the dores shut Cromwell sends a paper to the House of Commons requiring that the impeached Members and M. G. Brown might be secured and brought to justice and that the 90. odd Members that refus'd to vote against the Scotch Engagement and voted to recal the Votes for non-addresses and for a treaty might be suspended the House and that all faithful Members who were innocent of those Votes would acquit themselves by protestation from any such concurrence that there might be a distinction made between um The Paper was delivered in but they scorning to sta for an answer sent several guards to the House under the command of Pride Hewson and Hardres Waller and violently seized all those Members that they found two honest for their purposes The House being thus purged and brought to so small a number in so much that an Officer of the Army having secured some of the Members in the Lobby as they were going into the House the Speaker having not enough within to make up a House was forced to send to the said Officer to lend him his prisoners to make up a free Parliament in comes Cromwel out of the Countrey and brings Harry Martin that sanctified Members along with him to make up his numbers and to awe the City Garrisons Blackfriers and Pauls The secluded Members protest against their seclusion but the Cromwellian faction Vote their Protestation seditious scandalous and tending to destroy the visible and fundamental Government of the Kingdome Then like Cromwels good boyes they vote all the votes of the secluded Members for a personal treaty null and void and to try whether all were their trusty friends that voted for them Gourdon moved that a protestation be forthwith drawn up and that every Member set his hand to it in detestation of those repealed Votes which was drawn up afterwards and within a few daies after subscribed by The Lord Lisle Colonel Boswel Lord Grey Per. Pelham Colo. Iones Colonel Temple Colo. Ven. Sir Thomas Maleverer Sir Tho. Wroth Sir Io. Bourchier Col. Pet. Temple Tho. Chaloner Sir Gregory Norton Oldsworth Garland Sir Io. Danvers Dove Smith Frie Searle Nic. Love Io. Lisle Col. Rigby Holland Ludlow Greg. Clement Col. Purefoy Col. Stapely Dunch Cawley Downs Io. Carey Blackstone Scot. Hutchinson Mildmay Sir Iames Harrington Col. Harvey Penington Atkins Dan. Blackgrave Moor Millington Prideaux Roger Hill Denis Bond Col. Harrington Hodges Valentine The design being thus pritty well ripened the Counsel of War who managed the business in relation to the King ordered that all state and ceremony should be forborn the King and his attendants lessend which was done to mortifie him by degrees Now was it thought fit to have it moved in the House to proceed capitally against the King Cromwel after it was once proposed sinding it then his cue to speak stoop up and told them That if any mov'd this out of design he should think him the greatest Traytor in the World but since providence and necessity had cast them upon it he should pray to God to bless their Counsels though he were not provided on the suddain to give them Counsel The White Boys thus animated went on furiously and Scot with an unheard of impudence now dares to bring in the ordinance for tryal of the King it was read recommitted three several times and Commissioners names inserted consisting of divers Lords Commons Aldermen Citizens Countrey Gentlemen and Souldiers that the more persons of all sorts might be engaged in so damnable and treasonable a design and because this Ordinance and the proceedings thereupon had no foundation in Divinity Law nor Reason The Cromwellian Faction to give it a foundation and ground from the authority of their Votes declare that by the Lawes of the Land it is treason in the King to levy war against the Parliament and Kingdome of England This Vote together with the ordinance was carried up to the Lords by the Lords Grey of Groby The first debate was upon the Vote The Earl of Manchester told them That the Parliament of England by the fundamenttal lawes of England consisted of three Estates King Lords and Commons The King is the first and chiefest estate He calls and dissolves the House and confirms all their Acts and without him there can be no Parliament and therefore t is absurd to say The King can be a Traytor against the Parliament The Earl of Northumberland said That the greatest part of the people of England were not yet satisfied whether the King levied War first against the Houses or the Houses against him and therefore it was very unreasonable to declare Treason by an Ordinance when the matter of fact is not yet proved nor any Law extant to judge it by Whereupon the Lords cast off the debate and cast our the Ordinance Hereupon the Zealots of the House that is to say that Protestors were very angry at the Lords and therefore intend to rid their hands of them and the King both together and thereupon they presently passed a Vote should be impowred to act notwithstanding the Lords did not concurre with them and many of the most famous hot-spurs were so high as to insist that the Lords who would not give their concurrence to the Votes and Ordinance should be impeached for favouring the grand Delinquent Having thrown by the Lords they proceed to make themselves to have the shew of a legall power by passing these three Votes 1. That the people that is to say their own Faction are the original of all just power under God 2. That the Commons of England being chosen by and representing the people are the supreme Power of this Nation 3. That whatsoever is enacted by Law by the House of Commons assembled in Parliament hath the force of a Law This was Cromwels Chain-shot whereby he swept a King and Lords putting all the Liberties of this Nation under his own and the power of fifty or sixty of his own covetous Saints By their former contrivances having now brought themselves to such a height of power and that power to a boldnesse that durst go so farre there was a necessity for them now to proceed and therefore the next thing they did was to passe the Ordinance for tryall of the King which was carried on without one negative voice There was one rub in the way that they could not use his own Great Seal against him and a new one was long a making But after consultation they agreed upon a new way for what need ceremonies when men are resolved upon the substance They therefore proceed without any Commission under Seal upon the Ordinance and every Commissioners set his own hand and seal to the publick instrument of their transactions At the same time great endeavours are made to stop the mouths of the Ministers giving them threatning admonitions not to preach against the actings of the Parliament and the Army and the Councill of Warr finding it difficult to stop the Ministers mouths did
not to be found and that he was a Malignant and had attempted to set the King at liberty To which it was replyed That a Committee could be named to examine the business concerning the Foot-boy that struck Sir H. Mildmay though no man knew where to find the Foot-boy that it was strange there should be such a difference between beating a Subject and killing a King that though Mr. Osborn were a Malignant yet unless he were also a Nullifidian convicted of perjury his oath was valid and good But Scot stood up and said That this pressing to examine this business was but to draw C. Hammond to Town that the King might the easier make an escape and Sir IOhn Evelin of Wilts alledged That this was an invention of Mr. Osborn to bring the King to Town with freedom honour and safety And though other motions were made for the said Committee yet either Mr. Scowen or Skippon stood up and offered to divert the business by new matter concerning the Army which bears all business down before it and so the business was buried in silence for that time Afterwards the Lords propounded that he might have forty dayes allowed him which was with much ado granted He comes and avouches it and one Doucet further affirm'd a design of Rolfe's to pistoll the King Rolfe presents himself at the Commons Barr with a Letter from Hammond who denies the design and pleads Rolfe's cause for him Rolfe denyed it at the Barr with a very trembling voice yet afterwards hid out of the way Hammond was neither sent for nor questioned Thus was this business quite husht up which onely serv'd to shew what the Gentlemen at Westminster solely aimed at and indeed their rancour was now at that height against the King that Skippon thought it just cause of complaint that some persons had printed a Book called A motive to loyall Subjects to endeavour the preservation of his Majesties person Many Petitions now also come for a Personall Treaty and among the rest the Surrey men petition for a Personal Treaty But Scot standing up in the House argued That it was a design to ruine the Godly That he was of opinion that there could be no time seasonable for a Personall Treaty or a Peace with so perfidious a Pince but that it would be alwayes either too soon or too late that he that draws his sword against the King must throw away the scabbord that all peace with him would prove the spoil of the Godly Thus by him and by the assistance of the Worthies Ven Miles Corbet Hill and Harvey Cromwell had his design in part for that the Petition had no success The King was now a prisoner in the Isle of Wight when Cromwell had overthrown Duke Hamilton at Preston and there by cut off the greatest hopes which the King had of being releived The Victory was great and swelled the Grandees that were then sitting at Westminster to such a height of pride of whom the chief were Thom. Scot Cornelius Holland and Sir Harry Mildmay that though before there were fair hopes of a Personall Treaty now began to shew an utter disdain and malice against it and to threaten and insult over all that had petitioned for it abroad or spoken for it in the House But the wise sort or rather the more crafty to do mischief knowing how weary the people were of their Texes and the Army and how covetous to purchase peace though at the price of a new warr and further considering that the Scots were not wholly reduc'd that the people were not yet quieted in many parts of England and finding the Prince with a considerable Fleet at Sea ready to raise new tempests at Land thought it better to dally on the Treaty till Oliver had quite finish'd his Northern Expedition and were marched nearer London and that all things were quiet in England and then to break off the Treaty and purge the House of those that sought to agree with the King under pretence of being the Kings corrupt Party Therefore to blind the peoples eyes it was debated in the House whether a Treaty should be had with the King upon the Propositions of Hampton-Court the question being put the Yeas and Noes were even fifty seven to fifty seven insomuch that the Speakers voice was put to turn the scales who though at this time he foreman of Oliver's shop gives his voice in the affirmative following then his conscience against his interest andmy Lord Say openly in the House of Lords said God forbid that any man should take advantage of this victory to break off the Treaty However Cromwell having got a full conquest over his enemies marches for London upon his design though the Parliament forbid his approach And to shew his contempt of them he prints a Declaration accusing them of lightness breach of trust inconstancy and indiscretion and threatning presently to advance towards Westminster to do what God should enable them The same night he came to Hide-Park corner The next thing he did was to take possession of White-hall for his Quarters He brought to town with him four Regiments of Foot and six of Horse which he quartered in the Mews by his own order The next news frequent in the Town was that of the Kings being seized in his bed-chamber and hurried away prisoner to Hurst Castle a Block-house in the Isle of Wight standing out a mile and a half in the Sea so noisome that the Guards could not endure to be there long without often shifting their quarters This insolent action satisfied onely the Independent and Monarchicall party but the others who were yet more numerous seeing so hainous a fact committed against the life of the King and the faith and honour of the Parliament resolve once more to try their power whereupon it was moved that it might be declared That his Majesty was remov'd by the Generals Warrant without the consent or privity of the House The Army Members to slop this argue that the word Declare would be construed a declaring against the Generall and Army and that the word Consent argued a disagreement in opinion and practise between the Parliament and the House as if the Houses dissented from it hereupon it was barely voted without the privity of the House Nevertheless the other Members proceed to the Kings Answers to the Propositions of both Houses whether they were satisfactions or no which after a long and tedious debate was carried in the affirmative and to keep a good correspondence with the Army a Committee of six Members was appointed to confer with the Generall and his Officers but could receive no other answer from them then this that the way to correspond was to comply with the Armies Remonstrance And now the Saints militant being inraged that the House had recovered so much courage and honesty to vote according to their consciences after some proud conference between Pride Hewson and other Officers and the Speaker in Westminster-Hall with
horrid murtherers to condign punishment they made a Proclamation in the Kings Name that all the Kings Judges should render themselves within forty dayes or else they should be excepted for life and estate whether they were of the twenty nam'd or no. Hereupon Alderman Tichborn Charles Fleetwood Coll. Temple Coll. Waite Peter Temple Simon Maine Bourchier Owen Roe Coll. Rob. Lilburn Coll. Downes Isaak Penington Sir Henry Mildmay Coll. Dixwell Adrian Scroop Augustine Garland Coll. Harvey Mr. Smith Sir Hardress Waller Henry Martin Heveningham Iohn Carew M. G. Ludlow M. Corbet did surrender themselves and are now in custody under the Sergeant at Armes attending the House From Ireland were sent Coll. Hunck Coll. Pheire to whom the Warrant for execution was directed and one Hulet suspected to be the Executioner and upon examination excepted out of the Act of Pardon and Cook Sollicitor to the High Court of Justice They have also ordered that twenty of the most engaged persons be excepted out of the generall Act of Pardon and Oblivion not extending to life to suffer such penalties and forfeitures as shall be specified in an Act to that purpose Whose names are Will. Lenthall Speaker Sir Harry Vane Will. Burton Bailiff of Yarmouth Sir Arthur Heslerig Coll. Sydenham Coll. Desborow Alderm Ireton Coll. Axtell Mr. Keeble Capt. Blackwell Maj. Creed Charles Fleetwood Lieut. Generall Coll. Iohn Lambert Alderm Pack Coll. Pine Coll. Cobbet Capt. Deane Oliver St. Iohn late one of the Justices of the Common Pleas. Mr. Philip Nye and Mr. Iohn Goodwin Ministers Thus we see Divine Vengeance prosecuting these Sons of Massacre who having by treachery dissimulation and breach of oaths as we have shewn you gotten into power by their extravagant tyranny had almost ruined the Nation Let God arise and let his enemies be scattered FINIS A Catalogue of some Books lately printed and in the Presse a printing for Henry Marsh at the Princes Armes in Chancery-lane neer Fleet-street 1. THe Soveraignes Prerogative and Subjects Priviledge comprised in several Speeches Cases and Arguments Historicall and Politicall discussed between the Kings sacred Majesty and the most eminent Persons of both Houses of Parliament together with the grand Mysteries of State then in agitation faithfully collected by Thomas Fuller B. D. in folio second edition 1660. 2 A compleat History of the Warres of the Greeks written by the learned Polibüis and translated by Edward Grimston Esquire Sergeant at Armes to his late Majesty in folio 3 The faithfull Lapidary or the nature and qualities of all pretious Stones very usefull for Merchants and others to avoid deceit by Thomas Nichols in quarto 4 A Treple Reconciler stating the Controversies 1 whether Ministers have an Exclusive power of Communicants from the Sacrament 2 if any person unordained may lawfully preach 3 if the Lords Prayer ought not to be used by all Christians to which is added a Sermon preached at his late Majesties Inauguration by Thomas Fuller B. D. in octavo at 1 s. 6 d. 5 A description of the several Counties and Shires of England by Ed. Leigh Esq Mr. of Arts of both Universities very useful for Travellers 6 The Compleat Attorney fifth and last Edition in octavo 7 The baptised Turk shewing his happy conversion from the delusion of that great Imposter Mahomet unto the Christian Religion by Mr. Gunning at Exeter House Chappell the fifth of November published by Tho. Warmstrey D. D. in octavo 8 John quarls's last Poems in octavo 9 The Crafty Whore or the mystery and iniquity of Bawdy houses laid open with dehorracions from Lust drawn from the sad and lamentable consequences it produceth published for the good of young Men by R. H. 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