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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29430	A brief character of the Protector Oliver Cromwel with an account of the slavery he left the nation under at his death, comprehended in a seasonable speech concerning the upper house / made by a worthy member of Parliament in the House of Commons, March 1659.	Titus, Silius, 1623?-1704.; Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1621-1683.	1692 (1692)	Wing B4551; ESTC R25946	9,805	8

two things First That Villainies be not encouraged with the Rewards of Vertue Secondly That the Authority and Majesty of the Government of this Nation be not defiled and exposed to Contempt by committing so considerable a part of it to Persons of as mean Quality as Parts The Thebans did not admit Merchants into Government till they had left thei● Traffick ten years Sure 't would have been long before Coblers and Dray-me● would have been allowed If Sir the Wisdom of this House shall find it nece●sary to begin where we left and shall think we have been hitherto like the Prodigal and that now when our necessities perswade us i. e. that we are almos● brought to herd it with Swine now 't is high time to think of a return let u● without more ado without this motly mixture even take our Rulers as at the first so that we can be but reasonably secured to avoid our Counsellours as at th● beginning Give me leave Sir to release your Patience with a short Story Livy tell● us There was a State in Italy an Aristocracy where the Nobility stretcht their Prerogative too high and presumed a little too much upon the Peoples Liberty and Patience whereupon the Discontents were so general and so great that they apparently tended to a Dissolution of Government and the turning of al● things into Anarchy and Confusion At the same time besides these Distempers at home there was a Potent Enemy ready to fall upon them from abroad that had been an over-match for them at their best Union but now in these Disorders was like to find them very Ready and very easy Prey A wise Man Sir in the City that did not at all approve of the Insolency of the Nobility and as little liked Popular Tumults bethought himself of this Stratagem to cozen his Country into safety Upon a pretence of Counsel he procured the Nobility to meet all together which when they had done he found a Way to lock all the Doors upon them goes away himself and takes the Keys with him The● he immediately Summons the People tells them that by a Contrivance of his he had taken all the Nobility in a Trap That now was the time for them to be revenged upon them for all their Insolencies that therefore they should immediately go along with him and dispatch them Sir the Officers of our Army after a Fast could not be more ready for the Villainy than this People were and accordingly they made as much hast to the Slaughter as their Lord Protector could desire them But Sir this wise Man I told you of was their Lord Protector indeed As soon as he had brought the People where the Parliament was Sitting and when they but expected the Word to fall to the Butchery and take their Heads Gentlemen says he Though I would not care how soon this Wor● of Reformation were over yet in the Ship of the Common-wealth we must not throw the Steers-men over Board till we have provided others for the Helm Let us consider before we take these Men away in what other hands we may more securely trust our Liberty and the management of the Common-wealth And so he advis'd them before the putting down of the former to bethink themselves of constituting an other House He begins and nominates one a Man highly cried up in the Popular Faction a confiding Man one of much Zeal little Sense and no Quality you may suppose him Sir a zealous Cobler The People in conclusion murmured at this and were loath their fellow Mutineer for no other Vertue but Mutining should come to be advanced to be their Master and by their Looks and Murmur sufficiently exprest the Distaste they took at such a Motion Then he nominates another as mean a Mechanick as the former you may imagine him Sir a bustling rude Dray-man or the like He was no sooner named but some burst out a laughing others grew Angry and railed at him and all Detested and scorn'd him Upon this a Third was named for a Lordship one of the same Batch and every way fit to sit with the other two The People then fell into a confused laughter and noise and enquired if such were Lords who by all the Gods would be content to be the Commons Sir let me be bold by the good leave of the other House and yours to ask the same Question But Sir to conclude this Story and with it I hope the other House When this wise Man I told you of perceived they were now sensible of the inconvenience and mischief they were running into and saw that the pulling down their Rulers would prove in the end but the setting up of their Servants he thought them then prepared to hear Reason and told them You see saith he That as bad as this is we cannot for any thing I see agree upon a better What then if after this Fright we have put our Nobility in and the demonstration we have given them of our Power we try them once more whether they will mend and for the future behave themselves with more moderation That People Mr. Speaker were so wise as to comply with that wise Proposition and to think it easier to mend their old Rulers than to make New And I wish Mr. Speaker we may be so wise to think so too POST-SCRIPT Taking Notice That many in our TIMES I hope Honest and Well-meaning Men have a great Reverence for the Memory of Oliver Cromwel Protector as being a Man of Piety and a great Champion for the Liberties of this Nation I thought the reviving the foregoing Excellent Speech lately by Accident coming to my Hands might conduce much to the rectifying of their great Error and Mistake herein by the Reprinting it and therefore have left it to the Dispose of the Printer ADVERTISEMENT BRethren in Iniquity Or the Confederacy of PAPISTS with SECTARIES for the Destroying of the True Religion as by Law Establish'd plainly detected Wherein is shewed a farther Account of the Romish Snares and Intrigues for the Destroying the True Reformed Religion as Professed in the Church of England and Established by Law and for the Introducing of Popery or Atheism among us clearly shewing from very Authentick Writers and Testimonies That the principal Ways and Methods whereby the Papists have sought the Ruine of our Religion and Church from the Beginning of our Reformation to the present Times and by which they are still in hopes of compassing it are by promoting of Toleration or pretended Liberty of Conscience and that for above these Sixscore Years the Papists have so craftily Influenced our Dissenters as to make them the unhappy Instruments of effecting their most pernicious Designs which they contrived for the Subverting our Church and State London Printed and are to be Sold by Randal Taylor near Stationers-Hall 1690. LONDON Printed and are to be Sold by R. Taylor near Stationers-Hall 1692.