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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77328	A full discovery of a foul concealment or A true narrative of the proceedings and transactions of the committee for the accompts for the Common-wealth of England, with William Bagwell and John Brockedon accomptants, discoverers and plaintiffes against the committee of Hartford, the treasurer and paymaster there in the year 1643. Licenced by authority.	W. B. (William Bagwell), b. 1593?; Brockedon, John.	1652 (1652)	Wing B438; Thomason E1068_4; ESTC R210397	13,669	20

after an houre and halfes attendance were by the said Committee sent for into the room where they sate and there being a full Committee the then Chair-man stood up and said to the Plaintiffes viz. We have read your Petition a and notwithstanding we have much businesse yet in short the copies of the accompts you desired b we have not denyed them and you may have them as we have already ordered And we doe not deny to take the oaths of your witnesses c if you will assigne out any particular summe and the particular party or parties that hath received more then he hath paid To which the said Brockedon one of the said Plaintiffes replyed saying We can prove by our witnesses that there is detained 13 weeks and 3 days pay as hath been often repeated due to the Souldiery that was collected and received of the Inhabitants of the County of Hartford by that Committee d or others under them against whom the charge is And before the Plaintiffes could presse further to have the oath administred to the witnesses then and there present the said Chair-man with the Hammer in his hand said that they were in haste and desired that the Plaintiffes would take what they had exprest for an answer and withall to prevent the said Plaintiffes further reply took the Bell in his hand and rung it Whereupon the said Brockedon said We must then take this for an answer And so the Committee rose being as weary of the Plaintiffes importunity on the Common-wealths behalfe as they the said Plaintiffes were of their delays Whereupon the said Petitioners Plaintiffes and Discoverers for the Common-wealth finding by wofull experience nothing but delayings and continuall discouragements to themselves and their witnesses and that all proceedings tended to perplex and tyre them out with fruitlesse answers and attendances and that they were at last dismist without any appointment for further hearing and thereby deprived of all further hope of satisfaction from the said Committee They the said Bagwell and Brockedon to make it appear to your Honours and to whomsoever shall be concerned in the knowledge thereof That they have not undertaken a discovery of the premises upon slight but sound and solid grounds deemed themselves bound in conscience as well for vindication of their integrity as in service to the Common-wealth To cause some few of their witnesses being but seven in number upon their oaths e before a Master of the Chancery to testifie what they knew concerning the said discovery all concurring in effect and reall substance with these two which hereafter followeth Edward Coxe of Martin in the fields in the County of Middlesex Yeoman of the age of fifty and four years or thereabouts maketh oath That the Committee of Hartford or their Treasurer Humphrey Packer senior or Humphrey Packer junior Paymaster or some or one of them or others to their use doe to this day detain two thousand five hundred pounds or thereabouts for thirteen weeks and three days pay due to the Souldiery under the Command of Sir John Norwich from the 17 of August 1643 to the 25 of March 1644 of the monies raised and collected of the Inhabitants of the said County of Hartford for the satisfaction of the said Souldiers pay for the full time aforesaid of their service of the said County under the Command of the said Sir John Norwich as aforesaid Edw. Coxe Sworn the 15 of March 1651. John Page Gabriell Baskervill Citizen and Stationer of London of the age of fifty and two years or thereabouts maketh oath that the Committee of Hartford or their Treasurer Humphrey Packer senior or Humphrey Packer junior Pay-master or some or one of them or others to their use doe to to this day detain two thousand five hundred pounds or thereabouts for thirteen weeks and three days pay due to the Souldiery under the Command of Sir John Norwich from the 17 of August 1643 to the 25 of March 1644 of the monies raised and collected of the Inhabitants of the said County of Hartford for the satisfaction of the said Souldiers pay for the full time aforesaid of their service of the said County under the Command of the said Sir John Norwich as aforesaid Gabriell Baskervill Sworn the 15 of March 1651. John Page By these two affidavits the reall effect and substance whereof hath been attested upon the oathes of a seven credible persons and will if need be be made good by a cloud of witnesses it is cleerly manifest that the said Bagwell and Brockedon discoverers for the Common-wealth are more then sufficiently provided to make good their said charge and discovery and may justly minister occasion of enquiry what might be the cause that the Committee for the accompts for the Common-wealth of England sitting at the Dutchy house unto whose care affairs of this nature are intrusted by the Parliament have so delayed deferred and wearied out these discoverers affording them neither pertinent proceeding proper hearing Tryal or Determination answerable to what according to an Act and Ordinances of Parliament was justly expected by occasion whereof if this kind of dealing should be smothered will necessarily insue as is justly to be feared viz. A great incouragement to the Committee and others that are accomptable to the Common-wealth to continue their unjust and perverse dealings whereby they enrich themselves by the ruine of others A grief to the people who pay their monies they were assessed and taxed to see the same employed to no better purpose A discouragement to those that bring in discoveries at their great charge and expence of time for the benefit of the Common-wealth considering how they are slighted and hopelesse of any good to be done therein A disheartning to the Souldiery who have hazarded their lives and fortunes in their Actuall service for the defence of the Common-wealth b to be thus defeated of their Salary Upon all which they these discoverers for the Common-wealth William Bagwell and John Brockedon with the souldiers and others concerned herein doe all humbly intreat your Honours most serious observation whether the Parliaments care and trust in things of so great concernment to the Common-wealth the dues of Souldiers and rights of Discoverers have in these proceedings found that faithfulnesse and just respect as was agreeable with Christianity and a good conscience or the contrary and where it shall appear to your Honours that the Common-wealth hath been or is like to be prejudiced through the neglect or partiality of any that you will be pleased to employ your most effectuall endevours as to your grave wisedomes shall seem meet for a through and speedy remedy and that the discovery afore mentioned may be brought without such delays and chargeable yet fruitlesse attendance to a speedy issue c. AN ACCOMPT Of the Charge of 300 Horse raised for the service of the County of Hartford under the Command of Sir John Norwich Knight and Baronet Colonell and