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A91305	A true and ful relation of the officers and Armies forcible seising of divers eminent Members of the Commons House, Decemb. 6. & 7. 1648. As also, a true copy of a letter / lately written by an agent for the Army in Paris, dated 28 of Novemb. 1648, to a Member of the said House, a great creature and patriot of the Army; clearly discovering, that their late remonstrance and proceedings do drive on and promote the Jesuits and Papists designes, to the subversion of religion, Parliament, monarchy, and the fundamental laws and government of the kingdom.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1648 (1648)	Wing P4110; Thomason E476_14; ESTC R30121	7,777	15

tired out with watching the night before where arriving about 12 of the clock they expected a present Answer But our new Grandees and great Councel of the Army took so much Royal State upon them as to make them wait their leisure til it was night before they vouchsafed to send them any answer at which time disdaining to call the imprisoned Members in or to honour them with their more them Lordly presence they sent out 3 Officers to acquaint then with this dilatory answer That other intervenient affairs of great concernment were now in agitation before the General and his Councel so as they could not admit them to their presence that night as was expected and that the General and his Councel for their better accommodation had given order that they should be lodg'd at 2 Inns in the Strand to wit the Swan and the Kings Head for that night where they should receive from them the next morning some Propositions to be considered of After which the Provost Marshal taking the names of those who were to be lodged at the Kings Head and a list of those who were to be conducted to the Swan carried them all prisoners to the said Inns thorow the streets in the dirt on foot except some 6 or 7 onely who were lame and aged with a Musketier attending upon every one of them in particular and a strong Guard marching before behinde and on one side of them like so many Traytors and capital Malefactors to the great admiration and discontent of all persons wel affected to the Parliament and joy rejoycing to all Malignants Papists and Cavaliers who had they been conquerors of the Parliament could not have used them with more rigour scorn and disdain then these pious Saints and Grandees of the Army have done before they have attainted them of any particular crime or breach of trust whereof the whole Kingdom can declare all or most of them innocent Being brought Prisoners to the said Inns they had strong Guards set upon them and a Sentinel at every chamber door all night Thus do these new usurpers of a more then Regal and Tyrannical power trample upon the Members of the House of Commons their former Masters as if they were no better then the dirt in the street and to exasperate the cōmon souldiers against them have slandered the imprisoned Members to be the only detainers of their pay when as none of them ever fingered one penny of their moneys and if any Members be guilty of such a crime it must be those who have most relation to the Army and professe themselves their greatest friends Thursday morning the Officers and Army guarding the House in the same manner as on Wednesday some of their Officers standing at the Commons door with a List of Parliament mens names in their hands demanded every Members name as he came to the door to enter the House and those whose names were in their List they forcibly excluded the House and turned down the stairs though they earnestly pressed for entrance and some of them acquainted the Speaker by Letter with the high affront and breach of Priviledge but could finde no redresse the Officers admitting onely such who were not in the List About 40 Members were thus forcibly excluded but not imprisoned onely Mr. Gewen was seised upon by one of Col. Hewsons Officers carried prisoner to the Queens Court and from thence to White-hall to the rest of the imprisoned Members who were there attending upon the General and his Councel This day the Great Conqueror Lieut. Gen. Cromwel entered the Commons House and received thanks for his great services which had been more Honourable for him to receive in a full and free House then in an empty and forced the House by reason of the restrained and excluded Members with others driven away by this horrid violence being not above 80. in Number having formerly resolved not to proceed till their Members were restored and the force upon them removed after some debate and opposition the House was divided upon this Question whether they should now proceed or not which was carryed in the affirmative 50. voting in the affirmative and 28. or 30. in the negative that they should not who presently left the House most of them resolving to come no more till the House and Members were righted this done to abuse and mock as well God as men they appointed Friday for a solemne Humiliation to be kept in that House not to expiate the Armies open violation of their Priviledges force and breach of Faith both to God and the Parliament which had been commendable but to procure a blessing on the forcible and unparliamentall proceedings for the subversion of Monarchy Religion Lawes Liberties and three Kingdomes in a moment dethroning and beheading the King and desinheriting his Posterity and introducing a popular Anarchy and Tyranny under the power of a perfidious Army worse then any slavery under the great Turk The Lord humble them in good earnest for these crying sins and treasons and either convert their hearts or confound all their treasonable destructive devices of this kind which will render them infamous to the present and all future Generations and bring them unto speedy ruine notwithstanding all their present usurped power It is beleived by divers understanding men of great experience that the Jesuits have laid this plot and fomented these distempers in the Army by the Agitators some of them being Jesuits others Anabaptists leavened with Jesuiticall principles who over-reach the honest-minded and plain-hearted Christians in the Army by their speciall pretences of Justice and speedy setling of the Common-Weale but in such a way as will bring all to suddain confusion and make our three Kingdomes a prey to the Popish party and our forraign Popish enemies who will make Bonefires of joy in Italy Spain France Ireland and other forraign parts for this unparaleld force upon the Houses and the designes of the Army now in prosecution Friday morning the imprisoned Members expected a Message from the Generall and his Councell according to promise but they received none such is their dilatorinesse and fidelity in point of promise onely one came with a message from the Generall to Sir Robert Harley to this effect that he might go home to his house and continue there so as he would give his word not to oppose the present actings and proceedings of the House or Army varying in his expressions at which Sir Robert desired time to advise with his fellow prisoners being a matter which equally concerned them the like offer was since made to Sir John Merrick by which it is apparent that all these prisoners crime is onely the discharge of their duty in opposing the present designes and actions of the Army to subvert the fundamentall Lawes Liberties and Government of the Kingdome and the ancient forme of Parliaments for which treason Strafford Canterbury lost their heads by judgment of this very Parliament By all these

passages compared with the Armies late Remonstrance and Declaration it is most perspicuous to all the Kingdome 1. That the Officers and Army have offered far greater violence to the Priviledges Houses and Members of Parliament and acted more towards the dissolution of this present and subversion of all future Parliaments then ever the King or his Cavaliers the Gunpowder traytors Germyn or Percy did or the Reformadoes and London Apprentices did whom yet the Officers and Army declared against and prosecuted as Traytors though they neither imprisoned nor kept back any Member from the Houses 2. That they have violated their Covenants Oaths Trusts and solemne ingagements to the Parliament City Country and Kingdome in as high or higher degree as ever the King and his evill Counsellors did in invading the priviledges forcing the Houses imprisoning the Members of Parliament and indeavouring by open force to subvert the fundamentall Government Lawes Liberties and Customes of the Realme and the Ancient frame and being of Parliaments for defence of all which they were raised and covenanted to fight for and maintain That they have usurped a far greater and more dangerous arbitrary and tyrannicall power over both Houses of Parliament and their Members and over the persons and estates of their fellow-Subjects then ever the King or the worst of his Counsellors did and that under the feigned pretences of present necessity and common safety of which they make themselves the only supreme Iudges not the Parliament as the King did in the case of Ship-money and therefore they must either justifie or acquit the King his party from all those charges objections against him in their late Remonstrance for which they presse the Houses in point of justice both to depose and execute him as a Traitor to the Common-wealth or els incur the self-same crime and guilt and subject themselves to the same judgment and execution which they desire to be inflicted upon Him and His The names of the imprisoned Members M. Wheeler M. Lane Sir Samuel Luke Sir Thomas Soame Sir Benjamin Raddierd Sir Richard Anslow Sir Robert Pye Sir Anthony Irby M. Clement Walker M. William Prynne M. Bunkley Major Generall Massey Sir Walter Erle M. Greene Colonell Birch M. Boughton Colonell Leigh M. Henry Pe●ham M. Drake Sir William Waller Sir John Merrick Sir Martin Lister Sir Robert Harley Col. Ed. Harley M. Swinfen M. Crew M. Ed. Stephens M. Buller Sir Gilbert Gerrard M. Gerrard M. Nath. Fines Sir Simon d' Ewes Sir William Lewes Sir Iohn Clotworthy Lord Wenman Colonell William Strode Commissary Copley M. Vaughan of Exeter Sir Harbottle Grimstone M. Prisley M. Gewen seized upon Thursday Sir Henry Cholmley seized at his lodging and sent prisoner to the Crowne Psal. 55. 12 13 14 15 16. For it was not an enemie that reproached me then I could have borne it neither was it he that hurted me that did magnifie himselfe against me then I could have hid my selfe from him But it was thou a man mine equall my guide and mine acquaintance We took sweet counsell together and walked unto the house of God in company Let death seize upon them and let them goe downe quick into hell for wickednesse is in their dwellings and amongst them As for me I will call upon God and the Lord shall save me A true Copie of a Letter written by an Independent Agent for the Army from Paris in France to an Independent Member of the House of Commons a great Creature and Patriot of the Army Extracted out of the originall Deare Sir I Was exceeding glad to receive the Doctors lines that intimated your recovery from that distemper that had seized upon you I doubt not but it had this effect upon you to let you see what a fraile thing our bodies are and what need we have to be sure of our building not made with hands reserved in heaven for us I am at present praised be God indifferent well the place where I am in respect of all outward accommodations very well agreeing with me and very much exceeding England onely defective in this that I cannot find a M. Westrow nor Doctor Stanes here to make a bosome-friend and yet in that it is not altogether so barren as I did and you may well imagine it I am fallen into the acquaintance of three or foure Catholikes of very great ingenuity and in their way of much Religion undoubtedly it is an error to look at all Papists through the same perspective for they are more to be differenced then English Papists can be I find their opinion of and dependence upon the Pope little or nothing what we imagine it to be and better principled to make members of a Commonwealth then the most English Their opposition to the King is not to be reconciled their hopes are now upon the Army to whom they wish all prosperity as to the setling of a Representative being extremely distasted with Regall hereditary power throughout the world It seems my Lord Say hath undertaken to procure a Passe from the House for Sir Kellam Digby to come over to England he is not according to your rule a Delinquent but it seems came over into France by the House of Commons Licence acquitted from any crime Let me desire you when it comes to be moved in your House give it the best promotion you can one would think a businesse so reasonable should find no opposition But to such a constitution as you are of no man can tell what is reasonable He never was in Armes and I believe can easily answer any thing that can be objected save his Religion why he should be from under Sequestration Let me intreat you to speak to as many of your acquaintance as you can that when it comes to be moved it may not be repulsed I could heartily wish you and Mrs. Westrow and the Doctor had a good occasion to bring you over into France if so I should not think of returning into England whilest you stayed I have no more at present but my own and wifes best respects to you and Mrs. Westrow I remaine Paris 28. Novemb. 1648. Your very assured friend A. B. By this Letter it is apparent That the Jesuited Papists in France are in such opposition to our King for his compliance with his Houses of Parliament to settle the Kingdome and extirpate Masse and Popery that they are not to be reconciled to him and therefore indeavour to depose and bring him to execution and disinherit his posterity That their hopes to effect this their designe against and execute this their revenge upon the King are now upon the Army to whom they wish all prosperity That they foment and prosecute with their prayers and advice the Armies new Modell for setling of a Representative in Parliament of purpose to dissolve this present Parliament which hath acted so much against them and their Popish Religion and is now giving it its finall and fatall blow if they and the King shall close and to subvert all Parliaments for the future for feare of falling into the like danger by them That Independents and friends of the Army have a far better opinion of Roman Catholikes then English Protestants as being better principled to make members of a free Commonwealth then they And therefore are more likely to favour and close with Roman Catholikes then English Protestants in carrying on their new designes expressed in their late Remonstrance That the Jesuites and Roman Catholikes are extremely distasted with Regall hereditary power throughout the world the onely obstacle to their designes in subverting the Protestant Religion and making all Kingdoms meere vassalls to the Pope and Sea of Rome and therefore the Officers and Army in prosecuting their Remonstrance and new intended Representative and subverting Regall hereditary power do most apparently carry on nought else but the very Jesuites and Roman Catholikes Interests and designes and accomplish their desires either wittingly or willingly as acting by their principles if not counsells and aiming at their very ends which is high time for all wise and well-affected Protestants both in the Army Parliament and City and our three Kingdoms most seriously to consider and prevent the imminent ruine and destruction even of our Reformed Religion it self and our hereditary Monarchy the present and all succeeding Parliaments our Lives Liberties and Kingdomes all now drawing to their fatall period by the heady violence trechery and disobedience of that very Army which hath been raised cried up and trusted upon too much as their onely Saviours for which God in justice may now make them their principall and sudden destroyers unlesse both they and we repent FINIS