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A35243	The life of Oliver Cromwel, Lord Protector of the Common-wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland being an account of all the battles, sieges, and other military atchievements, wherein he was engaged, in these three nations : and likewise, of his civil administrations while he had the supream government, till his death.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1680 (1680)	Wing C7343; ESTC T135016	57,584	144

having been to this Day of this Opinion and this have been my constant Judgment well known to many that hear me speak if this one thing had been inserted that one thing that this Government should have been and placed in my Family hereditary I would have rejected it And a little after If this be of humane structure and invention and it be an old plotting and contrivance to bring things to this issue and that they are not the births of Providence then they will come to nothing But notwithstanding his Speech was candied over with Scripture phrases and great expressions of his zeal for the good Government of the Land yet these his Actings much discontented the common People whereupon ensued risings in Shropshire Montgomery Nottinghamshire Northumberland and Yorkshire but the most considerable was at Salisbury where Sir J●seph Wagstaff Penruddock and Jones who had formerly been Officers in the late King's Army having gotten together about 200 armed-Men entered Salisbury seized on all the Inns and chief Houses and the Assizes being holden there at that time they took away the Judges Commissions and Pattents and all their Horses and so marched away Sir Henry Slingsby and Sir Richard Malleverer assembled some Forces also in Yorkshire but not being seconded according to their expectation they disperst themselves on their own account For these actings were put to Death Master Lucas Thorp Kensey Graves and Penruddock Sir Henry Slingsby was taken and Imprisoned and aftewards beheaded upon another account as I shall show you in its due place About this time the great Head-piece of Europe joyns his Foxes Tail to our Lions Skin Correspondencies are held betwixt the French and us which occasioning some Jealousies with some other bitter Pills that had before been swallowed but not disgested by the Spaniard caused some Heart-burnings which soon broke forth into an open War first managed by the Generals Pen and Venables who on the 27. of December 1654 with a gallant Fleet set sail from Portsmouth and on the 28 of January following arrived at the Barbadoes where they seized on 18 Holland Merchant Men who contrary to the Ordinance of the long Parliament traffiqued in those Parts from thence they sailed to Hispaniola arriving near to the Port Sancta Domingo where by the deepness of Sands and heat of the Climate being infinitely tired they were by the Spaniards put to Flight and enforced to march back again to their Ships from thence they set-sail to the Island of Jama●ca which after a little resistance they mastered and have since preserved notwithstanding the Spaniards to regain the same landed there with two or three thousand Men but were discomsited with the Loss of all their Cannon and Baggage In the Interim General Blake with a considerable Fleet of Ships having cast Anchor before Tunis April 18 1655. sent unto the Dey of the Place demanding satisfaction for some English Ships which the Pyrates of those parts had carried away and the Liberty of the English Slaves they had detained but his message and himself was refused with scorn and derision the Turk making this answer Behold our Castles of Galleta and our Castles and Vessels of Port● Ferino do your worst against them and do no● think to brave us with the sight of your grea● Fleet. This answer so exasperated the English Admiral that notwithstanding there were one hundred and twenty Guns planted on the Shore and in the Castle against them yet regardless of all danger he set upon their Men of War which lay in Port● Ferino and in less then in four Hours space burnt all their Ships being in number nine to their very Keels which enforced the King of Tunis to seek to the English for their friendship and restored all the Prisoners for little or nothing These successes were seconded by two other great Victories obtained over th● Spaniards at Sea the one by Genera Mountague about nine Leagues from Cadiz where he destroyed six of their Ship whereof two were taken two run aground one sunk and another burnt and there● the Marquess of Badex his Wife and Daughter the young Marquess and h● Brother with a great deal of Wealth bei● taken and brought into England Th● Fight being incomparably related by 〈◊〉 Laureat of our times I thought fit to inse● it not to deprive the Reader of so Elegant a Poem let him wave the poetical Flattery of it as he pleases Upon the present War with Spain and the first Victory obtained at Sea NOw for some Ages had the Pride of Spain Made the Sun shine on half th' world invain While she bid War to to all that durst supply The place of those her Cruelty made dye Of Nature's Bounty Men forbear to taste And the best Portion of the Earth lay waste From the New World her Silver and her Gold Came like a Tempest to confound the Old Feeding with these the brib'd Elector's Hopes She made at Pleasure Emperors and Popes With these advancing her unjust Designs Europe was shaken with her Indian Mines When our Protector looking with disdain Vpon this gilded Majesty of Spain And knowing well that Empire must decline Whose chief support and sinews are of Coyn Our Nation's solid vertue did oppose To the rich Troublers of the World's repose And now some months encamping on the main Our Naval Army had besieged Spain They that the whole Worlds Monarchy design●d Are to their Ports by our bold Fleet confin'd From whence our Red Cross they triumphant see Riding without a Rival on the Sea Others may use the Ocean as their road Only the English make it their abode Whose ready Sails with every Wind can flie And make a covenant with th' unconstant Skie Our Oaks secure as if they there took root We tread on Billows with a steady foot Mean while the Spaniards in America Near to the Line the Sun approaching saw And hop'd their European Coasts to find Cleard from our Ships by the Autumnal Wind. Their huge capacious Gallions stuft with Plate The labouring Winds drives slowly towards their Fate Before Saint Lucar they their Guns discharge To tell their Joy or to invite a Barge This heard some Ships of ours tho' out of view As swift as Eagles to the Quarry flew So heedless Lambs which for their Mothers bleat Wake hungry Lions and become their Meat Arriv'd they soon begin that Tragick Play And with their smoaky Cannon banish Day Night horrour slaughter with confusion meets And in their sable Arms embrace the Fleets Through yielding Planks the angry Bullets fly And of one Wound hundreds together die Born under different Stars one Fate they have The Ship their Coffin and the Sea their Grave Bold were the Men which on the Ocean first Spread their new Sails shipwreck was the worst More danger now from Men alone we find Then from the Rocks the Billows or the Wind. They that had sail'd from the Antartick Pole Their Treasure safe and all their Vessels whole In sight of their dear

We may conclude thus much that his aunual Incomes were not so great as Malice hath given out considering all his necessary expences without dispute they had been more inlarged if the People had loved him but half so well as they fear'd him tho' I must still acknowledge it to be hard to distinguish of his Liberality his Necessities having so much limited his Rewards tho his Mind was high and he pursued his own Way as one that always revered his own Will If we look on his careful or rather politick Liberality somewhat may be said as he was at vast Charges as he made good his dexterity to impropriate himself with Forreign Instruments to obtain good Intelligence from all Parts abroad from which Spies all wise Men conclude that he received more Articles of Inquisition then Negotiation ●as he was still working and casting up others not to be undermined himself Some are so humbly minded as to believe his Designs were to high for Forreign Parts certain it is Carolus Gustavus lost a dear Friend of him and for other Princes howsoever they might look a squint on him he was courted by two of the greatest and was a Friend as if Fortune attended him to either of them both when he pleased they having as much as they could allie● themselves to his Interests when they on● found him to be at leisure to be helpful t● them 'Tis true for some Time they stood at a distance certainly if they did not so soon see into the Passages of his Affairs they did at last pass their Judgments on the Issue of them perhaps they at the first saw him only at Strife but they were afterwards forced to acknowledge him to be always aloft so fortunate he was in all his enterprizes The Royal Party were once of Opinion that he having past his Laurels he had a Mind to reach at the Crown they were somewhat mistaken it had too many Thorns in it which of themselves are sharp enough to fetch Blood if we should not otherwise accept of the Interpretation of the Fifth Monarchy Gentleman who means by them the displeased Soldiery to whom such Lustres could never have been acceptable as some other of our late Pamphletters have libell'd him to be another Henry the Fifth that he would have stolen the more then protested against Diadem off from the Pillow if he had a Mind to it it is more then they know the worst they could have said of him had been that he entertained somewhat more then self-denying Thoughts or rather as the Poets hath it Magnis tamen excedit ausis Indeed outwardly he seemed to have little of vain Glory in him or else he turned his dark Lanthorn to himself his closeness being always such that this great Politician walkt invisible others stood in the Light to him but he in the Dark to all only for his most grand Transaction there was no vizzard could disguise it that he should after so many selfish refusals a Word lately put into the new canting Dictionary of the Enthusiasts that he should after the slighting as it were of so many tendred forfeited and sequestred Estates presented to him by the Parliament for his remarkable Services after that in parts and piecemeals he had denied the Pomps and Vanities of this wicked World he made it his master-design to take in all at once as he knew well enough how to cog a die he had thrown for all won all and swept all at once rendering his Motto Pax quaeritur Bello into that English which pleased him best the Protectorship To reflect briefly on his Domestical Affairs he was not uxorious but respectful to his Wife to his Children he had a paternal affection careful of their educations and of their aspirings to advancement he endeavoured to cast a Lustre on them which did not take with the People tho' as to his Son Richard there was a more then ordinary consent For his Pleasures there is no extraordinary News of them some Frolicks I have heard of with those he was most familiar the Truth is he had too little Leasure for trivial repasts he did with them as great Persons do with Banquers come and look upon them and so turn away As he begun from a private Fortune as I have already intimated that Fortune quickened in him all Seeds of observation being always more prosperous in himself then confirmed from the Affections of others For the Imputations against him of Moneys in his Treasury certainly if he had been such a hoarder the Urgency of his pressing Affairs would never suffer him to be so poor as to stand still and admire his Riches Before I end I cannot chuse but remark his hard dealings with Parliaments which he formerly so vindicated against the late King for his breach of Priviledge about the five Members whatsoever fine Thread he did twist for himself in all his religious Speeches those that are right Englishmen will never clear him from his violations tho' he managed those actings as that they were to him but short Tempests or small over-castings as whatsoever Injury the Nations endured he had one pretence or other to shift it off from his own Shoulders extreamly mistaking himself as the People look less on the failing of those who have been their own choice then on those who have taken on them to be Carvers for themselves he thought himself crafty enough for Parliaments and from his Death-bed he determined himself cock sure as he was flesht with his former Fortunes he could never have imagined his Posterity should ever have been lean 'Tis true we may be so political as on this Earth to endeavour to grasp these humane Affairs to our own Interests but we must lay down our greatest Wisdoms when we come to sleep in the silent Grave as after Death there is no providing against the cross blows of Fortune To conclude as far as we can conjecture his Confederates continuing alike victorious and fortunate with him he might i● he had lived to it extended his Victories to some other parts of the World if he did no more it was either thro' the Disturbances of the Times or long of himself for what he minded he compassed Certain it is that he so husbanded his successe● that he did not live to see himself unfortunate who having assumed or rather snacht his Honours shewed himself to be one of the strangest sort of Wonders that our late Times have produced One writ this strange EPITAPH on Him HERE LIES OLIVER CROMWEL WHO THAT HE MIGHT BE PROTECTOR HIMSELF FIRST BROUGHT THE ENGLISH MONARCHY ON ITS KNEEES The END A CATALOGUE of BOOKS Sold by DANIEL PRATT at the Bible and Crown in the Strand London ARistotle's Master Piece The Art of Gardening Anne of Bullen An Accademy of Complements Banquet for Ladies and Gentlemen Bunyon's Hearts Ease The seven Champions Cynthia The French Convert The seven Wise Masters The seven Wise Mistresses The Secretary's Guide The Destruction of Troy The Great

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