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A64894	Former ages never heard of, and after ages will admire, or, A brief review of the most materiall parliamentary transactions, beginning, Nov. 3, 1640 wherein the remarkable passages both of their civil and martial affaires, are continued unto this present year 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 : for information of such as are altogether ignorant of the rise and progresse of these times : a work worthy to be kept in record, and communicated to posterity.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.; Jenner, Thomas, fl. 1631-1656.	1654 (1654)	Wing V305; ESTC R2983	53,959	61

to the answers which the said Charls Stuart shall make to the premisses or any Charge that shall be so exhibited doth for the said Treasons and Crimes on the behalfe of the said people of Engl impeach the said Charls Stuart as a Tyrant Traytor Murtherer and a publick and implacable enemy to the Common-wealth of England and pray That the said Charls Stuart King of England may be put to answer all and every the premisses that such Proceedings Examinations Tryals Sentence and Judgement may be thereupon had as shall be agreeable to Justice The Kings Speech made upon the Scaffold at White-Hall Jan. 30. 1648. I Shall be very little heard of any body here I shall therefore speak a word unto you here indeed I could hold my peace very well if I did not think that holding my peace would make som men think that I did submit to the guilt as well as to the punishment but I think it is my duty to God first and to my Countrey for to clear my self both as an honest man and a good Christian I shall begin first with my innocency in troth I think it not very needfull for me to insist long upon this for all the world knowes I never did begin a War with the two Houses of Parliament and I call God to witnesse to whom I must shortly make an account that I never did intend for to incroach upon their priviledges they began upon me it was the Militia they began upon they confest that the Militia was mine but they thought it fit for to have it from me and to be short if any body will look to the dates of Commissions both theirs and mine and likewise to the Declarations will see cleerly 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 Parl. there is no necessity of either I hope they are free of this guilt for I doe beleeve that ill instruments between them and me ha's been the cause of all this bloodshed so that by way of speaking as I find my selfe 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 Juckson 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 knowes I doe not desire to know I pray God forgive them But this is not all my charity must goe further I wish that they may repent for indeed they have committed a great sin in that particular I pray God with Saint 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 doe wish with all my soule and I doe hope there is some here will carry it further that they may endeavour the peace of the Kingdome 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 goe beyond it that makes it unjust at the end that was just at first But if it be onely 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 doe think the way you are in is much out of the way Now Sir for to put you in the way believe 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 cleerly heard For the King indeed I will not the Lawes of the Land will cleerly instruct you for that therefore because it concernes my owne 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 until they doe that I mean that you doe 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 In troth Sirs I shall not trouble you much longer for I will onely say this to you that in truth 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 Biship of London minding him to say somthing concerning his Religion King I thank you very heartily my Lord for that I had almost forgotten it In troth 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 thinke will witnesse it

Then turning to the Officers said Sirr 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 doe not put me to paine 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 Dr Iuxon for his night cap and having put it on he said to the Executioner does my haire 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 Juxon said I have a good Cause and a gracious God on my side Dr Jaxon There is but one stage more this stage is turbulent and troublesome it is a short one but you may consider it will soone carry you a very great way from Earth to Heaven and there you shall find a great deale of cordiall joy and comfort King I goe from a corruptible to an incorruptible Crown where no disturbanc 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. Juckson 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 blocke after a very little pause stretched forth his hands the executioner at one blow severed his head from his Body his Body was put in a Coffin covered with black Velvet and removed to his Lodging Chamber at White-Hall An Act prohibiting the Proclaiming of any person to be King of England c. VVHereas Charls Stuart King of England being for the notorious Treasons Tyrannies and Murthers committed by him in the late unnaturall and civill Wars condemned to death whereupon after execution of the same severall pretences may be made and Title set on foote unto the Kingly Office to the apparent hazzard of the Publick Peace For the prevention thereof Be it Enacted and Ordained by this present Parliament and by the Authority of the same That no person or persons whatsoever doe presume to Proclaime Declare Publish or any way promote Charls Stuart Son of the said Charls commonly called Prince of Wales or any other person to be King or chief Magistrate of England or of Ireland or of any the Dominions belonging to them or any of them by colour of Inheritance Succession Election or any other claim whatsoever without the free consent of the people in Parliam first had and signified by a particular Act or Ordinance for that purpose any Law Statute Vsage or Custome to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Enacted and Ordained and it is hereby Enacted and Ordained that whosoever shall contrary to this Act Proclaim Declare Publish or any way promote the said Charls-Stuart the Son or any other person to be King or chief Magistrate of England or of Ireland or of any the Dominions belonging to them or to either of them without the said consent in Parliament signified as aforesaid shall be deemed and adjudged a Traytor to the Common-wealth and shall suffer the pains of death and such other punishments as belong to the Crime of High Treason And all Officers as well Civill as Military and all other well-affected persons are hereby authorized and required forthwith to apprehend all such Offenders and to bring them in safe custody to the next Justice of the Peace that they be proceeded against accordingly H. Scobel Cler. Parl. D. Com. Dk. Hambleton E of Cambridg E of Holland and Lord Capell be headed Mar 9. 1649 And their speeches on the scaffold The Speech of Duke Hamilton Earl of Cambridge on the Scaffold in the Pallace yard the ninth of March 1649. I Think it is truly not very necessary for me to speak much there are many Gentlemen and Souldiers there that see me but my voyce truly is so weak so low that they cannot hear me neither truly was I ever at any time so much in love with speaking or with any thing I had to expresse that I took delight in it yet this being the last time that I am to doe so by a Divine providence of Almighty God who hath brought me to this end justly for my sins I shall to you Sir Master Sheriff declare thus much as to the matter that I am now to suffer for which is as being a Traytor to the Kingdome of England Truly Sir it was a Countrey that I equally loved with my owne I made no difference I never intended either the generality of its prejudice or any particular mans in it what I did was by the Command of the Parliament of the Countrey where I was borne whose Command I could not disobey without running into the same hazard there of that condition that I now am in It pleased God so to dispose that Army under my Command as it was ruined and I as their Generall cloathed with a Commission stand here now ready to dye I shall not trouble you with repeating of my Plea what I said in my owne Defence at the Court of Justice my self being satisfied with the Command that is laid upon me and they satisfied with the justnesse of their procedure according to the Lawes of this Land God is just and howsoever I shall not say any thing as to the matter of the Sentence but that I doe willingly submit to his Divine providence and acknowledge that very many wayes I deserve even a worldly punishment as well as hereafter for we are all sinfull Sir and I a great one yet for my comfort I know there is a God in Heaven that is exceeding mercifull I know my Redeemer fits at his right hand and am confident clapping his hand on his brest is mediating for me at this instant I am hopefull thro his free grace and all-sufficient merits to be pardoned of my sins and to be received into his mercy upon that I rely trusting to nothing but the free grace of God through Jesus Christ I have not been tainted in my Religion I thank God for it since my infancy it hath been such as hath been profest in the Land and established and now it is not this Religion or that Religion nor this or that fancy of men that is to be built upon it is but one that 's right one that 's sure and that comes from God Sir and in the free grace of our Saviour Sir there is truly somewhat that he then observing the Writers had I thought my Speech would have been thus taken I would have digested it into some better method then now I can and shall desire these Gentlemen that doe write it that they will not wrong me in it and

which hath been in a good Family that hath been ever faithfull to the true Protestant Religion in the which I have been bred in the which I have lived and in the which by Gods grace and mercy I shall dye I have not lived according to that Education I had in that Family where I was borne and bred I hope God will forgive me my sins since I conceive that it is very much his pleasure to bring me to this place for the sins that I have committed The cause that hath brought me hither I believe by many hath been much mistaken They have conceived that I have had ill designs to the State and to the Kingdome truly I look upon it as a judgement and a just judgement of God not but I have offended so much the State and the Kingdome and the Parliament as that I have had an extream vanity in serving them very extraordinarily For those actions that I have done I think it is knowne they have been ever faithfull to the publick and very particularly to Parliam my affections have been ever exprest truly and cleerly to them The dispositions of affaires now have put things in another posture then they were when I was ingaged with the Parl. I have never gone off from those principles that ever I have profest I have lived in them and by Gods grace will I dye in them There may be alterations and changes that may carry them further then I thought reasonable and there I left them But there hath been nothing that I have said or done or professed either by Covenant or Declaration which hath not been very constant and very clear upon the Principles that I ever have gone upon which was to serve the King the Parl. Religion I should have said in the first place the Common-wealth and to seeke the peace of the Kingdome That made me think it no improper time being prest out by accidents and circumstances to seek the peace of the Kingdom 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 affaires 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 judgment 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 Kingdom 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 againe 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 amongst 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 Kingdome 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 business 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 Soules 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 breed in what Religion I have been born in what Religion I have practiced 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 faithfullnesse to this Kingdome and to this State I have endeavoured to doe those actions that have become an honest man and which became a good English-man 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 finde 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 think 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 hee will make it but a passage to an eternall life through Jesus Christ which I trust to which I relye 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 good space of time God hath given me speaking to Mr. Bolton long time in this world he hath carried me through many great accidents of Fortune he hath at last brought me downe into a condition where I find my selfe brought to an end for a dis-affection to this State to this Parl. 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

most willingly humble my selfe then kneeling down said I will try first how I can lye and laying his head over the block said Am I well now Execut. Yes And then as he lay with both his hands stretched out he said to the Executioner Here lye both my hands out when I lift up my hand thus then you may strike And then after he had said a short prayer he lifted up his right hand and the Executioner at one blow severed his head from his body which was taken up by his Servants and put with his Body into a Coffin as the former March 19. 1648. An Act for Abolishing the House of Peers THe Commons of England Assembled in Parl finding by too long experience that the House of Lords is uselesse and dangerous to the people of England to be continued have thought fit to Ordain and Enact and be it Ordained and Enacted by the present Parliam and by the Authority of the same That from henceforth the House of Lords in Par. shall be and is hereby wholly abolished and taken away and that the Lords shall not from henceforth meet or 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 Lds in Parl. 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 shall continue so shall not be excluded from the Publick Councels of the Nation but shall be admitted thereunto and have their free Vote in Parl 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 sitting in Parl. as aforesaid shall claim have or make use of any Priviledge of Parl. either in relation to his Person Quality or Estate any Law Vsage or Custome to the contrary notwithstanding Hen Scobel Cler Parl. On Thursday July 25. 1650. The General 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 Capt. Ogles Troop being sent back into Northumberland in regard of his interest in that County that Cap. Greenwoods Troop appointed for Berwick should March with the Regiment in the stead thereof which gave great satisfaction Col. Bright's Regiment being drawn up Maj. Gen. Lambert appointed Collonel 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 Lord Gen Cromwell into Scotland Eight Regiments of Horse THe Lord 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. Lilburn in number 663 Col. Hackers in number 663 Col. Okey in number 744 Consisting with Officers in all 5450 Ten Regiments of Foot THe Lord 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 Arthur Hasterigs 5 Companies 550 Col. Fenwicks 5 Companies 555 Consisting with Officers in all 10249 The Traine 690 The whole thus The Traine 690 The Horse 5450 The Foot 10249 The Totall 16354 A Letter from Liev Gen David Lesley to the Lord Gen Cromwell My Lord I Am Commanded by the Committee of Estates of this Kingdome 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 Quarrell 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 doe desire that this Declaration may be made known to all the Officers of your Army And so I rest Bruchton 13 Aug. 1650. Your Excell most humble Servant DAVID LESLEY For his Excellency the Lord Generall Cromwell 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 doe 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 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 disclaimes his and his Fathers opposition to the work of God and to the Coven and likewise all the Enemies thereof And that they will with convenient speed take into consideration the Papers lately sent unto then from Oliver Cromwel and vindicate themselves from all the fa●shoods 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 Aug. 13 1650. A. Ker. August 13. 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 Doe approve the same and heartily concur therein Tho Henderson The Lord Generalls 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 witnesse 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 business to hinder any of them from worshiping 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 lye 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

they cannot desire their own security without hazzard to his Excellency c. Concerning the abuse to divers well affected to the Army by imprisonment to the ruine of their estates and losse of their lives And for their candid intentions and endeavours declared no lesse then troublers and enemies to the state and Kingdome resolving rather to dye like men then to be enflaved and hanged like dogs c. A Letter from his Excellency to the Earl of Manchester concerning the Votes of both Houses as also his grief of heart for the distractions between the Parliam and the Army defiring that all things may be determined in love c. June 1647. The King taken from Holmby and carried along with the Army the House ordered that the King should reside at Richmond but the next day from the General and Councel of Officers was brought an Impeachment against eleven Members A particular Charge against the 11 Members impeached by the Army 1 THat Mr. Denzil Hollis being one of the special Commission for the Parl. to present Propositions to the King at Oxford made private addresses to the Kings party then in Arms against the Parl. and did secretly plot and advise them against the Parl. c. 2 That the said Mr. Denzil Hollis and Sir Phillip Stapleton during the late war when the Earl of Lindsey went from the Tower to Oxford sent severall Messages to the Earl of Dorset c. 3 That the said Mr. Hollis Sir Phillip Stapleton Sir Will. Lewis Sir John Clotworthy Sir Wil Waller Sir John Maynard Maj. Gen. Massie Mr. Glyn Mr. Long Col. Edward Harley and Anthony Nicholas in the months of March April May and Iune last in prosecution of their evill designes met in divers places with persons disaffected to the State for holding correspondency wth the Queen of England now in France and incouraged her party there 4 And indeavoured to bring in Forraign Forces and Listed divers Commanders and Souldiers there to raise and levy a new War 5 and affronted divers Petitioners that came in a peaceable manner boysterously assaulting them c. 6 Imprisoned some Members of the Army to dis-oblige them from the Parl. The solemn Engagement of the Citizens Commanders Officers and Souldiers c. This was the Treasonable Ingagement WE do solemnly Engage our selves and Vow unto Almighty God That we will to the utmost of our power cordially endeavour that his Majesty may speedily come to his Houses of Parliament with honour safety and freedome and that without the nearer approach of the Army there to confirm such things as he hath granted the twelfth of May last in answer to the Propositions of both Kingdomes and that with a personall Treaty with his two Houses of Parl. and the Commissioners of Scotland such things as are yet in difference may be speedily setled and a firme and lasting peace established The Army marching towards the City Orders were given to the trained Bands to go to the Workes The Auxilaries are raised to defend the City A Proclamation by beat of drum for all that are able to beare Armes and are not listed to come to receive them The House of Commons and the Lords likewise met according to the order of adjournment July 30. but nether of the Speakers At length they proceeded to a new election and Voted Master Pelham a Counsellour and Member of the Commons House Speaker pro tempore The Lords made choice of the Lord Grey to be Speaker of their House pro tempore The Sargeant at Arms being absent with the Mace when the Commons chose their Speaker had the City Mace and chose Master Norfolk Sergeant at Arms After which proceeding to debate the greate affairs touching the City and Kingdom they voted as followes 1 That the King come to London 2 That the Militia of the City shall have full power to raise what Forces they shall think fit to the same 3 That they may make choyce of a Commander in chief to be approved of by the House and such Commander to present other Officers to be approved of by the Militia The Common councel made choice of Major Gen. Massey to Command in chief all the City Forces Ordered by the Militia that all Reformadoes and other Officers should the next day at two of the clock be listed in St. Iameses fields where was a great appearance Order given for slaying of Horses in the City and many listed Most of the eleven Members sat in the House and in the afternoon Maj. Gen. Massey Sir William Waller and Col. Gen. Poyntz were at listing the Reformadoes Declaration of the Lord Major Aldermen and Common Councel A brief of which that his Majesty was surprized at Holmby and no place for his Majesties residence allowed by the Army nearer then their Quarters therefore to settle peace and establish true Religion ease the Kingdomes burdens establish his Majesties just rights maintain the Parl. priviledges and relieving Ireland they professe the main of their enterprise c. At which time Col. Gen. Poyntzs and other Officers of the new List attending for their Orders upon the Militia came into Guild-hall-yard and most cruelly hackt and hew'd many of the aforesaid Petitioners divers whereof were mortally wounded whereof some since dyed Lord Say Lord Magresie and others with many of the House of Commons came to the Head quarters desiring the Generals protection Six Aldermen and twelve Common-councel men sent with a letter to the Gen declaring their unwillingnesse to a new War A letter from Southwarke relating their withstanding the design of raising a new War desiring protection Massey sends Scouts but neer Brainford thirty chased by ten and took four of Massies Col. Rainsborough Col. Hewson Col. Pride and Col Thistlwet marched into Southwarke the Fort yielded without opposition The Memberr forced away returne the Houses being sat with their old Speakers Thomas Lord Fairfax made High Constable of the Tower He marches through the City from 11 untill 8 at night A Letter from Liev Gen Cromwel that his Majesty had withdrawn himselfe at 9 the last night His Majesties last Letter Hampton-Court Nov. 11. 1645. LIberty being that which in all times hath been but especially now is the condition the aime and desire of all men common reason shews that Kings lesse then any should endure captivity yet I call God to witnes with what patience I have endur'd a tedious restraint which so long as I had any hopes that this sort of my suffering might conduce to the peace of these three Kingdomes or the hindring of more effusion of blood I did willingly undergo but now finding by too certain proofs that this my continued patience would not only turn to my personall ruine but likewise be of much more prejudice to the furtherance of the publick good I thought I was bound as well by naturall as politicall Obligations to seek my safety by retiring my selfe for some time from publick view both of my friends and enemies and I appeal

to all indifferent men to judge if I have not cause to free my selfe from the hands of those who change their principles with their condition and who are not ashamed openly to intend the destruction of the Nobility by taking away their Negative voyce and with whom the Levellers doctrine is rather countenanced then punished and as for their intentions to my person their changing and putting more strict Guards upon me with the discharging most of all the servants of mine who formerly they admitted to wait upon me do sufficiently declare nor would I have this my retirement mis-interpreted for I shall earnestly and uncessantly endeavour the setling of a safe well grounded peace where-ever I am or shall be and that as much as may be without the effusion of more Christian blood for which how many times have I prest to be heard and yet no ear given to me and can any reasonable man think according to the ordinary cours of affairs there can be a setled peace without it or that God will bles those that refuse to hear their own King surely no I must further add that besides what concerns my self unlesse all other chief interests have not only a hearing but likewise just satisfaction given to them to wit the Presbyterians Independents Army those who have adhered to me and even the Scots I say there cannot I speak not of miracles it being in my opinion a sinful presumption in such cases to expect or trust to them be a safe and lasting peace now as I cannot deny but that my personal security is the urgent cause of this my retirement so I take God to witnesse the publick peace is no lesse before mine eyes and I can find no better way to expresse this my profession I know not what a wiser man may do then by desiring and urging that al chief interests may be heard to the end each may have just satisfaction as for example the Army for the rest though necessary yet I suppose are not difficult to consent ought in my judgement to enjoy the liberty of their conscience and have an Act of Oblivion or Indempnity which should extend to the rest of all my subjects and that all their arrears should be speedily and duly paid which I will undertake to do so I may be heard and that I be not hindred from using such lawfull and honest means as I shall chuse To conclude let me be heard with freedome hono●r and safety and I shall instantly break through this cloud of Retirement and shall shew my self to be Pater Patriae C. R. A great tumult insurrection and mutiny in London breaking open divers Houses and Magazines of Arms and Ammunition seizing on the D●●ms Gates Chains and Watches of the C●●y assaulted shot into the Lord Mayors House and killed one of his Guard c. May 16. 1648. Surrey Petitioners came to Westminster and made a great shout and cryed Hey for King Charls we will pull the Members out by the Ears disarmed two Sentinels knockt them down one Sentinell refusing to be disarmed the Petitioners got within his Arms one of them drew his sword and run him through and the Petitioners drew their swords and said Fall on for King Charls now or never but a party of 500 Foot did take some Of the Petitioners were slain four or five of the Souldiers two The old Lord Goring proclaimed Generall at the head of the Kentish Army upon the Hill neer Aluford consisting of 8000 besides those in Maidstone there were near 300 slain and about 2300 prisoners many of them taken in the Woods Hop-yards and fields also Gentlemen of good quality There were about 500 Horse 3000 Arms 9 Foot colours and 8 pieces of Canon with store of Ammunition taken their Word at the Engagement was King and Kent ours Truth They being routed marched over Rochester Bridge towards Black-Heath with about 3000 Horse and Foot most Cavaleers Prentises and Watermen and fled over the water into Essex by Woollidge and Greenwich The Duke of Buckingham Lord Francis Earl of Holland Lord Andrew Lord Cambden and others rose in Surrey and made Proclamation that they expected the Parl. would settle the Kingdome but because they have not they would fetch the King and live and dye with him to settle it July 11. 1648. Pembroke Castle surrendred 〈◊〉 Scots Army of 21000. Invaded England Duke ●ambletons Standard had Motto Date Cefari Foot Standard 〈◊〉 Covenant Religion King and Kingdomes Riseing in Kent Revolting of the Navie Redusing Colchester And Quelling the insurection in Pembroke Shire all in 1648 The Scots entring the Kingdome July 11. 1648. Maj. Gen. Lambert sent this Letter to Duke Hamilton MY LORD HAving received Information that some Forces of Horse and Foot are marched out of Scotland into this Kingdome under your Excellencies Command I have sent this Bearer unto you desiring to know the truth and intent thereof and whether they are come in opposition to the Forces in these parts raised by the Authority of the Parl. of England and now in prosecution of their Commands I desire your Lordships speedy answer and rest Your Excellencies humble Servant J. LAMBERT Duke Hamilton's Answer Noble Sir I Received yours of the 11 of this instant in answer whereunto I shall only say the information you received is true for according to the Commands of the Committee of Estates of the Parl. of Scotland there are Forces both of Horse and Foot come into this Kingdome under my conduct for prosecution of the ends mentioned in my Letter of the 6th to which I refer you intending to oppose any that are or shall be in Arms for the obstructing of those pious loyall and just ends and so remain HAMBLETON The Towne of Colchester delivered up Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle shot to death Liev Col Lilburn revolted at Newcastle declared for the King Sir Arthur Hasterigge storm'd the Castle Lilburns head was set upon a pole June 5. 1648. The Lord of Warwick went to Portsmouth to bring into obedience the mutinous Sea-men there was with the Lord of Warwick the Phoenix Mary Rese Robert Nonesuch Lilly Lyon Bonadventure Antilope Swift sure Hector and Fellowship A short Abridgment of the Engagement made by the Common Councell Commanders Souldiers and Commission Officers in London WE declare to engage as much as in us lies to defend the King and Parl from all violence and to the end we may be inabled to perform the same We humbly offer that the Forces in the line may be one Militia and no Forces may be raised but by Authority of the said Militia by consent of the Common Councell We desire no Forces in Arms might come within thirty miles of London during the Treaty and for those within what persons soever shall make any tumult shall be put to death Ordered That the Common Councell men and Commanders shall within their severall Precincts goe from house to house to receive concurrence to the said