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A43206	A chronicle of the late intestine war in the three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland with the intervening affairs of treaties and other occurrences relating thereunto : as also the several usurpations, forreign wars, differences and interests depending upon it, to the happy restitution of our sacred soveraign, K. Charles II : in four parts, viz. the commons war, democracie, protectorate, restitution / by James Heath ... ; to which is added a continuation to this present year 1675 : being a brief account of the most memorable transactions in England, Scotland and Ireland, and forreign parts / by J.P.	Heath, James, 1629-1664.; Phillips, John. A brief account of the most memorable transactions in England, Scotland and Ireland, and forein parts, from the year 1662 to the year 1675.	1676 (1676)	Wing H1321; ESTC R31529	921,693	648

Mr. Ansley walking afterwards into the Hall the House not being ready to sit to let the Members know that though they were repulsed by force on Saturday the House was open for honest men this day at his return Captain Lewson of Goff's Regiment as he confessed himself and other Officers denied him entrance he asking them whether they were a Committee to judge of Members without doors they said No but they were Commanded by their superiour Officers to let none in that had not sate till April 1653. After some reasoning the case with them the Captain told Mr. Ansley that if he would give his Parol to return without sitting he might go in and speak with whom he pleased so upon his Parol passed to the Captain he was permitted to go in the second time and soon after returned telling the Captain as he came out that he had kept his Parol and wished he and the Souldiers would do the like Mr. Pryn continued still there and resolved so to do since he saw there was Force again upon the House and had some discourse within doors and made them lose that Morning and adjourn by reason of his presence without the Speakers taking the Chair he attempted to sit again in the Afternoon but found there a Troop of Horse and two Companies of Red-coats Keepers of the Liberties of England and so bid them farewel immediately after which to prevent further interruption in their works of Darkness from Honest men they barred the Door against three parts of four of the Members of the House by the following Vote Ordered That such persons heretofore Members of this Parliament as have not sate in this Parliament since the year 1648. and have not subscribed the Engagement in the Roll of Engagement of this House shall not sit in this House till further order of the Parliament Whereupon Sir George Booth Mr. Ansley Mr. Knightly Mr. Pryn and the rest who had agreed on a Letter to be sent to them finding them in their old temper of trampling the priviledges of Parliament under foot and Judging without Hearing resolved to make no application to them Thus we saw to the vexation of the Kingdom the same pretended Parliament as was sitting in 1653. till the Protector Oliver by the best act of his life pull'd them out of the House sitting again upon a Declaration of the Army whose Slaves they were to do what they please as time discovered And that we might see they could trust few but themselves and were not changed for all their fained repentance they were already returned to the Good Old Cause of preferring one another and their Friends into good Offices and Commands and Counsellors places as appeared by their Vote of the 9th of May viz. The Parliament doth declare That all such as shall be employed in any place of Trust or Power in the Commonwealth be able for the discharge of such Trust and that they be persons fearing God and that have given testimony to all the people of God and of their faithfulness to this Commonwealth according to the Declaration of Parliament of the 7 th of May 1659. And such their proceedings thereupon that forthwith they chose of their own Members for a Council of State 21. viz. Sir Arthur Haslerig or the Bishop of Durham Sir Henry Vane Ludlow Io. Iones Sydenham Scot. Saloway Fleetwood Sir Iames Harrington Col. Walton Nevil Chaloner Downes Whitlock Herb. Morley Sidney Col. Thompson Col. Dixwel Mr. Reynolds Oliver St. Iohn Mr. Wallop Of Persons without the House 10. viz. Bradshaw Lambert Desborough Lord Fairfax Berry Sir Tho. Honeywood Sir Archi. Iohnson Iosiah Berners Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper a Gentleman too wise honest to sit in such company Sir Hor. Townsend a Gent. of too good an Estate to be hazarded with such a crew Next they discontinued the Term to the great damage and discontent of the people because many Suits were depending against Vane and Haslerig In fine what they were like to prove or what good rather what evil was dreaded and expected from them to an utter despair and enragement of the whole Nation did sufficiently appear from the esteem the people had of them in the Elections to the last Parliament wherein though none but persons well-affected to Parliaments had Votes and the persons now sitting laboured hard to be chosen very few of them were Elected the people generally looking upon them as apostates from the Good Old Cause and therefore no wonder they would have that Parliament to which onely they were chosen never dissolved Going about by the example of the Army whose Apes they were to cozen the people of their Religion Laws Liberties Parliaments and Money with a Rattle called the Good Old Cause which was a Cheat greater than any of the former Being thus reseated and having entred for qualitie though not for number worse if worse could be than when they were turned out before they fell as readily as if there had been no disaster on their power upon selling the remainder of the King's Lands as Hampton-court Somerset-house Greenwich c. All persons were commanded to quit White-hall whence the miserable Richard for whom the Army had conditioned for ten thousand per annum for his life c. in fear of Arrests had withdrawn himself into the Country Thither these his Masters sent to him a Committee for his submission and resignation to which they sweetned him with a kinde demand of his Debts of which by their Conditions they were tied to discharge him He at first answered not home to the Resignation but being urged for they knew his Title was as good as theirs to do it he in express terms added He had learnt not to be unquiet under Gods hand and should cause all persons relating to him to behave themselves peaceably under the Government from whom he expected Protection May 25. Then he gave them a Transcript of his Debts by the hands of his Steward and they thereupon took him off a debt of 29640 l. and gave him a Protection for six Months and together his dismission having taken and seized all the Plate Hoshould-stuff and other Utensils whatsoever in White-hall together with what Jewels they could finde into their possession and so exit Richard in such a pitiful regardless condition but by his Creditors that we shall hear but little of him further in this Chronicle They were next saluted with an Address from the Army in Scotland wherein they confessed and lamented their former miscarriages towards them but at the end thereof there was a hard word subjoyned That the defection was fomented and caused by some of themselves and this was afterwards construed as a bone of Contention and Jealousie thrown in amongst them At home the Judges Commissions being expired they appointed Serjeant Nudigate for the Kings-Bench Serjeant Atkins and Archer for the Common-Pleas and Serjeant Parker for the Exchequer where Wilde and Hill were afterwards placed and

subject discoursed of I must confess as Sir Walter Raleigh said Truth may be followed too neer both to persons time and place like Diana she must not be seen naked and prophaned by a full view and many are yet living who are very unwilling to hear their story I have therefore piously abstained without most just and notorious reasons from thrusting my Pen wilfully into such matter to the wounding of any mans Reputation considering what the same Satyrist wisely adventured Experiar quid concedatur in illis Quorum Flaminia tegitur cinis atque Latina As to Actions I have not indiligently traced and examined all relations of them but such is the variety thereof that I flatter not my self with the hopes of giving general satisfaction nor would my designe allow me to be copious or particular in every mans merit if I should have discharged that Debt of Glory I should have undone the Credit of this modest and plain-meaning History I have used for my better direction herein whatsoever Authentick accounts I could procure and particularly I am obliged to the Honourable Sir Lewis Dyve for his exact and elegant Narrative of the Irish War in 1649 under the conduct of the most noble the Duke of Ormond as also to several other Noble hands for divers small Pieces relating to this Work on whose difficult and perplexed Contexture I could otherwise neither safely nor fairly have adventured That is part of my defence for this undertaking for I suppose the honour of such Personages placed beyond the reach of Calumny and as to the rest which shews its Birth and Production by a distinct and discernible stile I can justly alledge the most known and approved Authorities and for the publication of it in this manner and at this time the fortune of a former Impression and importunity for this as the first Essay of this kinde in English that can lay claim to the prosperous veracity of the times The great wonder of our Revolutions is not yet over and the Vnderlings of the last Age who were born during the Rebellion as yet in a Maze and astonisht at the Event and Issue of our Troubles nor can be settled in that Allegiance which was a stranger to their Nativity That therefore such and future Posterity might be fully informed of the state and nature of the Quarrel and be more satisfied with their voluntary obedience to be improved now by this seasonable account of the dispute thereof through the last twenty years I have endeavoured a perfect Relation in this Series of the War and succeeding Affairs And I will here onely mention for the advice of future times and as a necessary Memento to the present what evils and mischiefs even to the brink of destruction the popular Cheats of Religion and Liberty have most terribly effected I will not instance the successful Artifices of the Vsurpers which wanted not any the smallest plausible ingredients till their Conspiracy came to a powerful consistency and was able to vindicate and intitle its Treason to the authority of the Law If this could have been foreseen or prevented there had scarce been twenty guilty persons in the Nation whereas a considerable number are now obnoxious to the Government upon the score of those prevailing and thriving Grandees who offered the World to their Adherers and gave them the unjust possession of their impious Conquest The whole Work is divided into four parts as well for the more distinct and clear perceivance of each form and shape of the Anarchy its interests and peculiar relative Affairs as for a rest and pause to the Reader who would otherwise be wearied with a hudled continuance of such Confusions I will adde no more for I think it unnecessary to engage further in the matter or anticipate the Contents of this Chronicle which name it onely pretends to as a Iournal or Day-book of Time but having once more requested the most favourable acceptance and censure thereof and that the Reader will please to measure the Failures and Errours of it by its abstruse obscure and intricate Conveyances which admitted of no certain full and infallible knowledge as agreed on by all hands the particulars claiming to the grand success and sum of every Action for their belief to bid him happily VALE Reader HAving promised a short Abstract of those vast sums of Money the Long Parliament and their continued Usurpation drained out of the Purses and Blood I may say of the English people I found in the Progress of the Account that it would exceed all Arithmetick and belief to the Reputation and Credit of History yet because I would not totally disappoint Posterity I will give them the Items and let their leisure and computation reckon the Sums if they can find numbers for it but I fear I shall not count half of them Imprimis The Corban of the Cause Publick Faith-money supplied with Composition-Money for Delinquents Estates which was finis principalis one of the first ends of the Work The Fees of the two Speakers and their Clerks of the Lords and Commons House of Parliament for Pardons of Delinquents is 35 l. for every man whose Estate is 100 l. per annum and upward Ten thousand men so compounding and paying amounts to 2000000 and is Twenty hundred thousand pounds being 200 Waggons loading of silver every Waggon loading being 10000 l. of silver Divide 10000 men in ten parts as thus One thousand men Delinquents whose Estates are betwixt one and 200 l. a year every man paying but 200 l. two years Revenue amounted to 200000 l. a year The second thousand men whose Estates are betwixt two and 300 l. a year paying two years Revenue comes to 400000 l. The third thousand of Compounders whose Estates are betwixt three and 400 l. a year and so paying amounts to 600000 l. The fourth thousand Compounders whose Estates are betwixt four and 500 l. a year pays 800000 l. The fifth thousand Compounders whose Estates are betwixt five and 600 l. a year pays 1000000 l. which is 300 Waggons loading of silver every Waggon loading being 10000 l. in silver The other five thousand Delinquents paying as the beforementioned five thousand Compounders amounts to 8000000 l. that is 800 Waggons of silver 10000 l. being a Waggons loading All which is a Mass of Money yet but a small sum to the moneys brought in as followeth First Head-money Secondly Plate lent upon the Propositions Thirdly Money raised for the Rebels Lands and Adventurers account Fourthly Money for the Weekly Meals for a Meal for one day in the week Fifthly Money lent upon Ordinances of Parliament Sixthly Fifty Subsidies Seventhly The Twenty and Twenty and Fifth part of Lands and Goods Eighthly Excise a Monster whose Receipt was like the Abyss Ninthly Customes Tenthly Sequestration of all the Delinquents Lands since the War began Eleventh the Kings Revenue and Committee-money Twelfth Money for Newcastle-coals Thirteen Money raised for his Excellency of House-keepers and some other

making him co-ordinate with his Parliament An impious Treasonable Tenet and the corrupt Founta●n and bitter source of all those undutiful and rebellious actions ●gainst that blessed Prince and since damn'd by a Parliament it self in those ●x●ress Epithets It therefor● the Indians do customarily every night with sorrowful Lamentations take le●ve of the Sun whom yet undoubtedly they expect in the Morning no wonder will it seem to posterity nor will these evidences of our consternation before recited be thought an hyperbolical strain if so disconsolately we saw our Sun pulled out of his Orb and darkned in the shadow of Death his Beams cut off and eloigned into obscure and remote corners from whence it was treason against these Princes of Darkness to return and with their hereditary successive influence to re-visit and revive the drooping dying hearts of a forlorn and deserted people Such was our condition in the deprivation and extinguishing of that lamp of life which supplied with so many vertues and graces rendred our Martyr'd Soveraign the most conspicuous of all Monarchs and might have prolonged his days to an extraordinary term so proportionate and fit had God and Nature made him to Eternity The same was our fearful case in the absence and exile of our present miraculously-restored Prince Charles the second whom yet wiser and kinder providence had secured in that cloud and by a timely rescue had in safety conveyed into Forrain Parts out of the reach of these Herods who would have stretched out their Hands also against his innocent and most precious Life Now when there was neither Sun Moon nor Stars the King murthered Regal Authority abolished the Heir excluded the House of Lords turned out of doors and the House of Commons turned into a Den of Thieves and packt Juncto and Conventicle of a most perdite sort of men did these Bats and Scritch-owls usurp the Dominiou of the night of our confusions and take upon them to Enact and give Laws suitable to their interests as rational as true which shewed they concerned the Law-givers not the receivers The first hoarse and ominous noise they made as a foundation and main principle of their wild Government was a fained note to catch the Vulgar and the mad rabble on whom they wholely depended and whom they were to flatter no force into slavery and servitude by the specious hopes of their arriving also in time to be Governours and States-men and to share in the honours and profits of their new Commonwealth This was concluded as is mentioned before in these few words viz. That all power and Authority is originally in the people And in order to that they now emitted a Tidy Act by way of a Proclamation which was with wonderful Expedition sounded all the Kingdom over in these or the like words That where as several pretences might be made to this Crown and Title to the Kingly Office set on foot to the apparent hazard of the publike Peace Be it Enacted and Ordained by this present Parliament and the Authority of the same that no Person whatsoever do presume to Proclaim declare publish or any ways to promote Charles Stuart Son of the said Charles late King of England commonly called Prince of Wales or any other person to be King on chief Magistrate of England or Ireland or of any Dominions belonging to them by colour of Inheritance Succession Election or any other claim whatsoever without the free consent of the People in Parliament first had or signified by a particular Act or Ordinance for that purpose any Law Statute Vsage or Custom to the contrary notwithstanding And whosoever shall contrary to this Act Proclaim or cause to be Proclaimed c. shall be deemed and adjudged a Traytor and suffer accordingly So did they contrive and imagine to obstruct and bar the way to the Throne which themselves had Invaded and parted into shares but such monstrous wickedness boyling up to an excess of malice towards the dead and living Proprietors of the Crown was not suffered to pass without an allay and cooler in a Printed Proclamation thrown about streets letting them see the people would not run a gadding after their Calves at Bethel as they would have fancied to themselves but would keep in the old path and beaten track of Government in the succession of Charles the second to the Majesty of England Which Proclamation was as followeth We the Noblemen Iudges Knights Lawyers Gentlemen Ministers Freeholders Merchants Citizens c. and other Free-men of England do according to our Allegiance and Covenant by these Presents heartily joyfully and unanimously acknowledge and Proclaim the Illustrious Charles Prince of Wales next Heir of the Blood Royal to his Blessed Father King Charles whose late wicked and Trayterous Murder we do from our so●ts abominate and all parties and consenters thereunto to be by Hereditary Birth-right and Lawful Succession rightful and undoubted King of Great Britain France and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging And that we will faithfully constantly and sincerely in our several places and callings defend and maintain his Royal Person Crown and Dignity with our Blates Lives and last drop of our Blood against all Opposers thereof whom we do hereby declare to be Traytors and Enemies to his Majesty and his Kingdoms In Testimony whereof we have ordered and caused these to be published and Proclaimed throughout all Countries and Corporations of this Realm the first day of February and the first year of his Majesties Raign God save King Charles the second This without any solemnity or indeed open appearance met with the chearful reception and inward Loyal resolutions as if vent had been given to a publike manifestation of Duty and Joy upon his Majesties present accession to the Crown for it revived the Hearts of mourning and disconsolate Subjects to see the sure and certain Succession thereof to be continued in the same most beloved name the Eldest Branch and descendant of their Martyr'd Soveraign in whose ruines the Regicides thought to have raked up and buried all the claims and just Titles to this Impartial Diadem In tendency whereunto they first considered how to keep the honest Members the Army had Secluded from entring in again that they might not have too many partakers in the spoil of the Kingdoms and therefore another Legislative by-blow was Enacted That all those Members that had assented to the Vote of the 5 of December concerning the Kings Concessions should never be re-admitted and such as Voted in the Negative should presently enter their said dissent or before they were to be admitted And this characteristical discrimination they most punctually insisted on to the very last as the main Pillar of their Oligarchy and we shall see this difference hardly laboured throughout their Usurpation On the 5 of February they fell again upon the standing remains of the dissolved Government the Peerage and Nobility of the Kingdom whose medling in

it also is to all considering persons that this Parliament through the corruption of some the jealousie of others the non-attendance and negligence of many would never answer those ends which God his People and the whole Nation expected from them but that this Cause which the Lord hath so greately blessed and bore witness to must needs languish under their Hands and by degrees be wholly lost and the Lives Liberties and Comforts of his people delivered into their Enemies hands All which being sadly and seriously considered by the honest people of this Nation as well as by the Army and Wisdome and Direction being sought from the Lord it seemed to be a duty incumbent upon us who had seen so much of the power and presence of God going along with us to consider of some more effectual means to secure the Cause which the good people of this Commonwealth had been so long engaged in and to establish Righteousness and Peace in these Nations And after much debate it was judged necessary and agreed upon that the Supream Authority should be by the Parliament devolved upon known persons men fearing God and of approved Integrity and the Government of the Commonwealth committed unto them for a time as the most hopeful way to encourage and countenance all Gods people reform the Law and administer Iustice impartially hoping thereby the people might forget Monarchy and understanding their true Interest in the Election of successive Parliaments may have the Government setled upon a true Basis without hazard to this glorious Cause or necessitating to keep up Armies for the defence of the same And being still resolved to use all means possible to avoid extraordinary courses we prevailed with about twenty Members of Parliament to give us a Conference with whom we freely and plainly debated the necessity and justness of our Proposals on that behalf and did evidence that those and not the Act under their Consideration would most probably bring forth something answerable to that Work the foundation whereof God himself hath laid and is now carrying on in the World The which notwithstanding found no acceptance but in stead thereof it was offered that the way was to continue still this present Parliament as being that from which we might reasonably expect all good things And this being vehemently insisted upon did much confirm us in our apprehensions That not any love to a Representative but the making use thereof to recruit and so to perpetuate themselves was their aim They being plainly dealt with about this and told that neither the Nation the honest Interest nor we our selves would be deluded by such dealings They did agree to meet again the next day in the Afternoon for mutual satisfaction it being consented to by the Members present that Endeavours should be used that nothing in the mean time should be done in Parliament that might exclude or frustrate the Proposals before-mentioned Notwithstanding this the next Morning the Parliament did make more hast than usual in carrying on their said Act being helped on therein by some of the persons engaged to us the night before none of them which were then present endeavouring to oppose the same and being ready to put the main Question for consummating the said Act whereby our aforesaid Proposals would have been rendered void and the way of bringing them into a fair and full Debate in Parliament obstructed For preventing whereof and all the sad and evil consequences which must upon the grounds aforesaid have ensued and whereby at one blow the Interest of all honest men and of this glorious Cause had been endangered to be laid in the Dust and these Nations embroyled in new Troubles at a time when our Enemies abroad are watching all advantages against us and some of them actually engaged in War with us We have been necessitated though with much reluctancy to put an end to this Parliament which yet we have done we hope out of an honest heart preferring this Cause above our Names Lives Families or Interests how dear soever with clear intentions and real purposes of heart to call to the Government persons of approved fidelity and honesty believing that as none wise will expect to gather Grapes of Thornes so good men will hope that if persons so qualified be chosen the fruits of a just and righteous Reformation so long prayed and wished for will by the blessing of God be in due time obtained to the refreshing of all those good hearts who have been panting after these things Much more might have been said if it had been our desire to justifie our selves by aspersing others and raking into the Mis-government of affairs but we shall conclude with this That as we have been led by Necessity and Providence to act as we have done even beyond and above our own thoughts and desires so we shall and do in that of this great Work which is behinde put our selves wholly upon the Lord for a Blessing professing we look not to stand one day without his support much less to bring to pass any of the things mentioned and desired without his assistance And therefore do solemnly desire and expect that all men as they would not provoke the Lord to their own destruction should wait for such issue as he shall bring forth and to follow their business with peaceable spirits wherein we promise them protection by his assistance And for those who profess their fear and love to the Name of God that seeing in a great measure for their sakes and for Righteousness sake we have taken our Lives in our hand to do these things they would be instant with the Lord day and night on our behalfs that we may obtain Grace from him And seeing we have made so often mention of his Name that we may not do the least dishonour thereunto which indeed would be our confusion and a stain to the whole profession of Godliness We beseech them also to live in all Humility Meekness Righteousness and Love one towards another and towards all men that so they may put to silence the Ignorance of the Foolish who falsly accuse them and to know that the late great and Glorious Dispensations wherein the Lord hath so wonderfully appeared in bringing forth these things by the travel and Blood of his Children ought to oblige them so to walk in the Wisdom and love of Christ as may cause others to honour their holy Profession because they see Christ to be in them of a truth We do further purpose before it be long more particularly to shew the grounds of our Proceedings and the Reasons of this late great Action and Change which in this we have but hinted at And we do lastly Declare That all Iudges Sheriffs Iustices of Peace Mayors Bayliffs Committees and all other Civil Officers and Publick Ministers whatsoever within this Commonwealth or any parts thereof do proceed in their respective Places and Offices and all persons whatsoever are to give Obedience to