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Gesta Britannorum, or, A brief chronologie of the actions and exploits, battails, sieges, conflicts, and other signal and remarkable passages which have happened in these His Majesties dominions from the year of Christ 1600, untill the present, 1663, being the space of 62 complete years / collected by Geo. Wharton.

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Gesta Britannorum, or, A brief chronologie of the actions and exploits, battails, sieges, conflicts, and other signal and remarkable passages which have happened in these His Majesties dominions from the year of Christ 1600, untill the present, 1663, being the space of 62 complete years / collected by Geo. Wharton.
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Wharton, George, Sir, 1617-1681.
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London :: Printed by J.G. for the Company of Stationers,
1663.
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Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714.
Great Britain -- History -- Chronology.
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"Gesta Britannorum, or, A brief chronologie of the actions and exploits, battails, sieges, conflicts, and other signal and remarkable passages which have happened in these His Majesties dominions from the year of Christ 1600, untill the present, 1663, being the space of 62 complete years / collected by Geo. Wharton." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A65581.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 18, 2024.

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Anno 1638.

[date May 26.] MAr Hamilton sent to appease the tu∣mults in Scotl.

[date Ju. 6.] Received by th•• Councell at Dalkeith as Commissioner.

[date 28] Charles I. his Decla¦ration (against Inno∣vations in Religion) sent to Hamilton.

[date Jul. 2] Proclaimed by him.

[date 29] Marquesse his new commission to indict a new assembly.

[date Sept. 22.] Charles I. his Decla¦ration discharging the Service-book, &c.

[date Oct. 24.] A Bill against Bishop preferred to the Pres¦bytery at Edenburgh.

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[date 31] Maria de medicis (Qu. mother of France) came into Engl.

[date Nov.] Generall assembly at Glascow.

[date 29] Proclamation for dis∣solving the same.

Argyle declared for the Covenanters.

Hamilton returned in∣to England.

Covenanters began to arme.

Sollicited France for aid.

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