Atkin Rich Alderman Pennington Pedantick Thomas Scot Hastily rich Cornelius Holland Single hearted preaching Sir Henry Vane now become old Sir Harry Prideaux Attorney General to all Governments Smiling Sir James Harrington Levelling Ludlow Pembrochian Oldsworth that made the Earl his Masters wise speeches Vain-glorious hair-brained Haslerigge with repentance like the Armies in his conscience and the Bishoprick of Durham at his back Sir Thomas Middletons man Jones Doting Purefoy without purity or faith Coll. White the Lord Fairfax's Secretary got before his Master Religâ—ous Harry Nevil Mr. Say the famous Lawyer Mr. Blagrave better known at Reading then here Coll. Bennet Sir Henry Vane's little second at preaching Mr. Brewster a Cypher to make up the number Serjeant Wilde best known by the name of the Wilde Serjeant John Goodwin alias Herbe John Mr. Lechmore the Attorney Generals second at all Governments Augustin Skinner a Kentish Christian Mr. Downes another cypher Mr. Dove a Brewer of Salisbury come to help in this new Brewing Mr. John Lenthal William Lenthal's own Son Saloway a smart prating Apprentice newly set up for himself M. John Corbet such another Lawyer as Miles and of his own colour M. Valton that will never forget his Son furnished Blacks for the Protectors Funeral Gilbert Millington the Church snuffers who desires no better trade then Scandalous Ministers Mr. Gold newly married to get more the Common-wealth being poor Coll. Sydenham a Dorset shire couple in at all Governments who rather talk then fight yet will venture to doe any thing being backt with an Army against the naked people Coll. Ayre whose name fills his head Mr Smith a Six Clerk that wishes he could write and read Coll. Ingâ—lshy that fought so well lately for the Protector against Fleetwood And Fleetwood that holy man who so smoothly supplanted the Protector that he perswaded him three Crowns were not worthy a drawn sword Stole on the sudden into the House the Invitation of the Army for the sitting of the Long Parliament as they call it being first published in VVestm. Hall Upon notice of their sitting there being double their number Members of the same Parliament in Town and many of them in the Hall to prevent the mischiefs of a sureptitious packt Parliament they agreed among themselves in the Hall though they were doubtful that Parliament was disloved that about a dozen or fourteen of them should immediately goe to the House And the persons that did so were these viz. Mr. Ansley Sir George Booth Mr. Iames Harbert Mr. Prynne Mr. Geo. Monntague Sir Iohn Eveling Mr. Iohn Harbert Mr. Gewen Mr. Eveling Mr. Knightley Mr. Clive Mr. Hungerford Mr. Harley Mr. Peck VVho though with much ado they got into the Lobby they were not suffered by the Officers of the Army to go into the House though they disputed their priviledge of sitting if the Parliament were yet in being but Reason as well as the Laws must be silent amongst men of VVar and therefore after they had fairly made their Claim and found the House under force they retired and resolved by Letter to acquaint the Speaker and those Gentlemen assembled with him what usage they had received And according'y on Monday the 9. of May they went to Westminst. where understanding that there were no Guards upon the House Mr. Ansley Mr. Prynne and Mr. Hungerford went up to the House and had free admittance receiving the Declaration of the 7. of May at the door which were published this day but M. Ansley walking afterwards into the Hall the House not being ready to sit to let the Members know that though they were repulsed by force on Saturday the House was open for honest men this day at his return Capt. Lewson of Goffe's Regiment as he confessed himself and other Officers denied him entrance he asking them whether they were a Committee to judge of Members without doors they said no but they were commanded by their superiour officers to let none in that had not sate till Apr. 1653. After some reasoning the case with them the Capt. told Mr. Ansley that if he would give his Paroll to return without sitting he might go in and speak with whom he pleased so upon his paroll passed to the Captain he was permitted to go in the second time and soon after returned telling the Captain as he came out that he had kept his Paroll and wished he and his souldiers would do the like Mr. Prynne continued still there and resolved so to do since he saw there was force again upon the House The discourse Mr. Prynne had within dores and how he made them lose that morning and adjourn by reason of his presence without the Speakers taking the chair you may expect from another pen And how he attempted to sit again in the afternoon but found there a troop of horse and two companies of red coats Keepers of the liberties of England and so bid them farrewel immediately after which to prevent further inturruption in their works of darkness from honest men they barred the door against three parts of four of the Members of the House by the following Votes Ordered That such persons heretofore members of this Parliament as have not sate in this Parliament since the year 1648. and have not subscribed the Engagement in the Roll of engagement of this House shall not sit in this House till further order of the Parliament Whereupon Sir George Booth Mr. Ansley Mr. Knightly Mr. Prynne and the rest who had agreed on a Letter to be sent to them finding them in their old temper of trampling the priviledges of Parliament under foot and Judging without Hearing resolved to make no application to them But a coppy of a Letter coming to my hands I judge it so worthy of the persons that subscribed it and of the publick view that I have here inserted it It was directed To William Lenthall Esquire Speaker to the Members of the House of Commons now sitting at Westminster SIR WE the persons subscribing and others Members of the House coming to Westminster-Hall on Saturday the 7th of this moneth understood that the Officers of the Army had by their Declaration dated the day before invited the Members of Parliament to return to the exercise and discharge of their Trust by virtue of an Act of Parliament passed 17 Caroli wherein are these words And be it declared and Enacted by the King our Soveraign Lord with the assent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same that this present Parliament now assembled shall not be dissolved unless it be by Act of Parliament to be passed for that purpose nor shall be at any time or times during the continuance thereof prorogued or adjourned unless it be by Act of Parliament to be likewise passed for that purpose and the House of Peers shall not at any time or times during this present Parliament be adjourned unless it be by themselves or their
force and exclusion of above a hundred Members in the year 1656 by which force also the purse was taken from the Commons by setling a revenue of thirteen hundred thousand pounds a year in perpetuity of the Command of the single person and the ruling Members of the Other House being most of them Officers of the Army and Courtiers which being allowed for Law the people would have been absolute slaves to their power and purse stollen from the Commons as aforesaid Whilest the temper of the House was thus tryed and they appeared sufficiently to be English men divers of the Members of Scotland and Ireland joyning with them in the same resolutions by the joynt advice of the Court and Army party the question of Transacting with the persons sitting in the Other House as an House of Parliament was set before them upon pretended grounds of Law and Necessity and by arguments of Force and Interposition from the Army and of Impossibility to proceed in any thing without the said Other House This Attempt was as stoutly opposed for fourteen dayes by the moderate honest Patriots of the House as the former the undoubted Right of the antient Peers asserted and all the said grounds and arguments confuted except that of Force which was not to take place with any thing like a free Parliament of English men But in the close of the fourteen dayes debate wherein much of the honesty ingenuity and courage of the English Nation did appear seeing all affairs at a stand till something were resolved in this point they came in a very fall House to this well qualified Resolution Resolved That this House will transact with the persons now sitting in the Other House as an House of Parliament during his present Parliament And that it is not hereby intended to exclude such Peers as have been faithful to the Parliament from their privilege of being duely summoned to be Members of that House The House of Commons between the Protector the Other House and the General Council of Ofâ—icers now summoned to meet at Wailingford house may well be conceived at this time to have had a Wolf by the ears and having shewed themselves English men and not Slaves had reason to entertain wary counsels having some of their own Members undermining them without dores and foreseeing a Disolution though not knowing whether they should die a violent or natural death or have a mint kind of decease as it fell out afterwards And therefore they resolved not to own them in the Other House as Lords but called them The persons now sitting in the other House as a House of Parliament Neither would they treat confer with them in the usual way as with the House of Peers and therefore found out the new word of Transacting and not intending to have to do with them but for a tryal they limited the time to be during this present Parliament which they foresaw would not be long and to muzzle the new inconsiderable Upstarts sufficiently if they should take too much upon them they asserted the Privilege of the antient Peers as a good reserve if the Parliament should by the Protector and Army be suffered upon second thoughts to sit longer than was at first intended And resolved also That they would receive no Message from those persons sitting in the Other House but by some of their own number The House of Commons by this time had also by a Saving in a Vote concerning the Fleet asserted their interest in the Milâ—tia and had under consideration an Act for taking away all Laws Statutes and Ordinances concerning the Excise and New Impost and concerning Customes Tunnage and Poundage after thâ—ee years And had vindicated the Peoples Liberties by setting Major General Overton and Mr. Portman and divers others illegally committed by the late Protector at liberty without paying Fees and declaring their imprisonments and detention illegal and unjust and had their new Lord Jailor â—arkstead others at their Bar under question for the same And had also a high resentment of the illegal sending freeborn English men against their wills to the Barbadoes and other forein Plantations to the Isles of Guernsay and Jersey out of the reach of the Writ of Habeas corpus and had appointed a strict Bill to be prepared for remedy thereof And had examined and discovered many other Grievances brought upon the People by the Officers and Farmers of Excise and others And by Major Generals amongst which Butler was for his insolent actings and high alfronts to the Law and Courts of Justice put out of the Commission of the Peace and a Committee appointed to draw up an Impeachment against him The Committee also for Inspection before mentioned had brought in and reported to the House the state of the Accounts and Publick and of the Martial and Civil Lists in the three Nations by which it did appear That the yearly incomes of England Scotland and Ireland came to Eighteen hundred sixty eight thousand seven hundred and seventeen pounds And the yearly Issues to Two millions two hundred and one thousand five hundred and forty pounds So that Three hundred thirty two thousand eight hundred twenty three pounds of debt incurred yearly by the ill management of double the Revenue that ever King of England enjoyed And to maintain the unjust Conquest of Scotland cost us yearly One hundred sixty three thousand six hundred and nineteen pounds more than the Revenue it yields Many other particulars were under their consideration as to the Religion and Civil Rights of the People too long now to be mentioned but in short to give them their due they did some good whilest they sate both to the Publick and particulars and intended much more and did no hurt gave no Offices nor Gratuities to themselves out of the Publick Treasure nor granted any money from the People which is more than can be said of any Parliament in our memory Proceeding thus successfully and hopefully to the general satisfaction of the People in the three Nations who chose them the Protector and chief Officers of the Army who were jealous of one another before and Competitors for Government grew now jealous of the House of Commons also who being the Representatives of the People were become also their Mâ—nions and Favourites It was therefore now thought seasonable to contend among themselves for the Power before the People should recover it from them both In order to which the General Council of Officers kept their constant Meetings at Wallingford-house and the Protector with his party countermined them at Whitehall The Result of the Officers assembling was a Representation to the Prâ—â—â—ctor which was published by the Officers own order the seventh of April and the day after a Copy thereof sent inclosed by the Protector in a Letter to the Speaker of the House This Representation was like Lightning before Thunder both to the Protector and the House for though it hath some seeming fair
Professions intermixed it is written in such a canting aequivocating language whereof the Sword was like to be Interpreter that the sting was easily visible through the honey and their former actions and suitable continuing honesty better credited than their words Hereupon the Protector begins too late to think of securing himself from being surprized with their complements and stands upon his guard And the Commons house as became Englishmen wisely and couragiously resolved to let the Officers know that they took them still to be their Servants though they had for too many years ill deserved their wages rebelling and usurping the Government at their pleasure and intending to try what they meant by the Good Old Cause which as they seemed to represent it smelt of Gunpowder and ball and whether the repentance held forth in their said Representation were real or Military passed these votes on Monday April the 18. Resolved That during the sitting of the Parliament there shall be no General Council or Meeting of the Officers of the Army without direction leave and Authority of his Hignesse the Lord Protector and both Houses of Parliament Resolved That no person shall have or continue any Command or Trust in any of the Armies or Navies of England Scotland or Ireland or any the dominions and territories thereto belonging who shall refuse to subscribe That he will not disturb or interrupt the free-meetings in Parliament of any the Members of either House of Parliament or their Freedom in their debates and counsels And the same time to shew their care of the Army and to prevent jealousies they passed the following votes Resolved That the House do presently take into consideration the wayes and means for satisfaction of the Arrears of the Armies and providing present pay for them Resolved That Serjeant Maynard the Attorney General and Sollicitor General do forthwith prepare an Act of Indemprity for all such as have acted under the Parliament and Common-wealth Whilest the House spent the rest of their time in considering how to Provide money without laying new burthens on the people great contests grew between the Protector and the opposite Officers of the Army both sides keeping guards night and day against one another the Protector having in pursuance of the votes of the house forbidden the meetings of the Officers In this divided posture affairs continued till Friday the 22. of April on which morning early Fleetwood the Protectors Brother Desborough his Uncle and the rest of the mutinous Officers carrying the greater part of the Army after them and the Protectors party flinching the Conquest was made without one drop of blood which was strange in so antient hereditary just and undoubted a Title and the Protector forced to consent to a Commission and Proclamation ready prepared giving Desborough and others power to disolve the Parliament contrary to the best advice and his own Interess and Promise And accordingly the same day The Black Rod was sent twice to the House of Commons from Fiâ—nnes Speaker of the Other House for them to come thither but they admitted him not in and much scorned the motion having ever looked upon that Mushrum House as the Lower House and their own creature the language being to send down to the Other House when they sent the Declaration for a Fast for a trial of transacting with them And therefore understanding there were guards of Horse and Foot in the Pallaceyard after some motions made by Mr. Knightly Sir Arthur Haslerigge and others wherein Sir Arthur exceeding That the House should first declare it Treason for any persons whatsoever to put force upon any Members of the House and next that all Votes Acts and Resolutions passed by any Members of Parliament when the rest were detained from or taken out of the House by force should be null and void and other motions becoming Englishmen to that end judging themselves under a force and finding they were very unanimous though near four hundred in the House in the things proposed they resolved no question but adjourned till Monday morning the twenty fifth of April and attended the Speaker in order through Westminster-Hall to his Coach in face of the Souldiery Now the Court according to the guise of the world in like accidents shrunk out of Whitâ—hall into Wallingford House And Fleetwood D shorow the rest of the Officers great and small took the Government into their own hands the House of Commons being shut up and entrance denied to the Members when they came on Monday even to Sir Henry Vane and Sir Artbur Haslerig themselves according to adjournment the Court of Requests and all avenues being full of Souldiers who told the Members they must sit no more After the Officers had new model'd themselves cashiering Whaley Ingolsby Goffe and divers others of the Protectors party and restoring Lambert Haslerig Okey and others displaced by Protector Oliver and played with the Government for a few dayes grew weary of it the inferior officers and the Pamphlets that now flew about daily without controul carrying things beyond the intention of the Chief Officers who would have left the Protector a Duke of Venice for his Fathers sake who raised them and their relation to him which they had forgotten till now they sent to some of their old hackney drudges of the Long Parliament then in London who they knew would do any thing so they might be suffered to sit and on the fifth and sixth days of May had conference with them the last of which was at their never failing Speaker the Master of the Rolles House in Chancery-Lane where both Officers viz. Lambert who had already gotten his old place and others with him and Members viz. Sir Henry Vane Sir Arthur Haslerigge Ludlow John Jones Mr. Chaloner Mr. Scot and others to the number of twenty solicited William Lenthal Esquire to sit Speaker again but be objected scruples in judgement and conscience which are not yet answered nor never will nevertheless Fifteen Articles between the Officers and some of the Members who it seems over-confidently undertook for the rest being first agreed on at some of their meetings they resolved to meet in the House on Saturday the 7 of May yet that they might do it by surprise they gave out that they would not sit till Tuesday the tenth of May But the itch of ambition and Lording it over the people giving them no quiet on Saturday the seventh of May early they met in the Painted Chamber at Westminster and to make up their number sent for the two chast Cock-Sparrows the Lord Manson and Mr. Henry Martin out of Prison where they were in Execution for Debt and honest Whitlock and Lisle of the Chancery Bench and with this addition being two and forty in number the Chancery Mace for hast being carried before them William Lâ—nthall Esquire their tender conscienced Speaker together with the said Lord Munson Henry Martin Mr. Whitlock Mr. Lisle Temperate Mr. Chaloner Wise Alderman
depending against Vane and Hazilrig and if they rule on as well as they did when Oliver turned them out of doors with the braod of Knaves Whoremasters and Drunkards to the general rejoycing of the people no doubt we shall be a happy Nation And what esteem the people had of them appears by the elections to the last Parliament wherein though none but persons well affected to Parliaments had Votes and the persons now sitting laboured hard to be chosen very few of them were elected the people generally looking upon them as apostares from the Good Old Cause and therefore no wonder they would have that Parliament to which only they were chosen never dissolved I have now little more to do at present honest and learned Mr. Pryane having saved much of my labour but to let the world see how they go about by the example of the Army whose Apes they are to cozen the people of their Religion Laws Liberties Parliaments and Money with a Raâ—â—le called the Good old Cause which is a very cheat as you may see by the ensuing penitential Letter of one better skilled in their Cheats than I am Mr. Hugh Peters Letter written to a chief Officer of the Army SIR VVHereas the late transactions of the Army have very sore afflicted me and with Heman Psal. 88. ver. 15. have exceed ugly troubled me because of my love to my Native Countrey and the concernments thereof I thought it my duty being under much bodily weaknesse to desire you to take and give notice unto others of these my apprehensions ensuing 1. Though call'd to speak to the Officers I knew not their further intentions 2. When I heard of his Highnesse distasting their meetings I went to Three of the Chief and beg'd as for a penny that they would not proceed in any meeting and did the same to other Officers I met withall The dangers I conceive are these because the Protector and the two Houses as they were Set was the hopefullest way in the whole world to settle these Nations and the crossing thereof most dangerous as now it appears both in the sin and sorrow of it As 1. All the Armies addresses to his Highness to live and die with him are broken and their proclaiming of him everywhere slighted 2. His Family Himself and Lady being truly godly yea such a Family of godlinesse and sobriety not known in the Christian world now broken and the son of Jerubaal not regarded 3. The Authority of the best Parliament and most freely chosen trampled upon yea such a sort of men gathered together as would have been a Defence and establishment against all evils 4. Nothing set up in their place an Enemy at the door a peâ—uâ—ious souldiery thousands of poor perishing that by this time might have been paid Widows and Orphants already dying in the streets Trade gone Private souldiers grown Masters Law and Gospel dying the whole Protestant cause in the whole world overâ—ottering how much animosity discontent and self ends have prevailed herein I know not but if the least encouragement was taken by any word of mine who was a stranger to any design I do here professe my sorrow and grief for the least occasion of it and look upon the whole businesse as very sinful and ruining of which the Child unborn and after Ages will be sensible and this I write from the saddest spirit of a sick man and Your Loving friend Hugh Peters I know but one expedient which is That his Highnesse may be in the same condition with his House and Family and that he be desired to call in as many of the late Parliament as are at hand to make up a House and Councel and Indempâ—ity to passe and so forthwith to settle things And for that which they call the Good Old Cause I look upon it as a Cheat by the Jesuits put upon the Army the which we enjoyed it being Liberty and Peace VVhitehall May 10. 1659. Thus far Mr. Peters But for a further discovery of the Cheat obâ—â—uled upon the people by putting of the Good old Cause I shall to avoid large recicals of Remonstrances Votes and Declarations of Parliament state the true Good old Cause in the House of Commons own words briefly out of their Declaration of the 17th of April 1646. At the end of the War when they were full and free which they caused to be affixed in all the Churches of England to call God and Man to witnesse their sincerity therein And because the title of it is very significant and comprehensive take that at large viz. Die veneris April 17. 1646. A Declaration of the Commons of England assembled in Parliament of their true intentions concerning the Antient and Fundamental Government of the Realm the Goverment of the Church The present peace securing the people against all arbitrary Government and maintaining a right understanding between the two Kingdomes of England and Scotland according to the Covenant and Treaties The Preamble recites how their good intentions had been misrepresented by divers Declarations and Suggestions of the King and thereby and by other practices the minds of many possessed with a belief that there was no just Cause of the War And that now they had succeeded in the War they desired to exceed or swarve from their first Aims and Principles in the undertaking the War and to recede from the solemn League and Covenant and treaties between the two Kingdoms and that they would prolong these uncomfortable troubles and bleeding distractions in order to alter the fundamental constitution and frame of this Kingdom To leave all Government in the Church loose and unsetled and themselves to exercise the same arbitrary power over the persons and estates of the subjects which that Parliament had thought fit to abolish by taking away The Star Chamber High Commission and other arbitrary Courts and the exorbitant power of the Councel Table Then they declare in General that they will settle Religion in purity according to the Covenant maintain the antient and fundamental Government of this Kingdom preserve the rights and liberties of the subject lay hold on the first opportunity of procuring a safe and well grounded peace in the three Kingdomes and to keep a good understanding between the two Kingdoms of England and Scotland according to the Covenant and Treaties Then to give fuller satisfaction they declare particularly concerning Church Government that they are for the Presbiterial Government with a due regard that tender consciences which differ not in any fundamentals of Religion may be so provided for as may stand with the word of God and the peace of the Kingdom Then they declare that there was nothing they had more earnestly desired nor more constantly laboured after than a safe and good peace with the King which is the just end of a just War and â—here they assert the fundamental constitution and Government of this Kingdome to be by King Lords and Commons which they will not alter Then
they conclude that the first and chiefest grounds of the Parliaments taking up Armes in this cause was to suppress attempts of introducing an arbitrary Government over this Nation and Protecting Delinquents enemies of our Religion and liberties by force from the Justice of Parliament and declare that they will not interrupt the ordinary course of Justice in the several Courts and Judicatories of this Kingdome This is the good old Cause the Parliament owned And therefore let all that fear God in the three Nations consider whence they are fallen even from the Good old Cause held forth in the Votes Remonstrances Declarations Protestations Vows and oaths of the Parliament published in maintenance of our Ancient and well tempered setled Government by King Lords and Commons to a sneaking Oligarchical Tyranny under the bare name of The Good Old Cause which is as changeable as the addle heads that contrive it as oppressive as the corrupt wâ—â—ls of licentious men can make it must be as arbitrary as the Army will have it and shall be more fully deciphered if they persist in it which they never dare do if the people who yet seem to be in a Lethargy remember their first works and be as resolute to assert their Religion Lawes and Liberties as these desperaâ—e men of lost fortunes and reputations are bold to trample them under foot and make this great people once famous is through the world for valour wisdom and Religion a scorn and derision to all that are round about us and themselves Monsters of men by their Aâ—heism Apostacy and Inconstancy I shall conclude with some advice now it 's seasonable To the Army To the people of all sorts and degrees and to the members sitting at Westminster 1. Faithful aduice to the Army First remember the ends for which you were raised for defence of king Parliament Religion and Liberties that you were servants to them and received their wages and were 〈◊〉 by oathes to them 2. Remember how in 1647 you were fiâ—st by some of your ambitious Officers most whereof are since dead seduced to Rebel against and betray your masters whom you accused falsely and to refuse to disband when the War was ended whereby you are become Oppressers and Robbers ever since And meer 〈…〉 3. Remember how in December 1648. you rebelled the second time against your masters and forceably and traitâ—rously as well as perjuriously bâ—oak the Parliament imprisoning and driving away most of the faithful members keeping only a few that prostituted themselves and the rights and liberties of the Kingdome with the lives of the King Nobles and Commons to their own ambition and to your lusts and wills as your pentioners in the house till April 1643. when you rebelled against them and for their self seeking and notorious crimes and miscarriages printed then at large in your Declaration you absolutely dissolved them to the general satisfaction of the people 4. Remember how giddily and impiously your ambitious wicked Officers have lead you through horrid Murders Treasons and breach of Oathes from a happy settled Government under a King and Parliament First to a Ridiculous Commonwealth thence to a new kind of Protector thence To Prayse God Bare-bones little Parliament thence to a Protector with an instrument of Lamberts making but never in tune thence to Tyrannical Major Generals thence to a new Crochet called The Petition and Advice thence to a New Protector and two Houses of Parliament whereof one was still-born thence To build up the things which you destroyed whereby you have made your selves transgressors Gal. 2. 18. Thus have you marched so fast from one Government to another ' that the poor people wearied out are fain to return home and sit still in a maze abhorring your unstable ungodly ways and crying to God in secret that he will at length restore unto England Our Kings and Nobles as at the first and our Judges as at the beginning making it a quiet habitation which by your ungodly courses hath been so long a howling wildernesse full of birds of prey and beasts that do devoure I have no moâ—e to say to you but that if your mistâ—ading Officers can reconcile your actings since 1646 to the Scripture rule which you find Luke 3. 14. By which all Christian souldiers much more then Heathen are to walk viz. Do violence to no man neither accuse any falsly and be content with your wages then leâ— them go for honest men and count me mistaken But if this discourse of mine by God's blessing becomes instrumental for the awakening your Drowzie consciences to see your Long course of Sins and Provocations and to repent Then let me tell you your Work is short to make your Selves and the Kingdome happy for as you have lately gone Six yeares backward at one Step viz. from this time to April 1653. So if your Officers and You will but make one Step more viz. from April 1653 to December 1648 to our Ancient Long-experienced and fundamental Constitution of Government by KING LORDS and COMMONS you will justifie your Repentance to be sincere and render it famous to all the World and deserve and have Rewards from your Countrey instead of Indempnity which you now beg from every Power that Sits 2. Advise to the People of all sorts and degrees Delirant Reges plectuntur Achivi your rulers doâ—e and go astray but you suffer by it as well as they Therefore strive to set them right though they forget their Oaths and Promises do you remember yours Have you ever seen quiet or settlement since the King was inhumanely murdâ—ed this own Gate and our ancient Government by King Lords and Commons changed since our Covenant was counted an Almenack out of date this was one in 1648. shall I perswade you to return whence you are fallen I need not I know you are ready for it and watch your opportunity Let me only tell you the time is now come for having tryed all other ways insomuch that we are going round again where we first turned aside you see no Foundation to build upon but our Ancient one strive therefore for the restoring of King Lords and Commons that you may enjoy them and be happy Remember how the Ministers and others of London Essex Suffolk Northamptonshire Lancashire and other Counties gave their Testimony against the King's death in 1648 and repent for that Bloud with which the land is defiled Let those who so boldly in their late mutinous Representation to the Protector moved for a Justification of the Kings death and all acts done in pursuance thereof know that they may as soon pull the Stars out of God's right hand as make those that fear his name in England justifie such a horrid impiety for which God hath made us an unsetled people ever since and hath given them and the Kingdome no rest ever since nor will till they repent and do their first works and call all the Members of the Long-Parliament together to sit