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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28236	A manifesto declaring what George Bishope hath been to the city of Bristoll and the particular persons now in authority therein and what hee hath received from them in recompence occasioned by the late sentence of banishment pronounced upon him by them, 16th, 7th Mon., 1665, and other useages for his conscience to God / by George Bishope.	Bishop, George, d. 1668.	1665 (1665)	Wing B2999; ESTC R11093	24,526	32

I shall have from some more of you by and by The Court was offended with him for this Retaliation and Alderman Knight himself who sate next him thought it but an unworthy payment and that therefore he was too blame and so jogged him to be silent though at the same time in other things he there shewed himself bad enough and in particular to me When the Isle of Man was reduced one Child of this City was concern'd in a Ship there taken and sent to me thereabouts I spake to the Council who so much credited what I said to them about the Vessel that without so much as a Deposition or further Testemony they Ordered the Ship and her Appurtenances to be and which was delivered to him I am sure it cost him not a farthing as to me My Kinsman John Wright being summoned peremptorily to appear by such a day before the Lords and Commons for Sequestration which was within three or four dayes of the time when the summons was left him which was with-held from serving on purpose that he might be surpriz'd it being in the depth of Winter and neer Pauls fair his Wife also miscarrying on the fright thereof wrote up to me who appeared for him before the Lords and Commons and publiquely charged a Member then present of that Committee that he served that matter in the behalf of a Brother of his who was in suite of Law with one Whitehead about a parcel of Land whom John Wright assisted he being a man of Estate and a Merchant to with-draw him from which or to make him suffer if he would not this was offred Whereupon and upon what else was suggested by me in that matter he was discharged and an Order made that for the future no person should be required to appear before them untill matter of Delinquency was first sworn and made good which was of advantage to all that were concern'd in such matters as well as John Wright And I do not remember nay I am certain it is so that it cost John Wright so much as the charge of his Post-Letter to me The Lady St. Johns Wife to 〈◊〉 Arundel of Warder Castle who was here I mean the man under some Distemper of Melancholy being in great distress and a very stranger to me in so much that she was constrained in a strange place to sell off the little Goods she had to give her bread and speaking with me I was so sensible of her condition making it my own case that I never left till with the Committee here and above she had a clearing and enjoyed her Estate and Land again which that Noble Woman for I call her as she was if alive or her then Husband or Eldest Son can at large testifie She was a Papist so called and her Husband and great Oppression was exercised on her out of which I saw her delivered which was my only Recompence Nor was I here limited or did limit my self but my tenderness extended it self to others that suffred Some Monies I gathered and gave to Bishop Howel's Wife who with her Children when this City was taken was found in distress and several of the then Ministers had their Relief from me who were not prosecuted when Articles were sent against them in particular Henry Jones of Stevens and who being cast out I got in again as was Richard Pounal at John's in particular The time would fail me if I should instance all the City was under a great blur of Malignancy the Burgesses held it on as they could as aforesaid all Matters ran athwart and through the fire were drawn that were accomplished by reason thereof for the City till after the time of Worcester I never gave over whil'st I had time or opportunity to serve its welfare till all was accomplished I never thought it too much that I did nor of what I have done ever did I or do I repent I had no sinister end in my eye that would now have shewn it self I did it whil'st I had opportunity to do good to them who I knew would requite me evil I have my desire viz. the Prosperity of the place and of these men in particular for whom so to do I never received from them an Obligation I am glad I had the opportunity and that it is done The Welfare of the City not the destruction thereof have I sought Well may it prosper say I and be multiplied and that in the Peace and Prosperity thereof the Nation may have peace and prosper though for my love and being thus in order thereunto I am Banisht my Native City and Country to Barbados with many more of my Brethren for my Conscience to God in Recompence which no Law pointed me but to for I was not named therein but to them that it gave power to execute the Law and to their discretion it is by Law lest whom to take and whether to take any or no that they found at our Meetings which Discretion of theirs hath been thus exercised to me who have been thus to them who have alwayes carried my self civil and a friend to them who with as much Integrity of heart and more Industry have endeavoured their and the prosperity of the City then ever I did to get penny for my Child in Recompence of which they will not suffer me to breath in my Native Country for my Conscience though the foot of the prosperity of them and the City stands upon what I have freely done for them and the City I say as to my particular well may the City prosper and be multiplied and that in the peace and prosperity thereof the Nation may have peace and prosper but I fear nay I am certain that the Lord wil● visit for these things and that he whose is Conscience and the Dominion thereof for which we suffer will lay Bristol as it hath done London an heap for this thing which I would not have had and therefore wrote to their Mayor John Lawford therein For that which led me to save it when I had power gave me Bowels over it when I was not in the capacity to save nor have I had so much as a rising thought in me of revenge to them herein but is tears have wept over it and them desiring that in this their day they would know the things that concern their peace and so have sought their peace when they my ruine and it hath been no small occasion of my suffering that they on his foot who hath saved th●● should come to split which will be the Consequence the Lord hath spoken It. Newgate Prison Bristol the 25 th of the 8 th Moneth 1665. where I remain as a Banished Person waiting who shall be my Executioners therein GEORGE-BISHOPE THE END

both a Councellor at Law and a Member of the Committee who before and then and afterwards vigorously acted with me and with whom I particularly corresponded in this freedom of the City who here acted what lay in him as I did above though now by some of the Men concern'd as ill rewarded and told him that I thought it would be well if he would communicate it to the Committee He was of my mind in both and so wrought that the Committee denied the Papers that lay before them to these Subcommissioners as not being capacitated by the Act thereunto being not Inhabitants Nevertheless on they proceeded on their own legs and part of Alderman Hooks Estate in Sommersetshire was sequestred and part in Gloucestershire by the Subcommissioners of that County and one came to his House to Inventory his Goods in the City Now I was put to it for the matter was precidential to all for though the Burgesses to wave the business of the Articles suggested that there was only two or three Malignants Hook c. that were in prosecution and no others intended thereby making the matter little yet having broke the ice on them the rest must have followed for the same Rules served for the one as for the other and the leading men being overcome the rest must follow the Commissioners at Haberdashers-Hall having about 200. on the List Though with this Dawberry their Emissaries thought to charme the residue so concerned in the City into an Opinion that the matter was not of that moment nor would have reflection at least in intent upon them so as that they needed to fear Hereby turning aside their general sence and appearance in the Matter and endeavouring the lessning of that which was attempted for them To those of Gloucestershire viz. Capt. Buck and Hancolk Col. Nath. Rich. at my desire and my self wrote who thereupon took off the seizure in order to Sequestration on Hook's Estate and for those of Sommersetshire I so wrought that they were soon turned out and such Men put in their places as upon whom I had an influence whom by Letters and otherwise I kept off from Bristol least they should run themselves into a Premunire as acting in cases where they were not Commissionated This stemm'd the Tide again and gave some respite nevertheless the endeavours of the other part were not wanting to bring it on afresh with Haherdashers-Hall and from the fountain as it were to cause their suffring With Haberdashers-Hall I was forced now to work and several of the Commissioners I engaged with the Reason of the thing not to act and of this number Three there were a fourth was Newtral and cared to do little in the matter So that the Orders from them to the Subcommissioners lay sometime a Moneth together unsigned there being but seven of them and the signing required a Majority of the Commissioners One while I held them with one thing and another while with another and sometimes I wrote to them and made use of the then state of the Nation that required there should be no irritation especially of such a City in such a time which might turn much to prejudice And because I knew not what might be the Consequence at last I got the Matter in the House again as to the particular of Alderman Hook and the rest which being not so well timed by the Speaker it being early in the Morning and the Members that were to assist it not being present one of the Burgesses crusht it in the bud and so it died The motion arose from a Letter General Fairfax wrote to the House in that particular which I procured and gave to the Speaker who presented it Then I wrought in the Counsil of State I being then at White-hall and in the nature of a Secretary of State though they being then in the form of a Commonwealth they gave no such appellation such an appellation being to a state improper yet Secretary I was and such was the term that by their order they gave me I say I wrought with the Counsil of State and exhibited considerations to them according to the nature of things and the reason of the times and so accomplished that some of the Commissioners were sent for by the Counsil to appear before them where we had a hearing but neither here could any thing be accomplished by reason of the workings of the Burgesses with some of the Counsil though the then President and others did what they could The matter indeed not so properly relating unto them to judge in seeing the Law was as to Sequestration otherwise then as to a prudent suspension of putting the Law in execution where probably such execution might return to a greater prejudice and to commend the consideration of the whole to the Parliament This gave a little breathing the Commissioners being found no otherwise acting but in reference to their Oaths in the discharge of what they had undertaken according to the Rules that were set them which being prompted to by others instigation and such as were Members of Parliament it could be expected to have no other influence Nevertheless things ended not here but new sollicitations to Sequestration produced new Orders and a peremptory Letter by the Commissioners was sent down to the Committee in reference to their Non-Sequestration demanding the Copies of the Papers that were before them for that purpose threatning to lay a fine upon their heads and that a Serjeant at Armes moreover should be sent for Creswick's Land also at Langford in the County of Sommerset was sequestred To this the Committee gave a manly Reply my Coz. Haggat being Instrumental therein who drew it and as for John Creswick I informed the Commissioners that his father Alderman Creswick aforesaid was dead who in his life time was not sequestred and now his Estate was devided among his Children and this particular part of it to his Son John whom none of their Rules had included for Sequestration So that the matter fell to the ground and the Sequestration was taken off as did the other by the return to the Letter aforesaid So this tide was stemm'd again and a Pause there was Now drew neer the time wherein the King and his Army marched out of Scotland into England which was not an ordinary time in England The Counsil of State then bestir'd themselves and Intelligence they had from all parts of the Nation every day for so it was laid of what was done therein and how their Militia advanced From Bristol also they received an account amongst the rest of what was done in that City which the Counsil so took and I was careful so to improve that they ordred it to be reported to the House by Henry Vane Kt. then High Steward of the City who being willing to do it a kindness and having been assistant unto me in my endeavours for the City so managed it that a Letter of Thanks was ordred by the House to