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A87750	A discovery of the arbitrary, tyrannicall, and illegall actions of some of the committee of the county of Lincoln, occasioned by a charge given to the grand jury at the Quarter Sessions of the peace held at Folkingham in the county aforesaid, upon the 5 of Octob. 1646. / By Edvvard King, of Marton in the county aforesaid Esquire, Justice of the Peace for that part of the county: wherein is set forth the exorbitancy of the said committee men, who transgressed the laws, changed the ordinances, and broak the solemn vow, League and covenant; with severall warrants under their hands for the cleer and evident proof of the same.	King, Edward, of Marton, Lincolnshire.	1647 (1647)	Wing K492; Thomason E373_3; ESTC R201324	20,581	34

Great-Grimesby 2. BY vertue of an Order to me given by the Right Honourable the Lord Willoughby Lord Lieutenant for this County of Lincolne These are to charge and command you and every of you that immediately you do bring into Arbye one fat Ox or two Bease price 6 l. 6 s. 8 d. ten fat Sheep threescore pound of Cheese thirty pound of Butter two dozen of Chickens twelve hens for provision of the Army for the King and Parliament and likewise twenty dozen of Bread and four barrels of Bear hereof fail you not upon pain of present plundering Dated 20. September 1649. Nehemiah Rawson Scout-Master-Generall You are likewise to bring in this day one chaldron of Oats and a quarter of Beans 3. Ham. whichcot John Archer Cha. Hall Alex. Emerson FOrasmuch as it appears unto us upon hearing and examination of the differences between Bridget Martindale Widdow and Thomas Gill concerning certain Lands in Morton That the said Bridget was and is lawfully seized for term of her life of certain Houses and Lands in Marton by deed of Joynture made before her intermarriage with Robert Ives late of Marton her former Husband And of all other the Lands of the said Robert in Marton aforesaid by his Will who dyed about twelve yeers since And that the said Bridget hath peaceably and quietly enjoyed the same till within these two yeers Thomas Ives son of the said Robert taking advantage of these troublesome and distracted times violently entred into the possession thereof and outed the said Bridget the said Thomas dying soon after Thomas Gill married his widdow and relict and so without any colour of title doth still keep the possession thereof contrary to the peace of the County The peace whereof we are enabled to keep by vertue of an Ordinance of Parliament in that behalf made These are therefore to require and command the said Thomas Gill and his Wife to avoid the possession of the premises by munday next and to suffer the said Bridget quietly to enjoy the same as before these troublesome times she did untill by due course of law the title may be further tried and she evicted Fail you not herein at your perils Given at Lincoln this 11. day of July 1644. To the Constables of Kirksteade and either of them 4. Tho. Trollope Tho. Lister Vill. Savill Iohn Archer Cha. Hall Edward Northrope THese are to require you and either of you to bring before us at Lincoln on Tuesday next the body of Iohn Williamson of your Parish and with him one black-brown Nag in his possession the proper goods of Robert Goldinge of Dunston to the end that justice may be then done by restoring the said Horse to such person as upon proofe we shall see him justly to belong therein you may not fail Given at Lincolne this 18 day of March 1645. To the Constables and all other the Inhabitants of Great-Steepeinge 5. Richard Earle Jo. Brownlow Jo. Archer Sam. Leigh WHereas by Order of the 30 of July last we setled the possession of a House and forty Acres of land in great-Steepeinge which Henry Neave Clerk whose ancestors and himself had continued the possession thereof above thirty yeers untill by force Richard Forman and Philip Danks entred the possession thereof since these troublesome times and held the same notwithstanding our Orders untill upon further Warrant they were brought before us for their contempt and one of them ingaged himself to deliver up the possession thereof but the other hath absented himself and put others into the possession of the premises who riotously have entred thereinto and by maintenance hold the same These are therefore to require and charge you and every of you that you bring or send in safe custody unto us at Lincolne on wednesday next the bodies of Nicholas Rawson and his Wife and all other persons who do withhold the possession of the premises or any part thereof from the said Master Neave there to be proceeded against for the contempt of our Orders herein you may not fail at your utmost perils Given at Lincolne this 30 day of August 1644. To Mr Broxholme of Fulletby and John Marshall of Reasby 6. WHereas William Hodgeson of Ashby prerorum is assessed severall sums of mony towards the weekly assessements which he is willing to pay but is disabled for that his just debts are by you withheld from him which debts by Ordinance of Parliament we are inabled to leavy Ham. Whichcott Franc. Fines These are therefore to require and command you and either of you that you forthwith pay and satisfie the said William Hodgeson all such monys as are by you or either of you to him due and owing or shew cause to the contrary before us at Lincolne on thursday next the 27 of June instant if you fail herein you will fall into contempt of the High Court of Parliament and be proceeded against accordingly Given at Lincolne the 21 day of June 1644. To the honourable Committee at Lincolne The humble Petition of Henry Pepper SHewing That whereas the Petitioner having put into the hands of one Richard White upon some consideration the sum of one hundred pound the manifold debts charges Assesments and other necessary duties continually pressing your suppliant for discharge forced him to demand his said 100 l. of the said Richard White who neglects and delays the payment thereof to the great hurt and prejudice of the Petitioner who not receiving the said mony is altogether unable to pay his Assesments and other duties c. May it therefore please the honourable Committee to order that the said Richard White give satisfaction to the Petitioner concerning the said 100 l. or be caused to appear to shew cause to the contrary and your Petitioner as he ought to do shall still pray for your prosperity and happinesse To Richard White of Markeby WHereas Henry Pepper of Billisby Gentleman is assessed severall sums of mony for his fift and twentieth part and towards the weekly Assesments which he is willing to pay but is disabled for that the sum of 100 l. from you to him due Ham. Whichcott Tho. Cornwallis Alex. Emerson Iohn Archer and owing is by you with held from him which debts we are inabled to leavy for payment of monies assessed These are therefore to require command you forthwith to pay satisfie the said Henry Pepper the said sum of 100 l. that he may be thereby inabled to pay his said Assesments or to shew cause to the contrary before us at Lincolne on Fryday the 19 day of this instant July If you fail herein you will fall into the contempt of the high Court of Parliament and be proceeded against accordingly Given under our hands at Lincolne this 12 day of July 1644. Upon this Warrant White appeared and having given instructions to Mr. Archer to be of counsell with him Mr. Archer at this sitting refused the Chair where he constantly prosided takes another fear and

professeth himself of counsell with the said Richard White and pleads against the Petitioner and his own Warrant and procured a reference to Mr. Mussendine and Mr. Woolley two of the Committee and not long after Mr. Archer being in the Chair dismist the cause To Henry Winge Gregory Wraw Thomas Palmer and Thomas Kyme Assessors and Collectors of the third four Moneths assesment charged on the towns of Temberland and Martyn and every of them 7. VVHereas upon hearing of severall the Inhabitants of both your said Towns on the 15 of May last past Ham. Whichcott Tho. Cornwallis Cha. Hall It was ordered that to prevent all further differences that might arise between the said Towns touching the unequall assessing of them That the Town of Timberland with the tithes thereof and the Town of Martyn with the tithes thereto belonging should be equally assessed untill cause should be shewed to the contrary Now there being no cause offered to the contrary We do charge you to divide the sum of 29 l. 5 s. equally upon the severall Towns that is to say the sum of 14 l. 12 s. 6 d. upon each Town of which you are to give account according to our former Warrant and observe such directions in leavying the same as therein is directed Fail not at your perils Given at Lincolne this 8. day of June 1645. And this defendant doth further declare that Mr. Archer Mr. Lister and some others of the said Committee have imprisoned beaten and evilly intreated their fellow subjects disinheriting them of their lands spoyling them in their goods and restraining them of their liberties contrary to the great Charter the law of the land and the Ordinances of Parliament as by these particulars following may appear Thomas Lister Esquire having lands in Rowston where this defendants tenant Thomas Cooke liveth who was an Assessor refused to pay his taxes whereupon the said Cooke complained to Mr. Archer and some of the Committee then at Grantham and delivered to them a Letter from the said Mr. Lister in these words Gentlemen THat my grounds in Rowston might not lie unserviceable to the Common-wealth I have given order for the disposing of them undertaking to discharge whatsoever shall be layd upon them by taxes for the Parliament I therefore desire that you will take my ingagement for them and that no other may be questioned for them which shall be faithfully performed by Your humble servant Tho. Lister Lincoln April 19. 1645. But this letter notwithstanding Mr Archer and some other of the Committee imprisoned this Defendants Tennant at Grantham for five weeks for not paying the said Master Listers taxes which was maliciously done to force this Defendents Tenant from his habitation and he was so unjustly terrified by some of the Committee that this Defendent was constrained to take 25 l. rent per annum of him that he might abide in his house though formerly the Defendent leased the same to him for 58. l. per an and upwards and the said agreement yet in force 1. Master Archer and Mr Hall two Committee men sent a Warrant to Thomas Gill to appear at Lincoln and Answer such things as Bridget Martindale should object upon his appearance Master Archer asked him by what Title he held the Land c. Gill replyed he held it for his Wifes child being heir at the Common Law Master Archer said here is a Joynture in writing unlesse you can disprove it she shall have the Land to which Gill replyed he could prove it was not sealed or delivered in her husbands life time Archer replyed if you bring twenty witnesses he not hear them against the deed whereupon Gill desired he might have a tryall at Law Archer answered unless you le yeeld the possession you shall not and none shall have the hearing of it but our selves Gill told Mr Archer that his predecessor was troubled in the Sessions at Sleaford formerly about it and that the Bench had referred it to a tryall at the Common-Law to which Archer replyed They may do what they will But we will do what we list and when Gill refused to yeeld up the possession according to an Order of the Committee he was sent for by Warrant to Lincoln where Mr Archer committed him to prison where he lay fifteen weeks fell very sick was at 13. s. 4. d. charge by the week his wife frighted with souldiers fell sick likewise and they lost the greatest part of their crop by this unjust usage 2. The Assessors and Collectors in Kestiven for the three moneths tax ended Jan. 1643. were after the expiration of the said Ordinance in the year 1644. by beatings imprisonments and distresses compelled by Mr Archer and some of the Committee to pay the same to their treasurer to the dishonour of the truely honourable the Earl of Manchester who had by speciall directions formerly freed that part of the County from those payments in regard Colonel Crumwell had been quartered amongst them 3. October 1644. A gentleman being in the Committee chamber at Lincoln was present when two Collectors of a Town which was within six miles of the Enemies garrison of Newark having Collected the greatest part of their money and intreated much that they might have time from Wednesday morning untill Fryday either to Collect or borrow the remainder could not obtain it but to prison with them take them provost Marshall who violently haled them with some five or six others to prison for the same cause The Gentleman knowing the first two past his word for them to see the money paid at the day at which some of the Committee were very angry with him for breaking the Order of that board the other Collectors went to prison 4. Mark Barnes servant to the Lady Carr being at Grantham the 12 of Novemb. 1644. was sent for before some of the Committee there and 9. l. demanded of him for taxes due for Sir Robert Carrs Land in old Sleaford the said Mark told Mr Archer that Colonel Rossiters horses eate the grounds that his Masters Wood was felled by the Parliaments Forces and the house burnt upon their leaving it but Mr Archer not having patience to hear him speak committed him to the Goal where he lay untill he borrowed 9. l. and paid it 5. May 1645. Some of the Deputy Lieutenants of Lincolnshire by virtue of the Ordinance of the 3 of July 1644. for putting the Associated Counties of Lincoln Suffolk c. into a posture of defence for the preservation and safety of the Counties summoned the Inhabitants of the hundred of Elloe together where the major part of them did propound and nominate Edward King Esquire for their Colonell according to the Ordinance and delivered a writing to Thomas Lister and some other of the Deputy-Lievtenants then present to declare as much at which M. Lister was offended and said if he could do any thing in the County Colonell King should have no command there and at such time as the Persons