Foxes Martyrology not any who had the least appearance of Noblenesse and worth but suffered by death or sequestration whilest his own Mushrom'd Gentility sprung up in a Night of Rebellion were the simple nothings then adored His spies of whom he had many were very usefull to him the charges of whom amounted to no lesse then two hundred Thousand pounds per annum These were not onely distributed about all places of England but very conversant in the Courts of most Christian Princes by this silver hook he gained intelligence from most places and seldome are any secrets so close lock't up that a golden key will not open Then for Souldiers he took such a course that he had always enough of them having brought the Commons so low by want of Trade that they must either take up Armes or starve nor would he want occasion to keep up an Army on foot for when he had no cause he could soon create one witness the war he made with Spain Englands fast friend in all the late troubles by which the Trade of England hath been more detrimented then by all the wars we have had since 1638. Having thus tyrannized over England the space of five years he at last made his exit in a most horrible tempest we may well say that God was not in that winde though we have cause to praise his blessed and holy name for that wind-fall As he lived unbeloved so he died unlamented breathing out his soul with the sin of perjury for at his being chosen Protector he called God to witness he was against Englands government being made Hereditary abusing to that purpose the saying of Solomon Ecclesiastes 2.19 Who knoweth whether his son shall be a wise man or a fool Yet at his death he endeavoured all he could to settle it in his posterity leaving his Son Richard Protector of England and his Son Henry Lord Lieutenant of Ireland And though at his death the Common-wealth was indebted some millions of pounds yet never was any King of England buried in that state as was this grand Tyrant the charges of his funerall amounting to no lesse then sixty thousand pounds besides that he was presumptuously interred among His Majesties Ancestors at Westminster in that very place where His Majesty had intended for His own rest as if he had resolved not only to detain Him from His right when He was alive but when He was dead also The Protector being interred among the Kings and Queens at Westminster at a vaster charge then had been used before in the richest times his Son Richard an honest private gentleman well beloved in Hampshire ascended the throne by the invitation and encouragement of Fleotwood Desborough Sydenham the two Jones's Thurlow and others the relations and confidents of his father and by the contrivance of the Court received congratulations prepared at Whitehall from most of the Counties and Cities of England and from the Armies of England Scotland and Ireland with engagements to live and dye with him with addresses from the Independent Churches brought by Goodwin and Nye their Metropolitans This introduction being made to transferre the Government from the line of the Stuarts to the line of the Cromwells it was conceived by some who had proceeded thus far that a Parliament chosen by influences from Court would easily swallow what was so well prepared to their hands Accordingly it was resolved by the Protectors Juncto that a Parliament should be called who being met at the time and place appointed they first declare Richard Cromwell Lord Protector and chief Magistrate of the Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland Then they vote after 14. days opposition from the honest party in the house to transact with the new House of Lords Other things they did not so pleasing to the Protector and his party For they order a Committee to look after the accompts of the Nation in order to retrenching and lessening the charge of the Common-wealth They had also by a saving vote asserted their interest in the fleet and had under consideration an act for taking away all Laws Statutes and Ordinances concerning Excise and Tunnage and Poundage after three years Proceeding thus successfully with much satisfaction to the Nation the Protector and the Officers of the Army who before were jealous of one another grew now jealous of the House of Commons and therefore they thought it seasonable to contend for the power before the People should recover it from them both In order hereunto the Officers of the Army keep their Councels at Wallingford-House and the Protector with his party countermin'd them at Whitehall The result of the Officers debates was a Canting Representation written in such an equivocating language that the sting was easily visible through the Honey Hereupon the Protector begins to think of securing himself and forbids their meetings but in vain Wherefore both sides keep guards one against another day and night In this divided posture affairs continued till Friday the 22. of Aprill 59. on which morning early the Protectors brother Fleetwood Disborough his Unkle carrying the greater part of the Army with them and the Protectors party flinching the conquest was obtain'd without one drop of blood and the Protector forc'd to consent to the dissolving of the Parliament contrary to the best advice his own interest and promises Far different was the courage of this young Protector from that of our magnificent Hero Henry the 5. who having hastily taken the Crown from the pillow of his not yet deceased father and being by him with a sad sigh told that God knew how unjustly he had gotten it replyed That since his father had by his sword attained it and being now at his death by Gods Providence devolved on him that therefore his sword should maintain it as his Right against all opposers But our pittifull Protector wanted both his wit and valour for having by fortune gotten a Crown without the effusion of either bloud or treasure yet was loth to do so much as to draw a sword for its preservation thus according to the English Proverb Lightly come lightly go men seldome prizing that which they never sweat for The fathers servants being now grown the Sons Masters allow him some thousands of pounds and order him to retire into the Country but the turning out Richard was not all they had to do his Brother Henry was still possessed of Ireland who was looked upon as a man of a more couragious spirit and doubtless they had found him so would the Officers of the Army have stuck close to him as at first they promised but they according to the course of the world left him when he had most need of them and so made him incapable either of assisting himself or restoring his Brother The Protector being thus devested of all power and authority Lambert comes again upon the stage a person of so large a spirit and undaunted courage that Oliver fearfull of his great endownments had
Englands Triumph A MORE EXACT HISTORY OF HIS Majesties Escape After the Battle of WORCESTER WITH A Chronologicall Discourse of His Straits and dangerous Adventures into France and His Removes from place to place till His return into England with the most Remarkable Memorials since to this present SEPTEMBER 1660. LONDON Printed by J.G. for NATHANIEL BROOK and are to be sold at the Angel in Cornhill 1660. THE PREFACE BY WAY OF ARGUMENT NEver did any age in this Nation most especially of all the rest of the Christian world afford more matter for a full and copious History then these 12. last years have done wherein after a Mysterious war waged for and against the King if we look at what was pretended and what was acted the after game was playd by a party not the same with those who at first undertook the businesse for the servants taking it out of the hands of those that hir'd them and set them on work and drawing it on to a far higher pitch of violence then was at first intended brought their King a most Noble and Pious Prince to an untimely death and utterly rejecting and proscribing all the Royall race subverted the ancient government of the Nation and chang'd it into a kind of a Free-State as they call'd it or Common-wealth during which the most remarkable affair that happened was a war with the Dutch and that carried on with no bad success but not many years did this form of government hold for Oliver Cromwell Generall of this new States army having subdued the Scotch Nation and by too unequall strength of arms forced the then heir apparent to the Crown His Now gracious Majesty who came with arms after all fair means used in vain to assert his just claim to quit the Kingdome violently usurped the supream authority into his own hands which having kept with much adoe by a high hand for his own life time he also us'd such means at his death that he procured to have the chief Magistracy of the three Nations transferr'd to his Eldest Son Richard which he held for a little while till the Souldiery wanting other action to divert them or an Oliver to keep them under took an occasion to mutinie and making use of Protector Richards authority to dissolve the Parliament he had called lay'd him aside and invited in again the remnant of the long Parliament which Oliver Cromwell had some years since dissolved to make way for his own advancement to the Supreame Authority The Common wealth interest thus restor'd there seem'd now no other hopes but a Free-State must seize us without any redresse yet neither had this convention sate many months ere Lambert spirited with his success against Sir George Booth who rose in Cheshire for a Free-Parliament and thinking to have traced Olivers steps he took the same course with the Members at Westminster as he had done before that is he turn'd them out of doors and while he March'd into the North against Generall Monck who had declar'd against these proceedings he left affaires to be manag'd by the Council of Officers at Wallingford-house these sitting upon a Modell of Government at length there was fram'd a thing called a Committee of Safety which taking upon it the government of the Nation brought in a great disorder and confusion upon the face of affairs till by a strange turn of fortune all the Army on a suddain deserting Lambert and his party being inveigled thereunto by the policy of some of the late dissolved Members way is made hereby to the admiration of all men for the re-entry of our little Parliament which growing still more and more odious to the people came at length to be generally stiled in derision The Rump Immediately after which Generall Monck hastens out of Scotland with his Army toward London to make room for whose entrance the old Army is order'd to march out and dispers'd into severall quarters the City manifesting discontent and disowning the present authority Monck is commanded to pull down the City gates which he unwillingly performs but at the same time his commission being out and commissioners appointed for the government of the Army and Monck nominated the last he closeth with the City and after a while causeth the old Members who had been secluded by the Army in 1648. to be re-admitted to their seats in Parliament yet limits them to sit onely for a short time and to make preparations for the calling of a Free-Parliament no sooner is this Parliament assembled but they receive a Declaration from His present Majesty King Charles the second which unanimously they own publickly Proclaime Him King and invite Him to a speedy return and exercise of His Royal trust The King immediately comes over is receiv'd with incredible joy and brought in great glory and triumph to His Palace at Whitehall and long may He there raign with peace and tranquility to the Nation and thus you have a brief analysis of all the grand and remarkable revolutions of this Nation in this strange and capricious age which are more at large though with brevity enough deliver'd in this present History and although there are already made publick severall relations of the same nature yet neverthelesse we could not reasonably be discouraged from committing this History to the Press in regard we have a just confidence to promise a more exact and punctuall account in all the most remarkable passages then is to be found in any of the rest as namely for the manner of His Majesties escape from Worcester his transactions during his abode in severall parts beyond the seas his joyfull reception into England and his magnificent entry into his famous City of London with all the materiall passages that have happened since His Majesties restoration to his government And furthermore our chiefest aime in this History is to lay a foundation for the continuing from time to time the relation of all materiall passages that shall happen in this Kingdome for the future which of how generall a concernment it is cannot but be apparent to those who diligently inquire into the advancement of the publick good ENGLAND'S TRIUMPH A MORE EXACT HISTORY OF KING CHARLES the II. AS to the writing the affaires of these late times an Historian never met with more varietie of subjects so for the right understanding and delivery of those events he will find it a matter of much difficulty such strange changes and mutabilities of State of which no other Country can shew a parallel nor England it self produce a president A well ordered Monarchy turned into a confused Anarchy Religion hewed down by the axe of Schisme most horrid villanies acted under Religious pretences Having not onely Priests as in the time of Jeroboam but Princes also of the lowest of the people Wat Tylers Jack a Leydons and Knipper dollings as may appear by their usurping governments which I shall endeavour to deliver unto you in the transactions of England from the
deprived him of all command in the Army onely making him a member of his pageant house of Lords during whose Protectorship he lived as 't were retired knowing it in vain to struggle against one who had got so setled a power but he being dead and an opportunity given him to present himself again upon the Theatre his ambitious spirit would not let him lie still but attempts to make himself Commander of these three kingdomes as Oliver by his means had done before which design of his in the sequell ruined him and discovered those grand cheates and abuses which that party had put upon the Nation endeavouring to enslave them to their own Arbitrary power whilest they pretended to weare those glorious yet strangely wrested names of Religion and Liberty But to proceed having pulled down one Government they are inforc'd to set up another well knowing the people would not be contented to be ruled by the sword of all Governments the most unjust and arbitrary and since they must have one they resolve to have one like themselves even those men that murthered the King and had for some years enslaved their Native Country This Rump or fag end of a Parliament do they pitch upon So these Tyrants cement and knit together again like a Snakes tail and for colour called themselves the Revivers of the good old case and were as busy as if they had another King and three kingdomes to destroy Thus by Gods permission that old rotten Government which was the fâ—râ—t cause of Englands ruine is new vampt and set up again to bring the people into a far worse then Egyptian bondage and slavery Two things are to be wondered at in this transaction First how the Rump durst credit or give any trust to the army having formerly turned them out of doores and likewise so lately deserted their young Protector And secondly how the Army durst trust them whom they had so grossely abused with a full power over them to place and displace whom they pleased Certainly the Rumpes intention was no lesse then to serve the Army as they had formerly served them but the Army were as cunning as they were crafty and having knowledge of their design inhibited their usurped sitting as you shall hear anon Upon notice of the sitting of the Rump those members who had been secluded by the Army in 1648. for refusing to dip their hands in the bloud of their Prince now demand an equall interest with the others to sit and Vote but as they had formerly been violently thrust out so are they now forcibly kept out by the Officers of the Army This affront is highly resented by them Mr. Pryn one of those secluded members writing strongly against them proving them by several reasons to be no Parliament but onely a tyrannicall and illegall authority they being first dissolved by the death of the King who summoned them he being Principium causa finis Parliamenti Secondly they not being the fourth part of that number which ought to constitute a Parliament the rest of their fellow-members being at severall times turned out of the house according to the pleasure of the factious army so that most Shires and Corporations in England being unjustly deprived of their Burgesses had no power nor interest in the government of the Nation Thirdly their power being again devolved into the people who having by their Votes chosen another did disannul the autherity of this Representative But it was in vain to talk of Law to those who would be ruled by none However for the security of themselves they proceed vigorously to change the Officers of the Army causing them to take commissions from Lenthall whom they made Generall making all the hast they can to settle themselves under the notion of the Good old cause In the mean time the secluded party of the House joyning with the Presbyterian party who were now kept under by the predominant faction of Anabaptists and Independents they combine together and seek to gain by force what by fair means they could not attain and this their design they make almost generall over England that as the ruine threatned the whole Nation so was the whole Nation concerned in the redresse August the first the day appointed by the Rump for the banishing the Cavaliers out of London was the time set for them to rise But by the treachery of some of the Confederates most places of their randevous were discovered and so the design for the most part disappointed Yet Sir George Booth with divers other Gentlemen in Cheshire and Lancashire raised a considerable force and having secured Westchester and some other places declared for a free Parliament and to maintain the rights and priviledges of the people the whole Nation saving onely the Sectaries and such who had raised themselves by the ruines both of Church and State praying for their successe but few or none stirring to their assistance It is a thing to be taken notice of even to admiration that those very people who made their lawfull Soveraignes raising a little ship-money which nevertheless was expended for the benefit and security of the Nation without authority of Parliament one of the chief pleas for their raising wars against him yet could now be contented with such unparalleld impositions and tyrannies as no History can acquaint us with the like The Sicilian Tyrants being but meer shadows to these whom we may justly call the very quintessence of all tyranny and oppression But to return to our purpose the Rump had soon notice of this rising and immediately send out forces to oppose them making Lambert head of the party which gave him as fair an opportunity to put in execution his ambitious designes as possibly could be He in ten dayes marches to them faces fights and overcomes them re-takes those holds which they had possest and so returns again victorious Sir George Booth soon after was taken in a womans apparell at Newport Pagnel and committed prisoner to the Tower of London The Rump in token of their gratitude to Lambert for his good service order him a Thousand pound to buy him a Jewell which he as frankly bestows amongst his Souldiers intending they should require him at a dead lift this lesson he had cond of his Master Oliver to lay an Obligation upon the Souldiery who now were grown altogether mercenary This act of his disâ—leased the Rump who now began to find out his design but were not able to hinder it Whilest Lambert was thus acting in the North the Rump were as busy in consulting all ways for their own secuâ—ity as well from being supplanted by the Army as to suppress the peoples insurrection to this purpose they setle the Trained Bands in London with six Troops of Horse and began to raise the Militia in the Counties appointing such Commanders over them as were fanaticall yet assertors of their interest Those Governours of Garrisons who held for the Army they put out placing others in
in two yeares That Sir Mich. Livesey Mr. Walton Harrison Whalley Lisle Say Scroop Okey Huson Goff Berkstead Holland Ludlow Tho Chaloner Carew Jo Jones Corbet Smith Clement Scot Cawley Love Dixewell Blagrave Cooke Broughton Dendi Hewlett Peters Hacker and Axtell Sir Hardresse Waller Mr. Row Garland Harvey Smith Martin Titchburn G. Fleetwood J. Temple P. Temple Waite Mayne Heveningham Pennigton Lilburn Millington Potter Wogan and Downs and the two persons that were disguis'd upon the Scaffold when the horrible Murder of His late Majesty waâ— committed shall be wholly excluded from pardon and in case any of them shall be attainted and convicted that execution shall be delay'd in regard of the said Sir Hardresse Waller and the 18. nominated after him till new orders from His Majesty and the two Houses of Parliament That O. Cromwel H. Ireton J. Bradshaw and Tho Pride deceased shall be also excluded from this pardon and their goods and the Goods of Sir John Danvers Tho Maleverer Sir Will. Constable G. Norton Sir John Bourchier deceased and the goods of I. Eure G. Purefoy J. Blackeston R. Deane F. Alleyne P. Pelham John Moor J. Allured H. Edwards J. Venn T. Andrews A. Stapeley T. Norton J. Foy and T. Hammon shall be under such sequestrations as the Parliament shall order That Mr. F. Lastells shall pay a yeares Revenue of his Estate and be incapable of bearing any publick Office as also Sir John Hutchinson That Sir Gilbert Pickering Mr. W. Lenthall G. Burton O. St. John J. Ireton W. Sydenham J. Desbrough J. Blackwell C. Pack R. Keeble C. Fleetwood J. Pine R. Deane R. Creed P. Nye J. Goodwin J. Lister and R. Cobett shall be uncapable of any publick Office and they do except them they shall lose the benefit of this present act That Lambert and Vane shall be wholly fore priz'd out of the said act That all persons sitting in illegall high Courts of Justice and that gave sentence against His Majesty shall be uncapable of bearing any publick Office except Col. Ingolsby and Col. Tomlinson That Sir Arthur Haslerig shall not be excepted for life That the Kings Queens and Bishops Lands shall be restored Some few dayes after the comming forth of this Act Hugh Peters a most notorious incendiary and of most mischievous principles was taken lurking in Southwark His appreheâ—sion is the more considerable in regard of his intimate acquaintance with Cromwells designes who is thought employ'd him in the detestable butchery of His late Majesty or if not him some other whose name and person he is able to discover As to forraign affaires relating unto this Kingdom there was not much which happen'd remarkable onely the comming of Embassadors from several parts as from Holland Denmarke France and Spaine who were sent by their several Princes to congratulate the return of His Majesty into England though there was nothing so pleasing to the Merchant as the Peace like to be with Spaine in regard that the Protectors Warre with that Nation being ill-manag'd had prov'd very fatal to them and therefore they were not a little joyfull to think they should recover their former losses by a new Peace which we must now believe cannot be long unconcluded in regard that about the beginning of this moneth a cessation of Armes between both Kingdoms was publickly Proclaimed in London to the great content of the whole Nation who before these Warres were no small gainers by their Peace with that Country Thus have I given the Reader a brief draught of the series of our affaires from the murder of Charles the first to this present time wherein may be seen how the Nation has been ridden these dozen years at switch and spur in a Common-wealth saddle I shall summe up all in a brief Character of His most Sacred Majesty though what I shall say herein will come as far short of his admirable Endowments as the Light of a Candle to that of the Sun He is of stature somewhat tall yet so exactly formed that the most Curious Eye cannot find one Error in his shape his face is rather grave then severe which is very much softned whensoever he speaks His complexion is somewhat dark but much Enlightned by his Eyes which are quick and sparkling his hair which he hath in great plenty is of a shining black not frizled but naturally curling into great Rings that it is a very comely Ornament for his acquired Endowments he understands Spanish and Italian speakes and writes French correctly he is very well versed in Ancient and Modern history hath read divers choice pieces of politicks studied some usefull parts of the Mathematicks as Fortification and the Knowledge of the Globe he is well skilled in Navigation in bâ—ief he is a true friend to Literature and to Learned men During his expulsion he hath Travelled through and Lived in the Countries of three the most potent Princes in Christendome viz. The Emperours of Germany and the Kings of Spain and France and so to the Germans Resolution the Spaniards Prudence the Frenchmans Expedition He is of a very solid judgment not carried about with every wind of Counsel so that it may be as truly said of him as of his prodecessor Henry the fourth He that would corrupt his Council must first begin with the King or as it is written of Noble Fabritius that he could resolve well and having once resolved you might as soon have put the sun out of his course as Fabritius from his resolution witness his stedfastness and constancy in the Protestant Religion notwithstanding those many specious overtures made unto him by many subtill and plausible arguments pressed upon him to pervert him from it FINIS
Gresham Colledge which two places they had made Guards of converting the house of prayer to a Den of Thieves Thus was the City design'd for fire sword and pillage had not God by a timely period prevented their designs Thus while these mens miscarriages doe invest His Maâ—esty with the love of his people he lives retiredly at Bruges expecting either what his loyall subjects might or what the successe might be of that treaty which was then in agitation between France and Spain His Majesty having some hopes to believe that those two Crowns united might joyn to his relief In order to this treaty the two grand favorites of both Crowns being met upon the frontiers His Majesty was also invited thither by Don Lewis de Haro His Majesty received this invitation at Dieppe in Normandy whither he had withdrawn himself to attend the successe of Sir George Booths businesse his friends in England having given no small encouragement to his hopes But seeing the ill success of affairs in England he hasts to the Frontiers being come to Roan he takes post accompani'd with the Marquess of Ormond and the Lord Digby and being at length arrived near the end of their journey he sends to give Don Lewis notice of his approach who presently with a noble traine came forth to meet him When they came near Don Lewis alighted from his horse and kneeling down though in a place by reason of the dirt somewhat inconvenient for that purpose he clapt his hands about His Majesties knees and with a great deal of humility and affection kissed them From this place Don Lewis accompanied His Majesty to the place provided for his accommodation riding bare-headed before him where he was all the while of his stay nobly and sumptuously entertained Many propositions are made by His Majesty to Don Lewis as to the giving him aid and assistance for the regaining of his right to all which Don Lewis returns civill and pleasing answers behaving himself with that respect to His Majesty as if he had been his Master himself His Majesty having spent some time here returns to Paris where he staid with his Mother some few days and so returns to his retirement at Brussels what the successe of His Majesties private and personall negotiation we make no question that time would have discovered not a little to his advantage had not his long drooping affaires received new life from an unexpected alteration of the scene For as his enemies were busy in their endeavours for the destruction of the Nation so was Generall Monke the Governour of Scotland as sâ—udious how to save it The peoples eyes were all fixed upon him as their Moses to deliver them from this iron yoke of Egyptian bondage He having received intelligence of the Armies proceedings weighing the miseries attending such Anarchicall confusions resolves with himself by the divine assistance to put a period to these unhappy distractions by setling the government on its right Basis or Foundation To this purpose having first declared his dissent from their proceedings he secures divers strong holds of that Nation as also those Officers of his own that concurred not with him in his resolutions Having done this he sends a letter to the Officers of the Army at London importing something of dissatisfaction in himself and some Officers of the Army in Scotland in reference to the things newly done in Englang The Council of Officers having received this Alarum had a nocturnal consultation the result whereof was that the regiments should forthwith march Northwards and that Lambert should goe to command them but knowing too well the person with whom they had to deal or whether it were that the souldiers would not fight one with another Lambert and the rest thought it their wisest course to see whether they could undermine him by the pretence of a treaty and a few fair pâ—oposalls Hereupon Whaley and Goffe and Carill and Backer are sent away to remonstrate to Monck the State of Affaires in England and thereupon to mediate with him under the fair pretence of avoiding the effusion of more blood The Officers also wrote unto him and his Officers to expostulate with him touching a necessity of a brotherly Union Morgan also takes a journey out of Yorkeshire into Scotland to see if he could bring the Generall to a Composure But during these overtures the thoughts of action were not at all laid aside wherefore Lambert follows his commanders beginning his journey on the third of November and quartering at Ware that night Generall Monk also begins to look about him He removes those Officers which he had secured in Tintallon Castle unto the Cross Hand draws his forces together secures Barwick and sends Major knight with a Party of 500. Horse into England as far as Morpeth as it is supposed to see what parties there were in that Country to joyn with them which is the rather conjectured because they retreated so suddainly without making any further attempt not was it safe for them to stay there in regard that Lamberts more numerous forces were gathering together about New-castle However to amuse his adversaries he sends three Commissioners to London viz. Col. Clobery Col. Weekes and Major Knight to treate with the same number of persons on their side They arrive enter into a treaty and too hastily conclude upon these particulars following That the title of Charles Stuart be renounced That the three nations shall be governed by a free State and not by a single person That a learned and godly Ministry be maintained That the Universities be reformed and countenanced That the Officers and Souldiers be indempnified for what is past That the armies retire and be dispos'd of into their respective quarters most advantageously against the Coâ—mon Enemy That Whitlock Vane Ludlow Saleway Berry be chosen for England That Saint John Wareston Harington Scot and Thomson together with the Generalle three commanders be chosen for Scotland That Steel Barrow and Dobson be elected for Ireland to give their assistance in determining the qualifications of such persons as are to be members of succeeding Parliaments That two field officers of the regiments in the three Nations and ten on the behalf of the sea officers shall meet on the sixt of December as a generall councill to advise touching the model of civil government that should be then ready to be presented to them These were the chief heads of the agreement signed by the Commissioners on both sides sent immediately away likewise unto Scotland for the Generalls consent But Generall Monck instead of consenting summons a Convention to meet at Edenburgh and sends away a letter to the City yet so contrived that both the character and the speech seem'd suspicious which was delivered by Col. Markham and Col. Askin in behalf of the Long Parliament not seeing the depth of the designe To the Convention he proposes three things That having received a call from God to march into England for resetling the Parliament
they would during his absence which would not be long preserve the peace of the Nation That if any troubles should arise they would assist him in the suppressing thereof That they would raise him some money To which the convention answer'd that for the raising of money they were ready to doe it As to the other two demands they reply'd that they were in no condition to perform his desires being that they wanted armes However that they would endeavour it Preparations therefore for warre still goe on and the Horse after some endeavours wherein Major Generall Morgan was very active were perswaded to sign the Engagement which was offer'd to them by Generall Monck Some weeks had pass'd when Generall Monck thinking it now necessary to return some kind of answer to what his Commanders at London required from him as to his consent to those articles which they had among themselves agreed upon wrote a letter to Fleetwood bearing date from Edinburgh Novemb. 14. wherein he signified that he was very glad to find his Lordship and the Officers of the Army of so complying a spirit and so tender of the publick peace but because he was desirous that the agreement should be full and firme and because he did conceive that some things did remaine untreated of and unagreed upon that therefore 't was the resolution of himself and the rest of the Officers there to adde two more to those that were already commissionated to treate with the same number of such as should be appointed by his Lordship for the putting a finall end to this unhappy business and that the place if his Lordship would permit should be at Newcastle which being granted Generall Monck managed the occasion of delaying them so prudently that while they were eager to entrap him they never perceived the advantages which the other gain'd upon themselves While they are debating at Newcastle the Committee of Safety and the Council of Officers have many debates at home They labour much to satisfie the City Whitlock to his praise be it spoken together with Fleetwood and Desborough being very industrious to that purpose but the Citizens having with much strugling chosen an honest and resolute Common-council at length disown'd them and desire though it were a sound most ungratefull to the men at Wallingford-house that they may have a Free-parliament which animosity of theirs was much augmented by Husons insolence and the murders which he committed in the midst of their City on the 5. of December The second thing they so much endeavour'd was to bring forth the form of government of which they had so long been in travel and at length they conclude upon seven unalterable principles or fundamentalls as they name them which were First That no kingship should be exercised in the nations Second That they will have no single person to be chief Magistrate Third That an army be continued and maintained and conducted so as to secure the peace of the Nations and not be disbanded nor the conduct altered but by consent of the Conservators Fourth That no imposition be upon the Consciences of them that fear God Fifth That there be no House of Peers Sixth That the Legislative and Executive powers be distinct and not in the same hands Seventh That both the assemblies of the Parliament shall be elected by the people of this Common-wealth duly qualified But neither this piece of confusion nor Husons regiment could appease the City so that by meer necessity constrained the Council of Officers most graciously condescend to the calling of a Parliament and the Committee of Safety order the issuing out of wri s accordingly thinking to stop the breach which they had so over-hastily made The Rump seeing these confusions were not idle for themselves They knew that of the two Generall Monck enclin'd to their side then Lamberts and that in Lamberts army they had also many friends if they could but shew themselves The first Alarum which the Committee of Safety the Officers received was from Portsmouth where Harslerig Walton and Morley had made sure of the Garrison and so dealt with Viceadmirall Lawson who gave the second Alarum which rung like a knell in the then more amazed ears of these people for he sent them a declaration in his own and the name of severall of the sea-commanders insisting upon severall reasons why they conceiv'd it necessary that the long Parliament should sit again Hereupon Vane Saloway and Salmon were sent down to conferre with him but Scot being there with two bolsters one for each elbow kept him so steady that 't was impossible for them to hale him on one side So that at length he positively declares for the Long-Parliament the Souldiers also which were sent to block up Portsmouth submit to Harslerig and Morley declaring positively for the Rumps re-sitting Desboroughs regiment which was by the Committee of Safety sent for to strengthen their party being come as far as Saint Albans when they heard how things went make a halt and pause upon 't Hereupon Harslerig with what forces he had marches for the City and those regiments which were about the town being rendevouz'd by Okey and Alured declare their resolutions to live and dye with the Parliament which being done the Speaker Lenthall takes charge of the Tower and delivers it to the Care of Col. Fitch The Rump being now absolute masters of the field give the conduct of the Army to Popham Thomson Scot Okey Sir Ant. Ashley Cooper Alured and Markhnm and the custody of the Tower to Sir Ant. Ashley Cooper Weever Scot and Barners They also order Lamberts forces to repair to their quarters and send Letters of thanks and acknowledgment to Generall Monck for his fidelity and good service Ireland also submits and Lockhart courts them in a Letter from Dunkirk but at length comes the welcome news of the submission of Lamberts forces who seeing their Generall either so baffled or disappointed forsake him and he thereupon sends a letter of submission to the Parliament Generall Monck also humbly congratulates the recovery of their power These fair gales blowing so briskly in their poop they think they have the world in a string and therefore having spoke their friends fair they begin to think of talking with their enemies In order to which they ordaine an act for the publick sale of Sir George Boothes Estate They also discharge Sir Harry Vane from being a member of the House and order Lambert Disborough Ashfield Berry Kelsey Packer Cobbet and Creed to repair to their most remote habitations from London during their pleasure but finding them to stay in town give order to the Council of State to secure them Generall Monck they desire to come as speedily as he can to London for else they saw he was resolved to come without bidding whereupon he advances into England and at Morpeth the sword-bearer of the City meets him with a letter from the Lord Major and Common Council whom he speedily