A summary, OR SHORT SURVEY OF THE Annals and most Remarkable Records of King CHARLES His Reign, from the first YEAR thereof to this present, 1646.  
Wherein we may Plainly see how the Popish, Jesuitical and Prelatical Malignant Party have endeavoured the Ruin of this Church and Kingdom, but was by God's mercy most miraculously prevented.  

CAROLUS D: G: Magnae Britt: Fra: et Hiber: Rex Fidei Defensor  
Sol Orbem rediens, Sic Rex Illuminat Vrbem.  

Return in Peace Great CHARLES, redress our Woes:  
Forsake, at length thine, and the Kingdom's Foes.  
Thy Gracious Presence will more comfort bring,  
Then Phoebus' splendour to a backward Spring.    

1 Parliament.  
1 IN the first year of King Charles his Reign, a Parliament being called at Oxford (the very first in his Reign) two subsidies were, first granted, no grievances removed, but the said Parliament soon dissolved.  
2. The sad effects which this Parliament produced, were the loss of Rochel, by the unhappy help of England's Ships.  
3. The diversion of a most facile and hopeful war from the West-Indies, to a most expensive and successelesse attempt on Cales.  
4. The bloody and unblessed attempt on the peace concluded with Spain, without consent of a Parliament, contrary to a promise formerly made to the Kingdom by King James, a little before his death; whereby the Cause of the Palatinate was altogether most shamefully deserted by us.  
6. The Kingdom suddenly billetted with Soldiers, and a concomitant project set on foot for German Horses to enforce men, by fear, to fall before arbitrary and tyrannical taxations, continually to be laid upon them.   

2. Parliament.  
7. The dissolution of a second Parliament at Westminster, in the second year of King Charles, after a declarative grant of no less than five Subsidies, and the sad and bad issues that followed, yea, flowed on the Kingdom thereupon.  
8. As first, the violent exacting from the people of that mighty sum of the five Subsidies, or a sum, equal to it by a Commission for a Royall-Loan, as it was called.  
9 Many worthy Gentlemen imprisoned and vexed, that refused to pay it.  
10. Great sums of money extorted from Subjects by Privy Seals and Excises.  
11. The most hopeful Petition of Right, blasted in the very blossom of it.   

3 Parliament.  
12. A third Parliament called, and quickly broken in the fourteenth year of the King, and therein Parliamentary privileges extremely violated by after ill-usage of some of the best and worthiest Members thereof, who were clapped up close prisoners, denied all ordinary and extraordinary comforts of life, and preservation of health, which might have proved perpetual to them, had not a fourth Parliament (which afterward happened) necessitated their relief and release.  
13. And this third Parliament thus dissolved, O the most miserable effects that followed thereon also.  
14. Scandalous and opprobrious Declarations published to asperse and besmear the proceed of this last Parliament, and some of the best Members thereof; yea, Proclamations set out to those effects, thereby extremely to dishearten the Subjects, yea, and plainly forbidding them once to name a Parliament, or to desire them any more.  
15. Whence, immediately gushed out (this dam of Parliaments thus being broken down) the violent inundations (even to a deluge of miseries) of mighty sums of money, got by that strange and straining project of Knighthood; yet, 〈…〉 a fair colour and 〈…〉 of Law for it, and for all the rest that followed.  
16. As, the most burdensome Book of Rates; the most heavy and unheard of (till ●●en) taxation of Ship-money; the enlargement of 〈…〉 contrary to Magnae Charta; the injurious exaction of Coat and Conduct 〈…〉 away of the Train'dbands Arms; the 〈…〉 into their hands, and keeping it first from the 〈…〉 to be had thence, but at most excessive rates.  
17. The destruction of the Forest of Dean, that most famous Magazine, and Timber-store-house of the whole Kingdom, which was sold to Papists.  
18. The monstrous Monopolies of Soap, Salt, Wine, Leather, and Seacole; yea almost of all things in the Kingdom of most necessary and common use.  
19 Restraint of Subject's Liberties in their Trades and Habitations; for refusal of which foresaid heavy pressures, O what great numbers of the Kings most loyal Subjects, were vexed with long and languishing suits, some fined and confined to prisons, to the loss of health in many, of life in some; Some having their houses broke open, their goods seized on, their studies or closerts searched for writings, books and papers to undo them; Some interrupted also in their Sea-Voyages, and their ships taken from them, in an hostile manner, by Projectors, as by Pirates, or common Enemies.  
20. And, O the crushing cruelties of the Star-Chamber-Court, and Council Table, in those days, chief, for the fomenting and increasing of those and suchlike most exorbitant, and extravagant taxations, pressures, and unjust suits against the Subject.  
21. These, thus fare for the miseries of the Commonwealth; now also for the Church's danger, and distress. O the wonderful and amazing miseries of the Subject's Consciences also! by King Charles his conniving at, countenancing and encouraging the intolerable burden of Popish Ceremonies, Romish Innovations, and such like other outrages of the Arch-Prelate of Canterbury, and his Prelatical Agents and instruments, over the whole Kingdom, in matters of religion, Divine worship, and spiritual cases of Conscience.  
22. The most palpable and abominable Romish Ceremonies used at the King's Coronation, and insolent and impious, false and destructive additions in the Oath administered to the King, at his said first Inauguration to the Crown, by that most arrogant Archbishop.  
23. And the manifold other impious impositions in matters of religion, divine worship, and spiritual cases of Conscience; for refusing and opposing of which, O how was the honest-hearted and tender-conscienced subject, grievously oppressed by fines, imprisonments, stigmatizings, mutilations, whip, pillories, gagges, confinements and banishments; yea, and that, into perpetual close imprisonments in the most desolate, remote, and (as they hoped and intended) remorseless parts of the Kingdom.  
24. The putting down, yea, utterly ruinating of that most famous and honourable work, that ever this Kingdom saw, in a private way, for the advancement of God's glory in the propagation of the Gospel, I mean, the Feoffees for buying in of Impropriations; Noy, the (then) attorney-general, openly in Court, accusing that blessed work to be a worse plot against the Church (he meant the Prelatical Church sure,) than the Papists Powder plot.  
25. The advancing (for the most part) none, to Ecclesiastical Dignities and Live, but Arminians; yea, Popish-hearted Pontificians; Suspending and silencing with deprivations, degradations, and excommunications, almost all the most pious, painful and Orthodox learned Pastors over the kingdom, whom they could catch in their snares, and all this under a pretence of peace, unity and conformity; in which foresaid cases, the High-Commission (like the Spanish- Inquisition) with its most pragmatical pranks, was, all along, most intolerable and abominable.  
26. Printing-Presses, set open for the printing and publishing of all sorts of Popish and Arminian tenets; but, shut up and restrained from Printing, sound and Orthodox Doctrines.  
27. Nay, not only thus lamentably molesting us at home in England; but attempting the like on our Brethren of Scotland, endeavouring to impose upon their consciences also, a New Liturgye, and a book of Canons, upon the first introducing whereof into their Church, they not enduring them, threw stones and stools at the Archbishop of St Andrews head, and beat him out of the Church, crying out, a Pape, a Pape, and so rid themselves of them.  
28. Upon which refusal of theirs, O what foul calumnies and scoffs were immediately cast upon them, and they called and counted rebels and Traitors; yea, so proclaimed in all Churches in England.  
29. An Army was also raised to oppress and suppress them, for thus resisting those the Kings and the Archprelates most injurious impositions on them.  
30. Our Brethren of Scotland likewise raising an Army in their own just defence, and by force of arms, enforcing their own peace.  
31. A first pacification being then made by the King, and some of his Nobility, and ratified under hand and Seal twixt them and the Scots; yet was it shortly after shamefully violated, and broken quite off by the Arch-prelate of Canterbury, and the Earl of Straford.   

4. Parliament.  
32. A fourth Parliament was thereupon shortly after called again, by those complotters means, but to a very ill intent, and another Parliament summoned also at the same time by the Earl of Straford in Ireland, both of them only to levy and procure moneys to raise another Army, and wage a new War against the Scots,  
33. The Ships and goods of our Brethren of Scotland, were, in all parts and ports of this kingdom, and of Ireland, also surprised and seized on for the King; their Commissioners denied audience to make their just defence to the King, and the whole kingdom of Scotland and England too, hereupon much distracted and distempered with levying of moneys, and imprisoning all among us that refused the same.  
34. This Parliament also refusing to comply with the King, Cant, and Straford in this Episcopal war against the Scots, was soon dissolved and broken up by them and thereupon they returned to their former ways of waste and confusion, and the very next day after the dissolution thereof some eminent members of both Houses, had their Chambers, and studies, yea their cabinets and very pockets of their wearing  (betimes in the morning before they were out of their beds) searched for letters and writings, and some of them also imprisoned, and a false and most scandalous declaration was published against the House of Commons in the King's name.  
35. A forced Loan of money was attempted in the City of London, to be made a precedent (if it prevailed there) for the whole kingdom, but some Aldermen refusing, were sorely threatened and imprisoned.  
36. In which interim, the Clergies Convocation continuing (notwithstanding the dissolution of the Parliament) new conscience-oppressing Canons were forged, and a strange Oath, with a monstrous etc. in it, was framed for the establishing of the Bishop's Hierarchy, with severe punishments on the refusers to take it.  
37. In this Convocation sore taxations were also imposed upon the whole Clergy, even no less than six Subsidies, besides a bountiful contribution to forward that intended war against our brethren of Scotland.  
38. For the advancing of which said sums for this war, the popish pontifician party, and their scandalous priests were most free and forward; yea, and a solemn prayer was composed and imposed by the Bishops on their Ministers every where to be used and read in all Churches against the Scots, as rebels and traitors.  
39 The papists also in a high measure enjoyed even almost a total toleration; and a Pope's Nuncio suffered among us to act and govern all Romish affairs, yea a kind of a private popish-parliament kept in the kingdom, and popish jurisdictions erected among them.  
40. Commissions were also (secretly) issued out for some great and eminent papists, for martial Commands, for levying of Soldiers, and strengthening their party with Arms and Ammunition of all sorts, and in great plenty.  
41. His Majesty's treasure was by these means so extremely exhausted and his revenues so anticipated, that he was enforced to compel (as it were) his own Servants, Judges, and Officers of all sorts, to lend him great sums of money, and prisons filled with refusers of these and the other illegal payments; yea, many High-Sheriffes summoned into the Star-chamber, and to the Councill-Board, and some of them imprisoned for not being quick enough in levying Ship-money, and such like intolerable taxations.  
42. In sum, the whole kingdom was now brought into a lamentable and languishing condition of being most miserably bought and sold to any that could give and contribute most of might and malice against us, and no hope of humane help, but dolours desperation and destruction, to be the portion of all.  
43. In which interim, our Brethren of Scotland being entered into our kingdom, for their own just defence, the King had advanced his Royall-Standard at York, where the cream of the kingdom, Nobles, and Gentry, being assembled, and a treaty twixt the prime of both Armies had at Rippon, for a fair and peaceable accommodation, the King was, at last, enforced to take his Nobles Counsel, and in the first place, a cessation of Arms agreed on; and then this fifth present Parliament, (the Parliament of Parliaments,) was necessitously resolved on to begin, November ●. 1640.   

5 Parliament, Anno 1640. Novemb. 3.  
44. But, behold, a desperate plot and design was herein also, immediately, set on foot, to sporle or poison it in the very Embryo and constitution of it, in the first choice of the Members thereof, by Letters from the King, Queen, malignant and popish Earls, Lords, Knights, and Gentry, posted into all parts of the kingdom, to make a strong party for them: But, by admirable divine providence, this their plot was counterplotted, and wonderfully frustrated, and the Parliament most hopefully congregated and settled.  
45. Shortly after, a very formidable Spanish-Fleet, or Armado, appeared on our English narrow Seas, in sight of Dover, and was coming in (as was, on very strong grounds, more than probably conjectured) as a third party, to help to destroy us; the Spaniards hoping, that by this time, we and the Scots were together by the ears, but they were by God's mercy, beaten off from us by our Neighbours of Holland.  
46. In the time of ours and the Scots Armies residing in the North, which was in June 1641. the Popish and malignant Lords and Prelates, fearing the effects of this present Parliament, complotted together to disaffect that our English Army against the Parliament, and endeavoured to bring it out of the North, Southward, and so to London, to compel the Parliament to such limits and rules as they thought fit.  
47. For the advancing of which design, the Earl of Straford, than prisoner in the Tower, attempted an escape, with Sir William Belfore, than Lieutenant of the Tower, promising and assuring him twenty thousand pound, and the marriage of his daughter to Sir William's Son, if he would but consent unto and assist his escape; but loyal Sir William hated such bribes of treachery, and still kept him fast, and so the neck of all that plot was broken.  
48. Then, they attempted by foul and false scandals on the Parliament, to entice the Army of the Scots, (then, still in the North) to a neutrality, and to sit still whiles our English army acted the farther designs hatched and hammered still in their heads and hearts, but this plot prevailed not neither. (All these preceding passages, were the confused effects of 15 or 16 years of the King's reig●.)   

Anno 1641. Octob. 23.  
49. About this time, that most horrid and inhuman bloody rebellion and monstrous massacring of almost 200000 innocent English Protestants, men, women, and children, broke out in Ireland, namely, about October 23. 1641. (This also being a main branch of this most mischievous design against this Parliament, by God's wonderful power) and providence, so firmly fixed and settled, that they knew not how to ruinated it) those accursed Rebels having had their principal encouragements and Commissions to authorise them in that horrid and hideous rebellion from the Court of England, and of purpose to have made England the chief seat of the war, and of all the papists, prelate's, and malignants utmost wrath and rage.  
50. For the still effecting, and underhand working on, of this wicked design, the malignant party in private, much prevailing still; the design now went on, chief against the City of London, for which purpose, the noble and loyal Lieutenant of the Tower, Sir William Belfore, was (for his loyalty) displaced by the King, from his Leiutenantship, and popish Lord Cotting●on, made Constable of the Tower; but his dangerous designs being soon discovered, he was as soon displaced; and Colonel Lunsford, (not long before, a Newgate-bird, and fit for Newgate) was made Lieutenant of the Tower; But, he also by the Parliaments petition and importunity to the King, was displaced; and Sir John Byron, a desperate malignant (who afterward proved the most bloody Lord Byron in Ches●ire) was made Lieutenant of the Tower, in Lunsfords' stead; but he also, on many just jealousies being petitioned against, was at length, with much ado removed and put out thence, and Sir John Co●yers, by the power of the Parliament, was put in his place.  
51. About which time, a most wicked fellow▪ sent to Mr. John Pymm (a most pious Patriot of his Country, and then a most eminent member of the House of Commons) a most reviling Letter, therein calling him traitor, and in the said Letter enclosed a plague-sore plaster, thinking thereby to have destroyed him, But, God mightily preserved him from the infection of it.  
52. None of all these plots, yet, prevailing against the Parliament, neither in generals nor particulars, they yet, persist to plot and attempt against it; and about this time found occasions, craftily and causelessly (in secret) to foment many jealousies and jarre●, to disjoint both Houses of Parliament, within themselves; thereby at least, to obstruct and retard their (then) most weighty, and great affairs in Church and State.  
53. The Bishops also themselves had a pestilent plot about this time, to subvert and overthrow the Parliament, by endeavouring to get the King to protest against their proceed in it; But twelve of them were thereupon presently impeached of high treason, and ten of them imprisoned in the Tower of London, and, afterward, they were all disabled from ever sitting again in the Parliament.  
54. After this, the King himself (being guarded with about 500 armed, russianly desperate Cavaliers or Soldiers) violently rushed into the House of Commons, accused five of their most eminent and pious Members of treanson, demanded their persons to be delivered up unto him, intending to destroy all that resisted him therein; but this plot was blessedly crossed, by the happy absence's of the Gentlemen; this plot was attempted, Jan. 4. 1641.   

Anno 1642.  
55. After this, one Binion, a Silkman of London; and the Kentish Malignants, wherein Sir Edward Deering, had a principal hand, framed dangerous and destructive petitions against the proceed of the Parliament; but were both most justly rejected, and themselves fined and imprisoned for them.  
56. Immediately after this, things grew still, worse and worse among the malignants, the King himself in unjust discontent (by the desperate and wicked counsel of that pernicious Catiline, the young Lord Digby) forsakes the Parliament, and getting the Prince to him, leaves London and presently posts into the North, and there attempts to get Hull into his hands, but was happily prevented and bravely opposed by Sir John Hotham, then, in that time of his outward and seeming fidelity.  
57 The King being at York, interdicts the Militia, then, set on foot, by the Parliament, for their just safety and defence; endeavouring to remove the Term from the City of London, but in both is opposed by the Parliament.  
58. The Lords and Gentry of Ireland, and of Scotland too, petition the King, to return to his Parliament, yea and the Gentry and Commons of Yorkshire do the like, but are all rejected.  
59 The King set on foot a most illegal Commission of Array, to clash against the Parliaments Militia, which occasioned much mischief and misery over the whole Kingdom, but the Parl. Militia prevailed in most places and parts of the land.  
60. Three letters were intercepted, discovering a most desperat●●lot against the Parliament by the Royalists, Commissary Wìlmot, Digbie, Jermine, Crofts, and others, which by God's mercy failed them and came to nothing, but we in taking some of their ships were advantaged thereby.  
61. Sir Richard Gurney, then Lord Mayor of the City of London, proving a desperate malignant and Array man, and more apt than able to act for the King, was crossed in his desires, and clapped up prisoner in the Tower of London, by the power of the Parliament.  
62. Proclamations and Declarations against the Parliaments proceed were Printed and published and commanded to be read in all the Churches and Chapels over the whole kingdom, within the King's power.  
63. Sir John Penington, a brave Seaman, but a desperate malignant, was constituted Admiral of the Seas, for the King's service, but displaced and dispossessed thereof by the Parliament; and the most noble and loyal Earl of Warwick (notwithstanding the King's Letter and command to interdict him therein, and to give way to Penington) being put in by the power and authority of the Parliament, and possessed of the Ships, most happily and honourably kept and continued in the place and office for the Parliaments service.  
64. Hull having been long besieged by that most mischievous and atheistical marquis of Newcastle, for the King; and in that interim, one Beck with a known Papist, plotting to have betrayed it, by firing it in four several places and then assaulting it; yet Hull, by God's mighty providence was preserved, and the King after much loss of men and money, enforced to leave and forsake it.  
65. The most noble and right honourable Earl of Essex was ordained Lord General over all the Parliaments Forces, for the preservation of the kingdom, which he famously and faithfully managed and marshaled, as especially Edge-hill and Newberry, and other places can abundantly witness.  
66. A plot to have blown up all the Lord General's Magazine of powder; and another at Beverley in Yorkshire, to have slain Sir John Hotham, both intended by one David Alexander, and hired thereunto by the King's party, but both, by God's providence timely prevented.  
67. Commissions granted to popish Recusants to levy men and arms against the Parliament; but the Parlia: published a Declaration or Protestation to the whole world against the King's deal, and most unjust proceed therein.  
68 The King received the most bloody Irish rebels petition, and permitted their persons with great favour and allowance about him; calling, and counting them his good Catholic Subjects; but utterly rejecting the Parliaments petition, (exhibited by the Lord General) desiring peace and reconciliation with him.  
69. A Treaty of peace was really intended by the Parliament, but merely pretended and fraudulently for a while, transacted by the Royalists; in which interim, that most bloody bickering at Brainford, was most treacherously committed by the King's party, and a most wicked piece of villainy carried on therein, but (though with much loss on both sides, but especially on theirs) by God's great mercy the mischief prevented, and the City of London mightily preserved.  
70. A dangerous plot against the kingdom, in new High-Sheriffes to be listed by the King, for his better collecting of the 400000 li. Subsidies, intended to have been confirmed to the King in a former Parliament; but, that plot crossed by the Parliaments providence, and an Ordinance of Parliament set on foot for the successful Association of Counties for mutual defence one of another, against regal injurious taxations and oppressions on them.  
71. A wicked design of the Royalists at Oxford and elsewhere, to proceed against the Parliaments prisoners, as traitors, and so to put them to death; by which Doctor Bastwick, and Captain Lilburn, were to have been tried for their lives; but prevented by an Ordinance of Parliament for execution of a Lex Talionis, and so of executing the Royal prisoners among us.   

Anno 1643.  
72. A notable plot against the City of London, immediately upon the Cities preferring a petition to the King, by the hands of two trusty Aldermen, and four Commoners of the said City, in reply to which petition, the King sending as his messenger, one Captain Hern to the City, and the whole body of the City assembling at a Common-Hall, (as they term it) in their Guild-Hall, this Hern desires Fairplay above-board of them; But the business being found to be a notable design of the malignant-Citizens against the Parliament and the (then) Lord Mayor of London, and the Government of their City, the honest, and fare major party, cry out in the hearing of Hern, they would live and die with the Parliament, and so sent Hern away with a flea in his ear.  
73. Another plot immediately after, contrived by the King and his agents at Oxford, by a Letter sent by his Majesty to all the Freemen, Journeymen and Apprentices, of the said City to assemble at their several Halls; and there the Masters and Wardens of all Companies to read the King's Letter to them, and to persuade them to yield to all the King's commands against the Parliament and City; but this letter was nipped and crossed also in the neck and nick of it, and voted by the Parliament to be evil and scandalous.  
74. A plot also to betray Bristol into the Royalists hands by one Yeomous and Bowcher, and divers other their associates; but by God's mercy the plot being timely discovered, and the danger avoided, those two principal conspirators were by Martial Law condemned, and hanged, and so the plot utterly frustrated.  
75. Cheapside cross, Chaering-crosse, and all other crosses, in and about London, utterly demolished and pulled down, and that abominable and blasphemous book of tolerating sports and pastimes on the Lords days, voted to be burnt, and shortly after accordingly burnt, together with many crucifixes and popish trinkets and trumperies, in the very same place where Cheapeside-crosse stood.  
76. M. Prynne sent by the Parliament to the Tower of London, to search the Arch prelate of Canterbury's chamber and Study there, where he was prisoner, who accordingly searching his Study, and his pockets of his wearing  (a just requital of his dealing with Mr. Prince and others) found the original Scotch Service-book, with the Arch Bishops own hand-writings in it, the cause of all the Scots wars; and his Diary, Devotions, and discoveries under his own hands of matters of high concernment.  
77. The City of London to have been betrayed into the hands of the Royalists, under a pretence of a petition for peace, plotted by Mr. Waller, a member of the H●●se of Commons, M. Tompkins, Mr. Challenor, and others; and this wicked plot, termed by King Charles in his letter to the Queen, one of his Fine Designs; But God manifested them to be wicked and accursed Designs; and Waller one of the prime complotters, was by the sentence of the Parliament fined 10000 li. in his estate, and sent out of the kingdom into perpetual banishment, and Tompkins and Challenor hanged in London.  
78. The breaking out of Sir John Hothams' rotten-heart and infidelity to the Parliament, in his intended and attempted plot for the betraying of that mighty strong Town of Hull into the Queen's hands, which treachery was plotted and contrived between Sir John the father, Captain Hotham his son, and Sir Edward Roades, and began to be suspected, by Sir John hotham's deserting of the most noble Lord Fairfax, by an intercepeed letter of the Queens to the King, and divers other sumptomes of it, but especially by Captain Moyers letter to Mr. Ripley, and Mr. Ripley's faithful acquainting the Mayor of Hull therewith, and their first seizing on the Blockhouses, Castles, and Commanders of them, and at length their apprehending of the persons of Sir John Hotham and Captain Hotham his Son was also apprehended, and both of them beheaded at the Tower of London.  
79. A desperate plot for the betraying of the City or Town of Lincoln, by the two Purfries, two Captains of Hull, who let in 60 Cavaliers by night in disguised habits, and who issuing out about 12 of the clock that night, to act their design, where a plain fellow of the Town discharging a piece of Canon upon them, slew 10 of them at one shot, the rest slain and taken by the sentinels and Soldiers of the town, and so by God's mercy the City preserved.  
80. The Queen wrote a dangerous letter to the King, to come with all his forces to surprise London; but by God's overpowering wisdom and good providence, the King refusing that counsel resolved to take Gloucester first, which he fiercely assaulted, but was as bravely repulsed, and by God's blessing on Major General Massies fidelity, & magnanimity of spirit, timely aid coming to relieve the town, it was admirably freed, and by the Lord General's Army, and the City of London's Regiments, delivered.  
81. A desperate rebellion raised by the Kentish malignants, but by God's mercy timely suppressed about Tunbridge, by the valour of Colonel Brown, & the well-affected Gentry of the County of Kent.  
82. A Ship bound from Denmark to the King, of about 300 tun, richly laden with arms and ammunition; another Ship bound from Newcastle to Holland, laden with Sea-coal, but in the midst thereof was found between 3 & 4000 li, hid in the coals, sent to buy arms for the King; and a third great ship called the Fellowship, of at least 400 tun, carrying 24 pieces of Ordnance, all these 3 ships taken by the Parlia: ships, & made prize of.  
83. The coming in of our brethren of Scotl. with an army of at least 20000 horse and foot, invited thereunto by the Parl: in the bitter depth of winter, when they marched up to the middle in snow, and were forced to bring their Artillery over the ice of the frozen river of Tyne, and the Citizens of London lent the Parliament a 100000 li. for the Scots first pay, ro encourage their advance to help us against the King's forces.  
84. A desperate plot of the Rovalists to starve up the City of London, by breaking into Surrey, Sussex, Kent, & the other associated Counties, but disappointed by the Parl: Victories at Au●ton & Alsford, fought by Sir Will: Waller, with the help of the City of London's regiments; and the Royalists plots to hinder our brethren of Scotland: coming in to our help, by letters and Ambassadors sent from France, and messengers from King Charles to inveigle them to keep from us; but all in vain by God's good providence and mercy to us.  
85. The King granted a cessation of arms with the bloody rebels of Ireland, and afterward justified it by a Declaration of his, printed and published at Oxford; but it was remarkably observed, that he never prospered in any of his great designs after it.  
86. A Solemn League and Covenant taken by the Lords and Commons in Parl: & by the City of London, and all parts of the kingdom, in the Parliaments power, for a pure reformation of Religion and Church-Government, and a mutual defence betwixt us and our brethren of Scotland.  
87. A notable plot by the Royalists to have Nottingham town & Castle, betrayed unto them, the Officers therein being proffered above 10000 li. to consent to it; but prevented by God's mercy in the fidelity of Colonel Hutchinson, who was then the Governor thereof.  
88 A General plot against the Protestant Religion over all Christendom, and the Danes and Hollanders also, contribute to help King Charles therein; but God wrought a mighty overture therein by the sudden breaking out of the Danes plot against the Swedes, and their overrunning almost all Denmark thereupon.  
89. A desperate plot against the City of London, under a pretence of petitioning for peace, acted by Sir Basil Brook, Colonel Read, and one Mr. Riley, & Ʋilet, 2 Citizens of London, & others, but by God's providence discovered and prevented.   

1645.  
90. Two desperate plots for the betraying of Ailsbury into the Royalists hands; and another against Southampton, but all three by God's mercy timely discovered also and prevented.  
91. One Mr. Edward Stanford, a Papist, plotted with Captain Backhouse a Capt. of Horse, under Colonel massy for the betraying of the City of Gloucester into the Enemy's hands, and proffered 5000 li. for a reward thereof, 200 li. whereof was paid in hand to the said Captain, but by God's providence the plot frustrated, and Gloucester safely preserved.  
92. England's great wonder to God's glory, there being (about May 30. 1644.) six brave armies in the kingdom, on the Parliaments side, and other forces for defence of the City of London, besides.  
93. A plot to have betrayed our whole Army in Cornwall in the West, but by God's blessing most of the Soldier's lives were preserved, though with the loss of our Artillery.  
94. Sir Alexander Carew, Sir John Hot●am Captain Hotham, and the Arch-prelate of Canterbury beheaded on Tower-Hill for treason against the Parliament.  
95. A peace only pretended by the royalists at Uxbridge, and a treacherous petition framed by the malignants of Buckingham shire, wherein one Sir John Laurence of that County was a great stickler, but the mischief of both was frustrated.  
96. A desperate assault on Melcomb-Regis, to have betrayed it into the royalists hands, wherein divers of the malignant Townsmen had a principal hand, and Colonel Goring, and Sir Lewis Dives, were agents therein, but by God's blessing the plot was frustrated, the Town and Forts recovered, and two ships with rich prize from Rhoan in France, were seized on to make amends for their trouble.   

1645.  
97. Divers Earls and Lords disaffecting the King's courses, forsook Oxford, and came in and submitted themselves to the Parliament.  
98. The King in great distress after our famous Victory at Nazeby, is forced to fly up and down from Leicester, not knowing where to stay in safety.  
99 A desperate plot in the West against the Parliament, by the Clubmen, but by God's providence turned to the Enemy's greatest hurt in the issue.  
100 A devilish sudden plot upon Scotland, which was almost over run, by traitorous Montrosse; but as suddenly recovered again, by God's blessing on General David Lesley, and Montrosse discomfitted and beaten away into the mountains.   

1646.  
101. A Discovery of gross impiety in the King and his Oxonians, the King pretending a desired & personal treaty with the Parliament, for a wel-grounded peace and yet at that time granted a Commission to the Earl of Glamorgan, to the ruin of all the protestants in Ireland, and so consequently of us in England also.  
102. The King before his departure out of Oxford, sends a Commission or Letter to the Marquis of Ormond, to make an absolute peace with those bloody rebels, granting them full profession of their Romish religion, by his voluntary authority, to the shame of himself, and his religion; notwithstanding which Commission or Letter, the King sent a letter to the Parliament, & another to the City of London, protesting in them, that nothing in the world was more desired by him, than that in religion and peace, with all the comfortable fruits of both, they might thenceforth live under him, in all godliness and honesty; that foresaid Commission or Letter being discovered to the Parliament, after the sending of those Letters, and thereby the notorious unfaithfulness of the King manifested to us.  
102. The King (after that disloyal peace with the bloody Irish) was now at last enforced out of absolute necessity to get out of Oxford in a most disgraceful disguise, as a Servingman to Ashburnham, and by this ignoble escape, to put himself into the hands of our loyal brethren of Scotland for safeguard. Yet he persists and continues at Newcastle in as much obduracy and hardness of heart as at the first, and the Lord only knows what will become of him, if he return not to God, his people, and Parliament, which the Lord in mercy, work his heart unto, Amen.  
104. The great Seal broken before the Lords and Commons, on Tuesday the 11, of August, 1646.   

The Speech of the Lord Louthen, Chancellor of Scotland, to the King at Newcastle, July, 1646.  
YOur Majesty was plcased on Monday last to call the Lords of Your Council and Committee, to acquaint them with the Propositions, and told them before you would deliver Your Answer, You would make the same known to them: The time assigned to the Commissioners stay is so short, and the consequence of your Majesty's Answer of so great importance, either for the preservation or ruin of Your Crown, and Kingdoms, as we could not be answerable to God, nor to that Trust reposed in us unless we represent to your Majesty how necessary it is that your Majesty assent to the Propositions as the 〈◊〉 of affairs now 〈…〉 that the danger and 〈◊〉 of your refusal will be remediless, and b●ing on a sudden ruin and destruction.  
I shall begin first with the last, which is the danger and shall next speak a word of the remedy.  
The differences betwixt your Majesty and your Parliament (which no man knoweth better than your Majesty's self,) are grown to such a height, that after many, bloody battles; the Parliament having your Majesty, all the Forts, Garrisons, and strong holds in their hands, having your Majesty's Revenue, Excise, Assessments, Sequestrations, and the Authority to raise all the men and money in the Kingdom, and having, after many victories and great successes, a strong Army on Foot, are now in such a p●sture for strength and power: they are in a capacity to do what they will, both in Church and State. And some are so afraid, and others so unwilling to submit themselves to your Majesty's Government, that they desire not you, nor any of your Race, longer to reign over them: But the people are so wearied of the War, and great burdens they do groan under, are so loath to have Monarchieall Government destroyed, that they dare not attempt to cast it totally off, till once they send Propositions of Peace to your Majesty, lest the people (without whose concurrence they are not able to carry on their design) should fall from them; but after so great War and trouble, that they may have a perfect security from opposition and Arbitrary power, they have resolved upon the Propositions, which are tendered to your Majesty, as that without which the Kingdom and your people cannot be in safety, and that there cannot be a firm peace upon any other terms.  
Your Majesty's friends in the Houses, and the Commissioners from Scotland, (after much wra●●ing) did consent to the sending of those Propositions, or to be rated the hinderers of peace, or otherways to send no Propositions at all.  
And now Sir, if your Majesty (as God forbidden) shall refuse to assent to the Propositions, You will lose all Your friends in the Houses, lose the City, and all the Country. And all England will join against you as one man; they will process and depose you, and set up another Government; they will charge us to deliver your Majesty to them, and to render their Garrisons, and remove our Armies out of England, and upon your Majesty's refusal of the propositions, both Kingdoms will be constrained for their mutual safety, to agree and settle Religion and peace without You, which (to our unspeakable grief) will ruin your Maiestyy and your posterity, and if your Majesty refuse our faithful advice (who desire nothing on Earth more than the preservation of your Majesty's Royal Throne.) And if your Majesty lose England by your wilfulness, You will not be permitted to come and reign in Scotland.  
Sir, we have laid our hands upon our hearts, we have asked Counsel and direction from God, and have had our most serious thoughts upon the remedy, but can find no other to save your Crown and Kingdoms, than your Majesty's assenting to the propositions, and dare not say but they are higher in some things, (if it were in our power and option to remedy) than we approved of, but when we see no other means for curing the distempers of the Kingdoms, and closing the breach between your Majesty and your Parliament, our most humble and safe advice is, your Majesty will be graciously pleased to assent to them as the only way to establish your Throne; because your Majesty shall be thereby received again in your Parliament, with the applause and acclamations of your people, by your Royal presence all friends will be strengthened, and all Enemies, (who fear nothing so much as the granting the propositions) will be weakened; your Majesty will have a fit opportunity hereafter, to offer such propositions as You and your Parliament in wisdom shall think fit, for your Crown and Kingdom, the Armies will be disbanded, and your people finding the sweet fruit of a peaceable Government: you will gain their hearts and affections, and that will be your Majesty's strength and glory, and will recover all that you have lost in this time of tempest of trouble.  
And if it please God to incline your Royal heart to this advice of your humble, and faithful servants, who next to the honour and service of God, esteem nothing more precious, than the safety of your person, and Crown: our actions shall make it appear, that we esteem no hazard too great for your Majesty's safety, and that we are willing to sacrifice our lives and fortunes for establishing your Throne and just Right.   Collected by John Vicars. 
FINIS.  

Printed at London by John Dever & 〈◊〉 Ibbitson, for T. Jenn●● and are to be sold at the Royal-exchange. 1646.