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enemy_n	captain_n	colonel_n	lieutenant_n	1,180	5	9.4650	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26030	Satan in Samuels mantle, or, The cruelty of Germany acted in Jersey containing the arbitrary, bloody, and tyrannical proceedings of John Mason ... against several officers and souldiers in that small place : as also his earnest endeavours to ... encourage the army in England, Jersey, and Garnzey in their rebellion against the Parliament ... / presented to the Parliament and published by Thomas Ashton.	Aston, Thomas, Sir, 1600-1645.	1659 (1659)	Wing A3992B; ESTC R28307	24,898	33

Jurate and Mr. Hilgrove who was in armes against Colonel Heane when he reduced the Island and still hath been the most inveterate enemy against the English of any man in the Town as Colonel Heane Colonel Gibbon and Captaine Yardley alwayes found 3. Although Colonel Mason resolved speedily to reduce Lieutenant Joseph Underwood from the Government of Orguile Castle yet he was graciously pleased before he did it to encourage him to feast him and his followers which put him to considerable charges Hitherto all seems to be quiet and serene but within a few dayes Colonel Mason pickes up a society of English and Islanders such a pack as no man living can equalize in all the Island their names principles and practises follow who being his privy Councel he drives on furiously 1. July the 23. he casheered Captaine Hugh Gerhard by his sole power and charged Lieutenant Joseph Underwood to keep him out of Orguile Castle 2. Within a few dayes after he cashered Anthony Reade an old souldier who had adventured his life in England and an estate worth fourty or fifty pounds a year and was a Trooper under the valiant Colonel Heane at the reducing of Jersey 3. He imprisoned them both a considerable time and released them by his sole power never giving a reason of any of these actions nor calling a Court Martial which is humbly conceived to be contrary to the Lawes and Ordinances of Warre But alas this is nothing to what follows he begins with the souldiers but his aime is at the Officers 1. He sends for Lieurenant Joseph Underwood from his command in Orguile Castle to Saint Hillaries Town a Gentleman ingaged in the Wars from the beginning in defence of the priviledges of Parliament in the capacities of Captain Lieutenant of Horse Cornet and Lieutenant of Foot in all which he had been faithful and adventured his life both in several engagements in England and reducing the Island of Jersey had lost in the Wars with Holland as many goods as cost him two hundred fourscore pounds part being taken by the Hollanders and part being cast away notwithstanding all this he dismisses him of his command and Lieutenants place gives possession of the Castle to brother Meech a creature of his own judgement denies the Lieutenant the liberty to go into the Castle to remove his moneys and goods or to go into Elizabeth Castle or Saint Obins Fort keeps him in the Island as prisoner several weeks charges him to provide himself to go out of the Island when he went and not to return without his pass carries him in the nature of a prisoner to St. Malo's in France and thence to England promises him he would procure his Commission renewed for Jersey or as good employment elsewhere but instead of this he stops all his arreares to satisfie an old debt due to Major Salwey and although his wife came to London a hundred miles and solicited his favour with much diligence the best answer she received was that she was engaged to him that he did not hang her husband for he deserved it and it was in his power to hang him in a word the poor Gentlewoman having waited and wept a week in Town had wanted moneys to have carried her to Dorchester being denied her husbands expected pay had not Colonel Masons favourite Mr. Pennell solicited earnestly for a moneths pay which with some difficulty he obtained and when Colonel Mason paid it he told her he bestowed it clearly out of charity for her husband was never to have any account of his pay This he dealt with a faithful and honest Lieutenant never bringing him to any legal trial though he petitioned him several times to do it 2. Ensign John Cook comes upon the stage whom I will do that right as to affirme that I verily believe the foundation of hating him was his relation to Colonel Gibbon our late Governour whose wife is his Sister for I still observed when Colonel Mason was pleasant he had still a jeer in pickle for Colonel Heane and Colonel Gibbon his more valiant predecessors witness the jeer of the old woman in his own lodgings too ridiculous to insert here this party plotting how to out Ensign Cook Brother Meech offers a Collation to any who would swear that he was in Colchester but by chance finding no English man who would perjure himselfe and pawne his soul for an Ordinary John Esthoe Articles against him Humphrey Bennet and William Bradford having discoursed with him about the affaires of England and London the charge was that he told them trading was so dead in London that the streets were almost as empty as St. Hillaries and that he knew of the late rising before he came thence upon this information Colonel Mason sends for him by John Guppy the Trooper examines him he confesses what was alledged Colonel Mason asked him why he did not reveal what he knew he said he discovered it to Colonel Gibbon notwithstanding this satisfactory answer Colonel Mason makes a warrant to imprison him closely in Orguile Castle as a mutineer and a dangerous seditious person threatens to carry him to London and try him for his life some perswade him he will die for it he is forced to give a bond of five hundred pounds not to act nor speak against the Parliament is not suffered to wear a sword nor to go into either of the Castles or Fort although his wife lived in Elizabeth Castle and was past her accounts end he was not permitted to go in to see her but she must either come to the Town where she was likely to cry out several times or else they must meet on a rock to converse and feed together and in fine at Colonel Masons coming for England Ensigne Cook was affrighted and trepanned out of his employment laying down for feare of death which was threatned upon condition to have his bond cancelled which Colonel Mason still keeps this unchristian dealing brought his wife to that desperate condition that she lay seven weeks in child-bed and escaped death with much difficulty although before she was as hearty and strong as women usually are in her condition In a word to manifest Colonel Masons tyranny and Ensign Cooks innocency in this matter I cannot conceal what one related to me from Collonel Gibbons mouth that he would vindicate his brother and that his relation of what he had heard was the greatest insight they had of the intended insurrection 3. Sargeant Adams is turned out of his Sutlers place in Orguile Castle a woman there pretending he would have forced her coming from the market a long time before and although he petitioned the Governour several times to examine such witnesses as he could produce to cleare his innocency yet he would not do that but left him to the Civil Law and promised him a Troopers place but instead of the hopes of the Court and the Troopers place Colonel Mason at his coming for England left an order

Michael Lempriere the Bayly and his wife his principle is to come to Sermon sometimes where I believe he hath scarce been these twenty years without sleeping and still to be highest in all changes had not the scale turned when it did he had come in to Sir George Cartaret and been a King card but it pleased God to reserve him to be a scourge to that Island by chance he was on the right side as it proved and is sole Potentate in that Island he was once most zealous for this present Parliament as high for Oliver Protector more earnest for proclaiming his son Richard being so forward that he would not stay till he received the Councel of States Order but proclaimed him without it and would have had all persons hanged or worse that were not present at that solemnity since that he was very forward again to joyn with the English Officers and Souldiers in their Address and Declaration to your Honours and as fiery since as I am informed for the Army against your Honours he 's as corrupt a judge as breaths upon the earth making his passion and will the rule of all his actions so that no man expects any Law or Right except he bribe and feast him and the Jurates what is voted by them as Law this day you cannot expect it to be so to morrow the flesh and blood of the Islanders is eat drunk in endlesse arbitrations he 's a common tipler and drunkard being usually ten or twelve times a day at the Taverne and many times till twelve of the clock at night he hath been so overcome with drink that he could not go nor stand without the help of the wall he is blemished with whoring and 't is muttered he hath two bastards in the Island which I can scarcely believe being he hath no child by his own wife though a very likely Gentlewoman and of a good stock some offer to prove he was a whore-master when he was in London but perhaps his native aire and age together have cured that disease there is a Gentlewoman in the Island with whom he hath been observed to be more familiar then ordinary and one time especially at Orguile Castle there were such wanton actions between them that his dear friend Major Harding concluded they could not be honest that there was something more then ordinary among them is manifest by this that soon after Mr. Bayly was married he went to this Lady clasped her close in his armes called her his dear Mall cryed her mercy and asked forgiveness promised that if she would pardon him that one fault she and hers should never want but he would be as good a friend to her as before I shall say nothing against his Lady she having misfortune enough to co-habite with such a bundle of bones and crooked lame old person the worst I know of her is that she is his wife and Dr. Cartarets sister which two I stedfastly believe designed and plotted all our ruines if she assisted them the Lord forgive her for I heartily desire to forgive all my enemies 2. Dr. Fiat this Gentleman was a constant attendant on Colonel Mason although he be near thirty years of age and pretends to be Dr. of Physick at Oxford yet 't is reported he lies every night in the same bed with his mother a Gentlewoman of about threescore years of age and here in London his name is up for a whore-master how true it is God knows 3. Mr. Francis or Captain Cartaret his principle I will not take on me to judge of in his practise he is a common swearer he sware by the blood and heart of God in Captain Yarl●ys chamber which made some Islanders scosfingly to say the Parliament Officers could swear a common tipler for he was tipled or drunk almost every night at St. Malo's in France at our coming over where I was told he was a whore-master if he be God vouchsafe him repentance unto life this Gentleman himself reported that had not his friends failed he should have gone into Jersey Commander of the Horse 4. Mr. Charles Marret the Receiver his principles and practises are so well known to all the Island that I shall not spend paper in them for my own particular I confess I am more obliged to him then to any Gentleman of that Island 5. Mr. Lempriere the Jurate of St. Johns commonly called Captain Lempriere the most filthy profane wretch in all the Island an inveterate hater of the Church Ministers and Ordinances never goes to any Sermon prophanes the Lords day by setting it apart to visit and feast his friends at the reducing of Jersey he eased himself upon the Communion Table and in the Pulpit of a Church or two in the Island Colonel Mason feasted chearfully at the House of this abominable person As for other of his Island Favourites M●is Fiat commonly called Madam Bring-bell or the devils Foot-post one who lives in the fire of contention being always in the Court who whined her son into a Fellowship at Exeter Colledge in Oxford and cried a hundred or two of pounds from the Parliament and Oxford Visitors and her brother little pimping Messeroy the Master of the Ceremonies and his wife and such like I shall not trouble paper with them all the Island knowing them to be dissembling hypocrites Thirdly his favourites of the English Nation follow 1. Captain Lieutenant Austin Buckler and his wife I want not matter in my butchet concerning them I looked upon both as my friends but have been informed he was the worst enemy I had in the Island looking upon the informer as of small credit though supposed a cunning Politician I shall write neither evil nor good but let them alone till the next Court day that they adored the rising Sun and undervalued us sufferers in our dist●ress is what honest men expect from the wise ones of the world who are like Reuben Gen. 49. 4. Unstable as water At the first I verily believed Colonel Mason intended small good to this Gentleman but was forced to depute him upon necessity in his absence but when I found he had mustered him in Captain Yardleys place and heard that he was so careful and kind as to carry over a Commission from the Lord Fleetwood for him I plainly saw a devil in the business Colonel Mason either really loving him or like a man with the plague-sore upon him desiring the other may die and fall with him and be a partner in his ruine 2. Ensign Henry Meech and his wife he is one of Colonel Masons judgement and his right hand a Teacher of that rout 1 He is very well known to the most of the souldiers to be a cheating couzening oppressor of them in selling them commodities for three times as much as they cost him for which he was once before a Court Marshall received a rebuke only and was dismissed because he was a professor this is he that brought in the