presented to him The Bills concerning private persons I omit Those that are of a publick nature were as followeth 1. The Additionall Explanatory Petition and advice 2. An Act to adjourn this Parliament till the 20th of January London July 1. This day his Highnesse the Lord Protector was proclaimed in the City with great solemnity About ten a clock in the morning at Whitehall Gate the persons met who were to give attendance upon this Ceremony First the Messengers belonging to the Councill next Trumpetters next them the lifeguard of his Highnesse after them other Trumpetters next his Highnesse his Gentleman after them more Trumpetters next divers officers of the Army gallantly mounted then Trumpetters again next the Searjants at Armes and the Heralds of Armes and Garter principall King of Armes betwixt two Gentlemen-Ushers before his Highnesse Councill in their Coaches proceeding in this order to Temple-Bar At this place they were met by the Lord Major mounted on horseback in his Crimson Velvet Gown and his Colleâ— of ss. with the Recorder and Aldermen of London all in their Scarlet on horseback attended by his Officers Trumpetters and the loud Musick of the City From thence an officer of Arms proceeded before the Aldermen then next before the Lord Major his Mace-bearer the Sword-bearer with his cap of maintenance and a Herald of Armes Then proceeded severall Serjeants at Armes belonging to his Highnesse and councill with Norroy King of Armes next after them Garter principall King of Armes between two Gentlemen Ushers going immediately before the Lords of his highnesse councill and the principal secretary of State in their coaches In this manner they proceeded towards the Royal Exchange making two stands by the way First at chancery-lane end over against the Inner Temple gate where Proclamation was made by the common crier of London according to the tenor of the proclamation already published by act of Parliament the Lord Major Councill the Aldermen of London and all Officers standing bare The second stand was made in Cheapside at the end of Woodstreet where proclamation was made as before Thence they proceeded in order to the Royal Exchange ariving there at Exchange time where Proclamation was made as in all other places by sound of Trumpet in the form aforesaid and the humble petition and advice was published after which the Trumpets sounding three loud acclamations were made by the people Long live the Lord Protector Whitehall Novemb. 5. The fury of the Jesuited popish party in Poland having of late with all violence been executed in a barbarous manner upon the reformed professors who are of the Bohemian confession in those parts insomuch that the Churches are dispersed and the poor christians forced to fly into forein parts for safety of their lives divers of their exiled Pastors being come into England to seek for reliefe the case of the poor exiles stands referred by his Highnesse and the Councill to the consideration of those worthy and pious persons Ministers and others who are the Committee for Piedmont The most inhumane persecutions lately acted by the Papists and their party in Poland against our Brethren of the Reformed Religion are some of them as followeth The first remarkeable is that of Lesna a populous wealthy city and the great refuge of the Reformed who frequently came thither from other parts for shelter The church there was divided into three congregations the Bohemian the Polonian and the German This City they first set upon intending to put all to the Sword and destroy it with fire but the Citizens having notice of their coming on quitted the City leaving all their wealth behind flying through Woods and Boggs into Silesia so that the enemy entring without resistance found none but aged and bed-rid persons whom they barbaroufly flew and after they had plundered the City they reduced it to ashes In other places they cruelly murthered divers Minister of the Word and people of all ages and Sexes making them to end their lives by exquisite tortures The Pastor of the Church of Czvirzin had his eyes first pulled out because he would not renounce the faith then they pulled off with Pincers the Joynts of his fingers but he still remaining constant they poured moulten Lead into his mouth and lastly putting his head between the shuts of a door they severed it from his body The Pastor of the Church of Dembnick and two others after many vilanous abuses offered to their persons had their throats cut Finding also a young Minister in the field they cut off his head with a Sithe and afterwards mangled his body The like cruelty they acted also upon a citizen of Lesna and worse upon many others not sparing even the weaker sex nor children A pious Matron of Lesna with her three children not getting quick enough out of Town was murthered in the open street her hands and feet cut off and two of her children with their heads cut off laid upon her breasts the third by her side A Diuine burnte in the middell of his bookes his Childe pulled from the brest tost on a speare Cords drawne thorow the legs Armes Mens guttes pulled out of there mouthes A Catalogue of the names of those Honourable Persons who are by writ summoned to sit in the other house of Parliament THe Lord Richard Cromwell The Lord Henry Cromwel Lord Deputy of Ireland Nathaniel Fiennes John Lisle Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal Henry Lawrence Lord President of his Highness privy Council The Lord Charls Fleetwood Robert Earl of Warwick Edmond Earl of Mulgrave Edward Earl of Manchester William Lord Viscount Say and Seal Lord John Cleypole Mr. of the Horse Philip Lord Viscount Lisle Charls Lord Viscount Howard Philip Lord Wharton Thomas Lord Fauconbridge Lord John Disbrow Lord Edward Montague Generals at Sea George Lord Evre The Lord Whitelock Sir Gilbert Pickering Col William Sydenham Sir Charls Wolseley M. G. Philip Skippon Lord Strickland Col. Philip Jones Sir William Strickland Francis Rous Esq John Fiennes Esq Sir Francis Russel Sir Thomas Honywood Sir Arthur Hesilrigg Sir John Hobart Sir Richard Onslow Sir Gilbert Gerard Sir William Roberts John Glyn Oliver St. John Lords Chief Justices William Pierrepoynt Esq John Jones Esq John Crew Esq Alexander Popham Esq Sir Christopher Pack Sir Robert Tichborn Edward Whalley Esq Sir John Barkstead Knight Lievtenant of the Tower Sir Thomas Pride Sir George Fleetwood Richard Ingoldsby Esq Sir John Hewson James Berry Esq William Goffe Esq Thomas Cooper Esq Edmond Thomas Esq George Monck Commander in Chiefe of his Highnesse forces in Scotland David Earle of Castils Sir William Lockhart Sir Archibald Johnston of Warriston William Steel Lord Chancellor of Ireland The Lord Broghil Sir Mathew Tomlinson In number Sixty The Reader is to excuse this List if the names be not set down in their due order because the Copy came to my hand as here you see it Some Heads of the Speech made by His Highnesse January 1657. HIs Highnesse
inheritance XIIII The King of Denmark is to restore also to the King of Sweden all such places he took from him in this War and the three ships taken from the Swedish in the Sound are to be prized and the value thereof is to be restored to the Crown of Sweden XV The King of Denmarke is to resign to the King of Sweden all the claims which he pretends to any place in the Island Rugen XVI The King of Denmark is to be reconciled with the Duke of Hostein upon such tearmes as may stand with justice and equity and make an agreement answerably XVII The Forts and castles taken by either party are to be restored but not any Artillery and Amunition and the Subjects of Denmarke are to carry the Swedish Artillery to such places as the King of Sweden shall appoint XVIII Count Vlefield is to be restored to his goods and all his Revenues and charges shall be paid back from that time as the Commissioners shall determine His Lady and Mother in Law shall have liberty to dwell in Denmark where they please the Fees which he and his Son had as Hursholm Moene Hellingen and St Johns Cloyster he is to enjoy again according to the priviledge which they had there and his Lady also is to be restored to her due title of Honor XIX The published Minifestor of the King of Denmark is to be revoked and neither printed nor sold any more XX The King of Denmark is to let the King of Sweden have 2000 Horse and 2000 Foot Whitehall March 12. This afternoon the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common-Councill of the City of London came hither in a Body to attend his Highnesse as also the Commanders and Officers of the Army And being admitted to his presence his Highnesse was pleased in a Speech at large to represent unto them the danger wherein they of the whole City and the whole Nation were involved at present by reason of the new designes of the old Enemy Charls Stuart and his confederates abroad and his party here at home who have been at work secretly to imbroil the nation again in Blood as soon as he should be able to make his intended invasion His Highness also told them that he knew this to be true That he knew it by Letters of theirs intercepted by certain intelligence from abroad of their proceedings and by information from the mouths of such persons as had been engaged to act with them He acquainted them likewise that the Lord of Ormond whom some now call the Duke of Ormond in person had been lately here for three weekes together being come over on purpose to promote the design by encouraging and engaging as many as he could in and about this City and that he went away again on Tuesday last Also in order to this invasion Charls Stuart was waiting in Flanders having about eight thousand Men quartered in severall places near the water side as at Brugges Brussells Ostend c. And that two and twenty hired Ships were in readinesse to transport them waiting only for the opportunity of some darke night to slip by our Fleet which they may the more easily perform ours being ships of great burthen drawing much water and so not able to ride upon the Flats And therefore seeing a reall danger so near at hand and that the peace and safety of the City and the whole Nation is Highly concerned in it he desired the Citizens might be sensible of it and how much it behoves them to provide for their own and the Nations security And to that end his Highnesse recommended to the Lord Major and the Body of the City the setling of their Militia and that it might be setled in the hands of Pious and sober men well affected to the present Government and such as are free from discontent and faction persons that may carry on the worke with alacrity and discretion to put the City in a posture of defence that they may be in a condition to suppresse tumults and insurrections designed by the Enemies of our Peace and Prosperity Many other particulars his Highnesse insided on to give them an account of the present state of affairs and of divers past transactions but having no notes to help my memory and being afraid lest I may already have faln short in relating the Heads of what was more copiously and much better spoken I have only this to adde That the citizens expressed much cheerfulnesse in the presence of his Highnesse and departed with very great satisfaction Whitehall March 27. These following persons having been lately presented from the City to his Highnesse and the Councill to be added to the Committee of the Militia in London they are accordingly approved Sir Thomas Foot Knight William Thomson Walter Bigge Iohn Frederick Tempest Milner Thomas Chaundler Aldermen Charls Lloyd Therphilus Biddulph William Gower Esquires Mr. Maurice Gethin Mr. Thomas Steynes Mr. Iames Edwards This day a Presentation was made of the following Addresses to his Highness and it was presented by the hand of the noble Lord the Lord Charls Fleetwood attended by the Officers of the Army To his Highnesse the Lord Protector of the Common wealth of England Scotland and Ireland c. The Humble Addresse of the Officers of your Highnesse Army WE being deeply sensible of the continuall dangers from the common enemy that have attended your Highness person and of the immense weight of businesse for the good of the Nation that hath lain and still lieth upon you together with the great opposition from severall sorts of enemies that you have met with ever since you were pleased to undertake the Government for the procuring the quiet and promoting the prosperity of this Common-wealth do judge it our duty to contribute as much as in us lyeth to strengthen your Highnesse hands and obviate the designes of your enemies And therefore do as one Man with plainnesse and sincerity of heart declare unto your Highnesse That notwithstanding the base Calumnies and Lies your and our enemies have cast upon us and dispersed throughout the whole Nation That your Army is divided and much of it from your self We doe remain through the mercy of God firmly united one to another and all of us to your Highnesse as our Generall and Chief Magistrate and hope that God hath so in love and faithfulness cemented us together as that neither the subtilty of Satan nor the malice of crafty and ill-affected men shall be able to severe us And we make it our earnest and humble request to your Highnesse That as a mighty man strengthned by the Lord you will run and not be weary in that race God hath set you in till it please the Lord you have setled the great ends of all our former engagements our civill and spirituall liberty which we hope is already in a good measure well provided for by The Humble Petition and advice And in all your actings tending thereunto We doe freely and heartily engage
A Further Narrative of the Passages of these times in the Common-Wealth OF ENGLAND An Act for renouncing and disanulling the pretended Title of Charls Stuart and for the taking away of the Court of Wards and Liveries the Judgment of the House of Commons pronounced by Mr. Speaker against James Naylor the Quaker WITH The Triall of Miles Sundercombe being indicted of high Treason for conspiring against the life of his Highness the Lord Protector Feb. 9. 1656. A DAY Of Publick thanksgiving for the marvellous goodnesse of God to this Nation in the Island of Teneriffe under Generall Blake and giving them great success against the Ships of the King of Spain 16. fier'd and not one of ours lost An exact relation of the manner of the solemn Investiture or happy Inauguration of his Highness the Lord Protector at Westminster June 26. 1657. With his Oath and the Oath of the privy Councell and every person who now is or hereafter shall be a Member of either House of Parliament before he sit shall from and after the first of July 1657. take the same With a particular account of the taking in of the Fort of Mardike in Flanders by Dunkirke with the names of the House of Lord And some heads of the speech made by his Highnesse to both houses Jan. 1657. Which Parliament was dissolved the 4th of Feb. 1657. Printed by M. S. for Thomas Jenner at the South entrance of the Royall Exchange AN ACT FOR Renouncing and disanulling the pretended Title of CHARLS STUART c. FOr the better establishment of the peace of this Common-Wealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Territories and Dominions thereunto belonging and for the prevention of the designs and attempts of the enemies thereof The Knights Citizens and Burgesses in this present Parliament assembled Do in the name of all the people of this Commonwealth fully freely absolutely and for ever Disclaim and Renounce all Fealty Homage or Allegiance pretended to be due unto Charls Stuart eldest Son of the late King Charls James Stuart second Son of the said late King Henry Stuart third Son of the said late King or any other the Issue or posterity of the said late King or any person or persons pretending or which shall at any time hereafter pretend Title by from or under him them any or either of them to hold or enjoy the Crowns of England Scotland and Ireland or of either or any of them or to have the Name Title Stile or Dignity of King or Queen of Great Britain King or Queen of England Scotland and Ireland Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwal Prince of Scotland Duke of Albany Duke of Rothesay Duke of York Duke of Gloucester any or either of them or to have and enjoy the Power Government or supream Magistracy of this Commonwealth or of any part thereof or of any the Territories or Dominions thereunto belonging or to have or enjoy as King or Queen of England Scotland and Ireland or of either or any of them Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwal Duke of Albany Duke of Rothesay Duke of York Duke of Gloucester or Prince of Scotland all or any the Honors Manors Lands Tenements Possessions and Hereditaments heretofore belonging or appertaining to the said Crowns of England Scotland and Ireland or to any or either of them or to the Principalitie of Wales Dutchy of Lancaster or Cornwal or any or either of them And be it declared and Enacted by his Highness the Lord Protector and this present Parliament assembled and the Authority thereof That the said Charls Stuart James Stuart Henry Stuart and all other the Issue and Posterity of the said late King and all and every person and persons pretending or which shall or may at any time hereafter pretend Title or Claim from by or under him or them be and are and shall for ever be absolutely and utterly excluded and debarred from holding or enjoying the Crown of England Scotland and Ireland or any or either of them or any the Dominions or Territories thereunto belonging and from holding or having the Name Title Stile or Dignity of King or Queen of Great Britain King or Queen of England Scotland and Ireland or any or either of them or of any the Dominions thereunto belonging Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwal Prince of Scotland Duke of Albany Duke of Rothesay Duke of York or Duke of Gloucester and from all Title Claim or Right as King or Queen of England Scotland and Ireland or of either or any of them Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwal Duke of Albany Duke of Rothesay Duke of York Duke of Gloucester or Prince of Scotland unto all or any the Honors Manors Lands Tenements Possessions or Hereditaments heretofore at any time belonging or appertaining to the said Crowns of England Scotland and Ireland or any or either of them and also from having exercising or enjoying any Power Authority Government or Magistracy in or over this Commonwealth or any the people thereof And that all such Right Title Claim or pretence of Right Title or Claim which they or any of them at any time heretofore at present or in time to come have doe shall or may make is hereby declared and adjudged and shall for ever hereafter be adjudged and taken to be utterly void and of no effect And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid and it is enacted That if any person or persons shall endeavour or attempt by force of armes or otherwise or shall be aiding assisting comforting or abetting unto any person or persons that shall by any wayes or means whatsoever endeavour or attempt the reviving or setting up of any pretended Right Title or Claim of the said Charls Stuart James Stuart Henry Stuart or of any other the Issue or Posterity of the said late King or of any person or persons claiming under him or them to any the Offices Stile Title Dignity or Authority aforesaid or any of them or shall declare publish or any way promote such pretended Right Title or Claim or shall give or contribute any summe or summes of Money or other aid or assistance to the said Charls Stuart James and Henry any or either of them That then every such offence shall be and is hereby deemed and adjudged high Treason and all and every the Offender and Offenders therein their Counsellors Aiders and Abettors being thereof convicted within three years after such Offence committed shall be deemed and adjudged Traytors and shall suffer and have such pains of Death and forfeitures as in case of high Treason is used and ordained Hen. Scobell Clerk of the Parliament AN ACT For the taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries WHereas the four and twentieth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred forty five the Court of Wards and Liveries and all Wardships Liveries Primer-seizins and Oustrelemaines and all other Charges incident or arising for or by reason of Wardships Livery Primer-seizin or
to have murthered himselfe his Body was according to Law drawn to the open place upon Tower-Hill at a Horses Taile with his head forward and there under the Scaffold of Common execution a Hole being digg'd he was turned in Starke naked and a Stake spiked with Iron was driven through him into the earth That part of the stake which remaines above ground being all plated with Iron which may stand as an example of terror to all Traytors for the time to come A narrative touching Col. Edward Sexby who lately dyed a Prisoner in the Tower Tower of London Jan. 20. COl Edward Sexby was by Warrant dated the 24 of July 1657. committed to the Tower of London close Prisoner for High Treason who within Ten dayes after he came in thither fell sick of an Ague and a Vomiting conceived to be the new disease then predominant which turned into a Feaverish distemper in which sicknesse he continued about nine weeks the strength thereof being so great that it brought him into many distracted fits for a great part of that time in which condition he would Cry out often That he was damned and in Hell and utter such like Expressions and his usuall answer to them that spake any thing to him was That it was a Lye yet notwithstanding lie was under that condition of 〈◊〉 he had some-intervalls wherein he spake very rationally 〈◊〉 severall times when he thought himselfe in a Condition like to dye he would send for the Lievtenant of the Tower with all speed and sometimes late in the Night season causing him to be called out of his Bed affirming that he had somthing of secrecy to reveale unto him in reference to the State and Commonwealth before his death But when the said Lievtenant of the Tower was come to him and that he found his fainting Qualms over and that he was a little better he would fall into other discourse and say The Devill would not let him speak out the Truth nor let him reveale any thing although he had before resolved to it and had much to speake to by way of Discovery yet one day viz. the 12. of October 1657. being well come to himself and having sent for the Lievtenant he was so ingenious as to confesse in part saying unto him Sir John I sent to you to tell you that I am guilty of the whole buisiness of Sindercomb as to the design of killing the Lord Protector c. and to that purpose I furnished Sindercomb with about 500 l. in Money and also with Arms and tyed him to an Engagement that he should not reveale the design And further he said The Letters they have of mine they could not prove them to be mine but by my own confession which I now confesse and acknowledge that they are mine and that I was with Charls Stuart and acquainted him that I was an Enemy to the Lord Protector and I also declare that I received a large sum of Mony from the Spaniard to carry on my said design and to make what confusion I could in England by endeavouring the Klling of the Lord Protector and by what other wayes I had in design and to the end the better to effect it I came into England in a disguised habit and was the principal in putting on others in the said design Many other like passages were spoken by him in presence of many credible witnesses and within two dayes after in the presence of Mr. Caril Minister and others he did acknowledg the former confession to be truth but said it was indiscreetly done of him to acknowledge the letters which they had of his at Whitehall to be his own seeing they could not otherwise prove it and before he had again seen and viewed them And then he again confessed That he was the only man that put on Sindercomb to kill the Lord Protector and that the Book called Killing no Murder he owned and said he was 〈◊〉 of that judgment yet said it was both foolishly and knavishly done in that book to charge the Lievtenant of the Tower touching Sindercombs death With severall other passages which for brevity sake are omitted As to his condition in his sicknesses He falling sick as is before mentioned sent for his own Physitian which was of his acquaintance viz. Doctor Brook who finding him under a Feverish distemper caused him to be let blood and blistered by attractive Medicines laid to his Feet and Arms to draw forth the malignity and he was thereby reasonable well recovered again But not observing his Doctors directions And although his Physitians and Nurses and all people that were held conduceable to his accommodations in all his sicknesses from first to last were made choice of by him and his wife and other relations Yet as to his Diet he wilfully humored and pleased his own appetite whereby he fell into a relapse which brought him into the height of madnesse for a time But after a while by following his doctors prescription he was recovered out of that distracted condition by application of Medicines only he continued disconverted in minde and used many subtil shifts and wiles to have the Guards taken from him and was somthing perplexed because he could not effect it although he was in a great measure recovered from his bodily weaknesse for some season till about the last of December that he complained of something rising in his throat and had stoppages that he could scarce breath and feared an Imposthume to be gathered in his throat and broken and that he should not have strength to bring it up His Wife then sent for a Woman to wash and cleanse his throat but his distemper increasing and coming up to the height of a malignant Fever Doctor Brook his former Physitian was sent for who when he came to him upon the fourth of January instant found him in great sweats and his throat sore and inflamed and that he was in a high Fever having red spots or Pustules with white watery wheyish matter in them like the Chicken Fox upon his Brest Neck and Arms All which the said Doctor judged to come from the putrefaction of his humors heightned by the violence of his former madnesse The Lievtenant of the Tower being made acquainted in what a dangerous condition he was ordered another Doctor and a Chirurgion to be sent for to view him and to advise with Doctor Brooke what they judged of him and what was best to apply to him who judged that he was in a very weak condition and that it did arise from the Malignity of his Disease as aforesaid in a way of naturall causes in which weak condition he continued a day or two more under violent inflamations and Sweatings which so weakened him that by reason thereof upon Wednesday morning the 13 of this instant January having said Lord have mercy upon me I am very sick about five of the clock he breathed out his last and died after which his wife desired his
and preservation of 〈◊〉 and safety and just Rights and Priviledges of the People thereof And shall in all things according to our best knowledge and power govern the People of these three Nations according to Law The speech of the Lord Widdrington Speaker of the Parliament at the Investiture of his Highnesse the Lord Protector 26. June 1657. May it please your Highnesse YOu are now upon a great Theator in a large Chore of People You have the Parliament of England Scotland and Ireland before you on your right hand my Lords the Judges and on your left hand the Lord Major Aldermen and Sheriffs of London the most noble and populous City of England The Parliament with the interposition of your suffrage makes Laws and the Judges and Governours of London are the great Dispensers of those Laws to the people The occasion of this great convention and intercourse is To give an Investiture to your Highnesse in that eminent place of Lord Protestor A name you had before but it is now setled by the full and unanimous consent of the People of these three Nations assembled in Parliament You have no new name but a new date added to the Old Name The sixteenth of December is now changed to the 26 of June I am commanded by the Parliament to make oblation to your Highnesse of Four things in order to this Inauguration The First is a Robe of Purple an Embleme of Magistracy and imports righteousnesse and justice When you have put on this Vestment I may say and I hope without offence that you are a Gown man This Robe is of a mixt colour to shew the mixture of Justice and Mercy which are then most excellent when they are well tempered together Justice without mercy is Wormwood and bitternesse and Mercy without Justice is of two soft a temper for Government For a Magistrate must have two hands Plectentem Amplectentem The Next thing is a Bible a Booke that contains the holy Scriptures in which you have the honour and happinesse to be well versed This is the Book of life consisting of two Testaments the Old and New In the first we have Christum velatum Christ in Types shadows and Figures in the latter we have Christum revelatum Christ revealed This Book carries in it the Grounds of the true Christian Protestant Religion it s a Book of Books it contains in it both Precepts and Examples for good Government Alexander so highly valued the Books of his Master Aristotle and other great Princes other Books that they have laid them every night under their Pillows These are all but legends and Romances to this one Book a Book to be had alwayes in Remembrance I find it said in a part of this Book which I shall desire to read and it is this Deut. 17. And it shall be when he sitteth upon the Throne of his Kingdome that he shall write a Copy of this Law in a Book out of that which is before the Priests and the Levites And it shall be with him and he shall read therein all the days of his life that he may learn to fear the Lord God and to keep all the words of his Law and those Statutes to do them That his heart be not lifted up above his Brethren and that he turn not aside from the Commandment to the right hand or to the left to the end he may prolong his dayes in his Kingdom he and his Children in the midst of Israel The next thing that I am to offer to your Highnesse is a Scepter not unlike a Staffe for you are to be a staffe to the weak and poor It s of antient use in this kind its said in Scripture in reference to Judah the Royall Tribe That the Scepter shall not depart from Judah It was of like use in other Kingdoms and Governments Homer the Prince of the Greek Poets calls Kings and Princes Scepterbearers The last thing is a sword not a military but a civill sword a sword rather for defence then offence Not to defend your self only but others also This Sword is an embleme of Justice The noble Lord Talbot in Henry the VI Time wrote upon his Sword Ego sum Talboti propter occidendum inimicos meos This Gallant Lord was a better Souldier then a Critiek If I might presume to fix a Motto upon this Sword it should be this Ego sum Domini Protectoris ad protegendum populum meum I say this Sword is an Embleme of Justice and is to be used as King Solomon used his for the discovery of the truth in points of Justice I may say of this sword as King David said of Goliahs sword There is none like this Justice is the proper virtue of the imperiall Throne and by Justice the Thrones of Kings and Princes are established Justice is a Royal virtue which as one saith of it doth imploy the other three Cardinall virtues in her service 1. Wisdom to discern the nocent the innocent 2. Fortitude to prosecute and execute 3. Temperance so to carry Justice that passion be no ingredient and that it be without confusion or precipitation You have given ample testimony in all these particulars so that this Sword in your hand will be a right sword of justice attended with Wisdom Fortitude and Temperance When you have all these together What a comely and glorious sight is it to behold A Lord Protector in a Purple Robe with a Scepter in his hand a Sword of Justice girt about him and his eyes fixt upon the Bible Long may you prosperously enjoy them all to your own comfort and the comfort of the people of these three Nations His Highnes standing thus adorned in princely State according to his merit and dignity looking up unto the Throne of the most High who is Prince of Princes and in whom is all his confidence Mr. Manton by prayer recommended his Highnesse the Parliament the councill his Highnesse forces by Sea and Land the whole Government and People of these three Nations to the blessing and protection of God Almighty After this the people giving severall great shouts and the trumpets sounding his Highnesse sat down in the Chair of State holding the Scepter in his hand At the right Elbow by his Highnesse Chair sate his Excellency the Lord Ambassadour extraordinary of France at the left his Excellency the Lord Ambassadour extraordinary of the states Generall of the Vnited Provinces On the right side of the chair stood the Earle of Warwick bearing the Sword and on the left side the Lord Major of London with the City Sword Near to his Highnesse stood the most noble Lord the Lord Richard Cromwell his excellency the Lord Fleetwood Lord deputy of Ireland the Right honourable the Lord Cleypool Master of his Highnesse Horse his Highnesse councill and all the officers of State attending There stood also upon the lower descent near the Earle of Warwick the Lord Viscount Lisle and Generall Montague and on the
otherside the Lord Whitelock each of them bearing a drawn Sword While his Highnesse thus sate a Herald stood up aloft giving a signal to a Trumpet to sound three times after which he did by authority and direction of Parliament there publish and Proclaim his Highnesse Lord Protector of the common wealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging requiring all persons to yeeld him due obedience Hereupon the Trumpets sounded and the people made several great acclamations with loud shouts God save the Lord Protector Then an officer of Armes standing upon the top of the stairs made proclamation again after the same manner which was followed with shouts and loud acclamations as before After little pause the whole Ceremony being ended his Highnesse saluting the Ambassadors and publick Ministers proceeded thence in his Princely habit the train whereof was born up by severall noble persons among whom was the Earle of Warwicks Granchilde the Lord Sherwood and the eldest Son of the Lord Roberts of Truro The Aldermen Recorder the Judges with the officers of State and the rest proceeded in the same order as they came from the house of Lords and passed through the Hall to the great Gate leading into the New Pallace Yard where his Highnesse entred into his Coach of state being in his Robes The Earl of Warwick sat in the other end of the coach and the Lord Richard Cromwel and the Lord Whitlock in one side the Lord Whitelock having one of the drawn swords in his hand On the other side sat the Lord Viscount Lisle and Generall Montague bearing the other two drawn swords in their hands The Lord Cleypool Master of the Horse led the Horse of Honour in rich Caparisons the coach was attended by his Highnesse Lifeguard and other guards with the Officers of Armes on Horseback the Officers of State Judges Lord Major and Aldermen all waiting on his Highnesse in their coaches to Whitehall the whole being managed with state and magnificence suitable to so high and happy a solemnity The Speaker with the Members of Parliament returned to the House where it was Resolved that it be recommended to his Highnesse the Lord Protector as the desire of the Parliament that his Highness will be pleased to encourage all christian endeavours for uniting the Protestant churches abroad and severall Members were appointed to present this Vote to his Highnesse WHereas the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the parliament of England Scotland and Ireland taking into their consideration the duty incumbent upon them to provide for the future peace and settlement of the Government of these Nations according to the Laws and customes of the same by their Humble petition and advice have presented their desires into his Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector that he should by and under the name and Stile of Lord Protector of the Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging Hold and Exercise the office of Chiefe Magistrate of these three nations Whereunto the Lord Protector upon due and mature consideration of the said Petition and Advice hath consented And his Highnesse the Lord Protector and the Parliament judging it necessary that publication be made of the premises have thought meet and doe hereby strictly charge and command all and every person and persons of what quality and condition soever in any of the said three Nations to take notice of the premises and to conform and submit themselves unto the Government so established And the Lord Major of the City of London and all Sheriffs Majors Bailiffs and other publick Ministers and officers whom this may concern are required to cause this proclamation together with the said Petition and Advice to be forthwith published in the City of London and the respective Counties Cities Corporations and Market Towns to the end that none may have cause to pretend ignorance in this behalf Given at Westminster June 26. 1657. Westminster June 24. A true Copy of the Oaths to be taken by his Highnesse privy Councill and the severall members of Parliament It was resolved by the Parliament That all such persons who now are or hereafter shall be of the Privy Council of his Highness or Successors before they or either of them do act as Counsellors shall respectively take an oath before persons to be authorised by his Highnesse and Successors for that purpose in the form following viz. I. A. B. Doe in the presence and by the Name of God Almighty promise and swear that to the ultermost of my power in my place I will uphold and maintain the True Reformed Protestant Christian Religion in the purity thereof as is contained in the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament and encourage the Profession and Professors of the same and that I will be true and faithfull to his highnesse the Lord Protector of the commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereto belonging as Chief Magistrate thereof and shall not contrive design or attempt any thing against the person or lawfull authority of his said Highness and shall keep secret all matters that shall be treated of in Councill and put under secrecy and not reveale them but by command or consent of his Highnesse the Parliament or the Councill and shall in all things faithfully perform the trust committed to me as a Counseller according to the best of my understanding in order to the good Government peace and welfare of these Nations Resolved that the same Oath be taken by the Members of his Highnesse Councill of Scotland and Ireland The house resumed the debate upon the report this day made for an Oath to be taken by the Members of Parliament And it was agreed That every person who now is or hereafter shall be a Member of either house of Parliament before he sit in Parliament shall from and after the first day of July 1657. take an Oath before persons to be authorised and appointed by his Highnesse and Successors for that purpose in the form following I. A. B. Doe in the presence and by the Name of God Almighty promise and swear That to the uttermost of my power in my place I will uphold and maintain the true reformed Protestant Christian Religion in the purity thereof as it is contained in the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Tostament and encourage the profession and Professors of the same And that I will be true and faithfull to the Lord Protector of the Common wealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging as Chief Magistrate thereof and shall not contrive design or attempt any thing against the person or lawfull anthority of the Lord Protector and shall endeavour as much as in me lieth as a Member of Parliament the preservation of the Rights and liberties of the people His Highnesse upon the day of his Inauguration meeting the Parliament in the painted Chamber before the Solemnity passed all such Bills as were