of them by all which thou mayest be able in some measure to resolve thy thoughts concerning the change of the Cause and Principles which these great Masters formerly carried on and professe to do so still It is notoriously known how even the chief of them sometime said It would never be well neither should we ever see good Dayes whilest there was one Lord left in England nor untill you speaking so to him my Lord of Manchester be called Mr. Montague yet now new Lords must be made by the dozens What Declaring what Fighting hath there been and how much Bloud and Treasure spent against a Negative Voice in the King and Lords Yet now not onely the Protector himself forsooth but all his new upstart Lords such as were our equals or it may be below us must Lord it over us with their No to our I. Is not the world growne mad were there ever such wonders before To fancy what after Ages will think of these men who pretend to be of the Saints of these times will never make a person melancholy that shall be serious in it Not to trouble thee further eye God more and Men lesse and that will stay and quiet thy Spirit and say to thy self as the Psalmist did Psal. 62. 5 9. My soul wait thou onely upon God for my expectation is from him Surely men of low degree are vanity and men of high degree are a lye A Second Narrative of the late Parliament so called giving an Account of their Second Meeting and the things transacted by them as also their Dissolution after two or three weeks Sitting With an Account of three and forty of their Names who in the interval of the Adjournment were taken out of the House and others that sate in the Other House so greatly designed for a House of Lords with a Brief Character and Description of them THe late Parliament so called having made their new Modell of Government called The Humble Petition and Advice before they had well licked their Golden Calf or given the Brat of their Brain a Name were called upon to Adjourn and break up And so making more haste then good speed they left things very raw and imperfect which afterwards occasioned great Contests and in fine their Dissolution According to the time they Adjourned unto they Assemble again being January 23. 1657. where after the usuall Solemnities of Devotion performed they repair to the House where they found some of their Number Commissioned and impowered by the Protector to swear them The Copy of which Oath here followeth The Oath I do in the presence and by the Name of God Almighty Promise and Swear That to the utmost of my power in my place I will uphold and maintain the true Reformed Protestant Christian Religion in the Power thereof as it is contained in the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament and encourage the Profession and Professors of the same And that I will be true and faithfull to the Lord * Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging as Chief Magistrate thereof And shall not contrive designe or attempt any thing against the Person or lawfull Authority of the Lord Protector and shall endeavour as much as in me lies as a Member of Parliament the Preservation of the Rights and Liberties of the People Which having taken and coming into the House they finde not onely some of their Fellow * Members but their old Servant and Clerk Mr. Scobell gone and a new one put in his room whose name is Smith which with biting a little the Lip and something in way of Complement as with a Salvo of their Rights and Priviledges they for quietness sake Vote him so put upon them to be their Clerk and then settled themselves in a posture for their future work And the first thing they undertake is to keep a Day of Prayer in their House which accordingly they did and with great prudence plowing with an Ox and an Asse together the Presbyters and Independents being both called to Officiate The Other House who would fain have the Honour to be called Lords or rather a House of Lords did likewise in their House pray at the same time with much Devotion and did afterwards agree to send to the Parliament or as they would have them again called the House of Commons by Baron Hill and Serjeant Windham after the manner of the House of Peers formerly to declare their Message viz. That the House of Lords or the Lords of the other House had sent unto them to desire their joyning with them in a Petition or Message to the Protector That a Day of Prayer * and Humiliation might be appointed through the whole Commonwealth Which Message begat very high Debaets and sharp Speeches from many that were not at the making this lame and imperfect Modell so as the aforesaid Messengers were fain to wait a long time but at length got this Answer viz. That they would return an Answer by Messengers of their own The House filling daily and many of those that had been secluded in the former Session coming in the Face of things in the House were in a great measure changed another Spirit appearing in them then before insomuch that many made question of the things that were formerly done some speaking at a high rate in behalf of the Rights of the English Free People and against the Wrongs and Injuries that had been done unto them This being done day by day and the House not agreeing what to call that Other House which was as it were a namelesse Infant and fain would be named the House of Lords was the greatest part of their work save that now and then some little Matters came under Debate as the Reviving and perfecting their Committees and Reading some former Bills The Lord Cravens Case also was taken in and the Councill on both parts heard at the Bar of the House with some other little Matters that passed but the greatest part of time that was spent in the House whilest sitting was in Considering and Debating what they should call the Other House Towards the end of their sitting there came another Message from the Other House after the same manner as before Desiring their joyning with them in moving the Protector to Order that the Papists and such as had been in Armes under the late King might be exiled the City and put out of the Lines of Communication c. This Message being also designed as shooing horn to draw on their owning of them received a like Answer as did the former As for the Other House who called themselves the House of Lords they spent their time in little Matters such as choosing of Committees and among other things to consider of the Priviledges and Jurisdiction of their House good wise souls before they knew what their House was or should be called About which time also a Petition
may so be redeemed as never to halt or stand off for the future against the Protectors Interest 13. Col. Mountague a Gentleman of Huntingdonshire of a fair Estate a Colonel formerly in the Association Army under the Earl of Manchester where he for some time appeared whilst Colonel Pickering lived to be a Sectary and for Lay-mens preaching as also a lover of the Rights and Freedoms of the People rather then of the principle he now acts by but that honest Colonel dying some other things also coming between he became of another minde he gave off being a Souldier about the time of the new Model it 's likely upon the same account with Colonel Russel did not greatly approve of beheading the King or change of the Government or the Armies last march into Scotland as the Protector then General may witness yet after the War was ended at Worcester and the old Parliament dissolv'd he was taken in though no change appearing from what he was before to be of the Little Parliament which he helped to break and to set up Monarchy anew in the Protector which he designedly was called to do for which worthy service he was made one of the Council l a Commissioner of the Treasury and one of the Generals at Sea he was of the Parliaments since all which considered none need question his fitness to be a Lord and to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House not onely over the Treasury and Sea-men but all the good people of these Lands besides 14. Colonel Philip Jones his Original is from Wales at the first of the Wars he had about 17 or 20 l. per annum and improved his interest upon the account of the cause first was an Agent for some Parliamenteers to London where gaining acquaintance and making good use of them he became Governour of a Garison then a Colonel as also Steward of some of the Protectors Lands in Wales and one of the Long Parliament after of the Little Parliament which he helped to break and to advance the General his Master to be Protector for which goodly service himself was advanced to be one of his Council afterward Comptroller of his Houshold or Court he made Hay whilst the Sun shin'd and hath improved his Interest and Revenue in Land well m gotten no question to 3000 l. per annum if not more he is also very well qualified with self denying principles to the Protectors Will and Pleasure so as he is fit no doubt to rise yet higher and to be taken out of the House to be a Lord and to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over all the good people in Wales if they please and over all the Commonwealth beside whether they please or not All have not lost by the cause though some have 15. Commissioner Lisle sometime a Counsellour in the Temple one of the Long Parliament where he improved his interest to purpose and bought State Lands good cheap afterwards became a Commissioner of the Great Seal and helped in Parliament to change the Government from Kingly to Parliamentary or of a Commonwealth changed it again to Kingly or of a single person and did swear the Protector at his first installing chief Magistrate to the hazard of his Neck contrary to four n Acts of Parliament which he helped to make with others that make it Treason so to do He hath lately retired for Sanctuary into Mr. Rowes Church and is still Commissioner o of the Seal and being so very considerable in worth and merit is also fit to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over the good people and all such who shall any way question him he is since made President of the high Court so called of Justice Treason never prospers what 's the reason For when it prospers none dare call it Treason 16. Chief Justice Glyn sometime a Councellour at Law and Steward of the Court at Westminster formerly one of the Long Parliament and that helped to bait the Earl of Strafford and bring him to the block was Recorder of London and one of the Eleven Members impeached by the Army of p p Treason and by that Parliament committed to the Tower the Protector through Apostacy assuming the Government took him up and made him a Judge and finding him so fit for his turn did also make him Chief Justice of England so that of a little man he is grown up into a great Bulk and Interest and of complying principles to the life who being so very useful to advance and uphold the Protectors great Negative Voyce is thereby questionless in his sence fit to be taken out of the House and to have a Negative Voyce himself in the Other House not onely over the people but over the Law he is to be chief Judge of and in a capacity to hinder that no good Law for the future be made for the ease of the people or hurt of the Lawyers Trade 17. Bulstrode Whitlock formerly a Counsellour at Law one of the Long Parliament profited there and advanced his interest very greatly became one of the Commissioners of the great Seal one that helped to change the Government and make Laws against a single persons Rule in the time of the Little Parliament he went Embassadour to Sweden in great State that Parliament being dissolved he agitated there for the Protector then came over and when some Alteration and pretended Reformation was made in the Chancery he stood off from being any longer a Commissioner of the Seal and became one of the Supervisors of the Treasury at 1000 l. per annum q Salary he is one who is guided more by r Policy then by conscience and being on that account the more fit for the Protectors service there is no question to be made of his worth and merit to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over the people there though he helped to put it down in the King and Lords 18. William Lenthal a Counsellour at Law made Speaker of the Long Parliament by the late King sate it out in all Changes weather'd many a Storm and high Complaint made against him and was too hard and weildy for all his Opposers his policy and good hap carryed him on so as he ended his being Speaker with the ending of that Parliament For the time of his fitting he advanced his Interest and Revenue very much became Mr. of the Rolls purchased Lands in others names as well as in his own for fear of the worst he was to be sure at the change of the Government from Kingly or of a single person and a House of Lords as being useless Å¿ chargeable and dangerous As likewise at the making those Laws of Treason against a single person for the future not yet repealed The Little Parliament where some of his Law
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
for the future we are likely to have such prosperity success and good days as some so largely promise themselves and others it may be expected Or whether such smiling upon old wickedness and frowning and turning the back upon Righteousness suppressing its growth be any comfortable ground of such hope and expectation Or whether upon the whole Series of things as they now appear there be not rather to be expected some sadder matter if the LORD in mercy prevent not Let the wise in heart consider THE END Reader if thy patience be not quite worne out read the following Postscript which makes mention of the late flattering Adresses c. it may concern you As also a Vindication of that faithful Friend to the Cause of God and his people Mr. John Portmans late Secretary to the Fleet under General Blake now Prisoner for Truth in the Tower whom that lying Court-Pamphleter Nedham hath falsly aspersed and reproached in the late Diurnals A Post-Script to the Reader THe foregoing Narrative was composing and preparing to have come forth like apples of gold in pictures of silver in the fittest season during the life time of Oliver the late Protector so called and calculated for that end among other that as in a Glass he might clearly see his Mutability and Changeableness in his principles as also his Judas-like Treachery and Deceit and how wickedly he had dealt with the Lord his people and the Nation and the righteous cause on foot therein but the Lord having in answer to the earnest desires and prayers of some of his faithful remnant and in great mercy to the Nation and the good people therein and the righteous cause removed and taken him out of the way it was thought fit however to publish it for the sake of his associates and confederates he hath left behind him who may happily make some use of it as also that the standers by yea the whole Nation might likewise see and judge of what hath lately fallen out in this our day It is said of Jeroboam the son of Nebat That he not onely sinned himself but made Israel to sin and there were those of his confederates that then sinned with him and after he was dead and gone of whom it is recorded 1 Kin 15. 34 compared with 2 Kin. 17. 21 22. That they walked in the ways and departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who made Israel to sin The parallel hereof we have in England in this our day Oliver the late Protector so called who Jeroboam like so greatly appeared with the people for Justice and Freedom against Oppression highly professing and declaring for the same hath sinned in the breach of those Protestations and Declarations in building again those things he had been so greatly instrumental to destroy therein surpassing not onely the deeds of the wicked who were cut off upon the like account but also of Jeroboam who never made such Professions and Declarations as he had done There also are of his confederates as the confederates of Jeroboam that sinned with him in his Apostacy and Revolt and do yet continue in those sins and walking in his steps now he is dead and gone as if they took no notice of the displeasure and wrath of God revealed from Heaven against him in cutting him off for his unrighteousness Israel smarted sorely for their evil and at last were carryed away Captive England hath likewise suffered and is brought very low as tradesmen of all sorts shop-keepers and others both in City and Country find by such sad and woful experience as they never did before nor in the memory of man was the like ever known or heard of and what may further suffer the Lord who will not be mocked onely knows For how unworthy are the people of this Generation not onely the more dark and sordid but too many who profess to be Saints and are Pastors and Members of Churches nay some who are Mercurial and more high flown that once spake the Language of Zion and highly appeared for the Good Old Cause who notwithstanding they have seen the mighty Arm and Power of God displayed in bringing down the unrighteous oppressive high and lofty ones with their foundation for their unrighteousness and oppression yet have so far forgotten the Good Old Cause so signally owned from Heaven and are so besotted and degenerated into a self-seeking slavish and enslaveing spirit as they not onely justifie but strengthen their hands who instead of pressing forward mith more refinedness in that work and cause leading to what it shall be when the promises and prophesies relating to the Kingdom of Christ and Zion shall be fulfilled have made a Captain or Protector and are gone back to Egypt to wit the old wicked foundation and things of Monarchy that have been destroyed and thereby under a new name upholding and keeping the people under the old Oppressions And do say of g g In their Addresses to his son Richard his worthy Successour Oliver their late Egyptian Captain who hatched this Cockatrice Egge and brought forth all this wickedness and thereby did more hurt to the Nation then ever he did it good and for which his Memory will deservedly for ever stink in the Nostrils of the Lords faithful people That he was a Moses the great Father and Protector of his people our late most worthy Prince that used all means to deliver us from Bondage by whom we enjoy Freedom in Spiritual and Civil Concernments c. most excellent Prince of happy Memory the famous Champion of our Liberties c. the Father Protector and Buckler of these Nations and the people of God who resâ—ned procured and maintained our just Liberties to us c. the great Assertor of the Liberties of Gods people and a Lover of their Civil Rights c. who well deserves to be a pattern to all succeeding Princes c. our gracious Benefactor a nursing Father to his people by whose hand the yoke of Bondage hath been broken both from the Necks and Consciences of good people c. an instrument of unspeakable Blessings all whose great Enterprises the Lord constantly prospered with high success c. the great Protector of our Peace and Joy who admirably got and h h Have you forgot Hispaniola and the war with Spain never lost but left three Nations in Peace c. We cannot but deeply resent that sad stroke of Providence that took away the breath of our Nostrils and smote our head from off our Shoulders your Highnesses most gloriously renowned Father Our Elijah c. your most illustrious accomplished most glorious heroical most renowned blessed most holy serene princely Father that sacred Person the delight of our Eyes our glorious Sun is set that unspeakable loss the light of our Eyes and the breath of our Nostrils c. But alass this our Moses the Servant of the Lord is dead and shall we not weep If we weep not for
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 â— 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
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
out of the House to be a Lord and to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House the rather for that he never in all his life as he saith fought against any such thing as a single person or a Negative Voyce but onely to put down Charles and set up Oliver and hath his end 29. Colonel Berry his Original was from the Iron Works as a Clerk or Overseer betook himself to the Wars on the Parliaments side profited greatly in his undertaking and advanced his interest very far who though he wore not the Jesters Coat yet being so ready to act his part and please his General in time he became a Colonel of Horse in the Army afterward a Major General of divers Counties a command fit for a Prince wherein he might learn to lord it in an Arbitrary way beforehand at his pleasure that he is of complying principles with the Court his preferment sufficiently speaks out neither ought any other be believed of him or any of his brethren without a real demonstration to the contrary so that he may well pass for one to be a Lord and to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voyce over the people being so far advanced and gotten out of the pit above them and if he did formerly fight against a Negative Voyce and lording it over the people it may be forgiven him 30. Colonel Cooper sometime a Shop-keeper or Salter in Southwark a Member of Thomas b Goodwins Church one formerly of very high principles for common Justice and Freedom like his brother Tichborn The Army then in Scotland sending into England for faithful praying men to make Officers of the honest people in the Burrough recommended him to the General in order to have a command who accordingly went down but left his Principles behind him and espoused other was made a Colonel at the first dash and though he began late yet hath so well improved his interest as he hath already gotten as many hundreds per annum as he had hundred pounds when he left his Trade he hath a Regiment of Foot in Scotland and another in Ireland where he is Major General of the North in Venables Room and Governour of Carrickfergus so as he is in a very hopeful way to be a great man indeed he was of the Latter Parliaments and there is full proof that he is every way thorough-paced and true to the new Court-interest so that upon the whole he also may be counted fit to be a Lord of the Other House and to have a Negative Voyce over the good people in Southwark if they please and all the people of these Lands beside it being the Pretectors pleasure the rather he being the Mirrour of the times for thorough change of principles Alderman Tichborn and O. P. excepted 31. Alderman Pack then Sir Christopher now Lorâ—Pack his rise formerly was by dealing in Cloth near the beginning of the Long Parliament was made an Alderman was then very discreet and medled little more like a Neuter or close Malignant then a Zealot for the cause was a Commissioner of the Customs also Sheriff and Lord Maior of London next after Alderman Viner the Protector taking on him the Government the Sunshine of the new Court pleased him and brought him in full complyance he was one of the Last Parliament and zealous to re-establish Kingship in the person of the c Protector and judged the onely meet man to bring the Petition into the House praying him to accept of and take it upon him which though he then refused yet as is reported hath since repented his then refusal However the now Lord Pack deserves well at his hands for that good service who being a true Kingling and of right Principles to the Court-interest hving also been a Lord to wir Maior once before may upon the whole be counted very worthy to be again so called and to have a Negative Voyce in the Other house over London and all the people of these Lands beside 32. Alderman Tichborn then Sir Robert Knight of the new Stamp now Lord Tichborn at the beginning of the Long Parliament when a great Spirit was stirring for Liberty and Justice many worthy Petitions and Complaints were made against Patentees the Bishops and the Earl of Strafford he being the Son of a Citizen and Young fell in and espoused the good cause and principles then on Foot and thereby became very popular and was greatly cryed up by the good people of the City c. His rise was first in the Military way where he soon became a Colonel and by the Parliament made Lieutenant of the Tower of London and though he was a Colonel yet never went out to fight but became an Alderman very timely and then soon began to cool and lose his former Zeal and Principles and left off preaching as his Pastor Mr. Lockyer did the Church to his brother George Cockain He was afterward Sheriff and Lord Mayor in his turn was also of the Committees for the sale of States Lands whereby he advanced his Interest and Revenue considerably out of Zeal to the publick he offered the Parliament to serve them freely as a Commissioner of the Customs whereby he supplanted another and planted himself in his room and then with the rest of his brethren petitioned the Committee of the Navy for a Salary and had it notwithstanding he was so well rewarded for his pains after he had pretended to serve them for nothing yet with his bro her Col. Harvy and Captain Langham came off blewly in the end He was of the little Parliament and helped to dissolve it one of the late Parliament also he hath by degrees sadly lost his Principles and forgotten the Good Old Cause and espoused and taken up another being so very officious for the new Court-interest and such a stickler for them he is become a great Favorite it 's not hard to read his change it being in so great Letters All things considered he is no question fit to be called Lord Tichborn being also so willing to receive and resolve to own that Title whoever maligns it as also of the Judgement that whatever passes from him in any other name will be void in law wherefore to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over London and all the good people of these Lands is very suitable to him and what though he was so great an Opponent to those things formerly it 's no matter then was then and now is now 33. Sir William Roberts a Gentleman who in the time of the Bishops ruffling went into Holland and lived there for a season the Parliament ruling and in war with the King came over again and after the then mode found favour having upon the forementioned account been out of the Land and was made a great Committee-man and in much employment whereby he well advanced his interest and is grown a great man He was of the little Parliament and
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
to Canaan among whom were many renowned Princes Priests and famous men yet onely Moses Caleb Joshua c. that truly followed God Numb. 14. Among all the wise men in Babylon but one Daniel a true Prophet Dan. 2. 19 But one Noah a Preacher of Righteousness and faithful in his generation before the Flood Gen. 7. 1. One Lot in Sodom Among the seven Churches Rev. 2. 3. but two to wit Philadelphia and Smyrna whom the Lord approves of but the other so carried it except a few among them as he said it should be manifested they belonged rather to the Synagogue of Satan then to the Churches of Christ When the great destruction comes upon wicked men a little before or upon the call of the Jews but a handful or as the gleaning grapes when the Vintage is done shall lift up their heads and rejoyce and glorifie God in the fires Isai. 24. They onely who speak often one to another when wickedness is set up and they that tempt God are delivered alluding to Israel who would have made a Captain to return again to Egypt or rather the Apostacy of this our day that the Lord owns as those who fear him and have the promise of the Sun of Righteousness to arise upon them Mal. 3. The false spirit of Magistracy in Adonijah aspiring to the Government had the assistance of the Kings sons Abiathar the Priest Joab the General and all the Captains of the Host c. who with slaying of Oxen c. eating and drinking said God save Adonijah and carryed it for a time against Solomon but the spirit of Solomon Nathan the Prophet c. who had the true spirit of Government and Prophesie approved not of or consented to it but were for the true spirit to rule 1 King 1. and so it is at this day and blessed be the Lord that our eyes do see a people crying longing and will not be at rest till the earthy selfish spirit of Magistracy be brought down and the self-denying spirit of Magistracy or Horn of David now budding in Zion come in its room Psal. 132. Wonder not neither be turned aside because of that great multitude on the one hand or smallness of the number on the other that truly and indeed appear for and own the cause of God but stand close and be more refined in the light and spirit of Zion and keep your ground for the Lord hath so appointed That the foot shall tread it down to wit the meanest of the saints for it is very probable that many of the great and wise saints ascording to Rev. 18. 4. shall be found in the borders and supporting the things of Babylon and casting out their Brethren Isa. 66. 5. saying Let the Lord be glotified and having the mist of Babylon before their eyes shall say The Lord delays his coming and will be beating their fellow servants onely the feet to wit the upright conversation of these poor ones who desire to keep close to God and not to touch with Babylon and steps to wit the faith prayers and honest endeavours of these needy ones who long for and cannot be at rest till judgement so visibly return unto righteousness that all the upright in heart may follow it These shall trend down the lofty City Isai. 26. The least of the flock shall draw them out the people that shall bring down the enemies of God in the latter days are a very small and feeble remnant when the Lord comes to destroy Babylon and to build up Zion he will finde but a few upright ones and those very destitute helpless and some of them prisoners too for their witness to the true Magistracy and Ministry of Zion whose prayers he will hear and not despise and bring forth to declare his glory in Zion who shall in a holy triumph and rejoycing say O Lord thou art our God we will exalt thee we will praise thy Name for thou hast done wonderful things thy councels of old are faithfulness and truth c. Lo this is our God we have waited for him he will save us we will be glad and rejoyce in his salvation Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee because he trusteth in thee Trust in the Lord for ever c. Isai. 25. 1 9. chap. 26. 2 3. Which good and comfortable words shall certainly be made good for heaven and earth shall pass away but not one tittle of the word shall pass till all be fulfilled I the Lord will hasten it in its time Isa. 60. 33. with Jer. 33. 25 26. Hab. 2. 3. Read these Scriptures Wherefore strengthen ye the weak hands and confirm the feeble knees c. Isa. 55. 3 4. And you my dear Friends Commonwealths-men so called who so greatly seem to press for righteousness and freedom labour to bring forth this righteousness not by a commonmoral spirit and principle but by the spirit of Zion a lively spiritual active frame of spirit to wit that frame mentioned 2 Sam. 23. not to be pulled and haled to do the good that lyes before you that is more suitable to the unjust Judge but be as ready to help and refresh and therein be as suitable to delight the oppressed that come unto you as the light of the morning when the Sun riseth without Clouds is to those who have lost their way in a dark night and as the tender grass springeth out of the earth by clear shining after rain this is the Spirit of the Horn of David that shall bud in Zion Psal. 132. The consideration whereof in the first man festation and declaration of it by the spirit unto and by David having thereby a tast of that glory upon his spirit made him to break forth into a holy triumph and rejoycing saying And this is all my salvation and all my desire although he make it not to grow to wit in his day Leave no stone unturn'd no means unus'd to let the people who come unto you speedily know one way or other what they shall trust to say not Go and come again to morrow if you can do it to day delayes are burdensome and chargeable Job from the secret of God being upon his Tabernacle and the precious dew of the spirit compassing his root and lying all night upon his branch had much of this blessed frame upon his spirit He put on and clothed himself with righteousness and had more love to judgement then to the robe and diadem and upon that account he was eyes to the blind feet to the lame a father to the poor and the cause which he knew not he searched one chap 29. it concerns you and is worth your reading This will be the frame of the handful of corn in the earth Psa. 72 or mountain establisht upon the top of the mountains Mich. 4. 1 2. the fruit whereof shall shake like Lebanon they shall not be shaken by others but themselves wilshake off their fruit then wil
you be do according to the heart of God and having this excellent spirit so freely to make it your meat drink to execute judgement and therein to make your shadow as the night in the midst of the noon-day to the oppressed you will abhor to bewray to wit give up their right and freedom into the hands of Tyrants and Spoylers Tole to the oppressed as a hiding place from the wind a covert from the tempest as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land and as rivers of water in a dry place standing open ready to refresh those that are thirsty will be the frame of Christ and the Saints the Horn of David that shall reign in righteousness c Isa. 31. 1 2. Then those that dwell under your shadow shall return from their oppression revive as the corn and grow as the vine and your savour among both good and bad concern'd in you will be as the wine of Lebanon Hos. 13. and shall say The Lord bless thee thou habitation of Justice c. and wait for to wit desire after you as the dry ground for the rain and open their mouths wide as the mowed parch'd ground for the latter rain Job 29. 23. The foundation of the eternal welfare of your souls being first laid thorough faith in Christ and an holy unblamable conversation without which you cannot attain unto the other it will then be your crown and rejoycing to forget the things behind and to come up hither for herein doth the Lord delight as also will be the great glory of the latter days and as you are in the power glory and sweetness of his spirit herein exercised will he delight in and rejoyce over you and you will live as it were in heaven while you are upon the earth and he will be for your protection as a place of broad rivers streams wherein shall go no gally with oars or gallant ship pass thereby c. Isa. 33. Yea your bow as Jobs renewed in your hand to shoot at your enemies upon all occasions The presence of God being thus with you your terrour will be upon all both at home and abroad that have a mind to hurt you according to Psa. 48. God is known inâ—er palaces for a refuge for lo the kings were assembled they passed by together they saw it and so they marvelled they were troubled and hasted away fear took hold upon them there pain as of a woman in travel thou brakest the ships of Tarshish c. This salvation and forementioned righteousness is the righteousness and salvation of Zion spoken of Isa. 62. 1. which those who understand and taste the glory and sweetness of cannot will not hold their peace or to be at rest till it go forth as brightness or as a lamp that burneth This is the true spirit Be growing up in your light and in the frame of your spirit to these things in order to which pray for the dawnings of that measure of the spirit which the Lord hath promised to pour forth in the latter days The ordinary measures of the spirit relating onely to the work within will not do it therefore is it that so many saints at this day turn in with the spirit and things of Babylon Do not like Alderman Tichborn pretend to serve your Country freely and afterwards take great Salaries the people are poor and it is your duty that have Estates to take nothing from them except they freely give it so ought also the Ministers of Christ to do With other Scriptures read Micha 3. A word on the behalf of that faithful servant of the Lord Mr. John Portmans now close prisoner under lock night and day in the Tower of London so that none may come with freedom to visit him Prov. 31. 8. Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction THe Reader may take notice That Mr. Portmans formerly Secretary to the Navy could not in conscience continue his employment under this Apostacy though it were worth more then 300 l. per annum and for his faithfulness to the cause of God his people and the Nation hath amongst others been a sufferer unto Bonds in the Tower this 17 of the 11 month 1658 a year wanting 3 weeks never hearing what was laid to his charge or that there was any to accuse him of evil having demanded of Col. Barkstead his Jaylor when first brought in by his Souldiers what his Crime was could get no answer neither was there any exprest in the Warrant by which he was apprehended the substance whereof was That he should be brought into the Tower to be kept until the further pleasure of the late Tyrant whom the Warrant blasphemously stiled his Highness the Lord Protector who being lately dead Mr. Portmans took notice of it in a Letter to Col. Barkstead delivered to his hand by two faithful Brethren meekly demanding If he had any further Warrant to continue him a prisoner if he had that then he might have a Copy or at least the sight of it which if he had not in some short time he must conclude there was none and therefore his occasions to go forth for the well-being of his Family urging him to it he should assay to attend upon them but if upon Tryal he found the force continued he must consider what might be his further duty This for substance but with more plainness was intimated in the Letter and accordingly a week after not hearing from him about three in an afternoon not disguised but in his constant habit he went to the gate expecting to be stopped rather then otherwise but finding the passage free went forth to his Brother-in-laws house not with an intent to conceal himself from whence he was again taken within an hour This is briefly and truly the matter of Fact and may it 's hoped justifie him in his attempt not to be left to any thing unbecoming a sober Christian yet was he the rather induced thus to do upon words not long before spoken by Col. Barkstead viz. That he might go out if he would asking some friends If there were no way to perswade him to it c. There needs nothing be said to such as know that foul-mouth'd Malignant Nedham to wipe off the reproach he hath raised in his Pamphlet that Mr. Portmans should say He would not go out if the gates were open until he was satisfied for his imprisonment to go about to do it were to imply that the Pamphletter did sometimes speak truth which should he do he would be utterly disabled to serve his Masters who make lies their refuge and hire him at no small charge as a means to uphold their own reputation to asperse the faithful in the Land yet considering the report may come to those that know him not such may be assured That Mr Portmans never spake any such thing but hath ever declared That he should not continue