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<P><HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 20. A Remon&s;trance and DECLARATION Of the Lords and Commons A&s;&s;em|bled in <HI>Parliament.</HI> Manife&s;ting that all &s;uch Per|&s;ons as &s;hall upon any pretence what&s;oe|ver a&s;&s;i&s;t His Maje&s;ty in this Warre, with Hor&s;e, Armes, Plate or Money, &s;hall be held and accounted Traytors to His Maje&s;ty, the <HI>Parliament,</HI> and the Kingdome. Likewi&s;e two Orders of the <HI>Lords</HI> and <HI>Commons</HI> a&s;&s;embled in <HI>Parliament,</HI> for the orde|ring of the Souldiers under the Earle of E&s;&s;ex. Al&s;o a <HI>Letter</HI> &s;ent to a Member of the Hou&s;e of Commons, concerning divers pa&s;&s;ages which hath lately hapned in the County of Hamp-&s;hire</P>
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<P>Ordered by the Lords and Commons, that the&s;e particulars be forth|with printed and plbli&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Io. Browne, Cler. Parl.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hen, El&s;ing, Cler. D. Com.</ITEM>
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<P>Printed for <HI>George Tomling&s;on.</HI> 1642.</P>
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<HEAD>A Remon&s;trance, or Declaration of the Lords and Commons A&s;&s;embled in PARLIAMENT.</HEAD>
<P>_WHereas the King, &s;educed by wicked Coun&s;ell, doth make Warre again&s;t His Parliament and people; And for the promoting of that War, divers Forces both of Hor&s;e and Foote have bin, and are levied and rai&s;ed by &s;everall per|&s;ons, and His Maje&s;ties good Subjects are mo&s;t cruelly rob|bed, &s;poyled, and &s;laine.</P>
<P>To the end that no man may be mi&s;led through Ignorance, the Lords and Commons in Parliament declare, That all &s;uch per&s;ons as &s;hall, upon any pretence what&s;oever, a&s;&s;i&s;t his Maje&s;ty in this war, with Hor&s;e, Arms, Plate or Money, are Traytors to his Maje&s;ty, the Parliament and the Kingdome, and &s;hall be brought to condigne puni&s;hment for &s;o high an offence.</P>
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<P>Ordered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament, that this Declaration be forthwith printed and pub<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Hen El&s;inge, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ler. Parl. D. Com.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>Orders of the Lords and Commons a&s;&s;embled in Parliament, For the Regulating of tho&s;e Souldiers that are gone, and are to goe, under the Command of his Excellency, <HI>Robert</HI> Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> Lord Generall for this Expedition.</HEAD>
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<P>IT is this day Ordered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament a&s;&s;embled, that the &s;everall Lord Lieutenants appointed by Parliament, their Deputy Lieutenants, the Iu|&s;tices of the Peace, and other His Maje&s;ties Officers within the Kingdome of England and Dominion of Wales, &s;hall take &s;peciall care to prevent and &s;uppre&s;&s;e all Ryots, Tu|mults,
<PB N="2" REF="3"> breaking into or Robbing hou&s;es, breaking into Chur|ches, taking away the Goods of any per&s;on, or taking of Victualls, without due payment for the &s;ame, and to take and apprehend all &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ons as &s;hall doe or commit any &s;uch Out-rages as afore&s;aid, and to proceede again&s;t them according to Law. And it is further Ordered, that the Commanders and &s;everall Officers, &s;hall give their be&s;t a&s;&s;i&s;tance for the apprehen&s;ion and puni&s;hment of all &s;uch per&s;ons which &s;hall be found guilty of the mi&s;demea|nors afore&s;aid.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Die Iovis. Augu&s;t 18. 1642.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>WHereas there have been diver&s;e Complaints made unto us of many di&s;orders committed by the Soul|diers in their marching, and in &s;uch places wherein they have bin quartered or Billitted, which di&s;orders (as is infor|med) have bin partly occa&s;ioned by the neglect of their Officers to goe along with them and conduct them: It is therefore Ordered by the Lords and Commons A&s;&s;embled in Parliament, that the Lord Generall be de&s;ired to give Command to all his Officers, that they take care to attend according to the Duty of their &s;everall places, that the Soul|diers thereby may be hereafter kept from &s;tragling up and downe the Countries: And to that end to lay his Com|mand upon the Officers of each Company, both in the Marching, Quartering, and Billetting, to be in Per&s;on a|mong&s;t the Souldiers them&s;elves, to prevent any di&s;orders what&s;oever, and puni&s;h &s;uch as &s;hall offend.</P>
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<P>Ordered by the Lords and Commons a&s;&s;embled in Par|liament, that the&s;e Orders be forthwith printed and pub|li&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Iohn Browne Cleric. Parliamentorum.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>The Coppy of a Letter FROM <HI>PORTSMOVTH.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_I Sent you a letter by the foot-po&s;t, which I hope came to your hands on la&s;t Satterday, where|in was contained all or mo&s;t part of Port&s;|mouth newes, and now I herein &s;end you all or mo&s;t of what hath happened &s;ince therea|bouts. The Colonell having cau&s;ed the bridg cald <HI>Portbridg</HI> 3 miles from <HI>Port&s;mouth</HI> entring into the I&s;le of <HI>Port&s;ea,</HI> (in which <HI>Port&s;mouth</HI> &s;tands) to be made &s;ecure with a frame of timber work very &s;trong, to hinder all from pa&s;ing that way but whom he plea&s;ed, and having built a little fort or buswark of earth a little within that Bridge, and planted four pieces of Ordnance there to defend the Bridge, and ha|ving placed 10 or 12 hor&s;emen to watch there day and night, did on Wedne&s;day la&s;t cary back to Port&s;mouth 3 of his Ordnance, and the fourth al&s;o about a mile, but the wheels broke, &s;o thhat he was faine to leave that piece in the high way, all which he did for feare the Troopers which came from London, would by force or &s;ome &s;tratagem get them away, and then make u&s;e of them to offend the Colo|nell: yet when the pieces were gone, he &s;till kept hor&s;emen day and night at the Fort and the timber worke upon the
<PB N="4" REF="4"> Bridge, to &s;ecure it <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 span">, and all Wedne&s;day, Thur&s;|day and Friday <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 span"> of cattell, &s;heep, and &s;wine in the fruitfull I&s;le of P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters"> to be brought to Port&s;mouth <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word">, whether they were <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> or loane, to bee all killed and &s;alted up, and cau&s;ed every house in that I&s;le to be &s;earched and all manner of provi&s;ions to be taken away from the owners, as corne&punc; meale, flower, beefe, bacon, bread, bu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ter, chee&s;e, egg<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">s, and all their Poultry and ducks not leaving halfe loaves of bread, nor pieces of bread, nor pieces of chee&s;e, and drove away all Cattell what&s;oever, to the great terrour of all the people, e&s;pecially women and children, forcing poore and rich to come away, and beg a|bout for bread to keepe them alive, and hee made &s;uch men as he could finde, helpe to drive their own cattell and carry their own provi&s;ions into Port&s;mouth, and then kept many of them there by force; but the Kings &s;hips as &s;oone as they heard of the&s;e cruell intentions, landed &s;ome men at the Ea&s;t &s;ide of the I&s;land, and two peices of Ordnance, and thereby kept off the hor&s;emen, whil&s;t the &s;hip-men g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">t ever many women and children into Hayling I&s;land, and about 100 cattell, and about 200 &s;heep, they got ropes over cattels heads, and made them &s;wim over after boats: Upon Friday la&s;t in the afternoon, I went purpo&s;ely to Port&s;down, to &s;ee and heare what I could, at which place all this was credibly told me, and I then went as neer the Fort as I dur&s;t, which was dangerous to be fetcht in by the hor&s;emen which guar|ded it, in regard all the troopers were then in Havant Town &amp; in Southwick, 4 miles di&s;tant where they lay, and came not abroad all that afternoon, by rea&s;on of the extraordinary rain which happened that afternoon: if the weather, had beene faire, as I was told in the pre&s;ence of the Coun&s;ell of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> in Southwick, the Troopers had attempted to have taken the Fort that afternoon, and then I had &s;een it; but in the night time, that night &s;ome Troopers went down to the Fort, and were troubled to get down the timber worke, it being &s;o &s;trong, and whil&s;t they were getting it downe the hor&s;emen rode all away from the Fort, and the Troopers after them, but could take but one of the men, and two hor&s;es, &s;o as
<PB N="5" REF="4"> now the Troopers have the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> and have <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> there four pie|ces of Ordnance, and block'd up that pa&s;&s;age, &s;o as the Co|lonell and his company are all within the walls of Port&s;|mouth as it were in a pound, not daring to encounter the Troopers; Although they la&s;t Saturday went almo&s;t to the town Gates to try if any dared to come forth to them, the Colonell &s;ent our two piece of Ordnance charged with mu&s;|quet bullets, and two gunners to guard the piece with the broken wheel, that the Troopers might not get it away: But on Saturday in the afternoon, a valiant Trooper alone ad|ventured to go neer them, and cunningly got on the back&s;ide of the men, who could not &s;udainly turn about both or one of the pieces, &s;o as the Trooper &s;hot of<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> his Carbine at one of them with a brace of bullets, and &s;poild his running away, for he fell down dead. I beleeve that this day they will at|tempt to take a Ca&s;tle neer <HI>Port&s;mouth</HI> called <HI>South&s;ea</HI> Ca|&s;tle, halfe a mile from <HI>Port&s;mouth,</HI> and make no que&s;tion to take it, and then to make u&s;e of it to &s;hoot into <HI>Port&s;mouth.</HI> Mr. <HI>Lukener,</HI> Mr. <HI>Bellingham, Chri&s;topher Bird,</HI> and o|thers of the County of <HI>Suffolke,</HI> I beleeve wi&s;h they were at <HI>Chiche&s;ter</HI> againe, every night &s;ome of <HI>Port&s;mouth</HI> Soul|diers and gunners get away down the walls and come to the Troopers, utterly drinking the Colonell's cau&s;e and u&s;age of the inhabitants of <HI>Port&s;ea</HI> I&s;land, by taking away their cat|tel and provi&s;ions, &amp;c. And yet &s;corn to be thought cowards, for they offer to go in the forefront, &amp; in mo&s;t danger w^t^h the Troopers in any &s;ervice what&s;oever. Since <HI>Chiche&s;ter</HI> men came to <HI>Port&s;mouth</HI> there hath bin harder u&s;age of people by the Colonell and his company then before, &amp; &s;ome thinke by their or &s;ome of their devi&s;es, a young woman in Port&s;|mouth being great with childe, who got leave to come la&s;t Friday to come to Port&s;mouth, and whom I met by the way, reports; that one of <HI>Chiche&s;ter</HI> men, but not Mr. Re|corder <HI>Lukener,</HI> nor Mr. <HI>Bellingham,</HI> &s;aid to her that hee would not have her goe, becau&s;e if the Town &s;hould bee &s;o put to it; as to want victuals, then that in her belly would eat as &s;weet as a young &s;ucking pig, by which we may gues that theey are inclinable to &s;hew as much mercy as the Re|bbels
<PB N="6" REF="5"> in <HI>Ireland,</HI> but I hope that God will prevent all their wicked purpo&s;es. The Troopers I beleeve re&s;olve to bani&s;h all feare of danger, and with in fewer dayes, though with lo&s;&s;e of men, to adventure to &s;cale the Walls, and take the Town, and prevent the doing of any more mi&s;chiefe by them in the Town to the poor Inhabitants, or any others there is no great &s;trenth in the Town of men, and but 80 or 90 hor|&s;es, there being about 240 hor&s;es, Troopers, and 500 foot by the Parliaments directions; but the Town is extraordi|narily well provided with powder, and &s;hot, and dyet, by rea&s;on of the fetching in &s;o much from the Inhabitants, there was a hor&s;e and a man taken on Saturday la&s;t about five of the Clocke at Havant going to Port&s;mouth with a &s;uit of cloaths for one Mr. <HI>Bellingham</HI> in Port&s;mouth, but not <HI>Bellingham</HI> of <HI>Chiche&s;ter,</HI> yet his kin&s;man, in which cloaths between the out&s;ide and in&s;ide were &s;owed up 10. Letters; and about that time our Troopess took a man, and an hor&s;e, and &s;everall Leters going out of Port&s;mouth from the Lord <HI>Wentworth</HI> there, &amp; divers other Letters are taken, &s;o as the bottome of their plotsare I hope di&s;covered: This mor|ning one of the I&s;le of Wight was with me, and told me: All their people there &s;tand right for the King and Parli|ament, except the Captains of their Ca&s;tles, and &s;ome of the Gentry; one Sir <HI>Robert Dalington</HI> there would have &s;ent over much corne to Port&s;mouth, but waprevented by M. <HI>Bunkley</HI> a Iu&s;tice of Peace there who &s;tands very right for the King &amp; Parliament; ther is in the I&s;land much fear of the Captains of the Ca&s;tles, whether they will prove right or not; they are &s;uch men as Colonell <HI>Goring</HI> is, the people are in great feare of them, and wi&s;h that the Earle of <HI>Pembrooke</HI> were come, and that they might mu&s;ter, &amp;c.</P>
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<P>Ordered that this Letter &s;hall be forthwith printed and publi&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>H. El&s;igne, Cler. Parl. D Com.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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