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A79510	The inhumanity of the Kings prison-keeper at Oxford. Or a true relation of the most transcendent cruelties, cheatings, cozenings, and base dishonest dealings of William Smith Provest [sic] Marshall General of the Kings Army, against the Parliament prisoners under his custody. As it was delivered at the Barre in the House of Commons, by one, who with many others, were sworne before the Lords assembled in Parliament, and were prisoners in Oxford six moneths, being further confirmed by Captain Wingate in the Commons House, he being Member of the said House, and some time prisoner in Oxford, the space of 9. moneths. Together, with the copy of a letter from a Gentleman of quality confirming the former particulars. Also the copy of a petition and articles exhibited to the King, his councell of warre against Smith. Likewise a letter to the Speaker, subscribed with 70. prisoners hands. Whereunto is added the unsufferable cruelties, exercised upon the Cirencester men, in their passage to Oxford, and at Oxford, in the castle and Bride-vvell, vvhen they were taken. Written by Edm. Chillenden. who was a prisoner there 6. moneths. Printed according to order.	Chillenden, Edmund, fl. 1656.	1643 (1643)	Wing C3876; Thomason E63_17; ESTC R9315	22,716	31

Kings proceedings with his Army was good and necessary or whether the Subjects of England were bound or not bound by the Votes Acts and Orders made by the Lords and Commons in Parliament was a high point above our Capacities to decide and therefore desired to be excused from taking that Oath conceiving that wee must not sweare upon doubts and questions but in judgement righteousnes and truth Smith he cries out harke harke they are a Preaching we then complained to them of our ill usage and told them it was the way to starve us and that a many of us were sicke in the Dungeon and desired they might bee removed where they might have more Aire and wee said that wee hoped that it was not the Kings will nor the Counsell of VVars pleasure thus to destroy us But Dr. Reeves told us in plaine termes that it was the Kings mind and Counsell of Wars pleasure to destroy us * But the Dr. hath forgot his Spectacles would multiply and took his Spectacles and looked on us and said we looked as fat as Connies and so wee were sent backe againe to the Dungeon and those that were sicke grew weaker and weaker so that one eased nature as he lay * Namely one Giles Carter and Caleb Selfe and another was troubl●d with a continuall Vomiting those things were gr●evous to us they being done in the place where wee all were when Smith came to Bridewell we complained to him of it and desired him that they might be removed where they might have more aire and have some comfortable thing made and permitted to come to them or else they would not live long he cald us if we would take the Protestation we should have any thing we desired but if we would not if wee all died hee did not care wee were our owne murtherers and did not permit any thing more to be allowed save our former Allowance not any Friend no not our Wives to come to see us or any to have our Shifts washed Nay hee put the Man that dwelt in the Bridewell in Prison in the Castle because he had meat a boyling over the fire for his owne dinner and all Smiths men came and eate up the mans meat so that by his cruell usage the afore-named Giles Carter ended his daies in great extremity VVe seeing this conceived in our selves if wee staid here there was no way but of death and perishing did with one consent resolve our selves of this extreme miserie so we with our knives and the hooke of a doore made a hole through a Free * stone wall above a yard thicke and so all that were well went forth which was about 40. whereof 4. were taken againe and 6. was left sicke in the Dungeon which 6. when Smith knew the rest were gone laid in Irons when we were so weake as not able to stirre and so kept us till Thursday or Friday having nothing to comfort us but water and then wee were removed to the Tower in the Castle againe wherein the roome where we were put was about 60. men and a many sicke of the small pox so that the place was very unwholsome and nasty and there allowed us one penny bread and a Can of Beere I come now to relate to you some other of Smiths Tyrannicall and dishonest practises When Marlborow men were sick Smith gave to one Mr. Betterise a Chyrurgion of Oxford 5 s. to provide some hot and comfortable things for the sick● Prisoners Mr. Betteris laid out some of the money presently after this meeting him in the street demanded his money of him and threatned him if he would not give it him so M● Betterise gave him all his 5. s. againe though he had layed out some of it before This Mr. Betterise did use to come at first into the Castle to dresse the wounded Prisoners and by that meanes knew the disease of the sicke Prisoners did say to some N●ighbours of his that they were spoil'd for want of water and so indeed they were for we had no water sometimes in two dayes time Smith he heares of this and meeting with Mr. Betterise put him in Prison in the Castle for so saying but was within a short time by Sir Iacob Ashley released out of the prison but by Smith commanded to come no more to dresse the wounded prisoners About this time there were some prisoners brought in which were taken at Banbury and amongst them was one that was wounded in the head with a Pole-Axe Smith was by the Gentlemen and Captaines in all the faire wayes intreated to let a Surgeon to come in to dresse him he would not permit any to come so that this mans wounds festered and stuncke and in a short time hee ended his dayes in great extremity There a so being in the Tower many Prisoners and they hav●ng had no water in 20. na● 48. houres time knockt for water Oc●don the Captaines man came and told them hee could help them to none though the River runne by the doore they being dry knocked again Smith came himself said I will give you water caused 3 or 4 of his men to come arm'd to guard his person and cal'd downe one that was my Lord Saies Miller and layes him in Irons Neck and Heeles and one Sergeant Wallis hee Canes him at least 60. blowes over the head and wounds him very sorely that he hath lost one of his joints and after this layes him in Irons 28. pound weight Neck and Heeles and so keepes him 48. houres in a nasty Dungeon without bread or water or any other sustenance and Caned Lievtenant Whitehead and layd him in Irons and to colour over his Tyranny commands his men to say they made a mutiny There was one Mr. Freeman a Constable neere Banbury Smith cals him to take the Protestation hee refuses it Smith said if hee would not take it he should goe up into the Tower hee said that was the worst he could doe to him Is it saies Smith you damned Rogue and striked him with his Cane sweating bitterly at him la●ed him in Irons neck and heeles set him on a cold Stone in the yard takes away his coat from him sets a sentinel over him so keeps him 30 4 daies in the winter time without either bread or water or air other food This Freeman was also removed to the Dungeon in Bridewell where he escaped to his owne house and there was taken againe and brought into the Castle Smith layes him in Irons and so he ended his dayes also in great misery The same day he cal'd downe one of Marlborow souldiers and offers him the Protestation the youth refused it Smith sweares at him and beats him with his Cane layes him neck and heeles in Irons puts him in a Dungeon set a Sentinell over him so keeps him till he had forced him to take the protestation and allowed no food to be given him There was one Mr. VVierby a minister and one Mr. Price

and one Mr. Selven that did refuse the protestation hee strikes them and breake their heads makes the blood run downe their eares and sends them to the Dungeon in Bridewell There was one Mr. Edward Bradney that had a man exchanged for him yet had not his liberty Smith told him if hee could get 10. l. to pay his Fees hee should have his liberty Mr. Bradney got 5. l. told Smith I have 4. l. 10 s. Smith said he would not take that so Mr. Bradney was putting up his money againe Smith snatches his money from him and said I will keepe this in part or payment so took away foure pound and kept the man in prison six moneths after first in the Tower then in the Dungeon in Bridewell where he escaped but was taken againe Smith laid him in Irons hands and feet and so keepes him about 8 weekes by reason of this his cruell usage he fell very weak and sick and in his sicknesse he would not suffer any body to come to helpe him in his great extremity so that for three weekes he lay in his owne Dung and pisse and so by a long and languishing disease being pined to nothing in a great deale of woe ended his dayes There was one Richard Cawdle and one Robert Neale that escaped out of Bridewell and were taken againe he burnt them with match betweene the fingers to the bone and laid them in Irons hands and feet suffers no Surgeon to come to them so keeps them 8. weekes and they both in this extremity ended their dayes in much misery There was one Andrew of London who came to Oxford and being brought into Prison Smith himselfe tooke 23. s. out of his pocket and kept him there a short space and then turning him going but never gave him his money There was one Mr. I. A the Lord of Douns man brought in for a Spie he tooke the Protestation and was by Smith released paying 50. s. fees and hee comming into the Castle to see a Friend Smith would not let him goe till he had paid him 50. s. more There was one Mr. Wilde a minister a Malignant committed to prison who lay there 7 daies and paid Smith 3. l. 10. s. for his Fees There was two Londoners Mr. C. Mr. M. that tooke the protestation that paid Smith 20. l. for their fees There was one William Burthen a Constable that tooke the protestation and was by Smith released paying 4. l. but hee after heard he was a rich man got him in prison againe and there keepes him to make him pay 60. l. more and did not let him goe till hee had paid him 20. l. more There was one Mr. Ad. of London prisoner Smith tooke 5. l. 10. ●illings out of his pocket and never gave it him more There was one Mr. VV. B. a Gentleman whom the Bishop of Armath * You mayste by this that if there be any villany to be done a Bishop is at hand to act it perswaded to take the protestation hee was released paying 20. l. fees Smith gets him againe and keepes him prisoner till he had made him pay or given him bond for 30. l. more He also got a Bill of Exchange for 30. l. from Captaine Wingate and Captaine Austen but he hath not yet paid them though he hath bin often asked for it and Captaine Auston asking him for it Smith gave him very opprobious words calling him shitten Prentice boy and threatned to lay him in Irons neck and heels There was one Dr. Claiton Doctor of Divinitie of Waltomstow in Essex as he himselfe said who was taken at Branceford and carried to Oxford Prison who lying there in great misery did endeavour to make an escape and getting over a wall fell downe and broke his neck Captain ●ohn Lilburne he kept him in Irons 19. or 18. daies and since he being very sick even to death yet w●uld not permit any woman to come to look to him in his sicknes Captaine ●ohn Frank in and Master Iohn Brown Gentleman he ironed together and so kept them a good while and since Captaine Iohn Frankling is dead Master William Dingly a Lievtenant of Horse he laid him in Irons and so kept him 8. or 9 weeks He kept one Master Andrew Ellu one of my Lord Generalls Life-Guard a Gentleman of the Innes of Court in the Tower amongst the Common Prisoners and made him to lie on the Boards Master Iohn Frankling Member of the House of Commons he hath most basely abused and calld him Rogue and damn'd Traytor yea stinking fellow and took him by the shoulders and thrust him into a little Chamber saying to him you are a damn'd Traytor and I will use you like a Traytor locks him up close Prisoner and gives the key to one Bradshaw that was a Cavalier in Prison and Smith on purpose set on this Bradshaw and one Captaine Cew one of the Cavaliers an Irish Papist to drinke healths and carrouses in the roome with Mr. Frankling to abuse and torment him This B●adshaw being si● did confesse and hath ever since kept him close Prisoner And Captaine Walton Captaine Iohn L lburne Captaine Vivers Captaine ●atesby Captaine Scroope Captaine Auston Captaine L●dcot he hath kept them all close Prisoners for the most part of their time and seldome would permit their friends to come to visit them no nor their wives to see them Yea he hath taken away the beds from the Captaines and made them to lye on the cords and against their wills placed some of the Cavaliers in them As for Captaine Wingate he hath alwaies kept him close Prisoner alone without any company not suffering him to conferre neither with men nor Books not permit him to have a Bible onely when Blage was hanged Master Harfeild Minister of Banbury and he was in one Chamber and Smith had layed this Reverend Minister in Irons hands and feet and after that Blage was dead brought his body and threw it into the Roome where Captaine Wingate and this was and so locked them up all three close Prisoners and many times Smith hath kept those that have died so long till they have stunk like to poison them nor would not carie them away till the Prisoners were constrained to pay for their buriall He would not suffer Captaine Wi●gate to walke in the Garden for his health sake notwi●hstanding the Kings mind was that he should as hath been in my hearing declared by the Lord of Craford As for Captaine Clifton Cot sby and Captaine Vivers they being in ●anbury his Majestie was pleased by his Herauld of Arms to declare that if they would come and yeeld themselves to Him they should have a free Pardon the which they did and had also the Lord Generalls word on his honour to confirme the same yet after this they were brought to Oxford Prison and by Smith kept there and were before the Lord chiefe Justice Heath on Oyer and Termine● arraigned for their lives Whereupon they both of

William Smith This is not Smith the Fencer his name is Thomas Smith the first night we were put up into the Tower 180. od the place being so little that we were forced to lie one upon another and were allowed one penny bread a peace and a Can of small Beere water was better and so for the best part of 13. nay some of us 23. weeks were allowed no more Some of us have many times been two daies without any thing at all so that by this cruelty and living on the boards many fell sick and very weak in body almost all of us like to perish and end our daies by the bloody flux and one of us was starved to death and as this man was drawing on towards his end Marshall Smith was sollicited in all the faire waies that possible could be by the Gentlemen and the Captaines there in Prison that he would suffer some thing to be provided for the poore man but such was his crueltie that he would not and so the man died He saies it was a base Protestation onely framed by a company of ebels and Traytors to take away the King-Crown and life Some few daies after he called us to take the Protestation which he stilled the Kings we desired to heare it read over to us which when we had heard it we refused it as being against our Consciences telling him we had taken one already which was the King and Parliaments he swore at us and call'd us damn'd Rogues and Traytors striking us with his Cane drives us all up into the Tower swearing deeply he would make us take it or he would make us to shit as small as a Rat But he was forsworne for we shewed him a faire paire of heels whereupon he gives command that no body be permitted to come at us to relieve us either with food or linen causes a hole to be made up where things used to be conveyed to us and confined us to our former allowance and charge was given upon pain of death that no more should be allowed us or any thing else permitted to come at us which was accordingly done for food being sent to us out of the Citie by some he caused his Souldiers to take it way and eat it Then the Gentlemen and Captaines imprisoned made a weekly Purse for the reliefe of the poore Prisoners and made * A Lievtenant of Horse Lievtenant W. Dingly Steward of it vvhich if they had not done I am very confident vve should halfe of us have perished He causes this to be restrained and threatens the Stevvard to lock him up close Prisoner if he did after offer to relieve us vvith Bread or Beere Some small time after this Sir Iames Penimon vvanting Souldiers they called us dovvne into the yard and as vve passed through the great Chamber vvhere at least 12 or 14. Gentlemen lodged and had vvashed their hands in a Bason of vvater such vvas our extreame drought that vve could not be restrained from drinking it yea the very raine vvater that vvas on the Barrels heads that stood in the yard There they propounded to us that if vve vvould take the Protestation and take up Armes to serve in that Armie vve should presently be all released We all refused it vvith that Peniman svvore at us and Smith ran after us as fast as his lame legs vvould giv him leave drives us all up again into the Tovver striking us vvith his Cane swearing deeply that he would wake take it or he vvould make us to shit as small as a Rat and so kept us still to our former allovvance When they had tryed by all these wayes of cruelty they had or could extend to us in the Castle then they sought by faire meanes to win us and Sir Iames Peniman and Smith calls us all downe into the yard and there they argue the case to us and alleadge the Scripture to us as the Divell did to Christ but when they saw that by this they could not prevaile with us they swore most bitterly at us and Sir Iames Peniman swore God dam me none of us all did belong to Salvation but wee were a Company of damned Rogues Rebells and Traytors and swore we should bee made to take the Protestation for we should have no Victuals allowed us saying they that would not worke should not eate * But after this 14. were removed out of the Dungeon to an upper Chamber so little that we could but lie down when we went to sleepe and so wee were kept without any thing for a day and above And to extend his Cruelty and increase our misery Smith causes us on Munday Feb. 6. to be removed from the Castle to Bridewell to the Dungeon where we were above 40 of us put down into it about foure Weekes thronged in so little Roome that woe were scarse able to stirre one by another * There being never a house of Office the place also being made very noysome because wee eased our selves in the same so that in some place of it we might goe over the shooes in Pisse and filth About a Fortnight after woe had bin there A Petition that we had made to the Lord Generall of that Army and a Letter that was written to London setting forth the barbarous usage of us by Smith came out in P●int * The Letter was Printed in my name which is Edmund Chille●den which Smith would have fathe●ed on mee but hee could not prove it But this Letter and Petition netled Smith that he gave the Capt. and Gent. a great deale of Liberty upon it Whereupon the Generall as wee conceive appointed Commissioners to examine the truth of the things contained in the Letter and Petition and on Mu●day Feb. 22. Six of us namely Edmund Chillenden Thomas Cheny Edward Leader Edward Bradney William Whitlawe Ioseph Blises were like Felons and Rogues brought through the Streets in Irons to Sir Iacob Ashleys where was Dr. Reeves the Kings Advocate and two other Commissioners who instead of examining of us fell a Railing at un a●king us to take the Protestation We Answered we had taken one already which was the King and Parliaments which we would maintaine to the last drop of our bloods * I making this Q●estion because it was I that spake for all of us They told mee that I should of all the rest bee hanged say●ng you are a peermtory Rogue indeed but as for this Protestation we know not what it is nor whose Authority if beareth for we know that the lawes of this Land provide That no O●th should bee forced on us contrary to consent in Parliament which Laws were out Inheritance and therefore wee would defend and maintaine them as our proper Rights and Liberties and no wayes betray them or words to this effect VVee further said that to sweare the Earle of Essex was a Traytor or the Army under his conduct was raised against the Kings or that the