presented to him The Bills concerning private persons I omit Those that are of a publick nature were as followeth 1. The Additionall Explanatory Petition and advice 2. An Act to adjourn this Parliament till the 20th of January London July 1. This day his Highnesse the Lord Protector was proclaimed in the City with great solemnity About ten a clock in the morning at Whitehall Gate the persons met who were to give attendance upon this Ceremony First the Messengers belonging to the Councill next Trumpetters next them the lifeguard of his Highnesse after them other Trumpetters next his Highnesse his Gentleman after them more Trumpetters next divers officers of the Army gallantly mounted then Trumpetters again next the Searjants at Armes and the Heralds of Armes and Garter principall King of Armes betwixt two Gentlemen-Ushers before his Highnesse Councill in their Coaches proceeding in this order to Temple-Bar At this place they were met by the Lord Major mounted on horseback in his Crimson Velvet Gown and his Colleâ— of ss. with the Recorder and Aldermen of London all in their Scarlet on horseback attended by his Officers Trumpetters and the loud Musick of the City From thence an officer of Arms proceeded before the Aldermen then next before the Lord Major his Mace-bearer the Sword-bearer with his cap of maintenance and a Herald of Armes Then proceeded severall Serjeants at Armes belonging to his Highnesse and councill with Norroy King of Armes next after them Garter principall King of Armes between two Gentlemen Ushers going immediately before the Lords of his highnesse councill and the principal secretary of State in their coaches In this manner they proceeded towards the Royal Exchange making two stands by the way First at chancery-lane end over against the Inner Temple gate where Proclamation was made by the common crier of London according to the tenor of the proclamation already published by act of Parliament the Lord Major Councill the Aldermen of London and all Officers standing bare The second stand was made in Cheapside at the end of Woodstreet where proclamation was made as before Thence they proceeded in order to the Royal Exchange ariving there at Exchange time where Proclamation was made as in all other places by sound of Trumpet in the form aforesaid and the humble petition and advice was published after which the Trumpets sounding three loud acclamations were made by the people Long live the Lord Protector Whitehall Novemb. 5. The fury of the Jesuited popish party in Poland having of late with all violence been executed in a barbarous manner upon the reformed professors who are of the Bohemian confession in those parts insomuch that the Churches are dispersed and the poor christians forced to fly into forein parts for safety of their lives divers of their exiled Pastors being come into England to seek for reliefe the case of the poor exiles stands referred by his Highnesse and the Councill to the consideration of those worthy and pious persons Ministers and others who are the Committee for Piedmont The most inhumane persecutions lately acted by the Papists and their party in Poland against our Brethren of the Reformed Religion are some of them as followeth The first remarkeable is that of Lesna a populous wealthy city and the great refuge of the Reformed who frequently came thither from other parts for shelter The church there was divided into three congregations the Bohemian the Polonian and the German This City they first set upon intending to put all to the Sword and destroy it with fire but the Citizens having notice of their coming on quitted the City leaving all their wealth behind flying through Woods and Boggs into Silesia so that the enemy entring without resistance found none but aged and bed-rid persons whom they barbaroufly flew and after they had plundered the City they reduced it to ashes In other places they cruelly murthered divers Minister of the Word and people of all ages and Sexes making them to end their lives by exquisite tortures The Pastor of the Church of Czvirzin had his eyes first pulled out because he would not renounce the faith then they pulled off with Pincers the Joynts of his fingers but he still remaining constant they poured moulten Lead into his mouth and lastly putting his head between the shuts of a door they severed it from his body The Pastor of the Church of Dembnick and two others after many vilanous abuses offered to their persons had their throats cut Finding also a young Minister in the field they cut off his head with a Sithe and afterwards mangled his body The like cruelty they acted also upon a citizen of Lesna and worse upon many others not sparing even the weaker sex nor children A pious Matron of Lesna with her three children not getting quick enough out of Town was murthered in the open street her hands and feet cut off and two of her children with their heads cut off laid upon her breasts the third by her side A Diuine burnte in the middell of his bookes his Childe pulled from the brest tost on a speare Cords drawne thorow the legs Armes Mens guttes pulled out of there mouthes A Catalogue of the names of those Honourable Persons who are by writ summoned to sit in the other house of Parliament THe Lord Richard Cromwell The Lord Henry Cromwel Lord Deputy of Ireland Nathaniel Fiennes John Lisle Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal Henry Lawrence Lord President of his Highness privy Council The Lord Charls Fleetwood Robert Earl of Warwick Edmond Earl of Mulgrave Edward Earl of Manchester William Lord Viscount Say and Seal Lord John Cleypole Mr. of the Horse Philip Lord Viscount Lisle Charls Lord Viscount Howard Philip Lord Wharton Thomas Lord Fauconbridge Lord John Disbrow Lord Edward Montague Generals at Sea George Lord Evre The Lord Whitelock Sir Gilbert Pickering Col William Sydenham Sir Charls Wolseley M. G. Philip Skippon Lord Strickland Col. Philip Jones Sir William Strickland Francis Rous Esq John Fiennes Esq Sir Francis Russel Sir Thomas Honywood Sir Arthur Hesilrigg Sir John Hobart Sir Richard Onslow Sir Gilbert Gerard Sir William Roberts John Glyn Oliver St. John Lords Chief Justices William Pierrepoynt Esq John Jones Esq John Crew Esq Alexander Popham Esq Sir Christopher Pack Sir Robert Tichborn Edward Whalley Esq Sir John Barkstead Knight Lievtenant of the Tower Sir Thomas Pride Sir George Fleetwood Richard Ingoldsby Esq Sir John Hewson James Berry Esq William Goffe Esq Thomas Cooper Esq Edmond Thomas Esq George Monck Commander in Chiefe of his Highnesse forces in Scotland David Earle of Castils Sir William Lockhart Sir Archibald Johnston of Warriston William Steel Lord Chancellor of Ireland The Lord Broghil Sir Mathew Tomlinson In number Sixty The Reader is to excuse this List if the names be not set down in their due order because the Copy came to my hand as here you see it Some Heads of the Speech made by His Highnesse January 1657. HIs Highnesse
A Further Narrative of the Passages of these times in the Common-Wealth OF ENGLAND An Act for renouncing and disanulling the pretended Title of Charls Stuart and for the taking away of the Court of Wards and Liveries the Judgment of the House of Commons pronounced by Mr. Speaker against James Naylor the Quaker WITH The Triall of Miles Sundercombe being indicted of high Treason for conspiring against the life of his Highness the Lord Protector Feb. 9. 1656. A DAY Of Publick thanksgiving for the marvellous goodnesse of God to this Nation in the Island of Teneriffe under Generall Blake and giving them great success against the Ships of the King of Spain 16. fier'd and not one of ours lost An exact relation of the manner of the solemn Investiture or happy Inauguration of his Highness the Lord Protector at Westminster June 26. 1657. With his Oath and the Oath of the privy Councell and every person who now is or hereafter shall be a Member of either House of Parliament before he sit shall from and after the first of July 1657. take the same With a particular account of the taking in of the Fort of Mardike in Flanders by Dunkirke with the names of the House of Lord And some heads of the speech made by his Highnesse to both houses Jan. 1657. Which Parliament was dissolved the 4th of Feb. 1657. Printed by M. S. for Thomas Jenner at the South entrance of the Royall Exchange AN ACT FOR Renouncing and disanulling the pretended Title of CHARLS STUART c. FOr the better establishment of the peace of this Common-Wealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Territories and Dominions thereunto belonging and for the prevention of the designs and attempts of the enemies thereof The Knights Citizens and Burgesses in this present Parliament assembled Do in the name of all the people of this Commonwealth fully freely absolutely and for ever Disclaim and Renounce all Fealty Homage or Allegiance pretended to be due unto Charls Stuart eldest Son of the late King Charls James Stuart second Son of the said late King Henry Stuart third Son of the said late King or any other the Issue or posterity of the said late King or any person or persons pretending or which shall at any time hereafter pretend Title by from or under him them any or either of them to hold or enjoy the Crowns of England Scotland and Ireland or of either or any of them or to have the Name Title Stile or Dignity of King or Queen of Great Britain King or Queen of England Scotland and Ireland Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwal Prince of Scotland Duke of Albany Duke of Rothesay Duke of York Duke of Gloucester any or either of them or to have and enjoy the Power Government or supream Magistracy of this Commonwealth or of any part thereof or of any the Territories or Dominions thereunto belonging or to have or enjoy as King or Queen of England Scotland and Ireland or of either or any of them Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwal Duke of Albany Duke of Rothesay Duke of York Duke of Gloucester or Prince of Scotland all or any the Honors Manors Lands Tenements Possessions and Hereditaments heretofore belonging or appertaining to the said Crowns of England Scotland and Ireland or to any or either of them or to the Principalitie of Wales Dutchy of Lancaster or Cornwal or any or either of them And be it declared and Enacted by his Highness the Lord Protector and this present Parliament assembled and the Authority thereof That the said Charls Stuart James Stuart Henry Stuart and all other the Issue and Posterity of the said late King and all and every person and persons pretending or which shall or may at any time hereafter pretend Title or Claim from by or under him or them be and are and shall for ever be absolutely and utterly excluded and debarred from holding or enjoying the Crown of England Scotland and Ireland or any or either of them or any the Dominions or Territories thereunto belonging and from holding or having the Name Title Stile or Dignity of King or Queen of Great Britain King or Queen of England Scotland and Ireland or any or either of them or of any the Dominions thereunto belonging Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwal Prince of Scotland Duke of Albany Duke of Rothesay Duke of York or Duke of Gloucester and from all Title Claim or Right as King or Queen of England Scotland and Ireland or of either or any of them Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwal Duke of Albany Duke of Rothesay Duke of York Duke of Gloucester or Prince of Scotland unto all or any the Honors Manors Lands Tenements Possessions or Hereditaments heretofore at any time belonging or appertaining to the said Crowns of England Scotland and Ireland or any or either of them and also from having exercising or enjoying any Power Authority Government or Magistracy in or over this Commonwealth or any the people thereof And that all such Right Title Claim or pretence of Right Title or Claim which they or any of them at any time heretofore at present or in time to come have doe shall or may make is hereby declared and adjudged and shall for ever hereafter be adjudged and taken to be utterly void and of no effect And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid and it is enacted That if any person or persons shall endeavour or attempt by force of armes or otherwise or shall be aiding assisting comforting or abetting unto any person or persons that shall by any wayes or means whatsoever endeavour or attempt the reviving or setting up of any pretended Right Title or Claim of the said Charls Stuart James Stuart Henry Stuart or of any other the Issue or Posterity of the said late King or of any person or persons claiming under him or them to any the Offices Stile Title Dignity or Authority aforesaid or any of them or shall declare publish or any way promote such pretended Right Title or Claim or shall give or contribute any summe or summes of Money or other aid or assistance to the said Charls Stuart James and Henry any or either of them That then every such offence shall be and is hereby deemed and adjudged high Treason and all and every the Offender and Offenders therein their Counsellors Aiders and Abettors being thereof convicted within three years after such Offence committed shall be deemed and adjudged Traytors and shall suffer and have such pains of Death and forfeitures as in case of high Treason is used and ordained Hen. Scobell Clerk of the Parliament AN ACT For the taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries WHereas the four and twentieth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred forty five the Court of Wards and Liveries and all Wardships Liveries Primer-seizins and Oustrelemaines and all other Charges incident or arising for or by reason of Wardships Livery Primer-seizin or
the Lord strengthning us to stand by your Highnesse with our lives and shall not be wanting to improve our interest with the Lord for his gracious and mighty assistance with you in the further prosecution of the great work he hath called you to Charls Fleetwood William Goffe John Barkestead Howard Richard Ingoldsby Thomas Pride James Berry Thomas Cooper Philip Twisleton Edward Grosvener John Disbrow Henry Ingoldsby Thomas Talbot George Sedascue Thomas Kelsey Tobias Bridge John Nelthorpe William Bâ—teler Hezekiah Haynes Edward Whalley John Clarke Thomas Sadler Ralph Cobbet Edward Salmon John Mill William Stane Henry Whalley Thomas Margetts By the Committee for the affairs of the poor Protestants in the Valleyes of Piedmont THe All wise and Holy God whose wayes of Providence are alwayes righteous though often secret and unsearchable hath made it the constant lot and portion of his people in this World to follow the Lord in bearing his Cross and suffering persecutions thereby holding forth and verifying that irreconcileable Enmity between the seed of the Woman and the seed of the Serpent which was visible betimes in the Blood shed of righteous Abel whom Cain though his Brother slew being of the wicked one yea and for this cause for that his own works were evill and his Brothers good Thus they that are born after the flesh persecute them that are born after the Spirit to this day and so will do while the World lasteth In which Cause and Quarrell the Lord hath very many glorious ends But scarcely have any sort of the Churches Enemies more clearly followed the pernitious wayes of Cain herein than hath the Anti-Christian Faction of Rome done that Mother of Harlots and abominations whose garments are died red with the blood of Saints which they have alwayes cruelly shed and made themselves drunk with even the blood of those holy Followers of the Lamb chiefly who would not receive Antichrists mark nor worship his Image nor drink of the Golden Cup of his Fornications but rather come out from them and witnesse against them though they did it in sack-cloth and were slain for it Among those chosen and faithfull Witnesses the Lord seemed very signally to have raised up those Christians who though dispersed in divers Countreyes have been commonly known by the name of Waldenses who for some Centuries of years have lived among their enemies as Lambs among Wolves to bear their Testimony for the truth of Christ against the Apostacies and Blasphemies of Rome for which they have been killed all the day long and appointed as sheep for the slaughter Nevertheless the Lord the great Shepheard of the sheep hath made their blood thus shed to become a constant seed of faithfull and Valiant witnesses for him which is indeed the more marvellous in our eyes that this Bush hath so long burned and is not yet consumed This little flock and remnant which the Lord hath left and reserved are scattered in the Valleyes of Piedmont of whose tragicall sufferings we have not long since heard and have drawn forth our bowels to them whereof a very faithfull accompt is given to the World both for satisfaction of Brethren and Friends and for stopping the mouthes of all Calumnies The other part of this poor yet precious Remnant hath been dispersed in the Kingdoms of Bohemia and Poland whose sufferings together with the Lords signall providences about them have been very eminent and remarkable as hath been made appear unto us by three godly persons delegated by those persecuted Churches which are now the sad Monuments of their Enemies rage and of the Lords sparing Mercies These have made their addresses to his Highness the Lord Protector by Petition declaring the deplorable estate wherein this persecuted Remnant now lieth and with loud cryes importuning the Christian Bowells and Bounty of this Nation which cannot but be moved to mourn over them and to shew mercy to them And indeed upon a due sense and consideration of this lamentable subject even common humanity but much more christian charity should provoke us to a fellow feeling of their present distressed condition These somtimes flourishing churches where by degrees worn out by the constant underminings and open out rages of the Antichristian party being first driven out of Bohemia into Poland then after their taking root and spreading in Poland unto a numerous company were forced out of the chief Cities there and now at last by the Jesuited and inraged Polish Army persecuted in their few hiding places with fire and sword Their Ministers were tortured to death by most exquisite and unheard of Barbarism by cutting out of the tongues of some pulling out the eyes and cruelly mangling the Bodies of others nor did their rage and Brutish Cruelty reach only to Ministers but to others yea even to women and young Children whose heads they cut off and them at their dead mothers breasts Nay their rage brake out not only upon the living not one of whom they spared that fell into their hands but also upon the dead plucking the bodies of honorable persons and others out of the graves tearing them to pieces and exposing them to publick scorn But the chief Eye sore and object of their Fury was the City of Lesna which after plundering and murthering all whom they found therein they burned to ashes and laid in rubbish only the Lord in his mercy having alarm'd the City of their enemies approaching March the greatest part of the Inhabitants being three famous Churches saved themselve by flight and are now wandring up and down in Silesia the Marguifate of Brandenburg Lusatia and Hungary poor destitute afflicted and naked His Highness and the Councill having referred unto this Committee the Testimonials and Petitions sent by the said Churches We finding upon examination thereof their case to be thus deplorable which is more at large stated and declared in their own Narrative have caused the said Narrative to be translated and here with published thereby to stirr up the Lords people in these Nations to put on bowels of mercies toward these their exiled and afflicted brethren refreshing their hearts by your love and the tokens of it in a cheerfull and liberall supply which will not only preserve this holy seed from perishing that hath a blessing in it but also uphold among them the Purity of Religion and power of the Gospel The rather considerng the present freedome from these bloody outrages we the people of these Nations do by the blessing of the Lord enjoy the continuance whereof we may the more comfortably hope for by how much our compassions are more freely extended to those in misery And if a cup of cold water given to one disciple as such shall not lose its reward how much more when a bountifull relief is given to more then five thousand disciples Which we should be the more forward to advance because they acknowledge they have received much confirmation in the Religion for which they suffer by light received from
our Country man John Wicklof that famous witnesse of Christ against Antichrist even in the darkest times of Popery And I doubt no but that God who hath lately opened your bowels to so large and eminent a Contribution towards the persecuted Protestants at Piedmont for which many Thanksgivings have been made to God on your behalf will again draw out your hearts upon this like sad occasion to the like bountifull liberality it being our duty to cast our bread upon the waters and to give a portion to six and also to seven not being weary of well-doing because in due time we shall reap if we faint not Considering also how honourable it is to â—ct grace and to lay out our selves upon such occasions we recommmend iâ— again as the work of God accompanied with his own voyce calling aloud upon us to inlarge our selves in this ministration and withall to pour out our hearts in faith and prayer that the Lord would yet please to raise up Sâ—on upon the Ruins of Babylon hastening his work and blessing means to it John Trevor Christopher Pack Will. Purefâ—y Edward Cresseâ— Thomas Viner Joseph Caryl John Owen Will. Jenkyn Philip Nyâ— Will Cooper Edmond Caâ—â—â—y A Breviate of the impeachment of high Treason exhibited by Mr. Attorney Generall against John Hewet Doctor of Divinity consisting of these heads 1. THat to embroyl the Commonwealth in new and intestine troubles and to stir up Sedition and Rebellion within the Nation He together with others Traiterously and Maliciously raised force and levied war against his highnes and the government to subvert and alter the same 2. That he traiterously declared published and promoted Charls Stuart Eldest Son of the late King Charls to be King of England Scotland and Ireland c. 3. That he held correspondence with the said Charls Stuart And declared the same by these open deeds I. By conferring with one Trelawney Jo. Stapely and Henry Mallory how to effect the same II. By appoynting places of meeting to consult for effecting the same III. By encouraging Stapely and Mallory thereunto IV. By delivering Commissions to several persons in the Name of and as from the said Charls Stuart concerning the raising of forces and leavying the power aforesaid against his highnesse and the Government and this contrary to the statute in that case made and provided The substance of Sir Henry Slingsby's speech at Tower-Hill June 8. 1658. THat he stood condemned by the court of justice as contriving and endeavoring to withdraw divers officers of the garison of Kingston upon Hull from their duty and perswading them to a surrendring and yeelding up of that Garison and one that held correspondence with some beyond Sea to that end That it was true he had conference upon that account with the officers of that Garison and that he gave Major Waterhouse a commission signed Charls R. but that it was but an old one that had lain by him though he thought fit to make use of it to the Major Many passages he said there were which he would not insist on That some friends of his had made application to his Highnes for the saving of his life but it seemes it was thought fit not to be granted c. and therefore he submitted and was ready to dye c. He spake but low and very little and kept himselfe in a very even temper both in words and behaviour Then addressing himselfe againe to his friends he called for the executioner who having received his reward by the hand of a friend came to him placed the block in the middle of the Scaffold which Sir Henry beheld with his armes folded and a setled countenance an officer standing by with the Ax. Then the prisoner declaring he had no more to say stripped himselfe Before he put off his band he desired a friend standing by to take off a Ring which hung in his Bandstring 't was in the form and about the breadth of an ordinary seal but instead of a seale engraven it had the Picture of the late King done in little and very exactly When the Gentleman had taken it off he said these words to him Pray give this to Harry His doublet being off he kneel'd down before the block and lifting up his hands as before he again prayed privately to himself but was very short Then rising up and embracing his friends one after another tooke his leave of them all After this kneeling down and placing his neck upon the block the executioner struck off his head at one blow The Head was immediately taken off the Scaffold and put in a black Scarff the Body into the Coffin and the Head with it which being nailed up and covered was conveyed off the Scaffold into a Herse drawn by six horses which stood ready to receive it The sum of Doctor Hewet's Speech on the Scaffold Viz. That he had never been in such a Pulpit as this was and that he came thither within a few minutes to suffer death for the Truth and to bear testimony thereto according to that saying of our blessed Lord and Saviour For this end was I born and for this end came I into the world to bear witnesse to the Truth And that in two respects First as a Clergy-man and secondly as a Member of the community in which he lived As a Clergy-man he blessed God that had called him to the office of the Ministry though unworthy and that he had been baptized into the true faith and doctrine of the Gospel and thereby made a member of the Catholique Church especially of that part of it the Church of England which he looked upon as the purest for sound doctrine and orderly discipline of any in the christian world and disowned all others walking contrary thereunto Here the Reader is to observe that the Doctor was not questioned for any poynt of Faith he held but for being a Traitor and so he dyed not for truth but for Treason In the second place as one of the community or civill state he looked upon himselfe as borne a free Englishman and in that capacity had a right to the Liberties and priviledges of this Land and to the Laws thereof Here he tooke occasion to speake of passages at his tryall before the Court of Justice saying that having been advised by persons learned in the Law and being furnished with some books of Law cases and reports he was thereby instructed to make severall demands in court as that he might be satisfied about the jurisdiction of the court then that he might have counsel allowed afterwards being told in court that they were to try him in matter of fact to which he ought first to plead he in the next place said he desired that the matter might be heard by the Judges and thereupon appealed to them which would not be admitted he being told the court had a full Jurisdiction by Act of Parliament That he had alwayes insisted that he might have a Jury to be