advice of their Commissioners being then in Westminster who lukewarmly declared against that horrid act and so did the Committee of Parliament in Scotland as Lukewarmly act at that time in Scoâ—land the Kings best friends there being excluded from sitting but it is well knowne what passed betweene Argile and Cromwell at my Lady Humes house in Edenburgh concerning the Kings death And after the Kings horrid death for breaking their Treaty made at Breda fully consented unto by this present King before they would suffer his Majesty to land in Scotland hee then lying upon their Coast in great perill and danger of the Englâ—sh Parliament ships then near his Majesty whose deliverance God prevented at Sea upon the coast by a great mist and for Inforcing a Declaration upon the now innocent King after his landing by the power of Argile and the Church to take the Guilt of that kingdome upon his innocent selfe and afterwards by jubjugating his Majesty under the pretended power of Church Government and Cromwels Creatures For delivering up their Army at Dunbar so much purged by the Church by the Treachery and Correspondence of some few persons when Cromwel could not have stayed 6. Dayes longer in the country and offered Scotland satisfaction for the damage he hed done to that kingdome and would have left it and returned into England with 3. or 4. Troops of horse for delivering up there Forts and Castles upon Treachery and for mony As Edenburgh castle by Dundas old Leisleyes Son in Law and Sterling Castle upon conditions to save their owne particular Goods for delivering the Records of the kingdom for their design at the comming in of Duke Hamiltons Army in Anno 1648. not for a clear intent to relieve England and themselves from the present treason and slavery then hathing by some compact persons of England and Scotland but intending to have the whole power and domination of the whole English nation to themselves as it hath been clearely seene since and confessed by themselves and God prospered it accordingly and in the Worcester businesse noe English power nor Army must be raised but under Commission and power of the Scots and hath not God for their sinnes and their only Acting the Scotch interest inslaved them wholly to the English and made ther Kingdome a Mercinary Province or Commonwealth in subjection unto England betrayed and voluntarily submitted unto by Argile and some of their country men lately sitting in the late howse of Commons in England onely for mony profit and their particular advantage Scotland is never to be trusted for the interest of England unlesse the Exchequer of Edenburgh were greater then the Exchequer of Westminster and that Scotland were England and England Scotland and is not this a greater judgment from heaven upon Scotland but blame not the whole nation for many of their rulers have caused them to err although the Commons at this time who have beene formerly to much inslaved by their Lords and Landlords are to much addicted to their lucre and profit wherein the English have indulged them with long Leases and by laying the Chief Burdens upon their Landlords for the more quiet of that kingdome but let Duke William Hamiltons ingenious confession a little before his death and his affection to the King then also expressed at Worcester to a noble English Lord now living and the Marquesse of Moniros his and the Lord Nappiers Loyalty and some other Lords in custody in England and others in Scotland upon their Parrol have that everlasting memory which their blood and honors have purchased And England which is now prevalent in power but odious by its Governours both at home and abroad unless to such who are involved in guilt and profit with them If England repent not of its perjury oppression and injustice to its country men bretheren and of all the innocent blood it hath spilt in England for its breach of faith solemnly ingaged in and out of Parliament before God Men and Angels to the whole world witnes their declarations and for suffering a compact number of conspirators cunningly to deceive the people under pretence of Reformation in Religion and the kingdomes abuses who have brought in a far greater destruction of Religion then before and overthrown all the liberties of the subject inslaving them to an absolute illegal and arbitrary power and to the bloody lust and wils of any persons whatsoever that may or can hereafter get or obtayne any unlawful power or Government whatsoever who have destroyed the ancient safe healthful and fundamentall constitution of England by King and Parliament ad introduced varieties of mock Parliaments to color there wickednes and to make monstrons Courts and constitutions only to serve their own lust ambition and Avarice and for the enslaving and murthering of their fellow subjects who with their Cap. General Oliver Cromwel the grand Protectorian brooke of the personal Treaty in the Isle of Wight with the last King when his Majestey had fully consented unto the parliaments propositions and given ful satisfaction for a firm and lasting peace in his three Kingdomes and was to come to Westminster by agreement to confirm them in ful Parliament The Parliament having voted the Kings concessions satisfactory wherin his Majesty had given the subjects more liberties and freedomes in that treaty and Consent then al the Kings since William the first and afterwards the said Cromwel with these Conspirators did expel most of the members of the howse of Commons and imprisoned them in Hel and two common Inns in the strand only leaving such other members in the howse as were his Conspirators and pentioners who sold their owne Consciences and the blood lives and liberties of the subject by setting up a slaughter howse their high court of justice a meer extrajudicial thing in law on purpose to blood and terrifie the people and to ingross the power and wealth of the Kingdome to themselves and the Committee men what wast sums of mony and plate they have given to themselves it is partly in print but far more concealed and can ye expect justice from them who make themselves judge and party whose iron hands you have sufficiently felt and afterwards openly committed that horrid and Barbarous Act a thing never parralleld in the world many or most of them now convened in this Fleeting wood Parliament being those monsters with there journy man Lentall the old Speaker who corresponded with the last King for his peace and assurance that have brought al these miseries upon the nation and do now follow the same dictates of blood and innovations and if ye suffer them to fit you must expect nothing but blood ruine of your estates and destruction of the kingdom by all illegal and arbitrary waies whatsoever and to sel your remaining monuments of the kingdome churches and noble houses and put the money in what Purses they please and weaken the kingdom for a prey to a forraign Nation These will be like the
ENGLANDS REMEMBRANCES AMONGST some sayings of a Wise Man one of his best was that the Life of a Life was a good Conscience This may be good Counsel to our fellow subjects of England at this time in this Apostate Age whereas nothing but a present Finition is acceptable upon no certainty but great uncertainties both of death sudden changes and alterations This address and faithfull advice is out of affection and zeal for the honour and happiness of the English Nation which is as near and dear to a true wel-wisher to his Country as his nearest relations all sufferings to a clear English heart in redemption of it would be like a fair hot sun shining day in the end of Harvest For only excremental creatures proceed and dissolve in the like nature But man that is chiefly born to serve God his King and Country upon the principles of Vertue Justice and true Religion according to revealed knowledge hath a duty of injunction laid upon him The blot upon our Nation must needs trouble all English hearts The deception under the Mask of Reliligion which is now thoroughly unmasked ought and must command much Repentance The Design of some of our Northern neighbours with the conspiracy of some of our Country men to pull down one Ecclesiastical Government for their own interest before another was put into a method for the settlement of Church Government hath justly brought this confusion upon themselves in Scotland and on us in England and do not we see how God hath worn our in their own actions and blasted many of the Plotters of our alterations in England although in Justice from Heaven we must look upon our sins the Nations sins and the three Kingdoms sins to be the moving cause from God so to punish us For is there any evil in the City and God hath not done it Amos the 3. chap. and 6. ve that is the evil of punishment which we all justly deserve Hath not God punished the Irish nation now almost extirpated for that horrid Massacre Murther and Rebellion in that Kingdom of Ireland palliating their wickedness under a counterfeit Commission and connivance from the last King whose innocence was most traiterously abused in it as was confessed by Sir Philemon Oneal before his execution in presence of divers worthy and noble persons now living who can testifie it upon their voluntary or required Oaths The Kings Broad Seal being taken off from a Letters Patents for a grant of lands and put to a forged and counterfeit Commission And concerning those papers taken out of Mr. Secretary Windebants study and put by the Parliaments order into the custody of one Mr. Willingham a Citizen of London some years since dead a noble Lord and a Citizen of London sent his Majesty word that if any of those papers concerning Ireland or any other of them might do his Majesty prejudice some persons of the Parliament intending to lay a charge against his Majesty about them such a course was and should be taken for their conveyance away if his Majesty would have it that they should never see light more But the King sent that noble Lord word and that Citizen who acted the business with Mr Willingham that he thanked them for their love and care of him but for any knowledge that he had or had given order in or for that business or massacre of Ireland he defied the Divel and all his Imps or any body else about it but if any of his servants had done amiss they must answer for their own faults and this will be testified upon Oath before God and Man And to confirm his Majesties clearness in that business of Ireland you see his enemies could not lay the least imputation against his Majesty in it although they wanted neither Will nor Malice For Scotland how hath God punished that Nation for the innocent blood and cruelties they have acted amongst themselves for their perjury and falseness for the breach of their publick and national Faith and agreement with the King made solemnly in the Parliament of Scotland 1641. after full satisfaction given by the King in that Parliament for that Church and kingdom and by invading England again with an Army contrary to their former Faith and Agreement upon the surruptions making wresting and breaking their solemn League ad Covenant construing part of it to serve their own sence and ends and not taking the whole scope sence and Articles of it together in which Covenant the English Independents out-witted them they supposing upon the interest of that Covenant to have overswayed the Parliament made London their own in affection and interest and so to have obtained the power of all England but with what success hath God yet blessed that Covenant being illegally entred into at the first although much and not all the contents thereof is good The Covenant Makers being the Covenant Breakers who declared a publick promise to have the Kings approbation and confirmation of it which was deferred until they had a Sword to inforce and compel it not a Christian like way to settle Religion which otherwise should be by a Synod of Reformed Divines legally called And for delivering their King to the English Independents when the Plot was visibly seen for the destruction of King and Parliament upon the Compact and Agreement for receiving 200000 pounds sterling for their Army when the King came to their Army then at Newark for a Sanctuary a Blot in Marble whereas if they had kept the King and not delivered him untill they had treated with the King and Parliament of England and London so much longed for and desired the King Parliament and kingdomes had been settled upon the Bases of Justice Truth and Righteousnes with a firm and lasting Peace and a Religious and Civill Reformation of all former errors and although they had the publick faith of the Parliament of England for a Treaty with his Majesty and both Kingdomes upon their delivering the King yet they could not but wel understand by their Commissioners who had lived long in England at the cost and charge of England that the Independent Faction grew so strong in the English Parliament and Army which were no friends to the King that it could not be safe for his Majesty to be in that custody at Holmby which was rather in the power of the Army than Parliament as it proved too sadly afterwards the Army being molded contrary to the first Iudgment of Parliament where as if the King had beene delivered unto the protection of his subjects in London there was then a visible power and foundation to guard his Majesty from the designe of Oliver Cromwell whose design was well perceived by many at that time And when the Scots had divested themselves of the King by delivering his Majestey over and Oliver Cromwell was acting that unparralleld death which could not but be wel known to the grand Committee of Parliament sitting then in Scotland by the
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Tyrants of Athens the Decemviri in Rome you have felt their hands enough already and will feel them again more to purpose if you let them sit who will call for any mans life and estate at their pleasures or displeasures whose Pride and power is to treasure up unrighteous Mammon against the Day of Wrath Their right to sit is nothing but force and violence a Monster in nature and a company of Theeves on the High way calling a Councel in a Wood and inlarging their unjust power by a Confederacy have as much right to sit in Councel as these unsatiable Usurpers and may give themselves the name of Parliament as well as these but all pious and truly affected to their country hope these will prove a Fleeting Parliament as Fleetwoods Mock Parliament The pact persons of the Councel of War with the old conspiring Members of the kingdoms miseries being all Conspiratots in this misery for the nation against Truth and Justice That Parliament of which these were unruly and excremental Members was absolutely dissolved by three waies the force and violence upon the House of Commons by expelling and imprisoning their Members and then the utter expulsion and extirpation of the rest by Cromwel and his Conspirators many now sitting being part of them which made that house sine Dieâ— and then the force and violence upon the House of Lords after adjournment to a Day the meeting of the Lords and their Speaker being prevented by the Souldiers guarding the House who writ upon it This House is to be Let made it also sine Die a natural dissolution But the chief and main reason was the Kings death a most absolute dissolution who called them by his Writ to consult with him and where his Soul now is it is feared many of them wil never come without great unfeigned Repentance A Parliament is the great and free Councel of the kingdom not called as this Juncto is by the Speakers or other persons giving notice to one another for their meeting but lawfully and freely called and chosen for the making and mending of Laws for the subjects good whereby they may have protection and security consisting of King Lords and Commons whereunto the subject may have address for his Grievances and redress of the same fully confirmed by Act of Parliament of King Lords and Commons the great security of the kingdom And if the Judges and Ministers of the Laws do not their Duties they are loyable to legal judgements and sentences according to the dismerrit of their offences And England will never be happy without these Parliaments in Freedome but otherwise most miserable as at this time you feel by experience And while that long Parliament called by the King in Anno 1648. kept its integrety and sincerity God blessed it but when it was cruel to its fellow Members and unjustly intruded upon the King and kingdoms Rights after full satisfaction given by his Majesty as the Bill passed for taking away the Star Chamber Court and other offensive Courts in the kingdom Bishops out of the Lords House and after that passed a Bill for a Triannual Parliament and whatsoever else was for the kingdoms good and offered the Parliament after wards only to treat with the Synod of Divines himself or else for his Majesty to chuse 20 Divines to sit amongst them for the settlement of the Discipline of the Church as by his message of the 20. of May which 20. persons could not overvote 120. or more But by the Guilt and Ambition of some of the Parliament Members when that Parliament made it self a Court to tyrannize over its fellow subjects their lives liberties and estates and accumulate the wealth and treasure of the kingdom to its self â—nd Pentioners to â—…vel and their â—…ittee-men God â—…t low and conâ—…ble in the eyes of â—…ple and at last â—…wn Members and its mercinary Members to turn one another out of the House and will ye serve the scum and offile of that Parliament that create themselves a name and power without Law Right and Justice whereby to murther your persons consume your estates and give you nothing but changes and uncertainties for security and settlement O England England repent repent of all thy Perjury and breach of Faith with God and Man of the breach of thy Allegiance thou hast sworn to thy lawfull King and his Heyors after him sworn unto and declared to the whole World by the Members of that Parliament and by these now sitting at Westminster and all the other several Oaths Vows Covenants Protestations and Declarations in order thereunto for the honour and happiness of the King and kingdom That you will with your Estates and Lives mutually preserve the Rights and Priviledges of Parliament and Liberties of the kingdom and Preserve and Defend his Majesties Person and Authority that the World may bear witness with your Consciences of your Loyalty that you had no thoughts nor intentions to diminish his Majesties just Power and Greatness O England England Repent Repent of all the multiplication of Illegal Oaths and Engagements thou hast taken and never take any Illegal Oath more although it seem never so religious but such as are confirmed by King and Parliament the wholesom and only lawfull constitution of the kingdom you feel the event of illegal oaths well enough And London the great Metropolis of the kingdom sell not your estates liberties lives and consciences as you do your wares and goods you have done too much already and make not your selves abominable to all succeeding generations you could fight well enough to bring your selves into slavery but not to free your selves out of it the time was when you had the prize in your hand and may yet if ye will put on wisedom and courage to redeem your honors and your selves from slavery and preserve the rights and priviledges of Parliaments and restore the King upon the principles of honor and justice and for your own and the kingdomes liberties and security you had those which stood in the gap for you who thirsted to have hazarded their lives for your redemption and their King and Country But you suffered your selves to be cheated and betrayed into a Treaty by two or three of your Aldermen and some others Citizens and Ministers who were Cromwels Factors and betraied you as Iudas did Christ or like Synon who brought in the Grecian horse into Troy when the power of the whole Army was not one quarter equivolent to the power and strength of the City whereas if you would have defended your own and the Parliaments liberties and maintained your Declarations which you so unworthily recalled as the Parliament also did theirs most of the Army had come off to you and this you were told by some of your very faithfull and good friends and was there any appearance of blood If you had not accepted the message for acceptance of the treaty by 6. of the Clock at night one
day when the Army was at Turnam Green and by Brainford into which you were scarced by the long winded speech of Cromwels messenger the said messenger telling the Common Councel that if by 6 of the Clock that night Cromwel and his Officers of the Army had not notice of your acceptanee of the Treaty the Army would be ingaged in blood with the City forces at the Forts and it was 9. or 10. of the clock at night before the message was sent from London and the same long winded messenger returning again the next morning to the Common Councel in London from Cromwel and his Complices who were then at Syon house tould the Common Councel that the night before as he went to Syon house that there was about half a troop of horse in an Inn in Knightbridge and one Centinel in the street and at Turnam Creen about one Regiment and half of Horse the Troopers all lying a sleep and their horses feeding tyed to the Troopers legs unless a Centinel or two in the high way and that was about 10. or 11. of the clock at night and what faith was to be given to that messenger who ye knew was the Cabals Creature of Cromwels and my Lord Says If ye had sent Cromwel word that if he shot his Guns against the City you would Ring your Bels as the Duke of Florence told Charles the 8. of France when his Army was before Florence and then the Kings Army durst not meddle with the City by which courage and Resolution the Duke preserved the City and its liberties so might ye have preserved London Repent London and Redeem the innocent blood that hath been spilt by your means I say you could fight wel enough to inslave your selves but not to Redeem your lost honor which formerly you have long enjoyed And until England return to its Loyalty and its Iust Principles for King and Parliament it wil be like a man in a feaver removing from one bed or Pallet to another but never be at ease or rest until the feaver hath left him Why should these new Fleeting wood Governors so much hated think to keep their intended Government built upon the Principles of Injustice Avarice and Ambition expect more security then the former Protectorians or other changes of Government have had hath not God overthrown the former pretended Reformers who sought their own Ambition and power under pretence of the kingdomes Good how many Changes and alterations have ye had since the last Kings death and can England without Repentance promise its self more security then former Empires and other Kingdomes have done hath it not been conquered by Romans Saxons Danes and Normans and are not Englands sins as great now nay greater then formerly Is there not a Generall Apostacy of Magistrates ministers and people do not almost all serve for lucre and Gain and dawb with untempered morter and ministers who would be accompted pious and Religious Intitle God to their Dawbing sins against knowledge only for wordly profit and Pedantick honor and may not England without Repentance suck the dregs of Gods wrath and make England in Conclusion the most miserable of the 3. nations let then that stand take heed least they fall it is a kingdom more envied then affected unless for its benefit and if the pride malice fury and revenge of Scotch Irish and Forrainers fall on it from which God keep it it may be harraced with iron hands and hearts and your Children friends Neighbors and Country men sold into forraign plantations and slavery with as little or less mercy or pitty then ye have sent and sold your Neighbours Countrey men and brethren Do not ye see in these alterations how God doth visit the sins of the Parents upon their Children Therefore as a good Physitian and Chyrurgian must know the disease and wound before he can cure it so Pardon the zeal of this pen not intentionally to Corrode but Heal for without sence of sin there can be no true repentance but let not us say like Caine and Iudas our sins are greater then God can forgive for if we Repent God will forgive and if England return to its loyaltie Iust Government or lawfull obedience it will be heartily forgiven and then it will be firmely setled upon a sure foundation in its just liberties that King and people may enjoy both their Rights and a full oblivion of all that is past firmely confirmed by the King in a free Parliament the great sâ—â—câ—rity of the kingdom all these late ways being absolutely Mutenous and Tumultuous and are a very few persons considerable to the good and happiness of a Nation who seduce the Souldiers and others that would be good Subjects who if they please may secure and save themselves most of the Grand Actors of that horrid death and murther God having Reserved their Iudgments to himself do not you now plainly preceive that Cromwells murthering the last King and his fair and Religious pretences for the Kingdomes Good were only steps to get the Crown himself and not finding in his life time all things concurring for his atcheivement thereof yet after his death would have his Effigies adorned with Trophies of the Regalia the Crown Globe and Scepter and these few persons now that contrive this new Government are only to make themselves Voces Plebi Magistri Plebi making the Councell of State to bring forth their Monster Their mock Parliament the God fathers the Army their actors and the people their porters and spectators to receive the Blessing from them of Issachar and themselves enjoy the free Common wealth of wealth Ambition luxury power and Revenge against whom they please Do not ye see they begin with Lentall their Speaker to make him as absolute Lord Chancellor as ever any was before and themselves will follow in other places being the Giving Parliament one to another And wheras in Monarchy you have one head to resort unto for Iustice and if his ministers fail they are Punishable by law and Parliament but where you have many to Resort unto it will be like the old saying of the Deans and Chapters come to them apart they are all honest but together they are very knaves and so will these be Have ye got any thing by your often Changes but losse of your Blood and estates O that England would vindicate its self from those blots and just aspertions now upon it for its own honour and happines and terror of its no friends abroad that it may have a firm and lasting peace within its self which it can never have without its lawfull King Never was England more happy in a King then it will be in this Kings Restoration whose nature cannot be a Tyrant who thirsteth to receive his subjects into his Gracious Favour and hartily wisheth the Good and Prosperity of England in generall and its Metropolis London which now serveth its Chargeable Task-masters for the Avarice and Ambition of a very