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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51104	A Modest vindication of Oliver Cromwell from the unjust accusations of Lieutenant-General Ludlow in his Memoirs together with some observations on the Memoirs in general.		1698 (1698)	Wing M2374; ESTC R36921	33,034	82

as he set 'em up in hopes that they might be serviceable to him for the good of the Nation might pull 'em down again when he saw 'em exceeding their Commission Now whether the design for the bringing of which to pass Cromwell fix'd 'em in their Seats pro tempore were good or bad is not the Question But whether they who were no lawful Authority but only acted under the safeguard of another unlawful Authority had power to make any act good or evil as it suited with their Interest or oppos'd their Designs For if they had not which is most probable Cromwell is ne're a jot the more Impious the more Perjur'd the more a Villain because they call him so For being a Junto of his own erecting upon such and such Considerations he might without any fear of those Reproaches send 'em a grazing when he found 'em deviating from those ends for which he had suffer'd 'em to keep their Places Now it is plain that Cromwell never intended they should sit long or thought 'em able to accomplish his main Design which was to settle the Nation For Whitlock in his Memorials gives yee an Account how that aftter the Battel of Worcester Cromwell desir'd a Meeting with several Members of Parlament and some Chief Officers of the Army at the Speaker's House where in the presence of a great many that met he propos'd to 'em That since the Old King was Dead and his Son Defeated he held it necessary to come to a Settlement of the Nation and therefore he had desir'd that Meeting to Consider and Advise what was fit to be done Whitlock offer'd Whether it were not requisite to be understood in the first place in what way such a Settlement was desir'd whether of an Absolute Republick or of any Mixture of Monarchy Cromwell concurr'd with Whitlock that his meaning was that it should be consider'd Whether a Republick or a mixt Monarchy would be best to be settl'd and if any thing Monarchical then in whom that Power to be plac'd Sir Thomas Widdrington was of Opinion That a mixt Monarchical Government was the most suitable to the Laws and People of the Nation and if Monarchical that it would be most just to place it in one of the Sons of the late King Fleetwood thought that the Question whether a mixt Monarchy or a Republick would not be very easily determin'd But St. John the Chief Justice was of the same Opinion with Sir Thomas Widdrington and so was the Speaker but they did not mention where it was proper to be plac'd Widdrington again propos'd the Duke of Glocester and Whitlock propounded that a Day might be fix'd for the King 's Eldest Son and the Duke of York to come into the Parlament that so upon such Terms as should be thought fit and agreeable both to the Civil and Spiritual Liberties a Settlement might be made with them Cromwell repli'd That it would be a business of more then ordinary difficulty however he really thought that if it could be done with safety to the preservation of the English Rights a Settlement with something of Monarchical Power in it would be very effectual In short the Soldiers were against any thing of Monarchy as Desborough and Whalley who were present at the Meeting but the Lawyers were for a mixt Monarchy Hence it is apparent that the Dissolution of the Rump in order to the setting up a Government with a mixture of Monarchy in it had a truer and more noble Aim as being more conformable to the Laws of the Land then the continuance of a Republic The Point is not here Whether Cromwell did ill in setting up himself but whether he did amiss in setting up himself above the Republican Rump and for that he has of his side the Opinions of the Greatest and most Learned Lawyers of that Time And Whitlock testifies That St. John the then Chief Justice with many others advis'd him to Dissolve the Rump So that Ludlow's Outcries of Villanous Wicked and Perfidious are False and Scandalous as being grounded upon Ignorance Passion and Partiality He could not be tax'd with Wickedness or Villany because he pursu'd the Constitutions of the Nation at least much closer then they who had design'd the Subversion of the National Government Nor could he be charg'd with Perfidiousness because he never promis'd to perpetuate their Session but had often desir'd 'em to Dissolve themselves which they foreslowing by a thousand cunning delays he took the liberty to dismiss 'em by force But how highly soever Ludlow was offended with the Dissolution of his Republican Brethren many others were not of his Opinion For Whitlock tells yee that their Dissolution caus'd much rejoycing among the Kings Party and that among the Parlament's Party several Pastors of Churches and their Congregations were pleas'd at it and that several Acknowledgments of the Justice of that Action were sent up to Cromwell and his Council of Officers not only from several Parties of the Army but from others in various Countries with Engagements to stand by him and Baxter tells yee that no sort of People express'd any great Offence at their being cast out Though he closes his advantagious Testimonial of the general Approbation of the Action with a lash of his Satyrical Pen upon the score of his old Friends the Exterminated Members For Mr. Baxter does not appear in his descants upon Cromwell to be a Man without Gall. However he serves as a good Witness against Lieutenant General Ludlow to shew that Oliver's Dissolution of the Rump was no such Crime as he proclaims it to be And thus it is observable how strangely Falshood is impos'd upon the world in the various dresses and disguises of Truth If you will believe the Affirmations of Self-interest and Partiality there as many Truths as there are Wastcoats of the Virgin Mary among the Papists at least there is no Champion of a Party but has his Wardrobe of Prerences and Dresses of Justice Piety Virtue and whatever is revear'd and esteem'd among Men to prank and trick up their Minion Falshood that it shall not be possible to distinguish her from Truth nor are they at the same time without as many Magazines of deformed Vizors and Disguises to render Truth the most odious and monstrous of all things and ungrateful to Mankind One cries up this for Truth another asserts for Truth that which is diametrically opposite a third steps in and charges 'em both for Impostors And the generality of Men too lazy to examin which is Truth and which is Falshood refer themselves to him who having got something of a Name in the World either for his Learning or Piety or it may be sometimes for both has the greatest Authority over their Persuasion This is Cromwell's Case of whom it was said That no Man was higher Extoll'd no Man more basely vilifi'd no Man Worse no Man Better spoken of as Interest led the Judgments of Men. The Presbyterians with Baxter at