The
Letters and Journals of.
Letters and Journals of.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07
1680).
A Full Relation of the Late
Expedition of the Right Honourable, the Lord Monroe, Major-generall
of all the Protestant Forces in the Province of Vulster. With their
severall marches and skirmishes with the bloody Irish Rebels and what
Towns and Castles they have taken. Published by Authority. 1644.
A Letter of great Consequence; Sent by the Honorable, Robert Lord
Monro, out of the Kingdom of Ireland, To the Honorable, The Com-
mittee for the Irish affairs in England, Concerning the state of the
Rebellion there. Together with the relation of a dangerous Plot, laid
with the consent of the Queen for the Revival of Religion and overthrow
of the three Kingdoms, found among the papers taken on the Earl of
Antrim. Ordered by the Commons in Parliament, That this Letter be
forthwith printed and published: H: Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com. 1643.
- A True Relation of the proceedings of the Scottish Armie now in
Ireland, By three Letters. The First Sent from Generall Major
Monroe to Generall Leslie (Earl of Leven] his Excellence (dated the
13 May 1642].
(Morgan, major-general Sir Thomas ? ) (d. 1679? ) A true and just Relation of
the Progress of Major-General Sir Thomas Morgan in France and Flanders
with the Six Thousand English, in the years 1657 and 1658, at the taking
of Dunkirk and other important places. As it was delivered by the
General himself. 1699. Rptd in Stuart Tracts.
Morgan was second in command of the English auxiliary force which
took part in the capture of Dunkirk. His tone is here so boastful, and
contrasts so strongly with that of his letters during the campaign ptd in
Thurloe's State Papers, that some rriters, notably Godwin, have doubted
his authorship. Genuine or not, his colloquies with Turenne are amusing
brag.
Naunton, Sir Robert (1563-1635). Fragmenta Regalia, or Observations on
the late Queen Elizabeth her Times and Favorites. 1641. Rptd with the
Memoirs of Robert Carey, ed. Scott, Sir Walter, Edinburgh, 1808.
Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, duchess of. The Life of William Cavendish,
Duke of Newcastle. With a True Relation of the Birth Breeding and
Life of Margaret Duchess of Newcastle. Ed. Firth, C. H. [1906. ]
Playes written by the Lady Marchioness of Newcastle. 1662.
Poems and Fancies. 1653. Select Poems, ed. Brydges, Sir Egerton
(Priory Press), 1813.
Nicoll, John (1590-1667 or 8). A Diary of Public Transactions and other
Occurrences, Chiefly in Scotland, From January 1650 to June 1667.
Ed. Laing, D. Bannatyne Club Publ. Edinburgh, 1836.
Of the later published portion of this diary of an Edinburgh writer
and notary public, who was also a manifest time-server, ample use was
made by Robert Wodrow, in his History of the Sufferings of the Church
of Scotland (1722).
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Overbury, Sir Thomas, The True and Historical Relation of the Poysoning of.
1651.
Professes to be based on the papers of Bacon as attorney-general.
(Peeke, Richard. ) Three to One. Being an English-Spanish combat per-
formed by a Western Gentleman of Tavistock in Devonshire, with an
English quarterstaff, against three Spaniards with rapiers and poniards;
at Sherries in Spain, the 15th day of November 1625. . . . 1626. Rptd in
Stuart Tracts,
There seems to have been some basis of fact in this popular piece of
jingoism; Peeke's adventure is also treated in the poem here rptd and
in the play Dick of Devonshire, variously assigned to Heywood (by Bullen)
and to Shirley.
Poyntz, Sydnam. A True Relation of these German Warres from Mansfeld's
going out of England which was in the yeare (1624) untill this last yeare
1626 whereof my self was an eywitnesse of most I have here related as
followeth. By mee Sydnam Poynes. Ed. Goodrick, A. T. S. Royal
Hist. Soc. Publ. , Camden 3rd Ser. no. xiv. 1908.
Poyntz, after finding apprenticeship to trade intolerable, followed
Mansfeld to the Netherlands in 1625, and on his last march into Hungary;
was captured by the Turks; and on his liberation from slavery served in
turn under John George of Saxony and the Emperor Ferdinand II. On
his second return to England in 1645, he was appointed by the parliament
colonel-general of the northern forces and governor of York, but success-
fully defended himself against the charge of being a papist (which by his
own statement he had at one time been); see the Vindication of Colonel
General Poyntz appended to the Relation. He commanded the troops
of the city of London when it was overwhelmed by the army (1647),
and had to fly to Holland. In 1650 he accompanied Lord Willoughby
to the West Indies, where he held one or more governorships, and is
said to have died in Virginia, at an unknown date. His account of his
Thirty Years' War experiences is full of orthographical, geographical
and chronological blunders; he confounds persons, falsifies facts, and is
altogether a type of the untrustworthy eyewitness. Poyntz published a
separate Relation of the Death of Walleston, from Vienna the 8 February
1634, less graphic than the account in his Memoirs, and accompanied by
The Life and Maxims of Walleston, a short character in Clarendon's
manner-at a long interval, but not ill done. The Itinerarium of
Thomas Carve, Butler's chaplain and compatriot (part 1, 1639, part II,
1641, rptd 1859) is in Latin.
Rous, John. Diary of John Rons, Incumbent of Santon Downham, Suffolk,
from 1625 to 1642. Ed. Everett Green, M. A. Camden Soc. Publ.
LXVI. 1856.
Slingsby, Sir Henry. Original Memoirs, written during the Great Civil War.
With notes &c. Ed. Scott, Sir Walter. Edinburgh, 1806. The Diary
of Sir Henry Slingsby, of Scriven, Bart. Now first published entire
from the MS. Ed. Parsons, D. 1836.
An account of his trial was published, as well as a tract written by
him in the Tower, entitled A Father's Legacy to his Sons.
Vere, Sir Francis (1560-1609), The Commentaries of, Being divers Pieces
of Service, wherein he had command. Published by William Dillingham,
D. D. Cambridge, 1657. Rptd in Stuart Tracts.
Cf. Markham, Sir Clements, The Fighting Veres, 1688. Sir Francis
and Sir Horace Vere (afterwards lord Tilbury) were among the most
celebrated soldiers of fortune of their age. The Commentaries of Sir
Francis, to which are added narrative, by his comrade John Ogle and
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his page Henry Hexham, were written as a manual for military men
who might follow in the author's footsteps. He took part in the capture
of Cadiz (1596) and the expedition to the Azores (1597) and did excellent
service under Maurice of Nassau at the battle of Nieuport (1600) and
in Ostend (1601). He is very hostile to Ralegh, whom he regards as a
dilettante.
Wallington, Nehemiah (1598-1658). Historical Notices of events occurring
chiefly in the Reign of Charles I. Ed. Webb, R. 2 vols. 1869.
Walsingham, Edward (f. 1643-59). Britannicæ Virtutis Imago, or, The
Effigies of True Fortitude, expressed to the life, in the famous actions
of that incomparable Knight, Sir Thomas Smith. Oxford, 1644.
Smith, major-general of the king's western army under lord Hopton,
was mortally wounded in the battle of Bramdean near Alresford,
29 March 1644.
Alter Britanniae Heros, or The Life and Death of the most honourable
Knight Sir Henry Gage, late governor of Oxford. Oxford, 1645.
Gage, who belonged to an old Catholic family, had a distinguished
part in the defence of Oxford (of which he was made governor), and
relieved Basing. He fell in a skirmish at Abingdon Gage in January
1655. He is greatly extolled by Clarendon.
(Welldon, Sir Anthony) (d. 1649? ) The Court and Character of King James.
Written and taken by Sir A. W. being an eye, and eare witnesse. Pabl.
'by Authority' 1650.
The object of this posthumous libel is to destroy any remaining respect
for the founder of the dynasty which the ‘Publisher to the Reader' pro-
claims it to be God's purpose to 'lay aside. The writer attempts to
'prove a negative' in the case of the Gowrie conspiracy, by which James I
set infinite store; to demonstrate the innocence of Ralegh; and to lay bare
the whole story of the Overbury case and its attendant scandals. (See
Sanderson, Sir William, Sec. V, A. )
Whitelocke, Bulstrode. Annales of his Life 1653-56, with an Introduction
addressed to his Children. Whitelocke MSS, British Museum.
Memoirs, biographical and historical, of Bulstrode Whitelocke. By
Whitelocke, R. H. 1860.
Contains extracts from the Annals of his Life.
History of the Forty-eighth Year of his Age, interspersed with Scripture
Lectures addressed to his Children. Whitelocke MSS, British Museum.
Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654. Impartially
written by the Ambassador Bulstrode Whitelock. First published from
the original manuscript (in British Museum) by Charles Morton (1772).
New ed. by Henry Reeve. 1835. (With modernised spelling. )
Notes and Commentaries on Matters relating to the Swedish Embessy
&o. (partly used by Morton in his ed. ). 2 vols. Whitelocke MSS, British
Museum.
Wilson, Arthur (1595-1652). Observations of God's Providence in the
Tract of my Life. Ptd in Desiderata Curiosa, ed. Peck, F. , vol. 11, 1735,
and as an appendix to the Inconstant Lady, ed. Bliss, P. , 1814.
The author, born in 1595, in 1614 became connected with the second
Robert Devereux, earl of Essex, and accompanied him in his campaigns.
After residing at Trinity college, Oxford, he entered the service of the earl
of Warwick, whom he seems to have followed to the parliamentary side.
His thoughts and habits took a spiritual turn, and he describes himself
as converted and saved. He was buried at Felsted. See as to his strange
career the introduction by Feuillerat, A. , to his original edition of Wilson's
play The Swisser, Paris, 1904.
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Wynne, Sir Richard (of Gwedin). A Brief Relation of what was observed
by the Prince's Servants in their Journey into Spain, in the year 1623.
Ed. Hearne, T. 1729.
The journal is interesting, and shows incidentally that in Spain the
conversion of the prince was expected.
Yonge, Walter, J. P. and M. P. for Honiton. Diary of, written at Colyton
and Axminster, Cº Devon, from 1604 to 1628. Ed. Roberts, G. Camden
Soc. Publ. 1848.
Describes western conditions of life and natural phenomena, but is, in
the main, a second-hand record of public events.
$
B. Scottish
Baillie, Robert (1559-1662), Principal of the University of Glasgow.
The
Letters and Journals of. Ed, from the author's MSS by Laing, D.
3 vols. Bannatyne Club Publ. Edinburgh, 1841-2.
A regular and nearly unbroken series from January 1637 to May 1662,
within a few weeks of the writer's death; proving a valuable record, by a
presbyterian divine, of the persecution of his church by Cromwell and the
sectaries, and by the crown.
Baillie of Lamington, Sir William (f. 1648). Vindication for his own part
of Kilsyth and Preston. Ptd in vol. II, p. 417, of The Letters and
Journals of Robert Baillie, ed. Laing, D. , Bannatyne Club Publ. , Edin-
burgh, 1841-2.
Blair, Robert (1593–1666). The Life of M' Robert Blair, Minister of Se
Andrews, containing his Autobiography from 1593 to 1636, with Sup-
plement of Life and Continuation of the History of the Times to 1680, by
his Son-in-law, William Row. Woodrow Soo. Publ. Edinburgh, 1848.
Blair was a supporter of monarchy, but ejected in 1661.
Guthry, Henry (1600 2-76, Late Bishop of Dunkel in Scotland: wherein
the Conspiracies and Rebellion against King Charles I, of Blessed
Memory, to the Time of the Murther of that Monarch, are briefly and
faithfully related. 1702. 2nd ed. with a life, by Crawfurd, G. Glasgow,
1747.
The author, a moderate loyalist, who disapproved of the introduction
of the liturgy and Book of Common Prayer, and, indeed, signed the
Covenant, was not sent away from Stirling as a 'malignant' till 1648,
when he had preached in favour of the release of the king. He was
made bishop in 1665. His diction contains some curious Scoticisms.
Moysie, David. Memoirs of the Affairs of Scotland. 1577-1603. Bannatyne
Club Publ. Edinburgh, 1830.
Moysie was writer and notary public at Edinburgh.
VII. POLITICAL TREATISES AND PAMPHLETS
A. Collections of Tracts
The following collections are only those which are best known and
accessible to general use.
Harleian Miscellany, the. Ed. Park, J. 12 vols. 1808-11. (Vol. 111, 1605-27;
vol. iv, 1625-41; vol. v, 1641-5; vol. vi, 1646-59; vol. vii, 1659-73. )
Miscellaneous prose and verse.
King's Pamphlets, the. British Museum.
Particularly valuable for the civil war period.
Select Tracts relating to the Civil Wars in England, in the reign of Charles
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the First; by writers who lived in the time of those wars, and were
witnesses of the events which they describe. 2 parts. 1815.
Collected by Maseres, Francis, whose preface in Part 1 contains a list
of works on or of the period, recommended by him for study.
Somers Tracts. Ed. Scott, Sir Walter. 13 vols. 1809-15. (Vols. II-III,
James I; vols. IV-v, Charles I; vol. vi, Commonwealth and Protectorate;
vol. vii, Protectorate and Charles II. )
Stuart Tracts, 1603–93. An English Garner. With an introduction by
Firth, C. H. Westminster, 1903.
Mainly historical, and enumerated as such in the previous section.
B. Particular Treatises or Pamphlets
No pretence is here made of mentioning more than a few typical
examples.
Bastwick, John (1593-1654). The Letany of John Bastwick, Doctor of
Phisicke, being now full of devotion, as well in respect of the common
calamities of plague and pestilence, as also of his owne particular miserie,
lying at this instant in Limbo Patrum. Printed by the speciall procure-
ment and for the especiall use of our English Prelats, in the yeare of
remembrance, Anno 1637.
The Answer of John Bastwick, Doctor of Physicke, to the information
of Sir John Bancks, Knight, Atturney universall. 1637.
- XVI New Quaeres proposed to our Lord Praelates. 1637.
Lilburne began his literary career by helping Bastwick to print his
Letany and Answer to Sir John Bancks in Holland.
Burton, Henry (1578-1648). An Apology of an Appeale. Also an Epistle
to the true-hearted Nobility. 1636.
Babel no Bethel, that is, the Church of Rome no true visible Church of
Christ. 1629.
For God and the King. The summe of two Sermons presented on the
fifth of November last in St Matthewe's, Friday Streete. 1636.
Burton (1578-1648) became rector of St Matthews in 1626, and was,
on account of the first and third of the above publications, condemned by
the Star chamber to perpetual imprisonment, besides fine and mutilation.
He was liberated after the meeting of the Long parliament.
Busher, Leonard. Religious Peace, or A Plea for Liberty of Conscience.
1614.
An early plea for toleration.
Digges, Sir Dudley (1583-1639). Foure Paradoxes, or politique Discourses.
Two Conoerning Militaire Discipline, written long since by Thomas
Digges Esq. Two of the worthinesse of warre and warriors by Dudley
Digges, his sonne. 1604.
The latter two pamphlets uphold militarism.
The Defence of Trade. In a Letter to Sir Thomas Smith Knight,
Governeur of the E. India Companies. From one of that Societie. 1615.
(Digges, Dudley, the younger) (1613-43). An Answer to a Printed Book,
intituled, Observations upon His Majesties late Answers and Expresses.
Oxford, 1642.
An argument in favour of the full maintenance of the regal authority,
in both theory and practice.
-) A Review of The Observations upon some of his Majesty's late Answers
and Expresses. Written by a Gentleman of Quality. Oxford, 1643.
Demonstrates, with many Scriptural illustrations, that the law is not
above the king, and the people not the origin of royal authority.
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457
(Digges, Dudley, the younger. ) The Unlawfulnesse of Subjects Taking
up Armes against their Soveraigne in what Case soever. . . . Written by
Dudley Diggs, Gentleman, late Fellow of All-Souls Colledge in Oxford.
1647. Another ed. 1662.
An argument in favour of monarchy as against aristocracy, though a
popular form of government is the worst.
Eikon Basilike. See ante, bibliography to chap. VI.
(Fell, John (Dean of Christ Church), 1625-86? ) The Interest of England me
Stated :
: or, a faithful and just Account of the Actions of all Parties now
Pretending. Distinctly treating of the Designments of the Roman
Catholick, the Royalist, the Presbyterian, the Anabaptist, the Army, the
late Protector, the Parliament etc. 1659. In Maseres, F. , Select
Tracts, part 1, 1815.
Favours the restoration of the king.
Forde, Thomas. The Times Anatomized in several Characters. 1676.
Fragmenta Poetica: or, Poetical Diversions. With a Panegyrick upon
his Sacred Majestie's Most happy Return, on the 29. May, 1660. 1660.
Lusus Fortunae: The Play of Fortune. Continually Acted by the
severall Creatures on the Stage of the World. Or, A glance at the
various mutability, inconstancie, and uncertainty of all earthly things.
From a consideration of the present Times. 1649.
- A Theatre of Wits, Ancient and Modern. Represented in a Collection
of Apothegmes. Pleasant and Profitable. 1660.
Holles, Denzil, Lord Holles. The Grand Question concerning the Judicature
of the House of Peers stated and argned, and the case of T. Skinner,
complaining of the East India Company, which gave occasion to that
question related. . . . 1669.
A Letter to Monsieur Van B[euninghen] de Mat Amsterdam,
written anno 1675, concerning the Government of England. [1676. ]
Rptd in Somers Tracts, ed. Scott, Sir Walter, vol. viii, p. 32, 1812.
A true relation of the unjust accusation of certain French gentlemen,
(charged with a robbery of which they were most innocent), and the
proceedings upon it, with their trial and acquittance. 1671.
For this miscarriage of justice Holles made the lord chief justice
apologise in the House of Lords.
Howell, James. A Brief Character of the Low Countries under the States.
Being three weeks observation of the Vices and Vertues of the Inhabitants.
Non seria semper. 1660.
A Defence of the Treaty of Newport, 1648.
A Perfect Description of the People and Country of Scotland. 1659.
A Winter Dream. 1649.
Aevpodoyra Dodona's Grove, or The Vocall Forest. 2nd ed. , with An
Addition of two other Tracts, viz. Parables reflecting upon the Times.
And England's Teares for the present Warres. 1644.
Instructions for Forreine Travell. Shewing by what cours, and in what
compasse of time, one may take an exact Survey of the Kingdomes and
States of Christendome, and arrive to the practicall knowledge of the
Languages, to good purpose. 1642. 2nd ed. , with a new Appendix for
Travelling into Turkey and the Levant ports. 1650. Rptd in Arber's
English Reprints, 1869.
Londinopolis; an Historicall Discourse on Perlustration of the City of
London, The Imperial Chamber, and chief Emporium of Great Britain:
whereunto Is added another of the City of Westminster, with The Courts
of Justice, Antiquities, and new Buildings thereunto belonging. 1657.
This volume has additional value as containing a bibliography of its
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indefatigable author's writings, both those ptd by Humphrey Moseley and
those ptd by other men. '
Howell, James. Mercurius Hibernicus, or, A Discourse of the Late In-
surrection in Ireland, displaying 1. The true causes of it (till now not so
fully discoursed).
Expedition of the Right Honourable, the Lord Monroe, Major-generall
of all the Protestant Forces in the Province of Vulster. With their
severall marches and skirmishes with the bloody Irish Rebels and what
Towns and Castles they have taken. Published by Authority. 1644.
A Letter of great Consequence; Sent by the Honorable, Robert Lord
Monro, out of the Kingdom of Ireland, To the Honorable, The Com-
mittee for the Irish affairs in England, Concerning the state of the
Rebellion there. Together with the relation of a dangerous Plot, laid
with the consent of the Queen for the Revival of Religion and overthrow
of the three Kingdoms, found among the papers taken on the Earl of
Antrim. Ordered by the Commons in Parliament, That this Letter be
forthwith printed and published: H: Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com. 1643.
- A True Relation of the proceedings of the Scottish Armie now in
Ireland, By three Letters. The First Sent from Generall Major
Monroe to Generall Leslie (Earl of Leven] his Excellence (dated the
13 May 1642].
(Morgan, major-general Sir Thomas ? ) (d. 1679? ) A true and just Relation of
the Progress of Major-General Sir Thomas Morgan in France and Flanders
with the Six Thousand English, in the years 1657 and 1658, at the taking
of Dunkirk and other important places. As it was delivered by the
General himself. 1699. Rptd in Stuart Tracts.
Morgan was second in command of the English auxiliary force which
took part in the capture of Dunkirk. His tone is here so boastful, and
contrasts so strongly with that of his letters during the campaign ptd in
Thurloe's State Papers, that some rriters, notably Godwin, have doubted
his authorship. Genuine or not, his colloquies with Turenne are amusing
brag.
Naunton, Sir Robert (1563-1635). Fragmenta Regalia, or Observations on
the late Queen Elizabeth her Times and Favorites. 1641. Rptd with the
Memoirs of Robert Carey, ed. Scott, Sir Walter, Edinburgh, 1808.
Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, duchess of. The Life of William Cavendish,
Duke of Newcastle. With a True Relation of the Birth Breeding and
Life of Margaret Duchess of Newcastle. Ed. Firth, C. H. [1906. ]
Playes written by the Lady Marchioness of Newcastle. 1662.
Poems and Fancies. 1653. Select Poems, ed. Brydges, Sir Egerton
(Priory Press), 1813.
Nicoll, John (1590-1667 or 8). A Diary of Public Transactions and other
Occurrences, Chiefly in Scotland, From January 1650 to June 1667.
Ed. Laing, D. Bannatyne Club Publ. Edinburgh, 1836.
Of the later published portion of this diary of an Edinburgh writer
and notary public, who was also a manifest time-server, ample use was
made by Robert Wodrow, in his History of the Sufferings of the Church
of Scotland (1722).
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453
Overbury, Sir Thomas, The True and Historical Relation of the Poysoning of.
1651.
Professes to be based on the papers of Bacon as attorney-general.
(Peeke, Richard. ) Three to One. Being an English-Spanish combat per-
formed by a Western Gentleman of Tavistock in Devonshire, with an
English quarterstaff, against three Spaniards with rapiers and poniards;
at Sherries in Spain, the 15th day of November 1625. . . . 1626. Rptd in
Stuart Tracts,
There seems to have been some basis of fact in this popular piece of
jingoism; Peeke's adventure is also treated in the poem here rptd and
in the play Dick of Devonshire, variously assigned to Heywood (by Bullen)
and to Shirley.
Poyntz, Sydnam. A True Relation of these German Warres from Mansfeld's
going out of England which was in the yeare (1624) untill this last yeare
1626 whereof my self was an eywitnesse of most I have here related as
followeth. By mee Sydnam Poynes. Ed. Goodrick, A. T. S. Royal
Hist. Soc. Publ. , Camden 3rd Ser. no. xiv. 1908.
Poyntz, after finding apprenticeship to trade intolerable, followed
Mansfeld to the Netherlands in 1625, and on his last march into Hungary;
was captured by the Turks; and on his liberation from slavery served in
turn under John George of Saxony and the Emperor Ferdinand II. On
his second return to England in 1645, he was appointed by the parliament
colonel-general of the northern forces and governor of York, but success-
fully defended himself against the charge of being a papist (which by his
own statement he had at one time been); see the Vindication of Colonel
General Poyntz appended to the Relation. He commanded the troops
of the city of London when it was overwhelmed by the army (1647),
and had to fly to Holland. In 1650 he accompanied Lord Willoughby
to the West Indies, where he held one or more governorships, and is
said to have died in Virginia, at an unknown date. His account of his
Thirty Years' War experiences is full of orthographical, geographical
and chronological blunders; he confounds persons, falsifies facts, and is
altogether a type of the untrustworthy eyewitness. Poyntz published a
separate Relation of the Death of Walleston, from Vienna the 8 February
1634, less graphic than the account in his Memoirs, and accompanied by
The Life and Maxims of Walleston, a short character in Clarendon's
manner-at a long interval, but not ill done. The Itinerarium of
Thomas Carve, Butler's chaplain and compatriot (part 1, 1639, part II,
1641, rptd 1859) is in Latin.
Rous, John. Diary of John Rons, Incumbent of Santon Downham, Suffolk,
from 1625 to 1642. Ed. Everett Green, M. A. Camden Soc. Publ.
LXVI. 1856.
Slingsby, Sir Henry. Original Memoirs, written during the Great Civil War.
With notes &c. Ed. Scott, Sir Walter. Edinburgh, 1806. The Diary
of Sir Henry Slingsby, of Scriven, Bart. Now first published entire
from the MS. Ed. Parsons, D. 1836.
An account of his trial was published, as well as a tract written by
him in the Tower, entitled A Father's Legacy to his Sons.
Vere, Sir Francis (1560-1609), The Commentaries of, Being divers Pieces
of Service, wherein he had command. Published by William Dillingham,
D. D. Cambridge, 1657. Rptd in Stuart Tracts.
Cf. Markham, Sir Clements, The Fighting Veres, 1688. Sir Francis
and Sir Horace Vere (afterwards lord Tilbury) were among the most
celebrated soldiers of fortune of their age. The Commentaries of Sir
Francis, to which are added narrative, by his comrade John Ogle and
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his page Henry Hexham, were written as a manual for military men
who might follow in the author's footsteps. He took part in the capture
of Cadiz (1596) and the expedition to the Azores (1597) and did excellent
service under Maurice of Nassau at the battle of Nieuport (1600) and
in Ostend (1601). He is very hostile to Ralegh, whom he regards as a
dilettante.
Wallington, Nehemiah (1598-1658). Historical Notices of events occurring
chiefly in the Reign of Charles I. Ed. Webb, R. 2 vols. 1869.
Walsingham, Edward (f. 1643-59). Britannicæ Virtutis Imago, or, The
Effigies of True Fortitude, expressed to the life, in the famous actions
of that incomparable Knight, Sir Thomas Smith. Oxford, 1644.
Smith, major-general of the king's western army under lord Hopton,
was mortally wounded in the battle of Bramdean near Alresford,
29 March 1644.
Alter Britanniae Heros, or The Life and Death of the most honourable
Knight Sir Henry Gage, late governor of Oxford. Oxford, 1645.
Gage, who belonged to an old Catholic family, had a distinguished
part in the defence of Oxford (of which he was made governor), and
relieved Basing. He fell in a skirmish at Abingdon Gage in January
1655. He is greatly extolled by Clarendon.
(Welldon, Sir Anthony) (d. 1649? ) The Court and Character of King James.
Written and taken by Sir A. W. being an eye, and eare witnesse. Pabl.
'by Authority' 1650.
The object of this posthumous libel is to destroy any remaining respect
for the founder of the dynasty which the ‘Publisher to the Reader' pro-
claims it to be God's purpose to 'lay aside. The writer attempts to
'prove a negative' in the case of the Gowrie conspiracy, by which James I
set infinite store; to demonstrate the innocence of Ralegh; and to lay bare
the whole story of the Overbury case and its attendant scandals. (See
Sanderson, Sir William, Sec. V, A. )
Whitelocke, Bulstrode. Annales of his Life 1653-56, with an Introduction
addressed to his Children. Whitelocke MSS, British Museum.
Memoirs, biographical and historical, of Bulstrode Whitelocke. By
Whitelocke, R. H. 1860.
Contains extracts from the Annals of his Life.
History of the Forty-eighth Year of his Age, interspersed with Scripture
Lectures addressed to his Children. Whitelocke MSS, British Museum.
Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654. Impartially
written by the Ambassador Bulstrode Whitelock. First published from
the original manuscript (in British Museum) by Charles Morton (1772).
New ed. by Henry Reeve. 1835. (With modernised spelling. )
Notes and Commentaries on Matters relating to the Swedish Embessy
&o. (partly used by Morton in his ed. ). 2 vols. Whitelocke MSS, British
Museum.
Wilson, Arthur (1595-1652). Observations of God's Providence in the
Tract of my Life. Ptd in Desiderata Curiosa, ed. Peck, F. , vol. 11, 1735,
and as an appendix to the Inconstant Lady, ed. Bliss, P. , 1814.
The author, born in 1595, in 1614 became connected with the second
Robert Devereux, earl of Essex, and accompanied him in his campaigns.
After residing at Trinity college, Oxford, he entered the service of the earl
of Warwick, whom he seems to have followed to the parliamentary side.
His thoughts and habits took a spiritual turn, and he describes himself
as converted and saved. He was buried at Felsted. See as to his strange
career the introduction by Feuillerat, A. , to his original edition of Wilson's
play The Swisser, Paris, 1904.
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Wynne, Sir Richard (of Gwedin). A Brief Relation of what was observed
by the Prince's Servants in their Journey into Spain, in the year 1623.
Ed. Hearne, T. 1729.
The journal is interesting, and shows incidentally that in Spain the
conversion of the prince was expected.
Yonge, Walter, J. P. and M. P. for Honiton. Diary of, written at Colyton
and Axminster, Cº Devon, from 1604 to 1628. Ed. Roberts, G. Camden
Soc. Publ. 1848.
Describes western conditions of life and natural phenomena, but is, in
the main, a second-hand record of public events.
$
B. Scottish
Baillie, Robert (1559-1662), Principal of the University of Glasgow.
The
Letters and Journals of. Ed, from the author's MSS by Laing, D.
3 vols. Bannatyne Club Publ. Edinburgh, 1841-2.
A regular and nearly unbroken series from January 1637 to May 1662,
within a few weeks of the writer's death; proving a valuable record, by a
presbyterian divine, of the persecution of his church by Cromwell and the
sectaries, and by the crown.
Baillie of Lamington, Sir William (f. 1648). Vindication for his own part
of Kilsyth and Preston. Ptd in vol. II, p. 417, of The Letters and
Journals of Robert Baillie, ed. Laing, D. , Bannatyne Club Publ. , Edin-
burgh, 1841-2.
Blair, Robert (1593–1666). The Life of M' Robert Blair, Minister of Se
Andrews, containing his Autobiography from 1593 to 1636, with Sup-
plement of Life and Continuation of the History of the Times to 1680, by
his Son-in-law, William Row. Woodrow Soo. Publ. Edinburgh, 1848.
Blair was a supporter of monarchy, but ejected in 1661.
Guthry, Henry (1600 2-76, Late Bishop of Dunkel in Scotland: wherein
the Conspiracies and Rebellion against King Charles I, of Blessed
Memory, to the Time of the Murther of that Monarch, are briefly and
faithfully related. 1702. 2nd ed. with a life, by Crawfurd, G. Glasgow,
1747.
The author, a moderate loyalist, who disapproved of the introduction
of the liturgy and Book of Common Prayer, and, indeed, signed the
Covenant, was not sent away from Stirling as a 'malignant' till 1648,
when he had preached in favour of the release of the king. He was
made bishop in 1665. His diction contains some curious Scoticisms.
Moysie, David. Memoirs of the Affairs of Scotland. 1577-1603. Bannatyne
Club Publ. Edinburgh, 1830.
Moysie was writer and notary public at Edinburgh.
VII. POLITICAL TREATISES AND PAMPHLETS
A. Collections of Tracts
The following collections are only those which are best known and
accessible to general use.
Harleian Miscellany, the. Ed. Park, J. 12 vols. 1808-11. (Vol. 111, 1605-27;
vol. iv, 1625-41; vol. v, 1641-5; vol. vi, 1646-59; vol. vii, 1659-73. )
Miscellaneous prose and verse.
King's Pamphlets, the. British Museum.
Particularly valuable for the civil war period.
Select Tracts relating to the Civil Wars in England, in the reign of Charles
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the First; by writers who lived in the time of those wars, and were
witnesses of the events which they describe. 2 parts. 1815.
Collected by Maseres, Francis, whose preface in Part 1 contains a list
of works on or of the period, recommended by him for study.
Somers Tracts. Ed. Scott, Sir Walter. 13 vols. 1809-15. (Vols. II-III,
James I; vols. IV-v, Charles I; vol. vi, Commonwealth and Protectorate;
vol. vii, Protectorate and Charles II. )
Stuart Tracts, 1603–93. An English Garner. With an introduction by
Firth, C. H. Westminster, 1903.
Mainly historical, and enumerated as such in the previous section.
B. Particular Treatises or Pamphlets
No pretence is here made of mentioning more than a few typical
examples.
Bastwick, John (1593-1654). The Letany of John Bastwick, Doctor of
Phisicke, being now full of devotion, as well in respect of the common
calamities of plague and pestilence, as also of his owne particular miserie,
lying at this instant in Limbo Patrum. Printed by the speciall procure-
ment and for the especiall use of our English Prelats, in the yeare of
remembrance, Anno 1637.
The Answer of John Bastwick, Doctor of Physicke, to the information
of Sir John Bancks, Knight, Atturney universall. 1637.
- XVI New Quaeres proposed to our Lord Praelates. 1637.
Lilburne began his literary career by helping Bastwick to print his
Letany and Answer to Sir John Bancks in Holland.
Burton, Henry (1578-1648). An Apology of an Appeale. Also an Epistle
to the true-hearted Nobility. 1636.
Babel no Bethel, that is, the Church of Rome no true visible Church of
Christ. 1629.
For God and the King. The summe of two Sermons presented on the
fifth of November last in St Matthewe's, Friday Streete. 1636.
Burton (1578-1648) became rector of St Matthews in 1626, and was,
on account of the first and third of the above publications, condemned by
the Star chamber to perpetual imprisonment, besides fine and mutilation.
He was liberated after the meeting of the Long parliament.
Busher, Leonard. Religious Peace, or A Plea for Liberty of Conscience.
1614.
An early plea for toleration.
Digges, Sir Dudley (1583-1639). Foure Paradoxes, or politique Discourses.
Two Conoerning Militaire Discipline, written long since by Thomas
Digges Esq. Two of the worthinesse of warre and warriors by Dudley
Digges, his sonne. 1604.
The latter two pamphlets uphold militarism.
The Defence of Trade. In a Letter to Sir Thomas Smith Knight,
Governeur of the E. India Companies. From one of that Societie. 1615.
(Digges, Dudley, the younger) (1613-43). An Answer to a Printed Book,
intituled, Observations upon His Majesties late Answers and Expresses.
Oxford, 1642.
An argument in favour of the full maintenance of the regal authority,
in both theory and practice.
-) A Review of The Observations upon some of his Majesty's late Answers
and Expresses. Written by a Gentleman of Quality. Oxford, 1643.
Demonstrates, with many Scriptural illustrations, that the law is not
above the king, and the people not the origin of royal authority.
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(Digges, Dudley, the younger. ) The Unlawfulnesse of Subjects Taking
up Armes against their Soveraigne in what Case soever. . . . Written by
Dudley Diggs, Gentleman, late Fellow of All-Souls Colledge in Oxford.
1647. Another ed. 1662.
An argument in favour of monarchy as against aristocracy, though a
popular form of government is the worst.
Eikon Basilike. See ante, bibliography to chap. VI.
(Fell, John (Dean of Christ Church), 1625-86? ) The Interest of England me
Stated :
: or, a faithful and just Account of the Actions of all Parties now
Pretending. Distinctly treating of the Designments of the Roman
Catholick, the Royalist, the Presbyterian, the Anabaptist, the Army, the
late Protector, the Parliament etc. 1659. In Maseres, F. , Select
Tracts, part 1, 1815.
Favours the restoration of the king.
Forde, Thomas. The Times Anatomized in several Characters. 1676.
Fragmenta Poetica: or, Poetical Diversions. With a Panegyrick upon
his Sacred Majestie's Most happy Return, on the 29. May, 1660. 1660.
Lusus Fortunae: The Play of Fortune. Continually Acted by the
severall Creatures on the Stage of the World. Or, A glance at the
various mutability, inconstancie, and uncertainty of all earthly things.
From a consideration of the present Times. 1649.
- A Theatre of Wits, Ancient and Modern. Represented in a Collection
of Apothegmes. Pleasant and Profitable. 1660.
Holles, Denzil, Lord Holles. The Grand Question concerning the Judicature
of the House of Peers stated and argned, and the case of T. Skinner,
complaining of the East India Company, which gave occasion to that
question related. . . . 1669.
A Letter to Monsieur Van B[euninghen] de Mat Amsterdam,
written anno 1675, concerning the Government of England. [1676. ]
Rptd in Somers Tracts, ed. Scott, Sir Walter, vol. viii, p. 32, 1812.
A true relation of the unjust accusation of certain French gentlemen,
(charged with a robbery of which they were most innocent), and the
proceedings upon it, with their trial and acquittance. 1671.
For this miscarriage of justice Holles made the lord chief justice
apologise in the House of Lords.
Howell, James. A Brief Character of the Low Countries under the States.
Being three weeks observation of the Vices and Vertues of the Inhabitants.
Non seria semper. 1660.
A Defence of the Treaty of Newport, 1648.
A Perfect Description of the People and Country of Scotland. 1659.
A Winter Dream. 1649.
Aevpodoyra Dodona's Grove, or The Vocall Forest. 2nd ed. , with An
Addition of two other Tracts, viz. Parables reflecting upon the Times.
And England's Teares for the present Warres. 1644.
Instructions for Forreine Travell. Shewing by what cours, and in what
compasse of time, one may take an exact Survey of the Kingdomes and
States of Christendome, and arrive to the practicall knowledge of the
Languages, to good purpose. 1642. 2nd ed. , with a new Appendix for
Travelling into Turkey and the Levant ports. 1650. Rptd in Arber's
English Reprints, 1869.
Londinopolis; an Historicall Discourse on Perlustration of the City of
London, The Imperial Chamber, and chief Emporium of Great Britain:
whereunto Is added another of the City of Westminster, with The Courts
of Justice, Antiquities, and new Buildings thereunto belonging. 1657.
This volume has additional value as containing a bibliography of its
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