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<P>THE LATE WARRE PARALLEL'D.</P>
<P><HI>OR,</HI> A Brief Relation of the five years Civil Warres of HENRY the Third, King of <HI>England,</HI> with the event and i&s;&s;ue of that unnatural Warre, and by what cour&s;e the Kingdom was then &s;etled again.</P>
<P>Extracted out of the mo&s;t Authentick Hi&s;torians and Records, by <HI>Edward Chamberlain</HI> Gentleman, in the time of the late Civil Wars in <HI>England.</HI></P>
<Q><P><HI>Ut pro&s;picias futura, re&s;picias praeterita.</HI></P>
<P>The mo&s;t probable way to know what will be, is to ob&s;erve what hath been.</P>
<P><HI>Qui re&s;picit quae fuerunt, &amp; in&s;picit quae &s;unt, pro&s;picit etiam quae fu|tura &s;unt.</HI></P>
<P>The Hi&s;torian by running back to Ages pa&s;t, and then forward to pre&s;ent Affairs, comparing one with the other, can give a ver|dict of the State, well near Prophetick.</P></Q>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>John Starkey,</HI> at the Miter in <HI>Fleet&s;treet,</HI> between the middle Temple-Gate and Temple-Barre. 1660.</P>
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<HEAD>THE LATE WARRE PARALLEL'D. <HI>OR,</HI> A Brief Relation of the five years Civil Warres of HENRY the Third, King of <HI>England,</HI> with the event and i&s;&s;ue of that unnatural Warre, and by what cour&s;e the Kingdom was then &s;etled again.</HEAD>
<P><HI>HEnry</HI> the Third of that Name, (a man more pious, than prudent; a better man then a King) &s;wayed the Scepter of this Kingdom fifty years. The former part of his Reign was very calm, the latter as Tempe&s;tuous.</P>
<P>The main Tempe&s;t was thus rai&s;ed. The King for many years, during that high calm, had &s;eque&s;tred him&s;elf wholly to his harm|le&s;&s;e &s;ports and recreations, and intru&s;ted the whole managery of the <HI>State</HI> to his Officers and Mini&s;ters. The&s;e taking advantage of his Maje&s;tie's carele&s;ne&s;&s;e (the main fault of this King) in&s;en&s;ibly &s;uck't and drayned the Revenues of Crown and Kingdom; till the King awakened by extream nece&s;&s;ity, began to enquire, not how he came in (for his nece&s;&s;ities would not permit that) but how he might get out.</P>
<P>The be&s;t way that his evil Coun&s;ellors could find to relieve their Ma&s;ter, &amp; &s;ave them&s;elves, was (the ordinary way of &s;upply in Par|liament declined) to have recour&s;e to Monopolies, Patents, and ex|traordinary and illegal Taxations. But (praeter-natural cour&s;es are never long-lived) the free-born <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> would not long endure &s;uch &s;lavery.</P>
<P>When the King &s;aw there was no other remedy, he throwes him&s;elf into the bo&s;ome of his people for relief, and advice in
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<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Anciently called the <HI>wood,</HI> or <HI>mad Parliament,</HI> ordinarily in Hi&s;tory &s;til'd, <HI>In&s;anum Par|liamentum,</HI> Fa|bian.</NOTE> Parliament,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Chron. Nor|wic.</NOTE> where they undutifully taking advantage of his Ma|je&s;tie's extremities, in&s;tead of relief, out brave him publiquely, with a<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Like the Re|mon&s;t. of <HI>De|cemb.</HI> 15. 1641. <HI>Matth. We&s;tm.</HI> &amp; <HI>Math. Paris.</HI></NOTE> Catalogue of all the mi&s;takes, and all the mi&s;-fortunes of his former government; which coming to the people's ears &s;oon &s;tole away their hearts, alienated their affections from their Soveraign, and left him wholly to the mercy and will of his Parliament. They &s;en&s;ible hereof, and that the rains of Government were now ca&s;t upon their necks, (like <HI>Apollo</HI>'s Hor&s;es, when <HI>Phaeton</HI> had the dri|ving of them) ran violent by cour&s;es, till they &s;et the whole King|dom on fire.</P>
<P>So far they went as to make an Ordinance, <HI>That whereas there was pre&s;ent want of a through reformation in the State, the Government thereof &s;hould be put into the hands of four and twenty,</HI> Qui Regi&acirc; po|te&s;tare &s;uffulti, <HI>who being Armed with Soveraign power, &s;hould take upon them the whole care and Government of the Kingdom, &s;hould nomi|nate and appoint the Chancellor, Trea&s;urer, Chief Ju&s;tices, Governours of Forts, Ca&s;tles, and Navy, and all other great Officers, and Mini&s;ters of State for all times to come.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Natth. Westm.</NOTE>To this Traiterous Ordinance, the King, <HI>Metu incarcerationis per|petuae compul&s;us e&s;t con&s;entire,</HI> for fear of perpetual impri&s;onment, was inforced to give his Royal a&s;&s;ent: And for further &s;ecurity, to be content to give it under the great Seal, and upon Oath, that when&s;oever he attempted to a&s;&s;ume unto him his Regal power, <HI>Liceat omnibus de Regno no&s;tro contra nos in&s;urgere,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chron. Orig. &s;ub &s;igillo.</NOTE> <HI>&amp; ad gravamen no&s;trum opem &amp; operam dare, ac &s;i nobis in nullo tenerentur,</HI> It &s;hould be lawfull for all his Subjects to ri&s;e again&s;t him and oppo&s;e him, as if they owed no Allegiance to him.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Nil ni&s;i pro umbra nominis habebatur. <HI>Math. We&s;tm.</HI></NOTE>Strange it is that he &s;hould be content to be a meer Cipher, that &s;o lately was the onely Figure of the whole Kingdom, that he &s;hould be content to part at once with every tittle of Soveraignty, but the bare title! But prodigious, that &s;o many choi&s;e Senators, &s;o many Fathers and Judges of Law and Con&s;cience, &s;hould &s;o for|get God and them&s;elves as to give their a&s;&s;ent for the total &s;ubvert|ing of the Regal Authority, when as they had all taken their corpo|ral Oaths,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Matth. We&s;tm.</NOTE> <HI>De terreno honore dicto Regi &amp; haeredibus ejus &s;ervando.</HI> Which Oath was well kept (&s;aith mine Author) <HI>Ordinindo ne un|quam regerent, &s;ed &s;emper ab aliis regerentur:</HI> by making an Ordi|nance that they &s;hould never rule again, but alwayes be ruled by others.</P>
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<P>The&s;e four and twenty thus &s;etled, continue the Parliament du|ring their plea&s;ure, put the Kingdom in a po&s;ture of defence,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Regi&s;t. Roffen.</NOTE> place Governors of their own choo&s;ing, &s;uch as they could con&s;ide in, in the chief Forts; nominate and appoint Judges of A&s;&s;i&s;e, Sheriffs of Counties, Coroners, Bailiffs, (di&s;charging tho&s;e that were made by the King); took an Oath of them all re&s;pectively.</P>
<P>And here they would make the people believe they &s;hould never be troubled with licencious Soveraignty again; (but never more, as it proved:) for now every one of them began to value his own worth, and to hammer his head on every de&s;ign that might enlarge his own power and command. In brief, of &s;o many &s;ubjects, they became <HI>totidem Tyranni,</HI> (as the book of St. <HI>Albanes</HI> &s;peaks) &s;o ma|ny Tyrants, and for one bad King before, they have four and twen|ty wor&s;e.</P>
<P>But <HI>England</HI> (like old <HI>Rome</HI>) cannot long endure more Kings then one: great faction and deadly feud aro&s;e between the chiefe&s;t of them; which the re&s;t taking into con&s;ideration, and perceiving that by &s;o many heads, not onely Monarchy was di&s;&s;olved, but fa|ction and debate every day increa&s;ed upon them, &s;o wrought that all, but five, agreed that the fore&s;aid Ordinance &s;hould be repealed, and the King re&s;tored to his pri&s;tine power.</P>
<P>Tho&s;e five Members &s;tifly oppo&s;e this Agreement,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Matth. We&s;tm.</HI> preaching, that Religion could never be throughly re|form'd, or the differences ful|ly compo&s;ed, <HI>&s;ine gladio ma|teriali,</HI> and that all that &s;hould lo&s;e their lives in this cau&s;e were Martyrs. <HI>Ri&s;hanger. Chron. Dun&s;t.</HI></NOTE> and for the maintenance of their cau&s;e, <HI>trahunt multos p&s;eudo prophetas, lupos, in ovium ve&s;timentis, qui contra Chri&s;ti Vicarios, &amp; Chri&s;tum Domini Regem ip&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">m murmurant: non ut Spirit<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s Sanctus, eloqui; &s;ed ut &s;upe|rioris pote&s;tatis contemptores, obloqui dabant:</HI> they drew to their &s;ide many lying Mini&s;ters, (Wolves in Sheeps cloathing) who mur|mure and &s;peak evil again&s;t the Lord's Anointed, not as the Holy Spirit gave them utterance, but as the de&s;pi&s;ers of Dignities gave them their le&s;&s;ons.</P>
<P>The&s;e Incendiaries by their &s;heeps cloathing (a fair conver|&s;ation) drew the people every where to &s;ide with them again&s;t the King, and again&s;t tho&s;e that wi&s;ht the King his former power. Which the King perceiving, and how the multitude grew every day more and more tumultuous, (for all things were now carried by tumults) was advi&s;ed by his Privy Councel,<NOTE PLACE="marg">As in 1641. and 1642.</NOTE> to with|draw him&s;elf (le&s;t His per&s;on might be endangered) from the Parliament (then held at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI>) to His Ca&s;tle at <HI>Wind|&s;or.</HI></P>
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<P>After &s;ome come&s;tation at this di&s;tance, it was agreed upon by the King and his adherents, and the five Members and their adhe|rents, that the difference &s;hould be referred to the <HI>French</HI> Kings arbitrament.<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ri&s;hanger.</NOTE> The King of <HI>France</HI> upon the day of hearing, gave &s;entence that the &s;aid Ordinance, whereby the K<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ng was deprived of his regal power, &s;hould be made Null.</P>
<P>The five Members and their complices &s;eeing this, (notwith|&s;tanding they had bound them&s;elves by Oath to &s;tand to his award) flew oft, and re&s;olving to have their own wills, drew into Arms, made choice of the Earle of <HI>Leice&s;ter</HI> for their General, and, for their own private intere&s;t, (pretending the publick good) drew the greate&s;t part of the Kingdom after them, (<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Cotton.</NOTE> &s;o ea&s;ie it is to draw the &s;ickle multitude to the wrong &s;ide) crying every where at fir&s;t, <HI>Liberty and Religion,</HI> though towards the end of the War not a word of either.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Hollin&s;h.</NOTE>By their fair pretences, they gained &s;o far upon the <HI>Londoners,</HI> that they generally enter into a Covenant to a&s;&s;i&s;t the Earle: For which purpo&s;e (be&s;ides a new Maior or Bailiff) they cho&s;e two Commanders, <HI>Thomas Pywel&s;den</HI> and <HI>Stephen Buckirell,</HI> at who&s;e command, by the tolling of St. <HI>Pauls</HI> great Bell, they were to be in Arms upon any occa&s;ion. Their fir&s;t exploit was a march to <HI>I&s;le|worth</HI> in a tumultuous manner, where they plundered and fired the Kings brother's Mannour-hou&s;e.</P>
<P>The Earls Army, by this time on their march, plundered all that were di&s;-affected to their cau&s;e and proceedings, and impri&s;oned them:<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ri&s;hanger.</NOTE> E&s;pecially tho&s;e that &s;tood any way affected to the Queen: for they all (but mo&s;t of all the <HI>Londoners</HI>) were mo&s;t maliciou&s;|ly bent again&s;t her;<NOTE PLACE="marg">For di&s;&s;wa|ding the King to &s;tand to the fore&s;aid Ordinance of Parliament.</NOTE> in &s;o much that as &s;he was pa&s;&s;ing the Thames near the Bridge, a rude rabble of the Citie got together on the Bridge, and with confu&s;ed yellings cried, <HI>Drown the Witch,</HI> &amp;c. and by throwing dirt and &s;tones at her, drave her back: which impious affront was punctually remembred in the fir&s;t fight; as you &s;hall hear anon.</P>
<P><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ri&s;hanger.</NOTE>Be&s;ides this main Army under the Earle of <HI>Le<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ce&s;ter,</HI> they had another Army under the command of the Lord <HI>Ferrers</HI> (of whom de&s;cended the late Lord of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI>) who behaved him&s;elf in&s;o|lently towards the King, in de&s;troying his Parks as he marcht, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> which in the conclu&s;ion co&s;t him dear: yet, to delude the people, the main A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">y bore before then the Kings Arms: And, to &s;hew
<PB N="5" REF="4"> they were for the King, when they had di&s;placed the old Gover|nours of the Kings Ca&s;tles and Forts, and placed in &s;uch as they could confide in, they gave them an Oath to be true to the King, and to keep tho&s;e holds to the u&s;e and benefit of the King and State: yet when the King demanded entrance at<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Dover. Chron. Dunstan.</NOTE> one of his Forts, wherein they had placed a Governour, he was kept out.<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">As at <HI>Hall.</HI></NOTE></P>
<P>At Sea, the Barons of the Cinque-ports &s;eized the Kings Ships, took great Prizes, but they that &s;ate at Stern upon Land &s;hared in tho&s;e Prizes, as the fame then went.</P>
<P>By this time the King began to rouze him&s;elf, and finding no|thing now left him, but a good Cau&s;e and the hearts of his wi&s;et Subjects, yet by that, and the&s;e, and the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of his brother <HI>Richard,</HI> King of the <HI>Romans,</HI> in a &s;hort &s;pace he had rai&s;ed a con&s;i|derable Army. (A King can never be &s;o down, but he will ri&s;e a|gain). With the&s;e he march't, &amp; (like a &s;now ball encreas'd by mo|tion) plundered the Rebels Lands as he went to <HI>Northampon,</HI> which was fortified again&s;t him by &s;ome of the chiefe&s;t of the Re|bels; yet by a furious a&s;&s;ault he &s;oon gained it.</P>
<P>Thence continuing his march into <HI>Su&s;&s;ex</HI> near <HI>Lewes,</HI> he recei|ved a Me&s;&s;age from the Earle, the tenour whereof was, That as for his Maje&s;ty they intended no harm again&s;t him, but onely de&s;ired that he would remove his evil Coun&s;ellors that did advi&s;e his Ma|je&s;ty again&s;t them, again&s;t the honour of the King, and welfare of the Kingdom. The King in his An&s;wer charges them with Rebel|lion and di&s;loyalty, and commands them to lay down their Arms and to return to their obedience, that they might be received to mercy: but the Earle rejecting the offer (<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Cambdens</HI> ob|&s;ervation in the ca&s;e of <HI>Ro|bert</HI> Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex.</HI></NOTE> when Subjects have once broken their fealty and tru&s;t to their Soveraign, they never dare tru&s;t their Soveraign again) re&s;olves to give the King battel.</P>
<P>Near <HI>Lewes</HI> both Armies meet: One Wing of the Earl's Army was made up of <HI>Lond<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI> Troops, which the Prince being then Ge|neral of the Kings hor&s;e, ob&s;erving,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Equites, hac, hac &s;editionum &s;celerum&abque; om|nium capita &s;unt, nunc nunc fortiter adjicite tela.</NOTE> and remembring (not with|out indignation) the abu&s;e offered by the <HI>Londo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ers</HI> to the Queen his Mother, he clapt &s;purs to his hor&s;e, and an his Cavalry after him, crying, [<HI>Here, here,</HI> (my brave Cavaliers) <HI>are the main con|trivers of all rebellions and mi&s;chief; Now, now, f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> ever charge home,</HI>] and &s;o fell on with that fury, that they pre&s;ently fly: the Prince in an eager and hot pur&s;uit does great <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ecution upon them for four miles. But this pro&s;perous beginning of the fight on <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e
<PB N="6" REF="5"> King's &s;ide was the utter overthrow of the King's Forces: for when the Earle perceived that the Prince (a young fiery &s;pirit) with all the Kings hor&s;e was gone &s;o far in pur&s;uit of the <HI>Londoners,</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Prince <HI>Ro|bert</HI> at <HI>Edge|will.</HI></NOTE> he fell violently on the Kings foot, &amp; &s;oon routed them; took the King, (his hor&s;e being &s;lain under him) pri&s;oner. The Prince at length retreating (when he &s;aw all lo&s;t) &s;urrendered him&s;elf. There were taken in this fight (be&s;ides tho&s;e royal pri&s;oners, the King, the Prince, the Kings brother and his elde&s;t Son) above twenty Noble|men that were for the King; and &s;lain, about<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Southwell. Ri&s;hanger.</NOTE> 3400.</P>
<P>The Earle having thus gotten a compleat victory, forthwith en|deavours to &s;eize all the <HI>Militia,</HI> and power of the Kingdom, for which end he carries the King about with him to countenance his actions; but the re&s;t of the royal Pri&s;oners he di&s;po&s;es in &s;everal Garri&s;ons.</P>
<P>And now the Earle believes all his own, and the people dream of nothing put Peace, but alas the War was not begun till now: For when the torn remainder of the Loyal Army that e&s;caped at <HI>Lewes,</HI> now keeping Garri&s;on in <HI>Bri&s;tow,</HI> and other noble &s;pirits, &s;aw how in&s;olently the Earle dealt with his, and their, Soveraign in barring him of his liberty, &amp;c. They &s;oon rai&s;ed a con&s;iderable power un|der the command of <HI>Roger Mortimer</HI> Earle of <HI>March:</HI> unto whom many flockt out of <HI>Shrop&s;hire, Che&s;hire, Hereford&s;hire,</HI> and <HI>Worce&s;ter,</HI> that were well affected to the King.</P>
<P>Moreover, the Queen (who was a <HI>French woman</HI>) got over be|yond Sea, to try her friends for their a&s;&s;i&s;tance to re&s;tore her Hu&s;|band to his former liberty and authority, <HI>Quod ad landem &amp; mag|nificentiam Aelianora Anglorum Reginae libet intexere</HI> (&s;aith one of that Age) <HI>quod Domino &s;uo, &amp; Edwardo filio, tam &s;trenne &amp; tam vi|riliter, tanquam virago potenti&s;&s;ima, &s;uccurrendis fortiter in&s;udave|rit.</HI></P>
<P>But before the&s;e forces were well united, the Rebels forces were as well divided: for debate ari&s;ing (as is u&s;ual in all confederations, where all parties mu&s;t be plea&s;ed, or el&s;e the knot will di&s;&s;olve) be|tween his Excellency the Earle of <HI>Leice&s;ter,</HI> and the Earle of <HI>Gloce|&s;ter,</HI> becau&s;e his Excellency, minding his own private, more than the publique good of his fellow Rebels (without any re&s;pect had to his adjutants) ingro&s;&s;es all to him&s;elf, di&s;po&s;es of the Royal pri&s;oners at his own plea&s;ure, &s;eized on the revenues of the Crowr, and compo&s;ition of Delinquents for his own u&s;e, (whereas they
<PB N="7" REF="5"> had privately agreed before, <HI>Ex omnia aqua &s;orte in er eos d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">vi|d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nda fore</HI>) In brief, he &s;hared all places of power and profit between him&s;elfe, his &s;ons, and his allies. Whereat <HI>Gloce&s;ter</HI> (as good a man as he) &s;tomackt and fell off with his followers to the Prince, who by this time (<HI>di&s;ponente domino clavigero ca ce|rum,</HI> every thing working for the King) had made his e&s;cape out of pri&s;on at <HI>Hereford:</HI> (for being allowed by his keepers to aire him|&s;elf &s;ometimes on hor&s;e back in the Town meadow, after he had tyred two or three, at length he mounts a &s;pecial fleet Nag, and put|ting &s;purs <HI>cu&s;todibus valedixit</HI>) and came &s;afe to <HI>Wigmo e</HI> Ca&s;tle, where the Lord <HI>Mortimer</HI> lay with his forces rai&s;ed for the King, &s;o marcht on with a great power, taking in (as they went) &s;ome &s;trong garri&s;ons of the rebels, plunder'd their hou&s;es, drave their cattel, &amp;c.</P>
<P>Here the War grew hot, each &s;ide fortifying Towns and Hou|&s;es, plundring and driving all round about to &s;tore the garri&s;ons: Men's hou&s;es (which were wont to be their own Ca&s;tles) were now made Ca&s;tles, but the owners were lea&s;t Ma&s;ters; all left to the mercy of the rude Souldier, the poor Country-man's dwelling-hou&s;e pillaged every where and &s;earcht,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ri&s;hanger.</NOTE> <HI>u&s;que ad lectorum &s;tra|mentum,</HI> to the very bed &s;traw: not onely Mens Hou&s;es, but even Gods Hou&s;es, the very Churches were not free from the pro|phane hands of plunderers; the high-wayes lay unoccupied, no pa&s;&s;ing from Town to Town without danger of robbing.</P>
<P>When the Prince, the Earl of <HI>Gloce&s;ter,</HI> the Earl of <HI>March,</HI> with the reliques of the royal Army were united and well ordered, they re&s;olved to give his Excellency (the Earl of <HI>Lice&s;ter</HI>) bat|tell: At <HI>Eve&s;ham</HI> in <HI>Worce&s;ter&s;hire,</HI> by a &s;peedy and unexpected march, they came upon him. The Earl &s;eeing him&s;elfe engaged to fight, gave order that his own coat-armour &s;hould be put upon the King, who was then a pri&s;oner in the Army, and that the King, (for the &s;afety of his per&s;on for&s;ooth) &s;hould be placed in the front of the battell, that &s;o if the battell went again&s;t him, the King might be aimed at as generall, and his excellency thereby make his e|&s;cape. But the King at fir&s;t charge called out to the loyall Army, that he was their King, and &s;o was pre&s;erved; yet not without the lo&s;&s;e of &s;ome of his own, (being wounded by a javelin) as well as his Subjects blood: the battell was very violent, and went &s;ore again&s;t the Rebels; at length the Earl him&s;elfe (the head of this Rebellion) was cut off; at the in&s;tant of who&s;e death, their hap|pened
<PB N="8" REF="6"> &s;uch extraordinary lightning, thunder, and thick dark|ne&s;&s;e, that it &s;truk a generall horror and amazement into the hearts of the Rebels, as if the King of Kings would now at la&s;t vi&s;ibly revenge the Kings quarrell, or as if they had &s;een Gods immediate hand again&s;t them; as once again&s;t <HI>Corah,</HI> and the 250. A&s;&s;embly-men, <HI>Numb.</HI> 16. <HI>v.</HI> 35. for the like rebellious practi&s;es.</P>
<P>In this &s;ignal Battell were &s;lain, (be&s;ides the Earl and his &s;on) &s;ixteen Lords and Knights, and about ten thou&s;and more of the Rebells part.</P>
<P>The Earl's Corps was &s;trangely (though not unde&s;ervedly) handled by the people, who were &s;o inraged again&s;t him, the chief actour and authour of their &s;o much mi&s;chiefe and mi&s;ery, that (in de&s;pight of him) they lopt off his head, hands, feet, and privie members, and &s;ent them (in &s;corn) for tokens to &s;everall places; his body was buried in <HI>Eve&s;ham</HI> Church. Notwitghan|ding this, there were many ignorant people (who had been by &s;pe|cious pretences abu&s;ed, and &s;educed to that &s;ide) that were of o|pinion for a long time after, that he dyed a Martyr, becau&s;e it was in defence of their holy (as they thought, but indeed impious) Covenant and Oath.</P>
<P>Two of the Earl's &s;ons were at the &s;ame fight taken Pri&s;oners: not long after they made an e&s;cape out of Pri&s;on, but could not e&s;cape Gods vengeance on Rebells; for in <HI>France, in mi&s;eras dies &s;uos finiverunt.</HI></P>
<P>The Counte&s;&s;e, being bani&s;ht, died a Nun in <HI>France.</HI> All the Earl's Honours and Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions were conferred upon <HI>Edmond</HI> Earl of <HI>Lanca&s;ter,</HI> the King's &s;econd &s;on, And thus ended this great fiery Meteor in a &s;tench. Thus fel our Engli&s;h <HI>Cataline,</HI> (as M. <HI>Camb|den</HI> &s;tiles him) a man in &s;hew fair and hone&s;t, but in deed, <HI>Vir pra|vo ingenio &amp; profund&acirc; perfidi&acirc;:</HI> of a perver&s;e di&s;po&s;ition, and trea|cherous beyond any mans &s;u&s;pition. After his Soveraign had heap|ed upon him many high favours, as the Earldom of <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eice&s;ter,</HI> and that high and honourable Office of Lord high Steward, and (to endeare him the more) had given him his own Si&s;ter in marriage: In token of thankfulne&s;&s;e, he doth his utmo&s;t endeavour to dimi|ni&s;h the Kings known authority, to &s;ubject him to the wills of his Subjects, to pull down Monarchicall Government, and &s;et up a factious Oligarchy, and all under the fair common pretence of re&s;toring Religion to it's Purity, and the people to their Liberty.</P>
<PB N="9" REF="6">
<P>The King thus happily pre&s;erved, and almo&s;t miraculou&s;ly (all things con&s;idered) &s;et at liberty; about a moneth after, calls a Parliament at <HI>Winche&s;ter,</HI> (no more at <HI>London,</HI> untill it was more loyall,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Fabian.</NOTE> and le&s;&s;e tumultuous) where by a full Convention it was enacted, <HI>That all Statutes and Ordinances made by the former Parlia|ment, (called</HI> the wood or mad Parliament) <HI>&s;hould be repealed, and all writings and bonds then &s;ealed by the King for ob&s;erving the &s;ame, &s;hould be cancelled and made void. That the City of</HI> London, ob &s;u|am Rebellionem, <HI>for this her Rebellion,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ri&s;hanger.</NOTE> <HI>&s;hould be deprived of all her ancient Priviledges and Liberties, and the Ringleaders of them,</HI> juxta voluntatem ip&s;ius Regis plecti, <HI>to &s;uffer &s;uch puni&s;hment as his Ma|je&s;ty was plea&s;ed to inflict:</HI> Et ditiores Civitatis in carcerem trude|rentur (<HI>&s;aith</HI> Matth. We&s;tm.) <HI>pro eo quod Simoni, in Regis contemp|tum, &amp; etiam damnum Regni, fortiter adhae&s;erint;</HI> that the wealthier Citizens &s;hould be ca&s;t in pri&s;on, becau&s;e they had in contempt of his Maje&s;ty, and great dammage and mi&s;chief of the Realm, a&s;&s;i|&s;ted the Earl. Furthermore, it was there enacted, that all &s;uch as had favoured the Rebels, (were they now in pri&s;on, or at large) &s;hould forfeit all their e&s;tates.</P>
<P>Afterward the King marcht with a great power to <HI>Winde&s;ore,</HI> re&s;olving (as the fame then went) to de&s;troy the whole City of <HI>London:</HI> Many of the Rabble and wild Commoners (&s;aith <HI>Fabian</HI>) were as re&s;olved to defend the City again&s;t him: but the wi&s;er &s;ort thought better to become humble petitioners for their pardon of what was pa&s;t, than to incen&s;e his Maje&s;ty any farther; and to that end, drew up an humble Petition, and pre&s;ented it to the King: but their late rebellious carriage had &s;o far p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ovoked his M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">je&s;ties patience, that he would not &s;o much as admit of their Petition, or hearken to any that endeavoured to mediate for them.</P>
<P>Hereupon, they were advi&s;ed to draw up an In&s;trument or w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i|ting, wherby they &s;hould yield them&s;elves wholly, both bodies and goods to the Kings mercy, which was done accordingly, and &s;ea&s;ed with the Common Seal of the City.</P>
<P>His Maje&s;ty upon earne&s;t &s;uit unto him, accepted hereof, gi|ving pre&s;ent expre&s;&s;e command, that all the Chains and Po&s;ts which they had placed at every &s;treet and lanes end, &s;hould be forthwith carried to the Tower, and that the Mayor and Fourty of the chiefe Citizens &s;hould repair unto him the next day, and confirm their &s;aid writing: this was done, and they all came ac|cordingly;
<PB N="10" REF="7"> but (contrary to their expectation, though not de|&s;erts) were all delivered into the cu&s;tody, of the Con&s;table of <HI>Winde&s;ore</HI> Ca&s;tle, and &s;hut up there in a lage Tower, where they had &s;mall cheer, and wor&s;e lodging. The next day toward night, all (but five, whereof the Mayor was one) had their enlargement. Tho&s;e five, their bodies and goods, were as a boone be&s;towed on the Prince, the re&s;t were commanded to attend at <HI>W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nde&s;ore</HI> for a long time after.</P>
<P>Sixty or &s;eventy wealthy Cicizens with all their Lands, Goods, and Cattles, did the King di&s;po&s;e to his hou&s;ehold-&s;ervants.</P>
<P>For the Government of this unruly City, the King appointed one <HI>Othon</HI> a forreiner, or &s;tranger, fir&s;t Con&s;table of the Tower, and then <HI>Cu&s;tos,</HI> or Warden of the City, to pull down their haughty rebellious &s;pirits, and that his peace for the future might be &s;urely kept, he required the be&s;t mens &s;ons in the City for Ho|&s;tages. The&s;e he clapt up in the Tower, and cau&s;ed them to be there kept at the co&s;t and charges of their Parents.</P>
<P>Daily &s;uit was made unto his Maje&s;ty, for his Pardon and Fa|vour, but in vain: then they petition the King to know his gra|cious plea&s;ure, what Fine he would demand of the whole City, for their offences again&s;t him. The King at length &s;ignified unto them, that the &s;umme of Fifty thou&s;and Marks &s;hould be their Fine. Whereunto the <HI>Londoners</HI> return this humble an&s;wer. They had been of late, by this unhappy War,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Long before the di&s;covery of the <HI>West-Indyes.</HI></NOTE> &s;o exceedingly impove|ri&s;hed, that a &s;umme &s;o great (as it was in tho&s;e times) could not po&s;&s;ibly be rai&s;ed among&s;t them; wherefore they humbly be|&s;eeched his Princely compa&s;&s;ion might be &s;o farre extended to|wards them, as to require, and accept according to their abilities. At length, after much &s;uit and &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion, and a Fine of twenty thou&s;and Marks, the King received them to mercy, and &s;ent them under his Great Seal a generall Pardon (tho&s;e onely excepted, who&s;e e&s;tates were already be&s;towed) granting and allowing that their former Charter, and ancient Priviledges &s;hould be re&s;tored unto them, <HI>notwith&s;tanding all the tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions</HI> (they are the words of the Pardon) <HI>and tre&s;pa&s;&s;es done to Us, to our Queen, to our no|ble brother,</HI> Richard <HI>King of</HI> Almaine, <HI>and the Prince, our fir&s;t be|gotten &s;on.</HI></P>
<P>And here was the fir&s;t pacification betwixt the King and the <HI>Londoners,</HI> for whom wee may &s;ay thus much, <HI>That
<PB N="11" REF="7"> their foul Rebellion againg their Soveraign was not more dete&s;table, then their humble &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion to their Soverain was commendable.</HI> And therefore in the Ordinance, called <HI>Dictum de Kene<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">worth,</HI> made for the &s;etling of the Kingdom, we find them (notwith&s;tanding, all their di&s;loyalty) commended, as &s;hall be &s;een in the en&s;uing Story.</P>
<P>After the proud &s;tomach of this City was brought down, and all tumultuous &s;pirits quelled, the King calls his Parliament <HI>(in fe&s;to Sancti Edvardi Regis)</HI> to <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> wherein tho&s;e that aided and a&s;&s;i&s;ted the Earl were all (excepting the <HI>Londoners</HI>) attainted, and that all theit Lands and Goods were forfeited.</P>
<P>But this Sentence (though it was le&s;&s;e than they de&s;erved) yet was more than they would endure, and therefore the fire (that was not yet quencht, but &s;mothered) breaks forth again. Some flie into the I&s;le <HI>Ely,</HI> and fortifie that. Some into the I&s;le of <HI>Ax|holme</HI> in <HI>Lincoln&s;hire.</HI> Another party po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e them&s;elves of <HI>Killing|worth</HI> Ca&s;tle. Another, under the command of the Lord <HI>Ferrers,</HI> in the Northern parts. And among&s;t others, one <HI>Adam Gurdon</HI> lived as an Outlaw in <HI>Hamp&s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">re;</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ri&s;hanger.</NOTE> <HI>tum rarus aut nullus locus in An|glia fuit tutus, e&ograve; quod terra erat ve&s;pilionibus plena:</HI> Now &s;carce any place in <HI>England</HI> was free from plunderers.</P>
<P>To reduce the&s;e to obedience, the King undertakes <HI>K<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lling|worth</HI> Ca&s;tle. The Prince was &s;ent again&s;t <HI>Adam Gurdon.</HI> Lord <HI>Edmond</HI> the Prince's brother again&s;t tho&s;e in <HI>Axholme;</HI> And Lord <HI>Henry</HI> the King of <HI>Almaines</HI> &s;on, again&s;t the Lord<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">This Lord <HI>Henry,</HI> the Kings Ne|phew, was a valiant Soul|dier, and ha|ving found out the Lord <HI>Ferrers</HI> at <HI>Che|&s;terfield,</HI> gave him battel, &amp; over threw him, and be|cau&s;e he had been pardoned once before, it was decreed that he &s;hould be degraded, and depived of his Earl|dom for ever, and fined fifty thou&s;and pounds.</NOTE> <HI>Ferreres.</HI></P>
<P>To the Rebels in <HI>K<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">llingworth</HI> Ca&s;tle, the King &s;ent fir&s;t a gra|cious me&s;&s;age, willing them to de&s;i&s;t, and return to their obe|dience. But they, contrary to all Law of Arms, contrary to naturall civility, cur off the Me&s;&s;engers hand, and &s;ent him back with an uncilil an&s;wer. Then the King marcht to <HI>Killingworth,</HI> and &s;ate down before it upon Mid&s;ummer Eve. During the Siege (which la&s;ted &s;ix Moneths) <HI>Clerus &amp; populus convocantur, &amp; duodecim eliguntur de potentioribus Procerum, &amp; prudentiori|bus Praelatonum, quibus datur pote&s;tas ordinandi &s;uper Statutum exhaerendatorum,</HI> &amp;c. The Clergie and Laitie are a&s;&s;embled, and out of the chiefe&s;t of the Peerage, and wi&s;e&s;t of the Prelates, were cho&s;en twelve, to whom power was given to pronounce &s;entence again&s;t the Rebels, and to &s;ettle the peace of the King|dom; they, fir&s;t taking an Oath, <HI>de utilibus ordinandis,</HI> to de|cree
<PB N="12" REF="8"> nothing, but what &s;hould be for the good of the Common weale.</P>
<P>Then the people take a &s;olemne oath, <HI>Quod dictum ip&s;orum in|violabiliter ob&s;ervarent;</HI> that they would &s;tand to their Decree, which to this day, by our Lawyers is called, <HI>Dictum de Kenel|wor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">h;</HI> a &s;evere, yet a good and whole&s;ome cour&s;e (without effu|&s;ion of blood) to puni&s;h Rebellious Subjects.</P>
<P>The Decree as followeth.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Dictum de <HI>Kenelworth.</HI></NOTE><HI>In nomine &s;anctae &amp; individuae Trinitatis, Amen. Ad honorem &amp; gloriam Omnipotentis Dei Patris, &amp; Filii, &amp; Spiritus Sancti,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>Et ad honorem &amp; bonum pro&s;perum &amp; pacificum &s;tatum Chri&s;tian &s;&s;imi Principis Domini Henrici Regis Angliae Illu&s;tris, &amp; totius Angliae Eccle&s;iae, Nos Willihelmus,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>In Engli&s;h thus.</P>
<FLOATEXT LANG="eng" TYPE="decree">
<P>In the name of the holy and individuall Trinity, Amen. For the honour and glory of Almighty God, the Father, Son, and Holy Gho&s;t, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> And for the honour, pro&s;perity, and peace of the mo&s;t Chri&s;tian Prince, our Soveraign Lord <HI>Henry,</HI> the mo&s;t re|nowned King of <HI>England,</HI> and of the whole Church of <HI>England;</HI> We <HI>William Exon, William Bath</HI> and <HI>Wells, Henry Worce&s;ter,</HI> and <HI>T.</HI> S^t. <HI>Davids,</HI> Bi&s;hops. <HI>Gilbert de Clare</HI> Earl of <HI>Gloce&s;ter, Humphry</HI> Earl of <HI>Hereford, Philip Ba&s;&s;et, John Bailof, Robert Wallop, Alan de la Souch, Roger de Somerie,</HI> and <HI>Warren de Ba&s;ingborn,</HI> providing for the welfare of the Land, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> have thought fit to order as fol|loweth.</P>
<P N="1">1. That the Rebels be not wholly deprived of their e&s;tates, but &s;hall have liberty to redeem their Lands by fines, in manner fol|lowing.</P>
<P N="1">1. That tho&s;e that were in the fight at <HI>Che&s;terfield,</HI> again&s;t our Soveraign Lord the King.</P>
<P><HI>Item,</HI> All tho&s;e that by force of Armes impiou&s;ly kept <HI>Northam|pton</HI> again&s;t the King.</P>
<P><HI>Item,</HI> Tho&s;e that gave the King battell at <HI>Lewis.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Item,</HI> Tho&s;e that were taken pri&s;oners at <HI>Kenelworth.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Item,</HI> Tho&s;e that came to pillage <HI>Winche&s;ter,</HI> or were el&s;ewhere again&s;t the King, whom the King hath not pardoned.</P>
<P><HI>Item,</HI> Tho&s;e that gave the King battel at <HI>Eve&s;ham.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Item,</HI> All tho&s;e that freely, and voluntarily, and without any compul&s;ion, have contributed to the War again&s;t the King or Prince.</P>
<PB N="13" REF="8">
<P><HI>Item,</HI> The Officers and Servants of the Earl of <HI>Leice&s;ter,</HI> that pillaged their neighbours, or were the cau&s;e of any murders, firings, or other enormities; that all the&s;e be fined five years revenues of all their E&s;tates, re&s;pectively; and that if they pay down their Fines pre&s;ently, they may enjoy their Lands pre&s;ently; but if the Land mu&s;t be &s;old for the payment of the Fine, he, on whom the King be&s;towed it, &s;hall have the refu&s;all, if he will give as much as any other. And if the originall owner will pay down the whole Fine, he &s;hall have the whole Land; and likewi&s;e, if he will pay the moity or third part, he &s;hall have the moity, or thirds of the Land. And if at the end and terme appointed, the owner doth not pay for the other moity, it &s;hall be clearly theirs on whom the King was plea&s;ed to be&s;tow it.</P>
<P>And as &s;oon as any one hath paid down his whole Fine, &s;uch &s;hall have liberty to let, or &s;et, or &s;ell his land within the prefixed time.</P>
<P>Tho&s;e that have Woods, and would willingly make &s;ale of them for the payment of their Fines; He on whom the King be&s;towed, and the originall owner, &s;hall have each one his Bailiff to &s;ee it &s;old: and tho&s;e two Bailiffs &s;hall (as fa&s;t as the money is made) pay it to whom the Fine was given by our Soveraign Lord the King: this payment mu&s;t be made within three years at the farthe&s;t.</P>
<P>All Officers and Reformadoes, that were known to be common plunderers, and made it their bu&s;ine&s;&s;e to plunder, if &s;uch have no Land, but onely Goods; they &s;hall be fined one moity of all their Goods, and &s;hall find &s;ufficient &s;ureties, that they &s;hall keep the peace of our Soveraign Lord the King for the time to come. They that have nothing, &s;hall be &s;worn upon the holy Go&s;pel, and find &s;ufficient &s;ureties, that they will keep the Kings peace for the time forward, and &s;hall make &s;uch &s;atisfaction, and do &s;uch penance, as the holy Church &s;hall cen&s;ure, excepting onely bani&s;hed per|&s;ons, who are wholly left to the will and plea&s;ure of the King.</P>
<P N="2">2. Moreover, as for Wards, or young Hei<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s (that were in actuall Rebellion again&s;t the King during their minority) their Guardians &s;hall pay their Fines, and the &s;aid Wards (when they come to age) &s;hall pay back the &s;ame to their Guardians within two or three years, &s;o that the Gardians &s;hall have the Ward|&s;hip and their marriages (without di&s;paragement) even till they be come to full age, and all Wards &s;hall pay their Fines after the &s;ame manner as tho&s;e of full age. Onely the Kings own Wards &s;hall
<PB N="14" REF="9"> be in the hands of tho&s;e, to whom the King &s;hall give them, until they come to years, and then they &s;hall pay down their Fines ac|cording to the &s;ame manner as tho&s;e of full years; Provided alwais than there be no wa&s;t made by the Guardians upon their e&s;tates; If there be, then the Guardians to be puni&s;hed according to Law.</P>
<P N="3">3. If any that were for the King before, and &s;ince the battel at <HI>Lewes,</HI> be now fined for not a&s;&s;i&s;ting the Prince, (when he was rai&s;|ing forces to re&s;cue his Father,) we leave him to the King to be cen&s;ured or pardoned, as he &s;hall think fit.</P>
<P N="4">4. That there be no &s;ale or wa&s;te made of any Woods by tho&s;e on whom they were be&s;towed, unle&s;&s;e the Fine be not pai'd with|in the time limited Onely it is allowed, that they &s;hall cut &s;o much wood as is nece&s;&s;ary to keep the hou&s;es in reparations; and if they &s;hall exceed this allowance, to be &s;everally puni&s;hed.</P>
<P N="5">5. If any be thought to be dangerous per&s;ons, and that they are like to move &s;edition, and to revive the Wars; let the King &s;ecure their per&s;ons as he &s;hall think fit, either by &s;ending them into for|reine parts for a time, or what other way &s;hall be thought expedi|ent; provided alwaies that if they be thereby hindred from pay|ing their Fines, they &s;hall not forfet their e&s;tates.</P>
<P N="6">6. That if any will not &s;ubmit to this Ordinance, he be left to be cen&s;ured at the Kings-bench-bar, before the fea&s;t of St. <HI>Hillary</HI> next coming. All tho&s;e that live in forreine parts &s;hall find &s;ure|ties, (according to the Laws and Cu&s;toms of tho&s;e States) to live peaceably, otherwi&s;e that they &s;hall not be received in a peaceable manner.</P>
<P N="7">7. Whereas the King's Maje&s;ty is ingaged to many that &s;erved him in his Wars, and faithfully &s;tuck to him, who he hath not yet &s;ufficiently rewarded, and &s;ome have been rewarded above their de&s;erts, we de&s;ire that the King take &s;peciall care, that out of De|linquents e&s;tates they may be all rewarded to the full, le&s;t other|wi&s;e a new War &s;hould be occa&s;ioned.</P>
<P N="8">8. That the Kings Maje&s;ty be graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed to make choice of twelve able Men, that may be authorized to &s;ee this punctually and faithfully performed, and that the Kings Maje&s;ty, his Heirs, or Succe&s;&s;ors, take care that it be all firmly ob&s;erved and maintai|ned, and to enquire into, and regulate, and &s;ee duely executed, what &s;hall be by the &s;aid twelve Men ordered according to rea&s;on and equity.</P>
<P N="9"><PB N="15" REF="9">9. That all Farmers and Renters of Lands that were again&s;t the King, &s;hall lo&s;e their Farms for all the term or time of their lea|&s;es that are to come, (provided that the Landlords be no way en|damaged) and when the terme of their Lea&s;es are out, then to re|turn to the Landlords again.</P>
<P N="10">10. As for Ca&s;tles and Forts built by the Kings grant and al|lowance, upon any Delinquents ground, contrary to the will of the &s;aid Delinquent; We decree that (after the owner o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters"> at land hath paid his fine, which mu&s;t be within three years) for &s;ix yeers more the owner of that Land &s;hall pay &s;uch cu&s;tome as was impo|&s;ed by the King, or el&s;e accept of a rea&s;onable exchange for the &s;aid Land.</P>
<P N="11">11. All Lay-men who notoriou&s;ly advanced the Earls de&s;igns, and a&s;&s;i&s;ted him or his adherents, <HI>Attrahendo homines per men|dacia &amp; fal&s;itates parti Comitis &amp; &s;uorum, &amp; detrahendo parti Regis &amp; filli &s;ui,</HI> by drawing people through lies and fal&s;ities, either to the Earle and his party, or from the King and his party, it is or|dained that they be fined as much as two years revenues of all their e&s;tates.</P>
<P N="12">12. That all &s;uch as were pre&s;&s;ed, or out of fear went to the Wars, but never fought again&s;t the King, or did any mi&s;chiefe; al|&s;o tho&s;e that being not able to go them&s;elves, yet by force or fear were compelled to contribute towards the Armies-again&s;t the King or the Prince; al&s;o that tho&s;e that were enforced to be plunderers, or to aid and a&s;&s;i&s;t any plunder-ma&s;ters, and yet did return to their habitations, as &s;oon as conveniently they could, be all left <HI>In mi&s;ericordi&acirc; Domini Regis.</HI></P>
<P N="13">13. That all tho&s;e that wittingly bought any plundered goods, re&s;tore the value of the goods, and be <HI>In mi&s;ericordia Domini Regis;</HI> becau&s;e they thereby have offended again&s;t the Law, and done con|trary to the Kings expre&s;&s;e command, &s;et for half a year before.</P>
<P N="14">14. That all tho&s;e that at the Earls command went into <HI>Nor|thampton,</HI> yet never gave the rebels their a&s;&s;i&s;tance, or made any re&s;i&s;tance, but as &s;oon as they perceived the King comming, took Sanctuary (provided that this be atte&s;ted by the oaths of good and lawful men) likewi&s;e that tho&s;e that owed no &s;uit or &s;ervice to the Earle, and yet came upon his command, be all fined half a years revenue of every one re&s;pectively; but tho&s;e that held of the Earle in Fee, let them be only <HI>In mi&s;ericordi&acirc; Domini Regis.</HI></P>
<P N="15"><PB N="16" REF="10">15 That impotent &s;illy people, and all &s;uch as did no mi&s;chiefe, may enjoy their e&s;tates as formerly, and recover dammages at the <HI>Kings Bench,</HI> again&s;t tho&s;e that &s;hall wrong them.</P>
<P N="16">16 That tho&s;e that accu&s;e any of their fellow &s;ubjects out of malice, be puni&s;hed at the Kings plea&s;ure, and that his Maje&s;ty thence forwa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d do not ea&s;ily give credit unto them. And we judge that they de&s;erve the &s;ame puni&s;hment as the accu&s;ed, if the accu|&s;ation <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> true; provided that they lo&s;e not life, limb, or e&s;tate.</P>
<P N="17">17. That all &s;uch as are accu&s;ed upon meer malice, may &s;till enjoy their e&s;tates, and recover dammage again&s;t their accu&s;ers in the <HI>Kings Bench,</HI> as above &s;aid.</P>
<P N="18">18 That all women injoy their own inheritances and dowries, But tho&s;e lands that came by their husbands, who have been a|gain&s;t the King, &s;hall be redeemed by a fine, according as his Ma|je&s;ty &s;hall impo&s;e upon them, &amp;c.</P>
<P N="19">19. That all &s;uch as are acquitted (&s;o it be by tho&s;e that have authority to acquit them) remaine and &s;tand in &s;uch a condition as they are put into; and that all that have paid their fines, &s;hall not be re&s;pon&s;able for dammages and tre&s;pa&s;&s;es committed by them upon tho&s;e, again&s;t whom they fought in the time of the late troubles, but that all dammages and tre&s;pa&s;&s;es be forgiven on both &s;ides, provided that the Church may have her dues.</P>
<P N="20">20. That becau&s;e it may be of dangerous con&s;equence, that any Ca&s;tles &s;hould remain in the power of tho&s;e, who were in actu|all Rebellion again&s;t the King, we therefore decree and ordaine, that for the Ca&s;tles of <HI>Hardley, Bytham,</HI> and <HI>Chertley,</HI> there be gi|ven a rea&s;onable exchange.</P>
<P N="21">21. As for the Earle <HI>Simon Monfort,</HI> his Counte&s;&s;e, and his &s;ons, we decree nothing, becau&s;e our Soveraign Lord the King hath referred them, and their offences, to the King of <HI>France.</HI></P>
<P N="22">22. As for the City of <HI>London</HI> [taking notice, it &s;eems of their humble &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion] we commend it, and do make this motion to our Soveraign Lord the King, that by the advice of his Privy Councel, he take order for reforming the &s;tate of the City, and &s;ettle their Lands, Revenues, Buildings and Liberties, and that this Order be pre&s;ently debated.</P>
<P N="23">23. For the Lord <HI>Ferrers,</HI> we decree that he be fined &s;even years revenues of all his e&s;tate.</P>
<P N="24">24. That all that now keep <HI>Killingworth</HI> Ca&s;tle be pardoned,
<PB N="17" REF="10"> except <HI>Henry Ha&s;tings,</HI> and tho&s;e that had any hand in cutting off the Kings Me&s;&s;engers hand, all which &s;hall be fined &s;even years revenues of all their e&s;tates, or el&s;e &s;ubmit them&s;elves to the Kings mercy.</P>
<P N="25">25. That all men what&s;oever endeavor to keep the peace of the Kingdom, that none pre&s;ume to commit any outrages, firings, mur|ders, robberies, or by any other means break the Peace. Which if any &s;hal be &s;o hardy as not to ob&s;erve, &amp; be thereof lawfully con|victed, let him have &s;entence according to the Lawes of the land.</P>
<P N="26">26. <HI>Item,</HI> that all whom it may concern, take their oaths upon the holy Go&s;pel of God, that they will never take any revenge, be acce&s;&s;ory, or con&s;enting to take any revenge, nor will &s;uffer (as much as in them lies) that any revenge &s;hould be taken again&s;t any one for any injury &s;uffered in the late times of trouble; and if any one &s;hall pre&s;ume to revenge him&s;elf, we decree that puni&s;hment be inflicted upon him in the <HI>Kings Bench Court.</HI></P>
<P N="27">27. That the <HI>Holy Church</HI> receive full &s;atisfaction from tho&s;e that have injured her.</P>
<P N="28">28. But if there be any that will not &s;ubmit to this Ordinance, or refu&s;e to be tried by their Peers before our Soveraign Lord the King, let them forfeit their e&s;tates for ever. And if there be any that have gotten po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the Rebels Lands, and were him&s;elf a Rebel, he is thereby uncapable of challenging any right to the land, or to have any title to the fine by the Kings Maje&s;ties gift.</P>
<P N="29">29. Who&s;oever will not &s;ubmit to this Ordinance, let him be accounted a profe&s;t enemy to our Soveraign Lord the King, and to his Sons, and to the whole Realm, and let all the Laity and Clergy (as far as the Canon Lawes and Common Lawes will reach) pro|&s;ecute &s;uch an one as an enemy to the peace of Church and State.<NOTE PLACE="marg">About the end of <HI>October</HI> the King a&s;&s;em|bled all the Lords Spiritu|all and Tem|porall, and Knights of the Shires, to <HI>Northampton,</HI> where this de|cree was con|firmed by Act of Parliament</NOTE></P>
<P N="30">30. La&s;tly, that all tho&s;e that are impri&s;oned, or any way debar|red of their Liberty, upon rea&s;onable and competent &s;ecurity &s;hall have their inlargement, by putting in Sureties, or &s;uch other way as the King hath allowed.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Dated, and &s;et forth from the Campe before <HI>Kenelworth,</HI> <DATE>the la&s;t day of <HI>September,</HI> in the year of our Lord God <HI>1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">66,</HI> and of the reign of the mo&s;t renowned King <HI>Henry</HI> the third, <HI>51.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<P>Thus endeth that Famous Ordinance called to this day * <HI>Dictum de Kenelworth;</HI> wherein are compri&s;ed the wi&s;e&s;t rules, that the wi&s;e&s;t men of tho&s;e times could po&s;&s;ibly devi&s;e, to uphold, com|po&s;e,
<PB N="18" REF="11"> and recover a tottering, di&s;tracted, dying Kingdome.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Barons of Cinque Ports &s;eeing the King pro|&s;per, made their peace with the King</NOTE>About two months after the publication of this Ordinance, <HI>viz.</HI> upon Saint <HI>Thomas</HI> Eve, the Ca&s;tle was delivered up, upon con|ditions (too good for tho&s;e that had &s;o barbarou&s;ly u&s;ed the Kings Me&s;&s;enger, contemned the King, and impoveri&s;hed the Country) to march away with their goods, and to undergo no fine for taking up Arms.</P>
<P>This Ca&s;tle had the King be&s;towed upon the Earle of <HI>Leic&egrave;&s;ter,</HI> in franke marriage with his &s;i&s;ter <HI>Elionor;</HI> but when the Earle by his Rebellion had forfeited, and the King had now won it, he gave it to his own Sonne, <HI>Edmund</HI> Earle of <HI>Lanca&s;ter,</HI> who by this time had reduc'd the I&s;le of <HI>Axholme,</HI> and all tho&s;e rude igno|rant people that flockt thither, pillaging and plundering the Kings friends round about.</P>
<P>The Prince al&s;o met with <HI>Adam Gurdon,</HI> a famous &s;turdy Re|bell, that lay lurking in <HI>Aulton</HI> Wood in <HI>Hamp&s;hire,</HI> robbing and &s;poyling the adjacent parts, <HI>Precipu&egrave; terras eorum qui parti Regiae adhaerebant;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ri&s;hanger.</NOTE> the Prince upon his approach, hearing of his valour, &s;ent him a Challenge for a &s;ingle Combate. <HI>Gurdon</HI> accepts it, and performed it &s;o gallantly, that the Prince a&s;&s;ur'd him of his life and e&s;tate, if he would &s;ubmit: which he did, and was received in|to great favour with the Prince; but divers of his men were there executed.</P>
<P>Now the I&s;le of <HI>Ely</HI> was &s;trongly fortified by a great multi|tude got together, that refu&s;ed to &s;ubmit to the Ordinance of <HI>Kenelworth.</HI> Upon the naturall &s;trength of this I&s;le, and the plen|ty of all provi&s;ion therein, &s;editious Rebels have often pre&s;umed, and from hence have mole&s;ted more Kings then one, as they did now the neighbouring Counties, robbing, and pillaging <HI>Nor|folk, Su&s;&s;olk,</HI> and <HI>Cambridge&s;hire,</HI> plundering the City of <HI>Nor|wich,</HI> and carrying away the riche&s;t Citizens, made them redeem them&s;elves: at length a me&s;&s;age was &s;ent unto them, requiring them to &s;ubmit to the Ordinance of <HI>Killingworth,</HI> to leave off robbing their fellow &s;ubjects, and to return to their allegiance. Hereto they return this in&s;olent an&s;wer, That <HI>they had taken up arms to defend the good of Church and State, and therefore ought to be re&s;tored to the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r lands without paying any fine.</HI> In briefe they require ho&s;tages into the I&s;land, and that they might hold it five years peaceably, till they &s;aw how the King would performe
<PB N="19" REF="11"> his promi&s;es, (perfidious &s;ubjects ever &s;u&s;pect their Princes fide|lity) which high in&s;olency of theirs (unheard of till our times) &s;o exa&s;perates the King, that he re&s;olves to try the utmo&s;t to reduce them to their obedience; for that purpo&s;e marches with a mighty Army again&s;t them, the Prince al&s;o joyns with a con&s;iderable power; after many a&s;&s;aults, at length (after they had held it above two yeers) by the help of new made bridges and boats, they &s;tor|med it on every &s;ide, that they were forced to yield.</P>
<P>And now men thought the fire was quite out. But there were yet &s;ome live embers (which the Earle of <HI>Gloce&s;ter</HI> upon &s;ome di&s;ta&s;te blowing) &s;uddenly flamed out again in <HI>London,</HI> where the Commons of the City forgetting their late puni&s;hment, and as men (&s;aith mine Author) without dread of God or the King: drew up in arms again, flock'd to the Earle of <HI>Gloce&s;ter,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Fabian.</NOTE> plundered the well-affected to the King, &s;eque&s;tred their e&s;tates, brake the Pri&s;ons, cho&s;e a new Mayor and Sheriffes, made Bul|warks and Barbicans, and fortefied the City wonderou&s;ly, and were &s;o confident of their &s;trength and cau&s;e, that they dur&s;t bid the King battell, appointing <HI>Houn&s;loe-health</HI> for the field.</P>
<P>The King by a &s;peedy march came to the place at the time ap|pointed, but they in&s;tead of meeting his Maje&s;ty, ran about the Ci|ty in a tumultuos manner. Some to <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> and there plunde|red the Kings Pallace, <HI>fene&s;tras &amp; o&s;tia fregerunt,</HI> (&s;aith <HI>Mat. W &s;tm.) vix manus a cembu&s;tione totius Palatii cohibentes;</HI> brake the doors and windows, hardly forbearing to &s;et it all on fire.</P>
<P>Then the King removed his camp to the other &s;ide of the City, and had his head quarters at <HI>Stratford,</HI> three miles off the City, the re&s;t of his Army lay at <HI>Ham,</HI> a village hard by. The wi&s;er Citizens fore&s;eeing the danger that hung over them, de&s;ired a treaty with the King, whereunto (though they were mo&s;t unworthy of &s;o much clemency) his Maje&s;ty was graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed to conde&s;cend, and upon the&s;e ea&s;ie terms they were again received to mercy.</P>
<P><HI>Imprimis, Salvo in omnibus dicto Killingworthi,</HI> that the Ordi|nance of <HI>Kill<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ngworth</HI> &s;hould be ob&s;erved in all points; then that the fortifications &s;hould be razed and the trenches filled up; la&s;t|ly, that 1000. Marks dammages &s;hould be paid down to the Kings brother for his Mannor of <HI>I&s;leworth,</HI> fired by them long before.</P>
<P>Al&s;o his Maje&s;ty for &s;ome years following cho&s;e the Mayor and Sheriffs him&s;elfe: but toward the latte: end of his Reign, being
<PB N="20" REF="12"> fully reconciled, he re&s;tored them their (often forfeited)<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Then did the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ing com|mand, that Peace &s;hould be proclaim'd all the King|dome over, which was re|ceived with joyful accla|mations.</NOTE> Privi|ledges.</P>
<P>Thus, after the Almighty (who&s;e judgements are un&s;earchable) had &s;uffered crafty &s;editious &s;pirits to &s;educe a whole Nation, to trample upon his Anointed, and to tread his Honour in the very du&s;t for a time, yet at length, all his enemies are clothed with &s;hame, and upon him&s;elf his Crown flouri&s;heth again.</P>
<P>And now after this furious dreadfull tempe&s;t, after &s;o many &s;torms and &s;howers of blood, began a joyful long-expected Calm: which that they might enjoy without any intervening of more &s;tormes, and for the better &s;etling and quieting the Kingdom, the King gives expre&s;&s;e command for the razing of divers in-land Ca&s;tles; as <HI>Farnham, &amp;c.</HI> That &s;o if another Rebellion &s;hould be begotten, it might no where find a Nur&s;e, and then it could not be long-liv'd.</P>
<P>Al&s;o, for the more quiet and &s;ecure travelling of his Subjects, he appoints a Captain in every County, who with a Troop of Hor&s;e &s;hould alwaies a&s;&s;i&s;t the Sheriff, for the taking and puni&s;hing all &s;tragling reliques of the late Armies, and high-way robbers, where|with the Kingdome did abound at that time, no place free from them. In &s;ome places al&s;o, <HI>Ruricolae</HI> (&s;aith <HI>R<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;hanger</HI>) the Coun|try people would generally ri&s;e again&s;t them (as again&s;t Wolves or Bears;) and at one time, they took and kill'd fifty of them, that were got together neer St <HI>Albans</HI> in <HI>Hartford&s;hire.</HI></P>
<P>Be&s;ides, the King <HI>Proclamari fecit contra pacem regni di&s;turban|tes,</HI> &s;et forth a Proclamation again&s;t all &s;uch as &s;hould any way di|&s;turb the quiet of the Realm, by plundering or &s;tealing, &amp;c. And that if any man &s;hould pre&s;ume to &s;teal but a Cow or a Sheep, <HI>vel aliquid aliud</HI> (&s;aith mine Author) he &s;hould &s;urely be put to death.</P>
<P>The&s;e were the petty devices of that Age, to pump and drain the huge &s;ink of the Kingdome; but the Staple Policy was, by a Forraign Expedition (like a wide fluce) to let out all the filth at once: for which purpo&s;e therefore (among others) it was re&s;ol|ved upon, that a great Army &s;hould be rai&s;ed under the command of the Prince, for a voyage to Pale&s;tine. And by this cour&s;e e&s;pe|cially did his Maje&s;ty &s;oon &s;pend the in&s;olencies of his own, and the Rebels Souldiers,<NOTE PLACE="marg">So at a late Dyet, or Parli|ament in <HI>Ger|many</HI> (after they had un|dutifully &s;tri|ved with the Emperor, and wa&s;ted the Empire) it was concluded that things &s;hould be re|duced to the &s;ame &s;tate as it was in the year 1618.</NOTE> made lawle&s;&s;e by the late unavoidable Li|berty of Civil Arms.</P>
<P>And here was an end of this wa&s;ting, groundle&s;&s;e, unnaturall
<PB N="21" REF="12"> War, wherein the &s;ubject having &s;trugled and wre&s;tled with Sove|raignty, till they had wa&s;ted the Kingdom, and wearied them&s;elves, at la&s;t are content to &s;it down by the lo&s;&s;e, to let the King have his own rights again, and &s;ome of theirs, according to the u&s;uall event and i&s;&s;ue of &s;uch imbroylments.</P>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The Corollary.</HEAD>
<P>Out of this brief Narration may be extracted &s;omewhat that may be u&s;eful both to the King, and to the &s;ubject.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>To the King.</HEAD>
<P>Fir&s;t for preventing &s;editions and rebellions: then for &s;etling a Kingdome after a rebellion &s;uppre&s;t.</P>
<P>For the fir&s;t, That he beware how he entru&s;t the government of his Kingdome wholly to others: How he &s;uffer his Favourites, and great Officers of State, to &s;uck him into nece&s;&s;ity, and inthral him by indigency; and be thereby drawn by extraordinary and ille|gal Impo&s;itions and Taxes, to vex and alienate the hearts and affe|ctions of his &s;ubjects; and then (as he mu&s;t) be con&s;train'd to fly unto them for relief and coun&s;el in Parliament (where he mu&s;t then run the hazard of being &s;ubject to his &s;ubjects, and they will be Kings over their King, where he mu&s;t then be content to be le&s;&s;e then he &s;hould be, and they will be more, where they may make advantage of his nece&s;&s;ity, and he mu&s;t undergo many hard cen&s;ures, and be vexed with undutiful demands before they will relieve him<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">As in the y<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">er 1641 and 1642.</NOTE>. But whether the &s;ubject part with his mony, or not, let the King take heed of ever parting with his power.</P>
<P>Then, after the heat and heart of a rebellion is broken, not to be over-&s;evere again&s;t any, le&s;t the re&s;t grow de&s;perate. Severity may blow up, but &s;eldome blow out the flames of a rebellion.</P>
<P>Yet to &s;hew &s;ome acts of power, as well as of grace and mercy, not to u&s;e the extremity of ju&s;tice, le&s;t he thereby renew the pre|&s;ent rebellion yet to &s;hew &s;ome ju&s;tice to prevent a future.</P>
<P>By a &s;weet mixture of mercy and ju&s;tice, the King &s;hall at once both humble and oblige his delinquent &s;ubjects: by mercy in not taking the rigour of the Law; by ju&s;tice, in taking a part of the law: by this he &s;hall humble them in taking &s;o much, by that he &s;hall oblige them in taking no more.</P>
<P>Next, to take &s;pecial care in rewarding, and cheri&s;hing, and coun|tenancing, and remembring (before others) all tho&s;e that &s;tuck clo&s;e unto him; that by their per&s;ons or their pur&s;es, &s;hewed them|&s;elves
<PB N="22" REF="13"> really for him, and, without all fallacy, loyal.</P>
<P>After this, to prepare &s;peedily for &s;ome forraign expedition, wherein to imploy all the late active &s;pirits, and working heads, who will &s;oon make work again at home, if they have not work abroad.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, to place &s;ome one as a Scavenger in every Cou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ty, to carry away the dregs left behind, &s;uch as will not goe beyond &s;ea, cannot work, and are a&s;hamed to beg.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>To the Subject.</HEAD>
<P>Fir&s;t, that they &s;uffer not them&s;elves to be abu&s;ed and &s;educed into di&s;loyalty, by any ambitious unquiet cunning &s;pirits, upon what pretences &s;oever, and when Liberty, Religion, or any publick good is pretended, then mo&s;t of all to &s;u&s;pect private ends.</P>
<P>Next, that the &s;ubject &s;eldome get by this cour&s;e, but often lo&s;e their former ancient Liberties and Priviledges, according to that very ob&s;ervable (though not ob&s;erved Maxime) EVERy REBel|lion &s;uppre&s;t, makes the King more King, and the &s;ubject more &s;ubject.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, that taking Arms without the Kings authority, upon what pretences &s;oever, (be they never &s;o fair, as for Religion, or Liberty, never &s;o fooli&s;h, as that it is not again&s;t the King, but for the King) is mo&s;t abominable in the eyes of God, and though it &s;eem to pro&s;per for a time, yet in the end is mo&s;t &s;urely and &s;evere|ly puni&s;hed, ending commonly in a general impoveri&s;hment (if not the ruine) of the &s;ubject, and &s;ome dreadful judgement upon the contrivers.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Pro.</HI> 24.21. and 22.</NOTE> <HI>My &s;on fear thou the Lord and the King, and meddle not with them that are given to change. For their calamity &s;hall ri&s;e &s;uddenly, who knoweth the ruine of them both?</HI></P>
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