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A61191	Anglia rediviva Englands recovery being the history of the motions, actions, and successes of the army under the immediate conduct of His Excellency Sr. Thomas Fairfax, Kt., Captain-General of all the Parliaments forces in England / compiled for the publique good by Ioshua Sprigge ...	Sprigg, Joshua, 1618-1684.; Fiennes, Nathaniel, 1607 or 8-1669.	1647 (1647)	Wing S5070; ESTC R18123	234,796	358

violence on their Members sitting in Parliament having for the present in an orderly way by the assistance of the Trained Bands of the City of London procured for the security of their Members that they might sit and consult safely in Parliament considering the many practices of force that had been attempted against Them and their Authority in order to the subversion of their Religion Lawes and Liberties Desire the King that the Militia might be in such hands as both Houses of Parliament should name and appoint Hereupon the King withdrawes himself refuses to settle the Militia according to the desire of his Parliament endeavours to seize upon Hull and the Magazine there but is prevented sends into the Low-Countries for Cannon Arms and Ammunition which after arrived and was landed not far from Hull Began the body of an Army under the name of a Guard for his person at York Protected by force Offenders from the Justice of Parliament sends forth Commissions of Aray in opposition to the Ordinance of the Militia established by the Parliament upon the Kings refusal to joyn therein sets up his Standard at Nottingham and declared open war against his Parliament Blood had already dy'de The King 's stain'd sword and God did well provide That there the mischief should begin and we First suffer wrong Let no man call our Arms Offensive wars but for received harms Our Countries just revenging ire Jam tetigit sanguis pollutos Caesaris enses Dii melius belli tulimus quod damna priores Caeperit inde nefas Nec dicier arma Senatus Bella superba decet Patriae sed vindicis iram Lucan Pharsal lib. 2. section 5 The Parliaments cause The Parliament on the other side Arm in their own defence and in defence of their Priviledges and Authority and therein of their Religion Lawes and Liberties and particularly to cause obedience to the Summons of Parliament and to bring Delinquents to Iustice and to maintain their Ordinance of the Militia and the Fundamentall right seated in them in the ordering the same for the preservation of Religion Iustice and the Lawes and Liberties of the Kingdome either with the Kings concurrence or without the same in case he either cannot or being seduced by evill Counsellours will not joyn with his Parliament therein No spoile seek these Arms nor self-soveraignty But t' help the Land ' gainst imminent slavery Nec praeda hisce Armis nec Regnum quaeritur ipsis Tantum afferre vires populo servire parato ferè Lucan section 6 A brief account of the former Armies Forces being raised on both sides Those of the Parliament were at first put entirely under the Command of the Earl of ESSEX but after they took severall forms and were divided into several bodies by Commissions granted unto divers persons as Major-Generals Each diversity and alteration taking its rise from an inacquiescency and dissatisfaction with the successe of the present which moved to turne every stone and try if by this or that means the desired End might be obtained Yet severall good services were performed by those Forces and very notable ones under the first and originall conduct of the Earl of Essex as besides Edge-hill and divers others that famous and never to be forgotten relief of Gloucester skirmishing the Enemy a good part of the way both going and comming and at last upon their return giving the Enemy battel in a pitcht field at Newbury whereof the story of these times where-ever they shal come will ring deservedly In the mention of this particular might I be secure from moving envy or detracting from others who might also deserve extremely well in the action I should at least glance at the singular and extraordinary service of Colonel Harvey with his Horse the gallant Foot of the City of London who stood so stoutly to it that day These being not within the line of my story and being recorded by other pens I must thus passe over As also all the considerable actions of the Earle of Manchester and Sir William Waller performed for this Kingdome by them and their deserving Officers and Souldiers The extent of their service amounting at least to so much as that thereby many a Gap was stopt the Kingdome saved from being totally over-run the successe of the Enemies affaires still brought to a reasonable composition the balance kept pretty even and sometimes we were sent before God with songs in our mouthes and occasion was afforded for greater hopes and more blessed expectations Their unhappinesse But whatever was the matter two Summers past over and we were not saved The Parliaments tendernesse of them our Victories so gallantly gotten and which was more pitty so graciously bestowed were put into a bag with holes what we wonne one time we lost another the Treasure was exhausted the Countries wasted A Summers victory proved but a Winters story the Game however set up at Winter was to be new played again the next Spring and mens hearts failed them with the observation of these things The cause hereof the Parliament was tender of ravelling into only men could not be hindred from venting their opinions privately and their feares which were various and variously expressed whereof I determine nothing but this I would only say Gods time to deliver England was not yet come And this was apparent That the Forces being under severall great Commanders want of good correspondency among the Chieftains oftentimes hindred the Publick service section 7 The Parliament conscientiously advising the Remedy The Parliament in prudence waving a strict enquiry into the Cause of these things applyed themselves to seek out the Remedy which was most necessary This Army was conceived and brought forth by a New-Model And there being not only no other comparable but scare any other meanes at all that presented it self to them This New-Model was propunded The danger of this device a designe that carried danger enough in the front of it both in respect of disobliging those at home and giving advantage to the Enemy abroad while we were without an Army or at least whilest our Army was all to peeces But if it were here seasonable to open the grounds thereof it would appear to have been no lesse necessary then hazardous And as desperate cures require desperate remedies so do they often prove very successful as this hath done beyond all expectation God having in most fair and great characters written upon it That it was His Designe and thereby owned both the Counsel and the Counsellours This experience applied to the Parliament And now let all men especially the Parliament of England trust GOD hereafter and venture upon whatsoever is just and necessary by this experience It being as much beyond the belief of man as any thing can be that such an Enterprise as this should be effected so quietly amongst our selves and without any affront from our enemies The New-Model thus resolved on

engage p. 195. l. 25. f. Holsworth r. Holsworthy so p. 197. l. 27. l 30. who all dele who p. 196 l. 7. this last defeat dele last l. 14. f. Sir George Digby r. Sir Iohn l. ●…d f. Governour r. Commander p. 197. l last but one f. Tomerton r. Tamerton l 25. f. Taverstock r. Tawstock p. 198. l. 14. f. by the r. but by the p. 199. l. 9. f. Lime Regiment r. Plimouth Regiment p. 252. l. 7. f. the end r. therein p. 253. l. 16. f. old through time r. old decayed through c. p. 281 l. 8. f. divine r. dimm p. 284. l. 11. f presumptory r. peremptory p. 313. l. 4. f. last r. cast p. 315. l. last but four f. the r. that l. last but two f. Victory sweld r. Victory-sweld p. 317. l. 14. f. possimus r. poscimus l. 23. f. commonalty r. commodity p. 320. l. penult after acceptance of r. God ANGLIA REDIVIVA OR ENGLAND'S RECOVERY PART I. CHAP. I. Containing by way of Proeme and Introduction a generall account of the miserable condition of this Kingdome before this present Parliament The occasion and Instruments of calling it The snare laid for us in a former Parliament The quarrel between the Royall party and the Parliament stated And shewing how the Command of the Parliaments Forces came to be devolved to Sir Thomas Fairfax their present Generall Englands misery to be reckoned from a longer date then this late discovery PRRINCIPLES of Misery and seeds of Diseases in the Body politique strengthening themselves through a long tract of time and at length discovering themselves more and more in outward symptomes afforded an happy rise and advantage of seeking out the means of cure Of which God had not left this Kingdome destitute in so sufficient a proportion as that few States or Common-wealths in the world enjoy the like The constitution of Englands Government highly to be approved Being of it self of a sound and healthy constitution and temper able if not obstructed to conflict with and expell all burthensom humours and correct all vitious dispositions to Tyranny There being no Government better tempered in the world if true to themselves in a timely application of Remedies at hand The Peeres at York petition the King for this Parliment Accordingly therefore so soon as the Body by the Nobler senses began to take notice of and be seriously affected with her sicknesses and to be sensible of the meanes at hand Recollecting their resolution they urge the calling of this second PARLIAMENT section 2 The snare that was laid for us in the former Parliament There was a former Parliament called by the KING And never was the Kingdome in greater danger For never more danger then when good meanes are tampered with to bad ends when Ahab cals a Fast to accuse Naboth and Satan transformeth himself into an Angel of light The snare broken And this first act and putting forth of the Politique nature though not perfective of the Cure nor having any thing in it again so eminently remarkable as the National justice and affection expressed to the Scots declining upon ever so fair proffers and conditions to assist the King in his engagements against them an act that should ever make the English of precious remembrance with that Nation Yea though this first Essay of Nature was seemingly overcome by the prevalency of the malignant matter to the breaking up of that Parliament yet was it not in vain For notwithstanding that for the present the Disease took its turn and did appear in a higher way of opposition and contest to strengthen it self and to overcome its antidote yet this did but put Nature upon more vigorous and industrious actings to defend it self as was need and so was subservient unto the calling of this second Parliament section 3 The utmost endeavours of the Malignant party Wherein both Interests conflicting and the Malignant party seeing it self so eminently threatned and endangered and redacted to that extreme necessity as to use the utmost means for its preservation and being no longer able to endure at so neer a distance those strong motions and workings of the Heart betakes it self from the vital parts to some remoter members of the Body gathers and settles there causing an inflammation of those parts hopes to derive the same from part to part through the whole body at last choosing to sacrifice all rather then to be corrected at all Hereupon the Heart of this Kingdome I mean the Parliament which had performed its own defence so well endeavours its office for the Body The Parliaments Arms defensive and being necessitated to meet with the distemper in the way it had put it self opposeth fire to fire force to force sword to sword hoping by this means as by the opening of a Vein to breath out the Distemper though with the losse of some Blood section 4 The quarrel between the King and Parliament stated The King with his unhappy Counsellours and Courtiers who had promised themselves to be petty Tyrants under him had driven on far and well neer accomplished the great designe of an Absolute Arbitrary and Tyrannicall Government The Popish and Prelatical party fall in for their Interest hopeing by this means to usher in the long-wished for Alteration of Religion within this and the neighbour-Kingdomes The troubles of Scotland and the Parliaments of both Kingdomes ensuing thereupon The Execution of Strafford and Prosecution of his Companions Partisans unexpectedly crosse and interrupt this grand designe The King offered the Scots foure Counties to be annexed to the Crown of Scotland viz. Northumberland Cumberland Westmerland and the Bp. of Durham to come up to London and serve him against the Parliament and moreover the ransacking of the City of London which was reckoned to them at a greater value then the 300000. l. the Parliament granted them Many wayes are attempted many practices are set on foot Every stone is turned the Armies of both Nations English and Scotish are tampered with to overthrow the proceedings and power of the Parliament And when all these wayes proved successelesse secret practices and bands are set on foot in Scotland a Rebellion is raised in Ireland and in the end the King attempts to seize the persons of some eminent Members of both Houses and by an example not to be paralleled in the story of any Age comes himself in person accompanied with a band of Ruffians to take five of the Members of Commons by force out of that House As divers Souldiers and other loose people flocked to Court so many well-affected Citizens and others testified their affection in a voluntary way to the Parliament the preservation of their persons and priviledges These called the other Cavaliers and they termed these Round-heads whence arose those two Names whereby in common talk the two parties in this War were by way of nick-name distinguished The Parliament upon the attempt of