of his he declares How in all those Propositions little or nothing could be observ'd of any Laws dis-joynted which ought to be restor'd of any Right invaded of any Justice obstructed of any Compensations to be made of any impartial Reformation to be granted to all or any of which Reason Religion and true Policy or any other Humane Motives might induce him But the main Matters propounded in which is either great Novelty or Difficulty relate to what were formerly look'd upon as Factions in the State or Schisms in the Church and so punishable by the Laws though now they have the Confidence by vulgar Clamors and Assistance to demand not only Toleration of themselves in their Vanity Novelty and Confusion but also Abolition of the Laws against them and a total Extirpation of that Government whose Rights they have a mind to invade Thus solidly did his Majesty refel the little Rebel Flourishes of the Westminster Iunto and therefore no wonder they were deliver'd to the King without Success they knew before-hand he had more Honor and Conscience than to grant them otherwise would not have caus'd them to be presented and if he thought as Ludlow would perswade us he did as good terms as these might be obtain'd if reduc'd to the last Extremity he had great Reason so to do for doubtless no one breathing did then so much as dream of or imagin that execrable Act their continu'd draughts of Blood did in the end prompt them unto In which unnatural Broils of State Parricide and Domestick Fury as I shall concern my self no further than this base Fellow and his Comrades reflect upon the Memory of our Royal Martyr So I cannot but observe his Design hath been all along hitherto to manage his Lyes with so much Art and Cunning as to make the King according to the Procedure of their horrid High Court of Iustice the first Agressor and Promoter of the War The Parliament were as Innocent as an Assembly of so many Devils and desir'd only to do with him and his Kingdoms his Queeu Children and his Friends as they pleas'd which his Stubbornness refusing the Charge their Insolencies had assum'd to themselves resolv'd to force him as they really did which yet he Ludlow would have turn'd upon them What I shall first mention tho' there are several such like Hints before is p. 16. The King having laid his Designs in Ireland as will afterward appear was not without great Difficulty prevail'd upon by the Parliament to consent to the Disbanding those eight Thousand Irish Papist that had been rais'd there by the Earl of Strafford How far that Army was from being Irish Papists will appear from this that all the Irish Grandees of that Perswasion agreed with the Faction in our two Houses here to promote the Disbanding that Army which had it been kept on Foot the Rebellion could not have Succeeded there nor consequently here The next Instance I shall give is p. 22. The King 's violent Ways not succeeding he fell upon other Measures in appearance more moderate c. What violent Ways were these Why those few Inns of Court and other Gentlemen who proffer'd their Attendance to secure him from the Insolency of the Tumults which this bad Man for whom no bad Name is bad enough takes no Notice of though got up to that prodigious hight as the King could not think those and all his other Friends able to secure him at White-Hall In like manner upon his Majesty's demanding the Five Members p. 25. The Parliament-sensible of this Violation of their Priviledges and fearing they might be further intrenched upon c. a strong Violation that to demand Traytors to Iustice but 't was their Interest to oppose it otherwise they might have all follow'd For having related after their many other Usurpations how well the Parliament approv'd Sir Iohn Hotham's Conduct declaring he had done well in denying the King admittance into Hull 't is added next Paragraph p. 29. The Parliament began now to provide for the securing of all Places whereas there was not a Place of any Importance they had not secur'd before even to York it self in which by his Majesty 's too great Passiveness they had a Committee to observe and beard all his Undertakings And this brings me to the last Instance of this modest Man's Veracity p. 38. The King having set up his Standard at Nottingham the 24th of August 1642 for he tells us to a Day and 't is well he doth The Parliament thought themselves oblig'd to make some Preparations to defend themselves whereas in the Paragraph immediately precedent he declar'd how the Fire began to break out in the West what success the Earl of Bedford had there upon the Parliament Account and how the Governour of Portsmouth declaring for the King that was besieg'd and reduc'd by their Forces And for a fuller Testimony of this let us compute the time of raising these Forces Essex under pretence of a Guard to the Parliament had been levying Men all that Spring on the tenth of Iune the Order past both Houses for the Citizens to bring in their Plate to carry on the War which they did most zealously on the 9th of September Essex march'd out of London in a great deal of Pomp having all his Masters attending him 16000 strong very little more than a Fortnight after the King set up his Standard where there did not appear the fourth part of the foremention'd Number But the Parliament had got that common artifice of all bad Men to cry Whore first as the Proverb expresses it inflame the Peoples Minds with Dangers and Designs that the King intended to levy War against them whereas 't was design'd against the King who most solemnly declar'd from York how far his Desires and Thoughts were from it and had this attested by more than forty Lords then with him how they saw no t any colour of Preparations or Counsels that might reasonably beget the Belief of any such Design and were fully perswaded his Majesty had no such intention But when he understood what preparations they were making at London and indeed every where else that Hotham had deny'd him Hull and Essex was coming to take him from his Evil Counsellors then he thought himself oblig'd to make some preparations for himself that I may turn Ludlow's impudent Falshood into Truth But suppose the King had begun sooner as 't is great pity he did not exerted the just right of his Prerogative and sovereign Power against the many encroachments they daily made and unknown Priviledges they constantly assum'd all the Laws of God and Man would have born him out therein For most Men of Sense long before the Sword was drawn clearly discover'd nothing would satisfy them but a total Subversion of the whole Government An honest Gentleman expostulating with Mr. Hambden upon the King 's many Concessions what they could expect further he reply'd they expected he should commit himself and all that
attribute to a Belief and full Perswasion of the Iustice of the Undertaking whereas I cry Careat successibus opto Nevertheless it shall be acknowledged that this little Success turn'd infinitely to their advantage for having got possession of Newcastle where the King had a Magazine they extended their Quarters as far as Durham with a corner of Yorkshire after miserably harassing all places where they came those four Counties of Northumberland Cumberland Westmorland and Durham with the forementioned corner of Yorkshire far from the largest or richest in England were Sess'd at a Contribution of 850 l. per Diem which I fancy was more than Cromwell could make of their whole Kingdom when he by the Just Judgment of Heaven had brought them into the same circumstances nay which is more made an absolute Conquest And this I presume is the foundation of Ludlow's blunder which hath something of approach to truth but he abhors to come close up to it that upon the King 's calling his great Council at York they advis'd a Cessation of Arms and to Summon a Parliament which to the great trouble of the Clergy and other Incendiaries for they must be flung at he promis'd to do assuring the Scots of the payment of twenty thousand pounds a month to maintain their Army till the pleasure of the Parliament should be known p. 11. How careful is this Good man of the Parliaments pleasure and free of the Kings condescention whereas impartially speaking they had carv'd themselves the forementioned Contribution and moreover seiz'd the total of all Estates belonging to Papists Prelates Incendiaries c. in brief of all the Loyal honest Gentlemen throughout that District of their new Usurpation Afterwards indeed when the Treaty was at Rippon the English Commissioners requir'd their demands as to the Subsistence of their Army whereto they modestly return'd answer 40000 l. per. mensem should content them for the present and for their losses they would afterward give a particular estimate This so much alarm'd the Commissioners and other Lords when the demand was sent to the King at York that one noble Peer made a motion to Fortifie that City and imploy that 40000 l. to maintain his Majesty's Army rather than an Enemy's hereupon the Scotch came down to 30000 l. which they own'd to be less than the 850 l. per. diem considering they had the time past the benefit of Custome a Provision of Coals and Proportion of Forage In the end it was agreed That with a Provision of Coals and Forage they should be satisfy'd and take no more than the 850 l. per diem of the four forementioned Counties under which abominable slavery those poor people continued a whole twelvemonth for the King having by unwearied importunity been forc'd upon a Parliament and remitted the whole management of these their Dear Brethrens concerns to them they so dextrously improv'd the advantage as to keep them here at the Nations expence till they had got the same unreasonable concessions from him as the others had done made him Sacrifice his Friends debase his Prerogative and by Enacting an indissoluable Session gave them an opportunity of playing the like game without any thing more of their assistance Now then 't was thought high time to dismiss them but the greatest matter was to bring that about turpius ejicitur quam non admittitur c. they paid themselves at coming in but we must pay even for that again before they would set one step back and withall at so unreasonable arate according to their demands as all the Gold in England tho' never more plenty would not make a Bridge to carry them over Tweed To give a short Specimen there being several Demands agreed to by Treaty at Rippon wherein the Scotch were to have satisfaction the Sixth was That they desire from the Iustice and kindness of England Reparation concerning the losses which the Kingdom of Scotland hath sustain'd and the vast charges they have been put unto by reason of the late troubles According to which Article they were required now upon departure to bring in a full Account of their Charges which they enlarged to the full Sum of Five hundred and Fourteen thousand One hundred and Twenty Eight pound nine shillings c. abating the odd pence out of kindness whereto was added for what losses their Nation the Nobility and Gentry had sustain'd Two hundred and Twenty One thousand pounds and the neglect of their Fortunes Two hundred and twenty thousand pounds besides the 850 l. per. diem exhausted from the Northern Counties with other the most inexpressible Insolencies and Exactions ever any people groan'd under A surprising Sum but cunning Chapmen know that a high demand at first will oblige any Purchaser for shame to bid somewhat like a Gentleman and accordingly it happened here the whole matter being adjusted for that lusty Sum of 300000 l. part whereof was paid down and the rest secur'd by the Publick Faith of the two Houses and more punctually discharged than any here borrowed upon that Credit If any be farther Inquisitive as to the Total of the whole Expence I find a Report made in the House of Lords that amounted to one Million one hundred Thousand pounds the most chargeable remedy this Nation to that day was ever acquainted with and prov'd much worse than any Disease we then labour'd under besides that itch of Rebellion we from them contracted which hath cost a hundred times more than they carry'd off and for ought I see may be doubled before we attain a perfect cure Well now they are gone and the King followed them which Ludlow tells us the Parliament endeavour'd to disswade him from or at least to defer to a fitter opportunity he refused to hearken to them under pretence that the Affairs of that Kingdom necessarily required his presence but in truth his great business was to leave no means unattempted to take off that Nation from their Adherence to the parliament of England p. 17. 'T is probable he might hope so to be sure the Parliament feared it and had reason so to do if it had been possible to oblige such a Generation of men for he gratified them in every demand confirm'd all their Rebellious Innovations into Legal Constitutions advanc'd the leading Covenanters into the highest Places of Honour and Profit amongst whom their General Lesly was made an Earl whereupon with Hands lift up to Heaven he wished they might rot if ever he acted more against so gude a King Yet this very man within two years after led a Scotch Army to the Parliaments assistance and by the reputation of their name and number rather than any considerable Action gave such a diversion to that gude Kings Forces as nothing conduced more to his ruin And when no longer able to keep the Field he betook himself to those his Native Subjects for Protection How barbarously they use and how basely they sold him need not be here
Prince rather afraid than asham'd to employ him in the greatest Affairs of State which he first discover'd in the House of Commons was very happily brought into Court where through several Stages of eminent Trusts and Council he arriv'd at the highest Command our Crown hath to dispose of that in Ireland which he manag'd and improv'd in so prodigious a manner as all Men of Sense and Business were astonish'd in their Acknowledgments thereof And this sufficiently appear'd at his Tryal for though 't is true there were several Articles of a very high Nature brought against him yet none prov'd And herein Ludlow discovers his Commonwealth Ingenuity to tell us he was accus'd of Governing Ireland in an Arbitrary Manner of retaining the Revenue of the Crown without giving an Account of promoting and encouraging the Romish Religion c. p. 14. whereunto though English and Irish Puritans and Papists his open Enemies and false Friends were encourag'd to give Evidence they could make nothing of it nor of that High Charge which our Author mentioning more than once would have instar omnium how he advis'd the King That since the Parliament had deny'd him such Supplies as he demanded he was at Liberty to raise them by such means as he thought fit and that he had an Irish Army should assist him to that end All which had but one single Witness to prove it Sir H. Vane who hesitated very much and though at last would have had the Irish Army imploy'd in England all Circumstances speak otherwise the very Council sitting upon the Scotch Affairs and every Member thereof averring the contrary the Earl of Northumberland more especially that he had heard the Earl of Strafford often say that that Power was to be us'd Candide et Caste and that the Kingdom could not be Happy but by a good Agreement between the King and his People in Parliament So that after a great deal of Art and Eloquence by the best parted bad Men Westminster-Hall ever sent into the House of Commons with Father Pym c. this Great Person so clearly bafled all their Allegations and Evidences as they were forc'd to turn the Tables pursue another Method and Vote him guilty by Bill of Attainder which not only precluded all further Arguments according to the Regular Course of Iustice but made themselves Accusers Parties and Iudges throughout the whole Procedure both as to Matter of Fact and Law an odd and unusual Course for they say it had been discontinu'd from Henry VIII's Time whose grough Humour too often made use of this when he could not otherwise gain his Point that is his Will But when laid in his Cold Tomb that Men might freely speak their Minds next the Barbarous Treatment of his Queens this is the foulest Blot upon his Memory And as he then made his Parliament the Properties in this ungrateful ay and unjust Procedure so the Parliament here were as hot and violent in forcing it upon the King and that with so great Precipitancy as the Bill was read thrice in one Day and consequently pass'd with an earnest Request when carried up to the Lords of the like quick Dispatch But they were more Deliberate as well upon his as their own Account which made the Commons fall to their then a la mode Course of Rabble and Tumults 5 or 6000 whereof assembled at Westminster crying for Justice and Execution with many other intollerable Insolencies as shall be by and by related upon which Account many of the Lords dar'd not to appear at the House and of those few that did being 45 it was carried but by 7 Votes 19 giving their not Content to the 26 that gave their Content to the passing this Fatal Bill And this brought the King into that inextricable Perplexity being to use his own incomparable Words perswaded by those that wish'd him well to choose rather what seemed safe than just preferring the outward Peace of my Kingdom with Men before that inward exactness of Conscience before God and this made a continu'd Remorse in his Soul for ever after incessantly complaining of that bad exchange to wound a Man 's own Conscience thereby to salve State-Sores to calm the Storms of popular Discontents by stirring up a Tempest in a Man 's own Bosom whereas in all likelyhood I could never have suffer'd with my People greater Calamities yet with greater Comfort had I vindicated Strafford's Innocency and not gratify'd some Mens unthankful importuning so cruel a Favour In fine the whole Chapter is so great in its self as we find nothing so sincerely to express the true Remorse of a Penitent Soul since David pen'd the 51 Psalm and withall gives so high and just a Character of this great Man as no People which us'd them both so Barbarously ought ever to be bless'd with such a Prince or Minister Yet one thing I must further observe from his Majesty how that after-Act vacating the Authority of the Precedent for future Imitation sufficiently tells the World that some Remorse touched even his most implacable Enemies as knowing he had very hard Measure and such as they would be very loth should be repeated to themselves The return likewise that virulent Faction made to his Majesty when he had oblig'd them with so much Regret to himself is worth taking Notice which was only this hath he given us Strafford then he can deny us nothing And accordingly at the same time this cursed Bill was past there past another to make that cursed Parliament perpetual whereupon I find this Remark that as the one was for the Earl's present Execution so the other prov'd in the Event for the Kings One thing more and I have done when the Nation came to its Wits again in the Year 60 An Act was pass'd for reversing the Attainder of this great Worthy wherein are enumerated the several unjust and irregular Practiecs for obtaining that Bill as well from Lords as King together with the Illegality and untruth of the Charge it self 'T is pity there had not been a Clause likewise that whosoever should dare to Libel and belye his but more especially his Master 's Sacred Memory or indeed any others who unjustly Suffer'd in that just Cause should forfeit their Ears at last if not have their Breath stop'd at Tyburn what a company of Spill-Paper Rascals would this have freed the Press or the World of But since 't is thought fit to permit them we must be Content with discovering thereby their sordid Temper and base Principles and accordingly discriminate them from such vertuous Understanding Souls as will not be afraid of any euil Tidings but have the Righteous in everlasting Remembrance Arch-Bishop Laud shall be here likewise consider'd for tho they did not take away his Life till about three Years after yet was he forc'd to Linger it out all that time in an unjust Confinement kept on purpose as one would think to serve another turn with the Scots For as they would
Distractions and Perplexities this Excellent Prince labour'd under it could not but be some Satisfaction to see such visible Retaliations since there was not a Member of the Covenant Class but might take up Adonibezek's Acknowledgment As we have done so the Lord hath requited us The manner of Ioyce's carrying off the King hath not one Syllable of Truth as to the Circumstances thereof in Ludlow's Relation He saith Ioyce had an Order in writing to take the King out of the Hands of the Commissioners of Parliament p. 191 whereas upon the King 's demanding a sight of his Instructions that saith the impudent Fellow you shall see presently and drawing up the best part of his Party into the inner Court as near as he could to the King say'd these Sir are my Instructions whereto his Majesty Smilingly reply'd Your Instructions are in fair Characters and Legible without Spelling Neither is it true that the King would have retracted his Promise to Ioyce upon the Commissioner's Perswasion it was by his Inducement the Guards were taken off their Lodgings and when Ioyce press'd the King to go along with him no Prejudice being intended but rather his Satisfaction upon the King's saying he would not stir unless the Commissioners went with him the other reply'd that for his Part he was indifferent Neither did the King take Horse but went in a Coach with the Earls Pembrook Denbeigh and Lord Mountague who as the rest of their Fellows were very Shagreen upon this Force his Majesty being observ'd the Merryest in the Company And when Colonel Brown and Mr. Crew return'd to the Parliament is not certain to be sure they did not go from Holmby but attended the King to Hinchingbrook tho an Express was sent from the first Notice of Ioyce's Approach The whole Passage of this Force with several others very considerable from hence forward to his Majesty's Murder is most faithfully related in the Athenae Oxon. as the Author had them from Sir Thomas Herbert a constant and sometimes sole Attendant upon the King in all those his Solitudes and Sufferings In all probability it was with no little regret to our Author before he saw whether it tended that the Army paid so great a Deference to the King suffer'd his Officers to continue and publickly own'd the Design Colonel Francis Russel and others attending the King became soon converted by the Splendor of his Majesty c. p. 193. And some Pages before 177. he inveighs bitterly against Colonel Brown the Wood-monger for that having been as great a Rebel as himself indeed much more Considerable and Mischievous he no sooner came into the King's Conversation but became a Convert which Ludlow would have the effect of a low and abject Original and Education whereas there cannot be a greater Instance of a generous Temper to acknowledge his Mistakes and beg his Majesty's Pardon when there was nothing but Obloquy and Persecution from the prevailing Power which he met withal sufficiently and was as forward to return when occasion serv'd being one of the Bloodyest Butchers of the Parliament's Friends p. 178. Indeed upon the Restauration he was very forward in apprehending and condemning the Regicides and it was by an unlucky Chance this Fellow escap'd his Hands The Devils knowing themselves under Sentence of Eternal Reprobation are never better pleas'd than to have engag'd a Man so far as to lay aside all Thoughts of Pardon of Reconciliation with God and really I never met with a Person more truly Proselyted to Hell upon that and indeed all other Concerns than our Author as having not only abandoned all Thoughts of Peace and Mercy in himself but an implacable Spite against such as were any ways inclin'd thereto on the contrary wherever his Majesty met any of such ingenuous Christian Dispositions he certainly Convinc'd them of their Mistakes and brought them over to his Party There are too many Instances of this Kind and too well known to be here set down That of Mr. Vines in Dr. Perenchief's Life is very Considerable because as rigid a Presbyterian as the rest who declar'd he had been deluded into unworthy Thoughts of the King but was now convinc'd to an exceeding Reverence of him and hoped so of others c. There was one Dell an Army Chaplain counterpart to Hugh Peters and tho less a Buffoon yet as much a Rogue they jointly giving out when their Villanies were ripe that the King was but as a dead Dog This unworthy Wretch said once in my hearing that whilst in the Army it was told him the King express'd a desire to see Dell but said the Fellow I would not come at him because we found he had a cunning way of getting into Men and making them think well of him and his Cause This indeed I find from several Particulars that the Prejudices of such Ulcerous Minds kept them off upon a false Surmise that the King could Pardon and Forgive no more than they upon which String I observe Ludlow often harping especially upon his Observation of the Army's respect in this Juncture whom he seems to laugh at for not considering how easy it would be for him to break through all his Promises and Engagements upon pretence of being under a Force p. 193. 'T is true they had violated the solemnest Oaths and Tyes imaginable in putting a Force upon him whereas he good Man was so Religious to his bare Promises as in the end it cost him his Life What he further relates of Transactions between the King and Army is as we are told from a Manuscript written by Sir Iohn Barkly and left in the Hands of a Merchant at Geneva That Sir Iohn since Lord Iohn Barkly was attending upon the King at this Time is certain and we will grant 't is his Manuscript to be sure none of our Authors being of a more polite Stile pen'd like a Man of Sense and Business so that wherever brought in it looks like a piece of New Cloth to make bold with the Parable put to an Old Garment and renders his thred-bare Stuff an abominably patch'd Business From these Papers he would have us believe that the Grandees of the Army Cromwel Ireton c. were once in so good a Mood as to design the Restauration of his Majesty whose ill Conduct in not following Sir Iohn's Directions and caressing them as expected spoil'd all And this ought to be taken into Consideration because I have met some honest Gentlemen too forward in giving Credit thereto and the Commonwealth's Men run away with it as infallible notwithstanding the quite contrary appears from Ludlow's own Relation who perhaps too hath perverted several of Sir Iohn's Expressions to the King's Prejudice for there is nothing so base and false he would not be guilty of upon that Account as when he is reported to break away from them and say Well I shall see them glad e're long to accept of more equal Terms p. 203 and that p. 205. you cannot
Army in prejudice to theirs which caus'd Commissary Wilmot who with some others was a Member of the House to tell them upon a Paper the Scots had presented to get Mony design'd for our Army that if Papers could procure Money he doubted not but the English Officers would soon do the same Neither were their Resentments less upon the King 's than their own account that after so many complyances and too great condescention they should still press forward to the overturning of all whereupon they entred into a confederacy obliging themselves by an Oath of secrecy to Petition the King and Parliament upon these Four Heads For Money for the Army not to Disband before the Scots To preserve Bishops Votes and Functions To settle the King's Revenue Which being shown to and approv'd by the King he sign'd all which appears both from Mr. Percy 's letter to the Earl of Northumberland his Brother that they resolved to act nothing which should infringe the Subjects Liberty or be prejudicial to the Laws As likewise from the foremention'd Manuscript of the Earl of Manchester which gives the same account And could Ludlow or any of his Partisans imagin there should be no Men of Courage and Resolution left in the Nation or that having Swords by their Sides they should keep their Hands in their Pockets and see Votes and Ordinances do more mischief than all the Gunpowder of a seven Years Campain and since the Parliament were resolv'd upon a War 't is Pity these Gentlemen parted with their Forces Had they come up and cut Ten or Twenty the lowdest Throats in the House it might have sav'd the effusion of a great deal more and much better Blood and preserv'd both King and Kingdom from Ruin To shew farther that the Parliament was always in danger the King continually plotting against them they never against him our Author tells us how a great number of loose debauch'd Fellows repair'd to Whitehall where a constant Table was provided and many Gentlemen of the Inns of Court tamper'd with to assist him in his Design and how briskly he took up one for speaking against the Fellows at Westminster who upon this fright desir'd leave to provide themselves a Guard and that the Militia might be at their disposing p. 21. To turn a Story or frame a Lie so as to make it serve their own turns hath been all along observ'd the peculiar Talent of our Commonwealth Men and of the whole Party Ludlow had most right to the Whetstone That the Fellow should be so impudent to charge the King with raising Tumults or threatning Force when all the World knows it was the chief Engine the Parliament had to carry on all their mischievous Enterprises and when any thing stuck with him or the Lords a Rabble of 5 or 6000 were immediately summon'd out of the City to affright and threaten all that would not comply according to their Desire and in their passage by Whitehall did the same to the King till their Insolencies grew so intolerable as he was forc'd to leave that and Parliament at once for which they had the confidence to charge him and yet would take no care he might be secure with them and this occasion'd what Ludlow relates Several Gentlemen about Town more especially at the Inns of Court were asham'd to see Majesty so scandalously affronted proffer'd their service for the security of Whitehall his Majesty and Family which was kindly accepted and some little Entertainment made for them from whence this vile Fellow rais'd his great Story And since he hath given me this just provocation it will be here very proper to give some small account of those many violences from the insults and tumults of the Rabble how necessary the Faction found them and thereupon what Encouragement they had The Bill of Attainder against the Earl of Strafford went on very slowly in the House of Lords and 't is probable but for the Menaces of the Mob had never pass'd whereof 5 or 6000 came up to Westminster fill'd the Palace-Yard posted themselves at all the Entrances to the Parliament House and stopped every Coach crying Iustice and Execution which upon a Sign given was repeated with such an hideous Noise as to create Amazement in the greatest Constancy Such Lords as they knew were averse to Humour them they threatned most severely and had the Impudence to add if they had not the Leiutenant's Life they would have the King 's whereof his Majesty complained by Message to the Lords they to the Commons and there it stuck For sometime after when they trudg'd away to cry no Bishops as Hudibras hath it and the Lords complained in a Conference with the Commons of their horrible Insolency Mr. Pim their chief Setter cry'd God forbid we should proceed to dishearten People from obtaining their just Rights and the rest of that cursed Cabal secretly whisper'd they must not discourage their Friends this being a time to make use of them which vile Abettings made them so Impudent as to threaten White-hall too and declare as they pass'd by there should be no Porters Lodg but they would come to speak to the King without Control and at their own discretion And when presently after there was another descent of the same Rout and some Opposition made upon their Attempt upon White-hall Gate till the Sheriffs of London and Middelsex with what Guard they could draw together seiz'd and committed some of them the Commons immediately posted up Mr. Hollis to the Lords complaining 't was a Violation of the Liberty of the Subject and an affront to the Parliament and so the Good Boys must be discharg'd 'T were too tedious to relate the several Insults of this kind both King and Lords were forc'd to put up the Commons underhand giving them all Encouragement imaginable and had their Setters in the City to be ready on the first Intimation whereof Dr. Cornelius Burges a Lecturing Beautifeu was chief seconded by a Lay Brother one Ven the Captain Tom of those Times the Dr. as he led up these Doughty Champions was wont to look back and cry These are my Ban-dogs I can set them on and I can take them off again by which means saith my Author four parts in five of the Lords and two parts in three of the Commons were frighted out of the House to leave the Faction absolute Masters thereof All these before unheard of Affronts to Majesty and Government our faithful Recorder of Memoirs takes no Notice of but a few honest Loyal Gentlemen asham'd to see such abominable Insults and therefore coming to defend if occasion serv'd their abused ay and threatned Prince must pass for a Plot upon the Parliament and they forsooth must have a Guard With like veracity he relates the Kingston Plot too where the Lord Digby with Colonel Lunsford in a Coach and Six and three or four Footmen attending pass'd for a Body of 500 Horse with many such like extravagant Rumors