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Englands remembrances
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30. 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
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