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A75665	Articles of impeachment exhibited against Col. Robert Gibbons and Cap. Richard Yeardley, late governors of the Isle of Jersey; wherein the several impeachments, notorious actions, high misdemeanours, abominations and oppressions, are laid open, detected, and made publick to the admiring world; as also, a remedy for the people, against the heavy yoke of such tyrannical oppressours, in this juncture of miraculous restauration, after so long a bondage, wherein the little finger of some appeared heavier then the whole loins of others.	Gibbons, Robert.; A. B.; Yeardley, Richard.	1659 (1659)	Wing A3857; Thomason E989_20; ESTC R16060	9,981	16

to a potent Neighbour did upon these and other weighty Considerations by several Charters confirmed in the third year of the late Kings Reign and since by the Council of State-free and excuse the Inhabitants of that Isle from pressing And some Souldiers coming to the Parish of St. Johns to presse one of the Inhabitants by name Francis Marret who in a civil manner asked the said Souldier By what Order they would presse the said Inhabitants whereupon one of the Souldiers answered him he wold presently shew him his Warant which was by Pistolling him through the head saying This was his Commission or words to the same effect whereof he presently died And then fell with his Comerades upon the rest of the Company cutting and slashing them Notwithstanding such inhumane murther proceedings and cruelties the said Governour made no more inquiry or examination of the fact than if the said Souldiers had killed and slashed so many Toads which indeed was their boasting afterwards 11. That divers Souldiers and Seamen pretending to have Order to Impresse persons went about the Island and seized upon severall young People of good Families making them believe they should be sent to Jamaica but in case they would give them so much money as they demanded or rather ransomed them at they would release them which their Parents and themselves not daring to ask them by what Order they did such things lest they should be dealt withall as the said Maret and others had been Therefore did choose rather to part with their money to redeem their Children then to Complain Which Barbarous and unchristian actions the said Governour connived act without inflicting any punishment upon the Offenders although they knew as well the said evil practises as the former 12. That about the month of January 1655 the Barque Bonadventure of Iersey John Ahier Master was taken by an Ostendor near the said Isle The said Ahier rather then suffer the losse of all and to be carryed with many Passengers then aboard Captives did agree with the said Ostendor for the Redemption of his Vessel and Goods whereupon he was set on Shoare in the said Isle to procure the money agreed upon and to return with speed which he did and carryed it aboard and thereupon his said Vessel Passengers and so much of the Goods as were left were freed and brought into the Island where no sooner he was arrived but the said Governour sent for him calling the said Ahier Traytor because he had carryed money to the enemy without first acquainting him therewith which he could not do by reason it was night when he was put a Shoare and the Tyde up that none could get into the Castle where the said Governour was and being obliged to return with speed the said Ahier having by his diligence redeemed four times more then he carried notwithstanding the said Governour to revenge himself of the said Ahier hath refused to give him Certificats as he doth to others of the Landing of such Goods as were not Rifled by the enemy into the Island although the said Ahier hath shewed him Certificats of the Bayliff and Jurats of the Isle and of the Searcher there concerning the truth thereof which injustice tends only to endeavour the ruine of the said Ahier who upon the lading at Hampton a quantity of Wooll and Leather hath given security and bonds of great Sums of money for the Delivery of the same in Jersey the said Ahier being in danger that the said Bonds for want of such Certificats will be put in prosecution against him at the Exchequer Court 13. That the said Colonel Gibbons being appointed by the late Protector and Council one of the Commissioners for compounding with the Inhabitants of that Island and likewise Receiver-General did contrary to his Instructions and most inhumane-like as soon as the poor Inhabitants had submitted to Compound for their small estates which of most of them did not consist of above 8 9.10.12.15.20 pound per annum He the said Gibbons would send to them to bring and pay their fine which many could not performe at the very instant whereupon the said Gibbons would not give them further time but would presently send such a number of Troopers to their houses and there to abide upon free quarter till the poor people had paid in their money that in several houses the said Troopers did eat and spoyle more then the fines of the parties amounted unto And when the sufferers went to complain to the said Gibbons of their heavy burthens he would tell them that his son and another Souldier would lend them money to pay their said fines and so remove the said Troopers provided they would enter in bond to repay the same within such time as they should limit and pay him Use for the same which proffer many of them were forced rather than to be utterly ruined to accept although the same were with such horrid extortion as never was heard to have been practised amongst the worst of Barbarians to wit 20.25 30. per centum for each month and yet the said mony so lent was none of his but of the publique which he then had in Cash or those appointed by him 14. That the said Gibbons knowing such Tyrannical proceedings were directly contrary to all Law Justice or Equity and apprehending that the same would be represented in England did forbid that any person should depart the Isle without his Passe or any to send or carry Letters without first bringing them to him to peruse And besides the said Gibbons caused all Vessels to be searched for Letters which were bound for England upon which search one Letter of Mr. Philip Maret was intercepted as it was sending into England directed to a Captain that hath alwayes been in the Parliament Army and a great assertor of the Good Old Cause which Letter was occasioned by reason of the notorious Tyrannies of the said Gibbons therein fully detected but particularly of his unjust dealings against several well-affected persons of that Island who although innocent he did not exempt from compounding no more then the said Maret who had very deeply suffered under the enemy by being declared Traytor by them and who seized and sequestred his Estate by reason the said Maret was in the Parliament quarters at and after the late King was put to death for the Redemption of his Estate he was forced to pay to the Enemy a considerable sum of money Upon which interception the said Gibbons committed the said Maret close Prisoner in Mout-orguill Castle where he kept him 16 months together most part of the time without Pen Ink or Paper or communication with his Friends being there used very B●rbarously After which time the said Gibbons released him upon Bayl and then the said Maret came for England to complain and endeavour to have redresse which the said Gibbons discovering told the said Maret if he would referre the whole businesse to him he would free him from his

troubles which the said Maret accepted by reason he observed the said Gibbons to be very potent at Court but in lieu of doing according as he had engaged he the said Gibbons attempted by sureptitious ways to have the Estate of the said Maret to be forfeited who for two years together hath waited in London upon the said Gibbons being thereby very much damnified as well in his bodily health as estate which Imprisonment and troubles hath almost brought his antient and weakly Mother to the grave Articles of misdemeanours exhibited against Cap. Rich. Yeardley Deputy Governour of the Isle of Jersey 15. THat the said Captain Richard Yeardley as Deputy Governour hath for these late years contrary to the priviledges granted to the people of that Isle taken upon himself to dispose of the Licenses of Wooll Leather and other Commodities granted and allotted to the said Isle to whom he seemeth good and for his particular gain and advantage doth ingrosse a great part of the said Commodities to himself by granting Licenses to his Servants Allies Factors and others not in the least related to the said Isle to the great prejudice and dammage of Merchants and others Inhabitants of that Isle amongst whom and of right the said Licenses ought to be distributed by which unjust proceedings several of the said Merchants and Inhabitants are forced to buy the said Licenses from the said strangers at very high rates it being evident and of certain truth that a great quanting of the said Commodities are for his Accounts and of his Factors and Agents transported into France which cannot be hindered by reason that none can or dare controle him either in the disposing the said Licenses or in making and giving Returns for the several Commodities as he doth and seemeth best for his advantage all being at his arbitrary will and disposal But directly contrary and against the ancient way practised in the disposall of the said Licenses which are to be distributed in the presence of the Bayliff and Justices there and registred in the Court by the Clark and that for ten pence per Licence whereas the said Yeardly suffers his Clark to take of the poor Inhabitants five shillings or at least two and six pence for every Licence although but for five todds of wooll 16. That the said Yeardly contrary to the Law and antient priviledges of the said Isle and contrary to the Law of War hath by his arbitrary will and pleasure Imprisoned and afterwards released divers of the Inhabitants namely one Mr. Ph. Richarson and lastly the High Constable and other Officers of the Parish of St. Brefade onely for executing the Duty of their places in searching a suspected House of the Parrish where lived one of his Souldiers for divers Sheep and other things that had been stollen from some of the inhabitants And that onely by reason that it was a Souldier's House as if Souldiers houses were Sanctuaries and not to be searched 17. That the said Yeardly very well knowing that by the Establishment of Jersey and for the defence thereof there ought to be kept twenty Troopers furnished with Horses for which number there is constant pay allowed from the Common-wealth and yet the said Yeardly Commander in Chief there connives and suffers the Common-wealth to be defrauded and the Island indangered by not keeping above twelve Troopers that have Horses serviceable Some of the Troopers which are in pay having never a Horse and others that have are no way serviceable suffering Servants and Children of eleven years of age to be mustered and Pay allowed to their Masters for the said Servants and Children 18. That the said Captain Yeardly to the very much indangering the safety of the Castles and of that Isle so considerable to the Common-wealth doth suffer Souldiers to be lifted in foot Companies that were in actual war in that Isle against the Common-wealth of England 19. That the said Captain Richard Yeardly Deputy Governor of the said Isle contrary to the Laws of War and to the great Scandal of the Government of the Army and godly people in that Isle and ill example to others doth keep constant Company with the most notorious Cavalliers of that Isle going often to their houses there to play at Cards to feast and drink healths in such excessive manner that several times the said Yeardly hath ben observed to be so much distempered with Liquor and so drunk that he could not scarce go or stand 20. That the said Yeardly hath several times vowed if he should remain in the said Isle he would take such course that all the Anabaptists there should be banished the Isle 21. That it is here credibly informed that the said Captain Richard Yeardly before and since the dissolving of the late Assembly did appear very much disatisfied of the proceedings of those called Commonwealth men then sitting in the said Assembly saying that they were all for Charles Stuart And after the said Assembly was dissolved he did appear very much discontented and dissatisfied of the same muttering against the proceedings of the Army and pleading openly against them and their actions and for the late Protectors Government with whom he was the night before the said Dissolution 22. That the said Captin Richard Yeardly is such a Countenancer of Notorious Cavaliers in that Isle that when any well-affected persons have a Suite or Action at Law against them in any thing considerable then the said Yeardly upon the day of tryal or hearing of the Cause was sure to come to the Court and so effectually countenanced the Cause of such Cavaliers against the well-affected that by his high words threathings he did awe the Court in such manner that the well-affected persons could not have Justice And particularly about the month of October last he appeared for one grand Malignant whom he calls Sr. Ph. Carteret against two known well-affected persons by name Mr. Thomas Roberts and Mr. John Ricard who both of them have much suffered for their affection to the renowned long Parliament of England who did then sue the said Carteret in Court by vertue of a certain Ordinance of Parliament dated the 16th of September 1645. The said well-affected persons being then railed against and accused as if they had been guilty of high Treason to plead against the said Delinquent and the said Roberts then Lievtenant of the Train Band of St. Owens Parrish and the said Ricard Ensigne were both dismissed that day from their Commands by the said Yeardly for no other offence known to them but for pleading against a Notorious Malignant 23. That the said Captain Yeardly being Authorized in that Isle a Commissioner to have an inspection upon such persons as should be made choyce of by the People to be Justices He the said Yeardly would rather admit and cause to be admitted some that had been in Arms against the Parl. to the place of Judicature then to permitt those which had bin chosen and had bin great sufferers for the Parliaments Interest to be admitted in the said place of Judicature 24. These high Misdemeanours committed and connived at by the said Col. Rob. Gibbons Gove●nour as aforesaid and the said Yeardley his Deputy with more of that nature can be sufficiently proved in case certain persons of integrity and honesty having neither relation to the said Gibbons nor to the Isle and such as the said Governor may not be a terrour to as he is to the poor innocent people there might go thither with power authority not onely to examine the truth of the said Misdemeanours but likewise all other grievances of the people and either to authorize them to reform the same and see that the Offendors may receive condigne punishment for those enormous and foul Crimes according to the Laws and Customs of that Isle or at least to make their Report upon the whole matter formerly as upon such complaint was practised in Cases of the like nature FINIS