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
to have murthered himselfe his Body was according to Law drawn to the open place upon Tower-Hill at a Horses Taile with his head forward and there under the Scaffold of Common execution a Hole being digg'd he was turned in Starke naked and a Stake spiked with Iron was driven through him into the earth That part of the stake which remaines above ground being all plated with Iron which may stand as an example of terror to all Traytors for the time to come A narrative touching Col. Edward Sexby who lately dyed a Prisoner in the Tower Tower of London Jan. 20. COl Edward Sexby was by Warrant dated the 24 of July 1657. committed to the Tower of London close Prisoner for High Treason who within Ten dayes after he came in thither fell sick of an Ague and a Vomiting conceived to be the new disease then predominant which turned into a Feaverish distemper in which sicknesse he continued about nine weeks the strength thereof being so great that it brought him into many distracted fits for a great part of that time in which condition he would Cry out often That he was damned and in Hell and utter such like Expressions and his usuall answer to them that spake any thing to him was That it was a Lye yet notwithstanding lie was under that condition of 〈◊〉 he had some-intervalls wherein he spake very rationally 〈◊〉 severall times when he thought himselfe in a Condition like to dye he would send for the Lievtenant of the Tower with all speed and sometimes late in the Night season causing him to be called out of his Bed affirming that he had somthing of secrecy to reveale unto him in reference to the State and Commonwealth before his death But when the said Lievtenant of the Tower was come to him and that he found his fainting Qualms over and that he was a little better he would fall into other discourse and say The Devill would not let him speak out the Truth nor let him reveale any thing although he had before resolved to it and had much to speake to by way of Discovery yet one day viz. the 12. of October 1657. being well come to himself and having sent for the Lievtenant he was so ingenious as to confesse in part saying unto him Sir John I sent to you to tell you that I am guilty of the whole buisiness of Sindercomb as to the design of killing the Lord Protector c. and to that purpose I furnished Sindercomb with about 500 l. in Money and also with Arms and tyed him to an Engagement that he should not reveale the design And further he said The Letters they have of mine they could not prove them to be mine but by my own confession which I now confesse and acknowledge that they are mine and that I was with Charls Stuart and acquainted him that I was an Enemy to the Lord Protector and I also declare that I received a large sum of Mony from the Spaniard to carry on my said design and to make what confusion I could in England by endeavouring the Klling of the Lord Protector and by what other wayes I had in design and to the end the better to effect it I came into England in a disguised habit and was the principal in putting on others in the said design Many other like passages were spoken by him in presence of many credible witnesses and within two dayes after in the presence of Mr. Caril Minister and others he did acknowledg the former confession to be truth but said it was indiscreetly done of him to acknowledge the letters which they had of his at Whitehall to be his own seeing they could not otherwise prove it and before he had again seen and viewed them And then he again confessed That he was the only man that put on Sindercomb to kill the Lord Protector and that the Book called Killing no Murder he owned and said he was 〈◊〉 of that judgment yet said it was both foolishly and knavishly done in that book to charge the Lievtenant of the Tower touching Sindercombs death With severall other passages which for brevity sake are omitted As to his condition in his sicknesses He falling sick as is before mentioned sent for his own Physitian which was of his acquaintance viz. Doctor Brook who finding him under a Feverish distemper caused him to be let blood and blistered by attractive Medicines laid to his Feet and Arms to draw forth the malignity and he was thereby reasonable well recovered again But not observing his Doctors directions And although his Physitians and Nurses and all people that were held conduceable to his accommodations in all his sicknesses from first to last were made choice of by him and his wife and other relations Yet as to his Diet he wilfully humored and pleased his own appetite whereby he fell into a relapse which brought him into the height of madnesse for a time But after a while by following his doctors prescription he was recovered out of that distracted condition by application of Medicines only he continued disconverted in minde and used many subtil shifts and wiles to have the Guards taken from him and was somthing perplexed because he could not effect it although he was in a great measure recovered from his bodily weaknesse for some season till about the last of December that he complained of something rising in his throat and had stoppages that he could scarce breath and feared an Imposthume to be gathered in his throat and broken and that he should not have strength to bring it up His Wife then sent for a Woman to wash and cleanse his throat but his distemper increasing and coming up to the height of a malignant Fever Doctor Brook his former Physitian was sent for who when he came to him upon the fourth of January instant found him in great sweats and his throat sore and inflamed and that he was in a high Fever having red spots or Pustules with white watery wheyish matter in them like the Chicken Fox upon his Brest Neck and Arms All which the said Doctor judged to come from the putrefaction of his humors heightned by the violence of his former madnesse The Lievtenant of the Tower being made acquainted in what a dangerous condition he was ordered another Doctor and a Chirurgion to be sent for to view him and to advise with Doctor Brooke what they judged of him and what was best to apply to him who judged that he was in a very weak condition and that it did arise from the Malignity of his Disease as aforesaid in a way of naturall causes in which weak condition he continued a day or two more under violent inflamations and Sweatings which so weakened him that by reason thereof upon Wednesday morning the 13 of this instant January having said Lord have mercy upon me I am very sick about five of the clock he breathed out his last and died after which his wife desired his
inheritance XIIII The King of Denmark is to restore also to the King of Sweden all such places he took from him in this War and the three ships taken from the Swedish in the Sound are to be prized and the value thereof is to be restored to the Crown of Sweden XV The King of Denmarke is to resign to the King of Sweden all the claims which he pretends to any place in the Island Rugen XVI The King of Denmark is to be reconciled with the Duke of Hostein upon such tearmes as may stand with justice and equity and make an agreement answerably XVII The Forts and castles taken by either party are to be restored but not any Artillery and Amunition and the Subjects of Denmarke are to carry the Swedish Artillery to such places as the King of Sweden shall appoint XVIII Count Vlefield is to be restored to his goods and all his Revenues and charges shall be paid back from that time as the Commissioners shall determine His Lady and Mother in Law shall have liberty to dwell in Denmark where they please the Fees which he and his Son had as Hursholm Moene Hellingen and St Johns Cloyster he is to enjoy again according to the priviledge which they had there and his Lady also is to be restored to her due title of Honor XIX The published Minifestor of the King of Denmark is to be revoked and neither printed nor sold any more XX The King of Denmark is to let the King of Sweden have 2000 Horse and 2000 Foot Whitehall March 12. This afternoon the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common-Councill of the City of London came hither in a Body to attend his Highnesse as also the Commanders and Officers of the Army And being admitted to his presence his Highnesse was pleased in a Speech at large to represent unto them the danger wherein they of the whole City and the whole Nation were involved at present by reason of the new designes of the old Enemy Charls Stuart and his confederates abroad and his party here at home who have been at work secretly to imbroil the nation again in Blood as soon as he should be able to make his intended invasion His Highness also told them that he knew this to be true That he knew it by Letters of theirs intercepted by certain intelligence from abroad of their proceedings and by information from the mouths of such persons as had been engaged to act with them He acquainted them likewise that the Lord of Ormond whom some now call the Duke of Ormond in person had been lately here for three weekes together being come over on purpose to promote the design by encouraging and engaging as many as he could in and about this City and that he went away again on Tuesday last Also in order to this invasion Charls Stuart was waiting in Flanders having about eight thousand Men quartered in severall places near the water side as at Brugges Brussells Ostend c. And that two and twenty hired Ships were in readinesse to transport them waiting only for the opportunity of some darke night to slip by our Fleet which they may the more easily perform ours being ships of great burthen drawing much water and so not able to ride upon the Flats And therefore seeing a reall danger so near at hand and that the peace and safety of the City and the whole Nation is Highly concerned in it he desired the Citizens might be sensible of it and how much it behoves them to provide for their own and the Nations security And to that end his Highnesse recommended to the Lord Major and the Body of the City the setling of their Militia and that it might be setled in the hands of Pious and sober men well affected to the present Government and such as are free from discontent and faction persons that may carry on the worke with alacrity and discretion to put the City in a posture of defence that they may be in a condition to suppresse tumults and insurrections designed by the Enemies of our Peace and Prosperity Many other particulars his Highnesse insided on to give them an account of the present state of affairs and of divers past transactions but having no notes to help my memory and being afraid lest I may already have faln short in relating the Heads of what was more copiously and much better spoken I have only this to adde That the citizens expressed much cheerfulnesse in the presence of his Highnesse and departed with very great satisfaction Whitehall March 27. These following persons having been lately presented from the City to his Highnesse and the Councill to be added to the Committee of the Militia in London they are accordingly approved Sir Thomas Foot Knight William Thomson Walter Bigge Iohn Frederick Tempest Milner Thomas Chaundler Aldermen Charls Lloyd Therphilus Biddulph William Gower Esquires Mr. Maurice Gethin Mr. Thomas Steynes Mr. Iames Edwards This day a Presentation was made of the following Addresses to his Highness and it was presented by the hand of the noble Lord the Lord Charls Fleetwood attended by the Officers of the Army To his Highnesse the Lord Protector of the Common wealth of England Scotland and Ireland c. The Humble Addresse of the Officers of your Highnesse Army WE being deeply sensible of the continuall dangers from the common enemy that have attended your Highness person and of the immense weight of businesse for the good of the Nation that hath lain and still lieth upon you together with the great opposition from severall sorts of enemies that you have met with ever since you were pleased to undertake the Government for the procuring the quiet and promoting the prosperity of this Common-wealth do judge it our duty to contribute as much as in us lyeth to strengthen your Highnesse hands and obviate the designes of your enemies And therefore do as one Man with plainnesse and sincerity of heart declare unto your Highnesse That notwithstanding the base Calumnies and Lies your and our enemies have cast upon us and dispersed throughout the whole Nation That your Army is divided and much of it from your self We doe remain through the mercy of God firmly united one to another and all of us to your Highnesse as our Generall and Chief Magistrate and hope that God hath so in love and faithfulness cemented us together as that neither the subtilty of Satan nor the malice of crafty and ill-affected men shall be able to severe us And we make it our earnest and humble request to your Highnesse That as a mighty man strengthned by the Lord you will run and not be weary in that race God hath set you in till it please the Lord you have setled the great ends of all our former engagements our civill and spirituall liberty which we hope is already in a good measure well provided for by The Humble Petition and advice And in all your actings tending thereunto We doe freely and heartily engage
slighted and did not follow that Repentance that I promised Therefore I desire all protestants to leave off their sins for Christ his sake and become new men for it is that that brings all men to ruine I beseech God of mercy have mercy upon my soule Lord God I come to thee Lord the Father of heaven have mercy upon me O God the Son Redeemer of the World have mercy upon me O God the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son have mercy upon me Remember not my offences but spare me good Lord God I beseech thee spare thy servant whom thou hast redeemed for thy dear Sons sake I have no more to say but desire the prayers of all good people Doctor One word remember that saying of the Psalmist Thou shalt answer for me O Lord Ashton The Executioner asking him if he had any more to say he answered No But concluded thus I commit my spirit into thy hands O God the Lord have mercy upon my soul Which being said the Executioner turned him off the Ladder and afterwards being cut down he ripped up his belâ—y tooke out the bowels and burnt them in a fire ready prepared upon the place Then his head was cut off and his body divided into four Quarters Execution being done upon Colonel Ashton and his Quarters conveyed away in a Basket upon a Cart to Newgate The Sheriffs officers went to the Tower to fetch John Betteley to his Execution who was likewise drawn upon the same sled into Cheapside where formerly the Crosse stood where was likewise a Gibbet crected The manner of the execution of John Betteley in Cheapside Being come to the Gibbet on a Sled with a Minister the Minister read and the people sung with him a Psalm beginning thus O Lord consider my distress c Betteley I trust in him that he will certainly save me Then he went up the Ladder His confession followeth LOrd receive my Soul and be mercifull to me I commit my Soule into Almighty Gods hands for he is my Protector and Redeemer I am not ashamed to live nor afraid to dye for my conversation hath been such in Christ Jesus I hope I shall find mercy As concerning them that are my enemies I pray God forgive them their sins I freely forgive them all that have done me wrong As for the late Plot I was never but once in company with them concerned therein I did know of such a thing but deny that I acted therein Shall I damne my soule at this instant I will speake the truth I doe acknowledge I offended God in it and wronged this Nation in hearing it and not discovering it One Brandon that was one of them drew me into the businesse and his man I carrying worke to him could not refraine his house he so often inticed me thereto and would not let me alone till he had got me into a house where we dranke together I have no more to say as to the plot but desire mercy from God Having thus done the Executioner turned him off and the rest of the Sentence was executed upon him as before upon Col. Ashton and his Head and Quarters were conveyed also to Newgate As for the third man Fryer who was to have been executed this day in Smithfield he was drawn on a Sled also from the Tower in the afternoone to Smithfield where after he had performed his Devotions being upon the ladder and the Executioner ready to turn him off a Reprieve came and he was carried back againe to the Tower by the Officers in a Coach Articles of surrender of Dunkerke June 20. 1658. 1. That the Town should be yeelded up with all their great guns their stores of victual Magazins of arms and ammunition without any imbesilment 2. That all Officers and Soldiers should have liberty to march out with their Arms Drums beating Colours flying two pieces of Ordnance and their baggage 3. That they should have the liberty to march with a convoy to conduct them to St. Omers 4. That the inhabitants should remain indemnified in their persons goods enjoying their former custome priviledges for 2 years not be molested touching the exercise of their Religion Hereubon they accordingly marched out on Tuesday the 25 instant being 1000 horse and foot and 700 more that were wounded men and at the same time the besiegers entred into the Town the King himselfe also in person with the Cardinal and the Lord General Lockhart And his Majesty desirous to give due testimonyes of reall friendship and good correspondence with England put the Town into the possession of my Lord Lockhart on the behalfe of his highnesse the Protector our English being entred in here for that purpose and more we expect for the preserving it in our hands This wilâ— we suppose be acceptable news to the Merchants who have formerly suffered so much by this place the obtaining whereof must be attributed next under God to the prudence of his highnesse and to that happy successe wherewith it pleaseth the most High to follow him in all his enterprizes and Actions whereas on the otherside it is observed that nothing but mischiefe and misfortune hath accompanyed the Spaniard in this Country ever since he gave entertainment to and joyned Interest with that Family which hath a fate entailed upon it sufficient to sinke whole Kingdomes as hitherto it hath done and ruined likewise all its particular followers and partakers Which was also most observable even in the late victory wherein the deadliest storm fell upon the Regiment of Charls and his Brother so that very few or none of them escaped with their lives The French Army is since marched to Bergen but what they have done or will doe there we yet here not The Spaniard left behind in this Town about one hundred and forty great guns all brasse except 7 or 8 An Oath to be administred to the Inhabitants of Dunkirke was passed by the Councill being as followeth vix I. A. B. Do in the presence and by the name of Almighty God promise and sweare that from hence forth I shall beare faith and true Allegiance and shall be true and faithfull unto Oliver now Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging and his Successors as chiefe Magistrate thereof and shall not design Contrive or Attempt any thing against the person or Authority of the Lord Protector or against the safety just defence or necessary preservation of this Town or place of Dunkirk in and for its safety defence and preservation under the Government of the Lord Protector and his successors against all Conspiracies and attempts whatsoever and will doe my best endeavor to make known and disclose unto the Protector and his successors or the Commander in chiefe in this place under his said Highnesse for the time being all Treasons and Traiterous Conspiracies which I shall know or hear of to be against his Person or Authority or against the safety of this Town or place of Dunkirke or for the betraying of it into the hands of any other persons or that tends to the withdrawing of any the persons or people in it from their fidelity to the Lord Protector or to his Government FINIS Oliver Cromwell L. Ptor. of Engd: Scotd: and Ierld: borne at Huntington of the name of Williams of Glamorgan and by K H 8. changed into Cromwell was educated in Cambridge afterward of Lincons Inn at the begining of the Warres Cp of a Troop of Horse raised at his owne charge and by the Parlimt: made ComÌ„ander in cheefe reduced Ierld: and South wales overthrew Dâ— Hambletons Army the Kerkes Army at Dunbar reduced all Scotland defeted ch Stewards Army at Woster he had two Sons Ld Richard Protector in his fathers roome Ld Henery now Ld Debty of Ierld: and 4 Daughters Ly. Bridget first married L: Ierton afterward Lt. C: Fleetâ—â—od Ly: Elizabeth married L: Clapole Ly: Mary married Ld: Vicount Fauconbrige Ly: Francis married the Rt. Hoble. Rob: Rich Granchild to the Hoble. E: of Warwick was declared L Ptr: of End Scd. and Ird. 16 of Decemb: 1653. died 3. Sep 1658. after 14. dayes sicknesse of an agew with great assurance and serenitie of minde peaceabley in his bed Natus 15. Ap 1599. Dunkerke in Flanders surrendred to him 20th of Iune 1658. * It was the first day of the Parliament This Sundercomb had engaged to kill Generall Monk in Scotland and would have engaged the said Mr. Cecil therein also * Hilton deposed fully concerning the Viol case and Trunk of Arms