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A64894	Former ages never heard of, and after ages will admire, or, A brief review of the most materiall parliamentary transactions, beginning, Nov. 3, 1640 wherein the remarkable passages both of their civil and martial affaires, are continued unto this present year published as a breviary, leading all along, successively, as they fell out in their severall years, so that if any man will be informed of any remarkable passage, he may turne to the year, and so see in some measure, in what moneth thereof it was accomplished : for information of such as are altogether ignorant of the rise and progresse of these times : a work worthy to be kept in record, and communicated to posterity.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.; Jenner, Thomas, fl. 1631-1656.	1654 (1654)	Wing V305; ESTC R2983	53,959	61

Then turning to the Officers said Sirr excuse me for this same I have a good cause and I have a gracious God I will say no more Then turning to Col. Hacker he said Take care that they doe not put me to paine and Sir this and it please you But then a Gentleman coming neer the Ax the King said take heed of the Ax pray take heed of the Ax. Then the King speaking to the Executioner said I shall say but very short prayers and when I thrust out my hands Then the King called to Dr Iuxon for his night cap and having put it on he said to the Executioner does my haire trouble you who desired him to put it all under his Cap which the King did accordingly by the help of the Executioner and the Bishop then the King turning to Dr Juxon said I have a good Cause and a gracious God on my side Dr Jaxon There is but one stage more this stage is turbulent and troublesome it is a short one but you may consider it will soone carry you a very great way from Earth to Heaven and there you shall find a great deale of cordiall joy and comfort King I goe from a corruptible to an incorruptible Crown where no disturbanc can be Doct. You are exchanged from a temporall to an eternall Crown a good exchange Then the King took off his Cloak and his George giving his George to Dr. Juckson saying Remember 't is thought for the Prince and some other small Ceremonies past after which the King stooping down laid his neck upon the blocke after a very little pause stretched forth his hands the executioner at one blow severed his head from his Body his Body was put in a Coffin covered with black Velvet and removed to his Lodging Chamber at White-Hall An Act prohibiting the Proclaiming of any person to be King of England c. VVHereas Charls Stuart King of England being for the notorious Treasons Tyrannies and Murthers committed by him in the late unnaturall and civill Wars condemned to death whereupon after execution of the same severall pretences may be made and Title set on foote unto the Kingly Office to the apparent hazzard of the Publick Peace For the prevention thereof Be it Enacted and Ordained by this present Parliament and by the Authority of the same That no person or persons whatsoever doe presume to Proclaime Declare Publish or any way promote Charls Stuart Son of the said Charls commonly called Prince of Wales or any other person to be King or chief Magistrate of England or of Ireland or of any the Dominions belonging to them or any of them by colour of Inheritance Succession Election or any other claim whatsoever without the free consent of the people in Parliam first had and signified by a particular Act or Ordinance for that purpose any Law Statute Vsage or Custome to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Enacted and Ordained and it is hereby Enacted and Ordained that whosoever shall contrary to this Act Proclaim Declare Publish or any way promote the said Charls-Stuart the Son or any other person to be King or chief Magistrate of England or of Ireland or of any the Dominions belonging to them or to either of them without the said consent in Parliament signified as aforesaid shall be deemed and adjudged a Traytor to the Common-wealth and shall suffer the pains of death and such other punishments as belong to the Crime of High Treason And all Officers as well Civill as Military and all other well-affected persons are hereby authorized and required forthwith to apprehend all such Offenders and to bring them in safe custody to the next Justice of the Peace that they be proceeded against accordingly H. Scobel Cler. Parl. D. Com. Dk. Hambleton E of Cambridg E of Holland and Lord Capell be headed Mar 9. 1649 And their speeches on the scaffold The Speech of Duke Hamilton Earl of Cambridge on the Scaffold in the Pallace yard the ninth of March 1649. I Think it is truly not very necessary for me to speak much there are many Gentlemen and Souldiers there that see me but my voyce truly is so weak so low that they cannot hear me neither truly was I ever at any time so much in love with speaking or with any thing I had to expresse that I took delight in it yet this being the last time that I am to doe so by a Divine providence of Almighty God who hath brought me to this end justly for my sins I shall to you Sir Master Sheriff declare thus much as to the matter that I am now to suffer for which is as being a Traytor to the Kingdome of England Truly Sir it was a Countrey that I equally loved with my owne I made no difference I never intended either the generality of its prejudice or any particular mans in it what I did was by the Command of the Parliament of the Countrey where I was borne whose Command I could not disobey without running into the same hazard there of that condition that I now am in It pleased God so to dispose that Army under my Command as it was ruined and I as their Generall cloathed with a Commission stand here now ready to dye I shall not trouble you with repeating of my Plea what I said in my owne Defence at the Court of Justice my self being satisfied with the Command that is laid upon me and they satisfied with the justnesse of their procedure according to the Lawes of this Land God is just and howsoever I shall not say any thing as to the matter of the Sentence but that I doe willingly submit to his Divine providence and acknowledge that very many wayes I deserve even a worldly punishment as well as hereafter for we are all sinfull Sir and I a great one yet for my comfort I know there is a God in Heaven that is exceeding mercifull I know my Redeemer fits at his right hand and am confident clapping his hand on his brest is mediating for me at this instant I am hopefull thro his free grace and all-sufficient merits to be pardoned of my sins and to be received into his mercy upon that I rely trusting to nothing but the free grace of God through Jesus Christ I have not been tainted in my Religion I thank God for it since my infancy it hath been such as hath been profest in the Land and established and now it is not this Religion or that Religion nor this or that fancy of men that is to be built upon it is but one that 's right one that 's sure and that comes from God Sir and in the free grace of our Saviour Sir there is truly somewhat that he then observing the Writers had I thought my Speech would have been thus taken I would have digested it into some better method then now I can and shall desire these Gentlemen that doe write it that they will not wrong me in it and

Ingagement Decemb. 1648 The House having notice of the Kings carrying to Hurst Castle Voted That the seizing his person was without their advice or consent Dec. 5. The House Voted That his Majesties concessions to their Proposals was ground sufficient to settle the peace of the Kingdome Dec. 6. Col. Rich and Col. Prides Regiment guarded the Parl. and seized some Members Dec. 12. Maj. Gen. Brown Sheriff of London was apprehended Dec. 13. The House Voted That the Lords and Commons declare they will make no further Addresses to the King nor none shall be by any person whatsoever without leave of the Parl. and if any make breach of this Order they shal incur the penalty of high Treason and that they will receive no more any Message from the King to both or either Houses of Parl. An Ordinance sent to the Lords for the Tryall of the King but they rejected the Commission and adjourned eight dayes after that they never sate more Serjeant Dendy Serjeant at Arms to the Commissioners rode into Westminster-Hall with the Mace belonging to the House of Commons on his shoulder and some Officers attending him all bare and six Trumpeters on Horsback a guard of Horse and Foot attending in the Pallace yard and Proclamation was made All that had any thing for matter of Fact against Charls Stuart King of England to bring it in to the Commissioners Jan 19. 1648. That this present Seale of England should be broken in pieces and a new one forthwith made and ordered that the Arms of England and Ireland should be ingraven on the one side and on the other side a Map of the Parl. with these words in it The first yeer of Freedome by Gods blessing restored 1648. The Charge of the Commons of England against Charls Stuart King of England THat the said Charls Stuart being admitted King of England and therein trusted with a limited power to Govern by and according to the Lawes of the Land and not otherwise and by his truth Oath and Office being obliged to use the power committed to him for the good and benefit of the people and for the preservation of their Rights and Liberties yet neverthelesse out of a wicked design to erect and uphold in himselfe an unlimited and tyrannicall power to rule according to his will and to overthrow the Rights and Liberties of the people yea to take away and make void the foundations thereof and of all redresse and remedy of mis government wch by the fundamentall Constitutions of this Kingdome were reserved on the peoples behalfe in the right and power of frequent and successive Parl. or Nationall meetings in Councels He the said Charls Stuart for the accomplishment of such his designs and for the protecting of himselfe and his adherents in his and their wicked practices to the same ends hath trayterously and maliciously levyed War against the present Parl. and the people therein represented Particularly upon or about the 30 of June in the year 1642. at Beverley in the County of Yorke and about the 30 of July in the yeer aforesaid in the County of the City of York and upon the 22 of August at Nottingham where he set up his Standard of War and also about the 23 of October in the same year at Edge-hill and Keintonfield in the County of Warwick and neer the 30 of Nov. in the same yeer at Brainford in the County of Middlesex and neer the 30 of Aug. 1643 at Cavesham Bridge neer Redding in the County of Berks and neer the 30 of Octob. in the same yeer neer the City of Gloucester and about the 30 of Nov. the same yeer at Newbury in the County of Ber. and about July 31. 1644. at Cropredy Bridge in the County of Oxen. and Sept. 30. the same yeer at Bodmin and other places in the County of Cornwall and Nov. 30. the same yeer at Newbery and about June 8. 1645. at Leicester and the 14. at Naseby field At which severall times and places or most of them and at many other places in this land at severall other times within the years afore-mentioned And in the year 1646. he the said Charls Stuart hath caused and procured many thousands of the free people of the Nation to be slain and by diversions parties and insurrections within this land by invasions from forreign parts endeavoured and procured by him and by many other evill wayes and means he the said Charls Stuart hath not only maintained and carried on the said War both by Land and Sea during the yeers before mentioned but also hath renewed or caused to be renewed the said War against the Parl. and good people of this Nation in this present yeer 1648. in the Counties of Kent Essex Surrey Sussex Middlesex and many other Counties and places in England and Wales and also by Sea and particularly he the said Charls Stuart hath for that purpose given Commission to his Son the Prince and others whereby besides multitudes of other persons many such as were by the Parl. intrusted and imployed for the Nation being by him or his Agents corrupted to the betraying of their trust and revolting from the Parl. have had entertainment and Commission for the continuing and renewing of War and Hostility against the said Parl. and people as aforesaid By which cruell and unnaturall Wars by him the said Charls Stuart continued and renewed as aforesaid much innocent blood of the free people of this Nation hath been spilt many Families have been undone the publick Treasury wasted and exhausted Trade obstructed and miserably decayed vast expence and damage to the Nation incurred and many parts of the Land spoiled some of them even to desolation And for farther prosecution of his said evill Designes he the said Charls Stuart doth still continue his Commission to the said Prince and other Rebels and Revolters both English and Forreigners and to the Earl of Ormond and to the Irish Rebels and Revolters associated with him from whom further invasions are threatned upon the procurement and on the behalfe of the said Charls Stuart All which wicked Designs Wars and evill practices of him the said Charls Stuart have been and are carried on for the advancing and upholding of the personall interest of will and power and pretended prerogative to himselfe and his Family against the publick interest common right liberty justice and peace of the people of this Nation by and for whom he was entrusted as aforesaid By all which it appeareth that he the said Charls Stuart hath been and is the Occasioner Author and Contriver of the said unnaturall cruell and bloody wars and therein guilty of all the Treasons Murthers Rapines Burnings Desolations Damage and mischiefe to this Nation acted or committed in the said Wars or occasioned thereby And the said John Cooke by Protestation save on the behalf of the people of England the liberty of exhibiting at any time hereafter any other Charge against the said Charls Stuart and also of replying

God in his justification though there is confusion here without us and though there are wonders and staring that now disquiet us yet I trust that I shall be carried into that mercy that God will receive my soule Then the Earl of Holland looking over among the people pointing to a Souldier said This honest man took me Prisoner you little thought I should have been brought to this when I delivered my self to you upon conditions and espying Capt. Watson on Horse back putting off his Hat said to him God be with you Sir God reward you Sir Here must now be my Anchor a great storm makes me find my Anchor and but in stormes no body trust to their Anchor and therefore I must trust upon my Anchor Upon that God said Mr Bolton upon whom your Anchor trusts yea God I hope will Anchor my soule fast upon Christ Jesus and if I dye not with that clearnesse and heartinesse that you speak of truly I will trust in God though he kill me I will relye upon him and the mercy of my Saviour Then the Earl of Holland imbraced Liev Col Beecher and tooke his leave of him After which he came to Mr Bolton and having imbraced him and returned him many thanks for his great paines and affections to his soule desiring God to reward him and returne his love into his bosome Mr Bolton said to him The Lord God support you and be seen in this great extremity the Lord reveale and discover himselfe to you and make your death the passage unto eternall life Then the Earl turning to the Executioner said Here my friend let my Cloaths and my Body alone there is ten pounds for thee that is better then try Cloaths I am sure of it Execut. Will your Lordship please to give me a signe when I shall strike And his Lordship said you have room enough here have you not Execut. Yes Then the Earl of Holland turning to the Executioner said Friend doe you hear me if you take up my Head doe not take off my Cap. Then turning to his Servants be said to one Fare you well thou art an honest fellow and to another God be with thee thou art an honest man and then said Stay I will kneel down and aske God forgivenesse and then prayed for a pretty space with seeming earnestnesse Then speaking to the Executioner he said Which is the way of lying which they shewed him and then going to the Front of the Scaffold he said to the people God blesse you all and God deliver you from any such act as may bring you to any such death as is violent either by war or by these accidents but that there may be peace among you and you may find that these accidents that have hapned to us may be the last that may happen in this Kingdome it is that I desire it is that I beg of God next the saving of my soule I pray God give all happinesse to this Kingdom to this people and this Nation And then turning to the Executioner said How must I lye I know not Execut. Lye down flat upon your Belly and then having laid himselfe down he said Must I lye closer Execut. Yes and backwarder I will tell you when you shall strike and then as he lay seemed to pray with much affection for a short space and then lifting up his head said where is the man and seeing the Executioner by him he said Stay while I give the signe and presently after stretching out his hand and the Executioner being not fully ready he said Now now and just as the words were coming out of his mouth the Executioner at one blow severed his Head from his Body The Speech of the Lord Capel upon the Scaffold THe Conclusion that I made with those that sent me hither and are the cause of this violent death of mine shall be the beginning of what I shall say to you When I made an Address to them which was the last I told them with much sincerity That I would pray to the God of all mercies that they might be partakes of his inestimable and boundlesse mercy in Jesus Christ and truly I shall pray that prayer and I beseech the God of Heaven forgive any injury they have done to me from my soule I wish it And truly this I tell you as a Christian to let you see I am a Christian But it is necessary I should tell you somewhat more That I am a Protestant and truly I am a Protestant and very much in love with the profession of it after the manner as it wa● established in England by the thirty nine Article● a blessed way of profession and such a one as truly I never knew none so good I am so far from being a Papist which some body have truly very unwo●thily at some time charged me withall that truly I professe to you that though I love Good Works and commend Good Works yet I hold they have nothing at all to doe in the matter of Salvation my Anchor-hold is this That Christ loved me and gave himselfe for me that is it that I rest upon And truly something I shall say to you as a Citizen of the whole world and in that consideration I am here condemned to dye truly contrary to the Law that Governs all the world that is The Law of the Sword I had the protection of that for my life and honour of it but truly I will not trouble you much with that because in another place I have spoken very largely and liberall about it I believe you will hear by other means what arguments I used in that case But truly that that is stranger you that are English men behold here an English man now before you and acknowledged a Peer not condemned to dye by any Law of Engl. not by any Law of England nay shall I tell you which is strangest of all contrary to all the Lawes of Engl that I know of And truly I will tell you in the matter of the civill part of my death and the Cause I have maintained I dye I take it for maintaining the fifth Commandement enjoyned by God himselfe which enjoynes reverence and obedience to Parents All Divines on all hands though they contradict one another in many severall opinions yet all Divines on all hands doe acknowledge that here is intended Magistracy and Order and certainly I have obeyed that Magistracy and the Order under which I have lived which I was bound to obey and truly I doe say very confidently that I do dye here for keeping for obeying that fifth Commandement given by God himselfe and written with his own finger And now Gentlemen I will take this opportunity to tell you that I can not imitate a better nor a greater ingenuity then his that said of himselfe For suffering an unjust judgement upon another himselfe was brought to suffer by an unjust judgement Truly Gentlemen that God may be glorified that all men that are

most willingly humble my selfe then kneeling down said I will try first how I can lye and laying his head over the block said Am I well now Execut. Yes And then as he lay with both his hands stretched out he said to the Executioner Here lye both my hands out when I lift up my hand thus then you may strike And then after he had said a short prayer he lifted up his right hand and the Executioner at one blow severed his head from his body which was taken up by his Servants and put with his Body into a Coffin as the former March 19. 1648. An Act for Abolishing the House of Peers THe Commons of England Assembled in Parl finding by too long experience that the House of Lords is uselesse and dangerous to the people of England to be continued have thought fit to Ordain and Enact and be it Ordained and Enacted by the present Parliam and by the Authority of the same That from henceforth the House of Lords in Par. shall be and is hereby wholly abolished and taken away and that the Lords shall not from henceforth meet or sit in the said House of Lords nor shall Sit Vote Advise Adjudge or Determine of any matter or thing whatsoever as a House of Lds in Parl. Neverthelesse it is hereby Declared That neither such Lords as have demeaned themselves with Honour Courage and Fidelity to the Common-wealth their Posterities who shall continue so shall not be excluded from the Publick Councels of the Nation but shall be admitted thereunto and have their free Vote in Parl if they shall be thereunto Elected as other persons of interest Elected and Qualified thereunto ought to have And be it further Ordained and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Peer of this Land not being Elected Qualified and sitting in Parl. as aforesaid shall claim have or make use of any Priviledge of Parl. either in relation to his Person Quality or Estate any Law Vsage or Custome to the contrary notwithstanding Hen Scobel Cler Parl. On Thursday July 25. 1650. The General and Army Marched from Mordington to Coppersmith Col. Hackers Regiment being drawn up in the way his Excellency made a Speech to satisfie them concerning Capt. Ogles Troop being sent back into Northumberland in regard of his interest in that County that Cap. Greenwoods Troop appointed for Berwick should March with the Regiment in the stead thereof which gave great satisfaction Col. Bright's Regiment being drawn up Maj. Gen. Lambert appointed Collonel thereof coming to the head of the Regiment was received with great Acclamations A List of the Regiments of Horse and Foot Randezvouzed and Marched with the Lord Gen Cromwell into Scotland Eight Regiments of Horse THe Lord Generals in number 663 Maj. Gen. in number 663 Col. Fleetwoods in number 663 Col. Whalies in number 663 Col. Twisden in number 663 Col. Lilburn in number 663 Col. Hackers in number 663 Col. Okey in number 744 Consisting with Officers in all 5450 Ten Regiments of Foot THe Lord Generals in number 1307 Col. Pride 1307 Col. Bright 1307 Col. Maliveryr 1307 Col. Ch Fairfax 1307 Col. Cocks 1307 Col. Dunell 1307 Col. Sir Arthur Hasterigs 5 Companies 550 Col. Fenwicks 5 Companies 555 Consisting with Officers in all 10249 The Traine 690 The whole thus The Traine 690 The Horse 5450 The Foot 10249 The Totall 16354 A Letter from Liev Gen David Lesley to the Lord Gen Cromwell My Lord I Am Commanded by the Committee of Estates of this Kingdome and desired by the Commissioners of the Generall Assembly to send unto your Excellency this inclosed Declaration as that which containeth the State of the Quarrell wherein we are resolved by the Lords assistance to fight your Army when the Lord shall please to call us thereunto And as you have professed you will not conceal any of our Papers I doe desire that this Declaration may be made known to all the Officers of your Army And so I rest Bruchton 13 Aug. 1650. Your Excell most humble Servant DAVID LESLEY For his Excellency the Lord Generall Cromwell The Declaration of the Commissioners of the Generall Assembly of Scotland as followeth THe Commission of the Generall Assembly considering That there may be just ground of stumbling from the Kings Majesties refusing to subscribe and emit the Declaration offered unto him by the Committee of Estates and Commissioners of the Generall Assembly concerning his former carriage and resolutions for the future in reference to the Cause of God and the Enemies and Friends thereof Doth therefore Declare That this Kirk and Kingdome doe not owne nor espouse any Malignant Party or Quarrell or Interest but that they fight meerly upon their former Grounds and Principles and in defence of the Cause of God and of the Kingdome as they have done these twelve years past And therefore as they doe disclaime the sin and guilt of the King and of his House so they will not owne him nor his interest otherwise then with a subordination to God and so far as he ownes and prosecutes the Cause of God and disclaimes his and his Fathers opposition to the work of God and to the Coven and likewise all the Enemies thereof And that they will with convenient speed take into consideration the Papers lately sent unto then from Oliver Cromwel and vindicate themselves from all the fa●shoods contained therein especially in these things wherein the Quarrell betwixt us and that party is mis-stated as if we owned the late Kings proceedings and were resolved to prosecute and maintaine his present Majesties interest before and without acknowledgement of the sins of his House and former wayes and satisfaction to Gods people in both Kingdomes West Kirk Aug. 13 1650. A. Ker. August 13. 1650. THe Committee of Estates having seen and considered a Declaration of the Commission of the Generall Assembly anent the stating of the Quarrell whereon the Army is to fight Doe approve the same and heartily concur therein Tho Henderson The Lord Generalls Answer to the former as followeth I Received yours of the thirteenth instant with the Paper you mentioned therein inclosed which I caused to be read in the presence of so many Officers as could well be gotten together to which your Trumpet can witnesse we returne you this Answer by which I hope in the Lord it will appear That we continue the same we have profest our selves to the honest people of Scotland wishing to them as to our own souls it being no part of our business to hinder any of them from worshiping God in that way they are satisfied in their Consciences by the Word of God they ought though different from us but shall therein be ready to perform what obligations lye upon us by the Covenant but that under the pretence of the Covenant mistaken and wrested from the most native intent and equity thereof a King should be taken in by you to be imposed upon us and this called The Cause of God and the Kingdome

provision of Meal to serve 500 men about twelve months 40 or 50 Barrels of Beef 500 Armes new Muskets and Pikes 26 Barrels of powder 20 or 30 Vessels of Claret Wine and Strong waters great store of Match and other Ammonition Lantes Guns a thousand Flats and other instruments of War of that nature all the Records of Scotland the Chaire and Cloath of State the Sword and other rich furniture of the Kings Aug. 25. The totall rout and overthrow of the Earl of Darby in Lancashire by Col. Robert Lilburne A full Narrative of the late Dangerous Designe against the State written with Master Love's owne hand and by him sent to the Parliam declaring the severall Meetings and secret Actings with Major Alford Major Adams Colonel Barton Master Blackmore M Case M Cauton Dr. Drake M Drake Capt. Far M. Gibbons M. Haviland Maj Huntington M. Jenkins M. Jaquel M. Jackson Liev. Jackson Cap. Massey M. Nilton Cap. Potter M. Robinson M. Sterks Col. Sowton Col. Vaughan and others COnsidering how a clear and full Narrative may satisfie the State although it may prejudice my self I am willing with an ingenuous freedome and opennesse of heart to make known the whole matter so far as I distinctly know and well remember humbly hoping that this large acknowledgment of mine which is more then any in the world can prove against me shall not be taken as an aggravation of my fault but as a demonstration of my ingenuity Before I mention the matters of Fact I humbly crave leave to signifie the time when and manner how I came to be intangled in this unhappy businesse I now come humbly and truly to relate the matter of Fact which is as followeth It appeared to me by the testimony of the Witnesses that there were freequent meetings by Mr. Drake Alford Titus Adams and others soon after the death of the late King and applications made to the King of Scots the Queen his Mother to Jermyn and Piercy both before and during the Treaty at Jersey of which I know nothing nor was I present But the first meeting I was at was at my House and as I remember at the reading of a Letter which came from Captain Titus after the Treaty was ended at Jersey the Contents of that Letter were if I mistake not to this effect That the Treaty at Iersey was broken off through the violent and evill Counsels of desperate Malignants and that he had something of concernment to communicate which he durst not doe in person being not safe for him to come over into England nor could he well doe it by writing he judging it not fit or safe to send by the Common Post scaring a miscarriage wherefore he desired some body to be sent over to him to Calice to whom he might give an account of all proceedings Upon the reading of this Letter Mr. Drake moved that some person should be desired to goe to Calice for said he we shall hear the whole relation of the businesse at Iersey whereupon Major Adams or Capt. Farr were moved by Mr. Drake to goe There was mention of Major Alford to goe though he was not then present that I know of nor was he ever within my house as I remember untill after he returned from Calice so that there was none that I know of was gone Mr. Drake told me Major Alford was the fittest man to go over to Calice having businesse of his owne to goe into France to look after his Prodigall Son so that it was said he a plausible pretence to concea●e his going over to meet with Titus There were present at this first meeting M. Drake M. Ienkins Maj. Adams D. Drake Cap. Far Capt. Potter and my selfe with some others but who more I cannot remember About 2 or 3 dayes after Maj. Alfords return from Calice M. Drake told me he was come to London and told me he would goe to severall Ministers and Citizens to desire them to meet at my House that so we might hear what Newes Maj. Alford brought with him from Calice accordingly the next day in the evening they met at my house Mr. Drake brought Maj. Alford with him who gave an account of his conference with Titus and his receiving a Copy of the Kings Letter from him as also a Narrative of the Treaty at Iersey and said that he brought not over the Letters himselfe but delivered them to a Passenger that came in the Ship least himself should be searched but after he came into England he received the Letter Narrative from him but who he was I know not and so brought them to London whether the Copy of the Kings Letter was read at my house in my hearing I remember not yet I deny not but it was read there I am sure I heard the Contents of it were to this effect That he took in good part the affections and loyalty of those who formerly had Petition'd to him of which Petition I know nothing and if ever God restored him or put him in a condition he should remember them The Narrative read in my House was to this effect He made a large description of the Scots commending his prudent carriage good inclinations to an agreement with the Scots but that his bad Councel about him hindred it also he made a rehearsall of his lusterings from the Cavaliers at Jersey how he was imprisoned in a close Room There were present at this meeting Maj. Alford M. Drake Mr. Case Maj. Adams Mr. Jaquel Mr. Jackson Mr. Jenkins Dr. Drake Capt. Potter Mr. Sterks Capt. Farr and my selfe with others but who I doe not remember A little before the Treaty at Bieda there was a meeting at my House Mr Drake proposed that wee should thinke of some way to promote the agreement between the King and the Scots where by the way I desire humbly to give notice that this was the first and only meeting of this nature at my house Mr Drake took out some papers out of his pocket written in Characters which he read in my Study which went under the name of a Commission and Instructions to be sent to the Lord Willoughby Alderm Bunce Massey Graves and Titus to appoint them to advise with and use their interests in persons of honour to provoke the King to agree with the Scots take the Covenant as also to advise with the Scots Commissioners and perswade them That in their agreement with their King they would have speciall respect to the interest of Religion and terms of the Covenant the Commission ran in this form as if it were in the names of all the Presbyteriall party in England after I heard it read I was against it alledging severall reasons chiefly that it was an act of high presumption for private persons to send a Commission with Instructions and an act of notorious falshood to say this was in the name of all the Presbyteriall party of England when but a few persons knew thereof many in the

diligent enquiry into his will your Petitioner is convinced that the alterations of Civill Governments are ordered by and founded upon the wise and righteous providences of God who removeth Kings and setteth up Kings ruleth in the Kingdomes of men and giveth them to whomsoever he will That the providences of this God have in the judgement of your Petitioner as evidently appeared in the removing of others from and the investing your Honours with the Government of this Nation as ever they appeared in the taking away or bestowing of any Government in any History of any age of the World That he apprehends that a refusall to be subject to this present au●hority under the p●etence of upholding the Title of any one upon earth is a refusall to acquiesce in the wise and righteous pleasure of God such an opposing of the Government set up by the Soveraign Lord of Heaven and Earth as none can have peace either in acting in or suffering for and that your Petitioner looks upon it as his duty to yeeld to this authority all active and cheerfull obedience in the Lord even for Conscience sake to promise he being required truth and fidelity to it and to hold forth the grounds of his so doing to any as God shall call him thereunto That though an imprisonment accompanied with the losse of Estate and to be followed without your gracious prevention with a speedy Arraignment before a high and eminent Judicatory are far from being pleasant to flesh and blood and though the injoyment of your grace and favour be a blessing most deserving to be reckoned among the best of temporals yet that neither the feeling and fearing of the former nor the expectation of the latter could have induced your Petitioner against the light of his owne judgement and the prepondering part of his owne conscience to have made or presenting this acknowledgment he sadly fore-casting that a whole skin is but a contemptible recompence for a wounded conscience WIL JENKIN Sept. 3. 1651. A Victory obtained over the Scotch Army at Worcester This day twelve months was glorious at Dunbar but this day hath been very glorious before Worcester the Word was The Lord of Hosts and so it was now the same signall we had now as then wch was to have no white about us yet the Lord hath cloathed us with white Garments though to the Enemy they have been bloody onely here lyeth the difference that at Dunbar our Work was at break of day but now it began towards the close of the evening 10000 taken and 3000 slain of the Enemy about 200 of ours The General hazarding himselfe rode up to the Enemies Forts offering them Quarter whereto they returned no answer but shot Sept. 1. Dundee taken by storm 60 ships in the Harbour 40 Guns The Scots King beaten at Worcester gets into a hollow Tree remains there a night next day in a Wood cuts his haire short shipt for Havre de Grace and so to Paris Sir The Scottish King came hither on Munday the last of October N. S. and being demanded by his Mother and the Duke of Orleans how he escaped the Fight of Worcester gave them this account That about six a Clock in the evening his Army being in all likelihood lost he quitted Wor. Towne with a party of Horse and marched toward Lancashire but being fearfull of being pursued and o the Scottish Officers that might deliver him up he with the L Wilmot quitted their Horses and betook themselves next day to a Tree where they staid till night and then marched the third day they lay in a wood and at night marched toward Lancashire a Lady receiving them furnished them with Cloaths for a disguise and cut off their haire Having reposed 2 or 3 dayes she endeavoured to ship them out of England and she riding behind the King and Wilmot as another Servant by they went to Bristoll but finding a narrow inquiry there resolved to go for London where they stayed 3 week The King one day went into Westminster Hall where he saw the States Arms and Scots Colours my Lord Wilmot procured a Merchant to hire a ship of forty Tuns to transport them which cost them a hundred and twenty pounds but where they took shipping is not known but as soon as my Lord was entred the Barque and the King as his Servant the Master came to him and told him that he knew the King and in case it should be known he could expect no mercy which saying troubled them but at length what with money and promises they prevailed and so set saile for Havre de Grace where they landed and from thence to Roven where they cloathed themselves and writ to Paris His arrivall there will put them to new Counsels since now they cannot send their Ambassadors which was concluded on before his coming The Duke of Orleans fetcht him into Towne and expressed much as to serve him Yesterday he with Thurenne Beaufort and the D. of Guise came to him to the Louvre where the King told them that they should endeavour to reconcile the breach between the Prince and the King of France for said he to my knowledge the English will visit you with an Army in the Spring Octob. 15. 1651. Earl of Darby Beheaded at Bolton in Lancashire Octob. 30. The Isle of Jersey taken Nov. 16. The Isle of Man taken Resolv That the time for the continuance of this Parl. beyond which they resolve not to fit shall be Nov. 3. 1654. The Parl. of the Common-wealth of England Declare 1 THat no Power Jurisdiction or Authority otherwise then from the Parl. of Engl be used exercised or enjoyned within Scotl or the Isles or any of the Territories thereof 2 That they doe forbid annull and make voyd the use and exercise of any Power Jurisdiction and Authority whatsoever within Scotl or the Isles or any of the Territories thereof other then such as shall be so derived An Act of Generall Pardon and Oblivion Feb. 24. 1651. THe Parl. of England having had good experience of the affections of the people to this present Government by their ready assistance against Charles Stuart Sonne of the late Tyrant and the Forces lately invading this Nation under his Command and being much afflicted with the miserable and sad effects which the late unnaturall War hath produced and resolved to settle the peace and freedome of this Common wealth and being desirous that the minds persons and Estates of all the people of this Nation might be composed setled and secured and that all rancour and evill will occasioned by the late differences may be buried in perpetuall Oblivion Be it Enacted by this present Parl. and by Authority of the same That all and every person or persons of or within the Common-wealth of England the Isles of Iersey and Garnsey the Towne of Berwick upon Tweed and the Heirs Execut and Admin of them and every of them and all and singular bodies in any manner incorporated

Cities Burroughs Shires c. and every of them are and shall be acquitted and pardoned of all Treasons Fellonies Offences c. done before Sept. 3. 1651. not in this present Act hereafter not excepted nor fore-prized And the said Keepers of the Liberties of England granteth and freely giveth to every of them all Goods Debts Chattels Fines which to the said Keepers of the Liberties of England do belong or appertain before Sept. 3. and which be not hereafter in this Act foreprized and excepted And it is further Enacted That this Pardon shall be taken in Courts of Justice available to all and singular the said persons c. shall be arrested c. for any thing acquitted by this Act every person so offending shall pay to him offended his treble damages and 10. l. to the State Excepted all High-Treasons other then for words only and all levying of war rebellions insurrections and conspiracies committed against the Par. since Ian. 30. 1648. And all concealments of the said offences And all voluntary Murthers petty Treasons poysoning piracles buggeries rapes ravishments marrying any one against her will And also all persons now attained for petty treason murther poysoning conjurations witchcrafts charms detainments of Customs and sums of money due upon Composition Excise or New-Imposts all Conditions Covenants and penalties of forfeitures due to the Parl. or the late K. since Ian. 30. 1648. All first fruits and Tithes and all offences and misdemeanours whereof any sentence or judgment hath been given in Parl. since Ian. 30. 1648. And all offences of Bribery perjuries and subordination of Witnesses counterfeiting Deeds Debenters Bills of Publick Faith Escripts or writings whatsoever carrying over Seas any Coyn or Jewels melting downe of Gold or Bullion c. detaining the Goods c. of the late King or Queen all offences committed by any Jesuite any Outlawries upon any writ of Capion ad satisfaciendum and all except such persons as were Ian. 28. 1651. in prison by Order of Parl. and all proceedings concerning common High-wayes all Free-farm-rents and arrerages due since Iune 24. 1645. all moneys imprested since Nov. 3. 1638. Provided all Acts of Hostility between the late King and Parl. or between any of the people of this Nation or falling out by reason of the late troubles shalt in no time after Iune 18. 1651. be called in question The DECLARATION of the Lord Generall and his Councel of Officers shewing the Grounds and Reasons for the Dissolving the Parliament April 20. 1653. AFter it had pleased God not only to reduce Ireland and give in Scotland but so marvellously to appeare for his people at Worcester that these Nations were reduced to a great degree of peace it was matter of grief to many well affected in the Land to see the Cause of God so little forwarded by the Parl. whereupon they applied to the Army expecting redresse by them notwithstanding which the Army being unwilling to meddle with the Civill Authority in matters so properly appertaing to it it was agreed That his Excellency and Officers of the Army should be desired to move the Parl. to proceed vigorously in reforming what was amisse in Government which having done we hoped that the Parl. would seasonably have answered our expectations but finding delayes therein we renewed our desires in a Petition in August last and although they signified their good acceptance thereof and referred the particulars to a Committee of the House yet no considerable effect was produced but there more and more appeared among them an aversion to the things themselves with much bitternesse and opposition to the people of God which grew so prevalent that those persons of honour and integrity who had eminently appeared for God and the publick good were rendred of no further use in Parl. then by meeting with a corrupt party to give them countenance to carry on their ends For which purpose they frequently declared themselves against having a New Representative and when they were necessitated to take that Bill into consideration they resolv'd to make use of it to recruit the House with persons of the same temper thereby to perpetuate their owne sitting which intention divers of the most active did manifest labouring to perswade others to a consent therein and divers Petitions preparing from severall Counties for the continuance of this Parl. were encouraged by them For obviating these evills the Officers of the Army obtained severall Meetings with some of the Parl. to consider what fitting meanes might be applyed to prevent the same but such endeavours proving altogether ineffectuall it became most evident to the Army that this Parl. would never answer those ends which God his people and the whole Nation expected from them But that this Cause must needs languish under their hands and be wholly lost All which being sadly considered by the honest people of this Nation as well as by the Army and wisdome and direction being sought from the Lord it seemed to be a duty incumbent upon us to consider of some more effectuall means to secure the Cause which the good people of this Common wealth have been so long engaged in and to stablish peace in these Nations And after much debate it was judged necessary that the Supream Authority should be devolved upon known persons men fearing God and of approved integrity and committed unto them for a time as the most hopefull way to encourage and countenance all Gods people reform the Law and administer justice impartially hoping thereby the people might forget Monarchy and have the Government setled upon a true Basis without hazard to this glorious Cause and necessitating to keep up Arms for the defence of the same And being still resolved to use all means possible to prevent extraordinary courses we prevai'ed with about twenty Members of Parl. to give us a Conference with whom we freely and plainly debated the necessity and justnesse of our Proposals and did evidence that these would most probably bring forth something answerable to that work the foundation whereof God himselfe hath laid The which found no acceptance but it was offered that the way was to continue still this Parl. as being that from which we might reasonably expect all good things and this being insisted upon did much confirm us in our apprehensions That not any love to a Representative but the making use thereof to perpetuate themselves was their aim They being plainly dealt with about this and told that neither the Nation the honest interest nor we our selves would be deluded by such dealings did agree to meet again next day in the afternoon and nothing in the mean time should be done that might frustrate the Proposals Notwithstanding the Parl. next morning did make more hast then usuall in carrying on their said Act being helped therein by some of the persons engaged to us the night before none of them endeavouring to oppose the same and being ready to put the main Question for consummating the said Act whereby our Proposals would have been made void For preventing whereof we have been necessitated to put an End to this Parliament And desire that all men as they would not provoke the Lord to their owne destruction should wait for such issue as he shall bring forth and to follow their businesse with peaceable spirits wherein we promise them protection by his assistance FINIS