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A97273	A brief view of the late troubles and confusions in England, begun and occasioned by a prevailing faction in the Long Parliament: deduced to the auspicious [sic] coming in of General Monck, and the most glorious and happy restitution of King Charles the Second. / By William Younger.	Younger, William, 1605-1662.	1660 (1660)	Wing Y198; Thomason E1873_2; ESTC R204143	45,037	159

were highly guilty of the Kings Trial and death And all these together had a great influence upon the Army These generally were disaffected to the Protector The Army also Richard having never been a Souldier were very desirous to have a General of their own choice with power to place and displace what Army-Officers he thought fit Fleetwood the Protectors Brother in-law or Lambert aims at the place To effect their design they with the Commonwealths men in Parliament as Haselrig and Vane Scot and Weaver and others the like make a Faction in the Army against the Protector The Commanders of the Army that were of this Faction had frequent meetings at Fleetwoods Lodging at Wallingford House whereof Richard had notice and might have supprest them in time by some chief Officers that were of his part who offered their assistance thereunto but being loth to hazard the effusion of blood he let things rest hoping perhaps they would not have proceeded as afterwards they did Fleetwood soon after advises him to adjourn the Parliament year 1659 but he refusing they come to him and force him to send a Writ to dissolve it This was about the latter end of April 1659. The Parliament thus suddenly dissolved the Souldiers were at a loss what to do at last they resolve after a solemn Fast had among themselves as their manner was to call in that piece or tail of the long Parliament that Cromwell and themselves had broke up and cast out six years before April 20. 1653. to return again to the exercise of their trust as they termed it expressing their Repentance for that action and desiring to return again into the good old way Lenthal the Speaker and some others of that company being then in and about the City very gladly accept the motion they thought long to be again in authority They call together all their fellow-Members that they could get and had much ado to make fourty thought they took two of them out of the Gaol viz. the Lord Munson and Henry Martin who were Prisoners there upon execution Being thus got together upon Saturday afternoon May 7. the Speaker with the rest enter the House and set again as a Parliament publishing a Proclamation or Declaration to let the People understand how by the wonderful providence and mercy of God they were again restored to the exercise of their trust being as they call themselves Asserters of the Good old Cause c. The Munday following Mr. William Prin a Bencher of Lincolns Inn and many more Members of the Long Parliament that were secluded upon the Kings Tryal December 1648. met together at Westminster and went to the House-door demanding admission to sit with the rest but were den●ed entrance and kept out with armed guards Whereupon he writes a Book called his Narrative wherein he declraes at large their manner of demanding admission and in what manner they were forcibly kept out and very solidly pleads the Kings cause against their Commonwealth And another Book he writes and publishes at the same time intituled The good old Cause wherein he manifestly proves by twelve undeniable Arguments that that which they termed the good old Cause was far worse more destructive both to Church and State to Religion and the Common-wealth then the Gunpowder Treason And though he openly owned and avowed these Books setting his name to them yet they never returned the least answer to them nor questioned the Author But these Books thus seasonably published gave a deadly blow to their good old Cause though the operation of it was not so presently discerned The Parliament those few that were being thus got in again they presently depose the Protector and alter the Government from a single person to a Common-wealth They null all honouts conferred by the late Protector so that many are in an instant unknighted whom Oliver before had honoured with that dignity Richard himself but the other day Lord Protector of England Scotland and Ireland and his Highness at every word is now in the language of the Parliament but Richard Cromwel Esq for by that Title they wrote to him to quit his Lodgings and remove from White-hall and his Excellency Lord Henry Cromwell Lord Lieutenant of Ireland is now no more then Mr. Henry Cromwel All Olivers venerable House of Peers have now in an instant lost their Lordships and are the same that formerly they were so great a change is effected in an instant Only Fleetwood and Lambert are still termed Lords in the Parliaments first Declaration May 7. and there was cause for it for the Parliament were what they were by their means And now all mouths are open in an instant against the late Protector Oliver reproaching him as the worst of Tyrants and Usurpers tearing his Hearse or Statue in pieces defacing and pulling down his sumptuous Monument that was but a few weeks before at a most vast charge set up in Westminster The Parliament were more obliged to the Army then they were to the people for putting them again into Authority for the people had had more then enough of them for almost two seven years before Oliver never did so much good for the Nation nor had more thanks from the people then when he and his Army had turned these men out as before is said April 20. 1653. And therefore they thought it concerned them rather to gratifie the Army then to please the people To this end not long after their re-installment they impose a Tax of twelve months to be paid in a manner altogether That 35000 li. a month which was not to be paid by the Act that imposed it till Midsummer 1660. and that quarterly they command to be paid in presently between Lammas and Michaelmas 1659. intending as its probable as soon as that was paid in to impose another the like payment upon the people After this about July they pass an Act for setling the Militia and it was sent down into the several Counties to be presently put in execution but the Army as it was thought not relishing this design it was soon after laid aside This year about the beginning of August there was a rising in Cheshire Lancashire and the parts adjoyning under the command of Sir George Booth Sir Thomas Midleton and other Gentlemen in those parts they declare for a free and full Parliament to be elected by the People It was commonly reported the design was general laid all over all England and t●● 〈◊〉 was carried on ch●●●ly by the P●●●●●terian Party But Cheshire and the parts adjacent were the first that arose in other places attempts were made but they were suppressed Sir George Booth had taken Westchester both Town and Castle and was reported to be very numerous And therefore upon the first intelligence thereof Lambert is sent out against him with an Army of six or seven thousand men and a train of Artillery and forces from all quarters are appointed to draw to him so that all

power of the Militia The People were to pay the Army and it was thought just by many that the Parliament should have command of them And it was suspected had they sate but a little longer that the Army or a considerable part of it would have adhered to the Parliament To prevent this mischief that was a working the Protector suddenly and unexpectedly dissolves them Febr. 4. with this word of comfort nevertheless to his other House My Lords ye are Lords and shall be Lords The Parliament thus again dissolved in discontent things rested as formerly though not without much murmuring and secret discontent both in the Protector and People About the latter end of August year 1658 or the beginning of September the Protector dyed having lain somewhile in a very sad condition with extream pain and torment in his bowels Some strongly fancy that he died on Tuesday Aug. 30. what time was the most furious violent wind that ever happened in the memory of man And it s very probable that he died that day or soon after but it was given out and commonly reported that he dyed on Friday Sept. 3. His Funeral was a great while deferred his body embalmed and kept above ground many moneths together with mourners continually attending his corpse and meat carried up and served on his Table as if he had been the greatest Prince in Christendom and afterwards he was interred with as great funeral solemnity as ever any King of England was interred and his Hearse or Statue set up after the manner of Kings and a most most magnificent Monument erected for him It is worth the remembring that about a year or two before his death he made a new broad Seal with the Arms of England viz. a Saint Georges Cross quartered with Saint Andrews Cross for Scotland and the Harp for Ireland and his own Coat in a little Escutcheon in the midst his Helmet and Mantle with a Crown imperial and a Lion puissant for his Crest and and the supporters a Lyon and a Dragon the Motto underneath his Arms Pax quaeritur Bello And this inscription about Sigillum magnum Reipublicae Anglioe Scotiae Hiberniae On the other side himself on Horseback richly trappered as the King Seal was wont to be and the Inscription about it Oliverus Dei gratia Reipublicae Angliae Scotiae Hiberniae Protector And though he usually coined no money yet I have seen some pieces of Silver of an half crown bigness with his Arms as before on the one side and his Picture crowned with bays on the other side and the former Inscription In these respects so near he approached to the Royal dignity sure I am he assumed more power and authority then ever any King of England did The Protector before his death had according to the fore-mentioned Humble Petition and Advice appointed his eldest Son Richard Cromwel to succeed him in his place and accordingly immediately after his Fathers death he was proclaimed in London and soon after all over England The Independents Anabaptists and other Sectaries were not well pleased at it they had rather have had Fleetwood in the place who had married the late Protectors Daughter Iretons Widow for Richard had formerly been reputed a kind of a good fellow and a Royallist and never was in Arms against the King as all the rest of his Fathers Family and Allies had been Richard soon after cals a Parliament to begin at Westminster Jan. 27. not according to the Instrument of Government but after the old way two in a County c. Before the calling of the Parliament and after congratulatory Addresses are made to Richard from most Counties Cities and Corporations of Note in England extolling the merits of his heroick Father expressing their joy for the succession of such a Son and promising to adhere to him withall faithfulness and loyalty In some of their Addresses they compare the Father to Moses and the Son to Joshua the Guiders and Conductors of Gods People out of Aegyptian thraldom with other the like blasphemous expressions Richard receives these Addresses with as much gravity as they were tendered with humility so that no man could imagine but that he was most firmly fixed in his Throne And Lilly the States mercenary Prognosticator assures it from his Astrological Predictions of that year AT the opening of the Parliament Jan. 27. he makes a Speech to both his Houses wherein he minds them of his just and lawful Title to the Government not only by the wonderful Provindence of God but by the disposition of the Laws he tels them he had convened them together for important affairs of State for the honour and safety of the Nation willed them to take into consideration the necessity of the Navy and Army whom he commends for their patience and obedience to the best Army in the world some other things to this purpose he commended to them and told them in conclusion that they should find him ready and willing to concur with them in any thing for the good of the publick and to deny them nothing that was just and fit And that if this were not an happy Parliament it should not be his fault And all this says the Book was spoken with so gracious and Princely a deportment as hath gained this opinion amongst the wisest Hearers that he deservedly holds the place of Supream Magistrate in these Nations Thus the Parliament began and great hopes there were of good agreement between the Protector and the People and doubtless he for his part would have given them leave to have setled the Nation as they thought good both for Religion and Civil Government But still the other House though called as formerly and many of them convened would not down with the Commons they would not in the least own this new made House of Lords sit they might if they pleased but little or nothing they had to do for the Commons would never impart any thing to them nor indeed have any intercourse with them A pitiful company of Peers they were and accordingly regarded But Richard and the House of Commons agreed very well he was willing to leave all to them And there being a very great number of young Lawyers in the House that gaped for preferment they were willing to give him power enough too much as many suspected Ye must know that in all Parliaments since Olivers time there was a faction of men in the House called Common-wealths men that were for a free State as they called it and against a single Person These were such as had purchased the Lands of Bishops Deans and Chapters and those belonging to the late King Queen and Prince And they feared that these Lands might be at one time or other restored unless the Government were again setled in the way of a Common-wealth for a single Person they thought might possibly come to be a King With these also concurred all such both Parliament-men and Army-men as