impeached hereafter Sir John Maynard the same day was called to Answer Against Sir John Maynard He desired a Copy of his Charge with leave to Answer in writing by advice of Councell as the 11 Members formerly did To examine witnesses on his part and crosse examine their witnesses But these requests were denye◠and he Commanded to answer ex tempore He gave no particular Answer but denyed all in generall as Col Pride whom he cited for his President had formerly done at their Barre He was adjudged to be discharged the House committed to the Tower and farther impeached The like for Commissary Generall Copley whose case differed little The 8 of Sept. the Earl of Suffolke Lincolne Middlesex Against the 7 Lords the Lords Barkley Willoughby Hunsdon and Maynard were impeached of High Treason in the name of the Commons of England for levying war against the King Parliament and Kingdom The Earle of Pembroke then sent to Hampton-Court with the Propositions on purpose to avoid the storm was omitted untill Wednesday following and so had the favour to be thought not worth remembring Sir John Evelyn the younger sent up to the Lords with the Impeachment and a desire they might be committed They were committed to the Black Rodde And so the engaged Lords had their House to themselves according to their desires 50 50. Schismaticall Petitions The 14. Sept. a Petition from divers Schismaticks in Essex came to the Houses bearing this Title To the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled distinct from those Lords and Commons that sate in absence of the two Speakers 16. Sept. a Petition from divers Sectaries of Oxfordsh Bucks Berkesh was delivered the House against diverse Members sitting in the House enemies to God and Godlinesse enemies to the Kingdome c. Vsurpers of Parliamentary Authority who endeavoured to bring in the King upon His owne Tearmes They desired a free Parliament and that according to the desires of the Army those that sate when the Parliament was suspended in absence of the two Speakers might be removed there was a clause against Tythes c. in it Such another Petition came but the day before from Southwarke These Petitions were all penned by the engaged party of the Houses and Army and sent abroad by Agitators to get subscriptions The ayme of these Petitions The designe was to put the two parties in the House into heights one against another to make the lesser party in the House viz. the engaged party but 59 to expell the greater party being above 140. whereby the House might be low and base in the opinion of the people and no Parliament and so leave all to the power of the Sword The Army daily recruiting and thereby giving hopes to all loose people that the Army should be their common Receptacle as the Sea is the common Receptacle of all waters because those who had no hope to be Members of Parliament might become Members of this Army Besides their plausible way of prompting the people to petition against Tythes Enclosures and Copy hold fines uncertain was to encourage them to side with the Army against all the Nobility Gentry and Clergy of the hand from whom the Army did most fear an opposition and to destroy Monarchy it self since it is impossible for any Prince to be a King only of Beggers Tinkers and Coblers But these interloping discourses omitted let us again return to these prodigious Impeachments Against the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Citizens The next in order comes in the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Citizens with whom short work was made Impeachments were sent up to the Lords against them and they sent to the Tower upon a bare report of the Inquisitor Generall Corbet and the reading of some depositions the Witnesses names for the most part concealed and none of them so much as called to the Cōmons Bar to see what they could say for themselves Contrary to Magna Charta 29. chap. and contrary to 28 Edw. 3. enacting that no man shall be put out of his Land c. nor taken nor Imprisoned c. nor put to death c. without being brought to answer by due processe of Law That is according to the Stat. 42 Edw. 3. ch 3. That no man be brought to answer without presentment before Justices or matter of Record or by due process or writ originall according to the old Law of the Land not according to new invented Articles of impeachment but according to those Laws that were well known and old in Edw. 3. time see Stat. 37 Edw. 3. 1 Edw. 6. ch 12. 6 Edw. 6. ch 11. and the Stat. 25 Ed. 3. saith no man shall be taken by Petition or sugestion made to the King or his Councell c. and the House of Peers is no more but the Kings Councell as anon I shall make evident It was moved by divers that these Gent 51 51. Arguments against impeachments before the Lords might be Tried according to Law at the Kings Bench by a Jury of twelve men de vicineto their Peers and equalls to judge of matter of fact alleaging that the Common Law was the Birthright of all the free people of England which was one of the three Principles for which the Parl so often declared in print that they fought and for defence wherof they had entred into a Covenant with their hands lifted up to God the other two principles were Religion and Liberties 1. The Lords were not Peers to the Commoners At the Common Law they shall have sworn Judges for matter of Law of whom they may aske questions in doubtfull poynts nor can they be Judges in their own cases 2. They have sworn Jurors of the neighbourhood for matters of fact whom they may challenge 3. The known Laws and Statutes for rules to judge by which in case of Treason is the Stat. 25 Edw. 3. you cannot Vote nor declare a new Treason And if you could to do it ex post facto is contrary to all rules of justice The Apostle saith Sin is a breach of a Commandement or Law I had not known sin but by the Law the Law therefore most go before the Sin 4. At the Common Law They have Witnesses openly and newly examined upon oath before the Accused's face who may except against them and cross examine them 5. Even in Star Chamber and Chauncery where only hearings are upon Testimonies the Examiners are sworn Officers 6. A man hath but one Tryall and Judgment upon one accusation so that he knows when he hath satisfied the Law In this way of proceeding all these necessary legalities are laid by and these Gentlemen have not so much fair play for their Lives and Estates as Naboth had for his Vineyard he had all the formalities of the law yea he had law it self yet he had not justice because they were the sons of Belial that were set before him what shall we conceive these Witnesses are that do not appear nay
when the House was ready for the question Cromwell brought up the Reare Cromwell's Speech And giving an ample character of the valour good affections and godlinesse of the Army argued That it was now expected the Parliament should govern and defend the Kingdome by their own power and resolutions and not teach the people any longer to expect safety and government from an obstinate man whose heart God had hardned That those men who had defended the Parliament from so many dangers with the expence of their bloud would defend them herein with fidelity and courage against all opposition Teach them not by neglecting your owne and the Kingdoms safety in which their owne is involved to think themselves betrayed and left hereafter to the rage and malice of an irreconcilable enemy whom they have subdued for your sake and therefore are likely to find his future government of them insupportable and fuller of revenge then justice lest despair teach them to seek their safety by some other means then adhering to you who will not stick to your selves And how destructive such a resolution in them will be to you all I tremble to think and leave you to judge Observe he laid his hand upon his Sword at the latter end of his Speech that Sword which being by his side could not keep him from trembling when Sir Philip Stapleton baffled him in the House of Commons This concluding Speech having something of menace in it was thought very prevalent with the House 66 66. The four Bills for no addresses nor applications passed The first of the foure Questions being put That the two Houses should make no more addresses nor applications to the King The House of Commons was divided 141. yeas 91. noes so it was carried in the affirmative The other three Votes followed these votes with facility see them in print 67 67. The Committee of Sâ—fety revived and enlarged The Members had been locked into the House of Commons from before nine of the clock in the morning to seven at night and then the dores were unlocked and what Members would suffered to go forth whereby many Presbyterians thinking the House had been upon rising departed when presently the House being grown thin the Vote to revive the Committee of both Kingdoms called the Committee of Safety at Darby House passed by Ordinance dated 3. Janu. 1647. in these words Resolved c. That the powers formerly granted by both Houses to the Committee of both Kingdomes viz. England and Scotland in relation to the two Kingdomes of England and Ireland be now granted and vested in the Members of both Houses only that are of that Committee with power to them alone to put the same in execution The originall Ordinance that first erected this Committee and to which this said Ordinance relates beareth date 7. Feb. 1643. in which the English Committees were appointed from time to time to propound to the Scottish Commissioners whatsoever they should receive in charge from both Houses and to make report to both Houses to direct the managing of the War and to keep good correspondency with forain States and to receive directions from time to time from both Houses and to continue for three moneths and no longer The Members of this Committee are now The Earl of Northumberland Ro. Earl of Warwick The E. of Kent Edw Earl of Manchester Will. Lord Say Seâ—â— Phil. L. Wharton John Lord Roberts Will. Pierre poynt Sir Henry Vane sen Sir Gilbert Gerrarde Sir Will. Armine Sir Arthur Hasterig Sir Hen. Vanc Iun. John Crew Rob. Wallope Oliver St. Johns Sol. Oliver Cromwell Samu. Browne Nath. Fiennes Sir John Eveline Iunior But this Ordinance 3 Janu. 1647. vests the said powers in the Members thereof only and alone words excluding the two Houses and for a time indefinite There were then added to this Committee Nathaniel Fiennes in place of Sir Phil. Stapleton Sir John Evelin Junior in place of Mr. Recorder and the Earl of Kent in stead of the Earl of Essex 22. Janu. following the Lords sent down a Message for a farther power to this Committee which was granted in these words Power to suppresse Tumults and Insurrections in England c. and at Barwick and for that purpose the Committee to have power to give orders and directions to all the Militia and forces of the Kingdome The addition of four Lords and eight Commoners likewise to this Committee was desired but denyed 68 68. White-Hall and the Mewes Garrisoned Friday 14 Janu. after a long debate it was ordered that Sir Lewis Dives Sir John Stowell and David Jenkins be tryed as Traitors at the Kings Bench the Grand Jury had found the Bill against Jenkins Master Solicitor c. appointed to manage the businesse * but Jenkins is so great a Lawyer See Iudge Jenkins Remonstrance to the Lords and Commons of Par. 21. Feb. 1647. that the Solicitor durst not venture upon him the long sword being more powerfull in his mouth then the Law wherefore the Solicitor found an Errour in the Indictment turned him back againe upon the House to be impeached before the Lords to whose Jurisdiction he pleaded so the Solicitor put the affront from himself upon the Houses It was now 12. of the clock and many of the Independent party began to cry Rise rise The Presbyterians thinking all had been done many went to dinner yet the Independents sate still and finding the House for their turne moved That a Letter might be forthwith sent to Sir Tho Fairfax to send a convenient number to Garrison White-Hall and a party of Horse to quarter in the Mewes The Lords concurrence was not desired to this Vote but the Letters immediately drawn and sent Observe that before this Vote passed diverse forces were upon their March towards the Towne and came to White-Hall Saterday following by eight of the Clock in the morning Saterday 15. Janu. 69 69. The Armies Declaration thanking the Commons for their 4 Votes The Army sent a Declaration to the House of Commons Thanking them for their 4 Votes against the King and promising to live and die with the Commons in defence of them against all opponents Many of the Lords had argued very hotly against the said 4 Votes insomuch that it was ten Lords to ten but this engagement of the Army 70 70. The Lords passe the 4 Votes and the unexpected garrisoning of White-Hall and the Mewes turned the scales so that they passed the said 4 Votes only adding a short preamble little to the purpose holding forth some reasons for passing them to which the Commons when they came down assented When presently about 12. of the clock the House being thin Dennis Bond moved That whosoever should act against those 4 Votes or incite others to act against them should be imprisoned and sequestred Three or four dayes after the Lords had passed the said 4 Votes 71 71. The Army thanks the Lords the Army vouchsafed
his own house was there seized upon and carryed Prisoner into the Army All these acts of terror were but so many Scar-crowes set up to fright more Presbyterians from the Houses and make the Army masters of their Votes 38 38. Proceedings of both Houses under the power of the Army I must in the next place fall upon the proceedings in both Houses acted under the power and influence of this all-inslaving all-devonring Army and their engaged party To attaine the knowledge whereof I have used my utmost industry and interest with many my neere friends and kinsmen sitting within those walls heretofore when Kings not Brewers and Draymen were in power the walls of publique liberty 39 39. Ordinance to null and voide all Acts passed in absence of the two renegado Speakers The Lords that sate in absence of the two Speakers all but the Earle of Pembroke whose easie disposition made him fit for all companies found it their safest course to forbeare the House leaving it to be possessed by those few Lords that went to and engaged with the Army which engaged Lords sent to the Commons for their concurrence to an Ordinance To make all Acts Orders and Ordinances passed from the 26 July when the tumult was upon the Houses to the 6. of August following being the day of the fugitive Members returne void and null ab initio This was five or six severall dayes severally and fully debated as often put to the Question and carryed in the Negative every time yet the Lords still renewed the same Message to them beating back their Votes into their throats and would not acquiesce but upon every denyall put them againe to roll the same stone contrary to the priviledges of the Commons 40 40. Menaces used by the engaged party in the House The chief Arguments used by the engaged party were all grounded upon the Common places of feare and necessity M. Solicitor threatning if they did not concur the Lords were resolved to vindicate the Honour of their House and sit no more they must have recourse to the power of the sword the longest sword take all That they were all engaged to live and die with the Army They should have a sad time of it Hasterig used the like language farther saying Some heads must fly off and he feared the Parliament of England would not save the Kingdome of England they must look another way for safety They could not satisfie the Army but by declaring all void ab initio and the Lords were so far engaged that no middle way would serve To this was answered that this was an Appeal from the Parliament to the Army And when these and many more threats of as high nature were complained of as destructive to the liberty and being of Parliaments the Speaker would take no notice of it Sir Henry Vane junior Sir John Evelin junior Prydeaux Gourdon Mildmay Tho Scott Cornel Holland and many more used the like threats Upon the last negative being the fift or sixth the Speaker perceiving greater enforcements must be used pulled a Letter out of his pocket from the Generall and Generall Councel of the Army 41 41. A threatning Remonstrance from the Army to the House for that was now their style pretending he then received it But it was conceived he received it over night with directions to conceal it if the Question had passed in the Affirmative It was accompanyed with a Remonstrance full of villanous language and threats against those Members that sate while the two Speakers were with the Army calling them pretended Members Charging them in generall with Treason Treachery and breach of Trust And protested if they shall presume to sit before they have cleared themselves that they did not give their assents to such and such Votes they should sit at their perill and he would take them as Prisoners of Warre and try them at a Councell of Warre What King of England ever offered so great a violence to the fundamentall Priviledges of Parliament as to deny them the Liberty of Voting I and No freely Certainly the little finger of a Jack Cade or a Wat Tyler is far heavier then the loynes of any King Many Members were amazed at this Letter and it was moved That the Speaker should Command all the Members to meet at the House the next day and should declare That they should be secured from danger And that it might be Ordered that no more but the ordinary Guardes should attend the House But these two motions were violently opposed with vollies of threats by the aforesaid parties and others And after more then two houres debate the Speaker refused to put any question upon them or any of them and so adjourned to the next morning leaving the Presbyterian Members to meet at their Perill The next day being Friday the 20 Aug. there was a very thin Assembly in the House of Commons the House having with so much violence denyed protection to their Members the day before made most of the Presbyterian party absent Some went over to the Independent party others fate mute At last a Committee was appointed presently to bring in an Ordinance of Accommodation which was suddainly done and passed and is now Printed at the latter end of the said menacing Remonstrance of the Army a Childe fit to waite upon such a Mother 42 42. Debate in passing the Ordinance of null and voide Thus was this Ordinance of null and voyde gotten which hath been the cause of so much danger and trouble to Multitudes of people by the Lords reiterated breaches upon the Priviledges of the House of Commons The engaged parties threats within doores The Armies thundring Letters and Remonstrance Their Guardes upon their doores and a Regiment or two of Horse in Hide Parke ready to make impressions upon the House in case things had not gone to their mindes diverse of whose Commanders walking in the Hall enquired often how things went protesting they would pull them forth by the Eares if they did not give speedy satisfaction Thus for the manner of passing that Ordinance the matter of Argument used against it was as far as I can hear to the purpose following It was alledged that the force upon Munday 26 July ended that day that the next day being Tuesday the House met quietly and adjourned That upon Friday following the Houses fate quietly all day and gave their Votes freely and so forward the City having sufficiently provided for their security That this tranfient force upon Munday could have no influence on the Houses for the time to come That the Supream power of no Nation can avoide their owne acts by pretended force This would make the common People the Jurors and Judges to question all acts done in Parliament since one man can and may judge of force as well as another This were to being the Records of the House into dispute Magna Charta was never gotten nor confirmed but by force force was
the City Oh Oliver what a barbarous John of Leyden art thou become Oh London how wretched a Munster wilt thou become at last they drove those silly unarmed wretches into Leaden hall and took many of them Prisoners none of the Trained Bands nor Citizens appearing to help these poor Boyes but leaving the Souldiers to get as bloudy and as boyish a Triumph over them as they pleased they are now imprisoned in Cromwell's shambles at White Hall This is the truth of the businesse notwithstanding the long-winded lying report made by Alderman Foukes at the Commons Bar a man that hath feathered his nest well these miserable times and hath much publike money sticking to his fingers who when he gave in his Accompt before the generall Committee of Accounts refused to give it in upon Oath as other men did alleaging Magna Charta that no man was bound to accuse himself It should seem he had something in his Conscience that would not endure the Test of an Oath But he is one of the Godly and therefore the good things of this world belong unto him The House of Commons upon this occasion gave 1000l to the Souldiers for this valorous exploit and voted 1000. Foot and 100. Horse to be kept in the Tower The Garrisons of White Hall and the Mewes to be strengthned three Barges capable of 50. Musquetiers a piece to lie at White Hall for the Souldiers to convey themselves to any landing place to disperse such Water-men as shall assemble The City Chaines to be taken away from their posts and a Commission of Oyer and Terminer to Issue forth to murder more of these Children legally The Major having kindled this fire in the City stole out at a window disguâ—sed and hid his foolish head in the Tower The House of Commons over-ruled by the Grandees Voted a day of Thanks-giving for this Delivery So bold are these Saints as to mock Gods holy Name with impious devotions to colour their designes 86 86. The Lord Inchiquin The Lord Inchiquin president of Munster and Generall of the Army there had a long time been heaved at by the Independent faction The Lord Lysle who gaped after his imployment Sir John Temple Cromwell the Lord Broughill Sir Arthur and Sir Adam Loftus and others who by obstructing all supplies of Money Ammunition Victuall Cloathes laboured to mutiny and disband his Army that they might send Schismaticks of their owne party to Lord it there as they doe here and keep Ireland as a Retreat for the Saints for the better effecting whereof they had sent over many emissaries whom they had commended to him to be officers in his Army When this would not doe they printed Scandalous Articles against him put infinite provocations upon him to incite him to doe that which they falsly accused him to have done already But the many gallant services he performed since the publishing those Articles gave them the lie and confuted all their slanders at last under colour of sending a supply of forces to him they projected to surprize him and bring him away prisoner So that he hath suffered all the convulsions that treacherous friends and malicious enemies could put upon him And lately for the more close conveiance of the designe the Houses sent three Commissioners towards Ireland to survay his actions but as if it were purposely done when the Commissioners came as far on their way as Bristoll about a dozen renegado Officers of his Army met the Commissioners and turned them back againe The said Officers posted up to the Parliament before the Commissioners the 13. Aprill were called in to the Commons Barre where they made a relation to the House to this purpose That the Lord Inchiquin having made an expedition into the County of Kerry upon his returne sent for these Officers into his presence Chamber and told them He intended to declare against the Army and Independent party in England who kept the King and Parliament under a force That he would stand for the liberty of the King and Parliament and a free conference to settle Peace and that he expected all his Officers should joyne with him in so honourable an undertaking but should take an Oath of secresie before he discovered himselfe farther to them They answered They could take no such Oath before they knew whether they might with a safe Conscience keep it saying they would be true to the Parliament My Lord Inchiquin replied So have I and will be delude me not with ambiguous words Doe you mean this pretended Parliament telling them farther he had good correspondence with all the Presbyterians in Scotland and England as well in the Parliament as out of it that he doubted not to goe through with his undertaking and if the worst hapned to make good conditions for himself and his party That he would make peace with the Lord Taffe and that he knew the Independents in England were upon treaty with Owen Roc Oneal who was a man of their humour and loved to keep all in a combustion They refusing to joyne he dismissed them for England The same day Letters from Captaine John Crowther Vice-admirall of the Irish Seas from a Ship-board were read in the House much to the same purpose though not so large wherein he said he had already blocked up all my Lord Inchiquines Havens Presently Allen the Goldsmith moved 87 87. Allen the Goldsmith moveth to put the House to the touch by some Covenant Declaration That since the Lord Inchiquine had discovered that he had a correspondency with the Presbyterians in the House before they dealt with their Enemies without doores they should try who were their enemies within doors by putting all men to some Covenant Engagement or Protestation c. and Lieutenant Generall Cromwell said That being to debate this businesse to morrow whosoever with crosse Arguments shall spin out the debate and so retard our proceedings by my consent shall be noted with a black coale to which was Answered That this tended to take away freedome of debate which was the life of Parliaments and of all Councells and was destructive to the very being of Parliaments It is not amisse to insert here by way of digression what I formerly omitted Sir Henry Mildmay long since moved That 150. rich Guard-Coates of the Kings might be sold for 800.l to finde fire and candle for the Souldiers in White-Hall The Question put The Speaker gave judgement the Yeas had it Master Edw. Stephens declared the Noes had it They were unwilling to divide upon such a Question But M. Stephens persisted and Robert Reynolds said aloud notice shall be taken of him for putting such a dishonour upon the House Upon the Division the Noes carried it by nine voices Thereupon complaints was made against Reynolds for attempting against the liberty of Voting but no redresse But to returne from my digression The next day 14 of Aprill it was moved that my Lord Inchiquins son a child of 8
Tyrant was ever so barbarous so indiscreet as to do the like It was moved that Offendors of this kind might be bound to the good Behaviour and the offence proved openly at the Assizes or Sessions before so destructive a punishment be inflicted There are three principles in law of which the Laws are very tender and will not suffer them to be touched but upon great offences cleer proofs and exact formalities observed life liberty and estate by Magna Charta the Petition of Right and many other Statutes these principles are so sacred that nothing but the Law can meddle with them Nemo imprisonetur aut disseisietur nisi per legale judicium parium suorum you have made the people shed their money and bloud abundantly pretending defence of Religion Laws and Liberties let them now at last being a time of peace enjoy what they have so dearly paid for and delay them not with a pretended necessity of your owne making you now make all that is or can be neer and deer to them lyable to the passions of three Committee men to judge and execute according to their discretion without Law or so much as a formality thereof And yet both Houses of Parliament have often heretofore offered to abolish those Committees as men whose wickednesse and folly they and the whole Kingdome were ashamed of The Grandees of the Parliament and Army when the Houses are called and full have resolved to draw their Forces nearer about the Towne and by that terrour to try the temper of the Houses such Members as will not comply with them they will with fresh Charges purge out of the Houses and publish base and infamous scandalls against them to which if they submit with silence they betray their reputations for ever and spare the credits of their jugling enemies If they make any defence for their honours by way of apology they shall be brought within the compasse of this devouring enslaving Ordinance as men that reproach the Parliament and their proceedings Thus the same whip shall hang over the shoulders of the Presbyterian party who wil not agree to King-deposing Anarchy Schism as it did formerly over the Kings party And the Presbyterians shall be squeezed into the Independents coffers as formerly the King's party were so long as they had any thing to lose for the whole earth is little enough for these Saints who are never satisfied with money and bloud although they never looke towards Heaven but through the spectacles of this world The old elogium and character of the English Nation was that they were Hilaris gens cui libera mens libera lingua But now Country-men your tongues are in the stocks your bodies in every gaole your souls in the darke and estates in the mercy of those that have no mercy and at the discretion of those that have no discretion Farewell English Liberty 90 90. Generall Conclusions Out of these Premises I shall draw these Conclusions following 1 1. The Grandees have subverted the fundamentall Government of the Kingdome and why 1. THe engaged Party have laid the Axe to the very root of Monarchy and Parliaments they have cast all the mysteries and secrets of Government both by Kings and Parliaments before the vulgar like pearle before swine and have taught both the Souldiery and people to looke so far into them as to ravell back all Governments to the first principles of nature he that shakes fundamentalls means to take down the fabrick Nor have they been carefull to save the materialls for posterity What these negative Statists will set up in the room of these ruined buildings doth not appeare only I will say they have made the people thereby so curâ—â—us and so arrogant that they wil never find humility enough to submit to a Civill rule their ayme therefore from the beginning was to rule them by the power of the Sword a military Aristocracie or Olgarchy as now they do Amongst the aincient Romans Tentare Arcana Imperii to profane the mysteries of State was Treason because there can be no forme of Government without its proper mysteries which are no longer mysteries then while they are concealed Ignorance and admiration arising from Ignorance are the parents of civil devotion and obedience though not of Theologicall 2 2. They have subverted the Church 2. Nor have these Grandees and their party in the Synode dealt more kindly with the Church then with the Common-wealth whose reverend Mysteries their Pulpits and holy Sacraments and all the functions of the Ministery are by their connivence prophaned by the clouted shooe the basest and lowest of the people making themselves Priests and with a blind distempered zeal Preaching such Doctrine as their private Spirits spirits of illusion dictate to them But let them know that their burning zeal without knowledge is like hell-fire without light Yet the greatest wonder of all is The Sacrament of the Lords Supper discontinued and why That they suffer the Lords Supper that Sacrament of Corroboration to be so much neglected in almost all the Churches in the Kingdome Is it because men usually before they receive our Saviour that blessed guest sweep the house cleane casting out of their hearts those living Temples of the holy Ghost Pride Ambition Covetousnesse Envy Hatred Malice and all other unclean Spirits to make fit roome to entertaine Jesus that prince of peace whereby the people having their mindes prepared for Peace Charity and Reconciliation may happily spoile the trade of our Grandees who can no longer maintaine their usurped dominion over them then they can keep them disunited with quarrels and feudes and uphold those Badges of factions and tearmes of distinction and separation Cavaleers Round-heades Malignants Well-affected Presbyterians and Indedendents or is it because they fear if the Church were setled in peace unity it would be a means to unite the Common-wealth as a quiet cheerfull minde often cureth a distempered body I will not take upon me to judge another mans servant but many suspect this is done out of designe not out of peevishnesse 3. That these Grandees governe by power 3 3. The Grandees rule by the arbytrary power of the Sword not by the Lawes not by loâ—â— and the the Lawes of the Land which was my last assertion appears by 1. The many Garrisons they keep up and numerous Army they keep in pay to over-power the whole Kingdome more then at first the Parliament Voted 2. Their compelling the Parliament to put the whole Militia of England and Jreland by Land Sea into the power of Sir Tho Fairfax and their party 3. Nor do they think the Laws of the Land extensive enough for their purposes therefore they piece them out with Arbitrary Ordinances Impeachments before the Lords and Marshall Law which is now grown to that height that the Councell of War Generall and judge Advocate of the Army doe usually send forth instructions to stay suites and release