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A80310	A conference held in the Tower of London, between two Aldermen of the city, Praise-God Lean-Bone, and the Lord Lambert, upon their occasion of visiting his lordship. Munday, March the 13th, 1660. Concerning the King of Scots and the present Parliament.		1660 (1660)	Wing C5732; Thomason E1017_9; ESTC R207966	2,539	8

A CONFERENCE Held in the Tower of London Between two Aldermen of the City PRAISE-GOD LEAN-BONE And the LORD LAMBERT Upon their occasion of visiting his Lordship MVNDAY MARCH the 13th 1660. Concerning the King of Scots And the present PARLIAMENT LONDON Printed in the Year 1660. A CONFERENCE Held in the Tower of London between two ALDERMEN of the City Praise-God Lean-Bone and the Lord Lambert Munday March 13 1660. Titc MY Lord We are come to visit your Lordship and also to take a view of your Lodgings for if the Tide turn not we are like to come and inhabite with Col. Morley for we acted so high for your Lordships and our own Interest that we are confident we may be bold to believe that we are mortally hated so far as we are known Lambert Your visitation is acceptable and seasonable in this juncture of time but they were far better dayes with us when we met in counsel at Wallingford house O that wicked Monk and that unhappy Northern Expedition laid all our honours in the dust Ir. Truly my Lord our good City and her young fry of Apprentices were very instrumental in our ruines but there may come a time wherein we may make them amends for their courtesie Lambert Truely Gentlemen I cannot think well of this kind of consinement for here are no pleasures wherein a man can delight himself and though I love souldiers and men in arms as well as the stoutest Prince or Hero in the world yet my delight was to command them and not to be commanded by them Lean-Bone It was my sad fortune only for presenting the Rump with one impudent Petition to get the ill will both of Monk and his Souldiers the Parliament now in being the City and the whole Nation Ir. 'T is true Mr. Lean-Bone but had I attained to the Mayrolty for this year as the plot was laid we had altered the Scene and though perhaps their Gates might have escaped the mischief yet their Charter and their Purses should have made us full satisfaction Titc You say very true brother I. And I am sure it had been much better for the Vine that bears my Grapes had the City been a City of Redcoats and not a City of such Cross-grain'd and stiff-necked Varlets Lambert I am now cooped up in a Prison a place of no Intelligence how do the people rellish my confinement Titc With very much seeming joy and satisfaction and well approve the violent and high Actions of this Parliament and delight in our Commitments Nay they have again advanced the Old decayed Covenant than which the people believe there is nothing speaks more plainly for the King Lambert It is a long time since I swore it and having taken divers Oaths to the contrary since have almost forgot the contents thereof But I think there is a Clause that highly mentions the safety of the Kings Person and the Advancement of his Honour Ir. There is so my Lord but if his honour be advanced ours must needs be laid in the dust as your Lordship said even now Lean-bone I never tasted what honour was but whilst I sate a little in a short Parliament and promoted the Act for Marriage and other wise Acts not now regarded For my Controllers place I think that would have had more of Profit then Honour in it if I could have kept it Titc If things goe on at this rate we must neither look to hold or injoy either places of Trust Honour or Profit Ir. It is a sad thing to live under the Government of a Parliament that seek to do just things and such as may best please and best profit the People If they bring in the King hee 'l bring us to a fatal period But Heavens forbid it Lambert I finde then an impossibility for me to scape their fury for if the Power be given into His hand it is not for me to expect mercy The People being insenced against me they must be satisfied with a Sacrifice or two to their fancied Justice or they will never sit down in obedience to the Goverment Titc It is so long since the King hath had any occasion to gratifie his People that he will not imagine one or two sufficient to abate their fury I wish every County in England be not bound to find one State-Martyr besides what they will please to Assesse upon the City of London who as they alwayes found more money so in this case I am afraid they must finde more men Ir. Then truly Brother T. I am in doubt you and I shall hardly be permitted to cast Dice for our lives we being both so notoriously known and so generally hated Lean-Bone I am too lean for a Sacrifice and when the King comes to see me he will say I am not worth the Hanging I have a good mind to face about and try if I can get a place of imployment under Monarchy to try if it be all one with that I had in your Lordships reign Titc But my Lord What defence does your Lordship intend to make to your impeachment Lambert I le plead my Commission and my then present Power Titc True my Lord a good defence would they have but the Grace to acknowledge us a sufficient Power to grant a Commission for these things which is the thing I onely fear if I be questioned my self Lambert Why am I thus hated though I miscarried in this business yet the People know I have done good service in my time Ir. You see my Lord they have no respect of persons or services for there is Sir A. H. a man that opposed your Power and Designs with all his might is now brought into the same predicament Titc I have seen and helpt forward many a Turn in this Nation but a worse then this for us I think our times can hardly parallel For in all the others I have kept my Spoke in the Wheel but in this it is cast clear out Lambert We must all expect to have plentifull portions of affliction for in scripture we read that the Lord will overturn overturn overturn but we have doubled these overturnings in the Government of these Nations Lean-Bone That overturning that I had a hand in is hardly worth the taking notice of and I hope all the World will think me so too Lambert I Comptroller had I no more to answer for then you have it would hardly be a minutes contrivance to gain my release but I acted high too high I am afraid Ir. Were any of our party either in Power or Favour then there might be a possibility of doing good for your Lordstip but we are so generally laid aside and hated that we dare not appear so much as by Petition Lean-Bone Petition I le meddle no more with Petitions were I to be Hanged I have enough of that already Lambert There is nothing to be done but a reliance upon their mercy If they take me off you must impute it to the necessity they are put upon to please the People There are noble Presidents gone before me All. Heavens release your Lordship and send you better Fortune FINIS