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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96821	The history of independency, with the rise, growth, and practices of that powerfull and restlesse faction.	Walker, Clement, 1595-1651.	1648 (1648)	Wing W329A; Thomason E445_1; ESTC R2013	65,570	81

into a dull sleep now was his time to pick a quarrell with the City that what he could not obtain by fair means he might effect by foule To make them desert and divide from the Parliament And leave it to be modelled according to the discretion of the Souldiery He could not think it agreeable to policy that this City which had slaine his Compeere and fellow Prince Wat Tyler the Idoll of the Commons in Rich. 2. time and routed his followers four times as many in number as his Army should be trusted with their own Militia The City being now far greater more populous and powerfull then in his dayes In a full and free Parliament upon mature debate both Houses by Ordinance dated 4 May 1647. had established the Militia of the City of London for a year in the hands of such Citizens as by their Authority approbation were nominated by the Lord Major Aldermen and Common-Councell and though the Army had recruited it self without Authority and had got themselves invested with the whole power of all the Land forces of the Kingdome in pay of the Parliament so that there was nothing left that could be formidable to them but their own crimes and that it was expected they should goe roundly to work upon those publick remedies they had so often held forth to the people in their popular printed Papers yet the Army contrary to what they promised to the City in their Letter 10. June and their Declaration or Representation 14. June 1647. That they would not goe beyond their desires at that time expressed and for other particulars would acquiesce in the justice and wisdome of the Parliament behold their modesty by a Letter and Remonstrance from Sir Thomas Fairfax and the Army See the Letter and Remonstrance from Sir Tho. Fairfax and the Army pag 8 9. with unresistible boldnesse demand the Militia of the City of London to be returned into other hands without acquainting the City or their Commissioners then resident in the Army to keep a good correspondency with them therewith Upon which letter alone the House of Commons being very thin many Members driven away by menaces upon July 22. Voted the repealing the said Vote of 4 May and a new Ordinance for reviving the old Militia presently passed and transmitted to the Lords the same day about seven of the clock at night and there presently passed without debate though moved by some to be put off untill the City whose safety and priviledges it highly concerned were heard what they could say to it Observe that neither by the said paper from the Army nor by any man in the two Houses any thing was objected against any of the new Militia And indeed formerly the Parliament never made choice of enlarged or changed the City Militia but they were still pleased first to communicate the same to the Common Councell A respect justly shewed to that City which had been such good friends to them But of late since the Parliament have shifted their old Principles and Interests they have learned to lay by their old friends The pretence for this hasty passing the Ordinance was to prevent the Armies so much threatned March to London if the Houses refused to passe it and the Cities opposition if not passed before their notice of it But the reall designe was to strike a discontent and jealousie into the City thereby to force them to some act of self-defence which might give a colour to the Army to march up against them and their friends in the Houses The unexpected news of this changing their Militia 24 24. The City troubled at the change of their Militia caused the City June 24. being Saturday to meet in Common Councell where for some reasons already expressed and because the repealing this Ordinance upon no other grounds then the Armies imperious desires might justly be suspected to shake all other Ordinances for security of mony sale of Bishops lands I appeal to Colonel Harvy whether this did not fright him by making them repealable at the Armies pleasure they resolved to petition the Houses upon munday morning following being 26. July which they did by the Sheriffs and some Common Councell men 25 25. The City petition the Houses for their Militia again 26 26. The Tumult of Apprentices 26. July But so it hapned that about one thousand Apprentices wholly unarmed came down two or three howers after with another Petition of their own to the Houses Therein claiming that to order the City Militia was the Cities Birth-right belonging to them by Charters confirmed in Parliaments for defence whereof they had adventured their lives as far as the Army And desired the Militia might be put again into the same hands in which it was put with the Cities consent by Ordinance May 4. Upon reading these Petitions the Lords were pleased to revoke the Ordinance of July 23. and revive that of May the 4. by a new Ordinance of July 26. which they presently sent downe to the Commons for their consents where some of the Apprentices presuming they might have as great an Influence upon the House to obtain their due as the Army in pay of the Parl had to obtain more then their due in a childish heat were over-clamorous to have the Ordinance passed refusing to let some Members passe out of the House or come forth into the Lobby when they were to divide upon the question about it so ignorant were they of the customs of the House which at last passed in the Affirmative about three of the clock afternoon and then most of the Apprentices departed quietly into the City After which 27 27. The Tumult of Apprentices ceased but artificially continued by Sectaries some disorderly persons very few of them Apprentices were drawn together and instigated by divers Sectaries and friends of the Army who mingled with them amongst whom one Highland was observed to be all that day very active who afterwards 26. Sept. delivered a Petition to the House against those Members that sate and was an Informer and Witness examined about the said Tumult gathered about the Commons dore and grew very outragious compelling the Speaker to return to the Chaire after he had adjourned the House and there kept the Members in untill they had passed a Vote That the King should come to London to Treat This was cunningly and premeditately contrived to encrease the scandall upon the City yet when the Common Councell of London heard of this disorder as they were then sitting they presently sent down the Sheriffs to their rescue with such strength as they could get ready their Militia being then unsetled by the contradicting Ordinances of the Parliament who at last pacified the Tumult and sent the Speaker safe home which was as much as they could do in this intervall of their Militia being the Houses own Act. The Lords adjourned untill the next Friday the Commons but untill the next day Tuesday

this and all future Parliaments to an Army of Rebells who refuse to obey their Masters and disband This engagement so over-leavened the Army that their brutish Generall sent forth Warrants to raise the Trained Bands of some Counties to March with him against the City and both Houses Although Trained Bands are not under pay of the Parliament and therefore not under Command of the Generall by any Order or Ordinance But what will not a fool in Authority doe when he is possessed by Knaves Miserable man His foolery hath so long waited upon Cromwells and Iretons knavery that it is not safe for him now to see his folly and throw by his Cap with a Bell and his Bable The Earl of Essex dyed so opportunely that many suspected his death was artificiall Yet the City were so desirous of Peace 35 35. The City send Commissioners to the Army Fowkes Gibs and Eastweck by which they are betrayed that they sent Commissioners sundry times to the Army to mediate an Accord who could obtaine no more equall tearmes of Agreement then that They should yeild to desert both Houses and the impeached Members Call in their Declaration newly Printed and Published Relinquish their Militia Deliver up all their Forces and Line of Communication to the Army together with the Tower of London and all the Magazines Armes therein Disband all their Forces Turn all the Reformado's out of the Line Withdraw all their Guards from the Houses Receive such Guards of Horse and Foot within the Line as the Army should appoint to Guard the Houses Demolish their Workes And suffer the whole Army to March in Triumph through the City as Conquerers of it and the Parliament and as they often give out of the whole Kingdome Tearmes which they might have had from the great Turk had he sate downe before them and broken ground All which was suddainly and dishonourably yeilded to and executed accordingly by such an Army as was not able to fight with one half of the City had they been united But they are the Devills seedes-men and have sowen the Cockle of Heresie and Schisme so aboundantly in City and Country especially amongst the more beggerly sort that these men joyning Principles and Interests with the Army weaken the hands of all opponents They often brag that they made a civill March free from Plunder I Answer they neither durst nor could doe otherwise their Souldiers being ill Armed and so few that they were not able to keep stands in the streets and keep the Avenues while their fellowes dispersed to Plunder Charles 8. with a far greater and more Victorious hoast durst not offer violence to the far lesse City of Florence when Signior Caponi put an affront upon him in the Town-house Bidding him beat his Drums and they would ring their Bells 36 36. The fugitive Members returned Upon the 6 of Aug. 1647. the Generall brought the fugitive Speakers and Members to the Houses with a strong Party who might have returned sooner without a Guard had not their own crimes designes hindred them the two Palaces filled with armed guards double files clean through Westminster-Hall up the staires to the House of Commons and so through the Courts of Request to the Lords House and down staires againe into the old Palace The Souldiers looking scornfully upon many Members that had sate in the absence of the Speaker and threatning to cut some of their throats And all things composed to so ridiculous a terrour as if they would bespeak without speaking the absence of those Members that sate Placed the Speakers in the Chaires without Vote out of which they had been justly Voted for deserting their calling where the Generall was placed in a Chaire of State enough to make a fool of any man that was not fit for it and received speciall thanks for his service from both Speakers And in the second place a day of thanksgiving was appointed to God I think for his patience in not striking these Atheisticall Saints with thunder and lightning for making him a stale to their premeditated villanies Here Sir Thomas Fairfax with a breath and before any man that was not privy to the designe could recover out of his amazement was made Generalissimo of all the Forces and Forts of England and Wales to dispose of them at his pleasure Constable of the Tower of London The Common Souldiers Voted one monthes gratuity besides their pay the Commons being in good case to give gifts before they pay'd debts left to the discretion of the Generall to set what Guards he pleased upon the two Houses Whereby you may perceive in what unequall condition those Members that did not runne away with the Speaker doe now sit after so many reiterated threats of the Generall against them in his printed Papers After this the Generall Lievtenant Generall and the whole Army 37 37. The Armies March in Triumph through the City with other subsequent Acts. with the Traine of Artillery marched through London in so great pomp and triumph as if they would have the people understand that the Authority of the Kingdome in whose hands soever it remaines in these doubtfull times must submit to the power of the sword the hilt and handle whereof they hold They turne out the Lieutenant of the Tower without cause shewne The consequencies of these two actions were that immediately the City decayed in Trade above 200000 l. a week and no more Bullion came to the Mint They displace all other Governours though placed by Ordinance of Parliament and put in men of their owne party for this incroaching faction will have all in their owne hands They alter and divide the City of London setting up particular Militia's at Westminster Southwarke and the Hamlets of the Tower that being so divided they may be the weaker Demolish the Lines of Communication that the City and Parliament may lie open to Invasion when they please and fright many more Members from the Houses with threats and feare of false Impeachments The 11. Impeached Members having leave by Order of the House and licence of the Speaker some to goe beyond Sea and Anthony Nicholls to goe into his owne Country to settle his Affaires some of them as Sir William Waller and M. Den Hollis were attached upon the Sea Nicholls arrested upon the way into Cornewall by the Army and despightfully used and when the Generall was inclined to free him Cromwell whose malice is known to be as unquenchable as his nose told him he was a Traytor to the Army You see now upon whom they meane to fixe the peoples allegeance for where no Allegeance is there can be no Treason and to what purpose they have since by their 4. Votes first debated between the Independent Grandees of the Houses and Army laid aside the King Col Dirch formerly imployed for Ireland by the Parliament was imprisoned and his men mutinyed against him by the Army and Sir Sam Luke resting quietly in