Common-wealth's Money by Gifts and Rewards and paying pretended Arrears in a word seek the ruin of the Kingdom and the advancement of themselves and their Party this made them change their Minds and many of them to confess and acknowledg they had been abused 47. But this was not the work of one day Some time passed before they could make these clear discoveries and disabuse themselves our grand Impostors kept them a good while at gaze with putting jealousies into their heads against the Scots as if the Scots had a design of making good their footing in this Kingdom and that we who were of the other Party from them did carry on the Scotch Interest and design'd to betray the Rights and Liberties of England with which Engine they batter'd a long time and made no small impression in many mens Minds 48. For the next step they meant to make was to fall foul with the Scots and engage the Kingdoms one against another in Blood which was the return they would give the Scots as a reward of the good Service they had done them coming to their help in time of need when they were so low so despairing of carrying on their work and effecting what they had projected to themselves as that the chief of them a little before were ready to run away Ships prepared good store of Treasure which they had shark'd pack'd up to carry with them or return'd beyond Sea by Bills of Exchange and all things in a readiness for their remove so well were they resolved to hazard and if need were sacrifice themselves for their Country tho they would be thought to be the only Patriots but they had certainly left it in the lurch if first my Lord of Essex had not done that memorable piece of Service in relieving Glocester which was so gallantly defended by Major General Massey and fighting the great Battel of Newbury And a little before that the Kingdom of Scotland engaging in the Cause sent in their Army to their assistance My Lord of Essex as has been shewed already had his reward he was cashier'd and so was Major General Massey who since likewise is turn'd out of the House being one of the eleven Members and voted to be impeached of High Treason And next the Scots must have theirs The quarrelling with them and endeavouring to destroy their Army is what I must now speak of as the Subject of the next Act in this Tragedy The first endeavour is to break the Scotish Army by not paying it which before whilst they had need of it or hopes that the Kingdom of Scotland might cooperate to the working of their Designs they could be careful to do their utmost to satisfie and to provide for it fitting Accommodations But now they can let many months pass without sending them any Money or taking any care for their supply or so much as affording them good words One of these two effects they thought this would certainly produce either the Soldiers to run away perhaps mutiny so the Army disband and fall to pieces or else live upon Free-quarters so by oppressing the Country to become odious and the people rise against them Nor were they wanting to give all encouragement so to do Emissaries were sent out and Agents employ'd in all places to stir up and imbitter mens Spirits Many Complaints were by their procurements sent up to the Parliament and all means used to get hands to those Complaints and strange things were suggested vast Sums to be levy'd by them so many thousand Pounds a week to be levy'd upon a County unheard of Insolencies to be committed Robbing Killing Ravishing Riots all manner of Villanies This would come up with open cry make a great noise be received and heighten'd in the House of Commons with railing Speeches bitter Invectives blown over the City and Kingdom to the disadvantage and reproach not only of the Army but the Nation in a word all done that could be imagin'd to set Man Woman and Child and even the very Stones against them The Commissioners of Scotland that were in London would many times send in their Papers to the Houses of Parliament to shew the falshoods of those Reports and desire that Committees might be sent down to join with theirs to examine these things pressing that it ought to be so done by the Treaty between the two Kingdoms and that there should always be a Committee of both Kingdoms with the Army to govern it to provide what was sit for the Soldiers and prevent both disorders and misunderstandings but it was not that which our Masters desir'd and therefore they would send none 49. The Members of the House who dislik'd those Courses and saw the endeavours that were us'd to cause a breach between the two Nations did yet desire that if those relations were true it might so appear and be represented not only to the General of the Army and to that part of the Committee of Estates of Scotland which was in England both those with the Parliament and those with the Army but even to the Kingdom of Scotland that there might be redress the Offenders punish'd and the Kingdom of England righted and satisfy'd If false that the raisers and contrivers of those Reports might be punish'd and the Kingdom of Scotland repaired which was the way to keep Peace between the Nations And so sometimes they prevail'd and got it order'd for an Examination but never any thing could be made of it Only at a Market-Town in Yorkshire there had been a Riot and some Men killed for which a Council of War had passed on the Offenders and some as I remember were executed some cashier'd And for the raising those great Sums of Money it is true Money they did raise or else their Soldiers must have starv'd But for that exorbitancy of raising so many thousand Pounds a Week upon one County it was a Scandal and false Lye grounded upon notable Cheat and Collusion For the Scots drawing their Quarters near together which they did as well for the better governing of their Army as for the safety of it knowing they had many back-friends this made them lie heavy upon places and exact the more Money and Provisions from those several Townships Then did these Men who were employed to blow the Coals and put all into a flame if possible between the Country and the Scots take the highest rate that was set upon any one of these Towns and make a computation what it would come to upon the whole County at that proportion which Sum they inform'd to be the charge upon that County for the payment of the Scotish Army and this must be made a great business and past for a truth as if the Scots had rais'd so much Money when in truth there was no such thing 50. Yet let me not be thought to excuse and justifie all that the Soldiers of that Army have done upon the Country and not to pity with a very tender Sense
punishment and expect mercy neither from God nor Man nay even in relation to the Army and those persons who have a long time sought my ruin if all I desir'd and aim'd at in disbanding that schismatical factious Soldiery in carrying on the business of the House in opposition to that Party and even in this last great Treason of levying War against King Parliament and Kingdom as they stile it which was only to do my best endeavour to defend them and my self from a rebellious Army that was marching up for all our destructions contrary to the Orders of both Houses against whom it first rebell'd instead of an obedient disbanding then cudgel'd them to own it for their Army forc'd the City into a trouble and shew of opposition to what it had made the Parliament do then took that occasion to march both against it and the Parliament If notwithstanding all this in what I did I had any thought of personal revenge or to do the least hurt to any particular person in case we had prevail'd but only to return into the way whence we were put out of a free quiet Parliamentary proceeding to accomplish the great work of settling the Peace both of Church and State let me perish and God who is the searcher of hearts knows I now speak nothing but truth 199. Well then I say if all our endeavours must like an untimely birth come to nothing our hope be cut off our persons destroy'd our integrity innocency fidelity question'd and decry'd our good names traduc'd torn in sunder our memories made to stink to all posterity by the false calumnies of our malicious Enemies and their power in suppressing truth and which is worst for all this is but particular the general the publick the Common wealth once in so fair a way of recovery at the eve of a happy day to be rid of Armies enjoy a Peace hear no more of the Instruments of War but see a blessed composure of all unhappy differences reap the fruits of Justice and Mercy and upon a sudden to find all this but as the hungry man's Dream who is the more empty when he awakes so instead of this solid happiness to embrace a Cloud have nothing but the empty promises of a false deceitful Army and be cast back into a greater gulf of misery and confusion than all the enemies in the World could have brought it into and the latter end to be far worse than the beginning 200. If this be our Portion were I a Heathen I should say with Brutus when he meant to kill himself seeing the assertors of publick Liberty overcome and ruin'd and the Invaders prevail and conquer O misera virtus eras igitur fabula seu verba ego te ut rem colebam exercebam tu autem fortunae serviebas But being a Christian I am taught another Lesson to know that nothing comes by chance God who dos all things in number weight and measure orders and disposes all as may most make for his own Honour and the good of his Church and Children to which even the wickedness of the wicked and these Disorders will conduce tho the wit of Man cannot fathom it therefore I will lay my Hand upon my Mouth and not once whisper because the Lord has done it only take up St. Paul's admiration and with it end crying out O Altitudo O the Depth of the Riches both of the Wisdom and Knowledg of God! How unsearchable are his Iudgments and his Ways past finding out FINIS AN Alphabetical Table A. Accommodation with the King propos'd by the Lords and laid aside by the malignant Party of the Commons p. 9 10. Agitators set up by the Army their Actions 86 87. Receive some check from Cromwel 87 88. Write a Letter against the Parliament 88 89. The Insolence of those that brought it 89. Their extravagant Proposals to Sir Tho. Fairfax in relation to the Parliament c. 171. Allen Treasurer of the Army 135. Concern'd in conveying away a great Sum of Money design'd for the Army 161. Army forsaken of divers brave Officers when it left its Obedience to the Parliament 70. Countenanc'd great Disorders in Churches c 71. Petitions from City and Country to have it disbanded 72. Recruits daily tho it had no Enemy to oppose 72. Hinders the Relief of Ireland 73 76 79 83. Voted to be disbanded but what was necessary for Garisons c. 74. Some of its Officers mutiny 76. Petition for an Indemnity before disbanding c. 77 78. Incens'd by the Officers against the Parliament 83 84. Are rather incourag'd than discountenanc'd by the Officers that were sent to appease them 91. Their Representation to the Parliament 91 92. Address their General against disbanding 94 95. Enter into an Ingagement not to disband 99. Their Representation in which they censure the Parliament's Actions with Contempt 100 101 111. Intermeddle with the Business of the Kingdom contrary to their Protestations 103. Refuse to hear the Parliament's Votes tho in their own favour aud march towards the City 108. Their high Pretences for the good of the People c. 110 112 149. Make the Parliament do what they please 111. Require a Period to be put to it 112. Their insolent Demands of it 113 115 116 163. Their specious Pretences for the King 118. Vpbraid the Parliament for doing what they forc'd 'em to 119. Their pretended Care for the Privileges of Parliament ibid. Manage all Affairs of the Kingdom 142 c. Are compos'd of mean Officers c. 149. Their extravagant Proposals to the Parliament in relation to Church and State 177 181. Their Remonstrance Decemb. 7. 1648. against the Parliament 192 195. which is descanted on 195 197. Make the Parliament act against it self set up for Lords and Masters c. 200 201. Army Party their Actions and Aims 1 5. How they got into Power 6. Their Vsage of the King Queen c. 7. Are for the Covenant c. 13. Misrepresent Affairs to the Scots 14. Begin to shew themselves after Marston-moor Fight 18. Oppose the Lords for medling with a Commoner 20 56. Against putting an end to the War 25 29. Govern by the Sword c. 26. Oppos'd by an honest Party in the House ibid. Frustrated in their Expectation of some they had got chosen 43 44. Indeavour to set the two Kingdoms against each other 45. and the Country against the Scots 49. Amuse the House with strange things against them 52. Break the Law of Nations with relation to the Scots Commissioners 54 55 56. Ioin some Scots Commissioners to the English in the Power of the Militia but with an ill design 57. which they would afterwards have alter'd 58. Would have the Army march into the North against the Scots without the Parliament's Order 61. Hinder the Scots going out of England tho they pretended to be for it 62. Quarrel with 'em about the Person of the King 67 68. Their Designs frustrated by the Scots
upon them If either of which had taken they had still kept themselves behind the Curtain and hid the Arm which had thrown the Stone they had seem'd alas innocent well-meaning Men and yet the mischief befallen which they had contriv'd But rather than fail they will throw of the Vizard and come downright with open face to the executing their Design They set on their Teazers as Haslerig Mildmay Martin and many others to move That Sir Thomas Fairfax might go down with his Army to protect those Northern Counties and relieve them from the oppression of the Scots a pretty way of protection and giving ease to send an Army into a Country We see how this Army eases the Country now to the breaking both of their backs and hearts But could they have gotten a Vote for this their work had been done and we should soon have heard of mischief and felt it The animosity between those two Armies had instantly put them and the Kingdoms into blood for which no question Sir Thomas Fairfax had his Instructions but the House would never give way to it tho with earnestness prest many times by that Party And when they saw they could not prevail the presumptions are very strong that they would have had the Army to have march'd thither without the Parliament's order for the Scots had an alarm of the Army 's moving towards them and their Commissioners so inform'd the House with a protestation against it upon which there was a stop with a denial and disavowment of their having any such intention Yet certainly there was an attempt and it is said orders out for part of the Army to move that way but God be thanked it went no further for that would have been a sad business 59. Before I go off this matter I must do that right to Col. Pointz who commanded the Northern Forces as to attribute to his care and vigilancy and his discreet ordering of his business a great part of our happiness that all that mischief was prevented which was so earnestly endeavour'd to be pull'd on us by engaging the Country and Scotish Army in quarrel and bloodshed and that was his Crime with these Men to be for it since so unjustly put out of his Command after they had stir'd up the unruly Rabble of the Agitators to take him by violence out of his House at York being as absolutely in his Command as Fairfax was in his Meerly doing it by an act of power force and violence breaking through all Rules of Justice Equity and Honesty bringing him a Prisoner to the Army not suffering him so much as to put on his Clothes or speak to his Wife or any Friend but use him as if he had been the greatest Traytor in the world when Sir Thomas Fairfax could not pretend to the least jurisdiction over him not any thing could be laid to his charge Such is their hatred of every honest Man who stands in their way to their pernicious designs 60. Their next hope was that the Scotish Army would not go out of the Kingdom at the desire of the Parliament so bloody Noses would be upon that occasion and I must give them their due there was no failure in them to do all that was possible to have kept them in still only to quarrel with them but with a seeming to desire nothing so much as their going Very forward they were to get the Vote of the Parliament that they should be gone but to inable them to go they would not help rather hinder and hang on all the weights they could To say the truth they had some ground to believe First That they would not go Secondly That they could not if they would for the Scots had a colour if not just reason to have refus'd 61. By the Covenant and Treaty the two Kingdoms had bound themselves before God and one to another as one intire Body to prosecute the Cause these are the very words of the Declaration of both Houses to the State of the united Provinces which Declaration Mr. Sollicitor himself penn'd therefore they must hold it Canonical and that neither Kingdom should lay down Arms till the Ends mention'd in the Covenant and Treaty were obtain'd If then in this Cause the Forces of both Kingdoms made but one intire Body the Scots had a good Plea Why will you send us away and disband us wholly This proceeding is not equal the Body must suffer and cannot act as an intire Body if one whole Member be cut off or if there be no more need of acting if the Ends be obtain'd for which the Body was constituted and therefore you send us away then why do you keep up your own Army the other part of this Body This had certainly been strong reason which Mr. Sollicitor would have been puzled to answer 62. Besides the Scots had cause enough to have their jealousie prompt them that it was not safe for them to depart with their Army lay by their Swords and leave standing in this Kingdom so great a Force which they knew to be so ill affected to them and might act to their prejudice and the King being in their power perhaps force both him and the Parliament to a Peace disadvantageous to Scotland and differing from those grounds upon which by the Kingdom of England they were engag'd in this Quarrel or else make no Peace at all but interpose as Cromwel to the Earl of Manchester to hinder it and themselves govern by the Sword not only to the prejudice of Scotland but also ruin of England One may swear there was ground enough for such a fear for since it hath prov'd so to purpose But according to the old Rule they who mean well themselves are not suspicious of others The Scots had no thoughts but of setling a Peace laying down of Arms calling the People and all things to revert into their old Channel therefore they were willing to be gone and return into their own Country in confidence that after their departure the Army under Sir Thomas Fairfax should likewise presently be disbanded since there was no more need of any Army at all so they were willing to go 63. But then the question was if they would go or not and how the Soldiers would be dispos'd to march out who had not been paid of so many Months insomuch as the Scotish Commissioners gave in an account of some 800000 l. Arrears Here our Gallants hop'd they had them upon the Hip and should surely give them a fall Then they thrust on some of their little Northern Beagles as Mr. Blaxton and others to inform what high Sums they had rais'd upon the Country upon which they conclude the Scotish Army was in their debt and therefore they would come to an account with them which had been a sure way to have kept them in the Kingdom five or six months longer But to help that our just Pay-masters said the Army should march away and some persons
be left behind to see all accounts adjusted which had requir'd very good Rhetorick to have made it Justice especially to have appear'd so to the Scotish Soldiers for to have sent them away without Money and then ask the Country-man what the Soldiers had taken when he might say what he thought â— good the Soldier not there to answer for himself and yet his Pay to be thereby determin'd would have been but hard measure But the Rhetorick had been Sir Thomas Fairfax to have gone down with his Army which should have made it just and easie and every thing for this was it they desir'd to bring it to as it was often mov'd and press'd by them 64. At last the well-wishers to Peace with much ado prevail'd in the House and it was carry'd to offer the Scots a gross Sum for all so to part fair and avoid the delay and disputes of an account to which they presently agreed Then the question was what Sum. Here again we had a strong debate For our Incendiaries hung by every twig sticking fast to their Principles to dissatisfie the Scots and break with them if possible upon any point pretending the poverty of the Kingdom and the great Sums the Scots had rais'd and therefore they would give but 100000 l. which they knew was all one with a hundred Shillings as to the satisfying of the Soldiers for marching away In the end after many debates in the House and passages to and again with the Scotch Commissioners the lowest Sum that could be agreed unto by the Commissioners was 400000 l. two in hand and the other two after some time with a protestation of theirs that the Army would not be satisfy'd with less nor inabled to march which was motive enough for these Men to deny it for if they could have wrought the dissatisfaction of the Army so as to have refus'd to go it was where they would have it Whereupon 't was oppos'd by them with all the power they had but in the end the better part that is the moderate Party who were the Peace-makers those that labour'd to keep things even and fair between the two Kingdoms carry'd it And the sum was voted and all things agreed upon tho with difficulty for they fought it out and lost it by Inches then the Scots declar'd they would march out by such a day 65. Yet had our Boutefeus one hope left which was to quarrel at last about the person of the King believing the Scots would certainly have taken his Majesty with them into Scotland This they knew had been ground sufficient and would have engag'd all England against them giving a confirmation to all the jealousies formerly rais'd and occasion'd a thousand more And had certainly more advantag'd the designs of those who thirsted after the destruction of the King first the Scots next and then all such as desir'd Peace within this Kingdom and have made them a smoother way to their damnable Ends the altering of the Government and bringing in a confusion both in Church and State than any thing that could have happen'd And the two Kingdoms had been together in blood the author of the mischief undiscover'd mask'd over with the glorious pretences of zealously vindicating the honesty and interest of England and every breach of Covenant and Treaty in this Cause which made them with so much peremptoriness and incivility and in truth injustice demand that the Scots would deliver up his Majesty who had an equal interest in his Royal Person with the Kindom of England he being equally King of both and an equal interest in the closing and binding up the unhappy differences which were between him and both his Kingdoms they having been engag'd in that Quarrel at the entreaty of England and made up together with an intire Body with England as is before shewed for the prosecution of it Therefore they had no more reason to trust us with the King than we had them and as much were they concern'd in all that related to his Majesty's Person so as they had ground enough to have disputed it and out of that hope was it press'd by the others But the wisdom of the Scotish Nation foresaw the inconveniencies which must have necessarily follow'd had they been positive at that time how they had plaid their Enemies game to their own ruin and even ruin to his Majesty Therefore they made for him the best conditions they could that is for the safety and honour of his Person and to avoid greater mischiefs were necessitated to leave him in England and so march away Which they did in February 1646. 66. Here then the very mouth of Iniquity was stopt Malice it self had nothing to say to give the least blemish to the faithfulness and reality of the Kingdom of Scotland the clearness of their Proceedings their zeal for Peace without self-seeking and self-ends to make advantage of the miseries and misfortunes of England This gave such a reputation to them and to those that appear'd for them that is so far for them as to endeavour the doing of them right and prevent the practices of those who sought all means of doing them wrong and gave such a blow to the other violent Party so broke their power and lessen'd their authority in the Parliament as it made way for obtaining those resolutions which were presently taken for disbanding Sir Thomas Fairfax's Army Till when by the fomenting jealousies against the Scots and against all moderate and well affected persons as if their designs were to betray the Cause deliver over the Honour and Interest and Strength of England into the hands of the Scots they prevail'd so far generally upon the affection of the people and especially upon many well-meaning but not so well discerning persons Members of Parliament as they were able to suppress all good motions tending towards Peace all endeavours of smoothing those rugged ways that their violence had put all things in and to swell up that Independent Army like the Spleen in the Body by the concourse of all ill humours to the ruin and consumption of the Body it self And yet other Forces cashier'd as Major General Massey's Brigade which had done all the Service in the West of which those Drones robb'd the sweet getting the honour and advantage of it to themselves That tho that Army was compos'd for the most part of factious Sectaries except some few gallant Men that were scatter'd here and there amongst them as Colonel Greves Colonel Thomas Sheffield Sir Robert Pye Colonel Herbert Colonel Butler Quarter-Master General Fincher and other Officers of Quality and Gentlemen of the Life-Guard who had formerly serv'd under my Lâ—â—d of Essex and Sir William Waller and in other parts of the Kingdom to whom they did the honour of letting them perform all the Action which that Army had to do and who every one of them afterward left it when it left its obedience to the Parliament and fidelity to the Kingdom and
some few more Bloodhounds who always attended there never gave their Votes for the freeing of scarce any one person and then the delay there is worse than the condemnation making suitors wait one two years and commonly be sequester'd at last The Committee of Examinations where Mr. Miles Corbet kept his Justice Seat which was worth something to his Clerk if not to him what a continual Horse Fair it was even like Dooms-day it self to judg persons of all sorts and sexes 129. Did not that Faction put on all these things did not we still oppose hinder it all we could how earnestly and how often have we mov'd the putting down those Committees that of Sequestration that of Haberdashers Hall Those in the Counties sometimes got orders of the House for that purpose brought in Ordinances and still by some art or other of theirs put by when it was thought in a manner settled so as the Government might have return'd to Sheriffs Justices of Peace Grand Juries and other Ministers of Justice in that subordination which the Law had establish'd Was any preserv'd and deliver'd out of his trouble that we or some of us had not a hand in it Were we not call'd the moderate Party branded with that Title for they held it a crime were we not said to favour Malignants when in truth we had respect to the Parliament that it should not be made the Instrument of those mens Lusts and contract that Odium which only could ruin it and upon which this very Party being themselves the cause of it took the advantage to master and subdue it they in the beginning of their Rebellion exclaiming against the Parliament for those things and therewith possessing the Country which themselves and their Faction made it do Who but they drew all business into the Parliament especially when themselves or their Friends were any thing concern'd And had they not an Art of delaying men and making them attend when they could not mischief them by dispatching the business were any more violent in an arbitrary way of proceeding than they nay were any so but they could a Mayor or Officer or a Burgess for Parliament be chosen almost in any Town of England but with their leaves and according to their likings And on the other side did not we press to have all things left to the Law of the land and to the antient and ordinary course yet they accuse us to be the troublers of Israel and themselves would be thought to be the restorers just as the Wolf in the Fable charg'd the Lamb with troubling the Waters 130. They charge us beside with having a great power upon the Treasure of the Kingdom disposing of the publick Monies inriching our selves and say in many of their Declarations that we would embroil the Land in a new War that we might not be called to an account for them O the impudence They know that themselves only and their Creatures had power over the Monies and medled in Money matters well licking their Fingers for they know they shar'd and divided amongst themselves all the Fat of the Land the Treasure the Offices the King's Revenue the Revenue of the Church the Estates of so great a part of the Nobility and Gentry whom they had made Delinquents and we not one of us had any thing to do in all this Mr. Recorder I think only was of the Committee of the King's Revenue but very seldom came thither And did not they make use of the price in their hands And did they not like charitable persons begin at home give Gifts and Offices to all their own Party to some upon mere Grace as the thousands to Mr. Blaxton a thousand Pound to Mr. Pury besides a good Office as much to Mr. Hodges of Glocestershire to Alderman Pennington who had conceal'd three thousand Pounds of Sir Iohn Pennington's which he had in his hands for which by their ordinance he should have forfeited the treble and had he been a friend to the eleven Members should not have been spar'd they did not only forgive him that but gave him that three thousand Pounds and three thousand Pounds more which was upon the City's turning him out of their Militia and presently made him be put in again The Speaker had Money given him I know not how much 6000 l. at one time as I remember was made Master of the Rolls Chancellor of the Dutchy and a good while Keeper Mr. Sollicitor was besides his being Sollicitor the King's Attorny and about two years one of the Lord Keepers got infinitely by the Pardons upon Compositions which was a device only to fill his Coffers and had a thousand Pounds given him at the expiration of his Commission for the Great Seal So had all his fellow Commissioners Mr. Brown Mr. Prideaux and Serjeant Wild each their thousand Pound besides the profits of the Seal Mr. Prideaux also made himself Post-master of England being but the Chairman of a Sub-Committee to the Grand-Committee of Grievances where my Lord of Warwick and Burlamachi were contesting about the place which was there represented as a publick Grievance tho my Lord of Warwick's Grant prov'd not to be so but this worthy Gentleman being one of the Committee and in the Chair who was to hear both and report their Cases to the Grand Committee from whence it was to come to the House finding it a convenient Employment worth some 24 or 2500 l. per Annum eas'd them of it took it himself and has kept it ever since Mr. Serjeant Wild was trusted with some Money by the Lady Thornborough's Father for the use of his Daughter and took occasion upon her going to Oxford pretending she had got possession of his Estate to get a fair Ordinance of both Houses to have that Money given to himself but sure found some good Law for it as he did for hanging of Captain Burley and being excellent at it no question would find Law to hang the eleven Members were there a whole dozen of them and me highest for writing this which he would prove to be a greater Treason than any in the Statute of the 25 th of Edward the 3 d and when I come within his power I will forgive it him let him hang as many and get as much of the Commonwealths Money as he can in the mean time But I will say this for him the Elders of Iezreel that found a Law to put Naboth to death were but fools to him Then how many of their small Prophets were prefer'd that Man of Conscience Alderman Hoil that worthy Lawyer Mr. Nicklis Sir William Allison Mr. Love Mr. Lenthal the Speaker's Son these two made six Clerks Mr. Lisle Master of St. Cross's Mr. Miles Corbet Colonel White a Colonel that never was in the Field with his Regiment Mr. Allen the Goldsmith all of them and I know not how many more in places of great profit some in the Courts of Westminster others made Treasurers of their Armies
Prudence 69. Seize upon the King's Person 96. Their Letter to the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London concerning their Demands of the Parliament 102. Their large share in the Treasure of the Kingdom 132 137. Their Accounts extravagant 138 139. Their Remonstrance concerning the Members that sat during the Speaker's Absence 172. Draw up a Party of Horse to back it ibid. Turn out Officers that were against them c. 175. The Difficulties they had to encounter 182 183. Cajole the King c. 184. The means they us'd to get rid of him 185 186. Procure his going to the Isle of Wight 187. Send him four Bills to sign 188. Their Declaration from Windsor concerning no further Address to him 200. descanted on 201 c. Ashurst Mr. sent with a Message from the Parliament to the Army 162. B. BLaxton imploy'd by the Army Party to give account what Sums the Scots had rais'd of the Country 65. Bristol lost its Governour condemn'd but pardon'd 12. Burley Captain hang'd by Fairfax's Order 190. C. CHarles King of England his Forces ruffled at Dennington 27. His Safety not regarded by the Army Party 34. Is deliver'd up to the English by the Scots 68. His Person seiz'd by the Army 96. Is made a Prisoner in the Isle of Wight on refusing the four Bills 190. Clotworthy Sir John one of the Committee at Derby-house 75. Commissioners of Scotland endeavour to undeceive the English Parliament in relation to their Army 47. Move for Pay for their Soldiers 50 51. Slighted by the Army Party 54. Their Packets and Letters intercepted and broke open 55. Give in an account of Arrears due to their Army 64. Committee at Derby-house to see the Parliaments Votes concerning Ireland executed 75. Labour to dispose the Army to go thither 76. of Haberdashers-Hall Goldsmiths-Hall c. misus'd by the Army to the ruin of many 129. of the two Kingdoms 14. Is out of esteem tho all Affairs of Moment had been transacted by them c. 53 54. Committee of Reformation 30. Corbet Mr. Mâ—â—es Iustice at the Committee of Examinations 130. Covenant between the two Kingdoms the ends of it not answer'd by sending away the Scots without disbanding the English Army 63. Crawford Major General his Service at Marstonmoor 15 16. Cromwel his Cowardice at Marstonmoor Basinghouse and Keinton 17. His Rancor against the Scots and Hatred of the Nobility 18. His Soldiers mutiny that he may escape the self-denying Ordinance 35. Is dispens'd with for two or three Months but after keeps in for good and all without an Order of the House 36. Keeps from the Army to give 'em opportunity of doing their Mischief 84. His Policy and Hypocrisy in relation to the Disorders of the Army 85. Sent down to 'em but to no purpose ibid. Leaves the Parliament and joins with the Army 86. Orders the King to be seiz'd but denies it 97. and the Magazine at Oxford to be secur'd 98. Appoints a general Rendevouz near Cambridg and justifies what the Agitators had done 99. Gets Petitions of his own drawing sign'd by several Counties 114. His Pension 135. Writes a Letter to Whalley to be shewn the King 187. D. DAcres Lord one of the Committee at Derby-house 75. Delaware Lord one of the Commissioners for disbanding the Army 94. Desborough Major with two Regiments falls upon some of Sir Robert Pye's Men at Deptford and barbarously murders them 159. E. ELections vacant by an Artifice voted to be filled up 41. Vnfairly made by the malignant Party 42. Eleven Members incur the Hatred of the Army for doing their Duty 75. Their Care and Industry with relation to Ireland was the Foundation of the good Successes in that Kingdom 82. Have a general Charge exhibited against them by the Army who require they should be suspended sitting in the House 115 119. Remarks on their Case 120 123. Withdraw from the House to prevent Inconveniences 124. No particular Charge against them the ill Practices of their Enemies to ruin them 125 126. Accus'd by the Army of holding Correspondence with the King c. which is descanted on 127 128 c. Largely vindicated 130 131 c. 140 141. The Army's Declaration against them 148 149. which is largely descanted on 150 c. Are vindicated from the Disorders that happened at Westminster from the Rabble c. 153 154. Order'd by the House to make good their places 157. Forsaken by the City who had espous'd their Cause 163. Their unparallel'd Case 199. Essex Earl suspected and laid aside by the Army Party 8 9 21 30. Is order'd to attend his Majesty's Motions 22 23. His ill Success in the West 24 25. His Ruin design'd by Haslerig 24. Relief refus'd to be sent him 25. His Army willingly disband 31 32. F. FAirfax Sir Thomas commands at Marstonmoor under his Father 15. Is made General 34. His Commission ran only in the name of the Parliament ibid. Is discharg'd of Subordination to the Committee of both Kingdoms 54. Design'd to be sent with his Army to protect the Northern Counties 60. Receives Orders about disbanding 93. Causes his Regiment to march another way 94. Innocent as to seizing the King 97. His Remonstrance concerning the King's being voted to Richmond 117. Takes up his Quarters at Uxbridg 123. Marches to London in State and puts in the old Speakers 164. by whom he is complemented and addressed 167. Marches through the City in Triumph 168. Voted by both Houses General of all the Forces and Constable of the Tower 169. His Remonstrance for satisfaction of the Army 188. His Order concerning the King c. at the Isle of Wight 190. Fleetwood Colonel concern'd in seizing the King 97. His Place and Pension 136. Foulks Alderman of London promotes the Interest of the Army 110 160. G. GIbbs Alderman of London promotes the Interest of the Army 110 160. Sent with a Message to the Army 162. Interrupted by Fairfax in a Speech he was making to him 174. Grey of Grooby Lord is gratified by the Army 137. Against the eleven Members 198. Gurden Mr. against the Parliament's having a Period put to it 112. H. HAmmond Colonel his unreasonable Demands on being design'd for Ireland 73. Haslerig Sir Arthur his ill Success in the West 11. His Rashness c. 12. His Excuse for the King 's not being attack'd at Dennington Cowardice Vain-glory c. 27 28. Is concern'd in seizing the King 97 98. His Pension 136. His great Pay 139. Stays in Town tho Governour of Newcastle to do a feat for the Army 198. Holland Mr. Cornelius his Gratuity from the Army Party 135. Holles Mr. Denzil accus'd by Savil of corresponding with the Lord Digby 38 40. Is prosecuted with great Violence by the Sollicitor St. John 40. Acquitted by the House 41. Concern'd in the Uxbridg-Treaty 57. His Generosity as to the publick Money 140. I. JAckson Lieutenant Colonel submits to the Parliament in order to disband 94. Independents Army c. mostly compos'd of them 29.