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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27463	Memoirs of Sir John Berkley containing an account of his negotiation with Lieutenant General Cromwel, Commissary General Ireton, and other officers of the army, for restoring King Charles the First to the exercise of the government of England.	Berkeley, John, Sir, d. 1678.	1699 (1699)	Wing B1971; ESTC R4022	30,903	94

MEMOIRS OF Sir John Berkley Containing an ACCOUNT Of his NEGOTIATION WITH Lieutenant General CROMWEL Commissary General IRETON And other Officers of the Army For Restoring King CHARLES the First to the Exercise of the Government of England LONDON Printed by J. Darby in Bartholomew-Close for A. Baldwin in Warwicklane MDCXCIX MEMOIRS OF Sir JOHN BERKLEY IN the Year 1647 her Majesty and his Highness the Prince of Wales were pleased to send me into Holland to condole the Death of the Prince of Orange and having performed that Office I returned with Mr. John and Mr. William Ashburnham to France by the way of Calais where we met with the News of his Majesty's being seized by one Cornet Joyce in Holmby House from whence he was carried with a Guard of 400 Horse towards the Army the Cornet producing no Authority whereby to warrant this proceeding The next Post brought us Advertisement to Calais that his Majesty was well received by the Officers and Soldiers of the Army and that there were great hopes conceived that they would both concur to establish his Majesty in his just Rights From Calais we went to Rouen where we met a Confirmation of this Intelligence and heard withal that one Sir Edward Ford who was Brother-in-law to Commissary General Ireton was sent by her Majesty and his Highness the Prince of Wales into England to discover the Intentions of the Army and to promote an Agreement between his Majesty and them From Rouen we went to St. Germains where we were no sooner arrived but we heard that Mr. Denham who during his Imprisonment had contracted a great Familiarity with Mr. Peters a Preacher and a powerful person in the Army was dispatch'd with a Commission to the like effect with that of Sir Edward Ford. As I was going up to her Majesty I met accidentally with my Lord Culpepper who scarce had saluted me before he told me that I must prepare my self immediately for another Journey her Majesty being resolved to send me into England after Sir Edward Ford and Mr. Denham I answer'd that I had no Pass nor any Acquaintance with any one of the Army and that I doubted if the King's Party should come too thick upon them at first those of the Army would be jealous they should have too many Sharers in the Places and Preferments they might perhaps meditate to procure and preserve to themselves His Lordship replied That if I were afraid to go into England her Majesty and his Highness would serve themselves of some other person because they conceived it necessary to employ some to the Army that might be supposed to have greater Trust both with the Queen in France and with the King in England than either Sir Edward Ford or Mr. Denham had I return'd That if after a serious consideration it should be judged of use to dispatch me into England I would adventure tho I had not the honour to be very well known to his Majesty and therefore could not expect any great Trust from him To that part his Lordship replied That there was an Intention to send Mr. John Ashburnham after me but that he would not go without a Pass and therefore that I should have it added to my Instructions to procure him one Within few days after I had my Dispatch and went by the way of Dieppe where I met with Mr. William Leg of the Bed-chamber to his Majesty He embarked with me for England we arriv'd at Hastings and from thence went the next day towards London Two miles on this side Tunbridg I met with Sir Allen Apsley who had been my Lieutenant-Governor of Exeter and afterwards Governor of Barnstaple in the County of Devon He told me that he was going to me from Cromwel and some other Officers of the Army with Letters and a Cypher and Instructions which were to this effect That he should desire me to remember that in some Conferences with Colonel Lambert and other Officers of the Army upon the rendring of Exeter I had taken notice of the Army 's bitter inveighing against the King's person as if he had been the worst of men and their excessive extolling the Parliament both which being without any colour of ground I had concluded that those Discourses were not out of any perswasion of mind but affected to prepare men to receive the Alteration of Government they intended the Parliament should effect by the assistance of the Army which I had said was not only a most wicked but a very difficult if not an impossible Design for a few men not of the greatest Quality to introduce a Popular Government against the King and his Party against the Presbyterians against the Nobility and Gentry against the Laws establish'd both Ecclesiastical and Civil and against the whole Genius of the Nation that had been accustomed for so many Ages to a Monarchical Government Whereas on the other side if they would but consider that those of their Party had no particular obligations to the Crown as many of the Presbyterians had and therefore ought less to despair of his Majesty's Grace and Favour that the Presbyter began this War upon specious pretences of making the King a glorious King that under that pretext they had deceived many well-meaning men and had brought great things to pass but that now the Mask was taken off and they discovered to have sought their own Advantages and at the same time the Power almost wrested out of their hands to do themselves much good or others hurt and that by the Independent Party who could establish themselves no way under Heaven so justly and prudently as by making good what the Presbyterians had only pretended that is restoring King and People to their just and antient Rights which would so ingratiate them with both that they would voluntarily invest them with as much Trust and Power as Subjects are capable of Whereas if they grasped more it would be with the general hatred and their own destruction To this Discourse of mine they only gave a Hearing but no Consent as proceeding from an Interest much divided from theirs but since they have found by experience all or the most part to be so reasonable that they were resolved to put it in practice as I might perceive by what had already pass'd they desired for the present nothing of me but that I would present them humbly to the Queen and Prince and be Suitor to them in their Names not to condemn them absolutely but to suspend their Opinions of them and their Pretensions towards his Majesty and judg them rather by their future Behaviour of the innocence whereof they had already given some Testimonies to the World and would do more and more daily When I should have done this Office they desired I would come over into England and become an Eye-witness of their Proceedings I thought this Rencounter no ill Omen to my future Proceedings Sir Allen Apsley told me I should have to do with subtil men