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A66882	The history of independency the fourth and last part : continued from the death of His late Majesty, King Charls the First of happy memory, till the deaths of the chief of that juncto / by T.M. Esquire, lover of his king and country.	T. M., Esquire, lover of his king and country.; Walker, Clement, 1595-1651. History of independency.	1660 (1660)	Wing W331A; ESTC R18043	73,036	134

a particular and peculiar care of but as it were in despight of Heaven they are not content with all their former wickednesses of banishing exiling and railing against their lawfull Soveraign but now they will enforce all to renounce him which in September they Resolved in these words J. A. B. Do hereby declare Oath of abjurati on that I renounce the pretended title of CHARLS STUART and the whole line of the late King James and of every other person as a single person pretending to the Government of these Nations of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging And that I will by the grace and assistance of Almighty God be true faithfull and constant to this Common-wealth against any King single person and house of Peers and every of them and hereunto I subscribe my name Thus may every one see that it was not to amend or reform any errours in the State but only their particular malice to the Royall line and covetousness after their Estate that made them run into such desperate designes wherein having so deeply engaged themselves that there was no going back they mean to make all sure to their interest and to that end take into debate in the beginning of September the matter of the Government and referred it to a Committee upon the votes in 1648. The blindness of the Juncto To prepare something in order to the settlement of the Government on or before the tenth of October See here the indiscretion of these men after a ten years unsettlement and bringing all into confusion in all which time they have minded nothing but their own private wealth and till this last minute of time have not so much as thought of resettling and that they now have is so weakly that it tends no further than to an offer thus running willingly into one crime they daily perpetrate new ones without any sense of evill or will of amending attributing the guilt of their faults to all that endeavour either to reform or punish them The business of Cheshire thus blown over and the great hopes that were grounded thereon blasted the Juncto fall to their old humour of raising money no less will serve their turn than 100000. l. a moneth besides Excise and Customes Taxes and excise confirmed new delinquents made and mi●itia arreas collected together with the hoped benefit that would arise from the sequestred Estates of new Delinquents and least any thing should escape them the 16th of September they vote That such persons as have been assessed to find horses and Armes by vertue of the Act of Parliament for setling the Militia and have not brought in their horses and Armes nor paid in lieu thereof the summ of money appointed by the said Act. That every such person and persons do under the penalty in the said Act mentioned pay after the rate of ten pounds for an horse and Armes for such number of horses and Armes respectively as they have been charged to find Resolved That such person and persons as have been assessed to find Armes for a foot Souldier and have not sent in the same or money in lieu thereof do under the penalties in the said Act mentioned pay respectively for every such foot Armes such summ of money as the Commissioners shall appoint not exceeding twenty five Shillings for every such foot Armes 'T is no matter you see by this whether any Horse or Armes be brought in at all so that the money be paid Oh! 'T is the money that adds Life and Legs to a decrepit and dying old cause The Grandees would never take so much pains unless an extraordinary profit also waited thereon which they resolve to compass though with the extreamest hazards whereof there began to be some kind of an appearance by the growing of heart-burnings and multiplying fears and jealousies between their late great Champion Lambert and themselves The Juncto grow suspitious o Lambert the sparks of which animosities growing into a flame quickly increased to that height that not daring to trust him any longer with the Army they send a seeming courteous Letter to invite him home which he taking no notice of any thing further than the pretended outside fair shew acceps of and on the 20th of September returnes accordingly to London but immediately before his arrivall there the Juncto He comes to London to shew the great charity wherewith they abounded took into consideration how to cozen the poor Knights of Windsor and to ingross into their hands all Hospitals and their reveneues by these two following votes Viz. Tuesday September 20th 1659. Resolved That it be referred to a Committee The Juncto intend to seize on all Hospitalls and convert their rents to look into the revenue for maintenance of the poor Knights of Windsor to examine what the same at present is and will be for the future after Leases expired and to see that the charitable uses to which the said revenue was granted be performed and the residue to be answered to the use of the Common-wealth by all means pray take a care of that and to examine the Leases that have been made and the fines that have been paid thereupon and how disposed and by what authority with power to give reliefe and allowance to the said poor Knights and other poor people not exceeding their former allowance Oh take heed of too much charity and also to take a Catalogue of all Hospitalls within this Common-wealth and the revenewes of them they are sure to mind that And that the Masters and Governours do return to this Committee the constitution of the respective hospitalls and how the profits thereof have been and are disposed of and by what authority before the first of December 1659. And to report the whole matter to the house Ordered That all Masters and Governours of hospitalls be and are hereby prohibited to grant or renew any Leases of any Lands Tenements and hereditaments belonging unto any of the said respective hospitalls untill this house take further Order Notice of which is to be given to the respective concerned persons by the Councill of State See here how greedy is the zeal of these devouring Statists which yet is clothed in the g●●be of a seeming Sanctimonious care but this hypocrisie must not go long unpunished neither does it for now begins to appear the result of Lamberts designments abroad in a remonstrative address from the Army at the very first newes whereof the Parliament is so startled that fearing to be whipped with their own rod they ordered Col. Armies remonstrate the Juncto send for some Officers Ashfield Col. Cobbet and Lieutenant Col. Duckenfield three of the chief promoters of it to bring to them the original paper intended to be presented upon notice of which order given immediately a letter was delivered into the house signed by many persons of the Army superscribed to the said three summoned persons by whose

THE HISTORY OF Independency The Fourth and last Part. Continued from the Death of his late MAIESTY King CHARLS the First of happy Memory till the deaths of the chief of that Juncto By T.M. Esquire a Lover of his King and Country Cicero Epist Lib. 2. Ep. 3. Civem mehercule non puto esse quitemporibus his ridere possit Id. Lib. 5. Ep. 12. Habet autem praeteriti doloris secura recordatio delectationem LONDON Printed for H. Brome at the Gun in Ivie-Lane and H. Marsh at the Princes Arms in Chancery-Lane 1660. Most Dread Soveraign IT is neither arrogance nor ambition that makes me thus boldly to intrude into your presence for I know so great a Sun will quickly dazle my weak eyes but because the former parts were honoured with your royal Fathers name this therefore hopes to be sheltered under your Princely wing this but concluding what they begun and making you the happy repayrer of those Breaches which that powerfull and restless faction of Independency made on the Regalia of England that posterity may as well see in this their felicity by you in the ruine of that faction as formerly they read their own misery in the Treasonable actings thereof against his late Majesty of ever glorious memory I have no more but only to pray that you may in this World be blessed with the wisdom and happynesse of Solomon a peaceable long and all glorious Reign the age of Methuselah wherein you may enjoy the full contents of a most happy life and at last full of honour and dayes arrive to the perfect fruition of a more glorious Kingdom in Gods presence before whom is fullness of joy and at his right hand pleasures for evermore This from his soul is the daily prayer of Your Majesties most faithfull subject and Servant T. M. 29 Oct. 1660. TO THE SACRED MAJESTY OF Great BRITTAINS MONARCH The Triumphant Son of a most Glorious Father who was in all things More than Conquerour The Illustrious ofspring of a Royal Traine of ANTIENT PRINCES CHARLES The Second of that Name Entituled PIOUS By the sole Providence of an Almighty hand of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith Restorer of the English Church unto its Pristine State and Glory Patron of Law and Liberty Not to be Seconded by any but himself Who is the best of Kings And of all Vertue to the World THE GRAND EXEMPLAR To the Nobility Gentry Clergy and Commons of ENGLAND IT is I think more out of custome than necessity that I do at this time premise any thing the Subject whereof we treat having been fatally felt by most of the Nation in some way or other yet is it necessary that the history of such turgencies in the State should be communicated that poste●ity may hereafter see in their rise and fall the certain punishment of Treason though for a time guarded and upheld by armed violence and the highest policies of a subtle malice It is said of the Epicureans that though they acknowledged no providence nor any immortality of the soul and proposed pleasure as the only end of their lives yet they maintained most of them that they that were lovers of pleasure must of necessity be lovers of Justice and that without virtue it was not possible for men to live intrue pleasure So as it was said of the Stoicks who were for the most part notable hypocrites that they spoke good things and did foul actions but that the Epicureans spoke and taught things that seemed foul and shamefull but did that which was fair and honest Certenly these two sects of Phylosophers might be the very parallel of our date times wherein our Stoicall Grandees could speak nothing but holiness where the practice of their lives was a continued series of horrid Treasons while a litle innocent mirth and freeness of speech was the greatest that lay or indeed could be cast upon integrity of their despised Antagonists so that we might see Cucullus non fecit Monarchum It had been well for England if the sad occasions of writing this history of the times had never happened but they have been And as our Saviour saith Offences must come but wo be to them by whom they come so then to declare the actings and their method and manner is but so to lay them open that they may for the future be the better avoided and prevented The knowledg of all persons the meaning of all matters Voss de seri Agt. de art histor and the depth of all secrets is lockt up in history according to that of Vossius alluding to that of the Roman Poet Qui quid sit turpe aut pulchrum quid utile quid non Plenius melius Chrysyppo Crantore dixit And this I dare promise you in the ensuing Manual without too violent reflections to widen differences all the observations arising as naturally from the relations as suteable words do fitly supply the ready tongue of a Learned Oratour It is the general happinesse at this present that we can read the downfall of faction and rejoyce in the glory of restored Majesty with safety and content and I pray God that all the mischiefs of the remaining Achitophel's Shimei's and Rabshakeh's may sall upon their own heads but peace happiness and prosperity may waite on our Solomon that he may be blessed and his throne be established before the Lord forever To Conclude As your Loyalty in the worst oftentimes hath been signal if in nothing else yet in sufferings so dispise not to read this tractate wherein I dare presume you will find something which before you knew not the work ' its true is short but will not I hope want substance inest enim sua gratia parvis and to remember these things certainly cannot be irksome Saepe recordari medicamine melius omni to see and escape danger causeth not only admiration but pleasure which that you may receive with content by the perusall hereof is desired I shall only add one word in particular first to the Nobility You are Right Honourable Princes in the Congregation of our Israel Men of renown exemplarily both in your names and honours Be as eminent in service for your Prince as obliged to him for favours that it may be recorded of you as it is of Davids Worthies These are the mighty men which David had who strengthened themselves with him in his Kingdom according to the word of the Lord. 2. To the Gentry You are they whom Jethro counselled Moses to provide out of all the people to assist him and be mediatours between Prince and People approve your selves according to that counsel to be able men such as fear God men of truth and hating covetousness so shall the Lord give a blessing as he hath promised 3. To the Clergy God hath made you as a Beacon upon an hill that you might forewarn Israel of her sins ye are the salt of the Earth while you preach to