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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69468	England's confusion, or, A true and impartial relation of the late traverses of state in England with the counsels leading thereunto : together with a description of the present power ruling there by the name of a Parliament, under the mask of The good old cause / written by one of the few English men that are left in England ...	Anglesey, Arthur Annesley, Earl of, 1614-1686.	1659 (1659)	Wing A3168A; ESTC R59	19,125	24

Professions intermixed it is written in such a canting aequivocating language whereof the Sword was like to be Interpreter that the sting was easily visible through the honey and their former actions and suitable continuing honesty better credited than their words Hereupon the Protector begins too late to think of securing himself from being surprized with their complements and stands upon his guard And the Commons house as became Englishmen wisely and couragiously resolved to let the Officers know that they took them still to be their Servants though they had for too many years ill deserved their wages rebelling and usurping the Government at their pleasure and intending to try what they meant by the Good Old Cause which as they seemed to represent it smelt of Gunpowder and ball and whether the repentance held forth in their said Representation were real or Military passed these votes on Monday April the 18. Resolved That during the sitting of the Parliament there shall be no General Council or Meeting of the Officers of the Army without direction leave and Authority of his Hignesse the Lord Protector and both Houses of Parliament Resolved That no person shall have or continue any Command or Trust in any of the Armies or Navies of England Scotland or Ireland or any the dominions and territories thereto belonging who shall refuse to subscribe That he will not disturb or interrupt the free-meetings in Parliament of any the Members of either House of Parliament or their Freedom in their debates and counsels And the same time to shew their care of the Army and to prevent jealousies they passed the following votes Resolved That the House do presently take into consideration the wayes and means for satisfaction of the Arrears of the Armies and providing present pay for them Resolved That Serjeant Maynard the Attorney General and Sollicitor General do forthwith prepare an Act of Indemprity for all such as have acted under the Parliament and Common-wealth Whilest the House spent the rest of their time in considering how to Provide money without laying new burthens on the people great contests grew between the Protector and the opposite Officers of the Army both sides keeping guards night and day against one another the Protector having in pursuance of the votes of the house forbidden the meetings of the Officers In this divided posture affairs continued till Friday the 22. of April on which morning early Fleetwood the Protectors Brother Desborough his Uncle and the rest of the mutinous Officers carrying the greater part of the Army after them and the Protectors party flinching the Conquest was made without one drop of blood which was strange in so antient hereditary just and undoubted a Title and the Protector forced to consent to a Commission and Proclamation ready prepared giving Desborough and others power to disolve the Parliament contrary to the best advice and his own Interess and Promise And accordingly the same day The Black Rod was sent twice to the House of Commons from Fi●nnes Speaker of the Other House for them to come thither but they admitted him not in and much scorned the motion having ever looked upon that Mushrum House as the Lower House and their own creature the language being to send down to the Other House when they sent the Declaration for a Fast for a trial of transacting with them And therefore understanding there were guards of Horse and Foot in the Pallaceyard after some motions made by Mr. Knightly Sir Arthur Haslerigge and others wherein Sir Arthur exceeding That the House should first declare it Treason for any persons whatsoever to put force upon any Members of the House and next that all Votes Acts and Resolutions passed by any Members of Parliament when the rest were detained from or taken out of the House by force should be null and void and other motions becoming Englishmen to that end judging themselves under a force and finding they were very unanimous though near four hundred in the House in the things proposed they resolved no question but adjourned till Monday morning the twenty fifth of April and attended the Speaker in order through Westminster-Hall to his Coach in face of the Souldiery Now the Court according to the guise of the world in like accidents shrunk out of Whit●hall into Wallingford House And Fleetwood D shorow the rest of the Officers great and small took the Government into their own hands the House of Commons being shut up and entrance denied to the Members when they came on Monday even to Sir Henry Vane and Sir Artbur Haslerig themselves according to adjournment the Court of Requests and all avenues being full of Souldiers who told the Members they must sit no more After the Officers had new model'd themselves cashiering Whaley Ingolsby Goffe and divers others of the Protectors party and restoring Lambert Haslerig Okey and others displaced by Protector Oliver and played with the Government for a few dayes grew weary of it the inferior officers and the Pamphlets that now flew about daily without controul carrying things beyond the intention of the Chief Officers who would have left the Protector a Duke of Venice for his Fathers sake who raised them and their relation to him which they had forgotten till now they sent to some of their old hackney drudges of the Long Parliament then in London who they knew would do any thing so they might be suffered to sit and on the fifth and sixth days of May had conference with them the last of which was at their never failing Speaker the Master of the Rolles House in Chancery-Lane where both Officers viz. Lambert who had already gotten his old place and others with him and Members viz. Sir Henry Vane Sir Arthur Haslerigge Ludlow John Jones Mr. Chaloner Mr. Scot and others to the number of twenty solicited William Lenthal Esquire to sit Speaker again but be objected scruples in judgement and conscience which are not yet answered nor never will nevertheless Fifteen Articles between the Officers and some of the Members who it seems over-confidently undertook for the rest being first agreed on at some of their meetings they resolved to meet in the House on Saturday the 7 of May yet that they might do it by surprise they gave out that they would not sit till Tuesday the tenth of May But the itch of ambition and Lording it over the people giving them no quiet on Saturday the seventh of May early they met in the Painted Chamber at Westminster and to make up their number sent for the two chast Cock-Sparrows the Lord Manson and Mr. Henry Martin out of Prison where they were in Execution for Debt and honest Whitlock and Lisle of the Chancery Bench and with this addition being two and forty in number the Chancery Mace for hast being carried before them William L●nthall Esquire their tender conscienced Speaker together with the said Lord Munson Henry Martin Mr. Whitlock Mr. Lisle Temperate Mr. Chaloner Wise Alderman

Atkin Rich Alderman Pennington Pedantick Thomas Scot Hastily rich Cornelius Holland Single hearted preaching Sir Henry Vane now become old Sir Harry Prideaux Attorney General to all Governments Smiling Sir James Harrington Levelling Ludlow Pembrochian Oldsworth that made the Earl his Masters wise speeches Vain-glorious hair-brained Haslerigge with repentance like the Armies in his conscience and the Bishoprick of Durham at his back Sir Thomas Middletons man Jones Doting Purefoy without purity or faith Coll. White the Lord Fairfax's Secretary got before his Master Relig●ous Harry Nevil Mr. Say the famous Lawyer Mr. Blagrave better known at Reading then here Coll. Bennet Sir Henry Vane's little second at preaching Mr. Brewster a Cypher to make up the number Serjeant Wilde best known by the name of the Wilde Serjeant John Goodwin alias Herbe John Mr. Lechmore the Attorney Generals second at all Governments Augustin Skinner a Kentish Christian Mr. Downes another cypher Mr. Dove a Brewer of Salisbury come to help in this new Brewing Mr. John Lenthal William Lenthal's own Son Saloway a smart prating Apprentice newly set up for himself M. John Corbet such another Lawyer as Miles and of his own colour M. Valton that will never forget his Son furnished Blacks for the Protectors Funeral Gilbert Millington the Church snuffers who desires no better trade then Scandalous Ministers Mr. Gold newly married to get more the Common-wealth being poor Coll. Sydenham a Dorset shire couple in at all Governments who rather talk then fight yet will venture to doe any thing being backt with an Army against the naked people Coll. Ayre whose name fills his head Mr Smith a Six Clerk that wishes he could write and read Coll. Ing●lshy that fought so well lately for the Protector against Fleetwood And Fleetwood that holy man who so smoothly supplanted the Protector that he perswaded him three Crowns were not worthy a drawn sword Stole on the sudden into the House the Invitation of the Army for the sitting of the Long Parliament as they call it being first published in VVestm. Hall Upon notice of their sitting there being double their number Members of the same Parliament in Town and many of them in the Hall to prevent the mischiefs of a sureptitious packt Parliament they agreed among themselves in the Hall though they were doubtful that Parliament was disloved that about a dozen or fourteen of them should immediately goe to the House And the persons that did so were these viz. Mr. Ansley Sir George Booth Mr. Iames Harbert Mr. Prynne Mr. Geo. Monntague Sir Iohn Eveling Mr. Iohn Harbert Mr. Gewen Mr. Eveling Mr. Knightley Mr. Clive Mr. Hungerford Mr. Harley Mr. Peck VVho though with much ado they got into the Lobby they were not suffered by the Officers of the Army to go into the House though they disputed their priviledge of sitting if the Parliament were yet in being but Reason as well as the Laws must be silent amongst men of VVar and therefore after they had fairly made their Claim and found the House under force they retired and resolved by Letter to acquaint the Speaker and those Gentlemen assembled with him what usage they had received And according'y on Monday the 9. of May they went to Westminst. where understanding that there were no Guards upon the House Mr. Ansley Mr. Prynne and Mr. Hungerford went up to the House and had free admittance receiving the Declaration of the 7. of May at the door which were published this day but M. Ansley walking afterwards into the Hall the House not being ready to sit to let the Members know that though they were repulsed by force on Saturday the House was open for honest men this day at his return Capt. Lewson of Goffe's Regiment as he confessed himself and other Officers denied him entrance he asking them whether they were a Committee to judge of Members without doors they said no but they were commanded by their superiour officers to let none in that had not sate till Apr. 1653. After some reasoning the case with them the Capt. told Mr. Ansley that if he would give his Paroll to return without sitting he might go in and speak with whom he pleased so upon his paroll passed to the Captain he was permitted to go in the second time and soon after returned telling the Captain as he came out that he had kept his Paroll and wished he and his souldiers would do the like Mr. Prynne continued still there and resolved so to do since he saw there was force again upon the House The discourse Mr. Prynne had within dores and how he made them lose that morning and adjourn by reason of his presence without the Speakers taking the chair you may expect from another pen And how he attempted to sit again in the afternoon but found there a troop of horse and two companies of red coats Keepers of the liberties of England and so bid them farrewel immediately after which to prevent further inturruption in their works of darkness from honest men they barred the door against three parts of four of the Members of the House by the following Votes Ordered That such persons heretofore members of this Parliament as have not sate in this Parliament since the year 1648. and have not subscribed the Engagement in the Roll of engagement of this House shall not sit in this House till further order of the Parliament Whereupon Sir George Booth Mr. Ansley Mr. Knightly Mr. Prynne and the rest who had agreed on a Letter to be sent to them finding them in their old temper of trampling the priviledges of Parliament under foot and Judging without Hearing resolved to make no application to them But a coppy of a Letter coming to my hands I judge it so worthy of the persons that subscribed it and of the publick view that I have here inserted it It was directed To William Lenthall Esquire Speaker to the Members of the House of Commons now sitting at Westminster SIR WE the persons subscribing and others Members of the House coming to Westminster-Hall on Saturday the 7th of this moneth understood that the Officers of the Army had by their Declaration dated the day before invited the Members of Parliament to return to the exercise and discharge of their Trust by virtue of an Act of Parliament passed 17 Caroli wherein are these words And be it declared and Enacted by the King our Soveraign Lord with the assent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same that this present Parliament now assembled shall not be dissolved unless it be by Act of Parliament to be passed for that purpose nor shall be at any time or times during the continuance thereof prorogued or adjourned unless it be by Act of Parliament to be likewise passed for that purpose and the House of Peers shall not at any time or times during this present Parliament be adjourned unless it be by themselves or their