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A81935	An exact history of the several changes of government in England, from the horrid murther of King Charles I. to the happy restauration of King Charles II. With the renowned actions of General Monck. Being the second part of Florus anglicus, by J.D. Gent.	Dauncey, John, fl. 1633.; Bos, Lambert van den, 1640-1698. Florus Anglicanus.	1600 (1600)	Wing D290; Thomason E1917_3	128,942	323

Person and Authority and to proceed against all such Offenders according to Law and Justice which Declaration was published Munday May 7th From Ireland arrived a Declaration of the General convention there wherein they expressed their detestation of the most execrable murder of our late most Gracious Soveraigne Charles the first and the illegall proceedings of the High Court of Justice against him The Parliament Ordered 50000lb to be sent over to his Majesty for a present as a test of their duty and loyalty and 50000lb more towards the payment of the Arrears of the Army and sent a Committee to the City to desire them to raise the money immediately for which they should receive satisfaction by the next assessement and receive in the mean the interest at 6. per cent which was presently granted by the City and care taking for its spedy provision The Commoncounsell of the City of London to testifie their loyall gratitude to his Majesty Ordered 10000lb to be sent for a present to his Majesty and 300lb to be given to the Lord Mordant and Sr John Greenvile who brought them his Majesties Letter to buy each of them a Ring They likewise ordered that to the most illustrious Prince James Duke of York and his Princely Brother Henry Duke of Glocester a 1000lb be presented to each of them The Parliament Order that a stop be put to the sale of the Estates of the Lord Craven Sr John Stawell and Alderman Bunce and likewise to the estate of the Duke of Buckingham and that their names be inserted into the proviso of the Bill of of Grants and Sales The Horse adjourned Easter Term to Quinque Paschae being May 28th 1660. Upon the third of May the Lord Mountague having received a Letter from his Majesty together with his Majesties gracious message to the House of Commons the Letter to his Excellency and Declaration presently called a Counsel of War to whom he communicated the said Letters which were received by them all with much hearty affections and testimonies of their exact loyalty and duty to his Majesty whereupon the General firing the first Gun himself cried God blesse King Charles the Guns from the rest of the Fleet with those from Deal and Sandwich Castles did with loud Vollies re-eccho the joy for such a happy time the shouts of the Seamen testifying their extraordinary cheerfullnesse and alacrity But now comes the day the like whereof was never enrolled in the Enguish Calender nor ever was there known a day whereon the people did with so unanimous and generall consent testifie their unexpressible content and gladness And well might they since from this time alone we can truly date the restored happinesse of the English Nation what passed before being as it were only glimmerings of this immense and radiant light The Parliament having the day before Ordered the Proclamation of his Majesty to be on the 8th day of May he was with the greatest solemnity possible all the chief Lords of the Parliament attending in their Coaches together with many eminent Members of the House of Commons the Lord General the Lord Major and Aldermen with the whole Militia of the City Proclaimed Charles by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland the most potent mighty and undoubted King Nor did they intend by this Proclamation to seem as if they thought his Reign was to be begun from that time but confessed that forthwith upon the death of his Father the Imperiall Crown of England and the Dominions thereof did as absolutely bring unto him as now after Proclamation so that this is the twelfth year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord King Charles the second whom God preserve The House of Lords the House of Commons and the City of London made choice of severall most eminent and worthy persons of their number to attend his Majesty which that they may not by posterity be forgotten I have inserted their names For the House of Lords Earl of Oxford Earl of Middlefex Lord Brooke Earl of Warwick Lord Viscount Hereford Lord Barkley For the House of Commons Lord Fairfax Lord Bruce Lord Falkland Lord Castleton Lord Herbert Lord Mandevile Sr Horatio Townsend Sr Ant. Ashey-Cooper Sr George Booth Denzill Hollis Esq Sr John Holland Sr Henry Chomely For the honourable City of London Sr James Bunce Bar. Alderman Langham Alderman Reynardson Alderman Browne Sr Nicholas Crispe Alderman Thomson Alderman Fredrick Alderman Adams Recorder Wilde Alderman Robinson Alderman Bateman Alderman Wale Theophilus Biddulph Richard Ford. Will. Vincent Thomas Bludworth Will. Bateman J. Lowes Esq Major Chamberlaine Coll. Brumfield By Order from the Parliament that all Signs of the late Arbytrary Power might be rased the States Armes were to be taken down from all Churches and publick places that in the Parliament House and in Guildhall being taken down and the Kings Armes set up in their room the Statue of his late Majesty was likewise set up again at the Chappel in Guild-hall-yard The Votes of the Parliament were also for the Fleet to go immediately to receive his Majesties Orders and be at his Devotion That the Kings Majesty be desired to return speedily to Parliament and exercise of his Kingly Office That all Ministers shall in their publick prayers pray for his Majesty under the name of Our Soveraign Lord Charles by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. And the most Illustrious Prince James Duke of York with the rest of the Royall Progeny Which is the hearty and fervent prayer of the Author and all good Subjects and so let the conclusion be Long live King Charles II. THere is now made publique Eighteen Books of the Secrets of Art and Nature being the sum and substance of Naturall Philosophy First designed by John Wecker and now much inlarged by Dr. R. Read Sould at the Star in St. Pauls Church-yard

from the Rump whose villanies were now grown execrable to them and his strength likewise chiefly consisting in the affection and interest he had in the hearts of the Citizens they resolve to kill two Birds with one stone undoe the City and make him the instrument of the action On February the 9th they send him with part of his Army into the City and he according to their Order marched in that day and took up his Quarters at the three Tuns at Guild-Hall gate where he was caressed and saluted by divers principall Citizens But he who knew times were not yet ripe for his after comfortable actions granted them nothing but sends up to the House to know what he should do who immediately return him these Votes for an answer That he should immedihtely pull down and destroy the Gates Posts Chains and Portcullises which accordingly he put in execution And moreover sent these following persons who had lately been very active for the interest of the City to take up their lodgings in the Tower of London viz. Mr alias Alderman Thomas Brown Grocer Mr Daniel Spencer Collonel Bromfield Major Chamberlain Mr Richard Foord Major Cox Mr Bludworth Mr Penning and Lieutenant Collonel Jackson all of them Common Counsell men and persons of highest repute and desert These actions of his exceedingly startled the faith of all men who had grounded the opinion in themselves that God had appointed him for the onely instrument of his Countreys deliverance and were now in such a maze that they almost gave over the good hopes they had conceived of him But he who understood well enough what he went about and knew that by this action he should perfectly understand whether the City would not be wavering and inconstant should he make a neerer conjunction with them which must have ruined him and his good purposes together did fullfill this execrable Command of the Rump that so he might set them and the City at the utmost variance and so make them surer and faster for an after compliance with him which he not many hours after did make with them and so plenarily satisfied the longing desires of the City and deceived the Parliament with their own snare For that they had perfectly designed this action to cast dirt in his face in the eyes of the City may be seen in that whilst he was about this hatefull drudgery they already fell to abridge his power by joyning several others as Hesilrig Walton Morley c. in Commission with him for the Government of the Army that so they might restrain and curb him at pleasure But he who understood them well enough had no sooner finished this dirty work but upon his return to White-hall he sends them a Letter which rang another peal than they expected after their City-Victory wherein he notably expostulated with them for their last injurious commands tels them Of their countenancing and abetting such as they had seemingly declared enemies and had been the occasion of their last overthrow which were then in Town hatching designes for the ruine of all And then concludes with a prefixed time by which they would resolve to issue out Writs for a new Parliament that so they might terminate their sitting and come to a dissolution which both Army and Nation longingly expected After this Letter he sent on Saturday Febr. 11. in the morning and forthwith he gives order for his Army both Foot and Horse to be in a readiness and with them he marches by the backside of the Town into Finsbury-field where he musters them and goes himself with several of his Officers to Dinner with the Lord Maior at his house at night he marched them into the City where Quarters were provided for them with the hearty good will of the Citizens whose Bonfires and Bels did in some measure testifie the unmeasurable joy they had conceived by having got so noble a Guest But I must not omit one passage in his Letter which was the detestation of that damnable and hellish Petition which was presented to the Rump by Praise-God Barebones contrived by themselves and pretended to come from many thousand well-affected Brethren in London Westminster and the places adjacent Wherein they bitterly rail against King Nobility and Clergie casting all the scandal possible upon those worthy persons who were by armed violence excluded in 1648. because by a Treaty with the King they would have composed the bleeding differences of the Nation and likewise they utterly cried out against the restoring those Members or bringing in a Free Parliament as that which must inevitably ruine the godly of the Land For prevention of which they desired no more than the bare ruine both of Church and State in these following particulars That no man might be admitted into any place or function either in Church or State but who would absolutely abjure and renounce the King and all his Family and any single Person whatsoever By this means intending the overthrow of that small remains of Magistracy and Ministry they had left us That whosoever in Parliament or elswhere should make any mention of restoring the King should be adjudged guilty of High-Treason Intending hereby to cut off the hands and stop the mouths of those who had not such pernicious resolution for their Countreys ruine as themselves And yet notwithstanding this cursed Petition contained things in it thus horrid and villainous their Rumpships was graciously pleased to think it deserved the thanks of the House which by Order the Speaker returned to them But this our Noble General makes one reason of his so sudden desertion of them and happy was that action of his for London For the Rump as was reported and believed had designed the utter overthrow of the City-Government by taking away both Maior and Common Counsel and hanging up divers of the most eminent both Aldermen and Commoners But when now they see their pregnant hopes of compassing their mischievous ends prevented they seem to approve of General Moncks action and that they might leave no stone unturned which might serve for some support to their now falling interest They return hearty thanks to the Lord Maior for his good affection to them hoping thereby to create such animosities between the City and him that might render him uncapable of doing them a mischief by the affection of the Populacy to him They had likewise designed a new Militia made wholly of factious and mechanick persons who should have exercised what tyranny they pleased over the City But blessed be God these their machinations were blasted by the care and wisdome of our thrice noble General But to content him if possible they order a Committee to consider what Lands were fitting to be conferred upon him and to satisfie him in one particular they order a Proclamation to be published against John Lambert wherein he was required to render himself within four dayes upon the forfeiture of his Estate And then as for another Parliament they make show to