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THere being left alive no more of the Off-spring of King Charles the First, the next Heirs of the Crown of England are the Issue and De∣scendants of Elizabeth late Queen of Bohemia, only Sister to the said King, who was married to Frederick Prince Pa∣latine
of the Rhine, afterwards stiled King of Bohemia, whose eldest Son living is Charles Lo∣dowick Prince Elector Palatine of the Rhine, commonly called the Palsgrave, from the High Dutch pfaltzgraff, Palatii Co∣mes, was born the the 22th December 1617 at Heydelberg, and afterwards in Holland at the Hague, and at the University of Leyden, was educated in a Princely manner. At the age of 18 years came into England, was created Knight of the Gar∣ter, about two years after fought a Battel in Westphalia. In the year 1637 passing incog∣nito thorow France to take possession of Brisach upon the Rhine, which the Duke Saxon Weymar intended to deliver up unto him, together with the
Command of his Army, he was by that quick-sighted Cardinal Richlieu discovered at Moulins, and thence sent back Prisoner to the Bois de Vincen∣nes, whence after 23 weeks imprisonment he was by the mediation of the King of Eng∣land set at liberty.
In the year 1643 he came a∣gain into England, and with the Kings secret consent (be∣cause the King could not conti∣nue unto him the wonted Pen∣sion, whilst the Rebels possest the greatest part of his Maje∣sties Revenues) made his Ad∣dresses to, and abode with the disloyal part of the Lords and Commons at Westminster, un∣til the Murder of the said King and the Restauration of the Lower Palatinat, according to
the famous Treaty at Munster, for which he was constrained to quit all his right to the Upper Palatinat, and accept of an Eighth Electorship, at a juncture of time when the King of Eng∣land (had he not been enga∣ged at home by an impious Re∣bellion) had been the most considerable of all other at that Treaty, and this Prince his Nephew would have had the greatest advantages there.
In 1650 he espoused the La∣dy Charlotte, Daughter to the Landgrave of Hessen, by which Lady he hath one Son named Charles, aged about 16, and one Daughter aged about 14.