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<P>ARTICLES <HI>Exhibited again&s;t</HI> CLONELL Edward King, FOR HIS In&s;olencies and Mi&s;demeanors in the County of LINCOLNE, to the Honoura|ble, the Hou&s;e of Commons in <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 1644.</P>
<P>BY Ma&s;ter <HI>Mu&s;&s;enden,</HI> Ma&s;ter <HI>Wolley,</HI> and di|vers others of the Cmmittee of LINCOLNE.</P>
<P>London Printed 1644.</P>
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<HEAD>Articles exhibited, Again&s;t Colonell EDVVRD KING, for his In&s;olencies and Mi&s;demeanours in the County of LINCOLNE, to the Honou|rable, the hou&s;e of Commons, in <DATE><HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 1644.</DATE> by Mr. <HI>Mu&s;senden,</HI> Mr. <HI>Wolley,</HI> and divers others of the Comittee of <HI>Lincolne.</HI></HEAD>
<P N="1"><HI>IMprimis,</HI> That to the Great di&s;cragement of the Countie he doth openly declare, his &s;lighting of all mens good af|fections to the Parliaments &s;ervice, by expre&s;&s;ing that he va|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter">ueth not, that men &s;hould do the Parliament &s;ervice volunta|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter">ily, but than he would by his power force them to &s;erve.</P>
<P N="2">II. That he doth pay tho&s;e great &s;ums of money rai&s;ed by him out of the Countrie only to whom he plea&s;eth, again&s;t all Equity and Ju&s;tice, notwith&s;tanding my Lord <HI>Manche&s;ters</HI> Order to the contrary.</P>
<P N="3">III. That he hath publikely declared his &s;lighting the Ordinance of Parliament, and done very many Ty|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter">annicall and arbitrary Actions, by impri&s;oning divers of <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter">er&s;ons at his plea&s;ure, and exacting great &s;ums of money, at &s;uch time when nece&s;&s;itin could be no plea, with many other particulars.</P>
<P N="4">IV. When he was before Newarke he &s;ent for a Captain, who kept Crowland, who obeyed his command, yet &s;ent word to him of the danger that town was in, and therefore <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;ired his &s;econd plea&s;ure, which was, that he &s;hould march, who acordingly did, the Gentlemen of the Countrie fearing
<PB N="2" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 46 -->the Enemy procured Major <HI>Ireton</HI> to &s;end 100 Musketiers to keep Crowland, which he hearing of, took ill that with|out order from him, any &s;hould come into his Liberties, and commanded them to be gone, who accordingly departed; the Enemy pre&s;ently &s;urpri&s;ed the Town, and tho&s;e few that he had left in it, by which means he betrayed the Town un|to the Enemy, which was not regained without much charge, hazard, and lo&s;&s;e of many mens lives.</P>
<P N="5">5 That he gives protections for &s;ecuring both per&s;on and goods, to tho&s;e who are profe&s;&s;ed enemies to the Parliament.</P>
<P N="6">6 That he imployeth &s;uch Officers, as are altogether un|fit for the Countries &s;ervice,</P>
<P N="7">7 That he doth mo&s;t gro&s;&s;ely and unworthily affront and abu&s;e the well-affected Gentry of the Countrie.</P>
<P N="8">8 That he doth encourage de&s;perate Malignants and ani|mateth them again&s;t the well affected.</P>
<P N="9">9 That he and his Officers have impri&s;oned men well af|fected to the Parliament, and cau&s;ed their hou&s;es, che&s;ts, truneks, &amp;c. to be &s;earched for pewter, bra&s;&s;e, and linnen, and threatned that they would make it co&s;t one of them his whole e&s;tate, and that one of his Officers would not take three hundred pounds for his own &s;atisfaction.</P>
<P N="10">10 That at the &s;iege before Newark, &s;uch provi&s;ion as the Countrie had voluntarily and freely &s;ent in to Col. <HI>Kings</HI> quarters at Winthorp, for the maintainance of the &s;ouldiers, his Officers would not deliver without money, although they had not pay, to the extream oppre&s;&s;ion and di&s;courage|ment of the Countrie.</P>
<P N="11">11 That he &s;ent three warrants to Capt. <HI>Bu&s;hey</HI> at Tatter|&s;hall, to take away a great quantitie of wooll, which wa<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter"> bought by Mr. <HI>Raw&s;on</HI> one of the Committee, and paid for with hit own money, and &s;o the &s;aid <HI>Raw&s;on</HI> is likely to lo&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter"> his e&s;tate, although he hath been a &s;ufferer both for Church and Commonwealth this twentie years, and hath made him
<PB N="3" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 46 -->a Malignant, both in his words and letters, as much as in him did lie.</P>
<P N="12">12 That when the Enemy took Grantham, they being beaten from one part of the town, wheeled about to fal upon the other &s;ide, at a place called Spittle-gate, which Major <HI>Sar+vill</HI> being then Major of the Town perceiving, commanded Col. <HI>King</HI> being then Capt. of a Company there, to march with his Companie to defend that place, Collonel <HI>King</HI> an|&s;wered, that he &s;corned to be commanded by him, and ra|ther then he would be commanded by him, he would take his Companie and let the Enemie into the Town, and he de|layed &s;o long before he would go, that the Enemie was ente|red at the &s;aid Port before he came thither, by which means he betrayed that Town.</P>
<P N="13">13 That when Commi&s;&s;ary <HI>James</HI> had brought in certain &s;heep from a malignant for the relief of the &s;iege at Newark, being then in great want, Colonel <HI>King</HI> cau&s;ed the &s;aid &s;heep to be re&s;tored to the malignant, and told the Commi&s;&s;arie that he de&s;erved to be hanged, with divers other threatning and reviling &s;peeches; notwith&s;tanding he had order from Sir <HI>Iohn Meldrum</HI> and the Committee for the taking of them.</P>
<P N="14">14 That Collonel <HI>King</HI> havidg promi&s;ed the Lord of Manche&s;ter to rai&s;e a great number of Hor&s;e and Foot, the &s;aid <HI>King,</HI> as did appear, not knowing how to rai&s;e &s;o great a number, did to the great di&s;couragement of the Coun|trie, take this cour&s;e; In the fir&s;t place he ca&s;hiered Major <HI>Syler,</HI> with him three hundred Voluntiers, which &s;erved on their own charge, who with the Towne&s;men had alwayes defended the Towne of Bo&s;ton, that he might pre&s;&s;e them to &s;erve under him for pay; and &s;econdly, he did &s;ei&s;e upon and detain four or five of the Foot Companies belonging to the Lord Willoughbie, and did ca&s;hiere &s;ome of the Cap|taines, becau&s;e they refu&s;ed to for&s;ake my Lord to &s;erve un|der him.</P>
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XV. That the Troopers of Colonell <HI>Cromwell</HI> which were lo&s;t at Coleby and Waddington, were treacherou&s;ly or ignorantly betrayed by Colonell <HI>King.</HI></P>
<P N="16">XVI. That to the great di&s;couragement of the Countrie he doth oppo&s;e and quarrell with &s;uch as have been mo&s;t &s;er|viceable to the Countrie, and &s;uch in whom the power of Religion is mo&s;t eminent (viz.) Lieutenant Generall <HI>Crom|well,</HI> Mr <HI>Ram</HI> and others, and that he impri&s;oned divers o|ther uery godly men, and that for exerci&s;ing the very power of Godline&s;&s;e, which he did in a very &s;cornfull and vile man|ner, and &s;till continueth an utter enemie to &s;uch men, as namely Lieutenant Colonell <HI>Berry,</HI> Major <HI>Lilborne,</HI> Captain <HI>Chambridge</HI> and others.</P>
<P N="17">XVII. That to the great di&s;content and di&s;couragement of the Countrie, hee and his Officers did quarrell with, and &s;light the Committee at Lincolne, which was &s;etled by Or|dinance of Parliament, who were men of the be&s;t e&s;tates qua|lity and Integrity, and &s;uch as were e&s;pecially commended to &s;erve the Countrey; and publikely vilifying them, and their actions, and a&s;&s;uming their power without any Au|thority.</P>
<P N="18">XVIII. That before this war began he was an open and publike per&s;ecutor and &s;coffer of Religious men.</P>
<P N="19">XIX That he is a man of a turbulent and factious &s;pirit, of meane condition and e&s;tate for &s;o ab&s;olute a command, that he hath received va&s;t &s;ums of money amounting to about 20000 .l. much of which he hath levied in an illegall and ob|&s;cure way, and i&s;&s;ued out accordingly, for which it is de&s;ired he may give a &s;peedy Account, and likewi&s;e of the re&s;t of his actins.</P>
<P N="20">XX. That in a factious and &s;editious manner he did imploy &s;ome agents to deliver blue Ribbonds to &s;uch as would &s;tand for him, and &s;hew them&s;elves his frinds, to the great terrour and di&s;content of the Countrey, and the hazard of rai&s;ing a dangerous mutinie.</P>
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XXI. That he kept about twenty men to wait on him whom he called his life guard, to whom he gave extraordinary pay, though they were exempted from all duty, except it were to wait upon him advance his reputation, and awe and affright the Countrie.</P>
<P N="22">XXII. That he did awe and gain the Countrie wholly after him and that he might with better colour dominere, fal&s;ely &s;tile him|&s;elfe Lieuetenant Generall of the Countie of Lincolne.</P>
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<HEAD>Articles again&s;t Colonell <HI>King,</HI> pre&s;ented to the Committe of the Hou&s;e of Peres, by Mr. <HI>Smith,</HI> of Lincolne&s;hire, <DATE>Sep. 1644.</DATE></HEAD>
<P><HI>IMprimis,</HI> That the &s;aid Colonell <HI>King</HI> hath at &s;undry times open|ly contemned and &s;lighed &s;everall Ordinaces of the Lords and Commons now in Parliament A&s;&s;embled, to the great di&s;courage|ment of the Committee and other Officers of Parliament, within the Countie of Lincolne, and to the manife&s;t retarding of the pub|like &s;ervice, (viz.) <HI>The Ordinance for the King, Queene, and Princes Revenue,</HI> with divers others.</P>
<P N="2">II. That the &s;aid Colonell <HI>King</HI> hath not only heretofore been a violent per&s;ecutor of able Mini&s;ters, as Mr. <HI>Hin&s;hley,</HI> and other godly and well di&s;po&s;ed people, for not conforming to Ceremo|nies, but hath per&s;evered therein, &amp; in a tirannicall manner &s;ithence his command from the Right Honor. the E. of <HI>Manche&s;ter,</HI> impri|&s;oned divers religious and godly people in pri&s;ons, and a Dungeon without any fit accommodations, calling them, Browni&s;ts, Anabap|ti&s;ts, Witches, Conjurers and Devils, or words to th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">t effect, threat|ning them that he would &s;hip them away, and &s;eize their e&s;tates, on|ly for Chri&s;tian meetings, which he &s;aid was wor&s;e then the &s;in of Witchcraft, and hath very much abu&s;ed able and godly divines, as Mr. <HI>Ram</HI> of Spalding, and others that &s;poke well of them to him, in their behalfe, and hath often declared that he would root all &s;uch of his Regiment, which he hath done by Arbitrarie and ungodly waies and practi&s;es.</P>
<P N="3">III. That he hath divers times &s;ummoned the Countrye to be and appeare before him and his Officers, which metings he termed Courts and therein &s;hewed him&s;elf mo&s;t intolerable imperious and
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<PB N="6" REF="6"><!-- PDF PAGE 49 --><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;olent and hath therein done very many tyrannicall and Arbitrary actions, Fining divers per&s;ons (as Mr. <HI>Wallet,</HI> Mr. <HI>Hargrave,</HI> and others we<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">l affected) grievou&s;ly, and in&s;upportably in the &s;aid pre|tended Court, for &s;mall or no offence, and hath &s;ent his agents, Of|ficers &amp; &s;ouldiers who have levien the &s;aid fines upon their goods.</P>
<P N="4">IV. That he hath received va&s;t &s;ums of money much of which he hath rai&s;ed by unju&s;t and illegall waies, and wilfully neglecting the pre&s;ervation of the Countie, hath done very little or no &s;ervice with it (before the unhappie Siege at Newarke) &s;ave his defend|ing the towne of Bo&s;ton, which before he commanded there, was as well defended by voluntires, with little or no charge to the Countie, which voluntiers were Ca&s;hired by him, to the great da|mage of the Countrey.</P>
<P N="5">V. That in a proud and in&s;olent manner, he hath exceeded the limits of his Commi&s;&s;ion, granted him from the righ<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="bleedthrough" EXTENT="1 letter"> Honourable the Earl of <HI>Manche&s;ter,</HI> by a&s;&s;uming to him&s;elfe the title o<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">ene|nerall of the Countie, and rai&s;ing men and hor&s;es at his plea&s;ure throughot the whole Countie, and keeping at the Countries charge about twenty men to waite on him, which he called his lifeguard, and u&s;ually called the Countries forces is Armie, and doth direct his letters to his Father with title of right honourable</P>
<P N="6">VI. That there hath been divers blue ribbons di&s;per&s;ed in the Countrie by him or his Agents, to &s;uch as would &s;hew them&s;elves for him, and procure of &s;et their hands to petitions for the re&s;to|ring him to his former commands, and tho&s;e who have refu&s;ed to &s;et their hands contrary to their con&s;ciences, have been threatned, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">nd evill entreated by his &s;aid Agents, and he him&s;elfe did tell Mr. <HI>Til&s;on</HI> and others of the Committee at Bo&s;ton, in a threatning man|ner, when they would not obey his unwarrantabe de&s;ires and com|mands, that troue Blew was a good colour, which hath hazarded the rai&s;ing of a dangerous mutining among the Souldiedrs and Countrey men.</P>
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