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A35243	The life of Oliver Cromwel, Lord Protector of the Common-wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland being an account of all the battles, sieges, and other military atchievements, wherein he was engaged, in these three nations : and likewise, of his civil administrations while he had the supream government, till his death.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1680 (1680)	Wing C7343; ESTC T135016	57,584	144

Articles 7. That no Parliament be dissolved by the Protector but end every three Years and the Protector to issue out Warrants 8. All the Crown Revenues left to go to the maintenance of the Lord Protector 9. To make Peace or War as he pleaseth with the advice of his Council in the interval of Parliaments but not to raise Money without the Parliament unless in extraordinary Causes 10. Whatsoever goes out in the name of the Keepers of the Liberties of England to go out in the Name of the Lord Protector 11. That it is Treason to speak against the present Government 12. That all forfeited and confiscated Estates go to the maintenance of the Lord Protector 13. That all Acts of Parliaments made and Estates sold stand good and be enjoyed 14. That the Lord Protector have Power to confer titles of Honour and to dispose of the great Places of trust 15. That in the interval of Parliaments the Lord Protector with his Council● do order the Affairs of the Nation 16. That all Articles of War be kept 17. That the known Laws of the Common-wealth be continued 18. That a standing Army be maintained of ten thousand Horse and twenty thousand Foot 19. That Christian Religion be maintained such as is contained in the Word of God 20. That all Persons shall have Liberty of Conscience provided that they disturb not the Civil Government except the Popish and Prelatical party 21. That no Papist or Delinquent in Arms since the Year 1649 elect or be elected a Parliament Man under Penalty of forfeiture of one Years revenue and the Moiety of his personal Estate 22. That the Lord Protector have Power to pardon all Offenders except Murther 23. That Writs be issued out in Jul next for summoning the Parliament either by the Protector or in course 24. That when the Protector dies the Council then sitting shall summon all the Members of the Council the Major part to elect one to be Protector before they stir out of the Council Chamber and the Person so chosen not to be under the age of twenty one Years nor of the Family of the Stuarts These Articles sworn to he was proclaimed Lord Protector in the Palace-yard at Westminster and by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen in their Scarlet Gowns at the Royal Exchange who to ingratiate themselves with their new Governour bestowed on him a costly Feast at Grocers Hall it is an usual observation that Persons that make their ways with their Swords that their shows to take the People generaly are more stately then those of successive Princes what he admitted of as with his own permission was nothing to those dutiful solemnities that pursued his Memory without dispute he had studied the art and ordinance of self-denying insomuch that the Parliament perceiving that he did but complement his Generalship which he might with safety and most right have accepted they pressed him the less as he seemed to push away that with his little finger that they were certain he was ready to grasp with both his Hands The greatest Admiration that hath furprized me hath been what in the compass of a Year I have observed the Tides and Streams of Petitions out of most Counties that at the first rise or promise of greatness have pursued every alteration as Party-coloured as Joseph's Coat and as variable as the Rainbow it is not to depictured how Janus-faced they have been on all occasions with how many religious expressions and wishes they have made their Addresses and masqued their self-interests if it were possible in so short an interim of time at once adoring so many rising Suns Since I have so strangely dissgressed it will not be amiss to take notice of a Book lately come forth intituled History and Policy reviewed concerning the political transactions of the Protector publish'd in a strange name written in the stile of the holy Court in which the Author undertakes a prodigious Enterprize to compare Cromwel to Moses his Pen is too palpably ●●aught with Flattery yet not without un●●● 〈◊〉 Subtilty he having like the little Gentleman in the short Jacket pickt the Vermin out of Nic. Machiavels Head for his use throwing off one side principles honester then his own Machiavel never so disguising himself with the Vizard of Religion that he appears to be an arranter Devil than the Florentine certain I am that I never read a Book that more pleased or displeased me But to proceed at his first instalment Heavens bless us immediately follows a Plot miraculously discovered eleven of the grand Conspirators being apprehended were committed to the Tower where having remained a while they were again set at Liberty This web was not well spun his Spies and Informers which he entertained at vast expence put on their Spectacles that they might see better against the next occasion In the Interim the Scots under the Earls of Glencarne and Kenmore raised another Army of 4000 Horse and Foot but were soon dissipated by the vigilancy of Colonel Morgan who after a short but smart Fight killed ●one hundred and fifty of them and defeated all the rest Suspicions are necessary Alarms as they at least suffer persons not to be overtaken with too much security of their Affairs Another great Plot was now again discovered the chief Conspirators were said to be Mr. Thomas and John Gerrard Brothers John Jones an Apothecary and Thomas Tendor Somerset Fox and Master Peter Vowel who were all condemned but two only suffered viz. Mr. Vowel who was hanged Also about the same time the Portugal Ambassadors Brother was brought to his Tryal for the pistoling of one Mr. Greenwood by a Knight of Malta one of his high spirited followers the tumult being afterwards occasion'd from his retinue he having been first very uncivilly treated by Mr. Gerrard in his expatiating of the New Exchange as he termed it in his Declaration for which Mr. Gerrard received a prick with his Dagger and afterwards had the honour to die the same Death The young unfortunate Stranger suffered a very high favour to please the New Exchange Chevaliers Mean while the Scotch Highlanders impatint of bearing the English yoke resolved to try the other bout to which purpose they assembled together in great Numbers having General Middleton to their Leader who was newly come to them out of Holland but all their endeavours vanished into Smoak General Monk on the twentieth July 1654 at a place called Loughberry gave them such a charge as utterly defeated them and made them incapable of ever after thinking of appearing in Arms again Soon after was a Parliament called who no sooner were set but fell upon questioning the Power by which they were convocated and doubting of its lawfulness were soon dissolved by the same Power which they distrusted The Protector at the dissolution of this short Parliament made a very long Speech wherein amongst many other passages he hath this expression This one thing I speak as thus advised and before God as

labour till he shall be released by Parliament and during that time be debarred the use of Pen Ink and Paper and shall have no relief but what he earns by his daily Labour which accordingly was executed upon him December 17. 1656. His Flies and Familiars were still useful to him for the discovering of more strange designs the revealing of which no Question kept many Conspiracies from being attempted to which effect there is yet another Plot against the Protectors Life intended by Miles Sindercomb alias Fish one who had formerly been a Parliament Soldier under the command of Sir John Reynolds together with one Cecil induced thereunto as is said by Don Alonso the late Spanish Ambassador to the effecting their designs they are said to have hired a House at Hammersmith adjoining by the High-way side to have shot him in his Coach as he passed by but that failing they intended to have shot him in Hide-Park and to that purpose they filed off the Hinges of the Gates for their better escape and this miscarrying they intended to have fired White Hall For these Offences Sindercomb was arraigned at the Upper Bench Bar in Westminster Hall February 9. 1656. where being found guilty by the Jury he was condemned to be hanged drawn and quartered at Tyburn but before his Execution he was found dead in his Bed and several presumptions of a violent Death appearing on him it was concluded he poysoned himself Afterwards he was drawn from the Tower unto Tower-hill at a Horse's-Tail with his Head forward and there under the Scaffold turned into a hole stark naked and a Stake spiked and plated with Iron driven thro' him into the Earth It is to be observed that whatsoever the vigilancy of the Guard of the Tower was over this Gentleman that he died with as fresh a Colour as Sir Thomas Overbury is said to have expired with But to return where we left that successful Sea-man General Blake the Protectors intended Drake an honest stout incomparable Sea-man he failing with his Fleet to Sancta Cruza in the Island of Teneriff in which Port lay sixteen great Spanish Vessels laden with rich Merchandizes from the Indies He on the 20th of April 1657. set upon them and destroyed them all not sixty of his own Men being lost But to return June the 20. 1657 the Protector with great Magnificence was installed at Westminster the Parliament then sitting and in Westminster Hall a rich Cloth of State was set up and under it a Chair of State placed upon an ascent of two degrees covered with Carpets and before it a Table with a Chair appointed for the Speaker of the Parliament and on each side of the Hall upon the said Structure were Seats raised one above another and decently covered for the Members of Parliament and below them Seats on one side for the Judges of the Land and on the other side for the Aldermen of the City of London About two of the Clock in the Afternoon the Protector met the Parliament in the Painted Chamber and passed such Bills as were presented to him after which they went in order to the place appointed in Westminster Hall the Protector standing under the Cloth of Estate the Lord Widdrington Speaker of the Parliament addrest himself to him in this Speech May it please your Highness You are now upon a great Theatre in a large Chore of People you have the Parliament of England Scotland and Ireland before you on your Right Hand my Lords the Judges and on your Left-Hand the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Sheriffs of London the most noble and populous City of England The Parliament with the Interposition of your sufferage makes Laws and the Judges and Governours of London are the great Dispencers of those Laws to the People The Occasion of this great Convention and Intercourse is to give an Investiture to your Highness in that eminent Place of Lord Protector a Name you had before but it is now settled by the full and unanimous consent of the People of these three Nations assembled in Parliament you have no new Name but a new date added to the old Name the 16 of December is now changed to the 26 of June I am commanded by the Parliament to make oblation to your Highness of four Things in order to this Inauguration The first is a Robe of Purple an Emblem of Magistracy and imports Righteousness and Justice when you have put on the Vestment I may say and I hope without Offence that you are a Gown Man This Robe is of a mixt Colour to shew the mixture of Justice and Mercy which are then most excellent when they are well tempered together Justice without Mercy is Wormwood and Bitterness and Mercy without Justice is of a too soft a Temper for Government for a Magistrate must have two Hands Plectentem Amplectentem The next thing is a Bible a Book that contains the Holy Scripture in which you have the Honour and Happiness to be well versed This is the Book of Life consisting of two Testaments the Old and New In the first we have Christum velatum Christ in Types Shadows and Figures in the latter we have Christum revelatum Christ revealed This Book carries in it the grounds of the true Christian Protestant Religion it's a Book of Books it contains in it both precepts and examples for good Government Alexander so highly valued the Books of his Master Aristotle and other great Princes other Books that they have laid them every Night under their Pillows These are all but Legends and Romances to this one Book at Book to be had always in remembrance I find it said in a Part of this Book which I shall desire to read and it is this Deut. 17. And it shall be when he sitteth upon the Throne of his Kingdom that he shall write a Copy of this Law in a Book out of that which is before the Priests and Levites And it shall be with him and he shall read therein all the Days of his Life that he may learn to fear the Lord God and to keep all the Words of his Law and those Statutes to do them That his Heart be not lifted up above his Brethren and that he turn not aside from the Commandment to the Right Hand or to the Left to the end he may prolong his Days in his Kingdom he and his Children in the midst of Israel The next Thing that I am to offer to your Highness is a Scepter not unlike a Staff for you are to be a Staff to the Weak and Poor it's of ancient use in this kind it's said in Scripture in reference to Judah the Royal Tribe That the Scepter shall not depart from Judah It was of like use in other Kingdoms and Governments Homer the Prince of the Greek Poets calls Kings and Princes Scepter-bearers The last Thing is a Sword not a Military but a Civil Sword a Sword rather for a Defence than an Offence not to defend