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A95900	A summarie, or short survey of the annalls and most remarkable records of King Charles his reigne, from the first yeare thereof to this present, 1646. VVherein wee may plainly see how the Popish, Jesuiticall and prelaticall malignant party have indevoured the ruine of this church and kingdom, but was by Gods mercy most miraculously prevented. / Collected by John Vicars.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.	1646 (1646)	Wing V330; Thomason 669.f.10[101]; ESTC R210649	13,838	8

Belfore then Leivtenant of the Tower promising and assuring him twenty thousand pound and the marriage of his daughter to Sir Williams Son if he would but consent unto and assist his escape but loyall Sir William hated such bribes of trechery and still kept him fast and so the neck of all that plot was broken 48. Then they attempted by foule and false scandals on the Parliament to intice the Army of the Scots then still in the North to a newtrality and to sit still whiles our English army acted the farther designes hatched and hammered still in their heads and hearts but this plot prevailed not neither All these preceding passages were the confused effects of 15 or 16 yeares of the Kings reig● Anno 1641. Octob. 23. 49. About this time that most horrid and inhumane bloody rebellion and monstrous massacring of almost 200000 innocent English Protestants men women and children brake out in Ireland namely about October 23. 1641. This also being a main branch of this most mischievous design against this Parliament by Gods wonderfull power and providence so firmly fixed and setled that they knew not how to ruinate it those accursed Rebels having had their principall encouragements and Commissions to authorize them in that horrid and hideous rebellion from the Court of England and of purpose to have made England the chiefe seat of the warre and of all the papists prelates and malignants utmost wrath and rage 50. For the still effecting and underhand working on of this wicked designe the malignant party in private much prevailing still the designe now went on chiefly against the City of London for which purpose the noble and loyall Leivtenant of the Tower Sir William Belfore was for his loyalty displaced by the King from his Leivtenantship and popish Lord Cotting●on made Constable of the Tower but his dangerous designes being soon discovered he was as soon displaced and Colonell Lunsford not long before a Newgate-bird and fitter for Newgate was made Leivtenant of the Tower But he also by the Parliaments petition and importunity to the King was displaced and Sir John Byron a desperate malignant who afterward proved the most bloody Lord Byron in Ches●ire was made Leivtenant of the Tower in Lunsfords stead but he also on many just jealousies being petitioned against was at length with much adoe removed and put out thence and Sir John Co●yers by the power of the Parliament was put in his place 51. About which time a most wicked fellow sent to Mr. John Pymm a most pious Patriot of his Country and then a most eminent member of the House of Commons a most reviling Letter therein calling him traytor and in the said Letter inclosed a plague-sore plaister thinking thereby to have destroyed him But God mightily preserved him from the infection of it 52. None of all these plots yet prevailing against the Parliament neither in generalls nor particulars they yet persist to plot and attempt against it and about this time found occasions craftily and causelesly in secret to foment many jealousies and jarre● to dis-joynt both Houses of Parliament within themselves thereby at least to obstruct and retard their then most weighty and great affaires in Church and State 53. The Bishops also themselves had a pestilent plot about this time to subvert and overthrow the Parliament by endevouring to get the King to protest against their proceedings in it But twelve of them were thereupon presently imp●ached of high treason and ten of them imprisoned in the Towre of London and afterward they were all disabled from ever sitting again in the Parliament 54. After this the King himself being guarded with about 500 armed russianly desperate Cavaliers or Souldiers violently rushed into the House of Commons accused five of their most eminent and pious Members of treāson demanded their persons to be delivered up unto him intending to destroy all that resisted him therein but this plot was blessedly crost by the happy absen●e of the Gentlemen this plot was attempted Jan. 4. 1641. Anno 1642. 55. After this one Binion a Silkman of London and the Kentish Malignants wherein Sir Edward Deering had a principall hand framed dangerous and destructive petitions against the proceedings of the Parliament but were both most justly rejected and themselves fined and imprisoned for them 56. Immediately after this things grew still worse and worse among the malignants the King himself in unjust discontent by the desperate and wicked counsell of that pernicious Cataline the young Lord Digby forsakes the Parliament and getting the Prince to him leaves London and presently posts into the North and there attempts to get Hull into his hands but was happily prevented and bravely opposed by Sir John Hotham then in that time of his outward and seeming fidelity 57. The King being at York interdicts the Militia then set on foot by the Parliament for their just safety and defence endevouring to remove the Term from the City of London but in both is opposed by the Parliament 58. The Lords and Gentry of Ireland and of Scotland too petition the King to return to his Parliament yea and the Gentry and Commons of Yorkeshire do the like but are all rejected 59. The King set on foot a most illegall Commission of Array to clash against the Parliaments Militia which occasioned much mischief and misery over the whole Kingdom but the Parl. Militia prevailed in most places and parts of the land 60. Three letters were intercepted discovering a most desperat●●lot against the Parliament by the Royalists Commissary Wìlmot Digbie Jermine Crofts and others which by Gods mercy failed them and came to nothing but we in taking some of their ships were advantaged thereby 61. Sir Richard Gurney then Lord Mayor of the City of London proving a desperate malignant and Array man and more apt than able to act for the King was crost in his desires and clapt up prisoner in the Tower of London by the power of the Parliament 62. Proclamations and Declarations against the Parliaments proceedings were Printed and published and commanded to be read in all the Churches and Chappels over the whole kingdom within the Kings power 63. Sir John Penington a brave Sea-man but a desperate malignant was constituted Admirall of the Seas for the Kings service but displaced and dispossessed thereof by the Parliament and the most noble and loyall Earl of Warwick notwithstanding the Kings Letter and command to interdict him therein and to give way to Penington being put in by the power and authority of the Parliament and possessed of the Ships most happily and honourably kept and continued in the place and office for the Parliaments service 64. Hull having been long besieged by that most mischeivous and atheisticall Marquesse of Newcastle for the King and in that interim one Beck with a known Papist plotting to have betrayed it by firing it in foure severall places and then assaulting it yet Hull by Gods mighty providence was preserved and the

King after much losse of men and money enforced to leave and forsake it 65. The most noble and right honourable Earle of Essex was ordained Lord Generall over all the Parliaments Forces for the preservation of the kingdom which he famously and faithfully managed and marshalled as especially Edge-hill and Newbery and other places can abundantly witnesse 66. A plot to have blown up all the Lord Generalls Magazine of powder and another at Beverley in Yorkeshire to have slain Sir John Hotham both intended by one David Alexander and hired thereunto by the Kings party but both by Gods providence timely prevented 67. Commissions granted to popish Recusants to levy men and armes against the Parliament but the Parlia published a Declaration or Protestation to the whole world against the Kings dealings and most unjust proceedings therein 68. The King received the most bloody Irish rebels petition and permitted their persons with great favour and allowance about him calling and counting them his good Catholick Subjects but utterly rejecting the Parliaments petition exhibited by the Lord Generall desiring peace and reconciliation with him 69. A Treaty of peace was really intended by the Parliament but meerly pretended and fraudulently for a while transacted by the Royalists in which interim that most bloody bickering at Brainford was most treacherously committed by the Kings party and a most wicked piece of villany carryed on therein but though with much losse on both sides but especially on theirs by Gods great mercy the mischiefe prevented and the City of London mightily preserved 70. A dangerous plot against the kingdom in new High-Sheriffes to be listed by the King for his better collecting of the 400000 li. Subsidies intended to have been confirmed to the King in a former Parliament but that plot crost by the Parliaments providence and an Ordinance of Parliament set on foot for the successefull Association of Counties for mutuall defence one of another against regall injurious taxations and oppressions on them 71. A wicked design of the Royalists at Oxford and elsewhere to proceed against the Parliaments prisoners as traytors and so to put them to death by which Doctor Bastwick and Captain Lilburn were to have been tryed for their lives but prevented by an Ordinance of Parliament for execution of a Lex Talionis and so of executing the Royall prisoners among us Anno 1643. 72. A notable plot against the City of London immediately upon the Cities preferring a petition to the King by the hands of two trusty Aldermen and foure 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-Hall as they terme it in their Guild-Hall this Hern desires Faire-play above-board of them But the businesse being found to be a notable designe of the malignant-Citizens against the Parliament and the then Lord Mayor of London and the Government of their City the honest and farre major party cry out in the hearing of Hern they would live and dye with the Parliament and so sent Hern away with a flea in his eare 73. Another plot immediately after contrived by the King and his agents at Oxford by a Letter sent by his Majesty to all the Freemen Journey-men and Apprentices of the said City to assemble at their severall Halls 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 Parliament and City but this letter was nipt and crost also in the neck and nick of it and voted by the Parliament to be evill and scandalous 74. A plot also to betray Bristol into the Royallists hands by one Yeomous and Bowcher and divers other their associates but by Gods mercy the plot being timely discovered and the danger avoyded those two principall conspirators were by Martiall Law condemned and hanged and so the plot utterly frustrated 75. Cheapeside crosse Chaering-crosse and all other crosses in and about London utterly demolished and pulled down and that abominable and blasphemous book of tolerating sports and pastimes on the Lords daies voted to be burnt and shortly after accordingly burnt together with many crucifixes and popish trinckets and trumperies in the very same place where Cheapeside-crosse stood 76. M. Prynne sent by the Parliament to the Towre of London to search the Arch prelate of Canterburies chamber and Study there where he was prisoner who accordingly searching his Study and his pockets of his wearing cloathes a just requitall of his dealing with Mr. Pryn●e and others found the originall Scotch Service-book with the Arch Bishops owne hand-writings in it the cause of all the Scots warres and his Diary Devotions and discoveries under his owne hands of matters of high concernment 77. The City of London to have been betrayed into the hands of the Royalists under a pretence of a petition for peace plotted by Mr. Waller a member of the H●●se of Commons M. Tompkins Mr. Challenor and others and this wicked plot termed by King Charles in his letter to the Queen one of his Fine Designes But God manifested them to be wicked and accursed Designes and Waller one of the prime complotters was by the sentence of the Parliament fined 10000 li. in his estate and sent out of the kingdom into perpetuall banishment and Tompkins and Challenor hanged in London 78. The breaking out of Sir John Hothams rotten-heart and infidelity to the Parliament in his intended and attempted plot for the betraying of that mighty strong Town of Hull into the Queens hands which treachery was plotted and contrived between Sir John the father Captain Hotham his son and Sir Edward Roades and began to be suspected by Sir John Hothams deserting of the most noble Lord Fairfax by an intercepeed letter of the Queens to the King and divers other sumptomes of it but especially by Captain Moyers letter to Mr. Ripley and Mr. Ripley's faithfull acquainting the Mayor of Hull therewith and their first seizing on the Block-houses Castles and Commanders of them and at length their apprehending of the persons of Sir John Hotham and Captain Hotham his Son was also apprehended and both of them beheaded at the Tower of London 79. A desperate plot for the betraying of the City or Town of Lincolne by the two Purfries two Captains of Hull who let in 60 Cavaliers by night in disguised habits and who issuing out about 12 of the clock that night to act their design where a plain fellow of the Town discharging a piece of Canon upon them slew 10 of them at one shot the rest slain and taken by the centinels and Souldiers of the town and so by Gods mercy the City preserved 80. The Queen wrote a dangerous letter to the King to come with all his forces to surprize London but by Gods over-powring wisedome and good providence the King refusing that counsell resolved to take Gloucester first