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A27463	Memoirs of Sir John Berkley containing an account of his negotiation with Lieutenant General Cromwel, Commissary General Ireton, and other officers of the army, for restoring King Charles the First to the exercise of the government of England.	Berkeley, John, Sir, d. 1678.	1699 (1699)	Wing B1971; ESTC R4022	30,903	94

the success when he signed the Letter yet coming after it was known it lost both the Grace and Efficacy All that the Officers could do they did which was whilst the Army was in the Act of Thanksgiving to God for their success to propose that they should not be elevated with it but keep still to their former Engagement to his Majesty and once more solemnly vote the Proposals which was accordingly done The next day the Army marched into London and some few of the Presbyterian Party that had been most active against the Army disappeared From London the Head-Quarters came to Putney and his Majesty was lodg'd at Hampton Court Mr. Ashburnham had daily some Message or another from the King to Cromwel and Ireton who had enough to do both in the Parliament and Council of the Army the one abounding with Presbyterians the other with Levellers and both really jealous that Cromwel and Ireton had made a private Compact and Bargain with the King Lilburn printing books weekly to that effect and Sir Lewis Dives afterwards acknowledged to me that being his Fellow-prisoner he had daily endeavour'd to possess him with that opinion of which altho he were not perswaded himself yet he judged it for the King's service to divide Cromwel and the Army On the other side the Presbyterians were no less confident of their Surmises and amongst them Cromwel told me that my Lady Carlisle affirmed that I had said to her Ladiship that he was to be Earl of Essex and Captain of the King's Guards I had the honour to be well known to her Ladiship but forbore contrary to my Duty and Inclination to wait on her for fear of giving any Umbrage to the Army she being of the contrary party but having several Messages from her Ladiship by my Lady Newport and others I waited on her I was not long there but Arpin came into her Chamber who was an Adjutator and sent for as I conceived to be an Eye-witness that I was in my Lady Carlisle's Chamber tho nothing pass'd but general Discourses and I should have ly'd if I had said any thing to that purpose But these and like Discourses made great impression on the Army to which Mr. Ashburnham's secret and long Conferences contributed not a little insomuch that the Adjutators who were wont to complain that Cromwel went too slow towards the King began to suspect that he had gone too fast and left them behind him From whence there were frequent Complaints in the Council of the Army of the intimacy Mr. Ashburnham and I had in the Army that Cromwel's and Ireton's door was open to us when it was shut to them that they knew not why Malignants should have so much Countenance in the Army and Liberty with the King These Discourses both in publick and private Cromwel seemed highly to be offended with and when he could carry any thing to his Majesty's advantage amongst the Adjutators could not rest until he had made us privately partakers of it but withal he told Mr. Ashburnham and me that if he were an honest man he had said enough of the sincerity of his intentions if he were not nothing was enough and therefore conjur'd us as we tender'd his Majesty's Service not to come so frequently to his Quarters but send privately to him the suspicions of him being grown to that height that he was afraid to lie in his own Quarters But this had no operation upon Mr. Ashburnham who alledged that we must shew them the necessity of agreeing with the King from their own Disorders About three weeks after the Army had enter'd London the Scots had prevailed with the Parliament for another solemn Address to his Majesty which was performed in the old Propositions of Newcastle some Particulars in reference to the Scots only excepted The Army was very unwiliing the King should grant these Propositions of which the King advised with all the Persons above mentioned who were all of opinion that it was unsafe for his Majesty to close with the Enemies of the Army whilst he was in it and therefore followed the Advice of all the leading part of the Independent Party both in the Parliament and Army by refusing the Articles and desiring a personal Treaty whereof his Majesty thought the Proposals a better ground than the Articles tho there were something in them to which his Majesty could not consent We gave our Friends in the Army a sight of this Answer the day before it was sent with which they seemed infinitely satisfied and promised to use their utmost endeavours to procure a personal Treaty and to my understanding perform'd it for both Cromwel and Ireton with Vane and all their Friends seconded with great resolution this desire of his Majesty But contrary to their and all mens expectation they found a most general opposition and that this Message of his Majesty had confirmed the jealousy of their private Agreement with the King so that the more it was urged by Cromwel c. the more it was rejected by the rest who looked on them as their Betrayers The Suspicions were so strong in the House that they lost almost all their Friends there and the Army that lay then about Putney were no less ill satisfied for there came down shoals every day from London of the Presbyterian and Levelling Parties that fomented these Jealousies insomuch that Cromwel thought himself or pretended it not secure in his own Quarters The Adjutators now begin to change their Discourse and complained openly in their Councils both of the King and the Malignants about his Majesty One of the first they voted from him was my self They said That since his Majesty had not accepted of their Proposals they were not obliged any farther to them that they were obliged to consult their own Safety and the good of the Kingdom and to use such means towards both as they should find rational and because they met with strong opposition from Cromwel and Ireton and most of the Superior Officers and some even of the Adjutators they had many private solemn meetings in London where they humbled themselves before the Lord and sought his good pleasure and desired that he would be pleased to reveal it to his Saints which they interpret those to be who are most violent or Zealous as they call it in the work of the Lord. These found it apparent that God had on the one side hardned the King's heart and blinded his eyes in not passing the Proposals whereby they were absolved from offering them any more and on the other side the Lord had led Captivity captive and put all things under their feet and therefore they were bound to finish the Work of the Lord which was to alter the Government according to their first Design and to this end they resolved to seize the King's Person and take him out of Cromwel's hands These Proceedings struck so great a Terror into Cromwel and Ireton with others of the Officers that

the Army which was the most powerful tho they had a strong party there also but the major part of the Adjutators carried it Amongst these Adjutators there were many ill-wishers of Cromwel looking on him as one who would always make his advantages out of the Army These observed that Cromwel resolved to prosecute his ambitious Ends through all means whatsoever and did not only dissemble but really change his way to those Ends and when he thought the Parliament would make his Fortune resign'd himself totally to them even to the disbanding of the Army before it was paid When the Presbyterians prevailed he took the Covenant When he quitted the Parliament his chief dependence was on the Army which he endeavour'd by all means to keep in Unity and if he could not bring it to his sense rather than suffer any division went over himself and carried his Friends with him into that way the Army did chuse and that faster than any in it Upon this ground when the Army was for the Parliament no man so violent as he in both When the Army became for the King against the Parliament no man drove so furiously as he and when the Army changed a third time for the Parliament and against the King he was still the Leader and if the Army shall change a fourth time to become Levellers tho he will oppose this at first as he did all other Changes no man shall out-go him in Levelling All that he seems to desire is that the Army would be constant in any way that he might not be necessitated to the playing of so many different parts he being equally indifferent to all that will afford him equal Advantages When I came to Reading I found many of the Adjutators jealous that Cromwel was not sincere for the King and desired me if I found him false to their Engagement that I would let them know it and they did not doubt to set him right either with or against his will But in all my Conferences with him I found no man in appearance so zealous for a speedy Blow as he sometimes wishing that the King was more frank and would not tie himself so strictly to narrow Maxims sometimes complaining of his Son Ireton's slowness in perfecting the Proposals and his not accommodating more to his Majesty's sense always doubting that the Army would not preserve their good inclinations for the King I met with him about three days after I came to Reading as he was coming from the King then at Causum He told me that he had lately seen the tenderest sight that ever his eyes beheld which was the Interview between the King and his Children and wept plentifully at the remembrance of it saying That never man was so abused as he in his sinister opinions of the King who he thought was the uprightest and most conscientious of his three Kingdoms that they of the Independent Party as they were called had infinite Obligations to him for not consenting to the Scots Propositions at Newcastle which would have totally ruined them and which his Majesty's Interest seemed to invite him to and concluded with me by wishing that God would be pleased to look upon him according to the sincerity of his heart towards his Majesty I immediately acquainted his Majesty with this Passage who seemed not well edified with it an did believe that all proceeded out of the use Cromwel and the Army had of his Majesty without whom he thought they could do nothing and this I conceive was inculcated daily by Bampfield and Loe at first and afterwards by the Lord Lauderdale who had frequent Accesses to his Majesty from the Scots the Presbyterians and the City of London who knew there was nothing so fatal to them as a Conjunction between the King and the Army Out of all my Observations I drew these Conclusions which I prosecuted to the best of my power That his Majesty was concerned to come to a speedy issue with the Army that he might either agree with them or discover that they intended not to agree with him and in that case that his Majesty should secure his Escape and in the mean time that his Majesty should not give them the least colour of exception to his Actions that seeing the Officers were more easily fixed to his Majesty by a visible prospect of their Interest in case of a Conjunction I took the least pains with them and applied my self to Peters and the Adjutators who sway'd their Officers more than their Officers commanded them and it was more hard to satisfy them being many in point of Interest than their Officers who were few About ten days after my arrival at the Army the Contentions grew high and hot between them and the Presbyterian Party in the House which was the major part by much and the City of London the one contending to have the Parliament purged of corrupt Members and the other to have the Army removed farther from the City This caused the Army's March from Reading to Bedford and consequently his Majesty's Remove with his wonted Guard from Causum to Woborn a House of the Earl of Bedford where I procured his Majesty a sight of the Army's Proposals six or eight days before they were offer'd to him in publick His Majesty was much displeased with them in general saying that if they had a mind to close with him they would never impose so hard terms upon him I replied That I should suspect them more than I did if they had demanded less that they did not intend really to serve his Majesty but only to abuse him since it was not likely that men who had through so great Dangers and Difficulties acquir'd so great Advantages should ever sit down with less than was contained in the Proposals and on the other side never was a Crown so near lost so cheaply recover'd as his Majesty's would be if they agreed upon such terms His Majesty was of another advice and returned That they could not subsist without him and therefore he did not doubt but that he should see them very shortly be glad to condescend farther and then objected to three particular points of the Proposals The first was The Exception of seven not named from Pardon The second the excluding his Party from being eligible in the next ensuing Parliament And the third That tho there was nothing against the Church-Government establish'd yet there was nothing done to assert it To these I replied That after his Majesty and the Army were accorded it would be no impossible work to make them remit in the first point and if he could not when his Majesty was reinstated in his Throne he might easily supply seven persons beyond the Seas in such sort as to make their Banishment supportable to them To the second That the next Parliament would be necessitated to lay great burdens upon the Kingdom and it would be a happiness to the King's Party to have no Voice in them To the third

that he might the better get out of them and to this end offered several Expedients as to suffer Peters to preach before his Majesty of which he was very ambitious and to converse with him and others of the Army with freedom and by all means to endeavour to gain the good Opinion of the most active Adjutators and the like But his Majesty concurred in none of them which made me doubt his Majesty valued my Reasons something the worse for the Author and therefore I meditated nothing so much as to procure a Pass for Mr. John Ashburnham with whom I hoped I might prevail and he with his Majesty which within few days after I did obtain and caused it to be deliver'd to his Servant About four days after my coming to the Army there came two General Officers from the Council of War to me to let me know that they had been informed that I had some wrong done me upon the Rendition of Exeter to a great value and that if I would put the Sum under my hand they would see that I should have satisfaction I gave them most hearty thanks but withal told them that I came not to them upon my own business but that of his Majesty which as soon as they should dispatch no man living would be more ready to receive and acknowledg this or any other favour from them till then it would no way become me to do it This was a Generosity which those Self-denyers thought might do well in discourse and speculation but could not understand it when brought into practice and therefore concluded that I was so great a Presbyterian that I would chuse rather to lose twelve hundred pounds which was my pretension than to offend my Lord Roberts a great Presbyterian who must have made me Reparation in which opinion they were confirmed by two Letters they had lately perused the one from Sir Marmaduke Langdale at Antwerp and the other from Sir William Fleetwood at London both affirming that to their knowledg I was an engaged Presbyterian I was altogether a stranger to them both and therefore did attribute this either to their Envy that I was admitted or Grief that they were excluded from the Employment between his Majesty and the Army However it was upon those surmises Cromwel came to expostulate the matter plainly with me and I replied to him in these words That I was as much Presbyterian as Independent that I as well as others was inclined to think the better of them because they pretended to mind the King's Restoration but bid them be assured that as soon as I should discover they were not real I and I thought all the King's Party would join with any that would but dissemble better than they and concluded that I thought nothing would separate the Crown and the King's Party Cromwel seemed not unsatisfied with this plain dealing and so left me The next day Huntington who was sent to me by the King made me acquainted with two General Officers whom I durst not name because they are obnoxious to the present Power With these I had often and free Communication and inquiring what Opinion they had of the Army in general as to a conjunction with the King they replied that they did believe it was universally desired both by the Officers and Adjutators that if Cromwel was not real in it he was a great Dissembler and so was Ireton that for the present the whole Army was so bent upon it that they durst not be otherwise that if they should ever happen to change they should easily discover it and because they had been in great part the Cause that Sir Allen Apsley was sent to me they thought themselves obliged to give me all the light they could of things and persons which to the last they performed in my opinion most sincerely I let them know at our first meeting that I doubted there would be three great Difficulties which would obstruct the Agreement First they would expect that the King should not only give them Liberty of Conscience but alter the Establish'd Ecclesiastical Government which his Majesty was perswaded he could not in conscience do The second that they would not be contented to separate some few men from the Court and from bearing great Offices unless they and their Posterity were ruined and that by the King's Act which his Majesty could not in Honor permit And thirdly that they would not be contented with a security of the Militia during his Majesties life and his Majesty could not grant it farther but infinitely to the prejudice of his Posterity They assured me that his Majesty would be press'd in none of these particulars and that there was a draught of Proposals which Ireton had drawn and which would certainly be voted by the whole Army wherein there was nothing tending to any such purpose and if his Majesty would consent to them there would be an end of all difficulties and they thought the sooner his Majesty did it would be the better because there was no certainty in the temper of the Army which they had observed to have alter'd more than once already I ask'd whether I might not have a sight of these Proposals they answer'd when I pleased I went with them to Ireton for that purpose and remained with him almost till morning He permitted me to alter two of the Articles and that in most material points and I would have done a third which was the excluding seven persons that were not named from Pardon and the admitting of our Party to sit in the next Parliament To the first he answer'd That being they had prevailed in the War if they should not in the sight of the World make some distinction between themselves and those that were worsted who always bear the blame of publick Quarrels they had so many malicious Enemies both in the Parliament and Army that they should be censured of betraying their Party and to have sought their own ends by private and indirect means To the second He confess'd that he should himself be afraid of a Parliament wherein the King's Party should have the major Vote but after the Agreement if the King's party and they could piece kindly and cordially together there would be nothing easier than to procure his Majesty satisfaction in those two particulars He concluded by conjuring me as I tender'd his Majesties good and welfare that I would endeavour to prevail with him to grant the Proposals that they might with the more confidence propound them to the Parliament and make an end of all differences Out of my Discourses and Inquiries I collected these Observations First that the Army was governed partly by a Council of War and partly by a Council of the Army or Adjutators wherein the General had but a single voice that Fairfax the General had little power in either that Cromwel and his Son Ireton with their Friends and Partisans governed the Council of War absolutely but not that of