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A conference held between the old Lord Protector and the new Lord General, truly reported by Hugh Peters.
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1660
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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 emulâ—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
with you if you had been so conscientious and Religious Honorable and Loyall as to have given Caesar his due Whereas now I perceive and really believe that you are a most miserable Caytiff reprobate from heaven and eternal felicity and condemned to the portion of the Devill and his angels in utter destruction Cromw Hold George I am his Majesties Vice-gerent and can do what I will in his Dominions I have promised Peter's a Benefice And Bradshaw is one of the Commissioners of the great Seale and the Arch-Bishop of York is another by my promotion I have Offices for thousands of them if they have but the luck to come to me Dorislaus is a Judge in our Admiralty And I will be so much in Charity with Haselrig Vain Jack Lambert Scot and Tom Harrison That they shall all be well provided for My Sonn Ireton is my only confident Fleetwood was alwayes a coward and never had a noble daring spirit and it s no matter for him But I want Wat Strickland to be Captain of the Guard And I would do very well for my Privy-Council My father Rouse is Provost of the Colledge of Aetna Tom Pride is head Brewer at Acharon but we are in great want of a Cobler and therefore I desire thee to send John Hewson to me with all speed A Goldsmith might get wealth enough with us better than by the Spanish silver and therefore dismiss Invisible Jack to me and I will set him and Franck Allen up together He might do well to bring his Lievtenant-Colonel along with him for the Sultana Proserpina has a Web for him and is in great distresse for a Weaver Prideaux is the onely favourite of Rhadamanthus I would very gladly hear of some of Harry Martyn's Jocaries for though he was against my Protector-ship yet I love him for his Sales and he shall never loose by coming hither for here is Salt enough I 'le warrant him I want my Ape extremly and therefore give a Commission to Robin Titchburn to come to me presently I cannot stay any longer to insist upon particulars And therefore send me all the Committee-men Excise-men Informers c. who have gotten good estates to bear their charges hither and they shall loose nothing by their coming T is strange I can see nothing in Print surely Hils and Feild are laid aside or else I am sure I should have had somewhat of News by them or Nedham before this time Prethee George send those fellows to me for our Soveraigne is determined to Print his new Translation with the Confession of our Infernal Creed and to have an Apologie for his Government and the Case of his Dominion stated and therefore my old servants will be I know very officious and sedulous in this Employment They shall not need to fear that any one will print their Copy I 'le secure them by my Warrant against all the Stationers in his Majesties name and by his Royal Priviledge and more then this they shall print all our Acts and Ordinances without rendring any accompt Well! George Since it is no better It 's well it 's no worse But I tell thee had I been here still I would have kept my self in the Saddle and not have been so Pusillanimous as my Son But I cannot blame him he broke his Thigh by falling from his hunting-horse and he might very well fear his Neck when he bestrid such an indomitable Beast as Englands great-horse Aúdaces fortuna juvat and degeneres animos timor arguit Monck Had you sir the filial fear of God before your eyes and not the slavish fear of a Tyrant in your heart you would not have perpetrated so many prodigious enormities in subverting the true Religion and Liberty of the Church and State of England What cause had you to take away the lives of sir Henry Slingsby and the eminent Martyr Dr. Hewet with others of Noble and generous blood besides your lawfull Soveraigne Cromw Oh George Reprove me not so bitterly I 'm bad enough already to heare thee mention the name of a God and his fear and his Saints and Martyrs brings horror and despaire into my Conscience and wounds me to the very soule immortally I can stay no longer with thee My Charge requires my Attendance Come Peters follow me and so farewell George Onely be carefull of fulfilling my Requests in sending the severall Persons before-mentioned after me with all speed convenient that they may receive their just Rewards as well as my self Cromwell vanisheth Peters Hee 's gone my Lord And I must follow him onely give me leave to make a true Narration of this Conference Monck The Devill go with him and thee too as I may say Thou art a dissembling Hypocriticall Knave for drawing me into such an Hellish Conference But the Lord deliver me and all honest men from such Devillish Principles and Practice I am resolved to be by Gods grace stedfast in the true Protestant Religion Loyall to my Prince and faithfull to my Countrie And then I doubt not of a due Reward from the eternall King of Glory And so be gone Mr. Peters And betake your self to your Infernall Prelation and Benefice as soon as you will Peters I thank you Sir for your noble dismission and loving well-wishes I 'le follow his Highnesse as fast as I can Exit Luchrymis Finis Funis Funus