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DIARY OF JOHN ROUS. 



IN'CUMBENT OF 

SANTON DOAVInHAM, SUFFOLK, 

Fi;OM 1625 TO 1G42. 
EDITED BY 

MARY .V^'XE EATRETT GRE 

At TliOR OF '• LIVES' OF THK PKINCESSES OF ENGLAND ;" EDITOR OF 
"j.ETTEBS OF ROVAI, AND ILLrSXraOUS LADIES.'" 




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[XO. LXVI.j 



COUNCIL OF THE CA3IDE\ SOCIETY 

FOR THE YEAR ]v.;6-7. 



President. 
THE RIGHT HOX. LORD RRAYBROOKE, F.S.A. 

sVILLRAM HEXRY BLAAOY, ESQ. M.A, F.S.A. 

JOHN BRUCE, ESQ. F.S.A. Director. 

JOHN PAYXE COLLIER, ESQ. F.S.A. Treasurer. 

WILLIAM DURRAXT COOPER, ESQ. F.S.A. 

BOLTON CORXEY, ESQ. M.R.S.L. 

JAMES CROSBY, ESQ. F.S.A. 

SIR HENRY ELLIS, K.Ii., F.R.S., Dir.S.A. 

THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL JERMYN, M.P. 

THE REY. LAALBERT B. LARKING, M.A. 

PETER LEYESQLT, ESQ. F.S.A. 

SIR FREDERICK MADDEN, K.H., F.R.S. 

FREDERIC OUYRY, ESQ. Treas.S.A. 

WILLIAM J. THOMS, ESQ. F.S.A., Secretary. 

WILLIAM TITE, ESQ. M.P., F.R.S. 

REY. JOHN WEBB. M.A.. F.S.A. 



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IXTRODUCTIOX. 



The Trritcr of the follo\ring diary \vas meinber of a family set- 
tle J in Suilblk frora the time of Edward IIL. Avhen Peter le Eons 
is named as o"ner of the manor of Bennington. The sixth in 
descent from him. Sir William Eous, T\-as father of Sir Anth.ony. 
who purchased Henham Hull, still the family seat, and died in 
1547. His son Thomas vras alike the ancestor of the diarist and 
of the Earl of Stradbrocke. the present representative of the elder 
branch of the family. The following pedigree is compiled from one 
preserved in the archives of tlie Earl of Stradbrooke, to vrhom I am 
indebted, for its communication, collated with another in the 
Heralds' College, and atignionted by additional information from 
Davy's SuiToik Collections in the British ]\Iuscum, and from the 
]ja3-ish registers of T\'eetijig and Dovv-nham in Xorfolk. and of 
Hessett in Sunblk, the residences of that branch of the house to 
which the diarist belongs: 

Pe:er le Rous, of Dc-nr.ington, temp. Edv>-. I1I,= 



Seventh in descent frcDi him is sir Anlljon_\=pApnei-, dau. of sir Tl'Oina.s Bicn- 
Rous, of Dccuir.gton. v.Lo l.ougLt Henham i nci-lja-'-ttt. of Friends Hall, co. Xor- 
Hal): died 'il'i:'. I folk. 



Catlnrrine, doU. oi^^TiJorija.- Rci:?, oi Den-=f:Anne. dau. and coiicir of sir Nicl.oir.s ilan 
Giles Hansard. nir.gion: died K'i73. j of Bniisvard, Master of the KolU. 

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ca:\id. >oc. h 



INTR0DrCT]O>\ 



Petronilla, dau.=^^ir Thoma>, of Den- Margery, bur. -pAnthony,liom — Alice, dau. of 

ofyirJohcGr.od- j ninc:ton, h-i'-rh sheriff at Hessett, co. 

wvn: died Feb. of Sufiolk 1>.L-'1; died Sutiulk, 22 

9,1620. I K03. Aug. 15SS. 



A c-u Earl of Srradbrx'ke. 



July 6, 1551; 

jr. at Weet- V>ur. at AVeet- 

p, CO. Nor- iiig, Aug. 

Ik, June 1015. 



Su.sanna.=JoH.v Rors. bap.==nanna. 
at He^>ett, 20 
April 1554; bur. 
at Dov^^ibara, co. 

Suflulk, AprU 
l';44. 



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A s .n, An- .Toanna, Abraliam =Thomasinc, 
ibony ? born Fisher, j bap. at Hes- 



andbur. 

.Alav 

15S1. 



f^ett, 22 Mar. 
I 15S5; mar. 

IGiiT, at 
1 Weeting. 



Anne, bap. 1615. 
DorothrE.. bap. 1620. 
Lyd.a^b^p. 1C23. 
A!! s." Weetin-. 



Elizabeth, bap. 1626, Thomasine, born and died 1612. 
at Weeting: bur. Abraham, born and died 1613, 
163P at Downham. Robert, born Oct. lOlS. 
Mar.-, bap. 1633. at Mary, born 1G22. 
Dov\Tiham. Richard, born 1G25. 

Elizabeth, born and died 1630. 
All at AVeeling. 



The -nlv tangible allusion made by the diarist to his family con- 
nection? is a mention of his Tvife,^ and the notice of the death 
of his llther. Anthonv Eous. in 1C31.^' His own Christian name 
does net appear throughout, but he is identified with the John 
Eons o:' the pedigree, by the fact that he was evidently a minister, 
and tli:.: in the early part of the diary he speaks of himself as resi- 
dent a: "W'eeting. whilst in the latter part he speaks of " our town 
of Dowiiham;" the period of the removal coinciding with that at 
which -re fi]id, from the parish registers, that John Eons left T^^eet- 
iug for Downham or its neighbourhood. Another curious coinci- 
dence strengthens this identification, — the handwriting in the parish 
registers of TTeeting, up to the period of the death of Anthony 
Pious, is precisely that employed by our diarist, as tlie formal hand 



P. 45 



r. 61. 



INTKODUCTK'X. VII 

in Avliich he copied out verses and otLcr extracts -which abound in 
the volun:ie.^ 

Of the private history of John fious, further than it is evolved in 
the diary itself, the records are extremely slight. He vras born at 
Hessett in Suflolk, to -^-hich living his father Tvas instituted in 
1579, and his birth probabh- took place in April 1584, as his 
father records in the register of Hessett, " Jories Eous, fil. raei 
Anthonii Eous et Margerice. bap. 20 Ap, 1584."' A sister vras 
added to the family group the following year; and the diarist also 
speaks of his brother, of whose birth no record appears. In 1588, 
when little more than lour years of age, he lost his mother. The 
date at which her place was filled by Alice, second wife of Anthony 
Eous, does not appear, except that it was previous to 1606, in 
which year he records the death of " Ann Iveys, widow, sister 
to Alice Eous, niy v,ife." It would appear that Antbonv Eous 
remained at Hessett until the }-ear 1600, when he obtained the 
a-npointment to the rectory of the united parishes of Weeting St. 
^Mar}- and Ti'eeting All Saints, on the presentation of Thomas 
AVright, by grant from Sir Eobert Wingfield and others. A John 
Eous. probably a member of the same family, was rector of the 
joint parishes a century previously, from 1503 to 1518, the patron- 
age then bemg in the hands of the earl of Oxford. Little is knovai 
of the collegiate life of John Eous. He was admitted pensioner 
in Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1598, and took his degree 
of master of arts there in 1607.^ Of the intermediate gradations 

'^ For tracings and extract? from this register, and from that of Downbam, as v^t'A as 
for much valualjle local information, 1 am indebted to the courtesy of the Eev. F. Vy^^an 
Luke, the present curate of Weeting. 

^ Tliese particulars are gathered from tlie obliging communications of .Joseph Romiily, 
Esq. Registrar of Cambridge, and Dr. Archdall, Master of Eumianuel College. 



vni IXTHODUCTIOX. 

of Lis academic career no otlier notice is preserved; but lie seems 
to have kept tip a correspondence vritli Ins ah/ta mater: for. scanty 
as are the notices in the diary of private persons or aliairs, tvro 
allusions occur to Emmanuel College, one to the vridovv- of a !Mr. 
Cudworth, one of the fellovs. the other to the death of Dr. Cha- 
dcrton, the Master of the College.^ He also mentions the election 
of Buckingham as chancellor of Cam.hridge in 1626; the ajDpear- 
ance there of the plague; the visit of the King and Queen in 1G33; 
the suicide of Dr. Butts, vice-chancellor, shortly aftervrards; and 
other partictilars cf local history connected vriih tlie town and uni- 
versity.'*' Graduation at Cambridge did not involve permianeitcy of 
abc'de tlicre: and it seems probaljle that John Ecus vas onlv an 
occasional resident, as from the year 1601. -whe]! he was only seven- 
teen, we find him residing with his father at AVeetlng. and exercising 
his beautiful calligrajjhy. as the rector's amanuensis, in the recristry 
books, from that period dovm to 1631, the date of the decease 
of Anthony Pious. Before that time, on September 21st, 1623. he 
was appointed minister of the small village of Santon Dowuhara, now 
consisting onh' of the church and two houses, adjoining the parish 
of AA^'ecting ; '^ but he seems to have still lived with his father, pro- 
bably on account of his great age and consequent infirmities, for the 
old man survived almost to the completion of his eightieth vear. 

During the period of his residence at TA'eeting. various domestic 
changes befel our diarist, none of which, however, are recorded or 
even alluded to, by himself He married, became the irtther of three 

a pp_ JO^ 09. 

^ Pp. 3, 51, 52, 50, 70. 

"^ The name on tlu- Bishoji"s regiftrs- is Wllliovi Eou?; but the register was inccTrectiy 
kept, as appears from tLe date cf 1627 instead of ]Ci31 being assigned r.s that of tie 
deatli of Anthony Rous. The burial register of Downham distiucilv names him John 



INTKODLXTION. IX 

dauguters, buriod r; first wife, und replaced Ikt by a second, ^xho 
brougln him a fu'iirth daughter. From his frecjucnt mention of 
attendances at sessions and assizes, it seems pvobuble tbat he licld a 
commission, as justice of the peace. 

Tlie parsonage-house at AVecting, vrliere he probably lived at tliis 
period, is still the residence of the minister ofWeeting. '*' I cannot 
help fancying." vn-ites the Rev. F. Vj-vyan Luke, its present occu- 
pant, " that tlie very room in -^vhich I am now penning these lines, 
was the one in Trhich a portion of the diary was written. It is a 
part of the old parsonage; and, though Ujodernised externally, yet 
the party wails, 1 conjecture, must go back almost to the time of 
Edward I. for their date. It evidently was the •keeping-room" Cif 
former days. Some years ago I removed tlie old brick floor, in order 
to fit it for a study: underneath I came to a thick bed of clay, cm- 
bedded in which were bones of almost every description of ariimal 
used for food; beef, mutton pork, rabbits, fowls, Sec. speaking most 
forcibly of the habits of olden time." — " At that period," he adds, 
" the country must have presented a far differejit appearance froin 
what it does now. At present it is becoming well wooded, bcino' 
inclosed some years ago by act of parliament; but then it Avas a 
wild., open, sandy heath, bordering the forest, the resort of the 
bustard and other game long extinct," 

On the decease of Anthony Pious, his son left Weeting. It seems 
likely that he resided, not at Downham itself, the sphere of his duties, 
which was a -very ununportant place, and where no trace or tradition 
of a parsonage-house exists, but in Brandon, the neighbouring town, 
several times mentioned in the diar}-, where in a particular building, 
called '' the ministers' house," several of the clergy of the adjacent 
rural parishes took up their abode. About this period he visited 



X INTRODUCTION. 

London.* AVe also find an allusion to his having travelled as far 
as Geneva, but to the date of this more formidable journey no clue 
is criven : he mentions it casually, Tvhen quoting., amongst other 
versts, a distich of his o^vn upon " Glorious Geneva.'"^ In 1633, 
Ave find him again settled in liis own locality; in that year is re- 
corded the baptism at Dovrnham of his fifth daughter, Mary, and 
there also in 1639 he buried his fourth daughter. Elizabeth. In 
1(340 he is again in London, where he mentions his attendance at 
St. Paul's on the Fast-day, Nov. 17."= The interlar-ling of speeches 
in Parliament and other public mutters gives rise to the presump- 
tion that he remained some time a spectator of the stirring events 
then daily transpiring in tlie metropolis. After this time, ve have 
no particulars of his domestic hlstorv till we come to tlie entry in the 
rccrister of Downham, which, under the year 1644, records as fol- 
lows: "John Pious, clerk and minister of Downham, son of An- 
thony Rous, late minister of AVeeting. Norfolk, buried April 4th." 

The register at Downham is not an original but a transcript, 
made by ]\Ir. Knowle, curate in 1799: the handwriting of John 
Pons cannot therefore be traced to the close of his career, which ter- 
minated before he had completed his sixtieth year. 

We now turn from the man to his works. The original diary, as 
it lies before me, is a small quarto volimie of 176 J^ages, in two dis- 
tinctly marked handwritings, though both evidently by the same 
hand, a current style used for ordinary details, and a formal one for 
extracts, more particularly verses. The present is evidently the con- 
tinuation of some previous diary, to which he once alludes, wliich 
seems to have contained 198 folios, as the present MS. bears a 

■■^ He speaks of this visit, in 1CS6, as taking place " some vca-i :igu."' P. S4. 
b p. 73. c p. y-z. 



INTRODUCTION. XI 

foliatiou as well as pagination, reaching from folio 199 to 286. 
The diarist mentions "my hrrt long note-book, covered with 
redder forrell."' He also speaks of his "notes of 1612,"'' and of 
" a folio paper book," in which he recorded a judicial sentence 
passed on four robbers ; also of '• my great book," seeminglv an ac- 
count of Parliamentary affairs ;^ but of none of these has anv trace 
been discovered. The diary does not give the impression of a work 
prepared for the public, but rather of a private record of facts, &c. 
which the writer wished to preserve for his own use. He carefully 
committed to paper such popular skits "^ and satirical verses as came 
within his notice, several of which, it is believed, are here printed 
for the first time, and some of them show strongly the current 
p>opular feeling of the times. Amongst the most curious of these 
productions are " The Times' ]Sew Churchman ;'' " The Dialogue 
between two Zelots;"' " The Dismal Summons to the Doctors' Com- 
mons:" '' God have mercy, good Scot;" " The Scholar's Complaint;" 
and " The Mass Priest's Lamentadon."^ His own sympathies by no 
means went with some of these railing rhymes. On one occasion he 
says that he hates them, and only preserves them as a " precedent of 
the times." 

He paid considerable attention to general literature, more espe- 
cially to that of a religious controversial nature, which would 
naturally engage the attention of a clergyman, and he occasionally 
inserts documents of a miscellaneous or political character; such 
of these as are already known in print, have been omitted, but 
several of those inserted are new and curious. Such is the letter 

' p. 45. b Pp. 76, 113. <^ See pp. S, 26, 31, f.4, SO. 

'■ Pp. 7S. 106, 109, 110. 115, lis. 

' Pp. 5, 6, 35, 37, 54, 63, 67, 70, 76, Sf>. 



>ai INTRODUCTION. 

on the death of the Duke of Biickingliam :" that from the Duke of 
Orleans to the Pope; ^ and that from " the Devil to the Pope.'"' ' 

His tone of feeling on the leading- struggle bet^veen monarehv 
and democracy tv&s remarkably moderate. At first he looked 
upon the King's character favourably, '^ but the current of events 
induced a leaning tovrards the Parliamentary cause. He vras 
never a Tvarm partizan on either side, and he freely interlards his 
memoranda of public events -with farming notices.^ on vreather 
and crops, and the gossip of a rural neighbourhood.^ He seems to 
have had also 2. pcuclwnt for hcraldrv. as the latter part of the !MS. 
is written on paper -vrhich has evidently been intended for memo- 
randa of coats of arms. Several of the pages are headed '• Armes, 
whose by view," and the margin contains lists of armorial charges. 
&c. with the capitals A. B. E. G. 0. S. V. supposed to specify 
the colours, &c. Argent. Blue, Ermine, Gules, Or. Sable^ Yert. 

The frequent use of Latin quotations, and the insertion of Latin 
verses, prove that our author had a scholar-like accjuaintance with 
ihat language, and he also occasionally quoted French. In fl-ct, 
we may regard him as a respectable type of a country clergy- 
man of the times, who through his " loophole of retreat" could peep 
at the tumultuous world beyond, " see the great Babel, and not 
feel the crowd," and record the impressions, which, after the lapse 
of more than two centuries, are brought into unexpected publicit3\ 

For the permission to print this !MS. I am indebted to the coui-- 

tesv of Dawson Turner. Esq., the well knowii-collector of autographs 

and Norfolk antiquities, to whose library it belongs, and who kindly 

Ijermitted its transcript for the Camden Society. 

" P. 27. ^ P. 77. ' P. ?.J. 

'i See pp. 11, li', 40. ' Pp. -24. o6,ft:c. ' Pp. 22, 4.^, 50, oO, <A, ^c. 




DIARY OF JOHN ROUS. 



KENXt CHARLES, MAR. 27, lf.2.5. 
(Crcnvued Feb. 2. following.) 



Hi.? comming to the crovriie was very joyous to tlic Avell-afTectcd; 
but to Papists not \ery \\-elcomc. 

Of the matche with France then on foote, rumours were diverse, 
yet at length arrived in England !\Iary sister to Levies XIII. of 
France, about Whitsontide. Xewcs of her arrivall, and the occur- 
rences thereof. Avas very litlc and very uncertaine in Norfolke. by the 
reason of the plague beginning to be bote in London, so that the 
parliament assembled was kept at Oxford, and travaile was dange- 
rous. 

This summer the King was Westward in progresse, where he 
■s-iiited and viewed his navie at Plimmouth, the greatest that ever 
England sent out. the expectation thereof being extraordinary; but 
in the ende all came to nothing but this, an arrivall at Calcs"- in 
Spaine, Avith the taking of a forte or two. and tlten a shainefull re- 
turiie. AVhere the faulte was, time may fully discover.'^ 

The plague caused ^^lichaelmas terme to be kept at Eediiig in 
Barkeshire. 

' Cades, Cadiz. 

'- The Admiral, Edward Cecill, lord Wimbledon, having a large fleet under his com- 
mand, and meeting with liule oppojition. ^vas nninh blamed for not dcing more execHtioji. 
Ruibwortb, pt. i. p. ]!••'. 

CAMD. .?0C. B 



2 DIARY OF JOHN i:OrS. [A.D. 1C2G. 

lu the ende of ibis summer vrere many rumors of letters taken 
that discovered trechcry of Papisis. readie to Lave received (after 
some vray iPiade) marquis Spinola at Harvv-it-h and Ips-^vich, ^vLo had 
cn'cat forces (as ^vas said) together at Dunkirke. Soldiers out of 
Suftblk and Essex lay in garrison at LangLer point, and this feare 
hath caused strong fortes to be builte there. ^ 

Proclamations came forth against Papists : and some stricter courses 
with them, for theire arrerages to the King, and for executing of 
penall statutes, Avere set on foote and doe continue.'^ 

1G2G. Our travned soldiers were often exercised by Captaines 
chosen. The long continued peace vv-ith Spaine (being nowe 1625 
in the breaking of ) caused such security in our tovrnes and ordi- 
nary shippes, that many had sould away theire ordinance, being 
nowe enforced to buy nevre, the advantage whereof the Dunkirkers 
haue made use of, and troubled our seas, taken our shippes, and feared 
our merchants and smaller sea townes. to the causing of much discon- 
tented rumour in the country. 

Sir Edward Cooke (late lord Cooke) was chosen knight of the 
sliire for Xorfolk, (as before in the former parliament ended at Ox- 
ford.) but for prevention he and some others free speakers in parlia- 
ment (itt dieitur) were made high sherifi'es:'^ so that in the begin- 
ning of this parliament (begunne in the ende of 1625) much adoe 
there was about this pointe: making wav. as was thought, for the 
utter bringing under of parliament power, and the jealousie betwixt 
the King's prerogative and the freedome of the country, with the 
Parliamentary power, encreasing (by the sending of the earle of 
Arundle to the Tower, the King refusing lo shewe his reason), there 

* Landguard or Langer Fort, near Harvsich. See Euj-hworth, pt. i. p. 195. 

^ See the Petition of the Comtnons against recusants, with the king's Answers, in 
Rushwortb, vol. i. pp. ISl — C. Also Fffidera, Hague edit. vol. viii. pt. i. pp. 12S, 1S9. 

- The others were sir Robert Philips and sir Tboma^ Wentworth. The office of high 
sheriff incapacitated the person from becoming member of Parliament so long as he held 
it, and was therefore :. penalty to those wLo were ambitious of parliamcnt;'.vy distinction. 



A.D. 1C2G.] DI.\ TIT OF JOHN ROUS. 3 

TTfiS mncli griefc in the country. At tlie last it came to tLis. Sir 
Ed^val■d Cooke was a parliament man, but by the parliament house 
(10 satisfye the Iving) forbidden to meddle imlill he Vv'ere called. 
The earle of Arundell, vrhose faulte was {ut fcrunt) a presumin^^ to 
steale a matche of his sonne the lord jMatrevcrs with the duke of 
Lennox daughter, ** wherein the King was interesscd, entendinrr to 
maiTy her within fewe dayes to the earle of Argile's sonne, (as his 
father king James had directed.) was set at libertie.^ 

This Parliament hath as yet, June 1626. bent almost wholly as^ainst 
the duke of Buckingham, (who lately, after the death of the earle of 
Suffolk, was chosen Chancelor of Cambridge, some agents, v.t dicunt, 
pressing others for theire voices with him.) beinir ouestionod at Par- 
liament, to the grcate wonder of the country, considering the strair2"e, 
usuall, and bould rcportes that be made of him; which, if true, 'tis 
pit}- he liveth ; if otherwise, God graunte him a true cleering.<= 

About June 11, the Parliament was dissolyed, nothing being 
done. The lord keeper, sir- Thomas Coventry, being (nt diciiur) 
earnest with the King, npon his knees, to have it continued. 

The cause, as farre as country intelligence could telle us, was that 
the nether house delayed the grante of subsidies untill the duke had 
beene tried, which the King was against. The roporte that the King 
sending to them to conclude for subsidies, with promise that they 
sliould afterward sitte againe, they put it to voices, and there were 
one hundred more against the grante then for it, is not contra- 
dicted. Presently after the Parliament's dissolution, the newes was, 
that the duke had sent to the Parliament sitting; others say, spake 
himselfe to the Parliament, in way of answere for himselfe (which 

» Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Esine Stuart, dulie of Lennox. For particulars of this 
love-match, see Court and Times of Charles I. vol. i. pp. 6^'. 90. 

^ .See Rusbworth. pt. i. pp. SC3 et seq. 

<^ See RusDworth, pt. i. pp. 371-4. Here follow the Articles presected by the earl of 
Bristol against lord Conway and the duke of Buckingham, which it is not thonght desira- 
ble to reprint, they being already printed in Rushworth, pt. i. pp. 2G4-C, and elsewhere. 



4 DIAKY OF JOHN EOUS. [A.D. 1C26. 

ansTfere is in writing), not denying many articles, but iutreating 
favourable construction, as, namely, bis offensive incontineucy, tbat 
it migbt be imputed to bis youtb: and tbe miscarriage of maine 
busines to error of judgment, vrbicli tbe bappiest counsellor of all 
is subjccte to. kc. Tbcre vas it seemetb r.n ofier made to pcrmitte 
tbe duke to a triall by bis pecres at tbe King's Bencb barre. but it 
was refused, botb because it was at this tin.e (tbus to be granted) an 
impeachment to tbe bonour and equality of a parliamentary triull, 
and for tbat it is tbougbt, regc favorite, tbe peeres miglit jiave beenc 
bis speciall fiends if not creatures; unto wbieli it is added by 
reporte, tbat if be bad beene found guilty, yet all bad bcene notbing, 
for be bad. (tbey sa5\) tbree pardons, one from king James, one from 
tiii'j: Cb;-:Ies, at bis first besrinning to reigne, and one otber, sealed, 
j.^j, verv latclv. I sawe a proclamation at tliis time running tbus : Ey tlie 

Kincf. E:s maiestie beinc given intelligence tbat certaine of tbe 
House of Commons (connnittees) did entende to present to bim a 
copie of rem.onstrance. &.c. wbicb copicbis majestic refitsed to be pre- 
sented to him ; tbe House baving reiused a most equall tryall of 
matters objected, at tbe honourable courte of the King's Bench, and 
bis majestic understanding that tbey meante to disperse copies of 
the same remonstrance; and for tbat it containetb in it things 
toucbing tbe bonour of tbe late deceased King, the nowe King reign- 
ing,' and tbe credite of a great Pecre of this realme, therefore his 
majestic forbiddes all his subjects tbe keeping of tbe same remon- 
strance, cbarging them immediatly upon sight of it to l:urne it, 
otherwise, if it be found with any, tbat tlK-y expecte bis displeasure 
according to tlie qualitie of tbis facte, (tc^ This proclamation 
baving the third person altogetber, " bis mnjestie," never having 
" we." or " our pleasure," or tbe like, bad yet no counsellors" handes 
to it. beina" subscribed, " God save tbe King/" the printer added. 
About tbis time tbcre came forth diverse proclamations; as, 

'•^ Printed in Fosdera. vol. viii. pt. ii, p. G5 : da:e ITtb June, 1G26. 




A.D. 1G26.] 

I. Tliat men sliould forbeare writing of controversies; it restraining 
and aiming at controversies lately on foote against ilontagu,^ who 
vn-ote " Apello ad Cesarem,*' and before tliat, "The Gagge." '^ 
This booke hath becne answered by Doctor Carleton, bishop of 
Chichester;^ by Z\Ir. Ecus, Esqn., of Essex ;<^ by ]^Ir. Yates, hne 
preacher in Xorwich;^ by one 'Mr. H. Burton,* and I'v others. I 
did see 4 or 5 sheetes of a booke in the presse, wdiereof tJic copie 
was taken from the primer by the bishop of London. This was (seme 
say) Dr. Sutcliffe's;- but I am sure it wus tarte and bitter as s-all, 
surpassing Martin Marprelate, etc.; it called Montagu " jlounte- 
banke" and " Eunnagate Dickc." &c. I commcnde not this straine, 
but leave all to the censure of the wise, wl:o may see more then I 
can what danger this " Apello ad Cesarem '" hath do]ie ana mav Coc. 
One other proclamation Avas to proliibite saylers to goe cut. and to 
commande a readines for the King's service.^ A rumour there was 
nowe of a Spanish iieeie. some fearing, and some co:ncmptuoa-lv 
and lightly regarding the force of it and tl^c reporte. 

The proclamation restraining controversies and newe opinions 

» Eushwcrth, pt. i. p. ilZ ; Fa-dera, vol. viii. jtX. ii. p. 6-1, date 16tb Juno, ICiO. 

'^ Richard ?-Iontagii, aftLT-svards Bishop of Xor-.vich and Chichester. His books .-.re 
entitled, "A Gaeg for the new Gospell? No; a N^-w Gagjr for an Old Goose, ora.i Aiiswer 
to a late Al ridg-ir.c-r.t cf C-ontrover^ies and Bt'lyar of the Protestant.-' Doctrine." 4to. 
London, 1624; and, " Appeilo Ca^sarem, A Just Appeaie from Two Uirus: iLforniers." 
Lond.1625. 

<^ In B quarto paniphlet of 23G pagL-s, entitled " An Examination of those tLin^ -wherein 
the Author of the late Appeaie holdeth the Doctrines of the Pelagians and Arminiacs to 
be the Doctrines cf the Church of England." 4to. Lond. 162G. 

"^ Francis Rous : " Doctrine of King James, of the Church of Eiigland, and cf the 
Catholic Church, shewed to be the s-ume in Points of Predestination, Freev.ili. and Cer- 
tainty of Salvation." 4to. Lond. 1G2G. 

* " Ibis ad Cx-sarem ; or, an Answer to Mr. !.JoiiLagu's Appeal in the Points of Am.i- 
nianism and Popery against the Doctrine of the Church of England." 4to. Lond. iC'26. 

f "A Plea to an Appeal traversed dialoguewise." 4to. Lond. 162G. 

f Matthew Sutcliffe : •' Unmasking of a Ma-sse-nionger, or a Yindication cf St. Augus- 
tine's Confessions from the Calumnies of a late Apostate." 4.to. Loud. lo2G. 

'' Fcedera. vol. viii. pt. ii. p. GJ, dale 18th June, 1G2G. 



6 DIARY OF JOHN ROUS. [A.D. 1620. 

contrnry to the peace of the church. &c., was used b}' some bishops 
to ihe suppressing of tljosc that had confuted ]\Iontague (or ratJier 
abused), wliereas Montague hatli but onl}^ fatliered his opinion upon 
the Church of England in his bhnde conceite. Witnesse " Xovem 
assertiones orthodoxa^," Mr. Rogers' Tables and Exposition of the 
Articles,^ the continuall determinings at the scholes Cambridge 
and Oxford, and the confutations of ^lontague by Bishop Carleton, 
by ]Mr. Eous, Mr. Yates, &c 

A third proclamation v/as about such as had the king's evill to 
repaire to the courte at a certaine time of the yeere.^' 

There was a proclamation of a fast about August 2,"" some causes 
alled^'ed as. namely, the contagion spreading in the country, cnic, 
but the chiefe troubles abroade and invasion at home threatned by a 
potent enem.ie. etc.. of which what wise men thought 1 leaA'e to 
others to utter. lam stire at Bury assizes and Norfolk, also at Thet- 
ford (the plague being at Norwich), letters came and justices met, 
butnothiuo- was obteined. It was said that at the first there was 
endeavor to have gotten by authority the subsidies agreed upon at 
the parliament, but not granted because it was untimely broken up; 
but after it came to a persuasion by the justices for a volun;ary yccld- 
in:i of so much, or neere so much, &c. Erivy scales had this 
summer beene talkte of. 

Thomas Scotte, " Vox EopuE.;" was slaiue about June or July.*^ 

a Thomas Rogers : "The Faith, Doctrine, and Rtligion professed and protected in 
the re.'ilme of England, CNpres^ed in xxxix Articles, the said Article? analysed, with 
Propositions, and the Propositions proved to Le agreeahlc hoth to the v-'ritten Word of 
God. and to the Confessions of all the neighbour Churches Christianly reformed."' 4to. 
Lond. 10-29. 

b Fcedera, vol. viii. pt. i. p. SO: date IS June, 1625. It might prohaLly be re-issued 
this yeiir in the same form. 

c 1: was for the T'tb of July in tcM-n, and August 2nd in the country. See Fadera, 
vol. viii. pt. ii. p. OS: date June SO, 1'..26. 

•! '-Vox Populi. or Xev,-es frora Spayne," 1G20, the Second pan, 1C24, by Thomas 
Sc^.it:. B.D. E'.icli-h minister at Utrecht. The account of his death was published in "A 
Brieio Relation of the Murder of Mr. Thomas Scott, Preacher of God's Word and 



A.D. 1C26.] DIARY OF JOHN ROUS. 7 

About September 29. I sawe a proclaination which seemed to impute 
the Bot payment of privy seales to some miscarriage, &c. and not to 
\he subjects' disloyaltic; Nvithall, also notice was gi^■en that there 
were other projects, wherefore the King had taken order that such 
monies as were paid upon privy seales or benevolence, should be 
presently repay ed.^ 

In Sufiblk a benevolence was yeelded and in parte paid. 

The King's navj went forth about Michaelmas. 

This summer was greate preparation and building about the forte 
at Langer Pointe; and upon some displeasure the earle of AVar- 
wicke, Lieftenant of Essex and the chiefe overseer, was turned out 
of his offices, and the worke forsaken. September — , sir John 
Eous, of Henham,^ had spoken something of the duke at the last 
parliament, and he was turned out of his offices. 

The French were all shipped away from the queene. 

Tlie king of Deiimarke had a greate overthrowe.*^ 

Sir Jacob Astelev was said to be made generall of all the English 
in the Netherlands. 

Xewes came in October of count Mansfeld, that he had given 
diverse overthrowes to the emperor's parte, and slaine the duke of 
Friedland in the field.*^ Newes is newes. Many corantoes con- 
firmed an overthrowe given to the duke of Friedland. 

During Michaelmas terme, a projecte was on foote for 5 subsidies, 
to be paid ail at once. The judges would neither yeeld to this forte 
be lawe or conscience; and sir Eandolph Crewe, chief justice of 
the king's bench, was suspended from his office. This was prose- 
Bachelor of Divinity, committed bj' John Lambert, soldier of the garrison of Uirecht, 
tbe ISth of Juae, 1G2d." 4to. Lend. 1628. See aliso Court and Times of Ciiarles I. 
vol. i. p. 123. 

' Foedera, vol. viii. pt. ii. p. 94 ; date 22nd Sept. 1026. 

*> Tiiis is tbe nepdiew of the diarist, son of his elder brother Thomas. 

c He wai defeated by Tilly, Aug. 27th. 

^ A false report ; the siorj- of "Wallensteiirs murder in 1G34 is too well known to need 
an allusion 



8 DIAEY OF JOnX ROUS. [A.D. 1G2C. 

cuted by all helpes. as perraasions from the clergie; and aboui the 
middle of Deceinl-.er -at Bury by the earles of Slirevrsbury and Suf- 
folke, &c., and it was general!}" yielded, and so in Norfolk. 

The French staved our marchants' shippes. 

The qnecnes lutener. a Frenchman, layd in the Tower, for that 
he had a pistoll charged -wiih double buUett. to kill the duke, ut 
dicitur.^ Xewes in February, that the king of France (-svho had stayed 
our shippes that went for wines, with theirc ordonance, whereupon 
letters of marke were granted against the French,^) had proclaimed 
open warres against England ; or rather, as some say, had bcgunne 
to levie a great armie for his ow2i defence, perhaps against England. 
Sir John Heviningham, beirig in the ]\IarthalscY for refusing to pay 
the 5 subsidies, the r.vwes held currant that 4 or 5 shires licld out 
whole; as Lancasliire. Cheshire,. Derby, &c. 

Of 5 Lord Cliiefe Justices of the king's bench, living at one time, 
Feb. 1626, stilo nio,^ 

Lerzied Cooke and Muntngu, 
S- .■:.m&* Lt:gh, and lionest Crewe-, 
Tvsc preferd, two put beside, 
Now skipt in. There's y-.ov in place sir Nicbolas Kide."^ 

^ Ilii- name 'vva? Gaiiier. but tbi- was not his real ofilrice. See C{j-jrt ar.'d Tiirie>? of 
Charles I. vol. i^ pp. :?'k :-'\ IS;-, IPO. 

^ See Foedera, vol. vili. p:. ii. pp. 119, 1&2. "^ Stilo nostro : the old st\le. 

<' There are other rea:L'ng-i cf this popular skit : — 
Lesj-ned Ccoke and Montagu, 
Gr„ve Leig-L, and honest Crew, 
Two preferred, two set aside, 
Tii^n starts up sir Nicholas Hyde. 
Another has — 

Lfcimed Coke, curt Montag-u, 
The age.i Leigh, and honest Crew. 
See Court, &c. cf Charles I. vol. i. p. 199: and Yonge's Diary, p. 100. 
Sir Edward C-oke and sir Randolph Crewe were boih displaced during the reign of 
James I. Sir Henry Moiitagu, afterwards earl of Manchetier, had been made lord 
president of the ccuncii by that king, and sir James Ley. afterwards earl of Marl- 
borough, lord high treasurer. 



■•] 



DIAEY OF JOIIX ECUS. 



Z^larch 15. isewes that the king of France having gotten some 
cornpanv into Rochell deceitfully, there arose a sudden conflicte. 
many of the Protestants slaine, yet tiie to^vnc not surprised, Lut 
the king's forces approching to the to-\vne vrarde. Of 130 ships 
stayed in France, it is thought we shall liave none sent home, but 
all are employed in the siege of Piochell: inliewe of vrhich ships, ttc 
laive tiiken some 30 base ships of the French. Sonie say our navy 
shall aide Eochell. 

Thai the earle of Lincolne is in the ToTver, about the subsidies; 
and the earle of Essex sent for by pursevants. That Yorkeshire, 
Lincolnshire, Lancashire, Derbyshire, Northamptonshire, Leicester- 
shire, -^^-ith others, and Wales, doe wholie denie this subsidie. That 
the Hollanders have sent messengers to demande restitution of some- 
thing the duke withholdeth ; and, incase of deniall, doe say that tlicy 
are to stande on theire owne feete, and to grant letters of marke to 
take SD much from us. 

That there is proclamation that no merchant shall trade, in anv 
kind, vrith Spaine, upon paine of ^ 

Tliat the Dunkerkers have taken 50 coliers of ours. 

That the earle of AVarvricke's pinnace hath taken ij ships of 
lO.OOOZ. prise, comming now into the Thames to tlie Tower ward: 
vrhereof 1000 is the king's, 1000 the duke's; or the tenth for the 
king, the ninth for the admirall; the rest is the adventurers'. 

That letters of marke are dailj- given out against the Dunkirkers, 
as the sole helpe our haven towcns have to hclpe themselves. 

May. Newes about Witsontide was that the earlcs of Warwick iCi 
and Essex were gone to sea, with a small navy of perhaps xx ships, 
having letters of marke. Also, that we have had from the French 
full satisfaction for our ships stayed ; and proclamation was made 



' Of bis sbips beiug seized as prizes. Foedera, vol. viii. pt. ii. p. 156 ; date ith Marcli, 

ICirf-T. Tiic proclamation probiljits tbe furnisliiug tbe Spaniards witb provisions or 
munitiuii of v.ar. 

CA>rp. soc. c 



^.pt. 2^ 



10 DIAET OF JOHN EOUS. [A.D. 1C27. 

tliat all that liad sustained losse by the Frencli slio-old, upon proofe 
of tlieire losses made to the Councell, be satisfyed out of tlie prises 
taken &om the Frencli.^ 

Proclamation prohibiting all trade vrith the French.^ 

Also that the duke vras to goe forth, with a greate nav}' of the 
King's ships, of liis owne, and others, above 100. 

That the prisoners for refusing the subsidies imposed are yet in 
prison, and others brought in unto them, out of Xorfolk, Lincoln- 
shire, and other places. 

Thnt captaine Penniton, being abroad with letters of marke, had 
by a wile taken and sent home 20 French ships at one time. fie 
went in among theire ships with French flagges, and then, being 
once in the middest of them, he shewed himselfe enemie, and 
so caused the most of them to yeeld.'^ 

The newes was, about the last of June, that the duke was gone 
out from PortsmoutJi, with 90 saile of ships. This newes was con- 
firmed from Cambridge commencement. 

About July 7, it was rumoured that he had taken St. jMartin's, in 
a liitle island lying before Piochelle in France. 

The rumour was true, but the wljole island of Pice (de Piev) was 
not taken; for the citadell commanding the towne was thought not 
to be taken. September 20. 

A towne called the GroUe, in Gelderland, was taken lately by the 
prince oi' Aurange. 

Greate diversity of reportes about an overthrovre given to Tilly 
of 8000 men by the king cf Denmarke; some affirming it a tale, 
some saving it was true. 

There were, on the Bell comer post at Thetford, a proclamation 
to gi^-e the forfeitures of papists, &c. to the erle of Sunderland, 

^ See Fosdera, vol. viii. pt. ii. p. 134. 
^ Fffidera, vol. viii. i>t. ii. p. 175, I2tij Mty, 1G27. 

<: See Court and Times of Charles 1. vol. i. pp. 221, 228 ; and Yoiige's Diary, p. 105. 
Tlies-e prizes were sold by ibe King to Burlamaclii for 150,000/. 



A.D. 1C27.] DIALT OF JOHN llOUS. 11 

lord presidcut at Yorkc, to be tnkeu in diverse northerne sliires, 
i-ivrards the mainteyning of vi. good sliips of Avarre, to clecrc the 
northerne cosies of pirates. » Another for transporting of come to 
the isle of Tlee, or Eochell, given to all free borne or free denizens 
end Eochellers. so that obligation cautionary ^vcre pnt in for de- 
Liverv of the same come, and the sale of it at those places, to be 
knovrne by certificate from the duke Lord Generall. the duke of 
Subise, and others commissioners abiding at Ree.'^ 

A proclamation over the same post at Thetford, signifjdng that Nov. 3. 
the King had revived a commission that lA-as determined by his 
father's death, about the enquiry for all ncAve offices and newe fees 
in all the courts ecclesiasticall or citill: information to be iriven 
nereofj at "Westminster, to the commissioners there. ^ 

At Brandon, mr. Paine of Eiddlesvrorth,'^ mr. Howlet sitting xov. g. 
by, in Grimes hall, tould me that a Frenchman, sir Thomas Wood- or DutcLman 
house" man. tould him that one Cornelis, or the like, an en^iner 
that vrent vrith the duke and yet v^-as now at London, did tell him 
iliat the forte vras not to be woune but by starving; and that it 
-as many times victualled. &c. This said mr, Paine Avas oculatus ''' ^^'^ f °"' 
I'l^ris. Szc. and -when I went about to tell him of the mappe I sawe ('^''■' i"deede as 
of the forte, and what was delivered in it, especially about the ships 
riding against the forte, and of the provision made by masters ^ for 
the sta}T.ng of boutes that should victuall it. he would not heare it 
byanymeanes; but fell in generall to speake distastfully of the 
voyage, and then of om- warre vrith France, which he would make 
otir King tiie cause of, for not establisl-iiug the qucene in lier joyn- 
ture; to which I answered that I was able, with a little looking, to 
shewe statute lawe requiring such performances of a queene before 

- Foedera, vol. viii. pt. ii. p. 191, date 27th June, 1G27. 
^ Foedera, vol. viii. pt. ii. p. 207, date ISth Augnist, 1C27. 
<: Ibid. p. 213, date 12:h October, 1C27. 
^ In Gillcross bundred. co. Norfolk, 
t "Mastes" in MS. 



12 DIARY OF .TOnX BOUS. [A.D. 1C2T. 

her crovrning, as I thought slie had refused. I further said tliat, as 
sl)e is, there might be danger, lest, being cueene, king Charles 
should be stabbed, as Hcury lY. late in France; and then the 
queene regent might marrc all. And the conclusion -u-as, tliat I 
thotight it fowle for any man, not having scene the articles, to lay 
the blame upon our ovrne King and state. I tould them I Avould 
alvraies speake the best of that our King and state did, and thinke 
the best too, till I had good groundes. They fell upon ould dis- 
contents, for the parliament being crossed, expenses, hazard of 
ships, &c. I ansTfcred that our ex]jenses were small to Spaine's, 
and in greate designes there must be hazard, (xc. I sawe hereby 
Why did ^ve that which I had seen often before, viz.: Alen be disposed to speake 
ie;-.ve the Pala- ^v^ ^^-orst of State busincsscs, and to nourish cliscontente, as if there 
iowiewitb were a false carriage in all these thing^s, which if it were so, what 

would a false hearte rather see then an insun-eciion ? a way where- 
unto these men prepare. 
Octot.er. About the last of October, came divers Scots, about 30, from the 

coaste neare Yarmouth, saying that there came 30 ships of them, 
well appointed with \-ictuals and munition, besides 5000 land sol- 
diers, to goe to the duke; and being dispersed by a storme, and some 
of them driven on Xorfolk coaste, they landed, intending to ride to 
the King, to let him knowe, &c. TJie presse was yet on foote for 
^'•'<^'j- men to goe with mv lord of Holland. At this there was some 

^''JV. 3. speech of the forte being taken ; but the cun-ent is so strong against 

the duke's honour, and tJie uncertaijity of reportes such, that fewe 
Xov. 17. did matter it. The reporte was that the duke hfi^d lost most of our 

men, and tliat our ships were much hurte. and the duke was re- 
turned. 

The evill newes was so current, that one told me that the French 

from the forte shot our men, and kilde tiiem as tljey looked out. I 

replied thus: " Belilce our men are fooles to put out theire heades, 

and the French very watchful] to be so readie."' 

Tempest. Eitlicr October 28, or November 4, beinir Sunday, there was a 



A-D. 16-27.] DIAEY OF JOHN ROUS. 13 

greevous tempest of wind in the niglit, whicb caused much ship- 
Tvracke upon the coasts of Norfolk and Suffolk, with otlier places. 

Upon the 24th of November was a like tempestuous windie night. 

About the 16th of November the duke was come to London, and Duke, 
had relinquished the isle of Rees, and lost, at his coramiug away, 
many brave captaines and oiher, commanders and captains, some 
42 or more, &c. 

This newes made much muttering, and caused much suspition, 
as may be seene by this tale caried about, — that the governor of the 
isle, before the duke's comming, made a great feast to the best of 
the nobles and others with him, and asked if they would stand for 
theire king, if the king of England came; they answered yes. To 
this tale I answered, that, granting it true, yet I could not well thinke 
our comming to be revealed upon trechery ; for many nobles, 
about 22, were slaine of the French, &c. It was answered that they 
were protestants, almost all; yet I proceeded, and said that the 
governor might say as much, from a meere supposall that our long 
preparing navy was for Eees, partly because France and we were 
before fallen at oddes, and Monsieur Soubees, from whom the kinw 
of France had taken this island, was at that time in the English 
courte, or in the English nayj^ 

The businesnowe on foot betwixt England and France is of greate Nov. 26. 
consequence, and the slaughter in Rees will breed but evill bloud, 
&c. The Jesuites, I beheve, have made it high time for England 
to helpe the protestants ; whom to suppresse, the Spanish faction 
helpeth what they can, and so that is, &c., the king of England 
might have no frends, and Spain the aide of catholikes in case, &c : 
qui potest capere, capiat : herein may be double policy ; one as 
before, the other to diverte us from helping the protestants of Ger- 
many &c. Well ! be it so ! yet there is no councell against God. 

The newes was that a mortality, both at sea and land, fell amongst Feb. or Mar. l. 
the enemies that besieged Rochell, so that the siege was removed: ^^^J.Jj'^^^^* 
It was a policy to prevent discredit perhaps. Corne cheape. Barly J"b- 



14 



DIAET OF JOHN ROUS. 



[A.D. 1628. 



Wind. 



>e€r one. page 

12. [p. 29.] 



A ptibljc fast 
fcr the good 
snecesse of the 
Pari., at Lon- 
don before 
Easter, in the 
countrr on 
the Munday 
afier Easter 
Moon da V. 



betweene iiij*. aBdv.*. the combe. Eie vJ5. viijcZ., yea lesse. T\lieate 
X5. or little more. 

This "^vinter, many soldiers, the remainder at Eees. u-ere billetted 
in these panes, Essex, Sufiblk, and iXorfolk; in greater towues. 
Irish men most of them. 

T\^ondrous sore -winde January 27, and 28 greater, overturning 
many buildings, barnes, and other; to the losse of many thousand 
pounds. 

]\Iarch 17. The parliament beganne. Sir John HeAdningham 
being chosen knight for Norfolk, soone after his delivery from the 
Marshalsey. 

Newes vras that the duke ^ was in the Tower, and stransre rimes 
and songs came abroade before the time. 

Jesuites taken in a vault at Clerkenwell in London.^ 

Xewes at London, ]\Iay 3, was that the parliament^ did stand to 
have (beyonde the King's worde) an acte for the confirmation of all 
theire immunities and freedomes, which were granted to the subjects 
in ]\lagna Ghana &;c, with an explanation of those grants. That 
the Scottish lords were come to London, after some fear of a com- 
motion, upon the King's enquirj'- for abbey lands there, as concealed 
from the crowne dec 

That the Dutch ships from the East Indies were staid at Eorts- 
mouth, brought in by our King's ships, and paid a greate summe 
for wrong ofiered to our English, yet lesse, it is thought, because 
many thousand pounds worth of goods were embezeled away while 
the shippes remayned in our men's custody at Ponsmouth. That 
the returne from St. Christopher's Hand was five for one, or much 
more. Thai the earle of Warwicke is to have a ship newe builte, 
whose timber, with the bare workemanship (iron excepted), must 

a Duke of Buckingiiim. 

^ See "The Discoverr of the Jesuits' College at Clerkenwell," pubitshed in the second 
volume of the Camden iliscelkny. 

c The diaris: here inserts the King's speech and other speeches in parliament, which are 
printed in Rushwonh. 



A.D. 162S.] 



DIAET OF JOHN EOUS. 15 



cost xxij hundred poundes; it must be fleeter, drawing lesse -water 
then ordinary, and is to be made at 'W'^oodbridge.^ Since the former 
newes, there followed the newes of the carle of Denbigh, formerly 
vicount Fielding, who, it is said, married the duke's sister, that came 
from Rochell, where he had been with 20 of the King's ships to re- 
lieve it, and wanted there commission to fi^ht with the French 
king's navy, &c. Whereupon one ^ Gierke, sent with letters 

to the duke from Denbigh, returned, was put of by the duke, who 
said the earle had dishonoured the King and liimselfe, &c. The 
newes now was that a French captain reported to the parliament 
that they might have relieved Rochell, and would not. 

The newes was that on Saturday June 7, the King, who imme- ■^""'^ ^^^ ^^' 
diatly before had made a sadde parliament house, did then graunt 
theire petition about theire liberties, &c. : which was the maine 
pointe on foote betweene the King and his subjects. June 14, I 
sawe a writing to this effect : That the King, having beene at the 
parliament, immediatly upon his retume to Whitehall, caused his 
speech to be penned verbatim, and sent it to be enrolled. The 
summe was thus : he had before given answere to theire long ex- 
pected petition, such as was for substance as much as now was 
desired; wliich he could not have thought that thev would mislike, 
being done by so many wise men. Yet, tliat they might know that 
there was no doublenes in his meaning, he would now give them 
satisfaction, in words as before in substance, 

Droit soit faict comme ils desirent. 
Let the right be done as they desire. 

That he knew that they would not nor could not wrong his pre- 
rogative: that he knewe that the liberties of his subjects was the 

" On the river Deben, eo. Suffolk. 
>' Black in MS. 



16 DIAEY OF JOHN EOUS. 



[A.D. 162S. 



streDgtlining of liis prerogative. Having condescended, if it were 
not now a happie parliament, the sinne -^as theirs; he was free:* 
when I was writing hereof, ]\Ir. Pratte brought tliis. 

The Kings majesties message to the House of Commons, June 6, 
1628.^ 

Let the right be The King's answere inroUed under the Petition of Plight. — " Droit 

^r^'i^'the'^*^ soit faict come il desire par le petition." 

petition. After this his Majesty spake a fewe wordes, for which the former 

leafe shall satisfve. 

The heads of the remonstrances which the House of Commons 
entred to present to His Majesty : — 

1. Feare of innovation and change of religion. 

2. Innovation of government. 

3. Differences in our late employments, '^ 

4. Decay of forts. 

5. Want€ of munition. 

6. Decay of trade. 

7. Destruction and losse of ships and marriners. 

8. -So guarding of the seas, 

9. That the excessive power of the duke of Buckingham, and the 
almses of that power, are the chiefest causes of the evills and danger 
of the King and kingdome. 

These were agreed upon, June 11 or 12, 1628, 

Upon the 9th heade were 9 houres spent, whether it should be 
put into the remonstrance or not ; and at last it was carryed against 
the duke, by 100 voices and more. 

June 7. At night, great rejoicing and bonfires in London. 

Jtine 14. Sir Koger Townesend, knight of the shire for Norfolk, 

'' Rushworth. pt. i. p. 613. 
^ Ibid. p. CIO. 

<^ The Sloane MS, 826, p. IIS, gives a brief digest similar to the present, but the 3rd 
article is "The ieare of foreign designs." 



A.D. 1C2S.] DIAEY OF JOHN ROUS. 17 

come home 13, said that the parliament ment to goe on where the 
former parliament lefte, viz. in remonstrance against the duke. See 
page 3, 7, 9 '. This may well agree with the heades, page 37.^ The 
successe is in God. 

We received newes that doctor Lambe (called the duke's wisard) 
was knocked on the heade on the 12th of June or thereabout, at 6 J^^e 18. 
at night: he and his minion came from a play, and being houted 
and wondered at by prentises and watermen, was at length battered 
with stones and otherwise, and so slaine •=. The de\dll is dead. 

The same time came newes that 5 shippes of Bristol! had relieved 
Eochell, which the earl of Denbigh, with twenty of the King's ships, 
did not. Also that the earle of Dorset was questioned in parliament; 
he is the duke's great favourite. 

That the duke, being at bowles with the King and other noble- 
men, his hatte was on, which a Scottish man seeing, tooke it of, and 
threwe it on the ground. He then offered to spurne him; but said 
the King, *' George, let him alone; he is drunke." " iSo," said the 
Scottish man, " neither drunke nor mad; but a subjecte, as I thought 
he had beene, of whom if you knewe but what I knowe, you would 
not so esteeme him as you doe." The Scottish nobleman {ut dicunt) 
is impris[oned.] 

It is reported that one doctor ]Mannering, of London, was con- 
vented before the parliament, June 9. for writing and preacliing too 
farre,^ All was the King's &c. ; and he was imprisoned ; first, as some 
say, being degraded. 

It was also late newes that immediately before the King's good 

* The reference is to tbe articles against lord Conwa\ and the duke ; see p. 3, note c. 

^ Heads of the Remonstrance, p. 16. 

« See Rushworth, pt. 1, p. 618. 

"^ Two obnoxious sermons were preached on the 4th and 29th July, 1627, and afterwards 
published. They were suppressed by proclamation 24th June, 1625. The proceedings 
of parliament against Mainwaring are published in a separate form. &vo London, 1709. 
He was degraded by parliament, but soon afterwards pardoned and promoted by the 
King. 

CAMD. SOC. D 



18 DIARY OF JOKNT ROUS. [A.D. 162S. 

agreement •with the hoiise. many that before had beene strong for the 
subjects against the excess of prerogative, were turned by the duke, to 
theire nowe greate griefe and ensuing shame. Some say that letters 
from the king of Denmarke and from the lad}' EHzabetli were a 
greate cause of the King's consent. Quere. 

These late times have beene troubled with many foolish reportes, 
such as these : — That the duke caused fower men to watche at a poste, 
right over against a great ordinary, where they set up a paper to 
this effecte — 50,000Z. was desired to be lent by the Londoners, which, 
because they refused, the duke would bring in x thousand soldiers 
to be billeted (there was a rumor of 12,000 horse to be brought 
into England), the which paper being pulled downe, these men 
would have imprisoned the boy that did it; then the Mayor » 
he convented all before him, who, enqtiiring hereof, said he would 
raise 12,000 to oppose, and so sent to the duke to knowe whether 
this were his doing, &c; the duke would not be spoken with, &c. 

That the duke was gone to the Tower, and the King accompany- 
ing him, for feare he should be throwen over the bridge, or knockte 
on the heade, Ridicula. That ships were sent to relieve Rochell, 
and the Dunkirkers had taken them, and said the duke sent them 
word where they should meete them, &c. Former times of late 
have had more foolish newes then these, related and credited by 
some that thinke themselves wise. 

His Majesties speech to both houses, at the end of this session of 
parliament, June 26, 1628.^ 

It is commonly said that if the Parliament had not beene thus 
broken up, ere they did entcnde to rise, they had declared something 
openly against the duke. 

It is also reported that the question that was about tonnage and 
poundage, (viz. the Customes), was not to take them away, but to 
gratinte them still to the crowne as formerl}' they had beene graunted. 

* Sir Hugh Hammersley. 
'' Printed in Rush worth, vol. i. p. C31. 



A.D. 1C2S.] DIARY OF JOHK ROUS. 19 

A secret whispering of some looking towardes the lady Elizabeth is 
fearfull to be thought of, in regarde of both our soveraigne, and also 
a wrong to her. Our King's proceedings have caused men's mindes 
to be incensed, to rove, and projecte, but as for this, it is likely to be 
meerely the conceite of the multitude, who, if any in these dayes 
should but among them say, " I pray God keepe men from thoughts 
upon that lady," would be ready to reporte it, that the whole state 
were revolting. Blessed Lord God, heale this breache, discover the 
cause and ground of all our grievances, and settle thou (as thou 
seest fitte) Iheheartes of our soveraigne and his subjectes in love and 
loyaltye together. Fiat, Domine Jesu! 

I have all this while (discontents have continued long) laboured 
to make the best construction of all (yea, I had the best construc- 
tion), that the subjecte might be satisfyed, least discontents should 
burst out, to our adversaries' rejoicing; yea, I have yeelded reasons 
for carriage of state busines, so as all should not be knowen, and for 
the necessityes of greate supplies to the King for the greate affayres 
on foote. I knowe the error of the vulgar, which is to judge of all 
things by the event, and therefore to speake according to our 
harde successe, &c.; but when I heare any alledging that the whole 
parliament feareth some miscarrying by trechery, &c., then is my 
mouth stopped, which otherwise hath beene free to speake my reach 
on the King's behalfe. Multi rtiihi testes, prcBter consdentiam. 

About June 26, the Cession ended, and some statutes printed. Parliament pro- 
All the former passages about immunities printed also. 5 subsidies ^^f*^ ^''^ 
granted. 

And arte retumde againe, viih all thy faultes, * 

Tbou greate Commander of the All goe naughts ? (Argonauts.) 

" Thb poem is printed, though with manv variations, in the curious collection of Poems 
on the Duke of Buckingham, edited by Mr. Fairbolt for the Percy Society, pp. 19-24.^ It 
is from the Sloane MS. 826, fl 31 b. A fevr lines are omitted in the present version which 
are found in the other : the readings from the Sloane MS. are given where they seem more 
correct ; but sevei-al instances occur in which the present version -will be found to rectify 
that in the Sloane MS. 



20 DIARY OF JOHN ROUS. [A.D. 1628. 

And left the Isle behinde the ; -what's the matter ? 

Did winter make tby chappes beginne to chatter ? 

Ck)uld not the Burping and distempered seas, 

Thr qneasie * stomacke, George, with sweetnes ^ please ? 

Or didste thou hasten headlong to prevent 

A fmJdesse hope of needfull parliament? 

All these, no question, -with a restles motion 

Texte thy besotted soule, as that blacke potion 

Turned *^ the noble Scotte , whose names '' will tell 

Thy Ewolne ambition made his carcase swell. 

But there's a reason worse then this, they say ; 

The Frenche men beate thee, and thou rannste away. 

Can this be true .' could not thy glorious boastes, 

Before thy going, fright them from theire coastes ? 

Could not thy Titles scare them ? nor thy Lambe"s « 

Protection safegard the from the French rammes r 

Could not thy mother's masses, nor her crosses, 

Nor sorceries, prevent those fatall losses? 
Hence f we coUecte, to those that will be villous 

(Pray who will pray) heaven's not propitious. 

Thy sinnes, God's judgments, and the kingdomes curse 

Make me admire thy fortunes were no worse. 

Happie successe then greate attemptes attendes 

When those commande whom vertnous skill commends, e 

Now I have said enough, I knowe, greate George, 

If it were knowne, to make thy power disgorge 

Its venome on me ; yet, for all this hate, 

Let's at this distance but expostulate. 

How could that voyage have such sadde effecte 

Without close treachery, or a grosse neglecte ? 

Thou had'st a Kavy royall did ^ not feare 

All the French power, and the coaste could cleere 

* So in MS. *> "Sweetmeats," Sloane MS. 
f "Torture," Sloane MS. 

<5 " Titles " in marg'n, but the Sloane MS. reads more correctly vmtus ; the allusion is 
to the current suspicion that Buckingham was an agent in the death of James I., and in that 
of the marquess of Hamilton. See Mr. Fairholi's note in p. 20 of the " Poems and Songs." 

* Alluding to doctor Lambe, a favourite of the duke. 

f " Here," Sloane MS., but hence seems the true reading, 
e This couplet is omitted in Sloane MS. 
*> "need not fear," Sloane MS. 




A.D. 162S.] 



DIART OF JOHN ROUS. 21 

From all invasion, and keepe backe Bupplie, 

The Isle did whollj at tbj gerrice lie. 

Had every parte of that small tracte of lande 

Beene with a slender garde and fielde piece mannde, 

Theire enterance sttre had been impech'te awhile 

As theire approche did eccho o're ^ the Isle. 

What, -were our captaines streightened in commission 

That they thus landed *> without a prohibition :- 

They durst not. But we heare that they devise ' 

To excuse thy base, ignoble cowardise, 

That bruntes of danger could so litle bide 

The very brnnte ^ did almost make the hide. 

And when the bloody day of Mar? was knowne, 

And eche one's valour should be chiefly showen, 

"Was't not a noble parte, and bravelie plaide, 

To send a shadowe, in thy armes araide, 

To personate the in the battaile ? while 

Thou satest environde in a cable eoile * 

Discharging snger pellets. Had it not beene 

Wore nobly done, by death renowme to winne, ' 

Then in a hempen cable plung'de to be, 

With viewe of thy deserved destinie ? 

Ob when I thinke of thai same fatall fielde, 

Wherein so much brave English bloud was spilde, 

Whereof I bad a share ; and when I call 

To minde those heroes' lamentable falle, 

(Ricbe, Brette, Conway, ' and the rest, whose bones 

Wante even a monument of marble stones,) 

My soule wastes into sighes, my troubled braines 

To teares, but that a maniy hearte disdaines 

a i. Over " in margin. b " That the foe landed," Sloane MS. 

* The Sloane MS. reads— 

"They durst not, but we hear they did descrie 
A heedlesse duke, a headlesse companie, 
But oh ' what men or angels can devise 
To excuse, &c.'" 
•1 " Bruite " in margin ; " taunts " in Sloane MS, 

* " coble vile," in Mi. Fairholt's version. 

f Sir Alexander Brett, sir Charlts Rich, and sir Edward Conway were among the 
sufiferers. (Court and Times of Charles I. vol. L p. 2S4.) 



22 DIARY OF JOHN ROUS. [A.D. 1628. 

Such female follies, but I hope to see 

Those Worthies' deathes, proud France, revengde in thee. 

But is the duke come safelie home againe, 

Triumphing o're his conquered countrymen, 

A."; if such valiant leaders' mournfull slaughter 

Were but a subiecte for such cowarde's laughter ? 

Leave upstarte greatnes, ere it be too late ; 

Submitte thy selfe, be govemde by the State ; 

For if but one yeere more thou lorde it thus, 

Thou 'It drawe confusion on thy selfe and us. 

Stay, stay at Courte, and nowe at Tennis play, 

Measure French galliardes, or goe kill a greye. 

Tenus' pavilions doe become the beste, 

Periwigs with helmets use not to be preste. 

To overcome Spaine, winne Gales, » and conquer France, 

Requires a soldier's marche, no courtier's dance. 

Let valiant, skillfull Generalles be chose 

That dare in blond confront theire proudest foes ; 

Then there's some hope we miay recover our losses, 

And make onr enemies to rue our crosses. 

Three things have lost our honor, all surmise — 

Thy trecherie, neglecte, and cowardise. 

These verses came fortlie, as I did heare, soone after tlie returne 
from Eees; in wliicli, -wlietber any more be sette downe then vulgar 
rumor, wliich is oft^n lying, I knowe not; but this I knowe, that 
those wliich are in esteeme and greatest favour with princes are 
most subjecte to slander of tongues, the vulgar deHghting herein, 
who judge of all things by events, not by discretion. At the first 
reporte of this voyage, they could speake well. 

At the beginning of this yeere's spring, one ^ Wright, 

a lieftenant (some say captaine) and ^ ]\Iaddeson, an ancient 

A second is one bearer, that belonged to soldiers billeted at Woodbridge, were 
chosen to helpe dr-a-^vne into a challenge with a brother of sir WiUiam Wittipoll, 

in a quarrel. "^ . . ^ , 

and one ° iimperley, ins second, both papists; the otner pro- 

testants, of which Maddeson was the second; which combate, by 

' Cadiz. ^ Blank in MS. 



A.D. 162S.] DIAET OF JOHN ROUS. 23 

Timperley's subtiltye, was appointed at the horse-race post by Cleye ' 
in Swafham heathes, where, he said, they were all vnknowne (yet at 
Oxborough ^ neere hand he was well knowne); for which they 
mette at Swafham, a day or two before; but it seemeih Mad- 
deson, comming to the Crowne there, and finding Timperley (a day 
before the combate day), tould him that he heard 'Mr. Wittipoll would 
put on a fenced coate, wherefore his maister should fight in his 
shirte. Timperley replied in fiowting manner that he would then 
get coulde, whereupon a quarrell beganne, wherein Timperley was 
dangerously wounded, so that had he not had there a chirurgian brought 
with him, he had hardly escaped. After this, some wordes of Wit- 
tipoll and his cowardise being spread abroad in Suffolk, it seemeth 
sir William tooke parte ; and one day, not long before the ende of 
the session of parliament, came with his brother, and all his com- 
pany of trained men, to Martlesham*= heath, not farre from Wood- 
bridge, where Wright and Maddeson, with theire company of 28 
men or there about, mette them, the soldiers being lefte on the other 
side the bridge, and they, Wright and Maddeson, going over to sir 
William and his brother, who were gone aside from theire men, 
the conclusion was sir William and his brother did cowardly pistoll 
both Wright and Maddeson, whereat there fell some shottebetweene 
the two companies, and one on Ipswich side had his braines shotte 
out behinde the head, by one of his owne company that stood Sir William 
behinde him. Sir William and his company marched to Ipswich, ' '^° 
and there caused all the belles (where they could prevaile) to be 
rung; the next day he rode to London, and submitted himselfe to 
the councell, and tould his owne tale; but being imprisoned in the 
King's Bench, and there at the King's Benche barre to be tried — 
we heare July 28, that he and his keeper are fledde. ^ Not true. 

The facte no doubte was fowle. His meanes, of his owne and his 

* Cockley-Cley, four miles from Swaffham. 

*> Parish in Greenhoe hundred, co. Norfolk. 

' Parish in the hundred of Carleford, co. Suffolk. ^ ^ 

"* See Court and Times of Charles I. vol. i. pp. 413, 414. 



24 DIAHT OF JOHN EOUS. [A.D. 1628. 

wives, were 6000 yeerlv. His adversaries greate, and !Maddeson's 
fatber a man of 12 score annuatim, with l,O00li. in his purse, and 
resolute withall ; so that no ransome would be had, but he would 
sue an appeale, &c. 
Juiv 24 or Twelve men of a jury of life and death were fined by Judge 

thereabout. Harvie, xZt. eche man, which he promised that they should surely pay. 
John Curling- They passed upon one Diglets, an horseleach or farrier and gunner 
with'others"'^^ appcrteining to sir H. Bedingfield at Oxborough, whom witnesses 
about Rock- (^ut didtur) proved to have threatned the fyring of a widdowes 
house, to have had fyer in a potshearde abroade in the night, about 
an houre before the house was fyred, that the potshearde was the 
next day found neere the house burned, <Sx. A second was one 
proved to have ij. wives. A third a tayler, that confessed that he 
had his shieres in his hands, and that unfortunately his wife was 
killed; now the pointe of the shieres were sticked in hir necke, 
Tinder or behinde the eare. A fowerth was a yong fellowe, a smith, 
that having ij. wenches with child, carryed one away (to marry her 
as he said) in the night, and in a close about Hales greene put her 
into an oulde well, neere 40 foote deepe, where she continued 4 dayes 
at the least, and yet at the last being pulled out, was recovered, and 
her child saved, she having litle hurte, but with the noysomnes of 
the place, among toades and newtes, &c., the bottome being drie. 
He was accused for conspiring her death. All these they foimd not 
guilty. The judge tould them that they had brought murther on 
themselves, and other fowle felon yes, besides the wounding of theire 
consciences in breaking theire oathe. 

This spring and summer, even untill mid July, wondrous could 
and wette, with many frostes, which by reason of the wett did 
litle hurte at TVeeting.'' 

» Parish in the hundred of Clavering, co. Norfolk. 

'' Weeting, a parish in Norfolk, where the ^^-riier's father was rector of the church of 

All Saints. 1 '^ 



A.D. 162S.] 



DIARY OF JOHN ROUS. 25 



About this time, a grcatc navy againe going fortLe, some saj' 80 August 1. 
English and 60 Scottisli shippes. God blesse us ! A navy. 

The reporte is, that the duke being at Portesmouth, readie to goe 
out -^vith this navy, one lieftenant Felton, whose captaine's place 
•was void in the Low countreyes, came to the duke on Fryday, At Kees. 
August 22, to begge the captaine's place; the duke tould him he 
would demurre; the next day he commeth againe with a petition g™'t, 
drawne, and what answere he had is uncertaine; but {-ut dicitur) 
he presentlv drewe out his ponyard and stabde him to the hearte. 
The duke would have drawne his sword, but fa vied, and uttering Dukesiaine. 
these wordes, " T^'hat villaine gave r)-)Q this blowe?" spake no more, Some say he 
but died within two houres. It is said Felton avowed tlie facte, and ^^^'^''^ »"<^ 

' cursed much. 

s:;id he had done God, the king, and countr}', good service, for he, 

the duke, wold have undone England if he had gone this voyage. 

Thus the reporte. The certainty of this is thus. Upon Saturda}', Aug. 23. 

Aug. 23, in the morning, newes came to Portsmouth of Eochell, As said Mr. 

that it was relieved, whereupon the duke being at breakfast with CamT.ridge, \et 

tlie earl of Holland and Wat. Montague, the duke his favorite, ^^ n|'?ii' ^'^ 

did determine when breakfast was ended to goe to the King, who 

lay within 4 miles, newl}^ recovered of the poxe. In the meane 

time, na-\^ captaines, lieftenants, and others, assembled into the 

duke's lodgings, expecting his comming forth, toknowe the certainty 

of the newes; and as the duke came amongst them, going through 

the chamber where they were, one Felton, either a captaine or 

lieftenant, to whom the duke did denie some place that he thought 

was his right, with a stiletto stroke the duke in to the lefte side, and a knife. 

lefte the weapon there. The duke only gave a shrike, and fell 

downe presently. The company were busie about the duke, to see 

if he could be holpen, and at length enquired after the agent, who 

not being gone, shewed himsclfe. and avowed the facte, saying he 

had done God and his country good ser\ice. 

September 2. This I received, either as a copie of words uttered Sept. 2. 
bv the agent, or of some writing found about him, or both : — 

CAIID. SOC. E 



26 DIARY OF JOHN ROUS. [A.D. 1C2S. 

" Let no man commend me for what I have done, but rather dis- 
commend themselves; for if that God, for theire sinnes, had not 
taken awav theire harte, this man could not have cojitinued thus long 
amongst us. 

" I shall ever accompt him verv base, and not wortliv the name of 
a soldier, vrho will not be readic to sacrifice his life, for the glory 
of God, the honour of the king, and good of the country. 

" John Felto.\."=' 

About September 3, I had related to me this foolish and dan- 
gerous rime, fruite of an after witte — 

J . F. had it of J- and C.^ have done what they can, 

Rich. Garn. And GS must die as did Doctor Lambe.''- 

GEOEGIUS DUX EUCIONGAMIE. 
MltCXTTVm. 
Received Laeio jam saeclo tandem sol protulit annuel — 162S. 

Sept. 1 6, from Noni ne videat quoesumus, Alme, diem. 

Thy numerous name with this yeere will a^ee, 
But twenty-nine God graunt thou never see I « 



Will Crosse. 



>"ewes from Since the duke's death, the Lord "Willoughbv is sent forth as 

Sturhridge. ., . , ^ 

generaii and commander with tlie navy.' 

^ This contains the sense, but not the words, of Felton's paper. See the fae-simile 
engraved in C. J. Smith's "Historical and Literary Curiosities,'" 1840, 4to., and the 
words in the Gentleman's Magazine, N. S. xxiv. 141. The original, formerly in the 
Upcott collection, b now missing. 

*' For .Tame* and Charles. ' George. 

•^ Rushworth, nt. i. p. 61S, gives it somewhat difierently, but the version of the MS. is 
probably the correct one — 

Let Charles and George do what they can, 
The duke shall die like Doctor Lamb. 

" This distich was said in a copy in Ashmolean MS. XXXVIII. p. 25, to have been written 
by John Marston, several months before the murder of the duke. Mr. Fairholt's Intro- 
duction to " Poems, <kc."" p. xvi. 

' He was previously vice-admiral, 



A.D. 102S.] DlAEY OF JOHN KOUS. 



A LETTER FROM ONE OF THE BTIGHAMS. 

1 kuowe that the newes of the strangest disaster that ever was 
done by an Englishman upon the person of so great a man, is by 
this time spredde farre and vride, though acted but yesterda}-, about 
eight in the morne. The day before, being the 22nd of August, a 
sayler that had affronted the duke a seventhnight before, -was b}^ a 
martiall courte condemned to die ; after -which (he being caried to 
our prison hy myselfe -with our -whole guard) the sa-vders in greate 
multitudes drewe together -with cudgels and stones, and assayed 
•with great fury to take him from us, insomuch that there fell out 
a greate muteny amongst us, that I -was enforced -to let tly rnv 
muskeis. though not -with intente to kill (because I had no order); 
but -we received blowes vrith stones and cTidgels, and had much to 
doe to keepe the prisoner. But the captaines of the fleete came up 
to us, and di-e-we upon the saylers -with greate fur}', and banged 
and slashed them dangerously, by -which time the duke himselfe, 
■with a great company on horsebacke, came fresh upon them too; 
-where there -was 200 swordes dra-wen, and -where the duke behaved 
himselfe very nobly and bravely, and drewe" all the savlers on the 
porte pointe. and made them all £y on shipborde. -wherein many 
-were dangerously hurte and t-wo killed outright. He retired -within 
the towne againe; and himselfe in person sawe the fii-st mutinere 
carried with a guarde to the gibbet, where he -was hanged by the 
handes of another mutinous sayler, -who himselfe -was saved for that 
good office. The other had not dyed if they had not then mutined, 
for tlie Dutches had begged his life. Xo-w the next morne, vrhich 
■was Saturday the 23. there came one Jo. Felton (a srentleraan 
borne neere to Sudbury in Suffolk), to to-wne, who la^-e but three 
miles from towne the night before, in his journey from London. So 
soone as he caixie. he repayi-ed to the duke"s lodging, where I had a 



28 DIAEY OF JOHN EOUS. 



"A.D. 1G2S. 



Strong guarde; he went unknowne amongst many, and 3'et well 
knowne amongst many (as having beene a liefetenant in the army), 
into the hall. Tlie duke having received tliat morning certaine 
newes that Rochell was relieved, was very j oca nt and well pleased; 
and addressed himselfe with all speed to carry newes thereof to the 
lunsr. Manv of his company being ready on horsebacke. and him- 
selfe comming out of the parlour, colonell Fryer mette him and 
saluted him : the duke also, according to his courteous manner, 
saluted him, and lifting himselfe up, while colonell Fryer still 
stouped, this Felton with a knife reached over the colonel's 
shoidder, and stabbed the duke above the lefte pappe, cleane through 
a ribbe. The duke, pulling the knife himselfe out, cryed with a 
greate oathc, " Traytor, thou hast killed me," and drewe his swordc 
]-;:\Ife out, and so fell downc and never spake worde more. When 
with a showting shrike every body withdrewe, and none knewe 
who killed him, Felton, who might have escaped, offered himselfe, 
saying, " I am the man; why doe you not kill me?" who then had 
much to doe to be saved. But then the wofull spectacles in every 
roome of the house, with the dutches and other ladies, lords, knights, 
and gentlemen's direfuil lamentings. wringings, with shrikes and 
crves, what hearte could endure? The villaine, in respect of my 
ofiice, was presently committed to me; and I carryed him with my 
guard to God's House, where three of the privy councell came to 
take his examination, vhich done, I brought him to our prison, 
where he remaines with a guard upon him. He is a veiy bould 
resolute young man, and doth not repent his facte, as perswading 
himselfe that he hath done good service to the king, state, and 
country." 

•• Other accounts of the duke of Buckingham's assassination will be found in his Life 
by Sir Henry Wotton, in Lord Clarendon's Historv, in the Memoirs of Sir Simonds Dewes, 
aiiJ in a letter of Sir Dudley Carleton to the Qut-en, in Ellis's Orig. Letters, First 
Seric-s. iii. 137. St-c also the Gentleman's Ma^'azine f.;- August 1&J5. 



A.D. 1628.] DIAEY OF JOHN ROUP. 29 



AX EPITAPH/ 

I tliat my country did betray, Recei^e^l these, 

Uudidue the King who Jet me sway Scjji. 16, 

His scepter as I pleased, brought downe ■ ' ^'"' ' 

The glorj- of the English crowiie, 

The courtiers" bane, the countries hate, 

An agent for the Spanish stale; 

The papists' frende, the gospel's foe, 

The church and kingdome's overthrowe, 

Here an odious carkase dwell, 

Untill my soule retume from hell; 

With Judas then I shall inherit 

Such jionion as all traytors merit. 

If heaven admirte of treason, pride, and luste, 

Exj)ecte my spotted boule among the juste. 

Some say the duke was gracious, vertuous, good, 

And Felton basely did to spill his bioud; 

If so, what did he doe amisse, 

In sending him the sooner to bis blisse ? 

Pale death seemes pleasing to a good man's eye, 

And only badde men are afrayde to die. 

If that he lefte this kingdome to possesse a better, 

"Why then hath Feliou made the duke his debtor."^ 

Awake, sadde Britaine, and advance at last 

Thy dj-ooping heade; let all thy sorrowes past 

Be drownde and sunke with theire owne teares. and nowe 

OVelooke thy foes ■"ith a triumphant browe. 



» This epitaph is printed, almost verbatim, in Mr. Fairholt's " Poems on the Duke of 
Buckingham," p. 51, from Ashmole MS. XXXVIII. art. IS. At the end of the verses 
in thai MS. occur the words, " Fiais, Jo. Heape."" " We are thus supplied," wTitcs r*Ir. 
FaiTuolt, '• with the name of the author of one of the bitterest rhymes of the series brought 
forth on this remarkable event." 

^ Query, Thomas Jenner, a London printer of thf period. 

■^ This and the following lines are printed wiih slight variations from Sloane MS. 003, 
in pp. 06, 07 of Mr. Fairholt's coilectioii. 



30 



IJIAKY OF JOHX I-tOU; 



[A.D. K;2S. 



Thv foe, Spaiue's igent, Holland's bane. Rome's freud, 
By a victorious hand receivde his ende. 
Live ever Felton, tbou hast tumde to dust 
Trea>on, ambition, murther, pride, and lust." 



Hence maye be seene how tliat the greatest are subicct to tlie 
Ecorne of witte. Light scofE-ig wittes, not apte to deeper reache, 
can rime upon any tlie most A-ulgar surmises, and will not faile to 
shewe themselves, though charity and true -wisedome forbiddc. C)f 
this duke, my prayer hath alwaies beenc, if he were so bad as the 
^~ulgar counted him, that God Avould discover him: but if not, that 
God would mainteine his honour if he were faithfull. And, not- 
withstanding all these things, I should have beene free frcin all 
hM'der censure of him, but that the parliament did so oppose him. 
The wise will never be rashly uncharitable: vet time may tell us 
what we may safely thinke. 

To have alwaies the best conceite and opinion of men's actions is 
truly helde in matters of stite amongst wise statesmen verv dan- 
gerous. In greatest trust is often greatest treason. 

The newes about Septeml-sr 29 was, that mv lord WiHous'hby, 
wlio by a late honour is earl of Linsey, hath with our navy and 
English forces relieved Rochell, and raised the siege both at sea and 
land, &c. Xot so then.^ 

About the beginning of September, came certain newes of the 
death of sir Fulke Grevill, lord Brooke, of Beauchamp's Com-te in 
"Warwickshire, aged about eighty, Mdio had beene a pri^-v- councellor 
in queen Elizabeth and king James his time. The manner was 
thus: a servant, upon some discontente about maintenance, did in 
his priv}- chamber stabbe him about the brest vrith a knife, but by 
some rib mist his aime, and then stabbed him in the belly. The 
lord crying out, he ranne into the next roome and locked the dore, 



and tl 



len ranne 



upon 



his owne rapier a^-ainst the wall; but favlinc. he 



■ .p. 405. 



A.D. 1C2S.] DIARY OF JOHN i;OUS. 31 

toolce the former knife that lay by his dead maistcr, and stabbed 
himselfe thcrxvith, and so died ere any conld breake in. 

Xewes in October, tbiat, ere Bartholorneu-e faycr was done, there August, 
was a picture sold (to which much running^ wherein was drawen 
a naked young woman, and besides her, or before her, one riding on Tiiei). 
the backe of an ougly ould woman, and thus under it: 

" All you iLat will goe vrhh me, 
I'le carry you to v« naked ile of Re." 

It was then tould us by a Londoner, J. ^onnansell, that at the 
time of the duke's funerall the soldiers or companies of London 
were present; and, being by command to traile theire pikes andbcatc 
dok'fully for the duke, they contrarily did beate up amaine wit.h 
courage, and shouldered theire pikes. Tlie earle of Dorset, thcv say, 
found faulte, but could not tell how to helpe it. The duke's body 
embalmde, and wrapped in leade, is (ut dicitur) set aside, for the 
deane of Westminster would not let it be buried there, &c. 

A booke is come forth of Doctor Lambe. 

October 29, I had a coranto at Xorwich, wherein was a liste of <^ctober. 
the names of fifty-two shippes, Rochelers and English, that jovned 
with our navy at Plimmouth; where I was also tould, that a former 
coranto had a liste of the navy from Portsmouth (as was remem- 
bred) of 120 ships; eight or twelve have gone since with victuals: 
all make nine score. 

It was reported that the dole for the duke was farthinirs; and an Older tlian tiie 
ould rime was rehearsed : duke's death. 

" Brasse farthings in charity ;ire given to the pore, 
When all the gold pieces are spent on a w hore." 

Thus foully will the vulgar disgrace him whose greatenes they hate. 

October 30. Mr. Sutton, of Eriswell." as he said, was at Thetford. ,, , ,, • i . i 

' ' J<ochelJ yielded. 

and there preached; Avhere he heard of a letter sent to sir Anthony Quere.= ' 



A parish in the uoriL of Sutiolk. 



32 DI.AllY OF JOHN KOUS. [A.D. 162S. 

Tv^inkfield from the lord Goring, usher to the queene, wherein it 
■was said that Kochell was jeelded up to the king of France, vrith 
conditions hard enough, said many. 

Xovember 16. Xewes from sir Drugh Drevrry, that it was 
veelded to the king of France upon condition to pa}' 300,000 
crownes to our king, promised at the marriage; and the}' must 
receive a garrison of the king's, and so they shall have theire liberty 
for relio-ion. That this was ofTered bv the k'm^ because he is 
enforced to diverte his warres to the A'altolin, where Spaine 
encrocheth. 

At the same time the newes was, that our men did watche the 
lading of the French at Xova Francia; and when they were prc- 
yjared of all theire lading, very rich for France, then they tooke all 
theire shippes and victualls ; moreover, that they tooke in all theire 
men least they should perish, and brought them home, landing them 
in Holland, from whence they jnight goe home. 

It is thought by diverse that the duke, having his duchesse at 
Portsmoiuh, meante on the suddaine to have carried her on ship- 
borde at their hoisting of saile. and to have carried all to Venice, 
and there to have sold all the ships and goodes, and then to have 
provided for himselfe there. 

The former newes for Xova Francia was thus, as is reported : 
One captain Kirke. conducting some English soldiers through 
France, received fowle discurtesies of the Frencli, and being come 
home, he vowed to be revenged: of which the French hearing, sent 
five ships of warre for defense of theire plantation in America; for 
Earke, by helpe of a rich father in London and some partners in tlic 
adventure, prepared two ships and a pinnace. "SVhen he was set 
out. a storme tooke them, and parted him from his other ship and 
pinnace: the storme also parted the French (ut dicitur), so that the 
next day he light upon one of them and tooke it; and then the 
next day after fell upon his ship and pinnace, with all which he 
went on; tooke the French ships in the harbour, burnte the towne, 



A.D. J62S.] DIAin' OF JOHN ROUS. 33 

pillaged all, brought away some eighty pieces of brasse ordonance, 
and dro'U'ried the rest of iron; being come home, he went to tlie 
king, Tvho knighted him, and gave him his phare, so that the adven- 
ture -^as -whole to themselves." He delivered a prince that the 
French had taken in the country, who by two Jesuites was put to 
torment by a suite of apparell whose linings were full of prickes. 
The Jesuites in the comming home were put to tast of the same 
sawce. This prince was diverse dayes together, in the beginning of 
Michaelmas t^rme, at the Eoyall Exchange to be secne. 

At this time, in Nov., a constant reporte of many millions of Spanish treasure 
Spanish treasure, taken by the Hollander, as it came home from the ^^®°- ^'"^• 
"West Indies with many ships. 

November 20, our fleete was come home or neere it. with some ^^'i^r fleet re- 
losse of a fewe small shij^s; Eochell being delivered up to theire veeided. 
owne king. 

About this time, an East India ship returned home, with exceed- ^^-^ ^^^'-^ -^'P 
ing much wealth; and, being come to the DoAvnes in Kent, many 
adventurers and theire wives went into her, to see her, and make 
merry; but a storme arose, and drave her (so that the crtbles brake) 
unto the coast of Holland ; and about Texel roade she was lost, and 
all that was in her, adventurers, theire wives, and frends, and all. 

November 28, the last day of the terme, John Felton, that had Felton 
killed the duke, was arraigned, by 8 in the morning, at the Kind's ^^^" ^ 
Bench barre, and confessed the facte; being condemned t-o be hanijed, 
which was executed the next day at Tiburne: and so was carried 
(vt dicitur) to be hanged in chaines. All the blame for Eochell 
is layd upon the duke, for if viscount Fielding had not wanted 
commission, he had prevented the blocking up of the haven that 
now hindered us. 

This last Michael|_mas] tcrme many were fined and sore punished. December. 

^ This adventure was near Canada and Newfoundland. See Court and Time? of 
Ch;irl.:s 1. vol. i. pp. 405,409, 417. 

CAMP. soc. r 



34 DIAUY OF JOHN ROUS. [A.D. 1625. 

One schollcr for speaking -vrordes against the King. Another for say- 
(M:ea ai)J ing that Felton would have hired him to kill the duke, and that many 
'""■'^' noble men -u'cre in the conspiracy. Felton said he knewe not tlie 

man, nor the man him; and for tryall the man was to be brought 
where Felton was, and another man put in place; he saluted him by 
the name of ]\Ir. Felton, and when Felton came, he tooke no know- 
ledge of him. 
.r Uiivens. r)octor Eavens, a physitian in Cambridge, rich, v>ho had had ij.rich 
wl^•es, presumed to get into the chamber of a widowe, an alderman's 
daughter, worth 20.000/4.. and put his legge into the beddc: she 
a.-ked who was tlicrc; he answered " Doctor ]ia\ens;" she cryed 
out, and company came in. Thus the tale is told. He was fined 
500 pound, besides imprisonment and other disgrace. The widowe's 
action against him is vet to conic. '"' 
am.-ition?. Proclamations ij. I sawe at Thetford, December 20: 1. ha-\-ing 
relation to a statute, made in the ende of king James's reigne, for 
tlic security of the subjecte in his tenure of lands questioned 
under pretence of concealement, assuring the tenure where the king 
had made no claim within GO yeeres: and nowe, for those lands not 
secured by that statute, and for dei'ective patents and grantes, &c., 
the king hath appointed commissioners, with whom if any will com- 
F..r appr.-hen- pound, thcirc cstates shiill be secured for ever.^ The other procla- 

,:.-.'■ 13: .1.. _ 1 -l ' -L 

mation was for the apprehending of one Pdchard Smith, a perilous 
seducing Seminary, and against all such as should be his abbettors or 
hurbourcrs.'^ 

The Palsgrave's eldest sonne was drowned (Henry), the boate 
wherein he was being cast away not farre from Amsterdam. The 
Palsgrave himselfe, as some say, was the only man that was saved. 

* See Courtand Times of Charles I., vol. i. pp. 4vfi-4o7, 443. The young ^\ido\v had two 
other suitors, sir Sackville Crow and sir John Finch : the vits of the day said that of her 
three birds, Finch, Crow, tnd Raven, the Raven had the worst of it. 

'' Date, Glh December, i'J2S, Ftedera, vol. viii. pt iii. pp. [>. C. 

>- Date, lith Dcoemher. 162S, Foedera,\ol. viii. pt. ii. p. 'J. See note, pi. Mi'. 



.-hard 



Januarv 9 




leis. "& 


iVo 


A.plia. 




Henri- the 


Pah 


grave's heire 


druwned. 





A.D. UV26-'.^] DIARY UF JOHN ROUS. 35 

Two noLle men Avere also drowned (as is reported), and the occasion 
of theirc being in a boatc was to see the greate prise lately taken by 
the Hollanders, of the Spanish treasure. It is too certaiiie that 
Henry, the eldest sonne, is drowned. 

The parlian:ient againe assembled.'' Parliament. 

The newes was at London, in Hillary term, that the upper house 
of Parliament did much distaste tlie bishop of London, for that he 
had throwne downe a booke of articles at his first comminL^ in. The 
cause might be this: Doctor Laud, bishop of London, as is likely 
accompanied with some others, had some while before this session of 
parliament gotten the King to ratifie the Articles of relidon 1562 
>v:th a charge that no man should teach contrary, &c., by which it 
may be the bishop thought to stay the parliament's intermeddling 
with Arminianlsme and matters of religion, for reformation and 
setling whereof he sawe there was an intendment; and hiditime too, 
but he preyailed not; for Arminians of note, bishops and other?, Perl, np> „ot 
hayc beene convented, and will be so dealt with as God =hall !™''- '"^'"'''^ 
permitte. 

'^ Babell not Bethel '^ '' was now printed. Also " God no Impos- Pa^c Gi. f' 
tor;" Barret's Recantation; and " Xoyem Positiones;" &c. or 
Articles of Lambeth, printed together.^ 

The newes was, February 27, that upon an intendment to censure Not tru.-. 
Ih. Cosen.e the King caused the parhament to stay thcire sitting 

» His Majesty's speech at Whitehall. Jan. 2iih, 1628-9, and Mr. Rous's speech on the 
2Cth of the same .January, are omitted l-.ere, as printed in Rushworth. 

h Page 3S {/ij'ra. 

'^ "Babel not Bethel, i.e. the Church e!' Rome no true visiMe Church of Christ: being an 
Answer to Hugh Cholmeley's Chal!eng-j, and Robert Butterficld"s Waschill." By Hen. 
Burton, 4to. Lend. 1628. 

<* By William Prynne, 4to. Lond. 1629. "Barrett's Recantation" of 1595 was 
translated by him, and published -^^-ith the " Novem positiones, or Lambeth articles,"' and 
other controversial tracts of the period. 

<= Dr. John Cosins, afterwards Bishop of Durham, published " A collection ^i Private 
Dirootiuns ii. tii.. Practice of tiic Anci-nt CI. ;.rche^, called The Houi-s oi Pr.ivcr."" S\e. 



36 DIARY OF JUIIN IlOrS. [A. D. 1020. 

untill March 2. It is noi true; but ratlier it is thought that the 
house rose to dcuiurre about some busines propounded by the King, 
vv-hercupon he also dcnrarred untill ^larch 2, forbidding theni to sit 
iintill then: some say th.:.t the King, having stayed inen"s goods for 
poundage, the cause Tvas tryed. and it passed for the King, the reccrdes 
wbereof some "would have had burnt, some not, &c. 

Doctor Laud, bishop of London, they say, whereas the King had 
selected certaine councellors to sitte and consulte to prepare for the 
parliament, did forestall thera by presenting a copic of Articles, to be 
followed if approved; for which sir Edward Cooke blamed him 
sharpelv, as a young councellor; and so did the earl of Pernbrooke, 
telling the bishop that his packe was broken. 
r'ariiamciii Xhis parliament was dissolved, March 2. by proclamation.'' See 

the booke of the King's declaration . made to his subjects, of the causes 
whv he dissolved it. 
16-29. In Aprill, I received a copy of this prognostication, sent abroad, I 

believe, to busy the heades of the vulgar, in this troublesome time, 
and to hinder theire talke of state matters. " A prognostication sent 
to liis Imperiall ^lajestie and the illustrious Prince of Saxonie. 1629 '■ 
Suune in Libra, and all the planets about her prognosticate horrible 
thinirs: tempests bv meeting of the 4 windes; earthquakes that shall 
1 rogiitoucatjon. ^.,,^_^^^, ,-^-j^^y fQ^. feare to die; trees and buildings shall be cast dovrue, 
especially neere waters ; horrible eclipses : a bloudj rain-bowe ; strange 
bloudy warres ; the emperor and his subjects are moved to repentance, 
and he to withdrawe himselfe into some convenient place, with pro- 
vision for xxx dayes. Approved by Arinarguers Spanish and 
Grecian astrologers. 

May 28. Greate assembly of men of warre. 
June 11. Three greate princes shall die. 

London, 1G27 ; to which PnTine replved in apamplslc-t entitled "A brief Survey and Cen- 
sure of Mr. Cozens bis couseiiitg devoiions, proving them to he merely Poi>ish." 4to. 
London, 162S. 

' Frrdcra, vol. viii. pt. iii. p. 2. 



A.i). lOiy.j 



DIARY OF JOHN KOUS. 37 



12. A lord shall atteine to great dignity and honor. 

18. A great Avind. 

19. A Lanished prince shall rcturne to his ownc country 

and receive his former dignity. 
28. Greate intollerable heate. 
Aui-ust 14. Greate preparation for warre, by sea and land. 

17. Greate effusion of hi oud. 

18. Halfe the world shall be drowned. 

20. Busines of greate importance sent from many places." 
The same time I sawe upon a postein the Sadler's shoppe at Watton '" 
a proclamation, thus: — 

'• Bt the King. — A proclamation fbr the calling in and suppressing 
of rwo sermons preached, and printed by doctor I\lanwairing, doctor 
ir divinity, entituled * Religion and Allegiance.' " ^ 

AlK-ut this time was printed a like proclamation for suppressing Montapuc's 
ci '- Appello Cossarem," made by Piichard I^Iontague, then Batchelor suppressed, 
ci Di-rlnity. nowe Bishop of Chichester,*^ &c. This I sawe about 
Alarch last, in the handcs of ]\Ir. Osbert Pratte senior. Doctor 
Vvliite. now Bishop of Norwich, did at Paul's crosse recante his 
approbation of that booke [ut dicitvr). 

Cap:unne Kirke goeth out with 10 ships, to plant at the Canada 
in degrees north, where he displanted the French before. 

William Leader tould me, April 4, that he lately heard one of 
the lor.i keepers gentlemen rcporte that a bishop should say of another 
bishop thus: — " If T had authority, that bishop should be set on the 
pillory thrice, with his faults written about him, and then should be 
imprisoned, and after imprisonment should be brought forth and 
bumte at a stake." 

Xewes that Mr. Burton, who wrote "' Babell not Bethell," and 

» A parish in the bundred of Wayland, co. Norfolk. 

'' PricLed ;n the Foedera, vul. viii. pt. ii. \>. 204 ; dated June 24th, 1C2S. 
= It l«iari dale ITth Jauuan, 1C2C>. Ftcucra, vol. viii. pt. iii. p. 20. 
'■ Bl^k :n MS. 



DIARY OF JOIIX KOUS. [A-D. 1C29. 



Page cif ^Ir. Prin. Avho printed " God no Impostor,"'' Barret's Eecautation, 
and Lambeth Articles (as you may &ee 2 leaves backward), -were both 
impiisoned. Doubtful!. 



•urUra-: 



A CopiE or A Letter sevt rnoji the Demll to the Pope. 
To the most pious, vertuous, and religious Primate of all CbriFtendome, 
Urban 8, now Pope of Rome, and Vicegerent here upon earth. Lucifer, God 
of the Gehenna, King of Tartarus. Prince of Ahvssus, Commander of the In- 
fernal! Furies, sendeth greeting. 

Most reverend and deere sonne, whose holines I reverence, whose person I 
adore, whose policie I wonder at, I cannot but applaud, extoll, and commeude 
thee, mv deere sonne, for thy extraordinary greate meanes, costes, and charges, 
in the preparation of so great forces against the Eebellious heretikes from the 
Pioman Catholike religion, I meane the British, Irish, Danish, and Flemish 
heretikes : the particulars of which course I have in writing, and I heare say 
likewise that they are published to the whole world. Therefore followe it 
nowe with all celeritie and expedition. Now be the dayes to conquer: nowe 
is ihe time to strike. God hath forsaken them : theire land is impoverished, 
theire ships tattered : theire state is weakened : theire parliament is ended 
and uothina amended : the nobles disquieted : theire gentry discouraged ; the 
Commons discontented : and the whole kingdome divided ; and the Eoman 
Catholikes in England gasping and gaping for your arrivall. Therefore strike 
nowe, or else for ever hereafter hold thine hand. By this meanes, thou mai'ste 
roote out and extirpate all malitious, turbulent, and evill affected spirits against 
Els« iliere is not the sea of Eome. There are but 5 nations thou ueedest to feare in the world ; 
the king of greate Britaine, the king of Denmarke, (the king of Stveden.^J the 
Palsgrave, falsly usurping the title of king of Bohemia, and the Pvebellious 
Hollanders. But what are those against thee, but so many molehilles to 
mountaines; and no more, in our handes, then a lambe in the pawes of a lyon? 
Tet it were not amisse to practise some deadly stratagem, by poulder or 
povson, by my servants the Seminaries and Jesuites, especially upon the king of 
greate Brittaiue and the Palsgrave's children (King Henry Y.'s faces and 
Queene Elizabeth's hearty apes); for if these be not cut of in the blossonies, 
but continue to be ripe fruite, it i; to be feared they will doe much harme. 

» Insened afterwards. 

^ " God no Impostor nor Deluder : tr. an Aiiswer to a Popish and Arniinian Cavil, in 
Defence of Free-will ai.c Universal Graoc." 4to. Loudon, 1630. 
■^ Aoded aflervval■d^. 



five. 



A.D. 1620."', PIAKY OF JOHN llOUS. 30 

And I beare sav that my servant Spinola haih received mj Sacraments, and 
sworne to St. James, by his Agnus Dei, that he Avould spend his best bloud in 
En2:laBd, against the Revoltcrs from the Romish Church, -which I, cruell for- 
tune, and fate conspire so to effecte. It is my desire that his hearte may be 
baked in a pastie, and sent to the nunnes of St. Lucas ; his bones may be 
buried in the Cathedrall Church of Civill, and his stones to be conveyed to my 
handmaide the Archdutches, ^ for a token of his love. And so, my deere sonne, 
I bldde the farewell. 

It was tould us that one Mr. Fountaine, a French Catholike, ^yl:^o 
liath married ]\Ir. Drapier's sister of Eriswell, and was wonte to 
vrrite him newes from London, wrote lately that he could have sent ^P""'' l"- 
newes, but he feared his necke. ■ 

Diverse parliament men. to the number of 8 or more, as is said, 
were committed to prison, for contempt committed in the parliament 
house of Commons, of whom we ma}' reade in the King's booke, 
declaring the causes of dissolving the last parliament. These men, 
as is said, or at least one of them was brought to be tried, but he 
refused all triall in this kind, except it were by parliament, because Easter terme. 
his offense was not a private man's offense, but publike, in the par- 
liament house, &c. 

The newes is that mariners are pressed to serve in the bringing 
over of the quecne mother, the queene being with child. May 15, 
newes was that the queene was delivered of a young prince, borne ii"erance.'^ 
before the time. Xot long since, was published a proclamation for Charles chris- 
the apprehending of Eichard Smith, a Jesuite, who calleth himselfe ^^"^ 
the Bishop of Clialcedon.^ Another prohibiting talke of parliaments Proclamation. 
&c.^ About ]May 10. a proclamation for peace with France, con- 
cluded aboixt April 14."^ P«ace ^^'ti^ 

^ France. 

^ Isabella Cia.'a Eugenia, Infanta of Spain, v,-ido\v of the Archduke Albert of Austria, 
and governor of the Sjianish Netherlands. 

'- This seccnd proclamation Avas dated 24th March. 162P. See Rushworth, pt. ii. vol. i. 
p. 13, where is an account of the Bishop of Chalcedon. See also the Discovery of the 
Jesuits at Clerkenwell, in the second volume of the Camt.cn Miscellany. 

■^ Foedem, vol. viii. pt. iii. p. 36. ^ jbid. p. 3^. 



40 DIARY OF JOHN ROUS. [A.D. 1G29. 

Ellis _^ and Hoilis. 

The protestation of the Comiuons in parliament.^ 

1. Whosoever shall bring in an innovation in religion, or counte- 
nance, seeke to extende, or introduce Popery or Anninianisn'jc.or otlier 
opinions disagreeing from the true and onhodoxe profession of our 
Church, shall be reputed a capitall enemie to the kingdome and 
commonwealth. 

2. Whosoever shall councell or advise the taking or IcA-ying of 
the subsides of the tonnage and poundage (not being granted by parlia- 
ment), or shall be an actor or instrument therein, shall likewise be 
reputed an innovator in the government, and a capitall enemie to the 
kingdome and commonwealth. 

3. If any merchant or person whatsoever shall voluntarily yeeld 
or pay the said subsides, tonnage, and poundage (not being granted by 
parliament), he shall likewise be reputed a betrayer of the liberties 
of England, and an enemie to the same. 

Thus much was the speaker forced to utter at the dissolving of the 
parliament (or after the dissohing), while the dores were kept. See 
page 64 capite, where this takes place. Hinc ladtryma:. 

Perhaps it Sir John Elliot. '^ ""i T Sir Peter H^.^'monde * to 

:t"i?olEsf ''"' Mr. Daniel d Hoilis. | [ the gatehouse, 

page- prior. DcnziU Hollis. I . „ I Sir Miles Hobart to the 

, , e ij '- ^^' ^^^^ Tower. % 

Mr. belden. I | ileer. 

]\Ir. Valentine. | Mr. Long, ]\Ir. Strowde 

-\Ir. Coriton. j t sent for. 

These should have beene tried this Ester terme, but it was pleaded 



' Six John Eliot, see belovs-. 
'' Rushworth, pt. i. p. 660. 

c For the prosecution of Elliot, Hoilis, and Valentine, see Rushworth, pt. i. pp. 083, 
CS6. 

'^ Denzil. 

' Hayman. St-e Ru^lnv,.nli, pt.i. p. OCl. 



A.D. ]u29.] DiAr.Y OF jc>iix i:or>. 41 

that the fliulte vra= not aj of private nicu. but uone (if it weiv a 
fauhe) in parliament, and other\vise then bv parliament ihey would 
not be tryed; so they vrere sent backe. 

It is most certaine tlicit a crowe did often build in the top of Wil- Ap.-iii. 
ton * wiudrnlll, plying it lat-e at night and early in the morning, Avhen Crowe huih in 
the miller was absent. She layd an egge there. Her nest was layd "^ ^' *"" 
betweene the shrowdes in the toppe saile, and so much of the saile 
cloth aloft as is usually with the wind driven out like a poke. 

A proclamation at Bury for peace with France, declaring that the 
ould amitie betweene the two kingdomes- is rcnued, ^ jDag. pr. A Proclamation 
proclamation prohibiting all transportation of come to forreine partes/ for stay of corn, 
though the prises fall within the statute liberty. The reasons are ^^'^^ '^^' 
disliked at the buyers' hands, who thinke the publishing doth much 
hurte. 2 reasons are rendred of this restrainte: — 1. That the un- 
reasonable weather hath caused that the present she we on the ground 
promiseth no plenty. 2. That kingdomes formerly wont to helpe 
in time of dearth are not like now to doe so, &c. A^Tierefore, to pre- 
vent extremity, the proclamation published. 

One Maud grievously censured, for saying that the King had gone Maud censured. 
to masse. 

Sir William W'ithipoll (turne over this lenfe) hath got his pardon, 
and is at liberty. 

The Hollanders doe besiege Hertogenbusse, the Bussy, as 'tis 
usually called. 

Sir William Withipoll and' his brother^ as it seemeth, were tried ^\^, "^"^'i'l'^m 
and fotmd guilty of manslaughter, and Sir William .is againe endited page 45. 
of accessory to the facte of his brother. See the stor}^ 45. '^ May. 



About the last weeke in July fell out a irrievous stirre in Lond 



on. 



Jul^ 



begimne bv an arrest of a captaine (^ut dlcitnr), A riot in Lon- 



* Parish in tbe hundred of Grimshoe, co. Norfolk. 

^ Foedera, vol viii.pt. iii. p. 39, date Icih May, loiy. 

c Il.id., p. 37, date 2iid May. 

d Page 4; in MS. S-.i/ p. •'>1 s.-^-v. 

CAMD. soc. a 



42 DIAKY OF JOHN ROUS. 



[A.D. 162^*. 



and continuing manv houres and one wliole night, so that the Lord 
jNIayor and armed soldiers came. Many were hurte, by brickebats 
and such like, and 8 or 9 slaine bv sword and shotte: some con- 
tinued after 4 proclamations for departure: ij. young Eee captaines, 
Stanford and Ashton, -were hanged. Stanford had beene the duke's 
man/ 

I had these verses delivered me.^ 

The wisest King did wonder when he spied 
The noble <^ inarche on fnote, and"* vassals ride. 
His Majestie mav wonder now to see 
Some that will needes be King, as well as he, 
A rude presage of danger to thii land, 
Where lowers strive to gette the upper hand, 
"When Prince and Peeres to Pesants must obey, 
When lav-men to theire teachers teache the way : 
^V^len Prin« and Prim and Jordan must divine, 
Whatlawe hath orthodox ' and what divine. 
Good brother Baracke.s eider of Amsterdam, 
Shutte up at home your w-ilde Arminian ramme, 
If here he come, these men will cut his ihroate. 
Blessed Beucanian *> sings them a sweeter note, 
And teaches howe to kirbe the power of Kings, 
And shew-eth how to clip the Eagle's wings. 

" This incident is recorded in Rushworth. with a proclamation for the arrest of the delin- 
quents, under the year 1600. See pt. ii. vol. i. p. SO. The prociamation appears in the 
Fcedera, vol. viii. pt. iii. p. o7 , under the true date. 12th July, 1629. 

*" A copy in Sloane MS. S26, f. 152, is headed "Verses supposed to bee made by Dr. 
Corbet, Bishop of Oxford, against the oppositig the Duke in Parliament, 1G2S," and is 
fvil owed by " An Answer to the same, lyne for lyne." 

' •' Nobles,'' Sloane MS. 

'' "their,"' Sloane MS. 

<^ '• Prjm,"" Sloane MS. for Pym. 

f "define What lords are betrodcx," Sloane MS. 

F " Brough," Sloane MS.; but under neither r.ame is there any work on the subject in 
question. Query, Is the reference to William Barclay's tract " De regno et regali potentate, 
advpr=us Bi'.cJcananvyii, Brutum et reliquos Monarcbomaobos.'' 12mo. Hanover, 1G17. 

'" '• Buchanan." Probably referring to George Buchanan's treatise " De Jure Regni/' 
in wLicb the argument tends to prove the right of subjects to rel>el against oppression. 



A.D. 1629.] DIARY OF JOHN llOUS. 43 

It is a Puritan" that must set ali right, 

Then shall the Gospell shine as F'hcebus Iright, 

Our Consisiorian fabricke is the thing 

"VVe must set up, in sjiight of Church and King. 

Against the Papists we have got the day. 

Blinde Bishops only stand now in the way ; 

But we will have a tricke to taae theire pride, 

Tonnage and Poundage else shall be der.y'de. 

Doctor Kerbie, Bishop of Oxfoid. 

Corhet raihir.'^ 

The Hollanders are upon a great vovage to the "West Indiacs, Avith August ]. 
about SO saile, and 30,000 men or above, to beleaguer the silver 
mines, vfcc. 

The king of Denniarke liath, as some say, obteiued an honour- ^"^'"S '-"'*' ^•2"- 
able peace with the emperor, having his townes restored. Certaine.^ 

About tliis time it beganne to be most certainly reported that, the August 2i. 
Spanyard AvithdraAving liis gamson-soldiers from Wesel, to aide about 
ihe Busse, as it is usuallie called, the prince,d with an armie from 
the leaguer, went (whether upon intelligence from the towne or no Certain. 
I know not) and tooke the towne of Wesel, where were 200 brasse Wesd uiken. 
pieces, and wonderfull provision of poulder and victualls, for 
50,000 for 3 months {ui dicitnr), with other amunition. 

The newcs also is that tlie king oi Sweden prevailcth both against 
the emperor and Poland. 

Xewes also of much shipping taken by Dunkerks on our coastes. 

Xewes of an island, 10 miles broad and 20 long, discovered by a in the west 
captaine seni out by the earle of Warwicke. ocean. 

Xewes from Sturbridge that the Bosche or Busse is yeelded to 
the Hollanders. 

St. Hertogenbosche,'^ or the holy Busse. or Bosse-le-Duke (called Busse yeeide 

* •' Paritie." >- Written a^te^wards. 

' Wrinon afterwards. '^ lienry Prince of Orange. 

' A comical mis-reading of the Dutch anicle Hcl-, generally contracted into "Ts Ker- 
luL'fcnsbusche, bv the French called Bois-lc-Duc. 



s^en; 



44 L)]AT:Y OF JOHN ROUS. [A. D. 16-29. 

liulv for the irjanv monasteries therein j was yeeL-ied to tlie States or 

Henry Prince of Orange, &c. Sept. 4, 1629. See the articles printed. 

I'eapewjtij In the latter end of September, an embassador here from France, 

France. i • t r --m 

and our King vras svrorne to the articles of peace. The next day 
after that, as it is said, the ncAves came to tlie King that the French 
had cut the throates of 1400 English, at St. Christopher's Fiand. 

Newes fi-oai St. Tliis uevres held a while, but was crossed, and it v,-as all " but this. 

Cnnstopber, j^^^^ French ha'i taken some of our ships there, and by name one or 
two of mv lord of W'arwicke's.^ 

The earle of Warwicke (they sayj hath 8 shippes o[ warre, in 
which he is often himselfe, taking many prises and enriching hira- 
sclfe. 

;)r. LusLing- October 6. I was c.i I\Iondeford'^ courte, where asking Mr. Tayler 
Avhat newes.he tould me that !Mr. Barret had there showen a sermon 
unprinted, lately preached at "Whitehall before the King, upon 
Mat. 28. 13. s^}ing, " Sav ye his disciples came by night." &c. by 
Dr. Lushington, Oxfordiens. I asked the drifte of it; he tould me 
•• witte." I asked what Avas remarkeable: he said, first the begin- 
ning, " T\'ha; newes? Every man askes what ncwes? Every 
man's religion is knowne bi- his newes; the Puritan talkes of 
Bethlehem Gabor, &c." Besides this, the doctor fell belike to 
personate the chiefe priests and elders, in a florishing description of 
our Saviour and his apostles, as impostors, &c. (a wicked witte), and 
then comes to demande why the soldiers should say it, &c. " Be- 
cause," saith he ''yet he mistooke his marke, see verse 14), " the 
soldiers were audacious, and durst df'C- anything. In those times, 
(said he) the soldiers did depose and chusc emperors, yet the time 
l^ad beene when the priests did this. But now peasants will doe all, 
by prerogative of parliament, Szc.'' 

This Alichaelmas time, before and after, hath fallen wonderfull 

" ■■ uiiMTie " is onJitecl, 

■ liil.- \ia? tbe iTiiV.i oithi. Li-ii'n: S.-t CV^urt a;. J Tiuic-^ oi Clj:irk> 1. vol. ii. pii. 27-S, G3. 

- A rvj-isli in GrinijL<.c- },uiidred. cc. Nori'.^lk. 






A.D. ie'2'J.] 



DiAin- OF .lonx Eors. 45 



store of rainc, so that fences l)e drowned, fiering and stover loste, 
brakes at Wecting not to begot, because of the -n-ette. Corne riscth 
in price. 

In October 1629. I havinn- beene at "Wickham jNIarket," at my ^^''H'^mUtting, 

„ -1 •r'~Ti-\ • i" toade eater. 

coscn Games, vrith my -^-ate ai:iQ Anthony, m our returne, about 
Kesgravc,^ betAveene Woodbridge and IpsTvich, I fell into the 
company of one Paine, a shopkeeper in Laxfield,'^ of whom, after 
much talke about Mr. Skinner and my ould acquaintance at Laxfleld 
and Bennington,^ I inquired of him if William Utting the toade- 
eater (of whom, see in my first long note-booke, covered with redder 
forrell, page 43, and in the notes of 1612) did not once keepe at 
Laxfield; he tould me yes, and said he had scene him eate a toade, 
nay two. The man in whose house he kept went to him for his 
sake, and after salutation, tould him that a frendof his would give 
a groate to see him eate a toade (thus was the way to see it): he 
accepted the offer, and went and fetch te in, from under blockes, ii 
toades, and, rubbing of the earth (as in my other booke), he 
swallowed them downe, but presently he cast them up into his 
hands, and after some pawse, '' Nay," saith he, " I will not loose 
my groate," so taking that which came up last (saith he) " thou 
wentst in first before and shake so doe againe." When both then 
were downe, his stomacke held them, and he had his groate. This 
said Paine. See ray note-booke, what I saw, <fcc. 

The newes was brought to Lees,« by the earle of Warwicke's October 31. 
coacliman (who returned from the carle at London that da}^) that Earl of War- 
the earle was like to have a greate prise of 6 shippes of the silver ^"^ ^ ^ ^"^^' 
fleete; who, being beaten by the Hollanders in the West Indies, yet 
alile to stand out, at the comming in of a ship or ij of the earle's, 
upon the first broadside, yeelded. 

" A parish in tbe hundred of Wilford, to. Suffolk. 

'' In the hundred of Carleford. co. Strffolk. 

' iii the hundred ot Hoxne, co. Suft'oik. 

•1 II lid. Here was the faniiiy resilencc- of the elder branch of ilie Rous familv. 

< Leigh prlorv, nea: Feisiead, co. E,-^^e.^, the .-eat o; the enTh of AVarwicl:. 



mit 



46 BIAKY OF JOHN KOUS. [A.D. 1029-30. 

November. The newes is that the imprisonde parliament men vrcre ottered 

r^trToffereT' libenj if they Tvould find suerties for theire good behaviour; Avhlcli 

release. ^];j^.v refused. Souie sa}^ one did yeeld. Others say he hearkened 

at the first, and then after, upon dehberation, -was loatlr to urge his 

frends farre in a pointe that they Trere unvrilling unto. 

ix.rds confii.ed Tliis ^lichaelmas terme, diverse lords were in trouble ^ for reading 

rather com- ^f ^ booke. It should seeme that there was a booke fouiid in the 

duke's study, tliat bad projects to get mony without a parliament, 

which booke a gentleman of Lincolne's Inne confuted, shewing the 

odiouHies and inconvenience of such courses. This confutation tbe 

lords confessed that they bad reade, and cravde the King's mercy 

for tbat they had not revealed it." 

Si. Christo- It went for currant tlaat the Spanyards had killed the French and 

phcr's. Dutche at St. Christopher's and sent home our English; but nowe 

it is reported that, upon the lauding of 2,000 men farre of in the 

Isle, our men left all to the spoile. The B:ierchants loose, and the 

inhabitants are, its likely, driven to hard shiftes. The plantation 

likely to be left. 

januarN-. The gentlemen that were prisoners for parliament busines were 

released, the last Michaelmas terme. 
^^^^^j^. Xewes of Martin Southon's sonne, who hanged himselfe, this 

Chrisi-tide, at his father's dore. 
januarN-. ^ewes of iij clothiers pistolld by three theeves, and the other 

three veelding (6 in all); the theeves were taken in London. 

The newes is that the Spanyard must get all or loose all in 
Itulv. The Jesuites and Pope fall from Spain to France. The 
Emperor is neere bankrupt. 

The earle of Holland hath beene Admirall ever since Michaelmas 
terme; thus it is said. 

The newes is that there hath beene a mutenie. or rather a 
massacre, of the Protestants, in some partes of Ireland. 

' The aiiusion is to the probecutioa in the Star-chamber of the earl of Bedford, sir 
Robert Cotton, Selden, and others. vvLieh was made the pretence for locking vy tlic Cut- 
tonian Libran-. Biographia Britannica, iv. 301, edit. Kippis. 



Januan'. 



Admirali. 



A.D. 16-2r'-30.] 



3JIART OF JOnX ROUS. 47 



^larriners are pressed at Loudon, some say because there is a Feb. 2. 
navy of the French feared, &c. Guiles. 

Greate talke of 32 (some say) articles of observation for the Feb. 
clersrie, for lecturers and others, &c 

Three embassadors at London, France. Spaine, A enice. 

The ships be set to sea for ISewe England, February, and for a New England. 
plantation neere ^Mexico also (ut dicitnr). iNe^sves of an heathen 
prince baptised at London. 

Some of the released parliament men sore fined. Hill, terme. Parliament 

men . 
TO THE EIXG'S most EXCELLENT MAJESTIE ^' Yah. 

The humble petition of the lord' viscount Falkland, one of the ^^^^.^ ^.\^,.owm 
lordes of his ]\Iajestie£ most hon. privy councell; most humbly Falkland, 
shevring that I had a Sonne, uniill I lost him in your highnes 
displeasure, vrhere 1 cannot seekehim, because I have no will to find 
him there. Men say that there is a wold yomig man, nowe pri- p^^ „ cbaiicnge 
soner in the Fleete for measuring his actions by his owne private oiadueli. 
sense; but now that for the same your .Majesties hand hath 
appeered in the punishment, he bowes and humbles himselfe before 
and to it. '\'\Tiether he be mine or not, I cannot discerne by any 
light but that of your royall clemency; for only in this ^ forgivenes 
must I owne him mine; forgivenes is the glory of the supreme 
powers, and this the operation,*^ that when it is extended in the 
greatest measure it converts the greatest offenders into the greatest 
lovers, and so makes purchase of the hearte, in"^ especiall priviledge 
p>eculier and due to sovei'nigne princes. If your Majestie will vouch- 
safe, out of \o\xx ov\Tie benignity, to become a second nature, and 
restore that unto me which the first gaye and vainly^ deprived me 
of, I shall keepe the reckoning of the full number of my sonnes 
with comforte, and render the tribute of my most humble thank- 
fulnes ; else my weak ould memory must forget one. And pray. 

-'■ Cdlated wi:h a copy "a Hari. MS. 363S, f. 140. 

'• •■ vour,'" Harl. MS. ■ " hath this operation,'" Ibid. 

•I "an," Ibid. ' " vanitie,'- Ibid. 



48 DIARY OF .TOHN EOUS. [A.D. ICiiJ-r. .. 

Cutpurse. ]\IoondnY the 8t]i of ?\larc]i, at Thctford assises, in tlic forcnooiie 

(I being present), the high constaLles being STvorne ("who then lie 
open to such danger), complained, one of 8 pound drawne from hlrn, 
another of 4, the third of 30-?. avIio was one James of Rockland '"' or 
Ellingham.^ Presently after there was another voice, and a voung 
man -with ij of mr. sheriffe's men (sir Roger To^vnsend). brought in 
a purse-picker, a lusty young man, well apparelled, booted, and 
spurred. At his comn:ing in he was asked, What countryman? he 
said, a Lincolnshire man. "Where he dwelled; he said, at Roiston. 
\\ hat his name was: he said, ]\Iusgrave. To other questions pro- 
pounded by judge Hide, he answered, that he was going to sir John 
Hubberdes; that he had a letter thither; that his other busines he 
"would keepe to himselfe; that he was an embroiderer; that he was 
not at Bury (but he lyed): that he lave at Barton milles, at the 
Bull, the night before; that he dranke only at the Bell in Thetford; 
that (here he paused ; he had beene in the towne about halfe an 
houre; that he had no horse, but was a footeman. The young man 
said, that comming up the staires, at the dore to the north, he felte 
an hand in his pocket, and turning about, this man was by: and mr. 
sherifs men did chalenge him to have had his hand in his pocket, 
which both did affirme. IMy lord gave charge to mr. Hoberd (sir 
John was not then come) sir John's brother, to goe downe and 
take his examination, charging that they sliould looke that he 
dropped nothing, and searche him all over. He did confesse that 
he had about 28^., but being serched (as I heard) he had 30.«. and 
more found about hira. James, before mentioned, that lost oO<., 
found an halfe-crowne silver and 4 J. oh., also eight or ten farthings 
amoncrst this monev, and some other pieces that were likely to be his, 
but would affirme no further upon his triall Tas is reported), when 
there came a stranger, and affirmed that a yeere or two since the same 

=• There arc several parib■b'-.^ f>l that name, with sr>r)U' di'stinc'tivc affix, in Shrojiuani 
hundred, Norfolk. 

'^ Paris): in the iiuvidred (.; >i;ri.;ihani, eo. Nurlolk. 



A.D. 1629-30. J 



DiAKY OF .T()nx r.ous. 49 



Musgrave or Stanley (?o thev say vra; liis name), A\-as taken at East 
Dereham upon susphion and had before a justice, but escaped. 
The jurv found him guiltv. Tlie judge commended them. On 
Wednesday he had judgment to die. His progresse Avas thus: Cutpum-pro- 
Moonday he was taken and examined. Tuisday he was arraigned g^esse. 
and con^-icte. TTednesday had hi- judgment. Thursday he was 
hanged. I tould diverse that I had noted him at Brandon ^ fayer, 
and that Mr. Keene knewe him, who told me since that about two 
yeeres past he had him and others to Sir William Spring, but he 
escaped, and lay at Isworth ^ on Friday; and at Thetford on Satur- 
G2V he drewe a purse, and then went to the gaole and dranke with 
the prisoners, vrhere he escaped, for 'search was made for him upon 
reportc that such an one came from Ixworth^ that morning. Tuis- 
day the 16th of ;March. ]\Ir. Sneliizg, of Thetford, tould me tliat 
this fellowe Stanley did shewe before his death the nickes upon a 
staffe for every purse that he had tiiken, to the number of ninet}"- 
three; also that he had revealed to the judge that there was a com- 
pany of them at London, with a maister of them: that London was 
limited out to them hx theire numbers, that one might not meddle 
in another's precincts; that twenty of them, five, five, five, and five, 
attended on the Assises in four circuits; that his four fellowes were 
fiedde; that he had his dweliiug in a street of London that he 
named. &.c. 

March 22. ^Mr. Pratte tould me, that of late many Englishmen March 22. 
went to masse at the queenes coune and the embassador's lodgings, 
which caused a proclamation for restraint, u]3on paine of the execu- 
tion of penall statutes; but when this was not sufficient, purse vants 
were sent, who imprisoned manv.*^ The queene made suite for 
theii'e release, and had this ansArere from the King: " I perraitte 
you your religion with your Car>uchins and others; I permitte 

' Countv of Suffolk. I' Near Bun- St. EdmuiKi's. 

<^ This proclamadon does noi appear in the Foedera. It is alluded to iu a news-letter, 
Court and Times of Charles I. vol. ii. p. 67. 
CAMD. SCO. H 



50 r>iAr>Y OF JOHN uou?. [a.d. ic:i'.30. 

embassadors and theirc retinue, but the rest mv subjects I vrill bare 
tbem bve iu tbe religion tbat I professe and m}- Fatber before 
me.*' &c. 

He tould me also, tbat lately tbe plague being brougbt out of 
France into London, tbere died t-rrenty in one ^veeke; but by God's 
mercy, care, and oversigbt, tbere died but four tlie next weeke; 
God continue bis mercy towardes us. 

He tould me furtber of 150 Hollanders' sbips sent out to tbe TTest 
Indies, divided into tbree companies of fifty. One company met 
Tvitb 100 Spanisb sent for garde, and fougbt long witb tliem, vet over- 
mastered, so tbat tbey many sunke tbemselves. Tbe Spanvards. sore 
beaten, vrere met vriib soonc by otber i:ftie, v>-bo tben prevailed, and 
bave sunke and taken most of tbose 100. and are gone to tbeire 
last fifty, -n-bo togciber bave made some returne bome, and tbe rest 
Tvaite tbere for tbe silver fiecte. 
:tibe Moonday.Marcb 8. One j\Ir. Eamsey, wbom Sir Eoger Townsend, 
bigb sberiffe, bad preferi'ed to an impropriation in bim appropriated 
(as is said), preacbed before tbe judges at Tbetford. upon Isaiab i. 
26.^ as it seemed. I beard but tbe latter ende, v^'bicb was vron- 
derous pitby; full of all good vrordes and all learning. He bad 
many toucbes upon tbe corruptions of judges and councellors. A 
similitude be bad of tbe bead receiving all tbe nourisbment. and 
causing tbe otber members to faile and tbe vrbole man to die. -^bicb 
be applied to tbe commonv.-ealtb, "wbere all is sucked upvrards and 
tbe commons left ^vitbout nourisbment. Also of a fisb tbat first 
putrifies at tbe beade. so some common-wealtb. He toucbed upon 
tbe favoming of causes, and making all sound well on tbe favoured 
side and so on tbe contrary extenuating tbe greatest proofes on 
tbe side not favoured, &:c.; be toucbed tbe Councell also for taking- 
fees to be silent. He apologised (id diciturj before and after, saying 

" '• Ar.d I win restore thv judges as at the first, and thv couiisellors as. at tlie beginning; 
aftervs-ard tiiou sLal; he called the citv of righteousness, the faithful citv." 



A.D. ICSfi." DIARY OF JOIIX ROUS. 51 

that judges and all must learne at iLe lips of the priest. Sale of 
offices and simony he pithily set out, S:c. 

In Easter terme. writtes "v^'eut out of the Excheqt;cr to gentlemen 
of 40li. auuuat.. that vrere not at the King's coronation, to receive 
knighthood. a 

Plague at Camhridge. Arriii. 

]\Iany noblemen died at Penbrooke, (Shre-wsburv.) lord AVootton. ^pr- 
earl of Anglesey;^ (some say lord Scroope). 

At the Generall [.Sessions] at Swafham. ^ve received articles thus: Apr. 

Directions for the Ministers and Churchwardens of the severall 
parishes of the archdeaconr}^ of Norfolk. 

1. His ^Jajestie's declaration, published anno domini 1G28. before Articles, 
the articles of religion for setling all questions in diiferencCj must be 
strictly observed. 

2. Speciall care must be had concerning lecturers in every parish, 
for whom these directions ensuing are to be observed. 

[!.<= In all parishes, the afternoon sermons must be turned into 
catechising b}^ question and answer, where and whensover there is 
no great cause apparent to breake this ancient and profitable order. 

[2. Every lecturer shall read divine service according to the 
liturgie printed by authorit}', in his surplice and hood, before the 
lecture. 

[3. T\"liere any lecture is set up in a market towne, the same 
shall be read by a company of grave and orthodox divines neere 
adjoyning in the same diocesse, and they are to preach in crownes 
and not in cloakes, as many use to doe]. 

If a corporation doe mainteine a single lecturer, he must not be 

* See Rush worth, pt. ii. vol. i. p. 70. 

^ George Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury, auJ Thomas lord Wotton, but not the earl of 
Anglesey. There was no lord Scrope at this date. The title became extinct in 1027. 

" Rushwonh. part iL \ol. i. p. 30, gives the five following directions, but lut :Le 
rcr^ aindcr of the document. 



52 DLkT.Y OF JOnN ECUS. [A.D. IGoO. 

suilered to preach till he professe liis wlllingnes to take upon him a 
living -svitli cure of soules -witkin that incorporation; and he must 
actually take such t-enefic^e or cure so soone as it shall be fairel}' 
procured for him. 

3. The minister ard churchTvardens in every parish, or one of 
them, are at these Generals and at ever}' General hereafter to cer- 
tifie in theire verdicts the christian names and surnames of every 
lecturer in theire parish, and the place vrhere hepreacheth, together 
Avith his quality and degree. 

4. They are in like manner to c-ertifie the names of such men as 
being not qualified bv lavre doe keepe chaplens in theire houses. 

5. They are farther to certine the names of all such as absent 
themselves from or are negligent in comming to divine service, as 
Avell prayers as catecrlsings and sermons. 

6. The minister and churchwardens of every parish successively 
are to keepe a severall copie of these instructions by them, whereby 
they may be the t>etter informed of theire duty: and the said 
copies are to be shewed at every Generall, when they sliall present 
all such persons as have disobc3-ed these instructions; that, accord- 
inir to his ^lajesties pleasure, such as doe conforme mav be encou- 
ra£red. and such as ar-; refractor}^ may be punished. 

These articles, thus received in one halfe sheete, printed we 
knowe not where, seeme to come from the King, in vrhat sorte we 
knowe not; only this is knowne, that they want the ordinary rati- 
fication; " By the King.'' 

Apriii. ^liQ plague at Cambridge, where many houses be infected ; the 

commencement put of untill October; the colledges broken up; 
many townesmen der>art€d. 

^^^■'- It encreaseth also at London; and three houses shut up in 

Norwich. 

Prince Lome. l^lav the SOth, a? it is said, was our young prince borne, for 
which there were signes of greate joy on Ttiisday. June 1, at Thct- 
ford. God •'■ive us a'.! iov of him ! He was borne bctvrecnc ilic two 



A.D. 1030.] DIAIiY OF JOHX EOUS. 53 

eclijDses, one of the moone, May 16, and the other of the sunne, 
May 31, at six or seven at night. (Fertar) borne May 30, at two in 
the morning. 

June 7. At Bury I heard glances of jclousie. All might arise 

The same day I had a note given me of Dr. Layton's trouble for WcVdSi^J- 
Tvi-iting a booke.- A mUtahe, for it was against the hisliojys}' '"S of the king 

The same day it was tould me iKat on Sunday, May 30, the Lon- matXTo^me 
doners shewed theire joy for the prince; and then at nine the King ^'^ritan. 
received the sacrament at Paule's. and came to the sermon, which 
(as I heard before) a Sufiolke man made, upon Judges xiv. 18: And offered to 
" If ye had not plowed, &c. ye had not expounded my riddle;'' pJecS^^^^^ 
then, after the sermon, he gave the City thankes for theire re- 
joicings. 

The same, June 7, I received at Bury these verses: 

Dum Rex Paulinas acces^it gratus ad aras, 

Emicuit medio lucida stella die : 
Die, divina mihi tractani eniginata. pra;-co 

Usee nobis oriens quid sibi Stella velit, 
Magnus in occiduo princeps niodo nascitur orbe, 

Crasque sub ecclipsyn regna orientis erant. 

Some litle while since, the company went to Newe England June 7. 
under Mr. AVintrop. Mr. Cotton, of Boston in Lincolnshire, went 
to theire departure about Gravesend, and preached to them, as we 
heare, out of 2 Samuel, vii. 10. It is said, that he is prohibited for 

preaching any more in England then imtill June 24 next now 

^ Alexander Leighton. a Seolchman, first a phvsician, then a divine. He vrote t^o 
works : " The Looking Glass of the Holy War,"" and " Zion's Plea against Prelacy," in 
both of which the bishops are roughly handled, and for which he was severely punished. 
See pp. 54, 55, infra; and Rushworth, vol. i. pt. Li. pp. 55-5S. The particulars of his 
seizure are given in the Court and Timet of Charles I. vol. i. pt. ii. p. 61; and cf his 
punishment, pp. 80-S5. 

'' Inserted afterwards. 



baptised. 



54 DIAEY OF JOHN ROUS. [A.D. 1C30. 

coniming. I savfe a booke at Burv at a bookeseller's, contelning a 
declaration of tbeire mtent who be gone to Xewe England, set out 
by tliemselyes, and purposed for satisfaction to the King and state 
(as I conceive), because of some scandalous misconceivings that 
runne abroade. 
l.'7-2, the like Some say a stnrre was seenc at noone by diverse in Paul's church- 

'' y^-d. Thev say that one Perkins, a gentleman, affirmes a precon- 

tract of the queene, and thereupon called the prince a .^ He 

is like TO be banged, drawne, and quartered. 
Doctor Lavton. Doctor Lavton. a Scot, hath lost his eares (ut dicifuj-)S 
Prince Charics The 27th of June the prince was baptised by the name of 
Charles: the king of France was godfather and the Palsgrave, the 
oueen mother of France godmother. The young duke of Lennox 
represented the king of France, marquess Hambleton earl of Cam- 
bridge the P'alsgrave, the countesse of Penbroke the queene 
mother.'^ The nurse had 1 000 /i. The mayor of London sent a 
silver fonte, wherein he was baptised. A generall pardon and 
release of many prsioners. Thus is the reporte. 

"\Vhen private men get ^oiines, tbev gette a spooiie,^ 
Without eclipse or ^ny starre at noone ; 
V\'ben kings get sonnes, they get witball supplies. 
And sueecurs farre bevond five subsidies.'' 



' Query, '• Xew England's Trials, declaring the succes^e of twenty-six ships employed 
tiiitLer •within these six yearcs, with the benefit of that country liy sea and land, and Low 
to btuld three score sayle of good ships to make a little navie royall,'" by Capt. Julin .Smith, 
4:o. Loud. 162j. 

b Blank in MS. 

' See Rushworth, p;. ii. vol. i. p. 5S. 

' This is a mistake, the queen iiiOther was represented by the duchess of Richnond. 

* Referring to the practice of sponsors ginng spoons. See Shakespeare's Henry VIII. 
act V. sc-c- ntr ii. 

' "All siibsidies" in Gilchrist's Collection of Corbet's Poems, 12iiio. Lond. 1S07, 

r- "-S. 



A.D. 1C30.] DIAET OF JOHN F.OrS. 55 

"Welcoiao, God's lonue, greate tribute of the state, Knight-moiiv. 

Thou njony new come in," rich fleete of plate; 
Welcorue, blest babe,'' whom God thy father sent 
To make Lim rich >vi:]iout a parliament. 

Finis qd. Rich. Oxo.v. 

Those verses, pp. 6S, 69,^ doe not secme to be bis tbat made tbese. 
Eicb. Oxon. may be subscribed by some otber, and it may be by 
Eucli an one as is in the former termed Puritan. 

The plague was sore at Cambridge tbis summer, so tbat tbere Plague at Cam- 
was no Sturbridge fayer: and in the beginning of tbis October (tbe ^^'^ge and Lon- 
midsommer commencement baving fayled and tbe fayer), for tbe 
l>enefit of university officers, tbere ,was a commencement wberein 
raanv -went out, doctors, bacbclers of divinity, &c. at a cbcape rate; 
tbe plague being not ceased tliere yet. And at London it 
encreasetb (as is said) to eigbty in a v.-eeke. Tbe terme tbat was 
put of untill Xovember 1, some tbinke will be stayed longer. 

About Micbaelmastbe king's Vrbelpe, tbat (as it seemetb) Lynne xi,p i^jng-g 
men bad obteiued tbis summer to garde tbeire fleete, being return- ^^heipe. 
ing, tooke a Dunkerke by tbe way, betweene Yermoutb and Lowis- 
tofte, in tbe boarding of wbicb, by somemiscbance, some gunpowder 
in it was so fired by a candle or tbe like, tbat tbe sbip was blowne 
in pieces, so tbat tbe maine was sunke, many were burte. some 
drowned, and some fewe escaped sound. Tbe Dunkerke was taken 
by otber skips neere. 

Doctor Lsyton, of wbompp. 78, 79, '^ was tbis :\Iicbaebnas terme Doctor Layton. 
punisbed witb whipping, tbe losse of one eare, and tbe sbtting of 
one nostrill; tbe like punishment being reserved (nt dicitur) untill 
the next terme. It is said, tbat be denied tbe penning of the 
booke: and perhaps, bad he not fleddc, he had not thus beene 
punished. The tale goeth, that a tayler of London came into his 
prison, in whose cloake he escaped, and went fortv miles from Lon- 

*• " Newly coined,''- Sloane MS. '' '• Thrice happy," Foid. 

"■ See pp. 42, 4B, si'yra. '' See pp. ."'-S, l<i. si'i/ro.. 



56 



DIAET OF JOHN ROUS. 



[A.D. ]G30. 



Knight monv 

Peace ^vitb 
Spaiiie. 



October. 

Commenee- 

iTierit. 

No Sturbridge 

faver. Seep.&O/ 

KincrofSweden. 



Dearth. 
King and 
Queene. 
Seep. 4G.' 



don; -^vliereat the King said thus: " He hath saved me the L^hour 
of banishing him;" but Dr. Laud, bishop of London, not so satis- 
fyed. gate him discovered, and so returning, he "^vas thus censured. 
His escape made him the rather to be judged guilty. 

Tlie mony for not appeering to be knighted was lately 
gathered up. 

December 5. A peace -with Spaine proclaimed, M-ith much ring- 
ing and many bonefiers.^ It is said the Spanish embassador,^ coni- 
niing to the King to congratulate, fell all along, and shedde abund- 
ance ofteares. not feined perhaps, but out of griefe of the Spanish 
dishonour in seeking this peace. 

A commencement of many doctors, thirty-fwo some sav; and 
twenty-sis of them of the plague.'^ The plague had pulled the 
university and tovrne of Cambridge. Xo Sturbridge faj-er. 

The king of Sweden is to have soldiers out of England and Scot- 
land. He shall maintcine the Germane warre. The Spanvard 
must restore what he hath of the Palatinate. 

"^■Tieate 28.?. the combe; rie 245. and 26s.; barly IBs, and 205. 

The King and Queene at Xewmarket about January 14. 

January 19, 1630. It was my hap to be at Keiningham in 
^Norfolk, within j mile of Hales, where I learned this to perfecte tlie 
stor}', page 46. One William Alexander, whose father lived at 
Stokesbv in Fleg.^ and his brother at Loddon neere Hales, ^ was 
in league with a maide in Stokesby (by him gotten with child), and 
with the daughter of one ^ "Whitlo of Hales, both at once. This 

TMiitloe's daughter he was to carry to Xorwlch, on a Saturda}-, there 
to marry her (whether tliis followmg matter stayed the marriage that 
da}' or not, I remember not what wastould me), and the day before, 
at Stokesby. he so dealte with the other at Stokesby, that he pro- 



Foedera, vol. viii. p:. ill. p. ]S6. '■ Don Carlos de Colonna. 

So in the 31S. Tne death of man^: doctors seems to be meant. 

See p. [>r>, svpra. * See ]■. £4. svjna. ^ East Flegg, co. Norfolk. 

Parish in the hundred of Cl.'.vfrir:-. '■-. Norfulk. '> Blank in MS. 



A.D. 1C30-1.] DIARY OF JOHN RODS. 57 

cured her to steale out. and to waiie for him at a certaine place, untlll 

night, ■when he came to her, to carrie her on horsebacke to Norwich, 

there to marrie her. She being behind him, complained that he 

went out of liis "way, -which he did indeede, and carried her over 

Reedham^ Fery in the night (where a fisherman discovered them), 

and so rode to Hales. At Hales, neere AMiitloe's house, he caused 

the wench to alight and goe over an hedge, purposing to followe 

•with his horse, but could not untill she came backe, and drave him 

over; after v^-hich he ledde her to a place in the close, where was 

(unknowne to her) a deepe well that was covered with some blockes, The maide in 

and, over them, brambles or the like. There they continued a while, *^^ '^^^^' 

and in the end she was put into ,the well about the beginning of 

daylight. He went streight away to the house, and called, tellino; 

them there that it was daylight. The wench bcino; missed at 

Stokesby, enquiry was soone made at TMiitloe's for this fellowe, who, 

perceiving the men, wished "VThitloe's wife (or widowe rather 

perhaps) to tell them he was not there, but she refused, and made 

him to shewe his face unto them. They asked for the wench, but he 

would confesse nothing; whereupon they gate a justice's warrant. 

and tooke him the next day morning, as he was going to his brother 

at Loddon. The justice made a mittimus, j^et he continued a while 

under the constable's handes, and at length his brother and another 

did baile him; but his brother soone, upon conference wuth him, 

suspected something, and gate released: so he was sent to prison. 

He had said to some-bodie, that where ever she was thev could not 

come at her. I\Iany thoughts were working upon this matter, and, 

although the wench saith that on Tuisday after (for so it was found 

to agree with the time, when one was chopping and sizing of billet 

neere the well,) she heard the noise of chopping, yet then she was 

not knowen to be there, for she feared least he or some other should 

have tln-owne dovme something upon her. But on Wednesday a 

' Parish in Walsbam hundred, co. Norfolk. 
CAMD. SOC. I 



58 DIARY OF JOHN ROUS. [A.D. 1C30-1. 

maide from WHtloe's house going to make liaj efpyed the tracke 
of his horse over the hedge, ■which she folloTved even to the vr ell; 
where stooping dovrne, she hearde the vt'ench. Hereupon transported, 
she runneth away, and rceetiDg some, she cried srill, '• The well, the 
well, the well, the well !" with which wordes she went to the smithes 
shop, and the smith and another observing her, she beckened and 
ran to the well, where about the midday, by helpe of a ladder and 
ropes, she came forthe. She had no hurte, nor scarce any shewe of 
any, notwithstanding there were blockes at the bottom of the well, 
wliich strange accident they impute to her clothes, which with 
gathering of wind might breake the falle. . She saith she dranke her 
owne water, and that there were mise and other filthy vermin in the 
bottome. She being often exammed, held one tale still; viz. that 
she knoweth not how she came into the well, and was so silent in 
her evidence against him, not saying that he tocke any thing from 
her, that the judge sawe her intent, and gave her a caveat to feare 
him afterward, yet she is married to him, and liveth now with him. 
Wliitloe's company used her kindly, and her child miscarried not, 
but lived. 

At that place, I learned that one Playfer of Stocton ^ left a sonne 
and two daughters, to whom he gave and entayled his land, and 
after them to his wife, who married and had children by a second 
husband. The sonne growne up was enticed to goe to London, 
with a lewd fellowe. one Fortune, with whom and one AVor- 

lich (if not Laud also), he was last seene at Holton Hill by Hals- 
carkase; in worth.^ The elder sister was missed, and the younger was drowned 
in taking up a little water at a pit to washe some pot. This by the 
coimrries surmise may appertaine to the story of 3 carkases found in 
a pond at Haleswonh, which caused Laud to be hanged, "VTorlich 
condemned, and !Mr. iNorton to be troubled. See 'Ms. Couper's 
booke too, soone published, and my notes elsewhere, 

* A parish in Clavering hundred, co. Norfolk. 

^ Huhon is IJ miles from Halesworth, hundred of Blything, co. Sunolk. 



:.onde. 



A.D. 1630-1.] DIARY OF JOHN ROUS. 59 

March 6. The neAves is that the king of Sweden hath declared KingofSweden. 
his reasons why he takcth up arraes against the emperor. 1. The 
emperor's forces, in proper colours, bare armes against him in Poland. 
2. An ancient firme league there was and is betweene him and the 
duke of Pomeran, whom the emperor enfesteth. 3. An ancient 
league also betweene Sweden and the States of Germany, wherefore Sweden, 
he will not lay downe his armes untill Germany be in statu quo 
prius. The newes is also that the emperor hath called a diet, and 
demanded 3 things, 1. Monj'es to oppose the king of Sweden. 

2. The confirmation of the Palatinate Electorship upon Bavaria. 

3. That his sonne be made king of Romans, All three are denied, 
and the princes resolved never to chuse emperor of the house of 
Austria againe. 

Xewes that the king and the queene mother be at variance; that France, 
the queene is driven into a city, and there besieged, upon some 
treason against the king's person. 

Newes that the Spanish embassador is departed discontente, England. 
because of 4.000 Scottes that be gone to aide the Sweden king. 

The emperor hath called a diet, and requested three thino-s: Newes. 

1. Supplies of mony for to withstand Swethland's king. ^^ 

2. The confirmation of the Electorship of the Palatinate upon 
Bavaria. 

3. The enstalling of his owne sonne king of Romans. 

All three be denied, and, as it is said, a vowe is made not to have 
any emperor more of the house of Austria. 

The king of Sweden doth prevaile against the emperor. The Kingof Sweden. 
Archduches hath demolished her fortes in Cleveland, and that 
corner. 

The king of Spaine is dead, as the newes comes Apr. 25. King of Spaine 

Aprill. The newes was that the Hollanders had againe met vdih ^^*^- ^^^^• 
Spaine's silver fleete, and taken greate treasure from him. 

The newes was also that there is greate store of silver ingots or Siher mimed, 
bullion now at our minte; from Spaine some say. 



60 DIARY OF JOHN ROUS. [A.D. ICSl. 

Lord Awdley The lord Awdlej (earl of Castelhaven in L-eland as some say), 
beheaded. j'^^ causing Lis daughters to be ravished before bis face ; as some 

say, for Sodom: besides, -was put to death about ]\Iay 14, at the 
A beast dead. Xower. Some say he "svas put to death for procuring the ravish- 
ment of his -wife, he holding her forcibly in the time, and also for 
Sodom: "with a page. The agents in the rape shall die also. They 
say he -was arraigned by the name of Mervin lord Awdley. He 
denied these crimes, but confessed himselfe worthy of death. He 
vras first (he said) a Protestant, and then became Papist, in vrhich 
profession he sawe so much loosenes that he grewe dissolute, and 
never after thrived in soule, body, credit, or estate. Thus gentle- 
men reporte." 
Hollanders get It was reported, soc'ne after the peace vrith Spain, 1630, page 
more treasure. § ^ _ ^j^^t diverse of our sliips arriving in Spain ^vere there stayed, 
because the silver fleets ivas then coming home; and since it is 
reported that the Hollanders have met with that fleete, and gotten 
the chiefe treasure. 
2^j3^. About the middest of ]SIay, on a Wednesday night, the daughter 

Giiiy cut her of ouc GiUy deceased (living in the widowe Tillot's house), a maide 
^xvne throate at ^l^^^^gl^^ to be very rehgious, and having had 7 or 8 sc.^ pound 
in her ovrne hand, did rise out of her bed, as is said, and, going into 
a wood-chamber, cutte her owne throate, lefte the knife in the 
wound, fell grobling (her armes being foulded) at the head of a 
payre of staires, and bled abundantly; being thereby found the next 
morning. Diverse lately have hanged themselves at Linne,'^ Bran- 
don,*^ Elms well, "^ Finborough.d 
pj^ The plague at Wimondham^ and diverse townes thereabout, very 

sore. They say it is yet in Lincolneshire. 

^ See Rushworili, pt. ii. voL L pp. 9c>-103. 

b Score. 

■^ In Norfolk. 

d In Sufiblk. 

e In tbe hundred of Forehcc, co. Norfolk. 



Mav. 



A.D. 16?1.3 DIARY OF JOHN EOrS. 61 

June 13. Anthony Eons, my father, of All Saints in Weeting'" 
parson, from June 1600, died.^ 
■ That dav at ni2;ht, Sir Martin Stutvill, of Dalham,^ comminn- from Sir Martin Stut- 



dieth 



dainlv. 



the Sessions at Bury, vrith Sir George le Hunt, went into the 
Angell. and there being mery in a chayer, either readie to take 
tobacco, or having ne^vly done it, (utfertur) leaned backward with 
his head, and died immediatlie. 

July 18, -were executed at Bury 13; whereof iij., a boy of 16 July. 
and ij. women, were executed for burning' of Walderswicke,*^ in Waiderswike 
Suffolk. The boy. upon his death,, affirmed that his sister councelled, ^"™^^- 
and the other woman (who was begotten with child by Xathan 
Browning of Dennington,^ before marriage,) gave him fire. They 
both aSrmed themselves cleere. The sister confessed there, before 
!Mr. TTard, her fake in standing excommunicate. The boy, they 
say, was borne at Wimondham,^ in the yeere of the fire there. 
Forty houses were burned, June 10, or thereabout, and 8 at a second 
time. July 3, being Sunday. After this it was discovered. 

About this time were gone and going diverse voluntaries, gathered Marques Hamil- 
up by ihe drumme, to goe with marques Hamilton to the helpe of ^.^"j.^^^^f^^* 
the king of Swedeland, in tlie German wan-es. 

Together with reporte of the king of Sweden's besieging of Mas- September, 
denburg, which Tilly had taken this summer and burnt, killinn; all Papist? denie 
without mercy ,f it was said, upon Sir Thomas Jermin's worde that Heve it"L the^ 
our agent in Poland had written thus to our King. The queen of ^'""^^^ ^" ^^^ 

o -1 generall. 

* A parish in the hundred of Grimshoe, co. Norfolk. 

^ In ihe list of the clergy of Weeiing, occurs the following : '• ICOO, June 25, Anthony 
Rouse. Agnes Wright and Thomas 'Vrright, by grant of the presentation from Sir Robert 
"WyngSeld, Knight, &e. He ■«ras buried 13th June, 1631. In his answer to King 
James's Queries in 1603, he says there were 104 communicants here." Bloomfield's Nor- 
folk, 8vo. edit. vol. ii. p. 170. 

^ A parish in the hundred of Risbridge, co. Suffolk. 

^ Or Walberswick. hundred of Blything. 

« Near Framlingham. co. Suuolk. 

f Hundred of Forehoe, co. Norfolk — spelled ^Vymo□dham, or Windham. 

f See Rushworth, pt. ii. vol. i. p. 135. 



62 DIAET OF JOHN ROUS. [A.D. 1C31. 

Poland and tier Jesuiies and Priests made a greate triumph for 
Tillie's taking of Magdenburg, erecting Calvin's and Luther's 
l>ead she is. gtatues in ij. postes, -which they burned -with an helHsh greate fire; 
i.i<rJd^o^*at^'^' ^^^ ^^ returning, most of the Priests and Jesuites were killed by fier 
Londca. caused from heaven, and the queene stroken madde, and as is thought 
^ourae.'^' ^ thereupon soone deade.'' Mr. Jenkenson.^ 

vcindham The plague at "Vi'imondliam, they say. is neere ceased novre. this 

plague. Sept. 8, and a market kept somewhile since. 

Sermon? against Summer assises at Bury had one Mr. Scot, of Ipswich, that 

lie ;uc;ge£. preached before the judges, •who made a sore sermon in discovery of 

corruptions of judges and others. At Norwich I\Ir. Greene vras 

more plaine, insomuch that Judge Harvy, in liis charge, brake 

out thus — " It seemes by the sermon that we are corrupt, but know 

that we can use conscience in our places, as well as the best clergle 

-Sir X. Hide man of aU." Judge Hide died this harvest. Judge Pachardson, in 

dies.. &c. ^YiQ West, had a prisoner that cast a stone at him, and smote his hat 

of, as is reported. And one Sir ^ Pie. a judge in the marches of 

Wales, was by a Welche man that thought hunselfe wronged thrust 

in, and wounded with his sworde. 

A \-ictory at The Hollanders had a greate \"iciorv at Bergen-ap-Zoom. The 

Bt-rgen. enemic had prepared in secret boates, shipping, and other things for 

surprisaU of it (or for landing and intrenching, so as in time to have 

wunne it). They landed, and the reporte of theire ordinance brought 

the Prince of Orange, who was some miles of, with his companies 

thether, with some 8,000 men, who routed them, ere they could be 

entrenched, and killed 7 or 8,000, and tooke many prisoners, and 

much spoile. 

Je=u:tes con- The repoTte is that 4 Jesuites in Ireland do preach the Gospell, 

u'7' ^ ' ' and doe much irood. 



* The report of her sudden death, on the very davin which a procession celebrating the 
victories of the Ronasb party took place, was correct : and also that the thunder and 
lightning were very violent on that day. See Court and Times of Charles I. vol. ii. p. 166. 

'' Probably the naai--- of the person who gL.ve this information. 

<■ Added later. ^- Blank in MS. 



A.D. 1031.] -DIARY OF JOHN KOL-S. 63 

The Fennes be in draining, and a novre river is cut and casting up New ri\cr. 
at Litleporte, " or thereabout. 

The reporte is that Saxonienow joyneih vnih the king of Sweden, Saxonic 
•svho prevailcth against Tilly. joyi.eUi. 

October 14, newes from Cambridge tL.at there Tvas a greate fi^ht Tilivovcrc. 
bet-u-eene the king of Sweden with the duke of Saxony, and Tilly 
on the other side. Tilly was taken, and is deade;^ his whole army 
dispersed, &c. The king carried the duke among the slaine, and 
asked him how he liked of it. The duke said it was a sad spectacle. 
" Well," said the king, " all this 3-ou are the cause of; for, if you 
had not stood neuter at the first, this liad beene prevented." Tilly 
bewailed his unfortunatcnes, since, he cruelly massacred them of 
2\Iag-lcnburgh, which he did at the emperor's espcciall command. 

Sii- Xicholas Hide, Lorde Chiefe Justice of England, or of the ."sir Nicholas 
King's Bench, died immediatl}' after his departing from summer ^^^^^^^' 
assises at Xorwich. Some say he was poy.sened by a petition there; 
others that he gate the plague so, and died thereof. 

Sir Thomas Eichardson in his place, at the beg. ^ of Michael- Sir Thomas 
mas terme, and Sir Robert Heath, the Eang's Atturny, is Lord ^'^''=^»"dson. 
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. 

Cambridge is wonderously reformed since the plague there; schol- Cambridge 
lers frequent not the streetesand taverne-;. a? before; but doe worse. <i reformed. 

The king of Sweden hath given the emperor a gi-eate overthrowe, King of 
all Tillie's companies slaine and dispersed. Sweden. 

A young princes borne here, Xov. 3, at night.^ Princesse born 

The duke of Orleans arrived here in England. November. 

A booke came to my handes, printed 1631, by E. Y., for 
Jo. Partridge^ called '• God's power and providence in preserving 
8 Englishmen, left by mischance in Greenland, 1330, nine monthes S men left at 

Greenland. 
» In the Isle of Ely. 

^ Incorrect. Tilly was shot near Ingoldstadt, SOtli April, 1632. 
•^ Beginning. 
'' Added afterwards. ^ ilary, afterwards princesr. of Orange. 



64 DIARY OF JOHN ROUS. [A.D. 16S1. 

and twelve days, reponed by Edward Pelham, one of ye 8."* 
William Fakeley, gimner; Edward Pelhani, giinner's mate; John 
Wise, and Robert Goodfellow, seamen; Thomas Aycrs, whale- 
cutter; Henry Bette, cooper; John Dawes, and Eichard Kellet, 
landmen. The booke contej-neth a mappe of Greenland, l5-ino- from 
77 X.L. to 80; with it a whale described (which is ordinarily 60 
foote long); his fashion somewhat like a gogeon. Also the manner 
of taking, killing, cutting, boiling of him; a description of a sea- 
morce, as big as an oxe, &c. The principall things be these which 
he reporteth. The countrie is mountainous, full of ice and snowe ; 
the plaines most parte bare. Tnere growes no tree nor herbe, but 
scurvy grasse and sorrell. The sea affordes whales, sea-horses, 
seales, and other small fish. Thej- went in the Salutation of Lon- 
don, May 1, 1630, and arrived in Greenland June 11. There 
were three ships, under the command of Captain William Goodler, 
who sent a command to the Salutation beforesaid to come to him 
to an harbour called Bell Sownd ; upon which these men, being on 
land killing of deere, and by mists and other accidents hindered, 
were lefte at Greeidand, firom about August 20 untill 25th of ]\Iay, 
without company and comfort; for these climates are not inhabited. 
Our merchants could never hire any to winter there. Thej^ win- 
tered at Bell Sownd, in an house of timber and dealeborde, 80 fbote 
long, builded by Dutclmien. In this they builded a lesser, with 
deale, brickes, lime, &c., brought thither; and especially filling be- 
tween inner dealebords and outward with sand, to keepe out the 
could ; and had no windowes, but opened a tile or two aloft ; 4 
cabins they builded within, and billettcd by 2 and 2, lodgmg in 
deere's skinnes drj-ed. Tnere fuell was ould shallops tmserviceablc, 
lefte there from yeere to yeere; empty cashes, plankes, and coolers, 
what might not hinder the next yeere's voyage. A piece of sheetelead 



» It was printed separatelv, 4to. London, ICSi. and is reprinted in Churchill 's Voyages, 
vol. ii. 



A.D. 1631.] DiAliY OF JOH.\ KOUS. 65 

being found upon one of tLe coolers, the}- made of it lampes, to 

burne some naughty refuse ovle, there lefte in tliem, for theire lights, 

in \rhich they put for the ^vike twists of ould ropes. The}' killed Ropey.irne. 

venison, some sea-horse, and beares, of whose flesh and the frielers 

or granes of the whales they did eate, and so preserved themselves. 

From October 14 to February 9. tliey sawe no sunue. but theraoone 

alwaies. (They found some spring water, under a thicke ice, and 

for the rest thev dranke snowe water, melted by hote irons.) Yet 

bv the last of January, he saith that the dayes were seven or eight 

houres long. That is, dayes yet without sunne, for he said before 

from the December 1 to the 20 there was no light, but sometimes 

a small glare of white towards the south. In the spring tlicy gate 

some fowles, and one of theire mastive dogs went fortj-j and never 

returned. About ]\Iay 28. Hull men caine. who jialed them with 

'• hey;" they returned " ho:'' and so were these comforted, the other 

amazed. Ma}'- 28. London fleete came, wherein these 8 returned 

August 20, and came all safe and whole to London. All they say 

of the cold is that, touching of iron, theire hands hung too, as to 

bii'd-lime; and looking out, the}' were sore nipped, and proved so 

as if they had beene beaten. 

It is nowe talked that the king of SAveden is in the Palatinate; Xoveini.er. 
some sav at PraLfue. and that the Palsgrave shall o-oe up in the f^!"? ^^ 

^ ■ , , ,*"-, . .^ . . S-.vc-Jcn. 

spring, with 24,000 : that the Duke of Saxony is in Silesia, and 
Marques Hamilton. That the king of Sweden and his aide is If Protc-stants 
80,000: that the duke of Loraine will helpe the emperor (but this '^"/j^^'^.^jl^j ^^ 
may be a giere); Grebner would be observed in many particulars.'' *o"^^' 

^ Paulus Grebnerus, who came over to England in 15S2, presented queen Elizabeth 
■with a MS. in Latin, containing predictions oi the future history of Europe, ^hich excited 
a good deal of attention, on account of the verification of many of his predictions, more 
particularly those relating to Gustavus Adoljihus. The J*IS. was deposited in Trinity 
College, Cambridge. See a niemorandtim at the end of Harl. MS. 6SS2. which is tran- 
scribed from a loose sheet, printed May 16-.^, of which a copy is among the King's 
Pamphlets, British Museum, in folio. There is a brief extract from Grebner"- prophecy 
CAMD. SOC. K 



66 



DIAEY OF JOHN KOU 



[A.D. 163L 



y,.ve-.riher2P. 
^Varres with 
Spain. 



A Jesuites 
iirnver against 
iiereiik^. 
All heretiks 
vere touched. 



November. 



..lurtiKT at 
KeJnal! and 
Harle?ton. 



Imbellis Eodolpbus." Deus excitat Electorem Sax. Decrctum re- 
gium, &c, In hoc concuss, et classico tumultu, &c. Oaiiies simul 
obmutescetis dcnudatim. Sed Bobilis heros Suecicus. Locuples, 
&c. Inuictc Pliilippe,*^ (an ironie sure,) and in other things. 

The newes c-ame that our truce Avith Spaine vras out ; that our 
English were forbidden traiiique with .Spaine; it may be so intended, 
but it is not so yet. Xewes also bv ]Mr. Tayler, that a Jesuite at 
Strasborouf^h, after the Swethish victor}', made his prayer to this 
effecte: " Lords and ladies, let us pray to God and to the blessed 
Yiririn. to cause her Sonne to preserve us in the Catholike religion ; 
to defend us against the devill of Sweden, and all his helpes, the 
conjurers and witches of Lapland, by whose enchantments these 
Swedish derills fiie about among us; from the bloud hounds the 
States, and all theire councels; from the adders of England and all 
theire frends; from the beggerly Lutheran princes, that they get not 
head afrainst us," &c. (This was the summe; Mr. Taylor hath a 
copie.) For all the devils conspire this 1631. 

About the beginning of this month was the murther at Harelston.*= 
Bucke, Gierke of Rednall,<^ in the evening being upon the high way 
in a footepath with a maide that he was welwiller to, was assatilted 
b}' 'Vi'arren (that was in beere) who urged upon the maide 

to ride behinde him, &.c. The issue was, that Bucke with his 
cooke's knife cut the throate of Warren's horse, and killed Warren 
himselfe. November 15, this was tould me then at Henham,^ or 
rather the 16. 

15. I was at Halesw.^ A youth at Lackford^ by plajing about 



in Harl. MS. 4^31 , f. 13, in v.bich the king of S^^eden's successor, and the Popish queen 
of king Charles are named. 

' Rodolph II., emperor of Austria. *' Philip II. of Spain. 

"^ Hundred of Stow, co. Sufloik. 

'' Redenhall, a parish one mile and a half from Harleston. 

«- The seat of the Rous family, in Wangford parish, Suffolk. 

f Halesworth, a market town, hundred of Bhnhing. co. Suffolk. 

e Hundred of Thingoe, co. Suffolk. 



A.D. 1631.] DIAKY OF JOKN KOUS. (j? 

a bedde of strawe that tliatchers liad made, fell so upon tlie thateher's 
knife that it ranne into his body above an hand length, and killed 
Lini presently. 'Mr. Francis Croftes tould this as done neere him at 
Lackford, as I conceived. 

Certaine newes that Prague is taken and Bohemia revolted from DL-cembtr 2. 
the emperor. That the pope sent a messenger to the kino- Qf Prague taken. 
Sweden, ^vith congratulation for the victory he had against the 
emperor, is a thing not unlike. 

December the 12th, at night as is thought, some "West-countiv ^iden busines 
packman thai had sold all in Norfolk, returned by Thetford, and went packiiorles. 
towards Barton milles''' late; but the next morning three horses ^Yith 
pack saddles and tvi-o packes vrere 'found short of Eldeu a mile. It was a servant 
These horses and packes are seised by the lord of E:dcn. Some 5!xva\''wi!rf 
thinke a man is murthered and robbed: some thinke that it M'as i^'O".^' !'<? ''»" 
a servant that is ridden away on the fourth horse with the monv. ^ ^'' 
The packes were fish, either bought or trucked at Norwich or 
Yermouth. 

There came forth a booke called " The Swedish Intelligencer," December, 
which did set forthe the proceedings of the king of Sweden since The first pane 
his landing in Germany untill :\Iic4iaeb.ias last. By the way he i^teliig^enceJ!'' 
speaketh of a generall desire of peace in Germany; but the way not 
found but by tlie union of Protestants. Saxonv and others at last 
meeting at Leipsich, and resolving to stand against the emperor for 
better union, decreed that both Cabxinistes and Lutherans should be 
called Evangelici. The king at first relieved some islands and Hans 
townes, upon the coastes of the Baltique sea, and at last comming 
up. joyned with the duke of Saxony, &c. ; and gave Tilly that utter 
overthrowe in a pitchde field in the heath, God's-aker. neere Lipsich 
(for which God alwaies be praised !) the 7th of September.^ He 
tooke eighty towiiS in sis or eight weekes, and since hath done, as 
we hearu. what he listed in Bohemia and the Palatinate (whither 

» In the buiidrou of Lackford, oo. Suft'ulk. 
" See Rush worth, pt. u. \ol. i. pj,. lOT-llO. 



68 DIARY OF JOHN EOUS. [A.D. 1632. 

the Palsgrave is returned about February 6) keeping his Christmas 
in Mentz. 

Tlie said first pane, <S:c. produceth a piece of P. G. vrhom he 
stileth '• the famous Pavilus Grebnerus, Tv-hose booke lyeth in Trinity 
Colledge."" 

It is since reported, that a fewe yeeres since, Sir Thomas Eolfe,*^ 
sent embassador to ]\L:tscow and Piussia. dealt vrith the king of 
Sweden by the wav. and told him the necessity of his engaging 
himselfe in this warre in regarde of liis futui-e safety, vrhich he 
apprehended, yet excused himselfe by the greatnes of the warre, 
the neede of credite. countenance, nieanes, and helpes to go thorough 
with it, and therefore he being of small reputation. &c. he durst not: 
but Sir Thomas promising assistants if he would begin, then he 
called a coimcell. who resolved of the said necessity for securing his 
kiugdomes in future times; and so he prepared and undertooke, &c. 
Now lately, remembring the successe and his honor, he in a letter 
to Sir Thomas Eolfe, acknowledgeth with thankes the '^ he, next 
under God, was meanes of all this; and for a remembrance sends 

Li. in weight. ]^-^^^ 2400 /{, in copper. 

Lord chiefe <^ii- Thomas Eicharcson was removed from the Common pleas 

(against his mind for gaine) to the King's Bench, and Sii- Eobert 
Heath made lord chief justice of the Common pleas, who comes 
this circuite in Xorfblk, ore. This was done princip. Term. 

Thirfton. IMichaelmas. 

Upon ShrovemoondLiy. February 13, Mr. Catlin, preaching at 
Bur}', gave out before his sernion that it was good the ministers 
of the combination wold meete to consulte of ihe making of the 
combination, that those ministers that wold doe good might be put 

' See Dotc ". p. 05. iupra. 

'' This should 1)0 Sir T. Roe, who was ambassador to Turkey, and afterwards to 
Sweden, and was a warm friend of the Queen of Bohemia. Tlie letter and present are 
mentioned in The Conrt and Tia.es cif Ciiaries I. vol, ii. p. 143. 

<^ that. 



Mr.CatlinV >er 
mon. 




A.D. IG32.] DIARY OF JOHN ROUS. 69 

in seasoualjly for it. I learned since that a newe-corae minister ^^'"' Peed"s Re- 
■wasput in first in the combination, to beginne on Plough ]\Ioonda3', swaved^aii. 
but as it seemed vrould not goe before the graver preacliers, and 
therefore lefte the day unprovided; but ]\Ir. Catlin. by entreaty, 
preached at that time, ex imj^roviso, and after vrold have beene freed ^" cffocte so 
of this his owne time, but could not (thus he said before the ser- 
mon), and in his sermon said thus much obiter, which I heard: 
'• We are blamed for our churclies, but it is certaine that these 
courtes extracte more from us then vrill repayer our churches, 
adorne them, and keepe them so." 

On Tuisday the next day, being February 14. Shrove Tuisday. Mr. Garie's ser- 
]Mr. Garie, of Becham,^ preached' at Methwold,*' where I heard 
him. He preached in his cloake, read prayers so. without a sur- To use thesur- 
plis (as I remember). In reading whereof, he stayed for Mr. Pecke gowncareen- 
and some others, to mutter eche other verse of the Psalmes: nj^jj joyned in the 

■ combination 

omittmg a first lesson, he read a second lesson, wherein he mouthed upon tiie pulpit 
it Je — sus. with a lowe congle; and in his sermon upon Mat- *''"^" 
thew, iii. lO,'^ among those whom he made liable to God's fearfull 
judgment, against whom the axe is threatned, he named adulterers, 
oppressors, atheists, those that bowed not at the name of Jesus, 
and (I thiuke also) those that w^ere covered at divine service, 
with otliers; in rehearsing of those not bowing, he produced 
Philip, ii, 10,° how well convening let it be scanned; but, Um- 
■pora, qui pastore-^ ? 

The Palsgrave most j oy fullie received, with great acclamations, February. . 
in his Palatinate: '• God save the King of Bohemia !" Count Jo. of " '^'^'''^' 
Nassau defeated by the king of Sweden, as he went up against the 
Palsgrave, &c. 

' Beckham, hundred of Erpingham. co. Norfolk. 

'' Hundred of Grinieshoe, co. Norfolk. 

' " And now al?-o the axe is laid unto the root of the trees; therefore every tree which 
bringetb not forth good frait is hewn down and cast into the fire." 

«" " That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things 
in earth, and thing* und' r the earth." 



70 L^LMiY OF JOK-V KO■Uf^. [A.D. l';33. 

April 1. April 1, being Easter day. Doctor Buttes," vice-chancellor of 

Dr. Buttes. Cambridge, and maister of Bennet Colledge, did hang himselfe. 
The King and Queene -were at Cambridge but a ^vljile before; 
something gave occasion. 
Srcond part of Xhe second parte of the Swedish Intellierencer is extant, declaring 
iV.t^iii^encer. the actes of the Swedish king, the last summer 1632. ending before 
r.;ng oi ^|-jg ]^g^ battcll at Leipsich. about October, when it is said he vras slaine. 

Palsgrave. About that verv time, died the Palsgrave in his owne country. 

Mr. Sbervile. },[x, SherAilc '^ of Lincohie's Inne, recorder of Salisbury, was in 

Michaelmas terme censured in the Starre Chamber, for pulling downe 
a worskipped picture of God the Father, which was in a windowe 
of that cliurch of Salisbury. If he had set a glasier to doe it, he 
had not beene questioned. !Mr. Prin of tbe same house sent to the 
Tower about his booke Histriomastix.'^ ?\luch to doe about cere- 
monies, liigh altar and copes. &c. at Patiles. A cruell robbing mur- 
Pratte harjged. therer hanged, at the way side beyond Ware, Marclt 19, in chaines. 
iri-umen -n Diversc Irishmen so hanged at that time in Kent, for a cruell 

KtEt hanjred. -, ■. -. -. « ^' . , 

robbery and murther ot many m one house. 
London Bridge. London bridge burnte, February 11, 
1633, April. I received these verses. 

'' Henry Buf.i, l^.D. elected master of Corpus Christi or Beiiet college if.20. His 
suicide created a great sensation. In a letter to the fellows of Corpus Christi college, 
dated the 2d of April, the King savs, '• You can hardly conceive how "we are afiected 
■with the untimely a:.d precipitated death of Dr. Butts, our rice chancellor and mailer of 
that otir colledge in our university of Cambridge, wherewith tbe harts of all good Christ- 
ians are affected." The " something "' which "gave occasioti " to the fatal act has not 
been ascertained, though it seems clearly established that it was not pecuniary embarass- 
ment. Masters, His:, of Corp. Chr. coll. 141, Append, xliv; Wood's Ath. Oxon. i. 47S; 
Cooper's Annab of Cambr. iii. 251; Smith's Obituary, p. 6. The King's and Queen's visit 
to Cambridge was on the 22d March, 1631-2. Cooper's Annals, iii. 24£'. 

*" Henry Sheffield; on this matter see Hatcher's History of Salisbury, fol. 1S43, 
pp. 371-373. 

' " Histrio-mastix ; the Players' Scourge, or the Actor's Tragedy, in two parts : wherein 
it is largely evidenced, by divers arguments, that popular stage-plays are sinfuH, heathenish, 
lewde, ungodly spectacles." 4io. London, 1633. 



A.D. 1633.] DIARY OF JOHN ROUS. 



D. C. TO THE GENTLEWOMEN OF THE NEAVE DRESSE." 

Ladies that weare blacke Cypres vailes,'' 
Turned lately to white linren railes,^ 
And to your girdle weare your bandes,'' 
And siiewe your armes, in steade of handes; 
"VA'hat can you doe in Lent more meet 
As, finest dres^e. to weare a sbeete ? 
'Twai once a bande ; 'tis now a cloake ; 
An acorne one day proves an oke, 
>Veare but your linnen to your feete, 
And then your band will prove a sheete, 
By which devise and wise excesse 
You doe a penance in a dresse : 
And none shall knowe hy what they see, 
"Which Ladies censur'd. which goe free. 

. s 

THE LADIES AKD GENTLEWOMEN S ANSWER. 

Blacke cypres vailes are shroudes of night, 

White linnen vailes are railes of light, « 

Which, though we to our girdles weare, 

W have handes to keepe your armes of there. 

A fitter dresse we have for Lent, 

To shewe us truly penitent : 

Who makes our bandes to be our cloake 

Makes John at Stile of John an Oke. 

We »eare our linnen to our feete, 

Yet need not make our band our sheete : 

Your Clergie weare as long as we, 

Yet ihat implies conformity. 

Be wise, recant what you have writte, 

Leasi you take*^ penance for your witte. 

a D. C. is Dean Corbet, Bishop of Norwich. This and the following are printed, with 
slight variations, in the volume entitled " Satirical Songs and Poems on Costume." 
edited by Mr. Fairholt for the Percy Society, pp. 136, 137. The notes appended are 
Mr. Fairholt "s. '' " Cipress was a fine kind of crape or gauze." 

' " The rayle was the neckerchief." 

^ '• Alluding to the great length of the falling band, which was allowed to hang down 
upon the shoulders.'" 

« " While linen raises are raies of light." Harl. MS. C.S&G. 

' " do penance.'" Harl. MS. 



DIAKY OF JOHN ROUS. [A.D. 103^ 

Love cbannes hare power to weave =' a string 
To tye vou, as vou tr'de your ring.^ 
Thus by lore's sh^rpe but just decree 
You may Le eens-Lirde, we goe iree. 

CPON SIF. TEOiiAS OVEEBCEY. — SLR W. R. 
Here lies one novre not worth despising. 
Who, Persian-like, wors.Lipt the sun-rising ; 
Who, courder-like, embrac'de the brave, 
Now, Lazaruj-like, lies lis his grave : 
Who, stoike-like. contemnde a wife : 
God shield hereafter he breed no strife. 
Now reade his fate ; thosgh he were brave and bolde, 
Yet, like a Jewe. was bought and sould. 
Oh bury him, bury him, quoth the high power, 
Least he p-oyson Court, City, and Tower : 
And was it not sinne to bury Liru then 
Who livir.g stunke in the face of njen I 

A LADIE WITH ONI ETE EAD A TEETY SONNE THAT BY A .lEEKE OF THE 
C0ACE3!AN's whip LOST AN EYE."^^ — JOHN EN. 

Thou one-eyed boy, borne of an halfe-blinde mother, 
Matchlesse in beuty both, save one to th' other ; 
Lend her thy light, sweete ladde, and she shall prove 
The Queene of Beuty, ihou the God of Love. 



3 " we.'ire" in niarpiii and ir. Harl. ?'!S. 

'' '• In a ludicrous baliad, describing James L's visit to Oxford in 1021, when Gurnet. 
in his office of chaplain, preachei before the King, he is thus sp.oken of : — 
The reverend dean. The ring, without doubt. 

With his band starcb'd cie^n, Was the thing put him out, 

Did preach before the King; And made him forget what was next ; 

A ring was his pride, For everv- one there 

To his band. string? tied. Will say, I dare swear, 

Was not this a pretty thine : He handled it more than his text." 

See further stanza-s in the Progresses, Sec. of James I iv. 1110. 
' A copy in Sloane MS. 171^2. f. 26''i. reads thus : — 

Fairhalie Hind boy, borne of halfe-blind mother, 
Equall'd by none, but by each one the other. 
Send her thine eie, sweet boy, and shee shall prove 
The Queene of Beauties, thou the God of Love. 
A ditTerent reading still occur> in Ecrerton MS. 923, f. 5S. 



DIARY OF JOHN ROUS. 



73 



Corue faire ladies, come drawe neere, offer here 

Untorour maister Crosbie's shrine ; 

Breathe one sigh, bestowe one groue on the stone ; 

Aud bath his farewell in vour eyne. 

Now I have danc"te the measure of my dares, 

And friskte till I am weary, let me rest ; 

Each honest acte and action serves to praise, 

And please the Lord, and I have done my best : 

This solitary couch that I have drest 

I"ie sleepe in, till I shall renewe my yeeres 

To dance Lavaltos * in the highest spheres. 



La France est disesperee 

Et presque tout ruinee. 

Par un demon infernal 

Que vol *' et qui n'a point d'aisle. 

Quan dit tu, Jean de Nivelia, 

C'es: .Monsieur le Cardinal. 

Eeturning to Genevah, I made this literall distich, 

Glaunee glorious Geneve, Gospell-guidhig gem. 
Great God. goveme good Geneve's ghostly Game. 



Can Christendome'g great Champion sinke away 

Thus silently into a liedde of clay? 

Can such a Monarch die, and yet not have 

An Earthquake for to open him a grave ? 

Did there no meteor fright the Universe. 

Nor Comet holde a torch unto hb herse ? 

Vt'as there no clap of Thunder hearde, to tell 

Al! Christendome their losse, and ring his knell ? 

Impartiall fates, I see that Princes then, 

Though they live gods, yet they must die like men, 

And the same passing bell must toll for them 

"V^'hich rang but no we the beggar's requiem. 

When such a soule is from the earth bereav'ne, 

Me thinkes there shouid be triumphes made in Heaven, 

And starred should runne at tilte at his decease, 

To welcome him into that place of peace, 

"\^ho, though he warred, yet did alwaies strive, 

Dying in warre, to leave peace still alive. 



A Dauncer 
about Linn. 



The estate of 
France. 



Litbgo. 



King of S^ 
den. 



'' A son of acLive bounding waltz. — Halliweys Dictionary. 
CAMI'. sOC. L 



b " Que vole. 



74 i">iAr;y or JOHX ROUS. [a.d. icss. 

1 icTpm Gustavus Auolphus Rex Suecorum. 

Mortuu? achnc Spe salvns exiirgo. — 
Quern celeri raprnin fate. Germania, luges, 
Mor:uu< exurgo. spe ti':>i salvus adhuc. 

Seeke not. reader?, here t-' finue 

Entombde the shroud cf such a iriinde 

As did the create Gustavns fill, 

Whom neit>ier time nor dettVi can kill : 

Goe and reade ifc^ Cspsars' acts, 

The rage of Scyibian cataracts, 

"What Ep:ru5. Greece, or Rome 

What kiiigdonies Gothes and Vandals wonue : 

Read all the worlUe's Heroicke story, 

And knowe bu; halfe thi? hero's glorj-. 

The^e eonqi^prei living:, but life fiying 

Reviv'de tbei'-e i.-es: Ke conquered dying: 

And Mars br.th o^Terde. a^ he falle--, 

An hecatom'^'e of generills. 

The greatc comparer could not tell 

Where to draT^e out Lis parallell ; 

Then doe not Lope to f.nd him here 

For Tvboni earth was a narrowe sphere, 

Nor. by a search in thi- small roome, 

To find a kirc above a tocmVie. 



Tis sir.ne to \recp or praise ; oh. let me vent ^ 

My passion in astonishment. 

Who sheddes 2 teare for the great Swed thus slaine. 

His eyes doe penance for Lis weaker braine, 

And yet those eyes themselves deserve this doome, 

Which thus mistake a trophe for a toombe. 

Or else thy foes may weepe, as then they did 

When as thoc diedst ; but all their teares were bloud. 

Oh -what a tempest, what a sea was forc'te 

Of tribute grones and sighes, to wafte one ghost 1 

No way bnt death they had to file thy face, 

Thou quittV. thy body to pursue the chace. 

But who pretends thy praise, in best expressions. 

Endictes hb judgment of confest presumptions. 

Bolde tonirue. touch not that head, that hearte, that hand, 

Which brought on"f knee, while he did tiptoe stand. 

The Prid*^ of Austria ba^ckte with all but heaven ; 

Himw'fe of a'l but of himselfp bereven. 



A. D. 1633] 



DIARY OF JOHN IlOUP. 75 

Thu5 liaving plum'de Ih' Iniperiall bird alone, 
Upon those eagles" wings to lienven he's flowiip. 
"U'liy should he stay on earth ? the game is done ; 
'Others can parte the slake which he hath wonne. 
"Tis lowe ambition, underneath his stor}', 
To aime at any crowne but that of glory. 
Then canon play, his body's sacritic'de, 
He is not canon"d ; no, he's canoniz'de. 



Gustavus in the bed of honour dv ne x- , -, ^ 

, , ." . , Novemlier 16, 

" hiie victory lay bleeding by his side. 16S" 

About the newes in Germany, France, and tlie Lowe Countryes, 
bookes daily come forth, and the Swedish Intelligencer is come to 
a fifth parte. &c. This fifth parte came out about St. Andrew. 

July the 20. the King returned cut of Scotland, having beene Ki„g ci.arles 
latelv crowned tlicre. Thev sav there were manv pieces, about the '■^*"''"^\'^ °"^"^ 

^ . ''■'.- " , r^colknd to 

bigne; of a 9 p. [nine-pence], coined and throwue about at tne Greenwich, 
coronation, by the King and his almoner; having on the one side a 
thistle, and round about it " Hinc nostras crevere roste." 

Scone after the King's returne, Archbishop Abbot died, and Archbishop of 
doctor Laud Bishop of London had his place. Doctor Juxton had ^iinterbury. 
London, who (ut dlcitur) was before elect Bishop of Hereford. 

This summer. Vicount Falkland that had beene Deputy in L'c- Gary. Deputy 
land being come over, and the Lord "^^'entworth sent over in his "^^ re ana. 
stead, did die miserably at Theobald's. He was neerc the King, in 
a tree or stand, watching to strike a deere, but his footc hold (of the 
fore foote) brake, and he fell, and brake his legge, so that the 
marrowe ranne and it was cut of, and seared; but it bledd afresh, 
and s-D he soone died, in a day or thereabout. 

October 15, betimes, about 1 in the morning, our King's second Duke James 

T -I borne. 

Sonne James was borne. 

In Michaelmas terme, a Jesuite (some say a Dominican Fryer) Traytor 
called Arthur Gohogan, an Irishman, was arraigned at the King's 
bench barre, and condemned for treason, for that upon shipborde. in 
an English ship, on the coast of Spain, over against Lisbon, he, dis- 
coursing v.dth the marchants about reliijions and religious states, 
called our King " heretique," and said if ever he came neere our 



76 DIAEY OF JOHN ROUS. [A.D. 1634. 

King, he vrold kill liim: and tliis summer in the end of it, the same 
J merchants (having ij yeeres since talked hereof at theire arrivall in 

England.) mettehim in London, and so discoA'ered it to thecouucell, 
&c. He vras exectited at Tiburne. alone, (as a cutpiarse, taken in 
the Starre cham.ber a fewe dayes before, had beene served.) vrithin t-^o 
dave?. His quarters and heade being brought to XeTrgate. there 
came a letter to bury them, before they vrere hanged up, so that 
there vras some doubt made Trhere; but at length ]\Ir. Atturny was 
seiit to the King to knowe, and by his arlvicc (for thev burv none of 
us among them. &c,) the carkase was buried under the very place at 
Tiburne where he was hanged. 
Philip Bushell, Xovember 27, was censured the Lord Yicoimt Kilmallock, chief 
innocent. justice of the Common pleas in Ireland, Sir Henry Bealings, and one 

censured,°&c. Pilsworth, about the death of Philip Bushell in L-eland, wlio Avas 
hancred nine or ten yeeres since. A noiuble case, whi'jh I heard and 
have penned in a folio paper booke : Foure men, robbers of houses 
and otherwise, who before were saved and sent for soidiers, but leav- 
ing theire colours and returning to theire former course, were hanged 
on four severall gibbets, erect for the time at four gates of London, 
December 7, or thereabouts. 
Wr-man A womaii was burned in Smithfield December 13, who, in a falling- 

^'^'"*' ■ out with her husband, stabbed him in the uecke with a knife; so 

that, following her downe a payer of stayers, and crying out to stay 
her, he died at the bottome of them immediatly. 
Bishop Bayly died this termc. 
Sabbath sports. The King's booke for Sabath recreations came forth a liile before." 
Sope-boyiing. After much adoe about sope-boyling. which had beene long on 
King's Atturn J- foote, 6cc.^ Ish. Atturny Generall, "VMlllam Nove, died about 

August 1634. 
Farthi-.icscallde Farthings of brasse were this spring called in by a printed pro- 
•'"'• clamation or order from the councell table, whereby it was ordered 

' " Tne King's Majesty's Declaration to his Subjects, conccrriing Lavrfu) Sports to be 
Titf-d." 4to. London, 1633. Reprinted in Harl. Miscell. vol. x. p. 75. 

•■ A proclamation about soap-boiling, &ic. settling former disputes, dated 13th July, 
15S4, b printed in Foedera, vol. vjii. pt. iv. p. So. 



A.D. 1G34.] DIAEY OF JOUX EOUS. 77 

that no labourer &c. should be paid with farthings, and that no man 
should dare to offer above ij of them in any summe, and that they 
are to serve in exchange, no roan being charged to receive j. of 
them. The country had beenc formerly abused -with vrhole barrels 
of false farthings brought in among them. 

The Protestants in Germany received this summer a greate over- Protestants 
thrcwe. qu : 

^Michaelmas terme. The Lord Heath ^ (common pleas) being dis- Lord Heath. 
placed, sir John Finch is in his roome. " ^^^'^"^^ ^'"'^^• 

Sir John Bankes made Atturn3% Mr. Recorder Littleton ^ is (ut Attumey. 
dicitur) the King's SoUicitor, and the knight(?) made Serjeant. 

Doctor Lushington, at Norwich. 'after his sermon to the travners, 
gave out these verses. 

^^sI DOMixus. 

Skill, dumber, Courage cannot prosper us 

Witbout our posie, Nisi Dominus. 

The strongest cities have<^ been ominous 

To theire owne keepers, Nisi Dominus, 

And every stone to the towiie and us 

May prove a bullet, Nisi Dominus, 

The gunne or sticke may make a piteous <* 

And bloody muster, Nisi Dominus. 

Since po-ner and skill in armes be governd thus 

We dare say nothing, Nisi Dominus. 

VAXIME PONTirEX,* 

Domuf Lothariugica, olim iiiodoque principtim regumque mater, vincula 
tracit dura et iu captivitatem ducitur, orbe sjjectante et dolente. Sar.juis 
mihi (optimepontifex) in venis salit. quem ex domo Lotbaringica hausi, pulsat- 

» Sir Robert Heath. See Court and Times of Charles I., vol. ii. p. lo7, and see also 
his biography in the first volume of the Miscellany of the Philobiblon Society. 

'^ .Sir Edward Littleton, afterwards chief justice of the Common Pleas. 

<^ " Rather had " in margin. ^ " Piteous indeed " in margin. 

*^ The name of the author of this letter is not given, but internal evidence points it out 
as the production of Ga-ston Duke of Orleans, brother of Louis XIII. He married, in 
1632, Margaret of Lorraine, sister of the dukes Charles and Nicolas Francis. This 
alliance brought down upon the bouse of Lorraine the vi-rath of Louis XIII., who was at 
vanii.nce with his brother, and in 1G34 duke Charles wa5 self-exiled in Germany, and 
duke Nicolas, in whose behalf he had abdicated, was languishing in prison at Nanci. 



78 DIARY OF JOHN KOCS. [A..D. 1635. 

que vebementer inetus ipsa pracordia, dum consanguiueos meos duces, patriis 
sedibus spoliates, intueor, et hostilia grariter passos. Sanguis cum in nobis 
idem sit. est eliam et amor ; distrahor tamen affectibus ; Line cognati Lotba- 
rincia oppress! jacent, inde fraier meus triumphatur ; sed et illorum calamitati 
violenta si manu faveam, neeesse erit huuc ut rulnerem. Itaque utrinque 
amore cojior ad mediationes aliorum principum confugere, ut amiciiiam inter 
hos miVii charos conciliem, bella amore extinguem, nou aliter sane extinguenda 
nisi fceda sanguinis Christian! effusione. Ad te ergo, Urbane Pontifex, quern 
omnis humanit^tis cultu ut optimum principem semper suspexi, potissimum 
mihi. inx^r alios priucipes, confugiendum existimaTi, quod hi princij^es potestatem 
Tuam Tideantur perfecte agnoscere, se oves, teque pastorem, pastorem suum. 
Impera is-itur (sauctitatem tuam ita obtestor) hisce tuis filiis, patris ut sui 
vocem audientes armis sepositis, pacem Christianamineant caeterisque principi- 
bus autlioritatem tuam agnoscenlibus exemplo sint. Dejjonatur, te sedente 
paciSco et potente, quodcumque inter illos violentum, sedeturque. Eeddantur 
haereditaii suje cognati duces, cseterique Lotharingiai domus principes reponan- 
tur in avitas sedes. Hoc si jubeat tua in illos potentia, curabit procul dubio 
paterna mauus filiorum tuorum vulnera, prgedicabitque Cbristianis orbis, ab 
Urbano Pontifice Ptomano, domum Lotharingicam, ex qua paene orti omues 
Chrisiiani principes, flori donari pristine, et vitse restitui. Tot vero inter reges 
et principes qui Christianam banc domum marrem agnoscant, ego Urbano 
principi optimo, una cum illis, gratias immortales agam, quodque huic domui 
parenti mese a sanctitate tua praestabitur, tanquam mihimet meisque coronis 
prjestitum, grato animo semper agnoscam : ei fatendum est nihil mihi gra\ius 
contigisse quam optimse illius domus. mihique conjunctissima, coLtemplari 
ruin am. 



[HI KIV,- CHUr.CHMAX. 



1635. A ceremonious, litrhl-timbred srliojler, 

"V\'ith a little dam-mee * peeping over his coller ; 
"VTith a Cardiuars cap, broad as a carte wheels, 
"With a long coate and cassocke down to his heele. 
See a newe Churchman of the times, 
O the times, the times' newe Churchman 1 

With long haire and a shorte grace, 

Which, being sharpe set, he snaps up apace, 

And after dinner, such a little touch — 

His belly is so full he cannot wy much. See, <kc. 

' '• Daninny, from the soldier'^ band, who ueu:.!1\ s^^■eareth God dani kc.'' in n-ir^in. 



A.D. lf.35.] DIARY OF JOHN ROUS. /9 

Hi^ gravity rides up and do^xne, 

In a long coate or a !^llorte gowne ; 

And sweares, bv the lialfe football on lii? pate, 

That no man is predestinate. See. &c. 

His Divinity is trust up vith five points, 

He dops. ducks, bowes, as made all of joints ; 

But wlien his Romane nose standes full East, 

He feares neither God nor beast. See, &c. 

He Lopes to be saved by prevision 

Of good workes, but will doe none ; 

He will be no Protestant, but a Christian, 

And comes out Catholike the next edition. See, Sec. 

Some halfe-dozen of benefices gone downe his gullet, 

Yet he gapes as though his belly were not full yet ; 

And sure bis Curate must be turned away. 

If he chance to preach twice a day. See, &c. 

On fasting nights, he hath a collation ; 

And on Sundayes. a great preparation 

Of cardes, dice, and high joviality. 

And all to confute the formality. See, &c. 

!Manv of these rimes came out in these late times, about 1634 and See the next 
1635, on both sides, some against the orthodoxe, others against these ^^^^" 
" newe churchemen," &c. 

1635 came out Shelford's " Five pio\is and learned Discourses," &c. 
Printed br the printers to the University of Cambridge. A booke 
neither pious nor learned, -written by one ^ -wholly savouring of the 
spirit of Aniiclirist, and ignorant of the maine scope of the Gospell, &c. 

ZSovember 13, 1635. I ssivre a booke entitled " God's Love to 
^Mankind manifested, by disprooving his absolute decree for theire 
damnation. Hose, 13, 9. Wisdome. 1, 12, 13. Imprinted anno 
Domini 1635." 

In October. Doctor Stou£fhton.^ of Aldermanburv, in London, -who ^^^^y -^l^er- 

^ ' "■' manburv-. 

' Robert Shelford was of Peterhouse. The Puritans loudly complained of Dr. Beale the 
Tice-ebaDcellor for licensing Shelford's Discourses. Cooper, Annals of Cambridge, iiL 268. 

*> John Stonghton, D.D., sometime fellow of Emmanuel College, died 4 May, 1G39. 
(Smith's Obiroary, p. 16.) A brief notice of him aiid his works is given in Brook's Lives 
of the Puritans, iii. [)2' . 



so DIARY OF JOHN ROUS. [A.D. 1636. 

had married Cudwortli's widowe, of Emm.'' and had the same 
living given bv the colledge in the T\'est country, from "whence a 
carrier bringing some monyes for his wives children's portions, he 
■vvas traduced (as it seemeth) to be a favourer of Xew England, and 
a collector of conrribution for those ministers there. &c. : so that a 
piirsevant was sent to the carrier, and many halbard-men for hiin, 
and his study was sealed up, &c.: but within 2 or 3 dayes, re coanita, 
he returned vnth. credite, in the earl of Holland's coach. 
1636. In 1636 came forth a booke (said to be Doctor Heylen's) ^^ caUed 

" A Coale from the Altar;" indeede a confutation of an epistle of the 
Bishop of Lincolne to the Vicar of Grantham, about the placing of the 
communion table. The same was answered by the bishop's appro- 
bation 1637. This yeere many vrere troubled and suspended, about 
the ceremonies enquii-ed of in tlie articles of Bishop T\'ren, in his 
diocesse of Xorw-ich.*^ This yeere was doctor Juxton, Bishop of 
London, made Lord Treasurer of England. 
Se-: the former These following verses ^ came to men's hands in these times. 

P^^'^' I hold as faith "^hat England Church allowes 

What Rome Church saith My conscience disallowes. 

Where the King is head That church can hare no shame 

That folke is misled That hoideth Pope supreme. 

Where the altar is drest Their service is scarce divine 

The people are blest AVith taLle, bread, and wine. 

He is but an asse Who tiie Communion flie? 

That shunnes the Masse Is Catholike and wise. 

• Ralph Cudworth, B.D., sometime fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, died 
rector of Aller in Somersetshire, in August or September 1624, He was the father of the 
famous divine of the same name, who died 26 June, 1CS8, having been successively fellow 
of Emmanuel College, Master of Clare Hall, and Master of Christ"? College, 

b Peter Heylin. " A Coal from the Altar, or an Answer to Dr. G. Williams's Letter to the 
Vicar of Grantham, against the placing of the Communion Table at the East end of the 
church. Lond, 1637." <: See Clarendon's Histor,-, vol. ii. p, 135. 

^ These verses were obviouslv intended to be read in a double sense ; tliat is, as they 
appear, or thus, 

I hold as faith What Rome Church saith, 6cc. 
See C-oUet'f Relic* of Literature (a work really written hy Tho. Byerley), pp. 16i^, 170. 



A.D. 163ti.] 



DIAEY OF JOHN KOUS. 81 



Towardes tlie ende of August, ne^Yes came of boneflres at West- 
minster. Lambetli (London was under God's visitation of the plague), 
and the Tower ordinance let of. for joy of our gracious King's deliver- 
ance; vrlio {ut di'.-itur) in progrcsse, and riding in a forest alone, 
fell into a bog, vrith Lis horse and himselfe up to the chinne, in 
greate danger: but by chance a stranger comming by saved hun. to 
whom he gave ij. pieces, and promised 100 li. annuat. 

The Palsgrave hath beene here, and continueth here }-et. 

The newes is that an army (the king of France being in Xavarre, 
for recovery of it) of Savoians, Burgundians, Lorciners, Spaniards, 
and Imperialists, have forraged and burnte the hether parte of France, 
and are possessed of Paris and Orleance: the French nobihty favour- 
ing this, in distaste C'f theire king, upon discontents. This larum 
was in greate part false; only they foraged, as it is likely, thereby to 
drawe the French king from Xavarre. 

A greate plagme remained till November, when 800 in a weeke 
died at London ; Michaelmas terme put of 

A ver}' sore winde Xovember 4, in the evening or forpart of the 
night, which overturned many milles, splitte and sunke two barges, 
and drowned the men, as they were to Lynne-ward. It did 
questionles exceeding much harme; Licham " btirnt that night. 

The Swedes obteined a great victory against the duke of Saxony 
and the Imperialists. The duke's horse saved him by his swiftnes. 
Seventy ensignes taken: many thousands slaine. The fight lasted 
many dayes. 

The Palsgrave and his brother earle Piobert (Piupert) departed out 
of England about midsommer. 

The plague remained, since the last yeere, in London, and there 
died, about July 7, ISO or thereabout in a weeke. It was sore in 
Newcastle the last yeere, and remaines there still, as is said. It was 
at fiadley^ sore this summer, and at Bury it began to increase, so 
that July there died 30 in a weeke. 

* Litcham. hundred of Lacnditch, co. Norfolk. "^ Hadleigh, eo. Suffolk. 

CA>n). SOC. M 



82 



DIARY OF JOHN EOUS. 



[A.D. 1636. 



L«acT.' 



y.r B-non, 
Dr. Bastvoci 
Mr. Pnn, 
censured. 



A league is talked of, about Juae 24, to be made offensive and de- 
fensive, betweene England, France, Holland, Swedeland, Denmarke. 

The Emperor Ferdinand died 1G36; of the nevre Emperor, see 
in the Palsgrave's manifesto. 

'Mr. Burton, preacher of Frydav Street, London, Doctor Bastwicke 
and ]\Ir. Prin. were censured in the Siarre-chamber ; Ish. Burton i'or 



A: vr 
inins: 



he came to charge the bishops (who2ii he termed prelates), especially 
the archbishop and bishop of Norwich, with diverse particuler 
irregularities, and also for seeking innovation and a secret introduc- 
ing of Popery. There had beene diverse seditious bookes printed, as 
"" Newes from Ipswich," &rc. whereof they were accused. The cen- 
sure was executed the Friday after Trinity terme. ]\Ii\ Burton and 
Doctor Bastwicke lost their eares. and ]^Ir. Prin. who had lost his 
before for Histriomastix, was branded on both cheekes with S. L. 
slanderous libeller." Theire further censure was to be imprisoned in 
three severall castles, farre dissevered, where no hope of comming 
together, and to be kept Avithout pen, inke, or paper, during their 
lives. About ]\Ioonday, July 9, the Lord Williams, Bishop of 
Biibop of Lin- Lincolne, was censured in the Starre-chamber, to pay to a knight, 
against whom he had suborned a AA-itnesse, 1,000 marke, to the 
prosecutor 100 marke, to the King lO.OOOli.. for unseemly wordes, 
and to be itnprisoned at the King's pleasure ; to be deprived of all 
Iris diiznities, and left to the high commission courte for other 
matters. (Sic dicitu}:) He was once parson of Hunnington,^ or curate 
there, neere Ixworth in Suffolk. He was lord keeper, 

Breda was bv a fine strataseme besieced with advantaire. The 



c-olne censured. 
HoC'k or crc'ok. 



Breda be- 
l^uered £.r:d 
besieged bj the 
Hollanders. 



» Full particulars of tbe proceedings against tbem were published in a pamphlet entitled 
" A new discovery of the Prelates" tyranny, in their late prosecutions of Mr. "William Pryn, 
an eminent lawyer. Dr. John Bastwick, a learned physician, and Mr. Henn- Burton, a 
reverend divine," &:c. 4to. London, 1641. See also Rushworth. pt. ii. vol. i. pp. 324, 



SSO-;", and Clarendon's History, 



v-ol. 



mnon s sermons 



are entitled " For 



God and the King;" not as the diarist has quoted the title. They were 6th November 
sermons, preached from Proverbs, xxiv, 22, 2-3. 
^ Honington, Blackburn hundred, co Suffolk. 



A.D. 16S:.] DIARY OF JOUN ROUS. 83 

Hollanders made a great shewe witli a navy over against Flanders, 
untill the Don Car. " had drawne out of Breda and other places a 
great power to attend or prc^•cnt theire attempt; then, on the sud- 
dalne, they stole up the river unto Breda, and presently hegirte it, 
July or thereabout. Taken about ]\Iichaelmas.^ Taken. 

Bmy sore visited with the plague; begunne about midsomrQer. 
}sorvrich a litle. March 1, 1637, it removed}' 

A gentleman named ,^ of oOOli. annuat., a yonger Reportetrue 

brother, Adams, an high constable of 100 annuat. and one other, ^^'■^''^^'^'"^'■^"• 
■were hano'ed at Bedford. They had many confederates and attend- 
ants. Thev had robbed diverse yeeres altogether between sunne 
and sunne (\o the hundreds were 'sued), and tooke great sttDimes, 
200, SOOli. at a tiine. They were about in diverse shires, Essex, 
Suffolk, Lincolnshire, Yorkeshirc, Cambridgeshire, Hanfordshire, 
Buckingham, Northampton, &;c. The gentleman was hans'ed hy 
sunne-rise, brought in a coache. ut d'tcUur. 

The greate ship (Edgar) lunched, August 1637; so many tunnes g^^j ^ 
burthen, besides ordinar}^ carriage. 

An extraordinat}' embassador, with rich presents from the kincr October, 
of Morocco and Fesse; our ships had helped him to take Sally, a 
towne of pirates.<i 

Twas said ^ that Ceremonious Bucke -m n , ^ /. 

Mr. Bucke «• of 

Had got the presentation Strad brook e, 

Of W'ilbv, Jermy, 'twas ill lucke, Sufiolk. 

'Twas but a sequestration. 

» Don Carlos de Colonna, general of the Spauish forces in the Nelherland;. 

b Added later. c Bjank in MS. 

^ John Dunton, one of the expedition, published " A true journal of the .Sally fleet, with 
the proceedings of the voyage." 4to. London, 1637. Sallee was a town in Barbsjy, in the 
hands of the Moors, who ten years before revolted against the Emperor of Morocco, and) 
forming themselves into a republic, entreated lielp from England, and offered the sub- 
jection of the place to Charles I. ; but be took the other side in the quarrel. In Additional 
MS. 15,2-2G, f. 57, is the letter from the King of Morocco to Charles I., s-ent on this occa- 
sion. Court and Times of Charles I., vol. i. pp. 243, 255. 

« James Buck, B.D., a determined Episcop:iiian and Loyalist. For an account of him 
see Davy's .Suffolk Collections, Additional MS. 19,092. f. 262. He was sequestered by 
Parliament in 1643. 

' " Saint for ' said " was the author's word '' in margin. 



84 DIAEY OF JOHN KOUS. [A ,D. 1638. 

Had Bucke the maL«ter beene prefer'de, 

As fame reporteth sure, 
Jermv had beene the journvroan, 

And should have servde the cure. 
But see the lucke ; unluckie Bucke 

Stickes fast and cannot drawe ; 
And Balle* shall eate the provender, 

Whilste Bucke doth champe the strawc. 
AVhilste Buckets preferd beyond the seas. 

Jenny may stand and crj-, 
"VN'ith whip and lash most carter-like, 

And vrbistle " hie, Bucke, hie." 
"T^assaid young "Warner Wilby had, 

And be should rector be, 
But that he was too young a lad, ' 

To rule a recton-. 
Then it was said pure Turnball should 

In steade of him succeed ; 
And many sisters were in hope 

That he should have't indeed. 
But see the lucke that Balle should turue. 

And so be brought about 
Tiiat famoiLi Balle of Penbroke hall 

Should turne pure Turnball out. 
B'Jt if Ba.Ile be beyond the seas, 

As nowe report doth goe, 
Then may we doe a> carters use, 

Even whL^tle '• Ro. Ball, ho.- 

I\Iarch 19. Some yeere? since I saAv in Holborne, London, 
neere tlie bridge (mv brother tliere), an Italian, who with his 
mouth did lav certaine sheetes of paper together, one upon another 
lengthwise, betweene the right hand and the left: and then he 
iglit- tooke a needle and prickte it through the one ende, and so then 
the other, so that the paper lav sure. Then he tooke a shorte texte 
pen, and dipped it in a standish or inkehorue of leade, and there- 
with wrote Laus Deo semper, in a very fayer text hand (not written 

-" Dr. Richard Bail, r«?tor of AVilby and Wefterfield, cu. Suffolk, afterwards chaplain 
of Charles II. Ser f.n account of hint ibid. f. 372. 




A.D. le.SS.] DIAET OF JOHN ROUS. 85 

vritli his hand but his mouth); then with another pen he florished 
daintily about these letters in diverse formes. He did with his 
mouth also take up a needle and threed, pricking the needle right 
down. OUT of which he puld the threed, and tooke another by (fitted), 
and put it into the needle. Then therewith he tooke three stitches 
in a cloathe with a linnen-wheele (prepared with a turner's devise 
for the foote). He did spin witli his mouth. He wrote fayer -with 
his left foot€. He used a pensill and painted with his mouth. He 
tooke a pretty piece or gun with his toes, and poured in a paper of 
poulder. ptilled out the skouring sticke very nimbly, rammed in the 
]>oulder. put up the sticke. puld up the cocke viiih his toes; then 
another short piece charged (that had a Swedish firelocke), beiug 
put in his mouth by another man, he held it forth and discharged 
it, and forthwith with his toes he discharged the other. He 
gathered up four or five small dice with his foote, and threw them 
out featly. Hif hands were both shrimped and lame. 

The Scottish troubles on foote. 

The Fennes in some townes remaine still. 

Dividing of Commons. 

Shipmony determined for the King by his prerogative, argued 
Easter and Trinity terme. 

In Michaelmas terme, the lord Save brought his action about 
it to the King's bench barre. 'Mv. Holborne, pleading strongly for 
him, was rebuked by judge Bartlet;« because it was determined as 
before, he alledged a president when such determinings have been 
againe questioned. Judge Crooke alledged presidents. Judge Joanes 
said they were not like. Sir Jo. Brampton alledged that they had 
no president like this, viz. to call the thing in question the next 
terme, and before the judges' faces that did determine it. The lord 
Saye affirmed, that, if theire lordships wold say it were lawe, then 
he wold yeeld : but otherwise not, to the wronging of his country. 
He hath time to consider untill the next terme. 

* Sir Robert Berkelev. 



86 DIAET OF JOHN ROUS. [A.D. 1638. 

Tubbing lost Many great censures in the Starre chamber. Tubbing, The jury 

AVestndnstcr, fouud 10.000 damages against Ish. Harrison, clerk, Kortharapton, 
5.iid, ere be lost £;^^ charf^inG: ludcre Hution with treason openly in Westminster 

the other in cOc'_^ j.-n 

Norfolk, he hall about the ship mony (wi dicitur). 

fttondon.'"" Prince Robert, or crle Eupert, and the lord Craven taken pri- 
soners, and the Pulgrave hai'dly escaping. 

Feare of warres from Scotland, except theire assemblie quiet all. 
It was (ut dicitur) Wednesday, November 21. God can deliver 
us from these feares I Armor prepared. Sir Jacob Astlcy and 
diverse captaines attending at court. About Swaflaam Priory and 
Botson.a the enclosures were throwue dovrne and tlie cattell turnd 
in to feed as before. The mad-shavers vromen abused a woman 
inhumanely. The Scottish busines on foote requires a volume to 
relate and time to prepare for it. 

ox THE KING OF FRANCE HIS STATUE ON HORSEBACKE IN ERASSE AT NANTES, 
BY ARNUNDAS RICHELIEU. 

Sta, quisquis es; 

Reverere buDC regem, si subditus es; 

Mirare, si exiernus; metue, si irijustus. 

Hie est LuQovicus decimus tertius. 

Xatus est cum justitia, 

dum Sol nasceretur in Libra, 

Sed saepe sol libranj, nunquam aquitatem 

Ludovicus deseruit. 

Hfec equitas eum Europa; judieem fecit et vindicem : 

Hoc vindice, 

Rhsetia in hostium casses non incidit; 

Sabaudiffi rerruca una non periit; 

Cassale, ter oppugiiatum, non ceeidit. 

Hunc arbitrum 

si Grermania elegisset, 

et libertatem retineret 

et reiigionem; 

et si neutra esse voiuisset, 

utraque es^et. 

"' boston. 



A.D. :C3&.j DIAEY OF .TOHK LOUS. 87 

Fortitudincni ex victoria coUige : 

Infra CthIUee regniini alterum superavit, 

dum KuptUil/us treceuUs arees eripuit. 

Omnia Rupellje elements ricit; 

Ignem aquis, 

Terram vallis, 

Aerem carcere, 

Oceanum aggere. 

Stetit ad bunc aggerem Anglus 

ubi Oceanus steterat : 

ter ad Rupellam victus est solo aspectu, 

ter ad Cassale Hispanus, 

seniel eliam non aspectus, 

PigneroJium domitarum Alphium trophrrum 

toti Europse testatnr 

q-^d ultra Alpes agere potuiss-e: Ludovicus, 

nisi propugiiator libertatis Iialica? 

quam expuguator esse voluisset. 

Nantium Galliae \oIait, 

ne Gotherae esset ; 

et ne unquam esset inimica, 

eligit esse subdita. 

Mola solo nomine immobilem esse jactavit, 

at expugnata est; 

ne quid armis Ludovici immobile esset, 

Usee si miracuia videntur, 

hoc srcculo perpetrata, 

preevidit etiam ab altero seculo 

Clemens Octavus: 

rueditatur majora : 

Armandus Richelicus 

interea Ludovico justo et victori 

banc anuatam statuam 

humilis et gralus posuit. A. R. C. E. 

Tie 27 of !Marcli, 15 Car. 1639, Kis Majestic rode througli Scottish trou- 
Eoision to Yorke-vrard, there to meete his arn-iy, &c. It Tvas told j;;'^*- , Kimg 

. . ... . Charjes goeth 

me. April 1, that "whereas it is an use to deliver billes for the sicke towards Scot- 
to be praid for in this manner; one from the church dore perhaps 
in the throng pulles another by the shoulder, and gives him the note 
or bill, he another, &c., untill it come to [the] clerke; the clerke, 



88 DIART OF JOHN ROUS. [A.D. 1640. 

at tlie preacher's commiug into the pulpit, delivers them to him, &c. 

Some one had put up a bill which the preacher wold not reade, but 
John Common- let it fall. The bill (ut dicitur) was thus: " John CommonAYcalth's- 
weaith's man. ^^^ ^^ q^.^^^ Britaine, being sicke of the Scottish disease, desires 

the prayers of this congregation for a parliament." 
Kir.g Charles On Thui'sda^y, August the 1, the King returned from Barwicke, 

return et. ^^^ jl^^ Palsgrave, lately arrived, had gone to him, and returned 

busines manv with him. The lord of Arundell, lord generall, returned somewhile 
t^K3kes,^Titinps. before. The campe brake up a month before. 

and reeords are -t^ _ -t 

to be had. AprilllS. A parliament was assembled anno 1640, but forth- 

1640. with dissolved. The wan'es were prosecuted and renued against 
Scotland. ]\Iuch discontent. Insurrections at London. Insolen- 
cies by souldiers. The lord Loudon, of Scotland, imprisoned.^ 
Ship mony exacted, and in diverse places diversly refused. ]\Iuch 
troble feared on the seas by reason of diverse shippes on our coastes. 
The Queen neere deliverance. A fast ordeined July 8. &:c. 

ox THE DISSOLrTlOK OF TEE SHORT PARL1..\MENT OF 1C40. 
•^Two parliaments dissolv'de I then let my heart 
As they in factions, it in fractions part; 
And, like the Levite, sende with griefe a scril)e, 
My peeee-mealde portion '^ to ecbe broken tribe; 
And say that Bethlem Judah's love have ^ been 
"Wrongde by the fagge-end cnie ^ of Benjamin. 
Oh let such high presumption be accurst, 
When the last tribe shall -wTong the best and first; 
When, like the Levite, our best Charles may say, 
" The ravenous wolfe hath seisde the lion"s preye."' 
Thus oft inferior subjects are not shie, 
To -wTong the love that rests in majestie.f 

* He was at the head of the covenanting lords. He was committed to the private cus- 
tody of one of the sheriffs of London. (Rushworth. pt. ii. vol. ii. p. 1103.) 
t Collated with a copy in Harl. MS. 367, f. 160. 

<" " And, like the Levite, sad with rage ascribe 
Iti pecemele portions," &c. Harl. MS. 
d "bath."" * " iagg and cryes." 

'' " To VNTong alone, but mocke at ma;estie." 



A.D. 1040.1 DIAP.Y OF .mUS liOUS. 89 

■VVha: fault?, what injuries shoid not be mended/ 
If that tilt feet bad power to spume the head ? 
And kings' prerogatives must neede? fa!i downe, 
When subjects make a footeball of the crowne. 
The starres (the heaven's inferior courtiers) might 
Command the darknes, but not rule the light, 
Nor him that makes it ; shold they all combiue, 
■V^'itli Luna at the full, one sun wold shine 
Brighter then they; nor can be be subdu"de, 
Though he but one, and they a multitude. 
Say, subjects, you -.vere starrer, and 'twere allowed, 
You justly of your number might be proude; 
Yet to the sunne be humble, and know this, 
Your light is borrowed — not your owne, but his. 
When the unfettered subjecu of the sea=, 
The fountaines. felt their silver feet had ease, 
No sooner summonde, but they nimbly went, 
To meet the ocean at a parliament. 
Did then these petty fountaines say theire king, 
An ocean, was no ocean, but a spring? 
Let me alone, if fresher newe? of store " 
Doe make me porer than I was before. 
And shall we then the power of kings dispute, 
And count it lesse when more is added too 't ? 
No: let the common body, if it can. 
Be not a river, but an ocean, 
And swell into a deluge, till it hide 
The toppes of mountaines in its teeming pride ; 
Kings, like Noah's arke, are neerer to the skies. 
The more the billowes under them doe rL-e. 
■ You then, who, if your beans be fired with love, 
i^Iight sit in counsell, like the gods with Jove; 
You that doe question the King's power below, 
If you come there, will you use Heaven's King so.' 
Do not aspire; you may, taking your rest. 
More safer be belowe then in the eagle's nest. 
Hath clemency offended, and "^ will you harme, 
And plucke the sun from Heaven that makes you warme ? 



• " What facultie should not be injured." 

t " fresh access of store." "^ " and '" omitted. 

CAMD. SOC. N 



90 DIAEY OF JOHN KOUS. [A.D. 1( 

No King, no Bishop I pleader v.liat hii\e we c-'^il'r 

An outside English and an in>ide Scott r 

If faction thus our countrie's peace distinct?, 

We may hare wordes of parliaments, col acts. 

Ill-ended sessions ! and yet weW begun ; 

Too nuich h>eing spoke hath niade loo Iv.']-^ d.^m; : 

For factions thrive, puritani'iiic s\vay,=' 

None must doe any thing, but only say. 

Stoop doT\T)e, you barren-headed billes, eoi;fe*se 

You might be fruitful! if that you were lesse. 

Tremble, you threadbare commons; are you vexl 

That lambes feed on vou ? lions will come next. 



Jusilee CrooKC argued April 14. 1638, in ilio ExcLcqucr Chamber 
[the case of ship-rnoney] before all the jr^jges of Eiiglaiicl and 
Earon? of the Exchequer.^ 

!Mr. Prinne's speech to tlie lower house of parliament.'' 
and turnuits. 1 pon the dissolving of the parliament,'^ presently were two instir- 

rections in one weeke. at Southwarke and Lambeth ; in the first 
the AVhite Lion prvson was broken and prisoners set free. &c. ; in 
the second. Lambeth House in hazard. &c. One n^an was taken 
and hanged and q\iartered ; see a proclamation about it. 

This sunimer, bv reason of billeting of soldiers, many outrages 
were done. In Barkeshire, captaine Alohun (Moone) v,-as slalne, and 
basely and inhumanely used, being at last lianged up on an old pil- 
lory. There is a proclamation against GOO of this company about 
Faringdon in Berkeshire. neere C'xfordshire. thirteen principall. 
A like proclamation there is about stirres in Somersetshire by 
about 120, &c. 

= " Puritans bear sway." 

'' Rushworth, pt. ii. vol. ii. App. pp. 177-212. 

^ Primed in Rusbwortn, pt. ii. vol. ii. p;i. llOl-llDo. '' May 5. 1040. 



Insurrections 



A.D. Io40.] DIAKY OF JODX llOUS. 91 



TO THE KING S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTIE. 



The huinLle Petition of the gentry in jour ^Majesties coualy of Ycrke, now Petitions deli 

vered, or 
tended ('a 
diriiur). 



aiseEibled at the assises of Yorke, this 28 day of July, 1640." ''^^^'^> c"" in- 

tended (ut 



TO THE KING S :uOST EXCELLENT MAJESTIE. 

Ttje Lu'jiMe Pttition of your Majesties loyal! subjects the Grand Jurv, 
empanelled the llib of July, 1640, to serve at the generall assises Lokleu for 
the county of Berkes, in the bebalfe of themselves and the rest of the 
bodie of the county: Sheweth, 

That Trherea.s your Petitioners have been of late yeeres, and still ere, much 
bunhened •p-ith sundry greevanees of diverse natures, deriving theire autho- 
rity from your Msoestie, but being directly contrary to your Majesties lawes 
established in this your kingdome, the chiefe of them presenting themselves in 
a schedule hereunto annexed, for redresse whereol', as your Petitioners hoped, 
your Majestie -was graciously pleased, about the middle of April last, to 
assemble the great councell, commonly called the high court of Parliament, and 
some three weekes after to dissolve the same, for want (as it seemes to your 
Petitioners) of a good agreement betwixt the tvro houses ; and nevertheles, 
since the said dissolution, to cxpresse such a fatherly care of vour pore 
pec'ple, that your Majestie hath vouchsafed, by your printed Declaration, to 
inriie them to the pouring out of theire complaints into your princely eare : — 

It may, therefore, jilease your most excellent Majestie to take the said par- 
ticulers into your tender consideration, and to give your Petitioners such ease 
therein as in your royall wisedome shall be fitte ; and whereby it may appeere 
to all your Majesties subjects, especiallie to those of your Majesties most 
honourable privy counsell, and the other officers and ministers of justice, that 
you are resolved to continue to them all theire rights and liberties, which they 
desired by the Petition of Right, and were coiiSrmed by your Majestie in the 
third yeer of your reigue ; and your petitioners, as most bound, shall continue 
to procure the length and happines of your Majesties said reigne by theire 
prayers and all actions of zeale and dutv. 



'- Printed Miih variations in Rusbworlh, pt. ii. vol. ii. p. 3 214. 
t Coilaied v.itL a copv in Harl. M.S. 4liol, f. 129. 



92 DiAP.Y or JOHN Eors. 



A SCHEDULE OF SUCH OriEVA>XES AS >!OST OPPI.ESSE THIS COUNTBT. 

1. The illegall and unsupportaLle cLarge of Ship-n^ony. Dowetlie fifth yeere 
imposed as hi^h as ever, tliougQ the subject was not able to pay tlie last veer, 
being a tbird. 

2. The ne-we taxe of Coate and Conduct ]Mony, with undue meanes used to 
inforce the payment of it, by messengers from the Counsel! table. 

3. The compelling some free-men, by imprisonment and threatnings, to take 
Presse-mony *, and others, for feare of the like imprisonment, to forsake theire 
place of habitation, hiding themselves in woods, whereby theire families are 
left to the charge of the parish, and harvest worke undone for want of 
labourers. 

4. The infinite number of 2vIonopolies upon every thing the countryman 
must buy. 

Besides the easteme pane of this county, where your Majesties forrest of 
"Windsor is particularly burthened: 

1. TTith the unmeasurable increase of the deere, which, if they should goe 
on so for a few veares more, will leave neither food nor roome for any 
other creature in the forrest. 

2. "With the riirid execution of the forrest lawes in theire extremity. 

3. "V^'ith the exaction of immoderate fees by some officers under the Lord 
Chief Justice in Evi-e. 



Newcastle ^ About the 27 or 29 of August, !S'evrca£tle--upon-Tine ■was sur- 
Sc^te^" ^^""^ prised by the Scones, Lis Majestie being neere it, and our armie 
before it. In tbe surprisall, ^e lost some horse and men. The 
siirprisxiU vras without slaughter in the townc.. and the possession 
without pillan-e (ut dicitur ■. what the event will be, God alone 
knoweth. Let us in lovalty pra}- for an happie ende of these troubles, 
with his ]\Iajestie's long happines in the quiet of his kingdomes ! 
Amen. 

His Majestie had lately 3 proclamations, dated August 20; 1, for 
the Shipmony, with all former arrerages to be paid by the 20 of Octo- 
ber next.^ 2. for all holding of the King by Grand Serjeantie, Escuage, 

* Foedera, vol. ix. pt. iii. p. 2G. 



Three procla 
lions. 



A.D. 1G40.] DIARY OF JOUX EOUS. 93 

Knirrht-scrvicc. to attend the King at the campe royall. at NcAvcastle 
or ckevv-Lere in the Xorth, -with horses. <tc. by September 20; or else 
to compound T\-ith commissioners a^Dpoiuted at London, b}'' the same 
dav.' 3, for to make knowue that certaine Scottes in hostile manner 
had invaded the land, and to proclaime those that were come and 
those that should come in traitors, vrith all their abbettors and 
relieTers, &c. 

The humble Petition of your Majesties ino?t lojall subjects, whose names are Received 

here undcr\rritten, in behalfe of themselves and many others.'' September 9. 

Most Gracious Soveraigue, 

The speed of that suite"^ and service -wbicli vre o%ve to your ^Majestic, and our 
ernest affection to the good and vv-elfare of your Realme of England, hath 
moved us, in all humility, to beseech your Royal Majestic to give us leave to 
offer to your princely Trisedome the apprehension which we and others of your 
faithfull subjects have conceived, of the great distemper and danger now 
threatening the Church and State and your royal person, and of the fittest 
nieanes by which they may be removed and prevented. 

The evill and dammages whereof yotir Majestic may be pleased to take notice 
are, — 

That your Majesties sacred person is e.xposed to hazard and danger in the 
present expedition against the Scottes' armie, and by the occasion of this warre 
your revenues much wasted, your subjects much burthened with coate and 
conducte money, billiting of soldiers raised for that service, and your whole 
kingdome become full of care and discontent. 

The sundry innovations in matters of religion, the oath and canons lately 
imposed tipon the clergie and other your IMajesties subjects, the great increase 
of popery and employing of popish recusants and others evill affected to your 
religion, by lawe established, in places of power and trust, especially in com- 
manding men and armes. both in the field and in sundry countries of this your 



* Ibid. vol. ix. pt. iii. p. 27. 

^ Printed with differences in Rushworth, pt. ii. vol. ii. p. 12G2 ; but the present is the 
better copy. The signatures marked with an a5terisk are not in Rushworth, which on the 
other hand gives "earl of Bristol"' and '* Paget*," which are not in the MS., nor in a 
contemporaneous copy in Sloane MS. 1467, f. l-'^;2. 

' " The sense of that dutv." 



94 



DiAET OF jonx Kors. 



[A.D. 1G40. 



realme, whereas hy the la'wes tbej are permitted to have no amies in iheire 
cwne houses. The greate nvischiefe -which may fall upon this kingdome, if the 
intention ^vhich hath credibly been reported, of bringing in Irish and forreine 
force?; should take e5ect. The urging of shipmonj, and prosecution of sheriffes 
in the Starre Chamber for not levying it. 

The heavie charges upon merchandise, to the dis<:-ourr;ging of trade. The 
multitude of monopolies, aij''] other patents. %Thorel;ij the conunodities and manu- 
factures of this kingdome are much burtheued, to the great and universall 
greevance of your pe-ople. 

The great griefe of the subjects by the long interuii;sIon of parliaments, and 
the late and former dissolving of such as have been called, without the happie 
effect vrhich otherwise they might have produced. 

For remedie whereof, and the prevention of danger which may ensue to your 
rov;i".l person and the whole state : — 

TIjCv doe. in all humility and faithfulness, beseech your most excellent 
IMa-.estie, that vou wold be pleased to summon a parliament, within some shorte 
and convenient time, whereby the cause of those and other great greevances 
which your people lie under may be taken away, and the authors and councellors 
of them may be brought to such legall tryall and condigne punishment as the 
nature of theire severall offences shall require, and the present warre may be 
composed by vour wisedome, without effusion of bloud. in such manner as may 
conduce to the honor and safetie of your IMajesties person, the comfort of your 
people, and the tinitj of both your realmes against common enemies of 
reformed religion. 

And your Majesties Petitioners shall ahvaies pray, ke. 



EarieS. 
BePFORI', 

Hertfoed. 
Essex. 

MiDGBAVE. ^ 

Warwickx. 



i:.aries. 

BriilNGBKOOKE. 
llt-TI-ANI). 
Ll>COL>-E. 
EXCETEK. 



Ticounts. 
Sat am> Seale. 

jSlANEtEVIEL. 

Lord Brooke. 
Lord Howard. 



Barons. 

* Lord Xobth. 

* WlELOCGHBY. 

* Saviee. 

* "Wharton. 

* Lovelace. 



'Tis said by some tLit tiiis petition was made hy xij nobles, erle of 
T\~a.r^vicke, lord Say, ktc. .Some sav that the councell did joine, 
excepting. &c. Others say that some of the privy councell under- 



Mulera^i-.'" Rui::wor:h ; " Musjrrave." Sloane MS. 1467. f. 1^2 b. 



A.D. 1G40.] DIAF.T OF JOHN EOrS. 95 

t':'o]cc tlie delivery of it. But it is reported ('as matcriall if true) 
iLiit liis ]\lajestic encliiietli, and that coniiBissioncrs are appointed to 
treate vritli the Scottes (uLo be advancing) upon the 10th of this 
September. Tliere is also a reporte that the Scottes, being -willing 
to referrc all to an English parliament, doe afhrnic that if his 
Majestie dare not trust a parliament in Scotland, nor yet in England, 
that he is bitt in evill case. 

About the month of July, there vras a projecte on foote for brasse- Brasse-mony. 
mony. It was solemnly debated, as mav hereby appeere:-^ 

Whether it be for his Majesties service to coine brasse raonv. and 
make the same currant "within his dominions. 

TIjc two considerable points in all things doe in this eminentlv fall 
^nro consideration, viz. hojior and profit. 

For point of honor, it hath alwaies been helde a point of hi2"h Honor, 
reputation to kings and monarches to keepe their standerdes certaine, 
and not to change them, as states and republikes have sometimes 
done, to supply present necessity, and some princes likewise; though 
all of them have found the issue of such remedies worse then the 
disease. 

It is more honor for a prince to have all his rules and ordinances 
knowue and certaine, then changeable, and to direct them to the 
good of his subjects, though with his owne losse, rather then to use 
his power to gaine advantage to himselfe, with the prejudice of his 
subjects. But in the case of imba.sing coine, the proposition of gaine 
is fallacious, aiming only at a transient profit to the prince alone, 
which is sure to be followed with a manifold and lasting dispront, 
both to the prince and people, for the reasons hereafter expressed.'' 

1. First; touching the point of profit, mony being the necessary of Profit l. 
all things, — If brasse mony be coined and made currant, his Majestic 



- Rusbwortli, pt. ii. vol. ii. p. 1217-19, gives Sir Thomas Rowe's ."-peech against tbe 
coining of brass money, but no other ; the foUoxring seems to be the digest of the argu- 
ments on both sides rather than the speech of any partictilar individual. 



96 DIARY OF JOHy LOU?. [A.D. 1640. 

•will loose such proportion, iu all his revenues and customes. as the 
same shall differ from the present sti^nderd, and every private man 
Avill loose in his rentes and estates accordingly. 

2. The trade of the kingdome, as touching foreine partes, Avill be 
at a stand, or much disturbed; for the:, -n-hen the rule is uncertaine, 
merchants vrill not be encouraged to send their commodities to a 
doubtfuU market, Tvhich vrill consequently hinder his Majesties 
customes. 

3. The commerce at home "will likewise be disordered, for that 
those -which have monies in bancke vrill be afraid to lend or employ. 
Then those that have mony abroad will call it in. and either keepc 
them in theire hands, or remit thein into other partes, ^vhile the 
exchange is high. The ver}' rumor of an intent to coine brasse 
mony having laid the ground of some prejudice already. 

4. All lenders of mony will in particuler manner be damnified ; 
and if, to prevent the same, they shold but suddenly call in theire 
monv, it may not only disaccommodate, but occasion the hurte and 
detriment of many his Majesties subjects, who, to drive their trade, 
must of necessity take up mony at high rate, when there is scarcity, 
which they now have at easle rates; which will by consequence occa- 
sion, in shorte time, a great slacking of trade, and diminution of his 
Majesties customes. 

5. The exchanges are now for Antwerpe at 36?. Sd. ; for Hamburge 
at 36£. 3c?.; for Amsterdam at 37.*. 3'7.; for Roterdam at 375. 6d.: 
but, if brassemony shall have a currencie, the exchanges will presently 
fall, bv necessary consequence, and will occasion the transportation 
of gould and silver out of his Majesties kingdome. 

6. It will abate the value of our clothe and other native com- 
modities, and raise the value of ffbreine commodities, because our 
beincr boucfht cheaper here will besould cheaper there, and they will 
demande more for theires, because our mony is so much courser, 

7. Howsoever our mony shall be raised or let fall, the proceedings 
of trade wiU be grounded upon the intrinsecall and true value, and 



A.D. 164.'.] DIARY OF JOHN ROUS. 97 

not upon the denomination tliereof. Leather mony. in the time of 
king Edward I., and copper inon^' since then, not having been e more 
valued abroad then the metallcs were worth; nor at home, but of 
promise of repayment of so mucli as they are currant at. 

<S. It will finally inriche him only who hatli the mines of silver; 
viz. tliu king of Spaine; for tliat tliough other nations mav serve 
themselves, and after a time make advantage of our inhansing the 
price of monies, yet it will redound to his selfebenefit, the cnde 
being the firste owner and propriator thereof, the embasino- of our 
coine driving the same elfect which the inhansing Avill doe. ' 

9. The Scottes cannot desire a grealer advantage then this, for 
that, by imitation and folloAving this, course, .the}' will make 50 li. 
goe as farre as 200 li. nowe. 

10. By this way, the course of exchange will be stopped, as it 
hath relation to this kingdome. in regard that merchants and bankers 
in all countries, in delivery of their monies, have consideration only 
of the true value, and not of the promising currancie thereof: and if 
no exchange, no commerce can be. 

11. The coining of brassemony will availe hi? ]\Iajesties service at 
most but once, and can never produce so advantageous an effect as 
to recompense the damage to his ^Majestic, and inconveniences to his 
subjects, which it will for ever after produce. 

If any greate inconvenience shall appeere by these brassemonies, oiijection i. 
the King, upon giving satisfaction, may decry them when he pleaseth. 

By this his Majestie and his subjects will not onlv be loosers, but Answer. 
allForeiners will be gainers: because, when any discompts have been 
evened, according to the rate as monies have been altered, v.-hoso- 
ever abroad shall by his trade have any estate in England, shall gaine 
thereby, and some of his Majesties subjects may be double loosers. 
And moreover, it is to be feared that, besides what shall be coined 
by his Majesties order here in England, such further quantity may 
]>e either counterfeited here^ or imported from the partes beyond the 
seas, as may render it almost impossible to be remedied, without the 

CAMD. soc. o 



DiAin- OF JOUN r.oup. 



infinite losse of liis Majestic, or ruine to his subjects. Witnesse the 
blacke mony in Spaine. 

Other nations have altered theire coines; ^vhy shold not his 
[Majestic doe the same? 

Xo other nations liave altered theire coine hut to their great 
damacre; for, since the last change upon the coiues in France, the 
crowne, which was before worth 6s. sterling, by way of exchange, is 
now worth but 4.<;. od., or thereabout ; which is about 40 per centum 
that the French mony is undervalued, besides the great prejudice 
they have susteined in theire trade. The like and worse events have 
been in Germany and elsewhere. Finis. 

September 14. Eeported that the Scottes have seated themselves 
at Newcastle, and have fortified it seven miles in compasse ; that they 
have Tinmouth Castle, well furnished with ordonance, &c. That the 
Kin^r's writtes are out to all the lords spirituall and temporall, to be 
at Yorke 24 of this month, to advise for the safety of the kingdome. 

Kovember 3. A parliament began: God grant a blessing ! 

The newes is that the Queene-mother " goeth awa}-. 

The Lord Deputie of Ireland^ is questioned. 

Sir Thomas Beecher, for serching the pockets of the carl of "\Var- 



Bish< 

c>.lu. 



wicke. lord Say 
was broken up. 



xud lord Brookes, so soone as the last parliament 



]\ionopolies goe downe. 



Secretarv Yt'indebanke questioned for licenses to Jesuites. 
Henry Speller for Papists. 

November 17 (Queen Elisabeth's day) a fast at London, 
cember 8 in the country. At St. !Marf:aret"s, Westminster, 



De- 

(the 



House of Commons there.) the second service was beaten out by 



psa 



Ime sunrf. tv 



hether by accident or of purpose, qu ? In the chappel 



the Bishop of Lincolne '^ read prayers before the upper house; he is 
restored, and was the next day in his robes in the parliament house. 



Mary de Medicis, then visiting England. 
The Earl of Stmfi'ord. 



Pr. V^-i:!i:;!i.s. furn. 



Lord Keeper. 



A.D. 1640.] DIARY OF JOHN KOUS. 99 

i\Ir. Prin^ sent for. His man (as some called liim), his servant, or Mr. Prin. 
frendj or deere well-vriller, vs-ho -was long since -\vliipped and im- 
prisoned, is released, yir. Burton^ and Dr. Bastwicke*^ sent for: 
Dr. Laiton too.^ 

I\Ian_v raile?*^ were pulled doTnie, before the parliament; at Tppis- 
wicli, Sudburv; &c. 2\larlowe, Bucks: tbe organs too. Sec. 

Doctor Cbaderton,^ once master of Emmanuel, died, and vi-as p^. Cbaderton. 
buried at Cambridge, November 16. 

In Paules cburcb lately, a great tumult against doctor Ducke 
and others in the high commission within the consistory; who 
escaping, much outrage was shewed in the consistorie to the seates, 
&c. The Bishops, guarded with musket-men, came to the convoca- 
tion-house. Plura si Dcus vel'd. 

]S"ovember 3, 1640. His J\lajesties gracious Speech conteined 
in it these two maine pointes: that he committed to the parlia- 
ment the busines of the Scottish rebelles, and the redresse of their 
greevances; yet withall he advertised of the niony taken up of the 
city of London by lords who had engaged themselves for repayment; 
and that, whereas the Scottish army was to be provided for, for two 
monthes, he was lothe that for want of monies his owne army shold 
be disbanded before that time. 

It is said, that the Lord Keeper, in his speech, affirmed that the 
lords had assented to a warre with the Scottes; but it is also said 
that a charge is given to amend the copies of the speech thus: 
" Some of the lords liave assented to a warre Avith the Scottes."^ 

^ See Rushwortli, pt. iii. vol. i. pp. 20, 67, 74, '228. 

b Ibid. pp. 20, 67, 78, 207, 213. ■: Ibid. pp. 20, 79, 80, 111', 193, 203, 2S3. 

f Laurence Chaderton, B.D. tbe first Master of Emmanuel college, resigned that office 
in 1622. AVhen he died, he was, it is said, in the 103rd year of his age. It would seem 
be was buried in tbe old chapel of Emmanuel college. Cleveland has an elegy on Dr. 
Cbadenon, occasioned by his long-deferred funeral. — Cooper, Annals of Cambridge. 
iii. 305. 

<* Ibid. pp. 20, 22S, 22?. * i. c. altar-rails. 

E The Speech is primed without this modiliealion in Rushworth, pt. iii. vol. i. pp. 13-10. 



100 DIAliY OF JOHN liOUS. [A.D. ]G4(i. 

5-^ KOVEMBEK, 1C40. THE KING's SPEECH." 
MT LORDS, 

I doe expect that vou will Ijastily make a perfect relation unto the house'' 
of these great aSaires fur -wliich I have called you hether, and of the trust and 
repose" in them, and how freely I have put my selfe upon theire loves and 
affections at this time. And that you may kno-vve the better how to doe so, I 
shall explane my selfe concerning one thing I spake the lust day. 1 told you 
the rebelles -were to be put out of this kingdome. It is true I must needes 
call them so, so long as they have an army that doth, invade us ; vet I am now 
under a treatie with them, and under my greate sealc I call them subjects, 
and so they are too. But the estate of the affaires is shortly this. It is true I 
did expect, when I did c<ill the lords and greate ones to Yorke, to have mette 
you at this time only, to have given you a gracious answer to all your greev- 
ances, for I was in good hope, by theire wisedomes and assistance, to have 
made an end of that busines ; but I must lell you that my subjects of Scotland 
did so delay them, that it was not possible for me to tnd that there. I can in 
no wise blame the lords that mett at Eippou that the treatie was not ended, 
but must thauke them for theire industry and paines ; and certainly, had they 
had as much power as affection, I shold by this time have made an ende. 

But now the treaty is transferred from Rippon to London, Mhere I shall 
conclude nothing without your knowledge, and I doubt not but with your 
approbation, for that I doe not desire to have these great workes done in a 
corner. 1 shall hereafter open all the steppes of this misunderstanding, and 
cause of these great differences betwi.xt me and my subjects of Scotland: and 
I doubt not but with your assistance T shall make them knowe theire duties, 
and by your assistance make them returne whether they will or no. 

FIMS. 

The erle of Bristow or lord Digby, being ^vith the King the last 
veere. 1639. was {vt dicifur) charged to spcakc his mind about the 
Scottish wanes; and, though unwilling, made this ansAver, '• I 
attend your ]\Iajestie here, tendring mv service with my best care to 
•see yotir Majestie safe; for if you miscarrie, I, and all that assent to 
this warre, witliout the consent of the body of the realme, shall 

* Printed less perfectly in Rusliworth, pt. il. vol. ii. p. 1830. 

'■ '■ House of Commons." K. ' '' I liave reposed.'' R. 




DIARY OF JOHN KOUS, 101 



Utterly perish, if there be a parliament." A doctor at Paul's ser- ^'o^en^^'eris. 
noon told me this. It was currant in many men's moutLes that 
the lord cliamberlane "" (and another lord in like sorte) told the 
lunp', that if he gave backe and altered his resolution about this 
parliament, that he and his were lost, and -wihcd the King to 
looke well how safe he and his should stand. 

Judge Eeeve.'-' this fummer assises, did in Southwarke refuse to 
proceede upon the indiiement of one of the Lambeth tumult (be- 
fore mentioned), saying that he wold have no hand in any man's 
bloud : but, because the fellow had been busie, &c. remitted him 
to prison againe. Sir William Beecher was committed to the iisher 
of the blacke rod for not disclosing his warrant to serche the pockets 
of erle of T\'arwicke, lord Sav, lord Brooke, presently after the last 
parliament broken up. It was done the next morne to the lord 
Sav and lord Brooke in bedde : the lord Brooke's ladv bein^ in ^^ 

■ . . . . - ' ^. , ■' *- L t prius. 

bed with him '^ (vt dicitur). The King at length affirming that he 
commanded it, he was released. 

Spain in an uprore, or discontent between themselves. "^v^h^d' '*' 

A niALOGrr EETVTXEX two ZELOTS, CO^KClTi^Sl^SG " ETC." IN THE ^'E^TE 0.i.TH. <^ 

Si. Roger, "^ from a zealous piece of freeze, 
Rais'd to a vicar, but without degrees ;f 
Whwe veerly auditt may, by strict accompt, 
Tc sx nobles aud his veiles amount; 

* Philip Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery. 

'' Sir Ed^-ard Reeve, justice of the common pleas. See Smyth's Obituary, p. 23. 

^ Rushwonb, pt. iL vol. ii. p. 1107, mentions that his study was searched, but nothin^^ 
further. A contemporaneous record of eveTits in Sloane MS. 1467, f. 104, mentions a 
personal search, and says that " Lord Brookes had taken from him a discourse between 
Mr. Cotton, a minister now in New England, and Mr. Ball, concerning our church Liturgy. 
one being to mainteine it against the other' s opposing it. Hee had alsoe some peticion? to 
complaine of some greivances, one being from silent ministers to desire there might not be 
soe heav\ a hand carried over them." 

'^ Coliated with a contemporaneous copy in Sloane MS. 1467, chap. i. There b 
another copy in Addit. MS. 6396, fol. 15. <: "Sir Roger.'" 

' •• Of the children's threes." 



102 DIAEY OF JOHN KOUS. 

Fedde on the common of the female charity, 

Untill the Scottes a^u bring &Umt theire parity,— 

So shotten that his *oule, much like him*elfe, 

Walkes but in quiriKi ; this same clergie elfe, 

Encounrririg v\-ith a brother of the eloath, 

Fell presently to cudgels vith the Oath. 

The qnarreli was a strange mL>-shapen monster, 

£i oxterc. (God blesse us) which they conster, — 

Tbe brand upon the buttocke of the beast, 

The dracon's tayle :i-"d on a knott, — a neast 

Of yong apocryphai. the fashion 

Of a new mentall reservation. 

Whiles Roger thus derides* the text, the other 

"Wiiikes and expoundes. saying, " My pious brother 

Kearkeij with reverence, for the point ii nice; 

I never rea.I on *t bjt I fasted twice, 

And so by revelation know i: better 

Then all the learode idolaters of the letter." 

With that he swelde, and sette upon the theatne 

Like great Goliah with his weaver's beame: 

'• I say to the,'' Et Catera, thou lyest, 

Thoti an the curled locke of Anti- Christ; 

Rubbish of Babel, for who will not say. 

Tongues are confoanded in ei cwiera ? 

Who swef.res ct caU-a sweares more oathes at once. 

Then Cerberus out of his triple sconce ; 

Who viewts it we'.L with the same eye beholdes 

The oulJ false serpent in his numerous foldes; 

Accurs'd ii coAtra, now, now I sent, 

What the prodigious bloudy oystei's meant. 

Oh Bowker, Bowktr,<^ how camst thou to lacke 

This fiend, iri thy prophetick almanacke ? 

Tis the darke vault where the infemall plott 

Of powder 'gainst the state was first begotte; 

Peruse the Oath, and you shall soon descrj- it, 

By all the Father Garnets that stand by it; 

'Gainst w'uich the Churc-b, whereof I am a member 

Shall keep another fifth day of November. 



A.D. 1640.] DIARY OF JOHN T.OUS. 103 

Nay, heeres not all; I cannot halfe untrusse 

£t cdiira, it is so abdominous. 

The Trojan nagge was not so fullv liu'Je, 

Unrippe cf catera, and you shall Snue 

Ogg, tbe great commissan-, and, •nbieh is worse, 

The apparitor upon the skew-balde horse. 

Then, finally, my babe of grace, forbeare; 

Et esetera will be too large to svreare, 

For 'tis (to speake in a familiar style) 

A Yorkshire w-ay-bit, longer then a mile." 

Heere Roger was inspirde, and by God's diggers, 

Hee'le sweare in wordes at length and not in figures; 

No; by this drinke which he takes of, as loath 

To leave ct calera in his liquid oath; 

His brother pledgde him, a^id in that bloudy wine 

He sueares hee"l be the s}Tiod"s Cataline. 

Thus they dranke on. not offering to parte, 

Till they bad sworne out the eleventh quart; 

AVhiies all that heard and snw them iointly say, 

They and tbeire tribe were all — >.i caiero^. 

In cathedra derisorum no sedeam. Psalm i. 

Upon Tuisday, November 17, ^vlien the fast -^ras kept at London 
for the parliament, &c.. I was at St, Paul's church, where one Mr. 
Stanwicke (or Kanwicke), a chapleln to my lord of Ely, preached 
on Kehcmiah, i. verse 4, who upon just occasion, in opening the 
St or}- of the Jewish pressures and calamities which caused Nehemiali 
to fast. &C.J did say that the care of the Jewes to have Jerusalem 
rebuilded in her walles, and the gates set up, was not to mainteine 
rebellion and keepe out the King's authoritv, but to defend them- 
selves against Tobiah, Sanballah, and such great men as under the 
King (whom they flattered with lies) sought to oppresse them. 

Out of the last wordes of the first booke of Polychron. fol. 70, 
this is taken. a " But among all Englishmen medled together is so propheck!'^' 
great changing and diversity of clothing and aray. and so manv 
niauer and diversity of shapes, that well nigh is there any man 

^ Edit. 1452, printed by Caiton. 



104 ]:)IARY OF JOHN IJOUS. [A.D. ]64C. 

knoAvne by his clothing aud his aray of -whatsoever degree that he 
be; thereof prophesied an holy anker in king Egelfred's time in this 
Anaclioriie. manner: — Henricus. lib. 6°. ' Englishmen, forasmuch as they use 
them to dronkele-^"nes. to treason, and to rychlesnes of God's hows, 
first by Danes and then by Normans, and at thirde time by Scottes, 
that the}' holde most wretched and lest worth of all other, they 
shall be OA-ercome. Then the world shall be so unstable, and so 
diverse and variable, that the unstablenes of thoughts shall be bito- 
kened by many manner diversities of clothing. • Ex'plicit liber 
primus."^ 

EY THE EI5G. 

A PrKiCLAMATION FOR A GEXZIIALL FAST, TO I;E KEPT THEOrGHnUT THE r.EAL>rE 

OF ENGLANl'.'' 

The noAves is tliat secretary AVindbanke. and Fieade his secretary 
were fledde, ere the house kncwe it. 

That the shipmonv was voted, without gaiusaving, to be against 
la we. 

That sixteen of the house were sent to eight judges, to knowe Avfio 
pressed or persuaded in the busines of shipmonv. 

That there is an order for a transcript into the country, tliat 
recusants must all be endicted the nest sessions, December 9. 

THE LOI.I) OF STKAFF0HD"S ACCUSaTJON. 
[Omitted, being in print.] 

THE LORD FALKXAND EIS SPEECH IN PAELIAMENT.c 

Mr. Speaker, 

, „ . I reioice verv much to see this d.i.v. and tbe Avant liatli line not in n.Jiie 

Lord Deputie. • • 

AI)Out thejudg- 

nient late given * See Scriptore? post Bedam, Kenn.- Huntingdon's Hist. p. oOV, end of book i. and 

for Siiipmony. ^ orc,^ beginning of book vi. 

^ Printed in Foedera, vol. ix. pt. iii. p. oi. .Sir Benjamin Ruddierd's and Sir kobei t 
Dering's speeches follow; but both are omitted as being in print. 

<: Rushvorth, ))t. ii. vol. ii. pp. 1342, 1351. gives parts of a speeci; of lord Falkland in 
this parliament, but it differs entirely troai ibe present. 



A.D. 1040.] DIAIIY OF JOHN ROUS. ] Oo 

alTectious, but my lung-!^ if to all lliat bath beene past my voice bath uot been 
ns loud as anv man's in the house; yet truly mine opinion is, ue have yet done 
nothing if vre doe not mure. I shall adde v.-hat I humbly conceive ought to be 
added, as soone as I have said something -with reference to him that saies it. 

I ^rill first desire the forgivenes of the House if in ought I say I seeme to 
istrenche upon another's profession, and enter upon the worke of another robe; 
s'mce I have been entrusted by the reix)rt of another committee, and confirmed 
by the uncontradicted rule of the -whole house; since I shall say nothing in thi^• 
kind, but in order to some-what further, and -^vhich moves me to venture mine 
opinion and to expect yotir pardon ; since I am confident that history alone is 
able to she-we this judgment contrary to our lawes, and logicke alone sufficient 
to prove it distractive to our proprieties, which every free and noble person 
values more then his possession. I will not professe what I knowe of mv selfe, 
and all those who knowe me knowe it of me. that mv naturall disposition is 
fiirre from indyning to severity, much less to cruelty; that I ha\e no particular 
provocations from their persons, and have particular obligations to theire 
callings, ag-ainst whom I am to speake; an/1 Oiai, Oiongh not fa?- nmch. yet for 
more €itn Iliare; for I hope it will be beleeved that oulv pubiike interest hatli 
extorted this from me ; and that vvhich I would not sav, if I conceived is not 
both so true and so necessarie that no undigested meate can be heavier upon the 
5tomaci:e then this unsaid wolde have layne upon my conscience. 

* Mr. Speaker," the constitution of this Commonwelth hath established, or 
rather endeavoured to establish, to us the security of our goods, and the 
security of those lawes which should secure us our goods, bv appointing for 
115 judges so setled, so swome, that there can be no oppression, but thev of 
necessity must be accessary. Since, if they neither denie nor delay us justice, 
(which neither for the greate nor the litle seale they ought to doe), the greatest 
person in the kingdome cannot continue the least violence upon the meanest. 
But the'' security, j\Ir. Speaker, hath beene almost our rume: this bulwarkefor 
us hath been turned, or rather turned it selfe, into a batterv acainst u? : and 
tbo>e persons which shold have been as dogges to defend the ilocko have been 
the wolfe to worrie it. 

* These judges, Mr. Speaker, to instance not them only, but theire greatest 
crime, have delivered an opinion and a judgment, the first in an extraiudiciall 
manner, and both in an extrajudicial! matter, that is such as came not within 

* This and those of the subsequent paragraphs to which an asterisk is prefixed, are 
printed in Rusbworth, pt. ii. vol. ii. App. p. 242. 

^ " thLs,'' Rusbwortii. 
CAifD. SOC. P 



106 DIAEY OF JOnX EOUS. 



[A.D. 16^0. 



theire cognisance, thev being judges, and neither philosophers nor polititian?. 
In which, -when it is so absolute and evident, the lm,ve of the lande, and that of 
geuerall reason and equity (by -which particuler lawes at first vrere framed), 
returnes to her throne and government, where saJus popuLi becomes not onlv 
snprema but &ola lex. At wliich and to which ende, whosoever * wold dispence 
with the King to make use of our monj dispences with us to make use of his 
and one another's. In the judgment, they contradicted both many and clecrc 
acts and declarations of parliaments, and those in this v.?rv case, and in this 
veryreigne; so that for them they needed to hnve consulted vritii no other 
recordes but theire memories. 

* Secondly, they have contradicted apparant evidences, by supposing weightic 
and evident *' dangers, in the most serene, quiet, and halcyon daies that could 
possibly be imagined, a fewe contemptible pirats being our most formidable 
enemies, and there being neither prince nor state with and from whom we have 
not either embassadors or amity or both. 

* Thirdly, they contradicted the writte it seife, by supposing that supposed 
danger to be so suddaine that it could not stay for a parliament, wjiich required 
but fony dayes stay : the writte being in no such hast, but being content to 
Slav seven monthes. which is that time four times over. 

* Mr. Speaker, it seemed generallie strange that they who sawe not the lawes, 
which all men else sawe, should see that danger which no man saw but theni- 
selves; yet, though this begate the more generall wonder, three other parficu- 
lers begate the more generall indignation. 

The first, if all the reasons for this judgment were such that they needed not 
anv from the adverse parte to helpe them to convert those fewe who had before 
the least suspition of the legality of that most iilegall writte, there being fewer 
that approved of the judgment then there were that judged it, for I am confi- 
dent they did not that themselves. 

* Secondly, when they had allowed to the King the sole power in necessity, tlie 
sole judgment of necessity, and by that enabled him to take both from us what 
he wold, when he wold, and of whom <= he wolde, they yet contented <^ us 
enough to offer to persuade us that they had left us otir properties. The third 
and last is, and which I confcsse moved me most, that bv the transformation of 
this* from the state of ir^i^ subjects (a good p>hrase, Mr. Speaker, under Mr. 

» "whatsoever," margin. ^ " emirjent,"" Rushworil.. 

•^ "how he would,'" margin and Rusbworth. 
'' " contemned," margin ; the latter is the tnie reading. 
•^ "us," Rushworth. 



AD. ICIC] DIAEY OF JOIIX UOUS. 107 

Heyliii's favour) iuto that of vilhiiiies, thev disabled us, by legall and volun- 
tary supplies, to cxpresse our aCectioiis t" his 3iLijestie, and by that to cherish 
Lis to us (that is, to parliaments). ^Ir. Speaker, the cause of all miseries we 
have suffered, and the cause of all the jealousies that we have had that we shold 
vet sufiermore, is that a most excellent prince hathbeeu most infinitely abused, 
hi? judges telling him that in lawe, his divines telling him that in conscience. 
Lis counsellors telling him that in policy, he might doe what he pleased. 

With the first of these we are nowe to deale. which may be a good leading 
case to the rest ; and since, in the penning of these lawes, upon which these men 
have trampled, our ancestors have shewed their utmost care and wisedome for 
our unefiected security, wordes having done nothing, and yet done all that 
words can doe, we must nowe be forced to thinke of abolishing our greevances, 
bv abolishing our greevers ; of taking away this judgment and these judges 
together, and of regulating thcire successors by theire most exemplary puuish- 
luent who wold not regulate themselves by most evident lawes. Of the degrees 
of this punishment I will not speake. I will only say -we have accused a greate 
]>ersou of high trea-on. for intending to subvert our fundamental! hnves, and 
introduce an arbitrary government ; whereas what we suppose he meant to doe 
we are sure they have done, there being no lawe more fundamentall then that 
ihey have alreadie subverted, and no government more absolute then that they 
have really introduced. Mr. Speaker, not only the severe punishment, but the 
suddaine removeall of these men will have a very large effect, in one \('tj con- 
siderable consideration. We only accuse, and the House of the Lords condemnes, 
in which condemnation they usually receive advice, though not direction, from 
the judges ; and I leave it to every man to imagine how prejudicial! to us, that 
is to the Commonwealth, and how partidl to theire fellowe malefactors the 
advice of such judges is like to be ; how undoubtedlie, for theire owne sakes, 
they wil! conduce theire power, that every action be judged to be a lesse faulte, 
and every person to be lesse faulty, then injustice they ought to be. 

Amongst these, Mr. Speaker, there is one I must not loose in the croude, 
whom I doubt not but we shall finde. when we examine the reste of them, with 
what hopes they have been tempted, by what feares they have been assailed, 
and bj- whose importtmity they have been pursued, before they consented to 
what they did : I doubt not, I say, but we shall then finde him to have been a 
most admirable solliciter, but a most abhominable judge. 

He it is who not only gave away with his breath what our ancestors had 
purchased for us, by so large an expence of theire time, theire care, theire 
treasure, and theire bloud, and imploied an industry as greate as his injustice, 
t^' persuade others to joine with him in that deed of gifte, but strove to roote 
"Up those liberties which thev had cutte downe. and to make our crreevaMces 



108 DiAKT OF jonx r.ou^. [a.d. 1040. 

iinruortall, and our slavery irreparable, least any pame uf uur p-ostcritv miglit 
ivant occasion to curse him. 'R-ben he declared that power to be so inlierent lo 
the crownC; as that it Tvas not in the poorer even of a parliament to divide them. 

I have heard, Mr. Speaii^er (and 1 thiuke heere), that common fame is enough 
for this house to accuse up>on, and then undoubtedly enough to be accused upon 
in this house. She hath reported this so generally, that I exi>ect not that you 
shold bid me name him -whom you all knowe, nor doe I looke to t*;lle you newes, 
■when I tell you tis the * Lord Kee]>er ; >> but this I thlnke fitte to put you in mind, 
tli;;t his place admittes him to his !Majestie's eare, and trustes him -with his 
Majestie's conscience ; and how prejudicious every moment must be to us, M-hilst 
tlie one gives him raeaues to inluse such unjust opinions of this house into his 
r^lajestie as are expreste in that libell rather then Declaration, of -which many 
beleeves him to have been the principall secretai^- : and the other puttes the 
vast and almost unlimited r>o-wer of the Chancery into such haudes. -n-hicb in the 
safest vrold be dangerous : for my parte, I thinke no man here secure that he 
shall thinke himselfi.' worth any thing when he rises, wbilest all our estates are in 
his brest who hath sacrificed his country to his ambition : whilst he who hath 
prostituted his owne conscience hath the keeping of the King's, and he who hath 
undone us alreadie by wholesale hath a power left in him of undoing us by retaile. 

^Ir. Speaker, in the beginning of this parliament, he told us, and 1 ran con- 
fident every man here beleeved it before he told it, and not the more for his 
telling of it, though a sory witnes is a good testimony against himselfe, that his 
Maiestie never required any thing from any of his ministers but justice and 
integrily ; against which, if any of them had transgressed, upon their heades, 
and that deservedly, it was to loll. And truly, after he hath in this saying 
pronounced his owne condemnation, we shall be more partiall to him then he is 
to himselfe if we be slowe to pursue it. 

It is therefore my just and humble motion that we may choose a select 
committee, to drawe up Lis and theire charges, and to examine their cariage 
of this particuler, to make the use of it in the charge, and if he shall be found 
guilty of tampering with judges against the publike security, who thought 
tampering with witnesses in a private case worthy of so severe a fine, Lf he shall 
be found to have gone beyond the rest to this"^ judgment, and to have gone 
beyond the rest in this judgment, that in the punishment for it, the justice of this 
liouse may not deuie him the due honor both to precede and exceed the rest. 



•' ray," in niargni. 

Sir Julin Fincii. See Lii iKpeatLniei.t in Harl. Misoeil. vol. v. p. 5GG. 

•'tliat," niarL'i;i. 



A.D. 1640.] DIARY OF JOHN ROUS. 109 

I hate these following railing rimes, 

Yet keepe them for president of the times. 

A DISMALL SUMMONS TO THE DOCTOr.s' COMMONS. 

Tbou cage full of fowle birds and beasts, 

Attend this dismal! doome ; 
The canonites new murtbered are, 

With canons of theire owne. 
Civilians civill villanes are, 

Ould doting knaves are Doctors ; 
Notorious knaves are notaries, 

Bold prating knaves are proctors. 
The registers regrators are, 

Th\- summoners scumme of creatures, 
Thy delegates and hdvocates 

Are cosening knaves and cheators. 
Thy chancelors and officials 

Match ]\Iachiavel in evill ; 
Tliey make God's bouse a denne of theeves, 

And keepe coune for the Devill. 
Thy court is called Christian, 

Yet Anti- Christian is ; 
The court of hell is not so fell 

And devilish as is this. 
Thy bishops they are biie-sheepes, 

Thy deanes they novre are dunces, 
Thy priestes they art the priests of Baal; 

The Devill take all in bunches I 



URIC '■, pore Canterburie, in a tottering state, 
POPE*" some say yonde be, but now t's too late. 
R U 2 yy = for all those eyes are now upon you r 
U R A K <* if that you say that tbey will wrong you. 
SCOT some say v\-as he brought all to light, 
I C U R * in a greate feare your lavN-ne's not white, 
A Grig R Y ^ if he comes nigh, he'ie have the miter, 
HEAD and all for me hee'l fall the lighter. 



You are, I see. 

A copy in Sloane MS. 14S9 reads, " A P P they say youTl be, but tis to late." 
Are you too wise. ^ Yoo are a K. * I see you are. 

A Gregorv-. 



110 DIAET OF JOHX KOUS. [A.D, 1C40. 

[god have mercy, good scot.] 

« You craftv projectors, vrhy bang you your Ijead r 

Promoted, informed, '> what are you all dead r 

Or \rill you beyond sea to frolike and playe 

AVith Sir Giles iVIontpeston,<" who led you the vay 'f 
If Sim5;on and Dudiy <^ have left you tlie lotte, 
A t'w-ist readie spun, God have mercy, good Scott. 

How high wore they ^ flow-ne in their*' flying hope, 
Theire •■ patents for pinnes, tobacco, and soape, 
They yeerely received for enhancing of wine, 
False dice and false cardes, besides the great fine. 

The tide is now turned, lets drinke th' other pot. 

And merily sing, God have mercy, good Scott. 

Siiall one man alone all trading ingrosse ? 

And build up bis fortune by other men's losse ': 

Tl:at he may jettc it ^ in dauncing and whoring, 

For which the subject is ever more soring, f 

The title and honour these gallants have got, 
May fall in the fier, God have mercy, good Scott. 

To play at boh peepe our Catholikes strive, 

Who lately with the Devill a bargaine did drive. 

The peace of this kingdome for ever to marre, 

To change our late plenty to famine and warre : 

But now 'tis l:>elieved theyle pay tlie whole short 

When til' reckoning doth come, God a" mercy, good Scott. 

What is there no helpe at such a deade lifte ? 
To put of the parliament is there no shifte ? 
Nor dare they repose any faith in theire creed ? 
Will not Ave Maries helpe them at their need r 

The House is acquainted with every plott ; 

Theire '' mines are LloixTie up, God a" mercy, good Scott. 

» Collated with a copy in Harl. MS. 4931, f. 80, where the burden is " Gramercy, 
good Scott."' t " Promoters, informers."' 

' " Mompessori,"" margin. He was a notorious delinquent in the matter of alehouse 
licenses, in the reign of James the Firsi, and fied the country to avoid the rigour of the law. 
See the Progresses, 6:c. of James I. vol. iii. pp. 660, 666. 

'' '•' Epson," Harl M.S. Emp'-on ar.d Dudley, the extonioning minbters of Henry VII. 

«• " You " and ''your.'" ' •"' And he for to sette it." E "goring." 

'' " You "' and "' your "" throughout. 



A.D. 1C40.] DIAET OF .TOin.- EOUS. lU 

Where be our proud prelates rhat ftraddle «-o wide, 
Af if tbev did nieane ibe worldc^ to bestride, 
To tread on the nob.les, t/5 trarcple tbem downe, 
To s^et up tbe mitre above the King's crov-ne, 

That ere be was clerke lie priest bath forgot; 

But pride v^ill com^ do^ie, God a' mercy, good Scott. 

VTith s^-riptnres divines doe j lav '^ fast and loose, 

And tume holy writ to ca-poc and goose; 

Tbeire gutt is tbeirt Goi, rsJigion ibey mocke, 

To pamper theire fiesb they fioiiisb tbeire fiocke, 
To preach and to pr^y they have all <■ forgott, 
But no^ they'le be tanc-ht, God a' mercy, good Scoit. 

Altbougb tii^t this iiand aboTind in all crimes, 
Tilt Par'.iatnent s^ye? we sb^ll have good times, 
Then ie: us not fain: as things without hope,— 
An baiter for traytors, a fig for tbe Pope 1 

Let Spsine and tbe Strumpet of Baliion plott. 

Ye: we shall t« safe, Gv.d a" mercy, good Scott. 

The Miter shall be given awiy ^ to the poore, 

The city shall cozen the cou-try no more ; 

Oppn*5ion shall dotme, tbe-ii justice shall smile, 

French and Popery shai! be banishte tbL= ile.'^ 
Religion sbail fiorisL ■wi:hout any blotte/ 
When this comes to pc^ist. God a' mercy, good Scott. 

An order made to a select conmittec cliosen by the ^^liole House 
of Commons to receive Petitions touching ministers. 

London, printed by J. D. for Henry Overton, and are to be sold 
at his shop entring iito Pope's he^d alley out of Lumbard streete, 
1640. 

TH£ K.OIES OF THX COiDtrrTIES CHOSEN DECEIIEEE 19, 1 G40. 

Alderman Pennington. 

Sir Thomas Hutchinson. &c. to the number of 62, whereof t>vo 
vrcre Eowse's, gent. 

'^ "The moone." ' '• ^"itL Scripture divine they." ' " almost." 

<i " The- miser shall give all i.\vay.'' 

f " French toies and pc.pery wee'k banish tbe ile." ^ " plott." 



112 DIAEY OF JOHN ROUS. [A.D. 1640. 

This committee is to take into theire consideration the petition of 
the inhabitants of Hujendam ^ in the county of Buckingham, and all 
other petitioners of that nature; and also to consider how there may 
be preaching ministers set up where there are none, and how those 
preaching ministers mav be mainteined where there is no mainten- 
ance, and when they are in. how they mav be kept and mainteined ; 
and to receive all other petitions of the like nature. And it is 
further ordered that the committee shall have power to send for 
parties, witnesses, writings, and recordes, that may conduce to the 
busines in question, before them. This was a sub-committee made 
by the grand committee for religion; and it is this day ordered 
that this committee shall from the House have the like power it 
formerly had, and consider and enquire of the true ground and 
causes of the great scarcity of preaching ministers tlirougliont the 
whole kiugdomc; and to consider of some way for removing of 
scandalous ministers, and putting others in theire places. And it 
is further ordered that all the knights and burgesses for every county 
be required from this House, both upon theire owne knowledge and 
upon information from the severall counties where they dwell, 
within sis weekes. to informethis house of the state and conditions of 
their counties concerning preaching ministers, and whence it ariseth 
there is such a scarcitj- of them thoroughout the kingdome. It is 
earnestly desired and expected by the Parliament that all ingenuous 
persons in every county of this kingdome will be very active to im- 
prove the present opportunity by giving a true information of ail the 
parishes in theire severall counties — 

1. AAliere there are men of more then one benefice, and what such 
men's revenues are reputed to be. 

2. 'VATaere there is no maintenance or too litle maintenance for a 
preaching minister. 

3. Where there is no preaching or seldome preaching. 

» " Hugenaen '* in Journals of the House of Commons, ii .54. 



A. D. 1640.] 



DIARY OF JOHN ROUS. 113 



4. Where tliere are persecuting, innovating, or scandalous ministers, 
that they may be put out, and order taken for better to be put in 
theire places. 

A Committee is chosen purposely to receive petitions and informa- 
tions of this nature, and to take special] care about so weighty a 
business. The Committee desires informations from all parties, if it be 
possible, within this monthe, as appeereth by the order given out by 
the Parliament, the 19th of this instant December, 1640. 

The newes is certaine for Portugall revolted. It is said that the rortugaii. 
silver fleet, being endangered by the Hollanders, put into Portugall 
harbors, and is there sta\ed. The newes is that the Swedes have 
begirte the emperor and electors, at a diet in Germany. 

Newes of the Prince of Condie and others, up in armes in France. 

Kewes of Naples revolting from Spaine. 

A matche between Lady Mary and the Prince of Orange's eldest 
Sonne. 

About 10 or 11 of Februar}-, his Majestic, in the Upper house, 
made a speech : He signified to the lords that there had been a 
treatie entertained, and was like to continue; of this he acquaintes a matche with 
them, affirmino- that three thinfrs swayed with him: 1. Xhe !!^'"*^^ °* 

' <-■ c J Orange. 

Hollanders a people fitte for us to retaine amitie with, &c. 2. There 
will be no disparagement for religion. 3. Theire assistance may 
TQUch helpe to the rciliefe of his sister and her issue. 

12. At the terme's end, judge Bartlet led away by usher of 
blacke rod." 

13. A treason discovered (nt dicitur). 

Other newes from our Parliament. The cannons, ship-mony, 
Scottish busines, Jlr. Waller's speech, &c. see my great booke >J( 
pag. 82. 

^ Sir Robert Berteley, one of the justices of the King's bench ; he was seized when on 
his judicial bench and taken to prison. He was one of the judges who gave opinion in favour 
of the King's le^7ing6hip-lnonev ; was impeached in 1637, but escaped conviction till the 
impeachment was renewed in IS-iO. See Rushworth, pt. ii. vol. i. p. 606 ; pt. i'i. vol. i. 
pp. 31 8-9. Clarendon, Hist. Rebell. vol. ii. p. 4[if'. 
CAMD. SOC. Q 



114 DIARY OF JOHN liOUS. [A. D. 1641. 

THE HEADS OF THE SCOTTES LAST ARTICLES CONCERNING A I'URALLE I'EACE. 
MARCH. 1G40. 

1. They desire unity in religion and conformiiv in church gover- 
ment. 

2. That some of the Scottish men of eminency niav attend the 
King and Prince. 

3. That none be about his ]\Iajestie and Prince but those of the 
reformed religion. 

4. Concerning the manner of chusing the councell and men in 
office in Scotland. 

5. For naturalizing and mutuall priviledges of both nations. 

6. Concerning customes in both kingdomes, both foreine and 
domesticke. 

7. Freedome of trade. 

8. Concerning manufactures and mutuall association of trade, 
bath by sea and land. 

9. Concerning the allay of coine and the liberty of fi-ee fishing for 
both nations, 

10. An act of oblivion of by-gone deedes to be forgotten of both 
kingdomes. 

11. An act for ratifying this present treatie and articles. 

12. Xo invasion against either kingdome vriihout an Act of 
Parliament. 

13. If any hostility be ofiered by sea or land by any of either 
nation, that they be punished as enemies to State. 

14. That neither of the two nations shall engage themselves in 
warre -without consent of both nations. 

15. Mutuall assistance against all forreine invasions. 

16. Concerning removing of offenders in either of the kingdomes. 

17. Concerning executing of decrees and sentences in both king- 
domes, not having the originals but copies. 

18. About the borders and middle-marches. 



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DL4.in' OF JO]IX KOUS. 1 1 5 



19. That the peace to be nowe established be iuviolablie observed 
in all time to come. 

20. All offenders to be punished in the trienniall parliaments 
of both nations. And that commissioners may be appointed of both 
kingdomes. for the conserving of peace in tlie intervall between 
parliaments. 

THE SCHOLLER's COMPLAIKT, TO THE TUNE OF ALLOO. ALLOC, FOLLOW JIY FANCY. 

All in a mellanchollike studv. 

None but my selfe, 
Me thought iny muse grew muddy, 
After seaven yeeres reading 
And costly breediug, 
I fell and could finde no jielfe. 
Into learned ragges I've read my plusb uiid )».ilteii, 
And now am fitte to begge in Greeke and Latine, 
Instead of Aristotle I would I bad a patten." 
Alas, pore schoUer ! 
Whether wilt thou got .- 

Cambridge, I must leave thee, 
And follow Fate; 

CoUedge hopes deceive me, 
Ofte I expected 
To be elected, 

But desert is reprobate. 

]SIa.?ters of colledges have no eom.uion graces, 
They that have fellowships have no oommon places, 
And they that schollers are must have handsonic faces. 
Alas, pore scholler! 
Whither wilt thou goe r 

I bowed, I have bended. 

And all in hope. 
One day to be befrended ; 

I preach't, I printed, 

What ere I hinted, 
To please our English pope. 

" Qu. " patent "? in allusion to the monoiX)!ies so numerous during liic early jiari of this 



116 L'lARY OF JOHN ROUS. :A.D. 1041. 

I worship: to the Ea«t that sunne doth now forsake me; 

1 finde I an falliDg, tlie Nonlierne windes doe shake me, 

Would Tc~ beene upright, for bowing now doth hreake me. 
Alas, trfire schoUer ! &c. 
Into K>me cdntry village 

Nowe I m-:3t goe, 
Where iieitL-r tithe nor tillage 

The greecj patron 

And coacbrrd matron 
Sweare to the Church thev owe; 

But if I preach and pray too on the suddaine, 

And confnie the Pope too, extempore without studying, 

I've tenDt p)Oundes a yeere, besides my Sunday pudding. 
Alas, pore scb oiler ! 
Whei.:;er wilt thou goe ? 
At greate preferment I aymed, 

Witness* zzy silke; 
But now my hopes are maymed. 

I lookt lately 

To have L-vde stately, 
And a davrie of bell ropes milke; 

But DCw. aJas ! myselfe I must not flatter, 

Bigamy t? steeples is an banging matter. 

Each mtiir have one, and curates will grow fatter. 
Ala-- pore scbolier I 
Whr.ber wilt thou goe ? 

The tonguef and art- I've skill in, 

Divine joi-d humane; 
But all "S t-vt worth a shilling. 

When tirr women heare me 

They will but jeere me, 
And say I am profane. 

Once I remember I preached with a weaver; 

I quoted Austin,'' he quoted DckI and Cleaver.'' 

I nothiiiT gottc, be got a cloake and beaver. 
Ali-. pore sch oiler, 
W~iirher wilt thou goe r 

^ St. Augustine. 

i' " Exposition of the &r-.:-k of Proverbs, by John Dod, Robert Cleaver, and William 
Fiindc." 4to. Lond. ICl'l-il. 



A.D. IG^l.] 



DIARY or JOHN Rors. 117 

Shippes, shippes, shippes I discover 

Crossing the mairie; 
Shall I in them saile over, 

Be jew or atheist, 

Turke or papist, 
To Geneva or Amsterdam ? 

Bishoprickes are voide in Scotland: shall I thither? 

Or shall I after Finch or Windebankc, to see if either 

Want a priest t-o shrive them :- oh no, 't is blustering weather. 
Alas, pore scholler 1 
M' hither wilt thou goe ? 
Hoe, ho, bo ! I have hitt it ; 

Peace, Goodman fjole, 
Thou hast a trade vr\'\\ fitte it; 

Draw the indenrare. 

Be bound at a ver.turc- 
An apprentice to a free-schoole. 

Here thou art king, bv William Lillies charter; 

Here thou maist whip and strip, hang, dmw, and quarter. 

And commitie to the recde roude Tom, Jack, Will, and Artliur. 
I, I ! 'tis ibither, 
Thitber will I goe. 

[the OJS-TIRBUBy BELL.] 
Our Canterburie"f gr':-ate cathedrall bell 
Seldome ringes out but ciiies a fatall knell; 
Her loud unpleasant jarring warring sound 
The voice of all our sweet-ninde belles hath droun'd. 
She laiel.y rung so loud, without all doubt, 
She strooke good Tom of Lincolne's clapper out. 
It is reported by the men of Kent, 
She sounds such discords, she gives no content ; 
She ponderous b, she mightie great, the people 
Would gladly plucke her quite out of the steeple; 
She makes such hideous noise witli her boom, boom, 
As did the roaring bull which came from Rome; 
But seeing that she "s made o' the Romish dresse, 
She '11 serve the papisis for to ring to ma-sse. 

ON TEE EARL OF STUAFFORD. 

Here lies wise and valiant dust 
Huddled up twix; fitic and just, 



118 



DIARY OF JOHN ROUS. 



[A.D. 1G41. 



Strafford, wlio was burrie.i benee 
Between treason and convenience, 
Pass'd his time here in a miste. 
Expound the riddle vbo so list, 
His Prince's neerest joy and griefe, 
Who h:.d and wanted all reliefe, 
The prop and mine of the State, 
The people's violent love and hate ; 
One in extremes lovde and abhorde. 
Riddles lie here : or_. in a worde. 
Here lies bioud, and let it lie 
Speechies stilL and never crje. 

TEX ilASSE-PlOZST's LAMENTATION 
FOr. TEE STR.•0^"GE ALTEEATIOX 

BEGTS IX th:s nation. 

•WHEREFORE HE >L\KES GREAT MONE, 
AND SINGS o'EONE o'HONE. 

to the tot of poorz shon. 



St. Peter's s*ate 
Is in a sweate, 

Alas I alas ! 
The triple cro^^-ne 
Is tumbled downe. 

Adew deere Masse I 
Never shall I sippe 
On Nunnes cbery lippe ; 
A halter or a whippe 

Is my doome, 
Made of Scottish broome, 
To sweepe us all to Rome. 

O hone. O hone : 

Woe is me 
This time to see, 

Alas I alas ! 
A Puritan 
The only man 

Will put coviic MasffC. 



I fast, and I pray ; 

My beades they take away, 

And say I goe astray 

From the truth. 
There's none will me relieve, 
Therefore now may I grieve, 

hone, bone 1 

The Papists fine 
With me did joine, 

Alaf^ ! alas I 
While there was hope 
That the new Pope 

Would set up Masse. 
But now he's downe 
We all begin to frowne. 
Which makes me in a swowne 

Thus to faint. 
Oh helpe me some deere Saint, 
And hearo my sad complaint. 

O honi.- ! liuiic- ! 



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DIARY OF JOHN KOUS. 



119 



Me Papist pore 
Turnde out o: core. 

Ala*: alas: 
And liolv Frier 
Is in tbfc niire. 

Farewell de>;re Masse : 
For now ail priests 
Banished thou seest ; 
All pra7 to Christ, 

None to Msry, 
To custome quite contrary ; 
That here hin; -R-ill not tan.-, 

O hone : bone ! 

Sonic tinkno%v-ne voyage, 
Or pilgrimage. 

Ala* : alas ! 
Through places strange 
Now must I range. 

To find out Masse. 
So till I come 
Quite unto Ronie, 
Fortune at honie 

Will not fianer, 
Nor suffer h&Iy water 
Which we on browes did scatter. 

O hone : O hone : 

The time is sp^ijt, 
I shall be sbec:, 

Alas ; alas : 
If here I stay, 
On beades to pray. 

And read more Masse. 



If I recant. 
Tunie Protestant, 
No pardon grant 

Will the Pope ; 
Then shall I want such liopc, 
If I reiigiua coape, 

O hone : hone ! 

Saint Marie's Creed 
Be my good speed ; 

Alas ! alas ! 
Where should I run 
This scourge to shun ■ 

Adew deere Masse. 
Time with his whip 
Makes me to skip, 
Where should I slip 

Me to hide 'f 
For such as Masse deride, 
They cannot mc abide, 

O hone : hone ! 

Very si eke 
Is Catholicke, 

Alas : alas ! 
The parliament 
Is fully bent 

To put down Masse. 
Jesuite and Frier 
Hang in the brjer, 
Like Dun in the mire, 

Well-a-day ! 
And those that were my stay 
Must hang or runne aw;iy. 

O hone ! O hone ! 

Is't not well, Sir? 



7° APRILIS, 1642. 

The lords and commons doe declare that they intend a due and 
necessary reformation of the government and leiturgie of the Church, 
and to take nothing away in the one or in the other, but what shall 
be evil] or iustlv offensive, or at least unnecessary and bunhensomo. 



120 BIAEY OF JOHN ROUS. [A.D. 1G42. 

And for the better efiecting thereof, speedily to have consultation 
with godly and learned divines : and. because this ^vill never of itselfe 
attein the end sought therein, they will therefore use their utmost 
endevors to establish learned and preaching ministers, with a good 
and sufficient maintenance throughout the whole kmgdome, wherein 
many darhe corners are miserablie destitute of the meanes of salva- 
tion, and manj' poore ministers want necessary provision/ 

VOTELi BY BOTH HOUSES. 

1. That the King shall not goe into Ireland. 

2. That those that counselled the King to goe into Ireland are 
enemies to the State and Kingdome. 

3. Those that shall goe with the Ki2:ig to L'elajid are traitors to 
the King and State. 

4. Those that shall lend the King any monies upon his parkes or 
houses, shall loose theire monies, and be liable to the mercy of tlie 
Parliament. 

5. That what the Lords did in not going to the King when he 
sent for them, was no more then is justifiable, in as much as the 
publike did require it. 

6. Those that shall take the places of the Lords are ignoble, and 
unworthy to be members of the Common-wealth. 

7. That no members of the House of Commons shall goe to the 
King, without consent of the house. 

There were, besides these, certalne reasons sent to his Majestic, 
shewing why they thus voted, 6cc.; as first, because his going into 
Ireland wold be manv wayes an hazard to his person, &c. See more 
hereof. 

The Parliament hath latelie taken the Militia of the kingdome into 

ICA2, March, theire power and disposing, about which there was some contestation ; 

^P""^' and faine wold it have beene gotten that his Majestic might have had 

the Militia of all the cities and corporations: or, if not so, yet that 

Militia. ' Printed v,'nh variations in Rushworth, pt. iii. vol. i. p. 560, under date of April 9th. 



AD. 1042.J DIAUY OF .lOIIN liOUS. 121 

eclic frreat town might have the dispoFing of its ownc: but lately 

one Binion, a Silkenian of Loudon, was censured for framing a r'i:ii..ii ecus. 

contra Petition, for Loiidon to liaA'c power of thcire owne militia." 

His censure was 3.(»00 p., a disahling to beare office in cliurcli or 

comnionwealtL, a losse of his Citic freedome and priviledges, and 

two veeres' imprisonment in Colchester goale, if more wore not 

afterwards imposed.*^ 

April 25, Hockday.*' Newes that Aragon was revolted from 
Spain of certaine, as Portugall before. That the French wold none of c; ;,^ Aragon 
iheire arbitrary government, but wold have a government like ours. France. 

Tliat the Kinif's atturney, Herljcrt, for drawinn- somethino; about !\"'P^'*"''"^'-''' 
his ]\lajeftic*s prc'ceedings, was lately censured more then he was 
wortii, and ibr that he shewed liimselfe crosse and stower, he was 
committed to the Fleet. 

The many occurrences about the Parliament businesses, the Hodjc newc-s. 
differences betvreen the King's Majestic and them, theire Petitions, 
his answers (supposed or otherwise), the affairs of Ireland, &c. 
are extant in multitudes of bookes and papers (unto which God in 
mercy put an end !) Vait the newes of Suffolk in BartholomeAve weeke Insurreciion at 
I h.ere set downe brielly. On Tlnirsday August 25, late, at sunset ^'*■'■'"■''• 
or thereabout, came a warrant iioni sir William Castleton, high 
sheiiffe, for all trained soldiers in our towne of Downliam, (and so lor 
others in that hundred.) with other able men^ to appeere at Hargatc 
heath hy Lury, the next day, ibr suppressing of a rebellious com- 
pany of about 2.000. &c. They appeered,, and refusing to goe with 
the sherife, or lay downe theire armes for others, at length Mr. 
North theire Captaiue came, with whom tlic}- went, and on Friday 
apprehended some fewe of the company. The lady Savage's house At Meifoni. 
was defaced; all glasse broken, all iron pulled out, all household 
stuffe gone, all sielings rent downe or spoiled, all likely places 

" See Rusbwortb, pt. iii. vol. i. p. 77t'. '' See Clarendon, Iliston. vol. i. p. C59. 

*■ Hock-t;ile is a festival be^'inning tbc 15th dav after Easttr, \\b)cli fell tbis vear on 
A^rii ]<Hb. 

CA.-\ID. >OC. 1{ 



]22 IJJAKY OF .)()JL\ j;OL' 



[A.D. 10^2. 



digged where mony miglit be hidden, the gardei.s defuced, beere and 
"wiue consunied, and let out (to knee deepe in the cellar), the 
deere killed and chained out, &c. The ladytalth thelosiie is 40,00011. 
Sir Franeis Mannocke's house" was pillaged of all goods; (and, as is 
said, not his ^Y^itlngs spared, wdiich lie craved, but were torne, nor 
his dogs). Also one }-ir. ]\Iartin"s house pillaged. Doctor AVarren"s 
house was rifled i'or his Gods, and a greate many set about the 
market crosse, termed young ministers. Him they huffed and 
sh\ified about, but (as is said) hurt not otherwise, though he say 
they tooke mony from him. This insurrection scaveth all the 
malignant party. Tiie Sunday following came letters signifying the 

jM- defeature at Coventry, where his 2vlajestie (as i^ said) ickh 7,000 oi- 
nivre liorse, wold have talceit ilte cli'ie, and Ini canvn forcunj open a 
oate e/'.iered. and some jeu-e Ixjore Itbn^ hnt ilte sirciles icere strowed 
xv'dli ha/joa-es. covered xciili siraxte. al^o u-illi frames of ialles, bnfj'tt 
siuolcs, cJT.; and the Jiouses on LoiJi sides jlwiked with maskaiiers, the 

J. icomen hting readie prepared uiili great stones, brick-hattes , on the top of 
tJ,e Jiouses. to kill or make dlsturhatice; hut the King crying " On, on " 
for hast, because of the country and the Lord Brookes arniy^ the horse- 
tnen fell among the harrowes, ij. j^i^'ces ivere discharged upon iliem, the 
flank-ers and iconten ployed ilieire partes, so that the company fed, and 
the King followed, sonte of his guard slainc just by him. and of other's 
Colonell Lunsfoid and two or three Jiundred, Captain Leg tahn 
prisoner, cjr. (sic did tar). 

The truth is (ifbookes be true, and if Coventry men at Sturbi'idge 
fayer-tlnie say true) that the King Avas not there. But his army was, 
and did not enter the towne, bat shot into it, yet kild only one man 
that vaulted himself on the wall. The towne issued out, and slue 
diverse, chasing the rest, who went to a more four miles of, at which 
place the Lord Brooke's companv came up to them, and there was a 
slaughter of diverse (about i'orty or sixty), and the rest fledde. One 



A D 1642.] UIARY OF JOHN IIOUS. 123 

onlv slaine. on the Lord Brooke's side, tliat began tue irlaugliter, {sic 
didtur) all done with canon. 

^Monday. Aucrust the 22, the Kinc:'? standerd setnp at Xotinijham. StaminrUeti p 
On Friday tlie 2. of September, the earle of Essex went out of j^j^^le of Esvx 
London vrith his companies. 

September 21, at Bur}^ the booke of Portsmouth rendered bv PortMm.utii. 
colonel Goring to the Parliament, upon composition." A booke of a 
ficrht at Sherborne castle.^ A booke of two letters, one from the 
Vice-chancellor of Oxford, &c., to thcire chancellor the noble lord Oxford Eri«. 
of Perobroke, imploring defense against the injuries of the common 
soldiers feared, &c.; the other his answer, — That this wold have 
beene done before iliey had opposed the Parliament: but nowe, 
putting themselves in the posture of schollers againe, lie wold be a 
frend as ho cold.^ 

I sawe there diverse horsemen to goe into Lincolnshire, who 
accompanied sir Christopher Wrey (J from the AVhite Heart out of 
townc, a litle wa}- towards London, by Hargate house, <Szc. The Parliament 
Lieftenant's colors were an armed arme holding up a sword, and this ^° '''^' ^'' *"'' 
word about it, llic tcarre is just that is necessary. 

This da}- I heard of a late insurrection in Kent, (such perhaps as Sir E-iwura 
was about a month since at Long Melford.e where the ladv Savage '"''"^ ' 
her house was defaced, &.c. and pillacred,) wherein sir Edward 
Deering"s house was pulled downc, &c. 

I cold relate diverse things that make me aston'de, partly delivered 
by his ]\Iajestie's partie, partly occasionally drawne from the Parlia- 
ment in answer to that party, when I observe the unexpected working. 
(Those I saw this day at Bury:) 1. His Majestic (as we are told in 
print,} demandeth a pardon for the ^Malignant party. Thus it 

* " An exact relation of the passages which liappeneJ at Portsmouth at the late siege." 
4to. London, 1642. 

'' " Exceeding true Xews from Boston, Sherhoume castle, f^c." 4to. London, 164"2. 

'' Both printed in RushwortL, pi. iii. vol. ii. pp. 11-13. 

'' Of Ashlev, CO. Liiieohi. ^ y^p p ;v;i. 



124 T)Iai:y OF JOHN Kous. [ad. ie42. 

workcth. I iK'pc- tlic King will not desire it, or the Parliaracnt grant 
it; for who then shall pay all the vasft eliarges that the land hath 
been put to? (which ir.ust be paid). 2. It is complained of, that tlie 
Parliament hath xised all indefatigable care and forcast in this 
biisines. Doth not the multitude say, noble Parliament? 3. 
The Parliament aiith that the King, by procUiming the earl of Essex 
and his adherent travtors, hath put the whole body of the land out 
of his protection. Judge what it worketh in the people. 

About October 10, my brother sawe a booke that shewed the 
o-rounds of suspicion that the old marquesse Hamilton and king 
James were both poysoned by the duke and his mother, <fcc. A 
large and well pend discor.rse.^ 

,i,t, Ir-. [aCCOMMOT)ATIi:'N ] 

f<i tl:i>. . jhe Parlianaeni criei " Arniie:"' tlit Kir- snves " No '." 

The tewe Lieftenanu eric, " Marclie on, let us gae." 
The Citizens and Ronndbeades crie, " So, so." 
The People, all amazed, crie, " AVhere is the foe ? " 
The Scones that stuiid behind the dore crie " Boli 1" 
Here stav a vhile, and you shall know. 
The King stands still, faster then they can gue ; 

For if, by furee of armes, the King prevailes. 

He ii invited to a tyrannie ; 

But if, by strength of Parliament, he failes, 

We beayve corjtinuall warres upon posteritie. 

Tber. he tha: is not fur accommodation 

Loves neither God. iu-t Ci:'artL, nor King, nor Nation. 

These verses, I believe, were made belbre that the ICtiile of Essex 
went forth, and inav be conceived to be a secret taxing ol'the Parlia- 
ment, for arming of men against tlie King, when he protested not 
to intcndc warre against the Parliament. Indeed if the Parliament 

'<• \i\ George Egli«Lam. or Eghseuimins, a Scotchman ; it was originally written in 
Latin, and puidished :n iCiC, but translated and entitled " The Forerunner of l\e\eiige ; 
being two Petitions, one to the King and the other to the Parliament; wherein is expressed 
divers actions of the iateearl (sic) of Buckingl:am, especially concerning the death of king 
James and the marqcess of Hamiiion, suj.posed l.y poysou." 4to. London, 1C42. It is 
rejinnted bolh in the Harlesiii Miscellany, vol. li. aj^d in the Somers Tracts, vol. v. 



A.D. 1(-12.] 



DlAllY OF JOHN KOUS. 125 



liad not sufficient grouiides o!' a contrary practise, by the Maliguant 
side with the King appeering at Hull and elsewhere, they had de- 
served to be taxed ; yet it was litle witte in the composer to tiixe 
that high court, and further what knavery was in it 1 leave to be 
judged by others. I conceive (as the Parliament) that his ^lajestie is 
abused, and 1 conceive of the Malignant party (some at the least) 
as of cheators, that desire to be believed, till they have fully gulled 
the foole they have in handling. Legge of Brandon said, " Believe 
it." 

Thus I have written in leaning to others, who perhaps may have 
hit the veine of him that wrote the verses. But yet I, in another 
charitable way, (because the author is unknowne.) can construe thus, 
" Then he," &c. vers, ultimo, viz. Tliat desires not a peaceable ac- 
commodation, Loves not God, Church. King, nor Xation. Who 
loves not the Parliament, loves not the Nation. Y\'ho loves not 
the King and Parliament, in the xcay on footc from the Parliavient, 
loves none of all. The Parliament that be for tlie King, prince, &c. 
with the safety of the nation, have given theire word and promise 
(Avhich is the word of the kingdome, not easily violated or to be 
abused.) for His Majestie's safetie and honour. Some yet call the 
Parliament side Pioundheads, wlio be themselves, in requitall, called 
Malignants. (They wold not have the title of the father of all malig- 
nants. I dare say;) butAvhat title they deserve, let themselves iud"-e 
Avlio hate reformation, and wold bring in tvrannie. I followc 
the author of the former verses. 

About October 22, there was a Declaration from both houses,*^ 
setting forth His Majestie's late dealing in Ireland, to the encouraL^e- 
ment of rebels, his sending for foraine aid to Hamburgh, Denmarke, 
and neerer neighbors : his commissions to diverse named papists, to 
gather up men in England against the Parliament, &c. 

October 2.3, was tlie batai'e neere Kinton in "Warwickshire, The iMtt.iil 

neer Kin ion. 
•' Ru>l,w..,,l,, ;,;. iii. vul. ii. p. 2(5. 



12G DIAKY OF JOHN KOUS. [A.D. 1G42. 

towards Banbury in Oxfordshire. About tbis battailc, the lord "Whar- 
ton's, ]\Ir. Stroud's, the earl of Pembroke's, the lord Saye's, and tlic 
earl of Holland's speeches at the Guildhall, London, be extant." The 
lord "VMrarton and j\Ir. Stroud -were of the Parliament armv, in tliis 
fight, who related to the lord mayor to this eflect. The fi:zht was 
in the place recited, about a place called Edge-hill, October 23. 
The King's forces came in the morning; the battaile began (inheatc) 
about three or four in the afternoon. The erle of Essex' cannons 
began first on the assailants. The King's forces had the advantage 
i'.,nui. to of number much, and of wind and hill At the first onset, the lord 

S.uuO or 9. A^liarton's regiment of horse, and three others of the left winir fled: 
prince Eupert's company pursued them, slajdng many and plunder- 
ing the M-agons of the erle, and diverse captaines. The erle's 
company fought stoutly, and vrith tlie losse of about 300 men, slcwe 
3,000, tooke the King's standerd, sir Henry [Edmund] Terney being 
slaine. They tooke the erle of Linsey,the generall (who is since dead 
of his hurtj; also the lord Willoughby, his sonne. They tooke 
colonell Vavasor and Lunsford (who they say is dead), whose brother 
SeeoneacfideiJt ^Yas slaiue. The erle stood upon the field that night, Moonday and 
]75.t. ''^ part of Tuisda}-. The King's company shewed themseh'es, Moonday 
morning, on an hill, but approched not. The erle tooke four 
pieces of ordnance, and many colours. I/i the same hoohc is inserted, 
amon^r the speeches, a Speecli of His Majestic to his soldiers, ex- 
pressinsT what he had done and protested for the Parliament, and the 
protestant reliuiou, inciting to figlit couragioush'', saying that hattailes 
mccesse shold -inunifest his innocejtcy. The lord Sayes close was to 
excite the Londoners to be readie and forward, in pursuing the 
victory; (w-herof one said, he never saw more done by God, and 
lesse by man,) using this persuasion, " Men in a common fire run 
and helpe to quench, never asking who shall pay for theire worke." 

"• " Eight SpeecLei-, spoken in Guildhall, October 27, 1G42, bvthe lord Wharton," &c. 
uiu. Loudon, 16i'2. 



A.D. 1042 1 .DIAIiY OF JOHN ROUS. 127 

It is since reported that many of the King's part are fled, ond ^l^^J^^^^^^ 
many wounded are dead at Oxford ; and tliat the Kings part suffered away, 
more losse then before. Too much.'^ Upon the 21 of Xoveraber, it 
remained as a doubt whether prince Eupert were not slaine (who 
returned from plundering to the fight): of whom some say he was cut 
of by the middle, others he was beate of his horse; others that his 
plume and helmet were taken up out of the bloud; others generally 
that a George was found among the slaine, supposed to be his, for he 
was lately advanced extraordinary to be knight of the Garter. They 
suppose this is concealed in policy, and that still a prince Eupert is 
fcined in the campe. 

Xovember 2, came forth aiiother (the last) Parliament Eemon- 
strance, in answer to his Majestie's answer about Hull busines. It is 
full, and was kept till now by reason of wcighte affayres on foote. 
(Dr. Archbishop of Yorke penned the King's answer.) In the 
remonstrance. I observed a record of the manner of coronation. The 
oath being given on a scaffold, by Canterbury, the said archbishop 
roxneth to the people on ech side of the scaffold, saving " The oath 
is taken ; will 3'ou gladly accept this King to reigne over you ?" 
Theire consent eudes the busines. 

November 21,1 saw at j\Ir. Prattes at Hockwold,^ " Special 1 ^"o'her fight. 
Passages," from November 8 to 15, where it is said Sir pA-eling *^ 
spake to the lower house, that he wassory that he was set as a marke 
by the King, &c., to stay the accommodation; (we had heard that 
six were appointed for delivery of a Parliament message, and one 
was proclaimed Traytor (for an hindrance) by a newe wet proclama- 
tion, for his hindeiing the commiss. of array, &c). The Parlia- 
ment commons consulted, and sent the other five, leaving him to goe 
or not, pro libituA Wednesday (I suppose) they went with a 

^ Added afterwards. ^' Grimsboe hundred, co. Norfolk. 

'^ Sir .Tohn Evelyn. 

'' Evelyn had been excepted by name, in the King's proclamation for pardon to the 
countv of Wiltshire, and therefore the King refused to receive him. 



1 



128 l>ia]:y of .toiix unvs. [a.d. 1C42. 

Petition to consider of pixvcution of bloudslied, to desire establish- 
ment of religion, laAves, liberties of sr.bjects. priviledges of parliament." 
The Ivino" accepts it. delaves answer for a while as needing no hast. 
On Friday or Thnrsdav, his Majestic makes answer Tvith deepe pro- 
testations about religion, lawcs. &c..pro more solito.^ On Saturday it 
is said, (notwithstanding the same protestations.) he and his army 
came in a misty morning betimes, from Ccilnebrooke to Brainford, 
six miles fi-om London, where sir Denzill Hollis' Eegiment of 
Butchers, that had fought stoutly in the former battail, were billeted ; 
and there began an bote fight from ten to three pomer. diverse 
beinix slaine; and that tbe King's side plundered the towne, and 
tooke linnen, brasse, victunls, &c., and left the tovruc naked. That 
the KiuL^'sarmie went lo Jvingston-upon-Thames; and therethrough 
fayre wordes was entortaiiicd, yet might have Imtu kept out from 
comino- over the bridge. That a pinnace on tbe Thames, comming 
up with amunition. was shot at and defended stoutly b\' the mariners, 
till at length they were forced to liie by the boate, yet left a traine; 
and in the escape fired her there, lest the King's side shold enjoy her 
carriajre. &c. I there also sxiwe the letter of sir Corn. Y.,'^ vrh.o agrees 
to tlie battaile, and the King's commhig in person on Saturday, 
afnrniing that there was a sore fight, and that two small Parlia- 
mentary supplies came, ere the skirmish ended; that 100 or 200 
were slaine, — that the Parliament army was hei-e on Sunday morne, 
— tliat the Kii;g's army, (by some suspected fault,) was not set upon, 
but suffered to depart, and goe over the Thames to Kingston in 
Surrey; that the Parliament army is 25,000, the King's but 9,000; 
that the Cavahers killed one woman's child of three days ould before 
her face, and then killed her: that a gentleman, a German of his 
acquaintance, rode from London to Brainford to see the towne; and 

^ Primed in ClarendoD's Histfin' of tbe RebeHlon, vol. ii. p ](I3. 

'' A mistake. Ir was retnrne'l in a few liours. Ihil. \i. ]ui. 

"^ Brentford. 

'' Prohaiiiv Sii- Coriielir.p Verii.r.vrler.. 



A.D. 1642.] DIARY OF JOHN ROUS. 129 

returning, told liim that of all the plundered townes he had seen in 
Germany, he had seen not one so ruinde and defaced as Brainford. 
That all the townes between Oxford and Brainford are also plundered : 
that the Parliament resolves an irrevocable pursuite of the spoylers, 
itc. ; tliat 4,000 nevre horse were readie for that service. 

In the Passages, I remember it was said that, whereas it was de- 
sired that some saylors might goe with the erle of "\^"arwicke, the 
mai5ter of the Trinity House at Detfbrd gave contrary charge, who is 
therefore a delinquent, and his office taken from him, &c. I was 
told of some older newes, viz: a daughter of Mr. Asty once of Feltw. 
Kich.' in the house now the lord Bankes' fwho married Mr. 
Cradock, minister, and her brother is parson of Wrentham,^ bv ^i/- Cradoci<( 
Henham). wi-ote lo her father that, lately in these times, her husband, 
mr. Cradocke, had intelligence in the night, that certaine Cavaliers 
that night wold kill him; he fled out of bed, went not in the higli 
way. but over hedges, by-pathes, &c., appointing his man to meet 
him with an horse. The Cavaliers came, raged that they cold not 
find him; the wife gave good wordes; they threatned to kill her; 
she entreated, and avowed that he was fled, she knew not whether; 
they plundered, tooke a chest of linnen, and sought for more; but 
some from the parliamentary quarters came to rescue, and beate a 
drum ; so the Cavaliers fled, yet tooke all the horses of iSh. Cradocke, 
and that linnen. Mr. Cradocke and his company be gotten to 
Coventry, and dare not use theire parsonage. 

Mr. Snelling senior told me at Brandon. November 11, that he 
had a kinsman married, who, with fifteen more 3'onkers (some of the 
innes of court\ went on pleasure from London to see the Campe, and 
were there October 22 : so then they stood as spectators, October 23, 

* Feltwell, consisting of the parishes of St ]\lary and St. Nichola'consolidated, hundred 
of Gritashoe. c-o. Norfolk. 

'' The baptijais of tliree children of " Robert As-tv, preaclicr of God's word,'' in ] 6Jin- 
1642, are gi^eu from the registers of Wrenthani, in Davv's Sufiblk Collections, Addit. 
MS. 1P,0S3. I. 219. 

CAMD. SOC. 5 



130 DIAKY OF JOHN KOCS. [A.D. 1C43. 

till the King's side vrent downe, and then they gave aid to it, and 
were cut of, thirteen of them. His kinsman escaping, -wrote this 
to his wife, then at Thetford with Mr. Snelling. 

Another thing was told bv mr. Chaplen, at Downham. Xovcmber 
30, that one of the King's side, a Yorkeshire man, was in the fight, 
and heard many cursing and blaspheming, with imprecations against 
the Eoundheads, whom he sawe perish in the middest of tlieire 
oathes, &c. He observed, three things that went neere him. The 
King's side wanted powder, and going to one wagon for powder that 
was bloweu up, and so a second, with the losse of many men; and 
one piece of ordnance, a great-e one, a murderer, ike, at the first 
shoote, burst in many pieces, and hurt many of theire ovme, etc. 
These made liim resolve a departure from that side, which he made 
b}' helpe of a frend, who bought the Parliament colours, by wliich 
he returned home safe. The same told us that the good lord 
TVilloughby of Parham was strangely delivered; he tooke pliysicke 
that day at Kinton, not thinking of a fight. The captaine that 
brought up his company brought them close up, and then fled to 
the other side, shot of his pistoll, and cried *' for the King." The 
men not brought of perished. This had light on the lord, if he had 
beene there. He being warned, fled on horse backe, with his 
phvsicke in his bodv, to a farmer's hotise three or fotrr miles of, and 
in a barne retired himselfe and escaped. Quere. 

A ship taken between Boston and Hull with 1.500 armes, 160 
barrelles of gunpowder. Boston men ride out and fetch in such as 
speake against the Parliament, causing some to be sent to the 
Parliament, some to be bailed for appeerance, &c., as theire fault 
deserves — some imprisonment. 

In the begliming of May 1643, Cheapside crosse was taken downe. 
?"*^?- „ ;, A booke intituled " Questions resolved and Propositions tending to 

Anoiner called ^ / r >) 

Eng-iand's peti- Accommodation and Agreement between the King, <tc. 

tioner. ■»-• , 

irirst question. 

1. Whether a King be ordeined of God for the welfare of the 



Chen 



eapsiae 



A.D. 1C43.1 DIARY OF JOHN KOUS. 131 

people, or the people appoiuted subjects to the King, for the honour 
and pleariire of a King. 

2. TVliether a King maketh or imposeth lawes upon a people, or 
the lawes and antient native and ancient customes of the land doe 
erect and establish the throne and crowne of a King. 

3. TThat power or prerogative the King hath, supra, pra'ter. or rogatham^recis 
contra legem terras. dispuuri. 

4. Wliat power or priviledc'e the iiis;h court of Parliament hath, Barones noiu- 

^ r 1 o o ' nius leges 

assembled as the representative body of the kingdome. Augiiae immu- 

* DiscC'verlng six sorts of Malignants. *^'"'' 

1 . All Papists, &c. 

^ So in MS. 




I N D E X. 



Abbot, G-eorge, archbishop ot Canterbury-, 75 

Adams, Mr. 83 

Admiral, lord, 'cidt Buckingham, duke of 

Aldermanburj-, SO 

Alexander, AVilliam , 56 

Alm;inacs, prophetic, 102 

Alps, S7 

America. 32 

Amsterdam, 34, 42, i^C, 117 

Anglesev, Charles Tilliers, earl of. ol 

Antwerp, 9G 

Aragon, 121 

Archduchess, ridr Isabella Ciara Eugenia 

Argjle, Archibald Campbell, earl of, 3 

Arinarguers, 36 

Aristotle, 115 

Arminian, 35, 42 

Arminianism, 35, 40 

Arundel, Thomas Howard, earl of, lord ohitf 

justice in E.\Te. 23, 92 
Arundel, Henrr Frederick, e-i^rl of. lord Mal- 

travers, 3, 88 
Arundel, Elizabeth countess of, 3 
Ashton, captain, 42 
Astley, sir Jacob. 7, 86 
Astv, Mr. 129 
Asty, Mr. daughter of, 121* 
Audley, lord, vcd< Castleha>en, earl of 
Austria, 74 



Austria, house of, 50 
Ayers, Thomas. 64 

Babel, 1 02 

Babylon, 111 

Ball, Dr. Richard, 84 

Baltic sea, 67 

Banbury, 126 

Banks, sir J. attorney-general and lord chief 

justice, 77. 129 
Baracke, brother (Barclay r) 42 
Barret, Mr. 35, 38, 44 
Barton mills, 48, 67 
Bactwick, Dr. John, 82, 99 
Bavaria. Maximilian duke of, 5i' 
Bayly (Lewis?), bishop (of Bangor ?) 76 
Bealings, sir Henn-, 76 
Beauchamp's court, 30 
Beckham, 69 
Bedford, 83 

Bedford, Francis Russell, earl of, 94 
Bedingfield, 24 
Beecher, sir Thomas, 98 
Beecher, sir William, 101 
Beke, Henry, 64 
Bell Sound, 64 
Bennei ollege, 70 
Bergen-op-Zoom, 62 
Berkeley, sir Robert, judge, 85, 113 



134 



Berkshire, 1, 90. 91 

Berw-ick, 8S 

Binion, Mr. 121 

Bohemia, 38, 67 

Bohngbroke, Oliver St. John, earl cf, 94 

BcMjker's prophetic almanac, 102 

Boston, 53, So, 130 

Bramston, sir Jo. 85 

Brandon, 11, 49,60,125, 129 

Breda, 82 

Brentford, 12S, 129 

Brett, sir Alexander. 21 

Britain, 29, 38, 8S 

Bristol, 17 

Bristol, John Digby, earl of, lOO 

British heretics, 36 

Brooke, Fulk GreviUe, lord, 30 

Brooke, Robert Greville, lord, &i, 95, 101, 

122, 123 
Brooke, lady, 101 
Browning, Nathan, 61, 68 
Buchanan (Beucanian), John, 42 
Bucke, rev. James. S3, 84 

Bucke, rev. , 66 

Buckingham, George Villiers, duke of, 1, S, 

7_12, 14—20, 25—34, 42, 124 
Buckingham, Katheriue duchess of, 27, 28, 

32 
Buckingham, Marj- Tilliers, couniesi of, ]24 
Buckinghamshire, 83, 112 
Burgundians, 81 
Burton, Henr>, 5, 37. 82, 99 
Bun- St. Edmund's. 6, 8, 41, 48, 53, 54, 60, 

61, 62, 68,81, S3, 121,123 
BusheU, Philip, 76 
Butts, Dr. 70 
Cadiz, 1, 22 



Gales, vide Cadiz 

Calvin. John, reformer, 62 

Calvinists, 67 

Cambridge, 3, 6, 10. 34, 51, 52, 55,56, 63, 
70, 79,99, 115 

Cambridge, earl of, r«o\ Hamilton, marquis 

Cambridgeshire, 83 

Canada, 37 

Canterbury Bell, the, 117 

Canterbury, archbp. ridt Abbot and Laud 

Canwick (or SUnwick,) rev. Mr. 103. 

Carleion, George, bishop of Chichester, 5, 6 

Carlos, Don, v^kh Colonna 

Cassal, 87 

Casilehaven, earl of, Men"in Toucbet, lord 
Audley, 60 

Castlet-on, sir William. 121 

Catlin, Mr. 69 

Chaderton, Dr. 99 

Chalcedon, bishop of, ride Smith, Richard 

Chamberlain, lord, ride Lindsey, earl of 

Chaplen, Mr. 130 

Charles I. 1—4, 7, 9—12, 14—19, 25, 26, 
28, 29, 32—39. 42, 44, 46, 47, 49, 51—54, 
56, 70, 75, 76, 80, 82, S5, 87—101, 104, 
' 106—108, 113, 114, lis, 120—131 
I Charles II.. prince, 52 — 55, 114. 125 
[ Cbeapside Cross, 130 
j Cheshire, 8 

' Chichester, bishop of, vide Carleion 
I Christian IV.. king of Denmark, 7, 10, 12, 
i 17,38,43 
I Churchwardens, 51, 52 
I Cleaver, 'William, 117 
j Clement VIII., pope, 87 
i Clerke, ,15 



Clerkenweli, 14 



INDEX. 



135 



Cleveland, 59 

Cleye, 23 

Coke, sir Edward, lord chief justice of tbe 
king's bench, 2, 3, S 

Colchester, 121 

Colnbrook, 128 

Colonna, Don Carlos de, Spanish Ambas- 
sador, 56, 59, S3 

Commons. House of, 4, 16, 40, 50, 98, 100, 
104, 105, 111, 112, 119, 120, 127, 128 

Conde, Henr)' de Bourbon, prince of, 113 

Constance, queen of Poland, 61 

Conwav, Edward, lord secretary of state, 21 

Corbet, Ricliard, bishop of Oxford, 43, 55, 
TO, 71 

Coriton, Mr. 40 

Cosin, Dr. John, bishop of Durham, 35 

Cotton, Mr. 53 

Coventry, 122, 129 

Coventry, sir Thomas, lord keeper, 3 

Couper, Mr. 5S 

Cradock, Mr. 129 

Cradock, Mrs. 129 

Craven, AVilliam lord, S6 

Cre^e, sir Randolj>h, chief justice of the 
king's bench, 7, 8 

Crofts, Francis, 67 

Croke, sir George, justice of the king's bench, 
85,90 

Crosby, master, 73 

Crow, sir Sackrille, 34 

Cudworth, widow, 80 

Dalham, 61, 110 

Dancer, at Lynn, verses on, 73 

Danes, 38, 104 

Dawes, John, 64 

Denbigh, William Fielding, earl of, 15, 17 



Denmark, 82, 125 

Denmark, king of, vide Christian lY. 

Dennington, 45, 61 

Deptford, 129 

Derbyshire, 8, 9 

Dering, sir Edward, 123 

Diglets, Mr. 24 

Dod, John, 117 

Dorset, Edward Sackville, earl of, 17, SI 

Do\<-nham, 121, 130 ; ministers' house at, ix. 

Drapier, 39 

Drury, sir Drew, 32 

Ducke, Dr. 99 

Dudley, sir Edmund, 109 

Dunkirk, 2 

Dunkirk ship, 55 

Dunkirkers,2, 9, 18, 43 

Dutch, ride Hollanders 

East Dereham, 49 
Edgehill, 126 
Edgar, launched, 83 
Edward I., 97 

Egelfred, Ethelred, king, 3 04 
Elden, 67 

Elizabeth, queen, 30, 39. 98 
Elizabeth, queen of Bohemia, 17, 19 
Ellingham, 48, 49 
Elliot, sir John, 40 
Elmswell, 60 

Ely, bishop of, vide Wren, Matthew- 
Emmanuel college, 80, 99 
Empson (Simpson), sir Richard, 109 
England, 1, 6, 8, 13, 18, 25, 39, 40, 53, 56, 

59, G3, 66, 76, 80, 82, 90, 93, 95, 97, 

114, 125 
English, 13, 14, 21, 25, 27, 29, 30, 32, 4C, 

49,63,66, 75, 87, 90,103, 104 



136 



INDEX. 



Epirus, 74 

Eriswell, 31 

Essex, 2, 5, 7, 14, 83 

Essex, Robert Devereux, earl of, ^. i'4, 123, 

124, 126 
Europe, S6, S7 
Evelyn, sir John, 127 
Exchange, Royal, 33 
Exchequer, 51, 90, 104 
Exeter, William Cecill, earl of, 94 

Fakeley, AVilham, 64 

Falkland, Henn- Gary, viscount, 47, 7o,'104 

Faringdon, 90 

Felton, John, 25, 26,27, 2S. 29. 30,33,34 

Feltwell,123 

Ferdinand II. emperor of Germany, 36, 40, 

r.9, 63, 65, 67, 81, 82 
Ferdinand III. emperor, 59,67. 82, 113 
Fielding, viscount, rid>: Denbigh, earl, 15, 33 
Finborough, 60 
Finch, sir John, lord chief justice of common 

pleas and lord keeper, 34, 77, 99, 107, 

108,117 
Flanders, 83 
Fleet prison, 47, 121 
Flegg, 56 
Flemish, 38 
Flinde, William, 116 
Fountain, Mr. 39 
Fortune, 58 
France, 1, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 22, 32, 39, 41, 

44, 46, 47, 50, 59, 73, 75. 81. 82, 113, 121 
France, king of, vide Louis XIII. 
Frederic V. king of Bohemia, 34, 38, 54, 65, 

68, 69, 70 
French,7, 8— 13. 15,20, 21,32.33, 37,39, 

44.40, 98,121 



Friedland, Albertu? Wenc^iaus Wallen'^tein 

duke of. 7 
Fryer, colonel, 28 

Gabor, Bethlehem, 44 

Games, Mr. 45 

Garie, Mr. 69 

Garnet, father, 102 

Geneva, 73, 117 

Germany, 13, 59, 73, 75. 77, 86, 95, 113 

129 

Germany, emperor, of r<'<?t Ferdinand 

Germany, states of, 59 

Giily, Mr. daughter of, 60 

Gohogan, Arthur, 75 

Goliah, ]02 

Goodfellow, Robert, 64 

Goodler, captain William, 64 

Goring, colonel, 32, 123 

Goths, 74 

Grantham, vicar of, 80 

Gravesend, 53 

! Grebner, Paul, 65, 68 

I 

i Greece, 74 

Greene, ISIr. 62 

Greenland, Mr. 63. 04 

Greenwich, 75 

Gregory XT. 109 

Grimes Hall, 11 

Groll, 10 

Guelderland, 10 

Guildhall, 126 

Gusta\-us Adolphus, king of Sweden, 38, 4; 

56,59, 61,63, 65—70.73—75 

Hadleigh, 81 
Hales, 24, 55, 56 
Halesworth, 5S, 60 



IN-DEX. 



137 



Hamburgli, f*6. 123 

HamiUon, James Dougla.^, iad inanjui* of, 124 

Hamilton, James. l>oucla£, ord marquU of, 

54, 61, 65 
Hanse towns, 67 
Hargaie, 121, 123 
HarlestoD, 66 
Harrison, Mr. 86 
Harney, Francis, judge, 2-i, 62 
Harwich, 2 
Hayman, sir Peter, 40 
Heape, Jo. 29 
Heath, sir Robert, lord chief joKiee of the 

conmion pleas, Gc. 0^, 77 
HeLhaia, 7, 66, 12& 
Henrietia Maria, queen. 1. 11, 12, E2, SP, 

49, f.4, 56, 70, 8S 
Henry IT. king of France, 12 
Henry, prince of Bohemia, Z4, 35 
Henry "^. 3S 

Henry of Huntingdon, IOt 
Herbert, sir Edward, auor&ey-genenJ, 121 
Hereford, 75 

Hertford, William Seymour, earl of, ^4 
Hertfordshire, 83 
Hertogensbusehe, 4.1, 43 
Heveningbam, sir John, t-, 14 
Heylin, Dr. 80,107 
Higham, Mr. 27 

Hoban, sir Miles, 4'.'; rid-. Hubl>erd 
Hockwold, 125 
Holbom, London, 84 
Holbom, Mr. 85 
Holland. 30, 32, 33, 66, 82 
Holland, Hemx Rich, eari oi, 12, 25, 46. 

75, 80, 126 
Hollanders, 9, 11, 14, 27, ?.3, 35, 38, 41, 
43, 45, 46, 59, 6'\ 62, €4, 82, 83, 113 
CAilD. SOC. 



HoUhs sir Denzill, 40. 128 

Holto2, 58 

Honington, 82 

Howard, lord, 94 

Howlet, Mr. 11 

Hubberd, Mr. 48 

Hubt.erd, sir John, 48 

Hughenden, 112 

Hull, 65, 125, 127, 130 

le Hunt, sir George, CI 

Hutchinson, sir Thomas, 111 

Button, sir Richard, justice of common pleas, 

j Hyde, sir Nicholas, lord chief justice of the 
king's Unch, 8, 48, 49, 62, 63 

Imperialists, 81 
Indies-, 50 
Indies, East, 14, 33 
Indies, West, 33, 43, 45 

Ipswich, 2, 23, 4r., 62, 82, 99 

Ireland, 4C, 60, C2, 75, 76, 98, 120. 121, 

Irishmen, 14, 38, 70, 75, 94 

Isabella Clara Eugenia, archduche*? and 

goremess of the Spanish Netherlands, 39 
Italiaa, 84 
Iialy, 46, 87 
Ls worth, 49, 82 

Jamej I. S, 4, 11, 26, 30, 34, 50, 71, 125 

James, duke of York, 75 

James, Mr. 48 

Jenkinson, Mr. 62 
! Jen[Der],T. 29 
i Jercy, 83, 84 

Jermyn. sir Thomas. CI 
' JerusiiieDi, 103 



r 



138 



Jesuits, ^3, 14, S3, 3D, 46, CI, 62, 6€, 75, 

PS, 119 
Jones, judge, 85 
Jordan, 42 

Judges, 50, e2, 65, 90, 104, 105, 107 
Juson, Dr. "William, bishop of London, 75, 80 

Keene, Mr. 49 

Keeper, lord, vkh Coventry and Finch 

Keinton, 125, 130 

Kellett, Richard, 04 

Kent, 33, 70. 117, 123 

Kesgrave, 45 

Kiltnallock, Dominic Sarsfield, viscount, 76 

Kingston-upon-Thames, 12S 

Kirke, captain, 32, 37 

Kn. J<jhn, 72 

Lackford, 66, 07 

Lambe, Dr. 1 7, 20, 26, 31 

Lambeth, 35.37, 81, 90, 101 

Lancashire, 8, 9 

Landguard fort, 2, 7, 02 

Langer fort, 'i.'iZt- Landguard fort 

Lapland, 66 

Laud, William, bishop of London, archbishop 
of Canterburv-, 35, 36, 50, 75, 82, 109, 
115, 118, 119; verse? on, 109, 117 

Laud, Mr. 5S 

Laxfield, 45 

Leader, AVilliani, 37 

Lees, CO. Essex, 45 

Legge, Mr. 125 

Legge, captain, 122 

Leicestershire, 9 

Leighton, Dr. Alexander, 53, 54, 55, 99 

Leipsic. 67, 70 

Lennox. Esme Stuart, duke of. 3, 54 



Ley, sir Janjes, loi'd cliief justice of the 

king's bench, earl of Marlborough, 8 
Lilly, William, 117 
Lincoln, Tom of, 117 
Lincoln, Theopbilus Clinton, earl of, 9, 94 
Lincolnshire, 9, 10, 4S, 60, £3, 123 
Lincoln's inn, 40, 7(' 
Lindi-ey, Robert Bertie, lord AViUoughby, 

earl of, lord chamberlain, 30, 126 

Lisbon, 75 

Litcham, 81 

Lithgo, 73 

. Littleport, 03 

Littleton, Edward, recorder, king's solicitor, 

afterwards lord Lyttieton, 77 
Loddon, 56, 57 
Lombard street. 111 

London, 1, 5, 11, 13,14,16,17, 23,27,31, 
32.. 35, 36, 39,41,45—47,49,50, 52, 53, 
55, Z<^>, :^i, 62, 65, 70, 75, 76, 80—82, 
88, 93, 95, 100, 103, 121, 123, 128, 129 
London, bishoji of, vidt Laud 
London bridge, 70 
London, lords mayor of. 

sir James Campbell, 42 
sir Hugh Hammersley, IS 
sir Richard Deane, IS 
sir Robert Ducie, 54 
sir Richard Gurney, 126 
I Londoners, 18, 53, 126 

I London, Tower of, 2, 8, 9, 14, IS, 60, 70, 
I 81 

I Long Melford, 121, 123 
I Lords, house of, 98, 113, 119 
I Lorraine. Charles duke of, 65, 77, 78 
Lorraine, house of, 77. 78, 81 
Lorraine, Nicholas Fi-ancis, duke of, 77, 78 
Lorrainers. 81 



INDEX. 



139 



Loudon, Jobn CanH»l>fcll, earl of. cbanot-lior 

ofSwtland.SS 
Louis XIIL kiug of France, 1, S, i', 15, 54, 

59 77 7S, SI, SO, S7 
Lovelace, John lord, t'-l 
Lowestoft, 55 
Lucifer, SS 

Lunsford, colonel, 123, 126 
Lusbington, Dr. 44, 77 
Luther, 62 
Lrnn, 55. 60, 73, SI 
Lntletun, fti Littleton. 

Macbiavelii, lOii 

Maddeson, Mr. 22, 2'i, 24 

Magdeburg, Gl, 62, 63 

Mainwariug, Dr. Roper, bisbop of St. David's, 

17,37 
Maltravers, lord, 2 ; rUh Arundel 
Mancbesier, Henry Montagu, earl of, S 
Mandevilie, ^•iscount, ^-4 
Mannock, sir Franci--, 122 
Mansfeldt, Ernest count of, 7 
Marie de Medicis, 12, SP. 54. :>'^, &S 
Marlhorougb, Janies Ley, e^i of, 8 
Markiw, 99 

Marsbalsea prison, S, 14 
Martin, Mr. 46^ 122 
Martiesham, 23 

Man.', princess of Orange, 63, 113 
Mass, verses on tbe, 11 S 
Maud, Mr. 41 
Melford, 121 
Mentz, 68 
Meihwold, 69 
Mexico, 47 

Ministers, 51, 52, 69, SO, 111, 112, 113, 120, 
122 



Moliun, captain, 9u 

Mondeford, 44 

Montague, Ricbard, bisbop of Chichester and 

Norwich, 5, 6, 37 
Montagu, Walter, 25 
Montpesson, sir Giles, 110 
Morocco and Fez, king of, ride Muley Scbeck 
Moscow, (iS 

Muley Scbeck, emperor of Morocco, 83 
Mulgrave, Edmund Sheffield, earl of, 94 
Musgrave, Mr. 48, 49 



Nantes, bO 

Naples, 113 

Nassau Liegen, John count of, 69 

Navarre, SI 

Nehemiab, 103 

Netherlands, 7, 56, 75 

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 81, 92, 93, 98 

New Churchman, The (verses), 78 

New England, 53, 54, 80 

Newgate. 76 

Newmarket, 56 

Nivella, Jean de, 73 

Norfolk, 1,2, 6, S, 10, 12 

56, 67, 68 
Normans, 104 
Normansell, 31 
North, Dudley lord, 94 
North, Mr. 121 
Northampton, 86 
Northamptonshire, 9, S3 
Norton, Mr. 58 
Nons-ich, 5, 6, 31, 37, 52, 

67, 77, 80, 82, 83 
Nottingham, 123 
Nova Francia, 32 
Noye, sir "William, attoj-ney-general, /t 



13, 



IG, 51, 



>6. 57. 62, 63, 



140 



nCDEX. 



Orange, Frederick Eenrr prinee of, 10, 43, 

44, C2, lis 
Orange, "VViiUam prince of, IIS 
Orleans, SI 

Orleans, Gaston duke of. C3, 77 
Overburr, sir Thomas, 72 
Overton, Henr}-, 112 
Oxborough, 23, 24 
Oxford, 1,2, G, 44, 71, 127 
Oxford, vice-chancellor of, 123 
Oxfordshire, 90, 125 

Paine, Mr. 11, 45 

Palatinate, 12, 56, 59, 65, G7, 69 

Palatine, elector, Charles Louis, SI. S2, S6, 

SS 
Palatine, prince, riJi Frederick V. 
Palsgrave, ride Frederick V. 
Papists, 1, 2, 3, 22, 43, 60, 61, 93, 9£, 117 

—119, 121, 125, 131 
Paris, SI 
Parliament, 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 12, 14— IS, 23. 30, 

35, 36,39, 40, 47, 55, SS, 90, 91, 94, 95, 

9S, 99, 101, 103, 104,106, lOS, 110— j]4, 

119—121,123-131 
Parliament, verses on the dissolution 1640. SS 
Partridge, Jo. 63 
Peck, Mr. -69 
Pelham, Edward. 64 
Pembroke Hall, S4 
Pembroke, Man- countess of, 54 
Pembroke, PhiJip Herbert, earl of, 36, 123. 

101,126 
Pembroke, William Herbert, earl of, [read 

" as, Pembroke,'"" 51 
Pennington, alderman, 111 
Pennington, captain, 10 
Perkins. Mr. 54 



Philip II. of Spain, 66 

Philip IV. king of Spain, 59, 97 

Philips, sir Robert, 2 

Phcebus, 43 

Pils worth, 76 

Plague, the, 50, 51, 52, 55, 56, 60, 62 

Plavfair, Mr. 5S 

Plymouth, 1, 31 

Poland, 43, 5S, 61 

Poland, queen of, rc'tfe Constance 

Polychronicon, 103 

Pomerania, Bugis'.aus duke of, 59 

Pope's head alley, 111 

Popes, f-i(7f Gregory XT., Urban VIH. 

Portsmouth, 10, 14, 25, 31, 32, 123 

Portugal, 113, 121 

Prague, 65, 67 

Pratt, a murderer, 70 

Pratt, Mr. Osbert, 16, 37, 49, 127 

Prince, heathen, 47 

Privy councillors, 2S, 30, 47, 50, 76, 92, 94 

Projjhecies, 36, 103 : of Grebner, 65, 68 

Prophetic almanac, 102 

Protestants, 9, 13, 40, GO, 67, 77, 79. 119, 

12C 
Prynne, William, 3S, 42, 70, S2. 90, 99 
Puritans, 45, 55, 118 

Pye, sL- , C2 

Pyra, Mr. 42 

Queen regent, ridt Marie de Medicis 

R. sir W. 72 
Ramsey, Mr. 50 
Ravens, Dr. 34 
Reade, Mr. 104 
Reading. 1 
Rednall. CO 



141 



Reedham ferry, 57 

Reeve, sir Edward, judge, 101 

Reimingham, 56 

Rhe, island of, 10, 11, 13, 14, 20, 21, 22, 
SI, 42 

Rheetia, 87 

Rich, sir Charles, 21 

Richardson, sir Thomas, lord chief justice of 
the king's bench, 62, 63, C8 

Richelieu, Armand John du Piessis, car- 
dinal and duke of, 73, 86, 87 

RiddJesworlh, 11 

Ripon, 100 

Rocbelle, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15, 17, IS, 25, 2S, 
80—33, 87 

Rochellers, 11, 31 

Rockland, 48 

Rodoljih, II. emperor of Austria, 66 

Roe, [Rolfe,] sir Thomas, 68 

Rogers, Mr. 6 

Romans, king of, ride Ferdinand III. emperor 

Rome, 30, 88, 74,80, 117—119 

Rotterdam, 96 

Rous, pedigree of, v 

Rous, Anthony, junior, 45 

Rous, Anthony, senior, ^^, 61 

Rous, Mr. Francis, of Essex, 5, 6 

Rous, Mrs. 45 

Rous, John, biographical notices of, vii 

Rous, sir John, of Henham, 7 

Royston, 48, 87 

Rupert, prince, 81, 86, 126, 127 

Russia, 68 

Rutland, George Manners, earl of, 94 

St. Augustine, 116 

St. Christopher's island, 14, 44, 40 

St. Margaret's, ^VestmiDstcr, 98 



St. Martin's, 10 

St. Paul's church, 37,53,54,70, 99, 101,103 

Salisbury, 70 

Sallee, town of Barbary, 83 

Savage, Elizabeth lady, 121, 122, 123 

Ssrilie, Thomas lord, 94 

Savoy, 56 

Savoyans, 81 

Sjisony, John George T. elector of, 36, 63, 

fjD, 66, 67, 81 
Say and Sele, William Fienes, viscount, 85, 

H, 95, 98,101,126 
Sdjolar's complaint, the, 115 
Scotland, 56, 75, SG, 88, 95, 100, 114, 117 
Scots, 12, 25, 59, 85, S6, 92, 93,95, 97, 98, 

99, lUO, 102, lOi. 110, 111, 113, 114, 

124 
Scott, 17, 20, 90, 109 
Scott, Mr. 62 
Scott, Thomas, 6 
Scrope, Emmanuel lord, 51 
Selden. 40 
Shelford, Robert, 79 
Saerl-ome castle, 123 
S'aerfieid, Henry, 70 

Shrewsbury, George Talbot, earl of, 8,51 
Silesia, 65 
Skinner, Mr. 45 

Smith, Richard, bishop of Chalcedon, 34, 39 
Smitkfield, 76 

Snelling, Mr. senior, 49, 129, 130 
Somer5.etsiiire, 90 

Soubise, Alex, de Rohan, duke of, 11. 13 
Soutbon, Martin. 4tj 
SoutLv,ark, 90, 101 
Spain, 1, 2, 9, 12, 22, SC, 32, 46, 47, 56, 

59. '■■0, 66,75, 9?, Ill, 113, 121 
Sj.ain, king of, rnh Phiiip IV, ' 



142 



INDEX. 



Spaniards, 5, 13, 2'^, 33, So, oC, 43, iG, 50. 

f.6, S], S7 
Speller, sir Henrv, J^S 
Spinola. Ambrosius marqui!-, 2. 29 
Spring, sir William, 49 
Stamford, captain, 42 
Stanley, Mr. 49 
Stanwick, Mr. Iu3 
Stockton, CO. Norfolk, 5S 
Stokesby, 56, 57 
StougbtOD, Dr. 79 
Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, earl of, 75, 

104, 117 
Strasburg, 66 
Stroud, Mr. 40, 126 
Sturbridge, 43, 55, 56, 05, 122 
Stuteville, sir Martin, 61 
Sudbury, 27, 99 
Suflblk, 2, 7, 13, 14, 23, 27, 53, 01, ;2, !;3, 

121 
Suffolk, Theophilus Howard, earl of, S 
Suffolk, Thomas Howard, earl of, 3 
Sunderland, Emmanuel Scrope, earl of. 10 
Surrey, 129 

Sutclifl'e, Dr. Matthew, 5 
Sutton, Mr. £1 
Swaft-bam,23, 51, S6 
Sweden, 59, S2 

Sweden, king of, v.V'e Gusiavus Adi.'iplms 
Swedes, 81, 110 

Taylor. Mr. 44,66 

'J'emple. 41 

Te.xel. 33 

Thames, 9, 128 

Theobalds, 75 

Thetford, 6,10, 11, 31, 34, 4s, 49, 50, 67, 130 

Thirston, 6S 



TiiJot, widow, 60 

Tilly, Johannes Tsercies, count of, 10, 61 

62, 63, 67 
Timperley, Mr. 22, 23 
Townsend, sir Rcger, 16, 48, 50 
Trinity college, Cambridge, 08 
Tubbing, Mr. SO 
TurabuU, Mr. 84 
Tyburn, 33, 70. 
Tynemouih, 98 

Utiing, William, 45 

Urban Till. 38, 47, 67, 77. 78, 115, 119 

Vaitoline, 32 
Va'.entine, Mr. 40 
Vandaif, 74 
Vavasour, colonel, 126 
Venice, 32, 47 
Veroey, sir Henry, 126 
Vermuyden, sir Cornelius, 128 
Verses, 70-75, 77-80, 83, S4, 86-90, 101-3, 
l''9-ll, 115-119 

Walderswick. 61 
j Wales, 9, 62 
I Waller. Mr. 113 
, Y.-ard, Mr. 61 

Ware, 70 
i Warner, 84 
j Warren, Mr. 66, 122 

, Warwick, Robert Rich, earl of, 7, 9, 14, 43, 
I 44,45,94,95,98,101,129 
I Warwickshire, 125 
! Watton, 37 
I Weeting, 24, 45, 62 ; parsonage, ix 

Wentworth, sir Thomas, -ride Strafford, 
ear! of 

\ 



143 



Wesel, 43 

Westminster, 81,80, 9S 

Westminster, dean of, 11, 31 

Wharton, Philip lord, 94, 126 

Whelp, burning of the ship, 55 

White Lion prison, 90 

White, Dr. Francis, bishop of Carlisle. Nor- 
wich, and Ely, almoner to Charles I. 37, 75 

Whitehall, 15, 35, 44 

Whitlow, Mr. 56, 57, 58 

daughter of, 56, 57, 6S 

wife of, 57 

M'ickham Market, 45 

Wilby, 84 

Williams, Dr. John, bishop of Lincoln und 
archbishop of York, 80, 82, 98, 117, 127 

Willoughhy, Francis lord, 25,30 

Willoughby, lord, vidi Lindsey, earl of 

Willoughhy of Parham, lord, 94, 126, 130 

Wilton, 41 

Wimbledon, Edward Cecill, viscount, 1 

AVindebank, sir Francis, secretarj- of state, 
9S, 104. 117, 197 



Windsor, 92 

Wingfield, sir Anthony, 32 

Wintrop, Mr. 53 

Wise, John, 64 

Withipole, Mr. 23,41 

M'ithipole, sir William, 22, 23, 41 

Woodbridge, 15, 22,23, 45 

Woodhouse, sir Tlioraas, 11 

Woodstock, 71 

Worlich, 58 

Wotton, Thoma-s lord, 51 

Wray, sir Christopher, 123 

Wren, Matthew, bishop of Norwich and Eh 

80, 82, 103 
Wrentham, 129 
Wright, lieutenant, 22, 23 
WjTnondham, CO, 61, 62 

Yarmouth, co. Norfolk, 12, !:>5, 67 
Yates, Mr. of Norwich, 5, 6 
York, 11, S7, 91, 98, 100 
Yorkshire, 9, S3, 91,103, 130 



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