Land be observed and kept and no Laws altered Suspended Abrogated Repealed or new Laws made but by Act of Parliament 7. For a constant yearly Revenue ten hundred thousand pounds to be setled for maintenance of the Navy and Army and three hundred thousand pounds for support of the Government besides other Temporary supplies as the Commons in Parliament shall see the necessities of the Nations to require 8. That the number of the Protector 's Council shall not be above one and twenty whereof the Quorum to be seven and not under 9. The Chief Officers of State as Chancellors Keepers of the Great Seal c. to be approved of by Parliament 10. That his Highness 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 as it is contained in the Old and New Testaments be asserted and held forth for the publick profession of these Nations 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 reproach the said Confession of Faith c. Which he having Signed declared his acceptance in these 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 reâ—â—ive 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 Vertue 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 onely 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 Iune 16. then Norroy the Lords 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 Titchborn carrying the City-Sword by the special Coaks of the Protector by his left Hand Being seated in his Chair on the left hand thereof stood the said Titchborn and the Dutch Embassador the French Embassador and the Earl of Warwick on the Right next behinde him stood his Son Richard Fleetwood Claypool 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 all which were precious Tokens of the Parliaments favour 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 Iustice. 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 Iustice and Mercy Indeed a Magistrate must have two bands Plectentem amplectentem to cherish and to punish 2. The Bible is a Book that contains the Holy Scriptures in which you have the happiness 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 Book 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 antient use in this kinde It 's said in Scripture that the Scepter shall not depart from Iudah 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 than offence not to defend your self onely 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 Protector 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 sound of Trumpet Proclaimed his Highness Protector of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging requiring all persons to yield him due obedience At the end of all the Protector with his Train carried up by
it also is to all considering persons that this Parliament through the corruption of some the jealousie of others the non-attendance and negligence of many would never answer those ends which God his People and the whole Nation expected from them but that this Cause which the Lord hath so greately blessed and bore witness to must needs languish under their Hands and by degrees be wholly lost and the Lives Liberties and Comforts of his people delivered into their Enemies hands All which being sadly and seriously considered by the honest people of this Nation as well as by the Army and Wisdome and Direction being sought from the Lord it seemed to be a duty incumbent upon us who had seen so much of the power and presence of God going along with us to consider of some more effectual means to secure the Cause which the good people of this Commonwealth had been so long engaged in and to establish Righteousness and Peace in these Nations And after much debate it was judged necessary and agreed upon that the Supream Authority should be by the Parliament devolved upon known persons men fearing God and of approved Integrity and the Government of the Commonwealth committed unto them for a time as the most hopeful way to encourage and countenance all Gods people reform the Law and administer Iustice impartially hoping thereby the people might forget Monarchy and understanding their true Interest in the Election of successive Parliaments may have the Government setled upon a true Basis without hazard to this glorious Cause or necessitating to keep up Armies for the defence of the same And being still resolved to use all means possible to avoid extraordinary courses we prevailed with about twenty Members of Parliament to give us a Conference with whom we freely and plainly debated the necessity and justness of our Proposals on that behalf and did evidence that those and not the Act under their Consideration would most probably bring forth something answerable to that Work the foundation whereof God himself hath laid and is now carrying on in the World The which notwithstanding found no acceptance but in stead thereof it was offered that the way was to continue still this present Parliament as being that from which we might reasonably expect all good things And this being vehemently insisted upon did much confirm us in our apprehensions That not any love to a Representative but the making use thereof to recruit and so to perpetuate themselves was their aim They being plainly dealt with about this and told that neither the Nation the honest Interest nor we our selves would be deluded by such dealings They did agree to meet again the next day in the Afternoon for mutual satisfaction it being consented to by the Members present that Endeavours should be used that nothing in the mean time should be done in Parliament that might exclude or frustrate the Proposals before-mentioned Notwithstanding this the next Morning the Parliament did make more hast than usual in carrying on their said Act being helped on therein by some of the persons engaged to us the night before none of them which were then present endeavouring to oppose the same and being ready to put the main Question for consummating the said Act whereby our aforesaid Proposals would have been rendered void and the way of bringing them into a fair and full Debate in Parliament obstructed For preventing whereof and all the sad and evil consequences which must upon the grounds aforesaid have ensued and whereby at one blow the Interest of all honest men and of this glorious Cause had been endangered to be laid in the Dust and these Nations embroyled in new Troubles at a time when our Enemies abroad are watching all advantages against us and some of them actually engaged in War with us We have been necessitated though with much reluctancy to put an end to this Parliament which yet we have done we hope out of an honest heart preferring this Cause above our Names Lives Families or Interests how dear soever with clear intentions and real purposes of heart to call to the Government persons of approved fidelity and honesty believing that as none wise will expect to gather Grapes of Thornes so good men will hope that if persons so qualified be chosen the fruits of a just and righteous Reformation so long prayed and wished for will by the blessing of God be in due time obtained to the refreshing of all those good hearts who have been panting after these things Much more might have been said if it had been our desire to justifie our selves by aspersing others and raking into the Mis-government of affairs but we shall conclude with this That as we have been led by Necessity and Providence to act as we have done even beyond and above our own thoughts and desires so we shall and do in that of this great Work which is behinde put our selves wholly upon the Lord for a Blessing professing we look not to stand one day without his support much less to bring to pass any of the things mentioned and desired without his assistance And therefore do solemnly desire and expect that all men as they would not provoke the Lord to their own destruction should wait for such issue as he shall bring forth and to follow their business with peaceable spirits wherein we promise them protection by his assistance And for those who profess their fear and love to the Name of God that seeing in a great measure for their sakes and for Righteousness sake we have taken our Lives in our hand to do these things they would be instant with the Lord day and night on our behalfs that we may obtain Grace from him And seeing we have made so often mention of his Name that we may not do the least dishonour thereunto which indeed would be our confusion and a stain to the whole profession of Godliness We beseech them also to live in all Humility Meekness Righteousness and Love one towards another and towards all men that so they may put to silence the Ignorance of the Foolish who falsly accuse them and to know that the late great and Glorious Dispensations wherein the Lord hath so wonderfully appeared in bringing forth these things by the travel and Blood of his Children ought to oblige them so to walk in the Wisdom and love of Christ as may cause others to honour their holy Profession because they see Christ to be in them of a truth We do further purpose before it be long more particularly to shew the grounds of our Proceedings and the Reasons of this late great Action and Change which in this we have but hinted at And we do lastly Declare That all Iudges Sheriffs Iustices of Peace Mayors Bayliffs Committees and all other Civil Officers and Publick Ministers whatsoever within this Commonwealth or any parts thereof do proceed in their respective Places and Offices and all persons whatsoever are to give Obedience to
I conceive there is nothing can more obstruct the long-hoped-for Peace of this Nation than the illegal proceedings of them that presume from Servants to become Masters and labour to bring in Democracie and to abolish Monarchy Needs must the total alteration of Fundamentals be not only destructive to others but in conclusion to themselves for they that endeavour to rule by the Sword shall at last fall by it for Faction is the Mother of Ruine and it is the humour of those that are of this Weather-cock-disposition to love nothing but Mutabilities neither will that please them but only pro tempore for too much variety doth but confound the senses and make them still hate one folly and fall in love with another Time is the best cure for Faction for it will at length like a spreading Leprosie infect the whole Body of the Kingdon and make it so odious that at last they will hate themselves for love of that and like the Fish for love of the Bait be catched with the Hook I once more declare to all my loving Subjects and God knows whether or no this may be my last that I have earnestly laboured for Peace and that my thoughts were sincere and absolute without sinister ends and that there was nothing left undone by me that my Conscience would permit me to do And I call God to witness that I do firmly conceive that the interposition of the Army that Cloud of Malice hath altogether eclipsed the glory of that Peace which began again to shine in this Land And let the world judge whether it be expedient for an Army to contradict the Votes of a Kingdom endeavouring by pretending for Laws and Liberties to subvert both Such acts as these must produce strange consequences and set open the flood-gates of ruine to over-flow this Kingdom in a moment Had this Treaty been only mine own seeking then they might have had fairer pretences to have stopt the course of it but I being importuned by my two Houses and they by most part of the Kingdom could not but with a great deal of alacrity concur with them in their desires to the performance of so commodious a work And I hope by this time that the hearts and eyes of my people are opened so much that they plainly discover who are the underminers of this Treaty For my part I here protest before the Face of Heaven that my own afflictions though they need no addition afflict me not so much as my peoples sufferings for I know what to trust to already and they know not God comfort both them and me and proportion our patience to our sufferings And when the malice of mine Enemies is spun out to the smallest thread let them know that I will by the Grace of God be as contented to suffer as they are active to advance my Sufferings and mine own Soul tells me that the time will come when the very Clouds shall drop down vengeance upon the heads of those that barricado themselves against the proceedings of Peace for if God hath proclaimed a blessing to the Peace-makers needs must the Peace-breakers draw down curses upon their heads I thank my God I have armed my self against their fury and let the Arrows of their envy fly at me I have a breast to receive them and a heart possest with patience to sustain them for God is my Rock and my Shield therefore I will not fear what men can do unto me I will expect the worst and if any thing happen beyond my expectation I will give God the Glory for vain is the help of man This Declaration gave entire and compleat satisfaction to the most refractory of the Presbyterian Party who when too late perceived their untoward scuffling and debating with so excellent a Prince had brought him and themselves to ruine together with three Kingdoms the care of which when his Protection failed the King as his last and most incumbent business resumed in this following Letter For having thus resigned himself into the hands of God and patiently submitted to his Cross he in a way of renunciation and Self-deposition of his Government transferred and bequeathed the Scepter with these following excellent Advices to his Son the Prince Newport Novemb. 29. 1648. SON BY what hath been said you may see how long We have laboured in the search of Peace Do not you be discouraged to tread those ways in all worthy means to restore your self to your Right but prefer the way of Peace Shew the greatness of your mind rather to Conquer your Enemies by pardoning than by punishing If you saw how unmanly and unchristian this implacable disposition is in Our Ill-willers you would avoid that spirit Censure Vs not for having parted with too much of Our own Right the Price was great the Commodity was Security to us Peace to Our People And We are confident another Parliament would remember how useful a Kings Power is to a Peoples Liberty and of how much We have devested Our Self that We and they might meet again in a due Parliamentary way to agree the Bounds for Prince and People And in this give belief to Our Experience never to affect more Greatness or Prerogative than what is really and intrinsecally for the good of your Subjects not satisfaction of Favourites And if you thus use it you will never want means to be a Father to all and a bountifull Prince to any you would be extraordinarily gracious unto You may perceive all men trust their Treasure where it returns them Interest and if Princes like the Sea receive and repay all the fresh Streams and Rivers trust them with they will not grudge but pride themselves to make up an Ocean These considerations may make you a Great Prince as your Father is now a low one and your State may be so much the more established as mine hath been shaken For Subjects have learned We dare say that Victories over their Prince are but Triumphs over themselves and so will be the more unwilling to hearken to Changes hereafter The English Nation are a sober people however at present under some infatuation We know not but this may be the last time We may speak to you or the world publikely We are sensible into what hands We are fallen and yet we bless God we have those inward refreshments that the malice of Our Enemies cannot disturb To conlude if God give you Success use it humbly and far from Revenge If he restore you to your Rights upon hard Conditions whatever you promise keep Those men which have forced Laws which they were bound to observe will find their Triumphs full of troubles Do not think any thing in this world worth obtaining by force and unjust means You are the Son of Our Love and as We direct you to what We have recommended to you so We assure you We do not more affectionately pray for you to whom We are a Natural Parent than We do that
the Gallows †Col. Thomas Harrison the Son of a Butcher at Newcastle-under-line in Stafford-shire once Servant to Mr. Hulker an Attorney He betook himself to the Army in the beginning of the Wars and by Preaching and such-like sanctity came to be a Major where his pragmatical spirit cherished by Cromwel preferred him to a Colonel and the custody of the Kings person when taken from the Isle of Wight which he mos◠irreverently abused by no less sawcie behaviour than Treasonable speeches He was afterwards the great Captain of all the Schismatiques especially Fifth-Monarchy-men in whose love and no others he died and was expectedly Executed at Charing-Cross in that expiatory Month of October 1660. †Iohn Carew Brother of Sir Alexander Carew beheaded in 1644. This person was no doubt deluded by the mistaken impulses of Satan for those of the Spirit being a Rank Fifth-monarchist and so pre-disposed against all Government and Authority which he helped to strike at in the death of the King †Iohn Cook the Sollicitor of the High Court whose Plea charitably taken is his best Character that his Crime was not out of Malice but Avarice being a poor man and in a wanting Condition before he undertook this most scelerate piece of Service Better be out of practice than in such as this †Hugh Peters the shame of the Clergy a Pulpit-Buffoon a seditious abominable Fellow Trumpet to this Pageantry of a High Court of Justice the most unparallell'd Ecclesiastick in all Story or Times †Thomas Scot a Brewers Clerk then turned Country-Attorney and by countenance of the Grandees was chosen a recruit for the Borough of Wickham in the County of Buckingham so violent an Enemy of the Kings that he wished for no other Epitaph or Inscription on his Grave than Here lies Thomas Scot one of the King's Iudges but he should first have wished for a Grave †Gregory Clement a Merchant who procured and purchased a place in Parliament by the same means as he did his lustful debaucheries for the notoriety of which his Fellow-villains discarded him their Company He contributed to the destruction of his Sovereign that he might Reign in his own wickedness †Adrian Scroop a Colonel of Horse very active against the Kings Party in 1648. and more diligent against his Life and Honour at this High Court of Justice 'T is sad to think he should be allied to so Honourable a Family and so deserving and Noble a Gentleman of his own name Sir Adrian Scroop Knight of the Bath 13 Caroli 2. †Col. Iohn Iones a Serving-man of a mean fortune till the times which afforded him advantages among the ruined Loyal Welch where he was first a great Committee-man and then a recruit to the Parliament and married one of Cromwels Sisters who had as many Females to bestow as a Cardinal and might therefore be presumed on to make one in this Tragedy †Francis Hacker a Souldier of Fortune of notable Resolution and Conduct the success whereof wrought him into Cromwels familiarity from whence he had not the faculty or power to recede but was charmed into this desperate designe his being the last hand through which it passed to the Scaffold †Daniel Axtel a kind of Country-Mercer in Bedfordshire obeyed the Call as he said of the seditious Pulpits and went forth some small Officer to fight against the Mighty after many Traverses was made Lieutenant-Colonel and employed by Cromwel out of favour to him as the ready way to Greatness to be Captain of the Guard at the Kings Trial where he made his Ianizaries by blows and threats to cry out Iustice and Execution He was guilty of a great deal more but not to be mentioned with this blood in Ireland and had gotten a pretty soul Estate †Col. Okey formerly a Stoker in a Brew-house then a Chandler near Billingsgate but leaving his Trade for his hopes in the War passed through the several Commands to that of a Colonel in a very short space of time He was a daring bold Commander which rendred him open and suitable to Cromwels designes who likewise bewitched him into the Partnership of this accursed Murther †Miles Corbet of a very good Family in Norfolk chosen Burgess for Yarmouth in that County when he had no other advantage but troublesome times to recover himself which he helped forward into the ensuing Calamities Hoc faciunt mores Pontilianae Tui He was one of the Male-content Members of the former Parliament with Sir Iohn Elliot and others and now took the opportunity of wreaking all those old grudges upon the Kings life and to share himself an Estate from several great places in England and Ireland where he was in effect Lord Chancellor †Col. Iohn Berkstead once a sorry Goldsmith in the Strand and having learnt a little City-Souldiery for want of better Commanders was made Captain of a Foot-company under Colonel Ven at Windsor was afterwards Governour of Reading and by his pliantness ingratiated with Oliver who made him one of the Kings Judges afterwards preferred him to the Lieutenancie of the Tower where now his head stands These of the Kings Iudges marked with * are those that died before the Kings Return * Col. Thomas Pride a Brewer to which he ascended from a Dray man by the same steps as from thence he became a Lord he was a resolute ignorant fellow but of very good success and therefore fit to partake with Cromwel and to venture on that prime and hardy work of garbling the Parliament for him That done he deserved any employment from his Master and was put upon this which he discharged with as much brutishness * Col. Isaac Ewer descended of an Antient and Right Honourable Family in Yorkshire but the Patrimony thereof so wasted that this Cadet was forced to be take himself to the wealthier side where he profited alike in Principles He was thought fit because of his Birth to be the Kings Guardian from the Isle of Wight which he performed and afterwards to be his Murtherer His Relacion was chosen one of Olivers Lords of the other House * Thomas Lord Gray of Grooby Son to the Earl of Stamford a Colonel in the Army and so infected By the Honour of his Family he escapes a mention or condemnation for this Crime as well as others * Sir Iohn Danvers Knight Brother to the Earl of Danby a Loyal and Noble Peer Sed scio quis Deus est hunc qui tibi dividit astris The covetousness after his Brothers Estate who was made a Delinquent suckt him in and afterwards swallowed his Name and Honour in this Whirl-pool of confusion and Royal Blood * Sir Thomas Maleverer descended also of a very good Family in Yorkshire but obliged to the kindness of the two last Kings for their Honour which being above his Estate wickedly prompted him for the equalling of it to
after the Battle the names of which were the Lord Widdrington Major-General Sir Thomas Tildesly Colonel Mat. Boyton Sir Francis Gamul Lieutenant-Colonel Gallyard and Major Trollop and Chester the Prisoners were Sir William Throckmorton Colonel Richard Leg Colonel Robinson Bayns Gerard Lieutenant-Colonel Rigby Constable and Major Gower and some 300 Prisoners among whom were some Reformadoes and some 80 slain for the chief slaughter fell on the other side during the fight The Earl of Derby having lost his George and Garter fled with some 30 towards Worcester having by the good providence of God who alone is able to bring Evil out of Good sheltered himself one night in a house called Boscobel which Heaven by this means had prepared for the Kings retreat and preservation By this time Cromwel had surrounded that City with his spreading Host in as neer a compass as the Rivers and Passes would suffer him the Kings Army as yet lying out of the Town a mile in the fields The first Pass endeavoured to be taken was Vpton-Bridge on Fleetwoods side which Major-General Lambert attempted with 500 Horse and Dragoons and after a brisk dispute wrested from Col. Massey who in defence thereof received a wound in his Hand the first mark of his redeemed honour in that member which had been so unhappily active and successful against the King The Scots having thus abandoned the place it was presently possest by a strong party of Horse and Foot in order to the present advance of the rest of the Army The Scots now drawn closer to Worcester made many Salleys breaking down two or three Bridges over the River Team and shewing a well-ordered and governed courage but September the 3 that ominous day being arrived Cromwel resolved to venture the event upon its former auspicia and to that purpose having his Boats in readiness pass'd over his men in the afternoon of that day he drew out from his own Post and having given the signal to the whole Army to fall on began the Fight in this manner Cromwel himself in person about three a clock with his Life-Guard and Colonel Hacker's Regiment of Horse with part of his own Regiment and Colonel Ingoldsby's and Fairfax's entire passed over his Bridge of Boats upon the Severn and marched towards the City after him Lieutenant-General Fleetwood who had been most part of that day marching of five miles from Vpton to Powick-bridge which the Kings Army had broken down passed with Colonel Goff's and Major-General Dean's Regiments and joyntly advanced the Kings Forces encountering them at the Hedges and disputing every field with them in such order and with such gallantry that these already over lest they should not be wholly discouraged with the hotness of the Service were relieved by Reserves and they by others no considerable progress yet made the Highlanders proving excellent fire-men and coming to the But-end at every foot till weary and their Ammunition spent the King being then upon the place Commanded them in some haste into the City and hastened himself to the other side where Colonel Hayn's Regiment with Cobbet's stood about Powick-Bridge and were entertained with no less manhood and slaughter and though Colonel Matthews was the Reserve to the other two Regiments yet did the Scotch Foot fairly drive them from their ground till their little Army being every way engaged and no seconds or supplies to be expected after some wheelings in a careless regard of the Enemy as if they feared not to make which way they pleased they drew likewise into the Town as did that Brigade which opposed the Regiments of the Lord Gray Colonel Blague Gibbons and Marsh. But they stayed not long there but as if their pent spirits had broke out with greater fury they sallied out in great Bodies upon the Generals side who had now brought the Militia-Forces into play the Veterans wisely detrecting to engage first upon the Storm which was then intended but there was yet field-matter enough to do In the head of one of those Squadrons the King himself Charged with that gallantry which would have become our admiration in other men and shewed he had not forgot the Discipline of War in which he had been brought up from his youth In one of those Charges he made Duke Hamilton a better Souldier and noble gallanter person than his Brother received a shot in his Thigh whereof presently after he died The loss that was sustained by the Enemy fell principally upon the Essex-Foot and those of Cheshire and Surrey who returned in thin Troops and Companies to their Counties but fresh and entire Brigades and Regiments in Reserves namely Desborough's Regiment of Horse Cromwel's of Horse Major-General Lambert's of Horse Whaley's Harrison's and Tomlinson's Brigades with other Foot re-inforcing them the Scots by the over-powering multitude were driven into the Town Lesley with 2000 Horse upon what account not known not stirring out of the Town to relieve them when the Enemy entred pell-mell with them and gained the Fort-Royal about seven a clock at night at which time the King left the Town it being dusk and accompanied with some 60 Horse of the chiefest and most confident of his Retinue though many more pressed to bear him Company departed out of St. Martins gate and it was reported that Cobbet very narrowly mist of him as the King left his Lodging whither he first hastned The Enemies Foot was now got into the Town and according to their order fell a Plundering the Town in a most barbarous manner as if Turks were again Sacking of Constantinople and giving no Quarter to any they found in the Streets Through this their greediness of spoil they kept the Horse out lest they should have shared the better part and to that purpose kept the Gates fast as they were and so favoured as God would have it the Kings escape Some Scots who had got into one of the Churches held out till next morning when they obtained Quarter for Life by which time there was not an Inhabitant in Worcester Friend or Foe left Unplundered but the Loyal Inhabitants soon recovered themselves being supplied with fresh Wares to their desires from London without any scruple of credit or payment and their Debts forborn till such time as God should enable them which the Gentry and Inhabitants round about them endeavoured to bring to pass by thâ—iâ— more than ordinary resort to that Market for all necessaries and upon all occasions The Mayor being Knighted by the King and Aldermen were Committed to Prison and the Wife of one Guyes who for betraying the designes of the King in that Garrison was Hanged was rewarded with 200 l. per annum and 200 l. down There were slain in Field and in Town in the last the most and in pursuit some 2000 and some 8000 taken Prisoners in several places most of the English escaping by their Shibboleth the principal were Duke Hamilton who presently died of his wounds
whose Ports and Harbours upon the pursuit as far as the Texel they had driven and scattered the Dutch Fleet which had so brought down the stomacks of the Hollander that that Province having as before sent away a Boat with a white Flag with a Messenger for a Pasport and a Safe-Conduct for two Embassadors and having obtained it sent away the Lords Youngstall and Vande Perre to follow two others newly gone before These arrived the 20 of Iune and had Audience the 22 their Message being of such importance for every day their Merchant-ships were taken coming home and there was no stirring out for any so that there was an absolute Cessation there of Trade no less than 30 ships of good lading having been taken by our Fleet riding up and down about their Havens But this expedited and the more hastily and intently carried on their preparations for War if Peace should not be presently concluded the major part of their Fleet being put into Zealand and that Coast was new Rigging there and some new ships off the Stocks and this Van Trump supervised another new Fleet was equipping at Amsterdam and that De Wit took the care and charge of the Marriners Wages though there was no other Employment for them were now raised the Lords States themselves came down to the several Ports and saw the men imbarqued to whom they gave Money in hand and took them by it requesting of them now to do valiantly for their Country and telling them that if they fought well this time they should fight no more and for the better incitement and to see every man do his duty two of the States went on board a nimble-Frigat to be present at the Fight now with all speed resolved on and in confidence of success this Fleet was Victualled for five Months which time it should continue abroad blocking up our Harbours in like manner as we did theirs for as yet in Forrain Courts and Countries they would not confess we were too hard for them and this bout would rectifie all and adjust their Stories This happened in the end of Iuly it having been so ordered that both the Fleets under Van Trump from the Weilings in Zealand and De Wit from the Texel should meet upon the Engagement General Monke with the English Fleet lying as it were in the mid-way On the 29 of Iuly the Scouts a Head discovered this Dutch Fleet whereupon the General made after them but they standing away for De Wit it was five a clock at night ere any of our Frigats got up to them when they appeared to be 90 sail of Men of War and ten Fire-ships about 7 that night General Monke aboard the Resolution got up to them with some 30 ships and Frigats in all and charged through their whole Fleet when it beginning to grow duskish the Masters advised the General not to stand to them again that night for fear of the Fire-ships but the noble General turning himself with indignation towards them commanded them in some disgraceful but more unproper terms that they should To um again for said He The very Powder of the Guns of this Ship is able to blow away a Fire-ship from it and so they tackt about and through the Dutch again in which by a Ball from the Enemy both Fleets being close to one another the Mizen-shrouds of the Resolution were fired but quickly put out again by the courageous Activity of one Captain Ioseph Taylor then assisting and standing by the General Nothing of more remarque was done that night save that the Garland with the Enemy received much prejudice being known and saluted by every ships Broad-side though the Dutch had altered her Decks and so the English stood to the Southward and Van Trump to the Northward that night and joyned with De Wit and withal got the Weather-gage by reason his sailing Northwards was no way suspected by our Fleet. The next day there being much Windy and foul Weather both Fleets could not Engage the Sea was so high but found it a difficult work to get off of a Lee-shore which was so much the worse to the English being on an Enemies Coast but a most gallant delightful sight it was to see the two Fleets so neer one another plying their Sails fill'd with as much Revenge and desire of Engagement as with those envious Gusts that kept them asunder But next morning being Sunday the Weather proving fair and little Wind Iuly 31 both Fleets Engaged again in a most terrible Fight the Dutch animated with the equal if not the inclinable success of Friday and the English loth to contest so long for a resolved Victory as if three days were always to be the apportioned time of their labour in Conquest It is impossible to give a distinct account of this Battle in Fire and Smoak Board and Board for eight hours together incessant The Garland was the first disabled and the Dutch Fire-ships notably managed their business the Andrew Victory Triumph and Rainbow the great ships at whom the Dutch spight was greatest being so endangered that out of the Triumph which was fired by one of them several of the ships crue threw themselves into the Sea but others of better spirits remaining behinde with great gallantry quenched the Fire and gave a merry occasion of a Civil Law or Admiralty-Controversie Whether the Chests Goods and Cloaths which those that stayed in the ship had got on of those that deserted it and when the danger of the Flame was past got in again should belong to the present Possessor who refused to d'off or re-deliver them to the former owner who was much troubled to see other men in his Apparel The Victory in which was Captain Lane was stoutly beset with a Vice-Admiral and two other Flemish War-ships and so distressed that another Dutch Vice-Admiral in an East-India-ship of 60 Guns coming up by her Quarter and mistaking the Condition as well as Resolution of that Captain proffered him Quarter and bid him yield which was answered with the thanks of a Broad-side that sunk the Dutch-man immediately by his side No less gallant service did the Speaker-Frigat so well known to the Dutch by the name of the Prater and truly there was nothing but the antient glory right of the English to be Superiors to that Nation which differenced the valour of both since had the Dutch fought upon a juster Quarrel Fortune might have been as equal Besides the Death of their Admiral the brave Van Trump in the beginning of the Fight by the shot of a Musquet-bullet in his left Pap mainly contributed to their Defeat His Flag the Original of the War was strucken with a shot and whether they would not for a signe to their Fleet to revenge his Death or could not make it stand there was no such Ensigne the greatest part of the Fight which having continued from seven in the morning till one or two in the afternoon the Dutch
little time before one Mrs Lucy Barlow committed upon the score of some Letters of the King 's found about her A most formidable Plot was again whispered to be discovered that tended to the destruction of the Nation and most terrible expectations there were What more monstrous wickedness could be practised than what the Nation had already seen perpetrated The Fox had a Wound he could not tell where The Drudgery of Mr. Thurloe Cromwel's Second in the Plot had most laboriously undermined a sap-headed fellow one Miles Syndercombe a Leveller Casâ—iered in Scotland about Overton's business to designe the Life of his most Serene Highness This was effected by the hired combination of one Cecil and one Toop of Cromwel's Life-guard who drew in this male-content There was another vizarded or disguised person said to be a Priest sent from Don Alonso the Spanish Embassador in Flanders who was engaged as principal Several opportune Houses taken to Shoot him with Engines Calivers Blunderbusses at his going to the Parliament to Hampton Court at a convenience in Hammersmith in Hide-Park the Gates whereof were unhinged and lastly by firing the Chappel at White-hall with a strange combustible matter Those horrible circumstances Master Secretary delivered in such anxious and the discovery of it in such grave words that the House was resolved into a joyful wonderment of this good Providence for which they first ordered a Thanksgiving and a Narrative of the Plot and the House to come and congratulate his Highness upon this deliverance at a day he should appoint which was the 23 of Ianuary when the House with their Speaker went to the Banquetting-house and met their live-like Protector with a Sospital Oration consisting of these Heads by the Mouth of Sir Thomas Widdrington First the danger and Ruine of the Reformed Churches abroad and three Nations at home who were struck at in this Blow 2. Then the cunning secrecy of it no more than two to know the whole designe 3. The extensiveness of it if they failed in one place resolved to do in another that if Cicero were living he would want expression to set out the Danger or the Mercy and that being so unparallell'd unprecedented a Mercy the Parliaments Hymn was O cantemus canticum novum O come let us sing a new Song c. This Speech like the Plot had neither Head nor Tail yet was well enough taken by the Sword-men who had no other acuteness than what was in their Scabbards but the disaster that was the preface to this Lame Story was taken in dudgeon As the Members were ascending the Stairs of the Banquetting-house a press of people crowding with them the Stairs broke under them and spoiled the Cringes and Obeysances of many of these Parliament-gratulators particularly Mr. Ellis afterwards Knighted by Cromwel his Sollicitor-General broke his Leg and lost the Fees of a whole Term for a Complement Cromwel's Son Richard was much bruised and lay in Syndercombe was the same Term for this Treason prosecuted by direction from the Parliament at the Kings-Bench before Chief-Justice Glyn and Warburton and by Cecil's and Toop's Evidence who discovered c. and craved mercy Convicted He resolutely denied and retorted the Plot and interrogated the Court about it but it availed not Justice Glyn condemning him when he declared that the Statute 25 Edw. 3. was declaratory of the Common Law provided in that Case before and that by King was understood any Chief-Magistrate He was carried thence to the Tower where the night before his Execution it was supposed and so the Coroners Jury gave their Verdict that he Poysoned himself He went well into his Bed desiring a while before a space of half an hours privacy for his Prayers which time elapsed he opened the Door and rubbing his Hands together and his Nose with them chearfully bid his Guard good-night His Body afterwards was tied with his Head forwards to a Horses Tail and drawn Naked to the Scaffold at Tower-hill and under that Buried and a great Stake driven through him which was covered with Iron at top At the Thanksgiving-day February 20 Gillespy the Scotch Presbyter preached the Sermon at St. Margarets and thence they marched to the same Banquetting-house to Dinner with the Protector their Host where they were gaudily entertained in respect of the Fast they had kept within their own Walls on the 12 of Ianuary to conjure for the Plot six days before Thurloe his spirit brought them the intelligence which was on the 18. Kindnesses follow one upon the neck of another For the next day Alderman Pack a great Excise-Commissioner and in greater arrears for it to 30000 l. and deep in the Piedmont-account from the advantage of this Royal Treat suddenly started a motion like a Puppet jerkt with a Wire That in regard of the strange unsettlement and discomposure of the Nation and the mindes of men and the ill aspect it had upon Forrain Princes and all Trade that therefore the Protector might be desired to assume the Stile of King as the most known and most agreeable Government And presently Tooth and Nail the Court-party were at it and after sundry Consultations passed a Resolution in order to his being King'd by the second part of the Instrument called the Humble Petition and Adâ—ice of the Parliament which being now in debate we must leave to the ensuing Year The Year ends with a Proclamation of the Portugal Peace which had been ratified so long before and a fright given Lockhart by a pretended Quarrel between some Embassadors Lacqueys at his stately going to Audience to the French King at Paris where notwithstanding his Guards he very seldom as yet but upon publick occasions appeared abroad Anno Dom. 1657. THe sutable political talk of the party of the Usurper was now engaged in strained arguments for a Monarchy in the person of this their Ring-leader and this Maxime was broacht in the News-book That there was no everlasting principle in Government as to any particular Form That Government is but a temporary expedient that it is like Vltima tabula post naufragium in the hazard of the Commonwealth the next shift may be made use of The same was the inspired reason into the Humble Petition and Advice which after several Debates and Resolutions was drawn into that Consistency the main whereof was to desire the Protector to change that Title for the other of King On the 9 of April the Parliament having desired a meeting with him came to the Banquetting-house in White-hall where Sir Thomas Widdrington in a Speech commended the Title and Office of a King as setled here with Christianity approved by our Ancestors consisting with our Laws and Temper of the people and then presented him with the Module of the Humble Petition c. To this tender Cromwel in a fit of Devotion answered That it was a weighty matter and therefore desired space to seek God that the Charge
indifferency of Spirit had undoubtedly surprized the Magistracy and Government of this Famous City and in him subdued their great Quarrel Authority Sir Arthur Haslerig died a Prisoner in the Tower of London with impatience at the happiness of the Times and Mr. Crofton an eminent stickler for Presbytery came in-his room But we must pass to the Glories of the entrance of the Year One thousand six hundred sixty one the Thirteenth of the Kings Reign Anno Domini 1661. AND now lest any of these scattered Rays and refractions of this Monarchs Glory should be dimmed or disappear in the obscurity of Time we will translate them to their bright Orb as Iupiter is feigned to have Stellified his Heroes encircle them in the Diadem Eternize them in that Spherical Figure and fix them in his Crown the FIRMAMENT of his past present and future greatness the Celebrity of which Action is not less due to the intrinsick matter than to the outward beauteous form it being not so much an excess of Pomp as a Boundary of Government not so much height of Glory as profoundness of State-reason and in that large capaciousness may justly pass for the consummation and perfect excellence of all Regal felicity This was the Crown profaned by the lewd hands of those prostitute Members at Westminster when the Regalia were seized on by them and by H. M. his advice thought fit to be alienated to the Publique that is shared among the Usurpers This was the Crown afterwards violated deprived and widdowed of that Sacred and Royal Head of King Charles the Martyr This was the Crown which alone of all the Insignia of Majesty as Elijah of all the Prophets that had not bowed their knees to Baal abhorred the Idolatry of Cromwel's Usurpation and escaped the ravishing and polluted hands of that Tyrant when like Caligula that set the heads of the gods upon his own Statues he assumed all the other Regalities of his rightful Soveraign but could no way fit this Sacred Symbole of Majesty though he could all other Holy things and the Scripture it self to his impious designments That was that Crown which the Malignity of a dire Pestilence had envied the sight and blessing thereof to the City of London his Majesties Imperial Chamber which sadly felt the other Plagues of War and Want in a more forcible absence of it thereafter at his Royal Fathers Inauguration and was now Boded and bespoke with the like Contagion when never were the Influences of Heaven more curiously propitious the two Serene days of that Solemnity exsiccating and exhaling those vapours which a long moisture to the danger of a Flood did seem to portend Lastly this was that Crown whose just and ancient Discent under which we have flourished ever since we were a Nation till our late Anarchy upon the Head of this Miraculous Prince now vindicated it self from the indignities and assaults of base and insolent Demagogues who from our Kings regardlesness of State and Sovereignty have evermore wrought their contempt in the Subject who now with a like joy of reverence fear and love beheld this awful and most delightful Triumph which is here related HIS Majesty on the Twenty second of April early in the Morning passed from Whitehall to the Tower by Water from thence to go through the City to Westminster Abby there to be Crowned Two days were allotted to the Consummation of this great and most celebrated Action the wonder and admiration and delight of all Persons both Forraign and Domestick and pity it was that the solid and lasting happiness it portended should not have taken up a Month and given it the name Coronalis First therefore we begin with the City of London which participating the greatest share of that inexpressible happiness that the Three Kingdoms received by the auspicious Restoration of the King took occasion to express in this Triumph of his Majesties Coronation their joy and gladness with the greatest Magnificence imaginable They spared not therein any cost to manifest their affectionate duty to the King considering that if ever excessive charges might be justified this signalizing their affection at this time might well be allowed In his passage through Crouched Friers He was entertained with Musick a Band of Eight Waits placed on a Stage Near Algate with another Band of Six Waits in like manner with Musick from a Balcony In Leaden-Hall Street near Lime-Street-end was Erected the First Triumphal Arch after the Dorick Order on the North-side on a Pedestal before the Arch was a Woman personating REBELLION mounted on a Hydra in a Crimson Robe torn Snakes crawling on her Habit and begirt with Serpents and her Hair Snaky a Crown of Fire on her Head a bloody Sword in one hand a Charming Rod in the other Her attendant CONFUSION in a deformed Shape a Garment of several ill-matched Colours and put on the wrong way on her Head Ruines of Castles torn Crowns and broken Scepters in each Hand On the South-Pedestal was a Representation of BRITAIN'S MONARCHY supported by LOYALTY both Women Monarchy in a large purple Robe adorn'd with Diadems and Scepters over which a loose Mantle edg'd with blue and silver Fringe resembling Water the Map of Great Britain drawn on it on her Head London in her right hand Edenburgh in her left Dublin Loyalty all in White three Scepters in her right Hand three Crowns in her left The first Painting on the South-side is a Prospect of His Majesties landing at Dover-Castle Ships at Sea great Guns going off one kneeling and kissing the Kings Hand Souldiers Horse and Foot and many people gazing Above ADVENTVS AVG. The whole Tablet representing his Majesties blessed Arrival Beneath the Painting this Motto IN SOLIDO RURSUS FORTUNA LOCAVIT Alluding to that of Virgil Thus rendred Fortune reviving those She tumbled down Sporting restores again unto the Crown Above the Arch on two Pedestals South-ward and North-wards stood the Statues of King IAMES and King CHARLES I. In the middle somewhat higher just over the Arch the Statue of his Sacred Majesty Under that of King Iames DIVO JACOBO Under that of King Charles I. DIVO CAROLO Under that of his Majesty this following Inscription D. N. CAROLO II. D. G. BRITANNIARUM IMP. OPT. MAX. UBIQUE VENERANDO SEMPER AUG BEATISSIMO AC PIISSIMO BONO REIP. NATO DE AVITA BRITANNIA ET OMNIUM HOMINUM GENERE MERITISSIMO P. P. EXTINCTORI TYRANNIDIS RESTITUTORI LIBERTATIS FUNDATORI QUIETIS OB FELICEM REDITUM EX VOTO L. M. P. S. P. Q. L. Upon his Majesties advance to the East-India-House in Leaden-hall-street the East-India Company took occasion to express their dutiful Affections to his Majesty by two Youths in Indian Habit one attended by two Black-moors the other Youth in an Indian Vest mounted upon a Camel led out by two Black-Moors and other Attendants the Camel having two Panniers filled with Jewels Spices and Silks to be scattered among the Spectators The next Entertainment was
of his Majesty Upon the 9 th of December the Right Reverend Humphrey Lord Bishop of London was sworn one of his Majesties most Honorable Privy Council having for his great Worth Learning and Integrity been a little before translated from New Sarum to the more dignifi'd See of London Soon after came news of the death of that Eminent Loyal and Renowned Patriot Judge Ienkins who died at his house at Cowbridge in the 81 year of his age in perfect Sence and Memory He di'd as he liv'd preaching with his last breath to his Relations Loyalty to the King and obedience to the Laws of England leaving behind him an unspotted Fame and the Memory of a President which this Age only could have needed and the next will hardly out-do A great storm threatned the Dutch Merchants trading in the Grand Seigniors Dominions by the miscarriage of their Ships which loading the Grand Seigniors Goods and Merchandize of Turks to the value of 170000 Dollars was surpriz'd by a Malthese But the Turks would not believe but that the Commander of the Dutch Vessel was privy to some Treachery and therefore the Grand Seignior resolving not to lose what was in his power to recover sent for the Holland Resident perswading him that he engag'd for the fidelity of the Master to make him and the Dutch Nation responsible for his loss in order whereunto directions were given to secure the Dutch Merchants in Smyrna and the Resident commanded to abide in Adrianople so that there was no way to redeem him from ensuing mischief but a quick promise of satisfaction In Italy the Pope and King of France were like to have been engag'd in a very great Quarrel For the Pope being incens'd against the King of France for encroaching upon the Church occasion'd by the Popes delay of giving him satisfaction for the injury done to the Duke of Grequi by the Corsi began a serious debate in the Conclave how to proceed against him whether by Excommunication or otherwise though carried in the end for moderation However the King of France possesses himself of Avignon The Pope kept a great bustle at first and made a fair shew as if he would have oppos'd the French King but the King of France having already sâ—nt some Troops into Italy and ready to advance with a greater Body at length Articles of Agreement were sign'd at Pisa between Bourlemont and Cardinal Rasponi First That the Cardinal Imperial should be confin'd to Genoa during the Kings pleasure That Dom Mario the Popes Brother should be banish'd to Siena for three years not to return to Rome upon any pretence whatsoever That Cardinal Chigi the Popes Nephew should be sent into France where at his first Audience he should desire the French Kings Pardon for himself and his whole Family and in his second Audience in the Name of the Pope supplicate the Christian Kings excuse for the affront given to the Duke of Crequi That the said Duke in his return to Rome by Land should be met at the Frontiers of the State Ecclesiastick by Dom Augusto another of the Popes Nephews if by Sea at a proportionate distance by the Gallies of the Church And the Dutchess of Crequi to be receiv'd at a Leagues distance from Rome by the Wife of Dom Mario That the Duke of Crequi being return'd to Rome shall be there treated with all bâ—n our due and customary to the Ministers of France That the Duke of Cesarini be restor'd to his Goods and Honors and indemnifi'd for the future and all others who had suffer'd in the King of France's Quarrel The Dutchy of Castro restor'd to the Duke of Parma paying 1200000 Livres at such and such payments The Valley of Cornachio to the Duke of Modena paying 500000 Livres in consideration of the charge of Garrisons That there be a Pillar rais'd in the Palace of the Corsi with an Inscription bearing the substance of their Condemnation Out of which Articles the ground of the Quarrel is easie to be gather'd and how easily a Catholick Prince though one of the Eldest Sons of the Church can dispence with his obedience to the Pope when he has a power and spirit to resist him and that it is not the Law of Nature that the Pope should trample upon the Necks of Princes Rasponi with great reluctancie linger'd out to the last moment but the Pope found himself oblig'd to yield to the King upon his own Conditions While the Christian Princes are thus at difference the Turk enlarges his Dominions laying Siege to New-hausel one of the most considerable Passes and Forts which the Christians had in those parts The Bassa coming before the Town sent in a Summons to Count Foâ—gats the Governor in these words I through the Grace of God and through the Miracles of our Prophet who is a Son of both Worlds and by whom there is happiness and glory I that am the first in Council and General of the most Mighty Emperor of the Turks that is the King of all the Kings of the Earth To you Adam Forgats that are the Chief of the Nobility of Hungary Do make known that through the Command of my gratious Lord I am come with his Forces before New-hausel to reduce it to his obedience Wherefore if ye shall deliver up the place to us you shall have liberty to march out with what belongs to you from the highest to the lowest and to what place you please And he that will rather stay shall keep his goods and estate But if you will not yield we will take it by force and every man of ye from the highest to the lowest of you shall be put to the sword If the Hungarians did but know the Intentions of the Mighty Emperor they and their Children would bless God for them Peace be to the Obedient But for all this menacing Summons the Town held out many a brisk Assault of the Besiegers who lost near 20000 of their men before it so that it was verily reported that the Enemy would have quitted the Siege had it held out a week longer But Count Forgats delivered iâ— up at length contrary to the will of the Germans upon Conditions to march out Bag and Baggage to the next Garrison leaving behind him 60 brass Guns Powder and Ball in proportion 3000 fats of Wine and plenty of Provisions Count Serini watched all advantages yet durst not attempt to relieve it by reason of the smalness of his force and yet in some measure he quit scores with them shortly after For hearing of a great Body of the Enemy who were intending to lay a Ship-bridge over the River Mur he march'd thither and as soon as he understood that two thousand were got over the water he set upon them at such a disadvantage that he put them to the rout their fellows that were coming over fell into such a consternation that they could neither get back nor swim nor