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<P>A MESSAGE SENT <HI>TO THE</HI> PARLIAMENT <HI>FROM</HI> The Members of the Hou&s;e of Commons at <HI>Colche&s;ter,</HI> informing them of the Pa&s;&s;ages there, how the multi|tude doth daily increa&s;e, and have plundered the Lady <HI>Rivers</HI> hou&s;e at <HI>Colche&s;ter,</HI> and taken from her the value of forty thou&s;and pound in Money, Plate, Jewels, and other things of great worth; threatning moreover to plunder all the Papi&s;ts hou&s;es in <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> con|ceiving them to be the cau&s;ers of the pre&s;ent di&s;tractions.</P>
<P><HI>Likwi&s;e the coming of the Earl of</HI> Southampton <HI>the Earl of</HI> Dor&s;et. <HI>and Sr.</HI> Iohn Culpeper <HI>to both Hou&s;es concerning the withdrawing their pre&s;ent forces.</HI></P>
<P>Al&s;o a true Relation of the manner of taking <HI>Dover</HI> Ca&s;tle on <HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> night <HI>Aug.</HI> 25. by the Earl of <HI>Warwick</HI> and <HI>M. Dukes.</HI></P>
<P>And the taking of a &s;hip that came from <HI>Spaine</HI> by the Earle of <HI>Warwick</HI> with 600000 pound, &s;eized upon at <HI>Southampton</HI> for the u&s;e of the <HI>Parliament,</HI> and Ordered to be brought up to LONDON.</P>
<P>Joh. Brown, Cler. Parl.</P>
<P>Printed for <HI>Iohn Iones. Augu&s;t</HI> 27. 1642.</P>
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<HEAD>A MESSAGE SENT FROM <HI>Colche&s;ter</HI> to the Parliament, informing them of the Pa&s;&s;ages there, and how the multitude doth daily increa&s;e, and have plundered the Lady <HI>Rivers</HI> her hou&s;e, taking away from her the value of forty thou&s;and pound in money, plate, iewels, and many other things of great worth,</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">And how they threaten to plunder all the Papi&s;ts hou&s;es in that Countrey.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Al&s;o a true Relation of the manner of taking <HI>Dover</HI> Ca&s;tle on wedne&s;day night <HI>Aug.</HI> 24. by the Earl of <HI>Warwick</HI> and <HI>M. Dukes.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_THe Hou&s;es of Par|liament have recei|ved information fro~ Sir <HI>Thomas Baring|ton</HI> and <HI>M. Grim|&s;ton,</HI> that were &s;ent to <HI>Colche&s;ter</HI> in <HI>E&s;|&s;ex,</HI> that the multi|tude of people that gathered them&s;elves together by occa&s;ion of Sir <HI>Iohn Lucas</HI> his
<PB N="2" REF="3">providing of hor&s;e and ammunition to &s;end to His Maie&s;ty, were very much increa&s;ed, and that they were &s;o much incen&s;ed again&s;t the Papi&s;ts, and others ill-affected to the Parlia|ment, that they could not appea&s;e them, and that they have plundered the Lady <HI>Rivers</HI> her hou&s;e at <HI>Colche&s;ter,</HI> and have &s;poiled and taken away from her in money, plate, iewels, and o|ther things of value, to the &s;um of forty thou|&s;and pound, withall giving out &s;peeches, and threatning to plunder all the Papi&s;ts in that County, which (they conceived) were the cau&s;ers of all the&s;e troubles and di&s;tractions in the Kingdome, and were the occa&s;ions that they, their wives and children were brought in|to great want and extremity, (by the great de|cay of trading) and for that they have plotted the ruine and de&s;truction of this Kingdome. The occa&s;ion of this multitudes gathering to|gether in this manner was as followeth.</P>
<P>Upon Friday la&s;t being the &s;ix and twentieth day of Augu&s;t, the Hou&s;e of Commons re|ceived a Letter from the Maior of <HI>Colche&s;ter</HI> directed to M. <HI>Iohn Pym</HI> of the Hou&s;e of Com|mons, declaring the fidelity and good affection of the inhabitants of the &s;aid town of <HI>Colche|&s;ter</HI> and other townes thereabouts in that good &s;ervice they performed for the King and Par|liament in taking away the great &s;tore of armes and ammunition that were found in the dwel|ling
<PB N="3" REF="3">hou&s;e of Sir <HI>Iohn Lucas</HI> neere <HI>Colche&s;ter,</HI> and how that a great many Muskets, Pi&s;tols, and Carbines were found ready charged; all which was di&s;covered by one Captain <HI>Lumley,</HI> who forthwith informed the towne thereof; upon who&s;e information the whole towne ro&s;e in a great uproare, and within a &s;mall time about two thou&s;and people were gathered to|gether, who forthwith be&s;et the hou&s;e of the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iohn Lucas,</HI> but were d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ed entrance for a time; whereupon the people were &s;o in|raged, that they demanded entrance without delay: they that were within the hou&s;e percei|ving the multitude without to be too great for them to make oppo&s;ition again&s;t, opened the gates, where after they had entred, they found twelve Hor&s;es fitted for warre, that &s;hould have gone to the King the next day, and two hundred men: Diver&s;e of them being exami|ned concerning the occa&s;ion of their being there, would confe&s;&s;e nothing, but &s;aid that they were &s;worne to &s;ecre&s;ie: the people hear|ing this an&s;wer, were further inraged again&s;t Sir <HI>Iohn Lucas,</HI> in&s;omuch that the Maior was inforced to carrie him home to his own hou&s;e, to keep him from the violence of the people: Herewithall the people were no whit &s;ati&s;fied, but rather the more inraged (re&s;olving either to have him out, or els they threatned to pull downe the Maiors hou&s;e) untill he had &s;ent him
<PB N="4" REF="4">to the common Goale. The people yet are in great feare and amazement, and continue together in great multitudes, and will not re|turne to their habitations untill they have fur|ther &s;atisfaction concerning him. The Maior not knowing what cour&s;e to take with the people, nor how to pacifie them, &s;ent with all &s;peed to know the plea&s;ure of the Parlia|ment concerning the &s;ame. After &s;ome debate of it in the Hou&s;e of Commons, they de&s;ired a Conference with the Lords, where the &s;aid Letter was read, and thereupon the Lords and Commons ordered, that Sir <HI>Thomas Barring|ton,</HI> and M. <HI>Grim&s;tone</HI> &s;hould goe with all &s;peed downe to <HI>Colche&s;ter</HI> to appea&s;e the people, and to give them thankes for their good affe|ction, and forwardne&s;&s;e to a&s;&s;i&s;t the Parlia|ment, declaring to them, that the Hou&s;e took it as an acceptable &s;ervice, de&s;iring them to de|part to their owne hou&s;es.</P>
<P>Upon wedne&s;eday night la&s;t the foure and twentieth of Augu&s;t, one <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">. Dukes</HI> a Merchant that was intru&s;ted for the &s;ecuring of the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Dover</HI> in <HI>Kent,</HI> cau&s;ed ten men, armed with &s;words and Mu&s;kets ready charged, to climbe up a &s;teep rock (in the dead time of the night) and to draw up &s;caling ladders after them, to &s;cale the wals of the Ca&s;tle, to take it and keep it for the King and Parliament. After they had &s;caled the wals and got into the Ca|&s;tle,
<PB N="5" REF="4">the&s;e ten Musketiers went to the Court of Guard, con&s;i&s;ting but of foure men, who at the &s;udden appearance of the&s;e ten men were &s;o a|mazed, that they &s;eemed to be in a trance, and demanding of them who kept the keyes of the gate, for feare they directed them to the Porter who kept the keyes, and knocking at his cham|ber doore, they commanded him to deliver up the keyes to them for the &s;ervice of the King and Parliament: at fir&s;t he denied, &s;aying, he would not: whereupon they would have broke open the door, and withall threatning to &s;hoot him, unle&s;&s;e he would deliver up the keyes: at length he gave them the keyes, and pre&s;ent|ly they went to the gate and &s;ent po&s;t to the Earle of <HI>Warwick,</HI> who lay nigh <HI>Dover</HI> with his &s;hips, and immediately &s;ent them three&s;core Musketiers, be&s;ides forty Musketiers more ready prepared which were &s;ent from the Ci|tizens of <HI>Canterbury,</HI> who immediately tooke the Ca&s;tle for the u&s;e and &s;ervice of the King and Parliament, turning out all tho&s;e whom they &s;u&s;pected to be ill-affected to the Parlia|ment. Not above two dayes after, upon fri|day the 26. of Augu&s;t, the Parliament received information of a &s;hip coming from <HI>Spaine</HI> with 600000. pound coming to <HI>Port&s;mouth,</HI> and finding no means to arrive there by rea&s;on of the &s;hips which the Earle of <HI>Werwick</HI> had laid before the towne, and perceiving no po&s;&s;i|bility
<PB N="6" REF="5">of e&s;caping, being de&s;cried by the &s;aid &s;hips, they &s;truck in o <HI>Southampton,</HI> pretending that they came with other merchandize, but being &s;earched, little was found therein but Bullion, which they &s;aid was to be coyned here and &s;o it is thought it &s;hall; for, the Parlia|ment have made &s;tay thereof, and ordered that it &s;hall be brought to <HI>London.</HI></P>
<P>His Maie&s;ty was gratiou&s;ly plea&s;ed to let the Hou&s;es under&s;tand that if they will withdraw their forces, and nominate a Committee to treat with others cho&s;en by him, he is willing to &s;tand to &s;uch a treaty of pacification they &s;hall agree on.</P>
<P>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;si&s;t His Maie&s;ty in this Warre, with Hor&s;e, Arms, Plate or Money, are Traytors to His Maie&s;ty, the Parliament and Kingdome, and &s;hall be brought to con|digne puni&s;hment for &s;o high an offence.</P>
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<P><HI>Ordered to be forthwith printed &amp; publi&s;hed,</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Joh. Brown Cleric. Parliament.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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