THE

POURTRAICTURE

OF

HIS SACRED MAJESTIE

IN HIS

SOLITUDES AND SUFFERINGS.

"More then Conquerour," &c.-ROM. viii.

Bona agere, et mali pati, Regium est.

LONDON: M.DC.XLVIII.

RE-PRINTED FOR C. AND J. RIVINGTON,

ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD,

AND WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL-MALL.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY R. GILBERT,

ST. JOHN'S SQUARE.

LENOX LIBRAR

NEW YORK

CONTENTS.

1. Upon His Majesties calling this last Parliament

II. Upon the Earle of Straffords Death..........

III. Upon His Majestics going to the House of

Commons.......

IV. Upon the Insolency of the Tumults....

V. Upon His Majesties passing the Bill for the Tri-

enniall Parliaments: and after setling this,

during the pleasure of the two Houses......

VI. Upon His Majesties retirement from West-

minster....

...

VII. Upon the Queens departure, and absence out

of England....

VIII. Upon His Majesties Repulse at Hull, and the

Fates of the Hothams...

IX. Upon the listing, and raising Armies against

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the King.

60

X. Upon their seizing the Kings Magazines, Forts,

Navy, and Militia....

74

XI. Upon the Nineteen Propositions first sent to

84

the King; and more afterwards........

XII. Upon the Rebellion, and Troubles in Ireland 100

XIII. Upon the calling in of the Scots, and their

XV. Upon the many Jealousies raised, and Scandals

cast upon the King, to stirre up the People

against Him.

137

XVI. Upon the Ordinance against the Common-

Prayer-Booke.

....

XVII. Of the differences between the King, and

the two Houses, in point of Church-Go-

XVIII. Upon Uxbridge-Treaty, and other Offers

made by the King..........

XIX. Upon the various events of the Warre;

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XX. Upon the Reformations of the Times.

XXI. Upon His Majesties Letters, taken, and

divulged

204

213

.......

Victories, and Defeats......

XXII. Upon His Majesties leaving Oxford, and

going to the Scots ....

221

XXIII. Upon the Scots delivering the King to the

English; and His captivity at Holdenby 226

XXIV. Upon their denying His Majesty the at-

tendance of His Chaplaines. ....

XXV. Penitentiall Meditations and Vowes in the

Kings Solitude at Holdenby.

232

.... 246

..........

XXVI. Upon the Armies surprisall of the King at

Holdenby, and the ensuing Distractions

in the two Houses, the Army, and the

City.......

XXVII. To the Prince of Wales....

XXVIII. Meditations upon Death, after the Votes

of Non-Addresses, and His Majesties

closer Imprisonment in Carisbrooke-

Castle.....

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