Royall and loyall blood shed by Cromwell and his party, &c. viz. King Charles the martyr. The Earl of Strafford. The Arch-Bishop of Canterbury. Duke Hamilton Earl of Holland Lord Capell Earl of Derby Marquesse of Montrosse Col. Eusebius Andrews. Sir Henry Hide Doctor Hewit To which are added 3. other murthers of publique note. Viz. Sir. Thomas Overbury. Sir George Sonds his 2. sons. Knight and Butler. To which is annexed a brief chronicle of the wars & affairs of the 3. kingdoms, from 1640 to 1661. Most exactly collected and compared with the originals, and amended of those errours which abound in the counterfeit impression of this book.

Anno Dom. 1660.

For now the General having rendezvouz'd his Army in Fins∣bury fields, acquainted his Officers with the necessity of intro∣ducing the secluded Members ever since 1648. into the Parlia∣ment, in order to the well-settlement of the Nations, to which they assented, and forthwith the whole Army marched into Lon∣don, where upon the joyful news of this miraculous turn, (ex∣pecting nothing but massacres and plunderings) they were most welcomely entertained, nothing being thought too good for these Guests, whom they little before more then suspected for their Enemies.

This was Saturday the •• of February in the afternoon, so that at night the Town was all of a blaze, every door having a bonfire, where all the contumely and disgrace that could be done a perdite and hated sort of men, by burning, roasting, and frying of all manner of Rumps of Creatures, was most spiteful∣ly performed, their Speaker getting home with much danger to his house in Chancery-lane.

A fortnights time the General let them alone, minding them only of their dissolution, which time they spent in making qua∣lifications for the Members to serve in the ensuing Parliament, which were so many, and so strict and unreasonable, that the General delayed no longer, but on Munday, having convened the aforesaid secluded Members at Whitehall, went with them

to the Parliament House, and there put them in, to the confu∣sion and astonishment of the Rumpers, many of whom for∣bore to sit thereafter in company with them, as knowing what would ensue.

The said Members being thus setled, addrest themselves im∣mediately to the settlement, &c. making the General Captain General of all the Forces in the three Kingdomes, and nulling some former destructive Votes, and establishing a Militia of well-affected and loyal persons in the several Countie•• of Eng∣land, and then according to the contract and compromise with the General, on the •• day of March, dissolved that long and fatal Parliament, having ordered Writs to issue out for a new one to sit down at Westminster the 25th of April next the year 1661.

In this interval, the Government w•••• lodged in a Councel of State, who persisted in the same wayes for a settlement, leaving the Top-stone to be laid by the Free Parliament, a term unusual to our Ancestors, but to this Generation a delightful novelty, after so many forces and violences upon so many in so few years. Colonel Lambert, at the instance of the General, had by the Rump been sent to the Tower, from whence now he broke and escaped, and came to Edge-h••ll, where was in∣tended a great Rendezvouz of the Phanatick part of the Ar∣my then male-contented with the proceedings; but his design failed of the expected assistance, Colonel Ingoldsby being sent in pursuit of him, and dispersing his small party at the same place, from whence he was brought to London, and committed a safer prisoner to the Tower aforesaid.

On the 25th of April the Parliament convened in both Hou∣ses, to whom a week after their sitting came a Letter from the Kings Majesty, with another to the General, and one to the City of London, brought by Iohn Lord Viscount Mordant, and Sir Iohn Greenvile, now Earl of Bath, which were all with due humility and gladness received, and a Vote passed in Parlia∣ment, that their most humble thanks should be presented, by Commissioners appointed to attend his Majesty then at the Hague for his gracious Letters, and he should be desired to re∣turn with all convenient speed to the exercise of his Kingly Government; and Sir Thomas Clarges was first dispatcht by the General on the same Errand, where at Court he was very much welcomed.

Tuesday the eighth of May, the King was proclaimed with

all the magnificences usual, but with the unusual and extraor∣dinary joy of the people, who made great bonfires that night, and seemed as it were to be in a kind of extasie: On the 25th the King landed from Holland, being attended by a gallant Fleet, commanded by the Earl of Sandwich at Dover, where the Genral met him (the Sea, and Heaven, and Earth, rung with the peals of Ordinance) and so to Canterbury, to Rochester, and on the 29 day, being Tuesday, his most auspicious Birth∣day, triumphantly and peaceably entred his Royal City of Lon∣don, where the acclamations and shoutings were so loud and hearty, that it is impossible to eccho or express them, to the great pleasure, and yet disturbance of the King, who about six in the evening came to his Palace at Whitehal, where in the Banquetting House both Houses attended him. All the way the way through the City, the General rode bareheaded next before his Majestie, his two Brothers, York and Gloucester riding of each side covered. After a short congratulation, the King being weary, went to his Bed-chamber, where he supped, and so to his rest, having come 27 miles that day, besides his going through London; and within two days after, his Royal Brethren having taken their places in the House of Lords, came to the Parliament, where he made a Speech, earnestly pressing the Act of Free pardon and indempnity, which he had pro∣mised in his Declaration from Breda.

The next thing he did, was the emitting a Proclamation, re∣quiring all those who had a hand in the execrable murther of his Father, to render themselves within such a time, which some obeyed, the rest fled; those that came in, were (by the Act of Pardon, which came out soon after with some other) respited, till another Parliament should determine of them ei∣ther to life or death: This was in favour for their rendring themselves.

On the day of August, dyed the most noble and ac∣complisht Prince Henry Duke of Gloucester of the Small Pox, at Whitehal, to the very great sorrow of the whole Kingdom, be∣ing a Prince of singular vertues and endowments.

In October, 1661. they, with the rest that were apprehend∣ed for the said crime, were severally arraigned at the Sessions House in the Old-Bailey, before Sir Orlando Bridgeman; where after Tryal, they were all found guilty, and convicted of High-Treason, for compassing, contriving and bringing about the death of the King; for which 26 of them had sentence to

be drawn, hanged, and quartered; sixteen of them, who ren∣dred themselves according to the aforesaid Proclamation, were respited till the Parliament should by an Act determine of them; but the other ten; viz. Major General Harrison, Iohn Carew, Iohn Cook, the Sollicitor to the pretended Court or Justice, Hugh Peters, Thomas Scot, Gregory Clement, Iohn Iones, Adrian Scroop, Francis Hacker, and Daniel Axtel, were executed according to the sentence, eight of them at Charing Cross, and the two last at Tyburn; their Heads set upon Westminster-Hall and London-Bridge, and their quarters upon the Gates of London.

In December the King dissolved the Parliament, which he honored with the Epithete of, The Healing Perliament; and on the 24 of December dyed also that most illustrious Princess of Aurvuge, His Majesties Sister, of the s••me disease which snatch away her Brother the Duke of Gloucester, to the extreme grief of the King, the Queen Mother, and the whole Court.

The Queen Mother had come over some while before, with her Daughter the Lady Henrietta, and now prepared for her departure, fearing the disease might run in the blood, the young Princess being not very well, and accordingly the King in company with them, to bring them to the waters side, came to Portsmouth in the Christmass time, and thence the Ladies took shipping for France.

While the King was but this short while absent, hapned that desperate Rebellion and Insurrection in the City of Lon∣don, by the Fifth Monarchists, at two sundry times, on the ninth of Ianuary at night, being Sunday; where they alarmed the City, marched through the gates, threatning to take down their Masters, those Regicides quarters, killing some four men, and so sculked till Wednesday morning next; at which time they appeared again, and resolutely fought with the Trained Bands, and a Squadron of the Life-guard of Horse, in Wood∣street, maintaining their ground till they were surrounded, and then they began to retreat, but still in order: There were killed of them some eighteen, and they killed as many. Venner a Wine Coope••, who was their Leader, was taken, and twenty more, twelve of which were executed with him at several places in London, being convicted of High-Treason for levy∣ing war against the King.

On Ianuary 30. 1660. the bodies of Oliver Cromwel, Iohn Brads••aw, and Henry Ireton, were removed from their Interments,

in Westminster Abbey, and hanged at Tyburn, and there buried, their heads set upon Westminster-Hall.

In Michaelmas Term this year, there was a call of fourteen Sergeants at Law, and the Courts at Westminster were fi••led with Judges; the names of which most Grave and Honorable Per∣sons are as followeth, Sir Robert Foster, Lord chief Justice of England, Sir Thomas Mallet, Sir Thomas Twisden, Sir Wadham Windham of the Kings Bench, Sir Orlando Bridgeman Lord chief Justice, Sir Robert Hyde, Sir Samuel Brown, Sir Thomas Tyrryl, in the Common Pleas, Sir Matthew Hale, Sir Edward Atkins, Sir Christopher Turner, Barons of the Exchequer.