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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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first dash secluded those within taking no notice of the force but referring the excluded to the Examination of the Privy Council The first Work this Parliament did was their declaring the Justice of the War against Spain the Cromwellian party personating the Interest and Honour of the Nation that they might by that be looked upon for all this garbling as a due Representative and to credit their ensuing By-blowes and a Resolution to assist the Protector in it And next as the grand and Liminary work to Oliver's Regality An Act for the renouncing the Title of His Majesty and the whole Line of King James seconded with another for the Security of His Highness person in which they alledged the peace and safety of the Nation was bound up And that this might appear most necessary and opportune a Plot was hatched by Cromwell and Thurloe for further quashing all Levelling and Fisth Monarchy designs against that party A Book had likewise been lately divulged styled Killing no Murther wherein it was proved that it was most lawful just necessary and Honourable to kill him and this Printed with the Name of one Allen a disbanded Leveller but so politely and learnedly written that it intimated a more exact and curious hand whose ever it was it scared Cromwell almost out of his Wits and made him betake himself to preventionary Artifices and fright Assassinates with his Severity against the suppositious Authors of pretended dangers This Scare-Crow was one Miles Syndercombe a disband of Overton's in Scotland by General Monck a Leveller and Fifth Monarchist both which parties he conjoyned in this trap as most feared by him The wily Arts of Thurloe who set one Cecil and Trop of Cromwell's Life-Guard to urge this Male-content into a Conspiracy of The Protector 's Death This was readily assented to and several Engines and Instruments fixed for that purpose and places appointed and Whitehall Chappel to be fired all which was from time to time discovered and Syndercombe after the last vain experiment seized and arraigned and after a careless defence convicted and sentenced for Treason which he avoided as the Coroners Jury gave their Verdict by poysoning himself in the Tower the night before his Execution and was drawn at a Horse Tail to Tower-hill and inhumed and a Stake driven through him under the Scaffold For this Delivery of his Highnesse the Parliament voted a Thanks-giving and attended him at the Banquetting-house in Whitehall with a gratulatory Oration setting forth the Ruine that was intended in that horrible Treason to the whole Protestant Religion throughout the World with the like parasitical designed Falshoods but to the almost spoyling the Complement the Stairs in the ascending broke and samed Richard Cromwel and others who for amends were invited to dinner there upon the Thanksgiving day and that Courtesy requited by a more gaudy Gift For the next day Alderman Pack a great Excise Commissioner and in greater Arrears for it to 30000 l. and deep in the Piedmont Account from the advantage of this Royal Treat suddenly started a Motion like a Puppet jerkt with a wire that in regard of the strange unsettlement and discomposure of the Nation and the minds of men and the ill aspect it had upon Forraign Princes and all Trade that therefore the Protector might be desired to assume the style of King as the most known and most agreeable Government and presently tooth and nail the Court party were at it and after sundry consultations passed a Resolution in order to his being Kinged by the second part of the Instrument called The Humble Petition and Advice of the Parliament which being now in Debate we must leave to a further account The suitable political talk of the party of the Usurper was now engaged in strained Arguments for a Monarchy in the person of this their Ring-Leader and this Maxime was broach'd in the News-Book That there was no everlasting principle in Government as to any particular form that Government is but a temporary expedient that it is like Vltima tabula post Naufragium in the hazzard of the Common-wealth the next shift may be made use of The same was the inspired reason into the Humble Petition and Advice which after several debates and resolutions was drawn into that Consistency the main whereef was to desire the Protector to change that Title for the other of King On the 9. of April the Parliament having desired a Meeting with him came to the Banquetting-house in White-hall where Sir Thomas Widdrington in a Speech commended the Title and Office of a King as setled here with Christianity approved by our Ancestors consisting with our Laws and Temper of the people and then presented him with the module of the Humble Petition c. To this tender Cromwel in a fit of Devotion answered That it was a weighty matter and therefore desire a space to seek God that the charge laid upon him was too great for him to bear without His Assistance that the English were the best people in the World and required therefore all tenderness and consideration of their Liberties c. The next day a Committee was appointed to attend him and receive his Answer which being insignificant they upon report thereof resolved to adhere to their Petition and appointed a Committee of above half the House to attend him to receive from him his doubts and scruples touching any of the particulars contained in the Petition c. and to offer reasons for his satisfaction for the maintenance of the Resolution of the House and wherein they cannot satisfie to report The chief of this Committee were Mr. Whitlock Lord Chief Justice Glyn Lord Breghall Lenthall Lisle Philip Jones Fiennes Strickland Thurloe Sir Richard Onslow Sir Charles Woolfley c. We have through these Labyrinths of his shifted Designs now clued him to his Lustfull and adulterous Usurpation which the nocturnal pollutions of his Dream had so long before fancied and acted in his thoughts This was the critical Time and the very Juncture of his accomplishment of all his projections upon the Crown which now seemed to court his Browes by the complemental tender of a Parliament so pick'd and cull'd to his purpose But it pleased God to rescue the Honour and Majesty of England from the prophanation of his Temples by some sudden emergent dangers and Suspicions he raised in his Breast and to elude his Royal Phantasmes with Rival and Democratick apparitions His Oracles now ceased and a lying Spirit was in the Mouth of his Prophets who in their preachments harped upon this Subject Now that the Reader may know how the whole mystery and cabal of this Businesse was managed by the above mentioned Committee who would fain have drawn Oliver under the yoak of Laws and retrencht his exorbitant power of the Sword and Cromwell who feared they would fortifie his Title and weaken his Tenure and had notice that Lambert laboured in the Debauch of the Army He is here presented
were made Serjeants and Mr. Hales one of the Justices of the common-Common-Pleas where St. Johns yet sate and of the Cabinet to his Protector besides having preferred his Man Thurloe his Secretary at the Hague to be his Secretary of State the Candle or Light of that Dark-Lanthorn which St. Johns was said to be in these mysterious times of Cromwell in all his attempts and designs of consequence and moment The Dutch Peace was also concluded on by the Ambassadors and the Commissioners of the said â—ouncil for the Protector between whom this private Article was agreed that the Prince of Aurange should never be restored to the Dignities Offices and charge his Ancestors held and enjoyed and this was urged for the better conservation of the Peace which would in his Restitution be endangered because of his Relation to the King The Protector dined in great State upon an Invitation from the Lord Mayor c. at Grocers-Hall the 8. of February being Ashwednesday a very unsuitable day for any Festival but his Entertainment who inverted all things the streets being railed from Temple Bar thither the Liveries in their Gowns in their gradual standings awaiting Him he was met at the said Gate by Alderman Viner the Lord Mayor who delivered him the Sword there and having received it from him back again bore it on Horseback before him all the way through which the same silence was kept as if a Funeral had been en passant and no doubt it was that muteness which Tacitus mentioned in Tiberius quale Magnae Irae vel magni metus est silentium no apprecations or so much as a How do ye being given during the Cavalcade After Dinner he was served with a Banquet in the conclusion whereof he Knighted Alderman Viner and would have done the same to the Recorder Steel for his learned Speech of Government calculated and measured for him but he for good Reasons avoided it My Lord Maior was forced to carry it home and anger his Wife with it who had real Honour both in her Name and Nature Oliver at his return had the second course of a Brick-bat from the top of a House in the Strand by St. Clements which light upon his Coach and almost spoiled his Digestion with the daringness of the affront search was made but in vain the person could not be found and vengeance was not yet from Heaven to rain upon him He published a little after an Ordinance for the Trial and Approbation of Ministers wherein Phillp Nye Goodwin Hugh Peters Mr. Manton and others were named Commissioners the question these men put to the Examinants was not of Abilities or Learning but grace in their hearts and that with to bold and saucy Inquisition that some mens spirits trembled at their Interrogatories they phrasing it so as if as was said of the Council of Trent they had the Holy Ghost in a Cloak Bag or were rather Simon Magus his own Disciples and certainly there were never such Symoniacks in the World not a living of value but what a Friend or the best purchaser was admitted into to which humane learning even where a former right was was a good and sufficient Bar no less to the ruine then scandal of the Church of England and the Protestant Religion and Professors thereof â—everal ignorant bold Laicks being inducted into the best Spiritualities as best consisted with Olivers Interest which depended upon the Sectary and their hideous divisions in Religion To return During those Protectoral Intrigues the King's Interest had got such footing again in England that all or most of the Gentlemen and Counties thereof were engaged for it and therefore while Lambert managed one Province the Affairs of the Parliament wherein Oliver would not descend so low as to be pragmatical and Sceptically busy with their Debates against His power as wrested and usurped from the people He was mainly intent upon the proceedings of the Royallists the particulars whereof he had betrayed to him weekly a constant correspondence being held betwixt Him and one Manning a Retainer and Under-Secretary to the King at Colen his Father being killed in his Service at Alresford in the year 1644. The price of this Treason was no lesse then 6000. l. a year most whereof came to the King by this fellows hands as sent over by his and his friends procurement but on purpose by so notable a service in the Kings necessities to sâ—rue himself into the secrets of His Majesties designs Hence came the Western Association and Attempt of the noble Penruddock in the West to be so suddenly defeated with the like Insurrections in several parts of England in the year 1654. For upon certain notice of the days appointed for their rising Cromwell to be before hand with them gave out supposed and false days and made the like Appearances particularly at Shrewsbury by which means the Confederates came to perceive there was some Treachery among themselves and did then wisely desist from the danger of taking publique Arms against Him For a fuller accompt of all which I must refer the Reader to the Histories of the Times lately published though I should take notice of his cruelty against those unfortunate Gentlemen The Event of this by which he had overreached the King in his own designs and the Hopes of his rich successes in the West-Indies by robbing another Prince whether his Fleet and Army under General Pen and Venables was now arrived which also I shall only mention for the Story is trite and vulgar made Oliver most blith and confident and his Court of Beggars and such like mean people very gay and jocund A great deal of State was now used towards him and the French Cringe and other ceremonious pieces of gallantry and good deportment which were thought unchristian and favouring of Carnality introduced in place of austere and down looks and the silent Mummery of Starch'd and Hypocritical gravity the only becoming Dress forsooth of Piety and Religion He had now a Guard of Halberdiers in Gray Coats welted with black Velvet over whom Walter Strickland was Captain and a Lord Chamberlain Sir Gilbert Pickering Two Masters of Requests Mr. Bacon and Mr. Sad'er a Master of his Horse his Son Claypoolâ— and generally all persons of Honour both to His own person and his Wives who very frugally Huswifed it and would nicely and finically tax the expensive unthriftiness as said she of the Other Woman who lived there before her But I must not engage in her impertinencies though a many pretty stories might be told of this obsolete Princesse It will be requisite to speak something of his manner and course of Life now raised to a very neer fruition of the Soveraignty this being the Solstice of his Fortunes His Custome was now to divert himself frequently at Hampton-Court which he had saved from Sale with other Houses of the Kings for his own greatnesse whether he went and came in post with his Guards behind and before as not yet