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A63971	The Protestant Martyrs: or, The bloody assizes Giving an account of the lives, tryals, and dying speeches, of all those eminent Protestants that suffered in the west of England, by the sentence of that bloody and cruel Judge Jefferies; being in all 251 persons, besides what were hang'd and destroyed in cold blood. Containing also, the life and death of James Duke of Monmouth; his birth and education; his actions both at home and abroad; his unfortunate sentence, execution and dying-words upon the scaffold: with a true copy of the paper he left behind him. And many other curious remarks worth the reader's observation.	Tutchin, John, 1661?-1707.	1688 (1688)	Wing T3382AA; ESTC R220942	22,249	20

have heard of your Repentance for the Treason and Bloodshed which hath been committed Mon. I die very Penitent Assist My Lord it is fit to be particular and considering the Publick Evil you have done you ought to do as much Good now as possibly you can by a Publick Acknowledgment Mon. What I have thought fit to say of Publick Affairs is in a Paper which I have Signed I refer to my Paper Assist My Lord there is nothing in that Paper about Resistance and you ought to be particular in your Repentance and to have it well grounded God give you True Repentance Mon. I die very Penitent and die with great Chearfulness for I know I shall go to God. Assist My Lord you must go to God in his own way Sir be sure you be truly Penitent and ask Forgiveness of God for the many you have wronged Mon. I am sorry for every one I have wronged I forgive every Body I have had many Enemies I forgive them all Assist Sir your Acknowledgment ought to be particular Mon. I am to die pray my Lord I refer to my Paper Assist They are but a few Words that we desire We only desire an Answer to this Point Mon. I can Bless God that he hath given me so much Grace that for these two Years last past I have had a Life unlike to my former Course and in which I have been happy Assist Sir was there no Ill in these two Years In these Years these great Evils have happened and the giving Publick Satisfaction is a necessary part of Repentance be pleased to own a Detestation of your REBELLION Mon. I beg your Lordship that you would stick to my Paper Assist My Lord as I said before there is nothing in your Paper about the Doctrine of Non-resistance Mon. I Repent of all things that a true Christian ought to Repent of I am to die pray my Lord Assist Then my Lord we can only recommend you to the Mercy of God but we cannot Pray with that Chearfulness and Encouragement as we should if you had made a particular Acknowledgment Mon. God be praised I have Encouragement enough in my self I die with a clear Conscience I have wronged no Man. Assist How Sir no Man Have you not been Guilty of Invasion and of much Blood which hath been shed and it may be of the Loss of many Souls that followed you You must needs have wronged a great many Mon. I do Sir own that and am sorry for it Ass Give it the true Name Sir and call it Rebellion Mon. What Name you please Sir I am sorry for Invading the Kingdom and for the Blood that has been shed and for the Souls which may have been lost by my means I am sorry it ever happened Mr. Sher. Vandeput He says he is sorry for Invading the Kingdom Ass We have nothing to add but to renew the frequent Exhortations we have made to you to give some Satisfaction for the Publick Injuries to the Kingdom There have been a great many Lives lost by this Resistance of your Lawful Prince Mon. What I have done has been very ill and I wish with all my Heart it had never been I never was a Man that delighted in Blood I was very far from it I was as cautious in this as any Man was the Almighty God knows how I now die with all the Joyfulness in the World. Ass God grant you may Sir God give you true Repentance Mon. If I had not True Repentance I shonld not so easily have been without the sear of Dying I shall die like a Lamb. Ass Much may come from Natural Courage Mon. I do not attribute it to my own Nature for I am fearful as other Men are but I have now no fear as you may see by my Face but there is something within me that does it for I am sure I shall go to God. Ass My Lord be sure upon good Grounds do you Repent you of all your Sins known or unknown confessed or not confessed of all the Sins which might proceed from Error in Judgment Mon. In general for all I do with all my Soul. Ass God Almighty of his Infinite Mercy forgive you Here are great Numbers of Spectators here are the Sheriffs they represent the Great City and in speaking to them you speak to the Great City make some Satisfaction by owning your Crime be●ore them He was exhorted to Pray for the King and was asked whether he did not desire to send some Dutiful Message to His Majesty and to recommend his Wife and Children to His Maiesty's Favour Mon. What harm have they done Do it if you please I pray for him and for all Men. Ass At his Undressing My Lord you have been bred a Soldier you will do a generous Christian thing if you please to speak to the Soldiers and say That here you stand a sad Example of Rebellion and en reat them and the People to be Loyal and Obedient to the King. Mon. I have said I will make no Speeches I will make no Speeches I am come to die Ass My Lord Ten Words will be enough M. Then calling his Servant and giving him something like a Tooth-pick Case Here said he give this to the Person to whom you are to deliver the other things To the Executioner Here are six Guinea's for you pray do your Business well Don't serve me as you did my Lord Russel I have heard you struck him three or four times Here to his Servant take these remaining Guinea's and give them to him if he does his Work well Exec. I hope I shall Mon. If you strike me twice I cannot promise you not to stir During his Undressing and standing towards the Block were used divers Ejaculations and much of the 51st Psalm and particularly Deliver me from Blood-guiltiness O God Thou God c. Then he lay down and soon after he raised himself upon his Elbow and said to the Executioner Prithee let me feel the Ax. He felt the Edge and said I fear it is not sharp enough Execut. It is sharp enough and heavy enough Then he lay down again During this space many pious Ejaculatious were used by those who assisted him with great Fervency God accept your Repentance God accept your Repentance God accept your imperfect Repentance My Lord God accept your Repentance God Almighty shew his Omnipotent Mercy up on you Father into thy Hands we commend his Spirit c. Lord Jesus receive his Soul. A Brief Abstract of the Paper left behind him I Repent in general of all my Sins and am more particularly concern'd for what Blood hath been spilt on my Account and the rather seeing the issue is such as I sear will prove of Fatal Consequence to the Reformed Protestant Religion Instead of being counted Factious and Rebellious the very opposing of Popery and Arbitrary Power now arising and appearing plain enough would sufficiently have protected my Cause besides several other most heinous and

I have done his Will tho' it does cross Man's Will and the Scriptures that satisfie me are Isa 16. 4. Hide the Outcasts bexray not him that wandereth And Obad. 13 14. Thou shouldst not have given up those of his that escape in the Day of his Distress But Man says You shall give them up or you shall dye for it Now who to obey judge ye So that I have Cause to rejoyce and be exceeding glad in that I suffer for Righteousness sake and that I am accounted worthy to suffer for Well doing and that God has accepted any Service from me which has been done in Sincerity tho' mixed with manifold Infirmities which he hath been pleased for Christ's sake to cover and forgive And now as concerning my Fact as it is called alas it was but a little one and might well become a Prince to forgive but he that sh ws no Mercy shall find none And I may say of it in the Language of Jonathan I did but taste a little Honey and lo I must die for it I d●d but relieve an unworthy poor distressed Family and lo I must dye for it Well I desire in the Lamb-like Gospel-Spirit to forgive all that are concerned and to say Lord lay it not their Charge but I fear he will not Nay I believe when he comes to make Inquisition for Blood it will be found at the Door of the furious Judge who because I could not remember Things through my Dauntedness at Burton's Wife 's and Daughter's Vileness and my Ignorance took Advantage thereat and would not hear me when I had called to mind that which I am sure would have invalidated their Evidence tho' he granted something of the same Nature to another yet denyed it to me My Blood will also be found at the Door of the unrighteous Jury who found me Guilty upon the single Oath of an out-lawed Man for there was none but his Oath about the Money who is no legal Witness though he be pardoned his Out-lawry cannot be recalled and also the Law requires two Witnesses in point of Life And then about my going with him to the Place mentioned 't was by his own Words before he was Out-lawed for 't was two Months after his absconding and tho' in a Proclamation yet not High Treason as I have heard so that I am clearly murdered by you And also Bloody Mr. A. who has so insatiably hunted after my Life and though it is no Profit tlo him through the ill Will he bore me left no Stone unturned as I have ground to believe till he brought it to this and shewed favour to Burton who ought to have dyed for his own Fault and not bought his Life with mine and Capt. R. who is cruel and severe to all under my Circumstances and did at that time without all Mercy or Pity hasten my Sentence and held up my Hand that it might be given all which together with the Great One of all by whose Power all these and a Multitude more of Cruelties are done I do heartily and freely forgive as against me but as it is done in an implacable Mind agaigst the Lord Christ and his righteous Cause and Followers I leave it to him who is the Avenger of all such Wrongs who will tread upon Princes as upon Mortar and be terrible to the Kings of the Earth And know this also that though ye are seemingly fixt and because of the Power in your Hand are writing out your Violence and dealing with a despight●ul Hand because of the old and new Hatrred by impovering and every way distressing those you have got under you yet unless you can secure Jesus Christ and all his Holy Angels you shall never do your Business nor your Hands accomplish your Enterprizes for he will be upon you e'er you are aware and therefore O that you would be wise instructect and learn is the Desire of her that finds no Mercy from you Elizabeth Graunt The Earl of Argyle WE must now take a Step over into Scotland that poor Country which has been harass'd and tired for these many Years to render them perfect Slaves that they might help to enslave England to prevent which and secure the Protestant Religion which 't was grown impossible to do but by Arms this good Lord embarkt from Holland about the same Time with the Duke and arrived in Scotland with what Forces he could make to which were added some others who joined him which after several Marches and Counter-marches were at length led into a Boggy sort of a Place on Pretence or with Intention to bring him off from the other Army then upon the Heels of 'em where they lost one another dispersed and shifted for themselves the Earl being taken by a Country-man and brought to Edinburgh where he suffered for his former unpardondable Crime requiring Care should be taken of the Protestant Religion and explaining his taking the Test conformable thereto for the Legality of which he ha● the Hands of the most eminent Lawyers about the City He suffered at Edinburgh the 30th of June 1685. His Speech has a great deal of Piety and Religion nor will it be any Disgrace to say 't was more like a Sermon 'T is as follows The Earl of Argyle's last Speech June 30. 1685. JOB tells us Man that is born of a Woman is of few Days and full of Trouble and I am a clear instance of it I shall not say thing of my Sentence or Escape about three years and a half ago nor of my Return lest I may thereby give Offence or be too tedious Only being to end my Days in your Presence I shall as some of my last Words assert the Truth of the Matter of Fact and the Sincerity of my Intentions and Professions that are published That which I intend mainly now to say is To express my humble and I thank God chearful Submission to his Divine Will and my Willingness to forgive all Men even my Enemies and I am heartily well sati●fied there is no more Blood spilt and I shall wish the Stream may stop at me And that if it please God as to Zerubbabel Zech. 4. 6. Not by Might nor by Power but by my Spirit saith the Lord of Hosts I know Afflictions spring not out of the Dust God did wonderfully deliver and provide for me and has now by his special Providence brought me to this Place and I hope none will either insult or stumble at it seeing they ought not for God Almighty does all Things well for Good and holy Ends tho' we not always understand it Love and Hatred is not known by what is before us Eccles 9. 1. 8. 11 12 13. Afflictions are not only foretold but promised to Christians and are not only tolerable but desirable We ought to have a deep Reverence and Fear of God's Displeasure but withal a Hope and Dependance on him for a blessed Issue in Compliance with his Will for God chastens his own to

Schism shall be at an End and cease for ever Many Things that are innocent lawful and laudable which have soul Marks and black Characters stampt and fixe upon 'em here they shall be perfectly purified and fully cleansed from there where at one View more shall be known of them than by all wrangling Debates and eager Disputes or by reading all Polemical Books concerning them here I greatly deplore and bewail the greedy Appetite and insatiable Thirst that professing Protestants have after the Blood of their Brethren and the high pleasure they take in the Effusion thereof But what will not Men do when they are either judicially blinded or their secular worldly Interest insensibly insinuates and winds it self into their Religion is so twisted and incorporated with it that it animates and acts it is the Life and Soul the vital Form and Power and made wholly subservient thereunto My Lord Jefferies after he had left Bristol being come to the King to give an Account of his Affairs in the West the Great Seal being to be disposed of by the Death of the late Keeper he kiss'd the King's Hand for it and was made Lord Chancellour which was only an Earnest of his Desert for so eminent and extraordinary a piece of Service so now that which remains is to give an Account of divers that had fled and hid themselves up and down in Holes and Privacies whose Friends made all Application to some great Men or other to procure their Pardons some to this and others to such as they thought Favourites of the King but the Rewards must be ascertain'd before any Application could be made Divers Lists being sent up and the Rewards ascertained which amongst many of them put together did amount to considerable so that it was now who could find a Friend to relieve his distressed Relations which were forced to wander up and down in Caves and Desarts for fear of being taken But this Misfortune attended the Agents that unless my Lord Chancellour were used by his Creatures that were allowed by him so to do other Applications commonly met with Disappointments which caused an Emulation among the great Men one supposing to have deserted the King's Ear as well as the other which caused other Measures to be taken though some were wheedled out of their Money At last came out a General Pardon with Exceptions very few if any of those that were sollicited for not being excepted were of Course pardoned but however divers Sums of Money having been paid no Restitution to be had for from Hell is no Redemption A Western Gentleman's Purchase came to fifteen or sixteen hundred Guineas which my Lord Chancellour had Amongst the Exceptions were a Parcel of Yaunton Girls some of which were Children of eight or ten Years old however something was to be made of them if these Ladies were judged guilty of Treason for presenting the Duke of Monmouth with Colours c. and for to preserve these from Trial they were given to Maids of Honour to make up their Christmas Box so that an Agent of theirs was sent down into the Country to compound with their Parents to preserve them from what might after follow if taken so that some according to Ability gave 100 l. others 50 l. all which however did not answer the Ladies first Expectations yet it did satisfie and they were accordingly pardoned Thus we have given you an Account of what hath happened on this Occasion being in every Point Truth We might have farther enlarged but that would have spoiled the Design and swoln our Pocket-Companion to a Volume too big We shall therefore next proceed to give you a true and exact List of all them that were condemned and suffered in the West and the Year 1685. under the Sentence of my Lord Chief Justice Jeffreys with the Names of the Towns where every Man was executed Lyme 12. COl Holmes Mr. Batiscomb Mr. William Hewling Mr. Sampson Lark Dr. Temple Capt. Madders Capt. Matthews Mr. Joseph Tyler Mr. William Cox c. Bath 6. Walter Baker Henry Body Gerrard Bryant Thomas Clotworthy Thomas Collins John Carter Philipsnorton 12. Robert Cook Edward Creaves John Caswell Thomas Hayward John Hellier Edward Beere Henry Portridge George Pether Thomas Peirce John Richards John Staple John Smith Froome 12. Francis Smith Samuel Vill alias Vile Thomas Star Philip Usher Robert Beamant William Clement John Humphrey George Hasty Robert Man Thomas Pearl Laurence Lott Thomas Lott Bruton 3. James Feildsen Humphrey Braden Richard Bole. Wincanton 6. John Howel Richard Harvey John Tucker William Holland Hugh Holland Thomas Bowden Shepton-Mallet 13. Stephen Mallet Joseph Smith John Gilham Jun. Giles Bramble Richard Chinn William Cruise George Pavier John Hildworth John Ashwood Thomas Smith John Dorchester Sen. John Combe John Groves Hensford 12. Roger Cornelius John Starr Humphrey Edwards William Pierce Arthur Sullway George Adams Henry Russel George Knight Robert Wine William Clerk alias Chick Preston Bevis Richard Finier Wrington 3. Alexander Key David Boyss Joshua French. Wells 8. William Mead Thomas Cade Robert Doleman Thomas Durston John Sheperd Abraham Bend William Durston William Plumley Ulvelscomb 3. William Ruscomb Thomas Pierce Robert Combe Tuton upon Mendip 2. Peter Prance William Watkins Chard 12. Edward Foote John Knight William Williams John Jervis Humphrey Hitchcook William Godfrey Abraham Pill William Davy Henry Easterbrook James Dennett Edward Warren Simon Cross Creokern 10. John Spore Roger Burnoll William Pether James Evory Robert Hill Nicholas Adams Richard Stephens Robert Halfwell John Bushel William Lashly Somerton 7. William Gillet Thomas Lissant William Pocock Christopher Stephens George Cantick Robert Allen Joseph Kelloway Yeovil 8. Francis Foxwell George Pitcher Bernard Devereux Bernard Thatcher for concealing Bovet William Johnson Thomas Hurford Edward Gillard Oliver Powel Netherstoe 3. Humphrey Mitchel Richard Culverell Merrick Thomas Dunster 3. Henry Lackwell John Geanes William Sully Dulverton 3. John Basely John Lloyd Henry Thompson Bridgewater 12. Robert Fraunces Nicholas Stodgell Joshua Bellamy William Meggeridge John Hurman Robert Roper Richard Harris Richard Engram John Trott Roger Guppey Roger Hore Isaiah Davis Ratcliffe-Hall at Bristol 6. Richard Evans John Tinckwell Christopher Clerk Edward Tippot Philip Cumbridge John Tucker alias Clover Ilminster 12. Nicholas Collins Sen. Stephen Newman Robert Luckis William Kitch Thomas Burnard William Wellen John Parsons Thomas Trooke Robert Fawne Western Hillary John Burgen Charles Speake Stogersey 2. Hugh Ashley John Herring Wellington 3. Francis Priest Philip Bovet Robert Reed South-petherton 3. Cornelius Furfurd John Parsons Thomas Davis Porlock 2. James Gale Henry Edny Glasendury 6. John Hicks Richard Pearce Israel Briant William Mead. James Pyes John Broome Taunton 19. Robert Perrot Abraham Ansley Benjamin Hewling Peirce Murren John Freake John Savage Abraham Matthews William Jenkyns Henry Lisle John Dryer John Hucker Jonathan England John Sharpe William Deverson John Williams John Patrum James Whittom William Satchel John Trickey Langport 3. Humphrey Peirce Nicholas Venton John Shellwood Arbridg 6. Isaac Tripp Thomas Burnell Thomas Hillary John Gill Senior Thomas Monday John Butcher Cutherston 2. Richard Bovet Thomas Blackmore Minehead 6. John Jones alias Evens Hugh Starke Francis Bartlet Peter Warren Samuel Hawkins Richard Sweet Evilchester 12. Hugh Goodenough Samuel Cox William Somerton John Masters John Walrand David Langwell Osmond Barret Matthew Cross Edward Burford John Mortimer John Stevens Robert Townsden Stogummer 3. George Hillard John Lockstone Arthur Williams Castlecary 3. Richard Ash Samuel Garnish Robert Hinde Milton-port 2. Archibald Johnson James Maxwel Reinsham 11. Charles Chapman Richard Bowden Thomas Trock Lewis Harris Edward Halswell Howel Thomas George Badol Richard Evans John Winter Andrew Rownsden John Phillebey Suffer'd in all 251. Besides those Hanged and Destroyed in cold Blood. This Bloody Tragedy in the West being over our Protestant Judge returns for London soon after which Alderman Cornish felt the Anger of some Body behind the Curtain FINIS

The PROTESTANT Martyrs OR THE Bloody Assizes Giving an Account of the Lives Tryals and Dying Speeches of all those Eminent Protestants that suffered in the West of England by the Sentence of that Bloody and cruel Judge Jefferies being in all 251 Persons besides what were Hang'd and destroyed in cold Blood. CONTAINING ALSO The Life and Death of James Duke of Monmouth His Birth and Education his Actions both at Home and Abroad his Unfortunate Adventure in the West his Letter to King James his Sentence Execution and Dying-Words upon the Scaffold With a true Copy of the Paper he left behind him And many other curious Remarks worth the Reader 's Observation LONDON Printed by J. Bradford at the Bible in Fetter-Lane The Protestant Martyrs Or The Bloody Assizes c. THE most Illustrious Prince James Duke of Monmouth is not for the Illustriousness of his Descent inferiour unto any Prince in Europe being descended from the Loins of the most Renowned Monarch King Charles the Second and also his Eldest Son By which Royal Extraction he is descended from the incomparably wise and vertuous Prince the Royal Martyr Charles the first and his Illustrious Consort Henrietta Maria de Bourbon Daughter of the Great King Henry the Fourth of France From which two ancient and Illustrious stocks he was ingrafted into all the Royal Families of Europe and hath concentred in his Princely Veins some of their Royal Blood being thereby allied to all those great Personages that are of the most high and Illustrious Quality in Europe viz. James Duke of York William of Nassaw Prince of Orange the Lady Madamoiselle Queen of Spain and her Sister Madame de Valois Daughter of the Duke of Oleance and the late Princess Henrietta also to Charles Prince Elector Palatine of the Rhine His Highness Rupert Lewis the fourteenth King of France now reigning and many other Princes and Potentates of Europe which is abundantly sufficient to demonstrate the Nobility of his Birth and the Illustriousness of his Extraction But to render him yet more Eminent it pleased his Royal Father to dignifie him with severel Magnificient Titles and to confer upon him the several Great Offices following vz. Duke of Monmouth and Bucclugh Earl of Doucaster and Dalkeith Lord Scott of Tindale Whinchester and Askdale Lord Great Chamberlain of Scotland Lord Lieutenant of the East-Riding of Yorkshire Governour of his Majesties Town and Cittadel of Kingstone upon Hull Chief Justice in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests Chaces Parks and Warrens on the South-side of the River of Trent Lord General of all his Majesties Land-forces Captain of his Majesties Life-Guards of Horse Chancellor of the University of Cambridge Master of the Horse to his Majesty one of the Lords of his Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council and Knight of the most noble Oder of the Garter All which Places he discharged with so much Honour and Fidelity that the most inveterare and implacable of his Enemies notwithstanding all their noise and clamour against him were not able to produce one single instance wherein he acted otherwise Besides his honour at home he had likewise been highly honoured abroad by having the Honour to command an Army in Flanders as Lieutenant-General under the French King whose continual success and numerous Victories in Flanders may be chiefly attributed to the Conduct and Valour of the Great Monmouth He was born at Rotterdam April 9. in the year 1649. in the very heat of our unnatural Broils About the year 1656. his Mother was sent a Prisoner to the Tower of London as appears by a Warrant from the Protector July 12. 1656. to Barkstead then Lieutenant of the Tower whereby he discharged Mrs. Lucy Barlow from her Imprisonment The Officers found a Grant when she was apprehended signed Charlet R. by which she had an Anuity or yearly Pensiod of five thousand Livres granted to her for her Life with an Assurance to better the same when it should please God to restore him to his Kingdom and it was subscribed by his Majesties command Edward Nicholas During her abode about London the Cavilears as the Loyalists were then call'd carried themselves towards her with a profound Reverence and awful Respect treating her 〈…〉 Person serving her on the Knee An English Nurse was provided 〈…〉 and both for privacy Lodged at the House of Mr. Claes Ghysen a Merchant living at Schiedam about a Mile from Rotterdam his Mother lodging at the same time at the House of Mrs. Harvey Mother to the famous Doctor Harvey and lived in abundance of Pomp and Splendor having a Gentleman and other Servants to attend her Some time after he had been there at Nurse his Mother being desirous to see him took her Gentleman with her who at a place where she called by the Way to to pay a Visit desired to be excused for some small time from attending on her till he had dispatched some extraordinary Business which he pretended promising to return again immediately and having obtained her Permission away he went but like an ungrateful and treacherous Villain repaired immediately to Mr. Ghysens at Schiedam where the Princely Babe was nursed and pretending to be sent for that purpose to his Mother carried him and the Nurse both away His Lady waited his coming with abundance of patience but at length Night drawing on and no Gentleman appearing she began to suspect her self to be abused whereupon a Gentleman offering to wait on her thither she presently posted away and being arrived and finding her Son gone I want Words wherewith to express her grief and surprize she rent her Apparel tore the Hair from off her Head and with whole showers of Tears bewailed the greatness of her Loss and the deplorableness of her Condition yet suffered not Grief to prevail so far as to make her uncapable of endeavouring to Right her self whereupon she presently gave order for the providing Horses which being ready she presently posted away to Maesland-Sluce riding all Night she suspected that he was carried thither in order to be transported to England there having been some inquiry made after him she arrived there early in the Morning just as the Sieur Newport one of the Lords of the State and the Maesland were taking Boat for the Hague those that were with her advised her to make her Application to him as the likelieft Person to assist her telling her that he could English whereupon she addressed her self to him in that Languish discovering to him the Condition of her self and Son and the Relation they stood in to the King of England with the Circumstances of his stealing away and pulling out a handful of Gold If Money will do it said she I will spare for no Charges imploring his help and assistance for the recovery of that Royal Treasure this occasioned abundance of People flocking about them to learn the occasion of her Address wherefore he advised her to go into some House and make no noise about it lest she thereby

prevent the accomplishing her desire which she did and he presently ordered a general search to be made and that no Ships should go off till they were searched notwithstanding which they could make no discovery of him till about 10 or 12 days after when he was found at Loesdymen where he had been all that time concealed and having to her inexpressible Joy recovered him she took a stately House at Boscal where they resided for some time Upon his Majesties going for Scotland in June 1650. he was committed by his Majesty to the care of his Illustrious Grandmother who lived then at the Par-le-Roy in Paris and was by her committed to the care of one Goff belonging to her Majesty charging him to provide a good careful Nurse for him which he did accordingly commending to her Majesty one Mrs. Miles a Gentlewoman that belonged likewise to her Majesty The Beauty and Make of his Person and the Majesty of his Port and Cerriage even whilst an Infant plainly discover'd the Greatness of his Birth and the largeness of his Soul and every succeeding Year of his Childhood and afforded new Promises and Hopes that he would prove an Illustrious Branch of growing Honour making an Early Discovery even at that tender Age not only of a Great and Princely Spirit but also of an extraordinary Goodness and Sweetness of Nature seeming to have that even and well-biassed Temper of Mind radicated in his very Nature which other Men with extraordinary Industry and help of Philosophy and Religion hardly acquire when arrived at Years of Maturity Nor were his Inclinations to Vertue more admirable than the desire he had to learn useful and solid Arts his Genius rendring the Study and Exercises thereof far more acceptable to him than the Vanity of the most exquisite Divertisements Wherefore when he was about 8 or 9 Years of Age he was taken from Goff and committed to the Care of Mr. Ross a Gentleman who after His Majesty's Restauration went Secretary to the Honourable Henry Coventry Esquire in his Embassy to Sweden and sent to Julen a Place about 7 Leagues from Paris there to be accommodated with Learning and fitted for those great Employments which God and Nature as well as His Majesty had designed him for in the future part of his Life He went there by the Name of Mr. Crossts Soon after His Majesty's happy Restauration he commanded Mr. Ross to turn away all his former Servants and entertain new ones more suitable to his Quality and to demonstrate his Paternal Love and to render his own Happiness the more compleat ordered him to be brought to Court that so he might always have him in his Royal Presence whereupon he was provided with Gentlemen and Pages to wait on him together with a rich Coach and 6 stately Horses a Coach-man Postillion Groom and Foot-men in good Liveries wherewith he set forward towards England About July 1662. he came to Calis where he imbarked for England he Landed at Dover from whence he came by Land to London and not finding his Majesty there he presently repaired to Hampton-Court where His Mejesty then resided by whom he was received and imbraced with all the Demonstrations of Joy imaginable and about the middle of August he came with the Court to White-Hall where His Majesty was pleased to appoint him his Lodgings in the Privy Gallery Soon after His Majesty was pleased to make him a Peer of this Realm by Creating him Duke of Arkeny which Title was after changed for that of Monmouth and the Cap and Robes being presented to him in the ensuing Parliament he took his Seat in the House of Peers In April 1663. he was with the usual Solemnity installed Knight of the Garter at Windsor This was followed by that which made his Happiness yet more full and compleat His Majesty being pleased to consent to a Contract of Marriage between his Grace and the only surviving Child and sole Heir of the late Earl of Bucclugh a Lady reputed to be the greatest Fortune and to have the largest Dowery in the Three Kingdoms her incomparable Vertues and surprising Beauty being no way inferior to but rather exceeding her Portion her Mother the Countess of Wembs being consulted about the Match having received satisfaction from His Majesty in whatsoever she proposed she willingly gave her Consent and the Marriage was speedily Celebrated with extraordinary Pomp and Splendor to the great Content of His Majesty the Queen's Mother and the whole Court. Soon after this upon the Resignation of the Lord Brandon Gerard his Father King Charles created him Captain of his Life-Guard and admitted one of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy-Council In the Year 1672. the French King Lewis XIVth made great Preparations for a War against the Datch in which King Charles engaging the Duke was sent to Command the English whose Gallantry and Bravery was sufficiently admir'd by all present where was the French King himself He was attended by a numerous Train of English Volunteer Gentlemen With this vast Army the French sat down before Orsoy and Rhinberg which presently surrender'd From thence they march'd to Wisel accounted an Invincible City which after 4 Days Siege was deliver'd up also Duysbury surrender'd without venturing the Brunt of a Storm This Success of the Fren●h so terrify'd the Hollanders that they abandon'd their Towns as fast as the Enemy approach'd to take Possession of them nay and of some they invite them to be Masters for the City Vtrecht with the whole Province in which were Nine Fine Cities besides Vtrecht it self receiv'd a French Garrison Zutphen and Arnheim follow'd the same Fate and such a rapid Progress was made by the Arms of France that by the 28th of June they were advanc'd within 4 Leagues of Rotterdam and the same distance from Amsterdam Never was any State nearer Ruin than that of Holland at this time and where the Policy of England could be to assist them in such an Expedition has I believe been dearly experienc'd since for it was no small Assistance they receiv'd from the Succours under the D. of Monmouth which will more particularly appear in another Campaign for this being ended the Duke took his Leave of the French King who highly extoll'd his Conduct and Personal Bravery and passing through Flanders arriv'd safely in England and was joyfully receiv'd especially at Court but he was in solemn manner welcom'd home by his Dutchess who was soon after August 26●h happily brought to Bed of a Son which was Christened Charles and died soon after About November following having taken Leave of the King he set out again for France where he was received in a very splendid manner by the French King and the Nobility and being arriv'd at Calais Dec. 18 th he sent an Express to his Majesty to acquaint him that the Prince of Orange was on the 15th sat down with his Army before Char eroy and that there was great Expectation in those Parts what would be