A TRUE RELATION OF THE QVEENS' MAJESTY'S Return out of HOLLAND, AND, Of God's merciful preservation of Her from those great dangers, wherein Her Royal Person was engaged both by Sea and Land.  
ALSO, Her MAJESTY'S Letter sent to the STATES about the stay of Her Ammunition-Ship.  
Written by One in the same Storm, and Ship, with Her Majesty.  
Printed at York by Stephen Bulkley, 1643.  
By special Command.   

A TRUE RELATION OF THE QVEENS' MAJESTY'S Return out of HOLLAND, etc. 
Her Majesty's first setting out of Holland with a Navy of fourteen Ships, 〈◊〉 19 1642.   
THe State's General of the United Provinces, (notwithstanding many Arts and means used to persuade the contrary) having prepared for Her Majesty's Service nine Men of War, with five lesser Ships for the Baggage: Her Majesty on Thursday, January the 19, 1642, in the Afternoon, at Sciveling, two Miles from the Hague, embarked in a more threatening, then promising Wether. The Wind than was so slack, that it made little further way that Night, then to carry the Ships out of those perilous Shores; where, had a Storm risen, they had been in very great danger. The next day, when God had blessed us with Sea-room enough, the Wind began to rise very high, and about midnight, blew a fearful and furious Storm; which, with the intermissions of some hours, (one day only) Tuesday, excepted, for six days together continued very vehement and terrible. And by reason of the often Variation of the winds, made a most raging Sea, and so very tempestuous, that the Ship was many times let to drive, and hull it at Sea, not being able to make any Sail with safety, having been in great danger to be underset, by the sudden gusts and blasts, which ducked and drowned the sails in the Seas. In this sad and unsafe condition, did we live out all those days, being tossed and driven to and fro on the Doggar Sands, threatening to be our graves; in which we had surely been buried, if the care of Heaven had not more mercifully come in to our help.  
Her Majesty saw and suffered all this so long with a Princely Patience and Courage, and then perceiving how little She did advance in Her way to Newcastle, took a Resolution (there being no English Port else near where She might safely adventure Her Person) rather to return for Holland, then to tug on and work out Her Way with contrary Winds and Weathers, in such enraged Seas. It was presented and pressed to Her Majesty, That if any storm should arise and meet Her in that Shore, the danger would be greater than in the open Seas where She was; Her Ship being tidy and good, The 
* Sir Martin Van Tromp.  Admiral most skilful and careful of his Royal Charge, and the Masters and Mariners answerably able and willing, to do their best service.  
But Her Majesty kept still her resolution to return. Whereupon, the Thursday Seven-night after She embarked, we made our Course for Holland again, and the next Day came on the Coast before Sciveling; God blessing Her with the freedom from a Tempest in that place of peril, where four Ships had been wracked, of which we saw the bulk and ribs of an English one, which had perished in the late Tempests on the shore, before our eyes.  
The Admiral upon his coming in, shot off a Piece of Ordinance to give notice of his return; which they of the Town took presently and carried to the Hague; so that some hours before Her Majesty could get to shore, the Queen of Bohemia, the Princess Royal and other of the Princesses; the Prince Elector, the Prince and Princess of Orange with divers Persons of Quality and Honour were all ready in their Coaches at shore, t●redge● attend Her landing; and did drive and rid●redge● into the Sea for joy and haste to see tha●redge● happy sight of Her Majesty's safety, fo●redge● whose great perils, heavy fears had lay●redge● upon them, all the time of these Tempests  
That Evening, a Fisherboat being foun●redge● out at Sea, (for contrary Tide and Wind●redge● would suffer none to come from Land) th●redge● Admiral commanded and called it in, an ●redge● in it, Her Majesty with some Persons o●redge● chief quality, not without some dangerou●redge● weltrings of the Boat, by reason of the hig●redge● Waves and Sands in that shallow shoar●redge● came, at last, safe to Land; And having rested and refreshed Herself some time at the Town, went after to the Hague to Her Bed that Night.  
On Saturday (the next Day after) the rest who came in the three Ships with Her Majesty (for but three came) landed all in safety. What was become of the other eleven, was not then known; but after it was. That two missing or mistaking the Admiral's warning, went on to Newcastle, the propounded Port; The others, with some leaks, and wounds, and losses of Masts, and sails, and tackle, came in after us, or got safe to other Shores. But the two Ships wherein the Horses were, one of them was run on ground, all the Men and some Horses being saved, only, that, wherein the Coachmen were, is not yet heard of; and therefore feared, to be utterly lost.  
All they in Holland, who were in great anxiety and fear for the Queen at Sea, (not having ever known a greater storm by Land) were very jocund and joyful, to hear and see, Her safety.  
Some said, Her Majesty would never have adventured Herself to Sea in such a Wether, but to show, That a Queen feared not to be drowned. Others thought, that some Witches were made use of, to raise those Winds. But all saw, That if any such villainy came from Hell, it was curbed by Heaven, in the merciful preservation of the Queen; and that, When God will help, the Devil cannot hurt us.  
Her Majesty was entertained at the Hague by the Prince of Orange all the time of her last stay, which was from Friday, January 27. to February the 13.  
And then 7. greater Ships being got ready for Her Majesty, and five lesser for the Baggage, with one of Her own, bought before, and now laden with Ammunition (thirteen in all:) On Monday afternoon, She went to Snivelling, and in that poor Fisher-Towne lodged three Nights, upon an unexpected occasion. For Her Ammunition-ship in the River of the Maze, was watched by two Parliament ships, (as they call them) the Providence and Greyhound;) who gave out that they would take that Ship, or fire it, o●redge● sink it; or sink with it. Her Majesty knowing how much the King's Service, and his good Subjects and Soldiers in the North were concerned in it, resolved not to go without it, but to stay there till She had it.  
The Admiral hereupon having this Warrant from the State's General, and the Prince of Orange, went with two Men of War to fetch it off, and was bringing it away; But was met, and bourded, and charged by the States of Holland (the Provincials as they call them) to have that Ship searched for Arms, and not to carry it further, but the Arms to be taken out, or kept safe in some other place fitting for it. The Admiral upon this Arrest, stopped, and cast Anchor; and came to acquaint the State's General, and the Prince, with what was done, and to do further, as it should be directed.  
Now began all Eyes to see that good Providence, which guided the Queen to return to Holland; that Ship of Arms having been absolutely lost by Her absence; which was so hardly redeemed and preserved by Her Royal Presence, and Courage.  
And by that it was. For the Queen, touched with the sense of so visible an Indignity, by the hands of Sir William Boswell, resident in Holland for His Majesty, sent to the State's General a round and quick Letter, 
See Her Majesty's Letter ●rinted after the Relation.  of the deep resentment, which She justly had of that great affront then done Her; and that the bands of Amity betwixt the King and them, must needs be dissolved, if that were done and endured.  
This begat a Meeting of all the States, the Prince of Orange being with them, whose spirit, this affront had moved much.  
In it, the matter was argued with the States of Holland, who made the stay. The Arrest by many condemned, and concluded by all, that the ship of Arms should come away with the rest to the Queen; and the Admiral's Commission enlarged, to fight with any, that should attempt to hinder it, or any with the Queen besides it. The States of Holland now saying, they took the ship of Arms till then for a private man's, and not the Kings, for which cause (or colour) they before had stayed it.  
The Admiral (thus armed) went to fetch it away; and after some expostulations by Letters with the two Parliament ships, and the Messenger, their Ministers vain persuasions to the contrary; bid them, to lie still, till the ship was gone, or to keep off out of Canonshot, or he would shoot at them. The ship being got out to Sea, the Providence made three shots at it, none hitting it: upon this, the Admiral shot at them, who in stead of answering him, shot off a Piece on the other side from him, and so went their way. So on February sixteenth, being Thursday, that ship with the rest came to Sciveling to the Queen.  
THat Day, 
The Queen's second coming out of Holland with a Navy of 13 Ships Feb. 16. 1642  Her Majesty embarked again in the Princess Royal of great Britain (Her first ship.) And with a most blessed Wether, on a quiet Sea, by a soft and gentle Gale, was brought on Sunday after, within sight of Flamborough-head. The Heavens and Winds for so long a time (and many Days before) continuing in those Winter Days and Northern Seas, almost miraculously Fair, and Intempestuous.  
On Monday we got on as far as Scarborough; But then the Wind blew from Newcastle, our only intended Haven, just in our Teeth; and as God in great Mercy would have it, said to us (in the Language of His Providence) Go no further. So we fell back into a safe Harbour (Burlington-Bay) and cast Anchor hard by the Shore. As Her Majesty rid at Anchor there, some of the Gentry and Country People sent, and came, to present to the Queen some of their Country Provisions, with their Joys for Her Safety and happy Return. Her Majesty graciously accepted them, doing them the Honour to let them kiss Her Hand.  
Here God put into Her Heart another blessed Resolution. It was to send to my Lord of Newcastle, to give him word of Her being there, and Her will (if he so direct) there to land. His Excellency having but the Week before, beaten the Forces out of Stamford Bridge, and made his way into the East-Ryding of Yorkshire, was then very happily at Pocklington with his Army, about twenty miles from Burlington. On Tuesday came a Messenger with Tidings, That the General of the Horse, next Day about Noon, would wait on Her Majesty at shore with a thousand Horse: And my Lord Gederall the next Day after, with the rest of the Horse and Foot Army. This was done accordingly. For on Wednesday after Noon, the Horse appeared on the shore; whereupon, Her Majesty landed that Night at Burlington-Key. All the Ordinance of the Ships speaking as much to those who were not near enough to see it. Next Day (as the Queen was at Dinner) came His Excellency, and General King, with the Army of Foot, and fiveteen hundred more Horse.  
His Excellency told the Queen, Her landing so, was in a most happy place and time, for the Country and Army, and Herself and Her Retinue. So apparently it was. For besides the great moiling of Men and Beasts, this would save the Country a very vast expense of Moneys for Carriages in those long and ill ways from Newcastle to York, this being but thirty miles and good way from it. And the Army (already much wearied, in chaces of the Enemy, from which they came but the Day before) would have been overtoyled and weakened in so long Convoys and Marches to and fro, for the Queen's necessary conduct and Attendance; of which great trouble, Her Majesty now gave them a present case. And both Country and Army magnified the merciful Providence of God to both, who disposed so of his Winds, and the Queen's thoughts; to bring them such an unexpected case and happiness, to the great joy and encouragement of them all. And Her Majesty & Retinue had their share in the happiness, too. For by this means, the Queen came much sooner to York now, than she could, had she landed at Her first coming at Newcastle: And much safer too, then if she had now arrived there; considering the Dangers both of the Haven, and ships, which lay in wait for Her there, fitted with Men of desperate minds, to do all possible Mischief; and the many Accidents and Perils, which might have befallen Her in coming thence.  
Besides all this, great advantage would have been necessarily given, and as greedily taked from the Diversion and Division of the Army, to make the Enemy more bold and busy to work his ends, by the absence, now frustrated by the keeping of it in one body and place.  
The Army being now by Burlington, the Queen after Dinner rid out in a Coach to see it; which received great encouragement from Her coming, and welcomed Her into the field, with many hearty Acclamations and expressions of their Joys, such, as much moved many to see them; and in them the true old Genius and Spirit of the English Nation to their Princes, of late degenerated into the strange Tongue of rude Invectives and Outcries. After sight of the Army, which Her Majesty rid through & through, even to the new raised and unarmed Companies; She returned to Her Lodging at Burlington Key.  
But had another manner of Salutation sent Her from the Sea next Morning, in a strange (and till that time) utterly unknown and unparallelly-barbarous Language. For four Ships and a Pinnace, Voluntaries in the Parliaments Service; which came over Night into the Road, betwixt five and six of the Clock next Morning, made above an hundred shots at the Houses in the Key, for two Hours shooting crosse-bar-shots, and many Bullets of twelve pound weight, 
The names of the Captains and Masters of the Ships were. 

C. Hadock, Commander of the Fleet.  
C. Lee.  
C, North.  
C. Bedwart.  
C. Peacock Master of the Pinnace.    and thereabouts, all the while. One of those Ships was directly planted against the House where the Queen lay; and that, and the other made many shots over it, and on every side about it. Her Majesty hereupon was suddenly called up out of Her Bed to avoid the Danger, and leaving the House, went and sat down under the Brow of an Hill, which secured Her from the shot.  
The Lords and Ladies (who were all thereabouts lodged) made haste to go with, and after the Queen; some of their Houses having been shot through before; and the Bullets, then flying about them in the Streets and Fields as they went. And as they sat under the Hill, some flew over their heads, casting some rubbage and dust, though no Danger then upon them: so that of all the Queen's Company (God be thanked) not one was killed, or hurt, or touched; though one of the common Soldiers was sore torn, and a Sergeant slain out right, not far from the Queen's Lodging.  
These Ships, (upon Advertisement brought them of the Queen's coming) were seen to hie away presently from Newcastle, where till then, they lay to do such Service as they were directed to. And where, they are said, to have bragged, they would board, sink, or sink with the Queen's Ship, could they meet it. God's Goodness gave them not the power of trial by Sea, though the Devil's malice in them, made them attempt to do that Mischief by Land. And to do it the better, in the Night they landed some of their Men on shore, who were heard to inquire for the Queen's Lodging at three of the Clock, which they shot at by six, a shroud suspicion (with the rest) what was the Mark they aimed at.  
Whether by Commission, and by whose, these bold Men did this barbarous Outrage, the Justice of Heaven and Earth will doubtless concur to examine and punish, that so great a Blot, and Burden of shame and Gild, may not lie on the Nation.  
Upon this deliverance from the shot, Her Majesty went that Day further out of their reach; from Burlington Key, to the Town. And the Ammunition ship (all this while in the Key, hit, though little hurt with all their shots) was unladed, and the Arms carried to the Town, and there carefully kept, in the old Church of the Monastery, now decayed. The Parish for that Sunday, being desired for fear of danger, to go to their Neighbour Churches at hand, or to come so many as could, to the Queen's Court; where by Her Majesty's leave (there being else where no convenient Room to be had,) Her Household had Service and Sermon for that Day.  
At this, the Country People wondered much, who believed all with the Queen to be Papists; though of all the English in Her Majesty's Household, not one Woman, and but four men be all. So willing are some to deceive, and others to be deceived.  
On Sunday after (necessity pleading the Pass) Her Majesty in the afternoon, Marched with the Army and Ammunition from Burlington to Norburton (about four Miles off.) Thence next Day to Malton. And (there the Foot being left) was next Day conducted by the Horse to York: No Enemy all this while opposing, or appearing. That Ancient City, received Her Majesty with many hearty welcomes, and shouts, and blessings accompanying Her all the way She went. Sir Edmund Cooper, Lord Major, (that true and tried Lieutenant to his Liege) and Sir Thomas Widdrington, Recorder of the City, with Speeches to that purpose.  
So She was brought with much Joy and Honour on Tuesday, March the seventh, to Her Lodging in Sir Arthur Ingrams House, where a Court of Guard attends Her Majesty's safety, which the Guard and Bliss of Heaven make good to Her, as it hath hitherto been most mercifully and visibly with Her and for Her, in Her Departure, Absence, and Return; which hath been happy, healthy, and safe, almost to a Miracle.  
The Circumstances of Her going out, were strange beyond all belief. both at home and abroad: but the issues have appeared good and happy above all expectation. And Her staying as wonderful. That Her Majesty and Her Retinue being about, or above two hundred Persons (for Eleven Month's time) in a strange Land, and unwonted Diet and Dwelling; should but bury one Consumptive Man in Holland, who brought his Death with him out of England; but keep in, and come out with so good a health, was an unlooked for, but not un-enjoyed Blessing. And Her safety in Her coming out, as singular.  
At Her Majesty's first coming out to Sea, the Storms were most fierce and terrible for many Days; But at the second, the Winds and Weather most fair and comfortable all the time. God Allmighty most mercifully preserved and blessed Her Majesty in both. And at last gave Her an Arrival most happy, both to Herself, and to many. Since that He delivered Her from the villainous attempts of the ships at Sea, which put Her precious Life to a manifest Peril and Hazard. A Sign from Heaven of Blessings to come upon the King and Queen, to which the Majesty of Heaven long preserve them, and the Kingdom by them.   

Her MAJESTY'S LETTER Sent to the STATES, Concerning the stay of HER AMMUNITION-SHIP.  
THE QUEEN OF GREAT BRITAIN, out of a desire by all means to conserve the friendship betwixt the King, and the Lords the States; Having omitted to take notice of very many indignities by which She hath been provoked here; doth find Herself at this present offended in so high a degree, That She cannot any longer, with the Honour of the King (Her most Dear Husband) withhold this Complaint, which She now makes unto the Lords the STATES, concerning an Order made to search and make stay of a Vessel, which is Fraughted and Charged with Goods belonging to Her; for which notwithstanding, the STATES have already accorded their Free Passport. The QUEEN makes no difficulty to avow the transport of Ammunition, as being absolutely necessary for Her safety; and She hath chosen to furnish Herself by this way, rather than that of demanding a Licence; by reason of an Order formerly made by the STATES, to forbid the transport of Arms, or Ammunition, either for the KING, or Parliament; Which Order, the KING hath great cause to believe, very partial for the Parliament, by putting them in equal rank with Him: But the default of Observation of that Order, hath been yet more displeasing to Her; For that since that time, great quantities of Ammunition have been transported for the Service of the Rebels, and Ships also bought to be employed against the KING. If the QUEEN hath not asked a particular Licence for all the things necessary for Her Service, it hath been out of this consideration, that She might not cast the STATES upon the inconvenience, either of contradicting their own Order, or of giving just offence to the KING. But since all the care Her Majesty hath taken, and the precautions used to conserve a good intelligence between the KING and the STATES (which is established by so many past Treaties) hath produced nothing but a continuation of Affronts, and prejudices to the KING'S Service. Her Majesty is obliged to make this Declaration; That She receives this Order, given for the stay of that Ship, for a notable and high injustice, and an indignity which She is obliged very nearly to resent. Wherefore Her Majesty doth expect, That the Lords the STATES, having better considered the matter, will give way to the departing of that Ship, together with whatsoever is charged upon it, for Her Service; without which, Her Majesty cannot resolve to departed Herself. The QUEEN is obliged to represent to the Lords the STATES, that this injustice, and Affront, which She hath received by the arrest of this Ship, cannot pass for less than a violation of the Friendship betwixt the KING and the STATES; the consequences whereof will be very dangerous. Wherefore She doth hope, That they will not offer so just ●ledge● cause of offence unto the KING, nor so grea● a displeasure unto Herself.  
FINIS.