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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66882	The history of independency the fourth and last part : continued from the death of His late Majesty, King Charls the First of happy memory, till the deaths of the chief of that juncto / by T.M. Esquire, lover of his king and country.	T. M., Esquire, lover of his king and country.; Walker, Clement, 1595-1651. History of independency.	1660 (1660)	Wing W331A; ESTC R18043	73,036	134

That they would advance and raise what money they could before hand To these Propositions the Earl of Glencarn who was chaitman of that assembly returned these modest answers 1. That they could not engage to preserve the peace of the Countrey in his absence wanting armes and so in no condition to do it but they should with all faithfullness notwithstanding endeavour it 2. They they were uncapable to answer his desires for the reasons aforesaid neither did they think it prudent for them to engage in a war which if it should prove unsuccessfull on their part would be a ruine to them or if successfull they did not understand that it would be advantagious to them in any measure But as to the third 3. That they were content to levy moneys and advance a years tax aforehand Generall Monck highly satisfied with those civil returnes endeavours to caresce and indear them by Giving the Lords and gentry power to arme themselves by satisfying them privately in the design of his expedition and accepting of their years taxes Hereupon he resolves now to dally no longer than his supplies of Men and money come in in the mean while holding correspondence and intelligence with his friends all over England He keeps intelligence from whom he a new received advertisement that if he could yet for a litle time keep fairly at a distance his work should be done even without any noise of drum or trumpet except it were in exultation and triumph This advise caused him to make some seeming overtures of a second treaty with Lambert yet all along insisting upon the re-admission of the Parliament before they began it As a balk to which the Committee of safety declared The Wallingford in government hoping thereby yet to lead the Nation into further errour and mischief that they had transmitted a great part of a form of government for these Nations to a Committee of the Officers of the Army 't is like to be well done if it must be hewen out by a dint of the sword to be considered by them a mad crew of Gotamists who daily meet and are gone through a great part of it with much satisfaction to themselves possibly to think how finely they should Lord it but to no body else surely they are very desirous to have such a Government as may preserve the Liberties of the Nation this is the old cheat and secure the cause they have contended in which is flat treason and rebellion both against CHARLES STVART and any other that may disturbe the peace hoping in time to make it appear that their Enemies are Liers when they traduce them and render them a people that seek only themselves Then they conclude that they hope the faith of Gods people will hold out and not make hast and that good men will help them in their prayers that God the Lord would bring forth righteousness and truth and discover and bring to nought the secret contrivances of all his adversaries And so no doubt he will to the shame and ruine of all such dissembling Hypocrites About this time being the later end of November the People beginning to smell their knavery drew several Petitions with an intent to deliver them but their crazie stomacks being not able to bear such strong Physick belched forth a Proclamation against all such Petitions Proclaim agaâ—nst ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ which they call undue and dangerous papers and prohibite all persons to subscribe any such papers and if offered to suppress them or cause the person endeavouring to get subscriptions to be apprehended upon penalty of being accounted disturbâ—rs to and enemies of the peace But this not working its defired effect but rather making men the more eager so as they began to fear tumultuous proceedings therefore the Mayor is commanded and he accordingly sent warrants to all City Officers to charge all Masters of families to keep in their Sons and Servants This enraged the youth of the City to such a height that the Committee of safety fearing their own danger to arise from some disturbance there gave order December the 5th to part of the Army Hewson gees into London both horse and foot to march into the City which they did early in the morning where being entred great multitudes of all sorts of people gathered together in the Streets the shops were shut up and the Souldiers in all places affronted which so madded them that by command of their Col. Hewson they fell on the people with some violence and killed two or three persons wherewith the multitude for the present dispersed but began to bear a grudge whose revenge would not be satisfied but with the ruine of their oppressours This was the last help they had to rely on that they would rather reduce all to a Chaos than quit their hold snatching at every the least opportunity that did but flatteringly seem to offer them an advantage for by this though unwillingly foreseeing their Catastrophe at hand they are driven into more sad thoughts of their dissolution by the revolt of Portsmouth which Hasterig Walton and Morley with the consent of Col. Whetham the Governour had gained now might any man guess their time to be short by the violent extravagancy of their actions for nullum violentum diuturnum the news of which arriving to them they sent some horse and foot either to reduce or block up that garrison here we see now we see that great and divellish faction of Independency strongly divided but soft and fair the game goes quite contrary as will appear afterwards During this dealing at Portsmouth the Army Officers finding that nothing would satisfie the People but either to re-admit the Rump Parliament or have another they to give them hopes of a glimmering of content Ordered That a Parliament shall be called and appointed to sit down in or before February next Parliament proclaimed by Committee of safery That the Parliament to be called as aforesaid shall be according to such qualifications as are or shall be agreed upon and may best secure the just rights liberties and priviledges of the people This must be solemnly proclaimed forsooth by their journey men of safety together with another edict of the same stamp commanding all honest and loyal souls out of the Cities of London and Westminster upon pain of imprisonment and to be proceeded against as traytours and executed By this means they thought to walk in a mist without any supervisors but alas they were much mistaken for though they thus cleered themselves as they thought from fear of the Common Enemy as they termed all loyalists yet they could not free themselves of their new gotten Enemies at Portsmouth by whose policy they were out-witted and casheired yet nevertheless seven principles and unalterable sundamentalls are agreed on which were published to this effect by these high and mighty Johns a Leyden 1. That no Kingship shall be exercised in these Nations Wallingford 7. principles of Rule 2.

and plunderings fines and taxes but at last we must all be decimated We were tanquam Oves destined for slaughter and such was our misery there was none to redeem sad testimonies whereof were Geraâ—d Grove and others about this time whose blood only could expiate a crime they never thought or were guilty off In this unlimited posture of arbitrary power did the the Kingdom stand when that Arch-Machiavilian Cromwell adding strength to the wings of his ambitious mind soared an Eagle-height and made all the circumference of his actions to center at the royall State thinking with a grasp of the Scepter to ennoble his name and family not minding either the danger of the passage or the slipperriness of the station when arrived at the top And indeed such was his fortune that he did ascend the throne in which it was for the future his restless endeavour to settle himself and his posterity and the better to cast a seeming gloss of legality upon his usurpation Cromwels second Parliament confirm him as Protector he summons another Parliament in the Year 1656. hoping thereby to work his ends unseen and so he did as to the vulgar eye for soon after their meeting and first triall of their temper he so moulds them to his own humour by a recognition that they are over-hastily delivered of a strange abortion by them called the petition and advice c. in which with much solemnity though damnable hypocrifie they desire him to be King but in more general terms to take upon him the government and be chief Magistate which he very gravely considering of diverse dayes returnes his denyall in part but withall insinuates in part his willingness to be setled Lord Protector at which newes his faction rejoycing with many Eulogies for his humility in refusing the Kingship he is by the said Parliament who adjourned for the same end solemnly installed Protector at Westminster by Widdrington who was the Speaker to that convention by Whitlock Lisle Warwick c. And upon their resisting he is petitioned to accept of almost two millions by the year for his support to maintain a crew of idle wenches his daughters whose pampered lusts were grown almost insatiable 2. To erect a new house of Lords of his own Creatures who being indebted to him for their raising durst do no other than by a slavish submission perform his tyrannous will 3. To name his successor that so he might entail his yoke of tyrannical Usurpation and slavish oppression on the Kigdom and severall other things which with much adoe after many perswasive intreaties and much unwillingness God knowes he accepts of No sooner is this done The said Parliament dissolved but the fox laughs in his sleeve to see how he has cheated the Parliament And therefore to make them know their rider after a few words of exhortation to them of the want of them in the Country and the necessity of their retiring thither for the peace of the Nation with a friendly nod he dismisseth them and sends them home Thus with much cunning and dissimulation having attained the perfection of his desires Cromwell seeks to strongthen himself knowing that such greatness must be upheld with allies and every noble coat of armes must have his supporters he strengthens himself at home by intermixing with noble blood marrying own of his Daughters to the Lord Faulconbridge and an other to the heir apparent of the Earldom of Warwick the later of which though in the prime of his yourâ— finding the disagreement between Noble and Rebell blood was soon over-heated and by the suddenness of his death left his wife the widow of a loathed bed In the next place he seeks friendships and leagues abroad and intending to close with France He closeth with France he directly quarrels with the Spanyard and affronts him in severall places near about one time particularly he sends one part of the Fleet under the command of Pen to Hispaniola but with so little disadvantage that he was enforced to retreat thence with no small loss falling soon after on Jamaica with better success winning a part thereof though most inconsiderable the whole Island being not worth the tenth part of the blood and treasure it hath cost this Kingdom being no way at all serviceable either for the advance or security of trade in those parts Mazarine in France finding the benefit of these helps upon the very first motion strikes with him a league offensive and defensive Cromwell promising to assist the French with 7000. Men to maintain the war against the Flanders which at this time he sent they proving so helpfull by their valour that in a short time they gain Mardike Dunkirke gained Gravelin and Dunkirke the last of them according to articles being delivered up to the English in whose hand it yet remains In the interim while these things were transacting Cromwell suspicious of every blast of wind and fearfull of every motion contrives in himself to take off two or three of the most eminent of the Kings party in England to daunt the rest among whom he separates one layman Sir Henry Slingsby and one Churchman Dr. Dr. Hewits death Hewit for the slaughter and conscious to himself that they had done nothing contrary to the law of the land he durst not try them by a Jury but re-erects his monstrous high Court of Justice before which being brought they denyed the authority thereof as unwarrantable which so wrought upon the patience of Mr. Lisle their bloodily learned President and the rest of the gange that they according as they were fore-instructed by their Master Divell Oliver without any great matter of circumstance condemne them both to be beheaded which sentence was accordingly executed on them the 8th Day of June at Towerhill notwithstanding all the means their friends could use of engagements perswasions and money and the deep earnest and continued intreaties sollicitations and supplications of Mrs. Claypoole his best beloved daughter Mrs. Clapooles death for so inexorable he continued that like the deaf adder he stopped his ears to the charmer charme he never so wisely at which unheard of cruelty and for that Dr. Hewits Lady as is said was then with child Mrs. Claypoole took such excessive grief that she suddenly fell sick the increase of her sickness making her rave in a most lamentable manner calling out against her Father for Hewits blood and the like the violence of which extravagant passions working upon the great weakness of her body carried her into another World even at the heighest thereof No sooner did Cromwell receive the deplorable newes of this sad death of his Daughter but himself falls into a desperate melancholly Observe which never left him till his Death which was not long after Give me leave here to relate a passage which I received from a Person of Quality Viz. It was believed and that not without some good cause that Cromwell the same

morning that he defeated the Kings Army at Worcester Fight had conference personally with the Divell with whom he made a contract that to have his will then and in all things else for seven years after from that time being the Third of September 1651. he should at the expiration of the said years have him at his command to do at his pleasure both with his soul and body Now if any one will please to reckon from the third of September 1651. till the Third of September 1558. Cromwels death he shall find it to a Day just seven years and no more at the end whereof he dyed but with such extremity of tempestuous weather that was by all men judged to be prodigious neither indeed was his end more miserable for he dyed mad and despairing than he hath left his name infamous this was the end of our English Nero and thus having laid the best foundations his short and troublesome Reign would give leave to have continued his posterity in the same unlimited Dominion at his death si ullafides viris qui castra sequuntur declaring his eldest Son Richard his successour in his Usurpation Leaving his Son Henry Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and his Daughter Fleetwood married to the Commander in chief of the Army under himself and the only Man suspected for a Competitour in the Protectorship for Lambert had been laid aside long before as a person of too dangerous and aspiring principles to be trusted Richard Cromwell presently ascends the Throne Richard Cromwell Protector being but a private Gentleman of Hampshire invited thereunto and incouraged by Flee wood Deshorow Sydenham the two Jones Thurloe and others the relations and confidents of his Father His first work is to take care for his Fathers Funerall his corps being shortly after interred among the Kings and Queens at Westminster at a farr * 29000 l. greater charge than had been used upon like occasions in the richest times death giving him that honour which he aspired to but durst not embrace in his life time which solemity ast by the contrivance of the now Courtiers congratulations are sent prepared at Whitehall from most of the Counties Cities câ—ief Townes of England And from the Armies of England Scotland Ireland with engagements to live and dye with him Addresses from the Independent Churches by Mr. Goodwine and Nye their Metropoâ—itans and was indeed worshipped by many as the rising Sun in our Horizon This Introduction being made for transferring the Government of these Nations from the Royal family of the Stewarts to that upstart of the Cromwells Diâ—ks Parliament now modelled it was thought fit that a generall Convention after the manner of a Parliament wisely chosen by influences from Whitehall should be called to meet the twenty seventh of January and upon pretence of restoring the people to their antient way of Elections but reall that the Court might command the more votes the Burroughs also had writs sent to them and the Elections were all made in the antient way only thirty members were called by writs from Scotland and as many from Ireland according to the late combination of the three Nations into one Common-wealth This new kind of Parliament being met at the time and place appointed God who had so well ordered the Elections notwithstanding the practices of Men that their English Spirit quickly appeared against Impositions both from Court and Army Act of Recognition which being discerned by the Protector and his Grandees a Recognition is sent to them to be drawn into a bill the debate whereof taking up a whole fourtnights time and they still remaining in a great streight till by the expedient of an honest Gentleman they were extricated thence by passing these votes on Munday the 14th of February 1658. without any division or negative Resolved that it be part of this Bill to Recognize and declare his Highnesse Richard Lord Protector and chiefe Magistrate of the Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging Resolved that before this Bill be committed the House do declare such additionall clauses to be part of this Bill as may bound the power of the chief Magistrate and fully secure the Rights and Priviledges of Parliament and the Liberties and Rights of the People and that neither this nor any other previous vote that is or shall be passed in order to this Bill shall be of force or binding to the People till the whole Bill be passed This done Committee of inspection a Committee of In spections is appointed to take a view of the accounts and revenue of the Common-wealth twelve Members versed in matters of account were selected and fully impowered for that work in order to the lessening the charge of the Common-wealth On Saturday the 19th of February they re-assumed the debate upon the Act of Recognition and resolved That it be part of the bill to declare the Parliament to consist of two houses Parl. to consist of two houses after which they fell upon the point of bounding the chiefe Magistrates power and the bounds and powers of the other house the Protectors party standing for the powers given by the Petition and advice and the rest of the house withstood it as of no value being obteined by force by which force also thirteen hundred thousand pounds a year was setled for ever upon the single person and the ruling members of the other house being a hotch potch or medley of Officers of the Army and Protectorian Courtiers contrary to the law of the land The other house debated and to the enslaving of the people By this means nothing being done herein as to the powers the Cromwelians that they might enforce something propose the question of transacting with the persons sitting in the other house as an house of Parliament urging both law and necessity for the same yea threatning force from the Army upon refusall notwithstanding all which a whole fornight the honest party of the House thought of nothing less asserting the undoubted Right of the antient Peers and denying all the rest but seeing nothing could be done till this was over in a very full house they came at last to this well qualified resolve Resolved That this House will transact with the Persons now sitting in the other house as an house of Parliament during this present Parliament And that it is not hereby intended to exclude such Peers as have been faithfull to the Parliament from their priviledge of being duly summoned to be Members of that house Herein may be seen something of the old English gallantry Not owned as Lords for in this vote those in the other House are not owned as Lords but called the Persons now sitting in the other House as an house of Parliament neither would the Commons treat and confer with them in the usuall way as with the house of Peers but found ouâ— a new word to transact

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