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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62829	To the supream authority of the nation the Parliament of the common-wealth of England the humble petition of Mary Countess of Sterling, and John Blount her husband.	Stirling, Mary Vanlore Alexander, Countess of, d. ca. 1660.; Blount, John.	1654 (1654)	Wing T1730A; ESTC R22329	13,652	8

TO THE SUPREAM AUTHORITY OF THE NATION THE PARLIAMENT OF THE Common-wealth of ENGLAND The humble Petition of Mary Countes of Sterling and John Blount her husband Sr Robert Croke of Checquers in the County of Bucks Knight and Dame Susan his wife Henry 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Zin●●● and Jacoba his wife Sackvile Glemham and Peter Glemham your Petitioners the said Countess Dame Susan Jacoba Sackvile and Peter being Grandchildren of Sir Peter Vanloore the elder and your Petitioners the said Countesse Dame Susan and Jacoba being also right Heirs of the said Sir Peter and of Dame Mary Powel late wife of Sir 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 SHEWETH THat the said Sir Peter Vanlore did in his life-time settle the Castle and Parkes of the Devises in Wilts worth 600 l. yearly and the fifth part of divers other his Mannors and Lands worth yearly 2500 l. upon the said Lady Powel and the Heires of her body And for default of such issue the reversion of the said Castle and Parks to his own right Heirs which your Petitioners the said Countess of Sterling Dame Susan and Jacoba are and entayled the fifth part of the said other Mannors and Lands upon all your Petitioners his Grandchildren and some others his Grandchildren by name and so dyed and the said Lady Powel upon the sixth day of October 1651 died without issue and your Petitioners are thereby become lawfully entituled to the said Castle Manners and lands according to the settlement of the said Sir Peter 2 That by reason of some implacable differences between the said Sir Edw. Powel and the said Lady they lived apart for about 15 years together before her death and one Thomas Levingston a Lawyer who marryed Anne Caesar one of the Grandchildren of the said Sir Peter Vanloore being conceived by the said lady to take part with the said Sir Edw. Powel against her the said lady Powel became much disaffected to and displeased with the said Tho. Levingston and his wife 3 That the said lady about Septem. 1651. being dangerously sick of the sickness whereof she soon after died at a house in Chelsey where she had long lived sole and separate and the said Sir Edw. Powel and Thomas Levingston his wife knowing the said lady had a great estate at her dispose some with and some without the consent of the said Sir Edward which they contrived to gain unto themselves by several strange unlawful practises they together with one Wil. Hinson another Lawyer and a Justice of Peace of Middlesex and neer kinsman of the said Sir Edward and to whom as 't is commonly reported he hath given all his estate and disinherited his own Brother and Heir with divers other their kinred servants and confederates did about the 7 day of the same Septem. according to a Complot betwixt them forcibly enter into the said house at Chelsey wherein the said Lady Powel then lay dying and to which the said Sir Edward had no Title and guarded and secured the same with armed men caused all the Ladies servants to be presently arrested and violently taken away by one Thomas Crook then Under Sheriff of Middlesex whom they brought with them and to be imprisoned without Bayl upon fals feigned Actions of many thousand pounds which they never prosecuted but became non-suit therein and with Guards of armed and dissolute men they chained up the Doors of the said House and in Warlike manner kept it and the neerest friends and kindred of the said Lady from her untill she died engaging their Confederates to secresie and fidelity by Rings of Gold given to them with this Motto inscribed viz. Never to be forgotten or requited and discharged the said Lady Powels Apothecary for but delivering a civil Message from some of her friends and placed a new Physitian of their own engagement and strange servants whom the Lady knew not and against her wil to attend her in her last sickness and fearing least the said Lady should make any discovery of their wicked doings from her chamber window which open'd into a neighbors ground adjoyning they forbade that Neighbour to permit any of the said Ladies friends to come inground or stand near the house 4 That having thus by force and practice secluded all but themselves they upon the 18 day of the same Septemb. brought Judge Warburton who knew not the Lady Powel from London unto the said house at Chelsey then chained up and kept guarded and then and there procured the said Lady as the said Judge certifies to levy several Fines of the said Castle Parks Mannors and lands unto one Anthony Basset which Fines as the said Complotters affirm were declared by some Writings which she shortly after sealed to the use of the said Sir Edward Powel Levingston and his wife And the said Lady Powel did about that time also as they pretend dispose a great personal Estate which was your Petitioners said Grandfathers to the said Levingston and his wife although the said Lady utterly detested them as persons of a most evill and dangerous conversation and oft times hath been heard to wish the said Anne Levingston were not of her kinred 5 That the said Confederates suspecting as they had cause the sudden death of the said Lady Powel who died thus imprisoned upon the 6 day of Octob. following might render all their plots and fines ineffectual They by practice between one Gardiner an Attorney and James Pickis a Cursistor procured several Writs for passing the said Fines to be made out antedated in Easter Term before and made returnable in Trinity Term next after and to deprive your Petitioners of all possibility of redress caused the same Fines to inrolled of Record as acknowledged and levyed in Trinity Term four moneths before they were acknowledged and contrary to the true intent of the Statute made in the 23 year of the Reign of the late Qu-Eliz and the practice so dangerous if admitted as tendeth to the deceiving of all such as shall purchase or deal for any lands and to establish wickedness by a law 6 That yet doubting all these plots would not hold wickedness filling them with fear of discovery they procured a sequestred Parson to certifie under his hand that the said Lady Powel was reconciled to the said Sir Edward and had received the Sacrament of the Supper and procured a paper under the said Ladies hand to signifie her well pleasedness although upon or neer that very day that paper was subscribed the said Lady Powel did publikeby rebuke the said Mrs. Levingston and affirm That their plot was to disinherit the right Heirs of the lands but that she would be torn in pieces with wild horses before she would do it And the said Certificates are things so altogether unusual and full of suspition that the Judges of the Common-pleas in dislike thereof did publikely in open Court tell the said Levingston that he had over-acted his part therein 7 That the Petitioners so soon as they possibly could complained of the