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<P><HI>THE</HI> INHUMANITY OF THE Kings Pri&s;on-Keeper At OXFORD.</P>
<P>Or a true Relation of the mo&s;t tran&s;cendent cruelties, cheat|ings, cozenings, and ba&s;e di&s;hone&s;t dealings of <HI>William Smith</HI> Prove&s;t Mar&s;hall General of the Kings Army, again&s;t the <HI>Parliament Pri&s;oners</HI> un|der his cu&s;tody. As it was delivered at the Barre in the Hou&s;e of Com|mons, by one, who with many others, were &s;worne before the Lords a&s;&s;embled in <HI>Parliament,</HI> and were pri&s;oners in <HI>Oxford</HI> &s;ix Moneths, being further confirmed by Captain <HI>Win|gate</HI> in the <HI>Commons</HI> Hou&s;e, he being Member of the &s;aid Hou&s;e, and &s;ome time pri&s;oner in <HI>Oxford,</HI> the &s;pace of 9. Moneths.</P>
<P>TOGETHER. With the Copy of a Letter from a Gentleman of quality confirming the former particulars.</P>
<P>Al&s;o the Copy of a Petition and Articles exhibited to the King, His Councell of Warre again&s;t <HI>Smith.</HI></P>
<P>Likewi&s;e a Letter to the Speaker, &s;ub&s;cribed with 70. Pri&s;oners hands.</P>
<P>Whereunto is added the un&s;ufferable cruelties, exerci&s;ed upon the <HI>Cirence&s;ter</HI> men, in their pa&s;&s;age to <HI>Oxford,</HI> and at <HI>Oxford,</HI> in the Ca&s;tle and Bride-vvell, vvhen they were taken.</P>
<P><HI>Written by</HI> Edm. Chillenden. <HI>who was a Pri&s;oner there</HI> 6. <HI>Moneths.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Printed according to Order.</HI></P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>G. D.</HI> for <HI>John Bull,</HI> 1643.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>A True</HI> RELATION OF The trancendent Cruelties, and ba&s;e inhu|mane practi&s;es of Captain <HI>William Smith, Pro.</HI> Mar&s;hall, Generall of the Kings Army, ex|tended &amp; exerci&s;ed on the Parliament Pri|&s;oners in the Ca&s;tle at <HI>OXFORD.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_VPon the fifth of <HI>Decemb.</HI> 1642. I was tra|velling upon the Road about my lawfull occa&s;ions, and in my journey towards <HI>New|bury,</HI> between <HI>Henly</HI> and <HI>Reading:</HI> I met with one, who&s;e name was (as after I was informed) <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hithe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">,</HI> and falling into di&s;|cour&s;e, asked him the be&s;t and readie&s;t way towards <HI>Ne<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">bury,</HI> which he certified me was through <HI>Reading.</HI> But I an&s;wered him I was loath to goe that way becau&s;e of the Gari&s;on, and for feare of giving offence, he replied to me, that if I plea&s;ed to to goe that way, he would do me &s;o much favour as to have me through <HI>Reading</HI> without any let or &s;tay, <HI>I</HI> giving credit to him, went with him into <HI>Reading,</HI> and &s;et up my hor&s;e at the <HI>Beare,</HI> where we &s;upped together and there did Inne all night on the morrow early in the morning (the afore&s;aid) <HI>Whithead,</HI> came to my chamber and certified me, I mu&s;t goe before the Governour which was Sir <HI>Arther A&s;hton</HI> (a ranke <HI>Papi&s;t</HI> as I am informed,) being come thither, there was al&s;o Colonell <HI>Feelding,</HI> which knew me to be a <HI>Londoner,</HI> and takes me by the hand and &s;weares he was very glad he had met with me, and &s;o
<PB N="2" REF="3"> certified the Governour that I was as arrant a Round headed. Rogue and Traytor as any was in <HI>England</HI> and one that hath 700. men to command at any time to aid the Parliament. With that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he Governour without any further examination, &s;wore at m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> bitterly and calls me dam'd Rogue &amp; Traytor and with that &s;trook me with his Cane on the head,<NOTE PLACE="marg">This cariage of <HI>A&s;hton</HI> &amp; <HI>Feil|ding</HI> is not to be pa a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">eld in <HI>Tur y</HI> many pa <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the World.</NOTE> and brook it very &s;orely and &s;wore like a mad man that he would pre&s;ently hang me; and with a guard of Musquetiers did &s;end me to the Gal|lowes, where I &s;tood &s;ome quarter of an houre, expecting death: but &s;uch was Gods goodne&s;&s;e toward me, that I was convey'd from thence to Pri&s;on, whither came the afore&s;aid <HI>Whethead,</HI> and in the name of the Governour took away my Moneyes: On the next Lords day I was conveyed to <HI>Wallingford,</HI> and the Wedne&s;day following to <HI>Abington.</HI> I being brought before the Governour,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A very moder|ate <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ivill Gen|tleman.</NOTE> Lievtenant Colonell <HI>Sherly,</HI> there being divers Ca|valiers in his company, and one who&s;e name was <HI>Smith,</HI> that had the watch that day, he would needs have me to &s;ay the Lords Prayer over to him, which I refu&s;ed: Yet to give him &s;atisfaction I told him, if he pleafed to lend me a Bible, I would read the Chapter over where that was, but that would not content him, he &s;wore he would lay me neck and heels in Irons, which to prevent, I addre&s;&s;ed to the Governour, and &s;aid, Sir, I conceive I am your Pri&s;oner, and this Gentleman ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">h nothing to doe with me, and if it be your plea&s;ure to put me in Irons I am content.<NOTE PLACE="marg">This is not <HI>Smith</HI> the Mar|&s;hall, but a Cap|tain of a foot Company.</NOTE> With that the Governour &s;aid, you came without Irons to me, and without you all go away: but <HI>Smith</HI> &s;wore I &s;hould not; they &s;wore &s;o long, that they fell to blowes and by this difference by Gods providence I received mercy from the Governour. So the next day being Thur&s;day I was convey'd to <HI>Oxford</HI> Ca&s;tle.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Who afforded me a good &s;up|per and bed at the Provo&s;e Mar&s;halls <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">uar|ter that night.</NOTE> But to leave my particular &s;uf|ferings, and come to give you a relation of others, I &s;hall begin with a relation of the u&s;uage of the Pri&s;oners taken at <HI>Malborough,</HI> (in the County of <HI>Wilts</HI>) by the Cavaliers in their pa&s;&s;age to <HI>Oxford.</HI></P>
<P>After they had &s;urpri&s;ed the Town, and had taken 180. odde Pri&s;oners they drove many of them through the waters and the fir&s;t night thru&s;t them all up into a na&s;ty &s;tinking &s;table a|mong&s;t Hor&s;es; where was one hor&s;e dead, there they continu|ed till the next morning, and had no food allowed them, and
<PB N="3" REF="3"> &s;o drove them like Rogues and theeves, tied together by the armes in the hor&s;e way up to the knees in mire and dirt, and allowed no food to them, nor &s;uffered no friend to come at them; for a man coming to &s;ee &s;ome of them, was carried away to <HI>Oxon</HI> to Pri&s;on with them, and in foure daies time, as they were drove from <HI>Malbrough</HI> to <HI>Oxford,</HI> were allowed no food but only at <HI>Lamburne,</HI> a Gentleman did provide &s;ome for them: but they would &s;carce give time to receive it, and that was all the &s;u&s;tenance they had in all their pa&s;&s;age, not &s;o much as wa|ter, for &s;ome of them being drie, would faine have dranke of the water in the high way, but they would not &s;uffer them, nay, they &s;trook many of them over the heads with their Canes for &s;tooping to take a piece of Ice to hold in their mouths to quench their violent thir&s;t.</P>
<P>On Friday they came to <HI>Oxford;</HI> and as they pa&s;&s;ed through the &s;treets towards the Ca&s;tle, there was much rejoycing by the Inhabitants, Scollers, and Souldiers, calling them Round-headed Rogues and Traytors, and &s;triking &s;ome of them. One pa&s;&s;age is worthy ob&s;ervation, that the Lord <HI>George Digby</HI> and Commi&s;&s;ary <HI>Wilmot</HI> took Ma&s;ter <HI>Iohn Franklin,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">By this you may &s;ee how the Lord Digbie, and she now Lord Wil|mot loves the Hou&s;e of Com|mons,</NOTE> Member of the Hou&s;e of Commons, and led him away from all the re&s;t of the Pri&s;oners, to a Tree, and there &s;wore deeply they would hang him like a damn'd Rogue and Traytor, if he would not confe&s;&s;e where his Money was. And this is a &s;hort Relation of the&s;e mens &s;ufferings before they came into the Ca&s;tle.</P>
<P>Now you &s;hall know our u&s;age after we were in the Ca&s;tle, under Captaine <HI>William Smith,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">This is not <HI>Smith</HI> the Fen|cer, his name is <HI>Thomas Smith&punc;</HI></NOTE> the fir&s;t night we were put up into the Tower, 180. od, the place being &s;o little that we were forced to lie one upon another, and were allowed one penny bread a peace, and a Can of &s;mall Beere (water was better) and &s;o for the be&s;t part of 13. nay &s;ome of us 23. weeks, were al|lowed no more. Some of us have many times been two daies without any thing at all, &s;o that by this cruelty, and living on the boards, many fell &s;ick and very weak in body almo&s;t all of us like to peri&s;h and end our daies by the bloody flux, and one of us was &s;tarved to death; and as this man was drawing on to|wards his end Mar&s;hall <HI>Smith</HI> was &s;ollicited in all the faire waies that po&s;sible could be, by the Gentlemen and the Cap|taines there in Pri&s;on, that he would &s;uffer &s;ome thing to be
<PB N="4" REF="4"> provided for the poore man but &s;uch was his crueltie, that he would not, and &s;o the man died.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">He &s;aies it was a ba&s;e <HI>Prote&s;ta|tion,</HI> onely fra|med by a com|pany of ebels and Traytors to take away the King-Crown and life.</NOTE>Some few daies after, he called us to take the Prote&s;tation, (which he &s;tilled the Kings, we de&s;ired to heare it read over to us, which when we had heard it, we refu&s;ed it, as being again&s;t our Con&s;ciences, telling him we had taken one already, which was the King and Parliaments, he &s;wore at us, and call'd us damn'd Rogues and Traytors, &s;triking us with his Cane, drives us all up into the Tower, &s;wearing deeply he would make us take it or he would make us to &s;hit as &s;mall as a Rat:<NOTE PLACE="marg">But he was for|&s;worne, for we &s;hewed him a faire paire of heels.</NOTE> whereup|on he gives command that no body be permitted to come at us to relieve us, either with food or linen, cau&s;es a hole to be made up where things u&s;ed to be conveyed to us, and confined us to our former allowance, and charge was given upon pain of death that no more &s;hould be allowed us, or any thing el&s;e permitted to come at us, which was accordingly done, for food being &s;ent to us out of the Citie by &s;ome he cau&s;ed his Souldiers to take it way and eat it. Then the Gentlemen and Captaines impri&s;o|ned, made a weekly Pur&s;e for the reliefe of the poore Pri&s;oners (and made<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">A <HI>Lievtenant</HI> of Hor&s;e.</NOTE> Lievtenant <HI>W. Dingly</HI> Steward of it) vvhich if they had not done I am very confident, vve &s;hould halfe of us have peri&s;hed. He cau&s;es this to be re&s;trained, and threatens the Ste|vvard to lock him up clo&s;e Pri&s;oner, if he did after offer to re|lieve us vvith Bread or Beere.</P>
<P>Some &s;mall time after this, Sir <HI>Iames Penimon</HI> vvanting Soul|diers, they called us dovvne into the yard, and as vve pa&s;&s;ed through the great Chamber, vvhere at lea&s;t 12 or 14. Gentle|men lodged, and had vva&s;hed their hands in a Ba&s;on of vvater, &s;uch vvas our extreame drought, that vve could not be re&s;train|ed from drinking it yea the very raine vvater that vvas on the Barrels heads that &s;tood in the yard.</P>
<P>There they propounded to us, that if vve vvould take the Prote&s;tation, and take up Armes to &s;erve in that Armie vve &s;hould pre&s;ently be all relea&s;ed. We all refu&s;ed it, vvith that <HI>Peniman</HI> &s;vvore at us, and <HI>Smith</HI> ran after us as fa&s;t as his lame legs vvould giv him leave drives us all up again into the Tovv|er &s;triking us vvith his Cane, <HI>&s;wearing deeply that he would wake take it,</HI> or he vvould make us to &s;hit as &s;mall as a Rat; and &s;o kept us &s;till to our former allovvance.</P>
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<P><HI>When they had tryed by all the&s;e wayes of cruelty,</HI> they had or could extend to us in the Ca&s;tle, then they &s;ought by faire meanes to win us, and Sir <HI>Iames Peniman,</HI> and <HI>Smith,</HI> calls us all downe into the yard, and there they argue the ca&s;e to us, and alleadge the Scripture to us, (as the Divell did to Chri&s;t) but when they &s;aw that by this they could not prevaile with us, they &s;wore mo&s;t bitterly at us, and Sir <HI>Iames Peniman</HI> &s;wore God dam me, none of us all did belong to Salvation, but wee were a Company of damned Rogues, Rebells, and Traytors, and &s;wore we &s;hould bee made to take the Prote&s;ta|tion, for we &s;hould have no Victuals allowed us, &s;aying they that would not worke &s;hould not eate,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">But after this 14. were remo|ved out of the Dungeon to an upper Chamber &s;o little, that we could but lie down, when we went to &s;leepe.</NOTE> and &s;o wee were kept without any thing for a day and above; And to extend his Cruelty, and in|crea&s;e our mi&s;ery, <HI>Smith</HI> cau&s;es us on Munday <HI>Feb.</HI> 6. to be remo|ved from the Ca&s;tle to Bridewell to the Dungeon, where we were above 40 of us put down into it, about foure Weekes thronged, in &s;o little Roome, that woe were &s;car&s;e able to &s;tirre one by another,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">There being never a hou&s;e of Office.</NOTE> the place al&s;o being made very noy&s;ome, becau&s;e wee ea&s;ed our &s;elves in the &s;ame, &s;o that in &s;ome place of it, we might goe over the &s;hooes in Pi&s;&s;e and filth.</P>
<P>About a Fortnight after, woe had bin there: A Petition that we had made to the Lord Generall of that Army, and a Letter that was written to <HI>London,</HI> &s;etting forth the barbarous u&s;age of us by <HI>Smith,</HI> came out in P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">int<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">The Letter was Printed in my name, which is <HI>Edmund Chil|le<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">den,</HI> which <HI>Smith</HI> would have fathe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ed on mee, but hee could not prove it. But this Let|ter and Petition netled <HI>Smith,</HI> that he gave the Capt. and Gent. a great deale of Liberty upon it.</NOTE> Whereupon the Generall as wee con|ceive appointed Commi&s;&s;ioners to examine the truth of the things contained in the Letter and Petition, and on Mu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">day <HI>Feb.</HI> 22. Six of us, namely, <HI>Edmund Chillenden, Thomas Cheny, Edward Leader, Ed|ward Bradney, William Whitlawe, Io&s;eph Bli&s;es,</HI> were like Felons and Rogues brought through the Streets in Irons to Sir <HI>Iacob A&s;hleys,</HI> where was Dr. <HI>Reeves</HI> the Kings Advocate, and two other Com|mi&s;&s;ioners, who in&s;tead of examining of us, fell a Railing at un a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|king us to take the Prote&s;tation; We An&s;wered we had taken one already, which was the King and Parliaments, which we would maintaine to the la&s;t drop of our bloods,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">I making this Q<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;tion, becau&s;e it was I that &s;pake for all of us; They told mee that I &s;hould of all the re&s;t bee han|ged, &s;ay<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ng you are a pe|ermtory Rogue indeed.</NOTE> but as for this Prote&s;ta|tion we know not what it is, nor who&s;e Authority if beareth, for we know that the lawes of this Land provide; That no O<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">th &s;hould bee forced on us contrary to con&s;ent in Parliament, which Laws were out Inheritance, and therefore wee would defend and maintaine them as our <HI>proper Rights and Liberties,</HI> and no wayes betray them, or words to this effect: VVee further &s;aid that to
<PB N="8" REF="5"> &s;weare the Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> was a Traytor, or the Army under his conduct was rai&s;ed again&s;t the Kings, or that the Kings proceed|ings with his Army was good and nece&s;&s;ary, or whether the Sub|jects of <HI>England</HI> were bound, or not bound by the Votes Acts, and Orders made by the Lords and Commons in Parliament, was a high point above our Capacities to decide, and therefore de&s;ired to be excu&s;ed from taking that Oath, conceiving that wee mu&s;t not &s;weare upon doubts and que&s;tions, but in judgement, righteou&s;nes, and truth. <HI>Smith</HI> he cries out, harke, harke, they are a Preaching; we then complained to them of our ill u&s;age, and told them it was the way to &s;tarve us, and that a many of us were &s;icke in the Dun|geon, and de&s;ired they might bee removed where they might have more Aire, and wee &s;aid that wee hoped, that it was not the Kings will, nor the Coun&s;ell of VVars plea&s;ure, thus to de&s;troy us: But Dr. <HI>Reeves</HI> told us in plaine termes, that it was the Kings mind, and Coun&s;ell of Wars plea&s;ure to de&s;troy us,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">But the Dr. hath forgot his Spectacles would multiply.</NOTE> and took his Spectacles and looked on us, and &s;aid we looked as fat as Connies, and &s;o wee were &s;ent backe againe to the Dungeon, and tho&s;e that were &s;icke, grew weaker and weaker: &s;o that one ea&s;ed nature as he lay,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Namely one</HI> Giles Carter, <HI>and</HI> Caleb Selfe.</NOTE> and another was troubl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d with a continuall Vomiting; tho&s;e things were gr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">evous to us, they being done in the place where wee all were; when <HI>Smith</HI> came to Bridewell, we complained to him of it, and de&s;ired him that they might be removed where they might have more aire, and have &s;ome comfortable thing made, and per|mitted to come to them, or el&s;e they would not live long; he cald us, if we would take the Prote&s;tation we &s;hould have any thing; we de&s;ired, but if we would not, if wee all died hee did not care, wee were our owne murtherers, and did not permit any thing more to be allowed, &s;ave our former Allowance; not any Friend, no not our Wives, to come to &s;ee us, or any to have our Shifts wa&s;hed: Nay, hee put the Man that dwelt in the Bridewell in Pri&s;on in the Ca&s;tle, becau&s;e he had meat a boyling over the fire, for his owne dinner, and all <HI>Smiths</HI> men came and eate up the mans meat, &s;o that by his cruell u&s;age, the afore-named <HI>Giles Carter</HI> ended his daies in great extremity.</P>
<P>VVe &s;eeing this conceived in our &s;elves if wee &s;taid here, there was no way but of death and peri&s;hing; did with one con&s;ent re|&s;olve our &s;elves of this extreme mi&s;erie, &s;o we with our knives, and the hooke of a doore, made a hole through a Free * &s;tone wall,
<PB N="7" REF="5"> above a yard thicke, and &s;o all that were well went forth, which was about 40. whereof 4. were taken againe, and 6. was left &s;icke, in the Dungeon, which 6. (when <HI>Smith</HI> knew the re&s;t were gone) laid in Irons when we were &s;o weake as not able to &s;tirre, and &s;o kept us till Thur&s;day, or Friday, having nothing to comfort us, but water; and then wee were removed to the Tower in the Ca&s;tle a|gaine, wherein the roome where we were put, was about 60. men, and a many &s;icke of the &s;mall pox, &s;o that the place was very un|whol&s;ome and na&s;ty, and there allowed us one penny bread, and a Can of Beere.</P>
<P>I come now to relate to you &s;ome other of <HI>Smiths</HI> Tyrannicall and di&s;hone&s;t practi&s;es.</P>
<P>When <HI>Marlborow</HI> men were &s;ick, Smith gave to one Mr. <HI>Betteri&s;e</HI> a Chyrurgion of <HI>Oxford,</HI> 5, <HI>s.</HI> to provide &s;ome hot and comfortable things for the &s;ick<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Pri&s;oners, Mr. <HI>Betteris</HI> laid out &s;ome of the mo|ney pre&s;ently, after this meeting him in the &s;treet demanded his money of him and threatned him, if he would not give it him, &s;o M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. <HI>Betteri&s;e</HI> gave him all his 5. <HI>s.</HI> againe, though he had layed out &s;ome of it before: This Mr. <HI>Betteri&s;e</HI> did u&s;e to come at fir&s;t into the Ca&s;tle to dre&s;&s;e the wounded Pri&s;oners, and by that meanes knew the di&s;ea&s;e of the &s;icke Pri&s;oners, did &s;ay to &s;ome N<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ighbours of his, that they were &s;poil'd for want of water, and &s;o indeed they were; for we had no water &s;ometimes in two dayes time; <HI>Smith</HI> he heares of this, and meeting with Mr. <HI>Betteri&s;e</HI> put him in Pri&s;on in the Ca&s;tle, for &s;o &s;aying, but was within a &s;hort time by Sir <HI>Iacob A&s;hley</HI> relea&s;ed out of the pri&s;on, but by Smith commanded to come no more to dre&s;&s;e the wounded pri&s;oners.</P>
<P>About this time there were &s;ome pri&s;oners brought in, which were taken at <HI>Banbury,</HI> and among&s;t them was one that was woun|ded in the head with a Pole-Axe. <HI>Smith</HI> was by the Gentlemen and Captaines in all the faire wayes, intreated to let a Surgeon to come in to dre&s;&s;e him, he would not permit any to come, &s;o that this mans wounds fe&s;tered and &s;tuncke, and in a &s;hort time hee ended his dayes in great extremity.</P>
<P>There a &s;o being in the Tower many Pri&s;oners, and they hav<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ng had no water in 20. na<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, 48. houres time, knockt for water, Oc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|don the Captaines man came and told them hee could help them to none (though the River runne by the doore) they being dry knoc|ked again, <HI>Smith</HI> came him&s;elf, &amp; &s;aid I will give you water, cau&s;ed
<PB N="8" REF="6"> 3, or 4, of his men to come arm'd to guard his per&s;on, and cal'd downe one that was my Lord <HI>Saies</HI> Miller, and layes him in Irons Neck and Heeles; and one Sergeant <HI>Wallis</HI> hee Canes him at lea&s;t 60. blowes over the head, and wounds him very &s;orely, that he hath lo&s;t one of his joints, and after this layes him in Irons 28. pound weight, Neck and Heeles, and &s;o keepes him 48. houres in a na&s;ty Dungeon, without bread or water, or any other &s;u&s;tenance; and Caned Lievtenant <HI>Whitehead,</HI> and layd him in Irons; and to colour over his Tyranny; commands his men to &s;ay, they made a mutiny.</P>
<P>There was one Mr. <HI>Freeman</HI> a Con&s;table neere <HI>Banbury; Smith</HI> cals him to take the Prote&s;tation, hee refu&s;es it, Smith &s;aid if hee would not take it, he &s;hould goe up into the Tower, hee &s;aid that was the wor&s;t he could doe to him. Is it &s;aies Smith you damned Rogue, and &s;triked him with his Cane, &s;weating bitterly at him, la<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ed him in Irons neck and heeles, &s;et him on a cold Stone in the yard, takes away his coat from him, &s;ets a &s;entinel over him, &s;o keeps him 30 4 daies in the winter time, without either bread or water, or air, other food: This <HI>Freeman</HI> was al&s;o removed to the Dungeon in Bridewell, where he e&s;caped to his owne hou&s;e, and there was taken againe and brought into the Ca&s;tle; Smith layes him in Irons and &s;o he ended his dayes al&s;o in great mi&s;ery.</P>
<P>The &s;ame day he cal'd downe one of <HI>Marlborow</HI> &s;ouldiers, and offers him the Prote&s;tation, the youth refu&s;ed it; <HI>Smith</HI> &s;weares at him, and beats him with his Cane, layes him neck and heeles in I|rons, puts him in a Dungeon, &s;et a Sentinell over him, &s;o keeps him till he had forced him to take the prote&s;tation, and allowed no food to be given him.</P>
<P>There was one Mr. <HI>VVierby</HI> a mini&s;ter, and one Mr. <HI>Price,</HI> and one Mr. <HI>Selven,</HI> that did refu&s;e the prote&s;tation; hee &s;trikes them, and breake their heads, makes the blood run downe their eares, and &s;ends them to the Dungeon in Bridewell.</P>
<P>There was one Mr. <HI>Edward Bradney,</HI> that had a man exchanged for him, yet had not his liberty; <HI>Smith</HI> told him if hee could get 10. <HI>l.</HI> to pay his Fees hee &s;hould have his liberty. Mr. <HI>Bradney</HI> got 5. <HI>l.</HI> told Smith I have 4. <HI>l.</HI> 10, <HI>s.</HI> Smith &s;aid he would not take that, &s;o Mr. <HI>Bradney</HI> was putting up his money againe, <HI>Smith</HI> &s;natches his money from him, and &s;aid I will keepe this in part or payment; &s;o took away foure pound, and kept the man in pri&s;on &s;ix moneths after; fir&s;t in the Tower, then in the Dungeon in Bridewell, where
<PB N="9" REF="6"> he e&s;caped, but was taken againe, <HI>Smith</HI> laid him in Irons hands and feet, and &s;o keepes him about 8 weekes: by rea&s;on of this his cruell u&s;age, he fell very weak and &s;ick, and in his &s;ickne&s;&s;e he would not &s;uffer any body to come to helpe him in his great extremity, &s;o that for three weekes he lay in his owne Dung and pi&s;&s;e, and &s;o by a long and langui&s;hing di&s;ea&s;e, being pined to nothing in, a great deale of woe ended his dayes.</P>
<P>There was one <HI>Richard Cawdle,</HI> and one <HI>Robert Neale,</HI> that e&s;ca|ped out of Bridewell, and were taken againe, he burnt them with match betweene the fingers to the bone, and laid them in Irons hands and feet, &s;uffers no Surgeon to come to them, &s;o keeps them 8. weekes, and they both in this extremity ended their dayes in much mi&s;ery.</P>
<P>There was one <HI>Andrew</HI> of <HI>London,</HI> who came to <HI>Oxford,</HI> and being brought into Pri&s;on, Smith him&s;elfe tooke 23. <HI>s.</HI> out of his pocket, and kept him there a &s;hort &s;pace, and then turning him go|ing, but never gave him his money.</P>
<P>There was one Mr. <HI>I. A,</HI> the Lord of <HI>Douns</HI> man, brought in for a Spie, he tooke the Prote&s;tation, and was by Smith relea&s;ed, pay|ing 50. <HI>s.</HI> fees; and hee comming into the Ca&s;tle to &s;ee a Friend, <HI>Smith</HI> would not let him goe till he had paid him 50. <HI>s.</HI> more.</P>
<P>There was one Mr. <HI>Wilde</HI> a mini&s;ter, a Malignant, committed to pri&s;on, who lay there 7 daies, and paid Smith 3. <HI>l.</HI> 10. <HI>s.</HI> for his Fees.</P>
<P>There was two Londoners, Mr. <HI>C.</HI> Mr. <HI>M.</HI> that tooke the pro|te&s;tation, that paid <HI>Smith</HI> 20. <HI>l.</HI> for their fees.</P>
<P>There was one <HI>William Burthen</HI> a Con&s;table, that tooke the pro|te&s;tation, and was by Smith relea&s;ed paying 4. <HI>l.</HI> but hee after heard he was a rich man, got him in pri&s;on againe, and there keepes him to make him pay 60. <HI>l.</HI> more, and did not let him goe, till hee had paid him 20. <HI>l.</HI> more.</P>
<P>There was one Mr. <HI>Ad.</HI> of <HI>London,</HI> pri&s;oner, Smith tooke 5. <HI>l.</HI> 10. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">illings, out of his pocket, and never gave it him more.</P>
<P>There was one Mr. <HI>VV. B.</HI> a Gentleman, whom the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Armath</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">You may&s;te by this that if there be any vil|lany to be done, a Bi&s;hop is at hand to act it,</NOTE> per&s;waded to take the prote&s;tation, hee was relea&s;ed paying 20. <HI>l.</HI> fees; Smith gets him againe and keepes him pri&s;oner, till he had made him pay or given him bond for 30. <HI>l.</HI> more.</P>
<P>He al&s;o got a Bill of Exchange for 30. <HI>l.</HI> from Captaine <HI>Wingate,</HI> and Captaine <HI>Au&s;ten,</HI> but he hath not yet paid them, though he
<PB N="10" REF="7"> hath bin often asked for it, and Captaine <HI>Au&s;ton</HI> asking him for it, <HI>Smith</HI> gave him very opprobious words, calling him &s;hit|ten Prentice boy, and threatned to lay him in Irons, neck and heels.</P>
<P>There was one Dr. <HI>Claiton,</HI> Doctor of Divinitie of <HI>Waltom|&s;tow</HI> in <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> (as he him&s;elfe &s;aid) who was taken at <HI>Branceford,</HI> and carried to <HI>Oxford</HI> Pri&s;on, who lying there in great mi&s;e|ry, did endeavour to make an e&s;cape and getting over a wall, fell downe and broke his neck.</P>
<P>Captain <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ohn Lilburne,</HI> he kept him in Irons 19. or 18. daies and &s;ince he being very &s;ick, even to death yet w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">uld not per|mit any woman to come to look to him in his &s;icknes.</P>
<P>Captaine <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ohn Frank in</HI> and Ma&s;ter <HI>Iohn Brown</HI> Gentleman, he ironed together, and &s;o kept them a good while, and &s;ince Captaine <HI>Iohn Frankling</HI> is dead.</P>
<P>Ma&s;ter <HI>William Dingly,</HI> a Lievtenant of Hor&s;e, he laid him in Irons, and &s;o kept him 8. or 9 weeks. He kept one Ma&s;ter <HI>An|drew Ellu</HI> (one of my Lord Generalls Life-Guard, a Gentle|man of the Innes of Court) in the Tower among&s;t the Com|mon Pri&s;oners, and made him to lie on the Boards.</P>
<P>Ma&s;ter <HI>Iohn Frankling,</HI> Member of the Hou&s;e of Commons, he hath mo&s;t ba&s;ely abu&s;ed, and calld him Rogue and damn'd Traytor, yea &s;tinking fellow and took him by the &s;houlders, and thru&s;t him into a little Chamber, &s;aying to him you are a damn'd Traytor, and I will u&s;e you like a Traytor; locks him up clo&s;e Pri&s;oner, and gives the key to one <HI>Brad&s;haw</HI> that was a Cavalier in Pri&s;on, and <HI>Smith</HI> on purpo&s;e &s;et on this <HI>Brad&s;haw,</HI> and one Captaine <HI>Cew,</HI> one of the Cavaliers an Iri&s;h Papi&s;t, to drinke healths and carrou&s;es in the roome with Mr. <HI>Frank|ling,</HI> to abu&s;e and torment him,<NOTE PLACE="marg">This B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ad&s;haw being &s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> did confe&s;&s;e.</NOTE> and hath ever &s;ince kept him clo&s;e Pri&s;oner. And Captaine <HI>Walton,</HI> Captaine <HI>Iohn L lburne,</HI> Captaine <HI>Vivers,</HI> Captaine <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ate&s;by&punc;</HI> Captaine <HI>Scroope</HI> Captaine, <HI>Au&s;ton,</HI> Captaine <HI>L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">dcot</HI> he hath kept them all clo&s;e Pri&s;oners, for the mo&s;t part of their time, and &s;eldome would permit their friends to come to vi&s;it them, no nor their wives to &s;ee them.</P>
<P>Yea he hath taken away the beds from the Captaines and made them to lye on the cords, and again&s;t their wills placed &s;ome of the Cavaliers in them.</P>
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<P>As for Captaine <HI>Wingate,</HI> he hath alwaies kept him clo&s;e Pri+&s;oner alone, without any company, not &s;uffering him to con+ferre neither with men nor Books, not permit him to have a Bible, onely when <HI>Blage</HI> was hanged. Ma&s;ter <HI>Harfeild</HI> Mini&s;ter of <HI>Banbury,</HI> and he was in one Chamber, and <HI>Smith</HI> had layed this Reverend Mini&s;ter in Irons hands and feet, and after that <HI>Blage</HI> was dead brought his body and threw it into the Roome where Captaine <HI>Wingate</HI> and this was, and &s;o locked them up all three clo&s;e Pri&s;oners, and many times <HI>Smith</HI> hath kept tho&s;e that have died &s;o long till they have &s;tunk like to poi&s;on them, nor would not carie them away, till the Pri&s;oners were con|&s;trained to pay for their buriall. He would not &s;uffer Captaine <HI>Wi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">gate</HI> to walke in the Garden for his health &s;ake, notwi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">h|&s;tanding the Kings mind was that he &s;hould, as hath been in my hearing declared by the Lord of <HI>Craford.</HI></P>
<P>As for Captaine <HI>Clifton Cot &s;by</HI> and Captaine <HI>Vivers,</HI> they being in <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">anbury,</HI> his Maje&s;tie was plea&s;ed by his Herauld of Arms to declare, that if they would come and yeeld them&s;elves to Him they &s;hould have a free Pardon, the which they did, and had al&s;o the Lord Generalls word, on his honour to confirme the &s;ame: yet after this they were brought to <HI>Oxford</HI> Pri&s;on, and by <HI>Smith</HI> kept there, and were before the Lord chiefe Ju&s;tice <HI>Heath,</HI> on <HI>Oyer</HI> and <HI>Termine<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> arraigned for their lives. Whereupon they both of them made a Petition decla+ring his Maje&s;ties Act pa&s;&s;ed to them which was acknowledg+ed by the Generall<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> as appeares plainly by the An&s;wer of the Petition,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">The Petition I have &s;een with the An&s;we but as yet <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ann <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> procure he Co|py of it He would not <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Cap aine C te&s;o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;e h w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> not pay him <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">oo pounds for his fee, and &s;o al&s;o he did by Mr. Ha field, Mini|&s;ter of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">bury, and &s;o by Cap|tai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e Vive <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. I do not believe any of them committed any fa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lt, de<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">erving any Pa don, but this I &s;ay accor|ding to their Proceedings.</NOTE> and thereupon order was given, they &s;hould be re+lea&s;ed, yet notwith&s;tanding <HI>Smith</HI> kept them in Pri&s;on clo&s;e, and by his ill u&s;uage, Captain <HI>C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">te&s;by</HI> is &s;ince dead, and Cap|taine <HI>Vivers</HI> hath bin almo&s;t at Deaths dore, and is yet Pri&s;on|er: therefore it behoves the King and the Generall to vindicate their Honour by executing Ju&s;tice on <HI>Smith,</HI> for thus gro&s;ely abu&s;ing the King and the Generall</P>
<P>He hath kept many in Pri&s;on (after they have been pardon|ed by the King and have taken the Prote&s;tation) for exce&s;sive Fees.</P>
<P>But to let all the world &s;ee he is a knave in all re&s;pects, and to all per&s;ons friends and foes, he hired a Prie&s;t to preach in the Pri&s;on, and this Prie&s;t was as ba&s;e as <HI>Smith</HI> him&s;elfe, and
<PB N="14" REF="8"> would raile again&s;t the Parliament and the Citie of <HI>London,</HI> as loud as <HI>Smith,</HI> yet when this Prie&s;t came to demand his quar|terage of <HI>Smith,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s it <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> that the P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ment <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> in the lea&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;taken, in &s;ay|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> the King is <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> and invi|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">d i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> by King <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">naves and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">eeves.</NOTE> he to &s;ave his Money, and deprive the Prie&s;t, of his due, calls him all to naught, and &s;aies to him, you raile again&s;t the Parliament, you &s;hall have quartering, and &s;o claps Irons on the poore Prie&s;t, that he was glad to loo&s;e his Money to be rid of his Irons, and &s;o he &s;erves all his men, when they aske him for Money, now let all the world judge whether it be for a Kings honour to have &s;uch Officers.</P>
<P>And further to &s;et out his ba&s;e di&s;simulation when the Commi&s;sioners from the Parliament are in <HI>Oxford,</HI> then to make the matter faire as if he were a &s;tranger to a Tyrant, he will let the Gentlemen &amp; Captains have liberty to walke in the Garden, and &s;uffers their friends and wives to come to them, but as &s;oon as ever they are gone forth of the City, he locks them up clo&s;e Pri&s;oners, and debars all friends, yea their owne wives, and though they be &s;ick, will not &s;uffer them to come to helpe them in their extremity, nor no Phi&s;itians, but whom he will appoint, which for ought any knowes, may poi&s;on them, for in a &s;hort time there hath died of the&s;e Gentlemen, Captaine <HI>Liacot,</HI> Captaine <HI>Fleminge,</HI> Captaine <HI>Iohn Frankling,</HI> Captaine <HI>Ga&s;terill,</HI> Captaine <HI>Stevens, Iunior,</HI> Captaine <HI>Stevens Senior,</HI> Captaine <HI>Plai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r,</HI> Captaine <HI>Au&s;ten,</HI> Captaine <HI>Ca&s;eby,</HI> Liev|tenant <HI>Flower</HI> Ma&s;ter <HI>VVitman</HI> Merchant of <HI>London,</HI> Mr. <HI>Her|field</HI> Mini&s;ter of <HI>Banbury,</HI> old <HI>Thomas Web,</HI> and three more Clo|thiers of <HI>Gloce&s;ter&s;hire.</HI> and 4. more common men, which are before mentioned.</P>
<P>There was a Clothier of Gloce&s;ter&s;hire, which was relea&s;ed, <HI>Smith</HI> got him againe, and kept him in Pri&s;on to make him pay a great Summe of Money, and there the man ended his daies.</P>
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<PB N="13" REF="8">
<HEAD><HI>A True</HI> RELATION OF The taking of <HI>Cirence&s;ter,</HI> and the cruell dealing of the merciles Cavaliers towards the Pri&s;oners they there took in their pa&s;&s;age, as they went to <HI>Oxon</HI> and at <HI>Oxon.</HI></HEAD>
<P>UPon <HI>Thur&s;day</HI> the &s;econd of <HI>February</HI> 1642. Prince <HI>Ru|pert</HI> with a great company of his Cavaliers, came before <HI>Cirence&s;tor,</HI> and there after an hot Skirmi&s;h, they being valiantly re&s;i&s;ted by about 400. of my Lord <HI>Stamfords Blew Coats,</HI> and Captaine <HI>Wallingfords</HI> Dragooners there being in the Town not above 500. Souldiers, with the Trained Bands and all, yet &s;uch was the cruelty of the Cavaliers, &s;eeing my Lord <HI>Stam|fords</HI> Blew-Coats thus valian<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ly re&s;i&s;ting them, and in their re&s;i&s;ting &s;lew many of them &s;o that thereby they were much enraged, in&s;omuch that they &s;et on fire a Barn and &s;ome hou|&s;es, and Hay Ricks, which did much anoy our men, who had overtoyled them&s;elves with re&s;i&s;ting them, not being relieved by the Trained Bands which were in the Towne, and by this means were forced to retreat into the Town the Cavaliers pur|&s;uing them, and &s;o &s;urprized the Towne, and after they had given them Quarter, becau&s;e they had &s;laine none, before they murthered many of the Inhabitants, about twenty per|&s;ons or more;<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Let all Ma|lignants take notice, that not|with&s;tanding they love them and their Cau&s;e, yet where they get the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ictory, they will make no diffe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ence between a Ma|l gnant and an hone&s;t Round|head.</NOTE> and mo&s;t of them were Malignants again&s;t the Parliament.</P>
<P>After they had thus taken us, we were led into a field about halfe a mile from the Towne where the chiefe Commanders were, that they might take a view of us, who threatned to do
<PB N="14" REF="9"> execution upon us all, and there the Common Souldiers &s;tript us, and wounded many of us, and then drove us back to the Church in <HI>Cirencester,</HI> where we remained almo&s;t two whole daies, and two nights in all, which time they allowed us no &s;u&s;tenance wherewithall to live, till ju&s;t as they drove us to|wards <HI>Oxford,</HI> they gave each of us a &s;mall piece of bread and chee&s;e, and then bound us all with match, and &s;o drove us a|long without &s;tockings on our legs, or &s;hooes on our feet, or hats on our heads, many of us having no Dublets, and &s;ome Gentlemen of good quality without Breeches and &s;o we came to <HI>Burford</HI> hill, where the Cavaliers gave each of us a little piece of Bread, which was all the reliefe they gave us in our way be|tween <HI>Cirence&s;ter</HI> and <HI>Oxon,</HI> and for this we waited a long time upon the hill, the wind blowing very cold, and we &s;tanding barefoot and bareleg'd in the &s;now. Then we came to <HI>Witneigh,</HI> where we lay in the Church, and from thence were drove to|wards <HI>Oxon,</HI> and about a mile from the City His Maje&s;tie with the Prince, and the Duke of <HI>Yorke,</HI> came thither to &s;ee us drove along more like dogs and Hor&s;es then men, up to the knees in mire &amp; dirt along, the hor&s;e way, &amp; aboundance of the Scollers much rejoycing at our mi&s;ery, calling and abu&s;ing us by the names of damned Rogues, and Traytors. And when we came to <HI>Oxon,</HI> we were put all together in the Church, and there we received, for the mo&s;t part of us, a piece of bread that night, the next morning they &s;eperated the Voluntiers, from the Trained Bands, and cruelly u&s;ed us to force us all to take the Prote&s;tation, and take up Arms for them again&s;t the Parlia|ment, for they allowed us but one &s;mall piece of bread, and a can of B ere a day, and would not allow us to have a draught of water to drinke, we offering to pay Money for it, yet wee could not obtaine it: by which cruell u&s;uage they forced the mo&s;t of them to take the Prote&s;tation, that of 1100. and 66. Pri&s;oners, there was but 16. that refu&s;ed it, that they had &s;cra|ped about the Countrey for, for they brought old Almes men, about three or foure &s;core yeare old, and lame Cripples from their mothers wombe blind men, and all to make up the num|ber of a great many Pri&s;oners, they not only forcing them to take the Prote&s;tation, but afterwards fined th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">m beyond their e&s;tates, and drove them to other de&s;perate cour&s;es, &s;o that one
<PB N="15" REF="9"> cut his throat, he not dying pre&s;ently was asked the rea&s;on why he did &s;o; he an&s;wered, he was &s;o hungry that the Divill tempt|ed him to cut his throat to be out of his mi&s;ery; and divers others of them fell weake and &s;ick, and were &s;ent to <HI>Bridewell,</HI> where they died two or three in a day, and one man drawing on towards his end, I and <HI>Edward Leader,</HI> and another, had op|portunitie to &s;peak unto him, and we asked him what he thought of his la&s;t end? he &s;aid unto us, and fetch d a great &s;igh, he could have both &s;aid and thinked more if he had refu&s;ed the Prote&s;tation and kept clo&s;e to Chri&s;t, and &s;o d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">parted. Whi|le&s;t they contiue in the Churches we that were in the Dun|geon hearing that they wanted bread, gathered 7. &s;hillings a|mong&s;t us and gave it the woman of <HI>Bridewell</HI> to lay out in bread for them, which &s;he accordingly did and went to the Church to give it them: but &s;uch was <HI>Smiths</HI> cruelty, as that he would not permit it to be given them, &s;o i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> was returned to us againe and tho&s;e of them that refu&s;ed to take the Prote&s;tation, he beat and abu&s;ed, tying &s;ome of them neck and heels, and o|thers he &s;ent to the Dungeon, others he brough into the Ca|&s;tle, where we were made to &s;tand in the cold yard a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l the fi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t day in the &s;now; then at night we were put in<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o the Ha l wh re we continued 3. or 4. daies, without receiving any allowa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ce from them whereupon we asked Captaine <HI>Smith</HI> for &s;ome al|lowance, he then giving us bitter words, and &s;wore at us hid his man give us &s;o much bread as he would give a dog a day, and for water let them lap in the yard and be hanged or pox't for a company of damn'd Rogues Dogs or to this eff<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ct.</P>
<P>Then after two or three daies&punc; he allowed us halfe a p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nny loafe a day, but we had no water to drinke in two daies toge|ther. Then we were put up into the Tower and there we were allowed a penny a day in bread and a can of beere, wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ch was the be&s;t allowance that ever we received from them lying for the &s;pace of 15. weeks on the boards; and by rea&s;on of this hard u&s;uage many of us fell &s;ick, which dr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ve us to call from the Tower for more reliefe: whereupon he &s;trikes two of us with his Cane over the head and layes us neck and heels in I|rons, and kept their allowance from them: and &s;ince the Pa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">li|ament hath &s;ent downe 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">0 for the reliefe of the poore Pri|&s;oners, he hath ever &s;ince kept away the Kings allowance from us.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<PB N="16" REF="10">
<HEAD>The Copy of a Letter written from the Ca&s;tle at <HI>Oxon,</HI> by a Gentleman in Pri&s;on there, confirming the former particu|lars.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Noble Sir,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Cannot but take &s;peciall notice of your re&s;pects mani|fe&s;ted unto my &s;elfe, and all the re&s;t of the Gentlemen my fellow Pri&s;oners, in &s;o kindly writing unto us, and &s;end|ing to &s;ee how it faires with us, which, true it is there came once a Trumpeter of Captaine <HI>Lidcots,</HI> about the exchange of his Ma&s;ter for another, and for his paines he was clapt up Pri&s;oner with his Ma&s;ter, and kept there by Captaine <HI>Smith,</HI> till &s;uch time as he could conforme unto <HI>Captaine Smiths</HI> will and plea&s;ure, and take a new Prote&s;tation, and &s;erve in the Ar|my, which is called the King and his <HI>Captaine</HI> hath here &s;ince with five more, in 14. daies, ended his daies in a great deale of mi&s;ery, and woe. In the la&s;t Letter which I have &s;een, though the Bearer was not permitted to come in to us, you let us un|der&s;tand of that courteous and noble u&s;uage the Gentlemen that are Pri&s;oners with you find at your hands, and you tell us, that you are &s;orry to hear of our hard u&s;uage, which you hope is not &s;o bad as the report goes: Truly let me &s;ay thus much in briefe, from my very &s;oul I doe believe, that the Barbariou&s;|nes inflicted upon the poore Gally &s;laves in <HI>Turky,</HI> cannot pa|rallell tho&s;e inhumane cruelties, which abundance of poore men have undergon from the hands of <HI>Sm th</HI> him&s;elfe: the full particular ri&s;ing of which I am confident will fill di|vers hundred &s;heets of Pap<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r to make a &s;econd Book of Mar|tyrs with more &s;adder Stories then are to be found in Queene <HI>Maries</HI> cruelties:<NOTE PLACE="marg">The <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ri&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">s</HI> report</NOTE> A little touch of &s;ome part of which you may read in the Relation of one Ma&s;ter <HI>Wierlay</HI> that broke Pri&s;on here, and in the Letters that divers others put out in Print<NOTE N="(b)" PLACE="marg">In a Let|ter Intituled a true Rela|tion of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ag<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of the Pri&s;on|ers at <HI>Oxon.</HI></NOTE> and a little more of which you will heare in the Relation of one Mr. <HI>Chillenden,</HI> who with 18. more broke Pri&s;on here
<PB N="17" REF="10"> foure nights agoe for I believe that he will make a Declaration to the world. We have from time to time complained to our friends at <HI>London,</HI> which have hitherto hoped that Letters from the Gentlemen to the Court, of the good u&s;uage of the Pri&s;o|ners with them, would have prevailed with His Maje&s;ty &amp; the Generall here, to purcha&s;e the like for us: but alas it is in vain. We have Petitioned His Maje&s;tie and the Generall, and Arti|cled again&s;t <HI>Smith,</HI> for trancendent cruelties but we never could have hearing by rea&s;on of the potency of his friends and tho&s;e damnable Oaths that he hath &s;wore again&s;t us, to which there is no more credit to be given, then to the Divill and tho&s;e wick|ed lies that he hath told, and tho&s;e fal&s;e reports that he hath rai&s;ed on us, and filled the Court full of &s;trange and unheard of matters, that never entred into our hearts to thinke of much le&s;&s;e to plot; and tho&s;e be his u&s;uall practi&s;es and eva&s;ions when we complaine of him, &s;o that our &s;trugling and complaining hath done us rather more hurt then good, becau&s;e our friends in Parliament hath not taken the right cour&s;e to deale with their Pri&s;oners, as we have been dealt with; which if they had, they them&s;elves, I am confident, would long ere this, by their importunate de&s;ires and informations to His Maje&s;tie, have ea&s;ed us of <HI>Smith,</HI> and purcha&s;ed more liberty for us, &s;o that this is our la&s;t refuge that we have to betake us to, to pre&s;&s;e our friends immediately to get all their Pri&s;oners of quality clapt up clo&s;e Pri&s;oners as we are, and u&s;ed in &s;ome rea&s;onable pro|portion to what we are here, and if this be not &s;peedily done I doe verily believe, they will &s;carce &s;ee the face of one man in ten of us, for &s;o neare as I can judge. <HI>Smith</HI> more then Pagan-like cruelty hath already murthered above 40. men yea, above 60. men in this hou&s;e, the blood of all which he is guilty of, for his &s;tarving, beating, fettering, clapping head and heels to|gether, clo&s;e impri&s;oning, and other bad u&s;uage hath already brought the Plague among&s;t us, and two poore m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n in the Tower lie &s;ick of the Plague &s;ores, as the Chyrurgion, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">vers: yet in this great extremity, will not let t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e heavy hearted wife come relieve and nouri&s;h her &s;ick and di&s;tre&s;&s;ed husband: yea, he hath clapt a Chyrurgeon in Pri&s;on for comming to dre&s;&s;e the &s;tinking putrified &s;ores of the wounded and di&s;ea&s;ed; yea, and the poore people that dre&s;&s;ed our diet, and wa&s;hed our lin|nen
<PB N="18" REF="11"> are not permitted to come unto us, yea and though Captaine <HI>Scroope</HI> a Gentleman of quality be vety &s;icke, yet will he not &s;uffer his Apothecary to come to admini&s;ter any thing to him.</P>
<P>But the &s;adde&s;t Story of all the re&s;t in this hou&s;e, might bee ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e of one Mr. <HI>Edward Bradneys</HI> &s;ufferings, who was an hone&s;t Warwick-&s;hire Man, who hath laid a long time in langui&s;hing death; fir&s;t in this Ca&s;tle, then at Bridewell, and almo&s;t ever &s;ince they broke Pri&s;on there, in fetters of Iron, who died ye&s;terday, whom all the Gentlemen in the Hou&s;e, neither for love nor money, could not intreat Smith nor his Lievtenant (who is growne as bad as him&s;elfe) to let us have for out money, any poore Woman to looke unto him, &s;o that he was forced for 3. We<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">kes together to lye in his owne Dung and pi&s;&s;e, and never was made cleane all that time but once, as tho&s;e that were neere&s;t unto him have for cer|tainty informed me, &s;o that they that lay in the Roome with him, and next unto him, have beene allmo&s;t poi&s;oned with &s;tincke by him; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">a though the poore Pri&s;oners many of them be alm<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t &s;pent in watching with their f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">llow dying Pri&s;oners, yet the inhumane Lievte a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> the other night, threw &s;tones in at the wi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">dowes, in a Roome where fou e lay &s;ick, bec<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;e the poore watching Men had b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t a faggot burning to refre&s;h them, and a Candle bu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ning to &s;ee to give them drinke, and &s;uch things as they had for them.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>I re&s;t your Servant.</SIGNED> <DATELINE><HI>Oxon Ca&s;tle,</HI> <DATE><HI>May</HI> 26. 1643.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="petition">
<PB N="19" REF="11">
<HEAD>THE TRUE COPIE OF A Petition and Articles, which the Captaines and Gentlemen in Pri&s;on, prefer|red to his Maje&s;ties Privie Coun&s;ell Com|mi&s;sioners, and Councell of Warre, again&s;t SMITH. To the right Honourable the Lords of his Maje&s;ties mo&s;t Honourable Privy Coun&s;ell, the Commi&s;sioners, and the Coun&s;ell of Warre a&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mb ed in OXON. The mo&s;t Humble Petition of &s;ome Pri&s;oners in the Ca&s;tle, at OXON, who&s;e Names are hereunto Sub&s;cribed.</HEAD>
<OPENER>Sheweth,</OPENER>
<P>THat we pre&s;ume not from any forgetfullnes of our &s;ad condition, being Pri&s;o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ers under his Ma e&s;ties high di&s;plea&s;ure, and the in<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eperable con&s;equents therewith, which in all humility, and &s;en&s;e of Sorrow we both apprehend and &s;ubmit unto, or out of any unquiet|ne&s;&s;e of di&s;po&s;ition to encrea&s;e trouble to your Lord&s;hips, to interrupt your gr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">at affaires, which we mo&s;t humbly crave pardon for; But the long and &s;till daily <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ll intreaty (wee all receive under our Keeper the Provo&s;t Mar&s;hall Generall Captaine <HI>Smith</HI>) is &s;o exorbitant and intollerable, as upon the Reputation of Gentlemen; we profe&s;&s;e that a faire pa&s;&s;age out of this World will be farre more welcome unto us then &s;uch a life. A particular of &s;ome of his Actions we all in humblene&s;&s;e as your Lord&s;hips &s;hall vouch&s;afe to &s;ignifie your plea&s;ures) de&s;ire to pre&s;ent unto your Lord|&s;hips, be&s;eeching your Lord&s;hips to take them and us into your grave con|&s;ideration; And to &s;hew your Petitioners &s;uch favour and reliefe there|in, as your Lord&s;hips &s;hall thinke meet.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>And we &s;hall daily pray,</HI> &amp;c.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="testimony">
<PB N="14" REF="12">
<HEAD>Some Particulars of Captaine <HI>SMITH,</HI> his Cariage towards his Pri&s;oners.</HEAD>
<P><MILESTONE N="1"> THat we are many of us Clo&s;e Pri&s;on rs, and &s;ome in Irons, and other Gentlemen in the Tower among&s;t the Common Pri&s;o|ners, and have been &s;trucke by Captaine <HI>Smith.</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE N="2"> That we are by him lock't up into our Chambers, and debarred the u&s;e of Pen, Inke and Paper, and the Conver&s;e with any, having Sentinels &s;et at our Chamber doores, &s;ome of us denyed the Com|fort of &s;peaking with &s;uch as come from, and returne unto our Wives and deare&s;t Friends.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="3"> That we have &s;uffered much for nece&s;&s;aries; and many of us are Lou&s;ie.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="4"> That he doth frequently reproach and provoke us with very ba&s;e language, calling Sir <HI>William E&s;&s;ex</HI> old doting Foole and A&s;&s;e, and &s;wore that he would lay him head and heeles together, that he hath &s;uddenly in great rage, come unto the Captaines and Offi|cers in the pre&s;ence of divers &s;trangers, and his owne Servants; no offence that we know being given, or by him expre&s;&s;ed, and &s;wore that he would lay the proude&s;t o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> us neck and heeles, and that hee &s;pake it to them all in generall, or to any of them in particular; and challenged them now or at any time hereafter, if they were at Li|berty, to ju&s;tifie it upon them, that he has called &s;ome of the Cap|taines Boyes, and other Gentlemen, Iackanapes, Ra&s;calls and Fooles; and that he would whip their ar&s;es, and lay them in Irons in the Tower.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="5"> That when his pri&s;oners have had no reliefe in 24 houres, and have earne&s;tly begged for water, and hath with all po&s;&s;ible re&s;pect been de&s;ired thereunto, he hath violently fallen upon them, knoc|king of them downe and beating of them, in as much as &s;ome of their limbs are likely to be lo&s;t therby, calling them Curs, &amp; prote&s;t|ing that he re&s;pected dogs more then they: &s;ome of them being Of|ficers, and after &s;uch beating, being ca&s;t into Irons head and heeles, all night, for no other cau&s;e, then for asking a little water in &s;uch extremitie, for want whereof they have beene in &s;uch nece&s;&s;ity, that they have beene con&s;trained to drinke their owne Vrine.</P>
<PB N="13" REF="12">
<P><MILESTONE N="8"> That he (as we humbly conceive) for his owne private re&s;pects mo&s;t injuriou&s;ly, charges his pri&s;oners with plots and con&s;pira|cies, and hath taken great &s;ummes of money of them for Fees, and detained &s;ome of them in great extremity, even to the pre|judice of their lives, onely for unlimitted fees, unto their utter un|doing.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="6"> That whereas his Maje&s;tie out of his great mercy is mo&s;t graci|ou&s;ly plea&s;ed to allow his poore Pri&s;oners 6. pence a man <HI>per diem,</HI> yet they received hereof but 5 farthings a day, whereby many of them had been &s;tarved, had it not bin for the reliefe of &s;ome other Pri&s;oners, who made Collection for them: and that Captaine <HI>Smith</HI> his Servant <HI>Rich.</HI> hath gained 2. <HI>s.</HI> out of every five thus collected, for the reliefe of the poore Pri&s;oners, and the &s;aid <HI>Rich.</HI> by the al|lowance of his Ma&s;ter, &s;elleth beere at an exce&s;&s;ive rate; to wit that in a Kilderkin of 5. &s;hillings, he hath gained 6, or 7. &s;hillings.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="7"> That Captaine <HI>Smith</HI> as he &s;aid came with an expre&s;&s;e command from the King to &s;ome of his pri&s;oners, and told that his his Ma|je&s;tie him&s;elfe commanded him that the Gentlemen &s;hould have onely bread and water untill they had paid Mr. <HI>Fi&s;hers</HI> bill of 150. pounds, or there about, a bill that hath cau&s;ed much difference be|tweene Mr. <HI>Fi&s;her,</HI> and Captaine <HI>Smith,</HI> con&s;i&s;ting of Captaine <HI>Smith</HI> his Servants of 7 pounds &s;pent by him in wine; a bill of the diet of the &s;ervants and pri&s;oners, when &s;ometimes they were in number 60, 70, or 80. one day more, another le&s;&s;e, which made it a confu&s;ed bill and reckoning; and did not at all as wee humbly conceived conc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rne any of us; wee having agreed, and Captaine <HI>Smith</HI> promi&s;ed that we &s;hould have a 12 penny Ordinary; which wee never refu&s;ed, but was alwayes ready to pay tho&s;e that had money, and the re&s;t to give the be&s;t a&s;&s;urance they could for it, and becau&s;e this 150. pound was nor pre&s;ently paid by &s;ome few of them, they were locked up clo&s;e Pri&s;oners, and Sentinels &s;et in their Chamber doores, to &s;ee that they received nothing but bread and water, which Captain <HI>Smith</HI> &s;wore was the Kings expre&s;&s;e com|mand, but he &s;aid he would allow them bread and beere.</P>
<P><HI>This Petition was exhibited about</HI> Allhollantide, 1642. <HI>but by Rea&s;on of the potency of his friends, we could never have any hearing, though &s;ince that time wee have preferred many other Peti|tions.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="testimony">
<PB N="22" REF="13">
<P>HEre you have &s;eene a glim&s;e of <HI>Smiths Tyranny,</HI> but to repeate all his cruelt es with his cozening, and cheatings, and the c rcum&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nces about him, would make vollume of many &s;heets of paper; but by this all the world may &s;ee how the King is wounded in his honour by &s;uch ba&s;t Egyptians, that care for no|thing but their owne ba&s;e and by ends; therfore tho&s;e great friends of Smith that have bore him up, and &s;tayed the Pri&s;oners off from being heard in their ju&s;t and lawfull reque&s;ts, whereby they might have been righted, and Sm<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">th have received Ju&s;tice according to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">merits, m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y be a&s;hamed to po&s;&s; &s;&s;e the King, and &s;ay they are his friends, when indeed they are his u <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">er and onely enemies, that doe all they ca<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> to &s;taine him in his Ju&s;tice a d Hon ur<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">: <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">herefore I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> pe that now they w ll &s;ee their error, and the King, and Lord Generall of that army will vindic<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">te <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">heir honours by doing ju&s;tice one <HI>Smith;</HI> which if <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hey doe no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, it wi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l lye as a blot on them to all Po terity, and if his Maje<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> plea&s;e to grant to mee and other W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|ne&s;&s;es ag<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">in&s;t <HI>Smith,</HI> his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">f. conduct and protection, I will prove to im, as I have already here, a l <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he&s;e pa ticulars upon oath, <HI>Viva voce,</HI> and many more.</P>
<P>For &s;inc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Cap<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">aine <HI>Wingates,</HI> that honourable and faithfull Gen|tlemans e&s;cape, about it <HI>Smith</HI> was in trouble, but was no &s;ooner re&s;tored again to his place, but he againe begins to play the Tyrant, hee and his Lievtenant falls upon &s;ome of t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e Gen lemen and wou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ds them, likely to kill one Lievtenant <HI>Fuller,</HI> and after that layes him necke and heeles in irons; and a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">other Captaine hee wounds him &s;orely and puts him up into the Tower, and lockes all the re&s;t clo&s;e pri&s;oners, and &s;weares that hee would lay Captaine <HI>Lilburne</HI> in irons, becau&s;e he did looke out of his Chamber window, he having been &s;ick, to take the aire: becau&s;e hee &s;aw him play thus the Tyrant, and thus bee his u&s;u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ll p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">actices, that men were better be cut of their lives, then come to be under his cu&s;tody; therefore I hope all the m n of our Army will fight it out to the la&s;t, and not &s;uffer them&s;elves to be taken, but die rather like me<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> and brave Souldiers, then to be by him &s;tarved and &s;tuncke to dea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">h.</P>
<P>I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> will now bee looked f r, that I &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">uld relat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the manner of Captaine <HI>Wingats</HI> and my owne E cape. Thus mu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">h i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">fe that God in his due time was good to him and mee, and to m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y more,
<PB N="23" REF="13"> all the while hee and I was under this mi&s;ery, to &s;upport us by his &s;trength, and al&s;o by his wi&s;dome and power at la&s;t, perfectly to deliver us: But to relate the full particular remarkable providences of God to Captaine <HI>Windgate,</HI> and to my &s;elfe, and the re&s;t that did e&s;cape, would be t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o tedious; but this we &s;ay, and wee &s;peake the truth, God al&s;o bearing us witne&s;&s;e that we doe not lie, that by many hard and difficult waies we e&s;caped, God going along with us apparently, which Captaine <HI>Wingate</HI> de&s;ires and my &s;elfe al&s;o; and all the re&s;t that did e&s;cape, that the &s;ole and onely Honour, Glory, and Prai&s;e, may be given to GOD.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>And &s;o de&s;ires your Friends and poore brethren in the de|fence of the Hou&s;e, to the la&s;t drop of their bloods,</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>EDMUND CHILLENDEN.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Cheny.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Edward Leader.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Gough.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Whitlow.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Chamberlaine.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Briant.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>All &s;worne before the Lords A&s;&s;embled in Parliament.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Io&s;eph Bli&s;et.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Daniel A&s;hton.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chri&s;topher Weekes.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Allen.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Witne&s;&s;es not &s;worne.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<PB N="24" REF="14">
<HEAD>TO THE <HI>HONO&V;RABLE</HI> VVILLIAM LENTALL SPEAKER of the Honourable Hou&s;e of <HI>COMMONS.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Noble Sir,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THE grievous burthen of mi&s;erable thraldome, which we in Captivity now groane under, pre&s;ents it &s;elfe to your &s;elfe to your &s;erious con&s;ideration relying on your Favour and compa&s;sion for &s;peedie redre&s;&s;e: wee had not thouht that ever we who have adventured our lives and For|tunes, to maintaine and pre&s;erve the true Prote&s;tant Religi|on. His Maje&s;ties Per&s;on, and ju&s;t Prerogative, the Lawfull Liberty of the Subject, and the ju&s;t Priviledges of <HI>Parliament,</HI> &s;hould be &s;o &s;oone obliterated out of your memory, and left to the more then Pagan u&s;age of Tyrannicall and mercile&s;&s;e men; we are not onely deprived of the &s;ociety of our Friends, of pen, Inke, and Paper, but what we have by &s;tealth, where|by we might acquaint &s;ome of our charitable Friends of our langui&s;hing condition: but wee have no allowance from his Maje&s;ty, ever &s;ince we came in, and but &s;mall allowance from the Members of the Hou&s;e of <HI>Parliament</HI> here with us, becau&s;e they cannot get Money in the Towne, nor if they could get it, will <HI>Smith</HI> the Mar&s;hall Generall &s;uffer it to be broug<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t in|to them: &s;o that we are bereaved of almo&s;t all the meanes of livelihod, for when we have been ready to faint for want of water, to &s;atisfie our Langui&s;hing thir&s;t, having not a penny
<PB N="25" REF="14"> to buy us beere, the &s;aid <HI>Smith</HI> hath taken the keyes from his man, who was about to fetch us the water, layde him in Irons, vexing him very much, for that he a&s;&s;ayed to doe us that cur|te&s;ie, afterwards tooke off his cloathes, and turn'd him out of doores. And when &s;ome have asked him, wheher his Maje|&s;ty allowed us any thing as Pri&s;oners, hee hath after a mo&s;t ignominious manner revi&s;ed us, giving us no better Termes than Rebells, Traytours, and Parliamentary Rogues, &s;aying eate &s;tones yee Round-head rogues and bee hanged, in like manner, threatning all of us that will not take their &s;oule con|demning Prote&s;tation, to take up Armes and joyne with them again&s;t the mo&s;t Honourable Court of <HI>Parliament,</HI> and my lo|ving Generall his Excellency; and likewi&s;e goe to erect their Bulwarkes, which if any refu&s;e to doe, he is immediately ca&s;t into the Dungeon, laid neck and heeles together, with Bolts of five and thirty pound, permitting none to admini&s;ter him any comfort (which cruelty with abundance of menacing words, having no hope of any intermi&s;sion, of this in&s;uppor|table burden of mi&s;ery, hath &s;truck &s;uch terrour in the hearts of many of the Pri&s;oners, that they have taken their Prote&s;ta|tion and engaged them&s;elves to &s;erve as afore, which hath co&s;t many poore pri&s;oners their lives, who&s;e bloud will one day be inquired after, at the hands of tho&s;e who were the efficient Cau&s;ers thereof; yea even the Parliament men them&s;elvs here with us, have been &s;o re&s;trained of their Liberties, that they have been lockt up and, confined to &s;tay in their chambers for three or foure dayes together, and not &s;uffered to have any communication with the other Captaines their fellow Pri&s;o|ners, neither have had Meat, Drinke or water, but what hath been conveyed to them by &s;tealth, and have been enforced to ea&s;e Nature and throw it out of their Windowes; and all this becau&s;e they have endeavoured for releive by meanes whereof Ma&s;ter <HI>Francklyn</HI> a Parliament man lies now a dying. And that which more augments our grievances is, that we are not onely confined to lye on the bare boards, on the Tables, under the Tables, on the chymneyes hearth, nay on the very &s;tayres, and &s;ometimes on the top one of another, whereby is bred &s;uch a noy&s;ome &s;tinke, that it infecteth very many with the pe&s;ti|lent Feavour, and other very dangerous di&s;ea&s;es, there being,
<PB N="26" REF="15"> at this in&s;tant of time about twenty per&s;ons infected among&s;t us, and in our Judgement pa&s;t recovery: the di&s;ea&s;e being &s;o violent that i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> q<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ite bereaveth them of their &s;en&s;es: In this deplorable condition we be&s;eech you thinke on &s;ome meanes to revive our dying nay almo&s;t dead Spirits, t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">at wee may once againe injoy our Freedome which we have been &s;o long time bereav<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d of, or take &s;ome cour&s;e with the be&s;t of them which you have Pri&s;oners with you to keep them &s;hort, and barre them of their Liberty as we are, to the end that they may with more earne&s;tne&s;&s;e &s;ollicite their Friends, and negotiate to procure their inlargements by exchanging of us; for wee are credibly informed, and doe beleive it to be true, that they have &s;o much Libertie and Favour at <HI>London,</HI> and el&s;ewhere, that they need not care much for their impri&s;onment. In a word if we are not &s;peedily exchanged, or &s;ome cour&s;e taken for our better u&s;age which now is in&s;ufferable: many among&s;t us we feare will change them&s;elves from being our Friends, and become our Enemies, and be as active in Tyrannizing over us as any that have been forced to apo&s;tatize from us; wee be&s;eech God &s;o to direct the powers of your minde, that you may with all &s;edulity importune and direct in our behalfe to the mo&s;t Honourable Court of Parliament, and then we doubt not, but God will ble&s;&s;e your and our Endeavours, to who&s;e protection we commend you, and remaine</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your humble Servants, though di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Captives.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>From our extraordinary cruell bondage in <HI>Oxford</HI> Ca&s;tle, <DATE>this 19. of <HI>Iuly,</HI> 1643.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="list of names">
<PB N="27" REF="15">
<HEAD>The NAMES of the Pri&s;oners.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>HVmphrey Morgon.</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Andrewet.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Fipps.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Timothy Code.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Foulke Greffes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Robert Grage.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Io. Geuton.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iohn Gleed.</ITEM>
<ITEM>St. Richards.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iohn Burkhill.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iames Clerring.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Richard Brad&s;haw.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Edward Parricke.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Wells.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Io. Williams.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Humphrey Lebbes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Dungeon.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Gibbs.</ITEM>
<ITEM>William King.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iohn Gell.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Maurice Mocor.</ITEM>
<ITEM>VVilliam Wood,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Richard Symons.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Io&s;eph Ratclyffe.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iohn Walter.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Jo&s;eph Amye.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Io&s;eph Ru&s;haley.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iohn Adler.</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Gelcot.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chri&s;topher Fowler.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Richard Mixon.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Nathaniel Smith.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Richard Frith.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iohn Overton.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Richard Weauright,</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Baenes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Hartwell.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Edward Keepe.</ITEM>
<ITEM>VVilliam Elkoanley.</ITEM>
<ITEM>VVilliam A&s;hley.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Robert Childe.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Io. Reade.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Clement Prat.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iohn Shaw.</ITEM>
<ITEM>George Sharpe.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Cha. Smith.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Richard Smith.</ITEM>
<ITEM>VVilliam Croley.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Edward Huggens.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Richard VVhitehead <HI>Lievte.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Roger Cotrill <HI>Lievtenant.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Io. Reeve <HI>Serg. to the Earle of Stamford.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Henry Fitzherbert.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Edward Fitzherbert.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iames Cragford.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Andrea Pe&s;t <HI>Quarterma|&s;ter.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">aurce Iames.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Arthur Ro&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Scapcot Perdes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>George Ro&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Robert Holly.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iohn VVilye.</ITEM>
<PB N="14" REF="16">
<ITEM>Nathaniel Cambridge.</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Hawkes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iohn Butchius:</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iohn Grage.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ienkyn Price.</ITEM>
<ITEM>VVilliam Hughes.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>With many others that are &s;o &s;icke that they are notable to &s;ub&s;cribe.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Mr.</HI> Francklyn <HI>is &s;ince the penning of this dead, by</HI> Smiths Cruelty.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
</DIV1>
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<DIV1 TYPE="postscript">
<PB REF="16">
<HEAD>A POSTSCRIPT.</HEAD>
<P>Some things more which Jhere adde, as his fi&s;hing one Mr. <HI>F&s;heirs-hou&s;e,</HI> claping him pri&s;oner in the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ower a m &s;t &s;tarving him, afterwards cea&s;ing on his goods, turning <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word">, his Wife and Family out of doores, and al&s;o his &s;eizing o t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">+ctor <HI>Gardens</HI> hou&s;e, and turning Mi&s;tris <HI>Garden</HI> into <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he &s;treet, after he had beat and pinched her, and mo&s;t ba&s;ely abu&s;ed her: neither have I &s;et forth his pedigree, and what hath been his manner of life, which hath alwayes been ba&s;e enough, as ap|peares by the Te&s;timony of one Mrs. <HI>Hou&s;e</HI> of <HI>Chiche&s;ter,</HI> where this <HI>Smith</HI> with his Family did lye about a yeare, who to get into Favour di&s;&s;embled him&s;elfe a puritan, and mu&s;t needs have a Mini&s;ter &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nt for to &s;atisfie his troubled Con&s;cience, and when his di&s;&s;embledne&s;se could no longer be hid, he abu&s;ed them and railed on them, and went away not paying them a farthing, this hath been his continuall cour&s;e to live by cheating and coz|ning. Therefore I de&s;ire the State would be plea&s;ed to take into their con&s;ideration, the m &s;ery that poore hone&s;t men are like to &s;uffer under hand, &amp; to keep al the common pri&s;oners they take to exchange them for our common men, which they never let free, but alwayes keep, yea, and doe much abu&s;e them. The&s;e things J have written to let all the World &s;ee and know the truth, which if they will not yet believe I wi&s;t, they had &s;een and felt it as much as I. And whereas &s;ome men &s;ay their pri&s;oners here &s;uffer as much <HI>I</HI> deny it, becau&s;e I have been in the Pri&s;ons both here in <HI>Lon|don,</HI> and at <HI>Wind&s;or,</HI> and finde it is altogether fal&s;e, what&s;oever Malignants report.</P>
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