The Historians Guide, Part 1 · Year 1648 – Year 1659
date Apr. 9. A Great rising of the Apprentices of London in behalf of the King.
date 13 Poyer shot to death as by his Lot cast, betwixt Powel and Langhorn.
date 20 His Royal Highness, the Duke of York, escaped from St. James's in womans Apparel.
date 30 Berwick surpriz'd by Sir Marmaduke Langdale.
date May 6. Chepstow taken by surrender for the King.
date 17 The men of Surrey petitioning for an Accomodation with the King, are set upon by the Soldiers, and many of them slain.
date 24 The Kentish Gentry rise for the King.
date 25 Carlisle taken by Sir Philip Musgrave.
date 27 Part of the Navy revolted from the Parliament.
Tenby surrendred.
date 31 Maidstone Fight.
date Jun. 1. Petitioners from Kent serv'd as those of Surrey.
date 2 Pontefract Castle surprized.
date 6 The L. Goring at Stratford-Bow with his Forces.
date 13 Colchester, being-seized on by the King's Friends, was summoned by Fairfax.
date 30 Votes for no further Addresses to the King nulled.
date Jul. 7. Francis L. Villiers, Brother to the present D. of Bucks, slain at Kingston upon Thames.
date Aug. 9. Tinmouth Castle revolted to the King.
date 17 The Scotch Army under D. Hamilton de…ated.
date 27 Colchester surrendred, and the Inhabitants fined 14000 l.
date 29 Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle were shot to death.
date Sep. 19. The Treaty began in the Isle of Wight.
date Oct. 29. Rainsborough slain.
date Nov. 27. The Treaty in the Isle of Wight broken off.
date Dec. 1. The King taken away from the Isle of Weight, and carried to Hurst Castle.
date 5 The Kings Concessions voted satisfactory.
date 6 Members imprisoned and secluded by the Army.
date 21 The King brought to Winton.
date 23 Thence to Farnham.
To Windsor.
date 29 Major Pitcher shot to death in St. Paul's Church-yard.
date Jan. 4. Supream Authority voted to be in the House of Commons.
date 6 An Ordinance engrossed and read for the King's Tryal.
date 9 A pretended High-Court of Justice proclaim'd.
Voted that Writs should no longer run in the King's Name.
date 16 Hillary Term adjourned.
date 19 Major General Brown sent Prisoner to Windsor.
The King brought from Windsor to St. Jameses.
date 20 The King brought before the pretended High-Court of Justice the first time.
date 22 The King brought the second time.
date 23 The third time.
date 27 Sentenced to death by that bold Traytor John Bradshaw.
date 30 Most barbarously murthered at his own door, about two a Clock in the Afternoon.
Charles the Second began his Reign from the same day.
date Feb. 1. The Lord Capel escaped from the Tower.
King Charles II's Proclamation for King, dated Feb. 1. 1648.
date 2 The L. Capel retaken and sent back.
date 3 Charles the Second proclaim'd in Scotland.
An Act for the Tryal of the L. Capel, &c.
date 5 The House of Lords voted useless and dangerous.
date 6 The Kingly Office voted unnecessary and burthensome.
date 7 The King's Body removed to Windsor.
date 9 There intombed.
date 10 Humphrey Marston slew three Messengers, that were sent to apprehend him.
The pretended High-Court of Justice sat at Westminster in Tryal of Duke Hamilton, &c.
date Feb. 13. A new Stamp for Coin.
date 14 A Council of State erected.
date 15 The Earl of Holland sent for.
Mr. Beaumont executed.
date 16 Charles the Second proclaim'd in Ireland.
date 21 Earl of Warwick put by from his Command of the Navy.
date Mar. 6. D. Hamilton, E. of Holland, L. Capel, L. Goring, and Sir J. Owen sentenced to die.
date 8 Earl of Norwich, and Sir J. Owen reprieved.
date 9 Duke Hamilton, Earl of Holland and Lord Capel beheaded.
date 31 Pontefract Castle surrendred.
date Apr. 1. ALderman Reynolds imprison'd and put out of his Mayoralty, for not proclaiming the Act against Kingly Government.
date 29 Lockier shot to death in St. Paul's Church-yard.
date May. 3. Dorislaus slain in Holland.
date 18 The Levellers surprized at Burford, and Col. Thomson slain.
date 30 Alderman Andrews proclaimed the Act for abolishing Kingly Government.
date Jun. 26. Cromwel being made Gen. marched into Scotl.
date Jan. 4. The Powder Blow in Tower Street.
date Apr. 26. COl. Poyse shot to death in Covent Garden.
date 29 Montross defeated in Scotland.
date May 3. Taken Prisoner by the Laird of Aston.
date 20 Brought to Edenborough, and sentenced.
date 21 Barbarously murthered.
date Jun. King Charles II. landed in Scotland.
date 12 The English advance towards Scotland.
date 21 Cromwel and the Army came to Barwick.
date 26 Fairfax laid down his Commission.
date Jul. 18. Doctor Levens suffered.
date 31 The King's Children ordered to Carisbroke Castle.
date Aug. 10. The King's Statue in the Old Exchange broken down by the Usurpers.
date Sep. 3. The Scots Army routed at Dunbar.
date 8 The Princess Eliz. died at Carisbroke Castle.
date 24 Interred at Newport in the Isle of Wight.
Edenborough Castle deliver'd to the English by Dundas the Governour.
date Jun. 1. Charles II. Crown'd at Schoon in Scotland.
date Mar. 4. Sir Henry Hide beheaded.
date 29 BRown Bushel beheaded for delivering Scarborough to the King.
date Jul. 22. Mr. Christopher Love, a noted Presbyterian Minister, and Mr. Gibbons, beheaded on Tower-hill, for a Plot against the usurped Government.
date Aug. 8. The Scotch Army entred into England.
date 22 The Scotch Army came to Worcester.
date Sep. 3. Were defeated at Worcester.
date 13 The Scotch Prisoners brought to London, and five hundred Pounds offered to any that would detect his Majesty King Charles the Second.
date Oct. 2. K. Charles II. safely landed at New-haven in France.
date 15 The Earl of Darby beheaded at Bolton.
date 20 Sir Timothy Fetherstonhaugh beheaded at Chester.
date 22 Jersey Island taken.
date 29 The Isle of Man surrendred.
date Nov. Corn Castle in Guernsey surrendred.
date Jan. 11. Barbado's the like.
date Jun. 19. A Fight in the Downs, between the English and Dutch.
date Sept. 5. The French Fleet beaten by the English.
date 6 Dunkirk taken by the Spaniard.
date Nov. 15. Blake worsted by the Dutch.
date Feb. 18, 19, 20. A terrible Fight near the Isles of Wight and Portland, and the Dutch beaten.
The English Fleet in the Levant, worsted by the Dutch.
date Apr. 20. THe Rump Parliament turned out by the Army, that had sat twelve Years, six Months, and seventeen Days.
date Jul. 29, 30. A third great Fight betwixt the English and Dutch.
Little Convention began, commonly called Barbones Parliament.
date Aug. 8. John Lilburn tryed and quitted.
date 25 An Act set forth for marrying by Justices of the Peace.
date Dec. 12. The Speaker and the most part leave the House, and surrender their Power to Oliver Cromwel, who takes upon him the Stile of Protector.
date Feb. 8. Protector so called, feasted at Grocers-Hall by the City.
date 27 Lord Gray of Grooby Prisoner to Windsor Castle.
date Mar. 12. An Insurrection of the Loyal Party at Salisbury, and other parts of the West of England dispers'd.
date Apr. 5. PEace concluded with the Hollander.
date 15 A Fleet under the Command of Sir W. Pen, sent by Cromwel to the West-Indies.
date Jul. 10. Mr. Vowel executed.
date 11 Don Patalcon Sa of Portugal, and Col. Gerrard beheaded on Tower-hill.
date Mar. 30. JAmes Duke of Lenox dies.
Archbishop of Armagh dies.
date Apr. 21. Major General Hains slain before St. Domingo.
date May. 9. Colonel Penruddock and others executed.
date 10 The English Fleet takes the Island of Jamaica from the Spaniard.
date Mar. 28. MIles Sindercom one of O. Cromwel's Guard sentenced to die, for plotting his death. Having poyson'd himself in the Tower, w… stak'd on Tower-hill.
date Oct. 3. River of Thames ebbed and flowed …wice in three hours.
date Jun. 5. DOctor Harvey died.
date Oct. 23. Mardike surrendred to the French, and put in the possession of the English.
date Jun. 17. DUnkirk taken by the English.
date July 8. Sir Henry Slingsby and Doctor H…wi…, beheaded on Tower-hill.
date Sep. 3. The Grand Usurper Cromwel died.
date 4 Richard Cromwel proclaimed Protector.
date Nov. 23. Oliver Cromwel's pompous Funeral.
date Jan. 7. A Convention called Dick's Parliament, met at Westminster.
date Apr. 7. A Representation to Richard Cromwel, published by the Officers of the Army.
date 2 Richard Cromwel's Party deserting him, he consented to dissolve his Parliament. After which, himself had a quietus est.
date 25 The House of Commons shut up, and entrance denied the Members.
date May 7. The Rump sat again.
date 16 White-hall and Somerset-house Voted by them to be sold.
date Aug. 1. An Insurrection in Cheshire, headed by Sir George Booth, now Lord de la Mere.
date 6 Lambert advances with his Forces against Sir George Booth.
Desborough advances towards the West.
date 19, 23. Sir George Booth routed and taken Prisoner at Newport Pagnel.
date 24 Sir George Booth committed to the Tower, and Chrik Castle surrendred.
A Proclamation against Mr. I. Mordant, since Viscount Mordant, and others, suspected to be ingaged with Sir George Booth.
date Oct. 12. An Act so called, appointing seven Commissioners for government of the Army.
date 13 The Rump Parliament turned out again by Lambert.
date 14 Fleetwood nominated Commander in Chief by the Army.
date 20 General Monk signified his dislike of the Armies proceedings, and advanced out of Scotland towards England.
date 31 Bradshaw, that bold Villain and Traytor died.
date Nov. 3. Lambert advanced with his Forces towards General Monk.
date Dec. 5. Tumults in London (occasioned by the Apprentices delivering a Petition to the Lord Mayor, to use his Endeavours for a Free Parliament) wherein many were slain by Col. Hewsons Soldiers.
date 26 The Rump Parliament re-admitted.
date 28 Windsor Castle surrendred to the Rump Parliament.
date Jan. 2. The Rump Parliament Ordered an Oath for the Abjuration of the Title of his Majesty, and the whole Line of King James.
They proclaim pardon to Lambert, and all others, that should submit to them by the 9. of Jan. upon which his Forces dispers'd themselves.
General Monk arriv'd at Newcastle.
date 7 Col. Morley made Lieutenant of the Tower.
date 16 Tho. Scot and Luke Robinson ordered to meet General Monk, and congratulate his Arrival.
date 17 The Old Army quartered in the City.
date 20 Three Commissioners sent from the City to Gen. Monk.
date Feb. 3. Gen. Monk came to Lond. with his Army, being petitioned by all the Counties which he march'd through, for a Free-Parliament.
date 9 General Monk pulled down the Gates and Portcullisses of London, by order of the Rump Parliament.
date 11 General Monk dissatisfied with the proceedings of the Rump Parliament, withdraws with his Army into London. The City receives him with Bone…ires, &c.
date 21 The Secluded Members restored.
date Mar. 15. The long Parliament dissolved, and another called to be holden at Westminster, Apr. 25. 1660. date 16