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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

A fourth word to the wise OR A plaine discovery of Englands misery and how the fame 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 PLutarch relates that a certain poore old woman often petitioning King Philip of Macedon to have her cause heard the King at length gave her this answer that he was not at leasure she instantly replyed noli itaque Reguari do not then raign Which speech the King admiring forthwith not only heard her cause and complaint but of many others in his proper person O that our house of Commons would imitate Philip the heathen and no longer put us off to partiall and justice-delaying I had almost said justice-perverting Committees Much and long have I sollicited all such as sit in the house in the right of our Country except your self who hath been long a Nonresident to present my Countries grievances and complaints and to have rhem put in away of tryall But they not only tell me that they have no leasure but that they will not to their shame be it spoken The heathen will Judge them Nay they were not onely the chiefe instruments of geting me cast into prison fearing I should by some other hand bring on my Countries cause to hearing but most perfideously they have got such in authority with us as are notorious Delinquents declared traytors not yet compounded for their treasons for treasons be now made salable and but amony matter though they professe to favour honest men heare and such as be called Independants Yet when I got such men of approved and known integrety to be a Sub-Committee for accompts for Westm●rland and Cumberland they procured them upon a false certificate to be put out of Commission and others to be in their stead as were delinquents and professe enemies to all honest men and in particular to Independants Nay they got Commissions for Oyre and Terminer and Goale delivery for our Country but not one of the Commissioners therein named living in our Country other then Delinquents and against whom whom there be severall charges of high nature two yeares agoe exhibited to the House of Commons which we have much laboured to bring to exammination but cannot g●● it done Yet have they been so countenaunced and borne out by th● Lord Wharton Sir Wilfride Ermyn Mr. Blackston and some others I coul● name as Sir Willfride Lawson was continued high Shrieffe for the mo●● part of the last two yeares who hath more tira-nized and exercised 〈◊〉 greater arbitrary power committed farre greater insolences and ounage● then ever the Earle of Stafford did in this Kingdom or Ireland di● Not t● speak● of his late committing men to prison for not conforming to Stat● worship neither how he and other Justices caused to be indicted 3● persons the Parliaments cordiall friends at Midsummer Sessions last fo● not repairing to the steeple houses and book of Common-prayer M. Briscoe the Lord Whartons learned Steward his now bosome friend and by him preferred to be a Justice of peace Deputy Lieviennant Committe● man and Commissioner of Oyre and Terminer Yet while the Count●● was in the enemies hands the Gentleman joyned with the enemy to●●● an Oath of obedience to the Commissioners of Array and sent out ho●●● and Armes against the Parliament At Midsummer Sessions last he very learnedly discoursed in his charge how there were a new kind of Recusant● worse then Papists for indeed Papists he protects and not one Papist troubled for his Religion there Meaning the seperatists and Independants and that they were the cause of all these troubles and the enemies of the Kingdom whereupon the poore pe●ple were indicted This is the bestoffice the Lord Wharton ever did for us I know many here have a good opinion of the Lord Wharton and the rather for that he hath brought you Mr. Lawrence and Mr. Sallaway into the house Indeed you have been for the greatest part absent so we could not exspect much from you neither could we well informe you of the true state of our Country but Mr. Lawrence and Mr. Sallaway have both of them been with me yet did me nor my Country no good them I acquainted how the Lord Wharton had used us I told them how I got our Papers presented to the House by the Scots Commissioners mean s which I did with Mr. Rigby our kind friend his approbation and good liking who had conference with the Scots Commissioners about our businesse and for a good compliance betwixt them and us for the further quiet and ease of honest men in our pa●s which had in all likelihood been brought about had not Mr. Blackston abused our friends in the house by misinformation in making our friends beleeve Mr. Borwis was Independent and Scottish and that I carried one the Scottish designe which was false though I acknowledge I was beholding to some of the Scots Commissioners for curtesies rec●ived all which is since clearely manifested For no sooner was I cast into prison but Mr. Barwis thinking to make the Scots in 〈◊〉 base way his friends upon a certificate from Lawson Brisco and ●●e rest of the Committee against the Church in Cumberland complai●d to the Northern Committe here that in the beginning of the Parlia●ent their was but two Sectaries meaning Mr. Crackanthrop and my self 〈◊〉 we were increased to a hundred did preach in Private-houses refu●●d to Baptise our children and made their ministry contemptible and if ●e were suffered would grow to greater numbers desiring some order for ●●●ressing us But having no countenance from the Committee and re●●●ving a checke by some Parliament man went away in chafe much 〈◊〉 saying though he could not then be heard time would come he ●●●bted not but to have us all suppressed I thinke Colonell Liburne 〈◊〉 then present he can tell you the particular passages For Lievtennant Colonell Lilburne his brother was the man that told it me I further told 〈◊〉 Lawrence how Mr. Prinne upon sight of the Scotch Papers given into ●●e House very readely procured at my instance a Commission to honest ●●●●oved men all or most of them Independant● to be a Sub-Committee of ●●●●●pts for Westmerland and Cumberland not one I named being either ●●●●quent accountable or persecuter yet all of them suffi●ient men for 〈◊〉 imployment and of considerable estates my self being one of the ●●●nest that same being put upon me by Mr. Prinne undeserved Yet 〈◊〉 Lord Wharton did under his hand certify to the Grand-Committee 〈◊〉 accounts here that the men were of no estates and of so mean equa●●●y as they could neither write no raed nor cast up an account Where●pon our Commission was revoked And upon the like false certificat●●●om the Lord Wharton and Sir William Ermyn others oppointed in o●●●●●●d who were notorious Delinquents and themselves accountable and 〈◊〉 disabled by Ordnance of Parliament

to be of that Committee Thus the Parliament was abused and our Country wronged I dare really say or Country was damnified 10 thousand pounds and the Parliament lost thereby a hundreed thousand pounds Herein the Lord Wharton did a double wrong to us and the State First in putting out honest men and commending and putting in Commission Knaves and Traytors Thus while the Lord Wharton would seeme a Saint he verefies the old proverb the white Divill is most dangerous The Lord Wharton being in the Country Mr. Crackanthrop was commended to him and put in the last for the standing Committee but he put him out Saying he was an Independant and non Covenanter Thus he plaies Machevill and Janu● like heere Independent saith but in the North an opposite and Presbi-ter but to get out the Commissions of Oyre and Terminer and Goale delivery 〈◊〉 our Country the Commissioners therein na-med living in our Coun●●y potorious Delinquents and professed enemies to all honest men and and persecuters of Independants he was very active If you doubt of this the Clarke of the Crowne Office will better and further satisfie you therein the Lord Wharton Mr. Allen and Mr. Lawrence for you were absent before the Commissions were sealed or given out were desired to prevent or stay them and acquainted with the exceptions given in to Mr. Speaker and your father in law L. G. against them Yet they did pass● and so now the declared Traytors have power over life and death 〈◊〉 thing the King never did before the Warrs begun Now I acquainted Mr. Lawience but he sits upon the pinacle of the Temple and the Lord Wharton how the Committee of Cumberland being Delinquents had 〈◊〉 on Garth their Soliciter and Agent much countenanced by the Lord Wharton and Barwis which Garth is a Delinquent and a poore shufling Atturney and a professed enemy to all honest men Yet this fellow is allowed by the Committee 100 l. per annum for waiting here and stoping all complaints against the Committee but the poore Country p●ies for all All this I am able to prove and herewith I acquainted the Lord Wharton Your Father in law in your absence promised to do much for us but did nothing many letters I wrote to him I could wish he now act not against us if he do it may prove his owne destruction 2500. l. per annum given him will not bear him out when his friends be cut off I have used all means possible t bring our Countries cause to try all but by Mr. Lawrence Mr. Allen Mr O. Salloway and Lord Wharton failing us and their double-dealing I have laboured but in vain therefore I say to you and as many as sit in the House in right of our Country even a● the old woman said to King Philip if you have not leisure or will no● present our just Complaints and Petitions come forth and sit no longe● there for our Country One thing I had almost passed by in reference to the Lord Wharton 〈◊〉 thing worthy your obseruation a poor woman of our Country having been at London about Law suites upon her return home at the instance complaint of Henry and Iames Pearson two Delinquents brothers Attornies was carryed with her husband before Sir Wil. Lawson a Commissioner of Array and by his direction the woman was bound in a Care laid on her back with her head ahd face upwards under the horse tayle the horse forced to gallop with her to the endangering her life and before they put her in prison stript her to her smock and after Sir Wilford Lawson gave direction to lay Irons upon her and all this for no other cause then that she was as they pretended an Intelligencer for the Parliament and for searching her for Parliaments papers Yet my L. Wharton so pittifull he is to the poor and regardfull of his Oath and Covenant 〈◊〉 ●●ch talkt of as he will not present her Petition to the house of Lords tel●●ng her he can give her no encouragement to petition though M. Bradshaw 〈◊〉 Lawyer did entreat him to do it Now consider our condition I assure you the whole Militia and autho●●ty in our Country are setled in the hands of professed Enemies known Delinquents not one that hath been faithfull to the Parliament or is a lo●●r of his Country hath any command or office with us Therefore if you ●●band your Forces before these Newtrals and Delinquents and great oppressors be removed and secured we are betrayed by you and may say you purposely gave us up into the hand of the Enemy having made first what you could out of vs your selves For if this Army were broken which under God is the strength of the Kingdome in one moneth the Enemy without any difficulty may possesse themselves of the whole North and doubtlesse will do it the Irish may ●●d with us in 11 hours premoniti praemuniti You see of late how we have 〈◊〉 enthralled under the name of Conformity persecuted and under notion of a priviledge a new kind of tyramie set up It belongs to wise men to ●●●e-see and prevent a mischiefe before it happens and it is the reward of 〈◊〉 unhappy and fooles to lament it to late when woe is come upon them the medicine and physick that is ministred out of season is killing works 〈◊〉 to the benefit of the Patient the counsell is without fruit that comes af●●● the fact and it will be to late to apply the remedy after the evill be fallen upon us where tyrants turn their authority to oppress and destroy innocents to hold up armes for our own● safety can be no breach of obedience If you wish our Countries welfare indeed be the men you professe be not carryed away with ambitious and covetous desires of honor and riches and under shadow of the weale and benefit publique respecting-selfe and particular interests making Religion and Liberty a cloak to your greatnesse and own profit you will not expect and temporize till we be brought to the last extremity for then our recourse to remedies will be to late and we shall stand fondly to lament the harme and mischiefe which wee might have easily before avoided It is to late to provoke to vomite when the poyson hath pierced the bones Therefore gird up your loynes like men of resolution and do not forbear while you have time and opportunity to provide for the safety of your selves ●nd Country be not curious in conscience to defend and stand for law li●erty and justice then which you cannot offer to God a temporall sacrifice ●●re acceptable worthy Pulcrum est pro patria mort the Heathen could ●● be wise it s said the English be ●agis a●mi poten●es q●am politici when William the Conqueror contrary to his oath begun to oppresse the English and would have brought them under the yoke of the Norman law the English counting the same no other then their fetters sought to cast

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