they conclude that the first and chiefest grounds of the Parliaments taking up Armes in this cause was to suppress attempts of introducing an arbitrary Government over this Nation and Protecting Delinquents enemies of our Religion and liberties by force from the Justice of Parliament and declare that they will not interrupt the ordinary course of Justice in the several Courts and Judicatories of this Kingdome This is the good old Cause the Parliament owned And therefore let all that fear God in the three Nations consider whence they are fallen even from the Good old Cause held forth in the Votes Remonstrances Declarations Protestations Vows and oaths of the Parliament published in maintenance of our Ancient and well tempered setled Government by King Lords and Commons to a sneaking Oligarchical Tyranny under the bare name of The Good Old Cause which is as changeable as the addle heads that contrive it as oppressive as the corrupt wâ—â—ls of licentious men can make it must be as arbitrary as the Army will have it and shall be more fully deciphered if they persist in it which they never dare do if the people who yet seem to be in a Lethargy remember their first works and be as resolute to assert their Religion Lawes and Liberties as these desperaâ—e men of lost fortunes and reputations are bold to trample them under foot and make this great people once famous is through the world for valour wisdom and Religion a scorn and derision to all that are round about us and themselves Monsters of men by their Aâ—heism Apostacy and Inconstancy I shall conclude with some advice now it 's seasonable To the Army To the people of all sorts and degrees and to the members sitting at Westminster 1. Faithful aduice to the Army First remember the ends for which you were raised for defence of king Parliament Religion and Liberties that you were servants to them and received their wages and were 〈◊〉 by oathes to them 2. Remember how in 1647 you were fiâ—st by some of your ambitious Officers most whereof are since dead seduced to Rebel against and betray your masters whom you accused falsely and to refuse to disband when the War was ended whereby you are become Oppressers and Robbers ever since And meer 〈…〉 3. Remember how in December 1648. you rebelled the second time against your masters and forceably and traitâ—rously as well as perjuriously bâ—oak the Parliament imprisoning and driving away most of the faithful members keeping only a few that prostituted themselves and the rights and liberties of the Kingdome with the lives of the King Nobles and Commons to their own ambition and to your lusts and wills as your pentioners in the house till April 1643. when you rebelled against them and for their self seeking and notorious crimes and miscarriages printed then at large in your Declaration you absolutely dissolved them to the general satisfaction of the people 4. Remember how giddily and impiously your ambitious wicked Officers have lead you through horrid Murders Treasons and breach of Oathes from a happy settled Government under a King and Parliament First to a Ridiculous Commonwealth thence to a new kind of Protector thence To Prayse God Bare-bones little Parliament thence to a Protector with an instrument of Lamberts making but never in tune thence to Tyrannical Major Generals thence to a new Crochet called The Petition and Advice thence to a New Protector and two Houses of Parliament whereof one was still-born thence To build up the things which you destroyed whereby you have made your selves transgressors Gal. 2. 18. Thus have you marched so fast from one Government to another ' that the poor people wearied out are fain to return home and sit still in a maze abhorring your unstable ungodly ways and crying to God in secret that he will at length restore unto England Our Kings and Nobles as at the first and our Judges as at the beginning making it a quiet habitation which by your ungodly courses hath been so long a howling wildernesse full of birds of prey and beasts that do devoure I have no moâ—e to say to you but that if your mistâ—ading Officers can reconcile your actings since 1646 to the Scripture rule which you find Luke 3. 14. By which all Christian souldiers much more then Heathen are to walk viz. Do violence to no man neither accuse any falsly and be content with your wages then leâ— them go for honest men and count me mistaken But if this discourse of mine by God's blessing becomes instrumental for the awakening your Drowzie consciences to see your Long course of Sins and Provocations and to repent Then let me tell you your Work is short to make your Selves and the Kingdome happy for as you have lately gone Six yeares backward at one Step viz. from this time to April 1653. So if your Officers and You will but make one Step more viz. from April 1653 to December 1648 to our Ancient Long-experienced and fundamental Constitution of Government by KING LORDS and COMMONS you will justifie your Repentance to be sincere and render it famous to all the World and deserve and have Rewards from your Countrey instead of Indempnity which you now beg from every Power that Sits 2. Advise to the People of all sorts and degrees Delirant Reges plectuntur Achivi your rulers doâ—e and go astray but you suffer by it as well as they Therefore strive to set them right though they forget their Oaths and Promises do you remember yours Have you ever seen quiet or settlement since the King was inhumanely murdâ—ed this own Gate and our ancient Government by King Lords and Commons changed since our Covenant was counted an Almenack out of date this was one in 1648. shall I perswade you to return whence you are fallen I need not I know you are ready for it and watch your opportunity Let me only tell you the time is now come for having tryed all other ways insomuch that we are going round again where we first turned aside you see no Foundation to build upon but our Ancient one strive therefore for the restoring of King Lords and Commons that you may enjoy them and be happy Remember how the Ministers and others of London Essex Suffolk Northamptonshire Lancashire and other Counties gave their Testimony against the King's death in 1648 and repent for that Bloud with which the land is defiled Let those who so boldly in their late mutinous Representation to the Protector moved for a Justification of the Kings death and all acts done in pursuance thereof know that they may as soon pull the Stars out of God's right hand as make those that fear his name in England justifie such a horrid impiety for which God hath made us an unsetled people ever since and hath given them and the Kingdome no rest ever since nor will till they repent and do their first works and call all the Members of the Long-Parliament together to sit
depending against Vane and Hazilrig and if they rule on as well as they did when Oliver turned them out of doors with the braod of Knaves Whoremasters and Drunkards to the general rejoycing of the people no doubt we shall be a happy Nation And what esteem the people had of them appears by the elections to the last Parliament wherein though none but persons well affected to Parliaments had Votes and the persons now sitting laboured hard to be chosen very few of them were elected the people generally looking upon them as apostares from the Good Old Cause and therefore no wonder they would have that Parliament to which only they were chosen never dissolved I have now little more to do at present honest and learned Mr. Pryane having saved much of my labour but to let the world see how they go about by the example of the Army whose Apes they are to cozen the people of their Religion Laws Liberties Parliaments and Money with a Raâ—â—le called the Good old Cause which is a very cheat as you may see by the ensuing penitential Letter of one better skilled in their Cheats than I am Mr. Hugh Peters Letter written to a chief Officer of the Army SIR VVHereas the late transactions of the Army have very sore afflicted me and with Heman Psal. 88. ver. 15. have exceed ugly troubled me because of my love to my Native Countrey and the concernments thereof I thought it my duty being under much bodily weaknesse to desire you to take and give notice unto others of these my apprehensions ensuing 1. Though call'd to speak to the Officers I knew not their further intentions 2. When I heard of his Highnesse distasting their meetings I went to Three of the Chief and beg'd as for a penny that they would not proceed in any meeting and did the same to other Officers I met withall The dangers I conceive are these because the Protector and the two Houses as they were Set was the hopefullest way in the whole world to settle these Nations and the crossing thereof most dangerous as now it appears both in the sin and sorrow of it As 1. All the Armies addresses to his Highness to live and die with him are broken and their proclaiming of him everywhere slighted 2. His Family Himself and Lady being truly godly yea such a Family of godlinesse and sobriety not known in the Christian world now broken and the son of Jerubaal not regarded 3. The Authority of the best Parliament and most freely chosen trampled upon yea such a sort of men gathered together as would have been a Defence and establishment against all evils 4. Nothing set up in their place an Enemy at the door a peâ—uâ—ious souldiery thousands of poor perishing that by this time might have been paid Widows and Orphants already dying in the streets Trade gone Private souldiers grown Masters Law and Gospel dying the whole Protestant cause in the whole world overâ—ottering how much animosity discontent and self ends have prevailed herein I know not but if the least encouragement was taken by any word of mine who was a stranger to any design I do here professe my sorrow and grief for the least occasion of it and look upon the whole businesse as very sinful and ruining of which the Child unborn and after Ages will be sensible and this I write from the saddest spirit of a sick man and Your Loving friend Hugh Peters I know but one expedient which is That his Highnesse may be in the same condition with his House and Family and that he be desired to call in as many of the late Parliament as are at hand to make up a House and Councel and Indempâ—ity to passe and so forthwith to settle things And for that which they call the Good Old Cause I look upon it as a Cheat by the Jesuits put upon the Army the which we enjoyed it being Liberty and Peace VVhitehall May 10. 1659. Thus far Mr. Peters But for a further discovery of the Cheat obâ—â—uled upon the people by putting of the Good old Cause I shall to avoid large recicals of Remonstrances Votes and Declarations of Parliament state the true Good old Cause in the House of Commons own words briefly out of their Declaration of the 17th of April 1646. At the end of the War when they were full and free which they caused to be affixed in all the Churches of England to call God and Man to witnesse their sincerity therein And because the title of it is very significant and comprehensive take that at large viz. Die veneris April 17. 1646. A Declaration of the Commons of England assembled in Parliament of their true intentions concerning the Antient and Fundamental Government of the Realm the Goverment of the Church The present peace securing the people against all arbitrary Government and maintaining a right understanding between the two Kingdomes of England and Scotland according to the Covenant and Treaties The Preamble recites how their good intentions had been misrepresented by divers Declarations and Suggestions of the King and thereby and by other practices the minds of many possessed with a belief that there was no just Cause of the War And that now they had succeeded in the War they desired to exceed or swarve from their first Aims and Principles in the undertaking the War and to recede from the solemn League and Covenant and treaties between the two Kingdoms and that they would prolong these uncomfortable troubles and bleeding distractions in order to alter the fundamental constitution and frame of this Kingdom To leave all Government in the Church loose and unsetled and themselves to exercise the same arbitrary power over the persons and estates of the subjects which that Parliament had thought fit to abolish by taking away The Star Chamber High Commission and other arbitrary Courts and the exorbitant power of the Councel Table Then they declare in General that they will settle Religion in purity according to the Covenant maintain the antient and fundamental Government of this Kingdom preserve the rights and liberties of the subject lay hold on the first opportunity of procuring a safe and well grounded peace in the three Kingdomes and to keep a good understanding between the two Kingdoms of England and Scotland according to the Covenant and Treaties Then to give fuller satisfaction they declare particularly concerning Church Government that they are for the Presbiterial Government with a due regard that tender consciences which differ not in any fundamentals of Religion may be so provided for as may stand with the word of God and the peace of the Kingdom Then they declare that there was nothing they had more earnestly desired nor more constantly laboured after than a safe and good peace with the King which is the just end of a just War and â—here they assert the fundamental constitution and Government of this Kingdome to be by King Lords and Commons which they will not alter Then
free that they or a new Parliament called by their advice may upon the secure Terms offered at the isle of wight by the KING and such further reasonable Additions as the Times may require restore us to our Antient Government and put an End to our Giddinesse and Confusion which destroys Trade encreaseth Poor and threatens ruine to our Religion and Laws And let none be any longer deluded with the Bastard Good Old Cause now cryed up by some which is but the setting a self-seeking Generation of Unstable Bloody men in supreme Authority who as zealous as some of them seemed lately in the new dissolved Parliament for the Liberties of the People think now that by their Hypocrisie and Falshood as well as Force they have advanced themselves upon the Ruine of their Countrey that the work is done And though they have cryed down a single Person and another House think you such Fools or Slaves that you will not take Notice that an armed General is a worse single Person and such a Coordinate Senate as they intend by the Proposals of the Army which now are come to the House by way of Petition as if they had not been agreed on before a worse other House than the last which was the worst that England ever saw And this Rump of a cashiered House of Commons taken into service again at Mercy and new dressed by Sir Henry Vane another single person amongst them worse than the late House of Commons which was full and free or than the Long Parliament restored to its Freedom or than any other that may be chosen by the free Votes of your selves and Legally summoned to Sit and Decree our Settlement I shall say no more to you but desire you to consider what I have said to the Army with hearts ready to forgive them and pay them their Arrears with additional Rewards if now at length they Repent and Restore our violated Government and obediently submit to what They and the KING shall Ordain for the Settlement of these Distracted and no otherways to be cured Nations for we see by Experience than one FACTION devoures another and will at length devoure the People and their Liberties in the ways of Sin and Guilt that we are in Let all of you therefore insist on this That the Members of the Long Parliament who have been unjustly imprisoned and secluded may be Restored to Discharge the Trust you have put in them and then we may hope for Settlement which we have tryed almost Eleven yeares that we cannot have without them And if the Army shall again interpose and interrupt you in your Sober and honest Endeavours for Settlement Let them find by your vigorous Appearing against them that you know them to be the Meanest of the People and so Few in Number that they are not One in every Parish in England and many single Parishes have Ten times their Number of PEOPLE 3. Advice to the Members sitting at westminster First remember the volumes of Remonstrances Declarations Votes Ordinances Protestations Oa hs and Covenants wherein you as members of that house with others have held forth to God and the world The good old Cause you ingaged in to be for the defence of the King Parliament Protestant Religion priviledges and liberties of the people and that you renounced all other Causes wherewith you were aspersed and never owned any other till that in March 1649. after you had injuriously joyned with the Army in forcing away the majority of the House of Commons and the whole house of Lords you perjuriously apostatized from the Good old Cause and set up another of A Common wealth or free State opposite to it and which you had ever formerly disowned as a scandal cast on you when you were charged but with an intention that way 2. Remember and be ashamed that you have stuck at no oaths but have taken the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy The Protestation The vow and Covenant The solemn league and Covenant The engagement The Recognition of Protector Oliver The oath to be true and faithful to Protector Richard and have kept these contrary oaths and engagements all alike and now do set men of the same stamp in offices and places of trust instead of men of courage fearing God and hating covetousnesse But do not think all is well when you have advanced your selves and friends rather believe that though returning to what you have so often sworn to maintain you cannot so many of you be Councellers of state Iudges and Officers military or civil yet you may become honest men and Christians which will better become you and bring you more comfort and peace at the last 3. Remember that though by lyes subterfuges men may be deceived and abused for a while God is not mocked Gal. 6 7. but will though he bear long at length wound the hairy scalp of such as go on still in their wickednesse Psal. 28. 21. and pierce you thorow with many forrows 4. Consider how God hath emptied us from vessel to vessel and led us through a wildernesse of changes these eleven yeares of Apostacy and gives no settlement return therefore to December 1648. where you forsook settlement when it was offered by the King and accepted by the Parliament and in doing your first works for King and Parliament in a full and free house God will blesse you and this Kingdome as at the first and the present Protector cannot but rejoyce also to part with his power upon those termes which both he and his brother the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland must needs grudge to have wrested from him by you and his treacherous relations I intended a word also of justification of Mr. Prynne but that his Learned and seasonable writings praise him in the gates and carry such evidence of undeniable truth with them and so clear a testimony from A Martyr for the People against the abominable iniquity and horrid impieties of this iron Age that the Railing Rabsh kahs of the time in what they belch out against him do but as dogs that bark against the Moon and therefore I shall leave him to the cure prescribed by God himself for such tongues in the 120 Psal. v. 3. 4. What shall be given unto thee or what shall be done unto thee thou false tongue sharp arrowes of the mighty with coals of Juniper And do depend as I believe Mr. Prynne doâ—h also upon that Scripture word that in due time the mouth of alâ— iniquity shall be stopt FINIS
Professions intermixed it is written in such a canting aequivocating language whereof the Sword was like to be Interpreter that the sting was easily visible through the honey and their former actions and suitable continuing honesty better credited than their words Hereupon the Protector begins too late to think of securing himself from being surprized with their complements and stands upon his guard And the Commons house as became Englishmen wisely and couragiously resolved to let the Officers know that they took them still to be their Servants though they had for too many years ill deserved their wages rebelling and usurping the Government at their pleasure and intending to try what they meant by the Good Old Cause which as they seemed to represent it smelt of Gunpowder and ball and whether the repentance held forth in their said Representation were real or Military passed these votes on Monday April the 18. Resolved That during the sitting of the Parliament there shall be no General Council or Meeting of the Officers of the Army without direction leave and Authority of his Hignesse the Lord Protector and both Houses of Parliament Resolved That no person shall have or continue any Command or Trust in any of the Armies or Navies of England Scotland or Ireland or any the dominions and territories thereto belonging who shall refuse to subscribe That he will not disturb or interrupt the free-meetings in Parliament of any the Members of either House of Parliament or their Freedom in their debates and counsels And the same time to shew their care of the Army and to prevent jealousies they passed the following votes Resolved That the House do presently take into consideration the wayes and means for satisfaction of the Arrears of the Armies and providing present pay for them Resolved That Serjeant Maynard the Attorney General and Sollicitor General do forthwith prepare an Act of Indemprity for all such as have acted under the Parliament and Common-wealth Whilest the House spent the rest of their time in considering how to Provide money without laying new burthens on the people great contests grew between the Protector and the opposite Officers of the Army both sides keeping guards night and day against one another the Protector having in pursuance of the votes of the house forbidden the meetings of the Officers In this divided posture affairs continued till Friday the 22. of April on which morning early Fleetwood the Protectors Brother Desborough his Uncle and the rest of the mutinous Officers carrying the greater part of the Army after them and the Protectors party flinching the Conquest was made without one drop of blood which was strange in so antient hereditary just and undoubted a Title and the Protector forced to consent to a Commission and Proclamation ready prepared giving Desborough and others power to disolve the Parliament contrary to the best advice and his own Interess and Promise And accordingly the same day The Black Rod was sent twice to the House of Commons from Fiâ—nnes Speaker of the Other House for them to come thither but they admitted him not in and much scorned the motion having ever looked upon that Mushrum House as the Lower House and their own creature the language being to send down to the Other House when they sent the Declaration for a Fast for a trial of transacting with them And therefore understanding there were guards of Horse and Foot in the Pallaceyard after some motions made by Mr. Knightly Sir Arthur Haslerigge and others wherein Sir Arthur exceeding That the House should first declare it Treason for any persons whatsoever to put force upon any Members of the House and next that all Votes Acts and Resolutions passed by any Members of Parliament when the rest were detained from or taken out of the House by force should be null and void and other motions becoming Englishmen to that end judging themselves under a force and finding they were very unanimous though near four hundred in the House in the things proposed they resolved no question but adjourned till Monday morning the twenty fifth of April and attended the Speaker in order through Westminster-Hall to his Coach in face of the Souldiery Now the Court according to the guise of the world in like accidents shrunk out of Whitâ—hall into Wallingford House And Fleetwood D shorow the rest of the Officers great and small took the Government into their own hands the House of Commons being shut up and entrance denied to the Members when they came on Monday even to Sir Henry Vane and Sir Artbur Haslerig themselves according to adjournment the Court of Requests and all avenues being full of Souldiers who told the Members they must sit no more After the Officers had new model'd themselves cashiering Whaley Ingolsby Goffe and divers others of the Protectors party and restoring Lambert Haslerig Okey and others displaced by Protector Oliver and played with the Government for a few dayes grew weary of it the inferior officers and the Pamphlets that now flew about daily without controul carrying things beyond the intention of the Chief Officers who would have left the Protector a Duke of Venice for his Fathers sake who raised them and their relation to him which they had forgotten till now they sent to some of their old hackney drudges of the Long Parliament then in London who they knew would do any thing so they might be suffered to sit and on the fifth and sixth days of May had conference with them the last of which was at their never failing Speaker the Master of the Rolles House in Chancery-Lane where both Officers viz. Lambert who had already gotten his old place and others with him and Members viz. Sir Henry Vane Sir Arthur Haslerigge Ludlow John Jones Mr. Chaloner Mr. Scot and others to the number of twenty solicited William Lenthal Esquire to sit Speaker again but be objected scruples in judgement and conscience which are not yet answered nor never will nevertheless Fifteen Articles between the Officers and some of the Members who it seems over-confidently undertook for the rest being first agreed on at some of their meetings they resolved to meet in the House on Saturday the 7 of May yet that they might do it by surprise they gave out that they would not sit till Tuesday the tenth of May But the itch of ambition and Lording it over the people giving them no quiet on Saturday the seventh of May early they met in the Painted Chamber at Westminster and to make up their number sent for the two chast Cock-Sparrows the Lord Manson and Mr. Henry Martin out of Prison where they were in Execution for Debt and honest Whitlock and Lisle of the Chancery Bench and with this addition being two and forty in number the Chancery Mace for hast being carried before them William Lâ—nthall Esquire their tender conscienced Speaker together with the said Lord Munson Henry Martin Mr. Whitlock Mr. Lisle Temperate Mr. Chaloner Wise Alderman
own order And in like manner that the House of Commons shall not at any time or times during this present Parliament be adjourned unlesse it be by themselves or their own order And that all and every thing or things whatsoever done or to be done for the adjournment prorogâ—ing or dissolving of this present Parliament contrary to this Act shall be utterly void and of none effect And having casual notice immediately after that yourself together with the Lord Munson Mr. Henry Martin Mr. Chaloner Mr. Henningham Sir Peter Wentworth Alderman Arkin Sir Arthur Haselrig Mr. Blagrave Sir Henry Vane Mr. Purefoy and others to the number of forty or thereabouts were privily met together in the painted Chamber and seen to pass thence with a Mace before you into the House We did not only out of sense of duty to our Countries if that Parliament be not dissolved but by the perswasion of multitudes of honest faithful well-affected people minding us of our trust that you wanted number in the house for the publick service resolve that in regard of the great croud only about fourteen of us there being many more in the Hall should presently go to the House where if they found free admittance the rest might follow but getting with much difficulty up the stairs we found the outward door shut and strictly kept yet by degrees we got into the Lobby where we found the Inner door of the House guarded by Lieutenant Coll. Allen and other unknown persons Officers as it was said of the Army who though we pressed hard to get into the House and urged their incompetibility to judge of the Members without doors which by the priviledge of Parliament was proper onely for the House and how they were all oblieged to preserve the Freedome Rights and Liberties of Parliament the former interruption and forcing whereof they had seemingly repented by your present sitting by virtue of the said Act of 17 Car. have published to the world the injustice of their late dispersing us yet by no earnestness nor arguments could we prevail but were forcibly hindred by them from going into the House and when some of us acquainted Major General Lambert whom we met in the Lobby as we returned of our usage by the officers though he give us civil words yet the force was not removed whereupon we withdrew our selves resolving to give you this account thereof that you may know that though to your selves you may seem to sit free there is the same force as we conceive continued at your doors which excluded interrupted and forced the major part of the House in 1648. And now having laid before you the matter of fact and not being conscious to our selves of having done any thing in breach of our Trust or which may merit an exclusion from publick Counsels and duly weighing the sad condition of these three Nations and that in the multitude of Counsellors there is safety that of the said House there are yet living at least three hundred Members besides those that sate that day not being admitted to discharge our trust and to give our faithfull counsel for the good of these distracted and divided Nations in the House and to assert and vindicate our innocence and faithful adhering to the Good old Cause as it was held forth by the Parliaments Votes Declarations and Oaths till we were forcibly excluded We have thought it a duty incumbent on us for our selves and the respective Counties places and all the people for which we serve in this way to claim our own and the peoples right of having their Representatives freed from force and admitted to the House unlesse it be legally dissolved and unless in a Parliamentary way by a full and free House and not by any without dores any thing can be charged against them to disable them which we are ready as Members in our places to answer and quit our selves of And having no more at present to say but to desire that this our Claim may be communicated to the House we remain Westminster May 9. 1659. Your loving Friends Thus you see to the grief of all that fear God the same pretended Parliament was sitting in 1653. till the Protector Oliver by the beâ—â— act of his life pull'd them out of the House sitting again upon a Declaration of the Army whose Slaves they are to doe what they please as time will discover And that you may see they can trust few but themselves and are not changed for all their feigned repentance they are already return'd into the Good old Cause of preferring one another and their Friends to good Offices and Commands and Counsellors places as appears by their Vote of the 9. of May viz. The Parliament doth declare That all such as shall be imployed in any place of Trust or power in the Common wealth be able for the discharge of such trust and that they be persons fearing God and that have given testimony to all the people of God of their faithfulness to this Common-wealth according to the Declaration of Parliament of the 7. of May 1659. And their proceedings thereupon whereby they have chosen of their own members for a Councel of State 21. viz. Sir Arthur Haselrig Sir Henry Vane Ludlow Jo. Jones Sydenham Scot Saloway Fleetwood Sir James Harrington Coll. Walâ—on Nevil Chaloner Downes Whitlock Whose several Characters you have before Hab. Morley Squib-maker of the County of Sussex Sidney who hath nothing of Sir Phillip but the name Coll. Thompson as wood a head as leg. Coll. Dixwel better know in Kent then trusted Mr. Reynolds half Bishop of Winchester and whole solicitor to the Infant Common-wealth Oliver St. Johns late Sollicitor to the King now Sollicitor to the Common-wealth to be chief Justice again but they hold him to be sanctus nomine non re and too great a Patron of the Law Haselrig remembers his and Collingwoods Case Mr. Wallop a silent Hampshire Gentleman much in debt fit indeed to be Councellor if he could advise the Common-wealth how to get out of debt Of persons without the House ten viz. Bradshaw President at the formal murder of the King Lambert a York-shire Gentleman not born to Wimbleton house but too crafty for them all now old Oliver is gone Dâ—sborough a country Clown without fear or wit Lord Fairfax an allay for Lamberts brittle mettle Berry the worst of the Major Generals except Butler Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper a Gentleman too wise and honest to sit in such company Sir Horatio Townsend a Gentleman of too good an estate to be hazzarded with such a crew Sir Robert Honnywood Sir Henry Vane's brother in law Sir Archibald Johnson never advanced before the Marquess of Argile till he came for England Josiah Barners fool of the play Their next work must be to vote money answerable to the dignities bewowed on themselves they discontinued the Term to the great damage and discontent of the people because many Suits were