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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65583	A second narrative of the late Parliament (so called) wherein, after a brief reciting some remarkable passages in the former narrative, is given an account of their second meeting, and things transacted by them : as also how the Protector (so called) came swearing, by the living God, and dissolved them, after two or three weeks sitting : with some quæries sadly proposed thereupon : together with an account of three and forty of their names, who were taken out of the house, and others that sate in the other house, intended for a House of Lords, but being so unexpectedly disappointed, could not take root, with a brief character and description of them : all humbly presented to publique view / by a friend to the good old cause of justice, righteousnesse, the freedom and liberties of the people, which hath cost so much bloud and treasury to be carried on in the late wars, and are not yet settled.	Wharton, George, Sir, 1617-1681.	1658 (1658)	Wing W1556; ESTC R8011	50,589	52

mis-carriages of his during the sitting of the Long Parliament and the free people of England may doubtless for ever bury them in oblivion No question the Protector found he was mistaken in him and that he was not fit to be a Lord or to have a Negative Voyce being of no more complying principles to his interest and Designes and the then New Model of Government and will scarcely adventure to give h●m a second invitation to that great Honour and Dignity he so ungratefully and disdainfully slighted There was one or two more of the new Champions that with their wooden Daggers went into the Other Horse to fight against the Rights and Liberties of the good people of these Lands but their Names being wanting and not worthy the enquiring after nothing can be said of their noble Vertues save that in all likelyhood they were of such worthy principles as their fellows were of and such as would concur to carry on any design or interest they should be put upon and would say No with the rest when any thing came in question that seemed to be against the Protectors height and absoluteness or interest of the new Court which he that hath but half an eye may see was the onely designe of calling them thither as a Balance of Government to the Parliament so greatly though falsly pretended for the good of the people There were also of this chosen number of Sixty two some of the old Earls and Lords called Peers which stood off viz. three Earls Warwick Musgrave and Manchester and two Lords Say and Wharton and sate not at all disdaining as some thought to sit with these new Up-start Lords though others again apprehend that this their forbearance was onely out of their old State-policy till they saw whether a House of Lords formerly so abominated and thrown down by the consent and desire of the good people would again be resented and established and then intended to come in but I shall leave it Some werein Scotland viz. General Monk Earl of Cassils Lord Warriston and Sir William Lockhart which persons may also discover to him that hath but half an eye what a pitiful carnal low design they are carrying on Some in Ireland viz. Harry Cromwel Lord Deputy so called Recorder Steel and Colonel Tomlinson some it may be had no great mind to it to wit Colonel Popham Mr. Peirpoint others it 's probable were letted by political or State-illness or other occasions viz. Chief Justice St. Johns Mr John Crew Sir Gilbert Gerrard so as they also appeared not there being not above forty four or forty five of that worthy choyce of Sixty two that appeared and sate there and it 's very likely some think there were too many of them Thus far the Description and Narrative Three or four General Queries are further proposed for a Close to the whole and it is humbly offered to all ingenious people and queried First Whether if it should come to pass as how soon we know not that that noble spirit should like a Lyon raised from sleep rise again in the English people such as it was in forty one or forty two or about that time whether these Champions with their Feathers in their Caps and their Wooden Daggers and those fifty three persons who pretended to settle the Government by the Humble Petition and Advice would be able to fight with stand against and overcome the same any otherwise then their Predecessors the Lords Temporal and the Bishops the Lords Spiritual did then And whether it would not in all likelyhood fare with them and their Dependents the Patentees of the Excise and all others employed by them that so oppress and impoverish the Nation as formerly it did with them if not far worse They may please to think of it at their Leasure Secondly Whether in these five years now past of the Protectoral Government that blessed Reformation which the Protector then General and other Grandees of the Army so often promised and for not bringing forth of which they pretend they dissolved the old Parliament hath so been set upon as to make any the least proceed therein Or rather hath there not been a gradual and an apparent relapsing into those very Evils and Enormities formerly so greatly shaken and in some degree broken but now healed again of their wound and flourishing afresh with open face the spirit of wickedness and profaness being risen very high even among Professors like the unclean spirit cast out and entring again And in particular that abominable corruption and abuse in the Law and Administration of Justice touching which the Protector so called sometime said It was not to be endured in a Christian Commonwealth that some should so enrich and greaten themselves in the ruine of others So likewise that often complain'd of Grievance of Tythes touching which he also said as was lately attested in an open Court of Judicature several standing by to witness the truth thereof to whom the words were spoken That if he did not take away Tythes by the third of September next to wit 1654 or such a time they should call him the greatest Juggler that ever was and would juggle in all things else Yet is there any thing done in either of these or any thing gone about tending thereunto now in these five years as if it were so that no fruit would ever grow upon such a tree viz. the Monarchical Foundation which the Lord hath pulled up and cursed as the barren Fig-tree was onely there is one goodly amendment to wit a confirmation of the Act for treble damages to the undoing of many an honest man that upon conscientious grounds do scruple the payment of them And as for the Law and the Lawyers they are as before if not much worse and is there any ground of hope that the next five years should he continue so long will produce any better fruit then the five that are already past Thirdly Whether this Calculation of these ignoble Lords of the new Stamp being of several complexions and standing in the aforementioned Capacities and Relations having also such dependence upon and lying under so great Engagements unto the Protector so called as his Sons and Kindred Flattering Courtiers corrupt Lawyers degenerated Sword men and a sort of luke-warm indifferent Country Knights Gentlemen and Citizens most of them self-interested Salary-men be not likely according to the very specious pretence to prove a brave Balance of Government And whether the good people of this Land are likely to have their just Rights and Freedoms or religious men the Liberty of their Consciences by this Constitution any otherwise then according to the pleasure of the Protector and the Court Or then they had in the time of the late King And whether this Calculation were made to any other end then so Lastly Whether all things soberly weighed and considered the times be now so happy and blessed as some do londly bespeak them to be And whether

things were as they were and as it seems could be no better Whether all good People in these Nations have not great cause exceedingly to blesse and praise the Lord though they owe little to the Instrument who Ashur-like had other ends that the late Parliament so called was dissolved who were many of them such Mercenary Sallary and self-interested men as in all probability had they continued much longer would have over-voted the Lovers of Freedom and so have perfected their Instrument of Bondage and rivetted it on the Necks of the good People for ever by a Law and thereby made them Vassals and Slaves perpetually But hitherto the Lord hath in a great measure frustrated their wicked Device blessed be his holy Name Sixthly Whether the Protector so called be not a great destroyer of the Rights and Liberties of the English Nation For hath he not in grossed the whole power of the Militia into his own hand The Right also of Property Power of judging all matters of the highest and greatest Concernment And doth he not take on him to be sole Judge of Peace and War of Calling and Dissolving Parliaments Raising Money without Consent in Parliament Imprisoning persons without due form of Law and keeping them in Durance at pleasure using the Militia in his own hand against the good People in these fore-named things and aginst their Representers in Parliamenr Seventhly Whether the Protector and the Great men his Confederates be not rather to be termed Fannattick Whimsicall and Sickbrain'd then those who remaining firm to and being more refined in their former good and honest Principles and will upon no account be drawn to desert the good Old Cause they account and call so And whether this unsettlednesse in their Government and changing both it and their Principles in so short a time and going so diametrically contrary to their former honest Protestations Declarations Sermons and Actings doth not in the view of all the world Declare them so to be Eighthly Whether the Protector so called be not that himself which he untruly charged upon the Members turned out of the Little Parliament so called viz. A destroyer of Magistracy and Ministery Of Magistracy in breaking four Parliaments in five Years and pulling up by the roots what in him lieth the very Basis and Foundation of all just Power to wit the Interest of the good People of this Commonwealth making himself and his own Will and Lust the Basis and Foundation thereof And doth he not at his pleasure suppresse and destroy all Military and Civill Power and Governours that submit not thereunto Is he not likewise a great destroyer of Ministery in taking from them their Religious or Divine Capacities putting them into that of Lay or Common and accordingly in a professed way preferring them to places of Advantage by the Tryers Ninthly Whether the Protector be so wise and understanding so tender and carefull of the Common Interest as is pretended to above all others whatsover yea above and beyond the four Parliaments he hath dissolved And may it not be enquired how he came to this great height of Knowledge and absolute understanding seeing there are very many worthy Patriots sometimes his Equals at least of as high a Descent of as good breeding of as great Parts of as fair an Interest as also as well versed in Government as himself Whether it may not be wondred at that he should be so exceeding wise and tender above all even above Parliaments themselves Tenthly Whether Sir Henry Vane Major Generall Harrison the late President Bradshaw Sir Arthur Haslerigg Lieutenant Generall Ludlow with hundreds more of worthy Patriots that have ventured far in their Countreys Cause for Justice and Freedom may not rationally be thought to be as carefull and tender of the good of their Countrey as the Protector Eleventhly Whether it doth not rankly savour of high Pride and Arrogancy in the Protector so called to set up his Sense and Judgement as the standard for the whole Nation even Parliaments themselves And whether thus to do be not the sad fruit of Enthusaisme one of the great Errours of this day and time Twelfthly Whether the Potector being so highly conceited of his own understanding so changeable and uncertain in his Principles and Resolutions so given up to his Passion and Anger as against all Advice and Counsel in a condition near unto Madnesse to swear by the living God he would Dissolve the late Parliament and accordingly did so though the doing of it tended to the hazard of the Common-wealth Whether he according to Reason can be thought a person capable and fit to Rule and Governe this so Great so Wise and Noble a People Thirteenthly Whether since the Protector assumed the Government the state and condition of this Nation be not very greatly impaired Their Land Forces wasted and consumed at Hispaniola Jamaica Mardike and elsewhere Their Shipping lessened and diminished their Stores and Provisions for Sea and Land expended and consumed without profit their Magazines emptied their Treasures wasted their Trade in a great measure lost and decayed and very great new Debts contracted little of Old being satisfied And whether all this be not the bitter fruit of Apostacy and Treachery and setting up a single person as Chief Magistrate contrary to Ingagements And the casting away of that Righteous Cause of Freedom Justice and Righteousnesse this Land was so engaged in Lastly Whether the Protector so called will not in all likelihood dissolve the next Parliament also if they begin to question and make Debates of former Transactions and do not presently without any disputing proceed to perfect the new Modell of the Humble Petition and Advice What assurance shall be given to the Countries and Cities that shall chuse or to the Gentlemen chosen that they shall not be served as those before were And whether if the honest Citizens shall begin to make ready their former sober and very worthy Petition or one of the like nature it will not be looked at again as a Crime little lesse then Treason at the Court and become a means of sudden Dissolution to the next Parliament also Alas for poor England What will become of thee in the end How hast thou lost thy self and thy good Old Cause And whither will these Masters of Bondage carry thee A List of their Names who were taken out of the House and others being * forty three in number that sate in the Other House so greatly designed for a House of Lords with a brief Description of their Merits and Deserts whereby it may easily appear how fit they are to be called as they call themselves Lords as also being so very deserving what pity it is they should not have a Negative Voyce over the free People of this Commonwealth 1. Richard Cromwel eldest Son of the Protector so called a Person of great Worth and Merit and well skilled in Hawking Hunting Horse-racing with other sports and pastimes one whose

may so be redeemed as never to halt or stand off for the future against the Protectors Interest 13. Col. Mountague a Gentleman of Huntingdonshire of a fair Estate a Colonel formerly in the Association Army under the Earl of Manchester where he for some time appeared whilst Colonel Pickering lived to be a Sectary and for Lay-mens preaching as also a lover of the Rights and Freedoms of the People rather then of the principle he now acts by but that honest Colonel dying some other things also coming between he became of another minde he gave off being a Souldier about the time of the new Model it 's likely upon the same account with Colonel Russel did not greatly approve of beheading the King or change of the Government or the Armies last march into Scotland as the Protector then General may witness yet after the War was ended at Worcester and the old Parliament dissolv'd he was taken in though no change appearing from what he was before to be of the Little Parliament which he helped to break and to set up Monarchy anew in the Protector which he designedly was called to do for which worthy service he was made one of the Council l a Commissioner of the Treasury and one of the Generals at Sea he was of the Parliaments since all which considered none need question his fitness to be a Lord and to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House not onely over the Treasury and Sea-men but all the good people of these Lands besides 14. Colonel Philip Jones his Original is from Wales at the first of the Wars he had about 17 or 20 l. per annum and improved his interest upon the account of the cause first was an Agent for some Parliamenteers to London where gaining acquaintance and making good use of them he became Governour of a Garison then a Colonel as also Steward of some of the Protectors Lands in Wales and one of the Long Parliament after of the Little Parliament which he helped to break and to advance the General his Master to be Protector for which goodly service himself was advanced to be one of his Council afterward Comptroller of his Houshold or Court he made Hay whilst the Sun shin'd and hath improved his Interest and Revenue in Land well m gotten no question to 3000 l. per annum if not more he is also very well qualified with self denying principles to the Protectors Will and Pleasure so as he is fit no doubt to rise yet higher and to be taken out of the House to be a Lord and to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over all the good people in Wales if they please and over all the Commonwealth beside whether they please or not All have not lost by the cause though some have 15. Commissioner Lisle sometime a Counsellour in the Temple one of the Long Parliament where he improved his interest to purpose and bought State Lands good cheap afterwards became a Commissioner of the Great Seal and helped in Parliament to change the Government from Kingly to Parliamentary or of a Commonwealth changed it again to Kingly or of a single person and did swear the Protector at his first installing chief Magistrate to the hazard of his Neck contrary to four n Acts of Parliament which he helped to make with others that make it Treason so to do He hath lately retired for Sanctuary into Mr. Rowes Church and is still Commissioner o of the Seal and being so very considerable in worth and merit is also fit to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over the good people and all such who shall any way question him he is since made President of the high Court so called of Justice Treason never prospers what 's the reason For when it prospers none dare call it Treason 16. Chief Justice Glyn sometime a Councellour at Law and Steward of the Court at Westminster formerly one of the Long Parliament and that helped to bait the Earl of Strafford and bring him to the block was Recorder of London and one of the Eleven Members impeached by the Army of p p Treason and by that Parliament committed to the Tower the Protector through Apostacy assuming the Government took him up and made him a Judge and finding him so fit for his turn did also make him Chief Justice of England so that of a little man he is grown up into a great Bulk and Interest and of complying principles to the life who being so very useful to advance and uphold the Protectors great Negative Voyce is thereby questionless in his sence fit to be taken out of the House and to have a Negative Voyce himself in the Other House not onely over the people but over the Law he is to be chief Judge of and in a capacity to hinder that no good Law for the future be made for the ease of the people or hurt of the Lawyers Trade 17. Bulstrode Whitlock formerly a Counsellour at Law one of the Long Parliament profited there and advanced his interest very greatly became one of the Commissioners of the great Seal one that helped to change the Government and make Laws against a single persons Rule in the time of the Little Parliament he went Embassadour to Sweden in great State that Parliament being dissolved he agitated there for the Protector then came over and when some Alteration and pretended Reformation was made in the Chancery he stood off from being any longer a Commissioner of the Seal and became one of the Supervisors of the Treasury at 1000 l. per annum q Salary he is one who is guided more by r Policy then by conscience and being on that account the more fit for the Protectors service there is no question to be made of his worth and merit to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over the people there though he helped to put it down in the King and Lords 18. William Lenthal a Counsellour at Law made Speaker of the Long Parliament by the late King sate it out in all Changes weather'd many a Storm and high Complaint made against him and was too hard and weildy for all his Opposers his policy and good hap carryed him on so as he ended his being Speaker with the ending of that Parliament For the time of his fitting he advanced his Interest and Revenue very much became Mr. of the Rolls purchased Lands in others names as well as in his own for fear of the worst he was to be sure at the change of the Government from Kingly or of a single person and a House of Lords as being useless Å¿ chargeable and dangerous As likewise at the making those Laws of Treason against a single person for the future not yet repealed The Little Parliament where some of his Law