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<HEAD>A fourth word to the wi&s;e, OR A plaine di&s;covery of <HI>Englands mi&s;ery,</HI> and how the fame may be redre&s;&s;ed; &s;et forth in a Letter written by a Pri&s;oner in the <HI>Fleete</HI> to Commi&s;&s;ary Generall <HI>Ireton,</HI> and publi&s;hed by a friend of his and lover of his Country for <HI>Englands</HI> good.</HEAD>
<P><HI>PLutarch</HI> relates, that a certain poore old woman often petitioning King <HI>Philip</HI> of <HI>Macedon</HI> to have her cau&s;e heard; the King at length gave her this an&s;wer, that he was not at lea&s;ure, &s;he in&s;tantly re|plyed <HI>noli itaque Reguari,</HI> do not then raign: Which &s;peech the King admiring forthwith not only heard her cau&s;e and complaint, but of many others in his proper per&s;on. O that our hou&s;e of Commons would imitate <HI>Philip</HI> the heathen, and no longer put us off to partiall and ju&s;tice-delay|ing, I had almo&s;t &s;aid ju&s;tice-perverting Committees! Much and long have I &s;ollicited all &s;uch as &s;it in the hou&s;e in the right of our Country, ex|cept your &s;elf who hath been long a Nonre&s;ident, to pre&s;ent my Coun|tries grievances and complaints, and to have rhem put in away of tryall; But they not only tell me that they have no lea&s;ure, but that they will not, to their &s;hame be it &s;poken, The heathen will Judge them, Nay they were not onely the chiefe in&s;truments of geting me ca&s;t into pri&s;on, fearing I &s;hould by &s;ome other hand bring on my Countries cau&s;e to hear+ing: but mo&s;t perfideou&s;ly they have got &s;uch in authority with us, as are notorious Delinquents declared traytors, not yet compounded for their trea&s;ons (for trea&s;ons be now made &s;alable, and but amony matter) though they profe&s;&s;e to favour hone&s;t men heare, and &s;uch as be called Indepen|dants; Yet when I got &s;uch men of approved and known integrety, to be a Sub-Committee for accompts for <HI>We&s;tm<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">rland</HI> and <HI>Cumberland;</HI> they procured them upon a fal&s;e certificate to be put out of Commi&s;&s;ion, and others to be in their &s;tead, as were delinquents and profe&s;&s;e enemies to all hone&s;t men, and in particular to Independants, Nay they got Com|mi&s;&s;ions for Oyre and Terminer, and Goale delivery for our Country; but not one of the Commi&s;&s;ioners therein named living in our Country, other then Delinquents, and again&s;t whom whom there be &s;everall char|ges of high nature, two yeares agoe exhibited to the Hou&s;e of <HI>Commons;</HI>
<PB N="2" REF="2">which we have much laboured to bring to exammination, but cannot g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> it done; Yet have they been &s;o countenaunced, and borne out by th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> Lord <HI>Wharton,</HI> Sir <HI>Wilfride Ermyn,</HI> Mr. <HI>Black&s;ton,</HI> and &s;ome others I coul<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> name as Sir <HI>Willfride Law&s;on,</HI> was continued high Shrieffe for the mo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> part of the la&s;t two yeares; who hath more tira-nized and exerci&s;ed <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> greater arbitrary power, committed farre greater in&s;olences and ounage<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> then ever the Earle of <HI>Stafford</HI> did in this Kingdom or <HI>Ireland</HI> di<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">, Not t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;peak<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> of his late committing men to pri&s;on for not conforming to Stat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> wor&s;hip, neither how he and other Ju&s;tices cau&s;ed to be indicted 3<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> per&s;ons, the <HI>Parliaments</HI> cordiall friends at Mid&s;ummer Se&s;&s;ions la&s;t, fo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> not repairing to the &s;teeple hou&s;es and book of Common-prayer, M. <HI>Bri&s;|coe</HI> the Lord <HI>Whartons</HI> learned Steward his now bo&s;ome friend, and by him preferred to be a Ju&s;tice of peace, Deputy Lieviennant Committe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> man and Commi&s;&s;ioner of Oyre and Terminer; Yet while the Count<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> was in the enemies hands, the Gentleman joyned with the enemy, to<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> an Oath of obedience to the Commi&s;&s;ioners of Array, and &s;ent out ho<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> and Armes again&s;t the <HI>Parliament.</HI> At Mid&s;ummer Se&s;&s;ions la&s;t, he very learnedly di&s;cour&s;ed in his charge, how there were a new kind of Recu|&s;ant<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> wor&s;e then Papi&s;ts, (for indeed Papi&s;ts he protects) and not one Papi&s;t troubled for his Religion there Meaning the &s;eperati&s;ts and Inde|pendants, and that they were the cau&s;e of all the&s;e troubles, and the ene|mies of the Kingdom, whereupon the poore pe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ple were indicted: This is the be&s;toffice the Lord <HI>Wharton</HI> ever did for us: I know many here have a good opinion of the Lord <HI>Wharton,</HI> and the rather for that he hath brought you, Mr. <HI>Lawrence,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Sallaway</HI> into the hou&s;e; Indeed you have been for the greate&s;t part ab&s;ent, &s;o we could not ex&s;pect much from you: neither could we well informe you of the true &s;tate of our Country; but Mr. <HI>Lawrence</HI> and Mr. <HI>Sallaway</HI> have both of them been with me; yet did me nor my Country no good, them I acquainted how the Lord <HI>Wharton</HI> had u&s;ed us. I told them how I got our Papers pre|&s;ented to the Hou&s;e by the <HI>Scots</HI> Commi&s;&s;ioners mean s, which I did with Mr. <HI>Rigby</HI> our kind friend his approbation and good liking, who had con|ference with the <HI>Scots</HI> Commi&s;&s;ioners about our bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, and for a good compliance betwixt them and us, for the further quiet and ea&s;e of hone&s;t men in our pa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">s; which had in all likelihood been brought about, had not Mr. <HI>Black&s;ton</HI> abu&s;ed our friends in the hou&s;e, by mi&s;information, in making our friends beleeve, Mr. <HI>Borwis</HI> was <HI>Independent</HI> and <HI>Scotti&s;h,</HI> and that I carried one the <HI>Scotti&s;h</HI> de&s;igne, which was fal&s;e, though I ac|knowledge I was beholding to &s;ome of the <HI>Scots</HI> Commi&s;&s;ioners for cur|te&s;ies rec<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ived, all which is &s;ince clearely manife&s;ted; For no &s;ooner was I ca&s;t into pri&s;on, but Mr. <HI>Barwis</HI> thinking to make the <HI>Scots</HI> in
<PB N="3" REF="2"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> ba&s;e way, his friends upon a certificate from <HI>Law&s;on, Bri&s;co,</HI> and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">e re&s;t of the Committee again&s;t the Church in <HI>Cumberland,</HI> complai|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">d to the Northern Committe here, that in the beginning of the Parlia|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ent their was but two Sectaries: meaning Mr. <HI>Crackanthrop</HI> and my &s;elf; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> we were increa&s;ed to a hundred, did preach in Private-hou&s;es, refu|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">d to Bapti&s;e our children and made their mini&s;try contemptible, and if <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e were &s;uffered would grow to greater numbers, de&s;iring &s;ome order for <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">re&s;&s;ing us; But having no countenance from the Committee, and re|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">ving a checke by &s;ome Parliament man, went away in chafe much <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">; &s;aying, though he could not then be heard, time would come he <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">bted not but to have us all &s;uppre&s;&s;ed. I, thinke Colonell <HI>Liburne</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> then pre&s;ent, he can tell you the particular pa&s;&s;ages; For Lievtennant Colonell <HI>Lilburne</HI> his brother was the man that told it me. I further told <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">. <HI>Lawrence,</HI> how Mr. <HI>Prinne</HI> upon &s;ight of the <HI>Scotch</HI> Papers given into <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">e Hou&s;e, very readely procured at my in&s;tance a Commi&s;&s;ion to hone&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">oved men, all or mo&s;t of them <HI>Independant<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> to be a Sub-Committee of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="5 letters">pts for <HI>We&s;tmerland</HI> and <HI>Cumberland,</HI> not one I named being either <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">quent, accountable, or per&s;ecuter, yet all of them &s;uffi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ient men for <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> imployment, and of con&s;iderable e&s;tates, my &s;elf being one of the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">ne&s;t, that &s;ame being put upon me by Mr. <HI>Prinne</HI> unde&s;erved. Yet <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Lord <HI>Wharton</HI> did under his hand certify to the Grand-Committee <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> accounts here, that the men were of no e&s;tates and of &s;o mean equa|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">y, as they could neither write, no raed, nor ca&s;t up an account; Where|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">pon our Commi&s;&s;ion was revoked. And upon the like fal&s;e certificat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">om the Lord <HI>Wharton</HI> and Sir <HI>William Ermyn,</HI> others oppointed in o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">d, who were notorious Delinquents and them&s;elves accountable, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> di&s;abled by Ordnance of <HI>Parliament</HI> to be of that Committee; Thus the <HI>Parliament</HI> was abu&s;ed, and our Country wronged, I dare really &s;ay or Country was damnified 10 thou&s;and pounds: and the <HI>Parliament</HI> lo&s;t thereby a hundreed thou&s;and pounds. Herein the Lord <HI>Wharton</HI> did a double wrong to us and the State. Fir&s;t, in putting out hone&s;t men, and commending and putting in Commi&s;&s;ion Knaves and Traytors. Thus while the Lord <HI>Wharton</HI> would &s;eeme a Saint, he verefies the old proverb: the white Divill is mo&s;t dangerous. The Lord <HI>Wharton</HI> being in the Country, Mr. <HI>Crackanthrop</HI> was commended to him, and put in the la&s;t for the &s;tanding Committee, but he put him out, Saying, he was an <HI>Independant,</HI> and non <HI>Covenanter.</HI> Thus he plaies <HI>Machevill,</HI> and <HI>Janu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> like, heere <HI>Independent</HI> &s;aith, but in the North an oppo&s;ite and <HI>Presbi-ter;</HI> but to get out the Commi&s;&s;ions of Oyre and Terminer, and Goale delivery <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> our Country, the Commi&s;sioners therein na-med living in our Coun|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">y potorious Delinquents, and profe&s;&s;ed enemies to all hone&s;t men, and
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<PB N="4" REF="4">and per&s;ecuters of <HI>Independants</HI> he was very active. If you doubt of this, the Clarke of the Crowne Office will better and further &s;atisfie you therein; the Lord <HI>Wharton,</HI> Mr. <HI>Allen</HI> and Mr. <HI>Lawrence,</HI> for you were ab&s;ent before the Commi&s;sions were &s;ealed or given out, were de&s;ired to prevent or &s;tay them, and acquainted with the exceptions given in to Mr. Speaker, and your father in law <HI>L. G.</HI> again&s;t them. Yet they did pa&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> and &s;o now, the declared Traytors have power over life and death: <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> thing the King never did before the Warrs begun. Now I acquainted Mr. <HI>Lawience</HI> (but he &s;its upon the pinacle of the Temple) and the Lord <HI>Wharton,</HI> how the Committee of <HI>Cumberland</HI> being Delinquents, had <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> on <HI>Garth</HI> their Soliciter and Agent, much countenanced by the Lord <HI>Wharton</HI> and <HI>Barwis,</HI> which <HI>Garth</HI> is a Delinquent and a poore &s;hufling Atturney, and a profe&s;&s;ed enemy to all hone&s;t men. Yet this fellow is allowed by the Committee 100 <ABBR>l.</ABBR><HI>per annum,</HI> for waiting here and &s;top|ing all complaints again&s;t the Committee, but the poore Country p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ies for all. All this I am able to prove, and herewith I acquainted the Lord <HI>Wharton.</HI> Your Father in law in your ab&s;ence promi&s;ed to do much for us, but did nothing; many letters I wrote to him, I could wi&s;h he now act not again&s;t us, if he do, it may prove, his owne de&s;truction, 2500. <ABBR>l.</ABBR><HI>per annum</HI> given him, will not bear him out, when his friends&punc; be cut off, I have u&s;ed all means po&s;&s;ible t bring our Countries cau&s;e to try all, but by Mr. <HI>Lawrence,</HI> Mr. <HI>Allen,</HI> Mr O. <HI>Salloway,</HI> and Lord <HI>Wharton</HI> failing us, and their double-dealing, I have laboured but in vain; therefore, I &s;ay to you, and as many as &s;it in the Hou&s;e, in right of our Country, even a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> the old woman &s;aid to King <HI>Philip,</HI> if you have not lei&s;ure, or will no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> pre&s;ent our ju&s;t Complaints and Petitions, come forth, and &s;it no longe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> there for our Country.</P>
<P>One thing I had almo&s;t pa&s;&s;ed by, in reference to the Lord <HI>Wharton,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> thing worthy your ob&s;eruation, a poor woman of our Country, having been at <HI>London</HI> about Law &s;uites, upon her return home, at the in&s;tance &amp; complaint of <HI>Henry</HI> and <HI>Iames Pear&s;on,</HI> two Delinquents, brothers &amp; At|tornies, was carryed with her husband before Sir <HI>Wil. Law&s;on,</HI> a Com|mi&s;&s;ioner of Array, and by his direction the woman was bound in a Care laid on her back, with her head ahd face upwards under the hor&s;e tayle, &amp; the hor&s;e forced to gallop with her, to the endangering her life; and be|fore they put her in pri&s;on, &s;tript her to her &s;mock; and after Sir <HI>Wilford Law&s;on</HI> gave direction to lay Irons upon her; and all this, for no other cau&s;e, then that &s;he was (as they pretended) an Intelligencer for the Par|liament, and for &s;earching her for Parliaments papers: Yet my L. <HI>Wharton</HI> &s;o pittifull he is to the poor, and regardfull of his Oath and Covenant <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">
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<P>Now con&s;ider our condition, I a&s;&s;ure you, the whole Militia and autho|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ty in our Country, are &s;etled in the hands of profe&s;&s;ed Enemies, &amp; known Delinquents, not one that hath been faithfull to the Parliament, or is a lo|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">r of his Country, hath any command or office with us. Therefore, if you <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">band your Forces before the&s;e Newtrals and Delinquents, and great op|pre&s;&s;ors be removed and &s;ecured, we are betrayed by you, and may &s;ay, you purpo&s;ely gave us up into the hand of the Enemy, having made fir&s;t what you could out of vs your &s;elves.</P>
<P>For if this Army were broken, which under God is the &s;trength of the Kingdome, in one moneth the Enemy without any difficulty may po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e them&s;elves of the whole North, and doubtle&s;&s;e will do it; the Iri&s;h may <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">d with us in 11 hours, <HI>premoniti, praemuniti.</HI> You &s;ee of late how we have <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> enthralled, under the name of Conformity per&s;ecuted, and under noti|on of a priviledge, a new kind of tyramie &s;et up, It belongs to wi&s;e men to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">e-&s;ee and prevent a mi&s;chiefe before it happens, and it is the reward of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> unhappy, and fooles, to lament it to late, when woe is come upon them; the medicine and phy&s;ick that is mini&s;tred out of &s;ea&s;on, is killing &amp; works <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> to the benefit of the Patient; the coun&s;ell is without fruit that comes af|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> the fact, and it will be to late to apply the remedy after the evill be fal|len upon us: where tyrants turn their authority to oppre&s;&s;: and de&s;troy innocents, to hold up armes for our own<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;afety, can be no breach of obe|dience.</P>
<P>If you wi&s;h our Countries welfare indeed, &amp; be the men you profe&s;&s;e, &amp; be not carryed away with ambitious and covetous de&s;ires of honor and ri|ches, and under &s;hadow of the weale and benefit publique re&s;pecting-&s;elfe, and particular intere&s;ts, making Religion and Liberty a cloak to your great|ne&s;&s;e and own profit, you will not expect and temporize till we be brought to the la&s;t extremity, for then our recour&s;e to remedies will be to late, and we &s;hall &s;tand fondly to lament the harme and mi&s;chiefe which wee might have ea&s;ily before avoided. It is to late to provoke to vomite, when the poy|&s;on hath pierced the bones.</P>
<P>Therefore, gird up your loynes like men of re&s;olution, and do not forbear while you have time and opportunity to provide for the &s;afety of your &s;elves <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">nd Country, be not curious in con&s;cience, to defend and &s;tand for law, li|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">erty, and ju&s;tice, then which you cannot offer to God a temporall &s;acrifice, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">re acceptable &amp; worthy. <HI>Pulcrum e&s;t pro patria mort,</HI> the Heathen could <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">, be wi&s;e, its &s;aid, the Engli&s;h be, <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">agis a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">mi poten<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">es q<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">am politici,</HI> when
<PB N="6" REF="5"><HI>William</HI> the Conqueror, contrary to his oath, begun to oppre&s;&s;e the Engli&s;h, and would have brought them under the yoke of the Norman law, the Eng|li&s;h counting the &s;ame no other then their fetters, &s;ought to ca&s;t them off, made gatherings, were fully re&s;olved to make their &s;word their Judge, if the King would not confirme their liberties, the King by his E&s;pials under&s;tan+ding the increa&s;e of their powers, &amp; knowing to his re&s;tle&s;&s;e trouble, the un|willing &s;ubject o~ of the Engli&s;h to &s;lavery, being a very politike fair &s;poken Prince, did wind him&s;elf into their good opinious &s;o far, as they laid downe their armes, and he for his part, fearing to lo&s;e the Crowne with &s;hame, which he had got with effu&s;ion of &s;o much bloud, gave his oath to ob&s;erve, and inviolaby to keep the ancient lawes of the Land, e&s;pecially the lawes of King <HI>Edward</HI> the Confe&s;&s;or, which as the event proved, he little meant to do it.</P>
<P>Peace being thus e&s;tabli&s;hed, and the Kings oath received, the Engli&s;h Ar|mies disband them&s;elves, as dreaming they had arived at the haven of their wi&s;hed de&s;ires, and hoping the greate&s;t &s;tormes of their dangers had beene over and pa&s;t, which pre&s;ently proved but a dreame indeed, a vain &s;urmi&s;e. For <HI>KiWilliam</HI> working upon advantage, began extreamly to hate the Re|bels <HI>(&s;o were they then called that affected liberty)</HI> and with full re&s;olution of their di&s;traction, &s;uddenly &s;et upon them apart, which he dur&s;t not doe, be|ing united and in a body: So that &s;laying many, impri&s;oning others, and per&s;ecuting all with fire and &s;word, well was hee that could fir&s;t be gone. <HI>K. Stephen</HI> (his &s;on) u&s;ed the like policy to confirme the Engli&s;h unto him, again&s;t his elder brother <HI>Robert</HI> of <HI>Normandy,</HI> promi&s;ing he would reform the over-heard lawes of his Predece&s;&s;ors, and mollifie the extreames therof to the peoples own liking, under his Seale and Charter, and by his Charter did a on firme and re&s;tore the ancient lawes; but tho&s;e immunities (&s;aith my Author) he granted rather to cleere their eyes, then with any purpo&s;e to manacle his own hands with &s;uch parchment chains: much like hath ever bin the event &amp; &s;ucce&s;&s;e of Court wars, where the making of new parties &amp; fa|ctions, without de&s;truction of old friends, we cannot be received, &amp; tru&s;ted by old Enemies: The&s;e, &s;ay the French, be the blowes of the old art of fen|cing, at this Game <HI>England</HI> is become very skilfull, and is not to learne. For how often hath <HI>Magna Charta,</HI> by <HI>Oaths, by Kings, by Parliaments,</HI> bin con|firmed, but what fruit have the people over received thereby? how ma|ny bloudy battels have been of late fought crowned with victory, for re|gaining <HI>Englands</HI> liberties?</P>
<P>But after all this, <HI>are we the more free,</HI> Never more Oaths, Vowes, Prote|&s;tations, and Covenants have been contrived, made, and taken, for doing im|partiall Ju&s;tice, and bringing the Enemies to condigne puni&s;hment, <HI>yet the
<PB N="7" REF="5">out-cries for ju&s;tice never &s;o loud</HI> &s;o long: oppre&s;&s;ions, exactions, and bold|ne&s;&s;e to offend &s;o never great, &s;o generall. We are made more mi&s;erable and wretched, in &s;eeking and wayting for Ju&s;tice, then by the Enemy in oppre&s;|&s;ing and de&s;troying: illegall co~mitments, and long impri&s;onments of the High-Commi&s;&s;ion, Scar-chamber, and Councell-Table,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Sir Pe|ter Tem|ple a Par|liament man did mo&s;t cru|elly beat one for asking <HI>25.</HI><ABBR>l.</ABBR> which he owed him f r Oates for his hor&s;es, but as yet none o|ther pay|ment then blowes hath the hone&s;t man had.</NOTE> were never &s;o many &s;o frequent, as by our Lords and Committees of late, betwixt Prorogative and Priviledge, we are broken as Corn in a Mill; yet I confe&s;&s;e, never did I heare, the <HI>King</HI> did ever beate or a&s;&s;ault any for demand of a ju&s;t debt, as &s;ome Parliament men have done their poor Creditors, for asking, or rather petitioning for their owne, as for the capitall Enemies of the <HI>Kingdome,</HI> Vi|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">s of our lawes, perverters of ju&s;tice, and de&s;troyers of our liberties, and &s;uch as have been declared Traytors, or &s;o farre from being brought to the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">eate of Ju&s;tice, as that they are not only permitted to walke in <HI>We&s;tmin|ter</HI> Hill in their &s;ilkes, but are preferred to the highe&s;t places of honour, command and au hority in the Common-wealth, though wee have our <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">&s;es, chambers, and &s;tudies broken up, and &s;earched for pre<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ded Pam|phets, bookes and writings and our &s;elves, and wives, and &s;ervants, ca&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> pri&s;on, before any legal charge or conviction; yet cannot wee bee heard again&s;t the common Enemies of the Kingdome, nor have them <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ought in to an&s;wer, our legal charges exhibited again&s;t them confe&s;&s;e, lybelling again&s;t any private per&s;on, or again&s;t a Magi&s;trate, or other pub|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">e per&s;on, is a great offence, &amp; de&s;erves &s;evere puni&s;hment. For though the Lybell be but again&s;t one, yet doth the &s;ame provoke all of the &s;ame <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">ly, kindred or &s;ociety to revenge, and &s;o con&s;equently cau&s;es quar|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">s, breach of peace, and oftentimes much bloud &s;hed, and other great in|conveniencies, if the Lybell be again&s;t a Magi&s;trate, or o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">her publique per|&s;on the offence is the grea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">er.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">But bal|lad mon|gers take liberty to &s;ing Lybels again&s;t King &amp; Parlia|ment in open &s;treets yet un|que&s;tion<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE>For, as learned <HI>Cook</HI> &s;aith, that concerneth not only the breach of peace, but is a &s;candal of the government.</P>
<P>For, &s;aith <HI>Cooke,</HI> What greater &s;candal of the government can there be, th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">n to have wicked and corrupt Magi&s;trates to be appointed and deputed to govern the people, greater imputation to the State cannot be, then to &s;uffer &s;uch corrupt men to &s;it in the &s;acred Seate of Ju&s;tice, or to have any medling in or concerning the admini&s;tration of Ju&s;tice. Therfore it is not to the purpo&s;e (&s;aith <HI>Cook</HI>) whether the Lybel be true, or the party again&s;t whom it is made be of good fame, or evill, for in a fetled State of Govern|ment, the party grieved ought to complaine of the injury or wrong done in an ordinary cour&s;e of Law, and by no meanes to revenge him&s;elfe, e|&s;pecially by that odious cour&s;e of Lybelling, that pa&s;&s;ionate expre&s;&s;i|on
<PB N="8" REF="6">on of <HI>Iob</HI> the <HI>Mirrour of patience,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">But in Parlia|ment time men have no other way to make knowne their gri+vances when pe|titions be rejected, but by publi&s;h|ing the &s;ame in print. By Law|&s;ons in|direct meanes being then high Sheriffe and H. Pear&s;on his under Sheriffe a Delin|quent, &s;ir Wil. Ar|myns &s;on was re|turned Sheriffe of the Shire for Cumber|land.</NOTE> when he was libelled again&s;t, may &s;he how forceable libelling is to provoke impatience, and make contentio<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> and &s;tirre up &s;trife, they were, &s;aith the children of &s;ooles, yea children <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> ba&s;e men, they were viler then the earth, and now I am there &s;ong, yea, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> am there by word, <HI>Iob</HI> 30. <HI>v.</HI> 8. &amp; 9. out of this moral con&s;ideration the <HI>R<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">+mans,</HI> made an excellent Law for preventing this manner of lybelling, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> odicus to all men, and pernicious to the State, that without any danger, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">+ven one of <HI>Romes</HI> Senate, might be accu&s;ed by any private man, and if h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> proved the charge, he received a reward: otherwi&s;e &s;everely puni&s;hed. B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> the defamer or lybeller was to be bani&s;hed, by which law of liberty lo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> the Romane State flouri&s;hed.</P>
<P>But for want of this liberty, from libelling the Republique of <HI>Fl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">renc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> fell into factions, and &s;oone was its ruine, <HI>felix quem faciunt aliena</HI> p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">tis<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>la cautum,</HI> &s;uch a law to <HI>England</HI> would be profitable, if duly executed but alas! through the prevalencie and potencie of &s;ome in authority, is become now le&s;&s;e dangerous to act the trea&s;on, then to di&s;cover, or a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">+cu&s;e the traytor.</P>
<P>For in&s;tance, Sir <HI>William Armyn</HI> who hath by indirect, meanes an ille+gal choyce, got his &s;onne, a beard le&s;&s;e boy, to be brought into the honou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">+rable Hou&s;e of Commons, was &s;o bold, as to tell Lieut. Col. <HI>Beacker,</HI> th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> if he appeared or acted again&s;t that grand traytor <HI>Law&s;on,</HI> it would unde<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> him, hinder his preferment, and thereby lo&s;e all his friends in the Hou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> of Commons.</P>
<P>And Mr. <HI>Barris</HI> a Member of your Hou&s;e, &s;ent his man into our Cou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">+trey, and cau&s;ed by him or through his meanes to be read in publike a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">+&s;emblies, that who&s;oever would deny their &s;ub&s;criptions with us again<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> <HI>Law&s;on,</HI> &s;hould not be puni&s;hed. I know a York&s;hire Gentleman that wa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">+ted upon the Hou&s;e of Commons more then half a year, with a charge <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> di&s;covery of the trea&s;onable practi&s;es, and great oppre&s;&s;ions of Mr. <HI>Th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI> the Lawyer, among&s;t many other his wicked practi&s;es again&s;t the Parlia+ment and his Country: this Lawyer, fir&s;t by per&s;wa&s;ion, then by threat attempted to have got Sir <HI>Iohn Hotham</HI> to betray his tru&s;t, and to her delivered up <HI>Hull</HI> to the Kings party.</P>
<P>But upon Sir <HI>Iohns</HI> refu&s;all, Mr. <HI>Thorpe</HI> cau&s;ed that then de&s;ervin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> Gentleman (that Sir <HI>I. H.</HI> had retained &s;till his integrity) to be proclaim+ed Traytor by a Harrolds at Armes, but not a <HI>York&s;hire</HI> Gentleman of th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> Hou&s;e would pre&s;ent the &s;ame, now Mr. <HI>Thorpe</HI> is a Parliament man, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> in the Hou&s;e of Commons in that great Councel unque&s;tioned, untryed no man may &s;it in your Hou&s;e unle&s;&s;e he take your Covenant, but if Cove+nant-breakers
<PB N="9" REF="6">were put to death, as of old in I&s;rael many of the great <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">|ge<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> thereof would not e&s;cape, in all this I blame not the Hou&s;e but &s;ome <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">rupted Members thereof that fal&s;yfie and betray their tru&s;t, and as much as in them lies, &s;eeke the de&s;truction of that Hou&s;e and their Countrey, it <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">reth with that honourable hou&s;e, as of old with King <HI>Antiochus,</HI> who being hunting on a time in pur&s;ule of his game, he &s;trayed from his com|pany and Courtiers, and &s;o was inforced to take up a poor mans Cottage for his Inne, as the King &s;ate at &s;upper with his Country Ho&s;t, and his poore people, he began to di&s;cour&s;e with them concerning the Kings go|vernment: whereupon the poor people replyed, that <HI>Antiochus</HI> was of him&s;elf a very good King, but he committed the mannaging of his affairs as his friends and Courtiers, who were ill men; him&s;elfe meane while out of his over-much love to hunting, negligently omitted nece&s;&s;ary things, whereby his people were oppre&s;&s;ed, and things ill governed, the King for that time held his prace; but the next morning when his Guard and Courtiers had found him out at the Cottage, bringing him his pur|ple Robe and Crown, the King thereupon &s;aid to his Courtiers, from the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">y I fir&s;t received my Crown, I never heard true &s;peeche of my &s;elf be|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> ye&s;terday; if that honourable hou&s;e did h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">e what the poors of the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">ntry, yea, and in all other parts &s;peak of them, they would &s;ay no other <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>Antiochus</HI> did, and would follow the advi&s;e of <HI>Th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">opom<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">us,</HI> who be|ing demanded by what meanes a King might &s;afely hold his Kingdome, replyed, if he gave his friends free liberty of &s;peech, and avenge the i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ies and wrongs done his people, for that the latter can never bee well performed without granting of the former.</P>
<P>Now the Kings friends be tho&s;e, &amp; no other, of what &s;ect or religion &s;oe|ver they be, &amp; indeed non can be enemies to the Parliament, whether Cove|nantors or non-covenantors, Presbyterians or Independents, &s;o they bee friends to peace, and lovers of ju&s;tice and their country, from this cou&s;i|deration I could wi&s;h our honourable Parliament Lords and Commons, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">o are &s;emented together into one body, would with <HI>An<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">nine,</HI> that good Emperour, allow free exerci&s;e of Religion to their friends, as the wi&s;e and now flouri&s;hing States of the <HI>Netherlands</HI> doe, and in doing ju|&s;tice impartially (for Ju&s;tice now of late &s;tands a far of) and is become a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">anger in our Land, would imitate <HI>Romes</HI> liberty, te&s;tore <HI>Brutus</HI> who for <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">is peoples &s;afety and pre&s;erving their liberties, cho&s;ed his owne two <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">, with &s;ome other Nobles, for affecting tyrannie, and attempting to in|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> the people to their lawle&s;&s;e wils, publikely to be whipt in the Mar|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> place, &amp; then to be brought to the block, &amp; beheaded, the like exem|plary
<PB N="10" REF="7">ju&s;tice King <HI>Alfred,</HI> within this Kingdome did, he not only provi|ded for good Lawes, but took care for the better ordering and due admi|ni&s;tration of ju&s;tice, to have the &s;ame exactly ob&s;erved: in one yeare h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> put to death 44 wicked and corrupt Judges, for their fal&s;e judgments, the fruits whereof was &s;uch as notwith&s;tanding multituds of &s;ouldiers were continually employed, yet it is recorded, that in his dayes a Virgin might have travelled along through all his Dominions, without any violence of|fered her, and that bracelets of gold were hanged in the high-wayes, and no man &s;o bold as to take them away, yet then theft was not puni&s;hed with death: the chiefe Ju&s;tice of the Kings Bench in King <HI>H.</HI> 4. his time, faithfully and as an hone&s;t Judge, di&s;charged his place, when hee &s;pared not to commit the Prince for a Riot to pri&s;on, no priviledge or protecti|on was then pleaded, however not allowed: Hereas was the King di&s;|plea&s;ed? nay he much rejoyced, in that he had a Sonne &s;o obedient to his Lawes, and a Judge &s;o upright and bold, in admini&s;tring of Ju&s;tice with|out feare or favour.</P>
<P>But Ju&s;tice <HI>Bacon,</HI> who now &s;upplies that place, the other day did <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">re otherwi&s;e, he being petitioned unto by my country woman <HI>Mary Bl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">th|waite,</HI> whom I mentioned before, to bee admitted into <HI>Forma Pu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">,</HI> would not allow her to &s;ue Sir <HI>Willifrid Law&s;on,</HI> becau&s;e a great man, and then high Sheriffe of <HI>Cumberland,</HI> But again&s;t &s;ome mean ones, who ear|ryed her to pri&s;on upon Sir <HI>Willfred Law&s;ons</HI> warrant, he allowed her to proceed and pro&s;ecute.</P>
<P>This nothing agreeeh with the Oath of a Judge, but if our corrupt Judges had received from our Parliament the like puni&s;hments for the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> fal&s;e judgments for Ship-money, as <HI>Siz<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">us</HI> did from <HI>Cambi&s;es,</HI> &s;uch as &s;ucceeded in their places would have been more carefull and con&s;cious in the di&s;charge of their duty: for I read that <HI>Cambi&s;es</HI> cau&s;ed this <HI>Sizam|nus,</HI> being one of his Judges to be flaid alive, for an unju&s;t judgment given by him, and his skin to be hung up over the judgment Seate; after which he be&s;towing the Fathers office on the &s;onne, willed him to remember, that the &s;ame partiality de&s;erved the &s;ame judgment.</P>
<P>Let Judges and Ju&s;tices e&s;cape with fining, it wil not much trouble them, a part of their ill-gotten wealth will not onely di&s;charge the &s;ame, but &s;oon re&s;tate them in their old places: for mo&s;t of them were mercenary men be|fore they were made Judges, and lawes or di&s;tinctions they ever have in &s;tore to plea&s;e Kings, &amp; &s;atisfie States and times, though never &s;o corrupted. While I was writing this my letter, Judge <HI>Ienkins Vindication</HI> was brought unto me, wherein he condemnes, and would ani<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ilate the whole procee|dings, Orders and Ordinances of this pre&s;ent Parliament ever &s;ince the
<PB N="11" REF="7">Kings departure as illegal, and not binding for want of the Kings con&s;ent. I and if God permit, to &s;et forth and di&s;cover the vanity and wickedne&s;&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">eof at large; for the pre&s;ent I de&s;ire him to read the Abu&s;ions of the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">mon Law written by <HI>Andrew Horne</HI> in the time of King <HI>Edward</HI> the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">, in his mirrour of Ju&s;tice: The fir&s;t and chiefe Abu&s;ion of the law, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>Horne</HI> an approved Authout) is, that the King is &s;et above the Law, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">eas he ought to be &s;ubject to it, as it contained in his oath. I would <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ly then know of Judge <HI>Jenkins,</HI> if the King be under and &s;ubject to the law, how he or any other is to be proceeded again&s;t for tran&s;gre&s;&s;ing the law where his con&s;ent is not, if the &s;ame be nece&s;&s;ary, as the cau&s;e <HI>&s;ins <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">on:</HI> With <HI>Horne,</HI> Judge <HI>Forte&s;cue</HI> afterwards Chancellour to King <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">ry</HI> 6. agreeth, who telleth us that <HI>England</HI> is a kingdome political, and &s;ayth, <HI>Adtutelam legis &s;ubditorum &amp; corum co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">porum Rex e&s;t erectus, &amp; h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> pre&s;tatem &agrave; populo effluxam ip&s;e habet, quo ei non licet pote&s;tate alia &s;uo popula <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">nari Forte&s;eue folio</HI> 32. The King is made for the defence of the law of is &s;ubjects, and of their bodies and goods, whereunto hee receiveth the power of his people; &s;o as he cannot governe his people by any other pow|er. Then he tells you how the Kings of <HI>Egypt</HI> fir&s;t lived, not after the licenti|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> manner of after Kings; but keep them&s;elves as private per&s;ons in &s;ubje|ction to the law, as al&s;o did the <HI>Ethyopian</HI> Kings order their lives according to the lawes, a&s;&s;igning neither reward nor puni&s;hment otherwi&s;e then law appoynted. And with <HI>Forte&s;cue</HI> concurre the two great Maximes of the Common law, often cited by <HI>Cook,</HI> and other Sages of the Law. 1. The Common law hath &s;o admea&s;ured the Kings prerogative, that it cannot take may the inheritance of any. 2. <HI>Nihil tam proprium e&s;t imperti, quam legi|l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> vivere:</HI> There is nothing &s;o proper to ruling, as to live by laws.</P>
<P>Now if the body politick, which is the people, or the repre&s;entative body the Parliament, could not without the Kings con&s;ent act, then by his pre|rogative he might hinder the due execution of the law, contrary to the fir&s;t approved Maxime, the &s;tatute law confirmeth the &s;ame, <HI>Marl. Br. chap.</HI> 5.52. <HI>Hen.</HI> 3. <HI>Magna Charta. In &s;ingulis teneatur tam in his quae ad Regem partinent quam <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">lies, Magna</HI> &s;hal be holden for good as well in tho&s;e things that appertain to the King, as to others: So as all pretence of prerogative again&s;t the execution of the law, or admini&s;tration of ju&s;tice, is taken away. And indeed it may be &s;ayd the people give lawes to the King, but the King cannot give any law to the people without their con&s;ent; &s;o as Regality in it &s;elfe is good, and for the good of the people; and what ill cu&s;tome or <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">d lawes are brought in, the &s;ame bee by our own default, and not the Kings: for the people are the law-makers. The next Abu&s;ion of the law that <HI>Horne</HI> cites, is, that we have not a Parliament every halfe yeare, that is
<PB N="12" REF="8">to &s;ay, Parliament men changed and elected anew, and no &s;trangers but re|&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">nts, according to the Common and Statute law: which done, would prevent much faction, oppre&s;&s;ion, partiality and inju&s;tice. I may adde a third abu&s;e, as the King by his prerogative impri&s;oned, &s;o for the Parlia|ment whether by Lords or Commons, to impri&s;on before the party bee brought to their Barre, vnle&s;&s;e for want of Baile, is again&s;t the common law: for by the common law before conviction, no man having baile may be impri&s;oned either for Felony or Trea&s;onn, <HI>Cook</HI> 2. <HI>part. Instit. fol.</HI> 189. And &s;o the &s;ame is a disfranchizing of the Subject of his Free-hold and Birth-right: And however it cannot be ju&s;tified to keep any in pri&s;on lon|ger then the next Goal-delivery after the party be committed. Herein <HI>Scot|land</HI> is prai&s;e-worthy; no Pri&s;oner there longer detained for debt, then one yeare, and to be provided for at the Plaintifes charge, if the pri&s;oner be not able to maintain him&s;elfe, and no pri&s;oner for any contempt or felony be|yond the next ordinary Se&s;&s;ions, which is commonly every quarter of a yeare, and &s;ometimes oftner: There wants nothing to make that people happy, but a free tolleration of exerci&s;e of religion, whereby every man may &s;erve God in the way he is per&s;waded is mo&s;t approveable, and not be compelled to live by anothers, or a blind and implicit faith Romani&s;t-like, they have there lawes pleaded and recorded in their owne na<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ive tongue and no &s;uch delay of ju&s;tice, nor the like, exce&s;&s;ive, and exorbitant fees as with us, for indeed though it be &s;aid in our law, we wil &s;ell ju&s;tice to no man; yet have we neither proce&s;&s;e nor proceedings recorded, but in an unknown tongue, and bought at a deare ra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e, oftentimes driven to &s;pend more in one Terme, be&s;ides our travell, then the thing in que&s;tion is worth.</P>
<P>But no more of this &s;ubject for the pre&s;ent, I will return again to &s;peak a little concerning my &s;elfe, and &s;o I have done,</P>
<P><HI>Sir,</HI> I have been here a pri&s;oner this 18. moneths, and was committed upon a fa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e report, as refu&s;ing to an&s;wer interrogatories, &s;ince the Spea|ker pre&s;ented my Petition, and procured it to be committed, though ne|ver yet taken into examination by the Committee is 18. moneths, a thing never heard of before, that a Parliament Committee, whereof there be 29. Parliament men in 18 moneths not to meet together, about a bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of &s;o great and generall concernment, not one man that &s;its in the Hou&s;e in the right of our Country, once in all that time to &s;peake one word in our Countries behalfe, nor do me the favour as to pre&s;ent a peti|tion for me, unle&s;&s;e I would decline, and betray my Countries cau&s;e, which if I would have done, &s;undry of them, and others of the hou&s;e; whom I can name, would not onely have undertaken the pre&s;enting of
<PB N="13" REF="8">my petition, but likewi&s;e promi&s;ed me to procute me my liberty, there names I will forbeare for the pre&s;ent to mention, for I take no plea&s;ure to di&s;cover their &s;hame, unle&s;&s;e they force me to it: but this I may &s;ay, and truly our ca&s;e and condition now, is as b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">d as the Brittaines were of old, when they writ to <HI>Action</HI> the Romane, thus to <HI>Actius</HI> thrice Con|&s;ul, the Sighes of the Brittaines, the barbarous enemy bo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">tes us to the Sea, the Sea beates us back to the enemy, we are either murdered or drowned I leave the application to you, and &s;ay no more but this, if you will pre|&s;ent this my petition to the hou&s;e, procure us ju&s;tice, and an impar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">iall &amp; &s;peedy tryall, upon the hazard of my life, I will undertake to prove our charge, and make good what I write, having &s;aid nothing either for con|tention or o&s;tentation, but for nece&s;&s;ity and ju&s;tice, in te&s;timony whereof he &s;ub&s;cribes his name, who is yours, if you will hone&s;tly di&s;charge your place and tru&s;t for our Countrey, by which you have the honour to &s;it in the highe&s;t Judicature in the Kingdome.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>IOHN MVSGRAVE.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Fleet Pri&s;on</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 5. <HI>Moneth, called Moy the</HI> 6. 1647. <HI>and the</HI> 10. <HI>day of the</HI> 19. <HI>Moneth of my impri&s;on|men<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> for Countries cau&s;e and freedome.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="postscript">
<HEAD>POSTSCRIPT.</HEAD>
<P>SInce I was committed to this P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;on, I could never obtaine that favour to go into the Town, yea, not with a keeper, either for my healths &s;ake, or a|bout my own or mothers bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, who is &s;o &s;ore oppre&s;&s;ed by our Country Com|mittee with us, as out of <HI>200. <ABBR>l.</ABBR></HI> a yeare, &s;hee hath not received <HI>20. <ABBR>l.</ABBR></HI> this three yeeres, and for <HI>20. <ABBR>l.</ABBR></HI> a year, I nor mine have not had <HI>40. <ABBR>s.</ABBR></HI> &s;ince I came into this Pri&s;on, the King gave noble allowances to his pri&s;oners, though men of good estates, to &s;ome <HI>3 <ABBR>l.</ABBR></HI> a weeke, who have &s;ince had for their impri&s;onment <HI>5000 <ABBR>l</ABBR></HI> a wan from the Parliament: But they are Parliament men, but we your p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">r pri&s;oners, though we have done better &s;ervice for you, then &s;ome of tho&s;e to when you give thou&s;ands, and have committed nothing de&s;erving this our impri&s;onment; yet cannot have &s;o much favour from you as common ju&s;tice, which you allow to Rogues, Thieves, and Murderers in N<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">wgate every Se&s;&s;i|o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> to wit, a legall tryall, which we have petitioned for, and cannot have it, you are &s;o far from giving us reparations for our lo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">es and plu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ders we have &s;u&s;tain<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">d, for maintaining your cau&s;e, as you put us to that extremity as to make <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> poore pri&s;oners, pay Ex<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;e for the &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">le&s;t c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">p of be<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">re wee drinke,
<PB N="14" REF="9">for the old was rai&s;ing many by &s;ub&s;edge, and not by Country, then the rich would bear their equall burthen, wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">re now the poore paye<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> the greate&s;t &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> to maintain you in your &s;ilkes and fattens, Satan-like.</P>
<P>But for Traytors, upon Mr. Knightleyes ticket, they can have liberty to go abroad, without any keeper; not only to go abroad into the Towne, but al&s;o to go into the Country. Nay, I can name &s;ome pri&s;oners committed for trea|&s;on, and exempted from pardon in the Propo&s;itions &s;ent to the King, upon their word, have liberty to goe abroad, yea to re&s;ide at their own dwelling hou&s;es. Whether this be not the height of Arbytrary power, or no, con&s;ider? and how this agreeth with your Covenant &s;o much urged, I know not; and what in|couragement this may be for us, or any hone&s;t man that is not mercenary, or a dependant upon &s;ome of you, to &s;pend our e&s;tates, and venture our lives for you in the future, as formerly we have done, let God and the World judge.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>J. M.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="petition">
<HEAD>The deplorable condition of Iohn Mu&s;grave, Commi&s;&s;ioner for the well-aff<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">cted party in <HI>Cumberland We&s;tmerland,</HI> pre&s;ented to the Honourable Hou&s;e of Commons a&s;&s;embled in Parliament.</HEAD>
<P>MAY it plea&s;e you to con&s;ider, what ob&s;tructions I have met with in attending this Honourable Hou&s;e, in pre&s;enting my con&s;ciences grievances, &s;ince <HI>Aprill</HI> 1645. be&s;ides 13. weekes attendance, the winter before, u&s;ing what lawfull meanes po&s;&s;ibly I could to pre&s;ent my Coun|tries oppre&s;&s;ions to this hou&s;e, under tho&s;e that were &s;et in Authority o|ver our Countrey for the Parliament, mo&s;t of them having been before very active, or in office for the King again&s;t the Parliament. At length Mr. <HI>Black&s;tone</HI> did undertake to pre&s;ent the &s;ame, which he did afterwards pre&s;ent to the Hou&s;e, and was by the Hou&s;e committed after I was gone downe into the Countrey, having wayted for pre&s;enting them 13. weeks as afore&s;aid, then tould he &s;ome friends of mine here in the Towne, what he had done, they might &s;end me word that our bu&s;ine&s;&s;e wanted but a man to follow it, And in <HI>Aprill</HI> following, 1645. I came to Towne with Mr. <HI>O&s;motherley,</HI> a Commi&s;&s;ioner with me, appointed by the well-af|fected of <HI>Cumberland</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmerland,</HI> hoping to have had audience, and not doubting to have our grievances redre&s;&s;ed? but when we came to <HI>London,</HI> Mr. <HI>Black&s;tone</HI> de&s;erted us, and denyed what he had done for us, but we having got the order for committing our former Charge, after
<PB N="15" REF="9">our grievances were reade at the Committee, and reported to the Hou&s;e, Mr. <HI>Black&s;tone</HI> upon his motion in the Hou&s;e, procured an order to have the Charge delivered back to me, which was done accordingly by Sir <HI>Thomas Withrington,</HI> Chaireman of that Committee: then we &s;ought all meanes we could to pre&s;ent our Countries grievances by other Mem|bers but could not get them pre&s;ented: afterwards we fell acquainted with the Scots Commi&s;&s;ioners, who &s;oone procured them to be pre&s;en|ted with their papers to their Honourable Hou&s;e in <HI>Iuly</HI> following, and by the Hou&s;e was then referred to a Committee for the Scots papers, whereof Mr. <HI>Li&s;ley</HI> was Chaireman, that they might examin our papers together with the Scots papers given in again&s;t M. <HI>Bar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">is</HI> and others of whom we complayned, but the Committee layd our papers a&s;ide, refu|&s;ing to receive them before they had examined us upon interrogatories, to &s;ome of them we then an&s;wered, (being then ignorant of our liber|ty) having not &s;een<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> the order of the Hou&s;e. The next day that the Com|mittes &s;ate, they would have proceeded in examining us, before they would receive our papers, but we having then the order of the Hou&s;e (which we had not before) the &s;ame being to receive our papers, and not to examine us upon interrogatories, we then replyed, that the order of the Hou&s;e was to receive our papers which we de&s;ired they would, and if they would put ou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> bu&s;ine&s;&s;e in a way of tryall we offered to make good our Charge again&s;t Mr. <HI>Barwis</HI> and others of whom we complained, or according to law to &s;uffer puni&s;hment, The Committee having read our papers, moved the Hou&s;e to inable them with authority to examine us upon in<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">rrogatories, which Mr. <HI>O<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">motherley</HI> refu&s;ed to do, &s;aying it was again&s;t <HI>Magn<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> Charta,</HI> and the liberty of the &s;ubject, but I refu&s;ed not to an&s;wer, when &s;uch order was obtained from the Hou&s;e, but de&s;ired a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">opy of the interrogatories; or to have liberty to write them my &s;elfe from their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">thes, and they to figne them, that &s;o I might con&s;ult with Councel as I had done before, we gave in our Charge, and this I con|ceive was the priviledge of every free borned o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">en, but the Committee would not grant me that liberty, then I conceived by the order of the Hou&s;e, I was not bound to an&s;wer extempore, e&s;pecially the Committee doore being &s;hut, my friends kept out, and &s;ome again&s;t whom I articled permitted to be pre&s;ent with their hats on their heads allowed to aske as que&s;tions and examinus: whereupon I de&s;ired the Committee to move the Hou&s;e that I might have the interrogatories in writing to peru&s;e be|fore I were put to an&s;wer them, &amp; that Mr. <HI>Barwis,</HI> and tho&s;e of whom the Scots Commi&s;&s;ioners and we complayned might fir&s;t an&s;wer, and make their defence to the Scots Commi&s;&s;ioners, and our Charge before <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> were put to make proofe or examine witne&s;&s;es, &amp; I offered to under|take
<PB N="16" REF="10">take to pro&s;ecute and make good my Charge, as I hoped the See's Com|mi&s;&s;ioners could and would do theirs, the Committee then mi&s;&s;ed that they would acquaint the Hou&s;e with my de&s;ire, and &s;ome of them did &s;ay, that my reque&s;t was rea&s;onable, notwith&s;tanding all this, Mr. <HI>Li&s;ley</HI> mi&s;|reporteth to the Hou&s;e, how that I had contemptuou&s;ly, refu&s;ed to an&s;wer Interrogatories, not making any mention of Mr. <HI>O&s;motherleyes</HI> refu&s;ing to an&s;wer Interrogatories upon the order of the Hou&s;e, wherein not onely Mr. <HI>Li&s;ley</HI> his parciality, but likewi&s;e his intention and d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ire to ob&s;truct Ju&s;tice plainly appeareth, upon which report made by Mr. <HI>Li&s;ley,</HI> I was committed <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">o the Fleete, by an order of the Hou&s;e, of the 27. of <HI>October</HI> 1645. as contemp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ibly refu&s;ing to an&s;wer Interrogatories, after this be|ing <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">n pri&s;on, I &s;ent a letter to Mr. Speaker, dated the 28. of <HI>October</HI> 1645. wi h a Petition inclo&s;ed to the Honourable Hou&s;e of Commons, which Letter and Petition the honourable Speaker pre&s;ented, and procured to be openly read, and deb<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ted in the Hou&s;e, upon the 8, of <HI>November</HI> 1645. and both the letter and Petition was referred to the &s;ame Committee, for the Scots papers, and <HI>Li&s;ley</HI> being the Chairman thereof and then pre&s;ent, but pre&s;ently af er my Letter and Petition was committed, and <HI>Li&s;ley</HI> then withdrew h m&s;elfe for along time, and came not to the Hou&s;e after Mr. Li&s;ley came to have a Copy of the order for the committing my Let|ter and Petition being procured, the &s;ame was &s;ent in a letter from Colo|nell <HI>Rigby</HI> a member of the Hou&s;e, de&s;iring him to take &s;ome cour&s;e about me, and my Countries bu&s;ine&s;&s;e. But his an&s;wer was to my friends that came to him from Colonell <HI>Rigby,</HI> that if Colonel <HI>Rigby</HI> or Sir <HI>Thomas Wi|thrington,</HI> who knew me and my cau&s;e, would doe any thing, they might; but he could doe nothing: which was as much as to &s;ay, (as I conceive) he would doe nothing, although the hou&s;e had ordered otherwi&s;e. And &s;ince the time my letter and petition was committed upon Mr. <HI>Speakers</HI> pre&s;en|ting, I have written many letters, and &s;ent petitions therein inclo&s;ed both to them that &s;ate in the Hou&s;e in the right of our Countrey, and to others of the Hou&s;e al&s;o, intreating them to pre&s;ent mine and my Countries grie|vances to the Hou&s;e; and doubting the ju&s;tice of the Hou&s;e, being once tru|ly informed of my &s;tate, and my Countries cau&s;e; yea, and if I might have legall and impartiall hearing, I doubt not but to make it appeare that Mr. <HI>Li&s;ley</HI> is in the contempt in di&s;obeying and &s;lighting the orders of the Hou&s;e. That Committee having power from this Honorable Hou&s;e, to &s;end for me as often as they would; but to this day was I never &s;ent for by him or that Committee: Therefore I conceive, that Mr. <HI>Li&s;ley</HI> and that Committee to be the cau&s;e of my continued bonds, and Countries long oppre&s;&s;ions, for his and their non-ob&s;ervance of the Hou&s;es Orders; by which meanes ju|&s;tice
<PB REF="10">hath been ob&s;tructed a long time. And &s;uch as the Parliament hat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> declared Traytors and grand enemies (being di&s;abled and prohibited by &s;e|verall ordinances of Parliament, to beare any Offices,) divers of them yet uncompounded for their Trea&s;ons and Delinquencies, are yet upheld in places of power and tru&s;t, to over-rule and oppre&s;&s;e our Countrey now un|der the Parliament, more then when they acted for the enemy, as I can prove and &s;hew by many letters written to me before I was committed to this pri&s;on. And in reference to my &s;elfe, if I have in the lea&s;t offended a|gain&s;t any of the ju&s;t Lawes, Priviledges, Orders or proceedings of this Hou&s;e, I am haertily &s;orry, though I am no wayes con&s;cious to my &s;elfe, that I have offended in the lea&s;t, but have ever been tender of the ju&s;t and lawfull Priviledges, Orders, and proceedings of this Hou&s;e, together with the liberties, Rights, and Franchi&s;es of the meane&s;t &s;ubject: For which, and my affection to the Parliament, I was impri&s;oned halfe a yeare by the Commi&s;&s;ioners of Array, and Ju&s;tices of peace in <HI>Cumberland,</HI> after driven to live in exile for two yeares, and that little meanes I had po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed by the enemy. And when it &s;hall be made appeare, that I have offended this Honorable Hou&s;e in the premi&s;es, or in any other thing, then I &s;hall not not onely co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">fe&s;&s;e my fault and error publickly to the whole kingdom; but al&s;o willingly and cheerfully &s;ubmit my &s;elf to the judgment and cen&s;ure of this Honorable Hou&s;e, to undergoe what puni&s;hment this Hou&s;e &s;hal think &s;in Therefore my humble reque&s;t is, that this honorable Hou&s;e will take my take my cau&s;e into con&s;ideration, to enlarge me from my bonds, and put mine and my Countries cau&s;e into a legall way of triall, and enable me with power to pro&s;ecute my &s;everall charges, and give unto me and my countrey ju&s;t and fitting reparations for our lo&s;&s;es and wrongs we have &s;u&s;tained, agreeable to the wi&s;dome and ju&s;tice of this Honourable Hou&s;e: And if we make not good our &s;everall charges, then to puni&s;h us according to the law; and not to refer me over, nor our countries cau&s;e to an Arbitrary, partiall and Ju&s;tice-delaying Committee. But that I may be brought to your Barre, or &s;ome other publick tryell. And then I no|thing doubt but to cleare my &s;elfe of the contempt unju&s;tly laid to my charge; and for which I have &s;uffered 18 Moneths hard and clo&s;e impri|&s;onment. And if I may but have the benefit of the Law, to make good our particular chrrges again&s;t tho&s;e of whom we complaine. And as in duty bound, I &s;hall ever pray to, and prai&s;e God for you.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>JO. MUSGRAVE.</SIGNED>
<DATE><HI>Fleet</HI> 5. <HI>May,</HI> 1647. <HI>and</HI> 9. <HI>day of</HI> 19. <HI>Months of my impri&s;onment.</HI></DATE></CLOSER>
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<P>I have for the&s;e la&s;t foure moneths had &s;ome friends daily attending up|on Maj. <HI>Salloway,</HI> Mr. <HI>Allan,</HI> Mr. <HI>Laurence,</HI> Mr. <HI>Bellingham,</HI> for pre&s;enting, this my petition; but after they had the &s;ame a long time, they returned i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> back to me, refu&s;ing to do it. Mr. <HI>Bellingham</HI> &s;aid, he could not <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span">
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<PB REF="12">it unle&s;&s;e I could &s;hew authority to command him: not many dayes &s;ince, Mr. <HI>Rigby</HI> moved the Hou&s;e for my liberty, but Mr. <HI>Tol&s;on,</HI> the knight of the Shire for <HI>Cumberland,</HI> one of the new election, &s;tood up again&s;t me, and de|&s;ired I might no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> be enlarged till I acknowledged my fault: for &s;ayd he, it is again&s;t the order of the Hou&s;e, to enlarge any without acknowledgment of their offence; and &s;o I lo&s;t the benefit of Mr. <HI>Rigbys</HI> motion. I mu&s;t not be enlarged without petition, and all refu&s;e to pre&s;ent my petition con&s;i|der mine and my countries &s;ad condition. If you de&s;ire to know what this Mr. <HI>Tol&s;on</HI> is, he is no other then a <HI>beardle&s;&s;e Minor,</HI> taken the other day from the <HI>Gramm<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> &s;choole,</HI> and now elected by a delinquent Sheriffe, through the votes of Malignants and delinquents of <HI>Cumberland,</HI> by Mr. <HI>Bar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> procure ment. <HI>Tol&s;on</HI> being the meane&s;t family of any of the Gentry in the North. Not long before <HI>Tol&s;on</HI> was brought into the Hou&s;e, he came from the enemies garri&s;on then at <HI>Oxford,</HI> his Father a neu|trall, and had his e&s;tate protected by the enemy, Mr. <HI>Tol&s;on,</HI> Mr. <HI>Barwis,</HI> the L. <HI>Wharton,</HI> &amp; others that &s;it in the Hou&s;e in the right of our County, procured the commi&s;&s;ions for <HI>Oyer &amp; Terminer,</HI> and goal-delivery, directed to be decla|red traytors, M. <HI>Tol&s;on</HI> &amp; his father are great per&s;ecuters of hone&s;t men, under the name of Sectaries and independents; but favour and protect Papi&s;ts and Malignants. Mr. <HI>Bellingham</HI> the Knight of the Shire for <HI>We&s;tmerland;</HI> is &s;o yo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">g as he hath not any haire of his face, refu&s;eth to informe the Hou&s;e how the Committee for Accounts of <HI>We&s;tmerland</HI> &amp; <HI>Cumberland</HI> were declared tray|tors, and men accountable, and &s;o betrayeth his tru&s;t and his Countrey, as his father before him did; who being the Knight of the Shire, is his &s;on is new in his &s;tead, in the beginning of the&s;e troubles left the Parliament, yet profe&s;&s;ed to his countrey for a time he would not joyn with the enemy; but traiterou&s;ly and deceitfully (when his Countrey expected he would have &s;tood up with them for the Parl.) de&s;erted them, and joyned with the enemy, to the lo&s;&s;e of that countrey, was after a Colonel for the King, very active again&s;t the the Parl. and one of the <HI>Oxford Juncto,</HI> his &s;onne begins to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">. When hee came into the Hou&s;e he prom&s;ed fairly, but now begins to trend in his fathers tract. The&s;e <HI>Ianus</HI> and <HI>Sinon</HI>-lik<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> men, whether o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">d or young, be the pe&s;t of a <HI>Common-wealth,</HI> and the wor&s;t and mo&s;t dangerous enemies any State can have, not fit to be tru&s;ted or imployed in any office, Martiall or Civill; &s;el|dome you can confide in the &s;on, where the father hath betrayed you. Beware ever of a reconciled foe, and time-&s;ervers. <HI>Farewell.</HI></P>
<Q><BIBL><HI>PROV. 28.15.</HI></BIBL>
<P>As a roaring Lion and a ranging Beare, &s;o is <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> wicked Ruler over the poore people.</P></Q>
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<P><HI>P.</HI> 2. l. 3 for <HI>Wilford Ermine</HI> r. <HI>William Ermine.</HI> line 37. for <HI>Scoti&s;h,</HI> r. <HI>I Scoti&s;h,</HI> p. 3. l. 20. for unde&s;erved r. unde&s;ired. l. 38, for faith, r. South. p. 5. l. 15. for 11. r. 22. p. 6. l. 23. for K. <HI>Stephen,</HI> r. K. <HI>William.</HI> l. 23. for cleare, read bleare.</P>
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