A brief RELATION OF The remarkable occurrences in the Northern parts: Viz. The Landing of the Queen's majesty In the Bay of BURLINGTON: And The repulse given unto the Rebels at the town of NEWARK: Both signified by several Letters on the same day, being Friday March. 3. 1642.  
Printed by H. Hall. M. DC. XLII.   

A brief RELATION OF TWO remarkable OCcurrences in the Northern parts, &c.  
Affairs of ordinary nature may be, and are 
●. The landing of the Queen's Majesty in the Bay of Burlington.  most properly imparted by the weekly Mercury; matters of higher consequence, and more near concernment, deserve a story by themselves. And such is that we now have in hand of the Queen's majesty's return after so long absence, after so tedious a divorce from her dearest LORD, a whole years' banishment at least from Her sweetest Children, the common pledges of their loves. To this we shall adjoin a brief Relation of the repulse the Rebels had, the last week, at Newarke: partly because the story of so great a Princess ought not to come into the world without some Attendant; partly because it was the most remarkable success which befell His Majesty after Her arrival: and finally, because the King received intelligence of both at the same time, and from the hands of the same Messenger.  
First for the Queen, it cannot be unknown to any upon what terms she took the opportunity to go for Holland, that She might see Her dearest daughter delivered safely to the hands of the Prince of Orange: her majesty's affairs here at that time being in such condition, that she could neither stay with safety, nor yet be absent without danger. For who can possibly forget in so short a space, the sequestering of her nearest servants, the Articles intended to be framed against her, the flight she was compelled to make (nothing the more secure because His Majesty did partake the same fortune with her) from Whitehall unto Hampton-Court, and from thence to Windsor. Nor need it be related what good offices she did His Majesty during the time she spent in those foreign parts, in furnishing him from time to time with Money, arms and Ammunition: and that too from a State no great friend to Monarchy, and where so strong a party had been made against her, by the power and practice of those men, by whom His majesty's affairs had been reduced to so great extremities. It is enough to say, that never King had a better Agent; and that as we already do enjoy the benefit thereof, so shall posterity enjoy the story. Being wearied at the last with so long an exile, and finding that His majesty's affairs were in such prosperity, that she might venture safely upon his protection; she was resolved to come for England, and did accordingly put forth to sea on the 19th of January last being well guarded and attended: the wind so favourable that there was little doubt of Her speedy landing, and thereupon a messenger dispatched to the Court at Oxford, to give His Majesty notice of it. But the wind coming suddenly about, and the seas working very high, She was enforced at last to make sail for Holland, after She had continued on the seas eight days, and with a most invincible courage contended so long for the mastery with that furious Element.  
The news of this being brought to London, and a report 
In a Pamphlet called, certain informations. Num: 3.  withal, how many soldiers and Commanders, what store of money, gunpowder, arms, and horses, She had intended to bring with Her: occasioned great joy there for the ill success which had befallen Her at the present; and put Her enemies (who have too great an influence on the two Houses of Parliament) on some quick debates, how to prevent Her landing for the time to come; and if that might not be prevented, than how they should proceed against Her when they had Her here. Four ships which had been formerly appointed by the said two Houses, to lie before the haven of Newcastle, were ordered not to suffer Her to pass the bar at Tinmouth, unless She left 
In another Pamphlet called, A continuation, &c. Num. 3.  Her Ordinance and ships behind Her. Upon occasion of a letter to the House of Commons from the Mayor of Yarmouth, to know what entertainment he should give Her Majesty if She landed there, (such a report of Her intentions being brought unto him) Master Martin learnedly declaimes against that title, would not by any means allow that stile of majesty to belong unto Her, no not so much as in the right of participation with Her royal Husband (a right which every married woman in this kingdom doth lay claim unto) affirming with an impudent confidence (like that of Bessus in the play) that she was no other than their fellow Subject. This presently drew on a new debate (though not like that amongst the Brethren of the sword, in jest,) how they should handle Her amongst them, when she came again, some moved that a strict inquisition should be made into all Her Actions, during the time she stayed in Holland; and that according thereunto an impeachment should be drawn against Her for those ill offices which She had done unto this kingdom, that is to say unto themselves. Others of a more cunning malice, and more wit to hide it, would not have it so, this being, as they said, no time to stir that controversy. Better some course were taken to prevent Her coming, and that the ships they had at sea should have charge to hinder it, if She attempted to set foot upon English-ground. Accordingly this course was followed. And when intelligence was brought that two of Her ships laden with arms and Ammunition were landed safely at Newcastle, under the conduct and command of Van-Trump, admiral for the state's general of the united provinces; it was ordered by the Close Committee that if the Queen or any of Her ships came again that way, they should either keep them from the land, or give fire upon them. All which appears by several letters of advice, from London.  
We see the preparation made for her entertainment. Never was such a Feast provided (I dare boldly say it) for the reception of a Queen; A Lady of so innocent a greatness, that we may say of her, as the Historian doth of the beloved wife of Augustus Caesar, that never any of the subjects felt 
〈◊〉 potenti●… nemo sen●…, nisi aut le●…ione pericu●…, aut accessio●… dignitatis. ●…elleius Pater●…l. l. 2.  how great power she had, but either by adding to their honours, or mitigation of their punishments. But it pleased God (who took her into his protection) that though she felt their fury, yet she scaped their malice. For being brought upon a second setting out, within sight of England, with such a calm and gentle gale, as if both Sea and winds repented of their former rudeness; the wind that studied her convenience, brought her being then within few leagues of Newcastle, (where she intended to have landed) to the Bay of Burlington: by means whereof her landing was more safe than it had been otherwise, her passage shorter unto York, where she meant to stay until His majesty should give order for Her removal; and the King's forces nearer at hand to conduct her thither. Two days she lay at Anchor there e'er she came on shore, dispatching thence a Messenger to the Earl of Newcastle, to give him notice of her coming; that She might be attended on by His majesty's Army, for the security of Her Person when She came to land: Which, as it did one way advance Her safety, so did it in another keep Her within reach of danger. For the four ships which lay before the bar at Tinmouth, not far from Newcastle, either discerning the Dutch Fleet when they were at Sea, or being advertised from the place where she rode at Anchor, of Her landing there, made all the haste they could to fall on upon Her before the coming of the King's Army. And though they came not soon enough to hinder her from landing, as 'twas hoped they might; they did their best to kill Her in Her bed, as she was asleep, and make the Land more cruel to Her, than the Seas had been: Which being an attempt so barbarous, as would not easily find belief from a private pen, such as no story of the Turks or Scythians, or any other savage or uncivil Nations can give a Parallel unto; it shall be told you in the words of a public person, who on the morrow after gave this account thereof by letter, which was dispatched away by one of the ordinary Messengers, attending then upon the Queen.  

Burlington this 25 of February. 1642.  
Assoon as we came into England, the Queen dispatched Progers to you; but being this day informed that he was taken by the Enemy, She hath again dispatched this Bearer to render You an account of Her arrival, the which hath been (Thanks be to God) very happy. For as rough as the Sea was the first time we passed, at this time we came with a gentle gale, until we were within 15 leagues of Newcastle, where upon that coast the wind began to change to northwest, which forced us to make for Burlington Bay; where after two days riding at Anchor, the cavalry arrived; which perceiving, the Queen suddenly landed, and the next morning the rest of the Army came to wait on Her. God, that was careful to preserve. Her by Sea, did likewise continue his favour to Her on the Land: For that night four of the Parliament Ships arrived at Burlington, without being perceived by us; and at four a clock in the morning gave us an alarm, which caused us to send speedily to the Port to secure our Boats of Ammunition, which were but newly landed. But about an hour after the four ships began to ply us so fast with their Ordinance; that it made us all to rise out of our beds with diligence, and leave the Village, at least the women; for the soldiers stayed very resolutely to defend the Ammunition, in case their farces should land. One of the Ships did Her the favour to flank upon the house where the Queen lay, which was just before the peer; and before She was out of Her bed, the Cannon bullets whistled so loud about Her, (which music you may easily believe was not very pleasing to Her) that all the company pressed Her earnestly to go out of the house, their Cannon having totally beaten down all the neighbouring houses, and two Cannon bullets falling from the top to the bottom of the house where She was; so that (clothed as She could) She went on foot some little distance out of the town, under the shelter of a Ditch (like that of Newmarket;) whither before She could get, the Cannon bullets fell thick about us, and a Sergeant was killed within twenty paces of Her. We in the end gained the Ditch, and stayed there two hours, whilst their Cannon played all the time upon us; the bullets flew for the most part over our heads, some few only grazing on the Ditch where the Queen was, covered us with earth. At last the admiral of Holland sent to the Parliament ships to tell them, that if they would not cease shooting, he would give fire upon them as enemies. (This was done somewhat late, but there is an excuse for it, by reason of a mist, as he saith.) Upon that they stayed their shooting, and likewise being ebbing water, they could not stay longer near the shore. as soon as they were retired, the Queen returned to the house where She lay, being unwilling to allow them the vanity of saying. They made Her forsake the town. We went at noon to Burlington, whither we were resolved to go before this accident; and all that day in the face of the enemy we disembarked our Ammunition. It is said that one of the captains of the Parliament ships had been at the town before us, to observe where the Queen's lodging was; and I assure you he observed it well, for he ever shot at it. I may truly say that both by Sea and Land the Queen hath been in some dangers, but God by his especial grace and favour hath preserved Her: and the Queen saith, She hath great confidence in his goodness, that he will not forsake Her majesty in other things, since in this he hath so protected Her. And She protested, that in that confidence she durst have marched against a Cannon, if She had not learned Thou shalt not tempt. This Bearer was witness of all that passed, yet I would not forbear to make you this Relation, which is very punctual.  
So far the very words of the Letter, which when the Reader hath perused, I would fain be told, if ever Treason were more impudent and more open faced: what hope● there is of safety to His Sacred majesty, whom they endeavour thus to murder in His dearest Consort; for preservation of whose life the laws, (if such a thing as Law be yet left amongst us) have no less carefully provided, then for His own most sacred Person: What bounds these men prescribe to their desperate malice, whom neither tenderness of sex, nobility of birth, nor royalty of estate can prevail upon. Compare the danger which His majesty was in at the battle of Edge-hill, when the undistinguishing bullets fell so thick about Him; with this, wherein the Cannon bent against the Queen, shot through the house in which She was, killed a man that stood so near, and covered Her with earth even before Her burial; and read the Riddle he that can, whose life hath been more eagerly sought after, either His or Hers; which of the two would fall the more acceptable Sacrifice to these angry Deities. If all things else should fail to undeceive and disabuse the seduced people of this kingdom, who hitherto have been taught, and perhaps believe, that there is nothing more endeavoured than the preservation of His majesty's Person, and the advancement of His Honour. I doubt not but this barbarous and bloody attempt upon the life of the Queen, (for nothing else was or can possibly be pretended to be aimed at in it) will serve sufficiently to do it; else we have reason to suspect, that God hath laid that curse upon this Nation, whereof the Prophet Esay speaketh in another sense; That hearing they shall hear, and shall not understand; that seeing they shall see, and shall not perceive.  
But I have too long played the Scholiast on so clear a Text, and wronged by an impertinent gloss the Writers most perspicuous and full expressions; which whosoever reads must needs understand, and whosoever understands the danger, must abhor the Actors, and not the Actors only, but the Authors too. It was a true, but tart saying of Augustus Caesar, Praestat Herodis porcum esse, quàm filium, That it was better being the swine than the son of Herod. And I pray God (besides the detestation which we have ourselves of so foul a fact) we do not grow a byword to the Christian world; and that it be not thought an happier fortune, as the world now goes, to be a country Gentlewoman, than a Queen of England. But it is time (for we have promised a brief Relation) that we conclude first of these remarkable occurrences, of which there is no more to come, but that the Messenger according to Her majesty's command, made all the speed the troubles of the time permitted, to the Court at Oxford, and brought the acceptable news of the Queen's safe arrival, to His Sacred majesty; so much more acceptable in that She had escaped so great and so many dangers, and was come safe into the realm, notwithstanding all the plots and practices of malicious men, whose mischievous designs the Lord will one day turn on their own heads, and punish them according to their own inventions.  
Though this good news was of itself abundantly sufficient 
●… The repulse of the Rebels before Newarke.  to welcome and endear the Messenger, yet found he some thing by the way which might have added (were it possible) to the general joy which his first Message had occasioned. His way to Oxford was by Newarke, a place well known to those who use to travel the Northern road, but at this time more notable for the Garrison there placed by the prudent foresight of the Earl of Newcastle, general of His majesty's forces in the Northern parts; A Town at which the enemies of His majesty's peace have cast full many an envious eye, as being a great bar to their proceedings; and suffered it to sink so deep into their fancies and imaginations, that they have often taken it in their dreams, and sometimes in their printed Newesbookes, but never durst appear before it until Monday last, being the 27th of February. But than it pleased the Earl of Lincoln, the Lord Willoughby of Parham, colonel Ballard, and the other chieftains of the Rebels in Lincolnshire, to think upon some course for satisfying the good people of London, Who had long mused amongst themselves, why being so well furnished and provided of all things necessary for that service, they had not set upon the town, as one of their Diurnals tells us. Which being resolved upon amongst them, and fearing that they might not be able to effect the business without more help, they sent for Sir John Gell from Darbyshire, to meet them with his Rabble at the day appointed: if for no other reason (as there was not much) yet that they might be sure of some lucky hand to deface tombs and Monuments, and to kill dead bodies, whereat Gell was excellent.  
Of this design colonel Henderson the watchful governor of the town having timely notice, drew forth his cavalry, consisting of ten Companies some four nights before, and went to Beckingham (a town of Lincolnshire) near the Rebels Quarters: whereof having some intelligence by their spials, they kept themselves such close and in so good order, that nothing could be done upon them to frustrate or divert the action; so that he made a leisurely and fair retreat to the town again, there to expect their further determinationNor was it long before they let him know their resolution, advancing on the day before remembered with all their Forces, being 6000 and above, and ten pieces of Ordinance (most of them shooting bullets of six pound a piece) towards the Bekon-hill, a mile from Newarke: upon which hill the governor having no Ordinance in the town to entertain them, had placed his cavalry with the best advantage that he could. The Enemy seeing him so planted, advanced upon him with the whole body of their Army, and still as they came forwards, caused him to retire by the advantage of their Cannon, which he wanted; till at the length by three removes he drew more near unto his works, and so at last into the town. And this was all that was done that day, the enemy retreating as the night came on, and quartering all their forces in two small Villages, about a mile distant from his trenches.  
On Tuesday morning the last of February, they drew up all their forces into one gross body, and coming as near unto his works as they could with safety, sent a Trumpeter, and in the name of the King and Parliament (as their manner is) demanded his surrendry of the town and Castle: Which being answered with a negative, and that the governor was resolved to keep the town for His majesty's sole use, (with whom the two Houses of Parliament, were never thought to be joint-tenants of the kingdom) they planted their Ordinance, dividing their foot into three Brigades, took in the Earl of exeter's house (which was an hospital heretofore dependent on the See of Lincoln, but now assured upon the family by an Act of Parliament made this Session) discharging 80 shot into the town from their works and batteries. At length the Nottinghamshire and Darbyshire forces, making one Brigade of themselves, advanced and took a Ditch within pistol shot of the town works, and thence discharged against the town from eleven of the clock at noon, until six at night; but with more courage than success: the soldiers of the Garrison playing their parts exceeding valiantly, and being bravely seconded by the indefatigable pains of all the Officers, who behaved themselves both stoutly and discreetly, as they were directed. In the mean time the other two Brigades having placed themselves before some other of the works, and finding them so strong, that there was little possibility of doing any good that way, retired with all their Foot, Horses, and artillery, to gells' Post, hoping with their united Powers to force their entrance into the town, and obtain the end of their desires. Which being soon perceived by the wary governor, he removed all his Forces as they did, which was about three of the clock in the afternoon; holding them play, and entertaining them with an hotter service than they expected from that place, for three hours together. At length, it being then about six at night, discerning an abatement in the courage of the Enemy, who began to wax weary of the work, he made a sally out upon them with such force and fury, that he drove all their Foot from their Post, or station, unto the shelter and protection of their cavalry, impatoned himself with three pieces of Ordinance, which he caused to be haled into the town: the whole body of the Rebels retiring in great disorder and confusion till they got the advantage of an hedge, and so stood with the cavalry before them, till dark night came on, and made an end at that time of the disputation.  
In this estate things stood, when the Messenger sent unto His majesty, (whom before I spoke of) came unto the town; Who though he stayed no longer there than the necessity of corporal rest did invite him to: yet stayed he long enough to see the Enemies dislodged, and the Lords with their whole train departed from such unhospitable hosts, who showed no more civility to men of honour, which was as soon as they had light enough to see how to go away. But being it was a service of such signal consequence, it was not thought fit to intrust the story and relation of it only unto the wit and memory of the Messenger, who being no Actor in the business might possibly be subject to mistakings: and therefore colonel Henderson the victorious governor, sent an account thereof in writing to His Sacred majesty, and from thence you have it.  
There were killed of the King's side in this brave repulse, but one man only, a common soldier of the Garrison, and not many hurt. But of the Rebels there were slain no fewer than 200 men; and many wounded, whereof the chief was colonel Ballard, and no mean one neither. There were taken also in the sally about 60 Prisoners, many of which were found upon examination to be French Papists; whom the two Houses of Parliament thought it not unfitting to take into their pay, nor dangerous either to the Church or State to trust with weapons; their nation and religion notwithstanding. By which it seems that foreigners may be called in, if occasion be, in maintenance of the rights and liberties of the English subjects; and Papists may be armed for the defence and preservation of the Protestant Religion if the necessities and distresses of the Church require it. If so, then certainly His Majesty may far more warrantably make use of his Popish subjects, who serve him for defence of his prerogative and their own native liberties, upon the conscience of that duty and allegiance which they bear unto him; then the two Houses, whatsoever privilege they pretend unto, can call in foreign Nations of the Popish profession, who serve them on no other motive but for pay and pillage. But such is the infirmity of our human nature, that we do commonly condemn that in others, which we indulge unto ourselves: and such the guilty courses of seditious persons, that they regard but little, if they do at all, what crooked lanes and passages they are forced upon, so they may come at last to their journey's end. Some Papists, but those English Papists, had before been taken prisoners by His Majesty at the famous battle of Edge-hill, which gave His Majesty occasion after their example, to entertain some few Recusants of these His kingdoms, for the defence and safety of His royal Person. And should he call in foreigners and those Papists too, to aid him in defence of His royal Power, he did no more than what he had example for from their own proceedings, who have affirmed it of themselves that they cannot err.  Quod quisque fecit, patitur; Authorem scelus Repetit, suóque premitur exemplo nocens. Seneca Tragoed.  
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