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Flagellum, or, The life and death, birth and burial of Oliver Cromwel faithfully described in an exact account of his policies and successes, not heretofore published or discovered / by S.T., Gent.
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Heath, James, 1629-1664.
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Cromwell in this Province which like a peice of the former Heptarchy he himself ruled and governed absolutely and pro imperio His next peice of Service was of the like nature and of the same evil Consequence to the King For divers Gentlemen of the County of Suffolk another of the associated Counties resenting this Curb upon their Allegiance and the sawcy Edicts and Commands of the Committees which were made up of the meanest of the Gentry and Burgesses of the Towns designed together to free themselves and their Country from the yoake of these new Lords the chief of these Gentlemen were Sir John Peâ—tus Sir Edw. Barker c. who having in order to their Conjuncture rendezvouzed at Lowerstofe in that County were by the preventing diligence of Cromwell seized and secured and thereby such a Break-neck given to any future Royal undertakings in those parts the rendition of Lyn Regis which then held for the King soon after following this defeat and disappointment that throughout the whole course of the War there happened not any the least Commotion in favour of His Majesties Arms either by supply assistance or diversion Things being thus quieted thereabouts and disposed to the Interest of the Juncto there remained after the military part a Scholastical labour for this Parliamentary Hercules the zealons cleansing of the University of Cambridge the Parent of this Viper who just before his infectious production into the main Army whither he was now designed did miserably exenterate her leaving her a sad and doleful Skeleton deprived of so many learned and religious persons whose only charge was that they adhered to the Dictates of their Conscience and the Obligations of those Oaths which just Authority had enjoyned against the novel and illegal Commands and Covenants forcibly imposed and obtruded on them In this destructive work his module and method of Ambition Cromwell was mainly and chiefly active as also against the Orthodox and Protestant Ministry and their Churches defacing all the Ornaments and Beauty thereof leaving them the ruinous Spectacle of his Reformation And from this Employment now finished he was Commissioned Lieutenant General to the Earl of Manchester who had the separate command in a distinct Supremacy of these associated Counties and was designed to march Northwards with those Forces and joyn with the Scots newly entred England and the Lord Fairfax against the Marquiss of Newcastle who was General for the King in those parts and yet ballanced the Fortune of War against that potent Scotch Invasion but upon the conjuncture and addition of the Earl of Manchester's fresh and well disciplined and armed forces the said Marquiss was constrained to quit the field and distribute his Army into the Garrisons he himself shutting up the best part of it in the City of York which the Confederates presently besieged and made several venturous attempts wherein Cromwell was none of the backwardest though always repulsed with losse and considerable slaughter The importance of this place and juncture of time which either won or lost the North to the King who had newly had great successe in the West by the defeating of the Earl of Essex at Lestithiel in Cornwall caused him to send away Prince Rupert as Generalissimo with a very potent Army to raise that Siege and fight the Enemy if he found occasion The Prince accordingly advanced and upon his approach the Confederates drew off from their Leagure affording the Garrison liberty to joyn with their friends when it was resolved by the Prince without any delay to give Battel though the Marquiss knowing what hazzard the Kings Interest and his own and all the Loyal parties Estates would thereby be put to did very much diswade the suddennesse of the Encounter which notwithstanding ensued on the Evening of the same day July 2. On Marston-Moor within Three miles of York and lasted till Night It will be tedious and beside our purpose to relate the whole order and manner of the Battell further then this that the Scots and my Lord Fairfaxes Forces were totally routed and perâ—ued some miles out of the field and the day given for lost when Cromwell with his associated Horse most of them Curassiers in the left wing seeing this discomfiture fell on with great resolution and courage and worsted the Prince and his reserves and with the same fury fell upon the Marquisses foot whose Regiment of White-Coats and therefore called his Lambs yet stood and could not be broken till the field being almost cleared the Parliaments Infantry came up and then both horse and foot charged and broke them Cromwell here made a very great Slaughter and Carnage especially in the rout and pursuit purposely to make his name terrible this being his first and grand appearance gaining here the Title of Ironsides from the impenetrable strength of his Troops which could by no means be broken or divided The successe of this day made him indeed highly famous and his Lawrells most verdant and flourishing the Victory being principally ascribed to his courage and conduct His Cunctation and temperate delay were highly magnified and then his Resolution in the desperation of the Event extolled the firmnesse and constant equality of his mind when intrepidly and fixedly he beheld the overthrow of the grosse of their Army and thereby animated his Troops to the more vigorous recovery of the day now that the adverse fury was spent in the chase of their Fellows the Scots whom Cromwell ever afterwards though in Covenant with them most disdainfully despised but not only for this reason The Credit of this Atchievement was industriously cryed up at Westminster and all the Grandezza's of Scriptural Ovation fitted and accommodated thereto He himself with the same conquering Troops as yet in the same quality under the Earl of Manchester was remanded from the North to oppose the King then returning victorious out of the West and because the Earl of Essex had hither to been unfortunate therefore this lucky Cheiftain was added as his better Star at the second Battel of Newberry within font Months after Marston Moor and here again the Fates favoured him though not with a complete Victory yet on that side where he fought with a part of one and so much as endangered the person of the King if the noble and stout Earl of Cleveland had not hazardously interposed and bore off the pursuit This indifference of Fortune begot very great differences among the Parliament Commanders one Taxing the other of Neglect Treachery or Cowardize and by what means it could come to passe that nothing was yet effected against the King whom in the beginning of the War they had thought to have swallowed up presently Not were the divisions lesse at home then in the camp â—or now the younger Brother of the Rebellion the Independant Faction began to appear a preciser and severer sort of Zealots who thought Essex and his Army not righteous enough nor fit instruments in whose hands the work of Reformation should
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