where there passed many remarkable expressions of
mutuall love and courtesie, sufficient to check the false Tongues
and wishes of the enemies of the Nation. The same day likewise
the Parliament gave his Lordship thanks, in the name of
the Common-Wealth, as likewise did the Lord Maior and Aldermen
in the name of the City, for his most famous services in
Ireland; which being added to the garland of his English
Victories, have rowned him in the opinion of all the world,
for one of the wisest and most accomplished Leaders, among
the present and past Generations.
The Parliaments principall work this day was, to set 600.
honest men on horseback, at the discretion of the City-Militia,
to defend the Parliament and City from Tumults, Rebellions,
Insurrections, and other fine Strategems of the roaring Boys
of the time; but they are so lost in Ale, as the Presbyters are
in Zeal, that we need fear no further Insurrections, unless it
be those in the Bordelli and the Pulpit.
Friday, June 7.
ANd certainly, it cannot belong ere those be at an end
too, since the eyes of men are opened, and begin to see
how they are Priest ridden in every County: And particularly,
as it was this day certified from Leverpoole in Lancashire,
and divers other places, where the Engagement goes down
merrily, for all the Barking and Bleating of the bold Pharisees,
of that and Cheshire, the adjoyning County, who have listed
themselves in Print under the notion of Non-scribers, and
brought Arguments, suitable to their malice, against the present
Government. Those are the shame of Presbyterie and the
Goblins of that Party, who make a Scar crow of the Covenant,
to fright the people, These are the precious Vessels that can
sail with a Side Winde, and tack about any way with a foisted
Scruple of Conscience, so it be to satisfie their Concupiscence,
and serve a Faction: These are the Dreamers that speak evil of
Dignities, but when they are awake, or in their wits upon the
next Victory, then they will cry, away with the Pedlery, and
Projects of the Northern Pretenders.