Joyce Cornet seizes the King at Holmby with the Commissioners that attended him 97. Order'd to seize the Magazine at Oxford 98. Ireland not to be reliev'd while the Army was kept up here 72. Relief voted them by the Parliament 74. About 2000 willing to go the rest hinder it all they can 76. Such as were willing to relieve it voted Deserters by the Army 115. who require they should be discharg'd tho order'd thither by the Parliament 121. Ireton keeps from the Army to give them opportunity to do their Mischief 84. Lenthal Speaker of the Commons his good Places c. 133. Forsakes the House and joins with the Army 146 147. Is put into his Place again by Fairfax 164. Lesley his Service at Marstonmoor 15. Lewis Sir William Governour of Portsmouth his fair Accounts c. 138 139 175. Lilburn against the eleven Members 141. London for the Parliament and against the Army c. 106. Resent the Parliament's altering their Militia by the Influence of the Army 143 c. Alarm'd by the Army 160. Lords several forsake the House and join with the Army 146 147. The House chuse a new Speaker on the other's leaving ' em 155. Outdo the Commons in Honour of Sir Tho. Fairfax 169. Their Vote concerning what was acted by the Houses when forsaken by their Speakers disagreed to by the Commons 170. Seven of 'em impeach'd of High Treason by the Army 173 191. Are set at liberty 192. M. MAnchester Earl his Charge against Cromwel 18 19 28. Laid aside by the Army 30. Is Speaker of the House of Lords whom he forsakes and joins the Army 146 147. Is put into his Place again by Sir Tho. Fairfax 164. Marshal Chaplain to Skippon too instrumental in the Evils of this Kingdom 107 143. Preaches before the Parliament and extols Sir Tho. Fairfax's Expedition c. 168. Marstonmoor Fight had not been obtain'd but for the Scots 15. Massey Captain stops an Express sending to Scotland committed by the Lords for it but set at liberty 55 56. Massey Major General his Brigade cashier'd tho it had done the greatest Service in the West 70. Is one of the Committee at Derby-house 75. Is made Lieutenant General of the Horse in Ireland 82. Forsaken by the City 163. Maynard Sir John one of the eleven Members tho nothing against him 115. Expel'd the House and sent to the Tower 173. Members of Parliament what their Design in taking up Arms. 4. Are misrepresented by the Army 38. Some of 'em discover the Designs of the Army against the Scots 53. Mildmay Sir Henry has Letters sent him against the Scots 52. Model of the Army c. 30. N. NEwcastle Propositions sent to the King there gave occasion to the Army Party to review 'em all c. 57. Nicklis Mr. the Lawyer concern'd in the Committee of Sequestrations 129. Noel Mr. sent with a Message from the Parliament to the Army 162. North of England suffers by the Scots Army thro the Practice of the Army Party here 49 50. Nye Mr. preaches a Thanksgiving-Sermon before the Commons on Sir Tho. Fairfax's coming to London 168. O. OXford Magazine there kept by the Army from the Parliament 98. P. PAlmer Mr. Herbert influenc'd by Marshal 160. Parliament vote the disbanding of the Army 74. Send for some Officers that had promoted the Petition against it 79. Their Clemency to 'em ill requited 80. Settle the Arrears of the Army 81. Make Sir Tho. Fairfax General of all their Forces ibid. Order the Officers down to the Army but to their own Ruin 90. Too favourable to the Army 92. Appoint a Rendevouz for the Foot in order to disband 93. About to take a severe Course with the Army Party but prevented by Skippon 104. Forc'd to comply with the Army 107 111 116. Resolve to defend themselves and the City against the Army 109 159. Vote the King to Richmond 117 158. Made a mere Cypher by the Army 142 c. Indeavour to prevent Extremities 162. Their Case stated as to the Force put upon 'em and being deserted by their Speaker 165 167. Appoint a Committee to inquire concerning that Force 169. Disagree with the Lords about what the Houses had done when forsaken by their Speakers 170. Afterwards forc'd to comply 173. Constrain'd to act against it self by refusing to make any further Address to the King c. 200. Pelham Mr. Henry chose Speaker of the Commons in the room of Lenthal 156. Pennington Alderman of London favour'd and rewarded by the Army Party 132 133. Petitions from an Army to their Superiors when requir'd to do Service always deem'd a Mutiny 77. Pointz Colonel his Care and Vigilance to prevent the Mischiefs design'd by the Army Party in the North for which he was put out of command 61. Taken by Violence out of his House by the Agitators ibid. Inhumanly treated by ' em 62. Pride Colonel his Equivocation at the Bar of the House about petitioning against disbanding 80. Prideaux Mr. of the Army Party made himself Postmaster of England 133. R. RAbble threaten the House of Commons to cause 'em to pass several Votes 145. Rainsborough Colonel his Regiment refuses to march for Jersey which he connives at yet afterwards made Vice-Admiral 95 96. Riot in Yorkshire 48. Rushworth Secretary to Sir Tho. Fairfax his acting against the eleven Members 126. His Letter to the Speaker against appearing at the House 147. Signs Proposals to the Parliament concerning a new Form of Government 176. S. SAint John Mr. Oliver his Character his underhand Letter to the Committee of Hertfordshire c. 32. His violent and bloody Nature 33. Breaks his Protestation as to Cromwel's being dispens'd with from the self-denying Ordinance 36. His Places of Profit c. 133. Salloway Mr. one of the Committee at Derby-house 75. Savil Lord an Impostor 38. Writes Letters to several Great Men against the Parliament 39. Say Lord rewarded by the Army Party 136. Scawen Mr. brings a sad account of the temper of the Army 108. His Pension 137. Concern'd in conveying away a great Sum order'd for the Army 161. Scots propos'd to be call'd in but obstructed by the Malignants their Character 11 13. After call'd in 12. Made use of only for a pinch 13. Impos'd on by the Malignants 14. Discover the good Intentions of the honest Party in England 20 21. Are represented as having a design to make good their footing here 44. Their Army ill requited 46 65. Are vindicated as to raising of Money in the North on Free Quarter 48. Their Pay kept back 51. Their Ministers of State suspected by the Army Party here to hold Correspondences with the Queen c. 51 52. Their Papers in the House of Commons here not answer'd 53. Their Piety Moderation c. 59. Had no ground to disband their Army unless the English did 63 64. Have a great Sum voted 'em tho with great opposition 66. Deliver up the King to the English 68. Whereby they gain Reputation 69. Are laid aside in the Army's Address to the King at the Isle of Wight 189. Self-denying Ordinance 30. Sequestrations c. 8. Skippon Major General made Commander in chief in Ireland 82. Instrumental in betraying the Parliament c. 88. Excuses the Agitators 90. Prevents the Parliament's proceeding against the Army Party and how 104 105. Refuses to obey the Parliament's Order but on certain Conditions 161 162. Stapleton Sir Philip laid aside by the Army 30. His moderate Pay c. 139. Swifen Mr. imploy'd by the Parliament to the Army 162. T. TIchburn a Linen-draper made Constable of the Tower by Sir Tho. Fairfax 174. V. VANE Sir Henry one of the Parliament's Commissioners with the Army 108. Uxbridg Treaty there 57. W. WAller Sir William order'd from Oxford into the West 22. Laid aside by the Army 30. Is one of the Committee at Derby-house 75. Warmworth Mr. his insolent and ridiculous Speech concerning the Adjutators 89. Warwick Earl one of the Committee at Derby-house 75. One of the Commissioners for disbanding the Army 94. Wentworth Sir Peter gets an Estate for half the value 135. West Colonel discharg'd by Fairfax from being Constable of the Tower 174. Weston Earl of Portland's Son his Reward from the Army 137. White Colonel his Places in the Army c. 135. Wild Serjeant Chairman in the Committee of Sequestrations 129. Gets an Ordinance for the Lady Thornborough's Money is a great Enemy to the eleven Members 134. Willoughby of Parham Lord chose Speaker by the Lords 155. Charg'd with Treason by the Army 191. Wollaston Sir John conveys a great Sum away which was order'd for the Army 161. Wright Robert made use of to give Intelligence of the Scots c. 52. FINIS LEX Parliamentaria or a Treatise of the Law and Custom of the Parliaments of England by G. P. Esq with an Appendix of a Case in Parliament between Sir Francis Goodwin and Sir Iohn Fortescue for the Knights Place for the County of Bucks 1 Iac. 1. Reflections upon what the World commonly calls good Luck and ill Luck with regard to Lotteries and of the good use which may be made of them Written in French by Monsieur Le Clerc and done into English Printed for Tim. Goodwiâ—
MEMOIRS OF DENZIL Lord HOLLES The Right Hon ble Denzel Baron Holles of Ifield Aetat 78. Anc. 1676. Ob. 1679. MEMOIRS OF DENZIL Lord HOLLES Baron of Ifield in Sussex From the Year 1641 to 1648. LONDON Printed for Tim. Goodwin at the Queen's Head against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet M. DC.XC.IX To His Grace JOHN Duke of Newcastle c. May it please your Grace WHEN the following Papers of the famous Lord Holles Your Great Uncle happen'd to fall into my Hands I could not long deliberat whether they deserv'd a public View and therefore intended to get them printed without any further Ceremony for the large share he had in the Transactions of those Times will as much engage others to read these Memoirs as the Defence he was oblig'd to make for himself are a sufficient Reason for his writing them But when I understood that Your Grace out of the Love You bear to virtuous Actions and Your Piety towards so near a Relation did order a stately Monument to be erected at Dorchester for this Illustrious Person I was of opinion that as well for that Reason as because in his Life-time he entertain'd an extraordinary Affection and Esteem for You Your Name should in like manner be inscrib'd on this Monument which he has left of Himself to Posterity The Justice of the thing and the Sincerity of my Intentions must be all my Apology to Your Grace for this Presumtion for the Public of whom You deserv'd so well and particularly in appearing early like Your Noble Ancestors for the Liberty of these Nations will acknowledg it an Obligation nor if any thing should chance to be amiss can I doubt but an easy Pardon will be granted to one who is tho unknown my Lord with so profound a Respect Your Grace's most humble Servant March 28. 1699. THE PUBLISHER TO THE READER SUch as really desire to know the naked Truth and propose for their chiefest aim the common good which are certainly the best tho not the greatest part of Mankind have ever exprest a desire in their Writings of seeing the Memoirs of all parties made public as the most effectual means of framing a true General History For in those places where nothing is licens'd to appear but what visibly tends to the advantage of one side there can be no sincere representation of Affairs the basest Cowards must pass for the bravest Heroes the worst of Villains for the greatest Saints the most Ignorant and Vicious for Men of Learning and Virtue and the Enemies of their Country for its Preservers and Friends Without consulting therefore the particular interest or reputation of any Faction but only the benefit of England in general these Memoirs of the Great Lord Holles are communicated to the World that by comparing them with those of Ludlow and such as appear'd before or will be publish'd hereafter relating to the same times they may afford mutual Light to each other and after distinguishing the personal resentments or privat biasses of every one of 'em the Truth wherein they are all found to agree tho drest by them in different Garbs may by som impartial and skilful hand be related with more candor clearness and uniformity What figure our Author made in the Parliament and in the Wars at home and abroad in his privat and public Capacities is generally known and needs not therefore be mention'd in this place The account he gives of himself in the following Papers is confirm'd by many living Witnesses as well as in the greatest part by other VVriters of the same Transactions But whether the vehemence of his Stile the barbarous Usage he receiv'd his concern for the Presbyterian Party and his Displeasure at the King's misfortunes to whom he was then an adherent and a friend have not guided his Pencil to draw the lines of Cromwel's Face too strong and the shadows too many I refer to the judgment of the disinterested Reader desiring him to allow all that is reasonably due to one in these or the like Circumstances This caution iustice has oblig'd me to insert For as to that tyrannical Usurper of the Supreme Administration who prov'd so ungrateful to the Commonwealth so treacherous to the King and so fatal toboth I think him bad enough painted in his own true Colours without standing in need of exaggerating Rhetoric to make him look more odious or deform'd I should write something here likewise with relation to General Fairfax but that the properest place for it seems to be in a Preface to his own MEMORIAL which is in good hands and it 's hop'd may be shortly expos'd to public view How far soever King Charles the First 's Enemies in England may look on themselves disoblig'd or any of his Friends neglected by my Lord Holles the Scots are surely beholding to him for in his long Panegyric on that Nation he has said more in their behalf than their own Historians have ever been able to offer But in this and other matters of the like nature we shall not anticipate the Readers Curiosity or Iudgment I shall therefore only acquaint him that tho this Piece be entitul'd Memorials from the History it contains yet in substance it is an Apology for that Party who took up Arms not to destroy the King or alter the Constitution but to restore the last and oblige the former to rule according to Law To the Unparallel'd Couple Mr. Oliver St. Iohn his Majesty's Sollicitor General and Mr. Oliver Cromwel the Parliament's Lieutenant General the two grand Designers of the Ruin of three Kingdoms GENTLEMEN AS You have been principal in ministring the matter of this Discourse and giving me the leisure of making it by banishing me from my Country and Business so is it reason I should particularly address it to You. You will find in it some representation of the grosser Lines of your Features those outward and notorious Enormities that make You remarkable and Your Pictures easie to be known which cannot be expected here so fully to the Life as I could wish He only can do that whose Eye and Hand have been with You in Your secret Counsels who has seen You at Your Meetings Your Sabbaths where You have laid by Your assumed Shapes with which You cozen'd the World and resumed Your own imparting each to other and both of You to Your fellow Witches the bottom of Your Designs the policy of Your Actings the turns of Your Contrivances all Your Falshoods Cozenings Villanies and Cruelties with Your full intentions to ruin the three Kingdoms All I will say to You is no more than what St. Peter said to Simon the Sorcerer Repent therefore of this Your wickedness and pray God if perhaps the thoughts of Your Hearts may be forgiven You. And if you have not Grace to pray for Your selves as it may be You have not I have the Charity to do it for You but not Faith enough to trust You. So I remain I thank God not
Quarters were but at a Village near hand whence he could not find his way nor be directed by his Ear when the Ordnance was heard as I have been credibly informed 20 or 30 Miles off so that certainly he is far from the Man he is taken for 17. That day's work at Marston-Moor turned the Scales and raised again the fortune of the Parliament which till that day had very much declined And these Men who all this while stalked under the sides of the Parliament and did but pretend the business of Reformation and the Peoples Liberties thereby to break the power of the King first that afterwards they might either by artifice or force lay as low the Authority of Parliament unless it would betray its truth and yield to be instrumental to them did after this begin to put out their Horns appear in their Colours and as they warmed more and more to spit out their Venom against Monarchy against Nobility and Gentry against that Reformation with which they had formerly held forth to the Scots against the very Covenant their Vows and Declarations wherewith they had abused God and the World 18. Then did Cromwel declare himself to the Lord of Manchester and indeed reveal'd the whole Design First His rancor against the Scots as that he would as soon draw his Sword against them as against any of the King's Party Then his hatred of the Nobility and House of Peers wishing there was never a Lord in England and saying he loved such and such because they loved not Lords and that it would not be well till he was but Mr. Montague Thirdly His intentions to hinder Peace and that therefore he desired none to be of that Army but such as were of the Independent judgment to interpose if a Peace were like to be made which agreed not with their humours All this remains upon Record in both Houses being the Earl of Manchester's Charge against him And let any one judg if this be not the very Plot which was then laid and since practised Has not every particular been attempted by them have they not fully compleated that which was chiefly aimed at As that which will and must certainly if not prevented bring on all the rest the hindering of Peace that no ease nor quietness might be restored to the Kingdom For when the Parliament was ready to disband the only Army then left and so to free the Subject from all Payments and Taxes that every one might return to his Vocation and all differences between King and Parliament might be ended and reconciled in a parliamentary way then did the Cadmean Brood turn their Swords against their fellow Subjects and their Masters the Parliament which by open force they assault make void and unvote what they had voted concerning their Disbanding put by all thoughts of Peace and throw back the Kingdom which was entring into the desired Haven of Peace and Happiness into the deep Seas of Storms and Misery and Confusion where I beseech God it perish not But of all this anon 19. Things were not yet ripe tho the Serpent's Eggs were laid by him in the Earl of Manchester's bosom it was not time to hatch the Cockatrice Therefore when it was by the Earl made known to the Houses their Party in the House of Commons did more solito with all the violence and injustice in the world smother and suppress it quarrelling that the Lords had infring'd their Privileges in desiring that might be examined by a Committee in both Houses saying The Lords ought not to meddle in it because it concern'd a Commoner whereas nothing was more ordinary throughout the whole proceeding of this Parliament in all their inquisitions Yet by that means this was then stifled the breach of Privilege referr'd to a Committee of the House of Commons and there the business died 20. After this the Scots saw how they were cheated and it came to be though not an open breach yet a great coldness between them a withdrawing of confidence of familiarity of Counsels And the Scots then found that the other party had been misrepresented being the Men who in truth did agree with them in Principles and in Design Which was only to reform not to alter to regulate and so to save not to destroy That they still carried about with them the sense of their Allegiance and Duty to the person of the King whom they did desire to see reinvested into his Throne and Kingly Government with such a power and in such a way as might be good both for Him and the People that thereby confusion misery and that disorder which the Poet describes to have been in the first Chaos and which we now see not in a Fiction but really feel and smart under might be avoided 21. By little and little the Scots and these latter came to a better understanding at last they discover the horrid Practices and the whole Design of the others who in the mean time drove it on Iehu like violently bearing down and destroying all that opposed them for some opposition they found They saw there was a strong Party in the House against them between whom and the Soldiers who were under Command of my Lord of Essex there was a good Correspondency and these two together with the Scots were as a threefold Cord not to be broken by them therefore they would untwist it and so destroy them one after another 22. The Earl of Essex must be the first who they found would not bow and therefore must break for many applications had been made to see if he would stoop to their Lure Great offers large promises all the glory of the Kingdom should be his if he would but worship them be as they termed it true to the Godly Party but he was true to his Principles Therefore they do what they can to make him odious not paying his Army to make it a Burden to the Country and infamous not giving him means of acting by Supplies and Provisions so to be looked upon as a Drone or worse or putting him upon such Actions as should break him so to make him come off with dishonour 23. As when he was about Oxford in the Summer 1644 he on one side of the River and Sir William Waller with his Brigade on the other the King having then but a small force within the Town and either not provided for a Siege or not willing to be shut in with a light body of Horse and I think some mounted Men held them play and distracted them being sometimes on the one side sometimes on the other which was easie for him to do going through the Town as he saw occasion by the conveniency of the Gates It being then known that he waited but his opportunity and advantage to slip by or break through our Grand Masters ordered my Lord of Essex with a heavy body of an Army and a great train of Artillery to attend his Majesties motion and Sir William Waller to
upon them If either of which had taken they had still kept themselves behind the Curtain and hid the Arm which had thrown the Stone they had seem'd alas innocent well-meaning Men and yet the mischief befallen which they had contriv'd But rather than fail they will throw of the Vizard and come downright with open face to the executing their Design They set on their Teazers as Haslerig Mildmay Martin and many others to move That Sir Thomas Fairfax might go down with his Army to protect those Northern Counties and relieve them from the oppression of the Scots a pretty way of protection and giving ease to send an Army into a Country We see how this Army eases the Country now to the breaking both of their backs and hearts But could they have gotten a Vote for this their work had been done and we should soon have heard of mischief and felt it The animosity between those two Armies had instantly put them and the Kingdoms into blood for which no question Sir Thomas Fairfax had his Instructions but the House would never give way to it tho with earnestness prest many times by that Party And when they saw they could not prevail the presumptions are very strong that they would have had the Army to have march'd thither without the Parliament's order for the Scots had an alarm of the Army 's moving towards them and their Commissioners so inform'd the House with a protestation against it upon which there was a stop with a denial and disavowment of their having any such intention Yet certainly there was an attempt and it is said orders out for part of the Army to move that way but God be thanked it went no further for that would have been a sad business 59. Before I go off this matter I must do that right to Col. Pointz who commanded the Northern Forces as to attribute to his care and vigilancy and his discreet ordering of his business a great part of our happiness that all that mischief was prevented which was so earnestly endeavour'd to be pull'd on us by engaging the Country and Scotish Army in quarrel and bloodshed and that was his Crime with these Men to be for it since so unjustly put out of his Command after they had stir'd up the unruly Rabble of the Agitators to take him by violence out of his House at York being as absolutely in his Command as Fairfax was in his Meerly doing it by an act of power force and violence breaking through all Rules of Justice Equity and Honesty bringing him a Prisoner to the Army not suffering him so much as to put on his Clothes or speak to his Wife or any Friend but use him as if he had been the greatest Traytor in the world when Sir Thomas Fairfax could not pretend to the least jurisdiction over him not any thing could be laid to his charge Such is their hatred of every honest Man who stands in their way to their pernicious designs 60. Their next hope was that the Scotish Army would not go out of the Kingdom at the desire of the Parliament so bloody Noses would be upon that occasion and I must give them their due there was no failure in them to do all that was possible to have kept them in still only to quarrel with them but with a seeming to desire nothing so much as their going Very forward they were to get the Vote of the Parliament that they should be gone but to inable them to go they would not help rather hinder and hang on all the weights they could To say the truth they had some ground to believe First That they would not go Secondly That they could not if they would for the Scots had a colour if not just reason to have refus'd 61. By the Covenant and Treaty the two Kingdoms had bound themselves before God and one to another as one intire Body to prosecute the Cause these are the very words of the Declaration of both Houses to the State of the united Provinces which Declaration Mr. Sollicitor himself penn'd therefore they must hold it Canonical and that neither Kingdom should lay down Arms till the Ends mention'd in the Covenant and Treaty were obtain'd If then in this Cause the Forces of both Kingdoms made but one intire Body the Scots had a good Plea Why will you send us away and disband us wholly This proceeding is not equal the Body must suffer and cannot act as an intire Body if one whole Member be cut off or if there be no more need of acting if the Ends be obtain'd for which the Body was constituted and therefore you send us away then why do you keep up your own Army the other part of this Body This had certainly been strong reason which Mr. Sollicitor would have been puzled to answer 62. Besides the Scots had cause enough to have their jealousie prompt them that it was not safe for them to depart with their Army lay by their Swords and leave standing in this Kingdom so great a Force which they knew to be so ill affected to them and might act to their prejudice and the King being in their power perhaps force both him and the Parliament to a Peace disadvantageous to Scotland and differing from those grounds upon which by the Kingdom of England they were engag'd in this Quarrel or else make no Peace at all but interpose as Cromwel to the Earl of Manchester to hinder it and themselves govern by the Sword not only to the prejudice of Scotland but also ruin of England One may swear there was ground enough for such a fear for since it hath prov'd so to purpose But according to the old Rule they who mean well themselves are not suspicious of others The Scots had no thoughts but of setling a Peace laying down of Arms calling the People and all things to revert into their old Channel therefore they were willing to be gone and return into their own Country in confidence that after their departure the Army under Sir Thomas Fairfax should likewise presently be disbanded since there was no more need of any Army at all so they were willing to go 63. But then the question was if they would go or not and how the Soldiers would be dispos'd to march out who had not been paid of so many Months insomuch as the Scotish Commissioners gave in an account of some 800000 l. Arrears Here our Gallants hop'd they had them upon the Hip and should surely give them a fall Then they thrust on some of their little Northern Beagles as Mr. Blaxton and others to inform what high Sums they had rais'd upon the Country upon which they conclude the Scotish Army was in their debt and therefore they would come to an account with them which had been a sure way to have kept them in the Kingdom five or six months longer But to help that our just Pay-masters said the Army should march away and some persons
be left behind to see all accounts adjusted which had requir'd very good Rhetorick to have made it Justice especially to have appear'd so to the Scotish Soldiers for to have sent them away without Money and then ask the Country-man what the Soldiers had taken when he might say what he thought â— good the Soldier not there to answer for himself and yet his Pay to be thereby determin'd would have been but hard measure But the Rhetorick had been Sir Thomas Fairfax to have gone down with his Army which should have made it just and easie and every thing for this was it they desir'd to bring it to as it was often mov'd and press'd by them 64. At last the well-wishers to Peace with much ado prevail'd in the House and it was carry'd to offer the Scots a gross Sum for all so to part fair and avoid the delay and disputes of an account to which they presently agreed Then the question was what Sum. Here again we had a strong debate For our Incendiaries hung by every twig sticking fast to their Principles to dissatisfie the Scots and break with them if possible upon any point pretending the poverty of the Kingdom and the great Sums the Scots had rais'd and therefore they would give but 100000 l. which they knew was all one with a hundred Shillings as to the satisfying of the Soldiers for marching away In the end after many debates in the House and passages to and again with the Scotch Commissioners the lowest Sum that could be agreed unto by the Commissioners was 400000 l. two in hand and the other two after some time with a protestation of theirs that the Army would not be satisfy'd with less nor inabled to march which was motive enough for these Men to deny it for if they could have wrought the dissatisfaction of the Army so as to have refus'd to go it was where they would have it Whereupon 't was oppos'd by them with all the power they had but in the end the better part that is the moderate Party who were the Peace-makers those that labour'd to keep things even and fair between the two Kingdoms carry'd it And the sum was voted and all things agreed upon tho with difficulty for they fought it out and lost it by Inches then the Scots declar'd they would march out by such a day 65. Yet had our Boutefeus one hope left which was to quarrel at last about the person of the King believing the Scots would certainly have taken his Majesty with them into Scotland This they knew had been ground sufficient and would have engag'd all England against them giving a confirmation to all the jealousies formerly rais'd and occasion'd a thousand more And had certainly more advantag'd the designs of those who thirsted after the destruction of the King first the Scots next and then all such as desir'd Peace within this Kingdom and have made them a smoother way to their damnable Ends the altering of the Government and bringing in a confusion both in Church and State than any thing that could have happen'd And the two Kingdoms had been together in blood the author of the mischief undiscover'd mask'd over with the glorious pretences of zealously vindicating the honesty and interest of England and every breach of Covenant and Treaty in this Cause which made them with so much peremptoriness and incivility and in truth injustice demand that the Scots would deliver up his Majesty who had an equal interest in his Royal Person with the Kindom of England he being equally King of both and an equal interest in the closing and binding up the unhappy differences which were between him and both his Kingdoms they having been engag'd in that Quarrel at the entreaty of England and made up together with an intire Body with England as is before shewed for the prosecution of it Therefore they had no more reason to trust us with the King than we had them and as much were they concern'd in all that related to his Majesty's Person so as they had ground enough to have disputed it and out of that hope was it press'd by the others But the wisdom of the Scotish Nation foresaw the inconveniencies which must have necessarily follow'd had they been positive at that time how they had plaid their Enemies game to their own ruin and even ruin to his Majesty Therefore they made for him the best conditions they could that is for the safety and honour of his Person and to avoid greater mischiefs were necessitated to leave him in England and so march away Which they did in February 1646. 66. Here then the very mouth of Iniquity was stopt Malice it self had nothing to say to give the least blemish to the faithfulness and reality of the Kingdom of Scotland the clearness of their Proceedings their zeal for Peace without self-seeking and self-ends to make advantage of the miseries and misfortunes of England This gave such a reputation to them and to those that appear'd for them that is so far for them as to endeavour the doing of them right and prevent the practices of those who sought all means of doing them wrong and gave such a blow to the other violent Party so broke their power and lessen'd their authority in the Parliament as it made way for obtaining those resolutions which were presently taken for disbanding Sir Thomas Fairfax's Army Till when by the fomenting jealousies against the Scots and against all moderate and well affected persons as if their designs were to betray the Cause deliver over the Honour and Interest and Strength of England into the hands of the Scots they prevail'd so far generally upon the affection of the people and especially upon many well-meaning but not so well discerning persons Members of Parliament as they were able to suppress all good motions tending towards Peace all endeavours of smoothing those rugged ways that their violence had put all things in and to swell up that Independent Army like the Spleen in the Body by the concourse of all ill humours to the ruin and consumption of the Body it self And yet other Forces cashier'd as Major General Massey's Brigade which had done all the Service in the West of which those Drones robb'd the sweet getting the honour and advantage of it to themselves That tho that Army was compos'd for the most part of factious Sectaries except some few gallant Men that were scatter'd here and there amongst them as Colonel Greves Colonel Thomas Sheffield Sir Robert Pye Colonel Herbert Colonel Butler Quarter-Master General Fincher and other Officers of Quality and Gentlemen of the Life-Guard who had formerly serv'd under my Lâ—â—d of Essex and Sir William Waller and in other parts of the Kingdom to whom they did the honour of letting them perform all the Action which that Army had to do and who every one of them afterward left it when it left its obedience to the Parliament and fidelity to the Kingdom and
supply of Ireland and safety of England 77. For England they appointed what Regiments of Horse and Dragoons shall stand settle the Garisons name Sir Thomas Fairfax General of all the Forces under Pay which was sufficient Honour for him for the Service he had done and shew'd that they had no meaning to dismiss those with reproach who had serv'd them as they were falsely scandaliz'd 78. For Ireland they make Serjeant Major General Skippon Commander in Chief with the Title of Field Marshal and Major General Massey Lieutenant General of the Horse recommended it to the care of the Committee at Derby house to prepare all things necessary for the forwarding of that Service and draw off such of the Army as were willing to go for the distempers there continu'd those who had declar'd themselves being affronted discourag'd and many of them debaucht from that Service 79. This was faithfully perform'd by the Committee that is by part of it for some of them as the Sollicitor Cromwel Sir Arthur Haslerig and those of that gang would not attend but the others did And if I may speak it without vanity it being one of the great Crimes with which the eleven Members stand charg'd by their care and industry they put the whole business into such a way not only doing their best endeavours to have sent over the Forces that should have gone out of the Army but sending over others also as Colonel Iones and those Regiments which went to Dublin and supplying the best they could my Lord Inchiqueen and those Forces which were there before with such necessaries as they could provide that by the blessing of God the foundation was laid for all the good which has since befallen that Kingdom and for the great advantages which those gallant Men have gotten upon the Rebels notwithstanding the little assistance they have since receiv'd having in truth been rather hinder'd than helpt for every body knows the malice which is born them by that Party which now bears sway what discouragements my Lord Inchiqueen has labour'd under and the small regard had of Colonel Iones Yet they have subsisted and not only preserv'd but advanc'd very much the English Interest with Honour to themselves and shame to these unworthy Men who are so little sensible of the conditions of the poor Protestants there preferring their particular revenge and prosecution of their damnable End before all that is of Honour and Justice and either of duty to God and their Country or compassion to their distressed Brethren 80. The Officers in the mean time play their parts below in the Army they had already engag'd the Soldiers to stand upon Pay an Act of Indemnity and some other Immunities plausible things to make them all of a piece enter into a kind of a league and combination one with another and so become fit to receive any other impression and unite upon it Therefore now they go a step further to incense them against the Parliament misrepresenting all passages and proceedings to them as if the intention were to force them for Ireland and therefore starve them or dismiss them with shame and expose them to question and trouble for what they had done in the Wars so engaging them to persist upon their demands in that Petition and ask reparation of the Parliament for wrong done them by the Commissioners sent down for the business of Ireland and other Members of the House whom they had characteriz'd to be Enemies to the Army whereby they put them into such a distemper as all thoughts of duty and obedience were cast off nothing so odious as the Parliament nothing would satisfie but revenge 81. When they had wrought the Feat Sir Thomas Fairfax himself came to London upon pretence of taking Physick Cromwel Ireton Fleetwood Rainsborough who were Members of the House of Commons as well as principal Officers of the Army keep the House that the Soldiers might be left to themselves to fire the more run up to extremes and put themselves into a posture to carry on their work of Rebellion with a high and violent hand which had been so handsomly done for either they must have appear'd in it and join'd with the Soldiers which had been too gross or have stop'd it in the beginning crush'd the Serpent in the Egg which had been most easie but was contrary to their design So now they give the business time to foment and the Rebellion to grow to some head that afterwards when they should come amongst them for they could not but expect the Parliament would send them down they might seem to be carry'd with the violence and to give some way for preventing greater inconveniences and to keep them from extremities till the Monster was form'd and got to that strength as to protect it self and them when they might without danger declare for it which they afterwards did In the mean time disclaiming it blaming the Soldiers at that distance as Cromwel did openly in the House protesting for his part he would stick to the Parliament whilst underhand they sent them encouragements and directions for nothing was done there but by advice and countenance from London where the whole business was so laid the Rebellion resolv'd upon and the Officers that were in town so deeply engag'd that when the full time was come for putting things in execution my friend Cromwel who had been sent down by the Parliament to do good Offices was come up again without doing any and he who had made those solemn publick Protestations with some great Imprecations on himself if he fail'd in his performance did notwithstanding privily convey thence his Goods which many of the Independents likewise did leaving City and Parliament as mark'd out for destruction and then without leave of the House after some Members missing him and fearing him gone had mov'd to have him sent for whereupon he being as it seems not yet gone and having notice of it came and shew'd himself a little in the House did steal away that evening I may say run away post down to the Army and presently join in the Subscription of a rebellious Letter whereof I shall speak anon But let him take heed those Imprecations fall not upon him which many times God remembers and takes Men at their word meeting with them in their dissembling wishes when themselves least think of them perhaps have forgot that ever they made them This by the way 82. For the present the thing pitch'd upon was to set up a kind of Council like the supreme Council of the Irish Rebels but that those were most of them persons of birth and degree these ex faece populi under the name of Agitators Two as I take it were chosen out of every Regiment at first I think but common Soldiers tho afterwards some Officers were added to transact this business These now forsooth seem to acknowledg no Officer but to rule and dispose of all things as they think good They
Prudence 69. Seize upon the King's Person 96. Their Letter to the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London concerning their Demands of the Parliament 102. Their large share in the Treasure of the Kingdom 132 137. Their Accounts extravagant 138 139. Their Remonstrance concerning the Members that sat during the Speaker's Absence 172. Draw up a Party of Horse to back it ibid. Turn out Officers that were against them c. 175. The Difficulties they had to encounter 182 183. Cajole the King c. 184. The means they us'd to get rid of him 185 186. Procure his going to the Isle of Wight 187. Send him four Bills to sign 188. Their Declaration from Windsor concerning no further Address to him 200. descanted on 201 c. Ashurst Mr. sent with a Message from the Parliament to the Army 162. B. BLaxton imploy'd by the Army Party to give account what Sums the Scots had rais'd of the Country 65. Bristol lost its Governour condemn'd but pardon'd 12. Burley Captain hang'd by Fairfax's Order 190. C. CHarles King of England his Forces ruffled at Dennington 27. His Safety not regarded by the Army Party 34. Is deliver'd up to the English by the Scots 68. His Person seiz'd by the Army 96. Is made a Prisoner in the Isle of Wight on refusing the four Bills 190. Clotworthy Sir John one of the Committee at Derby-house 75. Commissioners of Scotland endeavour to undeceive the English Parliament in relation to their Army 47. Move for Pay for their Soldiers 50 51. Slighted by the Army Party 54. Their Packets and Letters intercepted and broke open 55. Give in an account of Arrears due to their Army 64. Committee at Derby-house to see the Parliaments Votes concerning Ireland executed 75. Labour to dispose the Army to go thither 76. of Haberdashers-Hall Goldsmiths-Hall c. misus'd by the Army to the ruin of many 129. of the two Kingdoms 14. Is out of esteem tho all Affairs of Moment had been transacted by them c. 53 54. Committee of Reformation 30. Corbet Mr. Mâ—â—es Iustice at the Committee of Examinations 130. Covenant between the two Kingdoms the ends of it not answer'd by sending away the Scots without disbanding the English Army 63. Crawford Major General his Service at Marstonmoor 15 16. Cromwel his Cowardice at Marstonmoor Basinghouse and Keinton 17. His Rancor against the Scots and Hatred of the Nobility 18. His Soldiers mutiny that he may escape the self-denying Ordinance 35. Is dispens'd with for two or three Months but after keeps in for good and all without an Order of the House 36. Keeps from the Army to give 'em opportunity of doing their Mischief 84. His Policy and Hypocrisy in relation to the Disorders of the Army 85. Sent down to 'em but to no purpose ibid. Leaves the Parliament and joins with the Army 86. Orders the King to be seiz'd but denies it 97. and the Magazine at Oxford to be secur'd 98. Appoints a general Rendevouz near Cambridg and justifies what the Agitators had done 99. Gets Petitions of his own drawing sign'd by several Counties 114. His Pension 135. Writes a Letter to Whalley to be shewn the King 187. D. DAcres Lord one of the Committee at Derby-house 75. Delaware Lord one of the Commissioners for disbanding the Army 94. Desborough Major with two Regiments falls upon some of Sir Robert Pye's Men at Deptford and barbarously murders them 159. E. ELections vacant by an Artifice voted to be filled up 41. Vnfairly made by the malignant Party 42. Eleven Members incur the Hatred of the Army for doing their Duty 75. Their Care and Industry with relation to Ireland was the Foundation of the good Successes in that Kingdom 82. Have a general Charge exhibited against them by the Army who require they should be suspended sitting in the House 115 119. Remarks on their Case 120 123. Withdraw from the House to prevent Inconveniences 124. No particular Charge against them the ill Practices of their Enemies to ruin them 125 126. Accus'd by the Army of holding Correspondence with the King c. which is descanted on 127 128 c. Largely vindicated 130 131 c. 140 141. The Army's Declaration against them 148 149. which is largely descanted on 150 c. Are vindicated from the Disorders that happened at Westminster from the Rabble c. 153 154. Order'd by the House to make good their places 157. Forsaken by the City who had espous'd their Cause 163. Their unparallel'd Case 199. Essex Earl suspected and laid aside by the Army Party 8 9 21 30. Is order'd to attend his Majesty's Motions 22 23. His ill Success in the West 24 25. His Ruin design'd by Haslerig 24. Relief refus'd to be sent him 25. His Army willingly disband 31 32. F. FAirfax Sir Thomas commands at Marstonmoor under his Father 15. Is made General 34. His Commission ran only in the name of the Parliament ibid. Is discharg'd of Subordination to the Committee of both Kingdoms 54. Design'd to be sent with his Army to protect the Northern Counties 60. Receives Orders about disbanding 93. Causes his Regiment to march another way 94. Innocent as to seizing the King 97. His Remonstrance concerning the King's being voted to Richmond 117. Takes up his Quarters at Uxbridg 123. Marches to London in State and puts in the old Speakers 164. by whom he is complemented and addressed 167. Marches through the City in Triumph 168. Voted by both Houses General of all the Forces and Constable of the Tower 169. His Remonstrance for satisfaction of the Army 188. His Order concerning the King c. at the Isle of Wight 190. Fleetwood Colonel concern'd in seizing the King 97. His Place and Pension 136. Foulks Alderman of London promotes the Interest of the Army 110 160. G. GIbbs Alderman of London promotes the Interest of the Army 110 160. Sent with a Message to the Army 162. Interrupted by Fairfax in a Speech he was making to him 174. Grey of Grooby Lord is gratified by the Army 137. Against the eleven Members 198. Gurden Mr. against the Parliament's having a Period put to it 112. H. HAmmond Colonel his unreasonable Demands on being design'd for Ireland 73. Haslerig Sir Arthur his ill Success in the West 11. His Rashness c. 12. His Excuse for the King 's not being attack'd at Dennington Cowardice Vain-glory c. 27 28. Is concern'd in seizing the King 97 98. His Pension 136. His great Pay 139. Stays in Town tho Governour of Newcastle to do a feat for the Army 198. Holland Mr. Cornelius his Gratuity from the Army Party 135. Holles Mr. Denzil accus'd by Savil of corresponding with the Lord Digby 38 40. Is prosecuted with great Violence by the Sollicitor St. John 40. Acquitted by the House 41. Concern'd in the Uxbridg-Treaty 57. His Generosity as to the publick Money 140. I. JAckson Lieutenant Colonel submits to the Parliament in order to disband 94. Independents Army c. mostly compos'd of them 29.