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A89431	Musgrave muzl'd: or the mouth of iniquitie stoped. Being a true and cleer vindication of Sir Arthur Hazelrige from a false and scandalous accusation of John Musgrave, in his late pamphlet intituled, A true and exact relation of the great and heavie pressurs and grievances the well-affected of the Northern bordering counties lye under by Sir A.H. misgovernment. With a true but not exact character of the said Musgrave in some discoveries of him.	Price, John, Citizen of London, Attributed name.	1651 (1651)	Wing M3157; Thomason E625_11; ESTC R206469	26,199	39

Musgrave Muzl'd OR The mouth of Iniquitie stoped BEING A true and Cleer Vindication OF Sir Arthur Hazelrige FROM A false and Scandalous Accusation of John Musgrave In his late Pamphlet Intituled A True and exact Relation of the great and heavie pressurs and grievances the well-affected of the Northern bordering Counties lye under by Sir A. H. misgovernment With a True but not Exact Character of the said Musgraue in some discoveries of him LONDON Printed by John Macock for L. Lloyd and H. Cripps and are to be sold at their shop in Popes head Alley 1651. To the Reader READER A GOOD Name well got is the best of Riches and he that unjustly taketh away the same is the worst of Robbers to conceal the worth of a man is dis-ingenuity to detract from true deserts is not equity to charge guilt upon innocencie is inhumanity but to call worthiness by the name of wickedness is right down Devilism I am no more Master Musgraves adversary then thine and that 's not at all for I know thee not and yet I am both thine and his adversary in all Malignity against this Common wealth and its chiefest champions Sir Arthur Hazilrige is no otherwise my Friend then thine if thou art a wel-wisher to this Republique and I have as little dependence upon him and obliegment from him upon any personal interest as thy self whoever thou art I have alwayes observed him according to the best advantage of my standing in all the turns of our turning times a plain hearted man an English Oake and not an Osier that wil warp and winde with every wind a Protector of all good men of whatsoever judgement in a good cause an Assertor of just liberty an opposer of Tyrannie and that not in prate but in practise in Councels and Combates For my part let the terror of a Tyrant be his reward that wil plead his cause but they are the subtil'st Sollicitors for dethron'd Tyrants that decry their dethroners without a cause it is too true honours do alter manners and high places without great watchfulness do make high spirits but every bird is not taken in the snare of the Fowler and it is as true that preferment in some begets envie in others whose constant course is to strive and endeavour to stain their integrity with notorious forgerie I take no pleasure in padling in other mens puddle nor dabling my self with other mens dirt yet I judge it a service worthy my betters to wash off that filth and foam which the malicious stomachs of envious men do dayly eject upon the Names and Honours of our English Heroes beleeve it if I may speak it without vanity flattery is the very antipathy of my genius and I blesse my God my foot is not taken in the snare of necessitie to dissemble the same by the instigation whereof upon the first view of this * paltrie Pamphlet written by Master Musgrave I had a strong resolution to make a strict inquisition touching matters of Fact therein asserted and though I had not faith to beleeve the tenths of those tales mentioned therein mine own personal knowledge rising up against some of them yet considering that the best of men are but men at best and well knowing that a plain man would not be offended at plain dealing I applyed my self to Sir Arthur himself for satisfaction herein who hath given me that which I give unto thee which if thou judgest by the Law of impartiality thou shalt finde such a complexion of impudence and ignorance scandal and slander malice and mischief pride and passion forgeries and falsities concentred in Mnsgrave as if they were all cloth'd in flesh and dwelt amongst us but that the power of him whose design it was in coming into the world to destroy the works of the Devil would crush the crowd spoil the spawn and confound the conventicle of those unclean spirits in that unclean man is my hearty desire I expect a Respons but cleerly perceiving a ranting raving and railing spirit stearing his pen and praecipitating him to wright at randum I judge him not worthy the honour of a Reply and therefore Farewell A True and Cleer Vindication of Sir Arthur Hazelrige from a false and scandalous Accusation of John Musgrave c. TO Justifie the wicked and Condemn the Righteous it is hardly determinable which is more abhominable and a pretended zeal for God and their Country do hurry Hypocrites to the one and the other whose vociferations of tongues and pens do beat the eares of City and Country with nothing more then lowd lyes in hypocrisie who being closely beleagured with pride and penury impudence and ignorance and miserably infected with the itch of popularity do palliate their projects for their lusts and lucre from the credulous croud of the Common People with Come see our zeal for God and our Country acting their parts in the publick view Theatrico more that they might procure a plebean plaudite for the most passionate Patriots of their indeared Country when by a very slight scrutinie of their particular practises their pretended zeal appears nothing more then intended malice against such men who for true worth in the just account of God and good men are no more to be compared with such proud boasters then the dogs of Jobs flocks with those that did abuse him It is very observeable that the most noxious enemies of our present Authority and new Common-wealth are the pretended lowdest assertors thereof who Herod-like under the colour of advancing the same seek to sacrifice it in its very infancie and to introduce a most tyrannicall Anarchy under the colour of the peoples liberty hence sprung the malicious ebullitions ranchorous invectives and scurrilous slanders from those swelling swagerors and licentious levellers in their lawless libels against the present Parliament the Councill of State the High Court of Justice the Government of the Army by Martiall Laws blown up and down the Nation like empty clowds and the greatest distempers that proceeded there-from at Ware Burford and else-where from this spirit of mischief and malignity hath the world been infected with so many scandalous fals and unworthy aspertions cast upon the chiefest Champions of our English Nation as Cromwel Bradshaw Ireton Harrison Vane junior with several others whom God hath made their Adversaries envie and the Commonwealths safety the savor of whose conversation humane frailties excepted doth please the Nostrils of God and good men whose peace and prosperitie are the subject matter of the dayly prayers and praises of the truely Religious whether it be not the same spirit from beneath which maketh wicked men like the troubled sea that hath possessed Mr John Musgrave when he did cast up that mire and dirt upon Sir Arthur Haslerige as formerly in Print though since washed off to his own glory and his accusers shame so again in his late Pamphlet wherein it is hard to say whether are more sentences or calumnies sayings or

It was a counterfeit Warrant and he would not obey it and if we had him we should take him naked so finding him obstinate we took him out of his bed and brought him into the Hall and set him in a chair wishing him to put on his dublet which Thomas Grave brought out of the chamber but he would not fearfully cursing me and my Mother I offered to fetch his breeches but he cryed out I went to rob him so I forbare wishing his man there present to fetch his clothes but he commanded the contrary I offered him if he would give security to appear and answer the Court I would accept it or if he would go to Mr Sandersons or any other Friend I would carry him thither desiring him still to put on his clothes which after long refusal fearing his Tenants coming in to rescue him as sometimes they had done we HORSED HIM and cast a cloke about him even per force and carryed him to Laths not half a mile from his own house where he was taken and with much entreaty got him to go to bed he still refusing to put on clothes which the good-wife of the house brought him and after Henry Dacre came to him and brought his clothes he caused them to be sent away I offered Dacres to accept bond for his appearance without going further but Dacres went to the Undersheriff and brought a discharge a copy whereof I send you That night late I went to Catterben to see how things were with my Mother where I found these two Soldiers quartered as they said by Orders they were much discontented with Dyet and Lodging wanting indeed all fit accommodation having neither fire victuals or bedding for them some words passed betwixt them and me I told them my Mother was a forsaken woman had nothing but that great empty house her Husband not allowing her common necessaries and contempting all Orders made for her desired them to go to him and quarter there or cause him to bring in provision and she would make it ready and if that would not serve they must bring it with them for they could not have it where it was not That night they layd upon hay with such coverings as she had dis-furnishing her self and sup'd with Big-pottage Fare coarse enough The next day I shewed them Mr Vaux his man in the field but he would not come neer us though none intended him harm the Souldiers finding the man so refractory horsed after him and a while after brought the Horse dear of six pounds being lame into the Courting which my Mother took from the Souldiers and which she sent away to be sold without the privity or consent of the Soldiers what she hath done she will maintain and justifie and when that mony is spent as most of it be she must fetch more from him for four years she had not any thing from him whereby she contracted great debts and if God had not enabled me to travel for her he had starved her long ere this perhaps ere long you may have a larger view of all his doings in print Yesterday after I came from keeping the Leet at Feverham for the State I finde two Soldiers more quartered with my Mother this morning I sent to the Constables who layd them upon her wishing them either to provide for them or take them away but they said they durst not do any thing without Mr Vaux consent Mr Vaux hath complained to a Councel of War at Penrith but they finde no cause to interpose amongst us in these civil differences This day I acquainted Major Rippon with my Mothers burthens and condition and he took off that charge for the present as by the enclosed you may perceive I desire you for the future that my Mother may not be troubled with billeting any Souldiers till there be a setlement betwixt her and her husband for avoyding the like disturbances as these I have been larger then I intended but you have nothing but truth for Mr Vaux his uncivilities to us are not worthy mentioning I take leave and rest Yours wherein I may serve you John Musgrave Catterben-hall 8. 10 moneth 1650. Judg again Reader didst thou ever see such Tyranny upon the dunghil in all thy life before What think'st thou would it advance unto was it upon the Throne Look back upon the instance tell the aggravations thereof A poor old man of seventy years of age in time of peace having his chamber door broken open taken out of his bed in the Winter season in the North of England put naked upon a horse for neither felony nor Treason by his wives own son this Musgrave and so carried away towards this wretched mans house and compel'd for fear the old man should dye or rather of the reward of a murtherer to hasten him into a Milners house by the way and put him into bed hardly able to keep life in him and all for so small a matter as is here specified Would not a man think that the great Tormentor of mankind was mew'd up in this Musgrave and that a few more of such Musgraves would render those places where they were as if Hell was broke loose and the Inhabitants thereof had dwelt therein I shall forbear any further digging in his own dunghil for the truth is I loath the work and it shall be pure necessity that shall re-compel my pains of this nature if ever I attempt it the second time no more now but only this he pretends himself the grand Advocate for the godly Ministers in the Northern Counties if you may judg of his Clergy Clients by one or two of them whose cause he solicited very lately before the Committee of Plunder'd Ministers you may quickly ghess what Ministers they are and for thy satisfaction herein read the Orders of the said Committee after full hearing of both of their Causes At the Committee for Plundered Ministers February 14. 1650. Upon the complaint of Mr John Musgrave on the behalf of Mr Morland ejected out of the Rectory of Graystock in the County of Cumberland by Sir Arthur Haslerig and other the Commissioners for propagating the Gospel in the four Northern Counties the said Mr Morland appealing against the Judgment of the said Commissioners and being now present with the said Mr Iohn Musgrave his Solicitor to make good the said Appeal It is admitted on both sides That the cause of the said Mr Morland his Ejectment out of the said Rectory was for insufficiency for the Ministry and that he appearing upon examination before the said Commissioners as is in behalf of the said Commissioners affirmed to be grosly ignorant and therefore unable and unfit for the work of the Ministry they have adjudged him a scandalous Minister but the said Mr Morland standing upon his Justification submitteth himself to a re-examination before this Committee and being now re-examined before this Committee in presence of his said Solicitor Mr Iohn Musgrave and all parties concerned