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A65583	A second narrative of the late Parliament (so called) wherein, after a brief reciting some remarkable passages in the former narrative, is given an account of their second meeting, and things transacted by them : as also how the Protector (so called) came swearing, by the living God, and dissolved them, after two or three weeks sitting : with some quæries sadly proposed thereupon : together with an account of three and forty of their names, who were taken out of the house, and others that sate in the other house, intended for a House of Lords, but being so unexpectedly disappointed, could not take root, with a brief character and description of them : all humbly presented to publique view / by a friend to the good old cause of justice, righteousnesse, the freedom and liberties of the people, which hath cost so much bloud and treasury to be carried on in the late wars, and are not yet settled.	Wharton, George, Sir, 1617-1681.	1658 (1658)	Wing W1556; ESTC R8011	50,589	52

House to be a Lord and to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over all of the gentle Craft and Cordwayners Company in London if they please but though he be so considerable and of such Merit in the Protectors as also in his own esteem not onely to be a Knight but also a Lord yet it will hardly pass for currant with the good people of these Lands it being so far beyond the last neither will they think him fit saving the Protectors pleasure to have a Negative Voyce over them though he formerly fought so stiffly against it in the King and Lords in order to set them free 25. Colonel Barkstead then Sir John now Lord Barkstead sometime a Goldsmith in the Strand of no great rank went out a Captain to Windsor Castle was sometime Governour of Reading got at length to be a Colonel then made Lieutenant of the Tower by the old Parliament The Protector so called finding him fit for his turn continued him there and also made him Major General of Middlesex in the Decimating business and assistant to Major General Skippon in London he is one to the life to fulfil the Protectors desires whether right or wrong for he will dispute no commands or make the least demur but in an officious way will rather do more then his share his principles for all Arbitrary things whatsoever being so very thorough let friends or foes come to his Den they come not amiss so he gets by it yea rather then fail he will send out his armed men to break open honest mens Houses and seize their persons and bring them to his Goal and then at his pleasure turns them out he hath erected a principality in the Tower and made Laws of his own and executes them in a Martial way over all comers so that he hath great command and makes men know his power he was of the latter Parliaments is one of the Commissioners like the Bishops Panders in the Kings days for suppressing Truth in the Printing-Presses an oppression once the Army so greatly complained of is for Sanctuary gotten in to be a Member of Mr. Griffiths Church is also knighted after the new Order and the better to carry on the Protectors Interest among the ear-boar'd slavish Citizens is lately become an x Alderman so that he hath advanced his Interest and Revenue to purpose His Titles and Capacities emblazoned will sufficiently argue his worth and merits and speak him out fully to be a man of the times and every way deserving to be yet greater and Haman-like to be set higher All which considered it would seem a wrong not to have taken him out of the House and made him a Lord of the Other House with a Negative Voyce there as well as where he is the rather for that he knows so well how to exercise the same having used it so long a season as likewise that he may obstruct and hinder whoever shall question or desire Justice against him for his wicked doing 26. Colonel Ingoldsby a Gentleman of Buckinghamshire allyed to the Protector he betook himself to the Wars on the right side as it happened and in time became a Colonel a Gentlem●n of courage and valour but not very famous for any great exploits unless for beating the honest Inne-Keeper of Alisbury in White-hall for which the Protector committed him to the Tower but was soon released No great friend of the Sectaries so called or the cause of Freedom then fought for as several of his then and now Officers and Souldiers can witness and although it be well known and commonly reported That he can neither pray or preach yet complying so kindly with the new Court and being in his principles for Kingship as also a y Colonel of Horse and the Protectors Kinsman he may well be reckoned fit to be taken out of the House and made a Lord and to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over the good people of this Land the rather for that he as a Gentleman engaged and fought onely for money and honour and nothing else 27. Colonel Whaly formerly a Woollen-Draper or petty Merchant in London whose Shop being out of sorts and his Cash empty not having wherewithal to satisfie his Creditors he fled into Scotland for refuge till the Wars began then took on him to be a Souldier whereby he hath profited greatly was no great Zealot for the cause but happening on the right side he kept there and at length was made Commissary General of the Horse he was of these latter Parliaments and being so very useful and complying to promote the Protectors designes was made y Major General of two or three Counties he is for a King or Protector or what you will so it be liked at Court is with his little Brother Glyn grown a great man and very considerable and wiser as the Protector saith then Major-General Lambert who having with his fellow Lords Cleypole and Howard so excellent a spirit of Government over his Wife and Family being also a Member of z Thomas Goodwins Church no question need be made of his merit of being every way fit to be a Lord and to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over the people for that he never as he saith fought against any such thing as a Negative Voyce 28. Colonel Goff now Lord Goff that would be sometime Colonel Vaughans Brothers Prentice a Salter in London whose time being near or newly out betook himself to be a Souldier instead of setting up his Trade went out a Quarter-master of Foot and continued in the Wars till he forgot what he fought for in time became a Colonel and in the outward appearance very zealous and frequent in praying preaching and pressing for Righteousness and Freedom and highly esteemed in the Army on that account when honesty was in fashion yet having at the same time like his General an evil Tincture of that spirit that loved and sought after the favour and praise of Man more then that of God as by woful experience in both of them hath since appeared he could not further believe or persevere upon that account but by degrees fell off and this was he who with Colonel White brought Musquetteers and turned the honest Members left behind in the Little Parliament out of the House Complying thus kindly with the Protectors Designes and Interest was made a Major General of Hantshire and Sussex was of the late Parliament hath advanced his interest greatly and is in so great esteem and favour at Court as he is judged the onely fit man to have Major General Lamberts Place and Command as Major General of the Army and having so far advanced is in a fair way to the Protectorship hereafter if he be not served as Lambert was He being so very considerable a person and of such great worth there is no question of his deserts and fitness to be taken

was preparing by some faithfull Friends to the good Old Cause in and about the City of London which was afterward Printed and signed with many thousand Hands which Petition makes mention of the severall Particulars that were the Grounds of Contest between the late King and Parliament and the good People of the Nation And prayeth The settling those good things fought for as the Reward and Fruit of the Bloud and Treasure so greatly expended in the late Wars c. This Petition was ready to be presented to the Parliament in a peaceable way by the hands of about twenty in the name of the rest desiring to submit the issue thereof to God and the Wisdom of that Assembly The Court hearing of it were so affrighted as they began to consider how they might quell and put a stop to that honest Spirit which so appeared against them the Protector in the mean while calling them Traytors and Seditious persons c. Threatning to cut their Sculls and to tread them down as mire in the streets c. And turned out * Major Packer and most of the honestest Officers of his Regiment of Horse for refusing to serve his Lust therein And apprehending that nothing could do it but a speedy dissolving the Parliament they put on Resolutions accordingly onely waited for a convenient opportunity But something happening that morning that put the Protector into a Rage and Passion near unto madnesse as those at White-Hall can witnesse he gets into a Coach and to the Other House he comes and sends for his son Fleetwood Mr. Nathaniel Fines and some others acquainting them what his Purpose and Resolution was and what he came to do who as its said earnestly endeavoured to disswade him from it but he refused to hearken and in great passion sware By the living God he would dissolve them And so going into the House and sending the Black Rod with a Message to call the Parliament to come unto him He with laying great blame upon them and charging them with great Crimes and Magnifying of himself as his manner is dissolved them And this was the fourth Parliament broken by him in five years Thus the Two Houses fell and perished together their Father their good Father knocking his Children on the Head and killing of them because they were not towardly but did wrangle one with another but what hath he gained thereby Solomon the wise saith Prov. 14. 1. Every wise woman buildeth her house but the foolish plucketh it down with her own hands Vpon the whole it is Humbly Queried as followeth viz. First Whether there may not very plainly be read and perceived a Hand of Displeasure from the Almighty blinding the eyes and infatuing the understandings of those unworthy persons who * Hiel like would have built Jericho again to wit fallen Monarchy in a single Person and a House of Lords with their Negative Voices over the good people of these Lands so as to cause or suffer them to do their work by halves and to rise and leave so Lame Namelesse and Insignificant their New Modell of the Humble Petition and Advice alias Instrument of Bondage to the English Nation Let the Curse of Confusion that attended the Builders of * Babel be considered of Secondly Whether those so very wise Gentlemen who saw it so necessary and ventured so high and took so much pains to bring in again and anew restore fallen Monarchy and Kingship in these Lands could according to the rules of common reason and understanding of men imagine and conclude That the Gentlemen who had formerly been so wronged abused and exasperated by them in being kept out of the House would be so easie and tame as presently without any more ado addresse themselves to lick their new Golden Calf and nurse up that Babylonish Antichristian Brat they had no hand in but were against the begetting of And whether it doth not speak out a very great weaknesse in their Councels and a marvellous shallownesse in the Protector his Council and whole number concern'd in that Design in making no better provision before-hand and seeing no further into the ensuing Danger so likely to attend their whole Device and the namelesse Infant of the Other House which they would have to be Christned and Called by the Name of Lords Thirdly Whether the good people of this Nation have not cause for ever as to abhor the Memory of the afore-mentioned back-sliding persons so that Parliament so called in the first Session of it before their Adjourning that of their own Heads and contrary to their Engagement to the * Instrument of Government by vertue whereof they sate at first and without consulting the respective Counties for whom they served or so much as one Petition delivered to them for that purpose changed the Government and made one worse harder and more grievous to be born then that they put away so fastening their new Iron yoke upon the Necks of the good People of this Land settling great Taxes with the Customes and Excise for ever to keep this Yoke upon them Fourthly Whether those Gentlemen kept out in the first Sitting when those hard things were transacted and afterwards comming in and being present in the second Meeting notwithstanding the so great Reproach and Dirt cast on them by the Court are not highly to be honoured and esteemed for appearing and standing so far as they did for Right and Freedom and against the Bondages which contrary to Ingagements Covenants and Promises were put upon the good People of this Land As well as to be blamed not onely for not declaring at their first Seclusion to inform the People of the wrong and injury done unto them But also when afterward they whre so Arbitrarily and Tyrannically dissolved with the rest of their unworthy Brethren they took it so patiently and went so tamely home and did not in the very time of the Action Protest and Declare against the Tyrant and then retire into their places from whence they ought not to have stirred at first and call him to the Bar or otherwise proceeded against him for so doing Had it not been sutable to and well becoming that noble Commonwealth Spirit so much pretended to thus to have assay'd though they had fallen in it And whether the Army in Honesty Conscience and Duty their former Declarations and Ingagements considered ought not to have assisted them therein as well as they did the long Parliament against the King and his Courtiers upon the like account Doth not the loud Cryes of the Souls of the Saints * under the Altar slain for the Testimony which they held in their Day as also the Blood of the Saints and others slain in the late Wars and the Sufferings of our dear Brethren in Prisons and Banishment call for this their Testimony also If so Ought not this honest word of Reproof for what is past and of excitation for the future to take place Fifthly But since

Undertakings Hazards and Services for the Cause cannot well be numbred or set forth unless the drinking of King Charles's or as is so commonly spoken his Fathers Landlords health whose Abilities in Praying and Preaching and Love to the Sectaries being much like his Cousin Dick Ingoldsby's and he so very likely to be his Fathers Successour and to inherit his noble Vertues in being the light of the Eyes and breath of the Nostrils of the old Heathenish Popish Laws and Customs of the Nation especially among the Learned the University of Oxford have therefore thought fit he being also no very good Scholar to chuse him their Chancellour And though he was not judged meet not having a Spirit of Government for it to have a Command in the Army when there was fighting or honest and wise enough to be one of the little Parliament yet is he become a Colonel of Horse now fighting is over as also taken in to be one of the Protectors Council and one of the Other House and to have the First Negative Voyce over the good People of this Commonwealth being in so hopeful a way to have the great Negative Voyce over the whole after his Fathers Death 2. Commissioner Fiennes Son of the Lord Say a Member sometime of the Long Parliament and then a Colonel under the Earl of Essex had the command and keeping of Bristol but gave it up cowardly as it 's said for which he had like to have lost his head he being a lover of Kingship and Monarchy as well as his Father was taken in by the Protector at his first setting up to be one of his Council and made Commissioner of the great Seal as also Keeper of the Privy-Seal whereby his Interest and Revenue is raised from two or three hundred per annum to two or a three thousand and more And for his Merits and Greatness being after the old mode he was taken out of the late Parliament to be the Mouth of the Protector in that Other House and so is fit no question to have the second Negative Voyce over the good People of these Lands 3. Henry Lawrence a Gentleman of a Courtly Breed and a good Trencher Man who when the Bishops ruffled in their Pride and Tyranny went over to Holland afterwards came back and became a Member of the Long Parliament fell off at the beheading the late King and change of the Government for which the Protector then Lieutenant-General with great Zeal declared That a Neutral Spirit was more to be abhor'd then a Cavaleere Spirit and that such men as he were not fit to be used in such a day as that when God was cutting down Kingship root and branch yet came in play again upon design in the Little Parliament and contributed much to the dissolving of them as also setting up the Protector and settling the Instrument of Government and a single Person affirming That other foundation could no man lay For which worthy Services and as a Snare or Bait to win over or at least quiet the baptised people himself being under that Ordinance he was made and continued President of the Protectors Council where he hath signed many an Arbitrary and Illegal Warrant for the carrying of honest faithful men to Prisons and Exile without cause unless their not apostatizing with them from just and honest principles His Merits are great and many being every way thorough-paced and a great Adorer of Kingship so as he deserveth no doubt and is every way fit to be taken out of the Parliament to have the third place of Honour and Negative Voyce in the Other House over the people of these Lands 4. Lieutenant-General Fleetwood a Gentleman formerly of the Long Parliament and a Colonel of their Army then Lieutenant-General afterward married honest Iretons Widdow the Protectors eldest Daughter Major General Lambert being put by by the Parliament from going over to Ireland as Lord Lieutenant it savouring too much of Monarchy and being not willing to accept of a lower Title he was sent over thither under the Title of Lord Deputy in his room where he continued about three years and to put a check upon those godly men there who are no Friends to Monarchy he was sent for over again and cajoled in to be one of the Protectors Council as also Major General of divers Counties in England his Salary supposed worth b 6600 l. per annum by all which he is become advanced to a princely Interest and Revenue he is one of good principles had he kept them and of good words like his Father-in-law whereby he hath deceived many an honest man and drawn them from the Good Old Cause and by that way hath greatly served the Protectors Designes His Merits therefore are such as he no question also deserves to be taken out of the House and made a Peer and to have a Negative Voyce in the other House when it shall be named Lords notwithstanding he so helpt in the Army and Long Parliament to throw down the House of Lords and to destroy their Negative Voyce and did fight against it in the King 5. Colonel Disbrow a Gentleman or Yeoman of about sixty or seventy pounds per annum at the beginning of the Wars who being allyed to the Protector by Marriage of his Sister he cast away his Spade and took a Sword and rise with him in the Wars and in like manner upon the Principles of Justice and Freedom advanced his Interest very much if he were not of the Long Parliament he was of the Little One which he helped to break Being grown considerable he cast away the Principles by which he rise and took on Principles of Violence and Tyranny and helped to set up the Protector for which he was made one of his Council and one of the c Generals at Sea and hath a princely command at Land being Major General of divers Counties in the West as also one of the Lords of the Cinque Ports His Interest and Greatness being so far advanced his Merits must needs be great and he every way fit to be taken out of the House and put into the Other House with a Negative Voyce over the good people for that with his Sword he can set up that again in the Protector and himself which before he cut down in the King and Lords 6. Lord Viscount Lisle Eldest Son of the Earl of Leicester he was of the Long Parliament to the Last and at the change of Government and making Laws of Treason against a single persons Rule and no question concur'd with the rest therein he was also of the Little Parliament and of all the Parliaments since was all along of the Protectors d Council and was never to seek who having learned so much by changing with every Change and keeping still like his Father-in-law the Earl of Salisbury and Peter Sterry on that side which hath proved Trump nothing need farther be said of his fitness being such a

man of e principles to be taken out of the Parliament to have a settled Negative Voyce in the Other House over all the good people of these Lands he being a Lord of the old Stamp already and in time so likely to become a Peer 7. Sir Gilbert Pickering Knight of the old Stamp and of a considerable Revenue in Northampton-shire one of the Long Parliament and a great stickler in the change of the Government from Kingly to that of a Commonwealth helped to make those Laws of Treason against Kingship hath also changed with all changes that have been since he was one of the Little Parliament and helped to break it as also of all the Parliaments since is one of the Protectors f Council and as if he had been pin'd to his Sleeve was never to seek is become high Steward of Westminster and being so finical spruce and like an old Courtier is made Lord Chamberlain of the Protectors Houshold or Court so that he may well be counted fit and worthy to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House though he helped to destroy it in the King and Lords There are more besides him that make themselves transgressors by building again the things which they once destroyed 8. Walter Strickland sometime Agent or Embassador to the Dutch in the low Countries from the long Parliament and a good Friend of theirs at length became a Member of that Parliament was also of the little Parliament which he helped to break was of the Parliament since and is now of the Protectors g Council he is one that can serve a Commonwealth and also a Prince so he may serve himself and his own ends by it who having so greatly profited by attending the Hogan Mogans and become so expert in the Ceremony Postures and thereby so apt like an Ape with his brother Sir Gilbert and the President to imitate or act the part of an old Courtier in the new Court was made Captain General of the Protectors Mag-pye or Gray-Coated Foot-guard in White-hall as the Earl of Holland formerly to the King who being every way of such worth and Merits no question can be made or exceptions had against his fitness to be taken out of the Parliament to exercise a Negative Voyce in the Other House over the people of this Commonwealth 9. Sir Charles Ousely a Gentleman who came something late into play on this side being converted from a Cavaleere in a good hour He became one of the Little Parliament which he helped to break and to set the Protector on the Throne for which worthy service he was as he well deserved taken in to be one of his Council was also of the Parliaments since a man of constancy and certainty in his principles much like the winde and although he hath done nothing for the Cause whereby to merit yet is he counted of that worth as to be every way fit to be taken out of the Parliament to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over such as have done most and merited highest in the Cause the Protector and his fellow Negative Men excepted and over all the Commonwealth beside 10. Mr. Rouse one of the Long Parliament and by them made Provost or Master of Eaton Colledge he abode in that Parliament and helped to change the Government into a Commanwealth and to destroy the Negative Voyce in the King and Lords was also of the Little Parliament and their Speaker who when the good things came to be done which were formerly declared for and for not doing of which the Old Parliament was pretendedly dissolved being an old Bottle and so not fit to bear that new Wine without putting it to the question left the chair and went with his fellow old Bottle● to White-hall to surrender their power to the General which he as Speaker and they by signing a Parchment or Paper pretended to do The colourable foundation for this Apostacy upon the Monarchical foundation being thus laid and the General himself as Protector seated thereon he became one of his h Council good old man and well he deserved it for he ventured hard he was also of the Parliaments since and being an aged Venerable man all exceptions set aside may be counted worthy to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over all that shall question him for what he hath done and over all the people of these Lands besides though he would not suffer it in the King and Lords 11. Major General Skippon sometime called The honest English Captain in the Netherlands was afterward Captain of those of the Artillery Ground in London who refusing to attend the King at York when he sent unto him and adhering to the Parliament was by them made Major General under the Earl of Essex under whom many an honest man lost his life in fighting for the Cause of Freedom and Justice and against the Negative Voyce of the King and Lords whose blood surely will lye at some bodies door and cry He was of the Long Parliament and helped to change the Government and make the Laws of Treaso● against a single persons Rule and was outed with them After the Little Parliament for endeavouring to bring forth what the old Parliament was turn'd out for not doing was dissolv'd he was brought in play again by means of Philip Nye Metropolitan Tryer of White-hall and made one of the Protectors i Council and Major General of the City in the decimating business hath been of all the Parliaments since who being so grave and Venerable a man his errour in leading men to fight against the Kings Negative Voyce may be forgiven him and he admitted as fit to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House himself not onely over those who have fought along with him but all the people of these Lands besides the rather for that he is very aged and not likely to exercise that power long 12. Colonel Sydenham a Gentleman of not very much per annum at the beginning of the Wars was made Governour of Melcomb Regis in the West became one of the Long Parliament and hath augmented his Revenue to some purpose he helped no question to change the Government and make those Laws of Treason against Kingship was also of the Little Parliament and of those that were since one also of the Protectors k Council hath a Princely command in the Isle of Wight is one of the Commissioners of the Treasury by all which he is grown very great and considerable and although he hath not been thorough-paced for Tyranny in time of Parliaments yet it being forgiven him is judged of that worth and merit as to be every way fit to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over all his Dependants and all the people of these Lands besides hoping thereby he

Judicature was questioned being dissolved and the Protector taking the Government upon him he adventured to comply with the rest notwithstanding the danger that so he might keep his place and interest and avoid a new Storm or Frown from the present Power Men need not seek far or study much to read him and what principles he acts by All things considered he may doubtless be very fit to be Lord of the Rolls being Master already and to be taken out of the Parliament to be made a Lord and to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over the people as well as over the causes in the Rolls being so thoroughly exercised in Negatives at his own will and pleasure as too many have sadly felt 19. Mr. Cleypole Son of Mr. Cleypole in Northamptonshire now Lord Cleypole he long since married the Protectors Daughter a person whose qualifications not answering those honest principles formerly so pretended to of putting none but godly men into places of trust was a long time kept out but since the Apostacy from those principles as also the practise brake in and his Father-in-law the head thereof came to be Protector he was then judged good enough for that dispensation and so taken in to be t Master of his Horse as Duke Hamilton to the King Much need not be said of him his Relation as Son-in-law to the Protector is sufficient to bespeak him every way fit to be taken out of the House and made a Lord and having so long time had a Negative Voyce over his Wife Spring Garden the Ducks Deer Horses and Asses in Jameses Park is the better skilled how to exercise it again in the Other House over the good people of these Nations without any gainsaying or dispute 20. Lord Faulconbridge a Gentleman whose Relations are most Cavaleeres his Uncle formerly Governour of Newark for the King against the Parliament was absent over the water in the time of the late Wars a Neuter at least if not disaffected to the cause came back the Wars being over and hath lately marryed one of the Protectors Daughters and was in a fair way had things hit right to have been one of his Council as well as his Son-in-law however suitable to the times he is lately made a Colonel of Horse his Relation both to the old and new Monarchy may sufficiently plead his worth and merits not onely to have his Daughter but also a Negative Voyce in the other House over all that adventured their lives in the cause formerly and over all the people of these Lands besides 21. Colonel Howard his Interest which is considerable is in the North his Relations there are most Papists and Cavaleeres whom he hath courted and feasted kindly and served their Interest to purpose it 's no matter who lost by it in favour to Sir Arthur Haslerigg was made Captain of the Generals Life-Guard when he was in Scotland wherein he continued for some time in England after he was Protector but not being a Kinsman or a person further to be confided in in that place was shuffled out from thence and to stop his mouth made a Colonel and as the Book says a Major General and had power of Decimation as also made Governour of Barwick Tinmouth and Carlisle hath also tasted with the first of that sweet Fountain of new honour being made a Viscount he was of the Little Parliament and all the Parliaments since is a Member of Mr. Cockains Church and of very complying principles no question to the service of the new Court from whence he received his new honour and having with his fellow Lord Cleypole so excellent a spirit of Government over his Wife Family and Tenants in the Country to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House might seem of right to belong unto him being also lorded before hand 22. Lord Broghil his Rise and Relation for means is Ireland a Gentleman of good parts and wit able to make Romance but was not looked on formerly by those of the Good Old Cause as a person fit to be trusted with the command of one Town or Castle in Ireland yet is he now by this happy change become a goodly Convert to be confided in and is made w President of the Protectors Council in Scotland he was of the Latter Parliaments a great Kingling and one that in the Last Parliament so called put on hard that way wherefore it were great pity he being also a Lord of the old Stamp and so well gifted if he should not be one to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over the people of England and Scotland as well as of Ireland it being a good while since and almost forgotten that the Protector said It would never be well and we should never see good days whilst there was one Lord left in England and until the Earl of Manchester was called Mr. Mountague 23. Colonel Pride then Sir Thomas now Lord Pride sometime an honest Brewer in London went out a Captain upon the account of the Cause fought on and in time became a Colonel did good service in England and Scotland for which he was well rewarded by the Parliament with cheap Debenters of his Souldiers and others he bought good Lands at easie rates gave the Long Parliament a Purge fought against the King and his Negative Voyce and was against the Negative Voyce of his Brethren the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being unwilling to have any in the Land but hath now changed his mind and principles with the times and will fight for a Negative Voyce in the Protector and also have one himself and be a Lord for he is a Knight of the new Order already and grown very bulky and considerable it is hard to say how the people will like it However his worth and merits rightly measured will no question render him fit to be taken out of the House to be one of the Other House and to have a Negative Voyce not onely over the Bears but all the people of these Lands though he did formerly so opppose and fight against it and the Noble Lawyers will be glad of his company and friendship for that there is now no fear of his hanging up their Gowns by the Scotish Colours in Westminster-hall as he formerly so greatly boasted and threatned to do 24. Colonel Hewson then Sir John now Lord Hewson sometime an honest Shoomaker or Cobler in London went out a Captain upon the account of the Cause was very zealous fought on stoutly and in time became a Colonel did good service both in England and Ireland was made Governour of Dublin became one of the little Parliament and of all the Parliaments since a Knight also of the new Stamp The world being so well amended with him and the sole so well stitcht to the upper Leather having gotten so considerable an Interest and Means may well be counted fit to be taken out of the

helped to break it and then according to Rev. 11. 10 rejoyced and made merry with the rest of his brethren in Colonel Sydenhams Chamber c. as the Lawyers and other vild persons made Bonfires and drank Sack at the Temple and elsewhere but if ever a spirit of Life from God which is not far off comes in to raise up that honest Spirit by which some of them were acted will not he his brethren and the rest of that earthly rout the false Spirit of Magistracy and Ministry be tormented and afraid He was of the Parliaments since and no doubt of right principles to the Court interest wherein his own is bound up Is one that helps on the bondage in divers great d Committees where he sits and is therefore no question the more fit to be called Lord Roberts and to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over the people being so greatly experienced in that way already having continued in the aforesaid Committee so long 34. Colonel John Jones a Gentleman of Wales one of the Long Parliament was a Commissioner in Ireland for governing that Nation under the Parliament One of good principles for common Justice and Freedom had he kept them and not fallen into temptation he helped to change the Government and make those Laws of Treason against a single persons Rule hath a considerable Revenue and it 's likely did not lose by his employment he is Governour of the Isle of Anglesey and lately marryed the Protectors Sister a Widdow by which means he might have become a great man indeed did not something stick which he cannot well get down he is not thorough paced for the Court-proceedings nor is his conscience fully hardned against the Good Old Cause but there is great hope no question that in time he may be towardly however for Relation sake he may be counted fit with his Name-sake and Countryman Philip to be called Lord Jones and to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over the people and all his being against such things formerly may be forgiven and not once remembred against him 35. Mr. Edmond Thomas a Gentleman of Wales of considerable means a Friend of Philip Joneses and allyed to Walter Strickland both of the Council and brought in upon their account and of complying principles no question to say no more of him not having been long in play being none of the great Zealots or high Sectaries so called in Wales may doubtless be counted wise and good enough to make a simple Lord of the Other House and to be called Lord Thomas and to have a Negative Voyce over all the good people in Wales with his Countrymen John and Philip and over all the people of these Lands besides 36. Sir Francis Russel Knight Baronet of the old Stamp a Gentleman of Cambridgeshire of a considerable Revenue in the beginning of the Wars was first for the King then for the Parliament and a Colonel of Foot under the Earl of Manchester a man like William Sedgwick high flown but not serious or substantial in his principles he continued in his Command till the new Model then took offence and fell off or laid aside by them no great Zealot for the cause therefore not judged honest serious or wise enough to be of the little Parliament yet was of these latter Paliaments Is also Chamberlain of Chester at about 500 l. per annum he marryed his eldest Daughter to Harry Cromwel second son of the Protector then Colonel of Horse now Lord Deputy so called of Ireland another to Colonel Reynolds a new Knight and General of the English Army in France under Cardinal Mazarine since with e Colonel White and others cast away coming from Mardike there is no question but his principles are for Kingship and the new Court being so greatly concern'd therein wherefore it were great pity if he should not also be taken out of the House to be a Lord of the Other House his Son-in-law being so great a Lord and have a Negative Voyce over Cambridgeshire and all the people of these Lands besides 37. Sir William Strickland Knight of the old Stamp a Gentleman of Yorkshire and brother to Walter Strickland was of the Parliament a long time but hath now it seems forgotten the cause of fighting with and cutting off the late Kings head and suppressing the Lords their House and Negative Voyce He was of these Latter Parliaments and of good compliance no question with the new Court and settling the Protector anew in all those things for which the King was cut off wherefore he is fit no doubt to be taken out of the House and made a Lord the rather for that his younger brother Walter is so great a Lord and by whom in all likelyhood he will be steer'd to use his Negative Voyce in the Other House over Yorkshire and the people of these Lands to the interest of the Court 38. Sir Richard Onsloe Knight of the old Stamp a Gentleman of Surrey of good parts and a considerable Revenue he was of the Long Parliament and with much ado thorough his policy steer'd his course between the two Rocks of King and Parliament weather'd some fore Storms was not his man taken in his company by the Guard in Southwark with Commissions of Array in his Pocket from the King and scurrilous Songs against the Roundheads Yet by his interest rode it out till Colonel Pride came with his Purge then suffer'd loss and came no more in play till about Worcester fight when by the help of some Friends in Parliament he was impowred to raise and lead as Colonel a Regiment of Surry men against the Scots and their King but came too late to fight it being over being popular in Surry he was of the Latter Parliaments is fully for Kingship and was never otherwise and stickled much among the 70 Kinglings to that end and seeing he cannot have young Charles old Oliver will serve his turn so he have one so that he is very fit to be Lord Onsloe and to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over Surry if they please and all the people of these Lands besides whether they please or not 39. Mr. John Fiennes Son of the Lord Say and Brother to Commissioner Fiennes brought in it 's likely for one upon his score is in a kind such a one as they call a Sectary but no great stickler therefore not being redeemed from the fear and favour of man will it is probable follow his brother who is as it is thought much steer'd by old Subtilty his Father that lies in his Den as Thurloe by his Mr. St. Johns and will say No with the rest when any thing opposes the interest of the new Court their power and greatness and may therefore pass for one to be a Lord and to have a Negative Voyce

your Major Corn Yes Josh. What are they Corn A pretty number of them Then the Major began to answer to one but nothing to the purpose but before the Major had done your most serene Protector or Joshua unjustly takes part with the Major to help him out saying to the Cornet You Article against your Major because he is for me you are a n n Meaning the officers who often met to seek the Lord and bewail their Apostacy from the Good Old Cause company of Mutineers you deserve a hundred of you to be hanged and I will hang you and strip you as a man would strip an Eele you talk of preaching and praying men they are the men that go about to undermine me And clapping his hand upon Colonel Ingoldsby's shoulder said Go thy way Dick Ingoldsby thou canst neither preach nor pray but I will believe thee before I will believe twenty of them And says he to the Cornet You never owned my Father you have lost your Commission and shall never ride more in this Army c. and a great deal more to this purpose which I leave to Pragmaticus formerly the old now the new Court-Pamphleter more perfectly to relate Is this speaking or action the righteousness and peace kissing each other that you so speak hath been since he took the Government upon him Or would Joshua Solomon or Elisha thus take part with wickedness and wicked men and do so unrighteous and wicked an Action and speak thus profanely and wickedly Surely no VVherefore acknowledge your iniquity and lye low before the Lord for these your blasphemous lying flattering Expressions in your wicked Addresses whereby you have so reproached and wronged good Joshua Solomon and Elisha in making such undue Comparisons wherefore repent you flattering Courtiers Peter Sterry and ye other Court-Chaplains Repent repent Thomas Goodwin and ye Pastors and Messengers of as it 's said above an hundred Congregational Churches in England Repent you Apostate Army Repent you Mayor Aldermen Common Council and Militia of London whose Principles are so base and mercenary and like a Beast looking downward as to side with whether right or wrong whatever is uppermost like your Sword-Bearer and Officers who cry Grace grace and bow to one Lord Maior to day and do the same to the next the morrow Repent also you Presbyterian Classical Ministers of the City c. who by the perswasion of three or four eminent self-interested Cycophants among you were drawn in against your Light and Consciences to carry your bodies to White-hall leaving your hearty good will at home to address your selves to this new Golden Calf as an owning of him and this from unbelief and slavish fear of being frowned upon or losing your Parish places VVill such a practice as this stand good before the Lord in the day of your account Repent also all of you for your spending 50 or 60000 l. about a Heathenish Popish Funeral pomp not onely wicked in it self but at a time when so many tradesmen and others break and are ready to starve and when you had done then following an image of wax to Westminster as if it had been a dead mans body wherein you lyed unto and mocked both God and man Repent also you Country professors and others of these flattering blasphemous lying Addresses and speak nor do no more so wickedly lest the Judgements of the Lord break in upon you as upon back sliding Israel of old and your carcasses fall in the wilderness c. as theirs did for making and then dancing about the Moulten Calf and their desiring to make a Captain to return into Egypt and opposing the Spirit of the Lord in Moses Caleb and Joshua and his work in that day And take heed Oh you Parliament that you do not say or do as these have done whom I so call if you keep close to and endeavour the promotion of the Good Old Cause and cast out the false sp rit of the Egyptian Bond-woman the Protector so called and his Lords and make way for and bring in the Spirit of Zion the Freewoman the true spirit of Magistracy by Judges and Counsellours as at the beginning men fearing God and hating Covetousness and faithful with all the saints If you thus proceed my self and the Lords faithful people will love own live and dye with you if not we shall abhor and dis-own you as we did the former and now Protector and his Lords and shall trust God with our Liberties and not fear your Frowns And now a word for your encouragement my Friends who remain faithful to the Lord in this evil day and are as it were in the Clefts of the Rocks Cant. 2. 14. and secret places of the stairs in pain crying and praying night and day giving the Lord no rest Isai. 6 ● 6 7. till he revive the Good Old Cause and cause the Righteousness of Zion to go forth as brightness and the Salvation thereof as a Lamp that burneth and until he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth whose voyce in his account going forth in the power of his spirit from the sweetness you have tasted in communion with himself in the discovery of this glory is sweet and countenance is comely and unto whom he will in the best time say Rise up my love my fair one and come away for lo the winter is past the rain is over and gone Isa. 26. 20. The flowers appear on the earth Isai. 35. 2. chap. 51. 3. The time of the singing of birds is come Isa. 35. 6. And the voyce of the turtle is heard in our land Zach. 12. 10. And will rejoyce over you as the Bridegroom over the Bride with joy and singing and will rest in his love Zeph. 3. 17. compared with Isa. 62. 5. VVherefore be not dampt or discouraged in your spirits at the hearing and sight of the late Addresses nor at the great Cloud of VVitnesses therein seeming to own the present and former Governour What though many of them are men of such raised gifts and parts and appearing grace which to such as have not their eyes in their heads and look not within the vail may have an appearance the Lord doth own them and approves of what hath been formerly and lately done for though they are so great a Cloud of VVitnesses yet they are but VVitnesses in the Clouds whose Testimony Carnal Wisdom Policy and Arm of Flesh will pass away like the morning Cloud or early dew for the spirit of the Lord in his people like the waters Isa. 28. 17. hath overflown and looked into their hiding place abhor'd and blown upon them therefore follow not a multitude to do evil What though there be so many Prophets great Scholars learned Astrologers and wise men among them yet know that amongst almost 400 Prophets in the days of Ahab and Jehosaphat but one Micaiah a true prophet that had the mind of God among all the congregation that were going from Egypt

there were the force he is under removed But by all the noyse hath been made of this matter in the News Books they onely declare how grateful it would be to have any thing to colour over their unrighteous proceedings and justifie themselves in their hard and more then Heathenish usage of such as dare not say a confederacy with them in their Apostacy for unto this hour after now almost a years imprisonment and at this time so close as that he is locked up night and day can he not hear of Accusation or Accuser or so much as a VVarrant for his Detension other then as is beforementioned That he should be taken and kept during the pleasure of the deceased Tyrant which may become every true Englishman to be sensible of for who knows whose lot it may be next to feel the like oppression when it shall please our Task-masters to impose it * Which amounts unto in the whole one million sixteen thousand three hundred and seventeen pounds sixteen shillings and eight pence per An. according to the favourablest computation by the former Narrative or Book of Rates As it was said there so here If there be any mistakes they are desired who best know to rectifie them if not then what is here mentioned may be taken for granted Nehemiah did not eat the bread of the Govenor why must so great Sallaries be continued to them who have gotten so much already The Taxes raised from the people to pay this doth ruine thousands * Can those be faithful to the Rights and Liberties of the People who swear to be faith full to the Government in a single Person which our too sad experience tells us so naturally tends to destroy them Do not those who so swear undertake to uphold that in the Protector which cost so much Bloud and Treasure to oppose as Antichristian and Tyrannical in the King Or is that a lawfull Authority which contrary to all Presidents and Priviledges of Parliament was carried but by three Voices of them that was permitted to sit there being at the same time at least 80. of the Members purposely kept out till that Act was past Ought not things to be searched into and set right upon this account for that Mat. 6. 24. No man can serve two masters * To the other House they were gone for greater preferment * In nomine Domini incipe om?ne malum * As Major Packer Mr. K●ffin and others by endeavouring to promote the Apostacy at its first Rise hath occasioned many baptized persons and others simply to wander after the Beast They now seeing their Errour ought they not to declare it to the people as also to stir them up to keep close with more refinednesse in their Spirits to the good Old Cause and to be for no single Person whatsoever till he comes whose Right it is Ezek. 21. 26. * 1 Kings 16. 34. * Gen. 11. 7. 9. * The first Instrument is not hereby owned but abhorred as much as the latter though I thus speak * Rev. 6. ● 10. * All of them but four are salary men sons kinsmen and otherwise engaged to the Protector and allyed to his Confederates a As saith the Book of Rates or former Narrative b See the former Narrative c His Salary 3236 l. per annum See Former Narrative or Book of Rates d His Salary 1000l per annum e Ask his late Wifes Sister the Lady Sands f His Salary 1000l perannum besides his other places g Salary 1000 l per annum besides other places h His Salary for both places 1500 l. per annum h His Salary for both places 1666l. 13s 4 d. i His Salary for both places 2000 l. per annum l His Salary 3095 l. per annum m If part of the purchase money was not paid with the great bribe of about 3000 l. for which as it 's credibly reported he hath been privately questioned he would do well to clear himself being very much suspected having gotten so great an Estate in so short a time n See these Acts in a Book called The Looking-Glass pag. 43 44. o Salary 1000l per annum p He helped to raise the Crey against the Army and made the Speak●r flee to the Army for shelter and chose another Speaker in his room in the Kings behalf and a great deal more p His Salary 1000l per annum q See Book of Rates r Ask George Cockain ſ See two Declarations of Parliament one against the Lords the other against Kingship t His Salary is not wel known And one● man told some of the Council worse things of him then these w His Salary 1474 l. per annum x His Salary 2000l perannum p His Salary 1141l 3 s. 3 d. z Note that man for what you may read in the Post-Script a His Salary 1141l 3 s. 3 d. besides Major-Generalship b Note him for the goodly speech he made to his new Protector c For which good service upon his Petition to the Protector he discharged him from an account of 16000l. which he others were lyable to make good to the Treasury of the Customs d His Salary 900 l. per annum though he hath a good estate e White Who assisted Col. Goff to turn the honest Members left behind in the little Parliament out of the House Let Goff look to it d His s●lary 900 per annu● though hath a g●… estate f See Armies Declaration in Looking-Glass p. 5. say they the first ground and rise of Tyranny over the free people of this Nation did proceed from the Bastard of William the sixth Duke of Normandy who to prevent the English of all relief by their Parliaments created Lords by his Patent and prerogative to sit by Succession in the Parliament as Representors of his Conquest and Tyranny over us and not by Election of the people as the Represeators and Patrons of the Common-wealth and to make his usurpation firm and inviolable he subdued the Law-giving power of the free people in Parliament to the Negative Voyce of himself and posterity and under the yoke of this Norman Captivity and Vilainage we have been held by that Succession to this very day c. See large Petition Pag 11 12. of that Book