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A51776	The history of the rebellions in England, Scotland, and Ireland wherein the most material passages, sieges, battles, policies, and stratagems of war, are impartially related on both sides, from the year 1640 to the beheading of the Duke of Monmouth in 1685 : in three parts / by Sir Roger Manley, Kt. ...	Manley, Roger, Sir, 1626?-1688.	1691 (1691)	Wing M440; ESTC R11416	213,381	398

been excluded from the Conversation of his Friends and as it were buried alive in his own Palace by the Severity of his Adversaries The King not displeased with this Change desired to go to his own House at New-market which after some time was permitted Fairfax and especially Cromwell in the interim affirming That his Majesty could be no where safer or more eminently honoured than in the Army And to improve their Promises his Chaplains and the usual Forms of Divine Service a thing which he had greatly desired and the only Artifice to beget a Confidence in him of their Reality were permitted him at pleasure His Friends and Servants were likewise admitted to his Presence and Attendance so that the Royallists were dazzl'd with the Lustre of these Concessions Nay more he was indulged the Liberty of writing to the Queen and her Majesty's Messages were in no wise interrupted His Children had free Access to their Royal Father and moreover the sick of the King 's Evil were without Difficulty suffered as formerly to be touched by him But all this was precarious being the Contrivance of those impious Impostors the Father and Son in-in-law Cromwell and Ireton not out of any Favour to the King but that by his Accession they being paramount might more securely triumph over the Presbyterians Upon the King's Arrival in the Camp Fairfax not a little surprized acquainted the Parliament with it professing That it happened without his or his Officers Knowledge And truly it is not incredible but that this servile General might be ignorant of the Authors of so great an Attempt it being also told him by the Council of War that seeing the thing was done it was advisedly and opportunely enough performed and that this was the Opinion of the Army He therefore had done enough in giving them at Westminster notice of it But the more piercing and quick-sighted found that it was contrived by Cromwell and his Son-in-Law and executed by the Agitators by their Instigation no less insolent in their Licentiousness by confidence of Impunity than the other Two Impostors were famous for their Dissimulation and Sagacity The Pretended Parliament alarmed at the Surprisal of the King The Parliament is alarmed with the Surprisal of the King and the Rumour of the Armies approach stopp'd them at present at St. Albans with Intreaties and Money In the mean time they advise with the City and joining Forces with them prepare for Defence But the Citizens Preparetions were tumultuous and full of Confusion and Distraction as is usual in unexpected Occurrences And now the Dissentions betwixt these Parties growing to a Height they attacked each other with the same Method and Arts wherewith they formerly had tormented the King Petitions were suborned on both sides from the Provinces and City and nothing more frequent than tumultuous Resorts at the Parliament-Doors And 't is observable that none did so much apprehend or more condemn these Seditious Concourses than those who formerly had fomented and stirr'd up the like against the King The Houses were no less agitated with Seditions than the City especially upon publishing a new Declaration from the Army The Army's Declaration The Sum of it was That the Parliament should be dissolv'd upon a set-day another being called to succeed it That they should give an accompt to the Kingdom of the vast Treasures they had received and That they should suspend from sitting in the House Eleven Members they named viz. Hollis Stapleton Lewis Clotworthy Waller Massey Glyn Maynard Long Harley Nicholas being the chief Champions of Presbytery and now accused of High-Treason c. The Houses silent to the rest answered only to the Point of Suspension affirming That it was not lawful to exclude any from the House without first shewing cause Forgetful of what they themselves had formerly done in the case of Strafford and Canterbury which was also seasonably retorted upon them now by the Souldiers Having thus affrighted the Parliament they thought good to terrifie the City also by demanding That the Militia thereof might be put into other Hands This so enraged the Londoners that running tumultuously to Westminster they forced the House by keeping the Speaker in his Chair To confirm their former Grant of the Militia and to invite the King by Votes to London They also made new Levies and giving Massey Waller and others the Chief Commands amongst them made suddenly a considerable force by the Addition of their Reformado's Whilst they are thus busie the Two Speakers with about Fifty Members fly to the Camp and crying out That the Houses were under a Force sate daily and voted with the Chief Officers of the Army in a sham form of Parliament The Soldiery glad of the Occasion march towards London under pretext of reconducting these Tribunes the fugitive Members back and removing all force from the Parliament The City the Parent and Nurse of that nefarious Rebellion against the King now distracted with their own terrors and apprehensions neglecting a generous defence delivered themselves up to the disposal of the menacing Army And surrendring their Tower and Forts into Fairfax's Hands they were forced to give new assurances of Fidelity to their new Masters The chief Citizens and Members of the contrary Faction were imprisoned and banished the Militia was put into trusty hands of their own Party and all the Works raised with so much heat and violence against their King are now to prevent new Rebellions against their Mercenaries demolished by them Nor did this empty obsequiousness suffice A Months stipend was paid to these Janisaries for their good Service and a Donative of Fifty Thousand Pounds bestowed upon their Deliverers Fairfax lest the Senate might seem ingrate was constituted Generalissimo of all their Forces more to his Honour than intrinsick Power he still acting but as Cromwell's Substitute for whilst he seemed satisfied with the Title and Shadow the Independents did in effect possess the Substance and Advantage The Army having triumphed over the City by their pompous marching through it and over the Parliament by modelling it according to their Interest harsher Propositions than the former were sent to the King whereunto the chief Officers had likewise given their Suffrages in the House but take care in the Camp that his Majesty should not consent to them promising that they would obtain or give him better themselves declaiming much against the Presbyterian arrogance and severity And they indeed did produce easier and more equitable Terms with which artifice the King being circumvented seemed to prefer them before the other to the great satisfaction of the Heads of the Army as if now the Camp were more valuable in the King's Esteem than the Parliament And yet these Catifs did not cease to imbitter these Members against him as if despised by him Nay themselves forgetting their former Civilities Risum tene●●is grew more morose and now they delay and pretending a reverence for the Parliament reason and dispute

confident of his Recovery which he also had been deluded into an Assurance of by his Chaplains and Flatterers had neglected the Nominating of a Successor as he was authorized to do by the Petition and Advice 'T was thought he ballanced in his Choice betwixt his Son and son-in-Son-in-law Fleetwood which his Council finding and perceiving his Spirits and Senses to fail demanded of him If he did not appoint his Son Richard to Succeed him To which he answering as is supposed in the Affirmative Richard as soon as he expired was saluted and proclaimed Protector in his Fathers Room But very unlike him in Fortitude and the Arts of Government as will appear by his being disturbed from the quiet Possession of Three Kingdoms by those he neither had Wit nor Courage to suppress or oppose He was in the mean time as well as his Father acknowledged and saluted by the Army the City the Provinces and Foreign Ministers and Embassadors The Beginning of his Reign was serene and his first Care the Funeral of his Father Which was performed with a more than Royal Magnificence there having been Sixty Thousand Pounds expended in it this Treasure as it had been extorted by Tyranny being consumed in Luxury His Corps however wrapt up in a Sixfold Cerecloth a Lead and a Wooden Coffin fermenting in this restraint burst out of it and filling all with a most noisom Odour was privately deposited in Henry Vll 's Chappel amongst the Ashes of King's but by the just Judgment of God to be transferred and buried under the Gallows as we have since seen The Officers of the Army after all their Addresses to Richard grew weary of him as soon as they had well owned him and unmindful now of their Duty and Promises to him by the Insinuations of Lambert formerly cashier'd by his Father and the Concurrence of the Democraticks having also drawn Fleetwood his brother-in-Brother-in-law and Desbourough who had married his Aunt into the Cabal consult how to abolish the Protectorate and restore themselves to their former Freedom Nor was Richard ignorant of their Designs but wanted Resolution to suppress them and indeed courage to countenance the Undertakings of others who offered their Service for the scizure or killing of these Mutineers He had called a Parliament by whose Authority he supposed these Heats might be allayed and they endeavoured it But this Puny Prince affrighted with the Threats and Noises of the adverse Party was perswaded to dissolve that Convention however addicted to him Hereupon he is likewise laid aside The Rump composed of those Antimonarchists which his Father had formerly ejected being introduced and seated in the Government again His Brother Henry Vice-Roy of Ireland quitted also that Kingdom and the Army there by command of this restored Senate with the like Pusillanimity Whereby it appears how sordidly these Fellows degenerated from their Father in Audaciousness though they resembled him well enough in Wickedness Monk who commanded in Scotland did likewise submit but kept his Employment thinking he had done enough in congratulating their Restauration by Addresses and Messages The odious Oligarchy being restored under the Title of a Common-wealth and acknowledged by the Army and their Partisans in the Provinces drive more furiously than before endeavouring to remove all Obstacles and Impediments to their designed Tyranny In order to this they exact a spontaneous Abdication of the Protectorate from Richard which he tamely granted promising further To behave himself peaceably under the Government from which he expected Protection And thus this Mushrom-Prince the untimely Birth of a short Relgn turned out of White Hall vanished and will be no more heard of but with Obloquy and Infamy And yet if he had had either Honour or Honesty in him he might have had one Game more to play no less probable than glorious which was the restoring of the King several Overtures having been made to him by the Royal Party to that Purpose The which with his Interest in the Army and Two Houses before their Dissolution might have been effected without a Miracle The Rump was no sooner seated but they began to divide the Inheritance amongst themselves and whatever the Cromwellian storm of Hail had left these rapacious Locusts did consume and devour But the Universality of the Nation trembled at these Preludes of Tyranny and Slavery and being resolved to suffer any thing rather than the known Domination of the Regicides took up Arms in divers Counties Nor were the Parriciaes ignorant of these Designs They therefore to prevent them fill the Prisons with the most suspected and command all those who had served the King to leave the City and not to return without Permission The swift Motion of their Horse hindred the Risings in Kent and Surrey and some other Counties And yet they got together in Cheshire under the Command of Sir George Booth to a considerable Body being assisted by Sir Thomas Middleton Randal Egerton Major General and Colonel Worden with others Asserters of Liberty and a Free Parliament Having possessed themselves of Chester Manchester and Warrington they became formidable The growing Power of these Royallists for such they were esteemed extremely terrified the Rebels at Westminster and therefore Lambert was ordered with Seven Regiments of Foot and Two of Horse to march with all speed against these new Adversaries and suppress them Which he also did with no great Difficulty their raw unexperienced Militia not being able to stand the shock of an Army flusht with so many Successes So that attacking them at Norwich-Bridge where Morgan a brave Youth was slain they forced it routing and defeating the whole Party Chester and the other Fortresses were all retaken and Booth himself being fled was afterwards discovered in Womans Cloths at Newport and was cast into the Tower The Men at Westminster swoln with this Victory having thereby reduced the Kingdom to their Obedience resolve to call the Authors of this Late War to a very severe Accompt thirsting no less after their Estates and Possessions than their Blood In the mean time Montague who had been sent in Richard's Protectorate into Denmark with a great Fleet invited by the King unto whom he was reconciled and commanded by him sailed towards England with his Naval Power to help to free his Native Country from Oppression and Slavery But hearing by the Way of the Defeat of the Royallists the Secret was not discovered tho he returned with the Fleet and was commanded by the Rump who suspected his Faith to his House till they should be at leisure to take an Accompt of his Voyage and Actions The Enemy being subdued these Blood-Canibals judging of the Justice of their Cause by the Success and thinking nothing bad but what was improsperous looked upon themselves as owned by Heaven But yet their joy was but short-liv'd for whilst they go on securely they were yet again by the Just Judgment of God disturbed by their own Servants Lambert after his Victory aiming at greater Things