Cromwell Parliment Speech 1656 Pt 3 of 5

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Oliver Cromwell: Protector of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, 1656

Continuing Cromwell’s Speech to the newly formed Second Protectorate Parliament, he making specific reference to the Jesuits and the several assassination attempts against his Person by their agents, the Commoner Communist Levellers and Divine Right Cartel-Capitalist Cavaliers:

“And now farther,—as there is a complication of these Interests abroad, so there is a complication of them here.  Can we think that Papists and Cavaliers shake not hands in England?  It is unworthy, unchristian, un-Englishlike, ‘say you.’  Yes; but it doth serve to let you see, and for that end I tell it you that you may see, your danger, and the source thereof. Nay it is not only thus, in this condition of hostility, that we stand towards Spain; and towards all the Interest which would make void and frustrate everything that has been doing for you; namely, towards the Popish Interest, Papists and Cavaliers;—but it is also— —That is to say, your danger is so great, if you will be sensible of it, by reason of Persons who pretend other things! [Coming now to the great Miscellany of Anabaptists, Republicans, Levellers; your Allens, Sexbys, Overtons.---Carlyle] ‘Pretend, I say;’ yea who, though perhaps they do not all suit in their hearts with the said ‘Popish’ Interest—Yet every man knows, and must know, that discontented parties are among us somewhere!  They must expect backing and support somewhere.  They must end in the Interest of the Cavalier at the long-run.  That must be their support!—I could have reckoned this in another ‘head’—But I give you an account of things as they arise to me.  Because I desire to clear them to you!  Not discoursively, in the oratoric way; but to let you see the matter of fact,—to let you see how the state of your affairs stands.

“Certain it is, there was, not long since, an endeavour to make an Insurrection in England. It was going on for some time before it broke out.  It was so before the last Parliament sat.  ‘Nay,’ it was so not only from the time of the undertaking of this Government; but the spirit and principle of it did work in the Long-Parliament ‘time.’  From that time to this, hath there been nothing but enterprising and designing against you. And this is no strange or new thing to tell you:  Because it is true and certain that the Papists, the Priests and Jesuits have a great influence upon the Cavalier Party; they and the Cavaliers prevail upon the discontented spirits of the Nation,—who are not all so apt to see where the dangers lie, nor to what the management of affairs tend. Those ‘Papists and Cavaliers’ [Jesuits and Papal Knights, as in the US and UK today---EJP] do foment all things that tend to disservice; to propagate discontentments upon the minds of men.  And if we would instance, in particulars, those that have manifested this,—we could tell you how Priests and Jesuits have insinuated themselves into men’s society; pretending the same things that they pretended;—whose ends, ‘these Jesuits’ ends,’ have, out of doubt, been what I have told you. [Dark spectres of Jesuits; knitting-up Charles Stuart, the Spaniard, and all manner of Levellers and discontented persons, into one Anti-christian mass, to overwhelm us therewith!---Carlyle]

“We had that Insurrection.  It was intended first to the assassination of my person;—which I would not remember as anything at all considerable to myself or to you [What a humble statement from the lips of this savior of England!---EJP]:  for they would have had to cut throats beyond human calculation before they could have been able to effect their design [Cromwell having been protected by 20 bodyguards around the clock, Bible-believing men personally chosen by the General from among his fearless and invincible cavalry of horse, "the Ironsides"---EJP].  But you know it very well, ‘this of the assassination;’—it is no fable.  Persons were arraigned for it before the Parliament sat; and tried, and upon proof condemned [Gerard and Vowel; we remember them!---Carlyle]–-for their designs to cut the throat of myself, and three or four more; whom they had singled out as being, a little beyond ordinary, industrious to preserve the peace of the Nation.  And did think to make a very good issue ‘in that way,’ to the accomplishment of their designs!  I say, this was made good upon the Trial. Before the Parliament sat, all the time the Parliament sat, they were about it.  We did hint these things to the Parliament people by several persons, who acquainted them therewith.  But what fame we lay under I know not!  It was conceived, it seems, we had things ['we made statements'---Carlyle] which rather intended to persuade agreement and consent, and bring money out of the people’s purses, or I know not what:—in short, no-thing was believed [due to the Jesuit influence over that Long Parliament which Cromwell later purged of its Jesuit Temporal Coadjutors refusing to support the Parliamentary Army resisting the Jesuit-led tyranny of Charles I---EJP]; though there was a series of things distinctly and plainly communicated to many Members.

“The Parliament rose about the middle of January.  By the 12th of March after, the people were in arms.  But “they were a company of mean fellows,”—alas!—”not a lord, nor a gentleman, nor a man of “fortune, nor a this or that, among them:  but it was a poor “headstrong people, a company of rash fellows who were at the “undertaking of this,”—and that was all!  And by such things have men ‘once well-affected’ lost their consciences and honours, complying, ‘coming to agreement with Malignants,’ upon such notions as these!—Give me leave to tell you, We know it; we are able to prove it. And I refer you to that Declaration which was for guarding against Cavaliers (as I did before to that other ‘Declaration’ which set down the grounds of our War with Spain), Whether these things were true or no?  If men will not believe,—we are satisfied, we do our duty.—If we let you know things and the ground of them, it is satisfaction enough for us: But to see how men can reason themselves out of their honours and consciences in their compliance with those sort of people—!—Which, truly I must needs say, some men had compliance with, who I thought never would for all the world:  I must tell you so.—

“These men rise in March.  And that it was a general Design [Conspiracy---EJP], I think all the world must know and acknowledge.  For it is as evident as the day, that the King [Charles I] sent Sir Joseph Wagstaff and another, the Earl of Rochester, to the North.  And that it was general, we had not by suspicion or imagination; but we know individuals!  We are able to make appear, That persons who carried themselves the most demurely and fairly of any men in England were engaged in this business.  And he that gave us our intelligence lost his life for it in Nuburg Country [Yes, Manning was shot there; he had told us Hyde was cock-sure---Carlyle];—I think I may now speak of that, because he is dead:—but he did discover, from time to time, a full intelligence of these things.  Therefore, How men of wicked spirits may traduce us in that matter; or, notwithstanding all that hath been done, may still continue their compliances ‘with the Malignants;’—I leave it.  I think England cannot be safe unless Malignants be carried far away!—

“There was never any design on foot but we could hear it out of the Tower.  He who commanded there would give us account, That within a fortnight or such a thing there would be some stirrings; for a great concourse of people were coming to them, and they had very great elevations of spirit. [Vigilant Barkstead!---Carlyle]  And not only there; but in all the Counties of England.  We have had informations that they were upon designs all over England (besides some particular places which came to our particular assurance), by knowledge we had from persons in the several Counties of England.

“And if this be so, then, as long as commotions can be held on foot, you are in danger by your War with Spain; with whom all the Papal Interest is joined. [The Jesuits fomented an insurrection during the prosecution of Cromwell's legitimate foreign war against the Order's Spanish Crown!  The same is plot is being pursued in the US, the Order having ignited a foreign "War On Terror" while simultaneously fomenting a domestic insurrection---EJP]  This Pope [Alexander VII, Fabio Chigi] is a person all the world knows to be a person of zeal for his Religion,—wherein perhaps he many shame us,—and a man of contrivance, and wisdom, and policy; and his Designs are known to be, all over, nothing by an Endeavour to unite all the Popish Interests in all the Christian world, against this Nation above any, and against all the Protestant Interest in the world.—If this be so, and if you will take a measure of these things; if we must still hold the esteem that we have had ‘for Spaniards,’ and be ready to shake hands with them and the Cavaliers,—what doth this differ from the Bishop of Canterbury [Jesuit Spiritual Coadjutor Archbishop William Laud---EJP] ‘striving’ to reconcile matters of religion; if this temper by upon us to unite with these ‘Popish’ men in Civil Things [Jesuit Temporal Coadjutor Charles Stuart II---EJP] ? Give me leave to say, and speak what I know!  If this be men’s mind, I tell you plainly,—I hope I need not; but I wish all the Cavaliers in England, and all the Papists, heard me:’  There are a company of poor men that are ready to spend their blood against such compliance!—and I am persuaded of the same thing in you!

“If this be our condition,—with respect had to this, truly let us go a little farther.  For I would lay open the danger wherein I think in my conscience we stand; and if God give not your hearts to see and discern what is obvious, we shall sink, and the house will fall about our ears,—upon even ‘what are called’ “such sordid attempts” as these same! Truly there are a great many people in this Nation who “would not reckon-up every pitiful thing,”—perhaps like the nibbling of a mouse at one’s heel; but only “considerable dangers”!  I will tell you plainly ‘what to me seems dangerous;’ it is not a time for compliments nor rhetorical speeches,—I have none, truly;—but to tell you how we find things.

There is a generation of men in this Nation who cry-up nothing but righteousness and justice and liberty [Coming now to the Levellers and "Commonwealth's-men"---Carlyle]; and these are diversified into several sects, and sorts of men; and though they may be contemptible in respect they are many, and so not like to make a solid vow to do you mischief,—yet they are apt to agree in aliquo tertio.  They are known (yea, well enough) to shake hands with,—I should be loath to say with Cavaliers,—but with all the scum and dirt of this Nation, to put you to trouble.  And when I come to speak of the Remedies, I shall tell you what are the most apt and proper remedies in these respects.  I speak now of the very time when there was an Insurrection at Salisbury, ‘your Wagstaffs and Penruddocks openly in arms’— —I doubt whether it be believed there ever was any rising in North Wales ‘at the same time;’ at Shrewsbury; at Rufford Abbey, where were about Five-hundred horse; or at Marston Moor, or in Northumberland, and the other places,—where all these Insurrections were at that very time! [The Jesuits are masters of the military tactic of inciting simultaneous insurrections or rioting throughout an enemy nation.---EJP]— —There was a Party which was very proper to come between the Papists and Cavaliers; and that Levelling Party [a 16th century Communist Party under Jesuit-directed leadership---EJP] hath some accession lately, which goes under a finer name or notion!  I think they would now be called “Commonwealth’s-men;” who perhaps have right to it little enough.  And it is strange that men of fortune and great estates [Lord Grey of Groby; he is in the Tower; he and others---Carlyle] should join with such a people.  But if the fact be so, there will need no stretch of wit to make it evident, it being so by demonstration.

“I say, this people at that very time, they were pretty numerous,—and do not despise them!—at that time when the Cavaliers were risen, this very Party had prepared a Declaration against all the things that had been transacted ‘by us;’ and called them by I know not what ‘names,’ “tyranny,” “oppression,” things “against the liberty of the subject;” and cried out for “justice,” and “righteousness,” and “liberty;”—and what was all this business for, but to join the Cavaliers to carry0on that Design? [The Order's Communist Levellers of the 17th Century were identical with the Order's Communist Jacobins of the 18th Century crying "liberty, equality and fraternity."---EJP]  And these things,—not words!  That Declaration we got; and the Penner of it we got [Locked him fast in Chepstow; the unruly Wildman!---Carlyle]:  and we have got intelligence also how the business was laid and contrived;—which was hatched in the time of the Sitting of that Parliament.  I do not accuse anybody:  but that was the time of it;—an unhappy time!  And a plausible Petition had been penned, which must come to me, forsooth, “To consider all these things, and to give redress and remedies.”  And this was so.—

“Now indeed I must tell you plainly, we suspected a great deal of violence then; and we did hunt it out.  I will not tell you these are high things: but at that time when the Cavaliers were to rise, a Party was to seize upon General Monk in Scotland [Monk, in 1650, having destroyed the Scottish Knights Templars' Rosslyn Castle owned by the Sinclairs], and to commit him to Edinburgh Castle, upon this pretence of “liberty:” and when they had seized him, and clapped him by the heels, ‘him’ and some other true and faithful Officers, they had resolved a number at the same time should march away for London; leaving a party behind them,—to have their throats cut by the Scots!  Though I will not say they would have ‘purposely’ brought it to this pass; yet it cannot be thought but that a considerable ‘part of the’ Army would have followed them ‘hither’ at the heels.— — And not only thus: but this same spirit and principle designed some little fiddling things upon some of your Officers, to an assassination; and an Officer was engaged, who was upon the Guard, to seize me in my bed.  This was true.  And other foolish designs there were,—as, To get into a room, to get gunpowder laid in it, and to blow-up the room where I lay. [Ah, a reversion to the tactic of the Order's Gunpowder Plot of 1605.---EJP]  And this, we can tell you, is true. These are Persons not worthy naming; but the things are true. And such And such is the state we have stood in, and had to conflict with, since the last Parliament.  And upon this account, and in this combination, it is that I say to you, That the ringleaders to all this are none but your old enemies the Papists and Cavaliers [several of whom were Knights Templars---EJP].  We have some ‘of them’ in prison for these things.

“Now we would be loath to tell you of the notions more seraphical!  These are poor and low conceits.  We have had very seraphical notions!  We have had endeavours to deal between two Interests;—one some section of that Commonwealth Interest; and another which was a notion of a Fifth-Monarchy Interest!—Which ‘strange operation’ I do not recite, nor what condition it is in, as thinking it not worthy our trouble.  But de facto it hath been so, That there have been endeavours;—as there were endeavours to make a reconciliation between Herod and Pilate that Christ might be put to death, so there have been endeavours of reconciliation between the Fifth-Monarchy men and the Commonwealth men that there might be union in order to an end,—no end can be so bad as that of Herod’s was,—but in order to end in blood and confusion! And, that you may know, ‘to tell you candidly,’ I profess I do not believe of these two last, of Commonwealth men and Fifth-Monarchy men, but that they have stood at a distance, ‘aloof from Charles Stuart.’ [The Overtons, the Harrisons, ar far above such a thing.---Carlyle]  I think they did not participate.  I would be so charitable, I wold be, That they did not.  But this I will tell you, That as for the others, they did not only set these things on work; but they sent a fellow [Sexby, the miserable outcast!---Carlyle], a wretched creature, an apostate from religion and all honesty,—they sent him to Madrid to advise with the King of Spain to land Forces to invade the Nation. Promising satisfaction that they would comply and concur with him to have both men and moneys; undertaking both to engage the Fleet to mutiny, and also your Army to gain a garrison ‘on the coast;’ to raise a party, ‘so’ that if the Spaniard would say where he would land, they would be ready to assist him!— This person was sometimes a Colonel in the Army.  He went with Letters to the Archduke Leopoldus and Don John.  That was an “Ambassador;”—and gave promise of much moneys:  and hath been soliciting, and did obtain moneys; which he sent hither by Bills of Exchange:—and God, by His Providence, we being exceeding poor, directed that we lighted on some of them and some of the moneys! Now if they be payable, let them be called for!—If the House shall think fit to order any inspection into these things, they may have it.

“We think it our duty to tell you of these things; and we can make them good.  Here is your danger; that is it! Here is a poor Nation that hath wallowed in its blood;—though, thanks be to God, we have had Peace these four or five years: yet here is the condition we stand in.  And I think I should be false to you, if I did not give you this true representation of it.

“I am to tell you, by the way, a word to justify a Thing [Coming to the Major Generals---Carlyle] which, I hear, is much spoken of.  When we knew all these Designs before mentioned; when we found that the Cavaliers would not be quiet— — No quiet; “there is no peace to the wicked,” saith the Scripture (Isaiah, Fifty-seventh):  whose waters throw “up mire and dirt.”  They cannot rest,—they have no Peace with God in Jesus Christ to the remission of sins!  They do not know what belongs to that; therefore they know not how to be at rest; therefore they can no more cease from their actions than they can cease to live,—not so easily neither!— —Truly when that Insurrection was, and we saw it in all the roots and grounds of it, we did find out a littler poor Invention, which I hear has been much regretted.  I say, there was a little thing invented; which was, the erecting of your Major-Generals: To have a little inspection upon the People thus divided, thus discontented, thus dissatisfied, ‘split’ into divers interests,—and the workings of the Popish Party! ‘Workings’ of the Lord Taaff and others; the most consisting of Natural-Irish rebels, and all those men you have fought against in Ireland, and have expulsed from thence, as having had a hand in that bloody Massacre [the Jesuit-led, Irish Massacre of Scots-Irish Protestants in Ireland (1641-1649)];—of him and of those that were under his power; who were now to have joined in this excellent business of Insurrection!—

“And upon such a Rising as that was, —truly I think if ever anything were justifiable as to Necessity, and honest in every respect, this was.  And I could as soon venture my life with it as with anything I ever undertook!  We did find, —I mean myself and the Council did,—That, if there were need to have greater forces to carry-on this work, it was a most righteous thing to put the charge upon that Party which was the cause of it. And if there by any man that hath a face averse to this, I dare pronounce him to be a man against the Interest of England!—Upon this account, upon this ground of necessity; when we saw what game they were upon; and knew individual persons, and of the greatest rank, not a few, engaged in this business (I knew one man that laid down his life for it); and had it by intercepted Letters made as clear as the day;-–we did think it our duty To make that class of persons who, as evidently as anything in the world, were in the combination ‘of the insurrectionists,’ bear their share of the charge.  ‘Bear their share,’ one with another, for the raising of the Forces which were so necessary to defend us against those Designs!  And truly if any man be angry at it,—I am plain, and shall use an homely expression:  Let him turn the buckle f his girdle behind him! If this were to be done again, I would do it.

“How the Major Generals have behaved themselves in that work?  I hope they are men, as to their persons, of known integrity and fidelity; and men who have freely adventured their blood and lives for that good Cause,—if it ‘still’ be thought such, and it was well stated, ‘this morning,’ [during John Owen's sermon] against all the ‘new’ humors and fancies of men! — — And truly England doth yet receive one day more of Lengthening-out its tranquility, by that same service of theirs.— —

Thomas Carlyle, Oliver Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches With Elucidations, (London: Chapman and Hall, 1894), Vol. IV of V, pp. 188-200.

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