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The life and reigne of our sovereign lord, King Charles the II in a compendious chronicle relating both to His Majesties person and affairs : with the chief transactions of state in the three kingdomes from his birth to this present / by a lover of his prince and countrey.
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Eglesfield, Francis.
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sweetness and amitie then by the rigour of our Armes if their Obstinacy and the Injustice of their Demands should constrain us to recover it by force We therefore do hereby give you full Power to proceed vigorously in your Enterprises not doubting but all our Loyall Subjects of Scotland will join themselves with you and by that means all those who are otherwise dispos'd will submit themselves to reason in that Treaty which we we now accept or shall be forc'd thereto by Armes To this we permit you to publish these Presents to communicate them to such as you shall judge fit So we pray God to preserve you most dear Cousin The Laird of Liberton being arriv'd at Edenburgh where he was expected with much impatience and longing assoon as the Committeee of Estates and Assembly of the Kirk were met deliver'd his Majesties Message and Letters to them informing them also by word of Mouth how greatly inclinable he found him to an Agreement to their Desires As 1. That in reference to Ratifying all that the Parliament of Scotland did in their two last Sessions he was willing there should be pass'd a generall Act of Oblivion 2. That such as had serv'd under the Marquesse of Montross and Duke Hamâ—lion in his last Expedition should be uncapable of all publick Charge without conssent of Parliament 3. That he had design'd Breda in Holland for the place of a Solemn Treaty upon the 15. of March next ensuing in order to a perfect Accommodation between himself and his Subjects of Scotland His Majestie 's Letter to the Committee of Estates was in these termes For the Committee of Estates of Scotland CHARLES R. WE have received your Letters lately persented to us by Mr. VVindram Laired of Liberton we accept gratiously all the expressions of Affection Fidelity therein contained to wards us with your tender resentment of our present condition and the just indignation which you professe to have against the execrable murtherers of our Father And we believe that your intentions are full of Candor towards us as we are alwaies have been desirous to settle a clear and right Itelligence between us and our Subjects of our ancient Kingdome of Scotland which may be an assured foundation of their happiness and peace for the time to come and an effectuall means to root out all the seeds of animosity and divisions caused by these late Troubles and also to unite the hearts and affections of our Subjects to one another and of them all to us their King to lawfull Soveraigne To the end that by their obedience to our Royall and just authority we may be put into a condition to maintain them in Peace and Prosperity and to protect them in their Religion and Liberty as it appertains to us according to our Charge and Office of a King And as we have alwaies resolved to contribute whatever is to be done by us to obtain these good Effects and for the just satisfaction of all our Subjects in this Kingdom We have now thought fit upon the returne of Mr. Windram to command and desire you to send unto us Commissioners sufficiently Authorised To treat and agree with us both in Relation to the Interest and just satisfaction of our Subjects there as also concerning the Ayd Assistance which in all reason we may expect from them to bring and reduce the Murtherers of our late Most dear Father of happy memory to condigne punishment and to recover our just Rights in all our Kingdomes And we will that they attend us on the fifteenth day of the month of March at the Town of Breda where we intend to be in order thereunto And in confidence of a Treaty as also to make known to you and all the World that we sincerely desire to be agreed We have resolv'd to address these unto you under the Name Title of a Committee of Estates of our Kingdome of Scotland And will and expect that you use this grace no otherwise for any advantage to the prejudice of us or our Affairs beyond what we have given this Qualification and Title for namely Onely for the Treaty and in order to it Although we have considerations sufficient and very important to disswade and oblige us to doe nothing in this kind antecedently at this time Also we hope the confidence which we declare to have in your cleare and candid intentions towards us will furnish you with strong Arguments to forme in your selves a mutuall confidence in us which by the blessing of God Almighty by your just and prudent moderation and by that great desire that we have to oblige all our Subjects of that Kingdome and by the means of the Treaty which we attend and hope for may be a good foundation of a full and happy peace and and assured security to this Nation for the time to come Which we assure you is wished of us with Pâ—ssion and we shall endevour by all means in our power to effect To the Committee of the Kirk likewise his Majesty writ a Leâ—â—â— much to the same purpose whâ—eâ— assoon as they met was delivered to them Those to the Committee of Estate were first referred to a Subcommittee of nine Lords and Burgesses to present their Opinions thereupon to the Committee of Estates who were to receive their Reports and prepare the matter for the Parliament of Scotland shortly to be conven'd And moreover for the more expedition a Joint Committtee was chosen out of that of the Estates and that of the Kirk by common consent to consider to sending Commissioners and Propositions to the King Much was the debate and great the contestation in this Council the insolent Kirkmen rejecting all other accommodation but such as might render his Majestie in a condition wholly subservient to their pleasure framed higher Propositions then ever Those of the Estates were more moderate in comparison though high enough too and at length became more prevalent So Commissioners were jointly chosen to be sent to his Majesties The Earle of Cassils the Lord Lothian the Laird Burley and the Laird Libberton Sir Io. Smith and Mr. Ieoffries for the Estates and Mr. Broady Lawson and VVood in behalf of the Kirk These arrive at Breda before the King and therefore the next day they went to meet him at Bergheâ—â—â—op Zoom and came together to Breda 16. March 1640. Three dayes after they were conducted to audience by the Lord VVentworth Master of the Ceremonies in the Kings Coach The Earle of Câ—ssills made a short speech as from the Estates and Lawson for the Kirk after which they shew'd their Commissions and deliver'd the Propositions and Letters from the Estates and Kirk of Scotland The Propositions were these I. That all Excommunicate should be forbid the Court. II. That the King would by Solemn Oath and under his Hand and Seal declare his Allowance of the National Covenant of Scotland of the Solemn League Covenant of the three Nations III. That
his distempers and afterwards attain'd a firmer health When he came to sit in the House of Peers 1640 his first action in publick affairs was the carrying the King's Letter to them in favour of that noble but unfortunate Lord the Earl of Strafford the King hoping that when all other respects could not prevail upon them at least the consideration of the dignity and goodnesse of this Royal Messenger might something move them to reflect upon the hard measure they had determin'd for him But through the cruel fate of this brave man or rather that of these three Kingdomes the heat of I know not what strange zeal had made them so thirsty for his bloud that a day or two's respite of execution of the severest sentence that ever was given was more then could be afforded to the desires of their King though presented by the hands of their Prince This repulse he suffer'd was certainly the beginning if not the cause of all his ensuing sufferings and those of the Nation 's too For soon after hapned that fatall misunderstanding between the King and the Parliament which occasioning the King's withdrawing from London he commanded the Prince to attend him first at Greenwich then at Hampton-Court then at Theobalds the incensed Parliament and City in the mean time regretting his escape out of their hands having design'd to make advantage of his person according as the contingency of their affairs should suggest to them From thence with the Duke of York he accompanies his Father to New-market and from thence into Yorkshire where they all stood before the gates of Hull and were deny'd admission by Sir Iohn Hotham 'till at length the two Princely brothers were by his special favour permitted as children to see the Town At York the Northern Nobility and Gentry offering their service to his Majesty received thanks for it but were not made use of for prevention of jealousie 'till a greater danger induc'd the King to neglect his fafety no longer and accordingly he selected a company of gallant and loyal persons for his Life guard which were commanded by the young Prince His Majesty assuring them they should hazard their lives no further in defence of their Countries Lawes and Liberties then himself and that they should endanger themselves no farther for his person then his own dear Child In this manner he accompanied the King from York to Newark in Nottinghamshire and from thence to Lincoln and Leicester and back again into Yorkshire in which progress the King endeavoured to satisfie the Counties he passed through of the uprightnesse of his intentions for the good of the Nations and evidenc'd to them the desperate courses the Parliament engaging in order to deprive him of the Royalty left him from his Predecessours and this under pretence of Liberty and Religion At his return into Yorkshire the King informes the Gentlemen there of the Parliaments forwardnesse to a War desires them to spare him some Armes and to compleat Prince Charles's Regiment for the guard of his person under the command of the Earle of Cumberland Not long after the King having gather'd a considerable Army was met between Kinton and Edge-hill in Warwickshire by that of the Parliament under the conduct of the Earl of Essex There was the first considerable battle fought of our civill Wars The Prince was then in the field and the Honourable Earle of Lindsey who was the King's Generall and lost his life in the fight looking upon him very attentively a little before the conjunction of the Armies I know not by what Propheticall instinct utter'd these words Ther 's a Child born to end that VVar we now begin Which how miraculously accomplish't we cannot but gratefully acknowledge the civill Wars having continued ever since the Army which had subdued the one Party afterwards turning their swords upon those that first employ'd them and the poor Nations being rul'd by the sword and always in a state of War and groaning under the miseries inflicted on it by armed Oppressours After this the King retir'd with the Prince to Oxford and committed him to the Right Honourable the Marquesse of Hertford then and still Chancellor of that University who provided for him severall worthy persons in the quality of Tutors for his instruction in all such languages and Sciences as were convenient for the accomplishment of a Prince During his residence there it pleased God to visit him with the Meazles and that not without some danger of death which by the Divine mercy and indulgence to these Nations he avoided is respited we hope for many years Here he was very diligent in commendable studies intermix'd with ingenious and innocent pleasures and upon the King 's summoning a Parliament thither which convened the 22 of Ianuary 1644. himself with his noble Brother the Duke of York sate with the rest of the Nobility in the Upper Schooles which were designed for the House of Lords as the Convocation House was to the Commons who were no inconsiderable number there being present at that Assembly besides these two young Princes the Lord Keeper Littleton the Lord Treasurer Cottington the Duke of Richmond the Marquesse of Hertford nineteen Earles three and twenty Barons and a hundred and fourty Knights and Gentlemen The next year the Prince betakes himself into the field being now about fifteen years old his first course was Westward where by his Majesties Order he had attendants appointed him suitable to the grandeur and state of an heir to three Crowns He set up a Royall Court and chose out a Retinue at his own pleasure the King though disapproving the action in a Letter to the Queen yet admiring his discretion in the Election of them scarce inferiour as a great observer affirm'd to that of his deceased Uncle Prince Henry During this time the King of Portugal sends over an Embassadour who amongst severall specious proposals relating to his Majesties present exigencies tenders one for a Marriage between the Daughter of that King and the Prince of Wales which for good reasons the King his father put off with a civill answer importing a deniall of the proposition though as the policy of State-affairs often makes it necessary to do in words expressing no dislike of it After that fatall battle of Naseby which turn'd the scale to the disadvantage of the Royall Interest severall Overtures interven'd between Prince Charles the Lord Goring and the Parliamentarian General Fairfax but the two former alwayes receiv'd the same answer from him which signified nothing viz. That he was but a servant to the Parliament and could not exceed his Commission which impower'd him onely to fight therefore in râ—ference to a Treaty application ought to be mâ—de to his Masters at VVestminster The Prince accordingly writes to him again to grant the Lords Hopton and Culpepper leave to attend the King and mediate with him for a Treaty with the Parliament to which the General upon grave consultation with his Committee of