THE CHARACTER Of the late Upstart House of Lords: Together with some reflections on the Carriage and Government of His late Highness.  
By a Friend to the Good Old Cause.  
LONDON, Printed in the Year 1659.   

Courteous Reader.  
THere was formerly a Narrative published, giving thee an Account of the Choosing, Coming together, Secluding of some, and Sitting of the rest of the late Parliament( so called,) as also of the things that d●d attend them, and the Acts that were passed by them: The goodness of which Acts, with their tendency to Enslave and oppress the Nation, is sadly experienced( to the Cost and Sorrow) of not a few; For instance, First, that Wicked, Unjust, and Oppressive Act for New Buildings, under which many a Soul hath groaned; some though having in the last 16 or 18 Years past, paid twice the value of their Houses in Taxes, have thereby been forced, unless they will be plundered or cast into Prison, to pay a Years Rent more; in the cruel prosecution of which Act many sad Cases have fallen out. Secondly, the Act for the Excise imposing it for ever( with the customs) as a standing Revenue to the Crown; and letting it out to Farm, to the horrible Oppression of the People, setting up Patentees to Rule them at pleasure. Thirdly, An Act for a three Years Tax to pay the Sould●ers, where the Great ones get all, and the inferiors very little, but are behind near a year; many of them living on Tickets, whilst their great Leaders ruffle in their Gallantry: And as if that were not enough, did then Order a Three Monthes Tax to be paid twice over. And to name but one more( for brevity sake) Fourthly, an Act for a High Court( so called) of Justice, for the Preservation of the Protectors Person, as if the Law and Souldiers were not as sufficient to protect him now, as when he was General, but an Arbitrary and Illegal Court must be erected in a time of Peace, to take away the Lives of persons at their pleasure.  
There is likewise in that Na rative a Catalogue, or an Account given of One hundred eighty two of the Members of that unworthy Assembly, who were Sons, Kinsmen, Servants, and otherwise engaged unto, and had Places of Profit, Officers, salaries, 
* Which amounts unto in the whole, one million sixteen thousand three hundred and seventeen pounds sixteen shillings and eight pence per An. according to the favourablest computation by the former Narrative, or Book of Rates. As it was said there, so, here: If there be any mistakes, they are desired who best know, to rectify them; if not, then what is here mentioned may be taken for granted. Nehemiah did not eat the bread of the governor; why must so great salaries be continued to them who have gotten so much already. The Taxes raised from the people to pay this, doth ruin thousands.  and Advantages under the Protector,( so called) whereby it doth appear, what fine Suckers they are of the Riches and fatness of this Common-wealth, and how unlikely they were, being so backed for his Interest, and so well seasoned with the Salt of his Palace,( Ezra 4.14.) to bring forth the so much prayed, engaged, fought, and fl●d for Rights and Liberties of the People. After some Queries proposed thereupon, follows a Catalogue of the Kinglings, or the Names of those Seventy persons,( most of them being the Protectors Kinsmen, and Sallary-men) that voted for Kingship, with the Counties for which they served, that so they may be remembered, and called to an account hereafter. After this, there is mentioned, how that the New Government, of the Humble Petition and Advice, pretended by them to be then settled, was carried in the House and by three Voices, fifty three against fifty; as also that it was contrary to the Desires of the good people of the Nation, but not being able at that time to get the Names of those fifty three persons, who also hig●ly deserve to be taken notice of, they were not therein ment●oned.  
You have also those Members of that Assembly, who though they gave not their Vote either for Kingship, or the then Government by the Humble Petition and Advice, but pretended to be against, and dissatisfaction with both, sharply, and justly reproved, for betraying the Trust committed to them by the People. First, for being so Sneaking, and Cowardly in their Spirits, as to suffer their Fellow Members to be Secluded from them; and the Council, who had nothing to do with it, so to intrenc● upon their privileges, as to let none sit but whom they approved of. Secondly, For being so ready to comply to Sit, or Adjourn at the Protectors pleasure, as if they were his Servants, and not he theirs. Thirdly, That when they saw the Liberties of the People endeavoureed to be violated afresh by the Kinglings, and also really given away by the afore-mentioned fifty three persons, who petitioned and advised the Protector( so called) to take the Government upon him, and to choose his successor; they did not Cry out, Protest, Declare against, and withdraw from them, which being their duty they ought to have done; in doing whereof, those unparalleled wickednesses would of necessity have fallen to the ground: but instead thereof went on with them, stifling their own Consciences, and endeavouring to satisfy their oppressed Brethren, by saying, He had not the Title of King; as if all the evil; Oppression, and Arbitrarinesse lay in that; when as at the same time, he hath the same, and no less power, then if he had the Title, and were called King. Yea, a far greater Power then what cost so much Blood and Treasure, to oppose in the late King; and that these slight Pretences would not be Plea sufficient to excuse them, in the day of their Account for so doing. After which, some general Queries being soberly proposed as a close to the whole, is the Conclusion of that Narrative.  
Now here thou wilt find related some of the most remarkable Passages which occurred in their second Session, with the end, and dissolution of the whole, after two or three Weeks sitting. As also something of another House,( though nameless yet) covertly intended for a House of Lords, with a Description of forty three of them, by all which thou mayest be able in some measure to resolve thy thoughts concerning the change of the Cause and Principles, which these great Masters formerly carried on, and profess to do so still. It is notoriously known how even the chief of them sometime said, It would never be well, neither should we ever see good Dayes, whilst there was one Lord left in England, nor until you ( speaking so to him) my Lord of Manchester be called Mr. Montague: yet now new Lords must he made by the dozens. What Declaring, what Fighting hath there been? and how much Blood and Treasure spent against a Negative voice, in the King and Lords? Yet now, not onely the Protector himself, forsooth, but all his new upstart Lords, such as were our equals, or it may be below us, must Lord it over us with their No, to our I. Is not the World grown mad? were there ever such wonders before? To fancy what after Ages will think of these men, who pretend to be of the Saints of these times, will never make a person melancholy that shall be serious in it. Not to trouble thee further, eye God more, and Men less, and that will stay and quiet thy Spirit: and say to thyself as the Psalmist did,( Psal. 62.5, 9.) My soul wait thou onely upon God, for my expectation is from him. Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie.   

A Second Narrative of the late Parliament( so called) giving an Account of their second Meeting, and the things transacted by them; as also their Dissolution after two or three weeks Sitting. With an Account of three and forty of their Names, who in the interval of the Adjournment were taken out of the House, and others that sate in the Other House, so greatly designed for a House of Lords: with a Brief Character and Description of them.  
THe late Parliament( so called) having made their new model of Government, called The Humble Petition and Advice, before they had well licked their Golden Calf, or given the Brat of their Brain a Name, were called upon to Adjourn, and break up: And so making more hast then good speed, they left things very raw and imperfect, which afterwards occasioned great Contests, and in fine, their Dissolution.  
According to the time they Adjourned unto, they Assemble again, being January 23. 1657. where after the usual Solemnities of Devotion performed, they repair to the House, where they found some of their Number Commissioned, and empowered by the Protector, to swear them. The Copy of which Oath here followeth.  

The Oath.  
I do in the presence, and by the Name of God Almighty, Promise and Swear, That to the utmost of my power in my place, I will uphold and maintain the true Reformed Protestant Christian Religion in the power thereof, as it is contained in the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, and encourage the Profession and Professors of the same: And that I will be true and faithful to the Lord 
† Can those be faithful to the Rights and Liberties of the People, who swear to be faithful to the Government in a single Person, which our too sad experience tells us, so naturally tends to destroy them? Do not those who so swear, undertake to uphold that in the Protector which cost so much Blood and Treasure to oppose, as Antichristian and Tyrannical in the King? Or, Is that a lawful Authority which contrary to all Presidents and privileges of Parliament, was carried but by three Voices of them that was permitted to sit, there being at the same time at least 80. of the Members purposely kept out till that Act was past? Ought not things to be preached into, and set right upon this account: for that( Mat. 6.24.) No man can serve two masters.  Protector of the Common-wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging, as Chief Magistrate thereof: And shall not contrive, design, or attempt any thing against the Person, or lawful Authority of the Lord Protector; and shall endeavour as much as in me lies, as a Member of Parliament, the Preservation of the Rights, and Liberties of the People.   
Which having taken, and coming into the House, they find not onely some of their Fellow 
* To the other House they were gone for greater preferment.  Members, but their old Servant and Clerk, Mr. Scobel gone, and a new one put in his room, whose name is Smith, which with biting a little the Lip, and something in way of compliment, as with a Salvo of their Rights and privileges, they for quietness sake Vote him( so put upon them) to be their Clerk, and then settled themselves in a posture for their future work. And the first thing they undertake, is to keep a Day of Prayer in their House, which accordingly they did; and with great prudence, ploughing with an Ox and an ass together, the Presbyters and Independents being both called to Officiate.  
The Other House, who would fain have the Honour to be called Lords, or rather a House of Lords, did likewise in their House pray at the same time with much Devotion, and did afterwards agree to sand to the Parliament,( or as they would have them again called, the House of Commons) by Baron Hill and sergeant Windham,( after the manner of the House of Peers formerly) to declare their Message, viz. That the House of Lords, or the Lords of the other House had sent unto them, to desire their joining with them in a Petition or Message to the Protector, That a Day of Prayer 
* In nomine Domini incipit omne malum.  and Humiliation might be appointed through the whole Common-weath.  
Which Message begot very high Debates, and sharp Speeches from many that were not at the making this tame and imperfect model, so as the aforesaid Messengers were fain to wait a long time; but at length got this Answer, viz. That they would return an Answer by Messengers of their own.  
The House filling daily, and many of those that had been secluded in the former Session coming in, the Face of things in the House were in a great measure changed, another Spirit appearing in them then before, insomuch, that many made question of the things that were formerly done; some speaking at a high rate in behalf of the Rights of the English Free People, and against the Wrongs and Injuries that had been done unto them. This being done day by day, and the House not agreeing what to call that Other House, which was as it were a nameless Infant, and fain would be name the House of Lords, was the greatest part of their work, save that now and then, some little Matters came under Debate, as the Reviving and perfecting their committees, and Reading some former Bills. The Lord Graven's Case also was taken in, and the Council on both parts heard at the Bar of the House, with some other little Matters, that passed; but the greatest part of time that was spent in the House,( whilst sitting) was in Considering and Debating what they should call the Other House.  
Towards the end of their sitting, there came another Message from the Other House, after the same manner as before, Desiring their joynning with them, in moving the Protector to Order, that the Papists, and such as had been in arms under the late King, might be exiled the City, and put out of the Lines of Communication &c. This Message being also designed as a shooing-horn, to draw on their owning of them, received a like Answer as did the former.  
As for the Other House( who called themselves the House of Lords) they spent their time in little Matters, such as choosing of Committees, and among other things, to consider of the privileges and Jurisdiction of their House,( good wise souls) before they knew what their House was, or should be called.  
About which time also, a Petition was preparing, by some faithful Friends to the good Old Cause, in, and about the City of London, which was afterward Printed, and signed with many thousand Hands: which Petition makes mention of the several Particulars that were the Grounds of Contest between the late King, and Parliament, and the good People of the Nation. And prayeth, The settling these good things fought for, as the Reward and Fruit of the Blood and Treasure so greatly expended in the late Wars, &c. This Petition was ready to be presented to the Parliament( in a peaceable way) by the hands of about twenty in the name of the rest, desiring to submit the issue thereof to God, and the Wisdom of that Assembly. The Court hearing of it, were so affrighted, as they began to consider how they might quell and put a stop to that honest Spirit, which so appeared against them; the Protector( in the mean while) calling them Traytors, and Seditious persons, &c. threatening to cut their skulls, and to tread them down as mire in the streets, &c. And turning out 
† As mayor Packer, Mr. Kiffin, and others, by endeavouring to promote the apostasy at its first Rise, hath occasioned many baptized persons, and others, simply to wander after the Beast. They now seeing their error, ought they not to declare it to the people, as also to stir them up to keep close with more refinednesse in their Spirits to the good Old Cause, and to be for no single Person whatsoever, till he comes, whose Right it is, Ezek. 21 26.  mayor Packer, and most of the honestest Officers of his Regiment of Horse, for refusing to serve his Lust therein. And apprehendsng that nothing could do it, but a speedy dissolving the Parliament, they put on Resolutions accordingly, onely, waited for a convenient opportunity. But something happening that morning, that put the Protector into a Rage and Passion, near unto madness,( as those at White-Hall can witness) he gets into a Coach, and to the Other House he comes, and sends for his son Fleetwood, Mr. Nathaniel Fines, and some others, acquainting them what his Purpose and Resolution was, and what he came to do,( who as it's said) earnestly endeavoured to dissuade him from it; but he refused to harken, and in great passion swore By the living God he would dissolve them. And so going into the House, and sending the Black Rod with a Message, to call the Parliament to come unto him, He with laying great blame upon them, and charging them with great Crimes, and Magnifying of himself( as his manner is) dissolved them. And this was the fourth Parliament broken by him in five years.  
Thus the Two Houses fell and perished together; their Father, their good Father, knocking his Children on the Head, and killing of them, because they were not towardly, but did wrangle one with another; but what hath he gained thereby? Solomon the wise saith, Prov. 14.1. Every wise woman buildeth her house, but the foolish plucketh it down with her own hands.  

Upon the whole, it is Humbly Queried as followeth, viz.  
First, Whether there may not very plainly be red and perceived, a Hand of Displeasure from the Almighty, blinding the eyes, and infatuing the understandings of those unworthy persons, who( 
* 1 Kings 16.34.  Hiel like( would have built Jericho again,( to wit) fallen Monarchy in a single Person and a House of Lords, with their Negative voice over the good people of these Lands) so as to cause, or suffer them to do their work by halves? and to rise, and leave so Lame, nameless, and Insignificant their New model of the Humble Petition and Advice,( alias Instrument of Bondage to the English Nation.) Let the Curse of Confusion that attended the Builders of 
Gen. 11.7, 9.  Babel be considered of.  
Secondly, Whether those so very wise Gentlemen, who saw it so necessary, and ventured so high, and took so much pains, to bring in again, and anew restore fallen Monarchy and Kingship in these Lands, could according to the rules of common reason and understanding of men, imagine and conclude, That the Gentlemen who had formerly been so wronged, abused, and exasperated by them, in being kept out of the House, would be so easy and tame, as presently, without any more ado, address themselves to lick their new Golden Calf, and nurse up that Babylonish, Antichristian Brat, they had no hand in, but were against the begetting of? And whether it doth not speak out a very great weakness in their Councils, and a marvelous shallowness in the Protector, his Council, and whole number concerned in that Design, in making no better provision before-hand, and seeing no further into the ensuing Danger, so likely to attend their whole Device, and the nameless Infant of the Other House, which they would have to be christened, and Called by the Name of Lords.  
Thirdly, Whether the good people of this Nation have not cause for e●er as to abhor the Memory of the afore-mentioned back-sliding persons, so that Parliament( so called) in the first Session of it before their Adjourning, that of their own Heads, and contrary to their Engagement to the 
* The first Instrument is not hereby owned, but abhorred as much as the latter, though I thus speak.  Instrument of Government; by virtue whereof they sate at first, and without consulting the respective Counties for whom they served, or so much as one Petition delivered to them for that purpose, changed the Government, and made one worse, harder, and more grievous to be born, then that they put away; so fastening their new Iron yoke upon the Necks of the good People of this Land, settling great Taxes, with the customs and Excise for ever, to keep this Yoke upon them?  
Fourthly, Whether those Gentlemen kept out in the first Sitting, when those hard things were transacted, and afterwards coming in, and being present in the second Meeting, notwithstanding the so great Rep●oach and Dirt cast on them by the Court, are not highly to be honoured and esteemed, for appearing and standing so far as they did, for Right, and Freedom, and against the Bondages, which contrary to engagements, Covenants, and Promises, were put upon the good People of this Land? As well as to be blamed, not onely for not declaring at their first Seclusion, to inform the People of the wrong and injury done unto them; But also, when afterward they were so Arbitrarily and Tyrannically dissolved, with the rest of their unworthy Brethren, they took it so patiently, and went so tamely home, and did not in the very time of the Action, Protest and Declare against the Tyrant, and then retire into their places,( from whence they ought not to have stirred at first) and call him to the Bar, or otherwise proceeded against him for so doing? Had it not been suitable to, and well becoming that noble Commonwealth-Spirit( so much pretended to) thus to have assayed, though they had fallen in it? And whether the Army in Honesty, Conscience and Duty, their former Declarations and engagements considered, ought not to have assisted them therein, as well as they did the long Parliament against the King and his Courtiers, upon the like account? Doth not the loud cries of the Souls of the Saints 
* Rev. 6.9, 10.  under the Altar, slain for the Testimony which they held in their Day, as also the blood of the Saints and others slain in the late Wars, and the Sufferings of our dear Brethren in Prisons and Banishments, call for this their Testimony also? If so; Ought not this honest word of Reproof for what is past, and of excitation for the future to take place?  
Fifthly, But since things were as they were, and as it seems could be no better, whether all good People in these Nations, have not great cause exceedingly to bless and praise the Lord?( though they owe little to the Instrument) who( Ashur-like had other ends) that the late Parliament( so called) was dissolved; who were many of them, such Mercenary, Salary, and self-interested men, as in all probability, had they continued much longer, would have over-voted the Lovers of Freedom, and so have perfected their Instrument of Bondage, and riveted it on the Necks of the good People for ever by a Law, and thereby made them Vassals and Slaves perpetually. But hitherto the Lord hath in a great measure frustrated their wicked Device, blessed be his holy Name.  
Sixthly, Whether the Protector( so called) be not a great destroyer of the Rights and Liberties of the English Nation? for hath he not engrossed the whole power of the Militia into his own hand? The Right also of Property? Power of judging all matters of the highest and greatest Concernment? And doth he not take on him to be sole Judge of Peace and War, of Calling and Dissolving Parliaments? Raising Money without Consent in Parliament? Imprisoning persons without due form of Law, and keeping them in Durance at pleasure; using the Militia in his own hand against the good people, in these fore-named things, and against their Representers in Parliament.  
Seventhly, Whether the Protector, and the Great men his Confederates, be not rather to be termed fanatic, Whimsical and Sickbrain'd, then those,( who remaining firm to, and being more refined in their former, good, and honest Principles, and will upon no account be drawn to desert the good Old Cause) they account and call so? And whether this unsettlednesse in their Government, and changing both it and their Principles, in so short a time; and going so diametrically contrary to their former honest Protestations, Declarations, Sermons, and Actings, doth not in the view of all the world, Declare them so to be?  
Eighthly, Whether the Protector( so called) be not that himself which he untruly charged upon the Members turned out of the Little Parliament( so called) viz. A destroyer of Magistracy and Ministry? Of Magistracy, in breaking four Parliaments in five Years; and pulling up by the roots, what in him lieth, the very Basis and Foundation of all just Power, to wit, the Interest of the good People of this Commonwealth; making himself, and his own Will and Lust, the Basis and Foundation thereof? And doth he not at his pleasure suppress and destroy all Military and Civill Power, and Governours that submit not thereunto? Is he not likewise a great destroyer of ministry, in taking from them their Religious, or Divine Capacities, putting them into that of Lay or Common? and accordingly, in a professed way, preferring them to places of Advantage by the triers.  
Ninthly, Whether the Protector be so wise and understanding, so tender and careful of the Common Interest( as is pretended to) above all others whatsoever? yea, above and beyond the four Parliaments he hath dissolved? And may it not be inquired how he came to this great height of Knowle●ge and absolute understanding, seeing there are very many worthy Patriots, sometimes his Equals( at least) of as high a Discent, of as good breeding, of as great Parts, of as fair an Interest, as also as well versed in Government as himself? Whether it may not be wondered at, that he should be so exceeding wise, and tender above all, even above Parliaments themselves.  
Tenthly, Whether Sir Henry Vane, mayor general Harrison, the late President Bradshaw, Sir Arthur Haslerigg, Lieutenant General Ludlow. with hundreds more of worthy Patriots, that have ventured far in their Countreys Cause, for Justice and Freedom, may not rationally be thought to be as careful and tender of the good of their Country as the Protector?  
Eleventhly, Whether it doth not rankly savour of high Pride and Arrogancy in the Protector( so called) to set up his Sense and Judgement, as the standard for the whole Nation, even Parliaments themselves? And whether thus to do, be not the sad fruit of Enthusaisme, one of the great errors of this day and time?  
Twelfthly, Whether the Protector being so highly conceited of his own understanding, so changeable and uncertain in his Principles and Resolutions, so given up to his Passion and Anger, as against all Advice and Counsel, in a condition near unto madness, to swear by the living God he would Dissolve the late Parliament, and accordingly did so, though the doing of it tended to the hazard of the Commonwealth? Whether he according to Reason, can be thought a person capable, and fit to Rule and govern this so Great, so Wise, and Noble a People?  
Thirteenthly, Whether since the Protector assumed the Government, the state and condition of this Nation be not very greatly impaired? Their Land Forces wasted and consumed at Hispaniola, Jamaica, Mardike, and elsewhere? Their Shipping lessened and diminished; their Stores and Provisions for Sea and Land expended and consumed without profit; their Magazines emptied; their Treasures wasted; their Trade in a great measure lost and decayed; and very great new Debts contracted, little of Old being satisfied? And whether all this be not the better fruit of apostasy and Treachery, and setting up a single person, as Chief Magistrate contrary to engagements: And the casting away of that Righteous Cause of Freedom, Justice, and righteousness, this Land was so engaged in?  
Lastly, Whether the Protector( so called) will not in all likelihood dissolve the next Parliament also, if they begin to question and make Debates of former Transactions, and do not presently without any disputing, proceed to perfect the new model, of the Humble Petition and Advice? What assurance shall be given to the Countries and Cities that shall choose, or to the Gentlemen chosen, that they shall not be served as those before were? And whether, if the honest Citizens shall begin to make ready their former sober, and very worthy Petition, or one of the like natute, it will not be looked at again, as a Crime little less then Treason at the Court, and become a means of sudden Dissolution to the next Parliament also? Alas for poor England! What will become of thee in the end? How hast thou lost thyself and thy good Old Cause? And whither will these Masters of Bondage carry t●ee?   

A List of their Names who were taken out of the House, and others:( being 
* All of them, but four, are salary men, sons, kinsmen, and otherwise engaged to the Protector, and allied to his Confederate.  forty three in number) that sate in the Other House, so greatly designed for a House of Lords; with a brief Description of their Merits and Deserts: whereby it may easily appear, how fit they are to be called( as they call themselves) Lords; as also being so very deserving, what pity it is they should not have a Negative voice over the free People of this Commonwealth.  
1. Richard cromwell, eldest Son of the Protector( so called,) a person of great Worth and Merit, and well skilled in Hawking, Hunting, Horse-racing, with other sports and pastimes; one whose Undertakings, Hazards, and Services for the Cause, cannot well be numbered or set forth, unless the drinking of King Charles's, or( as is so commonly spoken) his Fathers Landlords health; whose Abilities in praying and Preaching, and Love to the Sectaries, being much like his Cousin Dick Ingoldsby's, and he so very likely to be his Fathers successor, and to inherit his noble virtues, in being the light of the eyes, and breath of the Nostrils of the old Heathenish Popish Laws and Customs of the Nation( especially among the Learned) the University of Oxford have therefore thought fit( he being also no very good Scholar) to choose him their chancellor. And though he was not judged meet( not having a Spirit of Government for it) to have a Command in the Army when there was fighting, or honest and wise enough to be one of the little Parliament, yet is he become a Colonel of Horse now fighting is over; as also taken in to be one of the Protectors Council, and one of the Other House, and to have the First Negative voice over the good People of this Commonwealth, being in so hopeful a way to have the great Negative voice over the whole, after his Fathers Death.  
2. Commissioner Fiennes, Son of the Lord Say, a Member sometime of the long Parliament, and then a colonel under the Earl of Essex, had the command and keeping of Bristol, bu● gave it up cowardly,( as it's said) for which he had like to have lost his head; he being a lover of Kingship and Monarchy( as well as his Father) was taken in by the Protector at his first setting up, to be one of his Council, and made Commissioner of the great Seal, as also Keeper of the Privy-Seal, whereby his Interest and Revenue is raised from two or three hundred per annum, to two 
(a) As saith the Book of Rates, or former Narrative.  or three thousand, and more: And for his Merits and Greatness,( being after the old mode) he was taken out of the late Parliament, to be the Mouth of the Protector in that Other House, and so is fit, no question, to have the second Negative voice over the good People of these Lands.  
3. Henry laurence, a Gentleman of a Courtly Breed, and a good Trencher Man; who when the Bishops ruffled in their pride and Tyranny, went over to Holland, afterwards came back, and became a Member of the Long Parliame●t; fell off at the beheading of the late King and change of the Government, for which the Protector( then Lievtenant-General) with great Zeal declared, That a Neutral Spirit was more to be abhorred then a Cavalier Spirit, and that such men as he, were not fit to be used in such a day as that, when God was cutting down Kingship root and branch; yet came in play again( upon design) in the Little Parliament, and contributed much to the dissolving of them, as also setting up the Protector, and settling the Instrument of Government and a single Person, affirming, That other foundation could no man lay. For which worthy Services, and as a Snare or Bait to win over, or at least quiet the baptized people,( himself being under that Ordinance) he was made and continued President of the Protector's Council, where he hath signed many an Arbitrary and Illegal Warrant, for the carrying of honest faithful men to prisons and Exile without cause, unless their not apostatising with them from just and honest principles. His Merits are great and many, being every way thorough-paced, and a great Adorer of Kingship; so as he deserveth, no doubt, and is every way fit, to be taken out of the Parliament, to have the third place of Honour, and a Negative voice in the Other House over the people of these Lands:  
4. Lievtenant-General Fleetwood, a Gentleman formerly of the Long Parliament, and a Colonel of their Army, then lieutenant General, afterward married( honest Iroton's widow) the Protectors eldest Daughter: mayor General Lambert being put by, by the Parliament from going over to Ireland as Lord Lievt●nant, it savouring too much of Monarchy, and being not willing to accept of a lower Title, he was sent over thither under the Title of Lord Deputy in his room, where he continued about three years; and to put a check upon those godly men there, who are no Friends to Monarchy, he was sent for over again, and cajoled in to be one of the Protectors Council, as also mayor General of divers Counties in England: his Salary supposed worth 
(b) See the former Narrative.  6600 l. per anum, by all which he is become advanced to a princely Interest and Rexenue: he is one of good principles, had he kept them, and of good words like his Father-in-law, whereby he hath deceived many an honest man, and drawn them from the good Old Cause, and by that way hath greatly served the Protectors Designs. His Merits therefore are such, as he, no question, also, deserves to be taken out of the House, and made a Peer, and to have a Negative Voice in the other House, when it shall be name Lords; notwithstanding he so helped in the Army & long Parliament to throw down the House of Lords, and to destroy the Negative voice, and did fight against it in the King.  
5. Colonel Disbrow, a Gentleman or Yeoman of about sixty or seventy pounds per annum at the beginning of the Wars; who being allied to the Protector by Marriage of his Sister, he cast away his Spade and took a Sword, and rise with him in the Wars, and in like manner in the principles of Justice and Freedom, advanced his Interest very much: if he were not of the Long Parliament, he was of the Little One, which he helped to break. Being grown considerable, he cast away the Principles by which he rise, and took on principles of Violence and Tyranny, and helped to set up the Protector; 
(f) His Salary 3236 l. per annum See former Narrative, or book of Rates.  for which he was made one of his Council, and one of the ( c) Generals at Sea, and hath a princely command at Land, being mayor General of divers Counties in the West, as also one of the Lords of the Cinque-Ports. His Interest and Greatness being so far advanced, his Merits must needs be great, and he every way fit to be taken out of the House, and put into the Other House, with a Negative voice over the good people, for that with his Sword he can set up that again in the Protector and himself, which before he cut down in the King and Lords.  
6. Lord Viscount Lisle, Eldest Son of the Earl of Leicester, he was of the long Parliament to the Last, & at the change of Government, and making Laws of Treason against a s ngle persons Rule, and, no question, concurred with the rest therein: he was also of the Little Parliament, and of all the Parliaments since; was all along of the Protector's ( d) Council, and was never to seek; 
(g) Salary 1000 l. per ●●num.  who having learned so much by changing with every Change, and keeping still( like his Father-in Law the Earl of Salisbury, and Peter Sterry) on that side which hath proved Trump, nothing need farther be said of his fitness,( being such a man of 
(e) Ask his late Wifes Sister, the Lady Sands  principles) to be taken out of the Parliament to have a settled Negative Voice in the Other House over all the good people of these Lands, he being a Lord of the old Stamp already, and in time so likely to become a Peer.  
7. Sir Gilbert Pickering, Knight of the old Stamp, and of a considerable Revenue in Northampton-shire, one of the Long Parliament, and a great stickler in the change of the Government from Kingly to that of a Commonwealth; helped to make those Laws of Treason against Kingship, hath also changed with all changes that have been since: he was one of the little Parliament, and helped to break it, as also of all the Parliaments since, is one of the Protectors 
(f) His Salary 1000 l. per annum besides his other places.  Council; and, as if he had been pined to his Sleeve, was never to seek, is become high Steward of Westminster; and being so finical, spruce, and like an old Courtier, is made Lord Chamberlane of the Protector's household or Court: so that he may well be counted fit and worthy to be taken out of the House, to have a Negative Voice in the Other House, though he helped to destroy it in the King and Lords. There are more besides him, that make themselves transgressors, by building again the things which they once destroyed.  
8. Walter Strickland, sometime Agent or ambassador to the Dutch in the Low-countrys from the long Parliament, and a good friend of theirs; at length became a Member of that Parliament; was also of the little Parliament, which he helped to break: was of the Parliament since, and is now of the Protectors 
(g) Salary 1000 l. per annum, besides other places  Council: he is one that can serve a Commonwealth and also a Prince, so he may serve himself and his own ends by it; who having so greatly profited by attending the Hogan Mogans, and become so expert in the Ceremony Postures, and thereby so apt like an Ape( with his brother Sir Gilbert and the President) to imitate or act the part of an old Courtier in the new Court, was made Captain General of the Protector's Magpye or Gray-Coated Foot-guard in White hall( as the Earl of Holland formerly to the King:) who being every way of such worth and Merits, no question can be made, or exceptions had against his fitness to be taken out of the Parliament, to exercise a Negative Voice in the Other House over the people of this Commonwealth.  
9. Sir charles Ousely, a Gentleman who came something late into play on this side, being converted from a Cavalier in a good hour. He became one of the little Parliament, which he helped to break, and to set the Protector on the Throne; for which worthy service, he was( as he well deserved) taken in to be one of his Council; was also of the Parliament since: a man of constancy and certainty in his principles, much like the wind; and although he hath done nothing for the Cause whereby to merit, yet is he counted of that worth, as to be every way fit to be taken out of the Parliament to have a Negative Voice in the Other House over such as have done most, and merited highest in the Cause,( the Protector and his fellow Negative Men excepted) and over all the Commonwealth beside.  
10. Mr. Rouse, one of the Long Parliament, and by them made Provost or Master of eton college; he abode in that Pa●liament, & helped to change the Government into a Commonwealth, and to destroy the Negative voice in the King and Lords; was also of the Little Parliament, and their Speaker; who when the good things came to be done which were formerly declared for,( and for not doing of which the Old Parliament was pretendedly dissolved) being an old Bottle, and so not fit to bear that new Wine; without putting it to the question, left the chair, and went with his fellow old Bottles to White-hall, to surrender their power to the General, which he as Speaker, and they by signing a Parchment or Paper, pretended to do. The colourable foundation for this apostasy, upon the Monarchical foundation, being thus laid and the General himself( as Protector) seated thereon, he became one of his 
(h) His Salery for both places 1600 l. per annum.  Council,( good old man) and well he deserved it; for he ventured hard: he was also of the Parliaments since; and being an aged Venerable man( all exceptions set aside) may be accounted worthy to be taken out of the House, to have a Negative voice in the Other House over all that shall question him for what he hath done, and over all the people of these Lands besides, though he would not suffer it in the King and Lords.  
11. mayor General Skippon, sometime called, The honest English Captain in the Netherlands, was afterward Captain of those of the Artillery Ground in London; who refusing to attend the King at York when he sent unto him, and adhering to the Parliament, was by them made mayor General under the Earl of Essex, under whom many an honest man lost his life in fighting for the Cause of Freedom & Justice, and against the Negative Voice of the King and Lords, whose blood surely will lie at some bodies door, and cry. He was of the Long Parliament, and helped to change the Government, and make the Laws of Treason against a single persons Rule, and was outed with them. After the Little Parliament( for endeavouring to bring forth what the old Parliament was turned out for not doing) was dissolved, he, was brought in play again by means of Philip nigh( Metrapolitan trier of White-Hall) and made one of the Protectors 
(i) His Salary for both places 1666 l. 13 s. 4 d.  Council, and mayor General of the City, in the decimating business; hath been of all Parliaments since: who being so grave and Venerable a man, his error in leading men to fight against the Kings Negative Voice, may be forgiven him, and he admitted as fit to be taken out of the House, to have a Negative voice in the Other House himself, not onely over those who have fought along with him, but all the people of these Lands besides, the rather, for that he is very aged, and not likely to exercise that power long.  
12. Colonel Sydenham, a Gentleman of not very much per annum, at the beginning of the Wars; was made governor of Melcomb Regis in the West; became one of the Long Parliament, and hath augmented his Revenue to some purpose: he helped; no question, to change the Government, and make those Laws of Treason against Kingship; was also of the Little Parliament, and of those that were since; one also of the Protector's 
(k) His Salery for both places 2000 l. per annum.  Council; hath a princely command in the Isle of Wight; is one of the Commissioners of the Treasury: by all which he is grown very great and considerable: and although he hath not been thorough-paced for Tyranny in time of Parliamen●s, yet it being forgiven him, is judged of that worth and merit as to be every way fit to be taken out of the House to have a Negative voice in the Other House over all his dependents, and all the people of these Lands besides, hoping thereby he may so be redeemed, as never to halt or stand off for the future against the Protectors Interest.  
13. Col. montague, a Gentleman of Huntingdonshire, of a fair Estate, a Colonel formerly in the Association Army, under the Earl of Manchester; where he for some time appeared( whilst Colonel Pickering lived) to be a Sectary, and for Lay-mans preaching, as also a lover of the Rights and Freedoms of the People, rather then of the principle he now acts by; but that honest Colonel dying, some other things also coming between, he became of another mind: he gave off being a soldier, about the time of the new Model, it is likely upon the same account with Colonel Russel; did not greatly approve of beheading the King, or change of the Government, or the Armies last march into Scotland, as the Protector( then General) may witness; yet after the War was ended at Worcester, and the old Parliament dissolved, he was taken in( though no change appearing from what he was before) to be of the Little Parliament, which he helped to break, and to set up Monarchy a new in the Protector, which he designedly was called to do; for which worthy setvice, he was made one of the Council, 
(l) Salary 3095 l. per annum  a Commissioner of the Treasury, and one of the Generals at Sea; he was of the Parliaments since: all which considered, none need question his fitness to be a Lord, and to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voice in the Other House, not only over the Treasury and Sea-men, but all the good people of these Lands besides.  
14. Colonel Philip Jones, his Original is from Wales: at the first of the Wars he had about 17 or 20 l. per annum, and improved his Interest upon the account of the cause; first was an Agent for some Parliamenteers to London, where gaining acquaintance, and making good use of them, he became Governor of a Garrison, then a Colonel, as also a Steward of some of the Protectors Lands in Wales, and one of the Long Parliament; after of the Little Parliament, which he helped to break; and to advance the General his Master to be Protector; for which goodly service, himself was advanced to be one of his Council, afterwards controller of his household or Court: he made Hay whilst the Sun shined, and hath improved his Interest and Revenue in Land( well 
(m) If part of the purchase money was not paid with the great bribe of about 3000 l. for which( as it's credibly reported) he hath been private'y questioned, he would do well to clear himself, being very much suspected, having gotten so great an Estate in so short a time.  gotten, no question) to 3000 l. per annum, if not more: he is also very well qualified with self-denying principles to the Protectors Will & pleasure, so as he is fit, no doubt, to rise yet higher, and to be taken out of the House to be a Lord, and to have a Negative voice in the Other House over all the people in Wales,( if they please) and over all the Commonwealth besides whether they please or not. All have not lost by the Cause, though some have.  
15. Commissioner Lisle, sometime a counsellor in the Temple, one of the Long Parliament, where he improved his interest to purpose, and bought State Lands good cheap; afterwards became a Commissioner of the Great Seal, and helped in Parliament to change the Government from Kingly to Parliamentary, or of a Commonwealth; changed it again to Kingly, or of a single person, and did swear the Protector at his first installing chief Magistrate, to the hazard of his Neck; contrary to four 
(n) See these Acts in a Book called, The Looking glass, pag. 43, 44.  Acts of Parliament, which he helped to make, with others, that make it Treason so to do. He hath lately retired for Sanctuary into Mr. rows Church, and is still Commissioner 
(o) Salary 1000 l. per annum  of the Seal; and being so very considerable in worth and merit, is also fit to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voice in the Other House over the good people, and all such who shall any way question him: he is since made President of the high Court( so called) of Justice.  
Treason never prospers: what's the reason?  
For when it prospers, none dare call it Treason.  
16. Chief Justice Glyn, sometime a counsellor at Law, and Steward of the Court at Westminster, formerly one of the Long Parliament, and that helped to bait the Earl of Strafford, and bring him to the block; was Recorder of London, and one of the Eleven Members impeached by the Army of 
(p) He helped to raise the City against the Army, and made the Speaker flee to the Army for shelter, and choose another Speaker in his room in the Kings behalf; and a great deal more.  Treason, and by that Parliament committed to the Tower: the Protector( through apostasy) assuming the Government took him up, and made him a Judge; and finding him so fit for his turn, did also make him Chief Justice of England: so that of a little man, he is grown up into a great Bulk and Interest, and of complying principles to the life; who being so very useful to advance and uphold the Protectors great Nega i've voice, is thereby, questionless, in his sense fit to be taken out of the House, 
(p) His Salary 1000 l. per annum.  and to have a Negative voice himself in the Other House, not only over the people, but over the Law, he is to be chief judge of, and in a capacity to hinder, that no good Law for the future be made for the ease of the people, or hurt of the Lawyers Trade.  
17. Bulstrode Whitlock, formerly a counsellor at Law, one of the Long Parliament, profited there, and advanced his interest very greatly; became one of the Commissioners of the great Seal; one that helped to change the Government, and make Laws, against a single persons Rule: in the time of the Little Parliament, he went ambassador to Sweden in great State; that Parliament being dissolved, he agitated there for the Protector, then came over: and when some Alteration and pretended Reformation was made in the Chancery, he stood off from being any longer a Commissioner of the Seal, and became on of the Supervisors of the treasury, at 1000 l. per annum, 
(q) See book of Rates.  Salary: he is one who is guided more by 
(r) Ask George C●ckai●  Policy then by conscience; and being on that account the more fit for the Protectors service, there is no question to be made of his worth and merit to be taken, out of the House to have a Negative voice in the Other House over the people there, though he helped to put it down in the King and Lords.  
18. William Lenthal, a counsellor at Law, made Speaker of the Long Parliament by the late King; sate it out in all Changes, weathered many a Storm and high Complaint made against him, and was too hard and weildy for all his Opposers: his policy and good hap carried him on so, as he he ended his being Speaker, with the ending of that Parliament. For the time of his sitting, he advanced his Interest and Revenue very much; became Mr. of the Rolls, purchased Lands in others names as well as his own, for fear of the worst; he was( to be sure) at the change of the Government from Kingly or of a single person and House of the Lords, as being useless, 
(s) See two Declarations of Parliament; one against the Lords, the other against Kingship.  chargeable and dangerous: As likewise at the making those Laws of Treason against a ●ing●e person for the future( not yet repealed.) The Little Parliament( where some of his Law Judicature was questioned) being dissolevd, and the Protector taking the Government upon him, he adventured to comply with the rest, notwithstanding the danger, that so he might keep his place and interest, and avoid a new Storm or Frown from the present Power. Men need not seek far, or study much to red him, and what principles he acts by. All things considered, he may, doubtless, be very fit to be Lord of the Rolls, being Master already, and to be taken out of the Parliament to be made a Lord, and to have a Negative voice in the Other House over the people, as well as over the causes in the Rolls, being so thoroughly exercised in Negatives at his own will and pleasure, as too many have sadly felt.  
19. Mr. Cleypole, Son of Mr. Cleypole in Northamptonshire, now Lord Cleypole, he long since married the Protector's Daughter; a person whose qualifications not answering those honest principles formerly so pretended to, of putting none but godly men into places of trust, was a long time kept out; but since the apostasy from those princip●es, as also the practise break in and his Father-in-law( the head thereof) came to the Protector, he was then judged good enough for that dispensation, and so taken in to be 
(t) His Salary is not well known  Master of his Horse;( as Duke Hamilton to the King.) Much need not be said of him, his Relation, as Son-in-law to the Protector, is sufficient to bespeak him every way fit to be taken out of the House, and made a Lord; and having so long time had a Negative voice over his Wife, Spring Garden, the Ducks, dear, Horses and Asses in James's Park, is the better skilled now to exercise it again in the Other House over the good people, of these Nations, without any gainsaying or dispute.  
20. Lord Faulconbridge, a Gentleman whose Relations are most cavaliers,( his Uncle formerly Governor of Newark for the King against the Parliament) was absent over the water in the time of the late Wars; a Neuter at least, if not disaffected to the cause; came back, the Wars being over, and hath lately married one of the Protectors Daughters, and was in a fair way( had things hit right) to have been one of his Council, as well as his Son-in law; however,( suitable to the times) he his lately made a Colonel of Horse: his Relation both to the old and new Monarchy, may sufficiently pled his worth and merits, not onely to have his Daughter, but also a Negative voice in the other House, over all that adventured their lives in the cause fotmrely, and over all the people of these Lands besides.  
21. Colonel Howard, his Interest( which is considerable) is in the North; his Relations there are most Papists and Caveleeres, whom he hath courted and feasted kindly, and served their Interest to purpose; 
An honest man  told some of the Council worse things of him then these.  it's no matter who lost by it: in favour to Sir Arthur Haslerigg, was made Captain of the Generals lifeguard when he was in Scotland, wherein he continued for some time in England after he was Protector; but not being a Kinsman, or a person further to be confided in, in that place, was shuffled out from thence; and to stop his mouth, made a Colonel, and, as the Book says, a mayor General, and had power of Decimation; as also made governor of Barwick, Tinmouth, and Carlisle; hath also tasted with the first, of that sweet Fountain of new honour, being made a Viscount: he was of the Little Parliament, and all the Parliaments since; is a Member of Mr. Cockains Church, and of very complying principles( no question) to the service of the new Court, from whence he received his new honour; and having with his fellow Lord Cleypole so excellent a spirit of Government over his Wife, Family, and Tenants in the Country, to be taken out of the House to have a Negative voice in the Other House, might seem of right to belong unto him, being also lorded beforehand.  
22. Lord Broghil, his Rise and Relation for means, is Ireland a Gentleman of good parts and wit, able to make a Romance, but was not looked on formerly by those of the Good Old Cause, as a person fit to be trusted with the Command of one Town or Castle in Ireland; yet he is now, by his happy change, become a goodly Convert to be consided in, and is made 
(w) His Salary 1474 l. per annum.  President of the Protectors Council in Scotland: he was of the Latter Parliaments; a great Kingling, and one that in the Last Parliament( so called) put on hard that way; wherefore it were great pity, he being also a Lord of the old Stamp, and so well gifted, if he should not be one to have a Negative voice in the Other House over the people of England and Scotland, as well as of Ireland; it being a good while since, and almost forgotten, that the Protector said, It would never be well, and we should never see good days, whilst there was one Lord left in England, and until the Earl of Manchester was called Mr. Montague.  
23. Colonel Pride, then Sir Thomas, now Lord Pride, sometime and honest Brewer in London, went out a Captain upon the account of the Cause, fought on, and in time became a Colonel, did good service in England and Scotland; for which he was well rewarded by the Parliament: with cheap Debenters of his Souldiers and others, he bought good Lands at easy rates; gave the Long Parliament a Purge, fought against the King and his Negative voice, and was against the Negative voice of his Brethren, the Lords Spiritual and temporal, being unwilling to have any in the Land; but hath now changed his mind and principles with the times, and will fight for a Negative voice in the Protector, and also have one himself and be a Lord, for he is a Knight of the new Order already, and grown very bulky and considerable: it is hard to say how the people will like it. However, his worth and merits rightly measured, will, no question, render him fit to be taken out of the House to be one of the Other House, and to have a Negative voice not onely over the Bears, but all the people of these Lands, though he did formerly so oppose and fight against it: and the Noble Lawyers will be glad of his Company and friendship, for that there is now no fear of his hanging up their Gowns by the Scotish Colours in Westminster-hall, as he formerly so greatly boasted and threatn d to do.  
24. Colonel Hewson, then Sir John, now Lord Hewson, sometime an honest shoemaker, or cobbler in London, went out a Captain upon the account of the Cause, was very zealous, fought on stoutly, and in time became a Colonel, did good service both in England and Ireland, was made a governor of Dublin, became one of the little Parliament, and of all the Parliaments since, a Knight also of the new stamp. The world being so well amended with him, and the sole so well stitched to the upper Leather, having gotten so considerable an Interest and Means, may well be counted fit to be taken out of the House to be a Lord, and to have a Negative voice in the other House over all of the gentle Craft, and Cordwayners Company in London,( if they please:) but though he be so considerable, and of such Merit in the Protectors, as also in his own esteem, not only to be a Knight, but also a Lord; yet will hardly pass for currant with the good people of these Lands, it being so far beyond the Last; neither will they think him fit( saving the Protectors pleasure) to have a Negative voice over them, though he formerly fought so stiffly against it in the King and Lords, in or●e● to set them free.  
25. Colonel Barkstead, then Sir John, now Lord Barkstead, sometime a Goldsmith in the Strand of no great rank, went out a Captain to Windsor Castle, was sometime governor of Reading, got at length to be a Colonel, then made lieutenant of the Tower by the old Parliament. The Protector( so called) finding him fit for his turn, continued him there, and also made him mayor General of Middlesex in t●e Decimating business, and assistant to mayor General Skippon in London: he is one to the life to fulfil the Protector's desires whether right or wrong, for he will dispute no demands, or make the least demur, but( in an officious way) will rather do more then his share: his principles for all Arbitrary things whatsoever being so very through, let friends or foes come to his Den, they come not amiss so he gets by it; yea, rather then fail, he will sand out his armed men to break open honest mens House, and seize their persons, and bring them to his Goal, and then at his pleasure turns them out: he hath erected a principality in the Tower, and made Laws of his own, and executes them in a marshal way over all comers; so that he hath great command, and makes men know his power: he was of the latter Parliaments; is one of the Commissioners( like the Bishop Panders in the Kings dayes) for suppressing Truth in the Printing-P●esses, an oppression once the Army so greatly complained of; is for Sanctuary gotten in to be a Member of Mr. Griffith's Church; is also knighted after the new Order: and the better to carry on the Protectors Interest among the ear-board slavish Citizens, is lately become an 
(x) His Salary 2000 l. per annum.  Alderman: so that he hath advanced his Interest and Revenue to purpose. His Titles and Capacities emblazoned, will sufficiently argue his worth and merits, and speak him out fully to be a man of the times, and every way deserving to be yet greater, and( Haman-like) to be set higher. All which considered, it would seem a wrong not to have taken him out of the House, and made him a Lord of the Other House with a Negative voice there, as well as where he is; the rather, for that he knows so well how to exercise the same, having used it so long a season, as likewise that he may obstruct and hinder whosoever shall question or desire Justice against him for his wicked doings.  
26. Colonel Ingoldsby, a Gentleman of Buckinghamshire, allied to the Protector; he betook himself to the Wars on the right side as it happened, and in time became a Colonel: a Gentleman of courage and valour, but not very famous for any great exploits, unless forbeating the honest innkeepers of Alisbury in White-hall, for which the Pro●ector committed him to the Tower, but was soon released: No great friend of the Sectaries( so called) or the cause of Freedom then fought for, as several of his then, and now Officers and Souldiers can witness; and although it be well known, and commonly reported, That he can neither pray or preach, yet complying so kindly with the new Court, and being in his principles for Kingship, as also a 
(y) His Salary 1141 l. 3. s. 3. d.  Colonel of Horse, and the Protectors Kinsman, he may well be reckoned fit to be taken out of the House and made a Lord, and to have a Negative voice in the Other House over the good people of this Land; the rather, for that he as a Gentleman, engaged and fought onely for money and honour, and nothing else.  
27. Colonel Whaly, formerly a Wollen-Draper, or petty Merchant in London, whose Shop being out of sorts, and his Cash empty, no having wherewithal to satisfy his Creditors, he fled into Scotland for refuge till the Wars b●gan, then took on him to be a soldier, whereby he hath profited greatly; was no great Zealot for the cause, but happening on the right side, he kept there, and at length was made Commissary General of the Horse: he was of these la●ter Parliaments, and being so very useful and complying to promote the Protectors designs, was made 
(y) His Salary 1141 l. 3. s. 3. d.  mayor General of two or three Counties: he is for a King or Protector, or what you will, so it be liked at Court; is with his little Brother Glyn, grown a great man, and very considerable, and wiser( as the Protector saith) then mayor general Lambert, who having with his fellow Lords Cleypole and Howard, so excellent a spirit of Government over his Wife and Family, being also a Member of 
(z) Note tha● man for what you may red in the Post-Script.  Thomas Goodwins Church, no question need be made of his merit of being every way fit to be a Lord, and to be taken out of the House to have a Negative voice in the Other House over the people, for that he never( as he saith) fought against any such thing as a Negative voice.  
28. Colonel Goff,( now Lord Goff that would be) sometime Colonel Vaughans Brothers Pre●tice,( a Salter in London) whose time being near or newly out, betook himself to be a soldier instead of setting up his Trade; went out a Quarter master of Foot, and continued in the Wars till he forgot what he fought for; in time became a Colonel, and( in the outward appearance) very zealous, and frequent in praying, preaching, and pressing for righteousness and Freedom, and highly esteemed in the Army on that account when honesty was in fashion; yet having at the same time( like his General) an evil Tincture of that spirit that loved and sought after the favour and praise of Man mor● then that of God, as by woeful experience in both of them hath since appeared, he could not further believe or persevere upon that account, but by degrees fell off: and thi● was he who with Colonel White, brought Musquetters and turn●d the honest Members left behind in the Little Parliament out of the House. Complying thus kindly with the Protectors designs and Interest, was made 
(a) His Salary 1141 l. 3. s. 3. d. besides Major-Generalship.  mayor General of Hampshire and Sussex; was of the late Parliament, hath advanced his intere●● greatly, and is in so great esteem and favour at Court, as he is judged the onely fit man to have mayor General Lamberts Place and Command, as mayor General of the Army; and having so far advanced, is in a fair way to the Protectorship hereafter, if he be not served as Lambert was. He being so very considerable a person, and of such great worth, there is no question of his deserts and fitness to be taken out of the House to be a Lord, and to have a Negative voice in the Other House; the rather, for that he never in all his life( as he saith) fought against any such thing as a single person, or a Negative voice, but onely to put down Charles, and set up Oliver, and hath his end.  
29. Colonel Berry, his Original was from the Iron Works, as a Clerk or Overseer, betook himself to the Wars on the Parliaments side, profited greatly in his undertaking, and advanced his interest very far; who though he wore not the Jesters Coat, yet being so ready to act his part, and please his General, in time he became a Colonel of Horse in the Army, afterward a mayor General of divers Counties, a command fit for a Prince, wherein he might learn to lord it in an Arbitrary way beforehand at his p●●asure; that he is of complying principles with the Court, his preferment sufficiently speaks out( neither ought any other be believed of him, or any of his brethren, without a real demonstration to the contrary) so that he may well pass for one to be a Lord, and to be taken out of the House to have a Negative voice over the people, being so far advanced and gotten out of the pit above them; and if he did formerly fight against a Negative voice, and lording it over the people, it may be forgiven him.  
30. Colonel Cooper, sometime a Shop-keeper, or Salter in Southwark, a Member of Thomas 
(b) Note him for that goodly speech he made to his new Protector.  Goodwins Church, one formerly of very high principles for common Justice and Freedom, like his brother, Titchborn. The Army then in Scotland, sending into England for faithful praying men to make Officers of, the honest people in the burrow recommended him to the General, in order to have a command; who accordingly went down, but left his Principles behind him, and espoused other; was made a Colonel at the first dash; and though he began late yet hath so well improved his interest, as he hath already gotten as many hundreds per annum, as he had hundred pounds when he left his Trade: he hath a Regiment of Foot in Scotland, and another in Ireland, where he is mayor General of the North in Venables Room, and governor of carack fergus, so as he is a ve y hopeful way to be a great man indeed: he was of the Latter Parliaments, and there is full proof that he is every way through paced and true to the new Court-interest: so that upon the whole, he also may be counted fit to be a Lord of the Other House, and to have a Negative voice over the good people in S●●●wark, if they please, and a●l the people of these Lands beside, it being the Protectors pl●asure; the rather, he being the mirror of the times for through change of principles; Alderman Tichborn and O. P. excepted.  
31. Alderman Pack, then Sir Christopher, now Lord Pack; his rise formerly was by dealing in Cloth, one at the beginning of the Long parliament, was made an Alderman, was then very discreet, and meddled little, more like a Neuter or close Malignant, then a Zealot for the cause; was a Commissioner of the Customs also Sheriff, and Lord Mayor of London n●xt after Alderman Vinor: the Protector taking on him the government, the Sunshine of the new Court pleased him, and brought him in full compliance: he was one of the Last Parliament, and zealous to re-establish Kingship in the person of the 
(c) For which good service, upon his Petition to the Protector, he discharged him from an account of 16000 l. which he & others were liable to make good to the Treasury of the Customs.  Protector, and judged the onely meet man to bring the Petition into the House praying him to accept of, and take it upon him; which though he then refused, yet( as it reported) hath since repented his then refusal. Howe●er, the now Lord Pack deserves well at his hands for that good service, who being a true Kingling, and of right Principles to the Court-interest, having also been a Lord( to wit, Mayor) once before, may upon the whole be counted very worthy to be again so called, and to have a Negative voice in the Other House over London, and all the people of these Lands beside.  
32. Alderman Tichborn, then Sir Robert;( Knight of the new Stamp) now Lord Tichborn; at the beginning of the Long Parliament, when a great Spirit was stirring for Liberty and Justice, many worthy Petitions and Complaints were made against Patentees, the Bishops, and the Earl of Strafford: he being the Son of a Citizen, and Young, fell in and espoused the good cause and principles then on Foot, and thereby became very popular, and was greatly cried up by the good people of the City, &c. His rise was first in the Military way, where he soon became a Colonel, and by the Parliament made Lieutenant of the Tower of London; and though he was a Colonel, yet never went out to fight, but became an Alderman very timely, and then soon began to cool and lose his former Zeal and Principles, and left off preaching( as his Pastor Mr. Lockyer did the Church) to his brother George Cockain. He was ●fterward Sheriff, and Lord Mayor in his ●urn; was also of the Committees for the sa●e of States Lands, whereby he advanced his Interest and Revenue considerably: out of Zeal to the public, he offered the Parliament to serve them freely as a Commissioner of the customs, whereby he supplanted another, and planted himself in his room, and then with the rest of his brethren, petitioned the Committee of the Navy for a Salary, and had it; notwithstanding he was so well rewarded for his pains( after he had pretended to serve them for nothing) yet with his brother Col. Harvy and Captain Langham came off blewly in the end: He was of the little Parliament, and helped to dissolve it; one of the late Parliament also: he hath by degrees sadly lost his Principles, and forgotten the good Old Cause, and espoused and taken up another, being so very officious for the new Court-interest, and such a stickler for them, he is become a great favourite: it's not hard to red his change, it being in so great Lettrs. Also things considered, he is( no question) fit to be called Lord Tichborn, being also so willing to receive and resolve to own that Title whoever maligns it, as also of the judgement that whatever passes from him in any other name, will be voided in law: wherefore to have a Negative voice in the Other House over London, and all the good people of these Lands, is very suitable to him; and what though he was so great an Opponent to those things formerly? it's no matter; then was then, and now is now,  
33. Sir William Roberts, a Gentleman who in the time of the Bishops ruffling, went into Holland, and lived there for a season; the Parliament ruling, and in war with the King, came over again, and after the then mode, found favour, having upon the sore mentioned account been out of the Land, and was made a great Committee-man, and in much employment, whereby he well advanced his interest, and is grown a great man. He was of the little Parliament, and helped to break it, and then( according to Rev. 11.10.) rejoiced, and made merry with the rest of his brethren in Colonel Sydenhams Chamber, &c. as the Lawyers and other vild persons made Bonfires, and drank Sack at the Temple and elsewhere: but if ever a spirit of Life from God( which is not far off) comes in to raise up that honest Spirit by which some of them were acted, will not he, his brethren, and the rest of that earthly rout,( the false Spirit of Magistracy and Ministry) be tormented and afraid? He was of the Parliaments since, and no doubt of right Principles to the Court inte●est, wherein his own is bound up: Is one that helps on the bondage in divers great 
(d) His Salary 900 l. per annum, though he hath a good ●state.  Committees whe●e he sits; and is therefore, no question, the more fit to be called Lord Roberts, and to be taken out of the House to have a Negative voice in the Other House over the people, being so greatly experienced in that way already, having continued in the aforesaid Committee so long.  
34. Col. John Jones, a Gentleman of Wales, one of the Long-Parliament, was a Commissioner in Ireland, for governing that Nation under the Parliament. One of good principles for common Justice and Freedom, had he kept them, and not fallen into temptation; he helped to change the Government, and make those Laws of Treason against a single persons Rule; hath a considerable Revenue, and it's like●y did not lose by his employment: he is governor of the Isle of Anglesey, and lately married the Protectors Sister( a widow) by which means he might have become a great man indeed, did not something stick which he cannot well get down: he is not thorow-paced for the Court-proceedings, nor is his Conscience fully hardened against the Good-Old-Cause; but there is great hope( no question) that in time he may be towardly: however,( for Relation sake) he may be counted fit( with his Name-sake and countryman Philip) to be called Lord Jones, and to be taken out of the House to have a Negative voice in the Other House over the People; and all his being against such things formerly, may be forgiven, and not once remembered against him.  
35. Mr. Edmond Thomas, a Gentleman of Wales, of considerable means, a Friend of Ph. Jones, and allied to Walter Strickland( both of the Council) and brought in upon their account; and of complying principles, no question, to say no more of him,( not having been long in play) being none of the great Zealots, or High-Sectaries( so called) in Wales, may doubtless be counted wise and good enough to make a simplo Lord of the Other House, and to be called Lord Thomas, and to have a Negative voice over all the good people in Wales, with his Country-men John and Philip, and over all the people of these Lands besides.  
36. Sir Francis Russel, Knight Baronet of the old Stamp, a Gentleman of Cambridgeshire, of a considerable Revenue: in the beginning of the Wars was first for the King, then for the Parliament, and a Colonel of Foot under the Earl of Manchester; a man( like William Sedgwick) high-flown, but not serious or substantial in his principles: he continued in his Command, till the New-Model, then took offence, and fell off, or laid aside by them; no great Zealot for the Cause, therefore not judged honest, serious, or wise enough to be of the Little-Parliament, yet was of these latter Parliaments: Is also Chamberlain of Chester at about 500 l. per annum; he married his eldest Daughter to Harry cromwell second Son of the Protector, then Colonel of Horse, now Lord Deputy( so called) of Ireland, another to Colonel Reynolds, a new Knight, and General of the English Army in France, under Cardinal Mazarine, since( with 
(e) White, Who assisted Col. Goff to turn the honest Members left behind in the litlle Parliament out of the House Let Goff look to it.  Colonel White and others) cast away coming from Mardike; there is no question but his principles are for Kingship and the new Court, being so greatly concerned therein: wherefore it were great pity if he should not also be taken out of the House to be a Lord of the Other House; his Son-in-law being so great a Lord, and have a Negative voice over Cambridgeshire, and all the people of these Lands besides.  
37. Sir William Strickland, Knight of the old Stamp, a Gentleman of Yorkshire, and Brother to Walter Strickland, was of the Parliament a long time, but hath now it seems forgotten the cause of fighting with, and cutting off the late King's head, and suppressing the Lords, their House and Negative voice: He was of these Latter Parliaments, and of good compliance, no question, with the new Court, and settling the Protector anew in all those things for which the king was cut off: wherefore he is fit, no doubt, to be taken out of the House and made a Lord; the rather, for that his younger Brother ( Walter) is so great a Lord, and by whom in all likelihood he will be steered to use his Negative voice in the Other House over Yorkshir●, and the people of these Lands, to the interest of the Court.  
38. Sir Richard Onsloe, Knight of the old Stamp, a Gentleman of Surrey, of good parts, and a considerable Revenue; he was of the Long Parliament, and with much ado( through his policy) steered his course between the two Rocks of King and Parliament, weathered some sore Storms: was not his man taken in his company by the Guard in Southwark, with Commissions of Array in his Pocket from the King, and scurrilous Songs against the Roundheads? Yet by his interest road it out till Colonel Pride came with his purge, then suffered loss, and came no more in play till about Worcester fight; when, by the help of some friends in Parliament, he was impowred to raise & led as Colonel, a Regiment of Surry men against the Scots and their King, but came too late to fight, it being over: being popular in Surry, he was of the Latter Parliaments; is fully for Kingship, and was never otherwise, and stickled much among the 70 Kingsings to that end; and seeing he cannot have young Charles, old Oliver will serve his turn, so he have one; so that he is very fit to be Lord Onsloe, and to be taken out of the House; to have a Negative voice in the Other House over Surry if they please, and all the people of these Lands besides, whether they please or not.  
39. Mr. John Fiennes, Son of the Lord Say, and Brother to Commissioner Fiennes, brought in, it's likely, for one upon his score, is in a kind such a one as they call a Sectary, but no great stickler; therefore not being redeemed from the fear and favour of man, will, it is probable, follow his Brother, who is( as it is thought) much steered by old subtlety, his Father that lies in his Den,( as Thurloe by his Mr. St. Johns) and will say No with the rest, when any thing opposes the interest of the new Court their power and and greatness; & may therefore pass for one to be a Lord, and to have a Negative voice in the Other House over all in Oxfordshire( the University men onely excepted) and over all the people of these Lands besides.  
40. Sir John Hubbard, Knight Baronet of the old Stamp, a Gentleman of Norfolk, of a considerable Estate, part whereof came lately to him by the Death of a Kinsman: he was of these latter Parliaments, but not of the former; had meddled very little, if at all, in throwing down Kingship, but hath stickled very much in helping to re-establish and build it up again, and a great stickler among the late Kinglings, who petitioned the Protector to be King; his principles being so right for Kingship and Tyranny, he is in great favour at Court as well as Dick Ingoldsby, and, no question, deservs to be a Lord, and to be taken out of the House to exercise a Negative voice in the Other House over all the good men in Norfolk, and all the people of these Lands besides, being become so very tame and gentle.  
41. Sir Thomas Honywoood, Knight of the old Stamp, a Gentleman of Essex, of a considerable Revenue; he was a Committee-man in the time of the Long Parliament, and also a Military man, an● lead as Colonel a Regiment of Essex-men to the fight at Worcester; came in good time, and fought well against Kingship and Tyranny in the House of the Stuarts; was of the last Parliament: he is not so wise as Solomon, or so substantial and through in his principles for Righteousness and Freedom as Job,( chap. 29.) but rather soft in his spirit, and too easy( like a Nose of Wax) to be turned on that side where the greatest strength is: being therefore of so hopeful principles for the New Court interest, and so likely to comply with their will and pleasure, no doubt need be made of his fitness to be a Lord, and to be taken out of the House to have a Negative voice in the Other House, over all the good men in Essex( the now Lord of Warwick the Protector's Brother-in-law excepted) and all the people of these Lands besides.  
42. Lord ewer, a Gentleman of York-shire, not very bulky or imperious for a Lord; he was once well esteemed of for honesty, and therefore chosen to be one of the Little-Parliament; hath also been of all the Parliaments since: the York-shire men happily may like his being new Lorded, and that he should have a Negative voice over them; the rather, because they never choose him to any such thing: the Protector being so well satisfied with his principles, and easiness( like his Fellow-Lord Honywood) to be wrought up to do whatever their will and pleasure is, and to say No, when they would have him: it is very meet he also pass for one to be taken out of the House to have a Negative voice in the Other House, not onely over York-shire, but all the good people of the Common-wealth beside, being a Lord of the old Stamp already.  
43. Mr. Hampden,( now Lord Hampden) a young Gentleman of Buckinghamshire, Son of the late Colonel Hampden, that Noble Patriot and Defender of the Rights and Liberties of the English Nation, of famous memory never to be forgotten, for withstanding the King in the case of Ship money, being also one of the five impeached Members, which the said King endeavoured to have pulled out of the Parliament, whereupon followed such feud, war, and shedding of blood. This young Gentleman, Mr. Hampden, was the last of 62, which were added singly by the Protector, after the choice of 60 together: it is very likely that Col. Ingoldsby, or some other Friend at Court, got a Cardinals Hat for him, thereby to settle and secure him to the Interest of the New-Court, and wholly take him off from the thoughts of ever following his Fathers steps, or inheriting his noble virtues; as likewise that the honest men in Buckinghamshire, and all other that are Lovers of Freedom and Justice, that cleaved so cordially to, and went so cheerfully along with his Father in the beginning of the late War, might be out of all hopes of him, and give him over for lost to the Good-Old-Cause, and inheriting his Fathers noble Spirit and Principles, though he doth his Lands. He was of the latter Parliament, and found right, saving in the Design upon which he was made a Lord after all the rest, and the Protectors pleasure. It is very hard to say, how fit he is to be a Lord, and how well a Negative voice over the good people of this Land, and his Fathers Friends in particular, will become the Son of such a Father; and how well the aforesaid good people( now called Sectaries) will like of it: but being it is as it is, let him pass for one as fit to be taken out of the House with the rest to have a Negative voice, and let him exercise it in the Other House over the good people for a Season.  
Sir Arthur Haslerigg. Lord? No; stop there! not Lord Haslerigg, a Knight of the old Stamp, a Gentleman of a very large Estate and Revenue, was one of the Long Parliament, and one of the five impeached Members whom the King endeavoured to have pulled out of the House with the other, but was hindered from doing of it; was a Colonel in the Army, and adventured far in the Wars, continued of that Parliament till the dissolution thereof; was also chosen of these latter Parliaments, but not permitted to sit at the first; he was by the Protector( as may be seen in the printed List) cut out for a Lord of the Other House, and to have a wooden Dagger( to wit, a Negative voice) with the rest; but he missed his way, and instead of going into the Other House among the simplo Negative men, the 
(f) See Armies Declaration in Looking-Glass, pa. 5.( say they) The first ground and rise of Tyranny over the free People of this Nation, did proceed from the Bastard of William, the sixth Duke of Normandy, who to prevent the English of all relief by their Parliaments, created Lords by his Patent and p●●●ogative to sit by Succession in the Parliament as Representers of his Conquest and Tyranny over us, and not by Election of the People as the Representers and Patrons of the Commonwealth; and to make his usurpation firm and inviolable, he subdued the Law giving power of the free People in Parliament to the Negative voice of himself and posterity; and under the yoke of this Norman Captivity and V●llainage, we have been held by that Succession to this very day, &c. See large Petition. Pag. 11, 12. of that Book.  Off-spring of the Bastard of William, the sixth Duke of Normandy, he went into the Parliament-House among his fellow Englishmen, and there spake freely, bearing a good witness in behalf of the Good Old Cause, the Rights and Liberties of the people of England; at which the Court were vexed and sore displeased. However, for all this losing of his way, and the loss sustained by it, his famed and Name amongst all true English spirits, will be higher and more honourable then the simplo Title of a New Lord could make him: and instead of a Negative voice in the Other House, he will be honoured by after Ages as a rare Phoenix, that of forty four was found standing alone to his principles and the Good Old Cause so bled for: Oh sad and wonderful! but one of forty four to be found standing firm to so noble a Cause as ever was on foot since the world began? Let all true English Spirits love and honour him, and that will be better then a Feather in his Cap, or a wooden Dagger. His Name for ever in the Chronicles will live as one that was a true Pa●riot of his Countries Liberties; which noble action( if he persevere and be more refined in that honest spirit) may deservedly obliterate all human frailties and miscarriages of his, during the sitting of the Long Parliament, and the free people of England may( doubtless) for ever bury them in oblivion. No question the Protector found he was mistaken in him, and that he was not fit to be a Lord, or to have a Negative voice, being of no more complying principles to his interest and designs, and the then New Model of Government, and will scarcely a venture to give him a second invitation to that Honour and Dignity he so ungratefully and disdainfully slighted.  
There was one or two more of the new Champions that with their wooden Daggers went into the Other House to fight against the Rights and Liberties of the good people of these Lands; but their Names being wanting, and not worthy the enq●iring after, nothing can be said of their noble virtues, save th●t in all likelihood they were of such worthy principles as their fellows were of, and such as would concur to carry on any design or interest th y should be put upon, and would say No with the rest, when any thing ●ame in question that seemed to be against the Protector's height and absolu●enesse, or interest of the new Court; which he that hath but half an eye may see, was the onely design of calling them thither, as a Balance of Government to the Parliament, so greatly( though falsely) pretended for the good of the people.  
There were also of this chosen number of Sixty two, some of the old Earls and Lords called Peers, which stood off,( viz. three Earls, Warwick Musgrave and Manchester, and two Lords, Say and Wharton) and sate not at all, disdaining, as some thought, to sit with the●e new covert Lords; though others again apprehended that this their forbearance was onely out of their old State-policy, till they saw whether a House of Lords formerly so abominated and thrown down( by the consent and desire of the good people) would again be resented and established, and intended to come in; but I shall leave it: Some were in Scotland, viz. General Monk, Earl of Cassils, Lord Warriston, and Sir William Lockhart; which persons may also discover to him hat hath but half an eye, what a pitiful carnal low design they are carrying on. Some in Ireland viz. Harry cromwell Lord Deputy( so called) Recorder Steel, and Colonel Tomlinson: some it may be had no great mind to it, to wit, Colonel Popham, Mr. Peirpoint: others it's probable were letted by political or State-illness, or other occasions, viz. Chief Justice St. Johns, Mr. John Crew, Sir Gilbert Gerrard, so as they also appeared not, there being not above forty four or forty five of that worthy choice of Sixty two, that appeared and sa●e there; and it's very likely some think there were too many of them.   

Thus for the Description and Narrative. Three or four General Quaries are further propounded for a Close to the whole; and it is humbly offered to all ingenious people, and queried.  
First, Whether if it should come to pass( as how soon we know not) that that noble spirit should( like a lion raised from sleep) rise again in the English people, such as it was in forty one or forty two, or about that time, whether these Champions with their Feathers in their Caps, and their Wooden Daggers, and those fifty three persons who pretended to settle the Government by the Humble Petition and Advice, would be able to fight with, stand against, and overcome the same any otherwise then their Predecessors the Lords Temporal, and the Bishops the Lords Spiritual did then? And whether it would not in all likelihood fare with them and their dependants the Patentees of the Excise, and all others employed by them, that so oppress and impoverish the Nation, as formerly it did with them, if not far worse? They may please to think of it at their Leisure.  
Secondly, Whether in these five years now past of the Protectoral Government, that blessed Reformation which the Protector( then General) and other Grandees of the Army so often promised, and for not bringing forth of which they pretend they dissolved the Old-Parliament, hath so been set upon as to make any the least proceed therein? Or rather, hath there not been a gradual and an apparent relapsing into those very Evils and Enormities formerly so greatly shaken, and in some degree broken, but now healed again of their Wound, and flourishing afresh with open face; the spirit of wickedness and profanen●ss being risen very high, even among Professors, like the unclean Spirit cast out, and entering again? And in particular, that abominable corruption and abuse in the Law, and Administration of Justice, touching which the Protector( so called) sometime said, It was not to be endured in a Christian Common-wealth, that some should so enrich and greaten themselves in the ruin of others. So likewise that often complained of Grievance of tithes; touching which he also said,( as was lately attested in an open Court of Judicature, several standing by to witness the truth thereof, to whom the words were spoken) That if he did not take away tithes, by the 3d of September next,( to wit. 1654.) or such a time, they should call him the greatest Juggler that ever was, and would juggle in all things else. Yet is there any thing done in either of these? or any thing gone about tending thereunto, now in these five years? as if it were so, that no fruit would ever grow upon such a three,( viz. the Monarchical Foundation) which the Lord hath pulled up and cursed, as the barren Fig-tree was: onely there is one goodly amendment, to wit a confirmation of the Act for triple damages, to the undoing of many an honest man, that upon conscientious grounds do scruple the payment of them. And as for the Law and the Lawyers, they are as before, if not much worse; and is there any ground of hope that the next five years( should he continue so long) will produce any b●tter fruit then the five that are already past?  
Thirdly, Whether this Calculation of these ignoble Lords of the New-Stamp, being of several Complexions, and standing in the aforementioned Capacities and Relations, having also such dependence upon and lying under so great Engagements unto the Protector,( so called) as his Sons and Kindred, Flattering Courtiers, corrupt Lawyers, degenerated Sword-men, and a sort of luke-warm indifferent Country Knights, Gentlemen and Citizens, most of them self-interested Salary-men, be not likely( according to the very specious pretence) to prove a brave Balance of Government? And whether the good people of this Land are likely to have their just Rights and Freedoms, or religious men the Liberty of their Consciences by this Constitution, any otherwise, then according to the pleasure of the Protector and the Court? Or than they had in the time of the late King? And whether this Calculation were made to any other end then so?  
Lastly, Whether, all things soberly weighed and considered, the Times be now so happy and blessed, as some do loudly bespeak them to be? And whether for the future we are likely to have such prosperity, success, and good days, as some so largely promise themselves? and others it may be expected? Or whether such smiling upon old wickedness, and frowning and turning the back upon Righteousness, suppressing its growth, be any comfortable ground of such hope and expectation? Or whether upon the whole Series of things, as they now appear, there be not rather to be expected some sadder matter, if the Lord in mercy prevent not? Let the wise in heart consider.   
THE END.   

READER, IF thy Patience be not quiter worn out, red the following Postscript, which makes mention of the late flattering Addresses, &c. it may concern you: As also, a Vindication of that faithful Friend to the Cause of God and his People, M. John Portmans,( late Secretary to the Fleet under General black) now Prisoner for Truth in the Tower, whom that lying Court-Pamphleter Nedham hath falsely aspersed and reproached in the late Diurnals.  
A Post-Script to the Reader.  
THE fore-going Narrative was composing and preparing to have come forth( like apple of Gold in Pictures of Silver) in the fittest Season, during the life-time of Oliver the late Protector( so called) and calculated for that end, among other, that as in a Glass he might clearly see his Mutability and Changeableness in his Principles; as also his Judas-like T●eachery and Deceit, and how wickedly he had dealt with the Lord, his People, and the Nation, and the Righteous Cause on foot therein; but the Lord having in answer to the earnest Desires and Prayers of some of his faithful Remnant, and in great mercy to the Nation, and the good People therein, and the righteous cause, removed and taken him out of the way, it was thought fit however to publish it for the sake of his Associates and Confederates he hath left behind him, who may happily make some use of it; as also that the standards by, yea, the whole Nation, might likewise see and judge of what hath lately fallen out in this our day.  
It is said of Jeroboam the Son of Nebat, That he not onely sinned himself, but made Israel to sin; and there were those of his Confederates that then sinned with him, 
1 King. 15.34. compared with 2 King. 17.21, 22.  and after he was dead and gone, of whom it is recorded, That they walked in the ways, and departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, the Son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.  
The parallel hereof we have in England in this our day: Oliver the late Protector( so called) who( Jeroboam-like) so greatly appeared with the People for Justice and Freedom against Oppression, highly professing and declaring for the same, hath sinned in the breach of those Protestations and Declarations, in building again those things he had been so greatly instrumental to destroy; therein surpassing not onely the deeds of the Wicked who were cut off upon the like account, but also of Jeroboam, who never made such Professions and Declarations as he had done.  
There also are of his Confederates( as the Confederates of Jeroboam) that sinned with him in his apostasy and Revolt, and do yet continue in those sins, and walking in his steps now he is dead and gone, as if they took no notice of the displeasure and wrath of God revealed from Heaven against him, in cutting him off for his unrighteousness. Israel smarted sorely for their evil, and at last were carried away Captive: England hath likewise suffered, and is brought very low, at tradesman of all sorts, Shop-keepers, and others, both in City and Country, find by such sad and woeful experience as rhey never did before, nor in the memory of man was the like ever known or heard of: and what may further suffer, the Lord( who will not be mocked) onely knows.  
For how unworthy are the People of this Generation, not onely the more dark and sordid, but too many who profess to be Saints, and are Pastors and Members of Churches; nay, some who are Mercurial and more high flown, that once spake the Language of Zion, and highly appeared for the Good Old Cause, who notwithstanding they have seen the mighty Arm and Power of God displayed, in bringing down the unrighteous, oppressive, high and lofty Ones( with their Foundation) for their unrighteousness and oppression, yet have so far forgotten the Good Old Cause so signally owned from Heaven, and are so besotted and degenerated into a self seeking slavish, and enslaving Spirit, as they not onely justify, but strengthen their hands, who( instead of pressing forward with more refinedness in that Work and Cause, leading to what it shall be when the Promises and Prophesies relating to the Kingdom of Christ and Zion shall be fulfilled) have made a Captain or Protector, and are gone back to Egypt,( to wit, the old wicked Foundation and things of Monarchy that have been destroyed) and thereby under a new name upholding and keeping the People under the old Oppressions.  
And do say of 
(g) In their Addresses to his son Richard, his worthy Successor.  Oliver their late Egyptian Captain, who hatched this Cockatrice Egg, and brought forth all his wickedness, and thereby did more hurt to the Nation then ever he did it good, and for which his Memory will deservedly for ever stink in the Nostrils of the Lord's faithful People,  
That he was a Moses, the great Father and Protector of his People, our late most worthy Prince that used all means to deliver us from Bondage, by whom we enjoy Freedom in Spiritual and Civil Government, &c. most excellent Prince of happy Memory, the famous Champion of our Liberties, &c. the Father, Protector, and Buckler of these Nations, and the People of God, who rescued, procured, and maintained our just Liberties to us, &c. the great Assertor of the Liberties of God's People, and a Lover of their Civil Rights, &c. who well deserves to be a Pattern to all succeeding Princes, &c. our gracious Benefactor, a Nursing Father to his People, by whose hand the Yoke of Bondage hath been broken both from the Necks and Consciences of good People, &c. an Instrument of unspeakable Blessings, all whose great Enterprises the Lord constantly prospered with high success, &c. the great Protector of our Peace and Joy, who admirably got and 
(h) Have you forgot Hispaniola, and the war with Spain.  never lost, but left three Nations in Peace, &c. We cannot but deeply resent that stroke of Providence that took away the breath of our Nostrils, and smote our head from off our shoulders, your most gloriously renowned Father.  
Our Elijah, &c. your most illustrious, accomplished, most glorious, heroical, most renowned, blessed, most holy, serene Princely Father, that sacred Person, the delight of our Eyes, our glorious Sun is set, that unspeakable loss, the Light of our Eyes, and the breath of our Nostrils, &c.  
But alas! This our Moses the Servant of the Lord is dead; and shall we not weep? If we weep not for him, yet we cannot but weep for ourselves; we cannot but look after him, crying our Father, our Father, the Chariots of Israel, and the Horsemen thereof, &c. falsely and wickedly alluding to Moses and Elijah, those two, for ever to be honoured, faithful Servants of the Lord: with many other the like fawning, blasphemous, lying Expressions, have they, in these wicked Addresses, wherein they lie and flatter: for the Lord and his faithful Remnant know he was not so, especially in his latter days, but was rather acted by the back-sliding Spirit of Chora, Dathan, and Abiram, as also the famous and renowned Princes of the Congregation; yea, the Congregation itself, who rebelled against the Spirit of the Lord in Moses, Caleb, and Joshua, &c. and would not press on to Canaan,( the Work of that day) but said, Let us make a 
(i) Numb. 14.  Captain, and return into Egypt, and would have stoned Caleb and Joshua, because they would have had them gone forward: As also by the Spirit of Ahab, Jehu, and the rest of the backsliding wicked Kings of Israel and Judah.  
The Spirit of the Beast and false Prophet in the former and present Monarchs of this and other Nations, which the Lord hath, and will disown and curse; but not the Spirit of Elijah, Moses, Caleb, and Joshuah, the Lords faithful preserving ones of old, as by what is before and afterwards mentioned, doth too plainly and sadly appear; for he not onely endeavoured to establish himself in this Tyranny, but before his departure, when he scarce had his senses, or could hardly speak, appointed( as some report, though some speak otherwise, his fore-mentioned eldest Son Richard, to succeed him in the Government to support and maintain that apostasy and Wickedness, which himself and Thurlo, &c. had been the first Contrivers, and then Actors of, thereby to hold us perpetually under the old Monarchical Egyptian Bondage, which was no sooner effected, and he proclaimed, but the afore-mentioned Addressors, as they blasphemously and flatteringly speak in way of honouring his Father, so in the same Addresses do they speak of h●m, falsely and wickedly alluding to good Joshua, Solomon, and Elishan, who succeeded Moses, David, and Elijah, after their death, saying to this purpose:  
We humbly beg. That though your renowned Father, who as a designed Instrument, helped us out of Egypt( having Canaan in his Eve) was even then called to Mount Nebo to die there; yet you, as another Joshua with his Spirit, redoubled upon you, may by the efficacious conduct of the Captain of the Lords Host, led us into a more full possession of Truth and Righteousness, &c. In times of old, when God took away Moses from his People, in tender Mercy he gave them a Joshua to succeed him: Such are our hopes of your Highness. Gods aim and end in taking away his Moses was to usher you in, his Joshua, &c. But since it was the Will of God our glorious Sun should set, and that even whilst he was ascending we ought to submit unto it: it is no little Alleviation to our sorrow, that though our Sun be set, no Night hath followed, but our Evening hath been light, by raising your H ghness into your Royal Fathers Seat, &c. You are our great Master, the person designed by God and Man to reign over us, &c. It begets no little joy in our spirits, when we behold the Son of that Father by a Divine Providence succeed him in the Throne by his own appointment, given us a most choice Legacy, and his last Blessing, &c. A Pledge of Divine Love and Goodness to these Nations, &c. Some saying, If his Father had not appointed him to succeed him, the common interest and peace of the Nation, without Gods Assistance, had perished together with him, &c. Happy successor, ●n whom we shall be able to say, Mercy and Truth are met together, under whose Government, Righte●usness and Peace hath kissed each other, of whose exceeding virtues and Endowm●nts we have had experience, &c. God hath been pleased in the midst of judgement to remember Mercy, in appointing your Highness to succeed your Father; your most excellent serene Highness, a Branch of that Princely Stock, on you our hopes rest, Richard by the Grace of God Lord Protector; your most serene Highness, our sovereign and General, the Noblest Branch of that Renowned Stock: and desire that he might build up unto perfection upon that( wicked) foundation which his Fathers blessed hand had laid. And pray, that the spirit of their departed Elijah, even the Chariots and Horsemen of Israel might rest upon him, &c.  
And a great deal more of this blasphemous flattering stuff, which would be too tedious to relate: Which Addresses, The Humble Petition and Advice, being so often mentioned, and their desiring him to keep the Sword-Military in his hand, the Design in them, and strain of expressions so like to other, begets a shrewd suspicion, they were rather hatched at the Court by Secretary Thurlo, and the old malignant Pamphleter, lying, railing Rabshakeh, and defamer of the Lords People, Nedham, alias Mercurius Pragmaticus, who formerly writ for the King against the Parliament; and by their Mercenary Emissaries and Agents suggested to, and forced upon the simplo People( as the Address to his Father were formerly upon the Army and elsewhere, rather then in their first motion naturally flowing from the Addressors; which the Lord in due time will discover: And not onely these, but also that great Independent doctor( so called) Thomas Goodwin, he( Aaron-like) comes in as a Leader, one of the first among them, to encourage the rejoicing and dancing about this new Golden Calf, and in the speech that he made( pretendedly in the name and by the appointment of the Pastors and Messengers of above one hundred Congregational Churches from several parts of the Nation( as says the Pamphlet) says he, We come with hearty acknowledgement of the best Liberties, enjoyed under your H●ghness now blessed Father, &c. all which have been continued to us through the Protection of the great Mordecai, that sought the Weal of his People and spake 
(k) Was imprisoning the Lords people for their faithfulness to the Good-Old-Cause, and leaving them there when he dyed, a Mordecai's spirit, and a flattering peace? Well said Doctor.  Peace to all his Seed: blessed be God for his unspeakable gift, &c. which we are here come jointly to aclowledge to your Highness, &c. We also come full of rejoicing, blessing God for so happy and quiet a settlement of the Nation and Government in your person and succession: Solomon, though he had his name from Peace, yet was not his first entrance so peaceable as this of yours, &c. And after mentioning, about what they met at the Savoy, and that his Father knew of the Meeting before-hand, and approved of it, and of a Declaration they had drawn up to clear themselves from the aspersions laid upon them, and laying down therein what the Principles of the Independents were, &c.  
And now( says he) we present to your Highness what we have done, and commit to your Trust the common Faith once delivered to the Saints of the Gospel and the saving Truths of it, being a National Endowment bequeathed by Christ himself at his Ascention, and committed to some in the Nations behalf; committed to my trust, saith Paul, in the Name of the Ministers; and we look at the Magistrates as 
(l) To will, Keeper of both Tables.  Custos utriusque tabulae, and so 
(m) Do not these several Churches by their silence, hold forth that they consent to what their Pastors and Messengers have done herein? and so are fallen in with, and Abettors of the apostasy of this day? And if it be not so, ought they not to declare against it?  commit it to your trust as our chief Magistrate, &c and we bless you out of Zion, &c. Whith practise and speaking, especially considered as the Case now stands, and as to the Person to whom it is spoken, having also( according to the Doctors sense) no footing in Scripture, is the practise and Language of Babylon, and not of Zion, and greatly discovers, that the p●o● Doctor neve● had a true Tincture within him, or taste of sweetness in Communion with God in discovery of that Glory of Zion, and Kingdom of Christ, he so largely hath spoken and writ of, but had it from Books and Hear-say; for it is impossible, that one who hath truly tasted of that Glory, except he be desperately infatuated, or holds falling away, should bring forth such cursed untimely fruit, so contrary to the true light and spirit of Zion, as this is. Was not the Bishops, and the simplo Clergy, who were acted by their fear or favour, formerly condemned by him & others for styling the late & former Kings, Defenders of the Faith, and supreme Head of the Church under Christ; so generally acknowledged in its original to proceed from Harry the 8. who for self-ends, not the glory of God, dethroned the Papal Power in England, and took the Popes( usurped) Supremacy and Title of Defender of the Faith, as well as the tithes and First-Fruits, upon and to himself. Is it not the general received Principle of Independents and other Sectaries( so called) who are clear-sighted( and not without ground) to pled against such a tenant? But these things declare, that Mr. Goodwin sucks such sweetness from the great sovereignty, Honour, and Profit of Magdalen college in Oxford, & hath therewith drawn in such a Tincture of that Spirit, which naturally and usually breaths in persons inhabiting those places, as he is loth to be weaned from it; & therefore will, right or wrong, turn in and comply with any thing, so he may keep his interest there: It will be well for him if I am mistaken. But I leave what may further be spoken to this Subject, to a better Pen, who may take it in hand when his Book comes forth in Print. And together with him, that cringing Court-Chaplain Peter Sterry, that also bows to what ever is uppermost, speaking higher then all this, as is credibly reported by several godly men that heard him to their astonishment: holding forth his Bible in the chapel of White-Hall, he spake to this purpose: That if that were the Word of God, then as certainly that blessed Holy Spirit( meaning the late Protector) was with Christ at the Right Hand of the Father; and if he be there, what may his Family and the People of God now expect from him? for if he were so useful and helpful, and so much good influenced from him to them when he was in a mortal State, how much more influence will they have from him now he is in Heaven? the Father, Son, and Spirit, thorough him bestowing gifts & graces, &c. upon them. And a great deal more to this purpose: and as he spake thus blasphemously of his Father, so the same Spirit running in the aforementioned flattering Addresses, breathed from him to his Son( the now Protector so called) which also greatly discovers within what walls he breaths: But I shall let the Father pass, and speak a little of the Son his Successor, and in short, a little answer to those flattering, blasphemous, ungodly expressions, couched in the late Addresses to him, as if he were a second Solomon, Joshua, or Elisha. Oh you blasphemous, lying, flattering Cycophant Addressours in City, Country, Army, &c. or Off-spring of Thurlo and Nedham the Pamphleteer, who are so ready to cry up Adonijah the false, and to cry and keep down Solomon the true spirit of Magistracy! give me leave a little to reason with you: What eminent appearing Work of Grace, or of the Image of God, did you ever experience in and upon him, or heard of from others, not acted by a self-seeking, fawning, servile spirit, but truly fearing the Lord? What eminent action for God, his Cause, or People, did you ever see or hear he did, either in his Fathers life-time, or since his death, that you so highly speak? and allude, as if he had a Joshua, Solomon, or an Elisha's spirit? Is Hawking, Hunting, keeping Race-horses, and riding Horse-matches, to the endangering of the lives, both of Horse and Men; wherein, for the most part, the most carnal of Professors, and the worst of men are oftenest exercised, and must therefore of necessity be his companions, such a demonstration of those noble virtues and high endowments you so speak of to be in him?  
Pray bear with me, that I thus reason with you; for my spirit is grieved when ever I red or think of these your late Addresses; and it is fully settled in my heart, & I can believe no other, but that it is a carnal, unbelieving, selfish, filthy spirit, by which you are acted, & which the Lord by his spirit in his People hath already, & will further discover, blow upon, & consume. Doth the following words and action declare him to be what you so speak of him? I wi l tell you what is commonly reported amongst honest men, which I had from a good hand, and am fully satisfied is very true, yea, and more then I shall here relate: One Cornet Sumpner in Col. Ingoldsby's Regiment, knowing the wickedness & naughtiness of mayor Babington( mayor thereof) to be such as to disown and brow-beat the honest men in the Regiment, and to countenance Drunkards, Liars, Swearers, and Haters of Goodness, and good men, being for a long time grieved thereat in his Spirit; at length( by the advice of some ●minent in the Army) drew up several Articles to present to a Court-Martial, or elsewhere against him; which your most illustrious, serene, and renowned Protector, the inheritor of his Fathers noble virtues, hearing of, sends for the Cornet to come unto him: who when he was come, the mayor and Col. Ingoldsby, &c. being also present, your Joshua, Solomon, and Elisha, spake after this manner to him: Josh. What? have you Articles against your mayor? Corn. Yes. Josh. What are they? Corn. A pretty numher of them. Then the mayor began to answer to one, but nothing to the purpose; but before the mayor had done, your most serene Protector, or Joshua, unjustly takes part with the mayor to help him out, saying to the Cornet; You article against your mayor because he is for me? you are a 
(n) Meaning the Officers who often met to s●ek the Lord, and bewail their apostasy from the Good Old Cause.  company of Mutineers, you deserve a hundred of you to be hanged; and I will hang you, and strip you as a man would strip an eel; you talk of preaching and praying men, they are the men that go about to undermine me. And clapping his hand upon Col. Ingoldsby's shoulder, said, Go thy way Dick Ingoldsby, Thou canst neither preach nor pray, but I will believe thee before I will believe 20 of them, And says he to the Cornet, You never owned my Father; you have l●st your Commission, and shall never ride more in this Army, &c. and a great deal more to this purpose, which I leave to Pragmaticus( formerly the old, now the new Court-Pamphleter) more perfectly to relate. Is this speaking or action, the righteousness and peace-kissing each other, that you so speak hath been since he took the Government upon him? Or would Joshua, Solomon, or El●sha thus take part with wickedness and wicked men, and do so unrighteous and wicked an action, and speak thus profanely and wickedly? Surely no: Wherefore aclowledge your iniquity, and lie low before the Lord for these your blasphemous, lying, flattering Expressi●ns in your wicked Addresses, whereby you have so reproached and wronged good Joshua, Solomon, and Ei●sha, in making such undue Comparisons: wherefore repent, you flattering Courtiers, Peter Sterry, and the other Court-Chaplains: Repent, repent, Thomas Goodwin, and ye Pastors and Messengers of( as it's said) above an hundred Congregational Churches in England.  
Repent you Apostate-Army; Repent you Mayor, Aldermen, common-council, and Militia of London, whose Principles are so base and mercenary, & like a Beast looking downward, as to side with( whether right or wrong) whatever is uppermost, like your Sword-Bearer and Officers, who cry Grace, grace, and bow to one Lord Maior to day, and do the same to the next the morrow.  
Repent also you Presbyterian Classical Ministers of the City, &c. who by the persuasion of 3 or 4 eminent self-interested Cycophants among you, were drawn in against your Light and Consciences, to carry your bodies to White-hall( leaving your hearty good will at home) to address yourselves to this new Golden Calf, as an owning of him; and this from unbelief and slavish fear of being frowned upon, or losing your Parish-places. Will such a practise as this stand good before the Lord in the day of your account? Repent also all of you for spending 50 or 60000 l. about a Heathenish Popish Funeral Pomp, not onely wicked in itself, but at a time when so many tradesman and others break, and are ready to starve; and when y●u had done, then following an Image of Wax to Westminster, as if it had been a dead mans body; wherein you lied unto, and mocked both God and Man. Repent also you Country Professo●s, & others, of these flattering, blasphemous, lying Addresses, and speak nor do no more so wickedly, lest the Judgments of the Lord break in upon you, as upon back-sliding Israel of old, and your carcases fall in the Wilderness, &c. as theirs did, for making, and then dancing about the molten Calf, and their desiring to make a Captain to return into Egypt, and opposing the Spirit of the Lord in Moses, Caleb, and Joshua, and his work in that day. And take heed, Oh you Parliament, that you do not say, or do as th●se have done; whom I so call, if you keep close to, and endeavour the promotion of the Good Old Cause, and cast out the false spirit of the Egyptian Bond-woman, the Protector( so called) and his Lords, and make way for, and bring in the Spirit of Zion, the Free-woman, the true Spirit of Magistracy, by Judges asd Counsellors as at the beginning, men fearing God, and hating Coveto●sness, and faithful with all the Saints. If you thus proceed, myself, and the Lords faithful People will love, own, live, and die with you: if not, we shall abhor and disown you, as we did the former, and now Protector and his Lords, and shall trust God with our Liberties, and not fear your Frowns.  
And now a word for your encouragement, my Friends, who remain faithful to the Lord in this evil day; and are, as it were, in the Clefts of the Rocks Cant. 2.14.) and secret places of the stairs, in pain, crying, and praying night and day, giving the Lord no rest( Isa. 62.6, 7.) till he revive the Good Old Cause, and cause the righteousness of Zion to go forth as brightness, and the Salvation thereof as a Lamp that burneth, and until he make J●rusalem a praise in the Earth: whose voice, in his account( going forth in the power of his spirit from the sweetness you have tasted in communion with himself in the discovery of this glory) is sweet, and countenance is comely, and unto whom he will in the best time say, Rise up my love, my fair one, and come away; for lo, the Winter is past, the Rain is over and gone, Isa. 26.20. The flowers appear on the earth, Isa. 35.2. Chap 51.3. The time of the singing of birds is come, Isa, 35.6. And the voice of the Turtle is heard in our Land, Zach. 12.10. And will rejoice over you as the Bridegroom over the Bride, with joy and singing, and will rest in his love, Zeph. 3.17. compared with Isa. 62.5. Wherefore be not dammed or discouraged in your spirits at the hearing and sight of the late Addresses, nor at the great Cloud of Witnesses therein seeming to own the present and former governor. What though many of them are men of s ch raised gifts and parts, and appearing grace, which to such as have not their eyes in their heads, and look not within the veil, may have an appearance the Lord doth own them, & approves of what hath been formerly and lately done? For though they are so great a Cloud of Witnesses, yet they are but Witnesses in the Clouds, whose Testimony, Carnal Wisdom, Policy, and Arm of Flesh, will pass away like the morning Cloud, or early due: for the Spirit of the Lord in his People, like the waters, Isa. 28.17. hath overflown and looked into their hiding place, abhorred and blown upon them, therefore follow not a multitude to do evil. What though there be so many Prophets, great Scholars, learned Astrologers, and wise-men among them? yet know, That amongst almost 400 Prophets in the dayes of Ahab and Jehosaphat, but one Micaiah, a true Prophet that had the mind or God, among all the Congregation that were going from Egypt to Canaan; among whom were many renowned Princes, Priests, and famous men, yet onely Moses, Caleb, Joshua, &c. that truly followed God, Numb. 14. Among all the wise men in Babylon, but one Daniel a true Prophet, Dan. 2.19. But one Noah a Preacher of Righteousness, and faithful in his generation before the Flood, Gen. 7.1 One Lot in Sodom. Among the seven Churches, Rev. 2.3. but two, to wit, Philadelphia, and Smyrna, whom the Lord approves of; but the other so carried it,( except a few among them) as he said it should be manifested they belonged rather to the Synagogue of Satan, then to the Churches of Christ. When the great destruction comes upon wicked men, a little before or upon the call of the Jews, but a handful, or as the gleaning grapes when the Vintage is done, shall lift up their heads, and rejoice and glorify God in the fires, Isai. 24. They onely who speak often one to another when wickedness is set up, and they that tempt God are delivered; alluding to Israel, who would have made a Captain to return again to Egypt; or rather the apostasy of this our day, that the Lord owns all those who fear him, and have the promise of the Sun of Righteousness to arise upon them, Mal. 3. The false spirit of Magistracy in Adonijah aspiring to the Government, had the assistance of the Kings sons, Ab●athar the Priest, Joab the General, and all the Captains of the Host, &c. who with slaying of Oxen, &c. eating and drinking, said, God save Adonijah; and carried it for a time against Solomon: but the spirit of Solomon, Nathan the Prophet, &c. who had the true spirit of Government and prophesy, approved not of, or consented to it, but were for the true spirit to rule, 1 King. 1. And so it is at this day; and blessed be the Lord, that our eyes do see a people crying, longing, and will not be at rest, till the earthly selfish spirit of Magistracy be brought down, and the self-denying Magistracy or Horn of David now b●dding ●n Zion, come in its room, s●l. 132. Wonder not, neither be turned aside because of that great multitude on the one hand, or smallness of the number on the other, that truly and indeed appear for, and own the cause of God; but stand close, and be more refined in the light and spirit of Zion, and keep your ground; for the Lord hath so appointed, That the foot shall tread it down, to wit, the meanest of the Saints: for it is very probable, that many of the great and wise Saints, according to Rev. 18 4. shall be found in the borders, and supporting the things of Babylon, and casting out their Brethren( Isa. 66.5.) saying, Let the Lord be glorified; and having the mist of Babylon before their eyes, shall say, The Lord delays his coming, and will be beating their fellow-servants: onely the ●●e●( to wit, the upright conversation) of these poor ones who desire to keep close to God, and not to touch with Babylon; and steps, to wit, the faith, prayers, and honest endeavours of these needy ones, who long for, and cannot be at rest, till judgement, so visibly, return unto righteousness, that all the upright in heart may follow it: These shall tread down the lofty City, Isai. 26. The least of the flock shall draw them out: the people that shall bring down the enemies of God in the latter dayes, are a small and feeble remnant: when the Lord comes to destroy Babylon, and to build up Zion, he will find but a few upright ones, and those very destitute, helpless, and some of th●m prisoners too, for their witness to the true Magistracy and Ministry of Zion, whose prayers he will hear, and not desp●se, and bring forth to declare his glory in Zion, who shall in a holy triumph and rejoyc●ng say, O Lord, thou art our God: we will exalt thee, we will praise t●y Name, for thou hast done wonderful things, thy councils of old are faithfuln●ss and truth, &c. Lo, this is our God, we have waited for him, he will save us, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusteth in thee. Trust in the Lord for ever, &c. Isai. 25.1, 9. Chap. 26 2, 3. Which good and comfortable words shall certainly be made good; for heaven and earth shall pass away, but not one tittle of the Word shall pass till all be fulfilled. I the Lord will hasten it in its time, Isa. 60.33. with Jer. 33.25, 26. Hab. 2.3. red these Scriptures. Wherefore strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees, &c. Isa. 55.3, 4.  
And you, my dear Friends, commonwealths-men( so called) who so greatly seem to press for righteousness and freedom, labour to bring forth this righteousness, not by a common moral spirit and principle, but by the spirit of Zion, a lively, spiritual, active frame of spirit, to wit, that frame mentioned 2 Sam. 23.( not to be pulled and haled to do the good that lies before you, that is more su●table to the unjust Judge) but be as ready to help and refresh, and therein be as suitable to delight the oppressed that come unto you, as the light of the morning when the Sun riseth without Clouds, is to those who have lost their way in a dark night, and as the tender grass springeth out of the earth by clear shining after rain: this is the Spirit of the Horn of David, that shall bud in Zion, Psal. 132. The consideration whereof in the first manifestation and declaration of it by the Spirit unto and by David, having thereby a taste of that glory upon his spirit, made him to break forth into a holy t●iumph and rejoicing, saying, And this is all my salvation and all my desire, although he make it not to grow,( to wit, in his day.) Leave no ston unturned, no means unused to let the people who come unto you, speedily know one way or other what they shall trust to: Say not, Go, and come again to morrow, if you can do it to day; delays are burdensome and chargeable. Job, from the secret of God being upon his Tabernacle, and the precious due of the Spirit compassing his root, and lying all night upon his branch, had much of this blessed frame upon his spirit, He put on and clothed himself with righteousness; and had more love to judgement then to the rob and diadem; and upon that account, he was eyes to the blind, feet to the lame, a father to the poor, and the cause which he knew not, he preached out, Chap. 29. It concerns you, and is worth your reading. This will be the frame of the handful of corn in the earth, Psal. 72.( or mountain established upon the top of the Mountains, Mich. 4.1, 2.) the fruit whereof shall shake like Lebanon, they shall not be shaken by others, but themselves will shake off their fruit: then will you be and do according to the heart of God, and having this excellent spirit so freely, to make it your meat and drink to execute judgement, and therein to make your shadow as the night in the midst of the noon-day to the oppressed, you will abhor to bewray( to wit) give up their right and freedom into the hands of Tyrants and spoilers. To be to the oppressed as a hiding place from the wind, a covert from ●he tempest, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land, and as rivers of water in a dry place, standing open ready to refresh those that are thirsty, will be the frame of Christ and the Saints( the Horn of David) that shall reign in righteousness, &c. Isa. 31: 1, 2. Then those that dwell under your shadow shall return,( from their oppression) revive as the Corn, and grow as the Vine; and your savour among both good and bad concerned in you, will be as the wine of Lebanon, Hos. 13. and shall say, The Lord bless thee, thou habitation of Justice, &c. and wait for,( to wit, desire after you) as( the dry ground) for the rain, and open their mouths wide as( the mowed parched ground) for the latter rain, Job 29.23. The foundation of the eternal welfare of your souls being first laid through faith in Chr●st, and an holy unblamable conversation,( without which you cannot attain unto the other) it w●ll then be your crown and rejoyc●ng to forget the th●ngs behind, and to come up hither; or herein doth the Lord delight, as also will be the great glory of the latter dayes:) and as you are in the power, glory, and sweetness of his Spirit herein exercised, will he delight in, and rejoice over you, and you will live as it were in heaven while you are upon the earth, and he will be for your protection, as a place of broad rivers and streams, wherein shall go no galley with oars, or gallant ship pass thereby, &c. Isa. 33. Yea, your bow( as Jobs) renewed in your hand, to shoot at your enemies upon all occasions. The presence of God being thus with you, your terror will be upon all both at home and abroad that have a mind to hu●t you, according to Psal. 48. God is known in her Palaces for a refuge: for lo, the Kings were assembled, they passed by together, they saw it, and so they marveled, they were troubled, and hasted away: fear took hold upon them there, and pain as of a woman in travail; thou brakest the ships of Tarshish, &c. This salvation and forementioned righteousness, is the righteousness and salvation of Zion, spoken of Isa. 62.1. which those who understand and taste the glory and sweetness of, cannot, will not hold their peace, or be at rest, till it go forth as brightness, or as a lamp that burneth. This is the true Spirit of the 
(o) Dan. 2.44.  ston that disturbs and will destroy the beast and false Prophet. Be growing up in your light, and in the frame of your spirit to these things, in order to which, pray for the dawnings of that measure of the Spirit which the Lo●d hath promised to pour forth in the latter dayes. The ordinary measures of the Spirit relating onely to the work within, will not do it; therefore is it that so many Saints at this day turn in with the spirit and things of Babylon. Do not( like Alderman Tichborn) pretend to serve your Country freely, and afterwards take great Salaries: The people are poor, and it is your duty that have Estates, to take nothing from them except they freely give it: So ought also the Ministers of Christ to do. With other Scriptures red Micha 3.   

A word on the behalf of that faithful Servant of the Lord, Mr. John Portmans, now close Prisoner under lock night and day in the Tower of London, so that none may come with freedom to visit him. Prov. 31.18. Open thy mouth for the dumb, in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.  
THe Reader may take notice, That Mr. Portmans( formerly Secretary to the Navy) could not in conscience continue his employment under this apostasy, though it were worth more then 300 l. per annum; and for his faithfulness to the cause o● God, his People and the Nation, hath( amongst others) been a sufferer unto Bonds in the Tower this 17 of the 11 month 1658, a year want ng 3 weeks, never hearing what was laid to his charge, or that there was any to accuse him of evil: having demanded of Col. Barkstead his Jaylor( when first brought in by his Sould●ers) what his Crime was? could get no answer; n●i●her was there any expressed in the Warrant by which he was apprehended; the substance whereof was, that he should be ●rought into the Tower to be kept until t●e further pleasure of the late Tyrant, whom the Warrant blasphemously styled his H●ghness the Lord Pro●●ctor: who being lately dead, Mr. Portmans took notice of it ●n a L●tter to Col. Barkst●ad, delivered to h●s hand by two faithful B●ethren, meekly demanding, If he h●d ●ny further Warrant to continue him a pr●soner? If he had, that then h● might have a Copy, or at least the sight of it; which if he had not, in some short time, he must conclude there was none; and therefore his occasions to go forth for the well-be●ng of his Family urging him to it, he should assay to attend u●on them: but if upon T●yal he found the force continued, he must consider what might be h●s further duty. This for subst●nce, but with more plainness was intimated in the Letter, and accordingly a week after, not hearing ●rom him, about three in an afternoon, not disguised, but in his constant habit, he went to the gate, expecting to be stopped, rather then otherwise; but finding the passage free, went fo●th to his Brother-in-laws house, not with an intent to conceal himself; from whence he was again taken within an hour. This is briefly and truly the matter of Fact, and may, it's hoped, justify him in his attempt not to be left to any thing unbecoming a sober Christian: yet was he the rather induced thus to do, upon words not long before spoken by Col. Barkstead, viz. That he might go out if he would. Asking some friends, If there were no way to persuade him to it, &c. There needs nothing be said to such as know that foul-mouthed Malignant Nedham, to wipe off the reproach he hath raised in his Pamphlet, That Mr. Portmans should say, He would not go out if the gates were open, until he was satisfied for his imprisonment, to go about to do it, were to imply, that the Pampleteer did sometimes speak truth; which should he do, he would be utterly disabled to serve his Masters, who make lies their refuge, and hire him at no small charge( as a means to uphold their own reputation) to asperse the faithful in the Land: yet considering the report may come to those that know him not, such may be assured, That Mr. Portmans never spake ●ny such thing, but hath ever declared, That he should not continue there, were the force he is under removed. But by all the noise hath been made of this matter in the News-Books, they onely declare how grateful it would be to have any thing to colou● over their unrighteous proceedings, and justify themselves in their hard and mo e then Heathenish usage of such as dare not say a confederacy with them in their apostasy; for unto this hour, after now almost a years imprisonment, and at this time so close, as that he is locked up night and day, can he not hear of Accusation or Accuser, or so much as a Warrant for his Detension, other then as is before mentioned, That he should be taken and kept during the pleasure of the deceased Tyrant: which may become every true Englishman to be sensible of; for who knows whose lot it may be next, to feel the like oppression, when it shall please our Task-makers to impose it?   

A Third Narrative.  
IN the afore-going Narrative, you have an Account of the Actors upon the Stage, in this present Juncture of Time, the eminent Lords of the Other House: It is intended in this Supliment to take a General View of all the Alterations that hath happened, their Rise and Cause; and then consider the present Debates in council of Parliament.  
The first Original Cause of disturbing the Mindes of the whole Nation of England, as well as that of Scotland, was the pride of the Bishops, who not contenting themselves with the power settled in their hands, in the Days of Queen Elizabeth; but invading the Civil-Power, and taking Cognizance of Civil-Causes, and imposing upon the Consciences of the just Religious People, and promoting of New Ceremonies in the Church, gave thereby occasion of dislike to the good people of this Nation; they engaging the late King in the Quarrel, the which weakened his power over his Subjects, and gave thereby opportunity for the late Civil and Unnatural War.  
While they were thus building this fabric of Ecclesiastical Tyranny, they take to their Aid several of the great men of the Court; and to espouse them into a Quarrel with the people, under-hand aided them in gaining Monopolies of most of the vendible and staple-commodities of the Nation: all which discontented the people in such sort, that the Kings Commanders were every where disobeyed, and slighted by his Subjects: insomuch, that when he waged war with the Scots, he had contracted such great debts, that he was necessitated to call a Parliament, without which Authority, the Subjects w●uld not submit to payments of any kind whatsoever. A Pacification is made with the Scots, in hopes to make use of these Arms raised to oppose them if they would thereupon have laid down their Arms. Then the Arms in the Kings hands, should have been made use of to awe the English Nation, and reduce them to comform to the exorbitants, and Illegal wil●ss of the corrupt Ministers of State. But that prevailing not, a second Parliament is called, and made triennial: they disband both Armies, and take upon them to question divers who had abused the King and Kingdom; the King suffereth some of his friends to fall into their hands: others he defends by taking Arms, and settleth a Commission of Array, contrary to the advice of his Council: who advised him not to put his life and power, into the Scales of an uncertain War: especially, since that upon the aforegoing considerations, of his people being incensed by the invading of their Liberties and just Rights, his disadvantages were the greater on every hand; and it would give the greater advantage to factious Spirits desiring of change, to carry it on with greater vigour and odds by far, then any designs that ever was carried on against any of his Predecessors; And that it were better for him to give away all then lose all: and that it was better for him, to grant that which they could rest from him, by which means he might secure himself and posterity; and also that it would be greater glory for him to Rule Princes, then be a Prince of slaves, for no better were his people at that day. This was the advice of a Noble person, that followed him in all his wars, to the loss of his Estate and ruin of his Family. Well, the King is in Arms, the Parliament arms also: the Parliament begins to Levy vast sums on public faith. The King useth such other means by his friends, as putteth him in a condition to take the field with a powerful Army. Several Battels fought with various events: the King is Master of the field at first. The Parliament become Presbyterians to draw in the Scots to their aid. At length the Parliament new Moddeleth their Army, in which cromwell is a person of no small rank. The King declineth in power and loseth, he taketh himself to the Scots, who sell him for 200000 li.  
Addresses are made to the King during his restraint by the Army when he was at Oatlands. When the City of London and part of the Parliament opposed, the Army prevail by their approach only to the City, the Tower, all Forts, and Magazines are surrendered to them. Now they fear their applications to the King, the King is got by a trick into the Isle of Wight, to make way for the after-game.  
He is not long after beheaded as a Tyrant, traitor, and grand Incendiary: the Nation is declared a Free State, during which time, great and horrid injustice and abuses were committed, to the shane and infamy of that Parliament. ●●omwel being now arrived to the dignity of Commander in chief, over all the Forces of the three Nations; in it he planteth Anabaptists, to poyze with the independents and Presbyterians, who were the friends of the Parliament. The Parliament foreseing the underhand dealing of the Army to play into Cromwel's hand, Resolved to dissolve themselves, and call a new Representative; but cromwell preventeth them, and forcibly dissolveth them, under pretence of the heavy burdens that yet continued upon the people, and his Army ruleth.  
Now, you must suppose the people of England a Free People indeed, after the expense of both sides, had cost the Nation of England, one hundred thirty five Millions of money, which is more by one third then all the Wars since the Conquest, either foreign or other, did cost the Nation; all which are carefully collected, and shall ere long be made appear, to the shane of those dry sponges, that have sucked the wealth of the Nation. Well, cromwell now calleth a number of wisemen from Gotam, and other parts of the Nation to Council: they call themselves a Parliament, and were about to let him know as much; But some of these wise-men, repair to him, resign their power back to him, and he is made Lord Protector; after he calleth a thing like to a Parliament, and they would not warp to his Design: he dissolveth them because they could not make music of the Instrument of Government.  
He falleth into a Fit of Dislike of his Instrument, and putteth it up into its Case, and calleth another Parliament; excludeth a great part thereof, with the one half, or little more: A Petition of Advice it framed; in is He is desired to be a KING: He smelleth the Design, that those who promoted that, did it in order to destroy him: For that then the Cause, and other Pretences must be laid aside, which were good bars against the Stuart's Claim to the Royal Dignity.  
Upon which, He waveth that part of the Advice, and accepteth all the rest; is again made Protector. With great ado this Parliament is adjourned: at their next Meeting, the Excluded Members are admitted, upo●●aking an Oath to be true to his Highness, forsooth: But so soon as these Excluded Members were admitted, they fall to questioning all that had been done before. Some object, that they had sworn to be true to the Legal Government. Others answered, They knew none in being that was Legal. Well! He seeing that when they were together, they were not for His Tooth, He contents himself with the Petition of Advice, which enableth him to nominate his Successor; to have another House: And as he had not the Confidence to take upon Him the Title of KING; so also had He not the Impudence to call them a House of Lords, since no One in this Nation was a greater Instrument of designing the ruin of Both, then Himself. He dieth, and as it is said, nominateth his Son Richard Protector, to succeed Him.  
Richard calleth this present Parliament; wherein the Petition of Advice is wholly set to nought: the great Oppressions, Tyranny, and Inconveniencies of the Times fully debated. To obstruct the Debate thereof, it was alleged, That all the Members had taken the Oath at their Admission, to be true and obedient to the present Power; and therefore they could not with good Conscience admit of such Debates.  
To that it was answered, That the best Stamp of the present Power, was Parliamentary Authority, and what was done by one Parliament, might be undone by another: That their Fore-Fathers did formerly, when admitted Members of that House, take the Oath of allegiance to be true to the KING; and obedient to the Laws in being: Yet notwithstanding, so soon as they came into the Parliament, they Debated of New Laws, and altering of Old; nay, repealing many: Therefore, the Oath binds them as private persons; not as public persons: else they had been in that point all forsworn.  
That no Parliament can make a Law to bind a Successive Parliament; but that they may alter what is fit to be altered: Thereupon they took in hand the Debate of the Petition of Advice; to prevent which some of the New Courtiers bring in a Bill, or Recognition, which hath been variously debated; and upon the Debate,  
Resolved, That the Nation shall be governed by a Single Person, and Two Houses of Parliament.  
Now having taken some Orderly View of the various Changes and Turns; and also of the present Position of Government, though undigested, and unliked; therefore no judgement can be made of it what it will be, nor what it may be able to produce, as to Settlement or Security. Therefore,  

I.  
IF we must have a single Person, and that Succession be hereditary, Whether this will not make more for the STUARTS Family to claim against any Family whatsoever? and assert their Right and Claim, which hath been endeavoured to be shut out by several Acts of Parliament?   

II.  
Whether that the maintaining of the Dignity of a single Person will not be exceeding burdensome, seeing the Crown-Revenues are disposed of into private Hands?   

III.  
Whether that the Constituting of such a HOUSE of LORDS, of such persons mentioned in the foregoing Narrative, will bring any benefit to the Nation, or the single Person, when that the Ability and Interest of the whole Number cannot draw into the Field( in case of Invasion or other Insurrection) 2000 men at Arms. When that the Intention of such Constitutions was at first, to Expect from them to make in such Cases, considerable Levies, sooner then could be expected from the Commons.   

IV.  
Whether or no doth the Spanish war bring any advantage to the Nation, other then to keep up a pretended Necessity of Arms; when that thereby already we have lost 705 Sails of Ships, great and small, to the value of Two Millions, and Three Hundred Thousand Pounds; besides the value of a Million of Money lost, for want of employing the manufacture of the Nation, in the Commodities that might in the time of the War with Spain; have been vented there.   
THE END.