Sâ—ymoâ— Sir Thomaâ— Soâ—e Sir William Striâ—klâ—nd â—ir John Temple Sir Thomâ—â— Trever Sir Humph. Tuâ—ton Sir William Waller Thâ—mâ—â— Viscount Wenman Sir Henry Woâ—sly Sir Riâ—hard Wynne Sir John Young In all 64. Esquiers Gâ—ntlemen and Lawyers Johâ— Alford Arthur Ansley Mr. Andrews William Ardington John Arundle Mr. Aâ—cough Francis Bacon Nathaniel Bacon Edward Bainton â—ol John Barker Maurice Barro Mr. Bell James Bence Col. John Birch Edward Bisâ— John Bowyer John Boyes Major Brooks Major General Brown Samuel Brown Serjant at Law Francis Buller John Bunkly Hugh Buscoen Mr. Buâ—ton Mr. Camble William Carrenâ— Col. Ceely Jameâ— Chaloner Mr. Clive Commiss. Copley John Crew Thomas Crompton Mr. Crowder Thomaâ— Dacre John Dormer John Doyle Mr. Drake Robert Ellison Mr. Eriâ—â—y Mr. Evelin Edward Fowel William Foxwiâ—t John Francis James Fyennis Nathaniel Fyennis Samuel Gardiner Francis Gerard Thomas Gewen William Glanâ—il John Glynne Serjant at Law Samuel Gott Thomas Grove Elias Grymes Brampton Gurdon Edward Harby Col. Edward Harley Major Harley John Hatcher John Haâ—don James Herbert John Herbert Mr. Hobby Thomaâ— Hodges Denzel Hollis Franciâ— Hollis George Horner Edmund Hoâ—kinâ— John Hungerford Col Hunt Mr. Jennings William Jones George Keckwich Richard Knighly Col. Lasselâ— Hâ—nry Lâ—urence Col Lee Mr. Lewis Col. Walter Long Mr. Lowâ—y Col. John Loyde Mr. Lucas Mr. Luâ—kin John Mainard Christopher Martin Major Gen. Edward Massey Thomas Middleton Thomaâ— Moorâ— William Morrice George Mountague Mr. Nash James Nelthrop Alderâ—an Nixon Mr. North Col. Norton Mr. Onslow Arthur Owen Henry Oxinden Mr. Packer Mr. Peck Henry Pellam William Peirpoint Jervase Pigot Mr. Potter Mr. Poole Col. Alexander Popham Mr. Povy Mâ— Priâ—ty William Prynne Alexander Pym Charles Pym Mr. Rainscraft Mr. Ratcliffe Charleâ— Richâ— Col. Edward Rossiter Mr. Scowen Mr. Scut Col. Robert Shâ—peot Col. Shuttleworth Mr. Spelman Mr. Springatâ— Henry Stapleton Robert Stanton Edward Stephenâ— John Stephâ—ns Nathaniel Stephens Mr. Stockfield John Swinfen Mr. Temple Mr. Terwit Mr. Thistlethwait Mr. Thomas Isaac Thomas Mr. Thynne Mr. Tâ—lson Jâ—hn Tâ—ever Thomas Twisden Serjeant at Law Mr. Vassal Mr. Vaughaâ— Thomas Waller Mr. West Heâ—ry Weston William Wheeler Col. Whitehead Henry Wilkes Captâ—in Wingate Mr. Winwood Thomas Wogan Mr. Wray Richard Wynne The Total Number 203. besides the House of Lords An Alphâ—betical List of all Members of the late dissolved Iuncto JAmes Ash Alderman Atkins William Ayre Mr. Baker Col. Bennet Col. Bingham Daniel Blagrave Mr. Brâ—wster Williâ—m Cawly Thomas Chaloner Mr. Cecil the self-degraded Earl of Saliâ—bury Robert Cecil his son John Corbet Henry Darley Richard Darley Mr. Dixwell John Dove Mr. Downeâ— Serj. Earl Will Ellys Mr. Feilder Mr. Fell Col. Charls Fleetwood Augustin Garland Mr. Gold John Goodwin Robert Goodwin John Gâ—rdon Mr. Hâ—llowes Sir James Hâ—rrington Col. Harvy Sir Arthur Hasilrig Mr. Hayes Mr. Herbert the self-degraded Earl of Pembrook Roger Hill Cornelius Holland Col. hutâ—hiâ—Hutâ—hiâ—son Col. Ingolâ—by Philip Jones Mr. Leachmore William Lenthall Speaker John Lenthall his son John Lisle Philip Viscont Lisle Thomas Lister Nicholas Love Col. Ludlow Henry Martyn a prisoner in execution Mr. Mayne Sir Henry Mildmay Gilbert Millington Col. Herbert Morley Lord Viscont Munson a prisoner in execution Henry Nevil Robert Nicholas Michael Oldsworth Dr. Palmer Alderman Pennington Sir Gilbert Piâ—kering John Pine Edmond Prideaux William Puresoy Thomas Pury Robert Reynolds Col. Rich Luke Robinsoâ— Oliver Saint-John Major Saloway Mr. Say Thomas Scot Major General Skippon Augustin Skinner Mr. Smith Walter Strickland Col. Sydenham James Temple Col. Temple Col. Thompson Serjant Thorpe John Trencher Sir John Trevor Sir Henry Vane Col. Waite Mr. Wallop Sir Thomas Walsingâ—am Col. Walton Sir Peter Wentworth Edmond Weaver Mr. White Serjeant Wilde Sir Thomas Witherington Sir Thomas Wroth. The totall Sum 92. Note That of these Members whereof two are since dead there entred only 42. into the House at first that the rest came in to them by degrees either to keep their old preferments gain new or regain the places they had formerly lost â—specially the Lawyers who notwithstanding their former complyances are turned quite out of Office and dis-Judged that 10. or more of them came in by New Writs issued in the Name of the Keepers of the Liberties of England after the Kings behâ—ading and were no Members of the long Parliament That there were never 60. of them together in the House at once whiles they sate and but 57. on the 11. and 12. of October last upon the great debate between them and the Army Officers And some that sate formerly with them as the Lord Fairfax John â—ary and others refused to sit with them now as having not the least colour of Law to sit or act as a Parliament Yea their Speaker Mr. Lenthal told the Officers of the Army and Members who came to invite him to sit again May 6. That he had a Soul to save and that he was not satisfied in point of Law conscience or prudence that they could sit again Bâ—t at last when he considered he had an estate to â—ave as he told another Friend that over-ballanced all his former Objections and made him and other Mâ—mbers act against their judgements consciences and to forgâ—t our Savioâ—rs sad Qâ—aeres Mat. 16.26 What is a man profited if he should gain the whole world and lose his own Soul Oâ— what shall a man give in exchange for his soul With that of Jer. 5.29.31 Shall I not visit for these things Shall not my soul be avenged on such a Nation as this And what will ye do in the end thereof To fill up the Vacant Pages of this sheet I shall propose 7. Quaeres more to this late dissipated Rump to which I expect their satisfactory Answer ere they presume to sit again as many of them endeavour 1. Whether they could with any colour of Law truth reason justice coâ—scienâ—e heretofore or can hereafter by virtue of their first Writs and Electioâ—s intitle themselves The Parliament of the Commonwealth of England Scotland Ireland when by their Writs Elections and Indentures by which they pretended to sit they were only a small inconsiderable Fragment of the Parliament of the late King and Realm of England but never of the Realm of Scotland or Ireland which have their * distinct Parliaments from England and no legal Parliament of England Scotland or Ireland ever hitherto was or can be held without a King and House of Lords and a full House of Commons of which they are not the fift part 2. Whether those Interloping Members Elected since the Kings beheading and old Parliaments dissolution by his death by Writs only in the name of the Gaolers of the Liberties of England can fit act or joyne with the Tayl of the old Commons House elected only by the beheaded Kings Writs and so owning his Royal Authority in Deeds though abjuring it Kingship by their Declarations Votes Knacks Ingagements and new-coined Oathes Whether such a strange model as this be not a Violation of Deut. 22.9 10 11.
all rules of Law and Christianitie kept a publike humiliation for their good successe against Sir George Booth and his adherents and after their defeat a publike thanksgiving through Westminster and London to mock God himself * who will not be mocked to his very face and ordained a publike thansgiving throughout the whole Nation to abuse both God and them for their Great Deliverance from the most Dangerous Plot and Treason of Sir George Booth and his party to bring in all the old Members to sit with them without turning those then sitting out or to procure a free Parliament that so their Anti-Parliamentary Conventicle by this pretext might exercise a Perpetual Tyrannie and Parliamental Authority over them and none thenceforth dare demand a full and free Parliament for the future under pain of highest Treason Apostacie and the losse of their very Heads and estates Whether all these their transcendent High Treasons with their former 1648. against the K. secluded Members Lords Parliament people were not by a most signal miraculous Providence and Justice of God himself recompenced immediately after upon their own Lamberâ—s and other Armie-Officers headâ— by making their rouâ—iing of Sir George Booth and his party after their first thanksgiving for it before the next day of general thanksgiving came the very occasion of their sudden unexpected dissolution 1. By over-elevating Lamberts his Officers and Brigades Spirits notwithstanding the signal Marks and Rewards of their Favours towards them for the present and future promises of advancement for their Fidelity to them in this Service to enter into contestations with them by their Petition and Representations 2ly By raising the differences and jealousies between them to such a height and open enmitie notwithstanding all their large Votes compliances to satisfie them all means mediations of Friends and the Londoners publike Feast on their thanksgiving day to reconcile them as to incense the Juncto to vote Major Harrison a chief agent Chairman for the old Members first seclusion uncapable of any publike Trust or Office a to vote Lambert Disbrow Creed and 6. more field Officers out of their commands null their Commissions and dispose of their Regiments to the next Officers without any hearing or examination if not threatning to commit Lambert to the Tower as a Traytor to repeal Fleetwoods Commission and Knack to be Lieutenant General of their Forces in England and Scotland and put the command of the Army and new Militia under 7. Commissioners to wrest the power of them both into their own hands 3ly By exasperating Lambert and his confederates by these Votes so far against them giving them such favour with the Armie as to draw up the greatest part of the forces about London in battel array against them and notwithstanding their partie in the Armie whereof they had made many of themselves Colonels their interest in the Militia of Westminster London Southwark and Sir Henry Vanes two Regiments of Gathered Churches who were disgregated and kept their Chambers all that day not one of them appearing in the field because their valiant Collonel took a Clyster pipe into his fundament instead of a Lance into his hand in the day of battel and durst not hazard a broken pate in the quarrel and then in a hostile warlike manner to besiege many of them in Whitehall block up all passages to the House seise upon their old Speaker with his Coach Mace and new General without a Sword Armie Troop or Company from whose hands they had freshly received their Commissions turning him back from whence he came to charm all the Junctoes forces so as to march away without drawing one sword or shooting one bullet in their defence so true faithful were they to their good old cause as well as to their New Protectors as to deem neither of them worth one bloodie nose 4. By engaging Lamberâ— and his party notwithstanding all endeavoured and seeming accommodations beâ—ween them to seise upon their House and their provisions of ammunition and victuals in it to lock up the doors and keep constant Guards upon the stairs to seclude all these their new Lords and Masters as they did on May 7 9. afterwards seclude their fellow-Members and not content herewith by a printed Plea for the Army and Declaration of the Geâ—eral Council of the Army sitting at Wallingford House which called them in and thus shamefully not long after turned them out of doors usurping to themselves both a Regal Authority to call and dissolve Parliaments as they â—epute and stile them and a Parliamental too in making and repealing Acts of Parliament as they deem them at their pleasure they not only justiâ—ie this their forcible ejectment seclusion to all the world by Lex talionis even their own abetting approving justifying the Armies former seclusion of the Major part of theiâ— fellow Members who were the House and the whole House of Lords and securing the leading Members when over powred by them and appealing to the Armies Judgements therein but also put a period to their Assemblie branded â—â—lled repealed declared their last Votes Actsâ— Proceedings void to all intents purposes whatsoever â—s if they had never been made Censured them as imperfect ineffectual irregular â—nparliamentary illegal pernicious râ—sh inconsiderate branding each other in several printed Papers for Traytors Trust-breakers Treacherous Perfidious Fâ—ithless Vurighteous Ambitious Self-seeking usurpers of the Soverain power Opprâ—ssors of the free people of England invaders betrayers of their Liberties Birthrights theâ—eby declaring the old secluded Member the only honest faithful constant consciencious men adhering to their good old â—ause Oaths Covenant Principles and the publique interest Sir George Booth himself to be No Traytor but truer Patriot of his Country than any of themselveâ— as dying Pureâ—oy openly acknowledged before his death and others of them confesse in private since even Lambert himself hath done and exceeded that work they feared he would doe by dissolving their Conventicle and turning them out of house and power which Sir George did not design Whether all these strange unparalleld sudden unexpected animosities divisions between themselves their uncommissioning dissolving cashiering disofficing one another which I truly predicted to them from Scriptures and former Providences in my Good Old Cause truly stated my True and Perfect Narrative p. 94.98 and Vindication of the old and new secluded Members p. 61 62. be not the very finger of God himself a the Lords own doing truly marvellous in all our eyes yea the very particular Judgement menaced by God himself against all such Traitors and Innovators as most audaciously and professedly violate with the highest hand this divine precept Prov. 24 21â— 22. My Son fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with those that are given to change for their Calamity shall suddenly arise and who knoweth the ruine of them both and a verification of Prov. 29.1 If not a divine infliction of the very
with monies and upon his Account as a Freer had a very good intertainment in the Monastery at Angiers by the Freers thereof During his stay there they had much discourse with him He told them he had been formerly a Student in Kings College in Cambridge after that at Salamanoa in Spain for 8. years Being demanded by them Whether there were not many Iesuites and Freers then in England He assured them upon his own knowledge they had then above five hundred Iesuites in London and the Suburbs and that they had at least four or five Iesuites and Popish Priests in and about London to every Minister we had there Whereupon they demanding of him How so many Iesuites and Priests were there maintained He answered That the Iesuites and every Order of Fréers had their several Treasurers in London who by Orders from their Provincials furnished them with what ever Monies they wanted by Bills of Exchange returned to them That all the Iesuites and Priests in England were maintained according to their respective qualities A Lords Son like a Lord and a Knights Son like a Knight and if they chanced to meet him in London at their return though he were now in a poor weed they should find him in Scarlet or Plush a better equipage than what he was in He would not discover his true name to them but upon discourse on a sudden he mentioned His Cozen Howard in England which made them suspect he was of that family He told them further that though we were very cunning in England yet the Iesuites and Priests there were too crafty for us lurking under so many disguises that they could hardly be discovered That there was but one way to detect them which they being inquisitive to know He said it was for those who suspected them to be Priests to feign themselves Roman Catholicks and upon that account to desire the Sacrament from them which they could not deny to give them after Confession to them being bound thereto by Oath by which means some of them had been betrayed He further informed them That himself had been at all the several Gathered Churches Congregations Sects in London and that none of them came so near the * Papists in their Opinions and Tenents as the Quakers among whom himself had spoken This relation one of the Gentlemen a person of honor and reputation the other being dead hath lately made to me three several times with his own mouth and will attest it for truth having related it to sundry others since his return into England Which considered Whether it be not the very High-way to our Churches Religions Ministers Nations ruine and destruction to list so many Quakers Anabaptists Sectaries in the Army and New Militiaes in most Counties where they bear the greatest sway and to disarm the Presbyterians and Orthodox Protestants as the only dangerous persons and put all their arms into Quakers Anabaptists and Sectaries hands headed steered by Iesuits Popish Priests and Freers as they have done in Glocester Colchester Cheshire Lancashire and endeavour to doe in other parts to cut all true Protestants throats and set up Popery by the Army which hath so much advanced it of late years before we are aware Let all true zealous Protestants in London and else where timely seriously consider and endeavour speedily to prevent and the Council of Army-Officers with their new Commitâ— of Safety too if they have any care of their Native Country or Protestant Religion before it be over-late Whether we may not justly fear that God himself in his retaliating Justice for the Iunctoes and Armies unparalleld Exile of their Protestant King and Royal posterity into Popish Territories and yet permitting such swarms of Jesuits Monks and Romish Vermin to creep in and reside amongst us may not give up the dissolved Juncto Army Council of Officers Soldiers and their posterities with our whole three Nations as a prey and spoil to these seducing dividing ravening all-devouring Wolves yea to the combined forces of our Spanish and French Popish adversaries to the utter desolation extirpation ruine of our Protestant Religion in the midst of our present divisions and distractions under a just pretext of restoring the exiled Royal issue to their hereditary rights and avenging the manifold indignities to them and their relations unless timely and wisely prevented by a prudent voluntary closing with loyal christian restoring them by common consent our selves in a full and free Parl. upon just safe honourable terms becoming us both as Men Christians Professors of the Reformed Religion And whether we be not ripe for such a universal desolating judgement as this if we consider Is. 24.16 17 18. c. 33.1 2. c. 59.1 to 19. 2 Chr. 3.6.15 to 21. Mich. 2.2 3 4 5. Ezech. 35.14 15. Joel 3.6 7 8. or the late and present sufferings of most other Protestant Churches abroad not half so Treacherous Perfidious Wicked Execrable as we who are now become the very Monsters of Men the scandal shame reproach of Christianity and humanity in the repute of all the world Whether the Iuncto and Army-Officers who have like the a Hypocritical Israelites very frequently ordered celebrated many Hypocritical irreligious Mock-facts from time to time to fast for strife and debate and to smite with the fist of wickednesse never yet observing practising that fast which God himself requireth to loose the bands of wickednesse to undo the heavy burthens to let the oppressed go free to break every yoke to deal their bread to the hungry to bring the poor exiled Protestant Royal issue and their English followers that are cast out by them to their Houses to cover the naked and not hide their selves from their own flesh who have hitherto made their publike and private dayes of Humiliation a constant Prologue to their ambition pride b and rebellious self-exaltation their dayes of praying to God a preface to their preying upon their brethren their seeking of God for direction and assistance in their designs a means to colour and promote the very c works of their father the devil their pretended following the secret impulses of the spirit of God the solâ— justification of d walking according to the Prince of the air the spirit that now worketh in the Children of disobedience their making taking of solemn Oathes Vowes Protestations Covenants Engagements to be true faithfull oonstant loyal obedient to their Lawfull Kings their heirs successors superiors the Privileges Rights of Parliament our Fundamental Laws Liberties Religion c. a meer engin and diabolical stratagem more cunningly boldly audaciously perfidiously to betray undermine supplant subveâ—t them have not now just cause upon consideration of Isaiah 1.2 to 17. and chap. 58. to keep many publike private Fasts and dayes of Humiliation to confesse bewaile repent renounce and reform these their transcendent-crying wrath-provoking sins and abominations together with their e building up of Zion their New Republike Free-state