being offended with some things
in _Anglicus_, presented a memorial to the Council of State, that
_Merlinus Anglicus_ might be considered, and the abuses against their
nation examined; but his paper was not accepted of, or I any way
molested.

In Oliver's Protectorship, I wrote freely and satyrical enough: he was
now become Independant, and all the soldiery my friends; for when he was
in Scotland, the day of one of their fights, a soldier stood with
_Anglicus_ in his hand; and as the several troops passed by him, 'Lo,
hear what Lilly saith; you are in this month promised victory, fight it
out, brave boys;' and then read that month's prediction.

I had long before predicted the downfall of Presbytery, as you (most
honoured Sir) in the figure thereof, in my _Introduction_, may observe;
and it was upon this occasion. Sir Thomas Middleton of Chark Castle,
enemy to Presbytery, seeing they much prevailed, being a member of the
House, seriously demanded my judgment, if Presbytery should prevail, or
not, in England? The figure printed in my _Introduction_, will best give
you an account, long before it happened, of the sinking and failing of
Presbytery; so will the second page of my _Hieroglyphicks_. Those men,
to be serious, would preach well; but they were more lordly than
Bishops, and usually, in their parishes, more tyrannical than the Great
Turk.

* * * * *

OF THE YEAR 1660; THE ACTIONS WHEREOF, AS THEY WERE REMARKABLE IN
ENGLAND, SO WERE THEY NO LESS MEMORABLE AS TO MY PARTICULAR FORTUNE AND
PERSON.

Upon the Lord General Monk's returning from Scotland with his army into
England, suddenly after his coming to London, Richard Cromwell, the then
Protector's, authority was laid aside, and the old Parliament restored;
the Council of State sat as formerly. The first act they put the General
upon was, to take down the city gates and portcullisses, an act which,
the General said, was fitter for a Janizary to do than for a General;
yet he effected the commands received, and then lodged in the city with
his army. The citizens took this pulling down of their gates so
heinously, that one night the ruder sort of them procured all the rumps
of beef, and other baggage, and publickly burnt them in the streets, in
derision of the then Parliament, calling them that now sat, The Rump.
This hurly-burly was managed as well by the General's soldiers as the
citizens. The King's health was publickly drank