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| 2 April 1647. |
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Vol. A |
No. or p. |
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S. 5 249 |
Sir G. Pratt to appear at Queen's Court on Tuesday |
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232 |
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DEP. 112 159
160 |
8 March 1648. Ordered a copy of his charge, and 14 days to make
his defence. |
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393 |
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17 March 1648. Discharged from attendance on information of
delinquency, and also from the 1/5; and 1/20; his father having paid
it in his lifetime. |
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407 |
DEP. 112 161
162 |
11 Aug. 1648. Information that he was seen in the King's garrisons of Oxford, Bath, Bristol, and Farringdon. |
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106 |
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DEP. 112 163 |
11 Aug. Ordered a copy of the charge and time to answer |
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35 |
LET. 24 13
R. 6 53 |
23 Aug. Order that he appear on 20 sept. to answer thus further
charge, and that a letter be written requiring his attendance at this time. |
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41 |
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E.W. 24 31 |
20 Sept. 1648. Order that all his estates in cos. Berks, Oxon,
Wilts, Bucks, &c., be seized and secured on information of delinquency. |
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60 |
H. 6 102
E.W. 6 105
DEP. 112 164 |
14 Nov. 1648. Order on hearing the examination, &c., that the prosecutor show cause why Sir George should not be discharged,
the committee not being satisfied with the proofs produced. |
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109 |
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NOTE 6 115 |
16 Nov. The seizure taken off his estate, there being uncertainty
and invalidity in the testimony of the witnesses, and the prosecutor declining to proceed further. |
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117 |
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28 Nov. 1649. Information that Sir Geo. Pratt frequently went to
the King's garrison at Oxford in the late war, and stayed
there a mouth together; that he procured the then Lord Chief
Justice's warrant at Oxford to bring in some of his father's
tenants to Oxford, to pay their rents to the use of the King,
and that he endeavoured to get money of his tenants by borrowing or otherwise, to supply the King's party, with threats
of plundering them if they did not give. During the war, he
protected the valuable goods of one Russell, who was in arms
against Parliament. |
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309 |
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2 Dec. 1649. Information that in 1643, Sir George sent horse,
arms, and a man to Prince Maurice's regiment of horse, which
was then lying near Farringdon, and gave notice to the late
King's forces a parcel of lead, value 400l., and conveyed it to
Oxford, and at that time the Cavaliers in Oxford took the inhabitants' pewter to make bullets. |
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311 |
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That he took in charge the goods, chattles, and plate of Mr.
Russell, of Prescot, a Papist, value 4,000l.; but when the Parlia-
ment forces marched from Oxford, he redelivered him his goods. |
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That he several time furnished the late King's officers with
money, feasted Prince Maurice and his officers, and at the last
feast, when the Parliament forces had notice, the Prince being
at dinner, he barred up his gates, until they broke down a wall
and pulled up a heldge for a way, otherwise the Prince had been
taken. He had in his house at Coswell a small piece called a
drake, and upon the Parliament forces coming that way, he sent
the drake to Oxford. He also kept a foot captain and his men,
belonging to the late King, in his house until they were forced
from thence by the Parliament, and he kept a man a year to
carry intelligence between London and Oxford. |
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