thofe Troops of Horfe and the Artillery,) and fent to bring them up to him; and about one a Clock at Night or two a Clock, thofe Forces came to my Lord General, and joyned with the reft of the Army; and when the King had drawn his Forces up the Hill, my Lord General drew us a matter of half a Mile or three quarters of a Mile further from the Hill, that he might be out of the Power of the Cannon; there we ftood to our Arms all the Night, and in the Morning drew our felves out again into the Fields, but we heard no more News of the other Army, more than we saw some scattering Men, of fome three or four Troops of Horfes on the Top of the Hill, which came to bury the Dead, and take away fome of their Čannon, and fuch things as those were, but they came no more down the Hill, neither that Day nor on Tuefday, tho' there were divers Reports came to us in the Army, and I believe came hither, that there was fighting on Monday and Tuefday, yet there was no fighting, for the King kept on the Top of the Hill, and we came away on Tuesday at four a Clock; so that we can affure you there was no more Action, than was on the Lord's Day,

Gentlemen, I fhall, after I have declared this Narration to you, fay no more than this, That certainly my Lord General himself hath deferved as much in this Service, for his Pains, and for his Care, and the particular Success

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that was upon it, as truly I think, ever any Gentleman did; and in the next place, that as God of his own immediate Providence did thus declare himself for the owning of his own Cause, so you will not forget to apply your felves to God, to give him the Glory, and to intreat his Bleffing upon the future Succefs.

RICHARD CROMELL's first Speech to his Parliament, after the Death of OLIVER, Jan. 27. 1658. in which he makes a short Panegyric on his Father, affures them of his Love for Parliaments, and recommends to them the Care of the Publick Peace by providing for War, &c.

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My Lords and Gentlemen,

Believe there are scarce any of you here, who expected fome Months fince to have feen this great Affembly at this Time, in this Place, in Peace, confidering the great and unexpected Change which it hath pleased the all-difpofing Hand of God to make in the midft of us: I can affure you, that if Things had been according to your own Fears, and the Hopes of our Enemies, it had not been thus with us: And therefore it will become both you and me, in the first place, as to Re

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verence and Adore the great God, Poffeffor of Heaven and Earth, in whofe Hands our Breath is, and whofe are all our Ways, becaufe of his Judgments; fo to acknowledge him in his Goodness to thefe Lands, in that he hath not added Sorrow to Sorrow, and made the Period of his late Highness's Life, and that of the Nation's Peace, to have been in one Day.

Peace was one of the Bleffings of my Father's Government; a Mercy, after fo long a Civil War, and in the midft of fo great Divifion which that War bred, is not ufually afforded by God unto a People in fo great a Measure.

The Caufe of God, and these Nations, which he was ingaged in, met in all the Parts of it, as you well know, with many Enemies and great Oppofition; the Archers, privily and openly, forely grieved him, and fhot at him, yet his Bow abode in Strength; and the Arms of his Hands were made ftrong by the Hands of the mighty God of Jacob.

As to himself, he died full of Days, spent in great and fore Travail; yet his Eyes were not waxed dim, neither was his natural Strength abated, as it was faid of Mofes, he was ferviceable even to the laft.

As to these Nations he left them in great Honour abroad, and in full Peace at home; all England, Scotland and Ireland dwelling fafely, every Man under his Vine, and un

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der his Fig-tree, from Dan even to Beer Sheba.

He is gone to Reft, and we are entred into his Labours; and if the Lord hath still a Bleffing for thefe Lands, (as I trust he hath) as our Peace hath been lengthned out to this Day, fo fhall we go on to reap the Fruit, and gather the Harveft of what his late Highness hath sown, and laid the Foundation of.

For my own part, being by the Providence of God, and the Difpofition of the Law, my Father's Succeffor, and bearing that Place in the Government that I do, I thought it for the Publick Good to call a Parliament of the three Nations, now united and enjoyned together into one Commonwealth, under one Government.

It is agreeable, not only to my Truft, but to my Principles, to govern thefe Nations by the Advice of my two Houfes of Parliament; I find it afferted in the humble Petition and Advice (which is the Corner-ftone of this Building, and that which I fhall adhere to) That Parliaments are the great Council of the chief Magiftrate, in whofe Advice both he and thefe Nations may be most fafe and happy. I can affure you I have that Efteem of them: And as I have made it the firft a&t of my Government to call you together, fo I, fhall further let you fee the Value I have of you, by the Answers that I fhall return to

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the Advice that fhall be given me by you, for the good of thefe Nations.

You are come up from your feveral Countries, as the Heads of your Tribes, and with Hearts (I perfwade my felf) to confult together their Good: I can fay I meet you with the fame Defires, having nothing in my Defign, but the Maintenance of the Peace, Laws, Liberties, both Civil and Chriftian, of thefe Nations, which I fhall always make the Measure and Rule of my Government, and be ready to spend my Life for.

We have fummoned you up at this time, to let you know the State of our Affairs, and to have your Advice in them: And I believe a Parliament was never fummoned upon a more important Occafion.

It is true, as I have told you, we are, through the Goodness of God, at this time in Peace; but it is not thus with us, because we have no Enemies There are enough both within us and without us, who would foon put an end to our Peace, were it in their Powers, or fhould it at any time come into their Powers

It will be becoming your Wifdoms, to confider of the fecuring of our Peace against thofe, who, we all know, are, and ever will be, our implacable Enemies; what the Means of doing this are, I fhall refer unto you.

This I can affure you, That the Armies of England, Scotland and Ireland, are true and faithful