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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

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 to the answers which the said Charls Stuart shall make to the premisses or any Charge that shall be so exhibited doth for the said Treasons and Crimes on the behalfe of the said people of Engl impeach the said Charls Stuart as a Tyrant Traytor Murtherer and a publick and implacable enemy to the Common-wealth of England and pray That the said Charls Stuart King of

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

and this done upon the satisfaction of Gods people in both Nations as is alleged together with a disowning of Malignants although he who is the head of them in whom all their hope of comfort lies be received who at this very instant hath a Popish pa●ty fighting for and under him in Ireland hath Prince Rupert a man who hath had his hand deep in the blood of many innocent men of England now in the head of our Ships stoln from us upon a Malignant accompt hath the French and Irish ships daily making depradations upon our Coasts strong combinations by the Malignants in England to raise Arms in our bowels by vertue of his Commissions who having of late issued out very many to that purpose and how the interest you pretend you have received him upon and the Malignant interest in the ends and consequences entring in this man can be secured we cannot discern and how we should believe that whilst known and notorious Malignants fighting and plotting against us on the one hand and the declaring for him on the other should not be an espousing of a Malignant party quarrell or interest but be a meer fighting upon former Grounds and Principles and in defence of the Cause of God and of the Kingdome as hath been these twelve yeers last past as ye s●y for the security and satisfaction of Gods people in both Nations or the opposing of which should render us enemies to the godly with you we cannot well understand especially considering That all these Malignants take their confidence and encouragement from the late Transactions of your Kirk and State with your King for as we have already said so we tell you again it is but satisfying security to those that employ us and are concerned in that we seek which we conceive will not be by a few formall and feigned submissions from a person who could not tell otherwise how to accomplish his Malignant ends and therefore Councel'd to this complyance by them who assisted his Father and have hitherto acted him in his most evill Designes and are now again by them set on foot against wch how you will be able in the way you are in to secure us or your selves is forasmuch as concerns our selves our duty to looke after If the state of your quarrell be thus upon which as you say you resolve to fight our Army you will have opportunity to doe that els what means our abode here And if our hope be not in the Lord it will be ill with us We commit both you and our selves to him who knowes the heart and tries the Reins with whom are all our wayes who is able to doe for us and you above what we know which we desire may be in much mercy to this poor people and to the glory of his owne great Name And having performed your desire in making your papers so publick as is before exprest I desire you to doe the like by letting the State Kirk and Army have the knowledge hereof To which end I have sent you inclosed two Copies and rest From the Camp at Pencland Hills Aug. 14. 1650 Your humble Servant O CROMWEL The Victory at Gladsmore in Scotland July 30 31. 1650. M G. Montgomery slaine 200 Arms taken 80 Troopers 500 wounded 4 Colours 15 Troops routed 500 Font routed at Muscleburrough The Victory at Dunbar Aug. 30. 1650 4000 killed 10000 Prisoners 2000 Horse 290 Commission Officers 15000 Arms 200 Colours 32 pieces of Ordnance Of ours that ingaged 5000 Horse and Foot their word The Covenant ours The Lord of Hests Novemb. 1650. Insurrections in Norfolke for which 24 were condemned and 20 executed Col. Ker routed and taken and the Town of Ayre Decemb. 25. The strong Castle of Edenburgh delivered up 53 pieces of Ordnance whereof 15 Iron the 〈◊〉 Braste about 8000 Arms with store of Ammunition and Provision Nov. 22. A Squadron of Ships Commanded by Gen. Blague surprised a considerable part of the Portugal Brasit Fleet fraighted with Sugar and sent them to England and after pursued the revolted ships beyond Alligant where they took 7 of Prince Ruperts Fieet and pursued him to Thoulon one of the surthest Havens of France having but two ships left Jan. 30. 1650. A day of publick Thanksgiving in England Wales and Town of Berwick Jan. 1. 1650. The Scots King was Crowned at Schone he is General of the Army D. Hamilton Lieut. Gen. of the Scotch Army David Lesley M. G. Middleton L. G. of the Scotch Horse and Massey M. G. of the English Jan. 4. 1650. The King of Spaine sent his Ambassador for the ●●knowledging of this State whose Authority and Soveraignty reades in this Parl. of the Commonwealth of England and to stablish a good friendship with it The Portugal sent his Agent also to the like effect March 6. 1650. Sir Henry Hide Beheaded at the Exchange for receiving and acting by vertue of a Commission from Charls Stuart the Second and King of Great Britaine France and Ireland as his Agent to the Great Turk with an intent to destroy the Trade of the Turky Company and the Parl. interest not onely in Constantinople but in Mitylene Anatolia Smyrna in which Conspiracies he was a Commissioner and likewise to seize upon our Merchants Goods for the use of the King of Scotland and procured audience of the Grand Visier and raised great fears and uproars among the Merchants A Speech made by K. Charles ye 2d at his Coronation i. January 1650 I will by gods assistance bestow my life for your defence wishing to live no longer then that I may see this Kingdome flourish in happiness The Oath I doe promise vow in ye presence of ye eternall god yt I will maintaine ye true Kirk of god religion right preaching administration of ye Sacraments now received preached within this Realme in purity And shall abolish gain-stand all false Religions sects contrary to ye same And shall rule ye people comīted to my charge according to ye will of god and laudable laws constitutions of ye Realme causing justice equity to be ministred without partiality Browne Bushelt Beheaded under the Scaffold on Tower-hill Mar. 29. 1651. for delivering up Scarborough June 2. 1651. The surrender of Scilly Islands June 24. Insurrection in Cardiganshire 40 slaine 60 prisoners taken July 29. Burnt Island surrendred The Scotch King invaded England with 16000 Hors and Foot and a light Tran of Artillery and caused himselfe to be proclaimed K. of England Scotland and Ireland in Lancashire August 23. Charls the First erected his Standard at Nottingham and Charls the Second erected his Standard at Worcester Aug. 22. 1651. Sept 3. Old Lesley Crawford Linsey Ogleby with divers of quality besides 〈◊〉 taken that were making levies to raise the Siege at Dundee Aug. 2 165● St Johnston surrendred Aug. 19. The Castle of Ste●●● surrendred 〈◊〉 pieces of Ordnance 27 faire brasse pieces a great iron G●●● 11 Leather Guns

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 Remarkeable 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 remarkeable 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 Who is wise and he shall understand these things prudent and he shall know them for the wayes of the Lord are right and the just shall walk in them but the transgressors shall fall therein Hosea 14. 9. LONDON Printed by M. S. for Tho Jenner at the South-Entrance of the Royal EXCHANGE 1654. The Chronology IN the first year of King Charls his Reign a Parliament being called at Oxford two Subsidies were granted no grievances removed but the said Parliament soon dissolved The sad effects which the dissolution of this Parliament produced were the losse of Rochel by the unhappy help of Englands ships The diversion of a most facile and hopeful war from the West Indies to a most expensive and succeslesse attempt on Cales The attempt on the Isle of Ree and thereby a precipitate breach of peace with France to our great losse A peace concluded with Spain without consent of Parliament contrary to a promise formerly made to the Kingdome by King James a little before his death whereby the cause of the Palatinate was altogether most shamefully deserted by us The Kingdome suddenly billetted with Souldiers and a concomitant project set on foot for Germane Horses to force men by fear to fall before arbitrary and tyrannical Taxations continually to be laid upon them 2d Parliament The dissolution of a second Parliament at Westminster in the second year after a declarative grant of no lesse then five Subsidies and the sad issues that flowed to the Kingdom thereupon As first the violent exacting from the people that mighty sum of the five Subsidies or a sum equal to it by a Commission for a Royal Loan Many worthy Gentlemen imprisoned and vexed that refused to pay it Great sums extorted by Privy Seals and Excises and the most hopeful Petition of Right blasted 3d A third Parliament called and quickly broken in the fourteenth year of the King the best Members clapt up close Prisoners denied all ordinary and extraordinary comforts of life and so that Parliament was dissolved Opprobrious Declarations published to asperse the proceedings of the last Parliament yea Proclamations set out to those effects thereby extreamly to dishearten the Subjects yea and plainly forbidding them once to name a Parliament or to desire them any more Whence immediately gushed out the violent inundations of mighty sums of money got by that strange project of Knight hood yet under a colour of Law The most burthensome Book of Rates the unheard of Taxation of Ship-money the enlargement of Forrests contrary to Magna Charta the injurious Taxation of Coat and Conduct money the forcible taking away of the Trained Bands Arms ingrossing Gunpowder into their hands in the Tower of London The destruction of the Forrest of Dean which was sold to Papists whence we had all our timber for Shipping Monopolies of Sope Salt Wine Leather and Sea Coal yea almost of all things in the Kingdome of most necessary and common use Restraint in trades and habitations for re●●sall of which foresaid heavy pressures many were vext with long and languishing sui●s some fined and confined to Prisons to the losse of health in many of life in some some having their Houses broken open their Goods leized on their Studies or Closets searched for Writings Books and papers to undo them some interrupted also in their Sea-Voyages and their Ships taken from them The crushing cruelties of the Star-Chamber Court and Councel Table where the Recorder of Salisbury was greatly fined for demolishing the Picture of the first person in the Trinity in their great Cathedrall Thus far for the miseries of the Common-wealth Popish Ceremonies Romish innovations and such like outrages of the Arch Prelate of Canterbury and his Prelaticall Agents and Instruments over the whole Kingdome in matters of Religion Divine worship and spiritual cases of conscience Additions in the Oath administred to the King at his first inauguration to the Crown by the Arch-Bishop Fines Imprisonments stigmatizings mutilations whippings pillories gagges confinements and banishments yea and that into perpetual close imprisonments in the most desolate remote and as they hoped and intended remotest parts of the Kingdome Mr. Burton Mr. Bastwicke Mr. Prin. The ruinating of the ●●eoffees for buying in of Impropriations and the advancing to Ecclesiasticall livings Arminians silencing with deprivations degradations and excommunications almost all the most pious Pastors over the Land whom they could catch in their snares and all this under a pretence of peace unity and conformity Printing Presses set open for the Printing and publishing of all Popish and Arminian Tenets but shut up and restrained from printing sound Doctrines Nay not only thus lamentably molested in England but attempted the like in Scotland indeavouring to impose upon them a New Liturgy and a Book of Canons They refusing of them were called and counted Rebels and Traytors yea so proclaimed in all Churches in England and an Army was also raised to oppresse and suppresse them A mighty and tumultuous rising of Apprentices and young men in Southwark and Lambeth side with Clubs and other weapons especially at the Arch Bishops house which put him in such a fright as made him flye to Croyden to convey himselfe to some more private and remote place And although Pharoahs Magicians were so honest that at the sight of the dust of the earth turned into lice they cryed out It was the finger of God but he grew more and more outragious and caused one to be hanged and quartered and his head set on London-Bridge who said at his execution he came there by accident and he must dye The Arch-Prelate of St Andrewes in Scotland reading the new Service-booke in his pontificalibus assaulted by men Women with Crickets stooles Stickes and Stones The rising of Prentises and Sea-men on Southwark side to assault the Arch-bishop of Canterbury's House at Lambeth 4 Parliament A fourth Parliament was thereupon shortly after called again by those complotters means but to a very ill intent and another Parliament summoned also at the same time by the Earl of Strafford in Ireland both of them only to levy and procure moneys to raise another Army and wage a new War against the Scots The Ships and Goods of Scotland were in all parts and Ports of this Land and of Ireland also surprized and seized on

England may be put to answer all and every the premisses that such Proceedings Examinations Tryals Sentence and Judgement may be thereupon had as shall be agreeable to Justice The Kings Speech made upon the Scaffold at White-Hall Jan. 30. 1648. I Shall be very little heard of any body here I shall therefore speak a word unto you here indeed I could hold my peace very well if I did not think that holding my peace would make som men think that I did submit to the guilt as well as to the punishment but I think it is my duty to God first and to my Countrey for to clear my self both as an honest man and a good Christian I shall begin first with my innocency in troth I think it not very needfull for me to insist long upon this for all the world knowes I never did begin a War with the two Houses of Parliament and I call God to witnesse to whom I must shortly make an account that I never did intend for to incroach upon their priviledges they began upon me it was the Militia they began upon they confest that the Militia was mine but they thought it fit for to have it from me and to be short if any body will look to the dates of Commissions both theirs and mine and likewise to the Declarations will see cleerly that they began these unhappy troubles not I so that as for the guilt of these enormous Crimes that are laid against me I hope in God that God will clear me of it I will not I am in charity God forbid that I should lay it upon the two Houses of Parl. there is no necessity of either I hope they are free of this guilt for I doe beleeve that ill instruments between them and me ha's been the cause of all this bloodshed so that by way of speaking as I find my selfe clear of this I hope and pray God that they may too yet for all this God forbid that I should be so ill a Christian as not to say that Gods judgements are just upon me many times he does pay justice by an unjust sentence that is ordinary I will onely say this That an unjust Sentence that I suffered to take effect is punished now by an unjust Sentence upon me that is so far I have said to shew you that I am an innocent man Now for to shew you that I am a good Christian I hope there is a good man pointing to Dr Juckson that will bear me witnesse that I have forgiven all the world and those in particular that have been the chief causers of my death who they are God knowes I doe not desire to know I pray God forgive them But this is not all my charity must goe further I wish that they may repent for indeed they have committed a great sin in that particular I pray God with Saint Stephen that this be not laid to their charge nay not onely so but that they may take the right way to the peace of the Kingdome So Sirs I doe wish with all my soule and I doe hope there is some here will carry it further that they may endeavour the peace of the Kingdome Now Sirs I must shew you how you are out of the way and will put you in a way first you are out of the way for certainly all the way you ever have had yet as I could find by any thing is in the way of Conquest certainly this is in an ill way for Conquest Sir in my opinion is never just except there be a good just Cause either for matter of wrong or just Title and then if you goe beyond it that makes it unjust at the end that was just at first But if it be onely matter of Conquest then it is a great Robbery as a Pirate said to Alexander That He was the great Robber he was but a petty Robber and so Sirs I doe think the way you are in is much out of the way Now Sir for to put you in the way believe it you will never doe right nor God will never prosper you untill you give God his due the King his due that is my Successors and the people their due I am as much for them as any of you You must give God his due by regulating rightly his Church according to his Scriptures which is now out of order for to set you in a way particularly now I cannot but onely this a Nationall Synod freely called freely debating among themselves must settle this when that every Opinion is freely and cleerly heard For the King indeed I will not the Lawes of the Land will cleerly instruct you for that therefore because it concernes my owne particular I only give you a touch of it For the people and truly I desire their liberty and freedome as much as any body whomsoever but I must tell you that their Liberty and their Freedome consists in having of Government those Lawes by which their life and their goods may be most their owne It is not for having share in Government Sir that is nothing pertaining to them a Subject and a Soveraign are clean different things and therefore until they doe that I mean that you doe put the people in that Liberty as I say certainly they will never enjoy themselves Sirs it was for this that now I am come here If I would have given way to an Arbitrary way for to have all Lawes changed according to the power of the Sword I needed not to have come here and therefore I tell you and I pray God it be not laid to your charge That I am the Martyr of the people In troth Sirs I shall not trouble you much longer for I will onely say this to you that in truth I could have desired some little time longer because that I would have put this that I have said in a little more order and a little better digested then I have done and therefore I hope you will excuse Me I have delivered my conscience I pray God that you do take those courses that are best for the good of the kingdom and your own Salvation The Biship of London minding him to say somthing concerning his Religion King I thank you very heartily my Lord for that I had almost forgotten it In troth Sirs my Conscience in Religion I think is very well known to all the world and therefore I declare before you all That I die a Christian according to the profession of the Church of England as I found it left me by my Father and this honest man I thinke will witnesse it

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