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A80309 A conference held between the old Lord Protector and the new Lord General, truly reported by Hugh Peters. 1660 (1660) Wing C5731; Thomason E1017_24; ESTC R18925 4,300 8

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A Conference Held between the Old Lord Protector And the New Lord General Truly Reported by Hugh Peters London Printed 1660. A Profound Discourse between the old Protector and the new Lord General truly reported by Hugh Peters Oliver in a disguise giving a Sop to Cerberus the Porter of Hell gets loose from thence and taking a turn or two in St. James 's Park meets with Hugh Peters to whom he directs himself as followeth Cromwell HOh hoh Peters It s a brave refreshing by my Conscience It s a great deale cooler here than where I was just now Peters If I may be so bold to aske you Sir where have you been I pray What wilt thou be a fool too th' art knave enough in conscience Dost not thou know where I have been ever since my thrice auspicious Day of September I tell thee I have been with my Soveraign Lord and Prince Abaddon Apollyon Lucifer Satan Beelzebub Senior Don Diabolo the Illustrious Emperour of Plutonia in his infernal Dominions and Territories where I am his Substitute and Grand-Vizier turmoiling my self with the Cares of his Government which have put me into such a fervor and heat by incessant motion and quotidian agitation that my native bow died Red is changed into this Tartarian sable complexion But who would not be in Office Peters Believe me though the trouble of my place be great yet it is a relaxation to me to consider how I have out-stripp'd in my Princes favour my fellow-Courtiers as Cain the famous fratricide the Babylonian Nimrod the Grecian Andronicus the Tyrant's of Athens the Romane Nero the Apostate Julian the Turkish Mahomet the renowned Persecutors Alexander the sixth Caesar Borgia Ravilliac Guido Faux my Cosin Harry the eight my Parrallel Richard the third and many more such eminent Senators in my Soveraign's Court Not to mention that ambitious emul●tor of my glory audacious Bradshaw and others of the like extraction and quality whose memorable Actions and Exploits will be recorded and rewarded to all eternity as well as mine But prethee Peters where 's my Secretary Will he never come at me to tell me how the Affaires of my sons Richard and Harry proceed succeed and prosper He used to give me devillish Information of all the passages in Europe Now prethee be thou honest for once and relate to me the condition of my Territories since my secession from hence and promotion to my present Charge Peters Sir Your son Richard is a simple Foole your sonne Harry a stupid Asse Fleetwood a sordid base fellow Disborow a perfideous Renegado the rest of your Privie-Councill a company of Woodcocks Widgeons Oules and Buzzards and your Secretary such a nimble Mercurie as he rides Post into any employment for advantage Cromw The Devil he does Pet. Nay It s true enough I 'de thought you had known him well enough as he knew you But sir since you was here there has been a damnable Alteration in the Government Your Sons are all turn'd out of Office Their Protector-ship Leivtenant-ship and General-ship not worth a The little Rump that you thought and all the world too I dare sweare you had devoured at one mouth-full I know not by what evill digestion being evacuated againe has cast such a savour in your Sons Nostrils as has quite cast them out of all Power and Authority That Posterne member has revived it self twice within these nine moneths Once by the treachery of Fleetwood and his complices And next by the foolery of Lambert and the crafty Policie of General Monk And not onely so but by the Necessitie of the Times and the Interposition of the Citie of London and indeed of most of the Gentry and Commonalty of England the very seeluded Members are readmitted into the House of Commons it s fear'd the Lords will shortly have the exercise of their Jurisdiction And what will the issue be I pray but restoring of the Line of King James to the Kingly Power the redintegation of Monarchy and Hierarchie and the dissolution of your new Atlantis and Utopian Common-wealth And for my part I am bethinking my self to go over into Holland with all speed For there will be no secure abiding here for me if the Prelates or Presbyters get preheminence Cromw Come to me you fearfull Coward and I will prefer you to be one of my Princes Chaplaines But is all this that thou hast told me true Me thought when I came hither first I found a very strange alteration in this place No Chimney almost smoaking at White-hall and nothing but smoak in all the Chimneyes at St. James's Prethee who quarters there Pet Why General Monck Sir Cromw How a devill came he thither What has he left Scotland now I am gone from whence I could never get him when I was here with all the subtile pretences and flatteries to which I was so well accustomed Peters T is true Sir Cromw Hoh hoh Prethee go to him and use thy wonted Craft and Artifice deluding and seducing him to come into the Park and then I 'le set upon him in the Devils name I le warrant thee Pet. I will sir Peters goes to St. James 's House and after a while returns into the Park with the Lord General To whom Cromwell appears in a grizly black deformed devillish guise and treates him as followeth Cromw Monck What a Devill aile you Monck In the Name of God what art thou By the Powers of Heaven I conjure thee to tell me who thou art Cromw I am the most Serene and Renowned Oliver late Lord Protector of England Scotland and Ireland Monck The Devill thou art What wind brought you to town again I had thought your Ghostly Father had secured you safe enough from coming to trouble the world any more if thou beest Cromwell Cromw Cromwell I am and this my reverend Confessor and Absolver can sufficiently testifie Peters T is he sir Monck What news from Erebus my Lord Cromw John Bradshaw's well with my late Attorney General and others of my familiars But prethee George tell me what winde drave thee from Edenburgh to London Monck Sir a prosperous and auspicious winde by the Divine Inspiration to repaire the Breaches you and your Rebellious Family have made and restore the antient liberty of this Common-wealth to its primitive and regular Constitution in the bringing in the Sonne of our late gracious and now glorious Soveraign to be King and Parliaments to their lawfull freedome and Priviledges without terrour of Interruption or Obstruction that so both Religion and the civil Government may flourish again in purity and prosperity and faction and rebellion be banish't to the land of Darkness and confusion the proper receptacle for factious and trayterous rebells whereof you were the Captain-general Cromw How now George are you so sawcy Hast thou veil'd thy Malignancy all this while under thy hood and now dost thou bare thy face for Kingship and assert the Interest of Charles Stuart Monck It had been well