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A36804	A short view of the late troubles in England briefly setting forth, their rise, growth, and tragical conclusion, as also, some parallel thereof with the barons-wars in the time of King Henry III : but chiefly with that in France, called the Holy League, in the reign of Henry III and Henry IV, late kings of the realm : to which is added a perfect narrative of the Treaty at U[n]bridge in an.	Dugdale, William, Sir, 1605-1686.	1681 (1681)	Wing D2492; ESTC R18097	368,620	485

Miraculous a Preservation of His Majesties Person deserves for a perpetual Thankfulness to God Almighty to be specially recorded to Posterity So doth the Memorial of Gods most evident Judgments upon the Scottish Nation after their unhappy defection from the obedience which they did owe to His Royal Father their Native King levying divers Armies solemnly Covenanting with His English Subjects against him and the Establisht Government and lastly selling Him for Money when for his Safe-guard and Protection he became necessitated to fly from the fury of these and to put himself into their Hands For 't is not unknown that they did twice Raise their Covenanting Brethren in that Realm to invade this in an Hostile manner and after much spoil and Rapine made in this no less than Three of their Armies being utterly destroy'd the first at Preston in Lancashire the Second at Dunbar in Scotland and the last at Worcester the flower of their Youth and most Eminent for Chivalry were either slain in open Battail Famisht and wasted by most cruel and merciless usage in Prison or Barbarously sold to Forreign Plantations there to be Enslav'd with perpetual Servitude CHAP. XXXV BUT to go on with my Story Certain it is that this fatal blow at Worcester did not only much deject all true hearted and Loyal Persons but seem'd so firmly to establish this Barbarous Generation in their Tyrannous sway that nothing but a Miracle was ever like to alter the Scene Therefore the more to perpetuate their future oppressive Dominion their next business was to lessen and opress the Nobility and to Flatter the Commonalty into a Slavish subjection to their Usurped and Rigorous power To which end they shortly after passed Two Acts in their Grand Convention at Westminster called the Parliament the one relating to the Nobility which was to make void all Titles of Honour Dignities or Precedencies given by the late King The other a General Pardon in reference to the People for the first moving and at length obtaining whereof Cromwel himself was known to be the sole Instrument All being therefore now in their Power and no visible Enemy to disturb their quiet though at the beginning of their Rebellion Anno 1642. they highly complemented the Dutch desiring that the King might have no manner of Supplies from them in respect of the near Relation that was betwixt that Model into which they themselves then aimed to cast this Government and the State of their Provinces and for that reason expected not only their assistance but a Loan of Money from them upon the Publick Faith as in the Twelfth Chapter of this Work may more fully appear The case was now altered For looking upon themselves after all this wonderful success as Mighty Potentates in their New Common-wealth and Free-State they imployed Oliver St. Iohn the Chief Justice of their Court of Common Pleas commonly called Cromwel's Dark-Lanthorn as Embassador into the Netherlands not only to make a firm alliance with the Dutch from the similitude of their Governments against all Soveraign Monarchs and Princes but to weaken the Interest of the Prince of Orange with them who had Married the King's Daughter Which curteous overture being not at all relisht was taken in great disdain by our Grandees here But the Hogen Mogens on the other side being the Elder Common-wealth strong in Shipping and expecting to make themselves absolute Lords of the Worlds Commerce were resolved not to stoop by yielding them the Flag or the old duty of Herring-Fishing These differences therefore occasion'd a War at Sea with them which began in the Downes this year on the Nineteenth of Iune and was again renewed the Sixteenth of August Westwards of the Isle of Wight in both which the Dutch had the worst Sir George Ascue then commanding the English Fleet. So likewise on the Twenty eighth of October following Blake being then Vice-Admiral But upon another Fight with them in the Downes on the Twenty ninth of November ensuing Blake received a great defeat which did not end the dispute for on the Eighteenth of February not far from Portland they had another sharp fight in which both sides received no small loss As also at Legorne about the beginning of March in which the English were worsted ¶ Leaving therefore the farther Prosecution of these Sea Fights till the next year I find that at home they better to secure themselves against the Royallists the passed a Third Act in their Parliament for disabling of Delinquents by which name the Royallists were call'd to bear any Office of Trust or Power in the Common-wealth or to have any Voice or Vote in Election of any Publick Officer The King's Authority and Friends being thus absolutely supprest and Cromwel at every turn the chief Agent therein not only in those his bold adventures against the scots but in many other both here and in Ireland as though Victory had been entailed upon his Sword the time was now come that he thought fit to act his own part more nearly yet still under colour of solely minding the Publick As he had therefore made the Souldiery instrumental for the ruine of the King by the influence of his inferior Officers call'd Adjutators so now did he again set those active Engines on work for the utter confusion of that Impious Iuncto called the Parliament Which Adjutators being readily inclinable to any thing of change objected to the Iuncto that they had not approved themselves such worthy Patriots as they expected but had sought themselves and their own peculiar profit And therefore as good Common-wealths-men and Friends to the Publick required that they should suddenly prefix a Period to their Sitting to the end that the Godly Party and good People of the Nation might thereupon make choise of a more equal Representative for the rectifying and amendment of what was still out of order But notwithstanding this fair pretence the aim of the Souldiers was by outing those old Saints to reduce the whole sway of all under the power of themselves which made them so earnest and forward in the work being fed with those hopes through the insinuation of Cromwel The Iuncto therefore foreseeing this danger for preventing thereof were neither slack nor unactive endeavouring first to break the Army by Disbanding and in the next place to spoil their design by delays Nevertheless with much zeal seem'd earnest to retire affirming that they then were in contrivance for a new Representative to succeed them All which availed nothing there being no halting before an Old Cripple for Cromwel was not ignorant of what they aimed at being well assured that if he let them alone his design would be Cross'd and therefore determin'd without more ado to turn them out of Doors To which end having well seasoned the Souldiery for his purpose and for the better engratiating himself therewith taken the Officers into his Council he resolv'd as 't was usual with him

civil Government I now descend to those their Arts and Devices whereof by the help and influence of a most subtile corrupt and schismatical party in Parliament they made use in order to the raising this late nefarious Rebellion the consequence whereof viz. the extirpating of Monarchy here was in their design long before however it may be thought by some that Necessity and Despair put them upon that blod Exigent after they had gone farther than they thought they could by any outward reconciliation or pardon be safe for if need were sufficient and undoubted testimony might yet be produced who did hear a principal Actor in this late woful Tragedy about a twelve-month after the barbarous murther of King Charles the First express these words I bless God that I have now lived to see the ruine of Monarchy and that I haue been instrumental in it for I do here acknowledge that it hath been in my design ever since I was at Geneva which is now thirty eight years Of these the first and indeed most fatal Artifices was the reducing his Majesty to Necessities to the end he might be inforc'd to betake himself unto such extraordinary means for supply as would certainly attract the odium of his Subjects For accomplishing whereof that war wherein King Iames became engaged on the behalf of his daughter and her children for recovery of the Palatinate gave them a seasonable opportunity the Story whereof I shall briefly here set down Upon the death of the Emperour Matthias 8. Aug. An. 1619. 17 Iac. Ferdinand his Brother adopted by Matthias in his life time was elected Emperour and crowned 19 Septemb. following Which Election the Bohemians disclaiming they chose for their King Frederick Count Palatine of the Rhine Who thereupon by his Letters to King Iames whose daughter he had marryed acquaints him therewith craving his advice as to his reception thereof Howbeit before King Iames his answer could come to his hand which was utterly dissuasory he had accepted their choice Whereof King Iames hearing in no little perplexity disavow'd the act and would never stile him by that Title That this unhappy business prov'd most destructive to the Count Palatine will immediately appear For the Emperor Ferdinand became so highly irritated thereat that he soon after publish'd a Proscription against him proclaim'd him guilty of High Treason and declared his resolution to prosecute him as a public Enemy of the Empire and accordingly sent Marquess Spinola with numerous Forces to invade the Palatinate as also Buquoy and D. Balthasar into Bohemia who with a powerful Army gave him Battail near to the City of Prague upon the eighth of November An. 1620 utterly routed the Bohemians and forc'd that new King with his Queen to flee the Country The Report whereof arriving soon after in England caused King Iames to advise with the Lords of his Council upon the 13 th of Ianuary following for recovery and protection of the Palatinate it being the antient Inheritance of his Son in Law and his Children Whereupon thirty thousand Pounds was forthwith sent to the Princes of the Union for their assistance therein and in order to farther help a Parliament call'd to sit at Westminster upon the 30 th of the same month of Ianuary At which Convention the King acquainting the two Houses with what had happened farther represented unto them that he had already treated a Peace in this business but Perswasions without power being as he said of little effect he told them that he thought it fit to provide an Army against the Summer following and desired them therefore to think upon his Necessities Which Parliament having sate about four months and done little in this matter the King considering of a Recess for a time in regard of the season that might cause Infection represented to them by the Lord Treasurer his purpose to adjourn them Whereat the Commons growing displeased they desired the Lords to joyn with them in petitioning against it the King therefore taking much exception thereupon judging it derogatory to his Prerogative it being in his sole power to call and adjourn and dissolve Parliaments they thereupon for satisfaction of his Majesty publish'd a Declaration wherein they signified unto him that in case his endeavours by a Treaty could not effect the restitution of the Palatinate upon signification of his pleasure in Parliament they should be ready to the utmost of their powers both with their lives and fortunes to assist him so as by the Divine help of Almighty God he might be able to do that with his Sword which by a peaceable course could not be effected After this the Parliament was adjourn'd from the fourth of Iune until the twentieth of November at which time of meeting again the King being absent for lack of health the Lord Keeper told them that unless they took farther resolutions and were expeditious the Army in the Palatinate would fall to the ground The Lord Treasurer also acquainting them how empty the King's Coffers were and that his Majesty had assisted the Palatine and Princes of the Union with great Sums which had so exhausted his Treasure that he was much in debt Also that notwithstanding the King had declared for War he pursued Peace and resolv'd therefore to close with Spain hoping by that Alliance to heal the breach Which Speech of the Lord Treasurer tending to Peace so startled the House of Commons wherein the Puritan was predominant that they soon after drew up a Remonstrance to his Majesty wherein representing Religion to be in danger by the growth of Popery they incited him to take his Sword into his Hand for the aid of those of our Religion in forreign parts and that the bent of this War might be against that Prince whose Armies and Treasures had maintained the War in the Palatinate Signifying that they had given him one Subsidy for the present Relief of the Palatinate But in this Remonstrance there being also divers things which the King esteem'd to tend unto his high dishonour and to trench upon his Prerogative-royal he forbad them farther to entermeddle concerning his Government and deep affairs of State and particularly with the match of his Son with a Daughter of Spain Certain it is that the Parliament made little hast in the offering of that for which they were chiefly called together viz. the giving to the King considerable aid for relief of the Palatinate in so much as the Lord Digby then took occasion to put the Peers in mind thereof and that it was to that end they were summon'd thither reporting the present distress of that Country and danger thereto by the Duke of Bavaria as also that the Army of Count Mansfeild which came in for defence thereof if not speedily supplyed was like to desert that service But instead of hasting such Relief Christmass approching and the King upon the

preamble whereof beginneth thus for asmuch as the Prosperity and Safety of this Nation and the Dommions thereunto belonging very much dependeth under God upon the security and preservation of the person of his Highness c. In which Act several offences were adjudged Treason and certain Commissioners for England and Wales therein nominated for the Tryal of Offenders against the said Act. Which foundation being so laid it was by his Friends and Favourers then thought high time to discover what they would be at and accordingly moved that whereas this Nation had for thirteen hundred years at the least been governed by Kings and though some of them had offended the people yet that Title had never been abolished Also whereas the Government by the said Title was interwoven with the Laws and accommodated to the dispositions of the people that they should humbly Petition and Advise his Highness to take upon him the same Title Which motion took such effect that there was an Instrument soon drawn up by them called the Humble Petition and Advice whereby they besought his Highness so to do Whereunto that he might not seem to have any knowledg of what they were about much less any desire thereof but be still more and more sought to and importuned therein he answered with all shew of modesty that indeed those Arguments which they had used to him were persuasive but not compulsive and that the Title of Protector might be well accommodated to the Laws To which they replyed that the Title ought to be such as was suitable to the Laws and the Laws not be made suitable to the Title urging the Statutes of 9. Edw. IV. and 3. Henr. VII whereby it was provided that no one should suffer for bearing Arms on the behalf of him that was de facto King though he had no just right to the Crown Which Arguments were made use of to him meerly for shew the better to disguise his ambitious aim as though without such strong motives he could not have been won thereto But the plain truth is that after this business came thus in question the Sectaries of all sorts nay a great part of the Souldiery shewed a vehement dislike thereof being privately instigated by Lambert and some other of the Principal Officers who did themselves upon Cromwels death expect to have succeeded him in the Place of Protector it being Elective as is manifest from the Instrument of Government whereby that Tyrant was at first so Constituted whereas had he been advanced to the Title of King the case might have been otherwise So that this crafty Fox discerning no small peril to himself by such divisions as might thereby arise especially in the Army wherein lay his chief strength and support thought it the safest way to decline it and to stick still to that of Protector yet to have the Government setled in a kind of Monarchic manner And so in imitation of that which had formerly been Regal to have a House of Peers But against that also there were great and high oppositions so that though it was with much ado agreed that there should be another House yet it would not be allowed the Title of an House of Peers Whereupon the result was that an Act Intituled The Humble Petition and Advice should pass whereby they ordained what Stile the chief Magistrate should have idest Lord Protector of the Common-Wealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereto belonging Likewise that Parliaments consisting of two Houses should be called once in three years with qualifications of such as should serve therein And that the number of such as should sit in the other House should be nominated by the Lord Protector and approved by the House of Commons Moreover that he should have power to nominate his Successor And that a Confession of Faith should be agreed on by his Highness and the Parliament according to the Rule and Warrant of the Scriptures Which Act being presented to him accordingly was assented to and passed But that Act being in some sort deficient about a month following they passed another relating thereto and called The Explanatory Petition and Advice Wherein inter alia is this Clause viz. Whereas in the Fourth Article Publick Ministers or Publick Preachers of the Gospel are disabled to the Elected to serve in Parliament it is hereby explained and declared to such Ministers and Preachers only as have maintenance for Preaching or are Pastors or Teachers of Congregations In which Act is also contained the Oaths of the Lord Protector and of his Privy-Council as also the Oaths of the Members of that Parliament Soon after which he was again in WestMinster-Hall standing under a Rich State solemnly invested into his Old Title of Lord Protector and into the Government thus new modelled Where in the presence of the Members of that Parliament Sir Thomas Widdrington their Speaker delivered unto him in the name of them all and as Representatives of all the people in the three Kingdoms a Purple Robe lyned with Ermine as also a Bible Sword and Scepter descanting upon each of them as significant in some respect All which being performed the Instrument of that new Modelled Government called The Humble Petition and Advice was publickly read Whereunto assenting he was then and there Proclaimed Protector of England Scotland and Ireland with sound of 〈◊〉 and afterwards in the City of London So likewise at Dublin in Ireland and Edenburgh in Scotland Which new devised Government so much resembling Monarchy though the Title did not sute thereto did so 〈◊〉 please the Anabaptists and Fifth-Monarchy men that they 〈◊〉 spired his ruin by a sudden Insurrection but their 〈◊〉 being timely discerned came at length to nothing 〈◊〉 reupon for prevention of farther mischief he committed to Prison several persons of no small note whose power with the Souldiery might otherwise have much endangered his safety Viz. Lawson one of his Admirals at Sea Harrison Rich Danvers and some other Colonels Nay Lambert himself being aware that his hopes of succeeding him were then by that new framed Government frustrated began to fall off from him and to incline to the Fanaticks Which so awakened the Protector that he took from him his Commission of Lieutenant General and gave it to Fleetwood who by the Marriage of his Daughter stood more nearly typed to his Interest And that he might the better allure those of the Army and some other which were no great friends to him to conform the more pliantly to this his new setled Dominion he tickled them with the specious Title of Lords by calling them to fit in the other House obliging also many other desperate and mean persons which were Officers of the Army with the like shadows of Honour The names of which persons so called were as followeth viz. Richard Cromwel his eldest Son Henry Cromwel his other Son then Lord Deputy of Ireland Nathaniel Fienes