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Titus Britannicus an essay of history royal, in the life & reign of His late Sacred Majesty, Charles II, of ever blessed and immortal memory / by Aurelian Cook, Gent.
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Cook, Aurelian.
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1685
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Wing C5996; ESTC R20851
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as well as good and gracious King which the whole series of his Reign discovered him to be About this time by Order not Creation he was first called Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwal and Earl of Chester the Revenues belonging to each of them being assigned him for the maintenance of his Court the several Offices whereof were pitcht upon and appointed by the King his Father who taking great delight to see his Children about him ordered the Prince to attend him in several of his Progresses and particularly in that to Oxford where they were entertained with the acting of the Royal Slave which prov'd too prophetick of both their approaching Calamities During his abode there his Discourse with several Learned Doctors was so extraordinary and above the common capacity of his years that it administred matter of amazement and wonder to the whole University In the Parliament which was called soon after he took his place among the Peers who were now his equals but were hereafter to become his Subjects and there he first tryed how a Coronet would fit his Royal Head before the death of his Father called him to wear the Imperial Crown and about this time he was with great Solemnity installed Knight of the Garter together with divers of the Nobility who were his Attendance and received the same Honour with him But after all this a sad misfortune dampt the publick Joy and threatned the untimely setting of our Rising Sun for in the year 39 he first brake his Arm and was afterward afflicted with a Violent Fever and a small spice of the Jaundice but it was not long before those Clouds of fear were dissipated by the perfect recovery of his health Some unhappy misunderstandings beginning now to grow between his Father and the Parliament who knowing a King would do no wrong himself resolved to call some of his Council to an account for pretended miscarriages among whom the most Eminent was the Earl of Strafford who first led the way being by no known Law as that Judicious King who was present at the Tryal declared attainted of Treason and the King prevailed upon by the Importunity of his People and a Letter from the Earl himself who rather chose to be made a Sacrifice than to hazard his Majesties Affairs to sign a Warrant for his Execution But the King 's tender Conscience being extreamly checkt and troubled for that unwilling consent presently sent a Letter to the Peers which was written with his own Hand to desire them to forbear or at least delay the Execution of his Sentence and that it might be the more prevalent with them he sent it by the Prince which was the first Publick Business we find him imployed in which being a work of Mercy proved so good an Omen of his own Inclination that it afterward became so predominant in him as even to rejoyce over his exactest Justice although he could not then prevail on the behalf of that unfortunate Earl And not long after we find him engaged in another Publick Business being one of the Chief Assistants in the performing the Solemnities of his Sisters Marriage with the Prince of Orange The fatal Breach between the King and Parliament growing still wider and hastening to an unnatural Rupture he resolved notwithstanding many of his Nobles and Faithful Servants proffered their Service to curb any Insolencies that should be attempted on him to remove himself some time from London hoping that thereby their Jealousies and Rumours would wast and perish and therefore commanded the Prince together with his Queen and some of his Servants to attend him at Greenwich and from thence to Hampton-Court whither some Commissioners being sent to him for a Pacification they made their first Application to the Prince as the most proper Mediator between the King and his two Houses of Parliament So early was it that he began to tread in the steps and labour to imitate his Grandfather in becoming a Peace-maker which not succeeding according to expectation he accompanied his Father together with the present King to Theobalds leaving the Rebels to fret themselves at their escape and from thence into the North where he beheld a black Cloud begin to gather which though small in appearance yet was big with that dismal Storm that in a short time spread it self over his Father himself and three Nations For the King repairing to Hull to take a view of that Magazine which his Treasure had purchased and his Crown claimed as one of its Jura Regalia the Magistrate thereof bearing a Sword by a Power only derived from him without which Majesty it self is but a Solemn Trifle and Authority but a gilded Pageantry He was by Sir John Hotham who was sent thither by the Parliament denied Entrance and forced to wait with the Prince and the Duke of York at the Gate of that Garrison and could at last prevail for nothing more but only his two Sons being admitted as Children to see the Town which when they had done they accompanied their Father to York whom they now beheld deprived of that which Gr. Tholosanus calls the chiefest Flower in a Prince's Diadem and disarmed of that Majesty which of right belonged to him where the Prince was by his Father made a Captain of a choice Guard of Loyal Nobles and Gentlemen who there repaired to him For such was the Indulgent Care he had of his Subjects that he resolved they should hazard themselves no farther in the defence of his Person than he would hazard himself for the defence of their Laws Liberties and that his Eldest Son who was to succeed him in his Crown Dignity should accompany them in all those Dangers to which they should expose themselves In which Quality he attended his Father through the several Stages he past as a Partner with him in his Troubles the greatest whereof was as himself declares in his incomparable 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his unhappy involving his Innocent Off-spring in those Troubles that deserved to have been born to better Fortune At Edghill Fight notwithstanding the tenderness of his years he gave such proof of his Valour and Courage and was so little terrified with the horrid noise of Guns Drums and Trumpets the prancing of Horses and the clashing of Swords to which he had till then never been used that the Earl of Lindsey who observed it said to those about him There is a Child born to end that War we now begin But the Battel being lost he returned to his Father at Oxford where he was committed to the Care of his Kinsman the Marquess of Hartford then Chancellor of that University who provided him several Tutors in each Language Art and Science wherein it concerned him as a Prince to be acquainted and he applied himself to his Studies with as much pain and seriousness as the severest Gown-man in the place his great Soul entertaining nothing but deep thoughts profound Maxims and Intricate Mysteries and he would severely
should be at which time looking out at the Closet Window he saw two Soldiers passing by on the Road telling Huddleston that he knew one of them to be a Highlander and of his own Regiment who little imagined his King and Colonel to be so near and thereupon entred into some discourse with him about the particulars of the Battel at Worcester who told him that his Counsels had been sooner discovered to the Rebels than executed by his Loyal Subjects On Wednesday about one in the morning Lane himself brought the Horses to conduct him to Wilmot who went the day before to Lanes House at Bently At his departure from Whitgrave's he acknowledged his gratuity by returning them many thanks giving them directions to repair to a Merchant in London who should have order to furnish them with Mony and means to convey them beyond the Sea if their entertaining of him should happen to be discovered promising moreover that if ever God should restore him to his Crown he would not be unmindful of their civilities And so being furnish'd with a Cloak and Boots he went to a corner of the Orchard where Lane attended him and went with him to Bently where according to his intention he took the opportunity of her Pass and rode before her to Bristol the Lord Lord Wilmot attending him at a distance The King being somewhat indisposed in body complained to Mistris Lane that his Cloak wearied him whereupon she desired her Father who likewise rode with them to carry it for him but she had not rode far before she met her brother-in-Brother-in-law who demanded if her Father must carry her man's Cloak she replied to wipe off all suspicion that it was so big that it often endangered the throwing her down or otherwise she would not have been so uncivil And no sooner was they rid of this danger but they met with one far greater for being to pass through a Town where a Troop of Horse was drawn up as if on purpose to oppose their passage he began to fear the worst but the Captain was very civil and taking them for honest Travellers as indeed they were commanded his Troop to open to the Right and Left and give them free and quiet passage To intermix so many Tragical stories with a little mirth I cannot pass by an accident which happened to him at Leigh which although surrounded with so many misfortunes made him laugh at the conceit of it For being left there in the Kitchin under the notion of a Serving-man the Maid entred into discourse with him inquiring where he was born what trade he was how long he had lived with Mistris Lane and several such Question suitable to a Kitchin Maids curiosity to which he replied he was born at Brumingham and was a Nâ—ylors Son But the Jack being down she desired him to wind it up which task he willingly undertook but being unskilful therein went the wrong way about it and was like to have spoiled the Jack whereupon the Maid highly incensed it being usual with Cooks to be of cholerick dispositions vented her passion in Billingsgate terms asking him Where he was bred and telling him he was the most ignorant fellow she ever saw in her life that could not tell how to wind up a Jack with other such kind of Language as came uppermost which being uttered with much vehemence made him notwithstanding his present condition walk out of the Room smiling This Gentleman having great resort to his House he feared it might occasion a discovery of his Person he seigned himself sick of an Ague and under that pretence kept his Chamber all day and came down only at nights and that his Disease might appear real he desired of the Butler a Glass of Wine who courteously invited him into the Cellar and there forced him to drink two or three Healths one to his Majesty and another to his Mother But at length by something he observed in him notwithstanding his Disguise he suspected him to be the King and thereupon falling on his knees begged his Pardon and assured him he would be faithful to him in whatsoever he should command him of which he took little or no notice but having drunk off his Wine went away Whereupon the Butler's suspicion increasing he went up and inquired of M. Lassel who though angry at the Butler's inquisitiveness yet he demanded the reason of it and the Butler whispering him in the ear told him he believed it was the King upon which unexpected accident he sent for him up and acquainted him with the Butlers suspicion who though he was displeased with his not having acquainted him first with it yet putting confidence in him denied it not and afterward found him very instrumental in his conveyance through the Country Being desirous to free himself from all dangers of discovery he was desirous to hasten his putting out to Sea but though there lay a little Bark there deemed very fit for that purpose yet the Master would for no reward be prevailed upon to transport a single Person whereupon unwilling to tempt Providence too far he resolved to go farther West to a Noble Gentlemans House whom he knew to be a trusty friend being accompanied thither by Mr. Lassell and Mrs. Lane where he was concealed for about a week and at last preparation was made for his passage But coming to the place where it was provided he chanced to dine with a Colonel of the Parliament Army whereupon fearing that his embarking singly might raise some suspicion in him he rather chose to lose the benefit of his passage than after so many Storms and Tempests to split upon a Rock within sight of Harbour and therefore returned to the place from whence he came from whence after about three weeks longer concealment he was conveyed through by-ways to a Gentlemans House in Sussex where having continued some few days and the heat of the search after him being now pretty well over he was at last furnish'd with a small Vessel which took him in at Sharrem a little Creek in that County and Landed him near Havre-de-grace in Normandy When the Skipper saw him he was a little daunted for he presently knew him having seen him divers times before but having somewhat collected himself he said since he had undertaken so good a work he was resolved to venture hanging rather than not perform it to which the King replied he need not put himself upon that hazard for if he pleased he should go along with him where he should not want as long as he was able to provide for him Hamilton Darby Lauderdale Gifford and the rest having thus disposed of the King in a way of security march'd from White-Ladies Northward by the way of Newport in hope to overtake or meet General Lesley with the main Body of the Scotch Horse but assoon as they were got into the Road the Lord Leviston who commanded his Majesties Life-Guard overtook them being pursued by a Party of