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NExt to the Issue of the Prince Elector Palatin is Prince Rupert, born at Prague 27 Novemb. 1619, not long before that very unfortunate Battel there fought, whereby not only all Bohemia was lost, but the Palatin Family was for almost 30 years dispossest of all their Possessions in Germany.
At 13 years of age he marcht with the then Prince of Orenge to the Siege of Rhine∣berg; afterwards in England was created Knight of the Garter.
At the age of 18 he com∣manded a Regiment of Horse in the German Wars, and in a Battel being taken by the Im∣perialists under the Command of Count Hatzfield, he con∣tinued a prisoner above three years.
In 1642 returning into Eng∣land, and made General of the Horse to the King, fights and defeats Collonel Sands near Worcester, routed the Rebels Horse at Edge-hill, took Ci∣rencester, recovered Lichfield and Bristol, raised the long Siege before Latham House, fought the great Battel at Mar∣ston Moor; was created Earl of Holderness, and Duke of Cum∣berland, after the extinction of the Male Line of the Cliffords. Finally, the Kings forces at
land being totally defeated, he transported himself into France, and was afterward made Admi∣ral of such Ships of War as submitted to King Charles the Second, to whom after divers disasters at Sea, and wonderful preservations, he returned to Paris 1652, where and in Ger∣many, sometimes at the Em∣perours Court, and sometimes at Heydelberg, he passed his time in Princely Studies and Exercises till the Restauration of his Majesty now raigning; after which returning into Eng∣land, was made a Privy Coun∣sellour in 1662, and in 1666 being joyned Admiral with the Duke of Albemarle, first at∣tackt the whole Dutch Fleet with his Squadron, in such a bold resolute way that he put
the Enemy soon to flight. He enjoys a Pension from his Majesty of 4000 l. per Annum.
After Prince Rupert the next Heirs to the Crown of England are 3 French Ladies, Daugh∣ters of Prince Edward lately deceased, who was a younger Son of the Queen of Rehemia, whose Widdow the Princess Dowager Mother to the said three Ladies is Sister to the late Queen of Poland, Daughter and Coheir to the last Duke of Nevers in France, amongst which three Daughters there is a Revenue of about 12000 l. Sterling a year.
After these is the Princess Elizabeth eldest Sister living to
the Prince Elector Palatin, born 26 Decemb. 1618. unmarried and living in Germany.
The next is another Sister, called the Princess Louisa, bred up at the Hague with the Queen her Mother in the Reli∣gion of the Church of England, at length embracing the Romish Religion, is now Lady Abbess of Maubisson at Ponthoise, not far from Paris.
Last of all is the Princess Sophia, youngest Daughter to the Queen of Bohemia, born at the Hague 1630. and in 1659 wedded to John Duke of Lunenberg, and Free Prince of Germany, Heir to the Dutchy of Brunswick, by whom she hath Sons and Daughters.
Of these three Princesses it is said, that the first is the most learned, the second the greatest Artist, and the last one of the most accomplisht La∣dies in Europe.