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<NAME>Elspeth Healey</NAME>
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<HEAD>Articles of <HI>Trea&s;on</HI> and high <HI>Mi&s;dimeanours,</HI> committed by <HI>Iohn Pine</HI> of <HI>Curry-Mallet,</HI> in the County of <HI>Somer&s;et</HI> E&s;quire, again&s;t the <HI>King, Kingdome,</HI> and <HI>Parliament,</HI> Exhibited by thou&s;ands of the &s;aid County, faithfull <HI>Servants, and Sufferers,</HI> for the <HI>KING</HI> and <HI>PARLIAMENT.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THAT The &s;aid <HI>Iohn Pine</HI> in <HI>Iuly</HI> 1642. upon the intreaty of divers hone&s;t faithfull <HI>Parliamentiers,</HI> tooke charge of above five <HI>hundred Hor&s;e and Foote,</HI> well armed, and defirous to oppo&s;e the <HI>Commi&s;&s;io|ners of Array</HI> then at <HI>Wells;</HI> in their way thither near <HI>Mar&s;halls Elme,</HI> appeared &s;ixty of the enemies hor&s;e, with whom the &s;aid <HI>Mr. Pine</HI> de&s;ired to parley for his pa&s;&s;age, and did above one hower parley with two or three of them, and withdrawing from them, the &s;aid <HI>Pine</HI> &s;purres up and fled fir&s;t of all: whereupon the re&s;t followed; which the Enemy perceiving, &s;ome 12. of them came down the hill, killed one Man, wounded many, and tooke divers Pri&s;oners; whereby the <HI>Parliament</HI> was exceedingly di&s;honoured, their partie extreamly di&s;hartned, to the great prejudice and dammage of the Kingdome. To which wee could add, his ba&s;e running from <HI>Sherborne Hill,</HI> his trembling fear of <HI>Hartfords</HI> forces in their way to <HI>Mynhead,</HI> keeping two troops of hor&s;e for the guard of his own per&s;on in the Towne of <HI>Taunton,</HI> &s;uffering the Enemy to pa&s;&s;e by, which if he had but followed, the Warrs in the <HI>We&s;t,</HI> had by all probability been &s;oon ended, which after, through his <HI>cowardi&s;e,</HI> and <HI>treachery</HI> co&s;t &s;o much Blood and Ruine.</P>
<P N="2">2 That in <HI>May</HI> and <HI>Aprill</HI> 1643. The &s;aid <HI>Iohn Pine</HI> taking to him &s;ome of his freinds of the <HI>Committee</HI> of <HI>Somer&s;et,</HI> did promi&s;e and undertake to defend the <HI>We&s;terne</HI> parts of that <HI>County:</HI> and thereupon, he and they did draw together, Li&s;t and Arme neare <HI>&s;ix thou&s;and men,</HI> mo&s;t Hor&s;e, well-affected and &s;tout men, and rai&s;ed great &s;umms of mony (fourteene thou&s;and pound on one accompt;) fortifyed <HI>Taunton,</HI> and <HI>Bridgwater,</HI> and had Armes, Ordnance, and Amunition &s;ufficient: That contrary to the de&s;ires of the <HI>Souldiers,</HI> the earne&s;t reque&s;t of the &s;aid Towns of <HI>Taunton,</HI> and <HI>Bridgwater,</HI> his own former promi&s;es, and the tru&s;t the Country had repo&s;ed in him, the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Pine</HI> run away with the Countries mony before the Enemy (not halfe &s;o many) came within twenty miles of him, de&s;erting both tho&s;e <HI>Garri&s;ons,</HI> and all tho&s;e Well-affected per&s;ons, that had ingaged in armes, left the whole Country to the vio|lence and Plunder of the Enemy, to the exceeding dammage of the <HI>Kingdome,</HI> and above five hundred thou&s;and pounds to that particuler County, notwith&s;tanding he had under his command a very con&s;iderable &s;trength, and good a&s;&s;urance of &s;peedy releif, in ca&s;e the Enemy &s;hould come that way, which they never intended, till they heard the &s;aid <HI>John Pine</HI> had ba&s;ely de&s;erted <HI>Taunton,</HI> and after that <HI>Bridgwater,</HI> both which he cowardly left and betrayed to the Enemy.</P>
<P N="3">3 That the &s;aid <HI>John Pine</HI> was the fir&s;t <HI>Incendiary</HI> (that ever we heard of) between the Kingdom of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland,</HI> as by his <HI>Speeches, Reports,</HI> and <HI>Letters,</HI> &s;ent from <HI>London</HI> 1644. and di&s;pear&s;t among&s;t us, will ap|peare: and therefore ought by our <HI>Covenant,</HI> to be <HI>brought to condigne puni&s;hment:</HI> as al&s;o for making factions and parties among the people in the <HI>County,</HI> and el&s;ewhere</P>
<P N="4">4 That the &s;aid <HI>Iohn Pine</HI> with &s;ome of his confederates of the <HI>Committee of Somer&s;et,</HI> to wit Colonell <HI>Ceely, Min|terne, Cliffe, Morgan, Engli&s;h, Trevilion,</HI> and two or three more of meane quality; have acted in an arbitrary and opre&s;&s;ing way, by <HI>impo&s;ing Taxes, Leavying Monie; ray&s;ing and Quartering Souldiers, fining many well-affected per&s;ons,</HI> by his and their own power and will, without <HI>Ordinance</HI> or <HI>Order</HI> of <HI>Parliament,</HI> taking Seque&s;trations off at his plea&s;ure, from the greate&s;t <HI>Malignants,</HI> and &s;eque&s;tring and impri&s;oning divers faithfull men to the <HI>Parliament,</HI> without cau&s;e, to the great di&s;honour, and di&s;&s;ervice of the <HI>Parliament,</HI> and &s;eque&s;tred others without <HI>Articles,</HI> or admitting them to make their ju&s;t defence, or convicting them by <HI>legall</HI> proofs, according to the <HI>Ordinance.</HI></P>
<P N="5">5 That the &s;aid <HI>Iohn Pine</HI> hath ordinarily forced men to an Oath <HI>Ex oficio,</HI> and <HI>&s;worne</HI> them not to di&s;cover to any what&s;oever Que&s;tion &s;hall be asked them; and many times in concernments of <HI>meum &amp; tuum:</HI> and u&s;ually at the <HI>Com|mittee,</HI> &s;itts alone, as a <HI>Committee</HI> him&s;elf, in his Chamber, and there makes <HI>Orders,</HI> and then &s;ends then to his under|lings of the Committee to &s;igne.</P>
<P N="6">6 That the &s;aid <HI>Iohn Pine</HI> hath in an arbitrary way, out of meere &s;pleene and malice, undone many religious and well-affected per&s;ons of that <HI>County,</HI> inriched many wicked and Malignant per&s;ons imployed under him, mutinou&s;ly and &s;editiou&s;ly by power carried and indeavoured to carry <HI>Elections of Parliament men</HI> for his favourites, and wilfully di&s;obayed many <HI>Orders, and Ordinances of Parliament,</HI> to the lo&s;&s;e of the lives, and ruine of divers per&s;ons: and when we hoped for peace by the late Treaty, whil&s;t it la&s;ted, he declared in the Country, <HI>that the Parliament &s;hould make no peace with the King, but that the Kings life &s;hould be taken from him:</HI> And for that purpo&s;e, he and his confederates have li&s;ted and rai&s;ed divers new forces without the authority of <HI>P&aacute;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">liament, to alter the fundamentall Lawes and govern|ment of the Kingdome, di&s;inherit the King and his i&s;&s;ue of the Crowne,</HI> and in&s;lave the free people of <HI>England</HI> to Mar|tiall Law and Government, and the <HI>County</HI> to his Tyranny and violence.</P>
<P N="7">7 That the &s;aid <HI>Iohn Pine</HI> and his <HI>confederates</HI> of the &s;tanding <HI>Committee,</HI> have <HI>Monopoli&s;ed</HI> the power of the <HI>Commit|tee</HI> into their own hands, refu&s;ing to &s;it, and adjourning the Committee, when others of the Committee have come to &s;it with them: rented Seque&s;trations in their owne, and others names, and bought &s;eque&s;tred goods, at undervalues, to the great defrauding of the &s;tate: di&s;po&s;ed of the &s;tates monies and goods to one another, and their agents, con|trary to the Ordinances of Parliament, to the great prejudice and lo&s;&s;e of the &s;tate; refu&s;ed to give accompt of the monies Land and Goods &s;eque&s;tered and received by them, according to the <HI>Ordinances and Orders of Parliament,</HI> and by indirect means and underhand practices, cau&s;ed divers <HI>Gentlemen</HI> of the <HI>County,</HI> to be unduly put out of the <HI>Commi&s;&s;ion of the peace,</HI> and others of his owne confederates (le&s;&s;e able and in&s;ufficient for &s;uch a tru&s;t) to be put into their places; And the &s;aid <HI>Iohn Pine</HI> hath likewi&s;e contrived and fomented divers &s;candalous and <HI>&s;editions Petiti|ons in the Country,</HI> and &s;ent them up in the Counties name, to the Commons hou&s;e, to promote his own, and his <HI>confederates de&s;ignes,</HI> to murther the King, di&s;inherit the Prince, alter the government and lawes, when as the <HI>Countie</HI> di&s;claimed, and prote&s;ted again&s;t them as <HI>impo&s;tures and forgeries. For all which</HI> Trea&s;ons, <HI>and high mi&s;demeanours wee humbly pray, that the &s;aid</HI> Iohn Pine <HI>and his Confederates of the Com|mittee, may be forthwith apprehended and brought to &s;peedy ju&s;tice, and execution, by all true patriots to their Country and this Kingdome.</HI></P>
<CLOSER>And wee &s;hall Pray.</CLOSER>
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