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Depositions and articles against Thomas Earle of Strafford Febr. 16. 1640; Proceedings. 1641-02-16
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England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.
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furthering of that loane and were required to certifie the names of such Inhabitants of the said City as were fit to lend which they with much humility refusing to doe he the said Earle of Strafford did use these or the like speeches viz. That they deserved to be put to Fine and Ransom and that no good would be done with them till an example were made of them and they were laid by the heeles and some of the Aldermen hanged up XXVI That the said Earle of Strafford by his wicked counsell having brought his Majestie into excessive charges without any just cause he did in the moneth of Iuly last for the support of the said great charges counsell and approve two dangerous and wicked Projects viz. To seize upon the Bullion and the Money in the Mint And to imbase his Majesties Coine with the mixtures of Brasse And accordingly 〈◊〉 procured one hundred thirty thousand pounds which was then in the Mint and belonging to divers Merchants strangers others to be seized on and stayed to his Majesties use And when divers Marchants of London owners of the said Bullion came to his house to let him understand the great mischiefe that course would produce here and in other parts what prejudice it would bee to the Kingdome by discrediting the Mint and hindring the importation of Bullion hee the said Earle told them that the Citie of London dealt undutifully and unthankefully with his Majesty and that they were more ready to helpe the Rebell then to helpe his Majesty and that if any hurt came to them they might thanke themselves and that it was the course of other Princes to make use of such monies to serve their occasions And when in the same moneth of Iuly the Officers of his Majesties Mint came to him and gave him divers reasons against the imbasing of the said mony hee told them that the French King did use to send Commissaries of Horse with Commission to search into mens estates and to peruse their accompts so that they may know what to levy of them by force which they did accordingly levie and turning to the Lord Cottington then present said That this was a point worthy his Lordships consideration XXVII That in or about the moneth of August last he was made Lieutenant generall of all his Majesties forces in the Northerne parts against the Scots and being at Yorke did in the month of September by his owne authority and without any lawfull warrant impose a Tax on his Majesties subjects in the County of Yorke of 8. pence per diem for maintenance of every Souldier of the trained bands of that County which summes of mony hee caused to bee levied by force And to the end to compell his Majesties subjects out of feare and terrour to yeeld to the payment of the same He did declare that hee would commit them that refused the payment thereof and the Souldiers should be satisfied out of their estates and they that refused it were in very little better condition then of High Treason XXVIII That in the moneth of September and October last hee the said Earle of Strafford being certified of the Scottish Army comming into the Kingdome and hee the said Earle of Strafford being Lieutenant generall of his Majesties Army did not provide for the defence of the Towne of Newcastle as He ought to have done but suffered the same to be lost that so hee might the more incense the English against the Scots And for the same wicked purpose and out of a malicious desire to ingage the Kingdomes of England and Scotland in a Nationall and bloody war hee did write to the Lord Conway the generall of the horse and under the said Earles command that hee should fight with the Scottish Army at the passage over the Tyne whatsoever should follow notwithstanding that the said Lord Conway had formerly by Letters informed him the said Earle that his Majesties Army then under his command was not of force sufficient to incounter the Scots by which advice of his hee did contrary to the duty of his place betray his Majesties Army then under his command to apparent danger and losse All and every which words counsells and actions of the said Earle of Strafford traiterously and contrary to his allegiance to our Soveragne Lord the King and with an intention and endeavour to alienate and withdraw the hearts and affections of the Kings liege people of all his Realmes from his Majesty and to set a division betweene them and to ruine and destroy His Majesties said Kingdomes For which they doe further impeach him the said Thomas Earle of Strafford of High Treason against our Soveraigne Lord the King his Crowne and dignity FINIS
to be put out of possession of divers Lands and Tenements being his free-hold in the Countrey of Mago and Rosecomen in the said Kingdome and divers other of his Majesties subjects to be also put out of possession and disseized of their free hold by colour of the same resolution without legall proceedings whereby many hundreds of his Majesties subjects were undone and their families utterly ruinated VIII That the said Earle of Strafford upon a Petition of Sir Iohn Gifford Knight the first day of February in the said 13 yeare of his Majesties Reigne without any legall processe made a Decree or Order against Adam Viscount Lofts of Elie a Peere of the said Realme of Jreland and Lord Chancellor of Jreland and did cause the said Uiscount to bee imprisoned and kept close prisoner on pretence of disobedience to the said decree or order And the said Earle without any authority and contrary to his Commission required and commanded the said Lord Viscount to yeeld unto him the great Seale of the Realme of Ireland which was then in his custody by his Majesties command and imprisoned the said Chancellor for not obeying such his command And without any legall proceedings did in the same thirteenth yeare imprison George Earle of Kildare a Peere of Jreland against Law thereby to enforce him to submit his title to the Mannor and Lordship of Castle Leigh in the Queenes Countie being of great yearely value to the said Earle of Straffords will and pleasure and kept him a yeare prisoner for the said cause two moneths whereof he kept him close prisoner and refused to enlarge him notwithstanding his Majesties Letters for his enlargement to the said Earle of Strafford directed And upon a Petition exhibited in October 1635. by Thomas Hibbots against dame Mary Hibbots Widdow to him the said Earle of Strafford the said Earle of Strafford recommended the said Petition to the Counsell Table of Ireland where the most part of the Counsell gave their vote and opinion for the said Lady but the said Earle finding fault herewith caused an order to be entred against the said Lady and threatned her that if shee refused to submit thereunto he would imprison her and fine her five hundred pound that if she continued obstinate he would continue her imprisonment and double her fine every month by month whereof she was enforced to relinquish her estate in the land questioned in the said Petition which shortly was conveyed to Sir Robert Meredith to the use of the said Earle of Strafford And the said Earle in like manner did imprison divers others of his Majesties Subjects upon pretence of disobedience to his orders and decrees and other illegall command by him made for pretended debts titles of Lands and other causes in an arbitrary and extrajudiciall course upon Paper Petitions to him preferred and no other cause legally depending IX That the said Earle of Strafford the sixtenth day of Febr. in the 12. yeare of his now Majesties Reigne assuming to himselfe a power above and against Law tooke upon him by a generall Warrant under his hand to give power to the Lord Bishop of Down and Connor his Chancellor or Chancellors to their severall Officers thereto to bee appointed to Attach and Arrest the Bodies of all such of the meaner and poorer sort where after citation should either refuse to appeare before them or appearing should omit or deny to performe or undergoe all lawfull decrees sentences and orders issued imposed or given out against them and them to commit and keepe in the next Goale untill they should either performe such sentences or put in sufficient Baile to shew some reason before the Counsell Table of such their contempt and neglect and the said Earle the day and yeare last mentioned signed and issued a Warrant to that effect and made the like Warrant to send to all other Bishops and their Chancellors in the said Realme of Ireland to the same effect X. That the said Earle of Strafford being Lord Lieutenant or Deputy of Jreland procured the Customes of the Merchandize exported out and imported into that Realme to be farmed to his owne use And in the ninth yeare of his now Majesties Reigne he having then intrest in the said Customes to advance his owne gaine and lucre did cause and procure the native commodities of Jreland to be rated in the booke of Rates for the Customes according to which the Customes were usually gathered at farre greater values and prices then in truth they were worth that is to say every hide at 20. shillings which in truth was worth but five shillings every stone of Wooll at thirteene shillings foure pence though the same ordinarily were worth but five shillings at the utmost but nine shillings by which meanes the custome which before was but a twentieth part of the true value of the commoditie was inhansed sometimes to a fift part and sometimes to a fourth and sometimes to a third part of the true value to the great oppression of the subjects and decay of Marchandize XI That the said Earle in the ninth yeare of his now Majesties Reigne did by his own will and pleasure and for his owne lucre restraine the exportation of the commodities of that Kingdome without his licence as namely Pipe-staves and other commodities and then raised great summes of money for licensing of exportation of those commodities and dispensation of the said restraints imposed on them by which means the pipe-staves were raised from foure pound ten shillings or 5 pound per thousand to ten pound and sometimes eleven pound per thousand and other commodities were inhanced in the like proportion and by the same meanes by him the said Earle XII That the said Earle being Lord Deputy of Ireland on the ninth day of Ianuary in the thirteenth yeere of his Majesties Reigne did then under colour to regulate the Importation of Tobacco into the said Realme of Ireland issue a Proclamation in his Majesties name prohibiting the importation of Tobacco without licence of him and the Counsell there from and after the first day of May Anno Dom. 1638. after which restraint the said Earle notwithstanding the said restraint caused divers great quantities of Tobacco to be imported to his owne use and fraughted divers ships with Tobacco which he imported to his owne use and that if any ship brought Tobacco into any Port there the said Earle and his Agents used to buy the same to his owne use at their owne price And if that the owners refused to let him have the same at under values then they were not permitted to vent the same by which undue meanes the Earle having gotten the whole Trade of Tobacco into his owne hands he sold it at great and excessive prices such as he list to impose for his owne profit And the more to assure the said Monopoly of Tobacco he the said Earle on the 23. day of February in the thirteenth yeare aforesaid did issue another Proclamation commanding that