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A74878	A brief review of the most material Parliamentary proceedings of this present Parliament, and their armies, in their civil and martial affairs. Which Parliament began the third of November, 1640. And the remarkable transactions are continued untill the Act of Oblivion, February 24. 1652. Published as a breviary, leading all along successiviely, as they fell out in their severall years: so that if any man will be informed of any remarkable passage, he may turne to the year, and so see in some measure, in what moneth thereof it was accomplished. And for information of such as are altogether ignorant of the rise and progresse of these times, which things are brought to passe, that former ages have not heard of, and after ages will admire. A work worthy to be kept in record, and communicated to posterity.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.; Hamilton, James Hamilton, Duke of, 1606-1649. Several speeches of Duke Hamilton Earl of Cambridg, Henry Earl of Holland, and Arthur Lord Capel, upon the scaffold immediately before their execution, on Friday the 9. of March.	1652 (1652)	Wing V294A; Thomason E693_2; ESTC R206997	57,270	63

there hath been nothing that I have said or done or professed either by Covenant or Declaration which hath not bin very constant and very clear upon the principles that I ever have gone upon which was to serve the King the Parliament Religion I should have said in the first place the Common-wealth and to seek the peace of the Kingdome That made me thinke it no improper time being prest out by accidents and circumstances to seek the Peace of the Kingdome which I thought was proper since there was something then in agitation but nothing agreed on for sending Propositions to the King that was the furthest aime that I had and truly beyond that I had no intention none at all And God be praised although my blood comes to be shed here there was I think scarcely a drop of blood shed in that action that I was ingaged in For the present affairs as they are I cannot tell how to judge of them and truly they are in such a condition as I conceive no body can make a judgement of them and therefore I must make use of my prayers rather then of my opinion which are that God would blesse this Kingdome this Nation this State that he would settle it in a way agreeable to what this Kingdome hath been happily governed under by a King by the Lords by the Commons a Government that I conceive it hath flourished much under and I pray God the change of it bring not rather a prejudice a disorder and a confusion then the contrary I look upon the Posterity of the King and truly my conscience directs me to it to desire that if God be pleased that these people may look upon them with that affection that they owe that they may be called in again and they may be not through blood nor through disorder admitted again into that power and to that glory that God hath in their birth intended to them I shall pray with all my Soul for the happinesse of this State of this Nation that the blood which is here spilt may be even the last which may fall among us and truly I should lay down my life with as much cheerfulnesse as ever person did if I conceived that there would no more blood follow us for a State or affairs that are built upon blood is a foundation for the most part that doth not prosper After the blessing that I give to the Nation to the Kingdom and truly to the Parliament I doe wish with all my heart happinesse and a blessing to all those that have been authors in this businesse and truly that have been authors in this very work that bringeth us hither I doe not only forgive them but I pray heartily and really for them as God will forgive my sins so I desire God may forgive them I have a particular relation as I am Chancellor of Cambridge and truly I must here since it is the last of my prayers pray to God that that University may goe on in that happy way which it is in that God may make it a Nursery to plant those persons that may be distributed to the Kingdome that the souls of the people may receive a great benefit and a great advantage by them and I hope God will reward them for their kindnesse and their affections that I have found from them Looking towards Mr. Bolton I have said what Religion I have been bred in what Religion I have been born in what Religion I have practised I began with it and I must end with it I told you that my actions and my life have not been agreeable to my breeding I have told you likewise that the Family where I was bred hath been an exemplary Family I may say so I hope without vanity of much affection to Religion and of much faithfulnesse to this Kingdom and to this State I have endeavoured to doe those actions that have become an honest man and which became a good Englishman and which became a good Christian I have been willing to oblige those that have been in trouble those that have been in persecution and truly I find a great reward of it for I have found their prayers and their kindnesse now in this distresse and in this condition I am in and I thinke it a great reward and I pray God reward them for it I am a great sinner and I hope God will be pleased to hear my prayers to give me faith to trust in him that as he hath called me to death at this place he will make it but a passage to an eternall life through Jesus Christ which I trust to which I rely upon and which I expect by the mercy of God And so I pray God blesse you all and send that you may see this to be the last execution and the last blood that is likely to be spilt among you And then turning to the side raile he prayed for a god space of time God hath given me speaking to M. Bolton long time in this world he hath carryed me through many great accidents of Fortune hee hath at last brought me down into a condition where I find my self brought to an end for a dis-affection to this State to this Parliament that as I said before I did believe no body in the world more unlikely to have expected to suffer for that Cause I look upon it as a great judgement of God for my sins And truly Sir since that the death is violent I am the lesse troubled with it because of those violent deaths that I have seen before Principally my Saviour that hath shewed us the way how and in what manner he hath done it and for what cause I am the more comforted I am the more rejoyced It is not long since the King my Master passed in the same manner and truely I hope that his purposes and intentions were such as a man may not be ashamed not onely to follow him in the way that was taken with him but likewise not ashamed of his purposes if God had given him life I have often disputed with him concerning many things of this kind and I conceive his sufferings and his better knowledge and better understanding if God had spared him life might have made him a Prince very happy towards himself and very happy towards this Kingdome I have seen and known that those blessed souls in heaven have passed thither by the gate of sorrow and many by the gate of violence And since it is Gods pleasure to dispose me this way I submit my soul to him with all comfort and with all hope that he hath made this my end and this my conclusion that though I be low in death yet neverthelesse this lownesse shall raise me to the highest glory for ever Truly I have not said much in publike to the people concerning the particular actions that I conceive I have done by my Counsels in this Kingdom I conceive they are well known it were something of vanity

A Brief REVIEW Of the most material Parliamentary Proceedings OF THIS Present Parliament and their Armies in their Civil and Martial Affairs Which Parliament began the third of November 1640. And the remarkable Transactions are continued untill the ACT OF OBLIVION February 24. 1652. Published as a Breviary leading all along successively as they fell out in their severall years So that if any man will be informed of any remarkable passage he may turne to the year and so see in some measure in what Moneth thereof it was accomplished And for Information of such as are altogether ignorant of the rise and progresse of these times which things are brought to passe that former Ages have not heard of and after Ages will admire A Work worthy to be kept in Record and communicated to Posterity Hosea 14. 9. Who is wise and he shall understand these things prudent and he shall know them for the wayes of the Lord are right and the just shall walk in them but the transgressors shall fall therein LONDON Printed by M. S. for Tho Jenner at the South-entrance of the Royal Exchange 1652. 1 IN the first year of King Charles his Reign a Parliament being called at Oxford two subsidies were granted no grievances removed but the said Parliament soon dissolved 2 The sad effects which the dissolution of this Parliament produced were the losse of Rochell by the unhappy help of Englands Ships 3 The diversion of a most facile and hopefull war from the West-Indies to a most expensive and succelesse attempt on Cales 4 The attempt on the Isle of Ree and thereby a precipitate breach of peace with France to our great losse 5 A peace concluded with Spain without consent of Parliament contrary to a promise formerly made to the Kingdom by King James a little before his death whereby the cause of the Palatinate was altogether most shamefully deserted by us 6 The Kingdom suddenly billetted with Souldiers and a concomitant project set on foot for Germane Horses to force men by fear to fall before arbitrary and tyrannicall taxations continually to be laid upon them 2 Parliament 7 The dissolution of a second Parliament at Westminster in the second year after a declarative grant of no lesse then five Subsidies and the sad issues that flowed to the Kingdom thereupon 8 As first the violent exacting from the people that mighty sum of the 5 Subsidies or a sum equal to it by a Commission for a Royal Loan 9 Many worthy Gentlemen imprisoned and vexed that refused to pay it 10 Great sums extorted by Privy Seals and Excises and the most hopefull Petition of Right blasted 3 Parliament 11 A third Parliament called and quickly broken in the fourteenth year of the King the best Members clapt up close prisoners denied all ordinary and extraordinary comforts of life and so that Paliament was dissolved 12 Opprobrious Declarations published to asperse the proceedings of the last Parliament yea Proclamations set out to those effects thereby extreamly to dis-hearten the Subjects yea and plainly forbidding them once to name a Parliament or to desire them any more 13 Whence immediatly gushed out the violent inundations of mighty sums of money got by that strange project of Knight-hood yet under a colour of Law 14 The most burthensome Book of Rates the unheard of Taxation of Ship-money the enlargement of Forrests contrary to Magna Charta the injurious taxation of Coat and Conduct money the forcible taking away of the Trained-Bands Arms Ingrossing Gunpowder into their hands in the Tower of London 15 The destruction of the Forrest of Dean which was sold to Papists whence we had all our Timber for Shipping 16 Monopolies of Sope Salt Wine Leather and Sea-Coal yea almost of all things in the Kingdome of most necessary and common use 17 Restraint in Trades and Habitations for refusall of which foresaid heavy pressures many were vext with long and languishing suits some fined and confined to prisons to the loss of health in many of life in some some having their houses broken open their goods seized on their studies or closets searched for writings books and papers to undo them some interrupted also in their Sea-Voyages and their Ships taken from them 18 The crushing cruelties of the Star-Chamber Court and Councel Table where the Recorder of Salisbury was greatly fined for demolishing the Picture of the first person in the Trinity in their great Cathedrall 19 Thus far for the miseries of the Common-wealth Popish Ceremonies Romish Innovations and such like other outrages of the Arch Prelate of Canterbury and his Prelaticall Agents and Instruments over the whole Kingdom in matters of Religion divine worship and spirituall cases of conscience 20 Additions in the Oath administred to the King at his first Inauguration to the Crown by the Arch-Bishop 21 Fines imprisonments stigmatizings mutilations whippings pillories gagget confinements and banishments yea and that into perpetuall close imprisonments in the most desolate remote and as they hoped and intended remotest parts of the Kingdome Mr Burton Mr Bastwick Mr Prin. 22 The ruinating of the Feoffees for buying in of Impropriations and the advancing to Ecclesiasticall Livings Arminians silencing with deprivations degradations and excommunications almost all the most pious Pastors over the Land whom they could catch in their snares and all this under a pretence of peace unity and conformity 23 Printing Presses set open for the Printing and publishing of all Popish and Arminian Tenets but shut up and restrained from Printing sound Doctrines 24 Nay not only thus lamentably molested in England but attempted the like in Scotland indeavouring to impose upon them New Liturgie and a Book of Canons 25 They refusing of them were called and counted Rebels and Traytours yea so proclaimed in all Churches in England and an Army was also raised to oppresse and suppresse them The Arch-Prelate of St Andrewes in Scotland reading the new Service-booke in his pontificaliby assaulted by men Women with Cricketts stooles Stickes and Stones The rising of Prentises and Sea-men on Southwark-side to assault the Arch-bishops of Canterburys House at Lambeth 27 Scotland raising an Army in their own just defence and by force of Arms inforcing their own peace 28 A first pacification being then made by the King and some of his Nobility and ratified under hand and Seal 'twixt them and the Scots yet was it shortly after quite broken off by the Arch-Prelat of Canterbury and the E. of Strafford and burnt by the Hangman at the Exchange 4 Parliament 29 A fourth Parliament was thereupon shortly after called again by those complotters means but to a very ill intent and another Parliament summoned also at the same time by the Earl of Strafford in Ireland both of them only to levy and procure moneys to raise another Army and wage a new War against the Scots 30 The Ships and Goods of Scotland were in all parts and ports of this Land and of Ireland also surprized and seized on for the

to the Declarations will see clearly that they began these unhappy troubles not I so that as for the guilt of these enormous crimes that are laid against me I hope in God that God will clear me of it I will not I am in charity God forbid that I should lay it upon the two Houses of Parliament there is no necessity of either I hope they are free of this guilt for I doe believe that ill instruments between them and me ha's been the cause of all this blood shed so that by way of speaking as I find my self clear of this I hope and pray God that they may too yet for all this God forbid that I should be so ill a Christian as not to say that Gods judgements are just upon me many times he does pay justice by an unjust sentence that is ordinary I will onely say this That an unjust Sentence that I suffered to take effect is punished now by an unjust Sentence upon me that is so far I have said to shew you that I am an innocent man Now for to shew you that I am a good Christian I hope there is a good man pointing to Dr Iuckson that will bear me witnesse that I have forgiven all the world and those in particular that have been the chief causers of my death who they are God knows I do not desire to know I pray God forgive them But this is not all my charity must go farther I wish that they may repent for indeed they have committed a great sin in that particular I pray God with St Stephen that this be not laid to their charge nay not onely so but that they may take the right way to the peace of the Kingdome So Sirs I do wish with all my soule and I do hope there is some here will carry it further that they may endeavour the peace of the Kingdom Now Sirs I must shew you how you are out of the way and will put you in a way first you are out of the way for certainly all the way you ever have had yet as I could find by any thing is in the way of Conquest certainly this is in an ill way for Conquest Sir in my opinion is never just except there be a good just Cause either for matter of wrong or just Title and then if you go beyond it that makes it unjust at the end that was just at first But if it be only matter of Conquest then it is a great Robbery as a Pirate said to Alexander that He was the Great Robber he was but a petty Robber and so Sirs I do think the way that you are in is much out of the way Now Sir for to put you in the way beleive it you will never doe right nor God will never prosper you untill you give God his due the King his due that is my Successors and the people their due I am as much for them as any of you You must give God his due by regulating rightly his Church according to his Scriptures which is now out of order For to set you in a way particularly now I cannot but onely this A Nationall Synod freely called freely debating among themselves must settle this when that every Opinion is freely and clearly heard For the King indeed I will not the Lawes of the Land will clearly instruct you for that therefore because it concerns my own particular I only give you a touch of it For the people and truly I desire their Liberty and Freedome as much as any body whomsoever but I must tell you that their Liberty and their Freedome consists in having of Government those Lawes by which their life and their goods may be most their owne It is not for having share in Government Sir that is nothing pertaining to them A Subject and a Soveraign are clean different things and therefore untill they do that I mean that you do put the people in that Liberty as I say certainly they will never enjoy themselves Sirs it was for this that now I am come here If I would have given way to an Arbitrary way for to have all Lawes changed according to the power of the Sword I needed not to have come here and therefore I tell you and I pray God it be not laid to your charge that I am the Martyr of the people Introth Sirs I shall not trouble you much longer for I will onely say this to you that intruth I could have desired some little time longer because that I would have put this that I have said in a little more order and a little better digested then I have done and therefore I hope you will excuse Me I have delivered my Conscience I pray God that you do take those courses that are best for the good of the Kingdom and your own Salvation The Bishop of London minding him to say something concerning his Religion King I thank you very heartily my Lord for that I had almost forgotten it Introth Sirs my Conscience in Religion I think is very well known to all the World and therefore I declare before you all That I die a Christian according to the profession of the Church of England as I found it left me by my Father and this honest man I think will witnesse it Then turning to the Officers said Sirs excuse me for this same I have a good cause and I have a gracious God I will say no more Then turning to Col Hacker he said Take care that they do not put me to pain and Sir this and it please you But then a Gentleman coming neer the Ax the King said take heed of the Ax pray take heed of the Ax Then the King speaking to the Executioner said I shall say but very short Prayers and when I thrust out my hands Then the King called to D Iuxon for his night cap and having put it on he said to the Executioner does my heire trouble you who desired him to put it all under his Cap which the King did accordingly by the help of the Executioner and the Bishop then the King turning to Dr Iuxon said I have a good cause and a gracious God on my side Dr Iuxon There is but one stage more this stage is turbulent and troublesome it is a short one but you may consider it will soon carry you a very great way it will carry you from Earth to Heaven and there you shall find a great deal of cordiall joy and comsort King I go from a corruptible to an incorruptible Crown where no disturbance can be Doct. You are exchanged from a temporall to an eternall Crown a good exchange Then the King took off his Cloak and his George giving his George to Dr Iuxon saying Remember 't is thought for the Prince and some other small Ceremonies past after which the King stooping down laid his neck upon the block after a very little pause st●etched forth his hands the Executioner at one blow severed his

having embraced him and returned him many thanks for his great pains and affections to his soul desiring God to reward him and returne his love into his bosome Mr. Bolton said to him The Lord God support you and be seen in this great extremity The Lord reveal and discover himselfe to you and make your death the passage unto eternall life Then the Earl turning to the Executioner said Here my friend let my clothes and my body alone there is ten pounds for thee that is better then my clothes I am sure of it Executioner Will your Lordship please to give me a sign when I shall strike And his Lordship said you have room enough here have you not and the Executioner said Yes Then the Earl of Holland turning to the Exeuctioner said Friend doe you hear me if you take up my head do not take off my Cap. Then turning to his servants he said to one Fare you well thou art an honest fellow and to another God be with thee thou art an honest man and then said Stay I will kneel down and ask God forgivenesse and then prayed for a pretty space with seeming earnestnesses Then speaking to the Executioner he said Which is the way of lying which they shewed him And then going to the Front of the Scaffold he said to the People God blesse you all and God deliver you from any such accident as may bring you to any such death as is violent either by war or by these accidents but that there may be peace among you and you may finde that these accidents that have hapned to us may be the last that may happen in this Kingdome It is that I desire it is that I beg of God next the saving of my Soul I pray God give all happinesse to this Kingdom to this people and this Nation and then turning to the Executioner said How must I lye I know not Executioner Lie down flat upon your belly and then having laid himselfe down he said Must I lie closer Executioner yes and backwarder I will tell you when you shall strike and then as he lay seemed to pray with much affection for a short space and then lifting up his head said Where is the man and seeing the Executioner by him he said Stay while I give the Sign and presently after stretching out his hand and the Executioner being not fully ready he said Now now and just as the words were comming out of his mouth the Executioner at one blow severed his head from his body The Speech of the Lord Capel THe conclusion that I made with those that sent me hither and are the cause of this violent death of mine shalll be the beginning of what I shall say to you When I made an Address to them which was the last I told them with much sincerity That I would pray to the God of all mercies that they might be partakers of his inestimable boundles mercy in Jesus Christ and truly I still pray that prayer and I beseech the God of Heaven forgive any injury they have done to me from my soul I wish it And truly this I tell you as a Christian to let you see I am a Christian but it is necessary I should tell you somwhat more That I am a Protestant and truly I am a Protestant and very much in love with the prossifeon of it after the manner as it was established in England by the thirty nine Articles a blessed way of profession and such a one as truly I never knew none so good I am so far from being a Papist which some body have truly very unworthily at some time charged me withall that truly I profes to you that though I love good Works and commend good Works yet I hold They have nothing at all to doe in the matter of Salvation my Anchor hold is this That Christ loved me and gave himselfe for me that is that that I rest upon And truly something I shall say to you as a Citizen of the whole World and in that consideration I am here condemned to dye truly contrary to the Law that governs all the World that is The Law of the Sword I had the protection of that for my life and the honour of it but truly I will not trouble you much with that because in another place I have spoken very largely and liberally about it I believe you wil hear by other means what Arguments I used in that case But truly that that is stranger you that are English men behold here an English man now before you and acknowledged a Peer not condemned to dye by any Law of England not by any Law of England Nay shall I tell you more which is strangest of all contrary to all the Laws of England that I know of And truly I will tel you in the matter of the civil part of my death and the Cause I have maintained I dy I take it for maintaining the fifth Commandment enjoyned by God himself which enjoyns reverence and obedience to Parents All Divines on all hands though they contradict one another in many severall Opinions yet all Divines on all hands do acknowledge that here is intended Magistracy and Order certainly I have obeyed that Magistracy the Order under which I have lived which I was bound to obey and truly I do say very confidently that I do dye here for keeping for obeying that fift Commandment given by God himself and written with his own finger And now Gentlemen I will take this opportunity to tell you That I cannot imitate a better nor a greater ingenuity then his that said of himself For suffering an unjust judgement upon another himself was brought to suffer by an unjust judgement Truly Gentlemen that God may be glorified that all men that are concerned in it may take the occasion of it of humble repentance to God Almighty for it I doe here profes to you that truly I did give my Vote to that Bill of the E. of Strafford I doubt not but God Almighty hath washed that away with a more precious blood and that is with the blood of his own Son and my dear Saviour Jesus Christ and I hope he will wash it away from all those that are guilty of it truly this I may say I had not the least part nor the least degree of malice in the doing of it but I must confes again to Gods glory and the accusation of mine own frailty and the frailty of my Nature that truly it was an unworthy Cowardize not to resist so great a torrent as carried that busines at that time And truly this I think I am most guilty of of not courage enough in it but malice I had none but whatsoever it was God I am sure hath pardoned it hath given me the assurance of it that Christ Jesus his blood hath washed it away and truly I do from my soul wish that all men that have any stain by it may

sit in the said House of Lords nor shall Sit Vote Advise Adjudge or Determine of any matter or thing whatsoever as a House of Lords in Parliament Neverthelesse it is hereby declared That neither such Lords as have demeaned themselves with Honour Courage and Fidelity to the Common-wealth their Posterities who shal continue so shall not be excluded from the Publike Councels of the Nation but shall be admitted thereunto and have their free Vote in Parliament if they shall be thereunto elected as other persons of Interest elected and qualified thereunto ought to have And be it further Ordained and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Peer of this Land not being Elected Qualified and fitting in Parliament as aforesaid shall claim have or make use of any Priviledge of Parliament either in relation to his Person Quality or Estate any Law Usage or Custom to the contrary notwithstanding Hen. Scobel Cler. Parliamenti ON Thursday July 25. the Generall and Army marched from Mordington to Coppersmith Col. Hackers Regiment being drawn up in the way His Excellency made a speech to satisfie them concerning Cap. Ogles Troope being sent back into Northumberland in regard of his interest in that County and that Capt. Greenwoods Troop appointed for Berwick should march with the Regiment in the stead thereof which gave great satisfaction Col. Brights Regiment being drawn up Maj. Gen. Lambert appointed Colonel thereof coming to the head of the Regiment was received with great acclamations A List of the Regiments of Horse and Foot Randezvouzed and marched with the L. Gen. Cromwell into Scotland Eight Regiments of Horse THe L. Generals in number 663 Maj. Gen. in number 663 Col. Fleetwoods in number 663 Col. Whalies in number 663 Col. Twisden in number 663 Col Lilburne in number 663 Col. Hackers in number 663 Col. Okey in number 774 Consisting with Officers in all 5450 Ten Regiments of Foot THe L. Generals in number 1307 Col. Pride 1307 Col. Bright 1307 Col. Maliveryr 1307 Col. Ch. Fairfax 1307 Col. Cocks 1307 Col. Dunell 1307 Col. Sir Ar. Hasterigs 5. Comp. 550 Col. Fenwicks five Companies 550 Consisting with Officers in all 10249 The Train six hundred and ninety The whole thus The Train six hundred and ninety The Horse five thousand four hundred and fifteen The Foot ten thousand two hundred forty nine The Total Sixteen thousand three hundred fifty four A Letter from Lieut. Gen. David Lesly to the L. G. Cromwel My Lord I Am Commanded by the Committee of Estates of this Kingdom and desired by the Commissioners of the Generall Assembly to send unto your Excellency this inclosed Declaration as that which containeth the state of the Quarrel wherein we are resolved by the Lords assistance to fight your Army when the Lord shall please to call us thereunto And as you have professed you will not conceal any of our Papers I do desire that this Declaration may be made known to all the Officers of your Army and so I rest Bruchton 13. Aug. 1650. Your Excellency's most humble Servant DAVID LESLEY For his Excellency the Lord Generall Cromwel The Declaration of the Commissioners of the Generall Assembly of Scotland as followeth THe Commission of the Generall-Assembly considering That there may be just ground of stumbling from the Kings Majesties refusing to subscribe and emit the Declaration offered unto him by the Committee of Estates and Commissioners of the Generall Assembly concerning his former carriage and Resolutions for the future in reference to the Cause of God and the enemies and friends thereof Doth therefore Declare That this Kirk and Kingdome do not owne nor espouse any Malignant Party or Quarrell or Interest but that they fight meerly upon their former Grounds and Principles and in defence of the Cause of God and of the Kingdome as they have done these twelve years past And therefore as they doe disclaime all the sin and guilt of the King and of his House so they will not owne him nor his Interest otherwise then with a subordination to God and so far as he ownes and prosecutes the cause of God and disclaims his and his Fathers opposition to the work of God and to the Covenant and likewise all the enemies thereof And that they will with convenient speed take in consideration the Papers lately sent unto them from Oliver Cromwel and vindicate themselves from all the falshoods contained therein especially in these things wherein the quarrell betwixt us and that party is mis-stated as if we owned the late Kings proceedings and were resolved to prosecute and maintaine his present Majesties Interest before and without acknowledgement of the sins of his house and former wayes and satisfaction to Gods people in both Kingdomes West Kirk 13. August 1650. A. Ker. Tho Henderson 13. August 1650. THe Committee of Estates having seen and considered a Declaration of the Commission of the Generall Assembly anent the stating of the Quarrell whereon the Army is to fight Do approve the same and heartily concur therein The Lord Generals Answer to the former as followeth I Received yours of the thirteenth instant with the paper you mentioned therein inclosed which I caused to be read in the presence of so many Officers as could well be gotten together to which your Trumpet can witness we returne you this Answer by which I hope in the Lord it will appear That we continue the same we have profest our selves to the honest people of Scotland wishing to them as to our own souls it being no part of our busines to hinder any of them from worshipping God in that way they are satisfied in their Consciences by the Word of God they ought though different from us but shall therein be ready to perform what obligations lie upon us by the Covenant but that under the pretence of the Covenant mistaken and wrested from the most native intent and equity thereof a King should be taken in by you to be imposed upon us and this called The Cause of God and the Kingdome and this done upon the satisfaction of Gods people in both Nations as is alleged together with a disowning of Malignants although he who is the head of them in whom all their hope of comfort lies be received who at this very instant hath a Popish party fighting for and under him in Ireland hath P. Rupert a man who hath had his hand deep in the blood of many innocent men of England now in the head of our Ships stoln from us upon a Malignant accompt hath the French and Irish ships daily making Depredations upon our Coasts strong combinations by the Malignants in England to raise Arms in our Bowels by vertue of his Commissions who having of late issued out very many to that purpose and how the interest you pretend you have received him upon and the Malignant interest in the ends and consequences entring in this man can be secured we cannot discern and how we should believe that whilst known and notorious Malignants

The Scottish King came hither on Munday the last of October new style and being demanded by his Mother and the Duke of Orleans how he escaped the Fight of Worcester gave them this account That about six a clock in the evening his Army being in all likelihood beaten he quitted Worcester Towne with a party of Horse and marched toward Lancashire but being fearfull of being pursued and likewise of some of the Scotish Officers that might deliver him up he with my Lord Wilmot quitted their Horses sent the party of Horse upon their march and betook themselves the second dayes march from Worcester into a Tree where they remained untill night and then marched on foot that night the third day they took sanctuary in a wood and night approaching marched on towards Lancashire where they were received by a Lady who furnished them with Cloaths for a Disguise and cut off their haire very short Having reposed two or three dayes the Lady resolved to endeavour to ship them out of England to which purpose she riding behind the King and Wilmot as another servant by they went to Bristoll but finding a narrow and hot inquiry there resolved to go for London where they stayed three weeks The King one day went into Westminster-Hall where he saith he saw the States-Arms and Scots Colours my Lord Wilmot procured a Merchant to hire a ship of forty Tuns to transport them which cost them a hundred and twenty pounds but where they took shipping is not yet knowne but as soon as my Lord was entred the Barque and the King as his servant the Master of the Vessel came to my Lord and told him That he knew the King and told him that in case it should be knowne he could expect no mercy which saying troubled them but at length what with money and promises they prevailed and so set faile for Havre de Grace where they landed and from thence to Roven where they cloathed themselves and writ to Paris His arrivall there will put them to new Counsels since now they cannot send their Embassadors which was concluded on before his coming The Duke of Orleans fetched him into Towne and expressed much as to serve him Yesterday he with Thurenne Beaufort the Duke of Guise came to him to the Louvre where the King told them that they should endeavour to reconcile the breach between the Prince and the King of France for said he to my knowledge the English will visit you with an Army in the Spring The Executing of the Earl of Darby at Bolton in Lancashire Octob. 15. 1651. The Isle of Jersey taken Octob. 30. Nov. 16. The Isle of Man taken Resol. That the time for the continuance of this Parliament beyond which they resolve not to sit shall be Nov. 3. 1654. The Parliament of the Common-wealth of England Declare 1 THat no Power Jurisdictions or Authority derived from by or under Charles Stewart who pretended himselfe King of Scotland or any of his Predecessors or any otherwise then from the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England be used exercised or enjoyned within Scotland or the Isles or any of their Territories thereof 2 That they doe forbid annull and make void the use and exercise of any Power Jurisdiction and Authority whatsoever within Scotland or the Isles or any of the Territories thereof other then such as shall be derived from the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England February 24. 1651. An Act of generall Pardon and Oblivion THe Parliament of England having had good experience of the affections of the people to this present Government by their ready assistance in the defence thereof against Charls Stuart Son of the late Tyrant and the forces lately Invading this Nation under his command and being much afflicted with the miserable and sad effects which the late unnaturall War hath produced and resolved next to the glory of God and the advancement of the Kingdome of Jesus Christ to make no other use of the many victories the Lord hath in mercy vouchsafed unto them then a just settling of the peace and freedome of this Common-wealth and being most desirous that the minds persons and estates of all the people of this Nation might be composed setled and secured and that all rancor and evill will occasioned by the late differences may be buryed in perpetuall Oblivion Be it enacted by this present Parliament and by authority of the same That all and every person or persons of or within the Common-wealth of England the Isles of Jersey and Gernsey and the Towne of Barwick upon Tweed and the heires executors and administrators of them and every of them and all and singular bodies in any manner incorporated Cities Burroughs Shires Ridings Hundreds Lathes Rapes Wapentakes Townes Villages Hamblets and Tithings and every of them are and shall be and are by the Authority of this Parliament acquitted Pardoned released and discharged as against the Parliament the keepers of the liberties of England by Authority of Parliament or any or other of them of all manner of Treasons Fellonies Offences Contempts Trespasses Entries Misdemeanors Forfeitures Sequestrations Penalties and sums of moneys pains of Death pains corporall or pecuniary and generally of all other things causes quarrels fines judgements and executions had made committed suffered or done before the third day of September 1651. not in this present Act hereafter not excepted nor foreprized And the said Keepers of the Liberties of England by the Authority of this present Parliament granteth and freely giveth acquitteth pardoneth releaseth and dischargeth to every of the persons and to every of the said Bodies corporate and others before rehearsed and to every of them all goods debts chattels fines issues profits Amercements forfeitures which to the said keepers of the liberties of England do or shal belong or appertain by reason of any offence contempt trespasse entery misdeameanors matter cause sequestration or quarrell had suffered done or committed by them or any of them before the said third day of September and which be not hereafter in this Act foreprized and excepted And it is further Enacted that this pardon by these generall words clauses and sentences before rehearsed shall be reputed deemed adjudged expounded allowed and taken in manner of Courts of Justice or else-where most beneficiall and available to all and singular the persons bodies corporate and others before rehearsed and to every of them And if any person or persons c. shall be in any wise arrested attached distrained summoned or otherwise vexed c. for or because any thing acquitted pardoned released or discharged by vertue of this Act that every person so offending and being thereof lawfully convicted by sufficient Testimony shall yeeld and pay for recompence to the party so grieved or offended thereby his or their treble dammages and forfeit ten pounds to the keepers of the Liberties of England Excepted and always foreprized out of this general free pardon all and all manner of High-treasons other then for words only and all Levying of war rebellions insurrections and all Conspiracies and Confederacies Traiterously had committed and done against the Parliament or the keepers of the Liberties of England either within or without the limits of this Common-wealth since the thirtieth day of January in the year of our Lord 1648. And all misprisions and concealements of the said offences or any of them or the abettimg ayding procuring of them or any of them And also excepted all manner of voluntary murthers petty treasons and wilfull poysoning all piracies and robberies upon the Seas and the Abettors thereof All buggeries rapes and ravishments and wilfull taking away and marrying of any maid widow or daughter against her will And also except all persons now attainted or outlawed of or for petty treason Murther or wilfull poysoning conjurations witchcrafts charmes wrongfull detainments of any the customes and all Sequestrations and sums of money due upon compositions excise or new-impost And also excepted all conditions and covenants and all penalties and forfeitures due to the Parliament or the late King since the 30. of January 1648. And also all first fruits and tythes and all offences and misdemeanours whereof any sentence or judgement hath been given in Parliament since the 30 of January 1648. And all offences of Bribery perjuries and subordination of witnesses counterfeiting deeds debenters bils of publick faith escripts or writings whatsoever and all offences touching the carrying sending or conveying over the Seas any gold silver Jewels or any coyne And all other offences in the unlawfull buying selling exchanging or melting downe of any Gold silver or Bullion or the transporting beyond the Seas of auy Guns shot or Gun-mettle And all offences in detaining or imbezling any the goods moneys or chattels of the late King and Queen And except all fines and amercements lost imposed or assessed And all offences committed by any Jesuite or Seminary priest contrary to the Statuts in that case Provided and except any outlawries upon any writ of Capias ad satisfaciendum and all except persons as were the 28●h of January 1651 in prison or otherwise constrained of liberty by immediate commandement warrant or direction of Parliament or Councell of State And also excepted all informations and proceedings concerning common high wayes and all forfeitures of any goods or merchandize prohibited to be exported or imported All-Fee-farme Rents Rents service Rents charge and Rents seck and all arrerages due since the 24th of June 1647. And all moneys imprested since the third of November 1638. Provided that all acts of Hostility and injuries whether between the late King and the Lords and Commons in Parliament or between any of the people of this Nation which did arise upon any Action Attempt Assistance Councel or Advice having relation to or falling out by reason of the late troubles that the same and whatsoever hath ensued thereon whether trenching upon the Lawes and Liberty of this Nation or upon the Honour and Authority of Parliament or to any particular person shall in no time after the 18th of June 1651 be called in question FINIS