Church and State and was not this enough what would they have more The Common-wealth-men they were a Birding too telling their pretty tales of Rome and Venice O the Gallantry of those ancient Romans that banished Tarquin out of Rome In the mean time the Presses are at work by Libells against the King wherein he was sufficiently abus'd particularly by a feigned letter from Brussels by Arguments of interest and by false intelligence to corrupt and deceive the people Yet would not all doe the Country were too sensible of the grosse Abuses and Cheates they had put upon the Nation The Generall willing they should be overcome as well by Argument as Force easily yields to a proposition that both sides might meet and speak what they could for themselves The Rump chose for themselves St. John Haslerig Col. Morley Col. Thomson Sir Ant. Ash Cooper Mr. Weever Col. White Col. Hutchinson Mr. Raleigh Col. Fielder on the part of the secluded members came Col. Popham Sir Will. Lewis Sir John Holland Sir Gil. Gerrard Mr. Knightley Mr. Annestey Mr. Crew Mr. Trevor Col. Harley Col. Norton Sir John Temple Col. Brich These met at Alderman Wales House then the Generalls quarters where they had a long conference together before him but when the Generall came to weigh the reasons on both sides he found those of the Rump much too light for the other partes The Generall being now satisfied in the Justice of the Secluded members cause quits his head-quarters in the City and returns to White-hall February 21. where met him in his Lodging most of the secluded Members in town to whom he spake to this purpose Gentlemen You are not I hope ignorant what care and endeavours have been us'd and means assayd for healing the breaches of our divisions among our selves and that in order thereunto diverse conferences have been procured between you yet having a fuller satisfaction from those Gentlemen that were secluded then formerly I was bold to put you all to the trouble of this meeting that I might open my self to ye all with more freedome then formerly But lest I might be misapprehended or mistaken as of late it befell me I have committed to writing the heads of what I intended to discourse to ye and desire it may be openly read After which a Paper was read to the Members by the Generalls Secretary to this effect That by what he had heard the settlement of the Nation lay in their hands and that he was assured they would become makers up of its wofull breaches in pursuit whereof he would think nothing too dear That he would impose nothing on them but took leave to mind them that the old foundations were so broken that in the eye of reason they could not be restor'd but upon the ruine of the Nation That the interest of London lay in a Common-wealth the only Government capable of making her the bank for the trade of Christendome that he thought a moderate not rigid Presbyterian government most acceptable to the Churches settlement therefore he exhorted them to settle the conduct of the Army and maintenance for the forces by sea and land to summon a New Parliament and make a legal dissolution of this This read the Members took leave and repaired to the House which they found open for them with all freedome above four score appearing at the first sitting They were no sooner entred but fell instantly upon the Nulling of those spurious orders which related to their first seclusion in Decemb. 1648. proceeding thence to the Enlarging and Confirming of the Generalls Commission and the disabling of the Rumps Commissioners for the Government of the Army the discharging of prisoners illegally committed and the appointment of a new Convention April 25. 1660. The Militia's they placed in good hands and empowred a Council of State to govern in the next intervall which being done and provision made for a new Election March the 16. they dissolved themselves Thus by the great blessing of God was the design of the Rump happily prevented who intended to have held the people at gaze in expectation of a further satisfaction till divers Troopes which they had ordered to that purpose should have seised all the considerable persons of the Kingdome Nay they were so impudent as to tempt the Generall himself into a complication with them but his Noble soul was too Generous to be wrought upon to prostitute his Honour his Safety and all to preserve a violent and restless faction Nor were they wanting in other shameless villanies falsifying the Lists of the Militia solliciting Petitions from the City for their Continuance jugling the Army-Officers into a Tumult Employing their instruments to destroy the Generall Mutinying the Army and the City and finally engaging a great part of the Souldiery to remonstrate against the rest of the Nation so desirous they were to have perpetuated their tyranny though all their endeavours proved too little to prevent their dissolution Yet notwithstanding the fruitlesseness of their endeavours their restless spirits were never quiet having their Agitators very busy in the Army though the Council of State put forth a Proclamation against them these cursed fire-brands more fatall to England then Paris was to Ilium having with their Machiavilian doctrine poysoned a considerable party of the Souldiers to Head their faction Lambert by what means I know not makes an escape out of the Tower to which place not long before he had been committed for refusing to sign an Engagement of living peaceably hereupon the Generall placed four companies of his own Regiment in the Tower and the Council of State issued forth a Proclamation against him and his complices requiring all persons whatsoever to be assistant to the suppression of them and that whosoever should bring him in should for his reward receive a hundred pounds the Citizens repaired their Posts and Chaines strengthned their Guards and in short the whole Nation was as vigilant as possible to disappoint the grand Conspiracy of the Phanaticks At last the Hue and Cry overtook the Thief Lambert is heard of with a party near Daventry consisting of four Troops of Horse viz. Colonel Alureds and Major Nelthrops which two Gentlemen were then in London and not in the least acquainted with their Troops defection Captain Haslerig 's and Cap. Clares besides severall Anabaptists Quakers and other Sectaries Colonel Ingoldsby having notice where he was resolves to give him a visit in his way his forlorn hope meeting with Captain Haslerig took him prisoner but upon giving his parol and a promise to send his Troop to them he was dismissed which according to his engagement not long after came in led by the Cornet and Quartermaster The Enemy seeing himself too weak in Armes seeks to gain by Art and desires a parley thinking thereby to increase their party which they being armed against the temptations of the Fiend are not unwilling to admit of the main business they drove at was under pretence of
Majesty as also 10000l to the Duke of Yorke and 5000l to the Duke of Glocester as a testimony of their respects to the Royal Family the City of London likewise ordered a present of 10000l to be sent to His Majesty who is desired to make a speedy return to the exercise of His kingly office and these Honourable persons from the Lords Commons and City ordered to attend him in his journey For the House of Lords The Earl of Oxford Earl of Middlesex Lord Brook Earl of Warwick Lord Viscount Hereford Lord Berkley and Dr. Charleton their Physician For the House of Commons Lord Fairfax Lord Bruce Lord Faulkland Lord C stleton Lord Herbert Lord Mandevil Sir Horatio Townsend Sir Anth. Ashley-Cooper Sir George Booth Denzil Hollis Esq Sir John Holland Sir Henry Cholmley and Mr. Bowles their Physician For the City of London Sir James Bunce Baronet Alderman Langham Alderman Reynardson Alderman Brown Sir Nicholas Crispe Alderman Tomson Alderman Frederick Alderman Adams Recorder Wilde Alderman Robinson Alderman Bateman Alderman Wale Theophilus Biddolph Richard Ford. Will. Vincent Tho. Bludworth Will. Bateman J. Lewes Esq M. Chamberlain Col. Bromfield And now since we were come again under a Regall Government the States Armes were ordered to be taken down in all places and the Kings Armes set up in their room the Standerts Flags and Jacks Colours for the Fleet to be used as before 1648. their carved and painted works altered c. The Statue of His late Royal Majesty that was formerly taken down at the Chappell in Guild-hall yard was set up again Thus was all endeavours used to obliterate as much as could be the very memory of our State-juglers who promising to bring us into a fools Paradise of liberty brought us into a reall bondage and slavery Yet notwithstanding the great hopes of a happy settlement the knipperdoling Fifth-Monarchy-men and others of that loose principled gang would needs have another firke to re-erect their Babell their design was having prepared saddles and armes to have stole the Horses and Mares at grasse about the Town and having mounted their Proselites intended with them to perform wonders but their Conspiracy was rotten before it was riâ—e giving to those that were Loyall this advantage thereby before the Stead was stole to shut the stable door Before I pass any further having discovered a Cheat give me leave to have it pillory'd The Parliament being informed of the sum of seven thousand nine hundred seventy eight pounds eight shillings nine pence heretofore paid into the receiâ—t of the Exchequer of the moneys collected for the relief of the Poor Protestants in Piedmont and Poland but by the Quondam States-men converted to another use they detesting and abhorring the diversion of the said money from the charitable uses to which it was originally intended Ordered the said sum to be paid out of such monies as should come into the said receipt upon the moity of the Excise at the rate of 2000 l. by the month till the whole were satisfied unto Alderman Viner and Alderman Pack Treasurers for the said monies by this we may see the large Conscience of our pretended zealots whose insatiable Covetousness extended so far as even to the robbing of the spittle May the twelfth several goods which were kept at a Fruiterers House in Thames-street were seized on they being found to have belonged formerly to His Majesty While His Majesty resides at Breda with the Dukes of Yorke and Glocester the ministers of Spain and France congratulate him The King of Spain presents him very largely The States Generall also desire audience of His Majesty and being admitted they invited His Majesty to the Hague and present him with 6000l Ster and in further testimony of their kindnesse the States of Holland and Westfriesland order severall Commanders as soon as any publick addresse should be made to the King to signifie their serious and sincere affections to His Majesty and to His Family and their desires to settle a firme and everlasting alliance with him About this time the Army in Ireland send an Humble addresse to the Generall shewing That as they were amazed at the former changes and revolutions so they could not but with joy now observe light breaking out of darkness and order out of confusion That whereas the Parliament had manifested their joyfull sense of His Majesties gracious offers they did also testify their joy and contentment therein and were resolv'd to observe the commands of his Excellency desiring him to improve this reall and cordiall engagement of theirs both with His Majesty and the two Houses But to return to the Commissioners sent to attend His Majesty they having a prosperous wind and smooth sea Eolus in short time arrived at the Hague whither soon after came His Sacred Majesty the Dukes of Yorke and Glocester with the Princesse Royall attended by a Regiment of her Horse being Royally entertained all the way from Breda at the charge of the States Generall The next day the Commissioners had audience the Earl of Oxford delivered the message from the House of Lords Denzill Hollis from the Commons and the Recorder of London from the City His Majesty conferred the Honour of knighthood on all the Citizens sent as Commissioners with the Lord Gerards sword The Ministers of London had some conference with him who received much satisfaction in his Religious discourse The States Generall during His Majesties stay there which by reason of crosse winds was the longer entertained him with a Costly Banquet and Royall presents among the rest they gave him the gold plate wherein the first Course at one of their feasts had been serv'd up valu'd at 60000 l. and table-linnen to the value of 1000 l. also a bed worth 7000 l. and 600000. gilders and as a further addition to the satisfaction of His Majesty they presented to his Nephew the Prince of Orange a full confirmation of all Honours and profits his Father enjoyed At last the weather growing calme he went aboard where taking his leave of the Queen of Bohemia the Princess Royall and Prince of Orange who accompanied him into the ship they set sail for England His Majesty in the Royal Charles formerly the Naseby the Duke of Yorke in the London and the Duke of Glocester in the James before called the Swift-sure The Gods did guide their sail course the winds were at command And Dover was the happy place where first they came oâ— land May 25. they arrived at the Beech near the Peer of Dover whither not above two Hours before was come his Excellency the Lord Cenerall Monck to congratulate His Majesties happy arrivall Now did all persons put themselves into a posture for to observe the meeting of the best of Kings and most deserving of Subjects The admirers of Majesty were jealous on the Kings behalf of too low a condiscention and the lovers of duty on the other side of an ostentation of merit but such an humble prostration
they would during his absence which would not be long preserve the peace of the Nation That if any troubles should arise they would assist him in the suppressing thereof That they would raise him some money To which the convention answer'd that for the raising of money they were ready to doe it As to the other two demands they reply'd that they were in no condition to perform his desires being that they wanted armes However that they would endeavour it Preparations therefore for warre still goe on and the Horse after some endeavours wherein Major Generall Morgan was very active were perswaded to sign the Engagement which was offer'd to them by Generall Monck Some weeks had pass'd when Generall Monck thinking it now necessary to return some kind of answer to what his Commanders at London required from him as to his consent to those articles which they had among themselves agreed upon wrote a letter to Fleetwood bearing date from Edinburgh Novemb. 14. wherein he signified that he was very glad to find his Lordship and the Officers of the Army of so complying a spirit and so tender of the publick peace but because he was desirous that the agreement should be full and firme and because he did conceive that some things did remaine untreated of and unagreed upon that therefore 't was the resolution of himself and the rest of the Officers there to adde two more to those that were already commissionated to treate with the same number of such as should be appointed by his Lordship for the putting a finall end to this unhappy business and that the place if his Lordship would permit should be at Newcastle which being granted Generall Monck managed the occasion of delaying them so prudently that while they were eager to entrap him they never perceived the advantages which the other gain'd upon themselves While they are debating at Newcastle the Committee of Safety and the Council of Officers have many debates at home They labour much to satisfie the City Whitlock to his praise be it spoken together with Fleetwood and Desborough being very industrious to that purpose but the Citizens having with much strugling chosen an honest and resolute Common-council at length disown'd them and desire though it were a sound most ungratefull to the men at Wallingford-house that they may have a Free-parliament which animosity of theirs was much augmented by Husons insolence and the murders which he committed in the midst of their City on the 5. of December The second thing they so much endeavour'd was to bring forth the form of government of which they had so long been in travel and at length they conclude upon seven unalterable principles or fundamentalls as they name them which were First That no kingship should be exercised in the nations Second That they will have no single person to be chief Magistrate Third That an army be continued and maintained and conducted so as to secure the peace of the Nations and not be disbanded nor the conduct altered but by consent of the Conservators Fourth That no imposition be upon the Consciences of them that fear God Fifth That there be no House of Peers Sixth That the Legislative and Executive powers be distinct and not in the same hands Seventh That both the assemblies of the Parliament shall be elected by the people of this Common-wealth duly qualified But neither this piece of confusion nor Husons regiment could appease the City so that by meer necessity constrained the Council of Officers most graciously condescend to the calling of a Parliament and the Committee of Safety order the issuing out of wri s accordingly thinking to stop the breach which they had so over-hastily made The Rump seeing these confusions were not idle for themselves They knew that of the two Generall Monck enclin'd to their side then Lamberts and that in Lamberts army they had also many friends if they could but shew themselves The first Alarum which the Committee of Safety the Officers received was from Portsmouth where Harslerig Walton and Morley had made sure of the Garrison and so dealt with Viceadmirall Lawson who gave the second Alarum which rung like a knell in the then more amazed ears of these people for he sent them a declaration in his own and the name of severall of the sea-commanders insisting upon severall reasons why they conceiv'd it necessary that the long Parliament should sit again Hereupon Vane Saloway and Salmon were sent down to conferre with him but Scot being there with two bolsters one for each elbow kept him so steady that 't was impossible for them to hale him on one side So that at length he positively declares for the Long-Parliament the Souldiers also which were sent to block up Portsmouth submit to Harslerig and Morley declaring positively for the Rumps re-sitting Desboroughs regiment which was by the Committee of Safety sent for to strengthen their party being come as far as Saint Albans when they heard how things went make a halt and pause upon 't Hereupon Harslerig with what forces he had marches for the City and those regiments which were about the town being rendevouz'd by Okey and Alured declare their resolutions to live and dye with the Parliament which being done the Speaker Lenthall takes charge of the Tower and delivers it to the Care of Col. Fitch The Rump being now absolute masters of the field give the conduct of the Army to Popham Thomson Scot Okey Sir Ant. Ashley Cooper Alured and Markhnm and the custody of the Tower to Sir Ant. Ashley Cooper Weever Scot and Barners They also order Lamberts forces to repair to their quarters and send Letters of thanks and acknowledgment to Generall Monck for his fidelity and good service Ireland also submits and Lockhart courts them in a Letter from Dunkirk but at length comes the welcome news of the submission of Lamberts forces who seeing their Generall either so baffled or disappointed forsake him and he thereupon sends a letter of submission to the Parliament Generall Monck also humbly congratulates the recovery of their power These fair gales blowing so briskly in their poop they think they have the world in a string and therefore having spoke their friends fair they begin to think of talking with their enemies In order to which they ordaine an act for the publick sale of Sir George Boothes Estate They also discharge Sir Harry Vane from being a member of the House and order Lambert Disborough Ashfield Berry Kelsey Packer Cobbet and Creed to repair to their most remote habitations from London during their pleasure but finding them to stay in town give order to the Council of State to secure them Generall Monck they desire to come as speedily as he can to London for else they saw he was resolved to come without bidding whereupon he advances into England and at Morpeth the sword-bearer of the City meets him with a letter from the Lord Major and Common Council whom he speedily
return'd with an answer The Parliament for all their complements being not well satisfy'd in the intentions of Generall Monck send Scot and Robinson under pretence of congratulating with him for the good success God had given to his endeavours to prie into his actions and to make discovery of his proceedings And to curry favour with the Nation in generall they put forth a Declaration wherein they promise to this effect first they declare their resolutions to perfect what they had begun for setling the government of these Nations and the people thereof in the way of a Common-wealth and free State That all proceedings touching the Lives Liberties and Estates of the free people of this Common-wealth should be according to the laws of the Land That they would make effectual provision for countenancing an honest godly ministry and that impropriations and augmentations should be continued That they would uphold all the Schooles and Universities in the land and continue their privileges That they would apply themselves with all speed to such Counsels and means as should be found most proper for the speedy increasing of trade Lastly as to the present burthens that they were very sensible thereof and that it was one of their greatest cares to give the people ease But the people were now grown too wise to believe those who had so oft before deluded them now seeing them fall to their old tyrannies afresh under pretence of restoring them their long enthralled liberties begin to rouse up themselves and to shew their generall hatred towards them To Generall Monck therefore as a person whom they saw to be of a free and ancient English spirit they resolve to make their applications laying before him the infidelity treachery and tyranny of the Rump beseeching him to assert their libertieâ— and promising him to stick by him in the maintenance of their freedome The Devonshire men as being his own Countrimen began the substance of whose addresse and the Generalls answer we shall insert being indeed the full scope of what all demanded and of the answer which all received The substance of the addresse was this That they found their Countrymen groaning under high oppressions and a defect of trade that though there was an alteration in the State affaires by the reassembling of the Long Parliament yet that they found themselves but in part redress'd and that therefore the chief expedient would be to recall those members that were secluded in 48. that they may fill up the vacant places and not be oblig'd to oaths before their sitting for which things they should defend him against all opposers with life and fortunes To this the Generall answers That the government was monarchicall before the warre that since there have been severall interests that these interests are interwoven by marriages and purchases and all engag'd against the King as to Civils and therefore that no government can be good that doth not rationally comprehend the preservation of all the said interests That Monarchy cannot be admitted because its support was taken away and besides that it is exclusive of all the Civil and Spirituall interests now in being which premises being granted to admit of the secluded members as being monarchicall and such as would abolish the laws made since their seclusion would engage the Nation in a new warre upon the account of self-preservation that therefore he thought 't was better to submit to the present Parliament Such doubtfull answers as this as they pleas'd the Rump so they did not dissatisfy the other party but gave cause to both parties to think well of him At Northampton he receiv'd another address from the hands of Sir John Norrice to whom he replies that he was but a servant of the Parliaments with whom he ought not to interpose in matters of Highest concernment On the 28. of January at Night the Generall arrived at Saint Albanes where he had severall addresses made to him from Norfolke Suffolke Buckingham and Leicester being come thither he sends to the Parliament to send their forces out of town and quarter them according to the lists which he had sent them which they readily order'd the Commanders of the army to see performed accordingly Generall Monck being now not far from London those forces quartered in the City were ordered to march from thence to make Room for his Excellencies Souldiers but they having learned of their Masters to be Rebellious refused to goe and having cast off their Officers a considerable party of them engarrisoned themselves at Somerset-house That night also the Apprentices drew themselves into a party in the City intending no doubt to have joyned with the discontented Red-coates which had they done they might have given a shrewd Alarum to the Rump but before their joyning they were dissipated by a part of the Army-horse The Mutiners upon a false Alarum were got out of the Town and having their mouths stopt with a little pay were commanded away leaving the Town quiet and in condition to entertain honester Guests February 3. His Excellency marched in the head of his Army to his Quarters at White-hall On the 6. of the same Month he was by Scot and Robinson Squires of the Rump conducted to that Image of Authority assembled in the House where the Parliament usually sits where he was by their pretended Speaker complemented with a fawning speech candied over with Scripture-phrases to make it the more plausible To which His Excellency returned a more pertinent answer informing them of the severall applications and numerous subscriptions he received from most Counties in his March from Scotland the chiefest Heads of their desires being for a free and full Parliament a Gospell-Ministry incouragement of Learning and Universities admittance of the Members secluded before 1648. and that they would determine their sitting c. But these were matters they loved not to hear of much lesse resolved to practise yet seeing the peoples earnestness was such and that it was in a manner the agreement of the whole Nation they at last most graciously condescended to promise a full Representative but no secluded Members to be admitted nor in effect any other then Phanatiques The supreme Trifle was now come to a forced put monies must be raised to pay the Souldier and the pride of the stubborn Citizens taken down that would not let the Rump to ride them or the Good Old Cause would be totally ruined in order to both out comes a Tax of 100000 l. per mensem this being debated in Common-council they agreed in the Negative which so incensed the Back-side that they adjudged the affront intollerable and immediately poured out their indignation upon the City in these following Resolves Thursday February 9. The House received a report from the Council of State of some Resolutions taken by the Council in relation to the City of London Resolved That the Parliament doth approve of what the Council of State hath done in Ordering that the Commissioners for Government of