thing which would tend to his or the Kingdoms benefit on the 10th of July dissolved it by Proclamation and declared his Resolution to call a new one which should sit on the 17th of the following October In the mean while Sir George Wakeman with Marshall Rumley and Corker three Benedictine Monks were tryed before the Lord Chief Justice Scroggs for High Treason relating to the Plot But the Evidence of Oates and Bedlow beginning now to be less credited than formerly and the ferment of peoples fury being somewhat abated the Jury brought them in Not Guilty and Wakeman was thereupon discharged from his Imprisonment as the other Three had likewise been had they not in their Defence upon their Trials acknowledged themselves to be Priests Wakeman's being thus acquitted startled the Mobille who expected all that were accused of that Plot should have been condemned of course without respect to the Truth or Falshood of the Accusation And the Faction endeavoured to improve their dissatisfaction into Rage and Sedition by several scurrilous Libels wherein they accuse Scroggs of perverting Justice and taking a Bribe of several thousand Guinneas from the Spanish Embassador to save Wakeman's Life from which Aspersions he sufficiently cleared himself in a Speech which he made in the Kings-Bench-Court on the first day of the ensuing Michaelmas-Term During this interval of Parliament the King was violently taken ill of an Ague at Windsor insomuch that his Life was thought to be in some danger Whereupon the Duke as well to demonstrate his Affection to his Brother as to prevent the danger which as things then stood might peradventure have happen'd to him in case the King should have died in his absence came Post from Flanders to Windsor But Heaven designing to lengthen out his Life till he had reduced the great Affairs of the Nation to a better Settlement and could leave his Succession more safe and secure it pleased God that he recovered his Health soon after to the great Joy of all the whole Nation And the City to express the pleasure they took therein sent the Lord Mayor and the Court of Aldermen with a Train of thirty Coaches and about a hundred Horse to Congratulate him upon his Recovery and when he returned soon after to White-Hall many Bonefires were made throughout the whole City attended with great Acclamations of Joy and Expressions of Loyalty Whilst he lay Sick at Windsor the Duke of Monmouth who had been by the Kings favour raised to as high a Station as a Subject was well capable of being then Lord General of all His Majesties Land Forces Master of the Horse and Captain of the Kings Life-Guards not content with the Honours already heaped upon him but aspiring as was thought altho without all Reason in regard of his Illegitimacy to the Crown it self endeavoured to prevail with some great Men at Court to take part with his Interest which being made known to the King by the Earl of Oxford who having for his eminent Loyalty a considerable party of Horse under his Command commonly called the Lord of Oxfords Troop was importuned by Sir Thomas Armstrong as was reported either in direct terms or so as his meaning might easily be understood to declare himself for Monmouth in case the King should dye He conceived a just Indignation against him for that bold and audacious Attempt and discovered his incensed Majesty by taking away his Commission of Lord General and soon after of his remaining places of Captain of the Life-Guard Master of the Horse Governor of Hull c. And to prevent Peoples being deluded by his Chimeâ—ical Fictions publisht a Declaration wherein having first taken notice of the great Industry and Malice wherewith men of seditious and restless Spirits spread abroad a most false and scandalous Report of a Marriage or Contract of Marriage at least between Mrs. Walters who was that Dukes Mother and him designing thereby to fill the minds of his loving Subjects with doubts and fears and divide them if possible into Parties by bringing into question the clear and undoubted Right of his true and lawful Heirs and Successors to the Crown he did to obviate the fatal consequences so dangerous and malicious a report might have in future times upon the Peace of his Kingdoms assure them That having found a former Rumor that there was a writing yet extant and lately produced before several Persons whereby that Marriage or Contracâ— at least would appear was not only revived again but improved also witâ— new Additions by insinuating thaâ— several Lords and others were yet living who were pretended to bâ—â— present at the Marriage hâ— had notwithstanding he knew fuâ—â— well it was impossible there should bâ— any truth in this Report since noâ—â— thing in the World could be morâ— false and groundless than the pretencâ— of such a Marriage or Contract bâ—â—tween him and the said Mrs. Walterâ— alias Barlow called before him anâ— caused to be Interogated in Council such Lords and other Persons as the common rumour surmised to have been present at the pretended Marriage or to know something of it or of the said writing And that tho it then appeared to all his Council upon their hearing the said Persons severally Interrogated and their denial to have been ever present at any such Marriage or to know any thing of it or of any such writing that the raising and spreading that Report which was so inconsistent with it self was the effect of deep malice in some few and of loose and idle discourse in others yet he thought it requisite for the satisfying all in general to publish a Declaration he had made in the January was Twelvemonth written with his own Hand in the following words There being a false and malicious Report industriously spread abroad by some who are neither Friends to me or the Duke of Monmouth as if I should have been either Contracted or Married to his Mother and tho I am confident that this idle Story cannot have any effect in this Age yet I thought it my Duty in relation to the true Succession of this Crown and that future Ages may not have any pretence to give disturbance upon that Score or any other of this nature to declare as I do here Declare in the Presence of Almighty God That I never was Married nor gave any Contract to any Woman whatsoever but to my Wife Queen Katharine to whom I am now Married In Witness whereof he had set his Hand at White-Hall the 6th of January 1678-79 In the Presence of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the two Secretaries Coventry and Williamson And assured them that to strengthen that Declaration he had in the March following made a more publick and solemn Declaration to the same purpose in his Privy Council written likewise with his own Hand and had caused a true Transcript thereof to be entred into the Council Book which for the better Confirmation he Signed with his own hand and caused the Lords
be made which was delivered to the keeping of three Commissioners viz Keeble Whitlock and Lisly and considered of new Oaths to be adminstred to the Judges who thereupon met and upon debate six of them were contented to continue in their Employments provided the Fundamental Laws of the Kingdom were not altered For whose satisfaction the Juncto by their Declaration of the Ninth of February did assure them that they were fully resolved to maintain and would uphold preserve and keep the Fundamental Laws of this Nation for and concerning the preservation of the Laws Properties and Liberties of the People with all things incident thereunto They proceeded likewise to appoint such Persons as they thought would be most firm to their Interest to exercise the Offices of Justices of the Peace throughout the Nation and constituted a Council of State consisting of about forty in number whereof five might be Lords And finally to secure all whereas they had before onely repealed they now abolish and make void the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy But notwithstanding all their endeavours to render themselves secure and firm in their Government yet the People began now to be generally discontented And those who had formerly affected them growing sensible of the Inconveniencies that were like to ensue upon the cutting off of their Prince beginning to abhor their practices there was a general Plot carried on against them in all the Counties of England Which obliged them to send Forces into most parts to awe them and thereby the better to keep them in order Notwithstanding which Contrivances of theirs to bar up the way to that Imperial Throne which they had impudently invaded and parted into shares amongst themselves there were some who had Courage and Loyalty enough left them to assert the King's Right and their own Duty in a Printed Proclamation thrown about the Streets And to convince the Juncto at Westminster that all men would not be wheedled to run a gadding after their Calves at Bethel but that there were some still left who would tread in the old Path and beaten Tract of Government in the succession of Charles the Second to the Crown of England which Proclamation was as follows We the Noblemen Judges Knights Lawyers Gentlemen Ministers Free-holders Merchants Citizens c. and other Freemen of England do according to our Allegiance and Covenant by these presents heartily joyfully and unanimously acknowledge and proclaim the Illustrious Charles Prince of Wales next Heir of the Blood Royal to his Father King Charles whose late wicked and traiterous Murder we do from our Souls abominate and all Parties and Consenters thereunto to be by hereditary Birthright and lawful Succession Rightful and undoubted King of Great Brittain France and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging And that we will faithfully constantly and sincerely in our several places and callings defend and maintain His Royal Person Crown and Dignity with our Estates Lives and last drop of our Blood against all Opposers thereof whom we do hereby declare to be Traitors and Enemies to His Majesty and His Kingdoms In testimony whereof we have ordered and caused to be published and proclaimed throughout all Countrys and Corporations of this Realm the first day of February and the first year of His Majesties Reign God save King Charles the Second Which Proclamation although without any Solemnity or indeed open Appearance met with the same chearful Reception and inward Loyal Resolutions as if Vent had been given to a publick manifestation of Duty and Joy by His Majesties present ascending the Throne For it revived the hearts of his mourning and disconsolate Subjects to see the sure and certain Succession thereof asserted and continued in the same most beloved and darling Name the Eldest Branch and descended of their martyr'd Soveraign in whose Ruins the Regicides thought to have rak'd up and buried all Claims and Just Titles to the Imperial Diadem of these Kingdoms The said Out-cries and lamentable Groans sent forth by all Loyal Subjects at the Loss of their Head together with the Martyrs Instructions and his George which were according to his Fathers desire sent him by the Dutch Embassador found him at the Hague in Holland where he then kept his Court and was first saluted King and the horrour thereof so seized his great Soul with wonder and astonishment that it had certainly sunk under the weight of it had not the Religious Consideration that he ought not to sorrow as one without hope buoyed up his Spirit and Reason forbid him to cast away himself with grief who was then become the only hope of three Kingdoms Generous Rage prompting Princes to Revenge rather than Despair which was not to be accomplisht by weeping Eyes but by wise Counsels and valiant Performances Wherefore he bravely cheered up and reassumed his wonted Courage Comfort State and Majesty And for the better managing of his Affairs went soon after to Paris to solicit that Court to embrace his Interest and afford him some Assistance for the recovery of his Right and the redressing his Subjects miseries by discountenancing the English Rebels and furnishing him with that competency of Money Men Arms and Ammunition which might enable him not to Invade his Country but to encourage his own Subjects to rescue themselves from a forced Slavery But the French King being under Age and Cardinal Mazarine who then governed the great Affairs of that Kingdom being no Friend to this banisht and distressed King but holding a correspondence with his rebellious Subjects he was able to procure no Assistance from thence Whereupon he next applied himself to Spain whither he sent the Lord Cottington as his Embassador who upon his arrival there was confronted by a Competitor viz. Ascham who called himself an Embassador from the then New Majesties of England until he was dispatcht by some Switz After which Cottington was dismist with this Answer That were it any thing in the King of Spain's own Dominion which his Master of Great Brittain had desired it should have been no sooner requested than granted But being a Forreign Quarrel he could not interest himself therein in regard it was not reasonable he should busie himself in other mens matters who had so many Irons in the fire himself But in the mean time the Emperor the Princes of Germany the Kings of Denmark and Sweden being acquainted with the present circumstance of his Affairs by his several Embassadors sent to each of them they highly resented his deplorable condition and resolved his speedy assistance and supply And Holland upon his Account and the Interest of his Sister the Princess of Orange did upon terms agreed on between the late King and their Embassador two days before his death resolve not to vail to this younger Sisters State as they had been wont to do to the Kings of England but by the Forlorn of some private acts of Hostility begin that difference which soon after brake out into an open War Nor
as well as good and gracious King which the whole series of his Reign discovered him to be About this time by Order not Creation he was first called Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwal and Earl of Chester the Revenues belonging to each of them being assigned him for the maintenance of his Court the several Offices whereof were pitcht upon and appointed by the King his Father who taking great delight to see his Children about him ordered the Prince to attend him in several of his Progresses and particularly in that to Oxford where they were entertained with the acting of the Royal Slave which prov'd too prophetick of both their approaching Calamities During his abode there his Discourse with several Learned Doctors was so extraordinary and above the common capacity of his years that it administred matter of amazement and wonder to the whole University In the Parliament which was called soon after he took his place among the Peers who were now his equals but were hereafter to become his Subjects and there he first tryed how a Coronet would fit his Royal Head before the death of his Father called him to wear the Imperial Crown and about this time he was with great Solemnity installed Knight of the Garter together with divers of the Nobility who were his Attendance and received the same Honour with him But after all this a sad misfortune dampt the publick Joy and threatned the untimely setting of our Rising Sun for in the year 39 he first brake his Arm and was afterward afflicted with a Violent Fever and a small spice of the Jaundice but it was not long before those Clouds of fear were dissipated by the perfect recovery of his health Some unhappy misunderstandings beginning now to grow between his Father and the Parliament who knowing a King would do no wrong himself resolved to call some of his Council to an account for pretended miscarriages among whom the most Eminent was the Earl of Strafford who first led the way being by no known Law as that Judicious King who was present at the Tryal declared attainted of Treason and the King prevailed upon by the Importunity of his People and a Letter from the Earl himself who rather chose to be made a Sacrifice than to hazard his Majesties Affairs to sign a Warrant for his Execution But the King 's tender Conscience being extreamly checkt and troubled for that unwilling consent presently sent a Letter to the Peers which was written with his own Hand to desire them to forbear or at least delay the Execution of his Sentence and that it might be the more prevalent with them he sent it by the Prince which was the first Publick Business we find him imployed in which being a work of Mercy proved so good an Omen of his own Inclination that it afterward became so predominant in him as even to rejoyce over his exactest Justice although he could not then prevail on the behalf of that unfortunate Earl And not long after we find him engaged in another Publick Business being one of the Chief Assistants in the performing the Solemnities of his Sisters Marriage with the Prince of Orange The fatal Breach between the King and Parliament growing still wider and hastening to an unnatural Rupture he resolved notwithstanding many of his Nobles and Faithful Servants proffered their Service to curb any Insolencies that should be attempted on him to remove himself some time from London hoping that thereby their Jealousies and Rumours would wast and perish and therefore commanded the Prince together with his Queen and some of his Servants to attend him at Greenwich and from thence to Hampton-Court whither some Commissioners being sent to him for a Pacification they made their first Application to the Prince as the most proper Mediator between the King and his two Houses of Parliament So early was it that he began to tread in the steps and labour to imitate his Grandfather in becoming a Peace-maker which not succeeding according to expectation he accompanied his Father together with the present King to Theobalds leaving the Rebels to fret themselves at their escape and from thence into the North where he beheld a black Cloud begin to gather which though small in appearance yet was big with that dismal Storm that in a short time spread it self over his Father himself and three Nations For the King repairing to Hull to take a view of that Magazine which his Treasure had purchased and his Crown claimed as one of its Jura Regalia the Magistrate thereof bearing a Sword by a Power only derived from him without which Majesty it self is but a Solemn Trifle and Authority but a gilded Pageantry He was by Sir John Hotham who was sent thither by the Parliament denied Entrance and forced to wait with the Prince and the Duke of York at the Gate of that Garrison and could at last prevail for nothing more but only his two Sons being admitted as Children to see the Town which when they had done they accompanied their Father to York whom they now beheld deprived of that which Gr. Tholosanus calls the chiefest Flower in a Prince's Diadem and disarmed of that Majesty which of right belonged to him where the Prince was by his Father made a Captain of a choice Guard of Loyal Nobles and Gentlemen who there repaired to him For such was the Indulgent Care he had of his Subjects that he resolved they should hazard themselves no farther in the defence of his Person than he would hazard himself for the defence of their Laws Liberties and that his Eldest Son who was to succeed him in his Crown Dignity should accompany them in all those Dangers to which they should expose themselves In which Quality he attended his Father through the several Stages he past as a Partner with him in his Troubles the greatest whereof was as himself declares in his incomparable 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his unhappy involving his Innocent Off-spring in those Troubles that deserved to have been born to better Fortune At Edghill Fight notwithstanding the tenderness of his years he gave such proof of his Valour and Courage and was so little terrified with the horrid noise of Guns Drums and Trumpets the prancing of Horses and the clashing of Swords to which he had till then never been used that the Earl of Lindsey who observed it said to those about him There is a Child born to end that War we now begin But the Battel being lost he returned to his Father at Oxford where he was committed to the Care of his Kinsman the Marquess of Hartford then Chancellor of that University who provided him several Tutors in each Language Art and Science wherein it concerned him as a Prince to be acquainted and he applied himself to his Studies with as much pain and seriousness as the severest Gown-man in the place his great Soul entertaining nothing but deep thoughts profound Maxims and Intricate Mysteries and he would severely
thing â—one by them And although he expected 〈◊〉 should have an Army ready to good the agreement yet he intendeâ— they should prevail more by their Reasons than their Forces The managing of this Treaty between the two Kingdoms being a business that so much concerned him 〈◊〉 particular as well as Europe in generaâ— he condescended to negotiate thereâ—â— in his own person notwithstanding 〈◊〉 had Residents in most Christian Kingdoms And in order thereunto betooâ— himself first to one Court and then 〈◊〉 another the Duke of York accoâ—â—â— panying him incognito being sensibâ—â— of the danger which might accrue 〈◊〉 to his cause and Person upon the scrâ—ples of a solid interview it being genâ—rally observed the interviews of Priâ—ces are unhappy And by the way 〈◊〉 he passed through France he gave a 〈◊〉 sit to his Mother intending before 〈◊〉 had undertook the negotiation of 〈◊〉 publick reconciliation between 〈◊〉 two Kingdoms to practice a privaâ—â— one between himself and her who haâ— declar'd herself very much displeâ—â—â—â— with him upon the account of his prâ—ceedings in the business of the Duke 〈◊〉 Glocester which having accomplisheâ— and finding that that Court did 〈◊〉 give him the honour due to his Person nor an entertainment suitable to his expectations He return'd with his Brother to Diep in Normandy going thither by Post with such hast and privacy that some mens hopes and others fears imagin'd they were gone over into England an attempt at that time too dangerous for so wise and politick a Prince to adventure on From Diep he remov'd toward the Frontiers of Spain by the way of Roan where he was nobly treated by Mr. Scot an English Merchant and entertain'd with a Sermon suitable to his present condition and from thence he went by post to Bajonne accompany'd by the Marquess of Ormond and so towards the two Ministers of State that were negotiating the Peace between the two Crowns at St. Jon de Luz The news of this approach did no sooner reach Don Lewis's Lodgings but he prepares to meet him with as much splendour as if our Soveraign had been his Majesty of Spain or himself an English Subject for when he met him he immediately alighting from his Horse and kneeling though in a very dirty and inconvenient place embrac'd and kiss'd his Majesties Knees and walk'd before him bare-headed to the place he had order'd to be made ready for him which was the best Lodging the Town afforded where the next day he received a formal visit from that sly close and reserv'd Politician Cardinal Mazarine whom he entertain'd with such a discreet wariness as if he design'd to let him know and those that saw him understood well enough thereby that he understood the walking Cabala almost as well as he did himself Never were any of his great affairs so well carried on as that was which he manag'd himself for by the advantage of his own incomparable Prudence and sage Experience together with his powerful Majesty and Presence he so far prevail'd in his negotiations there that notwithstanding Lockharts close applications in behalf of his Masters he not only prevented any article that was offer'd and prest in favour of his rebellious adversaries of England but also procur'd himself to be included by Spain as the most honourable Ally in the intended Peace and obtain'd a promise from both those Favourites that they would in pursuance of their Masters friendship with him descended as soon as possible to treat of such particulars that might be proposed as the most sutable to the promoting of his Restauration and consult what Counsels ought to be taken what Men Money and other supplys their respective Masters should afford and how each should be employed for the greatest usefulness to his Service After which he was dismist with as much Respect and Honour as he was received Whilst this Treaty was managing by the two Favourites the Duke of York was in consideration of his great worth and the Service he had done for Spain offered the honour of being made Constable of Castile and Lord high Admiral of Spain which he handsomly refused that Prince having a peculiar way of denying requests as pleasantly to some as he grants them to others And indeed it was at that time prudence in him to wave any courtesie that might be proffered by Spain or any other Popish Court least it might somewhat have retarded his Brothers affairs in England by rendring him suspected of too near compliance with the Catholick Interest and have rendred the attempts of those who were there endeavouring to clear both his and the Kings Integrity and Constancy to the reformed Religion the better to prepare the way for their Re-establishment vain and fruitless especially since their â—mplacable Enemies made it their chief design and business to abuse the Credulous with false surmizings and unjust suspicions of their faithfulness to the Protestant Religion and Interest to which they had adhered with so much resolution and constancy that neither smiles nor frowns the prospect of the greatest enjoyments nor the fear of the heaviest sufferings the highest Favours from Rome nor the basest Affronts from England could tempt them to the least thought of disloyalty to it The King having finisht his negotiations at the Treaty of St. Jan de Luz to his great satisfaction returned with his Brother the Duke of York through France to Brussels only staying some short time at Carentia and Paris with the Queen his Mother And to make his advantage of these stirs and continual alterations in the Government of England sine the death of Cromwel which naturally tended towards the promoting his Restauration whereby the Nation could only be setled notwithstanding they were all design'd to prevent and hinder it he sent over diverse Commissions to diverse worthy and loyal Persons to raise Forces on his behalf and otherwise to act as they saw convenient for the promoting that grand design by virtue of which Commissions a general Plot was laid for the raising of Forces in all the Countyes in England to declare for him But some part of that business being intrusted to the management of the Lady Howard Daughter to the Earl of Barkshire who though loyal enough yet being in regard of her Sex incapable of secrecy it was soon discovered and so London which was the main place secured and the most considerable Persons that were to have done any thing therein were disabled by imprisonment or otherwise several Troops of Horse likewise commanded into Kent and Surrey and the raisiâ—g the Militia hastned in every County so that no considerable party was able to appear any where except in Cheshire where most of the Nobility and Gentry of that County and Lancashire were up under the command of Sir George Booth with whom and General Monk from Scotland was to have joyned if they had not been so suddainly supprest And in North Wales were most of the Inhabitants assembled together under the command of Sir
to be Elected for Members of that Parliament as were known to favour their Discipline yet that no part of the Government might be left unjustified and unreared the greater part of those chosen for Members of the House of Commons were as well affected to the Restoration and Settlement of the Church as the former had been to the Restoration and Settlement of the Crown The Eighth of May being come when they were to sit according to the Splendid Custome of opening those great Assemblies He rode in State and Tryumph from White-Hall to Westminster being arrayed in his Royal Robes and his Crown on his head and having placed himself on His Throne in the House of Peeres commanded the Commons to attend him there and in a most pleasant and obliging manner declared his great Content in meeting them Telling them that he was very confident that it would prove a happy Parliament and acquainting them with his design of his Marrying the Infanta of Portugal which Match having been proposed to his Privy Council and highly approved of by them he thought none there present would willingly have him live and die a Batchellor In confidence whereof he had newly made and signed a Treaty with that King by his Embassadour Don Francisco de Mello who was then ready to depart with the said Treaty in which the Article of Marriage was inserted The Kings Speech being ended and the Lord Chancellor Hide having given them a further account of the Reasons why they were called and the happy Effects his Master expected from their Sitting The Commons made Choice of Sir Edward Turner the Dukes Attorney General for their Speaker who in his Speech upon his being presented to and acceptâ— of by the King exprest the hopes of that House That as His Majesty had manifested his great Indulgence to their former which was but his Adopted So he had a fuller Blessing for that present which was his Natural Parliament being called by His immediate Writ The Convocation of the English Clergy being all Eminent Learned and Pious Persons met likewise on the Sixteenth of that Month at Westminster and a Parliament began about the same time in Ireland The Parliament at the special instance and desire of the King who was willing to give the highest demonstration of his Care and Resolution for the assuring to his Subjects whatsoever was contained and promised in His Declaration from Breda and the Act of Pardon first began with an Act for the Confirmation of the Act of Oblivion which being done by the Free Parliament not called by the Kings Writ was thought by the Guilty not to be valid and secure enough to them and that they might by a wise provision before hand prevent all Objections and Scruples which might otherwise have been raised upon that account They Ratified and Confirmed all the other Laws made therein and then proceeded to frame such new ones as were necessary for the better setling and maintaining the Publick Peace wherein that for Regulating Corporations as the most necessary had the Precedency wherein Commissioners were Impowered to displace all such as bore Offices and were any way suspected to be ill-willers to the Government and the Kings Authority or should refuse the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy or the Oath of Abjuration which was indeed at that time the only or at least the chief Test of Loyalty in regard they were therein to renounce the Solemn League and Covenant as unlawful in it self and illegally imposed But during the Houses Debate about that Bill Mr. Prin who had alwayes indulged himself the liberty of Quarrelling with every thing that any way ran counter to his inclinations could not refrain against the Priviledge of the House whereof he was a Member from publishing his Reasons against the said Bill affirming it was contrary to Magna Charta but the Commons having Commanded their Serjeant at Arms to Seize the Printer and Prin owning himself to be the Author he was brought to the Barr and severely rebuked by the Speaker but upon his humble submission and the House's favourable reflection upon his great Endeavours for the Restitution of the King he was remitted the Censure and Punishment which he had incurred by that over-sight And that they might shew their respect and veneration to the Prelacy by relieving it from the Oppressions and justifying of it from the Calumnies and Reproaches of the late times they Repealed the Act of the 1 Caroli 7. which forbid the Bishops medling in Civil affaires and debarred them from their Priviledg of Peerage in the House of Lords to all which Honours they were by this Repeal restored as fully as ever they had been before The free Parliament having before their desolution respitted the punishment of several of the Regicides the Parliament next reassumed the Consideration of that matter and having caused the Lord Manson Sir Henry Mildmay and Mr. Robert Wallop to be brought to the Bar declared their Estates to be confiscated and their Persons and Posterity degraded from all Titles and Armes of Gentility and that they should be carried back again to the Tower and from thence be drawn through the City of London to Tyburn on the 30th of the following January and so back again with halters about their necks upon Sledges and after that to suffer perpetual imprisonment And having now done as much as could be expected from them for the present they were adjourned by the King who declared his great satisfaction in what they had done and that his confidence iâ— them had not in the least deceivedâ— him About which time the Duke oâ— York having been chosen Captain to the Artillery Company in London honoured them with his Presence and led them in their Ground And in the August following the Kings Sollicitor Sir Heneage Finch being chosen Reader of the Inner-Temple he was pleased to indulge him a Favour never granted before by any of his Royal Progenitors to any of those famous Societies accepting of an invitation to dine with him in that Hall These endeavours of the Parliament to settle the Nation upon the Foundation of a well-grounded and lasting Peace by excluding from all Offices as well Sacred as Civil and Military those that refused to take the aforesaid Oaths did highly urge the Discontented of the late Anarchy whose anger suggested to them some hopes of undoing all again In order whereunto they laid new designs and Conspiracies and had several meetings to consult about them but their designes proved Abortive by a timely discovery Barbone Moyer Salmon Wildman Haynes Ireton and others were seized and Committed to safe custody The King out of a Noble and generous inclination to shew Respect and Veneration to the Memory of his Friends when it was out of his power to reward their Persons and considering likewise that the Living are usually very much taken with kindnesses exprest to the dead did about this time give order for the Re-interring those two Loyal Commanders Sir