The compleat History of independencie Upon the Parliament begun 1640. By Clem. Walker, Esq; Continued till this present year 1660. which fourth part was never before published.

For a New Parliament, By the Agreement of the People.

About this time Doctor Dorislaus a Civill Lawyer, sometimes Judge Advocate to the Earle of Essex, and Lord Fairfax, and lately one of the Councel in the High Court of Justice against the KING, and the 4. Lords, was sent from the Parliament, Agent into Holland, where about 18. Scots-men, repayring to his lodging, 6. of them went up the stayres to his Chamber, whilst 12. of them made good the stayre-foot, they stabb'd him to death, and escaped.

About the 14. day of May, 1649. Report was made from the Councel of State to the House of the examination of 3. Servants of Doctor Dorislaus, concerning the Death of their Master; and what allowances were fit to be given to his Children out of the Kings Revenue, thereby to lay an aspersion upon the King (as if He having had an influence upon that Fact, His Estate must make the recompence, notwithstanding Scotish-men did the deed in revenge of Hamiltons death) Dorislaus had been a poor School∣master in the Low Countries formerly, from whence he was trans∣lated to read the History-Lecture at Oxford, where he decried Mo∣narchy in his first Lecture: was complained of, and forgiven by the benignity of the King. Then he became Judge Advocate in the Kings Army in his expedition against the Scots: afterwards he had the like imployment, under the Earle of Essex: and lastly, under Sir Tho. Fairfax. a great Gainer by his employ∣ments, but withall, a great Antimonarchist, and a Saint in Crom∣wells Rubrick, and therefore had a magnetique vertue both living and dead to draw money to him in abundance. Upon occasion of this Debate, Haslerigge moved, That 6. Gentlemen of the best

quality [Royalists] might be put to Death as a revenge for Doris∣laus, and to deterre men from the like attempts hereafter. (That you may the better see of what Spirit Haslerigge is known, That some Northern Counties having petitioned the Commons for relief against the miserable famine raging there: Haslerigge opposed their request, saying, The want of food would best defend those Counties from Scottish Invasions.) What man that had any sense of Christianity, Courage, Honesty, or Iustice, would have been the Authour of so barbarous and unjust a motion, That six Gentlemen no way conscious nor privie to the fact should be offered up a sacrifice to revenge and malice, nay, to guilty fears and base cowardic••, to keep off the like attempts from Haslerigge and his Party. I wish this Gentleman would reade the Alcharon (or new Independent Bible of the new Translation) and from thence gather precepts of more Humanity, Justice, Honesty and Courage, since he hath Read the Old and New Testament of Moses and Christ to so little purpose. Yet the House, 18. of May, passed a Declaration, That if more Acts of the like nature happened hereafter, it should be retaliated upon such Gentlemen of the Kings Party as had not yet Compounded. But this is but a device to fright them to Compound, unlesse it be a forerunner to a Massa∣cre heretofore taken into consideration at a Councell of Warre: See Sect. 117.

About this time came forth that prodigious Act, declaring four new Treasons with many complicated Treasons in their bellies, the like never heard of before in our Law, nor in any Kingdom or Re∣publike of Christendom: Because I have formerly spoken of it, the Act it self printed, publisht, and dreadfully notorious throughout the whole Kingdom; I will refer you to the printed Copie; one∣ly one clause formerly debated was omitted in the Act, viz. That to kill the Generall, Lieuten. Gen. any Members of this present Parl. or Counsel of State, to be declared Treason; this would have disco∣vered their guilty cowardize so much they were ashamed of it: be∣sides it was thought fit to make the People take a new Oath of Al∣legiance to the new State. First, I will only give you some few Ob∣servations thereupon. This Act declares to be Treason unto death and confiscation of Lands all Deeds, Plots, and Words: (1.) Against this present fagge end of a Parliament, and against

their never before heard-of Supream Authority and Govern∣ment: for, when was this Kingdome ever governed by a Parlia∣ment, or by any power constituted by them? (2.) All endea∣vours to subvert the Keepers of the Liberty of England, and Coun∣cell of State constituted, and to be from time to time constituted by Authority of Parliament, who are to be under the said Re∣presentatives in Parliament, (if they please, and not otherwise; for the Sword and the Purse trusted in the power of the Coun∣cell of State) yet the Keepers of the Liberties of England and the Councell of State of England to be hereafter constituted by Parlia∣ment, are Individua vaga, ayrie notions not yet named nor known, and when they are known we owe them no Allegiance, (without which no Treason) by the known Lawes of the Land, which is onely due to the King, His lawfull Heires and Succes∣sours thereto sworn; nor any the particular Powers and Au∣thorities, granted to this Parliament by the said Keepers of the Liberties of England, and Councell of State yet any where au∣thentically published and made known to us by any one avowed Act, (unlesse we shall account their Licensed New Books to be such) and therefore they may usurp what powers they please: So that these men who involved us in a miserable Warre against the late Murdered KING, pretending He would enslave us, and they would set us free; have brought us so far below the con∣dition of the basest Slaves, that they abuse us like brute Beasts, and having deprived us of our Religion, Lawes and Liberties; and drawn from us our money and bloud, they now deny us the use of reason and common sence, belonging to us as Men, and Go∣vern us by Arbitrary, irrationall Votes, with which they bait Traps to catch us: Woe be to that people whose Rulers set snares to catch them, and are amari venatores contra Dominum, Men-hunters against God: nay, to move any Person to stir up the People against their Authority is hereby declared, Treason: mark the ambiguity of these words (like the Devils Oracles) which he that hath Power and the Sword in his hands will interpret as he please: If the Keeper of the Liberties of England, or Councell of State shall extend too farre, or abuse their Authority never so much contrary to the Lawes of the Land, Reason, Justice or the Lawes of God (as hath been lately done in this Case of Lylburne,

Walwyn, &c.) no Lawyer, no Friend shall dare to performe that Christian duty of giving councell or help to the oppressed▪ here Fathers and Children, Husbands and Wives, Brothers and all re∣lations must forsake, nay, betray one another, lest these Tyrants interpret these duties to be, A moving of them to stirre up the People against their Authority. 3. All endeavours to withdraw any Souldier or Officer from their obedience to their Superior Officer, or from the present Government, as aforesaid, By which words it is Treason: First, if any mans Child, or Servant, be inticed into this Army, and the Father or Master endeavour to withdraw him from so plundering and roguing a kinde of life back to his pro∣fession. Secondly, If any Commander or Officer shall command his Souldiers to violate, wrong, or rob any man for the party so aymed at, or some wel-meaning Friend to set before the said Soul∣diers the sinne and shame of such actions, and disswade them from obeying such unlawfull commands. 4. If any man shall presume to counterfeit their counterfeit Great Seale, It is decla∣red Treason. I wonder it is not Treason to counterfeit their counterfeit coyne! Behold here new minted Treasons current in no time and place but this afflicted Age and Nation: Edw. 3. anno 25. regni. ch. 2. passed an excellent Act to secure the People by reducing Treasons to a certainty, as our New Legislative. Ty∣rants labour to ensnare the People by making Treasons uncer∣taine and arbitrary; what they please to call Treason shall be Treason, though our knowne Lawes call it otherwise: we have long held our Estates and Liberties, and must now hold our Lives at the will of those Grand Seigniours, one Vote of 40. or 50. fa∣ctious Commons, Servants and Members of the Army vacates all our Lawes, Liberties, Properties, and destroys our Lives. Be∣hold here a short veiw of that Act which hath no Additions by any Act subsequent. See stat. 1. Mariae, c. 10. Whereas diverse opinions have been before this time, in what cases Treason shall be said, and in what not, The King at the request of the Lords and Commons, Declares:

1. That to compasse or imagine the Death of the KING, (how much more to act it) Queen, or their eldest Son and Heyre.

2. To violate the KING'S Companion, eldest Daughter unmar∣ried, or the Wife of the KING'S eldest Son and Heyre.

3. To leavy War against the King, or adhere to his Enemies in his Realm, and thereof be proveably attained of open deed by people of their condition.

4. To counterfeit the King's Great or Privy Seal:

5. Or his M ney.

6. To slay the King's Chancellor, Treasurer, Justices of one Bench or other, Justices in Eyre, Justices in Assize, and all other Justices assigned to hear and determine, being in their Places doing their Offices.

If any other case supposed Treason which is not above specified, doth happen before any Justices, the Justices shall tarry without any going to Judgement of the Treason, till the Cause be shewed and de∣clared before the King and his Parliament (not before the House of Commons only, or before both Houses without the King) whether it ought to be adjudged Treason.

You see how few in number these Treasons specified are, and that they must be attained of open deed by their Peers; our words were free under Monarchy, though not free under our Free-State; so were they under the Romans. Tacitus, An. 1. sub finem, seaking of Treasons, facia arguebantut, dicta impune erant. These horrible tyrannies considered (and being destitute of all other less desperate relief) I do here solemnly declare and protest before that God that hath made mee a Man, and not a Beast, a Free-man, and not a Slave, that if any man whatsoever that ta∣keth upon him the reverend name and title of a Judge or Justice shall give Sentence of Death upon any friend of mine upon this or any other illegal Act of this piece of a House of Commons, I will, and lawfully may (the enslaving scar-crow doctrine of all time-serving, State-flattering Priests and Ministers, notwith∣standing) follow the examples of Sampson, Judith, Jael, and Ehud, and by Ponyard, Pistol, Poyson, or any other means whatsoever, se∣cret, or open, prosecute to the Death the said Judge and Justice, and all their principal Abettors: And I do here invite and exhort all generous free-born English-men to the like resolutions, and to enter into Leagues defensive and offensive, and sacramental as∣sociations (seven or eight in a company, or as many as can well confide in one another) to defend and revenge mutually one anothers Persons, Lives, Limbs, and Liberties as aforesaid, a∣gainst

this, and all other illegal and tyrannous Usurpations.

About this time, or a little before, the General was moved to enlarge Sir William Waller, and the other Members illegally kept Prisoners in Windsor: He answered, They were no longer his, but the Parliaments prisoners: It should seem the Brute hath made a private deed of gift of them to his Journy-men of the House. The Generals Warrant seized and imprisoned them, and not∣withstanding the Councel of Officers declared in Print, that they were preparing a Charge against them, yet the Knaves lyed like Saints; they were then so far from having matter to accuse them of, that they have ever since, hunted after a Charge against them, and endeavoured to suborn Witnesses; but after 24 weeks restraint (whereas by the Law no man ought to be committed with∣out an accusation) they have found nothing against them. This turning over of these Prisoners to the House of Commons, proves what I formerly asserted in Sect. 24. That the violence of the Army in securing, and secluding the Members, was by consent of their Somerset-house Junto now sitting in the House of Commons,

The honest Levellers (most of them Country-men) endea∣vouring to draw to a Randezvouz, about 600. or 700. of them marched from Banbury to Burford in Oxfordshire, where lying securely (because they were upon treaty with the Enemy) their Quarters were beaten up, and about 180. of them taken Priso∣ners, which their enemies (according to their usual custome) to gain reputation by lying, reported to be so many Hundreds. And the General (as if they had been all routed) sent forth his Warrants to all Justices of the Peace in the adjacent Counties, requiring them to apprehend and secure all such of them as shall be found; I desire to know by what Authority the General takes upon him to command Justices of the Peace who are not under his Power, and what tame Animals these Justices are that will submit to his commands? and whether he thinks the Civil Magi∣strate to be obnoxious to the Power of the Sword, and the Coun∣cel of Officers? and his single self the Supreme Magistrate, or Tyrant Paramount, notwitstanding the Vote of his Journey-men Commons, That no single Man should be trusted with the Su∣preme Power.

The Levellers having possessed themselves of Northampton:

the General (it is said) thought fit to take hold of the Horns of the Altar, and wrote to his vassals of the City to send their Trained Bands to his relief, that he might the better domineer over them; and continue their slavery hereafter. But if the Ci∣tizens have no more wit, I wish their Horns may be as visible in their fore-heads, as the Nose in Olivers face.

To cozen the honest Levellers, the Commons (in order to the ending this present Parliament) are debating how to pack a suc∣ceeding Representative as wicked as themselves, and of the same leaven; whose Election shall not be free, but bounded with such Orders of limitation and restriction as shall shut out all men from electing or being elected, as are not precisely of the same principles and practices, and as deep engaged in their tyrannical, trayterous, cheating, bloody designs as themselves, guilty Com∣mittee-men, and Accountants to the State shall be the next Re∣presentative; and for the better lengthening of the businesse (that they may see what success (in the mean time) the Levellers will have) they wire-draw it through a Committee, and refer it to be debated by a Committee of the whole House. And at last (if they must dissolve) having packed themselves into a Councel of State, they will usurp the Supreme Authority there: to pre∣pare the way to which design, they have passed another Act, May 19. That the People shall be Governed as a Free-state by Representa∣tives, and by such as they shall constitute; and then consider what kind of Representatives we are like to have.

Great care is taken that the State (or rather our States-mens private pockets) might not be prejudiced by Judgments, Ex∣tents, &c. lying upon Delinquents Estates: you see notwith∣standing their Declaratory Vote, That in things concerning the Lives, Liberties, and Prop••rties of the People, they would maintain the known Laws of the Land; yet this Vote (as well as all others) hath a condition implied, that is do no wayes hinder the Gains of our godly Grandees, otherwise they would not consider how to de∣feat Creditors of their legal assurance.

John Lilburne being ordered a close Prisoner in the Tower by the Commons without Pen, Ink, or Paper, (which was tyranny under King Charls, but not under K. Oliver) a Petition was pre∣sented to the Commons by many well-affected, that John might

have the allowance usually and legally due to Prisoners in the like case for his support; which was rejected, insomuch that John was kept 3 whole dayes with one half meales meat: this is to condemn men unheard to be murdered by famine in their pri∣vate slaughter-houses, when they cannot, or dare not murder them in their pretended Courts of Judicature, or publick shambles: yet afterwards, when the drawing together of the Levellers, and discontents of Newcastle affrighted the Commons, they Voted him the short allowance of 20 s. a week. Thus you see nothing but feares and dangers can kindle the least spark of goodness and compassion in their woolvish breasts: wherefore Lord (I beseech thee) heap fears and terrors upon their guilty pates, till with Ju∣das Iscariot they cry out, We have sinned in that we have betrayed innocent blood.

Cromwel being to march against the Levellers, left Ireton be∣hind him (like a hobby daring of larks) to over-awe the Conven∣ticle at Westminster, and see they chaunt no tune but of their set∣ting, the better to keep himself in a neutral reconciling posture: Ireton laid down his Commission, (which he can take up again at pleasure) whereby he puts off all addresses to him from the le∣velling party for the present. This poor fellow now keepeth his golden Coach which cost 200 l. and 4 gallant Horses. The world is well altered with such petty Companions; and hereby the Souldiers may see what becomes of their Arrears. There hath been a seeming falling out between Cromwel and Ireton.

John Lilburne being a close Prisoner in the Tower (as hath been said) Hugh Peters (Chaplain in Ordinary to-two great Potentates, Lucifer and Oliver) came about dinner-time (May 25. 1649.) to visit him; and though admittance be denied to o∣ther men, yet to him the Gates flew open: as sure as Saint Peter keeps the keyes of Heaven, Hugh Peters keeps the keyes of our Hell and our Grandees Consciences, and openeth and shutteth at pleasure: he is Confessor at Tyburn, and hath a great power over damned Spirits, or rather over such Spirits, as not submit∣ting basely to the tyranny of our State-Mountebanks, incur their condemnation in this world (by Gods permission) in or∣der to their salvation in the next world: the tyranny of these Usurpers implying at once, their cruelties over our bodies, and

Gods mercy to our souls. Hugh's first salute was, That he came meerly to give John a visit, without any design (his guilty consci∣ence prompting him to a voluntary Apology.) John answered, I know you wel enough, you are one of the setting Dogs of the great Men of the Army, with fair and plausible pretences to intimate into men, when they have done them wrong, and to workout their designs when they are in a strait, and cover over the blots that they have made. Then John complained of the‖ illegal and violent seizing upon him by Souldi∣ers, and carrying him before that new erected thing, called [A Councel of State] who committed him without any Accusor, Accusation, Pro∣secutor, or Witness, or any due process of Law; and yet when the King impeached the five Members, and preferred a Charge of high Treason against them; Recorded 1. part Book of Decl. p. 35. and only failed in a single punctilio of due process of Law, they cryed outs, it was an invasion of the Peoples Liberties; so that four or five Recantations from him (recorded in their own Declarations) would not serve his turn. Peters half out of countenance (if so prostituted a Villain that practises impudence amongst common Whores, and whose Pulpit is more shameful than another mans Pillory, can be out of countenance) takes up one of Coke's Institutions, and pofessed Lilburn was meerly gulled in reading or trusting to those Books, for there were no Laws in England. John answered, he did beleeve him, for that his great Masters, Cromwel, Fairfax, &c. had destroyed them all. Nay (quoth Hugh) there never were any in England; with that John shewed him the Petition of Right, asking him, whether that were Law? which Peters had the impudence to deny, asking, what Law was? John replied out of the Parliaments own Declara∣tions, The Law is that which puts a difference betwixt good, and evil; just, and unjust: If you take away the Law, all things will fall into, confusion, every man will become a law unto himself, which in the de∣praved condition of humane nature must needs produce great enormi∣ties; Lust will become a law, Envy a law, Covetousness and Ambition will become laws; and what dictates, what decisions such laws will pro∣duce, may easily be discerned. This (Mr. Peters) is a Definition of Law by the Parliament in the dayes of their primitive purity, before

they had corrupted themselves with the Commonwealths money. And elsewhere the Law is called, The safeguard, the custody of all private Interests, your honours, lives, liberties, and estates, are all in the keep∣ing of the Law, without this every man hath a like Right to any thing; It is the best birth-right the Subject hath: It is a miserable servitude or bondage where the Law is uncertain, or unknown. To this the Comick Priest replied, I tell you (for all this) there is no Law in this Nation but the Sword, and what it gives; neither was there any Law or Government in the world, but what the Sword gave. To this the honest Lievtenant Colonel answered, Mr. Peters, You are one of the Guides of the Army, used by the chief Leaders to trumpet their Prin∣ciples and Tenents; and if your reasoning be good, then if six Theeves meet three or four honest men and rob them, that act is righteous, be∣cause they are the stronger Party. And if any power be a just power that is uppermost, I wonder how the Army and Parliament can acquit themselves of being Rebels and Traytors before God and man, in re∣sisting and fighting against a just power in the King, who was a power up and visible, fenced about with abundance of Laws, so reputed in the common acceptation of Men, by the express letter of which all th••se that fought against him are (ipso facto) Traytors; and if it were not for the preservation of our Laws and Liberties, why did the Parlia∣ment fight against Him a present power in being? and if there be no Laws in England, nor never was, then you and your great M••sters, Cromwel, Fairfax, and the Parliament, are a pack of bloody Rogues and Villains, to set the People to murder one an••ther, in fighting for preservation of their Laws (in which their Liberties were included) which was the principal declared Cause of the War from the beginning to the end. I thought (quoth the Lievtenant Colonel) I had been safe when I made the known Laws the rules of my actions, which you have all sworn and declared to Defend; and make as the standard and touchstone between you and the People. I but (replied Hugh) I will shew that your safety lyes not therein, their minds may change, and then where are you? I but (quoth the Lievtenant Colonel) I cannot take notice of what is in their minds to obey that; but the constant Decla∣ration of their minds (never contradicted in any of their Declarations) as, That they will maintain the Petition of Right, and Laws of the Land, &c. This was the substance of their discourse, saving that John pinched upon his great Masters large fingring of the Com∣mon-wealths

money, calling it Theft and State-Robbery, and say∣ing, That Cromwel and Ireton pissed both in one quill, though they seem sometime to go one against another; yet it is but that they may the more easily carry on their main design, To enslave the People.

Reader, I was the more willing to present the summ of this Debate to thee, that by comparing their doctrine and principles with their daily practices, thou mayst perfectly see to what con∣dition of slavery these beggarly upstart Tyrants and Traytors have reduced us by cheating us into a War against our lawful Soveraign, under pretence of defending our Laws and Liberties, and the Priviledges of Parliament, which themselves onely (with a concurring faction in the House) have now openly, and in the face of the Sun pulled up by the roots; and now they stop our mouths, and silence our just complaints with horrid, illegal and bloody Acts, Declaring words and deeds against their usurpations and tyranny to be High Treason: nothing is now Treason but what the remaining faction of the House of Commons please to call so. To murder the King, break the Parliament by hostile force, put down the House of Lords, erect extrajudicial High Courts of Justice to murder Men without Trial by Peers, or Jury, or any legal proceeding; to subvert the fundamental Government by Monarchy, and dispossess the right Heir of the Crown, and to usurp his Su∣preme Authority in a factious fagg-end of the House of Commons, to put the Kingly Government into a packed Junto of forty Ty∣rants, called, A Councel of State; to exercise Martial Law in times of peace, and upon persons no Members of the Army; to raise what unnecessary illegal Taxes they please, and share them and the Crown Lands and Revenues amongst themselves, lea∣ving the Souldiers unpaid to live upon Free-quarter, whilst they abuse the People with pretended Orders against Free-quarter; to alter the Styles of Commissions, Patents, Processe, and all Legal proceedings, and intoduce a forraign Jurisdiction; to Counterfeit the Great Seal and Coin of the Kingdome, and to keep up Armies of Rebels to make good these and other Tyrannies and Treasons, is High Treason by the known Lawes; but now (by the Votes of the Conventicle of Commons) it is High Treason to speak against these crimes. Good God! how long will thy patience suffer these Fools to say in their hearts there is no God? and yet profess

thee with their mouths? to break all Oathes, Covenants, and Protestations made in thy Name, to cloak and promote their Designes with dayes of impious fasting and thanksgiving? how often have thy Thunderbolts rived sensless Trees, and torn brute Beasts that serve thee according to their Creation? yet thou passest over these men who contemn thee, contrary to their knowledge and professions: Scatter the People that delight in War: Turn the Councels of the wise into folly, let the crafty be ta∣ken in their own net; and now at last, let the Oppressed taste of thy mercies, and the Oppressor, of thy justice; throw thy rod into the fire, and let it no longer be a bundle bound together in thy right hand, They appeal to thee as Author of their prosperous sins, become (Lord) Author of their just punishments; bestow upon them the rewards of Hypocrites, and teach them to know the difference between the saving strength of Magistrates, and the destroying vio∣lence of Hang-men: But what am I that argue against thy long-suffering (whereof my self stand in need) and seek to ripen thy vengeance before thy time? Shall the Pot ask the Potter what he doth? I beheld the prosperity of the wicked, and my feet had slipped: Lord amend all in thy good time, and teach us heartily to pray, Thy will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven.

May 30. 1649. The aforesaid Trayterous Act for abolishing Kingly Government, and converting England into a Free-State, (consisting of forty Tyrants, and many millions of slaves) was proclaimed in London by the newly intruded illegal Lord Mayor Andrewes, accompanied with 14 Aldermen of the same pack; the People in great abundance crying out, Away with it, away with it; GOD save King CHARLES the Second: and bit∣terly reviling and cursing it and them, until some Troops of Horse (ready prepared in secret) were sent to disperse, beat, and wound them: and yet the Trial of the King, and the subverting of our well-formed Monarchy (under which we lived so happily heretofore) with all other Acts of the like high nature, was done in the name of the People of England, although (I dare say) at least five hundred to one (if they were free from the terrour of an Army) would disavow these horrid Acts; so little are the People pleased with these doings: notwithstanding the new Title the Conven∣ticle of Commons have gulled them withall, Voting the People

of England to be The Supreme Power, and the Commons repre∣senting them in Parliament, the Supreme Power of the Nation under them: This was purposely so contrived to ingage the whole City, and make them as desperately and impardonably guilty as themselves; and certainly if this Tumult of the People (amount∣ing to a publick disclamour of the Act) had not happened, the whole City had been guilty by way of connivance, as well as these Aldermen, and the illegal Common Councel, newly packed by the remaining Faction of Commons, contrary to the Cities Char∣ters, to carry on these and such like Designs, and intangle the whole City in their Crimes and Punishments.

* The Names of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London that personally proclaimed the Act for abolishing Kingly Government.

• Alderman Andrews, Lord Mayor.
• Alderman Pennington,
• Ald. Wollaston,
• Ald. Foulkes,
• Ald. Kenrick,
• Ald. Byde,
• Ald. Edmonds,
• Ald. Pack,
• Alderman Bateman,
• Ald. Atkins,
• Ald. Viner,
• Ald. Avery,
• Ald. Wilson,
• Ald. Dethick,
• Ald. Foot.

The Pharisaical House of Commons voted an Act, June 1. for a day of Thanks-giving to set off K. Olivers Victory over the Levellers with the more lustre, and to sing Hosanna to him for bringing the grand Delinquent to punishment. The wise Lord Mayor and his Brethren (in imitation) invited the Parliament, Councel of State, the General, and his Officers, to a Thanks-giving Dinner upon that day. The Commons appointed a Com∣mittee (under pretence of drawing more money from Adven∣turers for the Relief of Ireland) to ingage the City farther to them; Cromwel had the Chair in that Committee: the device was, that the Common Councel should invite the Parliament,

Councel of State, and Officers of the Army to Dinner, and feast them as a Free-State, and then move the Supplies for Ireland. But if the Levellers had prevailed, the Thanks-giving white-broth and custard had been bestowed upon those free-spirited Blades, whom Oliver raised into a mutiny with one hand, (and by ad∣vantage of his Spies) cast down with another, for the glory of his own Name, and that he might have occasion to purge the Army (as he had done the Parliament) of all free-born humours.

White-hall is now become the Palace of a Hydra of Tyrants instead of one King, where our Hogens Mogens, or Councel of State sit in as much state and splendour, with their Rooms as richly hanged (I wish they were so too) and furnished (if you will be∣lieve their licenced News-books) as any Lords States in Europe; yet many of these Mushromes of Maje••ty were but M••chanicks, Gold-smiths, Brewers, Weavers, Clothiers, Brewers Clerks, &c. whom scornful Fortune in a spiteful merriment brought upon the Stage, and promoted to act the parts of Kings (to shew that Men are but her Tennis-balls) and when she is weary with laugh∣ing at their disguises, will turn them into the Tyring Room out of their borrowed cases, and shew us that our Lions are but her Asses. The Kings poor Creditors and Servants may gape long enough (like Camelions) to see the aforesaid Ordinance executed, for sale of the Kings Goods to pay their Debts; they (poor Souls) are left to starve while these Saints Triumphant revel in their Ma∣sters Goods and Houses.

Orders about this time were sent forth into London and the Counties adjacent for certain Committees to enquire upon Oath and certifie the improved value and revenue of every mans estate real and personal, wherein good progress hath been made al∣ready; the like is to go forth throughout the Kingdome. That our forty mechanick Kings now sitting in White-hall, and the self-created supreme Authority of the Nation, may take an ex∣act survey (in imitation of William the Conquerors Book of Survey, called Domes-day, remaining in the Exchequer) of their new conquered Kingdome, and know what they are like to get by their villanies; and how to load us with Taxes and Free-quarter, and what the value of their Estates are when they have com∣pleated their Design of Sequestring the Presbyterians as they have done the Royalists.

The faction in the House are, this beginning of June, 1649. sitting abrood upon an Act to inable Committees to give Oaths in some cases; and yet the House of Commons never had nor pretended to have power to give Oathes themselves (though every Court of Py-p wders hath) because the House of Commons is no Court of Judicature, but only the Grand Inquest of the Kingdome, to present to the King the grievance and the necessities of the People by way of humble Petition; as appears by the Law-books and Statutes: and therefore the Commons can grant no more than they have themselves. But now the remaining faction of the House have voted themselves to be the supreme Authority of the Nation, and have a Sword to maintain it, they and we must be what they please; yet I must affirm, that to take illegal Oaths is never justi∣fiable before God nor Man, and no less than damnable. But it may be) that by accustoming the People to take these new-imposed, illegal Oaths, they hope to make them the more easily swallow their intended new Oath of Allegiance to their new State and their own Damnation together hereafter.

All the Scrivenors about the Town are commanded by the Supreme thing to produce their Shop-books, that notice may be taken who are guilty of having money in their purses, that the fattest and fullest may be culled out, and sequestred for Delin∣quents, now that their almighty Saint-ships have occasion to use it for defence of their Free-State, if they would but search one anothers private pockets they would finde money enough. The like attempt (onely) in the Kings time was cried out upon as a high piece of tyranny, but nothing can be tyranny under a Free-State: The Supreme Authority being so full a Repre∣sentative-glass of the People, that it takes our very substance in∣to it self, and leaves us onely the shadow, whilst we wander up and down like our own Ghosts, who having lived under the Monarchy of Good King CHARLES, are now dead and des∣cended like shades into the Kingdome of Pluto.

The 7. June, 1649. the Thanks-giving (spoken of Sect. 172.) was solemnized in the City: The Lord Mayor meeting the Speaker, resigned to him (as formerly was used to the King) the Sword of State (as had been ordered by the House the day before) and received it again from him; and then the Mayor conducted

them all to Christ-Church, where the Commons, Councel of State, General, and his Officers, together with the Mayor, Al∣dermen, and Common Councel, &c. mocked God with their Devotions, where Mr. Tho. Goodwin, and Mr. Owen preached out of the Politicks to them; from thence they were conducted to a great Dinner at Grocers-hall, and entertained in the quality of a Free State, no man bring admitted without delivering his Ticket. They were all strongly guarded with Souldiers, and every Cook had an Oath given to be true to them, which sh••wed they had more of fear and guilt thah of confidence and innocency within them. Great Presents of Plate given to his Excellency Fairfax, and to his Super-excellency Cromw l, and to others, fit to be chronicled in Stow•• and Hollingsheads Volumes, amongst other solemn Fooleries; let it not be omitted that Hugh Peter and ma∣ny other Saints were too full of the Creature (anglice) Drunk.

I am to give a necessary advertisement to all men, that though the young King shews much respect and a desire of reconcile∣ment (according to his dead Fathers never-dying precepts) to all moderate men and Presbyterians that make Addresses to Him, yet it is complained of by some (who look not into the un∣dermining practises of our new Statists) that some few of His Counsellors and Followers are as violent against the more mo∣derate and honest Presbyterians, as against the Independents who murdered his Father; but these zealous Royalist, are either some passionate light-brain'd men of little discretion and less power with him, or else some false-hearted Pen••ioners to our new State, and such as have under-hand an Indemnity for their own Estates in England, who stand like Scar-crows about His Majesty to fright away such as return to their Loyalty, and ten∣der their due Allegiance to Him, thereby to weaken the hands of his Majesty, and cut off the hopes of this Nation from depen∣ding upon him, who as our undoubted Sovereign (both by the Laws of God and the Land) and Gods Vice-geren•• in His three, Kingdomes, onely can and will (if we forsake not him and our selves) free and protect us from the many-headed, miserable, ar∣bitrary tyranny we now starve and bleed under; and restore un∣to us again our Religion, Laws and Liberties, our Wives, Chil∣dren, and Estates, Trading, Husbandry, peace and plen••y now

held in more than Aegyptian bondage, by our cruel, bloody, and thievish Task-masters; Remember his deceased Majesties gracious Messages frequently sent for peace and reconcilement; Remem∣ber His Concessions to His Parliament upon the last Treaty; (more than ever any King granted to His People.) Remember His pious meek and Christian Martyrdome suffered for His People, which bitter Cup had passed from Him if He would have built up and established this Babel of Tyranny now insulting over us, and have turned our wel-mixed Monarchy into an Olygarchical legal Ty∣ranny, by adding His Royal Assent to their wicked Demands tendered to Him but two dayes before His Translation from this valley of teares. Remember His Posthumus Book to His Son, full of Prec••pts, savouring meerly of piety, Christian wisdom, charitie, and forgiveness, to His very Enemies; and then judge whether our late King, or our usurping Kinglings (now scratching and tearing us, making one War beget another, perpetuating an Ar∣my, and domineering over us by the power of the Sword) were the natural Parent, whose bowels yearned upon this (now) Or∣phan Child, the English Nation dying and expiring under this new Corporation of Tyrants, (the putative Patent) which over∣layed it? He that acknowledged Allegiance to the Father, can∣not deny it to his Son, as having sworn to hear faith and true Allegi∣ance to the King his Father, and to his lawful Heirs and Successors; which our usurping Hogens Mogens cannot pretend to be: so that as well for duty and conscience to God and their own Souls, as for a necessary and just protection of their lives and estates, all honest and wise men ought to cast themselves into the Arms of his D••ead Majesty our present KING, as the only sanctuary of their salvation, and not suffer themselves to be so far mis-led by vain reports, as to be more afraid of their cure than of their disease.

Stultorum incurata pudor malas ulcera celat.

S••lomon hath shewed you out of the Cabinet of Nature the dif∣ference between a Natural-mother and a Step-mother; and that you may see the difference between a natural King, correcting his own people with fatherly compassion for examples sake; and a Usurper, wounding, killing and robbing (those which are none

of his own) his fellow-servants for his lust and lucre sake, I will set down a short Abridgement of our own famous Dictum de Ken∣nelworth, and first the occasion thereof, which was thus:

Simon de Montford, Earl of Leicester, conspiring with many other great men, rebelled against Henry 3. pretending (after the manner of all Rebels) Reformati∣on of publick Grievances. He overthrew the King in battel, took Him and his Son Prince Edward Prisoners; the Prince after a while escaped out of Prison, raised an Army, overthrew and slew in the Battel of Evesham Si∣mon Montford, subdued the whole Party, rescued and re-inthroned his Father. Cummissions were sent forth to prevent future troubles, and settle mem minds grown desperate with fear what horrid punishents so horrible a Rebellion would bring upon them: The result of all is contained in the said Dictum de Kennelworth, as I find it in Magna Charta veteri, fol. 60. part. 2. observe the mo∣deration pf it; No man bled to death for it but in the field; the blood of war was not shed in time of peace; the King did not slay those whom he had taken with his Sword and with his Bow, but reasonably fined them, not unto destruction: though the known Laws called them Traitors, and put them into his power for life, lands and goods; they were but once punished, not always tormented and kept upon the rack, after the late custom of our fellow-Servants and Subjects; who will never suffer the partition-wall between us to be thrown down, England once more to become one Nation, and one people; and our broken bones to be again set and knit together.

Dictum de Kennelworth.

None to be Dis-inherited, but onely fined: As namely, Those

1. That began and continued in War. 2. That held Northampton against the King. 3. That fought against him at Lewis, Evesham, Chesterfeild. 4. That were taken at Kenilworth. 5. That sacked Winchester, being yet unpardoned. 6. That voluntary sent against him, or the Prince. 7. The officers of the Earl of Leicesters who molested their Neighbours with Rapine, Fire, Murder, or otherwise, to pay in three years five years value, and half their estates of Land. If they sell it, such as are by the Kings grant possessed of them to have them, giving as any other, &c. and so if it be to be Let, those who pay the whole to have all instantly, and that pay half, to have half: If in three years the whole be unpaid, the Land to be divi∣ded between him that ows it, and him to whom the King hath given it. If any have Woods by sale of which he would pay his Fine, the money to be paid by two, of which either side to chuse one.

2. Knights and Esquires, who during the War have enriched themselves by Rapine, having no Land, to pay half their goods, and be bound with Sureties to the peace; if no goods be acquitted by Oath, exceptis bannitis quibus solus, Rex potest remittere.

3. Lords of Wards to pay for them, and be answered by their Wards when they come to age; which if they ac∣cept not, the Wardship to accrue to such as the King hath given the Ransome to, and they to be so answered.

4. The Kings Wards to remain where they are placed, and be Ransomed as others, but without destruction.

5. Such as were with the King before the battel of Lewis, and since are Dis-inherited, His Majesty to de∣clare his pleasure touching them.

6. No man possest of wood to fell any, but onely for repair, till the last day of payment be passed and not ob∣served.

7. The King and the Popes Legate to send beyond sea for a time such as are likely to trouble the peace of the Kingdome, which if it hindered the paying of their Ran∣some, not for that to be Dis-inherited.

8. Such as were grieved with this Agreement might appeal to the Kings Court before S. Hilary, and such as were beyond sea to have inducias transmarinas.

9. Because the King was to reward many and some had too much, the King out of the Fines to provide for them.

10. The Legate, King, and Henry d'Almain to Elect twelve who should eause these Articles to be executed, and to see performed what they ordain, according to the estimates already taken, or if not to have new rates taken reasonable and true.

11. Tenents that were against the King to lose their Leases; but at the expiration of their time the Land to return to the true owner.

12. Forts built by the assent of the King, but without that of the Person dis-inherited, after the Fine paid in three years, to pay the costs of building of it in six years, or receive a reasonable exchange in Land.

13. Such of the Lay as apparently drew any to the part of the Earl of Leicester to pay two years Revenue.

14. The Buyers of other mens goods wittingly, to re∣store the value of that they have bought, and be at the Kings mercy, because that they did was against justice.

15. Those that at the Earls command entred Nor∣thampton, yet fought not, but entred the Church.

16. Such as held not of the Earl, yet at his command en∣tred to the action with him to pay half one years Revenue.

17. Such as held of the Earl to be only at the Kings mercy.

18. Impotent persons, and such as did nothing to be restored to their Possessions, and by justice recover their damages, their Accusers punish'd by Law, yet without loss of life or limb.

19. Maliciously accused to have their Estates imme∣diately restored.

20. Women to have their own Lands, and what they had of their first Husbands; if their late Husbands were against the King to be restored according to Law, or Fined.

21. None to be fined but such as were against the King.

22. Such as have been pardoned to remain so.

23. Those that are fined to answer no Loss done to any, but all damages to be remitted on every side; except those that intermedled not, and of the Church, whose actions are saved.

24. The King by reasonable Exchange to receive the Castles of Erdsley-Bishop, and Chartley, it seeming dangerous to leave Forts in their hands who have carri∣ed themselves ill towards the King.

25. Those that in the future shall commit any out∣rages to be punished by Law.

26. An Oath to be taken where it shall be held conve∣nient, not to pursue each other with revenge; and if any shall attempt the contrary, to be punished according to Law.

27. The Church to be satisfied by those that injured it.

28. Such of the Dis-inherited as refuse this Composi∣tion to have no Title to their Estates, and to be esteemed publick Enemies to the King and Kingdome.

29. Prisoners to be freed by the advice of the King and Legate.

30. No Person to be Dis-inherited by reason of these Troubles by any to whom he ought to Succeed.

You see what great care was here taken to prevent spoyl and waste of Woods, &c. whereas in this latter Age the first thing taken into consideration, is, how to raise ready Money by de∣struction of Woods, Housing, and selling of the Stock, to lay the Lands waste, and decay Husbandry to the endangering of a Fa∣mine for the present, and the Dis-inheriting our innocent Po∣sterity for the future; so little care is taken to keep that well which is so ill and illegally gotten. And how much regard was had to preserve innocent Persons from suffering wrong in any just claim or Title they could make to any Land possessed by a guilty Person; whether they claimed by Dower, Joynture, Title or Estate in Reversion, or Remainder, or otherwise: I wish the like justice were now observed.

Monday night, 4. June, 1649. that third part of a Lord Admi∣ral, Col. Edw. ••opham came to Westminster, and presently made his Addresses to the high and mighty Estates in White-hall, giving them a dismal Relation of his ill success in tampering with the Governour of Kingsale in Ireland, who (proving honester than the Saints expected) took a summe of money of him to betray the Town, Forts, and Ships in the Road: but when Popham came in to the Haven to take possession of his new purchase, gave him such a Gun-powder welcome, that he lost most of his Men, landed to take livery and seisin, and divers Ships; he was commanded to conceal this ill news, lest it discouraged the City to engage so far with them, as to entertain them in the condition of a Free-State, and surrender the Sword to them, and so spoil the Design of their Thanksgiving Devotions and Din∣ner to be celebrated together, in, and with the City upon Thurs∣day ensuing the 7. of June; and lest it should dishearten more secluded Members from comming to sit in the House with them again, knowing, that Tyrants are followed for their fortunes, not for themselves; wherefore, upon Tuesday following (being the 5. Jun:) Popham made another kinde of Report to the Plebeians of the Commons House (who must not be trusted with the truth of State-mysteries, but (like Wood-cocks) must be led in a mist) That he had left Kingsale blocked up with ten Ships, and the Seas se∣cured in peace and quietness; and the better to adorn the fable, and suppress the truth from approaching the ears of the people,

the House that day (15. June) passed an Order, That for this re∣markable additional mercy bestowed upon them in the prosperous suc∣cess given to their Fleet at Sea, upon Thursday next, 7. June (the day set apart for publick Thanksgiving) the Ministers should praise God. Lord! since there audacious Saints are so thankful to thee for one beating, bestow many more beatings upon there, for they stand in need of all thy corrections. The like attempt hath been upon Scilly with the like success, since which time forty sail of Ships are pressed in the Thames to recruit the shattered Navy, given forth to be a Winter Guard at Midsummer.

John Blackiston is packed away to the other world; and the House upon 6. June, voted to Wife and Children 3000 l. out of the Earle of Newcastle's, and Lord Wytherington's Estates, in compensation of the loss of his Pedlery Ware, in his Shop at Newcastle; he had formerly given to him 14000 l. you see the in∣satiate hunger of Gold and Silver survives in the very Ghost of a Saint after he is dead: 500 l. more was given to Johns Brother; an Estate out of the Rectory and Demesnes of Burford was set∣led upon the Speaker. 400 l. per ann. Lands are be setled upon the General out of the Duke of Buckinghams and his Brother the Lord Francis Villers Estates. 400 l. per ann. out of Claringdon Park upon the Earle of Pembroke. 1000 l. was bestowed upon an eminent Member of Parliament for his many good Services. 4868 l. to the Lord Lisle, out of the Monthly Assesment for Ire∣land, for his penny-worth of good service done there; you see to what purpose we pay Taxes. 2000 l. Land per an. and 1000 l. Mo∣ney given to Bradshaw, the price of Bood. And 400 l. more given to the Poor of the City (to stop their mouths from cursing upon the Thanksgiving-day) out of the 2000 l. Fine set upon the Lord Mayor Reynoldson for not proclaiming the Act for abolishing Kingly Government; this is (according to the Spanish Proverb) To steal a Sheep, and give away the Trotters for Gods sake. You see the Saints can finde Money to give Gifts, though not to pay Debts; although the Publick Faith lye at pawn for them. A Committee is appointed to consider how to prefer Mr. Tho. Goodwin and Mr. Owen to he Heads of Colledges in Oxford as a Reward for asserting the late proceedings of Parliament upon the aforesaid Thanksgiving-day. It is not fit such men should

serve God for nothing: in the times of S. Peter and S. Paul, God∣liness was great Gain; but in the daies of our modern Saints, Gain is great Godliness.

The thing that miscalls its self a Parliament, hath set an Ex∣cise of 1 d. the Gallon upon all forraign salt imported; which is, in effect upon all the salt we use, (our home-made salt being in∣considerable) you see our Cups, our Spits, our powdring-Tubs, our washing-bowles, our Kettles, our Hats, Dublets, Breeches, Stockings, Shooes; nothing we use, eat, drink or wear, is free from being devoured by these sanctified Locusts of the Free-State, who complained of the King for that petty inconsiderable Tax of Ship-m••ney, which His Majesty spent in maintaining Guards of Ships upon our Seas, so much to the Honour of our Nation, that the King of Spain trusted all those vast summs of Bullion he sent to the Low-C••untries, to be Coined in our Mint, and above a third part yearly to be laid out here in English Cloth and Commodities, which with the residue of the Spanish Treasure was afterwards wafted over into Flaunders in English Bottomes, for which they were liberally payed; whereby every mans estate was increased 10 l. in the hundred, England infinitely abounded with Coin and Plate, as appeares by those many vast summs that have been constantly extorted from the People since the beginning of these Wars; more, I dare say, than all our Kings since the Conquest, (excluding William the Conqueror and Henry the Eighth) ever raised upon the People) and by those many vast summs our seeming Saints have sent into banks beyond Sea, and buried in their private Coffers.

Reader, let me admonish thee, That the Levellers (for so they are mis-called, onely for endeavouring to Level the exorbitant usurpations of the Councel of Officers and Councel of State) are much abused by some Books lately printed and published in their names, much differing from their declared Principles, Te∣nets, and Practices; but forged in Cromw••ls and Ir••tons shops to cast an odium upon them. These State-wolves by such forge∣ries endeavour to make the Sheep forsake and betray the Dogs that faithfully guard them; that they may with more security fleece them, flay them, and eat them hereafter. Ireton, H••slerig, and Postmaster-Attorney Prideaux, by themselves and their

Blood-hounds (Spies and Intelligencers) have been very dili∣gent to draw dry-foot after Mr. Lilburne, Walwine, &c. and sub∣orn witnesses against them, but (not having yet quite extin∣guished all sparks of truth and honesty, unless it be in their own breasts) failed of their purposes. Yet they go on to purge the Ar∣my (as they have done the Parliament and Conventicle of State) of all free-born humours (in order to their destruction) that the Army may consist of meer mercenary brutish spirits, such as will so far neglect the duties of men and Christians, as to execute all their tyrannous, bloody, illegal Commands, with a blind obedi∣ence and implicite faith, without asking a question for Consci∣ence sake, the better to enslave both the Kingdom and Common Souldiers. In farther prosecution of this Design, they have pro∣jected to levy seven new Regiments, which (by way of Gullery) they call Presbyterian Regiments, and shall be raised by Presbyte∣rian Commanders, but those Commanders shall only be imploy∣ed to countenance the work for a time, and then for pretended offences be purged out of the Army, if not out of this world, by the Councel of Officers, and more confiding men put in their rooms: and then shall these new Officers and Regiments be u∣sed as Catch-poles and Hangmen (contrary to the honour of Souldiers) to persecute and execute such Members of the Army as retain any sense or memory of their old Engagements and Principles.

I formerly told you of an underhand combination between the domineering Independent party here, and Owen Roe Oneale; which is now openly declared and avowed by their own licen∣ced News-books. Owen Roe and Colonel Monk are joyned (saith the M••dest Narrative) our Party have permitted 300. of O∣neals own Regiment to Quarter in our parts amongst the Creats within two miles of Dundalke, (saith the Scout) Owen Roe and Berne are come towards Col. Jones, and Col. M nks Quarters, he is so fair as to pay Contribution: his Quarters are to the Scots side of Dublin, to prevent their giving aid to Ormond in his attempt upon Dublin: who can blame necessity? nor doe our Grandees now deny this Confederacy with the bloody Po∣pish massacring Rebels, although they had the impudence to make the only supposition thereof one of the principal Charges

against the late King; and to raise a great out-cry against the Marquess of Ormond and Lord Inchiquine for their conjunction with Pr ston: yet they joyned but to prevent the Cromwelists, who offered to associate with him upon conditions much more prejudicial to the Protestant Religion, and English Interests, than Ormond hath given them. They have offered this Oneale all the Lands in Ʋlster forfeited by his Grandfather Tyrone, Shane Oneale, and others attainted, thereby destroying the British Plan∣ters there; and this is the reason they imploy so few old Irish Commanders into those parts, lest the Oneals should doubt they came to recover their own lands again. But our Atheistical Saints account themselves loose when other men are bound, no∣thing but a halter can hold them; all obligations to men, all du∣ties and vowes to God, they break upon pretended necessity and honest intentions. Their Metropolitan Nuntio, Judas Haclet, tells you, Their Party will not joyn with the bloody Irish, until they are brought to such a pinch, as to say,

Flectere sinequeo superos, Acheronta movebo.

If God will not be the Author and Patron of their Designs, the Devil shall; you see these Independents hang between God and the Devil, Michael and the Dragon, not resolved which part to take.

Be it known unto all men by these presents, that Harry Parker the Observator is returned from Hamborough, and highly prefer∣red to be Brewers Clerk, (alias Secretary) to Cromw••l; to whose Designs he hath prostituted his pen.

There is lately come forth a Book of John Meltons (a Liber∣tine, that thinketh his Wife a Manacle, and his very Garters to be Shackles and Fetters to him: one that (after the Independent fashion) will be tied to no obligation to God or man) wherein he undertaketh to prove, That it is lawful for any that have power to call to account, Depose, and put to Death wicked Kings and Ty∣rants (after due c••nviction) if the ordinary Magistrate neglect it. I hope then it is lawful to put to death wicked Cromwels, Coun∣cels of State, corrupt Factions in Parliament: for I know no prerogative that usurpation can bestow upon them. He likewise

asserteth, That those, who of late, so much blame Deposing, are the men that did it themselves, (meaning the Presbyterians.) I shall invite some man of more leisure and abilities than my self, to Answer these two Paradoxes: But shall first give him these cau∣tions:

1. That for the Polemick part he turn all his Arguments in∣to Syllogismes, and then he will find them to be all Fallacie••, the froth of wit and fancy, not the D••ctates of true and solid Rea∣son.

2. That for the Historical or narrative part, he would through∣ly examine them, and he will find few of them consonant to the plumb-line of truth.

3. That he would consider, that from the beginning of this Parliament there were three Parties or Factions in it:

• 1. The Royalists.
• 2. The Presbyterians.
• 3. The Independents.

For though they were not then notorious by their name, yet the Persons confederated were then extant and active; being a com∣plication of all Antimonarchical, Anarchical heresies and s••hismes, Anabaptists, Brownists, Barrowists, Adamites, Familists, Liber∣tines of all sorts; the true Heires and Successors of John of Ley∣den and Knipperdolling in all their principles aad practices united under the general Title of Independent: and these were origi∣nally the men that by their close insinuations, solicitations and actings began, and carried on the War against the KING, with an intent (from the beginning) to pull down Monarchy, and set up Anarchy, notwithstanding the many Declarations, Remonstrances, abortive Treaties, Protestations, and Covenants to the contrary; which were Obligations (from time to time) extorted from them by the Presbyterians, although not strong enough to hold such subtile Sampsons, whose strengths to break such Withes lay not in their Bushes of Hair, but in the Ambushes of their Hearts, wherein there always lay hid some evasion, equivocation, or men∣tal reservation, which, like a back-door, gave them leave to make an escape. In the beginning almost of this Parl. the Independents (that is, the Schismaticks) in the Parliament insisted openly upon it, to have the Papists in Ireland rooted out, and their Lands sold to

Adventurers, and passing an Act to that purpose, necessitated the Irish Papists to massacre the English Protestants, which was purposely done by the Independents, that both Papists and Pro∣testants might destroy one another there, that they might the better subvert Protestancy in England, which is now in hand. And though it be true that the first General, the Earle of Essex was a Presbyterian, yet he was acted by Independents, as the L. Sa•• and others of the like stamp; and had a clause in his Commis∣sion [to forbear the King's Person] which clause upon the Inde∣pendents new Modelling the Army under Fairfax was omitted at their especial instance.

Monday 18. June, 1649. came forth that most useful Book of John Lilburns, called [The Legal fundamental Liberties of the People of England Revived, &c.] wherein he excellently well sets forth the new usurped tyranny of that Hydra of Nimrods now subverting our Laws, Liberties, and Property, consuming us with il∣legal Taxes, Excise, Free-quarter, Monopolies, and sharing Land, Money, Goods, and Offices amongst themselves, perpetuating an Ar∣my to enslave us, and overthrow the fundamental Government of this Nation, in order to which they have complied with, and cheated all Interests, broken all their Obligations to God and Man, violated all the Laws of this Land, their own Protestations, Covenants, the Oaths of Allegiance, Supremacy (which themselves caused the People to take) and their own Votes, Declarations, &c. The illega∣lity of their late erected High Court of Justice, and their unjust pro∣ceedings therein, the tyranny and usurpation of the Councel of State and Officers of the Army. And proveth that Col. Prides new pur∣ged, new pack••d House, is neither a House of Commons, nor Parlia∣ment; their usurped Supreme Authority to be a meer nullity or fiction, and especially, That this Parliament is cleerly dissolved and ended, which he proveth by the Death of the King, and by many other solid Arguments; and therefore all their Actings to be void and null, with many other cosiderable passages, where he ingeni∣ously confesseth, that being the Kings Prisoner at Oxford, with many other of the Parliament Party, the King did strictly observe the Laws of the Land in His proceedings against them, which this Parliament doth not do in any their most legal proceedings, for all their pretended Engagements, Declarations, Votes, Protestations and

Covenants to maintain and defend the Laws and Liberties of the People, Ergo, the King really, the Faction in Parliament, but pre∣tendedly fought for our Laws and Liberties.

The Faction are now contriving to seize all the Tythes of the Kingdome into their own hands (yet they are the Ministers Free∣hold) and to make all the Ministers their stipendiary Lecturers, that they may preach and teach onely such Doctrine to the people as may bring them under a blinde and slavish obedience to our forty Tyrants of the new Councel of State, presuming that all our Ministers carry their Consciences in their purses, because the In∣dependents do so. Look to your wayes Christian Brethren, you are likely hereafter to have Oracles of State obtruded upon you instead of the Oracles of God. If the Ministers will not parret forth the new States Doctrine to you, they shall be starved out of their Pulpits.

The thing called a Parliament is now likely to have so gene∣ral a purge as will leave neither life nor soul, dung, nor guts, in the belly of it. K. Oliver (unwilling to go for Ireland, and leave them fitting, who may unvote all he hath compelled them to vote) hath commanded his Journey-men to think of an Ad∣journment for some good time, that they may take the air, and grow wholesome again; and then (without some dire mischance) they never meet more; but this Supreme thing hath learned to use so much modesty to their Superiors, as to refer it to the Hogens Mogens, or Councel of State, to consider what Votes and Acts they shall pass beforehand for establishing their Highnesses in their new Dominion: And when (out of their usurped Supreme Authority) they have conferred as much upon the Councel of State as their ambitions aim at, they (good Boys) shall have leave to break up School and go into the Country to see their Friends, and visit their Foes; that is, all such as have full purses to be squeezed. Thus you see the method of Divine vengeance observes a Degrada∣tion; 1. Down went the King, and His Authority lapsed into the two Houses. 2. Down went the Peers House, and all Authority fell down into the Commons House. 3. Down goes the House of Commons, and the Supreme Authority translates it self into a Councel of State. And (if my conjecture fail me not) 4. Down will go the Councel of State, and all Authority be grasped into the

iron hands of Campson Gaurus and his Mamaluchy, his Councel of War, when they shall think fit to Act bare-faced without using a packt peece of a Parliament or Councel of State as a screen or vizard to cozen and befool the people.

In order to which Government by the Sword, Cromwel is voted to go into Ireland with his own confiding Officers and Army, with all power Civil and Military for three years; what doth this import less than that he is to be K. of Ireland? there to practise the first rudiments of Kings-craft, and when he hath inured those Semi∣barbarians to a Military Government, he shall return with his Janisaries, and subdue the English to the like obedience: In the mean time his property Fairfax shall be under the observation of the Councel of State here, and be beleagured both in his own house and Army with Olivers Creatures; and in this dishonour∣able fickle condition he shall have the vain honour to keep Olivers Regalia, (the Crown sitting upon one side like a Fools Cap upon his head) until he return, and shall then be called to account for all odious and unfortunate accidents that shall hap∣pen (for it is not for the Majesty of Oliver to bear the blame, al∣though they fall out by Cromwell's own oversights, or Gods an∣ger upon him) thus Cromwell's shadow being removed, himself may take substantial and actual possession of the Throne which he already enjoyes in all things but the Title. And then let all true Saints and Subjects cry out with me, God save K. Oliver and his brewing Vessels.

The Junto of Titular Supremists at Westminster (especially so many as have not packt themselves into the Councel of State) are very unwilling to quit their long-held Dominion, and submit to their own Bastard-brood, The Lords States at White-hall; but there is no remedy, Oliver is resolved to unyoke his Cattel and turn them to grass; he knows they may unvote all they have voted at his Command, if (during his absence in Ireland or Scot∣land rather) a new emergent power should overawe them; the present fear being alwaies most terrible to Cowards. But the Councel of State hath set them their task, which they must spee∣dily perform before they Adjourn, consisting of 13 Points:

1. That all Acts concerning the Loans of Monies, Excise, Seque∣strations, Goldsmiths-hall, Haberdashers-hall, Assesments for Eng∣land

and Ireland be passed. These reprobate Saints will sooner forget their God, than their Mammon [money.] You see they mean to perpetuate our burthens, as well as their own Army; and domineer over us with an arbitrary, military tyranny for ever.

2. That an Act be passed for setling the Militia of the Nation. This amounts to a new-invented Commission of Array (lawful for usurping Saints, though not for a lawful King) by vertue of which the scum and dregs of the people (base enough to associate with the Army) shall be Armed, & all men of quality and fortunes (unless such as owe their fortunes to their crimes) dis-armed.

3. Against exporting Wooll and Fullers Earth. Unless it be for the benefit of the Saints.

4. To prohibit exportation of Gold and Silver. The Saints have exported all our Gold already, and most of our Silver; and will never give over the Trade themselves though they prohibit o∣thers. But Gold and Silver are drawn out of Mines Royal, and belong to the Saints by their Prerogative.

5. An Act to be passed for punishment of Revolted Sea-men and Mariners. None against traiterous, tyrannous, theevish Saints.

6. An Act for relief of wel-affected Tenants against Malignant Land-lords; who have compounded for their Estates, rack their Tenants Rents, or turn them out of doors. This is a device: First, to make work for such Members as not being of the Councel of State, would become as contemptible as they are hateful, being devested of all power to play the Tyrants after Adjournment. And secondly, to stir up all the Tenants of England (especially Schismaticks) to combine with them, against their Land-lords, and deprive them of the legal use of their Estates, and the bene∣fit of their Compositions; for, to what purpose shall Gentlemen compound for their Estates, when they must let and set them at the discretion of domineering Committees, or Commissioners, conspiring with the high Shoos, to oppress, make a prey of, enslave and unspirit all the Nobility and Gentry of England here aimed at under the general Title of Malignants? Oh per∣fidious Tyrants! keep your money Gentlemen, or turn it into Iron and Gun-powder.

7. An Act to suppress Malignant Pamphlets aspersing the present

proceedings of the Parliament, Councel of State, and the Army, and prevent Printing as much as may be. This is to set truth in the pil∣lory, whilst her counterfeit, impudent, lying and slandering sits in state in Parliament, Councel of State, and Councel of Officers, and rides triumphantly Coached into the City to Thansgiving Devotions and Dinners.

8. That the Pulpits being as scandalous as the Press against their proceedings, they enjoyn that a more strict course be taken to stop the mouthes of the Preachers hereafter. You see how Ahab-like these Subverters of Church and Common-wealth, accuse our Prophets for troubling our Israel (being their own sin) and seek occasion to bring a spiritual as well as a corporal famine upon the Land, cutting off the staff of bread as well from our souls as bodies, by stopping the mouths of Gods Ministers. But I hope they will remember the duty they owe to the honour of him that sent them upon his Embassage to his people, and fearing God more than Man, every man cry out to his own soul and conscience with S. Paul, 1 Cor. 9.16. Vae mihi si non praedicavero, Woe be to me if I do not Preach.

9. That an Act be passed that that clause of the Stat. 23. Eliz. 25. Eliz. 1 Jac. against Sectaries, should be repealed, that none may be questioned thereby in the vacancy of Parl. What is this but to pray in aid of Turks, Jewes, Anabaptists of Munster, nay the De∣vil himself to joyn with them, as they have already joyned with Owen Roe Oneale, and his bloody massacring Irish Papists against the Protestant Religion, which was part of the designe of the schismatical Party in Parliament in waging war against the King from the beginning. See Sect. 184. the Marginal notes there. This impious Liberty of Conscience to destroy the Protestant Religi∣on, is all the liberty we are like to enjoy under the Kingdom of these bloody cheating Saints, in all things else we are meer and absolute slaves.

10. That an Act for a General Pardon be passed to all Persons except such as are particularly named therein, and declaring no Par∣don to any that shall for the future raise War in this Nation against the present Authority thereof. This is a project, 1. To pardon them∣selves and their Party for their transcendent villanies, and to stop the mouthes of the Countrey from complaining of them after

their Adjournment, and this shall be effectually done. 2. To be∣fool silly weak-spirited people with general words of a Pardon which shall be made ineffectual by many exceptions and limitations. 3. This is principally intended to fright men from attempting any thing against the usurped Supremacy and Tyranny of the Councel of State: and therefore all Pardons to such Attemptors are before∣hand declared against. This with them is (as a sin against the Holy Ghost) unpardonable; to deny their Supreme, Arbitrary Authority.

11. That the Act for relief of poor Prisoners for Debt may be passed. Though I can with as much Charity as any Man wish a relief to them; yet I like not that Charity should be made a cloak to ambitious Knavery; and all the Creditors of the Kingdom be made liable to the vexation of a covetous Committee, who, un∣der colour of Charity shall raise up all the indebted Men of the Kingdom against all the monied Men, if they will not sacrifice their purses to the Foh-Gods of the new State, and be bountiful to the Committee; which is the full scope of this Proposition.

12. That the Souldiers may be secured their Arreares out of the late Kings Lands. This is to tie all the Souldiery by the purse∣strings (which is Saints Tenure) to make good that horrid, tray∣terous Murther.

13. That an Act be passed for Probate of Wills, Granting Admini∣strations, and investing of Ministers presented. These lunatique Saints should have thought upon a new way to be set up before they throw down the old one, and not have left men in an uncertainty how to dispose of their Estates, and a Justitium, a vacancy of Ju∣stice upon the Kingdom: you see what Mountebanks our new State-Juglers are. The good Boyes began to learn these Lessons upon Monday, 25. June.

The Councel of State likewise reported to their said Free-School of Commons several things which they (in order to their future greatness) would put into a way during the Recess: against the Houses next meeting, when two Sundays come together.

1. That Commissioners be appointed in every County to make an esti∣mate of all Tythes, to the end they may be taken away for the fu∣ture, and some other provision designed for Ministers. This is a whip and a Bell to lash Ministers to Preach State-Divinity.

2. That the Councel of State consider of setling future Parliaments, and the constant time of their calling, sitting, and ending, after this Parliament shal think fit to dissolve themselves. If they are not dissol∣ved already (which is the constant opinion of many great learned Lawyers well-affected to the Parl.) they will never be dissolved without the help of a Hangman. But I would gladly know by what Authority a Pack of forty Knaves calling themselves a Councel of State, and usurping Regal power, shall take upon them to abolish our ancient form of Parliaments, contrary to the fun∣damental Laws of the Land, their own Declarations, Protestati∣ons and Covenants, and to pack and shuffle new Parliaments, to dispose of our Religion, Laws, Liberties, Lives and Estates, against the consent of the far major part of the people.

3. That they shall consider of an Act for regulating proceedings in Law, and prevent tediousness of Suits. There are too many Law∣yers in the Councel of State to do any thing effectual that way; but it may be they will consider how to make the Lawes of the Land more sutable to an Olygarchical tyranny, and lesse agree∣ing with Monarchy.

4. That they will consider what Lawes are fit to be repealed. That is, all Lawes enjoyning uniformity in Gods Worship, all Monar∣chical Lawes, and all Lawes allowing more civil Liberty and Priviledges to the People, and to several Degrees of men than squares with the Designes of our new upstart State.

So many men have been cheated with Publique Faith, Irish Adventures, and Bishops Lands, that the Market is spoiled for sale of Dean and Chapters Lands, wherefore the Saints (being the onely monied men left in the Kingdome) have now agreed to buy them themselves, considering, that since they hold their Heads and all that they have in Capite of their Lords Paramount, the Councel of Officers, they may as well buy dog-cheap, and hold Deanes Lands by the same Tenure. For which purpose they have their Broakers abroad to buy in Souldiers and Officers De∣bentures for Arrears at 5 s. and 6 s. in the pound, though they are allowed the whole summ of the Debentures in the Purchase, which doubling in ready money, they purchase upon such easie particulars, as brings it down from ten years purchase, to two or three years purchase. They are not seen in the business them∣selves,

but buy them in other mens names, and to the secret use of their Wives and Children. The Lord Munson, Hump••rey Ed∣wards, and Sir Greg. Norton, (who hath sold his own Land to purchase new upon this Title) and many other Saints have late∣ly trod this obscure path.

Great complaints are made by the Countrey of the Souldiers insolency (amongst many other things) in putting their Horses into mowing Grasse. The General hath ordered the next Offi∣cer in chief to cause double damages to be given by the Souldier; and if the said Officer neglect, he is to answer it at a Councel of War at the Head Quarters. This remedy is worse than the disease, and as meer a gullery as the Act for taking off Free quar∣ter. The chief Officer will laugh at the Complainant, the Head Quarters are far off, and the Councel of War will tire him with delays, and expose him to more injuries of the angry Soul∣diers. The Officers will not, nor dare not keep a strict disci∣pline.

The Earl of Denbigh referred to the Committee of the Re∣venue to consider the Arreares of his Embassie in Italy, and of his 1000. Marks per ann. pension bestowed upon him by the late King. If his deserts had been better, his Reward had been worse, and worse paid. Also Henry Martins Losses and Arreares refer∣red to the consideration of a Committee. If the Committee would know what Harry hath lost, they must examine his Barber-Surgeon. Rowland Wilsons Arrears and Losses, and the L. Gray's Charges and Arreares to be considered and reported: you see charity begins at home, and the Members exercise it (for the most part) in their own House.

June 25. An Act passed, to enable the Councel of State with ab∣solute power to grant special and particular Letters of Marque or Reprisal in the name of the Keepers of the Liberties of England by Authority of Parliament: what is this but to empower the Coun∣cel of State to make War at Sea with all Princes and States at their discretion? they have already so far decayed all the Trade of this Nation, that ere long Traffique will be totally destroyed; whereby our Sea-men with their Ships will be necessitated (for want of employment) to revolt to the PRINCE: to prevent which inconvenience, they will find work for them by granting

so many particular Letters of Marque to all such as shall but pretend themselves wronged by Foreign Nations as will a∣mount to a General practice and profession of Pyracy, and turn England into a second Argires, whereby all Princes and States will be provoked to make a Pyratical War upon England, as against a Den of Theeves and Robbers, Common Enemies to Traffick and humane Society: as the Romans did under the Conduct of Pompey, against the Cilician, and other Asiatick Pyrats.

Captain Younge hath blown up with Gun-powder a Ship of the Princes, called the Antilope, lying at Anchor in Helver∣sluce, under the protection of the States of Holland, whereby the Chamber of Holland, and the honour of their Inland Sea is ra∣vished from them. By this, and by some former actions of the like insolency (as the firing upon their Ships, and killing their men for not striking Sail to them) you may see what good Neighbourhood the Dutch are like to have of their younger brother State, when they are once setled and confirmed in their yet infant Government: even the very same which the Cartha∣ginians found after the new erected Commonwealth of Rome grew up to maturity, which proved so dangerous a Competitor in point of power, profit, and honour, as buried the more an∣tient Free-State of Carthage in its Ruines. Free-states (especi∣ally Aristocracies) are very quarrelsome with their Neighbours, and never want many of their Patrician most potent Families ambitious to increase their own power and glory by Wars: and therefore seek occasions of quarrel with their Neighbours; such was the whole Family of the Barchines at Carthage; the Scipio's, Fabii, Camilli, Crassi, Pompeii, Casares, and many more at Rome: Thus was Greece torn in pieces by its Free-states.

The Commons have bestowed St. Crosses Hospital upon Cooke for acting the part of an Attorney General against the late King. It is fit every Judas should have his reward; the New Park in Surry bestowed upon the City in reward of their Thanksgiving Dinner, that the new-packed Court of Aldermen and Common-councel may not want Venyson to fill their Wives Bellies, nor they Brow Antlers to hang their Hats on.

The 9. June the Commons (about 46 in number) had passed an Order concerning their secured, secluded, and absented Mem∣bers, and referred all such as had not already entred their dis∣sent to the Vote, 5. Decem. 1648. to a Committee to give such sa∣tisfaction to them as the House should approve of before the 30. of June instant, or else the House would take order for New Elections. This was to bring the said Members (300 in number at least) to the winnowing, that they might admit such as were for their turn to recruit their thin House, and expel the rest: few repaired to them, and of those very few were chosen, the Speakers Son, Sir John Treavor (who hath a Monopoly of 1500 l. per annum, out of Newcastle Coles, for which he was ma∣ny Months kept out of the House, and at last admitted (onely to comply with the Faction) and his said Monopoly continued) Sir Henry Haymonde, and two Sons of the Earl of Pembroke, were received. This was thought very unreasonable that so many Gentlemen either kept out, or driven away by force should, by a far less number sitting and acting under the same force, be sent to attend a Committee, to stand with their Hatts off to Holland, Scott, &c. and be examined and expelled for giving their Votes (Yea, or No) in the House according to their Consciences. This was to subvert the Liberty of all Parliaments for the future, and to make this House (which calls it self a Parliament) a meer packed Junto to carry on forelaid Designs. Besides, to expect they should approve all that the sitting Party in the House had done in the absence of these non-sitting Members, who neither heard the Debate, nor reasons, whereupon they grounded their Votes against the King and House of Peers, nor for the abolish∣ing Monarchy, and turning it into a Free-state, erecting a Councel of State for that purpose, voting the Supreme Autho∣rity to be in themselves, and many other matters of the like high nature, which have no place in the Laws of England, was such an imposition as neither agreed with the known Parliament Priviledges, Liberty of Conscience, (so loudly professed by these sanctified Members which sit) nor with humane reason and sense. And at last to sit under those Armed Guards that put a force upon them (the 6. Decemb.) before; promised as little of safety, unless they would renounce their own Consciences and Act

the wills of their Janisaries and their Party; and would render them contemptible to all the world, especially to those men who put this insolency upon them.

I formerly told you how unwilling the Members were to ad∣journ and resign their more than Kingly Power to the Councel of State; wherefore Cromwel finding he could not obtain that of them by a Vote, projected another way to work his Design, not the old way of a violent purge by securing and secluding the Members with his Myrmidons, that is already infamous, and would savour too grosly of the Power of the Sword; and would shew Oliver to be rather a Quack-salving Doctor of Phy∣sick than a Doctor of the Civil Law. He caused the Officers therefore to frame certain Articles of Impeachment against Mr. Lenthal their Spearker, as followeth:

• 1. FOr releasing out of New-gate three of the Queens Priests and Jesuits by his Warrant.
• 2. For maintaining and protecting several Spies and Agents for the late King within the Line of Communi∣cation during the late War.
• 3. For conveying divers remarkable prisoners of War out of the Line of Communication unto the late King.
• 4. For assisting and protecting several Plotters on the behalf of the late King, to destroy the City of London.
• 5. For suffering above 30000 l. to be conveyed to the late King out of the Line of Communication, wittingly and willingly.
• 6. For sending Horses of War, with Men and Arms to the late King.
• 7. For holding an intercourse of Letters with the late King.

• 8. For maintaining and keeping an Agent in the Gar∣rison of Oxford, for expediting the foregoing Treache∣ries.
• 9. For corrupting many Members of the Parliament, some lately excluded, and some now sitting in the House to conceal and smother the foreging Treacheries.
• 10. For endeavouring to take away the Lives of seve∣ral the Prosecutors and Witnesses unto the foregoing Treacheries.

You see there is not one word in them of Cousening the Commonwealth (which is now become the Private wealth of every particular Saint) because this would have broken univer∣sally the whole communion of Saints, and would have set them all together by the ears, to defend themselves by recriminating one another: The device was, by taking off the Speaker to Dis∣solve them, since they cannot by the Priviledges of the House chuse themselves a new Speaker without the consent of a power higher than their own (to wit) the Kings, and though they will be so much Masters of their own Priviledges, as to coyn new e∣very day upon emergent occasions, yet those irregularities are alwayes done under the power and protection of the Sword, which they could not expect against their own Visier Basha Oliver. This trick being smelt out, was so highly resented, that it perished in the birth; only (I hear) the Speaker bled in pri∣vate 15000 l. towards Olivers expedition.

All the sinks of tyranny and oppression about the Town, the Committee of the Revenue, Goldsmiths hall, Haberdashers hall, the Excise Office, &c. are all emptied into that Common-Sewer Olivers expedition into Ireland (or rather Scotland) or engaged as a security to furnish him with 150000. part whereof onely he is accountable for; the residue is left to his discretion and con∣science to buy Towns and Victories with, and to be offered up∣on an Altar to be erected Deo ignoto.

At Olivers request, the House admitted Sir Edward Ford to compound upon the Articles of Oxon, notwithstanding his lapse of time; Forde married Ireton's Sister, and the Lord Culpepper's

Son married Forde's Daughter. Observe how the General is lessened to advance Cromwel. 1. The Command o•• ••e Irish Forces taken from him, and Cromwel sent with a Higher power than ever any went with into that Nation. 2. All Souldiers that will, are enabled to leave their Regiments, and List under Crom∣wel: so that the discontented and Levelling Party onely are left under the command of Fairfax.

Col. Martin's Accounts brought into the House, 3. July, 1649. his Arrears came to 25000 l. and 1000 l. per ann. Land ordered to be setled upon him and his Heirs. The Lord Gray of Grooby's Arrears for the last Summer only against Duke Hamilton, 1500 l. These things considered, I cannot wonder at the Petition pre∣sented to the General by Captain Jubbs, in the name of Col. Hus••n's Regiment about July 6. wherein (amongst other things) they complain, That the House doe weekly bestow 1000 l. per an. upon themselves out of the publique Treasury of the Nation, when as the Souldiers wants are great, and all the people are in great ne∣cessity.

As if the dividing of the Army, and putting the most confi∣ding men under Cromwel, the taking the whole command of Ireland from the General, and conferring it upon Cromwel, the drawing dry all Treasuries of Money to furnish Cromwel, and leaving no Money to content the Generals remaining part of the Army, the turning the odium of seizing and secluding the Members, and Murdering the KING, upon the General, were not sufficient diminutions of the General, and augmentations of his Lievtenant General: The Welch Counties are set on work to desire Harry Martin for their Commander in Chief; and the Western Garrisons (the most considerable of England) are to be taken from the General, and put into the hands of Cromwel and his Party, for his retreat from Ireland; so that if all this do not enable him to ruine the General, it will (at least) enable him to divide the Army, and cantonize the Kingdome, and turn the General into the dangers and troubles of the starving, forlorn, North Counties bordering upon Scotland. And if Cromwel find Ireland too hard a bone for him (it is thought) he will en∣deavour to surprize the Isle of Man, and from thence infest Scot∣land and Ireland.

About the 18. July, 1649. was presented to the world an inge∣nious ••ce, entituled, [An Inquisition for Blood] to the Parlia∣ment, instatu quo nunc. And, to the Army, Regnante: wherein the Author proves, That the KING did not take the guilt of blood Himself by granting the Preambulatory Proposition in the late Treaty in the Isle of Wight, in these words, (viz.) That he acknowledged that the two Houses of Parliament•• were necessitated to undertake a War in their own just and lawful Defence, &c. And that therefore all Oathes, Declarations, or other publique Instruments against the two Houses of Parliament, or any for adhering to them, &c. be Declared null, suppressed and forbidden.

[unspec 1] His Majesty in yielding to this Grant, had reference to two ends: 1. To prepare the way to peace, which without this had been hopeless. 2. To secure and indempnifie the two Houses, with all their Adherents, and rid them from those despairing feares and jealousies which made them adversaries to Peace.

[unspec 2] For the words of the Preamble, they were not of His pen∣ning, He was not Author of them, but an Assentor to them: nor was He, or his Party accused or so much as mentioned in them.

[unspec 3] He made this Concession sub stricta novacula, when the Razor was (as it were) at his throat: 1. An Army of 30000. Horse and Foot effective against Him. 2. When He was endangered and tired out with a long and close Imprisonment. 3. When many dangerous and menacing Petitions against His life, had been encouraged and entertained: so that the King may seem to have been necessitated to yield to this Grant for His own just and law∣ful defence.

[unspec 4] His Majesty passed this Concession with these two Provi∣soes: 1. That it should be of no validity until the whole Treaty were intirely consummated. 2. That He might, when he pleased, enlarge and clear the truth with the reservedness of his meaning herein with publick Declarations. Now the Treaty being power∣fully carried on without Debate; or receiving any Proposition from the King, as was capitulated (and reciprocal Proposals are of the Essence of all Treaties) this Grant could never bind Him.

[unspec 5] This Grant was a meer Preambulatory Proposition not of

the Essence of the Treaty. Philosophers and School-men tell us, No valid proof can be drawn out of Proems and Introductions, but out of the body of the Text. So in the Laws of England, and in all Accusations and Charges, Prefaces and Preambles are not pleadable. They are the last in penning of Laws, least in account, nor never had the force of Laws.

[unspec 6] There's not a syllable in this Preface which Repeals any for∣mer Law inflicting a Penalty upon such Subjects as bear or raise Arms against their KING: nor those Laws which (è contrario) exempts from punishment all subjects adhering to the Person of the KING in any Cause or Quarrel.

[unspec 7] Whereas the said Preface saith, the two Houses were necessita∣ted to make a War, &c. This may relate to a necessity à parte post, not à parte ante, self-defence is the universal Law of nature, extending to all Creatures; it is, non scripta sed nata Lex. There∣fore when the two Houses (or rather a schismatical Party in them) had brought upon themselves a necessity of Self-defence, His Majesty was content to acknowledge that necessity. If one man assault another upon the High-way, and the Assailed furi∣ously pursue the Assailant, putting him to the defensive part; the Assailant is now necessitated to fight in his own defence, although he drew that necessity upon himself, yet is he now excusable à posteriori, not à priori. And as Civilians say of clandestine Marri∣ges, Quod fieri non debuit, factum valet; for multa sunt quae non nisi peracta approbantur.

Lewis the 13. of France, had many Civil Wars with his own Subjects, amongst other Treaties to compose them, upon the Treaty of Lodun he was enforced to publish an Edict, approving of all that had been done by his Opposites as done for his ser∣vice. The like extenuations are not unusual at the close of Civil Wars; and the only use made of them was never other than to make the adverse Party more capable of pardon, to secure them against the brunt of the Laws, to salve their credits, and pave the way for an Act of Oblivion, and restore a setled peace; Peace and War, like Water and Ice, being apt to beget one another. But never was use made of such Grants to ruine the King that Gran∣ted them, or his Party.

Thus having confuted that misprision, That the King by Grant∣ing

that Introductory Proposition, had taken all the Blood upon His score: my Author having cleared his way to his farther Inquisi∣tion after Blood, proceeds, and tells you, Blew-Cap was the first that opened the Issue of Blood by entering England, and shewing Subjects the way of representing Petitions to the King upon their Pikes points: That the Irish took their rise from him. And whereas occasion was taken to calumniate His Majesty for having a fore∣knowledge thereof (amongst many other convincing Arguments to clear him) my Lord Macguire upon the Ladder, and another upon the Scaffold, did freely and clearly acquit Him. And (in regard great use was made of the Irish Rebellion to imbitter the People against the King) the Author winds up the causes thereof upon one bottom. Telling you

1. They who complied with the Scots in their first and second Insurrection.

2. They who dismissed the Irish Commissioners (sent to pre∣sent some grievances to the Parliament) with a short, unpolitick harsh Answer.

3. They who took off Straffords Head (the onely Obstructor of that Rebellion) and afterwards retarded the Earl of Leicesters going into Ireland.

4. They who hindered part of the disbanded Army of 8000. Men, raised by the Earl of Strafford, being Souldiers of Fortune, to go serve the Spaniard, as his Majesty had promised the two Spanish Ambassadors, the Marquesses of Velada and Maluezzi: which cashiered discontented men first put fire to the Tumult. They who did all this, are guilty of the Irish Rebellion, and of the blood of above 100000 Protestants who perished in that War. Adde, They who importuned the King (contrary to His judgment) to make the Irish desperate by passing an Act to con∣fiscate their estates, and grant them away to such as should advance Monies upon Irish Adventures.

Touching the War kindled in England, the Author con∣fesseth it was a fatal thing there should be a withdrawing of the Kings Person from the Parliament. But averreth it was a barba∣rous thing that the King with above four parts in five of the Lords, and two parts in three of the Commons, should be frigh∣ted away by Tumults raised by Ven and Bourges, and a De∣sign

to seize the Kings Person; yet it is fit it should be remem∣bred.

1. What reiterated Messages his Majesty sent, offering to return, if there might be a course taken to secure his Person, with those Peers and Commons rioted away.

2. That there was not the least motion towards War, until Hotham shut the Gates of Hull against the King, attended onely with some few of his houshold servants; which Act of his was ap∣proved of afterwards by the House of Commons Vote, as if he had done it by their warrant.

3. That a while after, there was an Army of 16000. men effe∣ctive inrolled about London, to fetch Him to His Parliament, and remove ill Counsellors, under the Earl of Essex, long before the King began to set up His Standard.

4. That the same Army so raised, to bring the King to His Parliament, was continued two years after to keep Him from His Parliament.

5. Who interdicted Trade first, and brought in Forreign Force to help them? and whose Commissions of War were near upon two years date before the Kings.

6. That in all His Declarations, He alwayes protested, He waged not War against the Parliament, but against some Sedi∣tious Members, against whom He could not obtain Common Justice.

7. That upon all good Successes, the King still courted the Parlia∣ment and City to an Accommodation.

8. That upon the Treaty of Ʋxbridge, The King moved, that (to prepare mens mindes to Peace) there might be freedome of Trade from Town to Town: A cessation of all Acts of Hostility for the time, that the inflamation being allayed, the wound might be cured the sooner.

9. That this present Army remember how often in their Propo∣salls and Declarations they protested, That their aim was, to restore His Majesty with Honour, Freedome, and Safety, whereunto they were formerly bound by their Protestation and Covenant; and that the two Commanders in Chief pawn'd their Souls to Him there∣upon.

10. That to settle Peace, the King did in effect (by His Con∣cessions)

part with His Sword, Scepter, and Crown, and every thing that was personal to Him.

11. With what admired Temper, Prudence, Constancy, He comported Himself in His Afflictions; and how many of His engaged Enemies became His Converts thereby, speaking Pane∣gyricks in His praise.

12. That though there be some precedents in our Histories for Deposing Kings in point of Competition for the Crown; yet it is unexampled, That a King of England, of an undoubted Title, should be Summoned, Arraigned, Tryed, Condemned, and Executed at His own Door, by His own Subjects, and by the Name of their King, to whom they had sworn Allegiance; Contrary to the whole Current of the Law, which saith, The King can do no wrong, The Crown takes away all defects: Wherefore it was ad∣judged superfluous to take off Attainders, under which Hen. 7. and Queen Eliz. lay, because the Crown wiped off all Blots. Rex non habet Parem in suis Dominiis nec Superiorem, satis habet Rex ad poenam, quod Deum expectat ultorem. If therefore by the Laws of the Land, all men must be Tried by their Peers, and the King have no Peer, what power had these Men to Arraign their King? to be both His engaged Enemies, Accusors, and Judges; and to Erect an unpresidented Tribunal, without the least Foundation in Law, with power, and purpose to condemn all that came before it; and that Sentence of Death should pass without conviction, or Law, against the Head, and Protector of our Laws, and Fountain of Justice and Mercy.

13. That they who (by their own Confession) represent but the Common People, should assume power to cut him off, who im∣mediately represented God.

About the same time Mr. William Pryn Assigned his Reasons, why he could neither in Conscience, Law, nor Prudence, voluntarily submit to pay the Arbitrary illegal Tax of 90000 l. a Month, im∣posed upon the People, by a pretended Act of the Commons, bearing Date 7. of April 1649. towards the maintenance of Forces to be continued in England and Ireland.

Because by the Fundamental Laws, and known Statutes of this Land, No Tax, &c. ought to be Imposed, or Leavied, but by the Will and common Assent of the Earls, Barons, Knights, Burgesses, Com∣mons, and whole Realm, in a free and full Parliament. See Magna Charta, 29, 30. Stat. 25 Edw. 1. chap. 5, 6. 34 Edw. 1. De Tallagio non concedendo, c. 1. 21 Edw. 3. Rot. Parl. nu. 16. 25 Edw. 3. c. 8. 36 Edw. 3 Rot. Parl. nu. 26. 45 Edw. 3. Rot. Parl. nu. 42. 11 Hen. 4. Rot. Parl. nu. 10. 1 Rich. 3. c. 2. The Petition of Right, and Resolutions of both Houses against Loans, 3 Car. The Votes and Acts against Ship-money, Knighthood, Tonnage and Poundage, and the Star-chamber this Parliament, 17, 18. Car. agreed to by Mr. William Hack∣wel, in his Argument against Impositions. Judge Hutton and Crock in their Arguments; Mr. Saint Johns in his Argument and Speech against Ship-money, with others Arguments and Discourses upon that subject. Sir Ed. Cock in his 2 Instit. pag. 59. 60 527, 528, 529, 532, 533. But this Assessement was not so legally im∣posed, Ergo, I, nor no man else ought to pay it. 1. This Tax was not imposed by any Parliament; The late Parliament being actu∣ally dissolved above two months before this pretended Act was passed for imposing it, by the Murder of the King, as is resolved by the Parliament. 1 Hen. 4. Rot. Parl. nu. 1. 4 Hen. 4. and 1 Hen. 5. Rot. Parl. nu. 26. Cooks 4. Institutes, p 46. 4 Edw. 4. 44. 6. For the King being both the Beginning, End, and Foundation of Parliaments (ac∣cording to Modus tenendi Parliamentum, and Sir Edw. Cook 4. In∣stit. p. 3.) which are Summoned and Constituted only by his Writ, the Writ is actually abated by his Death. 1 Edw. 6. c. 7. Cooks 7. Rep. 30, 31. Dyer 165. 4 Ed. 4. 43, 44. 1 Ed. 5. 1 Brook Comission, 19. 21.

It appears by the Writs of Summons to the Lords (Crompt. Juris∣diction of Courts, fol. 1. Cooks 4. Instit. p. 9. 10.) and of Elections, and leavying their Wages: That the Parliament was only Par∣liamentum nostrum, the Parliament of the Kings that is Dead,

not of his Heirs and Successors, They are all Summoned to come to his Parliament to advise with him (nobiscum, not with his Heirs and Successors) of great and weighty Affairs concerning, Nos & Regnum nostrum, Him and his Kingdome, 5 Edw. 3. 6. part 2. Dors. Claus. Regist. fol. 192, 200. So the King being dead, and his Writ and Authority by which they were Summoned, and the end for which they were Called: Ad Tractandum ibidem nobiscum, super arduis negotiis nos & statum Regni nostri tangentibus, being thereby ab∣solutely determined without any hope of revival: The Parlia∣ment is determined thereby, especially as those who have Dis-inherited his Heirs and Successors, and Voted down Monarchy it self, and the Remnant now sitting are no longer Members of Parliament, as all Judges, Justices of the Peace, Sheriffs, made onely by the Kings Writ or Commission, and not by Patent, Cease and become void by the Kings death, for this very reason, because they are constituted, Justitiarios & Vicecomites nostros ad pacem nostram, &c. custodien∣dum. The King being dead, his Writs and Commissions expire with Him. 4 Ed. 4. 43. 44. Brook Office and Officer 25. Commission, 19. 21. Dyer. 195. Cook 7. Rep. 30, 31. 1 Ed. 6. c. 7. Daltons Justice of Peace, chap. 3. pag. 13. Lambert, pag. 71.

[Object.] If any object the Act of continuance of the Parliament, 17 Car. That this present Parliament shall not be dissolved unless it be by Act of Parliament for that purpose.

[Answ.] It is Answered, That it is a Maxim in Law, That every Statute ought to be expounded according to the intent of those that made it, and the mischiefes it intended onely to prevent. 4 Edw. 4. 12. 12 Edw. 4. 18. 1 Hen. 7. 12, 13. Plowdens Comment. fol. 369. Cooks 4. Insti∣tutes pag. 329, 330. Now the intent of the Makers of this Act, was not to prevent the Parliaments dissolution by the Kings Death (no wayes intimated in any clause thereof, although it be a clear disso∣lution of it to all intents, not provided for by this Act) but by any Writ, or Proclamation of the Kings by his Regal Power, without the consent of both Houses, which I shall prove by the Arguments following.

1. From the principal occasion of making the said Act. The Commons in their Remonstrance, 15. Decemb. 1642. complain, That the King had dissolved all former Parliaments against ap∣probation of both Houses of Parliament; Wherefore to prevent

the Dissolution, Prorogation, or Adjournment of this present Parl. by the Kings Regal Power, after the Scots Army should be disband∣ed, and before the things mentioned in the Preamble could be effected, was the ground and occasion of this Law: and not any fear of Dis∣solving the Parliament by the Kings death, Natural, or Violent, which is confessed by the Commons in the said Remonstrance, Exact Collect. pag. 5, 6. 14, 17. compared together, where they Affirm, The abrupt dissolution of this Parliament is prevented by another Bill, &c. In the Bill for continuance of this Parlia∣ment, there seemes to be some restraint of the Royal power in Dis∣solving of Parliaments; not to take it out of the Crown, but to suspend the execution of it for this time, and occasion onely, which was so necessary for the Kings own Security, and the Publick Peace, that without it we could not have undertaken any of those great Charges, but must have left both Armies to disorder and confu∣sion, &c.

2. The very Title of this Act [an Act to prevent inconveniences which may happen by the untimely Adjourning, Proroguing, or Dis∣solution of this present Parliament] intimates as much, compared with the body of it, which provides as well against the Adjourning, or Proroguing without an Act, as against a Dissolution. Now the Par∣liament cannot be said to be Adjourned, or Prorogued untimely by the Kings Death (which never Adjourned, or Prorogued any Parliament) but onely by his Proclamation, Writ, or Royal Command to the Hou∣ses, or their Speaker executed during his life-time, See Parl. Rolls, 6 Edw. 3. 2. Rot. Parl. 3. 6. 5 Ric. 2. n. 64, 65. 11 Ric. 2. nu. 14, 16, 20. 8 Hen. 4. nu. 2, 7. 27 Hen. 6. nu. 12. 28 Hen. 6. nu. 8, 9, 11. 29 Hen. 6. nu. 10, 11. 31 Hen. 6. nu. 22, 30, 49. and Cooks 4. Instit. p. 25. Dyer fol. 203.

3. The Prologue of the Act implies as much, whereas great summs of Money must of necessity be speedily advanced for relief of His Majesties Army (not his Heir or Successor) and for sup∣plying other His Majesties (not his Heires, nor Successors) oc∣casions, which cannot be so timely effected as is requisite, without credit for raising the said Monies; which credit can∣not be attained until such Obstacles be first removed, as are oc∣casioned by Fears and Jealousies; That this Parliament may be Adjourned, Prorogued, or Dissolved, before Justice shall be duly exe∣cuted

upon Delinquents (then in being, as Strafford, Canterbury, not since made) Publique Grievances (then complained of, as Star-chamber, High Commission, Ship-money, Knighthood-money, Tonnage, and Poundage, &c.) redressed: Peace concluded be∣tween the two Nations, sufficient provisions made for repayment of the said monies (not others since) so to be raised. All which expressions related onely to His late Majesty, as to His Acts of Royal Power, not to His Heires and Successors, after His Natural (much less) Violent death, which was not then thought on, but publick∣ly Detested, and Protested against; no Man being so hardy as to mention it for fear of the Law, not then subdued by the Sword; And the several Principal Scopes of this Act are fully satisfied long before the late Kings death.

4. It is clear by the Body of this Act; And be it declared, &c. That this present Parliament, &c. shall not be dissolved, unless it be by Act of Parliament to be passed for that purpose; nor shall at any time, or times during this present Parliament, be Adjourned, or Prorogued, unless it be by Act of Parliament to be passed for that purpose; and that the House of Peers shall not at any time, or times, during this present Parliament, be Adjourned, unless it be by themselves, or by their own Order. And in like manner, That the House of Commons shall not at any time, or times be Ad∣journed, &c. as aforesaid. From whence it is undeniable.

1. That this Act was onely to prevent untimely Dissolving, Pro∣roguing, and Adjourning of that present Parliament then assem∣bled, and no other, by Acts of Royal Power.

2. That the King was the Principal Estate, and Member, yea, our Soveraign Lord, the sole Declarer, and Enacter of this Law, by Assent of the Lords and Commons.

3. That neither this Act, nor any other, for Dissolving, Proroguing, or Adjourning this Parl. could be made without the Kings Royal As∣sent, which the Lords and Commons in their Remonstrance, 26. May, 1642. often acknowledge, together with His Negative Voice to Bills, exact. Collect. p. 69, 70. 736. 709. 722.

4. That it was not the Kings intent in passing this Act, to shut Himself out of Parliament, or create Members of Parliament without a King, as He professeth, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, ••. 5. Nor the Lords and Commons intent to Dis-member Him from His Parlia∣ment,

and make themselves a Parliament without Him, as their said Remonstrance testifies; and the words of the Act import, much less was it their intent to pack a Parliament of 40 or 50 Commons onely, selected by Colonel Pride, to Vote according to the Dictates of a Councel of War, after they had destroyed the King, and House of Peers: Against which transcendent usurpati∣on this very Act provides, That the House of Peers shall not be so much as Adjourned, or Prorogued, but by themselves, or their own Order.

5. Neither did King, Lords, and Commons, in passing this Act intend, That by Murdering the King, Abolishing the House of Lords, and expelling by power of the Sword eight parts of ten of the Commons, the remaining Faction should con titute themselves, their Heires and Successours, a perpetual Parliament, which would Crosse, and Repeal the Act for a Triennial Parliament made on the same day in Law. Brook, Parliament 80. Relation 85. Dyer 85.

6. The last Clause of this Act concludes as much. And that all, and every thing, or things whatsoever done, or to be done (to wit, by the King, or his Authority) for the Adjournment, Proroguing, or Dis∣solving of this Parliament, contrary to this present Act, shall be utterly void and of none effect. Now Death of the King, and Dis∣solution of this Parliament thereby, cannot properly be stiled a thing done, or to be done by the King, if by those words (things done, or to be done for the dissolving, &c.) they shall say, they related to the Kings Natural Death: Natural Death is the Act of God, which these Saints cannot make void, if they related to His violent Death, it could not then be said a thing done, or to be done for the unlawfulness and injustice of it. This Act passed long before any War or Bloodshed; The onely pretence they have since found out for the Kings Murder.

2. If this Parliament were not Dissolved by the Kings Death, Yet the House of Peeres (formerly Voted) down by the Commons, gave no consent to the passing this Act, Entituled, An Act of the House of Commons; who, without the concurring Assent of the Lords, and the Kings Royal Assent, have no power to passe any Act, Make, or Declare any Law, or impose any Tax, as ap∣peares by the fore-recited Acts; The Petition of Right, The Act

for the Triennial Parliament, and this very Act against Dissolving, Proroguing, &c. with all our Printed Statutes, Parliament Rolls, and Law-Books. The Commons being so far from claiming the sole Legislative power heretofore, as that they were not Sum∣moned to our Ancient Parliaments, (which consisted onely of King, Lords, Temporal and Spiritual) until 47 Hen. 3. nor had they so much as a House of Commons, or Speaker, until the Reign of Edw. 3. nor never tendred any Acts, or Bills to the King, but Petitions onely of Grievances, until long after Rich. 2. time. See the Printed Prologues to the Stat. 1, 4, 5, 9, 10, 20, 23, 36, 37. 50 Edw. 3. 1 Ric. 2. 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11. 13 H••n. 4. 1, 2, 3, 4, 8. 9 Hen. 5. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 28, 29. 39 Hen. 6. 1, 4, 7, 8, 12, 17. 22 Edw. 4. 1 Rich. 3.

3. But suppose the Commons alone had p wer to impose Taxes, yet it must be in a full, and free House: whereas, when this Act for 90000 l. a Moneth passed, the House was neither Full, nor Free, The Major part of the House (who by Law are the House) to wit, 8. parts of 10. at tht least, being Secured, or Secluded by Col. Pride, and his Souldiers, by Confederacy with those 40 or 50 then sitting when this Act passed, and passing the Wills of the Councel of Officers, to the subversion of Parliaments, and the great wrong of those Counties and Burroughs for whom they served.

[Object.] If it be objected, that by usage of Parliament, 40 Members make a House of Commons.

[Answ.] 1. I Answer, not to all intents and purposes; Not to grant Subsidies, nor pass Lawes, or matters of greatest moment, Modus te∣nendi Parl. Cooks 4. Instit. pag. 1, 2, 26, 35, 36. Cromptons Juris. of Courts, fol. 1. 39 Edw. 3. 7. Brook, Parl. 27. 1 Jac. 1.

2. 40 Members make not a House, when the rest are Exclu∣ded by force without doors, and fraud of their Fellow-members within doors, on purpose, that (being the Major number) they may not over-vote them. The Commons not having power to expel any of their Members, without consent of King and Lords, in whom onely the Judicial Power resides. Paribus in Pares non est Pote∣stas, Claus. Dors. 7 Rich. 2. M. 27. Seldens Title of Honour, pag. 737, Baron Camoyes case discharged by the Kings Writ, and Judgment from serving amongst the Commons, because a

Peer of the Realm: The practice for Members to Expel and Sequester their Fellow-members, being a late dangerous in∣novation, to pack a Factious Conventicle instead of a Parlia∣ment.

If the King should send forth no more Writs than would Summon forty or fifty Commons, it were no House.

So Mr. Pryn concludes, That if he should voluntarily submit to pay this Tax, by vertue of the said pretended Act of Parlia∣ment Dated 7. of April, 1649. made by those now sitting (some of whose Elections have been Voted void, others of them E∣lected by new Illegal Writs, under a new kinde of Seal, since the Kings Beheading; as the Earl of Pembroke, and Lord Edward Howard, uncapable of being Knights or Burgesses by the Com∣mon Law, because Peers of the Realm, as was adjudged in the Lord Cannoyes case, Claus. Dors. 7 Rich. 2. M. 32. and asserted by Mr. Seldens Titles of Honour, Part. 2. chap. 5. pag. 735. Seconded by Cooks 4. Instit. pag. 1, 4, 5, 46, 47, 49.) As he should admit those to be lawful Members, so he should assent to ex post facto, some particulars against his Knowledge, and against the Oathes of Allegiance, Supremacy, Protestation, Solemn League and Co∣venant, taken in the presence of God, with a sincere heart, and real intention to perform the same; and persevere therein all the dayes of his life, without suffering himself directly, or in∣directly, by whatsoever Combination, Perswasion or Terrour to be withdrawn therefrom. As for example, he should thereby acknowledge contrary to his knowledge, and the said Oathes and Covenant.

1. That there may be, and now is, a lawful Parliament of England, actually in being, and legally continuing after the Kings Death, consisting only of a few late Members of the Com∣mons House, without either King, Lords, or most of their fel∣low Members.

2. That this Parliament sitting under a force, (and so unduly Constituted, and packed by power of an Army combining with them) hath just and lawful Authority.

1. To violate the Priviledges, Rights, Freedomes, Customes, and alter the Constitution of our Parliaments themselves.

2. To Imprison, Seclude, and Expel most of their fellow

Members (the far major part of the House) for Voting and ac∣cording to their Consciences (in favour of Peace, and settle∣ment of the Commonwealth.)

3. To Repeal all Votes, Ordinances, and Acts of Parliament they please.

4. To Erect new Arbitrary Courts of War and Justice.

5. To Arrain, Condemn, and Execute the King himself, with the Peers and Commons of this Realm, by a new kinde of Mar∣tial Law, contrary to Magna Charta, The Petition of Right, 3. Car. and the known Laws of the Land.

6. To Dis-inherit the Kings Posterity of the Crown.

7. To extirpate Monarchy, and the whole House of Peers.

8. To Change and Subvert the Ancient Government, Seals, Laws, Writs, Legal proceedings, Courts, and Coyn of the Kingdome.

9. To Sell and Dispose of all the Lands, Revenues, Jewels, Goods of the Crown, with the Lands of Deans and Chapters, (for thir own advantage, not the easing of the people from Taxes.)

10. To absolve themselves (by a Papal kinde of power) and all the Subjects of England and Ireland, from all the Oaths and Engage∣ments they have made to the Kings Majesty, His Heirs and Suc∣cessours; yea, from the very Oath of Allegiance, notwithstand∣ing this express Clause in it (fit to be laid to heart by all con∣scientious Christians) I do beleeve, and in conscience am resolved, That neither the Pope, nor any person whatsoever, hath power to ab∣solve me of this Oath, or any part thereof, which I acknowledge by good and full Authority to be lawfully Ministred to me, and do re∣nounce all Pardons and Dispensations to the contrary.

11. To dispence with our Protestation and Covenant so Zea∣lously enjoyned by both Houses on all sorts of people.

12. To dispose of the Forts, Ships, Forces, Offices, and places of Honour, Power, Trust, or Profit, to whom they please (to their own party.)

13. To Displace and Remove whom they please from their Of∣fices, Trusts, Pensions, Callings and Franchises at their plea∣sures, without any Legal cause, or Trial.

14. To make what New Acts, Laws, and Reverse what Old

ones they think meet, to insnare and inthral our Consciences, E∣states, Liberties and Lives.

15. To create new monstrous Treasons never heard of before, and to declare Real Treasons against the King, Kingdome and Par∣liament to be no Treasons; and Loyalty, Allegiance, due obedience to our known Laws, and a conscientious observing our Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, and the Covenant, to be no less than High Treason; for which they may take away our Lives, and confiscate our Estates to their new Exchequer. Thereby at once repealing Magna Charta, c. 29. 5 Edw. 3. c. 6. 25 Edw. 3. c. 4. 28 Edw. 3. c. 3. 37 Edw. 3. c. 18. 42 Edw. 3. c. 3. 25 Edw. 3 c. 2. 11 Rich. 2. c. 4. 1 Hen. 4. c. 10. 2 Hen. 4. Rot. Parl. 11. n. 60. 1 Edw. 6. c. 12. 1 M. c. 1. The Petition of Right, 3 Car. So much commended this Parliament, and laying all our Laws, Liberties, Estates and Lives waste, after they have drawn so much Blood and Treasure from us, in defence of them.

16. To raise and keep up what forces by Land and Sea they please, and impose what Taxes they please, and renew, increase, and perpetuate them to support their more than Regal or Par∣liamentary power.

17. To pack and shuffle themselves into a Councel of Lords, States General (without any provincial States) forty Hogens Mogens, with Supream, Regal, and Arbitrary power, in absence of Par∣liaments which are Abolished by these Usurpations as well as Monarchy.

4. The principal ends proposed in the pretended Act for im∣posing this 90000 l. a months Tax, oblige all men not to pay it, viz. The keeping up this Army under the Lord Fairfax.

1. Because this Army, by rebelling against their Masters, the Par∣liament, and waging War upon them; and by conspiring with their own party of the sitting Commons have occasioned all the Mischiefs last mentioned, to the ruine of King, Parliament, and Kingdome, Religion, Laws, Liberty, and Property; and daily threaten an utter dissolution, both in their Deeds, and Words. Both Officers and Souldiers Boasting, That the whole Kingdome, and all we have is theirs by Conquest; That we are but their conquered Slaves and Vassals, and they Lords of the Kingdome, That our Lives are at their Mercy and Courtesie; That when they

have gotten all we have from us by Taxes and Free-quarter, they will seize our Lands, and turn Ʋs, and our Families out of Doors, That there is no Law in England but the Sword (as Hugh Peters the Rebels Apostle saith) The present power must be obeyed (saith parasitical John Goodwin) that is the power of the Sword still.

2. No Tax ought to be imposed but upon necessity, for good of the people, 25 Edw. 1. chap. 6. Cooks 2. Instit. pag. 528. But the keeping up this Army is the Bane of the people.

1. Because they are already exhausted with war, Plunder, Taxes, Free-quarter, &c.

2. Because the Souldiers have decayed Trade, and brought a Dearth upon the Land.

3. This Tax of 90000 l. a month destroyed Trade, by Fore∣stalling and Engrossing most of the Money now left in the Kingdome.

4. There is no Enemy in the Kingdome visible, nor no fear of any, if we will beleeve our Grandees.

5. When the King had two Armies in the Field, and many Garrisons, this whole Army consisted but of 22000. Men, and had an Established pay but of 45000 l. a month. See Ordinances 15. Feb. 1644. and 6. April 1646. Exact Collect. pag. 599, 876. But when the Army (by confederacy with their party in the House) took the boldness to increase their number 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 Inva∣sions than a Mercinary Army. Therefore there is neither neces∣sity, 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 be∣ginning to look formidably, had cooled the heat of K. Oliver's courage (though not of his Liver) insomuch that he and his in∣timate 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 Ship∣ping 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-conscien∣ced 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 dan∣ger leave the Land of his Nativity, the Habitation of the Saints, to seek forraign adventures in a Heathen Land: Whilst these prepa∣rations 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 repor∣ted. Saturday, 12. August, when the news first came to Town, (the Lion is not so terrible as he is painted) it is a peculiar pri∣viledge of the Saints to lie (without sin, or at least, without im∣putation 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 Ho∣nour of the Atchievment to himself, by his accustomed special prerogative. So upon the 16, or 17. of August, K. Nol set sail to∣wards 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.

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 occa∣sion 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 Parlia∣ment by the Councel of State, &c.] Printed by Edward Husbands, 15. August, 1649. The said agreement made between the Anti∣monarchical 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 him∣self, 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 Coun∣cel 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: 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 Tho∣mas 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 Per∣sons 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 Co∣lonel Jones: Jones told him, if he could keep Owen Roe and Or∣mond 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 de∣ny, saying, he did it upon his own score. Hereupon the House voted as followeth:

Resolved, &c. That the House doth utterly disapprove of the pro∣ceedings 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. Ne∣vertheless 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: That the House is content the farther consideration thereof, as to him, be laid aside, and shall not at any time hereafter be called in question. So exit Monck, and the Play was done: wherein take notice of these following Obser∣vations.

1. The Armies Doctrine, and use of apprehended necessity and good intentions to justifie evil actions; approved of by this example of the Parliament (as they will be called.

2. This Agreement (though it were at least twelve Weeks a∣go publickly known in England, and divulged in their own Li∣censed News-books) was never scrupled until now: That 1. the said Agreement was expired. 2. That O Neale was so beaten by the Lord Inchiquine, that he is (as their own News-books say) inconsiderable, and must suddenly joyn with the Marquesse of Ormond, or be destroyed.

3. That these Votes call this Agreement but a Treaty and Ces∣sati••n of Arms: which (I affirm) to be a League Defensive and Offensive against Ormond, Inchiquine, and all that do and shall

uphold Monarchy (if not Protestancy too) for these Reasons: 1. Article second saith, That upon all occasions both Parties be ready with their Forces to assist one another until a more absolute Agree∣ment be made and condiscended unto by the Parliament of England. This is beyond a Cessation. 2. Article third, saith, That the Creaghts of Ulster residing within the Quarters of Col. Monck, shall pay Contribution to General Owen Oneale. This is a Concession of a great latitude, far beyond the authority of any subordinate Commander or General, and against the Lawes and Liberties of the Land to grant Taxes. It should seem by this, that Oneale and his Army were become Mercenaries, taken into pay by Monck. 3. Article fourth, saith, That if General Owen Oneale shall happen to fight against the Forces under the Command of the Marquesse of Ormond, the Lord Inchiquine, or any other Enemies of the Parliament of England, and thereby sp••nd his Ammunition, if he be near unto my Quarters, and be distressed for want of Ammu∣nition, I shall then furnish him. This was actually performed when my Lord Inchequine Besieged Dundalke. I make the same inter∣pretation of this Article that I have made of the third. 4. The fifth Article alloweth to Oneale the use of any Harbours within Col. Moncks liberty; which likewise is too much fot a bare Ces∣sation or Truce.

4. Who can believe that any subordinate Officer commissio∣nated to prosecute a War against Owen Roe and the rest in Arms in that Kingdom, should dare to Treat and conclude an Agree∣ment and conjunction with that very Enemy he had Commissi∣on to fight against without the knowledge and directions (pub∣lique or private) of those from or under whom he hath his Au∣thority; and should be so bold when he had done to come over and justifie his said doings, notwithstanding they proved unpros∣perous? Col. Monck being so much a Souldier as to know, That (all the world over) to exceed the bounds of his Commission (much more to act against his Commission, as in this case) is assured death without mercy, both by the Law Martial (without which Mi∣litary Discipline will perish) and by the Lawes of hur Land.

5. Wherefore was Sir John Winter and Sir Kenelm Digby sent for over (as was foretold by an intercepted Letter, where∣of

of I have formerly spoken) and O Realy the Popes Irish Agent, and another Agent from Owen Roe O Neal privately entertained in England (as I have formerly hinted) but to drive on Treaties and Associations of this nature? insomuch that long since it was whispered amongst Cromwels party in England to uphold their spirits) That upon his shewing himself in Arms in Ireland, Ormonds Catholick Irish party would all forsake him and go over to O Neal, who maintained the Popes Interest in that Kingdome.

The aforesaid paper prinred by Authority, and stiled The true State of the Transactions, &c. besides the said Articles of Cessation, setteth down other Articles, called,

The Propositions of General Owen O Neale, the Lords, Gentry, and Commons of the confederate Catholicks of ƲLSTER: To the most High and most Honourable, The PARLIAMENT of ENGLAND.

1. INprimis, That such as are already joyned, or shall within the space of three Months joyn with General Owen O Neale, in the service of the Parliament of England, in this Kingdome, as well Clergy, as others, may have all Laws and Penalties against their Religion, and its Professors, taken off by Act of Parliament, and that Act to extend to the said parties, their Heirs and Successors for ever, while they Loyally serve the Parliament of England.

2. The said General O Neale desireth an Act of Obli∣vion to be passed, to extend to all and every of his party, for all things done since the beginning of the Year, 1641.

3. They desire that General Owen O Neal be provided with a competent Command in the Army befitting his worth and quality.

4. They desire that they may enjoy all the Lands that were, or ought to be in their, or their Ancestors possession.

5. That all incapacity, inability, and distrust hither∣to by Act of State, or otherwise, against the said party, be taken off.

6. That on both sides all jealousies, hate, and aversion be laid aside, Ʋnity, Love, and Amity be renewed and practised between both parties.

7. That General Owen O Neale may be restored and put in possession of his Ancestors Estates, or some Estates equivalent to it in the Counties of Tyrone, Ardmarch, or Londondery, in regard of his merit, and the good ser∣vice that he shall perform in the Parliament of Englands Service, in the preservation of their Interest in this Kingdome.

8. That the Army belonging to General Owen O Neale, and his party be provided for, in all points as the rest of the Army shall be.

9. That the said party be provided with, and possessed of a convenient Sea-port in the Province of Ulster.

I do upon receiving a confirmation of these Propo∣sitions, forthwith undertake and promise in behalf of my self, and the whole party under my Command, faithfully and firmly adhere to the State of the Parlia∣ment of England in this Kingdome, and maintain their Interest hereafter, with the hazard of our lives and fortunes:

In witness whereof, I have hereunto put my Hand and Seal this 8. day of May, An. Dom. 1649.

Signed, Owen O Neale.

Thus far the said paper, stiled [The true State, &c.] goes on with the Relation of the said Treaty and Agreement, but con∣ceals what farther Transactions passed between Monke and O Neal upon the last recited Propositions: Wherefore I shall be bold to continue the Story of a paper, entituled [The Propositions of Owen Roe O Neal sent to Col. Monke, and a Ces∣sation

for three Months concluded between them. Together with a Letter thereupon sent by a Gentleman at Dundalk, to his Friend at Cork. Printed at Cork, 1649.] The last recited Propositions were sent to Monke 25. day of April, 1649. who perused them, and made some considerable Alterations in them, as appears by Monks Letter of Answer thereupon to Owen O Neale, dated from Dundalke, 26. April 1649. as I finde it in the said paper printed at Cork in these words:

SIR,

I Have received yours of the 25. April, and I have seen your Order given to Captain Hugh Mac Patricke Mac Mahon to Treat and conclude a peace with me in the be∣half of your self, and the Forces under your Command. I have perused your Propositions, and conceiving there are some particulars in them which at first view the Par∣liament of England may scruple to grant, I have made a small alteration in some of them, being well assured, by it, you will not receive the least disadvantage, but it will rather prove a means to beget an increase of their good opinion towards you and your party; which I believe your reality, fidelity, and action in their Service will sufficiently merit, and in case you approve of them, as I have revised and altered them, I desire you to send them to me Signed and Sealed by you, that I may present them to the Parliament of England, to obtain their favourable Answer in return of them: And in the mean time I de∣sire that according to this inclosed paper, three Months Cessation between us to be condescended unto, and in∣violably kept between our Forces during the same time.

Dundalk, 26. April, 1649.

George Monke.

1. Col. Monke in his said Letter to O Neale, 26. April, an∣swereth him: 1. That he had perused his Propositions, and conceiving there are some particulars which at first view the Parliament of England may scruple to grant, &c. A gentle phrase to nourish hopes in O Neale even of obtaining all his Demands (if need be) upon debate and deliberation, though not at first view. That he hath made a small alteration in some of them (I confess very small) being well assured he should not receive the least disadvantage by it, &c. From whom had Monke this Assurance, unless from those Men by whose Authority and Directions (private or pub∣lick) he presumed to Treat with that Enemy he was Commis∣sioned to fight with, and whose Names he doth conceal? That it (yeilding to M••nks amendments) would rather prove a means to beget an increase of their (the Parliaments) good opinion of Owen Roe O Neale and his party, &c. It should seem then the Parlia∣ment had entertained a good opinion of O Neale and his party before hand; for every thing must have a being, before it can have an increase of being. In case you approve of them (the amend∣ed Articles) I desire you to send them to be signed and sealed by you, that I may present them to the Parliament of England to obtain their favourable Answer in return of them, &c. You see all Monke did was in reference to the Parliaments ratification; and there∣fore reason tells us the Parliament was originally privy to the Treaty: It is not likely Monke should Treat upon his own head, and abruptly send the result of the Treaty to be confirm∣ed by the Parliament without any warning foregoing to pre∣pare them.

O Neale sent his Letter and Propositions to Monke, Dated 25. April, 1649. Monke answered his Letter, and corrected O Neales Proposition the day after, being the 26. April.

And the last mentioned Propositions of Gen. Owen O Neal, the Lords, Gentry, and Commons of the Confederate Catholiques of Ʋlster, &c. as well as the first mentioned Articles for three Months Cessation, &c. bear Date 8. May, 1649. which I conceive to be the Date given them when they were ratified by the Parliament, or Councel of State. See the said Paper [The true state of the Transactions, &c.] Then follows:

A second Copie of Owen Roe Oneales Propositions as they were corrected by Col. Monck, and sont to Oneale to be subseribed: And then sent by Monck to the Parliament to be granted: as followeth verbatim.

1. INprimis. That such as shall joyn with General O-Neal in the Service of the Parliament of England in this Kingdome; may have Liberty of Conscience for themselves and their issue,

2. The said General O Neale desireth an Act of Obli∣vion be passed, to extend to all and every of his Party for all things done since the beginning of the Year, 1641.

3. They desire that General O Neale be provided for a competent Command in the Army befitting his worth, place, and qualitie.

4. They desire that they may enjoy all those Lands that were in their possession at the beginning of this War for themselves and Heirs during their fidelity to the Interest of England.

5. That all incapacity, inhability, & distrust hitherto by Act of State or otherwise, against the said Party, be taken off.

6. That on both sides all Jealousies, hate and aversion be laid aside; unity, love, and amity, renewed and pra∣ctised between both Parties.

7. That Gen. O Neale may be restored and put in pos∣session of his Ancestors Estate, or some other Estate equi∣valent to it, in regard of his merit, and the good Service that he shall perform in the Parliament of Englands Ser∣vice in the preservation of their Interest in this Kingdom.

8. That the Army belonging to the Gen. O Neale and his Party be provided for in all points as the rest of the Army shall be.

9. That the said Party be provided with, and possessed of a convenient Sea-port in the Province of Ulster.

And I do, upon receiving a Confirmation of those Desires, undertake and promise in the behalf of my self and the whole Party under my Command, faith∣fully & firmly to adhere to the Parliament of Englands Service in this Kingdom, and to maintain their Interest hereafter with the hazard of our Lives and Estates a∣gainst all Opposers whatsoever.

Given under my Hand and Seal.

In the said Paper, printed at Corke, is also contained, [A Let∣ter from a Gentleman in Dundalke, dated May 20. 1649.] which take kere verbatim; that you may see what opinion Men there (upon the place) had of that business

at Corke in Munster.

To my worthy Friend,

SIR,

YOu may wonder, my Obligations being so great to∣wards you, that my returns of acknowledgment should be so seldom as they have been, but you must know there is no defect in my desires to be at your eares often; 'tis only the preservation of my Liberty and Safe∣ty in these parts that makes me forbear the frequencie of such intercourses. I am confident these Letters, this Messenger, and the inclosed papers which I here send you (containing a true Copie of the Propositions and Let∣ters of Agreement between Owen Roe O Neale, and Col. George Monck) will be able to give you some account of the passages in these parts, and will make you assured that I do not forget the respects I owe unto you.

I must confess to you that (as you ever conceived) I ne∣ver could imagine that the Parliament proceedings would have advanced to so high a degree of rage and wickedness as I see now they are come to, and are resolved to act by: but being amazed at the KING'S Murther, and seeing the Gangrene doth so cruelly spread, I will impart to you my

resolution, That I am resolved to get into your parts with the first conveniency, and adhere to you there, whose acti∣ons are more conducing to the preservation of our Religi∣on, Law, and common Interest, than any where else that I can find. But that this my so sudden resolution may not be conceived the fruit of some vain fear, miscarriage in my self, or light desires to abandon my former principles, I shall give you a right understanding of all the motions and passages of my soul, since I was acquainted with this late Treaty between Col. Monck, and Owen Roe O Neal, that thereby you may judge of the ground of these my De∣signs and distastes, and my resolutions taken thereupon.

And before I consider the particulars of the Treaty, the thing it self is so odious to me, that if they could have made the best bargain to be imagined for the English Safety, the manner of it would have appeared to me ve∣ry unsavoury.

For although it cannot be denied that almost the whole Irish Party (in regard of their Confederacies and Com∣binations) have not been innocent in all particulars of that vast Ocean of English Blood that hath been shed; yet it is most clear, that the Plotters and Contrivers of this Treason, and the unnatural and butcherly Executioners thereof are that Party principally which are now Headed by Owen O Neale; for, although many of the pale, with others of Conaught, Leinster, and Munster, entertained the Designe, when they saw it was so far spread, and the English so much weakned in their persons and possessions, yet it cannot be denied but this Kingdom had still many moderate-minded Men that loathed their Countrymens barbarity, and could never be drawn to adhere to their Party in their least consent.

Now for the Parliament Agents to gather up these Men

(and these onely) that have been drunk with the blood of their Brethren, and to fortifie them with Arms, Councels, and conjunction of Forces, that thereby they may preserve to themselves the Triumphs of their Cruelty and Treache∣ry, and to lap them up in their affections with promises of reward, if they will persevere to act with them the ruine of the KING and Monarchy, the destruction of the rem∣nant of the English Protestants, and the ancient Irish who have now declared their Loyalty, and submitted to, and consociated with them, are things that I much loath, and can no way embrace.

Besides, if you consider the passages of the Treaty, you will easily be drawn (I suppose) to cast away your for∣mer entertained scruples, and not condemn me for being out of love with mine.

1. For first. The Title to Owen Roes Propos••tions ex∣cludes all other of his Nation but such as will joyn with him, though they be far more capable of peace & pardon than himself or his party.

2. He and his party, who in a late paper of theirs stiled the Parliament of England, Monstrosum Parliamentum, (the monstrous Parliament) when (as then) it had not be∣smeared it self with Royal, Sacred, and Noble Blood, as since it hath done: yet now where he sees them act like himself, he hath taught his tongue to quaver, and calls them, The most Honourable and Potent Parliament; when all Honour is persecuted by them, and no power exer∣cised by them but brutish violence, and extream tyrannie.

3. In the second Proposition: That an Act of Oblivion be passed to extend to all and every of Owen O Neales party for all things done since the Year, 1641. You shall find that Monck approves of it totally, without the least reserve of punishment to any the most bloody plotters and

Murtherers whatsoever that are in that Crew, which makes me more in love with my Lord of Ormonds peace than I was before.

4. It is propounded by Owen Roe, and approved by Monke, That he shall have a Sea-port to himself, to make use of, for the perfecting of his designs, when (as we hear) the least Traffick will not be allowed to you in Munster.

5. Although Col. Monk do a little pare his Propositions concerning the Repealing of Statutes against Roman Catholicks since Hen. 8. lest he should offend the people: And though he do not absolutely undertake to grant him his Ancestors Lands (which when he is once stiled O Neale, he will challenge to be the six escheated Counties) yet by Monkes Letter he is assured, that he shall not re∣ceive the least disadvantage thereby. All which directi∣ons, councels, and assurances (I am confident) Col. Monke would not have used towards him, if he had not had a Parliament foundation to warrant it.

Thus you see these Men who lately were utter Enemies, have confederated together to ruine Monarchy, and the Protestant Religion, meerly to raise themselves, and sup∣port their own Faction. They will not here allow the King to make use of his own Subjects to revenge His Fa∣thers blood, to Re-inthrone Himself, to re-establish Re∣ligion and the Laws, and the just Liberties, and yet they allow themselves a latitude of calling in any party, though the most bloody and inhumane, to assist them, in the carrying on their wicked Designs.

We have seen Col. Jones his Letters, censuring the Lord of Ormond for joyning the Irish to his party (though the best and least culpable of them) and yet the same Jones (whose head and hand is in this Treaty and Con∣clusion) thinks it allowable in himself to close with the

worst, and that upon his own termes. And though Col. Monkes hypocrisie (in correcting Owen O Neales 7. Article) will not allow that unity and amity shall be publickly proclaimed between them; yet he is willing it shall be practised, and they shall mutually assist one ano∣ther against all Opposers whatsoever, that is, the King, and all in Authority under Him.

The consideration of these things hath left such an im∣pression upon my soul, that I am resolved to make speed to you, no way desiring to live under their Commands, whose actions increase in horror, and beget new afflictions to all honest English hearts. So praying you to forbear further writing to me, because I mean speedily to see you, I rest,

Dundalk, May, 20. 1649.

Your assured Friend and Servant.

Upon which Propositions so corrected by Monke, and the close carriage of this business, I shall trouble my Reader with these following Observations.

1. Article. You see the Counterfeit, Alchymy Saints, are con∣tent to joyn covertly with Massacring Irish Parpists, to carry on their Antimonarchical Designs, and to make a false Religion and corrupt worship of God the wages and hyre of righteous∣ness.

2. Article. You see those Men that are so bloodily zealous to bring Protestant Delinquents (nay, the King himself, under the notion of the Grand Delinquent, the Man of Blood) to punish∣ment, and pretend themselves engaged by Oath so to do; can dispense with the Massacre of two hundred thousand English Pro∣testants barbarously and inhumanely slaughtered in Ireland in time of full peace; and can grant an Act of Oblivion to whole Armies of their Murderers, thereby at once making their Anti∣monarchical interest the price for which they sell the innocent blood of their Brethren, and defrauding the Irish Adventurers of

that Money which the Parliament perswaded them to lay forth to purchase Rebels Lands in Ireland, for which they have an Act of this Sessions of Parliament.

The like may be said of the 4. and 7. Articles, whereby Rebels attainted and convict are restored to their confiscated Lands, and the English Protestant planters that purchased them of the Crown, are expelled out of their Inheritance; what is this but a design to root out Protestancy, as well as Monarchy?

5. Article. Taketh off all Incapacity, Inability, and distrust from O Neal and his party at that very time when with much counterfeit zeal they pretend great severity against the English Papists; I think because they are not so very Rebels as the Schismaticks.

[unspec 3] According to their usual custome, to accuse other Men of their own Crimes, they charged King CHARLES the First, (upon light surmises) with complying with the bloody Irish Papists; and do themselves actually combine with them to root out Mo∣narchy and Protestancy, giving them a Toleration of their Re∣ligion, and the possession of the English Protestants Etates for their Hyre.

[unspec 4] And it now appears by Letters newly come to London, the 24. August (notwithstanding the said Votes of the Commons against all association with the Irish Murderers) That Sir Charles Coote, and O Neale, are associated; and that the Siege from Londonderry was raised by O Neales help, which plainly proves, that the Treaty and Conjunction was not only between Monke and O Neale, but between O Neale and the Parliament, or Coun∣cel of State; and that the said Propositions so altered by Monke are confirmed by the Parliament, or Councel of State; and do still serve for a foundation for O Neale to assist the Parliament upon, who have turned out O Neale at the Fore-door (to gull the People) and taken him in again at the Back-door.

Many of K. Olivers Officers and Souldiers, abhorring the said Association with O Neale, deserted him at Milford-haven (as I have related) and came to London, whither they were pursued at the heels by a Letter from his Mushrome Majesty, directed to his Vice-Royes at Westminster, willing his Parliament (that since (to encourage the Souldiers to undertake the Irish expedition onely)

their Accounts had been Audited, and Debentures granted for their Arrears) they should recall and null their said Debentures: In o∣bedience to which Command, a thing like an Act of Parliament is drawn up, and order taken that the Commissioners that at∣tend Cromwel into Ireland should certifie the Names of them all to the Parliament, that they may be punished in purse, for not prostituting their Consciences, and shedding more innocent blood, with an implicite faith and blinde obedience, to K. Olivers unquestionable commands, in maintenance of usurpation and lawless tyranny. The rest of the Army may see, by this prece∣dent, they may as well hope to recover a damned Soul out of Hell, as their Arrears out of this bottomless Gulph, the New State: (notwithstanding all their fair promises, Orders, wea∣ther-cock Acts, and Debentures, which are all written in waste-paper, and as changeable as Tickets and Securities for the Pub∣lick Faith.) It being their constant resolution and best policy to feed them (from time to time) with vain hopes, and a little spending-mony (for which they are never the better) now a bit of mony, and then a bob of Martial Law; and alwaies to promise, never to pay their Arrears, thereby to keep them together from Disbanding, and going to their own homes and callings; whilst the Councel of Officers (who only are accounted the rational part of the Army) receive duly the hire of unrighteousness, and whatsoever else they can shark from the private Souldiers (who are looked upon but as the Brutish part of the Army) in whom it is become a capital Crime to question whether their Superiors deal justly with them or no? as is proved to Lockyer. The Com∣mon Souldiers, as well as the Common People, paying for the Ryot of their Colonels, and superior Officers (who Lord it in their gilt Coaches, rich Apparel, costly Feastings (though some of them led Dray-horses, wore Leather-pelts, and were never able to name their own fathers or mothers) I, and for the Lands they purchase too; yet the Officers have one device more to keep the Souldiers together, which is, They make them believe they are so generally hated, they cannot with safety Disband and go home; whereas it is the Superiours onely that are looked upon with hatred as the Authors of Tyranny and Oppression: The Private Souldier being esteemed but their Instruments, and such

as (in their kind and way) are sufferers under the hand of op∣pression as well as other men; many Souldiers have been purged out of the Army; others have voluntarily quitted the Army and returned to their callings, without being endangered or inju∣red after their retirement, which shewes this objection is but a Scar-crow.

For the clear manifestation of the Association between O Neale and the Parliament, there are lately come to the Coun∣cel of State two Letters out of Connaught from Sir Charls Coote; one Dated the 14. the other the 15. of August, 1649. informing them with how much zeal to the Parliaments Interest Owen O Neale had freely raised the Siege of London-Derry. Upon which Letters, and the Votes and proceedings of Col. Pride's Parlia∣ment thereupon, I shall commend to my Readers observation these following particulars:

1. The 15. August, Letters inform, that O Neale freely offered his assistance to Coote, professing much affection to the Parliament of England, and an earnest desire to maintain their Interest, &c. (which is, his own Interest) you may remember that this bloody Rebel O Neale heretofore (when the Parliament was not half so corrupt as now) stiled it, Monstr••sum Parliamentum, the Par∣liament of Monsters: but now that he sees them act his way, and concur with him to destroy Monarchy and Protestancy, he stiles them, The Honourable Parliament, aids, and affects them.

2. The 14. August, Sir Charles Coote informes, that he hath found O Neale and his Army very punctual and faithful in all their Promises and Engagements, and he makes no doubt but they will con∣tinue so unto the end, &c. The reason is, becruse they aym all at one end and interest: Subversion of Monarchy and Protestan∣cy, and go one way to effect it, by a Conjunction of Forces and Councels.

3. The 16. August, that O Neale in his Express to Coote en∣closed some Letters he had received from Monck; and amongst the rest, a ••opie of a Letter from Monck in Answer to a Letter of the Lord Inchiquine, charging Monck with joyning with O Neale and his Party; wherein Monck insinuated, as if Oneale's submission to use the Parliaments Power, were already accepted by them, &c. Monck needed not insinuate it, but might have spoken it plain∣ly:

as he hath done to sundry of his Friends in England, who reprehended him for joyning with O Neale, to whom he An∣swered, That he had the Authority of his Superiors to warrant his doings therein: But this was before he went to Milford-haven to Cromwel, who then taught him the art of Cromwellizing to car∣ry on their design.

4. The 15. August, Coote's Letter (to justifie his doings) deli∣vers a piece of Doctrine to the Councel of State; the Use whereof they were very perfect in before, viz. Calling to minde that it is no new thing, for the most wise God, to make use of wicked Instruments to bring about a good Designe, for the advancement of his glory, &c. This Casuist in Buff had forgotten, That we must not doe evil that good may come thereof; and that both the just and the unjust, the righteous and the unrighteous man being all of Gods Creation and making, he hath the same prero∣gative over them all jure creationis, that a Potter hath over his pots, he may use them, and doe with them what seemeth best to his most holy will: and it is therefore good, holy, just, because he willeth it. His Divine pleasure being the rule and Standard of goodness, holiness, justice. Mistake me not; I doe not mean his bare providence, or permissive will, which no man can take notice of, and Traytors, Tyrants, Thieves, and Reprobate Saints execute, and boast of, to their own assured damnation. There∣fore Gods imploying wicked Instruments can be no president for our Alchimy Saints to do the like; unless Cromwels three Juntoes and Faction will usurp Gods prerogative, as they have done the Kings.

5. The 15. August, the Letter saith, that Coote called a Councel of War, and resolved, It was better to accept of the assistance of those who proclamed themselves Friends to us, and the Interest we fight for, &c. Here you see O Neales bloody Party and those Parliament Champions united, and friendly conspiring to uphold one Com∣mon Interest, which can be nothing but the downfal of Monar∣chy and Protestancy.

6. The 15. August the Letter further saith, that we (Coote and his Councel of War) added to the Article this wary Proviso, not to use their assistance longer than the approbation of the State of England should goe along with us therein, &c. It should seem by

this wariness, that for the time they had used their help (which was ever since the 22. of May last) the approbation of the said State (as they call it) hath gone along therewith. And for the time they mean to use their assistance hereafter, it is left inde∣finite; (no longer than the approbation of the State shall goe along with us therein) which may happily be until Dooms-day: notwithstanding the Order, Dated the 24. August, 1649. voting That their Vote of the 10. August, in the Case of Col. Monck, be communicated to Sir Ch. Coote, as the Resolution of the House, &c. For, who knows whether the Copies of that Vote may miscarry, or be stayed by the way either accidentally or purposely.

7. The 14. August, the Letter saith, O Neale was pleased to communicate to him certain Proposals, which (he saith) were long since transmitied into England to the Parliament, by Col. Monck, and though for his own part and the prime Officers with him, (these are privy to the secret carriage of the businesse, and therefore may well be satisfied with what is done already) they do not doubt but the Proposals are already yielded to by the State; yet in regard their Army and Party in all other parts of the Kingdome (these are ignorant of the juggle, and causes thereof) cannot be satisfied therewith, until the Parliament be pleased to declare themselves more publiquely therein (it should seem they have done it privately al∣ready for satisfaction of O Neale and his said prime Officers) he hath therefore desired me humbly to intraat your Lordships to declare your resolutions therein, with as much speed as may be. Here you see O Neale and his prime Officers (who know the juggle) satisfied already with a private confirmation of the Articles. But to sa∣tisfie the rest of his Army and Party (to whom this mystery is not yet revealed) a publick Declaration thereof is desired, that they may unanimously and cheerfully endeavour the preservation of the Parliaments Interest.

The Articles of Agrement between O Neale and Coote con∣clude clearly a League or War Offensive and Defensive against the Enemies of both, or either, until a more absolute Agreement be made and condescended unto by the Parliament of England. This more absolute Agreement is now agitation, and private Directions sent to Coote how to behave himself in the Trans∣action thereof. See the 1 Vote, die veneris, 24. Aug. 1649. See

the Relation of the Transactions between Sir Charles Coote and Owen Roe O Neale, printed by Order, 28. Aug. 1649.

The Votes upon these Letters and Articles were two: Upon part, in the first Vote I have observed something already in the 6. branch of this Section (viz.) that their Votes of the 10. Aug. in Case of Col. Monck be communicated to Coote; and a Direction for him how to behave himself in the Transaction between him and Owen Roe O Neale; this Transaction is called in the Articles (ut supra) a more absolute Agreement. These Letters, Articles, and Votes being Apologetically published for satisfaction of the Souldiery and People, it had been fit to have communicated the said Directions also to the Trustors and Soveraign Lords the People, that they might have seen fair play above board, and not to have sent clandestine Directions to Coote (in so suspitious a business) how to behave himself in the Transaction with O Neal; which implies the said Transaction shall be continued and may be compleated; the rather for that their second Vote saith, The House is well satisfied of the diligence, faithfulness, and integrity of Sir Charles Coote in preserving the Garris••n of London-Derry: now it was preserved by his said Conjunction with O Neale, who raised the Siege.

About this time came forth a Book, called, [The Levellers vindicated: or, The Case of the 12. Troops which (by Treachery in a Treaty) were lately surprized at Burford: Subscribed by Six Of∣ficers in the name of many more.] Wherein (p. 2.) they say, That under colour of the Armies solemn Engagement at New-market and Triplo-heath, June 5. 1647. and many other their Declarations, Promises, and Protestations in pursuance thereof (which Engage∣ment they affirm (against their Preaching Coronet Denne) was never retracted by any General Councel of the Army, nor upon any Petition of the Souldiers, nor their Agitators ever by them recalled or dismissed) The whole Fabrick of this Commonwealth is fallen into the grossest and vilest Tyranny that ever Englishmen groan∣ed under, all their Laws, Rights, Lives, Liberties and properties wholly subdued to the boundless wills of some deceitful Persons, having de∣volved the whole Magistracy of England into their Martial Domi∣nation, &c.

Pag. 7. They say, That the Souldiers Paper-Debentures are good

for nothing but to sell to Parliament men for 3 s. or 4 s. in the pound. (which they are forced to sell them for to keep them from star∣ving, because they will not pay one penny Arrears to such as they put out of the Army any otherwaies) that so they may rob the Souldiers of their Seven years Service, and make them∣selves and their Adherents Purchasers of the Kings Lands, for little or nothing: and (for ought appears) the Money they buy these Debenters with, is the Money the Nation can have no Ac∣count of. That they have dealt as basely with other Souldiers who never resisted their Commands. 1. They turned them off with only two months pay. 2. They have taken away three parts of their Arrears for Free-quarter, without satisfaction to the Country. And at last force them to sell their Debentures at the aforesaid rates, that those Souldies that are continued in Arms shall fare no better, when they have served their turns with them.

Pag. 10. they say, Their Engagement against the King was not out of any Personal enmity, but simply against his Oppressions and Tyranny on the people; but the use and advantage on all the success God hath been pleased to give us, is perverted to that end, that by his removal the ruling Sword-men might intrude into his Throne, set up a Martial Monarchy, more cruel, arbitrary, and tyrannical, than England ever tasted of, and that under the notion of a Free-State, when as the people had no share at all in the constitution thereof, but by the treachery and falseness of the Lievtenant General Cromwel, and his Son in Law Ireton, with their Faction, was enforced & obtruded by meer Conquest on the people. And a little after, now rather than to be thus vassali∣zed, thus trampled and tr••d under foot by such as over our backs have stepped into the Chair of this hateful Kingship over us, in despight of the consent, choice, and allowance of the Free-people of this Land the true fountain and original of all just Power (as their Votes against Kingly Government confess) we will chuse subjection to the Prince, chusing rather ten thousand times to be his Slaves than theirs, &c.

Pag. 11. They Vote and Declare, The People the Supreme Power, the Original of all just Authority, pretend the promotion of the Agree∣ment of the People; stile this, The first year of Englands Freedome; entitle the Government, A Free State; and yet none more bloody, violent and perverse Enemies thereto; for, not under pains of death

and confiscation of Lands and Goods, may any man challenge or pro∣mote those Rights of the Nation, so lately pretended by themselves. Nothing but their boundless, lawless wills, their naked Swords, Ar∣mies, Arms is now Law in England, &c.

16. August, 1649. Col. Morrice (who kept Pontefract Castle for the King) was Endicted before Judge Thorpe and Pulleston at Yorke Assizes upon the Stat. 25. Edw. 3. for leavying War against the late King and Parliament. The Colonel challenged one Brook (Forerman of the Jury) for being his professed Enemy; but the Court (knowing Brook to be the principal Verb, the Key of their work) answered Morrice, He spake too late, Brooks was sworn already. Brook being asked the Question, whether hee were sworn or no: replied, he had not yet kissed the Book. The Court answered, It was no matter, that was but a Ceremony, alleadging he was recorded Sworn, there was no speaking a∣gainst a Record; Sure they made great haste to record him sworn before he could kiss the Book; so Brooke was kept in upon this cavil, by whose obstinacy, Morrice was condemned. I can∣not wonder that legal Forms and Ceremonies are laid by (al∣though justice cannot subsist without those Legalities to ascer∣tain her proceedings, which otherwaies would be left at large to the discretion of the Judge) when I see our known Laws, Magna Charta, the Petition of Right. 3 Carol. and the rest, with the fundamental Government of this Nation, pulled up by the roots to carry on their Designs of enslaving the people to their lusts, notwithstanding the Parliaments Declarations, Remon∣strances, Protestations, Covenants, and Oaths to the contrary; and their late Vote in the Act for Abolishing Kingly Govern∣ment. That in all things concerning the Lives, Liberties, Proper∣ties and Estates of the people, they would observe the known Laws of the Land. But to return to our Relation: Then Mor∣rice challenged 16. more of the Jury, where Pulleston was so pettish, that he bad Morrice keep his compass, or else he would give him such a blow as should strike off his head. Until Morice cited the Stat. 14 Hen. 7. fol. 19. whereby he might challenge 35. men without shewing cause: Here you see the Judges (which ought to be of Councel with the prisoner in matter of Law) endeavouring to out-face, and blind the prisoner with ignorance

of the Law, being a Martial-man. Then he desired a Copy of his Endictment, that he might know what to answer, saying, he might plead Speeial as well as General, which the Court denied him. Next because there was point of Law in it, he desired to have Councel, citing the Stat. 1 Hen. 7. fol. 23. which was likewise de∣nied him; yet (I am deceived, if Rolfe had not Councel allowed him, being endicted at Winchester for an endeavour to murder King CHARLES the First) and had many other favours de∣nied to Morrice. Then Col. Morrice for his discharge produ∣ced the PRINCES Commission as Generalissimo to the KING his Father. The Judges answered, The Prince was but a Sub∣ject as Morrice was, and if he were present must be tried as he was, and rejected the Gommission without reading: Morrice told them, the Prince had his Authority from the King, in whose name all Judges and Officers did then Act. The Court answered, the power was not in the King, but the Kingdome. Observe, they endicted him for Leavying War against the King and Par∣liament. The word [Parliament] was a surplusage; for which no Indictment could lye: no Allegiance, no Treason; and we owe Allegiance to the King alone; whosoever Leavieth War in England (in the intendment of the Law) is said to Leavy War against the King onely; although he aim not at his Per∣son, but at some other Person: And if he that Leavieth War against the King, his Crown, and Dignity, be a Traytor; how much more must they be Traytors that have actually murthered the King, and Dis-inherited and proscribed his lawful and un∣doubted Heir; and (as much as in them lies) have subverted the Monarchical Government of the Land, and consequently all Monarchical Laws; whereof the Stat. of Treasons for Lea∣vying War against the Kings Majesty is one; and therefore Morrice under a Free-State ought not to be condemned or tried upon any Monarchical Law. So Morrice was found guilty by a Jury for that purpose. And an illegal president begun to cut off whom the Faction pleaseth, under a pretence and form of Law, without help of a Councel of War, or a private Slaughter-house, or a Midnight-Coach guarded with Souldiers to Tyborne. These Usurpers have got the old tyrannical trick, To rule the People by the Laws, but first to over-rule the Laws by

their Lawyers; and therefore, Ʋt rei innocentes pereant, fiunt no∣centes judices; that true men may go to the Gallows, Thieves must sit on the bench; but, silent Leges inter arma; and now, silet Justitia inter Leges, filet Jus inter Judices: The mungrel, hypocritical, three-headed conquest we live under hath dispoy∣led Justice of her ballance, and left her in a Military posture, with a Sword to strike, but no scales to weigh withall: Our licenced News Books (like Ill-Boading-Birds) fore-told and fore-judged Morrice's death a month before: He dyed resolutely. Observe the thing aimed at in this new form of Endictment of High Treason, for leavying War against the King and Parlia∣ment, is, first that the word [King] may hold in the Endict∣ment, which otherwise would be found to have errour in it; and though the word [for Leavying War against the Parliament] be a vain surplusage, signifying nothing; yet at last (by help of their own Judges, and new-made presidents) to leavy War against the Parliament, shall stand alone, be the onely Signi∣ficator, and take up the whole room in the Endictment, and thrust the word [King] out of doors; and then Treason shall be as frequent as Malignancy is now. Morrice had moved, he might be Tried like a Souldier by a Councel of War, alleadging the in∣convenience of such a president if the Kings Party should reta∣liate it, which would not be granted; yet Col. Bethel writ to the General, and his Councel of War, desiring he might be re∣prieved: but Col. Pride opposed it, urging, That it would not stand with the justice of the Army (you see now who is the foun- of Justice) nor the safety of the Commonwealth, to let such Enemies live, the Parliament having adjudged him worthy of death, (with∣out hearing) and given instructions to the Judges accordingly. (O serviceable Judges!) so the General was overborn by this Dray-man. This fellow sitteth frequently at the Sessions house in the Old Bayly, where the weight of his Slings turneth the scale of Justice which way he pleaseth.

Col. Pride's Dray-horses, the Commons in Parliament assem∣bled, not yet satisfied with Blood, because they are out of dan∣ger of bleeding themselves, have voted that Capt. Plunckett and the Marquess of Ormond's Brother (Prisoners in Ireland) shall be brought to Trial. If the Kings Party (in imitation of their

Cruelty) shall put to death the Prisoners they have taken, the Parliament will save their Arreares for their own privy purse: These two cases, are examples of the greatest danger, and the highest contempt of Souldiers that ever were set on foot in any Age or Nation.

29. August, 1649. came forth a Book, called, [An out-cry of the young Men and Apprentises of London: Or, An Inquisition af∣ter the lost fundamental Laws and Liberties of England.] truly and Pathetically setting forth the slavery, misery, and danger of the Common Souldiery and People of this Nation, and the causes thereof: well worth the reading.

About this time came forth an Act (forsooth) for the speedy raising and levying money upon the Excise: that is (as the Act telleth you) upon all and every Commodities, Merchandizes, Manufactures, as well imported or exported as made or growing, and put to sale or consumed, &c. That is, to lay impositions up∣on all we eat, drink, wear, or use, as well in private houses as vi∣ctualling houses, ware-houses, cellars, shops, &c. as well what the Souldier devours in Free-quarter upon us, as otherwise, un∣der unheard-of penalties, both pecuniary and personal to be paid, and levied with rigour. And to make every mans house lie open to be searched by every prowling Rascal as often as he or they please.

The Traytors, Tyrants, and Thieves, the Commons in Colo∣nel Prides Parliament assembled, are now again frighted into a consideration of Forraign Plantations: And passing Acts, That they shall all be subject to the new Babel, or State of England: for which purpose they are very busie to undermine, divide, and sub∣ject the old and first Planters, that (if need be) these reprobate Saints may come in upon their labours, and the better to accom∣modate themselvs there. In the Act for the sale of Kings, Queens, and Princes Personal Estate, they have given leave to their A∣gents the Commissioners to transport beyond sea (that is to say, to their own Plantations) (under pretence of sale) the rarest and choisest of the Kings Goods; they heap up abundance of wealth by Excise, Taxes, Goldsmiths-hall, Haberdashers-hall, Sequestrations, cozening the Souldiers, &c. That they may trans∣port the whole wealth of the Land with them, and leave Eng∣land

naked, disarmed and oppressed with famine, and disabled to pursue them for revenge, or recovery of their losses.

The said Commons are never wearied with exercising their bounty amongst their own Faction out of the publique purse, about 1300 l. to Col. Fielder: to Scobell their Clerk (heretofore a poor under-Clerk in the Chanery, who writ for 2 d. a sheet) besides an employment he hath already in the sale of publique Lands worth 1000 l. a year) a Pension of 500 l. a year; and a Noble Fee for every Copy of an Order taken forth, toties quo∣ties; although most of their Orders contain not above three or four lines; an extortion far surmounting the Star-Chamber, or Councel-Table, of which themselves so much complained: the Diurnal tells you, an Act was read for satisfying the suff••rings of two Members, who have been in the late War damnified many thousands: these (I conceive) to be Sir Tho: Jervys and Mr. Ro∣bert Wallope; this satisfaction must be made out of the publique purse, which must be filled by Taxes again out of their private purses who have lost as well as they without satisfaction, or hopes of satisfaction, notwithstanding many Votes that all should be satisfied.

O Cromwel hath reduced the Officers in Col. Jones his Regi∣ment, and other Dublin Regiments, notwithstanding their va∣lour and fidelitie shewn in raising the Siege of Dublin: you see he will trust none but his own immediate Creatures: this Fa∣ction casts out all other men, as Quicksilver spues out all other mettals (Gold excepted) so that by this, and many other ex∣amples, they may see that all their faithful services and blood∣shed are poured into the bottomlesse tub of oblivion; as their Arreares are cast into the bottomlesse bagg of the Publique Faith.

Sunday 9 Sept. 1649. At the Church of Saint Peters Pauls∣wharfe, Master Williams reading Morning Service out of the Book of Common-prayer, and having prayed for the KING, as in that Liturgy (established by Act of Parliament) he is en∣joyned: Six Souldiers from St. Pauls Church (where they quar∣ter) came with Swords and Pistols cocked into the Church, com∣manding him to come down out of the Pulpit; which Williams immediately did, and went quietly with them into the Vestry:

when presently a party of Horse from St. Pauls rode into the said Church with Swords drawn and Pistols spanned, crying out, Knock the Rogues on the Head, shoot them, kill them; and pre∣sently shot at random at the crowd of unarmed Men, Women, and Children, shot an old Woman into the head, wounded grie∣vously above forty more, whereof many are likely to die, frighted Women with Child, and rifled and plundred away their cloaks, hats, and other spoils of the Aegyptians, and carried away the Minister to White-hall Prisoner. You see these Hereticks, Schis∣maticks, and Atheists, that cry so loud upon Liberty of Consci∣ence for their own Blasphemies, will allow no Liberty of Con∣science to Protestants, notwithstanding their Doctrine and Form of Service is ancient, allowed, and commanded by known Laws, and approved of by all the Reformed Churches of Christendom. This strongly argues a Design in the three Kingdoms to root out Protestancy, as well as Monarchy, carried on by a conjunction of Councels & Forces between that Triumvirate of Rebels, O Neal, O Cromwel, and (as many wise men think) Argyle: who would not otherwise keep the Scots from complying with the KING up∣on modest and moderate terms, such as shall leave him in the condition of a Governing King able to protect His People from injuries at home and abroad, without which he is but—magni nominis umbra, the shadow and May-game of a King. Observe, this provocation was put upon the City when an Artificial Mu∣tiny was raised at Oxford; and against the Great Horse-race ap∣pointed to be at Brackley, the 11. September, to draw both City and Country to joyn with the Mutineers: and then the Soldiers should have made their peace by themselves, and have left the rest to the mercy of the State, to raise more money upon them for O Cromwels expedition in Ireland, who hath writ for more Recruits of Men and Money,

Those bloody Saints that accompanied O Cromwel into Ire∣land (to make that Kingdome as miserable and slavish as they have made this) doe now poure forth the blood of their own bowels in great abundance: Gods vengeance having visited most of them with the bloody flux; whereof many die: But this is a secret that must not be known to the Ungodly, and there∣fore O Cromwel and his Councel of War at Dublin have made

an Order, Declaring, That if any Person residing within the Garri∣son of Dublin, whether Inhabitants or Souldiers, shall (upon pretence of writing to their Friends) signifie the Transactions of the Army (be∣tween O Neale, and O Cromwel, it may be) or their Engagements with the Enemy, so as to set forth their Success, or Loss, until first the General or Councel of War have signified (falsified the same to his Parliament of England, they shall incur the breach of the Article a∣gainst Spies, and be accordingly punished with Death, &c. Here you see O Cromwel, in the first Year; nay in the first Moneth of his reign, sets up a military tyranny in Ireland, to which all Peo∣ple, as well not Souldiers as Souldiers, must submit their lives and fortunes, and the writing of news to their Friends of Eng∣land (whereby their Lies and Forgeries may chance to be con∣tradicted) shall be construed to be a Breach of the Article against Spies: not because Reason a••d Truth, or the Customs of War calls it so, but because the Sword puts this construction upon it. Take notice Ireland that this is the first year of thy Bondage if they prevail. And take notice England that O Cromwel and his Councel and Party are resolved to Lie without controul if they prevail not; their Letters speak him to be 15000 strong before Tredah, which hath Articled to yield: That the next he will vouchsafe is Dundalke, and that Ormond flies from the face of this Josua; and Lying Prophets are sent over to gull the people into a belief. But the truth is, he is not able to draw together a∣bove 4000 or 5000 men, unless his Confederate O Neale joyn with him: And Ormond hath wit enough to know that sickness and famine in that wasted Country, are sufficient to deal with O Cromwel without his running the hazard of an engagement with such desperate forlorn wretches.

Col. Bromfield, Hooker, Cox, and Baynes, Citizens, who the last year were committed upon suspition of High Treason (to which every offence against this new Babel-state is now wrested (not∣withstanding the Stat. 25 Edw. 3. for limitation of Treasons) as in an infectious season all diseases turn to the plague) and were then discharged for want of matter to make good the Charge: are now again imprisoned (in the first year of Eng∣lands Liberty) at the request of Birkhead (Sergeant at Armes to the Commons) until they pay such unreasonable Fees as he plea∣ses

to exact from them: This had been great Extortion and Ty∣ranny in the KINGS time, when this Nation enjoyed so much freedome as to call a Spade a Spade; an Extortioner, an Ex∣tortioner; and a Tyrant, a Tyrant. And reason good; for if such Fees be legally due, Birkhead hath Legal means to recover them; if not Legally due, it is Extortion in him to demand them in so violent a way; and Tyranny in his Masters the Commons to maintain him in it.

Sir Henry Mildmay lately coming to the Tower, and per∣ceiving the Countess of Carlisles window had some prospect to Col. Lilborns Grates (out of his parasitical diligence) told the Lievtenant of the Tower, That notwithstanding the distance was such as they could not communicate by speech, yet they might signifie their intentions by signs upon their fingers, to the prejudice of the tender, infant State; and accompanying this admonition with some grave and politick Nods, hasted away to the Councel of State, and (being both out of breath and sense) unloaded him∣self of his Observations there; and was seconded by Tho. Scot (the Demolisher of old Palaces, and Deflowrer of young Mayden∣heads, before they are ripe) who much aggravated the danger, and applauded the Observator. Sure Sir Henry hath not yet for∣got the bawdy Language of the hand and fingers; since he first, in Court began, to be Ambassadour of Love, Procuror, Pimp or Pandor to the Duke of Buckingham; and laboured to betray the honour of a fair Lady (his nearest Ally) to his Lust, had not she been as Vertuous as he is Vitious (if it be possible for any Woman to be so) and did actually betray others to him. I can tell you that very lately Sir Harry (pretending himself taken with the Wind-collick) got an opportunity to insinuate himself into a Citizens house in Cheapside, and tempted his Wife; but had a shameful repulse: but more of this I will not speak, lest his Wife beat him, and give an ill example to other Women, to the prejudice of our other New States-men, and their New ere∣cted Sodomes and Spintries at the Mulbury-garden at St. Jamses.

Master Gybs (Master of a Ship) having caused three fellows to be committed to New-gate upon Felony, for Robbing him: These Fellows sent to Col. Harvey, That if he would procure their Liberty, they would discover to him several Merchants who had

lately stoln Customes: Whereupon, Harvey sends for those Rogues out of New-gate hears their Accusation, approves it, prosecutes the Merchants upon the Information of those Vil∣lains, discharges them of their Imprisonment by his own power, and recommends them to Col. Deane to be imployed in the Na∣vy. And one Master Lovel a Silk-man in Saint Lawrence-lane, is committed to the Gate-house Prisoner, because he refuseth to swear how many Bayls of Silk he hath come over: If the first year of our Liberty make such presidents, what Monsters will the Sixth and Seventh year produce? All Princes begin with moderation: The Elders gave good Councel to Rehoboam, Serve the People one day, and they will serve thee for ever hereafter. Nero had a commendable Quinquennium; But our Novice Statists are Tyrants ab incunabilis; Oppressors with shels upon their heads, from the Nest, before they are fledge; what will they be hereafter?

Sommerhil, a pleasant Seat, worth 1000 l. a year, belonging to the Earle of Saint Albans, is given by the Juncto to their Blood-hound Bradshaw, so he hath warned the Countess of Lei∣cester (who formerly had it in possession to raise a Debt of 3000 l. pretended due to her from the said Earle, which she hath already raised four-fold) to quit the possession against our Lady-day next.

The Protestation and Declaration.

[unspec 222] THe Premises considered, I do hereby in the name and behalf of my self, and of all the Free people of England, Declare and Protest, That the General, Councel of War, and Officers of the Army, by their said violent and treasonable force upon the far major, more honest and moderate part of the House of Commons (being above 250.) and leaving only fifty or sixty Schimaticks of their own en∣gaged Party sitting and voting under their Command, and almost all of them such as have and do make a prey of the Commonwealth, to enrich themselves and their Faction, have broken, discontinued and waged War against this Parliament, and have forfeited their

Commissions. And the remaining Faction in the House of Commons by abetting, ayding, and concurring with the said Councel of War, in the said rebellious Force, and by setting up new, illegal and arbi∣trary Courts of Judicature to Murther King CHARLES the First, our lawful King and Governour (who by his Writ (according to the Law) summoned and authorised this Parliament to meet, sit, and advise with him, and was the Fountain, Head, and conclusion, or su••matory end of the Parliament, and Supreme Governour over all Persons, and in all Causes of this Kingdome (and by Abolishing the House of Peers and the Kingly Office, and Dis-inheriting the Kings Children, and Ʋsurping to themselves the Supreme Authority and Legislative P••wer of this Nation, in order to make and establish themselves a Councel of State, Hogen Mogens, or Lords States Ge∣neral, and translate the said Supreme Power, and Authority into the said Councel of State, and then Dissolve this Parliament, and perpetute their said Tyranny and this Army, and Govern Arbi∣trarily by the Power of the Sword; and raise what illegal Taxes they please, and eat out, consume and destroy whosoever will not basely submit to their Domination. Have by the aforesaid wayes and means totally subverted this Common-wealth, and destroyed the fundamental Laws, Authority and Government thereof, Dissolved and Abolished this, and all future Parliaments, so that there is now no visible, law∣ful Authority left in England, but the Authority of King CHARLES the Second, who is actually KING of all his Dominions presently upon the Decease of the King his Father, before any Pro∣clamation made, or Coronation solemnized, notwithstanding that by his unjust Banishment (caused by the interposition of the said trayte∣rous, combined, Antimonarchical Faction) He be eclipsed for the present, and not suffered to perform any Acts of Government to his three Kingdomes, and restore Peace, Plenty, Justice, Mercy, Religion, Laws, and Liberties to them again, which no hand but his own can bestow; and therefore in vain do the people long for, and expect Figgs from Thistles, Grapes from Thorns: This Kingdome of the Brambles now set up, being onely able to Scrath and Tear, not to Protect and Govern them. I farther Declare and Protest, That this combined trayterous Faction, have forced an Interregnum and a Justitium upon us, an utter suspension of all Lawful Government, Magistracy, Laws and Judicatories; so that we have not de jure, any Laws in

force to be executed, any Magistrates or Judges Lawfully constituted to execute them; any Court of Justice wherein they can be judicially executed, any such Instrument of the Law as a lawful Great Seal, nor any Authority in England that can lawfully Condemn and Exe∣cute a Thief, Murderer, or other Offender, without being them∣selves called Murtherers by the Law, all legal proceedings being now coram non Judice; nor can this remaining Faction in the House of Commons shew any one President, Law, Reason, or Authority what∣soever for their aforesaid doings, but onely their own tyrannical Votes, and the Swords of their Army: Wherefore I do further Declare and Protest before God and the World, That all Free-born Subjects of the Kingdomes of England and Ireland, are bound by the Stat. of Recognition, 1 Jac. and by all our Laws and Statutes, By their Oaths of Allegiance, Obedience, and Supremacy, the Protestation and Na∣tional Covenant, by very many Declarations, Remonstrances, Petiti∣ons, and Votes of this Parliament, and all Souldiers are engaged also by their own Declarations, Remonstrances, and Proposals, to de∣fend, assert, and vindicate with their lives and fortunes, the Person, Authority and Title of our aforesaid lawful KING and Supreme Governour (the undoubted Heir of all His late Fathers Dominions) CHARLES the Second, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, &c. against all Opposites and pretended Au∣thorities whatsoever, unless they will be guilty of the fowlest sins of Treason, Rebellion, Perjury, and perfidiousness against their God, their King and Country; and of prostituting the Religion, Laws, and Liberties of the Land, their Wives, Children, and Estates to the lusts of an Armed Faction, usurping a far more Arbitrary and Tyrannical power over our Consciences, Persons, Liberties, and Estates, than ever was known in England before, or then is now used by the Russe, Turk, or Tartar, or any the most enslaving and lawless Tyrants un∣der Heaven.

Notes

• 159. Doct. Dorislaus stabbed to death in Holland.
• 160. Hasleriggs bar∣barous motion to murder six Royalists of the best quali∣ty in revenge of Dorislaus.
• 161. An act decla∣ring more new Treasons.
• Sic volo, sic ju beo, it shall be Treason, be cause they will call and Vote it so.
• See 1. H. 4. c. 10. 11. H. 7. c. 1.
• So the four Lords ought to have been Tried, not by a new shambles of Justice.
• 162. A motion to inlarge Sir Will. Waller, &c. And the Ge∣nerals Answer intimating the securing of the Members to be done by confederacy with the Army-party in the House.
• 163 The General sends forth Warrants to all Justices of the Peace to attach those Levellers that he had rout∣ed.
• See the Vote and Act for abolishing the Kingly office. 164.
• The General sends to the City for addi∣tional Forces
• 165. The Com∣mons colou∣rably debate to dissolve this Parl. and set∣tle a succeed∣ing Represen∣tative.
• 166. A debate how to defeat Judgments, Extents, &c. upon Delin∣quents lands. sect.
• 167. John Lilburne starving im∣prisonment in the Tower.
• The allow∣ance is 4 l. a Week as I conceive.
• 168. Why Ireton laid down his Commission.
• 169. Hugh Peters ••isits J. Lil∣••urne in the Tower, and ••he sum of ••heir Conse∣••ence. Witness his ••ampering with Hamil∣••on, &c.
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  Compare this Act of the Kings, with the vio∣lent act of those Tray∣tors and Ty∣rants, Fairfax and his Coun∣cel of War in imprisoning and secluding above 200. Members at once without cause shewn, and leaving only 40 or 50 of their cheating Fa∣ction in the House to car∣ry on their bloody Anar∣chical de∣signs; some of which secu∣red Members with barba∣rous usage were almost brought to death, and their murder since attemp∣ted by Souldi∣ers.
• The Law is now taken away and all things in confusion by turning our Monarchy (with∣out or consent) into a Free-State of Slaves governed by Tyrants.
• This doctrine of Devils, that it is lawful to submit to any present pow∣er that is strongest, is broached in a Pamphlet by old Rowse the illiterate Jew of Eaton-Col∣ledge. And by John Goodwin the sophisti∣cal Divine; which is ful∣ly con••uted in A Religi∣ous Demurrer concerning submission to the present power; an ex∣cellent peece.
• The Laws are now no protection to us, nor the rule of our actions, but the arbitrary wills and lusts of the Grandees.
• Sect. 162.
• 170. The Act for Abolishing Monarchy proclaimed in London.
• 171. A Thanks-giving Dinner in the City for the Gene∣ral, &c.
• 172. The Councel of State sit in pomp at White-hall.
• 173. A general sur∣vey to be ta∣ken of the whole King∣dome; that e∣very mans Estate both real and personal may be taxed.
• 174. An Act ena∣bling Com∣mittees to give Oaths.
• 175. Scrivenors commanded to shew shop-books.
• 176. The aforesaid Thanksgiving solemnized.
• 177. A necessary advertisement to all honest Presbyterians See K. Charles the first his book [The Portraicture of his Majesty in his solitudes & sufferings] Some over∣hastily expect the King should satisfie the Presbyterians by his Decla∣ration; but the height of the Independents malice & their guilty fears are such as may endanger the d awing on a Massac••e upon them by such a course.
• See a Book, entituted [His Majesties gra∣cious Messages for peace.] Mr. Pryns Speech, 5. Dec. 1648. in the House. And the secu∣red Members Reply to the Councel of War.
• 1 King. 3.
• Oath of Alle∣giance, and Stat. of Re∣cognition, 1 Jacobi.
• Dictum de Kennel∣worth.
• See the late History of the Marquess of Montross, what gentle use he made of his Victory after he had subdued the strength of Scotland at Battel of Kylsythe.
• 178. The loss of Ships at King∣sale suppres∣sed, and mis∣reported in the House, and why?
• Scout, from June the 8. to 15. 1649. 179. Gifts given amongst the Faction.
• 180. The Kxcise enlarged up∣on Salt.
• 181. A Vindication of the Level∣lers in some things; and a further de∣sign to garble and enslave the Army.
• 182. The pretend∣ed Parlia∣ments Coun∣cel of State and Officers confederated with Oneale. See An After-game at Irish, &c. 1649. and the Pro∣positions p••inted at Cork and re∣printed at London. From June 6. 1649. June 8. 1649.
• Moderate In∣telligencer, from June 7. to 14. 1649. num. 221.
• See the Coun∣cel of Wars Answer con∣cerning the secured and secluded Members; from 6. June to 13. num. 3.
• 183. Parker the Observator.
• 184. Meltons Book, the Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, &c.
• See the Myste∣ry of the two Junto's, Pres∣byterian and Independent.
• 185. L.C. Lilburns Book [The Legal funda∣mental Liber∣ties of the People, &c.]
• 186. Tythes to be Sequestred for the State.
• 187. An Adjourn∣ment of this pretended Parliament considered of.
• 188. Cromwel vo∣ted for Ireland with full power Civil and Military.
• 189. 13 Bills in∣joyned to be passed by the Commons be∣fore Adjourn∣ment.
• 1 King. 18.17.
• 190. Things under∣taken by the Councel of State during the Recess.
• 191. Dean and Chapters Lands pur∣chased by the Godly.
• 192. Souldiers in∣solencies re∣mediless.
• 193. The Earl of Denbigh and Henry Martin referred to Committees.
• 194. The Councel of State au∣thorized to grant Letters of Marque.
• 195. Cap. Yongue's blowing up the Antilope in Helversluce; with a Cau∣tion.
• 196. More Gifts to the Godly.
• 197. Order 9. June 1649. refer∣ring all secu∣red and se∣cluded Mem∣bers to be ex∣amined before a Committee.
• 168. Articles of Impeachment against the Speaker.
• Note that Oliver, before he left the Town, ere∣cted a Com∣mittee of Of∣ficers of the Army to pro∣secute and bring to punishment grand Delinquents. This is a new kinde of Star-Chamber o•• military Nobles, held like a Rod over the Mock-Parliament. Councel of State, and the Gene∣ral, in case they shall oppose Olivers Designs.
• 199. 50000 l Ad∣••nce mony ••r Cromwels ••xpedition.
• 200. More Gifts to the Godly.
• The Moderate, from July 3. to July 10. 1649.
• 201. Endeavors to lessen the Ge∣neral.
• 202. An Inquisition for blood, an ingenious piece newly come to light.
• Proems to Lawes are condemned by many Lawyers and Polititians. Est nihil fri∣gidius Lege cum Prologe, jubeo lex, non suadet.
• By raising Tumults, &c.
• 203. Mr. Pryns ex∣cellent Book entituled [A legal Vindica∣tion of the Li∣berties of England] illegal axes, and pretended Acts of Parliament abridged in part, but the whole commended to be seriously read by all men.
• Quere, How a Parliament Summoned by the Writ of K. Charles I. and called Parliamentum Nostrum ad tractandum nobiscum super arduis negotiis regni nostri, can be continued one and the same Parl. after the Kings death that called it; and the Monar∣chy changed into a Commonwealth? formally it cannot be the same, the Head thereof being gone. The Lords House and Monarchy being abolished, and the State not the same; materially it cannot be the same, so many of the ancient Members being thrown out, and new ones un∣duly elected brought in. But there are some pragmatical Taylors in the House, who can make a garment fit for all states of the Moon, and a Parl. fit for all changes of the State.
• It is against the nature, and essence of a Parl. to be Perpetual, and against the Li∣berty of the People.
• Added by the Abridger.
• This 17. is ad∣ded by the A∣bridger.
• More hath been raised by Taxes these last eight years, than in all the Kings Reigns since the Conquest, and no ac∣count given,
• 204. Cromwel sets sail for Ire∣land.
• 205. The Associa∣tion between O Neale and C. Monck. See the Paper at large.
• Scot having studied the Politiques in a Brewers Tally, is be∣come a great States-man in our new Ba∣bel. See the said Paper, The true state, &c.
• See the An∣swer of the Councel of Of∣ficers to the Parliaments Demand, con∣cerning their secured Mem∣bers: And their Answer thereunto.
• Let me not seem over∣bold in main∣taining a dif∣ferent opinion, since Parliaments are no more infallible than Popes; and all humane opi∣nions are equal unless Reason make the difference. I hope we have not lost our Reason with our Lawes and Liberties, nor the exercise and use of it.
• See the said Letter, print∣ed at the lat∣ter end of a Relation of the securing and secluding of the Members by the Army.
• Nota.
• [Within the space of three Months] is not in the said Copy printed at Cork.
• The Story of the father Transactions between O Neale and Monke continued and enlarged out of the Propositions printed at Cork.
• 1. Observati∣ons upon Monks letter.
• 2. Observa∣tions upon the Proposi∣tions amend∣ed. See the said Paper printed at Corke, especi∣ally Monks Letter.
• Paper print∣ed at Cork.
• See the Date in The true state of Tran∣sactions, &c. It seems to be 8. May, 1649.
• See the Per∣fect Occur∣rences, nu. 17. 138. from Aug. 17. to the 24. 1649.
• 206. Cromwell's Souldiers de∣sert him at Milford-ha∣ven, and upon his complain his House of Commons vote their Debentures void.
• 207. A League De∣fensive & Of∣fensive, con∣cluded be∣tween O Neal and Sir Charls Coote Gover∣nour of Con∣naught for the Parliament: See the last Section save one.
• Why did they cry out upon King Charls I. upon a sur∣mise that He used the help of the more innocent Irish Papists, being His own Sub∣jects under His Allegi∣ance and Pro∣tection? but we find the Godly are a∣bove all laws.
• Councel of Officers, of State, and Parliament.
• See Monk's Letter of An∣swer to O Neale, Dated 26. April, 1649. from Dundalk, con∣tained in the last foregoing Section but one: See tie said Paper, en∣tituled, [The Propositions of Owen Roe O Neale, sent to Col. Monck, &c. Printed at Cork, 1649.
• 208. The Levellers vindicated: or, The Case of the twelve Troops, &c.
• 209. Col. Morrice Governour of Pontefract for the King, En∣dicted at the Assizes at Yorke, con∣demned and executed.
• Three headed consisting of, 1 Councel of War. 2 Councel of State. 3 Parliament
• 210. Cap. Plunkett and the Mar∣quess of Or∣monds brother voted to be Tryed.
• 211. An out-cry of the young men and Ap∣prentices of London con∣curring with those falsly called, Level∣lers.
• 212. Excise.
• 213. Forrain Plan∣tations.
• 214. More gifts to the Faction.
• Numb. 319. from Monday Sept. 3. to Monday, Sept. 10.
• 215. O Cromwel re∣duceth Iones's own Regi∣ment and o∣ther Regi∣ments in Dub∣lin. Let Sir C. Coote and his Regiment in London-Derry expect the like
• 216. A violent ir∣ruption of the Parl. Janisa∣ries upon the Protestants at Church in St. Peters Pauls∣wharf, Sunday morn, 9. Sept. 1649.
• This Mutiny was not be∣gun by Level∣lers.
• 217. O Cromwel's men sick in Ireland.
• 218. Unreasonable Fees extorted by Birkhead by Dures of Imprison∣ment; with the conni∣vance of the Commons.
• 219. Sir Har. Mild∣may's Politick Observations, Chaste Con∣versation, and first initiation at Court.
• 220. Felons fetch∣ed out of Newgate to inform against Merchants for not pay∣ing Customes
• 221. Sommer-hill given to Brad∣shaw. A sop for Cerberus.
• Principium Caput & fini•• Parliamenti. Oaths of Al∣legiance and Supremacy.
• See 1. part. sect. 105, 106. and the Con∣clusions, 15, 16, 17, 18. and return to sect. 79, 109, 110. Stat. of Recog∣nition, 1 Jac. Oaths of Al∣giance and Supremacy.
• 223. Compare the date of the K. Commissions with those of the Parlia∣ment, and their Decla∣rations on both sides.