Speaker of the House of Commons worth 2000 l. per an besides rewards for courtesies not to say Bribes Master of the Rolls worth 3000 l. per an beside the sale of Offices Chamberlain of Chester in the Earl of Darbies place And until of late Chancellor of the Dutchey of Lancaster worth 1230 l. per an and one of the Commissioners of their great Seal worth 1500 l. per an and had 6000 l. given him at one time by the House 2. Bulstrode Whitlock Commissioner of the great Seal worth 1500 l. per an and had 2000 l. given him out of Mr George Minn's estate 3. Edmund Prideaux formerly a Commissioner for the great Seal worth 1500 l. per an Now by Ordinance practices within the Bar as one of the Kings Councel worth 500 l. per an and is Postmaster for all Inland Letters worth 100 l. every Tuesday night beside his supper and it was thus got The Lord Stanhop the Postmasters and Carriers of England complained in Parliament against Mr. Witherings and others touching the carrying of Letters whereupon the benefit of forein Letters were given to the Earl of Warwick worth 5000 l. per an and the Inland Letters to Mr. Prideaux good Parliament Justice 4. Roger Hill a Barrester of the Temple in no practice nor of a considerable estate till this Parliament hath now from the House the Bishop of Winchesters Mannor of Taunton Dean being the best of England and worth 1200 l. per an when the estates for lives determine 5. Humphrey Salway the Kings Remembrancer in Mr. Fanshaw's place worth 200 l. per an 6. Francis Rous Provost of Eaton in Dr. Stewards place worth 600 l. per annum and hath got a College Lease worth 600 l. per annum 7. John Lisle Barrester of the Temple Master of St. Crosses in Dr. Lewes his place being a place for a Divine and worth 800 l. per annum 8. Oliver St. John by Ordinance both Attorney and Solicitor to the King worth what he please to make it and hath the passing of all Pardons upon Commissions worth 40000 l. 9. Sir William Allison Alderman of York Clerk of the Hamper worth 1000 per an he hath Crabb-Castle worth 600 l. per an Sometimes the Bishop of Yorks in York-shire 10. Thomas Hoile Alderman of York Treasurers Remembrancer in the Exchequer in Sir Peter Osburn's place worth 1200 l. per annum 11. Thomas Pury Senior first a Weaver in Glocester then an ignorant Countrey Solicitor had 3000 l. given him and Mr. Gerrards place in the Petty-bag worth 400 l. per an 12. Thomas Pury Junior Son to the Elder Receiver of the Kings Rents in Glocester and Wilts Clerk of the Peace of Glocester-shire worth 200 l. per an and Captain of Foot and Horse the first year of this Parliament servant to Mr. Towneshead an Attorney of Staple Inne 13. William Ellis Steward of Stepney worth 200 l. per an and by him sold to one of the Temple 14. Miles Corbet at the beginning of the Parliament 3000 l. in debt for himself and his Mother more than he was worth now one of the Registers in Chancery worth 700 l. per an besides Chair-man for scandalous Ministers worth 1000 l. per an And hath money in his purse 15. John Goodwyne the other Register in Chancery worth 700 l. per annum 16. Sir Thomas Widdrington a Commissioner of the great Seal worth 1500 l. per. an 17. Edward Bishe Garter Herauld in Sir Edward Walkers place worth 600 l. per an 18. * Walter Strickland Agent in Holland for the two Houses of Parliament worth to him 5000 l. 19. Nicholas Love Mr. Speakers Chamber-fellow one of the six Clerks in Chancery in Mr. Penruddocks place worth 2000 l. per annum 20. Sir Gilbert Gerrard much in debt before the Parliament pay-master to the Army and had 3d. per pound allowed besides Gratuities worth 60000 l. and now Chancellor of the Dutchey worth 1200. per an 21. Gilbert Gerrard his second son Clerk of the Dutchey and for whose benefit the Clerk-ship of the Assize in Norfolk is granted to Mr. Edward Garret his Cozen by the procurement of Sir Gilbert and is worth 500 l. per an 22. John Selden had given him 5000 l. of which he received 2500 l. pound 23. * John Bond Son to Dennis Bond a Parliament man made Master of Trinity-Hall in Cambridge which Mr. Selden refused to accept of 24. Sir Benjamin Rudiard given him 5000 l. And hath he not deserved it 25. * Lucas Hodges Customer of Bristol 26. Sir John Hipsley hath the keeping of three of the Kings Parks Mary-bone-Park that was Mr. Carewes Hampton-Park and Bushy-Park and given him 2000 l. in Money 27. Sir Thomas Walsingham the Honour of Eltham that was the Earl of Dorsets the middle-Park and house which was Master Whines and hath cut down 4000. Timber Trees 28. Benjamine Valentine given him 5000 l. 29. * Sir Henry Heyman given him 5000 l. 30. Denzell Hollis given him 5000 l. 31 * Nath. Bacon given him 3000 l. 32. * John Steevens given him out of the Lord Astley's Composition 1000 l. 33. * Henry Smith made one of the six Clerks worth 2000 l. per annum 34. Robert Renolds had 2000 l. given him Besides Abingdon-Hall and the Lands worth 400 l. per annum Hath bought a good penny-worth of Bishops Lands hath 20000 l. beyond Sea as he made appear upon his Mariage 35. Sir John Clotworthy Treasurer for Ireland and by the Army charged with defrauding of the State of 40000 l. which may be one reason the King could never get an Account of the monies raiâ—ed for the Irish though he desired it 36 â—ohn Ashe given him out of Mr. John Coventry's Composition 4â—00 l. out of Sir Edward Mosely's 1000 l. out of Mr. Edw. Phâ—â—'s 1200 l. out of Sir John Powel's estate 8000 l. And which is wâ—â—ll this is the great Chairman at Goldsmiths Hall Is not this better than cloathing 37. * John Lenthall son to the Speaker made one of the six Clerks worth 2000 l. per annum 38. * Francis Allen a poor Goldsmith at St. Danstans in Fleetstreet now made a Customer for London In honour of whom clipped moneys are called Allens 39. Giles Green the Reciver of York-shire being put out of his place got it for his Son-in-Law is Chair-man for the Navy and for Sir Thomas Daws his estate and what it was worth to him Sir Thomas Daws his Creditors will tell you for they got nothing 40. Francis Pierpoint hath the Arch-bishop of York's Lands lying in Nottingham-shire 41. William Pierpoint hath 7000 l. given him and all the Earl of Kingston's personal Estate worth 40000 l. 42. * John Palmer Mr. of All-Souls in Oxford in Doctor Shelden's place a Divine 43. * John Blackeston a poor shop-keeper in New Castle was Executor to the Executor of Sir John Fenner trusted with 6000 l. for Charitable uses and was sued in Chancery to perform the trust but got himself returned a
Houses Propositions See Mr. Pryn's said Speech in the House 2 Decemb. 1648. more at large and the Kings Answers and see whether the King did not grant all those Propositions in which the main security of the Kingdom resteth He granted the first Proposition for taking off all Declarations as was desired And the third Proposition for the Militia as was desired He assented to the Proposition for Ireland limiting the time of the Parliaments disposing Officers there to 20 years He consented to such Acts for publique Debts and Publique Uses as should be presented within 2. years and incurred within that time He granted the Proposition concerning Peers as was desired He granted the Disposing Offices in England to the Parliament for 20. years He granted the taking away the Court of Wards having 100000 l. per ann in lieu thereof to be raised as the Parliament should think fit He granted to declare against the Marquess of Ormond's power and proceedings after an Agreement with the Parliament The onely difference therefore remained upon two Propositions 1. Delinquents 2. The Church For Delinquents though He doth not grant all His Majesty consented they shall submit to moderate Compositions according to such Proportions as they and the two Houses shall agree 2. He disableth them to bear Offices of publike Trust and removes them from the Kings Queens and Princes Court 3. For such as the Houses propounded to proceed capitally against He leaves them to a Legal Tryal and declares He will not interpose to hinder it which satisfies the main complaint of the Parliament which was in the beginning of the War That the King protected Delinquents from justice And all that the House desired in the Propositions presented to him at Oxford Febr. 1642. was That His Majesty would leave Delinquents to a Legal Tryal and judgement of Parliament But that his Majestie should joyn in an Act for taking away the Lives or Estates of any that have adhered to Him He truly professeth He cannot with Justice and Honour agree thereto 4. Nor do we see how Delinquents being left to the Law can escape justice the King having granted the 1. proemial Proposition and so by a Law acknowledged the Parliaments Cause and War to be just For the Church The Houses propound the utter abolishing of Archbishops Bishops c. The sale of their Lands that Reformation of Religion be setled by Act of Parliament as both Houses have or shall agree The Kings Answer takes away Church-Government by Arch-bishops Bishops c. by taking away their Courts and Officers and so far takes away their power of Ordination that it can never be revived again but by Act of Parliament so that Episcopacy is divested of any actual being by the Law of the Land and instead thereof the Presbyterian Government setled for three years by a Law which is for so long a time as the Houses formerly in their Ordinances presented to Him at New-castle did themselves think fit to settle it For the Sale of Bishops Lands upon the publike Fâ—ith Every cheating Saint of the Faction must have the Publike Faith exactly kept though he bought the Lands but at 2 or 3. years just value and with such monies as he had formerly cheated the State of when other men who have lost the best part of their Estates by and for the Pa liâ—ment for compensation whereof they have the publike Faith engaged by Ordinances are consumed by Taxes and repaied with reproaches onely we say That although the Purchasers might well have afforded to have given the same rates for their Purchases which they now give if they might have had them assured by Act of Parliament for 99 years and such moderate Rents reserved as the King intimates in his Answer yet in His Answer he expresseth a farther satisfaction to be given them upon which we should have insisâ—ed nâ—â—withâ— anding the said Vote 5. Decemb. 1648. We farther alledge That the King having granted the rest of the Propositions â—â—d â—o much in these 2. Delinquents and the Church the Natioâ—â—l Covenant doth not oblige us to make War upon this poiâ—â— nothing can make Presbytery nor the Purchasers of Bishops Lâ—â— is more odious nor endanger them more than to make them the sole obstacle of Peace nor could any thing more work the King to comply with our desires herein than for us to draw a little neerer Him The Considerations leading us to pass the said Vote 5 Dec. 1648. come next to be considered 1. The saving of Ireland 2. The regaining the revolted Navy and freedom of the Seas 3. The support of the Ancient Government of the Kingdome 4. The putting the people into a secure possession of their Laws and Liberties 5. The avoiding such evill consequences as were apparently to follow a breach with the King As 1. the Deposing the King if not the depriving Him of life Return to Sect. 71. whereupon floods of misery will follow and scandal to the Protestant Religion which we from our hearts detest and abhor See the many Declarations of Parliament against it 2. The necessitating of the Prince to cast himself into the Armes of Forreign Popish Princes and embrace Popish Alliances for his succour 3. It may beget a change of Government and a laying aside of Monarchy here and so a Breach with Scotland and this Kingdome being the more rich likely to be the Seat of the War 4. The vast Debts of this Kingdom upon the publike Faith will never be paid in War but increased and multiplied multitudes of Sufferers by and for the Parliament like to be repayed onely with new sufferings and every years War destroies more Families and makes more Malignants through discontenting pressures until at last the Souldier seeing no hope of pay the People no hope of peace and ease fall together into a general and desperate tumultuousness the power of the Sword apparently threatning a dissolution of Government both in Church and Common-wealth To that scandalous Objection which saith The corrupt majority will not lâ—nd an ear to admit a thought towards the laying down their own power or rendring it back to the People from whom they received it We say this Objection is unreasonable from men who endeavour to perpetuate an Army upon the Kingdome nor is the continuance of this Parliament singly objected but that they will not render it back to the People Viz. To a new Representative invented and made by the Army that is We will not render our power into the hands of the Army Another Objection is That whatsoever the King granted He might plead Force to break it and spoil us by policy This Objection might have been made against all our Treaties If there be any Force it is from the Army for spoiling us by policy The Kings of this Land could never encroach upon our good Laws but by corrupt Judges and Ministers who though they could not abrogate the Law made it speak against it self and the intended good of the
without Order 60000 l. a month was thought abundantly sufficient to pay the Army and take off Free-quarter And why this Tax should now be raised to 90000 l. a month when sundry Regiments of it are Assigned for Ireland and yet Free-quarter continued is a mystery of Iniquity which fills the Saints pockets with Mony and all the World with Wonder 6. The Counties Militia so much contended for with the King would better defend the Kingdome from Forreign Invasions than a Mercinary Army Therefore there is neither necessity nor publick utility in keeping up this Army or raising Taxes to maintain them or pay their pretended Arrears The Free-quarter they have taken in kinde and leavied in money will treble their Arrears and make them much indebted to the Country Thus far and much farther Master Pryn whose whole Book at large I commend to all mens serious perusal The Marquess of Ormond's happy atchievments in Ireland beginning to look formidably 204. Cromwel sets sail for Ireland had cooled the heat of K. Oliver's courage though not of his Liver insomuch that he and his intimate friends began to project how without loss of reputation to take him off from so desperate an Engagement as at that time that seemed to be unnecessary delays were used in Shipping his Men. Haslerig and his Party reported great terrours from Scotland Oliver and his Blood-hounds of the Faction made a shift to smell out a silly Plot in Dorsetshire for surprisal of Weymouth and Portland for the KING now laughed at and exploded by their own News-books And the tender-conscienced Brethren were prompted to apprehend their own dangers and put into a Petitioning posture That such a Worthy of Israel such a chosen Instrument of Gods mercy might not in a time of danger leave the Land of his Nativity the Habitation of the Saints to seek forraign adventures in a Heathen Land Whilst these preparations were making to withdraw Olivers stake he appeared not openly in them but making more shew of the Lions skin than the Foxes had written to Col. Jones how heartless his Souldiers were and that unless Jones did by some successeful Sally lessen their terrour he should not be able to get them on Ship-board This was like the Monkey to rake Chessenuts out of the fire with the Cats foot to take a presage of his own successe at Col. Jones hazard Jones makes an attempt with better luck than he expected though not with half so good successe as was reported Saturday 12. August when the news first came to Town the Lion is not so terrible as he is painted it is a peculiar priviledge of the Saints to lie without sin or at least without imputation of sin for the good Cause either in Re or in modo Rei in the matter or manner in the thing or the extent thereof yet this success was enough to invite Cromwel over to pursue the Victory and partake of the spoils if not to usurp the whole Honour of the Atchievment to himself by his accustomed special prerogative So upon the 16 or 17. of August K. Nol set sail towards his new Principality carrying contrary to the custome of the Sea his Lanthorn in his Proawe not in his Poop where we will leave him for the present to his adventures 205. The Association between O Neale and C. Monck See the Paper at large I have formerly hinted to you the Agreement made between Colonel Monck in behalf of the Parliament of England and Owen Roe O Neale the massacring Irish Rebel I have now occasion to speak more at large of it and examine the truth of a Paper called The true state of the Transactions of Col. George Monck with Owen Roe Oneale as it was reported to the Parliament by the Councel of State c. Printed by Edward Husbands 15. August 1649. The said agreement made between the Antimonarchical Independent Party in Ireland and the massacring Antimonarchical Popish party under Owen Roe O Neale being a meer conspiracy to root out Monarchy and Protestancy first in Ireland and then in England and a second crucifying of Christ in his members between two Thieves the Schismatick and the Papist was so generally abhorred by the English Souldiery that many there took occasion to forsake the English Parliament and many here disbanded rather than they would accompany Cromwel in so wicked an expedition Wherefore Cromwel writ Letters to his Creatures of the Councel of State by Monck himself complaining how much the miscarriage of that Agreement had retarded his said Voyage desiring them for satisfaction of the Souldiery and People to Treat with Monck to take the whole businesse upon himself and to clear the Councel of State the Parliament and Cromwel himself from having any hand at all in it which upon Terms of safety and advantage he said he already found him inclinable to do The better to carry on the scene this Agreement was with much heat of zeal complained of in the Apocryphal House of Commons by a Brother who had his cue before-hand and by the Juncto was referred to the Councel of State as was forelaid where their High and Mightinesses after some private conference with Monck to accommodate the business voted their dislike of it Scot having studied the Politiques in a Brewers Tally is become a great States-man in our new Babel See the said Paper The true state c. Bradshaw reprehending Monck in jest therefore And at last they Ordered That the whole business with Moncks Reasons for his justification should be reported by Thomas Scot to the House of Commons which was accordingly done Upon Friday 10. August Monck was called in to the Bar where amongst other things the Speaker asked him What Persons he meant in his Letter to the L. Lievtenant of Ireland wherein he saith He made the Agreement with O Neale with the advice of some others Monk answered that he did it upon his own score without advice of any other person onely having discourse with Colonel Jones Jones told him if he could keep Owen Roe and Ormond from joyning it would be a good service This Answer such as it is was taken for satisfactory in so Comick an Interlude The next demand was Whether he had any Advice or Directions from the Parliament Councel of State Lord Lievtenant of Ireland or any other Person here to do the same which he did expresly deny saying he did it upon his own score Hereupon the House voted as followeth Resolved c. That the House doth utterly disapprove of the proceedings of Col. Monck in the Treaty and Cessation as they please to call it made between him and Owen Roe O Neal and that this House doth detest the thoughts of any closing with any Party of Popish Rebels there who have had their hands in shedding English blood Nevertheless the House being satisfied that what the said Col. Monk did therein was in his apprehension necessary for the preservation of the Parliament of Englands Interest