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<P>A FVLL DECLARATION OF ALL PARTICULERS Concerning the March of the Forces under <HI>Collonel Fiennes</HI> to <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> and their carriage upon their enemies approach.</P>
<P><HI>AS ALSO</HI> A Relation of the late bloody abominable con&s;piracy again&s;t the City of <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> as appeareth by the Examinations of the parties, di&s;overing their Plot and Intention.</P>
<P>Together with &s;undry Letters Annexed.</P>
<P>With the certaine Information, touching the death of WILL: KENDALL a Trooper of Collonel <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> who was &s;hot by the &s;aid Collonel.</P>
<P>From a Noble hand.</P>
<P><HI>Aprill,</HI> 18. <HI>London:</HI> Printed for <HI>R.D.</HI> 1643.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>A more full</HI> DECLARATION Of all particulars, concerning the March of the Forces under <HI>Col. Fiennes</HI> to <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> &amp; their carriage upon their enemies approach.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Right Honourable,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_I know Colonell <HI>Fiennes</HI> (our Governours) mode&s;tie to be &s;uch, that I pre&s;ume he hath altogether omitted the relation of divers pa&s;&s;a|ges, and beene &s;paring in &s;pecifying others, le&s;t hee &s;hould be thought the publi&s;her of his own prai&s;es, or el&s;e to affect them, the which he no way doth; but &s;uch have bin his pains, care; indu&s;try, vigilancy in this expedition, that I thinke my &s;elfe bound in con|cience to make a full Narration of all his proceedings &s;ince the beginning of our March, that you, and the Honourable Committee, may not onely know it, but that he, and all under his Command; may have their de&s;erved pray&s;es, and that infamy, and reproach, may fall to their lots, who have de&s;erved it. Let your Honour therefore Deigne to know, that on <HI>Sunday</HI> the fifth of <HI>February</HI> la&s;t. Orders were &s;ent, by his Excellence to the &s;aid Colonel <HI>Fiennes,</HI> his brother Captaine <HI>Ihn Fiennes,</HI> Captaine <HI>Walter Longs</HI> Lievtenant, Captaine <HI>Alban Coxe</HI> and my &s;elfe; to march the next day, to <HI>Hertly</HI> bridge with our Troopes, where we were to meete with Captain <HI>Ma&s;on</HI> and his Dragoneers, and there were we all to receive further Orders from the &s;aid Colonel; and accordingly we all met there, but as Captaine <HI>Coxe</HI> and I marched from <HI>Wargrove</HI> thither wards, by <HI>Twyford</HI> with our Troopes the enemy appeared, on the other &s;ide of the River in a vaporing man|ner, and told us, that they had provided for us, entertainment upon the way as we &s;hould goe to our <HI>Rende-vous,</HI> whereunto an&s;wer was made, that they were knowne to be more talkative, then active in honourable wayes, and therefore they &s;hould not make us to digre&s;&s;e one &s;tep out of our way, and &s;o continued our march (although we heard the drums beate, and the trumpets &s;ound) neere unto the way we were to march, till we arrived at the &s;aid bridge, where wee found the Colonell his brother, and Captaine <HI>Longs</HI> Lievtenant, with their troops in battalia; expecting to be charged by the enemies, who were not farre from thence, and we all &s;tayed there at lea&s;t an houre for Captaine <HI>Ma&s;on,</HI> who bring|ing with him his Lievtenant, and &s;ome 25. Dragoniers, re&s;igned them over to
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him &amp; &s;o we &s;ent away our quarter-Ma&s;ters to <HI>Ba&s;ing-&s;toke,</HI> to take up quarter for us there, and whither we marched after them: but after their arrivall there, they were told by the <HI>Con&s;tables,</HI> that 400. of the enemies Forces had appeared but one houre before, within a mile of the Towne, yet notwith&s;tanding they tooke up quarters for us there; and when Colonel <HI>Fiennes</HI> and I had viewed the advenues to the Towne, and made choi&s;e of a court of guard, we entered thereinto with our Troopes; but heard no more of the enemy that night, nor the next day, as wee marched towards <HI>Andever,</HI> but there we heard that &s;ome of their Forces were about <HI>Malborough,</HI> &s;o that the Colonel, and I tooke the &s;ame care and paines there for our &s;ecuritie, that we had done before, and barrocaded up mo&s;t of the wayes, as we found them at <HI>Ea&s;ing&s;toke,</HI> and from <HI>Andever</HI> we marched the next morning towards the Devices and as we pa&s;&s;ed over <HI>Way-hill</HI> our scoutes di&s;covered &s;ome of the enemies scoutes, whereupon wee made an Alarme and &s;ent after them, &s;o that two of them were taken the others &s;aved them&s;elves by flight but tho&s;e that were taken, proved to be knowne Malignants of the Coun|trie, and would confe&s;&s;e nothing, &s;o that they were relea&s;ed leaving their hor&s;es and furniture behinde them, and thereupon we continued our march, and arri|ved at the Devices late, where we found a great di&s;order in that gari&s;on, by rea|&s;on of the officers overmuch indulgencie towards the &s;ouldiers, and the &s;ouldiers in&s;olency and incivility towards them: who were exceeding di&s;obedient and mutinous pretending want of pay to be the cau&s;e of it, but our Troopes &s;ome|what awed them, from the houre of our arrivall, and encouraged the Officers to &s;peake of action: and the next day being <HI>Tue&s;eday</HI> occa&s;ion was offered for it, re|port being brought thither that the Cavaliers were entred into <HI>Ma'msbury,</HI> yet was the que&s;tion put at the Coun&s;ell of warre, whether we &s;hould goe thither to beate them out therehence, or to <HI>Salisbury,</HI> to di&s;per&s;e a crew of Malignants, that were there a&s;&s;embled to a&s;&s;i&s;t the High Sheriffe; but after much debate although Colonel <HI>Fiennes,</HI> would have had us, to march towards <HI>Ma'm&s;bury,</HI> yet by the im|portunity of Sir <HI>Edward Hungerford</HI> it was ordered, that wee &s;hould march to <HI>Salisbury</HI> on <HI>Fryday</HI> night with 500. of his foot, and our party of hor&s;e, but on <HI>Fry|day</HI> morning, he &s;ent one <HI>Stevens</HI> of the Devices to the Major of the city to adver|ti&s;e him of our intention, and to know if he would facilitate our entrance there, or no whereunto he made no an&s;wer him&s;elfe; although at the delivery of the me&s;&s;age he had promi&s;ed &s;o to doe: but intimation was made to the &s;aid <HI>Stevens</HI> to get him gone from thence or el&s;e &s;ome injury might befall him, whereupon he le<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">t the town and went, as if he had had no intention to return towards the Devi|ces, &s;o that we heard not of him, till <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ay</HI> tenne of the clocke, that wee were within foure miles of the city, and then and not before knowing of this me&s;&s;age and the Majors proceedings, it was determined that wee &s;hould enter the city by divers wayes, the which was accordingly performed, but by means of this adver|ti&s;ement, the Sheriffe, and other Malignants were fled, &s;o that we had nothing to actuate but to get mony and hor&s;es and to di&s;arme the citizens. But Sir <HI>Edward</HI> was &s;o indulgent towards them (though Malignants) that we tooke therehence but very few hor&s;es and armes and but 500 li. in money, and then being much importuned by &s;ome hone&s;t men of <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> to goe thither, with our Forces, (&s;ee|ing ju&s;t cau&s;e for it,) and our Colonel having received two Orders from his Ex|cellence to goe thither, it was ordered that it &s;hould be &s;o, the which being knowne to Sir <HI>Edward,</HI> he intreated us and Lievtenant Colonel <HI>White</HI> al&s;o; that
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we would then pa&s;&s;e by the Devices, whereunto our Colonel con&s;ented, and forthwith we left <HI>Sali&s;bury,</HI> to march thither-wards where wee arrived late at night but of our 500 foot 200 thereof disbanded in <HI>Salisbury,</HI> or by the way backe to the Devices, and the other 300 quartered by the way, but the next morning being a very foule and &s;nowie morning news was brought to us at the Devices that the enemy was before <HI>Shipnam,</HI> whither wee marched with all expedition, although wee had no foot to march thither with us; but we found no enemy there, &s;o that we entred the Towne and quartered there all night, and the next morning we drew our forces into a field betweene the Towne and <HI>Malm&s;bury,</HI> where we &s;tood in battalia two hours, but no enemy appearing, wee marched therehence towards the <HI>Pathe,</HI> where we arrived that night, and found 200 com|manded men of Colonel <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> his Regiment, who &s;uffered us to enter the City, and to quarter there, without any oppo&s;ition, yet did the chiefe commander of them te&s;tified the next day by &s;ome in&s;olent words and carriage, that our for|ces were not welcome thither: but we that were bent to doe our be&s;t &s;ervice to the &s;tate and City of <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> marched thitherwards, where we were welcomed by Colonel <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> Colonel <HI>Popham</HI> and divers other gentlemen and citizens, but being &s;etled there, we &s;oone perceived that the then Governour Colonel <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> was much di&s;tru&s;ted by the be&s;t affected of the City, and that tho&s;e that were then &s;u&s;pected to be Malignants (and now approved Con&s;pirators) were his mo&s;t intimate friends and continuall or frequent a&s;&s;ociates, the which incited all well Wi&s;hers to <HI>Sion,</HI> and their Countrey, to beleeve what had beene &s;aid of him by tho&s;e that per&s;waded us thither; and our now Governour Colonel <HI>Fiennes</HI> to la|bour to prevent his evill de&s;ignes, and that he might the better do it, he per&s;wa|ded Colonel <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> and the Committee that was then here to call in all the Citi|zens armes, whereunto he yeelded; as al&s;o that no man &s;hould take them backe againe, but &s;uch as would take a Prote&s;tation to this effect. That they &s;hould to the uttermo&s;t of their power with their lives and fortunes defend this city again&s;t all forces that &s;hould come again&s;t it, ray&s;ed without con&s;ent of Parliament, and that they &s;hould di&s;cover all plots that &s;hould bee laid to en&s;nare and entrap the Forces &s;ent hither for the defence of it by the Parliament. I know you have had a copy of it, and therefore I will not &s;tay upon it, but when the&s;e armes were brought into <HI>Guild-hall</HI> by the Captaines of Colonel <HI>Pophams</HI> regiment and Co|lonel <HI>Hungerfords,</HI> and that they were there placed, whereas the Major had al|wayes kept the key thereof before&punc; Colonel <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> now would keepe it him&s;elfe, and as is now apparent to no other end, but that good men &s;hould not have their armes backe againe; and that none &s;hould be armed but &s;uch as he &s;hould approve of, and what were they, as he declared unto me him&s;elfe (but Clubbers, and now convicted con&s;pirators) the which he then termed hone&s;t men, but as for Bridge-men (alias Round-heads) as infamous creatures tearme them, he pro|te&s;ted that they &s;hould have no armes backe, and as for Captaine <HI>Birch</HI> Captaine of the Voluntiers, he &s;aid he was a coward and &s;hould have no command, and to &s;hew that he was an enemy to him committed him, upon &s;o &s;light an occa&s;i|on that he was ea&s;ily per&s;waded by our Colonel to relea&s;e him the next morning, &s;o that by the&s;e meanes the bad grewe to be mo&s;t in&s;olent and our good and ho|ne&s;t men much dejected, &s;o that they thought of nothing more, then of leaving the city, and of carrying avvay their goods, &s;uppo&s;ing it to be betrayed by the
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&s;aid Colonel <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> The&s;e vvere the &s;ad complaints, and more then murmurings of the good citizens and gentlemen of the&s;e parts, &s;o that it was novv time, to thinke of &s;ome cour&s;es, to prevent the&s;e inconveniences, and &s;o did Colonel <HI>Fi|ennes,</HI> vvho communicated unto me, an Order that he had received from his Ex|ellence, vvhereby he vvas enjoyned, to &s;end Colonel <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> to <HI>Wind&s;or</HI> or the Parliament; in ca&s;e he &s;aw cau&s;e for it, and having given me rea&s;ons to &s;ee, and know that there was cau&s;e &s;o to doe, he asked me whether I would a&s;&s;i&s;t him in the execution thereof or no; the which &s;eeing cau&s;e for, I promi&s;ed to doe: and promi&s;ed likewi&s;e, that all under my command &s;hould &s;erve him in it, to the ut|termo&s;t of their powers, &s;o that then we con&s;ulted of the place and time for it, and after deliberation, intended to have &s;eized his per&s;on on <HI>Saturday</HI> the 25. of <HI>Feb.</HI> on which he was to have a cour&s;ing day, but the day proving very wette, he went not, but on <HI>Munday</HI> the 27. he was invited to a fea&s;t by one Captaine <HI>Hil,</HI> whither he went, his hou&s;e being a mile from this city, whither the Colonell and I went with a party of hor&s;e, and then, and there as he was fea&s;ting and revelling with divers Gentlemen and Ladies after his accu&s;tomed manner, we acquainted him with his Excellencies Order, whereunto he promi&s;ed to obey, and to de|part therehence forthwith with a partie that wee left there to convoye him to <HI>Berkely-Ca&s;tle;</HI> but the Governour Colonel <HI>Fiennes</HI> returning to &s;ettle all in good order at <HI>Bri&s;toll</HI> commanded me to &s;tay with him till his departure: but he being gone, he began to &s;tand on tearmes and to &s;ay that he would goe to his Excel|lence the &s;traighte&s;t way for <HI>Wind&s;or,</HI> and intreated me to move the Colonel that he might doe &s;o, whereupon I returned hither and acquainted Colonel <HI>Fiennes</HI> with it, who told me that Prince <HI>Rupert</HI> was about <HI>Ba&s;ing-&s;toke,</HI> or <HI>Hertly</HI>-bridge &s;o that the &s;ure&s;t and &s;afe&s;t way would be to go by <HI>Gloce&s;ter:</HI> I acquainted Colo|nel <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> with &s;o much that night, and intimated unto him, and to the Captaines Lievtenant, that convoyed him to <HI>Wind&s;or,</HI> that their &s;afe&s;t cour&s;e would be to march that night, to <HI>Berkly</HI>-ca&s;tle, yet would hee not march, although he was much urged thereunto by the &s;aid Captaine, but went to bed, and would not march the next day till ten of the clocke; that I appeared with a &s;trong party of hor&s;e neere to Captaine <HI>Hills</HI> hou&s;e, wherewithall I convoyed him halfe the way to <HI>Berkly</HI>-ca&s;tle but it happened out well that Collonel <HI>Fiennes</HI> returned the night before to <HI>Bri&s;toll</HI> as he did otherwi&s;e all might have beene in combu&s;tion, by the in&s;olencie of an En&s;igne of Colonel <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> his Regiment, who hurt a hor&s;e of Captaine <HI>Longs</HI> Troope to enter into the ca&s;tle, and there offered a great affront to Lievtenant Colonel <HI>White</HI> who&s;e company was then upon the relieving of of that whereof he was En&s;igne, both by &s;triking the &s;aid Leivetenant Colonell as al&s;o by commanding his men to give fire on the other company, but Colonel <HI>Fiennes</HI> hearing of it, ha&s;ted thither with a party of hor&s;e and &s;o the tumult was appea&s;ed and the in&s;olent En&s;igne impri&s;oned, but the&s;e proceedings infinitely enraged our Malignant &s;ouldlers and citizens, &s;o that they forthwith &s;ent to call Prince <HI>Rupert</HI> to their a&s;&s;i&s;tance the which incited our now Governour to looke about him and to proclaime that tho&s;e that would take the afore&s;aid Prote&s;tati|on &s;hould have their Armes backe againe, and tho&s;e that would not, &s;hould &s;ee theirs di&s;po&s;ed of to tho&s;e that would; and that for the defence of the city, &s;o that we &s;uddainly armed of well affected men &s;ome five hundred of the citizens the
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which were put into five companies, and the workes of the Towne had more done unto them in foure dayes then they had done unto them in &s;ixe weekes before: But whil&s;t the&s;e things were in agitation Captaine <HI>Iohn Fiennes</HI> and a companie of Dragoneers were &s;ent by our Colonell to <HI>Gloce&s;ter</HI> with much am|munition and &s;ome money by meanes whereof the citizens had a new life put into them, and Captaine <HI>Coxe</HI> his Troope, and other Forces vvere &s;ent into <HI>Som|mer&s;et&s;hiere,</HI> vvhereby all the Malignants vvere cha&s;ed there hence: but vvhil&s;t the&s;e our Forces were ab&s;ent, we on <HI>Sunday</HI> the fift of this &s;aid <HI>March,</HI> that <HI>Prince Robert</HI> was at <HI>Sali&s;bury</HI> vvith an Army of five thou&s;and men marching this vvay, &s;ome &s;ayed more, but for certaine there came and pre&s;ented them&s;elves before this Citie. <HI>On Wedne&s;day the eight of this moneth, at lea&s;t foure thou&s;and Hor&s;e and Foote, but with very few carriages, &s;ome of his Forces appeared the evening before on</HI> Dur|don Downe, <HI>&s;o that we all &s;tood upon our Guards, but at ten at night, we had intelli|gence that the Malignants of the</HI> Citie <HI>had meetings in &s;everall Hou&s;es thereof, namely at one</HI> Yeomans <HI>hou&s;e, whereupon our Captaine</HI> Buck <HI>with &s;ome foot, and I with a party of Hor&s;e were &s;ent thither, where we found</HI> 24. <HI>Per&s;ons that &s;tood upon their guards at the &s;aid Captaines entrance thereinto; but when they &s;aw my party, and &s;aid that I had &s;ent for a canon to batter the Hou&s;e, they yielded and laying downe their Armes, I conveyed them all to the Ca&s;tle, but as I went thither with them, one of them told me, that if I would have compa&s;&s;ion of him, he would impart unto me &s;ome things of importance, whereupon I told him I would, and bid him relate what be had to &s;ay, and if it were of con&s;equence, be &s;hould finde favour, and hereupon he told me that divers of their party were a&s;&s;embled at one</HI> Butchers <HI>neere</HI> Fromegate <HI>that night, and would doe mi&s;chiefe, if they were not prevented&punc; &s;o that I went thither in all ha&s;te, having delivered up my fir&s;t Pri&s;oners. But as approached neere to the &s;aid hou&s;e, I &s;aw &s;ome of Captaine</HI> Goodiers <HI>&s;ouldiers, breaking open the doore, and why? becau&s;e they of the hou&s;e would hang out noe Lights upon this Alarme, who entring thereinto we found at lea&s;t</HI> 60. <HI>men well armed, whereof we could take that night but fixe, by meanes of a back Doore, thorough the, which as al&s;o thorough a river they e&s;caped, but I have taken many of them &s;ince, and what the&s;e men &s;hould have done, you may &s;ee by the Narration that I herewithall &s;end unto you, and who are the principall con&s;pirators; you &s;hall likewi&s;e know by the Li&s;t, that you &s;hall likewi&s;e receive therewithall; but we have di&s;covered that there were at lea&s;t</HI> 2000. <HI>confederates thereunto, and you &s;hall know more of their names very &s;uddenly, but many of them are of the pari&s;hes, neere adjacent to this Citie, but when I had convoyed tho&s;e that were in</HI> Butchers <HI>hou&s;e, likewi&s;e to the Pri&s;on I was commanded by my Colonell to &s;end a party, of hor&s;e and Dragoneers, to give an Alarme to &s;ome of the</HI> Princes <HI>Forces that were quartered neere unto</HI> Captaine HILLS <HI>hou&s;e, the which I did about foure</HI> of the clock in the morning the partie con&s;i&s;ting of tvventie Hor&s;e, and like number of Dragoneers, who went neere to the &s;aid Hou&s;e, and &s;eeing a fire neere thereunto, the Commander thereof &s;ent &s;ome &s;ix of them, vvho went neere unto the &s;aid fire, and gave fire upon them that Were about it, who de|fended not them&s;elves, but run away to their rendezvouze at <HI>Dordon Downe,</HI> where their body of Hor&s;e appeared: then Wedne&s;day morning by &s;even of the clock, in fight of our Fort made on <HI>Brandon Hill,</HI> where our Go|vernour then was, and cau&s;ed three &s;hot to be made at them, whereby as is re|ported &s;ome eminent men were &s;laine, but &s;ure we are that one white Hor&s;e was there killed, and thereupon the whole body wheeled about, and marchd
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away, whereof I being adverti&s;ed, with the colonells con&s;ent, &s;ent &s;ome &s;mal parties after them, whereof one being but of foure Troopes, encountred with &s;even of the Enemies, and tho&s;e men of qualitie, but they fled after the fir&s;t Pi|&s;toll di&s;charged by our men but yet not &s;o fa&s;t, but that two of them were con|&s;trained to &s;vvimme to &s;ave their lives, and to leave their Hor&s;es, Pi&s;tolls, and rich <HI>Coates</HI> behinde them, vvith the Hor&s;es <HI>Coates,</HI> and Pi&s;tolls of tvvo others that &s;aved them&s;elvs in woods, &s;o that of 7. but three went off, but if we may give credit to the <HI>Trumpeter</HI> that came hither the Thur&s;eday following to demand two dead bodies, vve mu&s;t &s;ay that tvvo of them vvere killed, one of them a <HI>We&s;ton,</HI> and an other vvho&s;e name it is thought he had order to conceale: but vvhil&s;t vve vvere thus in &s;ome danger and di&s;tre&s;&s;e, we implored often the a&s;&s;i|&s;tance of Sir <HI>William Waller,</HI> but his engagements vvere &s;uch that he came not hither till Monday night the 13th. of this moneth, and &s;tayed here till Sunday the 19th. and then marching out of the <HI>Citie,</HI> the <HI>Coun&s;ell</HI> of Warre having or|dered at the intreatie of the <HI>Citizens,</HI> that I &s;hould &s;tay here vvith the Governour for the defence of <HI>Citie,</HI> yet did he then order vvhen I vvas very &s;icke of an Ague, that part of my Troope &s;hould convey to <HI>Berckeley Ca&s;tle</HI> tho&s;e Officers of Colonell <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> his Regiment, vvho had refu&s;ed to march vvith him out of the <HI>Citie,</HI> and that the re&s;t of my Troope &s;hould follow him to the <HI>Bathe,</HI> &s;o that I &s;hould have been left alone, and unable to doe Service, yet I knovving that I am not to conte&s;t vvith higher <HI>Powers,</HI> acquainted my Troopes vvith his Or|ders, they obeyed the fir&s;t, and declared that they vvould &s;ooner lay down their Armes, then be commanded by any other then my &s;elfe; Fir&s;t becau&s;e I drevv them into the Service, and next becau&s;e I have furni&s;hed them often vvith mo|ney and other nece&s;&s;aries, vvhen I could not have it from the <HI>State,</HI> I found that their refu&s;all to leave me vvas not much offen&s;ive to my olonell, but I percei|ved that it plea&s;ed very vvell the <HI>Major, Aliermen,</HI> and <HI>Citizens,</HI> vvho &s;ent after Sir <HI>William</HI> to intreate him to leave my Troope vvith me, for the better defence of their <HI>Citie,</HI> by many of the chiefe&s;t of them, vvho carried vvith them a <HI>Petiti|on</HI> &s;ub&s;cribed by hundreds of them for that purpo&s;e, and vvith them I &s;ent my <HI>Coronet</HI> vvho vvas at the taking of <HI>Malme&s;bury,</HI> vvhereof I vvill vvrite nothing; &s;ince I am certaine that it &s;hall be &s;pecified unto you by a better penne, but then Sir <HI>William was &s;o full of bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, that he could make no an&s;wer to the &s;aid Petition, but commanded that I &s;hould &s;end unto him to</HI> Gloce&s;ter, <HI>whether I &s;ent my Lievtenant on Saterday la&s;t, who was then at the taking of the Welch, but of this as of</HI> Malme&s;bury; <HI>but he brings me word, that my Troope may not &s;tay here with me, the which I am glad of, that I may have the Honour to continue in &s;o good a Citie, as now it is likely to become, and with &s;o good a Colonel, who tells me that I &s;hall bee his Major, &s;o his Excellence will thereunto con&s;ent, how&s;oever I de&s;ire to to be, where I may doe be&s;t &s;ervice to God, my King, and Country, yet that I may &s;o doe. I mo&s;t humbly intreat that I may have my Troope alwayes with me, &s;ince I can doe nothing without it, and &s;ince it is none of the wor&s;t of the Army, I de&s;ire to keep, and to have it put into &s;ome Regiment, where it may firmely &s;tand, and not be at every ones di&s;po&s;all. More I have not to &s;ay at this pre&s;ent, but that our Governour continues to fortifie this place, and to &s;ecure the Countries adjacent with as much care and indu&s;try as can be required, and that I &s;hall manife&s;t my &s;elfe to be a faith|full Souldier and</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Honours mo&s;t obedient and humble Servant, <HI>Hercules Langui&s;h.</HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE>From <HI>Bri&s;toll</HI>
<DATE>the la&s;t of <HI>March,</HI> 1643.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="account">
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<HEAD>A Short Relation of the late bloudy, abomi|nable Con&s;piracy, again&s;t this City of <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> as ap|peareth by the Examination of the Parties. <HI>Together with &s;undry Letters annexed.</HI></HEAD>
<P>A Malignant and traiterous party within this City, having long endea|voured to bring in the Forces of the Enemy, into this Towne; They hoped they had gotten an opportunity to effect their de&s;ignes; on Tue&s;day la&s;t at night being the 7th. of <HI>March,</HI> when by their invitation, Prince <HI>Rupert</HI> having drawne a great partie of Hor&s;e, and Dragoneers, with &s;ome Foot, to <HI>Durdam Downe,</HI> within one mile of the Citie; the Enemy before that night&punc; the&s;e treacherous and bloudy per&s;ons within that Towne, had framed a partie to fall upon the backs of their Guards; and to &s;urpri&s;e them: and cut them off, and to let in the Enemy; whereupon the ringing of two Bells, <HI>viz.</HI> St. <HI>Iohns</HI> and St. <HI>Nicholas,</HI> were to &s;et upon the Towne without as the Con&s;pira|tours were to fall upon the Guards within the ringing of the&s;e two Bells, being a common &s;igne both to them without and within the Towne, for the bet|ter effecting of this treacherous and wicked con&s;piracie the Chiefe heads there|of had that night a&s;&s;embled together in their hou&s;es tho&s;e of their Confederacie, with divers Sailers and Halliers; with all &s;orts of Armes, Mu&s;quets, Pi&s;tolls, Swords Clubs, and barrells of old nailes to charge the Ordinance withall; af|ter they had &s;urpri&s;ed them; and the&s;e &s;everall Companies under their &s;everall Leaders were to have fallen upon the &s;everall Courts of Guard. Mr. <HI>Robert Yeomans,</HI> who is the head of the <HI>Con&s;piracy;</HI> and pretends that he had a <HI>Commi&s;&s;ion</HI> from his Maje&s;tie, for what he hath done (being to fall upon the maine Guard, and Mr. <HI>George Butcher</HI> with his company was to have fallen upon the guard at <HI>Froomgate,</HI> and to have opened it to have had the Enemie to enter by; others no doubt had their parts to play; and that better to di&s;tingui&s;h them&s;elves, from tho&s;e that were de&s;tined to de&s;truction; tho&s;e of their party had a word which was <HI>Charles</HI>) and certaine markes of <HI>white Tape</HI> tyed upon their bre&s;ts before, and upon their Hats behinde, and &s;uch as were to be &s;pared within doores had certain markes &s;et upon the in&s;ide of their doores, for the re&s;t, if we may beleeve the &s;peeches of an Officer: among&s;t the Enemies Forces one of them was heard to &s;ay, that Prince <HI>Rupert</HI> had commanded to give no quarter to man, woman, nor child; that had not their markes upon their per&s;ons or hou&s;es; and that at the &s;ame time, that they were to fall into the Towne; the Sailers were to &s;et the Towne on fire in divers places, which as is conceived was Captaine <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">oonew<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">rk,</HI> but <HI>God</HI> of his mercy delivered us from this dangerous and devili&s;h Con&s;piracie;
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by &s;ome notice that we had given us of their meeting at <HI>Yeomons</HI> hou&s;e; about an houre or two before the plot &s;hould have been put in execution; which was to have been upon the ringing of the Bells, about one or two of the clock in the morning; having &s;ecured Mr. <HI>Robert Yeomons</HI> and his Company, and after Mr. <HI>Boutcher</HI> and his Company; the neck of the plot being broken within the Towne, the Enemie without (who&s;e de&s;ignes as it &s;hould &s;eeme depended much upon it;) having &s;hewn them&s;elves before the Towne, departed the next morn|ing after; and &s;o <HI>God</HI> put a hooke in their no&s;trills and commanded them back againe; for which great mercy in delivering us from a dangerous inva&s;ion from the Enemy from without, and a damnable p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> &amp; con&s;piracie of &s;ome traiterous Inhabitants within the <HI>City;</HI> both this Towne and the whole Kingdome, &s;o far as it is concerned in the pre&s;ervation of this <HI>City,</HI> have great cau&s;e to give thanks to Almighty <HI>God,</HI> unto whom alone the prai&s;e is due.</P>
<P><HI>THis is a &s;hort Narration of the late dete&s;table, and bloody Plot again&s;t this City whereof I doubt not but more hereafter will appeare; the matter being yet under ex|amination, onely one writings which was found in</HI> Robert Yeomon's <HI>hou&s;e, I thought fit to adde as followeth.</HI></P>
<P><HI>ALL Inhabitants of</HI> Bridge-high-Street, <HI>and</HI> Corne-Street, <HI>keepe within your Dores upon paines of your Lives. All other Inhabitants of this City, that &s;tand for the</HI> King, <HI>the Prote&s;tant</HI> Religion, <HI>and the Liberty of the City, let them forthwith appeare at the High-Cro&s;&s;e with &s;uch Armour, as they have for the Defence of their Wives and Children; and follow their Leaders for the &s;ame defence.</HI></P>
<P><HI>THere was al&s;o a Prote&s;tation taken among&s;t them to this effect,</HI> viz. <HI>that they were to oppo&s;e all Forces what&s;oever that were or &s;hould be among them; or that &s;hould come in without con&s;ent of the King.</HI></P>
<LIST>
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<HEAD>The Names of the chiefe Confederates in the late Con&s;pi|racie agin&s;t this City of BRISTOLL.</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>ROuland Searchfield,</HI> Merchant.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Waldon,</HI> Hornmaker.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Brent,</HI> Mini&s;ter.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>George Boucher,</HI> Merchant.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Boucher.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Francis Belcher,</HI> Sope-boyler.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Barret,</HI> Cutler.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Browne.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Philemon Barrow.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Cosbie.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Robert Taylor.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Cap. <HI>Bounde Rich.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Edward Bounde.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Nickins,</HI> Trunk maker.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Toby Goodyar.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Williams,</HI> Hatter in Broad-Street.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The two <HI>Haynes, William</HI> and <HI>Iohn Halliars</HI> in Halliar Lane, both Sonnes to Widdow <HI>Haynes.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The two <HI>Tri&s;trams,</HI> bothers, <HI>John</HI> a Chaundler, and <HI>William.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Richard Howell.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ephraim Goodyar.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Richard Yeomans</HI> Gra&s;iar.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Yeomans.</HI> Merchant.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Robert Yeomans.</HI> Merchant.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Broadway,</HI> Vintener.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Milward</HI> of St. <HI>Michaels.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Brooks</HI> of St. <HI>Michaels.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Deane.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Edward James,</HI> a Rope-maker.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>George Tetge.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Richard Lacket,</HI> a Cooke.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Taylor,</HI> Merchant.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Taylor,</HI> Rope-maker.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Edmund Arundell,</HI> Merchant.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Edmund Dacres,</HI> Plumber.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Dimmock,</HI> Carpenter.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Throupe.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Markes.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Pe&s;tor.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Thomas Bursell.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Collins.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Robert Blackborrough.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Robert Browne</HI> of Clifton.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lawrence Browne.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Heyman,</HI> Merchant in St. <HI>Augu&s;tines.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Carey,</HI> Cooper.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Capt. <HI>Doughtie.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Capt. <HI>Coale.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Col&s;ton.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Edward Capell.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Richard Grig&s;on.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Godman.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Swetman.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Etans.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Boucher,</HI> Sonne of <HI>Nathaniel Boucher,</HI> Merchant.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Walton Cugly.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Nathaniel Dowles.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Hilman.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Greene,</HI> Lawyer, Steward of <HI>Bri&s;toll.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iames Sterry,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Griffin Batten.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Nathaniel Streete.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Pope.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Peverell.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Cornelius Broadway.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Samuel Warin.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Henry Ru&s;&s;ell.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Martin.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB N="10" REF="7"><HI>Edward Hungerford.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iames Abbotte.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Edward Hunt.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Oubler.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Io&s;eph Browne.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Edmund Lewes.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Henry Prie&s;t.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Coxe</HI> of Long-A&s;hton.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Tilly</HI> Mercer.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Councell.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Rowden.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Edward Taylor.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Ioane<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Radding.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iames Thomas.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Nathaniel Blaunch.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Be&s;ides the&s;e mentioned of certaine knowledge, there are at lea&s;t 2000. in the City, suburbs, and Coun|try adjacent, that were Confederates in the forenamed Con&s;piracy. As for the Relation of what &s;hould have been acted, when, and how, it is already &s;ent at large, to the Hou&s;es of Parliament, by Colonell <HI>Fi|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">nnes,</HI> therefore I &s;hall here omit that, as at this time unne&s;&s;ary.</P>
<P>But it will be nece&s;&s;ary here to annex the rea&s;ons that cau&s;ed Co|lonel <HI>Fiennes</HI> to put in execution the order given him by my L. Gene|rall to &s;end up Colonel <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> from <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> not as an accu&s;ation again&s;t Colonel <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> in this place (let that be followed by tho&s;e to whom it ap|pertaines) but by way of vindication of Col. <HI>Fiennes,</HI> that he hath done nothing herein but what the tru&s;t repo&s;ed in him, and the &s;afety of that important place did require of him; and that the rather becau&s;e by Col. <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> his owne &s;peeche, giving out as it it is reported in the t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">wn) that he hath cleared him&s;elf, and is to return to his government again; it begins &s;o far to reflect upon C. <HI>Fiennes,</HI> as if he had done him injury. &amp; there had bin no plot at all, but a plot to put him&s;elfe into the Governours place: the Malignants here in Towne taking up this, and &s;preading it, and adding &s;trength to it by Col. <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> his owne &s;peeches, and carriages, it will be a great inju&s;tice to him who hath done his duty, and therein no incon&s;ide|rable &s;ervices, to be requited with calumnie: there &s;hall here therfore be laid downe a true Relation of the grounds and rea&s;ons fir&s;t in a Letter written by Col. <HI>Fennes:</HI> then the examinations taken both concerning the killing of the Trooper, and the invitation of Prince <HI>Rupert</HI> to come to <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> with a Letter of Sir <HI>Edward Hungerfords</HI> about it: And to all this, agreeth a pa&s;&s;age that fell out betweene Capt. <HI>Freeman</HI> and an Officer of Prince <HI>Ruperts</HI> at <HI>Andover,</HI> where Captain <HI>Freeman</HI> was con&s;trained to counterfeit him&s;elfe to bee of Prince <HI>Ruperts</HI> partie, and after they had drunk Prince <HI>Roberts</HI> health, after Capt. <HI>Freeman</HI> demanded of the other why they did not goe to <HI>Gloce&s;ter?</HI> the Officer an&s;wered that the Round-heads had made that place too &s;trong; but they had an ea&s;ier de&s;igne and of farre greater con&s;equence which was <HI>Bri&s;toll;</HI> for &s;aid he there we have a &s;ure party, there is not the turning of a hand there, but Prince <HI>Robert</HI>
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hath intelligence of it: Cap. <HI>Freeman</HI> demanding what party they had there? the Officer an&s;wered him the Governour, Tom. <HI>E&s;&s;ex;</HI> for &s;aith hee he gives Prince <HI>Robert</HI> intelligence of all things; there might be added al&s;o the relation of the Apothecary.</P>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>IF your Lord&s;hip had been an eye witne&s;&s;e (as &s;ome have been) how li|tle time I have had to eate, or drinke, or &s;leepe, or to write, &s;peake, or thinke of any thing but what was nece&s;&s;ary for our pre&s;ent pre&s;ervation, your Lord&s;hip would not have thought, that I had been altogether &s;o much to blame, in being &s;o &s;hort in the &s;ending of particulars concerning Colonell <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> and the late Plot, and yet I am &s;ure (if it mi&s;caried not) I &s;ent a Letter long enough, and full enough of particulars concerning Colonell <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> and which I thinke were &s;ufficient to &s;atisfie any man, that it was nece&s;&s;ary hee &s;hould be removed from hence before the Towne could be put in any po&s;&s;ibili|tie of &s;ecuritie, although he had not been touched in the point of his Fidelity: &s;uch was his exce&s;&s;ive prodigality and profu&s;enes in fea&s;ting gaming, and drink|ing, whil&s;t his &s;ouldiers were fa&s;ting and peri&s;hing for hunger; and &s;uch was his carele&s;ene&s;&s;e of the &s;afety of the Towne, that he never went about to &s;trength|en the Towne by any workes without, till two or three dayes before I came. nor to confirme it within by di&s;arming and &s;uppre&s;&s;ing the Malignants, but ra|ther on the other&s;ide being him&s;elfe familiar, and intimate with the chiefe Ma|lignants, and &s;iding with them again&s;t the good partie, and that in &s;o high a degree that even after I came to the Towne, he impri&s;oned Captaine <HI>Birche</HI> (who is and alwayes was the mo&s;t active man in the Towne for the <HI>Parliament</HI>) and &s;wore that neither he nor any of his men, nor any of the Bridge men (who are knowne to be the hone&s;te&s;t men in the Towne, and who onely appeared in their Armes for us, when Prince <HI>Rupert</HI> came before the Towne) &s;hould have any Armes or any command in the <HI>Citie,</HI> and this I can te&s;tifie my &s;elfe, for hee &s;wore it deeply in my pre&s;ence: and after he &s;wore he would commit Lievtenant <HI>Colonell White</HI> and &s;o by degrees began to make approaches upon me, &s;wearing that I &s;hould have nothing to doe there, whereby I perceived, I wa&s;hed a <HI>Black-moore</HI> white, if I went about to do any thing for the reclaiming of him, or the put|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ng of the <HI>Citie</HI> in a po&s;ture of &s;afetie whil&s;t he was there, and I &s;aw evidently <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">hat either I mu&s;t &s;end him away, or that all the good people in the Town would leave it, and devert both it and me; he had a little before framed a Prote&s;tati|on, which &s;hould be a te&s;t of <HI>m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">lignant</HI> &amp; ill affected per&s;ons, which was &s;uch, as many of the be&s;t affected would not take le&s;t they &s;hould be thereby obliged to to keepe out any other <HI>Parliament</HI> Forces that might come in, and to thru&s;t out tho&s;e that were already in it, and on the other &s;ide was taken by knowne Ma|lignants (and as I thinke by &s;ome of the chief Con&s;piratours in this late plot) and they did <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">fter make that u&s;e of it, that they were thereby tied to &s;uffer no Forces in the Towne but &s;uch as were by the con&s;ent of the King and <HI>Parliament,</HI> be|cau&s;e they had prote&s;ted to oppo&s;e all Forces that &s;hould make any attempt up|on
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the Town without the con&s;ent of the King and <HI>Parliament,</HI> as they concluded all the <HI>Parliament</HI> Forces did without the Kings con&s;ent. The&s;e and many other particulars which are notorious to all the World, I wrote at large, his being here I found incon&s;i&s;tent with the good and &s;afetie of this <HI>Citie</HI> and though there were no apparent proofe of his fal&s;hood, which I never affirmed, yet there were &s;hrewd grounds of jealou&s;ie, as may appeare by the Depo&s;itions: whereof I have &s;ent your Lord&s;hip a <HI>Copie,</HI> together with this Letter, and for that barba|rous and bloudy act of killing an hone&s;t man in his Troop, there is no hone&s;t man in this Towne but abhorreth the memory of it, and I have &s;ent up the evi|dence again&s;t him, under the hand of &s;ixe or &s;eaven of tho&s;e that were eye, and eare witne&s;&s;es, of what was done and &s;ayed, which was onely this, that being five or &s;ixe moneths behinde of their pay&punc; or a very long time, they comming with their <HI>Captaine</HI> &s;ome twentie of them, to de&s;ire him to take &s;ome cour&s;e for it, when this man had &s;aid onely the&s;e words, (Noble Governour, give mee leave to &s;peake a vvord or two to you) he immediately &s;hot him through the head&punc; and both the Sheriffes and the Coroner having been hitherto hindered to make and enquirie concerning it, &s;ince <HI>Colonell E&s;&s;ex</HI> his removall de&s;ired me that they might examine witne&s;&s;es concerning it, and have a verdict about it, alleadging that they vvere likely to be deeply fined for not doing it, that I told them I mu&s;t acquaint my Lord Generall fir&s;t with it, becau&s;e it may &s;omewhat intrench upon his power by Martiall law, and be&s;ides if it &s;hould be done im|mediately upon <HI>Colonell E&s;&s;ex</HI> his removall, it might appeare to have &s;omething of &s;pleen in it, and that I did not carry matters &s;o farrely in his ab&s;ence: for my part &s;o my Lord Generall and the World be &s;atisfied that I had good rea&s;on to &s;end him avvay from hence according to his direction, I would not have things pro&s;ecuted too hard again&s;t him, although I am very much deceived, if many a Governour of a Town hath not been called to an accompt, in point of his fidelitie upon weaker grounds then tho&s;e that I have &s;ent, nay it vvere &s;uffi|cient to que&s;tion his fidelitie, that in &s;o long time that he hath been here, when he knew that the Towne without any workes. and with &s;o &s;lender a Company as he had in it (being &s;o malignant as for a great part of it, it was) could not be kept, if any con&s;iderable Force &s;hould come again&s;t it, made no provi&s;ion at all to have the Towne better fortified without, and better furni&s;hed with a Garri|&s;on within, but &s;pent his time in drinking and fea&s;ting, and &s;o hee would have done till the Enemie had come to the Gates, and whether then hee would have let them in upon this ground, that it was not probable, that &s;uch a Towne &s;hould be kept with &s;uch a Force; I have cau&s;e to feare by what I have heard from the Fountaine in ca&s;e he had &s;tayed here till the Enemie came before the Towne; and that it was the expectation of the Enemy, and the Re&s;olution of Colonell <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> although he re&s;erved him&s;elfe from declaring his minde till the Enemie had been at the Gates; for as to that which Colonell <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> &s;pake off, as the only cour&s;e he intended to take (which was to goe out&punc; and meet the Enemie out of the Towne it was agreed by all his owne Officers when the Enemy was approachin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> that could not be done for unle&s;&s;e we would have left the Towne wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ly unguarded &amp; unto it &s;elf (which in the condition it then was, and &s;till is in great part, was to leave it to the Enemy) we could not draw out 200. men
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to meet them, and what then would Colonell <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> have drawne out to meet them, before I brought in &s;ixe Companies of Sir <HI>Edward Hungerfords</HI> Regiment into the Towne.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t I had it from divers good hands, and among&s;t the re&s;t from a Knight of good qualitie that be heard his Son in Law who is on the other &s;ide, &s;ay tha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> he &s;aw a Letter of Colonell <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> which was &s;ent to the Malignants in <HI>Sommer&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">|&s;hie<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">e</HI> and particularly from Mr. <HI>Coventrie</HI> to his wife, to a&s;&s;ure them of Colo|nell <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> and that in that Letter there was a clau&s;e to this purpo&s;e. <HI>Let men di&s;pute of me what they will by God I am for the King.</HI></P>
<P>Secondly, he was familiar and intimate with &s;ome of the chief Con&s;piratours in this late Plot, as <HI>Robert <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">eomons, Duk. We<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">kes</HI> who pre&s;ently upon Colonell <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> his removall, rode to <HI>Neford</HI> to bring Prince <HI>Ruperts</HI> forces again&s;t this Towne and was heard to &s;ay as he went through <HI>Si<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ence&s;ter</HI> to the Governour of that place, that this <HI>Citie</HI> was worth the taking.</P>
<P>Thirdly, his Captaine Lievtenant of his owne Company was a chiefe mah in this plot, and Prince <HI>Rupert</HI> in his addre&s;&s;es to him, and &s;ome of <HI>Bri&s;toll</HI> makes that as one of the grounds of his comming hither to revenge the Affront done to Colonell <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> and his En&s;igne hath al&s;o been &s;u&s;pected to encline that way, by his di&s;cour&s;e, and by his kindred and Friends; and one of &s;ervants that very night, that his Colonell was removed from hence drunke a health to Prince <HI>Rupert</HI> upon his knees, and forced others to doe &s;o likewi&s;e.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="testimony">
<HEAD>The Examination of <HI>William VValker</HI> of <HI>Thorneborough,</HI> Souldier under Capt: <HI>Seymore</HI> in the fight at <HI>Cirence&s;ter.</HI></HEAD>
<P>HEE &s;aith, that one Dr. <HI>Hiskins</HI> being Chaplaine to Prince <HI>Rupert</HI> comming to a Church in <HI>Oxon,</HI> where this <HI>William Walker</HI> was a wounded Pri&s;oner, and under&s;tanding by his fellowes that he was &s;on to a weal|thy man; The Chaplaine told him, while he intreated for pity (being almo&s;t dead with his wound, cold and hunger) that he &s;hould come forth the morrow; when accordingly he came, and fetched him out of pri&s;on, and inquired of him, where his father lived, writing a letter in his name to his Father for <HI>40 l.</HI> for his ran|&s;ome, after he had carried to his Father in the Country this letter, at his com|ming againe to <HI>Oxon,</HI> in the Chamber where this <HI>William Walker</HI> was &s;tan|ding by the fire, one Mon<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ier <HI>Mattanne,</HI> Prince <HI>Ruperts</HI> Gentleman came to this Dr. asking him what newes in the Country. I heare that <HI>Tom E&s;&s;ex</HI> will let Prince <HI>Maurice</HI> have no wine at <HI>Cirence&s;te<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">;</HI> no, &s;aith the Dr. no an&s;wered the Mon&s;ier but it is not his fault, but tho&s;e in the City, that will not let it come forth far &s;aith he there is a letter from <HI>Tom E&s;&s;ex</HI> to Prince <HI>Ru|pert,</HI> I &s;aw it, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> him, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> keepe the Ca&s;tle for him, as long as his life la&s;ts and will never &s;hoote a &s;ho<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> against him: after which hee pre&s;ently tooke the <HI>Dr.</HI> into the window whispering, and then went out, and whi&s;pered in the
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<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ext Room a while, and came in againe and parted. The <HI>Dr.</HI> bringing this man <HI>Walker</HI> down to receive his Ran&s;ome.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>So it is, WILLIAM WALKER.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="testimony">
<HEAD>The Examination of <HI>Guido Syllcockes</HI> the 27. of <HI>Febr.</HI></HEAD>
<P>HEE &s;aith, that one <HI>William Walker,</HI> that is now at <HI>Thorneborough,</HI> and was taken at <HI>Cirence&s;ter</HI> told him, that when he was at <HI>Oxford,</HI> he &s;aw a Letter in the hand of one of Prince <HI>Ruperts</HI> Gentlemen, &s;igned <HI>Tho|mas E&s;&s;ex,</HI> wherein hee promi&s;ed, that if Prince <HI>Rupert</HI> plea&s;ed to come to <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> he would not &s;hoot a &s;hot again&s;t him, but would spend his life for him; and that for the Ca&s;tle hee had po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed him&s;elfe of it, and hee &s;hould be &s;ure to have no hurt from thence; or to this effect.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>GuY. SYLCOCKE. Jun.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="testimony">
<P>THat I was informed at <HI>Cirence&s;ter</HI> by one <HI>Courdeene</HI> who is Groom of the Chamber unto Prince <HI>Maurice,</HI> that his Prince did dayly receive Letters from <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> and they were &s;ure of the Town of <HI>Bri&s;toll</HI> at the fir&s;t &s;ummons by his meanes, and mo&s;t of the Cavaliers confir|med in their language his opinion</P>
<P>That I heard the Prince &s;ay at the Table, that if the Parliament would find <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> money, hee could tell how to &s;pend it, and cheat them too: and dranke to him, and &s;aid, he hoped hee would not &s;tay their Sacke that came from <HI>Bristoll,</HI> meaning from <HI>E&s;&s;ex.</HI></P>
<P>That in the hands of the Prince his Secretary, I &s;aw Letters about to be Sealed to be directed to <HI>E&s;&s;ex.</HI></P>
<P>That from diver&s;e of his Officers, I have heard word, of a mutiny intended by <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> to which effect they had gotten &s;ome of the be&s;t Ci|tizens to &s;ide with them, &s;uch as they thought Malignant; but to en|quire the &s;ecret truth I dur&s;t not, becau&s;e they did di&s;tru&s;t me, but in the Company of tho&s;e Towne&s;men I once was, and heard how Tray|terou&s;ly they &s;tood affected; but I know not their Names.</P>
<L>I am willing to be depo&s;ed upon the premi&s;es, not out of any envy, that</L>
<L>I owe him, but to protect the lives of the then half betrayed &s;ouldiers.</L>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>WILLIAM APSELEY.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
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<OPENER><SALUTE>Sir,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I under&s;tand by &s;ome of <HI>Chippenham,</HI> who were upon <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> night with Colon<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters"> <HI>Lunsford</HI> at <HI>Malmsbury,</HI> That newes being then brought unto him of Colonell <HI>E&s;|&s;ex</HI> his removall from <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> he &s;trucke his brea&s;t, and &s;eemed to be much troubled therat, &s;o were all the re&s;t of the <HI>Cavaliers</HI> thou pre&s;ent. The&s;e of <HI>Chippenham</HI> do likewi&s;e informe me that they conceive there are not <HI>200</HI> &s;ouldiers at <HI>Malm&s;sbury</HI> not <HI>500</HI> at <HI>Ci|rence&s;ter</HI> (but of this I &s;hall be better informed before night.) And that mo&s;t of the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> hath beene collected in <HI>Wilts</HI> and there abouts, being (a the &s;aid <HI>Chippenham</HI>-men are in|formed) neare upon <HI>6000 l.</HI> remaineth yet there in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word">. A good booty in my opinion to invite &s;ome of our Forces thither, and Captaine <HI>Lewes</HI> a meete man to bring on the Foote: But you mu&s;t then needes &s;pare a troope of hor&s;e, which with tho&s;e hor&s;e I have) ought to guard the Avenues there towards <HI>Cirence&s;ter,</HI> if you have any inten<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="4 letters"> to a&s;&s;i&s;t me in this de&s;igne, then to keepe it as private as po&s;&s;ibly may be. <HI>I</HI> heare nothing for certainty of Prince <HI>Ruperes</HI> Armie more then ye&s;terday you were as <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="5 letters">ed withall. I re&s;t,</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Bath</HI>
<DATE>this &s;econd <HI>of March, 1642.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your humble &s;ervant. Thomas Hungerford.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
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<HEAD>To the Honourable Colonell <HI>NATHANIEL FJENNES,</HI> Governour of the Army, of the City of <HI>Bri&s;toll.</HI> The Certaine Information of <HI>Richard Kent, John Vernon,</HI> and <HI>Iohn Smith,</HI> late Troopers to Colonell <HI>Thomas E&s;&s;ex,</HI> touching the Death of <HI>VVilliam Kendall,</HI> one of their fellow Troopers, <HI>(viz.)</HI></HEAD>
<P>THAT whereas the &s;aid <HI>William Kendall</HI> did on the 25th. of <HI>Ianuary</HI> la&s;t at night, come unto &s;everall men of the &s;aid Troope, de&s;iring them to goe with him the next morning to their Captaine, and with him to goe to their Colo|nell, to lay open their grievances as to a father (having no in|tent to demand their pay, but to acquaint him that they were forced for want of ready money, to pay 6 d. for that, which o|ther men (having ready money) payed but 4 d for, And they being quartered in &s;uch hou&s;es, where was none (but very bad) hay and provender for their hor&s;es, they having no money could not in con&s;cience remove their Hor&s;es to better, untill they had di&s;charged the hou&s;e where they were, and they ha|ving not money, were con&s;trained to buy their Oates at the Innes, which co&s;t them more by &s;ixe pence in a Bu&s;hell, then they could have bought better for in the Market (there being due unto each of them at that time, 4. l. 15. s. And they ha|ving a very con&s;iderable Precedent, therefore <HI>(viz.)</HI> that for|merly at <HI>Worce&s;ter,</HI> about ten or twelve of the &s;ame Troop, (then under the Command of Colonell <HI>Sands</HI>) having lo&s;t thei<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">
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Hor&s;es in that fight (whereof the &s;aid <HI>William Kendall</HI> was one) their Colonell giving Order they &s;hould have but halfe their pay, they then (as now) in all humility, repaired to the Lord Generall the Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> and having admittance to his cham|ber doore &s;ent in their grievances, and pre&s;ently received a gracious An&s;wer, having their wrongs &s;peedily redre&s;&s;ed) And upon the 24. of <HI>Ianuary</HI> la&s;t in the morning, the &s;aid <HI>William Kendall</HI> and about twenty or more of the &s;aid Troopers, think|ing that by the expre&s;&s;ions of griefe of &s;o many, it would have cau&s;ed the mote pitie and &s;peedie redre&s;&s;e from their Captaine and Colonell) pre&s;ently went to their Captaine, and meeting with him ju&s;t at the dore of his lodging, thinking to have ope|ned their griefe unto him as formerly they had done, he pre|vented them by telling of them, he had not then received any money for them, but was going to the Governours to &s;ee for &s;ome, bidding them pre&s;ently to follow him, and make their ca&s;e knowne unto the Governour, whereupon they followed him in an orderly manner, as Souldiers with their Swords only by their &s;ides; and comming to the Governours, they went into the hou&s;e after their Captaine, where &s;ome &s;tayed in a little Parlour, and &s;ome in the entry, quietly waiting till the Go|vernour was &s;tirring; and having waited there about a quarter of an houre, the Governour came downe unto them, without his doublet on, having a fire lock Pi&s;toll in his hand with the cock downe, and as it afterwads appeared, it was charged with a Bullet ready &s;pan'd and primed, and comming to one of the Troopers, he &s;pake to him after this manner <HI>(viz.)</HI> Sirra is your Hor&s;e ready, whereunto he replyed, yes and plea&s;e your Honour, then &s;aid the Governour, &s;irra goe and fetch him, ta|king the Trooper by the Arme, and thru&s;ting of him out of the Parlour doore, &s;peaking the like words, &amp; doing the like action to two or three more of them, they making the like an&s;wer as before. And the &s;aid then Governour <HI>Thom: E&s;&s;ex</HI> &s;pake in like manner to the &s;aid <HI>William Kendall</HI> decea&s;ed, and after &s;ome &s;hort pau&s;e (not one word more pa&s;&s;ing between them, he &s;hot the &s;aid
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<HI>William Kendall</HI> into his head with his &s;aid Pi&s;toll, whereupon he immediately fell downe dead in the place, as <HI>Samuell Car<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters"> Thomas Co&s;et, William Sedwell, VVilliam Smith,</HI> the &s;aid <HI>Richard Rent, Iohn Col&s;tacke, Iames Polle,</HI> and <HI>Benjamin Parnell</HI> who were eye witne&s;&s;es thereunto, canne and will te&s;tifie. All which they knowing to be true, have thought fit to certifie under their hands this fourth day of <HI>March.</HI> 1642.</P>
<P>And they doe further certifie, that the &s;aid <HI>William Kendall,</HI> after the &s;aid Colonel <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> had bid him make ready his Hor&s;e, de&s;ired his Honour to heare him &s;peake two or three words un|to him, for which cau&s;e onely and for no other, the &s;aid Co|lonell <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> immediately &s;hot him with his Pi&s;toll as before, which the eye witne&s;&s;es before named can te&s;tifie at large.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Richard Kent.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Cowl&s;tock.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Siddell.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Benjamin Parnell.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Co&s;et.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>James Polle.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="conclusion">
<P>THe&s;e things con&s;idered, if a Town of that con&s;equence had here <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> the lo&s;&s;e whereof would have drawn with it the lo&s;&s;e of all the we<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters"> part of <HI>England,</HI> be&s;ides the dangerous con&s;equences to this Kingdom at this time from Ireland, let any impartiall man iudge whether Colonell <HI>Fiennes</HI> &s;eeing and ob|&s;erving upon the place what he did, and being adverti&s;ed of all the&s;e particulars, would not in the opinion of the world, have lien under the cen&s;ure of being <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> a Knave or a Foole, if to prevent it he had not executed the command be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ed from my Lord Generall.</P>
</DIV2>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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