in great Pomp. William Lenthal the Speaker of this House of Commons had at one time given him by this House six thousand pounds for his good services besides as Speaker he got two thousand pounds per annum and as Master of the Rolls three thousand pounds per annum more besides Sales of Offices And then he was for some time Chamberlain of Chester Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster worth to him one thousand two hundred and thirty pounds per annum and one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal worth fifteen hundred pounds per annum Buestrode Whitlock Commissioner of the Great Seal worth to him fifteen hundred pounds per annum and had two thousand pounds given him out of Mr. Minn's Estate Edmond Prideaux once a Commissioner of the great Seal worth to him fifteen hundred pounds a year Then by order of the Junto afterwards he was permitted to practise within the Bar as the King's Council worth to him five hundred pounds per annum was also Post-Master General worth to him a hundred pounds ever Wednesday night and his Supper the Earl of Warwick had the benefit of foreign Letters which was worth to him five thousand pounds per annum Oliver S. Johns Solicitor to the King afterwards made Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and was one of their Embassadors to Holland he had the passing of all Pardons upon Commissions worth to him forty thousand pounds he was called The Dark-Lanthorn-Man a knowing Man in the Laws and had the wit to keep out of danger being against the putting the King to death but a great Privado of Oliver's to whom he preferred his man Thurlo who was his Secretary when he went Ambassador and became afterwards Oliver's Secretaty of State he died at Utrecht in Holland since the King came in being favourably looked upon by his Majesty and honored for his parts Roger Hill a Barrester of the Temple of no Practice and little Estate till this Parliament had from the House the Bishop of Winchester's Mannor of Taunton-Dean worth twelve hundred pounds a year after the lives were out Humphry Sulway had given him the King's Remembrancer's Place worth two hundred pounds per annum Francis Rous was made Provost of Eaton worth six hundred pounds per annum and had a Colledge Lease worth six hundred pounds per annum more John Lilse a Barrester of the Temple was made Master of S. Crosses a place for a Divine worth eight hundred pounds per annum and afterwards one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal He was one of the King's Judges and stabb'd beyond Seas since his Majesties Restoration Sir William Allison an Alderman of York made Clerk of the Hamper worth a thousand pounds per annum and given to him Crab-Castle worth six hundred pounds per annum more belonging to the Archbishop of York Thomas Hoyle another Alderman of York was made Treasurer-Remembrancer in the Exchequer worth twelve hundred pounds per annum Tho. Pury first a Weaver in Glocester then a Country Solicitor had given him three thousand pounds and a place in the petty-Bag Office worth four hundred pounds per annum Tho. Purey the younger Son to the former was made Receiver of the King's Rents in Glocester and Wilts and ClerK of the Peace of Glocestershire worth two hundred pounds per annum and Captain of Foot and Horse who at the beginning of the Parliament was a Servant to an Attorney of Staple-Inn William Ellis made Steward of Stepney worth two hundred pounds per annum Miles Corbet at the bâ—ginning of the Parliament much in debt made one of the Registers of the Chancery worth seven hundred pounds per annum besides Chair-man for Scandalous Ministers worth a thousand pounds per annum one of the King's Judges and afterwards advanced to be a Judge in Ireland executed at Tyburn since the King came in John Goodwin made a Register of Chancery worth seven hundred pounds per annum Sir Tho. Widdrington a Commissioner of the Great Seal worth fifteen hundred pounds per annum Edward Bish made Garter-Herald in the place of Sir Ed. Walker worth six hundred pounds per annum Walter Strickland Agent in Holland for the two Houses of Parliament worth to him five thousand pounds Nicholas Love made one of the six Clerks of the Chancery worth two thousand pounds per annum Sir Gilbert Gerard was Pay-master to the Army had three pence per pound allowance worth sixty thousand pounds and Chancellor of the Dutchy worth five hundred pounds per annum John Selden had given him five thousand pounds John Bond Son of Dennis Bond made Master of Trinity-Hall in Cambridge Sir Benjamin Rudiard given him five thousand pounds Lucas Hodges made Customer of Bristol Sir John Hipsly given him two thousand pounds in money and made Keeper of three of the King's Parks Maribone Hampton and Bushy Parks Sir Tho. Walsingham had the Honor of Elsham To Benjamin Valentine given five Thousand pounds To Sir Henry Heyman 5000 l. Denzil Hollis 5000 l. Nat. Bacon 3000 l. John Stevens out of the Lord Astley's Composition 1000 l. Henry Smith made one of the six Clerks worth 2000 l. per annum Robert Reynolds given him 2000 l. besides Abbington-Hall and Lands worth 400 l. per annum Sir John Clotworthy was made Treasurer for Ireland John Ash given him out of Mr. Coventry's Composition 4000 l. out of Sir Edward Moseley's 1000 l. out of Mr. Phillips's 1200 l. out of Sir John Stowells 8000 l. and Chair-man at Goldssmiths-Hall John Lenthal Son to the Speaker made one of the six Clarks worth 2000 l. per annum Francis Allin once a Gold-smith made Customer for London Giles Green Chair-man for the Navy Francis Peirpoint had the Lands of the Arch-Bishop of York lying in Nottinghamshire William Peirpoint had 7000 l. given him and the Earl of Kingston's personal Estate worth 40000 l. John Palmer made Master of All-Souls in Oxford in Dr. Sheldon's place a Divine John Blackstone a Shop-keeper in New-Castle returned a Burgess and had 3000 l. given him out of one Gentlemans estate and out of others as much as made up 12000 l. a Colemeters place worth 200 l. per annum and the Bishop of Durham's Castle at Durham and Lands to great value Tho. Ceyley long a Prisoner for Debt made Recorder of Bridgwater To Mr. Scawen given 2000 l. Isaack Penington once Lord Major of London had 7000 l. given him and purchased good store of Bishops Lands Samuel Vassell 1000 l. given him Sir Will. Brereton had the Arch-Bishops Lands and House at Croydon Ed. Harvey a Silk man made a Collonel and had the Bishop of London's House and Mannor of Fulham Rich. Sulway a Grocer made a Collonel Joh. Ven a Collonel Governor of Windsor had 4000 l given him Phillip Skippon Serjeant Major General of the Army Major General of London and Governour of Bristol had 1000 l. per annum Lands of Inheritance given him Tho. Westrow had the Bishop of
3 d. July 1649. his Arrears amounting to 25000 l. order'd him and 1000 l. per annum Land to be setled upon him and his Heirs To Collonel Feilder 1300 l. To Scobel their Clark once a poor Clark in Chancery and wrot for 2 d. a sheet a Pension of 500 l. a year and an Employment in the sale of publiâ—k Lands worth 1000 l. a year and 6 s. 8 d Fee for every Order taken forth More given to Bradshaw Somerhill belonging to the Earl of St. Alben's To the Lord Brohill 2000 l. I am afraid I have tyred my Reader in going about to enumerate the many Gifts they order'd one to another but tho I might name much more this may suffice to shew what this Parliament did with the Kingdoms monies to gratifie one another and to share the prey among themselves of the Kingdom who groaned under Taxes and of the Kings Queens Princes and Bishops Lands of Malignants Estates Composition Excise c. The like never was read in History and therefore you may not wonder that these men should be so unwilling to leave their Seats and disband but to sit to advantage themselves if they could By what you have read it plainly appears also what sort of men they were most of them or very many of them of the scum of the people upstarts of mechanical breeding sordid covetous Wretches Hypocrites pretending Religion and making Godliness their gain I have done with them and shall name but one or two more Dr. Dorislaus who was Kill'd in Holland had been formerly a poor School-Master in Holland whence he came to Oxford and read the History-Lecture there in which he then decry'd Monarchy was complained of and forgiven by the King's Benignity He then became Judge-Advocate in the King's Army against the Scots and had the like Employ afterwards against the King under Essex and then under Fairfax gaining well in his employment and by that of drawing up the bloody Charge against the King for which some Cavaliers some say Irish others Scotch-men in revenge of Hamilton's Death kill'd him His Wife and Children had allowances by the Parliament but I cannot here forbear to mention Haselrig's bloody proposition upon his Death who moved That six Gentlemen of the best quality Royalists might be put to Death in Revenge of Dorislaus to deter men from the like attempt hereafter This was a Rumper's Justice and may serve for his Character a blind Zealot furious hot-headed rash unjust and an hypocrite a great Commonwealths-man and an Enemy to Oliver Harison was a Fifth Monarchy-man a great Speaker after his Canting way acted with Cromwell till he saw he set up himself instead of King Jesus and his Saints such as himself then a stiff Opposer of Monarchy and would again have brought in Anarchy and Confusion a man of no extraordinary Parts but resolute and turbulent ever heading a faction and dyed impenitent adhering to his wicked Principles Lambert was a good Soldier had a great designing head Ambitious but outwitted by Cromwell of great Power in the Army and beloved by the factious Sectaries some have thought he was then a Papist for he prov'd one since and carried on the Jesuits designs Fleetwood was a person of a pretended great Devotion but of a secret and violent Ambition and it was thought glad of Richard's fall hoping to succeed but fool'd by Lambert as well as formerly by Cromwell and though General had not the resolution of a man in his place and therefore called the meek Knight Jones was a flattering Sycophant Desborow a sordid Clown Pride an upstart Dray-man Hewson a Valiant Cobler Whaly a Merchant Sir Henry Mildmay an unworthy Turncoat and Rebel The rest much of the same stamp They had their Clergy too of the same Cloth as the Post-Priest Vavasor Powel the Fool Cradock The Incendiary John Goodwin Love Jenkins of both sorts Presbyterians and Independents who served their turns to trumpet forth Sedition to the People and to extoll their Acts for which they shared in the prey But above all the rest was the notorious and blasphemous wretch Pander and Buffoon Hugh Peters and because he was Chaplain in Ordinary to two great Potentates Lucifer and Oliver Cromwell I care not if I give you a little larger account of the man His Father was a Minister of the Church of England living near Foy in Cornwales where his Son Hugh was born and bred up by him at School instructed well in the Principles of the Protestant Religion sent thence to Cambridge and admitted into Jesus College but was soon Expelled the University for his lacivious life He gets to London and there turns Player in Shakespear's Company usually acting the Jester or Fool but weary of that by means of a Gentleman he became acquainted with he got a Free-School with the Stipend of 24 l. a year at the Gentleman's dispose in Essex After some time this Pedant growing familiarly acquainted with a Gentlewoman near who liked his Drolling discourse and used to entertain him being one that had an Estate he so ordered his business that he one night surprised her in Bed and getting in to her had a Comrade that came and surprised them before the strugling Gentlewoman could get forth of his Arms who saluting them Man and Wife caused the trepanned Woman to avoid the shame to consent to marry him After this he takes Holy Orders and was by Doctor Mountaine Bishop of London Ordained Priest and Deacon giving the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy to him which he took And now beginning to Preach he grows popular and was much applauded among the females whom he ever sought to please so that he got to be Lecturer of St. Sepulchres in London and continued there near Twenty years Here he turns Independent and his Wife being dead he lead so beastly and scandalous life that being detected and prosecuted at Law for many Misdemeanors he flyes over to Amsterdam where continuing the like pranks he goes at last to New-England where he Marries another Wife but that not keeping him Chast he began to grow odious amongst the Brethren and the Wars then breaking forth in England he returns and is entertained as a rideing Parson in the Army and at last becomes the Parliaments great Zany Preaching for the Cause and jugling the Women out of their Thimbles and Bodkins by which means he became Oliver's great Privado and with Ireton was admitted of the Cabal in contriving his late Majestie 's Death for which and his other good Services being a Col. under Oliver in his Irish Expedition he had given him 300 l. per annum out of the Lord Worcester's Lands in the Woulds in Worcester-shire and as they say the King's Library at St. James's and was Chaplain in Pay to fix Regiments But at last had a more deserved Reward an Halter being taken in Southwark was at last Executed for his Treasons and dyed like a Sot I shall conclude with him and now proceed to the second
with whom Cromwell by private Messengers held them in hand of a Treaty putting them in hopes of reconciling the Business without blows which made them neglectful till Fairfax and Cromwell fell upon them in their Quarters unsuspected their Horses being most at Grass at twelve a Clock of the night routed them and took about four hundred Prisoners of which only three were shot to Death the rest pardoned by Cromwell's Intercession to ingratiate himself with the Army One Thomson and two more dyed very Resolutely This business being over the General and Cromwell come to Oxford where they are feasted and made Doctors of the Civil Law And now the Army were fain to submit and accepted their Lots for going to Ireland which were these following Ireton's Scroop's Horton's and Lambert's Regiments of Horse Collonel Abot's of Dragoons And of Foot Collonel Eure's Cook 's Hewson's and Dean's to which were added three new ones Cromwell's Venable's and Phayer's Cromwell was made Commander in Chief with the Title of Lord Governour of Ireland and Fairfax was left at home to attend the Junto In the mean time the Keepers of the peoples Liberties were as fast as they could taking away the Lives of several Persons in several places whose Loyalty and Consciences had engaged them for their King as Lievtenant Collonel Moris and Cornet Blackborn who â—uffered at York the former having been Governour of Pomfret and one Beamount a Minister was hanged at Pomfret by Sentence of a Court Marshal Major Monday was shot to Death at Leicister Poyer a brave Gentleman in Covent-garden for the Welch Insurrection Sr. John Stowell and Judge Jenkins were arraigned at the Kings-Bench Bar as Traytors against the Government for their Loyalty to their King but they would not own the Courts jurisdiction yet they were not yet Sentenced but their Estates seized and Judge Jenkins kept long a Prisoner And that the people might the better see their Freedom and Liberty this Rump lay upon them a standing Tax of ninety thousand pound a Month for the maintenance of the Army these were the Persons who made such a stir about Ship-money The Lord Major of London Reynoldson is fined two thousand Pound for refusing to proclaim their Act for abolishing Kingly Government Then upon a report from the Councel of State they order The Kings's and Queens Lands to be sold Thirty thousand Pound to be taken out of it for the use of the Fleet and the rest to be distributed amongst the most considerable among them for Satisfaction of Losses sustained Thus they had killed and were now taking possession and several of the Kings Houses and Mannors were bestowed amongst them And besides this they had twenty thousand Pound a month out of the Fee-Farm Rents Now that the World might perceive what Liberty should be granted to the people they Order That no Minister in his Pulpit should meddle with State affairs and this in others was Oppression and tying up mens Consciencâ—â— But for all that new Lights as they called them increased and about this time one that was a Soldier came to Walton upon the Thames in Surry and in the Church-yard having a Candle and Lanthorn with him met the Minister and People coming out of the Church and told them he had a Vision and five new Lights were shewed him which they were to receive from him under pain of Damnation The first was That the Sabbath was abolished The second That Tythes were abolished Third That Ministers were abolish'd as Antichristian Fourth That Magistrates were abolish'd as useless and Fifthly That the Bible was abolish'd for Christ was come in the Spirit and Glory and so drawing a little Bible out of his Pocket he set it on Fire before them The War with Holland being now about to break forth the Earl of Warwick's former Commission is made voy'd and three Generals of the Fleet were made who were Popham Blake and Dean Before Cromwel's going to Ireland a Fast was kept at White-Hall where among the Militant Preachers Oliver stood up and in his Prayer he desired God to take off from him the Government of this mighty people of England as being too heavy for his shoulders to bear About this time also a third Book of John Lilburn's came sorth Called The Picture of thâ— Councel of State wherein he fully set forth all the illegal Arbitrary Violent and Tyrannical Proceedings of that Councel Lilburn Overton Walwin Prince and others had been before Clapt into the Tower intending to try them for their Lives Lilburn was ordered to be brought to the Kings-Bench Bar upon his Habeas Corpus but Cromwell sent to the Lieutenant of the Tower that he should not be brought who was obey'd not the Judges By which may be seen of what force the Laws were with them Then some thousands well affected Women petition the House in behalf of Lilburn but the Junto answered them He should be tryed by the Law for his Book called Englands new Chains discovered and they bid to go home and wash their Dishes Who reply'd they had neither Dishes nor Meat left This John Lilburn was tryed by a special Commission of Oyer and Terminer in October 1649. where he so notably pleaded his Cause shewed the illegality of the Parliaments Proceedings and so punctually cited all the Statutes and Laws of the Land in the behalf of the Liberties of the Subjects and so bafled the Judges the Attorney general Prideaux and their Councel that they could not Effect what they desired the taking away his Life upon an Inditement of High Treason put in against him but was found Not Guilty by his Jury to the great disappointment of his Enemies Their chief business now was to give one another Estates out of the Delinquents Lands as they called the Loyal Party whom they now sequester and made an Order That no Malignant or such as had been in Arms against them should come within twenty miles of London or go five miles from their own habitations Bishops and Deans and Chapters Lands sold and disposed to one another at easie Rates some got for three years Purchase for none but themselves would buy them About this time they send their Embassadors Oliver St. Johns and Walter Strictland into Holland for Satisfaction for Doctor Dorislaus who drew up the Charge against the King his being Assassinated in Holland by some Cavalier's but they were there affronted and forced to return Re infecta in great Discontent which exasperated our new States against the Dutch Ascham another of their Creatures was murthered also in Spain And tho the Dutch sent afterwards their Agent Myn heer Joachim with Complements and excuses our Junto could forget it and by it took an occasion to forgo their Friendship and prohibited their Fishing upon the English Coasts and the importing of any forrain Commmodities except in English bottoms or such as were of the Countrey whence the Commodities came This brought on the ensuing War commenced the next year between these two
ship This was the fourth Engagement The maintaining of this War against the potent Dutch gained such Reputation to these English States as they were called that the French by the Advice of Mazereen sent Monsieur Bourdeaux as an Agent from the French King to acknowledge them This Action of the French gave great distaste to all the King of England's Friends but this Peace with England preserved the Cardinal being in some danger from the Princes of France And now to maintain this War the Junto lay a heavy Tax upon the People of 120000 l. a Month. Monk and Dean being come out of Scotland are joyned with Blake and the Fleet equipping with all Expedition which the Dutch States hearing of sent away to Van-Tromp who was at Sea Conducting home three hundred sail of Merchant men with seventy six men of War and Commanded him to Block up the Thames to hinder the English Fleet from coming forth but to their great Amazement the English got their Ships to Sea and joyning those at Ports-mouth made up eighty sail and over against Portland lay half Seas over expecting the Dutch On the 18 th of February they discry'd them and about eight in the Morning the fight began Blake and Dean who were in the Tryumph with twelve Ships more encounter'd the Gross of the Dutch Fleet but was relieved at last by Lawson who performed his part exceeding Well The Ship in which General Monk was being a slow Sailor could not so soon come up to engage as he would have had it but he had a great share in the Fight and lost many men aboard her This Fight lasted three days and the Triumph wherein two of the Generals were received seven hundred Cannon shot in their Hâ—ll The next day being Saturday and the nineteenth of Feb. 1652. assoon as the English could overtake the Dutch they engaged them again in the Afternoon which was fought with much fury Tromp still endeavouring to save his Merchant Men fought retreating putting them before him but spite of his teeth he lost many of them which were picked up by the English with some of his Men of War The third day in the Morning being the twentieth the fight was again renewed and continued very fierce till four in the Afternoon but the Wind being cross to the English Van Tromp got at last to Callais Sands and so tyded it home The Dutch lost in the three days Fight eleven Men of War and thirteen Merchants Ships and had killed about fifteen hundred Men. The English lost but one Ship but had not many less slain than the Enemy This was the fifth Engagement in which the English got much the better About this time they erected their High Court of Justice in Ireland by which many of the Irish suffered among the rest the noted Rebel Sir Phelim Oneal was hanged at Dublin The year 1652 being worn out and the Dutch being by their several losses humbled the King's Party crushed and impoverished now the Tax for the maintenance of the Dutch War coming in and filling the Treasury 120000 pounds every month the State owned by the French and himself caressed privately by Mazareen with whom he had secret intelligence but what was more the arbitrary Junto perfectly hated by the People he thought it now a convenient time to step into the Throne and to usurp the supreme â—ower and Authority and to take the Government into his own hands To this end he holds several Consults with the Officers of the Army and much fasting and praying there was among them an extraordinary Work being to be done Cromwell cajol'd them all Lambert was deceiv'd in his hopes of succeeding Oliver which he had made him to believe he intended Harrison was for pulling these old Representatives out of their Seats to make way for the Rule of the Saints Cromwell knew how to please them all that he might by them work his ends All the Party Harrison could make among the Congregations of Feak Rogers Simson and the rest of that Gang were for Cromwell and all impatient to have the Parliament outed and to help forward there came forth dayly from the Army Petitions Addresses Remonstrances and such like Papers for putting an end to this Parliament But notwithstanding all the specious pretences for the putting an end to this Parliament many of the Officers very well perceived the drift of Cromwell and what all would end in viz. his getting the Monarchy into his own hands which troubled them much and some of them made open protests against it for they that could not endure the Rule of a single person in their Lawful Prince could much less endure to be tyrannized over by the arbitrary power of their equal The chief of them that opposed his design were Collonel Venables Scout-Master-General Downing Major Streater and others Streater went about to give his Reasons to the contrary telling them that Cromwell design'd to set up himself and that it was a betraying of their most glorious Cause for which so much Blood had been spilt but Harrison interrupted him and told him that he was assured the General did not seek himself in it and did it to make way for the Rule of Jesus that he might have the Scepter To whom Streater replyed That unless Christ came very suddenly he would come too late For this opposition Cromwell looks on him as his mortal Enemy and claps him up into the Gate-House The Junto was very sensible of these Actings but knew not which way to prevent them yet they did what they could to make these Officers understand the inconveniences that would happen by a sudden dissolving them and that it would be the only way to preserve the Nation to fill up the House with new elected Members which would please the people and their Acts would be received with greater Authority But the Army answered them they were grown so carnal and corrupt that the people of God could expect no good from them and that they would take care that the supreme Government of the Land should be placed in the hands of such as truly feared God and were of approved integrity These Debates between the Parliament and the Army spun out some time at the Junto went about cunningly to secure themselves by preparing an Act for the filling up their House wherein such speed was made that it was near passing the House Cromwell being nettled resolves to stay no longer and to his Council of Officers he shewed That if they should let the people to chuse new Representatives it was a tempting of God who would save them by the hands of a few as in former times and that five or six godly upright men might do more in one day than the Parliament had done or would do in a hundred Upon this he takes with him Lambert Harrison and about eight more Officers of the Army and on the three and twentieth day of April 1653 he enters the House and there after a short
old Trade of Debauchery always fighting and in Quarrels tho with Pedlars Tinkers and such like Fellows skillful in handling the Quarter-Staff so that none could over-match him This kind of life he led till he had spent his Patrimony and almost ruined his Mother hated by the Country for his many Villanies committed especially by his Uncle and God-father Sr. Oliver who could not endure to have him named At last beginning to perceive his ruin he feigned a Conversion went to Church among the orthodox Divines and so far insinuated himself with them that they deal with his Mothers Uncle Sr. Robert Stewart a Gentleman of a Competent Estate in the Country to take him into Favour and to declare him his Heir and who dying soon after left him an Estate of five hundred pound a year which quickly mouldred away he having left of it not above forty or fifty Pounds a year He then falls in with the Non-conformist Ministers entertains them at his House has Lectures and exercises himself in Preaching and Praying about which time he marries the Daughter of Sr. James Boucher her name Elizabeth and Kins-woman to Mr. Hambden of Buckinghamshire and turns Farmer for five years with ill success but still continuing his Preaching and Praying was so much follow'd by the Faction that they by a wile got him to be chosen a Burgess for Cambridge in the Parliament of 1640. when he was at his last Gasp and thinking to have Transplanted himself to New England and raised Mony for that purpose which enabled him to stand a Candidate for Parliament man And now joyning with Hambden Pym and the rest of them he began to blow up the Coals of Sedition and to be noted amongst them tutored by them till he grew quickly able to out-Wit them in their own Pernicious designs But now having spent the utmost farthing of his Estate and run in Debt he was priviledged from Arrests by being a Member of Parliament and now he betakes him into the Army where he was a Captain under Essex and where he became so Active and busie that he soon advanc'd himself to be Lieutenant General to the Earl of Manchester I crave Pardon of the Reader for this Digression for I intend not to write his Life but what I have related may let you see what this great Man was ab origine and therefore I shall say no more of his Actions in the Army they being sufficiently known in Story and how gradually he came to his Command of General in the Army part of which as far as came within my Province that I have undertook appears by the aforegoing Discourse whereby it is plainly manifested by what Methods he attained his Greatness and Usurpation I could say no less of this their Ring-Leader who deserves a more particular Character being so Notorious throughout Christendom and Famous for his Actions and Usurpation I shall not be so prolix in the rest but only name them to you They say his Family descended from a branch of that Cromwell in Henry the 8 th dayes who ruined the Abbies and was fatal to the Popish Clergy as this was to the Protestant Episcopacy and that the Lineal descent was from one Williams of Glamorgan-shire who marrying the Daughter of that Cromwell took on him the Name and transfer'd it to his Posterity but the direct Line of that Cromwell is continued in the Lord Cromwell and Earl of Arglass in Ireland This our Oliver was a man as you have found by what I have related of him of many Vices of deep Dissimulation and Hypocrisie and tho no great Schollar of great improved Parts of a strong robust Constitution and naturally Martial of deep reach and a great Politician after he had Conversed with Ireton his Son-in-Law who taught him his Art He had some Spice of Generosity in him which he shewed on some Occasions whether it was in his Nature or Designedly is to be doubted But for his Courage and Resolution and skill in Martial Discipline that is not to be questioned and tho I cannot think he really embraced any Religion as his particular Judgment yet he embraced all that he found subservient to his Ends as may be perceived by his Actings and Intreagues with the Presbyterians and Independants and all the other Sectaries which were all alike to him and no doubt Episcopacy it self would have been as pleasing to his Conscience could he have Established his Usurpation by it It was not therefore his Love of Vertue or Religion that made him thrust out all Vice from his Army but that he knew it would naturally ruin it and that a strict Discipline and the Face of some Religion would preserve it so that he never permitted among his Souldiers Swearing Drunkenness Profaneness Murther Rapine or Uncleanness but punishing them Severely his Camp was like a well regulated Common-wealth and had he not been a Rebel and employed his Parts to so wicked an end as the Destruction of his King and Country for the setting up himself he might have passed among the Worthies of this Nation and lawfully have become eminent in his Generation He had two Sons Richard and Henry besides one that dyed young and four Daughters one married to Ireton afterwards to Fleetwood one to the Lord Fawkenbridge one to Mr. Cleypool which he much lov'd and was his second Daughter and one to the Lord of Warwicks Grand-child Mr. Rich which was his youngest Cromwell as well as the rest had a share in the Spoil before he came to grasp all into the Paws of his Protector-ship to which we have brought him but we now consider him as a Rumper and by an Ordinance of that Parliament was conferred on him out of the Marquess of Worcester's Estate 2500. pounds a year a good Competency tho some say the said Lands so settled upon him at their improved Vallue were worth to him five Thousand if not six Thousand pounds a year besides four or five pound a day coming in as Lieutenant General and Collonel of Horse in the Army Ireton the Scribe as some called him being excellent at drawing Declarations Petitions and such like things to serve his politick Ends was a man of a deep Reach of much Dispatch of very dexterous and able Parts he was Cromwell's right Hand and was a great Contriver of his greatest Designs and Stratagems He was a Common-wealth's man of the truest Stamp and it is thought had he lived Cromwell had not assumed that Power to himself which he had helpt him to mount to by destroying the Government which Advantage Cromwell after his death laid hold on He married Cromwell's eldest Daughter and tho poor before the Wars liv'd very splendidly kept his rich Coach gilt that cost two hundred pounds and four gallant Horses He lick'd his Fingers with the rest and had he liv'd no doubt had got more he died at Limrick in Ireland of the Plague being Deputy there and was brought over into England and by the Junto buried
Worcester's Mannor at Hartlerow Sir Arthur Haslerig had the Bishop of Durham's House Park and Mannor of Aukeland and 6500 l. in money given him Lord Gray of Grooby had the Queens mannor House Park and Lands at Hâ—ldenby Sir Will. Constable restored to Lands sold to Sir Marmaduke Langly worth 25000 l. Sir Will. Purefoy had given him 1500 l. Wal. Long 5000 l. given him Michael Oldsworth keeper of Windsor Park and had a share out of Sir Will. Compton's Office worth 3000 l. a year divided betwixt him and his Lord. Tho. Scot a Brewers Clark had Lambeth House Mr. Ashurst 1000 l. given him besides every Member of the House which was when full 516 Persons by their own order allow'd themselves 4 l. per. week a man which amounts to 110000 l. per annum They gave to Collonel Hâ—mond Governour of the Isle of Wight for his Table 20 l. a week a 1000 l. in money and 500 l. a year Land Collonel Mitton 5000 l. in mony Cornelius Hâ—lland a poor Boy and waited on Sir Hen. Vain when Comptrouler of the Princes House Made Commissioner for the Revenue of the King Queen and Prince Farmer of the Kings feeding Grounds in Buckinghamshire worth 2000 l. per annum at 200 l. per annum Rent Possessor of Somerset-house Keeper of Richmond House Commissioner for the Garrisons of White-Hall and the Mews an Office in the Mint which enabled him to give 5000 l. with his Daughter this was one of the Kings Judges Sir Hen. Vain Senior had the Bishop of Durham's mannor and Park at Evenwood and had given him 5000 l. and was Chair-man of the Kings Queens and Princes Revenue Sir Hâ—n Vain Junior a subtil Cunning pated Man a fifth Monarchy-man he was made Treasurer of the Navy worth 6000 l. a year Sir Tho. Trenchard given him 1200 l. He marries his Daughter to a Malignant gives security for the Payment of the portion being 1200 l. gets his Son in Law sequestred discovers the Debt and haâ—h it given him for his Fidelity to the State A new way to pay Portions Will. Bingham Governour of Pool had 1000 l. given him To Collonel Joh. Sydenham 1000 l. Joh. Glyn Recorder of London was Clark of the Polls worth 1000 l. per annum and afterwards Lord Chief Justice Joh. Bell an Apothecary beng intrusted with money was sued and said he could not answer without breach of Parliament Sir Walter Earl Collonel of Horse and Lieutenant of the Ordnance worth in times of Peace 1000 l. per annum in War 5000 l. per annum Alderman Atkins Treasurer at War Gregory Clemens a Merchant and one of the Kings Judges John Rowles had given him one thousand five hundred pound out of Sir John Worsenham's Estate Edward Ash a Woollen-Dâ—â—per Treasurer for the providing of Cloaths for the Irish Souldiers Sir John Danvers by a Parliamentary proceeding overthrew his Brothers Will and got the Estate worth 30000 l. Hen. Herbert given him 3000 l. and the Plunder of Ragland Castle To Fenwick 500 l. Gilbert Millingâ—on 1000 l. and Chair-mâ—n to the Committee of plundred Ministers To the two Darbys 5000 l. Robert Cecil Son to the Earl of Salisbury Collonel of Horse Serjeant Wild a Judge a 1000 l. given him after the Hanging of Captain Burley out of the Privy Purse and it is said he had 1000 l. more after the aquital of Mr. Rolf who was accused for an intention of murthering the late King Of the City several Aldermen Common-Councel and others who had great Benefits by this Parliament some of whom were of it John Warner Lord Major was one of the Treasurers of War and Treasurer of the receit of all Monies due upon the Ordinance of 3 d. August 1643. Treasurer of the loan money Purchased the Arch-Bishop of York's best House Castle and Mannot of Caywoood Sir John Wooleston Alderman Treasurer of War Treasurer for Plate Treasurer for loan Money Say-Master of the Mint Trustee of the sail of Bishops Lands Purchased the Bishop of London's Land at High-Gate Alderman Gibbs got seven or eight thousand pounds by melting the Plate and Bodkins at Guild-Hall one of the Treasurers for 20000 l. to pay the Scots a Trustee for Bishops Lands and Treasurer for Rents and Monies raised by them Alderman Fowks a Commissioner for the Customs refused to account upon Oath because of a tender Conscience Treasurer for the payment of Wagoners a Trustee for Bishops Lands and Controuler of their Accounts had first 200 pound per annum and after by their Additional Ordinance 300 per annum more standing Fee Alderman Pennington was Lieutenant of the Tower being intrusted with 6000 pound discovers it to the Parliament beggs it and had it granted Alderman Pack Commissioner for the Customs Treasurer at War and bought the Bishop of Lincoln's House and Mannor at Bugden Alderman Andrews Treasurer at War and Commissioner for the Customs Alderman Avery Commissioner for the Customs Treasurer for Sequestrations and Trustee for the sale of Bishops Lands Alderman Culham Commissioner of the Excise worth 1200 pound per annum Alderman Foot the same Alderman Edmonds the same Owen Roe Lieutenant Collonel and keeper of the Magazeen for stores Alderman Dothwick Treasurer at War With many more too long to be named They allowed for their Military Officers a Collonel of Foot 30 s. day a Lieutenant Collonel 15 s. a Major 9 s. a Captain 15 s. A Collonel of Horse 30 s. a day for himself and for six Horses 21 s. a day a Lieutenant Collonel 15 s. a day for himself and for six Horses 21 s. a Captain of Horse 24 s. a day and for six Horses 21 s. a day A Collonel Lieutenant Collonel and Major received their Captains pay beâ—â—des So that it was no wonder so many of the Parliament men got Commands in the Army It was thought that there was near twenty Millions shared in Lands Revenues Incomes and money amongst them To Bradshaw their President of their High Court of Justice the Kings House and Parks at Eltham was given and to Bultrode Withlock Greenwich Barksted Lieutenant of the Tower a poor Goldsmith bought at two or three years purchase as much Bishops Lands as cost 10000 l. Mr. Boon who they say had been a Tapster a Member of the House had given him 6000 l. To Harry Martin 3000 l. To Blackstone's Wife and Children 3000 l. out of the Earl of Nâ—w-Castle and Lord Withâ—rington's Estates and 500 l. to his brother Upon the General out of the Lands of the Duke of Buckingham's Estate and his Brothers the Lord Francis Villers 4000 l. per annum Clarendon Park bestow'd on the Earl of Pembroke 4868 l. to the Lord Lisle To Bradshaw more 2000 l. Land per annum and 1000 l. in money Cook for Acting the part of Attorny General against the late King had bestowed on him St. Crosses Hospital The new Park in Surry bestowed on the Citty that they might not want Venison Collonel Martin's account brought into the House
made up 300 but they fell again upon the same disputes notwithstanding the Recognition A little before their sitting down Oliver publishes several Ordinances of his own which bearing date before past as Authentick Laws and Ordinances by the Instrument one was for the payment of monies into the Treasury raised for the propagation of the Gospel in Wales Another for the turning forth of Scandalous Ministers that is such as had used the Common Prayer and had good Livings Another for making Souldiers free of Corporations Another for surveying the King's Lands and for doubling upon Deans and Chapters This was to let the Parliament see that he took the Actâ— made by himself by power of his Instrument as good and authentick as theirs Mark here whether the most arbitrary of our Kings ever assumed such a power and yet these are days of freedom and liberty Lambert was very busie in this Convention endeavouring tooth and nail to have the Instrument confirmed by them for that the Protectorship being made elective he himself stood most fair to be the next Candidate but finding they would not drive but began to be as unruly as Cromwell's German Horses that flung him out of the Coach-box he threatned them that he would call 4 or 5 Parliaments one after another but it should be done following Oliver's menacing steps to the Junto There were some Common-wealth Officers in the Army that had designed to have seised on Lambert but Col. Pride betray'd them who was privy to the business and Cromwell seeing he could doe no good with his Parliament assoon as ever the 5 months were out dissolves them and then he takes from these who had conspired against Lambert their Commissions and seises on several others Commonwealths men and Royalists among whom was Major Wildman who was drawing up a Declaration to shew the lawfulness of taking up Arms against Cromwell and of the Royalists there were Sir John Packington Sir John Littleton and others which he imprisoned for a new Conspiracy as he said against his Life and Sir Tho. Harris was taken having a design of surprising of Shrewsbury Penruddoâ—k and Grove at Salisbury and in several other places as at Hexam Moor in Northumberland and in Yorkshire where Sir Henry Slingsby was taken all their designs being beforehand betray'd to Oliver and many Prisons in the West were filled with the common sort of people from which and from the Tower and other places many of them were sent away to Foreign Plantations and sold for Slaves and many forceably carried away in Pen's Expedition to be knockt on the head by the Moors Thus he endeavoured to secure himself by a bloudy and arbitrary way of proceeding as all Tyrants are forced to doe Having thus supprest this Insurrection which he knew of beforehand and was prepared for several of the chief that were taken were brought to their trials the chief of which were Mr. Penruddock who was a Captain and Mr. Grove another Captain 16 more were executed of which 9 at Excester Both Penruddock and Grove when taken surrendred themselves to Vnton Crook upon promise of having their lives but what signifies such Promises with such Persons who never kept their Faith these were brave and active Loyalists and therefore must not escape out of the bloudy Paws of the Usurper They were both condemned at the Assizes at Excester being indicted for Treason against the Usurper and endeavouring the bringing in of their lawfull King Charles Steuart and on the 16 th of May 1655 were both beheaded in that City Mr. Penruddock at his execution spoke very boldly and with much zeal against the iniquities of the Times and told them among other things that Treason was in that Age become an Individuum Vagum like the wind in the Gospel that bloweth where it listeth And Treason was then what the Ruler pleased to make so and lighted upon whom he would have it And by this said he you may see what a condition you are in when you have no Law to protect you no Rule to walk by with many other bold Truths which made them suppress his Speech and forbid it to be published that they might conceil as much as they could their illegal and arbitrary Proceedings For indeed one of the Jury that found him guilty being demanded afterwards for what reason they brought in their Verdict guilty against Mr. Penruddock and Grove Answered That they had resolved to hang them before they saw them A pious Resolution His Judges were Lisle Glin Roles and Nichols who denyed to give him their advice in point of Law because they said they were Parties and if so as indeed they were it was contrary to all Law for a Judge being a party to sit upon the Bench. But these were lawless Times Some others suffered at Chard in Somersetshire one beheaded at Salisbury and 3 hang'd and thus this Insurrection was quash'd But not long after he crowded the Tower with many Persons of note Prisoners upon suspicion of having an hand in this Plot or Treason as he called it and among the rest were the Earl of Lindsey The Lords Willowby of Parham Newport Maynard Faulkland Lucas Petres Sir Frederick Cornwallis Sir Jeoffery Palmer Sir Rich. Wingfield and others too long to relate but these were never brought to any tryal but it was thought convenient to secure them though nothing appeared against them Cromwell now the Dominus fac totum beholding himself mounted in the Throne of the Monarchy makes Leagues and War and Peace abroad as he pleased and as we have said having made an impolitick Peace with France losing thereby the ballance he had in his hand and giving too much to that Growing Monarch he designs a very unjust War without any provocation against Spain having a thirst after that King's Gold and Treasure at St. Domingo in the West Indies But this design was kept very secret and a great Fleet was equipped to the wonder of his neighbours yet that he might not lose his wonted exercise of Hypocrisie he gives out that it is for the propagation of the Protestant Religion though besides the insatiate hunger of Gold he might have some politick Reasons to move him to this dishonest breach which might be by this means a getting rid of a great many of the troublesome Sectaries in the Army whom he found still pecking against his power and endeavouring to alienate the minds of the Soldiers from him But now he shewed his Art in draining them for this expedition whereby he might sit the quieter at home Venables was made Commander in chief of the Land-forces and Pen of the Sea being made General and on the 27 th of December set saâ—l from Portsmouth with about 10000 Men on the 28 th of January following they put into Barbadoes and on the 30 th of March sailed for Hispaniola where they Landed their Men without opposition but whether it were the imprudence and ill management of the Generals or that God resolved to
Command of the Army which he aimed at for a further advance of himself by his party he caused the Rump Parliament to be proposed again to a great Consultation of the Officers of the Army meeting at St. James's where they were seeking God for a Government with Dr. Owen and other Independant Ministers amongst them which affected them very much But this alarum'd Fleetwood and his party who found the Army mutinous and troublesome and not to be governed now by their Commands and the few days they reigned the Government lying like an heavy burthen upon their shoulders they were forced to comply and follow the stream and in order thereto the Protectorian Colonels as Ingoldsby Howard Falconbridg Bridg Whaly Goff Norton Smith and others were put out and Commonwealths-men or Rumpers put in their stead And thus fully ended the Usurpation and Tyranny of the Cromwells And now we may say we are come to the third Act of Tyranical Usurpation and the many-Headed Monster the Rump-Parliament arises again and shews it self after havâ—ing been so many years defunct For the souldiers as I have said not knowing what to do send now for their old drudges to sit again whom they had formerly pull'd out by the Ears with so much Infamy and ill language and after several private Conferences among the Chief of either side and articles proposed for the securing the Armie for the Rump would sit upon any terms a declaration of the Armie came forth invitâ—ing this Rump to return to the exercise of their charge and trust telling them in many canting terms of the dangers and deliverances God had brought them through and perceiving now with Grief that the good spirit among them did dayly decline so as the good old cause became a reproach and now calling to mind that the long Parliament consisting of those members who continued siting till the 20 th of April 1653. were eminent asserters of that cause and had a special presence of God with them and were signally blessed in their work they iudged it their duty to invite the said Members to the discharge of their trust for the setling and secureing the peace of the common wealth promissing to be aiding and assisting to them c. And now all the Members in Town the Jailes being search'd for some of them who lay there for debt get together on the 7 th of May in the Painted chamber at Westminster accompanied with their old Speaker Lenthal to the number of about 42 who for haste haveing the Chancery Mace carried before them stole into their house before expected not a little glad to have gotten into their old nest after so many years exclusion The names of these famous men were Lenthal their Speaker Lord Monson Harry Martin Lisle Whitlock Chaleuoâ—r Wise Alderman Atkins Penington Scot Holland Vain Prideaux Sr. James Harrington Ludlow Oldsworth Hazlerig Jones Pâ—refoy White Harry Nevil Say Bennet Blagrave Brewster Serjant Wild Goodwin Letchmore Skinnâ—r Downs Dove 〈◊〉 Leuthal Saloway the Grocer Corbet Wallon Millington the Church-snuffers Gold Sydenham Bingham Aire Smith one of the 6 clarks Ingoldsby and Fleetwood These Rumpers being thus reestablished and addressed by sundry Addressers from the Counties which afterwards stood them in as much stead as those which were made before to Richard Cromwell did him They cause the Officers of the Armie to resigne their old Commissions and to receive new ones from them which they thought no small tye but Callerates met with Menalcidas as afterwards it proved Some of the old Members who had been secluded in 1648. required to be admitted with the rest hopeing that their presence might prevent much mischeif tho' they had little or no expectation of doing much good by reason the Armies backing the other party The names of the secluded Members that now sought for admittance were Mr. Anslow Sr. George Booth Mr. James Herbert Mr. Prynn Mr. Montague Sr. John Eveling Mr. John Herbert Mr. Gawen Mr. Eveling Mr. Clive Mr. Kniqgtley Mr. Hungerford Mr. Harley and Mr. Peck But these could not be admitted into the house but were stopped in the Lobby onely Mr. Prynn and Hungerford getting in and beginning to dispute with them upon the point made them adiourn and loose a days time after which attempting the like they found a Troop of Horse and two Companies of red-Coats the Keepers of the liberties of England to keep them out so that they were forced to return seing there was no good to be done with these persons who began to follow their old stepts of trampling the priviledges of Parliament under foot the ancient Laws and Constitutions of the land and the Liberties and Rights of the people For they forthwith ordered That such persons heretofore Members of this Parliament as have not sat in this Parlâ—ament since the year 1648 and have not subscribed the Engagement in the Rol of Engagement of this House shall not sit in this House till further order of Parliament They had the first day of their sitting put forth a Declaration among many other things declareing They would apply themselves faithfully to the discharge of their trust and to the setlement the Common Wealth as might establish the Property and Liberties of the people without a single person Kingship or House of Peers and vigourously carry on a Reformation that there may be a godly and faithful Magistracy and Ministry in the Nation to the praise of our Lord Jesus Christ and to the reviveing and makeing glad the Hearts of the upright in the Land See the holy Cant and what good words they use having not forgot their old Trade of cutting the peoples Throats with good words nor their old way of helping one another for on the 29th of May they order That all such as shall be employed in any place of Trust or Power in the Common-wealth be able for the discharge of such Trust and that they be persons fearing God and that have given Testimony to all the people of God their faithfulness to this Common-wealth according to the Declaration of the 7 th of May. Here are the Godly now setting up themselves again in their old Throne of the Good Old Cause that had been so abominably distastful to the whole Nation And forthwith this Godly Party as they nominated themselves begin apace to thrust one another into all Offices of the State and for that end they appoint a Council of State into whose hands they put the dispose of all places of most Profit and Trust yea of the Command of the wealth of the Kingdom These Godly ones of the House were the Godly Sir Arthur Hazlerig the pious Sir Henry Vain the Holy Man Ludloâ— Jones Sydenham Salaway Fleetwood and the Chaste Mr. Scot with Walton Nevil Harrington Chaloner Downs Whitlock Morley Sydney Thomson Dixwel Reynolds Oliver St. Johns Wallop and without the House were the like Godly Men Bradshaw Lambert Desborow Fairfax Berry Sir Anthony Ashly-Cooper Sir Horatio Townsend Sir Robert Honywood Sir Archibald
the one for an Assessment the other for the Militia and past some Acts concerning Ministers Lastly they consult about dissolving themselves to which the Rump party were very unwilling and therefore many of them intended to be absent when that business should be debated because they would not give their consent But the others smelling their design watched a convenient time and issuing out writs in the name of the Keepers of the Liberties c. for a full and free Parliament to convene on the 25th of April following saveing to the House of Lords their Rights notwithstanding the Commons in this Juncture had been necessitated to proceed without them They upon Friday the 16th of March 1659 when the greatest number of the Rumpers were present dissolve themselves by Act. Thus was an undenyable Period put to this Tragical long Parliament by their own Vote tho' it was legally ipso facto dissolved before by the Death of King Charles the 1st whose writs had summoned them together But before they dissolved themselves they settled a new Council of State to govern in the intervall of the Parliaments and abrogated the Oath of Abjuration and the â—ormer Council The chief of these were General George Monk General Mountague Mr. Annesly President the Lord Fairfax Sir William Waller Mr. Hollis Pierpoint Rossiter Saint-Johns Widdrington Sir Anthony Ashly-Cooper and others to the number of thirty in all who behaved themselves with much circumspection setting forth a Proclamation against all disturbers of the Peace either in Action or Speech and tendring an Engagement for peaceable demeanor to be subscribed by such as they suspected which Lambert refusing was committed to the Tower disarming the Phanaticks every where they purged the Army of Schismatical Officers and Soldiers taking care of the Garisons Overton a Fifth-Monarchy-Man was removed out of his Government of Hull and Collonel Charles Fairfax was placed in his Room Collonel Rich made some stir about St. Edmunds-bury but Collonel Rich. Ingoldsby quieted his Soldiers and seised him and thereupon was restored to that Regiment from whose Command the Wallingfordians had put him by when they degraded young Cromwell Thus ended the Arbitrary and Tyranical Usurpation of the Rumpers by the great providence of God and the good Genius of Englands means in raising up the Great and Renowned Monk to be a Saviour to his Nation and to reduce the Monarchy to its legal antient and happy state again and that the torrent of violence and Arbitrary Tyrany that had so variously over-run and spoiled the Land might be lost and sunk into the Earth whence it sprung and the Stream of Government bounded by Laws and ancient Customs might again run in its right Course and ancient Channel from whence it had been diverted And now I should conclude having fully finished my Draught or Picture of Arbitrary and Tyranical Government which I have taken from the Life being the true History and Resemblance of the Monster now so much feared and which no Man that is a lover of the Peace of this Nation and that hath his Sence and Reason can behold with out Horror and Indignation and resolve in himself tâ— suffer much rather than to run the hazard of raising up this Ghost to the raine of three Kingdoms and the Lives and Estates of so many persons as must be devoured for dayly food to maintain the Life of such a Monster the remembrance of which moved by the sight of this very Picture of it is enough to affright I shall therefore only as the last touches to this piece shew you as it were the last struggle or gasp for Life of the overthrown Monster and so finish my Design and that in few words Lambert whether by neglect or Treachery of his Keepers is not known escapes out of the Tower and soon after appears in Arms with a party of his Cashired Officers and Soldiers once more to embroil the Nation but he was proclaimed Traitor and the whole Nation beginning to hope for a setled Peace were unanimously bent to aid the General if need were against him He had chosen Edg-Hill near Keinton in Warwick-shire for the place of his Rendezvouz hopeing it would prove as Ominous to the Royal Interest as it had done before and in all probability there would have been a great Conflâ—ence of all sorts of Sectaries to him in a short space and he was not without hope that if the old Soldiers were sent against him many of them would turn to him but he was eagerly pursued by some parties of Horse and Foot and Collonel Charles Howard had almost overtaken him but it was Collonel Ingoldsby's good hap to light upon him near Daventry in Northampton-shire where Lambert was surprized with a strange Consternation and durst not engage tho he was nothing inferior in numbers to the others which his followers observing some of them went over to his pursuers others slunk away and himself taken by Colonel Ingoldsby the 22d of April 1660. and with Collonel Cobbet Major Creod and Captain Hazâ—erig son to Sir Arthur was sent up to London and two days after passing by Hide-Park he saw 20000 Horse and Foot of the City Regiments and Auxiliaries there Training with divers of the Nobility and Gentry of the Nation trailing Pikes voluntarily among them and the same day he was committed to the Tower This ended â—owards the setling of the Peace of the Nation His Excellency had wrought his Officers to declare they would with him acquiesce in the Resolves of the Parliament appointed to meet the 25th of April 1660. who accordingly met the Lords and Peers in the upper-house taking their places by virtue of their Birth-right who soon according to the whole Nations expectations and Prayers restored his Maâ—esty to his Right his Crown and Dignity the Nobility to their ancient Birthrights and Priviledges the People to their property freedom and liberties and the Laws to their ancient course and boundaries the three Kingdoms rejoycing and a long Peace quietness and tranquillity succeeding which yet is grateful to the memory of all Loyal and good Subjects therefore however of late our old Jealousies and fears are increased by our secret Adversaries yet let all people remember what hath past and by viewing this Picture of the most horrid and devouring Dragon called Arbitrary and Tyrannical Vsurpation let them abhor it and beware of falling under the same power and into the same snare by any specious or colourable Pretence whatsoever and continually pray that the Peace of the Nation may be continued with the Life of his most Gracious Majesty whom the King of Kings preserve both in the Throne and in the Hearts of his people Amen Vpon the late STORME and of the DEATH of his HIGNNESS ensuing the same by Mr. Waller WE must resign Heaven his great Soul do's claime In stormes as loud as His Immortall Fame His dying groanes his last Breath shakes our Isle And trees uncut fall for His Funerall Pile About his