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Englands remembrances
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advice of their Commissioners being then in Westminster who lukewarmly declared against that horrid act and so did the Committee of Parliament in Scotland as Lukewarmly act at that time in Scoâ—land the Kings best friends there being excluded from sitting but it is well knowne what passed betweene Argile and Cromwell at my Lady Humes house in Edenburgh concerning the Kings death And after the Kings horrid death for breaking their Treaty made at Breda fully consented unto by this present King before they would suffer his Majesty to land in Scotland hee then lying upon their Coast in great perill and danger of the Englâ—sh Parliament ships then near his Majesty whose deliverance God prevented at Sea upon the coast by a great mist and for Inforcing a Declaration upon the now innocent King after his landing by the power of Argile and the Church to take the Guilt of that kingdome upon his innocent selfe and afterwards by jubjugating his Majesty under the pretended power of Church Government and Cromwels Creatures For delivering up their Army at Dunbar so much purged by the Church by the Treachery and Correspondence of some few persons when Cromwel could not have stayed 6. Dayes longer in the country and offered Scotland satisfaction for the damage he hed done to that kingdome and would have left it and returned into England with 3. or 4. Troops of horse for delivering up there Forts and Castles upon Treachery and for mony As Edenburgh castle by Dundas old Leisleyes Son in Law and Sterling Castle upon conditions to save their owne particular Goods for delivering the Records of the kingdom for their design at the comming in of Duke Hamiltons Army in Anno 1648. not for a clear intent to relieve England and themselves from the present treason and slavery then hathing by some compact persons of England and Scotland but intending to have the whole power and domination of the whole English nation to themselves as it hath been clearely seene since and confessed by themselves and God prospered it accordingly and in the Worcester businesse noe English power nor Army must be raised but under Commission and power of the Scots and hath not God for their sinnes and their only Acting the Scotch interest inslaved them wholly to the English and made ther Kingdome a Mercinary Province or Commonwealth in subjection unto England betrayed and voluntarily submitted unto by Argile and some of their country men lately sitting in the late howse of Commons in England onely for mony profit and their particular advantage Scotland is never to be trusted for the interest of England unlesse the Exchequer of Edenburgh were greater then the Exchequer of Westminster and that Scotland were England and England Scotland and is not this a greater judgment from heaven upon Scotland but blame not the whole nation for many of their rulers have caused them to err although the Commons at this time who have beene formerly to much inslaved by their Lords and Landlords are to much addicted to their lucre and profit wherein the English have indulged them with long Leases and by laying the Chief Burdens upon their Landlords for the more quiet of that kingdome but let Duke William Hamiltons ingenious confession a little before his death and his affection to the King then also expressed at Worcester to a noble English Lord now living and the Marquesse of Moniros his and the Lord Nappiers Loyalty and some other Lords in custody in England and others in Scotland upon their Parrol have that everlasting memory which their blood and honors have purchased And England which is now prevalent in power but odious by its Governours both at home and abroad unless to such who are involved in guilt and profit with them If England repent not of its perjury oppression and injustice to its country men bretheren and of all the innocent blood it hath spilt in England for its breach of faith solemnly ingaged in and out of Parliament before God Men and Angels to the whole world witnes their declarations and for suffering a compact number of conspirators cunningly to deceive the people under pretence of Reformation in Religion and the kingdomes abuses who have brought in a far greater destruction of Religion then before and overthrown all the liberties of the subject inslaving them to an absolute illegal and arbitrary power and to the bloody lust and wils of any persons whatsoever that may or can hereafter get or obtayne any unlawful power or Government whatsoever who have destroyed the ancient safe healthful and fundamentall constitution of England by King and Parliament ad introduced varieties of mock Parliaments to color there wickednes and to make monstrons Courts and constitutions only to serve their own lust ambition and Avarice and for the enslaving and murthering of their fellow subjects who with their Cap. General Oliver Cromwel the grand Protectorian brooke of the personal Treaty in the Isle of Wight with the last King when his Majestey had fully consented unto the parliaments propositions and given ful satisfaction for a firm and lasting peace in his three Kingdomes and was to come to Westminster by agreement to confirm them in ful Parliament The Parliament having voted the Kings concessions satisfactory wherin his Majesty had given the subjects more liberties and freedomes in that treaty and Consent then al the Kings since William the first and afterwards the said Cromwel with these Conspirators did expel most of the members of the howse of Commons and imprisoned them in Hel and two common Inns in the strand only leaving such other members in the howse as were his Conspirators and pentioners who sold their owne Consciences and the blood lives and liberties of the subject by setting up a slaughter howse their high court of justice a meer extrajudicial thing in law on purpose to blood and terrifie the people and to ingross the power and wealth of the Kingdome to themselves and the Committee men what wast sums of mony and plate they have given to themselves it is partly in print but far more concealed and can ye expect justice from them who make themselves judge and party whose iron hands you have sufficiently felt and afterwards openly committed that horrid and Barbarous Act a thing never parralleld in the world many or most of them now convened in this Fleeting wood Parliament being those monsters with there journy man Lentall the old Speaker who corresponded with the last King for his peace and assurance that have brought al these miseries upon the nation and do now follow the same dictates of blood and innovations and if ye suffer them to fit you must expect nothing but blood ruine of your estates and destruction of the kingdom by all illegal and arbitrary waies whatsoever and to sel your remaining monuments of the kingdome churches and noble houses and put the money in what Purses they please and weaken the kingdom for a prey to a forraign Nation These will be like the
ENGLANDS REMEMBRANCES AMONGST some sayings of a Wise Man one of his best was that the Life of a Life was a good Conscience This may be good Counsel to our fellow subjects of England at this time in this Apostate Age whereas nothing but a present Finition is acceptable upon no certainty but great uncertainties both of death sudden changes and alterations This address and faithfull advice is out of affection and zeal for the honour and happiness of the English Nation which is as near and dear to a true wel-wisher to his Country as his nearest relations all sufferings to a clear English heart in redemption of it would be like a fair hot sun shining day in the end of Harvest For only excremental creatures proceed and dissolve in the like nature But man that is chiefly born to serve God his King and Country upon the principles of Vertue Justice and true Religion according to revealed knowledge hath a duty of injunction laid upon him The blot upon our Nation must needs trouble all English hearts The deception under the Mask of Reliligion which is now thoroughly unmasked ought and must command much Repentance The Design of some of our Northern neighbours with the conspiracy of some of our Country men to pull down one Ecclesiastical Government for their own interest before another was put into a method for the settlement of Church Government hath justly brought this confusion upon themselves in Scotland and on us in England and do not we see how God hath worn our in their own actions and blasted many of the Plotters of our alterations in England although in Justice from Heaven we must look upon our sins the Nations sins and the three Kingdoms sins to be the moving cause from God so to punish us For is there any evil in the City and God hath not done it Amos the 3. chap. and 6. ve that is the evil of punishment which we all justly deserve Hath not God punished the Irish nation now almost extirpated for that horrid Massacre Murther and Rebellion in that Kingdom of Ireland palliating their wickedness under a counterfeit Commission and connivance from the last King whose innocence was most traiterously abused in it as was confessed by Sir Philemon Oneal before his execution in presence of divers worthy and noble persons now living who can testifie it upon their voluntary or required Oaths The Kings Broad Seal being taken off from a Letters Patents for a grant of lands and put to a forged and counterfeit Commission And concerning those papers taken out of Mr. Secretary Windebants study and put by the Parliaments order into the custody of one Mr. Willingham a Citizen of London some years since dead a noble Lord and a Citizen of London sent his Majesty word that if any of those papers concerning Ireland or any other of them might do his Majesty prejudice some persons of the Parliament intending to lay a charge against his Majesty about them such a course was and should be taken for their conveyance away if his Majesty would have it that they should never see light more But the King sent that noble Lord word and that Citizen who acted the business with Mr Willingham that he thanked them for their love and care of him but for any knowledge that he had or had given order in or for that business or massacre of Ireland he defied the Divel and all his Imps or any body else about it but if any of his servants had done amiss they must answer for their own faults and this will be testified upon Oath before God and Man And to confirm his Majesties clearness in that business of Ireland you see his enemies could not lay the least imputation against his Majesty in it although they wanted neither Will nor Malice For Scotland how hath God punished that Nation for the innocent blood and cruelties they have acted amongst themselves for their perjury and falseness for the breach of their publick and national Faith and agreement with the King made solemnly in the Parliament of Scotland 1641. after full satisfaction given by the King in that Parliament for that Church and kingdom and by invading England again with an Army contrary to their former Faith and Agreement upon the surruptions making wresting and breaking their solemn League ad Covenant construing part of it to serve their own sence and ends and not taking the whole scope sence and Articles of it together in which Covenant the English Independents out-witted them they supposing upon the interest of that Covenant to have overswayed the Parliament made London their own in affection and interest and so to have obtained the power of all England but with what success hath God yet blessed that Covenant being illegally entred into at the first although much and not all the contents thereof is good The Covenant Makers being the Covenant Breakers who declared a publick promise to have the Kings approbation and confirmation of it which was deferred until they had a Sword to inforce and compel it not a Christian like way to settle Religion which otherwise should be by a Synod of Reformed Divines legally called And for delivering their King to the English Independents when the Plot was visibly seen for the destruction of King and Parliament upon the Compact and Agreement for receiving 200000 pounds sterling for their Army when the King came to their Army then at Newark for a Sanctuary a Blot in Marble whereas if they had kept the King and not delivered him untill they had treated with the King and Parliament of England and London so much longed for and desired the King Parliament and kingdomes had been settled upon the Bases of Justice Truth and Righteousnes with a firm and lasting Peace and a Religious and Civill Reformation of all former errors and although they had the publick faith of the Parliament of England for a Treaty with his Majesty and both Kingdomes upon their delivering the King yet they could not but wel understand by their Commissioners who had lived long in England at the cost and charge of England that the Independent Faction grew so strong in the English Parliament and Army which were no friends to the King that it could not be safe for his Majesty to be in that custody at Holmby which was rather in the power of the Army than Parliament as it proved too sadly afterwards the Army being molded contrary to the first Iudgment of Parliament where as if the King had beene delivered unto the protection of his subjects in London there was then a visible power and foundation to guard his Majesty from the designe of Oliver Cromwell whose design was well perceived by many at that time And when the Scots had divested themselves of the King by delivering his Majestey over and Oliver Cromwell was acting that unparralleld death which could not but be wel known to the grand Committee of Parliament sitting then in Scotland by the