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A64894	Former ages never heard of, and after ages will admire, or, A brief review of the most materiall parliamentary transactions, beginning, Nov. 3, 1640 wherein the remarkable passages both of their civil and martial affaires, are continued unto this present year published as a breviary, leading all along, successively, as they fell out in their severall years, so that if any man will be informed of any remarkable passage, he may turne to the year, and so see in some measure, in what moneth thereof it was accomplished : for information of such as are altogether ignorant of the rise and progresse of these times : a work worthy to be kept in record, and communicated to posterity.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.; Jenner, Thomas, fl. 1631-1656.	1654 (1654)	Wing V305; ESTC R2983	53,959	61

to all indifferent men to judge if I have not cause to free my selfe from the hands of those who change their principles with their condition and who are not ashamed openly to intend the destruction of the Nobility by taking away their Negative voyce and with whom the Levellers doctrine is rather countenanced then punished and as for their intentions to my person their changing and putting more strict Guards upon me with the discharging most of all the servants of mine who formerly they admitted to wait upon me do sufficiently declare nor would I have this my retirement mis-interpreted for I shall earnestly and uncessantly endeavour the setling of a safe well grounded peace where-ever I am or shall be and that as much as may be without the effusion of more Christian blood for which how many times have I prest to be heard and yet no ear given to me and can any reasonable man think according to the ordinary cours of affairs there can be a setled peace without it or that God will bles those that refuse to hear their own King surely no I must further add that besides what concerns my self unlesse all other chief interests have not only a hearing but likewise just satisfaction given to them to wit the Presbyterians Independents Army those who have adhered to me and even the Scots I say there cannot I speak not of miracles it being in my opinion a sinful presumption in such cases to expect or trust to them be a safe and lasting peace now as I cannot deny but that my personal security is the urgent cause of this my retirement so I take God to witnesse the publick peace is no lesse before mine eyes and I can find no better way to expresse this my profession I know not what a wiser man may do then by desiring and urging that al chief interests may be heard to the end each may have just satisfaction as for example the Army for the rest though necessary yet I suppose are not difficult to consent ought in my judgement to enjoy the liberty of their conscience and have an Act of Oblivion or Indempnity which should extend to the rest of all my subjects and that all their arrears should be speedily and duly paid which I will undertake to do so I may be heard and that I be not hindred from using such lawfull and honest means as I shall chuse To conclude let me be heard with freedome hono●r and safety and I shall instantly break through this cloud of Retirement and shall shew my self to be Pater Patriae C. R. A great tumult insurrection and mutiny in London breaking open divers Houses and Magazines of Arms and Ammunition seizing on the D●●ms Gates Chains and Watches of the C●●y assaulted shot into the Lord Mayors House and killed one of his Guard c. May 16. 1648. Surrey Petitioners came to Westminster and made a great shout and cryed Hey for King Charls we will pull the Members out by the Ears disarmed two Sentinels knockt them down one Sentinell refusing to be disarmed the Petitioners got within his Arms one of them drew his sword and run him through and the Petitioners drew their swords and said Fall on for King Charls now or never but a party of 500 Foot did take some Of the Petitioners were slain four or five of the Souldiers two The old Lord Goring proclaimed Generall at the head of the Kentish Army upon the Hill neer Aluford consisting of 8000 besides those in Maidstone there were near 300 slain and about 2300 prisoners many of them taken in the Woods Hop-yards and fields also Gentlemen of good quality There were about 500 Horse 3000 Arms 9 Foot colours and 8 pieces of Canon with store of Ammunition taken their Word at the Engagement was King and Kent ours Truth They being routed marched over Rochester Bridge towards Black-Heath with about 3000 Horse and Foot most Cavaleers Prentises and Watermen and fled over the water into Essex by Woollidge and Greenwich The Duke of Buckingham Lord Francis Earl of Holland Lord Andrew Lord Cambden and others rose in Surrey and made Proclamation that they expected the Parl. would settle the Kingdome but because they have not they would fetch the King and live and dye with him to settle it July 11. 1648. Pembroke Castle surrendred 〈◊〉 Scots Army of 21000. Invaded England Duke ●ambletons Standard had Motto Date Cefari Foot Standard 〈◊〉 Covenant Religion King and Kingdomes Riseing in Kent Revolting of the Navie Redusing Colchester And Quelling the insurection in Pembroke Shire all in 1648 The Scots entring the Kingdome July 11. 1648. Maj. Gen. Lambert sent this Letter to Duke Hamilton MY LORD HAving received Information that some Forces of Horse and Foot are marched out of Scotland into this Kingdome under your Excellencies Command I have sent this Bearer unto you desiring to know the truth and intent thereof and whether they are come in opposition to the Forces in these parts raised by the Authority of the Parl. of England and now in prosecution of their Commands I desire your Lordships speedy answer and rest Your Excellencies humble Servant J. LAMBERT Duke Hamilton's Answer Noble Sir I Received yours of the 11 of this instant in answer whereunto I shall only say the information you received is true for according to the Commands of the Committee of Estates of the Parl. of Scotland there are Forces both of Horse and Foot come into this Kingdome under my conduct for prosecution of the ends mentioned in my Letter of the 6th to which I refer you intending to oppose any that are or shall be in Arms for the obstructing of those pious loyall and just ends and so remain HAMBLETON The Towne of Colchester delivered up Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle shot to death Liev Col Lilburn revolted at Newcastle declared for the King Sir Arthur Hasterigge storm'd the Castle Lilburns head was set upon a pole June 5. 1648. The Lord of Warwick went to Portsmouth to bring into obedience the mutinous Sea-men there was with the Lord of Warwick the Phoenix Mary Rese Robert Nonesuch Lilly Lyon Bonadventure Antilope Swift sure Hector and Fellowship A short Abridgment of the Engagement made by the Common Councell Commanders Souldiers and Commission Officers in London WE declare to engage as much as in us lies to defend the King and Parl from all violence and to the end we may be inabled to perform the same We humbly offer that the Forces in the line may be one Militia and no Forces may be raised but by Authority of the said Militia by consent of the Common Councell We desire no Forces in Arms might come within thirty miles of London during the Treaty and for those within what persons soever shall make any tumult shall be put to death Ordered That the Common Councell men and Commanders shall within their severall Precincts goe from house to house to receive concurrence to the said

to the answers which the said Charls Stuart shall make to the premisses or any Charge that shall be so exhibited doth for the said Treasons and Crimes on the behalfe of the said people of Engl impeach the said Charls Stuart as a Tyrant Traytor Murtherer and a publick and implacable enemy to the Common-wealth of England and pray That the said Charls Stuart King of England may be put to answer all and every the premisses that such Proceedings Examinations Tryals Sentence and Judgement may be thereupon had as shall be agreeable to Justice The Kings Speech made upon the Scaffold at White-Hall Jan. 30. 1648. I Shall be very little heard of any body here I shall therefore speak a word unto you here indeed I could hold my peace very well if I did not think that holding my peace would make som men think that I did submit to the guilt as well as to the punishment but I think it is my duty to God first and to my Countrey for to clear my self both as an honest man and a good Christian I shall begin first with my innocency in troth I think it not very needfull for me to insist long upon this for all the world knowes I never did begin a War with the two Houses of Parliament and I call God to witnesse to whom I must shortly make an account that I never did intend for to incroach upon their priviledges they began upon me it was the Militia they began upon they confest that the Militia was mine but they thought it fit for to have it from me and to be short if any body will look to the dates of Commissions both theirs and mine and likewise to the Declarations will see cleerly that they began these unhappy troubles not I so that as for the guilt of these enormous Crimes that are laid against me I hope in God that God will clear me of it I will not I am in charity God forbid that I should lay it upon the two Houses of Parl. there is no necessity of either I hope they are free of this guilt for I doe beleeve that ill instruments between them and me ha's been the cause of all this bloodshed so that by way of speaking as I find my selfe clear of this I hope and pray God that they may too yet for all this God forbid that I should be so ill a Christian as not to say that Gods judgements are just upon me many times he does pay justice by an unjust sentence that is ordinary I will onely say this That an unjust Sentence that I suffered to take effect is punished now by an unjust Sentence upon me that is so far I have said to shew you that I am an innocent man Now for to shew you that I am a good Christian I hope there is a good man pointing to Dr Juckson that will bear me witnesse that I have forgiven all the world and those in particular that have been the chief causers of my death who they are God knowes I doe not desire to know I pray God forgive them But this is not all my charity must goe further I wish that they may repent for indeed they have committed a great sin in that particular I pray God with Saint Stephen that this be not laid to their charge nay not onely so but that they may take the right way to the peace of the Kingdome So Sirs I doe wish with all my soule and I doe hope there is some here will carry it further that they may endeavour the peace of the Kingdome Now Sirs I must shew you how you are out of the way and will put you in a way first you are out of the way for certainly all the way you ever have had yet as I could find by any thing is in the way of Conquest certainly this is in an ill way for Conquest Sir in my opinion is never just except there be a good just Cause either for matter of wrong or just Title and then if you goe beyond it that makes it unjust at the end that was just at first But if it be onely matter of Conquest then it is a great Robbery as a Pirate said to Alexander That He was the great Robber he was but a petty Robber and so Sirs I doe think the way you are in is much out of the way Now Sir for to put you in the way believe it you will never doe right nor God will never prosper you untill you give God his due the King his due that is my Successors and the people their due I am as much for them as any of you You must give God his due by regulating rightly his Church according to his Scriptures which is now out of order for to set you in a way particularly now I cannot but onely this a Nationall Synod freely called freely debating among themselves must settle this when that every Opinion is freely and cleerly heard For the King indeed I will not the Lawes of the Land will cleerly instruct you for that therefore because it concernes my owne particular I only give you a touch of it For the people and truly I desire their liberty and freedome as much as any body whomsoever but I must tell you that their Liberty and their Freedome consists in having of Government those Lawes by which their life and their goods may be most their owne It is not for having share in Government Sir that is nothing pertaining to them a Subject and a Soveraign are clean different things and therefore until they doe that I mean that you doe put the people in that Liberty as I say certainly they will never enjoy themselves Sirs it was for this that now I am come here If I would have given way to an Arbitrary way for to have all Lawes changed according to the power of the Sword I needed not to have come here and therefore I tell you and I pray God it be not laid to your charge That I am the Martyr of the people In troth Sirs I shall not trouble you much longer for I will onely say this to you that in truth I could have desired some little time longer because that I would have put this that I have said in a little more order and a little better digested then I have done and therefore I hope you will excuse Me I have delivered my conscience I pray God that you do take those courses that are best for the good of the kingdom and your own Salvation The Biship of London minding him to say somthing concerning his Religion King I thank you very heartily my Lord for that I had almost forgotten it In troth Sirs my Conscience in Religion I think is very well known to all the world and therefore I declare before you all That I die a Christian according to the profession of the Church of England as I found it left me by my Father and this honest man I thinke will witnesse it

Former Ages never Heard of AND After Ages will Admire Or a Brief Review of the most Materiall PARLIAMENTARY TRANSACTIONS Beginning Nov 3. 1640. WHEREIN The Remarkeable Passages both of their Civil and Martial Affaires are continued unto this present Year Published as a Breviary leading all along successively as they fell out in their severall years So that if any man will be informed of any remarkeable Passage he may turne to the year and so see in some measure in what Moneth thereof it was accomplished For Information of such as are altogether ignorant of the rise and progresse of these Times A Work worthy to be kept in Record and communicated to Posterity Who is wise and he shall understand these things prudent and he shall know them for the wayes of the Lord are right and the just shall walk in them but the transgressors shall fall therein Hosea 14. 9. LONDON Printed by M. S. for Tho Jenner at the South-Entrance of the Royal EXCHANGE 1654. The Chronology IN the first year of King Charls his Reign a Parliament being called at Oxford two Subsidies were granted no grievances removed but the said Parliament soon dissolved The sad effects which the dissolution of this Parliament produced were the losse of Rochel by the unhappy help of Englands ships The diversion of a most facile and hopeful war from the West Indies to a most expensive and succeslesse attempt on Cales The attempt on the Isle of Ree and thereby a precipitate breach of peace with France to our great losse A peace concluded with Spain without consent of Parliament contrary to a promise formerly made to the Kingdome by King James a little before his death whereby the cause of the Palatinate was altogether most shamefully deserted by us The Kingdome suddenly billetted with Souldiers and a concomitant project set on foot for Germane Horses to force men by fear to fall before arbitrary and tyrannical Taxations continually to be laid upon them 2d Parliament The dissolution of a second Parliament at Westminster in the second year after a declarative grant of no lesse then five Subsidies and the sad issues that flowed to the Kingdom thereupon As first the violent exacting from the people that mighty sum of the five Subsidies or a sum equal to it by a Commission for a Royal Loan Many worthy Gentlemen imprisoned and vexed that refused to pay it Great sums extorted by Privy Seals and Excises and the most hopeful Petition of Right blasted 3d A third Parliament called and quickly broken in the fourteenth year of the King the best Members clapt up close Prisoners denied all ordinary and extraordinary comforts of life and so that Parliament was dissolved Opprobrious Declarations published to asperse the proceedings of the last Parliament yea Proclamations set out to those effects thereby extreamly to dishearten the Subjects yea and plainly forbidding them once to name a Parliament or to desire them any more Whence immediately gushed out the violent inundations of mighty sums of money got by that strange project of Knight hood yet under a colour of Law The most burthensome Book of Rates the unheard of Taxation of Ship-money the enlargement of Forrests contrary to Magna Charta the injurious Taxation of Coat and Conduct money the forcible taking away of the Trained Bands Arms ingrossing Gunpowder into their hands in the Tower of London The destruction of the Forrest of Dean which was sold to Papists whence we had all our timber for Shipping Monopolies of Sope Salt Wine Leather and Sea Coal yea almost of all things in the Kingdome of most necessary and common use Restraint in trades and habitations for re●●sall of which foresaid heavy pressures many were vext with long and languishing sui●s some fined and confined to Prisons to the losse of health in many of life in some some having their Houses broken open their Goods leized on their Studies or Closets searched for Writings Books and papers to undo them some interrupted also in their Sea-Voyages and their Ships taken from them The crushing cruelties of the Star-Chamber Court and Councel Table where the Recorder of Salisbury was greatly fined for demolishing the Picture of the first person in the Trinity in their great Cathedrall Thus far for the miseries of the Common-wealth Popish Ceremonies Romish innovations and such like outrages of the Arch Prelate of Canterbury and his Prelaticall Agents and Instruments over the whole Kingdome in matters of Religion Divine worship and spiritual cases of conscience Additions in the Oath administred to the King at his first inauguration to the Crown by the Arch-Bishop Fines Imprisonments stigmatizings mutilations whippings pillories gagges confinements and banishments yea and that into perpetual close imprisonments in the most desolate remote and as they hoped and intended remotest parts of the Kingdome Mr. Burton Mr. Bastwicke Mr. Prin. The ruinating of the ●●eoffees for buying in of Impropriations and the advancing to Ecclesiasticall livings Arminians silencing with deprivations degradations and excommunications almost all the most pious Pastors over the Land whom they could catch in their snares and all this under a pretence of peace unity and conformity Printing Presses set open for the Printing and publishing of all Popish and Arminian Tenets but shut up and restrained from printing sound Doctrines Nay not only thus lamentably molested in England but attempted the like in Scotland indeavouring to impose upon them a New Liturgy and a Book of Canons They refusing of them were called and counted Rebels and Traytors yea so proclaimed in all Churches in England and an Army was also raised to oppresse and suppresse them A mighty and tumultuous rising of Apprentices and young men in Southwark and Lambeth side with Clubs and other weapons especially at the Arch Bishops house which put him in such a fright as made him flye to Croyden to convey himselfe to some more private and remote place And although Pharoahs Magicians were so honest that at the sight of the dust of the earth turned into lice they cryed out It was the finger of God but he grew more and more outragious and caused one to be hanged and quartered and his head set on London-Bridge who said at his execution he came there by accident and he must dye The Arch-Prelate of St Andrewes in Scotland reading the new Service-booke in his pontificalibus assaulted by men Women with Crickets stooles Stickes and Stones The rising of Prentises and Sea-men on Southwark side to assault the Arch-bishop of Canterbury's House at Lambeth 4 Parliament A fourth Parliament was thereupon shortly after called again by those complotters means but to a very ill intent and another Parliament summoned also at the same time by the Earl of Strafford in Ireland both of them only to levy and procure moneys to raise another Army and wage a new War against the Scots The Ships and Goods of Scotland were in all parts and Ports of this Land and of Ireland also surprized and seized on

great cause of jealousie that endeavours have been and are used to bring the English Army into a misunderstanding of this Parl. thereby to incline that Army with force to bring to passe those wicked Councels Have therefore thought good to joyne our selves in a Declaration of our united affections and resolutions and to make this ensuing Protestation The Protestation I A. B. Do in the presence of Almighty God Promise Vow and Protest to maintaine and defend as far as lawfully I may with my life power and state the true Reformed Protestant Religion expressed in the Doctrine of the Church of England against Popery and Popish Innovations within this Realme contrary to the same Doctrine and according to the duty of my Allegiance his Majesties Royall Person Honour and Estate as also the power and priviledges of Parliament the lawfull rights and liberties of the Subject and every person that maketh this Protestation in whatsoever he shall doe in the lawfull pursuance of the same And to my power and as far as lawfully I may I will oppose and by all good wayes and means endeavour to bring to condigne punishment all such as shall either by force practice counsels plots conspiracies or otherwise doe any thing to the contrary of any thing in this present Protestation contained And further that I shall in all just and honourable wayes endeavour to preserve the union and peace between the three Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland and neither for hope fear nor other respect shall relinquish this Promise Vow and Protestation At the beginning of the Parliament Nov. 3. 1640. there was a diligent inquisition after oppressions and oppressors and first upon the Petition of Mris Bastwicke and Mris Burton two widowed wives and a Petition exhibited in the behalfe of Mr Pryn Dr. Laighten Mr. Smart Mr. Walker Mr. Foxley Mr. Lilburn and many others set at liberty some being banisht and all close Prisoners others fast fettered in irons and their wives debar'd from coming to them Decemb. 1640. The Earl of Strafford and Laud Arch-bishop of Canterbury impeached of High Treason Wren Bishop of Norwich of Treason Windebank and Finch fled The Scots ships that were taken before the Parl. began restored and 4000. l. given to rig them 300000. l. towards their losses and all Books Libels and Proclamations against the Scots called in February A Bill signed for Trienniall Parl. ●ix Subsidies Poll money and a personall assesment of the whole Kingdome May a Bill signed that the Parl. should not be dissolved without their consent Lord Strafford beheaded the High Commission Court and Star Chamber put down the Parl. proceeded against Delinquent Judges about Ship-money The Earl of Strafford's Speech on the Scaffold May 12. 1641. MY Lord Primate of Ireland and my Lords and the rest of these Gentlemen it is a very great comfort to me to have your Lordship by me this day in regard I have been known to you a long time I should be glad to obtain so much silence as to be heard a few words but doubt I shall not my Lord I come hither by the good will and pleasure of Almighty God to pay the last debt I owe to sin which is death and by the blessing of that God to rise again through the mercies of Christ Jesus to eternall glory I wish I had been private that I might have been heard my Lord if I might be so much beholding to you that I might use a few words I should take it for a very great courtesie my Lord I come hither to submit to that judgment which hath past against me I do it with a very quiet and contented mind I do freely forgive all the world a forgivenesse that is not spoken from the teeth outward as they say but from my heart I speak it in the presence of Almighty God before whom I stand that there is not so much as a displeasing thought in me arising to any creature I thank God I may say truly and my conscience bears me witnesse that in all my services since I have had the honour to serve his Majesty in any employment I never had any thing in my heart but the joynt and individuall prosperity of King and people if it hath been my hap to be misconstrued it is the common portion of us all while we are in this life the righteous judgment is hereafter here we are subject to error and apt to be The Earle of Strafford for treasonable practises beheaded on the Tower-hill mis-judged one of another There is one thing I desire to clear my selfe of and I am confident I speak it with so much clearnesse that I hope I shall have your Christian Charity in the belief of it I did alwayes think that the Parl. of England were the happiest constitutions that any Kingdome or any Nation lived under and under God the means of making King and people happy so far have I been from being against Parliaments For my death I here acquit all the world and pray God heartily to forgive them and in particular my Lord Primate I am very glad that his Majesty is pleased to conceive me not meriting so severe and heavy a punishment as the utmost execution of this sentence I am very glad and infinitely rejoyce in this mercy of his and beseech God to turn it to him and that he may find mercy when he hath most need of it I wish the Kingdome all the prosperity and happinesse in the world I did it living and now dying it is my wish I do now professe is from my heart and do most humbly recommend it to every man here and wish every man to lay his hand upon his heart and consider seriously whether the beginning of the happinesse of a people should be writ in Letters of blood I fear you are in a wrong way and I desire Almighty God that not one drop of my blood may rise up in judgment against you My Lord I professe my selfe a true and obedient Son to the Church of England to the Church wherein I was born and wherein I was bred prosperity and happinesse be ever to it and whereas it hath been said that I have inclined to Popery if it be an objection worth answering let me say truly that from the time since I was twenty one years of age till this hour now going upon forty nine I never had thought in my heart to doubt of the truth of my Religion in England and never any had the boldnesse to suggest to me contrary to the best of my remembrance and so being reconciled to the mercies of Christ Jesus my Saviour into whose bosome I hope shortly to be gathered to that eternall happinesse that shall never have end I desire heartily the forgivenesse of every man both for any rash or unadvised word or deed and desire your prayers And so my Lord farewell farewell all the things of this word Lord strengthen my faith give me confidence and assurance in the merits

God in his justification though there is confusion here without us and though there are wonders and staring that now disquiet us yet I trust that I shall be carried into that mercy that God will receive my soule Then the Earl of Holland looking over among the people pointing to a Souldier said This honest man took me Prisoner you little thought I should have been brought to this when I delivered my self to you upon conditions and espying Capt. Watson on Horse back putting off his Hat said to him God be with you Sir God reward you Sir Here must now be my Anchor a great storm makes me find my Anchor and but in stormes no body trust to their Anchor and therefore I must trust upon my Anchor Upon that God said Mr Bolton upon whom your Anchor trusts yea God I hope will Anchor my soule fast upon Christ Jesus and if I dye not with that clearnesse and heartinesse that you speak of truly I will trust in God though he kill me I will relye upon him and the mercy of my Saviour Then the Earl of Holland imbraced Liev Col Beecher and tooke his leave of him After which he came to Mr Bolton and having imbraced him and returned him many thanks for his great paines and affections to his soule desiring God to reward him and returne his love into his bosome Mr Bolton said to him The Lord God support you and be seen in this great extremity the Lord reveale and discover himselfe to you and make your death the passage unto eternall life Then the Earl turning to the Executioner said Here my friend let my Cloaths and my Body alone there is ten pounds for thee that is better then try Cloaths I am sure of it Execut. Will your Lordship please to give me a signe when I shall strike And his Lordship said you have room enough here have you not Execut. Yes Then the Earl of Holland turning to the Executioner said Friend doe you hear me if you take up my Head doe not take off my Cap. Then turning to his Servants be said to one Fare you well thou art an honest fellow and to another God be with thee thou art an honest man and then said Stay I will kneel down and aske God forgivenesse and then prayed for a pretty space with seeming earnestnesse Then speaking to the Executioner he said Which is the way of lying which they shewed him and then going to the Front of the Scaffold he said to the people God blesse you all and God deliver you from any such act as may bring you to any such death as is violent either by war or by these accidents but that there may be peace among you and you may find that these accidents that have hapned to us may be the last that may happen in this Kingdome it is that I desire it is that I beg of God next the saving of my soule I pray God give all happinesse to this Kingdom to this people and this Nation And then turning to the Executioner said How must I lye I know not Execut. Lye down flat upon your Belly and then having laid himselfe down he said Must I lye closer Execut. Yes and backwarder I will tell you when you shall strike and then as he lay seemed to pray with much affection for a short space and then lifting up his head said where is the man and seeing the Executioner by him he said Stay while I give the signe and presently after stretching out his hand and the Executioner being not fully ready he said Now now and just as the words were coming out of his mouth the Executioner at one blow severed his Head from his Body The Speech of the Lord Capel upon the Scaffold THe Conclusion that I made with those that sent me hither and are the cause of this violent death of mine shall be the beginning of what I shall say to you When I made an Address to them which was the last I told them with much sincerity That I would pray to the God of all mercies that they might be partakes of his inestimable and boundlesse mercy in Jesus Christ and truly I shall pray that prayer and I beseech the God of Heaven forgive any injury they have done to me from my soule I wish it And truly this I tell you as a Christian to let you see I am a Christian But it is necessary I should tell you somewhat more That I am a Protestant and truly I am a Protestant and very much in love with the profession of it after the manner as it wa● established in England by the thirty nine Article● a blessed way of profession and such a one as truly I never knew none so good I am so far from being a Papist which some body have truly very unwo●thily at some time charged me withall that truly I professe to you that though I love Good Works and commend Good Works yet I hold they have nothing at all to doe in the matter of Salvation my Anchor-hold is this That Christ loved me and gave himselfe for me that is it that I rest upon And truly something I shall say to you as a Citizen of the whole world and in that consideration I am here condemned to dye truly contrary to the Law that Governs all the world that is The Law of the Sword I had the protection of that for my life and honour of it but truly I will not trouble you much with that because in another place I have spoken very largely and liberall about it I believe you will hear by other means what arguments I used in that case But truly that that is stranger you that are English men behold here an English man now before you and acknowledged a Peer not condemned to dye by any Law of Engl. not by any Law of England nay shall I tell you which is strangest of all contrary to all the Lawes of Engl that I know of And truly I will tell you in the matter of the civill part of my death and the Cause I have maintained I dye I take it for maintaining the fifth Commandement enjoyned by God himselfe which enjoynes reverence and obedience to Parents All Divines on all hands though they contradict one another in many severall opinions yet all Divines on all hands doe acknowledge that here is intended Magistracy and Order and certainly I have obeyed that Magistracy and the Order under which I have lived which I was bound to obey and truly I doe say very confidently that I do dye here for keeping for obeying that fifth Commandement given by God himselfe and written with his own finger And now Gentlemen I will take this opportunity to tell you that I can not imitate a better nor a greater ingenuity then his that said of himselfe For suffering an unjust judgement upon another himselfe was brought to suffer by an unjust judgement Truly Gentlemen that God may be glorified that all men that are

and this done upon the satisfaction of Gods people in both Nations as is alleged together with a disowning of Malignants although he who is the head of them in whom all their hope of comfort lies be received who at this very instant hath a Popish pa●ty fighting for and under him in Ireland hath Prince Rupert a man who hath had his hand deep in the blood of many innocent men of England now in the head of our Ships stoln from us upon a Malignant accompt hath the French and Irish ships daily making depradations upon our Coasts strong combinations by the Malignants in England to raise Arms in our bowels by vertue of his Commissions who having of late issued out very many to that purpose and how the interest you pretend you have received him upon and the Malignant interest in the ends and consequences entring in this man can be secured we cannot discern and how we should believe that whilst known and notorious Malignants fighting and plotting against us on the one hand and the declaring for him on the other should not be an espousing of a Malignant party quarrell or interest but be a meer fighting upon former Grounds and Principles and in defence of the Cause of God and of the Kingdome as hath been these twelve yeers last past as ye s●y for the security and satisfaction of Gods people in both Nations or the opposing of which should render us enemies to the godly with you we cannot well understand especially considering That all these Malignants take their confidence and encouragement from the late Transactions of your Kirk and State with your King for as we have already said so we tell you again it is but satisfying security to those that employ us and are concerned in that we seek which we conceive will not be by a few formall and feigned submissions from a person who could not tell otherwise how to accomplish his Malignant ends and therefore Councel'd to this complyance by them who assisted his Father and have hitherto acted him in his most evill Designes and are now again by them set on foot against wch how you will be able in the way you are in to secure us or your selves is forasmuch as concerns our selves our duty to looke after If the state of your quarrell be thus upon which as you say you resolve to fight our Army you will have opportunity to doe that els what means our abode here And if our hope be not in the Lord it will be ill with us We commit both you and our selves to him who knowes the heart and tries the Reins with whom are all our wayes who is able to doe for us and you above what we know which we desire may be in much mercy to this poor people and to the glory of his owne great Name And having performed your desire in making your papers so publick as is before exprest I desire you to doe the like by letting the State Kirk and Army have the knowledge hereof To which end I have sent you inclosed two Copies and rest From the Camp at Pencland Hills Aug. 14. 1650 Your humble Servant O CROMWEL The Victory at Gladsmore in Scotland July 30 31. 1650. M G. Montgomery slaine 200 Arms taken 80 Troopers 500 wounded 4 Colours 15 Troops routed 500 Font routed at Muscleburrough The Victory at Dunbar Aug. 30. 1650 4000 killed 10000 Prisoners 2000 Horse 290 Commission Officers 15000 Arms 200 Colours 32 pieces of Ordnance Of ours that ingaged 5000 Horse and Foot their word The Covenant ours The Lord of Hests Novemb. 1650. Insurrections in Norfolke for which 24 were condemned and 20 executed Col. Ker routed and taken and the Town of Ayre Decemb. 25. The strong Castle of Edenburgh delivered up 53 pieces of Ordnance whereof 15 Iron the 〈◊〉 Braste about 8000 Arms with store of Ammunition and Provision Nov. 22. A Squadron of Ships Commanded by Gen. Blague surprised a considerable part of the Portugal Brasit Fleet fraighted with Sugar and sent them to England and after pursued the revolted ships beyond Alligant where they took 7 of Prince Ruperts Fieet and pursued him to Thoulon one of the surthest Havens of France having but two ships left Jan. 30. 1650. A day of publick Thanksgiving in England Wales and Town of Berwick Jan. 1. 1650. The Scots King was Crowned at Schone he is General of the Army D. Hamilton Lieut. Gen. of the Scotch Army David Lesley M. G. Middleton L. G. of the Scotch Horse and Massey M. G. of the English Jan. 4. 1650. The King of Spaine sent his Ambassador for the ●●knowledging of this State whose Authority and Soveraignty reades in this Parl. of the Commonwealth of England and to stablish a good friendship with it The Portugal sent his Agent also to the like effect March 6. 1650. Sir Henry Hide Beheaded at the Exchange for receiving and acting by vertue of a Commission from Charls Stuart the Second and King of Great Britaine France and Ireland as his Agent to the Great Turk with an intent to destroy the Trade of the Turky Company and the Parl. interest not onely in Constantinople but in Mitylene Anatolia Smyrna in which Conspiracies he was a Commissioner and likewise to seize upon our Merchants Goods for the use of the King of Scotland and procured audience of the Grand Visier and raised great fears and uproars among the Merchants A Speech made by K. Charles ye 2d at his Coronation i. January 1650 I will by gods assistance bestow my life for your defence wishing to live no longer then that I may see this Kingdome flourish in happiness The Oath I doe promise vow in ye presence of ye eternall god yt I will maintaine ye true Kirk of god religion right preaching administration of ye Sacraments now received preached within this Realme in purity And shall abolish gain-stand all false Religions sects contrary to ye same And shall rule ye people comīted to my charge according to ye will of god and laudable laws constitutions of ye Realme causing justice equity to be ministred without partiality Browne Bushelt Beheaded under the Scaffold on Tower-hill Mar. 29. 1651. for delivering up Scarborough June 2. 1651. The surrender of Scilly Islands June 24. Insurrection in Cardiganshire 40 slaine 60 prisoners taken July 29. Burnt Island surrendred The Scotch King invaded England with 16000 Hors and Foot and a light Tran of Artillery and caused himselfe to be proclaimed K. of England Scotland and Ireland in Lancashire August 23. Charls the First erected his Standard at Nottingham and Charls the Second erected his Standard at Worcester Aug. 22. 1651. Sept 3. Old Lesley Crawford Linsey Ogleby with divers of quality besides 〈◊〉 taken that were making levies to raise the Siege at Dundee Aug. 2 165● St Johnston surrendred Aug. 19. The Castle of Ste●●● surrendred 〈◊〉 pieces of Ordnance 27 faire brasse pieces a great iron G●●● 11 Leather Guns

diligent enquiry into his will your Petitioner is convinced that the alterations of Civill Governments are ordered by and founded upon the wise and righteous providences of God who removeth Kings and setteth up Kings ruleth in the Kingdomes of men and giveth them to whomsoever he will That the providences of this God have in the judgement of your Petitioner as evidently appeared in the removing of others from and the investing your Honours with the Government of this Nation as ever they appeared in the taking away or bestowing of any Government in any History of any age of the World That he apprehends that a refusall to be subject to this present au●hority under the p●etence of upholding the Title of any one upon earth is a refusall to acquiesce in the wise and righteous pleasure of God such an opposing of the Government set up by the Soveraign Lord of Heaven and Earth as none can have peace either in acting in or suffering for and that your Petitioner looks upon it as his duty to yeeld to this authority all active and cheerfull obedience in the Lord even for Conscience sake to promise he being required truth and fidelity to it and to hold forth the grounds of his so doing to any as God shall call him thereunto That though an imprisonment accompanied with the losse of Estate and to be followed without your gracious prevention with a speedy Arraignment before a high and eminent Judicatory are far from being pleasant to flesh and blood and though the injoyment of your grace and favour be a blessing most deserving to be reckoned among the best of temporals yet that neither the feeling and fearing of the former nor the expectation of the latter could have induced your Petitioner against the light of his owne judgement and the prepondering part of his owne conscience to have made or presenting this acknowledgment he sadly fore-casting that a whole skin is but a contemptible recompence for a wounded conscience WIL JENKIN Sept. 3. 1651. A Victory obtained over the Scotch Army at Worcester This day twelve months was glorious at Dunbar but this day hath been very glorious before Worcester the Word was The Lord of Hosts and so it was now the same signall we had now as then wch was to have no white about us yet the Lord hath cloathed us with white Garments though to the Enemy they have been bloody onely here lyeth the difference that at Dunbar our Work was at break of day but now it began towards the close of the evening 10000 taken and 3000 slain of the Enemy about 200 of ours The General hazarding himselfe rode up to the Enemies Forts offering them Quarter whereto they returned no answer but shot Sept. 1. Dundee taken by storm 60 ships in the Harbour 40 Guns The Scots King beaten at Worcester gets into a hollow Tree remains there a night next day in a Wood cuts his haire short shipt for Havre de Grace and so to Paris Sir The Scottish King came hither on Munday the last of October N. S. and being demanded by his Mother and the Duke of Orleans how he escaped the Fight of Worcester gave them this account That about six a Clock in the evening his Army being in all likelihood lost he quitted Wor. Towne with a party of Horse and marched toward Lancashire but being fearfull of being pursued and o the Scottish Officers that might deliver him up he with the L Wilmot quitted their Horses and betook themselves next day to a Tree where they staid till night and then marched the third day they lay in a wood and at night marched toward Lancashire a Lady receiving them furnished them with Cloaths for a disguise and cut off their haire Having reposed 2 or 3 dayes she endeavoured to ship them out of England and she riding behind the King and Wilmot as another Servant by they went to Bristoll but finding a narrow inquiry there resolved to go for London where they stayed 3 week The King one day went into Westminster Hall where he saw the States Arms and Scots Colours my Lord Wilmot procured a Merchant to hire a ship of forty Tuns to transport them which cost them a hundred and twenty pounds but where they took shipping is not known but as soon as my Lord was entred the Barque and the King as his Servant the Master came to him and told him that he knew the King and in case it should be known he could expect no mercy which saying troubled them but at length what with money and promises they prevailed and so set saile for Havre de Grace where they landed and from thence to Roven where they cloathed themselves and writ to Paris His arrivall there will put them to new Counsels since now they cannot send their Ambassadors which was concluded on before his coming The Duke of Orleans fetcht him into Towne and expressed much as to serve him Yesterday he with Thurenne Beaufort and the D. of Guise came to him to the Louvre where the King told them that they should endeavour to reconcile the breach between the Prince and the King of France for said he to my knowledge the English will visit you with an Army in the Spring Octob. 15. 1651. Earl of Darby Beheaded at Bolton in Lancashire Octob. 30. The Isle of Jersey taken Nov. 16. The Isle of Man taken Resolv That the time for the continuance of this Parl. beyond which they resolve not to fit shall be Nov. 3. 1654. The Parl. of the Common-wealth of England Declare 1 THat no Power Jurisdiction or Authority otherwise then from the Parl. of Engl be used exercised or enjoyned within Scotl or the Isles or any of the Territories thereof 2 That they doe forbid annull and make voyd the use and exercise of any Power Jurisdiction and Authority whatsoever within Scotl or the Isles or any of the Territories thereof other then such as shall be so derived An Act of Generall Pardon and Oblivion Feb. 24. 1651. THe Parl. of England having had good experience of the affections of the people to this present Government by their ready assistance against Charles Stuart Sonne of the late Tyrant and the Forces lately invading this Nation under his Command and being much afflicted with the miserable and sad effects which the late unnaturall War hath produced and resolved to settle the peace and freedome of this Common wealth and being desirous that the minds persons and Estates of all the people of this Nation might be composed setled and secured and that all rancour and evill will occasioned by the late differences may be buried in perpetuall Oblivion Be it Enacted by this present Parl. and by Authority of the same That all and every person or persons of or within the Common-wealth of England the Isles of Iersey and Garnsey the Towne of Berwick upon Tweed and the Heirs Execut and Admin of them and every of them and all and singular bodies in any manner incorporated