all over the city, to
the confusion of the Parliament. The matter continued until midnight, or
longer. The Council of State, sitting at White-Hall, had hereof no
knowledge, until Sir Martin Noell, a discreet citizen, came about nine
at night, and then first informed them thereof. The Council could not
believe it, until they had sent some ministers of their own, who
affirmed the verity thereof. They were at a stand, and could not resolve
what to do; at last Nevil Smith came, being one of them, and publickly
protested there was but one way to regain their authority, and to be
revenged of this affront, and to overthrow the Lord General Monk, whom
they now perceived intended otherways than he had pretended; his council
was, to take away Monk's commission, and to give a present commission to
Major-General Lambert to be their General; which counsel of his, if they
would take and put it speedily in execution, would put an end unto all
the present mischiefs. The Council in general did all very well approve
Nevil Smith's judgment; but presently up starts Sir Arthur Hazellrigg,
and makes a sharp invective against Lambert, and concluded, he would
rather perish under the King of Scot's power, than that Lambert should
ever any more have command under the Parliament.

The Lord General suddenly after brings in the long excluded Members to
sit in Parliament, being persons of great judgment, and formerly
enforced from sitting therein by the soldiery, and connivance of those
who stiled themselves the godly part of the Parliament. These honourable
patriots presently voted his Majesty's coming into England, and so he
did in May 1660. But because Charles the Second, now (1667) King of
England, Son of Charles the First, grandchild to James the First, King
of Great Britany, was so miraculously restored, and so many hundreds of
years since prophesied of by Ambrose Merlin, it will not be impertinent
to mention the prophecies themselves, the rather because we have seen
their verification.

AMBROSE MERLIN'S PROPHECY WROTE ABOUT 990 YEARS SINCE.

He calls King James, The Lion of Righteousness; and saith, when he died,
or was dead, there would reign a noble White King; this was Charles the
First. The prophet discovers all his troubles, his flying up and down,
his imprisonment, his death; and calls him Aquila. What concerns Charles
the Second, is the subject of our discourse: in the Latin copy it is
thus:

_Deinde ab Austro veniet cum Sole