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<P>Divers Remarkable PASSAGES <HI>CONCERNING</HI> The Originall and Progre&s;&s;e of the pre&s;ent great Action in <HI>ESSEX: AND</HI> The rea&s;on of &s;eizing on the Lord <HI>CAPEL'S</HI> Sonne.</P>
<P><HI>Expre&s;&s;ed in a Letter to a retired Gentleman, from his friend in</HI> LONDON.</P>
<P>Printed in the Yeare, 1648.</P>
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<HEAD>Diver&s;e remarkable Pa&s;&s;ages concerning the Originall, and Progre&s;&s;e of the pre&s;ent great <HI>Action</HI> in <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> and the rea&s;on of Seazing on the Lord <HI>Capells</HI> Son.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Sir,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_YOur great retiredne&s;&s;e I &s;ee, is accompanyed with many &s;ad thoughts, for the pre&s;ent condition of your native Country; &amp; though you are not a man of <HI>Action</HI> in the&s;e unhappy troubles, yet I perceive you are a per&s;on of great <HI>Devotion</HI> and <HI>Prayer,</HI> for the removall of them: You de&s;ire to know of me, the Originall of the pre&s;ent di&s;traction in <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> becau&s;e I live here in the City, whither all the News comes; and have &s;ome good acquaintance in that County: You de&s;ire al&s;o, to under&s;tand the truth of that Act (which your &s;elfe and Lady apprehends &s;o barbarons) in &s;eizing on the Lord <HI>Capells</HI> &s;on, the manner and rea&s;on of it, and how people in the City doe cen&s;ure the &s;ame. Sir, I know the Honour is great, and the Affection &s;trong, which both you, and your Lady bear to that Noble Lord, (unto who&s;e Family you have a neere relation.) I al&s;o have much reverence in my heart towards him, for that great Loyalty &amp; Faithfulne&s;&s;e in him to his King and Country; which I think all men mu&s;t confe&s;&s;e to be fully manife&s;t by his magnanimous deportment in his pre&s;ent ingagement, though there had been no former proofes of it: Wherefore I &s;hall, in this particular which concerneth him and his &s;on, as al&s;o in the other, &s;atisfie your de&s;ires as well as I am able, (though I doubt not but &s;ome others might have done it better) by
<PB N="2" REF="3">giving you that hi&s;toricall relation of the whole bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, which from the te&s;timony of &s;everall men I have indu&s;triou&s;ly learned, and be|lieve to be the truth. And 'tis this.</P>
<P>The County of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> having, in an humble way Petitioned the two Hou&s;es for a Treaty with the King; a disbanding the Army, and a removeall of their greivances; and received back a &s;light and un&s;a|tisfying An&s;wer, as they apprehended: re&s;olved to renew their re|que&s;ts in the &s;ame &s;ubmi&s;&s;ive manner and way as before: but ob&s;er|ving by that barbarous entertainment which their neighbours of <HI>Sur|rey</HI> met withall; that tho&s;e, whom they were to make their addre&s;&s;es unto at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> were wor&s;e &s;pirited, and more cruelly di&s;po&s;ed then ever <HI>Pharaoh,</HI> the Tyrant of <HI>Aegypt</HI> was, who did not &s;et his men of War to <HI>Kill, Slay, and De&s;troy</HI> the Afflicted <HI>Iraelites,</HI> when they put up their prayers to be ea&s;ed of their Burdens: And percei|ving withall, (by a <HI>cro&s;&s;e Petition</HI> then in hand, (and with diligence promoted by the Sectaries of the County) that there was a &s;torme a ri&s;ing again&s;t them&s;elves, for giving example to tho&s;e of <HI>Surry</HI> and others, in &s;upplicating for &s;uch things as they have done: they thought it nece&s;&s;ary and meet to con&s;ult &s;peedily about their own defence; and to this purpo&s;e, convened at <HI>Chelmesford;</HI> where they found one Sir <HI>William Ma&s;&s;am,</HI> a man whom (in their good opinion) they had Honoured to be Knight of their Shire; together with 4 more Parliament men, and diver&s;e <HI>Committee-men</HI> in con&s;ultation to rai&s;e divi&s;ions in the County, &amp; oppo&s;itions again&s;t tho&s;e who were for the peace and &s;afety thereof: with whom they did expo&s;tulate about the &s;aid turbulent and cro&s;&s;e Petition, which (they &s;aid) was counte|nanced and promoted by them: &s;hewing them diver&s;e warrants &s;ub|&s;cribed by &s;ome of their hands, for the &s;peedy di&s;per&s;ion of it: but they in their confu&s;ion of &s;pirit (notwith&s;tanding the evidence) were plea&s;ed to deny the &s;ame; whereat the people were very much moved again&s;t them (the untruth being &s;o clearly manife&s;t to the face of the whole County.) And they were exa&s;perated further, by that which they heard then, and there atte&s;ted by one Major <HI>Wilmore,</HI> an hone&s;t and re&s;olute Gentleman of the County, viz. that him&s;elf, and diver&s;e other &s;ufficient witne&s;&s;es had lately heard a Parliament man prote&s;t, and &s;ay, <HI>That if there were an</HI> 100. <HI>Barrells of Powder under the Parliament Hou&s;e, and a traine layed, and a match ready to give fire, he would rather be blowne up, then yeild to a Treaty with the King:</HI> And this was uttered by him, as if it were the &s;en&s;e of all the then pre|&s;ent
<PB N="3" REF="3">prevailing party in the Hou&s;es: whereby the Country apprehen|ded, that the &s;aid faction were re&s;olved directly upon the Kings ruine, in that they would rather choo&s;e a &s;udden de&s;truction, then come to the light, whereby their deeds might be made manife&s;t, which (as ap|peared by this their &s;hine&s;&s;e) would (in their own thoughts) be but an u&s;her to a more &s;hamefull down-fall, if His Maje&s;ties innocency and righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e &s;o highly wronged and abu&s;ed &s;hould come to be but cleerly viewed by His People.</P>
<P>And then further yet, &s;ome of the Country had under&s;tood; How another Parliament man al&s;o, had di&s;covered the &s;en&s;e and purpo&s;e of the Hou&s;e, to be <HI>in no hand to comply with the King,</HI> though it was believed, and confe&s;&s;ed, that in regard of His Maje&s;ties di&s;po&s;ition and condition, He both could, and would pardon them: <HI>For &s;hould there be &s;uch a Compliance, and His Maje&s;ty &s;uffered to &s;peak, and &s;o bu&s;ine&s;&s;e be di&s;cu&s;&s;ed before the People, the Kingdome</HI> (&s;aid He) <HI>would never &s;uffer the Militia to continue any longer in our hands, and we being bereft of power to cau&s;e awe, and dread, &s;hould be torne in peices,</HI> (&s;oil. for what they had done) <HI>or at lea&s;t &s;hould live in &s;uch contempt and &s;corne, that death would be better unto us, then &s;uch a life:</HI> And therefore, though he confe&s;&s;ed it was believed al&s;o, (in regard of the great change in peoples hearts) that the King and His Party would get the better in the end; <HI>yet</HI> (&s;ayes he) <HI>we are re&s;olved before that time come, to make the Land and Kingdome not worth His owning.</HI></P>
<P>Now this evill expre&s;&s;ion al&s;o, having come to the ears of many <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> men there pre&s;ent, it &s;pake to their hearts, that the intentions of tho&s;e who call them&s;elves the <HI>Parliament,</HI> was (in defence of their own Tyranny and ju&s;tice) to hazard the totall ruine of their King and Country.</P>
<P>The&s;e, and &s;uch like con&s;iderations, did at that time much &s;tirre the mindes of the people: And yet, by the advi&s;e of &s;ome of the chiefe and more di&s;creet, among&s;t them; they propounded to tho&s;e Members of Parliament there pre&s;ent, the dangers and per|plexities which they were in; reque&s;ting them to be meanes for them to the Parliament, that the Country might now at length be free from taxes, and quartring Souldiers; and put into a defen&s;ive po&s;ture, under officers of their owne choice, whom they may confide in; that &s;o they might upon occa&s;ion, be both able and ready to pre|&s;erve the &s;ame: (which was no more then the&s;e very Parliament men them&s;elves had moved them to petition for, &s;ix years agoe, when
<PB N="4" REF="4">there was no &s;uch imminent or vi&s;ible danger as was now apparent.) This reque&s;t &s;o mode&s;t and rea&s;onable, was thought would ea&s;ily have been furthered by tho&s;e who were intru&s;ted for the Countries good; but they, (notwith&s;tanding their duty and engagement) retur|ned a &s;light An&s;wer unto the people; who, when they heard the &s;ame read, cryed out with one voice, no An&s;wer, no An&s;wer; which notwith&s;tanding, (being written in a paper) was thrown down a|mong&s;t them in a carele&s;&s;e way, as all the An&s;wer they mu&s;t look for; and apprehended by the people to be &s;o done in contempt and &s;corne of them all: whereupon they violently ru&s;hed up &s;taires, and inclo&s;ed the &s;aid Parliament men, together with the Committee in their Chamber, and &s;et a guard upon them.</P>
<P>Yet after this, all the Parl. men were relea&s;ed (except <HI>Ma&s;&s;am</HI>) and &s;ent (upon their promi&s;e of returne) with tho&s;e their de&s;ires unto the Parliament: and diver&s;e of the Committee-men, as one M. <HI>Lu|ther,</HI> and one M. <HI>Young,</HI> who were known to be men of a moderate temper, and not mi&s;chievous, were freely let out, and permitted to goe to their owne homes. And had not the peevi&s;h and evill di&s;po|&s;ition of unworthy Sir <HI>William Ma&s;&s;am</HI> towards his Country, who had &s;o highly honoured him, been &s;o notorious to all; in is mo&s;t probable that he al&s;o had been afforded like favour with the re&s;t. But when he was moved to joyne with the Country in the furthe|rance of their righteous and rea&s;onable de&s;ires: He An&s;wered, that <HI>it was not ju&s;t to move him, being a pri&s;oner, unto any thing of that nature, or to require ought of him, till he were at liberty, for it was no other then a plaine inforcement upon his Con&s;cience,</HI> while he was in that conditi|on; complaining withall, <HI>what a great mi&s;ery it was to be a pri&s;oner and restrained of freedome.</HI> Whereunto, Sir <HI>William Martin,</HI> a Com|mittee man that was under the &s;ame re&s;traint with him, Replyed, <HI>You are &s;en&s;ible of this as a mi&s;ery, now tis your own ca&s;e, only two dayes, but you have been no whit &s;en&s;ible of it, as tis the Kings ca&s;e, whom you have kept in pri&s;on well nigh two yeares.</HI> And you think it an unju&s;t en|forcement upon <HI>your Con&s;cience to be moved to joyne with your Country in a matter whereunto you are bound in duty: only becau&s;e you are under re&s;traint: What inju&s;tice then have you &s;hewn, in urging the King, as you have done, to yield His con&s;ent to &s;o many unrea&s;onable things again&s;t His Honour, Judgement, and Con&s;cience, throughout the whole time of His Impri&s;onment?</HI> This reply comming to the knowledge and un|der&s;tanding of Sir <HI>Charles Lucas,</HI> he pre&s;ently with the liking of the
<PB N="5" REF="4">Country, &s;et the &s;aid Sir <HI>Willam Martin</HI> at Liberty, becau&s;e (as he told him) he perceived by that his expre&s;&s;ion, that he <HI>had &s;ome true love in his heart unto the King:</HI> Whereby is inferred, that the Kings Friends de&s;ire to have none under re&s;traint, but enemies to their King and Country, who are, and would be mi&s;chievous to both, white they be at liberty.</P>
<P>But I proceed: The Parliament <HI>Members,</HI> who were &s;ent with the Counties de&s;ires to the <HI>Hou&s;es,</HI> upon their paroll, or pro|mi&s;e of returne, (accounting it (as &s;eemed) again&s;t the Honour and Priviledge of Parliament to keep their word) returned no more; but &s;ent down the promi&s;e of an Ordinance of Indempnity to the Coun|ty, if they would (acknowledging them&s;elves in a fault) goe every man to his own home, and relea&s;e their Pri&s;oners. Sir <HI>Charles Lucas</HI> (who had been called, and &s;ent for thither by the Centlemen of the County) might al&s;o for his own per&s;on, be included in the &s;ame Ordinance: But for the Earl of <HI>Norwich,</HI> and tho&s;e men of <HI>Kent</HI> and <HI>London</HI> which came with him, mu&s;t be all left to <HI>Parliament mercy.</HI> This Act or promi&s;e of Indempnity was accepted of by many, and the rather, becau&s;e of the misfortune of the <HI>Kenti&s;h</HI> forces, the noi&s;e whereof, came at that time in the highe&s;t tiune to this Countries eares, to its great di&s;advantage.</P>
<P>But diver&s;e others of the Gentry and Yeomanry, who had bet|ter ob&s;erved that little of faith and truth, which had ever yet been found in Parliament promi&s;es; made pre&s;ent choice of the Noble <HI>Lucas</HI> for their Generall; who was the rather induced to take the Charge upon him, for the love which he bore to his native County; &amp; al&s;o in pitty and commi&s;eration to tho&s;e thou&s;ands of Souls; which were otherwi&s;e to be left unto Parliament mercy; (from which, as from the extreame&s;t cruelty, <HI>good Lord deliver us.</HI>) Now this pious and worthy Act of Sir <HI>Charles,</HI> as it hath knit the hearts of all tho&s;e, and many others to him, in &s;o &s;trong a tie of love, that nothing but death &s;hall unloo&s;e: &s;o doubt but the Almighty God (by wo&s;e grace he dit it) doth and will &s;o favourably approve of the &s;ame, that (we hope) his divine ble&s;&s;ing &s;hall attend him in all his publick undertakings.</P>
<P>For we had experience once already of Gods aide and ble&s;&s;ing in a like ca&s;e, <HI>viz.</HI> when that truly valiant and religious Gentleman the now Lord <HI>Hopton,</HI> was with other per&s;ons of great honour and quality, at the beginning of the&s;e troubles, to take Ship for <HI>Wales.</HI>
<PB N="6" REF="5">at <HI>Minehead</HI> in <HI>Devon,</HI> and wanting boates to tran&s;port all their com|pany, were forced to leave &s;ome hundreds behinde on &s;hore, who would be nece&s;&s;itated to fall into the hands of the Enemies: But this mo&s;t worthy man looking back from the Ship, his bowels &s;tirred towards them: whereupon he commands him&s;elf to be carryed back unto them; and tels them, Gentlemen, <HI>it grieves me to leave you be|hinde us, who have thus far ventured your &s;elves with us in this righteous Cau&s;e: I am therefore returned to partake of your fortune, and am re&s;ol|ved by Gods Grace, to adventure my life with you:</HI> Which mo&s;t noble and Chri&s;tian Act God was &s;o well plea&s;ed with, that he knit the Soudiers hearts mo&s;t firmly to him, and made him &s;ucce&s;&s;efull, even to admiration in the <HI>We&s;t</HI> of <HI>England:</HI> and it will be confe&s;&s;ed of all, that no one Army &s;ince the&s;e Wars begun, was more beloved of the Coun|try, where they came, more pro&s;perous for the King, and more &s;er|viceable to His Cau&s;e, then that was, while the &s;aid Lord <HI>Hopton,</HI> and tho&s;e gallant <HI>Corni&s;h</HI> Gentry His A&s;&s;i&s;tants did Command the &s;ame. Now we cannot build our faith in God, concerning our pre&s;ent ca&s;e, (which is of a like nature to that) upon a better foundation then &s;uch former experience: God that aided the renowned and com|pa&s;&s;ionate <HI>Hopton;</HI> will al&s;o pro&s;per the Noble and mercifull <HI>Lucas.</HI></P>
<P>But to returne to our matter, about this time the crafty Enemy con&s;idering the Chri&s;tian con&s;tancy, and un&s;hakable Loyalty of that true Lover of His King and Country, the Lord <HI>Capell.</HI> And know|ing that his place of Re&s;idence, was not far di&s;tant from <HI>E&s;&s;ex:</HI> ap|prehending by that experience they had of him, that his &s;tout and gallant &s;pirit di&s;dain'd to &s;toop to Compound with Rebels for the E&s;tate, which God, his Aunce&s;tors, and the Laws of the Land had given, and &s;ettled upon him; and the conceiving by his carriage towards them, that he was carele&s;&s;e to enjoy his owne Land, &s;o long as the King was without His Crown; concluded to &s;end &s;peedily for him, and to clap him up clo&s;e pri&s;oner, and &s;o prevent that comfort and encouragement, which his being at Liberty might afford to the Kings Friends in <HI>E&s;&s;ex.</HI> But his Lord&s;hip having private notice of the&s;e purpo&s;es again&s;t him, though the <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> bu&s;ine&s;&s;e was yet excee|ding raw in his apprehen&s;ion, and (as him&s;elf confe&s;&s;ed to a friend of his) not ripe enough for him to engage his per&s;on in: yet con&s;idering the u&s;ele&s;&s;e condition he was &s;ure to be &s;hortly in, by being a Pri&s;oner, conceiving that the notice he had thereof before hand
<PB N="7" REF="5">might be from a &s;peciall providence to thru&s;t him forth unto the pre|&s;ent &s;ervice; and finding his Affections mo&s;t &s;trong and &s;incere for his Kings enlargement, and his Countries freedome: He re&s;olved to adventure him&s;elf, (though again&s;t his judgement, in regard of the immaturity of the enterprize) and to <HI>tru&s;t God wholly with the &s;ucce&s;&s;e;</HI> it was his own expre&s;&s;ion to his friend in private, who told it me; which, when I heard, I thought pre&s;ently of that &s;peech of <HI>David,</HI> when he went out to fight the <HI>Lords Battaile again&s;t the uncircumci&s;ed Philistims, I goe forth</HI> (&s;aith he) <HI>in the name or &s;trength only of the Lord of Ho&s;ts.</HI></P>
<P>Upon the&s;e grounds, this Nobleman removed him&s;elf to <HI>Chel|misford,</HI> leaving his pious and dear Lady great with child, and his particular Affaires (of great concernment then in Agitation) to Gods &s;ole protection and di&s;po&s;all, not &s;o much as ordering (though &s;ome &s;ugge&s;ted the motion) that his elde&s;t &s;on &s;hould be conveyed to &s;ome private concealment; for him&s;elf being full of candour, noble|ne&s;&s;e and humanity, could not (&s;urely) conceive it po&s;&s;ible, that any who wore the &s;hapes of men, and were named Chri&s;tians, or called Gentlemen, would offer, or &s;uffer to be offered, any thing unworthy to &s;uch a Lady as his was, and in her condition; or to any of his in|nocent and harmle&s;&s;e Children: nay, he might rather think, that that for the Name &s;ake, and honour of Parliament, they who were now &s;o called, would (as they were bound) protect them from wrongs and incivilities.</P>
<P>After his Lord&s;hips arrivall at <HI>Chelmisford,</HI> (which was to the great rejoycing of all tho&s;e Loyal hearts) the forces there removed within 2 dayes (by rea&s;on haply of the Enemies &s;uddain &amp; &s;peedy approach) to <HI>Braintry,</HI> and from thence next day, towards <HI>Colche&s;ter,</HI> (carrying Sir <HI>William Ma&s;&s;am,</HI> and the re&s;t of the Committee with them, u&s;ing them with all civility and gentlene&s;&s;e;) and they march'd with their Army through the Country in that orderly and unblameable way and manner, as was to all mens admiration; only at <HI>Earls Colne,</HI> &s;ome of the fooli&s;h town&s;men by the excitation of one <HI>Jo&s;&s;eline</HI> (a factious Prie&s;t) &s;tood with their Guns and Mu&s;quets to oppo&s;e them, which was a &s;ufficient provocation unto them to plunder the Town, had they had any &s;uch di&s;po&s;ition; they urged no mans per&s;on to joyne with them, but accepted only of tho&s;e that offered their voluntary &s;ervice. Indeed their fairne&s;&s;e and civill behaviour did the more emi|nently appear, by the outragious and contrary demeanour of Gene|rall
<PB N="8" REF="6"><HI>Fairfax's</HI> men, who in a &s;ort pur&s;ued them, forcing the Country again&s;t their wills to joyne with them; and fetching their provi&s;ion daily from them without paying any thing for the &s;ame; and plundring tho&s;e, who by evill neigh|bours were noted to them, to be of a different judgement and opi|nion.</P>
<P>The <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> forces had not been in <HI>Cholche&s;ter</HI> 24 houres, before the enemy made a mo&s;t feirce and furious a&s;&s;ault upon them with &s;word and fire; confidently pre&s;uming, in regard of his former &s;uc|ce&s;&s;es and pre&s;ent &s;trength, and the apprehended weakne&s;&s;e of the Town, and &s;uddaine feares or di&s;affections of the inhabitants that he &s;hould that night make an end of the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>But <HI>on the mount the Lord was &s;een;</HI> who appeared wonderfully in the behalf of his a&s;&s;aulted people, for he rebuked the enemy very &s;harply; and gave them by this de&s;pi&s;ed handfull, the greate&s;t check that &s;ince the beginning of the Wars they had received: I take no plea&s;ure to &s;ay how many hundreds of them were there &s;laine, and how many mo&s;t mi&s;erably wounded; I am an <HI>Engli&s;hman,</HI> and my heart bleeds to heare or &s;peak of the numbers of my &s;laughtered Country-men: indeed the Enemy hath taken mo&s;t &s;peciall and cun|ning cour&s;es to conceal his lo&s;&s;es from the peoples knowledge; But I &s;hall leave the di&s;covery thereof to other pens, onely this I mu&s;t ob&s;erve, (as many others doe be&s;ide my &s;elf;) Generall <HI>Fairfax</HI> and his Army went into <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> with the highe&s;t &s;corne and contempt of tho&s;e, whom they were to oppo&s;e, and with the greate&s;t purpo&s;es of cruelty again&s;t them, as could be imagined, threatning to &s;wallow them up at a bit, and (as they &s;aid) <HI>to cut the Calves throats pre&s;ently:</HI> And it mu&s;t be confe&s;&s;ed to Gods &s;ole glory, that it was beyond the expectation or faith of man, that the Royall party in the Town &s;hould have been able (all things con&s;idered) to have done the tenth part of tho&s;e things which they have done &s;ince they went thither: but God, who is never failing unto men in di&s;tre&s;&s;e, when they be in righteous wayes, and doe repo&s;e their tru&s;t in him, hath wrought all their works for them even to admiration, (as hereafter I hope (when we have the full relation) &s;hall be declared to the Almighties prai&s;e) and in the mean time let all that wi&s;h happine&s;&s;e to their King and Country, adore the Lord for his goodne&s;&s;e already manife&s;ted, and fervently &s;upplicate his divine Maje&s;ty for his further protection and a&s;&s;i&s;tance, to tho&s;e loyall and good men, who in defence of their
<PB N="9" REF="6">Religion, Laws and Country, are now in Arms in that town of <HI>Cholche&s;ter.</HI> I now proceed to your other particular.</P>
<P>Sir <HI>William Ma&s;&s;am</HI> the Parliament man, finding it now more plea&s;ant to &s;end others to the Wars, then to be there him&s;elf; though but as a &s;pectator or looker on, and fearing (as &s;eemed) in regard of his black and guilty &s;oul, that every &s;hot which his friends without let flie again&s;t the Town, would beat down &s;ome hou&s;e about his head; wanting al&s;o that &s;tate and &s;ervice, that variety of wine, and plenty of dainties in this be&s;ieged place which he was wont to abound in at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> and &s;o thinking him&s;elfe in a le&s;&s;e glorious condition here then there, and that he had not altogether &s;o much re&s;pect and crowching unto, (though he wants for no ne|ce&s;&s;aries which the Town can afford;) thought it his wi&s;dome to cry before he was hurt, and as &s;ome creatures (we know) will make a greater noi&s;e, if they fear but touching, then &s;heep will doe, when &s;horne or &s;laughtred; &s;o did he whine and keep adoe, &s;ending forth pitifull complaints, by privy me&s;&s;ages to his Brethren at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> and their Ma&s;ter the <HI>Generall;</HI> to the end (as appeared by the event) that &s;ome of the Wives, Chidren, or friends of tho&s;e who had him in Bondage, might be &s;eized on as pri&s;oners, to be given in exchange for him: This motion or intimation was pre&s;ently reli&s;hed by the prevailing Faction in the Hou&s;e of Commons, who had (as it &s;eemes) re&s;olved now to put off Humanity as well as Loyalty; and to leave off to be Gentlemen as well as Chri&s;tians: And therefore they &s;et them&s;elves pre&s;ently about the Bu&s;ine&s;&s;e: among&s;t whom, it was propounded and urged in a very earne&s;t manner, (as I head) by one <HI>Gurdon</HI> of <HI>Suffolke,</HI> and <HI>Henry Mildmay</HI> of <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> (an unworthy Kin&s;man of the Lord <HI>Capell</HI>) that the Lady of the &s;aid Lord) being great with child) &s;hould be &s;ent to the Head-quarters, and there be dealt withall as &s;hould &s;eeme good to their Generall; but this mo|tion was not allowed of by the Hou&s;e, becau&s;e it would &s;peak them to be in too too de&s;perate a condition, in that &s;ort, to take advan|tage of &s;hewing Cruelty to the per&s;on of a great-bellied Woman: But it was concluded again&s;t her elde&s;t Son, a Gentleman of &s;ome 16 years of Age to &s;end him. Now &s;ome &s;ay, that the Generall him&s;elf &s;ent for him, by a fir&s;t and &s;econd Me&s;&s;age, being (as they &s;ay) very angry with God for giving &s;uch a check to his boy&s;terous procee|dings, and then the lo&s;&s;e of his Trea&s;ure (&s;ome 80000 l. as is reported)
<PB N="10" REF="7">at <HI>Pomfret</HI> Ca&s;tle came to his ears about that time, which did not a lit|tle heighten his di&s;content and fury, and therefore he longed to be in Action, and to have &s;uch in his power, whom he thought he could ma&s;ter: thus &s;ome doe cen&s;ure, though others indeed do affirme for him, that he is more a Souldier, then to make &s;o unmanly a reque&s;t, or indeed to approve of &s;o barbarous an Act; (and they &s;ay too, that when he &s;aw the young Gentleman, he was offended (or &s;eemed at lea&s;t &s;o to be) at tho&s;e that &s;ent him.) But however, this noble youth was by Order of Parliament &s;eized upon, and rent from the pre&s;ence of his tender Mother, which &s;udden &amp; unexpected inhumanity cau&s;ed her (as is &s;aid) to fall into pre&s;ent travaile of Child-birth, to the great hazard of her life; though the mercifull God, by his mighty power (through he &s;trength of faith) hath yet upheld her Spirit, and pre|&s;erv'd her in being.</P>
<P>Her Ladi&s;hip hereupon (as their own books tell us) &s;ent a Petiti|on to the Hou&s;e of Lords in the behalf of her Son, <HI>who is</HI> (&s;ay they) <HI>apprehended, and &s;ent down to the Generall, to be u&s;ed in the &s;ame condi|tion, as the Committee of</HI> E&s;&s;ex <HI>are with the Enemy; and de&s;iring &s;he may have &s;uch &s;atisfaction herein, as may be for the Ju&s;tice and Honour of Parliament.</HI> For &s;o (indeed) they call them&s;elves, and for the Honour of that they pretend to &s;tand: The Lords recommended the &s;aid Petition to the Commons: (for to doe them right, they had (I head) &s;o much Honour left, as to abhor the fact even from the be|ginning.) Now the Commons either being ignorant what this <HI>Honour and Ju&s;tice of Parliament</HI> was, or el&s;e not daring to interpret what it ought to be, <HI>Ordered hereupon</HI> (&s;aies their perfect Diurnall) <HI>that a Letter &s;hould be written from the Hou&s;e to the Lord Generall</HI> Fairfax, <HI>with the Petition of the &s;aid Lady</HI> Capell <HI>therein, and that his Lord&s;hip be de&s;ired to doe therein, as may be for the Ju&s;tice and Honour of Parlia|ment,</HI> leaving it to him (being a Sword-man) to determine what that is now grown to be.</P>
<P>He receiving the &s;ame, &s;ent his Letter into <HI>Colche&s;ter,</HI> &s;ignifying (&s;ayes their Book) that <HI>the Parliament being &s;en&s;ible of their &s;eizing on Sir</HI> William Ma&s;&s;am, <HI>and others of the Committee, (not being Pri&s;o|ners of Warre) had &s;ent downe the Lord</HI> Capel's <HI>&s;onne, with others, that he might be &s;ent in exchange for Sir</HI> William Ma&s;&s;am.</P>
<P>In which Tender is apprehended to be, as little of Ju&s;tice, as valour, and as little of Piety and Hone&s;ty, as of either the other two: For people argue thus.</P>
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<P> Sir <HI>William Ma&s;&s;am</HI> (they &s;ay) is a Malefactor, a mi&s;chievous per|&s;on, old in wickedne&s;&s;e: and though no Pri&s;oner of War, yet a prime Author of it, yea the principall man that rai&s;ed or cau&s;ed the pre&s;ent War in the County of <HI>E&s;&s;ex:</HI> Whereas Ma&s;ter <HI>Capell</HI> is a young Gentleman, of a pure and candid &s;pirit, of a &s;weet and gracious di&s;po|&s;ition, who knowes no evill, nor ever did, or intended hurt to the County of <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> or to any creature.</P>
<P>Againe, Sir <HI>William Ma&s;&s;am</HI> (they &s;ay) was apprehended for his faults, by tho&s;e who&s;e Servant he was, and to whom he was to give an account for his ill di&s;charge of the tru&s;t repo&s;ed in him: having lately before, renounced the &s;ame, di&s;claiming to performe his duty any longer, by publi&s;hing to the world (with the re&s;t of his fellowes) that <HI>they would treat no more with the King,</HI> (to which they were cho|&s;en, and appointed by their Counties.) Yea, and he was &s;eized upon too (as tis ob&s;erved) while he was in the very act of &s;in, plotting to rai&s;e &s;trife in his Country, having for &s;even yeeres together, endea|voured to impoveri&s;h its wealth, and to worke its ruine. Yea and a few dayes before, he had on the publique Bench u&s;ed threatning ex|pre&s;&s;ions to tho&s;e of the &s;ame, who promoted a Petition for the Kings &s;afety and honour, and for the Kingdomes peace, and had ur|ged the Parliament to &s;end downe Souldiers to in&s;lave the &s;ame: Now no &s;uch things could be laid to the charge of young Mr. <HI>Capell,</HI> that he &s;hould be judged meet to be put into the &s;cale with &s;uch a per|&s;on. His onely faults are his Parents vertues, and his owne innocence, and for the&s;e he was taken Pri&s;oner in his Fathers hou&s;e, where he was at his Study, by tho&s;e who had no Authority over him, to whom he had no relation at all; nor had ever done them the lea&s;t evill.</P>
<P>Be&s;ides, Sir <HI>Will: Ma&s;&s;am</HI> (as they who know him &s;ay) is, as of no &s;uch worth, &s;o of no &s;uch great birth, or fortunes, as to be weighed in the Ballance with this Spark of Honour, who is Heire to a great E&s;tate, of a noble and un&s;potted Family: and therefore that this little Gentleman &s;hould be thus valued or offered in exchange, for that other thing who is &s;o little of a Gentleman, is generally concei|ved to be very unju&s;t, ridiculous, and unworthy.</P>
<P>Yea and father yet, the world ob&s;erves and &s;ayes, that if there was any error committed in the &s;eizing upon Sir <HI>William Ma&s;&s;am,</HI> and his fellows, it was committed by the Inhabitants and people of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> &s;ix dayes before the Lord <HI>Capels</HI> comming among&s;t them, without his knowledge, or privity: nor was he the Generall of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> men after|ward,
<PB N="12" REF="8">onely he came to them as a friend to lend them his a&s;&s;i&s;tance, as they appeared for the liberty of the King and the Law: and there|fore that his Child &s;hould be impri&s;oned, his Lady affrighted, and threatned, or him&s;elfe any way damnified for that act of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> men, is a thing &s;o ignominious and highly ba&s;e, that all people (but the Actors) cry open &s;hame upon it.</P>
<P>And indeed how did <HI>William of Na&s;&s;aw</HI> Prince of <HI>Orange</HI> in his A|pologie, inveigh again&s;t the King of <HI>Spaine,</HI> taxing him of Barbarou&s;|ne&s;&s;e, Inhumanity, and Ignoblene&s;&s;e, for &s;eizing upon his Son a Youth, and at Schoole, when he could not reach him&s;elfe? And how did the whole Chri&s;tian world then, concur with that Prince, in condemning the &s;aid King, for that unkingly and un&s;oldierly act: for though the Father had revolted from his due obedience, yet to puni&s;h him in his child, to take revenge upon one that was innocent, &s;hewed rather pa&s;|&s;ionate fury then di&s;cretion; and cowardly ba&s;ene&s;&s;e, then any thing el&s;e. But indeed, this act of Generall <HI>Fairfax</HI> and his Parliament. though the &s;ame in kind, with that of the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> King, yet in regard of the circum&s;tances is many degrees more inju&s;t and vile: For the Father of this noble Youth had not revolted from any obedience to them, for he never acknowledged any due unto them &s;ince they revolted from their Soveraigne; but becau&s;e they cannot yet be re|venged on him, for his piety and faithfulne&s;&s;e to his King and Coun|try; therefore they will wreak their &s;pleen upon his Wife and Chil|dren; and becau&s;e they cannot get guilty per&s;ons to exchange for Traitors, they will offer innocents, and threaten to expo&s;e &s;uch to &s;laughter.</P>
<P>But doubtle&s;&s;e, Generall <HI>Fairfax</HI> fancied as much pu&s;ilanimity in the Father of this young Gentleman (when he &s;ent his fore-named letter into <HI>Colche&s;ter</HI>) as would (perhaps) have appeared in his own poor &s;pirited &s;elfe, in a ca&s;e of like nature; and that he was as unable to di&s;tingui&s;h Gold from Dro&s;&s;e as he; but he was quickly re&s;olved on the contrary: for that Heroick Lord returnes his an&s;wer (as their own book &s;aies) that very evening in the&s;e words. 1. <HI>That he conceived it inhamane,</HI> (viz. in the Enemies to doe as they had done.) 2. <HI>That if all the Committee had been offered for his &s;on,</HI> (viz. by tho&s;e of his own party) <HI>he would have di&s;dained the motion.</HI> 3. <HI>That he joyed to &s;ee any of his, if no other way, yet by their &s;ufferings to pay the duty they owe to their King, and the known Lawes.</HI></P>
<P>Sir, I know you cannot forbear (at the reading of this) to cry out
<PB N="13" REF="8">as many others have done: O truly noble and Chri&s;tian &s;pirit! O magnanimous expre&s;&s;ion of perfect Loyalty, worthy indeed to be written in golden Letters, and tran&s;mitted to po&s;terity for an ever|la&s;ting patterne of in&s;truction, and &s;peciall meanes of in&s;piration! And I think you will hope (as I doe) that &s;ince God doth give us &s;uch &s;peciall gages of his love and mercy, (as men of &s;uch high cou|rage and honour are) we may with comfort and confidence conclude, that he hath not yet left off to intend good to this poor Kingdome.</P>
<P>Indeed 'tis fancyed by a great many, that the Heroick An&s;wer of this Nobleman, together with the con&s;ideration of the unworthy|ne&s;&s;e of the Act &s;o generally re&s;ented and cryed out upon, will work &s;o upon the &s;pirits of the Agents, that for pure &s;hame at lea&s;t, they will &s;end back the young Gentleman, and endeavour, by &s;ome &s;peciall re&s;pect to that Famliy, to le&s;&s;en the deformity of this &s;o op|probrious inhumanity; though the&s;e be &s;ome, I confe&s;&s;e (who know them well) that are of a contrary opinion: but let me a&s;&s;ure you 'tis the judgment of wi&s;e men, that the Generall and Hou&s;e of Commons could not have done a more imprudent Act to their own di&s;advan|tage then this was, and is like to be, &s;o evilly 'tis apprehended by all &s;orts of people.</P>
<P>And thus (noble Sir) I have given what &s;atisfaction I am able to your &s;elf and Lady, in the particulars you write about. What the i&s;&s;ue of <HI>Colche&s;ter</HI> bu&s;ines will yet be, is not evident, many reports we have, that the Enemy which lies before it, hath lo&s;t many hundreds if not &s;ome thou&s;ands of men, &s;urely aboundance mo&s;t lamentably wounded, are daily &s;ent to <HI>London</HI> from him: Tis much ob&s;erved how God hath oppo&s;ed and re&s;i&s;ted the Pride of the Army, for if words doe manife&s;t thoughts, and threats intentions; never any un|dertook a bu&s;ine&s;&s;e with more pre&s;umption of heart, and cruelty of &s;pirit then they did this of <HI>E&s;&s;ex:</HI> But how hath the Heavens and Stars in their cour&s;es &s;eemed to fight again&s;t them, &s;ince they be&s;ieged that de&s;pi&s;ed place; for indeed, though this judgement of Raine hath been upon us all, and threatens a generall calamity to en&s;ue, (which indeed we have all de&s;erved) yet it cannot be denyed, but they have been mo&s;t &s;pecially detrimented in their de&s;igne, by tho&s;e bottles of Heaven, which God hath powered out upon them in their Trenches, whereby their Souldiers are much impaired in their healths, be&s;ides tho&s;e wounds which they receive daily from the defendants, whom they thought they had taken in a trap: God is &s;tronger
<PB N="14" REF="9">then the <HI>Militia,</HI> nor doth he care for the Anger of man; he hath abated the &s;trength of this great Generall, and his Forces; to re|cruite, which the unwilling Country are made to help forward their own de&s;truction, and driven on (they &s;ay) as <HI>Turki&s;h</HI> Slaves are, to be food for the Bullet: Provi&s;ions are commanded from them be&s;ide to be brought in <HI>gratis,</HI> ready dre&s;&s;ed to the Army daily; one Town I head, (within 12 miles of them) is at 36 l. the week for Food for them; and &s;o are all others proportionably charged to the &s;ame purpo&s;e. yea, and from the Inhabitants of that County al&s;o money mu&s;t be rai&s;ed (according to Ordinance) to pay their Souldiers their wages, who by their Hor&s;es, and other wayes, doe extreamely de|&s;troy the Corne and Fruites there, which fore-&s;peaks a mo&s;t &s;ad and &s;peedy famine &s;hortly: And more then this, 'tis Ordered by the Hou&s;e of Commons, that 4500 l. more be rai&s;ed in that County, for advancing two Troops and a company of Dragoones for the &s;ervice of it: for &s;o it mu&s;t be called, though it be evident enough, that 'tis, &amp; will be for the ruine of it. Yea, and it mu&s;t be beleevd too, that this, with all its pre&s;ent mi&s;eries are for its good, and that the continuance of them, is for its pre&s;ervation.</P>
<P>And this (as mo&s;t men ob&s;erve) is that County which hath been &s;o con&s;tantly faithfull to the Parliament from the very beginning, and &s;o forward in affording a&s;&s;i&s;tance on all occa&s;ions: now it is apparent what the reward and wages is, which it mu&s;t be con|tent with, in lieu of all its love, &s;ervice and monies: nor can it be charged to have offered any other way, then by groaning under its burdens, and &s;ighing forth its petitions, in an humble way for peace and quiet.</P>
<P>But in very deed, there was (as wi&s;e and good men apprehend) more of mode&s;ty and fairne&s;&s;e in that cour&s;e which this Country took to manife&s;t their greivances, then there was of ju&s;tice and Courage; and tis believed that the mi&s;eries now upon it, are permitted of God as a ju&s;t puni&s;hment, for making tho&s;e their Addre&s;&s;es in &s;o &s;ubmi&s;|&s;ive a way, as that was by Petition: After the Hou&s;e of Commons had declared to the world, <HI>that they would make no more Addre&s;&s;es to the King.</HI> They ought rather, when they heard this, to have been an example, &amp; led the way unto the whole Kingdome, in re-calling their Knights and Burge&s;&s;es then in Petitioning to them; and have gone up rather with Swords in their hands, then Papers, to them, who had di&s;claimed to Treat with the King (being honoured with the
<PB N="15" REF="9">tru&s;t of <HI>Parliament men</HI> only to that end &amp; purpo&s;e) then in petitio|ning any more unto them. For indeed, after they had di&s;covered them&s;elves &s;o far, it was the duty of all men to have forborn; yea, and abhord to have given any further re&s;pects unto them: Which, becau&s;e they did not, therefore are they (as tis beleeved) by Gods permi&s;&s;ion and providence thus afflicted and tormented.</P>
<P>And &s;o the Ma&s;&s;acre that was made upon <HI>Surry</HI> men, did (in re&s;pect of God) betide them ju&s;tly, for following in the &s;ame way as the&s;e of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> had done. And <HI>Kent</HI> in like manner, for but endeavouring &amp; purpo&s;ing to tread in tho&s;e &s;teps, hath in &s;ome &s;ort &s;marted already, and are terribly threatned to be humbled further, even unto beggery and bondage, by the&s;e <HI>Flagella Dei,</HI> when their pre&s;ent imployments are a little over: And 'tis conceived that every other County which &s;hall henceforth proceed in that path of Honouring tho&s;e <HI>Sons of Beliall</HI> (for &s;o Scripture calleth &s;uch men) by petitioning to them, who have thus di&s;claimed to Treat with the Annoynted of God, &s;hall be made to drink of that cup, (if they take not warning by others harmes) and to ta&s;t deeply of Gods di&s;plea&s;ure. Nor mu&s;t the City of <HI>London</HI> fancy that God will forget her, for her being &s;til a guard to the&s;e evil men, &amp; for affording them the protection of her Trainbands after &s;he had hear'd proclaimed in her &s;treets, <HI>no more Addre&s;&s;es to Gods Vice-gerent:</HI> For 'tis concluded certainly, by the mo&s;t knowing men, that the <HI>Hou&s;e of Commons,</HI> by that act of theirs, (in di&s;clai|ming Treaty with His Sacred Maje&s;ty) have not only renounced be|ing <HI>Parliament men,</HI> and (as much as in them lieth) di&s;&s;olved their own A&s;&s;embly, <HI>ip&s;o facto,</HI> but al&s;o offered the highe&s;t contempt and &s;corne unto the Almighty God (who&s;e Image and Mini&s;ter the King is) that ever was yet 'offered by mortall creatures; never was &s;uch a thing head of in <HI>I&s;raell,</HI> nor among&s;t the <HI>Heathens;</HI> no &s;tory can parallel the &s;ame, that of <HI>Dathan</HI> and <HI>Abriam</HI> (who &s;aid <HI>we will not come up,</HI> when <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> &s;ent for them) comes neere&s;t to it, but 'tis not half &s;o black. Indeed Chri&s;tianity &s;tands amazed at it, and Pro|te&s;tant Religion is a&s;hamed and confounded in her &s;elf, that any who pretend to her, &s;hould be ju&s;tly taxable of &s;uch a damnable im|pudence, which Satan him&s;elf upon &s;o evident a proof can &s;carcely be challenged to be guilty of. Surely that God, who &s;aid to <HI>Samuell</HI> (upon a far le&s;&s;e provocation) <HI>they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me,</HI> will never endure this at the hands of the&s;e men; nor will he be plea&s;ed with tho&s;e, who by any further application &s;hall &s;eeme
<PB N="16" REF="10">&s;till to approve of them. He expects (undoubtedly) that all people &s;hould &s;eparate from their &s;ociety and neighbourhood, (as they of old upon his command, did from <HI>the Tents of Corah</HI> and his Compa|nions.) For, neither &s;hall the&s;e <HI>die the common death of all men,</HI> &s;ome <HI>now+thing</HI> rather <HI>will God make,</HI> &s;ome remarkable Judgement will he create for this new and unheard of Sin: and 'tis believed, that he had &s;o done ere this, had not his infinite mercies towards &s;ome of better conditions, (who through incon&s;ideration of the immen&s;ity of the &s;in, and &s;o of the danger of his high di&s;plea&s;ure for it, do yet abide with them, or neere unto them) prevented or &s;u&s;pended the &s;ame: God &s;aid once, <HI>he could not doe any thing again&s;t</HI> Sodome, <HI>till</HI> Lot <HI>was removed thence;</HI> but <HI>Lot</HI> was thereupon <HI>to make ha&s;t, and get quick-away;</HI> or el&s;e (after warning given, had he &s;tayed) he might have been over-taken: &s;o no doubt but God having &s;ome, even in the <HI>Babell</HI> at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> whom he loves, who have not concurred in tho&s;e impious Votes, (of no further Addre&s;&s;es to that Sacred Per&s;on, whom by holy Writ they are &s;o expre&s;ly bound to Honour) for their &s;akes hath hitherto forborne to empty forth the viall of his ju&s;t di&s;|plea&s;ure; and the prayers of good people for them are, that they may not provoke God by too long a &s;tay, lea&s;t they prove partakers in the end of the judgement: But 'tis firmly believed, that when the&s;e have withdrawne them&s;elves, and the City their guards; then, then &s;hall the great wrath of the mo&s;t Mighty god come downe upon tho&s;e <HI>men of Beliall,</HI> tho&s;e <HI>Children of di&s;obedience,</HI> and that in &s;o vi&s;i|ble and terrible a manner, that all the world &s;hall &s;ee, and &s;ay, <HI>'tis the Lords owne doing, verily it is God that judgeth the Earth.</HI> Sir, this is the judgement of many men who are not only di&s;creet and wi&s;e, but al|&s;o (I dare &s;ay) of Gods great acquaintance.</P>
<P>Sir, I hope my de&s;ires to An&s;wer yours, &s;hall with your goodne&s;&s;e excu&s;e the tediou&s;ne&s;&s;e of this di&s;cour&s;e. I pre&s;ume &s;hortly we &s;hall under&s;tand more of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> Affaires, and I expect to hear much of God in the management of that bu&s;ine&s;&s;e in <HI>Colche&s;ter.</HI> 'Tis reported that <HI>Suffolke</HI> men have taken great paines in a&s;&s;i&s;ting their Enemies to de&s;troy their friends: God hath rai&s;ed up deliverers for them, but they will none of them; they are willing (it &s;eemes) to lie &s;till under their burdens of oppre&s;&s;ion and wrong: but <HI>this their way is their folly;</HI> and this their folly hath co&s;t them many of their lives already; though indeed (tis beleeved) that tho&s;e of <HI>Suffolke</HI> are, and have been only Sectaries, or &s;uch as are brought in to aide Generall <HI>Fair|fax</HI>
<PB N="17" REF="10">by the in&s;tigation &amp; compul&s;ion of <HI>Committee-men, Seque&s;trators,</HI> and <HI>intruding Prie&s;ts:</HI> for the&s;e Wars on that &s;ide (in very deed) are only to maintain their Kingdom and Authority: When the full rela|tion of the whole matter &s;hall arrive (if you have it not from a better hand) I &s;hall impart it to you. What I have writ now, I conceive is the truth but I confe&s;&s;e 'tis from the mouths &amp; judgements of other men; wherefore if time, or other information &s;hall fortune to &s;peak any thing to be otherwi&s;e; be plea&s;ed (I pray) to pardon the unwilling and unwitting Errours of</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your obliged Friend, and Humble Servant.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>PAgo 3. line 27. read <HI>Inju&s;tice.</HI> pag. 5. l. 17. r. <HI>they mu&s;t.</HI> l. 20. r <HI>tune.</HI> p. 13. l. 15. r. <HI>their.</HI> p. 14. l. 25. r. <HI>offended.</HI></P>
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