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city_n	county_n	sir_n	william_n	10,424	5	9.0377	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26825	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 ... : together with the severall fights ... 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 Major Generall Laugherne ...	Batt., Gil.	1646 (1646)	Wing B1143; ESTC R580	43,999	56

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