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<P>Mu&s;grave Muzl'd: OR The mouth of Iniquitie &s;toped.</P>
<P>BEING A true and Cleer Vindication OF Sir Arthur Hazelrige FROM A fal&s;e and Scandalous Accu&s;ation of <HI>John Mu&s;grave,</HI> In his late Pamphlet Intituled, A <HI>True and exact Relation of the great and heavie pre&s;&s;urs and grievances the well-affected of the Northern bordering Counties lye under by Sir</HI> A. H. <HI>mi&s;government.</HI></P>
<P>With a True but not Exact Character of the &s;aid <HI>Mu&s;graue</HI> in &s;ome di&s;coveries of him.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>John Macock,</HI> for <HI>L. Lloyd,</HI> and <HI>H. Cripps,</HI> and are to be &s;old at their &s;hop in <HI>Popes head Alley.</HI> 1651.</P>
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<HEAD>To the Reader.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>READER,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_A GOOD Name well got is the best of <HI>Riches</HI> and he that unjustly taketh away the &s;ame is the wor&s;t of <HI>Robbers,</HI> to <HI>con|ceal</HI> the worth of a man is <HI>di&s;-ingenuity,</HI> to <HI>detract</HI> from true de&s;erts is not <HI>equity:</HI> to <HI>charge</HI> guilt upon innocencie is <HI>inhuma|nity,</HI> but to call <HI>worthine&s;s</HI> by the name of <HI>wickedne&s;s</HI> is right down <HI>Devili&s;m.</HI> I am no more Ma&s;ter <HI>Mu&s;graves</HI> adver&s;ary then thine, and that's not at all, for I know thee not, and yet I am both thine and his adver&s;ary in all <HI>Malignity,</HI> again&s;t this Common. wealth and its chiefe&s;t cham|pions: Sir <HI>Arthur Hazilrige</HI> is no otherwi&s;e <HI>my Friend</HI> then <HI>thine,</HI> if thou art a wel-wi&s;her to this Republique; and I have as little <HI>dependence</HI> upon him, and <HI>obliegment</HI> from him upon any per&s;onal intere&s;t as thy &s;elf whoever thou art, I have al|wayes ob&s;erved him (according to the be&s;t advantage of my &s;tanding in all the turns of our turning times) a plain hearted man, an Engli&s;h <HI>Oake,</HI> and not an <HI>O&s;ier</HI> that wil warp and winde with every wind; a Protector of all good men of what&s;o|ever judgement, in a good cau&s;e; an A&s;&s;ertor of ju&s;t liberty, an oppo&s;er of Tyrannie and that not in <HI>prate</HI> but in <HI>practi&s;e,</HI> in <HI>Councels&punc;</HI> and <HI>Combates:</HI> For my part let the terror of a Tyrant be his reward, that wil plead his cau&s;e, but they are the
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&s;ubtil'st Sollicitors for dethron'd Tyrants, that decry their de|throners without a cau&s;e: <HI>it is too</HI> true honours do alter man|ners, and high places without great watchfulne&s;s, do make high &s;pirits, but every bird is not taken in the &s;nare of the Fowler: and <HI>it is as true,</HI> that preferment in &s;ome begets envie in others, who&s;e con&s;tant cour&s;e is to &s;trive and endeavour to &s;tain their integrity with notorious forgerie; I take no plea&s;ure in padling in other mens puddle, nor dabling my &s;elf with other mens dirt; yet I judge it a &s;ervice worthy my betters, to wa&s;h off that filth and foam which the malicious &s;tomachs of envi|ous men do dayly eject upon the Names and Honours of our Engli&s;h Heroes: beleeve it (if I may &s;peak it without vanity) flattery is the very antipathy of my ge|nius, and I ble&s;&s;e my God my foot is not taken in the &s;nare of nece&s;&s;itie to di&s;&s;emble the &s;ame, by the in&s;tigation whereof upon the fir&s;t view of this <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">For &s;o it appears.</NOTE> <HI>paltrie</HI> Pamphlet written by Ma&s;ter <HI>Mu&s;grave,</HI> I had a &s;trong re&s;olution to make a &s;trict inqui&s;ition touching matters of Fact therein a&s;&s;erted; and (though I had not faith to beleeve the tenths of tho&s;e tales mentioned therein, mine own per&s;onal knowledge ri&s;ing up again&s;t &s;ome of them; yet con&s;idering that the be&s;t of men are but men at be&s;t, and well knowing that a plain man would not be offended at plain dea|ling) I applyed my &s;elf to Sir <HI>Arthur</HI> him&s;elf for &s;atisfaction herein, who hath given me that which I give unto thee, which, if thou judge&s;t by the Law of impartiality, thou &s;halt finde &s;uch a complexion of impudence and ignorance, &s;candal and &s;lander, malice and mi&s;chief, pride and pa&s;&s;ion, forgeries and fal&s;ities concentred in <HI>Mn&s;grave,</HI> as if they were all cloth'd in fle&s;h and dwelt among&s;t us, but that the power of him who&s;e de&s;ign it was in coming into the world <HI>to de&s;troy the works of the Devil,</HI> would cru&s;h the crowd, &s;poil the &s;pawn, and confound the con|venticle of tho&s;e unclean &s;pirits in that unclean man, is my hearty de&s;ire. I expect a Re&s;pons, but cleerly perceiving a rant|ing, raving, and railing &s;pirit &s;tearing his pen and praecipitating him to wright at randum, I judge him not worthy the honour of a Reply, and therefore</P>
<CLOSER>Farewell.</CLOSER>
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<HEAD>A True and Cleer Vindication&punc; of Sir Arthur Hazelrige, from a fal&s;e and &s;candalous Accu&s;ation of John Mu&s;grave, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>_TO <HI>Justifie</HI> the wicked and <HI>Condemn</HI> the Righteous it is hardly determin|able which is more abhominable, and a pretended zeal for God and their Country do hurry Hypocrites to the one and the other, who&s;e vocife|rations of tongues and pens, do beat the eares of City and Country with nothing more then lowd <HI>lyes in hypocri&s;ie;</HI> who being clo&s;ely beleagured with pride and penu|ry, impudence and ignorance, and mi&s;erably infected with the itch of popularity, do palliate their projects for their lu&s;ts and lucre, from the credulous croud of the Common People, with <HI>Come &s;ee our zeal for God and our Country,</HI> acting their parts in the publick view, <HI>Theatrico more,</HI> that they might procure a plebean <HI>plaudite,</HI> for the mo&s;t pa&s;&s;ionate Patriots of their indea|red
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Country; when by a very &s;light &s;crutinie of their particular practi&s;es, their pretended zeal appears nothing more then in|tended malice again&s;t &s;uch men: who, for true worth in the ju&s;t account of God and good men are no more to be compa|red with &s;uch <HI>proud boa&s;ters,</HI> then <HI>the dogs of Jobs flocks,</HI> with<NOTE PLACE="marg">Job 30. 1.</NOTE> tho&s;e that did abu&s;e him: It is very ob&s;erveable that the mo&s;t noxious enemies of our pre&s;ent Authority and new Common|wealth, are the pretended lowde&s;t a&s;&s;ertors thereof, who <HI>Herod</HI>-like, under the colour of advancing the &s;ame, &s;eek to &s;acrifice it in its very infancie, and to introduce a mo&s;t tyranni|call Anarchy under the colour of the peoples liberty, hence &s;prung the malicious ebullitions, ranchorous invectives and &s;currilous &s;landers from tho&s;e &s;welling &s;wagerors, and licentious levellers, in their lawle&s;s libels again&s;t the pre&s;ent Parliament, the Councill of State, the High Court of Ju&s;tice, the Govern|ment of the Army by Martiall Laws, blown up and down the Nation like empty clowds, and the greate&s;t di&s;tempers that proceeded there-from at <HI>Ware, Burford,</HI> and el&s;e-where; from this &s;pirit of mi&s;chief and malignity hath the world been in|fected with &s;o many &s;candalous fal&s; and unworthy a&s;pertions ca&s;t upon the chiefe&s;t Champions of our Engli&s;h Nation, as <HI>Cromwel, Brad&s;haw, Ireton, Harri&s;on, Vane</HI> junior, with &s;e|veral others, whom God hath made their Adver&s;aries envie, and the Commonwealths &s;afety; the &s;avor of who&s;e conver|&s;ation (humane frailties excepted) doth plea&s;e the No&s;trils of God and good men, who&s;e peace and pro&s;peritie are the &s;ubject matter of the dayly prayers and prai&s;es of the truely Religious; whether it be not the &s;ame &s;pirit from beneath which maketh wicked men like the troubled &s;ea, that hath po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed Mr <HI>John Mu&s;grave,</HI> when he did ca&s;t up that mire and dirt upon Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerige</HI> (as formerly in Print though &s;ince wa&s;hed off to his own glory and his accu&s;ers &s;hame, &s;o again) in his late Pamphlet (wherein it is hard to &s;ay whether are more &s;enten|ces or calumnies, &s;ayings or &s;landers, fars'd and &s;tuft indeed with nothing more then fables and fal&s;ities) Intituled, <HI>A true and exact Relation of the great and heavie pre&s;&s;ures and grievances</HI>
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<HI>the well-affected of the Northern bordering Countries, lye un|der by Sir</HI> A. H. <HI>Mi&s;government, &amp;c.</HI> is offered to the con&s;i|deration of judicious men from their due ob&s;ervation of the no|torious fal&s;ities therein &s;pecified, and the ba&s;e mi&s;carriages in &s;e|veral in&s;tances of the &s;aid Mr <HI>Mu&s;grave,</HI> rendering <HI>him&s;elf</HI> in truth according to his Charge again&s;t <HI>another</HI> in fal&s;hood.</P>
<P>That little acquaintance that I have with him hath quit my de&s;ires of increa&s;ing the &s;ame, who&s;e di&s;tempered temper cholle|rique countenance, trouble&s;om tongue, and &s;landerous Pen do render him <HI>Solomons</HI> froward man, with whom we mu&s;t not conver&s;e for fear of the infection of frowardne&s;s, and the com|panion of fools &s;hall be de&s;troyed: The truth is, he hath little in him worthy emulation, and &s;ufficient want of all things love|ly for the exerci&s;e of mens comi&s;eration, did he not quench the Spirit thereof in all his acquaintance by a violent voluntary pre|cipitancy thereinto, he is not the object of my hatred; for though he be intolerable, yet I hope recoverable; nor yet of my envy, for he neither is or hath any thing worthy thereof; I could love him and pity him, had he but the lea&s;t of either to|wards him&s;elf.</P>
<P>Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;terig</HI> is more known unto me and to thou|&s;ands, then I or they to him; and although there is not the lea&s;t obligement upon me by any dependance upon him, the lea&s;t particular courte&s;ie or, favour received from him engaging me unto this &s;ervice&punc; yet con&s;idering his courage and re&s;olution, his con&s;tant and faithful adhe&s;ion in all vici&s;citudes and turns of affairs to the hone&s;t party, engaging him&s;elf at all times unto the highe&s;t degree again&s;t the contrary party, though never &s;o great and likely to pro&s;per, and knowing al&s;o in mine own pre&s;ent knowledg and experience the notorious fal&s;ities and untruths of &s;ome things a&s;&s;erted in the &s;aid &s;candulous Pamphlet; I could not with&s;tand tho&s;e impre&s;&s;ions of &s;pirit that were upon me to vindicate his integrity unto the be&s;t of my ability.</P>
<P>How injuriou&s;ly and irreparably Mr <HI>Mu&s;grave</HI> hath abu&s;ed the &s;aid Sir <HI>A. H.</HI> contrary indeed to the very <HI>A. B. C.</HI> and fir&s;t Principles of Righteou&s;ne&s;s, Ju&s;tice and common Hone&s;ty,
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by publi&s;hing him abroad in print for a Deceiver, an Oppre&s;&s;or, a Friend to the wor&s;t of Malignants, an Enemy to the Well|affected, a Promoter of the Scotti&s;h Intere&s;t again&s;t the Engli&s;h, a proud covetous Oppre&s;&s;or, a Tyrant, a Traytor to God and his Country, and that after the &s;aid <HI>Mu&s;grave</HI> had applyed him&s;elf unto the Councel of State for audience and reception of his Charge again&s;t the &s;aid Sir <HI>A. H.</HI> and had all due encou|ragements that he &s;hould have a fair and regular hearing; how di&s;hone&s;tly and wickedly he hath thus accu&s;ed, arraigned, con|demned and executed the &s;aid Sir <HI>A. H.</HI> in his name, honor and repute before the determination of tho&s;e to whom he com|plained, is mo&s;t obvious to all his Readers; but it is no marvel; for it is mo&s;t common that &s;uch men who have out-lived the credit and repute of their own names, care not what wreck they make of the honor of others, with whom they are not worthy to be nam'd the &s;ame day: But it is a con&s;tant character of &s;uch ranting Railers and flouri&s;hing Need-nots, to make loud boa&s;ts <HI>in propatulo</HI> of their great zeal of Ju&s;tice and Righte|ou&s;ne&s;s, Countries Liberty, and common Hone&s;ty, and yet to act in &s;uch ways, as the dulle&s;t eye may well perceive to &s;tand in a perfect incon&s;i&s;tancy with their profe&s;t Principles. Is not the plain Engli&s;h of the&s;e foul Fables thus printed and publi&s;h|ed by this bold Boa&s;ter and bu&s;ie Scribe, to dictate unto the people, according to the daring Dialect of that &s;cribling Faction, &s;uch clamorous calumnies and a&s;per&s;ions of Tyranny, Pride, Co|vetou&s;ne&s;s and Oppre&s;&s;ion in our pre&s;ent Governors, the very repetition whereof is an offence to all but Malignant ears, and all this managed under the vail of publique Liberty and com|mon good? But <HI>O that we were Judges in the Land</HI> lies at the heart of the&s;e pathetick Zelots; whereunto were they once ad|vanced, the ignoble di&s;po&s;itions, virulent tongues, furious &s;pirits, and mean capacities of the&s;e men would quickly reduce us to as much Peace and Happine&s;s, Ju&s;tice and Liberty, as Saints may expect where Satan hath his Throne, and his Vice-Roys bear Rule: For if the green tree will burn, what will the dry? And they that will tyrannize over the names, honour and repute of
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their <HI>Superiors,</HI> what would they do over their <HI>inferiors?</HI> and wo be to that people who&s;e Princes are pea&s;ants, a &s;pice of &s;uch &s;pirits you may perceive in Mr <HI>Mu&s;graves</HI> proceedings again&s;t Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerig</HI> at the Councel of State, which (though the ju&s;t Judgment and Order of the &s;aid Councel may be a &s;uf|ficient Vindication of the &s;aid Sir <HI>A. H.</HI> yet) for better &s;ati&s;|faction, take the particulars, thus:</P>
<P>Upon the 23 <HI>Ian.</HI> 1650. the &s;aid Mr <HI>Mu&s;grave</HI> did appear at the Councel of State according to appointment, and being examined touching a Book with his name unto it, importing many and very great Charges again&s;t Sir <HI>A. H.</HI> being at fir&s;t demanded whether he would acknowledg that Book there pre|&s;ented to him to be his Book, he did acknowledg the whole Book to be his, excepting the <HI>Errata's,</HI> which he did proffer to amend with his pen, and that he would ju&s;tifie it; after a full hearing of both parties; and this <HI>Mu&s;grave</HI> (not being able to make good his Charge) was commanded to withdraw; and being cal'd in again, was de&s;ired to take the Book, and to mend the &s;aid <HI>Errata's</HI> with his pen, but then he denyed to own the Book, but &s;aid he would &s;tand to his Charge, and make that good, and being withdrawn, and Sir <HI>A. H.</HI> al&s;o, he did after that <HI>publiquely</HI> deny to own the Book; whereupon the Coun|cel of State made this en&s;uing Order.</P>
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<HEAD><DATE><HI>Saturday</HI> 25 <HI>January,</HI> 1650.</DATE> At the Councel of State at <HI>White-Hall.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Ordered, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> &V;pon information given to this Councel by Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerig,</HI> that one Mr <HI>John Mu&s;grave</HI> had cau&s;ed a Book to be printed and publi&s;hed, and that in the Epi&s;tle and Charge the &s;aid <HI>John Mu&s;grave</HI> did accu&s;e him the &s;aid Sir <HI>Ar|thur Ha&s;lerig</HI> of breach of promi&s;e and engagement to the Coun|cel, and for acting contrary to the &s;ame, and contrary to the Councel of States Declaration; the &s;aid Mr <HI>John Mu&s;grave</HI> being called before the Councel, did acknowledg the whole Book excepting only &s;ome Errata's of the Printer, which he offered to amend with his pen, and &s;aid he would justifie it, and offered to put in &s;ecurity to make it good: Thereupon the &s;aid Mr <HI>Mu&s;|grave</HI>
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being fully heard, as to the particulars of the Epi&s;tle and Charge in his Book again&s;t Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerig</HI> for a &s;uppo&s;ed breach of tru&s;t and engagement by him to the Councel, and al&s;o for acting contrary to the Councel Declarations, concerning the examining the Charge of Mr <HI>Howard,</HI> late High Sheriff of <HI>Cumberland,</HI> for the not di&s;pla&s;ing and putting in certain Com|mi&s;&s;ioners of the Militia for <HI>Cumberland,</HI> who were objected again&s;t by Mr <HI>Mu&s;grave;</HI> the Councel declares, That it doth not at all appear unto them, that Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerig</HI> hath bro|ken the Trust repo&s;ed in him by the Councel, or made any failer of promi&s;e or engagement to them in any of tho&s;e particulars: but do find that the imputations therein laid as a Charge upon Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerig,</HI> are fal&s;e and &s;candalous; and do therefore touching the &s;aid &s;candals, leave Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerig</HI> for his due vindication and reparation, to take &s;uch cour&s;e as he &s;hall think fit.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Gualter Fro&s;t, Secretary.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>The fir&s;t Article was this:</P>
<Q><P>1. That Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerig,</HI> contrary to his Engagement to the Councel of State, and Councels of States Declarations upon the Petitioners Exceptions, procured lately &s;uch in the County of <HI>Cumberland,</HI> to be Iu&s;tices of the Peace, Commi&s;&s;i|oners for Sequestrations, Commi&s;&s;ioners for the Mini&s;try, and Commi&s;&s;ioners for the Militia there as were known Delin|quents, and &s;uch as are di&s;affected to the pre&s;ent Government, and complying with the Scoti&s;h Intere&s;t, as by the Charge again&s;t them hereunto annexed, and another Charge again&s;t them, formerly exhibited to the Councel of State, may ap|pear.</P></Q>
<P>The Charge in this Article you &s;ee is declared fal&s;e and &s;can|dalous by the Councel of State, which is &s;ufficient to &s;top the mouth of that calumny therein vented again&s;t Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerig.</HI></P>
<Q><P><HI>Artic. 2.</HI> That the &s;aid Sir <HI>Ar. Ha&s;lerig</HI> being the chief, and leading Commi&s;&s;ioners for the Mini&s;try at <HI>Newca&s;tle,</HI> approved of &s;uch Mini&s;ters in <HI>Cumberland</HI> at <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> as refu&s;ed the Engagement, were &s;candalous, and Delinquents; and &s;uch Mi|ni&s;ters
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as were well-affected, without any Charge removed from their Ministry, and put them out of their places, whereby he di&s;covers his di&s;-affection to the pre&s;ent Government, by up|holding and countenancing the Malignant party in Authori|ty, and keeping under the Parliaments friends, all which this Petitioner is able to prove, and further refers him&s;elf to the Copies of Letters hereunto annexed, the Originals being in the Petitioners hands.</P></Q>
<P>Fir&s;t, Sir <HI>A. H.</HI> never acted concerning placing or di&s;placing Mini&s;ters but in publique, and that with the Commi&s;&s;ioners of of the four Northern Counties, and that upon their appointed days of publique Meeting, and al&s;o with the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of Doctor <HI>Jenni&s;on,</HI> Mr <HI>Wells,</HI> Mr <HI>Hammond,</HI> Mr <HI>Wolfred,</HI> Mr <HI>Durant,</HI> with &s;everal other godly and well-affected Mini&s;ters.</P>
<P>Secondly, Sir <HI>A.</HI> verily believes that there was never any Mini|&s;ter approved that publiquely refu&s;ed to take the Engagement; and he is very confident, that there was not any Mini&s;ter again&s;t whom proof was made of his Delinquency or &s;candal, but was put out.</P>
<P>Thirdly, He doth not know of any one well-affected per&s;on that was put out of his living, except &s;candalous, ignorant or in|&s;ufficient; as for the Copies of the Letters, Sir <HI>A. H.</HI> con|ceives they neither concern him, nor prove any thing again&s;t him.</P>
<Q><P><HI>Artic. 3.</HI> That Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerig</HI> undertook to the Councel of State to examine the Articles exhibited by the Petitioner to the Councel of State again&s;t Mr <HI>Charls Howard,</HI> High She|riff of <HI>Cumberland,</HI> but neglected the &s;ame, and came privately into the Country to <HI>Naward,</HI> and there feasted with the &s;aid Sheriff, who is a dangerous and mo&s;t notorious Delinquent, as appears by the Charge exhibited again&s;t him by the Petitioner to the Councel of State.</P></Q>
<P>The Councel hath declared this al&s;o to be fal&s;e and &s;candal|ous; and concerning Sir <HI>A. H.</HI> going to fea&s;t with Mr <HI>Howard,</HI> about the latter end of Summer he being commanded to take care of all the Forces that were for the pre&s;ervation of the Bor|ders,
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and to enter into <HI>Scotland</HI> upon <HI>Carlile</HI> &s;ide, Sir <HI>A. H.</HI> be|ing in tho&s;e parts upon that occa&s;ion, and the City of <HI>Carlile</HI> infected with the &s;ikne&s;s, Mr <HI>Howards</HI> hou&s;e being next unto the Borders, was nece&s;&s;itated to be two nights there, and this was his private going into the Country to fea&s;t with Mr <HI>How|ard:</HI> and if &s;o be to have <HI>Articles exhibited</HI> again&s;t a man by &s;uch an Article-maker or Forgerer be &s;ufficient to evidence a man <HI>a dangerous and notorious Delinquent,</HI> the Parliaments be&s;t Friends mu&s;t beware of <HI>Mu&s;graves.</HI></P>
<Q><P><HI>Artic. 4.</HI> That the &s;aid Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerig</HI> &s;uffers Captain <HI>Howards</HI> Troop to lie upon free quarter upon the Country for the&s;e four Moneths la&s;t pa&s;t, and doth conntenance one <HI>Dob&s;on,</HI> Captain <HI>Howards</HI> Leiutenant, who cheated the Troop of 1350 pound; and when complaint was made to Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerig,</HI> he never puni&s;hed him for the &s;ame.</P></Q>
<P>Captain <HI>Howards</HI> Troop belongs to the Gari&s;on of <HI>Carlile,</HI> and Sir <HI>A. H.</HI> is confident that the Governor thereof hath not &s;uffered them to live upon free quarter; and you may gue&s;&s;e by this at <HI>Mu&s;graves</HI> tales: for whereas he chargeth Sir <HI>A. H.</HI> for countenancing <HI>Dob&s;on</HI> in cheating the Troop of 1350. <HI>li.</HI> and &s;aith, when complaint was made to Sir <HI>Arthur,</HI> he never puni&s;hed him for it; the truth is this, about <HI>September</HI> la&s;t, Complaint being made by Captain <HI>Howard</HI> again&s;t the &s;aid <HI>Dob&s;on,</HI> his then Leiutenant, for detaining money from &s;ome of his Troopers, Sir <HI>Arthur</HI> under&s;tanding di&s;contents ari&s;ing in the Troop, forth with gave the &s;aid Captain a Warrant all writ|ten with his own hand to &s;eize upon his Lieutenants per&s;on, and all his hor&s;es, and then al&s;o put another able and hone&s;t Lieute|nant to be in his place; and upon further examination finding that there was 39. l. 2. s. and no more due to the Souldiers, the Troop being engaged upon the Border &s;ervice, and the Captain, and Lieut. <HI>Dob&s;on</HI> at <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> with Sir <HI>A. H.</HI> the &s;aid <HI>Dob&s;on</HI> was di&s;carged his place, and was made to enter into a Bond of 500. <HI>l.</HI> with one <HI>Robert Huntly</HI> Merchant in <HI>Newcastle,</HI> an able and &s;ufficient man bound with him, the Bond bearing date the 15 of <HI>October</HI> la&s;t, that the &s;aid <HI>Dob&s;on</HI> &s;hall an&s;wer the
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&s;ame at a Councel of War, upon twenty days notice, the Troop being upon &s;ervice, as afore&s;aid, and not then at lei&s;ure immedi|ately to pro&s;ecute; and you may the better under&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters">d the truth of this by the Cirtificate following, written by the now Lieutenant of the &s;aid Troop.</P>
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<P>The&s;e may certifie whom it may concern, That ever <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 words"> came to be Lieutenant to Capt. <HI>Cecil, Howards</HI> Troop, which began the 7 of <HI>October</HI> la&s;t, the Troop hath con&s;tantly paid their quarters, as &s;oon as we received our pay from the honorable Col. <HI>Thomas Fitch,</HI> Governor of <HI>Carlile,</HI> which he was very careful to pay to my Capt. <HI>Cecil Howard</HI> as &s;oon as it came to his hands by order of the Committee from the Army, or otherwi&s;e; and le&s;t the Country &s;hould through want of timely notice go without their money, it hath been my care to cau&s;e notice to be given to them as &s;oon as the money was to be paid out; and I often told the Country, that if any man did neglect to pay his quarters, my Capt. <HI>Howard</HI> or my &s;elf would &s;ee them paid, if they did make it known to us: And to my knowledg the &s;aid Troop hath been upon con&s;tant duty by parties to <HI>York</HI> and <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> for the &s;ervice of the State, and fetching in of Seque|&s;trations upon contempt of Orders; or el&s;e we have been upon duty along the Borders near <HI>Scotland:</HI> And I have under&s;tood &s;ince I came from his Excellency the Lord General <HI>Cromwel,</HI> that in Lieut. <HI>Dob&s;ons</HI> time, being Lieutenant of the Troop before I came, the Souldiers paid their quarters; and the &s;aid Lieut. <HI>Dob&s;on</HI> having detained in his hands of the Souldiers money near forty pounds, the honorable Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerig</HI> upon notice thereof did cau&s;e the &s;aid Lieut. Colonel to enter into Bond with &s;ecurity to make good the &s;aid &s;um to tho&s;e Souldiers to whom it is owing; and when he had given good &s;ecurity, the &s;aid Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerig</HI> did di&s;mi&s;s him from his Command. Dated at <HI>Carlile,</HI> this 3 of <HI>Janua.</HI> 1650.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>DANIEL FREIND,</HI> Lieut. to Capt. <HI>Cecil Howard,</HI> and &s;omtime Martial General to his Ex|cellency the L. G. <HI>Fairfax.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><PB N="10" REF="8">By all which you may &s;ee, if this famous &s;landerer had quite omitted that foul untruth of Sir <HI>Arthurs</HI> countenancing and not p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">i&s;hing this <HI>Dob&s;on,</HI> and had abated 1300. <HI>l.</HI> of his a&s;&s;ertion and &s;aid he had cheated the Troopers of 50. <HI>l.</HI> only, he had done &s;ervice to the Prince of this world, and obeyed the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> of Liars after the rate of above twenty in the hundred, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> had been a more profitable &s;ervant unto him, then many of his children and &s;ervants are, though the wages of &s;uch work (except he leaves it in time) will not be very acceptable in the latter end.</P>
<Q><P><HI>Artic. 5.</HI> That the &s;aid Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerig</HI> gave Commi&s;&s;ion to <HI>Edward Brigs,</HI> to be Lieutenant Colonel for <HI>Carlile</HI> Gari&s;on, and made him a Commi&s;&s;ioner for the Militia and Mini&s;try in <HI>We&s;tmerland,</HI> a man known di&s;affected to the pre&s;ent Govern|ment, and lately ca&s;hered for his drunkenne&s;s and other mi&s;car|riages by the now Lord General <HI>Cromwel:</HI> That the &s;aid Sir <HI>Arthur</HI> gave Commi&s;&s;ions to <HI>Thomas Cray&s;tour, Cuthbert Stud|holm,</HI> Captain <HI>Brown,</HI> and others, to be Captains and Lieute|nants in <HI>Carlile</HI> Gari&s;on, men known to be di&s;affected to the pre|&s;ent Government, profe&s;t Enemies to hone&s;t men; most of them having now layd down their Commi&s;&s;ions, when they were to march into <HI>Scotland;</HI> and the &s;aid Sir <HI>Arthur</HI> doth countenance none in <HI>Cumberland,</HI> but &s;uch as are profe&s;t Enemies to the ho|nest party, and are for the Scoti&s;h Intere&s;t.</P></Q>
<P>1. This <HI>Brigs</HI> was the only man when <HI>Hamilton</HI> came into <HI>Westmerland,</HI> that did rai&s;e a Regiment of Foot for the Parlia|ment Service, and he hath been always faithful to the Parlia|ment (when &s;uch as this Accu&s;er have undermined their Inte|re&s;t,) who having rais'd his Regement (as afore&s;aid) Sir <HI>A. H.</HI> with the advice of the now Lord General (<HI>Carlile</HI> being then rendred by the Scots) did put that Regiment into <HI>Carlile,</HI> and made Col. <HI>Fitch</HI> the Colonel, and this <HI>Brigs</HI> Lieut. Colonel of his own rais'd Regiment.</P>
<P>2. Sir <HI>A. H.</HI> did never hear the lea&s;t complaint again&s;t Leiut. Col. <HI>Brigs</HI> until of late, for which he was brought to a Councel of War, and upon proof made of his mi&s;demeanor he was put
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out. As for the re&s;t of this Article, it is &s;o notoriou&s;ly fal&s;e and &s;candalous, that it is worth no other An&s;wer; only it is wi&s;h'd, that this Ma&s;ter-&s;landerer of the North had the lea&s;t tang and &s;a|vour of that Spirit of Piety and Religion as Mr <HI>Thomas Cray|&s;tour</HI> hath; if &s;o, mens ears had not been abu&s;ed with &s;uch no|torious untruths as the&s;e are.</P>
<Q><P><HI>Artic. 6.</HI> That by the &s;aid Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerigs</HI> intru&s;ting the Authorities and Militia in the hands of Delinquents, and men for the <HI>Scotti&s;h</HI> Intere&s;t, the well-affected in <HI>Cumberland</HI> and <HI>Bi&s;hoprick</HI> lie under greater Oppre&s;&s;ions, then formerly under King and Prelates. And the &s;aid Sir <HI>Arthur</HI> is a Pro|tector of Papi&s;ts and Delinquents, forbidding the Sub&s;eque&s;tra|tors, and Sollicitors for Seque&s;tration in <HI>Bi&s;hoprick</HI> to Seque|&s;ter Papi&s;ts Ordered to be Seque&s;tred, of which the Papi&s;ts and Delinquents do much boa&s;t, and hone&s;t men thereby are much ca&s;t down.</P></Q>
<P>This is general; containing whole clu&s;ters of the grapes of <HI>Sodom,</HI> as if gathered from a <HI>Sodomite</HI> him&s;elf, having in its bowels as much &s;pawn of malice, &s;candal and fal&s;ities, as &s;o few words are capable of.</P>
<Q><P><HI>Artic. 7.</HI> That Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerig</HI> hinders and ob&s;tructs the ordinary proceedings of Law and Ju&s;tice in favor of Papists, and did take out of the Sheriffs cu&s;tody <HI>Ralph Lampton</HI> a noto|rious Papi&s;t and Delinquent, being under arre&s;t, and formerly arraigned for poy&s;oning his wife, with which <HI>Lampton,</HI> the &s;aid Sir <HI>Arthur</HI> is very kind and familiar.</P></Q>
<P>This <HI>Ralph Lampton</HI> came to the Committee to make com|plaint again&s;t Mr <HI>George Lilburn,</HI> and Mr <HI>George Grey,</HI> for de|taining a very great &s;um of moneys due to the State, and de&s;ired a fifth part for his twelve poor Children, he being &s;eque&s;tred as a Papi&s;t and Delinquent (which Ca&s;e is returned up, and now lies before the Commi&s;&s;ioners at Gold&s;miths Hall) the Com|mittee appointed a day of hearing the &s;ame: while this Mr <HI>Lampton</HI> was coming, according to Order, to the Committee, he was arre&s;ted, and (as it was informed the Committee) by Mr <HI>Lilburns</HI> procurement: hereupon the Committee, and not
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Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerig,</HI> thought fit to &s;ecure him from Arre&s;ts, during his coming unto, continuing at, and returning from the Committee, in pro&s;ecution of that complaint onely; for as much as it was the Service of the Common-wealth, and no more then the Committee had Authority to do, and what is practi&s;ed in all Courts of Ju&s;tice and Committees of Parlia|ment what&s;oever: and this was all that the Committee did up|on that bu&s;ine&s;s, and who but a <HI>Mu&s;grave</HI> would not judg it equitable?</P>
<Q><P><HI>Artic. 8.</HI> That the &s;aid Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerig</HI> procured <HI>Ralph Delival</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> a Delinquent in Arms again&s;t the Parliament, and di&s;affected to the pre&s;ent Government, this la&s;t year, to be High Sheriff for <HI>Northumberland.</HI></P></Q>
<P>Sir <HI>A. H.</HI> never heard, neither was there ever complaint made unto him, that Mr <HI>Ralph Delival</HI> was a Delinquent in Arms again&s;t the Parliament; and the truth is, he was nominated by another, and not by Sir <HI>A. H.</HI> but if he had done it, he would have ju&s;tified it, for he conceives it would have been for the pub|lique Service.</P>
<Q><P><HI>Artic. 9.</HI> That the &s;aid Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerig,</HI> contrary to an Act of Parliament, &s;uffered Lievtenant Colonel <HI>John Jack&s;on</HI> a notorious Delinquent, and in Arms against the Parliament both in the fir&s;t and &s;econd War, a great Plunderer, to go and ride up and down the Country with his Arms, and again&s;t Law put the &s;aid <HI>Jack&s;on</HI> in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of certain Grounds and Colle|ries in <HI>Bi&s;hoprick,</HI> belonging to men well-affected, whom the &s;aid Sir <HI>Arthur</HI> by &s;trong hand di&s;po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed thereof, without Law: and the &s;aid Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerig,</HI> again&s;t the Funda|mental Law of the Land, mo&s;t arbitrarily and tyarnnically, did by his power take from the now High Sheriff of <HI>Bi&s;hoprick</HI> the &s;aid <HI>Jack&s;ons</HI> goods, taken in Execution after Judgment, and restored the &s;aid goods to the &s;aid <HI>Jack&s;on,</HI> contrary to all the Rules of the Law.</P></Q>
<P>As for this Article, wherein this black-mouth'd man (in who&s;e tongue and pen the very Throne of Scandal and Calum|ny is e&s;tabli&s;hed) doth charge Sir <HI>A. H.</HI> to have acted <HI>by a</HI>
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<HI>&s;trong hand without Law, yea again&s;t the fundamental Law of this Land, mo&s;t arbitrarily and tyrannically take from the now Sheriff of the Bi&s;hopprick, one</HI> Jack&s;ons <HI>goods, taken in execu|tion after judgment, and re&s;tored the &s;aid goods, &amp;c.</HI> Sir <HI>A. H.</HI> profe&s;&s;eth that this whole Article is altogether fal&s;e, that he ne|ver heard word or tittle of this <HI>Jacksons riding up and down the Country in arms, &amp;c.</HI> and as for this in&s;tance of goods taken from the Sheriff, &amp;c. it was as Heathen Greek unto him, he un|der&s;tood it not, nor heard little or much of it, until he read it in this railing Pamphlet; &s;ince the publication whereof, this en&s;u|ing <HI>Letter</HI> was &s;ent unto him, from the then Sheriff of the County of <HI>Durham</HI> touching this bu&s;ine&s;s.</P>
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<P><HI>Sir,</HI> Having lately &s;een a Pamphlet flying about the Coun|try, and an a&s;per&s;ion in it thrown upon your &s;elf, in that you &s;hould have taken &s;ome goods from the Sheriff of this County after they were taken upon execution, I thought it fitting to let you know, upon what ground the&s;e goods were delivered back, which was thus: After the goods were driven, Mr <HI>Bruen</HI> &s;ent a Letter to my Under-Sheriff, to acquaint him that the goods taken were belonging to an Officer in the Army, and not to <HI>Jackson,</HI> the party mentioned in the Execution; upon which the Under-Sheriff returned the goods to Mr <HI>Bruen,</HI> having no|thing to do with tho&s;e goods: This is the truth, and &s;hall in point of Vindication to your &s;elf be made good by him where&s;oever you &s;hall plea&s;e to call: I &s;hall trouble you no further, but re&s;t,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your mo&s;t affectione friend, Iames Clavering.</SIGNED> <DATELINE>Durham, <DATE>23 Ian. 1650.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<P>Whether the very unclean &s;pirit of Impudence and &s;lander hath not po&s;&s;e&s;s'd this loo&s;e and licen&s;cious Pen-man and his Contrivers, let all men judg.</P>
<Q><P><HI>Artic. 10.</HI> That the &s;aid Sir <HI>Ar. Ha&s;lerig</HI> is very familier, and keepeth company with <HI>Thomas Wray,</HI> a Papi&s;t, in arms a|gainst the Parliament; and upon &s;earch for a Popi&s;h Prie&s;t, there was lately found in the &s;aid <HI>Wrays</HI> hou&s;e Copes, and other Popi&s;h Reliques, and much gold and money, mo&s;t whereof Sir
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<HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerig</HI> cau&s;ed to be returned back to Mr <HI>Wrays</HI> wife, a Papi&s;t: And the &s;aid Sir <HI>Arthur</HI> by his Souldiers put &s;undry hone&s;t men out of po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the Colleries, &s;etled upon them by Law, under colour the &s;ame belonged to the &s;aid <HI>Wray,</HI> who&s;e debts Sir <HI>Ar. Ha&s;lerig</HI> undertook to pay (as <HI>Wray</HI> confe&s;&s;ed) for the &s;aid Colleries, being worth 10 pounds <HI>per diem,</HI> as the &s;aid &s;ir <HI>Arthur</HI> giveth forth, to the utter undoing of the Owners of the &s;aid Colleries.</P></Q>
<P>Sir <HI>A. H.</HI> profe&s;&s;eth he never had any thing to do with this Mr <HI>Wray,</HI> but when he came unto him about Complaints again&s;t Mr <HI>George Lilburn</HI> and Mr <HI>George Gray</HI> for deceiving the Commonwealth of very great &s;ums of money when they were of the Committee, and tru&s;ted for the Parliament, which bu&s;i|ne&s;s is &s;ent up to the Commi&s;&s;ioners of <HI>Gold&s;miths-Hall,</HI> and now lies before them; and he is re&s;olved, that whil&s;t he hath any power commited to him, that he will do every man right to the be&s;t of his under&s;tanding, be he Papi&s;t, Delinquent, or any other what&s;oever, and he is a very hypocritical and feigned Pre|tender of Righteou&s;ne&s;s and Ju&s;tice that will be offended there|at, e&s;pecially complaining in the Commonwealths behalf. And concerning the Gold mentioned in the Article, there was a gir|dle brought to the Committee &s;itting at <HI>Durham,</HI> which Mrs <HI>Wray</HI> did u&s;ually were about her, wherein was quilted about 70. <HI>l.</HI> in gold, of which there was 10. <HI>l.</HI> in old gold, which the &s;aid Mrs <HI>Wray</HI> affirmed was her mothers, her grand-mothers, and great grand-mothers, and that &s;he never intended to make u&s;e of it; and further, with &s;ore lamentations, complained to the Com|mittee, that twice before that Seque&s;tration &s;he had all her goods &s;eized on, and taken away for her Husbands Delinquency, and earne&s;tly be&s;ought the Committee for her fifth part, where|upon the Committee gave her back the old gold, and a fifth part of the re&s;t, and this was publiquely done at the Committee, Sir <HI>A. H.</HI> being then pre&s;ent, he not acting at any time &s;ingle, but with the whole Committee: And for the remaining part of the Article, concerning the di&s;po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing of hone&s;t men of the Colle|ries, under colour of Mr <HI>Wrays</HI> right unto them, and Sir <HI>Arthurs</HI>
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undertaking to pay his debts, read this en&s;uing Certificate under <HI>Wrays</HI> own hand and &s;eal in the pre&s;ence of <HI>Thomas Scot</HI> and Col. <HI>George Fenwick.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>Thomas Wray</HI> of <HI>Beni&s;h</HI> in the County of <HI>Durham</HI> E&s;quire, declares, That he was formerly and is Owner of the Colleries at <HI>Harraton</HI> in the &s;aid County, and that the &s;aid Colleries were &s;eque&s;tred for the Papi&s;ty and Delinquency of the &s;aid <HI>Thomas Wray</HI> fir&s;t by Sir <HI>William Armyn</HI> in the year 1644. and al&s;o by the Committee of <HI>Durham</HI> 1645. of which Mr <HI>George Lil|burn</HI> was then a Member, and pre&s;ent; and that the &s;aid Mr <HI>George Lilburn</HI> in the year 1647. entered into the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the &s;aid Colleries at <HI>Harraton,</HI> and converted the Profits to his own u&s;e, for which wrong done both to the State and the &s;aid <HI>Wray,</HI> he the &s;aid <HI>Wray</HI> complained to the Committee at <HI>Dur|ham</HI> in the year 1649. and the Committee thereupon ordered, upon full hearing of both parties, That the &s;aid Colleries &s;hould be again taken into the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the State, and employed for the u&s;e of the Commonwealth according to the fir&s;t Seque&s;tra|tion, and &s;o it now remains: And the &s;aid <HI>Thomas Wray</HI> fur|ther declares, That Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerig,</HI> neither by him&s;elf, nor any other from him, did ever treat with the &s;aid <HI>Wray</HI> for the buying or dealing in the &s;aid Collery, or paying any of the debts of the &s;aid <HI>Wray,</HI> neither did the &s;aid <HI>Wray</HI> ever &s;ay to any man, that Sir <HI>Art. Ha&s;lerig</HI> undertook to pay any of the &s;aid <HI>Wrays</HI> debts, all which he will be ready to te&s;tifie upon Oath, as cau&s;e may require. In witne&s;s whereof he hath hereunto &s;et his hand and &s;eal, the 9 of <HI>Ianuary,</HI> 1650.</P>
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<Q><P><HI>Artic. 11.</HI> That the &s;aid Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerig</HI> doth comply with, and countenance Colonel <HI>John Hilton,</HI> a Delinquent in Arms, both in the first and &s;econd War, and a&s;&s;i&s;ts the &s;aid <HI>Hil|ton</HI> to defraud the poor in &s;undry Pari&s;hes in <HI>Bi&s;hopprick,</HI> of great Legacies given by the &s;aid <HI>Hiltons</HI> elder brother.</P></Q>
<P>What&s;oever <HI>Hiltons</HI> brother gave to the &s;everal Pari&s;hes, con|cerns not Sir <HI>A. H.</HI> but what e&s;tate Col. <HI>Hilton</HI> had in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion
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when he was a Delinquent and &s;eque&s;tred, it concern'd Sir <HI>A. H.</HI> as tru&s;ted for the State, not to &s;uffer &s;uch an e&s;tate upon pre|tence of the poors right to be taken out of the States hands by any of the States Agents, but in a legal way, or by the Command of tho&s;e that were intru&s;ted by the Parliament to take off Se|que&s;trations; and for Col. <HI>Hilton</HI> him&s;elf, he did never &s;peak in private with him in all his life: And &s;urely had not this <HI>Mu&s;|grave</HI> more familiarity with a lying Spirit from beneath, then Sir <HI>A. H.</HI> hath had with this <HI>Hilton,</HI> he had never been &s;o <HI>coun|tenanced and a&s;&s;i&s;ted</HI> in framing &s;o many fal&s;e and &s;candalous un|truths, as he hath been.</P>
<Q><P><HI>Artic. 12.</HI> That Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerig</HI> brought Colonel <HI>Hacker</HI> into the Country, who contrary to an Act of Parliament, quar|ters his Souldiers, and others under the name of Souldiers, who are none, upon the well-affected in <HI>Bi&s;hoprick,</HI> and would but pay what they plea&s;ed, and in &s;ome places nothing, but up|on complaint Colonel <HI>Hacker</HI> gave them no relief, but threat|ned them to have them before Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerig</HI> for complain|ing; afterwards Captain <HI>Thomas Lilburn</HI> brought the matter in que&s;tion before a Councel of War at <HI>Whitehall,</HI> but by Sir <HI>Arthurs</HI> power it could never be fully heard, which if it had, there would have appeared many thou&s;and pounds kept wrong|fully from the Souldiers, be&s;ides the great Oppre&s;&s;ion of Free-Quarter; &s;ome Examinations whereof were taken by Mr <HI>Margets,</HI> which Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerig</HI> keeps hitherto from read|ing; and the &s;aid Sir <HI>Arthur</HI> &s;ore threatened the &s;aid Captain, for appearing for the Souldiery and Country again&s;t him and Col. <HI>Hacker.</HI></P></Q>
<P>That Sir <HI>A. H.</HI> did bring Colonel <HI>Hacker</HI> into that Country, he doth acknowledg and ju&s;tifie the &s;ame; if he or his Souldiers have done any thing unworthy, he is very &s;ufficient to an&s;wer it, and is ready to give an account thereof at any time: and it is notoriou&s;ly known, that Sir <HI>A. H.</HI> did exceedingly pre&s;s to have the Complaints again&s;t his Souldiers to come to hearing; and he is fully per&s;waded, that the a&s;per&s;ions layd upon Col. <HI>Hacker</HI> are very fal&s;e, and the proceedings in the Country again&s;t him were unju&s;t.</P>
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<P><HI>Artic. 13.</HI> That the &s;aid Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerig,</HI> to di&s;able M. <HI>George Lilburn</HI> to &s;erve his Country, and the more to di&s;cou|rage the well-affected in <HI>Bi&s;hoprick,</HI> cau&s;ed him to be put out of the Commi&s;&s;ion of Peace, Mini&s;try, and Militia, and much endevoreth to Seque&s;ter the &s;aid M. <HI>George Lilburn,</HI> who hath commonly been reputed the mo&s;t active, &s;tirring, and &s;uffering man for the good of this Nation, both before the Parliament began, and &s;ince, of any that hath been, or is in the Country.</P></Q>
<P>Concerning Sir <HI>A. H.</HI> leaving Mr <HI>George Lilburn</HI> out of Commi&s;&s;ion, he conceives that he had done nothing but his du|ty, and doubts not but he can give &s;atisfaction to any hone&s;t and well-affected man to this pre&s;ent Government in what he hath done; and for his endeavors to Seque&s;ter the &s;aid <HI>George Lilburn,</HI> it is notoriou&s;ly known, that he was accu&s;ed at the Committee, long before Sir <HI>A. H.</HI> came into the Country, upon the&s;e three en&s;uing Articles.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, That he had &s;igned Warrants with his own Hand and Seal, with Sir <HI>William Carnaby,</HI> Sir <HI>Tho: Riddal,</HI> and Sir <HI>Tho: Liddal,</HI> for carrying Arms and Ammunition which came out of <HI>Holland</HI> into <HI>Newca&s;tle,</HI> and were &s;ent unto the late King after he had &s;et up his Standard, which were u&s;ed again&s;t the Parliaments Forces at <HI>Edghil</HI> Battel, two of which Warrants were produced.</P>
<P>Secondly, That he gave the late Kings Oath to &s;everal per|&s;ons in the County of <HI>Durham,</HI> when the <HI>Earl of Newcastle</HI> had the whole power of the County.</P>
<P>Thirdly, That he compelled his &s;ervant <HI>Thomas Chilton</HI> to &s;erve in Col. <HI>Hiltons</HI> Regiment again&s;t the Parliament, which Regiment being broken by the Parliament Forces at <HI>Marston Moor,</HI> the &s;aid <HI>Chilton</HI> returned to his &s;aid Ma&s;ter <HI>George Lil|burns</HI> Hou&s;e.</P>
<Q><P><HI>Artic. 14.</HI> That Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerig</HI> hath displaced all the well-affected men in <HI>Bi&s;hoprick,</HI> that were of the Committee for Seque&s;trations there, and put in their &s;tead one <HI>Thomas Ha&s;lerig</HI> his Kin&s;man, and a &s;tranger; and doth continue one Colonel <HI>Francis Wren,</HI> who in the Head of his Regiment, upon
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his fir&s;t march into <HI>Scotland,</HI> was digracefully and justly ca|&s;hiered, by the now Lord General <HI>Cromwel,</HI> for plundering, and other gro&s;s and foul Mi&s;demeanors; and one <HI>Thomas Dalaval,</HI> an arch Malignant, and di&s;affected to the pre&s;ent Government, who lived in the Enemies quarters all the time the Earl of <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> had his Forces.</P></Q>
<P>It is well if tho&s;e that were di&s;placed appear well-affected to the Publick, and faithful to their Tru&s;t; &s;urely that was no cau&s;e of their ejection: if unfaithfulne&s;s was not their &s;in, it will ne|ver be their &s;orrow: as for Col. <HI>Wren,</HI> he hath ever been faith|ful to the Parliament, and in Arms for them from the very be|ginning, and did a&s;cend unto his Colonel&s;hip by degrees; and when his Regiment went into <HI>Scotland</HI> after <HI>Hamiltons</HI> defeat, &s;o &s;oon as they came into <HI>Scotland,</HI> they did conceive they might have plundered in <HI>Scotland</HI> as the <HI>Scots</HI> had done in <HI>Eng|land</HI> immediately before, as &s;uppo&s;ing them&s;elves legal Execu|tioners (and that without Commi&s;&s;ion) of the Law of Taliation, and that they might act the <HI>Scotch-men</HI> in their own Countries, and thereupon they were very unruly; the Lord General being very much offended thereat, de&s;ired the Colonel to return back into his Country, but he was not ca&s;hiered, as is here fal&s;ly a&s;|&s;erted. As for Mr <HI>Ha&s;lerig,</HI> he hath a very good E&s;tate in the County of <HI>Durham,</HI> and is very well known to be an able and well-affected man, and very fit for the employment, and &s;o is Mr <HI>Tho: Dalaval,</HI> and Sir <HI>A.</HI> beleeves <HI>Mu&s;grave</HI> can never prove him an arch Malignant, onely his work is to &s;lander, and he loves to be doing.</P>
<Q><P><HI>Artic. 15.</HI> That the &s;aid <HI>George Lilburn,</HI> being Surveyor of the Bi&s;hops Lands in <HI>Bi&s;hoprick</HI> with one <HI>Edward Col&s;on,</HI> which &s;aid <HI>Col&s;on</HI> joyned with one <HI>Saunders,</HI> and counterfeited M. <HI>Duncal&s;s</HI> hand without his privity, for the abatement of a thou&s;and and odd pounds, meerly to cozen the State thereof, which cheat and cozenage the &s;aid <HI>George Lilburn</HI> di&s;covered. But the &s;aid Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerig</HI> much labored and &s;ollicited the &s;aid <HI>George Lilburn</HI> to conceal the &s;aid cheat and forgery of the &s;aid <HI>Col&s;on,</HI> and though the &s;aid <HI>Col&s;on</HI> be a man di&s;affected
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to the pre&s;ent Government, and marryed to a Papi&s;t, yet doth the &s;aid Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerig</HI> much countenance the &s;aid <HI>Col&s;on,</HI> and made him a Commi&s;&s;ioner for the Mini&s;try, and his Court-Keeper.</P></Q>
<P>This hath been di&s;covered and publi&s;hed in print by the &s;aid <HI>George Lilburn</HI> about two years &s;ince, and then al&s;o an&s;wered by the &s;aid <HI>Saunders</HI> and Mr <HI>Col&s;on:</HI> and why did not Mr <HI>Lil|burn</HI> then print Sir <HI>A. Ha&s;lerigs</HI> de&s;ire for his concealment of that cheat and forgery? &s;urely there was never &s;uch intima|cy between Sir <HI>A. H.</HI> and Mr <HI>Geo: Lilburn,</HI> as that Sir <HI>A. H.</HI> &s;hould commit &s;uch a ba&s;e &s;ecret unto him, and he abhors the practice of &s;uch ba&s;ene&s;s, he could never <HI>Mu&s;grave</HI> it after that manner; and as for Sir <HI>A.</HI> putting in Mr <HI>Col&s;on</HI> to keep his Courts, it is well known that he was appointed to keep tho&s;e Courts by the Committee when they were under Seque&s;tration, before Sir <HI>A. H.</HI> bought the Manors; that <HI>Col&s;on</HI> is a Com|mi&s;&s;ioner for the Mini&s;try, it may be numbered among the re&s;t of <HI>Mu&s;graves,</HI> it's utterly fal&s;e.</P>
<Q><P><HI>Artic. 16.</HI> That Your Petitioner hath been much &s;ollicited by the well-affected in his Country, to pre&s;ent their Grievances and Oppre&s;&s;ion, and crave Relief in their behalf, as appears by their Letters, Copies whereof are hereunto annexed.</P></Q>
<P>Whereas this proud Boa&s;ter glories, that the well-affected in his Country did become &s;o many Sollicitors unto him, that he would be plea&s;ed to be their Sollicitor-General <HI>to pre&s;ent their Grievances and Oppre&s;&s;ions, &amp;c.</HI> and in the Title-page of his Book takes in the <HI>Northern bordering Counties,</HI> I thought fit to let you &s;ee, how the County of <HI>Northumberland</HI> do throw the fal&s;hood of it in his face, as appears by this en&s;uing Letter from the grand Jury of that County, occa&s;ioned by the &s;ight of this &s;candalous Pamphlet, and &s;ent up Po&s;t unto the Councel of State.</P>
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<P><HI>Right Honorable,</HI> We the Grand Jury for the County of <HI>Northumberland,</HI> at the now Se&s;&s;ions of the Peace, having &s;een a Book publi&s;hed by one <HI>John Mu&s;grave,</HI> who therein pretends the great and heavy Pre&s;&s;ures and Grievances the well-affected
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of the <HI>Northern bordering Counties</HI> lie under, by Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerigs</HI> Mi&s;government, and placing in Authority men di&s;affected to the pre&s;ent Government, and having peru&s;ed the Book, and finding our &s;elves therein much concerned, as be|ing the mo&s;t <HI>Northern bordering County</HI> to <HI>Scotland,</HI> we pre|&s;ume humbly to acquaint Your Lord&s;hips, That as the Author of the Book is altogether unknown to us, &s;o al&s;o all his Relati|ons, Complaints, and Petitions, without our con&s;ent. And we cannot but wonder that any man dur&s;t a&s;&s;ume &s;o much bold|ne&s;s, as to pre&s;ent to this Honorable Councel, in the name of the well-affected in the four <HI>Northern Counties,</HI> &s;uch fal&s;e and &s;can|dalous things.</P>
<P>We &s;hall not trouble your Lord&s;hips with the particulars in his Book, few of them concerning our County; but having di|ligently peru&s;ed the Book, we find it chiefly endeavors to make the world believe that Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerig</HI> is a Countenancer of Delinquents, a Friend to the <HI>Scots,</HI> and an Enemy to hone&s;t men, and the pre&s;ent Government: We hope we need not &s;ay any thing to wipe off tho&s;e &s;eeming &s;tains; Sir <HI>Arthur</HI> is well known to the Parliament, and his actions have &s;ufficiently te&s;ti|fied his affections and faithfulne&s;s to the Publique Intere&s;t, and good of this Nation; yet we being his neighbors, and having &s;een his ju&s;t and equal dealings, and being partakers of exceeding much good by him, cannot hold our peace: and we dare &s;ay, if all the four Counties may have leave to &s;peak their own words, they would tell your Lord&s;hips more then we can &s;ay on his behalf. It is &s;trange to us that Sir <HI>Arthur</HI> &s;hould be count|ed a Friend to Delinquents; &s;urely he is not &s;o in the&s;e parts: We very well remember, that long before the Parliament made an Act to re&s;train Papi&s;ts and Delinquents, Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerig</HI> cau&s;ed tho&s;e that had been in Arms again&s;t the Parliament in our County, e&s;pecially the Gentlemen, and tho&s;e that had been Of|ficers, to be apprehended, and tho&s;e that were active and dan|gerous he continued under &s;trict bond, not to go from their own hou&s;es, and others about a mile from home, none above five; and none of them to keep Arms in their hou&s;es, nor to &s;peak or
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do any thing again&s;t the Authority of the Parliament; and di|vers de&s;perate men he kept pri&s;oners in <HI>Newca&s;tle;</HI> and we &s;uppo&s;e he took the &s;ame cour&s;e in other Counties: and for his being an Enemy to hone&s;t men, we mu&s;t needs tell your Lord|&s;hips, tho&s;e that fear the Lord ble&s;s God for him, and the mer|cies they enjoy by him.</P>
<P>Tho&s;e that love the Parliament among&s;t us, will acknowledg his care and tenderne&s;s of them, and his unwearyed Endevors to pre&s;erve them, and the Intere&s;t of the Parliament: and all the poor people will confe&s;s the happine&s;s and benefit they have received by his means; they are exceeding &s;en&s;ible of the Mi&s;e|ries and Oppre&s;&s;ions they long groaned under, and of the Ea&s;e and Freedom they are now partakers of. And for tho&s;e Gentle|men now intru&s;ted by the Parliament with the Power of this County, we know not how, nor by whom, they were placed in Authority, whether by recommendation of Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerig,</HI> or others; but we are &s;ure they are tho&s;e that have been mo&s;t active in promoting the Parliaments Intere&s;t, and have kept firm through all changes to the &s;ervice of their Coun|try; and their righteous dealings in their Tru&s;t have made their Names famous among the people; and we hope they are not afraid to give an account of them&s;elves when Authority &s;hall require it: And for Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerigs</HI> being a Friend to the <HI>Scots</HI> Faction, let his activity, care, and indu&s;try, to rai&s;e men again&s;t them, &s;peak for him: and after our Army was gone in|to <HI>Scotland,</HI> his pains and labor to furni&s;h them with Provi&s;i|ons and Supplies, without which they had been forced to re|treat, as we have heard.</P>
<P>My Lord, We could renumerate our late la&s;t Grievances, and our pre&s;ent Mercies, and in&s;tance in many particulars, what be|nefits we have reaped by Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerig,</HI> and tho&s;e in Au|thority among&s;t us, but it would too much trouble your Lord|&s;hip; onely we make bold to &s;ay, we exceedingly wonder, that &s;uch &s;candalous Complaints &s;hould be &s;uffered to pa&s;s in print, which though they receive not much credit in our days, yet may lay a &s;tain upon the po&s;terity of tho&s;e, who&s;e Names
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are precious, and de&s;erve to be had in perpetual remembrance. We doubt not of Your Lord&s;hips Ju&s;tice in acquitting the Ju&s;t. We are, my Lord,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hips mo&s;t faithful and humble Servants,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Richard Hearon</ITEM>
<ITEM>Robert Pear&s;on</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Midford</ITEM>
<ITEM>Rich: Daw&s;on</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Pye</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Law&s;on</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Wat&s;on</ITEM>
<ITEM>George Mar&s;hal</ITEM>
<ITEM>Henry Law&s;on</ITEM>
<ITEM>Robert Dalton</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Megi&s;on</ITEM>
<ITEM>Cuthbert Fenwick</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Shafto</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Fenwick</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ro: Megi&s;on</ITEM>
<ITEM>George Ho&s;lop</ITEM>
<ITEM>George Wharton.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Morpeth in Northumberland, <DATE>16 January, 1650.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<Q><P><HI>Arric. 17.</HI> That Your Petitioner hath lately di&s;covered &s;un|dry concealed and &s;eque&s;tred Delinquents of great E&s;tates, which will bring in to the State ten thou&s;and pounds and more, if the Commi&s;&s;ioners for Seque&s;tration made by Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerig</HI> were hone&s;t and faithful men; but in regard mo&s;t of the &s;aid Co~mi&s;&s;ioners are Delinquents, and Seque&s;trable them|&s;elves, and all of them di&s;affected to the pre&s;ent Government, they do what in them lies to hinder Your Petitioner in the pro|&s;ecution thereof.</P></Q>
<P>Whereas this <HI>Mu&s;grave</HI> boa&s;ts of his di&s;covery of Delin|quents E&s;tates, to the value of 10000 l. <HI>if the Commi&s;&s;ioners made by Sir</HI> A. H. <HI>had been hone&s;t and faithful,</HI> the truth is, this <HI>Mu&s;grave</HI> came with Mr <HI>Can</HI> to Sir <HI>A. H.</HI> his Chamber, the la&s;t time he was in Town, which was about <HI>April</HI> la&s;t, and gave the like Information, whereupon Sir <HI>A. H.</HI> conceiv|ing, that if <HI>Mu&s;grave</HI> had power he would be the better en|abled unto a through di&s;covery, and bringing in unto the <HI>State</HI> tho&s;e great &s;ums of Mony, thought fit to move the Commi&s;&s;i|oners for Compounding to make him one of their Commi&s;&s;i|oners for Seque&s;tration for <HI>Cumberland,</HI> which accordingly they did; and Sir <HI>A.</HI> confe&s;&s;eth that he was exceedingly mi&s;|taken in Mr <HI>Mu&s;grave;</HI> and if there was any <HI>di&s;hone&s;t and un|faithful,</HI> that he put in, or was an occa&s;ion of being put into Commi&s;&s;ion, it was this <HI>Mu&s;grave:</HI> And Sir <HI>A.</HI> doth acknow|ledg, that he never &s;uffered &s;o much di&s;grace by preferring any
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man to any place of Tru&s;t, as he hath received by him; for the Commi&s;&s;ioners of <HI>Gold&s;miths-Hall</HI> have mo&s;t ju&s;tly turned him out of Commi&s;sions, for his corrupt and wicked actings; and that you may &s;ee a true character of this <HI>John Mu&s;grave,</HI> his great Zeal for this Commonwealth, and again&s;t Papi&s;ts-De|linquents, and who is the truer Friend unto Papi&s;ts and Malig|nants, and more faithful to their Tru&s;ts, Sir <HI>A. H.</HI> or this <HI>John Mu&s;grave,</HI> read this en&s;uing Letter from his Fellow Commi&s;|&s;ioners of that County.</P>
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<HEAD>For the Wor&s;hipful <HI>Tho: Crai&s;ter,</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> Major of the City of <HI>Carli&s;le,</HI> ha&s;te, ha&s;te, in <HI>Newca&s;tle.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>SIR,</HI> About the 15 day of <HI>October,</HI> Mr <HI>Clement Skelton</HI> brought in an Order from the Commi&s;sioners for Compounding to the Commi&s;sioners for Seque&s;trations in <HI>Cumberland,</HI> to examine the validity of a Deed produced to them, touching the clearing of <HI>Andrew Huddle&s;ton's</HI> E&s;tate, a Papi&s;t in Arms, worth 120 l. <HI>per annum:</HI> The &s;aid Mr <HI>Skelton,</HI> bringing the &s;aid Or|der before us, and the &s;aid Deed, was demanded, wherefore he did not &s;eek his Intere&s;t in that E&s;tate before that time, the &s;ame being under Seque&s;tration for four or five years: The &s;aid Mr <HI>Skelton</HI> replyed, He could never get a man for his purpo&s;e, until he met with Mr <HI>John Mu&s;grave:</HI> and being asked, How the &s;aid Order was got, He an&s;wered, Mr <HI>Mu&s;grave</HI> knew better then him&s;elf; whereupon Mr <HI>Mu&s;grave</HI> was called, and at his coming in, &s;aid, 'Tis true, he had 10 <HI>l.</HI> to &s;ollicite that bu&s;ine&s;s: It being replyed, He was not &s;ent for to know what he had for &s;o doing, but what the Commi&s;sioners for Com|pounding &s;aid to the matter in di&s;pute, and what he thought of it him&s;elf; To the fir&s;t he an&s;wered, That Mr <HI>Win&s;low</HI> did engage to &s;end the &s;aid Order; and that he conceived, if we could not prove the &s;aid <HI>Skelton</HI> to have made away the E&s;tate to the &s;aid <HI>Huddleston,</HI> the Deed was valid, and &s;o it did be|hove us to certifie: whereupon he withdrew. The &s;aid Mr <HI>Skelton</HI> being further asked, When he had the afore&s;aid E&s;tate in po&s;&s;e&s;sion, and what Rent he had received of the &s;aid Mr <HI>Huddle&s;ton,</HI> He thereupon was &s;ilent; whereupon we told the
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&s;aid Mr <HI>Skelton,</HI> That if any man went about to conceal a De|linquents E&s;tate, that &s;ame Act made him liable to Seque&s;trati|on; and further, we produced before him the late Committee Book, wherein it did appear the &s;aid Mr <HI>Skelton</HI> had farmed the &s;aid E&s;tate of the late Committee, in the year 1647, and payd the Rent due for the &s;ame, without claiming any Intere&s;t therein: whereupon the &s;aid Mr <HI>Skelton</HI> withdrew, and never &s;ince appeared to claim any Title therein: But &s;ince, the &s;aid Mr <HI>Andrew Huddleston,</HI> paying in his Rent due for the &s;ame, con|fe&s;&s;ed, that he had given to Mr <HI>John Mu&s;grave</HI> him&s;elf 10 <HI>l.</HI> and &s;ent him up to <HI>London 5 l.</HI> more: and about the day afore|&s;aid, Mr <HI>Mu&s;grave</HI> being asked, Why he would take 10 <HI>l.</HI> for &s;olliciting a bu&s;ine&s;s of that nature again&s;t the State and his Con|&s;cience, at the very time when he was Commi&s;sioner for Seque|&s;trations for the State, contrary to his Tru&s;t and Oath, which he either had, or &s;hould have taken; He replyed, He was a Sol|licitor, as well as a Commi&s;sioner, and would not forego his Solliciting for being a Commi&s;sioner.</P>
<P>It is to be noted, That about the 27 of <HI>April,</HI> 1650. the &s;aid Deed was produced before Mr <HI>Crai&s;ter, Tho: Langhorn,</HI> and Mr <HI>Mu&s;grave,</HI> then Commi&s;sioners for Seque&s;tration: The &s;aid Commi&s;sioners returned the Deed with this An&s;wer, That it was to be cleared above; whereupon the &s;aid Mr <HI>Mu&s;grave</HI> by his expre&s;sions &s;eemed to undertake that bu&s;ine&s;s, as it ap|pears he did; and al&s;o at that time &s;poke in other Delinquents behalf &s;o much, as gave occa&s;ion to his Fellow-Commi&s;sioners to have &s;ome Jealou&s;ies of his actings; and pre&s;ently after the &s;aid <HI>Tho: Langhorn</HI> &s;aw the &s;aid Mr <HI>Mu&s;grave</HI> receive a &s;um of Mony from the &s;aid Mr <HI>Huddle&s;ton,</HI> and the &s;aid Mr <HI>Mu&s;|grave</HI> went pre&s;ently after to <HI>London,</HI> and &s;tayd there above three moneths, which cau&s;ed Mr <HI>Crai&s;ter</HI> and <HI>Tho: Langhorn</HI> to de&s;ire the Commi&s;sioners for compounding, either to joyn with them &s;uch as would act faithfully and fully for the Publick, or el&s;e excu&s;e them from the &s;ervice, the affairs of Seque&s;trati|ons &s;peedily requiring diligence and action; upon which de&s;ire of theirs the &s;aid <HI>Mu&s;grave</HI> was outed, and others put in, be|fore
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the &s;aid Mr <HI>Skeltons</HI> Order was examined: but Mr <HI>Mu&s;|grave</HI> took his di&s;charge &s;o ill, that he did vehemently threaten that the &s;aid <HI>Tho: Langhorn,</HI> and others, &s;hould have <HI>Lex Ta|lionis;</HI> and further, that Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerig,</HI> to &s;top his mouth, had made him a Commi&s;&s;ioner, but now being outed, his mouth was open: To which one replyed, <HI>It &s;eems a great place will &s;top your mouth.</HI></P>
<P>Al&s;o at that time he was outed of being Steward of the honor of <HI>Penrith:</HI> and the &s;aid Mr <HI>Mu&s;grave</HI> being poor, his E&s;tate not being po&s;&s;ible to be made wor&s;e, we do verily beleeve put him upon printing his Book: notwith&s;tanding, we de&s;ire to forgive him, and the Lord to give him Repentance, which is all we can offer to you at this time: The truth of what is &s;aid &s;hall be &s;ufficiently by our &s;elves and others proved. We de&s;ire you to fini&s;h that Letter to the Commi&s;&s;ioners above, whereof you took In&s;tructions at <HI>Carli&s;le,</HI> with the tender of our Ser|vice to all the honorable per&s;ons with you. We remain,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Friends and Servants,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Tho: Langhorn</ITEM>
<ITEM>Tho: Sewell.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Pearith,</HI> <DATE>6 Januar: 1650.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<P>Thus have you the &s;everal Articles exhibited by this Northern Article-Maker again&s;t Sir <HI>A. H.</HI> with particular An&s;wers there|unto, and that you have compleat &s;atisfaction touching Sir <HI>A.</HI> his innocency in re&s;pect unto them all, is my perfect pre&s;ump|tion: I had almo&s;t &s;aid, that a doubt herein (all things con&s;i|dered) renders the doubtful, not &s;o much a man, as a <HI>Mu&s;|grave.</HI></P>
<P>And although it is beneath a man advanced but one degree, in ways of wi&s;dom and di&s;cretion, to wa&s;te his time in &s;etting forth the vilene&s;s and ba&s;ene&s;s of the principles and practices of &s;o worthle&s;s a per&s;on, it being but <HI>actum agere,</HI> he him&s;elf having been his own Limbner in this very Pamphlet which he made again&s;t Sir <HI>A. H.</HI> where you may &s;ee, as in a gla&s;s, as many ill qualities, as can likely croud together in one man; yet if you can bear the &s;avor, &s;ee him anatomized in &s;ome few In|&s;tances.</P>
<P><PB N="26" REF="16">Fir&s;t, Ob&s;erve his covetou&s;ne&s;s, di&s;hone&s;ty, and (to &s;peak it out) his plain knavery in this In&s;tance following, in a Certifi|cate under the hand of a Mini&s;ter and an eye-witne&s;s thereof.</P>
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<HEAD>A Certificate from a Minister touching Mr <HI>Mu&s;grave's</HI> ba&s;e offering to compound to de&s;i&s;t pro&s;ecution of an ho|ne&s;t man, by him accu&s;ed for a certain &s;um of Mony.</HEAD>
<P>About the beginning of <HI>February,</HI> 1648. Captain <HI>Crakan|thorp</HI> and <HI>John Mu&s;grave</HI> procured an Order from the Com|mittee for Complaints at <HI>We&s;tminster,</HI> to &s;ummon &s;everal Gen|tlemen within the County of <HI>Cumberland</HI> to appear before the &s;aid Committee, to an&s;wer to a Charge layd again&s;t them by the &s;aid Captain <HI>Crakanthorp</HI> and <HI>John Mu&s;grave,</HI> who al|ledged, that they had &s;u&s;tained lo&s;s or damage by tho&s;e Gentle|men (being Ju&s;tices of the Peace within the &s;aid County) to the value of two thou&s;and pounds and upwards; which Order the &s;aid Informers &s;hewed to Captain <HI>Dow&s;on</HI> and my &s;elf, then be|ing at <HI>London.</HI> We friendly demanded of them, What Injury they had received from <HI>William Bri&s;co,</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> now High-Sheriff of the &s;aid County, being one of tho&s;e Gentlemen whom they accu&s;ed, and whom they had Order to &s;ummon: And finding, by their un&s;atisfactory An&s;wer, that a matter of mony would pacifie them, and prevent this appearance, we acquainted Mr <HI>Edward Bri&s;co,</HI> a Merchant in <HI>London,</HI> and Brother to the &s;aid <HI>William Bri&s;co,</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> of their Intentions, &s;o far as by their di&s;|cour&s;e we could judg of them; Mr <HI>Edward Bri&s;co</HI> was will|ing to promi&s;e a con&s;iderable &s;um of mony, though without his Brothers privity, hoping he might thereby procure a di&s;charge from the Complainers, and withall an engagement under their hands to free his Brother from all future trouble, which accord|ingly was effected, and the &s;um agreed upon, <HI>viz. 35 l.</HI> pre|&s;ented before them, upon the &s;ight and promi&s;e whereof, the <HI>Complainers</HI> engaged to acquit the &s;aid <HI>William Bri&s;co</HI> from all future troubles, a&s;&s;uring us that they would not mole&s;t or ac|cu&s;e him directly or indirectly, by them&s;elves or others, for any injury or offence done, or pretended to have been done, by him, either in particular again&s;t them, or <HI>IN GENERAL A|GAINST</HI>
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<HI>THE STATE, OF WHICH THEY PRO|TESTED THEY WERE ABLE, AND WO&V;LD ACC&V;SE HIM, IF THEY RECEIVED NOT PRESENT SATISFACTION.</HI> They on the other &s;ide required Bonds, be&s;ides the pre&s;ent payment of the mony, for a&s;&s;urance from the &s;aid <HI>Edward Bri&s;co,</HI> Captain <HI>Dow&s;on,</HI> and my &s;elf, that we would not di&s;cover this their Act and Deed to any other, lea&s;t the report thereof &s;hould prejudice their pro|ceedings again&s;t the re&s;t of the Gentlemen, of whom they hoped to receive like &s;atisfaction: their engagement for acquit|ing Mr <HI>Bri&s;co,</HI> together with the mony, which then lay upon the Table in a bag, He the &s;aid Mr <HI>Edward Bri&s;co</HI> immediate|ly pocketed, pretending that he de&s;ired to be advi&s;ed by &s;ome Lawyers, whether this Engagement of theirs was full and &s;a|tisfactory, or not; and &s;o leaving them that had delivered their Engagement, and not received their mony, he went home, and that night &s;hewed the paper to Major <HI>Salloway,</HI> a Member of the Hou&s;e, who a&s;&s;ured him, that he would acquaint the Hou&s;e with it.</P>
<P>This I am willing to depo&s;e upon Oath, when&s;oever I &s;hall be called thereunto.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Jo&s;: Nichol&s;on,</HI> Mini&s;ter of Gods Word at <HI>Thur&s;by.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>Mr <HI>Edward Bri&s;co</HI> is now in the City, and ready to make Oath of what is expre&s;&s;ed in this Certificate.</P>
<P>Here follows the Relea&s;e which this <HI>Mu&s;grave</HI> writ with his own hand.</P>
<Q><P>Whereas Mr <HI>Richard Crakanthorp</HI> and <HI>John Mu&s;grave,</HI> Gentlemen, have exhibited certain <HI>Complaints</HI> to the Parlia|ment again&s;t <HI>William Bri&s;co,</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> as well for certain wrongs done to us in particular, as al&s;o for publique wrongs, or di&s;-&s;er|vice to the Parliament, and their adherents, and have obtained Summons again&s;t him; Now the&s;e pre&s;ents are to &s;atisfie all whom it may concern, That <HI>Edward Bri&s;co,</HI> Brother of the &s;aid <HI>William,</HI> hath payd us thirty five pounds on his Brothers behalf, for the wrongs done, in con&s;ideration whereof we do by the&s;e pre&s;ents promi&s;e, and covenant, to, and with, the &s;aid
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<HI>Edward Bri&s;co,</HI> that we &s;hall not at any time hereafter pro&s;e|cute the &s;aid <HI>William Bri&s;co</HI> for the cau&s;es afore&s;aid, or any o|ther wrongs by the &s;aid <HI>William</HI> committed again&s;t us, or other per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oever.</P></Q>
<P>He acknowledged this engagement and di&s;charge to be his own hand-writing before the <HI>Commi&s;&s;ioners</HI> at <HI>Gold&s;miths-hall</HI> very lately.</P>
<P>Now judg Reader (if I may be a little plea&s;ant with thee) whether here was not a <HI>KNAVE</HI> and a <HI>KNAVE|CATCHER</HI> well met.</P>
<P>Take here another In&s;tance, and that &s;hall be of his Ty|ranny, cruelty, and indeed Barbari&s;m, &s;et forth upon the be&s;t terms of concealment, and that by his own hands, in an Apo|logetical Letter written to Col. <HI>Fitch,</HI> Governor of <HI>Carli&s;le,</HI> who required an account of a Captain, and &s;ome Souldiers that were a&s;&s;i&s;tant unto him in the execution thereof.</P>
<LETTER>
<HEAD>To his much honored Friend Colonel <HI>Fitch,</HI> Governor of Carli&s;le, the&s;e deliver.</HEAD>
<P><HI>SIR,</HI> This evening I received a Letter from <HI>Captain Place,</HI> wherein he intimates, that he is commanded to bring two of his Soldiers before you to <HI>Carli&s;le,</HI> upon my Father in Law Mr <HI>Vaux</HI> his complaint, that they took him forth of his bed, and carryed him a mile in his &s;hirt, and that they took and detained a Hor&s;e of his worth 10 <HI>l.</HI> the <HI>Captain</HI> was de&s;irous that I &s;hould come along with them to give account of the thing, &s;o far as I knew, and the &s;ame related to my Mother and me, which very willingly I would have done, if I had not been con&s;train|ed the Audite to morrow, by appointment from Mr <HI>Pollard,</HI> the States Receiver, I (being the <HI>States</HI> Steward for the Honor of <HI>Penrith</HI>) might neglect that Service, but to morrow night I &s;hall be, God willing, with my Brother <HI>Graham</HI> at <HI>Newbygin,</HI> and the next day at <HI>Newlathes,</HI> to hold the Leet for my ancient Friend <HI>Captain Sikes,</HI> Purcha&s;er of the Manor of <HI>John De Chap|pels,</HI> whither if you &s;end, upon notice I will wait on you, &s;o be I may, according to Law, be free from Arre&s;ts, which in that <HI>Corporation</HI> may cau&s;le&s;s be layd upon me for vexation, as
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often heretofore hath been done, I &s;peak not this that I know or fear any ju&s;t cau&s;e, for I never concealed my &s;elf, and &s;hall be ready to appear <HI>gratis</HI> at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> to any action: in the mean time take a &s;hort account of what I know there concern|ing; I doubt not but you have heard of the difference betwixt me and Mr <HI>Vaux,</HI> and him and my Mother, and how, while the late Kings party was Ma&s;ter of this County, wickedly he u&s;ed her, and endevored to have &s;tarved her; for the Committee of this County ordered her 30 <HI>l. per annum,</HI> till &s;he could obtain relief in a legal way, which Order he never ob&s;erved, not to &s;peak of his wilful contemning the pre&s;ent Authority, refu&s;ing to an&s;wer any Proces, or obey any Order therein, for which, at my Suit &s;ome fourteen days &s;ince, he was proclaimed by the Sheriff, and upon an Order under &s;eal out of the High Court of <HI>Chancery</HI> for 20 <HI>l.</HI> 250 <HI>l.</HI> Arrearages, and fourty pounds <HI>per annum,</HI> upon an Attachment by a &s;pecial Warrant from the Sheriff of this County, to me and <HI>Thomas Graves</HI> and others directed, he was arre&s;ted: The maner was thus, before any Souldier was quartered with my Mother, we went to <HI>Kel|barrow,</HI> and his chamber door being open, and he in bed, we peaceably entered, and de&s;ired him to ri&s;e, which he refu&s;ed to do; then I told him, he was a Pri&s;oner; who&s;e Pri&s;oner (quoth he?) I &s;aid, my pri&s;oner, wi&s;hing him to ri&s;e and put on his clothes; I &s;hewed him the Warrant under &s;eal, and read it un|to him; but he &s;aid, It was a counterfeit Warrant, and he would not obey it, and if we had him, we &s;hould take him naked; &s;o finding him ob&s;tinate, we took him out of his bed, and brought him into the Hall, and &s;et him in a chair, wi&s;hing him to put on his dublet, which <HI>Thomas Grave</HI> brought out of the chamber, but he would not, fearfully cur&s;ing me, and my Mother: I offered to fetch his breeches, but he cryed out, I went to rob him; &s;o I forbare, wi&s;hing his man there pre&s;ent to fetch his clothes, but he commanded the contrary: I offered him, if he would give &s;ecurity to appear and an&s;wer the Court, I would accept it; or if he would go to Mr <HI>Sander&s;ons,</HI> or any other Friend, I would carry him thither, de&s;iring him &s;till to
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put on his clothes, which after long refu&s;al, fearing his Tenants coming in to re&s;cue him, as &s;ometimes they had done, we <HI>HOR|SED HIM,</HI> and ca&s;t a cloke about him even <HI>per</HI> force, and carryed him to <HI>Laths,</HI> not half a mile from his own hou&s;e, where he was taken, and with much entreaty got him to go to bed, he &s;till refu&s;ing to put on clothes, which the good-wife of the hou&s;e brought him; and after <HI>Henry Dacre</HI> came to him, and brought his clothes, he cau&s;ed them to be &s;ent away: I of|fered <HI>Dacres</HI> to accept bond for his appearance without going further, but <HI>Dacres</HI> went to the Under&s;heriff and brought a di&s;charge, a copy whereof I &s;end you. That night late I went to <HI>Catterben</HI> to &s;ee how things were with my Mother, where I found the&s;e two Soldiers quartered, as they &s;aid, by Orders; they were much di&s;contented with Dyet and Lodging, wanting indeed all fit accommodation, having neither fire, victuals, or bedding for them; &s;ome words pa&s;&s;ed betwixt them and me: I told them, my Mother was a for&s;aken woman, had nothing but that great empty hou&s;e, her Husband not allowing her common nece&s;&s;aries, and contempting all Orders made for her, de&s;ired them to go to him, and quarter there, or cau&s;e him to bring in provi&s;ion, and &s;he would make it ready, and if that would not &s;erve, they mu&s;t bring it with them, for they could not have it where it was not: That night they layd upon hay with &s;uch coverings as &s;he had, di&s;-furni&s;hing her &s;elf, and &s;up'd with Big-pottage, Fare coar&s;e enough. The next day I &s;hewed them Mr <HI>Vaux</HI> his man in the field, but he would not come neer us, though none intended him harm; the Souldiers finding the man &s;o refractory, hor&s;ed after him, and a while after brought the Hor&s;e, dear of &s;ix pounds, being lame, into the Courting, which my Mother took from the Souldiers, and which &s;he &s;ent away to be &s;old without the privity or con&s;ent of the Soldiers: what &s;he hath done, &s;he will maintain and ju&s;tifie, and when that mony is &s;pent, as mo&s;t of it be, &s;he mu&s;t fetch more from him; for four years &s;he had not any thing from him, whereby &s;he contracted great debts, and if God had not enabled me to travel for her, he had &s;tarved her long ere
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this; perhaps ere long you may have a larger view of all his do|ings in print. Ye&s;terday after I came from keeping the Leet at <HI>Feverham</HI> for the <HI>State,</HI> I finde two Soldiers more quarter|ed with my Mother; this morning I &s;ent to the Con&s;tables who layd them upon her, wi&s;hing them either to provide for them, or take them away; but they &s;aid they dur&s;t not do any thing without Mr <HI>Vaux</HI> con&s;ent: Mr <HI>Vaux</HI> hath complained to a Councel of War at <HI>Penrith,</HI> but they finde no cau&s;e to interpo&s;e among&s;t us in the&s;e civil differences: This day I acquainted Ma|jor <HI>Rippon</HI> with my Mothers burthens and condition, and he took off that charge for the pre&s;ent, as by the enclo&s;ed you may perceive. I de&s;ire you for the future that my Mother may not be troubled with billeting any Souldiers, till there be a &s;etle|ment betwixt her and her husband, for avoyding the like di&s;tur|bances as the&s;e: I have been larger, then I intended, but you have nothing but truth; for Mr <HI>Vaux</HI> his uncivilities to us are not worthy mentioning. I take leave and re&s;t,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Yours, wherein I may &s;erve you, John Mu&s;grave.</SIGNED> <DATELINE>Catterben-hall, <DATE>8. 10 moneth, 1650.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<P>Judg again Reader, did&s;t thou ever &s;ee &s;uch Tyranny upon the dunghil in all thy life before? What (think'&s;t thou) would it ad|vance unto, was it upon the Throne? Look back upon the in|&s;tance, tell the aggravations thereof: A poor old man of &s;eventy years of age, in time of peace, having his chamber door broken open, taken out of his bed, in the Winter &s;ea&s;on, in the North of <HI>England,</HI> put naked upon a hor&s;e, for neither felony nor Trea|&s;on, by his wives own &s;on (this <HI>Mu&s;grave</HI>) and &s;o carried a|way towards this wretched mans hou&s;e, and compel'd (for fear the old man &s;hould dye, or rather of the reward of a murtherer) to ha&s;ten him into a Milners hou&s;e by the way, and put him into bed, hardly able to keep life in him, and all for &s;o &s;mall a matter as is here &s;pecified: Would not a man think that the great Tor|mentor of mankind was mew'd up in this <HI>Mu&s;grave,</HI> and that a few more of &s;uch <HI>Mu&s;graves</HI> would render tho&s;e places where they were, as if Hell was broke loo&s;e, and the Inhabitants thereof had dwelt therein?</P>
<P><PB N="32" REF="19">I &s;hall forbear any further digging in his own dunghil; for the truth is, I loath the work, and it &s;hall be pure nece&s;&s;ity that &s;hall re-compel my pains of this nature, if ever I attempt it the &s;econd time: no more now but only this; he pretends him&s;elf the grand Advocate for the godly Mini&s;ters in the Northern Counties; if you may judg of his Clergy Clients by one or two of them, who&s;e cau&s;e he &s;olicited very lately before the Commit|tee of Plunder'd Mini&s;ters, you may quickly ghe&s;s what Mini|&s;ters they are: and for thy &s;atisfaction herein, read the Orders of the &s;aid Committee after full hearing of both of their Cau&s;es.</P>
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<HEAD>At the Committee for Plundered Mini&s;ters, <DATE>February 14. 1650.</DATE></HEAD>
<P>Upon the complaint of Mr <HI>John Mu&s;grave</HI> on the behalf of Mr <HI>Morland,</HI> ejected out of the Rectory of <HI>Gray&s;tock</HI> in the County of <HI>Cumberland</HI> by Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerig,</HI> and other the Commi&s;&s;ioners, for propagating the Go&s;pel in the four Northern Counties, the &s;aid Mr <HI>Morland</HI> appealing again&s;t the Judgment of the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners, and being now pre&s;ent with the &s;aid Mr <HI>Iohn Mu&s;grave,</HI> his Solicitor, to make good the &s;aid Appeal, It is admitted on both &s;ides, That the cau&s;e of the &s;aid Mr <HI>Mor|land</HI> his Ejectment out of the &s;aid Rectory, was for in&s;ufficiency for the Mini&s;try; and that he appearing upon examination be|fore the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners (as is in behalf of the &s;aid Com|mi&s;sioners affirmed) to be gro&s;ly ignorant, and therefore unable and unfit for the work of the Mini&s;try, they have adjudged him a &s;candalous Mini&s;ter: but the &s;aid Mr <HI>Morland</HI> &s;tanding upon his Ju&s;tification, &s;ubmitteth him&s;elf to a re-examination before this Committee; and being now re-examined before this Com|mittee in pre&s;ence of his &s;aid Solicitor Mr <HI>Iohn Mu&s;grave,</HI> and all parties concerned, it appeareth to this Committee upon the publique Examination of the &s;aid Mr <HI>Morland,</HI> that he is noto|riou&s;ly ignorant even of the very Fundamentals of Chri&s;tian Re|ligion; and the &s;aid Mr <HI>Morland</HI> having nothing more to &s;ay for him&s;elf, nor his &s;aid Solicitor Mr <HI>Mu&s;grave</HI> on his behalf, this Committee do upon full hearing adjudg, that the &s;aid Mr
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<HI>Morland</HI> is a very &s;candalous Mini&s;ter in regard of his &s;aid igno|rance, and do approve of the &s;aid Commi&s;sioners ejecting him out of the &s;aid Rectory for the &s;ame, and do therefore order, That the Orders of the &s;aid Commi&s;sioners for his &s;aid Eject|ment &s;hall &s;tand, and the &s;ame are hereby confirmed, and that the &s;aid Appeal be, and the &s;ame is, hereby di&s;mi&s;&s;ed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Gilbert Millington.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>At the Committee for Plundered Mini&s;ters, <DATE>February 14. 1650.</DATE></HEAD>
<P>Upon the complaint of Mr <HI>Iohn Mu&s;grave</HI> on the behalf of Mr <HI>Lampit</HI> again&s;t Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerig,</HI> and the re&s;t of the Commi&s;sioners for propagating the Go&s;pel in the four Northern Counties, the &s;aid Mr <HI>Lampit</HI> appealing again&s;t the Judgment of the &s;aid Commi&s;sioners for removing him out of the Rectory of <HI>Aiction</HI> in the County of <HI>Cumberland,</HI> and being now pre&s;ent with the &s;aid Mr <HI>Iohn Mu&s;grave</HI> his Solicitor to make good the &s;aid Appeal; It appeareth upon full hearing of what the &s;aid Mr <HI>Lampit</HI> and Mr <HI>Mu&s;grave</HI> could &s;ay, that Mr <HI>Lampit</HI> was not ejected out of the &s;aid Rectory by the &s;aid Commi&s;sioners, for that the &s;aid Mr <HI>Lampit</HI> by his own &s;hewing and confe&s;sion acknowledged that he had no other title unto the &s;aid Church, but the Election and entertainment of &s;ome of the &s;aid Pari&s;h thereunto, they having no Authority at all to pre&s;ent; and that the &s;aid Commi&s;sioners taking notice of the vacancy of the &s;aid place (the former Incumbent being lately dead) did, according to the Authority ve&s;ted in them by the Parliament, &s;ettle Mr <HI>Nichols,</HI> Mini&s;ter of the &s;aid Church, an able and painful Prea|cher, who is freely received and entertained by the &s;aid Pari&s;h, and the pretended choyce of the &s;aid Mr <HI>Lampit</HI> by them the &s;aid Pari&s;honers wholly retracted. Now therefore in regard the &s;aid Mr <HI>Lampit</HI> claimeth only by Intru&s;ion, as afore-&s;aid, without any right, and the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners having found it &s;o before them, and thereupon otherwi&s;e di&s;po&s;ed of the &s;aid living according to Law: The &s;aid Mr <HI>Lampit</HI> and Mr <HI>Mu&s;|grave</HI> having nothing more to &s;ay, this Committee finding that the &s;aid Mr <HI>Lampit</HI> or Mr <HI>Mu&s;grave</HI> had not the lea&s;t ju&s;t cau&s;e
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of complaint again&s;t the &s;aid Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerig</HI> and Commi&s;|&s;ioners for putting the &s;aid Mr <HI>Lampit</HI> out of the &s;aid Rectory of <HI>Aicton,</HI> do approve of the proceedings of the &s;aid Commi&s;si|oners, and confirm the Order by them made for di&s;po&s;ing the &s;aid Rectory, and do di&s;mi&s;s the &s;aid Appeal.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Gilbert Millington.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>His <HI>POST-SCRIPT</HI> is as full of the &s;ame Spirit of Malice and Scandal as his <HI>PRESCRIPT,</HI> belching out fal&s;ities and for|geries by thou&s;ands; affirming, That Sir <HI>A. H. partly by op|pre&s;&s;ion, but mo&s;tly by buying the Commonwealths Lands at a far under-rate, hath gotten an E&s;tate worth 8 or 10 thou&s;and pounds per annum:</HI> A man would have thought he had &s;pent his poy&s;on in the body of his Pamphlet; but it &s;eems he hath a &s;pring thereof in his bowels that can vent it &s;elf without end: Sir <HI>Arthur</HI> is a man of E&s;tate, Honour, and Con&s;cience, and therefore no probable friend to Levelling Principles; <HI>He hath been a Purcha&s;er of Bi&s;hops Lands,</HI> and is not this a clear evidence of his di&s;-affection to the Commonwealth, and a manife&s;t Te&s;timony of his Scoti&s;h Malignancy? <HI>All which he hath bought at a far under-value, the Survey|ors returning the prizes as Sir Arthur de&s;ired:</HI> What for&s;worn wretches were the&s;e <HI>Surveyors?</HI> what, all <HI>Mu&s;|graves?</HI> not an hone&s;t man among&s;t them? <HI>Sir Arthurs man Pear&s;on buys Lands al&s;o:</HI> Who can endure to &s;ee &s;uch thri|ving? Is not this worthy of complaint to the Councel of State? <HI>Col: Fitch al&s;o wrongs the whole Country:</HI> This is mo&s;t appa|rent; for he would not &s;uffer one of his Captains and Souldiers to abu&s;e <HI>Mu&s;graves</HI> father in Law (as you lately read) but he calls them to account for it: <HI>No man but Mu&s;grave is &s;en&s;ible of his Countries mi&s;ery under Sir</HI> A. H. <HI>mi&s;government, and his Malignant Iu&s;tices, contrary to his Engagement to the Councel of State, all which is &s;ubmitted to that Honorable Councel,</HI> who hath declared it fal&s;e and &s;candalous.</P>
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<HEAD>POST-SCRIPT.</HEAD>
<P><HI>JOhn Mu&s;grave,</HI> one word of coun&s;el (before we part) and then farewel: Let us hear no more complaint of oppre&s;&s;ion from an Oppre&s;&s;or, nor of Tyranny from a Tyrant; you know they are not always the hone&s;te&s;t men that cry loude&s;t <HI>Stop Thief:</HI> If you love the Commonwealth, &s;eek not to ruine her Common-worthies; though you have quit the Scotch Intere&s;t, yet love your Scotch wife; you know the meaning; there is more hope of <HI>a babe of grace</HI> of her, then of another: If I &s;hould tell you of <HI>loo&s;ne&s;s</HI> in <HI>bonds,</HI> of <HI>liberty</HI> in <HI>pri&s;on,</HI> of a <HI>Fleet</HI> on the dry <HI>ground,</HI> I pre&s;ume you able to expound all the&s;e <HI>Aenigma's;</HI> if you cannot, you may have an Interpreter, time enough.</P>
<P>Reader, It is very likely that thou had&s;t never been tempted to be&s;tow thy labour in peru&s;ing this An&s;wer unto that incon&s;i|derate, malicious, and indeed &s;elf-confuting Pamphlet, written by <HI>Mu&s;grave;</HI> for Sir <HI>A. H.</HI> inhibited the publication hereof, re|&s;olving to let <HI>Shemei</HI> cur&s;e and rail, as pre&s;uming that the Lord might &s;end even <HI>a me&s;&s;enger of Satan</HI> to do him good, and that <HI>he would have rebuked him</HI> in the hearts and con&s;ciences of all his Readers: But upon the peru&s;al of another An&s;wer to the &s;aid <HI>Mu&s;grave,</HI> printed at <HI>Newca&s;tle,</HI> and &s;ent unto <HI>London,</HI> Sir <HI>A. H.</HI> being altogether ignorant thereof, and uncon&s;ulted there|in, and &s;everal things re&s;pecting matter of fact in An&s;wer to <HI>Mu&s;graves</HI> Articles again&s;t Sir <HI>Arthur</HI> therein &s;pecified not &s;o &s;atisfying, it was thought convenient to call out of its adjudged darkne&s;s, and to expo&s;e it unto the publique view.</P>
<CLOSER>Farewell.</CLOSER>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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