The five Members and their complices seeing this notwithstanding they had bound themselves by oath to stand to his award flew off and resolving to have their owne wills drew into arms made choice of the Earl of Leicester for their Generall and for their own private interest pretending the publick good drew the greatest part of the Kingdome after them * so easie it is to draw the fickle multitude to the wrong side crying every where at first Liberty and Religion though towards the end of the war not a word of either By their faire pretences they gained so far upon the Londoners that they generally enter into a Covenant to assist the Earle For which purpose besides a new Major or Bailiffe they chose two Commanders Thomas Pywelsden and Stephen Buckerell at whose command by the tolling of St. Pauls great bell they were to be in Armes upon any occasion Their first exploit was a march to Isleworth in a tumultuous manner where they plundered and fired the Kings brothers Mannour-house The Earls Army by this time on their march plundered all that were dis-affected to their cause and proceedings and imprisoned them * Especially those that stood any way affected to the Queen for they all but most of all the Londoners were most maliciously bent against her insomuch that as she was passing the Thames neer the Bridge a rude rabble of the City got together on the Bridge and with confused yellings cryed Drown the witch c. and by throwing dirt and stones at her drave her back which impious affront was punctually remembred in the first fight as you shall hear anon * Besides this main army under the Earle of Leicester they had another army under the command of the Lord Ferrers of whom descended the late Lord of Essex who behaved himselfe insolently towards the King in destroying his Parks as he marcht c. which in the conclusion cost him dear yet to delude the people the main Army bore before them the Kings Arms And to shew they were for the King when they had displaced the old Governours of the Kings Castles and Forts and placed in such as they could confide in they gave them an Oath to be true to the King and to keep those holds to the use and benefit of the King and State yet when the King demanded entrance at one of his Forts wherein they had placed a Governour he was kept out At Sea the Barons of the Cinque-ports seized the Kings Ships took great Prizes but they that sate at Stern upon Land shared in those Prizes as the fame then went By this time the King began to rouze himself and finding nothing now left him but a good Cause and the hearts of his wiser Subjects yet by that and these and the assistance of his Brother Richard King of the Romans in a short space he had raised a considerable Army A King can never be so down but he will rise againe with these he march't and like a snow-ball encreased by motion plundering the Rebels lands as he went to Northampton which was fortified against him by some of the cheifest of the Rebels yet by a furious assault he soon gained it Thence continuing his march into Sussex neer Lewes he received a Message from the Earle the tenour whereof was That as for his Majesty they intended no harm against him but only desired that he would remove his evill Counsellors that did advise his Majesty against them against the honour of the King and welfare of the Kingdom The King in his Answer charges them with Rebellion and disloyalty and commands them to lay down their armes and to return to their obedience that they might be received to mercie but the Earle rejecting the offer when Subjects have once broken their fealty and trust to their Soveraign they never dare trust their Soveraign againe resolves to give the King battell Neer Lewes both armies meet One wing of the Earls Army was made up of London Troops which the Prince being then Generall of the Kings horse observing and remembring not without indignation the abuse offered by the Londoners to the Queen his Mother he clapt spurs to his horse and all his Cavalrie after him crying Here here my brave Cavaliers are the main contrivers of all rebellions and mischief Now now if ever charge home and so fell on with that fury that they presently flie the Prince in an eager and hot pursuit does great execution upon them for four miles But this prosperous beginning of the fight on the Kings side was the utter overthrow of the Kings forces for when the Earle perceived that the Prince a young fiery spirit with all the Kings horse was gone so far in pursuit of the Londoners he fell violently on the Kings foot and soon routed them took the King his horse being slain under him prisoner The Prince at length retreating when he saw all lost surrendered himselfe There were taken in this fight besides those royall prisoners the King the Prince the Kings brother and his eldest Sonne above twenty Noblemen that were for the King and slaine about * 3400. The Earle having thus gotten a compleat victory forthwith endeavours to seize all the Militia and power of the Kingdom for which end he carries the King about with him to countenance his actions but the rest of the royall Prisoners he disposes in severall garrisons And now the Earle beleeves all his own and the people dream of nothing but Peace but alas the warre was not begun till now For when the torne remainder of the Loyal army that escaped at L●wes now keeping garrison in Bristow and other noble spirits saw how insolently the Earle dealt with his and their Soveraign in barring him of his liberty c. They soon raised a considerable power under the command of Roger Mortimer Earle of March unto whom many flockt out of Shropshire Cheshire Herefordshire and Worcester that were well affected to the King Moreover the Queen who was a French woman got over beyond sea to trie her friends for their assistance to restore her Husband to his former libertie and authoritie Quod ad laudem magnificentiam Aelionora Anglorum Reginae libet intexere saith one of that Age quod Domino suo Edvardo filio tam strenuè tam virilitèr tanquam virago potentissima succurrendis fortitèr insudaverit But before these forces were well united the Rebels forces were as well divided for debate arising as is usuall in all confederations where all parties must be pleased or else the knot will dissolve between his Excellency the

liberty to redeeme their lands by fines in manner following 1. That those that were in the fight at Chesterfield against our Soveraigne Lord the King Item All those that by force of Armes impiously kept Northampton against the King Item Those that gave the King battell at Lewes Item Those that were taken prisoners at Kenelworth Item Those that came to pillage Winchester or were elsewhere against the King whom the King hath not pardoned Item Those that gave the King battell at Evesham Item All those that freely and voluntarily and without any compulsion have contributed to the Warre against the King or Prince Item The Officers and servants of the Earle of Leicester that pillaged their neighbours or were the cause of any murders firings or other enormities that all these be fined five yeares revenues of all their Estates respectively and that if they pay downe their Fines presently they may enjoy their Lands presently but if the Land must be sold for the payment of the Fine he on whom the King bestowed it shall have the refusall if he will give as much as any other And if the originall owner will pay down the whole Fine he shall have the whole Land and likewise if he will pay the moity or third part he shall have the moity or thirds of the Land And if at the end and terme appointed the owner doth not pay for the other moity it shall be clearely theirs on whom the King was pleased to bestow it And assoone as any one hath paid down his whole Fine such shal have liberty to let or set or sell his land within the prefixed time Those that have woods and would willingly make sale of them for the payment of their Fines He on whom the King bestowed and the originall owner shall have each one his Bailiffe to see it sold and those two Bailiffes shall as fast as the money is made pay it to whom the Fine was given by our Soveraigne Lord the King this payment must be made within three yeares at the farthest All Officers and Reformadoes that were knowne to be common plunderers and made it their businesse to plunder if such have no lands but onely goods they shall be fined one moity of all their goods and shall find sufficient sureties that they shall keep the peace of our Soveraigne Lord the King for the time to come They that have nothing shall be sworne upon the holy Gospel and finde sufficient sureties that they will keep the Kings peace for the time forward and shall make such satisfaction and doe such penance as the holy Church shall censure excepting only banished persons who are wholly left to the will and pleasure of the King 2. Moreover as for Wards or young Heires that were in actuall Rebellion against the King during their minoritie their Guardians shall pay their Fines and the said Wards when they come to age shall pay back the same to their Guardians within two or three yeeres so that the Guardians shall have the Wardship and their marriages without disparagement even till they be come to full age and all Wards shall pay their fines after the same manner as those of full age Onely the Kings owne Wards shall be in the hands of those to whom the King shall give them untill they come to yeares and then they shall pay downe their Fines according to the same manner as those of full yeares Provided alwaies that there be no waste made by the Guardians upon their estates If their be then the Guardians to be punished according to Law 3 If any that were for the King before and since the battell at Lewes be now fined for not assisting the Prince when he was raysing forces to rescue his Father we leave him to the King to be censured or pardoned as he shall thinke fit 4. That there be no sale or waste made of any woods by those on whom they were bestowed unlesse the Fine be not pay'd within the time limited Onely it is allowed that they shall cut so much wood as is necessary to keep the houses in reparations and if they shall exceed this allowance to be severely punished 5. If any be thought to be dangerous persons and that they are like to move sedition and to revive the wars let the King secure their persons as he shall thinke fit either by sending them into forreine parts for a time or what other way shall be thought expedient provided alwaies that if they be thereby hindred from paying their Fines they shall not forfet their estates 6. That if any will not submit to this Ordinance he be left to be censured at the Kings-bench-bar before the feast of St. Hillary next comming All those that live in forreine parts shall find sureties according to the Lawes and customes of those States to live peaceably otherwise that they shall not be received in a peaceable manner 7. Whereas the Kings Majestie is ingaged to many that served him in his wars and faithfully stuck to him whom he hath not yet sufficiently rewarded and some have been rewarded above their deserts we desire that the King take speciall care that out of Delinquents estates they may be all rewarded to the full lest otherwise a new warre should be occasioned 8. That the Kings Majestie be graciously pleased to make choise of twelve able men that may be authorized to see this punctually and faithfully performed and that the Kings Majestie his Heires or Successors take care that it be all firmly observed and maintained and to enquire into and regulate and see duely executed what shall be by the said twelve men ordered according to reason and equity 9. That all Farmers and Renters of Lands that were against the King shall lose their Farmes for all the terme or time of their leases that are to come provided that the Landlords be no way endamaged and when the terme of their Leases are out then to returne to the Landlords againe 10. As for Castles and Forts built by the Kings grant and allowance upon any Delinquents ground contrary to the will of the said delinquent We decree that after the owner of that land hath paid his fine which must bee within three yeares for six yeares more the owner of that Land shall pay such custome as was imposed by the King or else accept of a reasonable exchange for the said Land 11. All Lay-men who notoriously advanced the Earles designes and assisted him or his adherents Attrahendo homines per mendacia falsitates parti Comitis suorum detrahendo parti Regis filii sui by drawing people through lies and falsities either to the Earle and his partie or from the King and his partie it is ordained that they be fined as much as two yeares revenewes of all their estates 12. That all such as were pressed or out of feare went to the Wars but never fought against the King or did any mischiefe also those that being not able to

a single Combate Gurdon accepts it and performed it so gallantly that the Prince assured him of his life and estate if he would submit which he did and was received into great favour with the Prince but divers of his men were there executed But now the Isle of Ely was strongly fortified by a great multitude got together that refused to submit to the Ordinance of Kenelworth Upon the naturall strength of this Isle and the plenty of all provision therein seditious Rebels have often presumed and from hence have molested more Kings then one as they did now the neighbouring Counties robbing and pillaging Norfolk Suffolk and Cambridgeshire plundering the City of Norwich and carrying away the richest Citizens made them redeem themselves at length a message was sent unto them requiring them to submit to the Ordinance of Killingworth to leave off robbing their fellow subjects and to return to their alleigeance Hereto they return this insolent answer that they had taken up arms to defend the good of Church and State and therefore ought to be restored to their lands without paying any fine In briefe they require hostages into the Island and that they might hold it five yeers peaceably till they saw how the King would performe his promises perfidious subjects ever suspect their Princes fidelity which high insolency of theirs unheard of till our times so exasperates the King that he resolves to try the utmost to reduce them to their obedience for that purpose marches with a mighty Armie against them the Prince also joyns with a considerable power after many assaults at length after they had held it above two yeers by the helpe of new made bridges and boates they stormed it on every side that they were forced to yeeld And now men thought that the fire was quite out But there were yet some live embers which the Earle of Glocester upon some distaste blowing suddainly flamed out again in London where the Commons of the City forgetting their late punishment and as men saith mine author without dread of God or the King drew up in Arms again flock't to the Earle of Glocester plundered the well-affected to the King sequestred their estates brake the Prisons chose a new Mayor and Sheriffes made Bulwarks and Barbicans and forfeited the City wonderously and were so confident of their strength and cause that they durst bid the King battell appointing Hou●sloe-heath for the field The King by a speedy march came to the place at the time appointed but they instead of meeting his Majesty ran about the Citie in a tumultuous manner Some to Westminster and there plundered the Kings Pallace fenestras ostia fregerunt saith Mat. Westm. vix manus à combustion● totius Palatii cohibentes brake the doores and windows hardly forbearing to set it all on fire Then the King removed his campe to the other side of the City and had his head-quarters at Straisord three miles off the Citie the rest of his Army lay at Ham a village hard by The wiser Citizens foreseeing the danger that hung over them desired a treaty with the King wherunto though they were most unworthy of so much clemency His Majesty was graciously pleased to condescend and upon these easie termes they were vain received to mercy Imprimis Salvo in omnibus aicto Killingworthi that the ordinance of Killingworth should be observed in all points then that the fortifications should be razed and the trenches filled up lastly that 1000. Marks dammages should be paid down to the Kings brother for his Mannour of Isleworth fi●●d by them long before Also his Majesty for some yeares following cho●● the Mayor and Sheriffes himselfe but toward the latter end of his Reign being fully reconciled he restored them their often forfeited * Priviledges Thus after the Almighty whose judgements are unsearchable had suffered crafty seditious spirits to seduce a whole Nation to trample upon his Anointed and to tread his Honour in the very dust for a time yet at length all his enemies are clothed with shame and upon himselfe his Crown flourisheth again And now after this furious dreadfull Tempest after so many storms and showers of blood began a joyful long-expected Calm which that they might enjoy without any intervening of more stormes and for the better setling and quieting the Kingdome the King gives expresse command for the razing of divers in-land Castles as Farnham c. That so if another Rebellion should be begotten it might no where find a Nurse and then it could not be long lived Also for the more quiet and secure travelling of his Subjects he appoints a Captain in every County who with a Troop of Horse should alwaies assist the Sheriffe for the taking and punishing all stragling reliques of the late Armies and high-way robbers wherwith the Kingdome did abound at that time no place free from them In some places also Ruricolae saith Rishanger the Countrey people would generally rise against them as against Wolves or Beares and at one time they took and kill'd fifty of them that were got together neer St. Albans in Hartfordshire Besides the King Proclamari fecit contra pacem regni disturbantes set forth a Proclamation against all such as should any way disturbe the quiet of the Realm by plundering or stealing c. And that if any man should presume to steal but a Cow or a Sheep vel aliquid aliud saith mine Author he should surely be put to death These were the petty devises of that Age to pump and draine the huge sinke of the Kingdom but the Staple Policie was by a Forraign expedition like a wide ●uce to let out all the filth at once for which purpose therefore among others it was resolved upon that a great Army should be raised under the Command of the Prince for a voyage to Palestine And by this course especially did his Majesty soon spend the insolencies of his owne and the Rebels Souldiers made Lawlesse by the late unavoidable Liberty of Civill Armes And here was an end of this wasting groundlesse unnaturall War wherin the Subject having struggled and wrestled with Soveraigntie till they had wasted the Kingdom and wearied themselves at last are content to sit downe by the losse to let the King have his own Rights again and some of theirs according to the usuall event and issue of such imbroylements A Postscript OUt of this briefe Narration may be extracted somewhat for KING and Commons For the KING First for preventing Seditions and Rebellions then for setling a Kingdome after the Rebellion supprest For the first That he beware how hee entrust the Government of His Kingdome to others How he suffer His Favourites and great Officers of State to suck him into necessities and inthrall Him by indigency and be thereby drawne by extraordinary illegall Impositions and Taxes to vexe and alienate the hearts and affections of His Subjects and then as he must be constrained to flie to them for reliefe and