My Lord Whitlocks REPORTS ON Machiavil; OR HIS RECOLLECTIONS For the use of the Students of Modern Policy.  Lex esto Emolumentum. 
LONDON: Printed for Thomas Bateman, 1659.   

My Lord Whitlocks Reports, ON, MATCHIAVIL,  
I Will not meddle with the Law, for that I did overrule at my pleasure, and therefore I propose no maxims, no unquestionable principles of the Norman sovereignty; I was by a new Commonwealth name, called a Commissioner of the Seal, to as much purpose, as my Lord General Monck was made a Commissioner of the Army; the difference is, I would have turned my Masters out of door by the Committee of Safety for my own ends, and he has not left them to themselves but as a mock and derision, to the general content and benefit of the three Kingdoms.  
I should discourse of Equity and good Conscience, and tell you how far— and something further it might be stretched, for a● my Chaplain George Cockain saith, we ought not to be hidebound in our Consciences, where there is an opportunity of making our purses to strut and swell above the gauged measure of a Private Fortune: But I had learned so much without his Example or Precept, and a fig for that ignorant Rabbie. I will now make the World my Confessor.  
I was born to a Competent Inheritance, if it had meet and been entertained with a Competent mind, I was Christened with an hard and ominous name Bulst●ode, to which my numerous issue have adapted and fitted the Onomatopeia; for never any Parish had such a sure stout strider, as myself: but before I had such a chargeable large Family, I was an Infidel in the public Aconomy of the State, and I was so fare from caring for my Children, that I cared not for my Parent whom God and the Laws had given me; and I will briefly show you the reasons.  
When the Long Parliament was called (which hath dwindled and shrunk up to a Rump as short as an old Hens? I was elected a Burgess; I had had my education in the Nurseries of the Law, the Inns of Court, and so suitably qualified for the charge and employment, and the fit and more convenient for the projects the great Bontefeus' had … y, if I could be gained to their Faction●: I had then no interest, but contented myself with seeing the Fashions of the Parliament House, but Pyms discerning eyes, spying that curiosity, presently a●●qued my unconcerned, undetermined mind, and with the proffers of greatness and Popularity, brought me over to his design: I was then his second and my abilities were by him every way extolled, to this purpose, that where he smelled too … ckly (as in all the Over●●●es and Treaties 〈…〉 I by his management and ●ble direction, should supply his absence from which 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by strange ●yes obliged myself by no means to vary.  
This sudd●●●● brought me upon do Stage, I was appointed with the Earl of Northumberland M. William Pierpoint, etc. To attend the King at Oxford with Propositions from both Houses, where the great respect showed to the other Commissioners during our stay; and the small notice (or rather disrespect) taken of me by the King, (which 〈◊〉 aggravated to myself, by the conciousnesse of my strict obediende to Mr. Pym) implanted in me such an inveterate, implacable malice to him and his posterity, that I can better remember my crime, then tell how to expiate it, if it were possible such a dutiful thought should ever deign ●o harbour within me.  
By this means I was partly lifted, and partly screwed up myself to the Honour and greatness of being entrusted with the keeping of the great Seal, the Rumps Confident, the Darling of the newborn Free State. I was sent to make speeches against the young King at Guild-Hall when he was at Worcester, which I did with so much vigour and confidence, that Titchburn the next day durst throw the King's Declaration into the fire made at the Exchange, for which sure he will con me little thanks.  
My next grand employment, my Masterpiece, was my Embassy unto Sweden (to which VISCOUNT Lisle after a review was not thought sufficient) where as if I was born to baffle and despose Princes, I let the Queen Christina on progress through the world, as not being capable to act those designs, which I was sure the money and promises of this State, would engage her successor CHARLES to, viz. the diverting the forces of the Emperor from the succour of Flaunders, and consequently the interest of the King, by an invasive war in Poland the Imperial Dominions. Here I was almost nonplussed with the dissolution of the Rump by OLIVER, which I presently recovered by an impudent compliment, calling him, and styling him, His most Serene Highness my Master, for which I thank him still, he made me of his Treasury, although his extravagancies permitted me not to be as nimble fingered as I would.  
Was not I therefore, fit to be a Master of misrule, and to be of that irregular Committee of Safety, wherein I was obliged to do the same service for Lambert, as for Cromwell? I never could imagine the Rump any thing as long as the Sword 〈…〉 Free-Parliament; What would your way Politician to do? I knew nothing but Arms could secure me, and that there was no Compos●●●●● for my Estate, which consists in the spoils of the 〈…〉 purpose I 〈◊〉 myself as for 〈…〉 do for my Salary, and 〈…〉 I pretended, for which I sat alone in the cold weather three days in the Court of Chancery.  
By these Arts I have changed my Manor of Folly-Hall, into Knaves-Court at Chessey. I have drawn William Lily with a Golden Chain, to the making me his Heir to 200 l. per annum, and the like, though with no bait but cunning insinuation, have I done to an Essex Gentleman that shall be nameless, for his name's sake. But what doth 〈…〉 will all this avail me? My Patron and Friend the King of Sweden is dead, and my incensed Sovereign survives my Plots and Devices. I will therefore timely bethink myself of the King's Clemency, and do as I see others doing before me; and so Exit all my Po … i●●nd Honour.   
FINIS.