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A36804	A short view of the late troubles in England briefly setting forth, their rise, growth, and tragical conclusion, as also, some parallel thereof with the barons-wars in the time of King Henry III : but chiefly with that in France, called the Holy League, in the reign of Henry III and Henry IV, late kings of the realm : to which is added a perfect narrative of the Treaty at U[n]bridge in an.	Dugdale, William, Sir, 1605-1686.	1681 (1681)	Wing D2492; ESTC R18097	368,620	485

Parliament in case they were elected ¶ The next thing of Note that hapned was the Proclaiming of Prince Charles at Edenborough in Scotland to be King of Great Britain France and Ireland his Royal Father being thus destroy'd But 't is to be noted that this Proclamation ran thus Whom all the Subjects of his Kingdom are bound humbly to obey maintain and defend according to the National Covenant betwixt the Two Kingdoms with their Lives and Goods against all deadly And that before he should be admitted to the exercise of His Royal Power he was to give satisfaction to that Kingdom in those things that concern'd the security of Religion the Union betwixt the Kingdoms and the Good and Peace of that Kingdom according to the National Covenant and the Solemn League and Covenant And for Establishing the Dominion of these Bloody Regicides at We●tmin●●er the Members there Sitting went on Vigorously First Voting the absolute abolition of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy Next in devising and appointing A new Stamp for Coyne And by Erecting a Council of State consisting of Thirty Persons viz. the Earles of Densigh Mulgrave Pembroke Salisbury Lord Grey of Warke Lord General Fairfax Lord Grey of Groby Lord L'isle Son to the Earl of Leicester Lord Chief Justice Rolls Lord Chief Justice St. Iohn Lord Chief Baron Wylde Lord President Bradshaw Lord General Cromwell Major General Skippon Sir Gilbert Pickering Sir William Masham Sir Arthur Haselrig Sir Iames Harrington Sir Henry Vane Jun. Sir Iohn Davers Sir William Armyn Sir Henry Mildmay Sir William Constable Alderman Penington Alderman Wilson Bulstrode Whitlock Esq Henry Martin Esq Colonel Ludlow Anthony Stepeley Esq William Heveningham Esq Robert Wallop Esq Iohn Hutchinson Esq Dennis Bond Esq Alexander Popham Esq Valentine Walton Esq Thomas Scot Esq William Purefey Esq Iohn Iones Esq But the Lord Grey of Warke waving that employment Mr. Iohn L'isle of Hantshire Cornelius Holand and Luke Robinson were added to this Number who were called the Committee of Estates appointed by Parliament ¶ It is not unworthy of Observation that as the Scots and this unhappy Long Parliament at the beginning of their desperate Practises against the King did declare that their whole Proceedings then were according to the Fundamental Laws So these wicked Regicides after their Bloody Murther of the King in answer to an Embassy from the Dutch expressed that these their Proceedings against the King were consistent with the Fundamental Laws of this Nation of England which were best known to themselves Nor was the project for their new Church-Discipline less notable as may seem by this following Petition and Advice which was presented to the General of their Army and the Council of War by many Christians as they call'd themselves dispersed abroad throughout the County of Norfolk and City of Norwich in these words That your Petitioners acknowledge themselves unspeakably engaged to the God of Heaven and Earth for his great Mercy to us in giving you Hearts to offer your selves so willingly among the People in the late Great undertaking of the Nation against the Enemies of the Peace thereof and Blessing your Faithful endeavours with such Glorious and wonderful successes whereby as the Lord hath put great Honour upon you Crowning your Valour with Victory and making you the War-like Glory of the World so hath be no less put great Obligations upon you all to exalt him that hath exalted you and to lift up his Glory in the World where he hath given you a name so Great and Glorious c. Therefore our dayly Prayers shall be for your selves and your Noble Army that you may never stumble at the stumbling-stone nor take the honour to your selves that is due to Christ nor be Instrumental for setting up of a meer Natural and Worldly Government like that of Heathen Rome Athens c. To which end we humbly pray that your selves would enter into Serious and Grave consideration and debate the Particulars in the Papers here humbly offered to you and also present them to the Honourably Parliament that they may be improved so far as shall be found agreeable to the will and word of God Which done we doubt not but God shall have much Glory the Godly Party shall be comforted Natural men enjoying their Estates will be at rest also and much satisfied and this Common-wealth will be exalted to be both an Habitation of Iustice and Mountain of Holiness even such a People as God shall Bless An humble Advice concerning the Government of the Kingdom according to the former Platform or Model 1. That you would stir up Godly Ministers and People throughout the Kingdom to Associate or incorporate into Church-Societies and grant them your special Favour Provision and Protection so shall you be Saints Nursing Fathers 2. That you would please to satisfie the Godly-dissenting Brethren both of Presbytery and Independency by such ways and means as your Wisdoms shall think fit how both their Interests may meet herein that so they may concur with one heart in the work 3. That Sister-Churches over-see such Incorporations and Imbodyings that only such as be of approved Godliness may have the Right-hand of Fellowship given to them 4. That such Churches where more of them are thus Collected and imbodyed in any Division Circuit Province c. may choose and send out some Delegates Members and Officers to Meet in one Sessions Lesser-Parliament Presbytery or Assembly for ordering of all such affaires as there occur according to the word if appertaining alone to that division 5. That all such Churches and the Members thereof have voices in Elections of such as are to sit in General Assemblies or Church-Parliaments so often as occasion is and those Elected to Sit there as Christ's Officers and the Churches Representatives and to determine all things by the word as that Law which God will exalt alone and make honourable 6. That you take special care to send out and encourage Godly Preachers that may go into the rest of the Kingdom to Preach the Gospel that so when others are converted and the Son of God makes them Free they may enjoy the former Freedom with the rest of the Saints And in father order to the utter abolishing of Kingly Government they appointed all those Antick and most Venerable Regalia conserved in the Treasury at Westminster and chiefly made use of at the Magnificent Coronations of the Kings of the Realm and solemn Proceedings to Parliament And also the costly Hangings precious Jewels with other of the Kings Goods and rich Furniture for his several Princely Palaces to be sold. And within few days following caused the Heads of Iames Duke of Hamilton Henry Earl of Holand with that truly Noble Arthur Lord Capel to be cut off Touching whose actings against them having already made some brief mention I shall only take notice of their dealing with Duke Hamilton a little before his Execution which was that in order to his discovery

Protector and his said Council both to make new Laws and raise Moneys for the present Exigencies That all the Lands Forrests and Iurisdictions not then sold by the Parliament whether they had belong'd to the King Queen Prince Bishops or any Delinquent whatsoever should thenceforth remain to the Protector That the Office of Protector should thenceforth be Elective but that none of the King's Line should be ever capable thereof and that the Election should belong to the Council That for the present Oliver Cromwel should be Protector That the great Office of the Common-wealth viz. Chancellor Keeper of the Seal Governour of Ireland Admiral Treasurer in case they should become void in Parliament time to be filled up by the approbation of Parliament and in the Intervals by the like approbation of the Council That the Chrisian Religion as it is contained by Holy Scripture should be the Publick Profession of the Nation and that those who were to have the care thereof should have their support from the Publick so that it be with some other more convenient maintenance and less subject ot envy than by Tithes That no man should be by any Fine or Penalty what soever forced to comply with the said publick Profession otherwise than by perswasions and Arguments That no man professing Faith in Christ should be prohibited the Exercise of his own Religion so that he disturb not any other but that neither Popery or Prelacy should be permitted the least favour or License and that all Laws to the contrary should be void That all Agreements made by Parliament should be firm and stable All Articles of Peace made with Domestick Enemies made good That all Protectors in their Order should be obliged by Oath at their first taking upon them the Government by all means to procure the Peace Welfare and quiet of the Common-wealth by no means to violate the present Agreements and lastly to his power to Administer all things according to the Laws Statutes and Customs of England After which solemn Inauguration he was publickly proclaimed Protector First in London and then throughout all the three Kingdoms And now that by this transeendent subtil●y this egregious Imposter had cherisht so many Sects of desperate Schismaticks in the Army and elsewhere by whose help he first pull'd down the Presbyterian and then Murthered the King it was not his least skill so to manage these unruly Spirits that none of them by clashing with each other might endanger the publick nor that any of them upon occasion should be unserviceable to his designs To which end as well to ballance them equally as to rule them how he listed he made choice of the most active and leading Men into his Council by whose Influence he had the guiding of all the rest of each Faction The like course he took for the chief Officers of his Army And being thus setled in this his new Dominion he set forth an Ordinance declaring what Offences should be adjudged Treason And likewise another for repealing those Acts and Resolves of Parliament which had formerly been made for Subscribing the Engagement the preamble whereof I have thought fit here to Insert Whereas many general and promissory Oaths and Engagements in former times Imposed upon the People of this Nation have proved Burthens and Snares to tender Consciences and yet have been exacted under several Penalties Forfeitures and Losses In consideration whereof and out of a tenderne●● of requiring such obligations be it ordained by his Highness the Lord Protector by and with the consent of the Council that one Act of Parliament published in Print 2 Jan. an 1649. Intituled an Act for subscribing the Engagement and certain Orders intituled Resolves touching the subscribing an Engagement c. And all and every Clause Branch Article and Sentence in them c. be absolutely Repealed c. And being Invited by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London to dine at Grocers-Hall upon Ashwednesday to the end he might have the greater Veneration from the People it was contriv'd that he should Ride through the city in State to that Feast which was accordingly perform'd as followeth First the several Companies of London having order to meet at Guild-Hall in their Liveries went thence and placed themselves according to their Superiority in the Streets from the lower end of Cheapside to Temple-Bar within Rayles hung with blew Cloath the City Banner and Streamers belonging to the respective Companies being set before them Then the Lord Mayor with his Mace Sword and Cap of Maintenance attended by the Aldermen in Scarlet and their GoldChaynes Rode to Temple-Bar Where meeting the Protector with his Military Train he delivered up the Sword to him making a short congratulatory Speech to his Highness Which being ended they proceeded towards Grocers-Hall thus First the City-Marshal and some other Officers Then six Trumpets After them his Highness Life-guard Then eight Trumpets more Next the City Streamers Red and White Then the Aldermen After them the two Shireeves Next his Highness Heraulds with rich Coats adorn'd with the Common-wealths Arms viz. the Cross and Harp Then the Mace and Cap of Maintenance Next the Lord Mayor bare-headed carrying the Sword After him two Gentlemen Ushers Then his Highness the Protector with twelve Footmen in Gray Jackets laced with silver and black-silk Lace After him Rode Major General Skyppon and the rest of the Council Then the Officers of the Army And lastly divers other on Horseback and in Coaches Being thus come to Grocers-Hall the Recorder made a Speech to him letting him understand how happy that City did account themselves under his Government and likewise in the enjoyment of his presence there with them that day Which done he Knighted the Lord Mayor and then dined at the midst of a long Table in the great Hall the Lord Mayor sitting at some distance on his Right hand and his Son Henry on his left and on each side of them his Council of State But notwithstanding this great Entertainment well knowing that all the Bloodshed and confusion which had formerly been as 't was chiefly accomplisht by the Pulpits so by the like means his new establisht Rule might easily be shak't he fram'd another Ordinance whereby certain Commissioners were appointed for approbation of publick Preachers the preamble whereof with the Names of the reverend Tryers I have also added Whereas for some times past hitherto there hath not been any certain course Established for the supplying vacant places with able and fit persons to Preach the Gospel by reason whereof not only the Rights and Titles of Patrons are prejudiced but many weak scandalous Popish and ill affected persons have intruded themselves or been brought in to the great grief and trouble of the good people of this Nation For remedy and prevention whereof be it Ordained by his Highness the Lord Protector by and with the consent of his Council that every Person who shall from and after the 25th