which was took up by Mr. Rushworth: and then I heard
Bradshaw the Judge say to his Majesty,

'Sir, instead of answering the court, you interrogate their power, which
becomes not one in your condition'--

These words pierced my heart and soul, to hear a subject thus
audaciously to reprehend his Sovereign, who ever and anon replied with
great magnanimity and prudence.

After that his Majesty was beheaded, the Parliament for some years
effected nothing either for the publick peace or tranquillity of the
nation, or settling religion as they had formerly promised. The interval
of time betwixt his Majesty's death and Oliver Cromwel's displacing
them, was wholly consumed in voting for themselves, and bringing their
own relations to be members of Parliament, thinking to make a trade
thereof.

The week, or three or four days before his Majesty's beheading, one
Major Sydenham, who had commands in Scotland, came to take his leave of
me, and told me the King was to be put to death, which I was not willing
to believe, and said, 'I could not be persuaded the Parliament could
find any Englishman so barbarous, that would do that foul action.'
'Rather,' saith he, 'than they should want such a man, these arms of
mine should do it.' He went presently after into Scotland, and upon the
first engagement against them, was slain, and his body miserably cut and
mangled.

In 1651 I published _Monarchy or no Monarchy_, and in the latter end
thereof some hieroglyphics of my own, composed, at spare time, by the
occult learning, many of those types having representations of what
should from thence succeed in England, and have since had verification.

I had not that learning from books, or any manuscript I ever yet met
withal, it is reduced from a cabal lodging in astrology, but so
mysterious and difficult to be attained, that I have not yet been
acquainted with any who had that knowledge. I will say no more thereof,
but that the asterisms and signs and constellations give greatest light
thereunto.

During Bradshaw's being President of the Council of State, it was my
happiness to procure Captain Wharton his liberty, which when Bradshaw
understood, said, 'I will be an enemy to Lilly, if ever he come before
me.' Sir Bolstrode Whitlock broke the ice first of all on behalf of
Captain Wharton: after him the Committee, unto whom his offence had been
committed, spoke for him, and said he might well be bailed or enlarged:
I had spoken to the Commit