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A97273	A brief view of the late troubles and confusions in England, begun and occasioned by a prevailing faction in the Long Parliament: deduced to the auspicious [sic] coming in of General Monck, and the most glorious and happy restitution of King Charles the Second. / By William Younger.	Younger, William, 1605-1662.	1660 (1660)	Wing Y198; Thomason E1873_2; ESTC R204143	45,037	159

Peers as useless inconvenient and an hinderance to the proceedings of Parliament a just reward for so ignoble degenerous spirits And because great Personages like great Trees in a Forrest seldom fall alone to compleat the Tragedie within a few weeks after they impeach Duke Hamilton General of the Scottish Army and the Earl of Holland as also the Lord Capel and Lord Goring taken in Colchester and some others None of these seared to be questioned for their lives till now for they yielding had quarter given them But an high Court of Justice must not be set up for the King alone They mean to go the same way to work with others the Law taking no hold of them they 'l make a Law that shall and therefore the like Court is erected again for the trial of these Lords and others though the same President sate not yet others did that had the same power All that were accused were condemned but Goring being a Gentleman of no great fortune and never before engaged against them found mercy at their hands Capels great estate drove on his ruine Hamilton and Holland are observed to have suffered deservedly because they had played on both parts sometimes for the King and otherwhiles against him as affairs changed The poor spiritness of the rest is observed in cowardly submitting to their pretended authority only the stout Lord Capel so Lilburn cals him would not in the least buckle to acknowledge them a lawful judicatory but after the example of his Royal Master denied their Anthority and when he came to suffer which he and the other did March 9. he took his death with a most resolute and undaunted courage not only to the admiration of all men but even to the very terror of his enemies they that neither loved him nor his cause yet highly commended him for his courage and magnanirnity and as much despised Hamilton for his timerous baseness using all means possible to save his life but all would not do much confidence he reposed in Hugh Peters that Clergy Mountebank who at last betrayd him as himself had formerly betrayed the King After the King was thus put to death and the Government changed into a Commonwealth a new Seal and new Coyn being made this Piece of the Parliament that put the King to death governed the Nation till April 20. 1653. what time they were thrown out forcibly by Cromwel being then their General and his Army Officers to the great content and rejoycing of the People But in the mean time presently after the death of the King the Scots proclaimed the Prince King of Scotland by the Name of Charls the second Ireland was almost all revolted soon after the death of the King year 1649 only the City of Dublin held out for the Parliament But Cromwel going over thither about September 1649. in less then a years time reduces that whole Kingdom to the obedience of the Parliament driving the Natives for the most part out and cooping up the rest in the Western parts of the Kingdom Scotland having as is said before proclaimed the Prince King they received him into that Kingdom and crowned him at Scone the first of January 1649. 1650. whereupon the Parliament having reduced Ireland they resolve to send an Army into Scotland about June 1650. Fairfax upon this layes down his Commission and Cromw ll is made Captain General in his stead He marches into Scotland with a great Army where he lay a long time before he could engage the Scots to fight insomuch as the English were in great distress for provisions and had been famished or forced to return long before had they not encamped near the sea and had the sea free and open to them At length the Scots set upon them at Dunbar but were defeated and routed at least 10000. of them slain and taken upon the place all of the Presbyterian party and such as had formerly engaged in England for the Parliament against the King An hundred Ensigns at least are taken brought up to London and hung up in triumph in Westminister Hall and which is remarkable great numbers of those Souldiers that at their coming into England in 1643. had heathenishly prophaned the Cathedral Church of Durham were now brought prisoners and lodged in the very same Church shut ' up together and fed like swine with roots and other trash so that with hunger and cold and stench lying there a long time most of them perished some of them acknowledging the just hand of God for their sacrilegious prophaness committed in that place this is a certain truth reported by credible persons living near and in that City And thus our Brethren the Scots were in part payd for their brotherly assistance But Cromwel hath not yet done with them he stayes still after the battel of Dunbar and pursues his victory he presently takes Leith and Edenburgh and afterward that strong and impregnable Castle called by the Scots the Maiden Castle because never before conquered Nor can I say it was now conquered by Cromwell He took it not by assault nor yet by hunger but as is credibly reported surrendred by the treachery or cowardize of the Lord _____ that commanded there in chief This Cast e being taken Cromwel enlarges his conquest all over the South of Scotland from Leith and Dunbar on the East to Glasco and Ayre in the West without any great resistance But the City and Castle of Sterling held out for the King together with the Fife the fertilest part of the Kingdom and all the North of Scotland from Endinburgh Frith Northward the Scots being now grown so wise after their beating at Dunbar as to take and call in to their assistance all the Kings party both Scots and English whom formerly they rejected under the notion of Malignants and Cavaleers putting the Earl of Montross most barbarously to death who landed in Scotland a little before the Kings coming thither and whom if they had entertained might possibly by the blessing of God have prevented their being beaten at Dunbar being a man of extraordinary experience conduct and courage in war exceedingly beloved of all the Royallists in Scotland and one that had formerly with an handful of men done incomparable service for the King But the Presbyterian Scots were as bitter against the Kings party as they were against Cromwell and his army and would have the glory wholly to themselves and their Covenant in restoring the King that thereby they might the better advance their Covenant and carry on their pretended work of reformation both in Scotland and England Cromwel and his Army lay long in Scotland year 1651 after Dunbar fight and did little not able to advance any further At length towards the latter end of July he gets over Edenburg Frith and lands his Army or a considerable part of them in the Fife with a great loss and defeat to the Scots who resisted The King soon after quits Sterling and suddenly marches away in

the beginning o● August with an Army of about eleven thousand horse and foot into England by the way of Lancashire and forcing his way at Warrington bridge against a party that opposed he comes by easie marches without resistance to Worcester Massey being with him hoping the Presbyterians in those parts and about Glocester would generally have risen and joyned with the Scots The Parliament upon the first intelligence of his entrance into England arm all that possibly they can against him publishing a Proclamation against him and all his adherents as Rebels and Traitors and forbidding all men upon pain of high Treason to joyn with him or to aid or assist him in the least Cromwel also pursues him out of Scotland with as great a part of his Army as he could well spare at Worcester all forces assembled against him meet there they fought and the Kings party in conclusion is beaten the Scots they say many of them refusing to fight at all The King in a disguize very hardly escapes yet it pleased God that at last he got safely out of England many of the Scottish Nobility and some of the English being taken prisoners and kept long after in the Tower of London This fight at Worcester happened Septemb. 3. 1651. a remarkable day for Cromwels Victories Scotland after this is with little difficulty wholly reduced to the obedience of the Parliament and Garisons maintained in several places even to the utmost Northern Coasts and they who formerly would not be subject to their King are now inforced to submit to Cromwell and his Faction Afterwards in Anno 1652. year 1652 the Parliament falls out with the Hollanders many fierce and bloody battels were fought at Sea with great loss of both sides in one of which Admiral Dean for the English and in another Van-Trump for the Dutch were slaine The Hollanders have the worst in conclusion so that at last they sue for peace and obtain it But some while before this peace was concluded year 1653 Cromwell being now grown great with his Victories in Ireland and Scotland having subdued both these Kingdoms upon the twentieth of April 1653. he suddenly and forcibly turns out the Parliament who had for four years and as much as from January to April since they put the King to death with bloody cruelty and heavy oppression governed the Nation The Parliament being thus turned out Cromwel and his Army Officers take upon them the government of the Nation They presently impose six Months Tax and erect a new Council of State Bradshaw who formerly for his good service was President is now not so much as a Member of the Council Cromwel soon after cals a Convention of about an hundred and twenty persons pickt out by himself out of the several Counties of the Nation most of them inferiour persons and of the Independent and Anabaptistical faction These were summoned by particular Warrants or Tickets in paper under his own hand only to meet at Westminster and consult for t setling the Nation Being met according to their summons Iuly 4. 1653. in the Commons House of Parliament and having chosen them a Chairman or Speaker Cromwel comes in amongst them and puls a writing out of his pocket thereby giving them the supream authority of the Nation upon this they presently vote themselves to be a Parliament and to requite his courtesie they vote him to be a Member of their Parliament Thus being seated in Authority they make an Act for six Months Tax at the old rate of 120000 li. a Month and another Act concerning marriages appointing Justices of Peace to marry and none other marriages to be valid or lawful In the same Act they ordain a Register to be kept in every Parish in which is to be set down all births and burials not so much as mentioning Baptism as a thing in their opinion at least not necessary thus they lessen and diminish the use and authority of Ministers whom they intended by degrees to take wholly away In order whereunto they had a design to take a way Tithes but the Ministers of London being called to alledge what might be said in defence of them by their Counsel learned in the Law and by Arguments out of Scipture they opposed so strongly as that debate was laid aside for the present But that failing they had another device namely by an Act in one day to have unbottomed all Ministers in England and to have lockt up the Church doors as some affirmed and then afterward to have taken in whom they had thought good which may probably be conceived should have been only such as would have renounced their orders if not their baptism Things being carried so high and in such a frantick manner the more moderate among them weary of the work and fearing they should rather bring things into further confusion then settle any thing they repair to Cromwel the General desiring him to take again into his hands his Writing or conveyance of the supream power whereupon he presently dissolves them but some of the Anabaptists refusing to obey and continuing still in the house at their prayers he sent Souldiers who pulled them out and lockt up the doors against them Decemb 12. 1653. This Schismatical Convention called by some the little horn being thus timely and happily outed Cromwel upon the sixteenth day of the same month having by advice of his Army-Officers and Council of State framed an Instrument of Government presently after printed and published consisting of fourty two Articles and therefore by some called his forty two string'd sidle by others the Magna Charta takes upon him the Government of the three Nations as Supream Magistrate under the Title of Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland And sending for the Commissioners of the great Seal the Lord Maior and Aldermen of London with the Judges of Law and the chief Officers of his Army Proclamation thereof being made in London he is solemnly installed in Westminster-hall taking an oath to govern according to that Instrument and the Laws of the Land though nothing could be more repugnant to the Laws then that Instrument was According to that Instrument year 1654 he cals a Parliament to begin Septemb. 3. 1654. though it fell out that year to be Sunday accounting the day auspicious by reason of his two great victories upon that day at Dunbar and Worcester This Parliament was not to be chosen according to the ancient manner two in a County and two in a Corporation but ten eight six more or less in a County according to the proportion of it and the small decayed Corporations as Thelford and Rising in Norfolk and the like elsewhere were wholly left out There were also added to the Parliament Thirty Members for Scotland and as many for Ireland chosen or nominated from thence so as it was a Parliament of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland whereof as before he had made himself

power of the Militia The People were to pay the Army and it was thought just by many that the Parliament should have command of them And it was suspected had they sate but a little longer that the Army or a considerable part of it would have adhered to the Parliament To prevent this mischief that was a working the Protector suddenly and unexpectedly dissolves them Febr. 4. with this word of comfort nevertheless to his other House My Lords ye are Lords and shall be Lords The Parliament thus again dissolved in discontent things rested as formerly though not without much murmuring and secret discontent both in the Protector and People About the latter end of August year 1658 or the beginning of September the Protector dyed having lain somewhile in a very sad condition with extream pain and torment in his bowels Some strongly fancy that he died on Tuesday Aug. 30. what time was the most furious violent wind that ever happened in the memory of man And it s very probable that he died that day or soon after but it was given out and commonly reported that he dyed on Friday Sept. 3. His Funeral was a great while deferred his body embalmed and kept above ground many moneths together with mourners continually attending his corpse and meat carried up and served on his Table as if he had been the greatest Prince in Christendom and afterwards he was interred with as great funeral solemnity as ever any King of England was interred and his Hearse or Statue set up after the manner of Kings and a most most magnificent Monument erected for him It is worth the remembring that about a year or two before his death he made a new broad Seal with the Arms of England viz. a Saint Georges Cross quartered with Saint Andrews Cross for Scotland and the Harp for Ireland and his own Coat in a little Escutcheon in the midst his Helmet and Mantle with a Crown imperial and a Lion puissant for his Crest and and the supporters a Lyon and a Dragon the Motto underneath his Arms Pax quaeritur Bello And this inscription about Sigillum magnum Reipublicae Anglioe Scotiae Hiberniae On the other side himself on Horseback richly trappered as the King Seal was wont to be and the Inscription about it Oliverus Dei gratia Reipublicae Angliae Scotiae Hiberniae Protector And though he usually coined no money yet I have seen some pieces of Silver of an half crown bigness with his Arms as before on the one side and his Picture crowned with bays on the other side and the former Inscription In these respects so near he approached to the Royal dignity sure I am he assumed more power and authority then ever any King of England did The Protector before his death had according to the fore-mentioned Humble Petition and Advice appointed his eldest Son Richard Cromwel to succeed him in his place and accordingly immediately after his Fathers death he was proclaimed in London and soon after all over England The Independents Anabaptists and other Sectaries were not well pleased at it they had rather have had Fleetwood in the place who had married the late Protectors Daughter Iretons Widow for Richard had formerly been reputed a kind of a good fellow and a Royallist and never was in Arms against the King as all the rest of his Fathers Family and Allies had been Richard soon after cals a Parliament to begin at Westminster Jan. 27. not according to the Instrument of Government but after the old way two in a County c. Before the calling of the Parliament and after congratulatory Addresses are made to Richard from most Counties Cities and Corporations of Note in England extolling the merits of his heroick Father expressing their joy for the succession of such a Son and promising to adhere to him withall faithfulness and loyalty In some of their Addresses they compare the Father to Moses and the Son to Joshua the Guiders and Conductors of Gods People out of Aegyptian thraldom with other the like blasphemous expressions Richard receives these Addresses with as much gravity as they were tendered with humility so that no man could imagine but that he was most firmly fixed in his Throne And Lilly the States mercenary Prognosticator assures it from his Astrological Predictions of that year AT the opening of the Parliament Jan. 27. he makes a Speech to both his Houses wherein he minds them of his just and lawful Title to the Government not only by the wonderful Provindence of God but by the disposition of the Laws he tels them he had convened them together for important affairs of State for the honour and safety of the Nation willed them to take into consideration the necessity of the Navy and Army whom he commends for their patience and obedience to the best Army in the world some other things to this purpose he commended to them and told them in conclusion that they should find him ready and willing to concur with them in any thing for the good of the publick and to deny them nothing that was just and fit And that if this were not an happy Parliament it should not be his fault And all this says the Book was spoken with so gracious and Princely a deportment as hath gained this opinion amongst the wisest Hearers that he deservedly holds the place of Supream Magistrate in these Nations Thus the Parliament began and great hopes there were of good agreement between the Protector and the People and doubtless he for his part would have given them leave to have setled the Nation as they thought good both for Religion and Civil Government But still the other House though called as formerly and many of them convened would not down with the Commons they would not in the least own this new made House of Lords sit they might if they pleased but little or nothing they had to do for the Commons would never impart any thing to them nor indeed have any intercourse with them A pitiful company of Peers they were and accordingly regarded But Richard and the House of Commons agreed very well he was willing to leave all to them And there being a very great number of young Lawyers in the House that gaped for preferment they were willing to give him power enough too much as many suspected Ye must know that in all Parliaments since Olivers time there was a faction of men in the House called Common-wealths men that were for a free State as they called it and against a single Person These were such as had purchased the Lands of Bishops Deans and Chapters and those belonging to the late King Queen and Prince And they feared that these Lands might be at one time or other restored unless the Government were again setled in the way of a Common-wealth for a single Person they thought might possibly come to be a King With these also concurred all such both Parliament-men and Army-men as