more than My owne particular ends makes Me now at last desire that I having something to say that concerns both I desire before Sentence be given that I may be heard in the Painted Chamber before the Lords and Commons this delay cannot be prejudiciall to you whatsoever I say if that I say no reason those that heare Me must be Iudges I cannot be Iudge of that that I have if it be reason and really for the welfare of the Kingdome and the liberty of the Subject I am sure its very well worth the hearing therefore I doe conjure you as you love that which you pretend I hope its reall the Liberty of the Subject and peace of the Kingdome that you will grant Me this hearing before any Sentence passed but if I cannot get this liberty I doe protest that your faire shewes of Liberty and Peace are pure shewes and that you will not heare your King The President said This was a declining the Iurisdiction of the Court and a delay Yet the Court vvithdrevv for half an hovver advised upon it and sate againe Bradshaw said to the King That the Court had considered what He had moved and of their owne Authority the returne from the Court is this That they have been too much delayed by You already and they are Judges appointed by the highest Authority and Judges are no more to delay than they are to deny justice and notvvithstanding vvhat You have offered they are resolved to proceed to Sentence and to Judgement that is their unanimous resolution The King pressed againe againe that He might be heard by the Lords and Commons in the Painted Chamber with great earnestnesse and was as often denied by Bradshaw at last the King desired that this Motion of His might be entered Bradshaw began in a long Speech to declare the Grounds of the Sentence much aggravating the Kings offences and misapplying both Law and History to his present purpose When Bradshaw had done speaking the Clerk read the Sentence drawn up in Parchment to this effect 84. The Sentence against His Majesty THat whereas the Commons of England in Parliament had appointed them an high Court of Iustice for the Trial of Charls Stuart King of England before whom He had been three times Convented and at the first time a Charge of High Treason and other high crimes and misdemeanors was read in behalfe of the Kingdome of England c. * Here the Clerk read the aforesaid Charge Which Charge being read unto Him as aforesaid He the said Charls Stuart was required to give His Answer but He refused so to doe and so expressed the severall passages at His Tryall in refusing to Answer For all which Treasons and crimes this Court doth adjudge That He the said Charles Stuart as a Tyrant Traytour Murtherer and a publique Enemy shall be put to Death by severing of His Head from His Body After the Sentence read the President said This Sentence now read and published it is the Act Sentence Iudgement and resolution of the whole Court Here the whole Court stood up as assenting to what the President said King Will you heare Me a word Sir Bradshaw Sir You are not to be heard after the Sentence King No Sir Bradshaw No. Sir by your favour Sir Guard withdraw your Prisoner King I am not suffered to speak expect what Iustice other people will have These are the Names of such Persons as did actually sit as Judges upon the Tryall of His Majesty with the Councel and Attendants of the Court. Oliver Cromwel Lieu. Generall Com. Gen. Ireton Major Gen. Skippon Sir Hardresse Waller Colonel Thomas Harrison Col. Edward Whalley Col. Thomas Pride Col. Isaac Ewer Col. Rich Ingolsby Sir Henry Mildmay Thomas Lord Grey Philip Lord Lisle Will Lord Munson Sir John Danvers Sir Tho Maleverer Sir John Bowcher Sir James Harringtoâ— Sir William Brereton Will Hennigham Es Isaac Pennington Ald Thomas Atkins Ald Col. Rowland Wilson Sir Peter Wentworth Col. Henry Martyn Col. William Purefoy Col. Godfrey Bosvill Colonel John Berkstead Sir Will Cunstable Col. Edward Ludlow Col. Jo Hutchingson Col. Rob Titchburne Col. Owen Roe Col. Adriaen Scroop Col. John Oky Col. John Harrison Col. John Desborough Cornelius Holland Es Miles Corbet Esq Francis Allen Esq Peregrin Pelham Esq John Gourdon Esq Serj. Francis Thorp Tho Challoner Esq Col. John Moore John Aldred Esq Col. Francis Lassels Henry Smith Esq James Chaloner Esq Dennes Bond Esq Humph Edwards Esq Gregory Clement Esq John Fray Esq Tho Wogan Esq Sir Greg Norton Serj. John Bradshaw Col. Edm Harvey John Dove Esq Col. John Venn John Foulks Alder Thomas Scot. Tho Andrewes Ald William Cauwley Esq Col. Anthony Stapley John Liste Esq John Corbet Esq Thomas Elunt Esq Thomas Boone Esq Col. George Fleetwood Col. James Temple Sir Peter Temple Col. Thomas Wayte John Browne Esq Mr. Bradshaw nominated President Counsellours assistant to this Court and to dravv up the Charge against the KING are Doctor Dorislaus Master Aske Master Cooke Serjeant Dandy Serjeant at Armes Mr. Phileps Clerke to the Court. Messengers and Dore-keepers are Master VValford M. Radley M. 〈◊〉 M. Pâ—vvell Mr. Hull and M. King Cryer 85. Observations upon the Tryall of His Majesty This is a Relation of his Majesties Tryall by a mixed Court of Justice erected by 50. or 60. Confederate Members of the House of Commons sitting under the power of the Army after all the rest of the Members above 250. had been violently secured secluded frighted away And in order to this designe against the King the House of Peers voted downe and yet the House of Commons when intire is no Court of Judicature nor can give an Oath Had indifferent men been permitted to take Notes you had had a more perfect narrative yet as it is truth shines forth to the confusion of this bloudy cheating tyrannicall faction could they have wrought the King to have submitted to the Jurisdiction of this Arbitrary Court His example should have been urged as an irrefragable Precedent against the lives and liberties of the whole Kingdome and urged to be of as great Authority as if He had established that Court by Act of Parliament So that the King is to be looked on as a Civill Martyr dying for the Liberty of the People And although they have failed of this device yet they will have some other Arbitrary bloudy Inquisition to cut off the lives without Law of such as they desire to remove without which this Tyrannous Kingdome of the Saints or Brambles cannot subsist And therefore on Thursday 2. Februarij Cromwell and Ireton and their Canniball Counsell of Officers projected to get an Act passed by their House of Commons where all their Requests are Commands to enable the said Councell to hang all such as they shall adjudge Disturbers of the Army 1. Part of Englands lyberty in Chaines sub fine And the Hunting of the Foxes c although no Members of the Army they must
Anarchia Anglicana OR THE HISTORY OF INDEPENDENCY THE SECOND PART BEING A continuation of Relations and Observations Historicall and Politique upon this present PARLIAMENT Begun Anno 16. CAROLI PRIMI By THEODORUS VERAX PSALM 8.8 Virum sanguinum dolosum abominabitur Dominus Printed in the Yeare M. DC.XL.IX In the 103. Page in the Catalogue of those Persons who did actually sit upon the Tryall of King CHARLES the First These following Names are omitted who ought to have been inserted William Say Esquire Col. Math. Thomlinson John Blackston Gilb. Millington Abraham Barrell Col. Jo Downes Master Norton L. Gen. Tho Hammond Nich Love Vincent Potter Augustine Garland Sir Miles Lyvesey Jo Dixwel Simon Mayne Daniel Blagrave Col. Robert Lylborne Col. Rich. Deane Col. Huson L. Col. W. Goffe Master Carewe Jo. Ioanes TO THE READER READER having spoken to thee in the First Part I might have forborne thee in this Second did I not feare to seem guilty of the sullennesse malignity of these times The subject-matter of my Booke is à Combination or Fraction of Pseudo-Politians and Pseudo-Theologitians Hereticks and Schismaticks both in Divinity and Policy who having Sacrificed to their Francies Lusts Ambition and Avarice both their God and Religion their King and Countrey our Lawes Liberties Properties all duties Divine and Humane are growne so farre in love with their prosperous Sinnes as to entitle God himselfe to be Father and Author of them from whose written Word revealed will held forth to us in the Scriptures as the onely North Pole and Cynosure of our Actions where they find no warrant for their doing the appeale to the secret will and Providence of God to which they most Turkishly and Heathenishly ascribe all their enormities only because they succeed and from that abysse of Gods Providence draw secondary Principles of Necessity and Honest intentions to build the Babel of their confused Designes and Actions upon not considering that wicked Men performe the secret will of God to their Damnation as good Men doe the known will of thir Father to their Salvation If a Man lie sick to death and his Sonne wish him dead this is sinne in the Sonne although his desire concurre with the secret will of God because the Sonne ought to desire the perservation of his Fathers life whereto the will of God revealed in his word obligeth him and vivendum secundum Praecepta non secundùm Decreta Dei The secret will and providence of God can be no rule and law of our actions because we know it not nor can search into it without presumption We must not therefore altum sapere thinke our selves too wise and well gifted to tie our selves to the Scripture of God lust after Revelations and Inspirations exspecting God should raine Bread from Heaven for us Manna Exod. 16.4 but be wise unto sobriety But prosperum scelus virtus vocatur Thus casting off the written word of God unlesse where by an enforced interpretation they can squeeze Atheisme and Blasphemy out of it as they doe sometimes rack Treason Murder and Nonsense out of our Lawes and Parliament-priviledges conducible to their ends they insensibly cast off God himselfe and make themselves both the supreme cause and finall end the Alpha and Omega of all their doings whilst they use the Hidden unsearchable Providence of God but as a Disguise and Visard to Maske under like Caelius the Atheist in Martial Prosperity is become a snare to them and a Topick place out of which they draw Arguments to satisfie themselves there is no God no Religion but a prudentiall one to foole the People with Nullos esse Deos inane Coelum Affirmat Caelius probatque Quòd se videt dum negat haec beatum But O wretched unholied men What are they that thus commit Burghlary in the Sanctum Sanctorum of Gods Providence That presume not onely to prie into but to thrust their hands polluted with blood and rapine into Gods mysterious Arke Thus much for the subject matter For the manner of my writing I confess as to the style it is not aequabile scribendi Genus all of one weaving and contexture It is a History writ with a Satirique style and veyne Nam quis iniqui Tam patiens orbis tam ferreus ut teneat se It is a virtue to hate and prosecute vice The Scripture tells us there is a perfect hatred a Holy Anger And our Chaucer tells us The words must be of kynne unto the deeds otherwise how can they be expressive enough I detest vitiae pulcherrimè mangonizata vice trik'd up in virtues rayment and prostituted under her modest dresse to stirre up Adulteres quicquid agunt homines nostri est farrago libelli A huge Gallymaufry an Oglio of all villanies I here set before thee it cannot be all of one dressing and seasoning it must be a mixture a Hogo of all Relishes like Manna in the Wilderness it must be applicable to all Palates wherefore according to the variety of every present subject-matter vel ridenti rideo vel flenti fleo I become all things to all Men I assimilate my affections and humors to every Mans humor as well as to the present Theme that I may take every Man by the right hand and lead him out of this Vr of the Chaldeans this Land of Aegypt this House of Bondage in judgment and conscience though not in person and estate which must onely be the mighty handy-work of that God who is able to divide the Red Sea and give us a safe march through it upon drie Land Which that he would vouchsafe to doe let us all joyne our hearty prayers and that we may instrumentally serve him in it let us all joyne our heads hearts and hands together since God neglects faint-hearted and cowardly prayers Let us not lie in the Ditch and crie God help us But let us help God to help us and keep cor unum viam unam in the doing of it The Ordinance passed 20. Aug. 1647. To null and voyd all Acts c. passed under the force of the Apprentices Die Veneris 20. Aug. 1647. An ordinance for Declaring all Votes Orders and Ordinances passed in one or both Houses since the Force on both Houses Iuly 26. untill the 6. of this present August 1647. to be null and void WHereas there was a visible horrid insolent and actuall force upon the Houses of Parliament on Monday 26. Iuly last whereupon the Speakers and many Members of both Houses of Parliament were forced to absent themselves from the service of the Parliament and whereas those Members of the House could nor returne to sit in safety before Friday the 6. August It is therefore Declared by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled that the Ordinance of Monday 26. Iuly for the Repealing and making void of the Ordinance of the 23. of the said Iuly for setling of the Militia of the City of London being gained by force and violence
to demeane himselfe in the Treaty vvhich had formerly been Voted to be in the Isle of VVight vvith honour freedome and safety to His Majesty The Instructions vvere 1. That the King shouly enjoy the same liberty during this Treaty that He had at Hampton-Court 2. That no person excepted out of mercy none novv Imprisoned by the Parliament nor none novv in actuall Armes against the Parliament should be admitted to come to the King 3. That no foraine Agent should make any Addresse to Him without leave of both Houses Against these Instructions it vvas argued That some of them contradicted the former Votes That the King should Treat in Honour and Freedome and that He should enjoy the same Liberty He had at Hampton-Court which could not be so long as He was denied to correspond with other Princes His Allyes with vvhom He Vvas in league and amity by their Ambassadors and Agents a Royalty inseperable from the Crowne allovved Him at Hampton-Court and to deny it vvas implicitely to dethrone Him To vvhich vvas ansvvered That this vvas true of a King in actuall exercise of his Regall povver vvhich this King neither is nor ought to be untill He hath given satisfaction to His Parliament That it vvas agreat condescention in them and belovv the Dignity of a Parliament to recall their Votes of Non Addresse and put the businesse of the Treaty thus forvvard and if He vvould not accept of a Treaty upon such conditions as the Parliament thought fit then things vvould be but vvhere thy vvere The peaceable moderate Party perceiving vvhat operattion the Schotish Victory had already upon the fancies of those hot-headed Men Knevv they must speake mannerly and modestly for feare of correctson and must take vvhat they could since they could not have vvhat they vvould 4. That the King should give His Royall vvord not to remove out of the Island during the Treaty nor in 20. 7. The Earle of Warvvicks Letter to Derby-ho complaining of his Sea-men daies after vvithout consent of the tvvo Houses this vvas to make his chaines a linke or tvvo longer yet the King did give His Royall vvord accordingly Thursday Aug. 24. a Letter came to the Committee of Safety at Derby-house from the Earle of VVarvvicke complaining of the perversnesse of his ovvne Sea-men and that those vvith the Prince vvould not yet stoop to the Gods of Gold his ovvne vvords That some other vvay must be thought of besides force to undermine the Prince that since they had subdued their Enemies by Land it vvould be a good preparative to vvorke upon their Enemies by Sea vvith the same Engine You see these Saints having gotten the publique Purse into their hands are at the peoples costs and charges bountifull Corrupters of other mens faith having none of their ovvne About this time a nevv kind of pick-lock vvas invented to open the iron Chests and Counter Boards of the City 8. A Committee to make effectuall the Sale of Bishops-Lands and cajole the City and invite them to throvv more money after that they had cast avvay already in purchase of Bishops Lands namely a Committee to consider of a vvay to secure unto the Purchasers the Money they had already disbursed upon the said Lands and to remove all impediments in the Sale for time to come To vvhich Col. Harvey said That he had experience in the late defection of the City that the Men most backvvards in the Parliaments service vvere such of the Presbyterians as had no engagement upon Bishops Lands vvhereas others of the same Party that have interest in the same Lands are as forvvard as any the best affected Here you see vvhat it is that chaines the affections of the Cite to this Parliament and vvhat it is that divides them amongst themselves self-respects makes them run along blind fold vvith the Grandees in any designe or faction A good bargaine makes a bad Man Harvey needs no other president but himself nor no more visible monument then his exceeding cheap bargaine of Fulham-house and Manour vvhich hath changed him from a furious Presbyter to a Bedlam Independent About this time it vvas Ordered 9. A Commission into the North to enquire what dammages they have sustained by the Scotish Invasion That Commissions should be issued forth into the Northerne Counties to enquire vvhat Damages they have anny vvaies sustained by Hamilton's Invasion This device vvas of a tvvofold use 1. To cut off the Scots demands for Mony due to them for their last Brotherly assistance and otherwise 2. To cajole the poore Country into a beliefe they shall have reparations against the Scots and raise them into a clamorous complaint against the Scots and at last a deadly seude vvhen they shall find their hopes denied by them and disappointed In the meane time they are patiently eaten up vvith Taxes and Free-quarter and vvhile they looke for vvhat they shall never have they lose vvhat they have already This vvas the much applauded invention of Master St. Iohns of Lincolns-Inne 10. Colchester surrendred vvith the sequele thereof About this time the nevves of the Surrender of Colchester inflamed the Antimonarchicall faction from a Feaver to a frantick Calenture They yeilded to mercy and vvithin 4 hovvers after Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle for the better explanation vvhat Independent mercy is vvere shot to death some attribute it to an old quarrell betvveen him and Generall Fairfax others think it vvas done to put an affront upon the King and the Treaty Colonel Farre vvas likevvise condemned by the Councell of VVarre at the same time but is reprieved as a vvitnesse against the Earle of VVarvvicke vvhen time serves for vvhen VVarvvicke long since vvaited at the Commons Dore vvith some Ladies to petition for a Reprieve for the Earle of Holland a Souldier of the Guard insolently told him He had more need petition for himselfe 11. Instructions for the Commissioners to Treat with his Majesty Instructions for the Commissioners to Treat vvith the King vvere Debated The Independents propounded that those Propositions that were most advantagious to the Parliament should be first debated and if the King did not confirme them all the Treaty to breake off But it vvas held unreasonable in any Treaty that one Party should bind himselfe before the Conclusion and leave the other at large and himselfe in the lurch so it vvas Ordered They should be Treated of in order as they lay and according to His Majesties desire nothing binding to either Party untill all was agreed of The next stumbling block cast in the vvay vvas that seeing 40 daies only were allowed for to Treat that thy should limit how many daies and no more should be spent in Treating upon every severall Proposition But this vvas looked upon as a cavill to make void the Treaty and so over-ruled you see vvhat use these men that gaine by VVarre make of their Victories 12. A Debate what Gentl should be allowed to
of England as being too heavy for his shoulders to beare An audations ambitious and hypocriticall imitation of Moses It is now reported of him that he pretendeth to Inspirations and that when any great or weighty matter is propounded he usually retireth for a quarter or halfe an hower and then returneth and delivereth out the Oracles of the Spirit surely the Spirit of Iohn of Leyden will be doubled upon this Man 145. The last Retreat of the faction by H. Martius report About this time the Palsgrave tooke his leave of the Parliament being much courted and complemented by them and his 8000 l. per annum with all Arreares confirmed to him since his departure Harry Martyn in a jolly humour was heard to say If the worst hapned and that they should not be able to stand their ground in England yet the Palsgrave would afford them a place of retreat in the Palatinate the seeds of these Anarchicall Anabaptisticall humours upon the reducing of Munster spread themselves in England and now have a mind to returne into Germany to kindle a fire there 146. Io. Lilburne's third Booke called The Picture of the Councell of State About this time Iohn Lilburne and his Company set forth a Book called The Picture of the Councell of State c. wherein they set forth the illegall and violent proceedings of the said Councell against them in seizing upon them with armed Bands of Souldiers and interrogating them against themselves c. where they have these words The Faction of a trayterous Party of Officers of the Army hath twice rebelled against the Parliament and broke them in pieces and by force of Armes culled out whom they pleased and imprisoned divers of them and layed nothing to their charge and have left onely in a manner a few men besides 11 of themselves viz the Generall Cromwell Ireton Harrison Fleetwood Rich Ingolsby Haslerigge Constable Fennicke Walton and Allen Treasurer of their owne Faction behind them that will like Spaniel-dogs serve their lusts and wills yea some of the chiefest of them viz Ireton Harrison c. yea Mr. Holland himself styled them a Mock-Parliament a Mock power at Windsor yea it is yet their expressions at London And if this be true that they are a Mock-power and a Mock-Parliament then Quaere Wether in Law or Iustice especially considering they have fallen from all their many glorius promises and have not done any one action that tends to the universall good of the people can those Gentlemen sitting at West-minster in the House called the House of Commons be any other than a factious company of Men trayterously combined together with Cromwell Ireton and Harrison to subdue the Lawes Liberties and Freedomes of England for no one of them protests against the rest and to set up an absolute and perfect tyranny of the Sword will and pleasure and absolutely intend the destroying the Trade of the Nation and the absolute impoverishing the people thereof to fit them to be their Vassals Slaves And againe the three forementioned Men viz Cromwell Ireton and Harrison the Generall being but their stalking horse and a cypher and their trayterous faction having by their wills and Swords got all the Swords of England under their command and the disposing of all the great Places in England by Sea and Land and also the pretended Law-making power and the pretended Law-executing power by making among themselves contrary to the Lawes and Liberties of England all Iudges Iustices of Peace Sheriffs Bayliffs Committee-men c. to execute their wills and tyranny walking by no limits or bounds but their owne wills and pleasures and trayterously assume unto themselves a power to leavy upon the people what money they please and dispose of it as they please yea even to buy knives to cut the peoples throats that pay the money to them and to give no account for it till Doomes-day in the afternoone they having already in their wills and power to dispose of the Kings Queens Princes Dukes and the rest of the Childrens Revenue Deanes and Chapters Land Bishops Lands Sequestred Delinquents Lands Sequestred Papists Lands Compositions of all sorts amounting to Millions of money besides Excise and Customes yet this is not enough although if rightly husbanded it would constantly pay above one hundred thousand men and furnish an answerable Navy thereunto But the people must now after their Trades are lost and their Estates spent to procure their Liberties and Freedomes be cessed about 100000 l. a Month Master Boone a Member of the House lately a Tapster hath 6000 l. given him Sir Arth Haslerig 3 great Manours Bishops-Aukland Ever-wood and another Col. Backster the pitifull Thimble and Bodkin Gold-smith bought as much Bishops Lands as cost 10000 l. at two or three years purchase and hath already raised his money that so they may be able like so many Cheaters and State-thieves to give six eight ten twelve fourteen sixten thousand pounds a piece over again to one another as they have done already to divers of themselves to buy the Common-wealths Lands one of another contrary to the duty of Trustees who by Law nor equity can neither give nor sell to one another at two or three yeares purchase the true and valuable rate considered as they have already done and to give 4 or 5000 l. per annum over againe to King Cromwell as they have done already out of the Earle of Worcesters Estate c. besides about 4 or 5 l. a day he hath by his Places of Lieut. Generall and Colonel of Horse in the Army although he were at the beginning of this Parliament but a poor Man yea little better than a Beggar to what he is now as well as others of his Neighbours 147. A Petition in behalfe of Io Lylburne and his company 2. April 1649. A Petition subscribed by divers Persons in behalf of Iohn Lylburne and his company was presented to the Commons wherein amongst other things are contained these three just demands 1. That no man be censured condemned or molested but for the breach of some Law first made and published to the People whereby is avoided that uncertainty and howerly hazard that otherwise every man is subject to both in respect of his Estate Liberty and Life 2. That every crime have not onely its penalty annexed but together therewith the manner and methode of proceedings ascertained 3. That the execution of Lawes be referred to ordinary Magistrates and Officers by Law deputed thereto and that the Military power be not used but where the Civil is so resisted as that of its one strength it is deficient to enforce obedience 148. Itinerant Ministers an invention to undermine our Orthodox setled Ministers and infect the people with Schismes and Anarchicall principles sutable to the many-headed tyranny of the Grandees April 12. 1649. It was referred to a Committee to consider of a way how to raise Pensions and Allowances out of Deanes and Chapter
went quietly with them into the Vestry when presently a party of Horse from Saint Pauls rode into the said Church with Swords drawne and Pistols spanned crying out Knock the Rogues on the Head shoot them kill them and presently shot at randome at the crowd of unarmed Men Women and Children shot an old Woman into the head wounded grievously above forty more whereof many are likely to die frighted Women with Child and rifled and plundred away their cloaks hats and other spoiles of the Aegyptians and carried away the Minister to White-hall Prisoner You see these Hereticks Schismaticks and Atheists that crie so loudly upon Liberty of Conscience for their owne Blasphemies will allow no Liberty of Conscience to Protestants notwithstanding their Doctrine and form of Service is antient allowed and commanded by known Lawes and approved of by all the Reformed Churches of Christendome This strongly argues a Designe in the three Kinghdomes to root out Protestancy as well as Monarchy carried on by a conjunction of Councels and Forces between that triumvirate of Rebells O Neale O Cromwell and as many wise men thinke Argyle who would not otherwise keep the Scots from complying with the KING upon modest and moderate termes such as shall leave him in the condition of a Governing King able to protect His People from injuries at home and abroad without which He is but magni nominis umbra the shadow and May-game of a King Observe This Mutiny was not begun by Levellors this provocation was put upon the City when an artificiall Mutiny was raised at Oxford and against the Great Horse-race appointed to be at Brackley the 11. September to draw both City and Country to joyne with the Mutineers and then the Souldiers should have made their peace by themselves and have left the rest to the mercy of the State to raise more money upon them for O Cromwells expedition in Ireland who hath writ for more recruits of Men and Money Those bloody Saints that accompanied O Cromwell into Ireland to make that Kingdome as miserable slavish as they have made this doe now poure forth the blood of their owne bowels in great abundance 217. O Cromwell's Men sick in Ireland Gods vengeance having visited most of them with the Bloody flux whereof many die But this is a secret that must not be knowne to the Ungodly and therefore O Cromwell and his Councell of Warre at Dublin have made an Order Declaring That if any Person residing within the Garrison of Dublin whether Inhabitants or Soldiers shall upon pretence of writing to their Freinds signifie the Transactions of the Army between O Neale and O Cromwell it may be or their Engagements with the Enemy so as to setforth their Successe or Losse untill first the Generall or Councell of Warre have signified falsified the same to his Parliament of England they shall incurre the breach of the Article against Spies and be accordingly punished with Death c. Here you see O Cromwell in the first Yeare nay in the first Month of his reigne sets up a military tyranny in Ireland to which all People as wel not Souldiers as Souldiers must submit their lives fortunes the writing of news to their Friends in England whereby their Lies Forgeries may chance to be cōtradicted shall be construed to be a Breach of the Article against Spies not because Reason Truth or the Customes of Warre calls it so but because the Sword puts this construction upon it Take notice Ireland that this is the first yeare of thy Bondage if they prevaile And take notice England that O Cromwell and his Councell and Party are resolved to Lie without controule if they prevaile not their Letters speake him to be 15000. strong before Tredah which hath Articled to yeild That the next he will vouchsafe is Dundalke and that Ormond flies from the face of this Josua and Lying Prophets are sent over to gull the People into a beliefe But the truth is he is not able to draw together above 4000. or 5000. men unlesse his Confederate O Neale joyne with him And Ormond hath wit enough to know that sickenesse and famine in that wasted Country are sufficient to deale with O Cromwell without his running the hazard of an engagement with such desperate forlorne Wretches 218. Vnreasonable Fees extorded by Birckhead by Dures of Imprisonment with the connivance of the Commons Col. Bromfield Hooker Cox and Baynes Citizens who the last yeare were committed upon suspition of High Treason to which every offence against this new Babel-state is now wrested notwithstanding the Stat. 25. Edw. 3. for limitation of Treasons as in an infectious season all diseases turne to the plague and were then discharged for want of matter to make good the charge are now againe imprisoned in the first yeare of Englands Liberty at the request of Birkhead Sergeant at Armes to the Commons untill they pay such unreasonable Fees as he pleases to exact from them This had been great Extortion and Tyranny in the KING's time when this Nation enjoyed so much freedome as to call a Spade a Spade an Extortioner an Extortioner a Tyrant a Tyrant And reason good for if such Fees be legally due Birkhead hath Legall meanes to recover them if not Legally due it is Extortion in him to demand them in so violent a way and Tyranny in his Masters the Commons to maintaine him in it Sir Henry Mildmay lately comming to the Tower 219. Sir Har. Mildmay's Politicke Observations Chaste Conversation and first initation at Court and perceiving the Countesse of Carlisles window had some prospect to Col. Lylbornes grates out of his parasitical diligence told the Lieutenant of the Tower That notwithstanding the distance was such as they could not communicate by speech yet they might signifie their intentions by signes upon their fingers to the prejudice of the tender infant State and accompanying this admonition with some grave and politick Nods hasted away to the Councell of State and being both out of breath and sense unloaded himself of his Observations there and was seconded by Tho Scot the Demolisher of old Palaces and Deflowrer of young Maydenheads before they are ripe who much aggravated the danger and applauded the Observator Sure Sir Henry hath not yet forgot the bawdy Language of the hand and fingers since he first in Court began to be Ambassadour of Love Procuror Pimp or Pandor to the Duke of Buckingham and laboured to betray the honour of a faire Lady his nearest Ally to his Lust had not she been as Virtuous as he is Vitious if it be possible for any Woman to be so and did actually betray others to him I can tell you that very lately Sir Harry pretending himselfe taken with the Wind-collick got an opportunity to insinuate himselfe into a Citizens house in Cheapside and tempted his Wife but had a shamefull repulse but more of this I will not speake lest his Wife beat