CHARLES I., KING OF ENGLAND: A SOLEMN LEAGUE

continued.

Bound up at the end are two Proclamations, one for supporting the King and the other the Parliament, 1642-3.

The Solemn League and Covenant was a Document signed in the reign of Charles I. by those afterwards known as the Covenanters. They engaged to stand by each other in opposition to the projects of the King in 1638. The Covenant or League between England and Scotland (the preceding one modified), solemnly adopted by the parliament, 25 Sept., 1643, was accepted by Charles II., 16 Aug., 1650, but repudiated by him on his restoration in 1661, when it was declared to be illegal by parliament, and copies of it ordered to be burnt. Evelyn, the Diarist, records seeing the Covenant burnt in several places in London.

292 TRAGICUM THEATRUM ACTORUM & CASUUM TRAGICORUM LONDINI PUBLICE CELEBRATORUM, Quibus Hiberniæ Proregi, Episcopo Contuarensi, ac tandem Regi ipsi, aliisque vita adempta, & ad Anglicanam Metamorphosin via est aperta.

With portraits of Laud, Stafford, Fairfax, Cromwell, Charles I., Charles II., Duke of Hamilton, and Lord Holland, and a folding plate of the execution of Charles I. (by Hollar). Small 8vo. Original vellum.

Amstelodami Apud Jodocum Jansonium, 1649.

Attributed to Du Moulin. Giving a detailed account of the trial and execution of Charles I., Strafford, Laud, Hamilton, and Lord Holland.

293 AN UNHAPPY GAME AT SCOTCH AND ENGLISH; or, a Full Answer from England to the Papers of Scotland.

Wherein their Scotch Mists and their Fogs, their Sayings and gaine-sayings; their Juglings, their windings and turnings; hither and thither, backwards and forwards, and forwards and backwards again: Their breach of Covenant, Articles, & Treaty, their King-craft present design, against the two houses of Parliament, & People of England, their plots and intents for Usurpation and Government over us and our children detected, dis(Continued over)

CHARLES I., KING OF ENGLAND: AN UNHAPPY GAME-continued.

covered and presented to the view of the World, as a dreadfull Omen, All-arme, and Warning to the Kingdome of England. Small 4to. Half calf.

Edinburgh, printed as truly, as the Scotch papers were at London by Evan Tyler, Printer to the Kings Most Excellent Majestie, and are to be sold at the most Solemn Signe of the Blew-Bonnet, right opposite to the two Houses of Parliament, 1646. £2 108

This is an account of the conduct of the Scotch nation in the Civil War. The Cromwellian Parliament condemned the book to be burnt by the hangman.

CHARLES II., KING OF ENGLAND,
AND THE RESTORATION.

294 ARTICLES OF HIGH-TREASON AGAINST MAJOR GENERAL HARRISON,
SIR ARTHUR HASILRIG, SIR HENRY VANE, AND MR. THOMAS
Scor. With the Charge and Impeachment upon an Arrest of
High-Treason, in order to their speedy Tryal in Westminster
Hall and a Declaration touching their several Treasons,
Tyrannies, Theft, and Murders; For which they are to be
Arraigned, Tryed, and Convicted, according to the known
Lawes of the Land.

8 pp. Small 4to. Folded as issued.

London, Printed for Marm. Johnson, 1660.

15s

295 BLOUNT (Thomas). BOSCOBEL; or, The History of His Sacred Majesties most miraculous Preservation after the battle of Worcester, 3rd September, 1651. With a fine portrait of Charles II. and a plan of Boscobel House and the vicinity.

MAY-DAY.

A vvitty Comedie,

diuers times acted at the
Blacke Fryers.

Printed for Iohn Browne, dwelling in Fleetftreeie in Saint Dunftones Church-yard,

1611.

See Item No. 276.

See Item No. 381.

CHARLES II.: BLOUNT (Thomas): BOSCOBEL-continued.

FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo.

Small 8vo. 2 parts in 1.

Brown morocco

plain, doublé with purple morocco, tooled in gilt line scrolls, joints, vellum end-leaves, g. e.

London, Printed for Henry Seile, Stationer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, 1660. £9 9s

With two contemporary portraits inserted, one representing Charles at the age of 19, from Wase's version of the "Electra" of Sophocles, 1649; the other of Charles as a boy.

TO ARREST THE REGICIDES.

296 BY THE KING. A Proclamation to summon the Persons therein named, who sate, gave Judgment, and assisted in that horrid and detestable Murder of His Majesties Royal Father of blessed memory, to appear and render themselves within Fourteen days, under pain of being excepted from Pardon.

BLACK LETTER. Broadside, printed on one side of a folio sheet, with Royal Arms above.

London, Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker, 1660. £5 5s

Of the persons named in this Proclamation, 13 escaped, three (Whalley, Goffe and Dixwel) flying to America, 13 were pardoned, and eight executed.

FOR THE ARREST OF COL. LUDLOW, ONE OF THE REGICIDES. 297 BY THE KING. A Proclamation for the Apprehension of Edmund Ludlow Esquire commonly called Colonel Ludlow.

BLACK LETTER. Broadside, printed on one side of a folio sheet, with Royal Arms at top.

Ludlow was one of the Judges who signed Charles I.'s death warrant, but refused to acknowledge Cromwell's authority. On the restoration he surrendered on account of the above Proclamation, but afterwards escaped to Switzerland.