1811.) 
this they were seized by the magistrates, 
and, being complained of to the parlia- 
ment, were brought up to town, into 
which (as in‘all places) they entered sing- 
ing the same blasphemies. At the bar of 
the House, in December (1656) he was 
sentenced to be set in the pillory twice, 
and whipt twice, and his forehead to be 
stigmatized with the letter B. and bored 
through the tongue ; with which he used 
to answer toany question, T/ou hast said 
st, and the like. He was likewise whipt 
at Bristol, and thence returned to New- 
ate. One Mr. Rich (a merchant ofcre- 
dit) that held him by the hand while he 
was in the pillories, with divers others, 
licked his wounds, The women were ob- 
served some to lay their head in his lap, 
lying against his feet, others to lean it up- 
on his shoulders, &c. After three days 
wilful abstinence, having weakened him- 
self even unto death, he begged soime 
victuals; and then was set towork, which 
he performed, and came by degrees to 
himself and to reduction.. At the return 
ef the Rump, he got his liberty, but sur- 
vived it not; his additional pretended 
divinity having attenuated and wasted 
his lumanity, and that body sublimed 
and prepared for miracles, went the way 
of all flesh. 
INVESTITURE OF CROMWELL. 
Being seated in his chair, on the left 
hand thereof stood the Lord Mayor 
Titchbouror, and the Dutch ambassador ; 
- the French ambassador, and the Earl of 
_ Warwick, on the right ; next behind him 
stood his son Richard, Fleetwood, Clay- 
' pool, and the privy council; upon a lower 
descent stood the Lord Viscount Lisle, 
Lords Montague, and Whitlock, with 
drawn swords. Then the speaker, (Sir 
Thomas Whiddrington) in the name of 
the parliament, presented to him arobe 
of purple velvet, a bible, a sword, and a 
sceptre ; at the delivery of these things, 
the speaker made a short comment vpon 
them to the Protector, which he divided 
into four parts as followeth. 
1. The robe or purple : this. is an em- 
blem of magistracy, and imports. righte- 
Ousness and justice. When you have 
put on this vestment, I may say you are 
2 gownman, This robe is of a mixt co- 
~ lour, to shew the mixture of justice and 
mercy. Indeed, a mayistrate must have 
‘two hands, to cherish and to punish. 
2. The bible is a book that contains 
the Holy Scriptures, in which you have 
the happiness to be well versed. This 
_ book of life, consists of two testaments, 
the old and new ; the first shews Chris. 
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tum velatum, the second Christum res 
velatum’: Christ veiled, and revealed. It 
is a book of books, and doth contain both 
precepts and examples for good governs 
ment. 
* 3. Here isasceptre not unlikea staff, 
for you areto be astaff to the weak and 
poor; it is of ancient use in this kind. 
It is said in Scripture, that the sceptre 
shall not depart from Judah. It was of 
the like use in other kingdoms. Homer, 
the Greek poet, cails kings and princes, 
sceptre-bearers. 
4, The last thing is a sword, not a mi- 
litary, but civil sword: itis a sword rather 
of defence than offence; not to defend 
yourself only, but your people also, . If I 
might presume to fix a motto upon this 
sword, asthe valiant Lord Talbot had 
upon his, it should be this, Ego sum 
Domini Protectoris, ad protegendum pos 
pulum meum, ‘I am the Protector’s, to 
protect my people.” 
This speech being ended, the speaker 
took the bible, and gave the Pros 
tector his oath: afterwards Mr. Manton 
made a prayer, which being ended, 
the heralds, by sound of trumpet 
proclaimed his highness Protector of 
England, Scotland, and Ireland, and 
the dominions thereunto belonging ; 
requiring all persons to vield him due obe- 
dience, At theend of ail, the Protector, 
with his train carried up by the Lord 
Sherard, Warwick’s nephew, and the 
Lord Roberts, his eldest son, returned; the 
Earl of Warwick sitting at one vend of 
the coach against bim; Richard hisson, ~ 
and Whitlock in one; and Lord Lisle, and 
Montague, in the other boot, with swords 
drawn; and the Lord Claypvol led the 
horse of honour, in rich caparisons, to 
Whitehall. 
RIDICULOUS SUPERSTITION AND IGNOs 
RANCE/OF DR, FULK: 
Who re'ateth in his book of Meteors, 
that the river Rhine in Germany will 
drown all bastard children that are cast 
into it, but drive to land those that are 
lawfully begotten. And also he says, 
there is a well in Sicily, whereof if thieves 
drink they presently become blind. - 
JOHN TAYLOR. 
This poet was a native of Gloucester- 
shire, a man of great natural parts, but 
littleeducation. He wrote several poems 
which were dedicated to KingJames and 
King Charles the First. For some time 
he kept a publie-house at Long Acre? 
and upon the murder of King Charles, 
set up the sign of the Mourning Crown; 
but this open piece of loyalty, in those 
days, obliged him to pull it down ; upon 
which 
