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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38443	Englands triumph a more exact history of His Majesties escape after the battle of Worcester : with a chronologicall discourse of his straits and dangerous adventures into France, his removes from place to place till his return into England with the most remarkable memorials since : to this present September, 1660.		1660 (1660)	Wing E3060; ESTC R23871	76,632	137

Foxes Martyrology not any who had the least appearance of Noblenesse and worth but suffered by death or sequestration whilest his own Mushrom'd Gentility sprung up in a Night of Rebellion were the simple nothings then adored His spies of whom he had many were very usefull to him the charges of whom amounted to no lesse then two hundred Thousand pounds per annum These were not onely distributed about all places of England but very conversant in the Courts of most Christian Princes by this silver hook he gained intelligence from most places and seldome are any secrets so close lock't up that a golden key will not open Then for Souldiers he took such a course that he had always enough of them having brought the Commons so low by want of Trade that they must either take up Armes or starve nor would he want occasion to keep up an Army on foot for when he had no cause he could soon create one witness the war he made with Spain Englands fast friend in all the late troubles by which the Trade of England hath been more detrimented then by all the wars we have had since 1638. Having thus tyrannized over England the space of five years he at last made his exit in a most horrible tempest we may well say that God was not in that winde though we have cause to praise his blessed and holy name for that wind-fall As he lived unbeloved so he died unlamented breathing out his soul with the sin of perjury for at his being chosen Protector he called God to witness he was against Englands government being made Hereditary abusing to that purpose the saying of Solomon Ecclesiastes 2.19 Who knoweth whether his son shall be a wise man or a fool Yet at his death he endeavoured all he could to settle it in his posterity leaving his Son Richard Protector of England and his Son Henry Lord Lieutenant of Ireland And though at his death the Common-wealth was indebted some millions of pounds yet never was any King of England buried in that state as was this grand Tyrant the charges of his funerall amounting to no lesse then sixty thousand pounds besides that he was presumptuously interred among His Majesties Ancestors at Westminster in that very place where His Majesty had intended for His own rest as if he had resolved not only to detain Him from His right when He was alive but when He was dead also The Protector being interred among the Kings and Queens at Westminster at a vaster charge then had been used before in the richest times his Son Richard an honest private gentleman well beloved in Hampshire ascended the throne by the invitation and encouragement of Fleotwood Desborough Sydenham the two Jones's Thurlow and others the relations and confidents of his father and by the contrivance of the Court received congratulations prepared at Whitehall from most of the Counties and Cities of England and from the Armies of England Scotland and Ireland with engagements to live and dye with him with addresses from the Independent Churches brought by Goodwin and Nye their Metropolitans This introduction being made to transferre the Government from the line of the Stuarts to the line of the Cromwells it was conceived by some who had proceeded thus far that a Parliament chosen by influences from Court would easily swallow what was so well prepared to their hands Accordingly it was resolved by the Protectors Juncto that a Parliament should be called who being met at the time and place appointed they first declare Richard Cromwell Lord Protector and chief Magistrate of the Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland Then they vote after 14. days opposition from the honest party in the house to transact with the new House of Lords Other things they did not so pleasing to the Protector and his party For they order a Committee to look after the accompts of the Nation in order to retrenching and lessening the charge of the Common-wealth They had also by a saving vote asserted their interest in the fleet and had under consideration an act for taking away all Laws Statutes and Ordinances concerning Excise and Tunnage and Poundage after three years Proceeding thus successfully with much satisfaction to the Nation the Protector and the Officers of the Army who before were jealous of one another grew now jealous of the House of Commons and therefore they thought it seasonable to contend for the power before the People should recover it from them both In order hereunto the Officers of the Army keep their Councels at Wallingford-House and the Protector with his party countermin'd them at Whitehall The result of the Officers debates was a Canting Representation written in such an equivocating language that the sting was easily visible through the Honey Hereupon the Protector begins to think of securing himself and forbids their meetings but in vain Wherefore both sides keep guards one against another day and night In this divided posture affairs continued till Friday the 22. of Aprill 59. on which morning early the Protectors brother Fleetwood Disborough his Unkle carrying the greater part of the Army with them and the Protectors party flinching the conquest was obtain'd without one drop of blood and the Protector forc'd to consent to the dissolving of the Parliament contrary to the best advice his own interest and promises Far different was the courage of this young Protector from that of our magnificent Hero Henry the 5. who having hastily taken the Crown from the pillow of his not yet deceased father and being by him with a sad sigh told that God knew how unjustly he had gotten it replyed That since his father had by his sword attained it and being now at his death by Gods Providence devolved on him that therefore his sword should maintain it as his Right against all opposers But our pittifull Protector wanted both his wit and valour for having by fortune gotten a Crown without the effusion of either bloud or treasure yet was loth to do so much as to draw a sword for its preservation thus according to the English Proverb Lightly come lightly go men seldome prizing that which they never sweat for The fathers servants being now grown the Sons Masters allow him some thousands of pounds and order him to retire into the Country but the turning out Richard was not all they had to do his Brother Henry was still possessed of Ireland who was looked upon as a man of a more couragious spirit and doubtless they had found him so would the Officers of the Army have stuck close to him as at first they promised but they according to the course of the world left him when he had most need of them and so made him incapable either of assisting himself or restoring his Brother The Protector being thus devested of all power and authority Lambert comes again upon the stage a person of so large a spirit and undaunted courage that Oliver fearfull of his great endownments had

it was His Majesty for it seems he had seen Him oft before he was a little daunted But afterwards recollecting himself he said he was resolved to Venture hanging for His Majesty to which His Majesty replyed that he need not put himself upon that Venture for that he might go along with Him where he should not want as long as He was able to provide for him thus setting Sale from Shoreham they in a small time came to Land near Havre de Grace in Normandy But to look a little back great was the List of prisoners taken at Woreester and many taken in the pursuit insomuch that the gleanings were almost answerable to the Harvest but more considerable to them who were publickly suffered to make a gain of by felling them beyondsea to perpetuall slavery this made the Sectarian party Cock a hoop and to make it the greater publike days of Thanksgiving are appointed to make God the patronizer of their Villanies Murders Tyrannies and Treasons And now say they were not people blind they might see God himself owning our cause in those wonderfull successes he bestowes upon us an argument scarcely worth the answering yet of great weight amongst their filly Proselites Then might the Turk boast of the purity of his Religion from the largenesse of his Territories and his severall victories over Christian Princes Ovid though a Heathen could have taught them better Divinity then so Careat successibus opto Quisquis ab eventu facta notanda putat May he never speed Who from th' event makes measure of the deed Not long after the Juncto had knowledge how the king escaped whereupon they vowed to make Mrs. Lane exemplary Oh the grievous crime of Loyalty But she having notice of their intentions puts her self into the habit of a Country-maid and so crosses the Country on foot to Yarmouth where she got shipping which conneyed her safe into France His Majesty having notice of her arrivall sent some persons of quality in Coaches to conduct her to Paris Himself with the Queen His Mother and the Dukes of York and Glocester going some part of the way to meet her entertaining her with this gratefull expression Welcome my Life And so taking her into His own Coach conducted her to Paris where she was entertained with the applause and wonder of the whole Court The Juncto in the mean time had sent Souldiers to search after her but missing their prey they in revenge burnt down to the ground that poor Cottage where His Majesty first took shelter after His escape from Worcester Yet one Note more may I conceive be thought not unworthy of our Story Many there were who had got rich prizes in the plunder of the City of Worcester by which they imagined themselves enriched all the dayes of their lifes but this wealth was to them Aurum Tholosanum being not only consumed in a few days but wasted with it the rest of their Estates And for the City it self she quickly exalted her self again and is said to be now in a better condition then she was before But let us at last proceed from the battle to the effects which it produced Cromwell heightned with these successes began to think of putting his ambitious designes in practice and first he turns the Juncto out of doors a thing he knew would be very acceptable to the people as being the originall of all our Calamities but his ambition was to make himself great not to give relief and take away the tyranny therefore in stead of those he puld down he sets up another of his own arbitrary Election who knew what they had to do before they met for having sat a while without doing of any thing considerable they resign up their power to him and by the help of the Officers of the Army and Lamberts instrument make him the Lord protect us Lord Protector The Common-wealth being in its Infancy yet in this were we happy that in his Reign one Tyrant only Lorded it over us but in the Long Parliament many Now though Oliver had often sworn against the government by a single person he could easily dispence with such triviall things as oaths and thought them binding no further then conducible to his own interest and because he could not crave a blessing from God upon such wicked practises he seeks to establish himself by humane policy Being of no Religion he gives a toleration to all so that what was once said of Amsterdam that if a man had lost his Religion there he might find it might now as fitly be applyed to England here being Presbyterians Independents Anabaptists Quakers Ranters Adamites Fift Monarchy men and such a Rabble more that I want a Dictionary to find out their names The two first indeed having not much fault besides their Pride and Ambition of which one writes of them That Pope John in his Chair never thought himself so big as a Cynicall Presbyter amongst his Lay-Elders or as an Independent in a Committee of Tryers c. Neither did Pope Joan in her State over think so well of her self as a sanctified Presbyterians wife drest up in her best attire The Anabaptists are a bloudy people fatall both to Kingdomes and Common-wealths and although England felt not much of their Cruelties being timely prevented by the Divine Providence yet wofull Germany was a long time a Stage for their Tragedies being died red with many horrible murthers and massacres The Quakers are of a sowre Generation who defie all Learning of a crabbed disposition looking rather like Fantasms or furies sent from Hell to deceive the world then Christians Yet grew they extreame potent boasting in their Schismaticall opinions and seducing many poor and ignorant people to their own damnation But should I give you an account of every particular Sect 't would take up an age to describe them No day but produced its Schisme or Heresie no Cobler but would presume to make himself the head of a Sect or Faction glorying in thundring the holy word of God out of his prophane lips to his she-Auditors for so for the most part they were who listen to him as to an Oracle and he presuming his confidence to be knowledge carries himself as proudly as if he were their Ghostly father But to proceed He knew that what was acquested by force must be maintained by violence and therefore he had a care in raising such indigent persons to preferment as might if not for love to him their Governour yet for the preservation of their own interests spend their bloud in opposing any that might make resistance And as he raised vallies so he leveld mountains Great men being like metled Horses if not well look'd to may chance to cast those yong Riders who are scarce setled in the sadle Those who would not acknowledge him to be their Head he made no more to do but cut their heads off to recite all those who suffer'd under him would make a fourth volume to