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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89426	A fourth word to the wise, or A plaine discovery of Englands misery, and how the same may be redressed; set forth in a letter written by a prisoner in the Fleete to Commissary Generall Ireton, and published by a friend of his and lover of his country for Englands good.	Musgrave, John, fl. 1654.	1647 (1647)	Wing M3148; Thomason E391_9; ESTC R201553	18,152	23

examine witnesses I offered to undertake take to prosecute and make good my Charge as I hoped the See's Commissioners could and would do theirs the Committee then missed that they would acquaint the House with my desire and some of them did say that my request was reasonable notwithstanding all this Mr. Lisley misreporteth to the House how that I had contemptuously refused to answer Interrogatories not making any mention of Mr. Osmotherleyes refusing to answer Interrogatories upon the order of the House wherein not onely Mr. Lisley his parciality but likewise his intention and d●sire to obstruct Justice plainly appeareth upon which report made by Mr. Lisley I was committed ●o the Fleete by an order of the House of the 27. of October 1645. as contemp●ibly refusing to answer Interrogatories after this being ●n prison I sent a letter to Mr. Speaker dated the 28. of October 1645. wi h a Petition inclosed to the Honourable House of Commons which Letter and Petition the honourable Speaker presented and procured to be openly read and deb●ted in the House upon the 8 of November 1645. and both the letter and Petition was referred to the same Committee for the Scots papers and Lisley being the Chairman thereof and then present but presently af er my Letter and Petition was committed and Lisley then withdrew h mselfe for along time and came not to the House after Mr. Lisley came to have a Copy of the order for the committing my Letter and Petition being procured the same was sent in a letter from Colonell Rigby a member of the House desiring him to take some course about me and my Countries businesse But his answer was to my friends that came to him from Colonell Rigby that if Colonel Rigby or Sir Thomas Withrington who knew me and my cause would doe any thing they might but he could doe nothing which was as much as to say as I conceive he would doe nothing although the house had ordered otherwise And since the time my letter and petition was committed upon Mr. Speakers presenting I have written many letters and sent petitions therein inclosed both to them that sate in the House in the right of our Countrey and to others of the House also intreating them to present mine and my Countries grievances to the House and doubting the justice of the House being once truly informed of my state and my Countries cause yea and if I might have legall and impartiall hearing I doubt not but to make it appeare that Mr. Lisley is in the contempt in disobeying and slighting the orders of the House That Committee having power from this Honorable House to send for me as often as they would but to this day was I never sent for by him or that Committee Therefore I conceive that Mr. Lisley and that Committee to be the cause of my continued bonds and Countries long oppressions for his and their non-observance of the Houses Orders by which meanes justice hath been obstructed a long time And such as the Parliament hat● declared Traytors and grand enemies being disabled and prohibited by severall ordinances of Parliament to beare any Offices divers of them yet uncompounded for their Treasons and Delinquencies are yet upheld in places of power and trust to over-rule and oppresse our Countrey now under the Parliament more then when they acted for the enemy as I can prove and shew by many letters written to me before I was committed to this prison And in reference to my selfe if I have in the least offended against any of the just Lawes Priviledges Orders or proceedings of this House I am haertily sorry though I am no wayes conscious to my selfe that I have offended in the least but have ever been tender of the just and lawfull Priviledges Orders and proceedings of this House together with the liberties Rights and Franchises of the meanest subject For which and my affection to the Parliament I was imprisoned halfe a yeare by the Commissioners of Array and Justices of peace in Cumberland after driven to live in exile for two yeares and that little meanes I had possessed by the enemy And when it shall be made appeare that I have offended this Honorable House in the premises or in any other thing then I shall not not onely co●fesse my fault and error publickly to the whole kingdom but also willingly and cheerfully submit my self to the judgment and censure of this Honorable House to undergoe what punishment this House shal think sin Therefore my humble request is that this honorable House will take my take my cause into consideration to enlarge me from my bonds and put mine and my Countries cause into a legall way of triall and enable me with power to prosecute my severall charges and give unto me and my countrey just and fitting reparations for our losses and wrongs we have sustained agreeable to the wisdome and justice of this Honourable House And if we make not good our severall charges then to punish us according to the law and not to refer me over nor our countries cause to an Arbitrary partiall and Justice-delaying Committee But that I may be brought to your Barre or some other publick tryell And then I nothing doubt but to cleare my selfe of the contempt unjustly laid to my charge and for which I have suffered 18 Moneths hard and close imprisonment And if I may but have the benefit of the Law to make good our particular chrrges against those of whom we complaine And as in duty bound I shall ever pray to and praise God for you JO. MUSGRAVE Fleet 5. May 1647. and 9. day of 19. Months of my imprisonment I have for these last foure moneths had some friends daily attending upon Maj. Salloway Mr. Allan Mr. Laurence Mr. Bellingham for presenting this my petition but after they had the same a long time they returned i● back to me refusing to do it Mr. Bellingham said he could not 〈…〉 it unlesse I could shew authority to command him not many dayes since Mr. Rigby moved the House for my liberty but Mr. Tolson the knight of the Shire for Cumberland one of the new election stood up against me and desired I might no● be enlarged till I acknowledged my fault for sayd he it is against the order of the House to enlarge any without acknowledgment of their offence and so I lost the benefit of Mr. Rigbys motion I must not be enlarged without petition and all refuse to present my petition consider mine and my countries sad condition If you desire to know what this Mr. Tolson is he is no other then a beardlesse Minor taken the other day from the Gramm●● schoole and now elected by a delinquent Sheriffe through the votes of Malignants and delinquents of Cumberland by Mr. Bar●i● procure ment Tolson being the meanest family of any of the Gentry in the North. Not long before Tolson was brought into the House he came from the enemies garrison then at Oxford his Father a neutrall and had his estate protected by the enemy Mr. Tolson Mr. Barwis the L. Wharton others that sit in the House in the right of our County procured the commissions for Oyer Terminer and goal-delivery directed to be declared traytors M. Tolson his father are great persecuters of honest men under the name of Sectaries and independents but favour and protect Papists and Malignants Mr. Bellingham the Knight of the Shire for Westmerland is so yo●g as he hath not any haire of his face refuseth to informe the House how the Committee for Accounts of Westmerland Cumberland were declared traytors and men accountable and so betrayeth his trust and his Countrey as his father before him did who being the Knight of the Shire is his son is new in his stead in the beginning of these troubles left the Parliament yet professed to his countrey for a time he would not joyn with the enemy but traiterously and deceitfully when his Countrey expected he would have stood up with them for the Parl. deserted them and joyned with the enemy to the losse of that countrey was after a Colonel for the King very active against the the Parl. and one of the Oxford Juncto his sonne begins to 〈◊〉 When hee came into the House he promsed fairly but now begins to trend in his fathers tract These Ianus and Sinon-lik● men whether o●d or young be the pest of a Common-wealth and the worst and most dangerous enemies any State can have not fit to be trusted or imployed in any office Martiall or Civill seldome you can confide in the son where the father hath betrayed you Beware ever of a reconciled foe and time-servers Farewell PROV 28.15 As a roaring Lion and a ranging Beare so is 〈◊〉 wicked Ruler over the poore people P. 2. l. 3 for Wilford Ermine r. William Ermine line 37. for Scotish r. I Scotish p. 3. l. 20. for undeserved r. undesired l. 38 for faith r. South p. 5. l. 15. for 11. r. 22. p. 6. l. 23. for K. Stephen r. K. William l. 23. for cleare read bleare