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A45384	Truth's discovery, or, The Cavaliers case clearly stated by conscience and plain-dealing presented to the honorable commissioners, and all the truly loyall and indigent officers, and souldiers ... / written by Capt. Charles Hammond ...	Hammond, Charles, 17th cent.	1664 (1664)	Wing H498; ESTC R9595	13,773	24

our sins was great before they are far greater now God hath Restored us to our Peace and Liberty which we so long prayed for and wish'd for what Returns have we made to him for that Mercy Instead of sending new Praises and Thanksgivings to present him from our hearts and lips for those Mercies we have Invented New Oathes and Curses to send him He that cannot Swear and Swagger Drink Rant and Rogue is look'd upon by some as a pittiful Fellow and not worth their keeping Company and if he cannot Vapour he is not look'd upon to have any Valour These Vices have got such a custome of late that they are look'd upon to be the only Badge to distinguish a Cavalier from a Sectary that you shall find in Court and Camp in City and Country that those that are crept into places of profit and preferment by their Purses which I believe serves the King more for lucre of Pay then love to his Person these now are become as absolute Dam-me Boys as the best or the worst I may say which formerly would as soon cut a Cavaliers throat as swear an Oath and esteemed it a less sin unless it had been the Covenant or Engagement but I have no more to say to them but how can we look for Mercies from God or Favour from the King when we who should shew such good Examples for the Glory of God who hath delivered us and the Honour of our King whose Cause we fought for are now so accustomed to these odious Sins that we neither feat God's Judgements nor the Kings Laws which are both Enemies to such counterfeit Cavaliers I can term them no other nor ever did who hath done the King more harm by their deboystness then ever they can do him good by their service if He should have occasion to use them therefore you that can make your Service and Sufferings out for His Majesty shew it in your Carriage and Behaviour for your future Happiness and His Majesties Honour We have Enemies enough we had need make God our Friend and that can never be with such courses I believe if some thought there was a God they would not call upon him to damn them so often as they do it is an Oath so common it is grown a custome by Rich and Poor Men and Women Old and Young we can talk against the Pride of the Gentry the Covetousness of the Clergy the Deceipt of the Citizens and the Corruption of the Lawyer but Swearing Cursing Lying Back-biting and Insinuating is counted no sins amongst us and that I must be bold to tell you That those that profess themselves the Indigent Party are greatly Guilty in this and by Jarring and Quarrelling one with another every one thinking his own wit best till at last some out-witted all those thar are truly Indigent and well they may having Four to One against us and good backers to second them These and such like are the Faults of the Indigent Party which I have here declared not out of Envy or Hypocrisie but out of the Love to them that are of the right Party hoping you will better accept of it from a Friend then from an Enemy for others let them think what they will and speak what they list I have done what I can to make it appear who are the truly Loyal and Indigent Party and who the Counterfeit that the Cheat may be found though the Gamesters be hid for the satisfaction of our Friends which are grieved for us and likewise for our Enemies which rejoyceth at our Poverty and would work upon our Necessity if they could but I hope they shall find us more contented with our Rags of Loyalty with a quiet Conscience then they can be in their Robes of Sedition which they have gained by our Ruine not doubting but God's Mercy and the Kings Clemency in time may relieve us when it s clearly known who hath faithfully served and suffered for him in the mean time I desire all them that fear God and honour the King not to let their Grievances and Poverty move their Passion so much by their Cursing and Swearing which makes us stink in the nostrils of God and odious in the company of civil persons and become a laughing stock to our Enemies that hath nothing else to look for but the Judgements of God to fall upon us such like sins which are too much used by those that profess themselves the Kings Friends So having now shewed you the Faults of our Party I shall shew you the Causes which are many I will instance a few and though they be great I desire to remove them that our Faults may be mended The Causes that produceth their Faults Discovered in Reallity WE can plead no cause we have for our sins or Faults but what produceth them we may and that I shall declare which is Pride Poverty and Passion you will say 't is strange that the Indigent Party should be tainted with Pride for they have cause enough to be humbled Yes but the Counterfeits are proud in conceit that they have out-witted out-vapoured and can out-swear the truly Loyal and Indigent Party as by woful experience we have found I must tell you that they take such pride in their swearing that they think they are not look'd upon as Gentlemen and Cavaliers unless they can swear to all they speak whether it be truth or lyes nay I dare say that there are many hundreds that have received their potion of this Indigent Money with the best that have discharged more Vollies of Oathes in the faces of the Kings Friends then ever they discharged corns of powder gallantly in the faces of his Enemies if the greatest Swearers and Vapourers could prove themselves the best Souldiers and the greatest Sufferers for his Majesty they then may be proud of their Loyalty to the King but they cannot boast of their good service to God I must tell you 't is the greatest honour that can redound to a Souldier to be counted Religious as well as Valourous and Humility is the truest badge of Gentility you must not blaze every mans Arms now by the Coat he wears on his back if you should Poverty procured by Loyalty would be a great blot in the Seutchins of many a gallant Soul and well bred Gentleman which can patiently see every day Rich Coats worn by such as cannot find a Coot of Arms to blaze unless they fetch it from the Hauraldy of Rebellion or buy it as many hath done Places of Honour and Preferment with the Purses that they have gained by the Plunder Purchase and utter Ruine of some of his Majesties best Subjects which in their Eyes and in their Hearts they think and will speak a far off that our Poverty is a just Reward for our Loyalty terming us Fools that we did not turn Knaves as they did and then face about with them having but Money in our Purses they say it would a procured us Friends

Boothes business and all these petty Risings and TrainRand Officers that never went out of their own County or Garrisons where they lived that were only in a readiness to help to save themselves not being able to endure the scent of a light Match upon Service yet these are brought in for Indigent Officers too And then for Colonels to make their Serving-men and Grooms Officers to put in for the Money and Captains to appoint Lievtenants Cornets Ensigns and Quarter-masters in a Tavern or an Alehouse and go half snips with them this they counted no Cheat if the Officers were dead Others if they served the Parliament after the King was Murdered till the Restauration of our Soveraign that now is nay some of them proved great Trappaners to the King's Friends now in these times yet these are rank'd with the truly Loyal and Indigent Officers such as were in Pay when we were in Prison and could March the streets when we were forced to hide our heads If these be not Grievances which we have cause to lay open let Friends and Enemies both be our Judges When it was proved upon Oath before Commissioners that some never had Command in their lives And against others that there was no such Men known not so much as Troopers or Souldiers which claimed to be Captains and Commission Officers and many of them never appeared to answer for themselves if there were any such as I believe it will be made appear there was not To be short When we thought there had been 1500 at least turned out by Inspection there was 300 more then the first Number taken in so that we were senceable it was but a folly to strive against the stream being driven more and more backward As for those Indigent Officers that leapt from Corporals to Quarter-Masters and from Cornets to Captains Majors and Lievtenant-Colonels to put themselves in Colonels and to make their Brothers or Kindred Lievtenant-Colonels and Majors under them that was accounted nothing though it were within a Week or a Fortnight before the laying down of Arms and some too that never did the King Service since nor I believe will never be Chronicled for their Service they did his Father formerly for their Loyalty it may be they are clear for I believe they were like a Chip in Pottage never did hurt nor good neither for the King nor his Friends but all for their own Ends Indigent they may be termed but by their Insinuating they have gotten good Gifts and Rewards that hath been given by the King and others intended for those that was deserving and poor but the Proverb saith Kissing goes by favour and Rewards bestowed upon them that can make best Friends when Service and Desarts either lyes in Prison or dare not peep out for fear as by some 't is too openly known that through Want and Grief together being ashamed to make their wants known especially since the King came in have broke their hearts to see some of their Friends slighting them for their Poverty And others that would willingly Relieve them but not able the more is their grief and to be pittied Now there is another sort of truly Loyal but not Indigent which some of them I much honour having been much impoverished in Estate by their Service for the King and never yet had any Reward that hath put in for a Part of this Money that are not so Indigent but if they had thought to what a pittiful sum it would amount to they would have left it to them that had more need But there are some again that hath had good Rewards and Offices under the King given them some more then their Commands their Service or their Sufferings ever merited yet hath put in and taken share of this Money too being so covetous as to rob the spittle as I may term it being ungrateful to his Majesty for his Favour to them formerly and abusing his Charity in this which was now intended for them that were Really in Want for the present I believe there are some that hath taken of this Money that if the truth were known as it may be made appear that they have gotten besides their Places near a Thousand pounds a man and some have Three-score some an Hundred nay Five hundred a year yet all these have put in for Indigent Officers so what I have here Related concerning our Greivancees is nothing but truth and much more can be proved by the truly Loyal and Indigent Party to the shame of some Persons that shall be nameless if once called to an account our Wants and Necessities hath been so great that it is not unknown upon what Rates some men hath been fain to borrow Money as at Five shillings in the pound and a Gratuity to some to help them to it Some indeed borrowing so much I believe they will never come to look for more knowing they have no right to any of our Money if all things had been rightly carried Besides there hath been abundance of honest Trades-men and House-keepers undone by Trusting and Helping us in the time we waited for this Money not any of them thinking but it would amounted in some measure to a satisfied every moderate mans Debts but falling out as it hath done it hath undone them and us too for some of them are not able to Relieve themselves now that formerly Relieved us that of necessity if God doth not raise Friends for some they must want Lodging Food and Rayment unless it be provided them in a Prison as too many can witness since they have received this Indigent Money many being cast into Prison already others having neither Money nor Credit must of necessity either beg steal or starve unless God be pleased to raise them Friends to move His Majesty and the Parliament to provide for them as they out of their Mercy and Wisdom shall think fit which will not be of the truly Loyal and Indigent Party that can prove themselves quallified according to the Act not the Fift part of those that have gotten their share of this last Money which I shall more clearly make out how they may be proved at the latter end of this Book So having shewed you our Grievances in part I will now shew you the Faults our Indigent Party is branded with and not without a cause The Faults of the Indigent Party laid open without flattery AS the Complaints are great of the Indigent Party to the grief of many civil men their Friends so their griefs hath been as great to hear the Complaints against them which I confess is not without a cause And give me leave to lay ope nt to you those faults which are too openly seen and heard to our shame in the World that makes many say We can see the Moats in others eyes but perceive not the Beams that are in our own Our Sufferings was great before his Majesty was Restored you will say 't is greater now 'T is true

Regiment now living that is known himself to be a Deserving Gallant man and it was a Compleat fighting Regiment and then to Certifie that he knew such a man and he had a real Command so long as he can testifie of his own knowledge and of his behaviour and carriage while he was under his Command and thus to certifie the truth according to his deserts upon his Credit and likewise to get another Certificate from the Hands of Creditable men where he lived or from others that knew him where he had been since the Wars and would testifie for his Loyalty after he left the Kings Army to the Restauration of our now Gracious Sovereign I believe if none but those that could produce such a Certificate should have had share of this Indigent Money we should have had no cause to declare our Grievances but I believe then it would a been a great grief to some to have seen none but honest men provided for for then they should not a been so well provided as they are now with our Money Next Remedy is if for the future there should any provision be made either by Offices or Places either Martial or Civil or any Money given by his Majesty or any others that it may be put into the hands of impartial men to be distributed such as Jethro prescribed to Moses Men fearing God and hating Covetousness that Rewards intended for deserving men and sufferers that wants may not be distributed to particular persons in Private by Letters from Ladies or Great men to their Serving-men Foot-men or Porters or to such as hath had more already then ever their Service deserved being a cluster of Insinuating Impudent more then Indigent Officers that runs up and down hearkening after such Gifts either fawning with the Favourites or Feeing them and the Clerks that belongs to such persons that hath the distributing of such Gifts that when their own turn is served if there be any thing left giving them a part with you they will make you acquainted with it this hath been the course of most Gifts that hath been bestowed since his Majesty came in that if it were openly known upon whom it hath been bestowed it could not be made appear that it hath been half distributed according to the Intentions it was given for so that a few particular persons hath and doth get a shear in everything and most of them deserves nothing and some wants nothing when some Gentlemen to my knowledge that had done the King good service hath been great Sufferers gallant Souldiers and no diserters that could not get a penny of all this Money to relieve them not hearing of it till it was all distributed some being brought to that condition through want that now they are past want such as could not make their case known to none but such as could not help themselves but only with hopes which keeps their hearts from breaking thinking they are now at the worst therefore in hopes it will mend Another Remedy would be desired for the truly Loyal and Indigent Souldiers that served his Majesty as well as Officers which are or should be provided for by Pension according to the Act which I believe if they were clearly purged and none to have it but such as could produce from their Officers and the places where they have lived or been since the Wars such Certificates as I prescribed for our Indigent Officers before I believe then there would be a good subsistance for all true Pentioners Widows or others which I believe is not many more then they have made Indigent Officers if they were carefully examined but there is as great Complaints from them as there is justly from us some that never served the King some that served a while and run home others that served the Rebells here in England till the King came in Yes and received their Wounds in their service against the King some of them and had Pension for it from them yet making Friends and getting some Officers Hand like themselves or to keep them from the Parish charge hath gotten in to be Pensioners when to my knowledge there are those that hath been stout Souldiers and served as Corporals and Sergeants and continued till the end of the Wars lame and wounded too and have been faithful ever since some can get nothing some Forty shillings or Three pounds a year when Four pounds or more shall be allotted some that can be proved as unworthy Rascals against the Kings Friends in the time of Rebellion as those that were alwayes against us and worse too and would be as ready still to stand for Rebellion if they thought it would prove the stronger side thus hath the Kings and Parliaments Clemency in the Act been abused which I hope God will put into the hearts of some of the Nobility and Clergy to move his Majesty in our behalf that he would appoint some noble Persons to hear our Grievances and in some way relieve us that such whom God in Mercy hath preserved their lives and shifted for their Liberty and Livelihood in the worst of times as we thought should not now complain for want of Food Raiment and Liberty and to see both in Court and Camp Sea and Land places of profit and preferment bestowed upon them that hath enough to live on besides which they gain'd when we lost all when able men and civilmen as ever served his Majesty only branded with Poverty must be look'd upon by these persons as unworthy men and not fit to have any Employment by reason of the deboystness of some that hath made themselves the Cavalier Party I must of necessity Conclude and leave these Remedies and what else is wanting to be remedied by those whom God directs and appoints not only to hear us but what they shall see in their Wisdom is wanting for the Advancement of His Majesty the Peace and Preservation both of Church and People under his Majesties Dominions which shall be the Prayers of him which for this time takes his leave desiring what you see in this Book writ out of Ignorance or Passion judge favourably of it and let that real Intention which I aim at without sinester ends plead for my Infirmities which you discover here reflecting upon your selves knowing there is none free from some or other Post-script I Know there is many will wonder that I should presume to take upon me to write this Book being there is many of our Party that were far more able to have undertook the handling of it I must confess it might have come from a better Pen but not a truer Heart It grieved me to see what Confusion there hath been amongst us from the beginning some drawing up Remonstrances and Grievances and setting of Hands to this Thing and that Thing then Chusing of Trustees appointing of Meetings at several places and so spend our Time and Money too them that had it some siding for one Party some for