The Historians Guide, Frontispiece – To the reader
IACOBUS II.ds D. G. Angliae: Scotiae: Fran: et Hiber. REX. Printed for W Crook at the green Dragon wthout Temple …
THE Historian's Guide, OR, BRITAIN's REMEMBRANCER. BEING a Summary of all the Actions, Exploits, Sieges, Battels, Designs, Attempts, Preferments, Honours, Changes, &c. and whatever else is worthy Notice, that hath happen'd in His Majesty's Kingdoms, from Anno Dom. 1600. to this time. SHEWING, The Year, Month, and Day of the Month, in which each Action was done. With an Alphabetical Table for the more easie finding any thing out.
LONDON, Printed for W. Crook, at the Green-Dragon without Temple Bar, 1690.
TO THE READER.
TWo Impressions of this little Book having already found a favourable Acceptance, notwithstanding the many Errors and Omissions that were therein; I am not now in the least Sollicitous, what Entertainment this Third may find, presuming upon the Pains and Care which have been taken in Correcting and continuing this History by several Persons of known Abilities, assisted by the Opportunity of private Minutes and Journals, never yet in Print: Whereby this small Tract is arrived to the Perfection, whereof a Book of this Nature is capable. For, here is History with Chronology, wherein not only memorable Actions are mentioned, but the Reader may be satisfied of the exact Time, to a Day, when these Actions were performed, which all other Books great and small put together cannot shew. If you enquire who the Author or Authors were, I do tell you, the very Recital of their Names would make no small Addition to the Book, but would afford very little Benefit to the Reader; For, well nigh as many Persons as there are Leaves in the Book, have lent a helping Hand towards the Composure of this Manual. So that, if (as hath been endeavoured) you may find Benefit and Satisfaction herein, then hath he obtained his End, who is,
Your humble Servant, W C.
THE Historian's Guide: OR, BRITTAINS REMEMBRANCER.
date Novemb. THe French K. married to the D. of Florence his Daughter.
date Nov. 19. K. Charles the First, born at Dunfernling in Scotl.
date Feb. 25. Earl of Essex Beheaded.
The Arch-Duke defeated at Newport by Prince Maurice of Nassaw.
Died this year of the Plague besides other diseases in London and the Suburbs, 6360.
SPaniards Landed in Ireland, but beaten off.
date Oct. 27. Last Parliament of Qu. Elizabeth began.
date Nov. 19. Dissolved.
date Mar. 24. QUeen Elizabeth died, and K. James VI. of Scotl. Proclaimed King.
A Great Plague began at London. Prince Charles created Duke of Albany, Marq. Ormond, &c.
date Apr. 5. K. James began his Journey out of Scotland.
date 10 Earl of Southampton discharged out of the Tower.
date May 7. The K. arrived at the Charter-house, London.
date 11 Went thence to the Tower.
date Jun. 1. One whipp'd through London, for going to Court when his House was infected.
date 11 Qu. Anne with Pr. Henry came to York.
date 27 K. met them at Erston in Northamptonshire.
They entred London.
date Jul. 15. King and Queen Crowned at Westminster.
Cobham's Conspiracy discovered.
date Aug. 5. A Thanksgiving day for the King's Escape from Gowry's Conspiracy.
date Nov. 17. Lord Cobham, Lord Grey, Sir Walter Rawleigh and others Condemned.
Clerk, Brook and Watson Executed.
A Conference at Hampton Court about Religion.
date Jan. 14. The Millenaries Petition for Reformation.
Died this year in London, of all diseases 38244. whereof of the Plague 36578.
date May 20. A Parliament assembled.
date Aug. 18. A Treaty for Peace with Spain.
date Octob. Pr. Charles brought to Windsor.
date Jan. 5. Made Knight of the Bath.
date 6 Created Duke of York, and this year K. James styled King of Great Britain.
date Nov. 3. POwder Plot discovered.
date 5 Parliament met at Westminster.
date Jan. 27. Conspirators of the Powder Plot, Sir Everard Digby, I. Grant, Tho. Bates, Rob. Winter, Condemned.
date 30 Executed at the West end of St. Pauls.
date 31 Guy Faux, Ambrose Rockwood, &c. executed in the Parliament-Yard, Westminster.
Oath of Allegiance, first, Administred.
date May 3. H. Garnet, another Conspirator in the Powder Plot, executed in St. Paul's Church-Yard.
date 27 Parliament Ended.
date Jul. 7. Christianus K. of Denmark came into England.
date Aug. 12. Departed hence.
Earls of Northumberland and the Lords Sturton and Mordant censured in the Star-Chamber.
date Nov. 26. Tyrone began a Conspiracy in Ireland.
date Mar. 10. The first Stone laid to Aldgate.
AN Insurrection in Northamptonshire, and the adjacent Counties, whereof one Captain Pouch was the chief Incendiary.
date Jun. 22. Tho. Garnet a Jesuit executed at Tyburn.
A Translation begun of the Bible into English.
date Dec. 22. Nineteen Pyrates were executed at Wappin.
date Apr. 11. ST. Edmunds Bury burnt.
date 19 Tho. E. of Dorset, L. Treasurer, died suddenly.
Virginia planted by the English.
Matthias Arch-Duke of Austria made K. of Hungary.
date Apr. 10. THe new Exchange, was first opened and named by K. James, Britains Burse.
date May 8. Fishing on the English Coast forbid to Forreigners without leave first had.
Allum brought to perfection, by Sir I. Bouchier.
Silk-worms brought to England.
K. I. laid the foundation of Chelsey Colledge.
League with France.
date May. 8. THe first Provost of Chelsey Colledge ordered by King James.
K. Henry IV. of France Murthered at Paris by Ra…illac.
date 30 Prince Henry Created Prince of Wales.
date Oct. 16. Began the Fifteenth Session of Parliament.
date Mar. 25. SIr Robert Carr made Viscount Rochester.
Landgrave of Hessen came into England.
Barthol. Legat condemned by the Convocation for an Arian Heretick, was afterwards delivered by a Significavit to the Secular Power.
date Sep. 19. Sutton the Founder of the Charter-house Hospital died.
Prince Charles made Knight of the Garter.
The new Translation of the Bible finished.
date Mar. 18. Legat was burnt in Smithfield for an Arian.
This year Matthias Arch-Duke of Austria, and K. of Hungary was made K. of Bohemia.
date Apr. 11. EDward Wightman of Burton burnt at Lichfield for an Heretick.
date Jun. 19. The Lord Sanguire, a Scot, for murthering Turner executed.
date Oct. 29. Frederick; P. Palatine of the Rhine, arriv'd in Eng.
date 29 Dined at the Guild-hall, London.
date Oct. 19. Prince Henry fell sick.
date Nov. 16. Died at St. Jameses.
date Dec. 7. Interred at Westminster.
date Feb. 14. Lady Eliz. wedded to Frederick the V. Prince Elector Palatine of the Rhine, at Whitehal.
A Marriage betwixt France and Spain.
Plantations setled in Ireland by some of the Companies of London.
date Aug. 10. PRince Elector and Princess, left England.
date Aug. 7. Dorchester burnt.
date Nov. 4. Viscount of Rochester Created Earl of Somerset.
The Lady Frances Howard Divorced from the E. of Essex, and married to the E. of Somerset.
The Globe Playhouse burnt.
The Artillery Company revived.
Wadham College in Oxon Founded.
A Parliament suddenly called, and as suddenly dissolved.
date Jul. KIng of Denmark came into England the second time.
date Aug. 1. Departed homeward.
Stratford upon Evon burnt.
The New River brought to London by Sir Hugh Middleton from Ware.
Moorfields made into Walks.
LAdy Arabella died in the Tower.
date Sep. 17. Sir Thomas Overbury poysoned: For which, E. of Somerset and his Lady, arraigned and condemned, and Sir Gervis Elvis, Lieutenant of the Tower, Mrs. Turner and divers others, Executed.
Peace concluded this year between the Spaniard and the Duke of Savoy.
date Nov. 3. PRince Charles Created Prince of Wales.
date Dec. 6. Archbishop of Spalato arrived in England.
date Mar. 4. King James his progress into Scotland.
date Sep. 5. KIng James returned from Scotland.
date Jan. 29. Doctor William Butler, the famous Physician of Cambridge, died.
Ferdinando the Second, Elected Emperor.
The Destruction of the Spanish Army sent against the Venetians.
date Oct. 29. SIr Walter Rawleigh beheaded.
date Nov. 3. Synod of Dort began.
date 18 Comet seen in Engl. before the Death of Q. Ann.
date Dec. 16. A Declaration tolerating Sports on the Sabbath day.
date Apr. 19. SYnod of Dort ended.
date Mar. 3. Queen Anne died at Hampton Court.
P. Charles of Spain Crowned King of Portugal.
The Bohemians, Austrians, and Hungarians, rebel against the Emperor.
date Jul. 17. BErnard Calvert of Andover, went from Southwark to Callis this day, and back again the same.
Peace with France.
Palatine of the Rhine styled King of Bohemia.
The French King's Subjects rebel against him.
date Jan. 20. A Parliament assembled, in which the Lord Chancellor Bacon was outed and sent to the Tower.
G. Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury, casually killed a Keeper in Bramshil Park.
date Mar. 30. ARchbishop of Spalato commanded to leave the Realm within twenty days.
English Treat with the Spaniards, for the Restitution of the Palatinate.
date Feb. 17. Prince Charles embarks for Spain.
date May 7. Arrived there.
Peace between his Holiness and the King of Spain, upon condition of restoring the Valtolin to his Holiness.
date Sep. 17. PRince left Spain.
date Octo. 5. Arrived at Portsmouth.
date 6 Entred London.
date 26 The fatal Vespers at Black-fryers.
date Mar. 13. King James enters into a War for the Recovery of the Palatinate.
This year Pope Gregory being dead, Urban the VIII. was chosen Pope.
THe Marriage with Franoe accorded.
Count Mansfield Shipwracked.
Amboyna's bloody Cruelty.
The Siege of Bredah.
date Mar. 27. KIng James died at Theobalds.
King Charles Proclaimed.
date 17 A great Plague at London, whereof died 35417.
King James removed to Denham House.
date May 1. A Match concluded between our King and the Daughter of France; soon after which the Lady Henrietta Maria sets forth on her Journey towards England from Paris to Amiens.
date Jun. 8. King Charles calls his first Parliament.
date 14 King James Intombed at Westminster.
date 23 K. Charles's Royal Consort lands at Dover.
date 23 Marriage consummated at Canterbury.
date 27 Marriage declared at Whitehal.
King and Queen remove to Hampton-Court.
Doct. Montague questioned by the Parliament.
date Jul. 11. Parliament adjourned to Oxford.
date Aug. 1. Met at Oxford, House of Commons in the Divinity-School.
date 7 Dissolved.
Michaelmas Term adjourned to Reading because of the Plague.
date Oct. 8. Cadiz Voyage.
date Feb. 2. King Charles the First Crowned at Westminster.
date 6 Parliament meet at Westminster.
Earl of Arundel committed, but soon releas'd.
A League with Denmark, Sweden, and the States, against Spain.
Williams, Bishop of Lincoln, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, displac't.
date 11. 17. Two Conferences at York-house about Arminian Tenets.
date Mar. 1. DUke of Buckingham charged with High Treason by the Earl of Bristol.
date 8 Makes his Defence, but was Sequestred the Lords House.
Sir John Elliot and Sir Dudley Diggs, committed to the Tower, but soon released.
date 15 Parliament dissolved.
Wars Proclaimed by the French against the English.
Earl of Arundel confined to his House.
Earl of Bristol sent to the Tower.
date Aug. 17. King of Denmark routed by Tilly.
Sir Francis Bacon Visc. of St. Albans died.
date Jun. 27. DUke of Buckingham Imbarked for the Isle of Rhee, from Portsmouth.
date Jul. 21. Proclaimed his Manifesto.
date 23 Landed at the Isle.
date Aug. St. Martins Fort besieged.
date Sep. 20. S. Jo. Burroughs slain by a shot.
date Oct. 19. S. Martins Fort relieved by Marshal Schomberg.
Duke raised the Siege, defeated, and many Noble Englishmen slain.
Rochellers besieged by the Duke of Guise, crave Aid of the English.
date Mar. 17. Parliament Convened at Westminster, wherein the Petition of Right was granted by the King.
date Jul. 29. Parliament adjourned till the Twentieth of October, and by Proclamation, to January the Twentieth following.
date May 8. EArl of Denbigh set sail for the Relief of Rochel, but failed.
date 13 Charles-Iames, the first Son of King Charles the First, born at Greenwich.
Stoadt, an English Garison, rendred to the Imperialists.
date Jun. 24 Doctor Lamb murthered in the Streets of London.
date 26 The City fined for Dr. Lambs death 6000 l.
date 17 A Remonstrance with a Bill of Subsidies, presented His Majesty.
date Jul. 26. Parliament Prorogued till October the Twentieth next.
Earl of Marlborough removed from his Office of Lord Treasurer, Sir Richard Weston preferred.
Sir Thomas Wentworth Created a Baron.
Another Fleet designed for Rochel, commanded by the Duke of Buckingham.
date Aug. 23. Duke of Buckingham basely murthered at Portsmouth by John Felton, a discontented Officer.
date Sep. 8. The Fleet sail for Rochel from Portsmouth, commanded by the Earl of Lindsey.
date 25 Duke of Buckingham's Funeral.
date Oct. 18. The Relief of Rochel attempted, but unsuccessful, by reason of contrary winds.
Rochel surrendred, and called Borgo Maria.
date Oct. 20. Parliament adjourned till January the Twentieth.
date Nov. 19. John Felton hanged at Tyburn, his body carried to Portsmouth, and there hanged in Chains for murthering the Duke of Buckingham.
date Jan. 20. The Parliament adjourned till the second of March following.
date Mar. 2. Dissolved.
date 18 Prince Charles-Iames died.
THe Marquess Huntly and others proclaimed Rebels in Scotland, fly into England.
William Herbert Earl of Pembroke, Lord Steward of the Kings houshold, dies.
date Apr. 14. Peace with France concluded.
date May 20. Proclaimed.
date July 10. An Uproar in Fleetstreet upon a Rescue of one Billingham, sometime a Captain at the Isle of Rhee, from an Arrest by certain Templers.
Sir Robert Anstruther sent Embassador to the Emperour.
date May 29. THe Kings second Son born, at whose Birth a remarkable Star appear'd at Noonday.
date Jun. 27. Baptis'd at St. James's by Bishop Laud by the Name of Charles, after K. Ch. 2.
Dr. Leighton a Scot, for a seditious Pamphlet intituled Sions Plea, censured to have his Nose slit, his Ears cropt, and his Forehead branded, which soon after was inflicted.
date Nov. 27. Peace with Spain proclaim'd.
date Mar. 11. Earl of Essex married to Mrs. Elizabeth Pawlet.
Prince Charles committed to the Care of the Countess of Dorset.
date Mar. 5. EArl of Castlehaven arraigned.
Beheaded on Tower-hill.
Sir Giles Alington Censured.
Lady Mary born.
SIgismund K. of Poland died.
St. Paul's Church in London begun to be repair'd.
The Building of Covent Garden begun by the Earl of Bedford.
date Feb 11. A great Fire on London-Bridge.
Some Broils begun in Ireland, but soon appeas'd.
date Nov. 16. Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, slain at the Battel of Lutzen.
date May 13. HIs Majesty began a progress into Scotland. date Jun. 10. Arrived at Edenburgh.
date 18 Was there Crowned.
date 20 Set forth from thence homewards.
date Aug. 3. Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury, died.
date Sep. 19. Bishop Laud succeeds him, being translated from the See of London to that of Canterbury.
date Oct. 13. His Majesties Third Son (our present Sovereign) born.
date 24 Baptised by the name of James, afterwards Created Duke of York.
date Feb. 2. The Gentlemen of the Four Inns of Court presented a Masque to their Majesties at White-hall.
date 11 The King and Queen magnificently Entertain'd by the City at the Guild-hall.
date Nov. 20. Frederic Prince Elector styled King of Bohemia, died of the Infection he took at Mentz.
The Dispute begun of Englands Right to the Soveraignty of the Brittish Seas, and defended by the Learned Selden against Hugo Grotius.
date Aug. 9. ATtorney General Noy designed the raising Ship-money.
Died.
The Scots begin their Designs against the King.
Prince Charles committed to the Government of the Earl of Newcastle.
His Majesty set out a gallant Fleet this Summer, under the Conduct of Robert Earl of Lindsey.
date Sept. THe Earl of Arundel went Embassadour to the Emperour.
date Nov. 15. Thomas Par reported to be aged 152 years died.
date Dec. 28 Lady Elizabeth born.
date Jan. 2. Baptised.
Prince Rupert arrived at London.
Commotions began about the Ceremonies of the Church.
date Mar. 6. Dr. Juxon, Bishop of London, made Lord Treasurer.
date Dec. 22. FErdinand, King of Hungary, elected King of the Romans.
date Feb. 15. Matthias, Emperour of Germany, died.
date Mar. 17. Lady Anne, the King's third Daughter, born.
date Jun. 14. Burton, Prin, and Bastwick sentenc'd in the Star-Chamber.
Ship-money debated.
date Feb. 2. The Judges gave their Verdict for the Legality of Ship-money.
date Jun. 26. PRince Rupert set sail for Holland.
date Jul. 3. The Liturgy first read at Edenburgh, which occasioned a great tumult.
date Oct. 18. The Bishop of Galloway assaulted.
date 19 The Scots Petition against the Liturgy.
date Dec. 7. Earl of Roxborough sent into Scotland.
date Feb. 19. Tumultuous Meetings forbidden there.
The Scots entred into Covenant.
John Lilburn whipt at the Carts tail.
date May. 10. MArquess …amilton sent into Scotland.
date Jun. 28. The King's Declaration against any Innovation in Religion, sent to Hamilton. date Jul. 2.
date Sep. 22. Proclaimed by him.
date Oct. 31. A Declaration discharging the Service-Book in Scotland.
Maria de Medicis, Queen Mother, arrived in England.
Argile declares for the Scots Covenanters.
Marquess Hamilton returned into England.
Covenanters began to Arm, and chose Lesly their General.
Sollicited France for Aid.
date Mar. 27. HIs Majesty went with an Army against the Scotch Covenanters.
date Apr. 25. Forbad the payment of any Rents or Debts due to any of them.
date 29 Marched from York to Newcastle.
date May 25. Parliament began in Scotland.
Dissolved by His Majesty.
date 28 The King incamped near Barwick, in view of the Scots Army.
Marquess Hamilton at Forth with the English Navy.
date Jun. 10. The Scots treated with the King.
date 17 Peace concluded.
date 18 Both Armies disbanded.
The Prince Elector comes into England.
date Aug. 1. The King returned to Theobalds, from the North.
date 3 Thence to Whitehal.
Earl Traquare sent Commissioner into Scotland.
Lord Deputy of Ireland arrived at London, and Created Earl of Strafford.
date Aug. 13. Another Parliament began in Scotland.
date Sep. 7, 8. A Fight in the Downs between the Spanish and Dutch Fleets.
date Dec. 5. King Charles resolves to call another Parliament, in case of the Scotch Rebellion.
Earl of Strafford goes for Ireland, and calls a Parliament.
date Jan. 10. Lord Keeper Coventry dies, after fifteen years prudent and faithful Discharge of that Office.
date Mar. Earl of Strafford returned for England.