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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35588	The Case and proceedings of at least sixty gentlemen participants and purchasers for valuable consideration, of lands in the levell of Hatfield Chace, the counties of York, Lincolne and Nottingham and more then two hundred of their tenants who have been dispoiled of their estates by the inhumane and barbarous ryots of the inhabitants of the mannor of Epworth ... / humbly presented to the consideration of this present Parliament for redress of their so great losses and dammages as it was also to the several parliaments sitting in the years 1651 and 1654.		1656 (1656)	Wing C849; ESTC R37529	14,811	16

the said Participants with their remainder of their Improvement in the other Counties to maintain the banks for preservation of those Lands so taken from them And notwithstanding their former misdemeanors did too sadly presage their future disobedience yet hoping what with earnestness we desired a change of spirit in them we requested our worthy friend Nathaniel Reading Esq being both a Commissioner and Participant to see to the getting in of the Assessements charged upon the Lands aforesaid and upon his acceptance impowred him accordingly requiring the Sheriffs of the County to be assistant to him therein But when the said Mr Reading had distrayned severall of their Goods some of the Inhabitants of the said Isle to the number of One hundred or thereabouts with Swords Pistols Carbines Halberts and other Arms at Hatfield in the County of Yorke on the 2●th day of Octob. last about the hours of Twelve or One in the night did assault or set upon the persons appointed to keep the Cattell and having dangerously wounded severall of them and amongst others the Constable of the said down who in your Highness Name charged them to keep your peace with many other hainous circumstances of the Ryot carried away the goods And when on the 19 instant the Sheriff of the said County of Lincolne in pursuance of our Precept assisted the said Mr Reading in the taking of another distress severall of the Inhabitants aforesaid to the number of 40 or 50 being armed as aforesaid came in a riotous manner and being charged by the Sheriff in your Higness Name to lay down their Arms and repair to their severall dwellings they not only refused to give obedience thereunto but some of them with scandalous and opprobrious language of the person of your Highness and with divers affronts and menaces caused the Sheriff and his company to depart away for fear of their lives and rescued that distress likewise insomuch that severall persons as well Officers as others have upon their Oaths in open Court declared that they dare not go into the Isle aforesaid upon execution of certain Orders to them directed without manifest danger of their lives In our reflection upon these miscarriages our 〈◊〉 ●avours to vindicate the Authority of your Highness Commission a●●●●ing ro the power we derived thence have not been less then our te●●●●ess of giving your Highness the trouble of their cognizance nor is 〈◊〉 regret to finde so absolute a necessity thereof less than either But not being able ro accomplish all those ends for which by the said Commission we are intrusted without getting in the arrears aforesaid and making the said Lands contributary for the future to the publike Works as the rest of the Improvement is nor being able to do either without some extraordinary Assistance to the Civil Power And fearing least their violence should aime at the further discomposure of the publike peace as by some of their scandalous and rebellious speeches against your Highness too evidently appears The duty we alwayes shall have for your Highness and the tranquillity of this Commonwealth commanded us this Account with the Particulars annexed in detestation of such evil practises and apprehension of their evil consequences Doncaster the 25th of January 1655. Darcy Wentworth Sam Bolles Will Addams Sam Lister Hen Perkins Mar v Walkenbroughe Richard Burdet Edward Neville Rob Lee. Jo Vincent Joseph Thoresby John Crosse The Report of Commissary Generall Whalley IN pursuance of your Order of the 15th of April 1656 requiring me to enquire into the business of the poor Protestant strangers French and Dutch Inhabitants within the Levell of Hatfield Chace and parts adjacent within the Counties of Yorke Lincolne and Nottingham and to certifie the state thereof to your Lordships I have summoned divers Persons as well on the behalf of the Defendants as Complainants before and upon the hearing of the matters on both sides do finde and humbly certifie That in October 1650. the Inhabitants of Belton and Epworth in the Isle of Axholme among whom were Richard Mawe Thomas Barnard and William Robinson of Belton did put in great numbers of Cattell into the Frenchmens Corn viz. Wheat Rye and Rapes to the quantity of 800 or 900 Acres or thereabouts and kept the Cattell in the said Corn till June following I likewise further finde that the Inhabitants of the Isle amongst whom were Robert Barnard and Jeffery Whitacre of Belton did pull down a Windmill of John Amery a French mans near Sandtoft worth as is conceived 150lb as also that divers came from Belton and Epworth and betwixt the 11th day of June 1651. and the end of that moneth pull'd down 84 dwelling Houses besides Outhouses And the said Robert Barnard did with an iron maule break down the planks of a Chamber and told the rest of his company being about 50 in number that they might do so And I do further find that a very great Ryot was committed at Santoft in the said Isle on the 19th of October being the Lords Day in the year 1651. divers of the Inhabitants of the Isle with Lieutenant Collonell John Lilburn and Mr Noddel coming thither who placed two men with their Swords by their sides at the Church door the said Lieutenant Collonel Lilburn saying that he was a 〈◊〉 House-holder in the Isle as well as the rest and that they came to take possession 〈…〉 the Church and that the Minister should not preach there nor the people hear 〈◊〉 ●ot they were stronger they upon which the people and Minister went away 〈◊〉 ●d lastly I do find that on the 21th of Janury 1655. divers of the Inhabita●● 〈◊〉 the Isle purll'd down and break in pieces the windowes doors seates and Pu● 〈◊〉 that Church and that some of those men discharged two Gunnes at Mr Readings man Mr Walkenburghs man and Peter de Rat a Dutch-man and so followed them with their Gunnes cocked half a mile together crying Shoot again and afterwards returned to the Church and gathered the broken pieces of the doors windows Pulpit c. and laid them on heapes in the middle of the Church and set them on fire These Particulars have at large been made out to me by severall Witnesses on the behalf of the Complainants as also by the confession of some persons against whom the Accusation was brought and not denied by any all which I humbly submit to Your Lordships c. June the 12th 1656. Edward Whalley And upon all former Proceedings His Highness Council proceeded and made this Letter following to the said Commissay Generall SIR THe poor Protestant Strangers French and Duch inhabiting within the Levell of Hatfield Chace and Parts adjacent in the Counties of York Lincolne and Nottingham have addrest themselves by Petition to His Highness complaining of the great interruptions received by them from the Inhabitants of the Isle of Axholme both in reference to the free Exercise of their Religion and enjoyment of their Estates upon Consideration whereof and of a Certificate from Your self mentioning the great Disorders and ryotous Proceedings of the said Inhabitants as also of severall accounts from the Commissioners of Sewers and the Sheriff intimating the violences and opposition which hath been offered by the said armed Inhabitants to the Officers of the Courts of Justice and requesting some Military Assistance to the Civil Powers His Highness and Council seriously resenting the evil consequences of such miscarriages have thought fit in a special manner to recommend it to You to improve Your Endeavour upon all occasions to prevent all such further Ryots and Disorders in those places and in order thereunto to punish such scandalous disobedience according to Your instructions and not to suffer the said Inhabitants to keep by them any Armes or other Instruments for the further acting of such Disorders as also to give order to some of Your Regiment to be effectually aiding and assisting to the Sheriffs of the respective Counties within Your association or the Deputies and Collectors of the Court of Sewers for the putting in Execution from time to time the Decrees Precess and Orders of any His Highness Courts at Westminster or of the Commissioners of Sewers to the end the Improvers Just Rites may be restored according to Law and likew●se that the said Strangers may have the peaceable Exercise of their Religious Worship in the place designed for the publique Exercise thereof Whitehall the 21th Aug. 1656. Signed c. To Commissary Generall Whalley Major Generall of the Counties of Nottingham and Lincolne Page 1. line 17. for 600000 read 60000. line 22. for Commissioners read Commoners line 31. for washes read wastes FINIS