PART I. Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter. 69 much doubtful of the Iffue which followed, I thought if I had been able, it would have beenno Service at all to the King ; it being fo little on fuch a fitdden, that I could add to his Affifance. When theKinghad Rayed afew Days at WorceJler, Crómwell came with his Ar- my to the Eaft fide of the City, and after that, made a Bridge of Boats over Se- vern, to hinder them from Forage on the other fide ; but becauiè fo great an Army, couldnot long endure to be pent up, the King refolved to charge Cromwells Men ; and a while theScots Foot did charge very gallantly, and fome chief Perfons among the Horfe, The Marquis Hamilton (late Earlof Lanerick) being gain : But at lalt the hope of Security fo near their Backs, encouraged the King's Army to retreat into the City, and Cromwell's Souldiers followed them fo clofe it the Heels, that Major Swallowof Whalley's Regiment firf, and others after him entered Sidbury- Gate with them ;"and fo the whole Army fled through the City quite away, ma- ny being troddendownand gain in the Streets ; fo that the King was faign to fly with them Northward, the Lord Wilmot, the Earl of Lauderdaile, and many others ofhis Lords and Commanders with him : Kiderminfler being but elevenMiles fromWorceJter, the flying Army pall fome of them through the Town, and fome by it : I was newly gone to Bedwhen the Noifeof the flying Horfe acquaintedvs of the Overthrow : and a piece ofone of Cromwell's Troops that Guarded Bewdlej Bridge having tidings of it, came into our Streets, and Rood in the Open Market- place before my Door, to furprifethofe thatpafby : And fowhen many hundreds of the flying Army came together, when the ;°Trooperscryed fiend, and fired at them, they either hafted away, or cryed Quarter, not knowing in the Dark what Number it was that charged them : And fo as many were taken there, as fo few Men could lay hold on: And till Midnight the Bulletsflying towards my Door and Windows, and the forrowful Fugitives hailing by for their Lives, did tell ore the Calamitoufnefs of War. The King parted at laft frommoll of his Lords, and went to Bofebbell by the white Ladies, where he washid in anOak, in mannerfufficiently declared to thè World ; and thence to Mofelly, and fo with Mrs. Lane away as a Traveller, and efcaped all the Searchers Hands, till hecame fafe beyond Sea, as is publifhed at large by divers. The City of Worcejier was much plundered byCromwell's Souldiers, and a Party only fent out after the King's Fugitives (for an Army I will call them no more) the Earl of Derby was taken, and Capt. Benbowof Shrewsbury, and were both put to Death ; theSentence of Coll. Mackworth difpatched Benbow, becaufe he had beena Souldier under him. The Earl of Lauderdaile, and the Earl ofCrafordwere fent Prifoners to Windfos.Ca/lle, where they were detained till the Reftoration of the King: Coll. Gravesat laft being releafedby Cromwell, lived quietlyat hisHouk, which made him ill thought of; and kept from Preferment afterwards when the King came in. And thus Cromwell'snext Impediment was over. . g ix I. The Scots Army being utterly difpatched inEngland (and manyof the, Prifoners ofFoot fent to the Barbado's, &c.) part of Cromwell's Armywas fent to profecute theVii Cory in Scotland, where (briefly) all their Garrifons at tall were taken, and the Earl of Glencarne, and that learned, religious, excellent Perfon,, the Earl ofBaleares, whokept up the laft Forges there for the King, were fain to fly to the King beyond Sea: And Major General Monk was there left with force Forces to keep the Country inSubjection. g 112. Cromwell having thus far teemed to be a Servant to the Parliament, and work for his Mafters the Rumpor Commonwealth, Bothnextbegin to chewwhom he ferved, and take thatImpediment alfo out of the way : To which End he firft loth by them as he did by the Presbyterians, make them odious by hard Speeches of them throughouthis Army ; as if they intended to perpetuate themfelves, and would not be accountable for the Money of the Commonwealth, 6c. and hé treateth privately with many of them, to appoint a time when they would dif- folve themfelves, that another free Parliament might be chofen: But they per- ceived the Danger, and were rather for the filling up of their Number by New Ele&ions, which he was utterly againR. His greaten Advantage to Rrengthen himfelf againft themby the Seélaries, was their owning the. publick Minifiry and-their Maintenance ; for though vane and his party fet themflves to make the Minifters odious by reproachful Titles, and to take them down, 'yet Rill the greater parr of the Houle did carry it for a fader MinJlry, and competent Maintenance. And whenthe Quakers and others did openly reproach
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