The Historians Guide, Part 1 · Year 1660 – Year 1663
date Apr. 11. LAmbert escaped out of the Tower. His Majesty's gracious Letters and Declaration, dated from Breda. date 14
date 21 Lambert proclaimed Traytor.
date 22 Taken near Daventry by Col. Ingolsby.
date 24 Lambert brought to London, and committed to the Tower.
date 25 The Parliament met at Westminster.
date May 1. His Majesty's gracious Letters and Declaration read in the House, presented by Sir John Greenvil. After which followed seveal Resolves, in order to his Majesty's speedy Return to his People.
The like gracious Letters and Declaration to General Monk.
date 2 The like to the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen.
date 3 His Majesty's Letters and Declaration to the Fleet. Upon the reading of which, the L. Montague and the whole Fleet submitted joyfully.
Easter-Term adjourn'd till Quinque Pasch. being May 8.
date 7 Charles the First his Statue set up again in Guild-hall-yard.
date 8 His Majesty, King Charles the Second most joyfully proclaimed in London and Westminster; and afterwards all his Dominions over.
His Majesty K. Charles the Second left Breda.
date 16 Came to the Hague.
date 23 Imbarked with the Dukes of York and Gloucester for England.
date 25 Happily landed at Dover, where the Lord General Monk and some part of the Army attended him with several voluntier Troops of the Nobility and Gentry.
Thence to Canterbury.
date 28 To Rochester.
date 29 Made His magnificent Entry through his City of London to his Palace of White-hall.
date Jan. 11. William Outred, that famous Mathematician died.
date 25 Sir John Robinson made Licutenant of the Tower of London.
date Jul. 5. His Majesty is magnificently entertained at Guild-hall by the City.
date 12 General George Monk for those Signal and Eminent Services performed by him, for the King and Kingdom, created Duke of Albemarle, &c. And Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter.
date 13 Albemarle took his place in the House of Peers.
Henry Earl of St. Albans went Ambassador into France.
date 26 Col. Edward Montague, Admiral at Sea, for his good Services created Earl of Sandwich, &c. and Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and took his place in the House of Peers.
date 28 The Marquess of Ormond the like, as Earl of Brecknock.
date Aug. An Ambassador from Denmark.
date Sep. 10. Peace with Spain proclaimed.
date 13 The Parliament adjourned till November the sixth next, having passed an Act for disbanding the Army: as also an Act of Indemnity.
The Regicides excepted out of the pardon.
The Prince de Ligne, Ambassador from Spain, came to London.
Henry Duke of Gloucester died.
date 23 His Majesty and his Royal Highness, went to meet the Princess Royal of Orange.
date 25 The Princess Royal came to London.
date Oct. 9. The Regicides indicted at Hicks's-hall.
date 10 Their Tryal began at the Old-Baily.
date 13 Thomas Harrison (one of them) hang'd, drawn, and quartered at Charing Cross.
date 15 John Carew executed in the like manner, being another.
date 16 John Cook and Hugh Peters two more, executed in the same manner.
date 17 Thomas Scot, Gregory Clement, Adrian Scroop, and Jo. Jones executed in the same place and manner.
date 19 Daniel Axtel, and Francis Hacker, only hang'd at Tybourn.
date 27 His Majesty went to meet his Mother, the Queens Majesty.
date Nov. 2. His Majesty returned with his Royal Mother, the Princess Henrietta, and Prince Edward of the Rhine.
date 6 The Lords and Commons met again.
date 24 The Princess Royal of Orange died.
date 29 The Parliament dissolved, and the same day the Princess of Orange was interred in Henry the Seventh's Chapel.
date Jan. 1. The Parliament met in Scotland.
Charles, the First Son of the Duke of York, born and christened, was created Duke of Cambridge.
date 2 The Queen Mother, with the Princess Henrietta, set forward for France.
date 6 Venner and his party in Arms, in the City of London dispersed.
date 9 They appear again, but are soon totally routed, divers of them slain, and Venner their chief Captain with several others taken.
date 17 Venner, and nineteen of his Confederates arraign'd.
date 29 Venner and Ho…gekins executed in Coalman-street, Prichard and Oxmin at Woodstreet end.
date 21 Several others of them, about Nine or Ten, in other places.
date 25 The Solemn League and Covenant rescinded in Scotland by the Parliament. Who declare the power of the Militia in his Majesty.
The Parliament in Scotland pass an Act for the Attainder of the Marquess of Argile.
The Queen Mother, and the Princess Henrietta imbarked for France.
date 30 The Carcases of O. Cromwel, H. Ireton, and I. Bradshaw, hang'd at Tybourn, and buried under the Gallows.
Their Heads set on Westminster-Hall.
date Feb. 5. The Earl of Southampton sworn Lord High Treasurer of England.
date 13 Argyle brought to his Tryal.
date 14 The late Army wholly disbanded.
date Mar. 6. The Parliament in Ireland Dissolved.
date 9 The Writs for Summoning of a Parliament in England to convene on May 8. 1661. were sealed.
date Feb. 27. Cardinal Mazarine, that great Minister of state in France, remov'd by death.
date Apr. 13. HIs Majesty issued out Writs for the assembling a Convocation.
date 19 Sixty eight Knights of the Bath, Created to attend his Majesty at his Coronation according to Custom.
date 22 The Lord Chancellor Hide Created Earl of Clarendon, Arthur Lord Capel made Earl of Essex, with four Earls more, and six new Barons.
date 22 His Majesty's magnificent proceeding from the Tower, through London to Whitehal, towards his Coronation.
date 23 Charles the Second Crowned at Westminster.
date May 7. A General Muster of the Forces of the City of London in Hide Park, consisting of two Regiments of Horse, and Twelve Regiments of Foot.
date 8 The Parliament began at Westminster, wherein the House of Lords were restored to their antient Privileges.
The Convocation likewise began.
The Parliament began in Ireland.
date 11 The Body of the Noble Marquess of Montross taken up and Interred in great State.
date 17 Elizabeth, Q. of Bohemia, arrived at London.
date 22 The Solemn League and Covenant burnt in London and Westminster, and afterwards all England over, by Order of the Parliament.
date 24 The Marquess of Argyle condemn'd in Scotland for High Treason, and Sentenc'd to death.
date 27 Beheaded at Edenburgh.
date 28 The Writing called The Act for the Tryal of His late Majesty Charles the First, burnt by Order of Parliament in Westminster-Hall.
date Jun. 7. The Funerals of Sir C. Lucas and Sir G. Lisle solemnly celebrated at Colchester.
date July 12. Lord Mounson, Sir H. Mildmay, and Mr. Wallop sentenc'd by the House of Commons to be drawn on Sledges, from the Tower to Tyburn and back again, as a yearly Penance, on the day of the late King's Murther.
date July 14. The Liturgy of the Church of England, first read in the French Tongue, at the French Church in the Savoy.
date 30 The Parliament adjourned till November the twentieth next. Passed
An Act declaring the Militia His Majesty's.
An Act for the safety of His Majesty's Person, &c.
date Sep. 30. Happened that remarkable Encounter between the French Ambassador, and the Spanish for precedency, at the publick entry of Count Brohe, Ambassador Extraordinary from Sweden to England, on Tower-Hill.
date Oct. 8. His Majesty by Proclamation established the Council of the Marches of Wales, Earl of Carbery first President.
date Nov. 4. James Duke of Ormond, made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
date 19 John James arraigned for Treason.
date 20 The Parliament sate again, wherein the Lords Spiritual were restored to their antient Privileges.
date Dec. 13. The Society of Lincolns-Inn, to renew the antient Custom of that House, in the choice of a Lord Lieutenant, and Prince of the Grang. Elected I. Lort Esquire, to that dignity.
date 18 Charles Coot, Earl of Montrath in Ireland, died.
date 20 The Parliament Adjourned till January the seventh next.
An Act for purging of Corporations, &c.
date 24 Henry Earl of St. Albans returned from France, arrived at Whitehall.
date 26 Major Wildman and several others committed to the Tower for treasonable practices.
date 27 John James hang'd, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn.
date Jan. 7. The Parliament met again.
Frederick Lord Cornwallis died.
date 16 The Council of the Marches first sitting.
date 30 The Earl of Peterborough took possession of Tangier.
date Feb. 13. Elizabeth Queen of Bohemia died.
date 18 The high and prodigious wind, when the Pageant in Fleetstreet was blown down.
date 21 Sir John Stowel died.
Christopher Lord Hatton made Governor of Guernsey.
date Apr. 13. THE Lady Catharine of Portugal, now Queen Dowager, imbarked for England.
date 19 Miles Corbet, Iohn Okey, and John Bar…stead, three Regicides, hanged, drawn and q…artered at Tyburn.
date 23 Articles of Peace concluded with Argiers, by Sir John Lawson.
date 30 The Dutchess of York delivered of a daughter at St. James's.
date May 3. Major Fienes and his Party cut off at Tangier, by the Moors.
date 14 His Majesties Royal Spouse landed at Portsmouth.
date 19 His Majesty prorogued the Parliament till Febr. 18. next.
date 21 King Charles the 2d. and Donna Catharina, Infant of Portugal, were married by Gilbert, Lord Bishop of London, at Portsmouth.
date 27 The King and Queen came to Hampton-Court.
date Jun. 2. The Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London present their duty to his Majesty.
date 6 Sir Henry Vane indicted, and found guilty of Treason.
date 9 Master John Lambert the like.
date 11 Both received their Sentence, Mr. Lambert reprieved.
date 14 Sir Henry Vane beheaded.
date 28 The English Forces arrived at Lisbon.
date Jul. 28. The Queen Mother landed at Greenwich.
date Aug. 13. Queen Catharine came first to White-hall.
date 24 The Act came in force for silencing all Nonconformist Ministers.
date Sep. 3. William Lenthal Speaker of the Long Parliament died.
date Oct. 2. Cuba attack'd by his Majesty's Forces of Jamaica. The Spaniards routed, and some Towns destroyed.
Sir Henry Bennet sworn one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.
date 5 Peace concluded with Tunis, by Sir John Lawson.
date 18 And with Tripoly.
date Nov. 16. His Majesty set forth his Proclamation, for setling a free Port at Tangier.
date Dec. 29. Three Ambassadors from the Emperor of Russia, were conducted to their Audience with great State, carrying many presents in view from York House.
date Jan. 11. One hundred fifty and two Slaves redeemed from Argiers and thereabouts, by the Charity of the Right Reverend the Arch-Bishops, Bishops, and Clergy.
date 24 Archibal Iohnson, Laird Warreston, brought over into England.
date 31 Committed to the Tower.
date Feb. 18. The Parliament met according to Prorogation at Westminster.
date Apr. 22. THE King and Queen arrived at Windsor.
date 28 The Earl of Tiveot set sail for to be Governor of Tangier.
date Jun. 1. A great Conspiracy discovered in Ireland, wherein Colonel Thomas Scot, Colonel Edward Warren, Major H. Jones, Jephson Lackey, and others concerned.
date 2 The Earl of Rothes made High Commissioner of Scotland.
date 4 William Iuxon, Arch-bishop of Canterbury, departed this life.
date 25 Doctor Bramhal, Lord Primate of Ireland died.
date Jul. 4. The Earl of Peterborough arrived at White-hall, from his Government of Tangier.
date 12 Her Royal Highness brought to Bed of a Second Son,
date 22 Christened James.
date 24 Laird Warreston executed at Edenburgh, according to Sentence in Parliament, on a Gibbet two and twenty foot high.
date 27 The Parliament Prorogued till March 16. next.
date Apr. 26. His Majesty and His Royal Consort began their Progress to the Bath; the first night to Maidenhead.
date 27 Thence to Reading, and thence to Norberry.
date 28 Thence to Marlborough.
date 29 Thence to the Bath.
date Oct. 2. His Majesty and the Queen returned to White-hall.
His Majesty's Judges, by a special Commission of Oyer and Terminer, for the Tryal of several persons concerned in a Conspiracy in the North.
date Jan. 5. They arrived at York.
date 8, 9. Twenty one of which convicted of High Treason.
date 12 Sentenced.
date 22 One James Turner, a notorious Splitter of Causes, was executed in Leadenhall-street for Burglary.
date 25 Gibbons and Baker two of the Northern Conspirators Executed.
date Feb. 24. John Twine was Executed in Smithfield, for Printing a treasonable Libel against His Majesty, according to Sentence against him in the Old-Baily Sessions-house.
date Mar. 16. The Parliament met according to the Prorogation at Westminster.