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.

A CHRONICLE OF THE CIVIL WARS OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, and IRELAND. THE FOURTH PART: BEING The Restitution. (Book 4)

THE suspence and stilness which ensued so many tempestuous Agitations, was so far from becalming the Passions of Men, and entertaining the Na∣tion in the present felicity and acquiscence of things, as is usual in the complacency of such unexpected and impatienced blessings, that it trans∣ported them at the same instant to more vigorous and active Resolutions in pursuance of that happy Auspicium which so faitly directed to a plena∣ry and compleat Establishment.

It was enviously fresh in the minds of all Loyal and good men, with what scorn and con∣temptuous derision, the Enemies of the Kingdoms peace, and the brood of the Usurpation, had mocked at this Revolution, as a most ridiculous and impossible thing: withal, it ocurred, how insolently they had upbraided, and how impiously charactered all former endeavours that way; which the Wisdom of God (whose own time is best) was pleased to disappoint, (al∣though he thereby made the folly of those wretches the more desperately hardened, and the more calamitous) and to appear at last himself, beyond their contradiction, and the bold Sophistry of those Gainsayers.

The same divine Wisdom had taught the afflicted to humble themselves, and to rely more immediately upon his Justice, than that of their Cause; and to wait his retribution, whose Na∣ture and Essence it is to vindicate Right, and deliver the injured and oppressed: and there∣fore now was the acceptable time, by this prepared reception of the Mercie, wherein the sole Glory of the Miracle was visibly ascribable to himself; as to himself it mainly and chiefly be∣longed, to rescue his own Honour & Veracity from the impudent Blasphemies of wicked men.

The Triumphs of Atheists had almost prevailed unto Victory, and braved Heaven with their success, as if it were unconcerned below, and those Affairs were only at their disposal, which through so many shifts and variations had still reverted into the first hand, and seemed in meer fondness and play to have but hided from them: but they were now to be convin∣ced, that the Power they had seized and wrested, could never be aliened from the Crown of England, to whose Restitution so many Enforcements, both Divine and Humane, were obli∣ged to concur, in this most happy and present Juncture of the Almighty's own appointment.

Indeed the former Disappointments, Defeats, and Disasters, which by irresistible Force and undiscoverable Treachery had hitherto all along exercised the Heroical patience of our Soveraign, had most severely afflicted the Loyalty of many of his Subjects in their Lives and Estates, and seemed to threaten the Constancie of the rest with the like Fate (the power circulating, like an ill winde, into the same corner whence our Tempest first arose, which by vulgar conjecture portended its boysterous duration there,) had so far indisposed the minds of men to desire or hope for any thing but a lingring death of the English Ho∣nour, Freedom and Laws, that it was a preceding Miracle to their Restauration, that there was vertue enough left among our selves, to resume and re-engage in that calamitous and

destructive Enterprise, or that any should be of that unshaken and noble confidence as to put himself upon those Rocks by which so many had already perished.

* 1.1But (as in the Jewish servitude and slavery to the Philistins, and at the expiration of their Babylonish Captivity, God raised up men to be his great and glorious Instruments, in bring∣ing about those his gracious purposes) so did he inspire and animate some eminent persons of this Nation, now his displeasure was almost ceased, with Courage and Conduct suitable to the Atchievement of our Redemption. Indeed it may be said, that he caused the whole Chain and Series of his Providence to conspire and combine against this arrogant and most Rebel∣lious Usurpation; who forgetting that they were the Scourge in Gods hands to chastise us, would have his Omnipotence the Sword in theirs to consume us; as they had all along in∣tituled him to their actions and successes.

To this purpose did he so often remove and change their Modules of Government, and some of those Leaders and Rulers themselves, never suffering them to come to any consisten∣cy; but in the fairest hopes of it, like the Apples of Sodom, caused it to moulder and perish: By this means at last exasperating and clashing them one against the other, while with impa∣tience and mutual hate, they pursued their Prey, the Estates of King and Kingdom; which the one having seized, the other never left snarling and baying at his fellow, while the Owner came in and recovered his right from them both.

Nor were their Divisions much more favourable to this happy Juncture, than was the Re∣conciliation and firm Accord made between the two Crowns of France and Spain, at the same time prop••tious and promising. The Kings Affairs, as was touched before, being taken into the concern of the General Peace, and this the quarrelling Grandees here very well knew; but their fewds were so far advanced, and the blows of their Ruine fell so thick one upon the neck of another, that they durst not take off their eye to bestow a glance, to the foreseeing the consequences of that auspicious Intrigue.

However, it pleased the Divine Wisdom to free us at once from the kindness and danger of Forreign assistance, and to put this his great Work into the hands of true English men, who a∣lone did operate in this wonderful change; that it might not be imputed to us the most famous Islanders in the World,* 1.2 that we stood in need of any thing from abroad; and ordered it so by the management of such an English man, the great Captain, the for-ever-renowned Monck that the beginners of our Troubles might see and be confounded, that as they raised Arms a∣gainst their Soveraign, by the Popularity and Fame of their first General; so their last (but far more dear & beloved than be in the heighth of the peoples Lovesick madness) should turn them against their own selves, and effect that judgment and vengeance which had been acted, and thought accomplished by Cromwel; and was in the like intentions of Lambert. A Fate they always feared from so many Experiences, yet was it not in their power to avoid, for so was their final overthrow most justly decreed. The Noble Duke of Ormond,* 1.3 who was likewise another principally concerned in this blessed Affair, cannot be denied to be an En∣glish man; however originally descended of a most honourable Irish Family, both of them Heroes extracted from the Loins of Princes, of the latter, this shall suffice, the other like a Tutelary Angel, occurs in every word and line I write.

Prosenteni reddit Linea cuncta Ducem.

* 1.4Nor was the superior Orb or Primum mobile of this great Affair at rest; the King contri∣buted as much as any person to his Return to his people, by his extraordinary diligence and wisdom, which improved all advantages and opportunities to the accomplishing of it. He courted the very worst of his Enemies, in the worst of their condition, to be good, and be ten∣der of themselves; and to prevent his justice by his Clemency and super-added Munificence, even when he was as good as sure to effect his Restitution by insuperable means, and uncon∣querable hands. To the best and Loyalist of his Subjects, he spared no promises nor encou∣ragements: and though the great unalterable constancy of his life and word was as firm and valid Caution as could be of any thing under the Sun, yet did He strengthen them with most obliging, and kindest assurances. Nor did he omit any just ways or means from abroad, letting his Subjects see that he had a hand ready to strike and inflict the punishment of the Rebel∣lion, if they delayed his imbraces. In fine, it was an Affair, in which all the faculties and pas∣sions of the Soul, (Love, Fear, Hope, and Joy) were tempered together to a MIRACLE, by his skilful hand, and art of Government; and wherein Reason and Necessity jumpt toge∣ther, and to which the whole frame of Policie officiously humbled and submitted it self, at this his Majesties most absolute and uncontroulable disposal of his Empire.

—Tibi numine ab omni Cedetur, jurisque tui Natura relinquet: Quis Deus esse velis ubi reg••um ponere mundo? —All the Heavenly powers yield, And Nature as thy right and choice doth leave: Where thou wilt reign, what Realms shall thee receive?

But besides those of the first Magnitude,* 1.5 there were Illustrious persons, and others that ren∣dred themselves conspicuous by their conjunction in this Revolution: such were the Lord Chancellour, the Earls of Southampton, Oxford, Bristol, S. Albans, & the two Secretaries of State, the old Earl of Norwich Ld. Goring (a person whose memory is highly ennobled by such grand Events and Occurrences of State, as the Spanish Peace with the Low Countries, which owes it self to his Transaction and Accommodation) the Earl of Manchester, the noble Earl of Sand∣wich, whose hand was engaged with his head, and was the excellent General's second in this Affair; the faithful and couragious Lord Ashly Cooper, who intrepidly engaged himself a∣mong the Usurpers, and dreaded not their spies and quicksighted sagacious discovery of de∣signes and intelligence against them, which he constantly managed; the Lord Annesly, now Earl of Anglesey; Lord Hollis; Lord Booth of Delamere, who broke the Ice, and endangered his Life and Fortunes in the Attempt, but was bravely rescued by his Reserve, the General, who came time enough to preserve him:* 1.6 not to omit the Dii minores, persons of lesser Rank, but Eminent in their Qualities; Sir Samuel Moreland, Thurlo's Secretary, and Cromwel's Resident in Savoy, where he was set as Intelligencer, which he proved most punctually to his Majesty, and countermined all the designes of his Masters; and by which means the King came to have intelligence of those disloyal, treacherous, and ingrate persons formerly of his side, whom we have mentioned: (He came to the King at Breda, where his Majesty Knighted him, and made him a Baronet, and gave him this Testimony, That he had done him very signal Ser∣vices for some years last passed.) Neither was Sir George Downing unserviceable to the same designe, in his station, in Holland, as his Majesty's Respects to him at his coming to the Hague (with recommendation from the General) did sufficiently declare. To conclude, the whole Mass of the people had a hand (at the least) in it, conspiring the same purposes in their wishes and affections; with the effect whereof, in a compendious Narrative, (for the Subject grows upon me to a bulk) I am next to indulge and pleasure the Reader.

The King was yet at Brussels, in a setled quiet expectation of the sitting down of the Par∣liament; the results of whose Counsels were not thought so quick by the deliberating and slow Spaniard, (who had allowed the King yearly the sum of 9000 l. besides the pay of his Forces which his Majesty kept there; which money was since repayed by the King, soon af∣ter his return) and therefore, upon the King's departure from Breda,* 1.7 (upon assurance that the Parliament would not fail of sitting down at the appointed time) he having traversed to and fro, back and again to Antwerp, the civil Governour of these Countries gave the King his Complement of departure, and honourably conveyed him on his way to the City of An∣twerp, the Road to Breda aforesaid; when it was feared by very many, that the slye Spaniard would have put some demur or stay upon him, in his Dominions: He afterwards indeed sent a Complement to him, by an Envoy well attended, intreating him to return that way, and to take shipping at one of the Ports of Flanders, for England; and acquainted him, that for his greater honour and satisfaction, he should see his Souldiers payed as he passed: but the King civilly refused that kind proffer.

The King was no sooner come to Breda, the Town and Castle whereof belonged to his Ne∣phew the Prince of Aurange,* 1.8 but having notice the Parliament was ready to sit, he dispatcht away his Letters by Mr. (now made Lord Viscount) Mordant, (the Lord Goring having been sent before to the Council of State and General) and Sir Iohn Greenvil, now Earl of Bath, with his Letters to the Parliament in both Houses respectively; to the Lord-General and Ci∣ty: which were speedily made publick, and the Town in a kind of extasie for two days toge∣ther, the Press never ceasing to print them,* 1.9 and all persons having no other thing to do but to read them; the substance of which Message, with the like Declaration to the House of Com∣mons, and his gracious Letters enclosed to his Excellencie the Lord General, to be commu∣nicated to the Officers of the Army; with a Letter likewise and Declaration to the Lord Mayor,* 1.10 Aldermen, and Common Council of the City of London, was this: His Majesty granted a free and general Pardon to all his Subjects whatsoever, that shall within forty days after publication thereof, lay hold upon that grace, and by any publick Act declare their doing so, such onely accepted as the Parliament shall think fit to be excepted; which he will con∣firm upon the word of a King. And as to tender Consciences, none shall be called in question for

differences in opinion, which disturb not the peace of the Kingdom. For Sales & Purchases, he will refer himself in all matters to the determination of Parliament; that he will consent to an Act or Acts of Parliament for paying off and satisfying the Arrears of the Army and Navy; and that they shall be received into his Majesty's service upon as good Pay and Conditions as they then enjoyed.

* 1.11This gracious Message, with the Letter to his Excellencie, and the Declaration, were read in the House of Commons, with most extraordinary Ceremony and Reverence, as if some strange awe had seized upon the minds of the Parliament; every man at the Speakers na∣ming of the King rising up and uncovering himself, desiring the Letters might be forthwith read; the like also was done in the House of Lords: In the House of Commons, remark∣able was that of Mr. Luke Robinson, who being a great Commonwealths-man, first of all spoke to the Letters, and acknowledged his conviction.

Nor was this Declaration less acceptable to all the people, who were overjoyed with the news, and the infallible hopes of having their gracious Prince and Soveraign restored to them in Peace and Honour. The Parliament resolved,* 1.12 That they do own and declare, that accor∣ding to the Ancient and Fundamental Laws of this Kingdom, the Government is, and ought to be, by King, Lords, and Commons. And having a deep sense of the Miseries and Distra∣ctions in which this Kingdom hath been involved since the violent attempts to dissolve the Established Government; the best way to make up those breaches, is by all means to obtain the Restoration of the King to his people; and that in order thereunto, a Letter from both Houses, (drawn up by a Committee) shall be sent to the King, giving him thanks for his gra∣cious Offers,* 1.13 and professing their duty and loyalty to him; and that Sir Iohn Greenvil have the thanks of the House, and 500 l. bestowed on him by the Commons, to buy him a Jewel, as a Testimony of the respects of the House to him; and a badge of Honour, which they thought fit to place upon him: all which was with great solemnity & punctuality performed.

Moreover, to testifie their hearty obedience to his Majesty, they ordered the sum of 50000 l. as a Present for him; which was instantly borrowed, with 50000 l. more, of the City of London,* 1.14 who having desired leave of the Parliament, returned a like dutiful Answer, with a Present also to his Majesty, and his two Brothers; having honourably received the Lord Vi∣scount Mordant, and the said Sir Iohn Greenvil, who brought them his Majesty's Letters, who also acknowledged their Quality and good Offices, by 300 l. given them to buy them Rings.

* 1.15Nor were the Souldiery wanting to this concourse and stream of general Affection and Loyalty to his Majesty; for upon communication of his Majesty's Letters and Declaration, they quickly drew up an Address to the General, wherein they shewed their willing and ready submission, as formerly in all Transactions to him their General, so in this their perfect Duty to the King: To whom they doubted not to evince, that his Excellencie, and the Army under his Command, and those engaged in the Parliaments Cause, had complied with the Obligations for which they were raised: The Preservation of the Protestant Religion, the Honour and Hap∣piness of the King, the Priviledges of Parliament, the Liberty and Proprieties of the Subject, and the Fundamental Laws of the Land.

* 1.16This was seconded by the Navy under the General Montague, now Earl of Sandwich, to whom (and the Fleet under him) the King had sent the like Letters and Declaration; the Sea ringing with the peals of Ordnance, upon the communication of the said Papers: and lastly, the Governour Colonel Harlow, and Garrison of Dunkirk, did the same by an Address to his Excellencie.

A Committee was appointed to consider the manner of his Majesties Return, and to pre∣pare all things necessary for his Reception: they likewise ordered his Majesty's Arms to be set up in all Churches,* 1.17 and the Commonwealths to be taken down, and that all Proceedings be in the Kings Majesties name; and that the present Great Seal be made use of till further order, that there might be no hindrance or stop in the proceeding of Justice. Easter-Term was likewise prorogued, that no business might interfere with this grand and expected Affair of the Settlement of the Kingdom. All Officers (as Sheriffs, Justices) that were in commission the 25 of April, to continue and exercise the respective Offices in the King's Name. It was Resolved further,* 1.18 That the King's Majesty be desired to make a speedy return to his Parlia∣ment, and to the exercise of his Kingly-Office; and that in order thereunto, several Com∣missioners from both Houses be sent to the King at Breda, with their Letters to his Majesty (Doctor Clargys (now Sir Thomas) the General's Brother, having been before sent with his to the King) and to acquaint him with the said Desires and Votes of the Houses. To these Commissioners, others were added from the City of London; the Names of them all are as followeth.

For the House of Lords:

Earl of Oxford, Earl of Warwick, (staid at London sick of the Gout) Earl of Middlesex, Lord Viscount Hereford, Lord Berckley, Lord Brook.

For the House of Commons:

The Lord Fairfax, Lord Bruce, Lord Falkland, Lord Castleton, Lord Herbert, Lord Mandevil, Sir Horatio (now Lord) Townsend, Sir Anthony (now Lord) Ashly Cooper, Sir George Booth, (now Lord De la mere,) Denzill (now Lord) Hollis, Sir Henry Holland, Sir Iohn Cholmley.

For the City of London:

Sir Iames Bunce Baronet, Alderman Langham, Alderman Reynardson, Alder∣man Sir Richard Browne, Sir Nicholas Crisp, Alderman Tompson, Alderman Fre∣derick, Alderman Adams, Sir William Wilde Recorder, Sir Iohn Robinson, Al∣derman Sir Anthony Bateman, Sir William Wale, Sir Theophilus Biddulph, Sir Richard Ford, Sir William Vincent, Sir Thomas Bludworth, Sir William Bateman, Sir Iohn Lewis, Master Chamberlain, and Sir Laurence Bromfield; all of them (not Knighted before) Knighted by the King at the Hague upon their ar∣rival, the King being removed thither from Breda, as nearer, and more con∣venient for his shipping; the disposal whereof, and of the whole Fleet, was remitted to his Majesty's pleasure; the General Montague having received Orders to obey his Majesty's Commands and Directions therein.

The Instructions being delivered to the Commissioners, they set Sail in several Frigots appointed to attend them; and with some foul Weather Landed in Holland,* 1.19 where they were graciously and favourably received by his Majesty at the Hague: (I may not omit, that the reception of Sir Thomas Clergys from the General, was as an Embassador from a Prince; the Lord Gerard with many Coaches being sent to conduct him to Audience) where Mr. Hollis, into whose hands the Letters were intrusted for the delivery, spoke for the House of Com∣mons; the Earl of Oxford for the Lords; and Sir William Wilde for the City. Those that were there at their Audience, agreed in Opinion, that never person spoke with more affection, or in better terms, than Master Hollis. He insisted chiefly upon the Miseries the Kingdoms had groaned under by the tyranny of the pretended Parliament and Cromwel; which should now be exchanged into their repose, quiet, and lawful liberty: beseeching his Majesty in the name of his people to return and resume the Scepter, &c. and assured him he should be infi∣nitely welcome without any terms: a thing so much stomacked by the Phana∣ticks; but most just and honourable.

After several Treatments given the King by the Dutch, which he shortned as much as he could,* 1.20 and other Complements by Forraign Ministers, to whom he gave publick Audience, the Portugal only excepted, and Spaniard; having no∣tice of the Fleets arrival, which consisted of near Forty Sail of great Men of War, he prepared to depart: At this time came also to his hands the Procla∣mation made in London, as a little before returned Sir Iohn Greenvil with the happy news of his peoples love and entire affection. The Proclamation fol∣loweth, being very fit to be recorded; that which we mentioned in the second Part, being but an earnest of this.

ALthough it can no way be doubted,* 2.1 but that his Maiesties Right and Title to these Crowns and Kingdoms, is and was every way compleat by the Death of his most Royal Fa∣ther of Glorious Memory, without the Ceremony or Solem∣nity

of a Proclamation: Yet since Proclamations in such cases have been always used, to the end that all good Subjects might upon this occasion testifie their Duty and Respect. And since the Armed Uiolence, and other the Calamities of many years last past, have hitherto deprived us of any opportunity, wherein we might express our Loyalty and Allegiance to his Majesty: We therefore, the Lords and Commons now assembled in Par∣liament, together with the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Com∣mon-Council of the City of London, and other Free-men of this Kingdom now present, do according to our Duty and Allegi∣ance, heartily, joyfully, and unanimously, Acknowledge and Proclaim, That immediately upon the decease of our late So∣veraign King CHARLES the First, the Imperial Crown of the Realm of England, and of all the Kingdoms, Dominions, and Rights belonging to the same, did by Inherent Birthright, and lawful undoubted Succession, descend, and come to his Most Excellent Majesty King CHARLES the Second, as being line∣ally, justly, and lawfully next Heir of the Blood Royal of this Realm; and that by the goodness and providence of Almighty God, He is of England, Scotland, and Ireland, the most Potent, Mighty, and Undoubted King. And thereunto We most hum∣bly, and faithfully do submit, and oblige our Selves, our Heirs, and Posterities for ever.

This was Solemnized with the greatest Magnificence and joy possible, the Lords and Commons, and Lord Mayor attending it: the shouts and acclamati∣ons at the reading of it in Cheap-side were so loud and great, that Bow-bells, or any other Bells in the Town (though all then Ringing) could not be heard. All was concluded with unspeakable mirth, and numerous Bonefires at night, which yielded not their flames but to the rising Sun.

I shall not intrude other matters at home into this grand Affair; but reserve them until ••hereafter, and proceed. The Dutch also (as knowing it would please the King) enlarged their Civilities and respects to the Commissioners of the Parliament and City; who received them from their Deputies with much satisfaction: likewise, several Provisions were sent aboard the Fleet, and the General: He also complemented with the Kings Restitution.

* 2.2For a Conclusion of those great Magnificences with which they had enter∣tained his Majesty a Fortnight, they resolved to give him a Farewel-Treat∣ment, with all the sumptuousness expressible; which they performed; and in the end, presented him with the richest Bed and Furniture, with Tapestry for Hangings, imbossed with Gold and Silver, and adorned with Pictures, as could be had: the Bed was made at Paris for the Princess of Orange; but her Husband dying Eight days before she was delivered, it was never used. A little before this time, Sir Samuel Moreland,* 2.3 Thurloe's Agent for Oliver at the Court of Savoy, came to the King, where he was kindly received, (having done the King seve∣ral good Offices) and discovered the intrigues of Oliver and the Rump, and was Knighted; he revealed also several eminent Royalists, as Sir Richard Willis, Colonel Bamfield, and others, who betrayed the King's Affairs and Friends to Oliver. Hither also about the same time came Sir George Downing,* 2.4 who was

also graciously received, who had done the like good services for his Majesty, and was likewise Knighted, and continued his Majesties Resident with the States.

On Sunday the 20th of May,* 2.5 the King heard Doctor Hardy (after Dean of Rochester) Preach before him: the place intended was the French-Church, after their Sermon; but they knowing of it, being greedy to see the King, would not come out of their Seats; so that it was done in the Princesses Lodgings. Here the King touched many of the Evil. In the mean while, the Duke of York took the Oath of Allegiance of the Fleet, having gone aboard the Naseby, where the General treated him; which Ship, at his departure, when the shore resoun∣ded with the Artillery, he called the Charles: as afterwards the whole Fleet was new Christened in their way homewards.

The King having thanked the States General and of Holland in their Pub∣lick Assemblies, whither he went on foot, took his leave of them; recommend∣ing to them the interest of his Sister, and Nephew the Prince of Orange; and was re-saluted by them upon the same, as also by the several Ministers of the several Princes, one whereof, the Count of Oldenham, sent an Embassador with Credentials to the King just before his departure, being the sole Minister so qua∣lified while his Majesty staid at the Hague.

On Wednesday the 22 of May, Stilo veteri, the King departed;* 2.6 and it may be said, there was no night between Tuesday and that; particularly for those who found no place to put their heads in, the houses not being able to lodge the croud of people that ran there from all the neighbouring Towns, the most part whereof were constrained to walk the streets, though the wiser sort took up their Quarters for their advantage of seeing the King's departure on Downs and Sand-hills which bordered all along the Sea-coast, where they might see the Fleet and the King Embarquing; so that it is a question, whether the Hol∣lander more wondered, or we more joyed. The Speech spoken by the States of Holland, at his Farewel, for the notableness thereof, is here inserted.

IF one may judge of the content which we have to see your Majesty depart from our Province,* 3.1 by the satisfaction we had to possess you, we shall have no great trou∣ble to make it known to you. Your Majesty might have observed in the Countenance of all our people, the joy they had in their hearts, to see a Prince cherished of God, a Prince wholly miraculous, and a Prince that is probably to make a part of their Quietness and Felicity. Your Majesty shall see presently all the streets filled, all the ways covered, and all the hills loaden with people which will follow you even to the place of your Embarquement, and would not leave you, if they had where∣with to pass them to your Kingdom. Our joy is common unto us with that of our Subjects: but as we know better than they the inestimable value of the Treasure we possess, so are we more sensible of this sad separation. It would be insupportable to us, Sir, if we re-entred not into our selves, & considered not that it is the thing of the world we most desired, and the greatest advantage also that we could wish to your Majesty. We acquiesce therein, because we know that this removal is no less necessary for us, than glorious to your Majesty; and that 'tis in your Kingdom that we must finde the accomplishment of the prayers we have made, and make still for you and us: so shall we not fail to profit thence, as well as from the assurances which it hath pleased you to give us of an immutable affection towards this Republick. We render most humble thanks unto your Majesty for them, and particularly for the illustrious proof which it hath pleased you to give us thereof, by the glorious Visit wherewith you ho∣noured our Assembly. We shall conserve the memory of it most dearly, and make the marks of that goodness to pass to our last Posterity, to the end they may acknowledge it with the same respect with which we have received it. The appointment wherein we see your Majesty ready to take horse for the pursuit of your Iourney, forbids us to enlarge our selves upon a Subject which would never weary us, if we had words conformable to our respectful sentiments. But we have no minde to encrease the just impatience which your Majesty shall have to see your self returned into your King∣dom.

We pray God, Sir, that it be quiet and happy; and that as he hath disposed the hearts and affections of your Subjects to acknowledge their Soveraign and law∣ful Prince, it will please him also to command the Winds and Seas to expedite your Voyage; and that after you have received on your own Coast the same Prayers which we shall reiterate, you may injoy in your Royal Person, and in your Posterity for ever, all the Felicity and Prosperity which your humble Servants wish unto your Majesty.

'Tis certain that their entertainment of the King, and their Presents, cost the Dutch above 100000 l.

* 3.2The King departed (as before is mentioned) accompanied with Prince Wil∣liam of Nassau, and the Admiral of Holland, having the Prince of Orange be∣fore him, being in the midst of his two Brothers the Dukes of York and Glou∣cester on horse-back, the Ladies attending on him in their Coaches all along the way, where the Citizens, the Horse, and the Regiment of the Guards stood in Battalia; the Cannon thundred, being answered with peals of Musick, which conveyed the like Mirth to the English Fleet Riding at Scheveling.

The King, with his Aunt, his Sister, and some other Illustrious Persons (ha∣ving taken his last leave of the States) went first on board a Barge prepared by the Dutch, whose Streamers and Flags had this impress, Quo fas & fata, alluding to Dieu & mon Droit; but upon the approach of a Brigandine from General Montague,* 3.3 he entered therein, and came on board the Charles; the Seamen see∣ming to be in an extasie, being possessed of their beloved Prince. Soon after he came up to the Poop to behold again that multitude on the Downs of Scheve∣ling, saying, That he thought his own Subjects could scarce have more tenderness for him than those people, on whose Affections he saw he reigned no less than he was going to raign on the Wills of the English.

Much ado there was to part the Princess of Orange from him, whom many other considerations as strong as Birth had rendred most dear to him, till at last the General, who with all possible demonstrations of Loyalty had received the King, having all the Retinue shipt, caused the Anchors to be weighed, and the Sails to be spread; and then with Tears and Embraces she left him, and was rowed back again with the same company to the Holland-shore, which lost fight of the Fleet about the evening.

No sooner was the Fleet under sail, but the Cannon began to roar, giving notice that the Lord of the Sea was in his rightful possession; which Thundring continued till night: Next day they had little winde, but so much, as on Fri∣day-morning they came within sight of Dover; whereupon an Express was sent to the General (then at Canterbury) to hasten to Dover; which he did accordingly, and about one of the clock with a gallant Train came thither: About three of the clock in the afternoon,* 3.4 his Majesty landed at the Beach neer the Peer of Dover, with the Dukes and his Nobles. Every man now put them∣selves into a posture to observe the meeting of the best of Kings, and best-de∣serving (without flattery is it spoken) of Subjects.

* 3.5This solemn and unexampled meeting, did with the joy thereof infuse a suspence of fear, that the Congress of the King and the General would of one part or other fail in Affection or Ceremony; but this Interview dispensed with all punctilio, other than that the General kneeled, and the King kissed and em∣braced him, to the most pleasing satisfaction of Nobility and People.

His Majesty then walked up with the General under a Canopy, a Chair of State being carried by his Coach-side. In the way, the Mayor and Aldermen of Dover, with the Minister, met his Majesty; who after a short Speech, pre∣sented him a Bible with Gold-clasps (the ordinary Present of the Presbyte∣rian Ministers.) Then his Majesty took Coach, he and the Duke of York at one end, and the Duke of Gloucester and his Exellencie at the other, the Duke of Buckingham in the Boot.* 3.6 About two miles from Dover the King took horse, the Dukes on the right hand of the King, the General on the left, bare; followed

by the Duke of Buckingham,* 3.7 and the rest of the Nobility and Gentry, uncover∣ed, and came to Canterbury, where he was met and complemented by the Mayor and Aldermen, and Recorder of that City, and presented with a Golden Tan∣kard, and so conducted to the Palace. Here he made the General Knight of the Honourable Order of the Garter; the Duke of York putting the Order about his Neck. Saturday and Sunday he staid here, and on Munday-morning departed for Rochester, whither that evening he arrived, and went from his Lod∣ging to Chattam, to see the Soveraign, and other Ships of the Royal Navy, and at night returned to his Lodgings at Colonel Gibbon's,* 3.8 where he was welcomed by an Address from the Regiment of the said Colonel, delivered by himself; which his Majesty graciously accepted.

Betwixt four and five on Tuesday-morning, being the most happy and au∣spicious 29th of May, his Majesty's Birth-day, he departed from Rochester, the Militia-Forces of Kent lining the ways, and the Maidens strowing Herbs and Flowers; the Towns through which he passed, hanging out White sheets. Be∣ing come to Dartford,* 3.9 the Officers of the Regiments of Horse presented an humble Address to him, wherein they declared their readiness to sacrifice their lives in defence of his Majesty's Person and Government.

At Black-heath the Army was drawn up, where his Majesty viewed them, using many gracious Expressions towards them; which were answered by loud acclamations. The several Regiments being there placed in order, His Ma∣jesty advanced towards London, and about one a Clock came to Saint George's Fields, where the Lord Mayor and the Aldermen were in a Tent ready to receive him. The Sword being there delivered him, he re-delivered it, and Knighted Sir Thomas Alleyn. After a short repast, the King proceeded into London by Southwarke: from the Bridge to Temple-Bar, the Streets were railed on the one fide, with standings for the Liveries; and lined on the other with the Trained Bands: to which were added some Gentlemen-Volunteers all in white Doublets, under Sir Iohn Stawel.* 3.10 The manner of his Majesties Triumphal and Magnificent Passage through this orderly ranking, was thus: First marched a Troop of Gentlemen, led by Major-General Brown brandishing their Swords, in Cloath of Silver-doublets, being about Three hundred, besides Servants. Then another Troop of about Two hundred in Velvet-Coats; the Foot-men and Li∣veries in Purple. Next, a Troop under Colonel Sir Iohn Robinson, with Buff-coats, Cloath of Silver-sleeves, and Green-scarves. After this, a Troop in Blew Liveries and Silver-lace, Colours red fringed with Silver, about Two hundred. Next, another Troop with six Trumpets, seven Foot-men in Sea-green and Sil∣ver, their Colours Pink Fringed with Silver. Then a Troop with their Live∣ries Gray and Blew, Thirty Foot-men, Four Trumpets, about Two hundred and twenty, their Colours Sky, Fringed with Silver, under the Earl of Northamp∣ton. Another of Gray Liveries, Six Trumpets, Colours Sky and Silver, about One hundred and five, led by the Lord Goring. Another of Seventy. Ano∣ther Troop led by the Lord Cleveland, of about Three hundred. Noblemen and Gentry, another Troop of about One hundred, black Colours. One more Troop of Three hundred Horse, led by the Lord Mordant.

After these, came Two Trumpets, with his Majesties Arms, the Sheriffs-men in Red-cloaks and Silver-lace with Half-pikes, Seventy two in number. Then followed the Gentlemen that rid out of the several Companies of London, with their respective Streamers, all in Velvet Coats with Gold Chains; every Compa∣ny having its Footmen with different Liveries. After these, a Kettle-drum, and five Trumpets; The Citizens being in number about Six hundred. After these, Twelve Ministers; then his Majesties Life-guard led by Sir Gilbert Gerrard and Major Roscarrock. The City-Marshal with eight Footmen, with the City-Waits and Officers in order: then the two Sheriffs, and all the Aldermen of London (among whom, much wondring there was at Aldermen Ireton) in their Scar∣let Gowns and rich Trappings, with Footmen in Liveries, Red-coats laced with Silver and Cloath of Gold. The Maces and Heralds in their Rich coats,

the Lord Mayor bare carrying the Sword, his Excellency and Duke of Buck∣ingham bare also; and then, as the lustre to all this splendid Triumph, rode the King himself between his two Royal Brothers; which order he had all along ever since the overture of his return observed. After them came a Troop bare with White Colours; then the General's Life-guard, and another Troop of Gentry. Last of all, Five Regiments of the Army-Horse, with Back, Brest, and Head-piece, which diversified the Show with delight and Terrour. Thus have you in a view all that pleased and gratified the Eye; but no Pen or Tongue is able to express those ravishing and loud musical notes of Acclamations and Vive le Roy's, which charmed the Ears of all Loyal Subjects, even to Extasie and Transportation, and with which his Majesty himself (who endured the din of it all that day) was so pleasingly affected.

With these joyful accents he was brought to his Palace of White-hall; where after the Lord Mayor had took his leave, his Majesty went up to the Lords, where a Speech was made to him in the Banqueting-house, (where both Lords and Commons awaited him) by the Earl of Manchester Speaker of the House of Lords; by which, that Posterity may know the sense of the Kingdome up∣on this Miraculous Change, it is here Recorded.

* 4.1THat this day may prove happy to your Majesty, is the hope, the Expectation, and the earnest desire of my Lords the Peers, whose Commands are upon me to make this humble Tender to your Majesty of their Loyal joy for your Majesties safe Return to your Native Kingdome, and for this happy Restoration of your Ma∣jesty to your Crown and Dignity, after so long, and so severe a Supression of your just Right and Title.

I shall not reflect upon your Majesties Sufferings, which have been your Peoples Miseries; yet I cannot omit to say, That as the Nation in general, so the Peers with a more personal and particular sense have felt the stroke that cut the Gordian Knot which fastned your Majesty to your Kingdome, and your Kingdome to your Ma∣jesty.

For since those strange and various Fluctuations and Discomposu••es in Government, since those horrid and unparallel'd Violations of all Order and Iustice, Strangers have Ruled over us, even with a Rod of Iron: But now, with satisfaction of heart, we own and see your Majesty, our Native King, and Son of the wise; a Son of the an∣tient Kings, whose hand holds forth a Golden Scepter.

Great King! Give me leave to speak the Confidence, as well as the Desires, of the Peers of England: Be you the Powerful Defender of the true Protestant Faith; the Iust Assertor and Maintainer of the Laws and Liberties of your Sub∣jects: so shall Judgment run down like a River, and Justice like a mighty stream; and God, the God of your Mercy, who hath so miraculously preserved you, will establish your Throne in Righteousness and in Peace.

Dread Soveraign! I offer no flattering Titles, but speak the Words of Truth: you are the desire of Three Kingdoms, the Strength and the Stay of the Tribes of the People; for the moderating of Extremities, the reconciling of differences, the satis∣fying of all interests, and for the restoring of the collapsed Honour of these Nations. Their Eyes are toward your Majesty; their Tongues with loud Acclamations of Ioy, speak the thoughts and Loyal intentions of their Hearts; their Hands are lift up to Heaven with Prayers and Praises: and what Oral Triumph can equal this your Pomp and Glory?

Long may your Majesty Live and Reign; a Support to your Friends, a Terrour to your Enemies, an Honour to your Nation, and an Example to Kings, of Piety, Iustice, Prudence and Power; that this Prophetick Expression may be verified in your Majesty, King Charles the Second shall be greater than ever was the great∣est of that Name.

His MAjESTIES Gracious Answer to the Earl of Manchester's Speech.

My Lord,

I Am so disordered by my Iourney, and with the Noise still sounding in my Ears, (which I confess was pleasing to me, be∣cause it expressed the Affections of my People) as I am unfit at the present to make such a Reply as I desire; yet thus much I shall say unto you, That I take no greater Satisfaction to my Self in this my Change, than that I find my Heart really set to endeavour by all means for the Restoring of this Nation to their Freedome and Happiness; And I hope, by the advice of my Parliament, to effect it. Of this also you may be confident, That next to the Honour of God, from whom principally I shall ever own this Restoration to my Crown, I shall study the Welfare of my People; And shall not on∣ly be a True Defender of the Faith, But a Iust Assertor of the Laws and Liberties of my Subjects.

This passed, the King retired to Supper, and soon after to his rest, where it was time he should find it, after so many difficulties and turmoils in the World for Twenty whole years together.

But the Citizens were not so weary of their Joy and Triumph;* 5.1 for as soon as Night came, an Artificial day was begun again, the whole City seeming to be one great Light, as indeed properly it was a Luminary of Loyalty; the Bon∣fires continuing till day-break, fed by a constant supply of Wood, and main∣tained with an equal excess of gladness and fewel.

Thus far this memorable and miraculous Affair hath carried me: not wil∣ling to break off the gladsome speculation and review of his glory and happy Influences, I must now a little retrospect to what passed at home in the Par∣liament and Kingdome.

Several Acts were in agitation;* 5.2 one for removing and preventing all questi∣ons and disputes concerning the Sitting and Assembling of this present Parlia∣ment; as also, that of Oblivion and Indempnity; and another for Sales and Purchases: and in the mean while, it was ordered by the Lords, That a stop be put to the demolishing, defacing, or committing wast in any Houses or Lands belonging to his Majesty; and that no Wood nor Timber should be felled: and the like done in the Lands belonging to the Duke of Buckingham, the Lord Craven, and Sir Iohn Stawel. The Commons ordered Ten thousand pounds to be sent as a present to the Duke of York; also that the Scotch Colours taken at Preston, Dunbar, and Worcester, and hung up in Westminster-hall, should be taken down: which was accordingly executed, and the Kings Arms placed in the Courts of Judicature.

Col. Harrison (one of the Kings most malicious Judges) was apprehended in Staffordshire, and brought up to London; and by his Excellencies Order Committed to the Tower, while Whitehall was then a preparing for his Ma∣jesty.

The House of Commons taking into consideration the business of the Pied∣mont-Collection-money, declared their detestation and abhorrence of the diver∣sion of the said Money from the charitable uses to which pretendedly it was designed.

The King was Proclaimed with great joy throughout the Nation; while divers of the Kings Judges (out of consciousness of their guilt) escaped beyond Sea.

* 5.3In Ireland also the King was by the Convention there Assembled, Proclaim∣ed with the usual Ceremonies. Several of the eminentest of that Nation were also ordered to be sent to his Majesty, in the name of that Kingdome, with a present of Four thousand pound to the Duke of York; so sympathetically did the Irish Harp move with the same touches on the English.

* 5.4The most Illustrious Princes the Dukes of York and Gloucester went to the House of Lords, and there took their places; whither the next day came the King himself by Water in the Brigandine which brought him aboard the Charles from Holland; the Yeomen of the Guard making a lane, the Heralds at Arms in their rich Coats,* 5.5 the Maces, and the Lord General Bare-headed before him: being seated, the Commons were called; to whom the King in a Speech pressed very much the Act of Oblivion; and Signed some Bills, viz. One for Confir∣mation of the Parliament. Another for the Tax of Seventy thousand pounds per Mensem, for three Moneths, from the 24 of Iune. A third for continuance of Process, and Judicial Proceedings: and then returned to Whitehall, where he chose the Lords of his Privy Council; among whom, were several of the Long Parliament. His Majesty also graciously and judiciously provided for the Benches and Courts of Judicature: for the Chancery the Lord Chancellour Hide; for the Rolls, the Lord Culpepper (who soon after dyed, and the place was by the Kings favour bestowed on Sir Harbottle Grimstone;) for the Kings Bench, Sir Ro∣bert Foster, Justice Mallet, and Sir Thomas Twisden; in the Common-Pleas, Justice Atkins; and in the Exchequer, Sir Orlando Bridgeman; Sir Ieoffry Palmer Attor∣ney, and Sir Heneage Finch Sollicitor-General; Mr. Iohn Heath, son of Sir Robert, Atturney to the Dutchy. But of this a fuller account.

* 5.6Several Persons guilty of the Murther of King Charles the First, making their escapes beyond Sea, a Proclamation drawn up by the Parliament was published by his Majesty, summoning the persons therein named, who sate, gave Judgment, and Assisted in that horrid and detestable Fact, to render them∣selves within Fourteen days after the Publication of that His Majesties Royal Proclamation, to the Speaker, or Speakers of the Parliament, or to the Lord Mayor of London, or to the respective Sheriffs of the Counties of England and Wales; and that no person should presume to conceal or harbour them, under misprision of Treason: whereupon divers came in, and submitted, and were secured in the Tower.

Several Addresses were made to the King from the Nobility and Gentry of all the Counties, congratulating his Majesties Restitution to his Throne and Kingdoms, and testifying their exceeding joy and willingness to maintain his Majesties Royal Person and Authority. Divers eminent persons for their ser∣vice and affection to his Majesty, were honoured with Knighthood.

The House of Commons ordered, that others, besides the Actual Judges of the King,* 5.7 should be excepted out of the Act of Oblivion (which was now ve∣ry far proceeded in) as namely, Andrew Broughton, Phelps, Iohn Cook, Hugh Pe∣ters, and Edward Denby. This so affrighted others who had a hand in that execrable business, that Colonel Iohn Hutchinson a Member in this Par∣liament, and Colonel Francis Lassells Petitioned the House, confessing their guilt, and withal the Artifices that were used to draw them in; and by this submission obtained Pardon, upon some forfeitures. Hugh Peters was taken about this time in Southwarke: at first he denyed his Name, but being brought before Sir Iohn Robinson, then made Lieutenant of the Tower, he was known, and acknowledged himself,* 5.8 and was there secured.

The Parliament thought not themselves nor the people of England freed from that guilt and punishment which our unhappy times had contracted, unless they laid hold on his Majesties Grace, mentioned in his Declaration from Breda; and therefore Resolved, That the House doth declare, that they do in the Name of themselves, and all the Commons of England, lay hold on his Majesties gracious Pardon mentioned in his Declaration, with reference to the excepting of such as shall be excepted in an Act of Pardon: and accordingly a Declaration was made, and presented to the King by Master Denzill Hellis.

His Majesty was graciously pleased to signifie his readiness and willingness to comply with that his Royal Word, and gave direction for a Proclamation to that purpose: In the mean while, several of the eminentest in Offices under the Usurpation, to make sure of this Grace offered from Breda, got their particular Pardons exemplified under the Great Seal of England, as they were well advi∣sed by the notoriety of their Guilt, and their distrustful Consciences: to secure and discharge which trouble, the King was more than ordinary pressing for a speedy Passing of the Act of Oblivion; as on the other side his Sentiments of those services to his Restitution, gave him the immediate resolutions of digni∣fying those Illustrious Personages, who most instrumentally and principally did accomplish it.

And therefore, on the 12 of Iuly,* 5.9 he honoured the most noble General Monck with the Titles of Duke of Albemarle (which Dutchy formerly was appro∣priate to the Blood Royal, and was extinct in the Reign of Henry the Fourth, the Demeasnes and Jurisdiction whereof lay in the Dutchy of Normandy in France, under the English Soveraginty) and Earl of Torrington in his own native Coun∣ty of Devon, and Baron of Potheridge (his own Patrimony) Beauchamp and Teyes; by which he hath right of Peerage in the three Kingdoms, whose equal Felicity and Honour he advanced and raised before himself, and now most de∣servingly shared with them by his Investiture in these Dignities, which were compleated Iuly the 13, by his taking his place in the House of Lords, at∣tended by the House of Commons, and introduced by the Duke of Buckingham. In the same month General Montague was created Earl of Sandwich, Viscount Hinchingbrooke his famous Mannor in Huntingtonshire, and Baron of St. Neots in the same County; and on the 16 of Iuly took likewise his place in the House of Peers, where they both shine with that degree of splendor, by which the Duke reduced, and the Earl dawned at, the day of Englands Glory and Liberty.* 5.10 The Duke of Ormond was likewise made Earl of Brecknock, and took his place among the Peers of England: he was also made Lord Steward of his Majesties Houshold, as the Earl of Lindsey was made Lord High-Cham∣berlain, the Earl of Manchester Lord Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold, and the Earl of Southampton Lord High-Treasurer of England: Sir Frederick Cornwallis was made Treasurer of the Kings Houshold by an old Grant, and Sir Iohn Berkley Comptroller; and other Royalists were made Officers therein. Several presents were made to the King from the several Cities and Boroughs of the Kingdom, in Gold and Plate,* 5.11 and resignation of Fee-farm-rents pur∣chased from the Usurpers; among the rest, the City of London (with a Com∣plement of their good Stewardship, by the mouth of their Recorder Sir Wil∣liam Wilde) rendred their like Grant of New Parke in Surrey. All the Rents accruing at Michaelmas-day were now secured from the late Purchasers of Kings, Queens, Bishops, Dean and Chapters lands, for the use of the right and unquestionable Proprietors; to the defeating the miserable and unjust covetous∣ness of such undue and unwarrantable penniworths.

A splendid Embassy came this Month of August from Denmark, to congra∣tulate his Majesties most happy Restitution; as a little before, the Lord Iermyn,* 5.12 newly made Earl of Saint Albans (the Title last failing in the renowned Mar∣quess of Clanrickard Vlick de Burgh, who had so eminently asserted his Maje∣sties Rights in Ireland, and after the reduction thereof came into England, and died in London in some distress, far unfitting his nobleness of minde, as well as former most honourable Estate, a while before the Kings Return) was sent to France in the quality of Lord Embassador Extraordinary to that Crown. Soon after, the Prince de Ligne, with a right Princely Train and retinue becoming the grandeur of the Affair, (he was sent to Congratulate from his Majesty of Spain, betwixt whom and this Kingdom a Peace after a six years War was lately Proclaimed) was with great state received, and had solemn Audience by the King, and departed; and was succeeded by the Baron of Battevile to be Resi∣dent and Embassador in Ordinary at this Court. From the French King soon

after came another Illustrious and grand Personage upon the same account, by name the Count of Soissons,* 5.13 who had married the Cardinal's Neece, and entred and was entertained here with all sumptuous and extraordinary Magnificence. In sum, there was no Prince nor State in Europe who sent not, or were not a sending their Embassador upon this wonderful occasion.

The Parliament, after many debates and disputes, alterations and insertions, at last finished the Act of Oblivion; which was extraordinary comprehensive and indulgent,* 5.14 to the regret of many injured Royalists, who found no better perswasive to their acquiescence in it, but their unalterable duty to the King, whose special Act this was. Out of this were only excepted the Regicides and Murderers of their late Soveraign, as to Life and Estate; besides Colonel Lambert, and Sir Henry Vane, and Twenty others, reserved to such Forfeitures as should by Parliament be declared: the principal of these were Sir Arthur Ha∣selrig, Oliver Saint Iohn, William Lenthal the Speaker, Mr. Ny the Indepen∣dent Minister, Burton of Yarmouth; and some Sequestrators, Officers, and Ma∣jor-Generals of the Army; amongst whom was Desborough, Pine, Butler, Ire∣ton, &c. They passed likewise an Act for a perpetual Anniversary Thanksgi∣ving on the 29 of May, the day of his Majesties Birth and Restauration; a day indeed memorable, and the most auspicious in our English Kalendar, and wor∣thy of a Parliaments Canonization: Both which his Majesty gave his Royal Assent to, as at the Adjournment to another for Disbanding of the Army (and paying off the Navy) which once looked upon us with the same feared perpe∣tual danger, as the Mamalukes or Ianizaries; but by this happy conjuncture of his Majesties Fortune with his Wisdom and Goodness, yielded (after many Modules) to its last Dissolution. Great sums by Pole-money and other Assess∣ments were imposed, and speedily and cheerfully levied and paid, to finish this desired work, which had before wasted so many Millions of Treasure. Mr. Scowen, Mr. Pryn, Col. King, and Sir Charles Doyley, were appointed Commis∣sioners to disband them; to which the Souldiery very willingly and with thanks to the King submitted; the King giving them a Weeks pay as a Dona∣tive and Largess. The Parliament adjourned till the 6 of November.

These Felicities of the King we have hitherto insisted on, as the course of all worldly things is guided, were abated and allayed by the immature and most lamented Death of the right Excellent Prince Henry Duke of Gloucester, his Majesties youngest Brother; a Prince of very extraordinary hopes. Silence will best become our lamentation: for his vertues, and our loss of them, transcend expression.* 5.15 He died of the Small-pox, Aged Twenty years and two months, after much Blood-letting, and was Interred with a private Funeral in Henry the Seventh's Chappel at Westminster, just before the arrival of his Sister the Prin∣cess of Orange, who came to joy and felicitate her Brothers in their happy Re∣stitution.

With the King and Monarchy, the Ecclesiastical Regiment by Bishops reco∣vered it self,* 5.16 by his Majesties Piety and Prudence; that Aphorism being most sadly verified, No Bishop, No King; and therefore, on the 20 of September, Dr. Iuxon Bishop of London, that antient and excellent Prelate, was by the King translated from that See to the Arch-bishoprick of Canterbury; which was performed with great Solemnity: and not long after, several new Bishops (per∣sons the most eminent and valiant assertors of the Church and Laws of England) were Consecrated in the Abby at Westminster, and all the Diocesses filled; of which together presently, in an ensuing Catalogue.

* 5.17Divine Vengeance had with a slow foot traced the murtherers of our Mar∣tyr'd Soveraign, and through several Mazes at last overtook them; the iron hand of Justice delivering them to the punishment due to that grand impiety: nor was it the least of his present Majesties Felicities in his Restitution, that he should parentate, in this solemn manner, to His most vilely and rebelliously abused Father; That his justice might appear equally as resplendent as his cle∣mency to the lesser guilt of his undutiful people, in not suffering his innate

goodness to be wrought upon so far, that this unexampled parricide should pass with an unexampled impunity; since the Parliament in detestation, and to wipe away the stain of that perpetration, had given up these persons follow∣ing, as Sacrifices to the Law, and the Honour of their Country.

On the Ninth of October, The Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer met at Hicks's Hall, of whom were several of the chief Nobility; the Lord Mayor and the Judges; Sir Orlando Bridgman, Lord chief Baron, sitting in chief: the Coun∣sel were Sir Ieffery Palmer the King's Attourney, Sir Heneage Finch Solicitor-General, Sir Edward Turnor the Duke of York's Attorney, and Serjeant Keel∣ing, Windham, &c. The Grand Jury being Sworn, Sir William Darcy Baro∣net their Foreman, Sir Orlando gave them the Charge, declaring the purport of their Commission, to Try those excepted persons out of the Act, for their Trea∣son in Murthering the late King of blessed memory, upon the Statute 25 Edw. 3d. by which it was made Treason, to compass and imagine the death of the King: which he largely, learnedly, and eloquently opened, the Statute being but declarative of the Common Law. Which ended, Thomas Lee of the Middle Tem∣ple Gentleman, was called to give the names of the Witnesses, forty two in num∣ber; the chief of whom was Sir William Clerk, the Duke of Albemarle's Secreta∣ry, who took the Proceedings of the High Court in short-hand; Mr. Masterson Minister at St. Clements Danes, then of that Party; Col. Hun••ks, Griffith Bodurdo Esq Stephen Kirk, Col. Matthew Tomlinson, Iohn Rushworth Esq Sir Purbeck Temple, William Iessop Esq Mr. Coitmore, and Anthony Mildmay, Brother to Sir Henry, one of those Criminals.

Next day, the 10 of October, the Court by Adjournment sate in Justice-Hall in the Sessions-house in the Old-bayly; and the Prisoners having been brought the same day from the Tower to the Gaol of Newgate, the Keeper was com∣manded to bring down Sir Hardress Waller, William Heveningham, and Colonel Harrison, and set them to the Bar, where they were commanded to hold up their hands:* 5.18 but Harrison desiring to be heard first, answered, I am here; he at last held up his hand: then the Indictment was read in these words: That he, to∣gether with others, not having the fear of God before their eyes, and being instiga∣ted of the Devil, did maliciously, treasonably, and feloniously, contrary to his due Allegiance and bounden Duty, sit upon and condemn our late Soveraign Lord King Charles the First, of ever-blessed Memory; and also did, upon the Thirtieth day of January 1648, signe and seal a Warrant for the Execution of his Sacred Majesty, where also, &c. To which Waller after some debate, pleaded guilty; Heven∣ingham and Harrison, Not guilty: Then Isaac Pennington, Henry Marten, Gilbert Millingham, Robert Tichburn, Owen Roe, and Robert Lilburn, after the said In∣dictment read, were bid to plead, who did; except Henry Marten, who said, he was not excepted out of the Act of Indemnity, the person there being Hen∣ry Martin, not Marten: but the Court answered, A misname would not be pleadable, Mr. Sollicitor citing a Case in the difference of names betwixt Bag∣ster and Baxter. All of them insisted for Counsel. Then Adrian Scroop, Iohn Carew, Iohn Iones, Thomas Scot, Gregory Clement, and Iohn Cook were likewise set to the Bar; where seeing the Court insist upon a present Plea, as the rule of the Law, or else Judgement, pleaded to the Indictment Not guilty; Carew making this salvo, Saving to our Lord Iesus Christ his Right to the Government of these Nations. Next, Edmund Harvey, Henry Smith, Iohn Downs, Vincent Potter, and Augustine Garland; and after them George Fleetwood, Simon Meyn, Iames Temple, Peter Temple, Thomas Wait, Hugh Peters, Francis Hacker, Daniel Axtel, who all but the last presently pleaded, and would be tried by God and their Country: Peters would be tried, at first, by the Law of God, having pleaded Not guilty, no not for a thousand worlds; but the people laught him out of it. Axtel, not till informed of the danger of a mute, and that no man can justifie Treason; if the matter which he had to say be justifiable, it is not Treason; if Treason, it is not justifiable: and therefore he must go to the or∣dinary way of guilty, or not guilty.

* 5.19Harrison was the next day set to the Bar, with Scroop and ••our more; but they severally challenging the Judges, the Court ordered to try them singly; and proceeded with Harrison, who excepted his full number thirty five of the Jury; and the other twelve being sworn, Mr. Sollicitor-General much Rhetori∣cally laid forth the nature and atrocity of the Fact: That the very thoughts of such attempts were in all Ages,* 5.20 and among all people, counted an unpar∣donable Treason, as the story of the two Eunuchs against Ahasuerus; Voluerunt insurgere, they only had a Will to rise up against him: and the testimony of Taci∣tus, qui deliberant desciverant; who consult of this Fact, are Rebels already. That it is not the sole interest of one Royal Person concerned in this parricide, but all of the Nation. That Sir Edward Cooke hath a Notion, that to the perfection of this Law of the 25 Edw. 3. a time to be limited to the accuser was requi∣site; but how great a mistake that was, would appear by this, That this Trea∣son had so long out-faced the Law, and the Justice of the Kingdom, that if there had been a time of limitation, there would have been no time nor place left to punishment; and so the guilt would have stuck upon the Kingdom, and this wickedness grown up into an impunity. That the scope of the Indict∣ment was, for the compassing of the King's death; the rest, as usurping power over the King's person, the Assembling, Sitting, and Judging, are but as so many overt Acts to prove the intentions of the heart; all which are not necessary to be proved against every particular person. That every other overt Act, besides what is laid in the Indictment, as incouraging of the Souldiers to cry Justice and Execution, or preaching up the Work as godly, may be given in evidence against the guilty persons, whose Crime was of that unmeasurable impiety, that it could neither be heightned by any aggravation, or lessened by any excuse. Then he traced the steps and gradations to this Villany from the Treaty in 1648, and shewed the wicked Circumstances and Formalities thereof; particularly he declared this person of those living (twenty six being already deceased, and six or seven reserved to other penalties, and a sorrowful repentance; and twen∣ty nine more before their Lordships) to be the onely chief Leader, Captain, and Conductour in this horrible Treason: and hinted at his sawcy demeanour to the King in his bringing him to his Tryal; his irreverend speeches and car∣riages then towards the King; at his malicious designe of blacking him to the people. Sir Edward Turner used the like harangue; and then the Witnesses were sworn; and after evidence given, Mr. Windham closed it with this Speech: That the Indictment was for compassing the King's death; there lay the Trea∣son: for there is not one word in that Statute of killing the King; insomuch that if after that sitting upon the King, they had acquitted him, yet would it have been Treason still: that this imagination of Harrison's was plainly proved, and the more confirmed by his mention of blacking the King: that he had con∣fessed he sat, and signed, and therefore there was no difficulty in the Verdict.

This saying of his, of blacking the King, was proved by one Mr. Nutly, who having got admittance into the Committee that drew up the Charge a∣gainst the King, over-heard him say those words upon a dispute of contracting the said Charge; which Harrison rejected, for this Reason, as knowing [calum∣niare fortiter, aliquid haerebit] of a multitude of imputations, some of them would stick. It will be a trouble, cumberance, and labour to the Reader, to particularize any more Speeches of the King's Counsel, or their shewing the Record of the Warrant for Execution, &c. to every one of the Prisoners; or the Courts denying the Prisoners Counsel, because it is very neer the same throughout; and therefore there is here subjoyned only a breviate of each per∣sons defence, referring the more unsatisfied and curious to the Original and en∣tire Copy of them.

Harrison began his by a strange argumentation, from the notoriety of the Fact, that it was not done in a corner; that he believed God was with his servants in those days, (however it seemed good to him to suffer this turn to come upon them:) that he had desired to know the minde of God in it; but he had recei∣ved

no conviction of the evil of it, but rather assurance; professed the harm∣lesness of his Nature to Man, Woman, and Childe; that he followed not his own judgement, but his Conscience to the Lord; that he had suffered impri∣sonment, because he would not turn aside from the Cause to Oliver, and refused his temptation of sitting at his right hand: That what he had done in this matter, was by authority of Parliament; and that this, nor any other inferiour Court, hath any Cognizance or Jurisdiction on that: and therefore, they could not question him that acted in obedience to that Authority; and that he did act in the fear of God.

Hereat the Court and Auditory were agast, and cried, Away with him, for he made God the Author of his wickedness: and as to the pretended Authori∣ty, and his Actions he warranted thereby, It was answered, that if the Lords and Commons in full Houses had then taken upon them such Authority, it had yet been Treason: For the Lords and Commons do not, nor never did, con∣stitute a Parliament, without the King; but that there was not an eighth part of the House of Commons that contrived and ordered this Treason. And to this purpose spoke Mr. Annesly, now Earl of Anglesey, and Mr. (now Lord) Hollis, ripping up the violence and insolence of this Prisoner and his Associates in forcing the House of Commons, and secluding them and other Members thereof in December 1648. That this discourse was to infect the people; and Sir Edward Turner added, that he had the Plague all over him: and the whole Court unanimously, and severally, rejected that treasonable Tenet of an Autho∣rity in both or either Houses without the King; and over-ruled that Plea. To which Harrison was instant for Counsel to assist him. After some interlocuri∣ons, he began a discourse of the War; the Kings setting up his Standard a∣gainst the people (and that God is no respecter of persons) and shedding of innocent blood: and being interrupted there, avouching the same Authority again, he profest his abhorrence of blacking the King; aequivocated with his bringing the King to his Tryal from Hurst-castle; for he was commanded to do it from the General: At last he urged his impreparation for his Tryal, being six months a close Prisoner; but that he had some Acts of the Parliament rea∣dy to produce to his justification: and here he concluded. And Judgement be∣ing demanded, the Jury gave in their Verdict, (which they did without stirring from the place) and Sentence was past upon him,* 5.21 in these words: You are to be led back to the place from whence you came, and from thence to be drawn on a Hurdle to the place of Execution, and there you shall be hanged by the Neck; and being alive shall be cut down, your privy Members to be cut off, your Entrails to be taken out of your Body, and you living, the same to be burnt before your eyes; and your Head to be cut off, your Body to be divided into four parts, and your Head and Quarters to be disposed at the pleasure of the Kings Majesty. And so he was returned to Newgate, in order to Execution.

Colonel Adrian Scroop was next set to the Bar;* 5.22 and after some challenge of the Jury, which (as Harrison did before, and all the rest after) was to pick out the meanest of them, afraid of the Gentry, over whom they had tyrannously and insolently Lorded; and convicted by the same evidence of sitting in the High Court, and subscribing the Warrant, &c. As also by the testimony of Sir Richard Brown, the Lord Mayor Elect for the next year, who witnessed that since the Return of the King, in some accidental conference, he seemed to al∣low and approve of the Fact, by saying, Many people did not think it such a heynous matter; or that some be of one minde, and some of another: which he denied now to have expresly said; but bewailed the misfortune of that En∣counter with Sir Richard; for whereas before he was not excepted out of the Act of Indemnity, the very last day it passed he was by that means even then excepted. He justified that Authority, and the Fact committed by that Authority, but not the person; protested he had no malice against the King, and that it was an errour of Judgement, not of his Will: that he took the Parliament's Authority for va∣lid, (but over-ruled by a precedent Tryal) acquainted the Jury that he lay under a great prejudice by the Fact, and desired them to consider his Case as they

would their own; and hinted at the benefit of the Proclamation: he was found likewise guilty, and sentenced.

* 5.23Iohn Carew was next set to the Bar, who rambled into the discourse of Har∣rison; talkt of the Fear of God, and the Authority of the Parliament by which he acted: that he declined it at first, but being put in the Act for Tryal, could not disobey the Lord nor the Parliament; acknowledged his sitting and signing, but not his guilt therein, but highly vindicated the Parliament and their Power to the Jury; but was sentenced as the rest.

* 5.24To Thomas Scot the same Witnesses were produced in all things as the for∣mer; only he added, that the Authority of the remaining Members might be as good as the Parliament was when the Bishops were excluded; and if two E∣states may take away a third, if the second do not continue to Execute their Trust, he that is in occupancie may have a title to the whole: by which Ar∣gument, he affirmed the Parliaments Authority. To this was answered, that the Bishops were taken away by an Act, with the consent of the King, Lords, and Commons; and that the Justification of this blasphemous principle (as the Lord Finch termed it, as also Lord Annesly and the whole Court) was unsuf∣ferable, and High Treason. Mr. William Lenthall, Mr. Theophilus Biddulph, and Lord Mayor Elect, were sworn to prove, that he said he would have it written on his Grave, That Here lies Thomas Scot, one that adjudged the King to Death. And to this purpose, afterwards in the House, upon the Dissolution of the Parliament, he was heard to have added, Since it is your pleasure to Dissolve the House, I know not how to hinder; but when that is done, I know not where to hide my hated head. Gregory Clement waved his Plea,* 5.25 and confessed his Crime, and delivered a Petition, as Waller had done before. And Colonel Iones made little defence,* 5.26 but acquiesced upon the proof of his sitting and signing; and so they all had Sentence as before.

* 5.27The Sollicitour Iohn Cook was next Arraigned, for Assuming a Power over the King's Life; for drawing and exhibiting the Charge; for demanding Judg∣ment; for pressing the Charge to be taken pro Confesso; in sum, for being instru∣mental in the Kings Death. To this he Answered very acutely, to the glory of his parts, and infamy of his practice, and to set up his Law above the Gos∣pel, from whence he borrowed St. Pauls elegant Defence, Neither against the Law, nor against Caesar have I, I hope, offended. He alledged, he was but Coun∣sel, and acted in his Sphere for his Fee: in that his Crime was avaritiae, of co∣vetousness; not malitiae, nor falsly nor Treasonably, in advising the Charge: that he was no Sword-man: that he executed no Power over the King: that in drawing the Charge, he discharged rather the part of a good Subject; for the King being Prisoner, to accelerate his Tryal was a Courtesie; that he had retrencht the prolixity of it to that purpose: he denyed the examining of any Witnesses against the King: that in demanding Judgment, he did not mean Judgment against the King of Condemnation, but of Absolution. He obser∣ved, that the word Instrumental in the exception of the Act, was insignificant, or otherwise incomprehensive of him: that by the Kings gracious Letter, a Free Parliament was to declare the excepted persons; which this could not be, not being called by his Majesties Writ. All which were fully Answered by Sir Heneage Finch; but for fear I may pervert or miss the sinewy strength of that Reply, this shall suffice to be the reduction; That his entring the Charge, and a protestation in the Conclusion of Liberty to put in a new one, and desiring that the King as a Traytor may be brought to Justice, was no such demand as could be imagined to end in acquittal: that to the Act of Indemnity, the Parliament having made a special proviso, and inserted him by name therein, the Words con∣cluding him, it is not material what the subsequent Reasons are; so that though he might say, the Parliament was mistaken in their Reason, yet not in their Conclusion.

As to the Kings Letter from Breda referring all Crimes and Offences soever to a Free Parliament (that the Honour of the King might be for ever Sacred) he

said, that in case the Parliament, was not a right Parliament, that Letter in it self is no Pardon, until it had been under the Broad Seal, and in more express terms, as in the Case of Sir Walter Raleigh: but as to the Parliament, it is plain the King meant this Parliament, the Letter being directed to the Speaker of our House of Commons; to them it was left to provide for security and indem∣nity, and to expiate this crying Sin; and to dispence his Mercy and Justice in this particular: they then Address themselves to his Majesties Clemency for the whole Nation, and the Kings Proclamation grants a Pardon; so that this must needs be the Parliament, though as the times were, it were not so duly Consti∣tuted, but since Confirmed by his Majesty. It was added by Mr. Windham, that words and advice, when the Act follows, will make any Counsellor guilty: as if a Counsellor should advise one man to kill another, and he does it. All was sum'd up in an accurate repetition of it, with Evidence and Defence, by Sir Or∣lando Bridgman; and he thereupon found guilty. The Court used him very civilly, and he shewed very much respect and reverence to the Court, behaving himself to the removing of that prejudice which the generality had of him, as of a Mon∣ster. But see what a narrow Fortune, and the streights of Debt, and the Devils wide World, and vast Preferments can tempt man to, since his first Delusions bewitcht our understanding!

Hugh Peters came to the Bar.* 5.28 He was charged with contriving the Kings Death at Ware with Oliver Cromwel, at Windsor, at Coleman-street, at the Painted Cham∣ber, Bradshaw's House; that in a Sermon he had compared the King to Barab∣bas: that in another, the Text whereof was to bind Kings in Chains, &c. he had declared, that there was an Act of Gods own making, that they that spilt mans blood, by man should his blood be spilt; and that out of that Law nei∣ther the King, nor Prince, or Prince Rupert, nor none of that rabble are except∣ed: that on the Twenty seventh of Ianuary he had Preached before the High Court of Justice, at Westminster, on the 14 of Isaiah, 18, 19. verses; All the Kings of the Earth, &c. All he said to this, was to cavil at the Witnesses: he declared his course of Life, and his Orthodox perseverance; but, as to the pur∣pose, he said he was sorry to hear of his carriage towards the King, but he had no malice toward him, but was meerly engaged in he Army. He was also up∣on suspition of being the Executioner, but he proved he was sick a bed that day; so Cook and he were Sentenced together.* 5.29 Daniel Axtel was next set to the Bar, (He had escaped as he thought the exception in the Act, being lately added to this miserable number, for there was other blood barbarously shed by him, that lay upon him) and charged with imagining and compassing the Kings Death; the overt Act whereof was commanding the Guard at his Try∣al; his beating the Souldiers for not crying out Justice and Execution; for bid∣ding them to do it, and to shoot at a Lady, supposed the Lady Fairfax, whom he there termed Whore, for saying that Cromwel was a Rogue, and that the twentieth part of the People never consented to the Tryal of the King. For de∣fence he said, that he was Commanded thither by his General, whom the Lords and Commons had Commissioned: that they had declared themselves to be the Interpreters of the Law; and if he had not obeyed his Generals Command, he was then liable to the Punishment: that that Statute of 25 Edward the 3. did not extend to private persons in that Case: that Iermyn, Nichols, and Thorpe Judges, had declared, that it was lawful and justifiable to obey the Parliament: that if the Collected body in Parliament be guilty of Treason, where will they find a Jury to try him in the distributed part of the People? (Here he was charged for being one of those that actually and in person put the force upon the House, by Mr. Annesly, and made the Parliament a Juncto.) To this he an∣swered, That he was not to Justifie that fault; for being no Statesman, he did as commanded: produced his Commission; said, that Fairfax, nay General Monke were guilty for acting by the same Commission: that it was no Treason to silence a Lady that spoke impertinently: and being charged with smiling at the same time, he said that was no Treason; that he was set there to keep the

Peace: that the People and Souldiers did cry Iustice, Iustice; & to quiet the Soul∣diers, he might beat them; and say, I'le Iustice you, I'le Execution you. That at the worst, Justice being an Attribute of God, it were no Treason to require it; and that the execution of it is no more. He took much advantage of a Witness against him, who said he had been imprisoned by him: his Evidence was about hiring the Executioner; to which one Nelson likewise, and Hewlet was named. That, as Cook said before, he neither Sentenced, Signed, Sealed, nor Sate: that Throgmorton in Queen Maries days was acquitted for Words: that Words may make a Heretick, not a Traytor; and cited Sir Edward Coke, urged also the Statute of Hen. 7. ayding the King de facto. He was answered to all, that there are no excuses for Treason: That the Parliament could never give any Authority to Murther the King, nor the General; nor was it in his Com∣mission to Guard the Court of Justice at Westminster-Hall, nor to cry for Exe∣cution: that any of those things was an Overt Act of his imagination, and Proved sufficiently, that Justice and Execution was the intent of Murthering the King; and his wrathful Speech to the Lady discovered it. After a little Consultation, the Jury brought him in guilty; to whom he had pleaded his Fa∣mily and small Children.

* 5.30Colonel Francis Hacker was the next. He was Charged with Guarding the King at the High Court of Justice; of taking him from Colonel Tomlinson the day of Execution; for Signing of the Warrant of Execution to him that did it, (writ by Cromwel; but who the man was named in it, his memory could not tell, or he would not, upon much inquisition:) that he was on the Scaffold, and brought the King thither. He Pleaded little, and said, he was under Authority; and that he did not read the Warrant that Cromwel writ, and so could not inform the Court concerning the same. He was also found guilty, His being the most Overt Act in compassing the Kings Death.

* 5.31William Hewlet, a Serjeant of Colonel Hewson's Regiment, was Indicted for being the man that was in the Frock, and cut off the Kings Head: it was averred from his own Confession, by three several witnesses; and as many attest∣ed it was Brandon the Common Executioner: that he, viz. the Executioner, was put into a Boat, and trembled (after it was done) every joynt of him: that he affirmed as much to the Lord Capel at his Suffering by the same Axe, of which the Executioner assured him. He said, that he could make it appear he was not upon the Scaffold that day, nor near it, for that he and other Serje∣ants were secured that day, for refusing to be there; but the other Witnesses Evidence being express, He was found guilty. The Court gave him all the advantage that could be, and reprieved him, so that he Suffered not.

* 5.32The other of the Judges that rendred themselves upon the Proclamation were called. Mr. Daniel Harvey was called first, who pleaded his ignorance, and no malice, for that he Signed not, though he was present at Sentence: then he proved by witness his Reluctancy of Conscience, his endeavours with few others to adjourn the Court upon the Kings motion; that he resolved to have no more to do with them; and that he endeavoured to save his Life.

* 5.33Isaac Pennington next, Pleaded his ignorance, and no malice, and utterly re∣fused to Sign the Warrant.

* 5.34Henry Marten, against whom the Sitting, Signing, and Sealing were proved, and also that at the meeting of the High Court of Justice, before they went in∣to Westminster-Hall, being in the Painted Chamber, and upon the Landing of the King from White-Hall to Sir Robert Cotton's House; Cromwel upon sight thereof, asking them this question, The first thing the King will demand of us, will be, by what Authority we bring him before us; what shall we say, by whose Authority? After a little pause, Marten replyed, In the Name and Authority of the Commons in Parliament Assembled, and the good People of England. To this he answered, that he had no malice to the King. It was replyed, It is evident he had against the Government. Further he said, that the Commission ran in

the name of the good people, and so it was no great matter for him to repeat it. Here Sir Heneage Finch took hold, and gave notice to the Jury of the entituling the good people to it, and hoped they would be none of them; and observed the impenitence of the Man: then he justified the Parliament; and though it were but a remnant of Parliament, yet in the case of Commons to a Cottage, if a stick be but left, the Commons appertained to that Cot∣tage. He added conclusively, his acquiescing in the Royal Government, since the King was called in by the People in Parliament, which he intimated as the Kings best right, and so added to his greater Condemnation.

Gilbert Millington Confessed the Fact,* 5.35 and the guilt of it; and was favoured with an acceptance of it from the Court.

Alderman Tichburn did the same,* 5.36 with much candidness declaring his sin, and ignorance of the atrocity of the Crime; protested his inability of Contri∣vance, his raw years, his unskilfulness in the Laws; said he would have rather gone into a hot Oven than into this business, if he had known it; instanced that Paul was a Persecutor, and found Mercy; and had rendred himself, with the three before, upon the Proclamation.

Owen Roe pleaded the same,* 5.37 and his reluctancy to the Kings Sentence, and the Proclamation.

Colonel Robert Lilburn did the same;* 5.38 mentioned his endeavour for with∣drawing the Court of Justice, as Mr. Harvey said before: that he wept and mourned the day of the Kings Death.

Mr. Smith pleaded the same,* 5.39 and desired the Courts mediation.

Iohn Downes, Vincent Potter, Augustine Garland,* 5.40 Simon Meyne, Iames Temple, Peter Temple, Thomas Wayt, and William Heveningham, set (again) at the Bar. Something extraordinary must be said of Downes, because he obliged the Court to hear him, in these words, (and they are worthy of mans memory) which he expressed in that abominable Judicature, upon the Kings request of hearing in Parliament, as he sate between Colonel Wauton, and Mr. Cawley, and Oliver Cromwel [said I, Have we hearts of stone, or are we men? They laboured to ap∣pease me; they told me I would ruine both my self and them. Said I, If I dye for it, I must do it. Cromwel sate just the seat below me. He hearing of me make some stir by whispering, he looked at me, and asked if I was my self; what I meant to do, that I could not be quiet. So I started upon the nick when the Clerk was Commanded by Bradshaw to Read the Sentence, I stepped up and said, My Lords, I have Reasons to offer against it, and I desire the Court may ad∣journ to hear me. Presently Bradshaw viewed me, and said, If any Member dissented, they must adjourn. So they did into the Court of Wards, where I alledged the Kings general satisfaction to the Parliament, (that a Common Prisoner was not used so, but that he might be heard.) I urged the Order of Par∣liament, that upon any emergency or renata in the Court, we should apply our selves to them. To which Cromwel answered, Sure you do not know that you have to deal with the hardest hearted man in England. And much other incitati∣on was used by some of those that are doomed (whom he desired favour not to nominate) telling me I was either a Sceptick or an Infidel.

Vincent Porter was troubled with a fit of the Stone,* 5.41 and could hardly en∣dure standing; and had a Chair to ease himself, and confessed the whole guilt.

Augustine Garland was further accused of spitting in the Kings face,* 5.42 besides his sitting. He answered, he was a Parliament man but in 1648, and drawn into this business, and desired no favour from God if he was guilty of that in∣humanity; to avoid which imputation he made this troublesome defence.

Simon Meyn, Iames and Peter Temple,* 5.43 Pleaded ignorance, and no malice.

Colonel Thomas Wayt Pleaded the same with Downs for withdrawing the Court, and his Courtesies to the Cavaliers Party, and preventing a Petition for the Kings Murther in Rutland-shire;* 5.44 and that the first day he came to Town, Cromwel made him sit the last day of the Court of Justice.

* 5.45Sir Hardress Waller brought again to the Bar, gave evidence of his penitence; which my Lord Finch his kinsman allowed here, and deplored him. Hevening∣ham did shew his sorrow; but both were Condemned.

* 5.46On Saturday the Fourteenth of October, One thousand six hundred and sixty, between nine and ten of the Clock in the morning, Mr. Thomas Harrison, or, Major-General Harrison, according to his Sentence was upon a Hurdle drawn from Newgate to the place called Charing-cross, where within certain Rails lately there made, a Gibbet was Erected, and he hanged with his face looking towards the Banqueting-house at Whitehall (the place where our late Soveraign of Eternal memory was Sacrificed:) being half dead, he was cut down by the common Executioner, his Privy Members cut off before his Eyes, his Bowels bur∣ned, his Head severed from his Body, and his Body divided into Quarters, which were returned back to Newgate upon the same Hurdle that carried it, the People loudly shooting at his Fall. His Head was since set upon a Pole on the top of the South-east-end of Westminster-Hall, looking towards London. The Quarters of his Body are in like manner exposed upon some of the City-Gates.

Monday following, being the Fifteenth of October, about the same hour, Mr. Iohn Carew was carried in like manner to the same place of Execution,* 5.47 where having suffered like pains, his Quarters were also returned to Newgate on the same Hurdle which carried him. His Majesty was pleased to give (upon intercession made by his Friends) his Body to be buried.

* 5.48Tuesday following, being the Sixteenth of October, Mr. Iohn Cook, and Mr. Hugh Peters were about the same hour carried on two Hurdles to the same place, and Executed in the same manner, and their Quarters returned in like manner to the place whence they came. The head of Iohn Cook was set on a Pole on the North-East-end of Westminster-Hall (on the left side of Mr. Har∣rison's) looking towards London, and the Head of Mr. Peters on London-Bridge. Their Quarters were exposed in like manner upon the tops of some of the City-Gates.

* 5.49Wednesday, October Seventeen, about the hour of Nine in the Morning, Mr. Thomas Scot and Mr. Gregory Clement were brought on several Hurdles; and about one hour after, Mr. Adrian Scroop and Mr. Iohn Iones together in one Hurdle were carried to the same place, and suffered the same death, and were returned and disposed of in like manner.

* 5.50Mr. Francis Hacker and Mr. Daniel Axtel were on Friday the Nineteenth of October about the same time of the Morning drawn on one Hurdle from Newgate to Tyburn, and there both Hanged. Mr. Axtel was Quartered, and turned back, and disposed as the former; but the Body of Mr. Hacker was (by his Majesties great favour) given entire to his Friends, and buried. Axtel's head was set up at the furthest end of Westminster-Hall.

* 5.51Not any one of these at his Death expressed any sorrow or Repentance for the Fact, but justified the Authority by which they did it, and themselves there∣in: but whether they agreed now, by a Combination at their death, as in the Conspiracy of the King's, or whether it were not Diabolical infatuation, or the Sin and impiety of their Crime, that they were given over to a Reprobate sense, it is not in man to determine: their Party and Abettors in the Rebellion high∣ly magnified this their obstinacy for Christian Courage, and printed their Pray∣ers and Speeches with all the advantages Revenge and Rebellion could invent; and if they could have brought the Law, the sense of the Kingdome, nay, the whole Word into their mould, they might have passed for Martyrs: for as to the repugnant s••ffrage of Divine Authority, they could and did wrest that with an easie finger. Thus much therefore may suffice to Posterity concerning the ends of these men, That they were Convicted according to Law, whose utmost benefit they had, by a Jury of their Peers, against whom they had full liberty of exception: That the Person of the Prince they Murthered, was (beyond any parallel) by the confession of his Enemies, of some of these * 5.52, a most vir∣tuous, most Innocent, most Religious, and Fit for the Government: That

these his Judges and Murtherers were for the most part, nay generally, mean and desperate persons, and their hands lifted up by Ambition, Sacriledge, Co∣vetousness, and success, against the Life of this incomparable Prince, whose lamented and barbarous Death God would not suffer to go unrevenged, nor His own sacred Name to be Blasphemed, as not only said by them to be the Author, but the maintainer of this impiety.

And it is remarkable, that Hugh Peters, who by his Function, as a Priest, had most dishonoured God in Preaching and pressing this Parricide, making use of his holy Writ to this same wicked purpose, most plainly discovered the footsteps of the Divine Vengeance in his Tragedy.* 5.53 The miserable Wretch had not a word to say for himself, or to God, of whom he said he was abandoned: he that was so nimble and quick in all Projects of this nature before, was now like a Sot or a Fool, playing with the Straw in the Sledge, as he went to Exe∣cution. Of which his sad condition, Cook, his fellow-sufferer, was so sensible, as to pray for some respite for him; but it was out of the Sheriffs power, who attended them in person to their respective Executions. It was observed also by Scot, who having wished the mention of this Fact to be graven on his Tomb, Digitus Dei hath written it on the Gates of London in such bloody Characters and Hieroglyphicks, that whoever passes cannot but read it.

Those being thus Executed,* 5.54 the other Prisoners that came in upon Pro∣clamation, and were to be respited from Execution till the pleasure of the Par∣liament should be known, were after Sentence remitted to the Tower from whence they came, their Estates being seized on to the use of the King. The Quarters of the other had not long been set up, but a report was raised that a bright Star appeared over those at Aldgate, and this in favour of these Saints as they were termed, and as if it were a Constellation of their bright innocence: but it was observed and known to be the Planet Venus then in her greatest Elongation from the Sun, the same distance as their Phanatical stories were from the Truth.

This parentation being over to his Father, His Majesties next respects were due to his Mother,* 5.55 whose welcome to his Kingdomes he could not better ma∣nifest, or oblige to her, than by rendring them innocent and free of that hor∣rible guilt which had divorced her from her Husband, and estranged her from his People. Nor was it just or civil she should be here received without satis∣faction and expiation of those Crimes, the very tendencies whereto had so rude∣ly driven her to seek her safety abroad. The King brought her back to his Palace at White-Hall, after Nineteen years discontinuance, the second of Novem∣ber: with her came the Illustrious Princess Henrietta, who had never breathed English Air, but some two years after her birth, which hapned in Exeter, Iune 16. 1644. as also Prince Edward, brother to Prince Rupert, and to the Prince Elector Palatine, an absolute stranger to these Kingdoms. The meeting could not but be as joyous, after so tedious and injurious an absence, as the en∣tertainment highly Magnificent. On the Sixth of November, the Recess of the Parliament being ended,* 5.56 the Lords and Commons met again in Parliament, to resume their weighty task of setling the Kingdoms; and a Council for Trade now began their sitting, according to the Kings Commission. Several dange∣rous and pestilent Speeches and Rumours being daily uttered and vented, espe∣cially by the Fifth Monarchists at their Meeting-house in Coleman-street and other places, and Colonel Overton being the chief man of that perswasion; by Order of the Councel he was seized, and upon some further information against him committed to the Tower for Treason: which soon after appeared, in some of his Opinion. With him Mr. Lenthal, the Speakers Son, was Committed, upon suspicion of Counterfeiting the Kings Seal.

Upon the Kings Restitution, the Marquess of Arguile had the confidence to come up from Scotland, hoping to have inveagled and obtained his Pardon for all those base Treasons he had acted so covertly in that Kingdom since his Majesties departure; and that his Majesty, according to his gracious inclination, would

have past by those many undutiful and irreverent usages of him, by him and the Kirk, while He was there among them: but such was the general hatred and detestation of that People (and especially of the Nobility) against him, that the King gave order for his Commitment while he was waiting at Court.* 5.57 He desired to speak to the King, but could not be admitted; he desired to speak with Mr. Calamy, in his way to the Tower, but that was refused: from thence by Sea he was conveyed to Edenburgh, where his Process was making ready: The Earl of Middleton the Kings great Commissioner following him thither about the end of December.

Death had tasted of the Blood Royal, in the immature decease and lamen∣ted Fate of that Noble Henry Duke of Gloucester, as aforesaid: and, as if there were not only a Circulation of it in every individual, but it naturally ran in the same Distempers round a whole Family, the Infection by a kind of Sym∣pathy in the same Disease of the Small Pox seized the Vitals of the most Illustri∣ous Mary Princess of Aurange;* 5.58 and in spight of all Art and Remedy (though the Blooding of her was causelesly and ignorantly taxed) carried her to the Grave, leaving the whole Court in very great and almost disconsolate sadness, and her Son the Prince of Aurange ten years old, and a Moneth over. She deceased on the Twenty fourth of December; her death being ushered with a sad accident, the oversetting the Assurance-Frigate Riding at Anchor at Wol∣ledge by a sudden gust of Wind; by which disaster several Persons of the Ships Company were drowned.

This happy Parliament, which had rebuilt the Glorious Structure of the English Ancient and Renowned Government, and had assured the Foundation thereof in the Established Throne of our Soveraign, came to its Period. But that no Revolution of time should obliterate or blot out the memory of those Excellent worthy things had been done by it for the good of King and King∣dome,* 5.59 his Majesty Honoured it by his Royal mouth with the never-to-be-for∣gotten Epithet of the Healing Parliament; which will undoubtedly recom∣mend it to Posterity, as long as any grievance, or humours, or distempers shall remain in Church and State.

The Princess of Aurange was buried with a private Funeral; in the narra∣tion of which, I shall crave leave for this digression: there was indeed as much Honour in that privacy, as there was vain and profane solemnity in the gewgaw Exequies of Oliver, which wanted of their due Grandeurs till his Execution. In opposition therefore to that rabble medley of a Funeral, it will not be extravagant to set down, here, the Compact, yet Illustrious manner of this Princess, to shew the difference betwixt Princes and Ring-leaders of the Rout.

On Saturday December the 26th. but five days after her Decease, the chiefest of the Nobility met together in the House of Peers, to attend the Royal Corpse of the Princess, which was brought about Nine a Clock at Night from Somerset-House thither: from whence they proceeded with the Funeral,* 5.60 through a lane of Guards of the Duke of Albermarl's Regiment of Foot. First, went several Gentlemen and Knights; next, the Servants of his Highness the Duke of York; then the Servants of the Queen; after whom came his Majesties Servants; and next, those of the Deceased Lady: then two Heraulds before Iames Mar∣quess (now Duke) of Ormond Lord Steward of his Majesties Houshold, and Edward Earl of Manchester Lord Chamberlain of the same; after whom went Edward Lord Hide Lord Chancellor of England, with the Purse and Mace born before him: after whom came another Herauld with a Coronet upon black Velvet; and then the Royal Corpse carried by her own Servants, the Pall being supported by six Earls, and the Canopy carried over it by several Baronets. His Highness the Duke of York (as principal Mourner) followed the Corpse with a Herauld before him, divers persons of quality bearing his Train. In this order they came to King Henry the 7th's Chappel, where she was Interred in a Vault particularly set apart for the Royal Line.

This Princess, and the Duke of Gloucester who preceded her to Bliss, needed no Effigies to present them to our Eye, being (like Vertue) not to be Pictured, and can have no resemblances but in the mind, where with immortality they have placed their Monuments, to dure and last with Eternity it self.

E contra, on the Thirtieth of Ianuary, that the Earth might no longer cover the Blood which was impiously and traiterously split on that day, Vengeance pursuing those wicked miscreants even beyond the Sanctuary of the Grave, the odious Carcasses of Cromwel,* 5.61 Ireton and Bradshaw, were digged out of the ground, from those sumptuous Monuments, which (as they did the Throne in their Life) they had now Usurped in their Death: they were drawn in a Cart from West∣minster, where they were first interred, to the Red Lyon in Holborn, and thence on Sledges to Tyborn, where they were pulled out of their Coffins, and hang'd at the several Angles or Corners of that accursed Tree,* 5.62 (with the dregs of Peo∣ples Curses and Execrations) from Ten a Clock till Sun-setting, and then cut down; their loathsome Bodies thrown into a deep hole under the Gallows: their Heads cut off, and placed aloft upon Westminster-Hall. Where they will con∣tinue the Brand-marks of their Posterity, and the expiatory remains of their accursed Crime.

Notwithstanding the seizing of many suspected Persons, Fifth Monarchists, as Colonel Overton, of whom before, Cornet Day, Courtney, Major Allen, &c. yet that Sect persisted in a Devilish design, which soon after, in the beginning of Ianuary, they thus executed.

This strange and unheard-of Action will afford the truest sight and judg∣ment of this Fanatick crew,* 5.63 even beyond all Example or History of the most perdite sort of men: For but a handful of these wild People dared to at∣tempt the City of London, and that at two several times: First, on Sunday the Sixth of Ianuary 1660. After their meeting at Coleman-street in the same City (having then a gracious Liberty from the King for their Devotion) they Ar∣med themselves, and came to St. Pauls in the Dusk of the Evening, where ha∣ving Mustered and ordered their small Party, they placed Centinels for the time, one of whom killed an Innocent Person coming by accidentally, for saying, (when he was demanded by them who he was for) For God and King Charles. After this Exploit the Alarm being given, and some Parties of the Trained Bands coming upon them and Charging them, after they had repulsed those few Files, they Marched to Bishops-gate, where they passed, and from thence to Cripple-gate, where they came into the City again, and so to Aldersgate, where the Constable (being weakly attended) at their threatning him for the Keys, let them out again. Here they declared themselves for King Iesus, and their Friends or Masters upon the Gates: Thence they proceeded to Beech-lane, where a Headborough opposing them, they shot him, and killed him. [It is observable, that none whomsoever, or wheresoever they shot, recovered of the hurt; it being conceived they poysoned their Bullets and Slugs, by chaw∣ing or other destructive Art.] And so with all haste made towards Canewood, where they lurked a while, resolving to make another Insurrection in the City, till they were routed by a Party of Horse and Foot sent to drive them out thence, and some Thirty taken Prisoners and brought before the General, who sent them to the Gate-house.

Notwithstanding the others, after they had quitted the Wood, returned for London, with assurance of success in their begun enterprize; Venner telling them (a Wine-Cooper by Trade) he was assured that no Weapons formed against them should prosper, nor a hair of their Head be touched; which their impunity in their first attempt made them very credulous of, even to an absolute confi∣dence.

It may not be omitted, that just before this sudden eruption, the King was gone to Conduct his Mother and Sister (who feared the same mortal Infecti∣on of the small Pox, and had had some grudges thereof) to Portsmouth, in order to their Embarquing for France; which opportunity they took for their

Rebellious Tumult, having disposed, as they thought, the minds of their late Party to take part with them, by their Declaration, called, A door of Hope opened, stuft with abominable slanders against the whole Royal Family, and the General, who (with the Duke of York) appeared presently with part of the Life-Guards to suppress them.

To proceed: on Wednesday-morning, Ianuary the Ninth, after the Watches and Guards were removed, they re-inforced their first Enterprize. Their first effort and appearance was at Thredneedle-street, where they alarm'd the Train∣ed Band that was to watch all that Day; a Party of whom being sent out to follow them, were forced to retreat to their Mainguard; who Marching in a Body towards them, the Fifth-Monarchists retreated into Bishops-gate-street, some of them into an Ale-house known by the Sign of the Helmet, where, after a sharp Dispute, two were killed, and as many taken; the same number being killed and wounded of the Trained-Bands. The next sight of them (for they were just like wild-fire) was at Golledg-Hill, by which way they went up into Cheap∣side, and so into Wood-street, Venner being their chief Leader, having a Murrion on his Head, and a Halbert in his Hand. Here was the main and fiercest Acti∣on; for they fought stoutly with two of the Trained-Bands of Foot, in very good Discipline and Order. Here also they received a Charge from the Horse of the Life-Guard, whom they put to the Retreat, till being over-powr'd, and Venner knockt down and wounded with Shot, Tufney and Crag, two more of the chief of their Teachers being killed by him, they began to give ground, and soon after dispersed themselves in flight, taking several routs and ways. The greatest part of them went down Wood-street to Cripple-gate, firing in the Rear at the Trained-Bands of Yellow, then in close pursuit of them. This Train-Band lodged ten of them in the Blew-Anchor Alehouse by the Postern; which house they maintained. Soon after came Lieutenant-Colonel Cox with his Company, and surrounded all places about it. In the interim, part of the Yellow aforesaid had gotten up into the Tylings of the next House, which they threw off, and fired in, the Rebels being in the uppermost Room, who even then refused Quarter; when at the very same time another File of Muskets got up the Stairs, and having shot down the door, entred upon them: six of them were killed before, another wounded, and one refusing of Quarter, then also was knockt down with the But-end, and afterwards shot with a Musket. The rest being demanded why they craved not quarter before? answered, They durst not, for fear their own Fellows should shoot them; such was their Resolution and Desperation.

The whole number of this last Insurrection cannot be reckoned to more than Fifty Persons: though not above Forty were ever seen together, yet so great was their confidence in the Revelations of their Teachers, that they presumed to Subdue and Conquer with that small remnant, alluding to that History of Gi∣deon recorded in Holy Writ; admitting of no other Sect but the Quakers, (and but those also who agreed with them in the Tenet of their Monarchy) being the nearest of Affinity to their Enthusiastick Opinions, to have the ho∣nour of partaking with them in this their great and glorious Design, as they termed it in their aforesaid Declaration; wherein they further Blasphemously said, That if they were deceived or misled, 'twas God that deceived them; laying their delusions, and charging their sinful and desperate folly upon him as the Author.

In this Tumult and Rebellious Insurrection were slain of the Kings Peo∣ple Twenty two, and as many of the Traytors, most whereof were killed in Houses; and some after being taken Prisoners, for refusing to tell their Names were presently shot. There were taken Twenty, besides a few upon suspicion: the Twenty were as followeth, viz. Thomas Venner the Wine-cooper their Captain, Roger Hodgkins a Button-seller in St. Clements-lane Lumbard-street; Leonard Gowler, Ionas Allen, Iohn Pym, William Orsingham, William Ashton,

Giles Pritchard A Cow-keeper, Stephen Fall, Iohn Smith, William Corbet, Iohn Dod, Iohn Elston, Thomas Harris, Iohn Gardener, Robert Bradley, Richard Marten, Iohn Patshal, Robert Hopkins, and Iohn Wells; five of these had been in the design against Oliver, as before. These were brought to the Bar together; the Wounded-men had Chairs allowed them: and after the Indictment read to them, which was laid both to Treason and Murther, Thomas Venner was first called, who, when he had held up his hand at his Arraignment, being asked Guilty, or Not Guilty, began a wild Phanatique discourse about his Conversation in New England, and concerning the Fifth Monarchy, and the Testimony within him above these Twenty years, with such like impertinent dis∣courses and stories. He confessed he was in the late Rising, but was not guilty of Treason, intending not to levy War against the King; and so sallied out into the same nonsensical defences as at first: but at the Court's instance of his Pleading directly to the Indictment, he answered Not Guilty, and put himself upon his Country. In the like manner Hodgkins, after some rambling diversi∣ons from his present Business, and the Threats of the Court of his being Re∣corded Mute, and the submission of the rest of his Fellows, (who all pleaded, after some previous excursions in their way and manner) pleaded likewise to the Indictment: whereupon the Witnesses being sworn, two against every par∣ticular Person, they made it appear, That Venner, Tufney, and Cragg, (the two last whereof were slain in the Business) did several times perswade their Con∣gregation to take up Arms for King Jesus, against the Powers of the Earth, (which were his Majesty, the Duke of York and the General:) That they were to kill all that opposed them: That they had been Praying and Preaching, but not Acting for God: That they Armed themselves at their Meeting-house in Coleman-street with Blunderbusses, Musquets, &c. and other particular Evidence against each to matter of Fact. The proof against Martin, Hopkins and Wells was not so full, and against Patshal only one Witness; who were acquitted by the Jury. The other sixteen being found Guilty, and brought to the Bar, were demand∣ed to shew Cause why Sentence should not pass against them, &c. The Lord Chief Justice Foster charging this Venner with the Blood of his Complices by his Seduction and leading of them; He answered, He did not. To which the Witnesses being produced again, he Blasphemously quibled, and said, It was not he, but Iesus that led them. Three of them confest their Crime and Er∣ror, and craved Mercy; so they were all sixteen Condemned to be Hang'd, Drawn, and Quartered. According to which Sentence, on Saturday Ianuary 19▪ 1660, Venner and Hodgkins (both uncured of the Wounds they received in their Rebellion) being guarded by two Companies of the Trained-Bands, were drawn on a Sledge from Newgate through Cheapside, over against their Meet∣ing-house in Swar-Alley in Coleman-street, and Executed according to their Sen∣tence. Venner spoke little but in vindication of himself and his Fact, and some∣thing of his Opinion, being confident the Time was at hand when other Iudg∣ment would be;* 5.64 reflecting much upon the Government. The other, Hodgkins, raved and cursed in manner of Praying, calling down Vengeance from Heaven upon the King, the Iudges, and the City of London; nor would he give over, though the Sheriff forbad him to run on in that strange way, until the Hang-man was hastned from his Imployment of Quartering Venner, to turn him off; so as in that mad Religion they lived, in the same they dyed. Their Quarters were set upon the Four Gates of the City by the late Executed Regicides, whose Quarrel and Revenge they undertook in this their Phanatique Attempt; their Heads also set upon Poles by some of them on London-Bridge.

On Munday the Twenty first of Ianuary Nine more of them were Execu∣ted all in one Morning, at five several places, by one Executioner; Two at the West-end of St. Pauls, two at the B••ll and Mouth, two at Beech-lane, Two at the Royal Exchange; and a notable Fellow, the last, by name Leonard Gowler, at Bishops-Gate. They all obstinately persisted in their Error (especially the last, who began with Imprecations like Hodgkins, and was silenced the same

way by the Command of the Sheriff) excepting a Young man who was Harg∣ed in Redcross-street, who did relent and Repent of his Sin, and the Blood he had spilt, but yet dyed in the Opinion of Chilianism. After they were cut down, the Sentence was not Executed upon them to the full, only their Heads were cut off, and set upon London-Bridge.

Most remarkable was the prudence and valour of the Right Honorable Sir Ri∣chard Brown the Lord Major, in this tumultuary and dangerous Insurrection. He it was whom they designed as a Sacrifice to their first outrages; and had they met with a person of indifferency of Spirit, had undoubtedly surprized the Ma∣gistracy and Government of this Famous City, and in him subdued (their great Quarrel) Authority.

* 5.65Sir Arthur Haslerig died a Prisoner in the Tower of London, with impatience at the happiness of the Times; and Mr. Crofton, an eminent stickler for Presby∣tery, came in-his room.* 5.66

But we must pass to the Glories of the entrance of the Year One thousand six hundred sixty one, the Thirteenth of the Kings Reign.

Anno Domini 1661.

AND now, lest any of these scattered Rays and refractions of this Mo∣narchs Glory should be dimmed or disappear in the obscurity of Time, we will translate them to their bright Orb (as Iupiter is feigned to have Stel∣lified his Heroes) encircle them in the Diadem, Eternize them in that Spherical Figure, and fix them in his Crown, the FIRMAMENT of his past, pre∣sent, and future greatness: the Celebrity of which Action is not less due to the intrinsick matter, than to the outward beauteous form; it being not so much an excess of Pomp, as a Boundary of Government; not so much height of Glo∣ry, as profoundness of State-reason; and in that large capaciousness may justly pass for the consummation and perfect excellence of all Regal felicity. This, was the Crown profaned by the lewd hands of those prostitute Members at Westminster, when the Regalia were seized on by them, and by H. M. his ad∣vice thought fit to be alienated to the Publique, that is, shared among the Usur∣pers. This was the Crown, afterwards violated, deprived, and widdowed of that Sacred and Royal Head of King Charles the Martyr. This was the Crown which alone of all the Insignia of Majesty, (as Elijah of all the Pro∣phets that had not bowed their knees to Baal) abhorred the Idolatry of Crom∣wel's Usurpation, and escaped the ravishing and polluted hands of that Tyrant, when like Caligula, that set the heads of the gods upon his own Statues, he assumed all the other Regalities of his rightful Soveraign, but could no way fit this Sacred Symbole of Majesty (though he could all other Holy things, and the Scripture it self,) to his impious designments. That was that Crown which the Malignity of a dire Pestilence had envied the sight and blessing thereof to the City of London, his Majesties Imperial Chamber (which sadly felt the other Plagues of War and Want in a more forcible absence of it thereafter) at his Royal Fathers Inauguration, and was now Boded and bespoke with the like Contagion; when never were the Influences of Heaven more curiously pro∣pitious, the two Serene days of that Solemnity exsiccating and exhaling those vapours, which a long moisture to the danger of a Flood did seem to portend. Lastly, this was that Crown, whose just and ancient Discent, under which we have flourished ever since we were a Nation, till our late Anarchy; upon the Head of this Miraculous Prince, now vindicated it self from the indignities and assaults of base and insolent Demagogues, who from our Kings regardlesness of State and Sovereignty, have evermore wrought their contempt in the Subject: who now, with a like joy of reverence, fear, and love, beheld this awful and most delightful Triumph which is here related.

HIS Majesty on the Twenty second of April early in the Morning passed from Whitehall to the Tower by Water, from thence to go through the City to Westminster Abby, there to be Crowned.

Two days were allotted to the Consummation of this great and most cele∣brated Action, the wonder, and admiration, and delight of all Persons both Forraign and Domestick: and pity it was, that the solid and lasting happiness it portended should not have taken up a Month, and given it the name Coronalis.

First therefore we begin with the City of London,* 5.67 which participating the greatest share of that inexpressible happiness that the Three Kingdoms received by the auspicious Restoration of the King, took occasion to express in this Triumph of his Majesties Coronation their joy and gladness with the great∣est Magnificence imaginable: They spared not therein any cost to manifest their affectionate duty to the King, considering, that if ever excessive charges might be justified, this signalizing their affection at this time might well be al∣lowed.

In his passage through Crouched Friers, He was entertained with Musick, a Band of Eight Waits, placed on a Stage. Near Algate, with another Band of Six Waits in like manner, with Musick, from a Balcony.

In Leaden-Hall Street, near Lime-Street-end, was Erected the First Trium∣phal Arch after the Dorick Order: on the North-side, on a Pedestal, before the Arch, was a Woman personating REBELLION, mounted on a Hydra, in a Crimson Robe torn, Snakes crawling on her Habit, and begirt with Serpents, and her Hair Snaky; a Crown of Fire on her Head; a bloody Sword in one hand, a Charming Rod in the other. Her attendant, CONFUSION, in a deformed Shape, a Garment of several ill-matched Colours, and put on the wrong way; on her Head Ruines of Castles; torn Crowns, and broken Scep∣ters in each Hand.

On the South-Pedestal was a Representation of BRITAIN'S MO∣NARCHY, supported by LOYALTY, both Women; Monarchy in a large purple Robe, adorn'd with Diadems and Scepters; over which, a loose Mantle, edg'd with blue and silver Fringe, resembling Water, the Map of Great Britain drawn on it: on her Head London, in her right hand, Eden∣burgh; in her left, Dublin: Loyalty all in White, three Scepters in her right Hand, three Crowns in her left.

The first Painting on the South-side is a Prospect of His Majesties landing at Dover-Castle, Ships at Sea, great Guns going off, one kneeling and kissing the Kings Hand; Souldiers, Horse and Foot, and many people gazing. Above,

ADVENTVS AVG.

The whole Tablet representing his Majesties blessed Arrival. Beneath the Painting, this Motto,

IN SOLIDO RURSUS FORTUNA LOCAVIT.

Alluding to that of Virgil, Thus rendred,

Fortune, reviving those She tumbled down, Sporting, restores again unto the Crown.

Above the Arch, on two Pedestals, South-ward and North-wards, stood the Statues of King IAMES, and King CHARLES I. In the middle somewhat higher, just over the Arch, the Statue of his Sacred Majesty. Un∣der that of King Iames,

DIVO JACOBO.

Under that of King Charles I.

DIVO CAROLO.

Under that of his Majesty, this following Inscription;

D. N. CAROLO II.

D. G. BRITANNIARUM IMP. OPT. MAX.

UBIQUE VENERANDO, SEMPER AUG.

BEATISSIMO AC PIISSIMO, BONO REIP. NATO.

DE AVITA BRITANNIA, ET OMNIUM HOMINUM GENERE MERITISSIMO.

P. P. EXTINCTORI TYRANNIDIS, RESTITUTORI LIBERTATIS, FUNDATORI QUIETIS, OB FELICEM REDITUM, EX VOTO L. M. P. S. P. Q. L.

Upon his Majesties advance to the East-India-House in Leaden-hall-street, the East-India Company took occasion to express their dutiful Affections to his Majesty, by two Youths in Indian Habit; one attended by two Black-moors; the other Youth in an Indian Vest, mounted upon a Camel, led out by two Black-Moors, and other Attendants; the Camel having two Panniers filled with Jewels, Spices, and Silks, to be scattered among the Spectators.

The next Entertainment was 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 NEP∣TVNE 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 Cheap∣side, 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 Inscrip∣tion 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 Eng∣land, 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, repre∣senting 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 Bla∣zing 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 De∣scription.

Thus much for the City, now for the Court, which in order challenged the first place; but 'twas best to deal with the biggest first; and those Colossus in Lon∣don 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 appoin∣ted for that purpose, viz.

The D••ke of Ormond Steward of the Kings Houshold, the Earls of Northum∣berland, Suffolk, Lindsey, Manchester.

Their Names were as follows.

Sir Fiennes Lord Clinton Heir apparent to the Earl of Lincoln, Sir Eger∣ton 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 Hen∣ry Bellasis eldest son to the Lord Bellasis, Sir Henry Hide now Viscount Cornbu∣ry 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 the late Earl of Westmorland, Sir William Portman Baronet, Sir Wil∣liam Ducy Baronet, Sir Thomas Trevor Knight and Baronet, Sir Iohn Scuda∣more Baronet; Sir William Gardner Baronet, Sir Charles Cornwallis son to Fred••rick Lord Cornwallis, Sir Iohn Nicholas eldest son to his Majesties principal Secretary, Sir Iohn Monson, Sir Iohn Bramston, Sir Richard Temple, Sir Bourchier Wray, Sir Iohn Coventry, Sir Edward Hungerford, Sir Iohn Knevet, Sir Philip Botler, Sir Adrian Scroop son of Sir Iervas Scroop who received Nineteen Wounds at Edgehill in his Majesties service, Sir Richard Knightley, Sir Henry Heron, Sir Iohn Lewk••or, Sir George Brown, Sir William Tyringham, Sir Francis Godolphin, Sir Ed∣ward Baynton, Sir Grevil Verney, Sir Edward Harlow, Sir Edward Walpool, Sir Francis Popham, Sir Edward Wise, Sir Christopher Calthorp, Sir Richard Edge∣comb, Sir William Bromley, Sir Thomas Bridges, Sir Thomas Fanshaw, Sir Iohn Denham, Sir Nicholas Bacon, Sir Iames Altham, Sir Thomas Wendy, Sir Iohn Man∣son, Sir George Freeman, Sir Nicholas Slanning, Sir Richard Ingoldsby, Sir Iohn Rolle, Sir Edward Heath son of Sir Robert Heath late Lord chief Justice of England, Sir William Morley, Sir Iohn Bennet, Sir Hugh Smith, Sir Simon Leech, Sir Henry Chester, Sir Robert Atkins, Sir Robert Gayer, Sir Richard Powle, Sir Hugh Ducy, Sir Stephen Hales, Sir Ralph Bush, Sir Thomas Whitmore. In Number sixty eight.

After their calling over, they proceeded in their usual Habits, each of them between his two Esquires, and a Page following, the Heraulds going before them with their Coats not put on, but only hanging loose on their Arms, to King Hen. 7. Chappel, where after the wonted reverence performed, they took their seats. Prayer being done, they returned to the Painted Chamber and the other Rooms adjoyning, to repose themselves, till the Supper of Two hundred dishes at his Majesties Charge, was brought to the Court of Requests, where they placed themselves according to their Seniority at the Tables, by the Wall∣side, their Esquires and Pages waiting on them on the other.

Supper ended, the Lord Cornwallis and Sir Charles Berckley (the Treasurer and Comptroller of his Majesties Houshold) gave them his welcome, and then con∣ducted them to the Painted Chamber, and the Lords House adjoyning, and some other near rooms, where their Bathing Vessels and Beds, which were Pal∣lets with Canopies, were prepared, being covered with red Say: There, after they had Bathed more or less as each of them found convenient, they remain∣ed all Night; and early in the Morning were bade good morrow by his Majesties Musick. Then arising, and Apparelling themselves in a Cordeliers Habit (be∣ing a long russet Gown, with wide sleeves, and a Hood tyed close about the middle with a Cordon of Ash-coloured and Russet silk, reaching down almost

to the knees, and a white Napkin or Handkerchief hanging thereat) they pro∣ceeded to Hen. 7. Chappel, in the same order as the Night before, doing the same rev••••••••••••, and heard Divine Service, and took the usual Oath before the said Lords ••ommissioners, which was read to them by Sir Edward Walker Prin∣cipal King o•• Arms, in these words.

Right dear Br••••her,

GReat Wo••sh••p be this Order to every of you.* 6.1 You shall Honour God above all things. ••ut shall be stedfast in the Faith of Christ, and the same maintain and defend t•• y••ur Power. You shall love your Soveraign above all earthly things, and for y••u•• Soveraigns Right live and dye. You shall defend Maidens, Widdows, and Orphans in their right. You shall suffer no Extortion as far as you may: nor sit in any place where wrong Iudgment shall be given, to your knowledge. And of as great Honour be this Order to you, as ever it was to any of your Pro∣genitors or others.

This done, they returned in the same order they came to the Painted Cham∣ber, and put on the Habit of the Order, which was a Mantle, and Surcoat of red Taffata lined and edged with white Sarcenet, and thereto fastned two long strings of white silk, with buttons and tassels of red silk and gold; and a pair of white Cloves tyed to them, a white Hat and white Feather: in this Garb they Dined in the Painted Chamber; and thence, girded with a Sword, the Pum∣mel and cross-Hilt whereof were guilt, the Scabbard of white Leather, and Belt of the s••me, with guilt Spurs carried by their Pages, they marched on Horse-back by Seniority to White-Hall, with the Heraulds before them, from the Old Palace round about the New, and so through Kingstreet, going round the place where Charing-Cross stood; and then to White-hall, where they alighted: and after they had gone about the first Court, they were conducted by the Heraulds to the Banqueting-House, where His Majesty sate under a Cloath of State to receive them. They were brought up by six and six, each be∣tween his two Esquires, with his Page carrying his Sword before him. In their approaches towards his Majesty they made three Obeysances, and each Knight being presented by his two Esquires upon their knees to the King, (the Lord Chamberlain of His Majesties Houshold receiving the Knights Swords from the Pages, and delivering it to the King) He with the Sword of State ready drawn conferred upon them their respective Knight-hoods, by laying the Sword upon their shoulders, and so put the presented Sword upon the Knights Neck, in such sort, that it might hang on his left side; and then the said Scabbard, with the Order hanging at it. Which done, the Knight made his obeysance of Gratitude to His Majesty; and falling back, the rest were brought up and Knighted in like manner.

After this, they went down into his Majesties Chappel, and there heard Di∣vine Service, with the Organ and Anthems, and then went up six at a time to the Altar, and offered up their Swords; where Gilbert Lord Bishop of Lon∣don, Dean of His Majesties Royal Chappel, received them, and laid them upon the Altar, and afterwards restored them, with this Admonition.

By the Oath which you have taken this day, I exhort and admonish you, to use these Swords to the Glory of God, and defence of the Gospel; to the mainte∣nance of your Sovereigns Right and Honour, and to the upholding of Equity and Iustice, to your power. So help you God.

This done, they returned from the Chappel, where the Kings Master-Cook stood, with his Chopping-Knife in his hand, challenging their Spurs, which were severally redeemed with a Noble in Money. As they passed by, he said, Gen∣tlemen, you know what a great Oath you have taken; which if you keep, it will be great honour to you; but if you break it, I must back off your Spurs from your heels.

When they came unto the great Hall, the Officers at Arms acquainted them, that on Monday following they were to attend his Majesty from the Tower to White-Hall on Horseback in the same Robes wherein they were Knighted, and on Tuesday to meet early in the Painted Chamber in their Purple Sattin Habits, thence to go before his Majesty to his Coronation at Westminster.

* 6.2This Ceremony being over, the King to honour this great Solemnity, ad∣vanced some eminent Persons to higher degrees of Dignity, to be as Jewels to that Crown which should be placed on his Head: they were Twelve in num∣ber; six Earls, and six Barons. The Names of whom are as followeth: Ed∣ward Lord Hide of Hendon Lord high Chancellour of England, was created Earl of Clarendon; Arthur Lord Capel was created Earl of Essex; Thomas Lord Brudenel was created Earl of Cardigan; Arthur Viscount Valentia in Ireland was created Earl of Anglesey; Sir Iohn Greenvile Gentleman of His Majesties Bed-Chamber, and Groom of the Stool, was created Earl of Bath; Charles Howard of His Majesties Privy Council was created Earl of Carlisle; Denzil Hollis Esq was created Lord Hollis of Ifeld; Sir Frederick Cornwallis was cre∣ated Lord Cornwallis of Eye in Suffolk, an antient Barony; Sir George Booth Baronet, was created Lord de-la-Mere; Sir Horatio Townsend was created Ba∣ron of Lyn-Regis; Sir Anthony Ashly Cooper was created Baron of Winterbourn St. Gyles; Iohn Crew was created Lord Crew of Stene.

The Earls at their Creation, had two Earls their supporters, their Cap and Coronet carried by one, their Sword by another, and their Mantle by a third. The Lords were likewise supported by two Lords, their Cap and Mantle in the same manner, but no Sword.

These Peers being thus led up, Garter King of Arms attending them to the King; upon their several approaches, their Patents were presented by Sir William Walker, Principal King at Arms; which being by the Lord Chamberlain deli∣vered to the King, and from him to Secretary Nicholas, were by him read, and then given by His Majesty to the Respective Nobles, who after they were vested with their Robes, had their several Caps and Coronets placed upon their Heads by His Majesties own hands, as he sate in a Chair of State.

These likewise were ordered to attend the King at his Coronation, which Commenced its glories Monday the Twenty second of April aforesaid: it having rained a Moneth together before, it pleased God that not one drop fell on this Triumph, which appeared in its full Lustre and Grandeur; but as soon as the solemnity was past, and the King and his Train at Dinner in Westmin∣ster-Hall, it fell a Thundering, Lightning and Raining, with the greatest force, vehemence, and noise, that was ever heard or seen at that time of the year.

The Streets were gravelled all the way, and filled with a multitude of Specta∣tors out of the Countrey, and some Forreigners, who acknowledged themselves never to have seen among all the great M••gnificences of the World, any to come near or equal this: even the Vaunting French confessed their Pomps of the late Marriage with the Infanta of Spain, at their Majesties entrance into Paris, to be inferiour in its State, Gallantry and Riches, unto this most Illustrious Ca∣valcade. Which proceeded on this manner, as the NOBILITY and GENTRY were placed within and without the Tower.

First went the Horse-Guard of his Highness the Duke of York, the Messen∣gers of his Majesties Chamber, the Esquires of the Knights of the Bath, One hundred thirty six in number; the Knight Harbenger, the Serjeant-Porter, the Sewers of the Chamber, the Quarter-waiters of the six Clerks of the Chancery, the Clerks of the Signet, the Clerks of the Privy Seal, the Clerks of the Coun∣cil, the Clerks of both Houses of Parliament, the Clerks of the Crown, the Chaplains in Ordinary having Dignities, ten in number; the King's Advocate and Remembrancer, the Kings learned Counsel at Law, the Master of the Chan∣cery, the Kings puisne Serjeants, the Kings Attorney and Solicitors, the King's eldest Serjeants; Secretaries of the French and Latine Tongues, the Gentlemen-Ushers,

daily waiters, the Sewers, Carvers and Cup-bearers in ordinary, the Es∣quires of the Body, the Masters of standing Offices being no Councellors, viz. of the Tents, Revels, Ceremonies, Armory, Wardrope, Ordnance, Master of Requests, Chamberlain of the Exchequer, Barons of the Exchequer, and Judges of the Law according to their Dignity; the Lord chief Baron, the Lord chief Justice of the Common Pleas, the Master of the Rolls, the Lord chief Justice of England; Trumpets, the Gentlemen of the Privy-Chamber, the Knights of the Bath sixty eight in Number, the Knight Marshal, the Treasurer of the Cham∣ber, Master of the Jewel-house, Knights of the Privy Council, Comptroller of his Majesties Houshold, Treasurer of his Majesties Houshold. Two Trumpets and Serjeants, Trumpets, Two Pursivants at Arms; Barons eldest Sons, Earls youngest sons, Viscounts eldest sons, Barons, Marquesses younger sons, Earls el∣dests sons. Two Pursivants at Arms. Viscounts, Dukes younger sons, Marquesses eldest sons. Two Heraulds. Earls, Earl Marshal, and Lord Chamberlain of the Houshold, Dukes eldest sons. Serjeants at Arms on both sides the Nobility. Cla∣rencieux and Norroy, Lord Treasurer, Lord Chancellor, Lord High Steward, Duke of Ormond, two persons representing the Duke of Normandy and Aquitain, Gentleman-Vsher, Garter, Lord Mayor Sir Richard Brown. The Duke of York alone. The Lord High Constable of England Earl of Northumberland, Lord Great Chamberlain of England Earl of Lindsey. The Sword by the Duke of Richmond.

The KING.

Equerries and Footmen next and about his Majesty, Gentlemen and Pensioners without them, the Master of the Horse Duke of Albemarl leading a spare Horse, the Vice-Chamberlain to the King, Captain of the Pensioners, Captain of the Guard, the Guard, the Kings Life guard Commanded by my Lord Gerrard, the Generals Life-guard by Sir Philip Howard; a Troop of Voluntier Horse, and a Com∣pany of Foot, by Sir Iohn Robinson.

The way from the Tower to Aldgate was guarded by the Hamlets, from thence to Temple-Bar by the Trained-Bands of London, on one side, and lined with the Liveries on the other side, with the Banners of each Company. The Win∣dows were all along laid with the best Carpets and Tapestry; Bands of Musick in several places, and the Conduits running with Wine.

In St. Pauls Church-yard stood the Blew-coat boys of Christ-Church Hospital. One in behalf of the rest declared their joy for his Majesties wonderful pre∣servation in his absence, and his Arrival thither; humbly beseeching his Maje∣sties Gracious favour and indulgence, according to the example of his Royal Ancestors, and his Father of blessed memory. The King was very well plea∣sed with this Speech, and after conferred something on the Boy that spoke it.

In the Strand, and through Westminster also the ways were gravelled and rayled, being guarded on both sides with the Trained bands of that Liberty and City; and his Majesties two Regiments of Foot, under the command of his Grace the Duke of Albemarle, and Colonel Russel brother to the Earl of Bedford. The houses were also richly adorned with the Carpets and Tapestry; and Musick, (particularly a stage of Morice-dancers at the Maypole in the Strand) in the several places all along his Majesties passage.

When his Majesty came through Temple-bar into his Antient and Native City of Westminster, the Head-bayliff in a Scarlet Robe, and High Constable in Scarlet, received his Majesty with loud Musick; where alighting off their horses, and kneeling down to his Majesty, the Head-bayliff on behalf of the Dean and Chapter, City and Liberty, signified their joyful reception of his Royal person into that Liberty; declaring how much more happy they were than any part of the Nation, in that their Sovereign Lord and King was born within their

Liberty, and humbly desiring his Majesty to continue his Grace and Favour still to them, whereby that City might still be enabled to do his Majesties Ser∣vice. When the Head-Bayliff had ended his Speech, he and the High-Consta∣ble mounted their Horses, and fell in next after his Majesties Servants at Mace; in which order they attended his Majesty to White-hall.

Infinite and innumerable were the Acclamations and Shouts from all the parts as his Majesty passed along, to the no less joy than ••mazement of the Spe∣ctators, who beheld those glorious Personages that rid before and behinde his Majesty. Indeed it were in vain to attempt to express this Solemnity, it was so far from being utterable, that it is almost inconceiveable: and much won∣der it caused in Outlandish persons, who were acquainted with our late Trou∣bles and Confusions, (to the ruine almost of three Kingdoms) which way it was possible for the English to appear in so Rich and Stately a man∣ner.

It is incredible to think what costly Cloathes were worn that day; the Cloaks could hardly be seen what Silk or Sattin they were made of, for the Gold and Silver-Laces and Embroidery that was laid upon them: the like al∣so was seen in their Foot-cloaths. Besides the inestimable value and treasures of Diamonds, Pearl and other Jewels, worn upon their Backs and in their Hats: To omit also the sumptuous and rich Liveries of their Pages and Footmen; (some suits of Liveries amounting to fifteen hundred pounds;) the nume∣rousness of these Liveries, and the orderly march of them; as also the state∣ly Equipage of the Esquires attending each Earl by his Horse-side: so that all the World that saw it, could not but confess, that what they had seen before, was but solemn Mummery, to the most August, noble and true Glories of this great day.

In this order the King arrived at White-hall a good time before the Even∣ing, and then retired himself to Supper, and so to his Rest, to recommence the next day, and to put an end to this Triumph. On the 23 of April, St. George's day, to consummate the Coronation, the King came from his Privy-stairs to the Old Palace, to a Room called the Princes Lodgings, behinde the House of Lords, and stayed there till the Lords and his Train had Robed and ranked themselves in Westminster-hall; who being ready, the King placed himself on a Throne at the upper end thereof, when the Dean of Westminster (with the Prebends in their rich Copes, each having a part of the Regalia) with St. Ed∣ward's Crown, came and delivered them to the Lord High-Constable, and he to the Lord Great Chamberlain, who set them on a Table; and the King im∣mediately bestowed them on this manner; (Sir Gilbert Talbot the Master of the Kings Jewels, having laid the Sword of State and Sword called Curtana with two others on the same Table) St. Edward's Staff to the Earl of Sandwich, the Spurs to the Earl of Pembrook the pointed Sword on the left hand of Curta∣na to the Earl of Derby, the pointed Sword on the right to the Earl of Shrews∣bury, Curtana to the Earl of Oxford, the Sword of State to the Earl of Man∣chester, the Scepter with the Dove to the Duke of Albemarle, the Orb with the Cross to the Duke of Buckingham, St. Edwards Crown to the Duke of Or∣mond, the Patina to the Bishop of Exeter, and the Chalice to the Bishop of Lon∣don: and then his Majesty set forward on foot (in the same order as before al∣most) upon blue Cloath laid upon the ground from the Hall to his Chair in the Abbey,* 6.3 by the appointment of Sir George Carteret, His Almoner appointed for that day. The King was supported by the Lord-Bishops of Bath and Dur∣ham; his Train was carried up by the Lords Mandevil, Cavendish, Ossery, and Percy, assisted by the Lord Viscount Ma••sfield, Master of the Robes: then came the Earl of Lauderdale Gent. of his Majesties Bed-chamber, next came Mr. Sey∣more, Mr. Ashburnham, Grooms of the same, the Captain of the Guard, Captain of the Pensioners, and Yeomen.

All the Peers with their Coronets in their hands came up along with his Majesty, till his Majesty was placed in a Chair of State (not in his Throne:)

then the Lord Bishop of London▪ for the Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, went to every of the four-sides of the Throne, and at every of them spoke to the People in these words. Here I present unto you KING CHARLES the rightful Inheritor of the Crown of this Realm. Wherefore all you that are come this day to do your Homage, Service, and bounden duty, be ye willing to do the same?

Whereupon all the Peers in their Parliament-Robes, and People, gave a shout, testifying their willingness. This while the King standing from his Chair, turned himself to every of the four sides of the Throne, and at every of them spake to the People, who again with loud acclamations signified their willingness all in one voice. After which the Choire sung an Anthem, in the interim whereof his Majesty, Supported by the two Bishops of Durham and Bath and Wells, and attended by the Dean of Westminster, went to the steps before the Communion-Table, where upon Carpets and Cushions the King offered a Pall and a piece of Gold.

After his Majesty had offered, he went on the right hand, and kneeled down during a short Collect or Prayer; and then Sermon began, which was Preached by the Lord Bishop of WORCESTER. Sermon being ended, the Lord-Bishop of LONDON went to the King, for the Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, and asked if he were pleased to take the Oath usually taken by his Predecessors; to which his Majesty shewed himself most willing.

Then his Majesty rose out of his Chair, and by those two that before Assisted Him, was led up to the Communion-Table, where he made a solemn Oath to observe those things he had before promised. After this Oath, the King return∣ed to his Chair, and kneeled at his foot-stool, while the Hymn of the Holy Ghost was singing; which ended, the Letany was sung by two Bishops.

After which, the Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury began and said, Lift up your hearts, &c. Then his Majesty arose from his Devotion, and dis-robed himself of his upper Garment (his under Garment being so made, as the places to be anointed might be opened by undoing certain loops; which the Arch-Bishop un∣did, his Majesty sitting in a Chair.) The Archbishop first Anointed the Palms of both his hands, the Choire singing an Anthem; after which and certain Prayers, the Lord Arch-bishop proceeded and anointed his breast between the shoulders, on both the shoulders, the bending of his Arms, and the Crown of his Head: whereupon the Dean of Westminster closed the Loops, and the Lord Arch-bishop said several Prayers; which ended, the Coif was put on His Majesties Head, and the Colobium syndonis or Dalmatica, then the Super-tunica of cloth of Gold, with the Tissue buskins and Sandals of the same; then the Spurs were put on by the Peer that carried them: then the Arch-bishop took the Kings Sword and laid it on the Communion-Table, and after Prayer restored it to the King, which was Girt upon him by the Lord great Chamberlain: then the Armil was put on, next the Mantle, or open Pall; after which, the Lord Arch-bishop took the Crown into his hands, and laid it on the Communion-Table, Prayed, and then set it on the Kings Head; whereupon, all the Peers put on their Coronets and Caps, the Choire singing an Anthem: next, the Arch-Bishop took the Kings Ring, prayed again, and put it on the Fourth Finger of the Kings Hand; after which his Majesty took off his Sword, and offered it up; which the Lord great Chamberlain redeemed, drew it out, and carried it naked before the King. Then the Arch-Bishop took the Scepter with the Cross, and delivered it into His Ma∣jesties right Hand, the Rod with the Dove in the left; and the King kneeling, blessed him: which done, the King ascended his Throne Royal, the Lords Spi∣ritual and Temporal attending him, where after Te Deum the King was again Enthroned, and then all the Peers did their Homage; The Arch-Bishop first, who then kissed the Kings left Cheek, and after him the other Bishops. After their Homage, the Peers all together stood round about the King, and every one in their order toucht the Crown upon his Head, promising their readiness to support it with their power. The Coronation being ended, the Communion

followed, which his Majesty having received and offered, returned to his Throne till the Communion ended, and then went into St. Edwards Chappel, there took off his Crown, and delivered it to the Lord Bishop of London, who laid it upon the Communion-Table: which done, the King withdrew into a Traverse, where the Lord great Chamberlain of England disrobed the King of St. Edward's Robes, and delivered them to the Dean of Westminster, then His Majesty was newly arrayed with his Robes prepared for that day, and came to the Communion-Table in St. Edward's Chappel, where the Lord Bishop of Lon∣don, for the Arch-Bishop, set the Crown Imperial, provided for the King to wear that day, upon his Head. Then His Majesty took the Scepter and the Rod, and (the Train set in order before him) went up to the Throne, and so through the Choyre and body of the Church out at the West-door, to the Palace of Westminster.

The Oathes of Fealty being casually omitted, are here subjoyned as they were sworn in order.

• I William Arch-Bishop of Canterbury shall be True and Faithful, and true Faith and Truth bear unto you ou•• Soveraign Lord, and your Heirs Kings of England; and shall, and do, and truly acknowledge the service of the Land which I claim to hold of You in right of the Church. So help me God.
• Then the Duke of York did the same, in these Words (Garter principal King at Arms attending him in his Ascent to the Throne.)
• I James Duke of York become Your Leigeman of Life, of Limb, and of Earth∣ly Worship; and Faith and Truth shall I bear unto You, to live and dye, against all manner of Folk.
• The Dukes of Buckingham and Albemarle did the same for the Dukes. The Marquesses of Worcester and Dorchester for the Marquesses. The Earl of Oxford for the Earls. Viscount Hereford for the Viscounts. And the Lord Audley for the Barons.

Note, that there were Collects and Prayers said upon the putting on of the Regalia, as the Armil, the Pall; the delivery of the Scepter, the Sword, all according to ancient Form; and upon the setting on of the Crown, a peculiar Benediction. The Bishop of Worcester's Sermon was Preached upon the 28 of Prov. verse 2.

Before the King, the Peers now according to their Ranks and degrees procee∣ded to the said Palace, and not as they entred the Abbey, but with their Coro∣nets on; at the upper end whereof there was a Table and Chair of State raised upon an ascent: on the South-East-side of the Hall were two Tables placed; the first for the Barons of the Cinque Ports, the Bishops and Judges; the other for the Masters and six Clerks of Chancery; at which Table▪ by some mistake or distur∣bance, the Barons dined. At the North-East-end the Nobility at one Table, and behinde them, close to the Wall, the Lord-Mayor, the Recorder, the Alder∣men, and twelve principal Citizens: in the Court of Common-pleas dined the Officers at Arms. Which Tables being served (each had in all three Cour∣ses and a Banquet) the King came in from the inner Court of Wards, where he had staid half an hour, and sat down, and the Duke of York sate at the end of the same Table on the left hand: the Earl of Dorset was Sewer, and the Earl of Chesterfield his Assistant, the Earl of Lincoln was Carver; the Dishes were most of them served up by the Knights of the Bath: at the second course came in Sir Edward Dymock who by the service of this day, as the King's Cham∣pion, holds his Mannor of Serivelsby in the County of Lincoln; as several other services were performed upon the same account: (particularly Mr. Henry How∣ard, in behalf of his Brother the Duke of Norfolk, for a Mannor in Norfolk; gave the King a rich right-hand-Glove, during the Coronation, with which he held the Scepter.) He was mounted upon a goodly White Courser, himself Armed at all points; and having staid a while, advanced a little further, with his

two Esquires, one bearing a Lance, the other a Target, and threw down his Gantlet; the Earl-Marshal riding on his Left, and the Lord High-Constable on his Right hand, when York the Herauld read aloud his Challenge, which was done the third and last time at the foot of the Ascent where the King dined, and his Gantlet by the Herauld returned to him at every of the three times, after it had layn a little while: the Challenge was in these words.

If any person of what degree soever, High or Low, shall deny or gainsay our Soveraign Lord King Charles the second, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, defender of the Faith, &c. and Son and Heir to our Soveraign Lord Charles the first, the late King deceased, to be right Heir to the Imperial Crown of the Realm of England, or that he ought not to enjoy the same:

Here is his Champion, who saith that he lyeth, and is a false Traytor, being ready in person to Combate with him, and on this quarrel will adventure his life against him, what day soever he shall be appointed.

Which read aloud, the Earl of Pembrook presented the King with a Guilt Cup fill'd with Wine; who drank to his Champion, and sent him the said Cup by the said Earl; which after three Reverences, and some steps backward, he drunk off, and kept it as his Fee, and departed.

Then Garter Principal King-at-Arms Proclaimed the King thrice with his Title in Latine, French▪ and English, and at every time at the end cried Largess, and the people shouted God save the King: then the Lord Mayor Sir Richard Brown presented a Golden Cup and Cover full of Wine, which the King drank off, and gave it the Lord Mayor for his Fee. By that time the third course was carrying in, the King called for Water; which the Earl of Pembrook assisted by another Earl brought in a Basin and Ewer; and the King having washed, with∣drew to his Barge: but before his departure, it fell a Thundering, Lightning, and Raining, as if it imitated the noise and fire of the Cannon which played from the Tower; and it was observed that they kept time in this loud Musick, so that they were distinctly to be heard; the Thunder intermitting, as if it staid to receive and answer the reciprocated and ecchoed Boation and clashes of the Guns. And in all ancient Augury, such signes were taken for the most auspici∣ous, however the mad remnant of the Rebellion would have it parallell'd to Saul's inauguration, never considering the season, nor the different occasion and case between the most ancient Kingly Right and descent in Christendom, and that a new Title and Government in Iewry, which had before the most special presence of God among them.

All the Kingdom over, great rejoycing was made by Feasting and other Shows, as Training the several Bands of the Countries, with the additional Voluntary Gentry in a new and gallant Cavalry, which shewed the resurrection of their former Loyalty, in its immutable state of Peace.

But to proceed to the disclosing the whole lustre of this our present and most delightful Subject (omitting the same Triumphs in Scotland and Ireland, in the express resemblances of this Magnificence; several Honours being conferred both by the Lord-Commissioner his Grace, and the Lords-Justices on that So∣lemnity) we will take a full view of all our personal Dignities at home.

We proceed then to those Magnificences of the King which are in him Ho∣norante, not in Honorato. After the miserably vulgarly multitude of those evil Counsellors we had been oppress'd with for so many years (who had rai∣sed themselves to the mysteries of Government by their publick scandals there∣of in its former administration, following the impious politicks of Absalom) we saw an Assembly of Princes met in his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council, whose superlative and eminent endowments, assisted by their conspicu∣ous Grandeur, restored the form of the Brittish Empire, such, as Pallas gloried to be in the midst of her Heavenly descent; such their Noble Extractions, and their excellencies in all prudent menage of the Publick, accomplished to Her own AUTHENTICAL INSTITUTION of true policy: such Pilots, whose happy and skilfull hand could guide the tossed Bark of the King∣dom

in the darkest Night, and the most frightful Tempests, when there was nei∣ther Sun, Moon, nor Stars, no face of Authority nor Rule, no Directions nor Chart to follow, in the unexampled case of our late Distractions, and without any other Compass than their Piety to God, Duty to their Prince, and love to their Country, by which they confidently steered through all those Shelves, Rocks, and Sands, which imminently threatned its Shipwrack and Destruction.

Their sacred Names, for perpetual Memory, and to the Eternal Fame of this their blessed Conduct, (understanding that by his Majesties call to this sublime eminent dignity, their precedent Services were signated and notified to the World) as most Religiously and gratefully is due, are here transmitted among the rest of his Majesties felicities to inquisitive Posterity.

The Names of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council.

• HIs Royal Highness the Duke of York.
• Earl of Clarendon Lord Chancellor of England.
• Earl of Southampton Lord Treasurer.
• Lord Roberts Lord Privy Seal.
• Duke of Albemarle.
• Earl of Lindsey Lord High-Chamber∣lai•• of England.
• Duke of Ormond Lord Steward of his Majesties Houshould.
• Marquess of Dorchester.
• Earl of Northumberland.
• Earl of Leicester.
• Earl of Berkshire.
• Earl of Portland.
• Earl of Norwich.
• Earl of St. Albans.
• Earl of Sandwich.
• Earl of Anglesey.
• Earl of Carlisle.
• Viscount Say and Seal.
• Lord Wentworth.
• Lord Seymor Chancellour of the Dut∣chy of Lancaster.
• Lord Hollis.
• Lord Cornwallis.
• Lord Cooper.
• Earl of Lauderdale.
• Lord Berkly.
• Sir George Carteret.
• Sir Charles Compton.
• Secretary Nicholas.
• Secretary Morice.

To which have been since added Christopher Lord Hatton, Rupert Duke of Cumberland, the Duke of Buckingham, Earl of Middleton a Scotch Lord, the Kings Commissioner there.

From these Glories of the Crown, we are next invited to as Illustrious, those of Chivalry, a medium betwixt War and Peace, that there might be no∣thing that his Majesties Fortunes could not comprehend. The most Honoura∣ble Order of the Garter, Famous for its Martial and Civil Atchievements, had been drag'd in the Dirt, and trampled under Foot of Plebeian Anarchy and U∣surpation; when the innocent charm of its Motto, H••ni soit qui mal y pense, Evil be to him that Evil thinks, which had preserved it so many Ages, found not veneration nor respect, being ridled by that Monster of Rebellion, to be a badge and significator of its certain, though long-look'd-for Vltion and Avengement, in its own dire Retorts, and self-punishing Revolutions.

It is not, nor ever will be forgotten, how they abased this Royal Ensigne, the highest Order of Knighthood in the World, when it was derided by the most abject and meanest degree of the People; when its True Blue was stained with the Blot of Faintise and imbecility of courage, till another Saint George a∣rose to be its Champion, Assertor, and Restorer of its Renown and Glory.

Some of these most Honourable Knights survived his Majesties Restitu∣tion; some he made abroad, others he decreed so; and they were so de ju∣re, having had the Order sent them, but the Investiture wanting. The rest of these Noble Companions were allied to the Restoration; all of them are ranked in the manner as they sate at Windsor, April 16. 1662, being St. George his day; where after the usual Magnificent Procession, His Majesty renewed the usual Solemnities and Grandeurs thereof; Himself being there in Person.

The Fellows and Companions of the most Noble Order of St. GEORGE, commonly called the GARTER, as they were the 23 of April, in the Thirteenth year of King Charles the Second, 1661.

• CHarles the Second, King of Great Bri∣tain, France, and Ireland, Sove∣raign of the Order.
• Iames Duke of York the Kings only Bro∣ther.
• Charles Lodowick Prince Elector Palatine.
• Frederick William Marquess and Elector of Brandenburgh.
• Rupert Count Palatine of the Rhine, and Duke of Cumberland.
• Edward Count Palatine of the Rhine.
• William of Nassau Prince of Orange.
• Barnard Duke of Espernon.
• Charles Prince of Tarante.
• William Cecil Earl of Salisbury.
• Thomas Howard Earl of Berk-shire.
• Algernon Piercy Earl of Northumberland.
• Iames Butler Duke of Ormond.
• George Villiers Duke of Buckingham.
• Thomas Wriothesley Earl of Southamp∣ton.
• William Cavendish Marquess of New∣castle.
• George Digby Earl of Bristol.
• Gasper Count of Marsin.
• George Monk Duke of Albemarle.
• Edward Montague Earl of Sandwich.
• Aubery de Vere Earl of Oxford.
• Charles Steward Duke of Richmond and Lenox.
• Montague Berty Earl of Lindsey.
• Edward Montague Earl of Manche∣ster.
• William Wentworth Earl of Strafford.

A Roll of the PEERS of the Kingdom of ENGLAND. according to their Birth and Creations.

• Dukes of the Blood Royal.
  • JAmes Duke of York and Albany, Lord High Admiral of England.
  • Rupert Duke of Cumberland.
  These take Places in respect of their Offices.
  • Edward Earl of Clarendon, Lord Chan∣cellour of England.
  • Thomas Earl of Southampton, Lord Trea∣surer of England.
• DUKES.
  • Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk.
  • William Seymour Duke of Somerset.
  • George Villiers Duke of Buckingham.
  • Charles Stuart Duke of Richmond.
  • George Monk Duke of Albemarle.
• MARQUISSES.
  • Iohn Paulet Marquiss of Winchester.
  • Edward Somerset Marquiss of Worcester.
  • William Cavendish Marquiss of Newcastle.
  • Henry Peirrepont Marquiss of Dorchester.
• EARLS. These three take places in respect of their Offices.
  • Montague Berty Earl of Lindsey, Lord High Chamberlain of England.
  • Iames Butler Earl of Brecknock, Lord Steward of his Majesties Houshold.
  • Edward Montague Earl of Manchester, Lord Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold.
• EARLS.
  • Aubery de Vere Earl of Oxford.
  • Algernoon Piercy Earl of Northumber∣land.* 6.4
  • Francis Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury.
  • — Gray Earl of Kent, Infra aetat.
  • Charles Stanly Earl of Derby.
  • Iohn Mannours Earl of Rutland.
  • — Hastings Earl of Huntingdon, In∣fra aetat.
  • Thomas Wriothesly Earl of Southamp∣ton.
  • Wil••iam Russel Earl of Bedford.
  • ...

• ...
  • Philip Herbert Earl of Pembrook and Montgomery.
  • Theophilus Clinton Earl of Lincoln.
  • Charles Howard Earl of Nottingham.
  • Iames Howard Earl of Suffolk.
  • Richard Sackvil Earl of Dorset.
  • William Cecil Earl of Salisbury.
  • Iohn Cecil Earl of Exeter.
  • Iohn Egerton Earl of Bridgewater.
  • Robert Sidney Earl of Leicester.
  • Iames Compton Earl of Northampton.
  • Charles Rich Earl of Warwick.
  • William Cavendish Earl of Devonshire.
  • Basil Fieldi••g Earl of Denbigh.
  • George Digby Earl of Bristol.
  • Lionel Cranfield Earl of Middlesex.
  • Henry Rich Earl of Holland.
  • Iohn Hollis Earl of Clare.
  • Oliver St. Iohn Earl of Bullingbrook.
  • Mildmay Fane Earl of Westmorland.
  • Edward Montague Earl of Manchester.
  • Thomas Howard Earl of Berk-shire.
  • Thomas Wentworth Earl of Cleveland.
  • Edward Sheffield Earl of Mulgrave.
  • Henry Cary Earl of Monmouth, decea∣sed without Issue male.
  • Iames Ley Earl of Marlborough.
  • Thomas Savage Earl of Rivers.
  • Montague Bertue Earl of Lindsey, Lord Great Chamberlain of England.
  • Nicholas Knollis Earl of Banbury.
  • Henry Cary Earl of Dover.
  • Henry Morda••t Earl of Peterburgh.
  • Henry Gray Earl of Stamford.
  • Heneage Finch Earl of Winchelsey.
  • Charles Dormer Earl of Carnarvan.
  • Montjoy Blunt Earl of Newport.
  • Philip Stanhop Earl of Chesterfield.
  • Iohn Tufton Earl of Thanet.
  • Ierome Weston Earl of Portland.
  • William Wentworth Earl of Strafford.
  • Robert Spencer Earl of Sunderland.
  • Iames Savil Earl of Sussex.
  • Charles Goring Earl of Norwich.
  • Nicholas Leak Earl of Scarsdale.
  • — Wilmot Earl of Rochester, Infra aetat.
  • Henry Iermin Earl of St. Albans.
  • Edward Montague Earl of Sandwich.
  • ...* 6.5 Iames Butler Earl of Brecknock.
  • Edward Hide Earl of Clarenden.
  • Arthur Capel Earl of Essex.
  • Thomas Brudenal Earl of Cardigan.
  • Arthur Annelsley Earl of Anglesey.
  • Iohn Greenvile Earl of Bath.
  • Charles Howard Earl of Carlisle.
  • The Right Honourable Elizabeth Vis∣countess of Kynelmeky was by Letters Pattents Iune 14 Created Countess of Guildford for her life, in the Twelfth year Caroli S••cundi.
• VISCOUNTS.
  • Leicester Devereux Viscount Hereford.
  • Francis Brown Viscount Montague.
  • Iames Fiennes Viscount Say and Seal.
  • Edward Conway Viscount Conway.
  • Baptist Noel Viscount Camden.
  • William Howard Viscount Stafford.
  • Thomas Bellasis Viscount Faulconberg.
  • Iohn Mordant Viscount Mordant.
• BARONS.
  • Iohn Nevil Lord Abergavenny, lately Deceased.
  • Iames Tutchet Lord Audley.
  • Charles West Lord De la Ware.
  • George Barkley Lord Barkley.
  • Thomas Parker Lord Morley and Mon∣teagle.
  • Francis Lenard Lord Dacres.
  • Conyers Darcy Lord Darcy.
  • William Stourton Lord Stourton.
  • William Lord Sandys De la Vine.
  • Edward Vaux Lord Vaux.
  • Thomas Windsor Lord Windsor.
  • Thomas Wentworth Lord Wentworth.
  • Wingfield Cromwel Lord Cromwell.
  • George Eure Lord Eure.
  • Philip Wharton Lord Wharton.
  • Francis Willoughby, Lord Willoughby of Parham.
  • William Paget Lord Paget.
  • Dudley North Lord North.
  • William Bruges Lord Chaundos.
  • Iohn Cary Lord Hunsdon.
  • William Petre Lord Petre.
  • Dutton Gerrard Lord Gerrard.
  • Charles Stanhop Lord Stanhop.
  • Henry Arundel, Lord Arundel of War∣der.
  • Christopher Roper Lord Tenham.
  • Foulk Grevil Lord Brook.
  • Edward Montague Lord Montague of Boughton.
  • Charles Lord Howard of Charleton.
  • William Gray Lord Gray of Wark.
  • Iohn Roberts Lord Roberts.
  • William Craven Lord Craven.
  • Iohn Lovelace Lord Lovelace.
  • Iohn Paulet Lord Paulet.
  • William Maynard Lord Maynard.
  • ...

• ...
  • Thomas Coventry Lord Coventry.
  • Edward Lord Howard of Escrick.
  • Warwick Mohun Lord Mohun.
  • William Botiller Lord Botiller.
  • Percy Herbert Lord Powis
  • Edward Herbert Lord Herbert of Cher∣bury.
  • Francis Seamour Lord Seamour.
  • Thomas Bruce Lord Bruce.
  • Francis Newport Lord Newport of Higharchal.
  • Thomas Leigh Lord Leigh of Stone-Leigh.
  • Christopher Hatton Lord Hatton.
  • Henry Hastings Lord Loughborough.
  • Richard Byron Lord Byron.
  • Richard Vaughan Lord Vaughan.
  • Charles Smith Lord Carrington.
  • William Widdrington Lord Widdrington.
  • Humble Ward Lord Ward.
  • Thomas Lord Culpepper.
  • Isaac Astley Lord Astley.
  • Richard Boyle Lord Clifford.
  • Iohn Lucas Lord Lucas.
  • Iohn Bellasis Lord Bellasis.
  • Lewis Watson Lord Rockingham.
  • Charles Gerrard Lord Gerrard of Bran∣don.
  • Robert Lord Sutton of Lexington.
  • Charles Kirkhoven Lord Wotton.
  • Marmaduke Langdale Lord Langdale deceased.
  • William Crofts Lord Crofts.
  • Iohn Berkly Lord Berkly.
  • Denzil Hollis Lord Hollis of Ifeild.
  • Charles Lord Cornwallis.
  • George Booth Lord De la Mere.
  • Horatio Townsend Lord Townsend.
  • Anthony Ashley Cooper Lord Ashley.
  • Iohn Crew Lord Crew.

The Lords Spiritual being restored to their Honours and Places in Parliament since the Coronation, and to all the precedent Honours, we have observed the Order of Time, and not of Dignity, as they should have been Ranked before the Lords Temporal.

• A. DOctor William Iuxon, Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury his Grace, Pri∣mate and Metropolitan of all England, was consecrated Bishop of London 1633. Translated from London to Canterbury 1660.
• A. Dr. Accepted Frewen Lord Arch-Bishop of York and Metropolitan of Eng∣land, was consecrated Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield 1644. Translated from thence to York 1660.
• Dr. Gilbert Sheldon Lord-Bishop of London, was consecrated October 28, 1660.
• Dr. Iohn Couzens Lord-Bishop of Durham, was consecrated December 2, 1660. Y.
• A. Dr. Brian Duppa Lord-Bishop of Winchester, (this See is now possessed by Dr. Morley, Translated thither from the See of Worcester) Prelate of the Gar∣ter, and Lord Almoner; he was consecrated Bishop of Chichester 1638. from thence Translated to Sarum 1640. and from thence to Winchester 1660. and since deceased 1662.
• A. Dr. William Piers Lord-Bishop of Bath and Wells, consecrated 1632.
• A. Dr. Matthew Wren Lord-Bishop of Ely, was consecrated Bishop of Here∣ford 1634. thence Translated to Norwich 1635. from thence to Ely 1638.
• A. Dr. Robert Skinner Lord-Bishop of Oxon, was consecrated Bishop of Bri∣stol 1636. thence Translated to Oxon 1640.
• A. Dr. William Roberts Lord-Bishop of Bangor, and Sub-Almoner, was con∣secrated 1637.
• A. Dr. Iohn Warner Lord-Bishop of Rochesters consecrated 1637.
• A. Dr. Henry King Lord-Bishop of Chichester, was consecrated 1641.
• Dr. Humphry Heuchman Lord-Bishop of Salisbury, was consecrated October 28. 1660.
• Dr. George Morley Lord-Bishop of Worcester, was consecrated October 28. 1660. since possessed by Dr. Gauden, after by Dr. Earles late Dean of West∣minster.
• ...

• Dr. Robert Sauderson Lord-Bishop of Lincoln, was consecrated October 28. 1660. since deceased, and Dr. Laney Translated thither.
• Dr. George Griffith Lord-Bishop of St. Asaph, was consecrated October 28. 1660.
• Dr. William Lucy Lord-Bishop of St. Davids, was consecrated December 2. 1660.
• Dr. Benjamin Laney Lord-Bishop of Peterborough, was consecrated December 2. 1660.
• Dr. Hugh Lloyd Lord-Bishop of Landaff, was consecrated December 2. 1660.
• Dr. Richard Sterne Lord-Bishop of Carlisle, was consecrated December 2. 1660. Y.
• Dr. Brian Walton Lord-Bishop of Chester, was consecrated December 2. 1660. Y. This See was possess'd by Dr. Fern, who dying also, Dr. George Hall was Lord-Bishop thereof.
• Dr. Iohn Gauden (who dying, Dr. Seth Ward is since Lord-Bishop there∣of) Lord-Bishop of Exeter, was consecrated December 2. 1660.
• Dr. Gilbert Ironside Lord-Bishop of Bristol, was consecrated Ianuary 13. 1660.
• Dr. Edward Reynolds Lord-Bishop of Norwich, was consecrated Ianuary 14. 1660.
• Dr. William Nicholson Lord-Bishop of Gloucester, was consecrated Ianuary 13. 1660.
• Dr. Nicholas Monke Lord-Bishop of Hereford, was consecrated Ianuary 13. 1660. who dying, Dr. Herbert Crofts was consecrated in his place 1661.
• Dr. Iohn Hacket Lord-Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield.

A. Notes the ancient Bishops. Y. The Diocesses in the Province of York. All the rest are in the Province of Canterbury.

The Names of the Iudges.

• EDward Earl of Clarendon Lord High-Chancellor of England.
• Sir Robert Foster Knight, Chief-Justice of the Kings-Bench.
• Sir Harbottle Grimstone Baronet, Master of the Rolls.
• Sir Orlando Bridgeman Knight and Baronet, Chief-Justice of the Common-Pleas.
• Matthew Hale Chief-Baron of the Exchequer.
• Sir Thomas Mallet Knight. Justices of the Kings-Bench.
• Sir Thomas Twisden Knight. Justices of the Kings-Bench.
• Sir Wadham Windham Knight. Justices of the Kings-Bench.
• Sir Robert Hide Knight. Justices of the Common-Pleas.
• Sir Thomas Terril Knight. Justices of the Common-Pleas.
• Sir Samuel Brown Knight. Justices of the Common-Pleas.
• Sir Edward Atkins Knight. Barons of the Exchequer.
• Sir Christopher Turner Knight. Barons of the Exchequer.
• Sir Ieoffrey Palmer Knight, Attorney-General.
• Sir Iohn Glynne Knight. The Kings Serjeants at Law.
• Sir Iohn Maynard Knight. The Kings Serjeants at Law.
• Sir William Wilde Knight. The Kings Serjeants at Law.

The two Principal Secretaries of State, persons eminent for their faithful and industrious Loyalty, Sir Edward Nicholas, of the same place to his late Ma∣jesty▪ and Sir William M••rice, the onely Confident the Renowned General the Duke of Albemarle used in those blessed Counsels toward the Restitution of the King and Kingdom.

The Names of the BARONETS made by Letters Patents since his Majesties most happy Restauration, Anno 1660. With the times of their several Creations. Anno Duodecimo Caroli Regis Secundi.

• SIR Orlando Bridgeman Knight, was created Baronet Iune the 7th, in the Twelfth Year of the Raign of our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles the Second, in the year of our Lord 1660.
• Sir Ieoffery Palmer Kt. created Baronet Iune the 7.
• Sir Heneage Finch in Com. Bucks Kt. created Baronet Iune 7.
• Sir Iohn Langham in Com. Northampton Kt. created Baronet Iune 7.
• Sir Robert Abdy in Com. Essex Kt. created Baronet Iune 9.
• Thomas Draper in Com. Berks Esq. created Baronet Iune 9.
• Humphrey Winch in Com. Bedford Esq. created Baronet Iune 9.
• Ionathan Rease Esq. created Baronet Iune 9.
• Henry Wright in Com. Essex Esq. created Baronet Iune 12.
• Hugh Speke in Com. Wilts Esq. created Baronet Iune 12.
• Nicholas Gould of the City of London created Baronet Iune 13.
• Sir Thomas Adams of the City of London Kt. created Baronet Iune 13.
• Richard Atkins in Com. Surrey Esq. created Baronet Iune 13.
• Thomas Allen of the City of London Esq. created Baronet Iune 14.
• Henry North in Com. Suffolk Esq. created Baronet Iune 15.
• Sir William Wiseman in Com. Essex Kt. created Baronet Iune 15.
• Thomas Cullum in Com. Suffolk Esq. created Baronet Iune 18.
• Thomas Davy in Com. Essex Esq. created Baronet Iune 20.
• George Grubbum How in Com. Wilts Esq. created Baronet Iune 20.
• Iohn Cutts in Com. Cambridge Esq. created Baronet Iune 20.
• William Humble of the City of London Esq. created Baronet Iune 20.
• Solomon Swale in Com. York Esq. created Baronet Iune 21.
• Gervas Ews in Com. Suffolk Esq. created Baronet Iune 22.
• Robert Cordel in Com. Suffolk Esq. created Baronet Iune 22.
• Sir Iohn Robinson of the City of London Kt. created Baronet Iune 22.
• Iohn Abdy in Com. Essex Esq. created Baronet Iune 22.
• Henry Stapleton in Com. York Esq. created Baronet Iune 23.
• Iacob Ashly in Com. Warwick Esq. created Baronet Iune 25.
• Sir Robert Hilliard in Com. York Esq. created Baronet Iune 25.
• Sir William Bowyer in Com. Bucks Kt. created Baronet Iune 25.
• Iohn Shuckbrugh in Com. Warwick Esq. created Baronet Iune 26.
• William Wray in Com. Lincoln Esq. created Baronet Iune 27.
• Francis Hollis in Com. Dorset Esq. created Baronet Iune 27.
• Nicholas Steward in Com. Southampton Esq. created Baronet Iune 27.
• George Warberton in Com. Pal. of Chester Esq. created Baronet Iune 27.
• Oliver St. Iohn in Com. Northampton Esq. created Baronet Iune 28.
• Sir Ralph Delaval in Com. Northumberland Kt. created Baronet Iune 29.
• Andrew Henley in Com. Somerset Esq. created Baronet Iune 30.
• Thomas Ellis in Com. Lincoln Esq. created Baronet Iune 30.
• Sir Iohn Covert in Com. Sussex Kt. created Baronet Iuly 2.
• Maurice Berkley in Com. Somerset Esq. created Baronet Iuly 2.
• Peter Harr of the City of London created Baronet Iuly 2.
• Henry Hudson in Com. Leicester Esq. created Baronet Iuly 3.
• Thomas Herbert in Com. Monmouth Esq. created Baronet Iuly 3.
• Thomas Middleton in Com. Denbigh created Baronet Iuly 4.
• Verney Noel in Com. Leicester Esq. created Baronet Iuly 6.
• George Ruswel in Com. Northampton Esq. created Baronet Iuly 7.
• ...

• Robert Austen in Com. Kent Esq. created Baronet Iuly 10.
• Robert Hales in Com. Kent Esq. created Baronet Iuly 12.
• Iohn Clarke in Com. Oxford Esq. created Baronet Iuly 13.
• William Thomas in Com. Essex Esq. created Baronet Iuly 13.
• Sir William Boothby in Com. Derby Kt. created Baronet Iuly 13.
• Wolstan Dixey in Com. Leicester created Baronet Iuly 14.
• Iohn Bright in Com. York Esq. created Baronet Iuly 16.
• Iohn Warner in Com. York Esq. created Baronet Iuly 16.
• Sir Iohn Harbey in Com. Hartford Kt. created Baronet Iuly 17.
• Sir Samuel Moreland in Com. Berks Kt. created Baronet Iuly 18.
• Sir Thomas Hewet in Com. Hartford Kt. created Baronet Iuly 19.
• Edward Honywood in Com. Kent Esq. created Baronet Iuly 19.
• Basil Dixwel in Com. Kent Esq. created Baronet Iuly 19.
• Sir Richard Brown of the City of London Kt. created Baronet Iuly 20.
• Marmaduke Gresham in Com. Surrey Esq. created Baronet Iuly 20.
• Henry Kernor in Com. Salop Esq. created Baronet Iuly 23.
• Sir Iohn Aubrey in Com. Glamorgan Kt. created Baronet Iuly 23.
• Thomas Sclator in Com. Cambridge Esq. created Baronet Iuly 25.
• Henry C••••way in Com. Flint Esq. created Baronet Iuly 25.
• Edward Green in Com. Essex Esq. created Baronet Iuly 26.
• Iohn Stapley in Com. Sussex Esq. created Baronet Iuly 28.
• Metcalf Robinson in Com. York Esq. created Baronet Iuly 30.
• William Dudley in Com. Northampton Esq. created Baronet August 1.
• Hugh Smithson in Com. York Esq. created Baronet August 2.
• Sir Roger Mostyn in Com. Flint Kt. created Baronet August 3.
• Sir William Willoughby in Com. Nottingham Kt. created Baronet August 4.
• Anthony Oldfield in Com. Lincoln Esq. created Baronet Aug. 6.
• Peter Leicester in Com. Chester Esq. created Baronet Aug. 10.
• Sir Willam Wheeler of the City of Westminster Kt. crea••••d Baronet Aug. 11.
• Thomas Lee in Com. Bucks Esq. created Baronet August 16.
• Iohn Newton in Com. Gloucester Esq. created Baronet Aug. 16.
• Thomas Smith in Com. Chester Esq. created Baronet Aug. 16.
• Sir Ralph Ashton in Com. Lancaster Kt. created Baronet Aug. 17.
• I••hn Rous in Com. Suffolk Esq. created Baronet Aug. 17.
• Henry Massingbeard in Com. Lincoln Esq. created Baronet Aug. 22.
• Iohn Hales in Com. Warwick Esq. created Baronet Aug. 28.
• Ralph Bovey in Com. Warwick Esq. created Baronet Aug. 30.
• Iohn Knightly in Com. Warwick Esq. created Baronet Aug. 30.
• Sir Iohn Drake in Com. Devon Kt. created Baronet Aug. 30.
• Sir Oliver St. George in Com. Letrim in Ireland created Baronet Sep. 5.
• Sir Iohn Cowy••r in Com. Stafford Kt. created Baronet Sept. 11.
• Sir William Wilde Kt. Recorder of London created Baronet Sept. 13.
• Ioseph Ash in Com. Middlesex Esq. created Baronet Sept. 19.
• Iohn How in Com. Gloucester Esq. created Baronet Sept. 22.
• Iohn S. ••••burn in Com. Northumberland Esq. created Baronet Sept. 26.
• Iohn Trot in Com. Southampton Esq. created Barone Octob. 11.
• Humphrey Miller in Com. Kent Esq. created Baronet Octob. 15.
• Sir Iohn Lewis in Com. York Kt. created Baronet Octob. 16.
• Iohn Beal in Com. Kent Esq. created Baronet Octob. 6.
• Sir Richard Frankline in Com. Hartford Kt. created Baronet October 26.
• William Russel in Com. Carmarthen Esq. created Baronet November 8.
• William Barkhouse Esq. Grand-childe of Rowland Barkhouse, of the City of London created Baronet Nov. 8.
• Thomas Boothby in Com. Essex Esq. created Baronet Nov. 9.
• Sir Iohn Cutler of the City of London Kt. created Baronet Nov. 9.
• Giles Mottel of Leige Esq. created Baronet Nov. 16.
• Henry Gifford in Com. Leicester Esq. created Baronet Nov. 21.
• ...

• Sir Thomas Foot of the City of London Kt. created Baronet Nov. 21.
• Thomas Manwaring in Com. Palatinate of Chester Esq. created Baronet No∣vember 21.
• Thomas Bennet in Com. Cambridge Esq. created Baronet Nov. 22.
• Iohn Wroth in Com. Kent Esq. created Baronet Nov. 29.
• George Winn in Com. York Esq. created Baronet December 3.
• Humphrey Monoux in Com. Bedford Esq. created Baronet Decem. 4.
• William Gardiner of the City of London Esq. created Baronet Dec. 4.
• Heneage Fetherston in Com. Hartford Esq. created Baronet Dec. 5.
• Iohn Peynton in Com. Cambridge Esq. created Baronet Dec. 10.
• Iohn Fagge in Com. Sussex Esq. created Baronet Dec. 11.
• Edmund Anderson in Com. Lincoln Esq. created Baronet Dec. 12.
• Matthew Herbert in Com. Salop Esq. created Baronet Dec. 18.
• Edward Ward in Com. Norfolk Esq. created Baronet Dec. 18.
• George Marwood in Com. York Esq. created Baronet Dec. 21.
• Ralph Ashton in Com. Northampton Esq. created Baronet Dec. 21.
• William Killigrew in Com. Cornwal Esq. created Baronet, entailed upon the Heirs-Males of his Body for ever: and for default of such Issue, to Peter Killigrew, Son of Sir Peter Killigrew Kt. and the Heirs-Males of his Body for ever, by Letters Patents bearing date at Westminster, December 22.
• Iohn Keyt in Com. Gloucester Esq. created Baronet Dec. 22.
• Iohn Buck in Com. Lincoln Esq. created Baronet Dec. 22.
• William Frankland in Com. York Esq. created Baronet Dec. 24.
• Richard Stydalph in Com. Surrey Esq. created Baronet Dec. 24.
• William Iuxon in Com. Sussex Esq. created Baronet Dec. 28.
• Iohn Leggard in Com. York Esq. created Baronet Dec. 29.
• Iohn Iackson in Com. York Esq. created Baronet Dec. 31.
• Sir Henry Pickering in Com. Cambridge Kt. created Baronet Ianuary 2.
• Henry Bedingfield in Com. Norfolke Esq. created Baronet Ian. 2.
• Walter Plomer of Inner Temple in London Esq. created Baronet Ian. 4.
• Herbert Springet in Com. Sussex Esq. created Baronet Ian. 8.
• William Powel in Com. Hereford Esq. created Baronet Ian. 23.
• Robert Newton of the City of London Esq. created Baronet Ian. 23.
• Nicholas Soughton in Com. Surrey Esq. created Baronet Ian. 29.
• William Rokeby in Com. York Esq. created Baronet Ian. 29.

Baronets made in the 13th year of the Reign of our most gracious Soveraign Lord King CHARLES the Second.

• Walter Earnly of New Sarum in the County of Wilts Esq. created Baronet the 2d of February, 13. Carol. 2. 1660.
• Iohn Husbands in Com. Warwick Esq. created Baronet Feb. 2.
• Thomas Morgan in Com. Moumouth Esq. created Baronet Feb. 7.
• Iohn Lane in Com. Roscommon in the Kingd. of Ireland created Baronet Feb. 9.
• George Wakefren in Com. Gloucester Esq. created Baronet Feb. 13.
• Benjamin Wright in Com. Essex Esq. created Baronet Feb. 15.
• Iohn Colleton of the City of London Esq. created Baronet Feb. 18.
• Sir Iames Modiford of the City of London Kt. created Baronet Feb. 18.
• Thomas Beaumont in Com. Leicester Esq. created Baronet Feb. 21.
• Edward Smith in Com. Durham Esq. created Baronet Feb. 23.
• Iohn Napier, alias Napier, alias Sands Esq. created Baronet March 4.
• Thomas Gifford in Com. Meath in the Province of Lemster, in the Kingdom of Ireland Esq. created Baronet March 4.
• Thomas Clifton in Com. Lancaster Esq. created Baronet March. 4.
• William Wilson in Com. Sussex Esq. created Baronet March 4.
• Compton Reed in Com. Berks Esq. created Baronet March 4.
• Sir Brian Broughton in Com. Stafford Kt. created Baronet Mar. 10.
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• Robert Slingsby in Com. Hertford Esq. created Baronet March 16.
• Sir Ralph Verney in Com. Bucks Kt. created Baronet March 16.
• Iohn Crofts in Com. Suffolk Esq. created Baronet March 16.
• Robert Dicer in Com. Hereford Esq. created Baronet March 18.
• Sir Iohn Bromfield in Com. Surrey Kt. created Baronet March 20.
• Thomas Rich in Com. Berks Esq. created Baronet March 20.
• Edward Smith in Com. Leicester Esq. created Baronet March 25.
• Walter Long in Com. Wilts Esq. created Baronet March 26.
• Iohn Fettiplace in Com. Berks Esq. created Baronet April 8.
• Walter Henly in Com. Sussex Esq. created Baronet April 8.
• William Parsons in Com. Bucks Esq. created Baronet April 9.
• Iohn Cambel in Com. Essex Esq. created Baronet April 9.
• Sir Charles Gawdy in Com. Suffolk Kt. created Baronet April 20.
• William Morice in Com. Devon Esq. created Baronet April 20.
• Sir William Cayly in Com. York Kt. created Baronet April 20.
• Sir Charles Doyly of the City of London Kt. created Baronet April 26.
• William Godolphin in Com. Cornwal Esq. created Baronet April 29.
• Thomas C••rson in Com. Oxford Esq. created Baronet April 30.
• Edmund Fowel in Com. Devon Kt. created Baronet May 1.
• Iohn Cropley in Com. Middlesex Esq. created Baronet May 7.
• William Smith in Com. Bucks Esq. created Baronet May 10.
• George Cook in Com. York Esq. created Baronet M•••• 10.
• Charles Lloyd in Com. Montgomery Esq. created Baronet May 10.
• Nathaniel Powel in Com. Sussex Esq. created Baronet May 14.
• Denny Ashburnham in Com. Sussex Esq. created Baronet May 15.
• Sir Hugh Smith in Com. Somerset Kt. created Baronet May 16.

And so we have glided through this Sphere of Glory, in which the ancient honour of the Government is refixed, and gives us the full and compleat fight of this wonderful Revolu••••on; each Luminary shining in its proper Orb, and in its Degree; the Soveraign, Nobility, Clergy, and Gentry recovered to their former and distinct Lustre: and to say no more, the whole community of En∣glish Freemen, whose state and condition no Nation can parallel, from being the servants of servants, are become their own Masters, and are arrived by this Change, to be again the envy, that were but lately the scorn and derision of the World.

In this Consistency the King was desirous to meet this Illustrious Body in Parliament, to close those distances and separations, and redintegrate the mutu∣al affections, endearments, and natural kindnesses, which the unnaturalness and perverse malignity of the times had by our Divisions abrupted and hitherto discontinued: the King had promised so much at the Dissolution of the late Free-Parliament or Convention, and accordingly issued out His Writ, (soon af∣ter) for their sitting down the Eighth of May (a little before which,* 6.6 several Mu∣sters had been made in England of the Militia; and a General Train in London, in Hide-Park of Horse and Foot, Fourteen Regiments whereof the King was pleased to view there.) In these Elections it appeared how much a Com∣monwealth, or those Actions which were pretended to be done by the People in Parliament (by a few modulers thereof) were ever approved; for not such a man had a Voyce, and the Election of the Free Parliament gave little Encou∣ragement to stand for it: the main stickling was between the Episcopal and Presbyterian Parties; and even that numerous Party (as was said by themselves) found how much they were mistaken in the Suffrages of the Kingdome, when under no awe, nor in the phrensy of misguised Zeal: several Letters were in∣tercepted from the chief Ministers of that Perswasion, exhorting their Cor∣respondents to do their utmost for favourable Elections to their Discipline, and that very confidently, after the choyce made at London, of persons the most of them of their way. But nevertheless, that there might not the least remain of

the Government be left unjustified and unreared; it so happened, that far the major part of this House of Commons were not better affected to the Peace of the Kingdome, than to the Restauration and Settlement of the Church.

To this Parliament the King with his Nobles, according to the splendid cu∣stome of opening these grand Assemblies, rode in State and Triumph: but be∣cause so full a Narrative of such Glory hath already preceded, I will not fur∣ther dazile the Reader. The House being met, the King sent for the Commons into the House of Lords, where most obligingly he declared, His content in meeting them; most of them being known to him: that he was as confident, as of any thing whatsoever, that it would be a happy Parliament; and in conclu∣sion, acquainted them with his Resolution of marrying the Infanta of Portugal, which Match (he said) he had proposed to his Privy Council, and they had every one highly approved it; that he thought none of them would willingly have him live and dye a Batchelour, and therefore he had newly made and signed a Treaty with the King of Portugal by his Ambassadour Don Francisco De Mello here Resident,* 6.7 and now upon departure with the same Treaty, in which this Article of Marriage was inserted. And then my Lord Chancellour, by His Order, gave the Parliament a further Account of His Majesties calling them. Sir Edward Turner the Dukes Attourney General was chosen Speaker for the House of Commons; who in his Speech to the King expressed the hopes of the Commons, that as His Majesty had manifested his great Indulgence to that Adopted, so that he had a Blessing left for this his Natural Parliament. These Ceremonies being over, wherein the dutiful respects of the Houses an∣swered the favour and affection of the King; the Parliament proceeded to the Affairs of the Kingdome. Near that very time, a Parliament began in Ire∣land (after a like happy Convention had been by his Majesties Order, from their Adjournment upon his Restitution, reassembled in that quality) Sir Audly Mer∣vin being chosen Speaker. The Convocation of the English Clergy, all emi∣nent and most learned pious Persons, met on the sixteenth of May at Westminster. And the Queen of Bohemia his Majesties Aunt, from a long absence of forty eight years;* 6.8 returned to White-Hall, where She was Married in One thousand six hundred and twelve to the Prince Elector Palatine.

He return was further signalized by the reviviscency of the memory of the most renowned Marquess of Montross, whose Limbs having been set upon the Gates of four distant Cities by the Kirk and Argyles party there, were taken down, and in State, and in all fit Solemnity, and with the same Honour brought together,* 6.9 and by his Majesties Order (whose love and memory of his Servants is one of his many other Princely vertues, and great evidence of the sweetness of his Nature) and the resolution of the Parliament, Interred with a Funeral becoming his Family, and (as far as such too late evidences and expressions of Grief and Honour could reach his merit) his own personal Renown and Glo∣ry; so much the more indeed conspicuous, by the Death and deserved Execution of the Marquess of Argyle,* 6.10 who was this Hero's mortal and spightful Ene∣my, that now expiated by a juster Sentence, those barbarous violencies he had done to Montross: he cunningly defended himself, and Pleaded the Kings Pardon, and the Treaties in One thousand six hundred and fifty, and One thousand six hundred fifty one; but there were Crimes of a later date (besides the never-to-be-forgotten Treachery of Selling King Charles the first to the English) which Condemned him. He seemed at his Death to be resolved enough, and justified the Covenant, and had his Head taken off with the Maiden, so is the Axe called in Scotland. Near the same time Mr. Iames Guthery one of the Remon∣strators, and a violent Adversary of the Marquess of Montross and all the Loyal party, together with Captain Giffan a ••eneg••do to Cromwel, by Sentence and Decree of Parliament, were Hanged in Edenburgh: so far the Laws, and a suffering-sense of the Miseries and Reproaches that Nation lay under by these men, and their Partizans guilt, did now prevail against the Domini∣on

of the Kirk, which had Inslaved and Inchanted the whole mass of that people.

And for a final blow (as these mens Fates did usher out what their devi∣ces had introduced (as great Events never go unattended) the Solemn League and Covenant, (first invented by Arguile and his Complices) which had raised such a Combustion in the three Kingdoms, was Sacrificed to the Flames by a Vote in Parliament; the common Hang-man in ample manner burning it in several places in London; which also was done all the Kingdom over with great Acclamations; which being omitted hitherto, when so often unwelcome occa∣sion hath been given to recite it, take it now in this its Mittimus.

A Solemn League and Covenant for Reformation and Defence of Religion, &c.

WE, Noblemen, Barons, Knights, Gentlemen, Citizens, Burgesses, Mini∣sters of the Gospel, and Commons of all sorts, in the Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by the providence of God, living under one King, and being of one Reformed Religion, having before our eyes the Glory of God, and the Advancement of the Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, the Honour and Happiness of the Kings Majesty and his Posterity, and the true Publick Liberty, Safety, and Peace of the Kingdoms, wherein every ones private Condition is included. And calling to minde the Treacherous and Bloody Plots, Conspiracies, Attempts, and Practises of the Enemies of God, against the true Religion and Professors thereof, in all places, especially in these three Kingdoms, ever since the Reformation of Religion; and how much their Rage, Power, and Presumption, are of late, and at this time encrea∣sed and exercised, whereof the deplorable Estate of the Church and Kingdom of Ireland, the distressed estate of the Church and Kingdom of England, and the dangerous Estate of the Church and Kingdom of Scotland, are present and publick Testimonies: We have now at last (after other means of Supplication, Remonstrance, Protestations, and Sufferings) for the Preservation of our selves and our Religion from utter Ruine and Destruction, according to the commen∣dable practice of these Kingdoms in former times, and the example of God's People in other Nations, after mature deliberation, resolved and determined to enter into a Mutual and Solemn League and Covenant, wherein we all subscribe, and each one of us for himself, with our Hands lifted up to the most High God, do Swear,

• 1. THat we shall sincerely, really, and constantly, through the Grace of God, en∣deavour in our several Places and Callings, the Preservation of the Refor∣med Religion in the Church of Scotland, in Doctrine, Worship, Discipline, and Go∣vernment, against our Common Enemies: The Reformation of Religion in the Kingdoms of England and Ireland, in Doctrine, Worship, Discipline, and Govern∣ment, according to the Word of God, and the Example of the best Reformed Chur∣ches: and shall endeavour to bring the Churches of God in the three Kingdoms to the neerest Conjunction and Vniformity in Religion, Confession of Faith, Form of Church-Government, Directory of Worship, and Catechising. That we and our Po∣sterity after us, may as Brethren live in Faith and Love, and the Lord may de∣light to dwell in the midst of us.
• 2. That we shall in like manner, without respect of persons, endeavour the ex∣tirpation of Popery, Prelacy, (that is, Church-Government by Arch-Bishops, Bi∣shops, their Chancellors and Commissaries, Deans, Deans and Chapters, Arch-Deacons, and all other Ecclesiastical Officers depending on that Hierarchy) Super∣stition, Heresie, Schism, Prophaneness, and whatsoever shall be found to be contrary to Godliness, and sound Doctrine, and the power of Godliness; left we partake in other mens sins, and thereby be in danger to receive of their plagues: And that the Lord may be one, and his Name one in the three Kingdoms.
• 3. We shall with the same sincerity, reality, and constancy, in our several Voca∣tions,

• endeavour with our Estates and Lives, mutually to preserve the Rights and Pri∣viledges of the Parliaments, and the Liberties of the Kingdoms, and to preserve and defend the Kings Majesties person, and Authority in the preservation and de∣fence of the true Religion and Liberties of the Kingdoms,

  That the World may bear Witness with our Consciences of our Loyalty, that we have no thoughts or intentions to diminish his Majesties just Power and Greatness.

• 4. We shall also with all faithfulness endeavour the discovery of all such as have been or shall be Incendiaries, Malignants, or evil Instruments, by hindering the Reformation of Religion, dividing the King from his people, or one of the Kingdoms from another, or making any Faction or parties amongst the people contrary to this League and Covenant: that they may be brought to publick Trial, and receive con∣digne punishment as the degree of their offences shall require or deserve, or the su∣preme Iudicatories of both Kingdoms respectively, or others having power from them for that effect, shall judge convenient.
• 5. And whereas the happiness of a blessed Peace between these Kingdoms, denied in former times to our Progenitors, is by the good providence of God granted unto us, and hath been lately concluded and setled by both Parliaments. We shall each one of us according to our place and interest endeavour that they may remain conjoyned in a firm Peace, and Vnion to all Posterity; and that justice may be done upon the wil∣ful opposers thereof in manner expressed in the precedent Article.
• 6. We shall also according to our Places and Callings, in this common Cause of Religion, Liberty, and Peace of the Kingdoms, assist and defend all those that enter into this League and Covenant▪ in the maintaining and pursuing thereof, and shall not suffer our selves directly or indirectly, by whatsoever Combination, Perswasion, or Terrour, to be divided and withdrawn from this blessed Vnion and Conjunction; whether to make defection to the contrary part, or to give our selves to a detestible indifferency or neutrality in this Cause, which so much concerns the Glory of God, the good of the Kingdoms, and Honour of the King; but shall all the daies of our lives zealously and constantly continue therein, against all opposition, and promote the same according to our power against all Lets and Impediments whatsoever. And what we are not able our selves to suppress, or overcome, we shall reveal or make known that it may be timely prevented or removed. All which we shall doe as in the sight of God.

And because these Kingdoms are guilty of many sins and provocations against God and his Son Iesus Christ, as is too manifest by our present distresses and dan∣gers, the fruits thereof: We profess and declare before God and the World our un∣feigned desire to be humbled for our own sins, and for the sins of these Kingdoms, e∣specially that we have not as we ought valued the inestimable benefit of the Gospel: That we have not laboured for the Purity and Power thereof; and that we have not endeavoured to receive Christ in our Hearts, nor to walk worthy of him in our Live•• which are the Causes of other sins and transgressions, so much abounding amongst 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and our true unfaigned purpose, desire, and endeavour, for our selves and all others under our Power and Charge, both in publick and in private, in all Duties we owe to God and Man, to amend our lives, and each other to go before ano∣ther in the Example of a real Reformation, that the Lord may turn away his Wrath and heavy Indignation, and establish these Churches and Kingdoms in Truth and Peace. And this Covenant we make in the presence of Almigh••y God, the Sear∣cher of all Hearts, with a true intention to perform the same, as we shall answer at that great day, when the secrets of all Hearts shall he disclosed; most humbly be∣seeching the Lord to strengthen us by his Holy Spirit for this end. And to bless our desires and proceedings with such success, as may be deliverance and safety to his People, and encouragement to the Christian Churches, groaning under, or in danger of the York of Antichristian Tyranny, to joyn in the same or like Association and Co∣venant, to the Glory of God, the Inlargement of the Kingdom of Iesus Christ, and the Peace and Tranquility of Christian Kingdoms and Commonwealths.

It consisted just of 666 Words, as some curious Criticks observed the num∣ber of the Beast in the Revelations. Most certain it is, the baiting and disputing of it, made the Field, the Pulpit, and the Press, a sad Theatre.

* 7.1The good Progress was made by this Parliament in this way, to return us where we were, did highly urge the discontents of the late Anarchy; and their anger suggested to them some hopes of undoing all again; and in this revenge they parted themselves, because they saw the Presbyterians concerned, who ei∣ther must comply, or equally Suffer with them by such proceedings; and there∣fore new designs were meditated, and divers Conspiracies framed, and Councels and Meetings had by several of that Party, who afterward were seized into cu∣stody, after they had vainly endeavoured and projected new troubles; such were Praise God Barebone, Samuel Moyer, Colonel Salmon, Major Wildman, late Alderman Ireton, since secured in a remote Castle, Major Hains, and others, some of them since released and discharged by the Kings favour.

* 7.2In the like manner as the renowned Montross had been interred, so with pro∣portionable solemnity the two most Loyal Commanders Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle were re-interred at Colchester the Seventh of Iune, the same day thirteen year they took up Arms for the King in that Town, which extremity they nobly defended: the vicine Gentry and Townsmen in Arms and Mour∣ning attending their Hearses; both Corps being laid in the Vault set apart for the Sepulchry of Sir Charles his Family.

The Earl of Sandwich (the Streights and the Levant-seas being infested with the Pirats of Algier, Tunis and Tripoly, notwithstanding our late League) by the ••right of Porta Ferino (for since the departure of Captain Stoaks, who was left by Blake in 1657. with eight Ships, and returned in 1659. the old Pi∣••••y was frequently exercised) was sent with a Fleet of War, to reduce them 〈◊〉〈◊〉 better 〈◊〉〈◊〉: He set sail with his Vice-Admiral Sir Iohn Lawson, leaving 〈…〉〈…〉-Admiral Sir Richard Stayner on the 19 of Iune, and the 29 of Iuly c••me before that Port of Algier,* 7.3 sending in a civil Message to the Dy or Bashaw 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the place that he came to confirm the League made formerly between us 〈…〉〈…〉; and a Treaty accordingly ensued: but they refusing to deliver the ••••p••ves, except upon hard conditions, and not to be brooked by those who had made them feel the smart of their former Insolence; the General weigh∣ed, and stood into the Harbour; but they ever since their former disaster had with new Fortifications and a Mole with Forts so secured themselves, that after the firing of some of their Ships, and doing some Execution on them, it was advised the Fleet should make out again; which they did with the loss of some men, and the Wounding and maiming of others; as also of their Yards, Sails and Rigging. After which Enterprize, the Earl leaving Sir Sohn Lawson to block them up, and their Thieving-trade being stopt, departed with part of his Fleet to the Coast of Spain, to Tangier, and so at length to Lisbon, according to his Orders.

* 7.4In the mean time the Parliament, at the special instance & desire of the King, had passed an Act for Confirmation of the Act of Oblivion; which being done by the Free Parliament not called by his Majesties Writ, was not thought by the guilty valid, and security enough to them. They likewise ratified most or all of the other Laws Enacted by the same Authority. They framed another for Regulating Corporations, Impowring Commissioners to displace such as bore Offices, and were any way suspected as Ill-willers to the Government and his Majesties Authority, or should refuse to take the Oath of Allegiance and Supre∣macy; or finally, which was the onely Test, if they would not renounce the So∣lemn League and Covenant, as unlawful in it self, and illegally imposed; the Wisdom of the Parliament knowing what Seeds were sown of that Thistle, and how untractable it was. During this Debate of the House,* 7.5 Mr. Pryn could not refrain, against the priviledge of the House, of which he was a Mem∣ber, from publishing of certain Reasons against the said Bill, as contrary to

Magna Charta; which the House being informed of, the Serjeant at Arms was ordered to seize the Printer; and Mr. Pryn owning of it, he was brought to the Bar,* 7.6 and rebuked by the Speaker; but upon his submission, and the Houses favourable reflection on his great endeavours to the Restitution of the King, he was remitted the censure and punishment he had by this oversight incurred, not considering the necessity and Peace of the Kingdom required this course, and how usual and constant it was with the Usurpers; whereas now the Su∣preme Legislative Power, who may, and do substitute, Repeal and Enact such Laws as the times require, had thought fit to establish this. There passed also another Act repealing that of the 1 Caroli 7. against the Prelacy,* 7.7 and the Bi∣shop•• medling in civil Judicature and Affairs, debarring them also from their Priviledges to fit as Peers in the House of Lords; to all which Honours, they were by this Repeal restored to all purposes, as if the same had never been En∣acted: a little before which, the whole Order of them were magnificently feasted at Sir Richard Brown's the Lord-Mayor his house, the 25 of Iune.

The Free-Parliament having respited the punishments of several of the Re∣gicides, as well those that lay under Condemnation, as others not so fully guilty of that Crime; the Houses resumed the matter, and caused the Lord Munson,* 7.8 Sir Henry Mildmay, and Mr. Robert Wallop, to be brought to the Bar, where their Estates were declared confiscate, and they degraded from all Ti∣tles and Arms of Gentility, and farther Sentenced to be drawn from the Tower through the City of London to Tyburn on the 30 of Ianuary next, and so back again with Halters about their Necks, upon Sledges, and to suffer perpetual Im∣prisonment. Sir Iames Harrington was to have been in this very predicament, but he having his Liberty upon Bail from the Serjeant at Arms, left his Bail in the lurch, and fled for it, and put himself out of the benefit of this quali∣fication. Phelps, one of the Clerks of the Court of Justice, was marked for this, but was not Sentenced. The Earl of Middleton the King's great Com∣missioner, came about this time from Scotland to White-hall; and on the 30th of this Moneth the Parliament was adjourned by the King to attend their busi∣ness in the Country till the 20th of November;* 7.9 the King and they parting with mutual satisfaction; the Lord-Chancellor declaring that the King's confidence in them had not in the least deceived him. Much discourse there was all the Summer, that his Majesty would take a Progress to visit his Loyal City of Worcester, and the places of his Sanctuary and Refuge in his escape thence; and to that end, his Tent-Office was held at Clarkenwell green, to prepare and make all things ready for the accommodation of his Progress: but the suspi∣tion of affairs, and the designes of the old Enemy, who as was said before was at work, deferred it this year, and a shorter journey took up the next. Com∣missioners likewise came from the Parliament in Ireland with an acceptable pre∣sent to the King at White-hall.

The Duke of York, who had been chosen Captain to the Artillery-company in London, and by their Deputies humbly requested to honour them with his acceptance, which he was nobly pleased to do, and lead with them in their Ground, and see them Exercise to his good content; accepted now likewise from them an invitation to dine with them, on their annual Feast-day, at Mer∣chant-Taylors Hall; whither accompanied him with the same invitation the Duke of Buckingham, and divers other Persons of Honour.

This Moneth of August was the Reading of that excellent Lawyer and most accomplisht Gentleman Sir Heneage Finch his Majesties Sollicitor, at the Inner Temple; whose Nobleness and Generosity were herein equal to his matchless Abilities in the Laws, as his magnificence in this Solemn occasion did make ap∣pear, especially in that particular Treatment he gave the King,* 7.10 who to honour this, one of his best servants, was graciously pleased to accept of it, and to dine in that Hall; a favour not before indulged to any of these famous Societies by any of his Royal Progenitors: the most Illustrious Duke of York was present, and Dined here with his Brother, to both their likings and approbations.

Count Conningsmark, from the young King and Queen of Sweden, had been here some while; and now came another more splendid Embassy by Count Brahe, at whose reception near the Tower, a Fray or Conflict happened betwixt the French and Spanish Embassadours Coaches for Precedency which should first follow the Swedes Coach: both Parties came prepared for the Encounter; but the French were basely worsted, and seven or eight of them killed. This had like to have caused a new Rupture betwixt both Crowns, the French King sending a Messenger to Madrid to demand satisfaction; but at the intreaty of the new-Married Queen, the difference was put up. While I am relating this Forreign matter, I must insert, that the Prince of Spain, a Child about five years old, dyed, and a young Prince or Dolphin was born to the French King on All Saints day, and therefore Christned Lewis Tous Sancts.

Several Prisoners in the Tower, Regicides and others, by reason of the practices of their Parties, were now in October sent a way from the Tower to several remote places, Castles, and Islands, for securing the Peace; and with them, the Market of Herbs, which usually stood before in Cheap-side, (and by Tichburn in his Ma∣joralty, because it cumbred up the ways, was placed in St. Pauls Church-yard,) and a Cross built there, which is yet standing, was by Proclamation, to avoid the scandal of selling and buying in that Ground, now removed into Aldersgate-street, and Aldermanbury. Several suspected persons of the Phanatick Party were now seized, and committed to several Prisons. The Right Noble Iames Duke of Ormond, after several uneffectual designments of others, was ap∣pointed by his Majesty Lieutenant of Ireland, which Place and Dignity he had before so prudently discharged.

* 7.11After the expiration of the Adjournment of the Parliament from Iuly last, they met again the Twentieth of November, now in their full and entire Con∣stitution; the Lords Spiritual the Bishops, by virtue of the Act of Repeal made the last Session, taking their places; which the King in his Speech to the Houses did congratulate to them, as a felicity He much desired to see accomplished, in this goodly restored Fabrick of the Government.* 7.12 On the Twenty fifth of the same Month, the Regicides that came in upon Proclamation, and were respited after Sentence to the pleasure of the Parliament, were brought to the Bar of the House of Lords, to answer what they could for themselves, why Judgment should not be Executed: they all Pleaded the Proclamation, which they understood and supposed did extend to favour of Life upon the rendring themselves thereupon, as likewise that as to the Crime they were all of them guilty of no malice toward the Person of the King: Henry Marten added, that he never obeyed any Proclamation before but this, and hoped that he should not be Hanged for taking the Kings Word now. They were remand∣ed back again to the Tower from whence they came, and no further proceed∣ing had concerning them. The Lord Chancellour in his Speech made men∣tion of a Plot, which one Major White had discovered, and upon which seve∣ral Persons had been secured, that were Officers formerly in the Army; and what care had been taken by the King to prevent the danger, and to attain to a full discovery. And this Michaelmas-Term,* 7.13 one Iohn Iames (one of the Fifth Monarchists, a Small-coal-man by Trade, and ingaged in Venners business, but was absent, or saved himself the last day they broke out; but had not departed from his malice ever since that disappointment, but continued his Meetings and Conventicles with others of his desperate Crew, among whom he was a great Rabby or Teacher) flew out into several Traiterous Speeches and Invectives against the Kings Person, Government, and Family, which relisht of the same Design couched in Venners Declaration; which being over-heard by some Neighbours living near the same Conventicle, Iames was seized and carried before a Justice, who Committed him to Newgate, whence this Term he was brought to the Kings Bench Bar, and there the Words were proved against him, and he Convicted and Condemned as a Traytor: On the Twenty seventh he was drawn on a Sledge to Tyburn, some of his Sect and Opinion

throwing themselves into the same Sledge, and embracing him; so fond were they of this their silly though bold Seducer. At the Gallows he denyed the words, but owned and avowed his Chilianism and the Personal Reign of Christ, out of which respect he prayed not for the King, or any Authority, but with the usual confidence of his Party made an end. His Quarters were disposed of by his Majesties Orders, and his Head set upon a Pole in White Chappel near the place of his Meeting, for example to his Fellows.

Some discourses there were of a Design about Dunkirk, and the Duke of York passed over there this Month, carrying the Garrison money, and upon his arrival viewed the Fortifications and Lines, and found it stronger by some new Forts the Governour the Lord Rutherford, now made Earl of Tiviot, and Governour of Tangeir, had raised thereabouts; and after a short stay returned again for England.

In Ireland, Sir Charles Coot Earl of Mountrath,* 7.14 one of the Three Justices of that Kingdome died, and was buried in State, the power of the other Two re∣maining, being invested in Sir Maurice Eustace and the Earl of Orery till the ar∣rival of the Duke of Ormond. He had done excellent Service in that Kingdome against the Rebels; and though he afterwards sided with those here, yet did he by his last Actions in securing that Kingdome to the Interest of his Majesty, and helping on the Restitution, redeem his former demerits, which could be charged on him, no otherwise, than as a Souldier of Fortune! he was one of General Monck's right hands in carrying on the Change. The Duke of Or∣mond was by the Parliament of Ireland gratulated upon his appointment to that Government, by Letters sent from the Speakers of both Houses.

The Council for the Principality of Wales was also erected by the King,* 7.15 and setled at Ludlow the usual Residence; the Earl of Carbery Lord Vaughan was made President, the old Earl of Norwich Clerk of the Council, and others of the Nobility and Gentry Assistants; Judges also were established, and the said Lord President in great State brought into the Town, attended by a great Train of the chief Persons thereabouts, and joyfully welcomed and comple∣mented.

This Christmass the Honourable Society of Lincolns-Inne renewed their Cu∣stom of the Inns of Court, by chusing a Prince, who during the Festival com∣mands like a Soveraign in the places adjoyning to the said Inne: the Gentle∣man chosen this time was one Iohn Lort Esquire, a Gentleman of Wales, by the Title of Prince Le Grange: he gave, and the King was pleased to accept a Treatment from him; the Ceremonies due to a Prince being exactly observed in every respect, a Council, Judges, and Officers of State Honour and Nobility attending this his Highness, whom the King at the expiration of his term of Royalty made a Knight Baronet. The Marquess Durazzo Embassador from the Republick of Genoa was about this time honourably received by the King attended through the City to Sir Abraham Williams his house by the Earl of Carlisle; Complemented from the King by the Earl of Bullingbrook, and brought to Audience by the Lord Buckhurst.

In Scotland,* 7.16 Episcopacy which had been so long banished thence, was now reduced with all gladness and testimonies of a welcome reception, after the ex∣perience of so many miseries and confusions which had befallen that Nation, through the Fury and Zealotry of the Kirk. The four Bishops that were Con∣secrated at Lambeth a little before this, whereof Dr. Iames Sharpe Arch-Bi∣shop of St. Andrews Metropolitan of Scotland was one, Consecrating others in that Kingdom; the whole Order being there defunct, by the long Usurpa∣tion of the Presbyterian Discipline. To the confirmation therefore of this Sacred resetled Authority, the Lord-Commissioner, with most of the Nobility and Gentry accompanied the Arch-Bishop of Glascow, where the Kirk-Rebel∣lion was first hatched, to that City, where the face of things was quite alter∣ed; no Person or occasion ever welcomer or more acceptable than this, as their Bells and Bonefires declared. And here the Lord Commissioner put

sorth a Proclamation prohibiting the payment of any Ecclesiastical Rents o Tythe, or profits of the Ministry whatsoever, to any who in a short time limi∣ted should not acknowledge and own their Diocesan Bishop and his Authori∣ty, and receive Induction from him. Some few grand Factious Predicants stood out, and were cuted of their Livings, and others the most unquiet and re∣fractory Commanded to depart that Kingdom, now well cleared of that Clergy, the Original and Fountain of those bitter waters and Rivers of Blood which overflowed the three Nations.

A like Church-work was taken in hand in England: the King at his En∣trance into London, upon his Restitution-day, May 29, fadly observed, and shook his Head at the Ruines of St. Paul's Cathedral▪* 7.17 and therefore the first vacan∣cy his affairs permitted him, was bestowed on the consideration of that Reli∣gious Structure; and thereupon he issued out a Commission to Sir Orlando Bridgeman, Sir Ieoffery Palmer, and others of the Long Robe, with other Gen∣tlemen, to take some speedy Order for the Repair thereof: and to that pious work he gave the Arrears of Impropriations and Ecclesiastical Livings excep∣ted out of the Act of Oblivion; impowering to call all such as owed any Mo∣neys thereupon to account, and to lay it out to that use. The former Dean of which Cathedral (Dr. Nicholas, Brother to Master Secretary of State Sir Ed∣ward) died now of a malignant Feavor, called the Country new Disease: and Dr. Barwick, a man that had suffered all Extremities even of Dungeon and Famine in the Tower from the Rump, soon after the King's death was substituted by the King in his place, it being reckoned with the late improvement the best Deanry now in England.* 7.18 Soon after Dr. Nicholas, died Dr. Nicholas Monke Bishop of Hereford, and Brother to the Noble General, whose private Contem∣plative li••e, was no less observed than Jewels in the dark, which then shine brightest; his Illustrious Brother governing the conspicuous splendor of the Times, while he ruled with the recluse vertues of his minde in the obscurity of the Church: (which afterwards spread and lustre it borrowed from the Beams of this its Luminary, though now suddenly deprived of a great part of it in this his Setting.) And most fit it is, that his Name should be Canonized, and for ever had Sacred in our Kalendar and Church-Annals. About the same time died also Dr. Brian Walton Lord-Bishop of Chester, famous for the Polyglotte-Bible, and other Excellencies becoming a Prelate; nor did his successor Dr. Ferne many weeks outlive him, whose defences of the Church will never be forgot∣ten. And lastly died Dr. Thomas Fuller, known by his several Books and inde∣fatigable industry, better than by any account can here be given of him. Such a Train of Scholars and Learned men did barbarous Death lead in Triumph to the Captivating Grave, that her envious Pomp might draw our eye and tears to this sad spectacle, and that might honourably accompany the Fate of the Bi∣shop of Hereford.

* 7.19A Fleet was Rigg'd and set to Sea to fetch home the Queen from Portugal, and to carry the Forces to Tangier, which was delivered by the Portugueze Gar∣rison to Sir Richard Stayner, who with 500 men was left to maintain it till the Earl of Peterborough, designed for that Command, should arrive. And for the Queens own Transportation, the Royal Charles, which brought the King from Holland, was sent with this Fleet. In the mean while, the Queen of Bohemia the King's Aunt died, February 13. aged 66 years, having been out of England 49 years, and survived all the misfortunes of her Family, which al∣most from the time of her Marriage in 1612. on St. Valentines day (on the eve of which she now died) had fallen very thick, and chiefly and solely upon it:* 7.20 She now came to her rest among her Royal Ancestors and Relations, whose Glories and Honours she left more flourishing and greater than ever. Her De∣cease was followed with a most violent and Tempestuous Winde, February the 18th, (by which several persons were killed, and much damage done in all parts of the three Kingdoms, and in Forrain Countries) which might give notice, that all those Troubles and Calamities this Princess had suffered, and by

which most parts of Europe were Tempested, were quite blown over, and she gone to her last Repose.

A very unfortunate accident happened the same Month;* 7.21 The Lord Buck∣hurst but now mentioned, his Brother Mr. Edward Sackvile, Sir Henry Bellasis Knight of the Bath Son and Heir to the Lord Bellasis, Mr. Bellasis Brother to the Lord Faulconbridge, and Mr. Wentworth Son to Sir George, accompanying an acquaintance out of Town, upon their Return, being informed there were High-way men and Thieves in the Road, meeting a Tanner, and suspecting him for one of them, after some resistance made by him, killed him: for this mischance they were Arraigned at the Kings Bench Bar, but by the Iury quit∣ted; it not being probable, that Persons of their Estates and Quality would set upon a single Person to do him injury, but it might happen meerly by a mistake, and good intent of freeing the Road.

The Parliament had under their consideration the bringing of Lambert and Vane to their Tryal,* 7.22 being excepted out of the Act of Oblivion, as main Au∣thors and Contrivers of those Troubles in the Rebellion, and therefore desired His Majesty that he would be pleased to send for them from their remote Pri∣sons they were in, that they might be brought to Tryal; that such bold Trea∣sons might not pass with impunity. On the other hand, that they might testifie their acknowledgments to the Duke of Albemarle, of his great merit and ser∣vices, in the Redemption of his Country; they by Act now resolved to settle some Mannors and Lands upon him,* 7.23 and confirmed the Kings Grants and Patents, or what should afterwards by Grants or Patents be conferred on him. The Duke of Ormond was likewise presented with the sum of Thirty thou∣sand pounds in Bills of Exchange, as a gratuity from the Parliament of Ireland, in respect of the Services he had done that Kingdome in the same capacity be∣fore; where also the Bill of settlement of Lands was the sole Affair in Debate, the difficulty about Claims of the English and Irish, intricating and perplexing the Bill; so that the Dukes presence was very much desired, as by whose prudence, understanding, and competent knowledge, together with his equal relation to both Parties, that tedious Work could only be accommodated, which brings with it the conclusion of the year 1661, the 14th year of the King.

Anno Domini 1662.

THE beginning of this, and the end of the last year, was remarkable with a very notable Providence, which for the more compact account of it, is totally referred hither. It hapned, that among other the Fugitives for the par∣ricidial Conspiracy in the Death of the King, Miles Corbet, Colonel Okey, and Col. Barkstead, which had traversed most parts of Low, and some of High Germany, where they had for a while resided at the City of Hanow, under borrowed names; about the beginning of March were returned to Delf in Holland, ha∣ving appointed their Wives to meet them there, to understand their Affairs in England; but these their Letters being intercepted and opened by the vigilance of Sir George Downing His Majesties Resident at the Hag••e, they were all three taken together at Barkstead's and Okey's Lodging, just as Corbet after Supper was going home,* 7.24 by the Thief-takers and the Marshal of that Town. Okey offered a resolute Escape; Barkstead denyed himself, and desired he might fetch his Cloak in the next Room, Corbet (as he said) having taken Physick that day, fell a Purging upwards and downwards in a very strange manner. Sir George himself was present at the seizure, and had them that Night secured in the com∣mon and ordinary Prison, and thence conveyed them by the States order on Board the Blackmore Frigot, then accidentally at Helve••t-Sluce, having only brought over Mr. Armorer sent from the King to the Lords upon special occasions.

About the end of March they came to Gravesend, where Sir Iohn Robinson Lieu∣tenant of the Tower, by Warrant from his Majesty, with a Guard carried them to the Tower; whence on the 16th of April they were brought to the Kings Bench Bar, and there demanded what they could say for themselves, why they should not die according to Law, the Act of Attainder being read to them: To which they alledged, they were not the same persons mentioned therein; whereupon Witnesses being ready, were called, and a Jury impannel∣led, who gave verdict that they were the same persons; and so the Lord Chief Justice Foster proceeded to Sentence, which was the same with the former com∣plices and sufferers for that Fact,* 7.25 and was Executed on Saturday, April the 19, at Tyburn, where they with better ends than any of the rest, acknowledged their resolved acquiescence under the Kings Government, as of God, and ex∣horted others to do so; especially Colonel Okey, a person that for his valour and other good qualities was pitied by all men, for his being so blinded and ensnared in this Crime to his destruction. They all pretended no malice to his late Ma∣jesty, and their mistake of the Parliaments Authority for good and suffici∣ent.

They were all three Hanged, Bowelled, and Quartered; but his Majesty was graciously pleased,* 7.26 out of regard to Colonel Okey's Christian and du∣tiful carriage, to return his Quarters to his Friends to be interred; which was done in the Chappel of the Tower, by the Rites appointed in the Common-Prayer, to prevent the unruly concourse of the Fanaticks, who assembled in multitudes to accompany his Corps, insomuch that the Sheriffs were forced to disperse them. Barkstead's and Corbet's quarters were set upon the Gates, the Head of the former upon a Pole on Traytors Gate in the Tower; and Corbet's on London-Bridge. For this kindeness and civility of the Dutch States, the King ordered his Resident to thank them in his Name; from which parts several of the Fanaticks that fled thither upon the Kings Restitution, about this time tra∣velled into Germany, an invitation being published from one of the Princes there, for all Nations to come and inhabit (with full priviledges and immunities) certain waste places of his Dominions; and an invitation was sent hither from them to others of the same principles to follow them.

Her Majesty Queen Catharina was now expected to be at Sea, and therefore his Majesty came to the Parliament and acquainted them with the same, and de∣sired that as a Complement to her, they would cause the Highways and Streets of London to be fitted and cleansed against her reception, and to make what hast with convenience they could, with the dispatch of those Bills under their con∣sideration. And soon after, to remedy the perversness and obstinacy of the Quakers against taking the Oaths of Allegeance and Supremacy, and their mee∣ting (and Conventicling publickly together) to the pestring of the prisons whither they were Committed, and their Enthusiast tricks (one Thomas for∣merly a Lieutenant of that party, poysoning himself; and one Powel a Wid∣dow poysoning of her Son-in-law and another person) a Bill was passed against them,* 7.27 with the said Bill for High-ways, now ready for the King's as∣sent, which he gave by his Commission to the Lord Chancellor, Lord Treasu∣rer, Duke of Albemarle, and Earl of Manchester. By this Act several incon∣venient passages in London are to be enlarged, and Houses that jutted into the street and obstructed the ways, were to be pulled down, as the upper end of Ludgate-hill, on the South-side of the street, and elsewhere.

Having but onely mentioned the Kings Declaration of his Marriage, for his choice, whereof both the Lords and Commons returned him their thanks; it will not be impertinent in this place to give a larger and fuller account there∣of. This Royal Bride Heaven had more especially prepared and predisposed out of the Royal Family of the Kings of Portugal;* 7.28 which having suffered an Ecclipse by the powerful interposition of the Spanish Monarchy, for the space of neer an hundred years, was now revisited in its Splendor in the as∣sumption of Iohn (Duke of Braganza) the fourth of that Name King of

Portugal, by almost as miraculous a Turn as that of our Captivity by the Kings Restitution. So Providence was pleased to adapt and fit both these Princes Conditions and Estates to this happy juncture of them in this Royal and happy Estate.

This was designed by King Iohn in the beginning of our Troubles, and of his Reign; and was one of the first Acts of State he did with us, managed here by Don Antonio de Souza his Embassadour hither, who was very instrumental in transacting His late Majesties Affairs of Forraign Concernments, receiving and returning his Dispatches. One Ingredient no doubt in point of Civility and Honour, among those other of Affection and Interest, that make up this Princely Match. These were something, as also his Majesties reflection on his Personal picque with the Spaniard, who had very much disobliged him in the time of the Usurpation, by courting and owning his Rebels, to satisfie him∣self of some pretended injuries done him by his Grandfather and Father, by loss of his Spanish Fleet in the Downs, which the King had a most inviting opportunity here to remember.

Upon the return of the Conde de Mello, as aforesaid, with the Articles of Treaty and Marriage to Lisbon, they were presently noysed about the City, and more loudly reported from all the Cannon in the River, both Portuges and Forraigners; by which means, without further Proclamation, it was publick about the Town; who like over-joyed People, betook themselves to the pre∣sentest, yet most solemn de monstrations thereof, by Bonfires and Entertain∣ments, &c. the Streets resounding with Healths, al Re del Grand Brettanna; which continued that Night and the next Day.

Not long after, by an Express from England from the King to her, she was Complemented with the Stile of Queen of Great Britain; which put that Court into a new Splendor, both to her Retinue and Attendance; and all Honours and Duties done her, as if she were actually Crowned. It will not be much mate∣rial to insist on all the other particulars, viz. those several Messages sent and returned betwixt those two Royal Lovers, together with the intercourse betwixt the Two Crowns in point of Alliance and Security; nor the numerous resort of the English every day to Worship this Sun of the East, and pay their Early Devotions to her: It will be more unnecessary to relate those Romances and Fictions made by the Phanatick Crew at Home, that there were a Fleet of Spa∣niards and Hollanders that lay ready in her way to intercept her Passage into England.

We will only mention the happy Arrival of that Fleet and the Royal Charles from England, (with Sir Richard Fa••shaw sent to salute the Queen for his Ma∣jesty, who now impatiently expected her Arrival, as did the whole Nation to∣gether with him.) Just at the same time the Earl of Sandwich now the second time visited the Queen, being appointed to attend her departure, and to convey her into England; the King her Brother, and Mother, with his Nobles and the whole Court, in a solemn Procession and Cavalcade from his Palace, where the English Gallantry there present assisted, accompanied her, till she Arrived at the River-side (the Golden Tagus) where she entred a Stately Brigandine, and the Na∣val Triumphs commenced their Glory.

For as soon as the King and Queen were reimbarqued for Lisbon,* 7.29 and return∣ed with the discharge of all the Cannon, the Fleet immediately with a fair wind and leading Gale, began their course, being as they past the River saluted by all the Block-Houses, Forts, and Castles, with the imitation of their Thun∣der.

That Night, and part of the next day, the Wind and Weather was very pro∣pitious; but then coming clear about and contrary, it so retarded the Voyage, that in a Fortnights time they hardly got into the middle of the Bay of Biscay, where the Queens Majesty dispatcht away Mr. Montague, Sir Tho. Sands, and Sir Ioseph Douglas, on the 29 of April at Seven at Night, to give an account to the King of Her Condition; which the untowardliness and averseness of the

Wind had much altered, by protracting her longing desires of meeting the King; and also incommodating her by the tossing and topping of the Sea, so that she lay sick for the most part of the Voyage; until about Fifth of May, with indefatigable working and skill, the whole Fleet reached the Islands of Scilly▪ the furthermost Western Dominions of England.

* 7.30Her Arrival had been every day expected a fortnight before; which caused the King to send down his only Brother the Duke of York, Lord High Admiral, to attend on her upon the Coast, and to Complement her in his Name: where∣upon his Highness hasted to Portsmouth; and on the Eleventh of May attended by the Duke of Ormond, the Earls of Suffolk and Chesterfield, the Lord Berckley, and other Persons of Quality, went aboard the stately Yacht, with which the City of Amsterdam presented the King, to Coast about the Isle of Wight to meet her Majesty. On the same day Sir Ioseph Douglas making towards Portsmouth with an Express from her Majesty to the King, was met by his Highness the Duke of York, five Leagues off the Isle of Wight, who commanded him back with him to the Fleet. On Sunday morning about ten a Clock, they disco∣vered the Royal Iames; but there was so great a Calm, that they could not reach the Royal Charles till six at Evening. No sooner had the General espied his Highness Yacht, but he went out in his Barge to meet him, the Royal Ban∣ner being all the while vayl'd till he was aboard. When his Highness came into the Ship, the Souldiers gave three several shouts, and all the great Guns in the Royal Charles (which from that time to the Queens Entrance had been silent) proclaimed his Welcome; after which, several Ships of the Fleet paid him their Salutes. Being conducted to her Majesties Cabbin, he was placed in a Chair on her right hand, where after several expressions of Joy for her Ma∣jesties happy Arrival on the Coast of England; and having presented his Ma∣jesties high respects to, and as exceeding Affection for Her; his Royal High∣ness took his leave, to retire himself to his Yacht for that Night: and the next morning Sir Ioseph Douglas was again dispatched to the King, in the illustri∣ous Company of the said Duke of Ormond and Earls; but was forced to Tide it thence, and sometimes lay at Anchor, and could not reach Portsmouth till the Evening, Thirteenth of May, from whence Sir Ioseph took Post, leaving the Duke of Ormond to make preparation for the Reception of her Ma∣jesty.

* 7.31That Night the Royal Fleet with the Princely Bride came to St. Helens point, the Eastermost Promontory of the Isle of Wight, almost opposite to Portsmouth, from whence, had it not been too bold an adventure to hazard her Majesty in that narrow Streight of Sea, and in a Night-Tide, they might have reached Portsmouth the next morning; but making use of the Day-tide, which served about Ten of the Clock, on Wednesday the Fourteenth of May, the Queen land∣ed at Portsmouth, about Four of the Clock in the Afternoon, where She was received with all possible demonstrations of Honour; the Nobility and Gentry, and Multitudes of Londoners, in most rich Apparel, and in great numbers, wait∣ing on the Shore for her Landing; and the Major and Aldermen, and the Prin∣cipal Persons of that Corporation, being in their Gowns, and with a Present and Speech, ready to entertain Her; the Cannon and small shot, both from round that Town, and the whole Fleet, Ecchoing to one another the loud Proclamations of their Joy.

* 7.32The King having received the express of his Queens Landing, prepared to be gone forthwith, to Salute her upon her Arrival: but his great Affairs of State, and Bills to be ratified by him into Acts of Parliament, which were not quite ready for his Royal Assent, delayed him at Whitehall till Monday-night the 19th of May, having sent before him the Bishop of London, who departed the Seventeenth, in order to the Solemnizing of the Marriage aforesaid.

Which Bills being numerous, and very important, when passed into Acts, set us right where we were the same time Twenty years, designing and enacting Remedies against those Mischiefs which prevailed against the happy Estate of

the Kingdome before, such as their Act passed in the former Session against Armed, or Army-like Multitudes, and number of Petitioners, which are not to exceed seven or eight; and have, as far as humane Wisdome can, provided against the like dangers of our late Confusions.

There passed likewise many several private Bills for selling of Lands,* 7.33 and alienating them for payment of Debts; which gave his Majesty occasion to take notice of the depravity and corruption of manners in the late times; and to declare, that his goodness in passing them now, should not be brought into pre∣cedent for the future, and he himself would become an example of frugality, and would provide sumptuary Laws against the Excess and Vanity of the Age, whose looseness and superfluity did so sadly affect him. But to return.

His Majesty having Signed all the Acts, which are now so many wholesome and good Laws, as no Age of our Fore-fathers can boast of, to adorn and Ho∣nour his Queens Arrival, posted away at Nine a Clock that Night, with his ordinary Guards, in the Earl of Northumberland's Coach, Prince Rupert with him only, to Kingston, where he came soon after Ten; and at the end of that Town entered into the Earl of Chesterfield's, there set ready for him, and the Duke of York's Guards to attend him, and came before Twelve at Night to Guilford, being Twenty five miles, where he Lodged that Night, and next morn∣ing Posted with the same speed to Portsmouth,* 7.34 where he arrived about Noon; and because of the Queens indisposedness, which yet held her in her Chamber, the King satisfied himself by giving her a Visit privately that day, and then withdrew to his own appartments.

Yet it pleased God to restore her Majesty to such a degree of Health, that she was able to Consummate the Marriage Sacred Rites, which were perfor∣med in that Town, in private; after which the Nuptials were concluded there, by his Majesties Bedding his Queen that night.

During the rest of the stay, Visits were given to the Grandees of Portugal who came over with the Queen, by all the English Lords and Ladies, and by them again returned, until the removal of the Court next week to Winchester, thence to Farnham, to Windsor-Castle, and so to Hampton-Court, where their Majesties took up the most part of this Summer 1662. as well for the Salubrity as Majesty of it, being one of the most Magnificent Structures of all the Royal Palaces.

Here the Queen received the Addresses of all the Nobility,* 7.35 and Submissions of the several Deputies for the Cities of England; more particularly, from the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London, who by Sir William Wylde their Re∣corder (who pronounced a Spanish Oration) presented her with a Purse of Gold, Iune 2.

On the Twenty third of August she was in great Triumph brought by Water from Hampton-Court to finish her Voyage to Whitehall; all the Companies in their Barges nobly set out, attending the Lord Mayor at this Solemnity; and several Pageants were placed upon the River, and Speeches designed. All which made a very noble sight, illustrated by the rich and glorious setting out of the King's Barge. About seven at night, their Majesties arrived to that Palace; as somewhat before, the Queen-Mother, being fetch'd and attended by the Earl of Saint Albans, arrived at Greenwich, where for a while after she resided, till her setling at Somerset-House, as the abode of her remaining Widdow∣hood.

The Parliament of Ireland had likewise agreed upon an Act for raising One hundred and twenty thousand pound, in two years, by Subsidies. In Scotland, six Bishops were Consecrated, in the Abbey-Church of Holy-Rood-House at Edenburgh, with great satisfaction and solemnity; where also the King had gra∣tiously Pardoned Lorn the Marquess of Arguile's Son,* 7.36 his Life, which he had forfeited by judgment in Parliament; the merciful disposition of the King de∣clining the instigates of his justice against the demerits of so obnoxious and Capital a Deliquent.

While the main Fleet, with the General the Earl of Sandwich, was upon re∣turn with the Queen from Lisbon, Vice-Admiral Sir Iohn Lawson, with the Frigots left with him, yet plyed to and fro about the Barbary-shore, taking and sacking all Vessels belonging to the Pyratical Trade of those Places, to the almost breaking the Nest of those Infidel Thieves; and on the Twentieth of April, having notice of some of their Ships in a Port called Bugia, he fell in with his Frigots in spight of their Castles and Guns, and burnt and rendred them unserviceable, and came out again with little loss, April the Twentieth; which, with the despair of being rid of him and his Fleet, made the Algier Bashaw stoop now to the offer of a Treaty, and to former Articles, with the required advan∣tage to our Commerce in those Ports and Seas, which were sent from Sir Iohn Lawson about Iune, and brought to the King at Hampton-Court, who very well approved of it; the Dutch having concluded a very shameful Peace or Truce with them about the same time.

* 7.37Our Prossession of Tangier alarm'd the adjacent African Potentates with the danger of our encroachments, and the Fame of our Warlike Martial Atchieve∣ments by Land as well as by Sea; which consideration drew down into the confines of that Place one Gayland a Warlike Prince, but then a Rebel against the King of Morocco and Fez, and usurping part of his Dominions; who con∣tinued there, appearing and disappering for a space of time, upon pretence of a League and Friendship, when meeting of a suddain as he was ranging there∣abouts with his Horse (the swiftest in the World,) with some of our Forces For∣raging for Provision and Horse-meat, he surprized and defeated them. Their manner of fight being to leave and take as they see advantage, which they do with very active and quick force and resolution. Since, we requited it upon some of his venturing straglers: not long after, he came very freely and entred into Treaty, which he finished, and is in good Amity at present with us. Shortly af∣ter, the Earl of Peterborough returned thence, and gave his Majesty an account of the place, and the Lord Rutherford late Governour of Dunkirk, and newly made Earl of Tiviot, is now the Governour thereof; and Colonel Alsop, an antient Souldier throughout the War, Commands under him. The King hath made it a Free Port, and granted it all the Priviledges of a Merchant-City, being seated very conveniently for Commerce, especially by reason of the security thereof.

This Trinity-Term Sir Henry Vane and Colonel Lambert, at the request of the Parliament, having been brought from their remote Prisons in Scilly to the Tower, were Arraigned Iune the Fourth, before Sir Robert Foster Lord chief Justice at the Kings Bench Bar, and Indicted; Sir Henry,* 7.38 for imagining and com∣passing the Death of the King, and for taking upon him, and usurping the Government; and Colonel Lambert, for Levying War against the King in Middlesex, Cheshire, Yorkshire, and other places of the North of this Kingdom. Sir Henry Pleaded the Authority of Parliament, and justified it, and put the Court to a deal of needless trouble and impertinent repetition, but disowned his medling or making with the Kings Death. Colonel Lambert behaved him∣self very civilly and respectively to the Court, and pleaded as his last Plea, that it did not appear by any additional word, that he was the same Iohn Lambert mentioned in the Indictment: but he was told it was Iohn Lambert Esquire; and then he confessed civilly his not minding it before, and submitted. The Counsel then craved Judgment against him; the Sollicitor-General saying, That good manners cannot commute for Treason. Both were Sentenced as Tray∣tors, but the Colonel Reprieved at the Bar by the King's favour, and regard had to the report the Justices had given him of his submissive and handsome deportment at his Tryal and therefore desired the Judges to return unto his Majesty his most humble thanks for his so unexpected mercy (which the Judges said might have been, and was) once thought to be extended to Sir Henry, if his frowardness and contemptuous behaviour had not precluded the way to it: He nevertheless had this favour shown him, at the intercession of some of his Re∣lations,

who had deserved well of the King in his service,* 7.39 that his Majestie miti∣gated the Sentence to a Beheading only, which was Executed on the Fourteenth of Iune, on the Scaffold at Tower-Hill (where the Earl of Strafford bled first by his Fathers Treachery,) and there he ran out into Treasonable Discourses, but was stopt; and after two or three warnings, his Notes endeavoured to be taken from him; which to prevent, he tore them in pieces, and in that Passion submitted to the Block.

Several Contrivances and Designes being related to the Councel,* 7.40 hatched by the Phanatick Party, caused the King in their usual method to retort their Twenty Miles Proclamation upon their own heads, commanding all Officers, &c. under any of the late Usurped Powers, that had been disbanded, to de∣part Twenty miles from the City and Suburbs of London, and not to return with∣in Eight Moneths; such only excepted as by the Privy-Councel upon their Ap∣plication to them, should obtain licence.

The only Discourse and Disputation throughout the Kingdome was, what the Presbyterian could expect after the Act of Uniformity was passed, and St. Bartholomews day the Twenty fourth of August expired, which was the time limited for their Conforming to what the Act had required, by renouncing the Covenant, and reading Divine Service and Common-Prayer in Church-Vest∣ments, as the Surplice (the main thing bogled at.) Many endeavours there had been before in Parliament for some Toleration,* 7.41 and their Friends sollicited to the utmost; but not able to carry it there, they Applied themselves to his Majesty and the Privy-Councel, (the most of them having deserted and relinquished their Livings, which the Bishop of London with much prudence and foresight had provided of able and pious Minister, and exceptionless, whom he setled in their places) but upon full debate of their Petition, and as full a hearing, the Councel laid it aside, there being none present to answer and dispute their pre∣tences to a superseding the express meaning of the Act, but the aforesaid Bi∣shop; and so all their Chimaera's or expectations they had raised in the Coun∣try by their Letters, to the obstinating of the more indifferent to the resistance of this Law, from which they made sure to get a Dispensation (to the ruine of some Families) came to nothing: and now nothing but Transportation was talked of, for using the free Exercise of that Religion. The Commissioners for Regulating Corporations had likewise proceeded to the dismission of such from all Offices and Places in Councel, and otherwhere, who refused to renounce and declare the said Covenant Illegal, and Suspected, and not cleared for disaf∣fection to the Government; but not many they were that were upon this ac∣count outed and discharged.

By virtue of the Allyance and Treaty with the Crown of Portugal, several Forces were sent hence to Assist that Kingdome against the prevailing Power of the Spaniard, who just at the Majority of that King, and his taking the Go∣vernment into his own hands, had made a formidable Invasion and Progress into those Dominions.* 7.42 These Forces most of them immediately set Sayl from Dunkirke, some Troops and Companies Landing there from Leith, all Com∣manded in chief by his Excellency the Earl of Inchiqueen (the famous Souldier in Ireland) Colonel Morgan late Governour of Scotland being his Major-Gene∣ral: they arrived well and in good health there, on the Twenty ninth of Iune; and after a little refreshment, (and being prohibited to eat the Fruit of the Countrey for fear of Fevours and other Distempers) advanced towards the Campania: but the Spaniard having notice thereof, thought it not advisable to Fight with them in their strength and vigour, but to waste them with the usual incommodities of those Climates to us, and retreated back again immediately into Spain.

In Iuly following, the Duke of Ormond Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, His Majesty having given him a very Honourable and friendly farewel,* 7.43 and having received the like civilities from the whole Court, set forwards in his Journey and Voyage to that Kingdome, where he Arrived three weeks after, and was

most Magnificently received into the City of Dublin, and congratulated and welcomed by the whole Body of that People in Parliament; to whom in their Assembly he delivered himself in a most Excellent Speech.

There was mention made before of the Commissioners for Regulating Cor∣porations, for the securing of the peace of the Kingdome; by these Gentlemen named for each County, City and Borrough, it was ordered, besides the displa∣cing of Officers, that the Walls of the respective Cities and Towns of Glou∣cester and Coventry,* 7.44 Northampton, Taunton, and Leicester, and other places which had Bulworks and Garrisons, and maintained them throughout the War against the King, and were the Reception of and maintenance the Rebellion, should be demolished, as Examples and Security to successive times: the County-Troops and respective Trained Band-Regiments guarded these places when they were Demolished. Dr. Gauden the Bishop of Exeter died about this time, Septem∣ber; as also William Lenthal the Speaker of the Long Parliament, very peni∣tently.

The Town of Dunkirk taken from the Spaniard in One thousand six hun∣dred fifty eight, and kept ever since at a vast and great charge, was by advice of the Lords of his Majesties Privy Councel, as being never annexed by Act of Parliament to the Crown of England, returned to the French King, who upon surrender of it in the year aforesaid delivered it unto us. Now, for the sum of Five hundred Thousand pounds fully paid, that Fortress was delivered into the Possession of the French,* 7.45 under the Government of the Count d'E••irades and his Deputy the Marquess of Montpear; two English Companies with the Go∣vernour only Guarding the Gates at their entrance, and delivering the Keys of the same Town. The Honourable Sir Edward Nicholas, having served his Ma∣jesty and his Father as Secretary of State for many years, obtained his Quietus est from the King, who would have dignified his Merit with a Barrony, which Sir Edward modestly declined, because His Majesty should not increase the No∣bility; and Sir Henry Bennet, late the Kings Resident in Spain, a very excellent Person, was named to that Preferment.

Among these and the like Honours conferred by the King upon his Faithful and Loyal Servants and Subjects, which the purport of this Chronicle obliged me to take notice off, and be their Herauld; this time challenged my observance of a Dignity conferred on that eminent and worthy Personage Dr. Iohn Berken∣head,* 7.46 Knighted with a Testimony from his Majesty that he had done his Fa∣ther and himself very signal and great services during the last twenty years Revolution: and there is scarce any Honest man in the Three Kingdoms who will not say Amen to this his Majesties EVGE.

There had been suspition of a Plot, and the City Trained Bands had watch∣ed and warded every Night, for the most part of the Summer, ever since the Kings departure to meet the Queen: but now, the Design appeared; the first named was one Captain Baker a New-England-man, an acquaintance of Hugh Peters there, and preferred to be one of Olivers Band of Pensioners: this Fellow acquaints one Hill,* 7.47 the Son of a Phanatick or Independant Preacher in the Street, and tells him of a Designe, and brings him acquainted at several Meetings of divers of the Conspiracy, which he having good information of, revealed, with the names of the Conspirators, to Sir Richard Brown. Some of those enga∣ged thus, only met, and heard, and reported their discourses of Arms and other preparations to their own gang, but approved the Treason so well, that they never discovered it. This Plot was against the Sacred Life of the King, the Duke of York, the noble Duke of Albemarle, and Sir Richard Brown; and generally the Bishops, Nobility, Gentry and Commonalty that were not of their Opinions, and Assisted them not: and they had ready prepared a draught of their Government: their Councels were carried on by six, who never sate twice in a Place; nor could be known to any two: their Commander in chief was Ludlow, Colonel Danvers, Mr. Nye, Mr. Lockyer, and one Lieutenant Strange; the Captains, Spencer and Taverner, were favourable to the Design, and would

surprize Deal Castle in Kent, as Windsor was certain to be theirs: and the Word the Night they were to fall on (which after several put offs, was appointed the last of October) was to be given them by George Phillips a Serjeant in the Colonels Company of the White Regiment. For this, the Eleventh of December, the said George Phillips, Thomas Tongue a Distiller of Strong Wa∣ters, Francis Stubs being a Cheesmonger, Iames Hind Gunner, Iohn Sellers Compass-maker, and Nathanael Gibs Felt-maker, were Convicted by Evi∣dence of their fellow-Conspirators, Edward Rigge, Bradley and others; only Hind Pleaded Guilty, and craved the King's Mercy: they alledged, they never Acted such Trayterous intentions; but the Design was proved to have been communicated and laid open to them: after their full Defence, they were all found Guilty; and on the Twenty second of December, Phillips,* 7.48 Tongue, Gibs and Stubs were Executed according to Sentence: but His Majesty was graciou••ly pleased to give their Quarters to be buried, but their Heads to be set up upon several Poles, two on each Tower-Hill, the nearest place to the Tower.

On the Twenty sixth of December, his Majesty, to satisfie the Kingdome of his intents, in reference to the unsatisfiedness of Dissenters to the Esta∣blished Settlement of the Church, expressed his Indulgence to their Consci∣ences, so far as such Liberty would not Disturb the Publick Peace; nor entrench upon the Orthodox Religion professed; and that he would use his best endeavours with the Parliament to that end.

About the same time came hither a very splendid Ambassy from the Emperour of Russia, delegated to three of his Knez or Princes; the one of them came some time before the other,* 7.49 to prepare all things suitable to the State of their Reception, and had Audience by the King in privatate at Hamton-Court. The Principal was Knez Peter Simonewitz formerly Governour of Archan∣gel, our Port of Trade in those Dominions: he was received in greater State than any former Ambassadours from any Prince whatsoever, both in re∣spect He useth the same Honours to our Soveraigns Publick Ministers, and the great Immunities and Priviledges the English enjoy again there; as also from that particular Affection which is between these Two Mo∣narchs: as hath been hinted before. At his Receipt, the whole Military Force of the City was in Arms, Trained Bands, Auxiliaries, Hamlets, Westminster-Regiments; several of the Companies and Liveries of the City on Horseback in their Gold Chains, with the Aldermen of the City Ri∣ding before him, who near York-House (where he was to be entertained by the King, during his stay) made a Lane for Him to pass through them thereunto: Two of them Rode in the Kings Coach; the Principal was at that time sick, and came by Water to his House: their Retinue, according to their Countrey Fashion, were Vested in a long Robe girt about the Middle, loop-laced on the Breast, and caped behind; His two Coachmen and Postilions the like, though English men: there were some Thirty Servants that Rode a Horseback with Hawks on their Fists, as Presents. On New years-day they were Conducted to White Hall, where they deli∣vered their Presents of Furs, as black Fox Skins, Ermins, many Timber or scores of Martins, Beavers, and the like; Persian-Carpets, three Persian Horses, Argamarick, and other Commodities of that Country, as Damask, Silks, and Embroyderies; also a Ship Loading of Hemp: there were Presents of the like Nature from the Empress to the Queen; and from the Prince of Russia likewise: they were all received with that affection and kindness which the King on all occasions hath manifested to have for that great Potentate. Two of those Embassadors departed hence for France, and so to Italy; the Chief stayed to to return in Iune with our ships for his own County.

On the Twenty sixth of December at night, in the House of one Mr. ••. la Noy, an Hamborough Merchant, who had lately married Sir Thomas All••••

Daughter of Middlesex, being now with Child, as the Family were in Bed, a suddain fire, without breaking out into the Street (which was the new Buil∣dings in Loathbury, where others stood) or being discerned, suddenly con∣sumed all that were within, goods and all, the Chambers and Goods being all burnt from top to bottom, and not a shreik or cry heard, it being sup∣posed the greenness of the Timber, smoking more vehemently at the eruption of the fire, instantly smothered them. A very sad and much-lamented pro∣vidence, seven being reckoned that were killed in this manner. The fire was perceived at last by the heat it caused in the next House; but the Bricks and the shutters in the Windows kept it from breaking out.

Notwithstanding the inhibition to Non-conforming Ministers to Preach or Exercise their Ministry, and the penalties thereof; yet Mr. Calamy, late Pastor of Aldermanbury, by reason the Parish was disappointed on Sunday the Twenty eighth of December by a blind old Minister that should have Preach∣ed there, as he pretended, went into the Pulpit and Preached; and by his Text, and Sermon, and Inferences, did reflect hardly and strangely upon the state of the Church, and beyond his Last, if he had been also capacitated to Preach.* 7.50 For this Transgression and Contempt, he was by Warrant of the Lord Mayor committed to Newgate, where many persons came to visit him, to his no little advantage; but within two or three days, was by his Ma∣jesties gracious Clemency and his Order discharged from this Imprisonment, though it were an Offence done, as it were, to affront that tenderness held forth in His Majesties Declaration aforesaid. The Bishop of Lincoln the fa∣mous Casuist, Dr. Sanderson, died in the middle of Ianuary; as many of that Function had preceded him since the King's Restitution, and left his See to the Lord Bishop of Peterborough, Dr. Laney.

* 7.51The Lord Warreston, a Committee of Safety-man, and infamous for his Treason in Scotland, and a Fugitive there, being Proclaimed Rebel and Tray∣tor, was taken and secured in France, and sent over hither, where he was Committed by his Majesties Order to the Tower, in order to his sending for Scotland: from thence Gibs the Brother of the aforesaid Nathanael, who fled, and was lately retaken, was sent to the Sessions at the Old Baily, Febru∣ary the Twentieth, and with the before-mentioned Baker, Condemned for the same former Treason, and both Executed at Tyburn in like manner.

The Nineteenth of February the Parliament met, where the King took notice of his said Declaration of the Twenty sixth of December,* 7.52 wherein he cleared himself of any mistakes, as favouring Popery: though he acknowledged the Services of many of that Profession, yet he was so far from Tolerating or qualifying them thereby to hold any Office or places of Trust in the Go∣vernment, that he desired Laws might be made to hinder the growth of their Doctrine: That his Zeal to the Protestant Religion and Uniformity shall not yield to the Bishops themselves; and yet, if the Dissenters will demean them∣selves peaceably and modestly under the Government, he could heartily wish He had such a Power of Indulgence, to use upon occasions, as might not need∣lesly force them out of the Kingdome, or staying here, give them Cause to Con∣spire against the Peace of it.

In Answer to this His Majesties Explanation of Himself, and his Declaration of the Twenty sixth of December, the House of Commons distinctly and se∣parately, to every particular thereof, gave His Majesty their most humble Thanks; withal, by their Votes and Addresses to him, Vindicating their set∣tlement of Religion in the antient Form, Discipline, and Government there∣of, from the Calumny and danger of Schism; and promised to Assert it with their Lives and Estates, as their particular and Parliamentary Honour: which Resolutions and Reasons being of so recent Date, and the Answer of the King not yet given thereunto, which out-measures the time of this Chro∣nicle, I do remit to another unwearied and unperplexed Pen.

Scotland in a most Peaceful state and condition; and the Kingdome of

Ireland in a tendency thereunto: but through so many variations and vicissi∣tudes of Domination and propriety the Lands thereof had passed, that it was not imaginable the total subversion thereof by the Rebellion of both Parties there, the Irish and Long Parliament, could devolve things into any presumed security, it having been the first and last Stage of the War.—sed Tucro Duce & Auspice Tucro — But the Eminence and Prudence of this Lord Lieu∣tenant, the most noble Duke of Ormond, who hath so often Governed this Realm, hath given the greatest pledges of assurance of an happy Establish∣ment, whose beginning I will not trouble with the short-lived rumours of Commotions and Stirs now very frequent and rise by the Arts of our Male-Contents.

Thus far have I deduced the account of the Three Kingdoms from the most Funest War, to a blessed and most promising Peace to us and our Posterity: and may there be in the succeeding years of His Majesties and his Royal Progenies Reign (which Almighty God derive through innumerable descents) no other occa∣sion of our Pens than the gratulatory Records of our undisturbed, unalterable Repose, Plenty and Tranquil∣lity.

Notes

• * 1.1

  The Restitu∣tion of the King and Kingdom.
• * 1.2

  The renow∣ned Gene∣ral, the hap∣py instru∣ment of the Restitution.
• * 1.3

  The Duke of Ormond the next.
• * 1.4

  The King the great Agent.
• * 1.5

  All the Loyal No∣bility and Gentry,
• * 1.6

  And of some formerly en∣gaged a∣gainst it.
• * 1.7

  The King departs to Breda, from Brus∣sels; Com∣plemented upon his de∣parture.
• * 1.8

  Dispatches the L. Mor∣daunt and Sir John Greenvil from Bre∣da.
• * 1.9

  His Maje∣sty's Letter: and Decla∣ration was brought.
• * 1.10

  Contents of the Decla∣ration;
• * 1.11

  Received most ho••ou∣rably by the Parliament
• * 1.12

  Parliament resolves thereupon.
• * 1.13

  Sir John Greenvil rewarded with a 500 l. Iewel.
• * 1.14

  The City of London express the like.
• * 1.15

  The Army the same.
• * 1.16

  The Fleet also, and Dunkirk.
• * 1.17

  The Rump's Arms de∣faced.
• * 1.18

  Parliament Resolves to∣wards the King's Re∣stitution.
• * 1.19

  Commissioners arrived at the Hague.
• * 1.20

  The King pre∣pares to d••part.
• * 2.1

  King Charles the Second So∣lemnly Pro∣claimed.
• * 2.2

  The Dutch magnificent Treatment of the King.
• * 2.3

  Sir Samuel Moreland, and
• * 2.4

  Sir George Downing.
• * 2.5

  Duke of York aboard the Fleet.
• * 2.6

  The King de∣parts for Eng∣land.
• * 3.1

  The Speech of the States thereupon.
• * 3.2

  The King de∣parts, and em∣barques.
• * 3.3

  The King Em∣barques for England, May 23.
• * 3.4

  Lands at Do∣ver, May 25.
• * 3.5

  The General meets him at his arrival.
• * 3.6

  The King rides to Canterbury.
• * 3.7

  The King rides to Canterbury
• * 3.8

  To Rochester at Col. Gib∣bons.
• * 3.9

  To Dartford, receives the Declaration of the Army.
• * 3.10

  The manner of His Majesties entrance into London.
• * 4.1

  The Earl of Manchester's Speech to the King.
• * 5.1

  The joy of the City.
• * 5.2

  Affairs 〈◊〉〈◊〉 home.
• * 5.3

  And in Ire∣land.
• * 5.4

  The King and the Dukes to the House of Lords.
• * 5.5

  The King comes to the Parlia∣ment, and pass∣eth several Acts.
• * 5.6

  A Proclamati∣on for the King's Iudges to render them∣selves.
• * 5.7

  Other persons excepted out of the Act of Ob∣livion. Hutch∣inson and Las∣sels crave Par∣don.
• * 5.8

  Parliament lay hold on his Ma∣jesties Decla∣ration from Breda.
• * 5.9

  The General dignified with the Title of D. of Albemarle.
• * 5.10

  Several Digni∣ties and Offices conferred.
• * 5.11

  Fee-farm rents resigned.
• * 5.12

  Lord Jermyn Earl of St. Al∣bans Embassa∣dor into France.

  Prince de Ligne.
• * 5.13

  Count de Soissons Em∣bassador hither.
• * 5.14

  Act o•• Oblivi∣on passed.
• * 5.15

  Duke of Glou∣cester dies, Sept. 13. Princess of O∣range arrives, Sept.
• * 5.16

  Episcopacy re∣established.
• * 5.17

  The Kings Iudges brought to Tryal, Oct. 9.
• * 5.18

  Harrison, Waller, He∣veningham, with Adrian, Scroop, &c.
• * 5.19

  Harrison tried, Oct. 11.
• * 5.20

  Sir Heneage Finch opens the Indictment.
• * 5.21

  The Sentence.
• * 5.22

  Col. Adrian Scroop.
• * 5.23

  Carew tryed.
• * 5.24

  Scot tryed, Octob. 12.
• * 5.25

  Gregory Cle∣ment.
• * 5.26

  Colonel Iones
• * 5.27

  Cook, October ••3.
• * 5.28

  Peters, Octob. 13.
• * 5.29

  Dani••l Axtel.
• * 5.30

  Colonel Hacker
• * 5.31

  William Hew∣let.
• * 5.32

  Daniel Harvey
• * 5.33

  Isaac Penning∣ton.
• * 5.34

  Henry Marten
• * 5.35

  Gilbert Mil∣lington.
• * 5.36

  Alderman Tichburn.
• * 5.37

  Owen Roe.
• * 5.38

  Robert Lil∣burn.
• * 5.39

  Mr. Smith.
• * 5.40

  Downs, Pot∣ter, Garland, &c.
• * 5.41

  Vincent Pot∣ter.
• * 5.42

  August. Gar∣land.
• * 5.43

  Simon Meyn, James and Pe∣ter Temple.
• * 5.44

  Tho. Wayt.
• * 5.45

  Sir Hardress Waller.
• * 5.46

  Harrison Exe∣cuted.
• * 5.47

  Carew Execu∣ted.
• * 5.48

  John Cook & Hugh Peters Executed.
• * 5.49

  Thomas Scot, Gregory Cle∣ment, Adrian Scroop, and John Jones Executed.
• * 5.50

  Francis Hack∣er and Daniel Axtel Execu∣ted.
• * 5.51

  To•• dye impi∣nitent as to the Fact.
• * 5.52

  Cook the So∣licitor.
• * 5.53

  Hugh Peters's stupidity.
• * 5.54

  Prisoners that came in upon Proclamation respited.
• * 5.55

  Queen Mother arrives in En∣gland.
• * 5.56

  The Parliament re-assemble.
• * 5.57

  Argyle com∣mitted.
• * 5.58

  Princess of Au∣range dies, De∣cemb. 24.
• * 5.59

  Parliament Dissolved.
• * 5.60

  Princess of Au∣range her Fu∣neral, Decemb. 26.
• * 5.61

  Sejanus ducitur unco spectan∣dus, gaudent omnes, quae la∣bra quis illis vultus erat?
• * 5.62

  Cromwel, Ire∣ton and Brad∣shaw dig'd up and hang'd, &c.
• * 5.63

  Venner's In∣surrection.
• * 5.64

  There were two Executed in Cheap-side the same day Pri∣chard the Cow-keeper and ano∣ther of them.
• * 5.65

  Sir Arthur Ha∣zelrig dies.
• * 5.66

  Mr. Crofton committed.
• * 5.67

  The King••s pas∣sage through London to his Coronation.
• * 6.1

  The Oath of the Knights of the Bath.
• * 6.2

  Creation of Earls and Ba∣rons at the same time.
• * 6.3

  The Kings pro∣cession to the Abbey.
• * 6.4

  The Dukes of Norfolk and Somerset were restored by Act of Parliament 12 year Caroli Secundi.
• * 6.5

  James But∣ler Duke of Or∣mond, was Created Earl of Brecnock Ba∣ron Butler of Lawthy.
• * 6.6

  A new Parlia∣ment, May 8.
• * 6.7

  Portugal Match mentio∣ned by the King to the Parlia∣ment.
• * 6.8

  The Queen of Bohemia re∣turns into En∣gland.
• * 6.9

  The Marquess of Montross en∣terred in State, May 11.
• * 6.10

  Arguile be∣headed, May a•• and Guthrey and Giff••n Hang'd, June 1
• * 7.1

  Plots and De∣signes laid by the Fanaticks.
• * 7.2

  Sir Charles Lucas re-inter∣red with So∣lemnity, Jun. 7.
• * 7.3

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• * 7.4

  Several Laws confirmed and made, &c.
• * 7.5

  Mr. Pryn que∣stioned, &c.
• * 7.6

  Mr. Pryn que∣stioned by the House.
• * 7.7

  Acts against Bishops repealed
• * 7.8

  Lord Munson, Sir Henry Mildmay and Wallop senten∣ced.
• * 7.9

  Parliament ad∣journed July. 30, to Nov. 02.
• * 7.10

  The King is en∣tertained at the Inner Temple by Sir Heneage Finch.
• * 7.11

  The Lords Spi∣ritual restored.
• * 7.12

  Regicides be∣fore the House of Lords, No∣vember.
• * 7.13

  John James Hanged and Quartered, Novemb. 27.
• * 7.14

  Sir Charles Coot died De∣cember.
• * 7.15

  A Council of the Principali∣ty of Wales re∣established at Ludlow.
• * 7.16

  Episcopacy esta∣blished in Scot∣land.
• * 7.17

  The King re∣flects on the ru∣ine of St. Pauls London.
• * 7.18

  Fatality among the Clergy.
• * 7.19

  Another Fleet for Portugal and Tangier.
• * 7.20

  Queen of Bo∣hemia dies Feb. 13.

  A Storm Feb. 18.
• * 7.21

  An unfortunate Accident hap∣pened to the Lord Buckhurst and others.
• * 7.22

  Lambert and Vane ordered to Tryal.
• * 7.23

  The General ho∣noured, &c.
• * 7.24

  Miles Corbet. Colonel Okey and Barkstead taken in Hol∣land, sent over to the Tower.
• * 7.25

  Sentenced and Executed Ap. 2.
• * 7.26

  Col. Okey's bo∣dy gi••en to his Friends.
• * 7.27

  Acts of Parlia∣ment passed.
• * 7.28

  An account of the Marriage of the King, &c.
• * 7.29

  The Queen re∣Reimbarques April 13.
• * 7.30

  The Duke of York at Sea to attend the Queens Arri∣val, with the Duke o•• Os∣mond, &c.
• * 7.31

  Queen Arrives May 13.
• * 7.32

  The King stays to give his con∣sent to Bills Preparing.
• * 7.33

  The Nature of several private Bills.
• * 7.34

  King at Ports∣mouth.
• * 7.35

  Queen at Hampton-Court.
• * 7.36

  Lord Lorn par∣doned by the King.
• * 7.37

  Tangiers con∣dition.
• * 7.38

  Sir Henry Vane and Co∣lonel Lambert Condemned.
• * 7.39

  Sir Henry Vane Executed June 1••.
• * 7.40

  A Proclamati∣on for Twenty miles, againt Rump. Officers.
• * 7.41

  Presbyterians endeavours for Toleration.
• * 7.42

  Forces sent un∣der the Earl of Inchequeen to Assist the King of Portugal.
• * 7.43

  Duke of Or∣mond arrived in Ireland.
• * 7.44

  Gloucester Walls, &c. De∣molished.
• * 7.45

  Dunkirk re∣turned to the French King, October
• * 7.46

  Dr. John Ber∣kerhead Knighted.
• * 7.47

  A Plot disco∣vered.
• * 7.48

  Philips, Tongue, Gibs and Stubs Ex∣ecuted Decem∣ber 22.
• * 7.49

  Embassadors with Presents from Russia.
• * 7.50

  Mr. Calamy Committed.
• * 7.51

  Lord War∣reston in the Tower.
• * 7.52

  Declaration of the King, and Resolutions of the Parliament.