State and shape of it seemed rather a Scene or boscage of Wild and brutall Creatures than a Governed or civil Community But because this particular hath been so largely treated off and is yet fresh in memory and will hardly ever be forgotten it will not be much material to urge it further unlesse to the maintainance of this Maxime That the Uproars and Rebellions of Subjects upon what pretence soever do alwayes end in the greatest Tyrannies and turn to their most unsufferable and ignominious miseries and that their Darling Demagogues whom with applauses and Arms they have shouldred up and have reared and exalted above the reach of the Law make it no nicety afterwards to trample upon the Necks of their raisers and to swim in their Blood which itching swell'd their ambition to the Throne Nor did the Volge know when or could their Boutefeus tell where to cease what Issue would happen of these their troubles Rash and blind Furies that made way to the unobserved advancement of this private Male-content who like Marius from his lurking holes in the Fens of Minturna after the defeat of his fortunes crept into the Supreme Power and died his purple with a more indelible tincture of Noble and Plebeyan blood The Jealousies and Fears and the like piques and quarrelling pretences of the Parliament proving hopelesse of reconcilement or accommodation by the artifices of a Faction wherein Mr. Pyns Hambden and other Puny's with Cromwel mainly buâ—ed themselves and the just Judgement of God giving up up our Peace Prosperity and Plenty to the Calamity of a most unnatural War the long desired occasion and expectation of those who had lodg'd their private hopes in the Common Ruine did most gladsomely salute the Designs of Oliver who having spent the utmost farthing of his Estate and secured from an Imprisonment by his priviledge as a Member was one of the first of those adventurous Knights that mounted the Good Cause behind them and so took the Feild which now Ploughed with Swords and Spears and watered with Blood answered its long denyed increase and from a lucklesse Pesant made him a fortunate Pedant Prince For Enyo no â—ooner sounded her Trumpets under the Earl of Essex's Banners then entitled Generallissimo for thâ— King and Parliament but Gromwell offered him his Service and was thereupon honoured with a Commission of Captain of Horse which to raise he returned to his own County of Huntingdon where among the Zealots he was never had in greater Estimation He was likewise named a Commissioner in the Ordinance for the Militia for that and the neighbouring Shires then entering into an Association against the King the Ground worke and eminent endevour of this great Conspirator in pursuance of that rebellious Project of his party at Westminster following herein the practice of all Ringleaders who do first collect rabbles and engage and assure places of retreat and fastnesse to all Events though herein he practiced the more difficult and unprecedented combination of a people for Wealth and Sobriety and Civility and judgement for a great part most contrary to his Designs little to be suspected of taking part with him But it so luckily evened to him that by his lopping off as it were this Limb of the Kingdome and depriving the King thereby of any assistance thence and of the convenience of the ports of those Eastern Counties for any forraign supplies one Canton of the Kingdome was as planet struck in point of Allegiance and not only a Member Mancum inutile dextre Pers but of a very sinister consequence to the Royal Cause the Gangreen thereof spreading and diffusing it self through the whole Masse of the Nation by feeding the Humourous rage of the War through the whole distemper thereof till it finally consumed all this being the abundant Magazine of Men and Horses for the Parliament Service This therefore was Cromwell's first Province or Superintendency wherein he exercised the original Office of a Major General when as yet he sounded no more then a Captain being the chief Committee-man of the Association making himself most notably eminent by his activity and zealous industry in promoting the good Cause and levying and listing of Forces and Disciplining them the skill whereof he had presently learned from an exact observation of some veterane commanders viz. Coll. Dolbier whom he had by great sums of advance money and as extraordinary pay allured to his side The grosse of those Troops he raised here and sent from this Seminary to the Camp and School of Action were such whose dull Spirits were to be beaten into the knowledge of Arms and like the Turks Asapi were on purpose sent thither to blunt the weapons of the Kings generous Cavalry on purpose to beget in them a relash and contemptuous neglect of so base and despicable an enemy that such their regardlesse confidence might conclude their ruine He himself was all the while continued by especial Order of Parliament in this Employment like an Independent Commander to have an Eye upon any Attempts that might be made thereabouts and as a purer and preciser reserve to the mix'd multitude that then from the equal motives of pay and zealotry rusht into the War And therefore Oliver understanding how miserably the Cavalry freshmen of his party were worsted at every Encounter and well knowing the nature of the quarrell which was pretended for Religion resolved and advised that there were no men so likely to oppose the conquering Gallantry of those Gentlemen on the Kings side then such who were or should be engaged upon account of Conscience and Zeal which would Spirit them with the same magnanimous Fortitude and make them also to endure the difficulties and hardships of the War with a more pertinacious Constancy as having bodies better able and minds more finely sublimed upon that score pro aris focis then the mix'd and most rascally Herd of loose and vicious people Against the dangerous evil of this Association the King directed his Commission of Array which was first put in execution in Hartfordshire by Sir Henry Conisby High Sheriff of that County who proclaimed it at St. Albans and intended to raise the County to the Kings Assistance but by the vigilance of Oliver Cromwell the Design was prevented for by that time the Members at Westminster had notice of Sir Henry's Loyal endevour Cromwell with a party of horse had surprized and seized that party almost in the very instant of their appearance and sent Sir Henry and some other prime Gentlemen engaged with him Prisoners to London to the great satisfaction and liking of the Parliament Grandees who were at first agast at an attempt made for the King so neer their own Dores and thereupon this their Commander was ordered the Thanks of the House and from thence forward look'd upon as an eminent person and a Champion of the Cause which now jeoparded it in the field whence the towardly settlement of these parts with-held
Cromwell in this Province which like a peice of the former Heptarchy he himself ruled and governed absolutely and pro imperio His next peice of Service was of the like nature and of the same evil Consequence to the King For divers Gentlemen of the County of Suffolk another of the associated Counties resenting this Curb upon their Allegiance and the sawcy Edicts and Commands of the Committees which were made up of the meanest of the Gentry and Burgesses of the Towns designed together to free themselves and their Country from the yoake of these new Lords the chief of these Gentlemen were Sir John Peâ—tus Sir Edw. Barker c. who having in order to their Conjuncture rendezvouzed at Lowerstofe in that County were by the preventing diligence of Cromwell seized and secured and thereby such a Break-neck given to any future Royal undertakings in those parts the rendition of Lyn Regis which then held for the King soon after following this defeat and disappointment that throughout the whole course of the War there happened not any the least Commotion in favour of His Majesties Arms either by supply assistance or diversion Things being thus quieted thereabouts and disposed to the Interest of the Juncto there remained after the military part a Scholastical labour for this Parliamentary Hercules the zealons cleansing of the University of Cambridge the Parent of this Viper who just before his infectious production into the main Army whither he was now designed did miserably exenterate her leaving her a sad and doleful Skeleton deprived of so many learned and religious persons whose only charge was that they adhered to the Dictates of their Conscience and the Obligations of those Oaths which just Authority had enjoyned against the novel and illegal Commands and Covenants forcibly imposed and obtruded on them In this destructive work his module and method of Ambition Cromwell was mainly and chiefly active as also against the Orthodox and Protestant Ministry and their Churches defacing all the Ornaments and Beauty thereof leaving them the ruinous Spectacle of his Reformation And from this Employment now finished he was Commissioned Lieutenant General to the Earl of Manchester who had the separate command in a distinct Supremacy of these associated Counties and was designed to march Northwards with those Forces and joyn with the Scots newly entred England and the Lord Fairfax against the Marquiss of Newcastle who was General for the King in those parts and yet ballanced the Fortune of War against that potent Scotch Invasion but upon the conjuncture and addition of the Earl of Manchester's fresh and well disciplined and armed forces the said Marquiss was constrained to quit the field and distribute his Army into the Garrisons he himself shutting up the best part of it in the City of York which the Confederates presently besieged and made several venturous attempts wherein Cromwell was none of the backwardest though always repulsed with losse and considerable slaughter The importance of this place and juncture of time which either won or lost the North to the King who had newly had great successe in the West by the defeating of the Earl of Essex at Lestithiel in Cornwall caused him to send away Prince Rupert as Generalissimo with a very potent Army to raise that Siege and fight the Enemy if he found occasion The Prince accordingly advanced and upon his approach the Confederates drew off from their Leagure affording the Garrison liberty to joyn with their friends when it was resolved by the Prince without any delay to give Battel though the Marquiss knowing what hazzard the Kings Interest and his own and all the Loyal parties Estates would thereby be put to did very much diswade the suddennesse of the Encounter which notwithstanding ensued on the Evening of the same day July 2. On Marston-Moor within Three miles of York and lasted till Night It will be tedious and beside our purpose to relate the whole order and manner of the Battell further then this that the Scots and my Lord Fairfaxes Forces were totally routed and perâ—ued some miles out of the field and the day given for lost when Cromwell with his associated Horse most of them Curassiers in the left wing seeing this discomfiture fell on with great resolution and courage and worsted the Prince and his reserves and with the same fury fell upon the Marquisses foot whose Regiment of White-Coats and therefore called his Lambs yet stood and could not be broken till the field being almost cleared the Parliaments Infantry came up and then both horse and foot charged and broke them Cromwell here made a very great Slaughter and Carnage especially in the rout and pursuit purposely to make his name terrible this being his first and grand appearance gaining here the Title of Ironsides from the impenetrable strength of his Troops which could by no means be broken or divided The successe of this day made him indeed highly famous and his Lawrells most verdant and flourishing the Victory being principally ascribed to his courage and conduct His Cunctation and temperate delay were highly magnified and then his Resolution in the desperation of the Event extolled the firmnesse and constant equality of his mind when intrepidly and fixedly he beheld the overthrow of the grosse of their Army and thereby animated his Troops to the more vigorous recovery of the day now that the adverse fury was spent in the chase of their Fellows the Scots whom Cromwell ever afterwards though in Covenant with them most disdainfully despised but not only for this reason The Credit of this Atchievement was industriously cryed up at Westminster and all the Grandezza's of Scriptural Ovation fitted and accommodated thereto He himself with the same conquering Troops as yet in the same quality under the Earl of Manchester was remanded from the North to oppose the King then returning victorious out of the West and because the Earl of Essex had hither to been unfortunate therefore this lucky Cheiftain was added as his better Star at the second Battel of Newberry within font Months after Marston Moor and here again the Fates favoured him though not with a complete Victory yet on that side where he fought with a part of one and so much as endangered the person of the King if the noble and stout Earl of Cleveland had not hazardously interposed and bore off the pursuit This indifference of Fortune begot very great differences among the Parliament Commanders one Taxing the other of Neglect Treachery or Cowardize and by what means it could come to passe that nothing was yet effected against the King whom in the beginning of the War they had thought to have swallowed up presently Not were the divisions lesse at home then in the camp â—or now the younger Brother of the Rebellion the Independant Faction began to appear a preciser and severer sort of Zealots who thought Essex and his Army not righteous enough nor fit instruments in whose hands the work of Reformation should
and after a very short Dispute wherein the English forces under Sir Marmaduke Langdale made him the greatest Opposition totally routed the Scotch Army taking all their Artillery Bag and Baggage and some 9000 prisoners with the Duke himself in the pursuit Southwards while he followed the Main of the flying Army Northwards with a resolution of putting a final end to that businesse and to rid himself of the Fears which from thence had hitherto perplexed him Upon this his hasty advance Major General Monro who commanded the reserve of 6000 Men to the former Army and was marching after them immediately returned to Berwick and so back into Scotland Berwick upon Cromwells approach rendred it self upon terms and hindred not his advance to Edinburgh where by the Committee of Estates he was very sumptuously welcomed Monro as yet and the Earl of Lanerick with him stood to their Arms upon the Hamilton account in the West of Scotland and the Marquess Arguile with another party stood for the purer Kirk which since the Dukes march had recovered its Magistracy and Superiority and with Cromwell's accessionall Troops could give Law to the Kingdome but because Cromwell was loth to venture a new War there so far distant from his main design which the Army successes at home had now matured and his presence only wanting to accomplish it he so ordered the matter that a Treaty was procured by which all parties were to lay down their Arms a greater assurance to him then if the Kirk had been absolute victor the Hamiltonians to have indempnity but none of them to be admitted or elected for the next Parliament or Assembly Generall so that he so absolutely manacled that Nation that they had no other use of their hands then to hold them up to Heaven at the dolefull murther of their natural Prince whom by their primitive rebellion they had brought to the Block Things thus settled in Scotland he departed thence having been most highly and magnificently treated by the Grandees of that Kingdome before and at his departure and complemented by the Kirk as their deliverer which he regested in as good Scriptural Language laying his hand on his breast and demurely looking on their Scotch screwed faces and laughing to himself what Ideots he had made of those Polititians at their own sanctified Weapons In his way homeward he visited the Seige of Pomfret and was by the Commander in Chief against that place importuned to see it reduced it being beleived that his fortune or experience Mastered all things as he was afterwards at Scarborough which being upon the point of Surrender he dispenced for the Honour thereof to stay at the last place and have it delivered into his hands and so posted for the head Quarters of the Army then at St. Albans having subdued all the opposition made this Summer 1648 where he vvas welcomed with the highest gratulations of his late atchievement especially by the Officers for as yet the Souldiers knew not what to think of him as to their nevv Agreement of the People vvhich vvas novv began again and favoured already by Ireton so much as that he had it under consideration and promised to return it vvith some additions and amendments of his ovvn And that proved that accursed Remonstrance of the Army in vvhich all the former freaks of policy were inserted to make up the number but the burthen thereof was the Treasonable Contrivance of the Kings Death and the altering the Government for first they remonstrated to the Parliament That all persons of whatsoever quality or condition not excepting the King that had been guilty of the blood spilt in the late War should be brought to justice and condigne punishment Next That a day should be set for the summoning the Prince and the Duke of York to appear and clear themselves of such things as should be laid to their charge and if they did not then to be declared incapable of succeeding in the Government Many such there were of the like Batch but all of them concluded with a most favourable Aspect to the Royal party whose fines and compositions they pretended to have mitigated and many more Good Morrows on purpose to amuse even them too as they had deceived and outwitted the Presbyterian This pestilent paper Cromwell got delivered to the House of Commons by a select number of Officers just as they had almost concluded with the King by a Treaty in the Isle of Wight to the amazement and fright of all good Christians and Subjects And here Cromwell terminated and centred all the crooked lines of his most Impious ambition resolving to stand or fall by this Conclusion and therefore immediately the Army being then advanced to London to prosecute this Remonstrance as he had dispatched Collonel Ewer to take the King out of the Custody of Hammond and carry him over to Hurst-Castle a most unhealthful place so did be upon notice that the Parliament had voted the Kings Concession a ground for a peace and settlement of the Kingdome command Coll. Pride a fellow who had not wit enough to consider his businesse to seize upon the avennues and passages to the Parliament House and exclude above a 140 Members whose names were given him in a Roll which unheard of and unparallell'd Violation was back'd and sccured by Force of Horse and Foot quartering up and down the City and Suburbs another lawlesse and forcible Intrusion upon their Charter The House being thus purged as they called it others besides those that were forcibly secluded absenting themselves for fear of being engaged and overpowered in those wicked Councells which this Action portended the remaining Juncto of his culling a great part whereof were Army Officers not amounting in all to 60. passed an Ordinance for Tryal of the King the manner whereof by a High Court of Justice of his and Iretons own forming and Conception was fully agreed upon and the King brought from the said Hurst Castle by Winchester Farnham and Windsor to St James's in order thereunto But of this lamentable Tragedy so much hath already been said that I will not add this supernumerary load to him here though it were his principal guilt and to which all his other perpetrations were but as subservient I will only instance two particulars relating to this sad and fatal businesse which discover the Abysse of this mans Villany There was mention made before of Coll. John Cromwell This Gentleman upon the news the States of Holland had received of this proceeding against the King at the instance of Our Soveraign then Prince of Wales residing at the Hague to them to mediate and interpose in the businesse was pitcht upon by them as the only fit person because of his relation to Cromwell who was look'd upon there as the only Author and Contriver of this mischief to be employed in a Message to him with Credential Letters from the said States whereunto was added a Blank with the Kings Signet and another of
from Hampton-Court which place was found to be too near to London for fear of a rescue in a dark and tempestuous night in November 1647. and forced to cast himself into the disloyal hands of Coll. Hamond Governour of the Isle of Wight and Brother to the most Learned and Reverend Dr. Hamond which consideration Cromwell forelaid would invite the King in his distresse to betake himself thither where we shall leave him in a most disconsolate Imprisonment the Votes of Non Addresses being not long after procured by Cromwell's Menaces to the Parliament when upon the Debate of them he declared in such like words That it was now expected by the good people of the Nation and the Army that the Parliament would come to some Resolution and Settlement as the Price of all the Blood and Treasure that had been expended in the War and that they would not now leave them to the expectation of any good from a Man whose heart God had hardned but if they did they should be forced to-look for their preservation some other way At the end of this Speech he laid his hand upon his Sword by his side as was the more observed because formerly in the same place it could not keep him from trembling when Sir Philip Stapleton a man of spirit and metal baffled him but Sir Philip and his seconds were now out of Dores Next to him spoke Ireton in the very same sense being newly chosen a recruit for the Parliament by their illegal writ of Election extolling and magnifying the valour civility and duty of the Army concluding with the same threats that if the Parliament would not settle the Kingdome without the King then they of necessity must and would So that after some Opposition the said votes passed against any further Addresse to be made to the King and now Oliver thought himself cock-sure and therefore the King Parliament and City being in his power he had no rub left to his Ambition but those Imps and Spirits of his own raising and conjuring up the Adjutators and Levellers of the Army who having conn'd their Lesson of the Agreement with the people were became most artful and skilful Governours already boasting in the Country many of which silly people they had induced to their side upon the accompt of laying all in common and in a wild Parity that the Parliament sate only during their pleasure and till a new Representative then a forming should take upon them the Government nor did they more dutifully respect and behave themselves to their Officers whom they counted as peices of the Prerogative Military therefore decried all Courts and Counsells of them which began to separate and act by themselves without the mixture of their Adjutators This exorbitancy and heigth of the Soldiery was altogether as destructive to Cromwell now he had done his work with them for this time as any of the other 3 Interests but desperate diseases must have desperate Cures for immediately the Headquarters being then at Ware Coll. Eyer a Leveller was seised and imprisoned and one Arnold a private Soldier shot to death for promoting the former solemn Engagement and Agreement of the People and after that He cashiered all such who favoured the same and to fan and cull out the rest he proceeded to disband 20 out of a Troop by which the most of that party were totally excluded the like was done in London by the Imprisonment of Mr. Prince and others of the same Faction Having for the present still'd that commotion in the Army the danger of a second war seemed a fresh to threaten the Juncto and Cromwell by reason of their injurious Votes of Non-Addresse and therefore to prevent so potent and formidable a Conjunction of all Interests and Parties against him He now by his Party and Emissaries proposeth an accommodation between the Presbyterians and Independents and a way and means whereby they may be so united at the motion of this in the House of Commons a Gentleman replyed That if there were any such persons who had any private Interest different from the publique and under the distinction of parties had prejudiced the Kingdome he was not fit to be a Member of that House Neverthelesse it was insisted on that the House would declare and ratifie their Votes of nulling and making void the Votes that passed in the absence of the Speakers that fled into the Army in 1647. and their Engagement of adhering to the Army which were tacitly confessed to be then unduly procured so fearful and doubtful was he again of the issue of those new Troubles he foresee would fall out and therefore would shelter himself and justifie his Actions by the Authority he had so often bafled The same Artifices he used likewise to the City offering them now upon the like condition of uniting Interests the freedome of their Lord Maior and Aldermen viz. Sir John Gayr Alderman Langham Alderman Adams and others and the setting up again their Posts and Chains but when they having already treated and engaged with the Scots then in preparation for a March into England refused to give ear to any propositions or terms resenting the base affronts He and the Army had put upon them He questioned his Argent Glover who gave him Commission to make any such Overtures and in great rage turned him out of his Service The danger still increasing he suffered the Lords as namely the Earls of Suffolk Lincoln Lord Maynard Willoughby c. whom he had impeached of High Treason after his March into London to be freed from their Imprisonment in the Tower and with them the Maior and Aldermen aforesaid and as a further satisfaction and submission to the Authority of the Parliament A Declaration of the Army is published wherein they bewail their former miscarriages and misdemeanors towards the Parliament their medling with the civil power and that force and violence they had offered to the two Houses and in Conclusion promise faithfully and dutifully to acquiesce in their Resolutions and Wisdom With this Hocus Pocus deluding the Presbyterian party into a kind of stupid neutrality or rather worse while yet they would by no means comply with the King untill Polyphemus Courtesie appeared in this Cromwellian Craft The Scots under Duke Hamilton having entred England and divers Insurrections happening in England and Wales according as was expected Cromwell was ordered by the Parliament to attend the first of them which was the Welch and Northern Armies though the Scots delayed their March so long till all was neer lost in England and after a short Siege upon the Defeat at St. Pagons which was atcheived in his absence took in Tenby-Castle Pembroke Castle held out a while longer thence he marched for Lancashire having joyned with Major General Lambert who attended the motion of the Scotch Army and at Preston his forces amounting to few more then 9000 Men whereas the Scots were not lesse then 20000 gave Duke Hamilton Battle
under 9. The chief Officers of Seate as Chancellors Keepers of the Great Seal c. to be approved of by Parliament 10. That his Highnesse would encourage a Godly Ministry in these Nations and that such as do revile or disturb them in the Worship of God may be punished according to Law and where the Laws are defective new ones to be made in that behalf 11. That the Protestant Christian Religion and no other and that a confession of Faith be agreed upon and recommended to the people of these Nations and none be permitted by words or writings to revile or repreach the said Confession of Faith c. Which he having Signed declared his acceptance in there words That he came thither that day not as to a Triumph but with the most serious thoughts that ever he had in all his life being to undertake one of the greatest burthens that ever was laid upon the back of any humane creature so that without the support of the Almighty he must sink under the weight of it to the damage and prejudice of these Nations This being so he must ask help of the Parliament and of those that fear God that by their Prayers he might receive assistance from God for nothing else could enable him to the discharge of so great a duty and trust That seeing this is but an Introduction to the carrying on of the Government of these Nations and there being many things which cannot be supplied without the assistance of the Parliament it was his duty to ask their help in them not that he doubted for the same Spirit that had led the Parliament to this would easily suggest the same to them For his part nothing would have induced him to take this unsupportable burthen to flesh and blood but that he had seen in the Parliament a great care in doing those things which might really answer the ends that were engaged for and make clearly for the Liberty of the Nations and for the Interest and preservation of all such as fear God under various forms And if these Nations be not thankful to them for their care therein it will fall as a sin on their heads Yet there are some things wanting that tend to reformation to the discountenancing vice and encouragement of virtue but he spake not this as in the least doubting their progress but as one that doth heartily desire to the end God may Crown their work that in their own time and with what speed they judge fit these things may be provided for There remained only the Solemnity of the Inauguration or Investiture which being agreed upon by the Committee and the Protector was by the Parliament appointed to be performed in Westminster-hall where at the upper end thereof there was an Ascent raised where a Chair and Canopy of State was set and a Table with another Chair for the Speaker with Seats built Scaffold-wise for the Parliament on both sides and places below for the Aldermen of London and the like All which being in a readiness the Protector came out of a Room adjoyning to the Lords House and in this order proceeded into the Hall First went his Gentlemen then a Herald next the Aldermen another Herald the Attorney General then the Judges of whom Serjeant Hill was one being made a Baron of the Exchequer June 16. then Norroy the Lord Commissioners of the Treasury and the Seal carried by Commissioner Fiennes then Garter and after him the Earl of Warwick with the Sword born before the Protector Bare headed the Lord Mayor Tichborn carrying the City Sword being the special of Coaks of the Protector by his left hand Being seated in his Chair on the left Hand whereof stood the said Titchborn and the Dutch Ambassador the French Ambassador and the Earl of Warwick on the Right next behind him stood his Sons Richard Fleetwood Cleypoole and the Privy Council upon a lower descent stood the Lord Viscount Lisle Lords Montague and Whitlock with drawn Swords Then the Speaker Sir Thomas Widdrington in the name of the Parliament presented to him a Robe of Purple-Velvet a Bible a Sword and a Scepter at the Delivery of these things the Speaker made a short Comment upon them to the Protector which he divided into four parts as followeth 1. The Robe of Purple This is an Emblem of Magistracy and imports Righteousness and Justice When you have put on this Vestment I may say you are a Gown-man This Robe is of a mixt colour to shew the mixture of Justice and Mercy Indeed a Magistrate must have two hands Plectentem amplectentem to cherish and to punish 2. The Bible it is a Book that contains the Holy Scriptures in which you have the happinesse to be well vers'd This Book of Life consists of two Testaments the Old and New the first shews Christum Velatum the second Christum Revelatum Christ vailed and revealed it is a Pook of Books and doth contain both Precepts and Examples for good Government 3. Here is a Scepter not unlike a Staff for you are to be a Staff to the weak and poor it is of ancient use in this kind It 's said in Scripture that The Scepter shall not depart from Judah It was of the like use in other Kingdoms Homer the Greek Poet calls Kings and Princes Scepter-Bearers 4. The last thing is a Sword not a Military but Civil Sword it is a Sword rather of defence then offence not to defend your self only but your people also If I might presume to fix a Motto upon this Sword as the valiant Lord Talbot had upon his it should be this Ego sum domini Protectoris ad protegendum populum meum I am the Protectors to protect my people This Speech being ended the Speaker took the Bible and gave the Protector his Oath afterwards Mr. Manton made a prayer wherein he recommended the Protector Parliament Council the Forces by Land and Sea Government and people of the three Nations to the protection of God Which being ended the Heralds by Trumpets proclaimed his Highness Protector of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging requiring all persons to yeild him due obedience At the end of all the Protector with his Train carried by the Lord Sherrard Warwick's Nephew ahd the Lord Robert's his eldest Son returned in the same posture the Earl of Warwick sitting at one end of the Coach against him Richard his Son and Whitlock in one and the Lords Lisle and Mountague in the other Boot with Swords drawn and the Lord Claypool Master of the Horse led the Horse of Honour in rich Caparisons to White-hall The Members to the Parliament House where they prorogued their sitting to the Twentieth of January He vvas novv setled and established in his first assumed Dignity to the satisfaction of some part of the Army only Lambert vvas gravelled with that clause in it which gave the Protector power to name his Successor Whereby he savv himself deprived and frustrated