Joyce Cornet seizes the King at Holmby with the Commissioners that attended him 97. Order'd to seize the Magazine at Oxford 98. Ireland not to be reliev'd while the Army was kept up here 72. Relief voted them by the Parliament 74. About 2000 willing to go the rest hinder it all they can 76. Such as were willing to relieve it voted Deserters by the Army 115. who require they should be discharg'd tho order'd thither by the Parliament 121. Ireton keeps from the Army to give them opportunity to do their Mischief 84. Lenthal Speaker of the Commons his good Places c. 133. Forsakes the House and joins with the Army 146 147. Is put into his Place again by Fairfax 164. Lesley his Service at Marstonmoor 15. Lewis Sir William Governour of Portsmouth his fair Accounts c. 138 139 175. Lilburn against the eleven Members 141. London for the Parliament and against the Army c. 106. Resent the Parliament's altering their Militia by the Influence of the Army 143 c. Alarm'd by the Army 160. Lords several forsake the House and join with the Army 146 147. The House chuse a new Speaker on the other's leaving ' em 155. Outdo the Commons in Honour of Sir Tho. Fairfax 169. Their Vote concerning what was acted by the Houses when forsaken by their Speakers disagreed to by the Commons 170. Seven of 'em impeach'd of High Treason by the Army 173 191. Are set at liberty 192. M. MAnchester Earl his Charge against Cromwel 18 19 28. Laid aside by the Army 30. Is Speaker of the House of Lords whom he forsakes and joins the Army 146 147. Is put into his Place again by Sir Tho. Fairfax 164. Marshal Chaplain to Skippon too instrumental in the Evils of this Kingdom 107 143. Preaches before the Parliament and extols Sir Tho. Fairfax's Expedition c. 168. Marstonmoor Fight had not been obtain'd but for the Scots 15. Massey Captain stops an Express sending to Scotland committed by the Lords for it but set at liberty 55 56. Massey Major General his Brigade cashier'd tho it had done the greatest Service in the West 70. Is one of the Committee at Derby-house 75. Is made Lieutenant General of the Horse in Ireland 82. Forsaken by the City 163. Maynard Sir John one of the eleven Members tho nothing against him 115. Expel'd the House and sent to the Tower 173. Members of Parliament what their Design in taking up Arms. 4. Are misrepresented by the Army 38. Some of 'em discover the Designs of the Army against the Scots 53. Mildmay Sir Henry has Letters sent him against the Scots 52. Model of the Army c. 30. N. NEwcastle Propositions sent to the King there gave occasion to the Army Party to review 'em all c. 57. Nicklis Mr. the Lawyer concern'd in the Committee of Sequestrations 129. Noel Mr. sent with a Message from the Parliament to the Army 162. North of England suffers by the Scots Army thro the Practice of the Army Party here 49 50. Nye Mr. preaches a Thanksgiving-Sermon before the Commons on Sir Tho. Fairfax's coming to London 168. O. OXford Magazine there kept by the Army from the Parliament 98. P. PAlmer Mr. Herbert influenc'd by Marshal 160. Parliament vote the disbanding of the Army 74. Send for some Officers that had promoted the Petition against it 79. Their Clemency to 'em ill requited 80. Settle the Arrears of the Army 81. Make Sir Tho. Fairfax General of all their Forces ibid. Order the Officers down to the Army but to their own Ruin 90. Too favourable to the Army 92. Appoint a Rendevouz for the Foot in order to disband 93. About to take a severe Course with the Army Party but prevented by Skippon 104. Forc'd to comply with the Army 107 111 116. Resolve to defend themselves and the City against the Army 109 159. Vote the King to Richmond 117 158. Made a mere Cypher by the Army 142 c. Indeavour to prevent Extremities 162. Their Case stated as to the Force put upon 'em and being deserted by their Speaker 165 167. Appoint a Committee to inquire concerning that Force 169. Disagree with the Lords about what the Houses had done when forsaken by their Speakers 170. Afterwards forc'd to comply 173. Constrain'd to act against it self by refusing to make any further Address to the King c. 200. Pelham Mr. Henry chose Speaker of the Commons in the room of Lenthal 156. Pennington Alderman of London favour'd and rewarded by the Army Party 132 133. Petitions from an Army to their Superiors when requir'd to do Service always deem'd a Mutiny 77. Pointz Colonel his Care and Vigilance to prevent the Mischiefs design'd by the Army Party in the North for which he was put out of command 61. Taken by Violence out of his House by the Agitators ibid. Inhumanly treated by ' em 62. Pride Colonel his Equivocation at the Bar of the House about petitioning against disbanding 80. Prideaux Mr. of the Army Party made himself Postmaster of England 133. R. RAbble threaten the House of Commons to cause 'em to pass several Votes 145. Rainsborough Colonel his Regiment refuses to march for Jersey which he connives at yet afterwards made Vice-Admiral 95 96. Riot in Yorkshire 48. Rushworth Secretary to Sir Tho. Fairfax his acting against the eleven Members 126. His Letter to the Speaker against appearing at the House 147. Signs Proposals to the Parliament concerning a new Form of Government 176. S. SAint John Mr. Oliver his Character his underhand Letter to the Committee of Hertfordshire c. 32. His violent and bloody Nature 33. Breaks his Protestation as to Cromwel's being dispens'd with from the self-denying Ordinance 36. His Places of Profit c. 133. Salloway Mr. one of the Committee at Derby-house 75. Savil Lord an Impostor 38. Writes Letters to several Great Men against the Parliament 39. Say Lord rewarded by the Army Party 136. Scawen Mr. brings a sad account of the temper of the Army 108. His Pension 137. Concern'd in conveying away a great Sum order'd for the Army 161. Scots propos'd to be call'd in but obstructed by the Malignants their Character 11 13. After call'd in 12. Made use of only for a pinch 13. Impos'd on by the Malignants 14. Discover the good Intentions of the honest Party in England 20 21. Are represented as having a design to make good their footing here 44. Their Army ill requited 46 65. Are vindicated as to raising of Money in the North on Free Quarter 48. Their Pay kept back 51. Their Ministers of State suspected by the Army Party here to hold Correspondences with the Queen c. 51 52. Their Papers in the House of Commons here not answer'd 53. Their Piety Moderation c. 59. Had no ground to disband their Army unless the English did 63 64. Have a great Sum voted 'em tho with great opposition 66. Deliver up the King to the English 68. Whereby they gain Reputation 69. Are laid aside in the Army's Address to the King at the Isle of Wight 189. Self-denying Ordinance 30. Sequestrations c. 8. Skippon Major General made Commander in chief in Ireland 82. Instrumental in betraying the Parliament c. 88. Excuses the Agitators 90. Prevents the Parliament's proceeding against the Army Party and how 104 105. Refuses to obey the Parliament's Order but on certain Conditions 161 162. Stapleton Sir Philip laid aside by the Army 30. His moderate Pay c. 139. Swifen Mr. imploy'd by the Parliament to the Army 162. T. TIchburn a Linen-draper made Constable of the Tower by Sir Tho. Fairfax 174. V. VANE Sir Henry one of the Parliament's Commissioners with the Army 108. Uxbridg Treaty there 57. W. WAller Sir William order'd from Oxford into the West 22. Laid aside by the Army 30. Is one of the Committee at Derby-house 75. Warmworth Mr. his insolent and ridiculous Speech concerning the Adjutators 89. Warwick Earl one of the Committee at Derby-house 75. One of the Commissioners for disbanding the Army 94. Wentworth Sir Peter gets an Estate for half the value 135. West Colonel discharg'd by Fairfax from being Constable of the Tower 174. Weston Earl of Portland's Son his Reward from the Army 137. White Colonel his Places in the Army c. 135. Wild Serjeant Chairman in the Committee of Sequestrations 129. Gets an Ordinance for the Lady Thornborough's Money is a great Enemy to the eleven Members 134. Willoughby of Parham Lord chose Speaker by the Lords 155. Charg'd with Treason by the Army 191. Wollaston Sir John conveys a great Sum away which was order'd for the Army 161. Wright Robert made use of to give Intelligence of the Scots c. 52. FINIS LEX Parliamentaria or a Treatise of the Law and Custom of the Parliaments of England by G. P. Esq with an Appendix of a Case in Parliament between Sir Francis Goodwin and Sir Iohn Fortescue for the Knights Place for the County of Bucks 1 Iac. 1. Reflections upon what the World commonly calls good Luck and ill Luck with regard to Lotteries and of the good use which may be made of them Written in French by Monsieur Le Clerc and done into English Printed for Tim. Goodwiâ—
as Allen and White the latter also made Clerk of the Assizes in the Northern Circuit worth 5 or 600 l. per Annum Cromwel has 2500 l. per Annum Sir Peter Wentworth a Gentleman's Estate for half the value settled likewise by Ordinance tho the Gentleman whose delinquency was perhaps aggravated because he would not sell him that Land which he had long desir'd like Naboth's Vineyard offer'd to pay the Money to the State as the Fine for his Composition which by the rules of their own proceedings could not in Justice have been deny'd him I remember we put by the Ordinance two or three times but I hear it is since past which makes me mention it here 131. To some for reparation of Losses So Mr. Cornelius Holland who had some inferiour place in the Prince's Houshold which certainly he was not born to the height of his ambition reaching no further in the beginning than to be Sir Henry Vane's Man was in recompence set over the King's Children above my Lady of Dorset and had the managing of their Houshold some three or four years then they gave him the King's Pastures in Buckinghamshire for twenty one years worth to him de claro some 15 or 1600 l. per Annum Sir William Strickland for the burning of his House in Yorkshire has a Gentleman's Estate in Kent of a good value Mr. Henry Herbert had 3000 l. given him out of my Lord of Worcester's Woods and Sir Iohn Winter's The Lord Say in lieu of the Mastership of the Wards which by his power since the beginning of this Parliament he had wrested from the Lord Cottington had 10000 l. and for part of the Money I think 4000 l. of it had Hanworth House with the Lands about it which was worth as they say 14000 l. Colonel Fleetwood was by way of Sequestration put into the Remembrancers place of the Court of Wards which his Brother held and by going to Oxford lost it upon the putting down of the Court he had 3000 l. recompense multitudes there are more of this kind 132. To some for pretended Arrears as to Sir Arthur Haslerig 7000 l. who had earn'd it well at the Devizes and Cherrington To the Lord Fairfax Sir William Constable Sir William Brereton great Sums To Colonel Thompson 2000 l. for his wooden Leg which nothing but a Cannon could have helpt him to for he would never come within Musket shot To Colonel Purefoy and his Son Colonel Boswel some 1500 l. each and so to many more 133. To some to buy their Voices make them Proselytes To Mr. Weston Son to the Earl of Portland the reviving an arrear of a Pension which was his Ladies and if I be not deceiv'd had been discontinu'd for many years The Debenter as I remember was 4000 l. To the Lord Grey of Groby who had before been zealous for my Lord of Essex as he had good reason for the respects he had receiv'd from him a considerable Sum which I well remember not to be paid him out of such discoveries of Delinquents Estates as he should make whereupon he and his Terriers were long attending the Committee of Examinations in the prosecution still of some Game or other till his Sum was made up To Mr. Scawen one who formerly had not very well lik'd of their ways 2000 l. How many of the Lords that could not be heard before nor their Petitions scarce vouchsafed to be read when they tackt about and voted with them were then presently consider'd and good proportions allow'd them nay they were so impudent as some of them would not stick to give it for a reason openly in the House why they would not grant their desires that they took notice how they gave their Votes Mr. Gourden is the Man I have heard say so several times this was an excellent way to make a free Parliament for the Members to be honest and discharge their Consciences 134. Then for Accounts I would fain know what Accounts they have pass'd Let any Man peruse my Lord Fairfax's and Sir William Constable's I hear they are strange ones for the great Sums they have finger'd And I am sure the Committee of Accounts did complain that their Sub-Committees were beaten in Staffordshire where Mr. Purefoy and Mr. Boswel should have acted and would not 135. Upon the whole matter I would have our Accusers say so much by one of us I confess I am sorry to discover this of them it being much against my nature but I am forc'd to it for my vindication I may say with the Apostle They have compell'd me and not only so to recriminate but even to glory a little in some thing Have any of us ever refus'd to account who were liable to it Sir William Lewis did account for the Monys he receiv'd being Governor of Portsmouth so fairly and satisfactorily as that the Committee of Accounts made a special report of it to the House to be as they said an Example to others for his care and just dealing in managing the States Monies which came to his hands Major General Massey I am sure was sollicitous to perfect his accounts which if or no he had done before they drove him away I know not Sir William Waller and Colonel Long finish'd theirs Sir Philip Stapleton never touch'd but his personal Pay yet did account and had but forty Shillings a day being Lieutenant General of the Horse under my Lord of Essex who was Generalissimo when Sir Arthur Haslerig had five Pounds for commanding the Horse under Sir William Waller a Place inferior to his and had been at no charge having liv'd still upon Sir William Waller and gotten well all along the Imployment Sir William Waller had his Arrears after his subordinate Officer Sir Arthur had led the way who broke the Ice for his General and all the rest Sir Philip Stapleton had also his a very small one for so eminent an Officer in regard his allowance was no greater it came to about 1700 l. having left the benefit of his whole Estate during all the Wars which Haslerig did not if his Neighbours in Leicestershire say true that his Grounds have continu'd full stock'd all this while better than ever they were before so safe and well protected as I have heard that his Neighbours when there was danger would send their Cattel thither I confess I understand not the mystery 136. Here is all concerning matters of Accounts and Arrears of the eleven Members the rest medled not with any of the States Monies some of them have refus'd to receive what the House had given them upon much juster grounds than all the pretences of the others that had so much I my self for my Sufferings after the Parliament 3 d. Car. which continu'd many years cost me some thousands of Pounds and prejudic'd me more had five thousand Pounds given me by the House for my reparation I refus'd it and said I would not receive a Penny till the publick debts were
full of honour and greatness was I think never heard of 165. And now the Houses fall to voting the Lords leading the way and outdoing the Commons as much as Mr. Lenthal outdid the Earl of Manchester in the Thanksgiving or Mr. Marshal did Mr. Nye in the thanksgiving Sermon They make Sir Thomas Fairfax Generalissimo Commander in chief of all the Forces in the Kingdom and Constable of the Tower otherwise signifying Mr. Oliver Cromwel of whom Sir Thomas was the shadow they thank his Excellency over again for his care of the safety of the City and Parliament Risum teneatis amici leave it wholly to him to appoint what Guards he thinks fit for their security Sed quis custodiet custodes give a months Pay for a gratuity to the Army for their many good Services which is praemium nequitiae then set up the Star Chamber the High Commission the Spanish Inquisition in one Committee of ten Lords and twenty Commoners read over but their names and you will swear it except for four of the Commoners who are very unequally yok'd sixteen against them to sit in the painted Chamber de die in diem to examine the business of the Mutiny and of forcing the Houses 166. So far the Lords lead and the Commons follow but in another Vote they go by themselves a good while that all things done by the Members since as they injuriously and falsly pretend the Speakers and other Members were driven away from the Parliament be annull'd and of no effect and declar'd to have been so at the making thereof The Commons can't agree to this but put off the debare to another time Some sense of honour there was amongst them and of the dangerous consequence of such a Vote besides the unreasonableness and injustice taking away the Authority by which those Votes were made and so exposing to question and ruin all such as were at the passing of them or had acted by them Many days debates were spent upon it but it could not be carry'd the House of Commons would be a House of Commons still and as they represent the people of England so assert their Liberties if they were left to themselves and not overaw'd by the power of the Army 167. Therefore the Agitators must to work again with an humble Address to his Excellency and some Proposals on behalf of the Kingdom and the Army First That all those that have fat at Westminster usurping a parliamentary Authority since the forcible expulsion of the Parliament may immediately be excluded the House Secondly That those Members who have adher'd to that pretended Parliament may be also excluded under a penalty if they presume to sit Thirdly That all former Votes against disaffected Members may be put in execution And this is to make a free Parliament for those Rogues to determine who shall sit who shall not and how they shall be punish'd who disobey them These Lords and Commoners deserve well of Parliament and Kingdom that ran away from the Parliament and went to the Army for this 168. Sir Thomas Fairfax and the Council of War answer presently for it is but a Song of two parts making one harmony all set by the same hand A Remonstrance is forthwith produc'd and sent to both Houses the 18 th of August a sorrowful Ditty for the poor House of Commons which tells them plainly after a long deduction of all passages just lying over the same Lies again That those Members which sat during the absence of the Speakers are guilty of the prosecution and maintenance of the said treasonable engagement and violence and therefore must not be their Judges but their adverse Party shall be theirs which is Army Justice That they might have been made Prisoners of War wherefore they protest and declare if they hereafter intrude themselves to sit in Parliament they can no longer suffer it but will take some speedy effectual course that both they and others guilty of the same practices may be brought to condign punishment 169. And they back this Remonstrance for which the Lords return a Letter of approbation and great thanks to his Excellency for his continu'd care of the honour and freedom of Parliament with a Party of a thousand Horse drawn up to Hide-Park Cromwel and Ireton making menacing Speeches in the House and Guards out of the Army besetting the doors and avenues By all which means and the terror of their surly impeaching looks as some of the Pamphleteers observe it many of the Members were driven away and the poor House forc'd the 20 th of August to pass the Ordinance for declaring all Votes Orders and Ordinances made in one or both Houses from Iuly 26 till August 6 null and void And now they are a free Parliament or as Haslerig told them the next day after the eleven Members were withdrawn a glorious Parliament in truth no Parliament but they are what Mr. Cromwel will have them to be 170. Then they lay about them impeach seven Lords of High Treason sparing only my Lord of Pembrook They proceed against some of their own Members suspend Mr. Bainton put Commissary Copley and Mr. Recorder out of the House whom they commit to the Tower for high Misdemeanours expel likewise Sir Iohn Maynard and send him to the Tower The rest of the eleven Members upon the City's delivering up it self and the Parliament to the will of the Army having sent for their Passes which the House had order'd and upon them withdrawn themselves into foreign parts the Lord Mayor and some of the Aldermen were likewise imprison'd in the Tower and charg'd with Treason And all honest Men persecuted threaten'd and therefore fled and scatter'd some one way and some another and these are the effects of a free Parliament 171. The Lieutenant of the Tower Colonel West an honest and gallant Man after he had been at charge to treat and entertain Sir Thomas Fairfax coming to take possession of his Place as Constable was by that worthy General by way of thankfulness for his good entertainment turn'd out And an Independent one Tichburn a Linen Draper put in which was done with so much insolency and scorn of the City as when his favourite Alderman Gibbs had prepar'd a long winded Speech in the name of the City who crav'd it as a Boon and Act of Grace that he would keep in the old Lieutenant he cut him off short and bid him speak no more of it Indeed it had been against his Instructions and the Maxim of his Master Cromwel and all that faction which is to suffer none in any power save such as are theirs Body and Soul and put all others out 172. So Colonel Pointz was seiz'd upon and by force fetch'd out of his Command in the North Major General Massey must not continue in his of the West Captain Patten turn'd out of his Vice Admiralship and Rainsborough put in Colonel Carne out of the Government of the Isle of Wight and Hammond
that is in all 100000 l. a Month. That for the more sure and ready payment the Forceâ— may be immediately assign'd to several Counties out of whose Taxes they shall be paid and the General have power to make those distributions And many things more they offer or rather order for the payment of the Soldiers so peremptorily as if it be not granted and pass'd effectually by the end of that present week they say they can give no longer account of the Army in a regular way but if they find not satisfaction in their judgments must take some extraordinary ways of power Then they come and vent their malice against the City of which they say they have been so tender witness their carriage in their late advance towards it notwithstanding provocations their innocent march through it their patient waiting for their long due Arrears But now Justice forces them to desire that the adjacent Counties being undone and the whole Kingdom groaning under the oppressions of free Quarter whilst the City which occasions all is free of it there be no longer stop to the drawing thither of the Army That besides levying the arrear of the Tax it make reparation to the parts adjacent of 100000 l. damage That if they be necessitated or call'd on by the County they must on their behalf demand of the City to the full They earnestly desire that the proceedings against the Citizens and others impeach'd may be hasten'd and that out of their Fines and Confiscations some part of reparation be made to the Country Then they say they see not how the Parliament can sit in safety in the Army should never so little withdraw when they find the Common Council thro the Parliament and Army's lenity take the boldness already in the face of both to intercede for the release and acquittal or rather justification of those impeach'd Persons who are but fellow Delinquents to most of that Council That the consideration of this and the renew'd confidence of Mr. Gwin and other Members partakers in the same things who presume to sit in the House makes them fear that through lenity and moderation so much of the same Leven is left behind as even the worst of the eleven Members notwithstanding their double Crimes may be again call'd for in unless the House by some exclusive resolutions and proceedings do timely prevent the same 188. Indeed these are gracious Princes full of lenity and moderation by their own sayings but they dwell by ill Neighbours that they must commend themselves for no body else will do it The Parliament is beholden to them they tell them their faults bid them not trust so much to their Votes which are not absolute nor soveraign let them know what is their duty to do and give a short day to perform it in lest they should be idle and a worse thing fall upon them The Country is beholden to them who now know the worst of it 100000 l. to be monthly rais'd to ease them of Taxes and the Excise according to promise but then they have to help them reparation from the City for former damages and the persons appointed out of whose Estates it must be paid by way of Fine or Confiscation whether they prove guilty or no and they are not wanting in their expressions to the City of their tenderness of it wherefore they give good instance coming against it with Banners display'd Horse and Foot armed Cannon loaden and only take possession of their Works and of the Tower change their Militia take from them Westminster and Southwark commit their Mayor and principal Aldermen yet doing the City no hurt like the Fryer in Chaucer who would have but of the Capon the Liver and of a Pig the head yet nothing for him should be dead then marching through it so innocently only putting that scorn upon them which none of their Kings ever did when most provok'd that to have endur'd a plundering had been more honourable Then waited so patiently for their Arrears when they had a great part of the 200000 l. which the City had lent for their disbanding had taken that Money yet would not disband and destroy'd Trade by their late Rebellion and now having so long lain upon free quarter all about that they had made Provisions excessive dear and almost famish'd the City to express a desire to come and quarter in it which sure was for their good only Justice made them move they should pay 100000 l. for reparation to the Country that their best Members greatest Aldermen and others and their Lord Mayor whom they had caus'd to be unjustly committed should be as unjustly fin'd and ruin'd and then charge so honourable a Court as the Common Council with Treason 189. Then for the eleven Members how much they are beholden to them is beyond expression all their Remonstrances as well as this make it appear here they desir'd only they might have a Writ of ease from attending the Parliament any more out of their abounding care for the freedom of Parliaments and the free sitting and voting of the Members 190. And they will be sure to have all put in execution the refractory House of Commons shall make them wait no longer A Regiment or two of Foot march and quarter in White-Hall as many Horse in the Mews they having provided another Lodging for the King therefore making bold with his Majesty's House and then they think they can take a course both with the Parliament and City which in truth they do full handsomly 191. For presently they make them resume the consideration of the Charge against the Lord Willoughby and pass it and likewise against the rest of those Lords and Sir Iohn Maynard carry it up to the House of Lords and demand the recommitting of those Lords and putting them to their answer Sir Arthur Haslerig the now worthy Governor of Newcastle staid in town from going to take possession of his Command only to do this feat so to make good what he before said when they could not upon a long debate and the laying out of all their strength and power carry the Impeachment that it was no matter the Army should impeach them all 192. A little after the Lord Grey of Groby sets on foot the motion concerning those of the eleven Members who were beyond Sea having had Passes to travel for six Months and most of them written or sent to the Speaker and other Gentlemen of the House to desire the favor of a longer continuance in regard it was winter and ill crossing the Seas but if it would not be granted upon signification of their pleasure they would immediately return They had likewise upon occasion of the Order of Summons written of the uncertain report they had heard of such a thing long after it was done that if notice had been given them of it they had not fail'd to appear and would if they might be certify'd that the House continu'd in the same resolution
Prudence 69. Seize upon the King's Person 96. Their Letter to the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London concerning their Demands of the Parliament 102. Their large share in the Treasure of the Kingdom 132 137. Their Accounts extravagant 138 139. Their Remonstrance concerning the Members that sat during the Speaker's Absence 172. Draw up a Party of Horse to back it ibid. Turn out Officers that were against them c. 175. The Difficulties they had to encounter 182 183. Cajole the King c. 184. The means they us'd to get rid of him 185 186. Procure his going to the Isle of Wight 187. Send him four Bills to sign 188. Their Declaration from Windsor concerning no further Address to him 200. descanted on 201 c. Ashurst Mr. sent with a Message from the Parliament to the Army 162. B. BLaxton imploy'd by the Army Party to give account what Sums the Scots had rais'd of the Country 65. Bristol lost its Governour condemn'd but pardon'd 12. Burley Captain hang'd by Fairfax's Order 190. C. CHarles King of England his Forces ruffled at Dennington 27. His Safety not regarded by the Army Party 34. Is deliver'd up to the English by the Scots 68. His Person seiz'd by the Army 96. Is made a Prisoner in the Isle of Wight on refusing the four Bills 190. Clotworthy Sir John one of the Committee at Derby-house 75. Commissioners of Scotland endeavour to undeceive the English Parliament in relation to their Army 47. Move for Pay for their Soldiers 50 51. Slighted by the Army Party 54. Their Packets and Letters intercepted and broke open 55. Give in an account of Arrears due to their Army 64. Committee at Derby-house to see the Parliaments Votes concerning Ireland executed 75. Labour to dispose the Army to go thither 76. of Haberdashers-Hall Goldsmiths-Hall c. misus'd by the Army to the ruin of many 129. of the two Kingdoms 14. Is out of esteem tho all Affairs of Moment had been transacted by them c. 53 54. Committee of Reformation 30. Corbet Mr. Mâ—â—es Iustice at the Committee of Examinations 130. Covenant between the two Kingdoms the ends of it not answer'd by sending away the Scots without disbanding the English Army 63. Crawford Major General his Service at Marstonmoor 15 16. Cromwel his Cowardice at Marstonmoor Basinghouse and Keinton 17. His Rancor against the Scots and Hatred of the Nobility 18. His Soldiers mutiny that he may escape the self-denying Ordinance 35. Is dispens'd with for two or three Months but after keeps in for good and all without an Order of the House 36. Keeps from the Army to give 'em opportunity of doing their Mischief 84. His Policy and Hypocrisy in relation to the Disorders of the Army 85. Sent down to 'em but to no purpose ibid. Leaves the Parliament and joins with the Army 86. Orders the King to be seiz'd but denies it 97. and the Magazine at Oxford to be secur'd 98. Appoints a general Rendevouz near Cambridg and justifies what the Agitators had done 99. Gets Petitions of his own drawing sign'd by several Counties 114. His Pension 135. Writes a Letter to Whalley to be shewn the King 187. D. DAcres Lord one of the Committee at Derby-house 75. Delaware Lord one of the Commissioners for disbanding the Army 94. Desborough Major with two Regiments falls upon some of Sir Robert Pye's Men at Deptford and barbarously murders them 159. E. ELections vacant by an Artifice voted to be filled up 41. Vnfairly made by the malignant Party 42. Eleven Members incur the Hatred of the Army for doing their Duty 75. Their Care and Industry with relation to Ireland was the Foundation of the good Successes in that Kingdom 82. Have a general Charge exhibited against them by the Army who require they should be suspended sitting in the House 115 119. Remarks on their Case 120 123. Withdraw from the House to prevent Inconveniences 124. No particular Charge against them the ill Practices of their Enemies to ruin them 125 126. Accus'd by the Army of holding Correspondence with the King c. which is descanted on 127 128 c. Largely vindicated 130 131 c. 140 141. The Army's Declaration against them 148 149. which is largely descanted on 150 c. Are vindicated from the Disorders that happened at Westminster from the Rabble c. 153 154. Order'd by the House to make good their places 157. Forsaken by the City who had espous'd their Cause 163. Their unparallel'd Case 199. Essex Earl suspected and laid aside by the Army Party 8 9 21 30. Is order'd to attend his Majesty's Motions 22 23. His ill Success in the West 24 25. His Ruin design'd by Haslerig 24. Relief refus'd to be sent him 25. His Army willingly disband 31 32. F. FAirfax Sir Thomas commands at Marstonmoor under his Father 15. Is made General 34. His Commission ran only in the name of the Parliament ibid. Is discharg'd of Subordination to the Committee of both Kingdoms 54. Design'd to be sent with his Army to protect the Northern Counties 60. Receives Orders about disbanding 93. Causes his Regiment to march another way 94. Innocent as to seizing the King 97. His Remonstrance concerning the King's being voted to Richmond 117. Takes up his Quarters at Uxbridg 123. Marches to London in State and puts in the old Speakers 164. by whom he is complemented and addressed 167. Marches through the City in Triumph 168. Voted by both Houses General of all the Forces and Constable of the Tower 169. His Remonstrance for satisfaction of the Army 188. His Order concerning the King c. at the Isle of Wight 190. Fleetwood Colonel concern'd in seizing the King 97. His Place and Pension 136. Foulks Alderman of London promotes the Interest of the Army 110 160. G. GIbbs Alderman of London promotes the Interest of the Army 110 160. Sent with a Message to the Army 162. Interrupted by Fairfax in a Speech he was making to him 174. Grey of Grooby Lord is gratified by the Army 137. Against the eleven Members 198. Gurden Mr. against the Parliament's having a Period put to it 112. H. HAmmond Colonel his unreasonable Demands on being design'd for Ireland 73. Haslerig Sir Arthur his ill Success in the West 11. His Rashness c. 12. His Excuse for the King 's not being attack'd at Dennington Cowardice Vain-glory c. 27 28. Is concern'd in seizing the King 97 98. His Pension 136. His great Pay 139. Stays in Town tho Governour of Newcastle to do a feat for the Army 198. Holland Mr. Cornelius his Gratuity from the Army Party 135. Holles Mr. Denzil accus'd by Savil of corresponding with the Lord Digby 38 40. Is prosecuted with great Violence by the Sollicitor St. John 40. Acquitted by the House 41. Concern'd in the Uxbridg-Treaty 57. His Generosity as to the publick Money 140. I. JAckson Lieutenant Colonel submits to the Parliament in order to disband 94. Independents Army c. mostly compos'd of them 29.
MEMOIRS OF DENZIL Lord HOLLES The Right Hon ble Denzel Baron Holles of Ifield Aetat 78. Anc. 1676. Ob. 1679. MEMOIRS OF DENZIL Lord HOLLES Baron of Ifield in Sussex From the Year 1641 to 1648. LONDON Printed for Tim. Goodwin at the Queen's Head against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet M. DC.XC.IX To His Grace JOHN Duke of Newcastle c. May it please your Grace WHEN the following Papers of the famous Lord Holles Your Great Uncle happen'd to fall into my Hands I could not long deliberat whether they deserv'd a public View and therefore intended to get them printed without any further Ceremony for the large share he had in the Transactions of those Times will as much engage others to read these Memoirs as the Defence he was oblig'd to make for himself are a sufficient Reason for his writing them But when I understood that Your Grace out of the Love You bear to virtuous Actions and Your Piety towards so near a Relation did order a stately Monument to be erected at Dorchester for this Illustrious Person I was of opinion that as well for that Reason as because in his Life-time he entertain'd an extraordinary Affection and Esteem for You Your Name should in like manner be inscrib'd on this Monument which he has left of Himself to Posterity The Justice of the thing and the Sincerity of my Intentions must be all my Apology to Your Grace for this Presumtion for the Public of whom You deserv'd so well and particularly in appearing early like Your Noble Ancestors for the Liberty of these Nations will acknowledg it an Obligation nor if any thing should chance to be amiss can I doubt but an easy Pardon will be granted to one who is tho unknown my Lord with so profound a Respect Your Grace's most humble Servant March 28. 1699. THE PUBLISHER TO THE READER SUch as really desire to know the naked Truth and propose for their chiefest aim the common good which are certainly the best tho not the greatest part of Mankind have ever exprest a desire in their Writings of seeing the Memoirs of all parties made public as the most effectual means of framing a true General History For in those places where nothing is licens'd to appear but what visibly tends to the advantage of one side there can be no sincere representation of Affairs the basest Cowards must pass for the bravest Heroes the worst of Villains for the greatest Saints the most Ignorant and Vicious for Men of Learning and Virtue and the Enemies of their Country for its Preservers and Friends Without consulting therefore the particular interest or reputation of any Faction but only the benefit of England in general these Memoirs of the Great Lord Holles are communicated to the World that by comparing them with those of Ludlow and such as appear'd before or will be publish'd hereafter relating to the same times they may afford mutual Light to each other and after distinguishing the personal resentments or privat biasses of every one of 'em the Truth wherein they are all found to agree tho drest by them in different Garbs may by som impartial and skilful hand be related with more candor clearness and uniformity What figure our Author made in the Parliament and in the Wars at home and abroad in his privat and public Capacities is generally known and needs not therefore be mention'd in this place The account he gives of himself in the following Papers is confirm'd by many living Witnesses as well as in the greatest part by other VVriters of the same Transactions But whether the vehemence of his Stile the barbarous Usage he receiv'd his concern for the Presbyterian Party and his Displeasure at the King's misfortunes to whom he was then an adherent and a friend have not guided his Pencil to draw the lines of Cromwel's Face too strong and the shadows too many I refer to the judgment of the disinterested Reader desiring him to allow all that is reasonably due to one in these or the like Circumstances This caution iustice has oblig'd me to insert For as to that tyrannical Usurper of the Supreme Administration who prov'd so ungrateful to the Commonwealth so treacherous to the King and so fatal toboth I think him bad enough painted in his own true Colours without standing in need of exaggerating Rhetoric to make him look more odious or deform'd I should write something here likewise with relation to General Fairfax but that the properest place for it seems to be in a Preface to his own MEMORIAL which is in good hands and it 's hop'd may be shortly expos'd to public view How far soever King Charles the First 's Enemies in England may look on themselves disoblig'd or any of his Friends neglected by my Lord Holles the Scots are surely beholding to him for in his long Panegyric on that Nation he has said more in their behalf than their own Historians have ever been able to offer But in this and other matters of the like nature we shall not anticipate the Readers Curiosity or Iudgment I shall therefore only acquaint him that tho this Piece be entitul'd Memorials from the History it contains yet in substance it is an Apology for that Party who took up Arms not to destroy the King or alter the Constitution but to restore the last and oblige the former to rule according to Law To the Unparallel'd Couple Mr. Oliver St. Iohn his Majesty's Sollicitor General and Mr. Oliver Cromwel the Parliament's Lieutenant General the two grand Designers of the Ruin of three Kingdoms GENTLEMEN AS You have been principal in ministring the matter of this Discourse and giving me the leisure of making it by banishing me from my Country and Business so is it reason I should particularly address it to You. You will find in it some representation of the grosser Lines of your Features those outward and notorious Enormities that make You remarkable and Your Pictures easie to be known which cannot be expected here so fully to the Life as I could wish He only can do that whose Eye and Hand have been with You in Your secret Counsels who has seen You at Your Meetings Your Sabbaths where You have laid by Your assumed Shapes with which You cozen'd the World and resumed Your own imparting each to other and both of You to Your fellow Witches the bottom of Your Designs the policy of Your Actings the turns of Your Contrivances all Your Falshoods Cozenings Villanies and Cruelties with Your full intentions to ruin the three Kingdoms All I will say to You is no more than what St. Peter said to Simon the Sorcerer Repent therefore of this Your wickedness and pray God if perhaps the thoughts of Your Hearts may be forgiven You. And if you have not Grace to pray for Your selves as it may be You have not I have the Charity to do it for You but not Faith enough to trust You. So I remain I thank God not
Quarters were but at a Village near hand whence he could not find his way nor be directed by his Ear when the Ordnance was heard as I have been credibly informed 20 or 30 Miles off so that certainly he is far from the Man he is taken for 17. That day's work at Marston-Moor turned the Scales and raised again the fortune of the Parliament which till that day had very much declined And these Men who all this while stalked under the sides of the Parliament and did but pretend the business of Reformation and the Peoples Liberties thereby to break the power of the King first that afterwards they might either by artifice or force lay as low the Authority of Parliament unless it would betray its truth and yield to be instrumental to them did after this begin to put out their Horns appear in their Colours and as they warmed more and more to spit out their Venom against Monarchy against Nobility and Gentry against that Reformation with which they had formerly held forth to the Scots against the very Covenant their Vows and Declarations wherewith they had abused God and the World 18. Then did Cromwel declare himself to the Lord of Manchester and indeed reveal'd the whole Design First His rancor against the Scots as that he would as soon draw his Sword against them as against any of the King's Party Then his hatred of the Nobility and House of Peers wishing there was never a Lord in England and saying he loved such and such because they loved not Lords and that it would not be well till he was but Mr. Montague Thirdly His intentions to hinder Peace and that therefore he desired none to be of that Army but such as were of the Independent judgment to interpose if a Peace were like to be made which agreed not with their humours All this remains upon Record in both Houses being the Earl of Manchester's Charge against him And let any one judg if this be not the very Plot which was then laid and since practised Has not every particular been attempted by them have they not fully compleated that which was chiefly aimed at As that which will and must certainly if not prevented bring on all the rest the hindering of Peace that no ease nor quietness might be restored to the Kingdom For when the Parliament was ready to disband the only Army then left and so to free the Subject from all Payments and Taxes that every one might return to his Vocation and all differences between King and Parliament might be ended and reconciled in a parliamentary way then did the Cadmean Brood turn their Swords against their fellow Subjects and their Masters the Parliament which by open force they assault make void and unvote what they had voted concerning their Disbanding put by all thoughts of Peace and throw back the Kingdom which was entring into the desired Haven of Peace and Happiness into the deep Seas of Storms and Misery and Confusion where I beseech God it perish not But of all this anon 19. Things were not yet ripe tho the Serpent's Eggs were laid by him in the Earl of Manchester's bosom it was not time to hatch the Cockatrice Therefore when it was by the Earl made known to the Houses their Party in the House of Commons did more solito with all the violence and injustice in the world smother and suppress it quarrelling that the Lords had infring'd their Privileges in desiring that might be examined by a Committee in both Houses saying The Lords ought not to meddle in it because it concern'd a Commoner whereas nothing was more ordinary throughout the whole proceeding of this Parliament in all their inquisitions Yet by that means this was then stifled the breach of Privilege referr'd to a Committee of the House of Commons and there the business died 20. After this the Scots saw how they were cheated and it came to be though not an open breach yet a great coldness between them a withdrawing of confidence of familiarity of Counsels And the Scots then found that the other party had been misrepresented being the Men who in truth did agree with them in Principles and in Design Which was only to reform not to alter to regulate and so to save not to destroy That they still carried about with them the sense of their Allegiance and Duty to the person of the King whom they did desire to see reinvested into his Throne and Kingly Government with such a power and in such a way as might be good both for Him and the People that thereby confusion misery and that disorder which the Poet describes to have been in the first Chaos and which we now see not in a Fiction but really feel and smart under might be avoided 21. By little and little the Scots and these latter came to a better understanding at last they discover the horrid Practices and the whole Design of the others who in the mean time drove it on Iehu like violently bearing down and destroying all that opposed them for some opposition they found They saw there was a strong Party in the House against them between whom and the Soldiers who were under Command of my Lord of Essex there was a good Correspondency and these two together with the Scots were as a threefold Cord not to be broken by them therefore they would untwist it and so destroy them one after another 22. The Earl of Essex must be the first who they found would not bow and therefore must break for many applications had been made to see if he would stoop to their Lure Great offers large promises all the glory of the Kingdom should be his if he would but worship them be as they termed it true to the Godly Party but he was true to his Principles Therefore they do what they can to make him odious not paying his Army to make it a Burden to the Country and infamous not giving him means of acting by Supplies and Provisions so to be looked upon as a Drone or worse or putting him upon such Actions as should break him so to make him come off with dishonour 23. As when he was about Oxford in the Summer 1644 he on one side of the River and Sir William Waller with his Brigade on the other the King having then but a small force within the Town and either not provided for a Siege or not willing to be shut in with a light body of Horse and I think some mounted Men held them play and distracted them being sometimes on the one side sometimes on the other which was easie for him to do going through the Town as he saw occasion by the conveniency of the Gates It being then known that he waited but his opportunity and advantage to slip by or break through our Grand Masters ordered my Lord of Essex with a heavy body of an Army and a great train of Artillery to attend his Majesties motion and Sir William Waller to
go into the West which they conceived would be an easie Task at that time to reduce the King's Party brought low and so not able to send any Forces into those parts for their relief and encouragement 24. This they knew would absolutely break my Lord of Essex who must harass his Army to follow a light and moving Body and if the King which was probable enough should chance to give him the slip and get from him into the West then was he ruin'd in his Reputation and liable to a Question and perhaps a further Prosecution It proved that his Majesty did get by them and passed by Sir William Waller's Quarters on the other side who as soon as he knew it marched after him and gave notice to my Lord of Essex thereof so as before he knew any thing Sir William Waller was got a days march before after the King Then was it impossible for him to overtake them and being so much nearer the West Sir William Waller engaged in the other Service he upon the Advice of his Council of War resolved to bend that way yet not to make such speed but that he should receive other Orders from our Governors above that he might comply with them Accordingly he gave that Account to the Parliament and Committee of the two Kingdoms with his desire of their Directions They were so mad to see themselves defeated of their Plot that they would not for many days return him any answer at all his disobedience was blown up and trumpeted about by them and their Agents Some of whom did not stick to say It were better my Lord of Essex and his whole Army were lost and ruined than the Parliament not obeyed and that by their consents he nor his Army should be look'd after or cared for more A Maxim they have forgotten now in the case of Sir Thomas Fairfax and his Army's not Disobedience but open Rebellion but they were as good as their words then and did most maliciously wilfully and treacherously as to the Parliaments Cause which they seemed to be zealous in suffer General and Army to be lost and the whole West left further out of the Parliaments reach than before 25. Sir Arthur Haslerig posted up to London breathing out nothing but ruin and destruction to the Earl of Essex spoke it out in the hearing of several persons That he would ruin him or be ruined himself His malice and violence was so great at the Committee of the two Kingdoms where he and his Party were prevalent that a report was thence brought down to the House of Commons by which Sir William Waller was taken off from following the King and by that means the King was left at liberty to bend his whole force for the West after my Lord of Essex which he presently did At last they left my Lord of Essex at liberty to proceed in that Western Expedition but with a resolution to let him perish He takes in Weymouth and some other Towns goes on as far as Cornwal whither the King's Forces follow him at the heels cut off all provision from him press upon him exceedingly and put him to very great streights He engaged in a Country inclosed with deep Ditches and strong Fences that he could neither break through nor march away but sends Letter upon Letter Messenger upon Messenger to the Parliament representing his Condition and how easie it was with a small force sent upon the back of the King's Army if but only a good Party of Horse to stop their Provisions and turn the Tables streighten them and free him than which certainly nothing had been more easie and would have saved the Kingdom a Mass of Treasure and thousands of good Mens lives which the continuance of the War after that time did cost 26. But our Masters did not desire then to see the War at an end they had not the Sword in those hands they would have it for to break the King's forces well knowing they must then have had a Peace and such a Peace as had carried with it an establishment of the King's Government a keeping up the Nobility and Gentry all things must have returned into their proper Channel and the security of the Parliament and Kingdom being provided for the Law of the Land must have taken place their Arbitrary Empire been at an end and their Design wholly defeated 27. Therefore my Lord of Essex must not be relieved but sacrificed to their Ambition the King's Army must be yet preserved to give them a colour to new model theirs and put the Power into the base hands of their Creatures which should keep the Kingdom in a perpetual Bondage and tho they ended the War with the King yet never made Peace but continued to grind the Faces and break the Backs of the People with Taxes and Free-Quarter to maintain an Army when no Enemy was left in a word they govern by the Sword the height of all Misery and Slavery that any Land can undergo 28. My Lord of Essex and his Army were by this means broken in Cornwal in the latter end of that Summer and the King seemed to gain a great Advantage recover a great deal of Strength but to nip that they soon provided Force sufficient it suiting with their Ends that his Majesty should seem strong but not be so Therefore the Soldiers of that Army which had lost their Arms in Cornwal are presently armed again and two other Armies joined to them the Earl of Manchester's and Sir W. W aller's who gave the King's Forces a ruffle at Dennington gaining some of the Works Yet when the King came with the remainder of his Strength they did not think it convenient to put it to the trial of a Day but suffered him to march away when it had been a most easie thing to have prevented it And even there in all likelyhood have made an end of the business which was that they feared and Sir Arthur Haslerig could come up to London and into the House of Commons all in beaten Buff cross girt with Sword and Pistols as if he had been killing his thousands when 't is more probable if there was any danger that he had been crying under a Hedg as he did at Cherrington Fight bellowing out Ah wo is me all is lost we are all undone insomuch that a great Officer a Scotch-man finding him in that tune wished him to go off the Field and not stand gudding there a Scotch term for crying to dishearten the Soldiers but in the House of Commons he feared nothing none so fierce and valiant without fear or wit and there like a great Soldier in that habit gave a Relation of what had pass'd highly extolling the gallantry and conduct of all the Commanders the valour of the Soldiers that no mortal Men could do more that the best Soldiers in the world could not have hinder'd the King's marching off and that it had been no wisdom to have adventur'd to fight
for that the King would be King still and would soon have had another Army tho they had gotten the better but if he had beaten them they had been utterly lost This served the turn for that time to cast a mist before the peoples eyes and stop their mouths Yet within very few Weeks after this worthy Knight forgot all he had said for it is by Cromwel laid as a Crime to the Earl of Manchester's Charge whom they then meant to lay aside that he was the cause they sought not with the King and Sir Arthur is a principal Witness to make it good But on the other side the Earl of Manchester returns the Bill charging Cromwel that it was his not obeying Orders who being commanded as Lieutenant General of the Horse to be ready at such a place by such an hour early in the Morning came not till the Afternoon and by many particulars makes it clear to have been only his fault 29. And to say the truth they could not else have carried on their Design of new modelling their Army of which then there had been no need and preventing a Peace which they feared might else have followed For if the King had been too sore prest at that time it was in their apprehensions probably he might have laid hold upon the Propositions for Peace which were then ready and sent to him to Oxford immediately after 30. Therefore now they set upon their great Work projected long before and which Cromwel had broken to my Lord of Manchester in the time of his greatness with him when he thought him to be one of their own that was to have an Army composed of those of the Independent Judgment to interpose if there were like to be a Peace only their Presumption and Impudence was swell'd to be so much higher as now they would have no other Army but of them Because they saw the danger was over there being no Enemy to take the Field against them but such an one as they had willingly set up and given time and means to get together so as there would be no great need of fighting that part having been acted by others for they were never good at it but excellent to assume the praise and reap the benefit when others had done the work 31. Therefore the whole force of the Kingdom must be theirs in the hands of their Creatures all the Noblemen and Gentlemen who had engaged in the beginning and born the heat of the day must be laid by all these gallant Officers who had done the Parliament the best Service indeed all must be cashier'd The Earl of Essex the Earl of Manchester Sir Philip Stapleton Sir William Waller and the rest must be reduced cast by as old Almanacks in truth not fitted to their Meridian 32. For this Feat the Juggle of a Self-denying Ordinance is found out whereby it is ordained that no Member of either House shall bear any Office Martial or Civil which strikes them all out of Employment and Cromwel too but for him they will soon find a Starting-hole 33. Then there must be one body of an Army composed of so many thousand Horse and Foot out of the several Armies which were to be reduced as I remember some 20 or 21 thousand which number they have since doubled or trebled for the ease of the Kingdom the Officers to be named by the House and a Committee appointed under the specious name of a Committee of Reformation for this Work by which they tear in sunder all their Forces discontent all their best Officers and Soldiers utterly disjoynt the whole Frame of the Martial part of their Affairs and I dare say put the King's Party in greater hopes of being able to make it good by the Sword and less to apprehend the Consequence of not making a Peace at that time than the gaining of a Battel would have done nor in truth could it have any other Operation with rational Men. 24. So to work they go and find difficulties enough The Soldiers bore an affection to their old Officers which made them unwilling to be reduced Money there was not to give any reasonable satisfaction out of their Arrears to those who were to be cashier'd But a fortnights pay was ordered where many months were owing Yet such was the obedience of those Officers gallant Men old Soldiers most of them to the authority of Parliament so unlike to the late rebellious Carriage and Insolency of our new Model as shall be hereafter shewed that they submit to it are content to sit down themselves and which is more use their interest to perswade the Soldiers to a Conformity Some of the Horse who had served under my Lord of Essex were a little stiff and made some shew of standing out in Hertfordshire which our violent bloody new Modellers would have made advantage of presently to have faln on them and put them to the Sword but the Parliament followed more moderate Counsels endeavouring to gain them through fair means by sending down some of their old Officers to dispose them to a submission which employment they declined not but went and prevailed to which my Lord of Essex himself contributed very much an Example that this present young General Sir Thomas Fairfax would not follow when his Army was to be disbanded 35. Yet such was the wickedness and desperate madness of those Men who thirsted after nothing but blood mischief and confusion that at the very same time when the Parliament was going a gentle way Mr. St. Iohn the King's Solicitor one who I think has as much of the Blood of this Kingdom to answer for and has dipp'd as deep in all cunning pernicious Counsels as any one man alive wrote a Letter under-hand to the Committee of Hertfordshire which is yet extant that they should raise the Country and fall upon these men to put all into blood contrary to the desire and endeavour of the Parliament A Villany never to be forgotten nor forgiven in any man much less a Man of Law who should better know what price the Law sets upon the life of every Subject much more of many together and of a whole County which if he had been obeyed had run a great hazard 36. But I wonder not at this or any other such passage from him who could have the face to say in his Argument against my Lord of Strafford That some persons were not to have Law given them but be knockt on the head no matter how tho he knows it or should know it to be against the Laws both of God and Man that any should be put to death before a legal Conviction however he may have practised the contrary since the beginning of these unhappy troubles his composition being it seems like that Monster Emperor's Lutum Sanguine maceratum And to less than an Emperor I would not parallel him whose vast thoughts have carried him above King and Parliament to frame new mould alter and
said at Oxford when I was amongst others sent thither to present Propositions to the King where they had a sit Instrument to act for them and say and swear any thing they would have him who was at that very time employed by some of their principal ones to truck and drive a Treaty underhand with some great persons at Oxford For the chief among them had always Grace to try more ways then one to the Wood and commonly not to row the way they look'd willing enough to have made a good bargain for themselves at Court and then have left their Whelps their Zealots to have mended themselves as they could perhaps not despairing but to have perswaded them it was for their good and the advancement of their Catholick Cause so to have quieted them and some little thing should have been done for their satisfaction I did with my own Eyes see Letters and so did several persons Members of both Houses some yet alive some dead witten by Savil to divers of great quality at Oxford one to L. D. some to others with only one Letter for their Names where intelligence was given of the proceedings and intentions of the Parliament and their Army many Propositions made in the name of that Party and their Undertakings and in the Close my Lord Savil to be Lord Treasurer Mr. Solicitor to be Lord Keeper and others of their Faction to have several Offices of Honourand Trust. These Letters were seen likewise by my Lord Willoughby and Mr. Whitlock who are yet alive and can testifie it and by the Earl of Essex Sir Philip Stapleton and Sir Christopher Wray who are dead Some of them were written by Savil's own hand some copy'd out by a person of Honour who was employ'd by him and is yet alive to make it good And when they play'd this Game themselves and pretended forsooth a designupon Oxford and to have the King's Army in the West deliver'd to them which was all but collusion and deceit to abuse the World and colour their Correspondencies then did they make Savil play the Villain and accuse me whom they prosecuted with that height of malice and violence with so much injustice and partiality especially that Man of Law Mr. Sollicitor who tho Mr. Whitlock had not only consented to but joined in and advised all that I had done at Oxford and that Savil himself had laid it equally upon us both in his Information it seems either not so wicked as his setters on or not fully instructed by them yet such was the Justice of that Man as he would needs sever our Cases and was not a shamed not only so to declare his Judgment but press'd it and sollicited it that the proceedings might be singly against me whereby the eyes of many indifferent persons Members of the House were open'd and their Spirits rais'd to an Indignation insomuch that in spight of the Sollicitor and his Party I was acquitted by the House 44. This made them bethink themselves begin to mistrust the House and doubt if they should be able to carry things as formerly And thereupon resolve on a course which some amongst them had formerly still oppos'd or declin'd as Mr. Sollicitor by name which was to have the vacant places of those they had thrust out filled up by a new Election issuing out Writs for it under their new Great Seal This they hoped would alter the Constitution of the House and give them infallibly a majority of Votes Accordingly in the long Summer Vacation of the year 1645 when very many of the Members were gone into their several Countries they fall upon that point of recruiting the House and notwithstanding the thinness thereof and its being surprised with that Debate their Creatures most of them there as they were always sure of some fifty Voices persons whose only Employment was there to drudg and carry on their Masters work having thereby a greatness far above the Sphere they had formerly mov'd in whereas the others were Gentlemen who had Estates which requir'd their looking after and all of them some Vocations either for their particular business or pleasure which made them less diligent and many of them as at other times so then away yet they carried it but by three Voices 45. Then to work they go to canvass for Elections in all places for the bringing in of such as should be wholly theirs First they did all they could to stop Writs from going any whither but where they were sure to have fit Men chosen for their turns and many an unjust thing was done by them in that kind Sometimes denying Writs sometimes delaying till they had prepared all things and made it as they thought cock-sure Many times Committee-men in the Country such as were their Creatures appearing grossly and bandying to carry Elections for them sometimes they did it fairly by the power of the Army causing Soldiers to be sent and quarter'd in the Towns where Elections were to be awing and terrifying sometimes abusing and offering violence to the Electors And when these undue Elections were complain'd of and question'd at the Committee of Privileges there appeared such palpable partiality so much injustice such delays and tricks to vex Parties grieved and their Witnesses such countenancing and defending those who had done the wrong as it dishearten'd every body and made many even sit down and give over prosecution 46. Notwithstanding all this and that by this means some persons unduly chosen were brought in yet it prov'd that far the greater part of those new Members deceiv'd the expectation of these Men. For tho they came into the House with as much prejudice as was possible against the other moderate Party who had always been represented to them as persons ill affected not faithful to the Parliament obstructing all businesses that were for the good of the Kingdom having Self-ends and ambitious designs of their own when they came to sit in the House themselves to see with their own eyes the carriage of things understand the ways and drift both of the one and the other Party discern the tricks and violent proceedings of the one and plainness and reality of the other that all these aimed at was but to get a good Peace see the Government settled both in Church and State and make no advantages to themselves have no share nor desir'd none of the Moneys look after no Offices nor Preserments in a word not seek themselves but the pulick and those on the other side hinder and oppose the settling of the Government and keep things in a distraction and confusion not willing to put up the Sword but continue the burdens and pressures of the Country countenance the insolencies of Soldiers bear them out in their abusing of Ministers and other honest Men who were for Church-Government keep up factions and drive on interests in the House put themselves their Kindred and Friends into all places of power and profit share and divide among them the
that they grew to be not only an unnecessary grievous burden in respect of charge but also a let and hinderance to the setling all Government both civil and ecclesiastical neither submitting themselves to order of Parliament nor permitting others where they could hinder it but giving countenance to all disorders especially in the Church as breaking open the Church doors doing most unseemly barbarous things indeed not fit to be related either to modest or Christian Ears and in time of Divine Service interrupting Ministers as they were preaching miscalling reviling them sometimes pulling them down by violence beating and abusing them getting into the Pulpits themselves and venting either ridiculous or scandalous things false and pernicious Doctrins countenancing and publishing seditious Pamphlets for which they had a Press that follow'd the Army decrying both King and Parliament and all Authority infusing a rebellious Spirit into the people under the pretence of Liberty and Freedom All this notwithstanding while the Scotish Army was in the Kingdom Such things were whisper'd such jealousies and fears rais'd as these inconveniencies were not only dispens'd with but the Army supported and cherish'd as if they had been tutelary Gods those who must have protected and deliver'd us from all danger and all that the Parliament and Kingdom could do little enough to feed and maintain them tho an excrescence that drew away the whole nourishment of the Body and starv'd it 67. But afterwards when the Kingdom saw how they had been abus'd made to fear where no fear was and were come to themselves they soon grew to feel the weight of that which lay upon them and seek for ease Then City and Country could petition the Parliament for disbanding the Army complain of their intolerable disorders and irregularities and the Parliament was well dispos'd for it who now likewise discover'd the art and malice of the Independent Party a Spirit they had rais'd which they would gladly lay and consider'd that as such an Army was dangerous so none at all was needful that Ireland wanted what we had too much of Soldiers 68. Besides they well saw that whilst that Army stood they should never be able to relieve Ireland to any purpose the stock of the Kingdom was swallow'd up in their maintenance and tho for the space of a whole year there had not been an Enemy in the Field nor Town possess'd by any to find them employment yet they recruited daily all care being taken for sending them Pay Arms Provision Clothes with all other necessaries as if they were every day upon hard and dangerous Service when they did nothing but trouble and oppress the Country â— so as notwithstanding their glorious pretences of fighting for Conscience not Pay sacrificing themselves to God and the Kingdom 's Cause none of them would stir to help the poor Protestants in that Kingdom but even hinder'd what they could all others from going 69. Which appear'd by Colonel Hammond's Capitulation being design'd for the Service of Dublin who tho he were but an Ensign to Sir Simon Harcourt in the begining of those Wars now a Colonel of the new Model stood upon his pantoufles That he would not be oblig'd for longer than two or three Months have all his Pay before hand Victuals for six Months tho he would stay but two be absolute Commander of all the Forces there have a proportion of Money over and above for contingent occasions put into what hands he would appoint a Fleet of Ships to transport him wait upon him and be at his disposing not to stir without his leave in truth he must be Admiral and General such Terms as no Prince or foreign State that had but given an assistance could have stood upon higher This was the obedient conscientious Army but most Men were satisfy'd if it was not disbanded Ireland must be lost and England undone 70. The Parliament therefore taking into their consideration the necessity of relieving that dying Kingdom after long debate and much opposition from all that Party came at last to a resolution in May 1647 and vote that a certain proportion of Foot and Horse should forthwith be transported into Ireland as I remember seven Regiments of Foot of which four I am certain were to be taken out of the Army they further vote that no Foot should be continu'd in England but those that were to be for the necessary defence of the Garisons and that about five thousand Horse and Dragoons should remain under Pay in this Kingdom for quieting and preventing any stir or trouble either within or from abroad to interrupt proceedings till a settlement of Affairs Peoples Minds after such Commotions being like the Sea after a Storm unquiet for some time tho the wind be abated Those Men would have had a far greater number and press'd it earnestly saying We laid by our strength that all might be deliver'd back into the King's hands and tho even this proportion seem'd very great to discreet and moderate Men yet they pitch'd upon it partly to stop the mouths of these Railers and give satisfaction to all indifferent persons who look'd not so far into business and were apt enough to be misled into jealousies and suspicions and partly because they well hop'd it would be but for some short time that this charge should be continu'd upon the Kingdom 71. Here then is the Ax first laid to the root of this broad spreading Tree the Army a dismal Cypress the shadow and dropping whereof were so pernicious as to darken all the comfortable beams of our Sun-shine of Peace and suffer no good thing to prosper near it this vext the Children of darkness who now must cast about shake Heaven and Earth raise all the black Spirits of Hell confound Sea and Land and all the Elements rather than permit this to take place 72. The Parliament goes on with this work refers it to the Committee of Lords and Commons at Derby-house to see those Votes concerning Ireland put in execution The eleven Members were almost all of them of that Committee who may say Hinc illae Lacrimae For doing their parts together with the rest in discharge of the duty and trust which lay upon them to take care of that poor Kingdom and discovering the designs of the Army to frustrate all the good designs of the Parliament they incur the mortal hatred of the Party and Army which have driven them from their Homes and Country and City of London without the privity or consent of the House of Parliament The Earl of Warwick the Lord Dacres Sir William Waller Sir Iohn Clotworthy Major General Massey and Mr. Salloway are the persons employ'd These labour to dispose Officers and Soldiers to a compliance with the necessities of Ireland but at the very first were receiv'd with a mutinous acclamation amongst the Officers whom they had call'd together some of them crying out One and all and the whole Company disturb'd and distemper'd So as finding it not
convenient to deal with them together in a body they desir'd that such as had a sense of the miserable condition of that Kingdom and a will to ingage for the relief of it would repair to them to their Lodgings which very many did Colonels and Lieutenant Colonels and other Officers and undertook for themselves and a very considerable number of their Soldiers about 1500 or 2000 casting themselves wholly upon the Parliament for their conditions The rest of the Officers and Soldiers of the Army doing all that was possible to obstruct the Service decrying the Employment railing upon misusing threatning and thereby discourage those who engag'd calling them deserters of the Army and of their General and by great offers and assurance of better conditions to stay with them keeping of others 73. And at that very time did some of the Officers meet and prepare a Petition together with a Representation in the name of the whole Army That before disbanding there might be an Act of Indemnity with the King 's royal Assent to it that Auditors might speedily repair to the Army to casâ— up their Accounts for their Service from the beginning that none who had serv'd voluntarily in that Army should be compel'd to go out of the Kingdom that till disbanded Money might be sent down for their supply This was a fair beginning of the godly Army's taking care for Ireland and of those good Officers proceedings so obedient to the Parliament as meerly for that they had been made choice of and put into the rooms of far better Men than themselves now forsooth when the Parliament would have some of them go for Ireland they will put the whole Army into a Mutiny 74. For an Army or any part of it to join in a Petition tho but for Pay when their Superiors that Authority which they are to obey require any Duty to be perform'd or Service to be done by them as the present relieving of Ireland was this I think by the Rules of War has in all Armies been held a Mutiny and the Authors at least punish'd with death Here to be sure it shall mutiny to purpose and not disband according to the resolutions of Parliament they put them not only to petition in this mutinous way but to desire impossibilities as Tacitus says Non ut assequerentur sed causam seditioni not to rest satisfy'd with former Ordinances and the general care taken for all who had serv'd in these unhappy Wars but to demand a particular Act of Indemnity with his Majesty's approbation not that they car'd for him or meant ever to see him again in power to enact any thing which their proceedings since have made clear to all mens understandings though some discern'd it very well to be their principle and their drift from the beginning but they knew this would take up time could not possibly be so soon done and would elude all endeavours of disbanding So for Auditors to go and cast up their Accounts was the work of many Months and a strange demand for this godly obedient Army to make who by their own sayings were not Mercenary but had taken up Arms in judgment and conscience and out of love and duty to the Parliament not for their Pay Their other demand is as good and is as much as to say as that the Parliament should send none of them for Ireland they who were the Parliaments Army who as Mr. Cromwel made us believe would go with a word to any part of the World whither the Parliament would please to send them and therefore the other Armies and Major General Massey's Forces must be cashier'd those who certainly would have gone to make way for their entertainment These now who had receiv'd the Pay of the Kingdom so long the sole Army which like Pharaoh's lean Kine had eaten all the rest and had the Sword of the Parliament singly and wholly in their hands stand upon terms and will not be compell'd to go that is will not go for they know none is compell'd for Ireland nor was there any thought of it since many were willing to ingage in that War who were not so in this but this was enough to possess the Army with a prejudice against the imployment and against the intentions and proceedings of Parliament 75. This Petition and other of their practices so interrupted the business that our Commissioners at their return inform'd both Houses of it who yet were so tender of conceiving or expressing any great dislike of the contrivers and promoters of the Petition for obstructing the Service of Ireland and distempering the Army and that those who had but been drawn in it should not find themselves lessen'd in their good Opinion who resolv'd to pass by all and punish none except such as should mutinously persist in the promoting of it They sent likewise up for some of the Officers that had more notoriously appear'd therein and in discouraging and abusing them who offer'd themselves in the Irish Service Whose miscarriage though it was very gross and the answers of some of them at the House of Commons Bar mere collusion and equivocation as by name Lieutenant Colonel Pride's who being charg'd with causing the Petition to be read at the head of his Regiment deny'd it stoutly because it seems it was but at the head of every Company the Regiment not being drawn up together notwithstanding all this the House willing to bury what was past and hoping it would have gain'd them to a better obedience for the future sent them down again rather with respect than otherwise acquiescing with their denyal And this very act of Clemency was turn'd against them and afterwards when the Army came to do their work barefac'd no longer to excuse but justifie that Petition nay make the Parliament criminous for questioning it they upbraided the House with sending up for the Officers from their Charge when they had nothing to say to them 76. The necessity of disbanding more and more appearing it hastens the resolutions for it whereupon it was order'd that Officers and Soldiers should have six weeks Pay of their Arrears and so be disbanded those that would be taken in for Ireland to have six weeks more advance The Parliament at first pitch'd upon no greater Sum it being the highest that had yet been given to any Major General Massey's Brigade which had been much longer without Pay and had done better Service had no more The other Armies under my Lord of Essex and Sir William Waller which had likewise done more work the chief and main of it all as having had a stronger Force to grapple with and yet had receiv'd less Wages were put off with a fortnights Pay This made the Parliament think this proportion sufficient yet afterwards they of themselves increas'd it to two months which was more than any had before Supposing then there would be no question of a compliance they proceed to perfect what was further necessary for the
possible to free the Kingdom of that burden even dispensing with their own Honours 89. They pass several Ordinances for Indemnity freeing from pressing the relief of maim'd Soldiers Widows and Orphans with such alterations and amendments as the Army desir'd Concerning the proposition of Pay upon disbanding which was eight weeks they conceiv'd it could not be inlarg'd in regard of the great present expence to which they were necessitated for the supply of Ireland That the two hundred thousand Pounds which for those two occasions were then borrow'd of the City of London would scarce serve 90. Therefore upon these terms both Houses concluded the disbanding begin with the Foot and appoint to every Regiment as they lay quarter'd a Rendevous at some Town near where they were to lay down their Arms receive their Money and have Passes to their several homes Those that would engage for Ireland to march to some other place near hand there to receive Advance-money and further Orders 91. The several Ordinances and Orders were sent to Sir Thomas Fairfax who then had his head quarters at Bury and two Lords and four Commoners were appointed Commissioners to repair to the several places appointed for disbanding with Money and directions to see the Service perform'd and assist Sir Thomas Fairfax in it who was desir'd to issue out his Orders for the Regiments drawing to those places 92. Then it was refer'd to a Committee of the Army to put into a way the stating of the Accounts both of Officers and Soldiers and where more than two Months appear'd to be due the Commission Officer was to receive his Debenter from the Committee and Treasurer of the Army it being appointed where he should be paid The inferior Officer and common Soldier was to have his security upon the Excise Let any Man now judg if the Army had any cause to complain if all was not done that with any colour of reason and modesty could be expected 93. Our Commissioners who were the Earl of Warwick the Lord De la Ware Sir Gilbert Gerard Mr. Grinston and two others went to Chelmsford the first of Iune the Rendevous appointed for the General 's Regiment whither the Lieutenant Colonel came Lieutenant Colonel Iackson an honest and gallant Man with a resolution to conform to the Order of Parliament but a Command comes from the General to the Regiment to march another way for drawing the Quarter near together 94. For upon the 29 th of May when the Votes were sending down for disbanding Sir Thomas Fairfax had call'd a Council of War of the factious Officers the honest Officers who were for submitting to the Parliament and a quiet disbanding having before been most of them abus'd and forc'd away by the violence of the Soldiers and commands of the Agitators he conniving at it where they resolve upon an humble Advice to his Excellency That since their Grievances were not at all satisfy'd and Jealousies were very great it would not be safe to disband but rather draw the Army into a close posture there being a great propensity in the Soldiers to a general Rendevous and then resume the consideration of their Grievances and of the Votes for disbanding suspending for the present any proceedings upon these Votes which advice his Excellency follows So the Parliament commands to disband Sir Thomas to march away and draw to a Rendevous Fit he should be obey'd 95. At the very same time Colonel Rainsborough dos the like with his Regiment which was at Petersfield in Hampshire design'd for Iersey and so far upon the way himself being attending the House of Commons of which he was a Member and pretending to prepare for that Employment which had been entrusted to him but in truth to give his Soldiers opportunity to mutiny as the rest of the Army did who to give them more time for it would not presently acquaint the House with the Intelligence he had receiv'd of their disorder but having it in the morning kept it to himself till towards the evening even denying his knowledg of any such thing when Sir William Lewis inform'd the House of it and about five or six a Clock in the Afternoon the House then by accident sitting as these deportments of the Army gave them cause sufficient spoke of it said they were in a great distemper resolv'd not to march to the Sea side but return to Oxford whereupon being sent down to quiet them and reduce them to obedience he went immediately but put himself at the head of them and instead of taking care for Iersey march'd to Oxford first so to the Army and none more violent in the Rebellion than he for which good Service and joyning with the Agitators in their highest exorbitancies for the destruction of the King and altering of Government and particularly in a Petition for taking away the House of Lords the House of Commons since made him Vice Admiral And the Lords to the eternizing the honour for their gentle tame dispositions consented 96. But one thing was yet wanting as they thought for the carrying on their design and amusing the poor people of England with an expectation of their settling a Peace so to make them sit still and look on whilst they trampled upon Parliament City and Kingdom which was to be possest of the King's Pâ—rson and make the world believe they would bring him up to his Parliament and set him on his Throne For this it seems a meeting was appointed at Lieutenant General Cromwel's upon the thirtieth of May where it is resolv'd That Cornet Ioyce should with a Party of Horse go to Holmby and seize upon his Majesty which is presently executed and given out that others had the like design which they had prevented At first it must seem only to be the act of Mr. Ioyce Cromwel protested he knew nothing of it tho he was the Man appointed it to be done as appears by what has been recited taken out of some of their own Authors one that calls himself Sirrah Niho and others Sir Thomas Fairfax writes a Letter to the House professes the same for himself as in the presence of God with a large undertaking for the rest of his Officers and the body of the Army And perhaps he said true I would fain be so charitable as to believe it nor indeed do I think the good Man is privy to all their Plots he must have no more than what they are pleas'd to carve and chew for him but must swallow all and own them when they come abroad Here then they have the King Ioyce drives away the Guards forc'd Colonel Greaves to fly whom else they threaten'd to kill for no man's life must stand in their way Murder being no Sin in the visible Saints carries away his Majesty and the Commissioners that attend him Prisoners and immediately sends up a Letter to certifie what he had done with directions it should be deliver'd to Cromwel and he absent to Sir Arthur Haslerig
in his room The Self-denying Ordinance was a trick for this purpose In the begining of these troubles Sir William Lewis not agreeing with their Palate being Governour of Portsmouth they make the Earl of Essex who was then General send for him upon a supposition that he was a favourer of Malignants and of many other things which being examin'd by the Committee of Safety he gave so good an account of himself as the Committee could not do less than write a Letter in his justification to the General leaving it to him to repair him as he thought fit Then some of these honest Men who themselves had subscrib'd to it sent a Letter privately to my Lord of Essex by which they advis'd his not sending him back to Portsmouth which jugling of theirs he receiv'd with indignation and wish'd Sir William Lewis to return to his Command but he seeing what Men he had to deal with quitted the Employment and to say the truth he only can be happy who has nothing to do with them except it be in punishing them according to their demerits 173. They have now they think both Houses to their minds ready to do whatsoever they please Accordingly the House of Commons orders those of the eleven Members who were beyond Sea upon their Passes which gave them liberty of travelling six Months to appear the 16 th of October taking no course to have them summon'd only notice to be given at their Houses or places of their last abode where few of us had any Servants my self only an old Porter and a Maid or two 174. Then they go on to the publick business such work as the Army had cut out for them Which were certain Proposals that Sir Thomas Fairfax and the Council of War had sent them the 1 st of August sign'd by Iohn Rushworth Secretary now far above Iohn Brown and Henry Elsing In these they 〈◊〉 down a new platform of Government an Vtopia of their own take upon them to alter all give Rules to all cajole the King claw with the people cheat both never intending good to either The reading of the Articles themselves which are in print will satisfie every body they need no Comment and are so many and of so vast a comprehension as to treat of them all to shew the absurdities contradictions impossibilities unreasonableness which many of them contain would swell this to too big a Volume I will only speak to some few and shew how they dissolve the whole frame of this Monarchy taking a sunder every part pulling out every pin and new making it First The constitutions and proceedings of Parliaments projecting new things for their beginnings continuances and endings for the elections of Members privileges and customs of the Houses which they had violated before de facto but now must be alter'd de jure The Militia of the Kingdom where they will have a General appointed to command it Pay setled to maintain it a Council of State to superintend it which signifies to establish by Act of Parliament this holy Army the Council of War and General Cromwel Then matters of the Church where they will have no power exercis'd to preserve Religion and Piety they would have Bishops so they may be just Cyphers and all Acts to be repeal'd which hinder Men from being Atheists or Independents for no body must be enjoyn'd to come to the Church and there may be Meetings to practise any thing of superstition and folly the Covenant must be laid aside In sum it is to take away all Government and set up Independency They propose a new way for making grand Jury-men Justices of Peace and Sheriffs When these and many other things which they mention are settled which will take up time enough then the King Queen and Royal Issue to be restor'd which is as much as just nothing Next they make the people believe they do as great matters for them will have a liberty of petitioning which is but to make way for schismatical seditious Petitions for if any Petition stick at their Diana none so fierce to punish Who more than they against all the Petitions from London and the Counties for disbanding of the Army and complaining of their factious ways how eager were they against the Petitions promoted in the City in the beginning for which Benion was fined and many troubled and some Petitions out of Kent for which some Gentlemen were committed How barbarously did they fall upon some poor women which came one time to Westminster petitioning for Peace commanding a Troop of Horse to run over them the Train'd Bands to shoot at them whereby many were wounded and some kill'd Yet the world must think they will have it free for all to petition Then they will have the Excise taken off from some Commodities whereon the poor people live and a time limited for taking off the whole which was but to please and amuse them till they had got the mastery of those who they thought stood in their way but being Masters themselves they soon sent out a Command more now than any Proclamation or Ordinance to forbid all Soldiers any way to interrupt the levying of the Excise orany other Tax charg'd by the Parliament which they had made merely instrumental to poll the people for the support of them and their Faction They will have no Tythes to be paid and so Ministers to be starv'd for in truth they would have no Ministers at all or rather no Ministery like Iulian the Apostate take away presbyterium not presbyteros for Ministers that will be subservient to them like Mr. Marshal shall be much made of The rules and course of Law must be reduc'd indeed they will need no Law for they will rule by the Sword and the Councils of War shall supply all Courts of Justice Prisoners for debt if they have not wherewith to pay must be freed so we may be sure few debts shall be satisfy'd for it is an easie thing so to convey or conceal an Estate as nothing visible will be left for doing right to Creditors None must be compell'd to answer to questions tending to the accusing themselves or their nearest Relations in criminal Causes witness their Orders to make men under great Penalties state their Case in no less matter than Treason therefore this is understood to extend only to the privilege of their own Faction We must alter all Statutes and Customs of Corporations and of imposing Oaths which may be constru'd to the molestation of religious people that is Independents for all others are Greeks and Barbarians Yet these men in how many Letters and Declarations do they say and protest they have no thought of setting up Independency nor to meddle with any thing but what concerns the Soldiery and leave all the rest to the wisdom of the Parliament Indeed they conclude their Proposals with what concerns the Soldiery That provision may be made for payment of Arrears to the Army and the