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Modern policy compleated, or, The publick actions and councels both civill and military of His Excellency the Lord Generall Monck under the generall revolutions since 1639, to 1660 / by David Lloyd.
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Lloyd, David, 1635-1692.
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Israel goe with thee for the Lord is not with Israel nor with any of the Children of Ephraim â— Chron. 25. 7. Be yee not uneâ—ually yoked with misbelievers for what fellowship hath righteousnesse with unrighteousnesse what communion hath light with darknesse 2 Cor. 6. 1. 15. 42 His Excellency resolves upon the termes proposed by the Parliament for the Irish service in the capacity of a Collonel of Foot but first he must take the engagement when usurpation hath ravished just power it usually supports it selfe with the two Pillars of Armes and Oatheâ— a good Man feareth an oath and therefore his Excellency upon mature deliberation made a promise equall to an oath for a noble soule of {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as the Persians such bonae fidei as Augustus that {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Isoc de evag. Gunther Leg. c. Its word is as strong as its oath that he would be true and faithfull to the Common-wealth without a King or House of Lords and he is not a Man that would not be faithfull to the interest Common-wealth and good of his own Nation as well without as with a King which was the primary favourable proper and significant import of that ingagement to the best judgements of that time 43 He is no sooner made sure but he is sent by that Man of dispatch O. â— into whom the old Emperour of Germany thought Gustavus Adolphus his hasty soul was got by a metempsuchosis with Reynolds and others to Chester and thence wafted over by a favourable gale immediately to Dublin and made his way resolutely through the thickest of his enemies to relieve the distressed City where they staid not long but impatient both of restraint and delay they sally out for more elbow-room with that successe that they had the pursuit of the enemy for many miles untill they came upon my Lord of Ormond's whole Army ready for an overthrow such was their confusion and disorder The honourable Lord of Ormâ—nd unhappily thus associated being betrayed to that security that he is playing at Tables and his Army and cause lyes at stake After this Victory these lower Commanders are carried about with the rapid motions of O. C. that violent first mover who upon his first arrivall Iehu-like drave furiously tovvards Trogedah vvith all his Forces took the place by storm and spared neither Man Woman nor Child Indeed throughout he vvas resolved to use the highest right and lavv of War vvhich after ages may dare to call an injury strangers were not spared for by the Law of War strangers upon an enemies ground is an enemy Philo. de judice ex vetere Oraculo Malcho excerp legis nor sacred Persons my Lord Broghil hanged a Bishop notwithstanding the common clamour for their Father in God with an haec sunt vestimâ—nta patris no native eâ—caped the severall parts justly suffering for the guilt of the whole It s lawfull to continue the punishment of a guilty Nation for one generation after its fault Arist. Pol. 7. c. 13. Liban orat de sedit Ant. Yet its the generall Law of War if yet it have any law and it be not true what that rash head blurted that martiall Law was as absurd as martiall peace Hostis sit ille et qui extra praesidia c. Liv. 37. Baldus 1. de just Bembus Hist. 7. mercy sanctuary c. are say the Souldier for the miserable rather then for the guilty venet de Asylis Thu. 1585. Cambd. Eliz. 1593. and we tooke all his Cities at that time and utterly destroyed the Men and the Women and the little ones and we left none to remaine Deut. 2. 34. Ps. 137. ult. But with this flux of blood they said they stopped a greater Sanguinis fluxuâ— diffusi venula revocamus Tert. The very report of this siege reduced all Ireland for immediately the two next Garrisons Trim and Dundalk are quitted such a pannick fear seizing upon the Souldiers that they were not able to endure a summons this successe is seconded with the taking of Werford Rosse Kingsale Corke Youghal Bandon-bridge Barrow and Duncannon Enistroge Carricke Waterford and now Cromwell no sooner seeth a Citty or an Army but he conquers it In the meane time his Excellencies particular honour was involved in that great renown of the Generall whatever glory he acquired it was as the Civilians say for his Master 44 Ireland now acknowledging a conquest in ten months for they were there but from the midle of August 1649. to the next May 1650. which ten Ages formerly durst not boast of They return by order of Parliament to England to assist them in those dangers that threatned them on every side especially from Scotland that had ingaged it selfe by a late Treaty at Breda to assist his sacred Majesty 1. In bringing the Murtherers of his late Father of blessed memory to condigâ—ne punishment 2. In recovering his royall right 45 Cromwell being to goe for Scotland the House having now concluded that the War should be offensive and my Lord Fairfax laying down his Commission makes choice of his Excellency for one of his Commanders in that desperate expedition which he willingly undergoeth when he heard the quarrel stated by Lashley upon the account of the Old Cause and not upon the account of the King whom they disowned as one sticking too close to his Fathers sins forsooth his House Friends Judging souls thought that War was for his Majesty rather then against him that Cromwell there was loyall and that it was a great courtesy for our Soveraign to be conquered least a sad successe had gained him a Kingdome with the losse of Religion Law and Liberty however his Excellency thought it unresonable to see his Native Countrey submit its Law and Religion to the sawcy imposition of a neighbour Nation that had been indeed often taught to take Lawes from us but never to give us any 46 When his Excellency was in Scotland jealous Oliver joynes with him Lambert and Okey to watch his thoughts words and actions and to check him from any designe of loyalty which he discreetly observed and therefore managed each action committed to his trust as that against the Highlanders Dundee c. with such resolution as made him beleeved cordiall to the cause and able for service and therefore advanced him to the command of Lievtenant Generall in Scotland It was his honest ambition to be eminent in every thing he undertook so he hoped at last to arrive at that power that might sway Kingdomes to a compliance with his Majesties interest as successfully as he saw them now swayed against it 47 And therefore when his Majesty marched for England by the way of Carlisle he refused to follow him and chose rather to compleat former victories in Scotland as Commander in chiefe then to gaine new ones in England under Oliver Therefore waiting anxiously betwen hope and feare upon his Majesties successe in England he took care
City at Guild-Hall peremptorily demands the Assessement by an order from the Parliament and the Council of State to which demand proceeding from him beyond expectation the City after a little respit for extasy and amazement return this answer In Magna Charta confirmed by the Petition of Right and renewed by this present Parliament a day before their forcible dissolution upon the 11. of Octob. they were to pay no Taxes c. but by their consent iâ— Parliament which now they had not Yet to give no offence to the Parliament the Council of State or his Excellency desire time to consider of it and indeed those debates upon which depended the welfare of the Nation with its Liberties priveledges and properties called for time and leisure His Excellency in the mean time writes to the House to know theiâ— pleasure to which they answer that 1. He should imprison the Honourable Col. Bromfield Alder Bludworth L. C. Jackson Maâ—or Cox c. 2. That he should remove their Chaines digge up their posts and break their Gates Which strange orders were sent not only to try his Excellencys patience and obedience but to make that emnity open which was but suspected between him and the City so did Achitophel advise Absolom to ravish his Fathers Concubines before all Israel that Israel might be assured that he and his Father were enemies And his Excellency obeys them readily thereby gaining an opportunity to discover the genius of the City which he had not otherwise there known certainly to be â—o resolute for and so true to Liberty and right But the Parliament as they intended that by that imployment so offensive to the City he should weaken his Intâ—rest so they contrive that while he is busy in it he should be weakned in his power His Commission for Generalship expiring they renew it not according to his desert but impower six more of themsâ—lves to be equal with him in command that never came neer him in meâ—its according to their interest viz. Hazslerig Walton Morley c. which when his Army heared as they were not satisfied with their late imployment so much less were they satisfied with this reward the lessening of their Generals power when they might justly expect his advancement and therefore being assured of the City by a conference at the three Tunns at Guild-Hall his Excellencies Head quarters They humbly remonstrate First their sence of that violence they were commanded to offer the renowned City a violence unparraleld in our worst of daies which though they made havock of most part of the Nations yet spared the ancient City for its late performances too honourable and for its antiquity too reverend to be so abused Secondly their fear of several persons eminent in this late disturbance who had their freedome within and without the City to consult plot and design what might reduce us to our former misery Thirdly their abhorrency of a late Petition delivered in the House by Praise-God Barebone so subversive of all order and power so dangerous to all Religion worship and discipline so destructive to all Lawes Statutes and Customes that to repeat it was to confute and condemne it and all sober eyes have as soon abhorred it as seen it Fourthly Their wish that the Parliament would quickly determine their session and provide for succeeding Parliaments Which as soon as his Excellency had communicated to the Speaker by a Letter he marched to London for quarters declaring for a Free Parliament and casting himself upon the love and faithfulness of the City and Countrey that they might stand by him in the prosecution of publick good In which resolution he persisted notwithstanding 1. The flatteries of the House cajoling him with the Honour of Hampâ—on Court and his Brother the Honorable Sir Th. Clergis with the Hamper Office which was worth a 1000 l. a year .2 Their snares into which had it not been for his incomparable Lady he mighâ— have been trappanned by a dinner to which he was to be invited by the Council of State 3. their threatnings expressed in Haslerigs Speeches that breathed nothing but fire and sword In the mean time taking his quarters among the Citizens he expects patiently the issue of the Parliaments debates in answer to his last Letters to them and finding they thought of nothing but the setling of their own interest and continuing of their power he desired the messengers they sent to treat with him to delay time to procure a conference between some Members of the House and some honourable patriots that were excluded from it which was granted and had before him â—or mâ—tual information in which he judiâ—iously weighed each sides reasons and arguments being all the while silent himself and concluding with himself upon the result of the whole that the settlement intended by the hoâ—se was upon â—oundations too narrow to bear up a publike good he resolved to withdraw all force from the house and admit men of more sober moderate and therefore of a more pâ—blick spirit who would establish us upon â—ermes compâ—ehenâ—ive of every considerable interest among us making each part happy in the welfâ—re of the whole which he did upon the one and twentieth of February Cressane careat pulchra dies nota 5. Meeting the Secluded Members at White-hall and expressing himselâ— to them in a speech not delivered by himself to avoid offence but by his Secretary wherin he commended to their care 1. Religion that {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as Ari. stol 7. that first care of Magistrates it being in Platâ— and Plutarch Coagulum omnis societatis fundamentum and efficacissimum vinculum benevolae amicitiae unius dei Cultis Philo so great an awe hath Religion had alwaies upon the spirits of men prevailed with by the thoughts of eternal weal and woe that to settle it {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Iust. Mart. Apol. would be a royal work which his Excellency pâ—oposed in the most sober and moderate way imaginable between some mens too close and severe rigor whiâ—h hiâ— Excellency had diâ—countenanced in Scotland and others too loose indulgenâ—e which he checked by a publike â—islike of a Sermon preached before him at St. Pauls for that abomination that makes desolate I meane a toleration for every one to do what is good in his own eyes 2. He commends to them the State desiring them to provide for a Free and full Parliament in whose resolves he himself and the whole Nation might acquiess As soon as they sit they vote his Excellency according to agreement Lord General of all the Forces in England Scotland and Ireland which trust he managed with much discretion and faithfulness modelling his Army to a temper suitable with the designes he had in hand disarming the Phanatiques in City and Countrey in the mean time taking care to arm Loyalty while he â—ayd the Factions naked Now to let the world see