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A70200
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The history of the life & death of Oliver Cromwell the late usurper and pretended protector of England &c. / truely collected and published for a warning to all tyrants and usurpers by J.H.
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Heath, James, 1629-1664.
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designing a stratagem upon Faringdon House he was set upon by as vigilant a Commander as himself the Lord Goring and received a smart brush and the onely one throughout the War which now hastning to an end at the Fatal Nasby he was called from out the Isle of Ely whither he had been lately sent to secure it it being thought the King would have turn'd his now successeful Armes thitherward to assist the General who by his Letters to the Parliament had desired it That Unfortunate day the 14th of June 1646. owes it's dismalness to the Fortune of this Rebel whose Troops alone could glory in that Atchievment for the left wing of that Army where Ireton his Sonne in Law Commanded was absolutely routed and the main body solely distressed so that Cromwell alone assured that Victory So ended the first War with the Praises and Triumphs of this Man of War Adored and Worshipped by the Rascal Rabble of Independency who stuck not to Blaspheme God and his Scriptures attributing all those Hosanna's and Psalmes and Songs of Deliverance and Victory to this their Champion in effect making a meer Idol of Him which Phanatick Religious Veneration he mist not to improve though for the present he covered his ambition with modesty and humility ascribing all things in a Canting way of expression to the goodnesse and omnipotence of God which he frequently and impiously abused intituling it to all his wicked and Villanous designes and actions The War thus ended and the KING having escaped their Swords and so the main rub yet lay in the way to his projected soveraignty he resolved by Treachery to ruine him to that purpose that he might render the King indisposed to the Terms and Propositions of the Parliament which were hard and unreasonable enough besides he pretended to the King that the Army should take his part and declare for him as on the other side in the Parliament House privately in the Army telling them that the Kings designe of peace and Agreement was onely to get them Disbanded and then Hang them for their Rebellion he exasperated them against the King adding that God had hardned his heart against any composure and had rejected him and when all this would not doe but that the people every day more and more were undeceived and he conceived a fear they might rescue the King from Hampton-Court bring him to London which the King and all good men desired he contrived another wicked Device to the Kings Final Overthrow by scaring him with the Adjucators such were two selected out of each Company and Troop conspiracy to assassinate him and so making him flâ—e to the Isle of Wight a distant and sure prison from whence he never came but to his Death The King a while before was not ignorant of these Treacherous arts of Cromwell seeing nothing performed as to substance of what ever he promised and therefore did roundly Tax him with his Faithlessenesse who at the upshot told the King that He did misconstrue his words or else he remembred no such matter and that if it were so yet it were no time to perform them till the Discipline of the Army was recovered and chose Adjutators in a capacity to be questioned who were now most outragiously and uncontroulably violent against his person and Government with many more such Flams and Delayes and Traiterous Fallacies The King being in prison at Carisbroke Castle in the said Isle by the jugling of Cromwell with Hammond the Governour Brother to one of the Kings most affected Chaplains an ungrateful Fellow who owed himself to the Kings bounty several fresh attempts were made for his restitution that which particularly concerned this Oliver was the Welsh insurrection at Pembroke which Town in July after a brave defence was rendred to him and the Scots invasion under Duke Hamilton whose Army to which were joyned some Three Thousand English under Sir Marmaduke Langdale he totally defeated at Preston in Lancashire on the 17th of August and not long after the General Fairfax took in Colchester which had stood out Three months in expectation of relief from this Army upon the same account and pursued his Victory as farre as Scotland marching to Edenburgh and there making sure of a party dealing with Bribes and other forceable perswasions and making them disarm themselves to give him no disturbance or interruption in the accomplishing his most execrable Regicide for which he was now ready the expected advantages and opportunities being now in his Hand CHAP. VIII Cromwell turnes out the Parliament Murders the King sets up a Commonwealth who invading Scotland and Ireland make him their General CRomwell posting to London and he and his Sonne Ireton put the Council of Officers to demand Justice upon the King as the Capital Offendor and Authour of all the Troubles and Bloodshed which he so eagerly prosecuted that though the Parliament had nearly concluded with the King in the Isle of Wight after a full Treaty he by Col. Pride one that would venture upon any thing he was commanded by him Secludes twice the Major part of the Members and then packs up a Juncto of Army Blades of some Fifty who constitute a High Court of Justice by which the Martyr King was Traiterously and Barbarously Condemned and Beheaded January the 30. By the same Juncto and Rump of a Parliament the King ship and Government by a single Person was Voted uselesse and dangerous to which Cromwell freely assented as purposing to time his Ambition now the great Obstacle was removed But though the King and his Interest were defunct in England yet they were not in Ireland or Scotland whereupon Cromwell is made General for the Irish Expedition and though he was the only diswader of the Souldiery from that service during the quarrel betwixt the Independants and the Presbyterians and while he had accomplished his mischievous Ends upon the King yet now he is severely bent to transport such as the Lot should appoint which the Levelling party the Adjutators Whelps of his own Litter refusing and mutining them likewise under pretence of a Treaty and giving and receiving satisfaction their usual expressions he betraies and surprizes at Burford not daring to venture a Fight with them for fear of a Total defection of his own party and had the Ring-leaders shot to Death Having surmounted this difficulty he wafts his Army over into Iréland and presently storms Tredagh and understanding it was the Flower of the Kings Army set there to give him a repulse having twice bin beaten off he led his men himself the third time and entred and put all to the Sword having amused the defendants who maintained the breach but having then lost their Colonel were in some confusion through offer of Quarter and by that device got admittance with alike basenesse treachery and cruelty After that followed the rendition of most of that Kingdome the Lord Lievtenant thereof the Marquesse of Ormond being in no Condition to