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A74878	A brief review of the most material Parliamentary proceedings of this present Parliament, and their armies, in their civil and martial affairs. Which Parliament began the third of November, 1640. And the remarkable transactions are continued untill the Act of Oblivion, February 24. 1652. Published as a breviary, leading all along successiviely, as they fell out in their severall years: so that if any man will be informed of any remarkable passage, he may turne to the year, and so see in some measure, in what moneth thereof it was accomplished. And for information of such as are altogether ignorant of the rise and progresse of these times, which things are brought to passe, that former ages have not heard of, and after ages will admire. A work worthy to be kept in record, and communicated to posterity.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.; Hamilton, James Hamilton, Duke of, 1606-1649. Several speeches of Duke Hamilton Earl of Cambridg, Henry Earl of Holland, and Arthur Lord Capel, upon the scaffold immediately before their execution, on Friday the 9. of March.	1652 (1652)	Wing V294A; Thomason E693_2; ESTC R206997	57,270	63

The Scottish King came hither on Munday the last of October new style and being demanded by his Mother and the Duke of Orleans how he escaped the Fight of Worcester gave them this account That about six a clock in the evening his Army being in all likelihood beaten he quitted Worcester Towne with a party of Horse and marched toward Lancashire but being fearfull of being pursued and likewise of some of the Scotish Officers that might deliver him up he with my Lord Wilmot quitted their Horses sent the party of Horse upon their march and betook themselves the second dayes march from Worcester into a Tree where they remained untill night and then marched on foot that night the third day they took sanctuary in a wood and night approaching marched on towards Lancashire where they were received by a Lady who furnished them with Cloaths for a Disguise and cut off their haire very short Having reposed two or three dayes the Lady resolved to endeavour to ship them out of England to which purpose she riding behind the King and Wilmot as another servant by they went to Bristoll but finding a narrow and hot inquiry there resolved to go for London where they stayed three weeks The King one day went into Westminster-Hall where he saith he saw the States-Arms and Scots Colours my Lord Wilmot procured a Merchant to hire a ship of forty Tuns to transport them which cost them a hundred and twenty pounds but where they took shipping is not yet knowne but as soon as my Lord was entred the Barque and the King as his servant the Master of the Vessel came to my Lord and told him That he knew the King and told him that in case it should be knowne he could expect no mercy which saying troubled them but at length what with money and promises they prevailed and so set faile for Havre de Grace where they landed and from thence to Roven where they cloathed themselves and writ to Paris His arrivall there will put them to new Counsels since now they cannot send their Embassadors which was concluded on before his coming The Duke of Orleans fetched him into Towne and expressed much as to serve him Yesterday he with Thurenne Beaufort the Duke of Guise came to him to the Louvre where the King told them that they should endeavour to reconcile the breach between the Prince and the King of France for said he to my knowledge the English will visit you with an Army in the Spring The Executing of the Earl of Darby at Bolton in Lancashire Octob. 15. 1651. The Isle of Jersey taken Octob. 30. Nov. 16. The Isle of Man taken Resol. That the time for the continuance of this Parliament beyond which they resolve not to sit shall be Nov. 3. 1654. The Parliament of the Common-wealth of England Declare 1 THat no Power Jurisdictions or Authority derived from by or under Charles Stewart who pretended himselfe King of Scotland or any of his Predecessors or any otherwise then from the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England be used exercised or enjoyned within Scotland or the Isles or any of their Territories thereof 2 That they doe forbid annull and make void the use and exercise of any Power Jurisdiction and Authority whatsoever within Scotland or the Isles or any of the Territories thereof other then such as shall be derived from the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England February 24. 1651. An Act of generall Pardon and Oblivion THe Parliament of England having had good experience of the affections of the people to this present Government by their ready assistance in the defence thereof against Charls Stuart Son of the late Tyrant and the forces lately Invading this Nation under his command and being much afflicted with the miserable and sad effects which the late unnaturall War hath produced and resolved next to the glory of God and the advancement of the Kingdome of Jesus Christ to make no other use of the many victories the Lord hath in mercy vouchsafed unto them then a just settling of the peace and freedome of this Common-wealth and being most desirous that the minds persons and estates of all the people of this Nation might be composed setled and secured and that all rancor and evill will occasioned by the late differences may be buryed in perpetuall Oblivion Be it enacted by this present Parliament and by authority of the same That all and every person or persons of or within the Common-wealth of England the Isles of Jersey and Gernsey and the Towne of Barwick upon Tweed and the heires executors and administrators of them and every of them and all and singular bodies in any manner incorporated Cities Burroughs Shires Ridings Hundreds Lathes Rapes Wapentakes Townes Villages Hamblets and Tithings and every of them are and shall be and are by the Authority of this Parliament acquitted Pardoned released and discharged as against the Parliament the keepers of the liberties of England by Authority of Parliament or any or other of them of all manner of Treasons Fellonies Offences Contempts Trespasses Entries Misdemeanors Forfeitures Sequestrations Penalties and sums of moneys pains of Death pains corporall or pecuniary and generally of all other things causes quarrels fines judgements and executions had made committed suffered or done before the third day of September 1651. not in this present Act hereafter not excepted nor foreprized And the said Keepers of the Liberties of England by the Authority of this present Parliament granteth and freely giveth acquitteth pardoneth releaseth and dischargeth to every of the persons and to every of the said Bodies corporate and others before rehearsed and to every of them all goods debts chattels fines issues profits Amercements forfeitures which to the said keepers of the liberties of England do or shal belong or appertain by reason of any offence contempt trespasse entery misdeameanors matter cause sequestration or quarrell had suffered done or committed by them or any of them before the said third day of September and which be not hereafter in this Act foreprized and excepted And it is further Enacted that this pardon by these generall words clauses and sentences before rehearsed shall be reputed deemed adjudged expounded allowed and taken in manner of Courts of Justice or else-where most beneficiall and available to all and singular the persons bodies corporate and others before rehearsed and to every of them And if any person or persons c. shall be in any wise arrested attached distrained summoned or otherwise vexed c. for or because any thing acquitted pardoned released or discharged by vertue of this Act that every person so offending and being thereof lawfully convicted by sufficient Testimony shall yeeld and pay for recompence to the party so grieved or offended thereby his or their treble dammages and forfeit ten pounds to the keepers of the Liberties of England Excepted and always foreprized out of this general free pardon all and all manner of High-treasons other then for words only and all Levying of war rebellions insurrections and all Conspiracies and Confederacies Traiterously had committed and done against the Parliament or the keepers of the Liberties of England either within or without the limits of this Common-wealth since the thirtieth day of January in the year of our Lord 1648. And all misprisions and concealements of the said offences or any of them or the abettimg ayding procuring of them or any of them And also excepted all manner of voluntary murthers petty treasons and wilfull poysoning all piracies and robberies upon the Seas and the Abettors thereof All buggeries rapes and ravishments and wilfull taking away and marrying of any maid widow or daughter against her will And also except all persons now attainted or outlawed of or for petty treason Murther or wilfull poysoning conjurations witchcrafts charmes wrongfull detainments of any the customes and all Sequestrations and sums of money due upon compositions excise or new-impost And also excepted all conditions and covenants and all penalties and forfeitures due to the Parliament or the late King since the 30. of January 1648. And also all first fruits and tythes and all offences and misdemeanours whereof any sentence or judgement hath been given in Parliament since the 30 of January 1648. And all offences of Bribery perjuries and subordination of witnesses counterfeiting deeds debenters bils of publick faith escripts or writings whatsoever and all offences touching the carrying sending or conveying over the Seas any gold silver Jewels or any coyne And all other offences in the unlawfull buying selling exchanging or melting downe of any Gold silver or Bullion or the transporting beyond the Seas of auy Guns shot or Gun-mettle And all offences in detaining or imbezling any the goods moneys or chattels of the late King and Queen And except all fines and amercements lost imposed or assessed And all offences committed by any Jesuite or Seminary priest contrary to the Statuts in that case Provided and except any outlawries upon any writ of Capias ad satisfaciendum and all except persons as were the 28●h of January 1651 in prison or otherwise constrained of liberty by immediate commandement warrant or direction of Parliament or Councell of State And also excepted all informations and proceedings concerning common high wayes and all forfeitures of any goods or merchandize prohibited to be exported or imported All-Fee-farme Rents Rents service Rents charge and Rents seck and all arrerages due since the 24th of June 1647. And all moneys imprested since the third of November 1638. Provided that all acts of Hostility and injuries whether between the late King and the Lords and Commons in Parliament or between any of the people of this Nation which did arise upon any Action Attempt Assistance Councel or Advice having relation to or falling out by reason of the late troubles that the same and whatsoever hath ensued thereon whether trenching upon the Lawes and Liberty of this Nation or upon the Honour and Authority of Parliament or to any particular person shall in no time after the 18th of June 1651 be called in question FINIS

happiness that shall never have end I desire heartily the forgivenesse of every man both for any rash or unadvised word or deed and desire your prayes And so my Lord farewel farewel all the things of this world Lord strengthen my faith give me confidence and assurance in the merits of Jesus Christ I desire you that you would be silent and joyn in prayers with me and I trust in God that we shall all meet and live eternally in heaven there to receive the accomplishment of all happines where every tear shall be wiped from our eyes and every sad thought from our hearts And so God bless this Kingdome and Jesus have mercy upon my Soule Amen The Earle of Strafford for treasonable practises beheaded on the Tower-hill Anno 1641. Octob. 23. 47 About this time that inhumane bloudy Rebellion and monstrous massacring of almost 200000 innocent English Protestants men women and children brake out in Ireland namely about October 23. 1641. having had their principall encouragements from the Court of England and of purpose to have made England the chief seat of the war 48 The Design now went on chiefly against the City of London for which purpose the Lieutenant of the Tower Sir William Belford was displaced and Cottington made Constable of the Tower but he was soon displaced and C. Lunsford was made Lieutenant of the Tower but he also was displaced and Sir John Byron was made Lieutenant of the Tower in Lunsfords stead but he also with much ado removed and Sir John Conyers was put in his place To the Kings most Excellent Majesty and the Lords and Peers now Assembled in Parliament The Humble Petition and Protestation of all the Bishops and Prelats now called by his M●j●st●●● Writs to attend the Parliament and present about London and Westminster for that Service THat whereas the Petitioners are called up by severall and respective Writs and under great penalties to attend the Parliament and have a clear and indubitable right to vote in Bils and other matters whatsoever debatable in Parliament by the ancient Customes Lawes and Statutes of this Realm and ought to be protected by your Majesty quietly to attem●… and prosecute that great Service They humbly Remonstrate and Protest before God your Majesty and the Noble Lords and Peers now assembled in Parliament that as they have an indu●●●ate right ●o Sit and Vote in the House of Lords so are they if they may be protected from force and violence most ready and wil●i●g to performe their duties accordingly And that they doe abominate all actions or opinions tending to Popery and the maintenance thereof as also all propension and inclination to any Malignant party or any other side or party whatsoever to the which their owne reasons and conscience shall not move them to adhere But whereas they have been at severall times violently menaced affronted and assaulted by multitudes of people in their coming to perform their services in that Honourable House and lately chased away and put in danger of their lives and can find no redresse or protection upon sundry complaints made to both Houses in these particulars They likewise humbly Protest before your Majesty and the Noble House of Peers that saving unto themselves all their Rights and Interests of Sitting and Voting in that House at other times they dare not Sit or Vote in the House of Peers untill your Majesty shall further secure them from all affronts indignities and dangers in the premisses Lastly whereas their fears are not built upon fantasies and conceits but upon such grounds and objects as may well terrific men of good resolutions and much constancy They doe in all duty and humility protest before your Majesty and the Peers of that most honourable House of Parliament against all Lawes Orders Votes Resolutions and Determinations as in themselves null and of none effect which in their absence since the 27th of this instant moneth of December 1641. have already passed as likewise against all such as shall hereafter passe in that most Honourable House during the time of this their forced and violent absence from the said most Honourable House not denying but if their absenting of themselves were wilfull and voluntary that most Honourable House might proceed in all their premisses their absence or this Protestation notwithstanding And humbly beseeching your most Excellent Majesty to command the Clerk of the House of Peers to enter this their Petition and Protestation among their Records They will ever pray to God to bless c. Jo. Ebor. Th Dures Rob. Co. Lich Jo Norw Jo. Asa. Gul Ba. Wells Geo. Heref. Rob. Ox. Ma. Ely Godf. Glouc. Io. Peterb Morr Landaff The High Commission-Court and Starr-Chamber voted down and pluralities non residencies damned by Parliament The Bishops had a plot about this time to subvert the Parliament by indeavouring to get the King to protest against their proceedings in it but 12 of them were impeached of high treason and 10 imprison'd in the Tower and afterward all disabled from ever sitting in the Parliament Bishops Voted down root and branch Nullo contradicente The Citizens of London the same night made bonefires and had ringing of Bels The Parliament published an Ordinance injoyning all Popish Recusants inhabiting in and about the City all dis-affected persons and such as being able men would not lend any money for the defence of the Common-wealth should forthwith confine themselves to their own houses and not to go f●rth without speciall license An Ordinance to apprehend dis-affected persons in the City whereof were four Aldermen put in safe custody in Crosby house and some in Gressam Colledge A Letter sent to Mr Pym Mr Pym Do not think that a guard of men can protect you if you persist in your trayterous courses and wicked designs I have sent a paper-messenger to you and if this does not touch your heart a Dagger shall so soon as I am recovered of my Plague-sore In the mean time you may be forborn because no better man may be endangered for you Repent Traytor 50 After this the King himselfe violently rushed into the House of Commons accused five of their most eminent members of Treason demanded their persons to be delivered up unto him intending to destroy all that resisted him therein but crost by the happy absence of the Gentlemen This plot was attempted Jan. 4. 1641. Col. Lunsford assaulted the Londoners at Westminster-Hall with a great rout of ruffanly Cavaliers The Queen when she went over beyond Seas one of her Ships wherein she had great Treasure sprung a leak and much was lost and spoyled and when she returned for England she had a mighty storm at Sea which brake the Mast of Van Trom's ship and after eight dayes boisterous turmoyl she was driven back again There was broke and lost 3 Ships of Ammunition and they that were driven back were almost starved Anno 1642. 51 Binion a Silk-man of London and the Kentish Malignants

Bribes 46 Then they attempted by false scandals on the Parliament to intice the Army of the Scots then still in the North to a Neutrality whiles our English Army acted Die Veneris 30 July 1641. WE the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Commons House in Parliament finding to the great griefe of our hearts that the designes of the Priests Jesuites and other adherents to the Sea of Rome have of late been more boldly and frequently put in practice than formerly to the undermining and danger of the ruine of the true Reformed Protestant Religion in his Majesties Dominions established And finding also that they have been and having just cause to suspect that there are still even during this sitting in Parliament endeavours to subv●rt the fundamentall Lawes of England and Ireland and to introduce the exercise of an Arbitrary and Tyrannicall Government by most pernicious and wicked counsels practises plots and conspiracies And that the long intermission and unhappy breach of Parliaments hath occasioned many illegall Taxations whereupon the subject hath been prosecuted and grieved And that divers Innovations and Superstitions have been brought into the Church multitudes driven out of his Majesties Dominions jealousies raised and fomented betwixt the King and his people a Popish Army l●vyed in Ireland and two Armies brought into the bowels of his Kingdome to the hazard of his Majesties Royal person the consumption of the Revenues of the Crown and Treasure of his Kingdome And lastly finding great cause of jealousie that endeavours have been and are used to bring the English Army into a mis understanding of this Parliament thereby to incline that Army with force to bring to pass those wicked Councels Have therefore thought good to joyne our selves in a Declaration of our united affections and resolutions and to make this ensuing Protestation The Protestation I A. B. Do in the presence of Almighty God Promise Vow and Protest to maintaine and defend is far as lawfully I may with my life power and state the true Reformed Protestant Religion expressed in the Doctrine of the Church of England against Popery and Popish Innovations within this Realme contrary to the same Doctrine and according to the duty of my Allegiance his Majesties Royall Person Honour and Estate as also the power and priviledges of Parliament the lawfull rights and liberties of the Subject and every person that maketh this Protestation in whatsoever he shall do in the lawfull pursuance of the same And to my power and as far as lawfully I may I will oppose and by all good wayes and means endeavour to bring to condigne punishment all such as shall either by force practice councels plots conspiracies or otherwise do any thing to the contrary of any thing in this present Protestation contained And further that I shall in all just and honourable ways endeavour to preserve the union and peace between the three Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland and neither for hope fear nor other respect shall relinquish this Promise Vow and Protestation The Earl of Straffords Speech on the Scaffold May 12. 1641. MY Lord Primate of Ireland and my Lords and the rest of these Gentlemen it is a very great comfort to me to have your Lordship by me this day in regard I have been known to you a long time I should be glad to obtain so much silence as to be heard a few words but doubt I shall not my Lord I come hither by the good will and pleasure of Almighty God to pay the last debt I owe to sin which is death and by the blessing of that God to rise again through the mercies of Christ Jesus to eternal glory I wish I had beene private that I might have been heard My Lord if I might be so much beholding to you that I might use a few words I should take it for a very great courtesie My Lord I come hither to submit to that judgement which hath past against me I do it with a very quiet and contented mind I do freely forgive all the world a forgiveness that is not spoken from the teeth outward as they say but from my heart I speak it in the presence of Almighty God before whom I stand that these is not so much as a displeasing thought in me arising to any creature I thank God I may say truly and my conscience bears me witness that in all my services since I have had the honour to serve his Majesty in any imployment I never had any thing in my heart but the joynt and individuall prosperity of King and people if it hath been my hap to be misconstrued it is the common portion of us all while we are in this life the righteous judgement is hereafter here we are subject to error and apt to be mis-judged one of another there is one thing I desire to clear my self of and I am very confident I speak it with so much clearnesse that I hope I shall have your Christian charity in the belief of it I did alwayes think that the Parliaments of England were the happiest constitutions that any Kingdome or any Nation lived under and under God the means of making King and people happy so far have I been from being against Parliaments for my death I here acquit all the world and pray God heartily to forgive them and in particular my Lord Primate I am very glad that his Majesty is pleased to conceive me not mericing so severe and heavy a punishment as the utmost execution of this sentence I am very glad and infinitely rejoyce in this mercy of his and beseech God to turn it to him and that he may find mercy when he hath most need of it I wish the Kingdom all the prosperity and happines in the world I did it living and now dying it is my wish I do now profess it from my heart and do most humbly recommend it to every man here and wish every man to lay his hand upon his heart and consider seriously whether the beginning of the happines of a people should be writ in letters of blood I fear you are in a wrong way and I desire Almighty God that not one drop of my blood may rise up in judgement against you My Lord I profess my self a true and obedidient Son to the Church of England to the Church wherein I was born and wherein I was bred prosperity happines be ever to it and whereas it hath been said that I have inclined to Popery if it be an objection worth answering let me say truly that from the time since I was twenty one years of age till this hour now going upon forty nine I never had thought in my heart to doubt of the truth of my Religion in England and never any had the boldnesse to suggest to me contrary to the best of my remembrance and so being reconciled to the mercies of Christ Jesus my Saviour into whose bosom I hope shortly to be gathered to that eternall

wherein Sir Edw. Deering had a principal hand framed Petitions against the proceedings of Parliament but both were rejected and they fined and imprisoned 52 The King forsakes the Parliament and getting the Prince to him leaves London and posts into the North and there attempts to get Hull into his hands 53 Sir Francis Windebancke Sir John Finch the Lord Digby Jermyn c. flye for their lives beyond Sea 54 The King interdicts the Militia but the Messenger was hanged at the Exchange 55 The Lords and Gentry of Ireland and Scotland petition the King to return to his Parliament yea and the Gentry and Commons of Yorkshire doe the like but are all rejected 56 The King set on foot a Commission of Array 57 Three letters were intercepted discovering a plot against the Parl. by Wilmot Digby Jermyn Cro●ts and others which came to nothing but we by taking some of their Ships were advantaged 58 Sir Rich. Gurney Lord Mayor and an Array man was clapt up in the Tower 59 Proclamations and Declarations against the Parliament read in all Churches and Chappels within the Kings power 60 Sir John Pennington displaced and the Earl of Warwick put in his place 61 Hull besieged by the Marquess of Newcastle and in that interim Beckwith a Papist plotted to betray it by firing it in 4 several places The Citizens of London proffer their service to attend and guard the Parl. by land to Westminster to secure them from danger By Water also the stout Ship-masters and Marriners made ready a great number of long-boats furnished with Ordnance Muskets and other Sea-warlike instruments their Vessels gallantly adorned with Flags and Streamers together with martial musick Drums and Trumpets when they came to White-hall and understood that the Parliament were safely arriv'd the Train'd Bands by Land and the Sea-men by Water let flye their thundring shot both smal and great their Trumpets sounding and their drums beating in a tryumphing and congratulatory manner was a singular testimony of their cordial affections The same day Buckingham-shire men both Gentlemen Ministers and others of that Countrey on hors-back with their protestations in their hats for Reformation of evils in Church and State and to assure their best services and assistance to the Parliament on all just occasions and out of Essex Hartford Bark-shire Surrey and other Counties of the Kingdome came one after another 62 The Earl of Essex was ordained Lord General over all the Parl. Forces which he faithfully managed as Edge-hill Newbury and other places can abundantly witness 63 At Edge-hill 16 pieces of Canon shot against 80 of the Earl of Essex Life guard and not one man hurt and those 80 brake in upon 1600 of the Kings four of the Parl. Regiments ran away and sixteen Troops of Horse so we were 6000 and they 18000 yet we took their Standard and cleft Sir Edw. Varney Standard-bearer in the head and slew the Lord Lindsey General of the field 63 A plot to have blown up all the Lord Generals Magacine of powder and another at Beverley in Yorkeshire to have slain Sir John Hotham both intended by one David Alexander and hired thereunto but both timely prevented 64 Commissioners granted to Popish Recusants to leavy men and arms against the Parliament 65 The King received the most bloody Irish Rebels Petition and permitted their persons with great favour and allowance about him calling and counting them good Catholick Subjects but utterly rejecting the Petition exhibited by the Lord General desiring peace and reconciliation with him 66 A Treaty of peace was really intended by the Parliament but meerly pretended by the King for a while in which interim that most bloody bickering at Brainford was committed by the Kings party the City of London mightily preserved 67 New High-Sheriffs for the better collecting of the 400000 li Subsidies intended to have been confirmed to the King in a former Parliament crost and an O●dinance set on foot for the successefull association of Counties for mutuall defence one of another 68 A design of the Royalists at Oxford and elsewhere to proceed against the prisoners as Traitors and so put them to death by which Dr Bastwicke Captain Lilburn were to have been tryed for their lives but preserved by an Ordinance for execution of a Lex talionis and so of executing the royal prisoners among us Anno 1643. 69 A notable plot against the City of London immediately upon the Cities preferring a Petition to the King by the hands of two Aldermen and four Commoners of the said City in reply to which Petition the King sending as his messenger one Captain Hern to the City and the whole body of the City assembling at a Common-Hal this Hern desires Faire play above board of them but the busines being found to be a notable design of the Malignant Citizens against the Parl. and the then Lord Maior of London and the Government of their City the major part cry out in the Hearing of Hern they would live and dye with the Parl. and so sent Hern away with a flea in his ear 70 A letter sent to all the Freemen Journeymen and Apprentices of City to assemble at their several Hals and there the Masters and Wardens of all Companies to read the Kings Letter to them and to perswade them to yeeld to all the Kings commands against the City This Letter was voted scandalous 71 A plot to betray Bristol but discovered two principal conspirators were by Martial Law condemned and hanged The 2 of May 1643 ye Crosse in Cheapeside was pulled downe a Troope of Horse 2 Companies of foote wayted to garde it at ye fall of ye tope Crosse dromes beat trupets blew multitudes of Capes wayre throwne in ye Ayre a greate Shoute of People with ioy ye 2 of May the Almanake sayeth was ye invention of the Crosse 6 day at night was the Leaden Popes burnt in the place where it stood with ringinge of Bells a greate Acclamation no hurt done in all these actions 72 Mr Pryn sent to search Canterburies Chamber and Study found the original Scotch Service-book with his own hand-writing the cause of all the Scots wars 73 London to have been betrayed under a pretence of peace by Mr Waller a Member of Parl. Mr Tomkins Mr Challenor and others but Waller fined 10000. l. and perpetuall banishment Tomkins and Challenor hanged the one at the Exchange and the other in Holborn 74 Sir John Hotham attempted the betraying of Hull unto the Queen An Order sent down to the Church-wardens to demolish Altars to remove the Communion Table from the East end and to take away all Tapers Candlesticks and Basons and to demolish all Crucifixes Crosses and all Pictures and Images of the Trinity and Virgin Mary both within and without all Churches and Chappels 75 A plot for betraying of Lincoln by the two Purfries but preserved 76 Gloucester admirably freed by the City Regiments 77 A rebellion by the

Kentish malignants about Tunbridge 78 A Ship bound from Denmark to the King of about 300 Tun richly laden with Arms and Ammunition another Ship bound from Newcastle to Holland laden with Sea-coale but in the midst thereof was found between 3 or 4000l hid in the coals sent to buy arms for the King a third great Ship called the Fellowship of at least 400 Tun carrying 24 peeces of Ordnance taken by the Parliament 79 Scotland with an Army of at least 20000 Horse and Foot invited thereunto by the Parl. in the bitter depth of winter when they marched up to the middle in snow and were forced to bring their Artillery over the Ice of the frozen River of Tyne and the Citizens of London lent the Parl. a 100000. l. for the Scots first pay to encourage their advance to help us against the Kings Forces May 23. 1643. Voted the Queen Pawning the Jewels of the Crown in Holland and therewith buying Arms to assist the War against the Parl. and her own actuall performances with her Popish Army in the North was high Treason and transmitted to the Lords Images Crucifixes Papistical Books in Somerset and Jameses were burnt and five Capuchin Friers sent away May 1643. An Ordinance for the making of Forts Trenches and Bulwarks about the City July 1. 43. The Assembly of Divines met Dr Twiss Prolocutor 120 the total The Bishop of Canterburies first prayer on the Scaffold Jan. 10. 1644. O Eternal God and mercifull Father look down upon me in mercy in the riches and fulnesse of all thy mercies look upon me but not till thou hast nailed my sins to the Crosse of Christ look upon me but not till thou hast bathed me in the blood of Christ not till I have hid my selfe in the wounds of Christ that so the punishment that is due to my sins may passe away and go over me and since thou art pleased to try me to the uttermost I humbly beseech thee give me 〈◊〉 in this great instant full patience proportionable comfort a heart ready to dye for thine honour and the Kings happinesse and this Churches preservation and my zeale to these far from arrogancy be it spoken is all the sin humane frailty excepted and all incidents thereunto which is yet known of me in this particular for which I now come to suffer I say in this particular of Treason but otherwise my sins are many and great Lord pardon them all and those especially whatsoeever they be which have drawne this present judgement upon me and when thou hast given me strength to bear it then do with me as seems best in thine owne eyes and carry me through death that I may look upon it in what visage soever it shall appear to me and that there may be a stop of this issue of blood in this more then miserable Kingdome I shall desire that I may pray for the people too as well as for my self O Lord I beseech thee give grace of repentance to all people that Sr Alexander Carew Sr. Iohn Hotham Captin Hotham the Arch Bishop of Canterbury be headed on Iowerhill for Ireason against ye Parliament 1645. have a thirst for blood but if they will not repent then scatter their devices so and such as are or shall be contrary to the glory of thy great name the truth and sincerity of Religion the establishment of the King and his posterity after him in their just rights and priviledges the honour and conservation of Parl. in their ancient and just power the preservation of this poor Church in her turth peace and patrimony and the settlement of this distracted and distressed people under the ancient laws and in their native liberties and when thou hast done all this in mercy for them O Lord fill their hearts with thank fulness and with religious dutifull obedience to thee and thy Commandements all their dayes So Amen Lord Jesus and I beseech thee receive my soul to mercy Our Father c. The Bishop of Canterburies last Prayer on the Scaffold Lord I am comming as fast as I can I know I must passe through the shadow of death before I can come to see thee but it is but umbra mortis a meer shadow of death a little darknesse upon nature but thou by thy merits and passion hast broke through the jaws of death so Lord receive my soul and have mercy on me and blesse this Kingdome with peace and plenty and with brotherly love and charity that there may not be this effusion of Christian blood amongst them for Jesus Christ his sake if it be thy will And when he said Lord receive my soule which was his signe the Executioner did his Office 80 A design to starve the City by breaking into Surrey Sussex Kent but disappointed by S. W. Waller with the help of the City Regiments 81 The King granted a cessation of arms with the bloody Rebels of Ireland but it was observed he never prospered after that 82 A Solemn League and Covenant taken by the Lords and Commons in Parl. and by the City of London and all parts of the Kingdom in the Parl. power 83 Nottingham Town and Castle to have been betrayed but prevented by Col. Hutchinson A Ship from Denmark of 300 Tuns laden for the most part with Round-heads they were halfe Pike-staves with a great knob at the end of it full of iron spikes sent to the King and great treasure but that year the Swedes fell into Denmarke and took away halfe his Countrey from him 1643. 84 A plot against the City of London by Sir Basil Brooke Col. Read Mr Ripley and Vilot 2 Citizens of London and others but prevented 1644. 85 Two desperate plots for the betraying of Ailsbury and one against Southampton but all three prevented 86 Mr Edward Stanford plotted with Cap. Backhouse for the betraying of the City of Gloucester and proferred 5000l for a reward 300l whereof was paid to the said Captain but the plot was frustrated 87 Our Army in Cornwall preserved with the losse of our Artillery 88 A peace pretended at Vxbridge and a treacherous Petition framed by the Malignants of Buckingham-shire wherein one Sir John Lawrence of that Country was a great stickler but frustrated 89 Melcomb Regis to have been betrayed wherein divers of the Malignant Townsmen had a principal hand and Col. Goring and Sir Lewis Dives were agents therein the Town and Forts recovered and two Ships with rich prizes from Rhoan in France were seized on to make amends for their trouble The Service-Book Voted downe 90 Earls and Lords from Oxford submitted themselves to the Parl. The famous Victory of Naisby over the Kings Forces 5000 prisoners taken A Jewel of 500l sent to Gen. Leven by the Parl. All the Kings Commissioners taken at Shaftsbury Basing-house taken and burnt 91 A plot in the West against the Parl. by the Glubmen 92 A sudden p●ot upon Scotland which was almost over-run by Montross but as suddenly recovered again

undertake to do so I may be heard and that I be not hindred from using such lawful and honest means as I shall chuse To conclude let me be heard with freedom honour and safety and I shall instantly break through this cloud of retirement and shall shew my self to be Pater Patriae C. R. A great tumult insurrection and mutiny in London breaking open divers houses and magazines of Arms and Ammunition breaking open divers houses seizing on the Drums Gates Chains and Watches of the City assaulted and shot into the L. Maiors house and killed one of his Guard c. 1648. MAy 16. Surrey Petitioners came to Westminster and made a great shout and cryed Hey for King Charls We will pull the Members out by the Ear●s disarmed two Sentinels knockt them down one Sentinell refusing to be disarmed the Petitioners got within his Arms one of them drew his sword and run him through and the Petitioners drew their swords on the Troopers and said fall on for King Charls now or never but a party of 500 Foot did take some of the Petitioners were slain four or five of the souldiers two The old L. Goring proclaimed General at the head of the Kentish Army upon the Hill neer Alisford consisted of 8000 besides those in Maidstone there were neer 300 slain and about 2300 prisoners many of them taken in the Woods Hop-yards and fields also Gentlemen of good quality there were about 500 Horse 3000 Arms 9 foot Colours and 8 pieces of Canon with store of Ammunition taken Their word at the engagement was King and Kent Ours Truth They being routed marched over Rochester Bridge towards Black-Heath with about 3000 Horse and Foot most Cavaliers Prentises and Watermen and fled over the water into Essex by Woollidge and Greenwich The Duke of Buckingham L. Francis E. of Holland L. Andrew L. Cambden and others rose in Surrey and made Proclamation that they expected the Parl. would have setled the Kingdom but because they have not they would fetch the King and live and dye with him to settle it July 11. 1648. was the surrender of Pembroke Castle The Scots Army of 21000. Invaded England Duke Hambletons Standard had motto Date Cesari Foot Standard for Covenant Religion King and Kingdomes Riseing in Kent Revosting of the Navie Redusing Colchester And Quelling the insurection in Pembroke shire all in 1648 The Scots entring the Kingdom July 11. 1648. Maj. Gen. Lambert sent this Letter to Duke Hammilton MY Lord Having received Information that some Forces of Horse and Foot are marched out of Scotland into this Kingdome under your Excellencies Command I have sent this Bearer unto you desiring to know the truth and intent thereof and whether they are come in opposition to the Forces in these parts raised by the Authority of the Parl. of England and now in prosecution of their Commands I desire your Lordships speedy answer and rest Your Excellencies humble servant J. Lambert Duke Hammiltons Answer NOble Sir I received yours of the 11 of this instant in answer whereunto I shall only say the informa●ion you received is true for according to the Commands of the Committee of Estates of the Parl. of Scotland there are Forces both of Horse and Foot come into this Kingdome under my conduct for prosecution of the ends mentioned in my Letter of the 6. to which I refer you intending to oppose any that are or shall be in Arms for the obstructing those pious loyal and just ends and so remain Hambleton The Town of Colchester delivered up Sir Charls Lucas and Sir Geo Lisle shot to death L. Col. Lilburn revolted at Newcastle declared for the King Sir Arthur Has●erigge storm'd the Castle Lilburns head was set upon a pole June 5. The L. of Warwick went to Portsmouth to bring into obedience the mutinous Sea-men there was with the L. of Warwicke the Phoenix Mary Rose Robert Nonesuch Lilly Lyon Bonadventure Antilope Swift-sure Hector and Fellowship A short Abridgement of the Engagement made by the Common Councell Commanders Souldiers and Commission officers in London WE decla●e to ingage as much as in us l●es to defend the King and Parl from all violence and to the end we may be inabled to perform the same We humbly offer that the Forces in the line may be one entire Militia and no Forces may be raised but by Authority of the said Militia by consent of the Common Councel We desire no Forces in Arms might come within thirty miles of London during the Treaty and for those within what persons soever shall make any tumu't shall be put to death Ordered that the Common Councel men and Commanders shall within their severall Precincts goe from house to house to receive concurrence to the said Ingagement Decemb. 1648. The House having notice of the Kings carrying to Hurst Cast●e voted That the seizing his person was without their advice or consent Dec. 5. The House Voted That his Majesties concessions to their Proposals was ground sufficient to settle the Peace of the Kingdome Dec. 6. Col. Rich and Col. Prides Reg. guarded the Parl. and seized some Members Maj. Gen. Brown Sheriff of London was apprehended Decemb. 12. Dec 13. The House Voted That the Lords and Commons declare they will make no further Addresses to the King nor none shall be by any person whatsoever without leave of he Parl. and if any make breach of this Order they shall incur the Penalty of High Treason and that they will receive no more any Message from the King to both or either Houses of Parl. An Ordinance sent to the Lords for the Triall of the King but they rejected the Commission and adjourned 8 dayes after that they never sate more ●er D●n●y Serj. at Arms to the Commissioners rode into Westminster Hall with the Mace belonging to the House of Commons on his shoulder and some Officers attending him all bare and six Trumpeters on Horseback a guard of Horse and Foot attending in the Pallace yard and Proclamation was made All that had any thing for matter of Fact against Charls Stuart King of England to bring it in to the Commissioners Jan. 19. 1648. That this present Seale of England should be broken in pieces and a new one forthwith made and ordered that the Arms of England and Ireland should be Ingra●en on the one side on the other side a Map of the Parl. with these words in it The first yeare of Freedome by Gods blessing restored 1648. The Charge of the Commons of England against Charls Stuart King of England That the said Ch Stuart being admitted King of England and therein trusted with a limitted power to govern by and according to the Lawes of the L●nd and not otherwise and by his Truth Oath and Office being obliged to use the power committed to him For the good and benefit of the people and for the preservation of their Rights and Liberties yet nevertheless out of a wicked design to erect and uphold in

to the Declarations will see clearly that they began these unhappy troubles not I so that as for the guilt of these enormous crimes that are laid against me I hope in God that God will clear me of it I will not I am in charity God forbid that I should lay it upon the two Houses of Parliament there is no necessity of either I hope they are free of this guilt for I doe believe that ill instruments between them and me ha's been the cause of all this blood shed so that by way of speaking as I find my self clear of this I hope and pray God that they may too yet for all this God forbid that I should be so ill a Christian as not to say that Gods judgements are just upon me many times he does pay justice by an unjust sentence that is ordinary I will onely say this That an unjust Sentence that I suffered to take effect is punished now by an unjust Sentence upon me that is so far I have said to shew you that I am an innocent man Now for to shew you that I am a good Christian I hope there is a good man pointing to Dr Iuckson that will bear me witnesse that I have forgiven all the world and those in particular that have been the chief causers of my death who they are God knows I do not desire to know I pray God forgive them But this is not all my charity must go farther I wish that they may repent for indeed they have committed a great sin in that particular I pray God with St Stephen that this be not laid to their charge nay not onely so but that they may take the right way to the peace of the Kingdome So Sirs I do wish with all my soule and I do hope there is some here will carry it further that they may endeavour the peace of the Kingdom Now Sirs I must shew you how you are out of the way and will put you in a way first you are out of the way for certainly all the way you ever have had yet as I could find by any thing is in the way of Conquest certainly this is in an ill way for Conquest Sir in my opinion is never just except there be a good just Cause either for matter of wrong or just Title and then if you go beyond it that makes it unjust at the end that was just at first But if it be only matter of Conquest then it is a great Robbery as a Pirate said to Alexander that He was the Great Robber he was but a petty Robber and so Sirs I do think the way that you are in is much out of the way Now Sir for to put you in the way beleive it you will never doe right nor God will never prosper you untill you give God his due the King his due that is my Successors and the people their due I am as much for them as any of you You must give God his due by regulating rightly his Church according to his Scriptures which is now out of order For to set you in a way particularly now I cannot but onely this A Nationall Synod freely called freely debating among themselves must settle this when that every Opinion is freely and clearly heard For the King indeed I will not the Lawes of the Land will clearly instruct you for that therefore because it concerns my own particular I only give you a touch of it For the people and truly I desire their Liberty and Freedome as much as any body whomsoever but I must tell you that their Liberty and their Freedome consists in having of Government those Lawes by which their life and their goods may be most their owne It is not for having share in Government Sir that is nothing pertaining to them A Subject and a Soveraign are clean different things and therefore untill they do that I mean that you do put the people in that Liberty as I say certainly they will never enjoy themselves Sirs it was for this that now I am come here If I would have given way to an Arbitrary way for to have all Lawes changed according to the power of the Sword I needed not to have come here and therefore I tell you and I pray God it be not laid to your charge that I am the Martyr of the people Introth Sirs I shall not trouble you much longer for I will onely say this to you that intruth I could have desired some little time longer because that I would have put this that I have said in a little more order and a little better digested then I have done and therefore I hope you will excuse Me I have delivered my Conscience I pray God that you do take those courses that are best for the good of the Kingdom and your own Salvation The Bishop of London minding him to say something concerning his Religion King I thank you very heartily my Lord for that I had almost forgotten it Introth Sirs my Conscience in Religion I think is very well known to all the World and therefore I declare before you all That I die a Christian according to the profession of the Church of England as I found it left me by my Father and this honest man I think will witnesse it Then turning to the Officers said Sirs excuse me for this same I have a good cause and I have a gracious God I will say no more Then turning to Col Hacker he said Take care that they do not put me to pain and Sir this and it please you But then a Gentleman coming neer the Ax the King said take heed of the Ax pray take heed of the Ax Then the King speaking to the Executioner said I shall say but very short Prayers and when I thrust out my hands Then the King called to D Iuxon for his night cap and having put it on he said to the Executioner does my heire trouble you who desired him to put it all under his Cap which the King did accordingly by the help of the Executioner and the Bishop then the King turning to Dr Iuxon said I have a good cause and a gracious God on my side Dr Iuxon There is but one stage more this stage is turbulent and troublesome it is a short one but you may consider it will soon carry you a very great way it will carry you from Earth to Heaven and there you shall find a great deal of cordiall joy and comsort King I go from a corruptible to an incorruptible Crown where no disturbance can be Doct. You are exchanged from a temporall to an eternall Crown a good exchange Then the King took off his Cloak and his George giving his George to Dr Iuxon saying Remember 't is thought for the Prince and some other small Ceremonies past after which the King stooping down laid his neck upon the block after a very little pause st●etched forth his hands the Executioner at one blow severed his

fighting and plotting against us on the one hand and the declaring for him on the other should not be an espousing of a Malignant party quarrell or interest but be a meer fighting upon former Grounds and Principles and in defence of the Cause of God and of the Kingdome as hath been these 12. years last past as ye say for the security and satisfaction of Gods people in both Nations or the opposing of which should render us enemies to the godly with you we cannot well understand especially considering That all these Malignants take their confidence and encouragement from the late Transactions of your Kirk and State with your King for as we have already said so we tell you again it is but satisfying security to those that employ us and are concerned in that we seek which we conceive will not be by a few formall and feigned submissions from a person who could not tell otherwise how to accomplish his Malignant ends and therefore councel'd to this complyance by them who assisted his Father and have hitherto acted him in his most evill and desperate Designes and are now again by them set on foot against which how you will be able in the way you are in to secure us or your selves is forasmuch as concerns our selves our duty to look after If the state of your quarrell be thus upon which as you say you resolve to fight our Army you will have opportunity to do that else what means our abode here And if our hope be not in the Lord it will be ill with us We commit both you and our selves to him who knows the heart and tries the Reins with whom are all our ways who is able to doe for us and you above what we know which we desire may be in much mercy to his poor people and to the glory of his own great Name and having performed your desire in making your papers so publique as is before exprest I desire you to doe the like by letting the State Kirk and Army have the knowledge hereof To which end I have sent you inclosed two Copies and rest From the Camp at Pencland Hills 14. August 1654. Your humble servant O. CROMWEL THe Victory at Gladsmore in Scotland 30 and 31. of July 1650. M. G. Montgomery slaine 200 armes taken of the Scots 80. Troopers 400. or 500. wounded 4 Colours 15. Troops totally routed 500. Foot routed at Muscleburrough The Victory at Danbar 30 August 1650. 400. killed upon the place 10000 prisoners 2000 Horse 290 Commission Officers 15000 Arms 200 Colours 32. peices of Ordnance Of ours that ingaged in the Battail 5000 Horse and Foot Their Word The Covenant Our Word The Lord of Hosts who manifested him selfe to be with us Novemb. 1650. Insurrections in Norfolk for which 24 were condemned and 20 executed the other left to mercy Col. Ker routed and taken and the Towne of Ayre Decemb. 25. The strong Castle of Edenburgh delivered up with 53 pieces of Ordnance whereof 15 Iron the rest Brasse about 8000 Arms store of Ammunition and Provision It was the hand of the Lord alone that wrought out and extended such great salvations to us Novemb. 21. A squadron of Ships commanded by Gen. Blague surprised a considerable part of the Portugal Brasil fleet fraughted with Sugar and sent them to England and after pursued the revolted ships and followed them beyond Alligant where they have taken 7 of P. Ruperts fleet and pursued him to Thoulon one of the furthest Havens of France having but two ships left him which hath sounded forth in the ears of Forreigne Princes and States who began to acknowledge that God hath been with the Parliament and Common-wealth of England and both Spain and Portugall have sent their Embassadors to treat with us For all which signall salvations the 30. of Jan. 1650. was set apart and observed as a day of publike Thanks-giving and holy rejoycing in England Wales and Town of Berwick Jan. 1. 1650. The Scots King was crowned at Schone He is Generall of the Army Duke Hamilton Lieut. Gen. of the Scotch Army David Lesley M. Gen. Middleton L. G. of the Scotch Horse and Massey M. G. of the English A Speech made by K. Charles ye-2d-at his Coronation 1. January 1650 I will by gods assistance bestow my life for your defence wishing to live no longer then that I may see this Kingdome flourish in happiness The Oath I doe promise vow in ye presence of ye eternall god yt I will maintaine ye true Kirk of god religion right preaching administration of ye Sacraments now received preached within this Realme in purity And shall abolish gain-stand all falce Religions sects contrary to ye same And shall rule ye people com̄ited to my charge according to ye will of god and laudable laws consti●●tions of ye Realme causing justice equity to be ministred without partiality January 4. 1650. The King of Spaine sent his Embassadour for the acknowledging of this State whose Authority and soveraignty resides in this Parliament of the Common-wealth of England and to stablish and close up a good friendship with this Common-wealth The Portugall sent his Agent also to the like effect March 6. 1650. Sir Henry Hide beheaded at the Exchange for receiving and acting by vertue of a Commission from Charls Stuart the Second and King of Great Britaine France and Ireland as his Agent to the Great Turk with an intent to destroy the Trade of the Turkie Company and the Parliaments interest not onely in Constantinople but in Mitylene Anatolia and Smyrna in which conspiracies he had a Commission to be a Commissioner and he was likewise to seize upon our Merchants goods for the use of the King of Scotland and procured Audience of the grand Visier and raised great fears and uproars among the Merchants Browne Bushell Beheaded under the Scaffold on Tower-Hill March 29. 1651. for delivering up Scarborough June 2. 1651. The surrender of Silly Islands Insurrection in Cardiganshire 24 June 1651. 40 slain 60 prisoners taken Burnt Island surrendred 29 July 1651. The Scotch King invaded England with 16000 Horse and Foot and a light train of Artillery and caused himselfe to be proclaimed King of England Scotland and Ireland in Lancashire August 22. Charles the First erected his Standard at Notingham and Charles the second erected his Standard the 22 of Aug. at Worcester 1651. September 3. 1651. Old Lesly Crawford Linsey Ogleby with divers of quality besides 300 taken that were making Levies to raise the Siege at Dundee August 2. 1651. St. Johnston surrendred August 19. 1651. The Castle of Sterling surrendred 40 pieces of Ordnance 27. faire brasse pieces 2 great iron guns 11 leather guns provision of meal to serve 500 men about twelve months 40 or 50 Barrels of Beef about five hundred Armes new Muskets and Pikes twenty six Barrels of Powder 20 or 30 vessels of Claret wine strong-waters great store of match and other ammunition