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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27463	Memoirs of Sir John Berkley containing an account of his negotiation with Lieutenant General Cromwel, Commissary General Ireton, and other officers of the army, for restoring King Charles the First to the exercise of the government of England.	Berkeley, John, Sir, d. 1678.	1699 (1699)	Wing B1971; ESTC R4022	30,903	94

the success when he signed the Letter yet coming after it was known it lost both the Grace and Efficacy All that the Officers could do they did which was whilst the Army was in the Act of Thanksgiving to God for their success to propose that they should not be elevated with it but keep still to their former Engagement to his Majesty and once more solemnly vote the Proposals which was accordingly done The next day the Army marched into London and some few of the Presbyterian Party that had been most active against the Army disappeared From London the Head-Quarters came to Putney and his Majesty was lodg'd at Hampton Court Mr. Ashburnham had daily some Message or another from the King to Cromwel and Ireton who had enough to do both in the Parliament and Council of the Army the one abounding with Presbyterians the other with Levellers and both really jealous that Cromwel and Ireton had made a private Compact and Bargain with the King Lilburn printing books weekly to that effect and Sir Lewis Dives afterwards acknowledged to me that being his Fellow-prisoner he had daily endeavour'd to possess him with that opinion of which altho he were not perswaded himself yet he judged it for the King's service to divide Cromwel and the Army On the other side the Presbyterians were no less confident of their Surmises and amongst them Cromwel told me that my Lady Carlisle affirmed that I had said to her Ladiship that he was to be Earl of Essex and Captain of the King's Guards I had the honour to be well known to her Ladiship but forbore contrary to my Duty and Inclination to wait on her for fear of giving any Umbrage to the Army she being of the contrary party but having several Messages from her Ladiship by my Lady Newport and others I waited on her I was not long there but Arpin came into her Chamber who was an Adjutator and sent for as I conceived to be an Eye-witness that I was in my Lady Carlisle's Chamber tho nothing pass'd but general Discourses and I should have ly'd if I had said any thing to that purpose But these and like Discourses made great impression on the Army to which Mr. Ashburnham's secret and long Conferences contributed not a little insomuch that the Adjutators who were wont to complain that Cromwel went too slow towards the King began to suspect that he had gone too fast and left them behind him From whence there were frequent Complaints in the Council of the Army of the intimacy Mr. Ashburnham and I had in the Army that Cromwel's and Ireton's door was open to us when it was shut to them that they knew not why Malignants should have so much Countenance in the Army and Liberty with the King These Discourses both in publick and private Cromwel seemed highly to be offended with and when he could carry any thing to his Majesty's advantage amongst the Adjutators could not rest until he had made us privately partakers of it but withal he told Mr. Ashburnham and me that if he were an honest man he had said enough of the sincerity of his intentions if he were not nothing was enough and therefore conjur'd us as we tender'd his Majesty's Service not to come so frequently to his Quarters but send privately to him the suspicions of him being grown to that height that he was afraid to lie in his own Quarters But this had no operation upon Mr. Ashburnham who alledged that we must shew them the necessity of agreeing with the King from their own Disorders About three weeks after the Army had enter'd London the Scots had prevailed with the Parliament for another solemn Address to his Majesty which was performed in the old Propositions of Newcastle some Particulars in reference to the Scots only excepted The Army was very unwiliing the King should grant these Propositions of which the King advised with all the Persons above mentioned who were all of opinion that it was unsafe for his Majesty to close with the Enemies of the Army whilst he was in it and therefore followed the Advice of all the leading part of the Independent Party both in the Parliament and Army by refusing the Articles and desiring a personal Treaty whereof his Majesty thought the Proposals a better ground than the Articles tho there were something in them to which his Majesty could not consent We gave our Friends in the Army a sight of this Answer the day before it was sent with which they seemed infinitely satisfied and promised to use their utmost endeavours to procure a personal Treaty and to my understanding perform'd it for both Cromwel and Ireton with Vane and all their Friends seconded with great resolution this desire of his Majesty But contrary to their and all mens expectation they found a most general opposition and that this Message of his Majesty had confirmed the jealousy of their private Agreement with the King so that the more it was urged by Cromwel c. the more it was rejected by the rest who looked on them as their Betrayers The Suspicions were so strong in the House that they lost almost all their Friends there and the Army that lay then about Putney were no less ill satisfied for there came down shoals every day from London of the Presbyterian and Levelling Parties that fomented these Jealousies insomuch that Cromwel thought himself or pretended it not secure in his own Quarters The Adjutators now begin to change their Discourse and complained openly in their Councils both of the King and the Malignants about his Majesty One of the first they voted from him was my self They said That since his Majesty had not accepted of their Proposals they were not obliged any farther to them that they were obliged to consult their own Safety and the good of the Kingdom and to use such means towards both as they should find rational and because they met with strong opposition from Cromwel and Ireton and most of the Superior Officers and some even of the Adjutators they had many private solemn meetings in London where they humbled themselves before the Lord and sought his good pleasure and desired that he would be pleased to reveal it to his Saints which they interpret those to be who are most violent or Zealous as they call it in the work of the Lord. These found it apparent that God had on the one side hardned the King's heart and blinded his eyes in not passing the Proposals whereby they were absolved from offering them any more and on the other side the Lord had led Captivity captive and put all things under their feet and therefore they were bound to finish the Work of the Lord which was to alter the Government according to their first Design and to this end they resolved to seize the King's Person and take him out of Cromwel's hands These Proceedings struck so great a Terror into Cromwel and Ireton with others of the Officers that

we supposed best affected to us that they were of opinion the Army should be drawn to a Rendezvouz and their endeavours used to engage them once more to adhere to the Proposals As soon as the tumultuous part of the Army had notice of it they resolved before the day of the Rendezvouz to seize the King's Person I had been now about three weeks removed from the King and about a fortnight after me Mr. Ashburnham Mr. Leg still remained with his Majesty and waited in his Bed-chamber About eight or ten days before the time appointed for the drawing together of the Army Mr. Ashburnham invited me from London and Mr. Leg from Hampton Court to dine with him on a Sunday at Ditton being the other side of the Water They were both there long before me and I a good while before dinner But just as Dinner was ready to come in they took me aside in the room and told me that his Majesty was really afraid of his Life by the tumultuous part of the Army and was resolv'd to make his escape and that they had order from his Majesty to command me in his name to wait on his Majesty in his intended Escape I replied It was a great honor and accompanied with not a little danger but withal it was new to me and therefore nothing occur'd to my thoughts at present but two things the first was that I thought it absolutely necessary that Mr. Ashburnham who kept the King's mony should immediately employ his Servant Dutton who was well acquainted with the Coast to provide three or four Ships in several Ports to be ready in all events the second that I also might receive his Majesty's commands immediately from himself To the first they seemed to concur but nothing was ever done in it which to this day amazes me The other was effected and I went the Tuesday night after to Hampton Court privately being introduced a back way by Mr. Leg. The King told me he was afraid of his Life and that he would have me assist in person in his escape I asked which way his Majesty would go his Majesty replied that both Mr. Ashburnham who was present and I should know that by Will. Leg. The Monday before Mr. Ashburnham and I went to the Head-Quarters to desire Passes to return beyond the Seas and by the way back he told me that the Scots had much tampering with the King but could come to no Agreement that they would fain have his Majesty out of the Army and to that end had much augmented his just fears and therefore ask'd me what I thought of his Majesty's coming privately to London and appearing in the House of Lords I replied Very ill because the Army were absolutely masters both of the City and Parliament and would undoubtedly seize his Majesty and if there should be but two Swords drawn in the scuffle they would accuse his Majesty of beginning a new War and proceed with him accordingly He then ask'd me what I thought of the Isle of Wight I replied better than of London tho I knew nothing of it nor who was Governor He replied that he had had some communication with the Governor of late and conceived good hopes of him but had no assurance from him I then ask'd him Why his Majesty would not make his Retreat secure by quitting the Kingdom He replied not for two Reasons the first was the Rendevouz would be a week after and his Majesty was not willing to quit the Army before that were passed because if the Superior Officers prevailed they would be able to make good their publick Engagement if they were overtopped they must apply themselves to the King for their own security The second was that the Scots were in Treaty with the King and well nigh a Conclusion which they would never come to but out of their desires to separate the King and the Army that if the King went before they would hold him to impossible Conditions and therefore his Majesty was resolved to conclude with them first In which advice Mr. Ashburnham was most positive and told me often that the World would laugh at us if we quitted the Army before we had agreed with the Scots and let them replied I so his Majesty be secure On the Wednesday as I take it we had Orders to send spare Horses to Sutton in Hampshire a place where I never had been and the Thursday after his Majesty with Will. Leg came out at the closing of the evening and immediately went towards Oatlands and so through the Forest where his Majesty was our Guide but lost our way tho he were well acquainted with it the night being excessively dark and stormy When his Majesty fat first out he discoursed long with Mr. Ashburnham and at last called me to him and complained very much of the Scots Commissioners who were the first that presented his Dangers to him and offer'd him Expedients for his escape but when he came to make use of those they had offer'd they were fullest of Objections saying that his coming into London was desperate his hiding in England chimerical and his escape to Jersey prevented because my Ship was discovered which particular my Lord Lanerick affirmed The King thereupon ask'd me if I had ever a Ship ready I answered that I neither had not could have any having not one penny of mony that I had desir'd Mr. Ashburnham earnestly to make provision but knew not what he had done in it The King then ask'd me what I thought might be the reason they should say I had one and that discovered if I had none I replied It was hard for me to affirm what was their meaning in that particular or in general in their proceeding with his Majesty but I did conjecture they were very desirous to have his Majesty out of the Army which made them present his Dangers to him so frequently as they had done and in the next place they desired that his Majesty should put himself again into their hands but wanted confidence or believ'd it would be ineffectual to move it directly to his Majesty because they had given so ill an account when he was last with them and therefore they objected against their own Expedients of coming into London and obscuring himself in England And because they could find no other against his going to Jersey they pretended that I had a Ship discovered believing perhaps that I was totally separated from his Majesty and so should not have had any occasion to contradict it and by this means his Majesty being excluded all other means of escape should have been necessitated to make use of Scotland His Majesty laid his hand upon my shoulder and said I think thou art in the right and believed it afterward more confidently than I did I then ask'd his Majesty which way he would go His Majesty replied that he hoped to be at Sutton three hours before day and that while our Horses were making ready we

same time that he shall deliver your Majesty's Concessions to them and provide instantly for your Safety About the middle of this discourse with the King Mr. Ashburnham came in and when I had ended very graciously smiling said That this Proposition was good if it were practicable which it was not for tho the Scots should agree to the Substance of all the Articles yet they and all men else would have their several senses concerning the expressions which must be satisfied or no Agreement made and therefore concluded that the Scots were to be sent for To this I replied that Mr. Ashburnham had much reason ordinarily speaking for what he objected but his Majesty's danger made this a very extraordinary Case His reasons carried it clear and Sir William Flemming or Mr. Mungo Murray for they both went and came by turns was sent to invite the Scots Commissioners to come to his Majesty The next day after his departure in the evening the King called me to him and told me I think you are a Prophet for the Scots Commissioners at London have sent an Express desiring me to do the same thing in effect you had moved but that it was now too late for they would be come away before another Express could be gone out of the Island towards them I replied that our concurrence was accidental for I had not the least Intelligence with the Scots Commissioners but when I saw there was no remedy I applied my self to what was next the best I could And God knows there was work enough for abler men than any of us were for at the same time the Scots were coming to the King there were also Commissioners sent by the Parliament to his Majesty with offers of a Treaty upon condition that his Majesty as a pledg of his future sincerity would grant four Preliminary Bills which they had brought ready drawn to his Majesty's hands The first contained the Revocation of all Proclamations and Declarations against the Parliament wherein his Majesty made himself expresly the Author of the War The Second was against the Lords that had bin lately made by his Majesty that they should have no Seat or Vote in Parliament and that his Majesty nor his Successors should make none for the future without consent of Parliament which was to take away the most unquestion'd flower of his Crown his being the sole fountain of Honor. The third was a Bill of exceptions from pardon that included almost all of his Majesty's Subjects that had any considerable Estates The fourth was an Act for the Militia which embraced ten times more power than the Crown ever executed for the two Houses raising men and money arbitrarily which was no more nor less than dethroning of the King and enslaving the People by a Law and in effect to give the King only the leave to discourse whose the Glass Windows should be Nevertheless the Title and Frontispiece of this vast Design was so modest that many well-wishing persons were induced to believe that by all means his Majesty ought to pass those Bills for many reasons but especially because his Enemies would deliver his Majesty to the World as obstinate to his own and the Kingdoms ruin if he should not accept this offer To avoid both the inconveniencies of granting or refusing I drew an Answer of the Treaty before it began that if they would needs think it expedient to require so great Hostages from his Majesty they would not be backward to give some token to his Majesty of their reality and then desired that at the same time his Majesty should pass these four Bills the Houses would pass four of his Majesty's drawing which were all most popular and such as they durst not pass nor well deny at least if they did they could with no colour of justice accuse his Majesty for not granting what was most unjust and most unpopular The first was a Bill for payment of the Army which contained their disbanding as soon as they were paid The second a period to the present Parliament The third for restoring the King Queen and Royal Family to their Revenues The fourth the settling of the Church-Government without any coercive Power and in the mean time till such a Government were agreed on the old to stand without coercive Authority I shew'd this Answer first to Mr. Leg then to Dr. Hammond and Dr. Sheldon who seemed to approve of the Expedient and desir'd Mr. Ashburnham would acquaint the King with it But I never heard any thing from his Majesty and I was resolved never to have it obtruded lest I should appear fond of my own Conceptions By his Majesty's directions an Answer was drawn that gave a full Denial which was in my judgment very well pen'd But I thought good penning did not signify much at that time and therefore made this Objection It is very possible that upon his Majesty's giving an absolute Negative the Commissioners may have Orders to enjoin the Governor to look more strictly to his Person and so his intended Escape would be prevented His Majesty replied immediately That he had thought of a Remedy which was to deliver his Answer seal'd to the Commissioners and so left us I could not hold from letting Mr. Ashburnham find my sense of this sorry Expedient by saying that the Commissioners would either open the Answer or conclude that in effect it was a Denial and proceed accordingly but all was in vain Some few days after the English Commissioners arrived and delivered their Message and desired an Answer within three or four days The next day the Lords Lowdon Lanerick Lauderdale Chiesly and others Commissioners for the Kingdom of Scotland deliver'd a Protestation to the King subscribed by them against the Message as not according with their Covenant From that time they began to treat seriously with his Majesty but would not permit that either Mr. Ashburnham or I should assist at the Treaty for which I forgive them with all my heart for it would have bin very insecure for us to have had any communication with them at that time At last they came to such a conclusion as they could get not such a one as they desired from the King but much short of it which gave an advantage to the Lord Argyle and the Clergy-Party in Scotland to oppose it as not satisfactory and by that means retarded the proceeding of Duke Hamilton and that Army four Months which was consequently the ruin of Laughern in VVales and of the Forces in Kent and Essex and of the Scots Army also which consisted of twenty four thousand men all which Forces were the result of the Treaty which appears to me if it had been sooner dispatch'd to have bin one of the most prudent Acts of his Majesty's Reign however unprosperous When the time was come that the King was to deliver his Answer his Majesty sent for the English Commissioners and before he delivered his Answer ask'd my Lord Denbigh who was