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A70196	A brief chronicle of all the chief actions so fatally falling out in these three kingdoms, viz. England, Scotland & Ireland from the year, 1640, to this present twentieth of November, 1661 : containing the unhappy breaches, sad divisions, the great battels fought, number of men, with the eminent persons of honor and note slain, with several debates and treaties : also, the happy escape by a wonderful delivererance of His Majestie at Worcester, more fully expressed then hitherto : with His Majesties happy return, together with what passages of note hapned to this present November, 1661 : the like exact account hath not as yet been printed.	Heath, James, 1629-1664.; Lee, William, fl. 1627-1665.	1662 (1662)	Wing H1318A; ESTC R19419	54,711	72

you in a way First you are out of the way for certainly all the wayes you ever had yet as far as I could find by any thing is in the way of Conquests Certainly this is an ill way for Conquest in my Opinion is never just except there he a just and good cause either for matter of wrong or a just title and then if ye go beyond the first quarrel that ye have that makes it unjust at the end that was just at first for if there be only matter of Conquest then it is a great robbery as a Pyrate said to Alexander That he was the great Robber himself himself was but a petty Robber And so Sirs I do think for the way that you are in you are much out of the way Now Sirs to put you in the way believe it you will never go right nor God will never prosper you until you give God his due the King his due that is my Successor and the people their due I am as much for them as any of you You must give God his due by regulating rightly his Church according to the Scripture which is now out of order and to set you in a way particularly now I cannot but only this A National Synod freely called freely debating among themselves must settle this When every Opinion is freely and clearly heard For the King indeed I will not the Laws of the Land will clearly instruct you for that therefore because it concerns mine own particular I only give you a touch of it For the People truly I desire their liberty and freedome as much as any body whomsoever But I must tell you that their liberty and their freedome consist in having Government under those Laws by which their lives and theirs may be most their own it is not in having a share in the Government that is nothing pertaining to them A Subject and a Soveraign are clean different things and therefore until you do that I mean that you put the people into that liberty as I say certainly they will never enjoy themselves Sirs it was for this that now I am hither come for if I would have given way to an arbitrary way for to have all Laws changed according to the power of the Sword I need not have come here and therefore I tell you and I pray God it be not laid to your charge that I am the Martyr of the people Introath Sirs I shall not hold you any longer I will only say this to you that I could have desired some little time longer because I would have put this what I have said in a little better order and have had it a little better digested then I have done and therefore I hope you will excuse me I have delivered my Conscience I pray God you take those courses that are best for the good of the Kingdome and your own Salvation After some Ejaculations he laid down his Head upon the Block and stretched out his hands The S●gn 〈◊〉 had it severed from his body at one blow by the Vizarded Executioner who presently held it up and shewed it to the people His Head and Trunk were afterwards coffined in Lead and exposed to publick view at S. Iames's till lastly the Duke of Len●● the Marquess of Hartford the Earl of Southampton and the Bishop of London begged the Body to bury it which they conducted to Windsor Chappel-Royal and there interred it with only this Insc●●ption upon the Co●●● CHARLES KING OF ENGLAND MDC.XLVIII After this most 〈◊〉 murder they declared themselves to be a Free State setting out a Proclamation wherein they declare th●t no person hath Right to the Crown o● England abolishing thereby the ●ingly ●overnment and debarring of our Rightful Soveraign ●om any claim c. declaring him also a Traytor with the rest of the Royal Issue for refusing the publication of which the Lord Mayor Reynoldson was outed imprisoned and fined 2000 l. In March they proceed with their High Court of Justice newly modelled and a new President to the Tryal of these Noble persons they had in custody about the last years risings whereof Duke Hamilton Earl of Holland Earl of Norwich the Lord Capel and Sir Iohn Owen were condemned to be beheaded the Duke and Holland and Capel were accordingly executed in the Palace-yard the other two with much ado were pardoned P●nt●fract Castle was now rendred to the Parliament by Colonel Morris being the last Garrison for the King in England Now they had leisure to look towards Ireland whether Lievtenant General Cromwell was sent with an Army of 10000 men which landed about this time at Dublin where a little before Colonel Iones the Governour having received a supply of 1000 men had sallied out and beaten my Lord of Ormond from off the siege where he lay with 20000 and upwards through the carelesness and treachery of the Guards Here were slain to the number of three thousand and five thousand taken prisoners this proved the loss of all Ireland which was then entirely for the King save this City and London-Derry Anno Domoni 1649. Cromwell upon his arrival sets presently forward towards Tredah whereinto the Lord Lievtenant Ormond had put a Garrison of choice English and some Irish to this Town he gave three assaults and was valiantly repulsed but in conclusion of the third the Town was entred and man woman and children put to the sword for three daies in cold bloud with the Governour himself Sir Arthur Aston a well experienced and valiant Captain Anno Dom. 1649. and 1650. VPon this success Trim and Dundalk yielded themselves to him the Marquess of Ormond hovering neer him with his Army but yet not daring to attempt any thing Wexford was the next Town he attaqued which by storm he took also putting all in arms to the sword thence to Passage Fort and so to Waterford from whence he considering the Winter approaching drew off to quarters having already possession of most of the Towns of Ireland Limrick Galloway Clonmell and Kilkenny excepted which soon after were reduced by him and his Successor Ireton and that Kingdome was wholly brought in subjection to the Parliament The next thing that busied the new Commonwealth was the affairs of Scotland who had long before proclaimed the King and were now treating with him therefore they recalled home Lievtenant General Cromwell whom upon Fairfaxes refusal of going against the Scots they now advanced to be General He came Iune the last to London having landed at Bristol and was highly treated by the Parliament Dorislaus that drew up the charge against the King was killed at the Hague in May last and Ascham that was sent on the same errand to the King of Spain was killed also by some English men in his Inne at Supper this did mightily inrage the new Commonwealth that their Min●sters could no where be protected According to the conclusion of the Treaty between the King and his Subjects

it from the English but were valiantly repulsed General Blake returning home from hi● Triumphs over the Spaniard died on Shipboard in sight of English Land and General Reynolds returning out of Flanders to England was cast away in the Goodwin Sands and with him Colonel White and others By one of the clauses of the humble Petition and Advice it was declared that the Parliament should consist of two Houses therefore Cromwell during the adjournment fill'd up the number of that Other House that was its name consisting of sixty two persons most of them Officers of the Army and his neer Relations most of them of mean extraction These nevertheless at the expiring of the prorogation appeared and took their places in the House of Lords according as the antient custome was whether the Protector came and sent for the House of Commons where he made a canting speech to them but the Commons returning to their House having admitted all their Members would neither own the new Lords nor him that made them so but fell into high disputes about the Government so that Cromwell seeing how the game was likely to go came and in a great ●ury within ten daies after their resitting dissolved them Anno Domini 1658. After the dissolution of this Parliament as of course and according to custome another plot was discovered and this was clearly of Cromwells own making the City was to be fired and a general insurrection and massacre of the well-affected In this snare were taken Sir Henry Slingsby Doctor Hewet and Master now Sir Thomas Woodcock Iohn now Lord Viscount Mordant and others of meaner rank as Colonel Ashton Thomas Bettley Edmond Stacy and others Sir Henry Slingsby and Doctor Hewet were beheaded at Tower-hill and the three last hang'd and quartered in the streets of London Dunkirk after a gallant defence and a field battel in attempting the relief where the English had the honour and the French and English the victory of the day was on the 25th of Iune delivered to the United Forces and by the French King put into the English hands Lockhart formerly Ambassador in France and then General of the English being made Governour thereof Now it pleased God suddenly after this tyranny and cruelty committed on those innocent persons above-named to call this Protector to an account who lingring some time with an ague and a pain in his intestines on the third day of September his great fortunate day breathed out h●s last his death being ushered by a most terrible wind and the coming of a Whale up the River of Thames of twenty yards long Thus ended that wretched Politique After Oliver Protector war dead his Son Richard according to an Article in the Instrument o● Government by which he was to declare his Successor was by his Fathers Councel proclaimed Lord Protector of these three Nations with the usual solemnities and accordingly owned by several addresses from most parts of the Kingdome but drawn and subscribed by some particular persons of the times who obtruded them upon the rest He was courted also by the French Swedish Dutch Ambassadors who all condoled him for his Fathers death After a little respit of time Richard was advised to call a Parliament the Courtiers thinking that what with the Army and the Lawyers they should make their party good for the Protector in the House of Commons being sure of their other House of Peers and in the mean time took care for his Fathers Funerals which were solemnized in most ample manner above the expences usual to any of our Kings deceased November 23. 1658. The Parliament being convened on the 27th of Ianuary the Protector and his new Lords gave them a meeting in the Lords House where he made a speech to them which was seconded by the Keeper Fiennes and so departed to Whitehall the Lords keeping their seats and the major part of the House of Commons not vouchsafing audience betook themselves to their own house and elected Challoner Chute for their Speaker The Parliament being in some measure fuller then it used by reason of Knights and Burgesses from Scotland and Ireland began with the old Trade of questioning the power In conclusion the debate came to this result that they would recognize the Lord Protector but so that nothing should be binding till all other Acts to be prepared by the Parliament should likewise pass and be confirmed For the other House also that no stop might be put to the great design of setling the Kingdome which was then aimed at and that question of owning them being but a baulk to their proceeding they resolved to transact with them for this Parliament as a House of Peers not excluding the right of other the Peers of England The Protector at the instance of the King of Sweden had rigg'd forth a Fleet for the Sound which being ready to set sail the Parliament ordered that for this time the Protector should have the mannagement of the Militia in this expedition reserving to themselves the Supreme right thereto that Fleet after six moneths time returned back again re infecta Now the debates flew high in the House of Commons tending to the lessening the power of the Sword which was grown so exorbitant therefore the Army being sensible whereto such consultations would finally tend resolved to break up the Parliament and accordingly having secured the Protector made him sign a Commission to Fiennes to dissolve it which accordingly was done though the House of Commons to prevent it adjourned themselves for three daies but then out came a Proclamation forced likewise from the Protector whereby he declared that Parliament to be absolutely dissolved Now the Army and some of the tail of the Parliament which were turned out by Oliver in 1653. joyn their heads together and so make way for their free Commonwealth again Richard Protector is laid aside the Officers of the Army playing some eight daies with the Government and then resigning it to those men who very readily imbraced the motion and met May 7. in the House the Old Speaker and some forty more making up a Quorum and forthwith published a Declaration how that by the wonderful Providence and goodness of God they were restored which to most seemed the saddest judgement could befall the Nation Presently they fall to their old trade of squeezing money and providing sure for themselves against any more attempts of the Army leisurely purging out those that had been active with Oliver against them but by all means refuse to admit those Members that by the like force were formerly secluded in 1648. They depose the Protector and make him sign a Resignation yet promising him the yearly allowance of 10000 l. per annum and the payment of his debts so that they thought themselves now cock-sure levying money by taxes before hand to gratifie the Army for the peoples love they never expected and then settle the Militia in confiding hands Anno Domini 1659. But

to Oxford The King marched from Oxford where by the way to London came Commissioners from the Parliament rendring Propositions and desiring that during the Treaty the Kings Army should march no neerer this way to spin time while Essex could recruit his Army therefore the King advanced from C●lebrook and came to Brainford where part of the Parliaments Army being the Regiments of Col. Hollis Hambden● and the L. Brooks for a while maintained themselves stoutly but being over-power'd some were driven into the river and there drowned and 300 slain and as many taken prisoners This brought a general consternation upon the City of London all shops were shut up and all the Regiments both Trained-Bands and Auxiliary were drawn out so that the Earl of Essex had a most compleat and numerous Army o● a sudden Hereupon the King presently marched away fearing to be incompassed by the Parliamentarians over Kingston-bridge which he broke down to stop the pursuit Essex made after him to Reading and so to Oxford where he took up his Winter quarters The Cities of Winchester and Chichester delivered to the Parliament Marlborough to the King and my Lord Hopton prevailed against the Earl or Stamford several Townes taken for the King in the West others for the Parliament in the North. Cyrencester had been Garrisoned by the Parliament Forces of Glocester being the midway betwixt that City and Oxford upon this place Prince Rupert had a design though his march that way was given out for the regaining of Shudly Castle out of which Col. Massey had smothered the Cavaleirs with wet hay for after he had passed some ten miles beyond Cirencester he suddenly returned back and surprising the Guards within two hours time became Master of the place puting the Earl of Stamfords Regiment to the sword who made a stout opposition taking 1100 prisoners and 8000 Arms and other provisions for war it being newly made a Magazeen From thence the Prince came before Glocester summoned the Town and departed The Lord Brooks and Northampton were in Arms against each other in the Counties of Warwick and Stafford where several small skirmishes had been between them at last in March the Lord Brook came and besieiged Litchfield Close garrisoned by the King and as he was viewing the approaches to it out of a window in the Town a single bullet from the Close shot him in the head through the eye of which he fell down dead nevertheless the siege was continued and the Close delivered to the Parliamentarians In the North the Queen landed at Bridlington Bay with some supplies of money and Arms for the King and with her Lieut. Gen. King she was conveyed to York and afterwards met the King at Edge-hill where the fight had been And so ended this year with the surrender at Malmsbury to the Parliament again and the defeat of the Lord Fairfax who was chief of the Parliaments forces in the North of ' Bramham by the Earls of Newcastle and Cumberland Scarborough delivered to the King by Brown Bushel Anno Domini 1643. PRince Rupert having coasted the Country from Glocester into Wales returned back by Litchfield intending to reduce it again he had not long lain before it but he compelled the Garrison to surrender To the releif hereof Sir Iohn Gell and Sir William ' Brereton having gathered a considerable strength marched these were met by part of Prince Ruperts forces and some under the command of the valiant Earl of Northampton where the said releif was defeated Sir Iohn Gell routed though the victory cost dear through the loss of that brave Earl who refusing quarter was killed by a private Souldier After General Essex had recruited his Army with new supplies the first thing he attempted was the siege of Reding which being manfully defended by Sir Arthur Aston till he received a wound on his head by the falling of a brick-bat and the releif brought by the King himself from Oxford being worsted at Caversham-Bridge after ten days siege was yeilded by Col. Fielding then substituted Governor to the Parliament In the North things went something equaller then before on the Parliaments side Sir Thomas Fairfax had defeated the Kings Forces under the Marquess of Newcastle at Wakefield and hoyed up the sinking interest of that Cause Monmouth likewise was taken by the Parliaments Forces as also Worder Castle but in the West the King prevailed my Lord Hopton commanded there being a valiant and expert Royalist for the Parliament the Earl of Stamford and Colonel Chidleigh these opposite Forces met the 16. of May in Stratton-field where the Parliamets foot stood stifly to the business but the Horse either through treachery or cowardize not seconding or releiving their Foot an entire Victory fell to the Cavaleers some 1500 of the Parliamentarians being slain and taken prisoners but do of great account lost on either side Chidleigh afterwards came over to the King and my Lord Hopton was made for this good service Baron of Stratton Now the Parliament flew high in their Consultations at home the Grandees working upon the sober part of the Parliament that this action of the Queens in bringing over Arms Money and other provisions for the assistance of the King was a dangerous destructive business wound up the anger of the Two Houses to such a pitch that the Queen was proclaimed Traytor and at the same time down went all the Crosses throughout England particularly the third of this moneth Cheapside-cro●s was demolished After this beginning of Reformation the Parliament took the Solemn League and Covenant at Westminster this was first framed in Scotland and was generally taken by them in the year 1639. the main drift of it was against the Episcopal Dignity and was now for the mutual endearment of the two Nations assistance being promised the Parliament from Scotland pressed upon all in England where the Parliaments power was paramount being taken throughout London the fifth of this moneth The Earl of Essex advanceth from Reading to Tame where a general sickness seized upon the Army during their quartering thereabout Prince Rupert fell into part of their quarters but the Essexians taking the Alarum and drawing out the business came to a fight in Chalgrave field where Colonel Hambden was mortally wounded It was observeable that in this place the said Colonel Hambden first listed and trained his men in the beginning of the war The Lord Keeper Littleton having fled with the Great Seal to Oxford according to the Kings Command the Parliament voted a new Great Seal to be made The Parliament to redress their affairs in the West had made Sir William Waller Major General of those Counties and had sent him down with a well-furnished Army to meet the Kings Army under my Lord Hopton who having cleared Devonshire after Strafton fight marched Eastward where in Somersetshire Sir William had taken Taunton and Br●dgewater Both these Armies met at

entertained and consultation is held between them what 's fit to be done while the Parliament sitting at Westminster are advising about listing of forces appointing Massey Poyntz and others for General Officers and recall those Members against whom the Army had exhibited a full charge But the Army advanceth neer London so that all these preparations and the stomach of the City soon were dashed and new agreements made their Fortifications and Works to be demolished and the Army admitted to march through in triumph so the fugitive Members were reseated again with their Speaker and all things put in the same bad state and condition they were before and several Lords the Lord Mayor some Aldermen and divers Citizens of great wealth and quality are the one committed to the Black Rod and the other to the Tower so that now all things passed in both Houses according to the disposition of the Army the Parliament being wholly subservient to their designs having made my Lord Fairfax Generalissimo and Constable of the Tower of London In Ireland after the Marquess of Ormond had delivered up by capitulation the Government to Colonel Iones for the Parliament the said Colonel marched out and fought with the Lord Preston but was forced to fly being overpowred by him but the business came to a second encounter neer Trym where the victory fell to Iones killing 5470 foot souldiers taking a very great booty and a number of prisoners and the Lord Inchequin defeats another Army under the Lord Taaf where were slain 4000 more of those Rebels and Sir Charles Coot gave them another defeat so that most of the Towns were reduced and the Rebellion neer extinguished The Scots therefore were desired to retreat with their forces out of Vlster Anno Domini 1648. BEgin we now with the 24th year being the last of King Charles the First 1648. wherein the King seemed as formidable in his interest as ever he was from the beginning of the War The Parliament was divided and jealousies betwixt them and the Army encreased every day Trading stopt so that on the ninth of April another tumult happened in London by the Apprentices who seized the Gates took a Drake from the Lord Mayors and planted it at Ludgate but the Army horse entring with their General at Aldersgate marched to Leaden-Hall and after a little skirmish dispersed them Several Petitions for restitution of the King came from several Counties But in Wales a stronger Insurrection broke out Major General Laughorn formerly a great man for the Parliament Colonel Poyer and Colonel Powell of the same side refuse to disband and presently seize upon Pembroke Castle Tenby Castle and declare for the King Chepstow Castle is likewise taken by Sir Nicholas Kemish for the same side Against these Colonel Horton is sent with three thousand men Horton receives a brush by falling with part of his men under Colonel Fleming into an Ambuscado Whereupon Laughorn hearing of Cromwells advance also resolved to fight Horton so the business came to a fight at S. Fagons where the Welsh being taken on a sudden not intending to fight that day were presently after the first onset routed above five thousand of their eight being taken a great many killed and the rest sheltred in the two Castles aforesaid Sir Iohn Owen was up in Arms in North-Wales and had defeated the Sheriff opposing him but was afterwards taken himself Cromwell storms Tenby Castle and takes it and after a sbort resistance Pembroke yielded upon discretion as to the lives of those three Commanders whereof one Colonel Poyer died by lot and so Cromwell having quieted Wales Sir Nicholas Kemish being slain by the storming of Chepstow Castle which he had newly taken marched into Lancashire to meet the Scotch Army who under their General Duke Hamilton having joyned with those English forces under Sir Marmaduke Langdale Sir Phil●p Ma●grave were advancing for London to restore the King This Army consisted of 24000 men effective At the same time also the Kentishmen having seen and heard the usage their Neighbours of Surrey had for petitioning for peace being some of them killed by the Army-guards in Westminster Hall resolved to ask or demand with their sword in their hands that which the Surrey men had been refused They rose to the number of ten thousand and had designed the Duke of Richmond for their General which upon his refusal was conferred upon the Earl of Norwich To suppress this rising whether abundance of stout valiant young men resorted out of London General Fairfax was sent in person and to glose with the Londoners the old Militia was again confirmed At Maidstone a part of the Kentishmen opposed themselves against the General maintaining the Bridge so resolutely that it came to a very hot encounter so that the General was forced to alight out of his Coach and led in his men himself After they had passed the Bridge they were forced to fight every hedg before they came to the Town where the fight was continued with the like gallantry and had any relief come it would have been a question whether it had not utterly routed the Parliament Upon this defeat the other greater party that were at Rochester slipt away to Black-Heath and from thence ferried and passed over into Essex and made their Head-quarter at Bow but the City stirred not in favour of them but a party of horse of the Army was sent thither where after some light skirmishes they removed further into Essex where many Gentlemen joyned with them my Lord Capel and others and so to Colchester whether the General presently after followed them To second this part of the Navy revolts also and set ashore Col. R●nsborough their Commander and Pontefract Castle was surprized by Col. Morris and now the Parliament having so many irons in the fire null those Votes of non-Address to the King and resolve of a Treaty as the best expedient To further which purpose the Prince of Wales having imbarqued himself in the Reformation came into the Downs with 25 Sail of Men of War where he landed ●ome men and had Deal and Sandwich Castles delivered him but the E. of Warwick and Sir George Ayscue making into the Dow●s together and the Prince lacking victual he set sail for Helvo●t Sluce not being able to do any thing for his friends at Colchester whether Warwick also followed him This was not all that was done for the King for this very same time the Earl of Holland the D. of Buckingham his brother the Lord Francis the Earl of Peterborough and others assembled at Kingston and declared for the King being about a thousand and more hourly expected but Sir Michael Livesey falling upon them suddenly they were forced to leave the Town losing that Noble Gentleman the Lord Francis who refu●ed quarter and so speeded to S. Neots in Bedfordshire where Colonel Scroop fell upon them in their quarters killed Colonel Dalbeir and took the Earl

of Scotland he took shipping at Schiveling in Holland and landed after some dangerous weather safe in the Spey in Scotland having narrowly mist some of the Parliaments Frigots that lay in wait for him Cromwell therefore expedited his march and entred Scotland with a well-appointed Army of 18000 men against which invasion the Scot did very much expostulate and more fiercely prepared to defend themselves The English Army therefore Iuly 22. advanced from Berwick into Scotland the Scotch Army lying incamped in the fields about Muscle●orough strongly intrenched divers skirmishes past and it was wet weather which very much incommodated the English nevertheless they take two houses by storm and both Armies then faced one another the great Guns playing on both sides but the Scots declined the Engagement which the English perceiving marched back to Dunbar and in a corn field half a mile from the Sea in a low ground lodged there Septemb. 1. whether the Scots drew and incamped in the high ground above it making sure of a victory but Cromwells forces charging resolutely to gain the pass and having mastred it the whole Army on a sudden fell upon the Scots and after an hours dispute though inferiour in number routed them killing 4000. and taking 10000 prisoners 200 Cornets and Colours 27 Field-pieces 10000 Arms and three Lords These Colours with those taken at Preston were afterwards set up in Westminster Hall as also those of Worcester thereafter The Scot quit Leith and Edinborough which are possessed by the English who advance to Sterling and fortifie L●nl thgow Several encounters and parleys were between Cromwell and Colonel Ker and Straughan for the Kirk alone in one whereof Ker was defeated and taken prisoner and by the other Straughan was brought over to side with the English Edinborough Castle had been long besieged and undermined but at last the treacherous Governour Dundasse delivered it upon Articles Colonel Eusebius Andrews Sir Henry Hide were beheaded about this time and Doctor Lewen hanged about the matters of the King who was soon after crowned King of Scotland at Schoon where they had news of another loss the rendition of Hume and Tim●tallon Castle While the Army in Scotland made this progress another war was breeding at home betwixt the Dutch and us S. Iohns had been sent Ambassador thither and had been very highly affronted upon his return an Act was made prohibiting and impeding the liberty and freedome of the Dutch at Sea which they not brooking the business came to be decided by blows Anno Dom. 1651. BLackness Castle was taken by Colonel Monk and at the same time the Presbyterian Plot laid by Mr. Love c. for a rising in Lancashire where M. G. Harrison had order to attend was discovered for which the said Love and one Mr. Gibbons were beheaded at Tower-hill August 22. The Scots had raised another Army whereof the King was General This Army was compounded of Cavaliers and Presbyters being in all 21000 men with these the King marched from Sterling to Torwood and there regularly incamped thither came Cromwell hoping to draw them out to fight but could not only he stormed Calendar House in their view Nevertheless in the interim Colonel Overton by boats had passed par● of the Army from Le●h into Fife who being seconded by a greater force under Major General Lambert the Scots being alarum'd at this unexpected invasion send down Sir Iohn Brown to drive them out whereupon a bloudy fight ensued but the victory fell to the English neer 1500 Scots were slain and 1000. with Sir Iohn taken prisoners After the Army thus was landed on Fifes fide and had given the Kings forces a defeat it was advised the King should presently desert Scotland the English having now shipt most of their men over and so given the King the advantage of two daies march from Sterling and by the way of Carlisle speedily march for England which was accordingly put in execution and after a very troublesome march some opposition being made at Warrington Bridge by Major General Harrison since executed and there worsted on the 22 of August having marched three hundred miles in three weeks time he arrived at Worcester with his Army consisting of 11000 foot most whereof were Highlanders and 3000 horse made up with some additional English under the now Right Honourable Earl of Shrewslury Colonel Howard and other Knights and Gentlemen who had escaped with the Earl of Derby thither after the defeat given the said Earl by Colonel Lilburn at Wigan After the King had rested his Army a while at Worcester and summoned in the neighbouring Counties to a rendezvouze in order to a conjuncture upon which some small appearance was made the Rebels drawing neer to attaque the City the King betook himself to make some fortifications such as time would permit at Vpton bridge and about the Town By the beginning of September Cromwells whole Army after a sufficient refreshment and additional forces of the Militia which were speedily raised in every County presented himself on every side of the City the number of them consisted of very neer 50000 men well armed the first places attaqued was Vpton Bridge which Colonel now Sir Edward Massey stoutly defended till being over-powred and himself wounded he was forced to retreat and leave the enemy free passage Wednesday the third of September the Enemy resolved to fall on which they did at several places first at Powick bridge whether the King himself in person went and beat back the Brigade● assigned to that post but being necessitated to go back into the City to give other Orders his forces lacking Ammunition were forced to give way and make a disorderly retreat into Worcester Presently upon this the Enemy charged furiously upon another part where his Majesty himself in person gave not●ble proof of his valour Duke Hamilton receiving a shot hard by him of which lie afterwards died but fresh supplyes coming in every minute and the slaughter falling upon the new raised men Cromwell reserving his Veteranes for the last the King quit the field Some impute it to David Les●leyes not coming with his horse to his succour in time and drew within the walls But the Rebel pursued their success and having cast up a sudden battery compelled the Fort-Royal to surrender while another part of the Army entred at another place and fell in mediately to the plunde●ing o● the City By fix of the clock the whole Town was gained and the street fill'd with blood a great slaughter being made that unfortunate day Between six and seven a clock in the dusk of the evening the King accompanied with the chief of his Nobility and some sixty horse departed Northward out of S. Martins gate Having rid a little way and upon consultation held what to do in that distress of affairs the Earl of Derby advised the King to fly to a house called Bos●abell where he himself had sound security in his flight from Wigan aforesaid