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A50375	An epitomy of English history wherein arbitrary government is display'd to the life, in the illegal transactions of the late times under the tyrannick usurpation of Oliver Cromwell; being a paralell to the four years reign of the late King James, whose government was popery, slavery, and arbitrary power, but now happily delivered by the instrumental means of King William & Queen Mary. Illustrated with copper plates. By Tho. May Esq; a late Member of Parliament.; Arbitrary government displayed to the life.	May, Thomas, ca. 1645-1718.	1690 (1690)	Wing M1416E; ESTC R202900	143,325	210

part of my draught of Arbitrary Government under the Power and Tyranny of that no●orious Usurper Oliver I shall now proceed to the second Act of this Tragical Usurpation and expose to your view the Tyrannick Usurpation of Oliver Cromwell who now as General of the Armies of England Scotland and Ireland had the full and sole Authority Power and Government of the Three Nations in his hands Yet this would not serve his turn he must have some splendid Title and Royal Ensigns to shew he reigned not by the Power of the Sword which would render him odious to the People though in effect it was the same thing But there is much in State and Ceremony especially where lawful right is not to give a lustre and the name of King with the Ornament of a Crown is the thing ambitioned or some thing like it is to be had if the other could not be obtained But this is not yet to be reach'd he must proceed methodically and like the Tyrant Richard the Third intreated much to accept of what he greatly desired The first thing Oliver does after he had thrust the Rump-Parliament out of doors was to put forth a Declaration of the Reasons for Dissolving the Long Parliament who had designed to perpetuate themselves desiring all good people to seek God for him that he might not doe any thing to dishonour his Name and that they should peaceably follow their Vocations as when the Parliament was sitting and that all Judges Sheriffs Justices of the Peace Mayors Bayliffs and other Civil Officers and Publick Ministers whatsoever should proceed in their Offices and Places and that the Writs should run in the same stile as before of the Keepers of the Liberty of England And then out of his Chief Officers of the Army and his Confidents he Creates a Council of State who were to manage all affairs till a Parliament could be called Thus the Laws and Liberties of the People and the whole Civil State and Government of England depended upon the Sword and the Arbitrary Will and Pleasure of a General and some few of his Military Officers These men to ingratiate themselves with the people lessen the Monthly Tax from 120000 l. to 90000 l. a Month and to keep fair with the Presbyterian who yet kept up their form of Church-worship and the most of one publick perswasion they prohibited all disturbances in the Church which was then frequent and the Phanaticks Licentiousness in the Army which swarmed with Anabaptists Ranters Quakers Seekers and other strange new Lights and who were set a madding after the possession of the remaining Revenue of Church-Lands Tythes Glebe Impropriations often addressing to that purpose as no remains of Dagon might be left Oliver at this time also was Courted by the French Ambassador Burdoe in the behalf of his Master lest he should favour his Rebels and which he gave him assurance he would not doe and though solicited on the other side he would not favour Enemies to Monarchy ●●ready looking upon himself to be a Monarch The Dutch thought now to take the advantage of these Divisions in England and very early got their Fleet to Sea but no great Commotion following thereupon at home they had leasure to look after their Sea-affairs and getting forth the Fleet under Blake Monk and Dean on the second of June 1653 they meet the Dutch on the Coasts of Flanders Commanded by Van Tromp in chief and under him the two Eversons de Wit and Ruytier all stout expert and able Sea-men Pen was Vice-Admiral of our Fleet and Lawson rear-Rear-Admiral The Dutch had One hundred and four Men of War Twelve Galliots and Nine Fire-Ships the English had One hundred Ships of all sorts Monk and Dean were in one Ship the Fight begun about Eleven of the Clock at Noon and the first Broad-side from the Enemy carried away General Dean being shot in two by a Cannon Bullet close by Monk's side who flinging a Cloak over his body bid the Soldiers to mind their business and unconcerned apply'd himself to the Battel continued with much fury on both sides as long as they had light The next morning Monk finding himself near the Dutch they again furiously engaged each other and Monk pressed so hard upon them that he sunk six of their best Ships and two others were blown up and eleven Ships taken and One thousand three hundred and fifty Prisoners and had not the Dutch got upon the Flats near Calais and Dunkirk where our great Ships could not come at them most of their Fleet had been ruined or taken The English had not one Ship lost or disabled and excepting General Dean but one Captain lost and about One hundred and fifty Men and few hurt General Blake came not in till towards the end of the Fight with Eighteen fresh Ships This was the sixth Engagement with the Dutch in this W●● The English Fleet ●●e before the Texel and the Vly and now let the Dutch see they were Conquerors which so humbled them that they sent away a Vessel with a white Flag for England with a Messenger to prepare way for two Ambassadors to Treat of Peace however that they might make it on easier terms they prepare with all speed they can to recruit their Fleet and on the Twenty-ninth of July following in the morning the English discry them again with One hundred and twenty five Sail of Ships divided into four Squadrons under Tromp Everson Ruyte● and Wit Wittens The English Fleet consisted of On● hundred and six Ships under the Command of Monk in chief for Blake was sick Pen Vice-Admiral and Lawson Rear-Admiral the Battel began by six in the morning and continued till night parted them and the next morning again both fell to it with that bloody fury that they made the most cruel Fight that ever was Orders being given neither to give nor take quarter Everson's Ship was sunk and he taken and the famous Van Tromp shot with a Musket-bullet and slain on the poop of his Ship whereby his men were so daunted that hoisting out all the Sail they could they made away to the Texel The English bought this Victory dear having lost Four hundred Men and Eight Captains and Seven hundred wounded with Five Commanders yet lost but one Ship On the Dutch side was lost besides their Admiral Tromp Thirty-three Ships or more out of which the English saved swiming in the Sea Twelve hundred Men and Five Captains Monk returning victorious with their Prisoners to Solebay where he stayed not long e're he returned to ply upon the Dutch Coasts and to disturb their Trade and to let them see the English were their Conquerors This was the seventh and last Engagement in this ●ar For now the Dutch having enough of i● made a Peace with Cromwell which he mig●● have had almost upon any terms had he not been so greedy of setting himself up in the Throne beginning also to grow jealous of the great Actions of

and Blake are Admirals for the English to whom afterwards General Monk was joyned and for that end sent for out of Scotland he having quieted all things there The Dutch knowing the English laid claim to the Dominion of the narrow Seas as their just Right and Due had Commanded their Captains not to acknowledge their Soveraignty by denying to strike their Flag at the meeting of the English Ships in their own Seas an Affront they knew would never be put up by the English but ever was and ever will be disputed and revenged upon this Quarrel the War began Captain Young who commanded some of the English Frigots seeing some Dutch Ships returning from the Streights commanded their Admiral to strike his Flag who did so but their Vice-Admiral being likewise bid to do the same absolutely refused but after four or five Broad-sides was forced to take it down and so they parted their Embassadors being yet in Treaty and in England Captain Young was unwilling to Prosecute the business any farther lest they should attribute to him the beginning of the War which thus first began But not long after they fell to it in Earnest It shall not be my Task to give you a particular of this War it being besides my Business in which the English shewed great Courage and Bravery and in all Histories the like not to be parallel'd and therefore I shall not altogether pass it over in silence but briefly touch upon it for the Satisfaction of the Reader who cannot but be pleased at their Success as English-men tho otherwise Rebels to their King and Countrey The first Engagement between the two Fleets of the two States was on 19 th of May 1652 off of Dover Road Tromp having forty two Ships Blake but fifteen Frigots but after the fight was begun Captain Bourn came to his Assistance with eight Ships more this fight lasted from two of the Clock till Night the English getting the better having not one Ship disabled tho they had on both sides Exchanged above two Thousand Cannon shot one of Dutch Ships was Sunk and another taken the next Morning Van-Trump sailed for Zealand The Holland Embassadors were yet in London and dis-avow Tromp's Action in disputing the Flag as Rash and without Orders or knowledge of their Masters and desired a Restitution of their Ship but the people were so inflamed at the Relation of Tromp's Cariage that the Embassadors were fain to be Guarded to keep them safe from the Peoples rage And upon this the Holland States dispatch away an extraordinary Embassador Myn Heer-Paw to endeavour to make up the Breach and to Excuse the rashness of their Admiral The Parliament hereupon Voted that The States General should Pay the Charges they had been at and the Losses sustained upon this Occasion Secondly That this being Paid there should be a Restitution on either side of Ships and Goods taken Thirdly That a League should be made between the two States These Votes were sent to the Dutch Embassadors and they Communicated them to their Masters who liking them not immediately recalled their Embassadors and began Vigorously to prosecute the War Admiral Blake with seventy Ships sails to the Orkney Islands to disturb their Busses fishing upon our Coasts and Sr. George Ascue coming from the Barbadoes with fifteen Ships is recruited and fitted for a reserve In the mean time Tromp gets to Sea with a hundred and twenty Ships and endeavours to engage with Blake but a Storm preventing them they were forced both Home Blake carrying with him about nine hundred Prisoners which he had taken and six men of War which he took Guarding their Busses This was the first Action after War was declared The second Engagement between these two States was on the 16 th of August following off of Plimouth between Sr. George Ascue who had forty sail and De Ruyter who had a Fleet of fifty men of War and was conveying thorow the Channel their Merchant men which were about fifty sail more Sr. George engaged the Dutch with nine of his foremost Ships and Charged thorow their Fleet the Dutch had the Weather-gage and night coming on and the rest of the Fleet not coming up Sr. George Ascue drew off and sailed for Plymouth and the Dutch into the French Ports to repair their Ships Sr. George had the better of it and had the whole Fleet engaged it was thought he might have had an entire Victory This was so represented to the Rump to his disadvantage that they laid him aside and never after would employ him in their Service but then General Monk was sent for and Voted by the Junto to be joyned in Commission with Blake and Dean This was the second fight with the Dutch in this War About this time Blake lighting on the French at Calis took seven of their Ships and assisting the Spaniards besieging Dunkirk was a cause of the surrender of the Town by the Service he did On the 28 th of October was a Third fight between the English and the Dutch Van-Tromp upon some discontent having laid down his Commission they made Wit Wittens Admiral to whom they joyned De Ruiter Blake had taken from the Dutch five west India Ships of great Value and six Steights men Valued at 200000 l. which losses enraged the Dutch and put them into Fury to fight Pen was Vice-Admiral and Bourn Rear-Admiral of the English Fleet who began this Battel great Courage being shown on both sides the Rear Admiral of the Dutch was taken two of their Ships sunk and a Third blown up the English getting the better Wittens got off with his Fleet much shatter'd and Torn being pursued within twelve Leagues of the Maze and Blake returns into the Downs Victorious having made the Dutch run for it The Dutch much troubled at this mis-fortune perswade Van-Tromp to accept of the Command knowing him to be an able Seaman who at last yielded to their Desires and hopes to gain honour against the English with eighty men of War and ten fire Ships he comes to the back of the Godwin Blake had with him now not above forty sail yet with them resolves to give Battel and seeking his Enemy began a most furious and obstinate incounter on the 29 th of November 1652. which lasted from two in the Morning till six at Night Blake in the Tryumph with two more of his Ships were ingaged at one time with twenty of the best Ships of the Dutch Van-Tromp and De Ruyter were much shattered one of their Flag ships was blown up but the Dutch over-powering them got the Victory and had not Night favoured the retreat of the English Fleet they had endanger'd the whole The Garland and Bona-venture were taken by the Dutch three sunk and one burnt Van-Trump kept the Sea and took some inconsiderable Prizes which pufft him up with so much Vanity as to cause him hang a Broom at his main top Mast saying he would sweep the Seas of the English

blast so dishonest an attempt I shall not determine but Englishmen never received such a foil and by so few enemies since they wore the name for having lost near a thousand Men by an handful of Spaniards Negro's and Molatto's they were fain to retreat and losing all hopes of getting the Spanish Gold most shamefully return to their Ships and that they might be said to doe something they set upon Jamaica and take it and which we have kept ever since Venables after his return was frowned upon by Oliver and for a while sent to the Tower but afterwards was released The Hopes of this Gold had made Oliver King it very much being served with much State and Ceremony He had his Halberdeers in garded grey Coats over whom Strickland was Captain His Lord Chamberlain who was Sir Gilbert Pickering Two Masters of Requests Mr. Bacon and Mr. Sadler and the Master of his Horse his Son Cleypool and all other Officers of Honour both to his own Person and his Wives who very finically acted the Princess White-Hall and Hampton-Court he had saved from sale for his own convenience The baffle at St. Domingo and the loss of his hopes of his Gold made him now project some other ways to fill his Cofers to maintain his Greatness his merry devil left him and he began daily to grow more austere and tyrannical being full of fears and jealousies as he had reason for he had not only the Royal party against him whom he kept under with much cruelty but the Commonwealths-men of his own party and the Fifth-Monarchy-men countenanced by Harison were highly displeased with him and began to Conspire against him He therefore lays Harison and Rich aside and not long after he Committed them with Carew and Courtney into several remote Castles Overton was seized in Scotland with Bramstone Holmes and other Officers who were cashiered fined and good security taken for their good behaviour Overton was sent to the Tower and his Regiment given to Col. Morgan Okey's Regiment also was taken from him and given to another Joyce had the confidence to upbraid his Highness to his face but escaped unpunished Cromwell saying he was a Mad-man About this time he began to interest himself for the Protestants abroad and to be their Protector The Protestant Subjects of the Duke of Savoy in the Vallies of Piedmont having been cruelly treated by that Prince for their Religion Cromwell sends to make application in their behalf but his Messengers being slighted he caused Contributions for their relief to be made throughout England and Viner and Pack were made Treasurers for the Money by which means a considerable summ was Collected but what share they had of it is not known The Spanish War now Commenced apace Cromwell resolving not to hearken to Peace nor to the restitution of three Ships he had taken of the King of Spain's before he had declared War pretending them Hambourgers and Confiscating them being laden with pieces of Eight to the sum of Four hundred thousand pounds Sterling which was minted in the Tower though the Spanish Ambassador Al●nso de Cardenas protested against it and did all he could to hinder the injustice which was returned on our Merchants by that Kings seizing on their effects in Spain and by the loss of 1500 English Ships great and small taken from us in this War as appeared afterwards according to the report made in Richard's Parliament This sum of money being spent he had with his Privadoes thought of another way of recruit which like their Usurpation was the most Barbarous and Arbitrary as ever was heard of See now what was become of the Liberties of English men when he following the Example of the Grand Seignior set over the Land a company of Bashaws with the same power under a new title of Major-Generals He had Canton'd England and Wales into 11 Provinces joyning the Counties together for the convenience of this Turkish sway over every one of which he appointed a Governour or Bashaw called by him a Major-General The Names of these Tyrannick Princes were Kelsy Goff Desborow Fleetwood Skippon Whaly Butler Berry Worsley Lambert and Barkstead who was also Lieutenant of the Tower These in their respective Principalities lived like petty Princes or Bashawes domineering and lording it over both Nobility and Gentry and according to the Command and Order of their Grand Seignior Oliver Cromwell which was then esteemed Law all the poor Cavaliers that is all such who had served in the Wars for King Charles the first and also all those that had declared themselves for his Son King Charles the second our now Sovereign were by these Bashaws to be decimated that is the tenth part of their Estates were to be taken from them besides banish'd from London and within 20 miles of the same disarm'd and prohibited to be Elected into any Parliament And as for the Clergy they were turned out of their Livings and kept from all other way of livelihood unless they would work with their hands so that many were ready to starve for they were prohibited any Cure or to be Chaplains to any or to keep School The power of these Decimators was great and boundless Oppressing Robbing Spoyling and Decimating whom they pleased according to their own Arbitrary Will for none durst say Why do you thus They kept a Roll of all persons within their Precincts and if they suspected any to favour the King he was called to account by these Military-Lords and Caution taken by them to keep them from acting against the State binding them to reveal all Plots that should come to their knowledge and made them engage the like for their servants They also hindred them from their disports and prohibited all Horse-races Cock-fighting Bull-baiting or any thing that should cause a Concourse of People and those who refused were presently imprisoned and decimated so that the free people of England were become as absolute Slaves as those living under the Turkish Government where none can call any thing his own By this means the Usurper easily informed himself of the value of all the Estates in England and of the behaviour and affection of every Person of Quality throughout the Kingdom Such vast Powers were given to these Major-Generals that there was nothing they might not doe and indeed did not doe they using it to the full And for this purpose these Major-Generals had an office in Fleetstreet in London as other Courts had where their Recognances were enter'd and all other concerns and dependances belonging to them recorded or register'd Of some they took yearly the 10 th penny of others they took a sum of money for Composition usually at three years purchase which many were willing to pay who had money rather than to be continually troubled with them And now the year 1656 Commencing which by the Instrument was a Parliamentary-year in July Oliver issues out his Writs for his second Parliament to sit on the 17 th of September