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A36804	A short view of the late troubles in England briefly setting forth, their rise, growth, and tragical conclusion, as also, some parallel thereof with the barons-wars in the time of King Henry III : but chiefly with that in France, called the Holy League, in the reign of Henry III and Henry IV, late kings of the realm : to which is added a perfect narrative of the Treaty at U[n]bridge in an.	Dugdale, William, Sir, 1605-1686.	1681 (1681)	Wing D2492; ESTC R18097	368,620	485

hands in the work of the Lord were desired by many of their Brethren Ministers of the Gospel in Leicestershire to tender that their humble Representation in their and their own names with desire that it might be communicated to the House the Heads whereof were as followeth 1. That they did acknowledg it as the product of Divine Love and Goodness towards the Nation that notwithstanding the many changes of Persons and Government a Godly and Preaching-Ministry had been and still was countenanced protected and maintained by the Parliament and that the Lord had been pleased after so many years interruption to restore them again to their places for the accomplishing of all those just and good things which they formerly prosecuted in order to an happy settlement 2. That as in duty bound they desired with all thankfulness to own the Parliament under God as eminent Instruments thereof looking upon their Piety and Zeal for God therein not only as a strong obligation upon their Spirits to a more faithful and chearful discharge of their duties as Ministers but also to adhere to them 3. That they were the more encouraged thereto when they reflected upon the late Votes for encouragement and maintenance of a Preaching-Ministry and also for the vindication of their just Rights as men and Christians 4. That they doubted not but the same Divine Hand which had begun to lay the foundation of a Righteous settlement of Peace and Truth in this Nation continually blasting the counter-designs of the Common Adversaries would in due time rear the top corner-stone to the comfort of all that did with well to Sion 5. That they could not but with shame and bleeding of heart bewail that Cloud of darkness which had lately overspread divers of their old professed friends who at first deeply engaged with them yet through that mystery of Iniquity which did still work in the Nation had been misled and caused to stumble not only to the hazard of their own Lives and Liberties but to an involving this poor Island in confusion and blood yet the Ruin thereof if God had not stept in for its relief by blessing the Parliaments Counsels and prospering the endeavours of a faithful Army against the enraged malice of the old Common Enemy and the dissatisfactions of such as engaged with them to hinder the designed work of easing their Loads and of settling their Foundations in Peace Truth and Righteousness 6. That they took themselves bound in duty to let the Parliament know that through mercy their souls had not entred into the secret of the late Insurrectors but that they did profess an utter detestation thereof and that the Lord helping them they would not cease crying mightily to him that he would still pour out upon the Parliament a Spirit of Wisdom and of the fear of the Lord to carry them on in their work against all discouragements and oppositions whatsoever the names of the Subscribers being these Iohn Yaxley Minister of the Gospel at Kibworth Samuel Blakesley at Langton William Sheffeild at Ibstoke Maurice Bohem at Halloughton William Grace at Reavesby Richard Muston at Langton Matthew Clarke at Harborow Iosiah Whiston at Norton Benjamin Southwood at Kymcote Samuel Shaw at Long-Whatton Thomas Lawrey at Harborow Henry Pearce at Claybroke George Wright at Congeston Y. Dixey at Margarets in Leicester Samuel Smith at Glooreston George Greene at Thedingworth William Wilson at Foxton Iohn Bennet at Winwick Thomas Smith at Castle-Dunnington William Barton at Martins in Leicester Nicholas Kestyn at Gumley Iohn St. Nicolas at Lutterworth Thomas Langdel at Bowdon Magna Richard Drayton at Shangton Thomas Leadbeter at Hinkley William Cotton at Broughton Henry Watts at Swepston Ambrose Bent at Ashby-Folvile Iohn Shuttlewood at Ravenston Emanuel Bourne at Waltham Christopher Wright at Eastwell Thomas Ienkings at New Kilworth Iohn Pitts at Burbage Iohn Hulls at Stanton-Wivile Paul Bulgay William Black at Suddington Robert Reding at Segrave Samuel Oldershaw at Cole-Orton Which Representation being read they were all called into the House again the Speaker telling them that upon due consideration thereof they found in it a Gospel-Spirit of Meekness Sincerity and Holiness and that they had also considered the Seasonableness of it and that it expressed not only on outward Letter but an inward Spirit c. and so gave them the Thanks of the House Soon after this the House appointed a Committee to prepare somthing in order to the setling of a Government for the better support whereof they Established the laying a Tax of one hundred thousand pounds by the month besides Excise and Customs and the Sequestered Estates of new Delinquents And that such persons as had been assessed to find Horse and Arms by virtue of the Act of Parliament for setling the Militia and had not brought in their Horse and Arms nor paid in lieu thereof the sum of money appointed by the said Act that every such person and persons should under the penalty in that Act mentioned pay after the rate of Ten pounds for an Horse and Arms for such number of Horses and Arms respectively as they had been charged to find And that such person and persons as had been assessed to find Arms for a Foot-Souldier and had not sent in the same or mony in lieu thereof should under the penalty in that Act mentioned pay respectively for every such Foot-Arms such sum of money as the Commissioners should appoint not exceeding twenty five shillings for every such Foot-Arms So that it is plain that mony was it they only aimed at though Horse and Arms were the pretence But amidst these their devices for inriching themselves Lamberts ambition began to be suspected which was no less than to set up himself through the interest he then had with the Souldiery as his old friend Oliver had formerly done Wherefore for prevention of this danger they resolved to trust him no longer with any Command in the Army but cunningly to withdraw him that he might be severed from the Souldiers and to that end sent a seeming courteous invitation to allure him back to London of which he accepted with as fair a shew of Thanks But this stratagem of the Rumpers succeeded not for soon after ensued a Remonstrance from the Army directed thus To the Supream Authority of these Nations the Parliament of the Common-Wealth of England the humble Petition and Proposals of the Officers under the Command of the Right Honourable the Lord Lambert in the late Northern Expedition Which Remonstrance did so much tend to the advantage of the Souldiery and asserting their unlimited power as that the Rumpers forthwith declared that to have any more General Officers in the Army than were already setled by Parliament was needless chargeable and dangerous to the Common-Wealth Thus and in this manner began the first rise of those differences and distractions which at last so happily shattered these grand Hypocrites into pieces But the Army-Officers having not sufficiently ripened

day of March instant be presented chosen or appointed to any Benefice formerly called Benefice with Cure of Souls or to Preach any publick setled Lecture in England or Wales shall before he be admitted c. be Iudged and Approved by the Persons hereafter named to be a Person for the Grace of God in him his Holy and unblameable Conversation as also for his knowledge and utterance able and fit to Preach the Gospel viz. Francis Rous Esq Dr. Thomas Goodwyn Dr. Iohn Owen Mr. Thankful Owen Dr. Arrowsmith Dr. Tuckney Dr. Horton Mr. Joseph Caryll Mr. Philip Nye Mr. William Carter Mr. Sidrak Simpson Mr. William Greenhill Mr. William Strong Mr. Thomas Manton Mr. Samuel Slater Mr. William Couper Mr. Stephen Marshall Mr. Iohn Tombes Mr. Walter Cradok Mr. Samuel Faircloath Mr. Hugh Peters Mr. Peter Sterrey Mr. Samuel Bamford Mr. Thomas Valentine of Chaford Mr. Henry Iesse Mr. Obediah Sedgwick Mr. Nicholas Lockyer Mr. Daniel Dike Mr. Iames Russel Mr. Nathaniel Campfield Robert Tichburne Alderman of London Mark Hildesley Thomas Wood. John Sadler William Goff Thomas St. Nicholas William Packer Edward Crescet Esq or any five or more of them Having now ended this year 1653. as to the Principal Transsactions at Home I must look back a little and take notice of our farther Military contests with the Dutch wherein I find that on the second of Iune upon another sharp Fight in Yarmouth rode they much worsted those Hogen-mogens so likewife on the last day of Iuly wherein Van Trump their famous Admiral was slain But both parties at length growing weary of this chargeable and destructive War before the end of this year a Peace was concluded betwixt them though not ratified till April ensuing Which Peace with the Dutch and the slavish condition whereunto this Monster Cromwell had brought the People of these Nations made him not only much Idolized here by all his Party but somewhat feared abroad For certain it is that most of the Princes of Europe made application to him amongst which the French King was the first his Embassador making this Speech to him in the Banquetting-house at White-Hall Your most serene Highness hath received already some principal assurances of the King my Master and of his desire to establish a perfect Correspondency between his Dominions and England His Majesty gives unto your Highness this day some publick Demonstration of the same and sending his Excellency for his Service in the quality of Embassador to your Highness doth plainly shew that the esteem which his Majesty makes of your Highness and the Interest of his People have more power in his Councils than many Considerations that would be of great concernment to a Prince less affected with the one and the other This proceeding grounded upon such sound principles and so different from that which is only guided by Ambition renders the Friendship of the King my Master as much considerable for its firmness as for the Utility it may produce and for that reason it is such eminent esteem and sought after by all the greatest Princes and Powers of the Earth But his Majesty doth Communicate none to any with so much Ioy and Chearfulness as unto those whose vertuous deeds and extraordinary Merits render them more eminently Famous than the greatness of their Dominions His Majesty doth acknowledge all these advantages wholly to reside in your Highness and that Divine Providence after so many Troubles and Calamities could not deal more favourably with these three Nations nor cause them to forget their past Misery with more content and satisfaction than by submitting them to so just a Government And whereas it is not enough for the compleating of their happiness to make them enjoy Peace at Home since it depends no less on a good correspondency with Neighbour-Nations abroad the King my Master doth not doubt but to find also the same disposition in your Highness which his Majesty doth express in those Letters which his Excellencie hath Order to present unto your Highness After so many Dispositions exprest by his Majesty and your Highness towards the accommodation of the two Nations there is cause to believe that their wishes will be soon Accomplisht As for me I have none greater than to be able to serve the King my Master with the good liking and satisfaction of your Highness and that the happiness I have to tender unto your Highness the first assurances of his Majesties esteem may give me occasion to deserve by my respects the honour of your Gracious Affection Being therefore thus puft up he soon after passed an Act of Grace and Pardon to all Persons of the Scottish Nation excepting Iames late Duke Hamilton William late Duke Hamilton Iohn Earl of Crawford-Lindsey Iames Earl of Calender and many more therein specially named As also another Act for making Scotland one Common-wealth with England Whereby it was likewise Ordained that thirty Persons of that Nation should serve in Parliament here for Scotland And that the People of that Nation should be discharged of their Allegiance to any Issue of the late King Also that Kingship and Parliamentary-Authority should be there abolished and the Arms of Scotland viz. St. Andrew's Cross should thenceforth be borne with the Arms of this Common-wealth All which being done he removed his Lodgings which were before at the Cockpit into those of the late King in his Royal Pallace at White-Hall About this time it was that Colonel Venables having been imploy'd by Cromwell to attempt some of the chief Plantations made by the Spanyard in the West-Indies Landing his Men in Hispaniola and expecting with little trouble to have taken S. Domingo he received a shameful defeat But the next Month he had better success in those Forreign parts For the Spaniards in Iamaco timorously flying before them when they Landed there an easie acquisition was made by the English of that large Island which hath since proved a very prosperous and beneficial Plantation But to return Cromwell by this time being grown very great to make himself the more formidable to all his late Majesties good Subjects then called Royalists by establishing his Dominion upon more Innocent blood having by the wicked practises of his Emissaries trayn'd in some Persons purpose of endeavouring their own and the Peoples freedome from his Tyrannous Power he caused another bloody Theater to be erected in Westminster-Hall calling it an high-Court of Iustice where Mr. Iohn Gerard and Mr. Wowell two Gentlemen of great Loyalty received Sentence of Death and were accordingly Sacrificed as a peace-Offering to this Moloch For the better maintenance likewise and encouragement of Preaching-Ministers and for uniting and severing of Parishes he made another Act which begins thus Whereas many Parishes in this Nation are without the constant and Powerful Preaching of the Gospel through want of competent maintenance c. Also another for Souldiers which had serv'd the Common-wealth in