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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

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

me thinks to take notice of them here I le rather dye with them with the comfort of them in mine own bosom and that I never intended in this action or any action that ever I did in my life either malice or bloodshed or prejudice to any creature that lives For that which concerns my Religion I made my profession before of it how I was bred and in what manner I was bred in a Family that was looked upon to be no little notorious in opposition to some liberties that they conceived then to be taken and truly there was some marke upon me as if I had some taint of it even throughout the whole ways that I have taken every body knows what my affections have been to many that have suffered to many that have been in troubles in this Kingdom I endeavoured to oblige them I thought I was tyed so by my conscience I thought it by my charity and truly very much by my breeding God hath now brought me to the last instant of my time all that I can say and all that I can adhere unto is this That as I am a great sinner so I have a great Saviour that as he hath given me here a fortune to come publikely in a shew of shame in the way of this suffering truly I understand it not to be so I understand it to be glory a glory when I consider who hath gone before me and a glory when I consider I had no end in it but what I conceive to be the service of God the King and the Kingdom and therefore my heart is not charged much with any thing in that particular since I conceive God will accept of the intention whatsoever the action seem to be I am going to dye and the Lord receive my soul I have no reliance but upon Christ for my self I doe acknowledge that I am the unworthiest of sinners my life hath been a vanity and a continued sin and God may justly bring me to this end for the sins I have committed against him and were there nothing else but the iniquities that I have committed in the way of my life I look upon this as a great justice of God to bring me to this suffering and to bring me to this punishment and those hands that have been most active in it if any such there have been I pray God forgive them I pray God that there may not be many such Trophies of their Victory but that this may be as I said before the last shew that this people shall see of the blood of persons of Condition of persons of honour I might say somthing of the way of our Tryal which I think hath been as extraordinary as any thing I think hath ever been seen in this Kingdom but because I would not seem as if I made some complaint I will not so much as mention it because no body shall believe I rep●ne at their actions or my owne fortune it is the will of God it is the hand of God under whom I fall I take it intirely from him I submit my self to him I shall desire to roul my selfe into the Armes of my blessed Saviour and when I come to this place Pointing to the block when I bow downe my selfe there I hope God will raise me up and when I bid farewell as I must now to Hope and to Faith that Love will abide I know nothing to accompany the Soul out of this World but Love and I hope that Love will bring me to the fountain of glory in Heaven through the Arms Mediation and the Mercy of my Saviour Jesus Christ in whom I beleeve O Lord helpe my unbelief I shall make as much hast as I can to come to that glory and the Lord of Heaven and Earth take my soul I look upon my selfe intirely in him and hope to find mercy through him I expect it and through that fountaine that is opened for sin and for uncleannesse my soul must receive it for did I rest in any thing else I have nothing but sin and corruption in me I have nothing but that which instead of being carryed up into the arms of God and Glory I have nothing but may throw me downe into Hell And here is the place where I lye downe before him from whence I hope he will raise me to an eternall Glory through my Saviour upon whom I rely from whom onely I can expect mercy into his arms I commend my spirit into his bleeding armes that when I leave this bleeding body that must lye upon this place he will receive that soul that ariseth out of it and receive it into his eternall mercy through the merits through the worthinesse through the mediation of Christ that hath purchased it with his owne most precious blood Christ Jesus receive my soul my soul hungers and thirsts after him clouds are gathering and I trust in God through all my heaviness and I hope through all impediments he will settle my interest in him and throw off all the claim that Sathan can make unto it and that he will carry my soule in despight of all the calumnies and all that the Devill and Sathan can invent will carry it into eternall mercy there to receive the blessednesse of his presence to all Eternity That Lamb of God into his hands I commit my soule and that Lamb of God that sits upon the Throne to Judge those 24 that fall down before him I hope he will be pleased to look downeward and Judge me with mercy that fall down before him and that worship him and that adore him that onely trusts upon his mercy for his compassion and that as he hath purchased me he would lay his claime unto me now and receive me Indeed if Christ justifie no body can condemne and I trust in God in his justification though there is confusion here without us and though there are wonders and staring that now disquiet yet I trust that I shall be carried into that mercy that God will receive my soule Then the Earl of Holland looking over among the people pointing to a Souldier said This honest man took me prisoner you little thought I should have been brought to this when I delivered my self to you upon conditions and espying Capt. Watson on horse-back putting off his hat said to him God be with you Sir God reward you Sir Here must now be my Anchor a great Storm make the findes my anchor and but in storms no body trust to their anchor and therefore I must trust upon my anchor Vpon that God said Mr. Bolton upon whom your Anchor trusts yea God I hope will anchor my Soul fast upon Christ Jesus and if I dye not with that clearnesse and heartinesse that you speak of truly I will trust in God though he kill me I will relye upon him and the mercy of my Saviour Then the Earl of Holland imbraced Lieut. Col. Beecher and took his leave of him After which he came to Mr. Bolton and

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

having embraced him and returned him many thanks for his great pains and affections to his soul desiring God to reward him and returne his love into his bosome Mr. Bolton said to him The Lord God support you and be seen in this great extremity The Lord reveal and discover himselfe to you and make your death the passage unto eternall life Then the Earl turning to the Executioner said Here my friend let my clothes and my body alone there is ten pounds for thee that is better then my clothes I am sure of it Executioner Will your Lordship please to give me a sign when I shall strike And his Lordship said you have room enough here have you not and the Executioner said Yes Then the Earl of Holland turning to the Exeuctioner said Friend doe you hear me if you take up my head do not take off my Cap. Then turning to his servants he said to one Fare you well thou art an honest fellow and to another God be with thee thou art an honest man and then said Stay I will kneel down and ask God forgivenesse and then prayed for a pretty space with seeming earnestnesses Then speaking to the Executioner he said Which is the way of lying which they shewed him And then going to the Front of the Scaffold he said to the People God blesse you all and God deliver you from any such accident as may bring you to any such death as is violent either by war or by these accidents but that there may be peace among you and you may finde that these accidents that have hapned to us may be the last that may happen in this Kingdome It is that I desire it is that I beg of God next the saving of my Soul I pray God give all happinesse to this Kingdom to this people and this Nation and then turning to the Executioner said How must I lye I know not Executioner Lie down flat upon your belly and then having laid himselfe down he said Must I lie closer Executioner yes and backwarder I will tell you when you shall strike and then as he lay seemed to pray with much affection for a short space and then lifting up his head said Where is the man and seeing the Executioner by him he said Stay while I give the Sign and presently after stretching out his hand and the Executioner being not fully ready he said Now now and just as the words were comming out of his mouth the Executioner at one blow severed his head from his body The Speech of the Lord Capel THe conclusion that I made with those that sent me hither and are the cause of this violent death of mine shalll be the beginning of what I shall say to you When I made an Address to them which was the last I told them with much sincerity That I would pray to the God of all mercies that they might be partakers of his inestimable boundles mercy in Jesus Christ and truly I still pray that prayer and I beseech the God of Heaven forgive any injury they have done to me from my soul I wish it And truly this I tell you as a Christian to let you see I am a Christian but it is necessary I should tell you somwhat more That I am a Protestant and truly I am a Protestant and very much in love with the prossifeon of it after the manner as it was established in England by the thirty nine Articles a blessed way of profession and such a one as truly I never knew none so good I am so far from being a Papist which some body have truly very unworthily at some time charged me withall that truly I profes to you that though I love good Works and commend good Works yet I hold They have nothing at all to doe in the matter of Salvation my Anchor hold is this That Christ loved me and gave himselfe for me that is that that I rest upon And truly something I shall say to you as a Citizen of the whole World and in that consideration I am here condemned to dye truly contrary to the Law that governs all the World that is The Law of the Sword I had the protection of that for my life and the honour of it but truly I will not trouble you much with that because in another place I have spoken very largely and liberally about it I believe you wil hear by other means what Arguments I used in that case But truly that that is stranger you that are English men behold here an English man now before you and acknowledged a Peer not condemned to dye by any Law of England not by any Law of England Nay shall I tell you more which is strangest of all contrary to all the Laws of England that I know of And truly I will tel you in the matter of the civil part of my death and the Cause I have maintained I dy I take it for maintaining the fifth Commandment enjoyned by God himself which enjoyns reverence and obedience to Parents All Divines on all hands though they contradict one another in many severall Opinions yet all Divines on all hands do acknowledge that here is intended Magistracy and Order certainly I have obeyed that Magistracy the Order under which I have lived which I was bound to obey and truly I do say very confidently that I do dye here for keeping for obeying that fift Commandment given by God himself and written with his own finger And now Gentlemen I will take this opportunity to tell you That I cannot imitate a better nor a greater ingenuity then his that said of himself For suffering an unjust judgement upon another himself was brought to suffer by an unjust judgement Truly Gentlemen that God may be glorified that all men that are concerned in it may take the occasion of it of humble repentance to God Almighty for it I doe here profes to you that truly I did give my Vote to that Bill of the E. of Strafford I doubt not but God Almighty hath washed that away with a more precious blood and that is with the blood of his own Son and my dear Saviour Jesus Christ and I hope he will wash it away from all those that are guilty of it truly this I may say I had not the least part nor the least degree of malice in the doing of it but I must confes again to Gods glory and the accusation of mine own frailty and the frailty of my Nature that truly it was an unworthy Cowardize not to resist so great a torrent as carried that busines at that time And truly this I think I am most guilty of of not courage enough in it but malice I had none but whatsoever it was God I am sure hath pardoned it hath given me the assurance of it that Christ Jesus his blood hath washed it away and truly I do from my soul wish that all men that have any stain by it may