242. Rome, Spain, and France sent supplies to the rebels in Ireland, and the Pope a Nuncio. 255. A weekly assessment of £33,518— per annum £1,742,936 upon a people who thought two subsidies a year an insupportable burthen, which in the best times never exceeded £200,000, and in our life never £150,000. 480. Lie that 20,000 Irish rebels were landed-this posted about the streets, and distributed in handbills. 482. Women who petitioned for peace, charged by the City Horse, and many killed and wounded. 483. Parliamentary press men. 485. Intention of the better members to secede and protest under protection of 276. Charles warns the Scotch against Essex and the army. 497. the Independents. 293-4. Course of justice interrupted by the Parliament, the King offering safe conduct for the assizes everywhere. 311. The two Cecils, their "wisdom and virtues died with them, and their children only inherited their titles." 349. “Dismal inequality of this contention" in the influence and characters of those who fell on different sides. 355. Breach of articles at Reading, which Essex could not prevent, a fatal plea for retaliation. 445. 490. Effect of the Parliament's severity in making men submit and rely upon the King's clemency! 503. License and breach of articles in the West by Prince Maurice's troops. 512. Ill behaviour before Gloucester. 569. Vane's hypocrisy about the Covenant. 577. Change of character in the two armies. 599. The French Ambassador persuades some English Priests and Jesuits to engage their flock not to assist the King, — with a 357. Charles's proper grief that the de- full assurance that the Parliament would serters at Reading were given up. 365. Excise proposed by the Commons. 388. Waller's affected conversion, perhaps not wholly affected, he became Quakerish at last, which I think is not known to his biographers. 399. Hampden, - he was "a supreme governor over all his passions and affections, and had thereby a great power over other men's." Who is it that has imitated this in verse? "A great exactor of himself, and then," &c. Clarendon it is who has imitated Cartwright here.' 414. Growing license of the King's troops. 417. Waller called William the Conqueror. 457. Charles's appeal to the people. This is added in an interlinear note. allow them liberty of conscience. 646. In the letter from the Council of Ireland and the Parliament, 1643, they call hides "the only native commodity." 679. Excise first imposed. 33. He wished to have joined Montrose had that been possible. 35. Intentions always first indicated from the pulpit. 46. Henderson's conversion. 704. Charter about Guernsey, &c. 711. Ireland-offer to Duke of Lorrain. 723. High treason to contrive against the government then established. 728. Cromwell's tyranny, how brought 52. Some of the Scotch aware of the in- about and rendered necessary. famy of selling him. 187. 63. Soldiers and officers preach and pray, and women also. 64. Death of Essex. 65. Fairfax, Ireton, Harrison, and others elected members in spite of the self-denying ordinance. 66. Agitator's resolutions. 111. Oxford Reasons against the Cove nant. 145. State of the kingdom. 165. Different conduct of the Independents and Presbyterians. 173. Folly of the Scots. 175. Independent clergy more learned and rational than the Presbyterian. 487. Cromwell's behaviour when made Lieutenant. 515. Theodosius. 516. Cromwell's rashness in Ireland. 520. Queen wished to give up the Church. 592. 670-1. Vol. 3, P. 2. 729. Barebone's Parliament. 733. Their intention about the Universities. 742. Persecution of Royalists. 774. Cardinal Retz's honest speech to Charles. 797. Duke of Gloucester released. 809. Disaffection of the army to Cromwell. 864. Decimation of the Royalists. 866. 887. Cromwell's wish for a Swiss guard. 891. Grants of his Parliament. 892. He approves of episcopacy. 894. Question of crowning him, how it would have affected the Royalists. 899. 901-2. 907. Inauguration. 908. His daughter married episcopally. 914. Last Parliament. 917. Quarrel with the Major Generals 566. MARCH into Scotland. Presbyte- and Lambert. rians here and there. 946. Sir H. Slingsby uncle to Lord Falconbridge. 954. Cromwell described in the Baptist Address. 963. 961. "That ugly tyrant, who calls himself Protector." 980. Cromwell's fears. 986. His reverence for Magna Charta. State of military art in England. The Dutch war occasioned the preponderance of France over Spain, and thereby prepared the way for the victories of Louis XIV. It introduced republican principles into Great Britain. Covenant like the League. The liberties of Europe were never in reality endangered by Spain. Philip, even in the height of his power, was poor. He might have recovered the Low Countries could he have paid his armies. "You that are the grandees of the army have sufficiently already gotten by the poor soldiery in putting a necessity on them to sell their arrears to you for a matter of nought."-Rod for the Lawyers. MILES BURKET in his prayer on the Sunday after the King's murder, asked the Almighty if he had not smelt a sweet savour of blood!-WALKER, Pt. 2, p. 209. THERE are some things in which Turenne resembled Cromwell.-M. DE SEVIGNE, tom. 3, p. 384. SOME there were who "would not abide | and trembling hearts, what England would have been, her eyes (the Universities and clergy) being put out, that Cambridge would have been without Cambridge, what a spectre of a dead University,—what a skeleton of empty colleges,-what a funeral of the Muses, and a carcass of decayed literature."-Ibid. vol. 1, p. 103. CROMWELL'S Millennium-he fixed upon 1666 for the commencement of their thousand years.-Ibid. vol. 6, p. 168. m WALKER'S Relations and Observations, &c. P. 1. PEOPLE honestly following dishonest leaders. 2. Parties playing into each other's hands, when profit is the object. 3. Feathering their nests. 4. Honest members impoverished. Government of Committees, its tyranny, 6. 7. "The people are now generally of opinion that they may as easily find charity in hell, as justice in any Committee, and that the King hath taken down one Star to be buried in our churchyard."-LIGHT- Chamber, and the Parliament hath set up Foot, vol. 1, p. lxii. Preface. THE Lord's Prayer generally laid aside | in the University, and LIGHTFOOT was remarkable for producing it in the University church, and discoursing "his own opinion concerning the obligation to use the form of it in public, and accordingly, to testify his more than ordinary assurance and zeal, he recited it both before and after his sermon."-Ibid. vol. 1, p. 31. "NOTHING then was talked of so much, and so much intended, and almost come to a final resolution, as the seizing the possessions and revenues of the University, and turning out the scholars to shift for themselves. But by God's gracious overruling providence, this feral design took not place. We could not," says LIGHTFOOT in his Latin oration, "but imagine, and that with sad an hundred." 8. "Amount of money forced from the people, about 40 M. one half of all the goods and chattels, and at least one half of the lands, rents, and revenues of the kingdom have been sequestered.” N. B. The Exchequer. 11. Many great plunderers said to have secured their gains in the Low Countries, for a safe retreat. 12. Crimping children for the plantations. All the counties suffer much for want of settling their militia, the Parliament not trusting them with arms so much as for their own defence. N. 14. Popish and Presbyterian clergy coming to the same practical conclusion. 15. 16. Two good queries. 17. Pedigree of our miseries. State incubi who begot plenty upon war, I preaching against the superstitious bowing and filled their houses with the plunder of at the name of Jesus." their country. 18. A striking conclusion. www LAUD. The Grand Impostor unmasked, or a Detection of the notorious hypocrisy and desperate impiety of the late Archbishop (so styled) of Canterbury, cunningly couched in that written copy which he read on the scaffold at his execution (Jan. 10, 1644), alias, called by the Publisher, his Funeral Sermon. By HENRY BURTON. Mottoes-Rom. ii. 5. Psal. 1. 21. When the Fox preacheth, let the Geese beware. "HOWEVER the good people may pardon his old memory for reading instead of preaching, yet how the righteous God should pardon such an old memory, as could not remember one of all those gross sins wherein he had lived, so as to confess them, and ask pardon of God for them, I cannot see." "It seems that not only his long habituated wickedness had seared, and brought his conscience into a deep lethargy or dead sleep, but surely some compounded cordial by the apothecary's art had so wrought with him, that not only it caused him to have a ruddy fresh countenance, but also did so prop up his spirits that he might seem as Agag to have already swallowed down the bitter cup of death, and that the world might take him to die as some innocent martyr." "Blessed be God our sadness is at length somewhat refreshed with the broken head of this leviathan in our desolate land." "He calls the scaffold an uncomfortable place to preach in. But sure if his cause had been good, and his conscience innocent, he needs not have complained of the uncomfortableness of the place. The martyrs did not so, who coming to the stake, cheerfully saluted it with a kiss." "A child of the devil, a notorious hypocrite, a desperate, obdurate, impenitent, remorseless, shameless monster of men." “ "O poor wretch! no apprehension of divine justice! Nothing but a dead slumber, a deep hypocrisy, or damnable atheism." (This because the Archbishop "thanks Christ he is quiet within as ever.") "As a man bereft of his common senses, stript of his understanding, benumbed with a lethargy, senseless, brutish, blind, obdurate, he persists in his diabolical impenitency." Laud's prayer on the scaffold-" A godless, spiritless prayer, even the dead carcase of a prayer, a very pack of lies." "He complains for want of room to die, which he needed not; for he had too much of Rome that brought him to die." "A perpetual enemy to Jesus Christ, a cruel persecutor of his saints, a hater of his word, an oppressor of the power of godliness wherever he found it. This wretch never knew Jesus Christ in the power of his resurrection, in the fellowship of his afflictions, in a conformity to his death." "A malignant and godless life hath an impenitent and desperate death. This is that Canterburian Arch prelate, in his lifetime heir apparent to the Pope,- Satan's second child, whoever is the first,-wilfully damning his own soul to save the credit of his cursed cause." The author of this accursed pamphlet is that Burton whom Laud had pilloried. -"STRANGE flocking of the people after Burton, when he removed from the Fleet toward Lancaster Castle. Mr. Ingram, subwarden of the Fleet, told the King that there was not less than 100,000 people gathered together to see him pass by, betwixt Smithfield and Browne Well, which is two miles beyond Highgate. His wife went 'He suspended ministers for once for along in a coach, having much money thrown SIR EDWARD DERING'S Vindication. "THE only colour, or rather shadow whereupon some thought me as fierce for ruin as themselves, was my fortune, or misfortune, to strike first, (and shortly after, secondly,) at the tallest cedar on the church's Lebanon, 'Tis true I did so, and am nothing sorry for the blow, His crimes were many; the complaints were fresh with me; and myself, (entrusted by that county where his diocese is seated) as fit as any to strike that stroke. "This was at that time received and applauded as an act of justice, but by the same men of late traduced, as relishing of personal malignity. Non sic didici Christum. I thank God my heart hath never yet known the swelling of personal malice. And for the Bishop, I profess I did (and do) bear a good degree of personal love unto him, a love unto some parts and qualities, which I think him master of. "His intent of public uniformity was a good purpose; though in the way of his pursuit thereof he was extremely faulty. "His book lately set forth (especially for the latter part thereof) hath muzzled the Jesuit; and shall strike the Papists under the fifth rib when he is dead and gone, And being dead, wheresoever his grace shall be, Paul's will be his perpetual monument, and his own book his lasting epitaph. "It is true the roughness of his uncourtly nature sent most men discontented from him; yet would he often, of himself, find ways and means to sweeten many of them again when they least looked for it. "Lastly, he was alway one and the same man begin with him at Oxford, and so go on to Canterbury, he is unmoved, unchanged; he never complied with the times, but kept his own stand until the times came up to him. | "He is not now in a condition to be flattered; nor was I ever so low as to use it. I did not accuse him for these. I struck another string, and that of so right a tune to them that are stung with a Tarantula, that I was instantly voiced, more as they would have me, than I was. For (the truth is) I did not dream at that time of extirpation and abolition of any more than his Archiepiscopacy. Our professed Rooters themselves (many of them) at that hour, had (I persuade myself) more moderate hopes than since are entertained. A severe reformation was a sweet song then. I am, and ever was for that, and for no more. "The plain truth is, that immediately upon my approach to this Parliament, some circumstances did concur to lead my language on upon the Archbishop, not any personal passages; God and my soul do witness for me, I have not such a temper. But being servitor for that shire, and in that diocese where some of his hardships, then fresh and new, was brought by complaint unto me; the accident of presenting that complaint, did beget me almost as many new friends, as he had old enemies: and I know not what misconception did thereupon entitle me an enemy to the very function of Episcopacy. I never gave my name in to take away both root and branch. I love not the sound of a curse so well. If by the Rooters I have been so mistaken, their credulity is not my crime, and their foul language shall neither be my shame nor sorrow. WILLIAM LAUD-I made will law. In the Palinodia Cantuarenses he is made to say "the world has consulted with my fate, and found nothing but tyranny contained in the leaf of my destiny, which they have picked out in the anatomy of my name. "William Lade-I am a Divell." "SOME think that prophecy about the Beast coming out of the earth, which spake |