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 1646.

[date 25] DEnning. surrend. to the Parl.

[date Ap. 8.] Ruthen castle deliv.

Corse castle taken by storm and stratagem.

[date 13] Exeter delivered.

[date 15] Saint Michaells mount yielded.

[date 25] P Ruperts Troops dis∣banded.

Dunter castle deliv.

[date 26] Woodstock surrendred.

[date 27] K. disguised from Oxf.

[date Ma. 2.] Oxf. besieged the se∣cond time by . Fair.

[date 5] K. to the Scotch army at Southwel.

[date 6] The magazine for pro∣vision in Oxf. first open∣ed; from which day 4700. were fed out of it.

[date 8] Banbury surrendred.

[date 13] King to New-Castle.

[date 18] Treaty began before Oxf.

[date 24] Radcot surrendered.

[date 31] The stream of Isis (at Oxf.) diverted and tur∣ned into the old Chan∣nell.

[date 6] Carnarvon Town and Castle surrend.

[date 9] Ludlow delivered.

[date 10] Borstall the like.

[date 17] A cessation of Arm at Oxford.

[date 20] The Treaty there en∣ded.

[date 24] Oxford and Farring∣don surrend.

[date Jul. 9] Duke of Yorks servants discharged.

[date 16] Litchfield close surren.

[date 23] Worcest. surrend.

[date 24] Pr. Henrietta conveyed from Oatlands.

[date 28] Wallingf. Castle sur∣rendered.

[date 31] Gothridge the like.

Pendennis yielded.

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Conway. tak. by storm.

[date Au. 18] The true Great Seal of Engl. broken & defaced.

[date 19] Ragland surrend.

[date Se. 13] E. Essex dyed.

[date 16] Scilly Island and ca∣stle surrend.

[date Oc. 22] E. of Essex's Funeral.

[date 26] Denbigh castle surren.

[date Nov. 12] Gen. Fairfax trium∣phantly to Lond.

[date Feb. 1] Scotch army marched over Tweed into Scotl. having first sold their King, together with their souls for money.

[date 12] Barwick quitted by the Scots.

[date 17] King Charles a prisoner to Holmby.

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