to adventure their own for speedy stopping the issue of it in the Kingdom 5. This was the first step of those unworthy Mens getting into power When other Gentlemen of the House of Commons unluckily left it upon these occasions they then undertook the business put themselves and their Creatures into all Committees persons most of them before only known by their Faces and esteemed for their Silence and Modesty But they soon grew Bold and Impudent domineering not only over the rest of the House but much more over others abroad and by their Pride and Insolency contracting Envy and Hatred to the Parliament 6. By this means they had power over all the Money of the Kingdom pleasured and recompensed whom they would which were none be sure but their Creatures or such as would be theirs and so made many Proselytes both within doors and without increasing their Party exceedingly which made them carry the business of the House as they would themselves and made it easie to them in all Debates concerning applications for Peace to drive us to extremities demanding unreasonable things laying upon the King the Conditions of Naash to thrust out his right Eye for a reproach or as the Devil did to our Saviour to have him fall down and worship them lay his Honour at their Feet his Life at their Mercy while they upon all occasions revile and reproach him give countenance and encouragement to all the bitter scurrilous and unseemly Expressions against him impeach the Queen give her the usage both in words and actions one would not have done to the meanest Handmaid of the Kingdom tho the Wife Daughter and Sister of a King the Mother of our Prince who is to sit upon the Throne if these Men hinder him not and all this to make the distance wide the wound deep that there might be no closing no binding up Then was there nothing but expelling Members out of the House on the least information If any of those Whelps did but bark against any one and could but say he was busie in the Country nothing but sequestring impeaching of Treason turning Men and their Families turning Wife and Children to starve so many Committees and Sub-Committees of Examinations Sequestrations fifth and twentieth part c. made in City and Country and some of the most factious busy beggarly men put in as fittest Tools for such Masters to work by to rake Men to the Bones and take all advantages to ruin them 7. This was a great breaking of heart to all honest Men especially to those in the House who being present and Eye-witnesses of the management of Affairs easily discovered the drift of these persons and opposed it all they could which made those Blood-suckers conceive a mortal hatred against them and in truth against all Gentlemen as those who had too great an interest and too large a stake of their own in the Kingdom to ingage with them in their Design of perpetuating the War to an absolute confusion 8. This made them look with a jealous Eye upon my Lord of Essex who was General of the Army finding him not fit for their turn as too desirous of Peace and of maintaining Monarchy and therefore they resolve to lay him aside beginning to draw Supplies from him neither providing Recruits nor furnishing him with Money or Arms except sometimes for a pinch when the necessity of their own preservation required it clogging him all they could countenancing and supporting who ever did oppose him In the mean time carrying on the business of the House in a wild madness making Ordinances like Draco's Laws written in Blood that no Man could be safe whom they had a mind to destroy and their mind was to destroy all they could by making so many desperate to render things more irreconcileable and cut off all hopes of Peace which they were resolved to put by upon any terms per fas aut nefas if not by art and cunning rather to use force than fail and where the Fox's Skin would not reach to take the Lion's as to give one Instance for all 9. The House of Lords in the Summer after the beginning of our Troubles in 1643 having resolv'd to deliver themselves and the Kingdom from this Aegyptian Slavery had prepared a Message to the King with Overtures for an Accommodation and sent it down to the House of Commons on a Saturday where the major part seemed to be of the same mind and after a long dispute and much opposition prevail'd to take it into consideration made an entrance into it agreed to some particulars and it growing late adjourned the further debate till Monday morning against which time these Firebrands had set the City in a flame as if there were a resolution to betray all to the King and thereupon brought down a Rabble of their party some thousands to the House of Commons door who gave out threatning Speeches and named among themselves but so as they might be heard some Members of the House whom they said they lookt upon as Enemies and would pull out of the House which did so terrifie many honest timorous Men and gave that boldness to the others as contrary to all order they resumed the Question that was settled on Saturday for going on with the business and at last carried it by some Voices to have it laid aside which was the highest strain of Insolency the greatest violation of the Authority and Freedom the two essential Ingredients of a Parliament that before that time was ever known Since I confess the Army has far outstrip'd it 10. This made some persons cast about how a stop might be given to such violent proceedings and to have other Counsels admitted which probably would give some allay to those sharp and implacable Spirits It appearing to be altogether impossible ever to obtain a Peace whilst they were Rulers who Phaeton like were able to set the whole World on fire It was therefore proposed that our Brethren of Scotland might be called in who were known to be a wise People lovers of Order firm to Monarchy who had twice before gone through the misfortune of taking up Arms and wisely had laid them down still contenting themselves with that which was necessary for their security avoiding extremities Their wisdom and moderation as was presumed might then have delivered us from that precipice of misery and confusion into which our Charioteers were hurrying us amain 11. But these Men would none of it at that time they hoped to be able to carry on the Work themselves and meant to divide all the Spoil which they had done if it had not pleased God to give them that check in the West when their Army there was beaten through Sir Arthur Haslerig's default one of their invincible Champions First his ignorant foolhardiness afterwards his baseness and cowardise who then found himself to be mortal for before he thought himself invincible and absolutely Stick-free and Shot-free having had the good
MEMOIRS OF DENZIL Lord HOLLES The Right Hon ble Denzel Baron Holles of Ifield Aetat 78. Anc. 1676. Ob. 1679. MEMOIRS OF DENZIL Lord HOLLES Baron of Ifield in Sussex From the Year 1641 to 1648. LONDON Printed for Tim. Goodwin at the Queen's Head against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet M. DC.XC.IX To His Grace JOHN Duke of Newcastle c. May it please your Grace WHEN the following Papers of the famous Lord Holles Your Great Uncle happen'd to fall into my Hands I could not long deliberat whether they deserv'd a public View and therefore intended to get them printed without any further Ceremony for the large share he had in the Transactions of those Times will as much engage others to read these Memoirs as the Defence he was oblig'd to make for himself are a sufficient Reason for his writing them But when I understood that Your Grace out of the Love You bear to virtuous Actions and Your Piety towards so near a Relation did order a stately Monument to be erected at Dorchester for this Illustrious Person I was of opinion that as well for that Reason as because in his Life-time he entertain'd an extraordinary Affection and Esteem for You Your Name should in like manner be inscrib'd on this Monument which he has left of Himself to Posterity The Justice of the thing and the Sincerity of my Intentions must be all my Apology to Your Grace for this Presumtion for the Public of whom You deserv'd so well and particularly in appearing early like Your Noble Ancestors for the Liberty of these Nations will acknowledg it an Obligation nor if any thing should chance to be amiss can I doubt but an easy Pardon will be granted to one who is tho unknown my Lord with so profound a Respect Your Grace's most humble Servant March 28. 1699. THE PUBLISHER TO THE READER SUch as really desire to know the naked Truth and propose for their chiefest aim the common good which are certainly the best tho not the greatest part of Mankind have ever exprest a desire in their Writings of seeing the Memoirs of all parties made public as the most effectual means of framing a true General History For in those places where nothing is licens'd to appear but what visibly tends to the advantage of one side there can be no sincere representation of Affairs the basest Cowards must pass for the bravest Heroes the worst of Villains for the greatest Saints the most Ignorant and Vicious for Men of Learning and Virtue and the Enemies of their Country for its Preservers and Friends Without consulting therefore the particular interest or reputation of any Faction but only the benefit of England in general these Memoirs of the Great Lord Holles are communicated to the World that by comparing them with those of Ludlow and such as appear'd before or will be publish'd hereafter relating to the same times they may afford mutual Light to each other and after distinguishing the personal resentments or privat biasses of every one of 'em the Truth wherein they are all found to agree tho drest by them in different Garbs may by som impartial and skilful hand be related with more candor clearness and uniformity What figure our Author made in the Parliament and in the Wars at home and abroad in his privat and public Capacities is generally known and needs not therefore be mention'd in this place The account he gives of himself in the following Papers is confirm'd by many living Witnesses as well as in the greatest part by other VVriters of the same Transactions But whether the vehemence of his Stile the barbarous Usage he receiv'd his concern for the Presbyterian Party and his Displeasure at the King's misfortunes to whom he was then an adherent and a friend have not guided his Pencil to draw the lines of Cromwel's Face too strong and the shadows too many I refer to the judgment of the disinterested Reader desiring him to allow all that is reasonably due to one in these or the like Circumstances This caution iustice has oblig'd me to insert For as to that tyrannical Usurper of the Supreme Administration who prov'd so ungrateful to the Commonwealth so treacherous to the King and so fatal toboth I think him bad enough painted in his own true Colours without standing in need of exaggerating Rhetoric to make him look more odious or deform'd I should write something here likewise with relation to General Fairfax but that the properest place for it seems to be in a Preface to his own MEMORIAL which is in good hands and it 's hop'd may be shortly expos'd to public view How far soever King Charles the First 's Enemies in England may look on themselves disoblig'd or any of his Friends neglected by my Lord Holles the Scots are surely beholding to him for in his long Panegyric on that Nation he has said more in their behalf than their own Historians have ever been able to offer But in this and other matters of the like nature we shall not anticipate the Readers Curiosity or Iudgment I shall therefore only acquaint him that tho this Piece be entitul'd Memorials from the History it contains yet in substance it is an Apology for that Party who took up Arms not to destroy the King or alter the Constitution but to restore the last and oblige the former to rule according to Law To the Unparallel'd Couple Mr. Oliver St. Iohn his Majesty's Sollicitor General and Mr. Oliver Cromwel the Parliament's Lieutenant General the two grand Designers of the Ruin of three Kingdoms GENTLEMEN AS You have been principal in ministring the matter of this Discourse and giving me the leisure of making it by banishing me from my Country and Business so is it reason I should particularly address it to You. You will find in it some representation of the grosser Lines of your Features those outward and notorious Enormities that make You remarkable and Your Pictures easie to be known which cannot be expected here so fully to the Life as I could wish He only can do that whose Eye and Hand have been with You in Your secret Counsels who has seen You at Your Meetings Your Sabbaths where You have laid by Your assumed Shapes with which You cozen'd the World and resumed Your own imparting each to other and both of You to Your fellow Witches the bottom of Your Designs the policy of Your Actings the turns of Your Contrivances all Your Falshoods Cozenings Villanies and Cruelties with Your full intentions to ruin the three Kingdoms All I will say to You is no more than what St. Peter said to Simon the Sorcerer Repent therefore of this Your wickedness and pray God if perhaps the thoughts of Your Hearts may be forgiven You. And if you have not Grace to pray for Your selves as it may be You have not I have the Charity to do it for You but not Faith enough to trust You. So I remain I thank God not
that they grew to be not only an unnecessary grievous burden in respect of charge but also a let and hinderance to the setling all Government both civil and ecclesiastical neither submitting themselves to order of Parliament nor permitting others where they could hinder it but giving countenance to all disorders especially in the Church as breaking open the Church doors doing most unseemly barbarous things indeed not fit to be related either to modest or Christian Ears and in time of Divine Service interrupting Ministers as they were preaching miscalling reviling them sometimes pulling them down by violence beating and abusing them getting into the Pulpits themselves and venting either ridiculous or scandalous things false and pernicious Doctrins countenancing and publishing seditious Pamphlets for which they had a Press that follow'd the Army decrying both King and Parliament and all Authority infusing a rebellious Spirit into the people under the pretence of Liberty and Freedom All this notwithstanding while the Scotish Army was in the Kingdom Such things were whisper'd such jealousies and fears rais'd as these inconveniencies were not only dispens'd with but the Army supported and cherish'd as if they had been tutelary Gods those who must have protected and deliver'd us from all danger and all that the Parliament and Kingdom could do little enough to feed and maintain them tho an excrescence that drew away the whole nourishment of the Body and starv'd it 67. But afterwards when the Kingdom saw how they had been abus'd made to fear where no fear was and were come to themselves they soon grew to feel the weight of that which lay upon them and seek for ease Then City and Country could petition the Parliament for disbanding the Army complain of their intolerable disorders and irregularities and the Parliament was well dispos'd for it who now likewise discover'd the art and malice of the Independent Party a Spirit they had rais'd which they would gladly lay and consider'd that as such an Army was dangerous so none at all was needful that Ireland wanted what we had too much of Soldiers 68. Besides they well saw that whilst that Army stood they should never be able to relieve Ireland to any purpose the stock of the Kingdom was swallow'd up in their maintenance and tho for the space of a whole year there had not been an Enemy in the Field nor Town possess'd by any to find them employment yet they recruited daily all care being taken for sending them Pay Arms Provision Clothes with all other necessaries as if they were every day upon hard and dangerous Service when they did nothing but trouble and oppress the Country â— so as notwithstanding their glorious pretences of fighting for Conscience not Pay sacrificing themselves to God and the Kingdom 's Cause none of them would stir to help the poor Protestants in that Kingdom but even hinder'd what they could all others from going 69. Which appear'd by Colonel Hammond's Capitulation being design'd for the Service of Dublin who tho he were but an Ensign to Sir Simon Harcourt in the begining of those Wars now a Colonel of the new Model stood upon his pantoufles That he would not be oblig'd for longer than two or three Months have all his Pay before hand Victuals for six Months tho he would stay but two be absolute Commander of all the Forces there have a proportion of Money over and above for contingent occasions put into what hands he would appoint a Fleet of Ships to transport him wait upon him and be at his disposing not to stir without his leave in truth he must be Admiral and General such Terms as no Prince or foreign State that had but given an assistance could have stood upon higher This was the obedient conscientious Army but most Men were satisfy'd if it was not disbanded Ireland must be lost and England undone 70. The Parliament therefore taking into their consideration the necessity of relieving that dying Kingdom after long debate and much opposition from all that Party came at last to a resolution in May 1647 and vote that a certain proportion of Foot and Horse should forthwith be transported into Ireland as I remember seven Regiments of Foot of which four I am certain were to be taken out of the Army they further vote that no Foot should be continu'd in England but those that were to be for the necessary defence of the Garisons and that about five thousand Horse and Dragoons should remain under Pay in this Kingdom for quieting and preventing any stir or trouble either within or from abroad to interrupt proceedings till a settlement of Affairs Peoples Minds after such Commotions being like the Sea after a Storm unquiet for some time tho the wind be abated Those Men would have had a far greater number and press'd it earnestly saying We laid by our strength that all might be deliver'd back into the King's hands and tho even this proportion seem'd very great to discreet and moderate Men yet they pitch'd upon it partly to stop the mouths of these Railers and give satisfaction to all indifferent persons who look'd not so far into business and were apt enough to be misled into jealousies and suspicions and partly because they well hop'd it would be but for some short time that this charge should be continu'd upon the Kingdom 71. Here then is the Ax first laid to the root of this broad spreading Tree the Army a dismal Cypress the shadow and dropping whereof were so pernicious as to darken all the comfortable beams of our Sun-shine of Peace and suffer no good thing to prosper near it this vext the Children of darkness who now must cast about shake Heaven and Earth raise all the black Spirits of Hell confound Sea and Land and all the Elements rather than permit this to take place 72. The Parliament goes on with this work refers it to the Committee of Lords and Commons at Derby-house to see those Votes concerning Ireland put in execution The eleven Members were almost all of them of that Committee who may say Hinc illae Lacrimae For doing their parts together with the rest in discharge of the duty and trust which lay upon them to take care of that poor Kingdom and discovering the designs of the Army to frustrate all the good designs of the Parliament they incur the mortal hatred of the Party and Army which have driven them from their Homes and Country and City of London without the privity or consent of the House of Parliament The Earl of Warwick the Lord Dacres Sir William Waller Sir Iohn Clotworthy Major General Massey and Mr. Salloway are the persons employ'd These labour to dispose Officers and Soldiers to a compliance with the necessities of Ireland but at the very first were receiv'd with a mutinous acclamation amongst the Officers whom they had call'd together some of them crying out One and all and the whole Company disturb'd and distemper'd So as finding it not
desire that like fellow Subjects and Brethren the Citizens would follicite the Parliament in their behaf 102. Here they first take upon them openly to intermeddle with the business of the Kingdom contrary to all the former Declarations and Protestations but their words nor yet their vows were ever any rule to know their meaning by as Hammond told the King concerning Cromwel so is it with all those visible Saints have they promis'd vow'd sworn never so much call'd God and Man to witness if the condition of their Catholick Cause so alter that what they have so promis'd and sworn be no longer expedient for them a pretended Enthusiasm a new Light shall give a dispensation and they will do clean contrary yet all out of tenderness of Conscience well they are now in strength and power and will make use of it to turn all upside down 103. The poor Parliament all this while is sitting upon addle Eggs take a great deal of pains like Children to build Castles of Cards a puff from their faithful Army blows it all down It is true that at first upon return of their Commissioners who were sent down to disband and had brought them an account of the scorn put upon them how instead of the Regiments coming to the Rendevous appointed a Command from Sir Thomas Fairfax fetch'd them clear another away how the train of Artillery was seiz'd upon at Oxford the Money which should have disbanded a Regiment taken away by force and the Servants whom they had employ'd beaten and wounded this did with good reason startle them many of the Members express'd a sharp and severe Sense of it the House was taking vigorous and honourable Resolutions tho oppos'd with might and main by all the Independent Party who prevail'd but little being now a known engag'd Faction till Serjeant Major General Skippon stood up a Presbyterian one who had seem'd to dislike those factious ways before his last going down to the Army who was nominated Commander in chief for the Irish Expedition had receiv'd a gift of a thousand Pounds by way of encouragement to go but now was willing enough to stay at home with it he forsooth in a grave way with a doleful Countenance and lamentable Voice makes a long Speech to exhort to moderation and to bear with the Infirmities of a zealous conscientious Army which had done so much good Service Therefore it was his opinion we should humble our selves before God appoint a day of Fasting and do those things which the Army desir'd give them their full Pay alter the Ordinance according as they propos'd and he was perswaded in his Conscience they would then be satisfy'd however they were not to be provok'd for they were a form'd Body which would be upon us before we were aware This knockt us on the head especially his last Argument a demonstration 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so it is they are strong they will fall upon you timorous Men as he knew many of those were he had to deal with could make no reply to it 104. But had he done his duty given warning of those preparations and intentions sooner when he was below with the Army so long and could not choose but discern it the House would not have been so surpris'd would have provided against it in time but now fear took away the use of reason They look'd upon the Army as even at their doors Hannibal ad portas and all of them Children of Anak armed Giants not to be resisted 105. Whereas in truth there was no such cause of fear As they in the Army had more Cause carrying about them so much guilt as I am confident they had as great a share of apprehension But they presum'd upon their Agents among us they knew we had them with us both in Parliament and City who would betray us possess'd with the like evil Spirit as Ahab's Prophets were we should prevail otherwise we were not in so despicable a condition The Parliament had not yet utterly lost their reputation the Image of Authority was not wholly defaced in them they had a stock intire and untoucht of 200000 l. provided for disbanding the Army and service of Ireland multitude of Officers and gallant Soldiers about the Town who had always fought gallantly and obey'd readily had little reason to be in love with the Army which had unhors'd them so it is likely would have engag'd chearfully and done good service The City was high in the opinion of the People for courage and resolution firmness to the Parliament zeal in the Cause hatred of Independency dislike of the Army and a Purse to make all good give Sinews and Strength to that side with which they should close and had particularly presented many Petitions to the House for those very things which they were doing and the Army only came to undo which were in order to a Peace restoring the King settling the Government both in Church and State and giving ease and quietness to the Kingdom so as they were in truth already engag'd with us and waited but a Summons to declare themselves when by this unfortunate Man's interposition at that time to whom chiefly and to his Chaplain Marshal we must attribute all the Evil that has since befallen King and Kingdom all was dasht instead of a generous resistance to the insolencies of perfidious Servants vindicating the honour of the Parliament discharging the trust that lay upon them to preserve a poor People from being ruin'd and inslav'd to a rebellious Army they deliver up themselves and Kingdom to the will of their Enemies prostitute all to the Lust of heady and violent Men suffer Mr. Cromwel to saddle ride switch and spur them at his pleasure 106. For we instantly fell as low as dirt vote the common Soldier his full Pay the Officers a Month more that is in all three Months upon disbanding or engaging for Ireland take all our Ordinances in pieces change and alter them according to their minds and which is worst of all expunge our Declaration against that mutinous Petition cry Peccavimus to save a whipping but all would not do 107. In so much that when our Commissioners were sent down to the Army at Triplo Heath to give an account of our dutiful complyance they would not vouchsafe to hear them but when they offer'd to read the Votes cry out Justice Justice a Note that Cromwel and Ireton had taught them to sing being done by their directions as some of their own Disciples falling our with them have since discover'd which was by Mr. Scawen who was one of those were sent reported back to the House in such a gastly fearful manner only to terrifie us and make us more supple he saying the Army was so strong so unanimous so resolv'd as the poor Presbyterians hearts fell an Inch lower and the Independents made themselves merry with it Then forsooth the Houses must send down Members to abide with the Army as with a
so confident were they of their innocency tho they knew the malice of their Enemies and their violence and force upon the Parliament But proceedings since have made it clear what Justice they should have found For notwithstanding all this those Horse and Foot were so powerful an argument against them backing the Remonstrance for the exclusive resolution that it was carry'd to expel them the House and Impeachments order'd to be brought in A parallel proceeding to this was never known in Parliament where it has not been refus'd to any especially who were beyond Sea or in truth any where absent upon leave to give a further day upon non-appearance the first and in our Case there was a great deal more reason considering the season of the year the occasion of our departure then look'd upon as a merit our readiness to obey upon the first Summons All this writes but their Injustice and our Oppression in the more Capital Letters 193. I am now coming to the Catastrophe of this Tragedy the last and most horrid Act. The Parliament forc'd to do that which is unnatural against the being of Parliament the end for which it is call'd which has rationem formae in all moral things that is to declare they will make no further address or application to the King receive none from him nor suffer it in others which is as if a Limb should cut it self off from the Body and thereby deprive it self of life and nourishment For the communication between the King and Parliament is that which gives it being and life It is call'd by the King ad colloquium habendum tractatum cum proceribus Regni c. They are the words of the Writ which brings them together Now there is Colloquium Tractatus cut off which was the first unhappy breach between his Majesty and this Parliament and which the Parliament found themselves grieved at that he had withdrawn himself from them so as they could not repair unto him for advice and counsel And in all our Declarations and Messages in the beginning until these people who it seems had projected from the first what they have now acted got to the Helm and steer'd us into this violent tempestuous Course that we neither see our Pole nor use our Compass we still desir'd press'd endeavour'd his Majesty's return to his Parliament But they say he shall not return the Regal Power they have assum'd they will keep it and exercise it They will no longer be fellow Subjects with the rest of the Kingdom but Lords and Masters Those whom they represent and whose substitutes they are they will put under their foot as if an Ambassadour should renounce the Prince that sent him and say he will make his own Dignity real and original which is but representative and deriv'd take away the substance and yet the shadow remain certainly this is exceedingly against nature and will turn all upside down yet this disorder must be made perpetual put out of all possibility of recovery like Death from which there can be no returning For admit the King would grant all that they have desir'd or can desire give them all imaginable security for it it is impossible it should be made known and so cannot be receiv'd and by consequence our Peace never be settled which is casting the Kingdom into a mortal disease putting it past cure past hope 194. To shew by what Magick this Spirit is rais'd you have his fellow Devil immediately call'd up by a Council of War a Declaration comes from his Excellency and the general Council of the Army from Windsor bearing date the 9 th of Ianuary presented to the House the 11 th by Sir Hardress Waller wherein they give their approbation of the Votes say the Parliament in that Address to the King with the four Bills could go no lower without denying that which God in the issue of War had born such testimony unto That they account that great business of a settlement to the Kingdom and security to the publick interest thereof by and with the King's concurrence to be brought to so clear a trial as that upon the King's denyal they can see no further hopes of settlement and security that way therefore upon the consideration of that denyal added to so many other such Votes as had been pass'd that no further application should be made to him c. They do freely and unanimously declare for themselves and the Army that they are resolv'd firmly to adhere with and stand by the Parliament in the things so voted and in what shall be further necessary for the prosecution thereof and for the settling and securing the Parliament and Kingdom without the King and against the King or any other that shall hereafter partake with him 195. And in this I believe them being I am confident the only truth has proceeded from them in all their Declarations or Proposals with relation to his Majesty I would remember them if 't were to any purpose of some of their former professions That it was against their principles to imprison the King that no Peace could be lasting without him and the like But they can blow hot and cold as the fellow in the Fable to make all the Satyrs and almost the Devil himself abhor them as afraid to be outdone by them in his own art of lying and dissembling Therefore I shall not trouble my self any more with blazoning their Coat Armour which is nothing but false colours and base metals Their Impostures Contradictions Falshoods Hypocrisies and damnable Delusions being beyond all Heraldry not to be trick'd within the compass of any Scutcheon 196. I will only add one Scene more of this last Act represented in the House of Commons I do not hear that the House of Peers have had any part in it But the Commons like the Consistory of Rome have spent much time since in hunting out the Premises to infer the Conclusion formerly agreed upon a Declaration or rather rhetorical Invective to perswade mens Affections not convince their Judgments of those enormities in the King which should justly merit and so justifie the resolutions taken concerning him The particulars are such as truly I cannot name withont horror Auferat oblivio si potest si non silentium tegat I would forget that ever such a thing was done by the Parliament I will only say this of that Faction for I look upon it merely as their act and their Army's who have forc'd the House to it as they have to all the rest since the breaking out of their Rebellion the owning them paying them voting their continuance expelling committing impeaching their own Members the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London doing what not for the encreasing their own shame and setting up their Diana that Idol of confusion That if they themselves believe that to be true which they there relate they are excellent good Patriots and notable Justices to see and not see