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death_n	father_n	king_n	year_n	9,652	5	5.2913	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89424	A cry of bloud of an innocent Abel against two bloudy Cains: being a discovery of two cavalier and malignant brothers conspiracy ageinst another brother of the Parliament party. And a short relation of justices of the peace in Cumberland their illegal proceedings against the Parliaments friends. With a complaint of some corruptions and delays in law and Chancery proceedings.	Musgrave, John, fl. 1654.	1654 (1654)	Wing M3146; Thomason E731_8; ESTC R202932	23,390	32

Plots and practises against this Common-wealth and the manner of listing of some dangerous persons in the Lord Protectors Life-Guard such as for fear of discovery dare not own their own names Likewise I am constrained to declare some evil dilatory practises and proceedings of Chancery and Law proceedings in relation to my self and some friends with the causes for publishing the same which if you improve for publick good as redresse of private wrongs I shall rejoyce However my confidence is in my God and though he should slay me yet will I trust in him for the devices of the wicked shal not prosper and by their own Counsels they shall be destroyed JOHN MVSGRAVE The Cry of ABELS Bloud again from the Ground IT is not unknown to those who have read the History of England that few in the North for service done against the Scot deserved better or were greater asserters of their countries liberty then the family of the Musgrave's men of good estates and large Revenues of whom Speed in his Chronicle takes special notice with this Character The Ancient and Warlike Family of the Musgraves Sir Simon Musgrave my Grandfather served Queen Elizabeth upon those Borders as Deputy Warden for many years after his death the Queen was pleased to honour my father with that imployment in which service he so behaved himself as he preserved the borders from the Inrodes of the Scots and Rapines of the Outlaws of both Nations there with whom that Country in those times were infested I purpose not at this time to particularize the known services and the great executions my father did upon some eminent Scots enemies to our Nation for which he brought upon himself the envy of King James and most of the Scots Nobility who after the old Queens death watched for an opportunity to ruine my father and destroy his family and how hard a matter it is to stand before envy or bear the wrath of a King the prudent may consider Now about the 5th year of K. James's reign here in England one Thomas Musgrave a dissolute loose man and one Puckering more deboist drew into their company Sir Thomas Musgrave a young Gentleman and the eldest son of Sir Richard Musgrave my Grandfathers second son these fell upon the Kings Receivers in Westmerland and robbed them and the night after came to my fathers house in Cumberland and lodged there my father being then at Ednell ignorant both of the fact done and their being at his house as another of the same name who suffered for that fact at his death did solemnly declare Robinson then Bishop of Carlisle knowing how pleasant a thing i● would be to the King to bring my father within the compasse of the Law procures Puckering a pardon to become an approver against my father to evidence that he was privy of their being at his house after the fact done more they could not have any colour for King James glad of this doth forthwith cause a special Gaol Del●very to be called for tryal of my father and sent down as Commissioners the Earl of Dunbar with sund●y other Lords to carry on the design he well knowing that upon an equal tryal my father would be in no jeopardy and the King a moneth before the Tryal signs a Warrant for execution to prevent all Reprieval● all which was with much celerity performed according to the Kings direction but the great signal Testimonies of my fathers innocency and the Countreys dislike of those extraordinary proceedings much disco●tented the King and the Court faction my father left an estate setled upon my mother his children of 200 l. by year held by lease for 3 lives which King James would have seized on but upon Tryall in the Exchequer possession was established with her Afterwards my mother by perswasion of friends to her childrens undoing marries one Vaux a Gent. of ancient but most wicked bloudy family having no estate at all For Wil. Vaux his father having in a most barbarous and unheard of manner murthered one Ridley suffered for the same and did confiscate his whole estates And not long before Rowland Vaux father of William procured one Bell to personate two and procured a forged Acquittance for a debt of 100 l. Rowland owed to a Kinswoman for which perju●y Bell lost his ears and for the forgery and subornation Vaux wore Paper and rode backward my Grandfather being then High Sheriff at the time of the execution of the sentence I would have forborn thus to have untombed the dead if I had not by a wicked Sister been provoked thereto Now for twenty years together Vaux in my fathers childrens right held an estate of 200 l. by year for which we never had any accompt in which time he purchased the Reversion of the whole with our moneys for which calling him to accompt I was with a 22 years consuming suits in Law wested and spent and yet is not come to any issue 〈…〉 Vaux in the beginning of the difference the more to disable me to prosecute my Cause beats my mother would have killed her with an hatchet put her out of doors and would have suborned witnesses to have sworn That she and I would have murthered him as some of the witnesses yet living do confesse The particular Processe and proceedings betwixt us I shall refer to another discourse and of old Coventries in justice King Charles's Order in the Case being not the thing I desire now to ●rge or presse While I was in this private contest a Parliament is called by which for a while I was as one raised from the dead but the Kings leaving his Parliament was the cause of new Troubles to me for upon my comming from London I was committed to Carlisle Castle for no other cause but that I said the Earl of Strafford was condemned for Treason But when the Commission of Array 〈◊〉 set a foot in our County then my father Vaux doubted not but to bring me to ruine knowing I was affected to and had declared for the Parliament and the better to compasse this end he procured one Richmond whose son after married his daughter and my sister at the Sessions of the Peace to put that illegal oath upon me called the oath ex Officio which I refusing was committed to close Gaol and then Richmond caused me to be indicted for speaking blasphemous words against the book of Common Prayer viz. that it was Popish but this having not colour to take away my life the next Sessions I was called forth and then Richmond commands me to take the Oath of Supremacy which I refusing twice I was returned back to the Gaol committed for Treason upon this Richmond conspires with Sir Richard Graham who had married his daughter to Sir Edward Musgrave's grandchild who wrongfully held an estate from my mother being her birth-right of 600 l. by year to procure a special Gaol Delivery for the Tryal of me and Captain Crakanthorp for the like offence but