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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89431	Musgrave muzl'd: or the mouth of iniquitie stoped. Being a true and cleer vindication of Sir Arthur Hazelrige from a false and scandalous accusation of John Musgrave, in his late pamphlet intituled, A true and exact relation of the great and heavie pressurs and grievances the well-affected of the Northern bordering counties lye under by Sir A.H. misgovernment. With a true but not exact character of the said Musgrave in some discoveries of him.	Price, John, Citizen of London, Attributed name.	1651 (1651)	Wing M3157; Thomason E625_11; ESTC R206469	26,199	39

to a Charge layd against them by the said Captain Crakanthorp and John Musgrave who alledged that they had sustained loss or damage by those Gentlemen being Justices of the Peace within the said County to the value of two thousand pounds and upwards which Order the said Informers shewed to Captain Dowson and my self then being at London We friendly demanded of them What Injury they had received from William Brisco Esq now High-Sheriff of the said County being one of those Gentlemen whom they accused and whom they had Order to summon And finding by their unsatisfactory Answer that a matter of mony would pacifie them and prevent this appearance we acquainted Mr Edward Brisco a Merchant in London and Brother to the said William Brisco Esq of their Intentions so far as by their discourse we could judg of them Mr Edward Brisco was willing to promise a considerable sum of mony though without his Brothers privity hoping he might thereby procure a discharge from the Complainers and withall an engagement under their hands to free his Brother from all future trouble which accordingly was effected and the sum agreed upon viz. 35 l. presented before them upon the sight and promise whereof the Complainers engaged to acquit the said William Brisco from all future troubles assuring us that they would not molest or accuse him directly or indirectly by themselves or others for any injury or offence done or pretended to have been done by him either in particular against them or IN GENERAL AGAINST THE STATE OF WHICH THEY PROTESTED THEY WERE ABLE AND WOVLD ACCVSE HIM IF THEY RECEIVED NOT PRESENT SATISFACTION They on the other side required Bonds besides the present payment of the mony for assurance from the said Edward Brisco Captain Dowson and my self that we would not discover this their Act and Deed to any other least the report thereof should prejudice their proceedings against the rest of the Gentlemen of whom they hoped to receive like satisfaction their engagement for acquiting Mr Brisco together with the mony which then lay upon the Table in a bag He the said Mr Edward Brisco immediately pocketed pretending that he desired to be advised by some Lawyers whether this Engagement of theirs was full and satisfactory or not and so leaving them that had delivered their Engagement and not received their mony he went home and that night shewed the paper to Major Salloway a Member of the House who assured him that he would acquaint the House with it This I am willing to depose upon Oath whensoever I shall be called thereunto Jos Nicholson Minister of Gods Word at Thursby Mr Edward Brisco is now in the City and ready to make Oath of what is expressed in this Certificate Here follows the Release which this Musgrave writ with his own hand Whereas Mr Richard Crakanthorp and John Musgrave Gentlemen have exhibited certain Complaints to the Parliament against William Brisco Esq as well for certain wrongs done to us in particular as also for publique wrongs or dis-service to the Parliament and their adherents and have obtained Summons against him Now these presents are to satisfie all whom it may concern That Edward Brisco Brother of the said William hath payd us thirty five pounds on his Brothers behalf for the wrongs done in consideration whereof we do by these presents promise and covenant to and with the said Edward Brisco that we shall not at any time hereafter prosecute the said William Brisco for the causes aforesaid or any other wrongs by the said William committed against us or other person or persons whatsoever He acknowledged this engagement and discharge to be his own hand-writing before the Commissioners at Goldsmiths-hall very lately Now judg Reader if I may be a little pleasant with thee whether here was not a KNAVE and a KNAVECATCHER well met Take here another Instance and that shall be of his Tyranny cruelty and indeed Barbarism set forth upon the best terms of concealment and that by his own hands in an Apologetical Letter written to Col. Fitch Governor of Carlisle who required an account of a Captain and some Souldiers that were assistant unto him in the execution thereof To his much honored Friend Colonel Fitch Governor of Carlisle these deliver SIR This evening I received a Letter from Captain Place wherein he intimates that he is commanded to bring two of his Soldiers before you to Carlisle upon my Father in Law Mr Vaux his complaint that they took him forth of his bed and carryed him a mile in his shirt and that they took and detained a Horse of his worth 10 l. the Captain was desirous that I should come along with them to give account of the thing so far as I knew and the same related to my Mother and me which very willingly I would have done if I had not been constrained the Audite to morrow by appointment from Mr Pollard the States Receiver I being the States Steward for the Honor of Penrith might neglect that Service but to morrow night I shall be God willing with my Brother Graham at Newbygin and the next day at Newlathes to hold the Leet for my ancient Friend Captain Sikes Purchaser of the Manor of John De Chappels whither if you send upon notice I will wait on you so be I may according to Law be free from Arrests which in that Corporation may causless be layd upon me for vexation as often heretofore hath been done I speak not this that I know or fear any just cause for I never concealed my self and shall be ready to appear gratis at Westminster to any action in the mean time take a short account of what I know there concerning I doubt not but you have heard of the difference betwixt me and Mr Vaux and him and my Mother and how while the late Kings party was Master of this County wickedly he used her and endevored to have starved her for the Committee of this County ordered her 30 l. per annum till she could obtain relief in a legal way which Order he never observed not to speak of his wilful contemning the present Authority refusing to answer any Proces or obey any Order therein for which at my Suit some fourteen days since he was proclaimed by the Sheriff and upon an Order under seal out of the High Court of Chancery for 20 l. 250 l. Arrearages and fourty pounds per annum upon an Attachment by a special Warrant from the Sheriff of this County to me and Thomas Graves and others directed he was arrested The maner was thus before any Souldier was quartered with my Mother we went to Kelbarrow and his chamber door being open and he in bed we peaceably entered and desired him to rise which he refused to do then I told him he was a Prisoner whose Prisoner quoth he I said my prisoner wishing him to rise and put on his clothes I shewed him the Warrant under seal and read it unto him but he said

it was this Musgrave And Sir A. doth acknowledg that he never suffered so much disgrace by preferring any man to any place of Trust as he hath received by him for the Commissioners of Goldsmiths-Hall have most justly turned him out of Commissions for his corrupt and wicked actings and that you may see a true character of this John Musgrave his great Zeal for this Commonwealth and against Papists-Delinquents and who is the truer Friend unto Papists and Malignants and more faithful to their Trusts Sir A. H. or this John Musgrave read this ensuing Letter from his Fellow Commissioners of that County For the Worshipful Tho Craister Esq Major of the City of Carlisle haste haste in Newcastle SIR About the 15 day of October Mr Clement Skelton brought in an Order from the Commissioners for Compounding to the Commissioners for Sequestrations in Cumberland to examine the validity of a Deed produced to them touching the clearing of Andrew Huddleston's Estate a Papist in Arms worth 120 l. per annum The said Mr Skelton bringing the said Order before us and the said Deed was demanded wherefore he did not seek his Interest in that Estate before that time the same being under Sequestration for four or five years The said Mr Skelton replyed He could never get a man for his purpose until he met with Mr John Musgrave and being asked How the said Order was got He answered Mr Musgrave knew better then himself whereupon Mr Musgrave was called and at his coming in said 'T is true he had 10 l. to sollicite that business It being replyed He was not sent for to know what he had for so doing but what the Commissioners for Compounding said to the matter in dispute and what he thought of it himself To the first he answered That Mr Winslow did engage to send the said Order and that he conceived if we could not prove the said Skelton to have made away the Estate to the said Huddleston the Deed was valid and so it did behove us to certifie whereupon he withdrew The said Mr Skelton being further asked When he had the aforesaid Estate in possession and what Rent he had received of the said Mr Huddleston He thereupon was silent whereupon we told the said Mr Skelton That if any man went about to conceal a Delinquents Estate that same Act made him liable to Sequestration and further we produced before him the late Committee Book wherein it did appear the said Mr Skelton had farmed the said Estate of the late Committee in the year 1647 and payd the Rent due for the same without claiming any Interest therein whereupon the said Mr Skelton withdrew and never since appeared to claim any Title therein But since the said Mr Andrew Huddleston paying in his Rent due for the same confessed that he had given to Mr John Musgrave himself 10 l. and sent him up to London 5 l. more and about the day aforesaid Mr Musgrave being asked Why he would take 10 l. for solliciting a business of that nature against the State and his Conscience at the very time when he was Commissioner for Sequestrations for the State contrary to his Trust and Oath which he either had or should have taken He replyed He was a Sollicitor as well as a Commissioner and would not forego his Solliciting for being a Commissioner It is to be noted That about the 27 of April 1650. the said Deed was produced before Mr Craister Tho Langhorn and Mr Musgrave then Commissioners for Sequestration The said Commissioners returned the Deed with this Answer That it was to be cleared above whereupon the said Mr Musgrave by his expressions seemed to undertake that business as it appears he did and also at that time spoke in other Delinquents behalf so much as gave occasion to his Fellow-Commissioners to have some Jealousies of his actings and presently after the said Tho Langhorn saw the said Mr Musgrave receive a sum of Mony from the said Mr Huddleston and the said Mr Musgrave went presently after to London and stayd there above three moneths which caused Mr Craister and Tho Langhorn to desire the Commissioners for compounding either to joyn with them such as would act faithfully and fully for the Publick or else excuse them from the service the affairs of Sequestrations speedily requiring diligence and action upon which desire of theirs the said Musgrave was outed and others put in before the said Mr Skeltons Order was examined but Mr Musgrave took his discharge so ill that he did vehemently threaten that the said Tho Langhorn and others should have Lex Talionis and further that Sir Arthur Haslerig to stop his mouth had made him a Commissioner but now being outed his mouth was open To which one replyed It seems a great place will stop your mouth Also at that time he was outed of being Steward of the honor of Penrith and the said Mr Musgrave being poor his Estate not being possible to be made worse we do verily beleeve put him upon printing his Book notwithstanding we desire to forgive him and the Lord to give him Repentance which is all we can offer to you at this time The truth of what is said shall be sufficiently by our selves and others proved We desire you to finish that Letter to the Commissioners above whereof you took Instructions at Carlisle with the tender of our Service to all the honorable persons with you We remain Your Friends and Servants Tho Langhorn Tho Sewell Pearith 6 Januar 1650. Thus have you the several Articles exhibited by this Northern Article-Maker against Sir A. H. with particular Answers thereunto and that you have compleat satisfaction touching Sir A. his innocency in respect unto them all is my perfect presumption I had almost said that a doubt herein all things considered renders the doubtful not so much a man as a Musgrave And although it is beneath a man advanced but one degree in ways of wisdom and discretion to waste his time in setting forth the vileness and baseness of the principles and practices of so worthless a person it being but actum agere he himself having been his own Limbner in this very Pamphlet which he made against Sir A. H. where you may see as in a glass as many ill qualities as can likely croud together in one man yet if you can bear the savor see him anatomized in some few Instances First Observe his covetousness dishonesty and to speak it out his plain knavery in this Instance following in a Certificate under the hand of a Minister and an eye-witness thereof A Certificate from a Minister touching Mr Musgrave's base offering to compound to desist prosecution of an honest man by him accused for a certain sum of Mony About the beginning of February 1648. Captain Crakanthorp and John Musgrave procured an Order from the Committee for Complaints at Westminster to summon several Gentlemen within the County of Cumberland to appear before the said Committee to answer