Mr. William Lilly's True history of King James the First, and King Charles the First. With sundry observations, remarkable passages, and many secret transactions not 'till now divulged / Faithfully published from his own copy.

  • Lilly, William, 1602-1681.
Date:
1715
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Credit: Mr. William Lilly's True history of King James the First, and King Charles the First. With sundry observations, remarkable passages, and many secret transactions not 'till now divulged / Faithfully published from his own copy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    And this fhall laft [even Yeares, loc Ravening and fhedding of bloud, : cf r oe If we confider that our Wars began in Anno 1642, we fhall then find that our Di-. {tempers and Wars have continued Seven. whole Years, within our own Kingdom; for one Copy hathit, Ji beatae Ha] Et feptennio durabit guerra intra... The War fhall endure Seven Years within the Bowels of the Kingdoms ; and. whereas, he mentions Revening, 1 conceive where the. Soldier is quartered, that AGtion of Ravening, cannot be avoided. wgland. hath felt free, Quarter, both of her own Countrymen, and of the Scots and Scotifh Army, who were the trueft Harpies that ever lived, ftealing and. purloining where ever they came, even unto. a Difh-clout. . You fhall have one Example. of two Scots in Lancafhire 1648, Quartered. there in a poor Houfe, where they got a- Kettle of Brafs, being all their poor Land-. lord had, and. having it on the Fire with Oatmeal boiling in Ale or Milk, an Alarum | comes, and one of their own Countrymen) paffes by and invites chefe two, Soldiers to, run away, for all was loft; but fee their, Villany, and prefent Reward of thefe two © Fools,