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A85271	Colonell Fiennes his reply to a pamphlet entitvled, An answer to Colonell Nathaniel Fiennes relation concerning his surrender of the city and castle of Bristol by Clem. Walker which said answer is here reprinted verbatim. Ordered to be printed.	Fiennes, Nathaniel, 1607 or 8-1669.; Walker, Clement, 1595-1651.	1643 (1643)	Wing F877; Thomason E70_1; ESTC R5094	14,936	17

in place they did not redresse them although it were not in their power so to doe being over-voted at the Councell of Warre by Captaines purposely chosen and new made by the Governour that he might have the sole power and countenance of that Councell to serve his ends and being likewise overborne by the Governours accesse of power gotten from time to time by Commissions and Letters under hand from the Lord Generall or the Parliament which he kept sleeping by him never shewing his additionall authority but upon speciall occasion and then so cursorily and privately as did easily declare he meant not to have his authority so well understood as to draw it in danger to be examined and limited A base lye and scandalous to the Parliament and my L. Generall Hereupon the Gentry forbore to intermeddle with affaires and the whole Towne and Countrey Were filled with jealousies and indignations and where he affirmes he had not one penny of money to pay his souldiers This causeth admiration in all men who have observed what strange and unheard of wayes were used and what number of spunges and horse-leeches were continually imployed to suck both from the Towne and Countrey some devices to raise monies we will set downe all is impossible 1. A tax of 500 l. or 600. pound a week upon the Town which was afterwards drawn down to a far lesse summe we know not upon what consideration since it is apparent the Towne was able to beare a far heavier burthen But he would beare no part of it himselfe He doth not at all seeme to deny it in that Letter and this tax was laved and disburced by the Deputy-Lieutenants themselves not a penny of it came to Col Fiennes his hands not of that of the twentieth part he never received any within 20 miles or within halfe a mile 2. A tax upon Somerset and Glocestershires towards the fortifying of so much of Bristol as stood in these Counties yet this Relator concealeth and in his Letter the 17 of June seemes to deny that he had any speciall levy for his worke both from the Towne and Countrey 3. The weekely assessment and the 20 parts within his verge of 20 miles which though they were not duely rased amounted to a considerable summe if an accompt had bin kept thereof 4. The plundering of S. Thomas Bridges S. Maurice Berckley and many other mens estates in the Countrey without any warrant from the Councell of Warre or the Deputy-Lieutenants contrary to an expresse Order made by the said Councell all which were carried into the Castle without account A Lye And when complaints were made for undue plundring they were never heard by a Councell of Warre but privately referred to Langrish or his equals and the complainants just request choaked with delayes as in Mistris Millers case and others A Lye 5. The letting and setting or the stocking with plundred Cattle the said Delinquents and other mens estates and sequestring their Rents with account and without the concurrence or privity of the Deputy-Lieutenants 6. The consiscated estates of the Conspirators in Bristol and the secret compositions made with many of them are thought to be very considerable a the rather because when it was move d that all compositions might be made openly at a full Councell and entered into the Councell booke it would not be hearkened unto a A Lye All these shall be proved to be Lyes at a Coūcell of Warre Yet Colonell Fiennes in his Letter to his Father dated June 17. 1643. see Relation pag. 25. saith he shall never make 3000. l. of the Conspirators estates It may be he meant upon compositions besides their plunder which he could set no probable value upon 7. Divers loanes upon the publike faith to a great value estimated b at 7000. l. b A Lye by 6500. 8. Divers supplies from Parliament which were alwaies c concealed from the Committee c What had the Committee of Sōmersetshiere to do with it he had received 4000. l. before the 12. of May 1643. by his own confession Relation p. 23. and we heare he hath received at the least 3000. l. or 4000. l. since quaere whether he hath received any mony from Sir Gilbert Gerrard 9. Licences to trade with the Enemy d even contrary to his Excellencies Ordinances of Warre not granted for nothing d A base Lye 10. e Custome mony 1700. l. e Another Lye Col Fiennes hath received together with the 1700. l. of custome mony in all 6688 and shall give a very good account of that and all other receits that this Pāphletter or any other can charge him withall 11. If we may believe common fame many Tradesmen with whom we formerly told you the Castle was cumbred f were drawne to give 10. l. a man to have themselves and their goods secured there f Another Lye g and yet no sufficient caution is made in the Articles of Surrender g The 9th Article of the agreement was framed purposely for it to restore the said goods to them againe many of them not being to be found and the poor men are put to compound with the enemy for getting them out as formerly they did with their friends to get them in Besides whereas his horse were to have 2. s. 6. d. a day pay Colonell Fiennes gave them free quarter in the Country and but 1. s. the day pay g quaere what became of the rest g It was discounted to the State as may appeare by the Captains accoūts given in before this Pamphlet came forth This we set downe to shew how good an Oecononist our Governour was and how able to raise mony having so rich a shop as the Towne of Bristoll to worke in h certainly it was very possible f●r such a thriving Governour to maintaine the Garrison out of so rich a Towne without the assistance of the adjacent Counties contrary to his tenet page 4. h How doth this agree with what was said before of the many and unheard of devices to get mony How many pounds or pence did his Governour Col Essex to whom he was assistant raise out of that rich City and this we demonstrate by the present practise of the Kings Forces who make that Towne not only maintaine their whole Garrison but man forth and maintaine a good sleete of Ships find Gunpowder and pay a great fine besides If Co. Fiennes had been a Comm ander of the Kings Forces or that the Parliament world let their officers doe what they do he could have raised as much money as they and yet sure this demonstrator is mistaken in the hypothesis of his demonstration And for the better understanding of this money businesse know that Colonell Pophams Regiment of Foot and Colonell Coles Regiment of horse and Dragoones resident in Towne were not paid by the Governour but by the Country and the Governours whole charge estimated by himselfe in a Letter to his Father dated June 17. 1643. and printed with his Relation pag. 23. was

Popham another in the County of Gloucester should be raised by the Governour onely Secondly the money raised in the Easterne-Division of Somerset in Barkely-Division in Gloucester and in the Cities of Bristoll and Bath upon the weekely Assessment Twentieth part and Sequestration nay and upon Excises and new Imposts should be assigned only for the use of that Garrison A Lye If there was a surplissage it was to goe to other uses with further provision in the Ordinance that if all this be not enough it should be made up out of the said Counties respectively and the Committees appointed to pay the charges of the said Garrison and fortifications being valued and made known to them by the said Governour of Bristoll whose Warrant and Receipt should bee a sufficient discharge Thirdly The Treasurers of the said Divisions not to issue out any moneyes without the concurring warrant of Col Fiennes Governour A lye Only such monies at were to be employed upon the Garrison and Fortifications of Bristol Fourthly The Trained-Bands and Voluntiers of the said Divisions not to be drawne forth upon service either into the City of Bristol or Country but by the like warrant See now what power was left to the said Committees or Deputy Lieutenants even in their own Counties and over their own men and moneyes upon which Colonell Fiennes had not incroached in this his draught of an Ordinance Again page 4. he complaines that Sir William Waller drew forth Colonell Essex Regiment and all the Troopes of Horse we conceive Sir William Waller drew forth only Col Essex his Troope of Red Coates being not above 30 or 40 and his foot Regiment being incompleate the one halfe whereof never marched out of Towne and were entertained by the Governour still page 5. 3 Lyes 1 Captain Longes and Captain Coxes Troops were drawn out and Major Laugrishes also commanded out when Sir Ralph Hoptons Army drew towards Somersetshire Colonell Alexander Popham moved by letters from my Lord Generall would have gone forth with his whole Regiment to joyne with Wilts and Dorset and the Westerne forces of Somersetshire but was Countermanded by Colonell Fiennes who then first produced a letter from my Lord Generall whereby Colonell Popham and his Regiment were reduced under his command which letter untill then he had concealed and would not suffer Col Popham to march with above six Companies Sir William Waller told Col Fiennes before Col Popham that he desired only 6 Companies It is true that Col Popham was rented through the default of Major Langrish and his horse 2 Lyes Langrish was cleered by a Counsell of War at Bathe but the foot Armes were not above halfe lost In answer to his 1200 men lent Sir William Waller It is confessed we all importuned him to enable Sir William Waller by an addition of 1200 foot to take the field for preservation of the Country which is no more then Col Fiennes in his propositions to my Lord Generall and Parliament undertook namely * to defend the Country for 20 miles adjoyning * Not against an Armie though he had received the benefit of those propositions which he never did and that was one maine cause of the losse of the Towne And Col Fiennes himself when he gave consent to this motion did declare that if the fortune of the Field went against Sir William Waller yet with his forces remaining in the Towne and the men which would be recollected and rallied out of his defeated Companies hee made no doubt but to make good the said City And Col Fiennes after the defeate of Sir William Waller did declare that hee hoped to make good the Towne with 2500 men and that he hoped to make up that number by arming those men that fled from the defeate into the Towne and by taking Armes from the Townesmen and putting them into other hands page 6. 2 Lyes He never declared any such thing Sir Arthur Hazelrigg Colonell Burghill and divers gentlemen after Sir William Wallers defeate thought fit to withdraw themselves these Gentlemen did not leave the Towne upon apprehension it was not Tenable It shall be proved that some did it upon that ground but out of a desire to raise men else where to supply it A lye They went to fetch supplies round about by the Lands end and out of a consideration it was not fit for them in time of warre to stay under his command who in time of peace had plundered some of them for not paying such taxes as he put upon the City of Bristoll not withstanding they paid in the Country and resided in Towne only to doe publike service upon their own purses and for lodging in the Castle it is confidently affirmed that no lodgings there were ever offered to any of the Gentlemen nor any former respects shewed to them could incourage them to hope for any and so many meane fellowes of the Town were suffered to shelter themselves and their goods there that there was no roome left for the Gentlemen insomuch that when Colonell Stephens with his wife and family retreated into the Castle they could not endure their bad entertainement and the Princes Trumpeter then a prisoner had better lodging then he and his whole family whereupon he returned into the Town againe Page 6. Col Steevens never acquainted Col Fiennes and his brother affirmeth that he bid him take his choice of any roome in the Castle He tells us he had but 700 men left in the Towne and never a penny of money to pay them Col Fiennes had left in the Towne halfe his owne foot Regiment halfe Col Pophams Regiment the new begun though not yet compleat Regiment of his brother Iohn Fiennes being about 300 or 400 men besides 300 or 400 foot remaining of Sir William Wallers and 1000 or 1200 foot he newly by his own confession raised and Armed in the Town so that he had neere upon 2500 foot besides his Regiment of horse and his Company of dragoons which is the number he undertook to keep the Town with as aforesaid 3 Lyes There were only 3 Companies of Col Fiennes his Regiment not a man of Col Pophams and the 300 or 400 remaining of Sir William Wallers were part of the 1000. If M. Walker that was a Sommersersetshire Gentleman and constantly resided in the Town before had not most valiantly runne out of the Town when the enemy came before it and many more men he might have had if hee had not as aforesaid so much lessened the Reputation of the Committees in the Country that they who by their Warrant had called in neere upon a thousand men in February last when Prince Rupert was before the Towne could not now call in a hundred so much was the Countrey distasted with taking free Quarter Horses disorderly plundering even from the best affected and all these abuses A base lye all along with many more were imputed by the Countrey people unto the Committee and Deputy-Lieutenants resident in Bristoll because being

COLONELL FIENNES His REPLY to a Pamphlet ENTITVLED AN ANSWER TO Colonell Nathaniel Fiennes RELATION concerning his Surrender of the City and Castle of Bristol by Clem. Walker Which said Answer is here Reprinted verbatim Ordered to be Printed London Printed for Thomas Vnderhill 1643. The Epistle to the Reader HAving taken notice of a printed Pamphlet so the Authour himselfe calleth it set forth in answer to a Relation which I made in the House of Commons concerning my surrender of the Castle and City of Bristol which hath long walked in the darke and now at length is peeped out when the Authour might have an excuse to say that his witnesses that should justifie it are gone away with Sir William Waller I earnestly desired the House that this businesse of Bristol might be heard at a Councell of Warre whereupon it was ordered accordingly I having formerly desired the same of my L. Generall who granted my request but it could not be done till such time as his Army returned to a setled Quarter but now I hope upon the return of his Excellency the Order of the House of Commons and a Petition of my selfe and most of my chiefe Officers to that purpose this matter shall be shortly heard at a Councell of Warr and therfore shall content my self with a few Marginall Notes in answer to that lying Pamphlet referring the full tryall of the truth to a Councell of Warre till when I doubt not but every wise man will suspend his judgement and then he shall clearly see who hath bin the lyar and who hath bin the Coward Nath Fiennes Die Sabbati 25o. September 1643. IT is this day Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament That it be left to my L. Generall at the Request and desire of Collonell Fiennes to heare and examine the busines concerning the Surrender of Bristoll H. Elsyng Cler. Parl. D. Com. Mr Walkers Epistle to the Reader Reader THough this Answer cost but few houres to compose it yet was it a worke of some dayes to collect the materialls thereof out of the severall Reports of many principall Gentlemen and Commanders present in Bristol when it was besieged And when this Pamphlet was ready for the Presse I found the Presse obstructed whereby I was enforced to keepe it in a moneth before I could be delivered of this Birth Some malicious Iuno sitting crosse legged at the labour This is a lye if meant of Col. Fiennes or any of his friends to his knovvledge This is the reason it commeth out so late after the Relation that it may seeme to rub over an old sore whose smart is almost past But Truth is a sluggard that uses to lie long in bed after her base sister Falsehood is up and stirring Yet when Truth riseth with her sober constant pace she will soone overtake Falshood and tread on her heeles Reader it is in thy discretion that Truth lose not her grace for want of novelty Although she come forth with this further disadvantage that almost all those Gentlemen and Commanders that should wait upon her justification are going out of Towne with Sir William Waller yet let Truth be welcome without attendants without ornaments it being one of her most naturall ornaments to be starke naked Thine Cle. Walker An Answer to Col. Nathaniel Fiennes Relation concerning his Surrender of the City and Castle of Bristol With Col. Fiennes his Reply to the said Pamphlet SInce the heart of man is deceitfull above all things and none can know the issues thereof wee will not search over-curiously into the desires of the late Governour of that unhappy City of BRISTOL Colonell NATHANIEL FIENNES Whether he affected the Government or no Yet seeing it is a point controverted by himselfe in his Relation pag. 3. we will be bold to say FIrst His undermining Col. Thomas Essex whom hee struck into the box and laid himself in his roome In this manner Colonell Fiennes brought a letter to Bristol from my Lord Generall authorizing him to seize on and send up prisoner Colonell Essex then Governour of that City and this was so under-hand carried that the Deputy-Lieutenants and Committee of Parliament then resident in Bristol to assist Colonell Essex in the Government were never consulted with to know what cause of suspition they found in him This was an affront put upon the Deputy-Lieutenants in point of integrity or discretion and industry A lie and scandall cast upon my Lo. Generall and his Order Secondly His putting Creatures of his own neither Souldiers nor men knowne in those parts into Bristol Castle to make the government more intirely his own contrary to the desires both of the Towne and Countrey which were to have a Gentleman of honour and integrity such as both the Towne and Country could confide in placed there Two Lye Thirdly His many artifices to lessen the Reputation and abridge the power of the Committees and Gentlemen of the Country whereof more afterward A Lye Fourthly His underhand indeavours to draw a Territory of twenty miles compasse as annexed to that City to be within his sole command and to make it independent upon the rest of the adjacent counties thereby to exclude Sir W. Waller and all others A Lye These considerations we say make us think he was as jealous of his Government there as any man is of his wife and that he would brooke no rivall therein nor can his letters sent to his Father oversway our beliefe Father and sonne being Testes Domestici in the neerest degree But to take off this conceit in his fourth page he tells us he made certaine Propositions to the Gentlemen of the adjacent Counties for the setling and maintaining a Garrison there to which most of the Gentlemen consented It is answered he made a certaine Proposition in generall to that purpose to the Gentlemen of Somerset and Gloucester and the Letter dated the 20 of March 1642. published in the Governours Relation page 13. was sent to the Lord Say and the like to his Excellency the Lord Generall to see how the said generall Proposition would take But when the said Gentlemen expected to be againe advised withall for reducing the said generall into particular Propositions he having got the start of them secretly sent up particulars of his owne framing the same it may be which he hath published in his Relation page 17. intituled A draught of the Ordinance whereby he indeavoured to weaken the power of the Deputy-Lieutenants and Committees and to make Bristol and the Countries adjacent for 20 miles compasse his Territory himselfe in all matters of moment being of the Quorum A Lye As shall be proved under his own hand and the hands of divers Gentlemen both of Somerset and Glocestershire For example in his said draught of the Ordinance he projected that First the Garrison which should have consisted of 3 Foot Regiments besides Horse whereof one to be raised in the County of Somerset under the command of Colonell Alexander