WEdnesday the 6. of Decemb. 1648. before eight in the morning, the Army sent a Party of Horse and Foot to beset all Passages and Avenues to the two Houses of Parliament to fright away the Members; yet many Members of us repai­ring to the House, were seized upon, and carried Prisoners by the Soul­diers into the Queens Court; nothing being objected against us; nor no Authority vouched for it: Colonel Birche and Master Edward Stephens were pulled out of the House of Commons, as they looked out at the dore: at last the number shut up Priso­ners in the Queens Court amounted to 41. And Hugh Peters came to us and avowed this as the Act of the Generall, and Lieutenant Generall: So did Col: Hewson, about 4 of the Clock that day we were told by an Officer, that we must be caried to Wallingford-House, and so put into Coaches: But before this hapned, I should have told you, That the Sergeant of the House of Commons was sent with his Mace from the House to com­mand our attendance there; and came into the Queens Court to us, but the Guard would not let us out: He was sent againe with his Mace for us, but then the Guards upon the House would not let the Sergeant come to us; at last the Coaches aforesaid (to put the greater scorne upon the Parliament) carried us all to Master Dukes Ale-house in Hell, and there thrust us in to spend the Night without any accommodation of Beds, &c. only C. Hewson came to us, and offered it as a curtesie, that some of the Eldest should be suffe­red to lie at home that Night, engaging to render themselves the next morning by 9 of the Clock at C. Hewsons lodgings in Whitehall; which was refused, it not being thought fit we should so farre owne an usurped Authority. All this is done in pursuance of the Armies last Remonstrance and Declaration, and in subversion of the KING, and His Posterity, Par­liament, City, and Kingdome; the utter extirpation of all Law, Government, and Reli­gion: and the converting of our wel-regulated Monarchy into a military Anarchy, with a popular Parliament of the meanest of the Commons, onely at the beck of the Army: I appeale to Heaven and Earth whether the attempt of Germin, Goring, &c. to bring up the Northerne Army to London to over-awe the Parliament; which attempt onely was then voted Treason: whether the Tumult of Apprentises at the Parliament dore, so severely prosecuted against the City, were comparable to this Rebellion: The Members so sur­prized are almost all such as have lost for their constant service to the Parliament, [...]d have gotten nothing.: Their Names follow:

• Sir Robert Harlow.
• Col: Harlow.
• Sir Will: Waller.
• Sir Walter Earle.
• Sir Samuel Luke.
• Sir Rich: Anslow.
• Sir John Merrick.
• Sir Martin Lyster.
• Lo: Wenman.
• Mr. Knightly.
• Sir Gilbert Gerrard.
• Sir Benjamin Ruddiard.
• Mr. Francis Gerrard.
• Mr. Swynfin.
• Mr. Crew.
• Mr. Edw: Stephens.
• Mr. Buller.
• Sir Harbottle Grimston.
• Mr. Bunkley.
• Major Generall Massey.
• Sir Robert Pye.
• Mr. Walker.
• Mr. Hen: Pelham.
• Col: Leigh.
• Sir Anthony Irby.
• Sir Tho: Soame.
• Col: Birch.
• Mr. Lane.
• Mr. Wheeler.
• Mr. Drake.
• Mr. Greene.
• Mr. Bowton.
• Mr. Prynne.
• Mr. Priestly.
• Sir Simon D'ewes.
• Sir william Lewis.
• Sir John Clotworthy.
• Col: William Strode.
• Commissary Copley.
• Mr. Vaughan.
• Col: Nath: Finnes, who was soone set at liber­ty: and when he ask­ed, By what power he was committed? it was answered, By the power of the sword.