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.

Anno 1639.

[date Mar.] CHarles I. marched a∣gainst the Scotch Covenanters.

Declared against their seditious actions.

[date 25] Forbad the payment of any Rents or Debts due to the Covenan∣ters.

[date 29] Marched from York towards Newcastle.

[date May 15.] Parl. began in Scot∣••and.

Dissolved by His Ma¦j••sty.

[date 28] Charles I. encamped within two miles o•• Berwick, in view of the Scotch army.

Mar Hamil. at Forth with the English Fleet

[date June 10.] Covenanters treated with by the King.

[date 17] Pacification conclud.

[date 18] Armies disbanded.

[date Au. 1.] Charles I. returned to Theobalds f••om His Nor∣thern Exped••tion.

[date 3] His Maj: it Whitehall.

E. Traquare sent Com∣missioner into Scotl.

[date 6] Generall assembly in Scotland, which abolish¦ed Episcopacy, High Com∣mission, Liturgie, & Book ••f Canons.

[date 24] The Assem. broken up.

L. Deputy of Ireland arrived in Engl.

Created E. of Straf∣ford.

[date 31] Another Parl. began in Scotl.

[date Sept. 7, 8.] Fight in the Downs betwixt the Spanish and Dutch Fleets.

[date Oct. 1, 2] Spanish Fleet van∣quished in the Downs.

[date Nov. 19.] Edenburgh Castle walls fell down.

K. ordered their re∣pair.

Their Reparation hindered by the Cove∣nanters.

[date De. 5.] Charles I. declared his Resolution for a Parl▪

in case of the Scotch Rebellion; moved for by E. Strafford, Arch∣bishop Laud, and Ha∣milton.

Scotch Parliamen Prorogu'd till June 2. 1640.

Traquare returned into Engl.

Four Commissioners sent from the Scots to the King.

E. Strafford imbarqued for Irel. where he sum∣moned a Parl.

[date Mar.] E. Straf. returned into Engl.

Scotch Commissioners secured.