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A43206	A chronicle of the late intestine war in the three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland with the intervening affairs of treaties and other occurrences relating thereunto : as also the several usurpations, forreign wars, differences and interests depending upon it, to the happy restitution of our sacred soveraign, K. Charles II : in four parts, viz. the commons war, democracie, protectorate, restitution / by James Heath ... ; to which is added a continuation to this present year 1675 : being a brief account of the most memorable transactions in England, Scotland and Ireland, and forreign parts / by J.P.	Heath, James, 1629-1664.; Phillips, John. A brief account of the most memorable transactions in England, Scotland and Ireland, and forein parts, from the year 1662 to the year 1675.	1676 (1676)	Wing H1321; ESTC R31529	921,693	648

England and Ireland which was a Lamentation for the tedious continuance of self-interested persons in the Authority and other Religious melancholy about Charity the want whereof was greatly bemoaned we shall fully discover An oblique glancing hit of Fortune now saluted the successful Forces of this State by Sea yet far more advantageous to and directly concerning the Spaniard to whom a more obliging good turn could not any way be done The Arch-Duke Leopold now Besieged Dunkirk about the middle of August and the French prepared to relieve it by Sea to which purpose their Lord Great Admiral the Duke of Vendosme had equipped a Fleet which from the Coasts of Normandy and Britanny came to an Anchor at Calice-road where some of General Blake's Frigats Crusing up and down from the Body of the Fleet with Him espied them who thereupon weighed and made what sail they could towards Dunkirk but were presently fetcht up by those nimble Vessels and 7 of that Kings ships the Admiral whereof was the Triton of 31 Guns and aboard her the Sieur Dimulet who Commanded in chief having most of them between 20 and 30 Guns with a little Frigat of 8 were taken and brought to Dover by which disaster the Besieged were necessitated to capitulate and the Governour the Count d'Estrades who was also after in the same Command yielded it thereupon a more difficult task than so had the Broils in France not been so high or we so neer or the Dutch proffer of Money for it as well knowing what a good stationary Port it would be for their Navies upon all occasions would have been admitted of which injurious imprudence their Embassador Boreel very highly and angerly complained It was taken with a great loss of men and troublesome Siege by the Prince of Conde in the 1647. and the expence of some English Blood of the Oxford-Disbands in 1646. under Colonel Tillier after retaken and hath since suffered many vicissitudes under the Dominations of three Princes and one Usurper A General Assembly now convened themselves at Edenburgh with as much Authority as they did heretofore when they began the War but such a Chatter there was of Remonstrants and Protestations and such-like knacks amongst these crums of the Kirk which was now in a hundred fractions that for very quietness sake and some small considerations of the publick Peace whose danger in their former more unanimous Rebellion was not quite forgotten one Lieutenant-Colonel Cotterel was sent to dismiss them from their Seats which he roundly did charging them upon their peril not to attempt any such further meeting and that to that purpose not any three of them should presume to meet or be seen together So that what the King by Proclamation by the force of Laws by his Vice-Roys or Governours General could not effect an Armed Officer quickly speeded to the perpetual shame and infamy of that leud Convention Episcopacy had the honour to precede nor could Monarchy be abolished while it stood and Presbytery had the disgrace of following the Regal Ruines so after King exit Kirk The Judges there now went their Circuit where they met with innumerable Accusations and Indictments of Adultery and Fornication and Incest and as many almost of Witchcraft the ordinary and most publick frequent crimes of that Nation but such the Kirks cruel usage of those supposed Sorcerers and upon such weak conviction that though at first the same severity was exercised towards them yet the Judges finding there was sometimes more devi●ish Malice in the Accuser than the Accused superseded that numerous Condemnation of them as formerly Some Murderers and Moss-Troopers were likewise Executed for that no small parties could go any whither without danger of being knockt on the Head the ways were so infested Return we to the Dutch That Fleet under de Ruyter that fought with Sir George Ayscue in the West lay now at the Mouth of the Channel crossing to and ●ro to stop and seize all English Ships and Goods coming from the Southern and Western parts of the World yet notwithstanding six East-India and two from the Streights whereof the Eagle was the chief arrived safe at Plymouth and there staid in Harbour till the Fleet of War Convoyed them home having fitted and Armed themselves for the Encounter De Ruyter was ordered to stay here upon this designe till de Wit another Admiral should be sent to bring him home through the Channel with what Merchant-men he had ready in his Convoy and such as should casually light upon him at Sea where he ranged at pleasure He sent Sir George Ayscue word in a Bravado by a Vessel he took and freely discharged that he stayed there for him to fight him but Sir George had no such orders nor indeed was he in a condition ever since his last Encounter with him In the mean time de Wit appeared while General Blake was gone Westward to bring about the Plymouth-Fleet on the 21 of September at the South-sands-head and it was no more than time for Blake had seized five West-India ships of good value sneaking by the French Coast and Vice-Admiral Pen had taken six Streights-men most richly laden that had been and were newly come out of the Duke of Venice's Service worth above 200000 l. being laden with Piece-goods and the best Commodities of those parts and came in ●ight of the English Fleet neer Torbay in Devonshire with the Wind almost in his Teeth but it proving thick and hazy Weather by the obscurity thereof he slipt and made aboard to the French Coast and joyned with de Ruyter and received six Plate-ships laden from Cadiz into his Convoy and set sail homewards and Blake having touched at Portsmouth came Eastward likewise and on the back of the Goodwyn discovered him again having dismist his charge into Holland but the Wind blowing hard could not Engage him nor would de Wit move from his station then on the side of the North-foreland knowing most of the English ships to be very great and to draw much Water and there was a Shallow and sand lay betwixt the Fleets On the 28 of October notwithstanding General Blake in three Squadrons as the Dutch were divided one Commanded by himself the second by his Vice-Admiral Pen and the third by Rear-Admiral Bourn sailed towards him and as de Wit had fore-laid it struck most of them upon the Sand among the rest the Soveraign Rigg'd and Mann'd for this present service the first she ever was in was on ground but was presently got off again and stood aloof till de Wit came freely from his advantages to the Engagement which was first begun by Bourn and seconded immediately by the whole Fleet and was fought stoutly on both sides a courageous Drunken Dutch man of War presuming to give the Soveraign a Baoad-side and a vapour of Boarding her was presently sunk by her side so that she obtained among them the Name of the Golden Devil soon after a Rear-Admiral

State-affairs to the settlement of the Nation and their Message to that purpose they had scornfully rejected not looking upon them as a part of the people but at one blow and with the breath of one Vote which imported that the House of Lords were useless and dangerous and so ought to be abolished they laid them aside having given order for an Act to be drawn up accordingly yet so far indulging their Honours the favour of any mean Subjects priviledge to be Elected either Knight or Burgess to serve in their House Against this civil and political Execution came forthwith likewise a Declaration and Protestation dated February the 8. in the name of the Nobility braving them with their illegal Trayterous Barbarous and bold saucy Usurpation with other arguments mingled with threats menaces invectives which will be too tedious to recite And indeed it was to little purpose then for it was too late to argue with or to Vapour against those men who were so Fortified in their new Empire by a so numerous and potent and well-paid Army Something might have been done when this Cockatrice was a hatching but now its angry looks were enough to kill those that enviously beheld it And to let them see how little they valued and how slightly they thought of the injury the Peers so highly urged they with the same easie demolition of Kingly-Government by a Vote that it is unnecessary burdensome and dangerous overwhelm the whole Fabrick together bidding them seek a place to erect their Monumental Lordships and Honour was never yet so neer a shaddow Now that they were thus possest of the whole entire Power and Authority for the better-exercise thereof and the speedier fruition of the sweets thereof they agree to part and divide the Province the Government among them To this end they concluded to erect an Athenian Tyranny of some 40 of them under the Name and Title of a Council of State to whom the Executive part of their Power should be committed while the Parliament as they called their Worships should exercise onely the Judicatory part thereof and so between them make quick work of their business in confounding and ruining the Kingdom And that they might likewise appear to the people as great preservers of the Laws and to study their weal in the due aministration of Justice their next care was for drawing up Commissions for the Judges which ran in the new stile of the Keepers of the Liberties of England by Authority of Parliament and to that purpose a Conference was had by a Committee with the Judges about it six whereof agreed to hold upon a Proviso to be made by an Act of the House of Commons that the Fundamental Laws should not be abolished a very weak security but that it met with strong and prepared confidence these were Lord Chief Justice Rolls and Justice Iermyn of the Kings-Bench Chief Justice Saint-Iohn and Justice Pheasant of the Common-Pleas and Chief Justice Wilde how he was made so Captain Burleigh tells us and Baron Yates the other six refused as knowing the Laws and the present Anarchy were incompatible and incapable of any expedient to sute them together But the one half was very fair and served to keep the Lawyers in practice and from dashing at their illegal Authority In pursuance of that promise made to those Judges that held and to deceive and cologne the people they Passed a Declaration That they were fully resolved to maintain and would uphold and maintain preserve and keep the Fundamental Laws of the Nation as to the preservation of the Lives Liberties and Properties of the People with all things incident thereunto saving those alterations concerning the King and House of Lords already made And yet notwithstanding they at the same time were Erecting High Courts of Justice impressed Sea-men and levied illegal Taxes by Souldiers and many other Enormities But it seems those Judges were content with the preservation of the litigious part of the Law extending this Proviso no further than to the private disputes of Meum Tuum whilst this publike Monster swallowed all Having thus establisht themselves in the Civil Power with some face of a Democratical Authority they proceeded to other Acts of State to give reputation to themselves and strength to their Government the first whereof was their Voting a New stamp for Coyn whereby their Soveraignty might be notified to all the world in the Trade and traffique thereof Next designing several Agents and Envoys to go to the Courts of Forrain Princes and there by their specious challenges and shews of Liberty and publike good the pretence of the Law of Nations peculiarly the Municipal Laws of this to palliate over the Justifie their unparallell'd proceedings against the King of which Messengers we shall presently speak And so we shall for a while leave these Usurpers amidst the several Complements given them by way of Salutation from the Army and Sectarian party under the yet-continued Notion of the Godly who forsooth highly magnified their Justice in this and urged them in their Addresses to extend it further About this time the Parliament Nulled the Monthly Fast on Wednesday which had continued through all the War thinking to impose upon the people as if God had answered all their prayers in that Murther of the King and that the work of Reformation was now accomplished It was high time therefore for such of the Kings party as were in their hands to look about them for besides the rise and most certain rumour of a general Massacre intended against the whole which was debated at a Council of War and carried but by two Votes they had special information of proceedings to be had against them in the same way of Tryal before a High Court of Justice First therefore Colonel Massey escapes away from Saint Iames's just upon the Kings Death next Sir Lewis Dives and Master Holden being brought to White-hall upon examination pretending to ease themselves got down the Common-shore to the Water-side and escaped leaving their Warders in the lurch and to a vain research after them The Lord Capel likewise made a handsome escape out of the Tower but passing by Water to Lambeth in the Boat of one Davis a Water-man and unhappily and fatally casting out some words by way of enquiry of the said Lord the wicked villain suspecting the truth seized him at Lambeth from whence he was re-conveyed to the same Prison in order to his speedy Tryal his Betrayer being preferred by the Parliament became the scorn and contempt of every body and lived afterward in shame and misery And the Lord of Loughborough Brother to Ferdinando then Earl of Huntingdon famous for several Loyal Services but most maligned by the Parliament for the last effort thereof at Colchester gave them also the slip from Windsor-Castle where he and the Colonels Tuke Hamond and Francis Heath newly at liberty upon his parole to

that we might most opportunely make Conjunction of our Forces About twelve a clock I set sail out of the Downs the Wind being Easterly immediately after I p●rceived the Hollanders to be under sail some of them and the rest making ready We Steered alongst and when we came as high as the South-foreland the Holland-Fleet was got off the Shore and were half Channel over plying to Windward towards Calice at which time I saw our General and those with him and within an hour after or thereabouts the Holland Fleet bore up and made sail towards him We hastened towards him and hope I may say seasonably came in for by that time the Guns were fired betwixt the Admirals we were with the Body of their Fleet and Engaged with them from half an hour past four in the afternoon till it was dark What Execution we did upon them they best know I shall not determine it but surely they were sensible of us for they did their utmost to decline us and avoid our coming near which we endeavoured by all means but their Admiral leading the Van they all made Sail after him and so shot themselves to Leeward of us and so left the Rear of the Fleet to us which we endeavoured to sever from the rest and accordingly did in part break the Body and some of us who were the neerest and had the advantage of the Wind fell upon the Sternmost who I suppose found it hot work the one of them of 30 Guns we took which fought stoutly another of the same force so lamed her Main-mast shot down and having much Water in Hold yielded and the Captain thereof came into our Boat to save himself the night coming on and no hope left him I presume she sunk in the night We not knowing what might be the Issue of this beginning endeavoured to finde out our General to the end we might receive Instructions how to order our selves in the morning expecting certainly to prosecute the business then for which end we presently came to Anchor because we would be neer them in the morning but they did not stop so that in the morning we could scarce discern them at Top-mast-head by which we concluded that they were bound over to the Coast of France and were not willing to try it further at this time and therefore that evening emplyed it up towards Foulstone and between that and Dover Anchored again and the next day came into the Downs Your very assured Friend and Servant in the work of God N. Bourn May 29 1652. To which may be added the Translation of the Letter of the Admiral Trump to the States General High and Mighty Lords My last Letter was of the tenth instant sent by the Messenger that brought my Instructions aboard since when I crossed the Sea before the Mase Vilistringen Ostend and Newport until the 24 of the same Month when we were forced to cast our Anchor and stay there in a hard Weather and a rough Sea until the 26 in the Morning The Weather growing fairer and being under sail divers Captains of the Direction came aboard complaining That they had lost their Anchors and Cables some having but two Anchors and two Cables left so it was resolved because the Wind did grow big to go under the point of Dover to prevent the loss of our ships At one of the clock coming before the Downs we did send the Commander Iohn Thissen of Flissingen and Captain Peter Alders towards the Downs to the Commander Bourn who was there with some ships of the Parliament whom they saluted in my Name advertising him that we were bound to cruse the Sea about our Coast and that having lost some Anchors by the last hard Weather we were forced to Anchor under Dover to help one another and so to return to our appointed limits having also no other order but to protect our Merchant-ships and Fishermen and to maintain the Honour of our Country That we therefore thought it fit to acquaint the said Commander with the same because he should not suspect any thing to the contrary who also did salute me and thankt me for this notice Upon the 19th at two of the clock we made sail the Wind North-East good Weather sailing towards Calice with intention to cross towards our Coast to provide us of Cables and Anchors Coming about Calice-cliff we met with Captain Ioris van Sanen of Amsterdam coming out the Streights with Captain Hugeluyt having in their company 7 rich Merchants ships who are esteemed at above 50 Tuns of Gold whom he left the 19th at Anchor right against Feverly where about 12 ships of the Parliament did lye and divers Frigats came to see them and forasmuch as the said Ioris van Sanen upon the 12 of May about Goutstart was met by a Frigat of the Parliament who fiercely set upon him to make him strike and against whom he defended him neer about two hours and so was left by the said Frigat whereupon the said Commander Hugeluyt and the said Van Sanen did endeavour to finde out our main Fleet and to give us notice of it as he did accordingly fearing much that the said Merchants Vessels already might be taken Thereupon I presently went thither to take them under my protection and if they were taken to put them at Liberty if it was possible according to the seventh and eighth Articles of my Instruction of the 6 of May instant Upon the way we met 15 Ships and Frigats of the Parliaments among whom one was an Admiral whom I intended to view taking in all my Sails except both my Marsh-sails whom we did avail until the midst of the Stangs Being within a Cannon-shot he shot a Ball over our ship we answering not he shot another to which we answered with one presently he gives me a Broad side being within a Musquet-shot and shot all his side through our Ship and Sails Divers were Wounded some with the loss of their Arms some otherwise whereupon we presently gave him our Broad side not knowing what they intended which as yet I know not because they did not speak a word to us neither we to them and we fell thereupon to a general Fight In the mean while came the Commander Bourn out of the Downs with 12 of suchlike ships and Frigats mounted as he told himself to the said Commander Iohn Thyssen and Captain Peter Alders being aboard of him with 60 to 70 and the Frigats with 38 to 50 pieces of Ordnance who in the same while Assaulted our Fleet from behinde and we fought thus from half an hour past four till nine of the clock the darkness parting us from one another when both the Admirals a little beyond the reach of our Ordnance cast their Sails towards the Lee to gather their Fleets and to mend what was shot to pieces we floted the whole night with a Light on every ship The 20th in the Morning we saw the English Fleet driven

at Corn-hil-Conduit on the top of which stood eight Nymphs clad in White each having an Escutcheon in one Hand and a Pendent and Banner in the other On the Tower of the said Conduit a Noise of Seven Trumpets NEar the Exchange in Corn-hill was erected the second Arch which was Naval On the East-side were two Stages Erected on each side of the Street one In that on the South-side was a Person representing the River Thames In the other Stage on the North-side which was made like the upper Deck of a Ship were three Seamen whereof one habited like a Boat-swain A Shield or Table in the Front of the Arch o're this Inscription NEPTUNO BRITANNICO CAROLO II. CUJUS ARBITRIO MARE VEL LIBERUM VEL CLAUSUM The first Painting on the North-side over the City-Arms represented NEPTVNE with his Trident advanced the Inscription NEPTUNO REDUCI On the South-side opposite MARS with his Spear inverted his Sheild charged with a Gorgon by his Knees the Motto MARTI PACIFERO Over the Arch the Marriage of Thame and Isis. The Painting on the North-side over Neptune did Represent the Exchange the Motto GENERALIS LAPSI SARCIRE RUINAS The uppermost great Table in the fore-ground represented King Charles the First with the Prince now Charles the Second in his Hand viewing the Soveraign of the Sea the Prince leaning on a Cannon the Inscription O nimium dilecte Deo cui militat Aequor Et conjurati veniunt ad Classica Venti For thee O Iove's delight the Seas engage And muster'd Winds drawn up in Battle Rage At the Stocks the Entertainment was a Body of Military Musick placed on a Balcony consisting of six Trumpets and three Drums the Fountain there being after the Th●scan Order venting Wine and Water In like manner on the top of the great Conduit at the Entrance of Cheapside there was another Fountain out of which issued both Wine and Water as in a Representation of Temperance and on the several Towers of that Conduit were eight Figures habited like Nymphs with Escutcheons in one hand and Pendants or Banners in the other and between each of them Wind-Musick the number eight On the Standard also in Cheap-side there was a Band of Waits placed consisting of six Persons THe third Triumphal Arch stood near Wood-street-end not far from the place where the Cross sometimes stood It Represented an Artificial Building of two Stories one after the Corinthian way of Architecture the other after the Composite Representing the Temple of Concord with this Inscription on a Shield AEDEM CONCORDIAE IN HONOREM OPTIMI PRINCIPIS CUJUS ADVENTU BRITANNIA TERRA MARIQUE PACATA ET PRISCIS LEGIBUS REFORMATA EST AMPLIOREM RESPLENDIDIOREM RESTITUIT SPQL. In the Spandrils of the Arch there were two Figures in Female Habits leaning One representing PEACE the other TRVTH That of Peace had her Shield charged with an Helmet and Bees Issuing forth and going into it the Word PAX BELLO POTIOR Truth on the other side in a thin Habit on her Shield Time bringing Truth out of a Cave the Word TANDEM EMERSIT Over the great Painting upon the Arch of the Cupula was represented a large GERYON with three Heads Crowned in his three right-hands a Lance a Sword and a Scepter in his three left-hands the three Escutcheons of England Scotland and Ireland before him the Kings Arms with three Imperial Crowns beneath in great Letters CONCORDIA INSUPERABILIS Here the City Recorder Sir William Wild made a Speech and presented the King with a Purse of Gold On the little Conduit at the lower End of Cheap-side were placed four Figures or Nymphs each of them having an Escutcheon in one hand and a Pendant in the other In a Balcony erected at the Entrance of Pater-noster Row were placed his Majesties Drums and Fi●e the number of persons Eight Between that and Ludga●e there were two other Balconies erected In one was placed a Band of six Waits in the other six Drums On the top of Ludgate six Trumpets At Fleet-Bridge a Band of six Waits On Fleet-Conduit were six Figures or Nymphs clad in White each with an Escutcheon in one hand and a Pendant in the other as also a Band of six Waits And on the Lanthorn of the Conduit was the Figure of Temperance mixing Water and Wine IN Fleet-street near White-Friers stood the fourth Triumphant Arch representing the Garden of PLENTY it was of two Stories the one of the Dorick Order the other of the Ionick Their Capitals had not their Just Measure but inclined to the Modern Architecture Upon the great Shield over the Arch in large Capitals this Inscription UBERTATI AUG EXTINCTO BELLI CIVILIS INCENDIO CLUSOQ JANI TEMPLO ARAM CELSIS CONSTRUXIT S. P. Q. L. Over the Postern on the South-side of the Entrance was BACCHUS in a Chariot drawn by Leopards his Mantle a Panther's skin his Crown of Grapes a Thyrsis with Ivy in his left hand a Cup in his right underneath LIBER PATER The Painting over this represented Silenus on his Ass Satyrs dancing round about in Drunken and Antick Postures the Prospect a Vineyard On the North-side opposite Ceres drawn in a Chariot by winged Dragons and Crowned with ears of Corn in her left hand Poppy in her right a Blazing Torch The Painting over her was a description of Harvest with CERES AUG His Majesty having passed the Four Triumphant Arches was at Temple-Bar Entertained with the View of a delightful Boscage full of several Beasts both tame and savage as also several living Figures and Musick of eight Waits But this being the Limit of the Cities Liberty must be so likewise of the Description Thus much for the City now for the Court which in order challenged the first place but 't was best to deal with the biggest first and those Colossus in London were indeed Gigantick and stupendious greatness Come we now to the Knights of the Bath made at this Coronation who appearing at the Court of Requests in Westminster were called over by the Lords Commissioners appointed for that purpose viz. The D●ke of Ormond Steward of the Kings Houshold the Earls of Northumberland Suffolk Lindsey Manchester Their Names were as follows Sir Fiennes Lord Clinton Heir apparent to the Earl of Lincoln Sir Egerton Lord Brackley Son and Heir apparent to the Earl of Bridgewater Sir Philip Herbert second son to the Earl of Pembrook and Montgomery Sir William Egerton second son to the Earl of Bridgwater Sir Vere Fane second son to the Earl of Westmorland Sir Charles Berkley eldest son to the Lord Berkley Sir Henry Bellasis eldest son to the Lord Bellasis Sir Henry Hide now Viscount Cornbury eldest son to Edward Earl of Clarendon Sir Rowland Bellasis brother to the Lord Viscount Faulconberg Sir Henry Capel brother to the Earl of Essex Sir Iohn Vaughan second son to Richard Earl of Carbery Sir Charles Stanley Grandchild to Iames late Earl of Derby Sir Francis and Sir Henry Fane Grand-children to