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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32909	Serjeant Major Iames Chvdleigh his declaration to his country-men	Chudleigh, James, d. 1643.	1643 (1643)	Wing C3983; ESTC R24269	4,010	8

SERJEANT MAJOR IAMES CHVDLEIGH HIS DECLARATION TO HIS COUNTRY-MEN Printed M. DC XL III Mr James Chudleigh his Declaration Deare Countrymen BEcause the scandalous reports of certaine factious hot-brained Persons in the Citty of Exeter have imputed Gods visitation of our sinnes upon the Army late at Stratton to treachery of mine I shall beg so much of your patience as to enforme your selves from this Paper the true state of that affaire 'T was not without excessive continued paines that I had put that Tumultuous body into a serviceable posture in the field and I appeale to any man of so much honesty and honour as dares speake truth in the behalfe of a dejected Prisoner whether I was not alwayes busied in the heat of the Skirmish where ever it hapned to be from the very beginning till I was totally forsaken both by the Officers and Souldiers except those that dyed by me and the Battell lost some testimony wherein was my Cane broken in my hand by a shot my Horse shot under me and at last a hurt in my head whereby I lost some blood Thus miserable in all appearance being absolutely destitute of any thing but the protection of my God which never yet failed me I charged single through a division of Musketiers till I came up close to the Officer that led them who I took for Sir Bevill Grenvile for his back parts were very like him and instead of using my Armes to take his life which was then very much in my power though not without a certaine losse of mine owne for all the Souldiers presently upon the stop enclosed me round I yeelded my selfe into his hands and I found him a most gallant Gentleman for when I had delivered my Sword he received many blowes to beare them off from me and suppressed the rage of the Souldiers towards me with the hazard of his owne life his name is Lewis Tremaine Ensigne to Sir Bevill Grenvile to whom being close at hand with a stand of Pikes he led me and I shall ever acknowledge as long as I breath in spite of the Malignity of these factious Spirits in Exeter or such as they have corrupted by their Hypocrisie in other parts of this County that I received so much humanity and noble favour from Sir Bevill Grenvile and the rest of the Commanders of the Cornish Army as made that a greater griefe to me to have been an Enemy to so much gallantry and vertue then that now I was a Prisoner neverthelesse the sad estate which I conceived my Countrymen to be in from whom it had pleased God for reasons above my reach thus to withdraw his favour wounded yet deeper my bleeding heart so much the more because I resented heavily the Justice of the Cause which we had laboured to Support being as I conceived the Iust Rights of our gratious King and his Subjects limited by the Lawes and the Purity of the true Protestant Religion which the high Court of Parliament had instructed us these Gentlemen whose hands I was thus fallen into had endeavoured to corrupt and I was sufficiently sensible that those morall vertues which I saw they were endowed with in so eminent a degree might be companions for ought I knew though hardly credible of deceitfull hearts and that the Iustee of the Quarrell on either side is not alwayes demonstrated by the chance of Warre thus releeving my perplexity with sadnesse and resolving to spend my dayes in griefe till it should please God to put an end to the miserable Distractions of this wretched Kingdome I was visited by some of the most eminent Commanders of the Army with whom I fell into discourse of these very points wherein all of us agreed upon the necessity of preservation of the Law in the priviledge that it gives this Nation in Parliament as well as in the Iust Prerogative which it allowes His Royall Majesty without which this Kingdom is necessarily subject to Arbitrary Government the Rights both of the King People are vanisht into an Aerie title But 't was not long till we came to this conclusion That as evill Counsells had heretofore been prevalent to the prejudice of the Common-wealth so the satisfaction given by His Majesty was exceeding great and beyond the expectation of all moderate men That the objections against His Majesties Counsell of continuall endeavours at present to force the Parliament by Armes are cleerly answered by His Majesties many Protestations and for the fulfilling of those Protestations to accommodate the differences of the Kingdom His Majesty will not stick to give any assurance that shall be thought reasonable and likewise all the Commanders of this Army are content to put it under their hands and to take a solemne oath as punctuall and as strong as can be invented that when soever His Majesty shall be drawne by any Counsell or meanes whatsoever to neglect those Protestations that then they will totally desert the Service they are engaged in and for the present they will be content to use the whole power which His Majesty hath invested them with to give a free pardon to all such in these Westerne Counties as will lay downe Armes and be content to be governed by the knowne Lawes setled by Act of Parliament what assurance soever shall be demanded on His Majesties behalfe for the setling of a Religious Honourable and a firme Peace they are ready to give Now whether this Inclination towards the Peace and Justice of this Kingdome hath possest these Gentlemen from the beginning of the Warre or whether by the continued dispute of the difference by which the Kingdome is divided the matter is now so anotomised as that the quintessence of truth extract from partiality to either side is eminently perspicuous or else whether the blood shed betwixt these two Counties by misunderstandings one of another which cannot but move all Christian hearts to a Compassionate beseeching of the Almighty God to sheath his sword hath had stronger operation upon the hearts and Consciences of these noble Gentlemen then the factions of Exeter are likely to admit of on their part is not in my opinion materiall to stand in debate of only I conceive my selfe bound in Conscience for truths sake to assure all honest well meaning Christians upon the hopes that I have of salvation and upon the faith and honour of a Gentleman and a Souldier that I never saw an Army freer from vice nor more religiously inclined then I perceive the whole Genious of this Army to be nor did I ever see more heartily cleere and earnest expressions of affection to a religious and a just Peace then the Commanders of this Army are full off more then which with so ingenious offers of the meanes to conclude that cannot possibly be expected from humane flesh and though it hath been accounted Treason in the opinion of the factious Tumult of the Citty of Exeter whose interest hath ever shewed it selfe against any Peace but