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. 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rest were fired only two that sunke down to rights and had little but their Masts appearing above water It remained to compleat this Mercy that our own shiâ—s should come off well wherein the greatest hazzard and difficulty lay for some riding near into the shore and being sorely maimed did require to be warped off others when we came to weigh drove with the wind all the while blowing right into the bay and one of our best Frigates strook The enemy in the mean time supplyed fresh men into his Forts for those we had killed and beaten out in the heat of the Action and from them and the Castle continued plying upon us till about seven of the Clock at night every Ship and Vessell belonging to our Fleet were by the good hand of God got safe out of Command In this service we had not above fifty slain outright and one hundred and twenty wounded and the damage to our ships was such as in two days time we indifferently well repaired for present security Which we had no sooner done but the Wind veered to the Southwest which is rare among those Islands and lasted just to bring us to our former Station neer Cape Maries where we arrived the second of May following For which mercifull appearance all along with us we desire the Lord may have the praise and glory to whom only it is due And that all thar hear of it may turne and say as of a truth we have found that among the gods there is none like unto him neither are there any workes like unto his workes The Names of the Commanders of the New Spain Fleet and of the other Ships that were burnt in the Sancta Cruce Road on the 20th of April 1657. Don Diego Diagues Generall Don Josepho Sentenno Vice-Admirall Roque Gallindo Rear-Admirall Gasper Goteras in the Great Campeachan Martin De Laxando in the little Campeachan These Commanders with their Ships came from Lavela Cruce in New Spain Iohn Quintero Francisco De Estoâ—ta Pedro Fegoroa Don Francisco Velasques Pedro Oreguel Commanders of the Admirall and Vice-Admirall of Hundoras Francisco Martines Francisco De Arana Pedro Sorrilio Commander of the Ship which came from Sancto Domingo These Commanders with their Ships were in Sancta Cruce before their Fleet arrived from the Indies Gregory Gomes Francisco Marcadel Fernando Sohes An exact Relation of the manner of the Solemn Investiture or happy inauguration of his Highnesse the Lord Protector at Westminster Mr Speaker in the name of the Par presented Seuerall thinges to his Highness Viz a Robe of Purple Veluet Lined wth Ermine a Large Bible Richly Guilt Bossed Next a Sword Lastly a Septer of Massiâ— Gold and then administred the Oath to his Highnesse Iune 26 an 1â—â—â— FRiday the 26 of June 1657. being agreed upon for the Investiture of his Highness the Lord Protector and a large place being raised and prepared at the upper end of Westminster Hall for that purpose there was in the midst thereof under the great Window a rich cloth of Estate set up and under it a chair of state placed upon an ascent of two degrees covered with carpets and before it a Table with a chair appoynted for the Speaker of the Parliament and on each side of the Hall upon the said structure were seats raised one above another and decently covered for the Members of Parliament and below them seats on one side for my Lords the Judges of the Land and on the otherside for the Aldermen of the city of London About two of the clock in the Afternoon his Highnesse came from Whitehall by water and Landing at the Parliament stairs went up into the chamber called the Lords house where having retired himself a while Mr. Speaker and the members of parliament being come to the Painted Chamber his Highness attended by his Councell the Officers of State and the Judges met them and gave his consent to the Additionall and Explanatory Petition and advice of the Parliament and all such other Bills as were then presented to him From thence the Speaker with the Members of Parliament departed to the great Hall at Westminster where they seated themselves in the places provided for them His Highnesse after a short retirement in a Boom near the Painted Chamber returned into the Lords House the Lords Commissioners of the great seale the two Lords Chiefe Justices the Master of the Rolls and the Judges in the interim placing themselves on one side of the said House and the Lord Major Recorder and Aldermen of the City of London on the other From the said House his Highnesse passed towards the Hall in manner following In the first place went his Highnesse his Gentleman and other persons of quality next an Officer of Arms going before the Recorder and Aldermen of London in their Scarlets next another Officer of Arms went before Master Attorney Generall and my Lords the Judges in their Robes and Order next them Norroy King of Arms then four Searjants at Armes with their Maces going before the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury and of the Great Seale the Lord Commissioner Fiennes bearing the Seal and the Lord President of his Highnesse Councill Then came Garter principall King of Armes before the Earl of Warwick who bare the Sword before his Highnesse on whose left hand went the Lord Major of London by his Highnesse speciall favour bearing the City sword After whom came his Highnesse being attended by his Councill the Principall Secretary of State and divers of the Nobility and other persons of great quality His Highness being entred on the place and standing under the Cloth of Estate Master Speaker did in the name of the Parliament present severall things ready laid upon the Table to his Highness viz. A Robe of purple Velvet lined with Ermine being the habit anciently used at the solemn investiture of Princes Next a larg Bible richly guilt and boss'd next a Sword and lastly a Sceprer being of Massy Gold which being so presented Mr Speaker came from his Chair took the Robe and therewith vested his Highnesse being assisted therein by the Earle of Warwick the Lord Whitelock and others Which being done the Eible was delivered unto his Highnesse after that Mr Speaker girt about him the Sword and lastly delivered his Highnesse the Scepter These things being performed Mr Speaker returned unto his Chair and administred the Oath to his Highnesse prepared by the Parliament the form whereof is as followeth I Doe in the presenec and by the Name of God Almighty promise and swear that to the uttermost of my power 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 Testament to the uttermost of my power and understanding and encourage the Profession and Professors of the same And that to the utmost of my power I will endeavor as Chief Magistrate of these three Nations the maintenance
said He met them there in that Capacity by the Advice and Petition of this present Parliament after so much Expence of Blood and Treasure to search and try what Blessings God hath in store for these Nations That he could not but with gladnesse of heart remember and acknowledge the labor and industry that is past which hath been spent upon a Businesse worthy of the best men and the best Christians That it was not unknown unto them all what difficulties we have past through and at what we are now arived and that he hoped it might be said we have arived at what we aimed at if not at that which is much beyond our expectations That the state of this cause and the quarrel at first was the maintaining of the Liberty of these Nations our Civill liberties as men and our Spiritual liberties as Christians That it was well known the first Declaration after the Beginning of the late Warr that spake to the life was a sense held forth by the Parliament that for sometime before Designes had been laid to Innovate upon the Civil Rights of the Nations to Innovate in matter of Religion and those persons who a man would have thought should have had the least hand in medling with civill things did justifie all irregular Transastions in Pulpits Presses and otherwise which they thought would be a means to shelter them while they innovated upon us in matters of Religion also and proceeded so to Innovate as to eat out the Core and power the heart and life of all Religion by bringing on us a company of poysonous Popish Ceremonies and imposing them upon those that were call'd and accounted the Puritans of the Nation and professors of Religion among us driving them to seek their bread in a howling Wildernesse they were forced to fly into Holland New-England almost any whither to find liberty for their Consciences That if this thing hath been the state and sum of our Quarrel and of the late ten years Wars and the good hand of God hath brought this Eusinesse thus home unto us as it is stated in the Petition and Advice then that He and they have all cause to blesse God and the Nations have cause to blesse him And if the enjoyment of our present peace and other mens Mercies may be witnesses for God we feel and we see them every Day That the greatest Demonstration of his Favor and love appears to us in this that he hath given us peace and the blessings of Peace to wit the enjoyment of our Liberties civill and Spirituall That when we were plunged in the midst of our Troubles it could not before-thought that ever the people of God should have had liberty to worship God without fear of Enemies yet this is the Portion which God hath given us and he hoped we shall for ever heartily acknowledge it it being our glory that we have a free possession of the Gospel That notwithstanding this we are not without the murmurings of many people who turn all this Grace and Goodnesse into Wormwood who indeed are disappointed by the Works of God and those men are of severall ranks and conditions great ones lesser ones men of all sorts men that are of the Episcopall Spirit who gave themselves a fatall blow in this place when they would needs make a Protestation That no Laws were good which were made by this House and the House of Commons in their absence and so without injury to themselves they cut off themselves That we have now a Godly Ministry a knowing Ministry such a one as without Vanity be it spoken the World hath not the like Men knowing the things of God and able to search into the things of God by that only which can fathome those things in some measure to wit by the Spirit of God That the reason why men slip in this age is because they understand not the Works of God and consider not the operation of his hands They consider not that God resisted and brake in pieces the powers that were that men might fear him might have liberty to do and enjoy all that he had been now speaking of Thence it is that men slip and engage themselves against God and for that very cause as it is in the 28 Psalm He shall break them down and not build them up That if we would know upon what foundation we stand we should own our foundation from God he hath set us where we are he hath placed us in the enjoyment of our Civil and of our Spirituall Liberties That upon this foundation of a cause and Quarrel thus attained and wherein we are thus estated he told the Parliament he should be glad to lay his bones with theirs and would have done it with all heartinesse and cheerfulnesse in the meanest capacity that he ever yet was in to serve the Parliament His Highnesse concluded That he had been speaking of but what they had done and that if God should be pleased to make this Meeting happy upon this account They would be called the blessed of the Lord the Generations to come will blesse them c. That having some infirmities upon him he had not liberty to speak at large but had desired an honorable person present to discourse a little more particularly what might be more proper for this occasion and this meeting Which particulars were afterwards delivered in a Grave and Eloquent Speech at large by the Lord Fiennes one of the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal Thurs Feb. 4. 1657. The House of Commons this Morning resumed the Debate touching the Appellation of the other House viz. the House of Lords betwixt ten and eleven his Highnesse came to the House of Lords and Commanded the Usher of the Blake Rod to acquaint the House of Commons that his Highnesse was come to the Lords House and there expected them the Usher of the Blake Rod being called into the House of Commons signified the same accordingly whereupon the Speaker and the whole House coming into the Lords House and standing without the Bar his Highnesse standing under the cloth of Estate made a Speech to them wherein he declared severall urgent and weighty reasons making it necessary for him in order to the Publick peace and safety so passed to an immediate dissolution of this Parliament and accordingly his Highnesse dissolved the Parliament Articles of Peace treated on by the Commissioners of the two Northern Kings of Sweden and Denmark proposed and resolved on Feb. 27. S. N. PIETATE ET CONSTANTIA XIII All the states Noble and Ignoble spirituall or Clergy and secular men are to enjoy fully their priviledges in such places which by way of satisfaction are made over whether they be in Denmark or Norway and the Crown of Sweden is rather to enlarge their priviledges then to infringe or diminish them Item they are to enioy without molestation and hindrance all such Goods which they either purchased lawfully or are fallen to them by