horse and foote fled towards Carmarthin 20. miles distant from the place of the battle The Major Generall having thus by Gods great blessing obtained so miraculous a Victory ascribed the glory to him that gave it and therupon tooke up his quarters at Haverford where treating with his Prisoners and understanding in what distresse the Towne of Youghall then stood he found most of them very willing to go for Ireland and to renounce the retaking of Armes against the Parliament whereupon having shipping ready in the Haven he gave present order for the embarking of 400. of them to bee Landed with all expedition at the Towne of Youghall whether it was their good happe timely to arive to the releife of the place and where they behaved themselves very manfully in sallying on the Rebells and beating them out of their Workes In the meane time the Major Generall following this Victory summoned the Enemies Garrisons of Picton Carew and Mannerbyer then the only remainder of Gerrards great and plundring Army which by degrees and within a very short time were all surrendred unto him and the whole County againe totally cleared of the Enemy The Major Generall then exceedingly tyred yet with as convenient speed as possibly he could drew up againe towards Carmarthin his owne County being then utterly unable to feed an Army and on the same of his approach and the Enemy there of greater strength then his and within a strong and well fortified Towne yet in Civility were well pleased to dislodge and to give way to the Major Generall to enter at one end of the Towne whilst the Enemy marcht out at the other The Towne and the whole County of Carmarthin then weary of the Warre and resenting their former forwardnes but especially the insolency of Gerrard his rapatios followers when at first they might have beene securely quiet submitted themselves to the Major Generalls command who notwithstanding he had before taken the place by storme never plundered it nor any part of the County but onely the hundred of * Durtlesse a skirt of that County destinated as it seemes on both sides to utter ruine as a peece lying between two dissenting Counties I am bound by the obligation of truth which I have assumed without all partiality to lay down all passages in their naked verity so neer as my own knowledge and other informations may warrant me and amongst many others here to leave this annimadversion of speciall marke Viz That Generall Gerrard was the most insolent and barbarous Commander that ever was employed in his Majesties service and in both his expeditions into those parts was accompanied with more dissolute and plundring Captaines then were in any of the Kings Armyes and with as desperate a crew of base and blaspemous Souldiers and theevs then any throughout the Kingdom The E of Carbery his kindred allyes and followers which at their first taking up of Armes were so sedulously forward against the Parliament have all of them very good cause to verifie this assertion Gerrard sparing not to put on his Lordship and his kindred all the skornes and insolent language that could have beene imagined to proceed from a Gentleman professing the way of honour telling Middleton the High-Sherriffe to his face and on no just occasion and one that was as forward in his Majesties service as any God-dam-me thou art a Turd and I will hang thee and such fellowes as thou art at your owne doores In short the welch Nation have had enough and more then their bellies full of their unnaturall rising against their consernatory yet thus much we must acknowledge as an advertisment in the eye of all men which were acquainted with the passages of those parts that my L. of Carbery in his owne nature howsoever sufficiently active himselfe as at first set on by the * Lords and annimated by others aforementioned was notstithstanding a moderate Commander and though timerous to be reputed a Traytor to the King should he not have complyed in the way as he did as that was and is the vulgar understanding of the times and of men which dived not into the nature of the controversie was doubtlesse a private well-wisher to the cause and if all be true as that unworthy fellow * and the first plunderer in the principality openly averd and at Oxford accused his Lordship to have plaid fast and loose with the King though there he cleered himselfe of that imputation yet in my own perticular I have very good reason to believe that in his heart hee wisht well to the State and was well content that the kingdoms forces might prevaile We have a little digrest but we shall now goe on in our relations and shew that so soone as the Major Gene had quietted and setled the County of Carmarthin with that of Cardican where only Colo. Iames Lews Captaine Thomas Evans Mr. James Philips with some of the Lloyds of any considerable qualty and active in the cause were most cordiall the rest of the Gentlmen generally retrograde The Gentlemen of the Countyof Brecknocke then much desired to associate with him to which purpose a meeting was appointed at Lanumdovery where in manifestation of their hartinesse they invited the Major Generall to quarter part of his Forces within their Countie where Colo. Harbert Price Gefferies and diverse others were inveterate enemies to the Parliament and were constant associates both with his Lordship of Carbery and the Generall Gerrard whereunto the Major Generall Laherne condiscended and shortly after came accompanied with 400. Horse and Foot and quartered at Brecknocke where having intelligence that that Irish Rebell and Traytor Col. Grady a Commander that never gave quarter to any of the Parliament party then quartered at Pembridge in the County of Hereford and neer upon 30. myles distance from Brecknocke he gave present and private Order that 100. horse and Dragoones should in the evening begin to march and so to compute the designe with the time as by the break of the next morning to fall upon Gradyes quarters which was so well performed as that the Majors men killed diverse of them in the place tooke 60. of the Enemies horse and dissipated the remainder of Gradyes Regiment upon their returne to Brecknocke the Major then presently resolved to march and unexpectedly lay down on the uttermost parts of the Countyof Cardican before Aberrustwith whither before he had given order that some Guns of Battery should be sent about unto him by Sea out of Milford-haven which being opportunly arrived he battered the Castle for certaine dayes but with little effect the place being strong and well fortified the enemy at his first arrivall leaving the town retreated al into the Castle then under the command of Maj. Whitly one of Gerâ—â—ds prime plunderers and having receaved intelligence from Glamor ganshire of the rising of Mr. Carne lately designed high Sheriffe of that County by the Parliament and that he held intelligence with the Enemy
nature and constitution of this Soveraignty and how much it imports a King of England to summon his Parliaments before he needs them or that the obliquities of the Church and Common-wealth requires them for the generall reformation and that when they are assembled how much it concernes both Prince and people that they be cherished and backt by the Royall authority as Courts which are the invincible pillars of the Royalty and onely buttrises of the State It could not possibly have fallen out that so great a fatallity should have befallen His Majesties perticular and the universall populacy of three so late flourishing kingdomes which as now they are wasted weakened and embroyled cannot be recovered not their ruptures handsomly made up untill by the blessing of God a right understanding of each others right may be timely begotten between his Royall selfe and the great Councells of the Kingdomes * certain it is that of all humane causes the primum mobile of all our Tragicall sufferings was His Majesties aversation to that which is the inheritance of the kingdome Parliaments and the same which God men and the lawes of the Land required and would have at such a time to be summoned when long before it was resolved Parliaments should have beene coffind up in their last funerall rites and the King Royally intending to rule alone and without them so insearchable and past finding out are the wayes of him by whom Kings-Raigne and must stoope their wils to his who as well disposeth of their Scepters as of the hearts of their Vassalls We ought not to question known truths without prejudice to the publike faith for it was written in large Caracters in the Kings aspect that the very principia of this Assembly and the tracts they walkt in were not only averse to his Royall inclinations but seemed to all * those which had a hand in leading on His Majesties designes to bee of a terrible continuance as evidently portending the assured ruine of many both of their hopes and fortunes When certaine it was that the party adjuvant and delinquent might both stand up and shun the perrill then imminently hanging over their heads a course of necessity must be found out both how to quash this so furious a Parliament as then it was apprehended it would be and consequently to annihilate all others that in time to come might be summoned as obstackls which might in the future hinder the growth of absolute power Omiting perticularities It was then now more manifestly known that the Court contrivances wherby to effect this great worke of annihilation were many contiguous dangerous in their aâ—tempt and more daring then ever have bin attempted on any of our Parliaments and such as were beyond common expectation and the beliefe of all men of sober judgment could have bin enterprized against the great Councell of the Kingdome The wonder being so much the more that the King himselfe shouâ—d build his hopes on such feeble and uncertaine foundations as to set up his rest on an enterprize of so unlikly and improbable an archievement as to graple with the power of the Kingdome then contracted and compacted in its representative But we passe over the ennumeration of the many various and sundry practises as in order of their invention from time to time and without intermission they were put on the tryall of their execution though hitherto by divine providence they have proved fruitlesse in their effect yet most remarkable it is that on his Majesties recesse and deserting the House and the bulke of the Parliaments strength then much maimed lessened and weakned both in defect of the head and by so great a desection of the parts and tergiversation of the Members falcifying the trust of their Countries yet that the remaining and trusty part should notwithstanding beate up in the defence of the publik interest and amidst so many and powerfull Interjections slight vilipend that ridiculous Conventickle or mungrell Parliament at Oxford trayterously opposed against this so legally assembled It must be acknowledged that Almighty God stood with the cause and infused them with the spirit of courage and that his speciall providence had a high hand in the conduct of their preservation But we must now looke back and shall only touch on the maine contrivances in their grosse and as they were at the Kings comming to Yorke there set a foot first for raising of an Army whereby on all formet failancies by force of Armes to over-power this Parliament and as after it was resolved to erect the Royall Stendard at Nottingham so to draw up the power of the people against themselves in their representative together with his Majesties Commissions of Array * dispatcht into severall parts of the Kingdome as if some forraigne Enemy had then beene in preparation to invade the State pre-invaded and only by those which should have defended it We shall but only mention those Commissions sent into the North and other those remote parts thought then most apt to second his Majesties intentions and most out of the noyse of the people and hearing of the Parliament ignorant in the right understanding both of the cause and artifices of Court and shall chiefly insist on those sent into the West as Commissioned to the Marquesse of Hartford his Brother the Lord St. Maure and Sir Ralph Hopton These three Lords about Iuly 1642. comming out of the North came first to Marlborough summoning the Major and his Bretheren to repayre to their Lordships they shewed them their Commission of Array but found them more round then they expected the towne wholly standing up for the Parliament thence they bent their course immediatly towards Bath Bristoll and Wells where the Inhabitant were as averse to thir Commissions as to submit their head to the block though all three of them were in those Countries both powerfull in Tenancye and generally in the good opinion and affection of the people but no sooner appearing in this strange and unheard of errand but they became of despicable accompt as the sequell thereupon proved it to be most true for they were shortly after beaten and chased away from Mendippe and Wells whence withall the strength they could possibly raise they retreated to the Castle of Sherborne his Lordship Cottington as one of their grand assistants not liking the businesse took an occasion to leave them the night before The Lords with the rest of their Associats being there besieged shortly after made an eruption and in a confused march of flight finding those parts to hot for their abiding and nothing conformable to their commissions haste to Myniard the whole Country rising upon them whereupon dividing themselves Hopton tending towards the Cornish men a sort of people Robustious and in the generall utterly unacquainted with the wayes and subtilties of Court neither understanding the true state of the Cause were easily seduced by him The other Lords instead of better sanctuary-betooke
Some particular ANIMADVERSIONS of MARKE for satisfaction of the contumatious MALIGNANT WITH Some other Generall and Remarkable observations on the summons of the late dissolved and of this Parliament upon the Kings deserting the House and his retreat to YORKE 1642. But more particularly of the swift Motions of the Cornish Men and those of the South parts of the PRINCIPALITY in their inconsiderat and unnaturall taking up of Armes against their Conservatory and principally of the various Passages of the County of PEMBROOKE under the Tiranous Command of Generall GERRARD where the War hath bin most barbarously cruell Together with the severall Fights Defeates Siedges Skirmishes Routs Retreates betweene both Armies with the differences and Divisions of the County of Pembrooke and the finall Over-throw and beating out of Generall GERRARDS last plundring Army out of that County and the miraculous Reduction of all South-WALES by Maior Generall LAVGHERNE With some humble Propositions both for the suppression of the Insolencies of the Souldier and speedy Reparation of such as have suffered in the losse of all their Estates for the publike Cause Humbly adrest to the High Court of Parliament LONDON PRINTED Anno Dom. 1646. For the Right Honourable LORDS the Peeres and Gentlemen of the Honourable House of COMMONS THe Author as to the first part of his Animadversions touching the late motions of the State in the visible pursuance of Arbytrary power presents them not as newes to a Court of Parliament the evidence whereof being obvious to all the world onely hee ranckes them here in a new fyle for satisfaction of the incredulous Malignant not capable to owane his owne friends neither will be sensible what your indefatigable labours have beene or take notice of the pains you have taken during these foure yeares for Preservation of the common freedome and liberties of the Kingdome As to the second part which is a narrative touching the Warre under the conduct of major Generall Laughorns it is offered to all of discerning Iudgements how mirakculously Gods speciall providence hath evidently appeared as well in that particular of the County of Pembrook as in the Generall prosperity of the Kingdoms armes The conclusive part is both humbly monotory and petitionary that that poore dessolated County with the parts adiacent may be timely taken into your compassionate consideration and such a speedy course taken therein as may best suit with your present great and urgent affairs The distressed condition whereof through Gerrards cruelties is truly laid open unto you as also the way of this Counties repaire in some competent measure humbly presented in a few Propositions which may both rectifie the many grievances and dissentions of this County together with the disorder of the Souldier without other charging the State or farther troubling your important Consultations otherwise then in your timely designation of some honest and able Gentlemen as your Commissioners to examine all grievances especially in the behalfe of such as have suffered in the losse of their whole estates in the publike service and are at present reduced to extreame want and penury the care whereof in all humblenesse is desired and left to your pious providence least the constant party there should bee utterly disheartned and at such time as there may be present use of their farther service since probable it is that the Irish Rebels on their late victory may thrust over such Forces into that County and Milford Haven as may turn the Skales of your Victories here if not timely prevented by garding those Coasts with a strong Fleete both the Welch Nation and English Malignants in the generall howsoever now mastered retaining still their wonted hearts may in all likely-hood on all occasions joyne with the strongest And thus in all humilitie hath the Author taken the boldnesse to present unto your wisdoms the whole scope of his poore indeavours and humbly craves farther leave to concludewith the Oracles of two great Princes wishing that they may profit such as they most concerne The strength of a King is the preservation of the State the foundation thereof is the people and woe unto them which devides the weale of a King from that of the Kingdome How guilty the Delinquent and malignant party have beene in the fomentation of the present devisions the appeale is made to their owne Consciences which have most unnaturally invaded the people in their representative and have indeavoured to deprive both King and Kingdome of their great Councell Aequius est me tot talium amicorum consilium quam tot tales meam unius voluntatem sequi How averse His Majesties great heart hath beene in following the vestigia of this famous Emperor and how fatall to himselfe let 3. ruined Kingdomes be the Arbiters and his owne conscience the faithfull umpier Your most constant and faithfull Servant Gil Batt Some particular Animadversions of Marke for satisfaction of the contumacious Malignant with c. Humbly adrest to the High Court of Parliament AFter so long a time in the mysterious sâ—erages of Court and State during the last and of this raigne It is now confest and knowne to all the Kingdome that the late dissolved Parliament was assembled to one and the selfe same end as that of Ireland was somwhat before by the late Deputy Straffâ—rd only to raise mony for the managing of a most unnecessary and injurious Warre and as unadvisedly undertaken against the Scots without any respect to the generall Reformation here either in Church or State both then growne sick even to the very highth of sundry and various distemperatures and as we may safely judge through the defects and want of the due effects of most of our latter Parliaments Courts which have ever bin the great and supreame regulating Councells of this glorious Monarchie As also in pursuance of the grand designe to make conclusions on the natives by stealing in upon them by degrees some innovations in their Church discipline as Tryalls or precursions to future incroachments to bee introduced in their Civill Administrations all conducing to bring in absolute power throughout the three Kingdomes in one compleat conformity to inthraldome This Kingdome with that of Ireland having by finenesse of wit and the contrivance of cur late Artizans of State bin aforehand readily trained and inured to the impatient sufferance of Ship taxations and other arbitrary levyes whilst that of Scotland different to the others in sundry poynts of their fundamentalls and the soveranty there some what incongruous to either stood as a Remora and in the way of our grand Masters and Ingeneeres of Court The Scotts being a people quick-sighted and incompactible to indure all changes and Innovation in Government necessarily made the worke where to begin so much the more difficult in this that to reduce them to the like conformity might in the issue prove a dangerous ingagement of both Nations in a direfull warre This being providently foreseene by the late *
themselves to Sea and came to Cardiffe thence to Carmarthin and in all their fruitlesse journey visited most of the Townes of South-Wales working on the forwardnesse and facillity of the natives partly by their oratory and power of their Commissions a people as easily to be seduced were for the Major number all soone won and led away with the name of the King and his Authority abused without looking into the nature of the controvercy and how meerly it concerned them all to mind their owne preservation in that of the safegard of the common conservatory The whole Country of South-wales * some few Gentlemen heere and there excepted unanimously then rising for the King Only on the Lords Summons from Carmarthan to the more westerly Countrys some few Gentlemen of the Country of Pembrooke neither appeared or complyed with their Lordships but stood on their defences neither were they above eight or ten at the most which from the first beginning of the War to the present stood firme to the Parliament when the Lords by the aid and assistance of the Earle of Carberry and his party powerfull in those parts conceived that they had then overcome the greatest part of their worke having forwarded and sent away considerable numbers of the natives to the King before the Battle at Edge Hill shortly thereupon with such Regiments as by my Lord of Carberys meanes were raised neere and about Carmarthin the Counties of Cardican and Brocknock they marcht up to His Majestie at Oxford when the command of the Counties of Carmarthin Cardican and Pembrooke fell in dispute between their Lordships of Carbury and Glamorgan His Majestie in conclusion was pleased to conferre that honour on his Lordsh of Carbery as Commander in chiefe under his highnesse the Prince And Glamorgan then Commissioned for the Counties of Hereford Menmouth as next adjacent to Ragland where hee had raised a considerable Army and lay down at Heynham two myles distant from the City of Gloster and about ten dayes before Easter 1642. were all beaten and taken by Sir William Waller The course which henceforth we intend to hold in the way of our Annimadversions is to present the principall Incendiaries with the active sticklers of every County within the circuit of South Wales as also those of quality which have stood firme to the Parliament The late Bishop of Landaffe Master Henry Vaughn Master Francis Loyd both shortly after Knighted at Oxford the Atturney Lewes one Master Loyd of the frowd with some * Divines which would have a share in the businesse all of the County of Carmarthin were then noted as the most active sticklers and setters on of my Lord of Carbery both to embrace the employment and to have been the most vehement traducers of the Parliament as for the rest of other Counties together which such plundering Commanders as have assisted in this unnaturall War we shall impartially and in their due place aford them a room in our annimadversions with a mark on their foreheads to be known to posterity Onely I crave leave first to declare the occasion of mine and some-others of my acquaintance comming in to these parts and how wee came to bee eye witnesses of much which I shall here present in the way of our Observations And it was thus certaine Gentlemen of ancient samiliarity chanced to meet at Newbery about the time that both Armyes quartered on all the Roads westerly from London shortly after the sight at Brainford in November 1642. where wee fell into discourse where the safest place of the Kingdome might be to secure our selves from the fury of the Warre and our conclusion was that neare about the center of South-VVales either at Brecknock or Carmarthin would be the place of our safest residence wherein on the upshot of our accompt we were much mistaken howsoever some of us about Easter following heareing of the drayning of Walles of Men and Armes and that the Lords fled thither as before were all gone up to the King at Oxford we tooke our journey into those parts and liking not our stay at Brecknock where then Col. Harbert Price with one Iefferyes his Nephew Stedman most of the Gentry of that County were in Armes for the King we determined to move to Carmarthin being there arived we found the town Garisond with 2. or 3. hundred Souldiers under the command of one Capt. Gwilliam thence wee resolved to remove some what farther and accidentally took up our Lodging at an English Gentlemans house who had there planted himselfe neare upon 20. yeares before one * that whilst our aboad was with him suffered in no small measure but since our departure miserably plundered on all sides and more by the Parliament party then the Kings though both a constant well-wisher to the Cause and to the uttermost of his power a knowne willing Country but or thereunto here we had no sooner taken up our Quarters but wee understood that one Captaine Thomas Butler a Gentleman decayed in his fortunes and of the County of Pembrooke out of that vaine and common immagination of advancing his estate by siding with the King whether right or wrong it was his and the Generall understanding of the Country that the sure and safest side must be the Kings This silly and halfe witted Captaine was one that would be notable the first in action had some what before raised 120. loose fellowes of the very scum and vermin of the County of Pembrooke and had possest himselfe of the Town and Castle of Laherne in the County of Carmarthin and within two miles of our then residence We now proceed and shall purposely omit all passages acted by the Gentlemen of Pembrookeshire concerning the former Commissions both of the Array and militia with their severall deputations both by the King and Parliament as not much more pertinent to our purpose then to make our observations to to Vrluminos but shall only insist on those Commissions brought downe in the Lent following the battle at Edge-Hill by my Lord of Carbery as Commander in Chiefe of the Counties of Carmarthen Cardican Pembrook These beginings in so remote parts where then there was no feare of other Enemies then of themselves and therefore the lesse need to raise forces and to Garrison Townes otherwise then out of their owne Levity to be men of action and in a Country where if they would they might have bin most secure had they had the grace to have knowne their owne happinesse or to have harkened to the advice which was then given them by us strangers but they were generally resolved to be active * upon what grounds and reasons they would take up Armes was the least part of the dispute It being in every mans mouth that such as would not appeare for the King against the rogues the Parliament were Traitors to God and his Majesty and that such as would we are sure to be well rewarded and could not
as are knowne to be old Theeves and new plundring Robbers 4. That the factious Agents here residing may be sent home into their Countries to assist in this good worke and no longer suffered to foment divisions and under colour of publike employment spend on the Countries charge 5. That the many sufferers throughout the three Counties of Cardican and Carmarthine but especially that of Pembrooke and those which have constantly stood to publike cause may be timely provided for before they starve or perish through the extreamity of want whereunto they are now reduced 6. That no pretendors to lesses may by favour of friends in Parliament preoccupate the estates or Fines of any Delinquents within the said Counties but that in the first place they may be preserved for some competent amends to bee made to such as have been destroyed and their numerous families utterly left without subsistence and meerly for the Parliaments sake 7. That some worthy and discreet Commissioners may be timely deputed to examine perticular greevances of all kindes but principally to inquier of such as have from little or nothing much inriched themselves by following of Gerrards Army and quarters and only to make prey on the well-wishers and pertakers with the Parliament utterly at present unable to come up and to tender their sad estate to the house There being many of this sort throughout the 3. Counties which have made up their fortunes by designing and pointing out many an honest man * and well willer to the Parliament to utter destruction which amongst the greater Delinquents would soone be found out as fittest to make part of the restitution to such as have bin only damnified by their procurement That it may please this honourable Court to take notice of the miserable condition of the County of Pembrooke as also of the hundred of Durtlesse in the Countie of Carmarthin where the Inhabitants in the generall are utterly unable to put a Plow in the ground it being lamentable to behold 30. myles together to lye in a manner utterly wast and here and there two or 3. Cowes in harnises scraping up the earth to cast in a little corn when 500 good Plows have bin heretofore seen in the seed time merily to till the ground in plenty Wee shall now in all humblenesse period our Animadversions with our hearty prayers to Almighty God that as in this monstrous unnaturall and sanguinary conflict he hath heitherto seconded your painfull indeavours and in a most miraculous manner extended his high hand throughout the whole progresse of this horrid War It may farther please him on the prosperity of your Armyes and on His Majesties comming in after so long a range and fatall deviation so to conduct your future indeavours as in the first place Vnity and Concord between both Nations may be inviolably preserved and that the generall calamity may be timely closed up in a firme and well established Peace to the glory of God the honour of the King and good of the Kingdomes As also that the licentiousnesse of the times in seditious speakings and loosenesse of the many disaffected to you and the publike and so long inured to rapine and plunder may be speedily restrained as in your great providence and wisdoms shall be thought most expedient either to employ some of them for Ireland and others of them not to bee trusted caused to quit the Kingdom least a worse thing happen unto us and that as opportunity may fall out they unhappily put you and the Kingdomes to an after War which that it may by the same powerfull arme which hath heitherto conducted your councells be prevented shall be the continuall prayers of him who hath born a share of your care and to that of his losses offers both this and himselfe to yours and the publike service FINIS The inveterate fewds and dissentions of this County hath beene a great hindrance to the publike service and if not timely composd may be of a more dangerous consequence King James his Speech in Parliament 1609. 〈…〉 * The late Parliament distasting this Warr were resolved to give the King ten Subsidies for a peace rather then one for a Warre with Scotland * The King on hearing of the Scotts allegations and absent from his ill Councell granted them his Royall pacification but on his returne out of the North 1639. was trayterously councelled to renew the war by the Cabb Councell * The French and Spanish Warres prime secundo Caroli * As God prohibits all Mariages with adulterate and Idolatrous Princes Deu. 7. so is it rarely seene that any blessing can followthat Prince which breakes over that law which God hath prescribed Straford Canterbury Cottington †Both Stra. and Cant. Ieered and contemsptuously spoken of in the French Court for men insolent and of little reach especially by the Cardnall Richâ—leu * Vide Straford in the Juncta loos absolvd from all the Reignes of government you are now to do what power will admit Idem Archbishop by the laws of God and man you ought to have assistance and lawfull to take it L. Cottington gave the same advice * On the Scots Petition the Petition or the 25 Lords and the Yorkshire Petition the King yeelded to summon a Parliament in both kingdoms during his residence at Yorke 1639. * The King councelled to run the course of his future government Ala-Francoys Take notice saies Straford my L. Cottington the King of France hath a wise Councell for he sends his Officers to search all Merchants books and finding the richest men hath his horse troops ready to leavy the assesment * The base flattery of the Prelaticall Clergy both in their writings and Sermons for the upholding of absolute power in Kings directly opposite to divinity The treachery of the Judgeâ— in their extrandictiall sentences for the Kings raising of many at will and pleasure against the knowne laws of the land and dissonant from the constitution of this Soveraigntie betweene both these the King hath bin insufferably abused and the Kingdomes extreamly both weakened and ruined Those of our Princes which have cast themselves on their Parliaments never repented it * The English Soveraignty not absolute but mixtum imperium Arist craticall and democraticall * The Delinquents and Court Parasits conspire at first to quash this Parliament consequently all others to come that might cal them to an accompt for their misbehaviour * The strange and unheard 〈…〉 commissions of Aâ—ray 〈…〉 the people against themselves * A few Gentlmen only of the County of Pembrook withstood the Lords and the Commissioners of Array against the generall vote of all the principalitie * No plot of Knavery without a Priest Lattermer in his Sermon before K. Edw. the sixth * Mr. White of Castle Tough inforced to fly to Sea the Gentlewoman his Wife by the tyranicall insolency of the Souldier frighted to her Grave his Eldest Son barbarously imprisoned his second Son cut and mangled some of his servants wounded to death in their owne houses the rest with all his poore Tenants inforced to fly the country and his many children left utterly destitute of all meanes to keep them alive * Jt was further commonly spoken by the best sort of the Gentlemen that the welsh were the true Brittaines and his Majestyes best and only Orthodox subjects and Pembrookshire men for the most part Saxons and Bastards * Lately chosen Knight of the County of Pemb. * It was conceived by some knowing men that Ienkins was set over his Lordship of Carberry to overlook his actions * This summe was 2000. l. it was collected and paid to his Lordship * This Gent. hath bin strangly used and hurried up and downe and all to take him off from the Parliaments service * His bastard Brethren * Sir Toby Mathew a suspected Jesuit but a dangerous and active Papist about the beginning of this Parliament took survay of Milford-Haven to what end let the world Iudge * This writing beares date 17 of August at Carmarvin as neere as I can remember * These Gentlemen now utterly denigh their coming to Tinby though avouched by the testimony of ten of the chiefe of the town Sir Rich. Philips avouching that his name was or might be put in by some of the rest on his Lordship of Carbery * They denigh that Haverford was first yeelded up which is clearly false * Master Roger Lort Mr. Geor. Adams Master Geor. Howard and others * He avouches that they had not a man more then his owne meniall servauts and those only for defence of him selfe Stackpoole the first siege of the Major Generall * Trefloyne the second siedge he did not for tifie his house for it was taken by his Lordship of Carbery Mr. Bowen himself being at Pembrooke * The Fort and Pill-Village his 3d siedge Carew yeelded by composition The skirmish at Carmarvin and the Town taken by storm * One thousand houses at least barbarously burnt in the County of Pembrooke * Haverford Pembr and Tinby The hot skirmish on Candauke Mountaine Najor Philips and Captaine Rowland VVoogan with divers others of the Major Generals party sorely wounded in this incounter Cardiean Castle the 6. siege taken and rebesieged by Gen. Gerrard The Seamen loath to go on untill the Generalls foote foot were first gone over * The seate of Master James Philips Emblin the 7th siedge * The chiefe sufferers in all the County of Carmarthin were Mr. Evand Thomas Mr. Cradock a very dilligeâ—â— Preacher Mr. Tho. White Mr. Arthur Stafford Mr. Henry Lloyd Mr. Gunter all of the hundred of Durtlesse and Mr. Richard Vaughan Vnkle to my Lord of Carberry Mr. Iohn and Ed. Mâ—â—sell with many more of inferior ranke especially Mr. Grindye the one Brother barbarously kild in his House by Captaine Ed. Lloydes Souldiers the other arraigned and condemned to be hangd drawne and quartered by that reverend Iudge Ienkins * The Marquesse of Hartford and his brother the L. St. Maure * 〈…〉 * A most turbalent factious Brewer in Artivill a great pertaker with Edw the 3d in his march in France afterwards slaine in amutenie * Vide Gerrards List of such Gentlemen as were by him appointed to be questioned for their lives and estates