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A65583	A second narrative of the late Parliament (so called) wherein, after a brief reciting some remarkable passages in the former narrative, is given an account of their second meeting, and things transacted by them : as also how the Protector (so called) came swearing, by the living God, and dissolved them, after two or three weeks sitting : with some quæries sadly proposed thereupon : together with an account of three and forty of their names, who were taken out of the house, and others that sate in the other house, intended for a House of Lords, but being so unexpectedly disappointed, could not take root, with a brief character and description of them : all humbly presented to publique view / by a friend to the good old cause of justice, righteousnesse, the freedom and liberties of the people, which hath cost so much bloud and treasury to be carried on in the late wars, and are not yet settled.	Wharton, George, Sir, 1617-1681.	1658 (1658)	Wing W1556; ESTC R8011	50,589	52

things were as they were and as it seems could be no better Whether all good People in these Nations have not great cause exceedingly to blesse and praise the Lord though they owe little to the Instrument who Ashur-like had other ends that the late Parliament so called was dissolved who were many of them such Mercenary Sallary and self-interested men as in all probability had they continued much longer would have over-voted the Lovers of Freedom and so have perfected their Instrument of Bondage and rivetted it on the Necks of the good People for ever by a Law and thereby made them Vassals and Slaves perpetually But hitherto the Lord hath in a great measure frustrated their wicked Device blessed be his holy Name Sixthly Whether the Protector so called be not a great destroyer of the Rights and Liberties of the English Nation For hath he not in grossed the whole power of the Militia into his own hand The Right also of Property Power of judging all matters of the highest and greatest Concernment And doth he not take on him to be sole Judge of Peace and War of Calling and Dissolving Parliaments Raising Money without Consent in Parliament Imprisoning persons without due form of Law and keeping them in Durance at pleasure using the Militia in his own hand against the good People in these fore-named things and aginst their Representers in Parliamenr Seventhly Whether the Protector and the Great men his Confederates be not rather to be termed Fannattick Whimsicall and Sickbrain'd then those who remaining firm to and being more refined in their former good and honest Principles and will upon no account be drawn to desert the good Old Cause they account and call so And whether this unsettlednesse in their Government and changing both it and their Principles in so short a time and going so diametrically contrary to their former honest Protestations Declarations Sermons and Actings doth not in the view of all the world Declare them so to be Eighthly Whether the Protector so called be not that himself which he untruly charged upon the Members turned out of the Little Parliament so called viz. A destroyer of Magistracy and Ministery Of Magistracy in breaking four Parliaments in five Years and pulling up by the roots what in him lieth the very Basis and Foundation of all just Power to wit the Interest of the good People of this Commonwealth making himself and his own Will and Lust the Basis and Foundation thereof And doth he not at his pleasure suppresse and destroy all Military and Civill Power and Governours that submit not thereunto Is he not likewise a great destroyer of Ministery in taking from them their Religious or Divine Capacities putting them into that of Lay or Common and accordingly in a professed way preferring them to places of Advantage by the Tryers Ninthly Whether the Protector be so wise and understanding so tender and carefull of the Common Interest as is pretended to above all others whatsover yea above and beyond the four Parliaments he hath dissolved And may it not be enquired how he came to this great height of Knowledge and absolute understanding seeing there are very many worthy Patriots sometimes his Equals at least of as high a Descent of as good breeding of as great Parts of as fair an Interest as also as well versed in Government as himself Whether it may not be wondred at that he should be so exceeding wise and tender above all even above Parliaments themselves Tenthly Whether Sir Henry Vane Major Generall Harrison the late President Bradshaw Sir Arthur Haslerigg Lieutenant Generall Ludlow with hundreds more of worthy Patriots that have ventured far in their Countreys Cause for Justice and Freedom may not rationally be thought to be as carefull and tender of the good of their Countrey as the Protector Eleventhly Whether it doth not rankly savour of high Pride and Arrogancy in the Protector so called to set up his Sense and Judgement as the standard for the whole Nation even Parliaments themselves And whether thus to do be not the sad fruit of Enthusaisme one of the great Errours of this day and time Twelfthly Whether the Potector being so highly conceited of his own understanding so changeable and uncertain in his Principles and Resolutions so given up to his Passion and Anger as against all Advice and Counsel in a condition near unto Madnesse to swear by the living God he would Dissolve the late Parliament and accordingly did so though the doing of it tended to the hazard of the Common-wealth Whether he according to Reason can be thought a person capable and fit to Rule and Governe this so Great so Wise and Noble a People Thirteenthly Whether since the Protector assumed the Government the state and condition of this Nation be not very greatly impaired Their Land Forces wasted and consumed at Hispaniola Jamaica Mardike and elsewhere Their Shipping lessened and diminished their Stores and Provisions for Sea and Land expended and consumed without profit their Magazines emptied their Treasures wasted their Trade in a great measure lost and decayed and very great new Debts contracted little of Old being satisfied And whether all this be not the bitter fruit of Apostacy and Treachery and setting up a single person as Chief Magistrate contrary to Ingagements And the casting away of that Righteous Cause of Freedom Justice and Righteousnesse this Land was so engaged in Lastly Whether the Protector so called will not in all likelihood dissolve the next Parliament also if they begin to question and make Debates of former Transactions and do not presently without any disputing proceed to perfect the new Modell of the Humble Petition and Advice What assurance shall be given to the Countries and Cities that shall chuse or to the Gentlemen chosen that they shall not be served as those before were And whether if the honest Citizens shall begin to make ready their former sober and very worthy Petition or one of the like nature it will not be looked at again as a Crime little lesse then Treason at the Court and become a means of sudden Dissolution to the next Parliament also Alas for poor England What will become of thee in the end How hast thou lost thy self and thy good Old Cause And whither will these Masters of Bondage carry thee A List of their Names who were taken out of the House and others being * forty three in number that sate in the Other House so greatly designed for a House of Lords with a brief Description of their Merits and Deserts whereby it may easily appear how fit they are to be called as they call themselves Lords as also being so very deserving what pity it is they should not have a Negative Voyce over the free People of this Commonwealth 1. Richard Cromwel eldest Son of the Protector so called a Person of great Worth and Merit and well skilled in Hawking Hunting Horse-racing with other sports and pastimes one whose

for the future we are likely to have such prosperity success and good days as some so largely promise themselves and others it may be expected Or whether such smiling upon old wickedness and frowning and turning the back upon Righteousness suppressing its growth be any comfortable ground of such hope and expectation Or whether upon the whole Series of things as they now appear there be not rather to be expected some sadder matter if the LORD in mercy prevent not Let the wise in heart consider THE END Reader if thy patience be not quite worne out read the following Postscript which makes mention of the late flattering Adresses c. it may concern you As also a Vindication of that faithful Friend to the Cause of God and his people Mr. John Portmans late Secretary to the Fleet under General Blake now Prisoner for Truth in the Tower whom that lying Court-Pamphleter Nedham hath falsly aspersed and reproached in the late Diurnals A Post-Script to the Reader THe foregoing Narrative was composing and preparing to have come forth like apples of gold in pictures of silver in the fittest season during the life time of Oliver the late Protector so called and calculated for that end among other that as in a Glass he might clearly see his Mutability and Changeableness in his principles as also his Judas-like Treachery and Deceit and how wickedly he had dealt with the Lord his people and the Nation and the righteous cause on foot therein but the Lord having in answer to the earnest desires and prayers of some of his faithful remnant and in great mercy to the Nation and the good people therein and the righteous cause removed and taken him out of the way it was thought fit however to publish it for the sake of his associates and confederates he hath left behind him who may happily make some use of it as also that the standers by yea the whole Nation might likewise see and judge of what hath lately fallen out in this our day It is said of Jeroboam the son of Nebat That he not onely sinned himself but made Israel to sin and there were those of his confederates that then sinned with him and after he was dead and gone of whom it is recorded 1 Kin 15. 34 compared with 2 Kin. 17. 21 22. That they walked in the ways and departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who made Israel to sin The parallel hereof we have in England in this our day Oliver the late Protector so called who Jeroboam like so greatly appeared with the people for Justice and Freedom against Oppression highly professing and declaring for the same hath sinned in the breach of those Protestations and Declarations in building again those things he had been so greatly instrumental to destroy therein surpassing not onely the deeds of the wicked who were cut off upon the like account but also of Jeroboam who never made such Professions and Declarations as he had done There also are of his confederates as the confederates of Jeroboam that sinned with him in his Apostacy and Revolt and do yet continue in those sins and walking in his steps now he is dead and gone as if they took no notice of the displeasure and wrath of God revealed from Heaven against him in cutting him off for his unrighteousness Israel smarted sorely for their evil and at last were carryed away Captive England hath likewise suffered and is brought very low as tradesmen of all sorts shop-keepers and others both in City and Country find by such sad and woful experience as they never did before nor in the memory of man was the like ever known or heard of and what may further suffer the Lord who will not be mocked onely knows For how unworthy are the people of this Generation not onely the more dark and sordid but too many who profess to be Saints and are Pastors and Members of Churches nay some who are Mercurial and more high flown that once spake the Language of Zion and highly appeared for the Good Old Cause who notwithstanding they have seen the mighty Arm and Power of God displayed in bringing down the unrighteous oppressive high and lofty ones with their foundation for their unrighteousness and oppression yet have so far forgotten the Good Old Cause so signally owned from Heaven and are so besotted and degenerated into a self-seeking slavish and enslaveing spirit as they not onely justifie but strengthen their hands who instead of pressing forward mith more refinedness in that work and cause leading to what it shall be when the promises and prophesies relating to the Kingdom of Christ and Zion shall be fulfilled have made a Captain or Protector and are gone back to Egypt to wit the old wicked foundation and things of Monarchy that have been destroyed and thereby under a new name upholding and keeping the people under the old Oppressions And do say of g g In their Addresses to his son Richard his worthy Successour Oliver their late Egyptian Captain who hatched this Cockatrice Egge and brought forth all this wickedness and thereby did more hurt to the Nation then ever he did it good and for which his Memory will deservedly for ever stink in the Nostrils of the Lords faithful people That he was a Moses the great Father and Protector of his people our late most worthy Prince that used all means to deliver us from Bondage by whom we enjoy Freedom in Spiritual and Civil Concernments c. most excellent Prince of happy Memory the famous Champion of our Liberties c. the Father Protector and Buckler of these Nations and the people of God who res●ned procured and maintained our just Liberties to us c. the great Assertor of the Liberties of Gods people and a Lover of their Civil Rights c. who well deserves to be a pattern to all succeeding Princes c. our gracious Benefactor a nursing Father to his people by whose hand the yoke of Bondage hath been broken both from the Necks and Consciences of good people c. an instrument of unspeakable Blessings all whose great Enterprises the Lord constantly prospered with high success c. the great Protector of our Peace and Joy who admirably got and h h Have you forgot Hispaniola and the war with Spain never lost but left three Nations in Peace c. We cannot but deeply resent that sad stroke of Providence that took away the breath of our Nostrils and smote our head from off our Shoulders your Highnesses most gloriously renowned Father Our Elijah c. your most illustrious accomplished most glorious heroical most renowned blessed most holy serene princely Father that sacred Person the delight of our Eyes our glorious Sun is set that unspeakable loss the light of our Eyes and the breath of our Nostrils c. But alass this our Moses the Servant of the Lord is dead and shall we not weep If we weep not for