Moft remarkable TRANSACTIONS
In PARLIAMENT,

From the earliest TIMES,

TO THE

Restoration of King CHARLES II.

COLLECTED

From the RECORDS, the JOURNALS of both Houses, original MANUSCRIPTS, fcarce SPEECHES, and TRACTS; all compared with the several Contemporary Writers, and connected, throughout, with the History of the Times.

By SEVERAL

HAND S.

Juvat integros accedere Fontes,

VOL. XXI.

From the Meeting of Cromwell's third Parliament, in September, 1656, to great Confufions in October, 1659.

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LONDON,

Printed, and fold by WILLIAM SANDBY, against St. Dunstan's Church,

Fleet-Street. MDCCLX.

PREFACE.

T

HE Compilers of the PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY of England present the Public with two Volumes more of that Work; and were in Hopes that thefe would have comprebended the whole of it to the End of the Long, or Convention, Parliament: But a curious Manuscript having been lately communicated to us, the Work of a Member of that very Affembly, which contains a Journal, or Diary, of all their Debates, it has unavoidably lengthened our History somewhat beyond our Purpofe. A few Sheets more of it, therefore, remain yet to be published; which, with fome very interefting Particulars relative to the Work, and which have come to Hand fince the Publication of the former Volumes, must be poftponed. These last we intend

to

;

to add by Way of Appendix, to precede the Index all which are in great Forwardness, and will very Speedily be published.

We make no Doubt but the Form and Manner of our Index will give as great Satisfaction to the Publick, as it has done to fome able Judges to whom it has been communicated.

THE

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THE

Parliamentary History

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ENGLAN D.

Vigorous Profecution of the War with Inter-regnum,
Spain, requiring large Supplies, the

A Protector was neceffitated to call a
Parliament: But left a new one fhould
prove as refractory as the laft, which,
in January, 1654, he had diffolv'd in
high Difguft, he refolved to leave no Means unat→
tempted to pack together an Affembly of Men de-
voted to his own Ambitious and Arbitrary Defigns.
In effecting this his Major-Generals of Counties, of
which new Kind of Officers we have taken parti-
cular Notice in our laft Volume, were highly fer-
viceable; not only in procuring, by their Influence
and Authority, themselves and their Dependents,
fuch as Governors of Caftles and Garrifons, Colo-
nels of Regiments in the Army, Captains of County
Troops, Civil Officers, and Relations of the Lord
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a Vol. XX. p. 433, et feq.

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1656.

September,