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 1650.
[date Apri 19.] Montross defeated in Scotl.
[date Ma. 1] Taken prisoner.
[date 18] Brought to Edenbur.
[date 21] Barbarously Murdered.
[date Jul. 18] Dr. Levens murdered.
[date 31] Kings children o••de∣••ed ••o Carisbrook Cast.
[date Aug 10.] The Kings picture in the Old Exchage de∣faced and broken down by the usurpers, and ••his inscription set be∣hind the head thereof, Exit Tyrannus Regum ul∣timus, anno Libertatis Anglia restitutae primo, Anno 1648. Jan. 30.
His Statute at the West end of St. Pauls thrown down and de∣faced also.
[date 16, 17] Col. Eusebius Andrews brought to his tryall.
[date 27] The remainder of the Kings picture in the Old Exchange thrown down, and broken in pieces.