things were as they were and as it seems could be no better Whether all good People in these Nations have not great cause exceedingly to blesse and praise the Lord though they owe little to the Instrument who Ashur-like had other ends that the late Parliament so called was dissolved who were many of them such Mercenary Sallary and self-interested men as in all probability had they continued much longer would have over-voted the Lovers of Freedom and so have perfected their Instrument of Bondage and rivetted it on the Necks of the good People for ever by a Law and thereby made them Vassals and Slaves perpetually But hitherto the Lord hath in a great measure frustrated their wicked Device blessed be his holy Name Sixthly Whether the Protector so called be not a great destroyer of the Rights and Liberties of the English Nation For hath he not in grossed the whole power of the Militia into his own hand The Right also of Property Power of judging all matters of the highest and greatest Concernment And doth he not take on him to be sole Judge of Peace and War of Calling and Dissolving Parliaments Raising Money without Consent in Parliament Imprisoning persons without due form of Law and keeping them in Durance at pleasure using the Militia in his own hand against the good People in these fore-named things and aginst their Representers in Parliamenr Seventhly Whether the Protector and the Great men his Confederates be not rather to be termed Fannattick Whimsicall and Sickbrain'd then those who remaining firm to and being more refined in their former good and honest Principles and will upon no account be drawn to desert the good Old Cause they account and call so And whether this unsettlednesse in their Government and changing both it and their Principles in so short a time and going so diametrically contrary to their former honest Protestations Declarations Sermons and Actings doth not in the view of all the world Declare them so to be Eighthly Whether the Protector so called be not that himself which he untruly charged upon the Members turned out of the Little Parliament so called viz. A destroyer of Magistracy and Ministery Of Magistracy in breaking four Parliaments in five Years and pulling up by the roots what in him lieth the very Basis and Foundation of all just Power to wit the Interest of the good People of this Commonwealth making himself and his own Will and Lust the Basis and Foundation thereof And doth he not at his pleasure suppresse and destroy all Military and Civill Power and Governours that submit not thereunto Is he not likewise a great destroyer of Ministery in taking from them their Religious or Divine Capacities putting them into that of Lay or Common and accordingly in a professed way preferring them to places of Advantage by the Tryers Ninthly Whether the Protector be so wise and understanding so tender and carefull of the Common Interest as is pretended to above all others whatsover yea above and beyond the four Parliaments he hath dissolved And may it not be enquired how he came to this great height of Knowledge and absolute understanding seeing there are very many worthy Patriots sometimes his Equals at least of as high a Descent of as good breeding of as great Parts of as fair an Interest as also as well versed in Government as himself Whether it may not be wondred at that he should be so exceeding wise and tender above all even above Parliaments themselves Tenthly Whether Sir Henry Vane Major Generall Harrison the late President Bradshaw Sir Arthur Haslerigg Lieutenant Generall Ludlow with hundreds more of worthy Patriots that have ventured far in their Countreys Cause for Justice and Freedom may not rationally be thought to be as carefull and tender of the good of their Countrey as the Protector Eleventhly Whether it doth not rankly savour of high Pride and Arrogancy in the Protector so called to set up his Sense and Judgement as the standard for the whole Nation even Parliaments themselves And whether thus to do be not the sad fruit of Enthusaisme one of the great Errours of this day and time Twelfthly Whether the Potector being so highly conceited of his own understanding so changeable and uncertain in his Principles and Resolutions so given up to his Passion and Anger as against all Advice and Counsel in a condition near unto Madnesse to swear by the living God he would Dissolve the late Parliament and accordingly did so though the doing of it tended to the hazard of the Common-wealth Whether he according to Reason can be thought a person capable and fit to Rule and Governe this so Great so Wise and Noble a People Thirteenthly Whether since the Protector assumed the Government the state and condition of this Nation be not very greatly impaired Their Land Forces wasted and consumed at Hispaniola Jamaica Mardike and elsewhere Their Shipping lessened and diminished their Stores and Provisions for Sea and Land expended and consumed without profit their Magazines emptied their Treasures wasted their Trade in a great measure lost and decayed and very great new Debts contracted little of Old being satisfied And whether all this be not the bitter fruit of Apostacy and Treachery and setting up a single person as Chief Magistrate contrary to Ingagements And the casting away of that Righteous Cause of Freedom Justice and Righteousnesse this Land was so engaged in Lastly Whether the Protector so called will not in all likelihood dissolve the next Parliament also if they begin to question and make Debates of former Transactions and do not presently without any disputing proceed to perfect the new Modell of the Humble Petition and Advice What assurance shall be given to the Countries and Cities that shall chuse or to the Gentlemen chosen that they shall not be served as those before were And whether if the honest Citizens shall begin to make ready their former sober and very worthy Petition or one of the like nature it will not be looked at again as a Crime little lesse then Treason at the Court and become a means of sudden Dissolution to the next Parliament also Alas for poor England What will become of thee in the end How hast thou lost thy self and thy good Old Cause And whither will these Masters of Bondage carry thee A List of their Names who were taken out of the House and others being * forty three in number that sate in the Other House so greatly designed for a House of Lords with a brief Description of their Merits and Deserts whereby it may easily appear how fit they are to be called as they call themselves Lords as also being so very deserving what pity it is they should not have a Negative Voyce over the free People of this Commonwealth 1. Richard Cromwel eldest Son of the Protector so called a Person of great Worth and Merit and well skilled in Hawking Hunting Horse-racing with other sports and pastimes one whose
Judicature was questioned being dissolved and the Protector taking the Government upon him he adventured to comply with the rest notwithstanding the danger that so he might keep his place and interest and avoid a new Storm or Frown from the present Power Men need not seek far or study much to read him and what principles he acts by All things considered he may doubtless be very fit to be Lord of the Rolls being Master already and to be taken out of the Parliament to be made a Lord and to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over the people as well as over the causes in the Rolls being so thoroughly exercised in Negatives at his own will and pleasure as too many have sadly felt 19. Mr. Cleypole Son of Mr. Cleypole in Northamptonshire now Lord Cleypole he long since married the Protectors Daughter a person whose qualifications not answering those honest principles formerly so pretended to of putting none but godly men into places of trust was a long time kept out but since the Apostacy from those principles as also the practise brake in and his Father-in-law the head thereof came to be Protector he was then judged good enough for that dispensation and so taken in to be t Master of his Horse as Duke Hamilton to the King Much need not be said of him his Relation as Son-in-law to the Protector is sufficient to bespeak him every way fit to be taken out of the House and made a Lord and having so long time had a Negative Voyce over his Wife Spring Garden the Ducks Deer Horses and Asses in Jameses Park is the better skilled how to exercise it again in the Other House over the good people of these Nations without any gainsaying or dispute 20. Lord Faulconbridge a Gentleman whose Relations are most Cavaleeres his Uncle formerly Governour of Newark for the King against the Parliament was absent over the water in the time of the late Wars a Neuter at least if not disaffected to the cause came back the Wars being over and hath lately marryed one of the Protectors Daughters and was in a fair way had things hit right to have been one of his Council as well as his Son-in-law however suitable to the times he is lately made a Colonel of Horse his Relation both to the old and new Monarchy may sufficiently plead his worth and merits not onely to have his Daughter but also a Negative Voyce in the other House over all that adventured their lives in the cause formerly and over all the people of these Lands besides 21. Colonel Howard his Interest which is considerable is in the North his Relations there are most Papists and Cavaleeres whom he hath courted and feasted kindly and served their Interest to purpose it 's no matter who lost by it in favour to Sir Arthur Haslerigg was made Captain of the Generals Life-Guard when he was in Scotland wherein he continued for some time in England after he was Protector but not being a Kinsman or a person further to be confided in in that place was shuffled out from thence and to stop his mouth made a Colonel and as the Book says a Major General and had power of Decimation as also made Governour of Barwick Tinmouth and Carlisle hath also tasted with the first of that sweet Fountain of new honour being made a Viscount he was of the Little Parliament and all the Parliaments since is a Member of Mr. Cockains Church and of very complying principles no question to the service of the new Court from whence he received his new honour and having with his fellow Lord Cleypole so excellent a spirit of Government over his Wife Family and Tenants in the Country to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House might seem of right to belong unto him being also lorded before hand 22. Lord Broghil his Rise and Relation for means is Ireland a Gentleman of good parts and wit able to make Romance but was not looked on formerly by those of the Good Old Cause as a person fit to be trusted with the command of one Town or Castle in Ireland yet is he now by this happy change become a goodly Convert to be confided in and is made w President of the Protectors Council in Scotland he was of the Latter Parliaments a great Kingling and one that in the Last Parliament so called put on hard that way wherefore it were great pity he being also a Lord of the old Stamp and so well gifted if he should not be one to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over the people of England and Scotland as well as of Ireland it being a good while since and almost forgotten that the Protector said It would never be well and we should never see good days whilst there was one Lord left in England and until the Earl of Manchester was called Mr. Mountague 23. Colonel Pride then Sir Thomas now Lord Pride sometime an honest Brewer in London went out a Captain upon the account of the Cause fought on and in time became a Colonel did good service in England and Scotland for which he was well rewarded by the Parliament with cheap Debenters of his Souldiers and others he bought good Lands at easie rates gave the Long Parliament a Purge fought against the King and his Negative Voyce and was against the Negative Voyce of his Brethren the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being unwilling to have any in the Land but hath now changed his mind and principles with the times and will fight for a Negative Voyce in the Protector and also have one himself and be a Lord for he is a Knight of the new Order already and grown very bulky and considerable it is hard to say how the people will like it However his worth and merits rightly measured will no question render him fit to be taken out of the House to be one of the Other House and to have a Negative Voyce not onely over the Bears but all the people of these Lands though he did formerly so opppose and fight against it and the Noble Lawyers will be glad of his company and friendship for that there is now no fear of his hanging up their Gowns by the Scotish Colours in Westminster-hall as he formerly so greatly boasted and threatned to do 24. Colonel Hewson then Sir John now Lord Hewson sometime an honest Shoomaker or Cobler in London went out a Captain upon the account of the Cause was very zealous fought on stoutly and in time became a Colonel did good service both in England and Ireland was made Governour of Dublin became one of the little Parliament and of all the Parliaments since a Knight also of the new Stamp The world being so well amended with him and the sole so well stitcht to the upper Leather having gotten so considerable an Interest and Means may well be counted fit to be taken out of the
House to be a Lord and to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over all of the gentle Craft and Cordwayners Company in London if they please but though he be so considerable and of such Merit in the Protectors as also in his own esteem not onely to be a Knight but also a Lord yet it will hardly pass for currant with the good people of these Lands it being so far beyond the last neither will they think him fit saving the Protectors pleasure to have a Negative Voyce over them though he formerly fought so stiffly against it in the King and Lords in order to set them free 25. Colonel Barkstead then Sir John now Lord Barkstead sometime a Goldsmith in the Strand of no great rank went out a Captain to Windsor Castle was sometime Governour of Reading got at length to be a Colonel then made Lieutenant of the Tower by the old Parliament The Protector so called finding him fit for his turn continued him there and also made him Major General of Middlesex in the Decimating business and assistant to Major General Skippon in London he is one to the life to fulfil the Protectors desires whether right or wrong for he will dispute no commands or make the least demur but in an officious way will rather do more then his share his principles for all Arbitrary things whatsoever being so very thorough let friends or foes come to his Den they come not amiss so he gets by it yea rather then fail he will send out his armed men to break open honest mens Houses and seize their persons and bring them to his Goal and then at his pleasure turns them out he hath erected a principality in the Tower and made Laws of his own and executes them in a Martial way over all comers so that he hath great command and makes men know his power he was of the latter Parliaments is one of the Commissioners like the Bishops Panders in the Kings days for suppressing Truth in the Printing-Presses an oppression once the Army so greatly complained of is for Sanctuary gotten in to be a Member of Mr. Griffiths Church is also knighted after the new Order and the better to carry on the Protectors Interest among the ear-boar'd slavish Citizens is lately become an x Alderman so that he hath advanced his Interest and Revenue to purpose His Titles and Capacities emblazoned will sufficiently argue his worth and merits and speak him out fully to be a man of the times and every way deserving to be yet greater and Haman-like to be set higher All which considered it would seem a wrong not to have taken him out of the House and made him a Lord of the Other House with a Negative Voyce there as well as where he is the rather for that he knows so well how to exercise the same having used it so long a season as likewise that he may obstruct and hinder whoever shall question or desire Justice against him for his wicked doing 26. Colonel Ingoldsby a Gentleman of Buckinghamshire allyed to the Protector he betook himself to the Wars on the right side as it happened and in time became a Colonel a Gentlemâ—n of courage and valour but not very famous for any great exploits unless for beating the honest Inne-Keeper of Alisbury in White-hall for which the Protector committed him to the Tower but was soon released No great friend of the Sectaries so called or the cause of Freedom then fought for as several of his then and now Officers and Souldiers can witness and although it be well known and commonly reported That he can neither pray or preach yet complying so kindly with the new Court and being in his principles for Kingship as also a y Colonel of Horse and the Protectors Kinsman he may well be reckoned fit to be taken out of the House and made a Lord and to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over the good people of this Land the rather for that he as a Gentleman engaged and fought onely for money and honour and nothing else 27. Colonel Whaly formerly a Woollen-Draper or petty Merchant in London whose Shop being out of sorts and his Cash empty not having wherewithal to satisfie his Creditors he fled into Scotland for refuge till the Wars began then took on him to be a Souldier whereby he hath profited greatly was no great Zealot for the cause but happening on the right side he kept there and at length was made Commissary General of the Horse he was of these latter Parliaments and being so very useful and complying to promote the Protectors designes was made y Major General of two or three Counties he is for a King or Protector or what you will so it be liked at Court is with his little Brother Glyn grown a great man and very considerable and wiser as the Protector saith then Major-General Lambert who having with his fellow Lords Cleypole and Howard so excellent a spirit of Government over his Wife and Family being also a Member of z Thomas Goodwins Church no question need be made of his merit of being every way fit to be a Lord and to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over the people for that he never as he saith fought against any such thing as a Negative Voyce 28. Colonel Goff now Lord Goff that would be sometime Colonel Vaughans Brothers Prentice a Salter in London whose time being near or newly out betook himself to be a Souldier instead of setting up his Trade went out a Quarter-master of Foot and continued in the Wars till he forgot what he fought for in time became a Colonel and in the outward appearance very zealous and frequent in praying preaching and pressing for Righteousness and Freedom and highly esteemed in the Army on that account when honesty was in fashion yet having at the same time like his General an evil Tincture of that spirit that loved and sought after the favour and praise of Man more then that of God as by woful experience in both of them hath since appeared he could not further believe or persevere upon that account but by degrees fell off and this was he who with Colonel White brought Musquetteers and turned the honest Members left behind in the Little Parliament out of the House Complying thus kindly with the Protectors Designes and Interest was made a Major General of Hantshire and Sussex was of the late Parliament hath advanced his interest greatly and is in so great esteem and favour at Court as he is judged the onely fit man to have Major General Lamberts Place and Command as Major General of the Army and having so far advanced is in a fair way to the Protectorship hereafter if he be not served as Lambert was He being so very considerable a person and of such great worth there is no question of his deserts and fitness to be taken
helped to break it and then according to Rev. 11. 10 rejoyced and made merry with the rest of his brethren in Colonel Sydenhams Chamber c. as the Lawyers and other vild persons made Bonfires and drank Sack at the Temple and elsewhere but if ever a spirit of Life from God which is not far off comes in to raise up that honest Spirit by which some of them were acted will not he his brethren and the rest of that earthly rout the false Spirit of Magistracy and Ministry be tormented and afraid He was of the Parliaments since and no doubt of right principles to the Court interest wherein his own is bound up Is one that helps on the bondage in divers great d Committees where he sits and is therefore no question the more fit to be called Lord Roberts and to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over the people being so greatly experienced in that way already having continued in the aforesaid Committee so long 34. Colonel John Jones a Gentleman of Wales one of the Long Parliament was a Commissioner in Ireland for governing that Nation under the Parliament One of good principles for common Justice and Freedom had he kept them and not fallen into temptation he helped to change the Government and make those Laws of Treason against a single persons Rule hath a considerable Revenue and it 's likely did not lose by his employment he is Governour of the Isle of Anglesey and lately marryed the Protectors Sister a Widdow by which means he might have become a great man indeed did not something stick which he cannot well get down he is not thorough paced for the Court-proceedings nor is his conscience fully hardned against the Good Old Cause but there is great hope no question that in time he may be towardly however for Relation sake he may be counted fit with his Name-sake and Countryman Philip to be called Lord Jones and to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over the people and all his being against such things formerly may be forgiven and not once remembred against him 35. Mr. Edmond Thomas a Gentleman of Wales of considerable means a Friend of Philip Joneses and allyed to Walter Strickland both of the Council and brought in upon their account and of complying principles no question to say no more of him not having been long in play being none of the great Zealots or high Sectaries so called in Wales may doubtless be counted wise and good enough to make a simple Lord of the Other House and to be called Lord Thomas and to have a Negative Voyce over all the good people in Wales with his Countrymen John and Philip and over all the people of these Lands besides 36. Sir Francis Russel Knight Baronet of the old Stamp a Gentleman of Cambridgeshire of a considerable Revenue in the beginning of the Wars was first for the King then for the Parliament and a Colonel of Foot under the Earl of Manchester a man like William Sedgwick high flown but not serious or substantial in his principles he continued in his Command till the new Model then took offence and fell off or laid aside by them no great Zealot for the cause therefore not judged honest serious or wise enough to be of the little Parliament yet was of these latter Paliaments Is also Chamberlain of Chester at about 500 l. per annum he marryed his eldest Daughter to Harry Cromwel second son of the Protector then Colonel of Horse now Lord Deputy so called of Ireland another to Colonel Reynolds a new Knight and General of the English Army in France under Cardinal Mazarine since with e Colonel White and others cast away coming from Mardike there is no question but his principles are for Kingship and the new Court being so greatly concern'd therein wherefore it were great pity if he should not also be taken out of the House to be a Lord of the Other House his Son-in-law being so great a Lord and have a Negative Voyce over Cambridgeshire and all the people of these Lands besides 37. Sir William Strickland Knight of the old Stamp a Gentleman of Yorkshire and brother to Walter Strickland was of the Parliament a long time but hath now it seems forgotten the cause of fighting with and cutting off the late Kings head and suppressing the Lords their House and Negative Voyce He was of these Latter Parliaments and of good compliance no question with the new Court and settling the Protector anew in all those things for which the King was cut off wherefore he is fit no doubt to be taken out of the House and made a Lord the rather for that his younger brother Walter is so great a Lord and by whom in all likelyhood he will be steer'd to use his Negative Voyce in the Other House over Yorkshire and the people of these Lands to the interest of the Court 38. Sir Richard Onsloe Knight of the old Stamp a Gentleman of Surrey of good parts and a considerable Revenue he was of the Long Parliament and with much ado thorough his policy steer'd his course between the two Rocks of King and Parliament weather'd some fore Storms was not his man taken in his company by the Guard in Southwark with Commissions of Array in his Pocket from the King and scurrilous Songs against the Roundheads Yet by his interest rode it out till Colonel Pride came with his Purge then suffer'd loss and came no more in play till about Worcester fight when by the help of some Friends in Parliament he was impowred to raise and lead as Colonel a Regiment of Surry men against the Scots and their King but came too late to fight it being over being popular in Surry he was of the Latter Parliaments is fully for Kingship and was never otherwise and stickled much among the 70 Kinglings to that end and seeing he cannot have young Charles old Oliver will serve his turn so he have one so that he is very fit to be Lord Onsloe and to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over Surry if they please and all the people of these Lands besides whether they please or not 39. Mr. John Fiennes Son of the Lord Say and Brother to Commissioner Fiennes brought in it 's likely for one upon his score is in a kind such a one as they call a Sectary but no great stickler therefore not being redeemed from the fear and favour of man will it is probable follow his brother who is as it is thought much steer'd by old Subtilty his Father that lies in his Den as Thurloe by his Mr. St. Johns and will say No with the rest when any thing opposes the interest of the new Court their power and greatness and may therefore pass for one to be a Lord and to have a Negative Voyce
out of the House to be a Lord and to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House the rather for that he never in all his life as he saith fought against any such thing as a single person or a Negative Voyce but onely to put down Charles and set up Oliver and hath his end 29. Colonel Berry his Original was from the Iron Works as a Clerk or Overseer betook himself to the Wars on the Parliaments side profited greatly in his undertaking and advanced his interest very far who though he wore not the Jesters Coat yet being so ready to act his part and please his General in time he became a Colonel of Horse in the Army afterward a Major General of divers Counties a command fit for a Prince wherein he might learn to lord it in an Arbitrary way beforehand at his pleasure that he is of complying principles with the Court his preferment sufficiently speaks out neither ought any other be believed of him or any of his brethren without a real demonstration to the contrary so that he may well pass for one to be a Lord and to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voyce over the people being so far advanced and gotten out of the pit above them and if he did formerly fight against a Negative Voyce and lording it over the people it may be forgiven him 30. Colonel Cooper sometime a Shop-keeper or Salter in Southwark a Member of Thomas b Goodwins Church one formerly of very high principles for common Justice and Freedom like his brother Tichborn The Army then in Scotland sending into England for faithful praying men to make Officers of the honest people in the Burrough recommended him to the General in order to have a command who accordingly went down but left his Principles behind him and espoused other was made a Colonel at the first dash and though he began late yet hath so well improved his interest as he hath already gotten as many hundreds per annum as he had hundred pounds when he left his Trade he hath a Regiment of Foot in Scotland and another in Ireland where he is Major General of the North in Venables Room and Governour of Carrickfergus so as he is in a very hopeful way to be a great man indeed he was of the Latter Parliaments and there is full proof that he is every way thorough-paced and true to the new Court-interest so that upon the whole he also may be counted fit to be a Lord of the Other House and to have a Negative Voyce over the good people in Southwark if they please and all the people of these Lands beside it being the Pretectors pleasure the rather he being the Mirrour of the times for thorough change of principles Alderman Tichborn and O. P. excepted 31. Alderman Pack then Sir Christopher now Lorâ—Pack his rise formerly was by dealing in Cloth near the beginning of the Long Parliament was made an Alderman was then very discreet and medled little more like a Neuter or close Malignant then a Zealot for the cause was a Commissioner of the Customs also Sheriff and Lord Maior of London next after Alderman Viner the Protector taking on him the Government the Sunshine of the new Court pleased him and brought him in full complyance he was one of the Last Parliament and zealous to re-establish Kingship in the person of the c Protector and judged the onely meet man to bring the Petition into the House praying him to accept of and take it upon him which though he then refused yet as is reported hath since repented his then refusal However the now Lord Pack deserves well at his hands for that good service who being a true Kingling and of right Principles to the Court-interest hving also been a Lord to wir Maior once before may upon the whole be counted very worthy to be again so called and to have a Negative Voyce in the Other house over London and all the people of these Lands beside 32. Alderman Tichborn then Sir Robert Knight of the new Stamp now Lord Tichborn at the beginning of the Long Parliament when a great Spirit was stirring for Liberty and Justice many worthy Petitions and Complaints were made against Patentees the Bishops and the Earl of Strafford he being the Son of a Citizen and Young fell in and espoused the good cause and principles then on Foot and thereby became very popular and was greatly cryed up by the good people of the City c. His rise was first in the Military way where he soon became a Colonel and by the Parliament made Lieutenant of the Tower of London and though he was a Colonel yet never went out to fight but became an Alderman very timely and then soon began to cool and lose his former Zeal and Principles and left off preaching as his Pastor Mr. Lockyer did the Church to his brother George Cockain He was afterward Sheriff and Lord Mayor in his turn was also of the Committees for the sale of States Lands whereby he advanced his Interest and Revenue considerably out of Zeal to the publick he offered the Parliament to serve them freely as a Commissioner of the Customs whereby he supplanted another and planted himself in his room and then with the rest of his brethren petitioned the Committee of the Navy for a Salary and had it notwithstanding he was so well rewarded for his pains after he had pretended to serve them for nothing yet with his bro her Col. Harvy and Captain Langham came off blewly in the end He was of the little Parliament and helped to dissolve it one of the late Parliament also he hath by degrees sadly lost his Principles and forgotten the Good Old Cause and espoused and taken up another being so very officious for the new Court-interest and such a stickler for them he is become a great Favorite it 's not hard to read his change it being in so great Letters All things considered he is no question fit to be called Lord Tichborn being also so willing to receive and resolve to own that Title whoever maligns it as also of the Judgement that whatever passes from him in any other name will be void in law wherefore to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over London and all the good people of these Lands is very suitable to him and what though he was so great an Opponent to those things formerly it 's no matter then was then and now is now 33. Sir William Roberts a Gentleman who in the time of the Bishops ruffling went into Holland and lived there for a season the Parliament ruling and in war with the King came over again and after the then mode found favour having upon the forementioned account been out of the Land and was made a great Committee-man and in much employment whereby he well advanced his interest and is grown a great man He was of the little Parliament and
in the Other House over all in Oxfordshire the University men onely excepted and over all the people of these Lands besides 40. Sir John Hubbard Knight Baronet of the old Stamp a Gentleman of Norfolk of a considerable Estate part whereof came lately to him by the Death of a Kinsman he was of these latter Parliaments but not of the former had medled very little if at all in throwing down Kingship but hath stickled very much in helping to re-establish and build it up again and a great stickler among the late Kinglings who petitioned the Protector to be King his principles being so right for Kingship and Tyranny he is in great favour at Court as well as Dick Ingoldsby and no question deserves to be a Lord and to be taken out of the House to exercise a Negative Voyce in the Other House over all the good men in Norfolk and all the people of these Lands besides being become so very tame and gentle 41. Sir Thomas Honywood Knight of the old Stamp a Gentleman of Essex of a considerable Revenue he was a Committee-man in the time of the Long Parliament and also a Military man and led as Colonel a Regiment of Essex-men to the fight at Worcester came in good time and fought well against Kingship and Tyranny in the House of the Stewarts was of the last Parliament he is not so wise as Solomon or so substantial and thorough in his principles for Righteousness and Freedom as Job chap. 29. but rather soft in his spirit and too easie like a Nose of Wax to be turn'd on that side where the greatest strength is being therefore of so hopeful principles for the New Court interest and so likely to comply with their will and pleasure no doubt need be made of his fitness to be a Lord and to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over all the good men in Essex the now Lord of Warwick the Protectors Brother-in-law excepted and all the people of these Lands besides 42. Lord Ewre a Gentleman of Yorkshire not very bulky or imperious for a Lord he was once well esteemed of for honesty and therefore chosen to be one of the Little Parliament hath also been of all the Parliaments since the Yorkshire men happily may like his being new Lorded and that he should have a Negative Voyce over them the rather because they never chose him to any such thing the Protector being so well satisfied with his principles and easiness like his fellow-Lord Honywood to be wrought up to do whatever their will and pleasure is and to say No when they would have him it is very meet he also pass for one to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House not onely over Yorkshire but all the good people of the Commonwealth beside being a Lord of the old Stamp already 43. Mr. Hampden now Lord Hampden a young Gentleman of Buckinghamshire son of the late Colonel Hampden that Noble Patriot and Defender of the Rights and Liberties of the English Nation of famous memory never to be forgotten for withstanding the King in the case of Ship-money being also one of the five impeached Members which the said King endeavoured to have pulled out of the Parliament whereupon followed such feud war and shedding of blood This young Gentleman Mr. Hampden was the last of sixty two which were added singly by the Protector after the choice of sixty together it is very likely that Colonel Ingoldsby or some other Friend at Court got a Cardinals Hat for him thereby to settle and secure him to the Interest of the new Court and wholly take him off from the thoughts of ever following his fathers steps or inheriting his noble vertues as likewise that the honest men in Buckinghamshire and all other that are lovers of Freedom and Justice that cleaved so cordially to and went so cheerfully along with his Father in the beginning of the late War might be out of all hopes of him and give him over for lost to the Good Old Cause and inheriting his Fathers noble spirit and principles though he doth his Lands He was of the latter Parliament and found right saving in the design upon which he was made a Lord after all the rest and the Protectors pleasure It is very hard to say how fit he is to be a Lord and how well a Negative Voyce over the good people of this Land and his Fathers Friends in particular will become the son of such a Father and how well the aforesaid good people now called Sectaries will like of it but being it is as it is let him pass for one as fit to be taken out of the House with the rest to have a Negative Voyce and let him exercise it in the Other House over the good people for a season Sir Arthur Haslerigg Lord No stop there not Lord Haslerigg a Knight of the old Stamp a Gentleman of a very large Estate and Revenue was one of the Long Parliament and one of the five impeached Members whom the King endeavoured to have pulled out of the House with the other but was hindered from doing of it was a Colonel in the Army and adventured far in the Wars continued of that Parliament till the dissolution thereof was also chosen of these latter Parliaments but not permitted to sit at the first he was by the Protector as may be seen in the printed List cut out for a Lord of the Other House and to have a wooden Dagger to wit a Negative Voyce with the rest but he missed his way and instead of going into the Other House among the simple Negative men the f Off-spring of the Bastard of William the sixth Duke of Normandy he went into the Parliament-House among his fellow Englishmen and there spake freely bearing a good witness in behalf of the Good Old Cause the Rights and Liberties of the people of England at which the Court were vexed and sore displeased However for all this losing of his way and the loss sustained by it his Fame and Name amongst all true English spirits will be higher and more honourable then the simple Title of a New Lord could make him and instead of a Negative Voyce in the Other House he will be honoured by after Ages as a rare Phoenix that of forty four was found standing alone to his principles and the Good Old Cause so bled for Oh sad and wonderful but one of forty four to be found standing firm to so noble a Cause as ever was on foot since the world began Let all true English Spirits love and honour him and that will be better then a Feather in his Cap or a wooden Dagger His Name for ever in the Chronicles will live as one that was a true Patriot of his Countries Liberties which noble action if he persevere and be more refined in that honest spirit may deservedly obliterate all humane frailties and
for the future we are likely to have such prosperity success and good days as some so largely promise themselves and others it may be expected Or whether such smiling upon old wickedness and frowning and turning the back upon Righteousness suppressing its growth be any comfortable ground of such hope and expectation Or whether upon the whole Series of things as they now appear there be not rather to be expected some sadder matter if the LORD in mercy prevent not Let the wise in heart consider THE END Reader if thy patience be not quite worne out read the following Postscript which makes mention of the late flattering Adresses c. it may concern you As also a Vindication of that faithful Friend to the Cause of God and his people Mr. John Portmans late Secretary to the Fleet under General Blake now Prisoner for Truth in the Tower whom that lying Court-Pamphleter Nedham hath falsly aspersed and reproached in the late Diurnals A Post-Script to the Reader THe foregoing Narrative was composing and preparing to have come forth like apples of gold in pictures of silver in the fittest season during the life time of Oliver the late Protector so called and calculated for that end among other that as in a Glass he might clearly see his Mutability and Changeableness in his principles as also his Judas-like Treachery and Deceit and how wickedly he had dealt with the Lord his people and the Nation and the righteous cause on foot therein but the Lord having in answer to the earnest desires and prayers of some of his faithful remnant and in great mercy to the Nation and the good people therein and the righteous cause removed and taken him out of the way it was thought fit however to publish it for the sake of his associates and confederates he hath left behind him who may happily make some use of it as also that the standers by yea the whole Nation might likewise see and judge of what hath lately fallen out in this our day It is said of Jeroboam the son of Nebat That he not onely sinned himself but made Israel to sin and there were those of his confederates that then sinned with him and after he was dead and gone of whom it is recorded 1 Kin 15. 34 compared with 2 Kin. 17. 21 22. That they walked in the ways and departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who made Israel to sin The parallel hereof we have in England in this our day Oliver the late Protector so called who Jeroboam like so greatly appeared with the people for Justice and Freedom against Oppression highly professing and declaring for the same hath sinned in the breach of those Protestations and Declarations in building again those things he had been so greatly instrumental to destroy therein surpassing not onely the deeds of the wicked who were cut off upon the like account but also of Jeroboam who never made such Professions and Declarations as he had done There also are of his confederates as the confederates of Jeroboam that sinned with him in his Apostacy and Revolt and do yet continue in those sins and walking in his steps now he is dead and gone as if they took no notice of the displeasure and wrath of God revealed from Heaven against him in cutting him off for his unrighteousness Israel smarted sorely for their evil and at last were carryed away Captive England hath likewise suffered and is brought very low as tradesmen of all sorts shop-keepers and others both in City and Country find by such sad and woful experience as they never did before nor in the memory of man was the like ever known or heard of and what may further suffer the Lord who will not be mocked onely knows For how unworthy are the people of this Generation not onely the more dark and sordid but too many who profess to be Saints and are Pastors and Members of Churches nay some who are Mercurial and more high flown that once spake the Language of Zion and highly appeared for the Good Old Cause who notwithstanding they have seen the mighty Arm and Power of God displayed in bringing down the unrighteous oppressive high and lofty ones with their foundation for their unrighteousness and oppression yet have so far forgotten the Good Old Cause so signally owned from Heaven and are so besotted and degenerated into a self-seeking slavish and enslaveing spirit as they not onely justifie but strengthen their hands who instead of pressing forward mith more refinedness in that work and cause leading to what it shall be when the promises and prophesies relating to the Kingdom of Christ and Zion shall be fulfilled have made a Captain or Protector and are gone back to Egypt to wit the old wicked foundation and things of Monarchy that have been destroyed and thereby under a new name upholding and keeping the people under the old Oppressions And do say of g g In their Addresses to his son Richard his worthy Successour Oliver their late Egyptian Captain who hatched this Cockatrice Egge and brought forth all this wickedness and thereby did more hurt to the Nation then ever he did it good and for which his Memory will deservedly for ever stink in the Nostrils of the Lords faithful people That he was a Moses the great Father and Protector of his people our late most worthy Prince that used all means to deliver us from Bondage by whom we enjoy Freedom in Spiritual and Civil Concernments c. most excellent Prince of happy Memory the famous Champion of our Liberties c. the Father Protector and Buckler of these Nations and the people of God who resâ—ned procured and maintained our just Liberties to us c. the great Assertor of the Liberties of Gods people and a Lover of their Civil Rights c. who well deserves to be a pattern to all succeeding Princes c. our gracious Benefactor a nursing Father to his people by whose hand the yoke of Bondage hath been broken both from the Necks and Consciences of good people c. an instrument of unspeakable Blessings all whose great Enterprises the Lord constantly prospered with high success c. the great Protector of our Peace and Joy who admirably got and h h Have you forgot Hispaniola and the war with Spain never lost but left three Nations in Peace c. We cannot but deeply resent that sad stroke of Providence that took away the breath of our Nostrils and smote our head from off our Shoulders your Highnesses most gloriously renowned Father Our Elijah c. your most illustrious accomplished most glorious heroical most renowned blessed most holy serene princely Father that sacred Person the delight of our Eyes our glorious Sun is set that unspeakable loss the light of our Eyes and the breath of our Nostrils c. But alass this our Moses the Servant of the Lord is dead and shall we not weep If we weep not for
him yet we cannot but weep for our selves we cannot but look after him crying Our Father our Father the Chariots of Israel and the Horsemen thereof c. Falsly and wickedly alluding to Moses and Elijah those two for ever to be honoured faithful Servants of the Lord with many other the like fawning blasphemous lying Expressions have they in those wicked Addresses wherein they lye and flatter for the Lord and his faithful Remnant know he was not so especially in his latter days but was rather acted by the back sliding spirit of Corah Dathan and Abiram as also the famous and renowned Princes of the Congregation yea the Congregation it self who rebelled against the Spirit of the Lord in Moses Caleb and Joshua c. and would not press on to Canaan the work of that day but said Let us make a i i Nâ— Captain and return into Egypt and would have stoned Caleb and Joshua because they would have had them gone forward As also by the Spirit of Ahab Jehu and the rest of the back sliding wicked Kings of Israel and Judah The spirit of the Beast and false Prophet in the former and present Monarchs of this and other Nations which the Lord hath and will disown and curse but not the Spirit of Elijah Moses Caleb and Joshua the Lords faithful persevering ones of old as by what is before and afterwards mentioned doth too plainly and sadly appear for he not onely endeavoured to establish himself in this Tyranny but before his departure when he scarce had his sences or could hardly speak appointed as some report though some think otherwise his forementioned eldest son Richard to succeed him in the Government to support and maintain that Apostacy and Wickedness which himself and Thurlo c. had been the first Contrivers and then Actors of thereby to hold us perpetually under the old Monarchical Egyptian Bondage which was no sooner effected and he proclaimed but the aforementioned Addressors as they blasphemously and flatteringly speak in way of honouring his Father so in the same Adresses do they speak of him falsly and wickedly alluding to good Joshua Solomon and Elisha who succeeded Moses David and Elijah after their death saying to this purpose We humbly beg That though your renowned Father who as a designed instrument helpt us out of Egypt having Canaan in his Eye was even then called to Mount Nebo to dye there yet you as another Joshua with his spirit re-doubled upon you may by the efficacious conduct of the Captain of the Lords Host lead us into a more full possession of Truth and Righteousness c. In times of old when God took away Moses from his people in tender Mercy he gave them a Joshua to succeed him Such are our hopes of your Highness Gods aim and end in taking away his Moses was to usher you in his Joshua c. But since it was the Will of God our glorious Sun should set and that even whilst he was ascending we ought to submit unto it it is no little Alleviation to our sorrow that though our Sun be set no Night hath followed but our Evening hath been light by raising your Highness into your Royal Fathers Seat c. You are our great Master the person designed by God and Man to reign over us c. It begets no little joy in our spirits when we behold the Son of that Father by a divine Providence succeed him in the Throne by his own appointment given us as a most choyce Legacy and his last Blessing c. A Pledge of Divine Love and Goodness to these Nations c. Some saying if his Father had not appointed him to succeed him the common interest and peace of the Nation without Gods Assistance had perished together with him c. Happy successour in whom we shall be able to say Mercy and Truth are met together under whose Government Righteousness and Peace hath kissed each other of whose exceeding Vertues and Endowments we have had experience c. God hath been pleased in the midst of Judgment to remember Mercy in appointing your Highness to succeed your Father your most excellent serene Highness a branch of that princely stock on you our hopes rest Richard by the Grace of God Lord Protector your most serene Highness our Soveraign and General the noblest branch of that renowned stock and desire that he might build up unto perfection upon that wicked foundation which his Fathers blessed hand had laid And pray that the spirit of their departed Elijah even the Chariots and Horsemen of Israel might rest upon him c. And a great deal more of this blasphemous flattering stuff which would be too tedious to relate which Addresses The Humble Petition and Advice being so often mentioned and their desiring him to keep the Sword Military in his hand the design in them and strain of expressions so like to other begets a shrewd suspition they were rather hatch'd at the Court by Secretary Thurlo and the old malignant Pamphleter lying railing Rabshakeh and defamer of the Lords people Nedham alias Mercurius Pragmaticus who formerly writ for the King against the Parliament and by their Mercenary Emissaries and Agents suggested to and forced upon the simple people as the Addresses to his Father were formerly upon the Army and elsewhere rather then in their first motion naturally flowing from the Addressors which the Lord in due time will discover And not onely these but also that great Independent Doctor so called Thomas Goodwin he Aaron-like comes in as a Leader or one of the first among them to encourage the rejoycing and dancing about this new Golden Calf and in the speech that he made pretendedly in the name and by the appointment of the Pastors and Messengers of above 100 Congregational Churches from several parts of the Nation as says the Pamphlet says he We come with hearty acknowledgement of the best Liberties enjoyed under your Highness now blessed Father c. all which have been continued to us through the Protection of the great Mordecai that sought the Weal of his people and spake k k Was imprisoning the Lords people for their faithfulness to the Good Old Cause and leaving them there when he dyed a Mordecai's spirit and a speaking peace Well said Doctor peace to all his seed blessed be God for his unspeakable gift c. which we are here come jonyntly to acknowledge to your Highness c. We also come full of rejoycing blessing God for so happy and quiet a settlement of the Nation and Government in your person and succession Solomon though he had his name from peace yet was not his first entrance so peaceable as this of yours c. And after mentioning about what they met at the Savoy and that his Father knew of the meeting beforehand and approved of it and of a Declaration they had drawn up to clear themselves from the aspersions laid upon them and laying down therein what the
to Canaan among whom were many renowned Princes Priests and famous men yet onely Moses Caleb Joshua c. that truly followed God Numb. 14. Among all the wise men in Babylon but one Daniel a true Prophet Dan. 2. 19 But one Noah a Preacher of Righteousness and faithful in his generation before the Flood Gen. 7. 1. One Lot in Sodom Among the seven Churches Rev. 2. 3. but two to wit Philadelphia and Smyrna whom the Lord approves of but the other so carried it except a few among them as he said it should be manifested they belonged rather to the Synagogue of Satan then to the Churches of Christ When the great destruction comes upon wicked men a little before or upon the call of the Jews but a handful or as the gleaning grapes when the Vintage is done shall lift up their heads and rejoyce and glorifie God in the fires Isai. 24. They onely who speak often one to another when wickedness is set up and they that tempt God are delivered alluding to Israel who would have made a Captain to return again to Egypt or rather the Apostacy of this our day that the Lord owns as those who fear him and have the promise of the Sun of Righteousness to arise upon them Mal. 3. The false spirit of Magistracy in Adonijah aspiring to the Government had the assistance of the Kings sons Abiathar the Priest Joab the General and all the Captains of the Host c. who with slaying of Oxen c. eating and drinking said God save Adonijah and carryed it for a time against Solomon but the spirit of Solomon Nathan the Prophet c. who had the true spirit of Government and Prophesie approved not of or consented to it but were for the true spirit to rule 1 King 1. and so it is at this day and blessed be the Lord that our eyes do see a people crying longing and will not be at rest till the earthy selfish spirit of Magistracy be brought down and the self-denying spirit of Magistracy or Horn of David now budding in Zion come in its room Psal. 132. Wonder not neither be turned aside because of that great multitude on the one hand or smallness of the number on the other that truly and indeed appear for and own the cause of God but stand close and be more refined in the light and spirit of Zion and keep your ground for the Lord hath so appointed That the foot shall tread it down to wit the meanest of the saints for it is very probable that many of the great and wise saints ascording to Rev. 18. 4. shall be found in the borders and supporting the things of Babylon and casting out their Brethren Isa. 66. 5. saying Let the Lord be glotified and having the mist of Babylon before their eyes shall say The Lord delays his coming and will be beating their fellow servants onely the feet to wit the upright conversation of these poor ones who desire to keep close to God and not to touch with Babylon and steps to wit the faith prayers and honest endeavours of these needy ones who long for and cannot be at rest till judgement so visibly return unto righteousness that all the upright in heart may follow it These shall trend down the lofty City Isai. 26. The least of the flock shall draw them out the people that shall bring down the enemies of God in the latter days are a very small and feeble remnant when the Lord comes to destroy Babylon and to build up Zion he will finde but a few upright ones and those very destitute helpless and some of them prisoners too for their witness to the true Magistracy and Ministry of Zion whose prayers he will hear and not despise and bring forth to declare his glory in Zion who shall in a holy triumph and rejoycing say O Lord thou art our God we will exalt thee we will praise thy Name for thou hast done wonderful things thy councels of old are faithfulness and truth c. Lo this is our God we have waited for him he will save us we will be glad and rejoyce in his salvation Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee because he trusteth in thee Trust in the Lord for ever c. Isai. 25. 1 9. chap. 26. 2 3. Which good and comfortable words shall certainly be made good for heaven and earth shall pass away but not one tittle of the word shall pass till all be fulfilled I the Lord will hasten it in its time Isa. 60. 33. with Jer. 33. 25 26. Hab. 2. 3. Read these Scriptures Wherefore strengthen ye the weak hands and confirm the feeble knees c. Isa. 55. 3 4. And you my dear Friends Commonwealths-men so called who so greatly seem to press for righteousness and freedom labour to bring forth this righteousness not by a commonmoral spirit and principle but by the spirit of Zion a lively spiritual active frame of spirit to wit that frame mentioned 2 Sam. 23. not to be pulled and haled to do the good that lyes before you that is more suitable to the unjust Judge but be as ready to help and refresh and therein be as suitable to delight the oppressed that come unto you as the light of the morning when the Sun riseth without Clouds is to those who have lost their way in a dark night and as the tender grass springeth out of the earth by clear shining after rain this is the Spirit of the Horn of David that shall bud in Zion Psal. 132. The consideration whereof in the first man festation and declaration of it by the spirit unto and by David having thereby a tast of that glory upon his spirit made him to break forth into a holy triumph and rejoycing saying And this is all my salvation and all my desire although he make it not to grow to wit in his day Leave no stone unturn'd no means unus'd to let the people who come unto you speedily know one way or other what they shall trust to say not Go and come again to morrow if you can do it to day delayes are burdensome and chargeable Job from the secret of God being upon his Tabernacle and the precious dew of the spirit compassing his root and lying all night upon his branch had much of this blessed frame upon his spirit He put on and clothed himself with righteousness and had more love to judgement then to the robe and diadem and upon that account he was eyes to the blind feet to the lame a father to the poor and the cause which he knew not he searched one chap 29. it concerns you and is worth your reading This will be the frame of the handful of corn in the earth Psa. 72 or mountain establisht upon the top of the mountains Mich. 4. 1 2. the fruit whereof shall shake like Lebanon they shall not be shaken by others but themselves wilshake off their fruit then wil
Undertakings Hazards and Services for the Cause cannot well be numbred or set forth unless the drinking of King Charles's or as is so commonly spoken his Fathers Landlords health whose Abilities in Praying and Preaching and Love to the Sectaries being much like his Cousin Dick Ingoldsby's and he so very likely to be his Fathers Successour and to inherit his noble Vertues in being the light of the Eyes and breath of the Nostrils of the old Heathenish Popish Laws and Customs of the Nation especially among the Learned the University of Oxford have therefore thought fit he being also no very good Scholar to chuse him their Chancellour And though he was not judged meet not having a Spirit of Government for it to have a Command in the Army when there was fighting or honest and wise enough to be one of the little Parliament yet is he become a Colonel of Horse now fighting is over as also taken in to be one of the Protectors Council and one of the Other House and to have the First Negative Voyce over the good People of this Commonwealth being in so hopeful a way to have the great Negative Voyce over the whole after his Fathers Death 2. Commissioner Fiennes Son of the Lord Say a Member sometime of the Long Parliament and then a Colonel under the Earl of Essex had the command and keeping of Bristol but gave it up cowardly as it 's said for which he had like to have lost his head he being a lover of Kingship and Monarchy as well as his Father was taken in by the Protector at his first setting up to be one of his Council and made Commissioner of the great Seal as also Keeper of the Privy-Seal whereby his Interest and Revenue is raised from two or three hundred per annum to two or a three thousand and more And for his Merits and Greatness being after the old mode he was taken out of the late Parliament to be the Mouth of the Protector in that Other House and so is fit no question to have the second Negative Voyce over the good People of these Lands 3. Henry Lawrence a Gentleman of a Courtly Breed and a good Trencher Man who when the Bishops ruffled in their Pride and Tyranny went over to Holland afterwards came back and became a Member of the Long Parliament fell off at the beheading the late King and change of the Government for which the Protector then Lieutenant-General with great Zeal declared That a Neutral Spirit was more to be abhor'd then a Cavaleere Spirit and that such men as he were not fit to be used in such a day as that when God was cutting down Kingship root and branch yet came in play again upon design in the Little Parliament and contributed much to the dissolving of them as also setting up the Protector and settling the Instrument of Government and a single Person affirming That other foundation could no man lay For which worthy Services and as a Snare or Bait to win over or at least quiet the baptised people himself being under that Ordinance he was made and continued President of the Protectors Council where he hath signed many an Arbitrary and Illegal Warrant for the carrying of honest faithful men to Prisons and Exile without cause unless their not apostatizing with them from just and honest principles His Merits are great and many being every way thorough-paced and a great Adorer of Kingship so as he deserveth no doubt and is every way fit to be taken out of the Parliament to have the third place of Honour and Negative Voyce in the Other House over the people of these Lands 4. Lieutenant-General Fleetwood a Gentleman formerly of the Long Parliament and a Colonel of their Army then Lieutenant-General afterward married honest Iretons Widdow the Protectors eldest Daughter Major General Lambert being put by by the Parliament from going over to Ireland as Lord Lieutenant it savouring too much of Monarchy and being not willing to accept of a lower Title he was sent over thither under the Title of Lord Deputy in his room where he continued about three years and to put a check upon those godly men there who are no Friends to Monarchy he was sent for over again and cajoled in to be one of the Protectors Council as also Major General of divers Counties in England his Salary supposed worth b 6600 l. per annum by all which he is become advanced to a princely Interest and Revenue he is one of good principles had he kept them and of good words like his Father-in-law whereby he hath deceived many an honest man and drawn them from the Good Old Cause and by that way hath greatly served the Protectors Designes His Merits therefore are such as he no question also deserves to be taken out of the House and made a Peer and to have a Negative Voyce in the other House when it shall be named Lords notwithstanding he so helpt in the Army and Long Parliament to throw down the House of Lords and to destroy their Negative Voyce and did fight against it in the King 5. Colonel Disbrow a Gentleman or Yeoman of about sixty or seventy pounds per annum at the beginning of the Wars who being allyed to the Protector by Marriage of his Sister he cast away his Spade and took a Sword and rise with him in the Wars and in like manner upon the Principles of Justice and Freedom advanced his Interest very much if he were not of the Long Parliament he was of the Little One which he helped to break Being grown considerable he cast away the Principles by which he rise and took on Principles of Violence and Tyranny and helped to set up the Protector for which he was made one of his Council and one of the c Generals at Sea and hath a princely command at Land being Major General of divers Counties in the West as also one of the Lords of the Cinque Ports His Interest and Greatness being so far advanced his Merits must needs be great and he every way fit to be taken out of the House and put into the Other House with a Negative Voyce over the good people for that with his Sword he can set up that again in the Protector and himself which before he cut down in the King and Lords 6. Lord Viscount Lisle Eldest Son of the Earl of Leicester he was of the Long Parliament to the Last and at the change of Government and making Laws of Treason against a single persons Rule and no question concur'd with the rest therein he was also of the Little Parliament and of all the Parliaments since was all along of the Protectors d Council and was never to seek who having learned so much by changing with every Change and keeping still like his Father-in-law the Earl of Salisbury and Peter Sterry on that side which hath proved Trump nothing need farther be said of his fitness being such a