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A35255	The wars in England, Scotland and Ireland, or, An impartial account of all the battels, sieges, and other remarkable transactions, revolutions and accidents, which have happened from the beginning of the reign of King Charles I, in 1625, to His Majesties happy restauration, 1660 illustrated with pictures of some considerable matters curiously ingraven on copper plates.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1681 (1681)	Wing C7357; ESTC R8819	122,635	215

and for the first offence in refusing to forfeit all their Goods for the second their Estates and for the third their Lives And besides this they presented them with the hopes of Liberty That the English Yoke should be stricken off That they should have a King of their own Nation and that then all the Goods and Estates of the English should be divided amongst them With these Motives of Spoil and Liberty which were strengthned by the former of Religion the Rebellion increased The Rebels in Ulster commanded by Sir Phelim O Neal assisted by his Brother the Brother of the Lord Mac Guire Philip O Reley and several others had possessed most of the strong places in that Province and many other which they could not take by force nor treachery were delivered to them by the English upon Articles which they afterwards like true or rather false Papists most perfidiously broke Butchering and Massacring the poor English without pity or compassion to Age or Sex though they still spared the Scotch Plantations in Ulster because of their Numbers and likewise for fear of the Scotch Army so easily to be transported to the North parts of Ireland But now their General Sir Phelim O Neal one of the Race of the late Bloody Earl of Tyrone a pretended Protestant till some time before having got together a vast number of the Natives fell upon them and destroyed their Houses and Goods and though they did not exercise that Cruelty on their Bodies yet they stript them and drove them Naked to the Scotish Shore from thence he marched into other parts and took Dundalk incamping at Arde near Tredagh The King finding his stay to be longer than he thought left the whole business of Ireland to the Parliament who declared a speedy and vigorous Assistance and Voted Fifty thousand Pound for a present Supply By which time the Lords of the Council of Ireland had Armed as many as were able and given Commissions for raising several Regiments of whom the Earl of Ormond was made Lieutenant General and a Regiment was sent from England under Sir Simon Harcourt about which time the King returned out of Scotland and was Entertained and Feasted at London and from thence Conducted to White-Hall after which the King Treated several Chief Citizens at Hampton Court where divers of the Aldermen had the honour of Knighthood December 2. The King Summons both Houses together and tells them That he had staid in Scotland longer than he expected yet not fruitlesly for he had given full satisfaction to that Nation but cannot chuse but take notice of and wonder at the unexpected Distractions he finds at home and then commends to them the State of Ireland next he publishes a Proclamation for Obedience to the Laws in force concerning Religion and the performance of Divine Service without Innovation or Abolishing of Rites and Ceremonies January 20 His Majesty makes another Speech to them and Conjures them by all that is dear to him or them to hasten the business of Ireland After which the Commons ordered a Select Committee to draw up a Petition and Remonstrance to the King the Petition was thus Most Gracious Soveraign your Majesties most humble and faithful Subjects the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled do with joy acknowledge the Favour of God in your safe return into England where the dangers and distempers of the State have caused them to desire your Presence and Authority to your Parliament for preventing of imminent Ruin and Destruction to your Kingdoms of England and Scotland fomented by a malignant party for alteration of Religion and Government the increase of Popery by the Practice of Jesuites and other Engineers and Factors of Rome corrupting the Bishops and Privy Council they being the cause of the late Scottish War and the Irish Rebellion Now for prevention they pray That your Majesty would concur with your Parliament to deprive the Bishops of their Votes To take away Oppression in Religion Church Government and Discipline To purge your Councils of such as are promoters of these Corruptions and not alienate any Escheated Lands in Ireland by reason of the Rebellion and these being granted we will make you happy This was followed by a large Remonstrance containing all the Miscarriages and Misfortunes which they termed Pressures since the beginning of his Majesties Reign As 1. The root and ground of these dangers 2. Their Maturity and Ripeness 3. The effectual means used for their Extirpation and the progress therein made 4. Th● Obstructions and Oppositions interrupting 5. Th● best means for removing these Obstacles and fo● accomplishing the Parliaments good Intentions for restoring this Nation to its Ancient Renown The Actors and Promoters of these Evils wer● described to be 1. The Jesuited Papists 2. Th● Bishops and corrupted Clergy 3. Intereste● Counsellors and Courtiers The root of the mi●chief was the Malignant Party whose Practice● were branched into four particulars 1. To foment differences and discontents between th● King and People about Prerogative and Priviledge for their own Advantages 2. To suppress th● purity and power of Religion 3. To Unite and Conjoyn Papists Arminians and Libertines and out of them all to compose a Body sufficient to carry on their Designs And 4. To disaffect the King to the Parliament by Slanders and by putting him upon other ways of Supply than by Parliament and that the Intentions of these Malignants were to subvert the Fundamental Laws and Principles of Government They then charge this Malignant Party more particularly as chiefly occasioning the Dissolution of three several Parliaments without Relief of Grievances The Imprisoning and Fining several of the Members raising great Sums of Money by Loan Privy Seals and Excise and blasting The Petition of Right The succesless Attempts upon France and Spain and Peace made with the Spaniard without consent of Parliament The loss of Rochel occasioned by lending part of our Fleet to the French King deserting the cause of the Palatinate charging the Kingdom with Billeting Souldiers and the Design of bringing in German Horse to inslave this Nation to Arbitrary Contributions Lastly they reflect upon Scandalous Declarations published against the Parliament upon Injustice Oppression Violence Illegal Inlargements of Forrests Coat and Conduct Money Corrupt Councils and Designs Projects Monopolies Illegal Proceedings in Courts of Judicature and Council Table charging the Bishops likewise with many Enormities particularly for contributing to raise an Army for constraining the Scots to conform to their Superstitious Ceremonies concluding with what they have done for the Reformation of these Abuses To their Petition the King returned this Answer That he knows not any Wicked or Malignant Persons whom he doth either countenance or imploy That he would concur with his People in a Parliamentary way against all Popish Designs but would not consent to deprive the Bishops of their Votes in Parliament That he judged the power of the Clergy sufficiently moderated by taking away the High Commission Court and

THE HOVSE OF LORDS THE HOVSE OF COMMONS THE WARS IN ENGLAND Scotland and Ireland OR An Impartial Account of all the Battels Sieges and other Remarkable Transactions Revolutions and Accidents which have heppened from the beginning of the Reign of King CHARLESI in 1625 to His Majesties happy Restauration 1660. Illustrated with Pictures of some Considerable matters curiously Ingraven on Copper Plates LONDON Printed for Nath. Crouch and John How at the Seven Stars in Sweetings Alley near the Royal Exchange in Cornhill 1681. TO THE READER THis small Volume is intended for the use of those who cannot go to the price of a greater and yet would willingly be informed of those wonderful Transactions and Revolutions which have happened in these Three Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland in this last Age and within the memory of many now living And though it cannot be expected that a large Account of every particular Accident can be comprehended in this little Compendium yet I have endeavoured without the least passion or partiality briefly to comprise the most considerable Matters Now as the Things here inserted are more remarkable both for their Variety and Quality than it may be ever happened at any time heretofore in so short a space so the serious perusal and consideration thereof may be very useful and necessary for quieting the present Discontents and deplorable Distractions that are now amongst us since these were the Forerunners of those miserable Wars Ruins and Desolations which are herein related wherein all Bonds of Religion Alliance and Friendship were utterly destroyed Wherein Fathers and Children Kindred and Acquaintance became unnatural Enemies to each other so that with some little Variation we may apply what Lucan writes of the Civil Wars of Rome to England in those times Wars more than Civil on the Brittish Plains Then happened and England Distzins In her own Bowels her Victorious Swords Where Kindred Hosts Encounter all Accords Of Empire broke where arm'd to Impious War The strength of all the shaken Land from far Is met known Ensigns Ensigns do desie Fathers by Sons and Sons by Fathers die What fury Countrey-men what madness cou'd Move you to feast your Foes with English Blood And chuse such Wars as could no Triumphs yield Whilst yet proud Babylon unconquer'd held Alas what seas what lands might you have ta'ne VVith that bloods loss which your own hands have drawn Let us all therefore who pretend to the name of Christians study to be quiet and follow Peace with all men which is the most Effectual means to prevent those Confusions and Miseries which we have lately suffered and under the effects whereof we still groan and that this short Narrative may be useful to this purpose is the earnest and hearty desire of Your Countrey-man and Well-wisher RICHARD BVRTON THE WARS IN England Scotland and Ireland c. BEfore we proceed to give an Account of those Unnatural Wars Ruins and Devastations which have happened in these Kingdoms in this Last Age it may seem necessary by way of Introduction to give a Relation of several previous Transactions before these Woful Calamities befel us Upon the 27th day of March in the year 1625 King James departed this life at Theobalds in the Fifty ninth year of his Age when he had reigned Twenty two years compleat And in the Afternoon of the same day Charles Prince of Wales his only Son then living was proclaimed King of Great Britain France and Ireland The first thing he did was performing the Ceremonies of his Fathers Funeral in which the King himself in Person followed as chief Mourner immediately after the Herse having his Train of black Velvetborn up by the Twelve Peers of the Realm at his right hand the Earl of Arundel and at his left the Earl of Pembroke He then proceeded to his Coronation and after that he consummated the Marriage with Henrietta Maria younger Daughter of the Great Henry the Fourth King of France whom he had formerly seen in his Journey through that Countrey into Spain his first Complement to her when he went to meet her at Dover was That he desired to be no longer Master of himself then he was Servant to her which indeed he made good for on the day before his deplorable death he desired his Daughter the Lady Elizabeth to assure her Mother if ever he saw her again That his Thoughts had never strayed from her and that his Affections should be the same to the last The King then called a Parliament which Assembled the Eighteenth of June follwoing to whom he represented in a short Speech The urgent necessity of raising a Subsidy since it would not agree with his Kingly honour to shrink from the War with Spain which his Father upon solid Considerations had by consent of both Houses undertaken although prevented by death from putting it in Execution That Money the sinews of War must be levied without which neither Army nor Fleet could move former Contributions being already disbursed to a penny That he should seem ridiculous to all Europe if he did not now at length proceed to Action That it was his first Enterprize the success whereof would have influence upon his following Reign That it concerned their own Reputations herein to Assist him effectually least the world should judge them to have betray'd their King That Celerity was necessary because of Winter then approaching a season prejudicial to Martial Attempts the Pestilence at that time Reigning in the City which in all probability might cause a sudden Dissolution of their Meeting All which Arguments if duly considered did evidently demonstrate That it was most Honourable Opportune and safe to use Expedition in the business As for Religion and Manner of Government he was resolved to tread in his Fathers steps hoping that his former life had ministred no just grounds for them to suspect the contrary The Parliament acknowledged these Arguments for a Subsidy to be very rational but yet would not suddenly resolve upon it till they had first presented their two Petitions concerning Beasons of Religion and Complaint of their Sufferings which points had been offered to his Father King James in the close of his last Parliament and by his death were left hitherto unanswered In both which they received competent satisfaction and likewise an account of the Arrears which were due to the Forces both by Sea and Land together with an Estimate of the future Charge and Expence of the Spanish War upon which the King obtained of the Laity freely and absolutely Two Subsidies to be paid by Protestants and four from Papists and three Subsidies from the Clergy In this Parliament Dr. Montague the Kings Chaplain was questioned for certain Tenets in his Answer to a Book called the Romish Gagger and his defence thereof Intituled Appello ad Caesarem And he being brought before the Bar of the House the Speaker declared their pleasure That they would refer his Censure till the next meeting and in the mean

time he should stand committed to the Serjeants Ward till Two Thousand Pound Bail could be procured for his appearance next Sessions And though the King took him into Protection as his Servant yet his Bail-bond remained uncancelled Divers Laws were Enacted in this Parliament as one about Observation of the Lord's day another for restraint of Tipling in Inns Alehouses c. These passed likewise in the House of Commons A Bill for Tunnage and Poundage but this miscarried in the House of Lords because the Commons had limited it to a year whereas it was formerly granted to the Kings Predecessors during their lives it being intended to reduce the Customs to the Rate at which they were settled in the Reign of Queen Mary During the fitting of the Parliament the Lord Mordant a Papist and his Wife a Protestant being both desirous of each others Conversion they put their cause upon a dispute between James Usher L. Archbishop of Amargh and one Rookwood a Jesuite who called himself Beaumont this was acted at Drayton in Northamptonshire the points disputed on were Transubstantiation Praying to Saints Images and the Visibility of the Church wherein the Learned Primate so foil'd his Adversary that the Lord Mordant was Convinced and Converted to the Protestant Religion and his Lady further confirmed therein On the Eleventh of July 1626 the Parliament by reason of the sickness Adjourned till August 1. and then met again at Oxford where the King first by himself and next by his two Secretaries the Lord Conway and Sir John Cook declared to them the necessity of setting forth a Fleet for the recovery of the Palatinate which was the Countrey of the Prince Palatine of the Rhyns who married the Kings Sister and was then unjustly detained from him by the Emperour of Germany and the King of Spain the Lord Treasurer likewise instanced the several Sums of Money which King James died indebted to the City of London This occasioned very warm Debates in the House of Commons who alledged That evil Councels guided the Kings Designs That the Treasury was misimployed That our necessties arose through Imprevidence That it would be necessary to Petition the King for a stricter hand and better Councel to manage his Affairs That though a former Parliament engaged the King in a War yet if things were managed with Contrary designs and the Treasure misimployed this Parliament was not bound to be carried blindsold in Designs not guided by sound Council That it was not usual to grant Subsidies upon Subsidies in one Parliament and no Grievances rednessed With several other Passages of the like Nature They likewise very much reflected upon the miscarriages of the Duke of Buckingham who was then a person of very considerable Trust but however they promised to consider of the Kings desires and presented him a Petition against Popish Recusants giving an Account of their damage ascribing certain Causes of their growth and offering divers Remedies thereunto unto which a satisfactory Answer if any thing would have satisfied was returned And hereupon there followed a Debate about Supplies some were for contributing presently others demurr'd as disliking the design in hand and in conclusion the Major part agreed not to give And being incensed against the Duke of Buckingham they began to think of divesting him of his Offices and to require an Account of the Publick Moneys wherewith he had been intrusted all which they intended to include in an humble Remonstrance to prevent which the King resolved to Dissolve the Parliament and accordingly the Usher of the Black Rod was sent from the House of Lords to the Commons who were then resolved into a Grand Committee and understanding the Kings pleasure they caused the Speaker to keep his Seat while they agreed upon a Message of Thanks to his Majesty for his Gracious Answer to their Petition for Religion and for his care of their Health in giving them leave to depart this dangerous time of Sickness with a dutiful Declaration of their Affection and Loyalty and of their purposing to supply him in a Parliamentary way in fit and convenient time After which they were accordingly dissolved Now the War with Spain being intended both for the recovery of the Palatinate and to prevent disturbance in our Civil Estate the Councel hereupon resolve with all speed to set forth a Fleet and to preserve strict Unity and Peace with France Denmark and the United Provinces and with the Hollanders the King had already entered into a League Offensive and Defensive against the House of Austria and likewise had promised to assist them in soliciting other Princes to enter into the same Confederation upon Condition that they should bear a Fourth part of the Charge of the Fleet and in pursuance hereof the Duke of Buckingham and the Earl of Holland were sent to the Hague and there meeting with the Ambassadors of France and Denmark they concluded a League for restoring the Liberties of Germany the two last Ambassadors having no further power from their Supteams A while after the Dissolution of the Parliament the King published a Proclamation Commanding the return of all Children of Noble-men which had been sent to be Educated in Seminaries and Popish Schools beyond Sea that none who had received Orders from Rome should presume to confer Orders or Exercise Ecclesiastical Functions in any of his Dominions and likewise that the Statute be put in Execution for the departure of Priests and Jesuites out of his Majesties Dominions By reason of the Dissolving the Parliament the Act of Subsidies was prevented and the King was necessitated to take up Money upon Loan of such Persons as were of Ability to lend and to that end he directed his Letters to the Lord Leiutenants of the several Counties To return the Names of those Men whom they thought most sufficient The places of their Habitations and what Sums each might be judged able to lend and to the persons returned Letters were Issued forth in the Kings Name to this purpose That his Majesty having observed in the Presidents and Customs of former times That all the Kings and Queens of this Realm upon extraordinary occasions have used either to resort to those Contributions which arise from the generality of Subjects or to the private helps of some well affected in particular by way of Loan in the former of which as his Majesty has no doubt in the Love and affection of his People when they shall again Assemble in Parliament so for the present he was inforced to proceed in the latter course for supply of some Portions of Treasure for divers publick Services which without manifold Inconveniences to his Majesty and his Kingdoms cannot be deferr'd and therefore this being the first time that his Majesty hath required any thing of this kind he doubts not but he shall receive such a Testimony of good affection from them among other of his Subjects and that with such alacrity and readiness as may make the same so

had taken upon him the Command of the Fleet for which Reasons the King was resolv'd to punish Hotham Indeed the E. of W. had been by the Parl. commended to the King as the fittest man for Admiral the E. of N. being then sick but he was rejected by the King who conferr'd that place upon Sir John Pennington Yet afterwards the Parl. conceiving it necessary to get the Fleet into their hands they found means notwithstanding the Oppositions of Sir J. Pennington and his Adherents to make the E. of W. Admiral after which a Ship laden with Arms and Ammunition from Holland for the King being ignorant of the matter fell in among the Fleet and was by the E. of W. sent to the Parliament The Parliament now thought fit to Arm and therefore resolve that an Army shall be raised for Defence as they term it of King and Parliament and the Earl of Essex to be Capt. General and the E. of Bedford to command the Horse the E. of Holland Sir John Holland and Sir Will. Stapleton were ordered to carry a Petition to the King then at Beverly the effect whereof was To pray him to disband all his Forces to recal his Commissions of Array dismiss his Guard and return to the Parliament All which the King refused The Parliament next consider of raising Money and so declare for Loan upon the Publick Faith to promote which the endeavours of the Ministers were very serviceable whereby in a short time a very considerable quantity of Money Plate and Ammunition were brought in The King was likewise furnished with Money from the Queen upon the pawned Jewels and some Contributions from divers Lords and Gentlemen and the University of Oxford The King goes from Beverly to Leicester and there Proclaims the Earl of Stamford Traitor for removing the County Magazine from the Town to his own House at Bradgate Aug. 1. the King comes back to Yorkshire and raises a Regiment under the E. of Cumberland which he called Prince Charles his Regiment The Parliament on the other side declare the Commissioners of Array to be Traitors and disturbers of the State and Peace of the Kingdom and Lievtenants of ●everal Counties were constituted by Parliament The King likewise deals with their Commanders as ●hey did with his and Proclaimed General Essex with all his Collonels and Officers who should not ●nstantly lay down their Arms to be Rebels and Trai●ors and the Marquess of Hartford and his Forces ●●re ordered to march against him The King then ●ummons in the Countrey on the North side of Trent ●nd 20 miles Southward and publisheth his Grand Declaration concerning all transactions between himself and the Parliament August 22. 1642. The King comes to Nottingham ●nd there erects his Standard to which some numbers resorted but far short of what was expected And three days after the King sends a Message to the Parliament to propose a Treaty the Messengers were ●he Earls of Southampton and Dorset Sir John Culpeper Chancellor of the Exchequer and Sir William Vdall none of which were suffered to sit in the House to deliver their Errand therefore it was sent in by the Usher of the Black Rod to which the Parliament Answered That untill His Majesty shall recall his Proclamations and Declarations of Treason against the E. of Essex and them and their Adherents And unless the Kings Standard set up in pursuance thereof be taken down they cannot by the fundamental Priviledges of Parliament give his Majesty another answer The King replyes that he never intended to declare the Parliament Traitors or set up his Standard against them but if they resolve to Treat either Party shall revoke their Declarations against all Persons as Traitors and the same day to take down his Standard To this they answer That the Differences could no● any ways be concluded unless he would forsake hi● evil Councellors and return to his Parliament And accordingly Sept. 6. they Order and Declare tha● the Arms which they have or shall take up for th● Parliament Religion Laws and Liberties of the Kingdom shall not be laid down untill the King withdraw his Protection from such persons as are or shall be Voted Delinquents and shall leave them to Justice that so their Estates may discharge the Debts and Loan Moneys of the Common-wealth The War being now begun the new raised Souldiers committed many Outrages upon the Countrey People which both King and Parliament upon Complaint endeavoured to rectifie The King himself was now Generalissimo over his own his Captain General was first the Marquess of Hartford and afterward the E. of Lindsey and the E. of Essex for the Parliamentarians The Kings Forces received the first repulse at Hull by Sir John Hotham and Sir John Meldrum and the King takes up his Quarters at Shrewsbury Portsmouth was next surrendred to the Parliament and presently after Sir John Byron takes Worcester for the King In September the two Prince Palatines Rupert and Maurice arrived in England who were presently entertained and put into Command by the King who having now got together a potent Army he made a solemn Protestation to them of his candid Intentions and sincere meaning to defend the Protestant Religion the Laws and Liberties of the Subject and Priviledges of Parliament according to the former protestation at York Sept. 9. the Earl of Essex in great State attended on by the Parliament set forth out of London toward St. Albans and from thence to Northampton where all his Forces met amounting to near fourteen thousand men having with him the Parliaments Petition which he was to present to the King the effect of which was That his Loyall Subjects the Lords and Commons in Parliament cannot without tenderness of Compassion behold the pressing Calamities of England and Ireland by the Practices of a prevailing Party with his Majesty to alter true Religion and the Ancient Government of this Kingdom introducing Superstition into the Churches and Confusion in the State Exciting encouraging and fostering the Rebellion in Ireland and as there so here begin the like Massacres by drawing on a War against the Parliament leading his Person against them as if by Conquest to establish an unlimited Power over the People seeking to bring over the Rebels of Ireland to joyn with them And all these evil Councellors are Defended and protected against the Justice of the Parliament who have for their just Defence of Religion the Kings Crown and Dignity the Laws Liberties and Power of Parliaments taken up Arms and Authorized the E. of Essex to be their Captain General against these Rebels and Traytors And pray the King to withdraw his Person and leave them to be supprest by his Power and to return to his Parliament and that they will receive him with Honour and yeild him Obedience secure his Person and establish him and his People with all the Blessings of a Glorious and Happy Reign This Petition was never delivered though Essex sent twice to the King for