ΤΟ THE RIGHT HONORABLE THOMAS TOWNSHEND LORD SYDNEY, BARON SYDNEY, OF CHISLEHURST IN THE COUNTY OF KENT, ONE OF HIS MAJESTY'S PRINCIPAL SECRETARIES OF STATE, FIRST COMMISSIONER OF THE EAST INDIA BOARD, AND ONE OF HIS MAJESTY'S MOST HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNCIL, &c. &c. &c. MY LORD, THE ftri&t Attention you pay to the Welfare of His Majesty's Subjects in general, and your becoming Zeal and Encouragement to Literature in particular, juftly merit the utmost Efforts of Attachment of all fuch as have the antient Glory and future Profperity of their Country at Heart. Actuated with fuch Sentiments, and as a Tribute to thefe and many other eminent Qualities which add Luftre to your Lordship's elevated Rank, this Publication is dedicated to your Lordship, from the real Dictates of AN HONEST HEART, firmly attached to the ILLUSTRIOUS HOUSE OF HANOVER, and entirely devoted both a both to the Intereft and to the Permanency of this our COMMONWEALTH OF BRITAIN, as well as to your Lordship's Person and Family, defcended from a Race of Ancestors, famed in the Annals of their Country for Worth and Merit, and alike confpicuous for afferting the Rights and Liberties of the Conftitution. CONTENT S. I. THE Commonwealth table, or genealogical line, or paternal descent of his Highness the most ferene and most illuftrious Oliver Cromwell p. I II. Proceffion, with ceremony of the inveftiture and installation of his Highness Oliver Cromwell, as by the Parliament appointed to be performed 3 III. Names of all the great Officers belonging to his Highnefs Oliver Cromwell, together with the Parliament roll of the Commonwealth, with the names of the members for the feveral counties, &c. in alphabetical order 7 IV. Installation of his Highness Oliver Lord Protector, with his oath 16 V. Proceffion with the great feal, flags, and other enfigus armorial of his Highness, and of the Commonwealth VI. Strictures, &c. on the Protector 19 23 VII. Cornets, or flags, and pennons of fundry commanders, or captains of companies, &c. of English, Scotch, Irish, Americans, and French, in the armies of the Commonwealth, a subject never before published, and now first set forth in blazon 24 VIII. The armorial bearings belonging to the fundry com manders, or captains of companies, &c. that bare coronets,.. flags, and pennons, as of English, Scotch, Irish, Americans, IX. Names of the governors, or major-generals, of the X. The particular account of the whole military establish- ment of the Commonwealth, with the ftate of the army and XI. Compleat lift of all fuch ships and veffels (with their names) in the fervice of the Commonwealth, as a guard for the coafts of England, Scotland, and Ireland, together with their commanders names, number of men and guns, with the XII. Compleat lift of all fuch as are divided into fqua- drons, and ftationed abroad, together with those to convoys, 126 XIII. Charges of the fundry fleets under the fundry com- XIV. The Loyalists' bloody roll, or a lift of the lords, baronets, knights, commanders, and gentlemen (with their King and Archbishop), that were flain in the late wars, as alfo of thofe executed by high courts of justice or law mar- XV. Interesting obfervations on thefe wars, neceffary to be known and remembered by the heads of our ancient fa- milies, whether Whigs or Tories! XVI. Names and armorial bearings of fundry noble and worthy perfonages, whether by creation, honourable offices, |
