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<P>A true and mo&s;t &s;ad RELATION OF The hard u&s;age and exrtrem cruelty u&s;ed ON Captain <HI>Wingate,</HI> Captaine <HI>Viuers,</HI> Captaine <HI>Au&s;tin,</HI> Capt: <HI>Lidcott,</HI> Capt: <HI>Walton,</HI> Capt; <HI>Catsby,</HI> Capt: <HI>Lilbourne,</HI> Ma&s;ter <HI>Franklin,</HI> Ma&s;ter <HI>Freeman, Ed|ward Chillendon,</HI> Ma&s;ter <HI>John Bayley</HI> and his Father, with others of the Parliament Souldiers, &amp;c. Pri&s;o|ner at OXFORD, under the cu&s;tody of ONE <HI>SMITH</HI> Provo&s;t-Mar&s;hall Generall to the KINGS Army: Written by one of the &s;ame Pri&s;oners in behalf of them all, TO A VVorthy and eminent Citizen of LONDON, Dated 9th of <HI>February,</HI> 1642.</P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for GEORGE HUTTON, at the <HI>Turn'd-Style</HI> in Holborne, <HI>Feb:</HI> 13. 1642.</P>
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<HEAD>A True and mo&s;t &s;ad Relation of the hard u&s;age and extreame cruelty u&s;ed on Captain <HI>Wingate,</HI> Captaine <HI>Viuers,</HI> and others.</HEAD>
<P>SIr, I was de&s;ired (by the Captains and Gen|tlemen here in pri&s;on) to let you under&s;tand the truth of our u&s;age here by Captain <HI>William Smith,</HI> who is Provo&s;t-Mar&s;hall Generall to the Kings Army; Sir it is thus, That Captain <HI>Wingate,</HI> Capt. <HI>Viuers,</HI> Cap. <HI>Au&s;tine,</HI> Capt. <HI>Lidcott,</HI> Cap. <HI>Walton,</HI> Capt, <HI>Catsby,</HI> Capt. <HI>Lilburne,</HI> and Ma&s;ter <HI>Franklin,</HI> Burge&s;&s;e of the Parliament for the Town of <HI>Marlbrough,</HI> and <HI>Edward Chillenden,</HI> are all of the lockt up clo&s;e pri&s;oners in their Chambers, and no man &s;uffered to &s;peak with them, and though they have Beds of their own to lye on, yet when he plea&s;es he will di&s;place them out of their own beds, and place others in them contrary to their wills: and for the common Souldiers and &s;uch
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as my &s;elf their u&s;age is thus, upon the complaint of any of tho&s;e they call the Kings Souldiers, which are here in pri&s;on, though the things were fal&s;e and never was &s;poken nor acted, yet if they do but &s;ay it, we are pre&s;ently clapped in irons and tyed neck and heeles together, and called damned Traytours, we &s;hall all be hanged and &s;tarved, and are beaten by him with his Caine; and abu&s;ed by every boy of his, yea even the Cap|tains as well as the re&s;t, and his boyes will abu&s;e them &s;o too; And further he hath a Prote&s;tation, which he doth tender to all that do come into pri&s;on here, and doth force them to take it, and if they will not take it, (though it be again&s;t the light of their con&s;cience and knowledge, and a|gain&s;t the Law of this Land, and the liberty of the Subject, as indeed it is in a high degree; yet he will clap them up in irons, necke and heeles, and feed them with bread and water, nay heele make them to be all a whole day without a bitt of any thing, as he did one Ma&s;ter <HI>Freeman,</HI> and one of <HI>Marthrough</HI> Souldiers to force them to take it, and a guard was &s;et on them, and no man &s;uf|fered to give them any relief: and after all this when his plea&s;ure is, that they have bin long e|nough
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thus, he clapt them up into the Tower as they call it, and there feed them with bread and water, which is at night, once a day halfe a penny lo&s;e and a can of water, and will not &s;uffer any friend neither in pri&s;on nor out, to relieve them with any thing: but lockes them up clo&s;e that none can come to them, and thus he &s;wares hee will u&s;e us all if we will not take the Prote&s;tati|on: and this day there was meat &s;ent to the pri|&s;oners in the Tower, and it was not &s;uffered to come to them.</P>
<P>And upon Saturday being the twenty &s;eventh of January, there was &s;ome monies &s;ent to the afore&s;aid Ma&s;ter <HI>Freeman</HI> that he had clapt necke and heeles together for not taking the Prote&s;ta|tion, and he him&s;elf took it from him and will not let him have it to buy him&s;elf food vvith, but &s;till feeds him vvith a halfe a penny bread and vvater a day, and &s;vvears mo&s;t fearfull oaths he vvill make him and all that vvill not take the Prote&s;tation to &s;hit as &s;mall as a Rat: and here is one Ma&s;ter <HI>Iohn Bayley</HI> that was taken at <HI>Marl|brough,</HI> and his father hath paid two hundred pounds for his and his &s;ons ran&s;ome, yet his &s;ayd &s;on is kept pri&s;oner, only becau&s;e he will
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not take the Prote&s;tation: And here is one Mr. <HI>Dunden</HI> a Coun&s;table that hath taken the Pro|te&s;tation, and becau&s;e he will not pay 59 pounds for his Fees, hee is kept here pri&s;oner.</P>
<P>Sir, this is mi&s;erable to con&s;ider and think of, and if you were here to &s;ee it your very heart would be filled with grief, to &s;ee that poore Chri&s;tians &s;hould be &s;o u&s;ed; Therefore Sir I am intreated in the name of all the Gentlemen here in pri&s;on, that you would make this known to the Parliament and to the honourable City of <HI>London,</HI> and in particular to the Right Ho|nourable the Lord <HI>Brook:</HI> And it is de&s;ired and that by the Gentlemen here, that tho&s;e pri&s;oners you have there may &s;o be u&s;ed, and not relea&s;ed from &s;uch u&s;age till there be a Certificate come from us to you of our better u&s;age, and withall I am further de&s;ired to let you know, that the Gentlemen and Pri&s;oners have preferred to the King and Councell of War, a Petition and Articles again&s;t this <HI>Smith</HI> and no hearing can be obtained; Therefore it is de&s;ired you would be plea&s;ed to move the Parliament, and in particu|lar my Lord <HI>Brook,</HI> that they vvould vvrite to the Earl of <HI>Lind&s;ey</HI> to de&s;ire him to vvrite to the
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King, That His Maje&s;ty would be plea&s;ed to give command that the Petition and Articles may be examined, and then no que&s;tion is made but the King will &s;ee how ba&s;ely Hee is abu&s;ed by tho&s;e who &s;ay they are His be&s;t Subjects.</P>
<P>One thing more of &s;peciall note is, that the Gentlemen of this hou&s;e taking pitty of us poor di&s;tre&s;&s;ed men that want both money and food, did liberally contribute to our relief, and made one Ma&s;ter <HI>Kins&s;ly</HI> a Lieutenant of hor&s;e to be &s;teward of it to &s;ee it di&s;po&s;ed of, the which if they had not down, I am confident halfe of us had bin dead ere this with hunger, one was &s;tar|ved to death, another w^c^h was wounded by <HI>Smith,</HI> the Chyrurgeon not permitted to come to dre&s;&s;e him, dyed al&s;o for want of looking to; ano|ther died, and another is like to dye, and all with ill u&s;age, and now <HI>Smith</HI> vvill not let the money bee given to them, but hath given &s;trickt command to the contrary, and hath charged his &s;ervants to &s;ee that it be &s;o ob&s;erved as he hath commanded.</P>
<P>The Chyrurgeon is committed here to pri|&s;on
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becau&s;e he reported the truth, that the pri|&s;oners vvere &s;tarved and lo&s;t for vvant of loo|king to.</P>
<P>This is all truth that I have written every tit|tle of it, which all in the pri&s;on will witne&s;&s;e and &s;eale to.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Oxford, <DATE>Febr: 9. 1642.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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