Quarters were but at a Village near hand whence he could not find his way nor be directed by his Ear when the Ordnance was heard as I have been credibly informed 20 or 30 Miles off so that certainly he is far from the Man he is taken for 17. That day's work at Marston-Moor turned the Scales and raised again the fortune of the Parliament which till that day had very much declined And these Men who all this while stalked under the sides of the Parliament and did but pretend the business of Reformation and the Peoples Liberties thereby to break the power of the King first that afterwards they might either by artifice or force lay as low the Authority of Parliament unless it would betray its truth and yield to be instrumental to them did after this begin to put out their Horns appear in their Colours and as they warmed more and more to spit out their Venom against Monarchy against Nobility and Gentry against that Reformation with which they had formerly held forth to the Scots against the very Covenant their Vows and Declarations wherewith they had abused God and the World 18. Then did Cromwel declare himself to the Lord of Manchester and indeed reveal'd the whole Design First His rancor against the Scots as that he would as soon draw his Sword against them as against any of the King's Party Then his hatred of the Nobility and House of Peers wishing there was never a Lord in England and saying he loved such and such because they loved not Lords and that it would not be well till he was but Mr. Montague Thirdly His intentions to hinder Peace and that therefore he desired none to be of that Army but such as were of the Independent judgment to interpose if a Peace were like to be made which agreed not with their humours All this remains upon Record in both Houses being the Earl of Manchester's Charge against him And let any one judg if this be not the very Plot which was then laid and since practised Has not every particular been attempted by them have they not fully compleated that which was chiefly aimed at As that which will and must certainly if not prevented bring on all the rest the hindering of Peace that no ease nor quietness might be restored to the Kingdom For when the Parliament was ready to disband the only Army then left and so to free the Subject from all Payments and Taxes that every one might return to his Vocation and all differences between King and Parliament might be ended and reconciled in a parliamentary way then did the Cadmean Brood turn their Swords against their fellow Subjects and their Masters the Parliament which by open force they assault make void and unvote what they had voted concerning their Disbanding put by all thoughts of Peace and throw back the Kingdom which was entring into the desired Haven of Peace and Happiness into the deep Seas of Storms and Misery and Confusion where I beseech God it perish not But of all this anon 19. Things were not yet ripe tho the Serpent's Eggs were laid by him in the Earl of Manchester's bosom it was not time to hatch the Cockatrice Therefore when it was by the Earl made known to the Houses their Party in the House of Commons did more solito with all the violence and injustice in the world smother and suppress it quarrelling that the Lords had infring'd their Privileges in desiring that might be examined by a Committee in both Houses saying The Lords ought not to meddle in it because it concern'd a Commoner whereas nothing was more ordinary throughout the whole proceeding of this Parliament in all their inquisitions Yet by that means this was then stifled the breach of Privilege referr'd to a Committee of the House of Commons and there the business died 20. After this the Scots saw how they were cheated and it came to be though not an open breach yet a great coldness between them a withdrawing of confidence of familiarity of Counsels And the Scots then found that the other party had been misrepresented being the Men who in truth did agree with them in Principles and in Design Which was only to reform not to alter to regulate and so to save not to destroy That they still carried about with them the sense of their Allegiance and Duty to the person of the King whom they did desire to see reinvested into his Throne and Kingly Government with such a power and in such a way as might be good both for Him and the People that thereby confusion misery and that disorder which the Poet describes to have been in the first Chaos and which we now see not in a Fiction but really feel and smart under might be avoided 21. By little and little the Scots and these latter came to a better understanding at last they discover the horrid Practices and the whole Design of the others who in the mean time drove it on Iehu like violently bearing down and destroying all that opposed them for some opposition they found They saw there was a strong Party in the House against them between whom and the Soldiers who were under Command of my Lord of Essex there was a good Correspondency and these two together with the Scots were as a threefold Cord not to be broken by them therefore they would untwist it and so destroy them one after another 22. The Earl of Essex must be the first who they found would not bow and therefore must break for many applications had been made to see if he would stoop to their Lure Great offers large promises all the glory of the Kingdom should be his if he would but worship them be as they termed it true to the Godly Party but he was true to his Principles Therefore they do what they can to make him odious not paying his Army to make it a Burden to the Country and infamous not giving him means of acting by Supplies and Provisions so to be looked upon as a Drone or worse or putting him upon such Actions as should break him so to make him come off with dishonour 23. As when he was about Oxford in the Summer 1644 he on one side of the River and Sir William Waller with his Brigade on the other the King having then but a small force within the Town and either not provided for a Siege or not willing to be shut in with a light body of Horse and I think some mounted Men held them play and distracted them being sometimes on the one side sometimes on the other which was easie for him to do going through the Town as he saw occasion by the conveniency of the Gates It being then known that he waited but his opportunity and advantage to slip by or break through our Grand Masters ordered my Lord of Essex with a heavy body of an Army and a great train of Artillery to attend his Majesties motion and Sir William Waller to
that they grew to be not only an unnecessary grievous burden in respect of charge but also a let and hinderance to the setling all Government both civil and ecclesiastical neither submitting themselves to order of Parliament nor permitting others where they could hinder it but giving countenance to all disorders especially in the Church as breaking open the Church doors doing most unseemly barbarous things indeed not fit to be related either to modest or Christian Ears and in time of Divine Service interrupting Ministers as they were preaching miscalling reviling them sometimes pulling them down by violence beating and abusing them getting into the Pulpits themselves and venting either ridiculous or scandalous things false and pernicious Doctrins countenancing and publishing seditious Pamphlets for which they had a Press that follow'd the Army decrying both King and Parliament and all Authority infusing a rebellious Spirit into the people under the pretence of Liberty and Freedom All this notwithstanding while the Scotish Army was in the Kingdom Such things were whisper'd such jealousies and fears rais'd as these inconveniencies were not only dispens'd with but the Army supported and cherish'd as if they had been tutelary Gods those who must have protected and deliver'd us from all danger and all that the Parliament and Kingdom could do little enough to feed and maintain them tho an excrescence that drew away the whole nourishment of the Body and starv'd it 67. But afterwards when the Kingdom saw how they had been abus'd made to fear where no fear was and were come to themselves they soon grew to feel the weight of that which lay upon them and seek for ease Then City and Country could petition the Parliament for disbanding the Army complain of their intolerable disorders and irregularities and the Parliament was well dispos'd for it who now likewise discover'd the art and malice of the Independent Party a Spirit they had rais'd which they would gladly lay and consider'd that as such an Army was dangerous so none at all was needful that Ireland wanted what we had too much of Soldiers 68. Besides they well saw that whilst that Army stood they should never be able to relieve Ireland to any purpose the stock of the Kingdom was swallow'd up in their maintenance and tho for the space of a whole year there had not been an Enemy in the Field nor Town possess'd by any to find them employment yet they recruited daily all care being taken for sending them Pay Arms Provision Clothes with all other necessaries as if they were every day upon hard and dangerous Service when they did nothing but trouble and oppress the Country â— so as notwithstanding their glorious pretences of fighting for Conscience not Pay sacrificing themselves to God and the Kingdom 's Cause none of them would stir to help the poor Protestants in that Kingdom but even hinder'd what they could all others from going 69. Which appear'd by Colonel Hammond's Capitulation being design'd for the Service of Dublin who tho he were but an Ensign to Sir Simon Harcourt in the begining of those Wars now a Colonel of the new Model stood upon his pantoufles That he would not be oblig'd for longer than two or three Months have all his Pay before hand Victuals for six Months tho he would stay but two be absolute Commander of all the Forces there have a proportion of Money over and above for contingent occasions put into what hands he would appoint a Fleet of Ships to transport him wait upon him and be at his disposing not to stir without his leave in truth he must be Admiral and General such Terms as no Prince or foreign State that had but given an assistance could have stood upon higher This was the obedient conscientious Army but most Men were satisfy'd if it was not disbanded Ireland must be lost and England undone 70. The Parliament therefore taking into their consideration the necessity of relieving that dying Kingdom after long debate and much opposition from all that Party came at last to a resolution in May 1647 and vote that a certain proportion of Foot and Horse should forthwith be transported into Ireland as I remember seven Regiments of Foot of which four I am certain were to be taken out of the Army they further vote that no Foot should be continu'd in England but those that were to be for the necessary defence of the Garisons and that about five thousand Horse and Dragoons should remain under Pay in this Kingdom for quieting and preventing any stir or trouble either within or from abroad to interrupt proceedings till a settlement of Affairs Peoples Minds after such Commotions being like the Sea after a Storm unquiet for some time tho the wind be abated Those Men would have had a far greater number and press'd it earnestly saying We laid by our strength that all might be deliver'd back into the King's hands and tho even this proportion seem'd very great to discreet and moderate Men yet they pitch'd upon it partly to stop the mouths of these Railers and give satisfaction to all indifferent persons who look'd not so far into business and were apt enough to be misled into jealousies and suspicions and partly because they well hop'd it would be but for some short time that this charge should be continu'd upon the Kingdom 71. Here then is the Ax first laid to the root of this broad spreading Tree the Army a dismal Cypress the shadow and dropping whereof were so pernicious as to darken all the comfortable beams of our Sun-shine of Peace and suffer no good thing to prosper near it this vext the Children of darkness who now must cast about shake Heaven and Earth raise all the black Spirits of Hell confound Sea and Land and all the Elements rather than permit this to take place 72. The Parliament goes on with this work refers it to the Committee of Lords and Commons at Derby-house to see those Votes concerning Ireland put in execution The eleven Members were almost all of them of that Committee who may say Hinc illae Lacrimae For doing their parts together with the rest in discharge of the duty and trust which lay upon them to take care of that poor Kingdom and discovering the designs of the Army to frustrate all the good designs of the Parliament they incur the mortal hatred of the Party and Army which have driven them from their Homes and Country and City of London without the privity or consent of the House of Parliament The Earl of Warwick the Lord Dacres Sir William Waller Sir Iohn Clotworthy Major General Massey and Mr. Salloway are the persons employ'd These labour to dispose Officers and Soldiers to a compliance with the necessities of Ireland but at the very first were receiv'd with a mutinous acclamation amongst the Officers whom they had call'd together some of them crying out One and all and the whole Company disturb'd and distemper'd So as finding it not
as Allen and White the latter also made Clerk of the Assizes in the Northern Circuit worth 5 or 600 l. per Annum Cromwel has 2500 l. per Annum Sir Peter Wentworth a Gentleman's Estate for half the value settled likewise by Ordinance tho the Gentleman whose delinquency was perhaps aggravated because he would not sell him that Land which he had long desir'd like Naboth's Vineyard offer'd to pay the Money to the State as the Fine for his Composition which by the rules of their own proceedings could not in Justice have been deny'd him I remember we put by the Ordinance two or three times but I hear it is since past which makes me mention it here 131. To some for reparation of Losses So Mr. Cornelius Holland who had some inferiour place in the Prince's Houshold which certainly he was not born to the height of his ambition reaching no further in the beginning than to be Sir Henry Vane's Man was in recompence set over the King's Children above my Lady of Dorset and had the managing of their Houshold some three or four years then they gave him the King's Pastures in Buckinghamshire for twenty one years worth to him de claro some 15 or 1600 l. per Annum Sir William Strickland for the burning of his House in Yorkshire has a Gentleman's Estate in Kent of a good value Mr. Henry Herbert had 3000 l. given him out of my Lord of Worcester's Woods and Sir Iohn Winter's The Lord Say in lieu of the Mastership of the Wards which by his power since the beginning of this Parliament he had wrested from the Lord Cottington had 10000 l. and for part of the Money I think 4000 l. of it had Hanworth House with the Lands about it which was worth as they say 14000 l. Colonel Fleetwood was by way of Sequestration put into the Remembrancers place of the Court of Wards which his Brother held and by going to Oxford lost it upon the putting down of the Court he had 3000 l. recompense multitudes there are more of this kind 132. To some for pretended Arrears as to Sir Arthur Haslerig 7000 l. who had earn'd it well at the Devizes and Cherrington To the Lord Fairfax Sir William Constable Sir William Brereton great Sums To Colonel Thompson 2000 l. for his wooden Leg which nothing but a Cannon could have helpt him to for he would never come within Musket shot To Colonel Purefoy and his Son Colonel Boswel some 1500 l. each and so to many more 133. To some to buy their Voices make them Proselytes To Mr. Weston Son to the Earl of Portland the reviving an arrear of a Pension which was his Ladies and if I be not deceiv'd had been discontinu'd for many years The Debenter as I remember was 4000 l. To the Lord Grey of Groby who had before been zealous for my Lord of Essex as he had good reason for the respects he had receiv'd from him a considerable Sum which I well remember not to be paid him out of such discoveries of Delinquents Estates as he should make whereupon he and his Terriers were long attending the Committee of Examinations in the prosecution still of some Game or other till his Sum was made up To Mr. Scawen one who formerly had not very well lik'd of their ways 2000 l. How many of the Lords that could not be heard before nor their Petitions scarce vouchsafed to be read when they tackt about and voted with them were then presently consider'd and good proportions allow'd them nay they were so impudent as some of them would not stick to give it for a reason openly in the House why they would not grant their desires that they took notice how they gave their Votes Mr. Gourden is the Man I have heard say so several times this was an excellent way to make a free Parliament for the Members to be honest and discharge their Consciences 134. Then for Accounts I would fain know what Accounts they have pass'd Let any Man peruse my Lord Fairfax's and Sir William Constable's I hear they are strange ones for the great Sums they have finger'd And I am sure the Committee of Accounts did complain that their Sub-Committees were beaten in Staffordshire where Mr. Purefoy and Mr. Boswel should have acted and would not 135. Upon the whole matter I would have our Accusers say so much by one of us I confess I am sorry to discover this of them it being much against my nature but I am forc'd to it for my vindication I may say with the Apostle They have compell'd me and not only so to recriminate but even to glory a little in some thing Have any of us ever refus'd to account who were liable to it Sir William Lewis did account for the Monys he receiv'd being Governor of Portsmouth so fairly and satisfactorily as that the Committee of Accounts made a special report of it to the House to be as they said an Example to others for his care and just dealing in managing the States Monies which came to his hands Major General Massey I am sure was sollicitous to perfect his accounts which if or no he had done before they drove him away I know not Sir William Waller and Colonel Long finish'd theirs Sir Philip Stapleton never touch'd but his personal Pay yet did account and had but forty Shillings a day being Lieutenant General of the Horse under my Lord of Essex who was Generalissimo when Sir Arthur Haslerig had five Pounds for commanding the Horse under Sir William Waller a Place inferior to his and had been at no charge having liv'd still upon Sir William Waller and gotten well all along the Imployment Sir William Waller had his Arrears after his subordinate Officer Sir Arthur had led the way who broke the Ice for his General and all the rest Sir Philip Stapleton had also his a very small one for so eminent an Officer in regard his allowance was no greater it came to about 1700 l. having left the benefit of his whole Estate during all the Wars which Haslerig did not if his Neighbours in Leicestershire say true that his Grounds have continu'd full stock'd all this while better than ever they were before so safe and well protected as I have heard that his Neighbours when there was danger would send their Cattel thither I confess I understand not the mystery 136. Here is all concerning matters of Accounts and Arrears of the eleven Members the rest medled not with any of the States Monies some of them have refus'd to receive what the House had given them upon much juster grounds than all the pretences of the others that had so much I my self for my Sufferings after the Parliament 3 d. Car. which continu'd many years cost me some thousands of Pounds and prejudic'd me more had five thousand Pounds given me by the House for my reparation I refus'd it and said I would not receive a Penny till the publick debts were
go into the West which they conceived would be an easie Task at that time to reduce the King's Party brought low and so not able to send any Forces into those parts for their relief and encouragement 24. This they knew would absolutely break my Lord of Essex who must harass his Army to follow a light and moving Body and if the King which was probable enough should chance to give him the slip and get from him into the West then was he ruin'd in his Reputation and liable to a Question and perhaps a further Prosecution It proved that his Majesty did get by them and passed by Sir William Waller's Quarters on the other side who as soon as he knew it marched after him and gave notice to my Lord of Essex thereof so as before he knew any thing Sir William Waller was got a days march before after the King Then was it impossible for him to overtake them and being so much nearer the West Sir William Waller engaged in the other Service he upon the Advice of his Council of War resolved to bend that way yet not to make such speed but that he should receive other Orders from our Governors above that he might comply with them Accordingly he gave that Account to the Parliament and Committee of the two Kingdoms with his desire of their Directions They were so mad to see themselves defeated of their Plot that they would not for many days return him any answer at all his disobedience was blown up and trumpeted about by them and their Agents Some of whom did not stick to say It were better my Lord of Essex and his whole Army were lost and ruined than the Parliament not obeyed and that by their consents he nor his Army should be look'd after or cared for more A Maxim they have forgotten now in the case of Sir Thomas Fairfax and his Army's not Disobedience but open Rebellion but they were as good as their words then and did most maliciously wilfully and treacherously as to the Parliaments Cause which they seemed to be zealous in suffer General and Army to be lost and the whole West left further out of the Parliaments reach than before 25. Sir Arthur Haslerig posted up to London breathing out nothing but ruin and destruction to the Earl of Essex spoke it out in the hearing of several persons That he would ruin him or be ruined himself His malice and violence was so great at the Committee of the two Kingdoms where he and his Party were prevalent that a report was thence brought down to the House of Commons by which Sir William Waller was taken off from following the King and by that means the King was left at liberty to bend his whole force for the West after my Lord of Essex which he presently did At last they left my Lord of Essex at liberty to proceed in that Western Expedition but with a resolution to let him perish He takes in Weymouth and some other Towns goes on as far as Cornwal whither the King's Forces follow him at the heels cut off all provision from him press upon him exceedingly and put him to very great streights He engaged in a Country inclosed with deep Ditches and strong Fences that he could neither break through nor march away but sends Letter upon Letter Messenger upon Messenger to the Parliament representing his Condition and how easie it was with a small force sent upon the back of the King's Army if but only a good Party of Horse to stop their Provisions and turn the Tables streighten them and free him than which certainly nothing had been more easie and would have saved the Kingdom a Mass of Treasure and thousands of good Mens lives which the continuance of the War after that time did cost 26. But our Masters did not desire then to see the War at an end they had not the Sword in those hands they would have it for to break the King's forces well knowing they must then have had a Peace and such a Peace as had carried with it an establishment of the King's Government a keeping up the Nobility and Gentry all things must have returned into their proper Channel and the security of the Parliament and Kingdom being provided for the Law of the Land must have taken place their Arbitrary Empire been at an end and their Design wholly defeated 27. Therefore my Lord of Essex must not be relieved but sacrificed to their Ambition the King's Army must be yet preserved to give them a colour to new model theirs and put the Power into the base hands of their Creatures which should keep the Kingdom in a perpetual Bondage and tho they ended the War with the King yet never made Peace but continued to grind the Faces and break the Backs of the People with Taxes and Free-Quarter to maintain an Army when no Enemy was left in a word they govern by the Sword the height of all Misery and Slavery that any Land can undergo 28. My Lord of Essex and his Army were by this means broken in Cornwal in the latter end of that Summer and the King seemed to gain a great Advantage recover a great deal of Strength but to nip that they soon provided Force sufficient it suiting with their Ends that his Majesty should seem strong but not be so Therefore the Soldiers of that Army which had lost their Arms in Cornwal are presently armed again and two other Armies joined to them the Earl of Manchester's and Sir W. W aller's who gave the King's Forces a ruffle at Dennington gaining some of the Works Yet when the King came with the remainder of his Strength they did not think it convenient to put it to the trial of a Day but suffered him to march away when it had been a most easie thing to have prevented it And even there in all likelyhood have made an end of the business which was that they feared and Sir Arthur Haslerig could come up to London and into the House of Commons all in beaten Buff cross girt with Sword and Pistols as if he had been killing his thousands when 't is more probable if there was any danger that he had been crying under a Hedg as he did at Cherrington Fight bellowing out Ah wo is me all is lost we are all undone insomuch that a great Officer a Scotch-man finding him in that tune wished him to go off the Field and not stand gudding there a Scotch term for crying to dishearten the Soldiers but in the House of Commons he feared nothing none so fierce and valiant without fear or wit and there like a great Soldier in that habit gave a Relation of what had pass'd highly extolling the gallantry and conduct of all the Commanders the valour of the Soldiers that no mortal Men could do more that the best Soldiers in the world could not have hinder'd the King's marching off and that it had been no wisdom to have adventur'd to fight
convenient to deal with them together in a body they desir'd that such as had a sense of the miserable condition of that Kingdom and a will to ingage for the relief of it would repair to them to their Lodgings which very many did Colonels and Lieutenant Colonels and other Officers and undertook for themselves and a very considerable number of their Soldiers about 1500 or 2000 casting themselves wholly upon the Parliament for their conditions The rest of the Officers and Soldiers of the Army doing all that was possible to obstruct the Service decrying the Employment railing upon misusing threatning and thereby discourage those who engag'd calling them deserters of the Army and of their General and by great offers and assurance of better conditions to stay with them keeping of others 73. And at that very time did some of the Officers meet and prepare a Petition together with a Representation in the name of the whole Army That before disbanding there might be an Act of Indemnity with the King 's royal Assent to it that Auditors might speedily repair to the Army to casâ— up their Accounts for their Service from the beginning that none who had serv'd voluntarily in that Army should be compel'd to go out of the Kingdom that till disbanded Money might be sent down for their supply This was a fair beginning of the godly Army's taking care for Ireland and of those good Officers proceedings so obedient to the Parliament as meerly for that they had been made choice of and put into the rooms of far better Men than themselves now forsooth when the Parliament would have some of them go for Ireland they will put the whole Army into a Mutiny 74. For an Army or any part of it to join in a Petition tho but for Pay when their Superiors that Authority which they are to obey require any Duty to be perform'd or Service to be done by them as the present relieving of Ireland was this I think by the Rules of War has in all Armies been held a Mutiny and the Authors at least punish'd with death Here to be sure it shall mutiny to purpose and not disband according to the resolutions of Parliament they put them not only to petition in this mutinous way but to desire impossibilities as Tacitus says Non ut assequerentur sed causam seditioni not to rest satisfy'd with former Ordinances and the general care taken for all who had serv'd in these unhappy Wars but to demand a particular Act of Indemnity with his Majesty's approbation not that they car'd for him or meant ever to see him again in power to enact any thing which their proceedings since have made clear to all mens understandings though some discern'd it very well to be their principle and their drift from the beginning but they knew this would take up time could not possibly be so soon done and would elude all endeavours of disbanding So for Auditors to go and cast up their Accounts was the work of many Months and a strange demand for this godly obedient Army to make who by their own sayings were not Mercenary but had taken up Arms in judgment and conscience and out of love and duty to the Parliament not for their Pay Their other demand is as good and is as much as to say as that the Parliament should send none of them for Ireland they who were the Parliaments Army who as Mr. Cromwel made us believe would go with a word to any part of the World whither the Parliament would please to send them and therefore the other Armies and Major General Massey's Forces must be cashier'd those who certainly would have gone to make way for their entertainment These now who had receiv'd the Pay of the Kingdom so long the sole Army which like Pharaoh's lean Kine had eaten all the rest and had the Sword of the Parliament singly and wholly in their hands stand upon terms and will not be compell'd to go that is will not go for they know none is compell'd for Ireland nor was there any thought of it since many were willing to ingage in that War who were not so in this but this was enough to possess the Army with a prejudice against the imployment and against the intentions and proceedings of Parliament 75. This Petition and other of their practices so interrupted the business that our Commissioners at their return inform'd both Houses of it who yet were so tender of conceiving or expressing any great dislike of the contrivers and promoters of the Petition for obstructing the Service of Ireland and distempering the Army and that those who had but been drawn in it should not find themselves lessen'd in their good Opinion who resolv'd to pass by all and punish none except such as should mutinously persist in the promoting of it They sent likewise up for some of the Officers that had more notoriously appear'd therein and in discouraging and abusing them who offer'd themselves in the Irish Service Whose miscarriage though it was very gross and the answers of some of them at the House of Commons Bar mere collusion and equivocation as by name Lieutenant Colonel Pride's who being charg'd with causing the Petition to be read at the head of his Regiment deny'd it stoutly because it seems it was but at the head of every Company the Regiment not being drawn up together notwithstanding all this the House willing to bury what was past and hoping it would have gain'd them to a better obedience for the future sent them down again rather with respect than otherwise acquiescing with their denyal And this very act of Clemency was turn'd against them and afterwards when the Army came to do their work barefac'd no longer to excuse but justifie that Petition nay make the Parliament criminous for questioning it they upbraided the House with sending up for the Officers from their Charge when they had nothing to say to them 76. The necessity of disbanding more and more appearing it hastens the resolutions for it whereupon it was order'd that Officers and Soldiers should have six weeks Pay of their Arrears and so be disbanded those that would be taken in for Ireland to have six weeks more advance The Parliament at first pitch'd upon no greater Sum it being the highest that had yet been given to any Major General Massey's Brigade which had been much longer without Pay and had done better Service had no more The other Armies under my Lord of Essex and Sir William Waller which had likewise done more work the chief and main of it all as having had a stronger Force to grapple with and yet had receiv'd less Wages were put off with a fortnights Pay This made the Parliament think this proportion sufficient yet afterwards they of themselves increas'd it to two months which was more than any had before Supposing then there would be no question of a compliance they proceed to perfect what was further necessary for the
his Excellency all the Works from the Thames side to Islington Fort demolisht the eleven Members secur'd or given up and all the Reformados and Officers likewise who were ready to have fought for them This was as worthily by the Common Council yielded to their Ambassadors notably promoting it The eleven Members were not yet seiz'd nor deliver'd but as bad left to shift for themselves no care at all taken for their preservation tho the City had now this last time wholly embark'd in their trouble and engag'd them in their business petitioning the House of Commons to enjoin them to attend the Service of the House themselves not at all moving in or desiring it Nay they did not so much as provide for Major General Massey whom they had made their Commander in chief but like Isachar bow'd under the Burden betray'd themselves and all that had to do with them 159. Here was an end of the Parliament and in truth of the Câ—â—y all whose Glory is laid in the â—ust and as it was high before in reputation both at home and abroad so is it now become a hissing and reproach to all that see it or hear of it The next day Sir Thomas Fairfax sends to take possession and the day after that marches in state bringing with him those deserting Lords and Commons and the Earl of Manchester and Mr. Lenthal the two pretended Speakers not vouchsafing to look upon the Lord Mayor and Aldermen who were there with the Recorder provided with a Speech for his entertainment which he did not so well deserve as they did that scorn then put upon them 160. He goes strait to the Houses put those two Men in the Speakers places who had no more right to them than himself and has ever since continu'd them there by force and keeping out the true Speakers which the Lord Willoughby is to the Peers that House being under an adjournment and not sitting when the Intruder came in so not in a capacity to admit him and Mr. Pelham to the Commons who had been legally chosen when the House was free and under no force the other having deserted which is of all Crimes the greatest 161. So as without him it is no House but an Assembly of Men acting under the Army without lawful authority some of them by a combination and agreement with the Army but far the greater part by a terror and an awe from it and therefore to be look'd upon accordingly and questionless many of them continuing there out of a good intent like so many Hushais only to defeat the pernicious Counsels of those Achitophels who had design'd the destruction of David the ruin of honest Men and even the trouble and confusion of the whole Israel of God Church and State These are so far from deserving thereby either to become the object of blame or pardon as they merit exceedingly are worthy the praise both of present and future times but to be consider'd rather as faithful Patriots that act out of necessity in an extraordinary way stand in the Gap to keep off mischief than as Members of Parliament able or indeed qualify'd to exercise any parliamentary Power for the good of the Kingdom the House having been disturb'd and for the time suppress'd by a real Force not feign'd and imaginary as the other was and while this force continues not suffer'd to come together but as soon as it ceases will return of it self to be as it was before 162. For there is a difference between these two Cases one the Parliaments acting under a force remaining still to be a Parliament which dos not annual it nor the Acts it dos but makes them fit to be repeal'd yet standing good pro tempore 163. Many of our best Laws have been so made when Armies have been on foot and afterwards declar'd good in a free Parliament and what then done did appear to be inconvenient and unjust was by subsequent Parliaments repeal'd So is it fit that what was compel'd to be done by the Apprentices and others in that tumultuous way the Monday that the force was should be repeal'd as not fit to be continu'd And so all that has been done a great while under the power and force of the Army since it first rebel'd and gave Laws to the Parliament is as fit if not more to be hereafter repeal'd and questionless will if ever the Parliament come to be free again Nay even these pretenders do us that right as finding the proceedings of the Parliament after their desertion not sutable to their Ends but against them by an Ordinance to repeal and declare them null which otherwise had not been needful seeing they would fall of themselves being Crimes in their own nature as proceeding from an usurp'd Authority This is one case the other is when a force proceeds so far and so high as not to suffer a Parliament to be gives it such a wound as for the time it cannot act but must cease even as a wounded Body that lies in a Trance without sense or motion But when that force is over and the Spirits recollected it returns to it self to do the functions of life move and act as formerly It is but like a Parenthesis in a Sentence and remains one and the same as if the Parenthesis were not at all 164. But to return where I left This General a setter up and puller down of Parliaments has a Chair set him in either House where first in the Lords House then in the Commons those pretended Speakers make Speeches to him giving him thanks for all approving his Declaration of the Reasons of his coming to London desiring him to go on in taking care for the security of the Kingdom and to appoint a Guard for the Parliament Than which there was never any thing more base but Mr. Lenthal exceeded being both base and prophane applying a Higgaior Selah to this last act of his Excellency who as wisely took it Then that the prophaness might be compleat and God mock'd as well as Men abus'd they appoint the Thursday after for a day of Thanksgiving and fitted it with Preachers Mr. Marshal and Mr. Nye Simeon and Levi where they say Marshal outwent all that had gone before him and his Brother Nye was a modest Presbyterian in comparison of him but that Apostate went beyond Ela making this deliverance a greater one than the Gunpowder Treason as I have been credibly inform'd by those that heard him And some few days after Sir Thomas Fairfax and the whole Army marcht in triumph with Lawrel in their Hats as Conquerors through the subdu'd City of London to shew it was at his mercy which was an airy vanity I confess above my understanding and might have rais'd a spirit of Indignation not so easily to have been laid But a higher insolency of an Army compos'd of so mean people and a more patient humble submission and bearing of a great and populous City but a little before so
in his room The Self-denying Ordinance was a trick for this purpose In the begining of these troubles Sir William Lewis not agreeing with their Palate being Governour of Portsmouth they make the Earl of Essex who was then General send for him upon a supposition that he was a favourer of Malignants and of many other things which being examin'd by the Committee of Safety he gave so good an account of himself as the Committee could not do less than write a Letter in his justification to the General leaving it to him to repair him as he thought fit Then some of these honest Men who themselves had subscrib'd to it sent a Letter privately to my Lord of Essex by which they advis'd his not sending him back to Portsmouth which jugling of theirs he receiv'd with indignation and wish'd Sir William Lewis to return to his Command but he seeing what Men he had to deal with quitted the Employment and to say the truth he only can be happy who has nothing to do with them except it be in punishing them according to their demerits 173. They have now they think both Houses to their minds ready to do whatsoever they please Accordingly the House of Commons orders those of the eleven Members who were beyond Sea upon their Passes which gave them liberty of travelling six Months to appear the 16 th of October taking no course to have them summon'd only notice to be given at their Houses or places of their last abode where few of us had any Servants my self only an old Porter and a Maid or two 174. Then they go on to the publick business such work as the Army had cut out for them Which were certain Proposals that Sir Thomas Fairfax and the Council of War had sent them the 1 st of August sign'd by Iohn Rushworth Secretary now far above Iohn Brown and Henry Elsing In these they 〈◊〉 down a new platform of Government an Vtopia of their own take upon them to alter all give Rules to all cajole the King claw with the people cheat both never intending good to either The reading of the Articles themselves which are in print will satisfie every body they need no Comment and are so many and of so vast a comprehension as to treat of them all to shew the absurdities contradictions impossibilities unreasonableness which many of them contain would swell this to too big a Volume I will only speak to some few and shew how they dissolve the whole frame of this Monarchy taking a sunder every part pulling out every pin and new making it First The constitutions and proceedings of Parliaments projecting new things for their beginnings continuances and endings for the elections of Members privileges and customs of the Houses which they had violated before de facto but now must be alter'd de jure The Militia of the Kingdom where they will have a General appointed to command it Pay setled to maintain it a Council of State to superintend it which signifies to establish by Act of Parliament this holy Army the Council of War and General Cromwel Then matters of the Church where they will have no power exercis'd to preserve Religion and Piety they would have Bishops so they may be just Cyphers and all Acts to be repeal'd which hinder Men from being Atheists or Independents for no body must be enjoyn'd to come to the Church and there may be Meetings to practise any thing of superstition and folly the Covenant must be laid aside In sum it is to take away all Government and set up Independency They propose a new way for making grand Jury-men Justices of Peace and Sheriffs When these and many other things which they mention are settled which will take up time enough then the King Queen and Royal Issue to be restor'd which is as much as just nothing Next they make the people believe they do as great matters for them will have a liberty of petitioning which is but to make way for schismatical seditious Petitions for if any Petition stick at their Diana none so fierce to punish Who more than they against all the Petitions from London and the Counties for disbanding of the Army and complaining of their factious ways how eager were they against the Petitions promoted in the City in the beginning for which Benion was fined and many troubled and some Petitions out of Kent for which some Gentlemen were committed How barbarously did they fall upon some poor women which came one time to Westminster petitioning for Peace commanding a Troop of Horse to run over them the Train'd Bands to shoot at them whereby many were wounded and some kill'd Yet the world must think they will have it free for all to petition Then they will have the Excise taken off from some Commodities whereon the poor people live and a time limited for taking off the whole which was but to please and amuse them till they had got the mastery of those who they thought stood in their way but being Masters themselves they soon sent out a Command more now than any Proclamation or Ordinance to forbid all Soldiers any way to interrupt the levying of the Excise orany other Tax charg'd by the Parliament which they had made merely instrumental to poll the people for the support of them and their Faction They will have no Tythes to be paid and so Ministers to be starv'd for in truth they would have no Ministers at all or rather no Ministery like Iulian the Apostate take away presbyterium not presbyteros for Ministers that will be subservient to them like Mr. Marshal shall be much made of The rules and course of Law must be reduc'd indeed they will need no Law for they will rule by the Sword and the Councils of War shall supply all Courts of Justice Prisoners for debt if they have not wherewith to pay must be freed so we may be sure few debts shall be satisfy'd for it is an easie thing so to convey or conceal an Estate as nothing visible will be left for doing right to Creditors None must be compell'd to answer to questions tending to the accusing themselves or their nearest Relations in criminal Causes witness their Orders to make men under great Penalties state their Case in no less matter than Treason therefore this is understood to extend only to the privilege of their own Faction We must alter all Statutes and Customs of Corporations and of imposing Oaths which may be constru'd to the molestation of religious people that is Independents for all others are Greeks and Barbarians Yet these men in how many Letters and Declarations do they say and protest they have no thought of setting up Independency nor to meddle with any thing but what concerns the Soldiery and leave all the rest to the wisdom of the Parliament Indeed they conclude their Proposals with what concerns the Soldiery That provision may be made for payment of Arrears to the Army and the
possible to free the Kingdom of that burden even dispensing with their own Honours 89. They pass several Ordinances for Indemnity freeing from pressing the relief of maim'd Soldiers Widows and Orphans with such alterations and amendments as the Army desir'd Concerning the proposition of Pay upon disbanding which was eight weeks they conceiv'd it could not be inlarg'd in regard of the great present expence to which they were necessitated for the supply of Ireland That the two hundred thousand Pounds which for those two occasions were then borrow'd of the City of London would scarce serve 90. Therefore upon these terms both Houses concluded the disbanding begin with the Foot and appoint to every Regiment as they lay quarter'd a Rendevous at some Town near where they were to lay down their Arms receive their Money and have Passes to their several homes Those that would engage for Ireland to march to some other place near hand there to receive Advance-money and further Orders 91. The several Ordinances and Orders were sent to Sir Thomas Fairfax who then had his head quarters at Bury and two Lords and four Commoners were appointed Commissioners to repair to the several places appointed for disbanding with Money and directions to see the Service perform'd and assist Sir Thomas Fairfax in it who was desir'd to issue out his Orders for the Regiments drawing to those places 92. Then it was refer'd to a Committee of the Army to put into a way the stating of the Accounts both of Officers and Soldiers and where more than two Months appear'd to be due the Commission Officer was to receive his Debenter from the Committee and Treasurer of the Army it being appointed where he should be paid The inferior Officer and common Soldier was to have his security upon the Excise Let any Man now judg if the Army had any cause to complain if all was not done that with any colour of reason and modesty could be expected 93. Our Commissioners who were the Earl of Warwick the Lord De la Ware Sir Gilbert Gerard Mr. Grinston and two others went to Chelmsford the first of Iune the Rendevous appointed for the General 's Regiment whither the Lieutenant Colonel came Lieutenant Colonel Iackson an honest and gallant Man with a resolution to conform to the Order of Parliament but a Command comes from the General to the Regiment to march another way for drawing the Quarter near together 94. For upon the 29 th of May when the Votes were sending down for disbanding Sir Thomas Fairfax had call'd a Council of War of the factious Officers the honest Officers who were for submitting to the Parliament and a quiet disbanding having before been most of them abus'd and forc'd away by the violence of the Soldiers and commands of the Agitators he conniving at it where they resolve upon an humble Advice to his Excellency That since their Grievances were not at all satisfy'd and Jealousies were very great it would not be safe to disband but rather draw the Army into a close posture there being a great propensity in the Soldiers to a general Rendevous and then resume the consideration of their Grievances and of the Votes for disbanding suspending for the present any proceedings upon these Votes which advice his Excellency follows So the Parliament commands to disband Sir Thomas to march away and draw to a Rendevous Fit he should be obey'd 95. At the very same time Colonel Rainsborough dos the like with his Regiment which was at Petersfield in Hampshire design'd for Iersey and so far upon the way himself being attending the House of Commons of which he was a Member and pretending to prepare for that Employment which had been entrusted to him but in truth to give his Soldiers opportunity to mutiny as the rest of the Army did who to give them more time for it would not presently acquaint the House with the Intelligence he had receiv'd of their disorder but having it in the morning kept it to himself till towards the evening even denying his knowledg of any such thing when Sir William Lewis inform'd the House of it and about five or six a Clock in the Afternoon the House then by accident sitting as these deportments of the Army gave them cause sufficient spoke of it said they were in a great distemper resolv'd not to march to the Sea side but return to Oxford whereupon being sent down to quiet them and reduce them to obedience he went immediately but put himself at the head of them and instead of taking care for Iersey march'd to Oxford first so to the Army and none more violent in the Rebellion than he for which good Service and joyning with the Agitators in their highest exorbitancies for the destruction of the King and altering of Government and particularly in a Petition for taking away the House of Lords the House of Commons since made him Vice Admiral And the Lords to the eternizing the honour for their gentle tame dispositions consented 96. But one thing was yet wanting as they thought for the carrying on their design and amusing the poor people of England with an expectation of their settling a Peace so to make them sit still and look on whilst they trampled upon Parliament City and Kingdom which was to be possest of the King's Pâ—rson and make the world believe they would bring him up to his Parliament and set him on his Throne For this it seems a meeting was appointed at Lieutenant General Cromwel's upon the thirtieth of May where it is resolv'd That Cornet Ioyce should with a Party of Horse go to Holmby and seize upon his Majesty which is presently executed and given out that others had the like design which they had prevented At first it must seem only to be the act of Mr. Ioyce Cromwel protested he knew nothing of it tho he was the Man appointed it to be done as appears by what has been recited taken out of some of their own Authors one that calls himself Sirrah Niho and others Sir Thomas Fairfax writes a Letter to the House professes the same for himself as in the presence of God with a large undertaking for the rest of his Officers and the body of the Army And perhaps he said true I would fain be so charitable as to believe it nor indeed do I think the good Man is privy to all their Plots he must have no more than what they are pleas'd to carve and chew for him but must swallow all and own them when they come abroad Here then they have the King Ioyce drives away the Guards forc'd Colonel Greaves to fly whom else they threaten'd to kill for no man's life must stand in their way Murder being no Sin in the visible Saints carries away his Majesty and the Commissioners that attend him Prisoners and immediately sends up a Letter to certifie what he had done with directions it should be deliver'd to Cromwel and he absent to Sir Arthur Haslerig
at night when the Common Council hearing of these disorders sent down the Sheriffs of London and some of the Aldermen to appease them which they did This was upon Monday the 26 th of Iuly The Houses adjourn'd themselves the House of Peers to Friday the Commons house to the next day The City had against the next day which was Tuesday taken order to prevent such further inconveniences by unruly people assembling about Westminster which before they could not well do in regard their Militia was unsettled by the alteration that the new Ordinance upon the Armies command had made and I heard sent down a Message to the House of Commons to assure them of it but Mr. Speaker was so hasty to adjourn till the Friday perhaps because the rather he would not receive that Message which had half spoil'd the Plot that he would scarce stay till it was a House and some of the sactious crying to adjourn he did so tho many cry'd out against it who could not be heard 144. By the Friday the two Speakers the Earl of Manchester of the Peers and Mr. Lenthal of the Commons instead of giving their attendance according to their duty upon the Houses with eight Lords and fifty eight Commoners were run down to the Army there enter into an engagement bearing date the 4 th of August to live and die with it upon pretence of a force and violence to the Parliament but in truth by a Conspiracy with the Army design'd and laid principally by Mr. Saint Iohn the Sollicitor as appears by a Letter sent from Rushworth Sir Thomas Fairfax's Secretary to the Speaker with no name in it but the latter part of it written with his own hand advising him not to appear at the House on Friday morning but to take counsel of Mr. Sollicitor who would tell him what was fit to be done assuring him the Army would all lie in the dirt or protect them who were their friends This as I remember was the effect of the Letter yet remaining in one of the Houses which no doubt came from Sir Thomas Fairfax and Mr. Cromwel and the rest of those Governors undertaking so for the Army and shews who was the man that must give the Orders and direct what was to be done by the House and then may well be suppos'd to be the Author of all The ground of this Engagement is made to be a Declaration of the Armies shewing the reasons of their advance towards London as full of falshood as it is of malice against the eleven poor Members and in truth intended only against them who are by it said to be the cause of all that had been done in the City that therefore they were resolv'd to march up to London expecting the well affected people of the City would either put us in safe custody or deliver us up to them stuffing up the whole Declaration with falshoods and lies as well in the narrative part as in the comment upon it they pretend That to carry on our former evil designs and preserve our selves from the hand of Justice we had endeavour'd to cast the Kingdom into a new War and to that end had procur'd an under hand listing of Reformadoes and continu'd a wicked and treasonable Combination which we caus'd several persons to enter into That this could not be done in the time of the old Commissioners for the Militia and therefore the new were made who many of them were very intimate with us which was a just cause for the Army to have them chang'd again That thereupon the tumult was abetted and fomented by us to violate the Parliament and force it into our hands which makes them require that we may be in that manner deliver'd up and declar'd all that was done in the Houses that day or afterwards till those fugitive Members should return again null and void so here the Army takes upon it to declare what Votes shall stand good what not and this is for the honour and freedom of the Parliament that which those worthy Patriots would live and die upon And besides they say they were labouring after the settlement of the Kingdom and had even brought it to perfection the particular proposals ready to be sent to the Parliament for a final conclusion of all our troubles which conclusion of our troubles in truth nothing in the sight of Man could have hinder'd but this cursed practice of violence upon the Parliament which very thing in them was as cursed a High Treason as could be committed a mercenary Army rais'd by the Parliament all of them from the General except what he may have in expectation after his Father's death to the meanest Centinal not able to make a thousand Pounds a year Lands most of the Colonels and Officers mean Tradesmen Brewers Taylors Goldsmiths Shoemakers and the like a notable Dunghil if one would rake into it to find out their several Pedigrees these to rebel against their Masters put conditions upon them upon the King and whole Kingdom make their Will a Rule that all the Interests of King Parliament and Kingdom must be squared by which they are not asham'd to declare here to the world 145. And this pious Declaration do these worthy Lords and Commons receive with much approbation and with much thankfulness to God in the first place and next under him to the ever faithful Army and so became like the Proselites which the Scribes and Pharisees made twofold more the Children of Hell than themselves more criminous and guilty of a greater Treason as having broken a higher Trust being themselves part of the Parliament which they deserted and betray'd a wound given in the more noble and vital parts tearing the Bowels and piercing to the very Heart Whereas the Army were but Servants outward and ministerial parts so to be look'd upon and so punish'd Slaves were crucify'd but Citizens that betray'd were exterminated they and their posterity and the whole City turn'd into mourning sensible of the loss as the Body when depriv'd of a principal Member 146. They should have remembred that even at the time of the pretended force which they would have men believe to have driven them away the House lay under a greater force and themselves were greater Slaves to the lusts of the Army which trampled upon their Necks made them more contemptible than the smallest Court of Guard that had but a Corporal to command it to eat their words their Declarations Orders Ordinances break their Faith betray and destroy all that serv'd them faithfully give thanks for being cudgel'd and abus'd pray and pay and be glad it would be accepted should not every Member have been sensible of such violations and injuries done to the Body But some will say it was as these Men will have it who were like the sinful lusts in the Soul quiet and well pleas'd while the strong man the Devil keeps the house So they were satisfy'd with all that was done because it
Joyce Cornet seizes the King at Holmby with the Commissioners that attended him 97. Order'd to seize the Magazine at Oxford 98. Ireland not to be reliev'd while the Army was kept up here 72. Relief voted them by the Parliament 74. About 2000 willing to go the rest hinder it all they can 76. Such as were willing to relieve it voted Deserters by the Army 115. who require they should be discharg'd tho order'd thither by the Parliament 121. Ireton keeps from the Army to give them opportunity to do their Mischief 84. Lenthal Speaker of the Commons his good Places c. 133. Forsakes the House and joins with the Army 146 147. Is put into his Place again by Fairfax 164. Lesley his Service at Marstonmoor 15. Lewis Sir William Governour of Portsmouth his fair Accounts c. 138 139 175. Lilburn against the eleven Members 141. London for the Parliament and against the Army c. 106. Resent the Parliament's altering their Militia by the Influence of the Army 143 c. Alarm'd by the Army 160. Lords several forsake the House and join with the Army 146 147. The House chuse a new Speaker on the other's leaving ' em 155. Outdo the Commons in Honour of Sir Tho. Fairfax 169. Their Vote concerning what was acted by the Houses when forsaken by their Speakers disagreed to by the Commons 170. Seven of 'em impeach'd of High Treason by the Army 173 191. Are set at liberty 192. M. MAnchester Earl his Charge against Cromwel 18 19 28. Laid aside by the Army 30. Is Speaker of the House of Lords whom he forsakes and joins the Army 146 147. Is put into his Place again by Sir Tho. Fairfax 164. Marshal Chaplain to Skippon too instrumental in the Evils of this Kingdom 107 143. Preaches before the Parliament and extols Sir Tho. Fairfax's Expedition c. 168. Marstonmoor Fight had not been obtain'd but for the Scots 15. Massey Captain stops an Express sending to Scotland committed by the Lords for it but set at liberty 55 56. Massey Major General his Brigade cashier'd tho it had done the greatest Service in the West 70. Is one of the Committee at Derby-house 75. Is made Lieutenant General of the Horse in Ireland 82. Forsaken by the City 163. Maynard Sir John one of the eleven Members tho nothing against him 115. Expel'd the House and sent to the Tower 173. Members of Parliament what their Design in taking up Arms. 4. Are misrepresented by the Army 38. Some of 'em discover the Designs of the Army against the Scots 53. Mildmay Sir Henry has Letters sent him against the Scots 52. Model of the Army c. 30. N. NEwcastle Propositions sent to the King there gave occasion to the Army Party to review 'em all c. 57. Nicklis Mr. the Lawyer concern'd in the Committee of Sequestrations 129. Noel Mr. sent with a Message from the Parliament to the Army 162. North of England suffers by the Scots Army thro the Practice of the Army Party here 49 50. Nye Mr. preaches a Thanksgiving-Sermon before the Commons on Sir Tho. Fairfax's coming to London 168. O. OXford Magazine there kept by the Army from the Parliament 98. P. PAlmer Mr. Herbert influenc'd by Marshal 160. Parliament vote the disbanding of the Army 74. Send for some Officers that had promoted the Petition against it 79. Their Clemency to 'em ill requited 80. Settle the Arrears of the Army 81. Make Sir Tho. Fairfax General of all their Forces ibid. Order the Officers down to the Army but to their own Ruin 90. Too favourable to the Army 92. Appoint a Rendevouz for the Foot in order to disband 93. About to take a severe Course with the Army Party but prevented by Skippon 104. Forc'd to comply with the Army 107 111 116. Resolve to defend themselves and the City against the Army 109 159. Vote the King to Richmond 117 158. Made a mere Cypher by the Army 142 c. Indeavour to prevent Extremities 162. Their Case stated as to the Force put upon 'em and being deserted by their Speaker 165 167. Appoint a Committee to inquire concerning that Force 169. Disagree with the Lords about what the Houses had done when forsaken by their Speakers 170. Afterwards forc'd to comply 173. Constrain'd to act against it self by refusing to make any further Address to the King c. 200. Pelham Mr. Henry chose Speaker of the Commons in the room of Lenthal 156. Pennington Alderman of London favour'd and rewarded by the Army Party 132 133. Petitions from an Army to their Superiors when requir'd to do Service always deem'd a Mutiny 77. Pointz Colonel his Care and Vigilance to prevent the Mischiefs design'd by the Army Party in the North for which he was put out of command 61. Taken by Violence out of his House by the Agitators ibid. Inhumanly treated by ' em 62. Pride Colonel his Equivocation at the Bar of the House about petitioning against disbanding 80. Prideaux Mr. of the Army Party made himself Postmaster of England 133. R. RAbble threaten the House of Commons to cause 'em to pass several Votes 145. Rainsborough Colonel his Regiment refuses to march for Jersey which he connives at yet afterwards made Vice-Admiral 95 96. Riot in Yorkshire 48. Rushworth Secretary to Sir Tho. Fairfax his acting against the eleven Members 126. His Letter to the Speaker against appearing at the House 147. Signs Proposals to the Parliament concerning a new Form of Government 176. S. SAint John Mr. Oliver his Character his underhand Letter to the Committee of Hertfordshire c. 32. His violent and bloody Nature 33. Breaks his Protestation as to Cromwel's being dispens'd with from the self-denying Ordinance 36. His Places of Profit c. 133. Salloway Mr. one of the Committee at Derby-house 75. Savil Lord an Impostor 38. Writes Letters to several Great Men against the Parliament 39. Say Lord rewarded by the Army Party 136. Scawen Mr. brings a sad account of the temper of the Army 108. His Pension 137. Concern'd in conveying away a great Sum order'd for the Army 161. Scots propos'd to be call'd in but obstructed by the Malignants their Character 11 13. After call'd in 12. Made use of only for a pinch 13. Impos'd on by the Malignants 14. Discover the good Intentions of the honest Party in England 20 21. Are represented as having a design to make good their footing here 44. Their Army ill requited 46 65. Are vindicated as to raising of Money in the North on Free Quarter 48. Their Pay kept back 51. Their Ministers of State suspected by the Army Party here to hold Correspondences with the Queen c. 51 52. Their Papers in the House of Commons here not answer'd 53. Their Piety Moderation c. 59. Had no ground to disband their Army unless the English did 63 64. Have a great Sum voted 'em tho with great opposition 66. Deliver up the King to the English 68. Whereby they gain Reputation 69. Are laid aside in the Army's Address to the King at the Isle of Wight 189. Self-denying Ordinance 30. Sequestrations c. 8. Skippon Major General made Commander in chief in Ireland 82. Instrumental in betraying the Parliament c. 88. Excuses the Agitators 90. Prevents the Parliament's proceeding against the Army Party and how 104 105. Refuses to obey the Parliament's Order but on certain Conditions 161 162. Stapleton Sir Philip laid aside by the Army 30. His moderate Pay c. 139. Swifen Mr. imploy'd by the Parliament to the Army 162. T. TIchburn a Linen-draper made Constable of the Tower by Sir Tho. Fairfax 174. V. VANE Sir Henry one of the Parliament's Commissioners with the Army 108. Uxbridg Treaty there 57. W. WAller Sir William order'd from Oxford into the West 22. Laid aside by the Army 30. Is one of the Committee at Derby-house 75. Warmworth Mr. his insolent and ridiculous Speech concerning the Adjutators 89. Warwick Earl one of the Committee at Derby-house 75. One of the Commissioners for disbanding the Army 94. Wentworth Sir Peter gets an Estate for half the value 135. West Colonel discharg'd by Fairfax from being Constable of the Tower 174. Weston Earl of Portland's Son his Reward from the Army 137. White Colonel his Places in the Army c. 135. Wild Serjeant Chairman in the Committee of Sequestrations 129. Gets an Ordinance for the Lady Thornborough's Money is a great Enemy to the eleven Members 134. Willoughby of Parham Lord chose Speaker by the Lords 155. Charg'd with Treason by the Army 191. Wollaston Sir John conveys a great Sum away which was order'd for the Army 161. Wright Robert made use of to give Intelligence of the Scots c. 52. FINIS LEX Parliamentaria or a Treatise of the Law and Custom of the Parliaments of England by G. P. Esq with an Appendix of a Case in Parliament between Sir Francis Goodwin and Sir Iohn Fortescue for the Knights Place for the County of Bucks 1 Iac. 1. Reflections upon what the World commonly calls good Luck and ill Luck with regard to Lotteries and of the good use which may be made of them Written in French by Monsieur Le Clerc and done into English Printed for Tim. Goodwiâ—