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A65583	A second narrative of the late Parliament (so called) wherein, after a brief reciting some remarkable passages in the former narrative, is given an account of their second meeting, and things transacted by them : as also how the Protector (so called) came swearing, by the living God, and dissolved them, after two or three weeks sitting : with some quæries sadly proposed thereupon : together with an account of three and forty of their names, who were taken out of the house, and others that sate in the other house, intended for a House of Lords, but being so unexpectedly disappointed, could not take root, with a brief character and description of them : all humbly presented to publique view / by a friend to the good old cause of justice, righteousnesse, the freedom and liberties of the people, which hath cost so much bloud and treasury to be carried on in the late wars, and are not yet settled.	Wharton, George, Sir, 1617-1681.	1658 (1658)	Wing W1556; ESTC R8011	50,589	52

Undertakings Hazards and Services for the Cause cannot well be numbred or set forth unless the drinking of King Charles's or as is so commonly spoken his Fathers Landlords health whose Abilities in Praying and Preaching and Love to the Sectaries being much like his Cousin Dick Ingoldsby's and he so very likely to be his Fathers Successour and to inherit his noble Vertues in being the light of the Eyes and breath of the Nostrils of the old Heathenish Popish Laws and Customs of the Nation especially among the Learned the University of Oxford have therefore thought fit he being also no very good Scholar to chuse him their Chancellour And though he was not judged meet not having a Spirit of Government for it to have a Command in the Army when there was fighting or honest and wise enough to be one of the little Parliament yet is he become a Colonel of Horse now fighting is over as also taken in to be one of the Protectors Council and one of the Other House and to have the First Negative Voyce over the good People of this Commonwealth being in so hopeful a way to have the great Negative Voyce over the whole after his Fathers Death 2. Commissioner Fiennes Son of the Lord Say a Member sometime of the Long Parliament and then a Colonel under the Earl of Essex had the command and keeping of Bristol but gave it up cowardly as it 's said for which he had like to have lost his head he being a lover of Kingship and Monarchy as well as his Father was taken in by the Protector at his first setting up to be one of his Council and made Commissioner of the great Seal as also Keeper of the Privy-Seal whereby his Interest and Revenue is raised from two or three hundred per annum to two or a three thousand and more And for his Merits and Greatness being after the old mode he was taken out of the late Parliament to be the Mouth of the Protector in that Other House and so is fit no question to have the second Negative Voyce over the good People of these Lands 3. Henry Lawrence a Gentleman of a Courtly Breed and a good Trencher Man who when the Bishops ruffled in their Pride and Tyranny went over to Holland afterwards came back and became a Member of the Long Parliament fell off at the beheading the late King and change of the Government for which the Protector then Lieutenant-General with great Zeal declared That a Neutral Spirit was more to be abhor'd then a Cavaleere Spirit and that such men as he were not fit to be used in such a day as that when God was cutting down Kingship root and branch yet came in play again upon design in the Little Parliament and contributed much to the dissolving of them as also setting up the Protector and settling the Instrument of Government and a single Person affirming That other foundation could no man lay For which worthy Services and as a Snare or Bait to win over or at least quiet the baptised people himself being under that Ordinance he was made and continued President of the Protectors Council where he hath signed many an Arbitrary and Illegal Warrant for the carrying of honest faithful men to Prisons and Exile without cause unless their not apostatizing with them from just and honest principles His Merits are great and many being every way thorough-paced and a great Adorer of Kingship so as he deserveth no doubt and is every way fit to be taken out of the Parliament to have the third place of Honour and Negative Voyce in the Other House over the people of these Lands 4. Lieutenant-General Fleetwood a Gentleman formerly of the Long Parliament and a Colonel of their Army then Lieutenant-General afterward married honest Iretons Widdow the Protectors eldest Daughter Major General Lambert being put by by the Parliament from going over to Ireland as Lord Lieutenant it savouring too much of Monarchy and being not willing to accept of a lower Title he was sent over thither under the Title of Lord Deputy in his room where he continued about three years and to put a check upon those godly men there who are no Friends to Monarchy he was sent for over again and cajoled in to be one of the Protectors Council as also Major General of divers Counties in England his Salary supposed worth b 6600 l. per annum by all which he is become advanced to a princely Interest and Revenue he is one of good principles had he kept them and of good words like his Father-in-law whereby he hath deceived many an honest man and drawn them from the Good Old Cause and by that way hath greatly served the Protectors Designes His Merits therefore are such as he no question also deserves to be taken out of the House and made a Peer and to have a Negative Voyce in the other House when it shall be named Lords notwithstanding he so helpt in the Army and Long Parliament to throw down the House of Lords and to destroy their Negative Voyce and did fight against it in the King 5. Colonel Disbrow a Gentleman or Yeoman of about sixty or seventy pounds per annum at the beginning of the Wars who being allyed to the Protector by Marriage of his Sister he cast away his Spade and took a Sword and rise with him in the Wars and in like manner upon the Principles of Justice and Freedom advanced his Interest very much if he were not of the Long Parliament he was of the Little One which he helped to break Being grown considerable he cast away the Principles by which he rise and took on Principles of Violence and Tyranny and helped to set up the Protector for which he was made one of his Council and one of the c Generals at Sea and hath a princely command at Land being Major General of divers Counties in the West as also one of the Lords of the Cinque Ports His Interest and Greatness being so far advanced his Merits must needs be great and he every way fit to be taken out of the House and put into the Other House with a Negative Voyce over the good people for that with his Sword he can set up that again in the Protector and himself which before he cut down in the King and Lords 6. Lord Viscount Lisle Eldest Son of the Earl of Leicester he was of the Long Parliament to the Last and at the change of Government and making Laws of Treason against a single persons Rule and no question concur'd with the rest therein he was also of the Little Parliament and of all the Parliaments since was all along of the Protectors d Council and was never to seek who having learned so much by changing with every Change and keeping still like his Father-in-law the Earl of Salisbury and Peter Sterry on that side which hath proved Trump nothing need farther be said of his fitness being such a

man of e principles to be taken out of the Parliament to have a settled Negative Voyce in the Other House over all the good people of these Lands he being a Lord of the old Stamp already and in time so likely to become a Peer 7. Sir Gilbert Pickering Knight of the old Stamp and of a considerable Revenue in Northampton-shire one of the Long Parliament and a great stickler in the change of the Government from Kingly to that of a Commonwealth helped to make those Laws of Treason against Kingship hath also changed with all changes that have been since he was one of the Little Parliament and helped to break it as also of all the Parliaments since is one of the Protectors f Council and as if he had been pin'd to his Sleeve was never to seek is become high Steward of Westminster and being so finical spruce and like an old Courtier is made Lord Chamberlain of the Protectors Houshold or Court so that he may well be counted fit and worthy to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House though he helped to destroy it in the King and Lords There are more besides him that make themselves transgressors by building again the things which they once destroyed 8. Walter Strickland sometime Agent or Embassador to the Dutch in the low Countries from the long Parliament and a good Friend of theirs at length became a Member of that Parliament was also of the little Parliament which he helped to break was of the Parliament since and is now of the Protectors g Council he is one that can serve a Commonwealth and also a Prince so he may serve himself and his own ends by it who having so greatly profited by attending the Hogan Mogans and become so expert in the Ceremony Postures and thereby so apt like an Ape with his brother Sir Gilbert and the President to imitate or act the part of an old Courtier in the new Court was made Captain General of the Protectors Mag-pye or Gray-Coated Foot-guard in White-hall as the Earl of Holland formerly to the King who being every way of such worth and Merits no question can be made or exceptions had against his fitness to be taken out of the Parliament to exercise a Negative Voyce in the Other House over the people of this Commonwealth 9. Sir Charles Ousely a Gentleman who came something late into play on this side being converted from a Cavaleere in a good hour He became one of the Little Parliament which he helped to break and to set the Protector on the Throne for which worthy service he was as he well deserved taken in to be one of his Council was also of the Parliaments since a man of constancy and certainty in his principles much like the winde and although he hath done nothing for the Cause whereby to merit yet is he counted of that worth as to be every way fit to be taken out of the Parliament to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over such as have done most and merited highest in the Cause the Protector and his fellow Negative Men excepted and over all the Commonwealth beside 10. Mr. Rouse one of the Long Parliament and by them made Provost or Master of Eaton Colledge he abode in that Parliament and helped to change the Government into a Commanwealth and to destroy the Negative Voyce in the King and Lords was also of the Little Parliament and their Speaker who when the good things came to be done which were formerly declared for and for not doing of which the Old Parliament was pretendedly dissolved being an old Bottle and so not fit to bear that new Wine without putting it to the question left the chair and went with his fellow old Bottle● to White-hall to surrender their power to the General which he as Speaker and they by signing a Parchment or Paper pretended to do The colourable foundation for this Apostacy upon the Monarchical foundation being thus laid and the General himself as Protector seated thereon he became one of his h Council good old man and well he deserved it for he ventured hard he was also of the Parliaments since and being an aged Venerable man all exceptions set aside may be counted worthy to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over all that shall question him for what he hath done and over all the people of these Lands besides though he would not suffer it in the King and Lords 11. Major General Skippon sometime called The honest English Captain in the Netherlands was afterward Captain of those of the Artillery Ground in London who refusing to attend the King at York when he sent unto him and adhering to the Parliament was by them made Major General under the Earl of Essex under whom many an honest man lost his life in fighting for the Cause of Freedom and Justice and against the Negative Voyce of the King and Lords whose blood surely will lye at some bodies door and cry He was of the Long Parliament and helped to change the Government and make the Laws of Treaso● against a single persons Rule and was outed with them After the Little Parliament for endeavouring to bring forth what the old Parliament was turn'd out for not doing was dissolv'd he was brought in play again by means of Philip Nye Metropolitan Tryer of White-hall and made one of the Protectors i Council and Major General of the City in the decimating business hath been of all the Parliaments since who being so grave and Venerable a man his errour in leading men to fight against the Kings Negative Voyce may be forgiven him and he admitted as fit to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House himself not onely over those who have fought along with him but all the people of these Lands besides the rather for that he is very aged and not likely to exercise that power long 12. Colonel Sydenham a Gentleman of not very much per annum at the beginning of the Wars was made Governour of Melcomb Regis in the West became one of the Long Parliament and hath augmented his Revenue to some purpose he helped no question to change the Government and make those Laws of Treason against Kingship was also of the Little Parliament and of those that were since one also of the Protectors k Council hath a Princely command in the Isle of Wight is one of the Commissioners of the Treasury by all which he is grown very great and considerable and although he hath not been thorough-paced for Tyranny in time of Parliaments yet it being forgiven him is judged of that worth and merit as to be every way fit to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over all his Dependants and all the people of these Lands besides hoping thereby he

Judicature was questioned being dissolved and the Protector taking the Government upon him he adventured to comply with the rest notwithstanding the danger that so he might keep his place and interest and avoid a new Storm or Frown from the present Power Men need not seek far or study much to read him and what principles he acts by All things considered he may doubtless be very fit to be Lord of the Rolls being Master already and to be taken out of the Parliament to be made a Lord and to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over the people as well as over the causes in the Rolls being so thoroughly exercised in Negatives at his own will and pleasure as too many have sadly felt 19. Mr. Cleypole Son of Mr. Cleypole in Northamptonshire now Lord Cleypole he long since married the Protectors Daughter a person whose qualifications not answering those honest principles formerly so pretended to of putting none but godly men into places of trust was a long time kept out but since the Apostacy from those principles as also the practise brake in and his Father-in-law the head thereof came to be Protector he was then judged good enough for that dispensation and so taken in to be t Master of his Horse as Duke Hamilton to the King Much need not be said of him his Relation as Son-in-law to the Protector is sufficient to bespeak him every way fit to be taken out of the House and made a Lord and having so long time had a Negative Voyce over his Wife Spring Garden the Ducks Deer Horses and Asses in Jameses Park is the better skilled how to exercise it again in the Other House over the good people of these Nations without any gainsaying or dispute 20. Lord Faulconbridge a Gentleman whose Relations are most Cavaleeres his Uncle formerly Governour of Newark for the King against the Parliament was absent over the water in the time of the late Wars a Neuter at least if not disaffected to the cause came back the Wars being over and hath lately marryed one of the Protectors Daughters and was in a fair way had things hit right to have been one of his Council as well as his Son-in-law however suitable to the times he is lately made a Colonel of Horse his Relation both to the old and new Monarchy may sufficiently plead his worth and merits not onely to have his Daughter but also a Negative Voyce in the other House over all that adventured their lives in the cause formerly and over all the people of these Lands besides 21. Colonel Howard his Interest which is considerable is in the North his Relations there are most Papists and Cavaleeres whom he hath courted and feasted kindly and served their Interest to purpose it 's no matter who lost by it in favour to Sir Arthur Haslerigg was made Captain of the Generals Life-Guard when he was in Scotland wherein he continued for some time in England after he was Protector but not being a Kinsman or a person further to be confided in in that place was shuffled out from thence and to stop his mouth made a Colonel and as the Book says a Major General and had power of Decimation as also made Governour of Barwick Tinmouth and Carlisle hath also tasted with the first of that sweet Fountain of new honour being made a Viscount he was of the Little Parliament and all the Parliaments since is a Member of Mr. Cockains Church and of very complying principles no question to the service of the new Court from whence he received his new honour and having with his fellow Lord Cleypole so excellent a spirit of Government over his Wife Family and Tenants in the Country to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House might seem of right to belong unto him being also lorded before hand 22. Lord Broghil his Rise and Relation for means is Ireland a Gentleman of good parts and wit able to make Romance but was not looked on formerly by those of the Good Old Cause as a person fit to be trusted with the command of one Town or Castle in Ireland yet is he now by this happy change become a goodly Convert to be confided in and is made w President of the Protectors Council in Scotland he was of the Latter Parliaments a great Kingling and one that in the Last Parliament so called put on hard that way wherefore it were great pity he being also a Lord of the old Stamp and so well gifted if he should not be one to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over the people of England and Scotland as well as of Ireland it being a good while since and almost forgotten that the Protector said It would never be well and we should never see good days whilst there was one Lord left in England and until the Earl of Manchester was called Mr. Mountague 23. Colonel Pride then Sir Thomas now Lord Pride sometime an honest Brewer in London went out a Captain upon the account of the Cause fought on and in time became a Colonel did good service in England and Scotland for which he was well rewarded by the Parliament with cheap Debenters of his Souldiers and others he bought good Lands at easie rates gave the Long Parliament a Purge fought against the King and his Negative Voyce and was against the Negative Voyce of his Brethren the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being unwilling to have any in the Land but hath now changed his mind and principles with the times and will fight for a Negative Voyce in the Protector and also have one himself and be a Lord for he is a Knight of the new Order already and grown very bulky and considerable it is hard to say how the people will like it However his worth and merits rightly measured will no question render him fit to be taken out of the House to be one of the Other House and to have a Negative Voyce not onely over the Bears but all the people of these Lands though he did formerly so opppose and fight against it and the Noble Lawyers will be glad of his company and friendship for that there is now no fear of his hanging up their Gowns by the Scotish Colours in Westminster-hall as he formerly so greatly boasted and threatned to do 24. Colonel Hewson then Sir John now Lord Hewson sometime an honest Shoomaker or Cobler in London went out a Captain upon the account of the Cause was very zealous fought on stoutly and in time became a Colonel did good service both in England and Ireland was made Governour of Dublin became one of the little Parliament and of all the Parliaments since a Knight also of the new Stamp The world being so well amended with him and the sole so well stitcht to the upper Leather having gotten so considerable an Interest and Means may well be counted fit to be taken out of the

mis-carriages of his during the sitting of the Long Parliament and the free people of England may doubtless for ever bury them in oblivion No question the Protector found he was mistaken in him and that he was not fit to be a Lord or to have a Negative Voyce being of no more complying principles to his interest and Designes and the then New Model of Government and will scarcely adventure to give h●m a second invitation to that great Honour and Dignity he so ungratefully and disdainfully slighted There was one or two more of the new Champions that with their wooden Daggers went into the Other Horse to fight against the Rights and Liberties of the good people of these Lands but their Names being wanting and not worthy the enquiring after nothing can be said of their noble Vertues save that in all likelyhood they were of such worthy principles as their fellows were of and such as would concur to carry on any design or interest they should be put upon and would say No with the rest when any thing came in question that seemed to be against the Protectors height and absoluteness or interest of the new Court which he that hath but half an eye may see was the onely designe of calling them thither as a Balance of Government to the Parliament so greatly though falsly pretended for the good of the people There were also of this chosen number of Sixty two some of the old Earls and Lords called Peers which stood off viz. three Earls Warwick Musgrave and Manchester and two Lords Say and Wharton and sate not at all disdaining as some thought to sit with these new Up-start Lords though others again apprehend that this their forbearance was onely out of their old State-policy till they saw whether a House of Lords formerly so abominated and thrown down by the consent and desire of the good people would again be resented and established and then intended to come in but I shall leave it Some werein Scotland viz. General Monk Earl of Cassils Lord Warriston and Sir William Lockhart which persons may also discover to him that hath but half an eye what a pitiful carnal low design they are carrying on Some in Ireland viz. Harry Cromwel Lord Deputy so called Recorder Steel and Colonel Tomlinson some it may be had no great mind to it to wit Colonel Popham Mr. Peirpoint others it 's probable were letted by political or State-illness or other occasions viz. Chief Justice St. Johns Mr John Crew Sir Gilbert Gerrard so as they also appeared not there being not above forty four or forty five of that worthy choyce of Sixty two that appeared and sate there and it 's very likely some think there were too many of them Thus far the Description and Narrative Three or four General Queries are further proposed for a Close to the whole and it is humbly offered to all ingenious people and queried First Whether if it should come to pass as how soon we know not that that noble spirit should like a Lyon raised from sleep rise again in the English people such as it was in forty one or forty two or about that time whether these Champions with their Feathers in their Caps and their Wooden Daggers and those fifty three persons who pretended to settle the Government by the Humble Petition and Advice would be able to fight with stand against and overcome the same any otherwise then their Predecessors the Lords Temporal and the Bishops the Lords Spiritual did then And whether it would not in all likelyhood fare with them and their Dependents the Patentees of the Excise and all others employed by them that so oppress and impoverish the Nation as formerly it did with them if not far worse They may please to think of it at their Leasure Secondly Whether in these five years now past of the Protectoral Government that blessed Reformation which the Protector then General and other Grandees of the Army so often promised and for not bringing forth of which they pretend they dissolved the old Parliament hath so been set upon as to make any the least proceed therein Or rather hath there not been a gradual and an apparent relapsing into those very Evils and Enormities formerly so greatly shaken and in some degree broken but now healed again of their wound and flourishing afresh with open face the spirit of wickedness and profaness being risen very high even among Professors like the unclean spirit cast out and entring again And in particular that abominable corruption and abuse in the Law and Administration of Justice touching which the Protector so called sometime said It was not to be endured in a Christian Commonwealth that some should so enrich and greaten themselves in the ruine of others So likewise that often complain'd of Grievance of Tythes touching which he also said as was lately attested in an open Court of Judicature several standing by to witness the truth thereof to whom the words were spoken That if he did not take away Tythes by the third of September next to wit 1654 or such a time they should call him the greatest Juggler that ever was and would juggle in all things else Yet is there any thing done in either of these or any thing gone about tending thereunto now in these five years as if it were so that no fruit would ever grow upon such a tree viz. the Monarchical Foundation which the Lord hath pulled up and cursed as the barren Fig-tree was onely there is one goodly amendment to wit a confirmation of the Act for treble damages to the undoing of many an honest man that upon conscientious grounds do scruple the payment of them And as for the Law and the Lawyers they are as before if not much worse and is there any ground of hope that the next five years should he continue so long will produce any better fruit then the five that are already past Thirdly Whether this Calculation of these ignoble Lords of the new Stamp being of several complexions and standing in the aforementioned Capacities and Relations having also such dependence upon and lying under so great Engagements unto the Protector so called as his Sons and Kindred Flattering Courtiers corrupt Lawyers degenerated Sword men and a sort of luke-warm indifferent Country Knights Gentlemen and Citizens most of them self-interested Salary-men be not likely according to the very specious pretence to prove a brave Balance of Government And whether the good people of this Land are likely to have their just Rights and Freedoms or religious men the Liberty of their Consciences by this Constitution any otherwise then according to the pleasure of the Protector and the Court Or then they had in the time of the late King And whether this Calculation were made to any other end then so Lastly Whether all things soberly weighed and considered the times be now so happy and blessed as some do londly bespeak them to be And whether