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Flagellum, or, The life and death, birth and burial of Oliver Cromwel faithfully described in an exact account of his policies and successes, not heretofore published or discovered / by S.T., Gent.
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Heath, James, 1629-1664.
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Wing H1328; ESTC R14663
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under 9. The chief Officers of Seate as Chancellors Keepers of the Great Seal c. to be approved of by Parliament 10. That his Highnesse would encourage a Godly Ministry in these Nations and that such as do revile or disturb them in the Worship of God may be punished according to Law and where the Laws are defective new ones to be made in that behalf 11. That the Protestant Christian Religion and no other and that a confession of Faith be agreed upon and recommended to the people of these Nations and none be permitted by words or writings to revile or repreach the said Confession of Faith c. Which he having Signed declared his acceptance in there words That he came thither that day not as to a Triumph but with the most serious thoughts that ever he had in all his life being to undertake one of the greatest burthens that ever was laid upon the back of any humane creature so that without the support of the Almighty he must sink under the weight of it to the damage and prejudice of these Nations This being so he must ask help of the Parliament and of those that fear God that by their Prayers he might receive assistance from God for nothing else could enable him to the discharge of so great a duty and trust That seeing this is but an Introduction to the carrying on of the Government of these Nations and there being many things which cannot be supplied without the assistance of the Parliament it was his duty to ask their help in them not that he doubted for the same Spirit that had led the Parliament to this would easily suggest the same to them For his part nothing would have induced him to take this unsupportable burthen to flesh and blood but that he had seen in the Parliament a great care in doing those things which might really answer the ends that were engaged for and make clearly for the Liberty of the Nations and for the Interest and preservation of all such as fear God under various forms And if these Nations be not thankful to them for their care therein it will fall as a sin on their heads Yet there are some things wanting that tend to reformation to the discountenancing vice and encouragement of virtue but he spake not this as in the least doubting their progress but as one that doth heartily desire to the end God may Crown their work that in their own time and with what speed they judge fit these things may be provided for There remained only the Solemnity of the Inauguration or Investiture which being agreed upon by the Committee and the Protector was by the Parliament appointed to be performed in Westminster-hall where at the upper end thereof there was an Ascent raised where a Chair and Canopy of State was set and a Table with another Chair for the Speaker with Seats built Scaffold-wise for the Parliament on both sides and places below for the Aldermen of London and the like All which being in a readiness the Protector came out of a Room adjoyning to the Lords House and in this order proceeded into the Hall First went his Gentlemen then a Herald next the Aldermen another Herald the Attorney General then the Judges of whom Serjeant Hill was one being made a Baron of the Exchequer June 16. then Norroy the Lord Commissioners of the Treasury and the Seal carried by Commissioner Fiennes then Garter and after him the Earl of Warwick with the Sword born before the Protector Bare headed the Lord Mayor Tichborn carrying the City Sword being the special of Coaks of the Protector by his left hand Being seated in his Chair on the left Hand whereof stood the said Titchborn and the Dutch Ambassador the French Ambassador and the Earl of Warwick on the Right next behind him stood his Sons Richard Fleetwood Cleypoole and the Privy Council upon a lower descent stood the Lord Viscount Lisle Lords Montague and Whitlock with drawn Swords Then the Speaker Sir Thomas Widdrington in the name of the Parliament presented to him a Robe of Purple-Velvet a Bible a Sword and a Scepter at the Delivery of these things the Speaker made a short Comment upon them to the Protector which he divided into four parts as followeth 1. The Robe of Purple This is an Emblem of Magistracy and imports Righteousness and Justice When you have put on this Vestment I may say you are a Gown-man This Robe is of a mixt colour to shew the mixture of Justice and Mercy Indeed a Magistrate must have two hands Plectentem amplectentem to cherish and to punish 2. The Bible it is a Book that contains the Holy Scriptures in which you have the happinesse to be well vers'd This Book of Life consists of two Testaments the Old and New the first shews Christum Velatum the second Christum Revelatum Christ vailed and revealed it is a Pook of Books and doth contain both Precepts and Examples for good Government 3. Here is a Scepter not unlike a Staff for you are to be a Staff to the weak and poor it is of ancient use in this kind It 's said in Scripture that The Scepter shall not depart from Judah It was of the like use in other Kingdoms Homer the Greek Poet calls Kings and Princes Scepter-Bearers 4. The last thing is a Sword not a Military but Civil Sword it is a Sword rather of defence then offence not to defend your self only but your people also If I might presume to fix a Motto upon this Sword as the valiant Lord Talbot had upon his it should be this Ego sum domini Protectoris ad protegendum populum meum I am the Protectors to protect my people This Speech being ended the Speaker took the Bible and gave the Protector his Oath afterwards Mr. Manton made a prayer wherein he recommended the Protector Parliament Council the Forces by Land and Sea Government and people of the three Nations to the protection of God Which being ended the Heralds by Trumpets proclaimed his Highness Protector of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging requiring all persons to yeild him due obedience At the end of all the Protector with his Train carried by the Lord Sherrard Warwick's Nephew ahd the Lord Robert's his eldest Son returned in the same posture the Earl of Warwick sitting at one end of the Coach against him Richard his Son and Whitlock in one and the Lords Lisle and Mountague in the other Boot with Swords drawn and the Lord Claypool Master of the Horse led the Horse of Honour in rich Caparisons to White-hall The Members to the Parliament House where they prorogued their sitting to the Twentieth of January He vvas novv setled and established in his first assumed Dignity to the satisfaction of some part of the Army only Lambert vvas gravelled with that clause in it which gave the Protector power to name his Successor Whereby he savv himself deprived and frustrated
by Cromwell Thus he progressed from New-market to Royston thence by S. Albans to Hatfeild to Windsor being carried towards London almost in the same Road in which he was driven thence to Caversham back again to Maiden-head to Latimer Stoke Oatlands Sion-House almost in view and hearing of those Tumults which forced him away while in the interim Oliver having made a Pique against the Citizens and revenged one Tumult by another had made the City Submit and receive the Domineering Army in Triumph through their Streets with Lawrel and other Ensigns of victory in their hats With the Army returned those Fugitive Members that left the Parliament upon the same Tumults being invited by Cromwell to his Sanctuary of Redcoats while the remaining members had voted the Kings present coming to London to treat personally with his two Houses all which votes being Tumultuously obtained by instinct of some of Cromwell's own sending to encrease the violence were afterwards vacated after a long struggling in the Parliament as contrary to Priviledge and the secluded Members who had resumed their seats deserted London and went some over Sea others with passes to their own homes in the Country resigning their ill employed power to Cromwell and his Faction in the Parliament who abused it ten times more In Justification of this insolence they published a Declaration wherein they said that the Parliament had declared that it is no resistance of Magistracy to side with just principles and the Law of Nature and Nations being the same Law upon which they had assisted them that the soldiers may lawfully hold the hands of the Generall who will turn his Cannon upon the Army on purpose to destroy them The Seamen the hands of the Pilot who willfully runs the Ship upon a Rock as their Brethren the Scotch-men had also argued The said Declaration still-directing them to the equitable sense of all Laws and constitutions as dispensing with the very letter of the same and being supreme to it when the safety and preservation of all is concerned and assured them That all Authority is fundamentally seated in the Office anâ but ministerially in the persons But before this great successe the dubious Expectation thereof had caused Cromwell to stagger now and then at his first resolutions which it prosperous would at all times help themselves and there ultimately he was fixed whatever conditions and promises cross accidents should extort from him and therefore he was dealing with the King in way of recompence and reward for his Service in his restitution that he should be made Earl of Essex and a Knight of the Garter his eldest Son to be of the Bedchamber to the Prince his Son in Law Ireton to be either Lord Deputy or at least Feild Marshall Generall of Ireland and it was reported by Henry Cromwell that then Commanded the Generalls Lifeguard that the King had put himself upon his Father and Brother Ireton to make his terms for him and restore him to his Crown which grant of the Kings caused and produced those proposals beforementioned to be contrived but now in the very nick of this Juncture set forth and published called the Proposals for the setling a just and lawfull peace where in the three first and last particulars the Authority was left as entire in the King as before the rest were some Caprichio's of Bienniall Parliaments and the like Figaries whose impertinences discredited the important veracity of the other But this feud betwixt the Presbyterians and Cromwell ending so fortunately for him there being nothing at present to withstand his first and grand intendment he began to waive his respects to the King and cast off those disguises wherewith he had made himself acceptable to the Kings adhaerents and laid aside the King and them The King therefore gently reminds Cromwell of his promises repeats to him his Protestations and urgeth the Proposals aforesaid and not only so but in confidence of the fair meaning of the Army declines a speedier accommodation with the Parliament but Cromwell begins to turn a deaf ear to deny many things what he had said and promised to retract from others pretending the difference of times and circumstances that they cannot be performed telling the King moreover that He did mistake and not rightly understand his meaning and in short that though he would keep his word with His Majesty that now it was not in his power for that the Adjutators were grown to such an ungoverned and insolent licentiousnesse that untill the Discipline of the Army could be recovered it were in vain to expect any such things as he when he promised really intended The King was at this time at Hampton-Court perplext on the one hand with the obstinacy of the Parliament in their Propositions being more rigid since the last garbling by the Army and on the other with the dangerous Positions of the Adjutators and the Levelling party both in Camp and City in which last John Lilburn was Chief of the Faction who decryed Monarchy and all former forms of Government having something which Ireton spread by the by as it were among the Souldiery in projection on purpose to stave off all manner and means of settlement This at last came to a Systeme or Consistency and was styled an Agreement of the people and was now the onely darling of the Army and the Sectaries being a mixture or miscellany of Politique Notions no way practicable among English-men being a deformation or destruction of all things but an establishment of nothing a meer temporary expedient and shift of design except always their Arrears Indemnity and the Period to the Parliament and this shape Cromwell assumes also confessing and acknowledging the excellence acquity and goodnesse of the same the only fault in it was the unseasonablenesse for as yet it was not his time and his cue to appear so publiquely against the King and this his Character of it was drest out and enlarged with such taking Saint-like Language as the Phanatick rabble might best be surprized and not suspect any of his own venemous designs to be lurking under the leaf of His holy and sacred pretences Withall when his Plot against the King vvas ripe for Execution he caused a Fast to be published in the Army a certain forerunner of mischief with him where he was as usually observed to howl and cry and bedew his Cheeks with the Tears of Hypocrisie cruelty and deceit and after this mock-duty performed he and the rest of the Officers pretended to confesse their iniquity and abomination in declining the Cause of the people and tampering with the King and then in the presence of the All-seeing God acknowledge the way of an Agreement of the People to be the way to peace and freedom The King was in the mean while by the fallacious advice of Whalley and the practises of Cromwell who had caused frequent rumours to be whispered of some Assassinate intended by the Levellers against his person frighted