more than My owne particular ends makes Me now at last desire that I having something to say that concerns both I desire before Sentence be given that I may be heard in the Painted Chamber before the Lords and Commons this delay cannot be prejudiciall to you whatsoever I say if that I say no reason those that heare Me must be Iudges I cannot be Iudge of that that I have if it be reason and really for the welfare of the Kingdome and the liberty of the Subject I am sure its very well worth the hearing therefore I doe conjure you as you love that which you pretend I hope its reall the Liberty of the Subject and peace of the Kingdome that you will grant Me this hearing before any Sentence passed but if I cannot get this liberty I doe protest that your faire shewes of Liberty and Peace are pure shewes and that you will not heare your King The President said This was a declining the Iurisdiction of the Court and a delay Yet the Court vvithdrevv for half an hovver advised upon it and sate againe Bradshaw said to the King That the Court had considered what He had moved and of their owne Authority the returne from the Court is this That they have been too much delayed by You already and they are Judges appointed by the highest Authority and Judges are no more to delay than they are to deny justice and notvvithstanding vvhat You have offered they are resolved to proceed to Sentence and to Judgement that is their unanimous resolution The King pressed againe againe that He might be heard by the Lords and Commons in the Painted Chamber with great earnestnesse and was as often denied by Bradshaw at last the King desired that this Motion of His might be entered Bradshaw began in a long Speech to declare the Grounds of the Sentence much aggravating the Kings offences and misapplying both Law and History to his present purpose When Bradshaw had done speaking the Clerk read the Sentence drawn up in Parchment to this effect 84. The Sentence against His Majesty THat whereas the Commons of England in Parliament had appointed them an high Court of Iustice for the Trial of Charls Stuart King of England before whom He had been three times Convented and at the first time a Charge of High Treason and other high crimes and misdemeanors was read in behalfe of the Kingdome of England c. * Here the Clerk read the aforesaid Charge Which Charge being read unto Him as aforesaid He the said Charls Stuart was required to give His Answer but He refused so to doe and so expressed the severall passages at His Tryall in refusing to Answer For all which Treasons and crimes this Court doth adjudge That He the said Charles Stuart as a Tyrant Traytour Murtherer and a publique Enemy shall be put to Death by severing of His Head from His Body After the Sentence read the President said This Sentence now read and published it is the Act Sentence Iudgement and resolution of the whole Court Here the whole Court stood up as assenting to what the President said King Will you heare Me a word Sir Bradshaw Sir You are not to be heard after the Sentence King No Sir Bradshaw No. Sir by your favour Sir Guard withdraw your Prisoner King I am not suffered to speak expect what Iustice other people will have These are the Names of such Persons as did actually sit as Judges upon the Tryall of His Majesty with the Councel and Attendants of the Court. Oliver Cromwel Lieu. Generall Com. Gen. Ireton Major Gen. Skippon Sir Hardresse Waller Colonel Thomas Harrison Col. Edward Whalley Col. Thomas Pride Col. Isaac Ewer Col. Rich Ingolsby Sir Henry Mildmay Thomas Lord Grey Philip Lord Lisle Will Lord Munson Sir John Danvers Sir Tho Maleverer Sir John Bowcher Sir James Harringtoâ— Sir William Brereton Will Hennigham Es Isaac Pennington Ald Thomas Atkins Ald Col. Rowland Wilson Sir Peter Wentworth Col. Henry Martyn Col. William Purefoy Col. Godfrey Bosvill Colonel John Berkstead Sir Will Cunstable Col. Edward Ludlow Col. Jo Hutchingson Col. Rob Titchburne Col. Owen Roe Col. Adriaen Scroop Col. John Oky Col. John Harrison Col. John Desborough Cornelius Holland Es Miles Corbet Esq Francis Allen Esq Peregrin Pelham Esq John Gourdon Esq Serj. Francis Thorp Tho Challoner Esq Col. John Moore John Aldred Esq Col. Francis Lassels Henry Smith Esq James Chaloner Esq Dennes Bond Esq Humph Edwards Esq Gregory Clement Esq John Fray Esq Tho Wogan Esq Sir Greg Norton Serj. John Bradshaw Col. Edm Harvey John Dove Esq Col. John Venn John Foulks Alder Thomas Scot. Tho Andrewes Ald William Cauwley Esq Col. Anthony Stapley John Liste Esq John Corbet Esq Thomas Elunt Esq Thomas Boone Esq Col. George Fleetwood Col. James Temple Sir Peter Temple Col. Thomas Wayte John Browne Esq Mr. Bradshaw nominated President Counsellours assistant to this Court and to dravv up the Charge against the KING are Doctor Dorislaus Master Aske Master Cooke Serjeant Dandy Serjeant at Armes Mr. Phileps Clerke to the Court. Messengers and Dore-keepers are Master VValford M. Radley M. 〈◊〉 M. Pâ—vvell Mr. Hull and M. King Cryer 85. Observations upon the Tryall of His Majesty This is a Relation of his Majesties Tryall by a mixed Court of Justice erected by 50. or 60. Confederate Members of the House of Commons sitting under the power of the Army after all the rest of the Members above 250. had been violently secured secluded frighted away And in order to this designe against the King the House of Peers voted downe and yet the House of Commons when intire is no Court of Judicature nor can give an Oath Had indifferent men been permitted to take Notes you had had a more perfect narrative yet as it is truth shines forth to the confusion of this bloudy cheating tyrannicall faction could they have wrought the King to have submitted to the Jurisdiction of this Arbitrary Court His example should have been urged as an irrefragable Precedent against the lives and liberties of the whole Kingdome and urged to be of as great Authority as if He had established that Court by Act of Parliament So that the King is to be looked on as a Civill Martyr dying for the Liberty of the People And although they have failed of this device yet they will have some other Arbitrary bloudy Inquisition to cut off the lives without Law of such as they desire to remove without which this Tyrannous Kingdome of the Saints or Brambles cannot subsist And therefore on Thursday 2. Februarij Cromwell and Ireton and their Canniball Counsell of Officers projected to get an Act passed by their House of Commons where all their Requests are Commands to enable the said Councell to hang all such as they shall adjudge Disturbers of the Army 1. Part of Englands lyberty in Chaines sub fine And the Hunting of the Foxes c although no Members of the Army they must
and fundamentall Government of the Kingdome be elected chosen or put into the Office of the Lord Major of the City of London Sheriffe Alderman Deputy of a VVard or Common-Councel-man of the said City or shall have any voice in the election of any such Officers for the space of one vvhole yeare and be uncapable of any of the said Places yet novv these petty Fellovves keepe the vvhole City in avve 39. Yet this Agreement since inserted into the Remonstrance of the Army owned by the Generall and Councell of VVarre and Nov. 20. 1648. obtruded upon the House These multiplied Votes and Ordinance laid this Agreement of the People asleep untill the beginning of November 1648. vvhen to hinder the peace of this Kingdome and reliefe of Ireland the Iesuits and Agitators prosecuted it againe in the Army and inserted it againe verbatim in the Remonstrance of the Army Novemb 20. 1648. to breake off the Treaty with the King bring him to capitall punishment and cast the odium of all upon the Parliament And the Generall and his Councell of Officers though they had formerly shot a Souldier to death for prosecuting it unanimously approved it at Saint Albons November 16. 1648. and obtruded it upon the House the 20. Novemb. and vvhen they found the House so resolute in the Treaty as to proceed they first seized the Person of the King and carried Him to Hurst-Castle as aforesaid and vvhen the House at last closed up the Treaty vvith this Vote That the Kings Answers to the Propositions of both Houses were a ground for the Houses to proceed upon towards a setlement 40. VVhy they purged the House They seized upon 41. Members of Parliament secured them and villanously treated them secluded above 160. and frighted avvay at least 40. or 50. more leaving onely their ovvne Somerset-house Iunto of 40. or 50. thriving Members sitting to Vnvote in a thin House under a force vvhat had been voted in a full and free House To vote dovvne the Kingly Office and House of Peers to vote the Supreme Authority to be in the People and in the House of Commons as their Representative clean contrary to their three last recited Votes To bring the King to capitall punishment before a nevv invented illegall mixed Court consisting of engaged Persons erected for that purpose that hath neither foundation by prescription nor Lavv and to erect a Councell or Committee of States out of their number in the nature of Lords States Generall or Hogen Mogens vvith an unknovvn and therefore unlimited Authority to continue in being after the dissolution of this Parliament So farevvel Kings Lords and Commons Religion Lavves and Liberties and all Votes Declarations Remonstrances Protestation and Covenant made heretofore only to gull the People and carry on their designe About 19. 41. Diverse Lords doe homage to the Generall and wave their honours Decemb. divers Lords vvent to doe homage to the Generall to expresse their good affections to him and their concurrence vvith him for the common good and their readinesse to vvave their priviledges and Titles if they shall be found burdensome to the liberty of the People and had a gracious nod for their paines About this time the Lords Commons passed an Ordinance for electing Common-Councel-men and Officers in London for the yeare following to this effect 42. An Ordinance to curb the City in electing Officers That no Person that hath been imprisoned or sequestred rightfully or vvrongfully or hath assisted the King against the Parliament in the first or second VVarre or hath been aiding or assisting in bringing the Scots Army to invade this Kingdome or did subscribe or abett the treasonable Engagement 1647. or that did ayde assist or abett the late Tumult vvithin the Cities of London and VVestminster or the Counties of Kent Essex Middlesex or Surrey shall he elected chosen or put into the Office or Place of Lord Mayor of London Alderman Aldermans Deputy Common Councel-man or into any office or place of trust vvithin the City for the yeare ensuing or be capable to give his voice for chusing any Person to any the Offices aforesaid And that if any Persons comprehended under the aforesaid exceptions being chosen shall presume to sit in the Court of Aldermen Common-Councell or execute any of the aforesaid Offices he shall forfeit 200. And all such Elections to be null and void the Lord Mayor to take order that this Ordinance be read at all Elections and punctually observed and also to afford the liberty of the Pole it being required by any of the Electors present But this Ordinance not giving full satisfaction to the Zealots Skippon stood up Skippon moveth for an Addition to the said Ordinance and looking as demurely as if he meant to say Grace he told the House That the late Ordinance was not sufficient to keep Malignants out of Office in London for Mr. Speaker said he It is not enough to exclude Delinquents or the Abettors of the late Insurrections c. for there are a more dangerous sort of men amongst them They which promoted the Treaty and endeavoured to have the King brought to London except these be made incapable of Authority it will be a great discouragement to the Godly party of the City So an additionall Ordinance to this end vvas ordered to be brougth in you see to endeavour peace and setlement is accounted by these Saints militant a sufficient crime to forfeit a mans Brith-right 43. The Members subscribe Iohn Gourdons Protestation sect 29. I formerly told you of Iohn Gourdons motion That all Members might subscribe a Protestation against the Votes for a Treaty with the King in the Isle of VVight and especially against the Vote 5. Decemb. 1648. vvhich declareth That His Majesties Answers to the Propositions of both Houses were a ground for the two Houses to proceed to a setlement and untill such dissent or disapprovall to forbeare the House This vvas done in obedience to the demands of the Army in their Remonstrance presented 20. Sect. 23. Novemb. 1648. And although it be so clearly against the Orders and Priviledges of Parliament that divers Members formerly and some this Parliament have been suspended the House and committed to the Tovver for offering it because it tends to breed factions and divisions in the House and Tumults vvithout dores yet every request from an Armed man is a Command and must be obeyed The List of the Names of these nevv Protestants follovveth and it is hoped they vvill in time give better Reasons then the power of the Swoâ—d for it 20. December 1648. subscribed The Lord Lâ—ste Col. Boswell Io Gourdon Lord Gray Peregrine Pelham Col. Iones Col. Temple Col. Ven Sir Tho Malevourer Sir Thomas VVrotâ—e Sir Io Bourcher Col. Peter Temple Humphry E wards vvho vvaited on the King to the House vvhen he demanded the 5 Members and his Election is adjudged void by a Committee Mr Tho Challoner Sir Gregory Norton
the Parliament well hoping that the restraint and imprisonment of His Person after it had pleased God to deliver Him into their hands would have quieted the distempers of the Kingdome did forbeare to proceed judicially against Him but found by sad experience that such their remissnesse served onely to encourage Him and His Complices in the continuance of their evill practices and in raising new Commotions Rebellions and Invasions For prevention of the like and greater inconveniences and to the end no chief Officer or Magistrate may hereafter presume Trayterously and malitiously to imagine or contrive the enslaving or destroying of the English Nation and to expect impunity Be it enacted and ordained by the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and it is hereby enacted and ordained that Thomas 〈◊〉 Fairfax Generall Oliver Cromwel Lieu. Generall Com. Gen. Ireton Major Gen. Skippon Sir Hardresse Waller Col. Valentine Walton Col. Thomas Harrison Col. Edward Whalley Col. Thomas Pride Col. Isaac Ewer Col. Rich Ingolsby Sir Henry Mildmay Sir Tho Honywood Thomas Lord Grey Philip. Lord Lisle Will Lord Munson Sir Iohn Danvers Sir Tho Maleverer Sir Iohn Bowcher Sir Iames Harrington Sir William Brereton Robert Wallop Esquire Will Henningham Es Isaac Pennington Alderman Thomas Atkins Ald Col. Rowland Wilson Sir Peter Wentworth Col. Henry Martyn Col. William Pureâ—oy Col. Godfrey Bosvill Iohn Trencherd Esq Col. Harbottle Morley Col. Iohn Berckslead Col. Mat. Tomblinson Iohn Blackston Esq Gilb Millington Esq Sir Will Cunstable Col. Edward Ludlow Col. Iohn Lambert Col. Io. Hutchingson Sir Arth Hazlerigge Sir Michael Lavesley Rich Saloway Esq Humph Saloway Esq Col. Rob Titchburne Col. Owen Roe Col. Rob Manwaring Col. Robert Lilburne Col. Adrian Scroope Col. Richard Deane Col. Iohn Okey Col. Robert Overton Col. Iohn Harrison Col. Ioh Desborough Col. William Goffe Col. Rob Dukenfield Cornelius Holland Es Iohn Carne Esq Sir Will Armine Iohn Iones Esq Miles Corbet Esq Francis Allen Esq Thomas Lister Esq Ben Weston Esq Iohn Gourdon Esq Serj. Francis Thorp Iohn Nut Esq Tho Challoner Esq Col. Algern Sidney Iohn Anlaby Esq Col. Iohn Moore Richard Darley Esq William Saye Esq Iohn Aldred Esq Iohn Fagge Esq Iames Nelthrop Eq. Sir Will Roberts Col. Francis Lassels Col. Alex Rixby Henry Smith Esq Edmond Wilde Esq Iames Chaloner Esq Iosias Barnes Esq Dennis Bond Esq Hump Edwards Esq Greg. Clement Esq Iohn Fray Esq Tho VVogan Esq Sir Greg Norton Serj. Iohn Bradsaw Col. Edm Harvey Iohn Dove Esq Col. Iohn Venn Iohn Foulks Alder Thomas Scot Alder Tho. Andrewes Ald VVilliam Cawley Esq Abraham Burrell Esq Col. Anthony Stapley Roger Gratwicke Esq Iohn Downes Esq Col. Thomas Horton Col. Tho. Hammond Col. George Fenwicke Serj. Robert Nichols Robert Reynolds Esq Iohn Lisle Esq Nicholas Love Esq Vincent Potter Sir Gilbert Pickering Iohn VVeaver Esq Iohn Lenthall Esq Sir Edward Baynton Iohn Corbet Esq Thomas Blunt Esq Thomas Boone Esq Augustin Garland Es Augustin Skinner Es Iohn Dickswell Esq Col. George Fleetwood Simon Maine Esq Col. Iames Temple Col. Peter Temple Daniel Blagrave Esq Sir Peter Temple Col. Thomas Wayte Iohn Browne Esq Iohn Lowrey Esq Mr. Bradshaw nominated President Counsellors assistant to this Court to draw up the Charge against the KING are Doctor Dorislow Master Steele Master Aske Master Cooke Serjeant Dandy Serjeant at Armes Mr. Philips Clerk to the Court. Messengers and dore-keepers are Master VValford Master Radley Master Paine Master Powel Master Hull And Mr. King Crier shall be and are hereby appointed Commissioners and Iudges for the hearing Trying and Iudging of the said Charles Stuart and the said Commissioners or any 20. or more of them shal be and are hereby Authorized and Constituted an High Court of Iustice to meet at such convenient times and place as by the said Commissioners or the major part or 20. or more of them under their hande and seales shall be appointed and notified by publick Proclamation in the great Hall or Palace-yard of VVestminster and to adjourne from time to time and from place to place as the said High Court or the major part thereof meeting shall hold fit and to take order for the charging of Him the said Charles Stuart with the Crimes above mentioned and for the receiving His Personall Answer thereunto These wise men of Gotham could not tell whether VVitnesses upon oath were necessary upon Trials of life and death But I confesse that upon the defensive part upon Indictments VVitnesses upon oath were not to be heard against the King much more Accusers of the King and for examination of VVitnesses upon oath if need be coneerning the same and thereupon or in default of such Answer to proceed to finall Sentence according to justice and the merit of the Cause to be executed speedily and impartially And the said Court is hereby Authorized and required to chuse and appoint all such Officers Attendants and other circumstances as they or the major part of them shall in any sort judge necessary or usefull for the orderly and good managing of the premises and Thomas Lord Fairfax * * The Generall is no Officer of justice All welaffected Persons tag and rag invited to assist in a Tumultuary way to destroy the King if need had been that is all Antimonarchists the Generall with all Officers of justice and other wel-affected Persons are hereby authorized and required to be aiding and assisting unto the said Commissioners in the due execution of the trust hereby committed unto them provided that this Ordinance and the Authority hereby granted doe continue for the space of one Month from the Date of the making hereof and no longer 60. A new Great Seale to be made But at last they stumbled at a rub not foreseen they could not use the old Great Seale against Him because it vvas the Kings Great Seale no more could they use any of our Lavves Courts or Iudges against Him because they are all the Kings the Sculpture upon it is Carolus Dei Gratia neither vvould the Grace of God square vvith their proceedings they must therefore make a nevv Great Seale but that vvas long a making and their fingers vvere in the fire they therefore proceeded vvithout any Commission under Seale onely upon the said Ordinance and every Commissioner set his ovvne hand and seale to the publique instruments of their proceedings vvhat need ceremonies vvhen men are resolved upon the substance 61. The Iews petition the Councell of VVar to have the Stat of their banishment repealed About this time the Hebrevv Ievves presented a Petition to the uncircumcised Ievves of the Councell of VVarre That the Statute of Banishment against them may be repealed and they readmitted to a Synagogue and Trade amongst us They offer for their re-admission S. Pauls Church and the Library at Oxford 500000 l. but 700000 l. is demanded Hugh Peters and Harry Martyn solicite the businesse Vpon this occasion vvas published this Paper ensuing 62. A Paper published upon occasion of
by the Parliament intrusted and employed for the safety of the Nation being by Him or is Agents corrupted to the betraying of their Trust and revolting from the Parliament have had entertainement and commission for the continuing and renewing of Warre and Hostility against the said Parliament and People as aforesaid By which cruell and unnaturall Warres by Him the said Charles Stuart levyed continued and renewed as aforesaid much Innocent bloud of the Free-pople of this Nation hath been spilt many Families have been undone the Publique Treasury wasted and exhausted Trade obstructed and miserably decayed vast expence and damage to the Nation incurred and many parts of the Land spoyled some of them even to desolation And for further prosecution of His said evill Designes He the said Charles Stuart doth still continue his Commissions to the said Prince and other Rebels and Revolters both English and Forraigners and to the Earle of Ormond and to the Irish Rebels and Revolters associated with him from whom further Invasions upon this Land are threatned upon the procurement and on the behalf of the said Charles Stuart All which wicked Designes Warres and evill practises of Him the said Charles Stuart have been and are carried on for the advancing and upholding of the Personall Interest of Will and Power and pretended Prerogative to Himself and his Family against the publique Interest Common Right Liberty Justice and Peace of the People of this Nation by and for whom He was entrusted as aforesaid By all which it appeareth that He the said Charles Stuart hath been and is the Occasioner Author and Contriver of the said unnaturall cruell and bloudy Warres and therein guilty of all the treasons murthers rapines burnings spoiles desolations damage and mischiefe to this Nation acted or committed in the said Warres or occasioned thereby And the said Iohn Cooke by Protestation saving on the behalf of the People of England the liberty of Exhibiting at any time hereafter any other Charge against the said Charles Stuart and also of replying to the Answers which the said Charles Stuart shall make to the premises or any of them or any other Charge that shall be so exhibited doth for the said treasons crimes on the behalfe of the said People of England Impeach the said Charles Stuart as a Tyrant Traytor Murtherer and a publique and implacable Enemy to the Common-wealth of England And pray That the said Charles Stuart King of England may be put to answer all every the premises That such Proceedings Examinations Tryals Sentence and Judgement may be thereupon had or shall be agreeable to Justice The King smiled often during the reading of the Charge especially at these words Tyrant Traytor Murderer and publique Enemy of the Common-wealth President Sir you have now heard your Charge you find that in the close of it it is prayed to the Court in the behalfe of the Commons of England that you answer to your Charge which the Court expects King I would know by what power I am called hither I was not long agoe in the Isle of Wight how I came there is a longer story than I thinke fit at this time for Me to speake But there I entered into a Treaty with both Houses of Parliament with as much faith as is possible to be had of any People in the world I Treated there with a number of Honourable Lords and Gentlemen an treated honestly and uprightly I cannot say but they did very nobly with Me We were upon a Conclusion of the Treaty Now I would know by what lawfull Authority there are many unlawfull Authorities Thieves and Robbers on the Highway I was brought from thence and carried from place to place and I know not what and when I knew by what lawfull Authority I shall Answer Remember I am your King your lawfull King and what sinnes you bring upon your owne heads and the judgment of God upon this Land think well upon it thinke well upon it I say before you go on from one sinne to a greater therefore let Me know by what lawfull Authority I am seated here and I shall not be unwilling to Answer In the meane time I shall not betray My trust I have a trust committed to Me by God by old and lawfull discent I will not betray it to Answer to a new unlawfull Authority Bradshaw Pres If you had been pleased to have observed what was hinted to you by the Court at your first coming hither you would have knowne by what Authority which Authority requires you in the name of the People of England of whom you are Elected KING to answer them King I deny that Bradsh If you acknowledge not the Authority of the Court they must proceed King I doe tell them so England was never an Elective Kingdome but an Hereditary Kingdome for neer these thousand yeares Therefore let Me know by what lawfull Authority I am called hither I doe stand more for the Liberty of My People then any here that come to be My pretended Iudges and therefore let Me know by what lawfull Authority and I will Answer otherwise I will not Answer Brash Sir How really you have managed your trust is known your way of Answer is to interrogate the Court which beseemes not you in this condition you have been told of it twice or thrice King Here is Lieut. Colonell Cobbet aske him if he did not bring Me from the Isle of Wight by force I doe not come here as submitting to the Court I will stand as much for the Priviledge of the House of Commons rightly understood as any man here whatsoever I see no House of Lords here that may constitute a Parliament and the King too should have been Is this the bringing the King to His Parliament Is this the bringing an end to the Treaty on the publique Faith Let Me see a Lawfull Authority warranted by the Word of God the Scriptures or by the Constitutions of the Kingdome I will not betray My Trust nor the Liberties of the People I am sworne to keep the Peace by that duty I owe to God and My Country and I will doe it to the last breath in My body As it is a sinne to with stand Lawfull Authority so it is to submit to a Tyrannicall or any otherwise unlawfull Authority Bradsh Brutish The Court expects your finall Answer and will adjourne till Munday next we are satisfied with our Authority that are your Iudges and it is upon Gods Authority and the Kingdomes and that peace you spake of will be kept in doing Iustice and that 's our present work Note So the Court Adjourned and the King was conducted back They had so contrived it that diverse Schismaticall Souldiers and Fellowes were placed round about the Court to cry Iustice Iustice when the King was remanded thinking all the rest of the People would have bleated to the same tune but they almost all cryed God blesse Him and were some of them well cudgelled
by O Neales help which plainly proves that the Treaty and Conjunction was not onely between Monke O Neale but between O Neale the Parliament or Councel of State and that the said Propositions so altered by Monke are confirmed by the Parliament or Councel of State and doe still serve for a foundation for O Neale to assist the Parliament upon who have turned out O Neale at the Fore-dore to gull the People and taken him in againe at the Back-dore 206. Cromwell's Soldiers desert him ad Milford-haven and upon his complaint his House of Commons vote their Debentures void Many of K. Olivers Officers and Souldiers abhorring the said Association with O Neale deserted him at Milford-haven as I have related came to London whither they were pursued at the heeles by a Letter from his Mushrome Majestie directed to his Vice-Royes at Westminster willing his Parliament that since to encourage the Souldiers to undertake the Irish expedition onely their Accounts had been Audited and Debentures granted for their Arreares they should recall and null their said Debentures In obedience to which Command a thing like an Act of Parliament is drawne up and order taken that the Commissioners that attend Cromwell into Ireland should certifie the Names of them all to the Parliament that they may be punished in purse for not prostituting their Consciences and shedding more innocent blood with an implicite faith and blind obedience to K. Olivers unquestionable commands in maintenance of usurpation and lawlesse tyranny The rest of the Army may see by this precedent they may as well hope to recover a damned Soule out of Hell as their Arreares out of this bottomlesse Gulph the New State notwithstanding all their faire promises Orders weather-cock Acts and Debentures which are all written in wastpaper and as changeable as Tickets Securities for the Publique Faith It being their constant resolution and best policy to feed them from time to time with vaine hopes a little spending-mony for which they are never the better now a bit of mony and then a bob of Martiall Law alwaies to promise never to pay their Arreares thereby to keep them together from Disbanding and going to their owne homes and callings whilst the Councell of Officers who onely are accounted the rational part of the Army receive duely their full pay and whatsoever else they can sharke from the private Souldiers who are looked upon but as the Brutish part of the Army in whom it is become a capitall Crime to question whether their Superiors deale justly with them or no as it proved to Lockyer The Common Souldiers as well as the Common People paying for the Ryot of their Colonels superior Officiers who Lord it in their guilt Coaches rich Apparell costly Feastings though some of them led Dray-horses wore Leather-pelts were never able to name their owne Fathers or Mothers I and for the Lands they purchase too yet the Officers have one device more to keep the Souldiers together which is They make them believe they are so generally hated they cannot with safety Disband and goe home whereas it is the Superiours onely that are looked upon with hatred as the Authors of Tyranny and Oppression The Private Souldier being esteemed but their Instruments and such as in their kind way are Sufferers under the hand of oppression as well as other men many Souldiers have been purged out of the Army others have voluntarily quitted the Army and returned to their callings without being endangered or injured after their retirement which shewes this objection is but a Scarcrow 207. A League Defensive Offensive concluded betweene O Neale Sir Charles Coote Governour of Connaught for the Parliament See the last Section save one For the cleare manifestation of the Association betweene O Neale and the Parliament there are lately come to the Councell of State two Letters out of Connaught from Sir Charls Coote one Dated the 14. the other the 15. of August 1649. informing them with how much zeale to the Parliaments interest Own O Neale had freely raised the Siege of London-Derry Upon which Letters and the Votes and proceedings of Col. Pride's Parliament thereupon I shall commend to my Readers observation these following particulars 1. The 15. August Letters informe that O Neale freely offered his assistance to Coote professing much affection to the Parliament of England and an earnest-desire to maintaine their Interest c. which is his owne interest you may remember that this bloody Rebell O Neale heretofore when the Parliament was not halfe so corrupt as now stiled it Monstrosum Parliamentum the Parliament of Monsters but now that he sees them act his way and concurre with him to destroy Monarchy and Protestancy he stiles them The Honourable Parliament aids and affects them 2. The 14. August Sir Charles Coote informes that he hath found O Neale and his Army very punctuall and faithfull in all their Promises and Engagements and he makes no doubt but they will continue so unto the end c. The reason is because they ayme all at one end interest Subversion of Monarchy Protestancy goe one way to effect it by a Conjunction of Forces and Councels 3. The 15. August that O Neale in his Expresse to Coote enclosed some Letters he had received from Monke and amongst the rest a Copie of a Letter from Monke in Answer to a Letter of the Lord Inchiquine charging Monke with joyning with O Neale and his Party wherein Monke insinuated as if O Neal's submission to use the the Parliament Power were already accepted by them c. Monke needed non insinuate it but might have spoken it plainly as he hath done to sundry of his Friends in England who reprehended him for joyning with O Neale to whom he Answered that be had the Authority of his Superiours to warrant his doings therein But this was before he went to Milford-haven to Cromwell who then taught him the art of Cromwellizing to carry on their designe 4. The 15. August Why did they crie out opon King Charls I. upon a surmise that He used the help of the more innocent Irish Papists being His own Subjects under his Allegiance Protection but we find the Godly are above all Laws Coote's Letter to justifie his doings delivers a piece of Doctrine to the Councell of State the Use whereof they were very perfect in before viZ. Calling to minde that it is no new thing for the most wise God to make use of wicked Instruments to bring about a good Designe for the advancement of his glory c. This Casuist in Buffe had forgotten That we must not doe evill that good may come thereof and that both the just and the unjust the righteous and the unrighteous man being al of Gods Creation and making he hath the same prerogative over them all jure creations that a Potter hath over his Pots he may use them and doe with them what seemeth