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A51537	A most choice historical compendium fitted for the use of all ingenious and inquisitive persons who are curious to know what wonderfull events have come to pass for almost 1000 years, under the figure 8, from 818 to 1688 inclusive : wherein is briefly comprised, the life and death, rise and fall of kings, queens, noblemen, clergymen, warriors and several famous poets : with many other curious remarks and observations, not here mention'd / written in a plain method, by A.M., Gent.	A. M., Gent.	1692 (1692)	Wing M3; ESTC R9727	48,168	167

Perswasions of the Irish Priests closely and hourly made and applied to the Earl of Tyrconnel then Lord Deputy or at least Governour of Ireland he also hoping by his not submitting to gain great Honour and Preferment if not the whole Country for his own proper use and benefit but therein he ●ight easily perceive his errour for Iewis that aspi●ing Monarch had design'd it long before to be annexed to his Flower de luces but the poor Irish Harp would have caused but doleful Musick to the Hibernians yet a melodious tune to the wooden shoo'd French which would presently have bin dancing in that Country however the reasons before mentioned m●de Tyrconnel so obstinate that with what Forces and that little Courage he was possessed of to defend and preserve Ireland for his two M●sters what the event was some few years will tell you however this light you shall have at present that things proved quite contrary after several Conflicts and Battels to his expectation But let us return into England and there behold how many potent Enemies the King had secured in several Prisons for the security of Their Majesties Persons and the Kingdoms Welfare Peace and Happiness viz. George Jefferies Baron of Wem and Lord High Chancellor of England the Earl of Peterborough the Earl of Salisbury the Lord Castlemain the Lord Preston the Earl of Feversham the Lord Chief Justice Wright Baron Jenner Sir Edward Hale formerly Governour of Dover and after Lieutenant of the Tower of London and let Miles Prance the Silver-Smith a timely Discoverer have the honour to be taken at Gravesend with a false Pass and there committed to Prison by the Secretary of War when he intended to pass the Seas There were many more persons of high and low rank taken into custody but by reason their Deliverances or Trials hereafter will make them more publick I shall at present omit them all except Dr. Obadiah Walker the Proselyte-maker at Oxford who was sent to the Tower of London but not amongst the Records to make search for the place of Purgatory but foretell his own fortune either by calculating his Nativity by the often Singing of his Ave Maria or numbring his Beads at their appointed Seasons whether by day or night but let Obadiah rest being accounted but one of the small There were also in this Juncture of time many persons secured in several Counties of England alway● having an eye and great care of the Red Letter-men and of those ho● headed-persons that took places of Trust and Commissions from the late King James never regarding the Penal Laws and Test the Priests likewise were apprehended as soon as discovered yet not many for knowing their sins to be of a dark colour they would not abide the reckoning but went off with the next Oars Also about this time the King was vigilant over his Army that served under the late King James not suffering any of them at present to come for London especially in any great Parties but sent them into several Parts and Counties of England by degrees modelling of them a new first breaking the old Regiments both of Foot and Horse c. and then formed them into new Bodies so as to take away all suspicion of their disloyalty to their King which perhaps was unjustly cast upon them however by this honest Stratagem of War all the known Papists and those that appeared disaffected to the King and Government were quite cashiered and then the King was so well satisfied with the remaining part that they were sent to Whitehall and took their Guard-days in the same manner as they had formerly part of that Army which came out of Holland being of the Guards there were either all or in part removed from that Station By this time the Reader may be pondering with himself that there is an absolute necessity for great Sums of Money not only for defraying the charge of the Fleet that brought the King and his Army over into England but likewise the vast expence and charges which our English Fleet and Army had brought upon the Nation and these two Fleets and two Armies united and all to be paid by one Master would in a short space of time rise and multiply to an incredible account The Parliament taking this and other matters of the like nature being of great concern into their consideration after mature deliberation Voted several Sums for that purpose to be raised viz. by additional Excise of Ale Beer some small Branch of the said Revenue being ready to drop down was by a new A●t reunited also a Land-Tax at 12 d. per Pound was Enacted by Parliament the Customs and several other Duties belonging to the Crown were by the said Authority confirmed and settled upon the King and Queen The Affairs of the Kingdom now being in a hopeful way of Settlement as so small a time had bin allowed for so great a change and new modelling both of Persons and Offices the King and Parliament in all matters very well concurring the King was pleased amongst other of his favours and elemency to declare he would stand by and defend the Protestant Religion the Church of England as by Law established to his utmost power against all opposers whatsoever and withal care should be taken for the Non Con's and differing Opinions the Kings gracious pleasure being thus published made all his Subjects to be filled with joy admiration and liberality to that degree that the Citizens of London of their own accord proffered to lend the King what Money His Majesty pleased and almost in an instant great and vast Sums of Money were brought into Guildhall and that Citizen thought himself the most happy which was the first leader and brought the biggest Bags for which at present they were very willing to accept of the Kings word for their several securities The King by this time being the latter end of March having got into possession some money but that which equalized or rather exceeded it the affections of his People would have bin very happy together by his peaceable Reign over his Subjects here in England had not the Rebels in Scotland and Ireland by the fair promises of Rewards and Preferments of the late King James and Lewis the 14th of France bi● instigated and hurried into Arms and bloody Wars against this King William so that both Scotland and Ireland wanted his assistance and being willing and ready the King resolved to reduce them both to his obedience but this Year being drawn to its period and my figure to be out of date because I will not leap into another but conclude my Eighty Eight a Year full of Wonders and Changes yet in hopes it will be the introducer of England's Glory and do verily believe that future Generations will call it happy because it restored Our Lives Religion Laws and Liberty and I desire it may make us all truly thankful to him who was the beginner and finisher of so great and

with due commendation so long as either Ingenuity or Learning are fashionable in our Nation He died An. 1638 and was buried in the Abby Church of Westminster under a small Stone with this Inscription O rare Ben. Johnson Sir Robert Car Son to Thomas Laird of Fumhurst in the South of Scotland who being active for Mary Queen of Scots was thereupon forced to fly to York was born in this City 'T is reported that his first making at Court was by breaking his Leg at Tilting in London whereby he came first into the cognizance of K. James who reflected on him whose Father had been a kind of Confessor for the cause of the Queen his Mother besides the young Gentleman had a handsom Person and a conveniency of desert Honours were crowded upon him made Baron Viscount Earl of Somerset Knight of the Garter Warden of the Cinque-Ports c. He was a good natur'd Man doing himself more hurt than any Man else but yet much harm to others viz. Sir Tho. Overbury lost the favour of this Earl by dissuading him from keeping Company with a Lady Wife of another Person of Honour to whom afterwards he was married her first Husband still living Earl of Essex and had a Child by her a Daughter who was afterwards married to a Person of Honour but Sir Tho. Overbury under a pretence for refusing to be sent Ambassador to Russia was sent to the Tower and his strict restraint encouraged his Enemies to practise his death which was by Poison effected for which divers were executed the Earl had the sentence of death which by K. James contrary to his word was never executed but gave him a lease of so many years as a pardon for his Life though he was banished the Court lived privately even from the sight of his Wife and in much sorrow and grief died An. 1638. In this year 1638. Lewis XIV King of France was born or rather per ignotam illicitam viam by that politick and governing Cardinal sent into the World to be a Plague to all Christendom a spoiler and robber of his own Country a troubler of the Gallican-Clergy a great opposer of his Infallible Holiness a severe and cruel Tormenter of the Hugonots first eating and plundering their Goods by his Booted Apostles his Dragoons and then unmercifully abusing their Bodies by Wounds Irons Whippings Prisons Famine and Death it self but without burial which by us is never denied to any Roman-Catholick He governs all his Vassals and Slaves that should be his Subjects by his will rigour and injustice and when they have got any thing for their own Family the King's Officers take it for their Master and there is no remedy for this general contagion But yet let me inform you of one piece of good nature that is rooted fast to him tho' he resists the Pope he loves the Turk and much condemns the Emperor for fighting against him and the French K. has many times lately assured his Brother the Turkish Emperor That he will divert all his Enemies that is all Christian Princes from invading his Countrey by his own powerful Armies And pray do not think much of these his strange and extravagant expressions for he hopes as there is but one King of Heaven so there will be but one on Earth and that must be a French one There was also in this year 1638. a many little Devils called the Covenanters in Scotland gathered into a riotous Body and chused David Leisley for their General and sollicited France for aid and though it took little effect yet you may learn that the Scotch were always great lovers of the English Their Covenant consisting of 666 words the mark of the Beast was set on Foot and every one willing or not swallowed it down by the help of labouring Preachers the Covenanters All this was but a preparative for their coming into England which they did the next year and according to their Covenant to settle the King in his Throne in Peace and Honour and make him a Glorious King which contrary to their Covenant by Perjury falsehood and selling his Person was accomplished in an 1648. next to be observed being a year full of wonder and horrour but before we give an account of that take notice there was four persons concerned in a Tumult in Moor-fields pretending to reform by pulling down Baudy Houses on the Easter Holidays who was sentenced and executed as Traytors May 9. 1638. I wish the Mobile in these our days were well informed of this late action Now also in this year take in John Lilburn the Quaker who was whipped at a Carts Tayle in Febr. 1638. Anno 1648. At Preston in Anderness Duke Hamilton Aug. 7th entred England with an Army Most beheld him as one rather cunning than wise yet rather wise than valiant however he had Officers what did ●ken the geat of fighting as wool as ony of oor Age. He would accept of no English assistance Their Van and their Rear were many miles asunder and they met the resistance of Major General Lambert before they expected it He at Preston gave the Scotch Army such a blow as stunned it though it reeled on some miles more Southward into Staffordshire Where at Vlcester the Duke was taken Prisoner and utterly defeated and afterwards made a Prisoner in the Tower and then condemned and executed with the Lord Capel which is the next to be taken notice of Arthur Capel Esq of Hadham Hartf was by Ch. I. Created Baron 1641. after the surrender of Oxford he retired to his House from whence he went to Colchester His Loyalty to his Master was proof against all Batteries and Sollicitations of his Enemies He was sent Prisoner to the Tower by the Parliament which was butindeed but a part of the Dom. Com. He escaped from the Tower in Feb. but was retaken and sent back and the next day an Act made for his Tryal and being condemned was beheaded 1648. undaunted on the Scaffold Hence one alluding to his Arms a Lyon Rampant in a Field Gules betwixt three Crosses made these following Lines Thus Lyon like Capel undaunted stood Beset with Crosses in a Field of Blood He wrote a book of Meditation wherein judicious Piety is discovered he was Grandfather to this present Earl of Essex The Earl of Holland was executed at the same time with this Noble Lord Capel and Duke Hamilton March 9th an 1648. And now give me leave to bring in a Murder without any former precedent and I hope none will be so wicked and horrid as to think of the like fact for the future Char. the I. our Lawful and good King was taken from his own House at Holdenby in Northamptonshire and carried to Childersley by Cornet Joice then to Roysten Hatfield Windsor Hampton-Court this was done in May and June Then the King escaped to the Isle of Wight but stay'd not long before he was brought back and Jan. 4. an Ordinance was engrossed and read for

the Roads very clear and quiet for the Prince's Horse to march at their leisure and come for London which by easie Marches in few days was accomplish●● to the great joy and rejoying of England But before his Highness would arrive at White-hall to prevent disorders by tumults or otherways which might have been raised by the Romanists and other disaffected persons residing and busying themselves in and about London and Westminster he was pleased to send three or more Lords to the King that he would be pleased to withdraw his person and his Guards to Windsor or any other place where his Majesty should make choice of And withall upon the word of a Prince his Majesty should be secured from all fear and danger This message came to the King about 11. or 12. a Clock in the Night which being delivered the King presently prepared himself and withdrew into Kent with a party of his Guards to Rochester This was his first leaving White-hall December 10th and going to Feversham in Kent was retaken and brought back to London in great state and rejoycing by his Subjects and the Prince did appoint some of his own Guards half Protestants and half Papists which latter went to Mass with him and had liberty to go where he pleased the Guard being charged by the Prince to that very purpose The Priests thinking themselves in a snare which indeed did of right belong to them made the King very uneasie and perswaded him to go away a second time which was done 18. Decemb. and going into Kent with his Guards which the King himself commanded took shipping with a party with him dismissing his Guards whom by gratuities he requited and so sailed into France without any disturbance Now let any indifferent and unbyassed person judge if the King was forced by any rough or unmannerly means or actions to leave his Kingdom being upon 23. of December His Queen with her new found out Relation went away from White-hall upon Decemb. 9. accompanied with Count Dada Father Peters and some Ladies of Honour and Gentlewomen to wait upon her person with good store of Household-goods Jewels and Treasure and also landed safely in France where the French King was pleased after his compliments passed to provide for her according to her Royal quality The King going away as I told you upon the 18. day Upon the same day the Prince entred into St. James Palace his whole Army marching with him increased by this time to above 20000 and being very much wearied by their long marches and the winter Season was all except sufficient Guards sent into winter Quarters into the adjacent Counties but especially Southwark Westminster and the Suburbs were filled with sufficient numbers of them The Army being thus provided with Quarters the Prince was pleased to assemble a General Council consisting of Lords Spiritual and Temporal Gentlemen and Lawyers in which Assembly the Prince was desired to send out his several Precepts to all Counties Cities and Borough-Towns in England and Wales these precepts was directed to the several Coroners in their respective Counties for at this time the Sheriffs of most Counties were not setled and as these Coroners so the Mayors and Sheriffs of Cities and divers Corporations were required to give notice to all in their several Jurisdictions at certain days prefixed and at such places as they should judge convenient and there to make choice of Able Persons and Gentlemen of known integrity to appear such a day at Westminster in th● two Houses of Parliament which accordingly was performed and received the Nomination of a Convention But b●fore this meeting the Prince was pleased to send for over into England his Royal Consort Mary Princess of Orange this Convention after some weeks taking into consideration the distracted and unsetled condition of the Nation wanting a Head and power to restore the said Nation into its pristine Glory and Safety by the advice of the best Lawyers and Statesmen and by search of many former Precedents wherein it did plainly appear that in all reason this Convention so generally chosen by the consent of the Commons of England might be stiled the Parliament of England to all intents and purposes And accordingly under that denomination all matters of State and concerns of the Publick were transacted And taking into their consideration the departure of King James out of the Kingdom after many arguments Pro and Con. it was agreed that by such departure out of the Kingdom without any compulsion but his own free accord he had absolutely abdicated his Kingdom and it was absolutely necessary the Crown should be conferred on the next lawful Heir which was without any further arguing adjudged to be M●ry Princess of Orange Nevertheless the Parliament wisely searching into the State of the Kingdom into what great dangers it was relapsed both by reason of open Enemies and seeming bosom-Friends at home the Devilish Intreagues of that deadly hater of Christians and almost all Mankind Lewis the French King for preventing these mischievous designs now on Foot against England Scotland and Ireland it was Voted by Both Houses of Parliament Nemine contradicente that the Prince of Orange should be invested in the Crown with his Lady and so made King and Queen of England Scotland France and Ireland with all other Dominions thereunto belonging and they were immediately Proclaimed at Whitehall-Gate Temple-Bar and the Royal Exchange with the usual Solemnities and with great signs of rejoycing and satisfaction to all sober People and then Proclamations were sent down into all the Counties of England to the same purpose which was performed with great joy and alacrity as appeared by their many Bonsires Ringing of Bells and several other demonstrations of gladness they would take up several Sheets of Paper if they were to be fully mentioned in this small Treatise and for the Coronation of this blessed Pair it falls not under my figure Yet I hope the Readers Patience will hold out till April 11th in the next ensuing year where in other Writings he may be sure to satisfie himself in the truth of the whole Proceedings Scotland knowing very well all the several transactions of England and being well approved by them take the same measures and tread in the same steps calling together the States of the Land being the Nobility Gentry and other Degrees amongst them and being assembled were likewise named a Convention and afterwards a Parliament who presently addressed themselves to our King and humbly beg'd his Protection and Proclaimed William and Mary their King and Queen according to the Scottish Custom and after a little time came to London tend●ing their Crown by Commissioners to their Majesties which was accepted very graciously Poor distressed Ireland however the major but in the genuine sence the better part thereof would have willingly and chearfully followed the former Examples of England and Scotland but the Commands of the late King James the crafty Projects of the French King the fly