together Death officiously removing this great impediment also so that by this time there was not an Officer left in the Army that did not acknowledge Cromwell's Sultanship the General himself being lulled and bewitched with the Syren Charms of his zealous insinuations The Presbyterian Party in the Parliament began now to be sensible whither these devices tended and therefore to Counterplot this Caball of Cromwells they resolved upon a new disbanding of some the Scots having friendly departed home and transporting of other Regiments for the service of Ireland for that the necessity of that Kingdome did require the Translation of the waâ— thither This the Independents presently perceived and gave Cromwell timely notice of who knowing himself to be principally aimed at caused it by some of his Familiars to be spread about the Souldiery that the Parliament by the major Vote of some corrupt Members had voted the disbanding of the Army to cheat them of their Arrears and then to send them in a necessitous condition into Ireland to be there knock'd 〈◊〉 the Head by the Rebells This presently put the Common Soldiers into such a rage who always judge by the first appearance that they â—lew out into most opprobrious and reviling Language against the Parliament but fury being no present remedy to this evil Ireton anâ— his instructed Pupills prescribe a Module never heard of or practised in War before of a Military Common-Council who should assemble 2 commission Officers and two private Soldiers out of every Regiment to consult for the good of the Army to draw up their grievances and present them to the General and he to the Parliament these to be called by the name of Adjutators Having thus made sure of the Army he thought it time now to make sure of the King whom the Parliaments Commissioners had brought to his Captivity at Holmby-house and therefore Ireton and he having sometime before acquainted themselves with the King in this his restraint and vowed and protested their readinesse to serve him to the ensnaring the Kings belief while they condoled the hard usage and unreasonable carriage of the Parliament towards him especially in point of Liberty of Conscience and the Worship of God His Majesties Chaplains having been obstinately refused him they judged it no difficult thing to get his person into their Custody and deceive his good nature with the same semblances of it in themselves only the manner was not presently resolved by them For without the Generals consent and command it could not be done in his name nor might it avowedly be done by the Councill of War for it would be a peremptory and hazardous enterprise and engage the whole Kingdome about their Ears but at last it was concluded betwixt them that this surprizal of the King should be fathered on the Council of Adjutators as the sense and Act of the Army Thus in all these pushes and puzzels of accidents did they extricate themselves by that Mungrill consistory a meer Chimâ—â—â— or Brainsick Idaea of a convention which was conversant only about shadowes and umbrages of things while Cromwell ran away with the substance This way being agreed upon one Cornet Joyce a busie pragmaticall person whom Cromwell his Familiar had tutoured in the Method of boldnesse and Rebellion was privately conferred with about it and after some familiar compellations hugged into the Conspiracy and immediately dispatch'd away with a party of 1000 Horse on the 4. of June to Holmby where he arrived late at Night but being very importunate to speak with the King was by his order admitted to whom he declared his â—â—â—and and being demanded by whose Authority whither by the Generall or Councell of War no other answer could be drawn from him but that it was from the Army adding that if the King should refuse to go along with him he must carry him away per force The King neverthelesse deliberated the whole night and consulted with the Parliaments Commissioners what was most adviseable for him to do though the sway of his judgement in 〈◊〉 him to the Army Custody from a just 〈◊〉 of the sullennesse and Rebellious obstinacy of the Parliament who had by Joyce offered him as the last and chief Artifide of Cromwell to all 〈◊〉 of ranks and persons the liberty of Conscience with other specious and dutiful pretences From Holmby therefore next morning the King was carried to Childersly then the head quarters of the Army though the King desired to go to Newmarket his own house as perswading himself in some greater degree of Royalty then in the Parliaments Tuition but this was at first denyed and a complementary amends made him by the Generall and more particularly by Cromwell that His Majesty could no where be safer or more regally honoured then in their quarters which were the only Sanctuary of his person This daring presumption of seizing the King gave light to the World what this Oliver would at last appear though no certain Conclusions could be made what the mischief did presently signify It was sufficient to Cromwell's design to amuse the World and let them guesse at the danger he had readily prepared beyond any sudden remedy And therefore he now personates the Kings Interest professeth himself exceeding sorry to have mistaken the quarrell intimates and insinuates to the King that there were a corrupt party meaning the Presbyterians in Parliament who alone withstood his Resolution and that He and all the power and friends he could make were resolved to assert his Rights and vindicate them from those unreasonable injuries of the Juncto as he spared not frequently to own the same Honesty to the Kings friends then admitted to attend Him particularly He declared to Collonel John Cromwell a Commander in the States Service in Holland then in England That he thought the King of England was the most injured Prince in the World and clapping his hand to his Sword in some passion said Cousin This shall right him to the very great Contentment of that Loyal Subject whom we shall have further occasion in this Discourse and from this Passage to mention In the mean while the King is at his earnest desire which Cromwell seemed most officiously to study conveighed to Newmarket House and thither his friends and Chaplains without any restriction admitted and such a sudden change made in the condition of the King as to his Liberty and Honour that most of his party were dazeled with the shews of it and could not foresee the Treason that was hid under those fair Umbrages Nor could the King himself so cunningly Cromwell carried it give any true judgement of this his Surprizal more then that the Examples and rules of all Policy generally resolved him That the Person of a Prince in whosoever hands it remaineth addeth Strength and Authority to that Party The King being thus in Olivers hands as he had declared upon Joyces telling him that he had the King in Custody that he had the Parliament then in
from Hampton-Court which place was found to be too near to London for fear of a rescue in a dark and tempestuous night in November 1647. and forced to cast himself into the disloyal hands of Coll. Hamond Governour of the Isle of Wight and Brother to the most Learned and Reverend Dr. Hamond which consideration Cromwell forelaid would invite the King in his distresse to betake himself thither where we shall leave him in a most disconsolate Imprisonment the Votes of Non Addresses being not long after procured by Cromwell's Menaces to the Parliament when upon the Debate of them he declared in such like words That it was now expected by the good people of the Nation and the Army that the Parliament would come to some Resolution and Settlement as the Price of all the Blood and Treasure that had been expended in the War and that they would not now leave them to the expectation of any good from a Man whose heart God had hardned but if they did they should be forced to-look for their preservation some other way At the end of this Speech he laid his hand upon his Sword by his side as was the more observed because formerly in the same place it could not keep him from trembling when Sir Philip Stapleton a man of spirit and metal baffled him but Sir Philip and his seconds were now out of Dores Next to him spoke Ireton in the very same sense being newly chosen a recruit for the Parliament by their illegal writ of Election extolling and magnifying the valour civility and duty of the Army concluding with the same threats that if the Parliament would not settle the Kingdome without the King then they of necessity must and would So that after some Opposition the said votes passed against any further Addresse to be made to the King and now Oliver thought himself cock-sure and therefore the King Parliament and City being in his power he had no rub left to his Ambition but those Imps and Spirits of his own raising and conjuring up the Adjutators and Levellers of the Army who having conn'd their Lesson of the Agreement with the people were became most artful and skilful Governours already boasting in the Country many of which silly people they had induced to their side upon the accompt of laying all in common and in a wild Parity that the Parliament sate only during their pleasure and till a new Representative then a forming should take upon them the Government nor did they more dutifully respect and behave themselves to their Officers whom they counted as peices of the Prerogative Military therefore decried all Courts and Counsells of them which began to separate and act by themselves without the mixture of their Adjutators This exorbitancy and heigth of the Soldiery was altogether as destructive to Cromwell now he had done his work with them for this time as any of the other 3 Interests but desperate diseases must have desperate Cures for immediately the Headquarters being then at Ware Coll. Eyer a Leveller was seised and imprisoned and one Arnold a private Soldier shot to death for promoting the former solemn Engagement and Agreement of the People and after that He cashiered all such who favoured the same and to fan and cull out the rest he proceeded to disband 20 out of a Troop by which the most of that party were totally excluded the like was done in London by the Imprisonment of Mr. Prince and others of the same Faction Having for the present still'd that commotion in the Army the danger of a second war seemed a fresh to threaten the Juncto and Cromwell by reason of their injurious Votes of Non-Addresse and therefore to prevent so potent and formidable a Conjunction of all Interests and Parties against him He now by his Party and Emissaries proposeth an accommodation between the Presbyterians and Independents and a way and means whereby they may be so united at the motion of this in the House of Commons a Gentleman replyed That if there were any such persons who had any private Interest different from the publique and under the distinction of parties had prejudiced the Kingdome he was not fit to be a Member of that House Neverthelesse it was insisted on that the House would declare and ratifie their Votes of nulling and making void the Votes that passed in the absence of the Speakers that fled into the Army in 1647. and their Engagement of adhering to the Army which were tacitly confessed to be then unduly procured so fearful and doubtful was he again of the issue of those new Troubles he foresee would fall out and therefore would shelter himself and justifie his Actions by the Authority he had so often bafled The same Artifices he used likewise to the City offering them now upon the like condition of uniting Interests the freedome of their Lord Maior and Aldermen viz. Sir John Gayr Alderman Langham Alderman Adams and others and the setting up again their Posts and Chains but when they having already treated and engaged with the Scots then in preparation for a March into England refused to give ear to any propositions or terms resenting the base affronts He and the Army had put upon them He questioned his Argent Glover who gave him Commission to make any such Overtures and in great rage turned him out of his Service The danger still increasing he suffered the Lords as namely the Earls of Suffolk Lincoln Lord Maynard Willoughby c. whom he had impeached of High Treason after his March into London to be freed from their Imprisonment in the Tower and with them the Maior and Aldermen aforesaid and as a further satisfaction and submission to the Authority of the Parliament A Declaration of the Army is published wherein they bewail their former miscarriages and misdemeanors towards the Parliament their medling with the civil power and that force and violence they had offered to the two Houses and in Conclusion promise faithfully and dutifully to acquiesce in their Resolutions and Wisdom With this Hocus Pocus deluding the Presbyterian party into a kind of stupid neutrality or rather worse while yet they would by no means comply with the King untill Polyphemus Courtesie appeared in this Cromwellian Craft The Scots under Duke Hamilton having entred England and divers Insurrections happening in England and Wales according as was expected Cromwell was ordered by the Parliament to attend the first of them which was the Welch and Northern Armies though the Scots delayed their March so long till all was neer lost in England and after a short Siege upon the Defeat at St. Pagons which was atcheived in his absence took in Tenby-Castle Pembroke Castle held out a while longer thence he marched for Lancashire having joyned with Major General Lambert who attended the motion of the Scotch Army and at Preston his forces amounting to few more then 9000 Men whereas the Scots were not lesse then 20000 gave Duke Hamilton Battle
was killed by Carbine shot refusing to take quarter at such perfidious peoples hands This Hurly burly being over and ended like a flash the General came to Oxford where he was highly treated and he and Oliver made Doctors of the Civil Law This proved the utter Suppression of that party rendred the Army entirly at his command without any farther dispute of their Leading so that they presently submitted to the Lot which Regiments should be sent to Ireland then almost reduced to the Kings obedience by the M. of Ormond which thus decreed it viz. 11. Regiments One of Dragoons under Col. Abbot Of Horse Iretons Scroops Hortons and Lamberts Of Foot Eures Cooks Hewsons and Deans And three new ones viz. Cromwells Venables and Phayrs Cromwell was ordained Commander in Chief and tituladoed with the Style of Lord Governour of Ireland while Fairfax was lest here to attend the Parliament and passe away his time in the Dotages of his Successe giving him the Honour of subduing that Realm and preparing it to his Usurtion He with a very potent Army was now landed at Dublin Whereupon a strong Garrison of 2500 Foot and 300 horse resolved men under the charge of Sir Arthur Aston was put into Drogheda the nearest Garrison to the late defeat of the Ms of Ormond which Cromwell having refreshed his Army a while at Dublin came to besiege The Town was stormed resolutely thrice and as well defended-Sir Arthur Aston being so confident that he advised the Lord Lieutenant not to precipitate any thing for he should hold them play a while but in the third assault Collonel Wall being unâ—ortuâ— nately killed his dismaid Souldâ—ers listened to thâ— offer of quarter before they had need of it and admitted them upon those terms Cromwell having notice that the Flower of the Irish Army was in his hands gave order to put all in Arms to the Sword where were killed Sir Arthur Asteâ— Sir Edmund Varney Collonel Warren Coll. Dun Finglassâ— Tempest c. with 3000 Souldiers the best in that Kingdome He comes next before Wexford which having resused to accept of a Garrison now the Enemy was under their walls was contented to admit of 500 Men under the command of Sir Edmund Butler and the Lord Lieutenant came also in sighthâ— the Town before whose face Stafford the Governour of the Castle basâ—ly betrayed it to Cromwell together with the Town who there are acheroroâ—fly murthered 2000 more Rosse was the next place whither a Garrison was sent under the command of Luke Taaf with order the Town not being tenable to render upon Conditions which accordingly a breach being made they did and marched away with their Arms. His next attempt was upon Duncannon but the noble Wogan and the English Cavaliers gave him a foyle hence he retreated to Rosseâ— â—ere he made a floating bridge that to having a passage to the other side he might comâ—ell Ormond either to divide his Army to observe his motions or otherwise to get a passage into Munster where he held intelligence with several places that would then Revolt and accordingly for all my Lord Taaff was sent thither before hand to secure them yet Youghall Corke and all the English Towns of Munster openly Revolted and many of my Lord Inchiqueens men allured by Money and Commands in Cromwell's Army ran over to the Enemy and his Excellency the L. Lieutenant having lost the opportunity of Fighting Cromwell by his dislodging from Duncannon by night vvhen the Irish vvere cheaâ—full and earnest to engage vvas never after in a condition fit to venture a battel He therefore passes over his Bridge and so into the County of Kilkenny facing his Enemy and moving up and dovvn after him vvhile his Lieut. G. Jonâ—s with parties took in the Castles and Carrick vvas vvretchedly betrayed to him by Martin that commanded there vvhence 〈◊〉 passes his Army into Munster and takes severall Castles by the appearance onely of his Horse onely at Kilteran he received a repulse but Ballisannon was sold to him Kilkenny was taken next aster a stout defence made the Towns-men complying contrary to the Souldiers knowledge who were driven into the Castle and there conditioned The next enterprize he went in hand with was to take Clonmell kept by Major Generall Hugh Neake who behaved himself so well that the Enemy having lost 2500 Men before it had gone away without it had it not bin that the Gariâ—on wanted Powder so that they got over the River to Waterford in the night leaving the Townsmen to make conditions for themselves which the Enemy not knowing the Souldiers were gone readily granted Soon after Collonel Roch received a brush from my Lord Broghill in the County of Cork vvhere the Bishop of Rosse being taken vvas hanged I have thus briefly discoursed of the War in Ireland that I might hasten to the grand event and from the Camp after another expedition conduct him to the Palace the main consequence of his Life vvhich rendred all his other actions so notable and conspicuous The Irish War thus in a manner ended and the Scotch War ready to Commence the Committee of Estates there having concluded vvith the King at Breda and he upon his Voyage to that Kingdom wheâ—e all correspondence with the English was by Proclamation forbidden and all manner of Provision stopt from carrying into England though the Juncto at Westmiâ—ster had used all Artifices to keep the Scots from closing with Him who were so far disposed thereto that they had barbarously murâ—hered the Great Marquiss of Montross a Hero far surpassing Oliver in Conduct and who was untimely and unfortunately taken away from the rescue of his Country Cromwell like a Fury was ready at hand to take revenge of that Fact For having been seeretly called for over from Ireland to amuse all Parties both the Irish who trembled at his presence and made no considerable resistance against him and his Fortune and the General himself at home who expected not such his sudden â—valship to his Command which gave him no time for mature consideration of the design the Scots who though Alarumed by frequent rumours of an English Invasion yet were not so forward in their Levies as having assurance of Fairfax's dissatisfaction he was now wasted over into England preventing the Letters he had sent to the States to know their express pleasure for his departing that Kingdome On the beginning of June he returned by the way of Bristoll from Ireland to London and was welcomed by Fairfax the General many Members of Parliament and Council of State at Hounsle-heath and more fully complemented at his Lodgings and in Parliament by the Thanks of the House and the like significant Address of the Lord Mayor c. of London being look'd upon as the only Person to the Eccsipse and diminution of the Generals Honour which we shall presently see him paramount in the same supreme Command The World that considered the carriage of this Politique towards his Prince
conditions that the worst of Rebells could have put upon a Prince which being once confirmed and assented to by him they would be ready to give Battel as the quarrell should then be stated and upon which they might expect a blessing But this wile advantaged not the Kirk but only served as a Directory to Oliver where he should level his Treasonable projects To this Cromwell takes very good occasion to reply and help our their sophistry with some more of his own◠and to let the Scots see of how near affinity the Kirk and the Congregational way were in this respect to the King he permitted nay caused their Declaration to be publiquely read to his Army putting the Scotch-Remonstrants upon these Dilemma's That their professed disowning of Malignants and receiving and assisting their Head and Chief in whom all their hope lies cannot consist in common sence or pradence reciting as evidence thereof the late Popish affairs in Ireland and Prince Ruperts roving at Sea That suppose He the King should give security of his turning it must be some other way then by a few and feigned formal submissions for it is his necessity and his old Complices that connsel him to that Complyance Nor is it possible for the Scots in the way that they are now in to be able to secure themselves or England and concludes that upon this quarrel if they be ready to fight his Army attends there for that purpose and therefore the Scots cannot complain for want of an opportunity These pestilent and alike dangerous Papers which in effect seemed rather an agreement then cause of quarrell between the Antagonists were warily considered by some even of Kirk-men who loved the King as of sudden and desperate consequence to his Majesties Person and Government so highly vilified and disre-garded so that a Declaration to the liking of the Kark was extorted from him that there might no cause of pretence remain either for their obstinate carriage towards him or ready compliance with the Enemy Hereupon the English Army advanced again and though several Bodies of Scotch Horse appeared yet they presently withdrew upon their approach which that it might not be altogether frustrate Cromwell in sight of them caused a Garrison called Red-house within a mile and a half of Edinburgh to be Stormed wherein were taken 60. Foot and the House made tenable and manned by the English while the Scats being necessitated for Provisions and to joyn with some other Forces from Fife and the West had marched two miles beyond Edinburgh having a great Hill on the one side and the City and a River on the other so that it was very hazardous to engage them being drawn up in Battalia the great Cuns playing on both sides In which posture and attendance the Scots and English stood and neither changed ground till Provisions growing scarce Cromwell retreated to Pentland-hills Lambert having had some discourse and conference with Straughan c. about the former equity of their cause de lana caprina and thence with some difficulty by reason of bad weather to Musleborough for Provant and thence a few days after to Dunbar with intention by shipping or any other way to get into England being now closely followed by the Scotch Army in their rear who rightly guessing the English to be weakned with long Marches and want of Victual made cock-sure of a total Victory which snatching at before it was ripe for them fearing nothing more then that they would escape them they saw themselves miserably frustrated and their despairing Enemy a most insulting Conqueror On Sunday at night the first of September the English making at most not above 12000. men came to Dunbar whither the Scots keeping close at their Heels came also and drew up their whole Army consisting of between 20. and 24. thousand men upon a high Hill within a mile of the Town to the great amazement at first of the English but dispair adding resolution to their courage they presently drew out in Battalia in the Corn-field near adjoyning and so stood all night being incamped upon a Neck of Land whose Breadth was not a Mile and a half from Sea to Sea so that they were by Land quite cooped up In considence therefore of an assured Victory David Lashley who Commanded this Kirk Army in chief began to advance as early as the Sun next morning and drew down the Hill fixing at the foot thereof and about 4. a clock in the afternoon brought down his Train there being a great Ditch betwixt both the Armies That night the English by Command placed themselves close to the Ditch and placed their Field-pieces likewise in every Regiment that they might be in a readiness in case the Enemy should attempt any thing upon them who were vainly expecting terms of a rendition boasting that they had them in a worse pound then the King had the Earl of Essex at Lestithiell in Cornwall The Ministers having their voice in the Council of War held by this Kirk Army most earnestly urged the Engagement and fight against those that were of opinion to let the English escape and not venture the fortune of War upon an Enemy made desperate of which there were 〈◊〉 many sad examples saying that God had delivered Agag meaning Cromwell into their power and if they let him go would require him at their hands On Tuesday morning at four of the Clock a Brigade of the English Army drew down to possess themselves of a pass upon the Road between Edenburgh and Berwick which being had they might with the more ease and advantage make their way home and in order thereto pass over so the Enemy to fall upon them This Brigade consisted of three Regiments of Horse of Major General Lamberts Commissary General Whalleys and Collonel Lilburns and two of Foot This gave the Scots a great Alarum and a fore dispute happened about the pass which lasted above an hour the great Guns playing in the mean time against both the bodies At length that stout Brigade gained and possessed the pass much gallantry and bravery being shewed on both sides This pass lay at Copperspeth in the English way homewards to impede which they had drawn off their best Horse upon the right Wing to receive the English weose Word was the Lord of Hosts theirs The Covenant The Enemy charged hereupon with their Lanciers so that that the Horse gave way a little but immediately rallied and the foot advancing to second them the Scots were charged so home that they put them presently to the rout it being about six a Clock in the morning the left Wing of Horse without striking one stroke following the same way The Foot seeing this rout and flight of the Horse and not able in any order by reason thereof to engage were all of a sudden so confused and confounded that without any resistance or offer of Engagement they threvv dovvn their Arms and fled giving the English the full pursuit of them above
it was thought impossible for them to have equipped another Fleet able to look out Navies in the Face Withall there were so many Discontents and Divisions in that popular State that they were ready to ruine themselves without any of our help yet did this puny and unfledged Prince come to a Treaty and agreement with them upon most mean and inconsiderable Terms when it had been no question but another rub at Sea or beleaguering their Ports would have brought them down to the Humble Complement of Our faithful Tributaries which of how great advantage it might have been to the Trade and consequently the greatnesse of this Kingdome I take not upon me to determine His next Affair was a Conclusion of a League with the Queen of Sweeden which he transacted by the Embassy of the Lord Commissioner Whitlock who being commissioned at his Departure by the foolish Parliament was invested with new Credentialls from Cromwell whom accordingly he owned as his most serene Highness his Master But that which he most aspected was the two neighbouring potent Monarchies of France and Spain with one whereof he must of necessity quarrell and so spend the ill blood and convey away those humors which were so redundant in the old Soldiery both of the Kings and Essexes Army and if not employed in some forraign war would create him trouble at home this the French Cardinal newly restored to the administration of that Monarchy timely foresee and therefore a Treaty was privately and industriously carried on here by Mounsieur Bourdeaux Neufville to an amicable Association and League against the Spaniard Cromwell's Covetousnesse and thirst of Gold prevailing against his Interest and Ambition and thirst of Malice and Mischief against the Royal Family which was now shaded under the French Flower de Lyzes whereby all petsons expected an Invasion from hence of that Kingdome that if it were possible for his Treason he might drive it out of the World But Mazarine's Golden expedient temporary Medium of shifting the King and his Relations out of that Kingdome by vertue of the said League wholly swayed and inclined him to a War against Spain which not long after was commenced The greater invitation thereto being Three ships pretended Hamburgers but laden with the King of Spains Peices of Eight whether for his Account or no uncertain that had been newly stayed and seized by the Court of Admiralty at the prosecution of one Violet a Goldsmith and notwithstanding the Spanish Ambassador Don Alonso de Cardenas protested and strugled against it were carried to the Tower and there minted to the Sum of 400000. Sterl This and other moneys in the Exchequer gave the greater courage to his Ambition and his raw and unsetled Usurpation He had also now accepted satisfaction from the King of Portugal and was entred into League and Friendship with Him How many are the troubles cares and miseries of Tyrant greatnesse No sooner is one design one passion gratified and accomplished but another disquiet and danger invades or perplexes Him No sooner had he sacrificed to his Covetousnesse but now he must offer Victims to his cruelty the next Assurance of his hated Throne There is in the Labyrinth of Vice as in the orderly Frame of Arts and Sciences a Circle a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Spherical Motion from one evil to another till the last terminates at the beginning their qualities and quantities being only altered augmented or diminished by Time or other circumstances From the deep Design of forraign Mines He next converted his thoughts upon a Home-spun Plot. A horrible Practice of Machivilian Policy and Art of Empire with which even just Scepters have been polluted and stained by some unhumane Ministers of State upon pretences of preventing danger who stand chargeable even with the Loyal blood this Leach suckt through their Conduits to entrap and engage innocent persons upon Suspicion of others of the same party who are obnoxious to the Government in Machinations and Conspiracies of their own forming and contrivance and by their Emissaries betray and then condemn them This was the first bloody remarque of Cromwell's Princing managed by his Secretary Thurloe who drew in Col. John Gerrard and Mr. Vowell two eminent Royalists into his snare of conspiring the Death of the Protector with others who confessed the intention for which they were both condemned by a High Court of Justice Cromwell not daring to trust the Laws or a Jury the Birthright of Englishmen no more then did the Juncto of Regicides and the first beheaded at Tower-Hill and the other hanged at haring-Crosse the Collonel declaring That he was so far from having hand or heart in it or any encouragement from the King as was falsly suggested that he feared he should not dye right in his favour as being but suspected of that though so just assassinate it being below His Majesties Honour and Religion Mr. Vowell referred his Cause and his unjust Judges and the Tyrant to Heavens Tribunal This was the Rozin there wanted now the Consent of the People in Parliament to sidle his Instrument He resolved therefore to call one forthwith for the Nation began to murmure at him and some openly to refuâ—e obedience and to forget the pleasing acquiescence in the change he had made since they saw he made it only for himself The Nine days wonder was over and they had recovered themselves to a fresh sense of their Slavery which might afterwards stupifie and benum them before the several opposite parties of Royalists and Common-wealth-men could understand one another and bandy both against Him Having now plotted and secured the Elections of as many Sectaries and of his Party to the ensuing Parliament as his young Interest could procure him in the Month of July to recreate himself and his Familiar Thurloe with some robust and jogging Exercise to void the Gravel with which he was much troubled He would needs shew his skil in driving a Coach with six great German Horses sent him as a present by the Count of Oldenburgh in Hide-Park but those generous Horses no sooner heard the Lash of the Whip but away they ran with Thurloe sitting trembling in it for fear of his own Neck over Hill and Dale and at last threw down their unexpert Governour from the Box into the Traâ—es and there bad likely to have trod and drawn him to peices but Vengeance was yet again pleased to respite him and put him over to a like judicial Execution after his immature Death in 1660. Of this ominous chance many ingenlous Songs were made and one called the Jolt by Sir John Berkenhead which being in Print in a History and in the Rump Songs though the Author mistaken is purposely forborn The Elections were made one and the same day throughout England most of the Boroughs had but one Burgeâ—s and the Shires some of them 6. or 7. Knights all of them under sure qualifications of not having been or being of the Cavalier party there were