by Commissions to the Earle of Glencarne had levied sundry small parties in their severall Territories which all joyned would have made up a considerable Army besides the help which they expected Middleton should bring them out of the Low-Countries they therefore made all possible speed to joyn but in their march the Earl of Glencarne is set upon by Col. Morgan his party routed himselfe hardly escaping This defeat of Glancarn's who was the chief though it discouraged the rest yet made them not wholly desist for they had yet hopes of those supplies which they expected Middleton to bring out of the Low-Countries who at length arrives brings with him Monroe to be his Lieu. General he being Commissionated General which highly displeased Glancarne who had been the greatest instrument of his Armies raising which was now joyn'd and made up a considerable body who protested that he would not raise an Army for others to Command so high a dispute there was between Glancarne and Monroe in somuch that many affirm though som say the contrary that it came to a Duell in which Monroe was worsted disarmed by Glancarne however the dissention still continues for Middleton pretended that he had not power to tak away Monro's Commission which was given him by his Majesty and Glancarne scorning to be under him being of Noble bloud accounting himself as good a Souldier deserts the Army with five hundred Horse in his company and goes in to General Monck with whom he makes his Composition Yet notwithstanding his desertion caused by those differences amongst them selves for Superiority the only way to ruine any designe Middleton pursues his businesse and Commission and had made up a pritty Considerable Number when General Monck engaging him at Laugherry after a not dispute totally routed him scattered his party and had almost taken himself Prisoner but he escaping returned again into Holland Thus his Majesties ill fortune still attends his affaires God still permiting his Enemies to taper up in the World advance themselves not that he in the want of us but that we in the want of so Noble a Prince might be yet farther Miserable But let us return again to his Majesty at the Spaw where he having staid a while courted by all the adjacent Grandees at length takes his journey in company of the Princess Royall his Sister towards Colen where being arrived they were recieved with all possible honour and demonstrations of joy affection the great Guns difcharging at their entrance and the Deputies of the City coming out to meet them in solemn maner and conducting them in great pomp to the pallas provided for them by the chief Magistrate of the City Shortly after their Arrivall the Grandees of the Place entertain'd his Majesty and his Royall Sister at a sumptuous Banquet or Collation where they express in many ceremonious complements the high resentment they had of his Majesties condition and the great honour which he did them in being pleased to come and visit their City After a short time of abode here his Majesty was invited by the Duke of Newburgh to his pallace at Donzell-dorf where he his Sister were most sumptuously Royally entertained for some dayes and here the Royall Princes took her leave of her Brother his sacred Majesty and returned for Holland the King accompanying her on her way as far as Redinguen and from thence returned back again to Colen where he was joyfully receiv'd And now more of his Majesties loyal Subjects are put to wrack in England by tyrannizing Cromwell a generall design must needs be laid over all England and perhaps might be so though Cromwell Knew it well enough before it was like to take any effect which apeared by his setling the London Militia in the hands of his own Criado's his apprehending of Sir Henry Littleton Sir John Packington and many other of the Royall party yet he lets it still go on that he might have the better colour for keeping his Scaffold in use whilst he having certain Intelligence of all proceedings from his hired Agents had care to prevent them when they just came to the height that he might then lay the surer hold on the undertakers so now though he was sure to prevent all risings which might be near London yet he lets others in the Countries more remote to go on so farre as they might only raise to a head but not have any secure place of strength to retreat to in case of a defeat where they might again have made a head The surprizal of Shrewsberry and Chirk Castles are to that effect now prevented But a party in Dorset and Wiltshier made a body consisting most of Gentlemen who surprized Salizbury took away all the Horses and Marched towards Cornwall where they expected a greater force to rise with them but being eagerly pursued by Captain Crook with a party of Horse were overtaken at Southmolton in Devon shire and after a hot dispute most of them either slain or taken but Sir Joseph Wagstaffe the chief Commander of this small loyal party escaped The Captains Penruddock Grove and Jones were taken and afterwards being tri'd by a Commission of Oyer Terminer were condemned to death Captaine Jones was reprived but Grove Penruddock were beheaded at Exeter The last of which parted nobly with his life and died with a resolution worthy of the cause for which he suffered Many others likewise were hanged for his enterprize Yet these and their fellows might have come off better had the Countries as they promised risen to their assistance for all the Countries in England had designed as they say to rise but whether besotted dull'd and fearful or else prevented by a force upon them I cannot tell but sure I am they fail'd Yet in Yorkshire there were two parties up in severall places but dissipated by their own feares at Hexam Moor the Gentry in that shire had a Rendezvouz of whom Sir Henry Slingsby was taken and remained prisoner in Hull till such time as he was brought up to London where he suffered death under pretence of another design as shall in due time be declared But now the Protector findes another course to rid himselfe of all such English men as were loyall to their King Countrey Several of those who were active in the late design and had been taken are out of the Prisons hurried aboard ships and though they were free-born English men and many of them Gentlemen sent to be Slaves in the Forraign Plantations nor were they alone served so but many who though they had not actually stir'd yet being by the Protector known as persons not very well affected to his Tyrannicall Government were privately taken out of their houses and shipt away in like manner it not being enough for him when he had impoverished them by taking away their Estates to look upon and insult on their misery at home but to make them as much as in him lay the
concerning his affairs in Scotland To whch the Commissioners replied That they had acquainted him with their full power according to the instructions they had received from the Committees of Estates and Kirk in Scotland Upon which his Majesty made answer that he would consider of their Propositions and doubted not but to return them such an Answer as might give his Kingdom of Scotland satisfaction and so dismissed them for the present But let us thus leave his Majesty and Councel debating about the Scotch Commissioners propositions and discourse a little about his affairs under the conduct of the thrice noble and Illustrious Marquess of Montrosse who having notwithstanding the opposition which Hamilton gave to the design obtained Commissioners from his Majesty to leavy what force he could on that side the sea endeavoured to the utmost of his power to effect it but chiefly among the Princes of the German Empire where he found large and fair promises but very little real assistance onely the Duke of Holstein supplied him with four ships well arm'd and mann'd though these were likewise by some strange neglect delayed a long time at Amsterdam which much retarded the service Colonel Cochram likewise who had been sent agent into Poland to the Scottish Merchants there for assistance of men and money having received a considerable quantity of money and good supply of corn disposed of the first to his own use sold the other and himselfe revolted from the service General King who was expected out of Sweden with a party of Horse came not at all so many crosses there were in the begining of the business as had Omens to it's future ill successe But at length the Marquesse fearing least if the King should conclude with the Scots before he had attempted any thing his Cōmissions would be recalled fatally resolved to depart Scotland as he was So with four ships indifferētly well armed but with not above six or seaven hundred men those most stangers besides a small Frigat of sixteen Guns one thousand five hundred good Armes given him by the Queen of Sweden he set sail this was all the strength he carried with him from Hamburgh to assault that potent Kingdom Two of these ships and those the biggest were sent before directed to steer their course for the Orcades but these unfortunately met with a storm and where amongst those rocky Islands their men arms amunition was cast away so that a third part of the Forces raised for this expedition was lost But notwithstanding these fatal disasters the sad presages of his ruine the noble Marquess proceeds and with the small number that was left him lands amongst the Islands where he gets together a pretty considerable number which had almost the face of an Army but was for the most part composed of raw and unskilfull fellows a party of these he sends out who without resistance enters the Isle of Orkney there being no Garrison there from thence he dispatches Commissioners to Scotland and the Island adjacent for the levying of Horse and Foot which because the inhabitants of those places to which they were sent could not resist obeyed and not long after the sending of those Commissions Montrosse himself with those forces he had and those Gentlemen resolved to engage in partaking of his fortune landed in Scotland at the point of Cathanes the very farthest land to the Northwest of that Kingdom The people here whom he expected to have joyned with him were so sensible of the miseries of the former war and now more terrified with the name of Forraigners deserted their dwellings and fled away some never stopping till they came to Edenbrough The Parliament of Scotland who were now assembled though they had former advice of the Marquess's designes yet could not tell the place of his landing but now alarm'd by the flying Countrey David Lesley is commanded with the body of the Army to march directly towards them for feare Montross should grow too numerous and Colonel Straughan whose valour the States highly approved is ordered with a party of select Horse to advance before to hinder the Marquess's levyes and if he saw oportunity to fight him Montrosse in the mean time to satisfie the World and because the people should not be startled at his Invasion whilst the King was upon Treaty publishes a very patheticall Declaration declaring the justness of his cause and to clear himselfe from the aspertion of sinister ends and that his intention was only against some particular persons who had against the Laws of the Kingdome raised and maintained a war against his Majesties father and did now by their wiles and subtile practices endeavour to destroy the Son also therefore exhorting all Subjects of that Nation to endeavour to free themselves from the Tyranny of those who then by an usurped power ruled over them But notwithstanding this Declaration the Countrey came very slowly in Straughan in the mean time advances with all possible speed towards the Royall party whilest Montross had not for indeed he could not effect any thing Material besides the fortifying of Dunbath Castle but the Marquess hearing of the enemies approach made his whole Forces march at a great rate to recover a pass yet nevertheless before they could come at it the front of the Army discovered Straughan's forlorn hope who marching with hast upon the Marquesses Army found them both almost tired out of breath Order howevera forlorn hope of a 100. foot are drawn out to meet them who giving them a resolute Charge forced them to an Orderly Retreat but being seconded by Straughan's whole body of Horse they again maintained their ground resolutely Charging upon the Marquesses main body the Islanders immediately threw down their Arms and cryed for quarter but the Holsteiners and Hamburgers made an Orderly retreat for the present into some bushes which having a short time defended they were at last enforced to yeild This was a sad blow to his Majesties affairs in Scotland there being great hopes that had Montross succeeded and kept them in play both Kirk and State would have come to milder Conditions with him Yet the Marquess himselfe escaped for the present out of this Battel Though there were hear two hundred slain and twelve hundred taken in the field for the Countrey coming in upon them few escaped Amongst the Prisoners of note there were taken Col. Hurry the Lord Frenderick Sir Francis Hay of Dalgettey Col. Hay of Noughton Col. Gray and several other Officers together with the Kings Standard which contained this Emphaticall Motto JUDGE AND REVENG MY CAUSE O LORD and whereon was pourtrayed to the life the Effigies of his Majesties Father beheaded But long it was not ere this thrice Heroick Marquess fell into the hands of these cruel Obdurate inveterate enemies for though when he saw the Battell at a losse he had saved himselfe by escaping out of the field and had afterwards to disguise himselfe changed his
their Allegiance to his Son their lawfull and native Sovereign or out of an ambition by joining with their Scotish Brethren which I am loath to judge to get the Power again into their hands which was snatch'd from them by the Independant English Army and the Juncto of Sectaries in England they had laid a designe to raise both a contribution of money and levy men for his Majesty's assistance here but their Plot was betrayed by the intercepting of Letters in a ship forced by foul weather into Ayre in Scotland but bound with provisions for the Isle of Man whereupon the chief undertakers in London were apprehended viz. Mr. Cook Mr. Gibbons Mr. Christopher Love Mr. Jenkins D. Drake and others of which two viz. Mr. Gibbons and Mr. Love was condemned by a high Court of Justice and suffered death on the Tower hill for that cause against which they had once so strongly declar'd But to return again to the cheif Scene in Scotland The English Army had long had a desire to bring the Scots to a field battel which his Majesty upon sundry good reasons serious advice declin'd so Cromwell endeavoured to the utmost of his power to force them to it therefore several times fac'd his Majesty's Army which lay encamped at Torwood within three miles of Sterling but could not yet draw them out of their trenches the chief reason being imagin'd to proceed from their stay for Argyle Huntley and Seaforth who were gon into their several Territories to compleat the King's Levies Cromwell perceiving that he could not draw the Scots to a field-battel upon a sudden draws off his Army and transports fixteen hundred Foot and foure Troopes of Horse over unto Fife on such a sudden that it startled his Majesties whole Army And Cromwell with an unparallel'd expedition faces again the Royal Army with a resolution to fall upon their rear if they should attempt a motion thetherwards but they offered not to stir for already order had been given to Sir Iohn Brown Governour of Sterling to march with four thousand Horse and Foot to drive out that party of Cromwell's which were already landed in Fife of which intelligence being brought Lambart and Okye with two Regiments of Horse and two of Foot are with all possible haste wafted over to reinforce the party already there with which additionall supply of men they routed Sir Iohn Brown who expected none but the first landed party taking himself and several other officers of quality prisoners and killing two thousand upon the place and taking near 1200. prisoners and shortly after Cromwell transports most of his Army over the Fife and resolving to stop the passage which the Scots had over by Sterling marches to S. Iohnstons and takes it almost upon summons Hs Majesty seeing the English Army was advanced so far Northward thought it in vain to attempt the forcing them back knowing that the Scots naturally fights better in anothers then in their own Conntry resolves toadvanc with all possible speed into England where he yet hoped not withstāding the discovery of the design to find some Loyal souls to joyn with him for the Recovery of his right and Kingdomes Many were there who opposed this intention of his Majesty and among those Duke Hamilton was one of the chiefest whose dislike may sufficiently appear by his Letter to Mr. Crofts after their Advance to this effect We are now laughing sayes he at the rediculousness of our present State We have quit Scotland being scarce able to maintain it and yet we grasp at all and nothing but all will satisfie us or to lose all I confess I cannot tell whether our hopes or fears are greatest but we have one stout argument Despair for we must now either stoutely fight or dye all the Rogues have left us I shall not say whether out of fear or disloyalty but all now with his Majesty are such as will not dispute his Commands But notwithstanding his dislike his other oppositiōs yet the Kings resove takes place and on July the 31. 1651. his Majesties Army began to advance from Terwood near Sterling steering their course dirirectly for England which they entred six dayes after by way of Carlisle This march of the Royall Army made Cromwell with the greatest part of his forces immediately recrosse the Frith and forth with send Major General Lambert with a select party of Horse and Dragoons to fall upon the Rear of his Majesties Army whilst they hop'd that Major General Harrison then lying neer the borders with about three thousand Horse and Dragoons would attach them in the Front shortly after himselfe followed with the rest of the Army which could be spar'd amounting to about eight compleat Regiments of Foot and two of Horse But then this greater preparation is made against him in England for the Juncto then fitting at Westminster not onely interdicted all aid or assistance either of men or moneys to be given to his Majesty under the penalty of High Treason but also in all or most of the Countrys had caused a numerous force to be raised the Church-Militia of the City of London being likewise sent out against him and for the present impeading of his march two thousand of the Country Militia of Staffordshire and four thousand out of Lancashire and Cheshire under the command of Col. Birch had joyned with Harrison But be sides all this many of the Royal Army had in their march deserted their colours neer a fourth part of the army was wanting but these were most of them such as were not very well affected to the business nor cause they went about and therefore there was but little miss of them for the rest of the Army marched on chearfully and continued to the utmost push stedfast and loyal were so contentedly obedient to all Military Discipline that 't is believ'd that in al their march through all that part of England they hardly took the value of six pence forcibly But notwithstanding this unwonted evility of the Scottsh Army and his Majesties earnest invitations the Country came very slowly in whether besotted dulled and contented with that slavery they then lay under or over-aw'd by an armed power I cannot tell but such was their backwardness that few or none besides the Lord Howard of Estriche's son with a Troop of Horse came to him during his long tedious march through England Nor did his Majesty with his Army take that course which was expected by most he should for the great fear of his Enemies and greatest hopes of his Friends were that he would march directly for London but he contrary to their expectations being come into Lancashire struck off at Warrington either doubting the enterprize for London too hazardous or out of the hopes had of the Forces it was expected Major General Massey might raise in Glostershire which was the then generally voagu'd reason But before his Majesty could pass over Warrington Bridge he had
his Majesty at Bristol return'd home and lived for some space in a great deale of security not doubting she could be betray'd Yet at length by what means I know not though indeed I have heard of many relations that I dare not relate any it came to light yet she had some timely notice of it whereupon she who had formerly disguised his Majesty in a Serving-mans habit now disguises her self in that of a Country Wench and trots on foot to save her life which she was like to lose for having formerly saved his sacred Majesties quite crosse the Countrey to Yarmouth where she found shipping which conveyed her safe into France great search after her departure there was made for her but in vain which so incensed the Souldiers that they burnt down to the ground that poor Cottage where his Majesty first took shelter after his escape from Worcester She being arrived in France sends a Letter to the Court whereupon his Majesty almost over-joy'd at her Escape who had been the cause of his immediatly sends some persons of quality in Coaches to conduct her to Paris whither he being near come himself with the Queen his Mother the Duke of York Gloucester went out to meet this Preserver of the life of their Son Soveraign and Brother the Coaches meeting and she being descended from her Coach his Majesty likewise descends taking her by the hand salutes her with this gratefull expression Welcome my life so putting her into his own Coach conducts her to Paris where she was entertained with the applause and wonder of the whole Court and she could indeed deserve no less for I believe neither past or future Ages can or will ever parallell so great a pattern of female Loyalty and Generosity Whilst his Majesty was thus passing away his time in France more in contemtemplation then action Oliver Cromwell made General of all the Juncto's Forces in England Scotland and Jreland finding now a fit opportunity to put his long-laid ambitious designs in execution had dissolved that Juncto which had usurped the Kingly power or more over England and taken upon himself though not the title yet the Royall power and authority over these Nations which the people though unwilling yet were forced to submit to though he had not at first any basis whereon to ground his new usurped Regality yet in stead of one Juncto he pluckt down he easily sets up another which I may the more justly call so in regard there was not one of them chosen by the free Votes of the People but by his own arbitrary Election and those such persons who knew well enough what they had to doe before they met these after a short time sitting without doing any thing besides the making of some impertinent laws which were forceably imposed on the people surrender their power as dying men do their souls to God into his hands that gave it who by the help of the Officers of the Army and Lamberts instrument makes himself immediatly king of England Scotland and Ireland which government he had often sworn against though under the title of Protector This I must needs say Noble Tyrant having got the Dominion of three such Kingdoms into his possession made it now as much his study to preserve himself safe in his Estate and Grandure as he did before to acquire it to which purpose he thought it most suitable to that design to make some remarkable disturbance amongst the neighbouring Princes then to continue that War begun by the Juncto of Parliament with the Dutch to which purpose severall motions of a Treaty passed His sacred Majesty though he had sundry times before solicited the assistance of those United Provinces for the regaining of his Right in his Kingdoms now more earnestly upon secret intelligence of the first motions of this Treaty sends the Lord Gerard his Embassadour to the United States more earnestly intreating them to own his Interest then before proffering that if they would set out a good squadron of ships under his Flag he would command them himself in person His Sister the princess of Orange and other of his friends in the Low Countries addicted to his Interest earnestly prosecutes his desires and use their utmost influence on the States of the United provinces for the performance of his propositions Nor are there five of these Provinces nor Van Trump himself their Admiral unwilling to comply with him Only the Province of Holland the most potent at sea stands out chiefly out of the disgust they had lately taken to the family of Orange whose interest and command they were fearfull might bee restored should his Majesty who was Uncle to the young Prince be invested in his Territories His Majesty likewise to advance his hopes of their assistance when Monsieur Bortell came from those United States to negotiate a League with the King of France used his utmost Interest to promote the Treaty and in fine brought it to a desired period notwithstanding the United States sent no other answer to his Embassey then a cold Letter of Complements His designs thus failing him here he directed himself to a more hopefull course by interposing himself a Mediator with the Pope and other Catholick Princes for an accord and peace between the two mighty Crowns of France and Spain And indeed two such potent Monarchs had been in better capacity with their joynt forces to have assisted him had the peace gon forward as there was great hopes then the United States of the Netherlands but Cardinal Mazarine by a piece of secret state-policy endeavoured to obstruct all proceedings which might tend to a Treaty or accord Nor was this Cardinal's spleen to his Royall Majesty yet allayed for his supposed Council against him in the forementioned difference between the King Princes but farther to prejudice him and his affairs he endeavours the promotion of a peace between the Protector of England and the French King his Master which though opposed by all the force and Interest that either himselfe or the Queen his Mother had in the French Court yet was by the Cardinall whose will was a law all other Government in that Kingdome being but a meer shadow vigorously carried on and an Embassadour sent over to treat of an accord where having been sometime in England his Majesty was by secret intelligence informed that the chief Article insisted upon in the Treaty by the Protector of England was the excluding himself relations and followers out of the Kingdome of France and it's Territories wherefore least the treaty should be suddenly concluded upon those tearms he ceremoniously excluded he thought it more honourable himself to leave that Kingdome of his own accord and having taken his leave of the King of France and the rest of the Nobility accompanied with his Coufin Prince Rupert he departed for Germany where the Lord Wilmot had long been Embassadour for him to solicite aid and assistance Yet notwithstanding his Brothers the
releast I may particularly take occasion here to commend the valour of the Duke of Yorks own Troop who indeed bore the brunt of the whole Battell though I cannot deny but they were seconded by some very noble Spirits of the Spaniards but the personall Valour of Mr. Henry Bendish son to Sir Thomas Bendish Embassadour for the English Nation in Turky who had the ill fortune to be taken prisoner must not be forgotten Let us now change the Scence a little to England where the Protector begins to die the Scaffold in as deep a purple as the Vest given him at his late installment bore that not only with the Bloud of those seculars that were loyal to their soveraign but having as he thought now secured to himselfe the Government his hand reaches to the sacred Clergy nor will he strike at a reed or a shrub amongst them but imitating the Ancient fable of the Jubitrian Thunder strikes at the Olympus the Atlas the mainest piller and support of the Protestant Religion for no lesse then the Reverend Doctor Hewet's Bloud will now satisfie his insatiate Cruelty a man whose vertues and piety as they were beyond expression so I think was the manner of his death beyond example This Doctor and Sir Henry Slingsby who had ever since the forementioned rising in Yorkshire lain prisoners in Hull Castle with many others are accused of a design to have seized on the Tower of London the Magazine at Hull both in one day the one by a Divine the other by a Prisoner but these persons must have severall others to be their assistants and that espetially in London who while the Doctor was securing the Tower must fire the City of London in severall places Those that make plots may as easily discover them and with as much ease prevent them the Protector could do both but to make some shew of a great deal of fear in the business Worthy Alderman Tichburn then Lord Mayor of London is immediately commanded to settle the Militia the Protector telling him as he easily might that there was a grand design in hand probably of his own contriving against his Government that the Marquess of Ormond had lately been in England transacting about it that the Common Enemy for so was his Sacred Majesty then styled lay ready with a potent Army ships hired to transport them on the Sea coasts of England and that therefore the Militia should be setled in confiding hands meaning such either whose interest or fear must render them faithfull to the Protector shortly after according to the common course the persons to be accused are apprehended the chief of which were Dr. Hewet Mr. John Mordant brother to the Earle of Peterborough Col. Ashton Capt. Henry Mallory Mr. Woodcock John Betteley Edmund Stacy Henry Fryer John Sumner Olliver Allen who were all accused to be complices of this grand design And because no English Law could take away these mens Lives the ordinary Tyrannicall way of a high Court of Justice must do it Sir Henry Slingsby who was brought prisoner from Hull Castle was the first who came before them and is accused for having endeavoured to draw the Governour of that Caste from his Alleigiance excellently good to the Protector and pleading not guilty yet was by two Witnesses found ready convicted and condemned Dr. Hewet being come before them according to the Example of his Royall Master King Charles the first refused to plead or to own the jurisdiction of the Court for which contempt as they were pleased to interpret it he had the same sentence pronounced against him and was afterwards together with Sir Henry Slingsby executed on Tower hill Mr. Mordant brother to the Earl of Peterborough disavowed likewise the Authority of the Court but at last being induced to plead was acquitted so was Mr. Woodcock Mallory Fryer Sumner Allen were sentenced but reprived Ashton Stacy and Bettely were hanged drawn and quartered in several places of London And here we must not forget the magnanimous death of John Betteley who having made a Speech clearing his Innocency and the justness of his Cause undauntedly leapt off the Ladder and died a worthy Sufferer for the Royall Interest His sacred Majesty during these strange Murders and Oppressions of his Subjects in England by a power which had usurpt the Regality is forced to sit still his urgent necessities not giving him leave either to revenge their deaths or redeem the surviving who heavily groaned under the yoke his only remedy now was his prayers to God which he pursues with an earnest devotion that he would be pleas'd in his good time to deliver his faithful Subjects from those miseries and burdens they then strugl'd under and without doubt God hath heard and will perform his pious defires As an introduction to which it pleased the DIVINE MAJESTY to take out of the world the grandest opposer of his Majesties Right OLIVER CROMWELL who from a mean beginning had raised himself by force to be the arbitrary Governour of these Nations who is by the Almighty called to give an account of his actions before the High Tribunall of Heaven where are neither false witnesses nor interesed Judges and that on the same day on which he had gained two such signall victories over his Majesties forces at Dunbar and Worcester viz. on the third day of September Yet he thought he had certainly secured the Government of these three Nations for himself and nominates his son Richard for his Successour a person to speak the truth as not at all endowed with his fathers courage so not at all inclined to his ambition one whom if fame lies not of him could have willingly been content to have surrendred his Protectorship to the King the lawfull heir and by law undoubted Successour of his royal Father But those Officers of the Army whose ambition though not in so high a degree had so engaged them as Complices to Oliver Cromwell in his high late designes against his King and Countrey had so great a load of guilt upon their consciences that they could not hear of much less agree to the admission of his Sacred Majesty Nor was it indeed only thus but some ambitious spirits there were and particularly Maj. General Lambert whose high-flown thoughts made him fancy Idea's in his brain forc't him to attempt the enterprising to make himself Commander of these three Nations as Oliver by his means had done before which designes of his in the sequell ruin'd him and discovered those grand cheats abuses which that parâ—â— had put upon the Nation endeavouring to enslave them to their own arbitrary power whilst they pretended those strangely mistaken names of Religion and Liberty as hereafter will appear And these passages I shall the more fully insert as tending so much to his Majesties interest here and to the undeceiving of his good Subjects who are not blinded with Interest which the Usurpers had endeavoured to make the most potent