Sâymoâ Sir Thomaâ Soâe Sir William Striâklând âir John Temple Sir Thomââ Trever Sir Humph. Tuâton Sir William Waller Thâmââ Viscount Wenman Sir Henry Woâsly Sir Riâhard Wynne Sir John Young In all 64. Esquiers Gântlemen and Lawyers Johâ Alford Arthur Ansley Mr. Andrews William Ardington John Arundle Mr. Aâcough Francis Bacon Nathaniel Bacon Edward Bainton âol John Barker Maurice Barro Mr. Bell James Bence Col. John Birch Edward Bisâ John Bowyer John Boyes Major Brooks Major General Brown Samuel Brown Serjant at Law Francis Buller John Bunkly Hugh Buscoen Mr. Buâton Mr. Camble William Carrenâ Col. Ceely Jameâ Chaloner Mr. Clive Commiss. Copley John Crew Thomas Crompton Mr. Crowder Thomaâ Dacre John Dormer John Doyle Mr. Drake Robert Ellison Mr. Eriâây Mr. Evelin Edward Fowel William Foxwiât John Francis James Fyennis Nathaniel Fyennis Samuel Gardiner Francis Gerard Thomas Gewen William Glanâil John Glynne Serjant at Law Samuel Gott Thomas Grove Elias Grymes Brampton Gurdon Edward Harby Col. Edward Harley Major Harley John Hatcher John Haâdon James Herbert John Herbert Mr. Hobby Thomaâ Hodges Denzel Hollis Franciâ Hollis George Horner Edmund Hoâkinâ John Hungerford Col Hunt Mr. Jennings William Jones George Keckwich Richard Knighly Col. Lasselâ Hânry Lâurence Col Lee Mr. Lewis Col. Walter Long Mr. Lowây Col. John Loyde Mr. Lucas Mr. Luâkin John Mainard Christopher Martin Major Gen. Edward Massey Thomas Middleton Thomaâ Moorâ William Morrice George Mountague Mr. Nash James Nelthrop Alderâan Nixon Mr. North Col. Norton Mr. Onslow Arthur Owen Henry Oxinden Mr. Packer Mr. Peck Henry Pellam William Peirpoint Jervase Pigot Mr. Potter Mr. Poole Col. Alexander Popham Mr. Povy Mâ Priâty William Prynne Alexander Pym Charles Pym Mr. Rainscraft Mr. Ratcliffe Charleâ Richâ Col. Edward Rossiter Mr. Scowen Mr. Scut Col. Robert Shâpeot Col. Shuttleworth Mr. Spelman Mr. Springatâ Henry Stapleton Robert Stanton Edward Stephenâ John Stephâns Nathaniel Stephens Mr. Stockfield John Swinfen Mr. Temple Mr. Terwit Mr. Thistlethwait Mr. Thomas Isaac Thomas Mr. Thynne Mr. Tâlson Jâhn Tâever Thomas Twisden Serjeant at Law Mr. Vassal Mr. Vaughaâ Thomas Waller Mr. West Heâry Weston William Wheeler Col. Whitehead Henry Wilkes Captâin Wingate Mr. Winwood Thomas Wogan Mr. Wray Richard Wynne The Total Number 203. besides the House of Lords An Alphâbetical List of all Members of the late dissolved Iuncto JAmes Ash Alderman Atkins William Ayre Mr. Baker Col. Bennet Col. Bingham Daniel Blagrave Mr. Brâwster Williâm Cawly Thomas Chaloner Mr. Cecil the self-degraded Earl of Saliâbury Robert Cecil his son John Corbet Henry Darley Richard Darley Mr. Dixwell John Dove Mr. Downeâ Serj. Earl Will Ellys Mr. Feilder Mr. Fell Col. Charls Fleetwood Augustin Garland Mr. Gold John Goodwin Robert Goodwin John Gârdon Mr. Hâllowes Sir James Hârrington Col. Harvy Sir Arthur Hasilrig Mr. Hayes Mr. Herbert the self-degraded Earl of Pembrook Roger Hill Cornelius Holland Col. Hutâhiâson Col. Ingolâby Philip Jones Mr. Leachmore William Lenthall Speaker John Lenthall his son John Lisle Philip Viscont Lisle Thomas Lister Nicholas Love Col. Ludlow Henry Martyn a prisoner in execution Mr. Mayne Sir Henry Mildmay Gilbert Millington Col. Herbert Morley Lord Viscont Munson a prisoner in execution Henry Nevil Robert Nicholas Michael Oldsworth Dr. Palmer Alderman Pennington Sir Gilbert Piâkering John Pine Edmond Prideaux William Puresoy Thomas Pury Robert Reynolds Col. Rich Luke Robinsoâ Oliver Saint-John Major Saloway Mr. Say Thomas Scot Major General Skippon Augustin Skinner Mr. Smith Walter Strickland Col. Sydenham James Temple Col. Temple Col. Thompson Serjant Thorpe John Trencher Sir John Trevor Sir Henry Vane Col. Waite Mr. Wallop Sir Thomas Walsingâam Col. Walton Sir Peter Wentworth Edmond Weaver Mr. White Serjeant Wilde Sir Thomas Witherington Sir Thomas Wroth. The totall Sum 92. Note That of these Members whereof two are since dead there entred only 42. into the House at first that the rest came in to them by degrees either to keep their old preferments gain new or regain the places they had formerly lost âspecially the Lawyers who notwithstanding their former complyances are turned quite out of Office and dis-Judged that 10. or more of them came in by New Writs issued in the Name of the Keepers of the Liberties of England after the Kings behâading and were no Members of the long Parliament That there were never 60. of them together in the House at once whiles they sate and but 57. on the 11. and 12. of October last upon the great debate between them and the Army Officers And some that sate formerly with them as the Lord Fairfax John âary and others refused to sit with them now as having not the least colour of Law to sit or act as a Parliament Yea their Speaker Mr. Lenthal told the Officers of the Army and Members who came to invite him to sit again May 6. That he had a Soul to save and that he was not satisfied in point of Law conscience or prudence that they could sit again Bât at last when he considered he had an estate to âave as he told another Friend that over-ballanced all his former Objections and made him and other Mâmbers act against their judgements consciences and to forgât our Savioârs sad Qâaeres Mat. 16.26 What is a man profited if he should gain the whole world and lose his own Soul Oâ what shall a man give in exchange for his soul With that of Jer. 5.29.31 Shall I not visit for these things Shall not my soul be avenged on such a Nation as this And what will ye do in the end thereof To fill up the Vacant Pages of this sheet I shall propose 7. Quaeres more to this late dissipated Rump to which I expect their satisfactory Answer ere they presume to sit again as many of them endeavour 1. Whether they could with any colour of Law truth reason justice coâscienâe heretofore or can hereafter by virtue of their first Writs and Electioâs intitle themselves The Parliament of the Commonwealth of England Scotland Ireland when by their Writs Elections and Indentures by which they pretended to sit they were only a small inconsiderable Fragment of the Parliament of the late King and Realm of England but never of the Realm of Scotland or Ireland which have their * distinct Parliaments from England and no legal Parliament of England Scotland or Ireland ever hitherto was or can be held without a King and House of Lords and a full House of Commons of which they are not the fift part 2. Whether those Interloping Members Elected since the Kings beheading and old Parliaments dissolution by his death by Writs only in the name of the Gaolers of the Liberties of England can fit act or joyne with the Tayl of the old Commons House elected only by the beheaded Kings Writs and so owning his Royal Authority in Deeds though abjuring it Kingship by their Declarations Votes Knacks Ingagements and new-coined Oathes Whether such a strange model as this be not a Violation of Deut. 22.9 10 11.
Members secluded the Majoritie of the House by their Vote of Ian. 11. 1648. upon the Armie-Officers false and scandalous printed Answer to them Ian. 3. touching the grounds of their securing and secluding them contrary to their Protestation Covenant the Privileges Rights of Parliament the Great Charter the Fundamental Laws and liberties of the Nation And not content therewith by their own Anti-Parliamentary anti-christian Usurpation to out act the old Gânpowder Traytors many degrees by the Armies assistance and opposing advancing themselves against all that is called God and worshiped they most traiterously set aside voted down suppressed the whole House of Lords as dangerous uselesse tyrannical unnecessary usurped engrossed the ââile power oâthe Parliament of England and Supreme Authority of the Nation to themselves alone without King Lords or Majoâity of their fellow secluded Members created a new Monstrous High Court of Iustice destructive to all our fundamental Laws Liberties and Justice it self wherein beyond all presidents since the creation they most presumptuously condemned murdered beheaded their own lawfull Hereditarie Protestant King against all their former Oathes Protestations Vows Covenants Remonstrances Declarations Obligations Allegiance the Laws of the Land the principlâs of the Protestant Religion and dissenting votes protestations disswasions of the secluded Lords Commons Scots Commissioners London Ministers the intercessions of forein States and our 3. whole Kingdoms together with 3. Protestant Peers soon after After that close imprisoned my self Sir William Waller Sir William Lewes Major General Brown with sundry other Members divers years in remote Castles without any hearing examination cause expressed or the least reparation for this unjust oppression exercising far greater Tyranny over the Peers their old fellow Members and all English Freemen during the time of their Regality in every kind than the beheaded King or the worst of his predecessors Were not by a most just divine retaliation aâd providence when they deemed themselves most secure and established even for these their transcendent Treasons Perjuries Tyrannies violations of the Rights Privileget of Parliament their own sacred Oaths Protestation League Covenant suddenly dissolved dissipated thrust out of doors Apr. 20. 1653. by Cromwel and the Army Officers in a forcible shamefull manner with whom they confederated all along though they received new commissions from engaged to be true âaithful to theÌ without â King or House of Lords and branded by them to posterity in their printed Declaration b Apr. 20. 1653. as the curruptest and worst of men intollerably oppressing the people carrying on their own ambitious designes to perpetuâte themselves in the Parliamentarie and Supreme Authoritie the archest Trust breakers Apostates never answering the ends which God his people and the whole Nation expected from them c. Col. Harrison himself the Chairman at Windsor Committee to secure us being the very person imploied by Cromwell to pull their Speaker Lenthall out of the chair and turn him with his Companions out of doors Cromwell himself then stigmatizing Sir Henry Vanes Henry Martyn Tom Châlloner and others of them by name with the Titles of Knave Whoremaster Drunkard c. And not long after to requite his good Services he suddenly turned Col. Harriâon Rich and their party out of the Commons House by Force dissolved their Anti-Parliamentary Conventicle elected only by the Army Deâ 11. 1653. whiles they were seeking God for direction and soon after cashiered both these * Collonels his former greatest Instruments out of the Army sent them close Prisoners to remote Castles garded with Army Troops And as they and their Troops when they seized Major General Brown with other Members besides and conducting them to Windsor Castle other Prisons refused to acquaint them whether they were to be sent So Mr. Iessâp the Clerk of their Council of State who brought these Colonels to the Coach at Whitehall garden door when they were conveyed to remote Castles and their Conductors denied to inform them to what places they wâre committed whereupon they cried out to the Troopers which garded them Gentlemen is this the Liberty you and we have fought for to be sent close Prisoners to remâte Garrisons from our wives and families they will not tell us whether Will you suffer your own Collonels Officers who have fought for Laws Liberties have been Members of Parlâ to be thus usedâ To which they answered as themselves did in the like case to other secured Members conducted by them We are commanded and must obey not dispute our Orders and so were hurried away aâ an eye and ear-witnesâ of the old Parliament related to me within one hour afâer Yea young Sir Hen. Vaâ himself the bold prejudger of our Debaâes and Vote in the House touching the Kings concessions if not a promoter of our unjust seclusion âor it was unexpectedly suddenly not only thrust ouâ from all his Imployments as well aâ out of the Hâuse buâ sent close Prisoner by Cromwel to Cariâbrook âastle in the Islâ of Wight the very place where he betrayed his trust to the King and Parliâment at the Treaty to gratify Cromwel who by an extraordinary strange providence sent him cloâe Prisoner thither for sundry months to * mediâate upon this divine retaliation Whether may not all this dissolved Iuncto and itâ Members from these wonderâul Judgementâ providenceâ now conclude and cry out with that hâathen cruel Tyrant Adonibezeck Judg. 1.7 Aâ I have doneâ so God hath requited me And acknowledge the truth of Gods Comminations against all treacherous betrayers potent oppressorâ of their Brethren Obad. 15. As thou hast âone it shall be donâ unto thee thy râward shall return upon thine own head Ps. 7.15 16. He made a pit and digged it and is fallen into the ditch which be made his mischief shall return upon his own âead and his violent dealing upon his owâ paâe Rev. 13.9 10âIf any man haâe an ear to âear let him heaâ He that leadeth into Capâivity shall go into Captivity He that killeth with the Sword shall be killed with the Sword Here is the patience and faith of the Sâints O that all real and pretended Saintâ in the dissolved Juncto and Army would now consider and believe it as â lâtely pressed them to do in the cloze of my Good Old Cause truly staâed and the false Vncased yet they would not regard it Whether their illegal forcible wresting the Militia of the Kingdom totally out of the Kingâ hands into their own as their only security to sit in safety and perjurious engaging all Officerâ Soldiers of the Armie in England Scotland and Ireland to be true faithful and constant is them without a King or House of Lords by subscriptionâ in parchmenâ Rollâ râturned to them under all their handâ contrary to their former Votes Declaratiânsâ Remonstrances Protestations Oathâ Vows Covenants Trustâ yea the very writs returns which made them Members their own Souldierâ Army-Officers first Commissionâ Declarationâ Râmonstranceâ Proposâlâ
and depending on thiâ g arme of flesâ or broken h reed of Aegypt as a most sure invineâble Guârd security from all forces and enemies whaâsoever that might assault dishouse dethrone them from their usurped supreme Regal and Parliamental Authority over the three Nations and their Hereditary Kingâ * whom they would not have to reign over them hath not been most âxemplarily and eminently requited by Godâ avenging providence in making the very self-same Army most treacherouâ and perfidious to themselves to rise up rebel against them several times and turn them out of Housâ power on a sudden when they deemed themâelves most securâ to make themselves more than Kings and Lordâ over thâm and our whole 3 Kingdomâ and i An host of the High ones that are on high upon the earth reviving that Attâxie which Solomon complained of as a great error in Government and a divine judgement upon the Authorâ of State Innovationâ Eccles. 10.6 7 8 9. Folly is seâ in great dignity and tâe riâh sit in lâw placeâ I have seeâ servants ân âorseback and Princes walking âs Servants upon the earth He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it and who so breaketh a beged a Serpent shall bite him Whosoeâer removeth stones shall be hurt therewith ând âe that cleâveth wood shall be endangered tâerebyâ Whether that curse and judgeâânt Jer. 17 5â 6 Thus saith the Lord cursed âe the man that truâteth iâ man and maketh flesh his arm and whose heart departetâ from the Lord For he shall be like the heath in the desarâ and shall not see when good cometh but shall inherit the parcâed places in the wildârnesse a salt land and not inhâbitedâ hath not justly bâfâllân them our Nation âor relying on trusting to an ârm of flesh an Army * Assembly of trâacherous men whom themselves tâught encouraged to be treacherouâ perâurious to the King Parl. Lords their fellowâMembârââ and k thereby to themselves yet voted cried them up for their faitâfull Army Saviâuââ Delivereââ Proâectâââ Shields and âoâly Safeguaâd after they had dealt âreaââerously with themselves and all their other Supâriorâ and proved like l Aegypt to the Israelites who trusted on them When they âook âold of thee by the hand thou diddâst break and pierce througâ the handâ and rent all their shoulders and when they leaned upon thee thâu breakest and madest all their loins to be at a stand yeâ dissolved and m broke them in pieces like a poâters vesâel so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sâeard to take fire from the hearth or water ouâ oâ the pit And may we not then tâke up thiâ Song of the Lamb Rev. 15.3 4. Great and marvellous are thy workâ Lord God Almighty Iust and true are thy wayes thou King of Saints who shall not fear thee ô Lord and glorifie thy name For thy Iudgements are made manifest Whether their clandestine sudden indirect stealing into the Commons House again May 7. 1659. upon the Army-Officerâ invitation and Declaration who formerly tuâned them âut of it with highâst infamie contempt and defamâtion April 20. 1653. after about 6. yearâ dissoluââon ând 4. intervenient Vnparliamentary Conventicleâ wherein many of them sat as Members and acted as in Parliamentâ by pretext of their old Wriââ and Elections as Mâmberâ of the long Parliament âctually and legally dissolved by their traiterouâ beheading of the King near 11. years before as I have * elsewhere proved without any new Writs of Summonâ Resumâons Electioâs or the privitie of their âorâer eleâtors or fellow Members Their forcible sâcluding of my self Sir George âooth Mr. Ansly all formerly sâcluded Memberââ and others not fitting with them from 1648. till April 20. 1653. by Army-Officers and Guards of Souldiers placed at the door âor that end and their justifiââtion and âontinuing of this new secluâion as wâll âs tâe old Their usurping to themselves the Title Power of the Parliament of the ãâã of England Scotland aâdââeland and Supreme Authority of the Nation Their exârcisinâ both the Highest Regal Parliamental Legislative Tax-imposing Authority over our Nationâ the worst highest of all other Treasâââs their ârâating new unheard of Treasâââ Exileâ by theiâ ãâã Proclamations imposing Nâw intollerable Taxâââ Excises Millââaââ on the whole Nation against all Laws and our Fundamental Liberties Franchisââ Their moât injurious illegal unpresidented proclaming of Sir George Booth Sir Thomas Middleton with other old and new âecluded Members of the long Parliament and all their adherents Traytors Enemies to the Common-wealth and Apostates not only iâ all Counties and Corporationâ buâ Churches and Chapels too throughout the Nation to abuse both God and men only for raising forces by virtue of Ordinances and Commissions granted âhem by the long Parliament which themselves pretended to bâ still continuing to defend the Rights and Privilegeâ of Parliament to call in all the surviving Members of both Houses to sit with them or procure a free and full Parl. duly summoned according to the Protestation Vow League Covenant and Laws of the Land being their own and the whole Nations Birthright for defence whereof the Army it selâ was both raised continued and themselves in their Proclamation of May 7. 1659. and Declaration of March 17. 1648 promised inviolably to maintain which their own consciences knew to be no Crime nor Treason at all but an honest legal honorable necessary undertaking justified by all their former Votes Orders Ordinances Commissions for raising forceâ against the Kingâ party for the self-same end And themselves greater Traitors Enemies to the Kingdom and Republike than Strafford Canterbuây or the beheaded King in proclaiming their defence of this undoâbted Inheritance of all English Freemen against their Tyrannical usurpations thereoâ to be Treason and Apostacy Their sending out of Major Gen. Lambert who invited them into the House May 6. conducted them into it but secluded Sir G. Booth other Members out of it May 7. took a new Commission from them afterwardâ in the House and promised with many large expressions âo be true faithfull constant and yield his uâmost assistance to them to set in safety and support their power with great forces against Sir George Booth and all his adherents in this cause being the Majority of the old Parl. and of the people of the Nation the true old Parliament if continuing âo levie actual war against them declared * high Treason by sundrie Votes and former Declarations and so resolved by themselves in their Impeachments against the beheaded King the E. of Holland L. Capel otherâ and late Pamphlets against the Army who accordingly levied war against themâ routed their forces reduced their Garisonâ imprisoned their persons sequestred confiscated their estates as Traitors secured disarmed Sir Will. Waller Mr. Holles with sundrie other old Members promised rewards for bringing in the persons or heads of others they endeavoured to secure against
all rules of Law and Christianitie kept a publike humiliation for their good successe against Sir George Booth and his adherents and after their defeat a publike thanksgiving through Westminster and London to mock God himself * who will not be mocked to his very face and ordained a publike thansgiving throughout the whole Nation to abuse both God and them for their Great Deliverance from the most Dangerous Plot and Treason of Sir George Booth and his party to bring in all the old Members to sit with them without turning those then sitting out or to procure a free Parliament that so their Anti-Parliamentary Conventicle by this pretext might exercise a Perpetual Tyrannie and Parliamental Authority over them and none thenceforth dare demand a full and free Parliament for the future under pain of highest Treason Apostacie and the losse of their very Heads and estates Whether all these their transcendent High Treasons with their former 1648. against the K. secluded Members Lords Parliament people were not by a most signal miraculous Providence and Justice of God himself recompenced immediately after upon their own Lamberâs and other Armie-Officers headâ by making their rouâiing of Sir George Booth and his party after their first thanksgiving for it before the next day of general thanksgiving came the very occasion of their sudden unexpected dissolution 1. By over-elevating Lamberts his Officers and Brigades Spirits notwithstanding the signal Marks and Rewards of their Favours towards them for the present and future promises of advancement for their Fidelity to them in this Service to enter into contestations with them by their Petition and Representations 2ly By raising the differences and jealousies between them to such a height and open enmitie notwithstanding all their large Votes compliances to satisfie them all means mediations of Friends and the Londoners publike Feast on their thanksgiving day to reconcile them as to incense the Juncto to vote Major Harrison a chief agent Chairman for the old Members first seclusion uncapable of any publike Trust or Office a to vote Lambert Disbrow Creed and 6. more field Officers out of their commands null their Commissions and dispose of their Regiments to the next Officers without any hearing or examination if not threatning to commit Lambert to the Tower as a Traytor to repeal Fleetwoods Commission and Knack to be Lieutenant General of their Forces in England and Scotland and put the command of the Army and new Militia under 7. Commissioners to wrest the power of them both into their own hands 3ly By exasperating Lambert and his confederates by these Votes so far against them giving them such favour with the Armie as to draw up the greatest part of the forces about London in battel array against them and notwithstanding their partie in the Armie whereof they had made many of themselves Colonels their interest in the Militia of Westminster London Southwark and Sir Henry Vanes two Regiments of Gathered Churches who were disgregated and kept their Chambers all that day not one of them appearing in the field because their valiant Collonel took a Clyster pipe into his fundament instead of a Lance into his hand in the day of battel and durst not hazard a broken pate in the quarrel and then in a hostile warlike manner to besiege many of them in Whitehall block up all passages to the House seise upon their old Speaker with his Coach Mace and new General without a Sword Armie Troop or Company from whose hands they had freshly received their Commissions turning him back from whence he came to charm all the Junctoes forces so as to march away without drawing one sword or shooting one bullet in their defence so true faithful were they to their good old cause as well as to their New Protectors as to deem neither of them worth one bloodie nose 4. By engaging Lamberâ and his party notwithstanding all endeavoured and seeming accommodations beâween them to seise upon their House and their provisions of ammunition and victuals in it to lock up the doors and keep constant Guards upon the stairs to seclude all these their new Lords and Masters as they did on May 7 9. afterwards seclude their fellow-Members and not content herewith by a printed Plea for the Army and Declaration of the Geâeral Council of the Army sitting at Wallingford House which called them in and thus shamefully not long after turned them out of doors usurping to themselves both a Regal Authority to call and dissolve Parliaments as they âepute and stile them and a Parliamental too in making and repealing Acts of Parliament as they deem them at their pleasure they not only justiâie this their forcible ejectment seclusion to all the world by Lex talionis even their own abetting approving justifying the Armies former seclusion of the Major part of theiâ fellow Members who were the House and the whole House of Lords and securing the leading Members when over powred by them and appealing to the Armies Judgements therein but also put a period to their Assemblie branded ââlled repealed declared their last Votes Actsâ Proceedings void to all intents purposes whatsoever âs if they had never been made Censured them as imperfect ineffectual irregular ânparliamentary illegal pernicious râsh inconsiderate branding each other in several printed Papers for Traytors Trust-breakers Treacherous Perfidious Fâithless Vurighteous Ambitious Self-seeking usurpers of the Soverain power Opprâssors of the free people of England invaders betrayers of their Liberties Birthrights theâeby declaring the old secluded Member the only honest faithful constant consciencious men adhering to their good old âause Oaths Covenant Principles and the publique interest Sir George Booth himself to be No Traytor but truer Patriot of his Country than any of themselveâ as dying Pureâoy openly acknowledged before his death and others of them confesse in private since even Lambert himself hath done and exceeded that work they feared he would doe by dissolving their Conventicle and turning them out of house and power which Sir George did not design Whether all these strange unparalleld sudden unexpected animosities divisions between themselves their uncommissioning dissolving cashiering disofficing one another which I truly predicted to them from Scriptures and former Providences in my Good Old Cause truly stated my True and Perfect Narrative p. 94.98 and Vindication of the old and new secluded Members p. 61 62. be not the very finger of God himself a the Lords own doing truly marvellous in all our eyes yea the very particular Judgement menaced by God himself against all such Traitors and Innovators as most audaciously and professedly violate with the highest hand this divine precept Prov. 24 21â 22. My Son fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with those that are given to change for their Calamity shall suddenly arise and who knoweth the ruine of them both and a verification of Prov. 29.1 If not a divine infliction of the very
of all wickedness licentiousness villanies confusion and an immediat forerunner or concomitant of the Kingdoms and Nations desolation ruine by Gods own resolution Hos. 3.4 c. 10.3.7 Ezech 49.11 12.14 Isa. 33.11 12 13. Judges 17.6 c. c. 18.1 c. c. 21.25 Prov. 28.2 c. 30 21 12. Hab. 1.10.14 15. And is it not so now of ours 7. Whether the late Petition and Advice 1657. to reduce us again to a Kingdom and Kingship to which W. Lenthal Speaker Whitlock and many others of the dissolved Iuncto assented as it was first penned voted passed by them and many Army-Officers as the only means to settle us in peace honor safety prosperitie be not a convincing Argument that in their own Judgements Consciences Kings Kingly Government are Englands only true Interest to end our wars Oppressions distractions prevent our ruine and restore our pristine uniâie peace honor safety prosperitie trade glorie And whether it be not a worse than Bedlam Madness yea grosse error both in policie and expeperience in our Republican Juncto and Army-Officers to endeavour to erect an Utopian Jesuitical Republike among us which hath produced so many sad publique changeâ confusions and made us a meer floating Island tossed about with every winde of giddy-brain Innovators as the only means of our firm lasting happinesse and to prevent all future relapses to Monarchie after King Charls hiâ beheading which this notable censure of the incomparable Philosopher * Seneca passed against that great Republicân and Anti-royallist M. Brutus will abundantly refute Cum Vir magnus fuerit in aliis M. Brutus mihi videtur in hâc re vehementer errare qui aut Regis nomen extimuit cum optimus Civitatis Status sub Rege justo sit aut ibi speravit Libertatem futuram ubi tà m magnum praemium erat et imperandi et serviendi futuramque ibi aequalitatem civilis juris et Staturas suo loco Leges ubi viderat tot Millia hominum pugnantia non ne serviret fed ãâã our present condition between the ambitious usurping Antiparliamentary Juncto and divided Army-Commanderâ all contending which * of them shall be the greatest and who shall most oppress enslave our Nâtions to their Tyrannie farr more exorbitant than the very worst of all our Kings Quantum verò illum aut rerum natura aut vrbis suae tenuit oblivio Qui uno interempto Rege defuturum credidit alium qui idem vellet Cum Tarquinius esseâ inventus post tot Reges ferro et fulmine occisos even in Rome it self and we in England since the beheading of King CHARLES and voting down Kings Kingship with the old House of Lords and Ingagemenâs against them have soon after found a more than Royal Protector OLIVER usurping the Wardship of our poor Infanâ Common-wealth aspiring afâer a Kingship and Crown whiles living and crowned in his Statue Herse Scuââheons as both KING and * CONQUEROR of our three Kingdomes after his death bearing Three Crowns upon his sword as an emblem of it a momentanie Protectâr Richard after him a new self-created other House assuming to themselves the Title of LORDS THE HOUSE OF LORDS after an old Lords House suppressed since that a CHARLES FLEETWOOD and IOHN LAMBERT aspiring after the Soveraign Power as their late and present actions Declarations more than intimate and dissolved Juncto affirm and an exiled Hereditarie KING CHARLES with a numerous ROYAL POSTERITIE after him claiming the Crown and Kingship by lawfull indubitable Right declared ratified by the Vnrepealed Statutes of 1 Iacobi c. 1. 3 Iacobi c 1 2 4 7 Iacobi c. 6. the * Oathes of Supremacy Allegiance Fealây of all Mayorâ Recorders Freemen of every Corporation and Fraternity of all Iustices Iudges Sheriffs Officers of Iustice Graduates in Vniversities or Innes of Court Ministers Incumbents all Members of the Commons House of Parliament and all other Freemen sworn in our Leetâ who by the powerfull assistance of their forein Friendâ and Allies and domestick oppressed discontented divided ruined Subjectâ will in all probabilitie be restored to the Crown sooner or later as Aurelius Ambrosâus after the murder of his Father and Brother by the Vsurper Vorâigerne was called in restored and crowned King by his own British Subjects to deliver them from Vortigerns and his invading Saxons Tyranny after 21 years usurpation and Edward the Confessor called in and crowned King by his Nobles and Subjects after 25 years dispossession of his right by the Daniâh Vsurpers and all the Danes expelled without any effusion of blood as I have * elsewhere evidenced at large out of our best Historians Whether Gods extraordinarie sudden trâble miraculous overturning 1. of the Juncto when best established anâ moât secure after âheir victorious Successes against the Irish Scots Hollanders Worcester-fight and League with Spain by their own Gen. Cromwel Apr. 20. 1653. 2. Of Prât * Richard his Brother Hen. too Deputy of Irel. by his Brother Fleew Unkle Disbrow other Army-Officers after all their Oaths and Addresses to him from them and all the Officers Soldiers Navy most Counties Corporations in England Scotland Ireland to be true faithful loyal obâdient to and live and die with him in the midst of hiâParliament declaring voting for and complying with him when most men thoughâ it impossible to overâurn or depose him 3ly Of the revived Antiparliamentary Juncto after Sir George Booths and all their visible Opposites total rout and disappointment when * themselves and others esteemed them so well rooted guarded that there was no hopes nor possibility left of dissipatingâ dissolving them or abolishing their usurped Regal and Parliamental power even by the very instruments that called them in and routed their Enemies all ââ of them without any one drawn sword or drop of bloud that in a moment be not a real experimental verificâtion of Ezech. 21.26 27. by way of Allusion to our own Governours and Kingdom Thus saith the Lord God Remove the Diadem and take off the Crown this shall not be the sameâ exalt him that is low and abase him thaâ is high I will Overturn Overturn Overturn it till he shall come whose right it is and I will give it him 9. Whether the late Iunctoes and Aâmy-Officerâ doubling trebling quadrupling of our Nations Monthly Taxes Excises Militiaes Grievances Oppressions of all kinds by their usurped power their consumption devastation of all the Crown-lands Rents and standing Revenues of the Kingdom of Bishops Dean and Chapters lands and many thousands of Delinquents real and personal estates and greatest part of most âens privat estates only to make them greater Bondslaves to them than ever they were to any Kingâ without benefiting or easing them in any kind and to murder one another by intestinâ unchristian warrâ Butcheries And their Monstrous Giddiness Intoxication in all their premised Councils New Models and Rotations of Government ever since they turned the Head of ââr Kingdoms which
or protection of the Laws for which they fought and to which they were born heirs who refused to take their Treasonable perfidious Ingagements by securing imprisoning thousands of Freemen close imprisoning sundry Members of the old Parliament my self amongst others divers years in remote Castles and keeping us from Gods publike ordinances without any accusation hearing trial or legal cause of commitment expressed in their warrants By presuming upon the Army and Officers sodain invitation after the old Parliaments dissolution by the Kings death and their above 6. years dissipation by the Army without the election or privity of the people to sit and act as the Parl. and supream power of the Nation to seclude at least 3. parts of 4. of the old surviving Members by force aâd proclaiming Sir George Booth Sir Thomas Middleton and other Members and Freemen of England Traytors and levying war against them only for raising forces to induce them to call in all the old secluded Members or to summon a new free Parliament and for opposing their new illegal Taxes Excises Militiaes imposed and levyed on the people without their Common consent in Parl. deserve not to be all indicted executed and their estates confiscated as Traytors for these their successive reiterated high Treasons by their own resolutions Sir George and his adherents totally acquitted from the least imputation or guilt of Treason by consequence from all âmprisonments Sequestrations under which they now suffer Whether their branding sequestring them for Traytors Apostates Enemies to the publike against Law and Conscience too hath not justly brought that wo judgment upon their conventicle Isa. 5.20 23 24. Wo unto them that call evil good and good evil that put darkness for light and light for darkness that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble and the flame consumeth the chaâs so their root shall be rottenness and their blossom shall go up as dust because they have cast away the Law of the Lord and of the Land too and despised the name of the holy one of Israel For all this his wrath is not turned away but his hand is streched out still Whether the Anti-Parliamentary Junctoes and Army-Officers beheading of their late Protestant King against the Voteâ Protestations of the generality of the Parliament and his 3. Protestant Kingdoms Mediations of all foreign Protestant Agents then in England their banishing âxpelling his Royal Protestant Heir Successor to the Crown with all the rest of his Children professing the reformed Râligion out of all their Protestant Realms Dominions their invading of their Protestant Brethren in Irâland and Scotland in a hostile manner with potent Armies waging war against them in their own Countries and after that against their own Protestant Brethren in England as professed Enemies Traytors Apostates slaying divers thousands of then in the fâeld imprisoning banishing disinheriting fequestring many thousands more of them only for owning crowning assisting their own hereditary Protestant King according to their Oathes Covenants Laws Homage Allegeance duties and principles of the Protestant Religion to regain and retain his Royal Authoâity and Kingdoms Their waging of a most bloudy ãâã waâ with our antient Protestant Allies of Holland above 3. years space together to the slaughter of many thousands of their our gallantest Protestant Seaman Admirals Sea-Captains of purpose to banish their own exiled Protestant King his Brethren and followers out of the Netherlands from the Societie and charitable relief of theâr Protestanâ Friends where they lived as Exiles enjoying the free profession of the Reformed Religion and Communion prayers contributions of the Protestant Churches on purpose to drive them into Popish Quarters amongst seducing Iesuits Priests Papists to cast them wholly upon their Alms Mercy Benevolence and by these high indignities and their pressing necessities to inforce them if they can to renounce the Protestant-Religion and turn professed Papists Their most inhuman unchristian barbarism in depriving them totally of all means of Subsistance by seising all their revenues without allowing them one farthing out of them towards their necessary relief yet enacting iâ High Treason for any of their Protestant Subjects Friends Allies within their Realmâ or Dominions to contribute any thing toward their support to hold the leaââ correspondency with or make any publique prayers unto God for them as if they were worse than Turkâ Iews Infidels and most professed Enemies for whom we are not only commanded to pray but also to love feed cloâh relieve harbour them in their necessities overcomming their evil with goodness by Christs own example and express precepts under pain of everlasting damnation be a conscientious Saint-like performancâ of and obedience to or not rather an Atheistical obstinate presumptuous rebellion against the 1 Tim. 2.1 2 3. Mat. 5.44 45. c. 2â 21 c. 25.34 to 46. Luke 6.35 to 39. c. 10.30 to 38. c. 23.34 Acts 7.60 Rom. 10 13 â9 20 21. c. 13.1 to 12. c. 15.26 27. 1 Cor. 16.1 2. Jam. 2 13. and other sacred Texts A religious zealous observation of their * sacred solemn Protestations Vows Covenant Remonstrances Declarations Oathes for the maintenance defeâce propagation of the true Reformed Protestant Religion the Profession and ãâ¦ã against the bloudy Ploâs conspiracies attempts practices of the Iesuits and other profâssed Popish Eneâies and ânderminers of themâ Or not rather a moââ perfidious vâolation âbjuration betraying of confederating with the Iesuits Papists against them A loving of theââ Protestant Brethren with a true heart fervently and laying down their lives for them and being pitiful merciful compassionate towards them according to these Gospel-precepts Eph. 4.32 c. 5.1 2. 1 Pet. 1.22 c. 2.17 c. 3.8 1 John 2.11.14.33 c. 4.7 11 12 20 21. John 13.34 c. 15.12.17 Or not rather a shutting up their bowels of compassion towards them a grieving offending persecuting murdering of their bodies souls too an infallible evidence that they are yet no real Saints or children of God but the very children of the Devil abiding in death having no true love of God nor eternal life abiding in them by Christs own resolution John 8.44 45. 1 John 2.13 to 18 A professed Antichristian contradiction to the reiterated command and voice of God from heaven Isay 52.11 2 Cor. 6.17 Rev. 18.2 3 4 c. Depart ye depart ye Come ye out of mystical Romish Babylon the mother of whoredoms the habitation of Devils and of every foul spirit and the cage of every unclean and hateful bird O my people that ye be not partakers of her sinnes and that ye receive not of her plagues by their forcible driving of their own Protestant King Brethren into Babylon and keeping them therein to have their habitation among Devils foul spirits unclean birds of every kind that so they may participate both in her sins and plagues instead
Thou shalt not sow thy Vineyard with divers seeds lest the fruit of thy seed and Vineyard be defiled Thou shalt not plow with an Ox and an Asse together Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts as of Wollen and Linnen together And as great an Absurdity as that in Horace Humano Capiti cervicem jungere Equinam 3ly Whether it will not be the Extremity of folly and frenzy for this twice dissolved Anti-Parliamentary Iuncto to conceit that Lambert and those Army-Officers who have twice turned them out of Doors with greatest Infamy and branded them with so many deserved Marks of Treachery Injustice Vsurpation Rashnesse Oppression self-seeking or the surviving numerous Members of the ouâ long Parliament or the Counties Cities Boroughs Ports for which they served the old House of Peers or our three Kingdoms will ever patiently permit them to sit or Act as a lawfull Parliament of England Scotland and Ireland or submit to any of their Anti-Parliamentary Knacks Taxes Excises Imposts Militiaâs Orders or Usurped Regal Pârliamental soveraign legislative Authority without rising up unanimously against them as the worst impudentest sottishest of Traytârs Vsurpers Enemies to the Peace and settlement of our 3. Kingdoms as their last Knack of Octob. 12. their Plea and other late publications of their own proclaim them to all the world which they have so miserably oppressed impoverished rent in pieces by their forementioned Treasons Innovations and complying with those ambitious covetous Army-Officers and Jesuitical Emissaries whose designs and their own self-ends they have only pursued to the publike desolation of our Kingdoms and Churches And whether their re-secluding of the Lords House and their old surviving fellow-Members will not be a justification and ground for their own third ejecâment dissolution by the Army or others if they presume to sit and act again without them 4. Whether there be any probability or possibility considering all the premises that any Common Souldiers Mariners or other inferior Officers in the Army or Navy can expect any real payment of their arrears or future pay or the People of our 3. Nations any Trade Peace Ease Settlement in the least degree but inevitable speedy desolation confusion destruction unless they all cordially unite their endeavours counsels forces for the speedy convening and secure un-interrupted fitting of a full free and Legal English Parliament according to the Act of 17 Caroli cap. 1. and declaring all such Members of the twice-disâipated Juncto and Army-Grandees Traitors and Enemies to the publike who shall openly and wilfully oppose this their just and necessary only probable means of their Tranquility Safety Prosperity Which they pretend to aim at in words and Declarationâ but diametrically contradict by their Procâedings as experience manifests past all contradiction 5. Whether our Protestant King his Brethren and followârs expelled out of their Protestant Realms and forein Allies Territories into Popish idolatrous forein Quarters where they sojourn to the hazard of their Religion Souls Bodieâ by the malice of the dissolved Iuncto Army Republican Saints may not now justly use that Speech of ânnocent persecuted exiled David to King Saul in the like case and condition 1 Sam. 26.19 If the Lord hath stirred thee up against me let him accept an offring but if they be the Children of men Cursed be they before the Lord for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the Inheritancâ of the Lord saying On serve other Gods And whether God by way of requital for this their transcendent impietie and other premised Crimes Treasons of all sorts wherein they impeniâently persevere may not justly inflict on the Iuncâo Army-Grandeesâ and their posterities that severe judgement threatned to the Israelites Jer. 16.13 Deutr. 4.27 28. c. 28.64 65 66. Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not neither ye nor your fathers and the Lord shall scatter you among the Nations and ye shall be left few in number among the Heathen whither the Lord shall lead you and there you shall serve Gods day and night the work of mens hands wood and stone which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell where I will not shew you favour And amongst these Nations thou shalt find no ease neither shall the sole of thy feet âave rest but the Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart and faâling of eyes and sorrow of mind and thy life shall hang in doubt before thee day and night and thou shalt have nonâ Asâurancâ of thy life In the morning thou shalt say would God it were even and at even thoâ shalt say would God it were morning for tâe fear of thine heaât and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see And there shall ye be sold unto your Enâmies for bondmen and bondwomen and no man shall buy you O tremble at the serious thoughts thereof and be no more stiff-necked 6. Whether the memorable Example of Gods divine Iustice upon Lockier an active Agitator and Leveller in the Army who had a principle hand in seising bringing the King to his death cried out Iustice Iustice Iustice openly against him and spit in the Kings face in Westminster Hall when going to his Trial before his condemnation conducted him to the block and was within 3. Moneths after condemned in a Council of War by some of the Kings own Iudges and shot to death as a Mâtineer in London 27 April 1649â The tragical self-execution of Thomas Hoyle Alderman and Knight for the City of Yorke one of the Juncto and High Court of Iustice though he signed not the Kings Sentence and one who consented to and subscribed the New Engagement against a King and House of Lords against his conscience foâmer Oaths Covenant and Protestation he had takenâ the horror whereof so terrified his conscience that on the 30. of Ianuary 1649. the very dayâ Twelvemoneth of the Kings execution he hanged himself with a cord in his Chamber at Westminster about the very time of the day the King was there executed the year before The Execution of sundry Levellers at Burford that year with Iohn Lilburnes double Trial for his life soon after by Cromwels own Prosecution his proceedings against Saxbey Syndercombe and other Levellers though his chief Instruments to bring the King to Justice to seclude the Majority of the Members and suppress the whole House of Lords The sudden and fearfull deaths of Col. Ven Rigby and others of the Kings Judges the cashiering close Imprisonments suffâings of M.G. Harrison Col. Rich Col. Overton Col. Okey Lord Grey of Grooby and others of the Kings condemners by Cromwell himself who engaged them therein The Removal of Iohn Bradshaw from his Presidentship and Feudes between Cromwell and him who secluded him ouâ of his fââst Instrumental Parliament in 1654. and after that threatned to imprison and question him for his life With the laâe pangs of conscience which Col. William Purefoye sustained
before his death in September last for having a hand in the Kings bloud which lay heavy on his heart as he told some Friends To say nothing of Oliver Cromwels own death Septemb. 3. on which day he shed much Protestant Christian bloud in the battels of Dunbar and Worcester against the present King and his Adherents and his two Sonnes sudden dismounting May not justly awaken the stupid seared consciences of all the dissolved Juncto and Army-Officers now living who had any hand in the Tragedies and Powdeâ-plot against the late King and Parliament to bring them to speedy sincere real publike Repentance for them before they sink down quick into Hell or fall into like exemplary Terrors judgments and self-executions and likewise deterr all others from treading in their nnwarrantable pathes (1) all these thingâ hapning to them for their examples to the intent thây should not lust after nor act those evil things which they attempted accomplished to their own prejudice as well as the publike desolation it being (2) better for such men never to have been born than to become Traytors to their own Christian Kings Parl. Country and to be registred to posterity amongst such who were born only for publike mischief happier never to have or enjoy the least power or strength than to abuse it to the publike nusance of others (3) Pâstifera vis est valere ad nocendum Such a power force as this which some in late and present power have exerciâed if (4) St. Augustin mistake not Non sanitatis est sed insaniae Nam phreneticis nihil fortius valentiores sunt sanis sed qâanto majores vires tanto mors vicinior Avertat ergo Deââ ab imitatione nostra fortes istos 7. Whether if the twice dissolved Rump shall audaciously presume to sit and act again as a Parliament notwithstanding all out-goings of Gods former signal providences judgements and the People Armieâ general indignation against them we may not justly apply S. Peters sentence concerning Apostates to them 2 Pet. 2.2 22. Wâiles they promise themselves and others Liberty themselves are servants of corruption and of the Army too that turned them twice out of doors for of whâm a man is overcome of the same is he brought into BONDAGE But it is happened unto them according to the old prouerb The dog is returned to his own vomit again and she sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire and the latter ând ãâã and will be worse with them than the beginning With that parable of our Saviour Mat. 12.43 44 45. Lu. 11.24 25 26. When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man hâ walketh through dry places seeking rest and findeth none Theââ saith he I will return to my House from whence I came and was cast out and when he is come he findeth it empty swept and garnished Then goeth âe and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself and they ââter in and dwell there and the lâst state of that man yea of our Kingdom Church Nation through their usurpations whymâies pressures is worse than the first Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation * Extrema captivitas vestra gravior erit quà m prima as I told Sir Arthur Haslerigg in Westminster Hall May the 5. 1659. two dayes before their lasâ Session when the Commons House was sweeping and garnishing for the Iunctoes return into it which they and we have found true by experience and shall do so again if they presume to return inâo iâ FINIS ârrata Pâ 46. l. 26. James r. Iohn Nelthrop a Prov. 27.5 6â b Prov. 28 23â * Tit. 1.13 c Jer. 22.27 c. 5.5 Ezech. 22.27 * See a Collection of the Armies Engagements Remonstrances c. p. 106 âo 145. * Animadversions upon the Armies Remonstrance Nov. 20. 1648. p. 10 11 12. f See the 2. part of the History of Independency g See the Republicans spurious good old Cause briefly and truly anatomised P. 1. to 6. 2 Thess. 2.4 b See their Declarations and Papers of April 20. And August 12. 1653â And true State of the Commonwealâh of England p. 8 to 12. * As he did Col. Overton Okey and sundry others * See his reâired Maâs unintelligible Meditationâ g Jer. 17.5 h Isay 36.6 * Lu. 19.27 i Isay 24.21 * Jer. 9.2 c. k Isây 33.1 Jer. 9â to 22. l Isay 36.6 Ezeck. 49.9 7. m Isay 30.14 * In Prynne the Member reconâiled to Prynne the Barrester A Legal Vindication against illegal Taxes A True and perfect Narrative p. 24 to 34. A brief necessary Vindication of the old and new seclâded Membersââ 5. * Exact Coll. p. 576 613. A Collection of Ordinances p. 13.219 220. * Gal. 6 7. a See the Armies Plea and Declaration 27 October The printed Votes Diurnals and Parliaments Plea a Exod. 8.19 Psa. 118.23 * 3 Jac. c. 1 2 * These Voters certainly intended to make an endless trade of Warr and never to have any Peace * Penned by Mr. Whitlock * Lenthall Whitlock c. * through fear of some Army Officers * Gen. 11.3 to 10. * Acts 5.39 c. 23.9 * See my True and perfect Narrative p. 92 93. * De Beneficiis l. 2. c. 20. * Mark 9.34 Luke 9.46 c. 21.24 * The Sextonâ boy at Westminster who shewed his Herse at first said Here is the Herse of Oliver late Protector THE CONQUEROR OF ENGLAND SCOTLAND IRELAND whose CROWNS he âears upon his SWORD and said he had order to say so * See my Concordia Discorâ * See my Legal Historical Vindication c. * Isay. 14.20 The seed of evil doers shall never be renowned * Ps. 30.6 7. * Hos. 2.6 7. * Judges 19.30 * Understand ye brutish among the people O ye fools when will ye be wise Ps. 94.8 As the new Committee of Safety have ãâ¦ã impose a new Tax of and quarter Soldâeââ on the Dâniers of it * See my Concordia Discors * 1 Pet. 4.18 19. * Jam. 2.11 * Had he writ ât to a Spaniard no doubt the Letter would have been in Spanish not English as well as the suprescription * Leopold * Condiâ * Execution he means * This intimates he was a Priest or Jesuit who writ it * See my hidden works of Darknesse brought to publike Light * See Mr. Smiths 2. New Books against the Quakers and Dell proving them to be Papists a Is. 5 c 3. to 8. b Psa. 66.7 c John 8.44 45. Ephes. 5.19 20 21. d Ephes. 2.2 3. e Micah 3.10 Hab. 2.12 f Micah â 1 2 3 4 5. * My true and perfect Narrative p 58 to 64. * Rom. 2.2 3 8 9 12. h 2 Pet. 2.7 8. i Psal. 119 13â k Judges 5.31 l Judges 4.15 * Psal. 12. â 2. âsal 94.1 * Ps. 37.38 39â 40. * Cookes 4. Instit c. 1.75 76. Nota. (1) 1 Cor. 10.6.11 (2) Mat. 26 24 (3) Seneca de Clemeââiaâ l. 1. (4) Enarratio in Psal. 78. * Theophylacti Enar. in Mat. C. ââ See Opus Imperfectuâ in Mat. Hom. 30.