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| Nov. 1. |
48. Certificate by Henry Broad of the state of the account of
Peter Canon, Purveyor-General to the Train of Artillery, as well for
money received by warrant from this Committee, as by him expended
in defraying the charges of boats, bridges, and other things
from London to Gloucester. Received by way of imprest, 200l.; total
expenditure, 351l. 9s. 9d.; balance due to Captain Canon, 151l. 9s. 9d.
[1¾ pp.] |
| [Nov. 1.] |
49. Requests preferred to the Privy Council, through [Wm. Lord
Russell, Lord Lieutenant of co. Devon,] touching the levying and
equipment of the horse required to be furnished by that county, being
" a fast and craggy country," not fit for heavily-armed cavalry.
Articles exhibiting the use of horses thus lightly furnished. [Endorsed: "The Lord Russell, touching horse for co. Devon."
2½ pp.] |
| Nov. 6. |
50. Warrant of the Lords and Commons to Sir Gilbert Gerrard,
Bart., whom they have appointed Treasurer of the Army, to be
raised for the safety of the King's person, the defence of both
Houses, and of those who have obeyed their orders and commands,
authorising him out of the treasure received for the purpose aforesaid, to issue money on the order or warrant of the persons hereinafter named for the purposes specified, giving him the same power
to appoint officers under him, and to receive the same fees, as Sir
Wm. Uvedale had by his commission dated February 26, 1640.
[Printed in the Lords' Journals, v., 434. 32/3 pp.] |
Nov. 6,
The Hague. |
51. Charles Louis Elector Palatine to Sir Thomas Roe. Since
yours of the 20th Sept. I have not heard from you, nor do I know
whether you have entertained the correspondence agreed on at your
coming away, or whether, [and if so] whom, [and] with what powers
the King will send to the appointed day of the reassumption of our
treaty. I beseech you let me know what you hear of all this;
whereof I have also written to my brother Rupert for to enquire his
Majesty's resolution in it, and whether the King will not send for
you to be fully informed in what state you left it. [Seal with arms
and crest. 1½ pp.] |
| Nov. 7. |
52. Order of the House of Commons. That the Committee for
the Safety of the Kingdom be desired to grant a warrant to Sir
Gilbert Gerrard, Treasurer-at-Wars, to issue 100l. to Mr. Wheeler, to
be disposed of, under the directions of the Committee for Examinations, to such as shall seize any arms or horse; and that the arms
and horse be brought to Mr. Wheeler, who is to be accountable for
them, and the parties that seized them discharged. [Printed in
the Commons' Journals, ii. 838. Much damaged by damp.
¾ p.] |
| Nov. 11. |
53. Petition of divers Ministers and citizens of the City of London
to the Committee of the Lords and Commons appointed for the
Safety of the Kingdom. Being sensible of the many pressing dangers,
petitioners are bold to present their suits to this Committee, 1. That
no accommodations be made, but such as are according to those safe
conditions which have been sundry times presented by both Houses,
and expressed by Mr. Pym in Guildhall to the City of London,
together with the punishment of Delinquents, and reparation of
those vast charges expended by the City out of the Delinquents'
estates. |
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2. That this treaty be put to a period within a very few days,
which otherwise will consume our estates, sink our spirits, and
expose us to desperate dangers. |
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3. That there may be an army of 6,000 horse presently raised to
pursue the enemy incessantly until the work be finished. |
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4. That his Excellency may instantly go forth, which was certainly promised, and by us fully expected before this time. |
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5. That our loving neighbours of Essex, Hertford, and other
counties, which came up hither for our defence, and waited here
horse and man at their own charges many days, and are now
returned home discouraged, may be instantly recalled and employed
in this service. |
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6. That life may be given to such ordinances as concern the
seizing and securing the malignants' persons and estates, both in City
and country. |
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7. That all the prisons in London and suburbs be secured, by
turning out the malignant keepers, and men of trust put into their
places, and that no malignants be discharged without good information from honest men that know their spirits and estates. |
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8. That our armies may supply their necessities upon Papists and
malignants, as well as they have done upon us, else we shall preserve
them and destroy ourselves. |
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9. That the counties that lie now in danger to be seized upon by
the enemy, especially the county of Kent, may be fully secured by
speedy and convenient forces, with all castles, &c. |
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10. That those ministers in City or country that have declared
themselves malignant, especially such as have been convented and
adjudged by this honourable House unworthy of their places, may
be presently seized on, and so kept from opening their mouths
against God, the Parliament, and all goodness, as they daily do, to the
exceeding great prejudice of the great cause in hand, and other godly
ministers appointed to supply their places, or their livings for the
present sequestered for their pains. Presented 11 Nov. 1642. [Copy.
1¼ pp.] |
| [Nov. 11.] |
Petition of the Lords and Commons in Parliament to the King
[presented at Colnbrook, the 11th November, by the Earls of
Northumberland and Pembroke, Lord Wenman, [William] Pierpoint,
M.P., and Sir John Hippesley]. Being affected with a deep and
piercing sense of the miseries of this kingdom, and of the danger to
your person, as the present affairs now stand, and much quickened
therein with the sad consideration of the great effusion of blood at
the late battle, and of the loss of so many eminent persons; and
further weighing the addition of loss, misery, and danger to your
Majesty and your kingdom if both armies should again join in
another battle, which, without your concurrence with your Houses
of Parliament, will not probably be avoided; we cannot but believe
that a suitable impression of tenderness and compassion is wrought
in your royal heart, being yourself an eye-witness of the bloody and
sorrowful destruction of so many of your subjects; and that your
Majesty doth apprehend what diminution of your own power and
greatness will follow, and that all your kingdoms will thereby be so
weakened as to become subject to the attempts of any ill-affected
to this State. In all which respects we assure ourselves, that your
Majesty will be inclined to accept this our humble petition, that
the misery and desolation of this kingdom may be speedily removed
and prevented. For the affecting whereof we most humbly beseech
your Majesty to appoint some convenient place, not far from the City
of London, where you will be pleased to reside until Committees of
both Houses may attend you with some propositions for the removal
of these bloody distempers and distractions, and settling the state of
the kingdom in such a manner as may conduce to the preservation
of God's true religion, your Majesty's honor, safety, and prosperity,
and to the peace, comfort, and security of all your people. [Printed
in Rushworth, v., p. 58; and Husband's Collection, p. 745. Copy.
1⅓ pp. See 14 Nov., No. 55.] |
| Nov. 11. |
54. The King's answer to the late Petition of both Houses of
Parliament. It being known to all the world that as we were not the
first to take up arms, so we have shown our readiness of composing
all things in a fair way by our several offers of treaty, and shall be
glad, now at length, to find any such inclinations in others. The
same tenderness to avoid the destruction of our subjects, whom we
know to be our greatest strength, which would always make our
greatest victories bitter to us, shall make us willingly hearken to
such propositions whereby these bloody distempers may be stopped,
and the great distractions of this kingdom settled. To that end we
shall reside at our own Castle at Windsor, if the forces there shall
be removed, till Committees may have time to attend us with the
same, and shall be ready there or at any other place to receive such
propositions from our Houses of Parliament. [Endorsed: "Read
12 Nov. 1642." Copy. 2/3 p. Printed in Lords' Journals, v. p. 442;
Husband's Collection, p. 746; and Rushworth, v. p. 58.] |
| Nov. 11. |
Another copy of the King's answer. [See Nov. 14, No. 55.] |
| Nov. 12. |
The King's message to both Houses of Parliament. On the night
of the 11th present, after the departure of the Committee of both
Houses with our gracious answer to their petition, we received certain
information that the Earl of Essex had drawn his forces out of
London towards us, which has necessitated our sudden resolution to
march with our forces to Brainceford [Brentford]. We have thought fit
to signify to both our Houses of Parliament that we are no less desirous
of the peace of the kingdom than we expressed in our aforesaid
answer, the propositions for which we shall willingly receive whereever we are; and desire, if it may be, to receive them at Brentford
this night or early to-morrow morning, that all possible speed may
be made in so good a work, and all inconveniences otherwise likely
to intervene may be avoided. [Printed in Rushworth, v., p. 59
Lords' Journals, v., p. 443; and Husband's Collection, p. 748.
Copy. 2/3 p. See Nov. 14, No. 55.] |
| Nov. 14. |
55. His Majesty's declaration to all his loving subjects of his
true intentions in advancing lately to Brainceford [Brentford]. Also
1st, the petition of Parliament for a treaty, presented to the King
Nov. 11; 2nd, the King's answer thereto, Nov. 11; and 3rd, the
King's message of the 12 Nov;—all which are calendared under
their respective dates. [Printed in Rushworth, v., pp. 60–62.
Copy. 6½ pp.] |
| Nov. 14. |
56. The Parliament's answer to the King's message of Nov. 12,
about his advancing to Brainford [Brentford.] [Printed in Rushworth, v., p. 62; and Husband's Collection, p. 749. 1½ pp.] |
| Nov. 15. |
57. Petition of Marian Roberts, widow of Christopher Roberts,
late of Chatham, and of Thomas Hayes, mariner, to the Lords and
others Commissioners for the Admiralty. Petitioner's husband
being master and owner of the hoy Providence of Chatham, wherein
petitioner Hayes had three-quarters part, the hoy was taken for
service of the King and Parliament, and laden the 18th of October
last with 25 tuns of beer for his Majesty's ships the St. George and
Greyhound, two ships for winter guard of the Narrow Seas for this
year 1642. In the Downs delivering the beer in foul weather the
hoy was bilged by labouring against the ships and forced to run
ashore, where the hoy and 16½ tuns of beer were cast away; which
hoy cost 200l.; besides, petitioner's husband hath lost his life, and
petitioner and all theirs are utterly undone. Pray for some speedy
relief. Underwritten, |
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57. i. The Commissioners of the Navy are desired to consider of
the petition, and to report their opinion to this Committee
what they consider fit to be done in this case. Giles Grene,
Nov. 15, 1642. [1 p.] Annexed, |
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57. ii. Certificate by William Batten that Christopher Roberts
received into his hoy 25 tuns of beer for the St. George
and Greyhound, whereof he delivered 8½ tuns aboard the
St. George and the hoy was then lost as above. Aboard
the St. George in the Downs, the 29th of October 1642.
[½ p.] |
| Nov. 16. |
58. Muster roll of the Marquis of Argyle's regiment, mustered
November 10, 1642. Total strength, 1,048 men. [Book of 82 pp.,
of which 34 pp. blank.] |
| Nov. 17. |
Robert Earl of Warwick, Captain General of the army now
levied in London and the counties thereabouts, for defence of the
Protestant religion, safety of his Majesty, &c., to Richard Browne.
Commission to be Colonel of all the companies of dragoons raised
by the City of London. [Seal with crest and arms. Parchment.
See Case F., No. 9.] |
Nov. 18,
Oatlands. |
59. Lucius Viscount Falkland to Wm. Lord Grey of Warke,
Speaker of the Peers pro tem. I am commanded by the King
to return to you the King's reply to the answer of Parliament
to his message of 12 Nov. [Seal with arms and crest. ½ p.]
Enclosed, |
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59. i. The above-mentioned answer about the unhappy accident
at Brentford. [Printed in Rushworth, vol. v., p. 63; and
Journals of the Lords, v. pp. 451. 2⅓ p.] |
Nov. 18,
Oatlands. |
60. Warrant of the King to his Printers to print, publish, and
disperse the Answer of both Houses of Parliament to our Message of
the 12 Nov. [see No. 56], with our Reply thereunto [see No. 59, 1.];
as also our Declaration to all our loving subjects of our true intentions in advancing lately to Brainceford [Brentford, see No. 55].
The copies whereof you shall herewith receive. [Signed, but not
sealed. ½ p.] |
| Nov. 19. |
61. Order of the House of Commons. That the Committee for
the Safety of the Kingdom do give their warrant to Sir Gilbert
Gerrard to issue 100l. to Mr. Holland and Mr. Jenner, to be employed for relief of maimed soldiers and the widows of slain
soldiers. [Printed in the Commons' Journals, ii., 856. ½ p.]
Enclosed, |
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61. i. Receipt by Cornelius Holland and Robert Jenner for the
above 100l. received from Sir Gilbert Gerrard, November 22, 1642. [½p.] |
| Nov. 21. |
62. Certificate of Richard Viscount Dungarvan, and Roger Baron
of Broghill, to all whom it may concern. That Captains Nicholas
Codd and Rowland Langrom, commanders of the Adventure of
Dublin, were detained in the harbour of Youghall from the 1st till
the 16th November, waiting for wind to carry the said Lords
over from Ireland into England, where they landed on the 18th at
Padstow in Cornwall. [2/3 p.] |
| Nov. 22. |
63. Order of the Committee of Lords and Commons for the
Safety of the Kingdom. That 26 waggons be forthwith provided
for sutlers for victualing 13 regiments; and as there are now
in the hands of the Waggon-master General only 14 serviceable
waggons belonging to the State, he shall forthwith take up country
waggons in and about London sufficient to make up 26, and cause
them to be valued by the Commissaries appointed to value horses
in London; upon whose certificate of their value the Treasurer of
the Army shall satisfy it to the owners. [1p.] |
| Nov. 25. |
Proclamation by the King for the better government of his Army,
and for preventing plundering and robbing his subjects under any
pretence whatever. Given at Reading this day. [See printed
pamphlet, under date 28 Aug. 1642, vol. 491, Nos. 134–136.
4 pp.] |
| Nov. 25. |
64. Order of the Lords in Parliament. This day it appeared,
upon reading the votes of both Houses, that the sequestration of the
Inland Letter Office to Philip Burlamachi was illegal and void, and
ought to be taken off, and that Burlamachi and his deputies ought
to bring in an account of the profits received since the said illegal
sequestration; and that the proclamation in pursuance of the sequestration is also illegal and void. It is thought fit and ordered by the
Lords that the said office shall be delivered to the Earl of Warwick
or his deputies, and that Burlamachi and his deputies shall, within
eight days after serving of this order, bring in a particular account
upon oath to the Earls of Clare and Bolingbroke, and Lord Grey of
Werke and Lord Bruce, of the profits of that office during all the
time of their being in possession of the same. The Lords abovementioned are to make report to the House, that thereby the Earl of
Warwick may have the profits of that office to be paid to him by
the parties aforesaid; and the posts and their agents are hereby
commanded to bring the mails with letters to such place as the
Earl of Warwick shall appoint. Signed by John Browne, clerk of
Parliaments. [Copy. 1¼ pp.] |
| Nov. [26]. |
65. Account of the churchwardens of Newington, Surrey, of
money collected in their parish upon an order of Parliament of
[26] November 1642, total 27l. 17s. [1½ pp.] |
| Nov. 26./Dec. 2. |
66–103. Returns furnished by the several parishes named within
the City of London, of the names of those willing to lend for the
use of the Parliament, for the present supply of 30,000l. required to
be advanced by an ordinance of Parliament, upon an order from the
Lord Mayor, dated 26th Nov. 1642. The sums offered are stated
in a column opposite the names of the contributors resident in the
under-named parishes: Clements East Cheap, total 301l.; St.
Michael Cornhill, total 371l.; Trinity, total 271l. 1s.; St. Laurence
Old Jury, total 11,840l.; St. Peters Cheap, total 510l.; St. Swithins
London-stone, total 468l.; St. Saviours Southwark, total 98l. 4s. 4d.;
St. Stephens Walbrook, total 953l.; St. Stephens Coleman Street,
total 1,310l. 19s.; St. Gregory's in Castle Baynard Ward, total
315l. 13s.; another return for the same parish, total 275l. 13s.;
Allhallows Lombard Street, total 763l.; another return for the
same parish, total 729l.; St. Andrews Hubbard, total 195l. 10s.;
Andrew Undershaft, total 875l.; St. Dunstan-in-the-East, total
1,407l.; St. Antholins, total 359l.; St. Magnus, total 262l.; St.
Christopher, total 583l.; Mildred's Bread Street, total 330l.; St.
Mary-le-Bow, total 525l. 13s. 4d.; St. Matthew's, Friday Street,
total 758l.; Mary Staynings, total 103l. 5s.; Katharine Coleman,
total 107l. 10s.; besides which some eminent men of this parish
will pay in their own money; St. Andrew's, Wardrobe, total
109l. 5s.; Allhallows the Great, Thames Street, total 233l. 5s. 6d.;
St. Bartholomew, Exchange, total 397l.; Bennet Sherehog, total
307l. 10s.; Bassishaw, total 230l.; Michael Querne, total 424l.;
St. Olave, Silver Street, total 202l. 5s. 10d.; Little St. Bartholomews, total 38l.; another list unfinished, total 13l.; Christchurch,
London, total 884l. 10s. List of residents in Broad Street and
Vintry Wards, with their valuations, some of whom have lent
money but inconsiderably. List of subscriptions in Candlewick
Ward not yet brought into Guildhall. Several of these returns
contain also the names of such as refuse or contribute not in proportion to their ability. Their dates extend from Nov. 26 to Dec. 2,
1642. |
Nov. 27,
Reading. |
104. Lucius Viscount Falkland to Henry Earl of Manchester,
Speaker of the House of Lords. I am commanded to return this,
the King's answer to the petition of both Houses [of Nov. 24,
presented at Oxford, praying him to return to his Parliament.
Seal with arms and crest. ½ p.] Enclosed, |
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104. i. The above-mentioned answer to the Parliament's petition.—We expected such propositions from you as might
speedily remove and prevent the misery and desolation
of this kingdom; and we now residing at a convenient
place not far from the City of London, Committees from
both Houses should attend us; instead whereof we have
only received your petition, that we would be pleased
to return to our Parliament with our royal and not our
martial attendance, etc. |
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Touching the late sad accident you mention, if you
thereby intend that of Brentford, we desire you once to
deal ingenuously with the people, and to let them see our
last message to you [see No. 54], and our declaration to
them [see No. 55] concerning the same; both which we sent
to our press at London [see No. 60], but they were taken
away from our messenger, and not suffered to be published;
and then we doubt but they will be soon undeceived, and
easily find out those counsels which do rather persuade
a desperate division than a good agreement betwixt us,
our Houses, and people. [Signed by the King. 2½ pp.
Printed in Rushworth, v., pp. 65–66; Lords' Journals, v.,
p. 463.] |
| Nov. 28. |
105. Acknowledgment by the Treasurers [at Guildhall], ordained
by an ordinance of both Houses, of the receipt from Nathan King,
chandler, of 12½ ozs. troy-weight of silver plate valued at 3l. 6s. 8d.
[Printed form.] |
| Nov. 29. |
106. Pamphlet containing, 1st, " An Ordinance and Declaration of
the Lords and Commons in Parliament [passed Nov. 26] for assessing non-contributors upon the Propositions for raising money, plate,
horses, and arms for defence of the King, kingdom, and Parliament,
or have not contributed proportionably according to their estates.
[Printed in Rushworth, v., p. 71–2, and Lords' Journals, v., p. 462.]
2nd, "An Ordinance of both Houses for the better provision of
victuals and other necessaries for the army, and for payment and
satisfaction to be made for such provisions." [Printed in Lord.
Journals, v., p. 466.] 3rd, "An explanation of the former Ordinance,
declaring that if any person so assessed shall, within six or twelve
days after notice, pay in the money to the Treasurers at Guildhall,
they shall receive acquittances for the same to be repaid upon the
public faith." [Printed in Lords' Journals, v., p. 466. Pamphlet
printed for J. Wright, in Old Baily, London, Dec. 1, 1642.
16 pp.] |
| Nov. 29. |
107. Printed pamphlet containing the Ordinance and Declaration
of the Lords and Commons, together with the explanation as in
the preceding pamphlet. After which are added another Declaration
touching the assessment of London and Westminster, passed 7 Dec.
1642 [printed in Lords' Journals, v., p. 477]; and votes of the
same day, empowering the Lord Mayor and others named in the
Ordinance, to appoint assessors for money to be raised in London
and Westminster [likewise printed in Lords' Journals, v., p. 477].
Also a short Ordinance of Dec. 15 and 16, in explanation of the
Ordinances concerning the assessing of persons, and declaring that
the members of either House shall be assessed by that House
whereof they are members, and the assistants of the Peers by the
House of Peers. [Printed in Lords' Journals, v., pp. 492 and 494.
This Pamphlet was printed for R. D., Dec. 17, 1642. In the margin
are MS. notes in a cotemporary hand. 14 pp., of which 4
blank.] |
| Nov. |
[Thomas Lord Saville] to Lady Temple [wife of Sir Peter Temple].
I was much troubled at a report I had that your house was visited
with the plague, but am glad to hear so well of it now from my
cousin [Lady Katherine] Bland. In your letter to her you say you
are sorry to hear I have absolutely declared myself against the
Parliament; which I wonder at this time to hear, when all the
gentlemen of this county complain to the King that I am too
affectionate to the Parliament. I am confident Sir John Hotham
will say otherwise of me than you are informed. It hath been my
fortune still ever to receive worst usage where I thought I had
best deserved, and never more apparent than in the dealing which,
by misinformation, I hope, the Parliament hath done to me. To
you I may without vaunting say that if this Parliament have done
any great matters for the public, or are in a condition more free
than other Parliaments, God, who knows all secrets, knows that if
I were not at first the only, yet I was (though unworthy) his
chiefest instrument to bring it to pass. I differed from them in
nothing whilst a syllable was ungranted of the petition delivered at
York, and which was drawn [up], as you know, by Mr. Pym himself
and Mr. Solicitor [St. John]. So far only we were obliged by covenant
amongst ourselves. For the alterations which they now desire in
the Church, let my Lords Saye and Brooke witness if ever I was
for them in my life; and therefore, in a free Parliament, why it was
not lawful for me to vote freely according to my conscience without
being made of the malignant party, I could not imagine. Had they
ever a good message from the King but I contributed something to
it ? Was there ever a violent one but I opposed it ? The message
at Windsor, where the King granted the militia, I drew up, which
I have often heard of. When my Lord Howard and Sir Philip
Stapleton were at York, let them report what my part was; what
I did with the King at Beverley, when my Lord of Holland and
Sir Philip Stapleton brought the overture of peace, let them and all
the court report. The message at Nottingham, where the King
offered to take down his Standard, dismiss his forces, and recall his
proclamations, all the Lords know that I both persuaded it, and
with my own hands, by the King's permission, drew it up. I
protested against Lord Cumberland's commission, caused my own
name to be put out of it, and in the open assembly of gentlemen
declaimed against the clause enabling him to levy money on the
country, as against the law and liberty of the subject; for which, as
the Earl of Dorset and others know, I was complained of to the
King. Now I would fain know for which of these acts I am forbidden to sit in Parliament, and declared an enemy to the public.
Was I found guilty of bringing up the army against the Parliament,
or privy to the King's going into the House of Commons ? Was
I so much as privy much less persuading to his leaving the Parliament and going to York ? Was I not against his going against
Hull, Coventry, and Warwick ? Have I taken any command in
the army in this unnatural war ? Did I not retire to my own house
in peace and quiet when the King broke up his house[hold] so that
my attendance and oath bound me no longer, and when I could do
no further good, yet would not contribute to any of the fatal evils
which must follow ? Do I not at this time here protect all ministers
and professors of religion from the violence of the times, so far as to
render me suspected of all my friends ? Now, my Lady Temple,
judge that when men who have done the contrary to all the good
that I have done; have done as much against the meeting of this
Parliament as I have done for it,—as much against peace as I have
done for it; have taken arms and commands against the Parliament,
and still continue so; have given public and violent counsels when
I gave peaceable ones; yet not a man but myself, against whom there
is no impeachment or question, is forbidden the Parliament House,
and stigmatized as a public enemy. To balance all my good offices,
the only things which ever I could learn to be urged against me
are my coming down to York without leave and contrary to their
order, and what I did at Heyworth Moor in Yorkshire, when the
county was assembled there by the King's command. To both
which [I answer] thus much. The oath which I took as Treasurer
of the Household is flat and plain, to serve his Majesty in that
office in his House, and not to depart without his license. I stayed
at the Parliament as long as I could by any mediation prevail upon
the King to allow me, and when he peremptorily under his own hand
charged me, on pain of my allegiance and oath, to come down and
do my service in his house, I durst not forswear myself, but came
accordingly, and staid with him whilst his Household continued, and
then went home; for I was shut out of Parliament by a vote before,
my offence being that I durst not forswear myself positively to
obey an order,—though many who went contrary to their order, no
oath compelling them, have received no such sentence. For that
of Heyworth Moor, which they declared me an enemy to the public
for doing, thus in brief:—Before my coming to York the King had
appointed that meeting, and that morning I finding that the divided
people intended to have pressed two petitions contrary to each
other upon the King, which might in such a mighty concourse of
people have ended in violence, and knowing that those they term
the good party, and who came fearful [in] under my assurance of
protection, were far the lesser number, I called to me John Reyner,
Mr. Farer, Mr. Todd, Mr. Rigeley, and all the heads of that party,
and told them that if they would assure me that their side would
deliver no petition I would take such order that the other should
not. They repaired to their party, and assured me there should be
none delivered by them; and so we went to the field, where, finding
Sir John Bourchier reading, as they said, a petition, though it was
none, which I, conceiving he did it in ignorance of our agreement, and
contrary to the will of the honest men of his side, took from him.
And now behold the act that makes me an enemy to the Commonwealth ! I have been long in these expressions, because I desire you
would let them be known, though [do] not openly publish my
letter. To the truth of all in it, God is witness, and men also.
Your faithful friend. |
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PS.— Commend my service to Lady Carli[sle and] Bedford, and
all my friends, and particularly to my poor cousin Carr and his
wife, whose business, I am afraid, may miscarry by reason of my
absence from the Court, which grieves me much. [Printed in Camden
Miscellany, ed., J. J. Cartwright, 1883, pp. 1–4. See Interregnum
G., 179, p. 211 = 3½ pp.] |
| [Nov.] |
The same to the same. I shall ever acknowledge your services
as a friend in a way wherein I most value friendship, i.e., in good
offices to the Parliament, so as to make me to be understood as
I am. Commend my service to Lord Saye and to noble Sir Philip
Stapleton, and assure them I will never forget the public nor these
particular favours, if it please God to leave me any power. Tell
Lord Saye peradventure he may be as falsely represented where
I am, at the Court, as I where he is, at the Parliament. I desire
but the same justice from him there as he shall be sure to find
from me here. Either I will see such an accommodation as I may
live in Court, in the fellowship of noble, virtuous, and deserving
persons, or at least not at all with such persons, whom he may
imagine, that shall bear sway. For any honour to be done
to the House by any acknowledgment of mine I shall never
grudge, nor think I lose any honour that the House gains
by me. My heart should second my wishes in coming to you,
but we are so straitly besieged that not so much as a serving
man, much less myself, can yet stir one mile out of town; and,
which is most miserable, our deliverance must probably come by
Newcastle's forces, many of which are Papists, as his declaration,
which I presume you have seen, shows. All which leads me to
consider the unspeakable miseries which this once flourishing
country now groans under. First, by Sir John Hotham's and the
Lincolnshire forces called to his assistance under pretence of
settling the militia and seizing delinquents, this county has been
robbed of and impoverished above 100,000l.; and so many
licentious plunderings and villanies have been committed as are
incredible, and which I am loath to name, because done under
the sacred name of Parliament; and, to say truth, much the same
has been done by our party according to their power. And
to remedy all this, and to make the measure of their sufferings full,
the losing side is glad to call in the Earl of Newcastle with 6,000
men, qualified as aforesaid; and peradventure the Earl of Derby,
if t'other be not sufficient, will be called in also, to do as much for
the one part as hath already been done to the other, and so leave
no one person between them that shall not be made miserable,
ruined, and undone, besides an occasion given to the Romanists to
assemble in a body together. For preventing this misery I am
now as active as I can; and if I can prevail, and that any reason
will satisfy the Parliament's forces, we will endure it, rather than
admit this cure; which being effected or attempted to my power,
if I can get away, you shall see me shortly after. Meantime I
will be preparing. [Printed in Camden Miscellany, ed. J. J. Cartwright, 1883, pp. 5–6. See Interregnum, G. 179,
p. 215 = 2 pp.] |
| [Nov.] |
108. Petition of Detcloss Heitman, a Dane, to the King. Being
a cabinet-maker, and having married an English woman, he wishes
to reside in England, but is prevented from following his vocation
by envious and turbulent persons, though a servant to the
Portuguese Ambassador. Prays for the protection of the King,
and that he may be accepted as a servant in extraordinary of the
King, to enable him to work at his trade, in which he is most
capable, as the Marquis of Worcester can certify. [1 p.] |
| Nov. ? |
109. List of 44 letters of the late Sec. Windebank, with notes
of compromising passages occurring in them; amongst others, the
King's special warrant that no man should search him on his
departure for Calais. (2.) This is a remarkable letter, worth
reading, declaring he did nothing in releasing priests but by the
King's warrant or special command. (8.) Saith the King cannot
but in honour and right avow him in the matter of Recusants.
(9) He takes great care of a trunk of papers, for his own and
Cottington's safety, and says that therein are certain papers that
contain orders to him in secret services, and which are his only
warrants. By the King's command he determined to keep five
manuscripts taken from Sir Edward Coke, of very great consideration. (25.) Declares to his Majesty concerning the Irish army.
(2.) The Queen's going to Tyborne [was] a penance. (19.) The Irish
Archbishop and Bishops' protestation against toleration. [1¼ p.] |
