in two yeares That Sir Mich. Livesey Mr. Walton Harrison Whalley Lisle Say Scroop Okey Huson Goff Berkstead Holland Ludlow Tho Chaloner Carew Jo Jones Corbet Smith Clement Scot Cawley Love Dixewell Blagrave Cooke Broughton Dendi Hewlett Peters Hacker and Axtell Sir Hardresse Waller Mr. Row Garland Harvey Smith Martin Titchburn G. Fleetwood J. Temple P. Temple Waite Mayne Heveningham Pennigton Lilburn Millington Potter Wogan and Downs and the two persons that were disguis'd upon the Scaffold when the horrible Murder of His late Majesty waâ— committed shall be wholly excluded from pardon and in case any of them shall be attainted and convicted that execution shall be delay'd in regard of the said Sir Hardresse Waller and the 18. nominated after him till new orders from His Majesty and the two Houses of Parliament That O. Cromwel H. Ireton J. Bradshaw and Tho Pride deceased shall be also excluded from this pardon and their goods and the Goods of Sir John Danvers Tho Maleverer Sir Will. Constable G. Norton Sir John Bourchier deceased and the goods of I. Eure G. Purefoy J. Blackeston R. Deane F. Alleyne P. Pelham John Moor J. Allured H. Edwards J. Venn T. Andrews A. Stapeley T. Norton J. Foy and T. Hammon shall be under such sequestrations as the Parliament shall order That Mr. F. Lastells shall pay a yeares Revenue of his Estate and be incapable of bearing any publick Office as also Sir John Hutchinson That Sir Gilbert Pickering Mr. W. Lenthall G. Burton O. St. John J. Ireton W. Sydenham J. Desbrough J. Blackwell C. Pack R. Keeble C. Fleetwood J. Pine R. Deane R. Creed P. Nye J. Goodwin J. Lister and R. Cobett shall be uncapable of any publick Office and they do except them they shall lose the benefit of this present act That Lambert and Vane shall be wholly fore priz'd out of the said act That all persons sitting in illegall high Courts of Justice and that gave sentence against His Majesty shall be uncapable of bearing any publick Office except Col. Ingolsby and Col. Tomlinson That Sir Arthur Haslerig shall not be excepted for life That the Kings Queens and Bishops Lands shall be restored Some few dayes after the comming forth of this Act Hugh Peters a most notorious incendiary and of most mischievous principles was taken lurking in Southwark His appreheâ—sion is the more considerable in regard of his intimate acquaintance with Cromwells designes who is thought employ'd him in the detestable butchery of His late Majesty or if not him some other whose name and person he is able to discover As to forraign affaires relating unto this Kingdom there was not much which happen'd remarkable onely the comming of Embassadors from several parts as from Holland Denmarke France and Spaine who were sent by their several Princes to congratulate the return of His Majesty into England though there was nothing so pleasing to the Merchant as the Peace like to be with Spaine in regard that the Protectors Warre with that Nation being ill-manag'd had prov'd very fatal to them and therefore they were not a little joyfull to think they should recover their former losses by a new Peace which we must now believe cannot be long unconcluded in regard that about the beginning of this moneth a cessation of Armes between both Kingdoms was publickly Proclaimed in London to the great content of the whole Nation who before these Warres were no small gainers by their Peace with that Country Thus have I given the Reader a brief draught of the series of our affaires from the murder of Charles the first to this present time wherein may be seen how the Nation has been ridden these dozen years at switch and spur in a Common-wealth saddle I shall summe up all in a brief Character of His most Sacred Majesty though what I shall say herein will come as far short of his admirable Endowments as the Light of a Candle to that of the Sun He is of stature somewhat tall yet so exactly formed that the most Curious Eye cannot find one Error in his shape his face is rather grave then severe which is very much softned whensoever he speaks His complexion is somewhat dark but much Enlightned by his Eyes which are quick and sparkling his hair which he hath in great plenty is of a shining black not frizled but naturally curling into great Rings that it is a very comely Ornament for his acquired Endowments he understands Spanish and Italian speakes and writes French correctly he is very well versed in Ancient and Modern history hath read divers choice pieces of politicks studied some usefull parts of the Mathematicks as Fortification and the Knowledge of the Globe he is well skilled in Navigation in bâ—ief he is a true friend to Literature and to Learned men During his expulsion he hath Travelled through and Lived in the Countries of three the most potent Princes in Christendome viz. The Emperours of Germany and the Kings of Spain and France and so to the Germans Resolution the Spaniards Prudence the Frenchmans Expedition He is of a very solid judgment not carried about with every wind of Counsel so that it may be as truly said of him as of his prodecessor Henry the fourth He that would corrupt his Council must first begin with the King or as it is written of Noble Fabritius that he could resolve well and having once resolved you might as soon have put the sun out of his course as Fabritius from his resolution witness his stedfastness and constancy in the Protestant Religion notwithstanding those many specious overtures made unto him by many subtill and plausible arguments pressed upon him to pervert him from it FINIS
for being in His way presented with several summes of money the Committee of Estates and Kirk fearing such diet would make Him too unweildy fet forth injunctions that what ever monies people had to bestow they should bring it in unto such Treasuries as should be appointed by them a very neat device not onely to bring gaine unto themselves but to make Him the more conformable to their pleasures However they pretend great matters for His service an army is to â—e raised of 16000. foot and 6000. horse of which the Earl of Leven is made Generall of the foot and Holborne Major Generall David Lesley Leiutenant Generall of the Horse and Montgomery Major Generall His Majesty whom I name last because He had least command had the Title of Generallissimo reserved for Him and indeed onely the Title for He never went into the field with His army Being come to Edenburgh He is received by the Parliament and Committy of Estates and Kirk with infinite expressions of fidelity and affection the Common people like Ecchoes answering their superiours the whole City sounded nothing but VIVE LE ROY In this Condition we will leave Him for a while and cast an eye upon the affairs of England Whose Juncto by the treachery of some that sat in the Parliament of Scotland had certain intelligence of all these proceedings and now seeing things were grown to this height they send for Cromwell out of Ireland making him Generall in the room of Sir Thomas Fairfax who say some refused to engage against the Scots others say his Commission was taken from him to gratifie therewith their Creature Cromwell though this their Idol afterwards prov'd their scourge so just is God that those who would not endure a milde King should suffer under a mereiless Tyrant Having received his Commission he matches into Scotland but upon his approach the Scots in two letters one to himself and another to the Parliament complain of the invasion To which the Parliament in a declaration and Cromwell in a letter much to the same effect replie That the Scots had once already invaded England under Hamilton and were now ready for a second so that the English did now not so much invade as prevent invasion That they had made peace with the Common enemy and had not onely restored Him to their own Kingdome but promised to give Him all assistance as to His restauration to this That they were not content to enjoy their own liberty in Religion but would restrain them from theirs Thus from words they fall to blows and first Cromwell at a place called Muscleborough encountereth with the Scots under the command of Montgomery whom he worsted and afterwards gave them a totall overthrow at Dunbar Sep. 3. 1650. a day very remarkable in the passages of his life having on the same obtained two signall victories was on the same chosen Protector and on the same day died the most fortunate of the foure and deserveth to be Rubrickt with red letters for deliverance from so bloudy a Tyrant Soon after he had a dangerous fit of sickness from which if God had been pleased in mercy to have delivered him by death I believe he had not been guilty of so much perjury bloud and apostacy as afterwards he contracted Sad was the condition of the Scots at this time being not onely perplexed with a forreigne enemy raging in her bowels but were themselves also miserably divided into a Tripartite Schisme one party in the West under Strangham and Ker declared for the Kirk against the King another party in the North under the Command of Huntley Atholl Seaforth c. for the King against the Kirk a third being the Parliament and Committy of Estates and Kirk for the King and Kirk with these last was His Sacred Majesty but so imperious and insolent were they over Him in extorting declarations from Him against His own party and proceedings in usurping the whole government of affaires to themselves and in placing guards of their own Creatures upon His person c. That not able longer to suffer such intollerable affronts he went secretly away from them to the Lord Dedups house in the North Confines of Fife The Parliament and Committy of Estates and Kirk fearing He would have gone to Huntley sent Major General Montgomery after Him to intreat His return again to S. Johnston's which at first He refused but afterwards upon severall Propositions granted Him He returned And now the Common enemy endangering all they unite in affection and a generall meeting is resolved on to be held at S. Johnston's which should consist of King Lords Barons Burgesses and the Assembly of Ministers severall Lords formerly in disfavour with the Kirk are received into command in the Army and have Libeâ—ty to sit in Parliament such as Hamilton Landerdale Leith Bucheim Dedup and Crawford Major Generall Massey of the English was admitted to a Command in the Army Thus did their soares begin to heal their breaches again to be made up and now it was well hoped these clouds of divission being blown over a serene sky would follow and the Sun of prosperity shine upon their proceedings January the first following with as great solemnity as the indigency of their affairs would permit was the King Crowned at Scone the ancient place for the Coronation of the Kings of Scotland to omit the Ceremonies which were not many as not fit to be used in so reformed a place The King having the Crown set on His head endeavours to maintain the same against all opposers in relation whereunto He resolves upon the raising of an Army with all possible speed to which effect he sets up His Standerd at Aberdeen intending to be Generalissimo thereof Himself Duke Hamilton is made Leiutnant Generall of the Army and Sir Thomas Middleton Lieutenant Generall of the Horse The Town of Sterling is ordered to be fortified to which His Majesty went often in progresse to view the works and encourage the Pioners And high time it was for Him to bestirre Himself Cromwell that successefull Rebel having gained all on the other side Fife takes the Earl of Eglington prisoner every day drew nigher and nigher to them whereupon His Majesty removed His Court to Sterling most of the Scotch army quartering about it whither not long after Sir Tho. Middleton brought 8000. men out of the North and more were expected every day from Argile Huntley and Seaforth who were gone to their severall territories to compleat the Kings Levies Cromwell desirous to fight them before they were united used all his endeavours to bring them to a field battle which His Majesty for the reasons aforesaid declined whereupon on a sudden he draws off his army and transports 1600. foot and foure Troops of Horse over into Fife and with an unparallel'd expedition faced again the Royall Army with a râ—solution to fall upon their Rear if they should attempt a motion thitherwards yet could not this make them to stirre In
the mean time Sir John Brown Governour of Sterling with 4000. Horse and Foot marches against that party of Cromwells already landed in Fife Lambert and Okey having intelligence thereof with two Regiments oâ— Horse and two of Foot waft over to reinforce their party with which additionall aid they routed Sir John Brown took him prisoner with near 1200. more and killed 2000. upon the place Crownwell flesht with these beginnings pursues his advantages and transports his Army over Fife marches to S. Johnstons and takes it almost upon the first summons His Majesty not able to force them back resolves with all speed to advance into England well hoping the justnesse of His cause would have incited the English to have joyned with Him as experienc'd also of the Scots valour exprest better in other Countries then the own Cromwell hereupon re-crosses Frith and sends Lambert with a select party of Horse and Dragoones to fall upon their Rear himself following quickly after By the way of Carlile the Royal Army enters England marching with that Civility and Obedience to military discipline that 't was thought the Country was not endamaged six pence by them but whether it was that their former villanies had left such a deep impression in the hearts of the people or that they were now dulled and besotted with slavery content with Issachers asse to couch under their burthens or rather being over-awed by an armed power few or none came in to their assistance saving onely the Lord Howards Sonne of Estwick with a Troope of Horse notwithstanding His Majesties earnest invitations The Juncto at Westwinster hearing of the Kings march raised all the Counties against Him and made it high Treason to aid Him with either men or monies But the Loyall though unfortunate Earl of Darby not fearing their Bug-bear brought Him a supply of 250. Foot and 60. Horse out of the Isle of Man and having raised a considerable force in Lancashire set upon Col. Lilburn intending to have hindered him from joyning with a Regiment of Cromwells which was sent for that purpose towards Manchester but was by him unfortunately defeated the Lord Witherington Sir Thomas Tilsley Sir William Throgmorton Col. Boynton and sundry others taken prisoners At Worcester the Royall army made a stand resolving to abide all opposition Cromwell having joyned himself with the Country forces was quickly at their heels his army consisting of 50. or 60. Thousand the Scots not 10000. at most yet adding courage to their small number resolved to fight it out to the uttermost the King though of a Lambe-like disposition yet here acted the part of a Lyon encouraging his Souldiers both by precept and example after severall sallies and much courage shown on both sides September 3. an unfortunate day for the Scots it came to a field fight wherein though the Royalists valour exceeded even to admiration yet multitude overmatching courage they were overthrown The King whose Horse was twice that day shot under Him could not be induced to quit the field untill He saw all the field almost cleared The battle being thus absolutely lost toward three of the Clock Thursday Morning the 4. of September the King in Company with the said Earl of Derby Earl of Shrewsbury Earl of Cleaveland Duke of Buckingham my Lord Wilmot and others to the Number of fourscore came to the place called White-ladies in the parish of Tong in the Confines of Stafford and Shropshire being 25. Miles distant or thereabouts from Worcester which space of ground he had Rid that Night This White-ladies was a house belonging to one Fitsherbert where George Penderil the youngest brother of five who were all severally instrumentall in the Conducting and Preserving His Majesty hearing some body Knocking at the Gate so early opening the window and Espying there the aforesaid Francis Yates who was his brother in law together with Mr. Giffard the first thing he asked of his brother Yates was what News from Worcester who answered that the King was defeared and the Enemy in pursuit of Him therefore bid him to make hast and put on his cloaths but ere he could doe that the King with most of His Lords had entred the house and were come into the hall where after a very short debate the Earl of Derby called for William Penderil the Eldest brother for my Lord of Derby had taken this place for his Shelter after the defeat given him by Col. Lilburn near Wigan in Lancashire and was acquainted there was by them conducted to Worcester to the King it had also been a Sanctuary for several other Gentlemen who being come George was sent to Tong within Five miles of Wolverhampton to one Robert Beard a very honest person to enquire of him whether there were any scattered Troops of the Kings thereabouts or if any of the Enemies appeared thereabouts who returned and brought word that there were no parties at all to be seen return-in he met with his brother Richard Richard being come in Mr. Giffard called for him and bad him bring his best cloathes which were a jerkin and breeches of course green cloth and a Doe-skin Leather doublet they borrowed an old Gray hat of Humphry Penderill the Miller the course he open shirt was had of one Edward Martin with George Penderils band and shoes of one William Creswell which His Majesty unstripping Himself of His own cloaths nimbly put on His buff-coat and linnen doublet and gray Breeches which were the cloath that He put off He gave into the brothers hands who immediately buried them under ground where they lay five weeks before they durst take them up again the Jewels of His Arme He gave to one of the Lords who was then going away Then Richard brought a paire of shears and founded the Kings hair which my Lord Wilmot had Notched before with a Knife and the King was pleased to take notice of Richards good workmanship so as to preferre it before my Lord Wilmots and now His Majesty was esteemed to be the compleat wood-man Hereupon William Penderil was presented to His Majesty by the Earl of Derby and the care of His most Sacred Majesty committed to his charge and the rest of his brothers After this all that were present took their leaves and departed every one shifting for himself only my Lord Wilmot was carried by John Penderil to the house of one Thomas Whitgreaves as they were going along seeing some men coming behind them which proved to be friends though my Lord suspected the Country to rise upon them they hid themselves in a dry pit where they stayed till Evening and then arrived safely at Mr. Whitgreaves The Company being all gone a wood-bill was brought to the King and so He and Richard went out into the wood William went home and Richard and George went out to scout and lay hovering in the wood to hear or see if any one approached that way the King had not been above an hour in that wood but a troop
Gresham Colledge which two places they had made Guards of converting the house of prayer to a Den of Thieves Thus was the City design'd for fire sword and pillage had not God by a timely period prevented their designs Thus while these mens miscarriages doe invest His Maâ—esty with the love of his people he lives retiredly at Bruges expecting either what his loyall subjects might or what the successe might be of that treaty which was then in agitation between France and Spain His Majesty having some hopes to believe that those two Crowns united might joyn to his relief In order to this treaty the two grand favorites of both Crowns being met upon the frontiers His Majesty was also invited thither by Don Lewis de Haro His Majesty received this invitation at Dieppe in Normandy whither he had withdrawn himself to attend the successe of Sir George Booths businesse his friends in England having given no small encouragement to his hopes But seeing the ill success of affairs in England he hasts to the Frontiers being come to Roan he takes post accompani'd with the Marquess of Ormond and the Lord Digby and being at length arrived near the end of their journey he sends to give Don Lewis notice of his approach who presently with a noble traine came forth to meet him When they came near Don Lewis alighted from his horse and kneeling down though in a place by reason of the dirt somewhat inconvenient for that purpose he clapt his hands about His Majesties knees and with a great deal of humility and affection kissed them From this place Don Lewis accompanied His Majesty to the place provided for his accommodation riding bare-headed before him where he was all the while of his stay nobly and sumptuously entertained Many propositions are made by His Majesty to Don Lewis as to the giving him aid and assistance for the regaining of his right to all which Don Lewis returns civill and pleasing answers behaving himself with that respect to His Majesty as if he had been his Master himself His Majesty having spent some time here returns to Paris where he staid with his Mother some few days and so returns to his retirement at Brussels what the successe of His Majesties private and personall negotiation we make no question that time would have discovered not a little to his advantage had not his long drooping affaires received new life from an unexpected alteration of the scene For as his enemies were busy in their endeavours for the destruction of the Nation so was Generall Monke the Governour of Scotland as sâ—udious how to save it The peoples eyes were all fixed upon him as their Moses to deliver them from this iron yoke of Egyptian bondage He having received intelligence of the Armies proceedings weighing the miseries attending such Anarchicall confusions resolves with himself by the divine assistance to put a period to these unhappy distractions by setling the government on its right Basis or Foundation To this purpose having first declared his dissent from their proceedings he secures divers strong holds of that Nation as also those Officers of his own that concurred not with him in his resolutions Having done this he sends a letter to the Officers of the Army at London importing something of dissatisfaction in himself and some Officers of the Army in Scotland in reference to the things newly done in Englang The Council of Officers having received this Alarum had a nocturnal consultation the result whereof was that the regiments should forthwith march Northwards and that Lambert should goe to command them but knowing too well the person with whom they had to deal or whether it were that the souldiers would not fight one with another Lambert and the rest thought it their wisest course to see whether they could undermine him by the pretence of a treaty and a few fair pâ—oposalls Hereupon Whaley and Goffe and Carill and Backer are sent away to remonstrate to Monck the State of Affaires in England and thereupon to mediate with him under the fair pretence of avoiding the effusion of more blood The Officers also wrote unto him and his Officers to expostulate with him touching a necessity of a brotherly Union Morgan also takes a journey out of Yorkeshire into Scotland to see if he could bring the Generall to a Composure But during these overtures the thoughts of action were not at all laid aside wherefore Lambert follows his commanders beginning his journey on the third of November and quartering at Ware that night Generall Monk also begins to look about him He removes those Officers which he had secured in Tintallon Castle unto the Cross Hand draws his forces together secures Barwick and sends Major knight with a Party of 500. Horse into England as far as Morpeth as it is supposed to see what parties there were in that Country to joyn with them which is the rather conjectured because they retreated so suddainly without making any further attempt not was it safe for them to stay there in regard that Lamberts more numerous forces were gathering together about New-castle However to amuse his adversaries he sends three Commissioners to London viz. Col. Clobery Col. Weekes and Major Knight to treate with the same number of persons on their side They arrive enter into a treaty and too hastily conclude upon these particulars following That the title of Charles Stuart be renounced That the three nations shall be governed by a free State and not by a single person That a learned and godly Ministry be maintained That the Universities be reformed and countenanced That the Officers and Souldiers be indempnified for what is past That the armies retire and be dispos'd of into their respective quarters most advantageously against the Coâ—mon Enemy That Whitlock Vane Ludlow Saleway Berry be chosen for England That Saint John Wareston Harington Scot and Thomson together with the Generalle three commanders be chosen for Scotland That Steel Barrow and Dobson be elected for Ireland to give their assistance in determining the qualifications of such persons as are to be members of succeeding Parliaments That two field officers of the regiments in the three Nations and ten on the behalf of the sea officers shall meet on the sixt of December as a generall councill to advise touching the model of civil government that should be then ready to be presented to them These were the chief heads of the agreement signed by the Commissioners on both sides sent immediately away likewise unto Scotland for the Generalls consent But Generall Monck instead of consenting summons a Convention to meet at Edenburgh and sends away a letter to the City yet so contrived that both the character and the speech seem'd suspicious which was delivered by Col. Markham and Col. Askin in behalf of the Long Parliament not seeing the depth of the designe To the Convention he proposes three things That having received a call from God to march into England for resetling the Parliament
should return to our Royall Soveraign without some Testimony of their respects to your self They have therefore ordered and appointed that 500 l. shall be delivered unto you to buy a Jewell as a Badge of that Honour which is due to a person whom the King hath Honoured to be the messenger of so Gracious a Message and I am commanded in the name of the House to return you their very hearty thanks And as at land such was the affections of the Seamen where Generall Mountague having received two Letters the one from His Ma esty the other from the most Illustrious Duke of Yorke as also those others sent to the House of Commons and his Excellency together with His Majesties Gracious Declaration he immediately caused a great gun to be shot off the usuall summons to call his Officers together who coming aboard he communicated His Majesties Letters unto them which being read with anunamimous consent they declared themselves for His Majesty professing their exact Loyalty to live and die in his defence deâ—â—ring the Generalls of the Fleet humbly to present the lame to His Majesty But no sooner did the under Sea-men hear thereof but their over-joy'd hearts burst forth into loud acclamations of joy this news was more welcome to them then had they taken the wealth of the West Indies for prize And now to expresse their Loyalty the Generall himself fired a great Gun crying God blesse His Majesty Then might you see the Fleet in her pride with Pendants loose Guns roaring Caps flying and loud Vive le Roys ecchoed from one ships Company to another which were answered with the great Guns from Deal and Sandwich Castles The Noble Generall gave two pipes of Canary to the Commanders and Gentlemen in his ship And as at sea so in Ireland was seen the same complyance for the Convention there hearing what was done in England send a Declaration hither wherein they first expresse their disclaime of the sinfull and exemplary force put upon the House iâ— 1648. and whereas also the said persons did presume to erect a high Court of Justice and by an ugly and execrable sentence condemn the King to death they do declare their detestation of the fact and protest against those inhuman unparallell'd and barbaâ—ous actions as being the foulest and highest assassination that ever prot hane or sacred History ever recorded May the 8. 1660. His Majesty was solemnly Proclaimed by the Loâ—ds and Commons the Lord Mayor c. in the Cities of London and Westminster with an universall testification of Loyalty from all degrees of people The manner whereof being so remarkable each â—erson in his proper Sphear contending to out-vy each other in expressions of obedience to His Sacred Majesty take as followeth Between one and two of the Clock the Lords met in the Painted Chamber where they continued till they were placed in order the Earl of Manchester Speaker first then the Duke of Buckingham the Earl of Oxford c. Thus they walked all along with the Heralds before them through the Court of Requests and Westminster-Hall to the Pallace where they staid befoâ—e the Hall gate whither also presently after came the House of Commons Being placed in order both Lords and Coâ—mons stood bare whilest Mr. Bish dictated and Mr. Râ—ley king at Armes with a loud voice Proclaimed Charles the second in these words The Proclamation Although it can no may be doubted but that His Majesties Right and Title to His Crown and Kingâ—omes is and was eâ—ery way compleated by the death of his most Royall father of glorious memory without the Ceremony or solemnity of a Proclamation yet since Proclamations in such cases have been always used to the end that all good subjects might upon this occasion testify their duty and respect And since the armed violence and other the Calamities of many years last past have hitherto deprived us of any such opportunity whereby we might express our Loyalty and allegiance to His Majesty We therefore the Lords and Commons now assembled in Parliament together with the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Commons of the City of London and other freemen of this kingdome now present do according to our Duty and Allegiance heartily joyfully and unaminously acknowledge and proclaime That immediately upon the decease of our late Soveraign Lord King Charles the Imperial Crown of the Realme of England and of all the Kingdomes Dominions and Rights belonging to the same did by inherent Birth right and lawfull undoubted succession descend and come to His most Excellent Majesty Charles the second as being lineally justly and lawfully next Heir of the Bloud Royal of this Realme and that by the goodness and providence of Almighty God He is of England Scotland France and Ireland the most potent mighty and undoubted King And thereunto we most Humbly and Faithfully do submit and obliege our selves our Heires and Posterity for ever God save the King The Proclamation being ended the Lords and Commons took their Coaches proceeding to the further solemnity of proclaiming His Sacred Majesty as followeth First the Head Bayliffe of Westminster and his Servants riding with White staves to prepare the way then followed a gallant Troop of Officers of the Army and other Gentlemen with Trumpets before them then the Life-guard very stately mounted and richly clothed after them a Class of six Trumpets and three Heralds then a Herald between the Serjeant to the Commons and the Mace of the Council next Mr. Ryley king at Armes in his rich coat of the Kings Armes between Serjeant Norfolk and Serjeant Middleton after whom came the Usher of the Black Rod and Mr. Bish together These ushering the way in the next place came the Earl of Manchester Speaker to the House of Lords in his Coach and six Horses then the Speaker of the House of Commons in his then his Excellency the Lord Generall in his after which followed both Houses of Lords and Commons in their Coaches and last of all a Troop of Horse In this manner they came to White-hall where they Proclaim'd His Majesty a second time and then in like order proceeded Being come to Arundell-House they made a stand where Mr. Ryley king at Armes taking one of the Heralds and six Trumpets with him advanced forward toward Temple-Bar which according tâ— agreement being shut he came to the gate knocked â—nd demanded entrance being asked who it was that knocked he replyed that if my Lord Mayor would come to the gate he would deliver his Message to him who accordingly coming the Trumpets sounded after which silence being made it was demanded of the king of Armes Who he was and what was his message to which he answered We are the Heralds at Armes Appointed and Commanded by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled to demand entrance into the famous City of London to proclaime Charles the second King of England Scotland and Ireland and we expect your speedy answer to this demand to this they answered
they would during his absence which would not be long preserve the peace of the Nation That if any troubles should arise they would assist him in the suppressing thereof That they would raise him some money To which the convention answer'd that for the raising of money they were ready to doe it As to the other two demands they reply'd that they were in no condition to perform his desires being that they wanted armes However that they would endeavour it Preparations therefore for warre still goe on and the Horse after some endeavours wherein Major Generall Morgan was very active were perswaded to sign the Engagement which was offer'd to them by Generall Monck Some weeks had pass'd when Generall Monck thinking it now necessary to return some kind of answer to what his Commanders at London required from him as to his consent to those articles which they had among themselves agreed upon wrote a letter to Fleetwood bearing date from Edinburgh Novemb. 14. wherein he signified that he was very glad to find his Lordship and the Officers of the Army of so complying a spirit and so tender of the publick peace but because he was desirous that the agreement should be full and firme and because he did conceive that some things did remaine untreated of and unagreed upon that therefore 't was the resolution of himself and the rest of the Officers there to adde two more to those that were already commissionated to treate with the same number of such as should be appointed by his Lordship for the putting a finall end to this unhappy business and that the place if his Lordship would permit should be at Newcastle which being granted Generall Monck managed the occasion of delaying them so prudently that while they were eager to entrap him they never perceived the advantages which the other gain'd upon themselves While they are debating at Newcastle the Committee of Safety and the Council of Officers have many debates at home They labour much to satisfie the City Whitlock to his praise be it spoken together with Fleetwood and Desborough being very industrious to that purpose but the Citizens having with much strugling chosen an honest and resolute Common-council at length disown'd them and desire though it were a sound most ungratefull to the men at Wallingford-house that they may have a Free-parliament which animosity of theirs was much augmented by Husons insolence and the murders which he committed in the midst of their City on the 5. of December The second thing they so much endeavour'd was to bring forth the form of government of which they had so long been in travel and at length they conclude upon seven unalterable principles or fundamentalls as they name them which were First That no kingship should be exercised in the nations Second That they will have no single person to be chief Magistrate Third That an army be continued and maintained and conducted so as to secure the peace of the Nations and not be disbanded nor the conduct altered but by consent of the Conservators Fourth That no imposition be upon the Consciences of them that fear God Fifth That there be no House of Peers Sixth That the Legislative and Executive powers be distinct and not in the same hands Seventh That both the assemblies of the Parliament shall be elected by the people of this Common-wealth duly qualified But neither this piece of confusion nor Husons regiment could appease the City so that by meer necessity constrained the Council of Officers most graciously condescend to the calling of a Parliament and the Committee of Safety order the issuing out of wri s accordingly thinking to stop the breach which they had so over-hastily made The Rump seeing these confusions were not idle for themselves They knew that of the two Generall Monck enclin'd to their side then Lamberts and that in Lamberts army they had also many friends if they could but shew themselves The first Alarum which the Committee of Safety the Officers received was from Portsmouth where Harslerig Walton and Morley had made sure of the Garrison and so dealt with Viceadmirall Lawson who gave the second Alarum which rung like a knell in the then more amazed ears of these people for he sent them a declaration in his own and the name of severall of the sea-commanders insisting upon severall reasons why they conceiv'd it necessary that the long Parliament should sit again Hereupon Vane Saloway and Salmon were sent down to conferre with him but Scot being there with two bolsters one for each elbow kept him so steady that 't was impossible for them to hale him on one side So that at length he positively declares for the Long-Parliament the Souldiers also which were sent to block up Portsmouth submit to Harslerig and Morley declaring positively for the Rumps re-sitting Desboroughs regiment which was by the Committee of Safety sent for to strengthen their party being come as far as Saint Albans when they heard how things went make a halt and pause upon 't Hereupon Harslerig with what forces he had marches for the City and those regiments which were about the town being rendevouz'd by Okey and Alured declare their resolutions to live and dye with the Parliament which being done the Speaker Lenthall takes charge of the Tower and delivers it to the Care of Col. Fitch The Rump being now absolute masters of the field give the conduct of the Army to Popham Thomson Scot Okey Sir Ant. Ashley Cooper Alured and Markhnm and the custody of the Tower to Sir Ant. Ashley Cooper Weever Scot and Barners They also order Lamberts forces to repair to their quarters and send Letters of thanks and acknowledgment to Generall Monck for his fidelity and good service Ireland also submits and Lockhart courts them in a Letter from Dunkirk but at length comes the welcome news of the submission of Lamberts forces who seeing their Generall either so baffled or disappointed forsake him and he thereupon sends a letter of submission to the Parliament Generall Monck also humbly congratulates the recovery of their power These fair gales blowing so briskly in their poop they think they have the world in a string and therefore having spoke their friends fair they begin to think of talking with their enemies In order to which they ordaine an act for the publick sale of Sir George Boothes Estate They also discharge Sir Harry Vane from being a member of the House and order Lambert Disborough Ashfield Berry Kelsey Packer Cobbet and Creed to repair to their most remote habitations from London during their pleasure but finding them to stay in town give order to the Council of State to secure them Generall Monck they desire to come as speedily as he can to London for else they saw he was resolved to come without bidding whereupon he advances into England and at Morpeth the sword-bearer of the City meets him with a letter from the Lord Major and Common Council whom he speedily
return'd with an answer The Parliament for all their complements being not well satisfy'd in the intentions of Generall Monck send Scot and Robinson under pretence of congratulating with him for the good success God had given to his endeavours to prie into his actions and to make discovery of his proceedings And to curry favour with the Nation in generall they put forth a Declaration wherein they promise to this effect first they declare their resolutions to perfect what they had begun for setling the government of these Nations and the people thereof in the way of a Common-wealth and free State That all proceedings touching the Lives Liberties and Estates of the free people of this Common-wealth should be according to the laws of the Land That they would make effectual provision for countenancing an honest godly ministry and that impropriations and augmentations should be continued That they would uphold all the Schooles and Universities in the land and continue their privileges That they would apply themselves with all speed to such Counsels and means as should be found most proper for the speedy increasing of trade Lastly as to the present burthens that they were very sensible thereof and that it was one of their greatest cares to give the people ease But the people were now grown too wise to believe those who had so oft before deluded them now seeing them fall to their old tyrannies afresh under pretence of restoring them their long enthralled liberties begin to rouse up themselves and to shew their generall hatred towards them To Generall Monck therefore as a person whom they saw to be of a free and ancient English spirit they resolve to make their applications laying before him the infidelity treachery and tyranny of the Rump beseeching him to assert their libertieâ— and promising him to stick by him in the maintenance of their freedome The Devonshire men as being his own Countrimen began the substance of whose addresse and the Generalls answer we shall insert being indeed the full scope of what all demanded and of the answer which all received The substance of the addresse was this That they found their Countrymen groaning under high oppressions and a defect of trade that though there was an alteration in the State affaires by the reassembling of the Long Parliament yet that they found themselves but in part redress'd and that therefore the chief expedient would be to recall those members that were secluded in 48. that they may fill up the vacant places and not be oblig'd to oaths before their sitting for which things they should defend him against all opposers with life and fortunes To this the Generall answers That the government was monarchicall before the warre that since there have been severall interests that these interests are interwoven by marriages and purchases and all engag'd against the King as to Civils and therefore that no government can be good that doth not rationally comprehend the preservation of all the said interests That Monarchy cannot be admitted because its support was taken away and besides that it is exclusive of all the Civil and Spirituall interests now in being which premises being granted to admit of the secluded members as being monarchicall and such as would abolish the laws made since their seclusion would engage the Nation in a new warre upon the account of self-preservation that therefore he thought 't was better to submit to the present Parliament Such doubtfull answers as this as they pleas'd the Rump so they did not dissatisfy the other party but gave cause to both parties to think well of him At Northampton he receiv'd another address from the hands of Sir John Norrice to whom he replies that he was but a servant of the Parliaments with whom he ought not to interpose in matters of Highest concernment On the 28. of January at Night the Generall arrived at Saint Albanes where he had severall addresses made to him from Norfolke Suffolke Buckingham and Leicester being come thither he sends to the Parliament to send their forces out of town and quarter them according to the lists which he had sent them which they readily order'd the Commanders of the army to see performed accordingly Generall Monck being now not far from London those forces quartered in the City were ordered to march from thence to make Room for his Excellencies Souldiers but they having learned of their Masters to be Rebellious refused to goe and having cast off their Officers a considerable party of them engarrisoned themselves at Somerset-house That night also the Apprentices drew themselves into a party in the City intending no doubt to have joyned with the discontented Red-coates which had they done they might have given a shrewd Alarum to the Rump but before their joyning they were dissipated by a part of the Army-horse The Mutiners upon a false Alarum were got out of the Town and having their mouths stopt with a little pay were commanded away leaving the Town quiet and in condition to entertain honester Guests February 3. His Excellency marched in the head of his Army to his Quarters at White-hall On the 6. of the same Month he was by Scot and Robinson Squires of the Rump conducted to that Image of Authority assembled in the House where the Parliament usually sits where he was by their pretended Speaker complemented with a fawning speech candied over with Scripture-phrases to make it the more plausible To which His Excellency returned a more pertinent answer informing them of the severall applications and numerous subscriptions he received from most Counties in his March from Scotland the chiefest Heads of their desires being for a free and full Parliament a Gospell-Ministry incouragement of Learning and Universities admittance of the Members secluded before 1648. and that they would determine their sitting c. But these were matters they loved not to hear of much lesse resolved to practise yet seeing the peoples earnestness was such and that it was in a manner the agreement of the whole Nation they at last most graciously condescended to promise a full Representative but no secluded Members to be admitted nor in effect any other then Phanatiques The supreme Trifle was now come to a forced put monies must be raised to pay the Souldier and the pride of the stubborn Citizens taken down that would not let the Rump to ride them or the Good Old Cause would be totally ruined in order to both out comes a Tax of 100000 l. per mensem this being debated in Common-council they agreed in the Negative which so incensed the Back-side that they adjudged the affront intollerable and immediately poured out their indignation upon the City in these following Resolves Thursday February 9. The House received a report from the Council of State of some Resolutions taken by the Council in relation to the City of London Resolved That the Parliament doth approve of what the Council of State hath done in Ordering that the Commissioners for Government of