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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84982	A full declaration of all particulers concerning the march of the forces under Collonell Fiennes to Bristoll, and their carriage upon their enemies approach. As also a relation of the late bloody abominable conspiracy against the city of Bristoll, as appeareth by the examination of the parties, discovering their plot and intention. Together with sundry letters annexed. With the certaine information, touching the death of Will: Kendall a trooper of Collonel Essex, who was shot by the said Collonel. From a Noble hand.	Noble hand.; Langrish, Hercules.	1643 (1643)	Wing F2343A; Thomason E97_6; ESTC R13315	17,175	21

Henry Russell Thomas Martin Edward Hungerford Iames Abbotte Edward Hunt William Oubler Ioseph Browne Edmund Lewes Henry Priest William Coxe of Long-Ashton Iohn Tilly Mercer Iohn Councell Iohn Rowden Edward Taylor William Ioane● Thomas Radding Iames Thomas Nathaniel Blaunch Besides these mentioned of certaine knowledge there are at least 2000. in the City suburbs and Country adjacent that were Confederates in the forenamed Conspiracy As for the Relation of what should have been acted when and how it is already sent at large to the Houses of Parliament by Colonell Fi●nnes therefore I shall here omit that as at this time unnessary But it will be necessary here to annex the reasons that caused Colonel Fiennes to put in execution the order given him by my L. Generall to send up Colonel Essex from Bristoll not as an accusation against Colonel Essex in this place let that be followed by those to whom it appertaines but by way of vindication of Col. Fiennes that he hath done nothing herein but what the trust reposed in him and the safety of that important place did require of him and that the rather because by Col. Essex his owne speeche giving out as it it is reported in the t●wn that he hath cleared himself and is to return to his government again it begins so far to reflect upon C. Fiennes as if he had done him injury there had bin no plot at all but a plot to put himselfe into the Governours place the Malignants here in Towne taking up this and spreading it and adding strength to it by Col. Essex his owne speeches and carriages it will be a great injustice to him who hath done his duty and therein no inconsiderable services to be requited with calumnie there shall here therfore be laid downe a true Relation of the grounds and reasons first in a Letter written by Col. Fennes then the examinations taken both concerning the killing of the Trooper and the invitation of Prince Rupert to come to Bristoll with a Letter of Sir Edward Hungerfords about it And to all this agreeth a passage that fell out betweene Capt. Freeman and an Officer of Prince Ruperts at Andover where Captain Freeman was constrained to counterfeit himselfe to bee of Prince Ruperts partie and after they had drunk Prince Roberts health after Capt. Freeman demanded of the other why they did not goe to Glocester the Officer answered that the Round-heads had made that place too strong but they had an easier designe and of farre greater consequence which was Bristoll for said he there we have a sure party there is not the turning of a hand there but Prince Robert hath intelligence of it Cap. Freeman demanding what party they had there the Officer answered him the Governour Tom. Essex for saith hee he gives Prince Robert intelligence of all things there might be added also the relation of the Apothecary My Lord IF your Lordship had been an eye witnesse as some have been how litle time I have had to eate or drinke or sleepe or to write speake or thinke of any thing but what was necessary for our present preservation your Lordship would not have thought that I had been altogether so much to blame in being so short in the sending of particulars concerning Colonell Essex and the late Plot and yet I am sure if it miscaried not I sent a Letter long enough and full enough of particulars concerning Colonell Essex and which I thinke were sufficient to satisfie any man that it was necessary hee should be removed from hence before the Towne could be put in any possibilitie of securitie although he had not been touched in the point of his Fidelity such was his excessive prodigality and profusenes in feasting gaming and drinking whilst his souldiers were fasting and perishing for hunger and such was his carelesenesse of the safety of the Towne that he never went about to strengthen the Towne by any workes without till two or three dayes before I came nor to confirme it within by disarming and suppressing the Malignants but rather on the otherside being himselfe familiar and intimate with the chiefe Malignants and siding with them against the good partie and that in so high a degree that even after I came to the Towne he imprisoned Captaine Birche who is and alwayes was the most active man in the Towne for the Parliament and swore that neither he nor any of his men nor any of the Bridge men who are knowne to be the honestest men in the Towne and who onely appeared in their Armes for us when Prince Rupert came before the Towne should have any Armes or any command in the Citie and this I can testifie my selfe for hee swore it deeply in my presence and after he swore he would commit Lievtenant Colonell White and so by degrees began to make approaches upon me swearing that I should have nothing to doe there whereby I perceived I washed a Black-moore white if I went about to do any thing for the reclaiming of him or the put●ng of the Citie in a posture of safetie whilst he was there and I saw evidently ●hat either I must send him away or that all the good people in the Town would leave it and devert both it and me he had a little before framed a Protestation which should be a test of m●lignant ill affected persons which was such as many of the best affected would not take lest they should be thereby obliged to to keepe out any other Parliament Forces that might come in and to thrust out those that were already in it and on the other side was taken by knowne Malignants and as I thinke by some of the chief Conspiratours in this late plot and they did ●fter make that use of it that they were thereby tied to suffer no Forces in the Towne but such as were by the consent of the King and Parliament because they had protested to oppose all Forces that should make any attempt upon the Town without the consent of the King and Parliament as they concluded all the Parliament Forces did without the Kings consent These and many other particulars which are notorious to all the World I wrote at large his being here I found inconsistent with the good and safetie of this Citie and though there were no apparent proofe of his falshood which I never affirmed yet there were shrewd grounds of jealousie as may appeare by the Depositions whereof I have sent your Lordship a Copie together with this Letter and for that barbarous and bloudy act of killing an honest man in his Troop there is no honest man in this Towne but abhorreth the memory of it and I have sent up the evidence against him under the hand of sixe or seaven of those that were eye and eare witnesses of what was done and sayed which was onely this that being five or sixe moneths behinde of their pay or a very long time they comming with their Captaine some twentie of them

hoped hee would not stay their Sacke that came from Bristoll meaning from Essex That in the hands of the Prince his Secretary I saw Letters about to be Sealed to be directed to Essex That from diverse of his Officers I have heard word of a mutiny intended by Essex to which effect they had gotten some of the best Citizens to side with them such as they thought Malignant but to enquire the secret truth I durst not because they did distrust me but in the Company of those Townesmen I once was and heard how Trayterously they stood affected but I know not their Names I am willing to be deposed upon the premises not out of any envy that I owe him but to protect the lives of the then half betrayed souldiers WILLIAM APSELEY Sir I understand by some of Chippenham who were upon Tuesday night with Colon●● Lunsford at Malmsbury That newes being then brought unto him of Colonell Essex his removall from Bristoll he strucke his breast and seemed to be much troubled therat so were all the rest of the Cavaliers thou present These of Chippenham do likewise informe me that they conceive there are not 200 souldiers at Malmssbury not 500 at Cirencester but of this I shall be better informed before night And that most of the 〈◊〉 hath beene collected in Wilts and there abouts being a the said Chippenham-men are informed neare upon 6000 l. remaineth yet there in 〈◊〉 A good booty in my opinion to invite some of our Forces thither and Captaine Lewes a meete man to bring on the Foote But you must then needes spare a troope of horse which with those horse I have ought to guard the Avenues there towards Cirencester if you have any inten●●●● to assist me in this designe then to keepe it as private as possibly may be I heare nothing for certainty of Prince Ruperes Armie more then yesterday you were as ●●●●●ed withall I rest Bath this second of March 1642. Your humble servant Thomas Hungerford To the Honourable Colonell NATHANIEL FJENNES Governour of the Army of the City of Bristoll The Certaine Information of Richard Kent John Vernon and Iohn Smith late Troopers to Colonell Thomas Essex touching the Death of VVilliam Kendall one of their fellow Troopers viz. THAT whereas the said William Kendall did on the 25th of Ianuary last at night come unto severall men of the said Troope desiring them to goe with him the next morning to their Captaine and with him to goe to their Colonell to lay open their grievances as to a father having no intent to demand their pay but to acquaint him that they were forced for want of ready money to pay 6 d. for that which other men having ready money payed but 4 d for And they being quartered in such houses where was none but very bad hay and provender for their horses they having no money could not in conscience remove their Horses to better untill they had discharged the house where they were and they having not money were constrained to buy their Oates at the Innes which cost them more by sixe pence in a Bushell then they could have bought better for in the Market there being due unto each of them at that time 4. l. 15. s. And they having a very considerable Precedent therefore viz. that formerly at Worcester about ten or twelve of the same Troop then under the Command of Colonell Sands having lost thei● Horses in that fight whereof the said William Kendall was one their Colonell giving Order they should have but halfe their pay they then as now in all humility repaired to the Lord Generall the Earle of Essex and having admittance to his chamber doore sent in their grievances and presently received a gracious Answer having their wrongs speedily redressed And upon the 24. of Ianuary last in the morning the said William Kendall and about twenty or more of the said Troopers thinking that by the expressions of griefe of so many it would have caused the mote pitie and speedie redresse from their Captaine and Colonell presently went to their Captaine and meeting with him just at the dore of his lodging thinking to have opened their griefe unto him as formerly they had done he prevented them by telling of them he had not then received any money for them but was going to the Governours to see for some bidding them presently to follow him and make their case knowne unto the Governour whereupon they followed him in an orderly manner as Souldiers with their Swords only by their sides and comming to the Governours they went into the house after their Captaine where some stayed in a little Parlour and some in the entry quietly waiting till the Governour was stirring and having waited there about a quarter of an houre the Governour came downe unto them without his doublet on having a fire lock Pistoll in his hand with the cock downe and as it afterwads appeared it was charged with a Bullet ready span'd and primed and comming to one of the Troopers he spake to him after this manner viz. Sirra is your Horse ready whereunto he replyed yes and please your Honour then said the Governour sirra goe and fetch him taking the Trooper by the Arme and thrusting of him out of the Parlour doore speaking the like words doing the like action to two or three more of them they making the like answer as before And the said then Governour Thom Essex spake in like manner to the said William Kendall deceased and after some short pause not one word more passing between them he shot the said William Kendall into his head with his said Pistoll whereupon he immediately fell downe dead in the place as Samuell Car●● Thomas Coset William Sedwell VVilliam Smith the said Richard Rent Iohn Colstacke Iames Polle and Benjamin Parnell who were eye witnesses thereunto canne and will testifie All which they knowing to be true have thought fit to certifie under their hands this fourth day of March 1642. And they doe further certifie that the said William Kendall after the said Colonel Essex had bid him make ready his Horse desired his Honour to heare him speake two or three words unto him for which cause onely and for no other the said Colonell Essex immediately shot him with his Pistoll as before which the eye witnesses before named can testifie at large Richard Kent Iohn Cowlstock William Siddell Benjamin Parnell Thomas Coset James Polle THese things considered if a Town of that consequence had here 〈◊〉 the losse whereof would have drawn with it the losse of all the we●● part of England besides the dangerous consequences to this Kingdom at this time from Ireland let any impartiall man iudge whether Colonell Fiennes seeing and observing upon the place what he did and being advertised of all these particulars would not in the opinion of the world have lien under the censure of being ● a Knave or a Foole if to prevent it he had not executed the command be 〈◊〉 ●ed from my Lord Generall FINIS