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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46393	A Just vindication on the behalf of Iohn Eliot Esq. in answer to petitions preferred against him to His Excellency and to Mr. Speaker of the Honourable House of Commons by some Officers under the command of Major Generall Laughorne.		1648 (1648)	Wing J1246; ESTC R27125	5,981	14

the Countrey Mr. Eliot is at a sufficient distance from them and if they intend to disband what need they be troubled who shall have their Armes To the seventh concerning Mr. Eliots Agency I shall desire leave of the Reader to digresse a little and give him the true ground of Mr. Eliots Agency before I answer that point Mr. Eliot being ever very active for the Parliament was himselfe in person with two of his Sons and Servants at the first taking in of Carmarthen to the Parliament in May 1644. and severall other Castles of that County commanded there the Trained Band of the hundred he lived in he garrisoned his house for the Parliament and for want of timely reliefe from Major Generall Laughorne who promised it he and two of his Sons were then taken prisoners by Gerhands Forces Mr. Eliot was afterward exchanged for Col. Pert his Sons were prisoners in Carmarthen Castle about foure moneths and Mr. Eliot and his two Sons were endicted of high Treason at Carmarthen before David Jenkins then Judge for bearing Armes against the King and the said Mr. Jenkins gave sentence of death on Mr. Eliots eldest Son and in August 1644 the said Forces burned Mr. Eliots said dwelling nouse and six of his houses in the Towne of Narberth and plundered him of all his personall Estate and in the yeere following about Aprill 1645. at Gerhards second coming downe his Forces plundered Mr. Eliot againe of all the stock he had gotten in that interim his wife and twelve children and grandchildren left without habitation or subsistance and he totally ruined in his fortune Now I come to answer his point of Agency Mr. Eliot being one of the Committee of that association and in this sad condition was voted Agent to negotiate the affaires of the distressed County of Pembroke with the Parliament by the Committee not one voice contradicting which trust Mr. Eliot undertooke and hath effectually performed it for these three yeers last past as aforesaid And in that interim he was confirmed by two severall Orders to continue in his Agency by the said Committee and Mr. Eliots great toyle care and diligence in the conveying down of moneys and provisions for Major Generall Laughornes Army is well knowne to severall Members of the Honourable House of Commons And had not Mr. Eliots affection to the Parliament and his Country obliged him to it the sallary he received from the Committee was small encouragement to him for he never received above 30 l. from the Committee during the three yeers aforesaid Now let all men judge whether his Agency were usurped or not Having answered the falsities of the said Petition I will let the Reader see from whom the said Petition tooke its rise Let him but enquire who was lately imployed downe to the County of Pembroke to disband the supernumeraries and to raise the monethly Assessement and if he doth but know that party and the malice he beares Mr. Eliot he must needs know the influence that party hath over the Petitioners and then cannot but judge the Petition to be the consequence thereof the said party and the Petitioners have obstructed the said Committee from sending Mr. Eliot his annuall exhibition due for his Agency The said party caused one John Poyer who now is proclaimed Traytor by Ordinance of Parliament for fortifying the Castle of Pembroke against the Parliament and Generall to put in Articles against Mr. Eliot and other Gentlemen to the Committee of Glocester about two yeers since Secondly he caused one John Young who is likewise in Rebellion with the said Poyer in the said Castle to exhibite Articles against the said Mr. Eliot and the said Gentlemen at the Head Quarters at Pniney being the same in substance as the said scandalous Petition but as soone as Mr Eliots and the said Gentlemens Answers were read in both places they were dismissed to their great advantage in their reputations by the severall Committees before whom the businesse was heard And after the Ordinance past for the established Forces of the Kingdome and for the disbanding of Supernumeraries and there being no appearance of the Enemy in the said Association but all reduced into the obedience of the Parliament and the Counties of Pembroke Carmarthe● and Cardigan being extremely ruined in the late Warre especially the County of Pembroke whose sufferings and miseries are not to be paralleld by any County of this Kingdome fire and sword having its full rage untill it was even glutted in the bowels thereof Mr. Eliot hereupon indeavoured what in him lay to have the Petitioners and the said Forces disbanded that the poore Counties aforesaid might have some time to respi●e and breathe after their tedious long irksome burthen of free Quarter but Mr. Arthur Owen aforesaid being the continued friend of the Petitioners and first Cousen to the Commander in chiefe of those Forces did alwaies oppose Mr. Eliot therein and to keepe the said Forces undisbanded herein Mr. Eliot acting contrary to the Petitioners interest in order to the publique drew their malice consequently on him But truly I wonder how men so guilty as the Petitioners are should be so malitiously bold to traduce Mr Eliot with such falsities being a man of approved and knowne integrity to the Parliament for a cleerer demonstration cannot be of his affection than his activenesse and sufferings for them which are sufficient testimonies in his behalfe besides his faithfull solicitations here in the reducing South-Wales to the obedience of the Parliament And as Mr. Eliot hath preferred alwaies to be in love and charity with all men before malice and revengefulnesse so he as little values the inveterate and irreconcileable spleene of his Enemies And though he hath many vigilant and potent adversaries that drive at his ruine yet the candidnesse of his actions and the just grounds he proceeds on hath so protected him under God hitherto that they cannot much boast of their prevailences against him Mr. Eliot hath no ambition or selfe seeking ends onely he trusts in the goodnesse of God and the Parliament to enable him to be in the same condition he was in long before the late Warre being then in Commission of the Peace in the County of Pembroke and his family as ancient Gentry as any of that County lived beloved in his County in a commendable and peaceable condition To conclude I wish the Petitioners would in imitation to Col Lewis and his Regiment with Captain Lloyd Capt. Jones Capt. Vaughan and Capt Sli●wman yeeld their obedience in disbanding according to the Ordinance of Parliament but I doubt their owne actions will daily witnesse to the contrary against them for why hath some of the prime of the Petitioners drawne downe their Foot their Magazines and Guns from Carmarthin to Tenby and fortifie the said Towne since they refused to make their appearance before the Commissioners to be paid off according to the Ordinance why do they mutter that they will declare for the King and accordingly make preparation under hand But I still wish their future obedience to the Ordinance of Parliament may expiate their former disobedience and that they may leave their selfeish destructive ends and become lovers of their Countrey SIR WE received an Ordinance of Parliament attended with severall Instructions for the disbanding of Major Generall Laughornes Forces in the associated Counties of Carmarthen Cardigan and Pembroke in pursuance of which Ordinance we the Commissioners appointed for that service did addresse to the most convenient place we could thinke upon for the ease of the Gentlemen of all Quarters to meet us and to contribute their advice for the well settlement of the Country and to answer the expectation of those that put us in trust so we sitting at Carmarthen where your selfe was then present and did participate with what was then agreed upon we in due obedience to the said Ordinance and to accomplish the resolutions by us then resolved appointed severall Troops to be at Lambeder on wednesday the first of March there to receive their now present pay allowed them by the Ordinance and to be disbanded Colonell Lewis Captaine Jones Captaine Lloyd Captaine Vaughan Captaine Read Captaine Sloeman and severall other Officers of Colonell Lewis Regiment appeared that day with severall Troops whom we mustred and their number and by us registred of which we shall give an accompt to the honourable Houses and his Excellency yet notwithstanding our trust so well performed and as we thought our Countrey disburdened of Free-Quarter or any other Impositions on the Inhabitants by them we are given to understand that a party of Horse namely Captain Addis and Captaine Morgan who refused their appearance before us to be Mustred and Disbanded and Paid according to the Orders agreed by all the Commissioners at Carmarthen have since made their Inrode into the County and forced the people to a new obedience of Free-Quarter and Taxations setled and commanded by them and what other may be within the command of a Souldier without our privity or consent being the appointed Commissioners for that imployment Sir we desire to be rightly understood whether this intrusion be done by your Order though we have better confidence of your fidelity obedience to the Ordinance of both Houses yet we shall desire you to expresse your selfe that we may be satisfied and render a candid construction of your fidelity to those as we conceive under whom you have hitherto fought To this end we desire you will give order for their speedy removall out of this country otherwise we hope it will not be ill taken if the country joyne in a course to relieve themselves from a burthen under which they have so long groaned Your speedy answer is desired by your servants James Philippes Thomas Lloyd et al. EVen as I had concluded there appeares more newes in Letters to his Excellency which adds much to Mr. Eliots Justication and to the Petitioners accusation That part of Major Generall Laughornes Forces seized upon those Peeces of Battery sent from Glocester towards Colonell Flemmings and brought them to Pembroke Castle that they have joyntly with Poyer fallen upon Colonel Flemmings 100 foot there being then no more come to him and on those of the Country that joyned with him and have either slaine or taken prisoners Colonell Flemming Roger Lort Esquire Captaine Cuney Master John Lort and many others and have hereby raised the Siege FINIS