their Thanksgiving Devotions and Dinner to be celebrated together in and with the City upon Thursday ensuing the 7. of June and lest it should dishearten more secluded Members from comming to sit in the House with them again knowing that Tyrants are followed for their fortunes not for themselves wherefore upon Tuesday following being the 5. Jun Popham made another kinde of Report to the Plebeians of the Commons House who must not be trusted with the truth of State-mysteries but like Wood-cocks must be led in a mist That he had left Kingsale blocked up with ten Ships and the Seas secured in peace and quietness and the better to adorn the fable and suppress the truth from approaching the ears of the people the House that day 15. June passed an Order That for this remarkable additional mercy bestowed upon them in the prosperous success given to their Fleet at Sea upon Thursday next 7. June the day set apart for publick Thanksgiving the Ministers should praise God Lord since there audacious Saints are so thankful to thee for one beating bestow many more beatings upon there for they stand in need of all thy corrections The like attempt hath been upon Scilly with the like success Scout from June the 8. to 15. 1649. 179. Gifts given amongst the Faction since which time forty sail of Ships are pressed in the Thames to recruit the shattered Navy given forth to be a Winter Guard at Midsummer John Blackiston is packed away to the other world and the House upon 6. June voted to Wife and Children 3000 l. out of the Earle of Newcastle's and Lord Wytherington's Estates in compensation of the loss of his Pedlery Ware in his Shop at Newcastle he had formerly given to him 14000 l. you see the insatiate hunger of Gold and Silver survives in the very Ghost of a Saint after he is dead 500 l. more was given to Johns Brother an Estate out of the Rectory and Demesnes of Burford was setled upon the Speaker 400 l. per ann Lands are be setled upon the General out of the Duke of Buckinghams and his Brother the Lord Francis Villers Estates 400 l. per ann out of Claringdon Park upon the Earle of Pembroke 1000 l. was bestowed upon an eminent Member of Parliament for his many good Services 4868 l. to the Lord Lisle out of the Monthly Assesment for Ireland for his penny-worth of good service done there you see to what purpose we pay Taxes 2000 l. Land per an and 1000 l. Money given to Bradshaw the price of Bood And 400 l. more given to the Poor of the City to stop their mouths from cursing upon the Thanksgiving-day out of the 2000 l. Fine set upon the Lord Mayor Reynoldson for not proclaiming the Act for abolishing Kingly Government this is according to the Spanish Proverb To steal a Sheep and give away the Trotters for Gods sake You see the Saints can finde Money to give Gifts though not to pay Debts although the Publick Faith lye at pawn for them A Committee is appointed to consider how to prefer Mr. Tho. Goodwin and Mr. Owen to he Heads of Colledges in Oxford as a Reward for asserting the late proceedings of Parliament upon the aforesaid Thanksgiving-day It is not fit such men should serve God for nothing in the times of S. Peter and S. Paul Godliness was great Gain but in the daies of our modern Saints Gain is great Godliness The thing that miscalls its self a Parliament 180. The Kxcise enlarged upon Salt hath set an Excise of 1 d. the Gallon upon all forraign salt imported which is in effect upon all the salt we use our home-made salt being inconsiderable you see our Cups our Spits our powdring-Tubs our washing-bowles our Kettles our Hats Dublets Breeches Stockings Shooes nothing we use eat drink or wear is free from being devoured by these sanctified Locusts of the Free-State who complained of the King for that petty inconsiderable Tax of Ship-mâ—ney which His Majesty spent in maintaining Guards of Ships upon our Seas so much to the Honour of our Nation that the King of Spain trusted all those vast summs of Bullion he sent to the Low-Câ—untries to be Coined in our Mint and above a third part yearly to be laid out here in English Cloth and Commodities which with the residue of the Spanish Treasure was afterwards wafted over into Flaunders in English Bottomes for which they were liberally payed whereby every mans estate was increased 10 l. in the hundred England infinitely abounded with Coin and Plate as appeares by those many vast summs that have been constantly extorted from the People since the beginning of these Wars more I dare say than all our Kings since the Conquest excluding William the Conqueror and Henry the Eighth ever raised upon the People and by those many vast summs our seeming Saints have sent into banks beyond Sea and buried in their private Coffers Reader let me admonish thee 181. A Vindication of the Levellers in some things and a further design to garble and enslave the Army That the Levellers for so they are mis-called onely for endeavouring to Level the exorbitant usurpations of the Councel of Officers and Councel of State are much abused by some Books lately printed and published in their names much differing from their declared Principles Tenets and Practices but forged in Cromwâ—ls and Irâ—tons shops to cast an odium upon them These State-wolves by such forgeries endeavour to make the Sheep forsake and betray the Dogs that faithfully guard them that they may with more security fleece them flay them and eat them hereafter Ireton Hâ—slerig and Postmaster-Attorney Prideaux by themselves and their Blood-hounds Spies and Intelligencers have been very diligent to draw dry-foot after Mr. Lilburne Walwine c. and suborn witnesses against them but not having yet quite extinguished all sparks of truth and honesty unless it be in their own breasts failed of their purposes Yet they go on to purge the Army as they have done the Parliament and Conventicle of State of all free-born humours in order to their destruction that the Army may consist of meer mercenary brutish spirits such as will so far neglect the duties of men and Christians as to execute all their tyrannous bloody illegal Commands with a blind obedience and implicite faith without asking a question for Conscience sake the better to enslave both the Kingdom and Common Souldiers In farther prosecution of this Design they have projected to levy seven new Regiments which by way of Gullery they call Presbyterian Regiments and shall be raised by Presbyterian Commanders but those Commanders shall only be imployed to countenance the work for a time and then for pretended offences be purged out of the Army if not out of this world by the Councel of Officers and more confiding men put in their rooms and then shall these new Officers and Regiments be used as Catch-poles and Hangmen contrary to the honour of Souldiers
of Surry in effect came in so civill a posture to deliver a petition to the house that they were Armed for the most part but with sticks in which Petition there is nothing contained which the Parliament is not bound to make good by their many Declarations and Remonstrances to the people or by the Oathes of Allegiance Supremacy or Nationall Covenant or by the known Laws of this Land Yet were they 1. Abused by the Souldiers of White-hall as they passed by where some of them were pulled in and beaten 2. When those Gentlemen of quality that carried the Petition came to Westminster-hall they found a Guard of Souldiers at the door uncivilly opposing their entrance to make their addresses to the House 3. When they pressed into the Hall and got up to the Commons door they were there reviled by the Guard 4. The Multitude which stood in the new Palace because some of them did but whoop as others did who were purposely set on work as is conceived to mix with them disorder them were suddenly surrounded with a strong party of horse from the Mews It is reported by some that Sir H. Mildmay Col. Purefoy the Speaker doubting the Hou would give too good an answer to their Petition sent for these Horse and Foot and some more Companies of Foot from White-hall who by the appointment of the Committee of Schismaticks at Derby-House were ready prepared for this design and catched them as it were in a Toyle and with barbarous and schismatical rage fell upon these naked unarmed Petitioners slew and wounded many without distinction telling them They were appointed to give an answer to their Petition and they should have no other as indeed they had not though the Lieut. Colonell that did all the mischief was called into the House of Commons and had publick thanks given him at the Bar took many of them Prisoners Plundred their Pockets Cloaks Hats Swords Horses some of them even Gentlemen of as good quality as their General were stripped of their doublets those Gentlemen of quality who where in the Lobby before the Commons door civily expecting an answer were abused and violently driven out by the Guard to take their fortune among the Rabble what Tyrants ever in the World refused to heare the Petitions and grievances of their people before The most Tyranicall government of the world is that of Russia and Jo. Vasilowich was the greatest Tyrant of that Nation yet shall this Tyrant rise up in judgement at the latter day against these Monsters Behold what entertainment your Petitioners shall have hereafter if publick Peace be the end of their desires yet many Petitions ready drawn are sent up and down in most Counties by Committee-men and Sequestrators to enforce men to give thanks for the four votes against the King and many Petitions from Schismaticks destructive to Religion Laws Liberties and Property have been obtruded upon the Houses and received encouragement and thanks because they tend to subvert the fundamental Government of Church and Common-wealth and cast all into the Chaos of confusion whereby the Grandees may have occasion to keep up this Army and perpetuate their Tyranny and our burdens And from these Tumults of their own raising the grandees pretend a necessity to keep this Army about this Town to watch advantages against it Cromwell having often said This Town must be brought to more absolute obedience or laid in the dust in order to which the Souldiers are now disarming the Country and then the City is next who being once disarmed must prostitute their mony-baggs to these fellows or be Plundered Reader having spoken my sense to thee I leave thee to thy own sense submitting my self to as much Charity as God hath endowed thee withall God that made all preserve and amend all This shall be the daily prayer of him that had rather die for his Country than share with these Godly Thieves in eating out the bowels of his Country and enriching himself with publick spoyls The History of INDEPENDENCY YOU have in The mystery of the two Juntoes The Preaâ—ble Presbyterian and Independent presented to your view these two Factions as it were in a Cockpit pecking at one another which rising originally from the two Houses and Synod have so much disturbed and dislocated in every joynt both Church and Common-wealth I must now set before you Independency Triumphant rousing it self upon its Legs clapping its wings and crowing in the midst of the Pit with its enemy under its feet though not yet well resolved what use it can or may make of its Victory But before I go any farther it is fit I tell you what Independency is It is Genus generalissimum of all Errors Heresies Blasphemies 1 What Independency is and Schisms a general Name and Title under which they are all united as Sampson's Foxes were by the Tails And though they have several opinions and fancies which make their vertiginous heads turn different wayes yet profit and preferment being their Tails their last and ultimate end by which they are governed like a Ship by his Rudder and wherein they mutually correspond the rest of their differences being but circumstantial are easily plaister'd over with the untempered Morter of hypocricy by their Rabbies of the Assembly and their Grandees of the two Houses and Army in whom they have an implicite faith As Mahomet's Alchoran was the Gallemaufry of Jew and Christian so are they a Composition of Jew Christian and Turk Independenâ—â— is compounâ—ed of Judaism with the Jew they arrogate to be the peculiar people of God the Godly the Saints who only have right unto the Creatures and should possess the good things of this World all others being Usurpers a Tenent so destructive to humane society and civil Government that by vertue hereof they may and do by fraud or force Tax eat up with Free-quarter cozen and plunder the whole Kingdom and count it but robbing the Egyptians To this purpose they overthrow all the Judicatures Laws and Liberties of the Land and set up Arbitrary Committees Martial-Law and Weather-cock Ordinances in their room made and unmade by their own over-powring faction in Parliament at pleasure with the help and terror of their Janisaries attending at their doors â—ristianism With the Christian some of them but not all acknowledge the Scriptures but so far only as they will serve their turns to Pharise themselves and Publican all the World besides men filled with spiritual pride meer Enthusiastiques of a speculative and high flying Religion too high for Earth and too low for Heaven whereas a true and fruitful Religion like Jacob's Ladder Stat pede in terris caput inter nubila condit must have one end upon earth as well as the other in Heaven He that acknowledgeth the duties of the first table to God and neglecteth the duty of the second table to Man is an Hypocrite both against God and Man â—rcism With the
Answer â—o the Scots Declaration About the 24 of February the Answer to the Scots Declaration began to be debated in parts in which Debate the Covenant was much undervalued and called An Almanack out of Date Nathaniel Fiennes argued against it That that clause in the Covenant To Defend the Kings Person Crown and Dignity c. was inconsistent with their four Votes for making no Addresses to the KING To which was answered by some That then they would relinquish the four Votes and adhere to the Covenant About the beginning of March was given to Col. Sydenham and Col. Bingham 1000 l. a piece as part of their Arrears 80. Money shared amongst godly Members their Accounts not yet stated To the Lord of Broghil 2000 l. To Mr. Fenwick 500 l. for losses To Mr. Millington 2000 l. for losses To Col. Ven 4000 l. notwithstanding in was moved he might first account for Contribution money the plunder of the Country about Windsor and the Kings Houshold-stuff Hangings Linnen and Bedding Mr. Purie the Petty-bag office besides 1000 l. formerly given him To Purie's Son the Clerk of the Peaces place and 100 l. a year all Independents The 7. of March an Ordinance passed the Commons to settle 2500 l. a year land out of the Marquess of Worcesters estate 81. Cromwel upon Lieut. Gen. Oliver Cromwel I have heard some Gentlemen that know the Mannor of Chepstow and the rest of the Lands setled upon him affirm that in the particulars the said lands are so favourably rated that they are worth 5000 l. or 6000 l. a year It is farther said those lands are bravely wooded You see though they have not made King CHARLES a glorious King as they promised yet they have setled a Crown Revenue upon Oliver and have made him as great and glorious a K. as ever John of Leyden was Wonder not that they conspire to keep up this Army as well to make good these Largesses as to keep their guilty heads upon their Shoulders Thursday 9. March 82. A Message froÌ„ the Lords desiring the Commons concurrence to the Ingagement of the Members with the Army The Ingagem approved by threats the Lords sent a Message to the House of Commons To desire their concurrence to the Ingagement of those Members that fled to the Army to live and die with the Army It was debated all day untill 7. of the clotk at night and at last the ques ion put That this House doth approve the subscription of the said Members to the said Ingagement The House divided upon the question yeas 100. noes 91. Observe 1. that Mr. Solicitor Haslerig and many more when they perceived difficulty in passing it began to skirmish with their long Sword again And many told them they must live content without dores meaning the Army as well as within else all would go naught 2. 44. Of those Members that ingaged with the Army sate in the House and Voted in their own case many of them carrying themselves very high and insolent in their gestures and expressions 3. Many Presbyterians left the House because it was late and some as it is thought not daring to Vote in the Negative 4. This Engagement about six months ago had been sent to the Commons by the Lords once or twice and was rejected yet now was obtruded upon them again by the Lords who would not acquiesce contrary to the privileges of the House of Commons 5. This approbation thus surreptitiously gotten is equal to a Pardon sued forth before Conviction which in Law amounteth to a Confession of the Crime 83. The temper of the House tried had the Ingagement not been approved a new Charge from the Army intended 6. The Agitators tell you in Derby-house Projects pag. 7. That this Engagement was sent down to the Commons to try the temper of the House and if the House had not approved of the Eagagement the resolution of their secret Counsel was to fly to their Armes and make a new Charge against their principal opposers for they acknowledge amongst themselves That they Rule by Power only and that the House of Commons is no longer theirs than they overawe them and that they fear the Critical day will come which will discover the Parliament to be no longer theirs than while they have a force upon it As men ready to sink embrace every shadow of help and catch hold of leaves twigs and bulrushes to support them so these desperate and purblind protectors having engaged themselves in a way of Tyranny out of which they can find no issue lay hold of frivolous inventions to peece up from time to time their ill-laid designs like the man in the parable That patched up his old Garment with new cloath which breaking out again left the rent wider than it was before Their last project was to unite all Interests in the Houses City and Army 84 A project to unite all Interests To which purpose Cromwel the heaviest basest and most ridiculous Tyrant that ever any noble Nation groned under made a Speech in the House of Commons To which was Answered That the Members were chosen and trusted by the people to pursue one common Interest which was the common good the safety and Liberty of the People and whosoever had any peculiar Interest eccentrick from that was not fit to sit in that assembly and deserved to be called to a strict account by those that trusted him Observe See the Argument against all accommodatioÌ„ between the City and Grandees c. and the seasonable caution to the City printed at the latter end of this Book that the extent of this project was to conjoyn these three Interests from upholding the greatnesse of the Grandees in the Parliament City and Army for in all three the vulger multitude and the more modest and honest sort are but in the same condition with other men the Parliament bearing the Authority the Army the Sword and the City the purse The first shall be the Task-masters and impose Tribute The second the Sheriffs or rather free-booters to leavy it by distresse And the third the Brokers to receive and buy it off But it pleased God to bestow so much providence and integrity upon the City that when upon Saturday 8. April 1646. Cromwel and his fellow Grandees offered this temptation at a Common-Councel to them The City grew wiser than our first Parents and rejected the Serpent and his subtilties insomuch that Cromwel netled with the affront called his Solicitor Glover to account by what Authority he had offered the restitution of the Tower and Militia and the inlargement of their accused Aldermen who answered he did it by his Authority and delivered him a Warrant to that purpose signed by Sir Thomas Fairfax Oliver Cromwel Mr. Solicitor and young Sir Henry Vane which Cromwel had the impudence to put in his pocket Cromwel had felt the pulse of the City long before by his Agents Glover and Watkins
is never unfurnished with dormant Articles of Faith upon all emergent occasions 15. Supposititious Privileges of Parliament see The History sect 105 106. so the Grandees are never unprovided of dormant Privileges of Parliament which they call by a new canting word lex Parliamenti in opposition to lex Terrae with these they boulster out their designs These Privileges were much insisted on in their Impeachments of the Members and Aldermen and whosoever pleads against them in his own defence and flies from those Privileges to the known Laws for Sanctuary is cried out upon for overthrowing the Jurisdiction and Privileges of Parliament and therefore guilty of Malignancy thus John Lylburn suffers if he does not plead against them he laies his head on the block at the mercy of those mercilesse men This net caught many a Wood-cock until the said Aldermen and Sir John Maynard broke through it and spoiled the cock-road The Grandees of the Parliament and Army have so totally subverted our fundamental Government and Laws 16. The confusion this Monarchy is btought unto see The History sect 105 106. that they have neither Monarchy nor Common-wealth left non jam Respublica sed magnum latrocinium est we have not so much as a face and shadow of Government remaining we have a KING de jure but so wholly eclipsed and disabled to perform Acts of Government by his close imprisonment that for the present we have no King de facto and every man doth what seemeth good in his own eyes we have Magistrates Judges and Justices de facto but not being constituted and ordained by any lawfull Authority nor under any authentical Great Seal according to the Laws of the Land they are not Magistrates and Judges de Jure so that if we look upon the King our Supreme Governour our violent Grandees have brought an Inter-regnum upon us If upon our Magistrates Judges c. they have brought a Justitium a totall eclipse of Justice upon us It follows then that both the imperative and coercive power of the King and Magistrates the legislative power of the Parliament the judicative power of the Judges and Justices are all suspended and in Abeyance and like a Watch when the principal wheels are broken no part can move to perform its function Contzenius the Jesuit in his Pol saies He that will introduce a new Religion or a new form of Government must utterly abolish the old and erect his new Fabrick upon the ruines of it You see they have been apt Scholars in this doctrine of the Jesuite this 7 years which they have spent in Demolishing but what form of Government our Grandees wiâ—â— eâ—eâ—t upon the ruines they have made doth not yet appear nor how all just interests and mens particular Estates shall be preserved from being buried under the ruines of this earthquake 17. The Regal Legislative and Judicative power usurped The King is the only supreme Governour of this Realm of England to regulate and protect the people by commanding the Laws to be observed and executed and to this end He and He alone beareth not the Sword in vain yet the KING by himself can neither make repeal or alter any one Law without the concurrence of both Houses of Parliament the Legislative power residing in all three and not in any one or two of the three Estates without the third and therefore no one or two of them can exclude the other from having a Negative voice in passing repealing or changing of Laws nor can the King by himself or joyntly with the Lords and Commons judge what the Law is this is the office of the sworn Judges of the two Benches and Exchequer who are the known Expositors and Dispensers of Law and Justice in all causes brought before them yea they do declare by what Law the King governs thereby keeping the KING from governing arbitrarily and enslaving the People And these Judges of the Law have always been authorized by the King and all legal proceedings have been in his Name and by his Authority 1200 years before Magna Charta granted or any set form of Parliament established The Law it self is called the Kings Law the Realm the Kings Realm He is the fountain of justice mercy honour witnesse all our Statues Law-Books and Histories and the Oaths of Supremacy which every Member taketh before he sits in Parliament Now for any one man or any Assembly Court or Corporation of men be it the two Houses of Parliament to usurp these three powers 1. The Governing power 2. The Legislative power 3. And the Judicative power into themselves is to make themselves the highest Tyrants and the people the basest slaves in the world for to govern supremely by a Law made and interpreted by themselves according to their own pleasure what can be more boundlesse and arbitrary they may put to death whom they please for what cause they please and confiscate his estate to their own use yet this the two Houses of Parliament or rather an overpowring party in the two Houses seasoned with a Schismatical humour of singularity have lately done 1. For the Governing power 1. They coyn enhaunce and abate money 2. They make War and peace and continue an extraordinary Militia of an Army upon us 3. They declare who are Enemies to the Realm 4. They maintain forein negotiations 5. They regulate matter of Trade and exercise other Regalities whereas all Jura Regalia belong only to the King as Supreme Governour 2. For the Legislative power They exclude the King from his Negative Voice and the two Houses obtrude their Ordinances things so new that they are not pleadable in any Court of Justice as Laws upon the people laying an excise Assessements and Taxes upon the People They Vote and declare new-Treasons not known by the statute 25 Edw. 3. nor by any other known Law yea even to make or receive any addresse to or from the King and they account it a breach of Privilege if men do not believe it to be Treason being once declared They out men of their free-holds and imprison their Persons contrary to Magna Charta by Ordinances of Sequestration c. 3. For the Judicative power They erect infinite many of new Judicatories under them as their Committees of complaints of secret Examinations of Indempnities their Country Committees where businesses are examined heard and determined without nay against Magna Charta and the known Laws nay even in capital crimes they wave the Courts of Law and all Legal proceedings by Outlawry Indictment or Tryal by Peers and Bill of Attainder which is the only way of Tryal in Parliament For the Parliament cannot judicially determine any thing but by Act of Parliament and set up new-invented forms of proceeding before the Lords even against free Commoners although the Lords be not their Peers as in the case of the four Aldermen c. and the Arch-bishop of Canterbury They defend these doings by a pretended necessity
Speaker of the House of Commons worth 2000 l. per an besides rewards for courtesies not to say Bribes Master of the Rolls worth 3000 l. per an beside the sale of Offices Chamberlain of Chester in the Earl of Darbies place And until of late Chancellor of the Dutchey of Lancaster worth 1230 l. per an and one of the Commissioners of their great Seal worth 1500 l. per an and had 6000 l. given him at one time by the House 2. Bulstrode Whitlock Commissioner of the great Seal worth 1500 l. per an and had 2000 l. given him out of Mr George Minn's estate 3. Edmund Prideaux formerly a Commissioner for the great Seal worth 1500 l. per an Now by Ordinance practices within the Bar as one of the Kings Councel worth 500 l. per an and is Postmaster for all Inland Letters worth 100 l. every Tuesday night beside his supper and it was thus got The Lord Stanhop the Postmasters and Carriers of England complained in Parliament against Mr. Witherings and others touching the carrying of Letters whereupon the benefit of forein Letters were given to the Earl of Warwick worth 5000 l. per an and the Inland Letters to Mr. Prideaux good Parliament Justice 4. Roger Hill a Barrester of the Temple in no practice nor of a considerable estate till this Parliament hath now from the House the Bishop of Winchesters Mannor of Taunton Dean being the best of England and worth 1200 l. per an when the estates for lives determine 5. Humphrey Salway the Kings Remembrancer in Mr. Fanshaw's place worth 200 l. per an 6. Francis Rous Provost of Eaton in Dr. Stewards place worth 600 l. per annum and hath got a College Lease worth 600 l. per annum 7. John Lisle Barrester of the Temple Master of St. Crosses in Dr. Lewes his place being a place for a Divine and worth 800 l. per annum 8. Oliver St. John by Ordinance both Attorney and Solicitor to the King worth what he please to make it and hath the passing of all Pardons upon Commissions worth 40000 l. 9. Sir William Allison Alderman of York Clerk of the Hamper worth 1000 per an he hath Crabb-Castle worth 600 l. per an Sometimes the Bishop of Yorks in York-shire 10. Thomas Hoile Alderman of York Treasurers Remembrancer in the Exchequer in Sir Peter Osburn's place worth 1200 l. per annum 11. Thomas Pury Senior first a Weaver in Glocester then an ignorant Countrey Solicitor had 3000 l. given him and Mr. Gerrards place in the Petty-bag worth 400 l. per an 12. Thomas Pury Junior Son to the Elder Receiver of the Kings Rents in Glocester and Wilts Clerk of the Peace of Glocester-shire worth 200 l. per an and Captain of Foot and Horse the first year of this Parliament servant to Mr. Towneshead an Attorney of Staple Inne 13. William Ellis Steward of Stepney worth 200 l. per an and by him sold to one of the Temple 14. Miles Corbet at the beginning of the Parliament 3000 l. in debt for himself and his Mother more than he was worth now one of the Registers in Chancery worth 700 l. per an besides Chair-man for scandalous Ministers worth 1000 l. per an And hath money in his purse 15. John Goodwyne the other Register in Chancery worth 700 l. per annum 16. Sir Thomas Widdrington a Commissioner of the great Seal worth 1500 l. per. an 17. Edward Bishe Garter Herauld in Sir Edward Walkers place worth 600 l. per an 18. * Walter Strickland Agent in Holland for the two Houses of Parliament worth to him 5000 l. 19. Nicholas Love Mr. Speakers Chamber-fellow one of the six Clerks in Chancery in Mr. Penruddocks place worth 2000 l. per annum 20. Sir Gilbert Gerrard much in debt before the Parliament pay-master to the Army and had 3d. per pound allowed besides Gratuities worth 60000 l. and now Chancellor of the Dutchey worth 1200. per an 21. Gilbert Gerrard his second son Clerk of the Dutchey and for whose benefit the Clerk-ship of the Assize in Norfolk is granted to Mr. Edward Garret his Cozen by the procurement of Sir Gilbert and is worth 500 l. per an 22. John Selden had given him 5000 l. of which he received 2500 l. pound 23. * John Bond Son to Dennis Bond a Parliament man made Master of Trinity-Hall in Cambridge which Mr. Selden refused to accept of 24. Sir Benjamin Rudiard given him 5000 l. And hath he not deserved it 25. * Lucas Hodges Customer of Bristol 26. Sir John Hipsley hath the keeping of three of the Kings Parks Mary-bone-Park that was Mr. Carewes Hampton-Park and Bushy-Park and given him 2000 l. in Money 27. Sir Thomas Walsingham the Honour of Eltham that was the Earl of Dorsets the middle-Park and house which was Master Whines and hath cut down 4000. Timber Trees 28. Benjamine Valentine given him 5000 l. 29. * Sir Henry Heyman given him 5000 l. 30. Denzell Hollis given him 5000 l. 31 * Nath. Bacon given him 3000 l. 32. * John Steevens given him out of the Lord Astley's Composition 1000 l. 33. * Henry Smith made one of the six Clerks worth 2000 l. per annum 34. Robert Renolds had 2000 l. given him Besides Abingdon-Hall and the Lands worth 400 l. per annum Hath bought a good penny-worth of Bishops Lands hath 20000 l. beyond Sea as he made appear upon his Mariage 35. Sir John Clotworthy Treasurer for Ireland and by the Army charged with defrauding of the State of 40000 l. which may be one reason the King could never get an Account of the monies raiâ—ed for the Irish though he desired it 36 â—ohn Ashe given him out of Mr. John Coventry's Composition 4â—00 l. out of Sir Edward Mosely's 1000 l. out of Mr. Edw. Phâ—â—'s 1200 l. out of Sir John Powel's estate 8000 l. And which is wâ—â—ll this is the great Chairman at Goldsmiths Hall Is not this better than cloathing 37. * John Lenthall son to the Speaker made one of the six Clerks worth 2000 l. per annum 38. * Francis Allen a poor Goldsmith at St. Danstans in Fleetstreet now made a Customer for London In honour of whom clipped moneys are called Allens 39. Giles Green the Reciver of York-shire being put out of his place got it for his Son-in-Law is Chair-man for the Navy and for Sir Thomas Daws his estate and what it was worth to him Sir Thomas Daws his Creditors will tell you for they got nothing 40. Francis Pierpoint hath the Arch-bishop of York's Lands lying in Nottingham-shire 41. William Pierpoint hath 7000 l. given him and all the Earl of Kingston's personal Estate worth 40000 l. 42. * John Palmer Mr. of All-Souls in Oxford in Doctor Shelden's place a Divine 43. * John Blackeston a poor shop-keeper in New Castle was Executor to the Executor of Sir John Fenner trusted with 6000 l. for Charitable uses and was sued in Chancery to perform the trust but got himself returned a
Burgess for New-Castle by the Scots Garrison there had 3000 l. given him out of one Gentlemans Composition and out of others as much as made it up 12000 l. as was made appear at a Committee before Mr. Sandis of the Temple Chair-man hath also a Cole-meeter's place worth 200 l. per annum and the Bishop of Durham's Castle at Durham and Lands of great value 44. Tho. Ceely long a Prisoner for debt helped out by the Parliament and made Recorder of Bridgewater 45. * Thomas Moor an Officer in the Custom-house and his brother Governor of Ludlow 46. * Scawine given him 2000 l. 47. Isaac Pennington twice broke once Lieutenant of the Tower a year and a half Lord Mayor of London before his time had 7000 l. given him and hath store of Bishops Lands 48. Samuel Vassel given him 1000 l. 49. Oliver Cromwel Leiut Gen. hath 2500 l. per an given him out of the Marquess of Worcesters Estate for which 4000 l. per an is set out at the rate of 2500 l. 50. Sir Wil. Brereton Col. Gen. for the Cheshire Forces hath Cashobery and other Lands of the L. Capels worth 2000 l. per an and the Archbishops house and Lands at Croiden where he hath turned the Chappel into a Kitchin A goodly Reformation and fits with his stomack as well as his Religion 51. * Thomas Waite Collonel Governour of Burley where he thrives so well as he is now buying 500 l. per an who before was not able to buy 5 l. a year 52. Sir Oliver Luke decayed in his Estate Collonel of H rse 53. Sir Samuel Luke his Son Collonel and Scout-master for the Counties of Bedford c. 54. * Thomas Gell Leiut Col. to Sir John Gell made Recorder of Derby in Mr. Allistrie's place 55. Valentine Walton Collonel and Governour of Lin Regis 36. * Richard Norton Collonel Governour of Southampton 57. * Edward Harvy late a poor Silk-man now Col. and hath got the Bishop of London's House and Mannor of Fulham 58. Edward Rossiter Collonel and Generall of all the Lincolnshire Forces and Governour of Belvory Castle 59. * Sir Michael Livesey Col. Sequestrator and Plunder-master General of Kent 60. * Henry Ireton son in Law to Lieutenant General Cromwel Colonel and Commissary General 61. * Richard Salway Col. formerly a Grocer's man 62. * John Birch formerly a Carrier now a Colonel 63. * Thomas Rainsborough a Skipper of Lin Col. Governour of Woodstock and Vice-Admiral of England 64. * Robert Black Col. Governour of Taunton 65. * Francis Russel Colonel 66. * Rowland Wilson Colonel 67. * Robert Harley Col. son to Sir Robert Harley 68. * Richard Brown Major General and Governour of Abingdon 69. * Peter Temple Captain of a Troop of Horse 70. * John Ven Colonel Governour of Windsor had 4000 l. given him 71. * Algernon Sidney Governour of Dover-Castle 72. * Richard Ingolsby Colonel Governour of Oxford 73. * John Hutchinson Colonel Governour of Nottingham 74. * Sir John Palgrave Col. at the siege of Newark 75. * Edmund Ludlow Governour of 76. * Cornelius Holland renteth as much of the Kings Grounds for 200 l. per an as is worth 1600 l. or 1800 l. per an 77. * Philip Skippon Sergeant-Major-General of the Army Major-Gen of London and Governoor of Bristol had 1000 l. per an lands of inheritance given him 78. * Charls Fleetwood Colonel 79. * Thomas Westrow Capt. under Sir Michael Livesey was nothing worth until a Captain and a Parliament man and now hath gotten the Bishop of Worcesters Manor of Hartlerow which proves he hath two good and beneficial offices 80. Henry Martyn Col. of a Regiment of Horse and a Regiment of Whores 81. Nathaniel Fiennes Col. once Governour of Bristol Thereby hangs a Tail 82. Anthony Stapley Col. Governour of Chichester 83. Alexander Rigby Col. and Governour of Bolton 84. Charls Pym Captain of a Troop of Horse 85. Sir Arthur Haslerig Colonel Governour of New-Castle and hath the Bishop of Durham's house Park and Manor of Aukland and 6500 l. in money given him 86. William Jepson Colonel 87. Sir Thomas Middleton Major-General for Denbigh and five other Counties 88. Godfrey Boswell Colonel 89. The Lord Gray of Grooby son to the E. of Stamford Col. and hath given to him the Queens Manor house Park and Lands at Holdenby and ther 's a great fall of the Woods 90. Sir Will. Constable Col. Governour of Glocester he sold his lands to Sir Marmaduke Langdale for 25000 l. and is restored to it again by Parliament 91. Sir Will. Purefoy Col. and Governour of Coventry fought resolutely against the Crosse in the Market place at Warwick and against the Ancient Monuments in the Earls Chappel in St. Maries Church there for which he had 1500 l. given him but when he should have fought with the Enemy hid himself in a Barley-field for which a Water-man at Temple stairs that had been his souldier refused to carry him 92. Sir Edward Hungerford Col. famous for plundering Warder Castle hath the Lands of the Countesse Dowager of Rutland worth 1500 l. per an and she allowed but 500 l. 93. Harbert Morley Col. Plunder-master of Surrey 94. John Moor Col. of the Guards and for some time had the benefit of Passes out of London 95. Walter Long Col. had 5000 l. and the Office of Register for 4. years 96. Sir Will. Waller General and lost two Armies yet a gainer by the employment 97. John Allured Col. 98. Michael Oldsworth no Col. but Governour of Pembroke and Mountgomery and hath a share with his Lord out of Sir Henry Comptons Office worth 3000 l. per an and is Keeper of Windsor Park 99. Tho. Scot a Brewers Clerk formerly hath the Bishops house at Lambeth 100. Master Ashhurst when he went Commissioner into Scotland had the Clerk of the Peaces place for Lancashire and 1000 l. in money given him Besides these Offices Commands and Gratuities every Member of the House of Commons being in all 516. are by their own Order allowed 4 l. per Week a man which amounts to 110000 l. per annum By the Ordinance for sequestring Delinquents 1 April 1643. it was declared That their Estates should go for maintenance of the Publick Affairs and several Ordinances designed Bishops Lands for pay of 200000 l. Publick debt Yet by this and the following Centuries thou shalt see how both Delinquents Estates and Bishops Lands are by Members of Parliament shared amongst themselves whilest the 200000 l. is unpaid the publick affairs supported by unsupportable Taxes and that Dutch Devil Excise that insensibly devours the poor and will impoverish the rich These are they that with Hananiah break the wooden yoke from our necks 28 Jeremiah and put on one of Iron free us from a little Ship-money paid thrice in an Age and impose as much at once for a Monthly Taxe quit us of the Monopolies of Tobacco and set up Excise on Bread and Beer The first easeth the wanton rich man and the
latter grindeth the needy and poor Yet these are thy Gods O London these are the Idol Calves the People have set up and do worship these be the Molec to whom ye sacrifice Sons and Servants by Troops Regiments and Armies to maintain their soveraignty rebellion and profit And that these and other their actions may never be questioned they His Majesties loyal and obedient subjects will always Imprison their King continue their Army perpetuate their Parliament and intail their Member-ships as the Priesthood on Levi upon confiding Families to furnish them with Votes as Mr. Gilbert Gerrard and his 2 Sons Brampton Guidon and his 2 Sons Sir Robert Harley and his 2 Sons 3 Fines 2 Ashes 4 Stephens 4 Pelhams 4 Herberts 4 Temples it were endlesse to name the Father and the Son Brother and Brother that fils the House they come in couples more than unclean Beasts to the Ark 2 Vanes 2 Puries 2 Chaloners 2 Bacons 2 Pierpoints 2 Bonds 2 Onslowes 2 Lenthals c. And that our Ecclesiasticks may comply with our Temporal Governors the Houses abolish as superstitious because Legal the Convocation of learned Divines regularly summoned by the King 's Writ and duly elected by the Clergy and the House of Commons nominates an assembly of gifted Divines indeed wicked Simons that slander the Godly Onias 2. Mac. 4. to out him of his Priests place so that at this day there is not one Assembly-man but is illegally thrust into anothers Benefice a Catalogue of whose names and Preferments expect shortly and with them a view of the Militia and Common-Council-men of London observing what Places Offices and salaries they have from the Houses of Parliament and then thou wilt know the reasons of their Votes and Actions in the City You see in part what the Grandees have done for themselves Consider after 8 years sitting what they have done for the people when amongst all their Propositions to the King for Peace hardly any one respects the good of the People but their own grandeur and profit They demand a Militia to keep up this Army upon us which is not the Kings to give No King of England ever governed by a standing Army They demand likewise power to raise what Forces for Land and Sea consisting of what Persons they please to presse and to raise what money to maintain them out of all mens Estates to be laid on at their discretion and as partially as they please so that they may favour one Faction and oppresse the other at pleasure for so much the Act for the Militia as it is penned imports and this is more than his Majesty hath power to grant The late Militia of Trained Bands and the Posse Comitatus under Sheriffs being the only legal Militia of England will not serve their turnes It hath always been the Policy of England to trust the Militia and sword in one hand viz. the KINGS and the Purse that should pay them in another viz. the PARLIAMENTS whereby one power might bound and limit the other For to put the Sword and the Purse into one hand is to make that hand absolute Master of our Persons and Estates and so reduced us to absolute slavery under the Arbitrary power of one man without appeal or redresse Awake and look about you good People THE END AN APPENDIX TO The History of Independency BEING A brief description of some few of ARGYLE'S proceedings before and since he joyned in Confederacy with the Independent Junto in ENGLAND With a Parallel betwixt him and Cromwell AND A Caveat to all his seduced Adherents CICERO Totius injustitia nulla capitalior est quam eorum qui cum maximè fallunt id tamen agunt ut viri boni esse videantur LONDON Printed in the Year 1648. AN APPENDIX TO The History of Independency BEING A brief description of some few of Argyle's proceedings before and since he joyned in confederacy with the Independent Junto in ENGLAND With a Parallel betwixt him and Cromwell AND A Caveat to all his seduced Adherents THe Covenant being at the first taking held to be the true Touchstone whereby the Religious Royal Subjects were discerned from all those who were unwilling to submit to the yoke of Christ in matters of Religion or to the just and lawfull Government of our dread Soveraign his Vicegerent now a subtil generation of men or rather Vipers in both Kingdomes who did take the Covenant and did magnifie it so long as it could serve them for a Ladder to mount to their intended Greatness being now at the top have kick'd away the Ladder and standing as it were on the pinacle look with disdain on all their old friends who out of the integrity of their hearts did for the good of Religion and His Majesties honour joyn in that solemn engagement it being far from their thoughts that their modest and humble desires for the Reformation of some abuses both in Church and State all which His Majesty in the respective Kingdoms did or was willing to cure should have struck so deep as to endeavour the overthrow of all lawfull Governments Civil and Ecclesiastical bringing instead of a promised Reformation in Religion a cursed Toleration of the most damnable Sects Errors and Heresies that ever Hell did send forth and for the Civil State instead of a well-setled Monarchy a most confused tyrannical Anarchy quite contrary to the words and meaning of the Covenant and the honest intentions of all true-hearted Religious and loyall Subjects in the three Kingdoms who did take that solemn Covenant with a purpose to keep it and of very many thousands who did never take the Covenant yet very good Protestants and loyall Subjects being more affrighted with the compulsory way of enforcing it on all than unsatisfied in the matter being introduced in a legal way none of these deserving the name of Malignants or to be so cruelly dealt with either for their persons or Estates as hath been too too common in both Kingdoms but the Covenant it self doth best decypher who are Incendiaries Malignants and evil Instruments viz. those who hinder the reformation of Religion who divide the King from His People or one Kingdom from another or make any Faction or Parties amongst the people contrary to the League and Covenant Yet by our new tenets none must be called Malignants but those that have loyall hearts towards their Soveraign though otherwise never so Religious and all of them with Master Martin would gladly make the Covenant an old Almanack that they might be rid of that tie of preserving His Majesties Person and Authority in the preservation and defence of the true Religion and Liberties of the Kingdoms that the world may bear witness with their consciences of their loyalties and that they have no thoughts or intentions to diminish His Majesties just Power and Greatnesse As the History of Independency hath discovered the practices of the Independent Junto so this Appendix will discover their chief Confederate in Scotland
a force consulting in the House without their fellow Members advice or concurrence about speedie Deposing and executing CHARLES their lawfull Soveraign to please the Generall Officers and Counsell of the Army who have usurped to themselves the Supreme Authoritie both of King and Parliament or rather the Jesuits and Popish Priests among them 1. By the Common Law the Stat. 25. Edw. 3. Cok. 5. Inst 4. 1. Stamf. Pleas of the Crown l. 1. c. 1 2. and all other Acts concerning Treason It is High Treason for any man by overt act to compass the death of the King or his eldest Son though never executed and so adjudged by Parliament in the Earl of Arundels Case 21 Ric. 2. Plac. Coronae n. 4 6 7. 2. In the Oath of Allegiance which every man takes before he sits in Parliament you acknowledge him to be lawful and rightful King of this Realm and that the Pope neither of himself nor by any authority of the See of Rome or by any other means with any other hath any Power or Authority to depose the King c. Exact Collect. p. 16 19 21 59 66 83 102 103 118 123 125 141 142 143 173 180 195 219 259 281 307 380 312 360 376 457. A Collect c. p. 13 18 41 43 44 49 51 61 64 96 181 182 340 341 424 425 499 599 623 696 806 807 879. Appendix p. 15. 3. Your selves amongst other Members in above one hundred Remonstrances Declarations Petitions Ordinances c. in the name of the Parliament have professed You never intended the least hurt injury or violence to the Kings Person Crown Dignity or Posterity but intended to Him and His Posterity more Honour Happiness Glory and Greatness than ever any of His predecessors enjoyed That you would make good to the uttermost with your Lives and Fortunes the Faith and Allegiance you have alwaies born to him That all Contributions Loans should be imploied onely to maintain the Protestant Religion the Kings Authoritie Person Royal Dignitie Laws of the Land Peace of the Kingdome and Priviledges of Parliament That the Forces raised by the Parliament were for defence of the Kings Person and of both Houses That the Parliament will ever have a care to prevent any danger to his Person That they are resolved to expose their lives and fortunes for maintenance of the Kings Person Honour and Estate and the Power and Priviledges of Parliament when the King taxed the Houses for insinuating Exact Collect. p. 298 695 696 657 658 991. That if they should make the highest Presidents of other Parliaments their pattern that is depose the King there could be no cause to complain of them Both Houses by two Declarations protested against it saying That such thoughts never entred nor should enter into their loyal hearts Collect. of all Orders p. 8 13 41 43 44 49 51 61 64 96 99 623 696 879. Appendix p. 15. 4. By the Protestation They declare in the presence of God to defend the Kings Person and Estate and that their Armies under Essex and Fairfax were raised for that purpose inter alia 5. By the National Covenant They vowed to defend the Kings Person and Authoritie in preservation of true Religion and Liberties of the Kingdom and that they will all the daies of their lives continue in this Covenant against all opposition 6. You monopolize the Supreme power into your own hands robbing both King Lords and the rest of your fellow Members thereof whom you are content should be violently shut out by your Army who have leavied War against the Parliament to dissolve it till the removall of which force and restoring your Members with freedom and safety Also 15. E. 3. n. 5. 17 E. 3. n. 2 6. 18. E. 3 n 1. 2. 5. c. 1. R. 2. n. 1. 2. R. 2. n. 1. 3. R. 2. n. 1. 4. R. 2. n. 1. 5. R. 2. Parl. 1. n. 1. Parl. 2. n. 1. 8. H. 4. n. 28. you ought not to sit or Act in your Armies own doctrine in their Remonstrance Aug. 18. and by the Declaration and Ordinances of both Houses Aug. 20. 1647. Sec 21. R. 2. c. 12. 1. H. 4. c. 3. 31. H. 6. c. 1. 39. H. 6 c. 1. See the memorable Record 6. E. 3. Parl. apud Ebor. n. 1 2 dorso clauso 6. E. 3. m. 4. 6. E. apud Westm. Parl. 2. n. 1. 13. E. 3. Parl. 2. n. 4. many more Rolls where Parliaments when any considerable number of Members of either House were absent refused to sit though under no force till the House were full You have neither Law nor president for what you do Edw. 2. Rich. 2. were forced by Mortimer and H. 4. to resign their Crowns in a formall way one to his Son the other to his conquering Successor neither of them to the Parliament and at last Deposed by a subsequent Sentence of Parliament as unfit to Reign without any formall Triall * 72. The Armies party in the H approve the matter of the Co of Officers accusatory Ans against the secured Memb with out hearing them See Mr. Io Geerees Ans to that silly Sophister Io Goodwin called Might overcoming right Jan. 11. 1648. The House read the Answer of the Generall Counsell of the Army concerning the secured and secluded Members and as I have formerly said without hearing what the said Members could say for themselves approved the matter of it whereupon the secured and secluded Members 20. Jan. 1648. with much ado got printed their Vindication against the Aspersion cast upon them in The humble Answer of the Generall Counsell of the Officers of the Army concerning the securing secluding of the said Members The sum whereof is as followeth 73. The sec and secl Memb. Defence against the scandalous An of the C of W By the Preamble of this Answer and by the Proposals of the 6. Decemb. and the late Declaration and Remonstrance therein cited it appears this Design to break the House by force hath been long since plotted and contrived with action The Generall Councell of the Army in their said Answer say Is a course in it self irregular and not justifiable but by honest intentions and extraordinarie necessitie the weakness of which Answer we must examine but first must state the case b tween us They are an Army raised by Ordinance of Parliament of 15. Febr. 1644. for defence of King and Parliament the true Protestant Religion the Lawes and Liberties of the Kingdom and to be from time to time subject to such Orders and Directions as they shall receive from both Houses of Parliament and to this end they stand commissioned by them and receive pay from them to this day And besides this trust thus lying upon them they are under the obligation of a solemn Covenant sworn to God That they will in their place and callings with sincerity reality and constancy with their estates and lives preserve the Rights and Priviledges of
the Parliament and the Liberties of the Kingdom and defend the Kings Person and Authority in defence of the true Religion and Liberties of the Kingdom they being under the said trusts and Oath march up to Westminster contrary to order in a hostile way forcibly secured secluded and drove away many of the Members the Question is Whether this Action be Justifiable upon pretence of Honest intentions and Necessity Their good intentions cannot be known but by their expressions and actions and they referre us to their Proposals Declarations and Remonstrances where we find their desires are 1. To take away the Kings life 2. To take away the lives of the Prince and the Duke of Yorke at least to dis-inherit both them and all the Kings Children 3. To put a period to thiâ— Parliament 4. To set up a new Representative of their own which takes away all Parliaments 5. To have an Elective King if any These are their Honest intentions for publick good which must come in to justice their waging warre against their Masters this Parliament To name them is to confute them as being apparently against the Laws of God and the Land under which they live and which they are engaged to maintain we shall produce no other Witnesses to prove this but themselves On the 15. of Novemb. 1647. The agreeement of the People which is lower in demands than these which they call Honest intentions for publick good was condemned by the Army The promoting it in the Army judged mutinous and capital Col. Rainsborough and Major Scot complained of in the House for appearing in it and-the Paper it self adjudged by the House destructive to Government and the being of Parliaments The second pretence or principle is Extraordinarie Necessity for the same end To this we say 1. The Armie made the same plea of necessity in their Remonâ—â—rance June 23. 1647. upon quite contrary grounds to what they exp ess now and both to justifie the same viol nt proceedings against the Parliament then when the King was seized upon by a party of the Armie without Order from the House and the Army advanced against the Parliament They say in their Letter to the House July 8. 1647. There have been several Officers of the Army upon several occasions sent to his Majestie The first to present to Him a Copie of the Representations and after that some others to tender Him a Copie of the Remonstrance Vpon both which the Officers sent were appointed to clear the sence and intentions of any thing in either paper Turn back to sect 2. and see my Animadvers upon the Army 20 Nov. 1648. p. 4 5 6 7. whereupon his Majestie might make any Question There the Army treated with the King yet now they offer violence to the Parliament for treating with the King Then in their Remonstrance 25 June 1647. they say We clearly profess we do not see how there can be any peace to this Kingdom firm and lasting without a due consideration of and provision for the rights quiet and immunities of His Majesties Royall Family and his late partakers now they judge the majority of the House corrupt for moving one step towards a peace with the King The Parliament thought it not reasonable the King should be sole Judge of publike necessity in case of shipmony Return to sect 18. where I set down six of their Principles though he hath now granted more to them then all the Armies Proposals then demanded of Him Thus they make this general plea of Necessity serve to justifie the considerations which they are put to by making themselves Judges of those things they have no calling to meddle with for by what Authority are they Judges of publike Necessity 2. This principle Necessity is destructive to all Government for as the General Officer urgeth necessity for acting against the Commands and Persons of his Superiours and arrogates to be Judge of that Necessity the Inferiour may urge the same Necessity in his judgement to act against the Commands of his General The Souldiers ' gainst their Officers any other 20000. men in this Kingdom against this Army and this Army as against this Parliament so against any other Representative or Government and so in infinitum 3. The Commons have their Authority from the Writ of Election though their election from the people See the Writ Cromton's Jurisdict of Court Tit Parliamen The Commons in Parliament are not accountable for the use of their trust to any but the House being Trustees of the People not by Delegation but by translation all the power of the people being transferred to them for advising voting and assenting according to their judgements not according to the judgements of those that sent them for otherwise the parties electing and those elected differing in judgement one might protest against what the other had done and so make void all Acts of Parliament But if their Acts were valid or void at the Electors judgements yet were the Members onely accountable to them that sent them not to Strangers and in no case to the Army who are themselves but in subordinate trust to the Parliament for their defence 4. This violence upon the Members is not onely contrary to the Armies trust but against their Covenant and Protestation the breach whereof being a morrall evill cannot be made good by honest intentions and necessity The particulars of the said Generall Officers Answer upon which this pretended Necessity is grounded are six but we must first take notice what is said from the end of the 2. pag. to the end of the 5 before we enter upon them the summe is In all new Elections there were 2. Independents chosen for one of any other principles Independents were then Commissioners for the Great Seal and delivered Writs to men of their own Party who had the advantage to keep them and chuse their own time to deliver them and Souldiers under colour of keeping the peace became great Sticklers in Elections That by the endeavours of some old Malignant Members and by practises used in new Elections there came in a floud of new Burgesses that either are Malignant or Neuters To this we say what is done by the majority is the Act of the whole House and what is done against the majority is done against the whole House nor was the Ordinance for New Elections carried on by old Malignants unless the major part of the House were alwaies such and before the new Elections It is not hard to shew that many of the Officers of the Army came in upon the last Elections and were chosen by those places where they are scarce known upon what influence therefore they came in let the world judge And now for the said 6. particulars objected The Army betrayed Ireland by their disobedience They would neither go for Ireland themselves nor suffer others to go 1 part sect 16. 55.57 1. The betraying of Ireland into the Enemies hands by
or any nine of these they entrust the Administration of this Utopian Common-wealth and these they would have us believe without telling us so are the Keepers or Gaolers of the Liberties of England These things being but Introductions to the Usurpation of these Kinglings and having been already shewed to the world by many pens I content my self to give a cursory view of them and haste to my intended task to shew that this Usurped power is kept and administred by as wicked and violent policies as it was gotten by The first endeavour of all Tyrannical Usurpers is To lessen the number of their Enemies either by flattering and deceiving them or by violently extirpating and rooting them out And such have been the attempts of our new Cromwellian Statists ever since without any calling from God or the people they took upon them the Supreme Authority of the Nation subverted our well-mixed Monarchy and created themselves a Free-State 1. They endeavoured to sweeten and allure to act with them 1. A Collusive Accommodation as many of the Secured and Secluded Members Ministers and other Presbyterians as they could to the end that ex post facto being guilty of their sins they might be engaged in one common defence and go halfs with them in their ignominy and punishment though not in their power profit and preferments in which the Godly will admit no Rivals but like their Patron the Devil cry all 's mine But this Design failed for the most part 2. Their second Endeavour was how to diminish the number of their Opposites 2. An intended Massacre Royalists and Presbyterians by a Massacre for which purpose many Dark Lanthorns and Poniards were provided last Winter 1649. But fame prevented this plot which coming to be the common rumour of the Town put them in mind of the danger infamy and hatred that would overwhelm them So this was laid aside At last they invented two other Engins no less bloody then and as effectual as a Massacre 3. The Engagement is the first of these two Gins which all persons are enjoyned to subscribe by their Act 2 Jan. 1649. 3. The Engagement To be true to the Common-wealth of England as it is now established without a King or House of Peeres And this is obtruded under no lesse penalty than To be totally deprived of all Benefit of Law whatsoever Now the Lawes of the Land being the only Conservators of our Lives Liberties and Estates without which Lawes all men have a like property to all things and the strongest have right to all is possest by the weaker since the Law onely distinguisheth Meum and Tuum what is this but to expose the Liberties of the Non-Engagers to false Imprisonments our Estates to rapine spoil and injustice and our Lives and Persons to wounds and murders at the will and pleasure of such as will engage with our Usurpers but especially at the pleasure of their own Souldiers to whom I conceive this Outlawry was intended as an Alarm or Invitation to plunder and massacre the Non-Engagers and to pay themselves their Arreares of which these Parliamennt men have cousened them out of their Estates and though the Souldiers were not so wicked as their Masters yet we daily see many good Families in England despoiled of their Estates for want of protection of the Lawes brought to miserable beggery rather than they will wrong their consciences by subscribing this damnable Engagement contrary to the Protestation and Covenant imposed by this Parliament contrary to the known Law of this Land which this Parliament hath declared to observe and keep in all things concerning the lives liberties and properties of the people with all things incident thereto contrary to this Parliaments reiterated Votes that they would not change the Ancient Government by a King Lords and Commons And contrary to the Oathes of Allegiance Obedience and Supremacy whereby and by the Stat. of Recognition 1 Jac. our Allegiance is tied onely to the King his Heirs and lawful Suceessors from which no power on earth can absolve us and so much we attest in the Oath of Supremacy Politicus Interpreter to our new State-puppet play Numb 19. from Sept. 19. to Sept. 26. out of the dictates of his Masters tells us that in Answer to the Kings Act of oblivion granted the Parliament intends to pass an Act of General pardon for which they expect in future a General obedience and submission to the Government you see though they will not be the Kings subjects they will be his Apes and in the beginning of the said Pamphlet Politicus saith That Protection implies obedience otherwise they may be handled as publick Enemies and Out-laws and ought to be destroyed as Traitors Here you have the end to which this general pardon is intended it is but a shooing-horn to draw on the utmost penalty upon Non-engagers appointed by the said pretended Act 2. Jan. 1649. to weed them out of this good Land that the Saints only may enjoy the earth and the fulness thereof to which purpose all their new coyned Acts and Laws are directed The Scripture points forth these kind of men when it saith The Mercies of the wicked are cruel The sum of all is If we will not acknowledge Allegiance to these Mushromes we shall be Traitors without Allegiance a Treason never yet heard of in any Law If we will acknowledge Allegiance we put our selves in a capacity to be Traitors when they shall please to make us such But let them know That we are all Englishmen Free-born alike under the protection of an ancient legal Monarchy to which we owe Allegeance and how we come to forfeit that legal Protection our setled Laws and Government and be subjected to a New unknown protection obtruded upon us by a company of upstarts Mushromes of Majesty so mean in birth and breeding for the most part that the place of a Constable equalls the highest of their education imposing what Laws and conditions upon us they please I would be glad to hear without being hindred by Guns Drums High Courts of Justice and other Instruments of Violence and Murther But the greatest Mystery in this cheat is That our Self-created Supremists having voted the original power to be in the people and but a derivative Authority to be in themselves as the Representative of the people should notwithstanding so yoak their Sovereign Lord the people and make them pay Allegiance to their own Delegates the eighth part of a House of Commons under the penalty unless they subscribe as the far major part have not of out-lawing and depriving all the people of this Land of all benefit of the Laws they were born to and consequently of annihilating and making them no longer a Nation or people As if they were meer Salvages newly conquered collected and formed into a politick body or Commonwealth and endowed with Laws newly invented by the Novice Statists But the unlawfulness of the said Engagement with the
forgotten how justly they formerly had been laid aside but they are like the dog that returnes to his vomit and with the sow that is washed to her wallowing in the mire The good old cause what it is And the better to cast a seeming gloss over the foulness of their actions and their clandestine intrusion into the Government they send forth a Declaration in print the particulars whereof might very well have been here observable if they had not already been so cleerly demonstrated by the laborious pen of learned Mr. William Prinne in his book entituled The Republicans good old cause stated having therein so fully detected them Remainder of Crown lands to be sold that there remains nothing more to be said in the same matter And now as if already they had not wasted enough by exposing to sale the Kings Queens Princes Nobles and Gentries Lands and Goods being very quick sighted and of a long and large memory whereby they knew all was not sold therefore about the beginning of June to shew us further what they meant by the good old cause they ordered the bill for publick sales to be brought in A sweet act to enrich the saints as they in their canting language called themselves but their necessities by the long deteining of the publick purse from them being grown very pressing and though they thought the money arising from those sales would be sure yet for their present urgencies not being able to stay till that could be raised they appointed the same afternoon to consider of a more speedy way for raising money for that was all they ever aimed at or hoped for and to this purpose a bill of Assessement is concluded the most fitting Quaâ—enda pecunia primum est And because they would leave no stone unturned from which they might hope gain see how ingeniously they can project making an order to the Committee of inspection a precious crew to take speciall care that such persons who have assumed the titles of Honour Dignities and precedencies heretofore conferred on them by the late King since the same were taken away by act of this present Parliament do pay the severall summes of money by them forfeited Honours gâ—ven by the late King or his Son to be null and that the said Committee do also examine whether they have brought in their Patents and to report how the said monies may be employed to the best advantage of the Common-wealth and to offer an act to take away all honours conferred by the late Kings Son Was there ever such a piece of unseemly inconsistency that the Fountain of honour should be debarred of its spring by a company of peasants whose Acts were no better than of an assembly of rogues at beggars bush but would you know why they were so much troubled 't was precedency that stuck in their stomachs those noble souls went before them both in honour and honesty therefore seeing they could not hinder them from being called Lords by others yea the generality they lay it as a crime of pride upon them that they did assume such titles for which imaginary fault they must pay the summes forfeited for such insolence against their Rumpships O this Auri sacra fames quid non mortalia pectora cogit what will it not make them do They first must pay then bring in their Patents otherwise pay again thus the Divel rangeth fiercest when his time is most short for so generall was theirs hoped to be in regard they and their Masters of the Army could not cotton together The Army fright the Grandees being already alarumed from them by a petition and address yet they grew a little more confident upon the newes of Harry Cromwells submission and falling down to worship the image which they had set up Moncke also having about the same time sent them the resolutions of himself and his Army to adhere to them as a testimony whereof he informed them of a design of an Agent from the King of Scots as they called him which his diligence and care in the Highlands had prevented These newes so animated our Juncto that thinking all cocksure Money matters only taken notice of they fall to their old Trade of raising money First by assessements then by continuing the Excise and Customes untill the first of October and lastly by ordering the Trustees for sale of Crown Lands forthwith to proceed to the sale of all computed within the Act for sale thereof and that they take care of the profits arising from the same for the use of the Common-wealth till sale thereof be made Money being thus taken care for to be raised by all means suddenly after by a Vote they revive the Committee for plundered Ministers or rather for plundering Ministers that so they may also provide them of hacknies who shall infuse into the people strange Enthusiastick wayes of Government Plundered Ministers and Tythes It was not enough with Jeroboam to cause a generall rebellion but with him also to uphold it they make of the lowest and basest of the people Priests of their high places for whom the old way of tythes is not thought good enough it was consulted how a more equall and comfortable maintenance might be setled on the ministry for satisfaction of the people whom thus intending to lull asleep they resolve to advance their own safety by colloguing with the land forces with promises of sudden pay Seamen to be impressed and strengthening the Navy by impressing Seamen which about this time in June they were about And lest they should be wanting to themselves in any thing mercenary drudges of the Juncto begin to take upon them as may appear by this order 22. June 1659 By the Contractors for sale of Crown Lands Crown lands exposed These are to give you notice that Somerset-house with the Appertenances and Hampton-Court with the parkes c. Thereunto belonging are speedily to be exposed to sale and that the Contractors intend to sit on Wednesday next the 29. instant to take in desires of such as intend the purchase of any part of Somerset-House and on VVednesday the 6th of July the desires of any that intend the purchase of any part of Hampton-Court the premises are to be sold for ready money Will. Tayler Clark attending the said Contractors Indeed the last clause for ready money was very nenessary as affairs then stood for the Grandees at Westminster having only wasted and imbezelled the rest by divisions and sharings among themselves and friends with no advantage to the publick Exchequer they would now seem to begin to amend but it is according to the Proverbe like sowre ale in Summer for they intended nothing less than increasing the publick stock but rather by augmenting and converting it to their own use make a hoped provision against an ensuing storm which they foresaw would ere long fall upon them without any means of prevention yet resolving to share the
spoil as long as they could at Midsummer they re-made their everlasting Speaker Offices bestowed and on whom Custos rotulorum of Oxford and Berkshires And that worshipfull Judas Sir H. Mildmay Custos rotulorum for Essex with severall other the like places to diverse of their leading members as the Government of Jersey to Col. Mason and severall Regiments in Ireland to Col. Cooper Col. Zankey Col. Sadler H. Cro mwell leaves I eland and Col. Laurence Having proceeded on thus far succesfully they now begin to clap their wings as invincible Ireland being delivered up wholly and quietly into their power by that pitifull cowardly Impe H. Cromwell who had already attended their pleasure at the Commons bar for which good service they stroaked him on the head told him he was a good boy for which kindness he bussed his hand made a leg and Exit But leave we him to stupid folly and let us see what rates Crown land bears the Contractors lately were very busie and behold the product June 29. 1659. By the Trustees and Contractors appointed by Act of Parliament for sale of the Castles parkes c. exempted from sale by a former Act. These are to give notice that there are Competitors for the purchase of Somerset-House Sommerset-house set to sale ctc. with the Appurtenances in the Strand Middlesex which therefore is to be exposed to sale for ready money by the box to be opened on Friday the eight of July next The annuall value being 233. l. the gross value of materialls c. 5545. l. 1. s 3. d. At which time such as desire to purchase the same may put in their papers with their name subscribed into the box aforesaid at VVorsester-House conteining how many years purchase not under 13. they will give for the annuall value c. and he that offers most is to have the purchase VVill. Tayler Clarke c. At the same time they appointed to sell ten brace of Buckes or more out of Hampton-Court Parkes and so from time to time Thus did they strive to make havock of whatever belonged to the King which indeed and no other was the good or rather cursed old cause that these miscreants so lustily fought for and so loudly cryed up And now lest they should seem ingratefull to Richard Cromwell who had so tamely left the chair of State to these Mountebanks to sit in they vote him an exemption from all arrests for any debt whatsoever for six moneths and appoint a Committee to examine what was due for mourning for the late Lord Generall Cromwell R. Cromwell protected and to consider how it may be paid for without charge to the Common-wealth Kind Gentlemen surely they are they take all he hath from him and then allow him a pension they rob him of a pound and give him a farthing not a feather of his own bird and well so too for his ambitious stepping into the royall seat deserved a greater punishment which 't was a wonder how he escaped since Usurpation and Tyranny in different hands are generally vehement scourges to each other and alwayes torments to themselves as will appear by the sequel For these godly great ones being now newly warm in their seats New plots and jealousies begin as of old to dream of Jealousies and fears Plots Plots nothing but Cavaleer plots rings either in their ears or mouths if two Gentlemen do but meet accidentally in the Street and talk together straight there is a confederacy and they must be committed to prison for doing nothing so that we might say with that Noble Romane Cicero Circumspice omnia membra Reipublicae quae nobilissima sunt nullum reperitur profecto quod non fractum debilitatumve sit O rem miseram dominum ferre non potuimus conservis vero jam servimus A sad cause of complaint to live in such a slavery but our Taskmasters would fain seem mercifull witness their Act of Indemnity Act of indemnity pardons all but Cavaliers which came out in print about July wherein they except none from pardon but only such whose consciences are not large enough to approve of open Rebellion as the last clause of their said mock-Act will shew wherein all are debarred the benefit of the same even from sixteen years of age unless they subscribe against a single person Kingship or house of Peers all sins can be digested by these fellowes except lawfull obedience to magistracy which they so abominate that all persons that are tainted therewith must not only depart out of London but out of England in either whereof if they be taken they shall be proceeded against as Traytors and all persons are impouered to take and apprehend them for encouragement of which roguery every one that discovers or takes such a person was to have ten pounds from the Councill of State Surely they are in a great fear else what should they make all this noise and bustle so furiously on a sudden to settle and raise a new militia but latet anguis in herba for now it being the Dog-dayes the house grew so hot that diverse members withdrew whereby the rest in regard of their fewness being become incapable to act because not enough to make up a house according to their own phantasticall modell on Friday 22. of July did Resolve Members to attend That the Members of Parliament who have had Letters to attend the service of the Parliament or have actually attended since the 7th of May 1659. be hereby injoyned to give their attendance in Parliament every Morning at eight of the clock for fourteen dayes and if employed by Parliament within a fourtnight Alas poor men the harvest truly was great but the labourers few therefore it was time to call for more help for which now they are so put to it that they hardly know which way to turn themselves they complain of designes of buying up of Armes to disturbe the peace which made a great one among them say this restless Spirit of the common Enemy should excite the friends of the Common-wealth to diligence and to study unity that advantage may not be given by divisions but that we may be all of one Spirit to uphold and promote the common cause that hath been contended for And the better to colour their villanies according to their usuall custome in like cases when they had mischief to do they set apart a day of fasting and humiliation A fasting day set a part for mischief and to shew that they were the same men and of the same if not worse mind than formerly for rapine and blood they proclaim J. Mordant Esquire with severall others traytors and order the Lady Howard Sr. E. Byron and Mr. Sumner to be brought to a speedy triall for dangerous and trayterous designes of bringing this Nation into blood and confusion again that is for endeavouring to restore his Sacred Majesty to his lawfull birth-right and dominions for which the